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Take down the flag It’s difficult for Californians to understand just how symbolically potent the

Not everyone should own a gun hat happened in South Carolina is so predictable. Another W horrible mass shooting by a young, white male. Wait a few months and it will happen again; the response, the same.

Already, I have seen his tired argument: If only somebody in that historic church was armed, the assassinations could have been stopped.

Right-wing radio talking head Michael Savage raised the question that the government did it. Just another “false flag” operation. Then he said perhaps it was the opiate recovery medication suboxone that caused the kid to do it. When in doubt, blame the American Medical Association and psychotropic medicaby tions.

Allan Stellar In fact, blame everything in order to deflect. And provide the same old The author, a resident answers: More guns make us safer! of Butte County, is a Psychotropic medications create crazed CN&R contributor killers! There are gun laws already on the and author of the books that would have stopped this! recent cover story Gun-free zones lead to mass shootings! about Senate Bill 277, But never, ever question why a “Sparring over the needle.”

21-year-old, unstable, unemployed, racist young man had a reason to own an easily concealable weapon. Never say that the love of guns, the worship of the false Glock idol and the political power of the NRA contribute to this problem.

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the tragedy in Charleston. A friend of the shooter actually took Dylann Roof’s weapon when he became concerned that his friend was making bizarre threats. He ended up giving the gun back to Roof because he was a felon and couldn’t be found in possession of a gun.

In California, under Assembly Bill 1014, which was signed into law last year, this friend could have called the authorities and reported Roof’s threats. The police then could have investigated and taken the weapon. Now that’s a sensible gun law.

The NRA used to be an organization that promoted gun safety. By now we certainly should have figured out that some people should not own a gun. Rather than viewing every gun law that is proposed as a threat to the Second Amendment, the NRA could get back into the business of gun education— including when to call the police and report that a fellow gun owner is acting bizarre and making threats.

Protecting the public by calling the police when someone is acting unstable and making threats is the responsibility of all of us, whether we own guns or not. The NRA certainly could make this part of gun education a higher priority. And they should get out of the way of passing sensible gun laws. Ω

Confederate battle flag, and in particular the one that flies on the State House grounds in South Carolina, is for Southerners.

Most whites say it represents their history and their culture, their traditions and, indeed, their very identity. It’s not about race, they insist, it’s about honoring those killed in the Civil War. For the 40 percent of South Carolinians who are black, it’s all about race. The flag represents slavery and its poisoned fruits: white supremacy and the Jim Crow laws, lynchings, segregation and other forms of oppression that accompanied it.

It’s well to remember that the flag was first raised over the South Carolina State House dome in 1962, in reaction to the civil-rights movement, President Kennedy’s effort to end poll taxes, and the Supreme Court’s striking down of segregation in public transportation.

The flag has always been controversial. In 2000, the NAACP demanded that it be taken down, threatening a tourism boycott. The flag was then removed from the dome and relocated to a nearby Confederate memorial on State House grounds.

Despite the fact that many South Carolinians, whites as well as blacks, have long been embarrassed by and even ashamed of the flag, it has remained popular among politicians, Republicans in particular, and among conservative whites. That is, until last week, when Dylann Roof entered a black Charleston church and, after praying with a group of its congregants, pulled out a gun and started his horrific killing.

The subsequent discovery of Facebook photos of him posing with the Confederate battle flag, as well as other symbols and insignia of white supremacist groups, set the truth free once and for all: The Confederate battle flag is an ugly and vicious emblem of hatred. The one that flies over the South Carolina State House grounds must come down. Ω

Follow the children Thanks to two Chico teenagers, the City Council is poised to add e-cigarettes

to the city ordinance regulating the smoking of tobacco products.

The issue was brought to the council in April by two Bidwell Junior High students, Moana Larsen and Natalie Chivichon. They are members of the group KLEAN (Kids Leading Everyone Against Nicotine), which advocates against tobacco use and nicotine addiction.

After listening to their presentation, Councilwoman Ann Schwab submitted a 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.”

At its May 5 meeting, the council asked the city attorney to draw up a draft ordinance. On June 10, the council’s Internal Affairs Committee approved the draft; it could come back to the council as soon as July 7.

Whether e-cigarettes are as harmful to health as tobacco cigarettes is the subject of fierce debate. It’s not debatable that their use involves inhaling chemicals into the lungs, which is inevitably unhealthful. And the nicotine they deliver to the smoker’s system is highly addictive, which is much of the reason why, in just a few years, e-cigs have become a multibilliondollar industry.

The city’s tobacco ordinance is designed to protect nonsmokers from secondhand smoke. How harmful secondhand vapor from e-cigs is remains unclear, but there’s no reason to take chances.

Besides, it’s important to discourage all kinds of smoking, whether of tobacco, e-cigs or marijuana. There’s enough pollution in the air already without deliberately inhaling smoke into our lungs.

We’re grateful to Moana and Natalie for their upstanding citizenship.

They are indeed “kids leading everyone against nicotine.” Ω

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Sorry, Mom and Dad Hate is a strong word, so I’ll just say I dislike clowns. My friends and husband know this and get a real kick out of sending me text messages and emails with disturbing images of these face-painted, big-shoe-wearing freaks. They are especially fond of posting stories and photos on my Facebook page. That’s how I learned I’m in good company.

Turns out a lot of people find clowns repulsive.

There is, in fact, a word for the irrational fear of clowns: coulrophobia. I wouldn’t say I’m at that level.

They don’t make me run away in fear. But the sight of them—especially when they wear red makeup around the mouth—really creeps me out. I know this is a strange aversion. I’ve never had an odd run-in with a clown; just your run-of-the-mill interaction at the circus back in the day.

My best guess is that my upbringing, which included a lot of unsupervised television-watching, is what led me to the place where I avert my eyes when I see a clown. I was a latch-key kid in the ’burbs and did a lot of stuff I wasn’t supposed to do, like watching scary movies with clowns or clown-like antagonists. (See: It, Poltergeist, Killer Clowns From Outer Space and Cat’s Eye, which is based on Stephen King’s Night Shift series and features a little jester-like troll.)

Speaking of disobeying my parents, I was talking to one of my friends the other day about how regularly I broke the rules while growing up. For example, my brother and I weren’t supposed to swim without an adult around, just in case, but we did it all the time during the summer.

Our backyard in the Bay Area was almost entirely taken up by our giant pool, and, well, it got hot some days. I cringe now thinking of how we’d swim with the pool cover partially on and how we’d be showered and dry long before my mom got home from work.

We also would ride our bikes farther than was allowed. I almost got busted for that, because a car hit me and my ride—a trusty blue and gold Eagle II—in a crosswalk during one of our out-of-bounds excursions.

But I was only bruised, so I got away with it. I did wipe out one time pretty badly, an accident that required stitches on my chin (and several nurses to hold me down for them). But I was just around the corner from my house when that happened.

When I think about it now, I did a lot of stuff I probably shouldn’t have: riding my horse while sitting backward, hanging out late at night at the public park across the street from my house, going to parties at strangers’ houses in unfamiliar cities when I was a teenager. My husband tells me he did his share of stupid stuff, too, and never got caught.

We both turned out all right. But we certainly learned how kids behave. We’ll be watching ours like a hawk.

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Even in a little town like Chico, I see this hatred every day, but a community paper like the Chico News & Review just glosses over these facts. The editor hardly gives any real ingredients about what is cooking in the black community. She is a snob that hardly has realistic views about this community as a whole. I can see a lot when I am in San Francisco when I am there at my studio, but to see the exiguous and racist things that I have seen in Chico frightens me.

I agree with Hillary Clinton: “Our problem is not all kooks and Klansmen. It is also the cruel joke that goes unchallenged.”

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It is time for the white community to open our eyes to the reality of racial disparity and institutionalized oppression that is felt most directly by the members of our human family who have darker skin, is manifest in the perpetration of violent hate crimes, and ultimately damages us all.

I want to live in a society where such an act of violence causes cries of “How could this have happened? Isn’t this a thing of the past?” But to ask those questions would be to ignore the presence of white supremacy in mainstream U.S. society today. For me, that veil has lifted. I can no longer ask “Why?” I can only ask “How can I work to fix it?” The response from allies working for racial justice is, “Work to understand your whiteness.

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sion and the Downtown Chico Business Association to reclaim City Plaza from the “bad elements.”

But it doesn’t seem to be working. Attendance is low and even with the 100 degree weather the fountain is not turned on these days. According to the Parks Division, that’s because the restrooms are not up to state of California standards (no soap in dispensers).

It’s just one more strike against the ailing City Plaza. In past years, I have enjoyed taking my kids to play in the fountain during the hot Chico summers. Are we as a community giving up on our plaza?

Shall we just give it over to the marijuana-smoking bums with their shopping carts and pit bulls?

It’s time for the community and especially the City Council to step up with some solutions!

JOHN GEIGER Chico

Editor’s note: According to Dan Efseaff, Chico’s parks and natural resources manager, the fountain is turned on during the Thursday Night Market and, more recently, the Picnic in the Plaza events. He says the restrooms have never been equipped with soap dispensers, so organizations such as the DCBA have brought them in specially for these events, in order to meet public health standards. It is a goal to supply the restrooms at that location with permanent soap dispensers, he told CN&R.

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Re “The Davis legacy” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, June 18): Fred Davis was a wonderful husband, father and friend. My father, former mayor of Chico Ross Lawler, was very fond of Mr. Davis and held him in high esteem.

Daddy especially appreciated Mr. Davis’ honesty, loyalty and leadership skills. Mr. Davis was a person who had the best interests of the city of Chico at heart and was well-liked and respected. I am sorry to hear of his passing. God bless his family in their time of sorrow.

SUSAN LAWLER MARTIN Chico

No speeding, no ticket Re “Sheared too close” (Guest comment, by Jaime O’Neill, June 18): It’s funny to think the stretch of road between the Ridge and Chico is a “speed trap.” Mostly because it really isn’t. Is it patrolled by the

CHP? Yep. Is it possible to avoid a speeding ticket no matter what your income level? Yep. Don’t speed. Is it somewhat of a situation where a guy who got “unlucky” and got a ticket feels victimized and needs to strike back at those who he feels victimized him?

Looks like it, and cloak it in his apparent deep concern for less economically fortunate drivers? Hate to say it but, yep.

Both the poor and the rich can avoid tickets altogether by not speeding. We don’t need no stinking sliding scale. Driving 5 miles over the limit has never been an issue on the Skyway for me or any other “po” folk.

I’m damned glad to have those men and women working the Skyway. Mr. O’Neill, pay your ticket happily and be glad they’ll be there when you have a problem out there. I’m sure the families of all the people who crashed their vehicles out there appreciate them.

Have a long talk with your lead foot if you want to point fingers.

TAYLOR RILEY Magalia

Standing behind his words Re “Advice: Seek reflection” (Letters, by Rex Stromness, June 18): Rex Stromness says I need a timeout; I disrespected eco-superstar Bill McKibben. On reflection, I’d do the same thing again.

Environmentalism is failing badly—and McKibben is exhibit No. 1. We can continue with the charade, believing that we take the fate of life on Earth seriously, but our lifestyles say otherwise.

We are not eliminating the most obvious and unnecessary ecocidal behaviors. (The two examples I’ve beaten to death are recreational plane flights and animal product consumption, but there are hundreds of others.) McKibben needs to say so, loudly, and he doesn’t say it at all. This makes McKibben an enabler, as far as I’m concerned.

In the final analysis, saving vertebrate life on Earth comes down to this: we achieve negative population growth and we consume far less stuff. Somehow, as “environmentalist” consumers, we make the issue just complex enough to paralyze ourselves—right in the middle of our comfort zones. What an interesting coincidence and what a terrible example for the rest of humanity.

It’s very likely too late to avoid environmental collapse, but we can still be honest about how it’s going down.

PATRICK NEWMAN Chico

Research needed on e-cigs Re “Treating e-cigs like tobacco” (Healthlines, by Evan Tuchinsky, June 11): The American Lung Association in California commends Bidwell Junior High School students for pressing the city of Chico to treat e-cigarettes the same as cigarettes and other tobacco products.

In spite of product claims, ecigarettes have not been proven to be safe. According to the California Department of Public Health, e-cigarettes contain at least 10 chemicals known to cause cancer and birth defects. And no brand of e-cigarettes has been submitted to the FDA for evaluation of safety.

The FDA has issued draft regulations that treat e-cigarettes as tobacco products, but it is time to finalize them.

E-cigarette companies, many of which are owned by Big Tobacco, use colorful designs, candy flavors and cartoon ads to lure and addict children. E-cigarettes are now the most popular tobacco product used by both high school and middle school students. Research points to young e-cigarette users being far more likely to start using traditional cigarettes. The tobacco companies that are aggressively marketing the e-cigarettes stand to addict new generations to these new types of tobacco products. Without federal oversight, we need local jurisdictions to act to protect the community.

SHELLY BRANTLEY Chico

Editor’s note: For more on this subject, see Editorial, page 4.

Hurray for Medicare The nation is getting ready to celebrate Medicare’s 50th anniversary in July. It has been the salvation of millions of 65-year-old seniors and some disabled workers who are under 65. It has saved many folks from financial ruin over medical expenses.

I’m a senior who recently had back surgery. I put off surgery for a long time over concern about the cost beyond insurance coverage. I have Medicare, plus supplemental coverage. To my great relief Medicare covered 80 percent and my supplemental covered 20 percent. The insurances covered doctor visits, surgery, physical therapy and all medicines. Lucky me! I know that not having to worry about the bill helped me recover more quickly.

Here we live in the wealthiest nation in the world and we still can’t find a way to insure all citizens. We need expanded Medicare

with additional coverage for physical, psychological and vision plans.

We have the wealth! Do we have the heart?

JOHN P. MARTINEZ Chico

Proposed new party Name of party: Citizens Untied Political philosophy: Liberty and Justice for all—REALLY. Economic philosophy: Truly Democratic Capitalism Motto:If corporations can be people, why can’t people be corporations?

Program: Every citizen will receive from the government $10,000 to incorporate him/herself. If the corporations fail, there will be a $5,000 bailout funded by the government.

Source of funds: 1. Heavy taxation of oligarchs, including millionaires, billionaires, hedge funds, etc.

2. Demilitarization 3. Deprivatization 4. Confiscation of ill-gotten gains 5. Sale of T-shirts Slogan: CITIZENS UNTIE! INCORPORATE! ANNE BLAKE Chico

Now that’s Orwellian Re “The downside to unearned fortunes” (Guest comment, by Nathan Esplanade, May 15): Wow, only the government should tell us how to spend our inheritance and we need more regulation to protect us from ourselves? These ideas smack of an Orwellian nanny state and should be resisted.

BOB CALLERY Chico

Correction Last week’s Newslines story “Fiscal reproach,” by Howard Hardee, incorrectly stated that the Chico City Council voted to divert $5,000 in community block grant funding to both the Work Training Center and Do-It Leisure. The council actually voted to provide $5,000 apiece to the Disability Action Center and Do-It Leisure—a subsidiary of the Work Training Center. Our apologies for the error, which has been corrected online.

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Left: This Queen Anne-style house at the corner of East 11th and Nelson streets in south Chico was recently renovated by owner Michele Shover, who lives in the A.H. Chapman House across the street.

PARADISE PRINTER CLOSING

Paradise Post Printing is closing after about 35 years in business and once serving as one of the largest employers on the Ridge.

The company’s 41 employees were informed on Friday (June 19) that the printing operation would close at the end of the month due to declining “print media usage and print buying habits,” said Manager Bruce Meissner. “Our revenue base has dropped to the point where it’s not sustainable for us to stay open.”

Paradise Post Printing opened in 1981 as an extension of the local newspaper and served customers including this paper and the Sacramento News & Review. The closure will not affect the twice-weekly Paradise Post newspaper, which has been printed at the Chico Enterprise-Record for about five years.

“We’re going to go out on a high note,” Meissner said. “We’re going to take care of our customers up until the day we close.

There will be mixed emotions for a lot of people here, I’m sure.”

Below: Partners Rob Cossetta and Mike Vance live on East 11th Street and say the neighborhood has quieted down significantly in recent months.

POT BUSTS APLENTY

So far this year, Butte County has investigated 512 cases under Measure A, the ballot initiative passed into law by voters last November that restricts medical marijuana gardens by square footage rather than number of plants.

The county has ramped up enforcement of Measure A as growing season reaches full swing, recently hiring six additional code enforcement officers to hit the foothills.

And the county has received a large volume of complaints regarding pot gardens—an average of 45 to 50 a week and a record of 30 in one day, Tim Snellings, director of the county’s Department of Developmental Services, reported to the Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (June 23).

A total of 402 cases have been related to the size of gardens, and 60 cases have resulted in fines totaling $145,500—of which the county has received $27,870.

TEMPORARY PRESIDENT APPOINTED

Longtime Butte College instructor and administrator Samia Yaqub will serve as interim president in place of outgoing President Kimberly Perry, who is taking the top job at Bellingham Technical College in Bellingham, Wash.

Yaqub (pictured) received her doctorate in education from Oregon State University and holds a master’s degree in English from Chico State and a bachelor’s degree in English from UC Davis, according to a press release from Butte College.

Highlights of her experience at Butte College include serving as an instructor for developmental reading, writing and English as a second language from 1989 to 2001. Since 2011, she has been the campus’ vice president for Student Learning and Economic Development.

“We’re very fortunate to have her leadership among us during this transitional time,” said Fred Perez, president of the Butte College board of trustees, in the statement.

Yaqub’s appointment begins on July 1.

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Sight for sore eyes Long-blighted south Chico neighborhood on upswing, though ugliness lingers years, Rob Cossetta and his partner, Mike FfromorVance, lived directly across East 11th Street four vacant and neglected houses. While

their south Chico neighborhood is quiet otherwise, the structures attracted all manner of nightly disturbances story and from squatters, hard drug users photos by and criminals stashing stolen Howard goods. Cossetta’s morning ritual Hardee became cleaning up what was howardh@ left behind—empty liquor botnewsreview.com tles, needles and glass pipes— and he’d often find unwelcome guests sleeping in the rockery along his property’s fence.

“I drove them off so many times I realized that my method had to change,” he said. That involved more tactfully asking them to leave— instead of cursing at them, he’d say, “it’s not all right for you to sit here”—and also getting creative: Cossetta piled his rockery full of rose bush trimmings, blackberry brambles and pine cones to make resting there a prickly proposition.

In recent months, Cossetta and Vance say, the neighborhood has turned around significantly. In February, two of the blighted houses were purchased from the city by Habitat for Humanity of Butte County and have since been demolished to make way for the construction of new homes. In the middle lot, two houses owned by development company Hal LLC are still standing, and the one nearest to the street—the other is set back toward Little Chico Creek—is currently being repainted.

And down the block, at the corner of East 11th and Nelson streets, the renovation of a previously vacant Queen Annestyle home is mostly complete thanks to owner Michele Shover. Shover is a retired Chico State professor and local historian who lives nearby in the yellowand-white A.H. Chapman House, a landmark on the National Register of Historic Places.

The changes have provided a sense of positive momentum in the neighborhood, and Cossetta and Vance say they’ve had far fewer problems with squatters since construction began. Still, there may not be as sharp a contrast on one block in all of Chico. Opposite the stately historic homes stands a lingering eyesore: the decrepit empty warehouse on the corner of Park Avenue and East 11th Street, the site of the old Taylor’s Drive-In and a gas station—also owned

by Hal LLC—which sits directly adjacent to the future Habitat homes.

It’s the last bit of blight in a neighborhood decidedly on the upswing.

“Anything would be an improvement,” Vance said of the warehouse, “even if they just level the whole thing.”

The properties on East 11th Street and

Park Avenue have a long and convoluted history.

A deal would have transferred owner-

ship of all the properties from Hal LLC, led by local businessman David Halimi, to the city if state funding hadn’t dried up following the Great Recession. In 2010, the city used state redevelopment agency (RDA) funding to purchase a pair of the homes and begin the process of purchasing the other two, along with the warehouse property. The deal was contingent upon whether the city received a state grant to clean up contamination left by underground gas tanks.

However, after the city completed the $200,000 cleanup, in early 2012 the state dissolved redevelopment agencies— before escrow closed. Two of the houses and the warehouse reverted back to Hal LLC, creating a patchwork of publicly and privately owned structures that were left to fall into further disrepair.

Until now. In February, the Chico City Council voted unanimously to approve Habitat for Humanity’s purchase and demolition of the two cityowned houses at 168 and 178 E. 11th St. Habitat will raise the walls of both houses during a ceremony at 10 a.m. this Saturday (June 27), said Executive Director Nicole Bateman. She expects construction to be completed by next February, noting that two low-income families with young children already have been chosen to move in.

Halimi has been neighborly, Bateman said. He’s aided Habitat’s progress by helping pay for fencing along Little Chico Creek, providing hook-ups to electricity and clearing trees and brush toward the back of the property.

As for proximity to Taylor’s Drive-In and the empty structure’s potential draw for homeless people, Bateman said: “We feel that once families are living there, there will be [fewer] transients moving back and forth.”

The issue remains on the city’s radar.

At Vice Mayor Sean Morgan’s request, the City Council discussed Taylor’s Drive-In at a meeting in February. Hal LLC maintained it’s been unable to sell the property for a profit under the area’s current mixed residential zoning (the RDA had intended to use the site for low-income housing). Morgan proposed rezoning the area to community commercial, thereby increasing appeal to potential developers.

The idea met with resistance from Mayor Mark Sorensen and Councilwoman Ann Schwab, who argued that the city has already done enough for Hal LLC by facilitating the costly environmental cleanup.

The council voted 4-3 to revisit the issue at a future meeting.

Shover now owns five houses in the

neighborhood, including three rentals on Nelson Street, the A.H. Chapman House—where she’s lived for the past 37 years—and the gleaming white Queen Anne-style home across the way.

Shover’s long kept her eye on the house, which was built in 1902 and, after years of neglect, was in danger of being bulldozed. She purchased it two years ago from local businessman Wayne Cook and hired Birchard Construction for renovation, which involved raising the entire 55,000-pound structure by several feet.

“The idea was to keep the original architecture, of course,” Shover said. “[Birchard] was very meticulous and creative about it. If they couldn’t keep what was original, they would figure out how to make it new.”

Now complete except for landscaping, the Queen Anne home stands beside the A.H. Chapman House as a modernized historical relic. (A couple recently moved into the upstairs apartment.)

Shover has long criticized Hal LLC’s management of Taylor’s Drive-In, but credited Halimi with being “super responsible” by aiding the Habitat projects. She does maintain that the neighborhood “still isn’t entirely free of this blight.”

“There has been remarkable progress,” Shover said. “This all reestablishes the neighborhood’s proper residential character. But we cannot forget that right on its border is the same old blight.” Ω

Stephanie Taber and other library supporters, many wearing red shirts, implored the Butte County Board of Supervisors to allocate money toward keeping the Chico branch open at its current service level.

Tightening the belt

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Supervisors reject budget amendments to fund library, DA’s program utte County’s budget for the next fiscal Blibrary year will not include funds for extended hours or to bolster a long-running

program aimed at helping the children of drug offenders, despite passionate pleas from library supporters and District Attorney Mike Ramsey, respectively, to the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (June 22).

The hearing, which the supervisors called for after accepting a draft of the 2015-16 budget on June 9, mostly focused on a motion proposed by Supervisor Larry Wahl and amended by Supervisor Maureen Kirk to direct $344,000 toward the library and hiring one additional staff member for the DA’s Drug Endangered Children program. Most of those funds would come from $290,000 received by the county from a class-action lawsuit against Office Depot. The board rejected the motion by a vote of 3-2, with Supervisors Bill Connelly, Doug Teeter and Steve Lambert dissenting.

The $482 million final budget, which supervisors will vote to finalize July 28, includes extra funding to enforce Measure A (the county’s medical marijuana cultivation ordinance), building and improvement projects including the completion of the county’s new Hall of Records and funding for 20.5 new positions, including 17 new staff members at Butte County Behavioral Health.

The supervisors also agreed with a staff recommendation to develop a plan to restructure the county’s fire services, which face a $1.1 million funding gap resulting from lost

Indian gaming funds and increases in minimum wage, state benefit costs and negotiated wage increases.

“When it comes to service, we have the Cadillac; we have the best fire department in the state, probably. We just don’t have the money to pay for it,” Lambert said following a full report on the budget by county Chief Administrative Officer Paul Hahn.

Library funding was by far the most con-

tentious issue during the hearing, with Wahl opening the debate by saying he agreed with “99.8 percent” of Hahn’s report and staff budget recommendations. His only objection was that proposed library allocations would result in the loss of three employees—one a vacancy that will remain unfilled, and two created by the Chico City Council’s recent decision to cut $100,000 in funding to that city’s branch. Wahl’s goal was to secure funding to keep the Chico library open at its current service level and add seven hours each to the Paradise and Oroville branches.

“This morning we approved a consent agenda with about $18 million devoted to vocational training, job assistance, mental health and behavioral services, primarily—

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all good and worthy programs,” Wahl said.

“Much of that can be complemented by library services and programs.

“We have over 100,000 library cards in Butte County; almost half of the population is library users or holders,” he continued.

“Most programs, be they behavioral health or otherwise, serve a select group of people, but the library serves 100 percent of every citizen in Butte County.”

More than a dozen red-shirted library supporters took up two rows of the meeting chambers, and several took advantage of the public comment period to voice their support.

“I’d also like the board to consider beginning a discussion regarding stable funding sources for all libraries in the county library system so we can stop the need to come before you and beg for consideration of additional funding in coming years,” said Stephanie Taber, who criticized what she called the city of Chico’s “wrong-headed” move.

Ramsey addressed the board to pitch for additional funding to hire one staff member for the county’s Drug Endangered Children program. The DA’s dramatic multimedia presentation included pictures of squalor— cockroaches on a baby’s bottle, rat poison and a chainsaw on the living room floor and more—taken during a recent methamphetamine lab raid on a home in which four young children were seized, as well as a television news clip about an Oroville home destroyed by a honey oil explosion.

Ramsey explained the program began in 1993 to address the needs of children present during drug raids in cases when Childrens Services or other agencies needed more time to respond, and said the county’s model has been adopted nationwide. The program has been primarily supported by now-disappearing grants, and Ramsey hoped to secure funding to pay the salary for one investigator.

The hearing lasted more than two hours, and in the end the majority of supervisors remained unswayed. Lambert emphasized the importance of frugality and public safety, and the library and drug issues often overlapped during sometimes-heated exchanges between the supervisors.

“The idea of getting a drug user into the library is a noble thought, but being in business for 25 years in Oroville, I know those folks aren’t going to the library unless you pick ’em up, dry ’em out, go through the process and maybe show them where it’s at,” Lambert said during his final pitch to deny the extra funding.

“Those kids don’t get the opportunity to go to a library; they don’t even get a chance to eat. I think we’re a little misguided thinking the library is going to save a society that doesn’t know where the library is, unless it’s on their way to pick up some drugs.”

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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in a bad state; it’s had a hard time holding onto city administrators; police are woefully understaffed and pay increases have left the city strapped for cash; across-the-board layoffs have left other departments similarly short-handed; and the homeless population has grown to a disruptive level.

If this sounds familiar to people in Chico, it should. This is nearly identical to the situation Chico faced just a year ago and continues to struggle with.

“The Grand Jury began this investigation because of various news articles and Oroville City Council meetings, where the discussion centered on the escalating cost of city police and fire,” reads the report, released last week. “…

These problems had similarities to what the 2013-2014 Grand Jury discovered about the city of Chico.

This was a potential red flag to hidden problems.”

Oroville, like Chico, is pulling itself out of a financial hole it got into thanks to the Great Recession and the dissolution of redevelopment agency (RDA) funds. While its deficit wasn’t quite as large as Chico’s—$2 million in 2013-14— it still posed a problem for the city.

The then-city administrator (there have been six in the past five years) called for an 18.1 percent budget reduction in each department. Some positions went unfilled, the fire chief resigned to avoid layoffs in his department, and others lost their jobs. The severance, leave accrual, unemployment and other costs involved with laying people off ended up costing the city, however, to the tune of around $650,000.

“These added expenses brought about a second round of budget cuts and layoffs within the many areas of Oroville city government,” the report reads. “All of these budget cuts and layoffs are still in effect as the city begins to develop its proposed budget for 2015-2016.”

The preliminary budget was unanimously OK’d by the City Council June 16 and will go before Oroville City Hall is vastly understaffed, thanks to budget cuts and layoffs following the Great Recession.

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the panel again July 7 for final approval. It calls for the hiring of several employees, most of them in the police department.

The city of Oroville does face a

unique challenge that is about to come to a head: the annexation of Southside Oroville, which is expected to be fully completed in the next 30 days or so. (The annexation was proposed in two chunks, “Area A” being more urban and “Area B” more rural.)

The annexation, which includes 982 households in Area A and 162 in Area B, will increase the amount of services the city must provide.

With departments already operating at well below full staff—there are three department heads who oversee six departments, for example— the city will have much reorganization to do in the coming months.

Perhaps the biggest department to be affected by the annexation is the Oroville Police Department, which is currently operating with 22 officers—the same number it had in 1973, the report points out.

The fire department is likewise understaffed with just 12.5 personnel, meaning “there are only three firefighters on duty at any one time, which is the minimum number required by law.”

During the beginning stages of incorporation, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office has agreed to overlap services with the Oroville Police Department, Don Rust, acting city administrator, said by phone. “The county is not going to abandon us,” he said.

Both police and fire are now

overseen by one public safety director, Bill LaGrone, since the fire chief resigned last year. During budget sessions with the City Council, he presented his proposed solution to the short-handed police force. It included creating a Municipal Law Enforcement Services unit made up of six community service officers.

“The MLE officers will be responsible for handling all misdemeanor crime, cold felony crime, vehicle thefts, vehicle recovery, parking enforcement, park and trail patrol, transient issues, information to citizens and all code enforcement issues,” reads the proposal LaGrone presented the council on May 19. (He could not be reached for comment by press time.)

The council approved LaGrone’s request for eight new MLE officers to be included in the 2015-16 budget, Rust said. In addition to the inclusion of Southside in the OPD’s service area, the local police also deal with vagrancy issues—code enforcement has removed 11,000 pounds of garbage left by homeless camps along Highway 162, the Grand Jury report reads.

The additional eight officers will not have arrest power and will not carry weapons. In an effort to further bolster the department, LaGrone has proposed a 1 percent sales tax increase that would benefit local public safety. The City Council has backed his proposal, Rust said, but they’ll return to that after the budget is finalized in July.

—MEREDITH J. COOPER meredithc@newsreview.com

espite a raging drought that has Dcrops, yellowed lawns and fallowed orchards of almonds, one of

California’s thirstiest crops, are expanding rapidly.

The drought has reduced California’s water supply to an all-time low, prompting officials to mandate strict cutbacks in urban communities. Farmers, who went unaffected by those regulations, say they have made sacrifices by fallowing hundreds of thousands of acres of fields and uprooting almost countless fruit trees, especially in the arid San Joaquin Valley.

But a crop forecast released last month by the U.S. Department of Agriculture shows that the almond market is doing remarkably well given the dry circumstances. From 2014 to 2015, the area planted with bearing almond trees increased from 860,000 acres to 890,000.

That’s more mature almond trees than ever before in California, the epicenter of the world’s almond industry.

Most California almonds are grown in the San Joaquin Valley, though Butte County is a major producer. The county’s farmers harvested 37,512 acres of almond trees in 2013, with the crop’s value just under $200 million—about 40 percent of the county’s total agricultural worth. The county’s most valuable crop is walnuts, with more than 43,000 bearing acres generat-

ing $285 million in 2013.

While some farmers have suffered from water shortages and have had to let thousands of their trees die, these examples, though widely publicized at times, are an exception to the norm. The industry is busy planting millions of new almond trees every year. Much of the expansion is occurring in the western San Joaquin Valley, where farmers with junior water rights regularly engage in legislative battles to weaken environmental laws that restrict how much Delta water they can receive.

Environmentalists have challenged the almond industry’s growth, since most almonds are exported. Economic growth in China, the industry’s largest export market, is driving the expansion.

But Colleen Cecil, executive director of the Butte County Farm Bureau, says other countries depend on California’s arid and hot Central Valley to produce nuts, which cannot be grown in most regions.

“You can’t plant an almond tree just anywhere,” Cecil said.

Environmentalists have accused almonds of being one of the state’s biggest water hogs. Each year, the state’s almond orchards guzzle as much water as Los Angeles uses in about five years. However, almond farmers have dramatically

increased their water-use efficiency, according to industry representatives, who say it now takes on average a third less water than 15 years ago to grow each nut.

Still, critics say this hasn’t helped the environment much, since all the water savings logged by the industry have been invested directly back into new orchards.

The environment, by comparison, is gasping for a drink. There literally was not enough water left in Lake Shasta in the fall of 2013 for chinook salmon to spawn successfully in the Sacramento River just downstream of the reservoir, and in 2014, the water exiting the lake, depleted by drought, was so warm it destroyed millions of fertilized eggs. The Delta smelt, often ridiculed by farmers because valuable water has been released to keep the fish’s habitat healthy, is at the brink of extinction.

Meanwhile, California’s almond farms have never been so productive. Though water prices are up for many, and though this year’s almond harvest is expected to be diminished slightly by drought, farmers have reaped record crops repeatedly in the past decade of explosive growth. In 2014, the almond industry’s crop of 1.8 billion pounds was worth $6.5 billion—the most lucrative fruit crop in the state.

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Vaccination allegations

Opponents of Senate Bill 277, the child vaccination bill making its way through the California Legislature, allege that lawmakers who support the measure have been influenced by campaign donations from the pharmaceutical industry.

SB 277 would end the personal belief exemption allowing parents to opt their children out of immunization and require that all schoolchildren in the state be fully vaccinated, and some critics say the pharmaceutical industry has a keen interest in passing the legislation, according to The Sacramento Bee. However, no link between drug companies and SB 277 are evident in drug companies’ lobbyist filings, and Priscilla VanderVeer, spokeswoman for Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America, refutes the claims.

“We aren’t pushing this bill behind the scenes,” she said.

Pharmaceutical companies and drug trade groups donated more than $2 million to current members of the Legislature in 2013-14. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento)—co-author of SB 277— received the most, at $95,000.

sayonara, trans fat

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration recently finalized rules that will, over the next three years, almost completely remove trans fat from the American food supply.

In 2006, the FDA began requiring manufacturers to clearly label the amounts of trans fat, intake of which has long been associated with heart disease, according to SFGate.com. In its most recent announcement, the FDA has officially declared trans fat—often listed on ingredient labels as “partially hydrogenated oil”—dangerous to human health, even in small amounts.

Exemptions will be made for trans fat occurring naturally in some meat and dairy products.

While most food manufacturers have, due to public criticism, already stopped using trans fat, the FDA’s label requirements have allowed up to a half gram per serving without noting it on the label. The new ban will close that loophole.

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Save Laves California, a coalition of medical and labor groups, recently gave $2 million to back proposed ballot initiatives that would raise California’s tax on tobacco and direct that funding toward Medi-Cal, the state’s health insurance program for low-income residents.

One initiative seeks to add an additional $2 tax on packs of cigarettes to raise an estimated $1.5 billion per year for smoking prevention programs and smoking-related medical costs borne by taxpayers through Medi-Cal, according to The Sacramento Bee. A second initiative would similarly tax electronic cigarettes.

Previous attempts have faced stiff resistance.

Most recently, in 2012, the tobacco industry spent more than $42 million lobbying against Proposition 29, which would have raised the cigarette tax by a dollar but was defeated in the statewide election.

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Olower-back primary care physicians encounter, pain ranks among the most f all the illnesses and ailments that

common reasons people seek medical care. That may seem like a very specific, localized concern, but according to the National Center for Health Statistics, more adults point to discomfort in the lower back than any other place on the body.

“It’s a quite common complaint that brings patients in,” said Dr. James Westcott, a family practice physician at Mission Ranch Primary Care in Chico.

“I see it every week, for sure—quite frequently.”

Typically, the doctor and patient identify a cause of the lower-back pain that’s physical: a specific injury that arose during an athletic activity or from a jarring, wrenching accident.

However, there’s also a possible overarching cause that’s physiological.

“My theory is, evolutionarily

speaking, we’re not really meant to live past 30 or 40 years with a lot of stress on the lower back,” said Dr. Bill Whitlatch, a neurosurgeon at Enloe Neurosurgery & Spine, a specialty practice in Chico.

“If you look at a lot of so-called normal people, with no back pain, when we do MRIs on their backs, over [age] 30 there’s almost always an abnormality, even if they’re not symptomatic….

“You just don’t see this much back pain in quadrupeds as you do in bipeds, bearing all that weight all those years on those discs. Certainly accidents, trauma, poor nutrition, poor conditioning and, concurrent to that, obesity and smoking accelerate that degeneration.”

The job of the physician—primary care or specialist—is, in Whitlatch’s words, “sorting out what’s actually causing the problem: the ‘pain-generator.’”

The first step is actually a process of elimination, ruling out what Westcott referred to as “red flag symptoms” such as cancer, infection or fracture. “That’s a very small percentage,” he said, “but that’s very important to check.”

Once the physician rules out a major condition, the next step—surprisingly—is

to take a step back.

“Most acute back pain is going to go away in four to six weeks whether you do anything or not,” Westcott said. In fact, he added, often lower-back patients won’t return to the office after the first week because their symptoms have abated.

During this restorative period, they aren’t idle: “Most patients do better if they have a plan rather than waiting,” Westcott said. “We follow evidence-based care and encourage them to be as active as possible. People seem to do better if they move around more, so we tell them they’re not fragile and try to get them back to work as soon as possible.”

If pain persists, Westcott may order an X-ray, MRI and/or blood test, and perhaps recommend medication, physical therapy or chiropractic care. After that, it may be time to consult a specialist—namely, a neurosurgeon.

Ironically, though “surgeon” is in their job

title, many neurosurgeons view surgery as the treatment of last resort.

“We’re really trained in the surgical treatment of back and neck problems, as well as brain and peripheral nerve, but

NEED YOUR the SI joint, Whitlatch says the procedure is controversial and not performed in his group. He likely will refer a facet or SI joint patient to a pain specialist.

In the case of spondylolisthesis, a condition in which two bones slide over each other, surgery tends to alleviate the pain in up to 90 percent of patients.

Other causes of lower-back pain seen by specialists include complications from previous surgeries, inflammatory diseases such as rheumatoid arthritis and fibromyalgia, and osteoporosis.

Back pain isn’t wholly avoidable, but adults can reduce their odds with lifestyle choices such as exercise, good nutrition and quitting smoking.

“The most important thing is to be in good condition,” Westcott said. “Strengthen your core muscles, strengthen your back, and learn proper lifting techniques….

“People who are in poor health are at much higher risk for back pain problems, so if you are in good health, you should be avoiding that by staying in good Ω shape.”

This story originally appeared in the July 31, 2014, issue of the CN&R.

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we’ve had to learn conservative treatments from other specialties,” Whitlatch said. “Most of the time, surgery is not indicated, but the patient still hurts, and that’s the real conundrum: You want to help the patient, but you don’t want to put them through unnecessary surgery. A lot of times there’s a gray area.”

Whitlatch has three criteria for surgery: A clear target directly matching up with the symptoms; a progressive neurological deficit such as increasing paralysis; and it being the final option.

“In my mind,” he said, “not only is surgery the last resort, but the ethical thing to do is make it the last resort.”

Surgery may be indicated for a deformity, such as the spinal curvature known as scoliosis, which can throw body posture out of alignment. On the other hand, some patients “just learn to live with it.”

Two joints in the lower back commonly cause pain. The facet joint can cause an ache, accompanied by a popping or clicking sound, which grows worse with use or in cold weather. The sacroiliac (or SI) joint, which causes up to 20 percent of back pain, tends to spark pain when a person is upright.

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meat. How are we going to solve this water crisis? Basically, we’re going to all have yellow-looking yards so we can have a steak on our table. There’s something fundamentally wrong with that.”

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several of the big bottled-water companies—namely Nestle, which sells California water as Arrowhead—have come under fire of late for profiting off of a precious natural resource that residents are forced to ration.

But amid the big corporations commonly associated with waste and environmental degradation—plastic bottles fill our landfills and greenhouse gases from shipping those bottles fill the atmosphere— is the little guy. Castle Rock Water, opened in 2011 in the small town of Dunsmuir, has a philosophy that goes beyond the bottom line when it comes to bottling water.

“Natural resources should be used for the common good,” said Thomas Greither, Castle Rock president. To that end, the company first paid to renovate a dilapidated city-owned building and now pays rent on that space. It uses only glass, and that glass is 55 percent recycled, to reduce its carbon footprint. And it donates 5 percent of all profits to local nonprofit groups.

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institute is the international leader in inspection and certification for ecological, organic and social standards.)

“I wanted to start a water company that has a fair relationship with the community,” Greither said. “I feel in my heart that natural resources should belong to the people.”

In fact, the city of Dunsmuir owns the rights to the water that comes out of the springs that fill Castle Rock’s bottles.

Back in 1889, that water was first bottled for consumption by the settlers there and shipped as far away as New York, according to the company’s website. Part of the town’s claim to fame is being home to the “best water on earth.”

But, why bottle it during a drought?

Greither says he understands why people are upset about bottling water in California right now. But he also feels they’re pointing their fingers in the wrong direction.

“Look at California’s overall water consumption: 80 percent goes to agriculture and 56 percent [of that] goes to livestock.

Only 20 percent goes to residential uses and less than 1 percent is bottled for water,” he said. “Do we really need to eat so much meat, do we really need this lifestyle?

There are whole cultures that live without

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Log onto www.castlerockwatercompany.com to learn more about the company. Its bottles can be found locally at Chico Natural Foods Cooperative.

Born and raised in Germany, Greither came

to the United States in 1979 with just one suitcase and attended the University of Vermont. He intended to become a doctor.

Soon, the tides changed.

“I realized how little attention to health was being paid by doctors,” he said. “They weren’t even required to take a nutrition course. So I decided to switch from medical school to nutrition and foods, and I became a nutritionist.”

Greither actually was following in his father’s—and grandfather’s—footsteps.

Both men were nutritionists. His grandfather, Otto Greither, had started an herbal health store in Germany in the early 1900s.

Greither himself ran a health food store in Vermont, and also started Flora Health in British Columbia. It’s that company that earned him enough to have the luxury of running a business not entirely based on profit, Castle Rock Water, he said.

Which brings us back to water. In addition to running an environmentally friendly and socially responsible company, Greither also is passionate about the quality of the water we drink. He truly believes the spring water in Dunsmuir, which hails from the glaciers atop Mount Shasta and is naturally filtered through miles of rock and stone, is the best water on the planet. From his nutritionist’s perspective, water is highly undervalued.

“It’s a substance we don’t pay any attention to. We just say, ‘It’s good enough,’” Greither said. “But the human body, 90 percent of it is water. Water is the most important ingredient. High-quality water makes a difference. I want to educate people that water is not just water; we should pay attention to what type of water we use, especially for our health.”

Greither feels strongly that much of the tap water we drink is not as healthy as it should be. In many cases, it’s contaminated or it’s treated with chemicals such as chlorine to make it “safe,” he said. It’s

his belief that spring water is both cleaner and healthier. He cited studies that show goldfish in some areas cannot survive on tap water. Indeed, several websites indicate that spring water is a safer environment for goldfish than tap water. (Another alternative is to treat the tap water.)

“Chlorine and chloramine are completely invisible to the naked eye—you can’t see them but your goldfish will feel them,” reads www.completegoldfishcare .com. “If you drop your goldfish directly into tap water, the chlorine will burn their gills and this gill damage can make it hard for your goldfish to breathe.”

There’s clearly no easy solution. Some argue that in fact it’s the bottled water industry that perpetuates the existence of contaminated tap water. “The longer Americans buy bottled water as if it’s a replacement or improvement to tap, and treat tap water as if it’s not worth drinking, the likelier it is those communities [without safe drinking water] will remain marginalized, and their water supplies will remain threatened,” writes Laura Bliss for the Atlantic’s Citylab website.

Greither continues to push on, however, hoping to “prove we can make a difference.” □

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Show me yours Cultivating Community North Valley is committed to spreading healthy, sustainable and innovative gardening and food preparation techniques, and the group’s next contribution to shared community knowledge is a Local Flavor Grow and Show on Sunday, June 28, at the Chico Grange Hall (2775 Nord Ave.). The focus for the event is dehydrated fruits and veggies, and many recipes will be sampled and shared.

Attendees also will get a lesson on building a solar drying rack. For more information, contact Laurie at 342-1995, or visit CCNV’s website at cultivatingcommunitynv.org.

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He’s the ‘dog guy’ Josh Pitts is a lifelong animal lover.

His passion in animal training was born as a child being around farm animals, and when he came back from serving in the Army in 2005, he knew he wanted to dedicate himself to training dogs and educating people about them. Pitts, a recent Chico State grad who studied psychology with a minor in entrepreneurship, uses his passion, knowledge and resources to advocate for humane educational products and services. In fact, he created Clicker Plus, a userfriendly, wearable ring clicker tool that helps owners maintain control of a leash while still using the clicker for training. He offers private in-home lessons as well as group classes that help dogs learn all the classic commands such as sit, down and stay, but also skills like control. For more on “Dog Guy Josh” and the Clicker Plus, visit www.dogguyjosh.com and www.clickerplus.com.

How did you get into dog training?

behavior college and [then I] sort of just branched out on my own, helping people and learning as I go.

I had to sort of become a businessperson on the fly in many cases.

What has dog training taught you?

I had this dog, a pit bull, and I started walking him down the street when he was a puppy and people would do things like turn and walk the other way or cross the road and I was a little taken aback by this. I was fresh out of the military and I always sort of thought I was a natural dog trainer ....

Traditionally, information is passed down generation to generation through families and it’s not always the best information. For example, many people think if your dog poops on the rug, you’re supposed to rub their nose in it. We’ve found that punishments can have serious implications on the development of puppies.

When did you start dog training professionally?

What’s the purpose of a clicker when it comes to training?

I came to Chico and started training dogs right after the military. I decided to use my veterans benefits—vocational rehab—to become a dog trainer through animal

The clicker is used to mark desirable behaviors. For example, if you’re out walking with your dog on a leash and maybe your dog barks and lunges, one of the things you

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can do is click for a behavior such as your dog turning away or sitting, something that’s preferred rather than the barking or the lunging.

You’re very active on social media. How important is that to your business?

I’ve learned to use search tools to look for opportunities to engage with people. Sharing content and things that are valuable to people is sort of the first step in attracting them, but really it comes down to whether the dog parent can afford my services when they get to my website. That’s where my blog comes in—if they can’t afford access to things, I try to write about things local dog parents want to know.

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In the year that I’ve been writing this column, one thing has become clear: The restaurant business in Chico is booming.

In addition to established restaurants like the Pour House and Panighetti’s expanding, there have been a number newcomers that I’ve written about: Midtown Local, Pop’s Pizza, Buffalo Wild Wings, The Foodie Café, Panera Bread and Forcella to name a few.

From the look of things at The Mangrove Plaza, Chico will welcome yet another new eatery: Ready Chef Go (readychefgo.net). I’ve noticed signs up in the windows at the old Blockbuster building recently, with obvious construction underway. A fence surrounds the location that has been vacant since the movie-rental business closed in late 2013.

Ready Chef Go, an existing catering business, will be expanding to a new bistro and market at the Mangrove location. The venture is a partnership between Sean Mindrum and Frank and Melinda Kennemer. Mindrum is a Chico native whose first job was washing dishes and doing prep work at Chico’s R. Fish & Co. Since then, he’s built a career in the restaurant industry as an executive chef at a number of restaurants, including Napa’s Mustard’s Grill Valley, Patina in San Francisco and, most recently, The Calistoga Inn. Frank Kennemer owns and has successfully operated Outback Steakhouse in Chico for almost 18 years. The partnership seems like a dynamic opportunity for a great menu and successful endeavor.

I drive by the location almost every day, so I’m keeping watch for an open date.

Meanwhile, just up the street, Chico’s only Pizza Hut location is now open for business. The chain pizzeria, which has a location in Oroville, opened earlier this month farther north on Mangrove, after months of construction and renovation. The debut in Chico comes just in time for the business to start making deliveries of its newest pizza concoction: The hot-dog stuffed-crust pizza.

Press party. A few months back, I shared my affection for local letterpress business Wild Ink Press and the opening of the brick-and-mortar shop in downtown. Since that time, the shop, at 183 E. Sixth St., has become one of my favorites to wander into. My husband’s grandfather spent his career operating a printing press, and we have a great picture of him standing next to an old Heidelberg press, similar to one of the Heidelbergs that Wild Ink Press uses to make letterpress greeting cards and stationery.

If you haven’t dropped by the store and checked out the old presses and new merchandise, there’s a perfect upcoming opportunity: Owners Rebekah and Matt Tennis are hosting a grand opening event Saturday, June 27, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m., which corresponds with the sixth anniversary of the business. There will be summer cocktails, Shubert’s ice cream, live jazz, and the printing presses will be whirring. Any shop proceeds will be donated to the Museum of Northern California Art (Monca). RSVPs are encouraged and can be sent to hello@wildinkpress.com.

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In this week’s special Entrepreneurs Issue, we’re focusing on some of the bravest folks in the local business community: restaurateurs. Opening an eatery is often a dicey proposition. It takes a lot of organization, determination, money and skill to succeed in the food business, so our hats are off to the owners of the dining establishments featured in this paper, including one that’s in the planning stages.

As you’ll see from their stories, the owners of each place have their own unique challenges and levels of expertise.

They include a couple who had little

Let it ride Owners of popular craft beer bar parlay success into second eatery

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take an established and beloved fine-dining restaurant to the next level; an uncle-andnephew team introducing niche food fare to the local scene; and a trio of young locals with varying skills who are in the process of opening a downtown restaurant.

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s the old adage goes, lightning never strikes in the same place twice. Science has proven that’s not entirely true, but the saying persists as sage advice to maintain reasonable expectations after a single stroke of particularly good fortune.

Carolyn and Brian Kanabrocki apparently never placed much stake in that proverb, and have together accomplished something statistically akin to repeated rare weather phenomena. In a span of just three years, in a recovering economy and without the benefit of extensive service-industry experience, the couple have opened two successful drinking and dining establishments, The Handle Bar and Midtown Local.

During a recent visit to the Kanabrockis’ most recent venture, the Midtown Local café on East Sixth Street, they explained how they didn’t defy just conventional wisdom, but also sound advice from well-meaning friends and family before they opened The Handle Bar, a craft beer tavern on the outskirts of Chico’s commercial-heavy south end.

“We financed everything ourselves. I sold my car and he quit his job and cashed in his retirement funds,” Carolyn said. The couple were engaged then and both worked in the beer business—he as a distributor and she in Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s accounting department.

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the craft beer revolution brewing in bigger cities, but loved ones expressed concerns over their location and lack of experience.

“Everyone kept telling us we were throwing our money away.”

They persisted, and opened the bar in late 2012, opting to serve food to accompany what Carolyn characterized as an “adventurous” assortment of tapped beers.

“We knew that in order to be a responsible bar we needed to have food of some sort, but didn’t know what it would look

like.” They opted to bring in Jeff Vandegrift to help them develop a menu filled with exceptional Geman-inspired pub grub.

“It did well off the bat, but wasn’t a big success right away,” Brian recalled of the bar’s early days. “There were plenty of slow times when we’d just look at each other and wonder if we should have listened to what everybody said.”

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John Petterson, David Bingham and Mike Hughes have been friends and worked together at various construction jobs for 15+ years where they were frequently frustrated by being asked to compromise quality for expediency. Now they answer only to their clients and are devoted to providing top quality at reasonable prices, explaining, “Custom does not mean it costs more, it means you get what you want.”

together at fabrication. Mike does masterful finishing and David is in charge of installation. Keeping the business running is Dianna Harrold-Petterson who has years of experience in construction and who is proud to carry on a legacy from her 4th Great-Grandfather, owner of the first cabinet shop in Chico in the 1800s.

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public’s thirst for craft beers grew. By the end of the first year—a landmark for new restaurateurs— business was booming, and the couple celebrated their wedding.

Bolstered by the success of The Handle Bar, the pair started thinking about a second business venture, a plan that started coming into focus when they heard Café Flo was for sale.

Again, the Kanabrockis decided to lay it all on the line, liquidizing assets and losing their proverbial safety net as Carolyn quit her job at the brewery to fully invest her energy into the dual ventures.

Midtown Local opened last summer, and this time the couple drew from Brian’s previous experience at Peet’s Coffee & Tea and chose coffee as the focus.

Vandegrift went to work developing a menu, and still works in both kitchens.

The couple again found themselves working 80-hour weeks and dealing with unforeseen troubles. Upon plugging in all of the new restaurant’s equipment, they discovered the building’s wiring was old and in need of immediate upgrading. A month into its opening, the café’s pizza oven, a focal point of its menu, died. A replacement took months to arrive.

Carolyn pinpointed last Thanksgiving as a turning point for the café and said that, after the initial growing pains, things have started running quite nicely. Though it may be too early to predict the café’s long-term success, both Kanabrockis said they’re happy with how it continues to evolve.

Carolyn noted some differences between the two venues. The Handle Bar is somewhat of a destination, drawing clientele from all corners of Chico and beyond, while the café is intended to be a neighborhood gathering place. She also noted the café has more of a family atmosphere that’s allowed their 11-year-old daughter, Hannah, to get more involved.

“Enter as strangers, leave as friends,”

reads a sign hanging on one wall of the comfortably appointed dining area of Midtown Local, which is also decorated with old black and white photos of Chico

Megan DuSell pours a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale from The Handle Bar’s vast selection of draft brews.

through the years. It’s not just a randomly chosen motto, but rather relates to the philosophy the Kanabrockis credit to their success.

“We wanted to open places where we would like to hang out,” Brian said.

“We’re casual people, and I think that’s pretty typical and indicative of Chico life.

The factor that ties both places together is they’re comfortable and casual.”

“It’s important to us that [the businesses] are not pretentious,” Carolyn added. “We want people to be able to walk in from One-Mile and not feel out of place, and at the same time we want someone to be able to bring a date and also not feel out of place.”

The Kanabrockis offered some other advice to would-be entrepreneurs: “If you have a good idea, don’t be dissuaded by what other people have to say,” Brian said. “The initial opening is probably the craziest thing you’ll ever do, and you’ll probably be more stressed than at any other time in your life, but the sense of accomplishment is worth it.

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With few jobs available to him at the time, Claude decided to take his love of cacti and succulents and became his own boss. 27 years later, Claude loves what he does more than ever. He offers an extensive variety of hardy, drought tolerant cacti and succulents that will beautify any yard and save water.

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As an active member of the Chico community, John lives and works downtown, advocating for the neighborhood and its valued members.

John and his family appreciate the small town life, and he relishes in the opportunity to help others find their place within the community.

John specializes in residential real estate in the Chico area and throughout surrounding communities. John was honored with the “Greatest Closed Volume” award from Keller Williams Realty Chico for the year of 2012 and again in 2014.

Outside of work, you might find John on the golf course, the tennis courts, playing bocce ball, and spending time with family & friends.

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Fusion meets at 5:05pm on Saturday nights at St. Augustine’s of Canterbury on the corner of 3rd and Salem.

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Masters for great service and even better deals, right on the corner of 10th Avenue and Esplanade.

When the opportunity came for Robert to own his own company and be his own boss, he dove deep into the world of batteries that is Energy Masters and brought his family with him. Equipped with the knowledge of battery experts, Robert and Elicia strive day in and day out to provide their community with the best service around. If you find yourself with a car that just won’t start, or you are looking to go solar, head over to your local Energy

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In college, Garcia studied criminal justice, and for 12 years he was an investigator in the Idaho State Police, based out of Twin Falls. But California beckoned, and so did a return to the restaurant business. “Once it’s in your blood, it’s really hard to get out,” he explained during a recent interview at the Red Tavern, the venerable fine-dining Local establishment Localon The Local Esplanade near Third Avenue that he and his wife, Chris, now own.

The Garcias ate at the Red Tavern several times when it was still owned by its founders, Craig Thomas and Maria Venturino. When they learned, in 2012, that it had been sold, they asked their broker to keep an eye on it, in case the new owners couldn’t make it work.

Sure enough, it came back on the market, and the Garcias bought it 15 months ago.

Word of mouth is all-important in the restaurant business, and the word at that time was that the Tavern’s quality had declined from what it had been under Thomas and Venturino. The Garcias knew they had to turn that perception around.

Running a high-quality, high-end restaurant is kind of an art. Garcia calls it “an intense balancing act,” one in which a multiplicity of parts must function in harmony or the customer will go away unsatisfied.

This is especially true when the restaurant changes its menu every six weeks, as the Red Tavern does, and uses only locally grown, organic vegetables that are in season and locally sourced meats, such as those from Llano Seco Rancho. Needless to say, perhaps, the Garcias and their chef, Thomas Gilligan, are regulars at Chico’s Saturday farmers’ market.

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Teresa has changes in her personal life as well. Her first grandson will be 3 this July and the family will welcome his baby brother due in July, making grandchild #2. Her son and daughter-in-law are expecting their first child

Red Tavern owners Rich and Chris Garcia out on the restaurant’s popular patio.

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Teresa feels blessed to have wonderful children and their families to share their life with her.

She loves being “Nana”!

With gratitude for life and the changes that it brings, Teresa would like to thank everyone that has touched her life. She knows that without the love of family, the treasure of friendship and the trust that her clients have in her that her life would not be this fulfilled.

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is in the black and business is increasing every month, he said. Most important, customers are telling him they’re pleased.

“I really think we’re back to the heyday [of the Red Tavern], but with a slightly different approach to the cuisine,” he said.

One difference is that the menu draws from more traditions. “We love French and Italian,” GarciaLOCAL explained, “but we also love Spanish, Asian and Mexican as well at LOCAL times.”

LOCAL Innovations include a special ethniccuisine dinner held on the last Thursday of each month. One recently featured Spanish tapas, and another focused on Portuguese cuisine, a rare offering here or anywhere.

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So far, so good, Garcia said. “Every month we’re doing better and better. We’re definitely in it for the long haul.”

and Teresa’s first granddaughter in October, which will make grandchild #3.

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Chris and Courtney Hunter opened Magnolia Gift and Garden in December 2008. They’ve won Best of Chico for the last three years. Magnolia Gift and Garden is known for their fun planters with Barbies and Star Wars figurines, their big yellow school bus and whimsical inspirations. They are also known for their knowledge and ability to help their customers achieve successful gardening decisions.

For help with your unique garden, visit Chris, Courtney, Sammy, Kurt, Melynn and the rest of the Magnolia Gift and Garden staff. Just look for the big yellow bus!

Over the years, Chris, Courtney and their staff have learned that every garden is unique in itself and in the hands of Mother Nature. Magnolia’s friendly, knowledgeable staff is dedicated to sharing their knowledge and providing a wide range of products suitable for the North Valley. They care about our environment, and they have a passion for unique and water wise plants.

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Chico Grace Brethren Church began meeting in a local family’s living room in 1947. Today they meet in a much larger space, with a much larger congregation. Grace Brethren Church credits its success to its members’ part in shaping the church’s ministry.

Pastor Matthew Raley said he believes “that knowing Christ is the key to changing every part of life – from the individual to the community.” He became a pastor to be part of that transformation. Grace Brethren Church’s approach is to go deep in studying the Bible, raising questions many people might consider too hot to handle. They’re not afraid to discuss biblical teachings that are out of the mainstream. Raley takes questions publicly at the end of sermons because the church believes dialogue is better than monologue.

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Butte View Olive Co. and Stella Cadente, two wildly popular olive oil labels that serve cooks across the nation, are produced right here in Oroville by Lewis Johnson and his family.

It all began in 1935, when Johnson’s grandfather first began farming the 150 acres of olive trees that they still have today.

In 1999 Johnson produced the first bottle of Butte View olive oil after three years of finetuning his process.

Today, Butte View produces a wide variety of extra virgin olive oils infused with flavors including: jalapeño, garlic, basil, lemon, lime, blood orange and rosemary. These pure, light and delicate hand crafted oils provide wonderful aromas and distinctive accents to any dish making them truly unique and excellent – just one more reason why these olive oils are “Gold” and “Best of Class” medal winners.

Available in Chico at Maisie Jane’s, Made in Chico, and S&S Produce, in Oroville at Collins & Denny Market, Wagon Wheel Market, and in Paradise at Noble Orchard in 250ml and 500ml bottles.

Mr. Johnson welcomes you to come experience California sunshine in a bottle!

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f married couple Michael Lee and Sarah Schlobohm and their business partner, Mahina Gannet, were going to open a restaurant in Chico as they envisioned, it had to be downtown. That was a must.

“Michael and I gravitate downtown,” Schlobohm said. “When we say Chico’s our home, we mean downtown.”

In February, the partners told a restaurant real estate agent they were ready to wait for what they wanted—a brick-and-mortar space that’s already housed a restaurant, somewhere small with a kitchen and a beer and wine license available for purchase. They assumed it would take at least two years before such a place came on the market.

They heard back from the agent after two weeks.

“It was like, ‘Here it is, in your lap,’” Schlobohm said. “It was an opportunity we couldn’t miss.”

So they pulled the trigger. The partners recently secured financing, hope to close escrow by the end of July and predict they’ll serve their first customer sometime in September.

During a recent interview, the couple outlined their vision for Momona Noodle + Bao, a Hawaiian-influenced counter-service restaurant in the space on Third Street now occupied by Spice Creek Café, whose owners, chef Rebecca Stewart and husband Brian Diendorf, decided to sell the place (the restaurant’s last day is June 27).

Momona’s menu will be basic at first, mostly ramen noodles, fried rice dishes and bao, a steamed bun common in Asian cuisine, but the plan is to expand the offerings after working out the logistical kinks of running a restaurant.

Gannet is currently on tour as production manager for indie rock band Death Cab for Cutie, but will leave that job at

the end of summer to open Momona. Both she and Noah Mansfield, who will serve as co-executive chef, have lived in Hawaii and heavily influenced the menu—and the restaurant’s name. “‘Momona,’ in Hawaiian, means wellfed, fertile, ripe,” said Schlobohm. “Fat in a positive way. In Hawaiian culture, fat’s a good thing. We like that idea of well-fed.

“But the idea is to not get pigeon-holed into just Hawaiian food,” she continued.

“Hawaiian culture, and Chico culture, is a mix of a lot of things. We’re taking these traditional things and doing them in a way we think people in Chico will WATCH FOR POP-UPS: The owners of Momona appreciate.”

Noodle + Bao plan on hosting The food was at least one more “pop-up” well-received event before officially openduring a “pop-up” ing in September. Follow them at facebook.com/ event in Gannet’s momonachico. backyard last month, intended both to introduce Momona to the community and serve as an operational trial run.

The event was a valuable glimpse at how the restaurant will function.

“It helps you know what you can realistically put on a menu and how fast you can make it,” Schlobohm said.

Schlobohm and Lee believe that, along with Gannet, they’ve assembled a strong ownership team. Lee’s background in financial consulting will lend itself to running the business, Schlobohm’s work as executive chef at Grana will transfer to the kitchen at Momona, and Gannet has outlined the vision for the dining area.

“We’ve found the three of us have opposite strengths,” Schlobohm said, “and it’s all rolled together perfectly.”

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Left to right: Sarah Schlobohm and her husband, Michael Lee, are owners of forthcoming Hawaiian-influenced restaurant Momona Noodle + Bao. Noah Mansfield, who will serve as co-executive chef, was instrumental in developing the menu.

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Marianne has 24 years of experience and has been teaching for 20 years. Morning Sun is a Family oriented and encouraging atmosphere keeping an emphasis on quality instruction and personalized training.

If your not sure where to begin, just remember, “its never to late to become what you might have been”.

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There is something for everyone, including a senior program. Marianne personally participates in every class providing personalized attention to help students grow and accomplish their mental and physical aspirations. Marianne also teaches a weekly class (community outreach cadets) for disadvantaged youth between the ages of 8 through 19, free of charge.

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When Brian and Carolyn Kanabrocki met 4 years ago, one of them worked in the brewing industry, and the other in premier coffee.

Their friendship grew around a passion for both products and they often traded coffee for beer. So, when they decided to embark on a neighborhood coffee house a year ago, it was imperative that they source the absolute best coffee product possible. After a LOT of coffee cuppings, they settled on a small roaster from San Rafael; Equator Coffee & Teas.

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Opened in 1995 by two women, Equator strives to continually strengthen relationships with farmers, employees, customers, and the community. Over 20 years, they have provided the basis for their exquisite coffees and have cultivated an intense, loyal following from their customers.

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where customers can put a whole room together, add that final touch, or find the perfect gift.

The response has been incredible. This is not your typical boutique. Stephanie and Traci display their products in unique, attractive ways. Customers won’t find shelves of items they have to “imagine” what to do with.

Every day customers share how much they love how everything is put all together and often remark that prices are quite reasonable. Enjoy shopping different style sections

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esus Sandoval was a teenager when he left Chico to spend a summer working as a cook and server in his uncle’s mariscos restaurant in the Los Angeles area. Each year thereafter, Sandoval repeated a message to his uncle: “We should open something like that in Chico.”

That’s because of the lack of authentic mariscos, Mexican seafood, in the area.

Last summer, nearly a decade after his experience in that So Cal eatery, Sandoval convinced his uncle, Luis Alejandro Sandoval, to move to Chico and they soon began work on what would become Mariscos la Costa. The restaurant, located at 1141 Forest Ave., features many recipes from coastal regions of Mexico like Sinaloa, Yucatan and Nayarit, so naming it “la costa,” Spanish for the coast, was an easy decision. Sandoval says the most popular dishes include shrimp cocktails, fish tacos, ceviche, seafood stews, fajitas and enchiladas.

Mariscos la Costa has now been open for a little more than six months, and is getting some traction in the local dining scene. During a recent interview, Sandoval reflected on the efforts getting the eatery to this point. He noted it was daunting leaving steady work in the construction industry. And while he had previously worked at different restaurants, as a busboy, dishwasher and server, he had never started his own business.

“You’re thinking about so many things during the process, and you ask yourself, ‘How do I do this?’” he said. “But I’ve always been taught to go forward and not be afraid.

I’ve always had family support that kept me going.”

It was that support that helped get the restaurant up and running. With Sandoval’s uncle heading up the back of the house (creating the menu, managing the kitchen and being the head chef), Sandoval took care of the rest of the operation (managing the wait staff, customer service and the logistics of opening up the restaurant). He also brought in his sister, Alejandra, who quit her job at a hospice facility, to work as a full-time server.

Sandoval was aware that several restaurants had failed in that particular spot on Forest Avenue. Still, he said the family pressed on, knowing that there are few eateries on that side of town. They were handed the keys to the space Nov. 1 and spent the next month finding equipment, remodeling the inside, and getting the proper permits before opening the doors in early December.

The biggest hurdle during that time was finding the right ingredients, like mojarras, halibut, cactus and queso fresco. Eventually, they found a supplier in the Bay Area.

Now, with things running smoothly, Sandoval said the most rewarding part of his job is concentrating on offering people a type of food they may never have tried before.

“Walking out at the end of the day, looking back and seeing how it’s come to life, is a really good feeling,” he said. “Seeing customers smiling and having someone walk out the door, giving you a thumbs up, we kind of live for that.”

It took some convincing by Jesus Sandoval (right) to get his uncle, Luis Alejandro Sandoval, an experienced restaurateur, to join him in Chico and become partners in a seafood place.

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THIS WEEK ‘Prehistoric fantasy thrash’ Shrooming with Seattle metalheads Lesbian s 20 minutes cool? We’ll call after this song.”

“Iwith I received that message prior to my interview psychedelic metal titans Lesbian, and it

sums up their sound perfectly. The Seattle fivepiece does things brazenly grandiose—over the course of by Mark Lore three full-length records they’ve yet to write a song that clocks in at less than eight minutes.

Lesbian took it even further on PREVIEW: their last album—2013’s Lesbian performs tonight, June 25, Forestelevision—a sprawling 8 p.m., at 44-minute epic whose big concept Monstros. is matched only by its big riffs, Blight and with the band traversing prog, Aberrance open. thrash, doom and everything in Cost: $5 between. All of it is tied together Monstros Pizza by the members’ proclivity for 628 W. Sacramento psychedelics (the title is, not surAve. prisingly, taken from a line in www.facebook.com/ Jeremy Narby’s 1998 mystical scichicoareapunks ence novel The Cosmic Serpent about shamans using hallucinogenic brews to communicate with DNA).

“The concept for the album is going into the woods and shrooming,” explained guitarist Arran McInnis. “It’s essentially a sonic guide to a mushroom trip, and logistically we wanted the journey to be taken in all at once, with no outs.”

Forestelevision had many singing its praises for its boldness, while others thought perhaps Lesbian had lost the plot. The biggest question might be: Where do they go from here? Lesbian is set to record the follow-up, Hallucinegenesis, in July, and they’ve brought in singer Brad Mowen, whose vocal range they say will take the band’s disparate styles to new heights. Psychedelic mushrooms again play a central role in the new record’s concept, about a mushroom-covered meteor that falls to earth during prehistoric times.

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The members aren’t shy about their relationships with shrooms (they also play in an improvisational side project called Fungal Abyss that relies heavily on psychedelics), and even talking to them about it is like being on a drug trip.

“It’s like a divining rod,” said bassist/vocalist Dorando Peter Hodous about his experience. “I believe music comes from beyond us—the music’s already there. I think [mushrooms and music] both open your mind.”

Lesbian began their trip in 2004, and released their debut, Power Hör, in 2007. That album displayed Lesbian’s virtuosity and hinted at their big ideas. They followed up with 2010’s Stratospheria Cubensis, their first stab at a druggy concept, which is typically borne out of weed-fueled practice sessions (the members also jokingly admit that many of these ideas, for good reason, never see the light of day).

They say the new record—due out later this year—is their most robust concept to date, which they’ve dubbed “prehistoric fantasy thrash” (the band will be playing the new material on the current tour).

The four new songs are short by Lesbian standards— ranging from nine to 14 minutes in length—and the members say the music is more aggressive and more pounding than Forestelevision (new vocalist Mowen says it’s the most challenging work he’s ever done).

A lot has changed—especially in metal—since the band formed 11 years ago. The new material has given the members of Lesbian a chance to reflect on the mileage they’ve logged as a band. With the exception of Mowen, the lineup hasn’t changed since the beginning, so the band has been an avenue for musical and personal growth. Most importantly, the members continue to do things their way as they navigate through this long, strange trip.

“Ever since we started this band, it’s been a slow climb forward—in a good way,” said McInnis.

“We’re older, so we make shit count. We make music that challenges us. We’ve grown together.” Ω

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Special Events PARTY IN THE PARK: Join the farmers, artists, and local vendors, plus a rotating cast of live music in Paradise Community Park. This week enjoy rock, folk, and blues from The Revells.

Th, 6/25, 5:30pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 8726291.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farm-fresh produce and enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and entertainment from Tuesday Tunes, a 40-plus member vocal group. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free.

Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/ events.

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

VANYA & SONIA & MASHA & SPIKE: A comedy about two middle-aged siblings sharing a home, bickering and complaining about the circumstances of their lives, when their sister swoops in only to stir up old 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, tix4.centerstageticketing.com/ sites/theatreontheridge.

WHEN PIGS FLY PLAY FESTIVAL: A summer the-

written, directed and acted by locals. The plays are filled with gentle humor, romantic comedy, scheming nonsense, and laugh-outloud silliness. Presented by Chico State’s Osher Lifelong Learning Institute. 6/25-6/27, 7:30pm, Su, 6/28, 2pm. $10- $12. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events CORDIALLY INVITED TO EQUALITY: Celebrate California’s third year of marriage equality with a celebration that includes music, speakers, cupcakes and a sparkling cider toast. F, 6/26, 4:30pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

DOWNTOWN TAPAS FRIDAY: Enjoy tapas from four local restaurants, wine, and live music by Carey Robinson. F, 6/26, 5:30-8:30pm. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St. in Oroville, (530) 534-1785, www.purplelinewinery.com.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: 1980s party hits from Esplanade. F, 7pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

STAND-UP COMEDY: Dennis Regan has made dozens of appearances on late-night television including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show , Showtime, and Comedy Central. He appears with Chris Voth, a native of Chico and a professional comedian for more than 15 years. F, 6/26, 8:30pm. $15$20. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 892-1838.

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1078 GALLERY: Liminal, new works from Chico

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

State MFA students. Through 7/3. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

ARTISTS OF RIVER TOWN GALLERY & GIFTS:

June Show, new works from artists Robert Thomaston, with Jean Burg, Machelle Conn, Freda Flint, Ray Lukse, and Barbara Oertli.

Through 6/26. Gallery hours are 11am-3pm Tu-Sa. 1435 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 5334140, http://artistofrivertown.com.

BUTTE COUNTY LIBRARY, CHICO BRANCH: New https://tix4.centerstageticketing.com/sites/ theatreontheridge.

WHEN PIGS FLY PLAY FESTIVAL: See Thursday.

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DISCOVERING FIGURE DRAWING: A reception for

SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL: See Friday. Lake

the the second installment of the Discovery Series, showcasing representational works by Chico Art Center figure drawing students. F, 6/26, 5-7pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

Music SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL: The annual healing arts and music festival featuring three days of workshops, speakers, meditation, food and vendors, and of course live entertainment from bands like Rootz Underground, Bogg, GravyBrain, and Dylan’s Dharma, just to name a few. 6/26-6/28. $35-$85. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-8320, www.sacredmovement musicfestival.com.

Theater 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, https://tix4.centerstageticketing.com/sites/t heatreontheridge.

WHEN PIGS FLY PLAY FESTIVAL: See Thursday.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-8320, www.sacredmove mentmusicfestival.com.

Theater 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, https://tix4.centerstageticketing.com/sites/t heatreontheridge.

WHEN PIGS FLY PLAY FESTIVAL: See Thursday.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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

Music SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL: See Friday. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-8320, www.sacredmove mentmusicfestival.com.

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Music CALICO: LA-based Americana/California country trio with Kirsten Proffit, Manda Mosher, and Aubrey Richmond. M, 6/29, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 3452739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

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Works, sculptor Jerry Harris exhibits small sculptures made from metal and wood materials. Through 6/30. 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.butte county.net/bclibrary.

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovering Figure

Drawing, the second installment of the Discovery Series showcasing representational works by Chico Art Center Figure Drawing Students. 6/26-7/17. 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. Through 7/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

MONCA AT THE LIBRARY: monca (museum of Northern California art) host an outreach day with food, drinks, books and activities.

Tu, 6/30, 11:30am-2pm. Free. Chico Library, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762.

Call for Artists

and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our

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

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming

- Land, Water, People, and Science, explore North State agriculture. Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley from local photographer Anthony Dunn. 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.

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. Explore these issues visually and submit your paintings, sculpture or mixedmedia works. Through 7/1. Artists of River Town Gallery & Gifts, 1435 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 533-4140, http://artistofriver town.com.

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.

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

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Special Events CARE TO SHARE: Share your story, encouragement, inspiration and laughter with Chico women of all ages, and enjoy homemade treats and music from harpist Brenda LockieKnight. Bring your favorite tea cup and wear a white or cream colored frock. Sa, 6/27, 1-3pm. $5. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

WHEN PIGS FLY PLAY FESTIVAL

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Mad tea party Unbeknownst to many familiar with the building only as the site for the CAMMIES Finale & Awards Show or the most recent benefit show, the Chico Women’s Club is actually the HQ of an organization for local women that dates back to 1913, and charter members included Chico’s OG old biddy, Annie Bidwell. On Saturday, June 27, the club is hosting an event befitting its roots, the Care to Share Tea, where women are invited to bring a teacup and “share their stories of wisdom, struggle, EDITOR’S PICK loss and triumph with teenage girls.” A cream or white frock is suggested, and attendees should bring their own teacup. There also will be homemade scones and harp music.

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BULLETIN BOARD Community AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave., (530) 321-5607.

AFRO-CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti,

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

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

CAREER BUILDERS: A monthly counter-recruitment meeting for the community’s youth.

Fourth Th of every month, 3:30pm. Free. Chico Peace and Justice Center, 526 Broadway, (530) 343-3152, www.chico-peace.org.

COMMUNITY/POLICE MEET AND GREET: Become acquainted with the Oroville Police Department and enjoy a barbeque, snow cones, cotton candy and popcorn, face painting, balloon activities and raffle give-aways.

Sa, 6/27, 11am-2pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2921 B St. in Oroville.

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

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

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

FANCY FEET DANCE: Beginning to experienced dancers welcome to work on the foxtrot, waltz, swing and more to a live band. Tu, 7:30pm. $5-$7. Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4015, www.chicorec.com.

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

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Call for location, (530) 518-8422.

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LOCAL FLAVOR GROW AND SHOW: Taste and share

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MONCA AT THE LIBRARY: monca (museum of Northern California art) host an outreach day with food, drinks, books and activities. Tu, 6/30, 11:30am-2pm. Free. Chico Library, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762.

PEMA CHODRON: A video presentation of Pema talks followed by discussion, meditation and tea. Fourth Sa of every month, 9-11am.

Donations. Sky Creek Dharma Center, 120 Three Oaks Ct., (530) 893-8088, www.skycreekdharmacenter.org.

PROJECT WILD PROGRAMS: The program focuses on activities that explore the world of water

and the aquatic habitats it supports. W, 10am through 8/5. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144.

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

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

COMMUNITY/POLICE MEET AND GREET

Saturday, June 27 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Oroville SEE COMMUNITY

style harmony. Call for more info. W, 7pm.

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

SOUTH SIDE WEDNESDAY FARMERS MARKET: A year-round Certified Farmers’ Market serving as a community forum for healthful-lifestyle promotion and education.

W, 3-7pm. Jesus Center Community Farm, 435 W. 16th St.

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

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

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

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

STUDENT MARKET: The Organic Vegetable Project returns with local and seasonal produce, a variety of herbs, flowers and vegetable starts. Located in the BMU Courtyard. W, 10am-1pm. Bell Memorial Union (BMU), 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, (530) 8984696, www.aschico.com.

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

TOASTMASTERS: Improve communication and leadership skills through public speaking and networking. W, 12:15pm. Free. Cal Northern School Of Law, 1395 Ridgewood Dr., (530) 8916900.

WORLD DANCE CLASS: Learn line, circle and couple dances from around the world. Youth and adult class offered. Scholarships available via instructor. No partner needed. Th, 6-7 & 7-8:30pm. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 566-6711.

For Kids NATURE CREATIONS FOR KIDS: Children ages 7-12 can make and take home a variety of Ecofriendly craft projects made using recycles and up-cycled materials. F, 1-2pm. Free. Lake Oroville State Recreation Area, 917 Kelly Ridge Rd. in Oroville, (530) 538-2219.

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

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has resumed his battle station: the couch, with a cool, damp towel by Henri across ma foreBourride tête, Tanqueray and tonic at main. h enri @ new srev i ew. c o m Thankfully, my dear sister, the saintly Colette, has been très understanding and accommodating—making runs to the movie store, shopping for groceries and ensuring that my munitions are continually refreshed.

She’s also been doing most of the cooking, experimenting with a wide array of cold soups and innovative salads, among our favorites being several made with fennel bulbs, an ingredient with which neither of us had much experience until recently.

Fennel, a member of the parsley family, probably originated in the Mediterranean. In fact, according to culinarycafe.com, the word is from the ancient Greek term for “marathon,” the famous battle having taken place in a “field of fennel.” And according to Bert Greene, in his highly recommended Greene on Greens, fennel has “been around for so long [that it] is the subject of the best and most curious folklore … credited with restoring sight to the blind, turning the barren fertile, and adding grit to fainthearted soldiers in battle.”

There are actually two fennels: the anise-flavored herb, which grows prolific and weedlike and from which we get fennel seeds; and the garden vegetable, Florence fennel, or finocchio, harvested as a bulb.

The seeds, common in the Middle East and India, are delicious when added to meatballs or sprinkled over fish. Shaved, the bulbs are excellent in salads or sautéed or grilled with other vegetables, providing a distinctly sweet, aromatic flavor.

Look for bulbs that are tightly packed and firm, not spongy or pulpy, and don’t remove the stalks until just before slicing the bulbs—to retain the full flavor.

Here are a couple of very simple recipes for delicious salads that feature bulb fennel, readily available and inexpensive this time of year. Both pair well with a crisp Sauvignon blanc.

Shaved Fennel Salad with Seared Tuna and Parmesan

One of our very favorite quick and easy meals, this salad, from the restaurant Azul in Miami, actually makes an excellent main course—good with a little couscous on the side. It’s also a great way to stretch an expensive cut of fish; the tuna often goes for $15-$18/lb., but you need only about a quarter-pound. Note: Do not substitute previously frozen tuna. For recommendations on most sustainable seafood choices, go to montereybayaquarium.org.

Ingredients 1 fennel bulb 3 tablespoons olive oil 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1/2 teaspoon fresh thyme (chopped) 1 tablespoon Italian parsley (chopped) 2 tablespoons Parmesan cheese (chopped)— you can also use Reggiano or Romano 2 tablespoons pink peppercorns 4 oz. fresh quality tuna 1/4 cup Kosher salt

Shave the fennel as thinly as possible, ideally with a mandoline or meat slicer, and place in medium bowl. Add 2 tablespoons olive oil, the lemon juice, thyme, parsley and cheese. Set aside.

Sprinkle salt and half the peppercorns on the tuna. Place a sauté pan (or cast-iron skillet) on high, and add a tablespoon of olive oil and remaining peppercorns. When oil is hot, add tuna and cook on each side for about 30 seconds. Important: Do not overcook. The top and bottom should be browned only, the inside still bright pink (raw).

Remove tuna from pan and slice into quarter-inch pieces.

Place fennel mixture on flat plate or serving dish, and lay the tuna slices on top. Serve immediately.

Raw Beet and Fennel Salad

This salad from Mark Bittman’s How to Cook Everything is perfect for a summer meal, the purple-red beets also making for a colorful presentation.

Ingredients 1/2 lb. small beets 2 large shallots 1/2 lb. fennel 1 tablespoon olive oil 2 tablespoons lemon juice 1 teaspoon fresh tarragon, minced 1/4 cup fresh parsley, chopped

Peel the beets and shallots, then shred in food processor.

Place in medium bowl. Shave the fennel as thinly as possible, and mix in with beets and shallots. Sprinkle with salt and freshly ground pepper. Add oil and lemon juice, and toss. Toss in the herbs. □

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Drones Muse Helium-3 British rock trio Muse long ago committed to making music that shakes Olympic-size stadiums, so it’s funny that the band is hyping its latest record, Drones, as raw rock ‘n’ roll, a return to “basics.” It’s true to some extent—gone are the dubstep influences of 2012’s The 2nd Law— and the majority of tracks stick only to bass, drums and guitar. But Muse apparently can get only so basic. Included is a three-part, 10-minute epic with a chamber orchestra (“The Globalist”) and a chorale of frontman Matt Bellamy’s voice layered over itself repeatedly (“Drones”). More maddening, Drones is supposedly a concept album about the inhumanity of the military complex’s increasing use of deadly technology, but the concepts are spoon-fed with clunky lyrics, like those of single “Dead Inside,” which leave zero room for interpretation: “You’ve taught me to lie without a trace/And to kill with no remorse/On the outside I’m the greatest guy/Now I’m dead inside.”

Bellamy has always shown bursts of flashy technicality, both as a guitarist and pianist, but he’s avoided lengthy, self-indulgent solos. Not so on Drones. Take album highlight “Reapers,” a glam-metal stomp in which Bellamy murders the fretboard for a tweaked-out 60 seconds, complete with finger tapping, pick scrapes and gratuitous use of space-age, pitchshifting effects. Hell yes.

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She is also wreaking havoc on Frank, who is now 68, retired from real estate and dealing with the after-effects of prostate cancer, but he’s not complaining. He knows that many of the other people in these stories—his ex-wife, for example—have it worse. Thanks to Ford’s masterful ability to bring these people to life, we share Frank’s need to connect with them at Christmas, even as he acknowledges his emotional inadequacy.

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The Muscle Shoals Sessions Amy Black Reuben Records Among the South’s many musical attractions, none seems to exert quite the pull of Alabama’s Muscle Shoals, whose FAME studio in the ’60s drew artists like Wilson Pickett, Otis Redding and Etta James. Aretha Franklin’s career was revitalized and given a new direction there thanks to FAME’s studio-session musicians, among them organist Spooner Oldham, who pops up on several tracks here. Designed to “nail the spot where gospel, blues and R&B collide—and transform into soul,” The Muscle Shoals Sessions is an expanded version of an EP songstress Amy Black made a few years ago that now includes three originals. My favorite is her “Woman on Fire.” Set to a beat that mirrors her pulsating blood pressure, it’s the story of a woman who’s fixated on a musician (“don’t be shy and don’t be slow, c’mon and slide into my Chevy and we’ll blow this show”). However, if he continues to ignore her, “there’ll be nothin’ left but a pile of ashes and a party dress.” Among the covers are terrific versions of Sam Cooke’s “Bring It on Home,” Bob Dylan’s “Gotta Serve Somebody,” “Uptight, Good Man”

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Showing up to an empty club at 9 p.m., I worried momentarily about the attendance, but once the openers—Orange County’s Wheeland Brothers—started at about 10, people began filtering in at an accelerated rate. The band’s brand of reggae-inspired So Cal beach music, which included mellow ukulele interludes as well as bass-driven dance numbers, raised the energy level and the dance floor began to fill, foreshadowing the joyously writhing mass it would become when the late-night reggae revelers arrived.

Virginia-based DJ Dub Architect filled the short gap between the openers and the grand entrance of the Easy Star All-Stars, who brought the crowd to its feet. The New York dub-rockers began their set

with an instrumental crescendo that evolved into a medley of instrumental themes from the forthcoming set before settling into the familiar bass groove of Michael Jackson’s “Billie Jean,” delivered with a slightly reggaefied rhythmic lilt. And here it’s worth mentioning that the Easy Star All-Stars are not just a Pink Floyd tribute project. In addition to penning their own reggae originals, they specialize in creating, recording and performing tributes to iconic albums—Dub Side of the Moon (released in 2003) stands alongside Radiodread (2006, a Radiohead-approved dub recreation of OK Computer), Easy Star’s Lonely Hearts Dub Band (2009), and Easy Star’s Thrillah (2012)—and the current Choice Cuts Tour includes songs from all of these.

Continuing in the MJ groove, vocalist Kirsty Rock delivered a slinky interpretation of “Thriller,” embellished by the moody trombone of Buford O’Sullivan and sustained by drummer/percussionist Ivan Katz and bassist Ras Droppa’s interlocking rhythms.

Then a couple of excellent originals showed off the band’s instrumental and vocal chops and swelled the population of the dance floor.

Grooving impeccably into the stony atmosphere, The Beatles’ “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds” slowed the pace and deepened the mood by morphing into “A Day in the Life,” complete with its swirling-down-the-drain

instrumental break. The two Beatles tunes then mutated into an eerie, haunteddancehall section before finally resolving into the night’s first Pink Floyd number, “Brain Damage,” with its crowd-shouted refrain of “there’s someone in my head, but it’s not me.”

The Beatles’ “She’s Leaving Home”—as sung by Rock to a ska arrangement—brought howls of approval before a fusillade of nearly martial drumming led the band into a slow, echo-laced interpretation of MJ’s “Beat It,” emphasizing the lyrical dread of the original and adding a shimmering keyboard solo by Elenna Canlas.

“Money,” the FM hit from Dark Side, wasn’t so much reggaefied as rearranged into a horn-embellished setting for guitarist Shelton Garner Jr. to let loose with a searing solo, which set the mood for the band’s potcelebrating reggae original, “Pass the Lighter.”

Lighters having been symbolically passed (along with a steaming vape pen or two), it was time for “Time.” And the dance-floor sensation of “kicking around on a piece of ground in [our] hometown” was heightened by the remote-controlled laser light that shimmered and shifted colors and patterns above the crowd as it rose to the mournful lament of “Us and Them” before entering the transcendental realm of “The Great Gig in the Sky,” during which Rock delivered the soaring wordless vocal part of with great abandon and soul.

With the crowd howling for more, the band returned after a short break that included a cheerfully rendered version of The Beatles’ “When I’m Sixty-Four” that left the crowd with smiles on our faces as we collected our thoughts for the journey home. □

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BEER RELEASE PARTY: Join brewmaster Roland Allen in the release of the Emperor’s Mandarin Wheat beer. Th, 6/25, 6-9pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

BIG MOUNTAIN: The San Diego pop/reggae crew known for its hit 1990s cover of Peter Frampton’s “Baby, I Love Your Way” visits Chico. Th, 6/25. $10. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

HAPPY HOUR: Classic rock and country

from The Retrotones. Th, 6/25, 6pm.

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

LESBIAN: Mid-tempo heaviosity from Seattle. Plus, Paradise metal bros Aberrance and Chico black-metal crew Blight. Th, 6/25, 8pm. $5.

Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672.

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

DJ DANCING: DJ Dre brings dance hits to the Spirits Lounge. Th, 6/25, 8:30pm1am. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans

eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues, and standards with rotating guest players.

Th, 6/25, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

26FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

DJ MACK MORRIS: Dancing all night. F,

6/26, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

FOLSOM PRISM: A Johnny Cash tribute. F, 6/26, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

hits. 6/26-6/27, 8:30pm-1:30am. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.gold countrycasino.com.

SURROGATE: Chris Keane and company perform acoustic and electric sets, plus special guests Casing The Promised Land. F, 6/26, 9pm. $5.

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

KYLE WILLIAMS: In the piano bar. 6/26-

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SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL: The annual healing-arts and music festival featuring three days of workshops, speakers, meditation, food and vendors, and of course live entertainment with Rootz Underground, Bogg, GravyBrain and Dylan’s Dharma, just to name a few. 6/26-6/28. $35-$85.

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STAND-UP COMEDY: Dennis Regan has made dozens of appearances on latenight television including The Late Show with David Letterman, The Tonight Show, Showtime, and Comedy Central. He will appear with Chris Voth, a native of Chico and a professional comedian for more than 15 years. F, 6/26, 8:30pm. $15-$20. El Rey Theatre, 230 West Second St., (530) 892-1838.

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DRIVER: Live music by the Paradise guys.

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dance the night away. Sa, 8pm.

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

Sa, 6/27, 9pm. $3. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 3430662.

FOLSOM PRISM: A tribute to the man in

black, Johnny Cash. Sa, 6/27. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

HOT FLASH: Say goodbye to June with a

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STEEL BREEZE: See Friday. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountry casino.com.

SUPER HUEY: A Huey Lewis tribute. Sa,

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PIANO NIGHT: Live Piano music. W. Italian

country trio with Kirsten Proffit, Manda Mosher, and Aubrey Richmond.

M, 6/29, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 3452739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

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28SUNDAY OPEN MIC NIGHT: Perform anything you’d like.Hosted by Jim Kent. M, Su, 8pm through 12/28. Western Pacific

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REGGAE NIGHT: Rise your vibes with live DJs, pool and shuffle board. Su, 8pm2am. Seeva’s Pub, 6093 Lincoln Blv in Oroville.

SACRED MOVEMENT FESTIVAL: See Friday.

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SWAMP JAM: Bring an instrument and enjoy swamp themed food and drinks

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Adam Domnie has been busy the past few months playing around town as one-man band Well Okay. Now he’s splitting town, but not before leaving a gift—and tape called Homesick for a House Fire—and throwing a big release party at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room on Saturday, June 27. Seeing him off are Skin Peaks, Los New Huevos and Pink Bandana.

KARAOKE NIGHT: An open karaoke night

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Malcolm and his two pals are multi-ethnic people of color whose upfront geekiness is part of their bond and part of their strength as individuals. Those aspects of Dope make it a kind of subcultural comedy of manners, and Famuyiwa’s script intermittently broadens the commentary via casual digressions on national issues—Obama’s presidency, drones and “the war on terror,” social media and government surveillance.

But there’s more to Malcolm’s story, and Dope also takes partial shape as a provocative coming-of-age tale.

Malcolm stumbles into problematic dalliances with two not-so-innocent young women, a gangbanger’s girlfriend (Zoë Kravitz) and a drug dealer’s daughter (Chanel Iman). And those two rather outlandish peccadilloes lead to an even more outlandish predicament—how to dispose of a gun and a drug shipment that get stashed in his backpack during a raid at a dance club.

Famuyiwa’s sprawling plot resolves itself in somewhat arbitrary and dubious fashion. But Moore’s performance and the Malcolm we see at the very end bespeak hard-won worldliness to go alongside the indefatigable exuberance that has marked him from the beginning. Ω

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Sunshine Superman

Traumatized after his handler dies in Afghanistan, a working dog returns to the U.S. and the loving arms of the soldier’s family.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG. A heart-racing documentary on the life of BASE-jumping pioneer Carl Boenish. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

Ted 2

Mark Wahlberg’s crass, walking-talking teddy-bear pal (voiced by writer/director Seth MacFarlane) is back and married to a human female and looking to be granted personhood in order to legally procreate.

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

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Far From the Madding Crowd

The setting is 19th century England, with commoners and gentry intermingling in the rugged rural landscapes. Director Thomas Vinterberg and company make all that a living part of the human dramas that unfold, and the episodes of spectacular dramatic action—a barnyard fire, a catastrophic panic among a herd of sheep, recurring bits of pursuit on horseback, an emergency in a thunderstorm—are rendered forth with brisk, evocative intensity.

The heart of the matter, however, is the strange, convoluted romantic drama that plays out among the main characters—the fiercely independent heiress Bathsheba Everdene (Carey Mulligan) and her three suitors (a shepherd, a landowner and a young cavalry officer). The basic power of Thomas Hardy’s story comes through rather well in this adaptation, despite some unevenness in performances and casting.

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Inside Out

From the writer and director (Pete Docter) who brought us Up and Monsters, Inc. comes the story of a young girl who, after being uprooted from her hometown, must reconcile her many emotions—Joy, Fear, Disgust, Anger and Sadness. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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.

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Love & Mercy

This gently incisive biopic builds its portrait of Brian Wilson through a kind of triangulation: Paul Dano plays Wilson in the 1960s heyday of The Beach Boys; John Cusack plays the Wilson of the 1980s, cut off from The Beach Boys and dominated by the creepy Dr. Eugene Landy (Paul Giamatti); and Elizabeth Banks plays Melinda Ledbetter, girlfriend, future wife and key enabler of Wilson’s recovery from the emotional wreckage of family life and pop-music success. Filmmaker Bill Pohlad builds his por-

trait via an alternating montage of episodes from the ’60s and ’80s. The central thread is a cumulative impression of the emotional and professional travails of a strangely inspired music genius, with some psychodrama and a little pop-music history sketched in along the way. Dano and Cusack are both excellent, with each bringing separate and distinctive qualities to the film’s necessarily composite portrait. The radiant intelligence of Banks’ performance is a saving grace for Wilson’s story and for the film as a whole. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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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, bikini-clad 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 wizened 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’ testosterone-fueled 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. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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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 upper-body 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 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Spy

Director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) is teamed up with Melissa McCarthy again, this time to for a spy-film 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.

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day since taking a week-long break, and I am already daydreaming, filling my head with images from my carefree time away from the keyboard. My break started in San Francisco, under blue skies and with a cool breeze on my face as Mrs. DEVO, Honey Dog and I browsed the streets of Chinatown and its bargain fireworks, freshly butchered chickens and jars of exotic culinary delicacies (dried sea cucumbers, only $800 a pound!). And it ended on the scorched streets of Chico, tooling around in my dusty Volvo wagon, arm out the open window, nodding approvingly along with my brand-new cassette from local schizo-metal-punk trio Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission (Kurmudgeon Ghetto EP, Xerox Records) as I toured our fine local pawn shops and all the used musical gear therein.

I didn’t find anything in Chico’s shops, but St. Martin de Porres?

Mrs. DEVO and I did pick up new piece of art while in The City, a little statue of a Catholic saint (St. Martin de Porres?) for only $15. The piece had been part of the personal collection of Bill Haskell—the owner of Aria Antiques in North Beach— until its little head busted off and had to be glued back on (which is why we got it so cheap). We’d visited Haskell’s weird and musty little curio shop once before and fell in love with its wide range of oddities from America and Europe—everything from old printers’ woodblock letters and anatomy models to creepy shrines and creepier weathered puppets. In fact, I regret leaving a couple of items behind, so in an effort to potentially fill the need for something strange and/or unique for the home I turned to the Internet and actually found some local (or locally themed) possibilities:

Elliott, elephant-man (Etsy, Chico), $145: There are a lot of beautifully made felt creations on Jessica Alcantar’s Etsy page (BoysDroolGirlsWool), but I really dig the bizarre creatures of her “anthropomorphic series,” especially this 15-inch-tall part-elephant/part-gnome-man that definitely wants to stand guard over my yard.

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stoked to find a ton of cool, vintage Chico postcards (of the Hooker Oak, Bidwell Park, Richardson Springs, etc.) for sale cheap on eBay (starting at 99 cents), but I was perplexed by a collection of leather postcards from 1906 being offered by a seller named “vegestar.”

The cards have “Chico, Cal.” and goofy cartoons You’re a donkey, Jack! stamped on them with bizarre captions—one with a woman talking on the phone to a jackass reads: “Hello Jack is that you?” Another, of an old woman in a dress sinking into a body of water puns: “Drop me a line quickly.”

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If I’m going to let a clown into my house, I’m not going to spend this much. But it is needlepoint, it is framed and it is a decent enough size (15-by20-inch; 28-by-32 with frame) to send fear deep into the heart (and out of the trousers) of the unprepared. I might buy it for my boss.

Sweet dreams, Melissa.

FOR THE WEEK OF JUNE 25, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): During my

regular hikes along my favorite trails, I’ve gotten to know the local boulders quite intimately. It might sound daft, but I’ve come to love them. I’ve even given some of them names. They symbolize stability and constancy to me. When I gaze at them or sit on them, I feel my own resolve grow stronger. They teach me about how to be steadfast and unflappable in all kinds of weather. I draw inspiration from the way they are so purely themselves, forever true to their own nature. Now would be an excellent time for you to hang out with your own stony allies, Aries. You could use a boost in your ability to express the qualities they embody.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Ev-

eryone is a genius at least once a year,” wrote German aphorist Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. “The real geniuses simply have their bright ideas closer together.”

According to my astrological analysis, Taurus, your once-a-year explosion of genius is imminent. It’s even possible you will experience a series of eruptions that continue for weeks. The latter scenario is most likely if you unleash the dormant parts of your intelligence through activities like these: having long, rambling conversations with big thinkers; taking long, rambling walks all over creation; enjoying long, rambling sex while listening to provocative music.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I think if

we didn’t contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring,” says author Paul Auster. “It would be tedious to be alive.”

But he goes even further in his defense of inconsistency, adding, “Changing your mind is probably one of the most beautiful things people can do.” This bold assertion may not apply to everyone all the time, but it does for you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You should feel free to explore and experiment with the high art of changing your mind. I dare you to use it to generate extravagant amounts of beauty.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In its

early days, the band Depeche Mode had the infinitely boring name Composition of Sound. Humphrey Bogart’s and Ingrid Bergman’s classic 1942 film Casablanca was dangerously close to being called Everybody Comes to Rick’s. And before Charles Dickens published his novel Bleak House, a scathing critique of the 19th-century British judicial system, he considered eleven other possible titles, including the unfortunate Tom-allAlone’s. The Solitary House that was always shut up and never Lighted. I bring this to your attention, Cancerian, as the seeding phase of your personal cycle gets underway. The imprints you put on your budding creations will have a major impact on their future. Name them well.

Give them a potent start.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): One summer

afternoon when I was 7 years old, my friend Billy and I grabbed an empty jar from my kitchen and went looking for ants. Near the creek we found an anthill swarming with black ants, and scooped a bunch of them in the jar. A little later we came upon a caravan of red ants, and shoved many of them in with the black ants. Would they fight? Naturally. It was mayhem. Looking back now, I’m sorry I participated in that stunt. Why stir up a pointless war? In that spirit, Leo, I urge you to avoid unnecessary conflicts. Don’t do anything remotely comparable to putting red ants and black ants in the same jar.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In order for everyone in your sphere to meet their appointed destinies, you must cultivate your skills as a party animal. I’m only slightly joking. At least for now, it’s your destiny to be the catalyst of conviviality, the ringleader of the festivities, the engineer of fun and games. To fulfill your assignment, you may have to instigate events that encourage your allies to leave their comfort zones and follow you into the frontiers of collaborative amusement.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Your sym-

bolic object of the week is a magic wand.

I recommend that you visualize yourself as the star of a fairy tale in which you do indeed have a wand at your disposal. See yourself wielding it to carry out a series of fantastic tricks, like materializing a pile of gold coins or giving yourself an extraordinary power to concentrate or creating an enchanted drink that allows you to heal your toughest wound. I think this playful imaginative exercise will subtly enhance your ability to perform actual magic in the real world.

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

taskmaster planet Saturn wove its way through the sign of Scorpio from October 2012 until the end of 2014. Now it has slipped back into your sign for a last hurrah. Between now and mid-September. I urge you to milk its rigorous help in every way you can imagine. For example, cut away any last residues of trivial desires and frivolous ambitions. Hone your focus and streamline your self-discipline.

Once and for all, withdraw your precious energy from activities that waste your time and resist your full engagement.

And if you’re serious about capitalizing on Saturn’s demanding gifts, try this ritual: Write either “I will never squander my riches” or “I will make full use of my riches” twenty times—whichever motivates you most.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The advanced lessons on tap in the coming days are not for the squeamish, the timid, the lazy or the stubborn. But then you’re not any of those things, right? So there shouldn’t be a major problem. The purpose of these subterranean adventures and divine interventions is to teach you to make nerve-racking leaps of faith, whether or not you believe you’re ready.

Here’s one piece of advice that I think will help: Don’t resist and resent the tests as they appear. Rather, welcome them as blessings you don’t understand yet. Be alert for the liberations they will offer.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“Man’s being is like a vast mansion,” observed philosopher Colin Wilson, “yet he seems to prefer to live in a single room in the basement.” Wilson wasn’t just referring to Capricorns. He meant everybody.

Most of us commit the sin of self-limitation on a regular basis. That’s the bad news. The good news, Capricorn, is that you’re entering a time when you’re more likely to rebel against the unconscious restrictions you have placed on yourself.

You will have extra motivation to question and overrule the rationales that you used in the past to inhibit your primal energy.

Won’t it be fun to venture out of your basement nook and go explore the rest of your domain?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “An

obscure moth from Latin America saved Australia’s pasture-land from the overgrowth of cactus,” writes biologist Edward O. Wilson. “A Madagascar ‘weed,’ the rosy periwinkle, provided the cure for Hodgkin’s disease and childhood leukemia,” he adds, while “a chemical from the saliva of leeches dissolves blood clots during surgery,” and a “Norwegian fungus made possible the organ transplant industry.” I think these are all great metaphors for the kind of healing that will be available for you in the coming weeks, Aquarius: humble, simple, seemingly insignificant things whose power to bring transformation has, up until now, been secret or unknown.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “She is

hard to tempt, as everything seems to please her equally,” said artist Anne Raymo in describing a hedonistic acquaintance. A similar statement may soon apply to you, Pisces. You will have a talent for finding amusement in an unusually wide variety of phenomena.

But more than that: You could become a connoisseur of feeling really good. You may even go so far as to break into a higher octave of pleasure, communing with exotic phenomena that we might call silken thrills and spicy bliss and succulent revelry.

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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 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 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.

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

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 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHINA HOUSE at 951 Nord Ave #3 Chico, CA 95926.

SHUK CHING LO 1001 West Sacramento Ave #18 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHUK CHING LO Dated: June 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000764 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHINA HOUSE at 951 Nord Ave #2 Chico, CA 95926.

SHUK CHING LO 1001 West Sacramento Ave #18 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHUK CHING LO Dated: June 11, 2015 FBN NUmber: 2015-0000766 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FOREST GLEN APARTMENTS at 2781 Pillsbury Road Chico, CA 95928.

RONALD D DEBERNARDI 5800 King Road Loomis, CA 95650.

THOMAS R DEBERNARDI 1046 2nd Ave Napa, CA 94558.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: NINA RICCI Dated: May 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000678 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GERRY FAMILY JOINT VENTURE at 1631 N. Cherry Street Chico, CA 95926.

ANNE CAREY 9304 Garden Ct. Potomac, MD 20854.

DAVID GERRY 15338 & 1/2 Wynadotte St. Van Nuys, CA 91406.

SCOTT GERRY 1631 N. Cherry Street Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture.

Signed: SCOTT GERRY Dated: June 8, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000753 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE STYLE STUDIO HAIR SALON at

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as

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OCEAN WAVES MASSAGE, OWM at 392 Connors Court, Ste. C Chico, CA 95926.

SHELLEY LYNN BOWER 1128 Valley Oak Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHELLEY BOWER Dated: May 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000700 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROJECT REALITY at 3581 Connie Circle #A Paradise, CA 95969.

DERIK JON LARSON 3581 Connie Circle #A Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DERIK J. LARSON Dated: June 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000757 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

an Individual.

Signed: CAROLINE KLEMP Dated: May 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000622 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following persons are doing business as RED HOT METAL, INC at 24 Bellarmine Ct, Suite 1 Chico, CA 95928.

ANNA DOVE 770 E. 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

WILLIAM JEFF LINDSAY 770 E. 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

RED HOT METAL, INC 24 Bellarmine Ct, Suite 1 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: WILLIAM JEFF LINDSAY Dated: May 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000685 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CAMPUS CARWASH at 1110 W 6th St Chico, CA 95928.

BRUCE HENDERSON 1592 Lynell Ct Yuba City, CA 95993.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRUCE HENDERSON Dated: May 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000576 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RANCHO VISTA APARTMENTS at 85 Rancho Vista Drive Oroville, CA 95967.

WNW PARTNERS 20 Upper Lake Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: NINA M. RICCI Dated: April 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000567 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STADIUM CARWASH at 630 W Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95928.

BRUCE HENDERSON 1592 Lynell Ct Yuba City, CA 95993.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRUCE HENDERSON Dated: May 4, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000575 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DAZZLING NAILS at 252 East Ave Suite C Chico, CA 95926.

FELISABETH DAYOAN 7127 Upper Palermo Palermo, CA 95968.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: FELISABETH DAYOAN Dated: June 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000775 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as IFITYOGA, RHYTHMS OF PLAY at 18 Arbor Dr Chico, CA 95926.

NELL R KARTYCHOK 18 Arbor Dr Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NELL REGAN KARTYCHOK Dated: June 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000729 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT the following persons are doing business as RAY’S LIQUOR at 207 Walnut Street Chico, CA 95928.

SAYEGH BROTHERS, INC. 6026 Clark Road Suite B Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: SAM SAYEGH, PRESIDENT/CEO Dated: June 8, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000747 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREAT STATE COFFEE COMPANY at 3881 Benatar, Suite C Chico, CA 95928.

ALEC BINYON 1274 Humboldt Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ALEC BINYON Dated: June 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000765 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FOUR SEASONS GARDEN DESIGN at 1010 Elmer St Chico, CA 95928.

CAROLINE KLEMP 1010 Elmer st Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KID KANTEEN LLC at 974 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD STAYCHOCK PO Box 2678 Stateline, NV 89449.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD STAYCHOCK Dated: June 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000792 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

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

ERIK SCHROEDER 173 East Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: ERIK SCHROEDER Dated: June 17, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000794 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as IRONBACK MOVING COMPANY at 16 Overland Ct Apt. C Chico, CA 95928.

EVAN SCHUMACHER 16 Overland Ct Apt. C Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: EVAN SCHUMACHER Dated: May 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000689 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SEISMIC PERFORMANCE PREDICITON PROGRAM, SP3 at 1812 Heron Lane Chico, CA 95926.

HASELTON BAKER RISK GROUP LLC 1812 Heron Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: CURT HASELTON, CEO and MANAGER Dated: May 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000621 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOVE REVOLUTION PRESS at 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926.

GAYLORD ENNS 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GAYLORD ENNS Dated: June 15, 2015 FBN NUmber: 2015-0000778 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALPINE WIRELESS at 2775 Feather River Blvd #5 Oroville, CA 95965.

CALPINE COMMUNICATINS, LLC 2775 Feather River Blvd #5 Oroville, CA 959656.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KENT O’SHEA, CHIEF FINANCIAL OFFICER Dated: June 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000779 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): MARIO SOTO RIVERA and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): W.R. born on (date): January 3, 2007 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): OROVILLE HOSPITAL OROVILLE, CA A hearing will be held on Date: August 20, 2015 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at:

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Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928.

At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attor-­ ney for you.

If the court terminated your pa-­ rental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: June 16, 2015 Case Number: J-37151 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 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 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.

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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.

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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE CARLOTTA MAE DIAS, aka CARLOTTA M. DIAS, CARLOTTA M. OWEN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors,

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAVADA ALINDA KEEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LAVADA ALINDA KEEN Proposed name: TESI TAYLOR KEEN 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 29, 2015 Case Number: 164342 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BROOKE LEYVA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner OLEKSIY ROMANOVYCH MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OLEKSIY ROMANOVYCH MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH Proposed name: ALEX MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH ELSON 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 7, 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: June 5, 2015 Case Number: 164425 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: BRENT R EHORN, SHARLA S EHORN 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

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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 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, 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.

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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

SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT NEIL S. EVERSON You are being sued by plaintiff: ANGELA M. EVERSON You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make or-­ ders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

The name and address of the court are:

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Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928.

The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: ANGELA M. EVERSON PO Box 82 Bangor, CA 95914 AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966.

Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: April 14, 2015 Case Number: FL-047442 Published: June 25, July 2,9,16, 2015

RECYCLE THIS PAPER.

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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

names as follows: Present name: ZOE STORME VANDEUSEN Proposed name: ZOE STORME LEYVA 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 31, 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: June 4, 2015 Case Number: 164409 Published: June 18,25, July 2,9, 2015

YOU’RE WELCOME, NATURE.

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

THINK FREE.

and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: CARLOTTA MAE DIAS, aka CARLOTTA M. DIAS, CARLOTTA M. OWEN A Petition for Probate has been filed by: GEORGE A. DIAS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: GEORGE A. DIAS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the 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 21, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: ROBERT L. HEWITT 3044 Olive Hwy Oroville, CA 95965.

Case Number: PR41446 Dated: June 16, 2015 Published: June 25, July 2,9, 2015

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LOVE’S REAL ESTATE Gerry

We climbed the tall wide steps of the grand old red-brick Bidwell Presbyterian Church, prepared for a somber occasion: a memorial service for a recently departed friend. But when we entered the foyer, we heard a rocking version of the Doobie Brothers song “Listen to the Music.” It was the Def Cats live onstage warming up the crowd with crisp musicianship and pro vocals. The pews and aisles were filled with smiling people swaying to the excellent live music.

The most radiant smile was on the face of Jerry Weber, the surviving husband of our departed friend, his wife Gerry Weber. Jerry smiled and waved to the crowd as if entering a party.

Gerry and Jerry were married for over 64 years, and were business partners in Weber Real Estate for over 40 years. Jerry’s loss is heavy, but as he said, “Gerry deserves a celebration, so let’s celebrate.” He was smiling to be sure, but there were tears rolling down his cheeks.

As family members and friends spoke about Gerry, they were unanimous in their declaration that she was the friendliest and most sincere person you would happen to meet, and an excellent businessperson. They backed it up with, “I’m not just saying this to be nice! Gerry really was the most thoughtful, loving person I’ve ever known!”

The person I had come with, a long-standing local realtor, turned to me and said, “Gerry told me every Wednesday at the MLS meeting that she loved me.

Every Wednesday!”

Jerry said, “Gerry was not afraid of dying; not at all.

Some of you know of her near-death experience (during open-heart surgery in 1998) and return from seeing the afterlife. She said she had to come back to tell people about heaven. She would share her story with anyone who asked, and she was happy to say that death is not a bad thing.”

Jerry told us that he and Gerry knew each other as farm kids growing up in Sanger, near Fresno, and dated in high school. Gerry was voted “Friendliest Person” of the school.

“Dating and falling in love was so great,” said Jerry, “but marriage and consummation was something else!” The crowd roared, and he said, “You never know where procreation will take you.” He waved toward the rows of family members and choked up.

“Four children, eight grandchildren, and twelve greatgrandchildren!”

Jerry concluded by saying how much Gerry loved music, and thought it appropriate to sing for her.

He sang a cappella in a clear voice, wavering with emotion, including “It’s a Wonderful World” by Louis Armstrong, with the words tweaked slightly for Gerry: “She sees friends shaking hands, saying ‘How do you do?’/ She says to us ‘I love you’/And she thinks to herself/ ‘What a wonderful world’.”

The world will miss Gerry Weber.

DOUG LOVE is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon.

Email escrowgo@aol.com, or call 530-680-0817.

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Lake Almanor Lakefront Cabin

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MLS#201400394 $395,000.

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Kim Finlan | 146 SECLUDED OAKS • CHICO Custom built Michael Galli home one block from BIDWELL PARK. Lovely CUL-DE-SAC which takes you back to a day gone by. Neighbors sitting on their front porches and saying good morning to each other. Home is decorator perfect, full of crown moldings, wood floors and 9 foot doors. Generous sized backyard, don’t miss the large veggie garden on the south side of the home. All four bedrooms are upstairs and the laundry is conveniently located upstairs.

Don’t miss the 3 closets located in the bedroom next to the master and the generous storage area under the staircase.

BEAUTIFUL 2490 SQ FT HOME NORTH WEST CHICO .

Motivated sellers!-$429,000

LIStED At: $395,000

FULLY RENTED 4 PLEX IN NORTH CHICO-$349,000

BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME- IT MAY COST LESS THAN YOU THINK! ASK ME HOW!

(530) 518-8453 • Century 21 Jeffries Lydon www.Kim.Finlan.C21JeffriesLydon.com 1101 El Monte Ave, Chico, CA 95928

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451 4th Street, Willows 3bd/2ba 2900 sq. ft with 2 bonus rooms

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$500,454.55 $465,000.00 $430,000.00 $366,000.00 $360,000.00 $345,000.00 $339,000.00 $325,000.00 $320,000.00 $319,000.00 $307,500.00

3/ 2.5 4/ 3 4/ 3 4/ 3.5 4/ 2 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 4/ 2.5 3/ 2 4/ 2 4/ 2

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SQ. FT. 2229 2306 1906 2712 1805 1797 1762 1959 1810 1603 1812

JIM AGUILAR

JOYCE TURNER

571–7719 • joyce_turner@ymail.com

Homes Sold Last Week 3009 W Sacramento Ave 2676 Escallonia Way 864 Palo Alto St 739 Moss Ave 2684 Brenni Way 317 Mission Serra Ter 2671 Chandese Ln 2363 Ritchie Cir 38 Moraga Dr 1295 Glenshire Ln 1429 Sherman Ave

$299,000

SMILES ALWAYS

Paul Champlin

(530) 518–4850

L A N D

2600 Cohasset Road 1.4 acres. Property is zoned for commercial and residential. Possible owner financing or joint venture.

Jeffries Lydon

(530) 519-4714 · www.JimsChicoHomes.com

Sponsored by Century 21 Jeffries Lydon ADDRESS

TOWN

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5 Casa Del Rey Ct 1258 Glenshire Ln 408 Lilac Ln 1580 East Ave 1735 Forty-niner Ct 10 Christopher Alan Ln 11 Mayfair Dr 180 Pauletah Pl 1355 Arlington Dr 965 Karen Dr 1200 Ivy St

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$300,000.00 $278,000.00 $270,000.00 $269,500.00 $267,000.00 $260,000.00 $260,000.00 $252,000.00 $247,000.00 $242,000.00 $239,000.00

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

SQ. FT. 1666 1472 1502 1469 1670 1323 1372 1654 1504 1270 1102

West Shore Lake Front Property

Enjoy the privacy and beauty of this custom 4 bed, 3 bath lakefront home on 1.25 acres. Luxury & elegance mark the home with its hardwood floors, 2 fireplaces, gourmet kitchen, dining room, game room, library, master suite and expansive views of Lake Almanor and Lassen Peak. Entertain on the spacious decking and enjoy spectacular sunsets from almost every room. Included two3/car garages, workshop and finished storage, dock and 2 buoys, and guest cottage with mstr. suite, kitchen and private deck. MLS#201400678…$1,450,000

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

River Front in Hamilton Branch

Country Club Lake Front Property

Fish from your own backyard! Right on the River. Some of the best fishing in Plumas County. 1.5 Stories, 3 bedrooms & 2 bathrooms. Boasts many upgrades: tile in kitchen and baths, wood flooring & carpet, septic tank & leach field, dual pane windows. Skylights, ceiling fans, electric baseboard heating & fireplace. Just over 3/4 of an acre. Huge lot affords expansion if desired, level street access, fenced and gated. Backyard has a private feel. Attached 2 car garage. Nearby boat ramp in community. ML#201401173…$219,900

Lakefront home with panoramic lake views! The views just don't get any better! Close access to the dock. Great floor plan with 4 beds & 4 baths. Living room is spacious and offers abundance of glass and high ceilings. Loft area is perfect for office or more sleeping. Nice kitchen with dining area. Lots of decking for entertaining. Level street frontage or easy access. Room for parking all the toys & RV. Dbl car det gar w/carport. Most furnishings will stay with some excl. Dock & buoy.

MLS#20140030…………………...…$945,000

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

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

For all your Real Estate Needs call (530) 872-7653 JUST BEAUTIFUL! 2000 built home with many lovely features.

Wood flooring granite kitchen counters, oversized walk-in closet. $175,000 Ad #705 Amber Blood 530-872-6817

Cathy Kuersten • BRE#01127520 • (530) 375-7557

KIMBERLEY TONGE | (530) 518-5508

Canyon Oaks home w/ amazing views. - $530,000 4 bed 3 bath Pool w/ waterfall -

$425,000

In the Avenues 3/2 bonus room, pool - $279,000 Forest Ranch 5 bed 3 bath price to sale - $249,900 Mountain Cabin $115,000

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

PEACEFUL LOCATION! MOVE IN READY!

BUILDING LOT. Level, .74+/- acre, privacy, not POA, utilities at street. $34,000 Ad #621 AW Farra 530-872-6819

1440 sq.ft., 2 BR/2BA 1980 manufactured home on permanent foundation. Sits on .4 acre. Close to shopping & schools. Huge garage and back deck.

$119,000 Ad #754 Susan G. Thomas 530-518-8041 BRE# 01011224

www.AlmanorColdwellBanker.com

Stunning 4 bed home located on a CULD DE SAC one block from BIDWELL PARK!!! Custom built by Micheal Galli, $395,000.00 1859 sq ft home for $239,000.00!!!

Lovely 3 bed, 2 bath, family room, plus living room & amazing backyard.

CALIFORNIA PARK, located on PEN a cul DIN de sacG close to the lake $293,000

WESTSIDE LOCATION. Over 2800 sq. ft, 3/2+Newer Kitchen, 2 car garage, .71 acre, fenced in back. $295,000 Ad #739 Sue Mawer (530) 520-4094

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

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 ft, solar!

G $479,500 PENsqDIN West side, 3bd/3ba, 2,901 sqft .29ac $465,000 Lovely 3bd/2bth, 1,370 ft .66Gac, 2-car attached garage, 3-car PENsqDIN detached garage, lge enclosed RV storage. $349,900

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

Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $435,000 Updated kitchen + bathes! 3 bed/ 2 bth, 1,589 sq ft $239,900 Contemporary adorable 3 bed/2 G sq ft $245,000 DIN1,378 PENbath, Cul de sac, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,811 sq ft on .29 acr, open floor plan, nice kitchen updates $339,500 Pool, pond, solar, drought resistant front yard! 3 bed/2 bth, 1,374 sq ft $289,900 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 June 8, 2015 – June 12, 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 70 Glenshire Ln 6 Stansbury Ct 30 Clairidge Ln 2794 Keith Hopkins Pl 2222 Hutchinson St 1125 Sheridan Ave 6 37 Titleist Way 352 Crane Ave 5315 Blinzig Ct 17 Gleness Dr 3487 Los Ranchos Rd

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BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville

$217,000.00 $208,500.00 $204,500.00 $200,000.00 $200,000.00 $145,000.00 $132,500.00 $285,000.00 $245,000.00 $243,000.00 $240,000.00

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

SQ. FT. 1072 2482 1034 1199 1500 936 1496 2456 2088 2113 2352

ADDRESS 165 Melrose Dr 3 Coventry Ct 6675 Twin Oaks Dr 698 Sunset Dr 182 Valley Ridge Dr 1465 Freestone Ct 5930 Legacy Ln 1395 Kerr Ln 5915 Del Mar Ave 1558 Sawpeck Way 6240 Lancaster Dr

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Oroville Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$234,000.00 $192,000.00 $365,000.00 $328,500.00 $300,000.00 $255,000.00 $237,000.00 $225,000.00 $220,000.00 $215,000.00 $197,500.00

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

SQ. FT. 2068 1849 2304 2180 1747 1720 1398 1558 1323 1517 1013

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