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Overcome with emotion Let’s call the Chico Military Heroes project what it is: a vanity project.

That’s what the Chico City Council supported when the conservative majority voted in favor of the group’s efforts to place large banners with photos of local military personnel on utility poles along East Avenue.

Since they are fine with playing favorites with a special interest group, we have a suggestion for Mayor Mark Sorensen, Vice Mayor Sean Morgan, and Councilmembers Andrew Coolidge and Reanette Fillmer. They should hang the banners in their front yards, rather than along a major commercial and residential corridor.

They wouldn’t, of course, because the banners are, to put it nicely, loud.

Yet, they expect the entire city of Chico to have to look at them every day.

Any rational person can see that the banners don’t belong on public property. There is the ideological argument that they glorify war and will serve to indoctrinate local youth. There’s also the notion that the money spent on the project—irrespective of the fact that it is being privately funded—would be better spent on the local veterans who are struggling to readjust to civilian life (as one opponent pointed out, there are some 50 homeless veterans in the Chico area).

All of those things are true. But, again, this is a vanity project, and the loved ones of current local servicemen and women are seeking recognition.

That doesn’t exactly sound honorable or selfless or patriotic.

But there are better arguments to shoot down the Chico Military Heroes’ proposal. What will the conservatives do when other groups come forward with proposals that don’t align with their ideological stance? This is a matter of fairness.

Indeed, the only reason to allow such an effort is for sentimental purposes.

Case in point: Morgan, who looked like he was getting choked up, didn’t even attempt to conceal that his support comes from an emotional standpoint.

The first-term councilman rattled off a list of family members who had served in the armed forces, and said that they would be honored by extension.

Our servicemen and women deserve of our support, but in a substantive way. Fact is, the banners are purely symbolic, nothing more. They belong on private property, not in public space. □

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the need for Violence Control. Bringing a halt to the violence this nation has experienced in recent weeks is simply common sense and threatens no one’s constitutional rights.

Violence Control.

Three college shootings in one week. Umpqua Community College, Northern Arizona University, Texas Southern University. Eleven victims dead by gunfire.

In the Bay Area, a son uses a tomahawk to slay his mother and then cuts and removes her heart. by Three drifters, two young men Ronald Angle and a young woman, shoot and kill the author is a a Canadian tourist in Golden Gate former part-time Park. After that, they shoot and kill firefighter/eMt an elderly hiker on a trail in Marin. in San bernardino In Sacramento, an Air Force county. He is a 1983 graduate of the butte serviceman, who just recently put college Volunteer his life on the line while subduAcademy and lives ing a terrorist on a French train, in chico. is seriously stabbed after a night on the town. When the suspects

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are captured, we probably will learn that they felt they were being “disrespected.”

A 56-year-old man suffered life-threatening injuries after getting knocked out by a motorist during a fight that erupted in San Francisco’s Tenderloin District. Police described it as a “road rage incident.”

Violence Control.

The debate over gun control is pushing this nation into endless rhetoric over civil liberties and constitutional rights. We overlook that phrase in the Declaration of Independence about “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” as being one of the unalienable rights given to us by our Creator.

I have a right to live. I have a right to expect freedom from violence.

It is time to stand up to violence in any and all forms that it may affect us. Perhaps it is time to look at our national media and our culture to truly examine the messages about violence we are sending to our youth.

Instead, we are looking the other way and spewing political buzz words about “personal freedoms.”

For the victims of the past week, there is no “restart” button to reset their shattered lives.

There is no rationalization for violence. The Fifth Commandment is clear: thou shall not kill. □

the final frontier At this moment, an earnest, scientific search for intelligent alien life is

underway, and the search is centered in the North State.

The 42 separate radio antennas at the Allen Telescope Array, near Lassen Peak, have turned their full attention to KIC 8462852, a star located about 1,500 light-years from Earth. This after last week’s announcement that researchers and citizen scientists working with the Bay Area-based Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence Institute detected the star intermittently dims in a way that can’t be explained by known phenomenon. Some astronomers, who generally avoid such wild conjectures, have suggested the dimming could be caused by a storm of comets or, amazingly, an “alien megastructure.”

The mystery has ignited curiosity that likely will lead to discovery; if not of aliens, then of something else previously unknown to man. New and exciting information continues to pour in from outside of our atmosphere.

In the last month alone, NASA announced the evidence of water, ice and blue skies on Pluto and flowing water on Mars.

These discoveries come in the face of a chronic lack of funding to NASA and space exploration. If there was a time to invest in these efforts, it’s now. Space scientists and engineers have spent the last 30 years learning to do more with less. It’s time to help them help humanity understand the universe and our role in it. □

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Where’s the civility?

During the first City Council meeting of 2015, George Gold gave a fantastic invocation, the best one I can recall hearing during my many years of covering such meetings. The written speech included a couple of lines that in hindsight seem prescient.

Gold, president of the Atheists of Butte County, was delivering the city’s first-ever secular invocation: “Let us open our hearts to the inherent dignity and worth of each person in our community,” Gold implored. “I hope we can appreciate and realize our differences of race and religion or lack of religion.”

A couple of council members who evidently couldn’t put their religious differences aside—Andrew Coolidge and Sean Morgan— were no-shows during Gold’s poignant address. But they weren’t absent that night; they took their seats immediately afterward.

Both got called out for disrespecting Gold and the rest of the secular community, but that didn’t stop them from doing so again when Gold came back to give a second invocation. That time, Morgan and Coolidge sat at the dais, but played with their electronic devices or as though nobody was speaking.

And so goes the behavior of the current panel, whose members—the majority of them, anyway—are in desperate need of lessons in restraint and respect for their colleagues and the community. They also need a refresher course on how to serve the entire city, not just the folks who contributed to their campaigns or Christians or some other special-interest group.

On Tuesday, the City Council discussed implementing a code of conduct policy. The panel took a look at a draft policy that was in many ways vague and also redundant, considering the existing state and federal laws. The discussion got kicked down to the city’s Internal Affairs Committee, so here are a few of my suggestions based on observation: • No swearing from the dais. Considering we’ve heard an F-bomb (Morgan) and an S-bomb (Reanette Fillmer), this one is a no-brainer.

• No whispering to one another at the dais. Members of the council aren’t in high school, although they often act like it.

• No eye-rolling, sighing, smirking, snickering or signaling to members of the gallery.

• No berating city staff (constructive criticism is fair game).

Randall Stone made this mistake twice.

• No lambasting council colleagues. Mayor Mark Sorensen has done this more than once, going after Ann Schwab and Stone.

I could go on an on, and I’m evidently not alone in recognizing the poor decorum. Margaret Swick, president of the Butte County League of Women Voters, commended the council on considering implementing a policy. She noted that the league has helped write policy on civility and civil discourse around the nation.

In the case of the City Council specifically, the local league would like to see its members steer clear of their iPads and cellphones when citizens speak, because it sends a message of disinterest. The organization also would like to see respectful body language and facial expression.

“Civility is an important lubricant in a robust and flourishing democracy,” Swick said.

I concur.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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by Mandy Feder, Oct. 15): Charlie Preusser was a kind and decent man who never shied away from voicing his opinion. The first time I ever heard the term “neo abolitionist” was from the mouth of Charlie Preusser. He was a tireless advocate for Chico State students as well as anyone under the oppression of civil and human rights violations.

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One correction to the CN&R story: It was stated he was the student body president from 1970-71, but actually it was 1971-72, as I still remember taking the gavel from Charlie when I became student body president.

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While I could work in education and for long-term change, they were hungry. Most people who were hungry were there through no fault of their own; war, broken families, splintered souls, drugs, alcohol, bad breaks all in a row—truly, hungry people need compassion and care and food.

Bill, working with people from all over the community, supported and developed ideas to break the cycle where it could be broken.

The flower cart, the garden, the writing groups, the résumé workshops, the place to get mail, the phone calls, the clothes, the sit down and visits.

Bill is a man of extraordinary integrity, of profound empathy, with an uncommon willingness to engage in conversation, ideas, plans, solutions. Chico was lucky to have his voice for as long as we did, and I hope his reason and compassion can continue to illuminate the serious issues we face in our community.

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(Letters, by Nathan Esplanade, Oct. 15): Nathan Esplanade wrote that the public outcry for tighter gun control laws that “always follows highly publicized but rare shootings is superstitious.” He doesn’t like gun control laws and believes they’re ineffective. He adds that guns don’t kill people, people do.

Sadly, Esplanade may be right that efforts to stop firearms from being sold to dangerous people and mental cases won’t prevent many shootings. There are already so many guns in our society that effective gun possession controls may be unreliable. Still, it makes no sense to simply resign ourselves to the fact that some 36 innocent people are killed by guns daily. If we simply accept such madness, shouldn’t we stop trying to prevent terrorist attacks, which kill far fewer Americans?

Finally, if “guns don’t kill

people, people kill people,” then atomic bombs don’t kill people, either. Actually, weapons enable killing, and the absence of firearm weapons will abate much killing.

We need to stop the proliferation of guns in our society and reduce their number, the same approach we take to nuclear weapons.

Dave Weiner Chico

Speaking of guns Gun control advocates believe guns are a serious problem and that background checks and waiting periods to purchase guns are accordingly justified. After all, Americans today own 357 million guns—more than one per person—and in 2013, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 11,208 Americans were killed with guns.

This may seem like a lot, but in the same year, over 100 times that number (1.2 million) died from drinking, smoking or overeating.

This includes 796,000 from heart disease, 156,000 from lung cancer, 76,000 from diabetes, and 29,000 from drinking, including and 18,000 alcoholic liver disease.

Instead of wasting resources on gun control, government should instead focus its efforts on stopping the sale and use of alcohol and drugs—a frequent cause of gun violence.

A good place to start would be to assign a free, governmentprovided career counselor to every American. These counselors would ensure everyone had continual access to a satisfying, well-paying job. Such would enable citizens to avoid the financial desperation that often drives people to start abusing alcohol and selling drugs—behaviors that could make them even more desperate and eventually culminate in their shooting someone.

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‘Apples and oranges’ Re “Cheapskate Walmart” (Letters,

by Bob Mulholland, Oct. 15): Mr. Mulholland needs to take a course in basic accounting and how not to mix apples and oranges. First, total revenues are not profits, so his $473 billion tells us very little about what the local Walmart extracted from the

It makes no sense to simply resign ourselves to the fact that some 36 innocent people are killed by guns daily.

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local community. The company gave $13,000 to local charities; what did they give nationally/ internationally?

I doubt there are “many” locals who donate $13,000 per year to local charities, and if they do, most of them probably extracted considerable wealth from the local economy, or at least from someone. Perhaps Mr. Mulholland is one of them? This is not a defense of Walmart, but rather showing a rather glaring example of using irrelevant facts to support an agenda/ideology.

Don Matlin Chico

Let’s talk about death Re “Virginia and Brittany” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Oct. 8): By referencing your loving relationship with your grandmother, courageous activist Brittany Maynard, and Gov. Brown’s recent signing of the End of Life Option Act, your voice and story have been added to the national dialogue we are having on death, breaking the taboo of having open conversations about death’s place in the circle of life.

The elephant in the room has been invited in with compassion, caring gestures and loving hearts.

Our culture is evolving and reclaiming the sacredness, richness and depth of connection possible with embracing death. Voices heard: singers offering song to the dying (thresholdchoir.org), green burial options (greenburialcouncil. org), group conversations (death cafe.com), an edgy and humorous educational site (theorderofthe gooddeath.com), and support and education available to families desiring a home funeral (home funeralalliance.org).

Locally, we have the Alliance for Support and Education in Dying and Death, with monthly meetings. The alliance is offering an interactive workshop, Befriending Death, exploring death and remembrance in creative ways

on Nov. 1, 1-6 p.m., at the Chico Women’s Club. Pre-registration is required by Wednesday, Oct. 28. Join in on the conversation!

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Protect the buffer I can not believe that the Butte County Department of Development Services has the audacity to come up with a zoning proposal to reduce the Butte County agricultural buffer to less that 300 feet. This is not just along the Greenline, but throughout the county where ag meets residential.

The proposed ordinance allows developers to be able to ask for a reductions in the ag setback to as little as 25 feet. The long-standing 300-foot ag buffer is there to protect the public’s health and well-being. This proposed ordinance even prohibits homeowners from ever being able to sue for damages if they are ever harmed, which is almost impossible to prove.

Where are the county Public Health Department’s heads that are paid to protect and serve the health and well-being of the citizens of Butte County? They must speak out to protect the people of Butte County for generations to come. This proposed ordinance goes before the county Planning Commission at 9 a.m., Oct. 22.

This proposed ordinance is a violation of the public trust doctrine and must be stopped.

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A former Butte County correctional deputy, 27-year-old Timothy Hill, was sentenced on Oct. 15 for exposing his genitals to a female inmate at Butte County Jail.

The case dates back to the summer of 2014, when the Sheriff’s Office got word that Hill may have been acting inappropriately with an incarcerated woman. Hill resigned once an investigation was launched and in July he was charged with indecent exposure, sexual activity with an inmate and sexual battery.

Hill was sentenced to 30 days in jail as part of his three years of probation and ordered to complete a treatment program for sex offenders, according to a press release from District Attorney Mike Ramsey. He was immediately taken into custody at the hearing and transported to an out-of-county jail.

STRIKES IN THE WORKS

A vote on whether professors throughout the 23-campus California State University system will strike opened on Monday (Oct. 19) and will continue through Oct. 28.

Salary negotiations recently stalled between the university and the California Faculty Association, which represents about 25,000 professors, lecturers, librarians and athletic coaches, according to a CFA press release. The union is pressing for a 5 percent salary hike for all faculty. Earlier this year, the CSU authorized a 2 percent increase for all employees.

Meanwhile, Butte County’s Public Works employees—members of the Skilled Trades Unit—are preparing for a two-day strike on Monday and Tuesday (Oct. 26-27). The move comes after the union reached an impasse in longstanding contract negotiations. County officials are preparing to keep county services operational.

NEW GUIDING HAND

Shortly after parting ways with longtime Executive Director Bill Such, the Jesus Center has named its next leader—Laura Cootsona.

Cootsona (pictured) has long worked with homeless people as a volunteer at the Jesus Center and previously served as assistant director from 2003 to 2006, according to a press release from the organization. She has more than 20 years of experience as a consultant for nonprofits and has worked with the Torres Community Shelter, ARC, Catalyst Domestic Violence Services, Youth for Change and the Skyway House.

“I am both thrilled and humbled at this opportunity,” Cootsona said in the statement. “My commitment to the poor, particularly folks living on the streets, has been my first love since I was an undergraduate.”

She’ll start on Oct. 26.

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Esplanade House takes a hit The Esplanade House loses federal funding as homeless strategy changes Eloise Campbell, a program manager at the Esplanade House, is worried that the loss of $150,000 in grant funding could lead to fewer services provided.

stood outside of their apartOmentof parents doorways at the Esplanade House, n Tuesday (Oct. 20) at 8 a.m., a number

attending to their school-bound children, ensuring backpacks story and photo by were packed and coats zipped up against the Ken Smith crisp autumn chill. kens @ It was a scene typical n ew srev i ew. c o m of what one might expect at any Chico apartment complex, but for many residents of the Esplanade House—a transitional housing facility for families who’ve suffered from homelessness, disability and addiction—simple moments like these are not to be taken for granted.

“We have a lot of families here who have formerly been involved with Child Protective Services,” said Eloise Campbell, program manager at the Esplanade House.

“Our program has helped parents get into housing, find some stability and self-sufficiency, reunite with their children and start their lives over for the past 22 years.”

Campbell credits much of the program’s success with its emphasis on sobriety. Ironically, that emphasis is why the organization recently lost its eligibility for $150,000 in federal funding it has received each year since 1998, and which staff at the Esplanade House and its parent nonprofit—the Community Action Agency of Butte County—hope the community will help pitch in to replace.

The funding, known as the Emergency

Solutions Grant, is administered by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development as part of the federal government’s attempts to combat homelessness. According to rules enacted this year, eligible programs cannot require participants to meet specific criteria, such as the Esplanade House’s rule that participants be sober for 30 days prior to entering housing, and remain sober and participate in relapse prevention programs for the duration of their stay.

Adding such caveats to the grant is part of a greater move by federal and state officials toward a “Housing First” model of addressing homelessness. Rather than moving individuals through different levels of transitional housing, the Housing First approach attempts to remove barriers (i.e., sobriety and mental health requirements) to place individuals directly into their own independent living situation.

Housing First began in Los Angeles in 1988 and gained momentum based on measurable American and international successes over the past few decades. The federal government began moving toward the Housing First and rapid rehousing models in 2008, with subsequent legislation calling for its incremental implementation.

The Esplanade House was started in 1991

by developer Greg Webb and physician Gary Incaudo. After their involvement in a failed attempt by local churches to start

a homeless shelter, the two kept the effort alive, eventually opening in a converted 12-unit motel on The Esplanade. The organization’s current, 58-unit facility broke ground in 2001. Over the years, hundreds of families have “graduated” from the program, which Campbell said takes most participants 18 months to three years.

She explained the program consists of two phases. During the first one, participants are given a case manager and develop a self-sufficiency plan, attend counseling for dependency, abuse or other issues, and take life skills, finance and parenting classes. They also are offered assistance in obtaining a GED or clearing up legal issues, when needed. For phase two, they move to new digs on the complex’s west side, lease a subsidized apartment and are offered additional help with education and employment.

Campbell said by not taking into account participants’ credit ratings, previous evictions, or disabilities, the program does address Housing First’s attempts to remove barriers. However, sobriety is central to the program’s success.

“Once they get in, we feel very strongly it needs to be a sober living environment, and the residents want that, too,” she said. “They’re trying to change their lives, and if their neighbor is getting high while they’re trying to remain sober, that is going to be very difficult for them. If someone chooses to use, we do ask them to leave, but give them referrals for rehab.

Banner years And if they successfully complete that, they can come back.

“We help restore families, but doing that requires us to have high expectations,” she continued, noting sobriety is essential to good parenting. “This is not just housing, it’s a complete program, and you’re expected to work through the program.”

Campbell said the federal grant accounted for a full quarter of Esplanade House’s annual budget, which amounts to about $600,000.

“We’re looking for alternate forms of funding, but it looks like we may need to scale back on some of the programs we believe people need,” she said. “But at this point, we’re not willing to switch to the Housing First model.”

Campbell also expressed concerns about how the changes to the grant program might affect the city’s other year-round homeless shelter—The Torres Community Shelter—which also requires guests remain sober.

Torres Shelter Executive Director Brad Montgomery confirmed that the facility is also threatened by the changes.

“We will be impacted,” Montgomery said Tuesday by phone. “We were surprised that we actually got [the grant] this year when Esplanade didn’t. But even since we did, the program has pushed back the next cycle, changed the eligibility criterion and reduced the number of dollars allocated for emergency shelters. It’s looking less and less likely that we’ll be able to get the next round, and will likely be facing the same problem the Esplanade House is now in the near future.”

A number of homeless advocates, nationally and locally, support the Housing First model. The Chico Housing Action Team has expressed support for immediate housing and services that do not require sobriety, as have the organizers of Safe Space, a temporary, cold-weather shelter that’s operated the last two winters.

Even Campbell said she sees its value—especially in larger cities, she noted—but doesn’t feel change should come at the expense of established programs.

“We run a program that has helped a lot of people be able to become independent and to give back to society,” she said. “I don’t understand looking at a successful program and saying, ‘If you want money, then you have to change to fit our model.’” □

Divided council approves polarizing posters

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nyone who doubts the power of symbols should have attended the Chico City Council meeting Tuesday (Oct. 20).

At issue was a proposal by the group Chico Military Heroes to install banners on utility poles along East Avenue honoring Chico residents now serving in the military. The 5-foot-high banners would include photos of individual active-duty servicemen and women, along with their names, ranks and military branches. Up to 500 of them would be placed along the length of East Avenue, from Wildwood Park to Highway 32, with financing coming from donations.

About 18 citizens spoke to the issue, about half in support and half opposed, all passionately. Indeed, the proposal is as if designed to expose a wide divide in the community between those who support military service as the bulwark protecting Americans’ freedoms and those who are pained by our country’s wars and their cost in destroyed lives.

A similar proposal last year sought to put the banners along several city streets, but in October the group turned down a compromise that would have allowed them along a limited stretch of East Avenue for 30 days.

Chris Nicodemus, co-founder of the group, said at the time that such a short display period wouldn’t justify the cost of installing and removing the banners. “Thirty days is not going to work for this program,” he said.

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This time it sought to have the banners up yearround for two years along East Avenue, and for the city fee of $2,100 to be waived.

Three of the banners were present in council chambers, and the parents of the servicemen whose photos appeared on them all spoke about what the banners meant to them and their sons.

Laura Page, whose son Grant is serving in the U.S. Navy, told the council how lonely it is for him while on nightwatch duty in the middle of the ocean. He sometimes wonders whether anyone is thinking of him, she said. The banner shows him that he hasn’t been forgotten.

That drew an emotional response from Chris Nelson, a retired nurse and longtime peace activist whose husband, Michael Pike, a

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Steve Lange told the council that he and his wife, Suzanne, didn’t think supporting serviceman Thomas Vosburg, her son and his stepson, was akin to supporting war.

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former Green Beret captain and Vietnam veteran, died from cancer a year ago. “It’s real lonely when your husband dies of Agent Orange,” she said.

Like several others, she thought it preferable to honor people the community can agree deserve it, such as nurses and peace makers.

Others questioned whether one becomes a hero simply by joining the military. “There are real heroes,” Dan Everhart said, “but simply joining the military is not enough to become one.”

Opponents of the proposal also argued that the money going into putting up the banners could be better used to help returning veterans, many of whom are mentally or physically damaged and end up homeless. “There are 50 homeless veterans in the Chico area,” said Charles Withuhn. “It would be a crying shame to glamorize the service when we’re not providing them housing.”

Nobody likes war, proponents of the proposal responded. “In a perfect world we would not need a military,” Nicodemus said. “But this is not a perfect world.”

“We are in a war whether we like it or not,” said Sue Hubbard. “Radical Islam is at war with us.” It’s appropriate to honor those who volunteer to protect us, she insisted.

Some council members pointed out that approval of the banners year-round would create an exception to city policy that others might try to exploit. “What happens when other groups make [similar] requests?” asked Councilwoman Tami Ritter.

She got no answer. Instead, the council voted 4-3, on a motion by Councilman Andrew Coolidge, to allow the banners to be up year-round for two years, but not to waive the fee. Ritter, Randall Stone and Ann Schwab dissented.

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Shalom still serving Chico clinic closes thrift store, but continues to offer free health care services Kearns, pastor of the First Christian Church, has been an Javidesse advocate for the Shalom Free

Clinic ever since moving to Chico from Virginia and finding out his insurance did not cover his medical needs. He sought treatment from the secular, no-cost clinic with a collective philosophy of compassionate care.

These days, he’s the president of the board of directors, and recently he’s become concerned about a drop in patients. Kearns believes that stems from a rumor that the clinic closed, likely started at the end of August in response to the nonprofit shutting the doors to the thrift store that helped fund its efforts.

Kearns says the time and energy it took to run the business became cumbersome, so the board made the decision to close the downtown shop and focus more time and energy on the medical and mental health services it provides. That work continues week in and week Getting help:

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out, though Kearns noted that the thrift store also served as an outreach center, providing a diaper bank and a place where homeless people could get referrals, free clothing and even dog food.

“We would like to offer those services again in the future,” he said. “We’re looking into that outreach aspect, which aligns with our core values, but does not involve running the thrift store business.”

The Shalom Free Clinic was founded in 2007 by Executive Director Nancy Morgans-Ferguson and Physician Assistant Kathy Kushner in response to the tremendous need for nonemergency, but still urgent, medical care. Camilla Bantum, medical co-clinic supervisor, said the clinic is an important asset to the greater Chico community.

“Some patients have two or three part-time jobs and are unable to afford insurance or they are underinsured,” Bantum said.

“Sometimes people just drop in to say hello or grab a snack,” she added. “And that’s great. We welcome them.”

During a recent visit to the facility on Mangrove Avenue, a

small office donated for Shalom’s use by Enloe Medical Center, Bantum donned a constant smile as she moved from room to room.

The clinic opens its doors on Sundays only, serving approximately 40 patients each week with medical and mental health concerns, at the Mangrove office and at First Christian Church, respectively. In addition, Kearns’ wife, Mary, has offered grief and bereavement support on Sundays for the past two years at the church.

Patients are greeted, cared for and offered a free buffet lunch at the church facility. Sometimes a man shows up with a guitar and entertains in the waiting room. The clinic’s volunteers consist of medical, mental health and social service professionals, as well as nutritionists and Chico State interns.

The all-volunteer operation relies on donations and fundraising events held throughout the year to keep it going. The volunteers hope to partner with a dental program in the future. According to Bantum, there is a void for free dental care in the community.

Dr. Kenneth Logan, an Ampla Health

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Logan said he likes to take the time to know patients fully to better understand their lifestyles and medical needs. Logan is uncompromising in his resolve to treat all patients with respect and compassion, making him an exemplary role-model and mentor for the student volunteers from Chico State, say the interns. Bantum said he is adamant that students hold onto what they learn at Shalom regarding welcoming and respectful treatment of patients.

“We treat everyone with respect, care and compassion,” Logan said, “We don’t turn anybody down.”

At the mental health office at the church on East Washington Street, Valerie Sanz, a social worker, crisis triage and mental health therapist, assesses the needs of clients, some of whom will see an on-duty psychiatrist, and others whom she will work with herself.

Sanz said most of the patients she sees are middle-class citizens who can’t afford insurance. She believes everyone should have access to mental health services and said society needs to remove the stigma associated with seeking treatment and provide more opportunities for people to get the care they need.

“Every community needs to look at this model,” she said of Shalom. “This is a collaborative, holistic, welcoming, embracing and nonjudgmental environment.”

She was echoed by Carolyn Kimura, a psychiatrist with Butte County Behavioral Health who has treated people for depression, mild bi-polar disorder and anxiety, among other mental health concerns. She’s been volunteering at Shalom since 2007 and sees about six clients each Sunday, and says she’s grateful for the people who come here to access services.

“I applaud them for seeking and getting help,” Kimura said. “A lot of these people are my heroes.”

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HEALTHLINES Through massage, Miles Berdache helps alleviate the physical and emotional symptoms of cancer and its treatment. pHOtO bY HOWard Hardee

to participate, the Oasis is donating 20 percent of food and drink sales during the event to the fund.

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eventeen years after battling an aggres-

sive form of breast cancer, Laura Long has learned to heal. Her body underwent three surgeries and a bone marrow transplant, procedures that are at the root of her ongoing post-traumatic stress disorder.

Whenever people try to touch the left side of her body, where the cancer was, her instinct is to slug them in the face.

After treatment, there’s a harsh transition back to “the so-called normal life,” Long said.

She still flinches at the thought of the invasive procedures and needles, but she’s slowly relearning to trust physical contact with the help of oncology massage therapy.

For the last couple years, she’s been regularly visiting Miles Berdache, owner of

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Miles Berdache Skin & Body Studio. Long wishes she’d known about oncology massage sooner. Treatment wouldn’t have been such a horrific experience, she said, and the healing process would have been easier.

“I was in the fight of my life and I was very, very sick,” she said. “I wish I would have had that—something to counterbalance the violent treatment.”

Berdache does so with a soft touch. By applying pressure to specific points in the body, he can stir up lost appetites in patients, or help re-energize bodies long fatigued, he said.

“There’s a big responsibility being a massage therapist,” he said. “There’s a big responsibility to be able to work on people safely and feel confident in what you’re doing.”

Since earning his oncology massage certification, Berdache has treated about 35 clients with cancer-related issues. His services include a variety of body treatments, hand and foot therapy, as well as makeup and waxing services.

But when it comes to actually delivering such services, there’s a catch—despite the benefits, oncology massage generally isn’t covered by health insurance because companies don’t consider it a type of cancer treatment. Clients must pay out-of-pocket for the service, so Berdache started a GoFundMe account that lets him charge patients on a sliding scale—from zero dollars up to $65 for a 90-minute massage, depending on what a client can afford. The fund picks up the remaining balance.

And local pool-sharks are chipping in. The Angels of Billiards, made up of three women who put together charity matches for various organizations, are hosting a fundrasier for the oncology massage fund on Saturday, Oct. 24, from noon to 3 p.m. at the Oasis Bar & Grill.

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cosmetologist and nail technician before pursuing massage therapy in 2010, after working with a couple of clients going through various stages of cancer.

He trained with Isabel Adkins, an oncology massage expert who developed an oncology massage program at the Massage Therapy Institute in Davis. It involves a rigorous 300-hour class on how to safely massage people affected by cancer, such as working around sensitive areas of the body during lymphatic drainage massages—redirecting fluids to an area more capable of handling them, he said.

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One of the requirements for certification is putting together a community project, Berdache said. So he helped start a massage program at the Enloe Cancer Center infusion therapy clinic, where he and Rebecca Senoglu, Enloe’s cancer-support program coordinator, developed reflexology guidelines for what’s required of new massage therapists. Currently there are two volunteers—one is Berdache—but the program needs more, he said. (Adkins will teach a cancer-oriented massage therapy in Chico on Oct. 24-26.)

When meeting a new client,

Berdache goes through a 15-minute intake process, he said. He tries to understand a person’s emotional and physical state, and adapts his massage techniques to particular forms of cancer. He’ll also adjust a patient’s position to avoid parts of the body affected by disease.

For Berdache, helping someone in pain is extremely gratifying, he said. When clients comes in because they’re too tired to walk from their bed to the kitchen— and he helps them regain energy through massage—it moves him deeply.

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“When you’re helping somebody with their everyday struggles and helping them to alleviate a lot of those symptoms, and helping their day-to-day journey be just a little bit more comfortable, it’s just on a much different level,” he said.

He recalls meeting a woman during an open clinic with Adkins.

She was hesitant to try a massage and didn’t think she could lie down for an entire hour, but after some encouragement, she agreed to try.

After about 10 minutes, she was sound asleep, Berdache said. The woman’s daughter walked in and started weeping because it had been months since she last saw her mother so peaceful.

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Can you tell a story in 59 words? we want to read them.

The annual Fiction 59 contest is back. Submit your 59-word stories to the Chico News & Review today for the chance to have your work published in the CN&R’s annual Fiction 59 issue on Nov. 12.

Online and email entries preferred. Visit www.newsreview.com/fiction59 to submit, or email stories to fiction@newsreview. com. Please specify age and division: adults; high-school (grades 9-12); juniorhigh (grades 6-8); kids (5th grade and under). Under-18 entries, please specify age. You can also drop off or mail your entries to the Chico News & Review office at 353 E. Second St., Chico, CA, 95928.

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don’t be too hard on yourself. She’s IaBaker, psychotherapist, radio host and author f you haven’t heard the name Carolyn

who’s received acclaim in a corner of the environmentalist community, but hasn’t broken through with mainstream recognition.

The Dr. Phil of ecopsychology she’s not.

When she comes to Chico on Tuesday (Oct. 27) as part of a Northern California speaking tour, she’ll appear in an intimate space at the Chico Peace & Justice Center instead of a large auditorium—and that’s just fine with her.

“I’m not interested in drawing large crowds—in fact, I will never draw large crowds—because of what I talk about,” Baker said by phone from her home in Colorado. “I’m dealing with climate change, and people have no idea how severe it is.

I’m really adamant about people facing these things.

“In this culture, we like to be distracted.

We like to say, ‘Well, yeah, I’m going to use less water; I’m going to use less fossil fuels.’ … The minute you get into the severity of what we’re facing, you’re also in existential territory—you’re also looking at, ‘Well, humans might go extinct in a handful of decades. How long are we going to be around? What am I doing here? What is my purpose on this planet?’”

Sound familiar?

Guy McPherson, a noted scientist who’s drawn headlines—and large crowds—for stark statements on humanity’s extinction, covered similar territory during his appearance in Chico last November. (His visit, like Baker’s, was arranged by local speaking promoter Peter Melton.)

The fact that Baker and McPherson share common ground is only logical considering they are professional collaborators.

Both host shows on the Progressive Radio Network, an online audio service. They coauthored the book Extinction Dialogs: How to Live With Death in Mind, which came out just as McPherson was coming

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to Chico. He has provided scientific data that bolstered her talks; she has contributed a psychological perspective that helped reshape his presentations.

“She provides a much larger context for me than just a focused-on-myself sort of approach,” McPherson said, speaking by phone from his New Mexico home. “On the airplane, you’re told to put on your mask first; then there’s the rest of the people … her work falls into that latter category. Once I figure out where my own mask is, her work allows me some context for where we go from there.”

Baker’s presentation in Chico—then later in the week in Grass Valley and Nevada City—is titled “The Global Crisis as Our Spiritual Practice: Who Are You Being Called to Be?” She did not wish to explain the meaning too deeply, saying that exploring mystery and paradox are part of her process, but she did share that her aim for the talk and workshop sessions is “helping people navigate, emotionally and spiritually, this crisis, and also helping to create community. I hope to plant some seeds that will grow into people supporting each other in their local communities.”

Baker’s Northern California tour, which

begins in Sebastopol, represents a homecoming. She practiced psychotherapy in Sonoma County for 17 years, relocating to the Southwest in 1997. She taught history, psychology and English at the community college level before joining the faculty at New Mexico State University.

While at NMSU in 2006, she met McPherson, a professor at the University of Arizona who came to her campus for a lecture. They met for coffee and found their sensibilities coincided.

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The next year, Baker watched a documentary, What a Way to Go, that inspired her to dive “deeper into my activism,” she said. “It opened my eyes that we’re not just dealing with a bunch of different problems like climate change or oil depletion or endless resource wars, but that we’re actually dealing with the collapse of a paradigm, and that paradigm is the collapse of industrial civilization.”

She created a website and began to write: “Looking at all these facts and implications, I’m thinking as a former therapist, How are people going to deal with this emotionally?”

Baker published her first book in 2009, her second in 2011, third in 2013 and fourth in 2014. She left academia behind and devoted all her energy to this new work.

Her latest book—Dark Gold: The Human Shadow and the Global Crisis—is due out during her speaking tour.

“I get to teach what I want to teach and how I want to teach it these days,” Baker said.

What does she hope to impart on the North State?

“Face the reality of what we’re dealing with as a species,” she said. “Open your eyes and look. I want people to be able to look, and then I want that looking and feeling to make a difference in how they live, so they’ll go out the door wanting to be love in action and they’ll want to get involved in some way with befriending and loving and helping the Earth community.”

Asked what he’d like to see attendees take away, McPherson echoed the theme of their book: “That our lives our short, that we live with urgency, and that no matter how this turns out we be not overly judgmental toward other people and act with compas-

A psychotherapist, Carolyn Baker sees climate change as an existential crisis as well as a physical one.

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sion toward humans and other organisms in the way we conduct our daily lives.

“I hope that people can—upon hearing her speak and interacting with Carolyn— reach a state of acceptance about the unspeakable, which is our own individual deaths and the extinction of our species, and come out in a healthy frame of mind.” □

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There’s a familiar scene that has been playing out in Bob James’ parking lot for some time, and it’s led him to brew up a new business venture.

As the owner of Wine Time, James often sees a pick-up truck stop in front of his restaurant at Lost Dutchman Drive and then, moments later, a woman jumps out of the vehicle and the driver head backs out.

It’s been a different truck and a different woman every time, but one day James stopped a driver and asked what he was doing. “Dropping my wife off for ladies’ night,” was the response.

It was a light-bulb moment that has propelled James to open Lost Dutchman Taproom, just steps away from Wine Time. “We’ve found that some people prefer beer to wine, and now, for those husbands who were dropping their wives off, instead of just leaving, they can come and taste some beers,” James said.

Lost Dutchman Taproom is set to open mid-November, with renovations currently underway.

James said his vision is for the taproom to complement Wine Time, which, as the name implies, focuses its menu predominantly on wines.

The taproom will have 18 beer taps, and James is hoping to highlight small craft microbreweries around the country. His thought is to feature all Bend brewers one month, and perhaps the next, feature brewers in Walla Walla, and so forth.

Aside from beer, sandwiches and paninis will also be served. The new taproom is tentatively slated to be open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m., allowing for a lunch crowd—a great addition, as Wine Time doesn’t open until 3 p.m.

What got you into jewelry?

Ever since I was little, I made jewelry just for fun. I would make hundreds of friendship bracelets. I had so many that I didn’t know what to do with them.

Where do you get your materials?

I get my casings from the shooting ranges, and I do a lot of casing trades for jewelry. I have paid for some casings, but most of the time I can get my casings donated. People just throw them away, and the shotgun casings no one ever reuses, so I get to be picky and just pick out the ones I like. I only use the front part; the rest of it goes to recycling.

I use all Swarovski crystals, and most everything is nickel-free.

What’s your favorite thing to work on?

I get lots of custom orders. People will send me the casings from their grandpa’s 21-gun [funeral]

salute. It’s fun because people will get necklaces made, or those little charms for the window or the rearview mirror, so they can see it every day. I feel really honored to be able to do that. I think my prettiest products are my bracelets, but I love to make them all. My most popular casing is the .38 special federal.

How long does it take to make a piece of jewelry? Do your prices reflect that?

I tell people everything’s custom-

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t’s Monday evening, and the streets of Waterdeep are awash with intrigue. Members of the city’s ruling body, powerful and prominent citizens who wear masks to hide their true identities, collectively known as the Lords of Waterdeep, are determined to gain sole control of the mythical, medieval metropolis by any means necessary. Turn after turn, they dispatch their agents—warriors, wizards, rogues and pagan priests—into the streets to complete quests and carry out schemes ranging from Machiavellian to murderous. The air is thick with a familiar scent, not of blood, but of pepperoni and garlic.

So things go in Waterdeep, the largest city on the fictional continent of Faerun, but it’s a lot more casual at Mountain Mike’s Pizza on Mangrove Avenue. There are no masks hiding alter egos, and the imaginary Lords’ living counterparts include a wisecracking Glenn County health inspector, a tattooed 25-year-old Pick-n-Pull employee, and a guy who works at a natural foods store. All are huddled over a board representing a map of the city, sipping beers and sharing laughs as they conspire against one another during this game of the Lords of Waterdeep.

The tattooed gentleman, Steven Allison, dedicates much of his free time to playing, learning about and acquiring new board games. He and roommate Dan Jarman began organizing these Monday night gaming sessions back in June, and both said the events have been building momentum each week, with the largest turnout yet—about two dozen people—showing up on Oct. 12.

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the meet-ups, but there are dozens of newer board, dice and card games that are helping to fuel a table-top gaming renaissance.

Sales of table-top games of all sorts have increased in the U.S. every year for the past decade, including 25 percent to 40 percent annual leaps each year from 2010 to 2014, according to a November 2014 article in The Guardian. Industry professionals and hobbyists say the games’ resurgent popularity is at once boosted by social media—connecting gamers and exposing them to new products—and is simultaneously a backlash against the lack of personal interaction in a society dominated by digital technology.

Locally, a half-dozen small, independent businesses cater to the demands of growing legions of gamers who meet to compete on kitchen tables and at game shops, bars and pizza parlors.

As the drama in Waterdeep wore on that night, other groups of two to six people sat around nearby tables, drawing cards and rolling dice as they explored a haunted house

(Betrayal at the House on the Hill), settled regions of medieval France (The Castles of Burgundy) and summoned monsters and fireballs to crush one another in head-to-head magical combat (Magic The Gathering).

All around the room nations rose and fell, enemies were vanquished, worlds were born and destroyed and—perhaps most spectacularly—human connections were made As Allison prepped the board to play Lords of Waterdeep for that Monday’s session, he took a few moments to explain his love of gaming, and how the night came to be.

Walter Sharrow, designer of Line Dice, play-tested the game with homemade prototypes before having pieces professionally manufactured.

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“Me and my roommate like a lot of these style of games, but none of our friends do,” he said. “We always wanted to get a group of people together to play actual board games, so we decided to make a post on Reddit one day and see if anyone actually showed up.

“The first week only two other people showed up … Russell and Sal,” he said, motioning to two men at the next table who

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Table-top gaming renaissance promotes human interaction in the Digital Age smiled back over the board they were playing on. “We decided to try again and it just kept growing and growing and now, as you can see, quite a few people show up.”

The gatherings began at another local pizza parlor and are not tied to any single venue, but Allison prefers the meeting room at Mountain Mike’s (“It’s loud in here, but it’s our loud; not people yelling at the TV about football,” he said).

Allison also said the Monday evening event differs from other local game nights, such as one held Tuesdays at Heroes Corner, a comic book and game shop on East Avenue, because the focus is more on socialization than competition. Events at local shops are also often dominated by younger gamers.

“We don’t mind younger people showing up, but we also like to drink beer and we’re a boisterous group. We can get a little crude, and it sucks for people to have to censor themselves … not that it gets too bad, but we’re kind of solidly PG-13 here,” he said.

Allison said playing traditional board games, like Sorry and Life, were “the one big family activity we did when I was growing up,” and he started getting into newer games in recent years. His interest was fueled by the hit Web show TableTop, which is hosted by Star Trek: The Next Generation alum and geek-culture icon Wil Wheaton. The games aren’t cheap, generally ranging from $20 to $80, and he said Wheaton’s show and other Internet gaming resources help him get a feel for a game before he decides to splurge.

A handful of people play Lords of Waterdeep on a Monday night at Mountain Mike’s Pizza. The game nights are organized by Steven Allison (bottom left) and Dan Jarman through the website Reddit.

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Lords of Waterdeep is Allison’s favorite game at the moment, though he named another of his recent discoveries—the ridiculously titled Epic Spell Wars of the Battle Wizards: Duel at Mt. Skullzfyre—as a close second (“It’s just a fun, fast-paced, everybody-kills-each-other kinda game.”) His biggest game-finding goal at the moment— due to the success of the game nights—is acquiring games to accomodate more than four players.

“Board games are so personal,” Allison said when asked about their appeal. “In this day and age, you don’t interact as much; everyone’s on their phones,

everything’s digital. Some of these games require you to play on teams, and you have to really talk to people and work together.

A lot of them are deception-based games.

You have to try to read people’s faces, which is something you just can’t do digitally. It keeps everything social.

“The only person I knew here before this started was my roommate Danny,” Allison noted. “Now I hang out with these people every week, and chill with some of them outside of game night.”

“There’s some really good people here … we’re all just a bunch of nerdy gamers,” Jarman interjected as he walked by.

The social aspect is exactly what brought Walter Sharrow into the world of gaming. Sharrow is the current host of a long-running game night held most Tuesday evenings at the DownLo, which, like the gathering at Mountain Mike’s, focuses on modern, in-depth games. He is also a game designer.

“I was never that interested in board games until I decided I needed to socialize, so I started going to bars,” Sharrow said, explaining that Anthony Dipasqua, a former man-about-Chico and DownLo bartender better known as Handsome Gorgeous, invited him to game night. “He saw me sitting around by myself, not doing anything, and said, ‘Hey, come play games with us and, y’know, talk to people.’”

Sharrow was around 30 at the time, and said a rough childhood caused him “to avoid humanity as much as possible for a really long time.”

“It really got me out of my shell,” said Sharrow, who designs graphics for computer games for a living. “Since I’m an artist, whenever I come into something new, I immediately think how I can edit things and make them better. So within a few weeks, I started working on my first game.”

Sharrow said he’s designed dozens of games, hand-drawing custom dice from wooden cubes purchased at Michael’s, making mock-ups on index cards and vigorously play-testing multiple iterations before hiring manufacturers to produce two finished prod-

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ucts. His most successful invention to date, called Line Dice, was completed in 2012. He has sold several hundred copies of the game.

“You’re driving down a road,” Sharrow began when asked to describe Line Dice.

“You want to make the road legitimate and as long as possible for yourself, and also make it convoluted so people won’t have the ability to play the pieces they have. You want to weave the road in and out and all over the place to stop their ability to move forward, like a game of SimCity gone awry.”

Sharrow invested $2,500 into the game’s first production run, and received two 50-pound boxes filled with thousands of Chinese-manufactured dice he sorted and stuck into cellophane sandwich bags, along with a cardboard label and printed copy of the game’s rules. Subsequent runs have been designed in higher-quality packaging, but he said the sandwich-bag aesthetic, ironically, moves more units at the game’s best-selling location, Made in Chico. He also sells the game online (linedice.com) and, for several years running, at the annual Bay Area gaming convention KublaCon, though he does so in an unconventional way.

“I always get a table at the flea market part where everyone sells their old games, and I sit there with stacks of my brand-new Line Dice,” he said, laughing. “I’ve never seen it written in the rules that you can’t do that, and when people tell me I’m not supposed to be there, I say, ‘Hey, I’ve only got $40 for this table, not a minimum of $500 for a vendor’s table.’”

His other attempt at design to make it past the prototype phase, a card game called Office Life, hasn’t fared as well as Line Dice.

“Its about working in an office,” he explained. “You try to kiss up to the boss,

Wil Wheaton (center) and fellow gamers in the Web show TableTop have helped renew interest in board games.

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but you don’t know who the boss is because he’s always getting replaced due to corporate restructuring. So you build up this persona, and then use trickery, lies, deception and outright slander to fit what the boss is looking for.

“I thought it was great, but I’ve sold maybe 12 copies. I showed it to some reviewer and he said, ‘I hate your sense of humor.’”

Sharrow is still trying to gain traction with Line Dice, but lately has turned his efforts primarily toward computer game design. Game night continues at the DownLo, but it tends to be a smaller, more intimate affair than the Mountain Mike’s happening.

“I’m terrible at promotion, which is a problem when it comes to game design and marketing and even game night,” Sharrow said. “I’m just getting used to talking and stuff, so I’m not exactly Mr. Gladhands out there working the crowd.”

Any time gamers gather, there’s bound to be some talk of Magic the Gathering. The card game was created in 1993 by mathematician and avid Dungeons & Dragons player Richard Garfield. It immediately found footing in the then-much-smaller, niche role-playing game market, but also had a much broader appeal that continues today. The collectible nature of the cards has created a unique marketplace; in November 2013, an Alpha (first edition) Black Lotus card sold on eBay for $27,302.

In Magic, two or more players assume the roles of powerful wizards called Planeswalkers and engage in duels by summoning creatures and other spells.

Decks are built around how the cards interact with one another—known as “synergy”—and combinations of colors with particular strengths.

Becky Strong owns Chico Magic, a store dedicated to the game, and has been

Betsy Yang and Darien Guthrie play a round of Magic at Chico Magic.

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collecting and selling Magic cards since her chance discovery of the game shortly after it was created.

“Some friends and I rented a cabin in Tahoe for a big outdoor summer adventure, but it rained the entire time,” she recalled.

“Fortunately, someone brought four Magic decks and taught us all to play, and we all got addicted. It cleared up the last day, but we still stayed in and played Magic.”

At the time Strong, who’d formerly worked as a photographer for Chico State and had some success with an independent comic she penned called The Black Web, was already dabbling in sports collectibles and saw the potential value of the cards.

“They were Beta [second edition] decks filled with Black Lotuses and Moxens [another valuable card], all unsleeved, and I told them they should protect them because they might be worth money some day. They laughed, said these are just for fun, and went on eating chips and rubbing their greasy fingers all over them.”

Strong began building her own collection, which she used to seed a display at another dealer’s shop at the Chico Mall, where she eventually opened her own sports collectible store called Sports Play. In 2009, she moved the shop downtown and relaunched as Chico Magic, offering hundreds of thousands of individual cards, new products, regular tournaments and space for people to drop in and play any time the doors are open.

Strong said refocusing the business was difficult, but she was given a boost by a particularly popular expansion set and a promotion

by Magic’s makers—Wizards of the Coast— called Hidden Treasures, Deadly Perils. The “hidden treasures” were rare old cards inserted into new packs, Willie Wonka-style, and one of a handful of proverbial Golden Tickets—a Black Lotus—was pulled in her store. She bought the card, and a picture of her holding it went viral, fueling Internet sales and helping Strong connect with other collectors and dealers. She once almost gave that Black Lotus away in a raffle, but decided against it at the last minute, bought a new one to replace the prize, and stores the original—an approximately $6,000 card she considers the store’s mascot and good luck charm—in a safe deposit box.

She has another Black Lotus on consignment at the store for $3,500.

Strong sold yet another Black Lotus several years ago to a young man who she said had a problem with friends “borrowing” his cards and never returning them. He paid $300 for what Strong called “the most beautiful Lotus I’d ever seen; in perfect mint condition,” and which she estimates would be worth more than $5,000 today. He immediately grabbed a red

Chico Magic owner Becky Strong holds a Magic The Gathering card— The Black Lotus—valued at about $3,500. The earliest edition of the card is worth around $30,000.

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pen from the counter and wrote his name across the front, destroying its monetary value but ensuring it would be used for the purpose it was created—to be played with.

Strong said the game and players’ appreciation of it is more important than the value of rare cards, and emphasized that Magic is accessible to any one, of any age, on any budget. She is always looking to help new players, and recently started a Lady Planeswalker group that meets intermittently to allow female players an opportunity to learn and enjoy the game in a low-pressure environment.

Strong also spoke about the social value of gaming. She said each of the game stores in town

is home to a strong community of players that sometimes overlaps, and noted that three couples have met and married through gaming at Chico Magic.

“It’s actually face to face, it has a lot of involvement and intricacies,” Strong said of the game’s wide appeal. “It can be played on a very beginning level and a very expert level, all with the exact same cards and decks. It’s a lot like chess in that way; you can play a grandmasters’ game with the same board that you teach a child to play on. Except in Magic, you have a new set of chess pieces coming out every three months, so the game is constantly expanding and evolving.

“The colors are distinctive to certain personality types, and that’s where the true magic— excuse the pun—of the game lies. Someone who likes a fast-paced game can enjoy it just as someone who’s into slower, methodical thinking and planning 100 steps ahead.”

Strong said Magic’s latest expansion, Battle for Zendikar, is among the most popular in years, and the game is on another upswing. The darkest days for the game, she said, were the late-’90s to mid-2000s when online video games like the World of Warcraft and Halo franchises first became massively popular. But Magic and its table-top ilk offer something that can never be replicated in a virtual world, she said. “[Online gaming] really just sucked everybody into their bedrooms and they all stayed there for a couple of years,” she said. “But most people can only handle that for so long until they get sick of being stuck in that room. They’re all coming back out now looking for that personal connection they missed. I think that’s why Magic, as well as all the board games, are having a big resurgence.

“People need the face to face.” Ω

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Two Chico bands with impressive new cassette releases Cassettes are back, but not Tforaremereover.boombox recordings of band he days of the crappy demo tape

rehearsals. With CDs on the decline, young bands are increasingly turning to by the modest and relativeJason Cassidy ly inexpensive cassette tape as the legitimate jasonc@ physical product to newsrev iew.com accompany the onlineonly digital release of their music. And this week, two Chico bands will be holding cassette-release parties for what are two really good new local “albums.”

Universe Sandwich, Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy is made up of familiar faces from around the local metal scene—vocalDouble cassette: ist/guitarist Kirk Two tape-release Williams (Armed for parties: Apocalypse), guitarist/ Saturday, Oct. 24, 9 p.m., at Maltese vocalist Matt Shilts Bar & Tap Room: (Teeph) and bassTouch Fuzzy Get Dizzy. ist/vocalist Adrian Surrogate opens.

Hammons (Cold Blue Sunday, Oct. 25, Mountain)—plus 6:30 p.m., at Three Shimmies drummer Sixty Ecotique: Icko Sicko. Chokeslam, Jack Gingerich. But VEXED, Negative Universe Sandwich Standards and Gorilla is not a metal album, X Monsoon open. not entirely at least.

Maltese Bar & There’s plenty of Tap Room Cookie Monster growl1600 Park Ave. ing spread throughout, 343-4915 and every song has at Three Sixty Ecotique least one moment of 511 Main St. chugging and/or sludgy 342-8752 riffage, but there also

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are sounds from many other stylistic influences—rock, prog, classical, emo, alt-rock—at play in what is an impressively well-orchestrated nine-song rock opera.

Recorded at two Chico studios— Origami Lounge (with Scott Barwick) and Cutters Cathedral (with Chris Keene)—the album opens with “The Dogmoose,” and the 8-minute track is a tease for much of what is to come. It starts with the signature exaggerated chug, chug, chug, insistently loping along with Williams growling over the top before surprising and beautiful three-part harmonies chime in for the choruses.

After a quiet break, a pretty guitar falls away into an even sludgier passage that ends in feedback squalls before returning with a gorgeous swinging riff that sandwiches the album, coming back at the end of the final track, “Monkey Prison.” In between, we go through a range of crossbreedings—“Horsecat,” “Goatshark” (a big, melodic alt-rock anthem straight out of the mid-1990s), “Foxelk” (several kinds of metal, gorgeous vocal harmonies, and some complex math)—before a choir of guest vocals sums up on the final track: “And through it all we found our home again/ Then shit thrown on the walls of monkey prison/ In space we’re tall, but time we can’t forgot/ Like all the love that we just keep on makin’.” A very impressive debut.

Dysphoric EP, Icko Sicko How many words can you say in four seconds? If you’re Icko Sicko singer Danny Canchola, you can fit 36: “Your band meant a lot until you got too cool/

It should be means of expression, not a tool/ You’re fake bottom line doesn’t feel right/ Your hype will die, but for us it’s for life.” Those are the lyrics to Icko Sicko’s five-second-long “Brand” (the first second is reserved for feedback and drum clicks) from the Chico four-piece’s just-released Dysphoric EP (Xerox Records). Of course, it helps that Canchola is urged along at supersonic speed by the rest of his hardcore crew— guitarist Bryan Hannah, drummer Sawyer Goodson and bassist Ian Hillman.

The EP was recorded at The Atomic Garden in Palo Alto, and the sound is perfect punk—huge and loud, dirty guitars, no nonsense. All eight hyper, chaotic songs are short (clocking in at a total of 10:13) and to the point, and as the album’s title suggests, the point is that there is a lot in the world with which to be dissatisfied. But the message on Dysphoric isn’t one of hopelessness, but rather one of self-determination and not being complacent, as Canchola sings on “Fake a Smile”: “You don’t always get to choose who’s around you/ But you do get to choose how you act/ I’m tired of brushing it off/ I can’t fake a smile and laugh.”

It’s pretty much punk as usual—in sound and in message—but that’s the point. That’s what punks do, they rage loudly against the nonsense. And, the best of them spend their time fighting for change as well, and as evidenced on album closer “Ahead,” Icko Sicko is all positive action: “Life is too short to live with regret/ Love the people around you before they forget/ So this is the last time I’m looking Ɛ EDFN DQG DIWHU WKDW±RQO\ DKHDG ³

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Special Events NORTHERN EXPOSURE COMEDY SHOWCASE: Local comedian showcase hosted by Jason Allen. Th, 10/22, 8:30pm. $5. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

RESPONSES TO SCHOOL VIOLENCE AND EMPATHY TRAINING: The Chico State Peace Institute present a discussion on empathy training and the epidemic of school shootings in the U.S. Th, 10/22, 7:30pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State.

Art Receptions IN PROCESS: Reception for work by select master of fine art students. Th, 10/22, 5pm. University Art Gallery, Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

Music THE BROTHERS COMATOSE: KZFR brings the S.F. five-piece

Americana, bluegrass, string band back to Chico. Th, 10/22, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

MASTODON: Atlanta-based metal legends land in Chico. Plus,

Intronaut (metal). Th, 10/22, 8:30pm. $25. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

TOM RIGNEY AND FLAMBEAU: Electrifying violinist backed by a funky New Orleans-style band. Plus, Michael Doucet (Cajun fiddle). Th, 10/22, 7:30pm. $17.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

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Opens Thursday, Oct. 22 Pleasant Valley High School SEE THURSDAY-SATURDAY, THEATER

FINE ARTS Theater THE ELEPHANT MAN: See Thursday. 10/22-11/7.

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

FUNNY GIRL: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm through 11/1. $15-20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

MACBETH: See Thursday. 10/22-10/24, 7:30pm. $57. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave., (530) 879-5100.

Art Receptions LIVE ART DEMONSTRATIONS: Painting demonstration from Janet Weidel and jewelry demos from Pam Robinson. Sa, 10/24, 10am-3pm.

Chico Paper Co., 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

Theater THE ELEPHANT MAN: Winner of the 1979 Tony Award for Best Play, based on the life of John Merrick, a very deformed young man. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, through 11/7. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

FUNNY GIRL: The classic musical chronicling the life of Fanny Brice. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm through 11/1. $15-20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

MACBETH: Adaptation of the classic Shakespeare play. 10/22-10/24, 7:30pm. $5-7. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave., (530) 879-5100.

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Special Events PUMPKINHEAD CONTEST: 106.7 Z Rock all-day festival featuring live music, food and a pumpkinhead competition. F, 10/23, 8am.

Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

Theater THE ELEPHANT MAN: See Thursday. 10/22-11/7.

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

FUNNY GIRL: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm through 11/1. $15-20. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Rd., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

MACBETH: See Thursday. 10/22-10/24, 7:30pm. $57. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave., (530) 879-5100.

Saturday, Oct. 24 Paradise Performing Arts Center

Sunday, Oct. 25 Bidwell Presbyterian Church SEE SUNDAY, MUSIC

Art Receptions FACE/OFF OPEN ENTRY MASQUERADE FUNDRAISER: Unique masks sold during a silent auction to raise money for the gallery. F, 10/23, 6pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Special Events BEC 40TH ANNIVERSARY GALA: Butte Environmental Council celebrates its 40th with a gala at the Big Room, featuring dinner prepared by Sierra Nevada Brewing Company as well as a no-host bar. Plus, live music, community, food and good cheer. Sa, 10/24, 5pm. $60/standard; $100/premium (includes dinner + sustainability tour & tasting at the brewery, 3pm). Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

EARLY BUTTE COUNTY: ONE FAMILY’S PERSPECTIVE: John Roney, a sixth-generation farmer in Butte County, will speak on the advent of agriculture, its practices, local pioneering families, and more. Sa, 10/24, 10am. $5. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chico museum.org.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DAD - A HALLOWEEN COSTUME DANCE PARTY: Live music by Bogg, DJ, live performances, costume contest and more.

Sa, 10/24, 8pm. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

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Special Events PARADISE TRAIL RUNS: Run along beautiful

PARADISE COWBOY POETRY AND MUSIC: Fifth annual music and poetry gathering. Featuring Sourdough Slim, the Old West Trio, and poet Jim Lynch. Sa, 10/24, 7pm. $15. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 521-1184, www.paradise cowboygathering.com.

ROLL RIDE AND SPIN: 1K and 5K event raising money and awareness for Irlen Lenses. Wear purple. Sa, 10/24, 7:30am-noon. Bidwell Park One Mile Recreation, Woodland Ave., (530) 8654875.

SHOOTING FOR CHANGE: Open pool tournament raising money for the Oncology Massage Fund, supporting cancer patients. Sa, 10/24, 12-3pm.

Oasis Bar & Grill, 1007 W. First St., (530) 3434305, www.oasisbarandgrill.net.

Music CHORAL CONCERT: VOICES ETERNAL: The CSU, Chico University Chorus, Acappella Choir, and Chamber Singers present a concert exploring the history of choral music from the Renaissance through contemporary compositions. Sa, 10/24, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

DAVID LINDLEY: The eclectic multi-instrumentalist brings his show back to Chico. Sa, 10/24, 7:30pm. $25-30. The Rendezvous, 3269

Paradise Lake in Magalia. There is a 4-mile course and 9-mile course, as well as 1-mile fun run/walk. Benefits from the race go to the Paradise HS Cross Country team. Su, 10/25, 8:30-11am. $22-40. Paradise Lake, Lucretia Rd. in Magalia, (530) 966-3241, http://underthesunevents.org/paradise-trail-runs.

Music THE AMERICAN BOYCHOIR: Featuring selections from Mendelsshon and Samuel Barber, international folksongs, and traditional American hymns and spirituals. The American Boychoir, under the direction of Fernando Malvar-Ruiz, will lend their voices to a special festival choir comprised of local singers. Su, 10/25, 4pm. $5$20. Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. First St., (530) 342-2775, www.childrenschoir ofchico.org.

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PARADISE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA PRESENTS DOUBLE DEUTSCH: Live orchestra performance featuring special guests. Su, 10/25, 7pm. $1520. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

Theater FUNNY GIRL: See Thursday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm through 11/1. $15-20. 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.

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Special Events UNIVERSITY FILM SERIES: A weekly presentation of international and domestic films. This week: The Luzhin Defense (Denmark, 2003). Tu, 7:30pm. $3 donation. Ayres 106, Chico State, (530) 899-7921.

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Special Events MUSEUM WITHOUT WALLS: Special lectures

series. This week: “Wise as an Owl.” W through 10/28. $3. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

JULIE FOWLIS: Chico Performances presents Scottish singer who sang the theme song on Disney Pixar’s Brave. Su, 10/25, 2pm. $10-29.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

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MOCKTOBERFEST: A SOTA Productions music fest featuring The John Klezmer Project, Gigantes, Neon Junkie, SW/\Y, Yandi, and more. Plus, costume contest, photo booth and more. Sa, 10/24, 7-11pm. $3-5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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Every October for the last 18 years, a group of local men and women gather in a circle in the middle of the Chico City Plaza, cover their heads with pumpkins, climb on top of crates and stand there. They keep standing until they can stand no more—the record is 71 hours—as metal bands shred through their sets and locals stop by to gawk. The last contestant standing wins $1,000.

The event, which this year takes place Friday, Oct. 23, is a promotion for radio station 106.7 Z-Rock called Pumpkinhead.

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Spirit: The Vessel, prints from the Turner Collection accompanied by pottery work by the late Jack Windsor. Through 10/24. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Hanging Out, artists Betty Benson’s birds and K.W. Moore Sr.’s bridges. Ongoing. 493 East Ave., (530) 3453063.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: In Process, art from

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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,

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Masters of the Night, Hands-on exhibit exploring bats through photos, models and interactive pieces. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

MONCA POP UP MUSEUM: MONCA Pop Up show, Museum of Northern California Art’s latest pop up show featuring a look at how communities enage with autism, blindness and the physically & mentally challenged Through 10/31, 12-6pm. Free. 215 Main St., (530) 343-8980.

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who earned them the right to speak their minds.” Thus wrote Virginia Woolf in A Room of One’s Own, her treatise on the value of feminine intelligence and creativity.

The Rover is Behn’s best-known play, and it’s a bawdy, costumeladen Restorationby era comedy of Carey Wilson epic proportions, filling three hours with the amorous Review: adventures of The Rover at love- (and lust-) Chico State’s Harlen craving youth. The Adams Theatre, Tuesday, Oct. 13 action takes place during Carnival in Naples, Italy, in the 1600s, and the multiple plot lines involve the romantic intrigues of a group of banished English cavaliers, a pair of young Spanish noblewomen and their families and servants, “a famous courtesan,” and a gypsy prostitute.

Sumptuously staged on a vinedraped, multilevel stage—with a bare-breasted, ringlet haired bathing beauty painted into the scenery to overlook the audience and action—in Chico State’s Harlen Adams Theatre, the university’s production opens with the sisters, Florinda (Allie Griffey) and Hellena (Jessica Messineo) discussing their own romantic travails.

Florinda is trying to avoid marriage to her father’s choice, a rich old nobleman whom she finds repulsive, and Hellena is determined to escape from the convent her father placed her in, a fate that she decries with this self-evaluation: “Prithee tell me, what dost thou see about me that is unfit for love—have not I a world of youth? A humor gay?

A beauty passable? A vigour desirable? Well shap’d? Clean limb’d?

Sweet breath’d? And sense enough

to know how all these ought to be employ’d to the best advantage: Yes, I do and will.”

This air of feminine self-worth and independence is what gives the play much of its staying power.

The female characters are strongwilled, witty and conscious of the roles—nun, wife, prostitute—that are lined out for them in the patriarchal society they are embedded in, and they rebel against those restrictions. Counterpoint to the women, the male characters represent an adherence to both societal norms and the greater sexual freedom that men are allowed simply because they are men.

Representing the more prosaic side of life, naïve but conniving English fop Blunt (Steven Sprague), loses much of his wealth (and even his clothes) to the “Mistress of Revels,” Lucetta (Sylvia Lopez), who is actually a gypsy prostitute who cons him into believing she is offering a romantic liaison when actually she is luring him to be robbed.

The titular character, Willmore “the Rover” (Xander Ritchey), is a seafaring libertine who pursues both the “pure” but lustful

Hellena and the courtesan Angelica Bianca (Danielle Gervais) with equal ardency. And he wins them both through application of his domineering charm, but not before he also exposes his inner beast by nearly raping Florinda while drunk. His friend and foil, Colonel Belville (James Groh), is much more a true gentleman, whose love for Hellena’s sister Florinda blossomed when he protected her from harm during a siege in Pamplona.

In the end, Belville’s constancy pays off for him just as inconstancy pays off for Willmore.

With a cast of 18 in multiple costumes and disguises, many subplots, sword fights and intrigues, and a wit-fueled text by a protofeminist writer who became one of the first professional writers for the English stage, The Rover is a great choice for the university’s theater department. Under the direction of Katie Whitlock the opening night performance fairly sparkled with energy, and its themes of youthful rebellion, love, lust, courtship and marriage resonated with questions of gender roles and privilege that ring as true in this age as they did when it was written. □

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THURSDAY 10/22—WEDNESDAY 10/28 DEAD DAD’S PARTY THE BROTHERS COMATOSE Tonight, Oct. 22 Chico Women’s Club SEE THURSDAY

Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

COMMON KINGS: Pop with rock, reggae, R&B and classic soul influences. Plus, Sammy J (world). F, 10/23, 9pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

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

TOM RIGNEY AND FLAMBEAU: Electrifying

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THE BROTHERS COMATOSE: KZFR brings the S.F. five-piece Americana, bluegrass, string band back to Chico. Th, 10/22, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main

3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

MASTODON: Atlanta-based metal legends come to Chico! Plus, Intronaut (heavy metal). Th, 10/22, 8:30pm. $25. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

ME AND JULIO: Weekly live salsa, calypso, Hawaiian Afro-Cuban music. Th, 6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359

St., (530) 892-2473.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, ERIC PETER: An eclectic mix of live music. Th, 10/22, 6:30pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St.,

(530) 809-2304.

violinist backed by a funky New Orleans-style band. Plus, Michael Doucet (Cajun fiddle). Th, 10/22, 7:30pm. $17.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierra nevada.com.

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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

gather on stage to cover new and old country tunes and raise money for the Enloe Foundation and their support of local cancer patients. Plus, cake walk and raffle prizes. F, 10/23, 8pm. $5-10.

The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackle boxchico.com.

Halloween is every weirdo’s favorite holiday, so it’s no wonder the freaks of the Uncle Dad’s Art Collective are celebrating the season in extravagant style with Night of the Living Dad—A Halloween Costume Dance Party. The event will be held Saturday, Oct. 24, at Habitat Lab, and promises live music by Bogg, DJs, a dance performance by Everybody in Outer Space, costume contest, cheap drinks, safe-ride service and more.

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.

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.

JOHNNY CASH TRIBUTE: Live cover band.

F, 10/23, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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night! F, 10/23, 8:30pm. $15-20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

PUMPKINHEAD CONTEST: 106.7 Z Rock festival featuring live music, food and a pumpkinhead competition. F, 10/23, 8am. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

STEVE COOK, JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON: Live music. F, 10/23, 6pm. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd., 3428500.

THE STONE FOXES: Rock/blues from San Francisco. Plus, locals Sway (funk/psychedelic) open. F, 10/23, 9pm. $7-10.

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DAVID LINDLEY: The eclectic multi-instrumentalist brings his show back to Chico. Sa, 10/24, 7:30pm. $25-30. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

MOCKTOBERFEST: Sa, 10/24, 7-11pm. $3-5.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 7102020.

NIGHT OF THE LIVING DAD - A HALLOWEEN COSTUME DANCE PARTY: Sa, 10/24, 8pm.

Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

SAFETY ORANGE: Surf, rock, reggae. Sa, 10/24, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls

Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in

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SUSAN SCHRADER, JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON: Live blues, country, pop. Sa, 10/24, 7pm. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Dr., (530) 899-9250, www.winetimechico.com.

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tive. Sa, 10/24, 8:30pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.

TOUCH FUZZY GET DIZZY & SURROGATE: Local heavy band of mischief makers’ tape-release show. Pop stars Surrogate open. Sa, 10/24, 9pm.

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

ents Scottish singer who sang the theme song on Disney Pixar’s Brave.

Su, 10/25, 2pm. $10-29. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

FAILURE MACHINE: Garage soul tunes from Reno. Plus, BandMaster Ruckus (garage/blues), Grass Fire (rock) and I am the Albatross (Americana).s, Su, 10/25, 8pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

WE CAME AS ROMANS: Detroit-based heavy metal band stops in to town in support of their new record. Plus, Like Moths To Flames (heavy metal), Red Sun Rising (alternative) and Engraved In Armor (post-hardcore). Su, 10/25, 7:30pm. $18. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproduc tions.net.

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Teeph (heavy) and Bad Mana (garage pop). W, 10/28, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

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

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October 24 Campus Function by College Party Scene October 25 Bandmaster Ruckus Octoberflesh October 29 Jazz Fall Concert (DownLo) October 29 World’s Finest, Kitchen Dwellers October 30 Costume Party from Hell w/ Abberance, Discordia, Into the Awakening October 30 Equire Ali (DownLo) October 31 Halloween Extravaganza w/ Funkanauts and Swamp Zen October 31 DJ Sexual Chocolate (DownLo)

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cinematic history lesson directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks.

For me, the biggest and best of by those surprises has to do with the Juan-Carlos emotional power of a couple of the Selznick central characterizations in a sprawling drama that is part espionage movie, part courtroom/legal drama, part memoir and Cold War period piece. That the picture is able to keep that assortment of genres working in Bridge of Spies full, entertaining concert throughout Starring Tom Hanks and Mark its 142-minute running time is itself Rylance. Directed something of a surprise, and the

by Steven Spielberg. growing bond between two characCinemark 14, Feather ters in particular is the crucial ingreRiver Cinemas and dient for all that as well.

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James Donovan (Hanks) is an PG-13 insurance lawyer who is recruited by U.S. government agents (the CIA, mainly) to act as defense lawyer for a man accused (circa 1957) of spying for the U.S.S.R. The accused is one Rudolf Abel (a superb Mark Rylance), a solitary painter with a Russian passport and the barest hint of a Scottish accent in his spoken English.

The government wants nothing more than the pretense of a “fair trial,” but the earnest Donovan insists that the accused should be given a full and proper defense even if the guilty verdict is a more or less foregone conclusion. The trial is a story in itself, but it’s only the beginning in Bridge of Spies.

In the sentencing phase of Abel’s trial, Donovan raises the possibility of an exchange between the two countries of condemned spies at some time in the future. The film has already begun to follow the case of Francis Gary Powers (Austin Stowell), pilot of a U-2 spy plane whose name made headlines worldwide when he was shot down over Soviet territory.

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Donovan serves as the key intermediary in an exchange of Abel for Powers, and in the process of those strangely fraught negotiations takes up the cause of a U.S. student, Frederic Pryor (Will Rogers), who was arrested in East Berlin just as the newly erected Berlin Wall was being closed off.

Donovan’s heroic combination of ethical integrity and shrewdly political maneuvering is played with characteristically understated dignity by Hanks, and Rylance’s wonderfully minimalist rendering of Abel’s own courage and integrity gets even more out of the deadpan understatement that seems central to the whole production. Both of them should get serious attention from the Oscars.

Apart from those two, most of the movie is a matter of straight-ahead advancement of a complicated historical narrative. Even with a big cast that includes Amy Ryan and Alan Alda, generic efficiency marks most of movie’s performances. The one small exception to that may be a CIA agent played by Scott Shepherd as a man working very hard to maintain a blank, purely professional mien while dealing with the likes of James Donovan. □

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Coming Home Opens Friday, Oct. 23. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

by Juan-Carlos Selznick

The new film by Zhang Yimou (Ju Dou, Raise the Red

Lantern) reunites him with his much-admired star, Gong Li, in a tragic melodrama about a family devastated by the privations of China’s Cultural Revolution in the 1970s.

Gong plays Feng Wanyu, the long-suffering wife of Lu Yanshi (Chen Daoming, in the film’s best performance), a college professor and political prisoner.

The couple’s daughter, Dan Dan (Zhang Huiwen), is an aspiring ballerina who conforms to party doctrine in order to advance her career.

Lu escapes prison, but is betrayed almost as soon as he nears the family residence. Feng is injured in the tumult surrounding his capture and is unable to recognize him when he returns home after his release. Dan Dan comes to regret her blinkered loyalties; one parent can’t forgive her, the other can and does.

The story, based on a novel by Yan Geling, moves back and forth between past and present in the characters’ lives, and honors the point of view of each of the three at one point or another. All told, Coming Home is a starkly humane family romance that pays a moving tribute to the binding emotions of three outrageously beleaguered people. □

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Jem and the Holograms

A live-action Internet-era reworking of the 1980s TV cartoon series about Jem (played here by Aubrey Peeples), lead singer for her pop band, The Holograms. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The Last Witch Hunter

Who do you call when a couple of covens are trying to destroy the world by plague? Vin Diesel! Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Paranormal Activity: The Ghost Dimension

More found footage of people being harassed by supernatural beings in installment No. 6 of the horror franchise. Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Rock the Kasbah

Barry Levinson (Wag the Dog, Good Morning Vietnam) directs this story of a washed-up rock manager (Bill Murray) who ends up stranded in Afghanistan during a USO tour, then finds a young Afghan girl with a great voice whom he ends up coaching for the country’s version of American Idol. Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Plan 9 From Outer Space (1959) & Night of the Living Dead (1968)

A Halloween matinee double feature on Oct. 31, featuring Ed Wood’s gloriously bad Plan 9 From Outer Space (2 p.m.) and George Romero’s classic zombie flick, Night of the Living Dead. $6 for both; $5 if in costume.

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Steve Jobs

Danny Boyle (Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire) directs this biopic on the late Apple founder Steve Jobs (played by Michael Fassbender). Written by Aaron Sorkin. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Crimson Peak

Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth, Pacific Rim) co-wrote and directed this ultimate

haunted house story. Starring Mia Wasikowska, Tom Hiddleston and Jessica Chastain. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Botanist/astronaut Mark Watney (Matt Damon) is stranded on Mars after a hurricane of space debris forces his fellow crew members, who believe he’s been killed, to return to Earth without him. That sets up a kind of space-age Robinson Crusoe story for Watney, who must find ways to survive in a place where nothing grows, while also trying to cobble together the means of communication and travel from the scavenged remnants of technology. And the realization that Watney is still alive pushes Mission Control (and, eventually, the crew on the ship headed back to Earth) into some rapidly evolving scenarios of high-pressure risk-taking in science and technology. The stranded Watney’s early declaration—“I’m gonna science the shit out of this!”—is emblematic of the film and its determination to put an audience-friendly spin on its science and its fiction. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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And Jóhann Johannsson’s growling electronic score is integral at every level. Sheridan’s script is at its best when it’s setting up the characters’ moral quandaries, but the dramatic overload in the later portions seems to leave the characters stranded somewhere between moral insight and emotional closure. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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lately. At least too Holdoldforandthe tired adventures of his youth. enri’s been feeling rather, well,

So instead of heading down to Fleet Week in San Francisco by earlier this Henri month, as I Bourride had planned, h enri @ I decided to new srev i ew. c o m stay in Chico and enjoy the beautiful autumn weather by organizing my cookbooks.

I started the first morning by taking them all down off the shelves and piling them on the kitchen table. Well, actually, I started with a couple of glasses of Bordeaux and one of my favorite little breakfasts, oeufs Henri (scrambled eggs with green onions and brie on toasted sourdough, lots of butter). Then I took down all my cookbooks.

Wait … no. Then I took a nap.

I took down all my cookbooks that afternoon. Piled them up on the table and got right to work. After I opened another bottle of wine and watched Yentl and Funny Girl.

It was dark by the time I got around to the actual organizing.

And even then I didn’t get very far.

Instead, I found myself sitting on the kitchen floor with Julia Child’s The Way To Cook and recalling the many autumn afternoons of my Midwest youth, glued to Child’s long-running PBS cooking show, The French Chef, while my classmates soiled their perfectly good school clothes in barbaric after-school games of flag football.

More of an instruction book or reference manual than a conventional cookbook, The Way to Cook often includes what she calls “master recipes,” followed by several variations and suggestions for your own ways to improvise.

Henri actually got a little tearyeyed, as I sat there recalling Julia, who we lost more than a decade ago, and thinking about the fleeting nature of our little lives. Such are thoughts in autumn. I decided to cook something in her honor.

With colder weather creeping in, Henri warms up with a classic Her Zinfandel of Beef, a hearty stew, would be the perfect dinner for a crisp October evening.

Julia Child’s Zinfandel of Beef (master recipe) Note: Allow four hours or so to cook, including at least three for the beef to stew and tenderize.

3-4 lbs. boneless stew meat, cubed 2 cups sliced onions 2/3 cup sliced carrots 5-6 cups liquid (red wine, or red wine mixed with beef or chicken stock) 1 cup tomatoes, chopped 1 cup canned Italian plum tomatoes, drained 2 or 3 large cloves of garlic, smashed 1 bay leaf 1 teaspoon thyme 2-3 tablespoons flour 2-3 tablespoons softened butter

Dry the cubes of meat with paper towels and brown on all sides on moderately high heat in an oil-coated frying pan, transferring them to a casserole as they cook.

Once all meat is browned, lower heat, skim all but a spoonful of fat out of the pan, and stir in sliced vegetables, cooking for three or four minutes then pouring them into the casserole over beef. Pour one cup of red wine into the frying

pan to deglaze, stirring to scrape up coagulated juices, and pour over vegetables and beef. Add the garlic, tomatoes, bay leaf, thyme and salt to taste. Add enough liquid (red wine and/or stock) to cover, and then stew in the oven at 325 or simmer on the stove for two-and-one-half or three hours, or until meat is completely tender.

Serve over rice, noodles or with sliced bread, plus a light salad and a hearty red wine.

Notes: 1) Among the many ingredients you can add to the master recipe are green beans, potatoes and mushrooms—best to wait until the last hour of stewing.

2) For a thicker stew, add a roux, or beurre-manie sauce, just before serving (see The Way to Cook, The Joy of Cooking, etc.).

It was close to midnight by the time the stew was done. And so was I. Exhausted, in fact. I transferred it to large Tupperware bowl, covered it and put it in the refrigerator. The next day I got a pretty good start organizing my cookbooks—The Way to Cook displayed prominently on the middle shelf—and had the stew for dinner. Always better reheated anyway. □

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SOmething’S brewing Chico Beer Week was fun, filled as it was with great

new beers and time spent with fellow beer fans. But the most exciting thing of all was the palpable anticipation around town that Chico is on the verge of taking some final steps toward becoming a bona fide craft-beer town.

In other words, in addition to all the new tap handles going in around town—at The Bear, Round Table Clubhouse, the new Burgers & Brew, and the soon-to-open Lost dutchman Taproom (see “Bottom Line,” page 24)—we might be getting some new breweries in Chico very soon. British Bulldog Brewery, with its roster of mostly English-style brews (with a couple of Belgians and West Coast-style IPAs thrown in) is hoping to be in local shops and restaurants by early 2016. Zythos Brewing Co. is looking for a location and investors. And arts dEVo has heard rumors of at least two more that are hoping to open in 2016.

I can hear some of you saying, “Chico’s Beer Week beer. been a craft-beer town since 1980!”

PhOtO cOurteSy Of chicO beer enthuSiaStS To that I say, “Of course it has!” sierra nevada Brewing Co. put Chico (not to mention all of craft beer) on the map and is the king of independent craft breweries. Which is all the more reason why Chico have many more. Why should Redding and Reno and thousands of other cities have more breweries than the town that started it all? If Chico can add a few more destination breweries to the foundation that Sierra Nevada and our new kick-ass beer bars and shops—The Handle Bar, Winchester Goose, spike’s Bottle shop, Burgers & Brew—have built, Chico will have arrived and our local economy will have the potential thrive. Chico is ready to imbibe and prosper.

11.5.15 – 11.8.15 » RENO ACTORS KILLED LINCOLN •• APPRENTICE •• ASPHALT SOCIALITES •• B-SIDE PLAYERS BEERCAN! •• BLACK ROCK CITY ALLSTARS •• BLUFF CALLER •• BRITT STRAW BROTHERS GOW •• BUSKING BY MOONLITE •• CAD BANE •• CHANGO •• COOP DA LOOP CON BRIO •• CRAIGSLIST HOOK-UP •• CRANIALGALACTIC ORCHESTRA •• D6 DELTA NOVE •• DIEGO’S UMBRELLA •• DRINKING WITH CLOWNS •• DROP THEORY EL RADIO FANTASTIQUE •• ELEPHANT RIFLE •• ELSPETH SUMMERS •• FAILURE MACHINE FM MARC •• FORREST DAY •• GEORGETTE •• GIA TORCASO •• GIANT FIGHTING ROBOTS GROOVESESSION •• HEIDALICIOUS •• HERBERT BAIL ORCHESTRA •• HOUNDMOUTH JAKE HOUSTON & THE ROYAL FLUSH •• JANAKA SELEKTA LIVE •• JUNK PARLOR •• KARMA KATE COTTER •• KRISTOPHARI •• LIAM KYLE CAHILL •• LILA ROSE •• LOS PISTOLEROS MAX VOLUME •• MEL WADE •• MERKIN •• MISS COOPER •• MOJO GREEN MOONDOG MATINEE •• MOTORHOME •• MR ROONEY •• NICK RAMIREZ •• NIKKI SMILES PHAT COUCH •• PLASTIC CAVES •• POSTWAR •• RENO, WE HAVE A PROBLEM RICK HAMMOND BLUES BAND •• RIGOROUS PROOF •• ROBOT BARBIE •• ROYAL BAND RUBLES PLUNGE •• RUNDOWN •• SCHIZOPOLITANS •• SCOTT PEMBERTON •• SPIKE MCGUIRE STAX OF WAX •• SUBDOCTA •• T LEE WALKER & THE COMPANY HE KEEPS •• THE ATOMIKS THE BONFIRE SET •• THE ELECTRIC •• THE FANTODS •• THE FLESH HAMMERS THE JOKERS WILD BLUES BAND •• THE PRETTY UNKNOWN •• THE SADDLE TRAMPS THE SHAMES •• THE SOFT WHITE SIXTIES •• THE WHISKEY HEROES •• TIGERBUNNY TODD BALLOWE •• TYLER STAFFORD •• VAGUE CHOIR •• WEAPONS OF MASS CREATION WHATITDO •• WHEATSTONE BRIDGE •• WHISKEY HAULERS •• WHO CARES •• ZACH RAWLINSON

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For the week oF october 22, 2015 ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to

an online etymological dictionary, the verb “fascinate” entered the English language in the 16th century. It was derived from the Middle French fasciner and the Latin fascinatus, which are translated as “bewitch, enchant, put under a spell.” In the 19th century, “fascinate” expanded in meaning to include “delight, attract, hold the attention of.” I suspect you will soon have experiences that could activate both senses of “fascinate.” My advice is to get the most out of your delightful attractions without slipping into bewitchment. Is that even possible? It will require you to exercise fine discernment, but yes, it is.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): One of the largest machines in the world is a “bucket wheel excavator” in Kazakhstan. It’s a saw that weighs 45,000 tons and has a blade the size of a four-story building. If you want to slice through a mountain, it’s perfect for the job. Indeed, that’s what it’s used for over in Kazakhstan. Right now, Taurus, I picture you as having a metaphorical version of this equipment.

That’s because I think you have the power to rip open a clearing through a massive obstruction that has been in your way.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Filmmaker

Alfred Hitchcock did a daily ritual to remind him of life’s impermanence. After drinking his tea each morning, he flung both cup and saucer over his shoulder, allowing them to smash on the floor. I don’t recommend that you adopt a comparable custom for long-term use, but it might be healthy and interesting to do so for now.

Are you willing to outgrow and escape your old containers? Would you consider diverging from formulas that have always worked for you? Are there any unnecessary taboos that need to be broken?

Experiment with the possible blessings that might come by not clinging to the illusion of “permanence.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Terence

was a comic playwright in ancient Rome.

He spoke of love in ways that sound modern. It can be capricious and weird, he said. It may provoke indignities and rouse difficult emotions. Are you skilled at debate? Love requires you to engage in strenuous discussions. Peace may break out in the midst of war, and vice versa.

Terence’s conclusion: If you seek counsel regarding the arts of love, you may as well be asking for advice on how to go mad.

I won’t argue with him. He makes good points. But I suspect that in the coming weeks you will be excused from most of those crazy-making aspects. The sweet and smooth sides of love will predominate.

Uplift and inspiration are more likely than angst and bewilderment. Take advantage of the grace period! Put chaos control measures in place for the next time Terence’s version of love returns.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming

weeks, you will have a special relationship with the night. When the sun goes down, your intelligence will intensify, as will your knack for knowing what’s really important and what’s not. In the darkness, you will have an enhanced capacity to make sense of murky matters lurking in the shadows.

You will be able to penetrate deeper than usual, and get to the bottom of secrets and mysteries that have kept you offbalance. Even your grimy fears may be transformable if you approach them with a passion for redemption.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): New friends

and unexpected teachers are in your vicinity, with more candidates on the way.

There may even be potential comrades who could eventually become flexible collaborators and catalytic guides. Will you be available for the openings they offer? Will you receive them with fire in your heart and mirth in your eyes? I worry that you may not be ready if you are too preoccupied with old friends and familiar teachers. So please make room for surprises.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): More than

any other sign, you have an ability to detach yourself from life’s flow and analyze

by rob brezsny its complexities with cool objectivity. This is mostly a good thing. It enhances your power to make rational decisions. On the other hand, it sometimes devolves into a liability. You may become so invested in your role as observer that you refrain from diving into life’s flow. You hold yourself apart from it, avoiding both its messiness and vitality. But I don’t foresee this being a problem in the coming weeks.

In fact, I bet you will be a savvy watcher even as you’re almost fully immersed in the dynamic flux.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you

an inventor? Is it your specialty to create novel gadgets and machines? Probably not. But in the coming weeks you may have metaphorical resemblances to an inventor. I suspect you will have an enhanced ability to dream up original approaches and find alternatives to conventional wisdom. You may surprise yourself with your knack for finding ingenious solutions to long-standing dilemmas. To prime your instincts, I’ll provide three thoughts from inventor Thomas Edison. (1) “To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk.” (2) “Just because something doesn’t do what you planned it to do doesn’t mean it’s useless.” (3) “Everything comes to those who hustle while they wait.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): Some unraveling is inevitable. What has been woven together must now be partially unwoven. But please refrain from thinking of this mysterious development as a setback. Instead, consider it an opportunity to reexamine and redo any work that was a bit hasty or sloppy. Be glad you will get a second chance to fix and refine what wasn’t done quite right the first time. In fact, I suggest you preside over the unraveling yourself. Don’t wait for random fate to accomplish it. And for best results, formulate an intention to regard everything that transpires as a blessing.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “A

waterfall would be more impressive if it flowed the other way,” said Irish author Oscar Wilde. I appreciate the wit, but don’t agree with him. A plain old ordinary waterfall, with foamy surges continually plummeting over a precipice and crashing below, is sufficiently impressive for me.

What about you, Capricorn? In the coming days, will you be impatient and frustrated with plain old ordinary marvels and wonders? Or will you be able to enjoy them just as they are?

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

ago, I moved into a rental house with my new girlfriend, whom I had known for six weeks. As we fell asleep the first night, a song played in my head: “Nature’s Way,” by the band Spirit. I barely knew it and had rarely thought of it before. And yet there it was, repeating its first line over and over: “It’s nature’s way of telling you something’s wrong.” Being a magical thinker, I wondered if my unconscious mind was telling me a secret about my love. But I rejected that possibility; it was too painful to contemplate. When we broke up a few months later, however, I wished I had paid attention to that early alert. I mention this, Aquarius, because I suspect your unconscious mind will soon provide you with a wealth of useful information, not just through song lyrics but other subtle signals, as well. Listen up! At least some of it will be good news, not cautionary like mine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): When I

advise you to get naked, I don’t mean it in a literal sense. Yes, I will applaud if you’re willing to experiment with brave acts of self-revelation. I will approve of you taking risks for the sake of the raw truth. But getting arrested for indecent exposure might compromise your ability to carry out those noble acts. So, no, don’t actually take off all your clothes and wander through the streets. Instead, surprise everyone with brilliant acts of surrender and vulnerability. Gently and sweetly and poetically tell the Purveyors of Unholy Repression to take their boredom machine and shove it up their humdrum.

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This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARY MIDDLETON Dated: October 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001237 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name ECONOMY FOREIGN CAR PARTS at 1375 Longfellow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CYNTHIA L RODRIGUES 266 Mill Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

ANTHONY E RODRIGUES 266 Mill Creek Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted

by A Married Couple.

Signed: CYNTHIA RODRIGUES Dated: October 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2009-0001239 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PERSONAL HEALTH REFLECTIONS at 6084 Mason Ct Magalia, CA

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95954.

KARREN EVELYN TURNER 6084 Mason Ct Magalia, CA 95954.

Signed: KARREN TURNER Dated: October 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001262 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HELPING HANDS PAYEE SERVICES at 6114 Broyles Rd Chico, CA 95973.

HELPING HANDS PAYEE SERVICES 6114 Broyles Rd Chico, CA 95973.

Signed: REID DORN, PRESIDENT Dated: October 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001263 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OPEROSE COFFEE AND TEA HOUSE at 3312 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973.

PRAIRIE YANA FRANCIA 10 Keystone Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PRAIRIE Y. FRANCIA Dated: September 14, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001157 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015

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

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

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

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: ROBERT G JAMES Dated: October 12, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001266 Published: October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The folloeing person is doing business as NATURALLY IN TOUCH MASSAGE THERAPY at 1 Williamsburg Ln Suite D Chico, CA 95973.

ERICA MARIE MARTIN 846 Netters Circle Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ERICA MARTIN Dated: October 13, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001269 Published: October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BOGG JAZZ ENSEMBLE, UNCLE DAD’S ART COLLECTIVE at 531 W. 6th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JOSHUA CARL HEGG 531 W. 6th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSH HEGG Dated: October 13, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001270 Published: October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JR DESIGNS at 123 Landmark Dr Chico, CA 95973.

JARED HARLEY ROBBINS 123 Landmark Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JARED ROBBINS Dated: September 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001228 Published: October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRI PATH at 275 Fairchild Avenue Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973.

HANKINS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING INCORPORATED PO Box 481 Chico, CA 95927.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BRANNAN HANKINS, PRESIDENT Dated: October 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001260 Published October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: MICHAEL T. BACON 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: November 3, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal repre-­ sentative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41623 Dated: September 30, 2015 Published: October 8,15,22, 2015

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: LINDA A. BRYANT 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: December 1, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Petitioner: LINDA A. BRYANT 230 Atascoctia Rd, #1111 Humble TX 77396 Case Number: PR41616 Dated: October 5, 2015 Published: October 15,22,29, 2015 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SHIRLEY B. HARE aka SHIRLEY BEATRICE HARE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SHIRLEY B. HARE aka SHIRLEY BEATRICE HARE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SYNDEE HARE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SYNDEE HARE 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: November 17, 2015 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should

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appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41648 Dated: October 14, 2015 Published: October 22,29, November 5, 2015 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

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

TRAVIS SCHWARZE: Unit #209ss (12x15) LESLIE LARABEE: Unit #533cc (5x7) WHITNEY MENDOZA: Unit #209ss (7x8) BRITTANY HUNTER: Unit #403cc (7x12) CANDACE CARBY: Unit #219ss (6x15) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: November 7, 2015 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: October 22,29, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BAO YANG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BAO YANG

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Proposed name: KARI BAO YANG 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: November 13, 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: September 25, 2015 Case Number: 164638 Published: October 1,8,15,22, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NORMA ARACELI RAMIREZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NORMA ARACELI RAMIREZ Proposed name: NORMA ARACELI SANTAROSA 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: November 20, 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: September 29, 2015 Case Number: 164944 Published: October 8,15,22,29, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARK AND AMY WOODSON

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filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALEXANDRA JULIEANNE WOODSON Proposed name: ALEXANDRA JEANETTE WOODSON 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: December 11, 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: October 6, 2015 Case Number: 164670 Published: October 15,22,29, November 5, 2015 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DIANA LYNE MAYDOLE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DIANA LYNE MAYDOLE Proposed name: DIANA LYNE ZEDELL 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: December 11, 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: October 15, 2015 Case Number: 165116 Published: October 22,29, November 5,12, 2015

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The Federal Housing Administration launched the “Back-to-Work-Extenuating Circumstances” loan program which cuts loan-qualifying down to one year after a foreclosure or a short sale. The borrower has to prove that they suffered a 20 per cent drop in income for six consecutive months, and they must have 12 months of on-time rent payments.

Traditionally, a foreclosure would hurt your credit enough that you couldn’t qualify for a real estate loan for up to seven years afterward. A short sale would set you back at least three years.

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But the hard times in the Great Recession were so bad, and so many people lost their jobs and their homes, that lenders have created new loan programs to accelerate their re-entry into the market.

“It’s a great program,” said Anita, “but it’s not easy.” She made hair-pulling motions as she described the amount of paperwork to get the loan.

Sean laughed. “But it was worth it. Nothing compared to the stress of a short sale.”

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$550,000.00 $520,000.00 $499,000.00 $440,000.00 $435,000.00 $412,000.00 $389,000.00 $385,500.00 $375,000.00 $369,000.00 $365,000.00

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

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SQ. FT. 3005 2931 2738 2373 3899 2344 1805 3080 1804 1862 2302

$349K

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1827 Wisteria Ln 1287 Stanley Ave 1479 Manzanita Ave 1425 Muir Ave 201 Crater Lake Dr 456 Entler Ave 1255 W 11th Ave 965 Sarah Ave 235 W 1st Ave 8 Yale Cir 945 W 12th Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$359,000.00 $355,000.00 $340,000.00 $334,000.00 $332,000.00 $322,000.00 $312,000.00 $292,500.00 $280,000.00 $276,000.00 $275,000.00

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

SQ. FT. 1707 2336 1589 1420 1765 1712 1790 2013 1684 1412 1721

open house Century 21 Jeffries Lydon Sun. 1-4 927 Crouch Ave (X St: Chico Ave) 2 Bd / 3 Ba, 1,969 Sq. Ft. $699,000 Becky Williams 636-0936 Sat. 2-4 3922 Barbados Ct. (X St: Spyglass/ Caribbean) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,612 Sq. Ft. $599,000 John Wallace 514-2405 Sun. 11-1, 2-4 4785 Songbird Lane (X St: Keefer) 4 Bd / 4 Ba, 3,774 Sq. Ft. $587,500 Ronnie Owen 518-0911 Jeff Condon 592-6791 Sun. 2-4 6173 Toms Trail (X St: Humbug), Magalia 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 4,250 Aq. Ft. $574,900 Katherine Ossokine 591-3837 Sun. 12-3 90 Fairway (X St: Estates Dr.) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 2483 Sq.Ft.$419,900 Sat. 11-4, Camdena Conner 518-1210 Marc Shapiro 518-0911 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1811 Wisteria Ln & 1815 Wisteria Ln (X St: Glenwood) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, up to 1866 Sq. Ft. $374,000- $397,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Sun. 2-4 110 Secluded Oaks (X St: E. 8th Street) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,020 Sq. Ft . $389,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sat. 11-1 83 Herlax (X St: W. 11th Ave) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,195 Sq Ft. $375,000 Laura Willman 680-8962

Sun. 11-1 29 Shari Lane (X St: Forest Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,502 Sq. Ft $295,000 Alice Zeissler 518-4855

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 18 Lobelia Ct (X St: Floral) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,971 Sq. Ft. $369,000 Garrett French 228-1305

Sat. 11-1 1056 Windsor (X St: Greenwich) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,402 Sq. Ft. $274,900 Mark Reaman 228-2229

Sat. 2-4 2154 Honey Run Rd (X St: Centerville/ Eves) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,800 Sq. Ft. $359,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

Sat. 12-2 1394 Lucy Way (X St: Ceanothus) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,471 Sq. Ft. $262,000 Dustin Cheatham 355-6881

Sat. 2-4 1520 Neal Dow Ave. (X St: 5th Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,866 Sq. Ft . $339,900 Marc Shapiro 518-0911

Sat. 12-2 2231 Hutchinson (X St: 20th St) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1,920 Sq. Ft .257,000 Kim Finlan 518-8453

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Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 319 La Casa (X St: Ceanothus) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,023 Sq. Ft. $319,999 Sherrie O’Hearn 518-5904

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 3497 Hackamore Ln (X St: Eaton) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,332 Sq. Ft. $241,000 Sandy Stoner 514-5555 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Sun. 11-2 206 Windrose (X St: Eaton) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,621 Sq. Ft. $319,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227

Sat. 2-4 & Sun. 2-4 1059 Diablo (X St: Ceres) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 1,570 Sq. Ft. $233,000 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341 Rita Dane 513-7579

Sat. 11-1 19 Marydith (X St: Ceanothus) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,525 Sq. Ft. $299,000 Paul Champlin 828-2902 Sat. 2-4 575 White Avenue (X St: East Lassen) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,731 Sq. Ft $295,000 Jeff Condon 592-6791

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Sat. 1-3 & Sun. 12-2 2844 Lucy Way (X St: Ceanothus) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,830 Sq. Ft . $329,000 Heather Deluca 228-1480

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Sat. 11-2 5374 Filbert St (X St: Circlewood), Paradise 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,117 Sq. Ft. $219,500 Joan Hardie 570-7181

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of October 5, 2015 – October 9, 2015.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1172 Metalmark Way

Chico

$270,000.00

3/ 2

1471

1164 Ceres Manor Ct

Chico

$262,000.00

3/ 2

1545

8 River Oaks Dr 5 Kimberlee Ln

40 Chattswood Ct 763 Portal Dr

4676 Cable Bridge Dr

33 Glenshire Ln 248 W 7th Ave

2732 Lowell Dr

3078 Monticello Ln

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$266,500.00

3/ 2

$262,000.00

3/ 1.5

$254,000.00

3/ 2

$262,000.00 $252,500.00

3/ 2 1/ 1

SQ. FT.

3/ 2

1398

375 W Lassen Ave 6

Chico

$180,500.00

2/ 2

1294

690 E 7th Ave

1347 1248 940

$239,000.00

3/ 2

1186

3/ 2

BR/BA

1423

1324

$239,000.00

PRICE $225,000.00

169 E Sacramento Ave

3/ 2.5 3/ 2

TOWN Chico

1489

$252,000.00 $244,000.00

ADDRESS 2 Roxanne Ct

1155 1213

1049 Cypress St B 2225 Elm St 46 Oak Dr

1820 Mulberry St

2500 Shooting Star Way 270 E 4th St

3006 Grasshopper Creek Way

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$210,000.00 $180,000.00 $175,000.00 $165,000.00 $165,000.00

2/ 1 2/ 1 1/ 1 2/ 1

1061 864 881

1334

2/ 1.5

1103

3/ 1.5

$135,000.00

2/ 1

$117,000.00

1149

2/ 1

$157,500.00 $155,000.00

SQ. FT.

2/ 2

october 22, 2015

1054 1112 1095

CN&R

39