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Prop. 13’s unfair legacy In most respects, the Chico City Council’s recent decision to tack on a

Choosing nonaction his essay “Non-Acting,” Leo Tolstoy protested a cultural Itynbias supporting acting over nonacting: “The ills of humaniarise ... not because men neglect to do things that are nec-

essary, but because they do things that are unnecessary.” Tolstoy related this to the exploitation of the poor by the voracious rich. Members of his own class were forever making noble gestures: building monuments, boosting the “arts” and tossing coins to beggars.

Meanwhile, the underclass—90 percent of Russian society—was locked in virtual slavery, serving aristocrats. Tolstoy argued that no amount of “doing good” could undo this fundamentally evil way by of life ... a way of life consumed with Patrick consuming.

Newman I first read Tolstoy’s essay in the mid’70s and I’ve since become convinced The author is a that high-consuming Americans would do longtime Chico well to shift some of their focus from tryresident and ing to do good, to doing less. If we did frequent writer less and consumed less, much of our “doof letters to goodism” would cease to be necessary— the editor. especially on the environmental front.

Of course, not doing is not very exciting and in this culture it’s downright scary. Our “worth” is proportional to what we “do,” however frenzied: work, recreate, graduate, reproduce, travel, shop, eat, play, fight wars, achieve, consume, produce, drive, build, accumulate.

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In the past 50 years we’ve seen the development of a full-blown environmental crisis—a crisis not easily foreseen in Tolstoy’s time. People ask, with increasing urgency, “What are we going to do about it?!” As if we can do something, alongside the doing we’re already doing, that will undo the damage being done. In fact, there is not much we can do that will undo the doing. But, there is a whole lot we can simply not do.

We’re supposed to listen politely as people describe their fuel-gulping vacation adventures; maybe we ought to spend more time listening to the person who stays home.

We compliment people when they buy new clothes; maybe we should say, “Wow you sure have gotten a lot of use out of that shirt.

Good on ya, mate!” What if people did less consuming of meat and various foody extravagances—those with huge carbon and suffering “footprints?” We get excited when someone buys a new car. What should generate more excitement is not owning a car. We have baby “showers.” Why not celebrate when a person opts out on producing another mega-consuming American?

To borrow another line from Tolstoy: “We stand at a parting of the ways and a choice must be made.” Maybe we choose more nonacting. Ω

development fee to help fund expansion of the county jail was a no-brainer.

The expansion is desperately needed, and grant money for construction—up to $40 million—is potentially available if the various jurisdictions in the county raise $4 million in matching funds.

Prior to the council’s May 5 vote, Butte County’s supervisors and council members in Paradise and Oroville voted to levy development fees to fund the jail expansion. Now that Chico’s council has joined the effort, only Gridley and Biggs have yet to sign on.

Jail overcrowding is the result of AB 109, the so-called “realignment” legislation that seeks to reduce prison populations by directing lesser offenders into county jails, forcing the early release of some inmates.

County jails weren’t built to hold inmates for longer than a year, and they offer none of the rehabilitative services found in low- and mediumsecurity prisons. And, because of the failure of public mental-health services, more and more mentally ill individuals are ending up in jail. The overcrowding makes it impossible to meet their needs.

So what’s not to like about a fee that can raise $4 million in order to snag a $40 million grant for a much needed jail expansion? A lot, as it turns out.

Some history is in order. With the passage of Proposition 13 in 1978, municipalities lost their ability to adjust the property tax rate to meet the demands for services—roads, schools, parks and so forth—resulting from growth. Then they discovered a loophole of sorts—they could use development fees instead, effectively requiring new-home buyers to pay for those services.

Are the fees fair? No. They require one group of people to pay for services everyone uses. As developer Pat Conroy told the Chico council, there’s no reason to believe new-home buyers are contributing to crime, and yet they are being asked to pay for the jail expansion.

As Sean Morgan, one of the three council members who voted against the fee, argued, “[T]he cost needs to be borne by a greater and more diverse group of people. … The entire city, the entire county is going to benefit.”

Morally, he’s absolutely right. Politically, he’s dead wrong. Among its other provisions, Prop. 13 requires that any special tax be approved by twothirds of voters. Good luck with that. Unless Prop. 13 is reformed, new-home buyers, a tiny minority, will continue to pay fees nobody else has to pay. Ω

Obama gets it Earlier this week, President Obama made an executive order banning the

federal government from selling certain surplus military equipment to local law enforcement agencies.

“We’ve seen how militarized gear can sometimes give people a feeling like there’s an occupying force as opposed to a force that’s part of the community that’s protecting them and serving them,” Obama told reporters Monday.

The banned equipment includes grenade launchers, high-caliber guns and bayonets, tank-like armored vehicles, certain camouflaged uniforms and weoponized aircraft.

As the CN&R has reported (see “Shock and awe,” Newslines, Aug. 28, 2014), Butte County agencies have been the recipients of: 151 assault rifles, 60 pieces of night-vision equipment, 20 pistols, four helicopters and one “tank-like” vehicle. It’s not clear if any of the aforementioned items are on the banned list.

We believe the order doesn’t go far enough—it doesn’t ban private entities from selling this gear, nor does it require local agencies return banned equipment. But it is a step in the right direction at a time when police officers, whose departments have become increasingly militaristic, are facing great scrutiny over racial profiling and use of excessive force. We need officers we can trust, not an Army at our doorsteps. Ω

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Re “Delivery dilemma” (Cover story, by Evan Tuchinsky, May 14): Most moms want to be as careful as they can with their newborn baby. This is normal, and it is natural. It is also true that women have been delivering babies at home since time began, and most of them survive. But not all.

Sure, you can have your baby at home with a midwife who delivers a handful of babies a year. With a midwife who will get just as tired as you do while labor drags on for hours. Or you can have your baby in a hospital that delivers a handful of babies every day. With a full team of professionals with experience and training to help you through this memorable time.

If something detrimental were to happen during the delivery process, there is absolutely no such thing as a “smooth transition” from a home birth to the hospital. To believe that would require believing that an unexpected catastrophe can be termed “smooth.” It isn’t.

There are very logical reasons why the hospital has a large team of trained and experienced professionals to help you. There are a number of things that can go sideways during childbirth, and very logical reasons to maximize your baby’s chances.

BARRY JOHNSON Chico

Rest in peace Monday, May 25, is a federal holiday. Let’s reflect on the purpose of the day—to remember those Americans who lost their lives while in our military.

I was in Luxembourg recently and visited the American military cemetery with 5,076 graves from World War II (Battle of the Bulge, etc.). The U.S. has 24 cemeteries outside of the U.S. and they are beautifully maintained.

At the Luxembourg cemetery there are men from my dad’s unit, over 200 Californians and 227 from the 101st Airborne (my unit in Vietnam), but the graves that touched me the most were of 22 sets of brothers, buried side by side.

As I stood between the graves of two brothers, I could only imagine the pain of the families (especially mothers) when they got those knocks on the door, some just a few weeks apart.

The crosses and stars of David are the same size, officers and enlisted men are intermixed and Gen. Patton is buried there overlooking his men (and one woman).

In Luxembourg and in the other 23 sites, Americans and foreigners will place a flag at each gravesite. Rest in peace!

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Of all the types of natural disasters, tornadoes freak me out the most.

Maybe it’s from watching The Wizard of Oz when I was a kid. I have no context for them otherwise, considering I was born in California and, with the exception of spending my kindergarten year in Littleton, Colo., have lived here my entire life. Still, the thought of being sucked up by a giant funnel terrifies me.

Floods and hurricanes weren’t a consideration growing up, and neither were volcanoes. That’s surprising considering I lived fairly close to Mount Diablo, in Danville. Today, the thought of a volcano erupting is unnerving, but thankfully, based on staff writer Ken Smith’s cover story on the centennial of Lassen Peak’s eruption, I shouldn’t lose too much sleep over the prospect, though scientists say another big North State eruption is bound to happen.

Just when is anybody’s guess.

Earthquakes—the big ones, anyway—make me nervous, especially in light of what just happened in Nepal.

Growing up, the Bay Area schools I attended regularly held earthquake drills. We’d duck for cover under our desks or in a doorway (for those standing). At the same time, at least back in the early ’80s, we’d also have nuclear war drills, which seem ridiculous now, considering how they basically were the same as the earthquake drills. And as far as I know, ducking under a desk won’t protect against nuclear fallout.

Though tremors seemed to happen with regularity during my youth, they hardly made me flinch until the Loma Prieta quake in 1989. That one—a 6.9 on the Richter scale—got my attention, the country’s attention. Sixtythree people died as a result, thousands of others were injured. My mom and I were driving through downtown Livermore when it suddenly felt like her Nissan Stanza wagon had run over something big, as though the tire had popped. Then the rolling began. We knew it was a quake when we saw light posts swaying as though they were about to buckle. Traffic stopped until the earth stood still. Our home was undamaged, though some photos and other items had fallen off walls and shelves.

Two days before the quake, my dad had taken me to see a World Series game—the “Battle of the Bay”—at the Oakland Coliseum. A few days before that, my mom and I had gone into the City, crossing the Bay Bridge. I thought about that a lot as the TV news replayed footage of a car falling from the upper deck of the expansive bridge to the bottom deck, killing the driver.

I remember being glued to the TV news and listening to Dan Rather, who’d parachuted into Oakland from CBS News in New York City, describe the scene at the collapsed Cypress Structure, inaccurately reporting that hundreds of people had died and describing the smell of burning flesh and other gruesome details. Rather’s reporting angered 14-year-old me. I didn’t watch that network for the rest of his career, but to this day, his ghoulish reporting is burned into my memory.

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It’s about the grads Having attended countless CUSD graduations over the years and listening to endless speeches, I have a small but important request.

Please remember that the ceremony is for the graduates. It may be tradition to place school board members and district office personnel on the stage, but they are complete strangers to the students and are the worst speakers of the night.

Please don’t give them a microphone or have them hand out diplomas anymore. Allow the graduates to have their teachers have that role. Use some common sense from now on!

LINDY MASON Chico

Back to the bros Re “The bros among us” (Cover story, by Howard Hardee, May 7): The article was definitely an interesting perspective on how members of the community view fraternity men. Whoever’s decision it was to keep Waldear’s fraternity name undisclosed was ethically correct and I appreciate that. I believe it was he himself who asked to not have the name stated, but I appreciate CN&R for respecting that. The generalization of an organization cannot correctly describe every member.

I enjoy that the article describes how “bros” tend to treat women disrespectfully. Although I do not think it will change their actions, it is good to bring attention and awareness toward an issue.

Females often do not want to attend specific fraternity parties due to how they will be addressed and treated. Or, ignored if they are not up to the standards of the men in attendance.

Overall, I do not think Greek life is the reasoning behind the “bro” attitude. We live in a society that objectifies women and puts men at a higher place of power, allowing for entitlement issues and lack of respect.

JULIE COGERT Chico

Bros continued …

Re “About those bros” (Letters, by Patrick Newman, May 14): In his letter, Patrick Newman suggests a dominant value system validates bro “gangsta asshole” behavior. A value system that has allowed “bros” to feel entitled and behave badly when they’re not getting what they think they deserve. One that says it’s OK to 6

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Some see this value system as not just a product of a culture of consumer capitalism, but of a religiously influenced, patriarchal society that tells these ‘bros’ that men are the superior sex and superior to all other species …

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view most women as “hoes” and treat them accordingly. Some see this value system as not just a product of a culture of consumer capitalism, but of a religiously influenced, patriarchal society that tells these “bros” that men are the superior sex and superior to all other species, and has for centuries fostered this type of entitled, “gangsta asshole” behavior.

Many also were raised in environments where they were never taught to value anything, including time spent with their grandparents.

Everything was handed to them with no real instilled sense of value or work ethic involved.

Their role models are often arrogant, beefed-up athletes, uber-violent Call of Duty caricatures and other obnoxious bros. This value system continues to validate this superiority complex and the revering of “manliness,” while devaluing feminine qualities and the environment, and has created an atmosphere that makes verbal/sexual assaults on “girls,” who apparently can’t walk around safely without carrying pepper spray, just another part of the college/life experience.

SHERRI QUAMMEN Chico

Many thanks Library fact of the week: Volunteers—our library wouldn’t work without them. (They work 15,000 hours per year.) Chico library staff are wonderful, but they can’t get it all done by themselves. Over 1,000 volunteers from the community provide invaluable services.

Things they do: Shelve books, magazines, newspapers, CDs, DVDs; prepare for story time; repair and clean books; tutor; offer help with digital devices and homework; sort and price used books for sales.

Library patrons sent a variety of “atta boys” to our volunteers:

Dear volunteers, we really appreciate you! Thank you for making the library so awesome! Thank you for your help!! Thank you for making the library a great place.

Thank you for volunteering. We <3 U! Thank you for helping me find things. Good job! You guys rock! Thank you for repairing the books that are loved to pieces! You are the best, more than you can imagine. The Chico Friends of the Library highlight an interesting library fact each week on a poster at the Chico Branch Library, on Facebook (Chico Friends of the Butte County Library) or Twitter @cfobcl.

ANN ELLIOTT Chico Friends of the Library

Why all the planting?

We just traveled from Chico to San Luis Obispo, mostly on 101.

We found the drive very beautiful, a garden of agricultural delights.

The farming is obviously state-ofthe-art and the workers in the thousands, totally focused. The one disconcerting observation was that there was no sign of anyone holding back on new planting. The opposite was the case—thousands of acres being started in grapes and nuts. Stakes as far as the eye could see with tiny trees strapped to them.

My wife and I are doing all kinds of things to use less water and use it twice—wash the dishes by hand, pour the water from the wash tub into the garden, don’t flush pee, don’t wash cars, you all know the routine. OK, so here’s the question: Why are nonessential food types (i.e., grapes and nuts) still being planted? Please, is there a farmer out there who can explain this to us? What are we missing in this big picture? Thank you for your attention.

JOHN AND ELIZABETH LAVEZZI Chico

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Friends of Tricia Daverson, who was driving a van carrying seven seventh-grade Chico Country Day School students to an overnight camping trip in San Francisco when it rolled on Interstate 505, are raising funds to help with Daverson’s health care and other expenses.

According to online fundraising site YouCaring.com, Daverson sustained a broken neck, broken back, six broken ribs and a broken sternum in the May 13 accident after her vehicle was clipped by another driver, causing the van to roll several times.

One student had a broken arm, and the rest suffered only minor injuries.

Daverson and partner Denine Shern operate Denine’s Cupcakes in downtown Chico and have 12 children, with 11 living at home, according to the crowdfunding site. As of Monday (May 18), the campaign had raised $11,640 toward a $20,000 goal.

State of the ranch Environmental groups advocate turning city reserve into extension of Bidwell Park

Bidwell Ranch, one of the city’s most controversial pieces of property, is on the radar again, as staff prepares a report on the reserve.

PUMP TRACK DELAYED

The pump track for mountain bikers set for construction in the northernmost corner of Wildwood Park will be completed in the fall, rather than this spring as originally intended.

A pump track is a looping dirt course of banked turns and rollers that allows riders to carry their momentum without pedaling.

Local professional mountain bike racer Kyle Warner’s proposal for the 240-by-180-foot track was approved by the Chico Area Recreation and Park District last fall, but the project hit a snag after former CARD General Manager Jerry Haynes resigned from his position in February. However, it’s still moving forward—the cost of design was covered by A Main Hobbies, while dirt was provided by R&R Horn General Contractors.

A date isn’t set for the grand opening because “we want the track to be perfect,” Warner said. “We are going to take the time to do things right.”

FORMER SCHOOL AIDE CONVICTED

A man who worked with Hmong students at Oroville’s Poplar Avenue Elementary School was convicted May 13 on nine counts of child molestation, according to a press release from the Butte County District Attorney’s Office.

Youlee Lee Vang, 55, helped students for whom English was a second language from 2000 to 2010. In 2011, a former student reported Vang (pictured), had molested her in a classroom over a two-year period. A Sheriff’s Office investigation found three other Poplar students who also reported molestation by Vang on the school grounds between 2005 and 2009. One of the molestations occurred at a victim’s home. Vang left the school in 2010 and moved to Alaska.

A sheriff’s detective went to Alaska in 2013 and interviewed Vang, who was subsequently arrested and returned to Butte County. Vang faces up to 24 years in state prison; he’s set for sentencing on Aug. 13.

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easonal cattle-grazing makes up the bulk of Sreserve the activity at Bidwell Ranch, an expansive downslope of Upper Bidwell Park. But

that could change if the Chico City Council gets behind the request of a coalition of heavy-hitting local environstory and photo by mental groups.

Melissa As John Merz put it in a Daugherty recent city meeting, the request melissad@ is straightforward: that “Bidwell newsreview.com Ranch become a formal part of Bidwell Park.”

Merz announced that surprising turn of events during a gathering last week of the city’s Natural Resources Committee, whose members, along with the general public, gave feedback to a city staffer who is preparing a report on Bidwell Ranch for an upcoming council meeting. The city purchased the property 18 years ago, and the site has remained fenced off ever since, open to the public only during docent-led tours that haven’t taken place regularly in years.

Currently, ranchers lease a portion of the property for grazing.

City officials have long intended to turn the site, which is zoned as open space and home to vernal pools and other environmentally sensitive habitat, into a mitigation and/or conservation bank. But that plan has hit snags over the past decade, and Merz says local environmental groups—Friends of Bidwell Park, Butte Environmental Council, Altacal Audubon Society, the Sierra Club Yahi Group, the California Native Plant Society’s Mount Lassen chapter and the Bidwell Ranch Committee—have come to the conclusion that the best option for the 750-acre property is

adding it to the city’s largest park.

In a brief phone interview days later, Merz, president of the Friends of Bidwell Park group, said the consensus was reached within the last month. That agreement comes as the city inventories the properties it owns, and when Bidwell Ranch appears to be of particular interest to at least one member of the council.

At the March 17 City Council meeting, during discussion about evaluating the city’s 289 parcels, freshman Councilman Andrew Coolidge asked City Manager Mark Orme for more information on Bidwell Ranch, along with a few other parcels, all open space. At the same meeting, Loretta Torres, a conservative who regularly attends the meetings, outright suggested the city sell the reserve.

“When the inventory talk came up, that did cause some concern,” Merz acknowledged.

Both mitigation and conservation banks

are designed to allow developers to buy credits that let them build on other lands where there are unavoidable impacts to the environment. Conservation banks protect threatened habitats, while mitigation relates to the protection, restoration and creation of wetlands. Both types of banks are an instrument used to protect environmentally sensitive sites in perpetuity. “[Bidwell Ranch] does have potential for both,” noted Dan Efseaff, the city of Chico’s park and natural

resources manager.

Efforts to turn the property into a viable conservation and/or mitigation bank stalled several years ago, Efseaff acknowledged. He said the process, which involves such regulatory agencies as the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, as well as the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, was derailed back in 2008 due to a number of circumstances.

The Chico Planning Department, which had taken the lead on the effort, had its hands full with the years-long general plan update, he said. Then the Great Recession hit, decimating the local housing market, including new construction, meaning there was little urgency on the matter. Moreover, the economic conditions shuttered the state Fish and Wildlife’s mitigation banking program.

That agency revived the program last year, and Efseaff says conversations with the city have resumed.

Bidwell Ranch wasn’t always pegged for such purposes and has a controversial background going back 30-odd years, according to an archive of CN&R stories.

In the early 1980s, developers brought forth a plan for a massive subdivision of 4,400 housing units called Rancho Arroyo. It was met with vigorous community opposition and never got off the ground. Years later, however, after the property changed hands, the City Council approved a scaled-back version of

about 3,000 units. That plan was overturned in 1988 during a citywide citizenled referendum.

But that wasn’t the end of ambitions to develop the site.

In the mid-’90s, yet another plan moved forward. It included about half as many housing units and would have dedicated more than half the acreage to open space. But again, the public pushed back, and in 1997, largely to avoid lawsuits by either side of the debate, the city spent $4 million to buy the property, plus it took on $2.5 million in developerowed sewer fees.

“It [took] a very controversial, contentious piece … off the table,” Efseaff said of the purchase.

Fast forward to last week’s Natural

Resources Committee meeting. The purpose of the gathering was for Efseaff to give an overview of the conservation and mitigation bank options and to get input from the committee members “for effective means to present it to [the] council and to identify other questions or issues that staff should address in the council report,” as a staff report outlined.

Efseaff went over some of the goals the City Council established for the property back in 2006, when the panel agreed to fund efforts exploring the feasibility of a mitigation bank. Among them are providing permanent protection for the site’s highly sensitive areas and opening appropriate areas to public access. He also noted that in 2012 the council directed city staff to consider four options for the property, three of which involved some incarnation of a mitigation bank, and the other calling for the continuation of current management.

Deep into the Natural Resources Committee meeting, someone addressed the elephant in the room, asking Efseaff whether the current City Council could consider selling the property. He said that, yes, theoretically that could happen.

By the end of the meeting, the committee asked that Efseaff also bring forth the option of adding Bidwell Ranch to Bidwell Park. That will happen during the City Council’s June 16 meeting.

The next step, Efseaff later said, is to seek direction from the council.

According to City Manager Orme, the impetus for the city inventory was seeing some dilapidated holdings on 11th Street and learning that the city owned more parcels than he was aware of. Thus, he figured the council might not know about them, either. He said no requests to purchase Bidwell Ranch have come forward.

Should there be interest, that would play out before the policy makers at the dais, he noted.

“I think that the approach I took is to ensure that the City Council knew the property holds the city currently has,” Orme said. “Whether that brings about speculative thought, that’s out of my control.” Ω

Joe Person and his wife, Pearl, during his efforts to get a memorial and street name dedicated to Martin Luther King Jr.

Final farewell Community says goodbye to longtime local civil rights activist Joe Person

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hico lost a greatly respected member of Cof Joe the community May 13 with the passing Person—civil rights activist, restaura-

teur, master of the barbecue, college librarian and champion of social justice who worked tirelessly to get both a park memorial and street name changed in honor of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. Person, 85, was born and raised in Russell County, Ala., where he met and married his wife, Pearl. Between Russell County and Chico, the couple lived in Chicago for three years, moving there in 1953, right after Joe, a Korean War vet, was discharged from the Army. They later moved to East Chicago, Ind., where their three children, Debbie, Joe Jr. and Johnny—today the only black officer on the Chico Police Department force— were born.

In 1964 the family moved to Chico, where, he once told this newspaper, many locals were still caught up in a racial divide and lack of acceptance. He said he almost immediately felt the pangs of prejudice when he took his young sons in for a haircut at a barbershop on Third Street. The barber, he said, purposely gave one of his sons a bad haircut and then charged more than his normal rate.

“I was in tears almost,” Person recalled.

“He didn’t say, ‘I didn’t want to cut his hair,’ he just messed his hair up.’”

Person said he believed the racial atmosphere in towns like Chico improved in no small part due to the efforts and ultimate sacrifice of King, who was assassinated four years after Person moved here.

That improvement, he said, helped him

build successful restaurants, Joe’s Old Fashioned Pit Bar-B-Q, both in Chico and in Oroville. He also worked for the Community Action Agency and as a librarian for Butte College. Pearl was a longtime elementary school teacher.

The struggle to get something named for Martin Luther King was first brought to Joe’s attention by local activist Willie Hyman in February 2004. Hyman had asked for certain city streets—those with historical connections—to be renamed for King. The efforts, though unfruitful, triggered Person’s interest in the matter.

And after years of his lobbying city commissions, along with fundraising and signature gathering, the city finally agreed to rename Whitman Avenue, where it runs from East Park Avenue to East 20th Street, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway. Person’s efforts also raised enough money, with a matching city grant, to install a memorial to King at Community Park.

The endeavor led to a bit of a division

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between Hyman and Person at the time, which never completely healed. But the two men continued to respect each other. Hyman oversees local civil rights organization the Butte Community Coalition.

“I met him when I first came here in 1976,” Hyman said by phone this week. “The coalition respects him and his family. We, of course, are saddened by his passing. He contributed greatly to the community.”

Former City Councilman David Guzzetti called the news “sad but inevitable.”

“He was a gracious man who was always kind and an elder to me,” Guzzetti said. “He was a loving man, husband and father. I first met Joe when I moved here in 1974 when he was a librarian at Butte College.”

Guzzetti, an unapologetic progressive, said he and Person were usually on the same page politically.

“He talked in an earnest, measured way,” he said. “Always looking you in the eye and he’d smile while raising his eyebrows when the communication between us was mutually understood. I was honored to be his trusted friend.”

Former City Manager Tom Lando also recalled Person with fond remembrance.

“Joe was a quiet force in our community,” he said. “He was open to all, and I think he knew everyone. It’s a great family and Pearl is a fixture in Chico.”

Back in 2004, while arguing on behalf of the MLK memorial and street name change, Person told the CN&R: “Dr. King is one of the most recognized men in the 20th century. Trust me, I know. He brought me out of the muck.

“I raised my kids to love everybody. There is so much good in the worst people in the world, so much bad in the best people in the world, so we’ve got no business hating anybody; we should judge people individually.”

He is survived by his wife, Pearl, their three children and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. Funeral services were held Wednesday (May 20).

—TOM GASCOYNE tom@newsreview.com

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The arts are alive City Council votes to maintain link with Chico Arts Commission, thanks to Orland things considered, supporters of the arts ACityllwalked out satisfied following the Chico Council meeting on Tuesday (May 19),

because the city body that promotes public art and Chico as an arts and culture destination still lives—albeit in a beleaguered state.

The city has progressively cut back its support of the Chico Arts Commission over the last two years as it continues to grapple with a general fund deficit and the constraints of a reduced staff. In that time, the City Council has reduced the regularity of commission meetings from once a month to every other month, and then to just twice a year.

Further, during a meeting in December, the council directed city staff to explore cutting ties entirely despite pleas from art lovers and members of the commission.

“Maintaining a link to the city is critical for the opportunity for resident participation and a facet of city government that oversees one of our strongest economic drivers,” argued former Arts Commission Chairwoman Muir Hughes.

Indeed, on Tuesday members of the council weighed the significant financial considerations of supporting the arts on top of the cultural and quality-of-life benefits they bring to Chico. In March, an independent study revealed that 54 Chico nonprofit groups spent $8.7 million producing artistic and cultural events in 2014, and audiences spent $8.9 million attending them, for a total of $17.7 million. That money supports 451 full-time jobs and generates $519,000 and $1.8 million for local and state government, respectively.

But that doesn’t change the constraints on city staff, said City Clerk Debbie Presson.

“When you have an Arts Commission meeting, there’s an agenda, there’s compliance with the [Ralph M.] Brown Act, there’s staff time, there’s recording costs,” she said.

Presson has been overseeing Arts Commission meetings to provide those clerical and administrative services, but her office is already struggling to keep up with its existing workload, she said. That was a factor when the council directed her to research alternative arts commission models in December.

“It’s clear that the council is looking for a

Chico Arts Commission members Muir Hughes (left) and Monica McDaniel say arts organizations would stand to lose support should the commission cut ties with the city.

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new approach, a new delivery mechanism,” Presson said.

To that end, in December Councilman Andrew Coolidge suggested merging the commission with a regional arts entity, and Presson subsequently determined the logical candidate would be Friends of the Arts, a nonprofit that oversees annual art events such as Artoberfest, Chico Palio and the Oroville Salmon Festival. Redding found success in merging its arts commission with the Shasta County Arts Council, Presson said.

But Councilwomen Ann Schwab and Tami Ritter questioned why Presson’s staff report did not include examples of nearby municipalities that have maintained their own arts commissions, such as Orland and Oroville.

“This report seemed like it was completely focused in one direction,” Ritter said. “I don’t feel like I got the information on what the impact would be if we lose the commission.”

During Presson’s explanation of the models in Orland and Oroville, an interesting detail emerged—the seven-member Orland Arts Commission is almost entirely selfreliant. It compiles and posts its own agenda and then submits minutes to Orland City Council for approval. The only financial support provided by the city of Orland is renting the space for its meetings and fundraisers.

Following the public comment period, Councilman Randall Stone motioned to direct staff to pursue a system based on Orland’s. The Chico Arts Commission would maintain its link to the city but operate largely on its own to reduce the burden on city staff.

Stone’s motion passed 4-3, with Mayor Mark Sorensen and Councilmembers Coolidge and Reanette Fillmer dissenting.

That means Presson will produce another report, this time on the feasibility and legality of applying the Orland model to Chico.

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

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he scenery south of Oroville is bound for drastic changes in the years to come, as Butte County supervisors voted unanimously Tuesday (May 19) to push forward plans to develop a 689-acre swath of rural land along State Route 70.

The proposed project, called Rio d’Oro, includes space for commercial areas, an elementary school, public services, parks, conservation land and up to 2,700 residences to be built in phases over the next 25 years. Most of the construction will take place on 413 acres west of the highway and east of Pacific Heights Road, between Ophir and Palermo roads. The plan calls for another 278 acres east of the highway at the project’s southern end to remain open space and a natural conservation area.

After county staff gave a brief outline of the project near the end of Tuesday’s meeting and recommended the board act in favor of moving it along, there was little input from the mostly empty gallery. The only person to take advantage of the public comment period was Don Rust, community development director for the city of Oroville. Rust voiced his support for the project and further recommended talks commence to annex the unincorporated into the city.

Rio d’Oro has been in the works for several years.

Lucky Hill Properties LLC—a collaboration between local landowner Kenfield Alldrin and Turlock developer Jkb Homes Corp.—was formed in 2006, and began holding informational meetings in 2008 when the project was first proposed. A series of official public hearings regarding the project’s compliance with California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) requirements

have been held since 2011.

Supervisor Bill Connelly—who represents District 1, where most of the project is located— moved to approve plans and amendments, make zoning changes and certify the final environmental impact report on Rio d’Oro. The EIR declared that the development would have a significant effect on aesthetics, air quality and traffic in the area regardless of attempts at mitigation. County staff recommended—and the board agreed—that the economic, housing and contribution to infrastructure outweighed these negatives. In addition to the conservation area, the plan includes 65 acres of parkland and open space.

The first phase includes building up to 200 separate residential units to be completed as early as 2018. Construction could begin within a year.

Prior to ruling on Rio d’Oro, the supervisors addressed

another controversial construction topic related to the Neal Road Recycling and Waste Facility regarding Sacramento-based Nichelini General Engineering Contractors (NGEC) Inc. The company has completed two sections of ongoing work at the waste facility, which includes covering dump areas with a polypropylene membrane to limit stormwater infiltration and protect groundwater. The company recently submitted the lowest bid for upcoming work.

However, the county’s Public Works Department contends that there were numerous problems with NGEC’s work, including failure to pay subcontractors in a timely manner, making unsupervised and substandard repairs and resisting county requests. County records show that NGEC was awarded a contract for County supervisors agreed to change zoning at the Rio d’Oro site from agricultural land to allow up to 30 units per acre. $692,020 in April 2014 and came back in December PHOTO COURTESY OF BUTTE COUNTY DEVELOPMENT SERVICES asking for $26,472 to pay a contractor for extra work.

Staff recommended that NGEC be deemed Ophi a nonresponsible bidder and the contract be To Oroville r Roa d awarded to the next lowest bidder, Lemoorebased Wood Brothers Inc. Wood Brothers’ bid d a Ro was $183,000 more than NGEC’s. ights e H c if i Kathleen Kehoe Greeson, chief deputy c Pa county counsel, interviewed several staff members in front of the supervisors about specific allegations of poor performance, after which NGEC owner Joe Nichelini and one of his employees, Nick Zwetsloot, also gave testimony, and were represented by Napa construction attorney Mike Murphy.

“There’s a big hole in this whole story,” Murphy said, claiming flaws in the project’s plans and problems acquiring the proper To Palermo polypropylene membrane were the root causes of problems on the job.

Supervisor Larry Wahl argued that NGEC might try harder to make the county happy a second time around, and that taking the recommended action could severely hurt the company and cost taxpayers the difference in bids. In the end, the board voted 3-2 to nix NGEC for the next lowest offer, with Wahl and Doug Teeter in the minority.

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VACCINATION BILL MOVES FORWARD

The California Senate voted to approve controversial legislation, Senate Bill 277, that would mandate immunization for schoolchildren in the state.

The Senate voted 25-10 to approve the bill, which would remove the state’s exemption that allows parents to opt out of vaccinations for their children due to personal beliefs, despite the objections of parents who maintain the legislation tramples on their parental rights, according to SFGate.com.

Some parents are adamantly opposed to vaccines and many are concerned that, should SB 277 become law, they would have to pull their children from school should they choose not to immunize them. Meanwhile, health experts maintain that low vaccination rates increase the likelihood of outbreaks of infectious diseases.

The bill heads to the state Assembly next, likely in July or August at the committee level.

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HEAVY COSTS

If the nation’s 12.7 million obese children become obese adults, the cost of caring for them could total as much as $1.1 trillion, a study finds.

Defining obesity as a body mass index of 30 or higher, researchers from the Brookings Center for Social Dynamics and Policy calculated that, between ages 25 and 85, an obese adult will cost an average of $92,235 in obesity-related health care, lost work productivity, disability insurance, disability claims and foregone taxes due to lower wages earned, according to Modern Health Care.

The researchers noted that the costs would not be offset by higher mortality rates among that population.

“Even if it weren’t morally incumbent on us to care about the [lives] and health of our fellow citizens, our research indicates that we have a clear economic incentive to do so,” said researcher Matthew Kasman.

SEX ED RULES

A Fresno Superior Court judge recently ruled that abstinence-only sex education in schools violates California law and that providing comprehensive sex ed is an important public right.

Judge Donald Black’s ruling, which was a victory for the parents of Clovis Unified School District students, the American Academy of Pediatrics and the Gay-Straight Alliance Network, ends a protracted legal battle over whether the district’s sex ed curriculum complied with the 2004 Comprehensive Sexual Health and HIV/AIDS Prevention Education law, according to The Fresno Bee. The law requires that middle and high schools teach students how to prevent HIV/AIDS, and if they choose to provide additional sexual health information, it must be age-appropriate, unbiased, medically accurate information about abstinence, sexually transmitted infections and contraception.

The plaintiffs claimed that the district used inaccurate and biased educational videos, engaged outside agencies that presented outdated information, and adopted textbooks that failed to mention condoms and other contraception.

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

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trainer, Jaime Calderon estimates he strikes up conversations with 50 to 100 strangers in the gym each week, and he’s just as likely to talk about the interconnectedness of nutrition, physical fitness and human emotion as he is about blasting biceps.

The barrel-chested 46-year-old Chicoan readily and passionately shares what he’s learned over the last 20 years working as a trainer and martial arts instructor. Calderon has recently shifted his focus to nutrition, which he touts as the foundation of health and fitness. For clients who want to reduce body fat, build muscle or both, he recommends the same thing—eating regularly to avoid dips or spikes in blood sugar levels.

“So many diets fail because they’re always about restriction, cutting or counting calories,” Calderon said. “What we teach people is to eat to balance your [blood sugar]. Once you do that, you can get as big as you want or lose as much weight as you want.”

By “we,” Calderon means himself and close friend and fitness guru Mark MacDonald, whom he met a few years ago at a health conference. MacDonald is a celebrity fitness trainer now based

in Atlanta who authored 2011’s bestselling book Body Confidence and the just-released Why Kids Make You Fat. He makes regular TV appearances on CNN and is the host of cable network HLN’s “Transformation Tuesdays.”

MacDonald’s So-Cal agency, Venice Nutrition, oversees a panel of physicians and dietitians, the International Board of Nutrition and Fitness Coaching, through which Calderon received his certification as a nutritionist last year.

Calderon teaches MacDonald’s eightweek program here in Chico, including the nutritional component based on eating food—whole foods, mind you— all of the time.

As Calderon puts it: “I’d rather miss a workout than miss a meal.”

Jaime Calderon, 46, trained in Aikido under the tutelage of Steven Seagal, earning his black-belt in 2000.

Calderon has always been an athlete. He

was nationally ranked in the long jump at Alisal High School in Salinas and played professional basketball overseas after graduating from Chico State in 1999 with a bachelor’s of science in fitness and kinesiology (at just under 6 feet tall, he claims he could “dunk with the best of them”).

He also got into martial arts, earning his black belt in 2000 under the mentorship of Steven Seagal—that’s right, the roundhouse-kicking action star from Hard to Kill—and is currently the chief instructor at Ten Shin Aikido Dojo in Chico.

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“You know, priorities changed, and I put on 40 pounds and didn’t even really realize it,” he said.

“Your mindset is always, ‘I’m in good shape,’ or ‘I can get fit again really fast.’

“After a while I was getting slower and wasn’t feeling good.

People told me, ‘That’s just how it is when you get older,’ ” he scoffed. “Yeah, right.”

Improving his own health was only one part of Calderon’s motivation for delving into nutrition. For years he wanted to make sound, scientifically based nutritional recommendations to clients, but he hadn’t yet formally studied nutrition, and there was a lot of misinformation out there—such as the commonly held belief that eating less and skipping meals helps shed pounds.

Meeting MacDonald, coming to understand his fitness philosophy and eventually getting certified through his agency was enlightening for Calderon.

Following Venice Nutrition’s guidelines helped him to more fully understand the human body while regaining the fitness he’d lost—he’s gone from 30 percent body fat to just under 15 percent in a little more than a year.

“I said, ‘This is exactly what I’m looking for.’”

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Calderon emphasized that adhering to Venice Fitness principles can and often does result in short-term physical changes, but the point is to adopt a sustainable, healthy lifestyle rather than suffer through several weeks of food deprivation or boot camp-style workouts.

“I ask people about their diets: ‘Is it something you can do for the rest of your life?’ This program is not something we conjured up in our backyard,” he said. “This is basic physiology.”

Although it seems counterintuitive, the key to losing weight and keeping it off, Calderon says, is eating balanced proportions of quality proteins, carbohydrates and fats every three to four hours—five meals or more a day, but never gorging oneself in an individual sitting. Doing so kicks the body’s metabolism into a higher gear.

And therein lies the folly of skipping meals to lose weight.

“It’s actually the opposite,” he said. “If you don’t eat, your blood sugar levels drop, you’ll start burning muscle, your metabolism slows down, and then you don’t want to eat, or those cravings [for junk food] come in.

“We should be eating to where we’re satisfied—not full, not still hungry, just satisfied,” Calderon said. “That’s blood sugar stabilizaΩ tion, right there.”

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Russian roulette on the railways Butte County train tracks Bakken-free for now, but emergency responders fear a return of the volatile fuel

TPhiladelphia when a passenger train derailed in and also last year, on Nov. 26, rains crash. That fact hit home last week

when a cargo train derailed in the Feather River Canyon.

The risk of devasby Evan Tuchinsky tation multiplies when the derailed evant@ train carries volatile newsrev iew.c om crude oil. A recent spate of those accidents has garnered national attention, too, prompting the U.S. Department of Transportation (DoT) to release new regulations governing the conveyance of flammable liquids. The measures have drawn near-unanimous opposition, though, and done little to assuage lingering local fears.

“My constituents have raised concerns and the Board [of Supervisors] is concerned,” said Butte County Supervisor Maureen Kirk, who represents Chico.

“We’re hoping that some of the legislation and some of the discussion that comes forward will make even stiffer requirements on the transport of this Bakken oil.”

The DoT regulations came out May 1.

Five days later, another oil train crashed, in North Dakota. By last Friday (May 15), both the petroleum industry and environmentalists had filed legal challenges to the DoT’s so-called “final rule.”

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Fowler said, and has been told no crude oil deliveries have come through Butte County this year. “I have no reason not to believe them,” he added, though he’s seen DOT-111s riding on Chico tracks.

Lena Kent, BNSF’s spokeswoman for California, confirmed by email that “we are not currently transporting Bakken crude in your county.” She also wrote: “We do provide information to the Office of Emergency Services in California.”

That’s in contrast with last year, when train cars carrying millions of gallons of the explosive oil, reportedly around one shipment per week, did make their way way along the Feather River Canyon. Experts tie the reduction of imports to a reduced demand for the fuel, a lighter type that’s similar to gasoline and thus extremely volatile.

The International Association of Fire While Cal Fire dreads the prospect of an Fighters also has voiced objections.

Representing more than 300,000 firefighters urban crash, the Feather River Canyon presents a distinct set of frets. in North America, the IAFF protested a Train tracks head into remote areas that are provision that allows railroads to keep the difficult for emergency responders to reach. contents of their trains confidential—under Access roads don’t always run adjacent to the the banner of national security. rail route—not even parallel in certain spots.

Russ Fowler, battalion chief with Cal Fire Depending on where a crash occurred, spilled Butte County and coordinator of the local oil could contaminate the Feather River and Interagency Hazardous Materials Team, Lake Oroville—a major source of water for has additional concerns. DoT regulations California—or could start a forest fire should phase out tank cars that are not up to the it ignite. current safety standard, rather than pull them Even without a blaze or river release, off the rails for retrofitting or retirement. “it would make an ugly, oily mess in the Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx has canyon,” Fowler said. “It would be a argued that the alternative would result in terrible environmental disaster.” increased oil-tanker traffic on highways.

Butte County supervisors articulated such Fowler says one particular railcar concerns to the California Public Utility commonly used to carry volatile Bakken Commission and the Governor’s Office crude oil, the DOT-111, “just [wasn’t] of Emergency Services, before the designed for that product.”

DoT released its regulations. OES Since railroads have until WHAT IS ‘BAKKEN’? responded by saying the state is 2018 to get those cars The light crude oil known investing in “purchasing new Type up to standard, “we have as Bakken comes from II hazardous material emergency three years of potential fracking a geologic response units” and in “local training Russian roulette on our formation of that name specific to … rail safety incidents.” hands if light crude oil under North Dakota, For Supervisor Doug Teeter, Montana and Canada. is transported down the Less dense and with the board chair who represents the Feather River Canyon like less carbon, light crudes Ridge, that’s little assurance. He it was done last fall.” yield more gasoline than has a powerless feeling—believing Cal Fire has communiheavier crudes, but also “it’s just a matter of time” before an cated with BNSF Railway, are more volatile.

accident happens locally, yet knowing “as a county we have no control” over the rails.

“We’re at the mercy of the federal regulators,” he continued. “All we’re really getting is a little response on improved training and equipment. That is not nearly enough to handle a 100-car spill.”

Either in populated or unpopulated areas.

“We as a hazmat team plan for worstcase scenarios,” Fowler said. “Just because you plan for a worst-case scenario doesn’t mean you can mitigate the worst-case scenario, because there are things that can happen that are so catastrophic that it would overwhelm local resources until more regional or statewide resources could come in to help.”

Should legal challenges fail, and in the absence of local authority, a remedy to the DoT regulations remains: Congress. Teeter recently met with a representative of Sen. Barbara Boxer. Meanwhile, North State Congressman John Garamendi has introduced legislation to make light crude safer for rail transport.

Teeter encourages constituents to write congressional representatives and senators.

He finds encouragement even in the controversial DoT regulations, which arose amid an uproar.

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Because it’s so rare—there are 30,000-50,000 people in the U.S. who have it—there was little information out there to help her understand her disease. She quit her education technology job in the Bay Area and moved to Magalia—she was born and raised in Paradise and graduated from Chico State. She’s just launched a “cause-brewing” effort to develop a Paradise-based business called Feather Coffee, a mobile coffee shop that will give a percentage of its profits to rare-disease organizations. She will brew coffee from Three Avocados, a nonprofit that gives its earnings to water projects in Uganda and education projects in Nicaragua. If successful, she will develop the business into a franchise with mobile Feather Coffee shops operating in other communities also donating parts of their profits to rare-disease organizations.

How do you feel?

It’s a complicated diagnosis. It was two years ago and it’s had no progression since then. So that’s fabulous. And I feel much better than I did even 10 or 14 days ago.

Each week it gets easier for me. A week ago today I had all of my tests done and it showed no progression. So I feel good.

What gave you the idea of creating a mobile coffee business?

I’ve always wanted to have a coffee shop and I love all of the coffee shops in Chico. I was just at Naked Lounge yesterday and the most fabulous thing happened. I was standing in line and the barista said, “Today your mocha is a dollar.” And I was like “What?” And then the lady behind me said, “And I’ll pay for it.” There is this synergy I find in coffee shops. I’ve had my best conversations over a cup of coffee. It opens up this relaxed way to talk to somebody. It’s hard to talk about rare diseases. It’s hard to talk about a diagnosis like mine. But in a relaxed state and this type of business, I thought this would be a great way to have these conversations

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I plan to start small with one trailer and go to weekend events.

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It’s hard to believe that it’s already almost June. Where, oh where, does the time go? With the new calendar month come wedding bells and the hunt for that perfect gift.

Besides the fact we’re sneaking up on the traditional wedding month, I have nuptials on my mind because this year my baby brother, who lives clear across the country in New York City, is tying the knot. My family and future in-laws are still in the various planning stages—getting measured for bridesmaid dresses, planning wedding showers and arranging airfare —but the buzz is definitely in the air.

The other day I was scanning my brother and future sister-in-law’s wedding registries. They include all the standards: dish sets, living room décor, Kitchen Aid mixer. But they also feature a good number of monogrammed items, everything from bathroom towels to tablecloth and napkins. And I noticed even their wine glasses and champagne flutes say “monogramming available.” Is this a new thing stores are doing?

Of course, personalizing gifts has always been a thing. I have many a memory of going into Things Remembered at the mall when I was younger, picking out something fun and having my mom or dad’s initials engraved on it while having lunch with friends in the food court.

Things Remembered is a fine place to get things engraved, but in thinking about that service, I recalled meeting Stewart O’Marah, who owns Artful Engravings in town, a year or so ago. He was playing pool and had donated an engraved cue ball for an end-of-season prize. Pretty cool—I hadn’t ever thought about engraving something like that.

So, I called up O’Marah to see how his business was doing, and he invited me over to his home, which is also where he does his “artful engravings.” His story is similar to those of so many others who were hit by the Great Recession. He’d been working a good job at Hewlett-Packard, but when 2009 rolled around, he was laid off. He’d studied small-business management in college and had always wanted to open his own business, he said. This might be his opportunity.

“When I first moved to Chico in 1998, I wanted to open a mini-golf course,” he explained. “But FunLand beat me to it.”

Fast forward to 2009 and his plan was to open a comedy club, “but the Last Stand beat me to that.” Finally, while thumbing through a catalogue one day, he settled on engraving. He bought a laser engraving machine, which works with most materials—except metal—and he was able to start his business out of his home, which kept his overhead costs low.

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n the night of May 19, 1915, Elmer Sorahan was having a helluva time getting some much-needed rest in the tent he’d set up alongside Hat Creek, a few miles northeast of Lassen Peak. Every time he’d get close to falling asleep, his dog would whine, growl, jump and paw at him until he sat up, alert. His canine companion grew more agitated as the midnight hour approached, and Sorahan, believing that perhaps a bear or panther was near, finally accepted the warning and peeked out to see what was afoot.

The 25-year-old homesteader heard the approaching danger before he saw it, a “cracking-popping” sound of rocks being pushed down the creek by a deluge of water, mud and other debris. As Sorahan shook off his weariness and noticed ripples on the nearby creek rising, he wisely decided the time had come to run, which he proceeded to do immediately, without pausing to lace up his boots.

Sorahan escaped the torrent but realized that, without warning, others downstream might not be so lucky. He raced to the home of his nearest neighbor, Wid Hall, who lived with his family 3 miles down the creek. Hall’s wife, Emily, had just enough time to call the Hat Creek ranger station and spread the warning before gathering the family and, as her husband put it, “beat it for higher ground.” Upon returning the next morning, the Halls found their home lodged between a tree and a broken fence more than 50 feet from where it originally stood, filled with 2 1/2 feet of mud.

The May 19 late-night eruption that caused the mud flows— at that point the largest in a series of volcanic activity that had begun at Lassen Peak a year earlier, on Memorial Day (May 30), 1914—was just a precursor of what was to come. At around 4 p.m. on Saturday, May 22, Lassen Peak erupted in spectacular fashion, sending a plume of ash, steam and smoke— visible from Sacramento and Eureka—30,000 feet into the air. Lava spilled over the broken ridge of Lassen’s crater, mixing with mud, rock and other debris and melting that year’s heavy snows to create even more damaging

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Lassen Peak’s eruptions between 1914 and 1917 were the first to be widely photographed. Benjamin Franklin Loomis lived in the Lassen region and kept his camera handy as he explored the area.

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lahars (mud and volcanic material flows) that reached the Pit River and killed off large numbers of fish.

Near the mountain, volcanic gasses were ejected with such force that the few ancient pines that had survived the week’s earlier blast snapped like matchsticks in a 3 square mile swath on Lassen’s northeast slope now officially known as the Devastated Area. Rocks and boulders that remained hot to the touch for days afterward were flung hundreds of yards through the air, and ash fell more than 200 miles to the east, in Winnemucca, Nev. The eruption continued intermittently well into the night.

Prior to Lassen Peak’s rumblings, which continued to a lesser degree until 1917, the entire Cascade mountain range had been declared long dead by the day’s leading scientists. Lassen was the first volcano to erupt in the lower 48 since the beginning of written history in the Western U.S., and held the distinction of being the only “active” volcano in the contiguous United States until Mount St. Helens’ 1980 eruption.

Today, the area around the peak is known as Lassen Volcanic National Park, which will celebrate the big blast’s centennial beginning this weekend, and throughout the summer. The park is a “living laboratory” at which volcanism and geothermal activity are constantly observed.

One hundred years is just a sliver of time considering the volcanic and geological history of the immediate area, and that of all of Northern California. Studying this history, and current conditions at the park, indicate future eruptions are a certainty, though when and where is still unknown.

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reads, “the land is restless and one day, as sure as you stand here, these mountains will roar to life once again.”

Some reports of the damage to property

caused by Lassen Peak’s eruptions were greatly exaggerated in the local press. There were tales of 3,000 head of cattle killed, fertile farmlands poisoned by volcanic mud flows and Hat Creek refugees who shuddered in terror at the thought of returning to their homes. A Redding newspaper, then called The Searchlight, declared, “Mountain vomits lava and mud, hundreds flee for their lives” when reporting the May 22 eruption, and some of the headlines grew more spectacular—and downright strange—in the days to come. An article in that same paper a few days later with the headline “Epidemic of craziness seizes Anderson people” concludes, “It is probable that there will be an exodus from this county to the insane hospitals, after the examinations are held. Several theories are advanced as to the cause and effect, but that most generally accepted is the belief that Mount Lassen’s activities have proven too great a mental strain for those to the south.”

There are, however, many reliable reports and records of the damage. The eruption occurred during the advent of amateur photography, making Lassen’s volcanic activity some of the first to be captured on film. History owes a particular debt of gratitude to Benjamin Franklin Loomis, a businessman and photographer from nearby Viola who collected many of his and others’ photos, field notes, some of the more accurate news articles, ERUPTION continued on page 22 Ma y 21, 2015

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and first-hand accounts of the eruptions from Lassen area residents, compiling them into a book alternately titled The Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano or Eruptions of Lassen Peak and originally published in 1926.

Property damage resulting from the May 19 and 22 eruptions totaled about $5,000 (about $116,199 today). In addition to damaged or destroyed homes and farms, roads and bridges were washed out. No cattle were actually lost—just a couple of chickens, according to Loomis’ sources. No one was killed, although there were close calls as adventurers and sightseers explored the park before and after the late-May climactic eruptions. Loomis’ book includes an article from another Redding newspaper, the Shasta Courier, relating how a young man named Lance Graham was hit in the head by a rock flung from the crater while hiking Lassen Peak during a small eruption. He was temporarily paralyzed and unable to speak as his friends—believing he was dead—dragged him back down the mountain.

Though no one was killed and loss of property was minimal, damage to the natural environment was significant. The lead ranger at the time reported the loss of 5 million feet of timber. A pair of reporters from the Stockton Record observed the May 22 eruption from outside Lincoln (150 miles away) en route to Lassen, and spent a few days touring and reporting actual damages, led for some time by Loomis. Observing the damage in the Lost Creek area, a few miles north of the volcano, they wrote, “We saw sufficient examples of wreck and ruin to make one lie awake at night for weeks.

“We hardly expect every Record reader to believe all this story. You can’t believe it unless you see it.”

EFFECTS OF LASSEN PEAK’S MAY 1915 ERUPTIONS EXPLANATION May 22, 1915, deposits Pyroclastic flow and related lahars May 19–20, 1915, depositss me Lava flows and dome

Area of map Limit of May 22, 1915, lahar

Avalanche and lahar har Lassen Peak lava dome 27,000 years old Tree blow-down limits May 22, 1915 May 19–20, 1915

Approximate limit of May 19–20, 1915, lahar

Rachel Teasdale teaches volcanology at Chico State, and last semester charged her students with preparing public presentations on the history and geology of Lassen Volcanic National Park to commemorate 100 years since the latest eruption. One of her pet peeves is the use of the term “Mount Lassen”—the volcano’s official name is Lassen Peak.

By modern estimations, the 1915 eruption was relatively

small in the scheme of volcanic activity, according to Michael A. Clynne, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey based in Menlo Park. Clynne’s career as a geologist began as a field assistant in Lassen park in 1976, and he spent eight to 10 weeks there annually for more than a decade. Clynne’s not just an expert on the Lassen area and its volcanic history; he’s the expert who writes USGS fact sheets about Lassen Volcanic National Park and the surrounding areas.

“In terms of most modern eruptions that anyone would pay much attention to, it was tiny,” Clynne said in a recent phone interview. “We typically measure the size of eruptions by the amount of material that was erupted. In 1915, that volume was .03 cubic kilometers, whereas Mount St. Helens was about a cubic kilometer or so … 30 to 50 times bigger. There have been big eruptions in the past, but 1915 wasn’t that big.”

Other recent eruptions in the Lassen region happened at Chaos Crags about 1,100 years ago, and Cinder Cone in 1666, according to radiocarbon dating on a tree killed by lava from that blast. Lassen Peak itself was formed when it initially exploded about 27,000 years ago, Clynne said.

The whole Lassen area is on the base of a much larger, now eroded stratovolcano active between 700,000 and 385,000 years ago called Mount Tehama, which Clynne estimates was about one-quarter the size of Mount Shasta; remnants of Mount Tehama include Brokeoff Mountain, Pilot Pinnacle, Mount Diller and Mount Conrad.

Piecing together this history is how geologists predict future volcanic activity, Clynne explained: “The Lassen volcanic center is active and will erupt again; it’s just a matter of time. If you want to look at that statistically, over the last 100,000 years the center has had an eruption about every 7,500 years. But, there have been three eruptions in the last 1,100 years, so you clearly can’t use that average.

Also, eruptions tend to occur in episodes.

“I like to compare volcanoes to people,” Clynne further explained. “Everyone has a different personality, and you can think of volcanoes that way. How we learn about their personalities is to study their eruptive history. It gives us a 22

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Approximate limit of May 19 avalanche

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much more likely for an eruption to occur in a new place, perhaps even from an area that the general public doesn’t recognize as a volcanic threat.

“The area between the southern valley of Lassen park up to the Pit River, where Burney is, virtually every mountain in that area is a volcano,” Clynne said. “The entire surface of the land is covered with volcanic rocks 2 or 3 kilometers thick. They’re mostly what we call monogenetic, meaning they erupt only once and they’re done, but there are certain areas that have had more young eruptions and will likely produce new volcanoes.”

Predicting eruptions is far from an exact science, but Clynne said his best guesses for new eruptions would be in the north end of the Caribou Wilderness (east of the Lassen Volcanic Center) or near Tumble Buttes (midway between Lassen Peak and Burney).

“That’s a common misperception, and I emphasize the ‘miss,’” said Rachel Teasdale, a volcanology professor at Chico State. I heard that when I first moved here and thought, www.nps.gov/lavo/ ‘Gosh, that doesn’t seem plausible.’” planyourvisit/centennial.htm.

Teasdale specializes in research regarding the cooling and crystallization of lava flows, work that has taken her around the world to witness several volcanic eruptions. She recalled the most exciting of these was a 1998 trip to Volcán Cerro Azul in the Galápagos Islands.

“It was one of those cases when [the eruption] built a brand new cone that wasn’t there before, and the eruption wasn’t predicted; it just happened,” she recalled. “I jumped Wildlife in the park includes black bears, bald eagles and mountain lions. on a plane, then a boat, and another boat and so forth, and it Those animals are elusive and rarely seen, but Steller’s jays and golden-mantled ground squirrels in the park’s picnic areas aren’t at all shy. was quite an adventure just to get down there. Then I hiked PHOTO BY KEN SMITH in to see the eruption happening—lots of cinders being launched into the air, fire fountaining, active lava flows—it localities might not be as fortunate if an eruption of similar was spectacular visually, and the adventure aspect was very cool, and it turned into some interesting research, so that trip magnitude occurred in the Lassen region today. As Clynne and USGS colleague Patrick Muffler summarize in the current had all the aspects of why I’m a volcanologist.”

Lassen park newsletter, bridges and roadways could be cut off Chico sits at the western end of the Tuscan Formation, and compromised, as could local water supplies and hydroTeasdale explained, which is the eroded bones of yet another electric facilities. Additionally, railways likely would be cut ancient stratovolcano active millions of years ago called off, and commercial flight traffic could likely be affected by Mount Yana. She said Mount Yana stood roughly where smoke and ash. Another hazard would be wildfires.

Highways 32 and 36 meet today, and was “likely similar in “It would be significantly different if such an eruption size to what Mount Shasta is now, plus or minus a lot … occurred now,” said Todd Jesse, a Lassen park guide. “Back there’s a lot of room for error when all you have is erosional remains.” Though sometimes mistakenly called “the lava cap,” in the day, Northern California wasn’t nearly as populated; there were really only a couple of people around here.” the formation is not made from solidified lava, but rather from However, Clynne also predicted that the study of volcadebris flow from Mount Yana’s eons-long breakdown. noes has advanced so far that they would have weeks’ or “You can see intact debris flows in the buttes or ridges months’ notice before a significant explosion. Geothermal along Highway 32 or in Upper Park. In some places, the areas within the park are monitored for the release of finer grain materials—sediments between boulders—flowed increased volcanic gasses that would herald an eruption, and away but there wasn’t enough water to move the bigger GPS ground-tracking technology is sophisticated enough to rocks and boulders. They got stranded, so we call them detect slight movements in the earth’s surface that would ‘stranded boulders.’ So they were never launched up into indicate magma swelling underground. the air to fly great distances; they just kind of rolled and “We’d have plenty of notice to evacuate people safely,” tumbled to where they are now.” he said, noting that even the 1915 eruption was preceded by a year of lesser activity. “Even the casualties from Mount St. So Chico likely would be safe from an eruption near Helens were from people who were in places they weren’t Lassen, and hasn’t been affected by volcanic activity in the supposed to be.” past several million years, but the experts agree that other

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very good idea of what to expect when the next eruption happens or is impending, but we’re not always right on that because, like people, volcanoes can do new stuff. But they’re much more likely to do something they’ve done in the past than they are to do something new.”

Part of the area’s volcanic personality is that eruptions don’t often occur in the same place twice. Clynne said he believes Lassen Peak’s 1915 eruptions were “accidental,” in that “some new batch of magma used an old conduit to get to the surface,” and explained it’s

1915 eruption, and likely wouldn’t be affected by future eruptions from the area: “Chico is kind of like Portland is to Mount St. Helens,” Clynne said. “It’s too far away and in the wrong direction.”

News reports from 1915 confirm that Chico was unscathed, but got a good show. In a front-page roundup of information from various points in the North State following the big eruption, the thenChico Enterprise reported, “Saturday afternoon’s eruption was seen by thousands of Chico people and many of them saw flames shoot from the mountain after nightfall … The Esplanade was crowded with autos and other vehicles and everybody who could got out where they could get a good view of the volcano in action.”

But what about all the volcanic rocks littering our area, which many people assume—or have heard through local lore—came from Lassen Peak a century ago, or from more ancient eruptions at Mount Tehama?

Todd Jesse, a guide at Lassen Volcanic National Park, will lead some of the special tours offered during the anniversary of Lassen Peak’s last eruption.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

An undeniably positive effect of the 1915 eruption was

the attention it brought to the region. For a time, Lassen Peak was America’s most famous mountain and only known active volcano, which helped it to become one of the first areas designated as a national park in August 1916, a week before an act of Congress established the National Park Service (Teddy Roosevelt had declared Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone as national monuments earlier, in 1907).

Lassen Volcanic National Park is not just celebrating the eruption’s centennial, but gearing up to join nationwide centennial celebrations throughout the park system in 2016.

The volcano-loving Teasdale is quick to extoll Lassen park’s many virtues when asked about her favorite features.

“The coolest thing about the park is its diversity,” she said. “I love going to the Devastated Area and seeing how it’s changed in just 100 years. That’s fascinating to me; not just the devastation, but the regrowth. I love being up on top of Lassen Peak because the surrounding area is so spectacular from the top. I also really like the Cinder Cone area, because most of my research is on basalt lava flows like the kind found there. I’m attracted to that area for scientific reasons, and it’s also an exciting place to bring students so they can see the result of a [relatively] recent eruption and visualize what it was like when it erupted.

“Sulphur Works and Bumpass Hell are great reminders that there’s still hot magma in the subsurface below the Lassen Volcanic Center as you can see the groundwater heated up and coming through steaming mud pits and fumaroles. Ω “Can I say it’s all my favorite?”

Volcanic diversity Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to more than one volcano

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eologists classify volcanoes into four major types, all of which can be found at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Lassen Peak is one of the largest plug dome volcanoes in the world. Plug domes are formed by lava too viscous to flow far, so it piles up around a vent and the resulting peak grows from within. As the inside grows, the outside surface shatters and fragments flow to the volcano’s sides.

Composite volcanoes are also sometimes known as stratovolcanoes, and are generally steepsided, roughly symmetrical, and huge. Though there are no standing composite volcanoes in the Lassen area today (the nearest is Mount Shasta), 11,000foot Mount Tehama dominated the region millions of years ago. The park’s Brokeoff Mountain was once part of Mount Tehama.

Shield volcanoes are built by thousands of flat lava flows that build up like layers of paint, creating a broad, gently sloping peak. Lassen park’s Prospect Peak is a shield volcano.

Cinder cones are built by light lava particles ejected high into the air from a single vent, then falling back down to pile on top of each other. Cinder Cone at Lassen Volcanic National Park was formed by an eruption about 350 years ago.

—Ken Smith

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and first-hand accounts of the eruptions from Lassen area residents, compiling them into a book alternately titled The Pictorial History of the Lassen Volcano or Eruptions of Lassen Peak and originally published in 1926.

Property damage resulting from the May 19 and 22 eruptions totaled about $5,000 (about $116,199 today). In addition to damaged or destroyed homes and farms, roads and bridges were washed out. No cattle were actually lost—just a couple of chickens, according to Loomis’ sources. No one was killed, although there were close calls as adventurers and sightseers explored the park before and after the late-May climactic eruptions. Loomis’ book includes an article from another Redding newspaper, the Shasta Courier, relating how a young man named Lance Graham was hit in the head by a rock flung from the crater while hiking Lassen Peak during a small eruption. He was temporarily paralyzed and unable to speak as his friends—believing he was dead—dragged him back down the mountain.

Though no one was killed and loss of property was minimal, damage to the natural environment was significant. The lead ranger at the time reported the loss of 5 million feet of timber. A pair of reporters from the Stockton Record observed the May 22 eruption from outside Lincoln (150 miles away) en route to Lassen, and spent a few days touring and reporting actual damages, led for some time by Loomis. Observing the damage in the Lost Creek area, a few miles north of the volcano, they wrote, “We saw sufficient examples of wreck and ruin to make one lie awake at night for weeks.

“We hardly expect every Record reader to believe all this story. You can’t believe it unless you see it.”

EFFECTS OF LASSEN PEAK’S MAY 1915 ERUPTIONS EXPLANATION May 22, 1915, deposits Pyroclastic flow and related lahars May 19–20, 1915, depositss me Lava flows and dome

Area of map Limit of May 22, 1915, lahar

Avalanche and lahar har Lassen Peak lava dome 27,000 years old Tree blow-down limits May 22, 1915 May 19–20, 1915

Approximate limit of May 19–20, 1915, lahar

Rachel Teasdale teaches volcanology at Chico State, and last semester charged her students with preparing public presentations on the history and geology of Lassen Volcanic National Park to commemorate 100 years since the latest eruption. One of her pet peeves is the use of the term “Mount Lassen”—the volcano’s official name is Lassen Peak.

By modern estimations, the 1915 eruption was relatively

small in the scheme of volcanic activity, according to Michael A. Clynne, a geologist with the U.S. Geological Survey based in Menlo Park. Clynne’s career as a geologist began as a field assistant in Lassen park in 1976, and he spent eight to 10 weeks there annually for more than a decade. Clynne’s not just an expert on the Lassen area and its volcanic history; he’s the expert who writes USGS fact sheets about Lassen Volcanic National Park and the surrounding areas.

“In terms of most modern eruptions that anyone would pay much attention to, it was tiny,” Clynne said in a recent phone interview. “We typically measure the size of eruptions by the amount of material that was erupted. In 1915, that volume was .03 cubic kilometers, whereas Mount St. Helens was about a cubic kilometer or so … 30 to 50 times bigger. There have been big eruptions in the past, but 1915 wasn’t that big.”

Other recent eruptions in the Lassen region happened at Chaos Crags about 1,100 years ago, and Cinder Cone in 1666, according to radiocarbon dating on a tree killed by lava from that blast. Lassen Peak itself was formed when it initially exploded about 27,000 years ago, Clynne said.

The whole Lassen area is on the base of a much larger, now eroded stratovolcano active between 700,000 and 385,000 years ago called Mount Tehama, which Clynne estimates was about one-quarter the size of Mount Shasta; remnants of Mount Tehama include Brokeoff Mountain, Pilot Pinnacle, Mount Diller and Mount Conrad.

Piecing together this history is how geologists predict future volcanic activity, Clynne explained: “The Lassen volcanic center is active and will erupt again; it’s just a matter of time. If you want to look at that statistically, over the last 100,000 years the center has had an eruption about every 7,500 years. But, there have been three eruptions in the last 1,100 years, so you clearly can’t use that average.

Also, eruptions tend to occur in episodes.

“I like to compare volcanoes to people,” Clynne further explained. “Everyone has a different personality, and you can think of volcanoes that way. How we learn about their personalities is to study their eruptive history. It gives us a 22

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The Lassen Peak Eruption Celebration runs from May 22-25 and features several special presentations by park personnel and USGS scientists, including Clynne. For a full event schedule, go to

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

Approximate limit of May 19 avalanche

“Hot Rock”

much more likely for an eruption to occur in a new place, perhaps even from an area that the general public doesn’t recognize as a volcanic threat.

“The area between the southern valley of Lassen park up to the Pit River, where Burney is, virtually every mountain in that area is a volcano,” Clynne said. “The entire surface of the land is covered with volcanic rocks 2 or 3 kilometers thick. They’re mostly what we call monogenetic, meaning they erupt only once and they’re done, but there are certain areas that have had more young eruptions and will likely produce new volcanoes.”

Predicting eruptions is far from an exact science, but Clynne said his best guesses for new eruptions would be in the north end of the Caribou Wilderness (east of the Lassen Volcanic Center) or near Tumble Buttes (midway between Lassen Peak and Burney).

“That’s a common misperception, and I emphasize the ‘miss,’” said Rachel Teasdale, a volcanology professor at Chico State. I heard that when I first moved here and thought, www.nps.gov/lavo/ ‘Gosh, that doesn’t seem plausible.’” planyourvisit/centennial.htm.

Teasdale specializes in research regarding the cooling and crystallization of lava flows, work that has taken her around the world to witness several volcanic eruptions. She recalled the most exciting of these was a 1998 trip to Volcán Cerro Azul in the Galápagos Islands.

“It was one of those cases when [the eruption] built a brand new cone that wasn’t there before, and the eruption wasn’t predicted; it just happened,” she recalled. “I jumped Wildlife in the park includes black bears, bald eagles and mountain lions. on a plane, then a boat, and another boat and so forth, and it Those animals are elusive and rarely seen, but Steller’s jays and golden-mantled ground squirrels in the park’s picnic areas aren’t at all shy. was quite an adventure just to get down there. Then I hiked PHOTO BY KEN SMITH in to see the eruption happening—lots of cinders being launched into the air, fire fountaining, active lava flows—it localities might not be as fortunate if an eruption of similar was spectacular visually, and the adventure aspect was very cool, and it turned into some interesting research, so that trip magnitude occurred in the Lassen region today. As Clynne and USGS colleague Patrick Muffler summarize in the current had all the aspects of why I’m a volcanologist.”

Lassen park newsletter, bridges and roadways could be cut off Chico sits at the western end of the Tuscan Formation, and compromised, as could local water supplies and hydroTeasdale explained, which is the eroded bones of yet another electric facilities. Additionally, railways likely would be cut ancient stratovolcano active millions of years ago called off, and commercial flight traffic could likely be affected by Mount Yana. She said Mount Yana stood roughly where smoke and ash. Another hazard would be wildfires.

Highways 32 and 36 meet today, and was “likely similar in “It would be significantly different if such an eruption size to what Mount Shasta is now, plus or minus a lot … occurred now,” said Todd Jesse, a Lassen park guide. “Back there’s a lot of room for error when all you have is erosional remains.” Though sometimes mistakenly called “the lava cap,” in the day, Northern California wasn’t nearly as populated; there were really only a couple of people around here.” the formation is not made from solidified lava, but rather from However, Clynne also predicted that the study of volcadebris flow from Mount Yana’s eons-long breakdown. noes has advanced so far that they would have weeks’ or “You can see intact debris flows in the buttes or ridges months’ notice before a significant explosion. Geothermal along Highway 32 or in Upper Park. In some places, the areas within the park are monitored for the release of finer grain materials—sediments between boulders—flowed increased volcanic gasses that would herald an eruption, and away but there wasn’t enough water to move the bigger GPS ground-tracking technology is sophisticated enough to rocks and boulders. They got stranded, so we call them detect slight movements in the earth’s surface that would ‘stranded boulders.’ So they were never launched up into indicate magma swelling underground. the air to fly great distances; they just kind of rolled and “We’d have plenty of notice to evacuate people safely,” tumbled to where they are now.” he said, noting that even the 1915 eruption was preceded by a year of lesser activity. “Even the casualties from Mount St. So Chico likely would be safe from an eruption near Helens were from people who were in places they weren’t Lassen, and hasn’t been affected by volcanic activity in the supposed to be.” past several million years, but the experts agree that other

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very good idea of what to expect when the next eruption happens or is impending, but we’re not always right on that because, like people, volcanoes can do new stuff. But they’re much more likely to do something they’ve done in the past than they are to do something new.”

Part of the area’s volcanic personality is that eruptions don’t often occur in the same place twice. Clynne said he believes Lassen Peak’s 1915 eruptions were “accidental,” in that “some new batch of magma used an old conduit to get to the surface,” and explained it’s

1915 eruption, and likely wouldn’t be affected by future eruptions from the area: “Chico is kind of like Portland is to Mount St. Helens,” Clynne said. “It’s too far away and in the wrong direction.”

News reports from 1915 confirm that Chico was unscathed, but got a good show. In a front-page roundup of information from various points in the North State following the big eruption, the thenChico Enterprise reported, “Saturday afternoon’s eruption was seen by thousands of Chico people and many of them saw flames shoot from the mountain after nightfall … The Esplanade was crowded with autos and other vehicles and everybody who could got out where they could get a good view of the volcano in action.”

But what about all the volcanic rocks littering our area, which many people assume—or have heard through local lore—came from Lassen Peak a century ago, or from more ancient eruptions at Mount Tehama?

Todd Jesse, a guide at Lassen Volcanic National Park, will lead some of the special tours offered during the anniversary of Lassen Peak’s last eruption.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

An undeniably positive effect of the 1915 eruption was

the attention it brought to the region. For a time, Lassen Peak was America’s most famous mountain and only known active volcano, which helped it to become one of the first areas designated as a national park in August 1916, a week before an act of Congress established the National Park Service (Teddy Roosevelt had declared Lassen Peak and Cinder Cone as national monuments earlier, in 1907).

Lassen Volcanic National Park is not just celebrating the eruption’s centennial, but gearing up to join nationwide centennial celebrations throughout the park system in 2016.

The volcano-loving Teasdale is quick to extoll Lassen park’s many virtues when asked about her favorite features.

“The coolest thing about the park is its diversity,” she said. “I love going to the Devastated Area and seeing how it’s changed in just 100 years. That’s fascinating to me; not just the devastation, but the regrowth. I love being up on top of Lassen Peak because the surrounding area is so spectacular from the top. I also really like the Cinder Cone area, because most of my research is on basalt lava flows like the kind found there. I’m attracted to that area for scientific reasons, and it’s also an exciting place to bring students so they can see the result of a [relatively] recent eruption and visualize what it was like when it erupted.

“Sulphur Works and Bumpass Hell are great reminders that there’s still hot magma in the subsurface below the Lassen Volcanic Center as you can see the groundwater heated up and coming through steaming mud pits and fumaroles. Ω “Can I say it’s all my favorite?”

Volcanic diversity Lassen Volcanic National Park is home to more than one volcano

G

eologists classify volcanoes into four major types, all of which can be found at Lassen Volcanic National Park.

Lassen Peak is one of the largest plug dome volcanoes in the world. Plug domes are formed by lava too viscous to flow far, so it piles up around a vent and the resulting peak grows from within. As the inside grows, the outside surface shatters and fragments flow to the volcano’s sides.

Composite volcanoes are also sometimes known as stratovolcanoes, and are generally steepsided, roughly symmetrical, and huge. Though there are no standing composite volcanoes in the Lassen area today (the nearest is Mount Shasta), 11,000foot Mount Tehama dominated the region millions of years ago. The park’s Brokeoff Mountain was once part of Mount Tehama.

Shield volcanoes are built by thousands of flat lava flows that build up like layers of paint, creating a broad, gently sloping peak. Lassen park’s Prospect Peak is a shield volcano.

Cinder cones are built by light lava particles ejected high into the air from a single vent, then falling back down to pile on top of each other. Cinder Cone at Lassen Volcanic National Park was formed by an eruption about 350 years ago.

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Arts & Culture Triple Threat director Samantha Perry and the young cast of The Princess Bride (clockwise from left): Perry, Soleil Goodlife (Buttercup), Cecelia Mahar (Westley), Nathan Starkey (grandpa) and Chloe Starkey (granddaughter).

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Stage rats

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Boys & Girls Club program offers kids a chance to dance, act and sing

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amantha Perry is a force of nature. Gregarious Sa reputation and good-humored with a deep, ready laugh and as a local actress who throws her all

into big roles (e.g., Nancy Spungen in Sid and Nancy), she seems to have the ideal personality for running a by Carey Wilson children’s theater troupe. And luckily for Chico’s youth and the community at large, that’s exactly what she does.

Three years ago, Perry—a PREVIEW: 25-year veteran of local theater— The Boys & Girls Club presents The created the Triple Threat theater Princess Bride , arts program at the Chico Boys & ThursdayGirls Club, the nonprofit organiSaturday, zation that is, as the organizaMay 21-23, 7 p.m. tion’s website says, “dedicated to Suggested donation: $1-$6 ensuring that all young people in the community [have] access to a Boys & Girls Club safe and positive place to go in 601 Wall St. the critical after-school hours.”

899-0335 And the club’s 40,000-squarefoot downtown campus has plenty of available space for staging indoor or outdoor theater events and provides an ideal setting and support system for Perry’s theater arts program.

“Triple threat” is a theater colloquialism for a performer who can sing, dance and act, and Perry’s program is designed to reach young people at an age when they can develop the confidence and skills necessary to be proficient at all three.

As Perry put it during a recent rehearsal with the kids for an upcoming theatrical adaptation of The Princess Bride, “My mission was to create a theater department for the Boys & Girls Club that would: a) be recognized as a cool children’s theater, and b) have the ability to fund itself through the next year by presenting a finished production to the community that we could request donations to attend.

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board members as sort of a ‘pipe-dream,’” Perry said, adding that after a few years of fine-tuning, the mission has been realized.

“The first year I didn’t really know what I was doing, and we staged The Wizard of Oz. I thought it was cute, and it went over well, but I realized I really didn’t want to do things that every other children’s theater group does, so last year we adapted Star Wars, and it was a huge success—despite the weather!” Perry said, laughing. “We’d planned everything for an outdoor presentation, but on the day of the show, Chico got the biggest hailstorm of the year, and I had to rush to the club at 8 in the morning and build an indoor set, that day! We still had 200 people in the audience and ended up turning people away.”

Sitting in the sunny outdoor play area at the club with Perry, co-director/co-adaptor Steven McKeever and stage manager Emily Adams, and observing The Princess Bride cast “running lines” and rehearsing fencing moves, it became obvious that this troupe of 25 enthusiastic actors (ages 6–12) was getting a lot out of the experience.

“A great ‘side-effect’ of the program is that is has helped so many kids break out of their shells and become better students in general,” said Perry.

Ten-year-old Cecelia Mahar, who will play the part of Westley (aka, the Man in Black, etc.), explained that the program has helped her blossom.

“I’ve always had sort of a silly personality and Sam and the other directors have helped me bring out that fun side and make it something good instead of something I have to hold back.”

Her friend Isabel Aranza, 12 (playing master swordsman Inigo Montoya)—who Perry said “was incredibly shy when I first met her”—chimed in: “Now I actually speak up in class rather than be a mouse,” she said with a giggle. “And I’m more outgoing than I was before.”

The Triple Threat program is open to all Boys & Girls Club members. Sign-ups are at the beginning of each school year. Ω

tainment, livestock and some of the most glorious edibles in the frialated tradition.

See website for gate hours. 5/21-5/25. $2$25. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farm-fresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment from Hype Dance Studio, hula-hooper Meg Amor and musician Kyle Williams. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free.

Downtown Chico, Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/events.

Theater THE PRINCESS BRIDE: Join the kids of the Boys & Girls Club for a story of fencing, fighting, revenge, giants, monsters, chases, escapes, true love and miracles. 5/21-5/23, 7pm. $1-$6. Boys & Girls Club, 601 Wall St., (530) 899-0335, www.bgcanorthvalley.org/chico.php.

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAN: The classic flick

Casablanca is adapted for the stage for a cast of Chico characters. Directed by Amber Miller. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 5/23.

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

Poetry/Literature POETRY READING: Shared words and refreshments. Th, 5/21, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

22FRI Special Events FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local acts. This week: classic rock and country from the 1980s through today with Off The Record. F, 7pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

HARVEY MILK DAY: Stonewall Alliance and local organizations host a celebration for the Late Harvey Milk, with informational booths, readings, a performance from Slow Theatre and a proclamation by councilwoman Tami Ritter. F, 5/22, 5:30pm. Free.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., (530) 343-1497.

MERITOR CHAMPTRUCK WORLD SERIES: ChampTruck brings semi-truck racing,

SHERWOODSTOCK MUSIC FESTIVAL Saturday, May 23 End of Normal

SEE SATURDAY, MUSIC

MaMuse

FINE ARTS

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR drifting big rigs, activities for the kids, live

music to Willows. F, 5/22, 9am-5:30pm, Sa, 5/23, 8am-5:45pm, Su, 5/24, 8am-5:15pm. Prices

Thursday-Monday, May 21-25 Silver Dollar Fairgrounds

SEE THURSDAY-MONDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Art

vary. Check site for details. Thunderhill Raceway Park, 5250 Hwy.162 in Willows, (530) 559-2554, http://champtruck.us.com.

1078 GALLERY: Another

Light- A Retrospective, landscape/figurative painter and conceptual artist Richard Whitehead showcases a retrospective of his work dating back to 1976. Through 5/30.

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

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

Theater THE PRINCESS BRIDE: See Thursday. Boys & Girls Club, 601 Wall St., (530) 899-0335, www.bgcanorthvalley.org/chico.php.

AONOMI SUSTAINABLE SUSHI: Tokyo to

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAN: See Thursday. Blue

Kamakura, From Fish To Buddha, photographer Gary Quiring exhibits works from travels through Japan.

Through 5/30. 1008 West Sacramento Ave.

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

SLEEPING BEAUTY BALLET: Presented by Northern California Ballet, with guest dancers Danielle Tolmie and Mark Tucker from the Eugene Ballet. F, 5/22, 7:15pm, Sa, 5/23, 2 & 7:15pm. $12-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

23SAT Special Events MERITOR CHAMPTRUCK WORLD SERIES: See Friday. Thunderhill Raceway Park, 5250 Hwy.162 in Willows, (530) 559-2554, http://champtruck.us.com.

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

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Theater

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Silver Dollar

THE PRINCESS BRIDE: See Thursday. Boys &

Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.silverdollarfair.org.

Girls Club, 601 Wall St., (530) 899-0335, www.bgcanorthvalley.org/chico.php.

RICK’S CAFE AMERICAN: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

SLEEPING BEAUTY BALLET: See Friday. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: New Works, artist

Music BLUES & BREWS FESTIVAL: A day-long celebration of live music from Rod Piazza & The Mighty Fliers, Royal Southern Brotherhood, The Growlers featuring Big Mo, plus craft beer from the Feather Falls brewery. Su, 5/24, 1pm. $30. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

THE STEVEN COLDBEER REPORT: Local come-

dian/actor Steve Swim and comedian Jerm Leather host an hour of open-mic comedy followed by a talk-show format show. Sa, 5/23, 5:30-8pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 8931891, www.lasallesbar.com.

SLEEPING BEAUTY BALLET

Friday-Saturday, May 22-23 Paradise Performing Arts Center SEE FRIDAY-SATURDAY, THEATER

Music FISHBONE: The highenergy ska/funk/rock fusion of the legendary Fishbone. The Funkanauts open. Sa, 5/23, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

SHERWOODSTOCK: A music-festival benefit for Sherwood Montessori featuring performances by MaMuse, Bogg, Wolfthump, and Jeanette & The Guise. Sa, 5/23, 4-8pm. $5-$20 (kids under 5 free), available at website. 2500 Estes Rd., www.sherwoodstock.org.

Art Receptions IFL MAKER SHOWCASE: Students, engineers,

artists, scientists, builders, crafters and all variety of makers are invited to participate in this year’s maker showcase. Sa, 5/23, 1-6pm.

Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St., (530) 592-0609.

24SUN Special Events MERITOR CHAMPTRUCK WORLD SERIES: See Friday. Thunderhill Raceway Park, 5250 Hwy.162 in Willows, (530) 559-2554, http://champtruck.us.com.

New Works, Ernest King showcases landscapes and abstract paintings. Through 6/1.

501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

25MON Special Events MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATIONS: A day of honoring our military with presentations, speeches, readings and entertainment from the Chico Community Band. 10am at Chico Cemetery (881 Mangrove Ave.); 2pm at Glen Oaks Memorial Park (11115 Midway). (530) 345-7243.

Chuck Barth exhibits new prints and paintings that tell stories of the personalities and history of Mexico. Through 6/30. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

THE LANTERN: New Works, artist Rod Caudill showcases mixed-media assemblage and collage. Through 5/31. 642 W. Fifth St.

WINCHESTER GOOSE: Still Alchemy, new works

from artist Johnny Dutro. Through 5/31. 800 Broadway St., (530) 715-0099, www.thewin chestergoose.com.

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. Through 7/1. Artists of River Town Gallery & Gifts, 1435 Myers St.

in Oroville, (530) 533-4140, http://artistofrivertown.com.

NATIONAL ALL MEDIA JURIED EXHIBITION: Chico Art Center host a national all-media juried art exhibition. See website for full prospectus. Through 6/1. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.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.bidwellpark.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. Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

LOTT HOME IN SANK PARK: Woodcarvers

Exhibit, New works from the Woodcarvers club on display. Ongoing. 1067 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Leaping Lemurs and Mysterious Crimes: On The Trail of Physical Anthropology, The human journey from our African roots to modern humans through the eyes of physical anthropology. Ongoing. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

26TUES Special Events PICNIC IN THE PLAZA: Bring a lunch or grab a 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.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 34

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NOT NECESSARILY THE NEWS As the CN&R has been reporting for some time now, our fair city is in the grips of a stand-up comedy renaissance. Now, one of that scene’s primary movers and shakers, Steve Swim, is elevating local comeEDITOR’S PICK dy to the next level with the cleverly named The Steven Coldbeer Report at LaSalles, Saturday, May 23. The first hour of the event will be a showcase-style open mic, followed by two hours of a talk-show format comedy show featuring other local funny folk, including co-host Jerm Leathers as well as “foreign correspondent” and once-local dude DNA.

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

BINGO: Proceeds donated to nonprofit. Su, 4pm. $15. Paradise Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-3977.

BUTTE COUNTY BUTTERFLIES AND THEIR HOST PLANT AFFINITIES: Don Miller, entomologist at Chico State will offer an introduction to the biology of butterflies. An optional field trip to observe and identify butterflies in select habitats will be held the following day. 5/21-5/22, 9am-5pm. $100. University Herbarium, 129 Holt Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5356.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library’s weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 8912762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

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COMMUNITY SERVICE LUNCHEON: A benefit for the Oroville YMCA to recognize volunteers from the community. Th, 5/21, 11:30am-1:30pm. $25/person; $200/table. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

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

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

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

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 1-4pm.

Free. Call for location, (530) 518-8422.

GARDEN PLANTS FOR U.S. VETERANS: A Memorial Day plant give-away to veterans and their families who visit the garden. M, 5/25, 9amnoon. Free. BEC Community Garden, Humboldt & El Monte Rds Across the street from Marsh Jr. High, (530) 588-2465.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: All levels wel-

come. No partner needed. F, 7:30pm. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

THE MEANDERING MIDDLE: Join Butte Environmental Council for a scientific exploration of Big Chico Creek. Registration required. Su, 5/24, 9am-noon. Call or visit website for details, Chico, (530) 891-6424, www.becnet.org.

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

Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. in Paradise, 8727085.

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

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

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

SOUTH SIDE WEDNESDAY FARMERS MARKET: A year-round Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthful-lifestyle promotion and education. W, 2-6pm. Jesus Center Community Farm, 435 W. 16th St.

SQUARE-DANCE CLUB: Learn to square dance with the Chico Diamond Square Dance Club.

No partner necessary, dress casual. M, 6:30pm. Opens 5/18. $3. Little Chico Creek Elementary School, 2090 Amanda Way.

SQUARE-DANCE CLUB: Square-dancing classes for beginners and advanced-level dancers.

Call for more info. Th, 7-10pm. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1962.

STUDENT MARKET: The Organic Vegetable Project returns with local and seasonal produce, a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetable starts. F, 12-4pm. University Farm, University Farm Rd.

TOASTMASTERS: Improve communication and leadership skills through public speaking and networking. W,12:15pm. Free. Cal Northern School Of Law, 1395 Ridgewood Dr., (530) 891-6900.

WORLD DANCE CLASS: Learn line, circle and couple dances from around the world. Youth and adult class offered. Scholarships available via instructor. No partner needed. Th, 6-7 & 78:30pm. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 566-6711.

For Kids CHILDREN STORY TIME SERIES: Reading events

sponsored by Lyon Books. Every other Th, 3pm.

Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762,www.lyonbook.com.

LEGO CLUB FOR KIDS & TEENS: Come build with 15 pounds of LEGO bricks. Create your own

masterpiece or try one of their challenges. Th, 3-5pm through 5/28. Free. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 538-7642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

THE TOY VAN: Bringing all kinds of preschool age appropriate toys and games for your little ones. Borrow the toys for four weeks and return when the toy van visits again. Third Th of every month, 3-4pm. Free. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 538-7642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

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

DOCENT VOLUNTEERS: Bud and Laila Bolt are seeking additional docent helpers to keep the museum going. No experience necessary.

Ongoing. Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, 1650 Broderick St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497, www.boltsantiquetools.com.

PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum. Call or email for more info. Ongoing.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 514-3903.

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Putting Down Roots Nancy Wright Direct Hit Records Tiring, perhaps, after some 30 years of accompanying (and recording with) a wide variety of singers such as “Swamp Boogie Queen” Katie Webster, Elvin Bishop, Joe Louis Walker, Bonnie Raitt, Tommy Castro and many, many others, Bay Area tenor saxophonist Nancy Wright has finally stepped mic-side on Putting Down Roots, a collection of 12 self-penned songs, half of which feature her singing. I have to say right off that this surprised me: Nancy sings? Well, yes. However, for me her vocalizing is an acquired taste. The peppy “Well I’m Travelin’” (“My baby left me and I’m so alone”), is the only blues on the disc and her singing here and on “Seems I Still Love You” veers into country-music territory. What’s her sax playing like? Still in the groove? You bet! Her big-toned tenor is very much on display throughout, especially on the relaxed “Grooving Easy.” Things get jacked up on “Boogie for JL,” a mostly one-chord drone in honor of John Lee Hooker that features a driving solo by guitarist Anthony Paule and a wild, growly solo by Wright. The music runs the gamut from the atmospheric funk of “The Big Queen” to the soulful bliss of “Sanctity in Blue.” I do wonder, though, why there are so many fade-outs.

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Restarter Torche Relapse Records Unlike most of the sludge bands that feature indiscernible vocals and often choose feedback over harmony, Miami’s Torche has proven that melody-fueled optimism can be coupled with heavy riffage without losing any ferocity. Restarter is the band’s first for boundary-breaking Relapse Records, and on it the band dials back a tiny bit on the pop its been polishing on the last couple of albums and adds a bit more downtuned heaviness. Even so, beginning with the very heavy and groovy “Annihilation Affair,” which sounds reminiscent of the more melodic moments of doom-metalers Pallbearer and Yob, the band shows it hasn’t completely abandoned its pop sensibilities. “Loose Men” almost sounds like a rock single, with its catchy guitar returns and Queens of the Stone Age-esquer groove.

And “Undone” could be dropped into a Mastodon set without fans being any wiser. Is Restarter the band’s best album yet? That’s debatable. In 2008, nothing touched Meanderthal, and the album still stands tall. But Restarter is superb as well; one of the best releases of 2015 so far.

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Moodswings Ships Have Sailed Self-released With the under-the-radar release of last year’s debut EP, Someday, Ships Have Sailed frontman Will Carpenter gave us a taste of what was to come, and on Moodswings, Carpenter and company have fully delivered on that promise. There is a lot to like here, whether you favor hooks that bring to mind the early work of The Killers (e.g., dance-inducing “Boomerang”), or rock tracks that are perfectly named to be one of your favorite seasonal anthems (“Summertime”). Carpenter, who is best known for his work as a guitarist and backup vocalist for the hiphop/rock outfit 7Lions, also knows his way around a good lyric when he sings “If only I could find a way/to make you take back your goodbye” on “If Only.” The band isn’t afraid of going in a variety of directions, either, from the bouncy, echoing “Out of Time” to the more brooding, apocalyptic “The Tide.” Moodswings ends up being an engaging exercise in counterbalances—euphoric one moment, thoughtful the next (particularly on highlight track “Insomnia”). What a treat.

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Bigfoot expedition

Side by side: Sierra Nevada’s Bigfoot barleywine from 1987 (left) as compared with the 2015 vintage.

Capturing a 28-year-old barleywine

M “At a yard sale, we got a bottle of 1987 Sierra Nevada Bigfoot Ale for 2 bucks!”

y mom sent me a text a few months ago that read:

If you’re a beer geek like I am, right now you’re probably reacting with some of the story and same choice curses that I excitedly photo by blurted upon first reading that most Jason Cassidy unexpected message. Not only is j aso nc @ Bigfoot a favorite among craft-beer new srev i ew. c o m lovers, but it’s also one of the most commonly collected beers for cellaring. So, even though chances for the contents of a 28-year-old bottle of beer with unknown provenance surviving with any of its goodness intact were probably slim, a Bigfoot so rare is still a whale of a find.

Best of all, my folks were kind enough to give me the bottle, and I reached out to my beer-dude inner circle to plan a tasting/unveiling. Finally, last Sunday (May 17), we cracked open the 12-ounce time capsule.

Barleywine ale is so named because its higher level of alcohol (in the 10 percent ABV range) approaches that of wine (12 percent to 14 percent ABV). It gets that extra alcohol by upping the malted barley levels to ridiculous proportions, and boiling the wort for much longer to extract huge amounts of fermentable sugars.

When I called Steve Dresler, Sierra Nevada’s longtime brewmaster, to tell him about my Bigfoot find and ask him about the beer that he’s been involved with since joining the brewery in 1983 (“I drank one my first day on the job,” he quipped), he said the grain bill for Bigfoot is about 60 percent bigger than that of the brewery’s flagship Pale Ale. “It’s a very time-consuming beer,” he said, adding that the 2 1/2 hours our so that it takes to boil all that grain contributes greatly to the finished product. “That long simmer with those caramel malts in there … It’s kind of like caramelizing sugar when you’re making candy.”

Of course, the American-style barleywine goes crazy with hops as well, and a new bottle of Bigfoot boasts a whopping IBU (International Bittering Units) measurement of 90. Add that flavor punch to the strong malt backbone, with its caramelized/fruity sweetness and touch of alcohol warmth, and you get a huge, complex-tasting beer.

But what many folks get most excited about with

Bigfoot is what happens to those flavors over time.

While most styles of beer are best enjoyed fresh (hop flavors, especially, fade rapidly as oxidation creeps in), Bigfoot matures with age. We had both a 2015 and 2014 on the table Sunday, and the two beers were markedly different. Just one year of aging had diminished the initial citrus hop bite and aroma significantly, and the beginnings of a fuller, fudgy body were starting to form, with a faint sherry and dried fruit richness rising up.

We also sampled a big bottle of this year’s barrelaged Bigfoot, and its year spent in an oak whiskey cask had expanded on those 2014 complexities to include hints of smoked whisky plus the wonderful coconut and vanilla notes that the label promises.

“I really like the flavor profile at, like, five years,” said Dresler when asked if there was a sweet spot for Bigfoot aging. “If you go between five and 10, what you end up with is diminished returns. Three to five years, the beer is absolutely delicious.”

Back in 1987, Sierra Nevada was just breaking ground

on the brewery’s current 20th Street location, meaning the bottle we were about to taste—with its sky-blue twistoff cap and the year printed on an oversized footprint on top—had been brewed in the old Gilman Way warehouse.

I slowly pried off the slightly worn cap and heard the faintest hiss of carbonation. Then the smell of prunes came on strong enough to be detected from across the table. Poured into a tasting glass side-byside with the 2015 Bigfoot, the 1987 was dramatically darker—an opaque dark brown vs. a clear reddish brown. Naturally, there was no real carbonation and no head to the ’87.

And the taste? Pretty good, actually. There were many of the sought-after flavor notes for an aged Bigfoot: raisins, dark chocolate and that intense caramelized sweetness that brings to mind sherry or port or even bourbon. We all agreed, however, that it was way too sweet for anything but sipping in very small portions, and there wasn’t much left to the body. But it was very gratifying to experience what so many years in the bottle had done to a beer for which time is often a critical ingredient.

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BASSMINT Every Friday night after Up next: Friday, dinner service, the basementMay 22, 9:30 p.m., Yheti (Ohio), Toadface dwelling Peking Chinese (Ohio), A.L.O. (Chico). Restaurant shuts down its dining Cost: $3 room and opens its swanky little low-ceilinged bar for the Peking Chinese Restaurant BassMint producers to pump up 243 W. Second St. the bass for Chico’s late-night www.facebook.com/ dance crowd. chicobassmint Launched in April 2012 by a couple of Chico music heads—Ayrian Dilts and Adam White—BassMint has since put on more than 150 electronic shows at Peking. Dilts has since backed out of the weekly grind, and the shows are now organized by White (his producer/DJ name is A.L.O.) and DJ Michael Liddle (aka Eyere Eyes), who both serve as resident DJs alongside Billy Hopkins (Billy the Robot) and Wyatt Smith (bIONIX).

On any given Friday, about 100 local electronic music fans head to the BassMint, and the scene down below is like a mini music festival. There’s always a wide range of fun lovers sweating along to the nostril-flaring bass—from dread-headed twirlers, to EDM fanatics, to an aging hip-hop head or two. It’s peaceful, the house projection/ light show is impressive, the dancing is good and the people-watching is even better, especially with a hot date with whom to share a cold beer or nigori while on the dance floor.

Though it’s always packed, BassMint is somewhat of a well-kept secret beyond the local electronic scene in Chico, but not so in the greater music community. Word that Chico is a worthy road stop has spread, and it’s become a popular destination for some of the hottest touring electronic producers and DJs.

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Roughly half of the shows feature visiting artists from around the country and beyond. On a recent Friday (April 30), up-and-coming L.A. producers Trevor Kelly and Party Wave brought bass-heavy sets of original music as they passed through on a West Coast tour. And last October, trippy Russian glitch-hopper Mindex came to town. “He did yoga and drank tea in the back to get ready for his set,” White recalled. “He was gold.”

White, 36, is a seasoned veteran of the local music scene. Originally a metalhead/punk-rocker, he played bass in his first Chico band when he was 15 and continued to rock until an accident nearly severed his fingers. He then tried his damaged hand at producing electronic music and has since produced 50 or so original tracks.

“The ability to do everything, and with sounds that aren’t organic, is really appealing,” White said.

Liddle, 37, started his music career hanging out at the Brick Works (where The Beach is now) in 1999 or so, when the nightclub had a vibrant electronic dance scene. He started deejaying and went on to help organize and help out with a number of DJ nights around town, including the Velour Lounge, which had a solid run of over two years on Panama Bar & Café’s back patio.

When asked about the notion of electronic music not being actual music, or that DJs aren’t musicians, White answered with a laugh: “In the ’90s, I was in rock bands and I thought it was a joke. I was a total dick.” Liddle chimed in: “I used to be that guy in high school. I played guitar ... But, they’re just different beasts. You can’t really compare them, in my mind.”

Having descended into the basement and encountered that robotic dragon, it’s not hard to understand what Liddle is talking about. The beast makes a huge and impressive sound, but it can also be creatively nuanced, deep and complex, and in the hands of the experienced BassMint DJs keep Ω the dance floor packed until 2 a.m.

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Joss Whedon was the wrong man for the gig.

The sequel begs for a darker tonal shift, a sort of The Empire Strikes Back for the Avengers series. Instead, the film is one of the year’s cinematic letdowns. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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Ex Machina

A remake of the 1982 horror flick about a suburban home invaded by angry spirits who abscond with a wee one through the TV screen. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Tomorrowland

An inventor and former boy-genius (George Clooney) and a teen girl (Britt Robertson) embark on a danger-filled mission to Tommorrowland. Directed and co-written by Brad Bird (Ratatouille, Mission: Impossible— Ghost Protocol) and named for the futuristic area of Walt Disney’s theme parks. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Now playing The Age of Adaline

A romantic-fantasy flick about a woman (played by Blake Lively) born at the turn of the 20th century who, after a mysterious accident, somehow stops aging. After years of living a solitary life, she meets a man for whom she might consider giving up immortality. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Age of Ultron is just flat. We get a bunch of scenes teasing future Marvel movies and, with the exception of an interesting smackdown between Iron Man and the Hulk, the cluttered action sequences feel repetitive. The Ultron of the movie’s title is a series of robots inhabited by an artificial-intelligence program initiated by Tony Stark/Iron Man (Robert Downey Jr.).

Stark, thinking he can create a security force that can protect the world and achieve “peace in our time,” gets a little ahead of himself and starts the program, only to discover that A.I. can sometimes mean Absolute Insanity. The program goes AWOL and produces the anti-human Ultron.

Voiced by James Spader, Ultron is a onenote villain out to destroy humanity who lacks the personality of other recent comicbook villains—e.g., Tom Hiddleston’s Loki from the first Avengers. Perhaps director

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Furious 7

In this seventh installment in the streetracing action series, they take the car stunts to the next level, like several levels, way up a skyscraper and out the window to jump a car from one high-rise to the next.

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Monkey Kingdom

The filmmakers behind Planet Earth follow a group of toque macaque monkeys as they struggle to survive in the jungle of Sri Lanka.

Cinemark 14. Rated G.

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Do me a favor When a young Arts DEVO first landed in Chico in 1989, he

pretty much had only one goal: see The Downsiders live. As it happened, the very day I arrived in town, the Chico-based four-piece was playing a free outdoor show at the Chico State Rose Garden (yes, you read that sentence correctly—a free show on campus … and in the evening!). I was right up front, that night and for every show thereafter.

The Downsiders definitely wore the influence of Sonic Youth on their collective sleeve as they dabbled in weird tunings and made plenty of noise. But when they weren’t knocking our socks off with their catchy up-tempo rock, the dudes’ sonic explorations leaned more toward epic stoneyness than squalls of feedback. And they always put on a hell of a show to huge, enthusiastic college/punk/hippie/indie crowds; no one more wide-eyed into it than yours truly. The band made me feel plugged into whatever power grid brought their massive tunes to life, and my buddy Dave (where the hell is Dave?!) and I worshipped the guys in the band. And, along with Sonic Youth, The Downsiders provided the loud, tuneful, wild blueprint for the noisy fun I would attempt to create in many of the bands I Cole Marquis of The Downsiders. played in during my time on local stages.

All these decades later, I still haven’t shaken my fanboyness. Even though I’m now friends on Facebook with former Downsiders guitarist/vocalist Cole Marquis (also of seminal 1980s Chico crew 28th Day), I have a hard time separating the memory of the hero from the man today.

All that aside, it’s on Facebook where I recently learned that Marquis— who lives in North Carolina now—suffered a spiral tear to his aorta this past April, had surgery to repair it, and thankfully seems to be on the road to a near full recovery. Of course, there are a lot of out-of-pocket expenses related to having one’s heart put back together, and a campaign has been launched to help Marquis cover some of his surgery-related expenses. If you have anything to spare and you want to help out one of my biggest heroes, visit www.youcaring.com and search: “Cole’s Hard Cash.”

DiD someone say noise? It’s been a long time (13 years!) since I’ve been in a regularly performing band in Chico. During my first decade in town I made some fun noise with a lot of friends in a half-dozen different crews. But just before moving on from working in kitchens to working behind a desk, I kind of just let the door shut. My noise-making spirit was exhausted, and I put the rest of my energies into working on other aspects of my life, mainly learning how to be a journalist.

I’ve still been playing music since then—written a bunch of songs, recorded an album of my mellower tunes with another band and done a handful of one-off bands/music projects (even a promising but very short-lived noisy band with former CN&R Arts Editor and A.D. BFFF Mark Lore)—and I’ve still been involved in putting on shows, and of course writing about the Chico music scene in these pages. But I haven’t gotten back to a regular, loud-music project—my favorite way to experience music—until now. For the past few months, I’ve been meeting with a trio of righteous dudes at a metal box out by the airport and having a blast woodshedding some dirty, loud goodness. We even have some shows scheduled for summer. (If you’re really interested, I’m sure you can figure out the details. It’s not fair for arts editors to hype their gigs in newspaper columns.)

And it’s been kind of a revelation to once again kick open the door to highvolume expression. The energy that I thought was maybe lost turned out to be just building up in there. And, come to find out, tapping into that reserve is a mighty weapon in beating back the stresses of life into manageable chunks. I didn’t realize how much I missed it. Here’s to second chances. (You might want to plug your ears.)

I think I’m ready.

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FOR THE WEEK OF MAY 21, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): James

McNeill Whistler was an influential painter in the latter half of the 19th century. He advocated the “art for art’s sake” credo, insisting that the best art doesn’t need to teach or moralize. As far as he was concerned, its most important purpose was to bring forth “glorious harmony” from chaos. But the immediate reason I’m nominating him to be your patron saint for the coming weeks is the stylized signature he created: an elegant butterfly with a long tail that was actually a stinger. I think you’ll thrive by embodying that dual spirit: being graceful, sensitive and harmonious and yet also feisty, piquant and provocative. Can you manage that much paradox? I think you can.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Re-

nowned author George Bernard Shaw was secure in his feeling that he did good work. He didn’t need the recognition of others to validate his self-worth. The British prime minister offered him a knighthood, but he refused it. When he found out he had been awarded a Nobel Prize for Literature, he wanted to turn it down but his wife convinced him to accept it. The English government also sought to give him the prestigious Order of Merit, but he rejected it, saying, “I have already conferred this order upon myself.” He’s your role model for right now, Taurus. Congratulate yourself for your successes, whether or not anyone else does.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Aha!”

is your mantra for the coming weeks, Gemini. Keep it on the tip of your tongue, ready to unleash. This always-readyto-be-surprised-by-inspiration attitude will train you to expect the arrival of wonders and marvels. And that will be an effective way to actually attract wonders and marvels! With “Aha!” as your talisman, all of your wake-up calls will be benevolent, and all of the chaos you encounter—or at least most of it— will be fertile.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Do you

chronically indulge in feelings of guilt? Do you berate yourself for the wrong turns and sad mistakes you made in the past?

These behaviors may be sneaky ways of avoiding change. How can you summon enough energy to transform your life if you’re wallowing in worries and regrets?

In presenting the possibility that you might be caught in this trap, I want you to know that I’m not sitting in judgment of you. Not at all. Like you, I’m a Cancerian, and I have periodically gotten bogged down in the very morass I’m warning you against. The bad news is that right now you are especially susceptible to falling under this spell. The good news is that right now you have extra power to break this spell.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the TV comedydrama Jane the Virgin, the fictional character known as Rogelio de la Vega is a vain but lovable actor who performs in telenovelas. “I’m very easy to dress,” he tells the wardrobe supervisor of a new show he’ll be working on. “Everything looks good on me. Except for peach. I don’t pop in peach.” What he means is that his charisma doesn’t radiate vividly when he’s wearing peach-colored clothes. Now I want to ask you, Leo: What don’t you pop in? I’m not simply talking about the color of clothes that enable you to shine, but everything else, too. In the coming weeks, it’s crucial that you surround yourself with influences that make you pop.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Are you will-

ing to entertain an outlandish possibility?

Here’s my vision: You will soon be offered unexpected assistance, either through the machinations of a “guardian angel” or the messy blessings of a shape-shifting spirit. This divine intervention will make it possible for you to demolish a big, bad obstacle you’ve been trying to find a way around. Even if you have trouble believing in the literal factuality of my prophecy, here’s what I suspect: It will at least come true in a metaphorical sense— which is the truest kind of truth of all.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Glory” is

the theme song of the film Selma. It’s an anthem about the ongoing struggle for equal rights by African-Americans. I want to borrow one of its lines for your use in the coming weeks: “Freedom is like a religion to us.” I think those will be good words for you to live by. Are you part of a group that suffers oppression and injustice? Are you mixed up in a situation that squashes your self-expression? Are you being squelched by the conditioned habits of your own unconscious mind? It’s high time to rebel. The quest for liberation should be your spiritual calling.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): If you’re

planning on breaking a taboo, sneaking into a forbidden zone, or getting intimate with an edge-dweller, don’t tell boastful stories about what you’re doing. For now, secrecy is not only sexy; it’s a smart way to keep you safe and effective. Usually I’m fond of you telling the whole truth. I like it when you reveal the nuanced depths of your feelings. But right now I favor a more cautious approach to communication. Until your explorations have progressed further, I suggest that you only discuss them sparingly. As you put your experiments in motion, share the details on a need-to-know basis.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): It’s

a challenge to drive a car through Canada’s far north. For example, if you want to get from Dawson in the Yukon Territory to Inuvik in the Northwest Territory, you take Dempster Highway. It’s gravel road for the entire 417-mile trip, so the ride is rough. Bring a spare tire and extra gasoline, since there’s just one service station along the way. On the plus side, the scenery is thrilling. The permafrost in the soil makes the trees grow in odd shapes, almost like they’re drunk. You can see caribou, wolverines, lynx, bears and countless birds. Right now, the sun is up 20 hours every day. And the tundra?

You’ve never seen anything like it. Even if you don’t make a trip like this, Capricorn, I’m guessing you will soon embark on a metaphorically similar version. With the right attitude and preparation, you will have fun and grow more courageous.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquarian author James Joyce wrote Ulysses, one of the most celebrated and influential novels of the 20th century. The narrative is both experimental and tightly structured. Its chaotic stream-of-consciousness passages are painstakingly crafted.

(Anyone who wonders how the astrological sign of Aquarius can be jointly ruled by the rebellious planet Uranus and the disciplinarian planet Saturn need only examine this book for evidence.) Joyce claimed he labored over Ulysses for 20,00 hours. That’s the equivalent of devoting eight hours a day, 350 days a year, for more than seven years. Will you ever work that hard and long on a project, Aquarius? If so, now would be an auspicious time to start.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The Eng-

lish writer and caricaturist Max Beerbohm moved away from his native land when he was 37 years old. He settled in Rapallo, Italy, where he lived for much of the rest of his life. Here’s the twist: When he died at age 83, he had still not learned to speak Italian. For 40 years, he used his native tongue in his foreign home. This is a failing you can’t afford to have in the coming months, Pisces. The old proverb “When in Rome, do as the Romans do,” has never been so important for you to observe.

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TIMOTHY CHRISTOPHER BRADFORD 355 East Lassen Ave Suite 38 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: T.C. BRADFORD Dated: April 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000520 Published: May 7,14,21,28, 2015

FICTITOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO CONSTRUCTION INC at 35 Jessica Way Cohasset, CA 95973.

CHICO CONSTRUCTION INC 35 Jessica Way Cohasset, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BOEGE LINGEMANN Dated: April 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000498 Published: May 7,14,21,28, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIVING TEMPLE MINISTRIES at 2921 Honey Run Rd #39 Chico, CA 95928.

NICHOLAS SALERNO III 2921 Honey Run Rd #39 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NICK SALERNO III Dated: April 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000470 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4,2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LOST DUTCHMAN BREW at 25 Lost Dutchman Brew Chico, CA 95973.

GAY GREGORY JAMES 4990 Rich Bar Road Chico, CA 95928.

ROBERT GLENN JAMES 4990 Rich Bar Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: ROBERT G. JAMES Dated: May 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000606 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4,2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RIPPLE WRAPS at 10669 Red Eye Road Yankee Hill, CA 95965.

JEFFERY TYLER FLETCHER 10669 Red Eye Road Yankee Hill, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JEFFERY FLETCHER Dated: May 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000599 Published: May 14,21,28 June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL STAR PLUMBING at 1767 Brinson Ln Durham, CA 95938.

JOHN SCHWEIGER 1767 Brinson Ln Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN SCHWEIGER Dated: May 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000597 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO METAL FAB at 2290 Ivy St Suite #160 Chico, CA 95928.

ERIK SCHROEDER 173 East Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

HANS P SCHROEDER 173 East Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: ERIK SCHROEDER Dated: May 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000592 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE COUNTY JANITORIAL at 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

CONNOR STANDLEY 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CONNOR STANDLEY Dated: May 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000580 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NOVA PRODUCTIONS at 967 Orient St Chico, CA 95928.

DANIEL NELSON 967 Orient St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL NELSON Dated: May 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000577 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT the following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name AUSSIE PET MOBILE NORTH VALLEY at 4 Vallombrosa Circle Chico, CA 95926.

2MK INC 4 Vallombrosa Circle Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: GREG FOUTZ, PRESIDENT Dated: April 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2012-0000200 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VILLA DEL SOL APARTMENTS

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at 630 West 2nd Street Chico, CA 95926.

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

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: PETE HALIMI, MANAGER Dated: April 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000497 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAC STONE COUNTERTOPS 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: May 8, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000611 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KONJO BOUTIQUE at 112 West 2nd St Chico, CA 95928.

RUTH LIEBENBERG 472 East 5th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

STEVE LIEBENBERG 472 East 5th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: STEVE LIEBENBERG Dated: May 7, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000609 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GEOLOGY ROCKS! AND MINERALS at 145 Sequoyah Ave Chico, CA 95926.

KASEY CARLOS VALLE 145 Sequoyah Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KASEY VALLE Dated: May 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000574 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PIXEL PLUIE at 286 E. Lassen Ave. Apt. #50 Chico, CA 95973.

MAISOUE YANG 286 E. Lassen Ave. Apt. #50 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MAISOUE YANG Dated: May 1, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000569 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LOCAL STYLE HAWAIIAN SHAVE ICE at 11 Montclair Drive Chico, CA 95926.

MELONIE JOY GALAGAR 11 Montclair Drive Chico, CA 95926.

GREGORY LEE ROYAT 11 Montclair Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: MELONIE J. GALAGAR Dated: May 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000640 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

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The following persons are doing business as FAMILY BUSINESS, MOM’S FAMILY BUSINESS, SACRED GROUNDS CAFE at 1692 Mangrove Ave #104 Chico, CA 95926.

AINDREA ROMER 1692 Mangrove Ave #104 Chico, CA 95926.

JASON CRAIG ROMER 1692 Mangrove Ave #104 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: AINDREA ROMER Dated: April 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000526 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SUNSHINE LAUNDRY at 1008 W. Sacramento Chico, CA 95926.

JAMES GOULARTE 6038 A Clark Ste 149 Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES GOULARTE Dated: March 24, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000396 Published: May 21,28, June 4,11, 2015

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARILYN KAYE CAMPBELL, also known as MARILYN K. CAMPBELL, also known as MARILYN CAMPBELL To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARILYN KAYE CAMPBELL, also known as MARILYN K. CAMPBELL, also known as MARILYN CAMPBELL A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MADELINE FULLERTON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MADELINE FULLERTON 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: June 4, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: CANDELA 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

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(1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

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

(530) 342-4524 Case Number: PR41405 Dated: April 30, 2015 Published: May 7,14,21, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ERNEST P. MAIA, JR., also known as ERNEST P. MAIA, ERNEST MAIA To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ERNEST P. MAIA, JR., also known as ERNEST P. MAIA, ERNEST MAIA A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KAREN E. FRIEDMAN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: KAREN E. FRIEDMAN 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: June 4, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: PROBATE 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 Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice

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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: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973.

Case Number: PR41389 Published: May 14,21,28, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE CHARLES J. MCFARLAND aka CHARLES JOSEPH MCFARLAND To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: CHARLES J. MCFARLAND aka CHARLES JOSEPH MCFARLAND A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHLEEN MCFARLAND and MELINDA MCFARLAND in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHLEEN MCFARLAND and MELINDA MCFARLAND 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.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: June 18, 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 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: KATHLEEN MCFARLAND and MELINDA MCFARLAND 1683 Stebbing Dr., Roseville, CA 95747 Case Number: PR41418 Dated: May 8, 2015 Published: May 14,21,28, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARY ANN SHOLS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARY ANN SHOLS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RALPH MATHES, TRUSTEE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: RALPH MATHES be appointed as personal rep-­ resentative 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 Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representa-­ tive to many actions without court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal repre-­ sentative will be required to give notice to interested per-­ sons unless they have waived notice or consented to pro-­ posed 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: June 18, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: C-18 PROBATE 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 Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON RICHARD S. MATSON LAW OFFICE, INC 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 343-5373 Case Number: PR41424 Published: May 21,28, June 4, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RICHARD GORDON REES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RICHARD GORDON REES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARILYN R. REES

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NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA BUTTE COUNTY Case Number: PR-41426 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF In re THE SHOLS FAMILY 2004 TRUST created August 13, 2004.

GLEN WILLIAM SHOLS, DECEDENT, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent, that all persons hav-­ ing claims against the decedent are required to file then with the Superior Court, at 1775 Concord Avenue, Chico, California, and mail or deliver a

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copy to RALPH MATHES, as trustee of THE SHOLS FAMILY 2004 TRUST dated August 13, 2004, of which the Decedent was the settlor, c/o RICHARD S. MATSON, Attorney at Law, 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, California 95926, within the later of 4 months after May 21, 2015 or, if notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, 60 days after the date this notice is mailed or personally delivered to you, or you must petition to file a late claim as provided in Probate Code section 19103. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection, you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.

Dated: May 11, 2015 Signed: RICHARD S. MATSON Attorney for RALPH MATHES, Trustee 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, California 95926.

Published: May 21,28, June 4, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAWN DENNISON Filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ZAIRE MICHAEL ALLEN LAWSON Proposed name: ZAIRE MICHAEL DENNISON 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

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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: June 30, 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: April 23, 2015 Case Number: 163976 Published: April 30, May 7,14,21, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner VALENE and RAY P. VANGTHAO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TAROSHI THAO, KEOMONY THAO, MYRA THAO, TAKASHI THAO Proposed name: TAROSHI VANGTHAO, KEOMONY VANGTHAO, MYRA VANGTHAO, TAKASHI VANGTHAO 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: June 24, 2015 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA

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The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: April 28, 2015 Case Number: 164254 Published: May 7,14,21,28, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner FRANCINE DEBORAH STAMPER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FRANCINE DEBORAH STAMPER Proposed name: DEBORAH FRANCES STAMPER 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: June 24, 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: May 6, 2015 Case Number: 164288 Published: May 14,21,28,June 4, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ERIC B BOGARIN 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 below.

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

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

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court or county bar association.

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

The name and address of the court is: Chico Courthouse 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

Dated: August 25, 2014 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 162858 Published: May 14,21,28, June 4, 2015

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(1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or per-­ sonal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON RICHARD S. MATSON LAW OFFICE, INC 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 343-5373 Case Number: PR41425 Published: May 21,28, June 4, 2015

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in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MARILYN R. REES 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 Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representa-­ tive to many actions without court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal repre-­ sentative will be required to give notice to interested per-­ sons unless they have waived notice or consented to pro-­ posed 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: June 18, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: PROBATE Room: C-18 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

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LOVE’S REAL ESTATE Pending News

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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.

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The Pending Home Sales Index now sits at the highest level since June 2013.

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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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forecasting a 6.4% increase in existing-home sales this year, and a price increase of 5.6%.

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.

DOUG LOVE is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon.

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of May 4, 2015 – May 8, 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

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1971 Belgium Ave 1031 Neal Dow Ave 187 Cavalier Way 181 Cavalier Way 563 Eaton Rd 93 Lexington Dr 1530 Laurel St 1048 Dayton Rd 5 Pebblewood Pines Dr 1116 Columbus Ave 114 W 10th Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$239,500.00 $235,000.00 $232,000.00 $230,000.00 $220,000.00 $220,000.00 $219,000.00 $218,000.00 $205,000.00 $165,000.00 $120,000.00

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

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SQ. FT. 1406 1845 1127 1407 1196 1163 890 520 1487 832 1093

ADDRESS 130 Mountain Oak Rd 370 Mt Ida Rd 1595 Marston Way 5764 Hollis Hill Dr 928 Buschmann Rd 5800 Royal Ct 1601 Gate Ln 5591 Butte View Ter 6651 Lincoln Dr 5567 Foland Rd 474 Bille Rd

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Oroville Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$520,000.00 $247,000.00 $419,000.00 $365,000.00 $340,000.00 $321,500.00 $265,000.00 $255,000.00 $250,000.00 $220,000.00 $217,500.00

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

SQ. FT. 3402 1196 2299 2900 2225 2403 1432 1728 2264 2122 1333

Beau�ful Bailey Creek Home

Absolutely gorgeous 3 bed/3.5 bath Bailey Creek home with the most exquisite craftsmanship you can find. Enjoy the majestic grandeur of the home from the beautiful entry to the towering walls of the great room to the gourmet kitchen with granite counter tops and top of the line SS appliances.

Brazilian Mahogany entry door opens to 3,645 sq. ft. of living area with two master bedrooms and a second floor guest suite with bonus room and kitchenette. Large 1158 sq. ft. 3 car garage and 1345 sq. ft. of wraparound deck. Just down the street from 18-Hole Golf Course & Clubhouse. MLS#201400863…$925,000

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Rich Imhoff • BRE#01199872 • (530) 249-1330

Charming Country Club Home

Charming country club home with bright & cheery interior. 1 story, 3 bedroom, 2 bath, 1757 sq. ft. on .46 of an acre. Open living, dining & kitchen looking out to private, spacious deck & tree tops. Spacious master bedroom, with french doors opening to back deck. New tile, carpet, roof, interior paint. Utility room and attached 2 car garage. Propane FA heat, woodstove, & ceiling fans. Short distance to 9- hole golf course, clubhouse , recreation area with tennis courts, playground, beach access and boat ramp. MLS#201500567…$ 355,000

Linda Pohler• BRE#01135477 • (530) 253-9135

West Shore Golf Course Home

Charming golf course home in a great location. Close to private boat launch. 3 bedrooms, 2.5 baths. Very clean. New carpet in the family room & newly tiled tub and showers add to the many upgrades already in this home. Brand new back deck. Great sun exposure makes this home light and cheerful. Abundance of windows to enjoy those great golf course views. Spacious living room, plus family room.

Attached 2 car garage. FA heat, plus fireplace and woodstove. Enjoy golf, tennis, recreation area & boat launch. MLS#201500363 …$339,000

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1980 2bd/2ba mobile home on .38 acre. Separate garage. Extra parking. $110,000 Ad #744.

Susan G. Thomas 530-518-8041

3bd/2ba. Sits on 1.18 beautiful acre lot. 20 X 30 shop. Orchard includes: 5 peach, 3 apple & 3 walnut trees. $279,000 Ad #742.

Sharon McKee 530-872-6838

HALF ACRE VIEW LOT!

CUSTOM HOME.

2Bd/3ba with 2415 sq.ft. Beautiful landscaping. Granite Counters in Kitchen. Basement for extra storage. $299,000 Ad #720.

Patty McKee 530-518-5155

Location, Location! 5bd/4ba with 3,172 sq.ft. Many extra features.

Formal Living room with fireplace. $374,000 Ad #683.

Dori Regalia 530-530-6829

Cathy Kuersten • BRE#01127520 • (530) 375-3775

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4 Jenny Way - Chico Sat. May 23th - 11am to 2pm 3BR/2BA on a Quiet Cul-De-Sac, fully landscaped yard, remodeled kitchen w/ Granite counters, newer custom cabinets, extra deep Kohler sink & custom tiled floors.

Spacious living room, remodeled master bath, covered porch with custom tile is a nice bonus area. There is central heat and air.

Two Car finished garage. #304 Brian Voigt 530.514.2901

$272,000

PRIDE OF OWNERSHIP! Spacious 3 BR/2 BA. Great open floor plan w/ vaulted ceilings, a gas fireplace in the living room, formal tile entry and a formal dining room. Large updated kitchen w/ newer appliances. Master bath w/ dual sinks, a tile shower & jetted bath tub. Attached 2 car garage and RV parking. #690 Rhonda Maehl 530.873.7640

$225,000 13500 Takara rd.

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

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SERVING ALL OF BUTTE COUNTY May 21, 2015

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