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Don’t look away The heartbreaking photographs of 3-year-old Alan Kurdi, the Kurdish

boy whose lifeless body washed up on a beach in Turkey last week, are impossible to forget. They’re a stark reminder of the desperation of the millions of people attempting to flee Syrian government forces as well as the Islamic State’s reign of terror there and in other parts of the Middle East and Africa.

The toddler’s mother and father had set off from Turkey, with him and his older brother in tow. They were bound for the Greek island of Kos, a gateway to the European Union and safety from their war-ravaged home in Syria. Their plan, like those of the estimated 600 other refugees arriving in Greece under the cover of darkness on a daily basis, was to seek asylum. But like thousands before them, the family didn’t make the trip intact.

Alan’s mother and 5-year-old brother also perished when the small boat carrying them across a stretch of the Mediterranean capsized.

Abdullah Kurdi tried to save his sons and wife, but managed only to save himself. Nine others, including six more children, drowned during the tragic event.

There are other photos of the Kurdi children circulating the Internet.

One shows the sweet young brothers sitting next to one another, Alan with an impish grin on his face. Look at that photo and then look at the one of a Turkish police officer averting his eyes as he carries the child’s tiny body from the beach.

We must not look away as he did, just as we must not look away from this crisis. Germany is taking the lead on sheltering the refugees, yet here in the States, the government has done little to aid the response.

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of GMOs would inadvertently make life more difficult for small businesses, farmers or even hungry Americans is someone with a poor assessment of the motives behind the GMO industry. The companies behind many GMO products do not design them to feed the masses or ease the plight of small farmers. They design them for the sole purpose of maximizing profits.

One of the ways they do this is by creating plants resistant to pesticides that they by hold the patents on, so the Aaron Nielsen farmers can douse their entire fields with them. This practice the author, a local creates pests and weeds that artist and musician, are increasingly resistant to says he “believes positive change only pesticides, requiring heavier happens once enough application and stronger people learn the cost concentrations of these pestiof ignorance.” cides (and more profits for the corporations). Never mind what kind of effects this will have on ecosystems and native species that are downwind and surrounding

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Another tactic is tailoring a high-profit crop to an environment that would otherwise be unsuitable. It’s a practice that tends to replace sustainable native crop rotation, causing negative effects on biodiversity and limiting the bounty that any given area can produce. Farmers using certain GMO seeds often sign contracts that make them more and more dependent solely on the company that holds the patent on that GMO crop.

My point is, knowing whether a GMO product is in the food you buy is important for numerous reasons beyond knowing what you are consuming.

It gives you a tool to decide whether you want to help certain corporations profit by exploiting your basic need to eat.

The people who grow and sell organic products are aware of how important accurate labeling is to their industry. Those farms must meet certification requirements before they can label themselves organic.

If GMO products are as flawless as the companies that manufacture them would have us believe, then labeling them would only help their promotion. I believe that when GMO labeling is mandatory, it will amaze us to see how many more of our dollars end up in the right hands. □

An inhumane rush job Chico’s waterways need help. We know this because we’ve seen the trash

accumulating in the riparian regions from encampments established by homeless individuals. It’s an environmental issue as well as a public health issue, considering cleanup crews have had to remove toxic debris, including hypodermic needles.

Something needs to be done. There’s no question about that. What is questionable, however, is Chico Vice Mayor Sean Morgan’s directive last week that city staff come back to the council’s next meeting (Tuesday, Sept. 15) with a “comprehensive ordinance” that makes it easier for local law enforcement officials to issue citations to campers (see Howard Hardee’s report on page 8). They’d be able to do so on the spot, rather than having to catch someone actually sleeping (the current requirement).

We are concerned about the legal ramifications for the city, since we’re effectively talking about criminalizing homelessness. We’re also disappointed in the council for its unprecedented step of voting unanimously to bring back a draft ordinance in such a short time frame.

Why not make this a discussion item and invite the public and various stakeholders to weigh in on it?

Our biggest problem with such an effort, however, is that it doesn’t address the root of the issue. We don’t hear any offer of support for this marginalized population. If the city wants to crack down on illegal camping, it must offer alternatives. So far, we’re seeing none—and sadly, no compassion.

The real goal of such a punitive measure is to make it as uncomfortable as possible for homeless people to live in Chico so that they will move on to another town, becoming somebody else’s problem. Where’s the humanity in that? □

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Season of bitching Campaign season tends to push me more to the center politically.

That’s because the extremists on both sides of the aisle irritate the hell outta me. I find the self-righteous liberals just as grating as the obnoxious right-wingers. That probably will come as a surprise to a lot of folks—the ones who think this paper’s staff members are a bunch of Pinkos.

I have a love-hate relationship with election politics. On the one hand, it’s exciting to get a look at the candidates and learn about their platforms. On the other hand, it’s an annoying and frustrating time. I get so sick of the memes with nonissue propaganda, the kind that distract Americans from the real problems in our country.

Speaking of annoyances, we recently published a story about Bernie Sanders. We purchased it from a Vermont-based alternative weekly—a fellow member of the Association of Alternative Newsmedia. I picked up that story because I knew we’d be the only local media to print any substantive coverage of his campaign— and the author of the story, who is based in Vermont, actually spoke with Sanders. He had access to the candidate because he’s a local reporter and Sanders is that region’s representative.

However, that wasn’t good enough for some of the folks on a local Facebook page supporting Sanders—the very kind of people we had in mind when we decided to print that particular story. No, a couple of them dismissed the well-written piece as “recycled” news. Evidently, we here at the CN&R ought to have flown out to Vermont to meet with Sanders. Right. The guy isn’t busy or anything. Oh, wait, he was stumping from the Midwest to the West Coast around that time.

This is annoying in the way that sports fans get consumed by a team. They start saying “we” all the time, as though they were there on the field with, say, a certain Green Bay Packers quarterback. I’m not trying to be dismissive of grassroots campaigning.

My point is, people get myopic and emotional and unreasonable in the year before a presidential election.

As another example, we were chided, albeit indirectly (through Facebook, not on our page), for not covering an organizational meeting set up by local Sanders supporters. I guess that’s because they think there’s nothing more interesting than watching a bunch of people sign up to do some future campaigning. Geez, I’d better pencil in the organizational meeting of the local Republican Party—that’s going to be a hot story.

But enough snark—for now. I’m sure I’ll have plenty more material to work with in the coming months.

Sanders’ local contingent held its first rally this week. We were there—you know, because it was an event worth covering.

I’ll look forward to more griping from this group. But I’ll say this: They certainly can’t accuse us of partaking in the so-called media blackout of the Vermont senator’s bid for the White House.

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‘Start a conversation’ Re “Ten issues that the presidential candidates absolutely need to discuss (but probably will ignore)” (Cover story, by N&R staff, Sept. 3): In the article on the 10 issues the candidates are not speaking about, there is the quote, “There is no hope ... The American experiment is over.” Nonsense! I am old enough to remember when Americans talked and listened respectfully to each other about political issues. When we were a nation of neighbors who knew and cared about each other. This was before television, when we sat out on front porches and talked.

We no longer have truthful faceto-face conversations, which are the most ancient way to cultivate the conditions for change. Instead we Facebook and use Twitter or make “small talk.” Before our candidates are going to have the courage to talk about the real issues, we are going to have to talk about them among ourselves.

And we will. When things get bad enough, we will turn to each other again for mutual support as we did during the last Great Depression and as we do after every major disaster. We will share ideas and visions and we will find ways to keep this great experiment going.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 poverty-stricken countries. Our flood of illegals from South America is nothing compared to this. With shaky economies and limited funds, these countries face tripling welfare rolls, overtaxed health care to thousands never having it before and a drain on schools and law enforcement. If a thousand or even a few hundred illegals walked over the border check points, we could not stop them. At stake is our way of life. Should millions from poor countries simply invade richer ones and leave theirs to the sand?

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Re “Cleaner air for kids” (Guest comment, by Robert Speer, Aug. 27): I want to thank the Chico News & Review and Robert Speer for notifying the community about the health risks associated with Chico Unified’s portable classrooms. As a parent, I can’t imagine a worse decision than for the administration to keep this a secret. When one student in an entire school has lice, I remember letters going out immediately to the entire school.

Yet, when teacher after teacher dies or is diagnosed with cancer and commonalities can easily be made, no one has the common sense to notify parents? Can there be worse judgment?

When the school district’s reputation has been tarnished so many times in recent years for lack of honesty, you err on the side of safety and honesty, not the opposite. When young children are caught shoplifting, they lose more respect and credibility when they make excuses instead of apologies for egregious mistakes.

You change your reputation only by changing your actions. I have little confidence that the people who buried this would give the public the right information.

There are a lot of graduates who should know what poisons were in their classrooms.

Laurie Austin Chico

It is difficult to remain calm after learning of the high number of illnesses, including deaths, of CUSD teachers who taught in those lousy portables over the years. I used to help with an afterschool chess club at Marigold in one of the old portables.

I remember how many of the kids and parents complained about the smells and how many quit going because they would get sick in the short time sitting on the floor playing chess. I stopped going after two sessions because the room was so bad. Out of the blue, the room was condemned and the principal said some bad things were found. Mold and mildew can be nasty stuff, formaldehyde even worse. Look at ceiling tiles in any classroom and you will see discoloring from leaks.

Look around windows and you will see the same. Undoubtedly, everyone has been breathing contaminants for years.

Ignore the predictable denials that come from corporate America. I walked away years ago when my own nose and eyes diagnosed a problem. I have known too many students also diagnosed with unexplainable illnesses, breast cancer, congestion complications.

Thank you to your paper for warning the community.

Sue Grenada Chico

Sounding off on rape Re “Safety in the spotlight” (Newslines, by Meredith J. Cooper, Sept. 3): It is a tragic story and I hope the criminals are punished to the full extent of the law. Trigger warning: The following might evoke strong emotions! The thing that prompts me to write is the comment from Joe Wills (assuming it is accurate) about “not blaming the victim.”

Well, there is reason to question her actions and point out several things to the young lady and her friends. She broke at least two laws and was most likely aided and abetted by others.

Additionally, she was foolish, imprudent and who knows what else. Actions have consequences and given the nature of some of

the folks prowling the streets of Chico late at night looking for inebriated prey, these imprudent actions have exaggerated consequences.

I am not saying this so that the young lady will feel worse, but with the hope that others learn from her actions and misfortune. I hope this never happens again, but I hope it is because we don’t have young ladies (or men) getting drunk and wandering around looking for their cohorts.

Tim Edwards Chico

Once a skeptic Re “Give me a break!” (Letters,

by Chuck Samuels, Aug. 27): Chuck, you and I were on the same side of this issue. But I’m now happy to tell you that I was wrong, and so are you; at least as it relates to acupuncture. What changed my skepticism? Years ago, our beloved basset hound, Maggie, suddenly and for no apparent reason, lost all control of her hind legs. It was so bad that I had to carry her outside and hold up her hind end with a towel draped under her belly so she could do her business. We carried her everywhere.

It was painfully obvious that Maggie was suffering. We were desperate so, despite my better judgment and out of love for our dog, we took her to our veterinarian who happened to have trained in performing acupuncture on animals. I figured, “money wasted.” But guess what? The evening following her second treatment, Maggie popped up and walked as though nothing was ever wrong; tail-wagging, facelicking Maggie was once again a happy member of our family.

Since dogs have no capacity to respond to the powers of suggestion or placebo medications, I have no doubt that acupuncture actually was the cure. There is no other logical explanation.

Bob Evans Chico

Bernie, not Hillary Did you see the pictures of the little 3-year-old boy in blue trousers with a red shirt lying on the sand, his hands at his side,

dead? Drowned. He’s one of the hundreds of thousands of Syrian refugees fleeing the death and destruction of the Syrian civil war that our Ambassador Robert Ford encouraged.

Hillary Clinton’s State Department was oriented toward regime change—Libya, Ukraine, Syria. In 2012, Clinton deliberately sabotaged the United Nations in its efforts to resolve the conflict, by insisting that Bashar al-Assad go before there could be talks. She preferred that Syria endure a massively destructive civil war than to work with Assad in resolving the conflict.

To Clinton, the war was necessary to weaken Iran and appease Saudi Arabia. Clinton regrets that Obama prevented her from sending lots of weapons to the Syrian rebels, not enough gasoline to put out the fire. As the self-proclaimed world leader, exceptional and indispensable, the U.S. has much responsibility for the conflict and the refugees.

I can’t imagine how the U.S. can repair the lives and destruction.

Why “they” hate us is not because of our freedoms, but our actions.

Thankfully, Bernie Sanders believes in resolving conflicts.

Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

It’s gonna shake You think you have earthquakes now; wait until they start lubricating (fracking) those fault lines like they have in Texas. We had one earthquake in Dallas in a hundred years and now we have a dozen or more in a month.

Sharon Fritsch Chico

Correction A guest comment in the Sept. 3 issue (see “Affordable-homes program in jeopardy”) incorrectly stated that a Habitat for Humanity project on 11th Street was in the Chapman neighborhood. In fact, that project is outside that region.

The error has been corrected online. —ed.

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Gerald Wieland cleans up a homeless camp along Lindo Channel during last year’s Butte Environmental Council’s annual Bidwell Park & Chico Creeks Cleanup, during which more than 400 volunteers collected about 30 tons of trash.

THE RETURN OF VANG PAO

The statue of Gen. Vang Pao that once stood outside Chico City Council chambers will return during an unveiling ceremony this Saturday (Sept. 12), according to a city press release.

The statue of the man, a hero among the Hmong people, was originally installed in 2012 after the Butte County Hmong Association raised $40,000 for construction and installation and lobbied for its prominent placement. Sometime during the first weekend of October last year, while a Hmong New Year celebration was held at Bidwell Junior High, the statue was badly vandalized.

Now that it’s repaired, the Hmong community will celebrate the statue’s reinstallation from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. on Saturday. Main Street will be closed between Fourth and Fifth streets from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.

REWARD UPPED IN THOMPSON CASE

With no suspects or clear motive identified after a year of investigating the killing of Chico State student Marc Thompson, the FBI is offering a $5,000 reward for information leading to an arrest.

The FBI has been working with the Butte County Sheriff’s Office since shortly after Thompson’s body was found burned in a vehicle off of the Oroville-Quincy Highway near Mountain House in September 2014, according to a BCSO press release. The county’s Secret Witness program is also offering a $1,000 reward. A website established earlier this year at buttecrimesolver.com provides updates and instructions for how to contact authorities.

Thompson, 25, was an outspoken black student leader, and some suspect the killing was racially motivated. After his death, a consortium of local social justice groups issued a dispatch asking law enforcement to investigate his death as such.

MULTIPLE UNDERAGE SEX CHARGES

Less than a week after being arrested on child molestation charges, Chicoan Michael Manning, 54, was arrested again on Monday (Sept. 7) for allegedly possessing and manufacturing child pornography.

Manning (pictured) was charged with multiple counts of lewd and lascivious acts against a minor under the age of 14; the molestation allegedly occurred between 2008 and 2009, according to a Chico Police Department press release. Upon serving the initial search warrant, detectives reportedly found images and videos of child pornography in Manning’s home.

The investigation is ongoing, and whether there are additional victims remains unclear, the release notes. Anyone with pertinent information is urged to contact the Chico Police Detective Bureau at 897-5820.

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Creekside crackdown Proposed ordinance makes it easier for police to cite people for camping on city property

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foremost as an environmentalist, and she’s fully aware that homeless encampments have contributed heavily to the trashing of Chico’s waterways. The degradation, by she says, is appalling.

Howard Hardee Still, it’s not as if the camps’ inhabitants h owa rd h @ have access to housen ew srev i ew. c o m hold comforts such as toilets, showers, laundry machines or garbage pick-up, Gailey says.

As the coordinator for Safe Space, the seasonal, cold-weather homeless shelter hosted at rotating locations, she argues that the solution is providing unsheltered people with adequate facilities and services, not creating new laws that only “further criminalize homelessness.”

That’s why she opposes an ordinance proposed earlier this month by Vice Mayor Sean Morgan that could be voted on as soon as the City Council’s next meeting.

Toward the end of the panel’s last meeting, on Sept. 1, Morgan briefly outlined his Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property initiative, which would, in part, make environmentally hazardous campsites a cite-able offense. (Currently, police must issue a 48-hour notice before breaking up a camp.)

“The city’s waterways have come to attract—and this is kind of oxymoronic— a more permanent transient population,”

Morgan said. “This isn’t a small problem with a few people. This is a big deal.”

The public’s call for Chico police to crack down on camps has been a “steady chorus” for the past several years, Deputy Chief Dave Britt told the CN&R by phone.

And while police have recently teamed up with rangers to conduct early morning sweeps in Bidwell Park, he says enforcing the city’s existing “unlawful lodging” law is tricky because it requires catching campers while they’re asleep.

“Obviously, that’s very limiting for us,” he said. “These guys tend to be early risers.

If we get there at 8 a.m. or 9 a.m., they’re up and about and we don’t have a [penal code] section to use.”

The proposed ordinance, however, would allow police to issue citations for “offenses against waterways”—essentially, making a mess by the creek.

Further, the “public property” aspect of the ordinance would extend to outside City Hall and the council chambers, including the alcoves of those buildings, mostly as a means of preventing overnight camping there as well.

The law would also apply what’s illegal in City Plaza—bicycling and skateboarding, damaging plants or other property, urination and defecation, alcohol, glass bottles, smoking, graffiti, amplified music, dogs off leashes and possession of hypodermic needles—to the entire city campus, Britt said.

“But it’s all about just being a good citizen, whether you’re homeless or not.”

Morgan put the ordinance on the fast track, directing city staff to prepare a comprehensive draft to be presented at the council’s next meeting on Sept. 15. Morgan did not return the CN&R’s requests for comment.

Chico is just one of many U.S. cities grap-

pling with homelessness amid fallout from the Great Recession, which Gailey terms “a trickle-down effect from economic decline.” And it’s not the only city that’s considered passing controversial laws aimed at camping on public property.

The federal government recently condemned ordinances passed by the city of Los Angeles that make it easier to break up homeless people’s camps and impound and destroy their property. In a 12-page document, the U.S. Interagency Council on Homelessness maintains that such an approach is not effective.

“We strongly advise against communities dispersing people experiencing unsheltered homelessness on their own or in camps,” Matthew Doherty, the task force’s executive director, told the Los Angeles Times. “It disrupts the ability to engage and develop trusting relationships to help them on paths to permanent housing.”

And in a pending federal district court case in Boise, Idaho, the U.S. Justice Department argued that banning people

from sleeping on the street is unconstitutional.

“Sleeping is a life-sustaining activity—i.e., it must occur at some time in some place,” the Justice Department said in a statement last month. “If a person literally has nowhere else to go, then enforcement of the anti-camping ordinance against that person criminalizes her for being homeless.”

Locally, more homeless people may be moving deeper into secluded spaces, according to the 2015 census conducted by the Butte Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care. The report notes that “more people experiencing homelessness in the county are retreating to more isolated locations and are less trusting of the community.”

The environmental impacts are serious. Last year, Butte Environmental Council’s annual Bidwell Park & Chico Creeks Cleanup—which aims to remove litter from the waterways before rain washes it downstream—pulled an estimated 30 tons of garbage from the creeks. It was a record amount of trash, far surpassing the previous high of 23,000 pounds in 2002. (BEC has tracked the trash haul since 1987.)

This year is shaping up about the same, based on accounts of volunteers who have worked in the waterways ahead of the cleanup, which is taking place on Saturday (Sept. 19), said BEC Executive Director Robyn DiFalco.

“We’re hearing the conditions are really similar to last year,” she said.

“We’re expecting to collect just as much material so long as the same number of volunteers come out again.”

The volunteers pick up plenty of “typical everyday litter,” DiFalco said, but the vast majority of trash, by both weight and volume, comes from homeless encampments. However, she doesn’t want people blaming homeless people alone for the waste in the waterways.

“This is all part of the bigger situation in our community and society,” she said. “Our role at BEC is to facilitate the community having a positive impact and getting out there for the cleanup.”

Gailey and her husband, Mark, have been involved with BEC’s cleanup for the past 25 years. Despite her dismay at the unprecedented amount of trash in the creeks, she urges the community to consider other options, such as temporary housing.

“We need to change the public will and start looking at solutions and not criminalization, because it’s not going to do any good,” she said. “I’m all for anything that’s going to protect our parks and creeks, but we need to look at alternatives.” □

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Bernie Sanders turned 74 on Tuesday (Sept.

8), and local backers hoping the Democratic dark horse will break Reagan’s record next November celebrated by spreading the word about their favored candidate.

In an effort organized through the Facebook page North Staters for Bernie, more than two dozen Sanders supporters assembled at Chico City Plaza at 11:30 a.m. that day, gathered signs touting the man and his policies, and headed north on Broadway singing “Happy Birthday.”

One supporter, Bob Woods, stayed behind at the corner of Fourth and Main streets, holding his own sign that read, “Bernie!

Equality, freedom, democracy.”

“I didn’t feel like marching because I’m about 70 years older than all those people,” Woods joked as he waved to passersby, many of whom honked to show support. “We’ve got all kinds of people out here today, and I think Bernie Sanders is the only candidate who really stirs up that kind of excitement.”

Woods has been registering voters every Saturday at the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market for the last several months, and said that most who’ve registered recently have done so specifically to support Sanders. Woods cited Sanders’ grassroots campaign style and refusal to accept corporate campaign funding as the reasons he’s supporting Sanders.

“I haven’t campaigned this hard for a candidate since George McGovern [in 1972],” Woods said. “He didn’t win, but I still believe the world would be a better place if he did.”

The bulk of the Bernie backers assembled at

the corner of First and Broadway streets. As the group cheered, chanted and raised signs for passing motorists, some, like Chico State student Dylan Dewit, handed out fliers and fielded questions from curious pedestrians.

“I’m currently working one job, was working an internship, and am applying for loans to go to graduate school, and in all honesty the future looks pretty bleak under our current policies,” Dewit said. “Bernie is the only guy who’s standing up and saying we need to do things different when it comes to affordable education. He’s also focused on the stark economic inequality in our country and wants to address climate change in a positive way.”

Two of the event’s main organizers—and some of Sanders’ most fervent local supporters—are Susan Sullivan and Mona Martine, who dressed in costume for Tuesday’s rally. Sullivan, who started the 700-plusmember North Staters for Bernie Facebook

SIFT ER What’s in a credit score?

These days it seems near impossible to watch television and not see three or four ads for websites that will allow people to check their credit score. It’s made clear in those ads that a high score means you get better deals on big purchases. But, here’s the thing: While 46 percent of Americans have checked their scores in the past year, many have no real clue about what makes their score high or low, according to a recent poll by Bankrate.com. Some other findings:

• 37 percent believe you must carry a balance on credit cards to build credit (you do not).

• Only 1 in 4 respondents correctly said that closing old cards will hurt their score.

• 54 percent knew that having a short credit history would harm their score.

• 51 percent erroneously believe that having a card with a high balance is good for your score, as long as you pay on time.

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page, wore a red, white and blue evening gown. Martine dressed as a computer screen monitor displaying the YouTube channel BernieSanders2016TV, partly in protest of the alleged mainstream media blackout Sanders supporters say has been in effect thus far in the campaign.

“Bernie wants to cut out the cash cow for the corporate media and overturn Citizens United, so [the media] is not giving him the coverage he deserves, and we’re out here on the streets to tell people about him,” Sullivan said.

Martine has so embraced Sanders’ grassroots campaign ethic that she’s hand-made more than 400 campaign T-shirts. She buys the shirts at thrift stores, silkscreens them herself, then trades them for donations or gives them away to supporters.

“They’re great for people who can’t afford the official campaign shirts or might not like the logo,” she said. “They’re a bit more ‘Chico.’”

North Staters for Bernie held their first public event, like many Sanders groups, on July 29, when he appeared in a live video address to hundreds of thousands of supporters across the country. About 130 people attended a viewing at the Chico Grange Hall, according to group members.

The group will be tabling most weeks at the CCFM in months to come, and have some special events planned. On Saturday, Oct. 17, members will be present at the fifth annual You Know You’re From Chico Festival, and on Thursday, Nov. 19, there will be a fundraiser for Sanders at the Blue Room Theatre centered around the work of early-1900s union agitator/ musician Joe Hill.

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brands at local stores enjoyed by modern-day beer drinkers did not yet exist. The nation’s beer supply came almost entirely from just several dozen breweries, which mostly churned out bland lager. Much like Chico’s own Ken Grossman, Brian Hunt emerged from those barren days with an inspiration to ferment and explore. Grossman opened Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. in 1980, and in the early 1990s, Hunt launched a brewery called Moonlight.

Today, Hunt is a grizzled and highly regarded veteran of the craft beer industry. While his operation, based in rural Sonoma County, has remained small but successful, Hunt has watched the craft beer industry explode over the past 20 years—an incredible economic boom that continues to this day, stealing sales from once-dominant global beer companies while also driving fierce competition within the craft brewing community, where struggles to find ingredients and shelf space are growing more competitive every month.

On Saturday, Sept. 12, Hunt will share his experience as a craft beer pioneer with listeners at the California Craft Beer Summit and Brewers Showcase. This beer industry celebration will essentially take over downtown Sacramento for two days, Sept. 11 and 12.

Capitol Mall will be shut down for a finale beer showcase on Saturday night, and the convention center will be handed over to thousands of beer lovers, including brewers, chefs, vendors and scientists. There will be speeches, seminars, cooking and brewing demonstrations and, naturally, plenty of beer.

Tom McCormick, executive director of the California Craft Brewers Association, which is hosting the event, says the idea of the gathering is that many people— brewers of different generations, retailers and consumers, and wholesalers and retailers—will have the opportunity to learn from each other.

“We’re cross-pollinating these different layers of craft beer lovers in what is really a hands-on, educational experience,” he said.

“It’s much, much more than a beertasting festival.”

Charlie Bamforth, UC Davis professor at the Institute of Brewing and Distilling, will deliver a basic “Beer 101” seminar on brewing. Brewers Vinnie Cilurzo, of Russian River, and Patrick Rue, of The Bruery, will discuss tricks and techniques for making sours, one of the most popular categories of beers around. Hunt will share the podium with Donald Barkley of Napa Smith and Mark Ruedrich of North Coast at a Saturday seminar titled “Meet the Pioneers of the Craft Beer Industry.” Grossman will speak on Saturday at 2:30 p.m. about “The Beginning of the California Craft Beer Revolution.”

The summit and showcase is the inaugural production of what local beer promoters hope will grow into one of the nation’s iconic beer festivals. The Sacramento event will feature only California breweries— but that is hardly a limiting factor.

Two new breweries are opening every week in California, and the state is now home to roughly 500 brewing companies, according to McCormick.

The explosion of the industry has

been a phenomenon unlike almost any other. The 3,500 craft breweries in America have taken a big and painful bite out of global brewing conglomerates like Coors and Anheuser-Busch. Nationally, craft beer now represents roughly 12 percent of the beer market—and in California, 25 percent, according to McCormick.

It may seem like the best of times for small breweries.

However, even as the craft beer category slowly nudges the beer giants aside, individual microbreweries are finding themselves competing against one another for ingredients, like hops, and for shelf space in retail outlets.

Ryan Graham, who co-founded

Sacramento’s Track 7 Brewing Co. with Geoff Scott, says the crowded marketplace has been good for business for years, driving excitement and fueling the craft beer craze—but eventually, that competition could start to turn ugly.

“If you have one brewery getting all the shelf space with lots of different brands and interfering with other guys who can’t get their beer to the market, that’s their livelihood and then I think the collegial attitude we’ve seen in the brewing community is going to change,” he said. “It won’t be enough anymore to just be friends. People will become opportunistic and look for ways to one-up the competition.”

Already, even Raley’s doesn’t have enough room for all the small beer producers jockeying to claim shelf space. But the chain now has more than 200 craft beers at some locations, with bigger beer brands remaining on the shelf largely by popular demand.

Having stores with a large beer selection may seem like a good thing. However, it can cause problems if the large inventory means bottles will remain on the shelf for longer periods of time. That’s because beers like IPAs are best— most fragrant and flavorful—when

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Track 7 relies on IPA sales.

“IPAs are meant to be consumed within 90 days, and ideally within 25 to 60 days,” Graham said. “We can’t have beers stuck on shelves for months at 80 degrees.” For an IPA, the hop aromas that beer drinkers seek out can fade rapidly.

This process accelerates at higher temperatures, meaning IPAs are best stored under refrigeration— and hopefully not for a long time.

Graham noted that negative experiences with such deteriorated beers can not only ruin a single beer’s reputation but also give a lingering black eye to the brewery.

Some breweries, like Mraz Brewing Co. in El Dorado Hills, only serve IPAs on draft at the brewpub.

This way, brewers can guarantee that their beer is served fresh.

“Even though we’re popular, I’d be fooling myself to think that all my beer might be bought and drunk within a two month period [if sold to retailers],” said Mike Mraz, the company’s founder.

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IPAs, anyway. His brewery focuses on beer styles, often aged in barrels, that mature and improve with time. In a crowded retail market, this works out well for Mraz, since bottles that wind up in a shippers’ warehouse for months at room temperature will actually be better thanks to the holdup.

The abundance of new breweries

and new beers has fueled the creative brewing of beers containing herbs and yerba mate and all kinds of fruits. Yet the IPA has remained the most popular beer style in America, with brewers steadily ramping up their hop and alcohol content to appease consumer demands. The craze over IPAs has also pushed other beers off the average beer menu.

The pale ale, for example, has become all but obsolete.

“You go into a taproom and pale ales, which were once a mainstay of craft beer, are hard to find now,” said Mitch Steele, Stone Brewing Co.’s brewmaster.

“You’ll always find a bunch of IPAs.” Steele says the proliferation of small breweries is creating considerable competition—even for one of the largest and most successful craft breweries in the state. “As more and more breweries

come onto the scene, we’re finding we need to work harder to keep ourselves relevant in beer drinkers’ eyes,” he said.

While the event will give an impression that beer is more colorful and diverse today than it has ever been, Hunt believes beer today has actually become relatively homogenous. That, he explains, is because today’s brews depend almost entirely on a single plant species—the hop, Humulus lupulus—to add aroma and bitterness to beer.

Hunt is keen on telling people that it wasn’t always this way.

Centuries ago, before hops became ubiquitous—and long, long before the triple IPA—plants of all other sorts were used to flavor beer. Hunt honors these traditions by brewing beers spiced with green redwood tips, incense cedar, bee balm, Labrador tea, yarrow, bay leaves and mugwort.

“Some people say, ‘Wow, the world of beer is more diverse than it’s ever been,” Hunt said.

But if beer drinkers and brewers would just open their minds to ingredients beyond the hop, Hunt says, then the craft beer renaissance will truly begin.

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Nationwide, more than 16,000 people died from opioid overdoses in 2013, while that same year 4,318 people died from drug poisoning in California alone, the majority of whom overdosed on prescription medications, according to a California Department of Public Health press release. “People often associate drug abuse with illegal drugs, but this effort targets the misuse of drugs that were prescribed for pain management,” said State Health Officer Karen Smith.

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As California’s right-to-die measure, Senate Bill 128, inches forward in the California Legislature, a parallel bill dubbed “right to try” has been been approved by the Assembly and now heads to Gov. Jerry Brown for approval.

Whereas SB 128 would allow terminally ill patients to end their lives with the assistance of a physician, Assembly Bill 159 would allow those patients to request experimental medications that haven’t been approved for use by state and federal regulators, according to The Sacramento Bee. Drug makers would decide whether to provide the medication, and the bill would protect doctors and insurers from liability in case of negative effects.

Some groups, including the Association of Northern California Oncologists, have raised concerns about experimental drugs harming patients or giving them false hope.

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Sleeping six hours or fewer a night makes you much more likely to get sick, a study out of UC San Francisco finds.

Researchers determined that, compared with people who get seven or more hours of sleep, those who don’t get good rest were four times more likely to catch a cold when exposed to the virus via nasal drops, according to SFGate.com. “It didn’t matter how old people were, their stress levels, their race, education or income,” said Aric Prather, lead author of the study. “It didn’t matter if they were a smoker.”

Though there is a growing body of evidence connecting regular sleep to overall health and disease prevention, this study is believed to be the first to objectively measure sleep habits and link them to illness.

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“W That may seem self-evident, since everyone grows older. But Joe Cobery e’re all affected by aging.”

means to say that the “tsunami” of adults becoming seniors in recent years impacts more than just the seniors themselves.

Cobery is executive director of Passages, a nonprofit service provider for caregivers and older adults. He says it only makes sense that issues surrounding health coverage (i.e., Medicare) and retirement income (i.e., Social Security) weigh heavily on so many Americans. If you’re not in the twilight years yourself, chances are high that someone you love or care for is.

According to the California Department of Aging, the Golden State has 7.2 million residents ages 60 and older, including 2.1 million 75 and older, out of a total population of 38.8 million. (Butte County’s totals

are 47,000 and 16,600, respectively, in a population of 223,000.) In 2010, California had 6.3 million residents 60 and over, with 2.02 million 75 and older—so there have been significant increases in just five years, which follows the nationwide trend.

Jean Schuldberg is a new member of the 60-and-over assemblage, but she’s not new to the issues. She’s a professor at Chico State, where she serves as director for the master of social work program, and in 2013 was appointed by Gov. Jerry Brown to the California Commission on Aging (CCoA), described on its website as “the principal advocate in the state on behalf of older individuals.”

Schuldberg will host her fellow commissioners for their quarterly meeting next Thursday and Friday (Sept. 17-18) at Chico State. This will mark the CCoA’s first meeting in Chico since January 2005— when, coincidentally, Schuldberg made a presentation to the commission as part of a panel discussion titled “The Intersection of Aging and Education.” (Then, she was an assistant professor and coordinator of the gerontology program.)

“It’s great to see us back on the map,”

Schuldberg told the CN&R. “It’ll be an opportunity for the commissioners to see the extremely rural region and the services that we are able to provide, and to hear from the individuals in our region as to what we do need for advocacy for legislation.”

Every session is open to the public.

Cobery, who organized the event with Schuldberg, hopes for a large turnout— not only staff from agencies such as his, who have a vested interest, but also community members and local policy-makers, who could share information with commissioners and benefit from the panel presentations.

Those educational programs include aging-in-place challenges in rural California, senior housing in rural areas and multigenerational learning opportunities at Chico State.

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or rural-centric law to come of the summit, but rather that commissioners will incorporate this part of California into legislation they sponsor and policies they draft once they’ve seen the area for themselves.

“Services delivered in rural parts of the state are much different than urban areas,” Cobery said. “For example, access to physicians: If you’re living in Los Angeles or San Francisco, there’s a fair amount of physicians who take Medicare or other insurances.

In the rural part of the state … the number of providers is a lot less, so you can be an older adult with insurance and might struggle [finding] a doctor who’s willing to take you.”

And while many older adults in Chico may have a primary care physician willing to serve them, seeing a specialist often involves traveling to Sacramento or Davis, at least.

“From Chico you say that’s an hour an a half, that’s not a big deal,” Cobery said. “But what if you live in Plumas County? You’re looking at maybe three hours—and if you’re an 85-year-old older adult who doesn’t drive and mobility is a challenge …

“There are some real challenges here for folks in the rural part of the state,” he continued. “I think for the California Commission on Aging to get that exposure—live it, see it, talk about it with older adults up here, listen to the discussions— it will be great information for them to bring back and then spread

Event info:

the California Commission on Aging will meet Sept. 17-18 at Chico State’s bell memorial Union, with all sessions open to the public.

Visit ccoa.ca.gov to view the agenda.

around the state.”

Schuldberg stressed that her colleagues come to Chico with deep knowledge on senior issues. What they’ll glean, as Cobery said, are specifics about the region for which she’s commissioner, which roughly mirrors the 12 counties in Chico State’s service area (Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Tehama, Trinity and Yuba).

“The hope is that through hearing the information about our communities,” Schuldberg said, “it will continue to advance the causes of older adults through our commission. That’s helped in the past, when we supported and helped with legislation that has to do with Medi-Cal managed care.

Participants will have an opportunity to provide personal testimony and also meet with commissioners individually. And the commissioners, in turn, will get more boots-on-the-ground experience, she said.

“Some of them may have never been to a rural region before, and we are vast. I don’t think many people are aware of how huge we are, how much poverty there is, and how far people are from services.” □

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Buck Island Reef National Monument in St. Croix. Left photo from 1995, taken by John Brooks (NPS), right photo taken by David Arnold in 2011.

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Rephotographing coral reefs and glaciers shows, in full color, the impacts of climate change by

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comes when I present my photo comOparisons to high school students. I compare ne of the rewards of my climate work

scenes of changes over the years to glaciers and hard coral reefs. I find older museum quality images, then return to the sites to reshoot the pictures as precisely as possible.

The reward comes about halfway through the presentation when I transition from ice to corals. First up is a 1995 shot of a resplendent elk horn coral located off St. Croix in the U.S. Virgin Islands. Click and it dissolves into the gray boneyard you see today.

Inevitably I hear feet shuffle and perhaps a gasp or muffled moan or two as if they have been sucker punched.

“YES!” I think to myself. Now I know these stewards of the future got it. Who knows? Maybe I even changed a life or three.

And this gives me hope.

Such is the power of photographs.

My mission, and that of Double Exposure and its co-founder Gabriela Romanow, is to illustrate indisputably how the baseline is shifting above and below the waterline.

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I return to duplicate the early work of others, striving for the same lighting conditions and camera angles, be my perches a mile high or 60 feet underwater. Double Exposure created a traveling exhibit of glacier comparisons that opened at the Museum of Science in Boston in 2008. We intend to do the same with corals. As the portfolio expands, I present the work in progress and I am always impressed how the coral images hurt most.

The glacier pictures from the Alps and Alaska are aerials that can encompass the area of a New England state. I’ve concluded the vertical distance offers the safety of emotional detachment.

Bombardiers must feel the same way. But because of the quirky way that light behaves underwater, coral photography is done close up with wide-angle lenses. The relationship is far more intimate, in part because the coral polyp, which builds and lives in forests of calcium carbonate shell, is an animal.

They are not happy.

Hard corals are dying a death by 1,000 cuts. Assailants range from local stresses such as shoreline pollution and overfishing to planetary scale climate-related assaults from heat shocks and acidification, which results from carbon dioxide uptake spurring decreasing ocean pH. (Eggshell, like hard coral, is made of calcium carbonate. To witness acidity at

work, drop a morsel of eggshell in vinegar.)

More than 60 percent of the world’s reefs are in immediate and direct threat, according to the World Resources Institute, a global research organization. Almost 40 percent of hard corals may be too ill to recover. Out of sight, they may be out of mind. But coral decline is telling us something is very wrong with the water.

I often am reshooting corals photographed by underwater pioneers from the pre-GPS era who never dreamed someone might want to retake their pictures. Frequently I am asked: “So how do you find these places again?”

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zine printed between 1951 and 2002. My criteria were demanding.

A candidate picture had to include a topographic feature to prove the comparison shot was legitimate.

The photographer obviously had to still be alive. And he or she had to be willing to go through old slides, believe my project was worthwhile, and have the faintest idea where the picture was taken. The search continues. I probably bat .3 percent—one successful pairing per 300 pictures considered.

Luck helps. For example, one Steve Lucas of Siloam, Ark., invited me to his home four years ago to pore over old pictures. Into the late evening we poked through hundreds upon hundreds of slides looking for hard coral scenes that met my demands. Lucas, just 60 years old at the time, had not dived for many years because of diabetes he had had since birth. Nevertheless, he could recall the dates, and sometimes the exact locations of pictures as he reveled in the memories they tapped.

One 1982 shot was of a mighty brain coral the size of a small car.

“Located off Key Largo. Must be one of the largest brain corals in the hemisphere,” Lucas said.

Back in the 1960s, someone had sunk a life-sized sculpture of Jesus off the Florida key to promote scuba tourism.

“Find the Jesus and swim about 50 feet in the direction of his raised left arm,” Lucas said.

Five days later he died.

Eventually, I got to the Keys.

Eventually, I found Jesus and sighted down his extended left arm through the murky water and bingo, there was the coral behemoth precisely where Lucas said it would be. The monster was dead, its decaying surface is now the soft substrate into which species of soft corals root.

But as long as its carcass and those of a dozen others remain in my portfolio, they will remind me of the underwater pioneers, a coral world in stress, teenagers who understand, and the power of the photograph. □

Tough Questions 2015

Pastor Matthew Raley addresses questions gathered from the community Beginning Sunday, SeptemBer 20, 2015 9-20: Why Did You Become a Pastor?

9-27: Why Should I Try to Understand the Bible?

10-4: Does the Bible Get Lost in Translation?

10-11: If Jesus Wrote Us a Letter, What Would He Say? 10-18: If God Can’t Change, Why Should We Pray?

10-25: How Should I Understand the Old Testament?

You are invited to join the discussion.

Worship service begins at 10:15am.

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Formidable roadblocks confronted married couple Jules Jackson and Dennis Lundy after they decided to open Maui Wowi, a beachthemed smoothie and coffee shop, at the corner of Mangrove and Vallombrosa avenues. Their preference to have a drive-through window prompted review from the city’s Community Development Department and took the prospective business owners to multiple Planning Commission and City Council meetings. They finally received approval from the council in July and hope to open the store this fall, by which time they anticipate hiring 10 to 12 employees. Now the couple are set to debut their tropical treats at Taste of Chico on Sunday (Sept. 13). Jackson sat down with the CN&R to give an update on their progress. Look up Maui Wowi of Chico on Facebook for more info.

What made you want to start a business?

You get to a stage where you’re working for someone and they don’t have the culture you want, and most of the employees don’t either. They don’t have the spirit, you know? We’re both going to be working for quite a few years and we want to be somewhere we’re able to have our own culture and to have our employees be happy.

Why a restaurant?

We actually didn’t want a restau-

rant, per say, because of the 24/7 thing and always being there, but Dennis and I really enjoy good coffee, and he makes smoothies every morning. I was looking at the possibility of a small franchise and Maui Wowi caught my eye. We gave them a call and went to Denver, where the corporation is based. We tasted their products and went to Kona Coffee, where they do the roasting.

We were drawn in right away.

dwindled, we’re going to put that on hold. We’ll just do a simple patio this year and maybe expand next year.

Considering your difficulties with the city, did you ever worry it wouldn’t work out?

So, Taste of Chico will be an advanced preview of Maui Wowi?

It was a battle. And, yeah, there were times we didn’t think it was going to work in the Mangrove location—we really like the spot— but we prevailed, months later.

We were really hoping to open in June. It set us back quite a bit. We wanted to do a fancier patio, but as time has gone by and money has

When is your grand opening?

We don’t know yet. We have all our permits now, and we’re trying to get bids from contractors. We’d like to open in October, but more realistically it’s looking like the beginning of November.

Yes. They invited us to participate and we thought, “We’re not really prepared to do this.” But that’s the good thing about being part of a franchise—they help you. So, we’ll have a little tiki hut and we’ll be blending two smoothies—strawberry and mango-orange.

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I threw my back out this past week. For anyone who has dealt with something like that, you understand my pain. For those who haven’t, well, you’d be surprised how many things—sitting, standing, shaving your legs, bending over to put a leash on the dog—require lower-back strength. I’m stubborn, so I put off going to the doctor for a few days, convinced I could heating-pad the pain away. No such luck.

I bring this up because normally, during my search for fun, funky, homemade or -grown stuff around town to write about, I’m mobile. Right now, just getting into the car is a chore. So, I decided instead of tromping around town, I’d seek out local handcrafted goodies available online. And I actually found quite a few on Etsy (to search for items from a specific place, you can tailor your search by shop location). Here are a few highlights: Custom Design Studio, run by husband-and-wife team Dan and Jackie Legg, specializes in jewelry. Apparently he enjoys metalwork and sculpture and she likes to create glass photo and Scrabble-tile jewelry. It was the glass pendants that caught my eye—many feature quirky quotes or vintage-inspired images. Jackie says her best sellers are sports-themed necklaces. She can even make them for local teams! Scrolling through their Etsy store (etsy.com/shop/customdesignstudio), there are also some intricate bracelets and earrings—love the bicycle-themed pieces!

Another neat online seller is ValDraws, run by Chico artist/mother/ enthusiastic vegan Valerie Bean. Her Etsy store (etsy.com/shop/ValDraws) features quirky, fun greeting cards rooted in astrology. Each one has a collage-and-watercolor drawing of a person alongside a hand-written list of many of a specific sign’s characteristics. In Googling ValDraws to find out more about her, I also found her website (www.valdraws.com), which highlights her more kid-friendly creations.

Steampunk, anyone? OK, here’s a random story: Some of my colleagues and I had the privilege of traveling to Salt Lake City this summer for a conference of alternative weeklies. When we were out to lunch one day, we were a bit taken aback by all the people in costume, presumably there for a steampunk convention. I’d never seen such a spectacle! Apparently, Chicoan Dave Moore is into that sort of thing, because his Etsy shop (etsy. com/shop/DemCrafts) is nothing but steampunk/cosplay items, handmade by him. There’s admittedly not a whole lot for sale here, but what he’s got is pretty awesome. For the guns, he repurposed old nerf guns, and a creepy mask started out as a basic Halloween mask. Very cool stuff, indeed.

I’m always looking for creative locals who are making and growing cool things. So, dear readers, don’t hesitate to send me an email with your suggestions.

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FOSTERING HOPE Chico native and world-famous author Vanessa Diffenbaugh writes with purpose—to help abandoned young people • BY WALTER RYCE

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t’s a bright Monday morning in July as a convoy of four cars cruises along Aguajito Road in Monterey. They turn right onto Allan Drive and wend up the steep street to a parking lot, where they come to a stop next to each other.

The occupants get out their cars, huddle and walk as a group toward the Monterey County Superior Courthouse. Two men wear suits, while four older adults dress casually, almost hippie-like. Two children are dressed as if going to church, as are three adult women. All are white except for a young black man, arms and chest muscular underneath a black polo shirt.

One of the men wearing a suit is a lawyer. But the others are a family, three generations of them: Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 37, an arts teacher and writer; her husband, Daniel “PK” Diffenbaugh, 38, the superintendent of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District; two pairs of their parents; their kids; their niece; and a personal assistant. The occasion that brings them all to the Monterey courthouse: Vanessa and PK’s adoption of Donovan Ford, the muscular young man, who is 25.

This moment has been a long time coming.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh and her family moved to Monterey about a year ago. Before that they were living in Newport Beach in Southern California. Before that, Cambridge, Mass., where PK was working on a doctorate in educational leadership at Harvard and Vanessa was about to become an author— and a famous one.

Her first book, 2011’s The Language of Flowers, stayed 69 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list and was translated into 42 languages.

The Boston Globe called it “unabashedly romantic” with an “emotional arc of almost unbearable poignance.” It received positive reviews from The Chicago Tribune, NPR and San Francisco Chronicle, and a thorny one from The New York Times. It’s been a book club favorite, and instigated interviews and book tours.

Diffenbaugh says that first book poured out of her in six months.

It’s not exactly autobiographical, but its deeper themes—the pain and longing young people live through in foster care, and the treacherous trouble of repairing their lives after it—can be found in her own life.

It started early The Diffenbaugh family (from left): Daniel (PK), Miles, Tre’von, Graciela, Donovan and Vanessa.

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About the author:

Walter Ryce is a staff writer for Monterey County Weekly, where this story originally appeared.

Diffenbaugh grew up in Chico. Her parents divorced when she was 2, and remarried others. She always remembers having four parents and two houses.

“I went back and forth between my families’ houses every couple days, my whole

life,” she says. “I rode my bike when I was older. Clothes on one side of the handle bars, art supplies and school supplies on the other.”

She kept a diary starting at age 6. Her biological kids, Graciela, 9, and Miles, 7, found it recently.

“There’s this love saga about a boy who moved to Chicago without saying goodbye, and then moved back and it was weird,” Diffenbaugh says with a laugh.

She remembers her writing teachers, acknowledging them in her first book for their contributions to her development as a writer. Her second grade teacher, for instance, gave her a special corner of the classroom where she could write. The Language of Flowers could be considered Vanessa’s second book because it was from that corner at Hooker Oak Elementary School she wrote her first.

“It was 35 pages, single-spaced, 11 chapters,” she says. “Pretty serious book.”

It was titled Timmy and Tommy’s Big Adventure on the Island of Unknown. Its story was about twin 1-year-olds who escape a tormenting stepmother by sailing away to an island. Diffenbaugh admits that she probably lifted the plot from fairy tale tropes of the time. But it seems prescient for what she would encounter later, in real life.

As a teen, Diffenbaugh won a scholarship to study art at Stanford—she was one of six art majors who graduated in 2000 from the university’s art department. It was like a different planet for her. On her very first day of

school her scholarship was cut by $5,000.

“My roommate said, ‘Why don’t you just go to the ATM?’ It was beyond her reality to think that there might not be any money on the other side of that ATM.” She waited tables for income—five to six nights a week, often double shifts on Sundays—all four years. She also became involved in a nonprofit that taught kids art and technology in East Palo Alto, which at that time was being rocked by crack, crime and poverty—not too far and yet a world apart from Stanford. But it resonated with her.

“I loved these kids,” she says. “There was one class I skipped a lot because I was so invested in them that Stanford stopped mattering.”

There were two sisters in particular that Diffenbaugh began mentoring. They had two other sisters and all four lived in East Palo Alto with their grandmother and their mother, who struggled with drug addiction. Vanessa picked up the two sisters after school on Fridays to spend weekends together.

When she met and started dating PK, also a Stanford student at the time, instead of going to bars like other people their age, they took the girls to museums, libraries, parks and on back-to-school shopping trips. They formed an ad hoc surrogate family.

But one day, when the couple returned the girls to their home, the mother was gone and the grandmother, who said she couldn’t care

“When these kids age out, they could be kicked out of their foster home with a garbage bag full of their stuff. That’s the norm. If you have kids, most people know they’re not ready [for the world] at 18.”

for any of the kids anymore, had put their belongings on the porch.

The elderly woman was ill and died less than a year later.

“At 23 I had these four girls abandoned to my custody,” Diffenbaugh says. “They were girls I loved, considered family. PK and I had roommates, commuted, had full-time jobs.

We had to surrender them to the foster care system. And had to watch what they went through.”

The girls were placed with a single mother who already had five foster kids, for a total of nine kids in one household (the legal limit at the time was six). Then the siblings were split up. The oldest, who had been de facto raising the younger ones, was sent along with the next oldest sister, to a Spanish-speaking family, though the two of them were AfricanAmerican and didn’t speak Spanish. The other two went to another foster home in Vallejo.

It took two months before Vanessa and PK were even allowed to see the sisters.

“It was so bad,” she says. “I couldn’t believe this was happening. These kids hadn’t done anything wrong. They wanted to be in school and wanted to be loved. I couldn’t believe there weren’t riots in the streets.”

That’s the conviction that inspired both of them to vow, in their early 20s, to become foster parents as soon as they conceivably could.

They attempted to become foster parents in 2005, but it wasn’t successful or longlived. In 2007, that changed. They were married. They, along with Graciela, then 6 months old, were living in Sacramento where PK was a high school principal. He got a call that one of his students had run away from an abusive home, knocked on a fire station door, and was in a receiving home (a first step before entering the foster care system).

That was Tre’von. He was 14.

“Even if [kids like him] have absolutely no behavioral, social or psychological problems, they end up in group homes, which are the worst,” Diffenbaugh says. “Teenage boys are the hardest to place in foster care. And in many places there is a shortage of foster parents.”

They went to court and got him placed in their custody on Valentine’s Day 2007.

—Vanessa Diffenbaugh FOSTERING C O N T I N U E D SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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FOSTERING HOPE Chico native and world-famous author Vanessa Diffenbaugh writes with purpose—to help abandoned young people • BY WALTER RYCE

I

t’s a bright Monday morning in July as a convoy of four cars cruises along Aguajito Road in Monterey. They turn right onto Allan Drive and wend up the steep street to a parking lot, where they come to a stop next to each other.

The occupants get out their cars, huddle and walk as a group toward the Monterey County Superior Courthouse. Two men wear suits, while four older adults dress casually, almost hippie-like. Two children are dressed as if going to church, as are three adult women. All are white except for a young black man, arms and chest muscular underneath a black polo shirt.

One of the men wearing a suit is a lawyer. But the others are a family, three generations of them: Vanessa Diffenbaugh, 37, an arts teacher and writer; her husband, Daniel “PK” Diffenbaugh, 38, the superintendent of Monterey Peninsula Unified School District; two pairs of their parents; their kids; their niece; and a personal assistant. The occasion that brings them all to the Monterey courthouse: Vanessa and PK’s adoption of Donovan Ford, the muscular young man, who is 25.

This moment has been a long time coming.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh and her family moved to Monterey about a year ago. Before that they were living in Newport Beach in Southern California. Before that, Cambridge, Mass., where PK was working on a doctorate in educational leadership at Harvard and Vanessa was about to become an author— and a famous one.

Her first book, 2011’s The Language of Flowers, stayed 69 weeks on the New York Times’ best-seller list and was translated into 42 languages.

The Boston Globe called it “unabashedly romantic” with an “emotional arc of almost unbearable poignance.” It received positive reviews from The Chicago Tribune, NPR and San Francisco Chronicle, and a thorny one from The New York Times. It’s been a book club favorite, and instigated interviews and book tours.

Diffenbaugh says that first book poured out of her in six months.

It’s not exactly autobiographical, but its deeper themes—the pain and longing young people live through in foster care, and the treacherous trouble of repairing their lives after it—can be found in her own life.

It started early The Diffenbaugh family (from left): Daniel (PK), Miles, Tre’von, Graciela, Donovan and Vanessa.

PHOTO COURTESY OF VANESSA DIFFENBAUGH

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About the author:

Walter Ryce is a staff writer for Monterey County Weekly, where this story originally appeared.

Diffenbaugh grew up in Chico. Her parents divorced when she was 2, and remarried others. She always remembers having four parents and two houses.

“I went back and forth between my families’ houses every couple days, my whole

life,” she says. “I rode my bike when I was older. Clothes on one side of the handle bars, art supplies and school supplies on the other.”

She kept a diary starting at age 6. Her biological kids, Graciela, 9, and Miles, 7, found it recently.

“There’s this love saga about a boy who moved to Chicago without saying goodbye, and then moved back and it was weird,” Diffenbaugh says with a laugh.

She remembers her writing teachers, acknowledging them in her first book for their contributions to her development as a writer. Her second grade teacher, for instance, gave her a special corner of the classroom where she could write. The Language of Flowers could be considered Vanessa’s second book because it was from that corner at Hooker Oak Elementary School she wrote her first.

“It was 35 pages, single-spaced, 11 chapters,” she says. “Pretty serious book.”

It was titled Timmy and Tommy’s Big Adventure on the Island of Unknown. Its story was about twin 1-year-olds who escape a tormenting stepmother by sailing away to an island. Diffenbaugh admits that she probably lifted the plot from fairy tale tropes of the time. But it seems prescient for what she would encounter later, in real life.

As a teen, Diffenbaugh won a scholarship to study art at Stanford—she was one of six art majors who graduated in 2000 from the university’s art department. It was like a different planet for her. On her very first day of

school her scholarship was cut by $5,000.

“My roommate said, ‘Why don’t you just go to the ATM?’ It was beyond her reality to think that there might not be any money on the other side of that ATM.” She waited tables for income—five to six nights a week, often double shifts on Sundays—all four years. She also became involved in a nonprofit that taught kids art and technology in East Palo Alto, which at that time was being rocked by crack, crime and poverty—not too far and yet a world apart from Stanford. But it resonated with her.

“I loved these kids,” she says. “There was one class I skipped a lot because I was so invested in them that Stanford stopped mattering.”

There were two sisters in particular that Diffenbaugh began mentoring. They had two other sisters and all four lived in East Palo Alto with their grandmother and their mother, who struggled with drug addiction. Vanessa picked up the two sisters after school on Fridays to spend weekends together.

When she met and started dating PK, also a Stanford student at the time, instead of going to bars like other people their age, they took the girls to museums, libraries, parks and on back-to-school shopping trips. They formed an ad hoc surrogate family.

But one day, when the couple returned the girls to their home, the mother was gone and the grandmother, who said she couldn’t care

“When these kids age out, they could be kicked out of their foster home with a garbage bag full of their stuff. That’s the norm. If you have kids, most people know they’re not ready [for the world] at 18.”

for any of the kids anymore, had put their belongings on the porch.

The elderly woman was ill and died less than a year later.

“At 23 I had these four girls abandoned to my custody,” Diffenbaugh says. “They were girls I loved, considered family. PK and I had roommates, commuted, had full-time jobs.

We had to surrender them to the foster care system. And had to watch what they went through.”

The girls were placed with a single mother who already had five foster kids, for a total of nine kids in one household (the legal limit at the time was six). Then the siblings were split up. The oldest, who had been de facto raising the younger ones, was sent along with the next oldest sister, to a Spanish-speaking family, though the two of them were AfricanAmerican and didn’t speak Spanish. The other two went to another foster home in Vallejo.

It took two months before Vanessa and PK were even allowed to see the sisters.

“It was so bad,” she says. “I couldn’t believe this was happening. These kids hadn’t done anything wrong. They wanted to be in school and wanted to be loved. I couldn’t believe there weren’t riots in the streets.”

That’s the conviction that inspired both of them to vow, in their early 20s, to become foster parents as soon as they conceivably could.

They attempted to become foster parents in 2005, but it wasn’t successful or longlived. In 2007, that changed. They were married. They, along with Graciela, then 6 months old, were living in Sacramento where PK was a high school principal. He got a call that one of his students had run away from an abusive home, knocked on a fire station door, and was in a receiving home (a first step before entering the foster care system).

That was Tre’von. He was 14.

“Even if [kids like him] have absolutely no behavioral, social or psychological problems, they end up in group homes, which are the worst,” Diffenbaugh says. “Teenage boys are the hardest to place in foster care. And in many places there is a shortage of foster parents.”

They went to court and got him placed in their custody on Valentine’s Day 2007.

—Vanessa Diffenbaugh FOSTERING C O N T I N U E D SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

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In October of that year came 17-year-old Sharon, whose biological mom moved in with someone who had abused her. Sharon moved in with the couple the same week their son, Miles, was born. Diffenbaugh describes her as “this amazing young woman we knew for four years.”

In 2011, then a 20-year-old junior at UC Riverside, Sharon was hit by a truck while walking by the side of a road, and died.

Donovan Ford had been a part of their family since he was 16 and a student at Sacramento High School, where PK was the principal. And he’d been coming to spend holidays with them each year since. He’d been in foster care since birth. He hadn’t made a connection with his current foster family; it was just a place to live, but he didn’t complain about it. When he was 18, the year in which he was emancipated from the foster care system, the Diffenbaughs took him in.

“When these kids age out, they could be kicked out of their foster home with a garbage bag full of their stuff,” Diffenbaugh says. “That’s the norm. If you have kids, most people know they’re not ready [for the world] at 18.”

There is now legislation, Assembly Bill 12, the California Fostering Connections to Success Act, that extends foster care support for eligible young people until the age of 21.

As troubling as the lives of these kids can be in foster care, the sudden withdrawal of support when they age out can be crippling.

They are more prone to drug abuse, suicide, unemployment, early pregnancy, prison. It’s a long, tough sentence—one that frequently happens out of sight and out of mind.

Real and fictional worlds collaborate One summer, in 2008 or 2009, Vanessa read every book on the best-seller list.

Afterward, she thought to herself, I can do this.

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book people don’t want to put down.”

She says her first motivation in writing The Language of Flowers was to write a good story with conviction. She didn’t want to preach or begin with a premise of social activism.

The story that emerged begins on the first day of the emancipation from foster care of 18-year-old Victoria Jones. Thirty-two foster homes have scarred and hardened her. But one woman, Elizabeth, a near surrogate mother figure, reaches her by passing on the language of flowers, their hidden or historical meanings.

So even though Victoria finds herself rootless and homeless in San Francisco after leaving foster care, she has a gift that turns into salvation. She gets a job at a florist’s shop. She learns to reach out and touch people by communicating through flowers. And in doing so, she too can be touched.

Publishers engaged in a bidding frenzy for the book. (Ballantine Books, an imprint of Random House, would win with a “very generous” offer. She declines to say how much, but other publications have pegged it at six figures.) Audiences catapulted it into the upper sales charts of the book world. But it did something else, something more.

As Diffenbaugh says: “When you create a real world [readers] can live in, they want to know more about the issue because they felt it, lived in it.”

Capitalizing on the momentum, she took her earnings and put it behind the momentum of the growing awareness, and co-founded— along with longtime friend and Ogilvy senior strategist Isis Dallis Keigwin—the Camellia Network in 2011. (In Diffenbaugh’s book, the camellia flower denotes “my destiny is in your hands.”) It’s a social network and crowdfunding platform that connects “former foster youth to supporters, opportunities and resources from around the country.”

These are young people trying to get jobs, go to school and figure out how to live meaningfully. The supporters of these young people can give them advice and kindness, and purchase essential items for them like laptops, towels, cooking utensils and proper attire for job interviews and the workplace. It currently has about 300 former foster youth in the network.

It’s too small for Diffenbaugh’s liking.

About 23,000 young people age out of foster care every year, she says.

But good news arrived recently. Camellia Network has joined forces with Youth Villages, a nationwide leader in the field of serving kids in foster care. Diffenbaugh has also joined Youth Villages’ national board.

This will allow the Camellia Network to scale up and really reach out under the new name, LifeSet Network.

Diffenbaugh’s second book, We Never Asked for Wings—officially released last month, and for which she’s touring California, Italy and Norway—also covers the subject of turbulent and hard-earned

families. But it wasn’t conceived as easily as her debut novel.

Both books revolve around characters who are trying to restore broken or absent family bonds. In The Language of Flowers, protagonist Victoria is unprepared to trust and form relationships. In the second book, the protagonist is Letty, a single mother struggling to raise her kids in the Bay Area.

In the opening scene of the book, she is abandoning them.

Following up on such an auspicious debut, writing the second book was more daunting and arduous. It also was more a labor of love. Diffenbaugh’s likened to giving birth. That’s at least partly because she says she loves being a mother more than anything else in the world, and that made it difficult to breathe life into a character like Letty who shirks motherhood. But then it clicked when she came to a realization: “It’s not that she didn’t want to be a mother. She hadn’t been taught how.”

Donovan Diffenbaugh Ford The Diffenbaughs have only gone forward: with their investment in ideals, their expansion of their family. They’ve fostered nine kids for varying periods of time.

Donovan is their first adoption.

“I want to be the grandmother to his children,” Vanessa says. “I want him to be able to visit me in the hospital.”

Ford came to the adoption “ceremony” in Monterey from Colorado Springs, where he is training at the Olympic Training Facility as a

The Diffenbaughs’ adoption attorney (left) accompanies the family to the Monterey County Superior Courthouse, where longtime foster son Donovan Ford becomes the legal son of Vanessa (pictured) and PK Diffenbaugh and brother to Miles (looking at camera) and Graciela.

PHOTO BY KRISTEN STIPANOV

weightlifter. He’s been training in the sport for 10 years. He recently competed at the national championships in Dallas. In his 105-kilogram weight category he won first place in the 165-kilogram snatch lift, second in the 205 kilogram clean and jerk, and first place overall. That’s three medals in a field of about 30 who really wanted those medals, too.

The Diffenbaugh family—Vanessa, PK, the kids, grandparents and friends—watched him compete online.

“My mom said I looked really confident,” Ford says. He’s been calling Diffenbaugh mom for about a year.

With that win, his first national title, he earns a berth in the IWF World Weightlifting Championship in Houston, in November, to qualify for a spot on the Olympic team. His journey is all the more amazing for the distance he’s traveled.

Ford got out of the foster care system at age 18. He went into it when he was about 2 weeks old, along with his four brothers and one sister. He didn’t realize, until he was 7, that the people he knew as their mom and dad were not his biological parents. The next thing that happened was that he and his siblings were split up—he calls it “ripped apart.” He went on to live in about nine different foster homes.

“I feel the foster care system is a joke,”

he continues. “I feel fortunate I made it out unscathed and pretty successful. I feel bad for the kids going through it now and don’t have the resources I had.”

He says he had people in his life who reached out, mentored him, embraced and pushed him.

Like his high school football coach. And like the Diffenbaughs. He got to know them when he was a student at Sacramento High School, where PK was a principal. They reached out to him and invited him into their family. He spent holidays with them. Ford called PK “Mr. D” and the Diffenbaughs’ two younger children followed suit, like siblings emulating their big brother.

“I spent one Christmas with my foster family, which wasn’t great,” Ford says. “My heart was with the Diffenbaughs. I didn’t care if they got me something—I just wanted to be around them.”

Ford viewed the adoption in Monterey as a formality. He already felt like family, already knew they would be together the rest of their lives. But it’s dawning on him how it’s changed things.

“When I get married and have kids, they’ll have grandparents.”

He got a new cellphone and was putting in his contacts.

“I never really had a mom and dad. I call the Diffenbaughs Mr. D and Ms. Vanessa. I was putting these [contacts] in my phone and I was starting to put ‘Ms. Vanessa.’ Then I thought, ‘No, she’s my mom.’

So now when they call or text me, I see on my phone my mom’s reaching out to me. Or my dad is.”

The night before the adoption, Ford told the Diffenbaughs a story—about when he met his biological parents. He had prayed every night to meet them, ever since he was 7 and realized he had never known them. He was 17 when he finally did.

“I thought it was going to be like the movies— hugs and smiles,” he says. “But it didn’t feel right.

My biological mom was crying. My dad was trying to pick up where they left off. I was kind of sick to my stomach. I wasn’t connected to these people. There was no bond.”

He says he felt like he had wasted a lot of prayer on something that wasn’t meant to be. When he met the Diffenbaughs, he says it felt like family from day one.

“People say you can’t choose your family, but you

Ford told the Diffenbaughs a story—about when he met his biological parents. He was 17 when he finally did. “I was kind of sick to my stomach. I wasn’t connected to these people. There was no bond. People say you can’t choose your family, but you can. I got to choose a good one.”

—Donovan Ford on the eve of his adoption

can. I got to choose a good one.

“I have a million stories about how messed up the [foster care] system is and how crazy it was, but I would never give up the many years in foster care to be born in my biological family. Because I would have never have met the Diffenbaughs, gotten involved in weightlifting, chased the Olympic dream.

It was sometimes rough for me, but it made me who I am today. I’m grateful. I’m excited to see what the future holds for us.”

A family affair On the third floor of Superior Court in Monterey, the Diffenbaughs and their lawyer wait for instruction in the empty courtroom of Judge Elisabeth K. Mineta.

Outside, in the hallway, criminal and family law attorney Kimberly Barnett sits awaiting the start of her own business elsewhere.

“Adoptions don’t take long. This part, at least,” she says. “Sometimes the judge takes pictures. It’s like a birthday.”

But she says she hasn’t seen many adult adoptions at all.

Inside the courtroom, the family sits together, Ford in the middle. The family he has known since he was 16 surrounds him. The bailiff comes and invites them to walk through a door beside the bench.

They file through, walk down a hallway, and into Mineta’s spacious office. She’s dressed in a suit. No robe. She invites them to sit at a conference table.

“This is my favorite part of the week,” she tells them.

Surveying each member, she chats amiably.

She asks PK what he does, then Vanessa.

“I’m a writer,” Vanessa says.

“Trashy novels?” the judge asks.

“Not really.”

“Oh, that’s my favorite kind. The fluffier the better.”

The judge says she has a 21-year-old son, that she’s been on the bench for five years, that much of a young person’s quality of life depends on the quality of adults around them.

(The Diffenbaughs’ other foster son, Tre’von, just graduated from NYU on a Gates Millennium and AnBryce Scholarship, where he studied genetics first, then theater with a minor in Hebrew so that he could read the original Bible.)

The judge writes on stapled forms as she talks.

Then she stops writing and announces: “You are officially a family.”

They looked surprised. That’s it?

They hug and smile. Pictures are taken. Miles, the 7-year-old, says to all, “I didn’t get to hear the sledgehammer bang.”

Everyone laughs.

They file out of the office and down the hallway to the nondescript Family Court Services office, lined with file cabinets, abutted by cubicles, lit overhead by fluorescent lights.

More papers are filled out. On one of them, Donovan lists Diffenbaugh as his middle name.

Then they all walk down the steps of the courthouse and through the door to the outside, a family officially one member bigger, the proof of that union on a few sheets of paper Vanessa holds gingerly yet firmly in her hand. Ω

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Terry Malts: (from left) Nathan Sweatt, Phil Benson and Corey Cunningham.

Back to the well

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Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Explore downtown Chico, find farmfresh produce, enjoy food trucks, arts and crafts, and live entertainment. This week: Bitz Session (country/blues). Th, 6-9pm through 9/24. Free. Downtown Chico, www.downtown chico.com/events.

Bay Area punks Terry Malts revisit their pop roots their first two albums, Bay AreaOitselfnbased Terry Malts sought to liberate from the shackles of jangly guitar

pop. As three-fifths of San Francisco’s Magic Bullets, the trio decided a dose of recklessness was required lest their various musical itches remain unscratched. With that by new ethos in tow, the Ryan J. Prado albums Killing Time (2012) and Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere (2013), along with a slew of EPs, featured a brisk pace that risked PREVIEW: Ramones-like hero worTerry Malts ship by way of buzzsaw performs punk with infectious Saturday, Sept. 12, melodies.

9:30 p.m., at It’s perhaps not altoDuffy’s Tavern.

Severance gether surprising, then, Package and for the band’s upcoming John Holmes open. third (as-yet-untitled) album, that Terry Malts Duffy’s Tavern 337 Main St. wanted to think outside 343-7718 the bun. www.facebook.com “We wanted to open /duffyschico up the playbook a bit,” explained guitarist Corey Cunningham during a recent interview. He was in the home stretch of a week-long stint in the studio working on the album. “When we started,

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we were a side project, and it was almost therapeutic for us because we needed to do something musically that wasn’t totally serious, that was totally cathartic and that was quick and easy. Those first two albums are totally built on that. But by the end of that second one, it kind of felt like we were sputtering out and needed to find a new way to write.”

As Cunningham explained, while the ethos of the jaded punk who’s still a romantic at heart remains at the core of Terry Malts, moods and muses have changed. Those who listen closely to the deep cuts on Nobody Realizes This Is Nowhere might have heard the seeds of their transition being sown on the narcotic, droney track “Comfortably Dumb,” a happy accident of a tune that subconsciously paved a new aural avenue for Terry Malts.

“I think [that song] might have been the first little hint that we were going to break out of the same old Malts formula,” said Cunningham. “We’re putting ourselves in a place where we’re showing our threedimensionality in a way the other albums weren’t able to do.”

One of the ways Cunningham, vocalist/bassist Phil Benson and drummer Nathan Sweatt were going to explore these new dimensions was an easy call: Get out of the house. Both previous albums were

recorded with Cunningham in his home.

“Phil and I spent at least a year writing, sitting down and demoing and changing and adding stuff,” Cunningham explained.

“We didn’t think that would translate well to one of my dumb home recordings.”

Interestingly for the band members, their extra efforts meant fleshing out the music in ways they’d attempted to flee after the demise of Magic Bullets, and adding to the less-is-more aesthetic that established Terry Malts’ freewheelin’ reputation in the first place. The Malts and Magic are still two very different bands, but the apple may not have fallen that far from the tree.

“We’ve always existed in this weird space where people think we’re a punk band, or an indie-pop band, or like a garage-rock band,” Cunningham said.

“We’ve never fit into any of those templates or molds. Now we’re making a big pop album that shows all these different influences, and each song has a little segment of all these pieces of music that we’re fans of.”

Armed with a fresh game plan and a year’s worth of wood-shedded songs, the band pulled such a 180 for the new recordings that even their engineer/mixer Monte Vallier was surprised.

“When we got there, Monte said, ‘You guys showed up with notes and no beer?

This is not like you!’” Ω

Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: Tennessee Williams’ classic drama explores the desires and subterfuge of a family as its members grapple with one another to hide and expose secrets. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 9/27. $12-$20. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

STEEL MAGNOLIAS: The classic American play (made famous by the 1989 film) about a close-knit group of Southern ladies who share laughs and tears. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 9/13. $15-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 8943282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Music RISE AGAIN SONG BOOK RELEASE: Peter Blood and Annie Patterson will perform and teach songs from Rise Again, their new compilation of 1,200 songs for individual or group singing. Th, 9/10, 7pm. $15 adults, $5 children. Chico Friends Meetinghouse, 1601 Hemlock St. corner of 16th St. and Hemlock St, (530) 891-0750.

JOHN HIATT & TAJ MAHAL Friday, Sept. 11 Laxson Auditorium SEE FRIDAY, MUSIC

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Remembering the tragic events of September 11, 2001. F, 9/11, 10:30am. Atria Paradise, 1007 Buschmann Rd. Off Clark Rd in Paradise, (530) 872-3344.

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Remembrance for the tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001. F, 9/11, 12-4pm. Free. Downtown City Plaza, 400 Broadway St., (530) 893-9078.

Special Events

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: Sapphire Soul (blues). F, 7pm through 9/11. Free. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

SOUL ID WAKEFEST: Freestyle wake board com-

petition at the One-Mile pool. F, 9/11, 3-6pm. $10 to compete, free for spectators. Sycamore Pool, Bidwell Park, (916) 749-0209, www.face book.com/events/1058012380876411.

Music JOHN HIATT & THE COMBO AND THE TAJ MAHAL TRIO: A celebrated Amerian songwriter and an R&B legend team up to perform a fusion of rock, country and blues. F, 9/11, 7:30pm. $10$56. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.

DAYS OF LIVING HISTORY Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 12 and 13 Gold Nugget Museum, Paradise SEE SPECIAL EVENTS

THE C.H.A.T. SHOW: An outdoor variety show feaHONORING 9/11: Featuring Bogg (jazz), Hot Flash (rock) and Bird & Wag (jazz/bluegrass). Free admission for first responders, firefighters, law enforcement, EMTs. F, 9/11, 8pm. $10. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.

LISA FERRARO & ERIKA LUCKETT: Bay Area duo that blends jazz, funk, blues, folk, sacred, world, pop, Latin music. F, 9/11, 7-9pm. $15/advance; $20/door. Chico New Thought Center for Spiritual Living, 14 Hillary Ln., (530) 895-8395, http://chiconewthought.org.

Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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

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Special Events BIDWELL BARK FUN RUN AND FESTIVAL: Annual Bidwell fun run benefiting the Butte Humane Society featuring fun-filled activities, contests, and demonstrations. Family-friendly event, furry members encouraged. Sa, 9/12, 8:30am-1pm. Lower Bidwell Park, (530) 8637280.

DAYS OF LIVING HISTORY: Experience 100 years of of life on the Paradise Ridge. Many hands-on activities including candle making, tin art, old time laundry, rope making, bread baking, gold panning,,games, and more. Sa, 9/12, 11am4pm, Su, 9/13, 11am-4pm. $5. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5602, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

GREAT GARDEN ART SHOW: Local artists display garden art in a variety of forms—metal, wood, ceramics, and glass for sale. Sa, 9/12, 10am7pm. Free. Magnolia Gift & Garden, 1367 East Ave., (530) 894-5410, www.magnolia gardening.com.

WILD AND SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL: The touring environmental film fest brings 10 selections to the Big Room for a benefit for Friends of Butte Creek. Sa, 9/12, 5:30pm. $20/films; $40/films and buffet. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 345-2739, http://butte creek.brownpapertickets.com.

Music CHICO WORLD MUSIC FESTIVAL: Music on four stages featuring a wide range of world music artists. Sa, 9/12, 10am-6pm. Free. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/upe/performance/per formances/chico-world-music-festival.php.

Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

turing performers, portrait artists and other family-friendly activities. Proceeds go toward funding CHAT House affordable housing. Su, 9/13, 4-8pm. $10-20 suggested donation. End of Normal, 2310 Estes Rd., past W. 22nd St., (530) 518-8509.

DAYS OF LIVING HISTORY: See Saturday. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5602, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

STAND-UP STANDISH COMEDY SHOWCASE: Featuring Jerm Leather, Weston McCoy, Don Ashby, Steve Swim, Becky Lynn, Amy Helen, Chaz Kelley and John Bertoli. Hosted by Aaron Standish. Su, 9/13, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718, www.merry standish.com.

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

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Special Events YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open mic comedy with 20 open slots. Sign-ups at 8pm.

M, 9pm through 8/29. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

Poetry/Literature POETRY IN THE PARK: Poetry, haikus, short stories, beat boxing, conceptual acrobatics, free styling. M, 9/14, 6pm. Bidwell Park Campfire Circle, Lower Bidwell Park.

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Special Events UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: A weekly presentation of domestic and international films. This week: Eight Men Out (U.S., 1998). Tu, 7:30pm. Opens 9/8. $3. Ayres 106, Chico State, (530) 899-7921.

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TASTE OF CHICO: Downtown food and beverage festival featuring local and regional restaurants, caterers, breweries, wineries, live music on three stages, an art gallery, a kids zone, and more. Su, 9/13, 12-4pm. Downtown Chico.

WOMEN’S CLUB 102ND BIRTHDAY PARTY: A celebration featuring cake, champagne and live swing music from The Miami Rogue Roosters.

Su, 9/13, 3-5pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Music CONCERT IN THE CANYON: The Paradise Big Band performs. Light refreshments will be served.

W, 9/16, 6:30pm. Feather Canyon Retirement

Community, 5900 Canyon View Dr. in Paradise, (530) 413-5003.

Theater CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Wakeboarding the creek Chico old-timers sometimes mention a mysterious past event involving waterskiing at One-Mile Recreation Area’s Sycamore Pool, and anyone who’s wondered how that could’ve been possible might find some answers Friday, Sept. 11, at the Soul Id Wakefest. The competition will transform the One-Mile pool into a freestyle wakeboarding course complete with rails and ramps, and winch-drawn athletes will compete for prizes and bragging rights. The event is brought to Chico by Soul Id, the same folks who turned City Plaza into a snowboarding wonderland back in February.

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

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HAS BEANS: Cubicle 22, illustrations by Joshua Harwood. 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033.

HEALING ART GALLERY: New Works, oil and colored pencil works by Northern California artist Barbara Anne Ramsey. The Healing Art Gallery features Northern California artists touched by cancer. Through 10/14. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

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Scenes, Vincento Rasem’s large ink and watercolor wash drawings created in 1958 and ’59. Also, framed works by Mexican print artist Jose Posada (1853-1913). Through 9/26, 9am-2pm. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Does Size

Matter, featuring small to large-scale prints that explore how scale and size impacts perception. Through 9/19. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

MCM GALLERY: Local artist gallery, featuring Chelsea Jeffers, oil on canvas; Ama Posey, mixed media. 260 E. First St., (530) 899-8443.

PARADISE ART CENTER: Art Gala, 9/12, 2-5:30pm.

Art demonstrations, drawings, sidewalk chalk art contest, wine tasting and the annual members show. 5564 Almond St. in Paradise, (530) 877-7402.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Hanging Out, artists Betty Benson’s birds and K.W. Moore Sr.’s bridges. Ongoing. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

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UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Total Wreck, featuring New Jersey-bred/San Francisco-based artist Patrick Hillman’s manipulations of common household materials and forms. Through 10/9.

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Museums CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our Home,

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Modern Farming -

Land, Water, People, and Science, explore North State agriculture. Patterns of The Land, a display of quiet and pastoral agriculture images of the Sacramento Valley. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

From Chico to China: The Life and Travels of Valene Smith, explore Valene Smith’s journeys around the world through photos, videos and her collected artifacts. Through 10/10. Free.

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In it’s seventh revival year, the Butcher Shop’s instigators (now under the umbrella of the Slow Theatre collective) show no signs of slowing down or slackening off artistic ambition and commitment to creating absurdist and socially conscious art. They also remain unconcerned with putting on anything more than original works of theater, much of which is only marginally comprehensible Each year, the preshow accoutrements of the main event have grown, and this year the vendor/ food truck/bar area was enlivened by some of Chico’s finest musical acts performing on a tiny stage.

Sunday’s preshow lineup featured soulful singer-songwriter Lisa Valentine, ghostly goth-folk from

Bunnymilk, and a crowd-pleasing collaboration between the legendary Jonathan Richman and Bunnymilk’s Kelly Brown and Lisa Marie, who provided call-and-response harmony vocals. Richman’s group’s Italian love song finale, featuring solos from a young accordionist named Eva, raised spirits among the crowd as well as on stage.

“There’s nothing as sweet as accordion music on a summer night,” Richman remarked as he led the band—which included locals Jake Sprecher on drums and Miles Montalbano on bass— through an extended ending.

Then darkness closed in on a lovely orchard sunset and the main stage lit up for the opening number by house band Dave the Butcher, featuring singers Elise Helms, Lizzie Latimer and John McKinley in a rousing exhortation of getting out into the weirdness and wildness of the theater of the night—which started immediately after with a green show by Slow Theatre’s Young Actors. The oneact was an adaptation of Raymond Carver’s story “Bicycles, Muscles, Cigarettes”—presented as “The Stolen Bicycle”—a very mature dramatic piece about the way adult behavior affects young lives and vice versa.

Staying in the adult/child relationship vein, and tapping into 2015’s “Year of the Goat” theme, the first original piece of the night was Sarah Pape’s absurdist comedy “Little Animals.” It depicted Sher (Samantha Shaner) and Holly (Kate Corey), a same-sex farming

couple who stumble into moral and mortal complications involving young “meat goats” being used as surrogate kids to see if the two women are ready for the real thing. Shaner’s skill and hilarity as a comic actress kept the audience rapt and laughing despite the fact that it was hard to make much sense of it all. A person near me whispered to a companion that she was “not able to understand any of this, but it’s funny.”

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and My Defect (rock). F, 9/11, 7:30pm. donations accepted. East Avenue Community Church, 1184 East Ave., (530) 518-0505, www.chicofood forall.org.

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FOOLS LOGIC: Supertramp cover band. F,

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

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JOHN SEID: John Seid, Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic set of tunes. Th, 9/10. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

ME AND JULIO: Weekly live salsa, calypso, Hawaiian Afro-Cuban music. Th, 6:30pm. Opens 9/10. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

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

RISE AGAIN SONG BOOK RELEASE: Th, 9/10, 7pm. $15 adults, $5 children. Chico

Friends Meetinghouse, 1601 Hemlock St. corner of 16th St. and Hemlock St, (530) 891-0750.

SPIRITUAL REZ: Reggae/rock from

Boston. Th, 9/10, 8pm. $10. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

STATIC AND THE CUBES: Synth-punk from Portland. Plus, The Vesuvians (local gothic indie-rock), Mr. Bang (local punk) and Panther Surprise (Chico

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rock. Plus, duo Black Star Safari (rock/folk/funk). F, 9/11, 8pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: A summer music series with performances from a variety of local talent. This week: Sapphire Soul (blues). F, 7pm through 9/11. Free.

Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

JOHN HIATT & THE COMBO AND THE TAJ MAHAL TRIO: A celebrated Amerian songwriter and an R&B legend team up to perform a fusion of rock, country and blues. F, 9/11, 7:30pm. $10-$56.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.

FOOD FOR ALL BENEFIT CONCERT: All proceeds collected at the concert go to help support Food for All. Featuring performances by The Gnarly Pints (folk duo), Sean Martin (acoustic/pop)

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

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

HONORING 9/11: Featuring Bogg (jazz), Hot Flash (rock ’n’ roll) and Bird & Wag (jazz/bluegrass). Free admission for first responders, firefighters, law enforcement, EMTs. F, 9/11, 8pm. $10.

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

LISA FERRARO & ERIKA LUCKETT: Bay Area duo that blends jazz, funk, blues, folk, sacred, world, pop, Latin music. F, 9/11, 7-9pm. $15/advance$20/door.

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Z-MAN: The Bay Area MC returns to town with Oso Negro (Oregon hiphop/alt-reggae) and DJ L Nasty. Plus, Howflyy and The Resonators. F, 9/11, 8pm. $8. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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performing classic to current hits. Sa, 9/12, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

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THE HUBCAP STEALERS: Rock ’n’ roll husband/son duo from Ventura. Plus, Sofa King (Chico funk/soul) and newcomers Flumshee Su, 9/13, 7pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Live

music. Su, 9/13, 6-9pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St., (530) 8916328, www.5thstreetsteakhouse.com.

Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

NICE UP FARM PARTY: Live reggae and

funk bands and DJs. Sa, 9/12, 411:30pm. $10 at door. Heartseed Farm, 1525 Dayton Rd., (530) 555-5555.

NRVS LVRS: San Francisco-based electronic-rockers team up with locals Sisterhoods and The Empty Gate. Sa, 9/12, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

PUNK ROCK KARAOKE: You are the singer in a punk band made up of members of

NOFX, Bad Religion, Circle Jerks. Sa, 9/12, 8pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

TERRY MALTS: San Francisco-based punk rockers return to Chico. Locals Severance Package and John Holmes open. Sa, 9/12, 9:30pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

TRIBUTE FOR PABLO DIABLO: A gathering with music to celebrate the life of a dear friend. Sa, 9/12, 5pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tacklebox chico.com.

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STAND-UP STANDISH COMEDY SHOWCASE: Featuring Jerm Leather, Weston McCoy, Don Ashby, Steve Swim, Becky Lynn, Amy Helen, Chaz Kelley and John Bertoli. Hosted by Aaron Standish. Su, 9/13, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718, www.merry standish.com.

ups at 8pm. M, 9pm through 8/29.

No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988, www.myspace.com/ theitaliangarden.

OPEN MIC AT GOGI’S: All performers welcome. Signups at 6pm. Hosted by Dan Casamajor. Tu, 7-9pm through 9/29.

Free. Gogi’s Cafe, 230 Salem St. Next to the Transit Station, (530) 891-3570.

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CAITLIN JEMMA AND THE GOODNESS:

Wholesome folk from the Pacific Northwest. South Fork (indie rock) and Nolan Ford (rock) open. W, 9/16, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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

friends play an eclectic mix of jazz standards. W, 6:30-8:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

AROUND THE WORLD IN A FEW HOURS The Chico World Music Festival is a long-running local tradition that brings music from all over the globe to Chico State. This year features South American sounds by Kátia Moraes and the Brazilian Hearts, Indian music on sitar and tabla with Arjun Verma and much more on four stages on Saturday, Sept. 12.

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Inventive and insightful documentary on life after war in South Sudan We Come as Friends Huncommonly tary that is wildly offbeat and inventive, as well as observant. Its subject is the economic, ubert Sauper’s

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political and cultural turmoil of South Sudan, but there’s very little in it that’s dry, academic or merely “informational.” by There’s a good deal of moral and Juan-Carlos political urgency running through Selznick the film, but it steers clear of propaganda on the one hand and detached, “objective” reportage on the other.

As such, it may be best described as an “impressionistic” documentary—it definitely has its own distinctive slant on things—but its chief working principle is a matter of providing the We Come as viewer with opportunities to ponder Friends and observe, to make more intimate Directed by Hubert contact with the realities that Sauper Saupe. pageant and company have encountered. theatre. Not rated.

From a current-events angle, We Come as Friends gives us some stark glimpses of civil war and political violence in contemporary Africa, and something more than glimpses of the upheavals wrought by the invasion of American and European companies arriving to exploit Sudan’s oil-rich territories. But some of the strongest moments of the film come from more mundane experiences of the modern-day Sudanese – walking down the road, signing documents, going to school (or not), getting water to drink, first-time experiences with modern technology.

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so in at least one instance), and most of the talk about improved health and living standards seems to be little more than rationalizations for the wholesale uprooting of an entire people from a pre-industrial way of life.

The opening images of We Come as Friends seem to me emblematic of the poetic tendencies that are among its most powerful appeals. The first is a highly stylized (and perhaps digitally animated) view of what look like insects or dark seeds skittering across a barren landscape toward a somewhat flimsy toy airplane.

The latter resembles the single-engine home-built aircraft that Sauper flies to remote locations in the film and which he uses for some spectacularly disorienting aerial shots of the African landscape. In the film itself, the plane gives Sauper ways of presenting himself (to us and to the Sudanese) as a modestly mythic traveler, an empathetic magician, a benevolent trickster from an alien place, etc.

The second set of early images follows a young Sudanese boy, naked except for a (presumably traditional) necklace walking along a dirt road toward the setting sun. The boy, like others we’ll see later on, seems innocent, happy, resilient and utterly selfpossessed. He looks straight at the camera a couple of times as he walks, curious about it and its operator, but perfectly content to be himself. □

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This mildly amusing little film is based on Bill Bryson’s book about the trek he and a friend took on the Appalachian Trail, but with the characters’ ages increased to match those of the movie’s stars, Robert Redford and Nick Nolte. Thus, A Walk in the Woods becomes in part a kind of docudrama about two

aging actors playing themselves and doing standard-issue bits of grumpy-old-man comedy.

The screenplay sets up a few narrative lines on which to hang a series of semicomic episodes, with occasional pauses for Bryson-like ruminations.

Ken Kwapis’ direction is mostly uninspired; the wisecracking is

glib and predictable, and only a little is gained from the briefly sparkling contributions of Emma Thompson (as Bryson’s wife), Mary Steenburgen (as a motelbased temptress), Kristen Schaal (as a very opinionated hiker), Nick Offerman (as a camping-gear salesman), and Susan McPhail (as a laundromat-based temptress). □

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A Spanish-language 3-D computer-animated feature about timid little Toto, a young chick who summons the courage to fight an evil farmer in order to save his family and home.

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The Perfect Guy

A dangerous love triangle develops between a successful woman (Sanaa Lathan), her former boyfriend (Morris Chestnut) and a man she recently met who might not be all he seems (Michael Ealy). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

The Visit

M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense, Signs) goes for a drastically lower budget than normal ($5 million) for this suspense/horror flick about a couple of kids who are in for a big, scary surprise when they head deep into the country for a weekend visit to grandma and grandpa’s house. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

For a biopic about one of the most iconoclastic musical acts ever, Straight Outta Compton plays things disappointingly safe. It says a lot about the film that its most charged and energetic moments happen during the closing credits, when scenes from the original video for the song “Straight Outta Compton” hit the screen like firecrackers going off in the theater. For those unfamiliar with seminal gangsta-rap group’s story, the film provides a serviceable madefor-TV-movie style biography (but with much better music), and the young actors nail the characterizations of the group’s principal players—Eazy-W (Jason Mitchell), Dr. Dre (Corey Hawkins) and Ice Cube (played by his son, O’Shea Jackson, Jr.). But the excitement of the music and its revolutionary influence on American culture are greatly dampened by the film’s canned approach to storytelling (cue the recording-studio montage) and the ham-handed juggling of too many individual storylines and legacies for one film to handle.

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American Ultra

More or less simultaneously, American Ultra is both silly and provocative. It has Jesse Eisenberg as Mike Howell, a buffoonish pothead in whom world-class fighting skills have been implanted (via a top-secret CIA “experiment”). And it has Kristen Stewart as Phoebe Larson, who is Mike’s astonishingly loyal live-in girlfriend and a feisty scrapper with a few secrets of her own. The ditzy stoner intermittently morphing into a lethal warrior—that’s the film’s chief selling point and the cornerstone of its darkly dramatic comedy. But that central premise also yields a wildly convoluted plot involving intraagency rivalries and secret paramilitary schemes at the CIA. Unavoidably, some frenzied bursts of violent, blood-spattered action follow suit. For me, the film’s most lasting effect is a matter of its very peculiar aftertaste: It manages to both satisfy and frustrate an impressive array of desires— for laid-back farce, for violent fantasy, for political satire, for boundary-breaking romance, etc. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The theme: fruits and wine.

Perfect, we thought, looking at the invitation. We’re halfway there.

We selected a very nice cabernet franc and headed over.

Sacre bleu! Major misunderstanding (sort of like when the Yankees’ make-up game we attended was not what we expected). Turns out we were supposed to bring both.

Our hosts were most accommodating, however, and encouraged us to stay despite our initial embarrassment. Which was a good thing, as we sampled that evening a wide range of excellent dishes made with fruits and wine, dishes that I continue to rely on today, two in particular. One is peaches in red wine, which Colette recently served after a delicious summer meal of grilled halibut with pesto, new red potatoes with butter and rosemary, and a salad of heirloom tomatoes, basil and slices of fresh mozzarella.

Though stone-fruit season is winding down early this year, there are still delicious locally grown peaches (or nectarines) to be had at nearby orchards and farmers’ markets.

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wine and brandy. This dessert is very good this time of the year, as it’s refreshingly cold and light, but it’s also nice in winter for the same reason, particularly after a hearty stew or other heavy meat dish. And of course, oranges, unlike peaches, are available year round. Both of the following recipes are from Anna Thomas’ classic The Vegetarian Epicure, Book Two. Peaches in red wine 2 to 2 1/2 lbs. small peaches 4 1/2 cups red wine 3/4 cup white sugar 1 cinnamon stick

In a large sauce pan, simmer the wine with the sugar and cinnamon until sugar is dissolved. Add whole peaches and simmer gently for about eight minutes. Remove pan from heat and let peaches steep in wine for another half hour or so. Remove peaches, gently, with a spoon, allow to cool, and then carefully peel. Arrange in serving dish, and pour remaining wine over the tops and chill for at least an hour before serving.

Oranges in white wine and brandy 6 large navel oranges 3/4 cup white sugar 8-10 whole cloves 1 cinnamon stick, broken into small pieces 1 1/4 cups dry white wine 2 tablespoons brandy seeds from one pomegranate

Peel oranges with a sharp knife, removing as much pith as you can. Slice oranges very thinly and arrange in large serving bowl.

Sprinkle with sugar, cloves and cinnamon pieces. Slowly pour in the wine, without washing out the sugar—wine should just cover the tops of the slices. Drizzle on the brandy, then cover tightly with plastic wrap and marinate in refrigerator for at least a couple hours. Before serving, sprinkle pomegranate seeds over the top.

Don’t use cheap wines for these dishes, although you don’t want to squander a really good wine on them either. For the peaches dish, a medium-priced zinfandel or merlot will work, and for the oranges dish, try a sauvignon blanc or decent chardonnay. □ September 10, 2015

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LeSS taLk, more art arts dEVo is not a fan of artist statements at gallery shows, specifically those that involve long explanations of the concepts behind the art at hand (or, even worse, the artist’s opinions on world issues).

I’m cool with a little personal bio, very few words on the work, and if it isn’t obvious maybe an explanation of how the work was made. Beyond that, I’m happy to put my own brain to work, to make my own discoveries and insights.

It’s way more fun than having everything explained to me.

Thankfully, for the current art show at the 1078 Gallery, the only written words provided are the Grow lights? artist’s name and title of the work in black letters on the wall: Judith Leinen: The inhabitants of dooberville show how they build, and a hand-written note on a pedestal next to two pitchers: “Visitors, water the plants if you like.” There’s no guide, no program. Just a curious art installation, with a low-hanging grid of what look to be grow lamps fashioned from black plastic nursery trays suspended over the gallery’s cement floor.

And on the ground, in the seams and crawling out of imagined cracks, is actual ground cover (moss? alfalfa sprouts? clover?) growing up from the floor inside the gallery. Actually, by the time I visited (five days after the Sept. 3 opening), most of the plant life had died and turned brown. Only the wider patches receiving extended exposure from the skylights (and water from the patrons?) were still alive.

So, what’s it mean? What was the artist’s intention? My take: Given the “doob” in the title, those grow lights and the quickly drying growth below, I’m guessing Dooberville is somewhere in Nor Cal, Crops in the gallery. where weed is king and the drought is threatening everything. Maybe I’m off, but I still enjoyed visiting the part of my brain that likes to get lost in art.

I’m sure Leinen, a Chico state visiting artist from Mainz, Germany, did a little artspeaking at the reception last week, and though I know I would’ve enjoyed discussing the installation with others, I’m glad I was able to have my own experience first. Have one yourself before the show closes Sept. 26. and in the garden Speaking of art and growing, this Saturday, Sept. 12, from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., Magnolia Gift & Garden is hosting its second annual Great Garden art show. Local artists making outdoor-ready works in metal, ceramics, wood and glass will be displaying and selling their designs on the nursery’s beautiful grounds.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): “More and

more I have come to admire resilience,” writes Jane Hirshfield in her poem “Optimism.” “Not the simple resistance of a pillow,” she adds, “whose foam returns over and over to the same shape, but the sinuous tenacity of a tree: finding the light newly blocked on one side, it turns in another.” You have not often had great access to this capacity in the past, Aries.

Your specialty has been the fast and fiery style of adjustment. But for the foreseeable future, I’m betting you will be able to summon a supple staying power—a dogged, determined, incremental kind of resilience.

You’re so close to home; you’re imagining the comfort and rest that will soon be yours. But as you cross the wheady mile, you must navigate your way through one further plot twist or two. There’s a delay or complication that demands more effort just when you want to be finished with the story. Be strong, Libra. Keep the faith. The wheady mile will not, in fact, take forever.

(Thanks to Mark Forsyth and his book Horologicon.)

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

improbable and unprecedented combinations is your specialty right now. You’re willing and able to gamble with blends and juxtapositions that no one else would think of, let alone propose. Bonus: Extra courage is available for you to call on as you proceed. In light of this gift, I suggest you brainstorm about all the unifications that might be possible for you to pull off. What conflicts would you love to defuse? What inequality or lopsidedness do you want to fix? Is there a misunderstanding you can heal or a disjunction you can harmonize?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “The

fragrance from your mango groves makes me wild with joy.” That’s one of the lyrics in the national anthem of Bangladesh.

Here’s another: “Forever your skies … set my heart in tune as if it were a flute.” Elsewhere, addressing Bangladesh as if it were a goddess, the song proclaims, “Words from your lips are like nectar to my ears.” I suspect you may be awash with comparable feelings in the coming weeks, Taurus—not toward your country, but rather for the creatures and experiences that rouse your delight and exultation.

They are likely to provide even more of the sweet mojo than they usually do. It will be an excellent time to improvise your own hymns of praise.

Is feeling good really as fun as everyone seems to think? Is it really so wonderful to be in a groove, in love with life and in touch with your deeper self? No! Definitely not!

And I suspect that as you enter more fully into these altered states, your life will provide evidence of the inconveniences they bring. For example, some people might nag you for extra attention, and others may be jealous of your success. You could be pressured to take on more responsibilities. And you may be haunted by the worry that sooner or later, this grace period will pass. I’m just kidding, Sagittarius! In truth, the minor problems precipitated by your blessings won’t cause any more anguish than a mosquito biting your butt while you’re in the throes of ecstatic lovemaking.

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

this horoscope, we will use the Socratic method to stimulate your excitement about projects that fate will favor in the next nine months. Here’s how it works: I ask the questions, and you brainstorm the answers. (1) Is there any part of your life where you are an amateur but would like to be a professional? (2) Are you hesitant to leave a comfort zone even though remaining there tends to inhibit your imagination? (3) Is your ability to fulfill your ambitions limited by any lack of training or deficiency in your education?

(4) Is there any way that you are holding on to blissful ignorance at the expense of future possibilities? (5) What new license, credential, diploma or certification would be most useful to you?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why grab

the brain-scrambling moonshine when you may eventually be offered a heart-galvanizing tonic? Why gorge on hors d’oeuvres when a four-course feast will be available sooner than you imagine? According to my analysis of the astrological omens, my fellow Crab, the future will bring unexpected opportunities that are better and brighter than the current choices. This is one of those rare times when procrastination may be in your interest.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): As I hike up San

Pedro Ridge, I’m mystified by the madrone trees. The leaves on the short, thin saplings are as big and bold as the leaves on the older, thicker, taller trees. I see this curiosity as an apt metaphor for your current situation, Leo. In one sense, you are in the early stages of a new cycle of growth. In another sense, you are strong and ripe and full-fledged. For you, this is a winning combination: a robust balance of innocence and wisdom, of fresh aspiration and seasoned readiness.

story of my life features more than a few fiascoes. For example, I got fired from my first job after two days. One of my girlfriends dumped me without any explanation and never spoke to me again. My record label fired me and my band after we made just one album. Years later, these indignities still carry a sting. But I confess that I am also grateful for them. They keep me humble. They serve as antidotes if I’m ever tempted to deride other people for their failures. They have helped me develop an abundance of compassion. I mention this personal tale in the hope that you, too, might find redemption and healing in your own memories of frustration.

The time is right to capitalize on old losses.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): It’s never

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A “wheady

mile” is an obsolete English term I want to revive for use in this horoscope. It refers to what may happen at the end of a long journey, when that last stretch you’ve got to traverse seems to take forever.

fun to be in a sticky predicament that seems to have no smart resolution. But the coming days could turn out to be an unexpectedly good time to be in such a predicament. Why? Because I expect that your exasperation will precipitate an emotional cleansing, releasing ingenious intuitions that had been buried under repressed anger and sadness. You may then find a key that enables you to reclaim at least some of your lost power. The predicament that once felt sour and intractable will mutate, providing you with an opportunity to deepen your connection with a valuable resource.

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CLEAN KING BY DEHART, INC 3121 Hidden Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name VON GRAFEN PRODUCTIONS at 3883 Addys Lane Butte Valley, CA 95965.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HUBBS AND CO. at 956 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

HUBBS STATIONERY AND OFFICE SUPPLY INC. 956 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

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RODNEY K PAGE 1136 Neal Dow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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FOOTHILL GUIDES LLC 1058 East Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

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from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41572 Dated: August 26, 2015 Published: September 3,10,17, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WALTER L. WHITE aka WALTER WHITE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WALTER L. WHITE, aka WALTER WHITE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RONALD S. WHITE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: RONALD S. WHITE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative 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

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: PETRA PENUNURI 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: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: JANE E. STANSELL 901 Bruce Road, Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928 530-342-4524 Case Number: PR41578 Dated: August 28, 2015 Published: September 3,10,17, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES P. SWEENEY aka JAMES PATRICK SWEENEY To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES P. SWEENEY, JIM SWEENEY, JAMES PATRICK SWEENEY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHERINE I. SWEENEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: KATHERINE I. SWEENEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 29, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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NOTICE OF LIEN SALE 1983 GMC 6000 Bus VIN # 1GDK6P1B0DV510319 AZ Lic# 986SXB Lien Sale September 16, 2015 3:00pm at Hwy 32 RV & Boat Storage 3278 Hwy 32, Chico, CA Published: September 10, 2015 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

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

DWIGHT AITKENS: Unit #427ac (6x10) ZACHARY A. CAMPOLO: Unit #087acc (5x5) JOHN FISCHER: Unit #169ss (6x7) KARAH GRIFFEN: Unit #298ss (5x5) JANET MOON: Unit #487cc (6x7), Unit #506cc (6x7) CHAD BARTUSEVICIUS: Unit #500cc (5x6) RONALD LOCKHART: Unit #262ss (5x6) DAVID A. DUNCAN: Unit #504cc (5x5), Unit #215ss (5x11) SHERRY PADDOCK: Unit #251ss (5x5) KASEY GERVAIS: Unit #015ss (5x6) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: September 26, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: September 10,17, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARK G. NORTON aka MARK GERARD NORTON To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARK G. NORTON, MARK GERARD NORTON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARTA NORTON CUNNINGHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MARTA NORTON CUNNINGHAM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain

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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: October 13, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: TBD 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 representative 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 personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: JOHN P. GOLDEN, ATTY HOPKINS & CARLEY, ALC 200 Page Mill Road, Suite 200, Palo Alto, CA 94306-2062 (650) 804-7600 Case Number: PR41569 Dated: August 27, 2015 Published: September 10,17,24, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHELLE IBARRA AND

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ARTURU IBARRA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FABIAN PENA-IBARRA ANDRES PENA-IBARRA LOUIE PENA-IBARRA Proposed name: FABIAN IBARRA DRE IBARRA LOUIE IBARRA 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: October 16, 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: August 17, 2015 Case Number: 164715 Published: August 27, September 3,10,17, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CALEN CURTEMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CALEN DREW CURTEMAN Proposed name: CALEN DREW CHAPMAN 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: October 16, 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: August 20, 2015 Case Number: 164787 Published: September 3,10,17,24, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HILLARY CALLIHAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HILLARY LYNN CALLIHAN Proposed name: HILLARY LYNN CHAPMAN 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: October 16, 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: August 27, 2015 Case Number: 164788 Published: September 3,10,17,24, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner IKHLAS ALFAOUR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: IKHLAS ALFAOUR Proposed name: IKHLA JARADEH 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

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without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 23, 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: August 27, 2015 Case Number: 164837 Published: September 10,17,24, October 1, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT MARSHA STRICKLAND You are being sued by plaintiff: CHRIS PRECKWINKLE 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 orders 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: Plumas Superior Court 520 Main Street, Room 104 Quincy, CA 95971 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: CHRISTOPHER PRECKWINKLE P.O. Box 28 Portola, CA 96122 Signed: CATHERYN YOUENS Dated: December 2, 2014 Case Number: FL14-00242 Published: August 27, September 3,10,17, 2015

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M

att Ring walks into the coffee shop carrying a manila file folder the thickness of a dictionary. He comes over, extends his arms, and says, “You asked for it.” He lets the file go and the resounding crash on the tabletop sends cups and silverware jumping and dancing, and other patrons in the coffee shop.

his house. His loan is $325,000 and he can sell for around $275,000.

I waved Matt to sit down, and to the others a gesture of apology. Judging by the rattled stares and clenched fists and jaws, the explosive file drop did not mix well with the ambiance.

The government has a new plan, though, I tell him. No red tape, no appraisal fee, just prove you’re employed, and you’re in at today’s rates.

Matt says he’s been trying for three years to sell his house, refinance or modify the loan, all to no avail. He’s “underwater” in

“So, you’ve tried a short sale, right?” I ask.

“Ha!” he blurts, a little too loudly. “Three times! The bank won’t agree to a short sale unless I quit making my payments and ruin my credit!”

“I’ll believe it when I see it. But if it’s really true.” He tilts his head back and bellows a dishware-rattling, “Bring it on!”

I glance around and say, “Time to leave.”

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665 CROMWELL DR • CHICO This lovely two story home in desirable Hyde Park is ready for you to call home! Built in 2003 this one-owner home is newer than most of the homes in this subdivision and has been extremely well-maintained. This property offers a separate living and family room (with gas fireplace).

The open kitchen has an eating bar, tile counters and a spacious pantry. Home features cherry cabinetry in the kitchen, bathrooms and laundry with carpet and tile throughout. You will be enchanted by the nicely landscaped park-like back yard with covered patio. The master bedroom is extra spacious with coffered ceilings and the master bath has twin vanity sinks, and a separate shower and soaking tub. Laundry is located conveniently in the upstairs hallway. Sale includes all appliances. Don’t wait! This one won’t last long!

LIstED at: $379,000 Jennifer Parks | Realtor | (lic # 01269667) | Keller Williams Realty Chico Area jenparkschico@att.net | (530)864-0336

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In the Avenues 3/2 bonus room, D pool - SOL $279,000 Forest Ranch 5 bed 3 bath price to sale - $219,900 Mountain Cabin $115,000

$399,000

Kim Finlan (530) 518-8453 • CalBRE#01963545

Cute and clean home in the Hollybrook neighborhood.

2 bed 2 bath.

SOLD $425,000

2013 built, 1,974 sq ft, 4 bed, 3 baths, pool, solar panels. Reduced!

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$750,000.00 $650,000.00 $462,000.00 $445,000.00 $405,000.00 $400,000.00 $390,000.00 $385,000.00 $371,000.00 $370,000.00 $360,000.00

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SQ. FT. 3994 1170 2634 1876 2327 2373 2970 1914 1960 1892 1283

Country living in the city, 1 acre, 2877 sq’ 3 bed 3 bath. Bob Hill Pool with 5’ waterfall. Amazing family house! 2611 Alamo Avenue

ONLY $197,000

$489K

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530.228.1305 •GarrettFrenchHomes.com

Specializing in residential & agriculture properties in Chico, Orland, Willows.

Homes Sold Last Week 2016 Bidwell Ave 468 Manzanita Ave 31 Cade Ct 604 Parkwood Dr 3152 Caribou Ct 10 Donner Ln 11 Brodea Cir 779 Palmetto Ave 70 Cinder Cone Loop 368 Newport Dr 4250 Kathy Ln

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776 E 9th St 22 Barker Ct 56 Brenda Dr 1588 Vallombrosa Ave 2343 Holly Ave 137 Macdonald Ave 948 Neal Dow Ave 1030 Cordelia Ct 2871 Vistamont Way 2619 El Mirasol Ct 774 Portal Dr

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$345,000.00 $337,500.00 $331,500.00 $330,000.00 $310,000.00 $305,000.00 $304,000.00 $285,000.00 $284,000.00 $274,000.00 $272,000.00

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SQ. FT. 1485 1704 1776 1338 1580 1492 1820 1621 1728 1602 1393

656 E. 9TH ST.

1303 SUNSET AVE.

Gorgeous 2bd/1.5ba home Located close to downtown and Bidwell Park. Hardwood floors & decorator colors throughout. Living room features a mansard ceiling, fireplace and archway to dining area. Patio, spa and outdoor shower. Studio unit in back! Cool basement.

Great neighborhood! $365,000

Sweet 4-bedroom plus office! Coved ceilings, energy-efficient features, hardwood flooring, new carpeting.

Professionally-designed droughttolerant landscaping, City sewer.

A real gem! $265,000

CalBRE# 00991783

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4bd/3ba. 2,711 sq ft. Close to hospital and Marina for work or play. $349,000 Ad # 751 John Hosford 530-520-3542

11 private acres with 2-stall barn, fenced pasture and 110 x 200 arena. Newer, clean 2,300 sq.ft. home, too! $279,000 Ad #767 Ginny Snider 530-518-3303

BRE# 01011224

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Custom 4 bd/5ba 5,009 sq ft, 1.21 ac, pool, extras! $950,000 West side, 3bd/3ba, 2,901 sqft .29ac $450,000 Gated community, lovely 2,531 sq ft with VIEW! $435,000 Pinnacle building lot, 2.03 acs $330,000 Near park 3bd/2ba, 1,502DIN sq ft.G$275,000 PEN 18 acres, forest, 1,580 sq ft home, cash only $199,900

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928 Woodward Ave, Orland SOLD 10 unit apartment List Price: $650,000 Wonderful Lake Property www.5312treasurehill.com 4 beds / 4 baths / 3 car garage Quality is a Universal Language

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3/2, 1600 sq ft, new roof. $249,000 4/2 near CSUC! $335,000 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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t he following houses were sold in butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of August 24, 2015 – August 28, 2015. t he housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

980 Mathews Dr

Chico

$269,500.00

3/ 2

SQ. FT. 1440

9 Jasper Dr

Chico

$201,000.00

3/ 1.5

SQ. FT.

107 Winchester Ct

Chico

$267,000.00

3/ 2

1471

1777 Modoc Dr

Chico

$185,000.00

3/ 1

898

124 Echo Peak Ter

Chico

$260,000.00

2/ 2

1661

1705 Locust St

Chico

$166,000.00

3/ 2

1018

1819 Citrus Ave

Chico

$250,000.00

3/ 1

1066

555 Vallombrosa Ave 25

2136 Mariposa Ave

Chico

$248,500.00

3/ 1.5

1144

75 Hunter Dr

656 Crister Ave

Chico

$245,000.00

3/ 2

1168

2579 White Ave

Chico

$237,000.00

3/ 2

1589

11 Glacier Peak Ln

Chico

$234,000.00

3/ 2

2238 Hutchinson St

Chico

$225,000.00

2/ 1.5

13 Garden Park Dr

Chico

$210,000.00

16 Pebblewood Pines Dr

Chico

$209,000.00

1176

Chico

$150,000.00

1/ 1

702

Oroville

$365,000.00

3/ 2.5

1862

136 Acacia Ave

Oroville

$339,000.00

4/ 2.5

2368

5665 Little Grand Canyon Dr

Paradise

$420,000.00

3/ 3

3050

1248

1259 Story Book Ln

Paradise

$340,000.00

3/ 3

2566

1500

260 Pinewood Dr

Paradise

$339,000.00

3/ 2.5

2291

3/ 1.5

1480

2177 Demille Rd

Paradise

$329,500.00

3/ 3

2040

2/ 1.5

1350

1637 Paradisewood Dr

Paradise

$329,000.00

3/ 2

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