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Pursuant to California Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act, Chico Unified School District (CUSD) is requesting informal bids for two separate Site Accessibility Upgrade Projects at (1) Citrus Elementary and (2) Emma Wilson Elementary School for the Chico Unified School District.

Construction firm must be on CUSD’s list of qualified contractors in order to bid on this project.

A Mandatory Pre-Bid Walk is scheduled for Wednesday, July 8, 2015 at 10:00 a.m. Meet in front of the administration office at Emma Wilson Elementary School, 1530 W. 8th Ave., Chico, CA. The Pre-Bid Walk for Citrus Elementary School (1350 Citrus Ave., Chico, CA) will follow immediately after.

Informal bids will be received at the CUSD Facilities & Construction Department, 2455 Carmichael Drive, Chico, CA. until 2:00 p.m., on Monday, July 21, 2015. Informal bids will not be opened at bid time.

DETERMINATION OF LOW BIDDER: In order to conform with Public Contract Code Section 20103.8, the following procedure will be used to determine the low bidder.

1. Lowest base bid.

In accordance with the provisions of Section 1773 of the Labor Code, the Director of Industrial Relations has determined the general prevailing rate of wages applicable to the work to be done. These rates are set forth in a schedule located at the State Department of Industrial Relations, Director of Industrial Relations, (415) 703-5070, Website: www.dir.ca.gov . The Contractor shall post a copy thereof at each job site.

Attention is directed to the provisions of Section 1777.5 and 1777.6 of the labor Code of the State of California concerning employment of apprentices by the contractor or any subcontractor under him. The prime contractor is responsible for compliance with the requirements of Section 1777.5 and the prime contractor and any subcontractor under him shall comply with the requirements of Section 1777.6.

No contractor or subcontractor may be listed on a bid proposal for a public works project (submitted on or after March 1, 2015) unless registered with the Department of Industrial

Relations pursuant to Labor Code section 1725.5 [with limited exceptions from this requirement for bid purposes only under Labor Code section 1771.1(a)].

Each bid must conform to the requirements of the Drawings and other documents comprising the Contract Documents, all of which may be examined at the CUSD District Facilities Offices, 2455 Carmichael Drive, Chico CA. Interested parties may obtain electronic copies of the complete bid package by emailing Kayci Tiner at ktiner@chicousd.org.

No bid will be considered unless it is made up on a form provided and accompanied by Cashier's Check or Bidder's Bond from a surety company registered with the State of California Insurance Commissioner, for 10% of the amount of the bid, made payable to the Owner. The above mentioned checks or bid bond shall be given as a guarantee that the bidder shall execute the Contract, if it be awarded to him, in conformity with the Contract Documents.

After the scheduled closing time set for receipt of bids, bids may not then be withdrawn for a period of time as stated on 00 41 01 – BID FORM days from and after said closing time, except as otherwise provided for in the California Public Contract Code.

Lowest Responsive Bidder will be notified within forty-eight hours of bid time. Within 10 days after notification of the award of the Contract, the successful bidder/or bidders will be required to furnish a Labor and Material Bond in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of the Contract price and a Faithful Performance Bond in an amount equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the Contract price. Said bonds shall be secured from a Surety Company satisfactory to the Owner, and authorized to do business in the State of California.

Pursuant to California Public Contract Code Section 22300 of the State of California, the contract will contain provisions permitting the successful bidder to substitute securities for any moneys withheld by the Owner to ensure performance under the contract.

The Owner reserves the right to reject any and all bids and/or waive any irregularities or informalities in the bidding.

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We’ve come a long way Looking back at the last two decades, it’s clear that the issue of marriage

A legal and moral obligation was having a wonderful time at a local festival on a recent Ienjoying weekend, listening to great music, dancing with my child, food-truck cuisine—right up until I realized that

there was no wheelchair-accessible bathroom. Once again, I found myself reflecting on the shortsightedness of those who overlook people with different abilities than their own.

And as I left to take my wheelchair-using child home, I walked right on past the donation booth without stopping.

It seems that 25 years after the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act, many folks still don’t grasp the significance of “accessibility.” I have been by to sports events where bikes or kayak Katherine trailers were parked in handicapped MacKinnon spaces. I’ve also been to numerous playgrounds with no structures that my child The author teaches at can play with, as well as the aforemenButte College and tioned bathroom problem. parents two children, The assumption seems to be that one a wheelchair “those” people won’t be attending this driver. particular event or using this facility because it involves some kind of physical activity. Well, they certainly won’t if they can’t get to it, or use the bathroom while they’re there, or participate in at least some of the activities—and neither will their families or friends, because who wants to go to something that their loved 4

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one can’t enjoy with them?

In contrast, many places are quite welcoming for users with disabilities. They seem to have recognized that they will maximize profits or funding sources by becoming more accessible. They realize that the age group most likely to have financial heft is also the most likely to have physical challenges. They get it that families with differently abled members will show up to support Mom as she finishes a triathlon; come to fundraising dinners where they can all sit together; and use (or buy) that hand-cycle, three-wheeler or tandem bike if they make it available. In going above and beyond ADA compliance, they’re golden, morally and financially.

If your business or event wants to attract more patrons, check for the basics: Is there a clear path of travel (level thresholds; smooth, hard surfaces; accessible entryways)? A range of products or activities for users with differing abilities? A bathroom stall for wheelchairs, strollers and companions/ attendants/parents? No obstructions to existing accessibility features like parking spaces and ramps? Building professionals, accessibility consultants, community members and sometimes even funding are available to help you. Go for the gold standard of accessibility: It pays in many ways. Ω

equality has been a slow evolution in the hearts and minds of Americans.

Support for gay marriage—and affording to gay couples the same rights enjoyed by straight married couples—waxed and waned between 1996 and late 2010, with a minority of the U.S. favoring legalization, according to annual Gallup polls.

But something magical happened in 2011. We like to call it enlightenment. For the first time in history, a majority (53 percent) of the nation came out—no pun intended—in support of legalizing same-sex marriage.

Moreover, as of this May, a full 60 percent of Americans concurred. We are elated now that the U.S. Supreme Court’s opinion on Obergefell v. Hodges has caught up with the times, giving our friends and loved ones across the nation During this long road to equal footing under the law.

During this long road to equality, we’ve equality, we’ve seen the seen the political winds change on this political winds change issue. We were disheartened years ago, when then-Sen. Hillary Clinton would supon this issue. port only so-called civil unions, noting that marriage was “a sacred bond between a man and a woman.” She was in good company, of course. During his first term, President Obama was in the same camp.

POTUS, like many others, fell back on the same tired arguments, citing religious opposition and the concept that marriages should be between a couple and their church, rather than the state. But, the fact is, the government is in the marriage business and gay couples have been excluded from it on the basis of their sexuality. That’s always been unconstitutional. It just took a long time for America to figure that out and for the high court to act.

Both the president and Clinton have changed course on gay marriage, coming around to it shortly after the public did. It’s now time for our conservative representatives to take their medicine. Like petulant children, Sen. Ted Cruz says states should ignore the Supreme Court’s ruling while Sen. Rand Paul would rather privatize marriage than share it with gay couples. These two presidential hopefuls and everyone else opposed to samesex marriage are in the minority and on the wrong side of history.

But that won’t change the public will or stop the celebration over this just and long-overdue decision. Ω

A big fracking error When Butte County Department of Development Services officials told the

public and county supervisors that nobody had applied for a permit to drill a gas well in more than 25 years, they were mistaken. State records show that at least five permits were granted during that time. Those were issued by the state because the county didn’t even require a permit for gas-well drilling until 2012.

That’s what CN&R contributor Leslie Layton recently found out after a member of the anti-fracking group Frack-Free Butte County noticed that gas production had risen for a short time in the late ’90s (see “Cracks in the foundation,” Newslines, page 8).

Development Services Director Tim Snellings says he and his staff weren’t deliberately misleading the public and the supervisors about the lack of drilling permits; rather, they were working with the information on hand at the time. But how the department quoted 25 years’ worth of local drilling history when they’d only required permits for three years seems incompetent at best. They should have known to check with the state.

The problem is that, based on inadequate research, the narrative painted during the debate over a proposed fracking ban—it was shot down—was flawed. And it certainly doesn’t inspire confidence in the department’s proficiency moving forward. In short, they have a lot of homework to do. Ω

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Taking care I’m in the middle of reading Pope Francis’ second encyclical, “Laudato Si’”—his treatise on our destruction of the environment and our shared responsibility to address such issues as air pollution, global climate change, the exploitation of natural resources and the poverty that develops as a result. The pontiff’s call to action is bold and should be embraced not only throughout the Catholic church and among its adherents, but also by other religious and nonreligious organizations throughout the world.

In the roughly 200-page writeup subtitled “On the care for our common home,” the pope doesn’t pull punches.

Indeed, he has grit. I wish more people would follow his lead, and that goes for folks right here in Chico.

CN&R contributor Evan Tuchinsky went about the task last week of speaking with local religious leaders to get their take on the pope’s letter (see “Praise be to the planet,” Greenways, page 16). But he had to keep dialing, as some of them didn’t return his emails and phone calls seeking comments on the subject, and one head of a large nondenominational organization shirked the topic entirely by simply stating that environmentalism doesn’t come up at the church.

I’m sure that’s no accident.

Obviously, talking about environmentalism from the pulpit, especially in conservative churches, may not go over well at first with the entire congregation. But it’s the right thing to do. Jesus certainly wasn’t popular among the money changers when he chased them out of Herod’s Temple.

And I’m sure the thought of turning the other cheek and loving one’s enemies didn’t sit well with all of his followers.

But it’s time for us to face the fact that our planet’s deterioration is the result of our gluttonous overconsumption and greed. Any members of the clergy who don’t recognize this, and how we have a moral responsibility to lend Mother Earth a helping hand, aren’t fit to lead a church.

After all, this is the biggest dilemma of our lifetime.

I’m not a Catholic, mind you. I’m not religious at all, actually. Strangely, however, this isn’t the first time I’ve found myself writing about the pontiff in this space. I’ve been impressed with his tenure as the Catholic church’s chief and his adherence to Jesus’ teachings. The guy doesn’t just talk the talk. Pope Francis lives modestly at the Vatican guest house, rather than the posh Apostolic Palace, for example.

He also is rumored to sneak out of his quarters at night disguised as a priest so that he can give alms to the poor.

In his appeal to the masses, the pope warns about complacency and the temptation to be purposely obtuse in order to carry on with business as usual. He acknowledges that there are obstructionist attitudes, ranging from denial to indifference. He notes the urgency of the situation and that it will require a new dialogue: “We need a conversation which includes everyone, since the environmental challenge we are undergoing, and its human roots, concern and affect us all.”

I hope the world takes those words to heart.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About those guns Re “Not everyone should own a gun” (Guest comment, by Allan Stellar, June 25): I agree with Allan Stellar that not everyone should own a gun. But I would remind him that laws are made for honest people. No existing or future laws can prevent any person from obtaining a weapon. There are states today where a federally licensed arms dealer can, within the law, sell a weapon to anyone. No waiting period or registration is required. The weapon can be placed in an airline-approved lock box, checked into your baggage and brought to any other state.

The writer apparently doesn’t know that at the end of World War II, millions of guns were brought home by returning servicemen.

None of these weapons were registered, serial numbers are not recorded. Nobody knows where they are except the owners.

The NRA is in the business of gun education, and does promote gun safety on its website and monthly Rifleman magazine. It may interest the writer to know that the majority of law enforcement shooting rangemasters receive their training by the NRA. Many law-enforcement-only competition shooting events are hosted by the NRA. Special events and training are available for women who wish to become proficient in gun handling for selfdefense purposes.

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‘We have control’ Re “Standing by his words” (Letters, by Patrick Newman, June 25): Looking at the National Climate Assessment study, what I came away with was that the two biggest hits on the planet are coal-fired power plants (our demand for electricity) and burning gasoline (driving typical cars). These are choices we make that we have control over. There are cars that run on biodiesel (70 percent better for the environment) available locally at Springboard Biodiesel. We have buses and bicycles, too.

I agree with Mr. Newman: “We can continue with the charade, believing that we take the fate of life on earth seriously, but our lifestyles say otherwise.”

Charles Withuhn Chico

What benefits?

Re “On the Southern slayings” (Letters, by Olivia Schmidt, June 25): I must respectfully disagree with Olivia Schmidt and her assertion that certain “inherited benefits” accrue to Americans of European ancestry. I have read regularly and extensively in the social and behavioral sciences and have found no scientific evidence that supports her view.

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LETTERS continued from page 5 There are over 200 million Euro-Americans distributed across all regions and social classes plus many significant ethnic and socio-economic subcultures. Just about all they have in common is their light complexion. Other traits, including favorable ones such as athletic ability, intelligence, and talent for music and art, are distributed capriciously and unevenly among whites, as they are in all other human populations.

Interestingly, the majority of U.S. citizens receiving public assistance, the majority of citizens behind prison bars, and the majority of those born with congenital impairments and developmental disabilities are of European ancestry. If there are indeed “benefits” that are part of the genetic inheritance of these folks, they might like to know what they are.

Instead of identifying a particular “community” based on skin color and then assigning it nonexistent genetic benefits and (by implication) group culpability, it might be more useful to have all of us, of whatever race, assure that our young men are being properly socialized and that their access to handguns is restricted and supervised.

Carl Ochsner Chico

Conflicting ideologies Re “Take down the flag” (Editorial, June 25): Why not replace the Stars and Stripes and display the Confederate flag alongside the Nazi flag. It is easy to equate the similarities between the two; both are symbols that proudly embrace white supremacy.

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J. Troy Chambers Live Oak

Library cuts a big mistake Re “Tightening the belt” (Newsline, by Ken Smith, June 25): I think that [the members of the Board of Supervisors] were wrong and that the library should be open for all days, including Monday! The library helps a lot of people learn to read and you don’t need to pay to read the books. I like the Chico library because it has fun activities to do, like Uni and her Ukelele, who recently came by to sing. The library also celebrated Dr. Suess’ birthday and it has a puppet theater so kids can put on shows.

Iris Brazil-Few Chico

Editor’s note: The author tells us that she is 9 years old.

I knew the city of Chico had cut the entire funding for Chico’s library, meaning it would be closed on Mondays. My hope was that Butte County would increase their funding, countywide, to help keep the library’s hours stable—in Chico, Paradise, Gridley and Oroville. After all, the county is in better financial shape and even received a one-time windfall of $280,000 from Office Depot.

The Friends of the Library, plus others, carpooled down to Oroville to the Butte County Board of Supervisors meeting.

To our surprise, the county cut the library’s budget. Supervisors Maureen Kirk and Larry Wahl fought hard to increase it. Many

voiced their opinions that the 666,000 who used the library last year need to access the Internet for job searches, learn to read to their children, elderly learn to use computers—the list is endless.

As for the three supervisors who voted to cut the budget— Doug Teeter, Steve Lambert and Bill Connelly—their priority was to fund the jail enlargement, not to fund a preventative tool that would help the jobless.

Joblessness leads to homelessness, hopelessness and eventual drug abuse and then jail. Remember the names of the three supes when you vote in the next election.

Loretta Torres Chico

Get the facts Jeanette Norden is a neuroscientist and professor of cell and developmental biology at the Vanderbilt University School of Medicine and professor of neuroscience. I highly recommend Ms. Norden’s amazing course on “Understanding the Brain”: DVD at www.thegreatcourses.com.

Lecture 30, “Sexual Dimorphism of the Brain,” explains that all three aspects of a person’s physical sex are determined prior to birth: genotypical sex, xx or xy chromosomes, phenotypical sex, external and internal genitalia, as well as “brain sex,” which cannot be changed. However, it seems that U.S. judges, politicians and citizens are totally ignorant of these scientific facts, because no one discusses this information, ever.

Some of the complications are discussed when a person’s sex is genotypically and phenotypically male or female, but the sex of the brain is the opposite. Imagine being a male child with a female

brain, or being a female child with a male brain!

The total course explains that the development of the brain’s prefrontal cortex is not complete until age 25! The prefrontal cortex, with other parts of the brain, makes executive decisions, judgments, determines the consequences of one’s actions and must abstract and apply the mores of the cultural society one lives in.

chickens? I suppose the families will have to carry jugs of water from the valley town and camp at home. It’s 110 degrees today.

A couple of government guys have sold our water to the kingdom of the L.A. Didn’t anyone ask about that? Taking something from another and selling it, isn’t that robbery? The Sierras are draining dry.

Gordy Ohliger Butte Creek

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Good job, advocates!

Obama’s bad precedent

The U.S. Supreme Court made two major rulings in a 24-hour period. The first (6-3) upheld the Affordable Care Act; thus, millions of Americans, especially children, can seek medical care before it becomes a rush to the hospital emergency department.

The second ruling (5-4) stated that marriage is for all people, not just Rush Limbaugh, who is on his fourth or fifth wife (are the new wives always younger?).

It is time to thank those in the Chico area who have spent years or decades advocating for health care for all and/or marriage equality for never giving up. From the Declaration of Independence to these Supreme Court rulings, it has been people pushing for positive changes. So thanks to all.

President Obama’s allowing private organizations and families to pay ransoms to recover American hostages could spawn a boom in American hostage-taking.

Ransom demands could then become so high, even private organizations would no longer be able to pay them. Then, instead of 15 hostages per year being slain, hundreds could be.

It’s generally easier to stay out of trouble than get out of trouble. Accordingly, the best way to avoid the taking of American hostages is to advise Americans before they even leave the country: If you’re taken hostage, no ransom will be paid (or allowed to be paid) on your behalf. Accordingly, by leaving American soil, you’re doing so at your own risk. If you’re not willing to accept this risk, you should stay home.

Moreover, I hate to think what evil terrorists would commit once empowered with a steady stream of ransom money. Possibilities include using it to fund genocide in their own country, to recruit and train followers, and to finance terrorist attacks in the U.S.

Bob Mulholland Chico

Dried up in the canyon Neighbors up the hill from us, their water just quit. Completely dry. Three houses, three families, no water. No coffee. No shower.

Washing dishes? Two little girls 10 and 12, shocked. The lawn and flowers are already dying, soon the apricot trees. What about the

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MUSICIAN GOES TO PRISON

Longtime local musician Breazid “Sid” Lewis, who founded Chico School of Rock, received a two-year prison sentence in Butte County Superior Court on June 24 for felony child molestation.

Lewis was arrested on Feb. 18, 2014, based on accusations of masturbating in front of a 17-year-old girl, a former student at Lewis’ School of Rock who was getting paid to do housework for him. A press release from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office said the girl was doing housework when she looked up and saw “Lewis masturbating and staring at her. The victim looked away and when she looked back, he was still masturbating, clearly visible.”

According to court records, Lewis initially pleaded not guilty, but late last year changed his plea to no contest. He now must register as a sex offender.

VACCINATION BILL BECOMES LAW

A day after clearing the California Legislature, the controversial vaccination measure, Senate Bill 277, was signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown (pictured).

The legislation was authored by state Sens. Richard Pan (D-Sacramento) and Ben Allen (D-Santa Monica) following the measles outbreak at Disneyland last year. It does away with personal belief exemptions and therefore requires nearly all children attending public school in the state to be vaccinated (medical exemptions are still allowed). California now becomes one of three states, along with Mississippi and West Virginia, with such strict requirements, according to The Associated Press.

The law will take effect Jan. 1, 2016.

In a signing statement, Brown said the law will “protect children against a number of infectious and dangerous diseases. While it’s true that no medical intervention is without risk, the evidence shows that immunization powerfully benefits and protects the community.”

THAT WAS FAST

On Monday (June 29), nearly a year to the day after Brian Nakamura left the city manager position in Chico for the same job in Rancho Cordova, the City Council there unanimously accepted his resignation.

“The City Council’s decision was based on three factors,” reads a statement issued

by Rancho Cordova Mayor Robert J. McGarvey. “1) the need for the City Manager to achieve more positive results; 2) the desire for the City Manager to restore the optimistic employee culture that had been established over a decade; and, 3) the commitment of the City to remain an employer of choice.”

Nakamura left Chico—his 10th job in 21 years—after less than two years on the job. He’d been brought in to solve the city’s financial woes and jumped ship after slashing department staff and budgets.

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Dave Garcia, a founding member of Frack-Free Butte County, argues that county officials’ omission regarding permits for new gas wells was “totally and completely deceptive.”

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Cracks in the foundation Oft-cited argument against fracking ban in Butte County based on misinformation ne of the key arguments made during the local O fracking debate was based, at least in part, on an erroneous statement by county officials.

As a draft ordinance to prevent the practice of hydraulic fracturing was debated at public meetings early this year and last year, opponents often argued that a Butte County ban would serve a symbolic rather than regulatory role. The Butte County Department of Development Services (DDS) provided a key piece of evidence for that argument: No by Leslie Layton one, they said, had applied for a conditional use permit to drill a new gas well in more than 25 years.

But the CN&R has learned that for 22 of those 25 years, conditional use permits weren’t sought from the county for a simple reason: They weren’t required. Butte County didn’t call for conditional use permits for gas-well drilling until it adopted a new zoning code on Nov. 6, 2012.

No one has applied for a conditional use permit involving any gas-drilling technique in the 31 months the requirement has been in place. But at least five permits for new gas wells were About this granted by the state during the article: previous 22-year period.

This story was also published in the online magazine ChicoSol at www.chicosol.org.

Fracking, or hydraulic fractur-

ing, involves injection of water mixed with toxic chemicals at high pressure to fracture rock

formations, and small frack jobs have been reported in neighboring counties, but not in Butte. Many of the citizens who have testified at county meetings worry that either the act of fracking or the disposal of waste could endanger the Tuscan Aquifer and future drinkingwater supplies.

The statement that the county hadn’t granted permits for gas extraction in more than a quarter century appeared in a DDS PowerPoint presentation and was reiterated by officials from other departments at public meetings. It was repeated at the Board of Supervisors meeting on Feb. 10, when the panel voted against adopting an ordinance to ban fracking, and it was restated by media outlets.

Given the impassioned nature of the local debate over hydraulic fracturing, it’s not surprising that there’s some disagreement as to the extent that the nonew-permits declaration shaped the debate and its outcome.

“It was totally and completely deceptive,” said Dave Garcia, a founding member and spokesman for Frack-Free Butte County, the citizens’ coalition that is working to ban fracking locally.

Todd Greene, a Chico State geologist who has provided testimony on fracking at public meetings, said it was “confusing” and in need of “qualification,” but that it was an inadvertent oversight.

“It’s important to keep in mind the big picture,” Greene said. “Their overall point is this is not a gas-drilling county.

If people are concerned about fracking,

there still isn’t fracking going on here.”

Butte County does have 32 gas wells that are productive or idle, but its natural-gas production has been declining for several decades. It has more than 200 abandoned gas wells that have been plugged with cement. So the debate over a fracking ban has often centered on whether the practice will happen in the first place.

Greene says geology and economics are major obstacles right now. “I’m not saying fracking won’t or can’t happen here,” Greene told supervisors before they took their final vote, “but it’s not economically viable now. Gas would have to be pretty high-priced, and there are other places people would go first.”

In a recent interview, DDS Director Tim Snellings maintained that its nonew-permits statement wasn’t deliberately obfuscating. “I know we did not intentionally mislead anyone,” he said.

“We worked with the information we had at the time. I don’t think this is confusing because what we said is true.”

The statement has wrought confusion because of new wells that were drilled in Butte County some 15 years ago that have been reported by the Division of Oil, Gas & Geothermal Resources (DOGGR), which is part of the state’s Department of Conservation and is charged with overseeing gas and oil extraction throughout the state.

“Determining how many natural-gasproduction wells have been drilled in the last 25 years would require a significant

amount of research,” Donald Drysdale, a spokesman for the Department of Conservation, wrote in an email. “What we can say with confidence … is that at least five natural gas wells have been drilled in the county since 1999.”

Drysdale noted that three of those five wells have been shut down. Two of the wells, named “Pirate” and “Volcano” and drilled by Alanmar Energy in the Perkins Lake gas field near Durham, are still active.

Those wells sounded the alarm for Garcia

recently as he was poking around the DOGGR site in an effort to understand why Butte County’s gas production had increased briefly around 1998. Garcia wondered why no conditional use permits had been granted for those wells by Butte County. So he emailed a two-page letter to Snellings and asked the department to “explain the incorrect data of ‘no new permits in 25 years.’” Garcia explained the information he’d found on DOGGR’s site.

Snellings wrote back, and according to an email provided by Garcia, outlined the steps the county would take to regulate drilling and declined to meet with Garcia.

The supervisors have since banned the disposal of fracking waste in Butte County. And Snellings said that his department will clarify the no-new-permits statement later this year, when the supervisors will consider adopting a use-permit requirement specifically for fracking.

Snellings and DDS Assistant Director Pete Calarco indicated they were surprised when Garcia brought the Pirate and Volcano wells to their attention.

“I don’t think we were aware that the state had these two wells listed,” Snellings said. “And in our examination of what happened … we went back and looked at our history … that’s when we discovered that permits were not required. That’s kind of the path.”

In a recent email, Calarco stressed that the regulations being adopted by the county mean that gas-drilling projects are now required to meet California Environmental Quality Act standards.

DOGGR has only recently begun regulating hydraulic fracturing, and environmentalists like Garcia argue that the agency is too friendly with the oil-andgas industry. He also believes that county officials are ill-prepared to help regulate drilling activity.

In June 2016, a Frack-Free Butte County initiative that would ban fracking will appear on the ballot. County Counsel Bruce Alpert has said the ordinance drafted by citizens may not withstand a court challenge, but Garcia says that even if the ordinance is imperfect, it’s the best option. Ω

Behavioral Health gets a boost County department adding staff and new facility to serve inmates, elderly n more than two decades of police work as an officer and Ifirsthand administrator, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea has witnessed the impact mental health issues have on law enforce-

ment efforts. “[Mental health] is clearly a big concern at the jail,” Honea said during a recent interview. “The fact is, a good number of people in jail have mental health issues, many of which are cooccurring and related to substance abuse; there are a number of cases where that contributes to why people end up in jail in the first place.

“Once they’re in that position, it’s much more difficult and challenging for us, not just to provide a place for them to be incarcerated, but to also address those inmates’ behavioral health and substance abuse issues.”

The county jail is currently served by one half-time behavioral health clinician, but a new staffing plan for the county’s Department of Behavioral Health for the 2015-16 fiscal year allows for that position to be full-time. The change is minor compared with 17 total new staff allocated to that department in the county’s budget, but Honea believes it can have a major positive impact.

“Having a full-time staff member on hand to coordinate with corrections personnel and the jail’s medical service will help to better address their needs,” Honea said, noting the increase in jail service is something he and Behavioral Health Director Dorian Kittrell have been working to make a reality for the past year. “They’ll be able to collaborate and coordinate care for patients Behavioral Health has already been seeing, and better treat them when they come in. It will also hopefully provide more continuity of care when they are released.”

Kittrell outlined some of the other changes coming up in his department during a recent phone interview. Altogether, new personnel will include two nurses or psychiatric technicians, five clinicians, five counselors, a clinical services program manager, and four clerical staff members to assist with switching the department’s medical records into an electronic format.

The bulk of the new hires—a total of eight counselors and clini-

SIFT|ER Meager wages, anyone?

If it’s ever felt like wages in Chico are low, it’s because they are. Recently released statistics from the U.S. Department of Labor show that, in 2014, workers in the Chico metropolitan area earned about 10 percent less than the national average—$20.50/hour compared with $22.71/hour. Food prep and serving-related jobs earn locals an average of $10.10/hour, the lowest of the major occupations. Legal professionals, such as lawyers, paralegals and legal assistants, were the highest paid, at $47.65/hour, followed by management positions at $44.64/hour. The largest group, those in office and administrative support jobs, earned about $16.50/hour.

Source: www.bls.gov/oes/ current/oes_17020.htm

The additions of a full-time behavioral health clinician at the Butte County Jail and a Crisis Residential Program in Chico are expected to help cut down on law enforcement service calls, according to 2015-16 budget reports by the Butte County Department of Behavioral Health.

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cians—will be assigned to provide 24/7 intensive assistance for the department’s elderly clients. Though those staff members will be based out of Behavioral Health outpatient clinics in Gridley, Oroville, Paradise and Chico, Kittrell said the majority of their work will be done in the field.

“Many of the people we’ve been serving over the years are getting older, and some have developed physical issues that make it much more difficult for them to get the care they need,” Kittrell said. “With these older adults, we intend to take our services to them.”

In addition to increased staff, Behavioral Health is also getting a new

facility.

“By far the biggest change [in the next 12 months] will be the Crisis Residential Program, which we hope will open up next January, just after the beginning of the new year,” Kittrell said.

The facility will provide a home-like environment with 10 beds capable of housing behavioral health clients in the midst of mental health crises for up to 30 days, Kittrell explained. The program will be voluntary and available to patients who’ve been determined not to be a threat to themselves or others. It will provide an alternative to hospitalization at the county’s psychiatric health facility (commonly called the Puff Unit) for subacute patients needing less intensive but round-the-clock care. Kittrell said the property slated to house the facility is currently in escrow.

The new facility will be funded by an $867,425 grant awarded to Butte, Sutter, Yuba, Glenn and Tehama counties to start such programs. The grant money comes from the state’s Mental Health Services Act, a 2004 law that placed a 1 percent tax on personal incomes exceeding more than $1 million annually, with the monies earmarked for new and expanded mental health programs. Kittrell said that once it is up and running, the Crisis Residential Program will be supported by Medi-Cal funds.

Behavioral Health is also eliminating two vacant positions. According to the county’s budget for 2015-16, which the Board of Supervisors is on track to approve July 8, personnel adjustments throughout other departments will lead to a net increase of only one new county employee paid for by the general fund.

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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dry conditions might also be driving wildlife—particularly bears—out of the foothills and into more urban areas.

Patrick Foy, a captain with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife (CDFW), said the bear that recently attacked a woman and her dog in Magalia was attracted by the smell of garbage, but admitted that “we have bears showing up in places we have never seen them before.”

“Last summer, there were two bears— one was in Colusa and one was in Atwater, and in both of those communities the people who had lived there for 50 years had never seen a bear in their lives.”

But a lack of drinking water probably isn’t why bears are coming out of the foothills, Foy said. They’re more likely motivated by a lack of foraging and habitat.

“Everything is drying up and the insect populations are lower,” he said. “The drought really does affect the quality of habitat, and these animals might graze a bit farther to find the same number of calories to sustain them.”

The Magalia incident occurred on June 22 at about 11:30 p.m., when a bear showed up outside a woman’s home on Carnegie Road. The woman heard a ruckus in her backyard and her 9-year-old golden retriever started barking, so she let it outside.

“Immediately, the dog got wrapped up in a vicious fight and she then went out herself,” Foy said. “The bear at some point hit her and it bit into her shoulder and it scratched her in a couple of places. They were not life-threatening injuries but they were very serious with respect to the fact that it bit into her pretty good.”

Both the resident and the dog have received treatment and are currently recovering, Foy said. As of Monday (June 29), Foy

said CDFW is still searching for the animal.

A separate incident, June 9 in Oroville, resulted in a black bear being shot and killed

by CDFW officers when it wandered too close to populated areas.

CDFW officials say they believe the Magalia incident happened because the bear smelled a food source in the resident’s garbage and climbed over her fence. Now the agency is reminding residents, especially those in foothill communities such as Magalia, to secure garbage and always bring pet food indoors.

“There is a bear that knows it can find a source of food within human garbage,” Foy said. “That is learned behavior. They’ll figure that out and they’ll come back. It’s really important for the next several weeks, if not months, to really go to great lengths to secure garbage.”

Foy recommends freezing smelly waste, such as bones and chicken scraps, and taking garbage out only on the day it will be collected. Also, pet food should not be kept outside—pets should be fed inside the house or in the garage to avoid attracting bears and other wildlife, such as raccoons and coyotes.

While a person is, statistically speaking, far more likely to be attacked by a domestic dog than a bear, mountain lion or coyote combined, encountering wildlife is always possible, Foy said. If it does happen, he advises people to raise their hands above their heads and shout aggressively to try to scare the animal away. Foy also recommends adding a whistle to children’s backpacks so they can signal for help.

Because animal encounters are possible in foothill communities like Magalia, the department has created a website, Keepmewild.org, to provide information and suggestions on how to coexist with wild animals and prevent attracting them.

“That’s our goal—to help the citizens of California coexist with bears,” Foy said.

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‘Freedom in all its dimensions’ Locals celebrate Supreme Court’s ruling on marriage equality

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t was no coincidence that Stonewall Alliance of Chico planned its celebration of marriage equality for Friday (June 26). On that date two years ago, a U.S. Supreme Court ruling effectively legalized same-sex marriage in California, and Thomas Kelem, executive director of Stonewall, said the local LGBTQ community had had a hunch another landmark decision was forthcoming on the anniversary.

They were right. That day, the high court ruled 5-4 that, under the 14th Amendment, all 50 states must allow same-sex couples the right to marry and have their unions recognized. Conveniently, they’d already organized an event at the Chico Women’s Club for that very evening.

At the celebration attended by members of the local LGBTQ community and their allies, married couple Dayle and Michael Akridge Deer, who wore matching “Pride” T-shirts and stood together at a podium decorated to resemble an altar, spoke of sharing equality and recognition with married couples across the nation.

“People say, ‘What’s the difference, getting married or not [getting] married? It’s just a piece of paper,’” Dayle said. “Well, we know it’s not just a piece of paper.”

“You should see our tax return this year,” Michael chimed in to laughter. “It’s fabulous.”

While the book isn’t closed yet—officials in some states, including Alabama and Texas, are defiant of the Supreme Court’s ruling—history likely will remember

Obergefell v. Hodges as significant a case as Roe v. Wade. Kelem agreed that the ruling represents a huge step forward for society as a whole, not just those who identify as LGBTQ. For Jessica Provencio and her wife, Adelio Stevens, marriage equality is much more than symbolic.

“It means that when I had surgery, my wife could ask the doctor for information, and that’s a really big deal,” Provencio said. “We can collect Social Security. If one of us dies, the other automatically gets custody of children. Finally, when one of us passes away, we can have the benefits of our estate passed along to our spouse, along with any other benefits previously denied to us.”

Back on June 26, 2013, the Supreme

Court deemed a key portion of the Defense of Marriage Act—the law that barred the federal government from recognizing same-sex marriages legalized by state governments—unconstitutional in a 5-4 vote. The same day, it struck down California’s Proposition 8, which banned gay marriage in the state.

The decisions set off a joyous celebration at Chico City Plaza.

When comparing the event Friday with that party in downtown Chico two years ago, Kelem said he could sense a change in the community’s awareness of LGBTQ issues.

“Two years ago, there was a lot of celebrating and a lot of ignoring other people,” he said. “We were so

focused on the marriage thing. This time around, people were much more aware that there is still a lot to work on. … I think it shows a lot more insight and maturity.

“The trans community felt totally left out,” he added.

Areas in critical need of improvement regarding the rights of trans people, Kelem said, include improving accessibility to health care and addressing workplace and housing discrimination.

“There’s definitely still a lot of bullying, physical violence and suicide in the general LGBTQ community,” he said, “and in the trans community it’s times 10.”

At times during Friday’s celebration, the speakers took on serious tones. Jim Peck, pastor of New Vision Church in Chico, led the proceedings and read a key paragraph in Justice Anthony Kennedy’s majority opinion: “The nature of injustice is that we may not always see it in our own times. The generations that wrote and ratified the Bill of Rights and the 14th Amendment did not presume to know the extent of freedom in all of its dimensions, and so they entrusted to future generations a charter protecting the right of all persons to enjoy liberty as we learn its meaning.

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HEALTHLINES Merritt Erickson, believes his product, Organic Chico Wash, has serious growth potential.

OBAMACARE STILL STANDING

Following a Supreme Court ruling on June 25, it’s now all but certain that President Obama’s signature health care law will not be dismantled following the end of his term in 2017, as Republicans have long attempted.

In a 6-3 ruling, the Supreme Court determined that the Affordable Care Act allows the federal government to provide tax subsidies to help the nation’s poor and middle-class afford health care insurance, according to The New York Times.

“Congress passed the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them,” Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. wrote in the majority opinion. “If at all possible, we must interpret the Act in a way that is consistent with the former, and avoids the latter.”

NOT AS KNOCKED UP

Data from 2013, the latest available, reveal that teenage girls in California are giving birth at a record-low rate—23.2 births per 1,000 girls ages 15 to 19, an 11 percent decline from 2012 and a 50 percent decline from 2000.

“By providing adolescents the knowledge, tools and resources to make healthy choices, we can have a positive effect on their options for a successful future,” Karen Smith, director of the California Department of Public Health, said in a press release.

Still, racial disparities persist. Black and Hispanic girls are 3 and 3.8 times more likely, respectively, to give birth than white girls. And birth rates vary greatly by county, from a low of 8.1 per 1,000 in Marin County to to a high of 49.1 per 1,000 in Kern County.

MEDICAL MARIJUANA REVIEWED

There’s evidence that marijuana is moderately effective in treating some conditions it’s often prescribed for, and not as much for others, according to a review commissioned by the Swiss Federal Office of Public Health.

Researchers combed through previous research—about 80 randomized trials involving 6,500 people, according to WebMD.com. They concluded that there’s moderate evidence to support the use of marijuana to treat chronic pain, muscle spasms and involuntary movements, but found it’s not as effective against nausea and vomiting due to chemotherapy, weight loss due to HIV, sleep disorders or Tourette syndrome, a condition characterized by repetitive motions or sounds.

Pro-marijuana group NORML is critical of the authors’ conclusions. Deputy Director Paul Armentano said that, while only two of the studies reviewed evaluated medical marijuana itself rather than a derivative or synthetic THC, many more clinical trials using real pot have been conducted but were not included.

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M and through. When giving directions to his home, which stands next to a claserritt Erickson is a farmer through

sic red barn outside of Orland, he says to “take a right at the oranges.” He’s lived on his family’s farm his whole life. At 65 years old, his weathered face and hands tell of countless hours spent working in the sun, but he still loves midsummer heat in the Sacramento Valley.

“You just get used to it,” he says.

Naturally, the entrepreneurial idea that has shaped Erickson’s life over the past decade struck him during a nap he took after riding his tractor, he writes in his book, God’s Ancient Biblical Mystery Revealed in a Dream: Who Killed My E. Coli? Since that moment in 2003, he’s dedicated himself to developing, testing and, now, marketing his general-purpose sanitizer, Organic Chico Wash, for which he sees applications from agriculture to cosmetics and from livestock to human health. His initially modest vision has expanded dramatically, and this is the year he believes profits will start rolling in for his company, E3 Organics Inc. The concept has roots in one of the crops Erickson used to grow and sell

for a living—olives. More than a decade ago, he approached Chico State chemistry professor Jim Postma intending to develop a solution that would keep his home-cured olives fresh year-round. He envisioned a potential market for olive connoisseurs who wanted to do the curing themselves.

Subsequent commercial testing found that the citric-acid-based formula Erickson and Postma produced not only preserved olives, it also killed salmonella, E. coli and listeria. In 2010, when OC Wash received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration for use as a sanitizing rinse for raw meats and leafy greens, Erickson was convinced he had a marketable product.

So he went all-in and sold most of his family’s 125 acres of farmland, and has since invested more than $1 million into testing alone.

Erickson now touts OC Wash as something

of a cure-all, extolling its usefulness at varying strengths as a hand sanitizer; a hard-surface disinfectant; an animal wash for ticks and fleas; a deodorizer for clothing and footwear; a cleaner for shower heads and coffee makers; a fungicide for trees, other plants and soil; and a remedy for warts, ringworm, athlete’s foot and cold sores.

Outside of lab testing, Erickson has experimented by trial and error. He’s killed trees on his property to find the perfect water-to-solution ratio for treating plant diseases, such as leaf curl, and has gotten the acidic liquid in his eyes on more than one occasion. He says that “it burns, but won’t harm you.”

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He’s also used OC Wash to treat personal ailments.

“I had toenail fungus and warts,” he said. “I asked [Postma] if I could use [OC Wash]. He said, ‘Well, it’s not going to hurt you—the same ingredients are in your body. Go ahead and try it.’”

After applying the solution in the morning and evening for several weeks, he was cured of the conditions. More recently, he went a step further, applying the formula to keratosis—a skin growth that can become cancerous—on his face. (He did so without consulting a physician.)

“It kept on growing right here,” he said, gesturing toward his temple. “Then I started scratching it, putting the formula on it, and it took it off right away.

Didn’t even leave a scar.”

Erickson says the solution also has potential application as an antimicrobial ingredient in cosmetic products, in place of alcohol. (It was determined effective for that purpose in September 2013 by Micro Quality Labs in Burbank.)

In agricultural settings, Erickson sees OC Wash as a nontoxic alternative to chlorine— the food industry’s standard rinse.

For example, the wash has been used for cleaning out the lines of dairy equipment, including teat dips and udder-washers for cows and goats, in addition to rinsing raw nuts and leafy greens. It’s cheaper, he says, because OC Wash can be reused repeatedly, while chlorine becomes less effective as it picks up dirt. In two separate studies, the University of Arizona determined that

More on the wash:

Go to theocw.co to learn more about Organic Chico Wash.

OC Wash reduces microflora on organic baby spinach and organic lettuce—even after 30 reuses.

“Everything that chlorine can do, we can do,” Erickson said.

Erickson recently made a major

breakthrough in growing E3 Organics. He signed a contract with chemical-production giant Brenntag, which is headquartered in Germany and operates in 72 countries, to produce Organic Chico Wash and speedily deliver it to customers all over the world.

Previously, he’d been producing it in relatively small batches at his home, and would often have to tell customers that shipping could take up to two weeks.

He’s also attempting to put OC Wash on the shelves of big department stores like Target and Walmart, though that process can take up to 18 months, he said.

And Erickson recently filed a patent for a specialized bottle cap that will release either the liquid or powdered forms of the solution into a spray bottle.

After years of testing, this is the first time Erickson is making a real push to sell OC Wash, and the early returns have been highly encouraging—especially for a self-described farm boy.

“The last month of sales was more than what we did all of last year,” he said. “We’ve come a long way.” □

In Celebration of Independence Day, the CN&R Office will be ClOseD Friday, July 3rd.

WEEKLY DOSE Water: no place for poop It’s swimming season, which offers a chance to cool off as well as an outlet for healthy physical activity. It also means we’re at more risk of contracting RWIs (recreational water illnesses) as a result of parasites, germs or bacteria from someone with diarrhea being spread to others in the pool, hot tub, creek or other body of water. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention offers the following recommendations to keep all of us from getting an RWI: • Don’t get in the water if you have diarrhea.

• Shower before entering the water.

• No peeing or pooping in the water.

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• Get kids out of water for regular bathroom breaks.

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GREENWAYS Pope Francis takes a strong stance on climate change in his recent encyclical about the environment and humanity’s duty to preserve it.

Praise be to the planet Local religious leaders sound off on Pope Francis’ stance on climate change

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, Pchange—with denizens holding strong views on climate an encyclical released on ope Francis shook the world—in particular

June 18 about the environment that’s been parsed by politicians, pundits and parishioners of many beliefs.

In the first two paragraphs of his letter—titled “Laudato Si’ (Praise be to you),” subtitled “On Care for Our Common Home”—he invoked words of the saint who inspired his name, laying the basis for an incisive epistle.

“Saint Francis of Assisi reminds us that our common home is like a sister with whom we share our life … This sister now cries out to us because of the harm we have inflicted on her by our irresponsible use and abuse of the goods with which God has endowed her.”

Over the next 244 paragraphs, the pope delineates specific “symptoms of sickness” as well as his prescription.

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“weak responses.” He traces root causes, calls for “integral ecology” (incorporating social and environmental factors) in addressing the problems and sets out a path for people—peoples—to follow, with lifestyle and policy changes.

The encyclical drew praise from environmentalists and scrutiny from skeptics.

Contrarian commentaries, such as “Pope Francis’ Out of Touch Climate Change Warning” in the New York Post, and prominent Republicans have questioned whether the environment is an appropriate topic for him to address.

Is it? Do religious and environmental thought connect, or is Pope Francis alone with his ecotheology? Faith leaders in Chico say caring for the planet is a key principle across multiple religions.

The Rev. Richard B. Yale, rector at St. John the Evangelist Episcopal Church in Chico, said that “at the heart of our theology is to see ourselves as stewards Encyclical online:

To read “Laudato Si’,” the recent encyclical from Pope Francis, go to w2.vatican.va and click on the graphic.

of God’s creation.” Talk of environmental issues “comes up naturally, I think, among parishioners; it comes up naturally in our theology; it comes up naturally in our liturgy, in our worship.”

Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel of the local Chabad Jewish Center said Judaism concerns myriad ways people impact our surroundings, which include the environment. Jewish prayers and laws specify ecological elements, such as the prescription to leave farmland fallow every seventh year, “and there are legal issues that are dealt with in Judaism about your interactions with the environment, how it affects others … When we realize our responsibilities, we conduct our lives in a better way, and that really is environmentalism but in a broader sense.”

Father Francis Stevenson, parochial administrator at Our Divine Savior Roman Catholic Church, articulated environmental sensibilities in Catholicism that predate the papal letter. As in the Episcopal church, Catholics commemorate St. Francis with a blessing of the animals; Catholic liturgy incorporates prayers for rain and farmers, along with blessings on farmland.

Pastor Dave Workman from Grace Community Church underscored “a wide perspective in what stewardship involves” for Christians: “Since there are no specifics given from God about that, people are free to bring their own convictions to bear.”

His Protestant congregation, for example, acts on concerns about water conservation.

Because they’re not a liturgical church, this sensibility traces to “an understanding from the Genesis accord that we’re supposed to be responsible … and not waste resources, not be greedy.”

if [a topic] plays out in the political arena, is not allowing what the Bible has said about this [topic] to become politicized by a particular political agenda, be it from the right or from the left.”

Stevenson said the fact that Pope Francis wrote “Laudato Si’” in Italian, not Latin, is significant. That means he intended it for a broad audience, not just his church.

“You really have to read the document yourself,” Stevenson recommended. “You have to go beyond what the media says, what politics says … It requires a personal commitment to really study it and try to articulate it in your life.”

The encyclical’s message resonated with Yale, the Episcopalian rector: “The world is going to cry out, whether it’s in praise or in groaning; we need to be attuned to that voice in the Earth. That’s how Pope Francis begins, and we would concur with that.”

Without wading into the encyclical, Zwiebel suggested divine providence in the very discussion.

“Maybe the reason why the climate issue is coming up so strongly is to make people aware of how important their actions are,” he said, “to inspire people to realize that we’re not just living our lives but that we’re affecting the world. We easily have the opportunity to make this world a better place.” □

ECO EVENT

After Pope Francis dispatched the encyclical,

Stevenson felt moved to share it with his parishioners at Our Divine Savior. He read various accounts, including a synopsis in the New York Times, to craft a summary for his sermon that Sunday.

“Unfortunately, when you read things online, [an article author often] tries to parse them out into political terminology,” he said. “I really think, from a Catholic perspective, we really have to be careful that we don’t look at encyclicals or anything that the church tries to teach from strictly a political view.”

Doing so, he said, tends to reduce the reaction to simple assent or dissent, rather than a productive impulse. “An encyclical is really challenging people with a Gospel message, and now you have to do something.”

Workman shared a similar sentiment: “The challenge that any faith group has,

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Kisses and crêpes Kaiti Kimzey has always loved cooking. Five years ago, she bought a food cart with the hopes of starting a crêpe stand, but it didn’t get off the ground right away. She was a single mother of two small children and wanted to go back to school, so she reluctantly put her food cart dream on hold. But an opportunity arose this past May, when Kimzey graduated from Chico State with a degree in communication sciences and disorders. One of her classmates, who worked at Argus Bar + Patio, gave Kimzey’s phone number to the owner, who in turn offered Kimzey and her cart a regular spot on the bar’s patio. Having finished school and with her kids a little older, Kimzey felt it was the right time to get her dream back on track. She dusted off her cart and now BisouBisou Crêpes is at Argus every Thursday and Friday night offering three savory and three sweet crêpes.

For more information, find BisouBisou Crêpes on Facebook.

Why start a crêpe cart?

I have two culinary degrees and I’ve always loved food. I started baking and cooking at 5 years old.

I would have these little bricks of sweet bread that were not delicious at all but my parents were really sweet and were like, “This is so great.” The second culinary school I went to was right outside of Paris in a town called Chantilly, where whipped cream was invented. I would go into the city every weekend and I would go to the Louvre or the Musée d’Orsay, and

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every single time I’d go I would get a crêpe and every time I’d leave I would get a crêpe.

What kind of crêpes do you offer?

I like to keep two savory and two sweet that are consistent so people ... know that if they like them they can always come back for them.

Then I do one rotating savory and one rotating sweet. Last week I had a white chocolate mousse with lemon curd for my sweet and this week I’m doing like a s’mores crêpe with an Italian meringue with chocolate melted into it and a graham cracker crumble. For the rotating savory last week, it was a chorizo, Comanche Creek [Farms] tomatoes and a cilantro avocado sour cream.

What do you love most about cooking?

an idea, walking through a grocery store or the farmers’ market and thinking, “Oh, apricots are really beautiful right now, I can do something with that” or “That would go really good with this.” I really like those aspects, like crossing sweet and savory or using what is local.

Where did you come up with the name?

When you meet somebody in France, you kiss them on the side of their cheek—that’s what that [“bisou bisou”] means. I had 20 of my close friends come over like five years ago and I told them I wanted to do this. They came over, I made crêpes for everybody and we wrote down all kinds of names and everybody voted on it and that was the one that got the most votes.

I like creating something or having

Summer is officially here, though it’s felt that way for quite some time.

And with the long, hot holiday weekend ahead of us, I foresee many of our faithful readers taking to the creeks and rivers, throwing backyard pool parties and chowing down on all manner of meats and veggies done up the way Americans do things up: on the grill.

I, personally, can’t wait. I’ve been on a bit of a cooking spree, browsing websites and books for the perfect recipes for the ingredients I have on hand. My best outcome thus far was parmesan chicken, but there’s also been homemade spaghetti and meatballs using locally grown tomatoes and leftover ricotta from the manicotti I made the week before. This week’s adventure will be a Mexican zucchini cheese soup using veggies from a co-worker’s garden. Yum. But, truth be told, my mouth is already watering just thinking about all the delicious meals to be cooked up barbecue-style. In fact, my boyfriend recently got a new ’cue, complete with gas and electric grills and a smoker. And seeing as he’s the chef in our relationship (though I certainly put in my best effort!), I’m extra excited to see what he’ll make of it.

In the spirit of the season, then, I’ve started to compile my wish list for the backyard barbecue menu. Obviously, many ingredients can be sourced locally at farmers’ markets and grocery stores. Right now is the perfect time for squash—it’s great on the grill tossed in olive oil, salt and pepper—as well as corn. And there are many different fruits ripening right now, from watermelon and grapes to peaches and pluots.

One of my go-to’s at the market—because it makes everything better—is the melt-in-your-mouth goodness of Llano Seco Rancho bacon.

Perfect on top of a burger. It’s a bit pricey, but worth the splurge. I also love the Alldrin & Sons Alaska Salmon folks. Lance Alldrin and sons head up to the icy waters of Alaska each season and bring their catch back to sell at the farmers’ market. (Fun fact: They were featured on NatGeoWild’s Alaska Fish Wars last year.) Their wild salmon is delicious—I’ve been promised some of this cooked atop a cedar plank on the new grill. Mmm. If you like quick-and-easy DIY, Basque Norte makes a badass marinade that is perfect for just about any protein you throw on the barbecue (and veggies, too!). For 40 years, the restaurant on the north end of town has been selling its own signature sauce. And, unless you’re cooking a large cut of meat like a tri-tip, which should marinade overnight, it takes mere minutes to infuse the flavor. According to the restaurant’s website (a call over there revealed the owners are on vacation), the chef soaks each steak for only about 10 minutes before cooking. Bottles of the stuff can be found everywhere from the restaurant to Mooney Farms (where it’s actually cooked and packaged) to local grocery stores, Costco and even Amazon.

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The Grateful Dead on stage at RFK Stadium, June 14, 1991.

story and photos by

ALAN SHECKTER

Like many in those days, I was quite down on the burgeoning disco scene, and my appreciation of the fledgling punk/ new wave movement wouldn’t take hold for about five more years. I was a fan of the progressive bands of the day, including Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues and Yes, but from what I soaked up from my friends and magazine articles, this Grateful Dead band was a whole different animal. Their live shows—and fans—perpetuated and celebrated the idealism of San Francisco’s psychedelic music scene of the 1960s. This is for me, I thought.

Problem was, I didn’t have a ticket for any of the shows of this four-night residency (playing four shows to fewer fans than they could have reached in one night at the giant Spectrum arena across town was another reason to like these cats). The $7.50 tickets were sold by invitation only, two tickets per person, through the band’s fan club. So I sprung for a buck to take the bus down to the nearby Tower Records and walked about the low-key scene hoping for an extra ticket. I found one for the exorbitant price of $25, and went in.

Most of the show featured songs unfamiliar to me—Dead songs not heard on the radio, and a bunch that appeared on Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir solo records. I knew only a few of the tunes performed, including the aforementioned “The Music Never Stopped,” classics like a long, jammed-out “Dancing in the Streets,” and rocking closer “Johnny B. Goode.” I was also familiar with the Dead’s psychedelic-rock anthem “St. Stephen” and the dreamlike ballad “Cosmic Charlie” that I’d come to know from the old Aoxomoxoa 8-track my friend Steve often played when we cruised around in his old Dodge Colt.

The live versions of every tune were sublime, containing imaginative, intricate arrangements not heard on any record.

Plainly dressed, the band showed no interest in any sort of showmanship. Rhythm guitarist Weir exuded a California-cowboy temperament and played the straight man to lead guitarist Garcia’s Captain Trips persona. They took on tunes by Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, trading lead vocals on sequential songs. The band had two drummers with two complementary styles, and vocalist Donna Godchaux 18

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added a gospel aura to the proceedings.

There would be no encore and this band was certainly quirky; Phil Lesh played bass primarily with his back to the crowd.

But I was hooked. The Grateful Dead experience was an environment, more than just a concert, and a sense of belonging and community among their fans was apparent. It all resonated perfectly with me, a young man who was learning a lot about the world by hitchhiking across the country several times with just a backpack and a sign and who dabbled, at least until 1978, in some psychedelic experimentation.

The Grateful Dead became the soundtrack to my formative years; the early ’70s albums offering sing-along acoustic country-blues tales of adventure, travel, self-discovery, card games and prison, like “Uncle John’s Band,” “Cumberland Blues” and “Dire Wolf,” and the discs of the late-’60s steeped in aural experimentation and psychedelic imagery, à la “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” and “New Potato Caboose.”

Flash-forward to last Sunday’s final California gathering, dubbed “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead.” This wasn’t the first time since Garcia’s death in 1995 that the band’s surviving core four—Weir, Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart—performed live with additional personnel. They did so as The Other Ones and The Dead. But the finality of these shows, the celebration of 50 years of music, and the inclusion of Phish’s Trey Anastasio, along with Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti, presented an irresistible treat. It also presented an occasion to bid adieu to this cultural phenomenon, as promoters say these shows will be the last time that the surviving members will play together.

F

M

y first Grateful Dead concert took place on June 23, 1976, at the intimate Tower Theatre, in Upper Darby, Pa. I had just completed 11th grade and the band was on its first tour in 20 months following a so-called “retirement” in 1974.

Though I was perfectly sober, it was a spiritual experience. The band had me at the opener, “The Music Never Stopped,” the lead single from the then-current LP, Blues for Allah. I couldn’t help but feel the Dead’s connection with the audience as they sang, “It’s a rainbow full of sound; it’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns.

And everybody’s dancin’.”

E E H T W E E R L L A F

f e u t l Dead fan a r G e m i reflects o t g s n e d n , s s e a a i y d c r e o o s m goodby L f me e to the storied band o

not-sosecret society, any road trip was enhanced knowing that the band and many like-minded fans/friends would be there as well. With no cellphones, Internet or other instant infosharing, we would simply get in the car with a folding map and go. The band seemed to almost encourage bootleg recordings of its own shows and one of the coolest parts of our scene in those predigital days was the connectedness felt through the free trading of live concert recordings.

My first college fieldhouse show was May 8, 1977, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. It was a big deal for me, still a high school kid, to attend an Ivy League college show. The concert, with its setclosing sequence of “St. Stephen”/“Not Fade Away”/“St. Stephen”/“Morning Dew,” became legendary thanks to tape exchanging. Though it was late spring, it snowed “Gratefully Grilled Cheese” (only $1!) in some Deadhead parking lot during the mid-1980s.

Then: The author outside a Dead show at the Hartford Civic Center (now XL Civic Center), in Hartford, Conn., in 1982. And now: June 28, 2015, at one of the Dead’s shows at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Ticket stub from Sheckter’s first Dead concert in 1976.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALAN SHECKTER

heavily much of the way home to Philly.

A few months later, I got my first taste of the difference between the band’s voracious East Coast audiences and laid-back ones in California. After a three-week journey with buddies—that included trying our hand as loggers in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula—I went on my own personal voyage, hitchhiking to San Francisco, the Dead’s home turf. The band was between tours, but I read a small listing in a newspaper that the Jerry Garcia Band would play the next day at noon, for $5, on Pier 31 at the Embarcadero, in support of Greenpeace.

The Jerry Garcia Band, which I saw about 50 times over the years, was the next best thing to the Grateful Dead, as Garcia got to stretch out in a more informal musical setting, leaning more on Motown and other covers, while still offering several songs from the Dead’s catalog. At the time, Keith and Donna Godchaux of the Dead were with the Garcia Band, as was Maria Muldaur as a backup vocalist. Only about 300 showgoers lined up and Garcia arrived unceremoniously, walking down the sidewalk past us, DEADHEAD continued on page 20

Right: Bob Weir (left) and Jerry Garcia during a July 3, 1978, show at St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, Minn., and 10 years later (July 29, 1988) during a show at Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey.

This end point has given me pause to

reflect on my relationship with the storied band over four decades; the journeys to shows and that one time I met Garcia face-to-face.

Back in the late ’70s, I’d sometimes see Garcia and company in my own backyard in the Philadelphia area, and other times I’d travel across the country to see them play. For me and other members of our

About the author:

Alan Sheckter is a longtime local journalist and CN&R contributor. He recently relocated to Sacramento.

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The Grateful Dead on stage at RFK Stadium, June 14, 1991.

story and photos by

ALAN SHECKTER

Like many in those days, I was quite down on the burgeoning disco scene, and my appreciation of the fledgling punk/ new wave movement wouldn’t take hold for about five more years. I was a fan of the progressive bands of the day, including Pink Floyd, The Moody Blues and Yes, but from what I soaked up from my friends and magazine articles, this Grateful Dead band was a whole different animal. Their live shows—and fans—perpetuated and celebrated the idealism of San Francisco’s psychedelic music scene of the 1960s. This is for me, I thought.

Problem was, I didn’t have a ticket for any of the shows of this four-night residency (playing four shows to fewer fans than they could have reached in one night at the giant Spectrum arena across town was another reason to like these cats). The $7.50 tickets were sold by invitation only, two tickets per person, through the band’s fan club. So I sprung for a buck to take the bus down to the nearby Tower Records and walked about the low-key scene hoping for an extra ticket. I found one for the exorbitant price of $25, and went in.

Most of the show featured songs unfamiliar to me—Dead songs not heard on the radio, and a bunch that appeared on Jerry Garcia and Bob Weir solo records. I knew only a few of the tunes performed, including the aforementioned “The Music Never Stopped,” classics like a long, jammed-out “Dancing in the Streets,” and rocking closer “Johnny B. Goode.” I was also familiar with the Dead’s psychedelic-rock anthem “St. Stephen” and the dreamlike ballad “Cosmic Charlie” that I’d come to know from the old Aoxomoxoa 8-track my friend Steve often played when we cruised around in his old Dodge Colt.

The live versions of every tune were sublime, containing imaginative, intricate arrangements not heard on any record.

Plainly dressed, the band showed no interest in any sort of showmanship. Rhythm guitarist Weir exuded a California-cowboy temperament and played the straight man to lead guitarist Garcia’s Captain Trips persona. They took on tunes by Johnny Cash and Merle Haggard, trading lead vocals on sequential songs. The band had two drummers with two complementary styles, and vocalist Donna Godchaux 18

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July 2, 2015

added a gospel aura to the proceedings.

There would be no encore and this band was certainly quirky; Phil Lesh played bass primarily with his back to the crowd.

But I was hooked. The Grateful Dead experience was an environment, more than just a concert, and a sense of belonging and community among their fans was apparent. It all resonated perfectly with me, a young man who was learning a lot about the world by hitchhiking across the country several times with just a backpack and a sign and who dabbled, at least until 1978, in some psychedelic experimentation.

The Grateful Dead became the soundtrack to my formative years; the early ’70s albums offering sing-along acoustic country-blues tales of adventure, travel, self-discovery, card games and prison, like “Uncle John’s Band,” “Cumberland Blues” and “Dire Wolf,” and the discs of the late-’60s steeped in aural experimentation and psychedelic imagery, à la “Dupree’s Diamond Blues” and “New Potato Caboose.”

Flash-forward to last Sunday’s final California gathering, dubbed “Fare Thee Well: Celebrating 50 Years of Grateful Dead.” This wasn’t the first time since Garcia’s death in 1995 that the band’s surviving core four—Weir, Lesh, Bill Kreutzmann and Mickey Hart—performed live with additional personnel. They did so as The Other Ones and The Dead. But the finality of these shows, the celebration of 50 years of music, and the inclusion of Phish’s Trey Anastasio, along with Bruce Hornsby and Jeff Chimenti, presented an irresistible treat. It also presented an occasion to bid adieu to this cultural phenomenon, as promoters say these shows will be the last time that the surviving members will play together.

F

M

y first Grateful Dead concert took place on June 23, 1976, at the intimate Tower Theatre, in Upper Darby, Pa. I had just completed 11th grade and the band was on its first tour in 20 months following a so-called “retirement” in 1974.

Though I was perfectly sober, it was a spiritual experience. The band had me at the opener, “The Music Never Stopped,” the lead single from the then-current LP, Blues for Allah. I couldn’t help but feel the Dead’s connection with the audience as they sang, “It’s a rainbow full of sound; it’s fireworks, calliopes and clowns.

And everybody’s dancin’.”

E E H T W E E R L L A F

f e u t l Dead fan a r G e m i reflects o t g s n e d n , s s e a a i y d c r e o o s m goodby L f me e to the storied band o

not-sosecret society, any road trip was enhanced knowing that the band and many like-minded fans/friends would be there as well. With no cellphones, Internet or other instant infosharing, we would simply get in the car with a folding map and go. The band seemed to almost encourage bootleg recordings of its own shows and one of the coolest parts of our scene in those predigital days was the connectedness felt through the free trading of live concert recordings.

My first college fieldhouse show was May 8, 1977, at Cornell University, in Ithaca, N.Y. It was a big deal for me, still a high school kid, to attend an Ivy League college show. The concert, with its setclosing sequence of “St. Stephen”/“Not Fade Away”/“St. Stephen”/“Morning Dew,” became legendary thanks to tape exchanging. Though it was late spring, it snowed “Gratefully Grilled Cheese” (only $1!) in some Deadhead parking lot during the mid-1980s.

Then: The author outside a Dead show at the Hartford Civic Center (now XL Civic Center), in Hartford, Conn., in 1982. And now: June 28, 2015, at one of the Dead’s shows at Levi Stadium in Santa Clara. Ticket stub from Sheckter’s first Dead concert in 1976.

PHOTOS COURTESY OF ALAN SHECKTER

heavily much of the way home to Philly.

A few months later, I got my first taste of the difference between the band’s voracious East Coast audiences and laid-back ones in California. After a three-week journey with buddies—that included trying our hand as loggers in Washington’s Olympic Peninsula—I went on my own personal voyage, hitchhiking to San Francisco, the Dead’s home turf. The band was between tours, but I read a small listing in a newspaper that the Jerry Garcia Band would play the next day at noon, for $5, on Pier 31 at the Embarcadero, in support of Greenpeace.

The Jerry Garcia Band, which I saw about 50 times over the years, was the next best thing to the Grateful Dead, as Garcia got to stretch out in a more informal musical setting, leaning more on Motown and other covers, while still offering several songs from the Dead’s catalog. At the time, Keith and Donna Godchaux of the Dead were with the Garcia Band, as was Maria Muldaur as a backup vocalist. Only about 300 showgoers lined up and Garcia arrived unceremoniously, walking down the sidewalk past us, DEADHEAD continued on page 20

Right: Bob Weir (left) and Jerry Garcia during a July 3, 1978, show at St. Paul Civic Center, St. Paul, Minn., and 10 years later (July 29, 1988) during a show at Laguna Seca Raceway, Monterey.

This end point has given me pause to

reflect on my relationship with the storied band over four decades; the journeys to shows and that one time I met Garcia face-to-face.

Back in the late ’70s, I’d sometimes see Garcia and company in my own backyard in the Philadelphia area, and other times I’d travel across the country to see them play. For me and other members of our

About the author:

Alan Sheckter is a longtime local journalist and CN&R contributor. He recently relocated to Sacramento.

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Dead on arrival Lured to Chico by way of a show in Berkeley

by DNA

rowing up in New Jersey, I When the floodgates busted had a map of Berkeley, Calif., wide open in the late-’80s, mainly next to my bed. I thought due to the hit single “Touch of that was where I wanted to Grey,” until the end in ’95 when live. This was before I had even Garcia passed away, Deadheads heard of the Grateful Dead, but increased exponentially until the I knew something important freewheeling experiment came to would happen there one day. I a close. But, according to Grateful was a weird kid.

Dead archivist Nick Meriwether at One-hundred-and-twenty UC Santa Cruz, it was still a scene Grateful Dead shows later, on that had rules and limitations.

June 21, 1986, I was being chased Rule No. 1: “Know how to handle by the police outside a Dead yourself. And if you couldn’t, it show at the Greek Theatre in was expected that your friends Berkeley. I was selling handmade would take care of you. That shirts that had a burning was a communal enforcement American flag over the Steal mechanism,” Meriwether said Your Face skull logo. I thought it during a recent interview. At any was a matter of free speech, but given show, several generations of the cops said it was copyright people and that older generation DNA in front of the old Juanita’s restaurant/nightclub infringement. I also thought were capable of exerting enorin downtown Chico in the mid-1990s. running might be my best bet. mous moral sway. “And they often Photo by PAulA eDgAR After a quarter-mile chase, did that by failing to exert it,” he I ran by Chico astrologer Koz added.

McKev, whom a girlfriend of mine had met on a Shelby Pawn, lead singer of one-time Chico Green Tortoise trip (the notorious bus company punk band P.A.W.N.S., has admitted to me she that shuttles hippies, bohemians and international appreciates the band in a cultural context, but students around safely). As I passed him doing that she has no ear for the music. I find this double time, he yelled out, “When you stop running, totally and wholeheartedly OK. It was never for come to Chico!” everyone. Nothing is for everyone—except maybe And that is how I found out about this univerair, water and Bill Murray. To love the music, you sity town. I moved to Chico the next year. had to have an appreciation for monster jams For a few years in Chico I still that would leave you reeling and discombobulated About the author: followed the Dead’s summer for what seemed like an eternity, before slamming DNA is a former CN&R tours, traveling from Vegas to you back into the groove. Most people don’t have columnist and Chico Ohio to Florida. I sold stuff to pay the time or patience for that. music promoter who for the trip: drums (crafted by “They had an incredible collection of original now lives in Santa Cruz, where he performs Charles Kidd), handmade T-shirts, songs that had a richness that required listenand produces stand-up PB&J sandwiches, Sierra Nevada ing to more than once,” said Sirius XM Grateful comedy.

Pale Ales or whatever else I could Dead DJ David Gans by phone while on vacation in load into my VW van. The year I Hawaii. “It anticipated, demanded and ultimately drove the AM General, a military-grade transport rewarded repeated engagement. I call it spontruck, I sold baby food. Following the Grateful Dead taneous mid-air architecture. That’s what you allowed one to lead an incredibly eclectic life. got when everyone was soloing in instrumental For me, seeing the band was a positive experilines, notes and chords with constant reference ence in an amazingly supportive scene. Even at to what everyone else was doing. They didn’t bear the worst of the 1983/’84/’85 period, when Jerry down on their part; they were building a groove Garcia clearly was having health problems, whatin concert with their fellow players. They were ever was happening backstage, when the band mutating that groove together. To those who walked onstage, they were always the same guys ‘get it’ it’s an incredible deep and satisfying way who struggled mightily to be consummate artists. of playing and for those who don’t ‘get it,’ it’s Deadheads knew the band’s members were still obscure noodling.” trying to make music, art and magic. That drew I like to say I learned everything I know on enormous respect and affection. They shambled Grateful Dead tour, but the truth is I learned just onstage as if they were going to a barbecue in as much living in Chico. The Grateful Dead might a backyard. They weren’t posing, they weren’t have ended with the death of Garcia, but the faking it and they tried hard. Ω people the band influenced are everywhere.

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guitar case in hand, exchanging pleasantries as he approached. “He plays around here all the time,” a local told me.

With the Greenpeace ship as a backdrop, the Garcia Band played on a truck’s flatbed, offering two sets of mellow songs and jams. The sun was bright, the sky and water deep blue, and tie-dye banners and tapestries hung from the speakers. I was not in Philly anymore. Garcia was the central figure, sporting a green flannel shirt and bright white guitar with its “The Enemy Is Listening” sticker, his bushy brown hair blowing in the breeze. He was as far from “Joe Rock Star” as any rock star could be, and I always loved that about him.

I was ready to hitchhike back east the next day, but someone told me the location of the Dead’s warehouse/studio (later called Club Le Front). So with the previous day’s music in my heart, I took the short bus ride up Highway 101 to San Rafael. As I walked up the street toward the warehouse carrying just my backpack, two of the band’s longtime roadies, Lawrence “Ramrod” Shurtliff and Bill “Kidd” Candelario, saw me approaching and were hospitable, rolling up a smoke and showing me around inside.

Back outside, Garcia pulled up alone in an unassuming Audi sedan. In the dust on the trunk, someone had written “Thank you Jerry,” likely referring to the previous day’s show. Garcia bummed a quarter off Candelario for the soda machine and went inside. He came out a few minutes later to change from boots to sneakers he had in his car. I talked to him for a few minutes. He was humble, diverting my accolades by praising the Greenpeace people. More than anything, those two days set the stage for my lifelong admiration of and devotion to the band.

For me, following the Dead was an interesting

habit. I never quit my job and traveled for months on end to see the band, but I did everything possible to catch all of the shows that I could. I’d pore over every tour announcement, figuring out how to maximize my weekends and vacation time.

On a Saturday in mid-April 1978, a bunch of us rolled down from Philadelphia to Williamsburg, Va., for a weekend that included a Saturday night show at William & Mary College. The night was one of the rare occasions I ventured into the world of psychoactive hallucinogens. I was taught that psychedelics were best ingested with a few trusted friends in a peaceful, outdoor setting. A Grateful Dead show, however, seemed like an appropriate place.

We ingested some kind of blue goop that had melted onto a piece of tin foil. In 15 minutes we were stoned and in 30 minutes we were zoned out. It was a beautiful experience. Voices and images swooshed through my consciousness. For a few hours I saw the same thing whether my eyes were open or closed.

There was one guiding constant—Garcia’s guitar.

His playing saw me through the psychedelic haze. I came out of the show a little older, wiser and “more experienced” (to borrow a term from Jimi Hendrix).

I haven’t gone down that psychedelic road in more than 35 years. No need to. The doors of perception, as Aldous Huxley called them, had been opened and there was no need to go back through them.

My biggest, boldest Grateful Dead journey took place in July 1982, when I was bound and determined at age 23 to catch my first California Grateful Dead shows, and throw in a few Colorado shows as well.

Booked as Bill Graham’s “Weekend at the Beach,” the band was to make its first appearance at the Ventura County Fairgrounds. It was the ultimate venue for me, a surfer town in coastal California. My cross-country

transportation came courtesy of Auto Driveaway, which provides the service of moving relocated people’s cars. I paid $100 to drive a gentleman’s Toyota from Philadelphia to Long Beach. I had eight days to complete the journey, so I drove crosscountry to Ventura in four days and saw the shows, camping on the adjacent beach, and then dusted off the sand and delivered the car. Then I hitchhiked from Long Beach, up through Yosemite and across the wilds of Nevada and Utah, to Colorado to experience three shows at the spectacular Red Rocks Amphitheatre.

On and on the adventures went. At a certain point, especially after the success of 1987 single “Touch of Grey,” the Grateful Dead bandwagon became very crowded; college shows morphed into stadium shows and multinight runs at giant arenas. Some people began to resent the band’s popularity and its new-fangled fans that weren’t formally steeped in Dead etiquette. Some newbies were there just for the beer or to pick up women. But I always maintained that everyone, from the down-on-their-luck couple with dirty bare feet and a scruffy dog to the Porschedriving privileged crowd to the preppy college kid with a backward baseball cap scouring the parking lot for beer and a nitrous balloon, had something in common. It was an opportunity for everyone to test their own boundaries, explore their inner selves and, well, listen and sway to the music.

Then, on Aug. 9, 1995, my old pal Mike called with the news that the long-ailing Garcia had died.

We knew that the world after the Grateful Dead had been set in motion. We hoped at the time that one day the music would continue in various ways and means—and it has, of course—but for many months, we simply had to come to grips with the end of a whole way of life. At the time, I was a volunteer studio assistant and photographer at WXPN, a large commercial-free radio station at the University of Pennsylvania. On-air host David Dye was in the midst of his 3-7 p.m. shift, fielding calls and playing lots of Grateful Dead requests. It wasn’t my day to be at the station but I had to do something. I went down and answered phones, sympathizing with tearful callers who were stuck at work, seeking some

Jerry Garcia Band at Greenpeace benefit, Pier 31, San Francisco, Aug. 12, 1977.

kind of solace.

Down the hall, Joan Baez was in the studio collaborating with Dar Williams for a future WXPN/ World Café broadcast. She went on the air live and performed “Amazing Grace” for her fallen friend, and added that, on behalf of “fellow musicians and millions and millions of people of all ages, we mourn the passing of Jerry Garcia. I wish him well on his journey into the light and may he play peacefully from now until eternity.”

The farewell show last Sunday in Santa Clara

was magical, but it wasn’t just about nostalgia.

The fairways of the adjacent Santa Clara Golf & Tennis Club (closed to golf for the weekend) acted as perfect grounds for a preshow jubilee, artisan fair and chill zone. Sure, we were all gathered to honor the legacy of the Grateful Dead. The band did its part by playing a little more measured and deliberate than during the glory days, but nevertheless reached some damned high peaks of intensity via jams and sing-along moments on tunes compiled from its ’70s and early ’80s catalog. Despite the absence of one glaringly major ingredient—Jerry Garcia—the band was good, with Grateful Dead members hitting their marks and guests Anastasio, Hornsby and Chimenti, adding their own signature flourishes at opportune times. And the ultra-high-definition, large-screen broadcast video feeds, alongside old band clips and cutting-edge animated vignettes were sublime. It was cool to revisit the past, but it was also a very presentday shared concert experience.

I ran into a bunch of friends from near and far, and wound up sitting with a jovial beer-drinking crew from Riverside; a free-spirited woman, man and his teen daughter from El Dorado Hills; a reverent Dead fan since 1972 from Placerville; and two gal pals from South Lake Tahoe who decided at 2 p.m. to roll down Highway 50 and make the show.

We all swayed and grooved to the music, batted passing balloons and shared the Grateful Dead Ω family experience one more time.

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Arts & Culture Canadian electro-dance/world-music crew Delhi 2 Dublin is one of 10 acts featured in the new PBS series produced by Peter Berkow (pictured below with Australian guitarist Tommy Emmanuel).

PHOTOS COURTESY OF MUSIC GONE PUBLIC

Music for the people Local production crew debuts new PBS music series

IChristmas, guests of the Torres Community Shelter received a unique gift from an unexpected visitor n late December 2014, just a few days before

when world-renowned musician Joe Craven stopped in to play an impromptu by set.

Ken Smith “People just went nuts; they were dancing around and really kens@ newsreview.com enjoyed it,” said Peter Berkow, who was on hand to capture the performance for his latest video project, a 10-episode curated ON THE AIR: concert/music-documentary series Music Gone Public called Music Gone Public prowill air Thursdays duced for PBS. at 10 p.m. on “I’ve seen Joe on stage in front Redding’s KIXE, of thousands of people before, but starting July 9. he also does this kind of pro bono, impromptu stuff all over the country. I admire him so much.”

Music Gone Public is largely driven by Berkow’s admiration for Craven and the other musicians spotlighted in the series, including guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel, slide standout Roy Rogers, cross-cultural music mob Delhi 2 Dublin and current king of the Las Vegas strip Frankie Moreno. They’re not exactly mainstream, household names, but are highly respected in festival and other musical circles.

For Berkow and his largely local crew, that’s part of the point of the series.

“We want to present an alternative to the music machine. That’s part of our mission statement,” he said. “PBS should be doing the music that corporate America is not. Much of this music is just fantastic but will never get airplay on radio stations owned by Clear Channel [now iHeartMedia Inc.], or be shown on any of the major networks.”

Berkow, a musician himself, has been producing television since the 1990s, and his storied career also includes extended forays into journalism, teaching and sound engineering. A recent conversation with him about Music Gone Public included frequent and interesting digressions about working on demos by Dan Fogelberg and REO Speedwagon in his native Urbana, Ill., and achieving a “minor radio hit” in 1977 called “Burger Love.” (“It’s a silly little song 22

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about a guy walking to Mount Lassen and finding a 7-Eleven and a burger joint.

People still sometimes walk up and sing the lyrics at me while I’m picking out my carrots at the farmers’ market,” he said.)

For Music Gone Public, Berkow partnered with co-producer Michael Hoopingarner, a Chico ex-pat now living and working in Los Angeles. The crew also included local sound wizard and Electric Canyon Studios owner Dale Price, who twisted the knobs on the latest album for another of the series’ performers, Nashville artist Antsy McClain. Berkow filmed at various locations around the country, including the Sierra Nevada Big Room.

“Chico is a music town with a lot of talent, and that’s why we have national acts that travel here to work with Dale or be involved with Music Gone Public and other projects I’ve done,” said Berkow.

Those projects include a 2010 documentary about local musician/musical-historian Gordy Ohliger called The Banjo-ologist, and two seasons (2004, 2006) of the live-music series Sierra Center Stage, filmed at the Big Room. Much of his work has been shown nationwide on various public-television stations, and Music Gone Public—already several episodes deep into the series in other markets—premieres locally on Redding’s KIXE and Sacramento PBS affiliate KVIE on July 9 and 11, respectively.

Berkow said he and the crew have been working tirelessly to complete the series, and that he just put the finishing touches on the final episode last week.

A second season is already in the planning stages, and in the meantime he plans to break ground on a Christmas special with Emmanuel soon.

When asked whom he’d most like to work with, he quickly named The Mother Hips and all of that band’s associated acts: “I don’t really care to work with anybody really big and famous; I’d rather just work with bands that I think deserve national exposure and [that] corporate America has ignored.

“Chico definitely has some bands that are ready for that exposure, and I’d really like to include some local acts in the next season.” Ω

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THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farm-fresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and entertainment from Molly’s Favorite Irish Band playing traditional and modern folk music. Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free. Downtown Chico, www.downtownchico.com/events.

Art Receptions

friends out to celebrate the day with a pancake breakfast, live music, The Chico Community Band, a “Let Freedom Ring” ceremony and an Independence Day 5k run. Sa, 7/4, 7-11am. $6 pancake breakfast $25 run $ Free music and fun. One-Mile Recreation Area, Woodland Ave., (530) 343-6055.

4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS-CHICO: Sprint and

NEW WORKS: A reception for artist Michael Mew showcasing a variety of layered collages Th, 7/2, 5-8pm. James Snidle Fine Arts & Appraisals, 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

stock-car races and fireworks! Fireworks start as soon as its dark enough. Tickets: $13$16 (11-under free). Sa, 7/4, 5 p.m. Silver Dollar Speedway, 2357 Fair St. www.silverdollar speedway.com.

4TH OF JULY FIREWORKS-OROVILLE: Celebrate

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our nation’s independence with a fireworks display over Lake Oroville. Sa, 7/4, 9pm. Free.

Lake Oroville Dam, Canyon Dr. in Oroville, (530) 966-3241.

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RED WHITE AND BOOZE: Enjoy the newly reno-

Special Events FOURTH OF JULY CONCERT: The Oroville Community Concert Band and Oroville Community Chorus join forces to honor America through music and song. F, 7/3, 7:30pm. $10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2470.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: classic rock from The Retrotones. F, 7pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION: Bring your family and

vated bar and patio with barbecue master Jimmy Reno cooking up all-American foods like tri-tip, pork and sausages. Sa, 7/4, 4:30pm.

Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

Music I WANT YOU NAKED!: A Fourth of July celebration with live music from Seth Prinz and The Lolos.

Sa, 7/4, 8:30pm. Naked Lounge Tea & Coffeehouse, 118 W Second St., (530) 895-0676.

RED, WHITE & BOOZE BARBECUE Saturday, July 4 Maltese Bar & Tap Room

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

BULLETIN BOARD Community

FINE ARTS Art

Museums

1078 GALLERY: Liminal, new works from Chico

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by

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

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovering Figure

STAND-UP STANDISH COMEDY SHOWCASE Sunday, July 5 Duffy’s Tavern

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

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Music STAND-UP STANDISH COMEDY SHOWCASE: A postpatriotic hangover cure with a few political jokes sprinkled among stand-up sets by Mark Joseph Leathers, Becky Lynn, TJ Hudson, Trip Hazard, Marty Trendler, Rachel Myles, and Mad Bob Howard. Hosted by Aaron Standish with John Bertoli. Su, 7/5, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718, www.merrystandish.com.

AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the

Drawing, the second installment of the Discovery Series showcasing representational works by Chico Art Center Figure Drawing Students. Through 7/17. Free. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Collage, Paper,

Pins, Bay Area artist Michael Mew showcases his latest collages, some using digital print layering on paper and pins.

Through 7/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA & COFFEEHOUSE: New

Works, showcasing flyer art from 19942014 from artist Aye Jay. Through 7/31.

118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

Call for Artists OPEN STUDIOS SIGN UP EXTENTION: Open your art studio doors to the community and showcase your art during the Chico Art Center’s annual fundraiser. 7/2-7/6.

Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4.

1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our

Home, Here We Remain, presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people, focusing on the tribe’s heritage and history and using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming

- Land, Water, People, and Science, explores 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, 79pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Leaping Lemurs and

Mysterious Crimes: On The Trail of Physical Anthropology, the human journey from our African roots to modern humans through the eyes of physical anthropology.

Ongoing. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

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Special Events LIBERTY CAB ANNIVERSARY PARTY: Celebrate 10 years of service with your local cabbies and enjoy food, gifts and a bounce house for the kids. Tu, 7/7, 3-7pm. Free. One-Mile Group Picnic Area, Bidwell Park, (530) 896-7800.

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.

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

CONCERNED ABOUT YOUR SKY?: Chico Sky Watch is a grassroots, not-for-profit geoengineering and aerosol spraying awareness and action group. W, 7/8. Chico Public Library, Corner Of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (530) 345-4346, www.chicoskywatch.org.

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

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

DEDICATION CEREMONY: Witness the dedication of a bench to commemorate our nation’s first special service force that served during WWII. Sa, 7/4, 11:30am. Free. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway in Paradise.

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.

FLAGPOLE DEDICATION: Join The Eagle Scouts and Boy Scouts of America to demonstrate community involvement and leadership at the Town of Paradise flagpole dedication. Sa, 7/4, 10am. Paradise Town Hall, 5555 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-6976.

medical ailments. Call for more info. Su, 14pm. Free. Call for location, (530) 518-8422.

GARDEN SCIENCE SUNDAY: Join Gateway staff for hands-on activities and learning based on observing the many living systems at work and play at the museum garden. First

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.

Su of every month, 1-3pm, Third Su of every month. $3-$6. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: All levels wel-

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come. No partner needed. F, 8pm. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

CARLOS REYES: Multifaceted musician, recording artist, producer and engineer visits the Big Room to break musical barriers with his 36string native Paraguayan harp. Tu, 7/7, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 East 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

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, 8727085.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 28

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There are all kinds of fun patriotic goings-on planned for this Saturday, July 4, and the epicenter of local Independence Day celebrations is Bidwell Park’s One-Mile Recreation Area. Activities at the park that morning include a pancake breakfast, 5K run, live music by EDITOR’S PICK the Chico Community Band and other performers, and much more. For fireworks, in Chico the show goes off during the races at Silver Dollar Speedway, and in Oroville they’ll be firing them from the Lake Oroville Dam.

Saturday, July 4 Paradise Town Hall SEE COMMUNITY

DANCING FREEDOM: A weekly open dance with

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

PICNIC IN THE PLAZA: Bring a lunch or grab a bite

FLAGPOLE DEDICATION

SMALL BUSINESS SEMINAR AND RESOURCE EXPO: Learn everything you need to know about your small business with seminar topics ranging from avoiding common sales and use tax problems, tips on growing your business, and funding opportunities.

Registration required. W, 7/8, 9am-2:30pm.

Veterans Memorial Hall, 554 Rio Lindo Ave., (530) 345-7236.

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) 8916524, www.chicorec.com.

SOUNDS OF THE VALLEY CHORUS: Female singers welcome to sing in four-part, barbershop-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 healthfullifestyle 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) 891-6900.

WORLD DANCE CLASS: Learn line, circle and couple dances from around the world. Youth and adult class offered. Scholarships available via instructor. No partner needed. Th, 6-7 & 7-8:30pm. $7. Pleasant Valley Recreation Center, 2320 North St., (530) 5666711.

For Kids NATURE CREATIONS FOR KIDS: Children ages 712 can make and take home a variety of eco-friendly 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.

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Beyond the ale Bidwell park • saturday • july 18th, 2015 • 7am

Timed 5k Run/Walk Music • Prizes Light Breakfast and t-shirt Included

A benefit for GRID Alternatives & Butte Environmental Council Adults $35, Youth $10, Children FREE Register Yourself, Register A Team www.gridalternatives.org/chicoclimaterun

Sponsored by:

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Save the Date Booking 2016 ~ 2017 now!

Shown by appointment (530) 894–8000 www.ThePalmsVenue.com

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Taste-testing pale lagers for your Independence Day festivities

LWhen for a day at the ballpark? At a summer barbecue? fleeing the heat at the nearest creek or river? et’s talk beer pairings. What is the perfect match

Of course, a pale ale would be an excellent fit for all, and around Nor Cal, Sierra Nevada’s version is one of the by Jason Cassidy summer standbys. But take a wider view of America the beautiful, j aso nc @ especially as preparations begin for new srev i ew. c o m what promises to be a very toasty Independence Day weekend, and you’ll find that the vast majority of ice chests are being filled with pale lagers, not pale ales. According to the Brewers Association, 18 of the 20 top-selling beers in America are pale lagers (the other two include an amber lager and Bud Light Lime StrawBer-Rita, which hardly seems to qualify as any kind of beer). There’s not one ale in the bunch.

So, in the spirit of ’murica’s birthday, the CN&R assembled a five-person team of beer fans (a couple of beer geeks, a couple of beer appreciators, and one no-nonsense Midwesterner raised in the realm of the King of Beers) to do a blind taste test of a few American-made pale lagers—featuring both macroand microbrew choices—that might go down easy with your Fourth of July celebrations.

A pale lager, in very general terms, is a beer brewed using lager yeast (as opposed to ale yeast) along with lighter-colored “pale” malts. It usually is various shades of light-gold in color, light in body with a mild-to-moderate hop bitterness and low-to-medium alcohol content. In other words, it should go down easy and allow you to drink more than one without getting you too hammered. Some of the styles of beers that fall under the pale-lager umbrella are pilsners (American, German, Czech), dortmunders, helles, and of course the ubiquitous American-style lagers (Bud, Coors, etc.) and their light offshoots.

Our five beers: Pabst Blue Ribbon (American pale lager), Victory Prima Pils (German-style pilsner), Sierra Nevada Summerfest (Czech-style pilsner), Budweiser (American pale lager) and one that I tried to shoehorn in, even though it didn’t quite fit within our style parameters: Anchor Steam, a steam beer or California Common style, which actually falls under the category of amber (not pale) lager. But the style’s hop bitterness and alcohol levels are still on the low-to-medium side—and we

had six cold bottles of it—so it got to play as well.

Increasingly, craft brewers are starting to fill out their portfolios with more lagers, yet we left out some of these more heavily hopped (and wonderful) recent examples—Sierra Nevada’s Nooner Pilsner (German-style pilsner), New Belgium Shift (American pale lager)—in favor of choices that better matched the style’s lower bitterness level.

The tasting took place in an environment that screamed summer fun: inside the CN&R conference room. We had a list of criteria by which we judged the beers, but in retrospect, we could’ve whittled it down to “flavor” and “drinkability”—the main distinction points—and gotten nearly the same results.

We started with the Anchor Steam and it was immediately apparent what the difference was between an amber and a pale lager—its copper hue was a contrast to the various yellow-golds that would follow. With its fruity, full-bodied malt character and mild hoppiness, the well-balanced classic got high marks for flavor, and while very quaffable, was in the middle of pack for drinkability.

Next up, PBR. Its drinkability ranged from barely drinkable for some judges to fairly drinkable. Its taste … next, please.

The third beer was the Prima Pils from Victory Brewing Co. in Downington, Penn., and it was (almost) unanimously the favorite of the lot. It was very clean and crisp going down with subtle malt flavors and a light, refreshing blend of fruity and floral hops.

The biggest surprise, for this beer geek at least, was with the last two beers. The Summerfest scored well for its crisp drinkability, but the judges were split on its flavor, with some enjoying the hint of spicy hops and some not much caring for the lingering maltiness. And Bud, which didn’t bring much flavor to the table, was unanimously praised for its refreshing drinkability. When it came to the final score, the two were surprisingly even.

Accept for the PBR (sorry, hipsters), all of these would go well with your Fourth. The Prima Pils was the clear winner, with the best flavor in addition to being as drinkable as Bud. And the three in the middle had specific strengths depending on what you’re in the mood for—Summerfest and Bud for thirst-quenching drinkability, and Anchor Steam if you’re wanting a little more flavor and body.

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a sombrero and snug, red, single-piece bathing suit perches and preens her graceful legs in front of a vintage airliner. by From behind the truck a garganCarey wilson tuan arm brandishes a beaker of review: swirling green liquid, the fumes of which coalesce into an amorphous Masterful Collages of Michael Mew shows orange cloud whose edges reveal through July 31 at it to be a sky-obscuring slab of James Snidle Fine raw bacon looming menacingly Arts. Opening above an oblivious suburban reception tonight, July 2, 5-8 p.m. housewife in shorts and sleeveless blouse casually steering her riding lawnmower past the tentacles of James Snidle a larval insect body with a gapeFine Arts 254 E. Fourth St. mouthed head and four eyes.

343-2930 That, believe it or not, is an www.jamessnidle abbreviated description of the finearts.com content of one small section of Oakland-based artist Michael Mew’s “Wings Over Unnationals” ($1,000), on display as part of the Masterful Collages of Michael Mew exhibit showing through July at James Snidle Fine Arts. The entire piece is about 30-by-9 inches and the intricacy and craftsmanship of Mew’s collage technique is, to put it mildly, astounding. Using images collected from vintage comic books, astronomical and anatomical texts, advertisements, military and industrial promotional pieces and religious iconography, Mew meticulously constructs surreal scenarios that reward intense scrutiny with layer upon layer of suggested meaning and connection.

As the great surrealist and collage artist Max Ernst defined it, “The collage technique is the systematic exploitation of the accidentally or artificially provoked encounter of two or more foreign realities on a seemingly incongruous level—and the spark of poetry that leaps across the gap as these two realities are brought together.” Mew’s art seems the epitome of Ernst’s definition, and as Mew’s online biography states, his “fascination with surrealism, which originated during his college studies, led him to compose using loose associations that arise from

his working process. Accumulating images, he trusts these subconscious connections to [gel] into lyrical, often pointed narratives with intricate and cohesive internal connections.”

This highfalutin’ biographical portrait of the finished products of Mew’s art leaves out any mention of the very crucial element of sardonic humor that often underlies the imagery and words he chooses to employ. For instance, in the 2008 piece “Get Real,” a cartoonish tin toy robot stands in front of a weathered 7-Up advertisement gripping a copy of the 12-cent comic book Magnus Robot Fighter in its red claw while the slogan “Robots Rule” floats in decoratively abstract script above the product logo.

There may indeed be “intricate and cohesive internal connections” between the elements of the image, and perhaps even a “pointed narrative” regarding the use of mechanically produced art as a means of inducing a Pavlovian craving for industrialized thirstquenchers, but it’s also a pleasant and sort of goofy image that will more than likely evoke an innocent smile in the casual observer.

Mew also employs the surrealist technique of the repeated motif or image placed in differing contexts in different compositions. Several of the pieces in this show use images of Life Savers candy as a central, albeit ambiguous, symbol. Robots and superheroes also pop up repeatedly, along with oil cans, mechanical devices and garish Japanese comic-book lettering. In his most recent works, Mew has begun using straight pins as an additional compositional device. The shiny chrome pins (some with glow-inthe-dark heads) add a 3-D element to the otherwise multilayered but essentially flat collages. The placement of the pins and their tiny shadows emphasizes the sharply precise quality of Mew’s work and draws attention to the nature of collage as a way of literally sticking images together that would not normally be on the same page.

Displayed in tight groupings in the homey front room of the James Snidle Fine Arts gallery, just a block off of Main Street, Mew’s work offers glimpses into alluring alternative dimensions filled with thrilling wonder and astounding adventures—a manifestation of transcendental comic consciousness right here in our own backyard. □

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Slide Guitar Summit & Guitar Heroes Arlen Roth—a superb slide guitarist—is joined by nine others on the first of two new guitar-heavy releases, Slide Guitar Summit (Aquinnah Records). The 14-track compilation is dedicated to the memory of Johnny Winter, who joined Roth on the stunning “Rocket 88” from what was his last session. Country/blues artist Lee Roy Parnell plays and sings effectively on the Robert Johnson classic, “Dust My Broom.” Cindy Cashdollar gives her lap steel a serious workout on “Steel Guitar Rag,” as does Roth, who teams up with the irrepressible David Lindley on lap steel (and vocals) for Professor Longhair’s “Her Mind Is Gone.” And so it goes, as Roth and his guests’—who also include Rick Vito, Sonny Landreth, Jack Pearson, Jimmy Vivino and Greg Martin—sinuous guitars twine around each other in tremendous displays of sixstring synchronism. The rightly acclaimed players on Guitar Heroes (Stony Plain Records) are James Burton, Albert Lee, Amos Garrett and David Wilcox, whose 11 songs were recorded at a Vancouver, B.C., festival in 2013. There’s much to savor here, especially on “Polk Salad Annie,” where they all chase each other around. Burton shines on “Susie Q” by recreating his solo on Dale Hawkins’ 1957 hit. Among the rest, Garrett’s “Sleep Walk” is a real tour de force.

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Rom-com light Memorable cast rises above thin story of golden-years romance by

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t the outset, I’ll See You in My Dreams Apleasing looks as though it has plenty of crowdpotential in at least two ways—as a

great latter-day star turn for veteran actress Blythe Danner, and as a mildly rowdy romanticcomedy set among the friskier women and men in and around a cushy retirement community.

I’ll See You in This eager-to-please effort My Dreams by director/editor/co-writer Opens Friday, July 3. Starring Brett Haley delivers on both Blythe Danner, counts, but with a little less Sam Elliott and dramatic follow-through than Martin Starr. its several provocative situaDirected by tions would seem to merit.

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Danner is terrific, but Rated PG-13.

Haley’s script (co-written with Marc Basch) is not. The star and supporting cast are what proves most memorable in this brisk (93 minutes), but

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oddly scattered comedy-drama.

Danner plays Carol Petersen, a widow and erstwhile folksinger who lives alone in her own spacious home, but socializes regularly with a group of lady friends—Georgina (June Squibb), Sally (Rhea Perlman) and Rona (Mary Kay Place)—all of whom are residents of the neighboring retirement facility.

All four remain alive to at least the possibility of assorted physical and romantic pleasures. And while it’s no great surprise that Carol is the one who attracts special romantic attention, there is something unexpectedly intriguing in the fact that she gets emotionally involved with two very different guys—a wealthy widower and retiree named Bill (Sam Elliott in full drawling dreamboat mode) and a younger fellow named Lloyd (a pensive Martin Starr) who quits his job as Carol’s “pool guy” but keeps coming back to visit.

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Elliott’s Bill, with his silver mustache and unlit cigar, seems a little too good to be true.

He comes off as a swaggering figure of fantasy, a romance-novel dream lover in the guise of an aging lothario. Quiet, sensitive Lloyd, by contrast, is full of hesitations and self-doubts, even though he’s bold enough to take a distinctly personal interest in Carol.

Lloyd’s unexpected persistence and the

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A German shepherd, traumatized after his handler dies in Afghanistan, 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.

Greg, a high-school senior who makes parody films with his buddy Earl, is forced by his mom to befriend a dying classmate with whom he begins sharing his short films. Winner of the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award at Sundance. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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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. Rated R.

Terminator Genisys

He’s back … wait, what? It’s probably best to not strain oneself too much when trying to connect the time-traveling dots of a film franchise that reworks the story arc—bringing back a 67-year-old Arnold to replay the unkillable killing machine—in order to reboot the series. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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.

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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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sudden, sad twist in Bill’s part of the story pointedly undercut the potential for romantic clichés in Carol’s relationships. But neither of those relationships really deepens our sense of her character, and there’s a growing impression that all three are mainly pawns in a rather arbitrarily organized rondelay of feel-good romance seasoned with dashes of genteel honesty and realism. Ω

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Mark Wahlberg’s crass, walking-talking teddy-bear pal (voiced by writer/director Seth MacFarlane) is back and married to a human woman and looking to be granted personhood in order to legally procreate. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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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Don’t trip, i get it In the summer of 1995, I was visiting San Francisco sometime shortly after Jerry Garcia died. I picked up one of the Bay Area weekly papers and found a multipanel cartoon inside that showed two men standing over an open casket with Garcia’s body in it. As I remember it (I can’t track down the cartoon anywhere), one of the men was talking about all of the important contributions Garcia and the Grateful Dead had made to the world, and to San Francisco and its identity. After he spoke, there was a pause with one frame showing both men standing silently. In the final scene the other guy replied, “Yeah, but their music still sucks.”

That cartoon was a great illustration of how people view the music of the Grateful Dead: there are those who love them and (even on their home turf) those who despise them. There are very few in between.

It’s no secret that I’m not much of a fan, but as we were assembling this week’s cover story commemorating what are the Dead’s final shows, I’ve tried to not be a jerk about things and instead immerse myself in the band’s music while taking my turn reading both Alan Sheckter’s beautiful story and DNA’s hilarious one (see Cover story, page 18). Some of the music I couldn’t stomach (Terrapin Station—nope), some I was already familiar with and dug (the “hits” from American Beauty), and some I heard for the first time and thoroughly enjoyed (almost all of Workingman’s Dead). When I sought out the live versions of songs Keep dancing I liked, however, they were destroyed for me as the previously simple rhythms and elegant melodies went tripping along crunchy grooves and spiraling down the rabbit hole.

I say all this to get to the point that, even though I don’t “get it,” I do get it. If we’re lucky, most of us have a thing—surfing, chanting, having sex, meditating, gardening, screaming in a punk band, or just laying on our backs and staring at the stars—that allows us to tap out of our routines and into whatever energy it is that gives life and connects us all (or some other hippie shit). As Sheckter said so concisely about his take on a Dead show: “It was an opportunity for everyone to test their own boundaries, explore their inner selves and, well, listen and sway to the music.” I’m not a swayer, nor a twirler, but I do like to nod along with my hands in my pockets and lose myself in the sound of someone humping the feedback out of a giant guitar amplifier. So I get it. nakeD aye Jay! Despite the typically self-deprecating announcement for his show—up at the Naked Lounge during its Fourth of July I Want You …

Naked! concert (with The LoLos and Seth Prinz), and for the rest of July—Aye Jay Morano is no hack. The local artist has

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been well-known over the last decade or so for his work in comics (Gangsta Rap Coloring Book), his skateboard and T-shirt designs, the Chico Legends print series and making tour posters for comedian Patton Oswalt. But back in the day he was the king of local fliers. His bold, witty, pop-culture-savvy style defined the local music scene across many genres—rock, indie, punk, metal, rap—for much of the 1990s and into the following decade. Aye Jay is responsible for some of the most iconic images ever plastered around Chico, and especially if you weren’t around for his flier-art heyday, this is your chance to experience all of it in one place. Don’t miss it.

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rip MoonDog I got word just before deadline that local man about town and former Chico State librarian Jim “Moondog” Dwyer died in Sacramento on Sunday, June 28. He was 65. I’ll be devoting next week’s column to this undeniable local freak and very dear friend of mine.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 2, 2015

ARIES (March 21-April 19): To deter-

mine whether you are aligned with the cosmic flow, please answer the following questions: (1) Would you say that your current situation is more akin to treading water in a mosquito-ridden swamp, or conducting a ritual of purification in a clear mountain stream? (2) Have you been wrestling with boring ghosts and arguing with traditions that have lost most of their meaning? Or have you been transforming your past and developing a riper relationship with your roots? (3) Are you stuck in a gooey muck? Or are you building a flexible new foundation?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Taurus

singer Sam Smith won four Grammys this year, largely on the strength of his hit single “Stay with Me.” The song has a lush gospel choir backing up his lead vocals, or so it seems. But in fact, every voice in that choir is his own. He recorded twenty separate harmony tracks that were woven together to create the big sound.

What would be the equivalent in your world, Taurus? How could you produce a wealth of support for yourself? What might you do to surround yourself with a web of help and nourishment? How can you amplify and intensify your efforts so they have more clout? Now would be an excellent time to explore possibilities like these.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Born un-

der the sign of Gemini, Gustave Courbet (1819-1877) was a French painter who upset traditionalists. Unlike many of his contemporaries, he wasn’t interested in creating idealistic art based on historical and religious themes. He focused on earthy subjects about which he had direct experience, like the day-to-day lives of peasants and laborers. So even though he became a highly praised celebrity by his mid-thirties, the arbiters of the art world tried to exclude him. For example, they denied him a place in Exposition Universelle, a major international exhibition in Paris. In response, Courbet built a temporary gallery next door to the main hall, where he displayed his own work. As you strive to get your voice heard, Gemini, I urge you to be equally cheeky and innovative. Buy yourself a megaphone or erect your own clubhouse or launch a new enterprise. Do whatever it takes to show who you really are.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I am

trying to be unfamiliar with what I am doing,” said composer John Cage in describing his creative process. That’s excellent counsel for you to meditate on, Cancerian. The less expertise and certainty you have about the rough magic you’re experimenting with, the more likely it is that this magic will lead you to useful breakthroughs. To bolster Cage’s advice and help you get the most from your period of self-reinvention, I offer you this quote from Picasso: “I imitate everyone except myself.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Your words of

wisdom come from Leo artist Andy Warhol: “Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years, when they could just say, ‘so what.’

That’s one of my favorite things to say.

‘So what.’” Can I interest you in that approach, Leo? It has similarities to the Buddhist strategy of cultivating nonattachment—of dropping your fixations about matters that can’t be controlled or changed. But I suspect you would draw special benefits from the breezy, devil-may-care spirit of Warhol’s version.

So start there.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In her

late twenties, J. K. Rowling was a single mother living on welfare. That’s when she began work on her Harry Potter books. Craig Newmark had turned 42 by the time he founded Craigslist. One of the world’s most oft-visited websites is HuffingtonPost.com, which Arianna Huffington established when she was 54.

As for Harland Sanders, creator of KFC: He didn’t begin building the global empire of fried-chicken restaurants until the age of 65. I hope the preceding serves as a pep talk, Virgo, reminding you that it’s never to late to instigate the project of a lifetime. The time between now and

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your birthday in 2016 will be an especially favorable phase to do so. Start ruminating on what it might be.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the

power-building phase of your astrological cycle. To take maximum advantage, convey the following message to your subconscious mind: “I know you will provide me with an abundance of insight, inspiration and energy for whatever intention I choose to focus on. And during the next four weeks, my intention will be to cultivate, expand and refine my personal power. I will especially focus on what author Stephen R. Covey called ‘the capacity to overcome deeply embedded habits and to cultivate higher, more effective ones.’”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I’m a big

fan of science and logic and objective thinking. Most of us need more of that good stuff. The world would be a saner, safer place if we all got regular lessons on how to be more reasonable and rational.

But in the immediate future, Scorpio, I’ll steer you in a different direction. I believe you will benefit from injecting your imagination with primal, raw, crazy, wild mojo.

For example, you might read utopian science fiction and fairy tales about talking animals and poetry that scrambles your intellectual constructs. You could remember your dreams and ruminate about them as if they were revelations from the Great Beyond. You may also find it healthy to fantasize profusely about forbidden and impossible and hilarious adventures.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

There are lots of inquiries and invitations coming your way—perhaps too many. I don’t think you should pursue all of them.

In fact, I suspect that only one would ultimately make you a better human being and a braver explorer and a wiser lover. And that one, at first glance, may have not as much initial appeal as some of the others. So your first task is to dig deep to identify the propositions that are attractive on the surface but not very substantial. Then you’re more likely to recognize the offer that will have lasting value even if it doesn’t make a spectacular first impression.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “I

find a lot of people physically attractive, but finding people mentally and spiritually attractive is different and much harder for me.” So says 40ozshawty on her Tumblr page. If you share that frustration, I have good news. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re due to encounter a higher-thanusual percentage of mentally and spiritually attractive people in the next six weeks. But I wonder how you’ll deal with this abundance. Will you run away from it, feeling overwhelmed by the prospect that your life could get more interesting and complicated? Or will you embrace it, daringly welcoming the interesting complications?

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

think you will generate good fortune for yourself by choosing between two equally invigorating but challenging tasks: losing your illusion or using your illusion. Both are quite worthy of your attention and intelligence. To succeed at either would fuel your emotional growth for months to come. You probably can’t do them both, however. So which will it be: Will you purge the illusion, or put it to work for you?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Do you

sometimes imagine yourself to be an underachieving underdog? If so, I suggest you start weaning yourself from that fantasy. Do you on occasion allow people to take advantage of you? It’s time to outgrow that role. Do you ever flirt with being a self-pitying martyr? Say bye-bye to that temptation. Cosmic forces are conspiring to relieve you of tendencies to act in any or all of those ways. I’m not saying you will instantly transform into a swashbuckling hero who knocks people over with your radiant self-assurance.

But you will, at the very least, be ready to learn much, much more about how to wield your vulnerability as a superpower.

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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

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.

This business is conducted by 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

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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

GARY L ELLIS 920 Skyway Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARY ELLIS Dated: June 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000820 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 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.

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 persons are doing business as TWO TWENTY RESTAURANT GROUP at 220 West 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

ALISA VIRGINIA COOK-SCOTT 690 Esplanade Chico, CA 95928.

DENNIS GREGORY SCOTT 690 Esplanade Chico, CA 95928.

TWO TWENTY RESTAURANT GROUP, LLC 116 Henshaw Ave, Suite B Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ALISA COOK-SCOTT, MANAGING MEMBER Dated: June 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000812 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 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 persons are doing business as BIDWELL CABS 4 KIDS at 1297 Filbert Ave Chico, CA 95926.

BIDWELL CABS 4 KIDS LLC 25425 Lee St Los Molinos, CA 96055.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: NEVA DURAN, SECRETARY Dated: June 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000801 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JAN’S BODYWORK AND MASSAGE at 15 Franciscan Way Chico, CA 95973.

JAN HELSETH 15 Franciscan Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAN HELSETH Dated: May 14, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000636 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 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 SUTTER ROCK LLC at 5050 Cohasset Rd #42 Chico, CA 95973.

SUTTER ROCK LLC 3225 Mcleod Drive Ste 100 Las Vegas, NV 89121.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: NATHAN RICE, MANAGER Dated: May 26, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000684 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HANDYMAN IN PARADISE, TRI-COUNTY PROPERTIES at 1221 Wagstaff Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CHRISTINE MCCALLY 1221 Wagstaff Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

THOMAS MCCALLY 1221 Wagstaff Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CHRISTINE MCCALLY Dated: June 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000777 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TUNDRASTOP at 3199 Plummers Dr Ste 19 Chico, CA 95973.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ORTHOPEDIC MASSAGE at 1324 Mangrove Ave Suite 112

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Chico, CA 95926.

STEVE DAVIS 951 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

Signed: STEVE DAVIS Dated: May 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000646 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JATYCA at 1324 Mangrove Ave St. 112 Chico, CA 95926.

TAMARA DAVIS 951 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TAMARA DAVIS Dated: May 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000659 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KAYAK IN NORTHERN CALIFORNIA, KAYAKINC.ORG at 1573 Kona Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DANIEL EFSEAFF 1573 Kona Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL EFSEAFF Dated: May 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000701 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HAPPY GARDEN RESTAURANT at 7188 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

KUN CHANG 7389 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

YUMAN WANG 7389 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: CHANG KUN Dated: June 29, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0000843 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 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: 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.

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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 CARLOTTA MAE DIAS, aka CARLOTTA M. DIAS, CARLOTTA M. OWEN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, 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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME

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TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JEANY PEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: YU-CHOU YEH Proposed name: JOSEPH YU-CHOU YEH THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 14, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: May 20, 2015 Case Number: 164373 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 10, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: May 11, 2015 Case Number: 164346 Published: June 11,18,25, July 2, 2015

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

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner WILLIAM H.R. MORRIS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: WILLIAM HENRY RAYMOND MORRIS

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Proposed name: WILLIAM HENRY RAYMOND OHLS-MORRIS 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 28, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: THOMAS W. KELLY Dated: June 23, 2015 Case Number: 164512 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JENNAROSE MCKEE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENNAROSE LAHOMA MCKEE Proposed name: JENNAROSE EVE MCKEE 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

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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 21, 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 18, 2015 Case Number: 164461 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LOGAN JEFFREY BURGET filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LOGAN JEFFREY BURGET Proposed name: LOGAN JEFFREY CUSEO 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 28, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928

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Signed: THOMAS W. KELLY Dated: June 25, 2015 Case Number: 164405 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHLEEN MARIE LAGUENS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KATHLEEN MARIE LAGUENS Proposed name: KATHLEEN MARIE LAMBKIN 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 21, 2015 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: THOMAS W. KELLY Dated: June 23, 2015 Case Number: 164417 Published: July 2,9,16,23, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JOHN ANTHONY BURRESCIA YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP

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NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: Chico Courthouse 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 UNLIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and

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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: 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

YOU’RE WELCOME, NATURE.

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 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

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

RECYCLE THIS PAPER.

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

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1479 Hawthorne Ave 28 Shari Ln 1472 Lucy Way 478 E 5th St 35 Northwood Commons Pl 35 Sunbury Rd 216 Mission Serra Ter 7 Elisha Ct 54 St Francis Dr 1450 Heather Cir 1030 W 11th Ave

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$331,500.00 $328,000.00 $315,000.00 $300,500.00 $282,000.00 $277,500.00 $275,000.00 $274,000.00 $272,000.00 $269,500.00 $269,000.00

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SQ. FT. 2402 1846 1830 1284 1776 1611 1447 1443 2100 1329 1730

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Summertime heat in the North Valley can be vicious. Especially for people from the Bay Area accustomed to cool breezes by day and cold fog at night.

Jack and Mary laughed tentatively.

Jack and Mary Quince, a Bay Area couple, met me at my office one July morning to tour country property. Forecasters predicted temperatures of 105 to 108 degrees.

KDV nodded toward the station wagon and asked Jack and Mary, “Is that your Retriever?”

“Let’s go,” said John, “we have miles to go, right?”

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We walked together toward my car in the parking lot and I noticed a station wagon with a wire cage screening the open back window. A Golden Retriever stared anxiously at us through the mesh.

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“That’s Rollie,” said Jack. “It’s okay if we leave him here, right?”

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1584 Champlain Way & 132 Commonwealth (X St: Commonwealth) 4 to 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1755 Sq.Ft. $376,000 - $359,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

“Uhh…” I said.

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A car zipped into the parking lot, made a snappy stop and reverse, and slipped backwards into the parking space next to my car.

My wily old mentor, KDV, popped out of the car.

“Morning, babe,” he said.

I made introductions and told KDV I was taking the Quinces out to see country properties.

“Ah. What fools these mortals be,” said KDV. “You do realize it will be so hot today the chickens will be laying hard-boiled eggs? It will be hotter than a two-dollar pistol, my friends.”

Sun. 2-4 1324 Purcell Ln (X St: Nord Ave) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1684 Sq.Ft. $285,000 Anita Miller 321-1174

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Jack told him of the plan to leave Rollie.

“Only if you want to come back and find Rollie cooked like a rotisserie chicken,” said KDV. “In two hours that car will be hotter than Satan’s basement.”

“Let’s just take our car, then,” said Mary.

Four hours later we rolled back into the parking lot in the non-air-conditioned station wagon.

The property tour was like a trip through a blast furnace. Jack and Mary sat slouched and wilted.

Rollie was a limp rag. I said my goodbyes and staggered off with no expectation of seeing them again.

Four days later, to my surprise, Jack and Mary bought a country property.

Forty days later, we closed the sale. I made an evening visit to their new place.

“It was a hot one today,” I said.

“Yes,” said Mary, “but tonight it’s a midsummer night’s dream.”

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18 acres, forest, 1,580 sq ft home, cash only $225,000 Pinnacle building lot, 2.03 acs $330,000 g $479,500 Park! 4bed/3bth, 2,558 ft, solar! pensqdin West side, 3bd/3ba, 2,901 sqft .29ac $465,000 3 bed/2 bth, 1,747 sq ft, fresh interior paint, new flooring! $275,000 Newer laminate floor, HVAC, roof, lowcare yard, 3bd/2ba, 1,747 sqft $275,000

“But take heed!” said KDV. “After the sun goes down, my friends, it’s a midsummer night’s dream.”

Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $435,000 Updated kitchen + bathes! 3 bed/ 2 bth, 1,589 sq ft $239,900 Cul de sac, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,811 sq ft on .29 acr, open floor plan, nice kitchen updates $339,500 dinsqgft $289,900 Pool, pond, solar, 3 bed/2 pen bth, 1,374 3bd/2ba, 5 car garages, RV garage, .66 of an acre $349,900

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3/2, 1600 sq ft, new roof. $265,000 3/2 fixer near Bidwellso Park! ld$195,000 5ac in Cohasset, easy access, OWC. $79,000 40ac, North Chico zoned AG/Res. $118,000 2ac building lots $57,500 Single suite office space. $265-$450 monthly 5 ac lot. Owner carry $49,000

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of June 15, 2015 – June 19, 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.

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26 Northwood Commons Pl 938 Yosemite Dr 46 Lacewing Ct 591 El Reno Dr 54 Artesia Dr 3101 Coronado Rd 87 Herlax Cir 1329 Locust St 1064 East Ave 494 East Ave 469 E 7th Ave

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$262,500.00 $259,000.00 $253,000.00 $236,500.00 $228,000.00 $211,000.00 $205,000.00 $182,000.00 $175,000.00 $126,500.00 $114,500.00

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SQ. FT. 1410 1344 1471 1560 1127 1120 1855 972 1710 1667 432

ADDRESS 422 Justeson Rd 538 Prather Rd 445 Paradox Dr 6374 Imperial Way 6129 Guilford Cir 380 Crane Ave 15 Medley Ln 56 Sunset View Ln 1191 Oregon Gulch Rd 6331 Jack Hill Dr 2252 Perkins Ave

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$320,000.00 $252,000.00 $164,000.00 $127,500.00 $110,000.00 $340,000.00 $265,000.00 $230,000.00 $215,000.00 $131,000.00 $115,000.00

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Indian Valley Ranch

240 acres snuggled into secluded valley with Pecks Creek running through it. The property includes 200+ acres of mixed forest with pines, firs, cedar, oak, cottonwood, alder, quaking aspen & dogwood. 30 plus acres of pasture with four ponds and orchard of apple and pears. Not a neighbor in sight with the property mostly bordered by National Forest and private timberland. Older 3 bed, 2 bath, 3000 sq. ft. home and various outbuildings. This would be an excellent spot for a family homestead, sustainable farm, retreat, camp, etc.

MLS#201401049…$2,400,000

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West Shore Golf Course Home

The perfect blending of cabin & home found in this Lake Almanor Country Club home. 3 bed, 2 bath,1,664 sq. ft. Beautiful redwood paneling & beamed vaulted ceilings in open living room.

Huge mstr bdrm w/loads of closet space. New in 2003: furnace, roof, exterior siding, skylights, windows, carpet, tile in kitch & bths, wood flooring in dining area, on demand water heater. Cute window pop outs in front bdrns add interest & dimension. Garage has high door to accommodate a boat with ski tower. Near level street access. MLS#201500578...$379,000

Newly remodeled Golf Course home on 9th Fairway in Lake Almanor West Community. Nice floor plan. New hardwood flooring. New kitchen inclds solid counter tops, SS appliances, dbl oven, new cabinets, large island. New interior paint through most of home. 2 baths have been completely remodeled. Spacious mstr suite w/sitting area & balcony facing golf course. Mstr bath has lrg shower/spa tub. Screened in storage area, plus lrg workshop. Nice roomy deck on golf course.

MLS#201300990…………………...…$375,000

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449 & 455 NathaN LaNe • Paradise WOW! TWO HOMES on one huge 12+ acre parcel. Unique opportunity to own your Private Piece of Paradise. 449 - This is the larger home; 3 BR, 1.5 BA, has been completely updated & remodeled: new paint, fixtures, open kitchen, breakfast bar. Conversion master suite with sitting area/laundry/office? Split bedroom floor plan. 455- Newer 1 BR, 1 BA has lovely view off the deck- vaulted ceilings, fans, beautiful kitchen. Enclosed breezeway, att 1 car garage with very large shop area. Built in 2006, and its a beauty. Both homes sit on a large flat portion that would lend itself to many types of uses: Build a shop, have horses, all your big stuff! You name it, you can do it here! Live in one, rent the other?

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