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A predictable outcome To our surprise, the boys in blue—aka the members of the Chico Police

A national necessity ealth care spending in the U.S. towers over that of other H industrialized nations. Not only did the U.S. fail to move up from its dead-last quality rating between 2004 and 2014, it

also stayed at the bottom while spending far more per capita ($8,508) on health care than Norway ($5,669), which has the second most expensive system. This and other depressing statistics make clear that the U.S. needs to achieve comprehensive coverage for everyone that has good outcomes and doesn’t bankrupt the sick and their families. Advocating for universal, affordable health care seems straightforward, but it by has become a political football around Carol Burr the issue of whether health coverage is a personal choice or an absolute necessity. The author, a retired The efforts to weaken or repeal the Chico State English Affordable Care Act and the Supreme professor, has lived in Court’s potential elimination of federal Chico for 45 years subsidies for states without their own and is active in the exchanges leave health care coverage to League of Women those who can afford it. Voters and other community service A Harvard study found that over organizations. 46 percent of bankruptcies were tied to medical costs, and 87 percent of the 11.4 million who have signed up for care under the ACA needed some form of assistance to afford it. With a profit-driven health care system, costs will continue to rise as more 4

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people suffer the effects of preventable and treatable ailments. The ACA is making a dent in rising health care costs and the number of uninsured, but it is a complex system with a mix of federal and state exchanges and continues to depend on profit-driven insurance companies to provide coverage. It cannot achieve universal coverage and cannot make private insurers care more about patients than stockholders. After much research starting 25 years ago, the national League of Women Voters is calling for policies that provide universal and affordable health care for all U.S. residents. Here in Butte County, the local chapter is updating its position to continue pushing toward a system that provides comprehensive health care as a national necessity. To help us understand the current health care situation, Enloe Medical Center is inviting the public to attend a panel discussion titled Report Card on the Affordable Care Act on Thursday, April 16, 6-8 p.m., at the Enloe Conference Center. The panel includes Dr. Richard Thorp of Paradise Medical Group Inc., Dr. Bill Skeen of Physicians for a National Health Program California, and Amber Kemp of the California Hospital Association. Mike Wiltermood, Enloe CEO and president, will moderate. Ω

Officers’Association—didn’t use their muscle Tuesday evening during the Chico City Council’s regular meeting. While there were a number of police officers in attendance, most were dressed in business suits or blazers—not uniforms, as we’ve seen during previous meetings when the CPOA’s contract was up for a vote. Then again, the cops didn’t have to throw their weight around. The panel’s approval of a contract that costs the taxpayers an additional $1.5 million over the next three years was a foregone conclusion. Despite an impressive treatise by Councilman Randall Stone on how there is no substantial data linking officer compensation levels to the departure of Chico Police Department employees, members of the conservative majority used that red herring as justification for giving the cops a substantial raise. And longtime Councilwoman Ann Schwab went right along with it. As Stone pointed out, and as the CN&R said two weeks ago in an editorial on the subject (see “Back to the drawing board,” March 26), the contract does not put more officers on the streets. “All we’re doing is spending more money,” Stone lamented. That raise comes at a precarious time for the city. As staff pointed out, a preliminary plan to balance the budget is predicted to hinge on a razor-thin line (see “Money talks ...,” Newslines, page 9). Moreover, the city is still in the red for many years to come. In the face of those facts, conservatives argued that giving the cops a raise is a step in the direction of putting public safety first, but what they evidently don’t understand is that making public safety the No. 1 priority means protecting the taxpayers, not enriching the already overpaid police. In effect, approval of this agreement is actually a detriment to public safety. That’s because it increases costs of existing personnel—funds that could have been dedicated to hiring new ones. We’re deeply disappointed in Councilwoman Schwab, Mayor Mark Sorensen, Vice Mayor Sean Morgan and the two new conservative members of the panel, Reanette Fillmer and Andrew Coolidge. All of them caved to the special interests, and their constituents will not soon forget it. Ω

Orland gets it right Chico business leaders and city officials who maintain doubts about the

positive impacts of public arts could benefit from spending an evening in Orland. Since 2005, the Orland Arts Commission has designed and implemented a number of public art works, beautification projects and signage welcoming visitors to the community. The commission’s crowning accomplishment is a state-of-the-art gallery featuring classes, regular exhibits and special events (see “Small-town support,” Newslines, page 8). To some, this city of about 7,000 has traditionally been known as a place to pass through on the way to somewhere else, with many residents content to keep it that way. But in the past decade, according to Orland arts lovers, a sea change has occurred, with the greater population gradually understanding—and greatly appreciating—the economic boon that inevitably follows the injection of culture into a community. Of course, there are differences between Chico and Orland’s arts scenes. Most notably, the Orland Arts Commission is the only game in that town, and thus is the sole benefactor of community support. Chico has close to 100 nonprofit arts organization, which are impossible to adequately support without some public help. The upside is that the returns for Chicoans, both in dollars and creative output, are much larger. For those still in doubt, take this simple challenge: Stop in Orland for dinner at, say, Farwood Bar & Grill, then stroll the main drag, visit Library Park, stop into the gallery and ask a volunteer there what the arts have meant to Orland. Chances are, you’ll see the city in a new light. Ω

SECOND & FLUME by Melissa Daugherty melissad@newsreview.com

Compare, contrast On Monday morning, as I sat in my chilly office waiting for the power to come back on, I started going through some boxes, tossing out all kinds of old stuff. Unlike many of my journalism colleagues, I haven’t held onto stacks and stacks of papers. I have a handful, though, and during this unintentional break I ran across a Chico Enterprise-Record from almost exactly a decade ago, a yellowing relic from my time at that paper. It is dated March 30, 2005, and, boy, is it a different paper from today’s E-R. For starters, the front page of this old issue has four local stories. Three of the A1 pieces are by yours truly, which accounts for me keeping a copy of this particular issue. The lead article is one I wrote about an L.A. Times reporter parachuting into Chico and doing a hack job on a piece about Chico State’s Greek life (a story the reporter was later sacked over); another top-of-the-fold story is a follow-up piece to one I’d broken a few days earlier about Phi Kappa Tau’s participation in a porn film (locals will never forget that one); I also wrote a story about the Chico State Latino Council’s demonstration outside of Normal Street Bar, following what many protesters called racist depictions of Mexican immigrants in advertisements for César Chávez Day drink specials (printed in the now-defunct Synthesis). Those things all happened on my beat—covering higher education. The other front-page byline is by Barbara Arrigoni, then the Glenn County beat reporter. She wrote how a cyclone fence had gone up around a field in the Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge, where hundreds of tons of undischarged military ammunition were reportedly buried. Helluva news day, I suppose. But then again, it was typical for the E-R to have four or even five local A1 stories back then. In fact, that was a point of pride for my then-boss, David Little. It’s a big contrast from the March 30, 2015, Chico E-R. That paper has a single A1 story with a local byline (a large feature on Kite Day), although there also is one of those now-ubiquitous “staff reports” on the front page. Inside the paper, aside from that “News from our past” feature, which is a compilation of Chico history facts, all of the stories are nonlocal wire content. The older paper had five locally written stories inside. Another thing I noticed about these two decade-apart papers is that the old one is physically larger, about 2 1/2 inches wider when holding the papers open. The newer version is much prettier, though. Last year’s longoverdue redesign changed the E-R’s dated masthead (the top front-page portion with the paper’s name), including removing that lame clip art of the American flag. Most of the bylines today are different names, of course. Arrigoni is still around but now mainly covers the city of Oroville. Nobody’s dedicated to Glenn County. By my count, the E-R’s newsroom alone is down at least five reporters. Much of the institutional memory, in the form of Roger Aylworth, Larry Mitchell and Greg Welter, is gone. To sum it up, it’s rough going for the local “paper of record.”

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The stand-out poem Re “Poetry 99” (Cover story, April 2): One poem stands out: “Decisions”— Joseph, 14, Butte County Juvenile Hall. Joseph sends a message from hell: He’s “crushed” ... “gone” ... “lost.” “Paralyzed mind trying to figure out who I am …” “What I did makes tears run down my face.” If poetry is forgettable images—semiprecious stones, bored through with earnestness and strung together on sticky webs of sentiment—Joseph is no winner. But, if poetry has anything to do with a shattering of the heart, Joseph gets first prize. How did he win? Simple courage; he said something that cost him his last safe place on Earth. Joseph: Whatever you did, people have done worse. Redemption is an ideal for every one of us—sought, but never found. Ask the questions most adults around you are terrified to ask: What suffering am I really causing? Is this suffering really necessary? How do I cause less? Crushed? Gone? Lost? All jewels in the hands of the awakened.

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Another view of AA story Re “Exploiting the misery of alcoholics” (Guest comment, by Jaime O’Neill, April 2): Congratulations to Jamie O’Neill for 22 years of sobriety. However, I read Gabrielle Glaser’s Atlantic Monthly article and what I found was a well-researched, pretty exhaustive investigation that chronicles the history of Alcoholics Anonymous and their process. She traveled to Finland to interview experts in the field of alcohol addiction! I counted 23 references to recognized and published scientists, medical addiction experts and major addiction studies throughout the article. For Mr. O’Neill to imply that Ms. Glaser’s article is a “string of anecdotal” information is inaccurate. Anyone can be an AA counselor; no degree or particular training is required. So I was thinking, next time my car breaks down, I’ll go to the nearest florist for repairs. Today, through hospital and prison records, there is now consensus in the professional addiction community that AA works for about 6 percent to 8 percent of those who join the program. From a scientific point of view, that’s hardly a

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Three letters on Lyme Re “When life gives you Lyme” (Healthlines, by Meredith J. Cooper, April 2): Thank you for your story on local Lyme patient Briana Beaver. Lyme disease is the fastest-growing vector-borne disease in the nation, with over 300,000 new cases every year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. A recent study of over 5,000 found that, like Briana, many patients are ill for years, seeing more than six physicians before being properly diagnosed. The CDC “preferred” lab tests for Lyme disease miss from 35 percent to 50 percent of cases. And, the Food and Drug Administration is considering new regulations that will make it even more difficult for innovative lab tests to make it to the market. Both the CDC and the National Institutes of Health acknowledge that 10 percent to 20 percent of those infected will suffer long-term symptoms. Unfortunately, no blood test exists to prove whether infection has been eradicated or is ongoing. Ticks carrying Lyme are right here in Butte County. So, consult your vet about proper treatment of your pets and check for ticks after a day in Bidwell Park. If you find a tick attached, save it—dead or alive—and see www.lyme disease.org for tick testing laboratory information. Awareness and prevention are key, so many thanks to Briana for sharing her story. JO ANNE VIDAL assistant director at LymeDisease.org, Chico

Thank you so much for bringing the topic of chronic Lyme to the North State. I applaud you. There are many of us in this area who have been struggling with this horrible disease for years. We need all the press we can get to help us further the cause for better testing and better treatment without bankrupting the affected patient/family, as no insurance company will cover chronic Lyme treatment. 6

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And to Briana, there are a lot of us in the North State who wish you well in your fight. You are a true Lyme warrior and we hold positive thoughts for your recovery! MERLE ANDERSON Oak Run

Thank you for this personal story about Lyme disease. The lack of knowledge about this lifestealing disease must end before actual research will find what it is and how to cure it. The group not being heard from is patients and the doctors treating them. Articles such as this will help combat ignorance, some of it willful and motivated by ego. Unfortunately, until this happens, many will continue to suffer, many will contract the illness and not be diagnosed early or treated properly, leading to unnecessary suffering and disability. MARY BARTER Santa Cruz

‘A sound investment’ Re “Unsung industry” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, April 2): If the arts are doing so well in Chico, why do they need any city support? In 2014, 54 participating nonprofit arts and culture organizations and their audiences generated $17.7 million in the local economy. They did this despite dwindling city funding with the help of 2,696 volunteers racking up 72,659 hours (according to the 2014 Economic Impact of Nonprofit Arts and Culture Organizations and Their Audiences, Americans for the Arts). Programming and services that many of these organizations have provided are in jeopardy as galleries, theaters, museums, etc., are barely holding on financially. You see, almost all the money generated by these volunteers and nonprofits is going out into the community, to businesses and back to the city government ($2.3 million in local and state government revenue). City funding is used to leverage private donations, grants and public/private partnerships. We could be doing better. We could protect and build on our assets. If we want to ensure a safe, stable and engaged community, good citizenry, a healthy general fund, and a high quality of life, we need our arts and culture. Maintaining an Arts Commission and dedicating even a small allocation to our organizations is not frivolous, but a sound investment in our future. MUIR HUGHES Chico

Notes on a killing Re “Tragedy in Chico” (Newslines, by Meredith J. Cooper, April 2): It is personally disturbing to me that the suspect involved, Christopher Swihart, is a three-time felon. And each sentence was four, three and six years in 1991, 2006 and 2010, respectively. I feel that repeat offenders should be taken more seriously by the law, and the sentencing be more severe for each repeated offense or necessary precaution taken for the same crime to not be repeated by the same person. It is my opinion that criminals of this sort are no different from rapists, who are motivated by power, control and anger. I have to agree it was some great police work by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, because timing is essential in catching a criminal who has already been around the system. I believe this killing and violence of this kind can be prevented if the law takes preventative action or harsher punishment. It seems to me that the law sometimes takes some nonviolent crimes and criminals more seriously than violent ones. The law needs to reprioritize and stop the crime and save the victim, rather than chase a suspect. At least, this may have been a deciding factor for Cass Edison. SHEMU ARIYASIVAM Chico

I had the pleasure of working under Cass and Grant Branson at the North Valley Business Journal following my graduation from Chico State. Even though my journalism career didn’t go the way I had hoped, I will always be appreciative of the friendship I had with Cass. Despite her personal problems, she always treated me very well and I got to do so many things with her, Grant and their children. I’m very saddened by what happened, yet I will always remember Cass for the many positive things she did for me and for other people in her life. MARC ATWOOD Roseville

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Orland City Councilman Bruce Roundy observes the works of artist Keith Christie at the city’s art center and gallery.

TENTATIVE TEACHER CONTRACT

After more than a year of negotiations, including an impasse last October that brought the state into the process, and talk of a possible first-ever strike, the Chico Unified School District and the Chico Unified Teachers Association appear to have reached a tentative agreement on contracts for the 2014-15 and 2015-16 school years. In a joint statement posted on the CUSD website, CUSD Superintendent Kelly Staley and CUTA President Kevin Moretti said: “The road to this positive resolution has not been without its bumps and scrapes. However, the ultimate intention of both the District and CUTA has been the success of our students and the enhancement of the educational environment for our students, staff and the Chico community.” If ratified by both the teachers association and the five-member school board, teachers will see a 3 percent pay increase retroactive to last July 1 and a 6 percent increase beginning Jan. 1, 2016.

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A 12-year-old Magalia boy, apparently looking to shirk his family-assigned chores, caught the attention of Butte County Sheriff’s Office April 2 when he called to report he’d been kidnapped. According to a BCSO press release, the youth called at 4:45 p.m. and said that he’d been chopping wood at his home on Pinehurst Way when he blacked out. When he regained consciousness he found himself sitting in the woods with a man who threatened him with a gun. The boy said he threw a rock at the man and was able to run away. He gave a description of both the man and his vehicle. The BCSO launched an investigation that raised some suspicion as to the validity of the reported incident. Eventually, the kid admitted he’d made the story up to get out of doing his chores. The BSCO turned the matter over to the boy’s parents for final resolution.

SINISTER SELFIES

A Hamilton City man and former Chico State student arrested on St. Patrick’s Day for charges of vandalism, computer hacking, attempted extortion and burglary pleaded not guilty April 2. Daniel Deluna-Martinez (pictured), 27, is accused by the District Attorney’s Office of a nearly two-year string of crimes that affected his college roommates and their friends and families, according to a press release. Upon his arrest, his computers were seized and reportedly contained “selfie” videos of Deluna-Martinez urinating on the bedding and underwear of his former female roommates, having sex with an unconscious woman, hacking into a student’s computer account to drop the student’s classes, opening false credit card accounts in the student’s and other people’s names, and hacking into students’ parents’ bank accounts. More than 10 alleged victims have been identified. Deluna-Martinez is due back in court on April 16. 8

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Small-town support The arts find an unlikely home in Orland Friday evening, about three dozen people Ltheast gathered in a nearby art gallery. They greeted artist and admired the works hanging on

walls and standing on pedestals around the wellappointed, modern space, grazed on crust-less sandwiches and story and photo by stood in groups gossiping with Ken Smith neighbors as a young man played classical music on a baby kens@ newsreview.com grand piano. The works were decidedly rustic in theme—oil paintings reminiscent of Louis L’Amour paperback covers and bronze statues of cowboys and cattle—but that was the only clue that the exhibit was held in what some might consider an unlikely location: Orland. The event was a reception for “The West: A Way of Life,” an exhibit featuring the works of Northern California artist Keith Christie, best known for a series of large-scale stagecoach statues that have graced the plazas of Wells Fargo administrative buildings worldwide since 1972. It is also the latest of many events made possible by the West-side art: decade-old Orland Arts ComThe Orland Art mission and held at that group’s Center is located headquarters, the Orland Art at 732 Fourth St. Center Gallery, which occupies For hours of operation, visit the bottom floor of a Masonic www.orlandart building on the town’s main center.com. drag, Fourth Street.

Since its formation in 2005, the Orland Arts Commission’s accomplishments include opening the gallery, where it hosts weekly art classes, free lectures, poetry readings, monthly exhibits and art sales, and has established multiple public art works, including a $34,000 halfscale bronze horse-and-rider statue and improvements to Library Park. Supporters also say it’s been a boon to the local economy and the city’s image. “I think most people are pretty much in agreement that the Arts Commission has helped the city a great deal; it does a lot for the town and kind of puts us on the map,” said Orland City Councilman Bruce Roundy, who serves as a liaison between the council and the commission. “In addition to bringing the arts to town, it’s great for the economic development aspect.” Unable to resist a dig at Chico, generally perceived to be the more cultured of the two communities, Roundy continued with a laugh, “I notice another city across the river hasn’t quite gotten that concept, and it’s caused a little controversy over there.” Roundy was referring to the incremental

defunding of the Chico Arts Commission over the last several years, and that organization’s attempts to save itself by focusing on the financial—in addition to the intrinsic—value of arts to the community. On March 30, Randy Cohen,

vice president of research and policy for Washington, D.C.-based advocacy group Americans for the Arts, presented results from a study revealing that the artistic endeavors of nonprofit arts groups led to $17.7 million in direct spending within the city (see “Unsung industry,” Newslines, April 2). In light of Chico’s ongoing battle over arts funding, Roundy confirmed people are sometimes surprised to learn that Orland has an active Arts Commission. He also said that establishing that commission was a difficult battle. “Oh, sure, it was a bit of a struggle,” he said. “Something new? In Orland? It definitely took some work.” Roundy credits the successful establishment of the Orland arts group to the efforts of longtime local couple George and Rae Turnbull. George, an artist himself, wrote the ordinance that brought the commission into being, and his wife serves as its chairwoman and the gallery’s director. Rae points directly to her husband as the man most responsible for the city’s arts renaissance. “Orland has been pretty supportive since we got started, but that’s partly because people have such a great respect for George,” she explained. “They know his work as an artist, but they also know him as a working rancher, and they were able to relate to him because of that.” After it was formed, she said the group focused on projects that helped

At its Tuesday (April 7) meeting, the Chico City Council approved a zoning change that will allow Dutch Bros. to build a drive-through where Wall Street meets Ninth Street and Humboldt Avenue, pictured here. With its greenery and patio areas, the business is designed to attract “multimodal” customers (walkers and bicyclists as well as car drivers). Only Councilwoman Ann Schwab voted nay, saying the zoning change was not promoting pedestrian-friendly businesses. Councilwoman Tami Ritter was absent.

Money talks … And Chico’s cops walk away with more pay things we do know, and some things Some we don’t know. Thus the city’s administrative services

beautify the community and make it safer, drew from its history and helped strengthen its identity, which explains the western flair to many of the commission’s undertakings. Early public projects included new signs and banners at city entrances, and in 2010 the city’s Library Park was enhanced with nostalgic light fixtures and a gazebo now regularly used for weddings and community events. The lights also addressed safety issues previously raised by residents, so that project’s public appeal was doubled. “Nothing succeeds like success,” Turnbull said. “Once the people saw the town looking better, and realized art is part of who we are, then people bought into it and were happy to support it.” The commission is composed of seven members appointed by the Orland City Council. Four of the members must be working artists, and the other three are from the community at large. A portion of funding for all projects comes from new building development fees and at no direct cost to the city; other sources include money raised through art exhibits, sales and classes. Turnbull said most of the money comes from community donations and fundraising efforts. The commission is all-volunteer, as is the gallery’s staff. In addition to public appeal and volunteerism, Turnbull said the group’s commitment to high-quality art and exceptional guest artists is also integral to its success. She is particularly proud of the group’s 2,500-square-foot gallery space, which she points out is as fine and modern as any other in the North State. “We’ve really taken the attitude that just because you’re a small town doesn’t mean you can’t have a viable arts community,” she said. “You just have to convince the town of its importance.” Roundy, a former educator who helped start a theater program at Orland High School during his 30-plus-year tenure there, added that the gallery doesn’t just benefit visual artists, but gives young music students the opportunity to undergo a professional audition process and perform in public. He said the commission’s current efforts, which include plans to build another statue at the corner of Third Street and Highway 32, are just the beginning. “Art begets more art, and that’s a wonderful thing,” Roundy said. “This isn’t just about dollars and cents, but aesthetics and the human spirit.” Ω

director, Frank Fields, characterized the risk inherent in the $51.2 million draft general fund budget for fiscal year 2015-16 that he presented to the Chico City Council on Tuesday (April 7). On one hand, Fields said, the city has emerged from the fiscal crisis of the past few years sufficiently to begin hiring again and give raises. On the other hand, its reserves are depleted and a deficit fund balance remains on the books, factors that make such moves risky. The draft budget estimates both sales and property tax revenues, the city’s two main sources of income, will increase in FY 2015-16 (by 10 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively). That will enable the city to hire six new police officers and two community service officers and offer the police compensation increases as well. It will also enable the city to fill the equivalent of 10 positions in other areas, including four in community development. There also will be sufficient funds to increase spending on capital projects, from $688,000 this year to $1.2 million in FY 2015-16. The general fund budget avoids the temptation to dip into other funds for operating costs, a past practice that led to a major deficit. The good news, Fields said, is that the deficit has decreased from $15.2 million to $4.5 million in just two years and is estimated to be $3.6 million in FY 2015-16. As it is, revenues will exceed expenditures by only $500,000, or 1 percent, in FY 2015-16, Fields said. The city is assuming

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the country won’t experience another recession during that time, but if it does, “$500,000 is not much of a cushion.” The council will hold several budget meetings in the coming weeks before adopting a final budget on June 16. Discussion of the budget Tuesday segued smoothly into the next agenda item, approval of a memorandum of understanding (read: labor contract) with the Chico Police Officers’Association. The three-year agreement, which is retroactive to Jan. 1, will increase current employees’ pay by 5 percent in the first year and add 2.5 percent steps in the second and third years. New officers will receive 5 percent more than current pay by the third year. In return, the police agree to pay 3 percent of the city’s pension contribution. The package will cost the city about $1.5 million, but council members—with one exception—were convinced it was worth it. Mayor Mark Sorensen said the city’s

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desire during negotiations was to attract new officers. He noted that as many as 11 funded positions have gone unfilled this fiscal year because the city couldn’t attract good candidates, and 21 sworn officers have left the city since July 1, 2013. In addition, this year nine officers have been out on workers’ compensation. What’s more, the city’s salary survey shows Chico’s compensation levels are lower than most of the cities with which they were compared, Sorensen said. Vice Mayor Sean Morgan argued that ideally Chico should have 83 officers but now has just 42. Not only has the city not attracted officers, those who are here have limited lateral options, thanks to the elimination of specialty programs such as the Gang Unit and the Target Team. Councilman Randall Stone wasn’t convinced, however. The competitiveness survey done by the city is deeply flawed, he argued. Its comparisons are too narrowly drawn, and it fails to consider many factors that may either attract or repel potential employees. “There are no factors identifying why officers come to Chico or why they leave,” he said. The city is now meeting its hiring goals, and “this pay raise does nothing to make the city safer.” As far as Councilwoman Reanette Fillmer was concerned, “You get what you pay for.” She said she wanted officers who are “top notch” and want to put down roots in Chico, not use it as a “stepping stone.” The MOU was approved 5-1, with Stone dissenting and Councilwoman Tami Ritter absent. In other council news: Last August, Capt.

Take a big bite of water Reducing personal water consumption by taking shorter showers and letting your lawn go dry are great ideas, but you can really make an impact by cutting burgers— both beef and soy—out of your diet. Here’s a sampling of foods and the amount of water it takes to produce them.

Food Beef Chickpeas Peas Pork Mangoes Soyburger Soymilk Asparagus Chicken Rice Eggs

Gallons of water per ounce of food 106.28 76.07 44.53 41.25 28.5 21.84 20.53 20.32 16.61 16.26 11.73

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Mike O’Brien came before the city’s Internal Affairs Committee with a problem: Chico cops were responding to far too many false alarms—3,200 in 2012 alone—and thereby subsidizing alarm companies. After discussion, the committee instructed City Attorney Vince Ewing to draft an ordinance that included fines levied against alarm companies for false alarms. The alarm companies then threatened to sue. So Ewing drafted a proposed ordinance that offered two options: fine the companies or fine the alarm users. On Tuesday, the council chose the latter, approving an ordinance that would mandate that a crime-verification process be in place and also levy false-alarm fines on alarm users: $50 for the first offense, $100 for the second and $200 for any after that. —ROBERT SPEER robertspeer@newsreview.com

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instance, an obituary for District Attorney Mike Ramsey posted on Facebook. Appearing before the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (April 7) in Oroville, Ramsey assured the panel that he’s very much alive. He also said the fabricated obituary was posted by a resident of the Berry Creek area—the same origin of a second false rumor on Facebook regarding Measure A, the ballot initiative passed into law by voters last November that restricts medical marijuana gardens by square footage rather than number of plants. As Chief Administrative Officer Paul Hahn explained earlier in the meeting, word had spread that, in response to a pending lawsuit seeking to cease enforcement of Measure A, a court had deemed the law unconstitutional. “That is not the case by any means of the imagination,” Hahn said. “There has been no ruling by the court on the merits of the complaint in any way. … This is an example of people on social media getting excited, passing along bad information and how quickly it can get out there.” The lawsuit in question was filed in Butte County Superior Court on Feb. 3 by San Rafael-based attorney Scot Candell, who is representing Donald Ehrsam, Raymond Sperry and Gina Endler of Oroville and Douglas Gunning of Berry Creek. Like many local medical marijuana advocates, the plaintiffs argue the ordinance is prohibitively restrictive and will prevent patients from accessing their medicine. Shortly after filing the lawsuit, Candell told the CN&R that Measure A “violates the spirit of [California’s] Compassionate Use Act—that everyone can get their medicine, and everyone is treated equally.” But county officials contend there is no legal basis for the suit. County Counsel Bruce Alpert told the supervisors on Tuesday that he’s confident the case won’t hold up in court. “There have been total bans on the cultivation of marijuana in various counties and cities; other jurisdictions have banned outdoor grows, or indoor grows,” he said. “It’s all over the map. But what’s clear is that local jurisdictions have the authority to ban or limit the cultivation of medical marijuana.” In response to the lawsuit, the county filed a demurrer, essentially an objection to the charges that amounts to the county shrugging its shoulders and saying, “So what?” A court hearing on the demurrer is scheduled for the first week of May.

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campaign called Stay in the Box and its hiring of six additional code enforcement officers to hit the foothills, it’s clear that officials don’t intend Measure A to be an empty law. “We are vigorously enforcing Measure A,” Alpert said. “It’s in effect, it needs to be followed or people will be cited or brought to a hearing—meaning we’ll get an order to remove all plants being grown outside the parameters of our ordinance. We’re taking an aggressive stance on this.” Since Measure A was enacted Jan. 8, the county has investigated complaints on 74 marijuana gardens, mostly in the Oroville area, said Tim Snellings, director of Development Services. Code enforcement has issued 16 citations and handed down a total of $21,000 in fines. To date, only $3,800 has been collected—a fact that didn’t sit well with Supervisor Larry Wahl. “Where’s the other $17,000?” he asked. “Are these guys deadbeats?” “We’re not ignoring those,” Hahn responded. “We will continue to pursue those fines.” Measure A has seemingly driven marijuana cultivators indoors, Snellings said. In fact, every complaint the county has investigated this year has been of an indoor garden. Moving inside “seems like a logical reaction to Stay in the Box,” he said.

Because of Measure A, many growers have moved their gardens indoors.

Even so, several of the visits have led to criminal cases in which “hundreds of plants were present,” Snellings said. To date, sheriff’s deputies accompanying code enforcement personnel on inspections have made five arrests related to illegal grows and have shut down two honey oil labs—operations involving potentially hazardous chemicals that are, for prosecutorial purposes, under the same section of health and safety code as methamphetamine labs, Ramsey said. —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

Dry and getting drier Butte County looks cautiously toward a drought-ridden summer verybody knows we’re in a Ea week drought. But, particularly during when rain’s been falling,

that fact can become lost on many of us. So, just how bad is it? Well, Lake Oroville is at 51 percent of capacity and precipitation is hovering at about 31.7 inches this water year (which runs Nov. 1Oct. 31). That’s just about where we were last year at this time— actually a bit better. What’s worse, however, is the snow pack, which recharges the rivers and reservoirs when it melts in the spring. Right now, it’s about 6 percent of normal for the Sierras. “That’s well below [where we were in] ’76-’77, and below last year,” said Christina Buck, water resources scientist for Butte County’s Water and Resource Conservation Department. The 1976-77 water year was the driest on record. Last year came in a close second. Buck was speaking at the quarterly meeting of the Butte County Drought Task Force Monday (April 6). The group, made up of representatives from agriculture, county Environmental Health and Emergency Services departments and the county Water Commission, meets to discuss water issues and propose recommendations on county policy. Given that we’re in the fourth About the drought:

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drought year—and the second “critical” one—those in attendance Monday were most concerned about groundwater levels and pumping; Department of Water Resources allotments, which are expected to be less than usual; and how to encourage water conservation. “We know we’re not doing the worst. That’s Tulare County, where 1,000 wells have run dry,” said Paul Gosselin, director of the Water and Resource Conservation Department. But Vickie Newlin, also from Gosselin’s office, warned of the probability that water allotments, which were 100 percent of normal last year in Butte County, could drop to as low as 50 percent. That likely will include water districts in neighboring counties as well. With less water from the state, people “will pump groundwater for their needs,” Newlin said. She followed that with the announcement that all of the districts in Butte County have agreed to discontinue the practice of transferring unused water elsewhere, should allotments be curtailed. That’s despite the reservoir levels in Southern California—last year they were near 100 percent of average capacity but this year they’re closer to 40 percent—which put water in high demand. When it comes to agriculture, the largest user of water in our region, more and more farmers are looking to install wells, said Brad Banner, the county’s Environmental Health director. “I’m hearing that there’s about a six-month

wait,” he said, between getting a permit to drill a well and when a drilling company can do the work. For private homeowners, however, the wait isn’t quite so long, Newlin added. A subject on everyone’s mind Monday was the recent state regulations aimed at urban water users, particularly the one regarding lawn watering. It really only affects those living in urban areas such as Chico, Oroville and Paradise, but the task force agreed to recommend education encouraging all county residents to limit watering their lawn in order to conserve. Task force members also discussed ways the county can set an example for residents. There is a form on the county’s drought website so citizens can alert officials to water waste on county property, said Casey Hatcher, principal management analyst for Butte County. The website is a bit outdated, in that it references 2014 instead of 2015, but it still contains valuable links to local district sites and state regulations. The reporting form can be found by hovering over “2014 Drought” at the top of the page and choosing “Report Water Waste” from the drop-down menu. The county even wants to take that a step further. “We’re thinking about what symbolic messages the county can send [to residents],” said Sang Kim, deputy county administrator. “Even though we’re not required, we want to make some voluntary efforts.” —MEREDITH J. COOPER meredithc@newsreview.com

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Inland sea lions

Protected species’ population booms, wreaking havoc on North State fishermen

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ASanCanavero was fishing in the SacramentoJoaquin Delta with a deckhand and bout a year ago, boat skipper Barry

several customers. People pay veteran guides like Canavero a healthy fee to catch, and mostly release, striped bass, catfish and sturgeon. That morning, a client hooked a small striped bass and reeled the fish to the side of the boat, where the deckhand lifted it from the water to remove the hook. Then, the water exploded with spray, fur, teeth and claws. A bear-sized beast seized the fish, almost biting the man’s hand, and flopped back into the water with an orcalike splash, vanishing. That was the moment when Canavero lost his last shred of sympathy for the California sea lion. The big predators have always been eyed with disdain by ocean anglers, who regularly lose fish—especially salmon—to the animals. But in the past decade, California sea lions, whose numbers are booming, have become established residents of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta and, increasingly, even the river itself. Canavero, who has guided sport anglers for almost 44 years, says sea lions upstream of San Francisco Bay are becoming more numerous and more aggressive every year. “I was in Steamboat Slough the other day, and there were six sea lions,” Canavero said. “They’re there every single day, and there are always two or three more where the Sacramento splits into Cache Slough.” Sacramento resident Mark Wilson,

a 73-year-old retired fishing guide who has plied local waters all his life, says California sea lions first began showing up in the Sacramento Delta system about 15 years ago. Since then, he says, they have pushed farther and farther upriver. Wilson has seen sea lions chasing salmon in the Feather River, and three years ago he took a photo of a sea lion in the Delta tearing a 6-foot-long sturgeon to pieces. Dave Hurley, a fisherman and freelance outdoors writer, remembers fishing with his grandfather in the sloughs and backwaters of the Delta in the 1970s. “My grandfather said the sea lions would never come into the river,” Hurley said. “Now they’re here.” The population of California sea lions—

different from but related to Steller sea lions and fur seals—has skyrocketed in the last few decades. There may have been as few as a thousand in the 1940s, following an era of aggressive hunting. The animals were killed for their pelts, while their meat was turned into pet food and their whiskers used as pipe cleaners. Protections allowed the species to recover. It started crawling back, gained traction and, finally, exploded. By the 1970s, there were roughly 50,000 California sea lions along the California coast, according to Sharon Melin, a wildlife biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. Today, she said, there are more than 300,000, and the population, it appears, may be pushing the marine habitat’s carrying capacity. Up and down the coast of California,

newborn pups are starving. Almost 2,000 emaciated sea lion pups have struggled onto California beaches this winter. The animals, according to scientists, are abandoning their rookeries when their mothers spend longer than usual at sea hunting fish. The sea lions have inundated rescue centers, which saw similar events in 2014 and in 2013. Adult sea lions are opportunistic feeders and can survive on a wide array of fish species, as their success in the Delta has shown. But when they are rearing babies, lactating mothers may need high-fat species like anchovies and sardines. Sardine numbers are currently at their lowest estimated level in decades, with the West Coast biomass calculated by scientists at 165,000 tons—down from 725,000 tons just two years ago. Anchovies, meanwhile, are said to be holding in deeper water than usual, possibly because of unusually warm surface temperatures. “[The ongoing starvation event] is basically the environment and its resources checking the [sea lion] population growth,” Melin said. While federal protections prohibit people from harassing or harming sea lions, the protected species has become as much a nuisance in places as raccoons or, more comparably, campground black bears. In Berkeley, an aggressive sea lion became notorious for ambushing fishermen on the dock in the marina harbor in 2009. “It was basically mugging people for their fish,” said James Smith, captain of the California Dawn party boat. Eventually, the sea lion attacked the boat’s cook. It bit her on the leg, and

according to Smith, attempted to haul her off the dock into the water. Shortly thereafter, he said, it nearly bit a child. To his frustration, officials did not euthanize the animal. “If a dog or a mountain lion had attacked a person, they would have put it down in a second,” Smith said. That dilemma resolved itself, however, when the sea lion disappeared. In the Central Valley, there may not have been any sea lion attacks yet, but it seems only a matter of time before someone gets hurt. Wilson said he was almost bitten when a sea lion burst from the water beside his boat to snatch a striped bass from his hand. He says a friend of his even had to resort to violence, whopping a sea lion on the nose with a billy club, after the animal leaped onto the rear of the boat. Ocean fishing-boat captains used to fire guns at the animals. Such behavior certainly occurs today, but is generally shunned in the fishing community. While it is legal for some ocean fishermen to shoot sea lions with paint balls to protect their livelihoods, according to Smith, shooting at them with firearms draws the wrath of the law. In 2010, a Sacramento man was sentenced to 30 days in jail for shooting a 650-pound sea lion in the face with a shotgun because, he told authorities, it had taken his fish. The animal was rehabbed at the cost of $51,000. Hurley feels the sea lion population has ballooned out of control. He suspects the animals are having at least some negative effect on depressed chinook salmon populations— especially at narrow pinch points where the migrating fish become easier to hunt. “It’s definitely become a problem, but it’s one of those things no one wants to talk seriously about,” Hurley said. “It’s because they’re marine mammals and they’re totally protected.” □

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Power to the beer geeks Like so many beer aficionados, local home brewer Jacob Dickman was introduced to the world of craft beer by Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale, and now fully embraces the sheer variety of suds available amid America’s ongoing craft beer revolution. The 25-year-old is taking that attitude a step further, helping Ryan Sanders, a fellow home brewer and founder of BetterBeer Kits.com, launch his next project: Kit Lab. If the partners reach their crowdfunding goal, Kit Lab’s website will serve as a platform for anyone to post beer recipes and sell their own brewing kits. Dickman says the site has the potential to empower home brewers more than ever before. Go to tinyurl.com/ KitLab to learn more.

What interests you about home brewing? Just realizing that, if I can buy something in the store, I can make it myself. I think that’s a universal thing for home brewers—“If I can drink it, I can probably make it, or at least get close.”

What was your first craft beer love? Growing up, my dad would always have Coors Light and [Sierra Nevada] Pale Ale in the fridge. He told me the Coors was for a Saturday after yard work; the Pale was for enjoying something that’s truly crafted, just sipping and savoring. That was very impactful. Then, I was introduced to [Russian River Brewing Co.’s] Pliny the Elder. It was revelatory; it’s such an amazing beer. It helped me break out of

the box a lot of locals fall into— they won’t pick up anything that doesn’t have “Sierra Nevada” on the label.

How often do you brew? My friends and I brew at least once a week, depending on what our bank accounts look like, really. We hang out in my shed, which I outfitted into a functional home brewery, and we play brewer. We write our own recipes, we label and bottle. We can’t sell, obviously, because of the laws.

Is that where Kit Lab comes in? Kit Lab operates on a similar model to Northern Brewer, probably the largest kit-distribution agency that brewers respect. They take beer kits they’ve got recipes for, they sit in a warehouse, and you go online and say, “I’m going to buy that one,” and they ship it to you. What we’re doing differently is that we don’t write all the recipes; maybe you did, or some other guy did. You buy other people’s hard-earned recipes.

So, it’s a way to share ideas? Certainly. “Ideas” might even sell it a bit short. When you drink beer, you have a visceral, emotional response. Not only does it release endorphins, it’s also pleasing to your taste buds and you get the aroma. It’s a whole sensory experience. And it’s cool that you can’t go buy any of those beers at the store—you can only get that flavor if you put in the work to brew it. It’s like a secret menu at a restaurant.

How will this help small-time brewers? I wouldn’t be surprised if some brewers get their feet off the ground with Kit Lab, just get their name out there. We already have more than 100 authors who’ve signed up. This really hasn’t been done, empowering the home brewer, and the U.S. actually has a history of keeping the little guys down. —HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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No doubt about it, the Tackle Box Bar & Grill is the place to be this month. To their credit, I was over there last week, just before Chico Breaks the Record took over in April, and I was floored by the renovations. For those who haven’t been there—or haven’t been in a while—the whole place has gotten a makeover. The stage has moved from just inside the windows to the far right wall; a nice, large dance floor sits in front of it; and surrounding that dance floor are beautifully crafted wooden tables. If you look even more closely, you’ll see more wooden tables in the eatery area, complete with stools, that have clearly been handcrafted. It should be noted that the rest of the bar tables and stools have been revamped, too, so this sure isn’t last year’s Tackle Box. (Don’t worry, they still have the same delicious fish ’n’ chips and peanuts in the shell— just toss ’em on the ground. Fun!) But I digress. The wooden tables and chairs were what really drew my attention, and I had to find out who had done such beautiful, usable works of art. The answer: Scott McMillan, certified arborist and owner of McMillan Tree Service. When it comes to trees, McMillan is no joke. He’s worked with them for 28 years, he told me, and has owned his own business trimming, shaping, milling and removing them for 20 of them. It wasn’t until recently that he decided to do something with those felled trees. “Instead of chipping it up and making garbage out of it, I try to make it go full circle,” he said. “Now when I cut a tree, it’s an opportunity to make something out of it.” Don’t get him wrong, though. He doesn’t like cutting down trees. “I try to salvage every one I can,” he said. “But sometimes you have to make a decision.” He’d done small projects using wood before, he said, and he’d always gotten compliments on them. Now he’s opening a separate business, called Creative Reclaimed Woods, where he can take the waste from his tree service and turn it into something nice. “I’m able to use the wood we take out of the urban forest and try to put it back into people’s homes around here,” McMillan said, an air of satisfaction in his voice. I returned to the Tackle Box this week, during Monday’s blackout no less, and the place was completely packed. Kudos to everyone who’s keeping the music alive, generators and all. Seeing his tables lined with people, covered in pints and overflowing baskets of frog’s legs, was satisfying—and I didn’t even make the darn things. But knowing they came from local trees that had to be cut down, and that they were cut and sanded and crafted with love, added just a little bit of magic to the room. Check out McMillan’s work by stopping by the Tackle Box, or visit www.creativereclaimedwoods.com (he said the site will be up sometime this week).

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Recently published research on the prevalence of maternal mortality looks specifically at California, where one of every eight children in the U.S. is born. Historically speaking, great strides have been made in improving the safety of childbirth, according to Examiner.com. Compared with the rate in 1900, national rates of maternal mortality dropped from 850 deaths per 100,000 live births to 7.7 per 100,000 in 1997. Since then, progress has slipped a bit; in 2009, the mortality rate was back up to 17.7 per 100,000, higher than many other developed nations. For the study, published in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology, the researchers reviewed the medical records of 207 pregnancy-related deaths in California from 2002 to 2005. In 41 percent of the deaths, there was a good-to-strong chance of preventing the outcome. Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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t’s remarkable that Andrew Allagree was, Ienough on a recent afternoon, able to stand long to open the door to his home in Par-

adise, considering that he couldn’t walk at all for 120 consecutive days last year. It’s also remarkable that Allagree, who mostly uses an electric scooter to get around, was once a world-class ballet dancer who performed for U.S. presidents and the queen of England. “Today is a good day,” said his wife, Jenifer Graham. “Andrew is walking.” During an interview in their living room, Allagree and Graham described balancing their mutual dream of opening a ballet studio in Paradise and coping with Allagree’s diagnosis of brain stem encephalitis, an incredibly rare, recurring auto-immune disorder that can confine him to a hospital bed or wheelchair for months on end, including long periods of being unable to speak. Allagree functions at a high level when the disease is in remission. He’s able to play with his 17-month-old daughter, Ginger, and pursue professional interests. “Teaching ballet is my passion,” he said. “I’ve been doing it for 20 years; I love my students. … It just so happens that I have this illness and have to manage it, but it doesn’t prevent me from teaching.” For the pre-professional students Allagree mostly works with, his inability to physically demonstrate what he’s teaching isn’t an obstacle, he says. Honing the finer points of the art form can be accomplished entirely

through verbal instruction. As Graham put it, “they don’t need somebody up there showing them how to point their toes.” (Graham, also an experienced dancer, teaches the younger, less seasoned students.) Transportation is the real obstacle. Lately, Allagree and Graham have been teaching at the Paradise Grange, and there are times when Allagree is well enough to teach a class, but not well enough to drive across town. That’s why they purchased a home last June with a standalone workshop space they’re currently renovating to become a ballet studio, complete with sprung floors, mirrors and a ballet barre. That way, Allagree won’t have to go far to work with students. The couple have received significant financial support from family and friends, but money is still tight—due in no small part to enormous hospital bills—and they’ve turned to the broader community to help realize their dream by launching a crowdfunding campaign via GoFund

Me.com with a goal of raising $20,000. “We have all the right people in place, we have the building, we have the money we’ve raised,” Allagree said. “We’re ready for the next step.” Allagree and Graham first met at ages 12

and 11, respectively, as students in a ballet troupe in Chico. Allagree was raised in Butte Creek Canyon, while Graham was born in Paradise. They stayed friends through high school, but their paths diverged after that. Graham went into the military to serve as a helicopter mechanic, and Allagree hit the big-time as a dancer in 1990, at just 18 years old. “Coming out of training, you’re lucky to get into some rinky-dink theater,” Allagree explained. “My first gig was with the Joffrey Ballet in New York at the Metropolitan Opera House. The only reason was that I fit HEALTHLINES continued on page 17

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hese are strange days indeed for shareholder activism. By some measures it’s experiencing a surge. Progressive groups have used the strategy since the early 1970s, but the past few years have seen an increase in its frequency, sophistication and success. In December, for example, the defense contractor Northrup Grumman announced that it would immediately end its membership in the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), a key player in the push to privatize education and a purveyor of climatechange denial. The move came in response to a shareholder resolution filed by an activist group that owned stock in the company. More than 100 companies have withdrawn from ALEC over the past four years, many under shareholder pressure.

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Shareholders also have been a critical part of the broad coalition that has taken on Walmart for practices ranging from low pay to unfair demands on pregnant workers. Walmart adamantly denies that the work of activists has any influence on its decisionmaking, but in February it announced that its base pay rate would increase to $9 this spring and to $10 early next year. The company also has promised to accommodate pregnant workers. Shareholder activism is premised on the idea that capitalism contains the seeds of its own reform. Owning stock gives shareholders a voice in deciding a company’s policies—and since most shareholders are passive, a highly motivated minority can have an outsized influence. Sixteen such resolutions were aimed at Walmart in the past decade—out of about 350 “human capital management” resolutions in all, according to Reuters—and they appear to be escalating in number. Shareholders already have proposed several in 2015, including one from Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier asking Walmart to tie executive incentive pay (which is based on performance) to the happiness and productivity of its low-wage workers. Conservatives have noted the tactic’s power and potential, and they are sounding the alarm. In a 2011 report on “Activist Walmart shareholders have proposed many resolutions,  including one by Connecticut Treasurer Denise Nappier  to tie executive pay to the happiness of employees.

Investing in Post-Citizens United America,” the right-wing Center for Competitive Politics warns that shareholder activists “see for-profit corporations as their political enemy, and seek partisan or ideological advantage by squelching corporate political speech.” In 2013, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce took another tack. It released a study suggesting that union-backed shareholder activism punishes “the millions of individuals who rely on these investments for retirement,” including union members, because it doesn’t increase the value of a company’s stock. But for all the reaction it provokes among conservatives, some progressives doubt the power of shareholder activism to deliver genuine structural changes. After all, it relies on pragmatism and “constructive engagement” in dealing with corporations whose core mission progressives often oppose. And there are other limits to its appeal. It doesn’t have the visibility of mass marches and protests, and doesn’t

usually achieve quick results. It is one of the more interesting questions of this political era whether progressives will continue to expand a promising strategy that is successful enough to cause concern among conservatives, but sometimes cuts against the grain of their own beliefs.

It’s all about the image The resolution that motivated Northrup Grumman to withdraw from ALEC in December was proposed by a politically progressive congregation of Catholic sisters in Fond du Lac, Wisc. If the resolution had actually gone to a vote by shareholders, it probably would have failed. Only 21 percent of shareholders vote in favor of resolutions, on average. But the point is not to win a majority. That threshold has little meaning, since resolutions are nonbinding. The point is to win enough votes to get the attention of the company’s leaders and move them to make reforms. The tipping point varies widely from case to case. Sometimes it’s 10 percent. Sometimes a majority isn’t enough. “The power we have is the reputational risk,” said Laura Berry, executive director of the Interfaith Center on Corporate Responsibility (ICCR), which engages with corporations to promote more sustainable and just practices. ICCR’s nearly 300 member organizations have both a moral and financial stake in corporate behavior. They consist mainly of religious institutions (such as the Fond du Lac nuns), but also include pension funds, socially responsible investment firms, unions and academic institutions. “Companies don’t like these issues being brought to the attention of all institutional shareholders,” Berry said. “They will often agree to make change so that we will withdraw our proposal and it will not appear on the ballot. And that’s where you see the power of shareholder activism.” In 2011, for example, the Oakland-based shareholder activist organization As You Sow filed a resolution asking McDonald’s to replace its foam beverage cups with more eco-friendly paper cups. The resolution went to a shareholder vote and got nearly 30 percent approval. In 2012, As You Sow filed the same resolution—but withdrew it when the company took steps toward adopting the policy. A year later,

For all the reaction it provokes among conservatives, some progressives doubt the power of shareholder activism to deliver genuine structural changes. It doesn’t have the visibility of mass marches and protests, and doesn’t usually achieve quick results. McDonald’s announced that it would begin using paper cups in its 14,000 U.S. stores. When proposals do go to a vote, proponents can make a presentation at the company’s annual shareholder meeting, which “can sometimes be an uncomfortable moment for the company,” Berry said. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) employs this strategy aggressively. It holds stock in more than 80 companies and makes graphic presentations at shareholder meetings about the abuse of animals. When SeaWorld made an initial public offering in 2013, PETA bought shares, promising to “educate stockholders about how marine parks tear orcas and dolphins away from their homes and families and imprison them in minuscule concrete tanks.” Last year, it filed a resolution proposing that SeaWorld retire its animals to sanctuaries in the ocean. Sometimes, rather than either resisting a resolution or conceding quietly to avoid a shareholder vote, companies endorse it and send it to a vote. But the motivation is often unclear: Is it genuine reform or a marketing ploy? This year, for example, both Royal Dutch Shell and British Petroleum (BP) endorsed resolutions that require the companies to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, invest in renewable energy and SHAREHOLDERS continued on page 20 April 9, 2015

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The use of shareholder resolutions by progressive groups dates to the early 1970s, when a federal court ruling prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin allowing socially and politically oriented shareholder resolutions, which it had previously rejected. Founded in 1971, ICCR was a pioneer of the practice, which it used as a tool against apartheid in South Africa. Calvert Investments was the first mutual fund to use the strategy, filing a resolution relating to a labor dispute in 1986. Progressive shareholder activism has evolved rapidly in the past decade, and the number of resolutions has grown steadily. There were a record 454 socially and environmentally focused resolutions filed in 2014— about 50 more than in 2013, according to the nonprofit Sustainable Investments Institute. More than half of the resolutions filed last year targeted investment groups and pension funds. Environmental issues and getting corporate money out of politics were the highest priorities by far. Last year, nearly 40 percent of the resolutions related to climate change, sustainable governance, renewable energy and other environmental issues, while 30 percent had to do with corporate political activity. Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the shareholder activist organization behind a resolution—endorsed by British  Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell—for the oil companies to  become more environmentally friendly.

Laura Berry is the executive director of the Interfaith Center  on Corporate Responsibility, which introduced a   successful resolution to halt predatory lending at Wells Fargo.

These issues sometimes intersect. Investors asked 24 companies to disclose their ties to ALEC, for example, and some resolutions—like one targeting Google— argued that ALEC’s climate-change denial contradicted the company’s support for renewable energy. Google opposed the resolution, which received only 8.6 percent of shareholder support. But last September, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show that ALEC was “literally lying” about climate change and “making the world a much worse place so we should not be aligned with such people.” Schmidt did not say whether the resolution factored into Google’s decision to withdraw from ALEC. About 40 percent of filed resolutions are withdrawn—mainly because the target concedes or agrees to negotiate. But, by and large, corporations are more likely to give way on environmental issues than on challenges to their political activity. About 43 percent of environment-related resolutions were withdrawn between 2011 and 2013. Only 25 percent of those focused on corporate politicking were withdrawn.

Slow and steady Ease of entry is one reason for the rising tide of shareholder activism. An individual or organization needs to own just $2,000 worth of a corporation’s stock for a year to file a resolution. Companies can appeal to the SEC for a ruling on whether the resolution is relevant to its business, but the majority are ultimately approved. Shareholder activism is also gaining momentum because it does actually create reforms—though, as with the oil companies, the process can be slow and vulnerable to co-optation. Anecdotal evidence of its power has been supplemented by an emerging body of scholarly work on the ways that activism changes corporate behavior. For example,

recent research by business professors at Northwestern, Stanford and Georgetown universities drew on ICCR’s archive of shareholder resolutions, as well as a database of boycotts. They found that corporate reform is a fluid, long-term process, in which pressure on companies gradually opens up new opportunities for activists to exploit. It does so by motivating companies to create tools to respond to the activists’ demands. These tools often include, for example, a committee on social responsibility and a report on the company’s commitment to sustainability, which slowly bring the perspectives and presence of activists into the culture—and transform the company. Nike is the classic example. Activists targeted it for relying on sweatshop labor through much of the 1990s. The company fiercely resisted, but high-profile protests on college campuses in the late 1990s motivated it to initiate reforms, including a code of conduct and factory inspections to ensure compliance. In 2001, Nike established a corporate responsibility committee and began issuing reports reviewing its own labor and environmental practices. Openness to shareholder activism and pursuit of a sustainable business model gradually became key elements of the company’s identity. Ethical Consumer, a British watchdog organization, recently gave Nike its highest rating in the category of supply chain management, though it noted that violations of workers’ rights were still common in some of its factories. The same sort of long game is now

To invest or divest? Right-wing organizations are not the only voices of protest against the growing use of shareholder activism by progressive groups. In a speech last spring, SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher lamented that the shareholder proposal process had been “hijacked” by people with “idiosyncratic and often political agendas.”

He quipped that perhaps the threshold for submitting a proposal should increase from $2,000 worth of stock to $2 million to solve the problem. And some progressives have reservations about shareholder activism’s incremental method, because it doesn’t have the same impact as outright divestment. “It’s big news when companies divest,” said Howie Hawkins, an activist based in Syracuse, N.Y., who was the Green Party candidate for governor in 2014. “When there’s a shareholder resolution, you don’t see that in the news, so it doesn’t have the same political impact.” Alpern, of Clean Yield, believes DESIGNER that the urgency of addressing JEN_PU climate change means that “the time for polite conversation [with the oil companies] is over.” “We need them to turn on a dime,” she said. “And all of their pronouncements are based on their premise that world demand for their products will continue increasing for several decades. And none of them recognize that they will need to delay or not produce the majority of their reserves. “I rarely advocate for divestment, because it’s often possible to succeed in encouraging incremental but meaningful improvements. But incremental change on this issue is no longer good enough.” For those who still believe in the power of engaging with oil companies, Alpern advocates neardivestment— owning just enough stock to file resolutions and attend annual meetings. That strategy likely will not score the victories equal to the task of addressing climate change, and it is a fair question whether total divestment packs the most powerful punch. But advocates for shareholder activism see little tension between the two courses. They ask: Given the scale of the challenges, why not use every option available? “We’re not the kind of activists who are just here to make noise,” said ICCR’s Berry. “And those activists are very important, let me say. But we are folks who do our homework and just plug away and plug away. It’s not for everybody, but we think it’s an important tool in a multilateral approach to changing some of the world’s most intractable Ω problems.”

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The use of shareholder resolutions by progressive groups dates to the early 1970s, when a federal court ruling prompted the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to begin allowing socially and politically oriented shareholder resolutions, which it had previously rejected. Founded in 1971, ICCR was a pioneer of the practice, which it used as a tool against apartheid in South Africa. Calvert Investments was the first mutual fund to use the strategy, filing a resolution relating to a labor dispute in 1986. Progressive shareholder activism has evolved rapidly in the past decade, and the number of resolutions has grown steadily. There were a record 454 socially and environmentally focused resolutions filed in 2014— about 50 more than in 2013, according to the nonprofit Sustainable Investments Institute. More than half of the resolutions filed last year targeted investment groups and pension funds. Environmental issues and getting corporate money out of politics were the highest priorities by far. Last year, nearly 40 percent of the resolutions related to climate change, sustainable governance, renewable energy and other environmental issues, while 30 percent had to do with corporate political activity. Andrew Behar is CEO of As You Sow, the shareholder activist organization behind a resolution—endorsed by British  Petroleum and Royal Dutch Shell—for the oil companies to  become more environmentally friendly.

Laura Berry is the executive director of the Interfaith Center  on Corporate Responsibility, which introduced a   successful resolution to halt predatory lending at Wells Fargo.

These issues sometimes intersect. Investors asked 24 companies to disclose their ties to ALEC, for example, and some resolutions—like one targeting Google— argued that ALEC’s climate-change denial contradicted the company’s support for renewable energy. Google opposed the resolution, which received only 8.6 percent of shareholder support. But last September, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt said on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show that ALEC was “literally lying” about climate change and “making the world a much worse place so we should not be aligned with such people.” Schmidt did not say whether the resolution factored into Google’s decision to withdraw from ALEC. About 40 percent of filed resolutions are withdrawn—mainly because the target concedes or agrees to negotiate. But, by and large, corporations are more likely to give way on environmental issues than on challenges to their political activity. About 43 percent of environment-related resolutions were withdrawn between 2011 and 2013. Only 25 percent of those focused on corporate politicking were withdrawn.

Slow and steady Ease of entry is one reason for the rising tide of shareholder activism. An individual or organization needs to own just $2,000 worth of a corporation’s stock for a year to file a resolution. Companies can appeal to the SEC for a ruling on whether the resolution is relevant to its business, but the majority are ultimately approved. Shareholder activism is also gaining momentum because it does actually create reforms—though, as with the oil companies, the process can be slow and vulnerable to co-optation. Anecdotal evidence of its power has been supplemented by an emerging body of scholarly work on the ways that activism changes corporate behavior. For example,

recent research by business professors at Northwestern, Stanford and Georgetown universities drew on ICCR’s archive of shareholder resolutions, as well as a database of boycotts. They found that corporate reform is a fluid, long-term process, in which pressure on companies gradually opens up new opportunities for activists to exploit. It does so by motivating companies to create tools to respond to the activists’ demands. These tools often include, for example, a committee on social responsibility and a report on the company’s commitment to sustainability, which slowly bring the perspectives and presence of activists into the culture—and transform the company. Nike is the classic example. Activists targeted it for relying on sweatshop labor through much of the 1990s. The company fiercely resisted, but high-profile protests on college campuses in the late 1990s motivated it to initiate reforms, including a code of conduct and factory inspections to ensure compliance. In 2001, Nike established a corporate responsibility committee and began issuing reports reviewing its own labor and environmental practices. Openness to shareholder activism and pursuit of a sustainable business model gradually became key elements of the company’s identity. Ethical Consumer, a British watchdog organization, recently gave Nike its highest rating in the category of supply chain management, though it noted that violations of workers’ rights were still common in some of its factories. The same sort of long game is now

To invest or divest? Right-wing organizations are not the only voices of protest against the growing use of shareholder activism by progressive groups. In a speech last spring, SEC Commissioner Daniel Gallagher lamented that the shareholder proposal process had been “hijacked” by people with “idiosyncratic and often political agendas.”

He quipped that perhaps the threshold for submitting a proposal should increase from $2,000 worth of stock to $2 million to solve the problem. And some progressives have reservations about shareholder activism’s incremental method, because it doesn’t have the same impact as outright divestment. “It’s big news when companies divest,” said Howie Hawkins, an activist based in Syracuse, N.Y., who was the Green Party candidate for governor in 2014. “When there’s a shareholder resolution, you don’t see that in the news, so it doesn’t have the same political impact.” Alpern, of Clean Yield, believes DESIGNER that the urgency of addressing JEN_PU climate change means that “the time for polite conversation [with the oil companies] is over.” “We need them to turn on a dime,” she said. “And all of their pronouncements are based on their premise that world demand for their products will continue increasing for several decades. And none of them recognize that they will need to delay or not produce the majority of their reserves. “I rarely advocate for divestment, because it’s often possible to succeed in encouraging incremental but meaningful improvements. But incremental change on this issue is no longer good enough.” For those who still believe in the power of engaging with oil companies, Alpern advocates neardivestment— owning just enough stock to file resolutions and attend annual meetings. That strategy likely will not score the victories equal to the task of addressing climate change, and it is a fair question whether total divestment packs the most powerful punch. But advocates for shareholder activism see little tension between the two courses. They ask: Given the scale of the challenges, why not use every option available? “We’re not the kind of activists who are just here to make noise,” said ICCR’s Berry. “And those activists are very important, let me say. But we are folks who do our homework and just plug away and plug away. It’s not for everybody, but we think it’s an important tool in a multilateral approach to changing some of the world’s most intractable Ω problems.”

“It’s big news when companies  divest,” says Howie Hawkins, the  Green Party candidate for New York  governor in 2014.

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going on at Wells Fargo—and there, shareholder activists are playing a high-profile role. The bank made headlines in 2012 for blocking certain shareholders from entering its annual meeting in San Francisco, citing space concerns. The activists, many of whom were part of the Occupy movement, had targeted the bank for its lending and foreclosure policies, among other concerns. Some were arrested. Wells Fargo moved its 2013 meeting to Salt Lake City in the wake of that public-relations disaster. The same year, ICCR members filed a resolution asking for a report about the impact of the bank’s “Direct Deposit Advance”—a product similar to a payday loan—on customers. Wells Fargo challenged the proposal, and the SEC ruled in its favor. But in November 2013, ICCR members submitted an amended proposal, asking Wells Fargo to prevent predatory lending by changing its policies. In January 2014, the bank agreed to discontinue Direct Deposit Advance. The ICCR members withdrew their resolution. The victory was typical of shareholder activism. It took years to bear fruit, it helped motivate a major corporation to make a concrete reform, and its larger import is open to debate. Perhaps it amounts to little more than one company ending one policy. On the other hand, perhaps it signals momentum toward broad reform within a major corporation, with wide-ranging implications that are still unknown.

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gas emissions, but to this day they have not set a company-wide target, and in fact, now openly disavow that approach,” said Shelley Alpern, director of social research and shareholder advocacy with the investment advising firm Clean Yield Asset Management. Alpern helped file resolutions that targeted ConocoPhillips in the early 2000s. “Engagement succeeds when we can make a persuasive case that change will enhance shareholder value [or] reduce business or reputation risk,” she recently wrote, reflecting on her experience with oil companies. But “as engagement with tobacco companies demonstrated, it will not work when the goal is to change the core business model of a company.”

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“stress test” their business models against the goal of limiting global warming to 2 degrees Celsius. Achieving that goal will mean that much of the oil companies’ assets will be left untapped, or “stranded”—with profound consequences for their long-term business models. As You Sow was part of the coalition that filed the resolutions. Its CEO, Andrew Behar, said, “This is the beginning of the ‘supermajors’—the biggest oil companies in the world—realizing that they need to be part of the future. We’ll see what they actually do. But if they just remove themselves from blocking political change, that’s huge.” Shell and BP reaped a windfall of positive media coverage for their decision to proactively embrace the proposal. But there is good reason for skepticism about the depth of their commitment. BP in particular has a history of casting itself as eco-friendly while pursuing distinctly anti-environmentalist policies. And conceding to a resolution often requires little from companies in terms of enacting actual reforms. Consider the case of the oil company ConocoPhillips. It has been targeted by shareholder activists since the early 2000s, and it has consistently indicated its commitment to addressing climate change by reducing its greenhouse gas emissions. Setting actual targets toward that goal, however, has been another story. In 2014, As You Sow filed a resolution noting that “no targets for reductions have been established after all this time, and there appears to be no timeline for setting one.” “The company told us in 2003 that it intended to set targets to reduce greenhouse

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Ioldto Chico music can be measured, it’s miles. The 34-yearsinger-songwriter said he’s averaged about f there’s a unit by which Ryan Davidson’s dedication

30,000 miles annually for the last several years, usually alone in his pickup truck, accompanied only by his guitar by and a harmonica. When he’s not Ken Smith traveling solo to play his own kens@ songs, he often tours supporting newsreview.com other players, and his musical adventures also have included extended stays in Southern CaliPREVIEW: fornia and across the Atlantic. In CD-release party short, he’s awfully well-heeled, for Ryan Davidson, especially for a guy who almost Tuesday, April 14, lost a leg. 9 p.m., at “My right leg is mostly artifiDuffy’s Tavern. cial at this point,” Davidson said Darius Koski and Rev. Shelby Cobra during a recent interview. “The open. joints and stuff are all metal— Cover: $5 cobalt chromium and high-density polymer Kevlar, cadaver ligaments Duffy’s Tavern and shit like that. I’m a walking 337 Main St. 343-7718 medical experiment at this point. There’s so much stuff they’re just like, ‘Well, we don’t really know what to do with you, so we just have this suitcase full of parts and we’re gonna put them in and Frankenstein you and just see what happens.’” When he was 13 years old, Davidson was riding his bike in the orchards west of Chico when he was hit by a semi truck outside of a nut processing plant. “He didn’t look in his mirror or signal, and he turned and cut me off,” Davidson recalled. “I went underneath him and he ran me over twice, and then caught my knees and dragged me for about 25 feet and stopped on top of me. I was conscious through the whole thing and he got out and looked under the truck. I was pinned under the truck yelling at him. He backed up and I kind of rolled over and looked at my legs and they were just filleted … I got to see all my bones and muscles and stuff that day.” Davidson had four surgeries that first week “to 22

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clean stuff and to fix stuff,” and in the ensuing two decades has had a total of 15 surgeries, the last of which was four years ago. He’s had to relearn how to walk on several occasions, endured years of pain and hardship resulting from his accident, and may still lose a leg someday, but none of it has affected his affable nature. As he puts it, “The accident gave me music, so I can’t complain.” In need of a new way to focus his hyperactive adolescent energy while bed-ridden and recovering, Davidson told his mom he wanted to learn to play guitar. As his health improved, his friend suggested he get a bass so they could start a band. Formed in 1998, the group was originally called Bean Fight, then Hit By a Semi, and in 2002 the punkabilly crew moved to Southern California. Davidson attended Long Beach State, earning a degree in anthropology with a minor in music. When the band eventually ended (“careers and kids, y’know?”), he decided to combine the two disciplines, and headed to Ireland and the University of Limerick to get a master’s degree in musicology. He returned to Chico in 2011 and started focusing on his solo work, and this week released his first solo album, A Wick Burning High. Davidson’s style incorporates equal parts of his many musical loves, most notably punk, country and Irish music. Longtime friend Darius Koski, of Swingin’ Utters fame, also embraces similar styles, and the two decided to work on their solo albums together. They converged, along with some backing musicians and a full mobile recording studio, in a 150-year-old house on an 1,100-acre ranch bordering the Mendocino National Forest to record their respective albums over several days. “We’d get up, go hiking, meet up for a big family breakfast, then get to work by noon and do 12- to 14-hour days,” he said. “Everyone agreed it was the best recording experience ever, that it felt like a working vacation.” Davidson and Koski are currently on a West Coast tour supporting their dual releases, and both of them will be playing a CD-release party at Duffy’s Tavern on Tuesday, April 14. Ω

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, farm-fresh produce, food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment from Loki Miller and Max Minardi. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free. Downtown Chico, www.down townchico.com/events.

Art Receptions MAKER RECEPTION: A reception for the MFA candidate Chaz Martinsen’s ceramic sculptures exploring roles of humanity and technology. Th, 4/9, 5-7pm. University Art Gallery, Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

CREATIVE FUSION: A reception for the exhibition of student artwork chosen by instructors from Chico’s junior and senior high schools. 57pm Chico Art Center. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

Theater BIG THE MUSICAL: When 12-year old Josh Baskin wakes up inhabiting the body of an adult, he and his friends search for a way back. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm trough 5/3. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

PETER AND ALICE: Enchantment and reality collide when Alice Liddell Hargreaves meets Peter Llewelyn Davies meets Alice in Wonderland meets Peter Pan. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 4/19. $12-$16. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

PRINCESS WHATSERNAME: A musical mystery with a lost girl in the forest who finds help from friends Hansel and Gretal, Snow White, and Goldilocks. 4/9-4/10, 7pm, Sa, 4/11, 2pm. $5-$7. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus, (530) 8913050.

MAKER RECEPTION— CHAZ MARTINSEN Thursday, April 9 University Art Gallery

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Music CAMMIES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 12 shows in three

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Special Events BANFF MOUNTAIN FILM FESTIVAL: A world tour via mountain, adventure and other outdoor films. F, 4/10, 7pm. $10-$12. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperfor mances.com.

Art Receptions FRESH PAINT: A reception for the abstract

acrylic paintings of artist Tim Swaim. F, 4/10, 4-8pm. Sally Dimas Art Gallery, 493 East Ave.,

(530) 345-3063.

Music CAMMIES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 12 shows in three

nights, Thursday-Saturday, 4/9-4/11. See CAMMIES special insert this issue, or Nightlife listings (page 32) for more details. www.news review.com/cammies.

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

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

PRINCESS WHATSERNAME: See Thursday. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus, (530) 891-3050.

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

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

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A VINTAGE NIGHT AT THE MOVIES: Dress up in

costume and watch the original The Wizard of Oz. Sa, 4/11, 7pm. Free. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

WALK 4 WATER: A simulated water walk to illustrate the daily walk for water in developing nations, and to raise money and awareness. Sa, 4/11, 8:30am. $5-$15. Bidwell Park One-Mile Recreation, Woodland Ave., (530) 865-4875, www.bridgingthegapbygiving.org.

Special Events WORTHY TO BE PRAISED: The University Chorus, Chamber Singers, and A Cappella Choir highlight the best of American gospel music. Sa, 4/11, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333.

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

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

PRINCESS WHATSERNAME: See Thursday. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus, (530) 891-3050.

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end’s Nor Cal Jazz Festival festivities, Chico Performances brings maestro Arturo O’Farrill to transport fans of Afro-Cuban jazz to a Caribbean beach or a steamy night in Spanish Harlem. Sa, 4/11, 7:30pm. $10-$32. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

North State with local fare catered by Chico Natural Foods, tastings from local vendors, a silent auction and art raffles with live jazz by Christine LaPado-Breglia Trio. All proceeds benefit the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology. Su, 4/12, 4-7pm. $30. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Dr., (530) 899-9250, www.winetimechico.com.

WILDFLOWER SHOW AND NATIVE PLANT SALE: Celebrate native-plant week with many species of native plants from a variety of local habitats. Su, 4/12, 12-4pm. $5. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

1078 GALLERY: Members’ Showcase, members of the non-profit gallery showcase a widerange of artistic styles and techniques. 4/9-5/2. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

B-SO SPACE: New Works, BFA candidate Brittaney Browne showcases new photographic works. Through 4/10. New Works, BFA culminating exhibition featuring new works from Lindsey Chamberlin. 4/13-4/17. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: The Glass House

Series, artist John C Roll explores the elements of sculpture and architecture—glass houses, specifically. The pieces are born out of the artist’s fascination with light, reflections and transparency. Through 4/9. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Creative Fusion, an exhibition of student artwork chosen by instructors from Chico’s junior and senior high school students. 4/10-4/24. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

HAS BEANS INTERNET CAFE & GALLERIA: New

Music ACHILLES WHEEL: High-energy roots, psychedelic dance rock, and bluegrass from Grass Valley. Tu, 4/14, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

teral gospel. Tu, 4/14, 7pm. Free. Oroville State Theater Lobby, 1489 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-4140.

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ARTURO O’FARRILL: As a warm up for next week-

of international films. This week: Chocolat (France). Tu, 7:30pm. $3. Ayres 106, Chico State, (530) 899-7921.

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bite from one of the food trucks and enjoy a variety of provided entertainment, both will vary each week. Tu, 11:30am-1pm through 9/29. Downtown Chico Plaza, 400 Broadway St., (530) 345-6500.

UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: A weekly presentation

Art Receptions day viewing art collections, listening to music, and visiting four private collectors’ homes. A CAC fundraiser. Sa, 4/11, 10am-4pm. $50-$60. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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Special Events MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS LECTURE SERIES: The Gateway Science Museum presents live lectures under the theme “It’s The Little Things” This week “Ticks, Mosquitoes and West Nile Virus.” W, 7:30pm through 4/29. $3. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

RESPECTFUL REVOLUTION PROJECT: Documenting

Works, Ernest King showcases landscapes and abstract paintings. 4/9-6/1. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.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.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Animals: Fun, Fantastic, Fierce, prints selected from the Janet Turner Print Collection featuring a variety of works that include animals as subjects. Through 4/11. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY: The West: A Way of Life, featuring work of internationally renowned artist Keith Christie, the creator of the nearly life-size bronze sculpture of the Wells Fargo Stagecoach and horses. Through 5/3. 431 Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Fresh Paint, abstract acrylic paintings from artist Tim Swaim. Through 5/2. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Maker, MFA candidate Chaz Martinsen exhibits new ceramic sculptures exploring roles of humanity and technology. Through 4/10. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Call for Artists CROWD-ED: A juried art show using ideas of overcrowding, pollution, energy, food and water and how these resources affect us now and how they will affect us in the future. Artists of River Town Gallery & Gifts, 1435 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-4140, http://artistofrivertown.com.

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. Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley. Attack Of The Bloodsuckers, explore the science of what’s biting you in this skincrawling exhibit examining mosquitoes, fleas, ticks, leeches and other parasites. 4/9-5/10. 625 Esplanade, www.csu chico.edu/gateway.

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Leaping Lemurs and Mysterious Crimes: On The Trail of Physical Anthropology, The exhibit takes visitors on the human journey from our African roots to modern humans through the eyes of physical anthropology. Ongoing. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.sity Herbarium, 129 Holt Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5381, www.csuchico.edu/ biol/Herb/Friends.html.

positive actions throughout the United States with short video portraits. W, 7pm through 4/15. Free. Siskiyou 120 on the Chico State Campus, W. First St., (916) 847-7463, www.respectfulrevolution.org.

CAMMIES MUSIC FESTIVAL: 12 shows in three

nights, Thursday-Saturday, 4/9-4/11. See CAMMIES special insert this issue, or Nightlife listings (page 32) for more details. www.news review.com/cammies.

LEANN RIMES: Famed country-pop singer visits

Gold country. Sa, 4/11, 8pm. Gold Country Casino Showroom, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 538-2542.

CHICO BREW FEST AND WINE Saturday, April 11 Manzanita Place

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“Papa” Jim Secola, longtime cheerleader for the local community and founder of the popular Facebook group “You Know You’re From Chico When,” is hosting A Vintage Night at the Movies on Saturday, April 11, at the El Rey Theatre. The featured film for this installment of the semi-regular event is The Wizard of Oz, and audiences are invited to dress up as EDITOR’S PICK their favorite characters from the movie. Admission is free, though donations will be accepted, and the event is designed to be family friendly, so save that naughty munchkin get-up for Halloween.

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fantasized at some point about what it would be like to meet our favorite fictional characters in real life. In Peter & Alice, playwright John Logan takes that concept through the by looking glass, so to speak, and Carey Wilson gives us a fictional glimpse into the lives and minds of the real people who inspired two of children’s REVIEW: literature’s most beloved characters, Peter & Alice shows Alice of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Thursday-Saturday, Adventures in Wonderland and J.M. 7:30 p.m. and Sunday, Barrie’s Peter Pan. 2 p.m., through April The play is based on the actual 19, at Theatre on the Ridge. meeting in 1932 of the financially Tickets: $12-$18 distressed Alice Liddell (played by Theatre on the Ridge Drenia Acosta) and up-and-coming 3735 Neal Road, book publisher Peter Llewelyn Paradise Davies (Brett Edwards) in the 877-5760 back room of a bookstore that is www.totr.org sponsoring an exhibition celebrating the works of Carroll. It pits the forthrightly acerbic wit and wisdom of the “real” 80-year-old Alice against that of the somewhat more depressive 30-something “real” Peter. Using the dual nature of its characters—both real and fantastic—as its springboard, the play takes us on a journey that weaves the biographies and personalities of Liddell and Davies into the qualities of the Alice and Peter characters they inspired. If that sounds like it might call for an overload of expositional dialogue in a character-based drama, well, it does—sort of. But Logan’s script very much embraces that necessity and turns it into a strength rather than a liability. As the real Alice and Peter begin to debate in earnest the value of their fictional counterparts and the effect that being famous for being a fictional character has had on their personal lives, the bookstore is literally swept aside and replaced by scenes from the fantasy lands that are the source of their fame. To convey this effect, director and set designer Jerry Miller created painted panels depicting scenes and characters from the books, and it is within this fantasy landscape that the real confrontation between the characters and their authors unfolds.

“Real” Peter (Brett Edwards), “real” Alice (Drenia Acosta) and Alice from  Wonderland (Rebecca Allen) meet on the fantasy plane.  PHOTO BY JAY CHANG

In this dream-like scenario, manifestations of Barrie (Eric M. Ricketts) and Carroll (Richard Lauson) arrive to bolster the recollections and dialectic debate of Alice and Peter regarding the value of their fictitious counterparts. Adding to the dreamlike complexity of the scene, the fantasy Alice from Wonderland (Rebecca Allen) and Peter Pan (Sarah Krulder) also join in. The characters’ voices are then added to the multifaceted debate regarding age, memory and the value of a child’s enjoyment of fantasy vs. the painful and sometimes tragic consequences of attaining age and experience in the real world. In my favorite scene of the play, the fictional Alice and Peter confront the people who inspired their creation and recite an inventory of their behavioral and emotional problems—Alice for over-indulging in laudanum and lovers and Peter for being a drunkard and an adulterer. Allen’s Alice is as cheerfully sharptongued as only a precociously wise child can be, and Krulder’s Peter conveys the arrogance and grace of eternal youth with a dancer’s moves and a patronizing smirk at the follies and concerns of age. With its very serious themes regarding the individual’s experience of age and memory, fantasy and reality, and its complex narrative blending and shifting between emotional realism and fantastic invention, Peter & Alice is a play worthy of serious contemplation, but it is also very entertaining in the brilliance of its writing and the quality of its staging. Acosta, in the role originally written for Dame Judi Dench, is a wonderfully complex Alice, shifting from the depressed, debt-plagued sadness of a mother whose sons were killed at war, to joyfully dancing bride, to shrewd, quick-witted philosophical debater while maintaining a dignity and poise befitting of an English lady. And Edwards embodies the bitter, tragedy-haunted Peter Davies as a man who struggles to find solace in real achievement rather than remembered pain or imagined glory. Whether one enjoys fantasy more than realism, or history more than fiction, Peter & Alice offers a worthwhile excursion into both sides of the debate. □

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“Till Death Do Us Part”

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Al Pacino stars as an aging rocker who, after uncovering a 40-year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, makes an effort to change his hard-living ways. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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The latest film adaptation of a best-selling Nicholas Sparks novel tells the story of a couple of starcrossed lovers—the bull-riding champ (played by Scott Eastwood, son of Clint) and the promising young college grad heading to NYC (Britt Robertson). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

That escalated quickly Six outrageous black comedies in one Oscar-nominated film he six short stories in Argentine Tanthology writer-director Damián Szifrón’s film (nominated for Best For-

eign Language Film at the 2015 Academy Awards) all live up to their collective title, Wild Tales. by Juan-Carlos Each of them is a kind of Selznick uproarious tragicomedy, with a wickedly sardonic take on the crazed, overthe-top actions of their respective main characters. At times, the storytelling itself seems a little crazed as well. Three of the tales involve misadventures with automobiles, and Wild Tales Opens Friday, another is set mostly April 10. aboard a jet airliner whose Directed by passengers discover they Damián Szifrón. are trapped in a bizarre Pageant revenge scheme. In others, Theatre. Not rated. a demolitions expert gets into a one-man war over parking tickets; a wealthy businessman proposes a series of bribes to protect his son from a hit-and-run conviction; and a waitress and a cook plot lethal revenge when the former recognizes a customer as a villain from her family’s unhappy past. One of the automobile episodes features chase-and-crash action, but most of the drama in all six tales is a matter of outlandish, enraged and (at times) savage behavior in relatively confined circumstances—a dreary cafe, the parlor/living room of a swanky mansion, a set of government offices, the passenger cabin of that airliner, a wedding reception in a large ballroom. “Pasternak,” the airliner episode, has a brief, eerie resemblance to the recent Germanwings debacle, but whatever its chill-

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ing ironies, the episode’s exaggerated coincidences reduce it to the level of jokey extravaganza. Placement of the entire episode before the opening credits is, however, a joke on the audience that may have its own mildly chilling effect. The cafe episode (“The Rats”) and the bribery episode (“The Deal”) are dialogue-heavy tales in which the characters get trapped in the increasingly convoluted logic of their own unexpectedly complicated schemes. “The Rats” has the greater dramatic impact, while “The Deal” is more dispassionate in its dissection of corruption and social privilege. “Bombita” begins with Simon (Argentine star Ricardo Darín) supervising the demolition of a massive storage facility and then finding his car has been towed away while he was buying a birthday cake for his daughter. Simon’s ensuing rage over the city’s traffic bureaucracy and its seemingly impenetrable structure of fees and fines soon escalates into radical forms of very uncivil disobedience. The most dynamic and pungent action comes in “Road to Hell,” a ferocious little epic of road rage involving a wealthylooking guy (Leonardo Sbaraglia) driving a sleek new sedan and a scruffy-looking thug (Walter Donado) in a banged-up allterrain vehicle. Foolish macho posturing escalates into a fight to the finish, and the finish is devastatingly apt. The final episode, “Till Death Do Us Part,” with its farcical shambles of a wedding reception, is the most brilliantly and elaborately developed tale, character-wise and entertainment-wise. The very feisty bride (Érica Rivas) and the complacently arrogant groom (Diego Gentile) survive their compounded wedding fiasco well enough to make this last episode a small masterpiece of acid-tinged romantic comedy. Ω

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Will Farrell plays a white dude wrongfully convicted of tax evasion. Kevin Hart plays a black dude wrongfully believed to be an ex-con. When the white dude enlists the black dude to help him “get hard” in preparation for prison, hijinks ensue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Home

A Dreamworks animated feature about Oh, a “lovable misfit” from another planet, who befriends an Earth girl named Tip. Starring the voices of Rihanna, Jim Parsons, Steve Martin and Jennifer Lopez. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Woman in Gold

A British-American drama based on the real-life events surrounding Maria Altmann (played here by Helen Mirren), an Austrian Jewish refugee in America who fought her home country’s government to try and reclaim her family’s Gustav Klimpt paintings that had been stolen by the Nazis. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Kenneth Branagh is at the helm of this remake of Disney’s popular 1950 film adaptation of the classic European folkloric fantasy. Starring Lily James as Cinderella and Cate Blanchett as Lady Tremaine, aka the Wicked Stepmother. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Divergent Series: Insurgent

Movie No. 2 in the planned four-film Divergent franchise based on Veronica Roth’s young-adult sci-fi series features protagonist Beatrice Prior (Shailene Woodley) on the run while trying to battle forces seeking to rid the post-apocalyptic world of Beatrice and all her fellow “divergent” personality types. This Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Do You Believe?

A Christian faith-based drama about a pastor who, after witnessing the passion of a street-corner preacher, is reminded to put his beliefs into action. Starring Sean Astin, Mira Sorvino and Delroy Lindo. Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

In what looks to be a crap-your-pants kind of scary, this critically acclaimed supernatural horror flick follows a young woman who is being followed by a slowly walking entity that will kill her if it ever catches up to her. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Kingsman: The Secret Service

Kingsman is a comical action film, with secret agents, high-tech weaponry, and international espionage, as well as 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 Bond films is mostly affectionate and inconsequential, the parts of the story involving spy agencies, Internet moguls, global conspiracies, and semi-futuristic technology are a rather unstable mix of sci-fi extravagance, furious satire and fanboy jokiness. Colin Firth, who plays a foppish variation on the Bond-type super spy, acquits himself nicely in the dialog scenes but 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 wideeyed, lisping Internet mogul with sinister plans. 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. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

McFarland, USA

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. Rated PG.

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Ljamtop-notch touring funk, hip-hop, world music and bands (Orgone, Karl Denson’s Tiny Universe, ately, Lost on Main has been hosting a lot of

Afrolicious, Lyrics Born, to name a few) as well as many local bands of every danceable genre. Its large, colorby fully lit stage, killer sound system Carey Wilson and spacious dance floor make it a great destination if you’re feeling like getting your groove on, whether that means hanging REVIEW: on the sidelines at a tall table Yo Mama’s Big Fat for two, cozying up on a comfy Booty Band and the Mark Sexton Band, upholstered couch or bustin’ a Friday, April 3, at move and working up a sweat on Lost on Main. the dance floor. The April 3 show featuring headliners Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band from Asheville, N.C., and support group the Mark Sexton Band from Reno, brought a late-night crowd of funk-lovers to the venue and kept a good portion of us groovin’ up a storm on the dance floor from 10:15, when the first band hit the stage, till nearly 2 a.m., when the Big Fat Booty Band had to reluctantly quit the stage due to the imminent arrival of the club’s legally mandated closing time. Guitarist Sexton opened his band’s set with a smooth groove reminiscent of Booker T. & the M.G.’s classic instrumental Memphis soul sound, with Ryan Taylor’s electric organ trading off and entwining melodic lines with the lead guitar over the endlessly rhythmic variations of drummer Dan Weiss and bassist Alex Korostinsky. The relaxed but tightly focused introductory jam brought a few members of the slowly growing audience onto the dance floor, and by the time the band switched gears to unleash a fully funky cover of Sly and the Family Stone’s classic “Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin)” pretty much everyone in the constantly growing crowd either joined the dancers on the floor or shimmied in and on their seats. With the assembled multitude fully warmed up, sufficiently lubricated and properly attitude-adjusted, Yo Mama’s Big Fat Booty Band took the stage around midnight to rousing cheers of approval for

their ain’t-nothin’-but-a-party attitude, festive stage regalia and deeply funky, booty-shaking music. Composed of bassist Al “AI” Ingram, keyboardist/ keytarist Mary Frances, guitarist John Paul Miller, trombone-player Derrick Johnson and drummer Lee Allen, the 13-year-old quintet brings a wealth of experience and a world of enthusiasm for their art form to their stage show. All the players, with the exception of drummer Allen, sing, and they all played with virtuoso technique and true-funkster looseness. To my ears, the key elements and most obvious influences derive from the multilayered, polyrhythmic sound originated by George Clinton, Bootsy Collins and Bernie Worrell in the seminal 1970s funk bands Funkadelic and Parliament, aka P-Funk. The choice of employing trombone as the only brass instrument in the band is genius. And in the ultra-capable hands of Johnson the instrument provides an entire brass section’s worth of tonality and melody as well as reinforcement for both the rhythm section and the lead instrumentation of the band. And let’s get real—slide trombone-playing is much more visually interesting and entertaining than any key-activated brass instrument ever could be. Ranging from raunchily lascivious to deeply melancholy to boisterously funny, and everything in between, the tonal expressiveness of the instrument is nearly infinite, and Johnson didn’t waste or misplace any of that musical potential. And speaking of exploiting potential to maximum effect, singer-keyboardist/femme fatale Mary “Mama Funk” Frances spices up the funk just as much musically as aesthetically. Whether shimmering like a benevolent, multi-armed Kali between the many keyboards within her wall of instruments or getting out front to rock the house face-on with her keytar and sultry voice, Frances never let up. The virtuosity and inventiveness of P-Funk’s Worrell came to mind more than once when listening to her solos and rhythmic embellishments. This is truly and obviously a band, with each and every member fully contributing to create a cohesive and very entertaining show. If you didn’t catch ’em this time, keep your eyes and ears open for a return visit. □

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THURSDAY 4/9—WEDNESDAY 4/15 CAMMIES METAL SHOWCASE: Join your friends, whip your head, melt your faces with nominees Aberrance and Teeph, plus special guests Blight. Th, 4/9, 9pm. $3. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

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9THURSDAY CAMMIES BLUES SHOWCASE: The CAMMIES and the nominees in the blues category join the Guinness worldrecord attempt, where the entire month of April is devoted to the effort to break record for longest multiartist concert, and this night is devoted to dancing your booty off to some local blues with the Alan Rigg Trio, The Amy Celeste Band, The Growlers and Sapphire Soul. Th, 4/9, 8pm-midnight. $5. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.newsreview.com/cammies.

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CAMMIES JAZZ SHOWCASE: A dinner-time concert featuring a wide variety of players from the local jazz community, including Bogg, Holly Taylor, Chico Jazz Collective and Miami Rogue Roosters. Plus, the Black Kettle food truck out back, and beer for sale inside. Th, 4/9, 6-8:45pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

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JOHN SEID TRIO: John Seid, Larry Peterson and Steve Cook play an eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues, and standards. Th, 4/9, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

10FRIDAY BAHAPKI: KZFR hosts an evening of rock, R&B, and funk-fusion with three local dance-floor faves: Bahapki, GravyBrain and Dog Named Blue. F, 4/10, 7:30pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

CAMMIES ELECTRONIC SHOWCASE: BassMint Chico is once again hosting the Electronic Showcase, bringing producers (A.L.O., Bionix, and Clayton the

Chemist) and DJs (DJ Becca, Eyere Eyes) to the basement. F, 4/10, 9:30pm. $3. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888, www.news review.com/cammies.

CAMMIES INDIE/EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE: With the creativity and wide range of styles in the indie/experimental category, this is always one of the most energetic, fun showcases of the season. Performers nclude Pageant Dads, Sisterhoods, Solar Estates. F, 4/10, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915, www.newsreview.com/cammies.

CAMMIES ROCK SHOWCASE: There’s no better happy hour than a rock ’n’ roll happy hour. Performers for this outdoor CAMMIES Rock Showcase on the patio include The Vesuvians, The LoLos and The Rugs. F, 4/10, 6-9pm. $1. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.newsreview.com/cammies.

CAMMIES WORLD SHOWCASE: From bellydance music to a samba drum troupe, this year’s CAMMIES world-music nominees are all over the map. 2015 performers: Eastwind Bellydance, Ha’Penny Bridge, Los Caballitos de La Canción and Los Papi Chulos. F, 4/10, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853, www.newsreview.com/ cammies.

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crew is on tour in support of its latest, Descensus. Balance and Composure and Chon open. F, 4/10, 8pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

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If you’re a young band looking to draw a crowd to the dance floor in this groovy little college town, get your self a rocksolid rhythm section, add a tasty groove to any musical style you desire—rock, blues, world, bluegrass, or a mixture of all of them—and include extended improvisational jams when it feels right. That general approach is what you get with Nevada City’s Achilles Wheel, and they have two drummers working the party groove! Join the crowded dance floor Tuesday, April 14, at the Sierra Nevada Big Room.

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CAMMIES JAM/R&B/FUNK SHOWCASE: Ending the CAMMIES genre-showcase weekend on the proper booty-shaking note with an incredible line-up of party-makers. Performers include: Black Fong, Electric Canyon Convergence, GravyBrain, Lisa Valentine, Sofa King and Swamp Zen. Sa, 4/11, 9pm. $5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853, www.news review.com/cammies.

CAMMIES PUNK SHOWCASE: The Chico Area Punks own the annual CAMMIES Punk Showcase with their come-one, come-all open-entry punk marathon featuring damn near every local punk act. Sa, 4/11, 3pm. $5 donation. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672, www.newsreview.com/cammies.

CAMMIES SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: An early evening show featuring performances by six of the eight nominees: Deedee Vest, Fera, Jesi Naomi, Kyle Williams, Lish Bills and Michael Bone Sa, 4/11, 7-10pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.newsreview.com/cammies.

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early days. Sa, 4/11, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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HOPELESS JACK AND THE HANDSOME DEVIL: Garage/blues/soul/roots/rock from Portland, with Redding’s Aces of Jacks and local singer/songwriter Well Okay. Sa, 4/11, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

LEANN RIMES: Sa, 4/11, 8pm. Gold Country Casino Showroom, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 538-2542.

LIVE MUSIC: Tom Blodget, Shawn Lavin, and Zach Cowan play classic covers and originals. Sa, 4/11, 7-9pm. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Dr., (530) 8999250, www.winetimechico.com.

MUSHROOMHEAD: The theatrical electometal crew from Cleveland visits with fellow heavy-makers Doyle and The Family Ruin. Locals Aberrance open. Sa, 4/11, 7pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxpro ductions.net.

SAMA DAMS: Avant-indie, experimental, post-rock from Portland. Also, indie folk-pop with South Fork and Alien Space Cream. Sa, 4/11, 8pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

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FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: Join the house band, The Growlers, and special guest Big Mo And The Full Moon Band. Bring an instrument and sign up to be a guest player. W, 4/15, 7:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885;

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

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ANNA VOGELZANG & EMILYN BRODSKY: Folk pop with Wisconsin singer-songwriter Anna Vogelzong, plus New York singer-songwritre Emilyn Brodsky. Tu, 4/14, 7:30pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

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RYAN DAVIDSON CD-RELEASE: CD-release party for local acoustic Celtic/folk/ punk singer/songwriter. Darius Koski opens. Tu, 4/14. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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NOTHING BUT MUSIC Today’s Arts DEVO is brought to you by Old No. 7 Brand. I am writing this week’s column from the Tackle Box Bar & Grill. It’s 6 a.m. on Wednesday morning (April 8). Mad Bob Howard is on stage singing Townes Van Zandt’s story of Pancho and his final days in the Mexican desert against a backdrop of Old Glory unfurling across the wall behind the stage as a gallery of severed deer and bison heads listens intently to his balladry from across the room. I’m scratching out these words on a blue notebook on a Jack Daniel’s bar table because so far it’s the only way I can experience the month-long Guinness World Record attempt for longest multi-artist concert that’s been Peanut gallery at the Tackle Box. underway at the south Chico bar since April 1. As most of you probably know, at this time of year, when the Chico News & Review is hosting the Chico Area Music Awards, I am stupid busy doing double duty as CAMMIES producer and arts editor for this paper. And, while I love that my version of “too busy” includes being completely immersed in music every spring, it has been killing me that my CAMMIES duties have kept me from visiting the Tackle Box and taking part in what’s turned into a local phenomenon that has captured Chico’s attention. Despite it kind of being my job to report on such notable local arts events, this morning is my first time bearing witness to the month-long record attempt. With this weekend’s 12 CAMMIES shows fast approaching, I decided to force the issue and get out by signing myself up for a 5 a.m. set this morning. And it’s no exaggeration to say it was one of the most fun times I’ve had playing music as a solo performer. The rules are you get only five minutes between acts and 25 seconds between songs, and while the red lights of the scoreboard clock and Randy Morton, on stage for the 7 a.m. spot. its buzzer were nerve-racking at first, as I got into it, the urgency proved energizing. And even though the sun wouldn’t rise until the middle of Howard’s set, the morning crowd was engaged and it was a pleasure to share music with them over coffee and a breakfast buffet. And it was a happy coincidence that Howard played the hour after mine. It’s been his enthusiastic online musings about the one-of-akind extravaganza that have stoked the burning desire for me to experience it for myself. “It is seriously one of the weirdest, most interesting, entertaining spectacles I have ever been a part of,” Howard wrote on his Facebook page. In addition to showing up most mornings to watch, Howard’s also been performing, putting in his “fifth or sixth” set (so far) on Wednesday. If you’ve yet to go, just go. And if you want to play or help out, they need more musicians and volunteers. Visit www.chicobreakstherecord.com for details. And, as crazy as it the local music schedule will be over the next few weeks with the Guinness and CAMMIES marathons taking place, there’s actually even more music happening over that span, way more. Nor Cal Jazz Fest is coming next week (April 17-19); KZFR is hosting a jam-band wet dream at the Chico Women’s Club (Bahapki, Dog Named Blue and GravyBrain, Friday, April 10); the Cal Nut Fest has a roster of amazing acoustic acts at Patrick Ranch on the same day (April 18) as the CAMMIES Finale/Awards Show and its roster of amazing acts at the Chico Women’s Club; plus all the regular hotspots—Sierra Nevada Big Room, Chico Performances/Laxson Auditorium, The Maltese, 1078 Gallery, Lost on Main (Coolio, April 18!), and Senator Theatre—all have multiple shows featuring locals and/or impressive-looking touring bands. Watch out Austin!

FOR THE WEEK OF APRIL 9, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Uitwaaien

is a Dutch word that means to go out for a stroll in windy weather simply because it’s exhilarating. I don’t know any language that has parallel terms for running in the rain for the dizzy joy of it, or dancing through a meadow in the dark because it’s such nonsensical fun, or singing at full volume while riding alone in an elevator in the mad-happy quest to purge your tension. But in the coming weeks, you don’t need to describe or explain experiences like this; you just need to do them. Experiment with giving your instinctive need for exuberance lots of room to play.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Your

nasty, nagging little demon isn’t nasty or nagging any more. It’s not doing what demons are supposed to do. It’s confused, haggard and ineffective. I almost feel sorry for the thing. It is barely even keeping you awake at night, and its ability to motivate you through fear is at an all-time low. Here’s what I suggest: Now, when the demon’s strength is waning and its hold on you is weak, you should break up with it for good. Perform an ultimate, nonreversible exorcism. Buy it a one-way bus ticket to the wasteland and say goodbye forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): When he

was in his fifties, French painter Claude Monet finally achieved financial success. He used his new riches to buy a house and land, then hired gardeners to help him make a pond full of water lilies. For the first time in his life, he began to paint water lilies. During the next 30 years, they were his obsession and his specialty. He made them a central feature of 250 canvases, which now serve as one of his signature contributions to art history. “I planted my water lilies for pleasure,” he said. “I cultivated them without thinking of painting them. And then suddenly, I had the revelation of the magic of my pond.” I regard the imminent future as a good time for you to do something similar, Gemini: Create or find a source of beauty that will stimulate your sense of wonder and fuel your passion to express yourself for a long time.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Every-

thing we do in life is based on fear, especially love,” said Cancerian comedian Mel Brooks. Although he was joking, he was also quite serious. More often than we like to admit, desperation infects our quest to be cared for. Our decisions about love may be motivated by a dread of loneliness. We worry about whether we are worthy of getting the help and support we need. It’s a fundamental human problem, so there’s no reason to be ashamed if you have this tendency yourself. Having said that, I’m happy to report that you now have the necessary power to overcome this tendency. You will be able to summon tremendous courage as you revise and refine your relationship with love. It’s time to disappear the fear.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you ever feel

reverence and awe, Leo? Are there times when you spontaneously yearn to engage in acts of worship? Is there anyone or anything that evokes your admiration, humility and gratitude? The coming weeks will be a good time to seek out experiences like these. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will get tender jolts of transformational inspiration if you blend yourself with a sublime force that you trust and respect.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A lot

has happened since you were … uh … indisposed. You’ve missed out on several plot twists. The circle has been broken, repaired, broken again and partially repaired. Rumors have been flying, allegiances have been shifting and riddles have been deepening. So are you ready yet to return to the heated action? Have you learned as much as you can from the commotion that provoked your retreat? Don’t try to return too early. Make sure you are at least 70 percent healed.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Rent, but

don’t buy yet. That’s my $250-per-hour advice. Keep rehearsing, but don’t start performing the actual show. OK? Flirt,

BY ROB BREzSNY but don’t fall in love. Can you handle that much impulse control? Are you strong enough to explore the deeper mysteries of patience? I swear to you that your burning questions will ultimately be answered if you don’t try to force the answers to arrive according to a set timetable. I guarantee that you will make the necessary connections as long as you don’t insist that they satisfy every single one of your criteria.

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

Guerrilla Girls are a group of prankster activists who use humor to expose sexism and racism in the art world. Every so often they take a “weenie count” at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. During their first survey in 1989, they found that 5 percent of the artists who had work hanging in the galleries were women, while 85 percent of the nudes depicted in the paintings were women. More recently, in 2012, their weenie count revealed that four percent of the artists were female, but 76 percent of the naked people in the paintings were female. The coming week would be a good time for you to take a weenie count in your own sphere, Scorpio. Conditions are more favorable than usual to call attention to gender disparities, and to initiate corrective action.

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ingenium, defined as “inborn talent.”

I’d like to borrow the original meanings to devise your horoscope this week. According to my reading of the astrological omens, your “engine” is unusually strong right now, which means that your cultivated skills and innate talents are functioning at peak levels. I suggest you make intensive use of them to produce maximum amounts of energy and gather more of the clout you’d love to wield.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

What I’m about to say is not a hard scientific fact, but it is a rigorous poetic fable. You don’t need to go to the mountain, because the mountain is willing and able to come to you. But will it actually come to you? Yes, but only if you meet two conditions. The mountain will pick itself up and move all the way to where you are if you make a lot of room for it and if you are prepared to work with the changes its arrival will bring.

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

you were a 4-year-old, cookies might be a valuable treasure to you. Given a choice between a bowl of stir-fried organic vegetables and a plate full of chocolate coconut macaroons, you’d probably choose the macaroons. For that matter, if you were 4 years old and were asked to decide between getting a pile of macaroons and a free vacation to Bali or an original painting by Matisse or a personal horoscope reading from the world’s greatest astrologer, you’d also opt for the cookies. But since you’re a grownup, your list of priorities is screwed on straight, right? You would never get distracted by a sugary, transitory treat that would cause you to ignore a more nourishing and long-lasting pleasure. Right?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): On June

23, 1917, Babe Ruth was the starting pitcher for the Boston Red Sox in a Major League Baseball game against the Washington Senators. After the first batter drew a walk, Ruth got upset with the home plate umpire and punched him in the head. Ejected! Banished! The Babe had to be dragged off the field by the cops. The new pitcher was Ernie Shore. He proceeded to pitch a perfect game, allowing no further Washington player to reach base in all nine innings. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I see you as having the potential to duplicate Ernie Shore’s performance in your own sphere. Coming in as a replacement, you will excel. Chosen as a substitute, you will outdo the original.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business names COLLINS AND DENNY MARKET at 434 Plumas Avenue Oroville, CA 95965. COLLINS & DENNY CORP. 5944 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. This business was conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SATEH HASROUN, CEO Dated: March 3, 3015 FBN Number: 2013-0000462 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RECOGNITION PRODUCTS at 3760 Morrow Lane, Suite D Chico, CA 95928. IDENTITY SOURCE INC 3760 Morrow Lane, Suite D Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: PATRICK BROOKS, PRESIDENT Dated: February 25, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000254 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COUNTRY SQUYRES’ ANTIQUES at 164 E. 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928. KATHLEEN M SQUYRES 164 E. 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KATHLEEN M. SQUYRES Dated: February 17, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000204 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEACH HUT DELI at 146 W 2nd St Chico, CA 95928. TAYLOR HOTALING MCCARTHY 477 E. 6th Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TAYLOR MCCARTHY Dated: March 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000318 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VIDA SALON at 2055 Forest Ave, Suite #6 Chico, CA 95928. MELANIE SCHELL 22 Moraga Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MELANIE SCHELL Dated: March 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000273 Published: March 19,26, April

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO NOTARY PRO at 1522 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926. ANITA GREGORY 1522 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ANITA GREGORY Dated: MARCH 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000333 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE WEENIE WAGON at 370 E. Lassen Ave #3 Chico, CA 95973. ROBYN MARTIN 370 E. Lassen Ave #29 Chico, CA 95973. PAM SMITH 370 E. Lassen Ave #3 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: ROBYN MARTIN Dated: February 25, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000253 Published: March 19,26 April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CAMMIES, CN AND R, CHICO BEER WEEK, NEWS AND REVIEW, CHICO NEWS AND REVIEW at 353 East Second Street Chico, CA 95928. CHICO COMMUNITY PUBLISHING INC 1124 Del Paso Blvd Sacramento, CA 95815. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: DEBORAH REDMOND, CORP SEC. Dated: February 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000240 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MESSY BUNS MAID SERVICE at 1016 Meier Dr #A Chico, CA 95926. SHEILA HERNANDEZ 2071 Amanda Way #66 Chico, CA 95928. LETICIA LEIJA 1016 Meier Dr #A Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: SHEILA HERNANDEZ Dated: March 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000327 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SCILABGEAR at 1406 Locust Street Chico, CA 95928. SIERRA CIRCUIT REPAIR, INC 1406 Locust Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KAREN BLOOD, CFO Dated: February 17, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000202 Published: MArch 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JUST MOVE BODY AND MIND FITNESS at 1927 Esplanade Chico, CA, 95926.

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DEBBIE HOLT 2833 Clark Road Oroville, CA, 95965. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DEBBIE ANN HOLT Dated: March 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000309 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOMS N MOPS at 3101 Coronado Dr Chico, CA 95973. MICHELE LEONARD 3101 Coronado Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHELE LEONARD Dated: February 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000210 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CAROL’S COMPANION CARE at 6466 Ponderosa Way Magalia, CA 95954. CAROLYN A TRAMMELL 6466 Ponderosa Way Magalia, CA 95954. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: CAROLYN A. TRAMMELL Dated: March 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000001 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOBILE FIRST RESPONSE at 2343 Holly Avenue Chico, CA 95926. DEBRA NOWLING 2343 Holly Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DEBRA NOWLING Dated: March 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000289 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CO-SHEA at 1566 Hawthorne Avenue Chico, CA 95926. MARY ELIZABETH STARK 1566 Hawthorne Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MARY STARK Dated: March 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000328 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CO-SHEA at 1566 Hawthorne Ave Chico, CA 95926. MARY ELIZABETH STARK 1566 Hawthorne Ave Chico, CA 95926. ADRIAN ALEX REKDAHL 1566 Hawthorne Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MARY STARK Dated: March 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2014-0001486 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE BIKE VALET at 9 Glacier Peak Ln. Chico, CA 95973. TIMOTHY S. HARRINGTON 9 Glacier Peak Ln. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TIM HARRINGTON Dated: March 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000311 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PICTURE PERFECT PAINTING BY ROB at 2379 Florida Ln Apt B Durham, CA 95938. ROBERT KYLE BANTA 2379 Florida Ln Apt B Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT BANTA Dated: March 13, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000348 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BIG TUNA SUSHI BISTRO at 1722 Mangrove Ave #18 Chico, CA 95926. NABE-YA 1722 Mangrove Ave #18 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: REIKO WATANABE, PRESIDENT Dated: March 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000278 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NOODLE HOUSE at 605 Mangrove Ave #130 Chico, CA 95926. CHAU DO 4520 Nord Highway Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CHAU DO Dated: February 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000213 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name FARM STAR PIZZA at 2359 The Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. MARIA VENTURINO 116 Winchester Ct Chico, CA 95926. CRAIG THOMAS 116 Winchester Ct Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: CRAIG THOMAS Dated: March 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2010-0001322 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUEEN LE CHICO NAILS SALON at 801 East Ave #112 Chico, CA 95926. KEVIN V LE 36650 48th Ave S Auburn, WA 98001 This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KEVIN V LE Dated: March 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000350 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16, 2015

abandoned the use of the ficti-­ tious business name H.L. QUEEN CHICO NAILS at 801 East Ave #112 Chico, CA 95926. HARRY LE 400 Mission Ranch Blvd #41 Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: HARRY LE Dated: March 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2014-0000538 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FARM STAR PIZZA at 2359 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. TIMOTHY T SULLIVAN 15 Pebblewood Pines Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TIMOTHY T. SULLIVAN Dated: March 13, 2015 FBN Number; 2015-0000349 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE CREEK STONE at 275 Fairchild Street Suite 102 Chico, CA 95973. MATTHEW MCHENRY 813 Oak Lawn Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MATT MCHENRY Dated: March 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000375 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name BUTTE CREEK STONE at 813 Oak Lawn Avenue Chico, CA 95926. TYLER GUTIERREZ 1420 Pearson Road Paradise, CA 95969. MATTHEW MCHENRY 813 Oak Lawn Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MATT MCHENRY Dated: March 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2011-0001143 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as O.G.’S WOOD-FIRED PIZZA at 2485 Notre Dame Blvd, Suite 370-257 Chico, CA 95928. BEN BICOCCA 263 Hidden Mine Rd Yankee Hill, CA 95965. CHRISTINA RIANDA 263 Hidden Mine Rd Yankee Hill, CA 95965. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: CHRISTINA RIANDA Dated: March 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000406 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JEFFERSON STATE GUN SHOP at 2861 Chico River Rd Chico, CA 95928. JEFFERSON STATE GUN SHOP, JSGS 2861 Chico River Road Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: ROBERT CONNER, MNG. Dated: March 25, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000397 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

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DAOMEOW at 786 Luther Drive Paradise, CA 95969. GINA L FALKENSTROM 786 Luther Drive Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: GINA FALKENSTROM Dated: March 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000365 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as UPTOWN VINTAGE AND SHABBY at 1311 Mangrove Ave #C Chico, CA 95926. TRACI D WILLIAMS 1766 Forty Niner Court Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TRACI D WILLIAMS Dated: March 12, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000342 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE LOCK DOC at 5548 E Commercial Street Chico, CA 95973. RALPH O SKYTTE 5548 E Commercial Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RALPH SKYTTE Dated: March 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000315 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALEX IT SERVICES at 1384 Broadway Street Apt. B Chico, CA 95928. BINGJIE CHEN 1384 Broadway Street Apt B Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BINGJIE CHEN Dated: March 17, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000361 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL AROUND TOWN HOME REPAIR at 1502 North Cherry Street Chico, CA 95926. ZACHARY SCHWERING 1502 North Cherry Street Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ZACHARY SCHWERING Dated: April 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000439 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE UPS STORE #1244 at 702 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926. JSK INC 813 Harbor Blvd West Sacramento, CA 95691. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SANJEEV PATHAK, OWNER Dated: March 27, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000414 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE UPS STORE #1323 at 2485 Notre Dame Blvd #370 Chico, CA 95928. JSK INC 813 Harbor Blvd West Sacramento, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SANJEEV PATHAK,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE UPS STORE #2326 at 1380 East Ave #124 Chico, CA 95926. JSK INC 813 Harbor Blvd West Sacramento, CA 95691. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: SANJEEV PATHAK, OWNER Dated: March 27, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000412 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SOMNOMETRICS at 555 Salem St Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT N RYAN 10706 Lone Pine Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT N. RYAN, DDS Dated: March 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000389 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE CHICO COMPANY at 28 Hanover Ln Suite C Chico, CA 95973. ADAM PEARCE 1208 Peninsula Dr Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ADAM PEARCE Dated: March 27, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000411 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO BOX & POSTAL CENTER at 230 Walnut St Ste C Chico, CA 95928. OLGA GILLETT 3375 Bodero Ln #2 Chico, CA 95973. This buisness is conducted by an Individual. Signed: OLGA GILLETT Dated: March 30,2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000419 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CJ’S LAST CHANCE DINER at 13670 Anderson Brothers Dr

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Chico, CA 95973. CELESTE HERRICK ANDERSON 4365 Ocean Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CELESTE HERRICK ANDERSON Dated: March 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000353 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BLOSSOM & BLOOM at 975 East Ave Chico, CA 95926. ROBERT GUTHRIE 11 Hercules Ave Oroville, CA 95966. NINA SIMMONS 6550 Palmetio Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Unicorporated Association. Signed: ROBERT GUTHRIE Dated: March 12, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000339 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ESTETICA at 2991 Esplanade Suite 150 Chico, CA 95973. PAULA JANE HULEN 192 Estates Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: PAULA JANE HULEN Dated: March 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2010-0001544 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIR STREET GALLERY, THE WINE ROOM at 6256 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. FIR ST LLC 6256 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: PAMELA FUNK, SINGLE MEMBER LLC Dated: February 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000218 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ, aka ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ, ESTEBAN G. RODRIGUEZ To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of:

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ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ, aka ESTEBAN RODRIGUEZ GOMEZ, ESTEBAN G. RODRIGUEZ A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHERINE REID in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHERINE REID 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: April 16, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928. 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:

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DIRK POTTER, Jacobs, Anderson, Potter & Chaplin 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973. Case Number: PR41338 Dated: March 17, 2015 Published: March 26, April 2,9, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOHN MICHAEL DI VECCHIA aka JOHN M. DI VECCHIA To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOHN MICHAEL DI VECCHIA, aka JOHN M. DI VECCHIA A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KRISTI SUE ENGKVIST in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTI SUE ENGKVIST be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 30, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: PROBATE Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928. 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

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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: CLAYTON B ANDERSON 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973. Case Number: PR41342 Dated: March 18, 2015 Published: April 2,9,16, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOSEPH ELLIOTT AKA JOE ELLIOTT To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOSEPH ELLIOTT AKA JOE ELLIOTT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LISA INGRAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: LISA INGRAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 30, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

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IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and le-­ gal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: 832 Royal Troon Place, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762. Case Number: PR41340 Dated: March 18, 2015 Published: April 2,9,16, 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,

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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: April 30, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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

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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, ESQ Jacobs, Anderson, Potter & Chaplin 20 Independence Circle, Chico, CA 95973. (530) 342-6144 Case Number: PR41306 Dated: March 30, 2015 Published: April 2,9,16, 2015 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due. The following units include clothes, furniture, boxes, etc. Unit 073Acc MICHAEL BONSER (5x5) Unit 342cc1: RONNIE SMITH (10x12) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: April 18, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926. Published: April 9,16, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARAH JOHNSON Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name:

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TRISTAN MICHAEL KARL DEANDA Proposed name: TRISTAN MICHAEL KARL WILKEY 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 29, 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 24, 2015 Case Number: 163860 Published: March 19,26, April 2,9, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner AYDRIA R AKIN-MOORE Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRANDON DASHAWN HOWELL-MOORE Proposed name: BRANDON ANDREW MAY-MOORE 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

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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: May 20, 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: March 17, 2015 Case Number: 163960 Published: March 26, April 2,9,16 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARCOS ADRIAN MIRELES Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARCOS ADRIAN MIRELES Proposed name: MARCOS ADRIAN ZEPEDA 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: May 27, 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: March 25, 2015

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Case Number: 164090 Published: April 2,9,16,23, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LISA DIANE MCCREARY Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JACKSON DUPERE JACOB Proposed name: JACKSON DUPERE MCCREARY 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: May 27, 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: March 25, 2015 Case Number: 164060 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner PATRICIA ELIZABETH JOHNSON Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: PATRICIA ELIZABETH JOHNSON Proposed name:

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PATRICIA ELIZABETH MCREYNOLDS 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: May 13, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: March 27, 2015 Case Number: 163145 Published: April 9,16,23,30, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT JONI D RINK You are being sued by plaintiff: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP Notice! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information be-­ low. You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your Written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for you response.

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You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts OnlineSelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your re-­ sponse on time you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal require-­ ments. you may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a non-­ profit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit group at the California Legal Services web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org) The California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local county bar association. Note: The Court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court are: Superior Court of California 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) LAW OFFICE OF FERRIS & SELBY 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: August 25, 2014 Case Number: 162866 Published: April 9,16,23,30,2015

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1148 Palm Ave 1160 Palm Ave 4112 Goldfinch Ct 1980 Durango Way 3230 Caspar Ct 251 Picholine Way 5 Baltar Loop 1205 Citrus Ave 40 Cajun Ct 2647 Lakewest Dr 1240 Whitewood Way

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$480,000.00 $465,000.00 $446,000.00 $425,000.00 $349,000.00 $347,500.00 $345,000.00 $336,000.00 $324,000.00 $320,000.00 $300,000.00

3/ 2 6/ 3 4/ 3 3/ 3 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 6/ 2.5 4/ 4 3/ 2 3/ 2

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112 Echo Peak Ter 948 Neal Dow Ave 2530 Duffy Dr 6 Nancy Ln 1518 Mulberry St 15 Mayfair Dr 676 E 3rd Ave 1216 Chestnut St 935 Olive St 1904 Magnolia Ave 3044 Monticello Ln B

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$253,000.00 $248,000.00 $245,000.00 $235,000.00 $230,000.00 $217,000.00 $203,000.00 $200,000.00 $197,000.00 $171,000.00 $132,500.00

2/ 2 4/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1.5 3/ 2 5/ 3.5 3/ 2 2/ 2 2/ 1 2/ 1

SQ. FT. 1661 1820 1477 1533 1477 1241 2668 1403 1401 768 1049

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LOVE’S REAL ESTATE Pending News The housing market is in “full recovery mode” according to the National Association of Realtors (NAR). The proof, they say, is in the number of pending home sales, which rose more than 3% in February over January. That’s 12% higher than a year ago. Pending home sales are measured by the number of signed real estate contracts in which all contingencies have been met, making it a valid indicator of a future home sale. The Pending Home Sales Index now sits at the highest level since June 2013. February’s rise over January gave a clear sign that cold weather had little impact on motivated buyers across the country, despite the predictions that freezing temperatures and piling snow would keep them indoors and out of the marketplace everywhere but the dry West. The Midwest was a standout. Pending home sales jumped 11.6% in February, a nearly 14% increase over last year.

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Pending home sales dropped slightly in February in both the South and the Northeast, but the South is still nearly 11% above where it was last year, and the Northeast is 4% above last year. The West is the strongest performer, with a 6.6% increase in February and up a whopping 18% from last year. NAR says a big factor in this recent buyer demand is rising consumer confidence. In fact, consumer optimism about the economy in general, according to the Consumer Confidence Board, hit a 10-year peak in the first quarter of 2015—its highest level since 2004, before the “Great Recession.” “The strength of confidence, along with an improving jobs market, indicates that real consumption growth will accelerate over the coming months,” says Paul Ashworth, chief U.S. economist at Capital Economics.

“Several markets remain highly competitive due to supply pressures,” said Lawrence Yun, NAR’s chief economist. “The return of buyers this year will depend on how quickly inventory shows up in the market.”

When people are feeling good about the economy, they tend to start checking out interest rates and thinking about buying houses. Interest rates are low, so all the more reason for buyers to get up and go.

But inventory is down across the country. Homeowners have been slow to trade up, or even downsize, leaving a skinny market for buyers looking to make the move. Still, NAR is

Now sellers need to get up and go and put their houses on the market for these hungry buyers. The pendings are depending on it.

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of March 23, 2015 – March 27, 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 362 Brookside Dr 937 Chestnut St 1745 Elm St 8995 Troxel Rd 9380 Holland Ave 445 Macedo Rd 14870 Wildlife Dr 14355 Sinclair Cir 3055 Foothill Blvd 216 Mira Loma Dr 120 Edgemont Dr

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BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Durham Durham Gridley Magalia Magalia Oroville Oroville Oroville

$124,000.00 $122,500.00 $122,500.00 $650,000.00 $268,000.00 $157,500.00 $175,000.00 $105,000.00 $275,000.00 $220,000.00 $130,000.00

3/ 2.5 5/ 2 2/ 1 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 4/ 2.5 5/ 3 3/ 2

SQ. FT. 2369 1614 808 2454 1638 2182 1620 1344 1954 2336 1518

ADDRESS 1183 12th St 5667 Bartels Pl 6071 Sawmill Rd 3997 Skyview Dr 6230 Johnson Dr 1092 Bille Rd 1548 West Dr 5976 Another Ln 6721 Clark Rd 322 Roe Rd 12296 Stonecreek Ct

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3/ 1.5 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 2/ 2 2/ 1.5 2/ 1 2/ 1.5 2/ 2

SQ. FT. 1152 2289 1800 1871 2019 1869 1435 858 1020 1408 1298

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x CAMMIES MUSIC FESTIVAL April 9-11, 2015

X A DECADE OF CELEBRATING CHICO’S MUSIC SCENE X 3 Nights 12 Shows 8 Venues

CHICO AREA MUSIC AWARDS

Official Festival Program Visit www.newsreview.com/cammies for links to all CAMMIES nominees and to vote for your faves A S P E C I A L C N & R P U L L- O U T S U P P L E M E N T

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2015 CAMMIES MUSIC FESTIVAL Showcase schedules for April 9-11

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en years! We can hardly believe it ourselves. It doesn’t seem possible that Chico News & Review has been hosting the CAMMIES for a decade! Thankfully, Chico never has a shortage of amazing musicians, and so here we are once again shining a light on the music scene and its eclectic collection of bands with a marathon of live-music parties. For two weekends, the Chico Area Music Awards will be taking over the town, first with the three-day CAMMIES Music Festival, featuring 12 genres of local music being showcased at both early- and late-evening shows at eight local venues, Thursday-Saturday, April 9-11. And next week, it’s the CAMMIES Finale/Awards Show, a free, all-day, all-ages celebration featuring music on two stages, food trucks serving grub, a beer truck serving adult beverages, and the announcement of the People’s Choice and Critics’ Choice Awards at the Chico Women’s Club (592 E. Third St.), on

Saturday, April 18, 2-7 p.m. Also, adding some extra excitement to the month, the entire month, is the Chico Breaks the Record event at the Tackle Box Bar & Grill, where local musicians (including some of this year’s blues nominees during the CAMMIES Blues Showcase) are lining up for a marathon attempt at breaking the Guinness World Record for longest multi-artist concert. Visit www.chicobreakstherecord.com for more info. Last, by 11:59 p.m. on April 12, be sure to visit www.newsreview.com/cammies and VOTE for your faves. Let’s do this!

Visit www.newsreview.com/cammies and VOTE for your faves. Deadline: April 12, 11:59 p.m.

Fri., April 10:

Sat., April 11:

Rap Showcase

Rock Showcase

Punk Showcase

LaSalles, 229 Broadway (happy hour on the patio)

LaSalles, 229 Broadway (happy

Monstros Pizza,

6-9p.m., $1

hour on the patio) The LoLos

Folk/Americana/ Country Showcase 6-9 p.m., $1

LaSalles, 229 Broadway

(happy hour on the patio) The Blue Merles Michelin Embers

Plus, special guests: Brad Petersen & friends

Jazz Showcase 6-8:45 p.m., $5

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway Chico Jazz Collective Bogg Holly Taylor The Miami Rogue Roosters

Plus, Black Kettle food truck will be parked out back serving dinner.

8 p.m.-midnight, $5 Tackle Box Bar & Grill,

379 E. Park Ave. In conjunction with the Chico Breaks the Record event. The Alan Rigg Trio The Growlers Sapphire Soul The Amy Celeste Band

Plus, special warm-up solo acts: Fox E. Jeff, Seamus Turner, Mike Williams and Clay Finch

Hard Rock/Metal Showcase 9 p.m., $3

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway Teeph Aberrance

Plus, special guests: Blight

HowFlyy Himp C The Chain Gang

The Rugs

Lips of Renegade

Plus, freestyle session hosted by: Butte Area Cypher Crew

Indie/Experimental Showcase

Boom City

9 p.m., $5

The Maltese Bar & Taproom,

1600 Park Ave. Sisterhoods

Blues Showcase

628 W. Sacramento Ave. Co-presented by Chico Area Punks.

Big Slim

We Bite

The Vesuvians

Solar Estates

Thurs., April 9:

3 p.m., $5 donation

6-9 p.m., $1

Pageant Dads

World Showcase

Fight Music Los New Huevos Icko Sicko

Singer-Songwriter Showcase

Skeeter Valentine

7 p.m., $5

Sleazy Earl Ray & The Two Drink Minimum

Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

Mr. Bang Severance Package Criminal Wave Strange Ones Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission

Deedee Vest Michael Bone Kyle Williams Jesi Naomi Lish Bills Fera

9 p.m., $5

The Miscreants

Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

John Holmes

Ha’Penny Bridge

Nothing Left

Eastwind Bellydance

Big Tree Fall Down

Los Papi Chulos

Pink Bandana

9 p.m., $5

Los Caballitos de la Canción

The She Things

Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

MK Ultra

Lisa Valentine

Shit Eating Grin

Black Fong

Gorilla X Monsoon

Sofa King

Jay Decay

Electric Canyon Convergence

Slay It Forward

GravyBrain

The King Is a Monster

Swamp Zen

Electronic Showcase 9:30 p.m., $3

Peking Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. Co-presented by BassMint Chico.

Jam/R&B/Funk Showcase

A.L.O. Clayton the Chemist Bionix DJ Becca Eyere Eyes

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2015 CAMMIES ballot T-shirts  only

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Each year, the Chico News & Review asks people who have been actively involved in the local music scene for the past year to be on our CAMMIES selection committee—promoters, bookers, soundpersons, music fans, radio DJs, music store employees, club owners, music writers and musicians from every genre. And, with the exception of the punk category (which, in true punk spirit, features every punk band in the area as a nominee), the committee’s faves make up the list of nominees for the Chico Area Music Awards.

Singersongwriter

Jam/R&B/ Funk

Hard Rock/ Metal

Ave Grave

Alli Battaglia & The Musical Brewing Co.

Aberrance

Black Fong

Armed For Apocalypse

Bran Crown

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Now it’s your turn sound off. Go watch the bands at the CAMMIES Music Festival showcases (April 9-11), and between now and April 13, log on to www.newsreview.com/cammies and cast your votes for your faves (and if your top choice wasn’t nominated, write ’em in!). The winners of the people’s choice awards will be announced, along with the critics’ choice awards, at the 2015 CAMMIES Finale/Awards Show on Saturday, April 18, 2-7 p.m., at Chico Women’s Club.

Deedee Vest Fera Jesi Naomi Kyle Williams Lish Bills

Electric Canyon Convergence GravyBrain Lisa Valentine Sofa King

Michael Bone

Swamp Zen

Folk/ Americana/ Country

World

The Blue Merles

Los Papi Chulos

Bunnymilk Michelin Embers Mossy Creek Western Divide

Eastwind Bellydance Ha’Penny Bridge Los Caballitos de La Canción Wolf Thump

Rap Big Slim

Jazz

The Chain Gang

Bogg

HowFlyy

Carey Robinson Trio

The Resonators

Chico Jazz Collective Holly Taylor The Miami Rogue Roosters

Blues

Himp C

Amarok Cold Blue Mountain Hearses Teeph

The Amy Celeste Band

The Rugs

The Growlers

Surrogate

Sapphire Soul

The Vesuvians

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Fight Music Filthy Luke Gorilla X Monsoon

Los New Huevos

Sisterhoods

The Miscreants

Solar Estates

Mom & Dad

West by Swan

Mr. Bang

Electronic (Producer & DJ ) Electronic producer A.L.O. Bionix

DJ Becca Eyere Eyes J.Handel

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Criminal Wave

Khaos Assault

Swamp Daddy

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Boom City

Shadow Limb

Electronic DJ

The Mondegreens

Blaster Dead

Pageant Dads

Aubrey Debauchery & The Broken Bones The LoLos

Big Tree Fall Down

Indie/ Experimental

Rock

The Alan Rigg Trio

Badger

Guerrilla Gorilla

Clayton the Chemist

Furlough Fridays

Punk/Ska

Icko Sicko Jay Decay John Holmes

Nothing Left The Oisters Outside Looking In Season of the Witch Severance Package The She Things Slay It Forward Strange Ones Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission Trox & The Terribles We Bite! #whitegirlwasted

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2015 CAMMIE nominees A quick look at all the nominees for the Chico Area Music Awards

Folk/ Americana/ Country The Blue Merles: Frontman Keith

Kendell’s long-running honky-tonk crew’s upbeat tunes about “lovin, lyin’, cheatin’, drinkin’ and hurtin’” crash the party with vibrant vocal harmonies and a tasty twang. Whether the band is playing alternative, outlaw, our justplain country, they always come back to that classic “Bakersfield” sound. www.thebluemerles.com

Bunnymilk: Kelly Brown (banjo) and

Lisa Marie (guitar) describe themselves as “drunken songbird angels,” an apt description for the duo’s sound,

which matches their combination of unique vocal harmonies and somber tones with lyrics of sadness and strength. bunnymilk.bandcamp.com

Michelin Embers: This four-piece “Western-skiffle” quartet is a country-punk concoction made even more unique by its combination of guitarist/vocalist Johnny Meehan’s high-lonesome twang, Steve Bragg’s homemade gutbucket, Ken Smith’s ukulele and Scott Pressman’s lap-steel guitar. www.michelinembers.com Mossy Creek: The self-described

sound of this seven-piece bluegrass group is “pure as the mountain water of the real Mossy Creek.” That clean, flowing sound of their close harmonies and uniquely arranged traditional and original tunes is the

Michelin Embers

product of having some of the most accomplished local players on their roster: Pat Haley (banjo, mandolin, Dobro, guitar, vocals), Bob Kirkland (mandolin), Chris Wenger (guitar), Christine Hogan (fiddle, vocals), Bob Littell (harmonica), Kim Gimbal (bass, vocals) and Tamara Allspaugh (vocals). www.mossycreekband.com

Western Divide: The songs of Western

Divide are “set in the wilderness of the earth and the wilderness of the heart,” and they are the kind of emotionally delivered, lush, indie-folk tunes that both tug at your heartstrings and make you want to march along the trail with them. www.western-divide.com

Indie/ Experimental

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debut took Critic’s Choice for Best CD at the 2006 CAMMIES, and that same independent spirit lives on in their third full-length, the beautiful, noisy and powerful Drought, released last year. westbyswan.bandcamp.com

World Eastwind Bellydance: While most troupes are content to shimmy and shake to canned tunes, Eastwind Bellydance’s gypsy-esque musical accompaniment is provided by a four-piece, hand-drum-heavy band. The crew just played the world’s largest bellydance festival, Rakkasah, and the group’s musical unit is working on a CD project. www.facebook.com/ eastwindbellydance

Solar Estates

Pageant Dads: Four “award-winning

fathers” of pageant princesses somehow find time between parentteacher conferences and 9-to-5 jobs to provide an out-there experimentalrock/comedy experience for Chico’s weirdos. pageantdads.bandcamp.com

Ha’Penny Bridge: Ha’Penny Bridge has a penchant for ren faire fashion, and are wont to appear onstage looking something like Men Without Hats in the classic “The Safety Dance” video. It’s a nice complement to the band’s original Celtic stylings, an interesting blend of Old World and new-age sensibilities. www.hapennybridgeband.com Los Caballitos de la Canción: A gaggle

of Chico’s best and brightest musicians combine forces to fuse a variety of Latin influence to create the sounds of contemporary and traditional Latina dance music. www.loscaballitos delacancion.com

Los Papi Chulos: This long-running

Afro-Cuban, Latin, salsa group has been making local audiences dance since it began as a Chico State Latin jazz ensemble in 1997. Though the specific lineup has changed over the years, the group is still led by CAMMIEwinning trumpeter Jeff Daub. www.facebook.com/ lospapichulosband

visual and musical artists led by percussionist/beekeeper Mike Wofchuck, and lays down the polyrhythmic bottom line for many a local outdoor festival and GRUB gathering. www.facebook.com/wolfthumpmusic

Jazz

Bogg: These four Chico State music

grads have carved out a niche by shaming wannabe musicians on a weekly basis at Café Coda every Friday morning. They can seemingly play anything, and are equally apt to rework recognizable pop songs into instrumental jazz numbers as they are to bust out standards or their own compositions. www.bogg jazz.com

Holly Taylor: The longtime vocalist and vocal coach in Chico has a big voice and big stage presence, lending depth and emotion to jazz standards as she plays alongside local ringers such as Bogg keyboardist Josh Hegg. If that weren’t enough, you can catch Taylor playing drums in rock cover band Hot Flash! or singing in Motown cover band The Velveteen Habit. www.facebook.com/hollyjazz

Chico Jazz Collective: Billing itself as a collection of the finest jazz musicians in Chico, Chico Jazz Collective is a loose group of rotating players brought together by ringleader/drummer Robert Delgardo to play weekly sessions at the DownLo that highlight classics from the 1920s and 1930s as well as more modern works. Find them on Facebook. The Miami Rogue Roosters: Another

big group of recognizable and experienced players from the local jazz scene, this one specializing in swing, bossa nova and bop jazz. The “happy jazz band” plays gigs all over NorCal, but their home roost is the Has Beans Creekside Café, where they play every other Sunday morning. www. facebook.com/miamirogueroosters

Carey Robinson Trio: This jazz trio

led by guitarist Carey Robinson and featuring Greg D’Augelli on stand-up bass and Komoki Bunting on drums has been playing tight, expressive standards in local coffee shops and restaurants for years and can currently be heard every Wednesday night at Farm Star Pizza.

The Miami Rogue Roosters

Blues

The Alan Rigg Trio:

Guitarist/keyboardist Alan Rigg has played music for more than half a century with some of the biggest names in blues, from B.B. King to Chuck Berry. In its current incarnation, his trio— with percussionist John Hale and bassist Joe Quinlan—plays original songs, as well as the sacred standards of blues, funk and jazz. www.mb52 alan.wix.com/alan-rigg-trio

Bogg

Chico Jazz Collective

The Amy Celeste Band: The

five-member Amy Celeste Band has a big, bluesy sound that is complemented by the soulful voice of its frontwoman, who belts out a lively repertoire of blues and pop standards. www.theamycelesteband.com

in which the house brewery’s to-go suds are packaged. www.featherfalls casino.com/entertainment

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co.’s monthly Full House Blues Jam, The Growlers’ impressive nine-member lineup is made up of veteran members of the local music scene. The band is named for the glass jugs

Carey  Robinson  Trio

Sapphire Soul: Chico’s own Gandalf

The Growlers: The house band for the

of the blues, the gloriously bearded saxophonist/vocalist Jonathan Arthur fronts this dance-friendly five-piece that plays standards from a range of classic regional American blues styles as well as a slew of originals. www.sapphiresoulband.com

Swamp Daddy: New Orleans blues

and zydeco group Swamp Daddy was built to keep the dance floor packed with its own gumbo of Southern blues. The group is currently mourning the death of its drummer, Richard Gibson, who passed away in March. www.swampdaddyband.com

Ha’Penny Bridge

Wolf Thump: This near-

dozen-strong corps of drummers features a number of locally renowned

Shadow Limb: Shadow Limb consists

Bunnymilk

Holly Taylor

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of four out of five members of longtime Chico instrumental experimenters La Fin du Monde, and the new crew continues the progressive work of the previous one, crafting complex, heavy jams for the introspective headbanger. www.facebook.com/ shadowlimb

Shadow Limb

Eastwind Bellydance

Wolf Thump

Sisterhoods: The four parts of

Mossy Creek The Blue Merles

Western Divide

Sisterhoods—vocalist Nikki Sierra, guitarist/vocalist Loren “Cobby” Weber, bassist Greg Kodad and drummer Cliff Kodad—come together for the sake of their shared “love for loud, lush noises,” and they create a trippy and beautiful kind of atmospheric music that blends digital effects, synths and loops with pure analog noisy guitar rock. www.sisterhoods music.com

Solar Estates: Rising from the ashes

of now-defunct French Reform, Aric Jeffries and Phil Anker joined Jeffries’ fiancée, Ashley Penning, to form this synth-heavy trio that already has an impressive electro-pop EP, The Quiet Season, under its belt. www.solar estates.bandcamp.com

Sapphire Soul The Growlers

Alan Rigg Trio Pageant Dads

West by Swan

Sisterhoods Los Caballitos de La Canción

Los Papi Chulos The Amy Celeste Band

West By Swan: West By Swan has

been pushing the limits of experimental rock music for more than a decade in Chico. The band’s genre-defying

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2015 CAMMIE nominees A quick look at all the nominees for the Chico Area Music Awards

Folk/ Americana/ Country The Blue Merles: Frontman Keith

Kendell’s long-running honky-tonk crew’s upbeat tunes about “lovin, lyin’, cheatin’, drinkin’ and hurtin’” crash the party with vibrant vocal harmonies and a tasty twang. Whether the band is playing alternative, outlaw, our justplain country, they always come back to that classic “Bakersfield” sound. www.thebluemerles.com

Bunnymilk: Kelly Brown (banjo) and

Lisa Marie (guitar) describe themselves as “drunken songbird angels,” an apt description for the duo’s sound,

which matches their combination of unique vocal harmonies and somber tones with lyrics of sadness and strength. bunnymilk.bandcamp.com

Michelin Embers: This four-piece “Western-skiffle” quartet is a country-punk concoction made even more unique by its combination of guitarist/vocalist Johnny Meehan’s high-lonesome twang, Steve Bragg’s homemade gutbucket, Ken Smith’s ukulele and Scott Pressman’s lap-steel guitar. www.michelinembers.com Mossy Creek: The self-described

sound of this seven-piece bluegrass group is “pure as the mountain water of the real Mossy Creek.” That clean, flowing sound of their close harmonies and uniquely arranged traditional and original tunes is the

Michelin Embers

product of having some of the most accomplished local players on their roster: Pat Haley (banjo, mandolin, Dobro, guitar, vocals), Bob Kirkland (mandolin), Chris Wenger (guitar), Christine Hogan (fiddle, vocals), Bob Littell (harmonica), Kim Gimbal (bass, vocals) and Tamara Allspaugh (vocals). www.mossycreekband.com

Western Divide: The songs of Western

Divide are “set in the wilderness of the earth and the wilderness of the heart,” and they are the kind of emotionally delivered, lush, indie-folk tunes that both tug at your heartstrings and make you want to march along the trail with them. www.western-divide.com

Indie/ Experimental

VOTE!

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debut took Critic’s Choice for Best CD at the 2006 CAMMIES, and that same independent spirit lives on in their third full-length, the beautiful, noisy and powerful Drought, released last year. westbyswan.bandcamp.com

World Eastwind Bellydance: While most troupes are content to shimmy and shake to canned tunes, Eastwind Bellydance’s gypsy-esque musical accompaniment is provided by a four-piece, hand-drum-heavy band. The crew just played the world’s largest bellydance festival, Rakkasah, and the group’s musical unit is working on a CD project. www.facebook.com/ eastwindbellydance

Solar Estates

Pageant Dads: Four “award-winning

fathers” of pageant princesses somehow find time between parentteacher conferences and 9-to-5 jobs to provide an out-there experimentalrock/comedy experience for Chico’s weirdos. pageantdads.bandcamp.com

Ha’Penny Bridge: Ha’Penny Bridge has a penchant for ren faire fashion, and are wont to appear onstage looking something like Men Without Hats in the classic “The Safety Dance” video. It’s a nice complement to the band’s original Celtic stylings, an interesting blend of Old World and new-age sensibilities. www.hapennybridgeband.com Los Caballitos de la Canción: A gaggle

of Chico’s best and brightest musicians combine forces to fuse a variety of Latin influence to create the sounds of contemporary and traditional Latina dance music. www.loscaballitos delacancion.com

Los Papi Chulos: This long-running

Afro-Cuban, Latin, salsa group has been making local audiences dance since it began as a Chico State Latin jazz ensemble in 1997. Though the specific lineup has changed over the years, the group is still led by CAMMIEwinning trumpeter Jeff Daub. www.facebook.com/ lospapichulosband

visual and musical artists led by percussionist/beekeeper Mike Wofchuck, and lays down the polyrhythmic bottom line for many a local outdoor festival and GRUB gathering. www.facebook.com/wolfthumpmusic

Jazz

Bogg: These four Chico State music

grads have carved out a niche by shaming wannabe musicians on a weekly basis at Café Coda every Friday morning. They can seemingly play anything, and are equally apt to rework recognizable pop songs into instrumental jazz numbers as they are to bust out standards or their own compositions. www.bogg jazz.com

Holly Taylor: The longtime vocalist and vocal coach in Chico has a big voice and big stage presence, lending depth and emotion to jazz standards as she plays alongside local ringers such as Bogg keyboardist Josh Hegg. If that weren’t enough, you can catch Taylor playing drums in rock cover band Hot Flash! or singing in Motown cover band The Velveteen Habit. www.facebook.com/hollyjazz

Chico Jazz Collective: Billing itself as a collection of the finest jazz musicians in Chico, Chico Jazz Collective is a loose group of rotating players brought together by ringleader/drummer Robert Delgardo to play weekly sessions at the DownLo that highlight classics from the 1920s and 1930s as well as more modern works. Find them on Facebook. The Miami Rogue Roosters: Another

big group of recognizable and experienced players from the local jazz scene, this one specializing in swing, bossa nova and bop jazz. The “happy jazz band” plays gigs all over NorCal, but their home roost is the Has Beans Creekside Café, where they play every other Sunday morning. www. facebook.com/miamirogueroosters

Carey Robinson Trio: This jazz trio

led by guitarist Carey Robinson and featuring Greg D’Augelli on stand-up bass and Komoki Bunting on drums has been playing tight, expressive standards in local coffee shops and restaurants for years and can currently be heard every Wednesday night at Farm Star Pizza.

The Miami Rogue Roosters

Blues

The Alan Rigg Trio:

Guitarist/keyboardist Alan Rigg has played music for more than half a century with some of the biggest names in blues, from B.B. King to Chuck Berry. In its current incarnation, his trio— with percussionist John Hale and bassist Joe Quinlan—plays original songs, as well as the sacred standards of blues, funk and jazz. www.mb52 alan.wix.com/alan-rigg-trio

Bogg

Chico Jazz Collective

The Amy Celeste Band: The

five-member Amy Celeste Band has a big, bluesy sound that is complemented by the soulful voice of its frontwoman, who belts out a lively repertoire of blues and pop standards. www.theamycelesteband.com

in which the house brewery’s to-go suds are packaged. www.featherfalls casino.com/entertainment

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co.’s monthly Full House Blues Jam, The Growlers’ impressive nine-member lineup is made up of veteran members of the local music scene. The band is named for the glass jugs

Carey  Robinson  Trio

Sapphire Soul: Chico’s own Gandalf

The Growlers: The house band for the

of the blues, the gloriously bearded saxophonist/vocalist Jonathan Arthur fronts this dance-friendly five-piece that plays standards from a range of classic regional American blues styles as well as a slew of originals. www.sapphiresoulband.com

Swamp Daddy: New Orleans blues

and zydeco group Swamp Daddy was built to keep the dance floor packed with its own gumbo of Southern blues. The group is currently mourning the death of its drummer, Richard Gibson, who passed away in March. www.swampdaddyband.com

Ha’Penny Bridge

Wolf Thump: This near-

dozen-strong corps of drummers features a number of locally renowned

Shadow Limb: Shadow Limb consists

Bunnymilk

Holly Taylor

NOMINEES continued on page 9 Swamp Daddy

of four out of five members of longtime Chico instrumental experimenters La Fin du Monde, and the new crew continues the progressive work of the previous one, crafting complex, heavy jams for the introspective headbanger. www.facebook.com/ shadowlimb

Shadow Limb

Eastwind Bellydance

Wolf Thump

Sisterhoods: The four parts of

Mossy Creek The Blue Merles

Western Divide

Sisterhoods—vocalist Nikki Sierra, guitarist/vocalist Loren “Cobby” Weber, bassist Greg Kodad and drummer Cliff Kodad—come together for the sake of their shared “love for loud, lush noises,” and they create a trippy and beautiful kind of atmospheric music that blends digital effects, synths and loops with pure analog noisy guitar rock. www.sisterhoods music.com

Solar Estates: Rising from the ashes

of now-defunct French Reform, Aric Jeffries and Phil Anker joined Jeffries’ fiancée, Ashley Penning, to form this synth-heavy trio that already has an impressive electro-pop EP, The Quiet Season, under its belt. www.solar estates.bandcamp.com

Sapphire Soul The Growlers

Alan Rigg Trio Pageant Dads

West by Swan

Sisterhoods Los Caballitos de La Canción

Los Papi Chulos The Amy Celeste Band

West By Swan: West By Swan has

been pushing the limits of experimental rock music for more than a decade in Chico. The band’s genre-defying

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Rock Aubrey Debauchery & the Broken  Bones: The most recent project for

Aubrey Debauchery, the Broken Bones is a supergroup—made up of CAMMIE-nominated jazz group Bogg and drummer Alex Coffin of the Pageant Dads (also CAMMIEnominated)—brought together to elevate the powerhouse rock songs of the prolific local songstress. www. facebook.comAubreyDebauchery andTheBrokenBones

Furlough Fridays: Furlough Fridays

blends hard-rock riffs with soaring melodic vocals to create an energetic brand of power-pop, or pop-punk, depending on who is doing the describing. Fresh off the release of their second full-length album, Divided, the four-piece is gearing up for a third this summer. ffchico.com

The LoLos: The LoLos draw on

multiple genres for influence, mixing Americana with indie rock and Old World waltzes to create their own unique and powerful rock sound. The power trio is fresh off a trip to the South by Southwest festival in Austin, Texas, and is busy working on a third album. www.thelolos.com

The Mondegreens: Like fellow nominees The LoLos, The Mondegreens just finished a tour (in support of their new album, Kid Tell Time) The Mondegreens

The Chain Gang

that included a stop at the South by Southwest festival. Combining groovy California soul with folk harmonies and a little indie rock, this locally grown trio has that easy-rock sound that Chico loves. themondegreens.weebly.com

The Rugs: Much like The

Mondegreens, The Rugs are masters of the very-Chico folk-rock sound, bringing the tempo down a bit and harmonizing the contrasting vocals of Jeremy Gerrard and Katrina Rodriguez with very hummable pop melodies. Easy-going rock songs that are perfectly tailored for a hot NorCal summer afternoon. www. facebook.com/therugsmusic

Surrogate: With their strong, tuneful,

mostly mid-tempo pop rock—held together by the inviting tenor of frontman Chris Keene—Surrogate plays the kind of bouncy indie-ish rock that brings out fun-seekers of all ages—from the cool kids to their emo parents. Hear their nearperfect Post-Heroic at surrogate music.bandcamp.com

The Vesuvians: The Vesuvians’ sound

is a hard-to-pinpoint blend of artrock, punk and the darkest moments of traditional American balladry. Led by the always laid-back, and always fantastically costumed Bob Howard, the band’s twisted version of rock is brought to life by an experienced crew of noisemakers that also includes bassist Alex Kokkinakis and local music legends Scott Pressman (guitar) and Steve Bragg (drums). Find them on Facebook.

The Vesuvians The Rugs

Furlough Fridays

Singersongwriter Ave Grave: After spending almost a decade recording and touring with perennial CAMMIES Indie nominees The Shimmies, Sean Galloway has gone on to explore a quieter range of sounds under his solo moniker, Ave Grave, which the multiinstrumentalist captures beautifully on his self-titled album released last summer. avegrave.bandcamp.com Bran Crown: Don Parrish—aka Bran Crown—is a freak-folk troubadour (who is currently busking his way through Europe alongside Bunnymilk’s Kelly Brown) who plays loud, acoustic, “junk-rock” jams that make you want to stomp and clap along. www.facebook.com/ brancrown

Deedee Vest: A longtime, wellrespected mainstay of local open mics, Deedee Vest has captured audiences with her original folk tunes, born out of expressions of the heart that deal with love, loss, historical events and mental illness. Vest isn’t looking for some grand musical dream to come true; instead, she lives her musical life under her two mottos: “I do what I do. That’s all that I do, and that’s OK,” and “It’s all about the heart.” www.reverbnation.com/deedeevest Fera: Despite his humble, soft-

spoken presence, established local singer-songwriter Michael “Fera” Strishak does not shy away from performing, recording albums and putting on local shows, all of which he does prolifically. With acoustic guitar and distinctly expressive vocals providing the foundation, Fera experiments with structures, sounds and poetic lyrics to create something unique. Look for album No. 4 later in 2015. fera.bandcamp.com

Jesi Naomi: The Chico native likes to find a middle ground for her soulful, bluesy, funky and folky songs—not too happy, not too sad. Naomi calls music “a way of melting troubles into smooth medicine that goes down like honey.” Fera Raised in a musical family, she’s a multi-instrumentalist who says she sings and plays her music for the struggles of others. soundcloud.com/jesi-naomi

The LoLos

Aubrey Debauchery & the Broken Bones

Kyle Williams

Kyle Williams: With acoustic guitar or ukulele in hand, and a powerhouse voice, Kyle Williams blends folk, pop and soul into a diverse, layered sound that supports his well-crafted songs about love and life. www.ilovekylewilliams.com Lish Bills: His simple and sincere “songs of a small town everyman” were born in late 2012 when Kirk Williams (aka Lish Bills) came home after a tour with his metal band, the CAMMIE-nominated Armed for Apocalypse. His solo project allowed him the creative freedom to write from a different perspective and explore his brand of acoustic, soulful songwriting in between metal tours. lishbills.com

The Resonators

Michael Bone: Already an accom-

plished musician and songwriter playing in many popular local bands—Bogg, Clouds on Strings, the Pageant Dads—Michael Bone decided to turn to more “reserved and moody” melodies as a solo act, writing (a lot) of inward-looking tunes HowFlyy in a variety of styles and releasing several albums and singles in less than a year’s time. michaelbone. bandcamp.com

Rap Big Slim: Nate Joyner

has made his name in Chico with the politically and socially conscious rap he performs as Big Slim. Performing both solo and featuring as a guest on collaborative tracks and shows with other local MCs, Slim is perhaps best known for New Music Mondays, a series in which he released a new track online for 104 consecutive weeks. www.facebook.com/ therealbigslim

The Chain Gang: Citing influences

such as Andre 3000 and Big L, the

Jesi Naomi

Lish Bills

Big Slim

Himp C

six-member crew featuring MCs Lynguistix, Willdy Diamond and Yung Doejah also takes cues from chopped ’n’ screwed Southern rap, favoring hyphy beats, dirty lyrics and off-kilter flows. www. reverbnation.com/ChainGangOfficial

Himp C: As the ringleader of the loose collective of local freestyle rappers known Butte Area Cypher Crew, you can catch Cory Hunt leading cypher circles around town, as well as performing spoken word at open mics. The MC known as NOMINEES continued on page 10

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NOMINEES continued from page 9 Himp C is also a member of fellow CAMMIEnominated group The Resonators. www.facebook.com/himpc

originals” to share with all the booty shakers on Chico’s dance floors. www.facebook.com/ groups/blackfong

HowFlyy: Adam White raps over an eclectic

Electric Canyon Convergence: Chico’s very own supergroup started off as “a recording experiment gone right” one weekend when 18 local rock, funk and world musicians got together to create a one-of-a-kind musical event, recording a 12-track album in less than 18 hours. But they weren’t done; they recorded two more group albums—adding even more musicians along the way—over the next year’s time. electriccanyon.com/ convergence.htm

array of beats ranging from classic, waveyour-hands-in-the-air hip-hop to futuristic club-bangers. Under the moniker HowFlyy, the MC originally from Paso Robles is a rising name in the local scene and an actively touring act. soundcloud.com/howflyy

The Resonators: The long-running local crew

made up of MC and DJ Hap Hathaway, MC Himp C and guitarist Shaulie Fingers is a highly active champion of conscious hip-hop. Look for their live productions as well as their side projects through The Family Business. www.reverbnation.com/theresonators

Jam/R&B/Funk Alli Battaglia & The Musical Brewing Co.:

The songwriting of Alli Battaglia ranges from funky to folk, with elements of rock and blues thrown in. Inspired to follow her dreams after surviving a near-fatal auto accident, she decided to begin putting her soulful voice to work by performing her personal tunes with her groovy band. www.allibattaglia.com

GravyBrain: A funk-fusion crew known for its

improv-heavy live shows, this legendary local four-piece carves out its spaced-out, funky grooves everywhere from Chico’s party places to the Burning Man playa. www.facebook.com/gravybrain

Lisa Valentine: The powerful singer/

songwriter brings soul to every note she sings. An R&B singer at heart, Lisa Valentine shines with a talented backup band sharing the stage, and her new crew—which includes local jazz greats Dave Elke (guitar) and Robert Delgardo (drums)—has been laying down the soulful groove for a soon-to-bereleased album of new tunes. www.lisavalentineandtheunloveables.com

Teeph

funk, one part soul, one part R&B, all mixed together to create a feel-good dance groove charged with emotion. This bass-driven soulful act pays homage to the classic funk of the 1970s and ’80s while adding splashes of disco and other dance-friendly styles along the way. www.reverbnation.com/kofasing

Swamp Zen: Honoring the jam-band tradition,

Swamp Zen never plays the same song twice, bringing their high-energy, improv-heavy musicianship to every show. Led by consummate frontman Doug Stein, they blend rock, country-rock and blues into that dance-floorswirling, Dead-inspired sound that Chico loves. Find them on Facebook.

Armed for Apocalypse

Hard Rock/ Metal Aberrance: Paradise’s Aberrance includes

a bunch of childhood friends who channel their small-town rage into big, loud death metalcore, as best evidenced on their 2014 EP, Dust. The band is among a group of loosely organized like-minded Ridge rockers called the Red Dirt Collective. www.facebook. com/aberranceband

Cold Blue Mountain

Amarok: Though drummer Casey Schmidt left Chico in search of other adventures last year, this sludgy four-piece doom/stoner metal outfit thankfully keeps oozing on. Last year, they released a split cassette with fellow doom-bringers Hell and will soon have their new drummer trained in the tempo of sludge. www.amarokdoom.blogspot.com

Black Fong: For more than a decade,

frontman Jack Dammit International has been gathering his “eclectic group of electric people who like to get hectic” every Wednesday night to rehearse his loose brand of “old soul, freaky funk, and dance

Sofa King: Sofa King is one part jazz, one part

Lisa Valentine

Sofa King

Amarok

Armed for Apocalypse: For several years, AFA

has been striking out across Europe and the United States, proudly showing off Chico’s mucky, magnificent underbelly. This year they plan to release a follow-up to their last recorded outing, The Road Will End. www.facebook.com/armedforapocalypse

GravyBrain

Cold Blue Mountain: Cold Blue Mountain has already made a major splash this year with their contribution to National Public Radio’s Tiny Desk Concert contest, a hilarious video for the song “White North.” The dudes are recently back from a national tour in support of their sophomore effort, Old Blood, and are already working on a new album. www.coldbluemountain.com

Alli Battaglia & The Musical Brewing Co.

Hearses: Hearses was founded

Black Fong Swamp Zen

Electric Canyon Convergence

by guitarist/vocalist Dan Platt and drummer Dave Holbrook in 2011, with bassist Timothy Frank and guitarist/vocalist Kenny Ruggles rounding out the band. The group draws from a range of styles, including black metal and harsh noise. hearsesarerolling. bandcamp.com

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Teeph: “There’s something really cathartic

and just awesome about playing too loud and screaming too hard,” Teeph bassist/ vocalist Matt Shilts told the CN&R last year, and that catharsis extends to audiences. Teeph, who’ve been chomping in the local music scene since 2011, are known for their live performances being as fun as they are intense. www.facebook.com/teephteephteeph

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Hearses

Punk/Ska As is tradition, in keeping with the allinclusive spirit of Chico’s punk scene, we’ve listed all the punk bands we could think of as nominees—just add “punk” to each description in parentheses: Badger (thrash/ hardcore), Big Tree Fall Down  (ska), Blaster Dead (two-piece), Boom City (snotty/sing-along), Criminal Wave (surfy hardcore), Fight Music (pop), Filthy Luke (solo folk), Gorilla X Monsoon (hardcore), Guerrilla Gorilla (primate), Icko  Sicko (hardcore), Jay Decay (solo folk/country), John Holmes  (Chico), Khaos Assault (noise/grind/ garage), Los New Huevos (egg), The Miscreants (garage), Mr. Bang (garage), Nothing Left (solo acoustic), The Oisters (thrash), Outside  Looking In (hardcore), Season of the  Witch (horror/thrash), Severance  Package (garage), The She Things (Ramonesian glitter-trash), Slay  It Forward (pop), Strange Ones (garagey surf), Tri-Lateral Dirts

Monstros, Chico’s punk palace.

Commission (thrash/hardcore/ powerviolence), Trox & The  Terribles (garage), We Bite (horror/ Misfits), #whitegirlwasted (hashtag). www.facebook.com/chicoareapunks

Electronic (Producer & DJ) Electronic producer

Clayton the Chemist

Eyere Eyes

A.L.O.: This punk-rock metalhead turned producer has been a fixture in the local music scene since the 1990s. Most recently he’s been co-curating the Friday-night BassMint electronic shows along with fellow CAMMIE nominee Eyere Eyes at Peking Restaurant, and in his own music he’s known for incorporating found sounds with layers of synths and bass guitar. www.mixcloud.com/ adam-white2 Bionix: “Since he escaped Cyberdine’s assimilation factory at age 15 … Bionix [aka Wyatt Smith] has been blasting beats, bouncing bootys and re-evolving his sound with every mix.” soundcloud.com/bionix Clayton the Chemist: Dave Clayton

moved to Chico from Philadelphia last year, and went to work immediately, creating a remix with Bogg

keyboardist Josh Hegg and producing an hour of soulful, bottom-heavy originals for a gig at Idea Fab Labs. An EP for Seattle label Selekta Recordings is in the works for 2015. www.claytonthechemist.com

Electronic DJ DJ Becca: Becca Hogue’s love for

electronic music has grown into her regular presence at underground house parties and local clubs, playing house, techno, nu disco and indie-dance music. She says she feels connected to spirit when she’s able to immerse herself fully in bringing “heartfelt and meaningful experiences to those on the dance floor.” soundcloud.com/sweeterest

Eyere Eyes: Atmospheric and strange, bass is only part of the equation. The rest is a swirl of robotic sounds with occasional string samples thrown in the mix. Eyere Eyes is also co-curator—with fellow CAMMIE nominee A.L.O.—of the Friday-night BassMint electronic shows at Peking Restaurant. soundcloud.com/eyereeyes J.Handel: Jordan Handel is a deep tech specialist, filtering old-school house music through modern sonic toys into a powerful dance-happy sound that’s found a place at the intimate BassMint parties as well as the huge Epic Productions. soundcloud.com/j-handel

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SCHEDULE of EVENTS Sat., April 18, 11am – 4pm

ANN LEON Executive Chef/Owner Leon Bistro Executive Chef Ann Leon creates distinctive soups, salads, meats, sauces and fine desserts using locally-grown products that express the very best of contemporary California cuisine. Her culinary creations fulfill a dream that has guided her during more than 20 years of restaurant, casino and resort experience. Ann studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, graduating head of her class and receiving the Danielle Carlisle Walker Award for outstanding work in the culinary arts. She then went to work at Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse, where she gained experience with a lasting influence. In 1994 she joined the Claremont Resort Hotel, first as Banquet Chef and then Pastry Chef, and ultimately Restaurant Chef. Ann later joined the Regency Plaza in San Mateo as

The Fine Arts Barn

MELISSA PETERS Pastry Chef/Owner Mim’s Bakery In 1989, Melissa Peters opened Mim’s Bakery in Chico, a small artisan dessert bakery in the true tradition of a French patisserie. Melissa has a passion for providing the highest quality desserts, personally developing every recipe at the bakery. She believes in making each and every delectable dessert a work of art. Melissa Peters (aka Mim) has been baking 6 2015 CALIFORNIA NUT FESTIVAL

•Tickets are required for everyone attending the event

See page 10 for more information

Executive Sous Chef where she developed the signature style of its restaurant and banquet operations. After relocating to Chico in 2001, Ann worked at several local restaurants, including Rolling Hills Casino, where she supervised a staff of 20, training them to produce an array of outstanding dishes, winning extensive praise. After opening Leon Bistro in 2008, Ann stays incredibly busy developing amazing culinary delights for the bistro, catering local events big and small, leading popular cooking classes, and creating amazing “foodie” gift baskets, too.

“CHEF RINA” YOUNAN Three-Time Food Network Champion Winters native Chef Ashurina “Rina” Younan found her passion for cooking at a young age, even dressing as a chef for Halloween. Following her culinary aspirations, she graduated from the San Diego Culinary Institute in 2006 and began working her way up the ranks in professional kitchens. Returning to Northern California, she worked for several high end restaurants, hotels, casinos, and clubs, such as Cache Creek Casino Resort, Le Rivage & Scott’s Seafood on the River, The Firehouse in Old Sacramento, Valley Hi Golf Club & Thunder Valley Casino Resort. In 2011, Chef Rina was named Chef De Cuisine at Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa in Sacramento were she ran three different restaurants. It was during her work at Arden Hills that Chef Rina decided to chase her TV dream, taking the opportunity to apply for Food Network’s hit competitive cooking show Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell. She dominated the competition, winning the show and position of Executive Chef at The Pear Southern Bistro in Napa, one of

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The 2015 California Nut Festival is proud to offer these lively and fun nut-inspired cooking demos!

Noon

Executive Chef Ann Leon of Leon Bistro to demonstrate: Turri Family Farms Grass-Fed Beef Stifado and Wild Mushroom Strudel

1 p.m.

award-winning Chef Rodney Worth’s flagship restaurants. After working closely with Chef Rodney Worth for about a year, Chef Rina wanted a position closer to home where she could still apply her creativity, outstanding leadership skills, and passion for fresh, healthy and from-scratch cooking. She took the position of Regional Executive Chef for Oakmont Senior Living in Roseville (which is based out of Santa Rosa). Since winning her first Food Network show, Chef Rina went on to win two more; Cutthroat Kitchen, winning a cash prize and Beat Bobby Flay where she challenged the Iron Chef himself to her signature Falafel Sandwich, beating him in a blind taste test. That recipe can be found at www.foodnetwork.com

Three-time Food Network Champion Ashurina “Chef Rina” Younan to Demonstrate: Pistachio Crusted Covina Seabass, Almond Wood Smoked Corn and Spring Vegetable Succotash, Stone Fruit Relish, and KaleWalnut Pesto

2:30 p.m.

Melissa Peters of Mim’s Bakery to Demonstrate: Gluten-Free Chocolate Torte made with Chico Almonds Glazed with Dark Chocolate and garnished with Slivered Almonds

Ample seating is available; arrive early, sit back and enjoy the cooking presentations!

since she was too young to remember. Her love of food and art are a perfect combination for pastry arts and she has been a professional baker for more than 25 years. During her career, she’s had the opportunity to bake for Sonny Bono, Desmond Tutu, Shimon Peres, the Prairie Home Companion Group and possibly someone you love and admire. Customers of Mim’s can literally taste the difference as the bakery uses only the finest ingredients -- unsalted real butter, dairy, eggs, unbleached flour -- as well as local and organic nuts and fruits whenever possible!

Photo by paulasphotoart

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Food Tastings

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Bacio Catering & CarryOut Enloe Medical Center Italian Cottage Leon Bistro Madison Bear Garden Mim’s Bakery Mom’s Roots Catering and Restaurant Shuberts Ice Cream Sicilian Café Wine Time

Baja Mariner Products Brannen Gourmet Chico Honey Co Chico Pops Corning Sweets Cowboy BBQ Joy Lyn’s Candies Lodestar Farms Lucero Olive Oil Maisie Jane’s California Sunshine Products Morse Mandarin Noble Orchards Organic Roots Olive Oil Orland Farmstead Creamery Queen of the Valley Almonds Salt and Savour Skylake Ranch Terri Sue’s Toffeee TJ Farms Two English Ladies

All About Walnuts Walnut Varieties, Cracking, Tasting, Recipes & Resources

Beverage Tastings Beber Fresh Almondmilk Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards Chico Chai Cook,Shasta Kambucha Tea Crispin Cider Company Doe Mill Vineyards Eckert Malting and Brewing Co Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. Feather River Brewing Co. Five by Five Tonics Co. Gale Vineyards Grant-Eddie Winery Great State Coffee Grey Fox Vineyards Hickman Famly Vineyards Honey Run Winery LaRocca Vineyards Long Creek Winery & Ranch Lost Coast Brewing Mendocino Brewing Company New Clairvaux Vineyard Smuckers/RW Knudsen Tahoe Pure Weed Coffee Roasting

TM Duche Nut Co. Almond Varieties and Differences in Taste Shamrock Farms Bees, Nut Production and Tasty Treats Larrabee Farms Pecans, fruit or nut? Come find out and enjoy Samples Setton Pistachio Learn about Pistachios while trying our Pistachio Chewy Bites

Continious performances on two outdoor stages. See page 10 for list of performers and schedule

(including children and nondrinkers/samplers) •If you plan to purchase extra food and drink tickets (cost is three for $5) or buy locally made goods from vendors, cash is preferred as some do not take credit cards and there is not an ATM on-site •Parking is limited and costs $3 per carload •Avoid the parking fee by riding the shuttle complete with local farmers as your guides •Bike riding is encouraged on the beautiful bike path that runs right by the Patrick Ranch Museum (bike valet available for secure parking) •No outside food or beverages, except water •Seating is available but you may want to bring a chair or blanket to relax and enjoy the music •The “rain or shine” event is primarily outdoors so be prepared and remember hats and sunscreen are encouraged •Children and strollers are allowed at the event but please be advised, there are no activities designed for children •No pets are allowed at the festival

Our Sponsors

Live Musical Entertainment!

UC Cooperative Extension The Beemen and their Observation Hive Master Gardeners Advice and information for your Home Garden California Women for Agriculture Milk a cow and pose in the farmer-inspired Photo Stand Patrick Ranch Museum Interactive learning activities are happening at the Ranch CSU Chico College of Agriculture Agricultural education and products from the CSUC Farm

Photo by paulasphotoart

Ride the Chico Shuttle for FREE or Bike to the Festival! Travel to the Festival with local farmers as your tour guides on the shuttle. Board at the Chico Transit Center, W. 2nd St. at Salem St. on the hour starting at 11am, return on the half-hour. Last shuttle leaves the Patrick Ranch at 4:30pm. Or, ride your bike along the Midway bike path and park in our secure bike valet. If not, parking fee is $3 per car ... remember to carpool!

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SCHEDULE of EVENTS Sat., April 18, 11am – 4pm

ANN LEON Executive Chef/Owner Leon Bistro Executive Chef Ann Leon creates distinctive soups, salads, meats, sauces and fine desserts using locally-grown products that express the very best of contemporary California cuisine. Her culinary creations fulfill a dream that has guided her during more than 20 years of restaurant, casino and resort experience. Ann studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, graduating head of her class and receiving the Danielle Carlisle Walker Award for outstanding work in the culinary arts. She then went to work at Berkeley’s famed Chez Panisse, where she gained experience with a lasting influence. In 1994 she joined the Claremont Resort Hotel, first as Banquet Chef and then Pastry Chef, and ultimately Restaurant Chef. Ann later joined the Regency Plaza in San Mateo as

The Fine Arts Barn

MELISSA PETERS Pastry Chef/Owner Mim’s Bakery In 1989, Melissa Peters opened Mim’s Bakery in Chico, a small artisan dessert bakery in the true tradition of a French patisserie. Melissa has a passion for providing the highest quality desserts, personally developing every recipe at the bakery. She believes in making each and every delectable dessert a work of art. Melissa Peters (aka Mim) has been baking 6 2015 CALIFORNIA NUT FESTIVAL

•Tickets are required for everyone attending the event

See page 10 for more information

Executive Sous Chef where she developed the signature style of its restaurant and banquet operations. After relocating to Chico in 2001, Ann worked at several local restaurants, including Rolling Hills Casino, where she supervised a staff of 20, training them to produce an array of outstanding dishes, winning extensive praise. After opening Leon Bistro in 2008, Ann stays incredibly busy developing amazing culinary delights for the bistro, catering local events big and small, leading popular cooking classes, and creating amazing “foodie” gift baskets, too.

“CHEF RINA” YOUNAN Three-Time Food Network Champion Winters native Chef Ashurina “Rina” Younan found her passion for cooking at a young age, even dressing as a chef for Halloween. Following her culinary aspirations, she graduated from the San Diego Culinary Institute in 2006 and began working her way up the ranks in professional kitchens. Returning to Northern California, she worked for several high end restaurants, hotels, casinos, and clubs, such as Cache Creek Casino Resort, Le Rivage & Scott’s Seafood on the River, The Firehouse in Old Sacramento, Valley Hi Golf Club & Thunder Valley Casino Resort. In 2011, Chef Rina was named Chef De Cuisine at Arden Hills Resort Club & Spa in Sacramento were she ran three different restaurants. It was during her work at Arden Hills that Chef Rina decided to chase her TV dream, taking the opportunity to apply for Food Network’s hit competitive cooking show Chef Wanted with Anne Burrell. She dominated the competition, winning the show and position of Executive Chef at The Pear Southern Bistro in Napa, one of

Helpful Tips for all Festival Guests

The 2015 California Nut Festival is proud to offer these lively and fun nut-inspired cooking demos!

Noon

Executive Chef Ann Leon of Leon Bistro to demonstrate: Turri Family Farms Grass-Fed Beef Stifado and Wild Mushroom Strudel

1 p.m.

award-winning Chef Rodney Worth’s flagship restaurants. After working closely with Chef Rodney Worth for about a year, Chef Rina wanted a position closer to home where she could still apply her creativity, outstanding leadership skills, and passion for fresh, healthy and from-scratch cooking. She took the position of Regional Executive Chef for Oakmont Senior Living in Roseville (which is based out of Santa Rosa). Since winning her first Food Network show, Chef Rina went on to win two more; Cutthroat Kitchen, winning a cash prize and Beat Bobby Flay where she challenged the Iron Chef himself to her signature Falafel Sandwich, beating him in a blind taste test. That recipe can be found at www.foodnetwork.com

Three-time Food Network Champion Ashurina “Chef Rina” Younan to Demonstrate: Pistachio Crusted Covina Seabass, Almond Wood Smoked Corn and Spring Vegetable Succotash, Stone Fruit Relish, and KaleWalnut Pesto

2:30 p.m.

Melissa Peters of Mim’s Bakery to Demonstrate: Gluten-Free Chocolate Torte made with Chico Almonds Glazed with Dark Chocolate and garnished with Slivered Almonds

Ample seating is available; arrive early, sit back and enjoy the cooking presentations!

since she was too young to remember. Her love of food and art are a perfect combination for pastry arts and she has been a professional baker for more than 25 years. During her career, she’s had the opportunity to bake for Sonny Bono, Desmond Tutu, Shimon Peres, the Prairie Home Companion Group and possibly someone you love and admire. Customers of Mim’s can literally taste the difference as the bakery uses only the finest ingredients -- unsalted real butter, dairy, eggs, unbleached flour -- as well as local and organic nuts and fruits whenever possible!

Photo by paulasphotoart

Photo by paulasphotoart

Food Tastings

Shop Local

Learn More

Bacio Catering & CarryOut Enloe Medical Center Italian Cottage Leon Bistro Madison Bear Garden Mim’s Bakery Mom’s Roots Catering and Restaurant Shuberts Ice Cream Sicilian Café Wine Time

Baja Mariner Products Brannen Gourmet Chico Honey Co Chico Pops Corning Sweets Cowboy BBQ Joy Lyn’s Candies Lodestar Farms Lucero Olive Oil Maisie Jane’s California Sunshine Products Morse Mandarin Noble Orchards Organic Roots Olive Oil Orland Farmstead Creamery Queen of the Valley Almonds Salt and Savour Skylake Ranch Terri Sue’s Toffeee TJ Farms Two English Ladies

All About Walnuts Walnut Varieties, Cracking, Tasting, Recipes & Resources

Beverage Tastings Beber Fresh Almondmilk Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards Chico Chai Cook,Shasta Kambucha Tea Crispin Cider Company Doe Mill Vineyards Eckert Malting and Brewing Co Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. Feather River Brewing Co. Five by Five Tonics Co. Gale Vineyards Grant-Eddie Winery Great State Coffee Grey Fox Vineyards Hickman Famly Vineyards Honey Run Winery LaRocca Vineyards Long Creek Winery & Ranch Lost Coast Brewing Mendocino Brewing Company New Clairvaux Vineyard Smuckers/RW Knudsen Tahoe Pure Weed Coffee Roasting

TM Duche Nut Co. Almond Varieties and Differences in Taste Shamrock Farms Bees, Nut Production and Tasty Treats Larrabee Farms Pecans, fruit or nut? Come find out and enjoy Samples Setton Pistachio Learn about Pistachios while trying our Pistachio Chewy Bites

Continious performances on two outdoor stages. See page 10 for list of performers and schedule

(including children and nondrinkers/samplers) •If you plan to purchase extra food and drink tickets (cost is three for $5) or buy locally made goods from vendors, cash is preferred as some do not take credit cards and there is not an ATM on-site •Parking is limited and costs $3 per carload •Avoid the parking fee by riding the shuttle complete with local farmers as your guides •Bike riding is encouraged on the beautiful bike path that runs right by the Patrick Ranch Museum (bike valet available for secure parking) •No outside food or beverages, except water •Seating is available but you may want to bring a chair or blanket to relax and enjoy the music •The “rain or shine” event is primarily outdoors so be prepared and remember hats and sunscreen are encouraged •Children and strollers are allowed at the event but please be advised, there are no activities designed for children •No pets are allowed at the festival

Our Sponsors

Live Musical Entertainment!

UC Cooperative Extension The Beemen and their Observation Hive Master Gardeners Advice and information for your Home Garden California Women for Agriculture Milk a cow and pose in the farmer-inspired Photo Stand Patrick Ranch Museum Interactive learning activities are happening at the Ranch CSU Chico College of Agriculture Agricultural education and products from the CSUC Farm

Photo by paulasphotoart

Ride the Chico Shuttle for FREE or Bike to the Festival! Travel to the Festival with local farmers as your tour guides on the shuttle. Board at the Chico Transit Center, W. 2nd St. at Salem St. on the hour starting at 11am, return on the half-hour. Last shuttle leaves the Patrick Ranch at 4:30pm. Or, ride your bike along the Midway bike path and park in our secure bike valet. If not, parking fee is $3 per car ... remember to carpool!

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Threshing Bee and Fine Arts Show on June 6 & 7; during participation in the Sierra Oro Farm Trail; a monthlong October â&#x20AC;&#x153;AutumnFestâ&#x20AC;? featuring â&#x20AC;&#x153;Cinderella Pumpkins,â&#x20AC;? house tours, hay rides and more; and â&#x20AC;&#x153;Christmas at Glenwood,â&#x20AC;? including home tours, our second annual holiday tea and an extraordinary fine art show and sale. Also, October 10 & 11, we are hosting the two-day Fiber Fusion, an event celebrating natural fiber and color as well as sheep dog trials. Volunteers are the life blood of the Patrick Ranch Museum and are at the heart of any successful museum. Join our more than 90 volunteers and share a skill, an avocation, a vocation or just really enjoy people. If you would like to volunteer, please contact Carol Oxsen at caroloxsen@msn.com.

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Live Music at the Festival!

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he 2015 California Nut Festival offers a prized platform for showcasing the diversity of live musical styles available locally, including Americana acoustic, hard-driving bluegrass and high energy Latino music, to name a few. With music organized by Mandy Sherman, festival guests will be delighted to sit back, relax among friends and listen while talented local bands perform on two outdoor stages. Bob Littell, music coordinator for the Big Room at Sierra Nevada, will emcee the event from the Porch Stage and, as a special treat, be guest appearing on both stages with performers scheduled as follows:

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Feast for the Eyes

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PORCH STAGE 11:00 – 11:55

Cynthia Sexton

Showcases the acoustic folk-rock songs of Dan Casamajor, veteran Chico singer-songwriter with nearly a half-century of experience; backed by Christine LaPado-Breglia on acoustic bass, Howie Goetz on mandolin, and José Meme Lopez on cajón.

12:15 – 1:10

Treat your ears to a taste of some rad gumbo with authentic New Orleans inspired rhythm & blues: a mix of funky second-line rhythms, big mama vocals, tickled ivories, soulful sax, with a dollop of accordion, a pinch of slide, and just a dash of sweet harmonies. Mmmm!

Mossy Creek

1:30 – 2:30 Mossy Creek

High powered seven-piece Bluegrass/Americana band features some of the best pickers in the area, with tight three to five part harmonies and standout harmonica legend Bob Littell.

2:50 – 3:45 Los Caballitos de la Cancion

Los Caballitos de la Cancion Mandalyn May

Aubrey Debauchery

Nine-member acoustic ensemble promote savory and potent musical expressions of the Latino culture, with fiery richness and passion.

Emcee: Bob Littell

Sound: Kyle Porter

TRUCK STAGE 11:00 – 11:45

Aubrey Debauchery

Delivers songs that will break your heart and make your lover love you more; accompanied by the incomparable violinist, Matthew “Shredder” Weiner, these two will make you think twice about mixing love and whiskey.

11:55 – 12:45

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1:00 – 1:45

Mandalyn May

Upbeat and unorthodox string duo performs original songs, Celtic classics, as well as some popular covers - in a way that you probably haven’t heard before.

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n all its beautiful and vibrant bounty, agriculture is a natural and enduring subject for artists, a real feast for the eyes and imagination. Not to disappoint, the 2015 California Nut Festival will wow guests with its special barn display featuring the amazing artwork of many talented local artists who are proud and excited to share their endeavors during this year’s event. Of course, the California Nut Festival is committed to connecting the community with farmers, growers and producers in the North Valley, but it has also been the driving force in making a connection between agriculture and the fine arts of our community. So, while you are enjoying the wonderful variety of foods and beverages on the historic and beautifully manicured grounds of Patrick Ranch Museum, please stop by the Fine Arts Barn, where local artists and artisans will be displaying and selling their works. There, you’ll find a variety of jewelry, paintings and pottery, as well as photographs of local landscapes, and lathe wood-turned items. It is sure to whet your appetite for more!

Sweet, soulful songwriter offers rhythmic ukulele love songs and ballads that will have you swaying, clapping, stomping and singing along.

2:00 – 2:50

Kyle Williams

3:00 – 3:45

Hannah Kile

Soulful-acoustic-pop from one of Chico’s hardest working troubadours.

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Kyle Williams

Captivating singer/songwriter conveys poetic messages blending original and traditional folk, with individual voice and instrument; backed by bassist, Barry Prior, & Corey Morgan Strange on percussion, vocals, & banjo.

Emcee: Rebecca Reiner Sound: Rich Reiner

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