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FOR A DAY See ARTS FEATURE, page 20

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SLOW DOWN FOR STRAWBERRIES See CHOW, page 23

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Put up or shut up We’ve heard repeated complaints about the gates to Bidwell Park being

locked. On the surface, keeping them shut seems ridiculous. After all, people continue to use the park despite access being denied to vehicular traffic.

Pedestrians and bicyclists walk and ride on in, and those who use motorized transportation simply park on adjacent streets, such as Centennial and Vallombrosa avenues, annoying residents of those areas.

The thought by many in the general public, and echoed at the City Council dais in recent weeks, is that there’s no reason to keep the gates locked.

To that, we say: It’s not that simple.

That was clear during the council’s last meeting, when a city maintenance worker outlined the scope of her and two of her co-workers’ duties at the park. The three employees, she noted, were responsible for the upkeep of six reservation areas, 36 picnic areas, seven buildings that house 25 restroom stalls, 10 porta-potties, three shower facilities, numerous lighting systems, 10 miles of roadways and bike paths, many more miles of trails, and Sycamore Pool. That doesn’t account for maintenance of greenways outside of the park.

In short, the gates have been closed because the city has not been able to adequately maintain such amenities since the Park Division was gutted during the sweeping layoffs of 2013.

Certain city leaders have made it clear that they want the gates open.

But instead of voting on the matter, they’ve simply put pressure on city employees to make that happen. This week, city staff acquiesced. A press release from the Parks, Open Spaces, Greenways and Preserves Division announced that several of the gates to Lower Park and South Five-Mile will now be open daily. However, the restrooms are still closed, it noted.

Only the porta-potties are available. That’s not going to cut it for all users of the park, namely the disabled. That’s a problem.

When the city opens the gates, there is an expectation that it will provide amenities for the public. This wasn’t communicated during the City Council’s recent discussions on the matter, but it’s an elementary concept to us.

So, what’s the answer? To be blunt, it’s money. The council needs to allocate funding for additional staff to adequately maintain the park. The panel will have a chance to do that at its next meeting, a special budget session on Tuesday (June 16). If opening Bidwell Park’s gates permanently is what city leaders desire, they can make it happen. It’s long past time to put up or shut up. Ω

The council needs to allocate funding for additional staff to adequately maintain the park.

Water scheme jeopardizes valley massive water transfer scheme is moving rapidly forward ASacramento out of sight of most people. In 12 of the past 14 years, Valley water has been sold to San Joaquin Valley

desert irrigators. So-called “temporary” or “emergency” water transfer/sales occurred without the benefit of comprehensive impact analysis, so AquAlliance sued the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation in 2010 and 2014. The result was USBR’s agreement to disclose impacts to the economy and environment of California from 10 years of transfer/ sales, which is equivalent to what the city of Chico would use in 200 years.

If this program isn’t stopped, it will by fundamentally change the Sacramento Jim Brobeck Valley.

AquAlliance assumed agencies would The author is a take seriously their role in disclosing prowater-policy analyst gram impacts and presenting viable alterfor AquAlliance natives. Sadly, the program’s September (www.aqualliance.net), 2014 EIS/EIR failed to disclose the hisan organization that torically low Sacramento Valley aquifer exists to defend levels or provide adequate analysis of Northern California waters and escalating detrimental effects: collapsed encourages public fisheries and declining streamflow. involvement in its Marketing water, particularly during well-monitoring dry years, sounds reasonable only if you program. are unaware of the consequences. Compounding impacts from these sales is the fact that much of the water comes from “groundwater substitution”—where sell4

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ers are paid for river water and then draw water from the regional shared public aquifer system.

While California agencies are urging residents to conserve, the state and federal water agencies encourage and facilitate massive groundwater substitution transfers from the Sacramento Valley. Last month, as the giant pumps cranked up to sell water, AquAlliance filed a lawsuit in federal district court against the USBR and San Luis Delta Mendota Water Authority over their failure to disclose and avoid impacts to the communities, farms and fish of the Sacramento Valley.

The natural bounty of south-state watersheds and the Delta has been devastated by expanding irrigation to marginal lands in an otherwise arid landscape. Tulare Lake was drained. San Joaquin Valley rivers are dry by the time they reach the valley floor. Land is sinking. The speed with which groundwater levels decline is predictable in hindsight but, with foresight, avoidable.

AquAlliance needs your support to challenge the legality of this water heist. Water transfers have already destroyed the Owens and San Joaquin valleys and tipped the Delta toward collapse. Destabilizing what remains of the great Sacramento River watershed, California’s largest, is suicidal—for as goes the Sacramento River’s valley, so goes California. Ω

Vigilant, not vigilante Chico has a bike-theft problem. It has for a long time, but it’s gotten worse

over the past couple of years, and even more so over the last few months, according to local bicycling advocates. In response, some in the cycling community have started a Facebook page called Chico Stolen Bike to discuss what to do about the thefts since the city hasn’t been addressing the problem.

On the page, members post photos and videos of suspected thieves and stolen bicycles as well as suspicious activity involving bike sales on sites such as Craigslist.org (see “Hot wheels,” by Ken Smith, page 8). The site is a great way for the local cycling community to connect and discuss solutions for this growing issue, such as the best deterrents to this thievery.

What we hope people don’t use it for is vigilante justice. We’d like to urge the community to keep a cool head when it comes to this crime. We don’t know what type of criminal element the community is dealing with here, and no bike—no matter how nice—is worth getting hurt over. Ω

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by Melissa Daugherty melissad@newsreview.com

Watchdogging patrons Several weeks ago, a lovely couple around my age walked into CN&R’s office with a question about our new nonprofit investigative journalism effort, the Chico News & Review Foundation. They wanted to know to whom they should address a big, fat check— $500!—to support our efforts to buoy this important reporting.

I felt like hugging them, which says a lot coming from me.

But I composed myself and instead told them that they’d made my day—my week, actually.

I don’t know this couple well, but I know they have two kids, and I’m pretty certain 500 bucks is a lot of money to them, as it is for me and my family. Their donation tells me they understand the power of print media and that they have faith in this newspaper in particular. It also was clear that they care deeply about the community.

These folks ended up giving me a blank check, which I promptly walked over to the North Valley Community Foundation, the umbrella organization under which our nonprofit arm was established back in March. NVCF holds the CN&R Foundation’s funds. It also will be the organization to dispense the money to the reporters who are eventually hired to carry out the mission of the nonprofit: to inform, engage and empower citizens and the communities of Chico, Butte County and the greater region by producing enterprise and investigative editorial content on complex issues.

A few people have emailed me with questions about the CN&R Foundation since we announced its existence. One person, for example, was surprised to find out that donations to the fund are tax-deductible. Someone else didn’t realize that CN&R—the for-profit newspaper—won’t see a dime of this money. And in fact, this newspaper has given to the cause as well, in the form of a matching gift. That is, for every dollar the foundation receives from the public, CN&R will match it for up to $5,000.

We’re getting really close to reaching that goal. Another $500 in donations will take us to the 10-grand mark, which is a good start to funding local investigative reporting.

Behind the scenes, making this possible, are many generous patrons. According to a quarterly statement, the foundation has taken in single donations ranging from $25 to $1,000. You read that correctly: Someone contributed a cool grand. I’m still trying to figure out a way to thank everyone at the end of this fundraising journey. Naming them in the paper at some point is one way I’d like to do that.

I’m a greenhorn when it comes to fundraising, so forgive me for figuring this out along the way. To answer the question the couple posed when they came into our office, it’s easiest for checks to be made out to North Valley Community Foundation—with Chico News & Review Foundation denoted in the memo line (mail to North Valley Community Foundation, 240 Main St., Ste. 260, Chico, CA 95928 or drop at CN&R’s office; 353 E. Second St). Also, donations may be made online at nvcf.org/fund/ chico-news-review-foundation.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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On rice and vocabulary Re “Outlaw rice production, save water” (Guest comment, by Jim Elfers, June 4): The article suggesting rice not be grown in our region is shortsighted, to say the least.

California rice farmers are highly efficient with water. Rice is grown in only 5 inches of water and it takes about the same amount of water to grow a serving of rice as it does oranges or broccoli. California rice farming is highly sophisticated, including leveling fields through GPS technology. Rice is highly important to our local and state economies, providing a $5 billion annual impact and 25,000 jobs.

One also must consider how rice benefits the Pacific Flyway, providing food and a resting place for millions of birds. No crop does more for the environment than California rice.

Good points to remember the next time you enjoy sushi or a rice bowl.

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I’m 100 percent for living within the means and limits of natural systems, but I find the approach taken by Cal Water and the California Public Utilities Commission vague and capricious in many ways. I may be killing my garden to meet the limits, just to turn around and buy the same produce that took a much larger water footprint to grow and deliver.

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Commentary comeback Re “The downside to unearned fortunes” (Guest comment, by Nathan Esplanade, May 28): Sounds like more “Get the gov’ment’s hands off my Medicare.” Complain about government programs in one breath and propose other, more onerous programs with the next.

My bet is that murder for insurance is statistically miniscule. Mr. Esplanade needs to watch Dateline and Fox “News” for the entertainment programs they are, and not base his conjectures on stuff meant for entertainment.

Social Security is easily “fixed” by removing the cap on income subject to withholding. Our failing medical system costs twice what most developed nations’ medical systems do with results that are not as good, but “Obamacare” is a good first step.

By the way, any government investment “expert” you could find would say, like most economists, in this time of cheap money (banks borrowing at 0 percent interest) we should be deficit spending on our crumbling railroads, roads and bridges. Doing so would create thousands of goodpaying jobs.

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Re “Still spinning” (Guest comment, by Patricia Kelley, June 4): Patricia Kelley misconstrued my Guest comment. I wasn’t arguing America’s retirement security is being threatened by Social Security. Rather, private embezzlement from the fund is undermining it.

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Goading the guru Chico got a visit from Bill McKibben—founder of 350.org, the most high-profile organization fighting climate change. McKibben presented a call to protest, punctuated with photographs of 350.org rallies. He’s a believer in “big solutions”: let’s deconstruct the fossil fuel industry and build a solar-paneled future.

As expected, McKibben effectively demonized the fossil fuel industry, but failed to call out affluent “environmentalists” on our eco-disaster lifestyles: eating from the trough of animal food misery, booking recreational flights, etc.—aka, drive a Prius and get a free pass.

The path of “big solutions” has led McKibben to agnosticism on

“As expected, [Bill] McKibben effectively demonized the fossil fuel industry, but failed to call out affluent ‘environmentalists’ on our eco-disaster lifestyles: eating from the trough of animal food misery, booking recreational flights, etc.”

–Patrick Newman

the responsibility of the individual to make any radical sacrifice—or to organize around the goal of common sacrifice. McKibben is lost in the delusion that by manufacturing enough solar panels, we can avoid fundamental change.

During the Q&A, I initiated a confrontational/protest exchange with McKibben. The guru-infatuated audience began to boo. True believers sidled up and suggested I take a hike; I gladly complied. I’d rather be at a Walmart—at least there’s no one gushing about heirloom pork gravy or eco-friendly seven-night cruises on the Seine.

PATRICK NEWMAN Chico

More on this exchange Re “Choosing nonaction” (Guest comment, by Patrick Newman, May 21): I recently saw a show in which a character exemplified most of us during this climate crisis we are in.

We’re like addicts with a gambling addiction and when caught, we yell, “Don’t you judge me!”

Patrick Newman sounds the clarion call, but most of us are too comfortable in our lifestyles and don’t appreciate being taken to task to change societal or cultural norms. But I will try to take his advice and not compliment someone on their material gains and give thanks to those who are making choices such as not having children or buying brand new cars.

Recently, Newman confronted Bill McKibben, founder of 350.org, on his lifestyle choices. I was dismayed that the audience booed Newman out of the building. I believe in noncensorship; let’s try to hear many viewpoints during these mythological times we live in. Despite this confrontation, I found their messages have similarities: Be mindful and aware of our actions on behalf of our beloved planet and the future of our home by either taking the path of nonaction or taking to the streets en masse and, if you’re an

elder, taking the risk of getting arrested. Hopefully there is still time to make these choices.

DIANE SUZUKI-BROBECK Chico

Editor’s note: For more on Mr. McKibben’s visit to Chico, see Newslines, page 9.

Less criticism, more education The clouds opened just in time for our high school graduates and the message was to look past the occasional sprinkles because sunshine soon arrives. The same message should be said for staff. To all who work in Chico Unified School District, shouldn’t you treat your administrators as you would your students?

Instead of the negativity toward the administration, focus now on improvement and remediation rather than hostility. When students fail a math test, good teachers reteach concepts for mastery. You don’t ridicule poor performers.

I would suggest assisting Superintendent Kelly Staley and her administration the same way, instead of attacking them. The Chico Police Department helps its leaders with trainings. Business leaders address deficiencies to better themselves. Athletes still have coaching to improve their skills.

Board members get training for their new positions.

Education, more than others, should be the model for personal improvement.

We are fortunate to live adjacent a university. Wouldn’t it make sense to provide Ms. Staley with exactly what could help? The university has business classes in finance, education classes in curriculum and administration, public speaking, even employee relations.

Instead of attacks and criticism, provide helpful classes and mentors. Educators should model that more than anyone!

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RAISING THE GATES

As of Monday (June 8), park rangers will open gates in Lower Bidwell Park and Five-Mile Recreation Area to vehicle traffic seven days a week, after nearly two years of being closed Monday through Thursday.

The change comes on the heels of the Chico City Council meeting on June 2, during which members of the council and the public expressed frustration with confronting locked gates in the park. Vehicle access has been blocked at several gates since the city’s budget and staff were drastically reduced in July 2013.

Now, the gates at Cedar Grove, South Five-Mile and North One-Mile open at 7:30 a.m., while entrances at Cedar Grove Way and Peterson Memorial Drive will open at 11 a.m., according to a city of Chico press release. The gate at Horseshoe Lake in Upper Park will remain open only on Fridays and Saturdays. For more information, call the Park Division at 896-7800.

AQUALLIANCE ON THE OFFENSIVE

Earlier this month, local nonprofit water advocates AquAlliance, along with the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance, California Water Impact Network and Restore the Delta, filed a lawsuit in federal court to protect water quality in the San Francisco Bay/San Joaquin Delta region.

The suit is a reaction to relaxed water quality standards passed by the State Water Resources Control Board back in February. It alleges that the board, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the U.S. Department of the Interior and the California Department of Water Resources are violating several laws protecting the cleanliness and viability of the state’s waterways. It also maintains that by relaxing standards, species such as the Delta smelt and chinook salmon are increasingly in jeopardy of extinction. The suit seeks a judge’s order to throw out the relaxed standards.

“Extinction is forever,” AquAlliance Executive Director Barbara Vlamis said in a statement. “We cannot shut the door on our fisheries because the state and federal water projects drain reservoirs during a drought on the hope that the next year might be wet.”

OFF TO PRISON

A man and woman arrested last year in connection with the stabbing death of a Chico man in the parking lot of the downtown 7-Eleven were sentenced in Butte County Superior Court June 3.

Joshua Michael Epstein, 30, of Los Angeles, got a seven-year state prison term and Stephanie Marie Vogel, 24, of Paradise, received a three-year term in the death of 45-yearold Randell Sexton last August.

According to a press release from the Butte County District Attorney’s Office, on Aug. 31 Epstein was “shushed” by Sexton while inside the store. Once outside, a verbal altercation erupted. Sexton slapped Vogel, who then hit him with her skateboard.

Epstein then punched and stabbed Sexton, who was pronounced dead an hour later.

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Brennan Percy says he warns customers of Greenline Cycles, where he works, to stay away from certain Chico bike paths that are considered dangerous.

Hot wheels

As Facebook group urges vigilance against bike theft, city hints at secret police plan to stem the crime

ne morning in early May, Brennan Percy O stepped away from work at Greenline Cycles to enjoy his morning coffee outside when he

noticed something suspicious. A block away, a gloved man was eyeing a bike chained to a pole in front of the story and photo by Chico City Council chambers, Ken Smith and before Percy could even rally his co-workers (“It’s going kens@ newsreview.com down out here!” he recalls shouting), the man produced a pair of bolt cutters from his backpack, clipped the lock, and sped away on the stolen bike.

“It was broad daylight and the plaza was full of people; there were people everywhere,” Percy said during an interview at the downtown bike shop. “I picked up the lock and walked it straight over to [Mayor] Mark Sorensen’s office and left it on his secretary’s desk with a note saying, ‘This is a big issue, this was done right in front of your office and this shows how little respect these thieves have for Chico.’”

At the June 2 Chico City Council meeting, Percy and other concerned citizens affiliated with the Facebook group Chico Stolen Bike set a figurative lock down in front of the entire council. A number of speakers appeared during the open comment portion of the meeting to declare that Chico’s long-running bicycle theft problem has

grown to epidemic proportions in recent months. They further claimed some of the thefts are committed by organized rings, the Chico Police Department has done little to curb the problem and the issue has evolved beyond theft to include violent crime.

“People are getting threatened, assaulted, followed and vandalized,” said David Albrecht, one of the group’s members. “The problem is escalating; it’s not getting any better.”

Chico Stolen Bike was founded by Robert

Jones about a year ago to organize community members because of a perceived lack of action regarding bike thefts by the CPD, and has grown to include nearly 600 members. Those members are encouraged to post pictures of stolen bikes to aid in their recovery, as well as locations of suspected chop shops and pictures and video of suspicious activity or crimes in progress.

There is also ample discussion about ways to address the issue, and Albrecht recently conducted a survey about bike theft concerns in Chico, the results of which were submitted to the council June 2. Based on the survey, Albrecht

said bike thefts cost Chicoans upward of $1 million annually.

Percy elaborated on many of the points made at the City Council meeting during a recent interview.

“Bike theft is an issue in every city, and it’s certainly nothing new here in Chico.” Percy has had two bikes stolen since moving here five years ago. “But about three months ago it started picking up significantly, and about a month and a half ago it just exploded.”

Percy said the same week he witnessed the daring daylight theft in front of City Council chambers, people began reporting five to seven stolen bikes each week to Greenline Cycles, and the numbers have not let up since. And he noted bikes are also disappearing from garages in upscale neighborhoods like California Park.

“The police are underfunded and can’t do anything to stop it, and the criminals know this and are taking advantage of it,” he said.

For Percy, one of the more shocking revelations of the survey, which was distributed to hundreds of recipients in person and online, was the amount of people who reported they feel unsafe on

Chico’s bike paths (only about 27 percent reported feeling “very safe” or “somewhat safe,” 25 percent were uncertain, and 48 percent reported feeling “not very safe” or “extremely unsafe”). Percy noted there is a “known chop shop” located under a bridge on the Midway bike path, and related an anecdote reported to the Facebook group about a teenage boy being assaulted and his bike stolen on another local path.

“Chico is labeling itself a bike town and has invested a lot of money into building and painting bike lanes and other improvements to make it a bikefriendly community, but at the same time people don’t feel safe on the bike paths,” he said. “That’s pretty counterproductive.”

Some people posting comments on the Facebook page have pointed fingers toward the homeless community, but Percy said “there’s a lot of hands at work here.” From personal observations and information they’ve gathered about bike theft in other cities, Percy and other group members believe that stolen bikes are equivalent to drugs and cash as currency among Chico’s criminal transient element, and that there also are more sophisticated thieves at work.

Percy said there’s no simple solution, but his group is willing to work with police and city officials to address the problem: “We’re thinking we need to do a lot of different things and hit it from a lot of different angles, like organize cleanups under bridges, get people going to council meetings and meet with police.”

Future plans aside, Percy said the group has already accomplished its main goal—returning bikes to their rightful owners—several times over. He said the site has been used to locate about a dozen bikes in the last six months, three of which he found and reclaimed himself.

The CPD says it’s already taking action to stem bike thievery, but police and city officials are mum on the details.

After Percy delivered the cut lock to Sorensen’s desk in early May, he said he received a voicemail from the mayor saying that CPD was working on the issue, but that details couldn’t be discussed until the program rolls out this summer. City Manager Mark Orme echoed this when Councilwoman Reanette Fillmer alluded to a police program in the works at the June 2 meeting.

“Unfortunately, the confidentiality of the specifics of that program are such that I can’t speak directly to it,” Orme said. “But you’re absolutely right in that there is a solution that’s being implemented, and I think you’ll see that roll out in the near future.” Ω

A warming world

Bill McKibben addressed about 200 people June 4 about the current state of global warming and the best way to battle it.

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Author Bill McKibben touts divestment as key in fighting climate change t’s hard to be an environmentalist these Iearly days; everything seems so bleak. And yet, Friday night (June 4), the Chico

Masonic Family Center parking lot was filled with hybrid vehicles as well as a few bicycles locked to disabled parking signs— the center lacks bike racks—their owners filing dutifully in, looking for a spark of optimism in a rapidly degrading world.

The full-house crowd of roughly 200 was there for an update on climate change and the movement to minimize it, as presented by Bill McKibben, an environmental writer turned activist.

McKibben’s seminal 1989 book, The End of Nature, was the first on climate change addressed to the general public. But he’s been in the spotlight lately for his work in founding 350.org, a nonprofit dedicated to bolstering the worldwide climate change movement that was partially responsible for last year’s 400,000-strong People’s Climate March in New York City, the largest U.S. march on any issue in recent history. The organization is also credited with stalling the Keystone XL Pipeline, which was once a sealed deal. The movement’s current focus is fossil fuel divestment.

“The reason I came to Chico is to thank Chico State for divesting,” McKibben told the gathering, directing applause to audience member Kevin Killion, the Chico State student who led the student-backed effort for the University Foundation to divest from companies involved in oil, gas and coal.

“We already won the argument,”

McKibben said, noting that scientists are uniform in agreement on the severity and urgency of the problem of investing in fossil fuels. However, he added, “We’re just losing the fight because the fight wasn’t about science and data—the fight … [is] about power.

The power of the fossil fuel industry comes from money.”

The divestment movement removes that power, McKibben said, and it’s growing fast.

He pointed out partial or full fossil fuel divestments in just the last month, including institutions such as the University of Hawaii, Oxford and Georgetown as well as Axa, France’s largest insurance company, the country of Norway and the Church of England. But the movement needs to move faster, he said, or else it’s “game over for the planet.”

McKibben went over recent data on the cli-

mate and the results so far endured due to the 1 degree temperature increase: the extreme drought in California and the “essential, sta-

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“If 1 degree melts the Arctic, we’re kind of idiots to find out what 2 degrees” will do, he said. “But we’re probably going to find that out.”

Four or 5 degrees’ increase would make for an inhospitable planet, but McKibben warned the Earth is headed there if the fossil fuel companies are allowed to burn according to plan. “Then there’s no point in putting up our solar panels or pedaling our bicycles or whatever it is,” he said. “[The fossil fuel companies] will pour enough carbon into the atmosphere to fatally heat the planet.”

Several attendees objected to McKibben’s focus on large-scale, quick action against the powerful fossil fuel companies, arguing he came across as dismissing the impact of individual personal action. (Actually, McKibben praised local, individual actions as necessary steps; he also recommended specific actions like banning fracking and asking California Public Employees’ Retirement System to divest.)

During the Q&A session, Chico resident Patrick Newman offered a heated and lengthy admonishment that plant-based diets were not mentioned. McKibben respectfully responded, the crowd booed, and Newman departed, visibly upset.

For McKibben, individual action, albeit important, is a slow process as generations grow more environmentally cautious over the years to reach the needed results.

“I actually can’t promise you that we’re going to win, which is a bad thing,” he said.

The civil rights movement leaders, he said, had to be “significantly braver,” facing water cannons and bullets, but at least they had the sense that eventually their side would win.

“But the best science indicates that we may be able to keep it from getting entirely out of control, which is reason enough to do what we can, and maybe do a little more than we think we can.”

That would include large-scale action against the fossil fuel companies.

“The most important thing that an individual can do is not be an individual; is to join together … to form enough power in order to stand up to the people who dominate the decision making on this planet,” he said.

After the talk, the mood was upbeat and hopeful, despite current realities. Robyn DeFalco, executive director of Butte Environmental Council, which co-sponsored the event, chatted about killing her lawn. On their way out, many attendees grabbed BEC’s offering of a lawn sign that reads: “Brown Is the New Green,” just as overhead sprinklers irrigated already-soaked walnut orchards next door to the center.

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Deputies, please Recruiting and retaining deputies has been a struggle for the Butte County Sheriff’s Office s with many sectors, law Acountry enforcement agencies across the were hit hard by the Great

Recession, and the job market stagnated for years afterward. But about a year ago, coincidentally right around the time when Kory Honea was appointed Butte County sheriff, he noticed movement— out of his agency.

“We started seeing people looking for positions in other agencies because they could take home more money,” he said.

Honea described his office’s trouble with recruiting and retaining officers during a recent phone interview. The Butte County sheriff’s force is 100 strong, including 83 deputy sheriffs (the rest are sergeants, lieutenants and captains).

But Honea said he needs more— BCSO recently announced it’s hiring for14 vacant positions, which include two lieutenants, four sergeants and eight deputy sheriffs.

Just covering patrols has been a challenge, Honea said. In February, despite concerns about fatiguing his deputies, Honea switched from 10-hour to 12-hour shifts “because we needed to provide more patrol coverage with a limited staff,” he said. “You can always do more with more resources. Because of the vacancies, we’ve had to shift resources from other important assignments into our patrol force, to ensure we at least have enough patrol deputies.”

As a result, he’s had to shift staff to patrols, away from critical roles within the department—two detective positions, one gang detective and one position on the Butte Interagency Narcotics Task Force. Furthermore, deputies previously designated to the remote areas of the county have been shifted into regular patrol.

Honea emphasized that he’s not complaining, but rather addressing the reality of his agency’s staffing situation. He said the Butte County Board of Supervisors and county administration have demonstrated willingness to help find a solution, and in the meantime he’s instructed his force to respond to all calls for service—even if there’s a delay.

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“When time allows, we’ll come back and handle those calls we weren’t able to initially get to,” Honea said. “I know that’s frustrating, but I think it’s better than saying, ‘We’re just not going to be able to deal with that.’”

From the perspective of District 3 Supervisor Maureen Kirk, the sky isn’t falling regarding public safety.

“I think things are better than they could be, with staffing levels so low,” she said. “Frankly, I haven’t heard from [constituents] about slow responses.”

In February, the supervisors voted

unanimously to approve Honea’s request to increase deputy and sergeant pay by 5 percent in an attempt to boost recruitment. The $428,173 cost of implementing the plan was offset by the elimination of four vacant deputy allocations, which saved $383,737, but necessitated increasing shifts from 10 to 12 hours.

The plan didn’t have the impact Honea hoped for. “We’ve had people leave the department since then and we’re still having difficulty with laterals.”

“Laterals” are candidates who already have been trained and have experience working in law enforcement. They’re appealing for obvious reasons—they don’t need training, which is expensive, and it takes less time to get them out patrolling the streets—but Honea hasn’t had any success recruiting them. Meanwhile, he’s lost deputies to Chico and Oroville police departments as well as municipal departments in Sacramento and the Bay Area. It comes

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down to pay, he said.

“I’ve been told by people who have left that, in some cases, they’re bringing home $800 to $1,000 more a month when they go to work for those other agencies,” Honea said. “In all of those cases, the deputies have told me they enjoy working for my office, how they like being Butte County deputy sheriffs, but when they looked at compensation they needed to make a decision in the best interest of their families. I can’t fault them for that.”

Board of Supervisors Chairman Doug Teeter said the panel has discussed staffing issues at BCSO in closed session but has yet to reach a resolution.

“Definitely, the problem of pay differential between Oroville and Chico and [Butte County] is part of the discussion,” he said. “You either raise the pay or Get deputized: take the To apply for the open gamble that positions with the Butte when County Sheriff ’s Office, go to buttecounty.net/ municipal departments sheriffcoroner. fill up, people will stay employed here.”

Teeter declined to get more specific about the closed session discussions because the board has yet to weigh in publicly, but he made assurances of the supervisors’ commitment to public safety.

“It’s just a matter of what Butte County can afford without putting our budget in danger,” he said.

“We have a lot of other departments that need support, too.”

—HOWARD HARDEE howardh@newsreview.com

College President Kimberly Bstateutte Perry is proud of the current of Butte College as she pre-

pares to leave next month for the top job at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Wash.

That pride, she said during a recent interview, stems from the school’s health and public safety programs and the environmentally friendly state of the campus itself.

“I think people most notably think of Butte for solar panels, but there is so much more this campus does to be sustainable,” she said.

“It’s like running a little city out here.”

She mentioned the school’s bus system that transports students from all across Butte County and also works with the Glenn County bus system to help transport students from west of the Sacramento River.

Perry said her decision to leave Butte was not motivated by a notion that it was time to move on.

“I had someone recently ask me, ‘What could we have done to keep you here at Butte College?’” she said. “I still am incredibly happy here at Butte and if this opportunity hadn’t worked out, that would have been fine, too. I think the best time to look for a job is when you are happy with the one you have because you’re not so vested in leaving.”

Perry came to Butte College in July

2011, taking over for Diana Van Der Ploeg, who had held the post since 2003. Perry had previously served as the vice president of academic affairs at Los Angeles City College.

Her time here was not without controversy. Two incidents occurred last year that caught media attention, with one going national.

The first was a part-time instructor’s Facebook post that said military veterans made for poor students. The story was picked up by a local TV news station and caught a lot of criticism.

“It was a freedom of speech issue,” Perry said, “And that is a tough one in any sense because I might not like what you say, but I respect that you have the right to say it.”

The other case was that of football player Brandon Banks, who came to Butte last fall from Van-

derbilt University. News soon broke that he’d been charged while at Vanderbilt in a gang rape with three other students. He was awaiting trial when he joined Butte’s team. (Banks’ case is still pending, though two of the others accused have been found guilty.)

The matter got nationwide attention and Perry, once she learned of the situation, ruled that Banks could not be on the football roster.

“The athletic code of ethics changed and the decision-making process changed and who is allowed to play on the team to begin with has changed,” she said.

“If you actually come here with a pending felony or misdemeanor you can’t play at all, and if you get one while you are here you are off the team.”

She said making such decisions comes with the job.

“There’s been something every year where the right thing to do was the tough thing to do,” she said. “You have to act immediately and decisively. Those are decisions that I don’t lose sleep over because it was the right decision to make, but still it was a difficult decision because you know you’re affecting people’s lives.”

Outgoing Butte College President Kimberly Perry is headed to a new job in Washington next month.

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She has the following words of advice for her successor: “I would tell anyone this: ‘Be yourself.’ I think one of the reasons that I got the job here at Butte College was because, during the interview process, I was just who I am.

I didn’t try to be someone that they thought a president should be. I just was who I was. That way I didn’t have to do anything differently when I got here. And you have to have a sense of humor— definitely have to have a sense of humor.”

The move to Washington, she said, is made easier in part because she and her husband, Ellis Evans, a physician assistant who works at a clinic affiliated with Oroville Hospital, have no children.

“When you don’t have relatives, it does make it easier to move,” she said.

The school will conduct a nationwide search for Perry’s replacement.

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PUSH TO RAISE SMOKING AGE

Treating e-cigs like tobacco

A bill moving through the state Legislature would raise the minimum age for buying cigarettes from 18 to 21.

Senate Bill 151, authored by Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-Azusa), cleared the Senate with bipartisan support on June 2, according to The Sacramento Bee. If it’s approved by the Assembly, California and Hawaii would become the first states in the country to raise the age for legally purchasing tobacco (a similar bill currently awaits the signature of Hawaii Gov. David Ige).

Hernandez said SB 151’s intent is to prevent teenagers from picking up the habit. According to the American Lung Association, about 90 percent of smokers start before age 18 and 36,000 kids in California start smoking every year.

“Cigarettes are the single most dangerous consumer product ever sold,” Hernandez said.

“It’s time to stop allowing tobacco companies to make their deadly product so readily available to our youth.”

Moana Larsen (left) and Natalie Chivichon both graduated from Bidwell Junior High School last week.

TAMING WILD WEST OF POT

In an attempt to clean up the quagmire that is medical marijuana regulation in California, state legislators are attempting to adopt standards that will hold up with the U.S. Department of Justice.

Assembly Bill 266 would create the Office of Marijuana Regulation within the governor’s office, while licensing fees would be collected by the departments of Public Health and Food and Agriculture and the Board of Equalization, according to The Associated Press. AB 266 would also call for criminal background checks by the state Department of Justice and enforcement of wastewater standards by the State Water Resources Control Board. Local governments would still have discretion to approve or reject commercial marijuana operations.

The bill has cleared the Assembly and now heads to the Senate for a vote.

OBAMACARE AT A PREMIUM

Many people enrolled in health-care coverage via Covered California, the state’s health-insurance exchange through the Affordable Care Act, find it difficult to pay for their monthly premiums, a survey finds.

Of 4,555 respondents in the Kaiser Family Foundation’s survey from September to December last year, 44 percent said it’s somewhat or very difficult to afford their premiums, compared to 25 percent of people with private or employer-provided insurance having similar difficulties, according to the Los Angeles Times.

Meanwhile, many experts are predicting greater premium increases for next year.

Peter Lee (pictured), executive director of Covered California, acknowledged that paying for health-care coverage can be hard to manage for many households.

“If you’re making $25,000 a year, that $70 premium is still a struggle,” he said. “The Affordable Care Act is providing nobody with a free lunch. This issue of making health care affordable is not easy.”

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wanted in the convenience store. But it wasn’t candy; it was a vaping product with a candy flavor.

“My dad explained what it was and asked him if he still wanted it,” Natalie recalled, noting her father wouldn’t have let her brother have it regardless. “He decided against it.”

Some people view electronic cigarettes as a healthier alternative to tobacco. Not Natalie. She joined KLEAN—Kids Leading Everyone Against Nicotine—at Bidwell Junior High. As the year progressed, she learned more about e-cigarettes.

What got her attention, she says, is “the fact that a lot of people believe them to be safer than regular cigarettes, which they aren’t, and how there’s a lot of dangerous chemicals and how they’re really dangerous to kids.”

Natalie’s main source of information is the California Health Collaborative, whose Smoke Free North State project includes KLEAN, and also works closely with the American Lung Association.

Natalie shared the story of her brother publicly when she and Moana Larsen, another Bidwell eighth-grader in KLEAN, spoke to the Chico City

Council about e-cigarettes.

That was April 21. Six days later, citing their presentation, Councilwoman Ann Schwab submitted to the city clerk a formal request to “agendize the subject of treating e-cigarettes the same as cigarettes and other tobacco products and ask council to consider including the prohibition on the use of e-cigarettes in all public places where smoking is currently prohibited by city ordinance.”

The council did so May 5, directing the city attorney to “review and update” the ordinances. On June 10 (after the CN&R’s deadline), the Internal Affairs Committee was set to discuss the draft amendment.

After their council appearance, Natalie said, she had “no idea” what would happen. When a teacher played a TV news report about the city picking up the baton, “I was super excited that they decided to run with it, to make it happen.”

Schwab already was following the e-cig

issue when Natalie and Moana talked to

the City Council. That’s not surprising to Chicoans who know her penchant for healthy living, namely cycling. (She is a co-owner of Campus Bicycles and president of the Chico Velo Cycling Club’s board of directors.) But Chico’s former mayor is also a former smoker. She picked up the habit as a teenager and continued smoking for eight years. “Fortunately, I had the willpower and fortitude to quit,” she said, though asthma is a remnant— and reminder—of those earlier days.

As for vaping, Schwab’s concerned not only for the e-cig user, but also for the people nearby who inhale the vapor, as with secondhand smoke. “I’ve seen them used inside, in an airport terminal,” she said, “and been exposed to it myself.”

Schwab had pondered how to bring the issue up for council discussion, “especially when the city is grappling with some very difficult issues to do with budgetary needs,” she explained. “So when the young women made the presentation, it just seemed like a natural follow-up.”

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In her eyes, tobacco and vaping products are different, not equal, but pose a common danger that justifies comparable regulation.

“They are a pretty new product and a lot of research hasn’t been done on e-cigs and the aerosol they emit,” Blankenship said. “Vaping kind of implies that it’s water-based

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Compared with tobacco smoke, she continued, e-cigs’ inhalants “have different types of chemicals that lodge deeper in the lung tissue because there are these very fine particulate matters in the glycogens that were never meant to be inhaled. So it’s opening up a whole new area of disease.”

Moana, like her friend Natalie, was alarmed to learn such details.

“I do know people who do smoke,” she said of why she joined KLEAN. “It makes me sad when I see them smoke because I know they are hurting themselves ... and I wanted to raise awareness in our community to help fight against that.”

Moana is concerned about bright-colored e-cig packages and sweet flavors appealing to kids.

“If I had my say, I would prefer for e-cigarettes and all cigarettes to be gone, because it has really negative effects on the community, and I think it’s really sad that people would do that to themselves,” she said.

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So far, Schwab says she’s received “a lot of communication from people who feel pretty strongly that e-cigarettes should not have any kind of restrictions; both locally and some lobbyists from out of the area.”

She stresses that she’s “not at this point asking for retail establishments selling e-cigarettes to have any additional restrictions on them or be banned, or people to have [limits on] choices of what they want to do in their personal homes or where they can use cigarettes. I’m just asking that we be protected from any type of secondhand smoke.”

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GREENWAYS Left: A spring normally produces water here, which becomes Big Chico Creek. This year, it’s dry.

Right: The outing’s “scientist for the day,” Randy Senock, is a geological and environmental sciences instructor at Chico State.

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DonlyButte Meadows, in a grove accessible by rough service roads, is a plaque built eep in the coniferous forest surrounding

into the mossy forest floor. In block letters, it reads: “Headwaters Big Chico Creek.”

So marked is the uppermost spring that feeds Chico’s most familiar waterway. But as a group of two dozen or so hikers and I discovered during “Pilgrimage to the Headwaters” on June 7, the last of three Citizen Science Outings offered by Butte Environmental Council, the spring is eternal no longer—it has run dry.

The intent of the Citizen Science Outings was to engage community members with the Big Chico Creek Watershed, or the system of innumerable springs and tributaries that feed into the creek. Compared with, say, the Sacramento River Watershed, the Big Chico Creek Watershed is small; it takes less than 24 hours for rain in the foothills to reach the Sacramento River about 45 miles away, said Nani Teves, BEC’s watershed program coordinator. But it flows through a diverse cross-section of ecosystems and urban areas—the foothill forests, the basalt canyon in Upper Bidwell Park, the lush and shady banks in Lower Park, and then our city’s downtown core.

The 8-mile, round-trip hike started at Camp Lassen in Butte Meadows, a recreational area operated by the Boy Scouts of America, and then proceeded by service

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roads onto land owned by lumber-producing corporation Sierra Pacific Industries. At times it felt wild, but we were constantly reminded of human interference by the roads themselves and several patches of forest that SPI has clear-cut for timber harvest.

My knee-jerk reaction to such scenes of deforestation was disgust, but the outing’s “scientist for the day,” Randy Senock, advised me not to fret. The long-bearded geological and environmental sciences instructor at Chico State said he saw evidence of responsible timber harvest, such as arranging the limbs left behind in such a way to prevent erosion of the hillside and planting new trees to allow the forest to rebound. Indeed, saplings were growing about hip-height.

“Come back here in 10 years and it’s all good,” Senock said. “In fact, it looks like they did a great job.”

From one of those clear-cut areas emerged

the outing’s greatest thrill—an adult bear, maybe 100 yards from the road.

I utterly lost my cool and shouted, “Holy shit, there’s a bear!” to the hikers within earshot. I might as well have banged pots and pans together. The bear bounded in the opposite direction, its golden-brown coat shimmering in the sunlight and back muscles rippling as it disappeared into the trees. More than one hiker described its flight as “majestic,” and I could only agree.

So everyone was buzzing about bears when we stopped for lunch near an iron bridge crossing Big Chico Creek, which at that elevation is a mere trickle. As it turned out, Senock knows all about bears

in California and those in our region specifically.

Based on descriptions of the bear— Senock didn’t see it—he said it likely was a lone male. Given that the last grizzly bears were eradicated by hunters and ranchers less than 75 years after the discovery of gold in California, and that there’s since been only one species of bear in California, Senock could conclude with certainty that we saw an American black bear, noting that there are subspecies in the state with slightly differing genetic makeup—and fur colors.

To illustrate, Senock recounted his work at Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve (BCCER) in 2006, when he baited wires to collect hair follicle samples from local bears. Subsequent DNA testing conducted at UC Davis determined that the black bears in our region are, genetically speaking, a unique mélange of bear populations in the Cascade Range and the Sierra Nevada.

Overall, there are about 30,000 black bears in the state, Senock said, and the population is growing. “They have actually been expanding their habitat since we took out the grizzlies,” he said, “so you have a species occupying habitat we’ve made available to them.”

After lunch, the group proceeded farther

uphill to our destination: the headwaters of Big Chico Creek, found in an inconspicuous patch of forest just off the road but not marked for passersby. BEC’s Teves led the first small group down to the spring and was greatly surprised to see that it had run dry. To her knowledge, that’s never happened before now.

The ongoing drought and the nearly

nonexistent snowpack in the Sierra Nevada may have combined to drop the water table to the point that water no longer seeps from the spring, Teves said.

It may also be an indication of the greater shift in the climate and environment in California. As Senock emphasized over lunch, there’s no denying that they’re both changing. By analyzing the rings in an ancient tree found at BCCER, he’s gotten a general picture of the weather in Chico since 1762.

“Rainfall has been on a steady downward trend for decades. … Combined with that, and also partially due to it, there’s been an increase in temperature. Without a doubt, the climate is changing, and we’re seeing a drop-off in water, an increase in temperature, and most importantly, a change in seasonality.”

Teves pointed out a marshy swath of grass a couple hundred feet downhill from the plaque.

“That’s your headwaters this year.” □

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Brittney Duncan moved to Chico last summer after her husband got a job in the area, and subsequently found herself unemployed. During that transition period, she wondered whether she should hit the job hunt hard or fulfill her childhood dream of owning a dessert business. She decided to go for the latter, but her focus on sweets has a twist: They are made without animal byproducts, gluten or sugar. Ducan had long suffered from gastrointestinal disorders such as acid reflux and found relief by changing her diet. She eliminated meat and dairy over the course of a couple of years. Then, she started experimenting with a diet of raw foods. Today, she estimates that 80 percent of what she eats is raw. Eating this way, she says, gives her a clearer sense of focus and much more energy.

She also attributes her clearer skin to the food fare.

Duncan never lost her sweet tooth, so she experimented and found that many desserts could be made with raw, vegan ingredients. That’s when she got the idea for her unique treats. She turned to Kickstarter to crowdfund her start-up costs, and with the help of her friends and family, Rawkin’ Live Foods was born last October. While Duncan started with recipes such as her Salted Caramel Crownies, Cacao Berry Sin Cakes and Avocado Cream Pies, she’s now expanded into entrees such as Cabbage Cup Tacos, made with those leafy greens, along with ground nuts and seasoning and topped with fresh pico de gallo. People can find Duncan’s treats at the Thursday Night Market, Chico Natural Foods Cooperative, or order them online through her website, rawkinlivefoods.square space.com.

I can’t remember the last time my car was washed, but the healthy layer of dirt and caked-on bugs indicates it’s been a while. My drought guilt has kept me away from a car wash and I’ve been reluctant to turn on the hose at home, too, for fear of being a water-waster. I’ve also been citing my concern about our water resources as the reason why there are dishes piled in my sink and loads of laundry that need washing, but I think people are starting to doubt my altruism on that front.

The other day, I was driving my dusty car down Mangrove Avenue and noticed large signs outside Eric’s Car Wash with the words “recycled water.”

I was intrigued. I gave the business a call and Marilyn Barker, who’s been with the car wash for 32 years, said it has always been the business’ practice to use recycled water.

Barker said cars at Eric’s are washed over a grate, with the water going down into a pit. It then goes through a reclamation system, with the dirt, oil and road grime filtered out so the water can be used again. Reclamation systems have been around the car wash industry for decades, Barker said, but the drought is drawing more attention to the practice.

Barker said the signs boasting this use have been around a while, too, but are also gaining more notice. She said there’s been a noticeable dip in business, due to a consciousness of the drought, but that the car wash is taking every opportunity to educate the public about the water-saving practices it employs.

Over at Scrubbs, General Manager Makaela Wabs said that although the business does not use recycled water, it’s WaterSavers certified. Eric’s Car Wash has this distinction as well. The certification process is run by the International Carwash Association, a nonprofit trade organization, and to earn the designation, car washes must follow a number of conservation methods, including using no more than 40 gallons of fresh water per car.

The organization’s website notes that washing your car at home can use more than 60 gallons in as little as five minutes.

In fact, a number of publications, California municipalities and water conservation organizations are promoting commercial car washes as a water-saving alternative to washing your car at home. The Alliance for Water Efficiency, the Regional Water Authority for the Sacramento region and the Sonoma Marin Water Savings Partnership, among others, are also touting the benefits of these businesses.

Downtown eatery update. I gave a quick call to Nick Land, manager of Burgers and Brew, a few days before the restaurant’s opening late last week at its new location at Third and Broadway, one block south. Land said plans for Crepeville have been put on hold at the moment. I’ll keep my eyes peeled for updates on that front.

What raw ingredients do you use?

Nothing we use is ever heated above 105 degrees.

Everything maintains its original, intended nutritional content, instead of cooking things and cooking off a lot of nutrients and the vitamins.

How does that factor into baking?

I don’t bake anything. Nothing is ever heated. All I do is use a food processor, a blender, a knife and a cutting board. Everything is made up of dates, fruits, nuts, agave nectar, those kinds of things.

Why start this business?

I became raw vegan a couple of years ago. I had just started a health journey, experimenting with my own diet, seeing what felt better for me personally. I went from eating meat and slowly worked my way toward veganism and discovered raw vegan foods and just how much nutritional punch it packs. If you’re eating it raw, you’re getting so much raw nutrients and minerals. After I did that, I started playing with desserts, of course, because I had a sweet tooth. I was blown away with what I could do and I would feed them to all my meat- and dairy-eating friends and everybody was just blown away. So I figured why not? Let’s see what the rest of the world thinks.

How do you develop your recipes?

They’re inspired by desserts and foods that are normally made with dairy and gluten. I try to imitate them; I just start playing and testing recipes over and over and over and over again until I find something that resembles what I’m copying.

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ooking up at the majestic old Oroville Inn, one can imagine its circular driveway bustling with activity of a bygone era—cars arriving with well-dressed ladies and men, who are ushered through the grand entrance into the main parlor for an evening filled with dinner, drinks and dancing. During the day, shoppers browse the vast windows of dress shops and boutiques, and ladies enjoy tea at the coffeehouse while men discuss local politics over a beer at the tavern.

Above: The Oroville Inn, circa 1930, as seen from across Bird Street.

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Left: The banquet room inside the Oroville Inn during its grand opening ceremony in 1930.

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Local real estate mogul buys iconic Oroville Inn, has grand plans to help the revitalization of downtown

Above: The banquet room today.

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Left: Orville “Bud” Tracy stands in front of the large trumpet vines that frame the driveway to the Oroville Inn, which he recently purchased from the city of Oroville.

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The inn, situated on a large swath of Bird Street in downtown Oroville, was a huge attraction when it was built in 1929.

Famous politicians and celebrities—from Herbert Hoover to Charlie Chaplin—walked through its doors, having been invited to speak from the elaborate second-story speaker platform that overlooks the entry hall.

“The inn played a major role for many years because it was the main place to stay for visitors coming to Oroville,” said James Lenhoff, a leading local historian. “It had several stores, a beautiful banquet hall and

lobby. It was very impressive.”

Lenhoff, who is founder and president of the Oroville Heritage Council, nominated the inn for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places in 1990, ensuring its place in the city’s future.

“There’s always been talk of tearing it down and replacing it with a parking lot, but that won’t happen,” he said.

Today, the exterior paint is peeling. The once-lush courtyard garden was years ago paved over with a parking lot. And inside, water damage has pulled the plaster clear off one of the main arched entryways and

has all but destroyed the ballroom floor.

Graffiti on the walls and broken or missing pieces of the architecture bear witness to illegal entry over the years—the building’s been vacant since 2010.

But the days of bustling activity at the inn stand to experience a resurgence. Last October, the city of Oroville agreed to sell the property for $400,000 to real estate mogul Orville “Bud” Tracy, who has a long track record of restoring historic buildings in Butte County. Work already has begun to remove asbestos roofing and lead paint.

Scaffolding went up last week to begin work on the rest of the exterior, and the interior is being examined and plans made for renovation.

“I first studied the Oroville Inn in 1997; that’s when I got a full set of original floor plans,” Tracy said during a recent interview at his Oroville office, which sits just a block from the inn. He has big plans for the place, too, which include housing guests who will not only guarantee the inn will thrive, but also will patronize nearby restaurants and shops and thus inject new life into the surrounding area.

“It will be a major rejuvenation to have that building restored and occupied again,” Lenhoff said. “Because of its size and location, it’s kind of like an anchor for downtown Oroville.”

Tracy is a passionate man when it comes to

local history. Walking through the hallway to the downtown Oroville office of Tracy Realty Co., the walls are lined with historical photographs. More decorate his modest office.

“History is critical,” he said. “If we don’t remember, we lose so much of our heart.”

It’s safe to say Tracy’s heart is entrenched in Butte County. In 1911, his father, Orville Tracy Sr., opened the Tracy Realty Co. in downtown Chico. The younger Tracy was born in Durham, but spent most of his formative years in Chico, tagging along with his father on various jobs.

“Even as a little kid, I used to run around the basements of old buildings,” he said.

“Starting when I was 13 years old, he made me do an apprenticeship every summer. I cursed him intently then, but now I’m so thankful.”

Apprenticeships offered Tracy skills in everything from carpentry to electrical installation, skills that come in handy when he needs something fixed or refurbished.

In 1971, he took over the business from his father and his first solo project, what his wife affectionately calls “my first pickle out of the jar,” was the Garden Walk Mall in downtown Chico. He assessed the interior, was able to create storefronts inside that offered unique spaces and a warm feel. He’s since given a similarly old downtown Oroville building a comparable treatment. That indoor “mini mall” is called Prospector’s Alley and features a mix of retail shops, counseling offices, massage services and a yoga studio.

“I like changing the use of a space,” Tracy said, “figuring out something new to do with an old building to save it.”

Tracy’s worked on several other iconic Chico buildings, including two of Broadway’s beloved structures, the Silberstein and Phoenix. He also played a major role in developing the commercial corridor along East 20th Street and East Park Avenue. Tracy later worked with the Oroville Sports Club and Butte Community Bank on their Oroville properties, and OROVILLE continued on page 18 June 11, 2015

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The Oroville Inn is a perfect example of

finding new uses for an old building.

It originally was built for mixed uses, and it will remain that way. What once was a thriving hotel will become a residence hall for students of the Northwest Lineman College, which opened an Oroville campus in 2006.

The college, which offers training for electrical linework, needs a place to house students. It has increased its enrollment to 240 students per term— there are three terms each year—from just 128 a year ago. Tracy estimates about 85-100 students will be able to live at the inn.

The Washington Block Building, circa 1930.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI PIERCE

“It will give the students a good place to live at a good rate,” said Tom Schoonover, training manager at Northwest Lineman College. “We’re excited to have that open downtown.

It’s good for the community and we want that—we want to improve our community.”

Tracy said he’ll be working with a company called College Housing Services, which will function as the rental manager for the inn. In addition to providing housing for students, a large portion of the first floor retail space will be dedicated to a Lineman Legacy Museum, featuring the history of electricity and electrical work, for which Tracy said he’ll donate the space.

And it’s almost as though the inn is coming full circle with the linemen and electricity museum as tenants, Tracy said. That’s because before the inn was built, the property was home to the Edison Ore-Milling Co., owned

by Thomas Edison.

Walking through the residential portion

of the hotel, which occupies the second, third and fourth floors, it’s more difficult to see the elegance of the past. Over the years, it’s been used for various purposes, but the original 92 guest rooms were turned into a more modest 65 apartments in the 1980s. The last time they were occupied, about 10 years ago, they were used for low-income residents and for a drug-rehab program, Tracy said.

In 1999, Walnut Hill Estate Enterprises LLC member Jonothon Benefield bought the property and rented out the apartments as well as some of the retail spaces. By 2006, however, due to the disrepair of the building, the city of Oroville required that all tenants be evacuated,

The Oroville Inn originally included a circular driveway and interior courtyard. New owner Bud Tracy says he wants to restore the courtyard, which is currently a parking area.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES LENHOFF

according to Oroville MercuryRegister reports. By 2010, the city pointed to more than 600 health and safety code violations and the property was taken into receivership. Two years later, Oroville paid the $330,000 receiver’s bond, along with $173,661 in back taxes for the inn, but since then had done little with the property.

“It was left to rot,” Tracy said, visibly disappointed. He’d actually been called in by the receiver to caretake the property in 2010. He worked on the roofs and other parts of the building to protect it from further structural damage.

One of the unique features of the hotel is its wood floors throughout, which Tracy hopes to maintain with the help of a local flooring company, which also will work on putting in a new ballroom floor. But with the linemen itching to move in, after ensuring the viability and safety of the structure, the residential part of the building is his first item of business.

Last week, he studied each room—no two are exactly alike—to determine how many occupants it could accommodate. He hopes to have tenants in those rooms by November 2016.

As for the rest of the inn, much renovation will be needed to restore it to its former glory. A room in the very front, an addition likely tacked on in the 1950s, was Tracy’s first major undertaking when he started construction last week. As workers chipped away at it, he beamed. “I’ve been wanting to get rid of that thing for years,” he said. That addition covered

one of the large windows into the banquet room.

The first floor of the inn is divided into many different rooms and storefronts. The main part of the building includes an entry parlor, banquet room and ballroom.

Tracy has located all of the missing chandeliers—several were sold at auction years ago—and ensured they’ll be put back into place. He’s also been holding meetings each Thursday afternoon with locals who remember stories about the inn. One woman came in, he said, and remembered the drapes quite clearly, from the color to the texture and even the fabric type. She’s offered to help recreate them.

There’s also a large kitchen, which opens both into the ballroom and into a separate retail space whose doors face Bird Street. Tracy envisions a steakhouse (a la 5th Street in Chico) moving in there.

Next to that space was a large tavern that could be another bar or might be better suited to another use, he said.

On the first floor underneath the residences, facing Miners Alley, will be the electricity museum and a small store selling merchandise from the Northwest Lineman College. And a large retail space at the corner of Bird and Downer streets would be the perfect spot for a neighborhood market, Tracy said. He’s already in talks with a potential tenant.

“Ten years ago, downtown Oroville was all antique shops and thrift stores,” Tracy said. “We’re down to three antique shops now.

And I like Starbucks, but I wouldn’t put one in downtown. Downtown is the last bastion of small business—I Bud Tracy has finished work on the first floor of the Prospector’s Alley mini mall, around the corner from the Oroville Inn. PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. COOPER

feel very strongly about that.”

Part of his solution, which has been different from others’, is bringing clientele along with business. Having 85-100 students living in downtown will ensure clients for a market, restaurants and other businesses there. The college’s Schoonover agreed, saying that was a plus when discussing housing options for students.

“They’ll be downtown, which will help boost the economy downtown,” he said. “Community is very important to us.”

A few blocks over, Tracy walked into the Prospector’s Alley mini mall, which he renovated, and up the stairs at the rear of the building. This will be his pet project sometime next year, he said, after progress is made on the inn. He walked through the wooden guts of a former brothel and hotel that dates back to 1872. His vision for this space, which has 25 rooms, is for it to become a dorm of sorts for Butte College women. (Then there’d be both male and female college students living downtown.)

Walking along Myers, Montgomery and Bird streets, he reminisced about the history—did you know there used to be glass panels in the sidewalks at the corner of Myers and Montgomery, which shined light down on the saloon below? And he seemed genuinely excited for the future of downtown Oroville, which already is brighter and more bustling than it was a decade ago.

Historian Lenhoff is likewise optimistic.

“Throughout the downtown there are a lot of new things that are going on,” he said. “These different things that are starting to take place are showing that Oroville has a Ω good life ahead of it.”

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“There are two iconic buildings in downtown Oroville that, because they’ve [not been fixed up], still make the area look bad,” Tracy said. “That’s the Oroville Inn and the Washington Block Building, the oldest commercial building in Oroville.

But if they’re restored, they could change the whole face of downtown.”

The Washington Block Building, named for President George Washington, was built in 1856 and included a five-room basement that housed a popular saloon and gambling parlor called the Bank Exchange. The first floor housed an actual bank, according to historian James Lenhoff, as well as a business owned by Benjamin Myers, for whom Myers Street is named. A second floor was added around 1900.

“It had windows in the basement, but it made you think you were on ground level because there were skylights,” Lenhoff said.

Lori Pierce said her husband’s passion for local history prompted the purchase.

“Sean wanted to make sure that building was preserved for the future,” she wrote in an email, adding that it’s been vacant for more than 30 years. “It’s a great corner in downtown Oroville and it will be a beautiful building when he’s finished with it.”

The Washington Block Building is included in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Oroville Commercial District (Old). In its listing, it’s described thusly: “Perhaps the most significant building in the district from the historical perspective is the Washington Block Building …. Despite being underground, the windows of the Bank Exchange opened into light wells, which still underlie existing sidewalks, and were hung with tinted glass double French doors to give the impression that the saloon was not, in fact, underground. The French windows, as well as the original rooms, still remain. In addition to functioning as a saloon, the rooms were used for many town functions and meetings, including a few public trials.”

The back corner of the building faces Miners Alley (but does not reach it, except by another small alley), which was the road the miners took into town from the mines.

“Miners Alley was built when they laid out the town of Oroville. They named all the streets after the founders, but then they had an alley, and they didn’t want to insult anybody by naming an alley after them, so they named it after everybody,” Lenhoff said. “The Washington Block has courtyard access to the alley— hopefully [the Pierces] will be able to tap into that.

“Everything they do in construction is top-grade.

They do beautiful work. That’s going to be a big attraction. It’ll be wonderful when both of those buildings [the Washington Block and Oroville Inn] are restored—those are two major landmarks in downtown.”

during his visits there, he said he always felt the area needed a facelift, revitalization. It was the then-chief operating officer of Butte Community Bank who solidified his efforts in the nearby community.

“John Stanton was the reason I came to Oroville,” Tracy said. “I made him a promise that I’d help him fix up Oroville.”

The day he made that promise, Stanton had a heart attack and died. Tracy finished his work on the development of an Oroville branch of Butte Community Bank. Then, as a tribute to Stanton, he bought property on an adjacent corner, where an old gas station had been. He cleaned up the site, put in a building there and dubbed it Stanton’s Corner.

“Once the walls went up, we had a tenant in a week,” Tracy said. He’d made his first mark on Oroville and shortly after opened his office there, which is where he’s located much of the time these days.

His daughter, Arwen Funk, oversees operations in his Chico office.

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The Oroville Inn is a perfect example of

finding new uses for an old building.

It originally was built for mixed uses, and it will remain that way. What once was a thriving hotel will become a residence hall for students of the Northwest Lineman College, which opened an Oroville campus in 2006.

The college, which offers training for electrical linework, needs a place to house students. It has increased its enrollment to 240 students per term— there are three terms each year—from just 128 a year ago. Tracy estimates about 85-100 students will be able to live at the inn.

The Washington Block Building, circa 1930.

PHOTO COURTESY OF LORI PIERCE

“It will give the students a good place to live at a good rate,” said Tom Schoonover, training manager at Northwest Lineman College. “We’re excited to have that open downtown.

It’s good for the community and we want that—we want to improve our community.”

Tracy said he’ll be working with a company called College Housing Services, which will function as the rental manager for the inn. In addition to providing housing for students, a large portion of the first floor retail space will be dedicated to a Lineman Legacy Museum, featuring the history of electricity and electrical work, for which Tracy said he’ll donate the space.

And it’s almost as though the inn is coming full circle with the linemen and electricity museum as tenants, Tracy said. That’s because before the inn was built, the property was home to the Edison Ore-Milling Co., owned

by Thomas Edison.

Walking through the residential portion

of the hotel, which occupies the second, third and fourth floors, it’s more difficult to see the elegance of the past. Over the years, it’s been used for various purposes, but the original 92 guest rooms were turned into a more modest 65 apartments in the 1980s. The last time they were occupied, about 10 years ago, they were used for low-income residents and for a drug-rehab program, Tracy said.

In 1999, Walnut Hill Estate Enterprises LLC member Jonothon Benefield bought the property and rented out the apartments as well as some of the retail spaces. By 2006, however, due to the disrepair of the building, the city of Oroville required that all tenants be evacuated,

The Oroville Inn originally included a circular driveway and interior courtyard. New owner Bud Tracy says he wants to restore the courtyard, which is currently a parking area.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JAMES LENHOFF

according to Oroville MercuryRegister reports. By 2010, the city pointed to more than 600 health and safety code violations and the property was taken into receivership. Two years later, Oroville paid the $330,000 receiver’s bond, along with $173,661 in back taxes for the inn, but since then had done little with the property.

“It was left to rot,” Tracy said, visibly disappointed. He’d actually been called in by the receiver to caretake the property in 2010. He worked on the roofs and other parts of the building to protect it from further structural damage.

One of the unique features of the hotel is its wood floors throughout, which Tracy hopes to maintain with the help of a local flooring company, which also will work on putting in a new ballroom floor. But with the linemen itching to move in, after ensuring the viability and safety of the structure, the residential part of the building is his first item of business.

Last week, he studied each room—no two are exactly alike—to determine how many occupants it could accommodate. He hopes to have tenants in those rooms by November 2016.

As for the rest of the inn, much renovation will be needed to restore it to its former glory. A room in the very front, an addition likely tacked on in the 1950s, was Tracy’s first major undertaking when he started construction last week. As workers chipped away at it, he beamed. “I’ve been wanting to get rid of that thing for years,” he said. That addition covered

one of the large windows into the banquet room.

The first floor of the inn is divided into many different rooms and storefronts. The main part of the building includes an entry parlor, banquet room and ballroom.

Tracy has located all of the missing chandeliers—several were sold at auction years ago—and ensured they’ll be put back into place. He’s also been holding meetings each Thursday afternoon with locals who remember stories about the inn. One woman came in, he said, and remembered the drapes quite clearly, from the color to the texture and even the fabric type. She’s offered to help recreate them.

There’s also a large kitchen, which opens both into the ballroom and into a separate retail space whose doors face Bird Street. Tracy envisions a steakhouse (a la 5th Street in Chico) moving in there.

Next to that space was a large tavern that could be another bar or might be better suited to another use, he said.

On the first floor underneath the residences, facing Miners Alley, will be the electricity museum and a small store selling merchandise from the Northwest Lineman College. And a large retail space at the corner of Bird and Downer streets would be the perfect spot for a neighborhood market, Tracy said. He’s already in talks with a potential tenant.

“Ten years ago, downtown Oroville was all antique shops and thrift stores,” Tracy said. “We’re down to three antique shops now.

And I like Starbucks, but I wouldn’t put one in downtown. Downtown is the last bastion of small business—I Bud Tracy has finished work on the first floor of the Prospector’s Alley mini mall, around the corner from the Oroville Inn. PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. COOPER

feel very strongly about that.”

Part of his solution, which has been different from others’, is bringing clientele along with business. Having 85-100 students living in downtown will ensure clients for a market, restaurants and other businesses there. The college’s Schoonover agreed, saying that was a plus when discussing housing options for students.

“They’ll be downtown, which will help boost the economy downtown,” he said. “Community is very important to us.”

A few blocks over, Tracy walked into the Prospector’s Alley mini mall, which he renovated, and up the stairs at the rear of the building. This will be his pet project sometime next year, he said, after progress is made on the inn. He walked through the wooden guts of a former brothel and hotel that dates back to 1872. His vision for this space, which has 25 rooms, is for it to become a dorm of sorts for Butte College women. (Then there’d be both male and female college students living downtown.)

Walking along Myers, Montgomery and Bird streets, he reminisced about the history—did you know there used to be glass panels in the sidewalks at the corner of Myers and Montgomery, which shined light down on the saloon below? And he seemed genuinely excited for the future of downtown Oroville, which already is brighter and more bustling than it was a decade ago.

Historian Lenhoff is likewise optimistic.

“Throughout the downtown there are a lot of new things that are going on,” he said. “These different things that are starting to take place are showing that Oroville has a Ω good life ahead of it.”

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he Oroville Inn isn’t the only historic building downtown being renovated. The Washington Block Building, on the corner of Myers and Montgomery streets, was recently bought by Sean and Lori Pierce, also real estate bigwigs in downtown Oroville who have restored other historic buildings to great success. With the Pierces and Bud Tracy working simultaneously on two of the largest rundown landmarks in the area, downtown Oroville stands to experience a further resurgence of new life.

“There are two iconic buildings in downtown Oroville that, because they’ve [not been fixed up], still make the area look bad,” Tracy said. “That’s the Oroville Inn and the Washington Block Building, the oldest commercial building in Oroville.

But if they’re restored, they could change the whole face of downtown.”

The Washington Block Building, named for President George Washington, was built in 1856 and included a five-room basement that housed a popular saloon and gambling parlor called the Bank Exchange. The first floor housed an actual bank, according to historian James Lenhoff, as well as a business owned by Benjamin Myers, for whom Myers Street is named. A second floor was added around 1900.

“It had windows in the basement, but it made you think you were on ground level because there were skylights,” Lenhoff said.

Lori Pierce said her husband’s passion for local history prompted the purchase.

“Sean wanted to make sure that building was preserved for the future,” she wrote in an email, adding that it’s been vacant for more than 30 years. “It’s a great corner in downtown Oroville and it will be a beautiful building when he’s finished with it.”

The Washington Block Building is included in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Oroville Commercial District (Old). In its listing, it’s described thusly: “Perhaps the most significant building in the district from the historical perspective is the Washington Block Building …. Despite being underground, the windows of the Bank Exchange opened into light wells, which still underlie existing sidewalks, and were hung with tinted glass double French doors to give the impression that the saloon was not, in fact, underground. The French windows, as well as the original rooms, still remain. In addition to functioning as a saloon, the rooms were used for many town functions and meetings, including a few public trials.”

The back corner of the building faces Miners Alley (but does not reach it, except by another small alley), which was the road the miners took into town from the mines.

“Miners Alley was built when they laid out the town of Oroville. They named all the streets after the founders, but then they had an alley, and they didn’t want to insult anybody by naming an alley after them, so they named it after everybody,” Lenhoff said. “The Washington Block has courtyard access to the alley— hopefully [the Pierces] will be able to tap into that.

“Everything they do in construction is top-grade.

They do beautiful work. That’s going to be a big attraction. It’ll be wonderful when both of those buildings [the Washington Block and Oroville Inn] are restored—those are two major landmarks in downtown.”

during his visits there, he said he always felt the area needed a facelift, revitalization. It was the then-chief operating officer of Butte Community Bank who solidified his efforts in the nearby community.

“John Stanton was the reason I came to Oroville,” Tracy said. “I made him a promise that I’d help him fix up Oroville.”

The day he made that promise, Stanton had a heart attack and died. Tracy finished his work on the development of an Oroville branch of Butte Community Bank. Then, as a tribute to Stanton, he bought property on an adjacent corner, where an old gas station had been. He cleaned up the site, put in a building there and dubbed it Stanton’s Corner.

“Once the walls went up, we had a tenant in a week,” Tracy said. He’d made his first mark on Oroville and shortly after opened his office there, which is where he’s located much of the time these days.

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Rock-and-roll Hall of Famer, Randy Newman comes to the Nevada County Fairgrounds for a rare Northern California performance. Bring your picnic dinner, lawn chairs and settle in for an evening under the stars with Randy Newman! $37.50/$55 advance · $40 at the gate $85 Family Pass Picnic Table seating for sale Don’t miss more CONCERTS UNDER THE STARS! SAT.JUNE.27: Cirque de la Symphonie [8pm] FRI.JULY.03: Happy Birthday USA [8pm]

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Arts & Culture Monique de Francesca, Baroness of Rivenoak, beats the heat with Lord Cathal MacClay, Seneschal of the Shire of Bestwode (aka Redding).

Their “mundane” names are Monique Bird and Terry Shackleford, respectively.

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THIS WEEK

Hello to Chico’s first Rennaisance/fantasy fair

AandtheI beheld End of Normal, my adventuring companion a delightful series of strange sights,

s we neared the end of our arduous trek toward

which we merrily agreed bode well for our quest to find fun and freakiness. story and We’d traveled many fractions photo by of a league through the blazing Ken Smith heat to reach the Sierra Fantasy Faire on Saturday (June 6), and kens@ newsreview.com our first encounter—an ice cream truck singing its siren song as we REVIEW: neared the main entrance—promSierra Fantasy ised sweet delights and relief from Faire, June 6, at the End of Normal the heat. The second—an adorable half-chihuahua, half-gargoyle beast so undaunted by our motorized metal wagon he refused to budge from the road—offered a peek at the wondrous creatures and characters to come. Then, upon witnessing a man in his early 20s engaged in a passionate make-out session with a costumed woman twice his age in a wooded glade, we had proof that at least two people’s fantasies were coming true at this gathering.

Romantic rendezvous were not part of the event’s official itinerary—the lucky couple must have found the surroundings particularly enticing and acted on their own accord—but there were delights aplenty promised at the Fantasy Faire, a fundraising event for Blue Oak Charter School. As the school’s executive director, Nathan Rose, explained during the fair, “We were aware of the success of [other schools’ fundraising] events like Sherwoodstock and the Wildflower Music Festival and figured no one else in town does a Renaissance fair. Then we decided to make it a fantasy fair, so whether you’re a steampunk or a mountain man or in the SCA [Society for Creative Anachronism] or the Scottish Guild, we’re here for you.”

For a fortnight prior, I’d used my web-scrying oracle to keep apprised of the fair’s expanding offerings, and grew ever more excited with each added wonder. Irish cowboy fiddle music, a Swedish nyckelharpa player, Bay Area-based Celtic-rockers Tempest, fairy folk, belly dancers, Burners and proud weirdos of all sorts united for one big family-friendly fandango.

I bartered a fun farthing (a wooden drink token emblazoned with the countenance of a jolly gnome) for a frozen margarita and began making the rounds

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among the merchants’ stalls set up along the perimeter of a wide green sward. In the center was a ropedoff ring where men in homemade armor occasionally battered one another with homemade swords, though these bouts became less frequent as temperatures continued to rise. It was mid-afternoon, and Rose said that the fair had been much better attended in the morning, and he expected more would come when it cooled off (the event ran from 10 a.m. to 7:30 p.m.).

The stalls featured lots of homemade jewelry, crafts and costume clothing as well as some rarer items, like a fantabulous array of instruments and amplifiers handmade from reclaimed materials by ONESIXTWO Cigar Box Guitars. There also were stalls for fantasy-friendly organizations like the aforementioned SCA, an international organization of medieval-times enthusiasts who not only dress and act like characters from the purported days of yore, but also study and practice ancient arts, sciences and warfare.

The SCA folks invited us under their canopy for a respite from the heat and to tell us about their organization. They do not live, as the rest of us do, in Chico, but in the Barony of Rivenoak in the Kingdom of the West.

As we talked, a minstrel named Randall Dighton (a member of the Butte County Scottish Society, another group of adults who like to play dress-up) strolled in and declared he’d like to play us all a song on his lute about an American tourist who goes into a Scottish pub. Monique de Francesca, the Baroness of Rivenoak (“mundane” name: Monique Bird), stopped texting to engage in a water-gun fight with a balloon-sword-wielding toddler escorted by his mother, who was dressed as a Western/steampunk courtesan. And my adventuring companion slipped off to get another beer and have a woman sew the wooden flower button he’d just bought onto his fringed suede jacket.

I finished my second margarita as the minstrel’s song ended, and in the distance heard a man on the main stage rapping about the perils of modern life, backed by the musicians of the Electric Canyon Convergence. I prayed—to the old gods and the new—that Rose was correct, that this fair was just the first installment of a long-running tradition, and that next year’s might be scheduled at a more temperate time. Ω

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Special Events PARTY IN THE PARK: Join the farmers, artists, and local vendors in the Paradise Community Park. This week enjoy rock, folk, and blues from Rube & The Rhythm Rockers. Th, 6/11, 5:30pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 872-6291.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farm-fresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment from ReBellyon, a family-friendly belly dance show. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free.

Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/ events.

WINE TASTING: Enjoy 10 different red and white wine varietals, and gourmet cheese samples.

A fundraiser for Handi-Riders, services and assisted activities and therapy for veterans.

Th, 6/11, 5-8pm. $10. Table Mountain Golf Course, 2700 Oro Dam Blvd W in Oroville, (530) 533-3311.

Music PAT DONOHUE: American fingerstyle guitarist and former member of A Prairie Home Companion. Th, 6/11, 7:30pm. $15-$20.

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Chico, 1289 Filbert Ave., (530) 343-1693, www.uuchico.org.

VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE: A comedy about two middle-aged siblings whose moviestar sister shows up to their home with her new boy toy only to stir up new resentments.

Directed by Jerry Miller. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 6/28. $12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Special Events FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: that Bakersfield country sound with The Blue Merles. F, 7pm. Opens 6/12.

Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

PUG SUNDAY BEER AND WINE TASTING: A fundraiser for the Chico Animal Hospital wth wine, beer, food, souvenir glass, silent auction, raffle, tour of the Stansbury Home & music by the Jeff Pershing Band. F, 6/12, 4-8pm. $25$175. Stansbury Home, 307 W. Fifth St. On the corner of Salem and 5th street, (530) 8953848.

TRASH TO TREASURE: A Grange fundraiser sale with antiques, jars, tools fabrics and tchotchkes, plus a sandwich luncheon. 6/126/13, 9am-3pm. $5 (for lunch). Wyandotte Grange Hall, 4910 Foothill Blvd. in Oroville, (530) 589-3194.

Theater RADIO GALS: Join the Hazelnuts on the radio as they chat, sing, dance and hawk their miracle tonic. Th-Su, 7:30pm, Su, 2ppm through 6/28. $15-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

FIRST PEOPLES SCREENING Wednesday, June 17 Sierra Nevada Big Room

SEE WEDNESDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS PUG SUNDAY BEER AND WINE TASTING Friday, June 12 Stansbury Home

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Theater A PIECE OF MY HEART: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.org.

NO DIK JUST JANE: A night of all female comedians from the Bay Area, Sacramento and Chico. Presented by Yubu Productions. Sa, 6/13, 9pm. $8. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

TRASH TO TREASURE: See Friday. 6/12-6/13, 9am3pm. $5 (for lunch). Wyandotte Grange Hall, 4910 Foothill Blvd. in Oroville, (530) 589-3194.

Music EBONY & IVORY: The third installment of the seasons Ebony & Ivory series features Charlie Robinson, with Higgy Lerner, Monica Taboada, Ja-key Robinson, and Gloria Hylton. F, 6/12, 6pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

Theater FRESH INK: Winning playwrights Sam Ruttenburg, Saralysette Ballard, Joan Goodreau, and Sean Proctor were each given one week to write a 15-20 minute play set in 1967 that includes the phrase “lonely are the brave,” two actors sharing a piece of fruit, someone using a payphone and a reference to David Bowie’s album ChangesOneBowie. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, through 6/13. $10-$12. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

A PIECE OF MY HEART: Historical drama about six women—one country singer and five nurses—who go to Vietnam. Part of the proceeds will go to the Oroville Veterans Memorial. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 6/21. Opens F, 6/12. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.org.

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

VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Special Events CHICO BICYCLE MUSIC FESTIVAL: Celebrate the Chico biking and music scenes with this roaming music fest. Get on your bike and start the ride at the Saturday Farmers’ Market and follow the festival to various locations throughout town. Music by Wolfthump, MaMuse, Mandalyn May, Bunnymilk, and DJ Hocus Pocus just to name a few. Sa, 6/13, 11am. Free. Call or visit website for details.

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

VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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UNITY IN DIVERSITY FESTIVAL: Celebrate diversity with live music, entertainment and games, a plant sale, plus food and drinks available for purchase. Sa, 6/13, 3-7pm. Free.

Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 872-6291.

Music KZFR ANNIVERSARY CONCERT: Celebrate 25 years of people-powered radio with KZFR 90.1 with performances by Mia Dyson, Achilles Wheel, Wolfthump, and Mossy Creek. Sa, 6/13, 4-10pm. $15. End of Normal, 2500 Estes Rd. Rt. on Estes off of Normal, (530) 895-0706.

Theater BIG FISH AUDITIONS: Prepare 16 bars of a musical theater song that shows your best vocal range. Bring sheet music in the correct key.

Sa, 6/13, 1pm. Free. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

BLUE ROOM AUDITIONS: Auditions are open to the public for all seven plays of the Blue Room Theatre’s 2015-2016 season. Currently, 38 roles are available. Sa, 6/13, 1-4pm. Free. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

A PIECE OF MY HEART: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.org.

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

VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION

Saturday, June 13 Martin Luther King Jr. Park

MON

Music FRANK SOLIVAN & DIRTY KITCHEN: The awardwinning bluegrass group performs tunes from their newest album, Cold Spell. Plus, acoustic bluegrass duo Rob Ickes and Trey Hensley. M, 6/15, 7:30-9:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

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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.

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James Snidle Fine Arts

1078 GALLERY: Liminal, new works from Chico State MFA students. Through 7/3. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

BUTTE COUNTY LIBRARY, CHICO BRANCH: New Works, sculptor Jerry Harris exhibits small sculptures made from metal and wood. Through 6/30. 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

CHICO ART CENTER: The Works of

Robert Benton Race, Chico-Paradise based artist showcases a diverse assembly of paintings and sculpture ranging from traditional landscape to contemporary mixed-media. Through 6/19. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Collage,

Paper, Pins, Bay area artist Michael Mew showcases his latest two dimensional collages using digital print layering on paper and pins. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

periods of happiness, success and tragedy.

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming

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://artistofriver town.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

- Land, Water, People, and Science. Plus, 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: Woodcarver

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) 8771919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Leaping Lemurs and Mysterious Crimes: On The Trail of Physical Anthropology, the exhibit takes visitors on the human journey from our African roots to modern humans through the eyes of physical anthropology.

Ongoing. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

Special Events FIRST PEOPLES SCREENING: A free screening of

the first episode in the PBS series First Peoples, a “global detective story” about the origins of humankind, featuring new fossil finds and the latest genetic research. W, 6/17, 7-9pm. Free. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 28

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JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION: An educational community fair with live music, dancing, a jump house and food. Sa, 6/13, 2-8pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2921 B St. in Oroville.

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ROCK, ROLL, REPEAT Until someone starts an annual Burritos ’n’ Swimming Holes Fandango, no other yearly event combines two quintessential things Chicoans hold dear like the Chico Bicycle Music Festival. Each year, hundreds of fans ride to various locations (this one starts at 11 a.m. at the Chico Certified EDITOR’S PICK Farmers Market on Saturday, June 13) to see a great roster of bands play sets, with the juice provided courtesy of a pedal-powered generator. For this seventh edition of the festival, the lineup includes Wolfthump, MaMuse, Mandalyn May, Bunnymilk and more.

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

Opening this week Blue Velvet (1986)

David Lynch’s masterpiece shines light in the dark corners of Mayberry, and for this 21-over late-show viewing (Saturday, June 13, 10:30 p.m.), the suitably darkly mysterious Bunnymilk will provide the live preshow soundtrack.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Güeros

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Not rated —J.C.S.

‘Geriatric starlet’

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See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Legendary documentarian Albert Maysles profiles fashion icon Iris Apfel Apfel is a New Yorker, a designer/collector/celebrity, Iherrisand90th an icon of contemporary fashion. She celebrated birthday a couple of years ago, and yet—in her

own distinctive, semi-eccentric way—she remains very “au courant.” She is, by her own reckoning, “a geriatric starlet.” by Apfel is the charmingly frisky subject Juan-Carlos of this shrewd, genial documentary by Selznick the late Albert Maysles (Gimme Shelter, Grey Gardens), and by Maysles’ reckoning, the geriatric starlet is even more remarkable than that amusingly oxymoronic label might suggest.

A couple of commentators/interviewees speak of her as a flamboyantly independent creative force operating in the conjoined territories of art, interior design and high fashion.

Maysles gives close attention to her Iris Opens Friday, improvised creations of jewelry, clothing June 12. and other accessories using materials Directed by found in her roving tours of marketAlbert Maysles.

Pageant places in the U.S. and abroad.

Maysles builds the portrait via comTheatre. Rated PG-13. ments from a variety of sources—fashion designers, a museum director, a wryhumored nephew, longtime Apfel housekeeper Inez Bailey, photographer Bruce Weber, and Iris’ husband, Carl Apfel.

The latter, clearly a kindred spirit, celebrates his 100th birthday in the course of Maysles’ filming.

Weber is particularly incisive, as when he speaks (warmly) of a toy- and game-filled Apfel residence as “the perfect house—for two children.” But most of the best remarks come from Iris herself. “Color can raise the dead,” she says at one rather self-reflective point.

And she’s talking to Weber when she digresses from fashion talk to say, “It’s better to be happy than to be well-dressed.”

Carl and Iris, those two ageless playmates, never had children. Why not? Iris answers: “You can’t do everything. Something has to give. And sometimes it’s you.” Ω

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Opens Friday, June 12. Pageant Theatre.

Not Rated.

by Juan-Carlos Selznick

In this freewheeling little romp from Mexico, a

teenager and his college-age brother goof off in increasingly serious ways during the lengthy 1999 student strike at the National Autonomous University of Mexico in the country’s capital.

Young Tomás (Sebastián Aguirre) is sent off to Mexico City after a prank involving a water balloon gets him banished from the family home in Vera Cruz. Older brother Sombra (Tenoch Huerta) and his roommate Santos (Leonardo Ortizgris) are “on strike against the strike,” but soon they’re visiting the outskirts of the student rebellion, and more.

Both brothers have fitfully passionate quests to pursue—Tomás yearns to track down a legendary folk singer and aging recluse named Epigmenio Cruz, and the brooding Sombra would like to continue his romantic pursuit of the fiery Ana (Ilse Salas), who is one of the leaders of the student strike. Both quests are successful—up to a point— but nobody in this tricky little comedy/adventure gets the satisfaction they’re hoping for. And the film as a whole, shot in black and white and full of odd twists and turns, proceeds accordingly.

In one scene, writer-director Alonso Ruiz Palacios visits with his actors onscreen for a brief conversation about the film’s zigzagging storyline. And that moment is particularly emblematic of the film’s playfully self-reflexive new-wave-style mannerisms.

Huerta does well with the challenges of playing Sombra, but the film’s real star is Salas, who is sharp both as a student rebel and as a French-style road-movie gamine. Ω

Jurassic World

It’s two decades later and the Jurassic World live-dinosaur theme park is real.

When attendance drops, a new creature is brought to life on the island to attract more visitors, and things go about as well as you might guess. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Love & Mercy

Paul Dano and John Cusack play young and older versions of Brian Wilson in this dual-narrative biopic about the Beach Boys mastermind. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13.

Now playing Aloha

Cameron Crowe (Almost Famous) wrote and directed this romantic dramedy about a military contractor (Bradley Cooper) who moves to Hawaii, falls for an Air Force pilot (Emma Stone), and is soon faced with a career dilemma involving military weapons. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13.

Entourage

The HBO TV series jumps to the big screen and finds movie star Vince and his boys faced with a make-or-break opportunity that will either cement their place in Tinseltown or send them back home to Queens, New York. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Insidious: Chapter 3

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Tom Hardy is a perfectly good choice to play George Miller’s heroically desperate antihero Mad Max, but the real star of this fourth installment of the franchise is the desperate and gallant Furiosa (Charlize Theron), who is trying to rescue the pregnant, bikiniclad trophy wives of the grotesquely masked archvillain Immortan Joe (Hugh Keays-Byrne). And Furiosa and at least a couple of the brides are fully capable of defending themselves, as are the wiz-

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ened lady bikers who turn up late in the action. The film’s macho feminism is dramatized via the brief, fugitive partnership of Furiosa and Max. As such, it stands as the latest of the thematic crosscurrents that mark the continuing evolution of the series’ testosteronefueled fantasies. Max plays a key role in the lady warriors’ survival, but he must walk away from the community he has helped preserve. That said, Fury Road is every bit as brutal and rambunctious as its predecessors. While it uses more CGI than some early reviews might lead you to believe, it has fierce, muscular intensity to its stunt-heavy action sequences, and a strikingly visceral sense of human flesh in its portraiture.

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Using pretty much the same premise as its predecessor, this sequel to the popular musical comedy finds the allfemale a capella troupe faced with having to overcome public humiliation during a performance by winning their way back into good standing at an international competition. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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If you love Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson and you think California sucks balls from top to bottom, you are going to love San Andreas. There’s plenty of glorious visual mayhem in the film, including earthquakes, tsunamis and Johnson’s totally out of control upperbody art. But, sadly, it also contains something nearly as devastating—dialogue so vapid, so shitty, it crushes the viewer and the film alike. The first quake hits outside California, at the Hoover Dam, and director Brad Peyton shows no sentimentality for national landmarks. The dam is history. A renowned scientist (Paul Giamatti) sets out to warn the world of impending quakes, and then the really big ones start to hit, first in Los Angeles then in San Francisco. Rescue pilot Johnson commandeers a helicopter and sets out to save his wife in L.A. and then his daughter in the Bay Area because, you know, millions of people are dying, but he has this little inkling that he can still put his family back together. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

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Spy

Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) is teamed up with Melissa McCarthy again, this time to for a spyfilm spoof about a CIA analyst (McCarthy) who volunteers to go into the field on an undercover mission to save the world from a dangerous arms dealer. Also starring Rose Byrne, Jude Law and Jason Statham. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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.

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Tspring last month and the slipping of into summer have given he sad passing of Miss Marilyn

Henri pause—time to reflect on the decade-plus by since he first Henri Bourride arrived in Chico, that sweet, furry h en ri@ newsrev iew.c om girl his sole escort and soul confidante. Who’d have thought we’d stay?

But here I am, still enjoying the simple life I’ve found here.

Mornings on my front porch with a tall Bloody Mary and a good book (the new memoir by Judy Garland’s agent, Judy & Liza & Robert & Freddie & David & Sue and Me, looks deliciously deviant). Afternoons napping on the lawn at One-Mile. And evenings at the Pageant Theatre watching movies, or going out to a play—Henri loved the Blue Room Theatre’s recent productions of Rick’s Café American and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Best of all, though, the farmers’ markets. Henri finds no greater joy this time of the year than wandering the crowded aisles of local produce and products, from the stunning floral bouquets to the exotic Asian beans, from the avocados and broccoli crowns to the exquisite handcrafted jewelry.

And this time of the year, it’s the strawberries—ripe and succulent, their sweet redolence wafting through the air—that most bestir Henri’s palate and imagination.

I usually buy at least a couple of

boxes on both Thursday evening and Saturday morning, one to nibble from and one to use for some of my favorite recipes.

Harvested wild since prehistoric times and most likely first cultivated in ancient Rome, strawberries have been consumed not only for their delicate sweet flavor but also have been used in folk remedies, including to treat skin and digestive disorders and to remove stains from teeth.

American scientists began developing hybrids in the late 18th century.

Derived from Old English, the word “strawberry” most likely comes from a reference to the straw that was typically used as mulch where the berries were grown. A more fanciful—and perhaps more poetic—theory is that the name came about because the berries were strewn about the ground and/or the leaves of the plants themselves. In some northern European countries today, people collect strawberries on “skewers” made of straw.

One of Henri’s favorite ways to enjoy strawberries is in shortcake, a favorite American dessert since the mid-1800s that actually dates from 15th century England.

Traditionally, it’s made with sweet biscuits, lots of sliced strawberries and a scoop of ice cream or dollop of whipped cream. The following recipe is from southernfood.about. com, slightly modified.

Strawberry shortcake 1 quart strawberries 1 1/2 cups whipping cream 3 tablespoons sugar 1 teaspoon vanilla 2 cups all-purpose flour

1 tablespoon baking powder 1/2 teaspoon salt 1/3 cup sugar 1/2 stick butter, chilled 2/3 cup cream

Rinse the berries under cold water, and drain. Remove stems, slice the berries, place in bowl and sprinkle with the sugar; cover and let stand at room temperature for about one hour. Whip the cream—sweeten with 2 or 3 tablespoons of sugar, if desired, and a teaspoon of vanilla—until it holds a soft peak. Cover and refrigerate.

Preheat the oven to 425. Set rack at center level.

In a food processor, combine the flour, baking powder, salt, sugar, and butter cut into pads.

Pulse until coarse, with a few peasized chunks of butter remaining.

Transfer to a large bowl and make a well in the center. With a fork or stiff whisk, stir in the cream or milk, until dough is just moist.

Let stand for a minute. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead 2 or 3 times, until it begins to hold together.

Gently pat the dough into a 6-by-12-inch rectangle about 3/4-inch thick and cut into 8 (3-inch) biscuits with a floured round cutter. Transfer to a buttered, foil-lined cookie sheet, brush on a little milk or cream and sprinkle tops with sugar. Bake for 10 to 15 minutes, until risen and golden brown. Remove to a platter and split each biscuit with a serrated knife, laying halves side by side, then top each with about 1/3 cup of berry mixture.

Reassemble and top with a tablespoon or so of berries and whipped cream. □

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The Hillbilly Stomp Tour brings a rockabilly party to the Maltese

Rgrass, roots music that incorporates elements of bluewestern swing, blues, honky-tonk, and most ockabilly is a loosely defined form of American

essentially, rock ’n’ roll into a high-energy and often rebellious style that spans decades by of rock history. Seminal examples Carey Wilson include Elvis Presley’s “Blue Moon of Kentucky” and Carl Perkins’ “Blue Suede Shoes,” both from the mid-1950s. But the genre made a notable mark in the punk REVIEW and post-punk eras as well, most Doug C and the notably with The Cramps, Stray Blacklisted, The Delta Cats and the Reverend Horton Bombers, Aces Over Jacks and Heat.

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Room hosted the visiting Hillbilly Stomp Tour, featuring one rootsy solo performer and three prime examples of the current crop of rockabilly bands, each offering its own variation on basic themes of rebellion, booze, chicks and fast cars set to the music of upright bass, guitars and (except for headliners Doug C and the Blacklisted) drums.

The evening kicked off with a set by one-man band Crosby Tyler. Self-accompanied on kick drum, guitar and harmonica, and looking a bit like Ichabod Crane dressed in a classic black-and-white-striped prisoner suit, the Dallas musician warmed up the as yet small crowd with what could be termed uplifting bluesy songs of the down-and-out.

Next up, Hermosa Beach “headliners” Doug C and the Blacklisted took the stage for a brief sound check and then launched into a high-velocity countryflavored version of the Nat King Cole standard “Route 66.” Doug C (for Carrion) is a longtime participant in the So-Cal punk scene, having put in time playing and writing songs with such punk luminaries as the Descendents and Dag Nasty, and trippy hip-hop punks Kottonmouth Kings. The Blacklisted are Mike Khalil, picking the Fender Telecaster, and

Johnny Latu, slapping the doghouse bass.

Carrion’s rough-edged voice, acoustic guitar and charismatic, upbeat stage banter immediately engaged the mixed crowd of Boozefighter bikers, local musicians, mini-skirted dancers and postcollegiate rockers. But it was Khalil’s dexterous, tasteful and endlessly inventive lead picking that really enhanced and uplifted the songs’ simple chord structures and vocal melodies. Highlights of the allkiller-no-filler set included originals “Thinkin’ and Drivin,’” and the “liquor, women and heartbreak” anthem “Let It Be Me,” which also included a nifty insertion of Hank Garland’s classic “Sugarfoot Rag” that showed off Khalil’s mastery of the classics as well as his own freestyling lead picking.

Continuing the reverse-order lineup, Las Vegas quartet The Delta Bombers loaded the stage with another guitar rig, a set of drums, an electric upright bass, some lumberjack-worthy facial hair and enough tattoo ink to profusely illustrate Huckleberry Finn. Lead singer and rhythm guitarist Chris Moinichen—a gruff-voiced man-mountain decked out in a denim vest—is the kind of frontman who calls for the crowd to get up on the dance floor because, “I don’t want to see you dance. I want to see you get drunk!” A good portion of the crowd complied with this declaration and for the rest of the set the floor in front of the stage became a writhing mass of raised glasses and whoops of approval for lead guitarist Andrew Himmler’s sinewy licks.

Closing out the night, Redding trio Aces Over Jacks brought a ton of energy, volume and hot rhythm to the stage. Guitarist/backing vocalist Sean Cheney, drummer Joey Brunelli and lead singer/standup bassist Greg Gallup incorporated surf, punk and metal elements into their powerchord driven version of rockabilly. It proved just the right mix to keep the folks on the dance floor hoppin’ and those of us holding down the barstools boppin’ on our seats and whooping along till well after midnight. □

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The sense of dread is what makes these songs unique (it’s definitely not the titles, which run as “Sequence 1”and so on through the first nine of 12 tracks). Vintage synthesizers and sequencers make for eerie bedfellows. “Sequence 3” is the only piece to feature live guitar and drums. The rest is a chilling collection that paints macabre pictures of death and doom, although you can never accuse Zombi’s music of being lifeless.

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EBONY & IVORY: The third installment of the Ebony & Ivory series features local jazz legend Charlie Robinson, with Higgy Lerner, Monica Taboada, Ja-key Robinson, and Gloria Hylton. F, 6/12, 6pm. $12. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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11THURSDAY CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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FURLOUGH FRIDAYS ALBUM RELEASE: Local rockers release their new album Rumspringa. Recorded by Matt Franklin at Energy Plant Arts. Friends Motown Filthy, Lonely Kings and FallRise open. F, 6/12, 8pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway, (530) 893-1891, www.lasallesbar.com.

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

PAT DONOHUE: American fingerstyle guitarist and former member of A Prairie Home Companion. Th, 6/11, 7:30pm. $15-$20. Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Chico, 1289 Filbert Ave., (530) 343-1693, www.uuchico.org.

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DELTA NOVE: Brazilian funk-rock and roots from Long Beach plus psychedelic rock from Sac’s Exquisite Corps.

Th, 6/11. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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BIG BAD BOODIE ROCK: High energy retro dance and funk hits from the 1970s and 1980s. Th, 6/11, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feath erfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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GROOVESESSION: So-Cal power rock trio GrooveSession is joined by local psychedelic funkster Smokey and the Groove. F, 6/12. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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I scour my hard drive and the Internet, and reach out to my circle of music junkies and you readers in search of tunes for a new summer soundtrack.

Next week, I’ll post a list of 20 or so AD-certified summer bangers, and I’d love your suggestions. Email me now!

As always, my only requirement for inclusion on a summer playlist is that the song was released for mass consumption sometime after September of the previous year—that this is its first summer season. All styles are welcome, just as long as they can find at least one suitable spot in the rotation between headphones, the car, backyard cookouts, housecleaning and large public events during the summer. I’m not a club guy, but as always, pop/dance anthems are very welcome, especially if they are undeniable masterpieces (think Outkast’s “Hey Ya!”). But even the most throw-away, teeth-rotting pop jam is fair game if it’s inescapably infectious enough (think “Tik Tok” by Ke$ha or “Call Me Maybe” by Carly Rae Jepsen).

Here are a few tunes that already have me fully hooked: “Fatal Flaw” and “Dimed Out”—Titus Andronicus: Part of my holy trinity of currently active bands—with Vampire Weekend and Arcade Fire—Titus Andronicus is putting the finishing touches on its fourth album, The Most Lamentable Tragedy, a two-CD/three-LP “rock opera in five acts”(!). It doesn’t come out until July 28, but the band has prereleased a couple of singles via video: the catchy-as-hell, sing-along rocker “Fatal Flaw” and the fist-pumping punk anthem “Dimed Out” (“Don’t wanna buy an ounce/ For me, the right amount is the entire pound!”).

“Back of the Car”—RAC: If I remove my personal bias for Titus Andronicus’ style of hyper rock from the equation, this foot-tapping, sunny electro-acoustic collaboration between Portland indie-electronic producer/ songwriter André Allen Anjos (aka RAC) and Kansas singer/songwriter Nate Henricks would be my summer frontrunner.

“Get to Know”—Charlie Belle: This Austin, Texas, three-piece—with 16-year-old singer/guitarist Jendayi Bonds and her two younger bandmates, brother/drummer Gyasi Bonds and bassist Zoe Czarnecki—is undeniably charming. This title track from the trio’s debut EP has everything a perfect indie-pop song should: crystalline guitar tone, snappy foottapping drums, melodic bass line, infectious and evocative lead vocals and dreamy harmonies. Your new favorite band.

“If You Think She Didn’t Hear,” “Rio! Get Your Pony!” and “Breathe Now Holy Water”—Harvester: I admit that including three tunes Charlie Belle from this new(!) album by the semidefunct one-time Chico/Davis band (featuring Sean Harrasser of Chico’s Western Divide) might be a case of nostalgia getting the better of me, but nostalgia is a powerful ingredient for a magical summer. Besides, there is nothing nostalgic about a hyper, perfectly constructed, emotionally overloaded pop jam like “Breathe Now Holy Water.”

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“Uptown Funk”—Mark Ronson (with Bruno Mars): Yes, the lyrics are kind of ridiculous, but, damn, I love the energy Mars brings to anything he does, including this guest lead vocal on Ronson’s Morris Day-“inspired” jam.

FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 11, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To look at a

thing hard and straight and seriously—to fix it.” Aries author Henry James said he wanted to do that on a regular basis.

He didn’t want to be “arbitrary” or “mechanical” in his efforts. I invite you to make this perspective one of your specialties in the coming weeks, Aries.

Pick out a tweaked situation you’d like to mend or a half-spoiled arrangement you want to heal. Then pour your pure intelligence into it. Investigate it with a luminous focus. Use all your tough and tender insight to determine what needs to be transformed, and transform it.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Drug

expert Jonathan P. Caulkins estimates that Americans are stoned on marijuana for more than 288 million hours every week. A U.N. report on global drug use concluded that Canadians consume weed at a similar rate. Among Europeans, Italians are No. 1 and the French are fourth.

But I encourage you to avoid contributing to these figures for the next 12 to 14 days.

In my astrological opinion, it’s time to be as sober and sensible and serious as you ever get. You have the chance to make unprecedented progress on practical matters through the power of your pure reasoning and critical thinking.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I think it’ll

be better if you don’t engage in much sacrifice, compromise or surrender in the next two weeks. Normally they are valuable tools to have at your disposal, but for now they may tend to be counterproductive. Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect you need to be more commanding than usual, more confident in your vision of how to take action with maximum integrity. It’s time for you to draw deeper from the source of your own power, and express it with extra grace and imagination.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You will

soon be escaping—or maybe “graduating” is the right word—from your interesting trials and tribulations. In honor of this cathartic transition, I suggest you consider doing a ritual.

It can be a full-fledged ceremony you conduct with somber elegance, or a five-minute psychodrama you carry out with boisterous nonchalance. It will be a celebration of your ability to outlast the forces of chaos and absurdity, and an expression of gratitude for the resources you’ve managed to call on in the course of your struggle. To add an extra twist, you could improvise a rowdy victory prayer that includes this quote adapted from Nietzsche: “I throw roses into the abyss and say: ‘Here is my thanks to the monster who did not devour me.’”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I propose a

Friends Cleanse. It would be a threeweek-long process of reviewing your support team and web of connections. If you feel up for the challenge, start this way: Take inventory of your friendships and alliances. If there are any that have faded or deteriorated, make a commitment to either fix them or else phase them out. Here’s the second stage of the Friends Cleanse: Give dynamic boosts to those relationships that are already working well. Take them to the next level of candor and synergy.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): After Walt

Whitman published Leaves of Grass in 1855, he made sure it would get the publicity he wanted. He wrote anonymous reviews of his own book and submitted them to several publications, all of which printed them. “An American bard at last!” began the glowing review that appeared in one newspaper. According to my reading of the astrological omens, Virgo, you now have license to engage in similar behavior. You will incur no karma, nor will you tempt fate, if you tout your own assets in the coming weeks. Try to make your bragging and self-promotion as charming as possible, of course. But don’t be timid about it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If you carry

out the assignments I recommend, you will boost your charisma, your chutzpah and your creativity. Here’s the first one: Try something impossible every day.

BY ROB BREzSNY Whether or not you actually accomplish it isn’t important. To merely make the effort will shatter illusions that are holding you back. Here’s your second assignment: Break every meaningless rule that tempts you to take yourself too seriously.

Explore the art of benevolent mischief.

Here’s the third: Clear out space in your fine mind by shedding one dogmatic belief, two unprovable theories and three judgmental opinions. Give yourself the gift of fertile emptiness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In the

16th century, roguish French author Francois Rabelais published a comic novel entitled The Life of Gargantua and of Pantagruel. In the course of his satirical story, a learned teacher named Epistemon takes a visit to the afterlife and back. While on the other side, he finds famous dead heroes employed in humble tasks. Alexander the Great is making a meager living from mending old socks. Cleopatra is hawking onions in the streets. King Arthur cleans hats and Helen of Troy supervises chambermaids.

In accordance with the Rabelaisian quality of your current astrological aspects, Scorpio, I invite you to meditate on the reversals you would like to see in your own life. What is first that maybe should be last? And vice versa? What’s enormous that should be small? And vice versa?

What’s proud that should be humble? And vice versa?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There’s no better time than now to ask the big question or seek the big opening or explore the big feeling. People are not only as receptive as they will ever be, they are also more likely to understand what you really mean and what you are trying to accomplish. Which door has been forever locked? Which poker face hasn’t blinked or flinched in many moons?

Which heart of darkness hasn’t shown a crack of light for as long as you can remember? These are frontiers worth revisiting now, when your ability to penetrate the seemingly impenetrable is at a peak.

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

writer Donald Barthelme once came to see the artist Elaine de Kooning in her New York studio. Midway through the visit, loud crashes and bangs disturbed the ceiling above them. De Kooning wasn’t alarmed. “Oh, that’s Herbert thinking,” she said, referring to the metal sculptor Herbert Ferber, who worked in a studio directly above hers. This is the kind of thinking I’d love to see you unleash in the coming days, Capricorn. Now is not a time for mild, cautious, delicate turns of thought, but rather for vigorous meditations, rambunctious speculations and carefree musings. In your quest for practical insight, be willing to make some noise. (The story comes from Barthelme’s essay “Not-Knowing.”)

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

Lumet was an American director who worked on 50 films, including 14 that were nominated for Academy Awards, like Network and Dog Day Afternoon. Actors loved to work with him, even though he was a stickler for thorough rehearsals.

Intense preparation, he felt, was the key to finding the “magical accidents” that allow an actor’s highest artistry to emerge. I advocate a similar strategy for you, Aquarius. Make yourself ready, through practice and discipline, to capitalize fully on serendipitous opportunities and unexpected breakthroughs when they arrive.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It is not

only the most difficult thing to know oneself, but the most inconvenient one, too,” said American writer Josh Billings. I agree with him. It’s not impossible to solve the mystery of who you are, but it can be hard work that requires playful honesty, cagey tenacity and an excellent sense of humor. The good news is that these days it’s far less difficult and inconvenient than usual for you to deepen your self-understanding. So take advantage!

To get started, why don’t you interview yourself? Go here to see some questions you could ask: http://bit.ly/interview yourself.

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95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: BRENT LARGENT, PRESIDENT Dated: May 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000679 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MOMONA at 230 W 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO SUPPER CLUB LLC 1115 Nelson Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MICHAEL LEE, MEMBER Dated: May 19, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000650 Published: June 4,11,18,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LIBERTY CAB at 2140 Fair Street #B Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN BEAVER 1871 Elizabeth Ave #9 Corning, CA 96021.

GIANNI CAPONERA 117 W. 21st Street #2 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: GIANNI CAPONERA Dated: April 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000564 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 1 LIFE PHOTO AND DESIGN at 1860 Drendel Circle Paradise, CA 95969.

ALICIA HAYES 1860 Drendel Circle Paradise, CA 95969.

JACOB HAYES 1860 Drendel Circle Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: ALICIA HAYES Dated: May 13, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000632 Published: June 4,11,18,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WESTERN PACIFIC BREWING COMPANY at 2191 High Street Oroville, CA 95965.

SIERRA STAVE SASSELLI 987 Royal Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STAVE SASSELLI Dated: May 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000676 Published: June 4,11,18,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DATAFOX at 304 W. 16th Street Chico, CA 95928.

DAVID ARMSTRONG 304 W. 16TH Street Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAVID ARMSTRONG Dated: June 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000324 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HOME MADE SOAPS at 3788 Clements Ridge Road Butte Valley, CA 95965.

JESS F PRICE 3788 Clements Ridge Road Butte Valley, CA 95965.

SHERRIE RENE PRICE 3788 Clements Ridge Road Butte Valley, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: SHERRIE RENE PRICE Dated: May 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000641 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STRATTI at 2080 Talbert Drive Chico, CA 95928.

NEOMATRIX INC 2080 Talbert Drive Chico, CA

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DRIVER at 1727 Lawler Street Chico, CA 95928.

PAMELA D. GRAEDEL 1727 Lawler Street Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD E. GRAEDEL 1727 Lawler Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: RICHARD E GRAEDEL Dated: June 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000723 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following person is doing business as SADIEDELUXE at 6190 Skyway Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

SADIE ROSE CASEY 6161 Twin Lanes Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SADIE CASEY Dated: May 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000619 Published: June 11, 18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CREATIVE RECLAIMED WOODS at 2568 Fair St Chico, CA 95928.

YVETTE L MCMILLAN 10094 Jones Ave Durham, CA 95938.

SCOTT E MCMILLAN 10094 Jones Ave Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: SCOTT MCMILLAN Dated: June 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000727 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OAKWOOD APARTMENTS at 828 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

TIMBERS4 MANAGEMENT INC 6300 S. Syracuse Way #430 Centennial, CO 80111.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEANETTE WALKER, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: May 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000670 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE TIMBERS APARTMENTS at 555 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

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TIMBERS4 MANAGEMENT INC 6300 S. Syracuse Way #430 Centennial, CO 80111.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEANETTE WALKER, VICE PRESIDENT FBN Number: 2015-0000671 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE STYLE STUDIO HAIR SALON at 2261 Saint George Lane Unit D Chico, CA 95926.

AMANDA AYERS 920 W 4th Ave Apt 128 Chico, CA 995926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMANDA AYERS Dated: May 7 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000605 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BIRCHWOOD APARTMENTS at 624 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

TIMBERS4 MANAGEMENT, INC 6300 S. Syracuse Way #430 Centennial, CO 80111.

This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEANETTE WALKER, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: May 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000672 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BRENTWOOD APARTMENTS at 712 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

TIMBERS4 MANAGEMENT, INC 6300 S. Syracuse Way #430 Centennial, CO 80111 This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership.

Signed: JEANETTE WALKER, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: May 22,2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000673 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARCELLINO RIVAS, JR. To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARCELLINO RIVAS, JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ERIC J. RIVAS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: ERIC J. RIVAS 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 representative to many actions without 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 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.

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A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: June 25, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: TBA Room: 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD D. HARDIN, INC 7 Williamsburg Lane Chico, CA 95926.

530-895-8868 Case Number: PR41407 Published: May 28, June 4,11, 2015

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

The following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.

Unit 205ss: ED BURNS (6x12) Unit 015cc1: ELIZABETH DRACUL (5x6) Unit 195ss: ELIZABETH DRACUL (12X12) Unit 191ss: ELIZABETH DRACUL (12x12) Unit 473cc: CAROLYN JORONEN (8x12) Unit 219ss: CANDACE CARBY (6x15) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: June 20, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: June 4,11, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE PEGGY F. HARRIS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: PEGGY F. HARRIS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOHN R. BRYANT in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN R. BRYANT 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: July 2, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: PROBATE Address of the court: Superior Court of California

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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: JOHN C. SCHALLER/TAMARA M. TRULIN LAW OFFICE OF JOHN C. SCHALLER 1458 ESPLANADE Chico, CA 95926.

Case Number: PR41447 Dated: June 2, 2015 Published: June 11,18,25, 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 GORDAN REES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARILYN R. REES 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 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 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: July 2, 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.

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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: PR41425 Published: June 11,18,25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRITTANI NICOLE WATERSTRADT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRITTANI NICOLE WATERSTRADT Proposed name: BRITTANY LISE WATERSTRADT 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: July 17, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: May 7, 2015 Case Number: 164320 Published: May 28, June 4,11,18, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ERICA SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ERICA RAE SMITH Proposed name: TAKIYA RAE ERICA COVINGTON 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

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written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 10, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: May 12, 2015 Case Number: 164343 Published: May 28, June 4,11,18, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JEANY PEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: YU-CHOU YEH Proposed name: JOSEPH YU-CHOU YEH 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: August 14, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: May 20, 2015 Case Number: 164373 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTINA LYN GUARINO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NETHANIEL RAY SHAKURE LEATHERBURY Proposed name: NETHANIEL RAY SHAKURE GUARINO 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: July 10, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: May 11, 2015 Case Number: 164346 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: BRENT R EHORN, SHARLA S EHORN YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP

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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 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

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655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 LIMITED CIVIL CASE 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: June 5, 2014 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 162368 Published: June 4,11,18,25, 2015

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JOHN ANTHONY BURRESCIA 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,

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butte county living

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 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 UNLIMITED CIVIL CASE 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: October 30, 2014 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 163276 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

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2321 Fair St (X St E. 23 St) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1549 Sq.Ft. $219,900 Dustin Cheatham 355-6881

4291 Keith Ln (X St: Garner Ln) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1776 Sg.Ft. $309,000 Effie Khaki 514-3334

Enjoy a beautiful, level lakefront parcel in historic Prattville on the west shore of Lake Almanor with its 11 mile hiking/ biking trail, marinas, resorts, restaurants, picnic areas, scenic views of Lassen Peak & beaches!

Build your dream home on the lake while enjoying the existing 1 bed, 1 bath cabin.

MLS#201400394 $495,000.

Tim O’Brien 530-258-1483 • SellingPlumasCounty.com BRE#01074938

Kim Finlan |

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26 Lower Lake Ct (X St: California Park Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1510 Sq.Ft. $293,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

1324 Purcell Ln (X St: Nord Ave) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1684 Sq.Ft. $285,000 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

3156 Hidden Creek Dr (X St: Silver Lake Dr) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1774 Sq.Ft. $365,000 Oakley McElhinny 570-4079 Sherry Landis 514-4855

2120 Fern Ave (X St: 12th Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2157 Sq.Ft. $349,000 Erin Schmidt 575-7431

19 Sunshine Rd (X St: Keefer Rd) 4 Bd / 2.5 Ba, 2260 Sq.Ft. $479,900 John Wallace 514-2405

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Lake Almanor Lakefront Cabin

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $435,000 18 acres, forest, 1,580 sq ft home, cash only $225,000 Pinnacle building lot, 2.03 acs $330,000 Park! 4bed/3bth, 2,558 sq ft, solar! $479,500 West side, 3bd/3ba, 2,901 sqft .29ac $465,000 Lovely 3bd/2bth, 1,370 sq ft .66 ac, 2-car attached garage, 3-car detached garage, lge enclosed RV storage. $349,900

Teresa Larson • (530)899-5925 www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com

NEW LISTINGS! Updated kitchen + bathes! 3 bed/ 2 bth, 1,589 sq ft $244,000 G sq ft $245,000 DIN1,378 Contemporary adorable 3 bed/2 PENbath, Cul de sac, 3 bed/2 b th, 1,811 sq ft on .29 acr, open floor plan, nice kitchen updates $339,500

CALL FOR PRICES!!

Teresa Larson (530) 899-5925

www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of May 25, 2015 – May 29, 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 8 Garden Park Dr 4 Franciscan Way 31 Kobe Loop 2055 Amanda Way 1 3945 Oro Bangor Hwy 131 Palermo Dr 7 Wildwood Ct 16 La Foret Dr 932 Harlan Ave 105 Grand Ave 458 Cox Ln

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$207,000.00 $201,000.00 $186,000.00 $159,500.00 $400,000.00 $260,000.00 $226,500.00 $220,000.00 $180,000.00 $166,000.00 $165,000.00

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SQ. FT. 1236 1130 1402 1244 2020 1708 1912 1477 1274 1201 1560

ADDRESS 160 Inglewood Dr 1634 Leta Ln 1735 Fresno Ave 260 Wayland Rd 6472 Danika Ct 5707 Churchill Rd 496 Sunburst Dr 3351 Neal Rd 1459 Jones Ln 5623 Salida Cir 1292 Nunneley Rd

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$160,000.00 $119,000.00 $116,500.00 $532,000.00 $329,000.00 $235,500.00 $227,500.00 $222,000.00 $204,500.00 $175,000.00 $169,000.00

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SQ. FT. 1344 1344 660 2883 1802 1379 1473 1304 1886 1389 1358

East Shore Lake Front Property

Nearly 2 acres of prime lakefront property with privacy galore & lots of open space. Excellent lake access with flat, sandy beach, comes with boat dock & buoy. Amazing views of the lake & Mt. Lassen from the home & huge wraparound deck. Main house is 3476 sq. ft. 3 bed/3.5 bath, boasting a lovely entryway, formal living area & a family room, sun room, large country kitchen, 2-car att. garage & lots of windows. Detached 880 sq. ft. garage has lg. apt. above with full bath & wet bar/kitchenette. Very special! MLS#201101130 …..$1,750,000

Tim O’Brien • BRE#01074938 • (530) 258-1483

Country Club Lake Front Cabin

Country Club Lake Front Property

Shades of On Golden Pond. Classic Almanor log cabin offers many possibilities. 2 story. 2 bedrooms, 1 bathroom on main level, large lower level consists of full bath, 3 good sized rooms & utility room can be finished off or reconfigured to your needs.

Woodstove. Lovely views of lake and Mt. Dyer.

Walk to Recreation Area 1, playground, tennis courts, beach & boat launch. Detached 1 car garage. Permitted for dock & buoy. New septic system & back deck.

MLS#201500299……$749,000

This lakefront residence in the Lake Almanor Country Club has a fantastic floor plan and sits on a beautiful parcel. 4 bedrooms 3 bathrooms, plus a very spacious game/recreation room.

Large great room with high open beam pine ceilings. Dining & kitchen adjacent to the great room. Master bedroom is on the main level. Two levels of low maintenance decking for entertaining. Nice Lawn to the water on the lakeside for family fun. Dock included. Most furnishings are negotiable. MLS#201500628…$1,149,000

Linda Pohler• BRE#01135477 • (530) 258-9135

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

www.AlmanorColdwellBanker.com

More Home for Your Money, on the Ridge in...

For all your Real Estate Needs call (530) 872-7653 CANYON VIEW HOME IN PARADISE! 2415 SF+/- One half acre lot. Beautiful front and back landscaping. Newer granite counters in kitchen. Rock fireplace & wood beamed ceiling in Family room. Lots of storage, large deck. $325,000 Ad #720.

Patty McKee @ 530-518-5155

NEW LISTING. Almost 11 acre Horse property. 2 br. + enclosed porch, 2 ba. 2 horse stalls + 8x12 tack room. $239,000 Ad # 746 Sharon McKee 530-864-1745

INSIDE SPECTACULAR! Kitchen done in Bavarian Cherry Wood and decorator glass. Home features lots of newness, 2BR/2BA with additional bedroom or office space above the garage. Very energy efficient, lots of fruit trees, and RV parking. $119,000 Ad #712.

Shelinda Bryant @ 530-872-6843

CHARMING HOME IN SENIOR PARK! With cathedral ceilings, newer carpet and linoleum throughout. Picket fenced yard and screened in porch. $29,900 Ad#669 Ray Vindhurst 530-872-6805 BRE# 01011224

5350 Skyway, Paradise | www.C21Skyway.com | Paradise@c21selectgroup.com

Love’s ReaL estate Outlaw Dear Doug, What’s this new law about carbon monoxide detectors? We own our home and we own a duplex rental. How do we comply?

– Law-Abiding Citizen Dear Citizen, You say you’re law-abiding, but you’re an outlaw now if you haven’t installed a carbon monoxide detector.

Take note, Citizen: The new law is in two parts. One part is for homes, the other for rental properties.

Homeowners were required to have installed carbon monoxide detectors in their homes by July 1, 2011. That’s a while ago.

1210 YOSEMITE DR. CHICO This well maintained split level home is beautifully updated with 3 bedrooms and 2.5 baths Built in 1995, it includes 1916 square feet. The upstairs features vaulted ceilings with an open concept. The beautiful kitchen is equipped with rich cherry cabinets with the soft closure feature. Honed granite counter tops, lovely mosaic tile backsplash, stainless steal appliances and granite sink. Upstairs living area and downstairs den both have a gas fireplace. Three car garage, sunken in above ground pool, spa and space on the side for a small trailer or boat.

Home has owned solar panels which bring PG&E to just dollars per month.

Rental property owners must install carbon monoxide detectors in their rental properties by January 1, 2013. That’s a while ago.

Any property containing an appliance or heater that burns fuel of any kind must comply. Think heaters, water heaters, dryers, fireplaces and the like.

To the important questions: Q. Where exactly in each home or rental unit should carbon monoxide detectors be installed?

A. The law doesn’t speak to exact placement. The fire department recommends installing detectors centrally located outside of all bedroom areas in the house, and on all floors of multi-story homes.

Q. Both plug-in and ceiling-mounted models of detectors are on the market. Is it okay to plug the detectors in at floor level?

A. Carbon monoxide is “neutrally buoyant” in air, or slightly lighter than air, so it builds slowly. Therefore, a floor-level detector will work theoretically, but might not be advisable because it could be dislodged or tampered with more easily. Many varieties of ceiling-mounted models are available, including combination smoke detector and carbon monoxide detectors.

Q. What’s the big deal with carbon monoxide?

A. Unfortunately, there are far too many cases of carbon monoxide poisonings and deaths. The gas is odorless, colorless and tasteless. It disorients its victims, puts them to sleep, and eventually kills them, when all they need is some fresh air.

Tell you what, Citizen: You’re late with installation.

Take care of it now, and we’ll keep this between us. Deal?

LISTED aT: $369,900 Kim Finlan | Realtor | CalBRE#01963545 | Century 21 Jeffries Lydon (530) 518-8453 | www.Kim.Finlan.C21JeffriesLydon.com

Doug Love is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon. email escrowgo@aol.com, or call 530-680-0817.

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