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Grieving for our planet in 1970. In that exhilarating time, there I wascelebrated cause to believe a real awakening had occurred.

underway. All the while, a recent Gallup poll actually showed a drop in environmental concern from a year ago. About a third of Americans are seriously concerned about environmental issues—and of the In 1976, we had the audacity to elect a president with third that are concerned, very few are interested in the audacity to ask the American making more than ritualistic lifestyle changes. people to question their consumpIn environmental circles, “We’re tion habits. Four years screwed!” is becoming a mantra. And, later, America dumped Jimmy Carter for Ronald Earth is I’m pretty sure we are screwed. To think Reagan—and in an act probably otherwise, I’d have to deny every trend I’ve observed in my lifetime. of pointed symbolism, dying— In such a circumstance, I find an “Earth Reagan immediately stripped Carter’s solar at least hospice” model to be increasingly useful. allows me to organize my thinking and panels off the White by Earth as Itfeeling Patrick Newman around the notion that Earth is probHouse roof. America’s love affair with environ- we know ably dying—at least Earth as we know it. It The author is a longtime Chico allows me to mentally absorb this “diagnomentalism was effecit. resident and regular sis” and to be more fully alive in the face of tively over. We hired the writer of letters to this loss. Grieving is becoming a central focus. guy who said, “Party on!” the editor. I haven’t given up, any more than it would make And party we did, for 35 years. sense to give up on life because I’m presented with Fast-forward to 2015: The a terminal diagnosis. Instead, I try to engage the world’s population has doubled, experience of living on this sacred planet with more along with energy consumption appreciation. Knowing that nothing is permanent and and greenhouse gas emissions. Half of vertebrate that this moment still calls for rebellion against our life on Earth—land, sea and air—has disappeared eco-toxic way of life, even as spring becomes ever since the first Earth Day. Our climate is changing at more silent. Ω an alarming rate and the Sixth Great Extinction is was 14 years old when the first Earth Day was

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to the attacks in Paris with knee-jerk xenophobia, pandering to their base by calling for the United States to close its doors to the tiny number of refugees President Obama has agreed can resettle here. Perhaps the most egregious example is Sen. Ted Cruz’s idea of allowing only Christian refugees to enter the country. It’s almost unfathomable that a presidential candidate would eschew the First Amendment’s guarantee of freedom of religion. The ostensible concern is that accepting Muslim refugees would put Americans at risk; that terrorists would be let into the country. It’s an emotional, fear-based reaction that perpetuates an ignorant stereotype that all Muslims are terrorists. It must not be allowed to persist. All of this is not to mention that there’s an extensive screening process required for asylum seekers. It first involves vetting by the United Nations before the United States Department of Homeland Security takes over, with background checks and interviews. It’s not exactly a simple process. In fact, it takes some 18 months or longer to complete. Moreover, the president has committed to taking in just 10,000 refugees next year, a largely symbolic gesture considering that millions of refugees are in need and that the bulk of them will be absorbed by European nations. The shameful and ignorant displays by Cruz and company to score political points with their supporters come at the expense of people who have been displaced and terrorized and have given up everything in search of a better life for themselves and their families. The Syrian people in particular have seen unspeakable atrocities since the Arab Spring in 2011; more than 250,000 have died. This is a humanitarian crisis of epic proportions. Americans must think about the message it would send should the United States turn its back on these people. Are we a nation of good will or one that gives into fear? Back in September, we wrote that America must not look away from this crisis. What has happened in Paris doesn’t change that. Ω

A position worth filling The Chico City Council made the right call this week when it scrapped a

proposal by a Washington, D.C.-based consulting firm to manage the Chico Municipal Airport. As Robert Speer points out in his report on the meeting (see page 10), the proposal was expensive (more than $120,000 a year) and the city would still have to hire additional personnel to carry out the firm’s plan. Moreover, an additional annual fee of $25,000 to search for a new airline service would very likely be fruitless given that there simply aren’t enough people to fill the seats—the reason SkyWest pulled out of Chico last December. Business travelers in Chico must head to Sacramento for air service, but there’s no immediate fix. And there’s no use throwing money at a problem that will resolve in time as the business community grows and there’s a clear demand for an airline. In the meantime, however, we believe that the city should entertain the idea of hiring a full-time economic development director. Chico hasn’t had this position since Martha Westcoat-Andes departed from the city in 2010, the year before the massive organizational restructuring and layoffs took place at City Hall. Now that the economy has improved and the city is rehiring staff and even giving raises to certain employees, its leadership and the City Council should think of the long-term advantages of getting someone in to work daily on attracting new business, especially in the technology sector. The city could hire someone for a designated time frame and measure the results of his or her work, and it would cost taxpayers far less than the airport proposal. From our standpoint, it would be money well-spent. Ω

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Letters for paris As I write this, just days after the attacks in Paris that left nearly 130 dead and hundreds more seriously wounded, some believe the United States and its allies are on the brink of World War III. The 24-hour news cycle likely will focus on Paris for weeks, maybe months, as governments prepare for further inevitable attacks around the world. Let us hope that the forthcoming United Nations climate talks in the City of Light do not get overshadowed by the cries for war. That would be yet another travesty considering the role climate change has played in the Middle East’s refugee crisis and the rise of ISIS. Global warming has destabilized the war-torn region, causing extreme drought, destroying farms and displacing millions of people. And while the resulting abject poverty and violence have driven millions to seek safety and security in Europe, those conditions have also driven many to join the extremists. More than any terror group—be it al-Qaida, ISIS, Boko Haram, et. al.—climate change is the greatest threat to the planet and its inhabitants. And yet year after year the nations of the world kick the can down the road. That’s the reason this newspaper, along with dozens of others around the country, is participating in a national letter-writing campaign called Letters to the Future in advance of the 21st annual climate conference, which begins Nov. 30. Sacramento News & Review Editor-at-Large Melinda Welsh spearheaded this project, recruiting such luminaries as Bill McKibben, Michael Pollan and Jim Hightower to join the conversation. The letters are written to each author’s descendants, a few generations from now, predicting the outcome of the talks. The point is to urge world leaders to make substantive commitments to curb the greenhouse gas emissions that are wreaking havoc on the planet and jeopardizing its ability to sustain future generations. None of the 20 preceding talks has led to a legally binding agreement to do that. For this week’s cover story, we compiled several of the essays. Their authors include two Pulitzer Prize winners, an astronaut and a national environmental advocate, along with a trio of local letter-writers. There are more than 100 additional essays at LettersToTheFuture.org. Please read them. They vary in tone, from cautiously optimistic to comical to what some, based on our history of indifference, would assume is realistic—an apocalyptic vision of the future. It’s not too late to make your voice heard by penning a letter to the future. Those received before Nov. 25 will be sent to delegates and citizens who are convening in Paris for the talks. And it’s not too late to get involved locally with a group trying to shed light on the planet’s plight (see Meredith J. Cooper’s report on page 8). Climate change is an issue requiring leadership at the highest level, but that doesn’t mean the rest of us have to sit on our hands. Now is the time for action, not only in Paris but also right here in our backyards.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Credit to anti-frackers Re “The drought’s silver lining” (Guest comment, by Robert Speer, Nov. 12): Thank you, Robert Speer, for asking, “Who ... is working to protect our groundwater?” Please don’t forget to also mention that Frack-Free Butte County is protecting our groundwater. No, fracking in Butte won’t drain North State water south. It would leave it right here, but only after that pure water was turned into a highly toxic witches’ brew. Frackers typically pump their poisonous wastewater back into the ground where it threatens the groundwater quality. They can leave it on the surface in huge, vile open pits or in sealed steel tanks that require regular safety monitoring. The industry would like to recycle their fracking fluid to use in another frack-attack, but it is too hard to handle it safely and economically. It’s cheaper and easier to use more freshwater (on average about a million gallons) for each new frack-attack. North State water sent south may be used for fracking there. Fracking is active in the south state where aquifers are documented as threatened by waste fracking fluid. Do we want to export our water to help support groundwater-destructive activities, particularly during a major drought? There are gas and oil alternatives. There are no water alternatives. Doug Fogel Chico

A stinky proposition Re “Preparing for pot legalization” (Editorial, Nov. 12): Last week the CN&R once again stunk up its pages with pro-pot propaganda. That is, with arguments that since people are going to smoke recreational marijuana whether it’s legal or not, it might as well be legal so it’s “safe” and so government can tax it. This author and the CN&R will have blood on their hands if recreational marijuana’s legalized in California. That is, for minimizing the seriousness of the drug’s effect on human health, the environment and public safety. Alcohol already destroys marriages, families and careers. LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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Not worth warring for Re “Commentary criticism” (Letters, by Maurice Picard, Nov. 12): I would like to thank Maurice Picard for his enlistment, coming to the aid of our nation under attack in 1941. That was nearly 74 years ago and situations have escalated to a far more offensive role. Today’s complexities and invasions and encroachments into sovereign nations, to secure governance favorable to our best interests, translate, more than not, to exclusive access to resources and cheap labor. Economic coercion to struggling nations usually is sufficient to meet this goal, but if necessary the backing of a coup or assassination plot to overthrow any resistance is the trump card backed by covert CIA actions or military force. The military-industrial complex is a for-profit business and moneylaundering endeavor consuming over half of tax revenue collected, proliferating the world’s weaponry and allowing private contractors to have virtually unregulated

opportunity to [inflate the costs of] security and services, all at the taxpayers’ expense. The recruitment of a steady flow of personnel to enforce this scenario is necessary and banners lining the streets of Chico near schools are promoting that goal. Wars of profiteering and resource acquisition have nothing to do with anyone’s freedom and are surely not worthy of sacrificing our children for them. Jimi Gomez Chico

No Hillary, please I’m a life-long Democrat, and it hurts to write this letter. I don’t think Hillary Clinton should be the Democratic choice for president in 2016. As secretary of state between 2009-13, Clinton had a heavy hand in the destruction of Libya and Syria, bringing on today’s misery and tragic deaths of Libyan and Syrian refugees forced to leave their ruined homelands. Clinton’s shown no signs of regret for this. News sources in 2013 revealed that, against Obama’s stated position, Clinton’s hand was strangely heavy, too, in the 2009 Honduran military coup that replaced the elected, leftist President Manuel Zelaya with a right-wing military Junta. Do you remember when newspapers reported that the spell of large numbers of desperate children in terrible circumstances being smuggled not long ago across Mexican borders were actually from Honduras? No regrets about Honduras from Clinton then or since. I don’t see how it can be denied that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was carrying out the neo-conservative, Bush foreign

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I don’t see how it can be denied that, as secretary of state, Hillary Clinton was carrying out the neoconservative, Bush foreign policy of regime change for those who weren’t “with us.” —Linda furr

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policy of regime change for those who weren’t “with us.” I don’t know exactly which dark powers influenced Clinton, but I strongly feel that she shouldn’t be the 2016 Democratic choice for president. Linda Furr Chico

Wolf delisting anti- science Oregon Department of Fish and Wildlife (ODFW) voted to remove gray wolves from the endangered species list on Nov. 9. In so doing, the agency just added the right to kill to the state’s right-to-die law. What a mistake. Why are we allowing humans to take out their vengeance on this animal? There are only 81 gray wolves in the state. By ignoring the input from over a dozen scientists and scores of concerned conservationists, ODFW has diminished its credibility as a wildlife manager and broken the trust of the citizenry. Knuckling under to the moneyed interests of the bloodthirsty hunting and livestock industries showed a lack of concern for ecological balance. Has there been any measurable threat to humans or livestock by the gray wolf? If so, wildlife conservationists should be willing to provide compensation. That is, if these claims are to be trusted. Gray wolves, such as OR-7

(also called Journey), have crossed and will continue to cross state lines. Will California Fish and Wildlife follow Oregon’s lead? Dick Cory Chico

Nurturing nature On behalf of the Chico Creek Nature Center, I would like to thank the Chico community for making our recent fundraising efforts successful. We are so pleased that in our time of need the community has rallied and shown that it values our work and the direction we are headed. This summer we received tremendous financial support through the Nurturing Nature Drive. We also received lots of moral support through the comments left by our donors. Comments like this one from Emily Alma: “Gotta keep the Nature Center going! This place has enriched the lives of Chicoans for so many years—and helped countless children fall in love with nature!” And this one from Carole Swain: “Your work is so important for the Chico community and especially for the children’s life-giving relationship to nature.” This fall we have had two more great successes through the North

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The Fed’s a fraud If you are middle class, poor or dependent upon Social Security, I suggest the Federal Reserve is stealing money from you. It is encouraging you to borrow with its low interest rates and to gamble in the stock market. Its low rates also discourage savings as you are actually losing money on any money you have in banks. By printing unlimited amounts of money, it has decreased the value of the money you have and made it harder to sell U.S. treasuries. It has redefined the CPI (consumer price index) to make inflation look less than it is for you and me. They thus allow the government not to provide an increase in Social Security payments because they are based on CPI. It has redefined unemployment rates, making them less than they actually are and this gives them an excuse to keep interest rates low and benefit banks and large financial corporations. Low rates also create bubbles in investments, which eventually burst. I suggest we abolish the Fed! Norm Dillinger Chico

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The Butte County Sheriff’s Office has opened a homicide investigation following the discovery of a woman’s body in Oroville last week. A 911 call on Saturday, Nov. 14, reported the deceased woman was found near the 600 block of Dunstone Drive, according to a BCSO press release. The release states the woman appeared to be the victim of a homicide, but offered no further details pending investigation. The victim, who remains unidentified, is a white female between 5-feet-5 and 5-feet-8 inches tall and weighing 160 to 200 pounds. The body appears to have been at the site for several days before it was discovered. The BCSO is encouraging anyone who knows a missing person matching this description to contact them at 538-7671.

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Jake Davis is a cofounder of the local chapter of 350.org, whose mission is ending climate change.

Safe Space, a seasonal, cold-weather program offering shelter at rotating local churches to local homeless people, will open its doors for the third year on Nov. 29, and volunteers say services will be greatly expanded this year. “So far, we’ll be able to provide shelter and meals for 90 nights, and we have one church that will be the intake site the whole time,” said Cynthia Gailey, who coordinates the shelters on behalf of the Chico Housing Action Team. Last year, the shelters were open for 51 nights, and in 2013 for 15 nights. This year, nine churches have committed to act as venues, allowing the shelters to operate until at least Feb. 28. Gailey said a volunteer orientation was held Nov. 11, but more volunteers are needed. Interested parties can sign up at chat.ivolunteer.com.

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A half dozen new “donation station” smart parking meters in downtown Chico will enable users to donate to organizations that provide resources for homeless people, according to a city of Chico press release. The red-topped meters are scheduled to be installed Friday (Nov. 20), at six locations between First and Fourth streets and Salem and Broadway. The meters, which were donated by parking-meter vendor IPS Group, are part of an effort by local organizations including the

Downtown Chico Business Association and the Clean and Safe Action Group, “to create awareness

about the negative impacts of panhandling and provide an alternative,” the release reads. Donations gathered through the meters will be distributed by the North Valley Community Foundation, and will benefit service groups to be determined at a later date. 8

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Two local environmentalists bring Chico into the global movement against climate change

A ing for a higher purpose in life, something worth taking a stand for. The task of few years ago, Jake Davis was search-

deciding which cause to pick up, however, proved a bit daunting. “You have social story and injustice, climate photo by change, Black Lives Meredith J. Matter and police Cooper brutality. There are m e re d i t h c @ so many problems in n ew srev i ew. c o m the world—I had to prioritize,” he said during a recent interview. “And I had to decide, ‘Do I want to go for the low-hanging fruit, something I can really make a difference with, or do I pick the scariest thing out there?’ And that’s climate change. I Get involved: decided that’s the path I Find the group Chico 350 on Facebook to learn needed to go on.” Now he’s helping to more about the local movement, and join the spearhead a new local Global Climate March on chapter of 350.org, a Nov. 28 at 11 a.m. It will begin group with a basis in at the Chico Certified grassroots campaignFarmers’ Market. ing whose focus is on

the environment and climate change. It’s most recent efforts are focused on bringing attention to the upcoming U.N. Climate Change Conference to be held in Paris starting at the end of this month. The number 350, according to the group’s website, is significant because it represents the amount (in parts per million) of CO2 scientists say we need to reach. Today CO2 is at 400 ppm. “I signed a lot of 350.org’s petitions online, and they put out a call [recently] and asked me if I would like to help get a local group together,” said Davis, who works by day as a groundskeeper and community gardener for the Sky Creek Dharma Center. Claire Hutkins Seda, a longtime champion of the environment (and sometimes contributor to this newspaper), heard about Davis’ desire to get involved and offered to co-create a local chapter of 350.org, dubbed Chico 350. That was about 2 1/2 months ago, and since the first meeting, the group has grown from six to 25 at the most recent get-together. “It’s blossoming,” Davis said. With more than 85 followers on the group’s Facebook page, he’s optimistic for further growth. “I’ve been really impressed by the

response of the community,” Seda said by phone. Environmental guru Bill McKibben cofounded 350.org in 2008 with the hopes of getting past the politics that seemed to be holding the world back from accepting climate change as a reality. It organized global events, including the People’s Climate March last September that amassed more than 300,000 people in the streets of New York City, in addition to smaller marches all over the world. This year’s main event will be the Global Climate March, whose goal is to bring awareness to the U.N. Climate Change Conference. The Chico group, and those around the United States and all over the world, will hold local marches and rallies to highlight the importance of the international talks. Chico’s will be Nov. 28 starting at 11 a.m. at the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market and winding through the streets of downtown before landing at the City Plaza. “One of the reasons we started the local group was to join all the other communities in the world that will simultaneously be holding marches,” Seda said. “At the same time we’re marching, there will be hundreds of thousands of people also

marching all over the planet. That’s a really beautiful thing.” There is concern that the recent terrorist attacks in Paris will put a halt to the massive march and demonstration planned there leading up to the talks. “It will greatly take away from the movement’s visibility,” Davis said. “It’s really unfortunate.” The 350.org website says the group is working with French authorities and is awaiting word regarding whether their planned activities in Paris will be allowed to go forward from a public safety standpoint. Regardless of whether the Paris demonstrations will occur, 350.org’s message is this: “The Global Climate March—a worldwide day of action scheduled for Nov. 28 and 29— will ... proceed, no matter what. We can think of few better responses to violence and terror than this movement’s push for peace and hope.” For Davis and Seda, organizing Chico 350

is about giving a voice to locals who are passionate about the environment and how the world deals with climate change. Many people care, Davis said, they just need direction. “A lot of folks see that there’s an issue, but they don’t know what they can do beyond recycling and conserving water,” he said. “I don’t know how much an individual can do—real change takes money. We need our governments to invest in science, clean energy and leaving our fossil fuels in the ground. The most effective way to make change is by joining the movement, by adding your voice. “This movement is about building this thing to a critical mass so that governments have to listen,” he added. Seda agreed. From her viewpoint, the Chico community includes close to 90,000 people, all of whom have seen the effects of climate change first-hand in drops in air quality and an extended drought. Other communities of similar size have added their voice to the conversation, so why not Chico? “Locally, I don’t think we’ve really come out to show our community and leaders how important climate change is. We’re the first people on the planet to see these changes first-hand, and we’re also the last generation to be able to do something about it effectively,” said Seda, who works as a writer and editor for the Migrant Clinicians’ Network. “People are craving a chance to do something meaningful. I’m happy we’re able to provide that chance.” Ω

Unfair play KZFR sports show hosts tackle NFL domestic abuse with fundraiser week on KZFR 90.1 FM, Jake Sprecher and Jonathan Newbury do a rapidEfirevery rundown of the previous week’s sporting

events on their Monday night show, Say Hey! On the most recent episode (Nov. 16), a discussion of nominees for the Sports Illustrated Sportsman of the Year Award led to digressions about such wide-ranging competitions as tennis, ultimate fighting and horse racing. The duo have vowed, however, to not discuss the biggest sport of the season, NFL football. The one exception is Dallas Cowboys defensive end Greg Hardy, who is the fuel for a fundraising campaign called Screw Greg Hardy, which the duo launched to benefit local victims of domestic violence. “I’ve always loved the game, and still do,” Sprecher, a life-long football fan who grew up in a family of San Francisco 49ers season ticket holders, explained during a preshow interview Monday. “But it’s become really hard to balance that love with all of the B.S.” Sprecher was speaking of the league’s handling of domestic abuse cases involving players, and specifically about a recent debacle surrounding Hardy. In July 2014, Hardy—then playing for the Baltimore Ravens—was convicted of assault and other charges after he brutally attacked his thengirlfriend, throwing her against walls and choking her on a couch covered in assault rifles. He was given a 60-day suspended jail sentence and probation, but the punishments were overturned when the victim didn’t

show to an appeal hearing. While on paid leave from the NFL, Hardy signed a bigger contract with Dallas, and a 10-game suspension this season was reduced to four games after the NFL Players Association lobbied on his behalf. On Nov. 5, the domestic violence charges were expunged from his record, prompting sports news site Deadspin to publish photos of the woman’s injuries and details of the attack. The Deadspin article reignited controversy over how the NFL deals with players who commit domestic abuse. Arguably the most notable previous case was that of Ray Rice, another former Raven who was caught on surveillance camera knocking his thengirlfriend (now wife) out in an elevator and dragging her through a casino lobby. Philadelphia radio host Josh Innes started a Screw Greg Hardy crowdfunding campaign on Sportsradio WIP 94.1 FM the day the Deadspin article came out, and in 10 days raised more than $32,000 for the Genesis

SIFT ER Americans: Global warming is legit The number of people in the United States who still do not believe in climate change is dipping, according to the National Surveys on Energy and Environment. A report released last month by that organization revealed that at least 7 of 10 Americans believe there’s solid evidence showing that global warming exists and has existed for the past 40 years. That’s the second-highest percentage among respondents in the history of the twice-yearly survey (in 2008, 72 percent reported believing in the phenomenon). Interestingly, a majority of Republicans now believe in climate change. Here’s how the percentages panned out from 2014 to 2015, by party affiliation:

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Women’s Shelter & Support in Dallas. Sprecher and Newbury had already agreed not to cover the NFL before this year’s season began and, inspired by Innes’ effort, Sprecher decided to launch a similar campaign on Indiegogo to raise $5,000 for Catalyst Domestic Violence Services by Super Bowl Sunday—Feb. 7, 2016. On Tuesday, eight days into the attempt, the effort Game on: had raised more than Say Hey! airs from $500. Sprecher, who is 5:30 to 6 p.m. on also a local musician, KZFr 90.1 Fm. The Screw Greg Hardy crowdfunding said a benefit show campaign can be found will be held at Duffy’s at www.generosity.com/ Tavern just before the fundraisers/screw-gregbig game to raise more hardy-catalyst-chico. funds. Information about Catalyst Domestic violence “It’s such a cool Services can be found at idea,” said Alyssa catalystdvservices.org. Cozine, community educator at Catalyst on Tuesday. “[Domestic abuse in the NFL] has been frustrating to a lot of people for a long time, not just with this incident but because it keeps happening over and over. It’s good to see someone take that anger and turn it into something practical that helps people.” Cozine said most of Catalyst’s funding comes from state sources, but the organization also depends on donations from the community. When contacted by email, Innes said he was unaware of the Chico campaign or anyone else doing something similar outside of Philadelphia, but that he supports the effort. “I think that’s very cool that they are doing that,” he wrote. —Ken Smith kens@ newsr ev iew.c o m

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chico military Heroes’ banners, honoring currently serving armed forces personnel, went up along the eastern portion of east avenue, near Wildwood park, on veterans day. the city council recently approved the group’s plans to honor local servicemen and women along the length of the street—from Highway 32 to Wildwood avenue—year-round for at least the next two years. additional banners will go up along the roadway as the project progresses. pHoto by HoWard Hardee

airport manager and two other staff members. As several council members and speakers noted, this would put AvPORTS in the position of managing the manager. As former Councilman (and current county Supervisor) Larry Wahl put it, “There is no reason to have an expensive middle man.” The airport has been without professional management for many years, with the job falling to the city manager. As a result of this benign neglect, the airport has been operating at an annual loss, due in part, according to AvPORTS’ report, to a failure to adjust lease holdings to modern market values and attract new tenants. A total of 13 people spoke to the issue, and nearly all recommended rejecting the AvPORTS proposal. They believed the city could hire a professional manager and use local real-estate agents to handle its leases. “AvPORTS is excellent when it comes to making presentations,” said former Airport Commissioner Norm Rosene, “but there’s nothing really new in this proposal. … Its strategies are no different than ones we’ve been talking about for many years.” Not everyone was ready to give up on commercial air service, however. Katie Simmons, president and CEO of the Chico Chamber of Commerce, said an unmet need for local air service would remain, and local businesses would suffer as a result. “I hope this is not the end of the discussion,” she said. “We’re operating from a position of scarcity, but other airports’ success is based on investment,” she argued. Former Mayor and Airport Commissioner Karl Ory proposed that a bond measure be put on the ballot targeting airport improvements, but to be used only if airline service is restored. “I’m disheartened that we’re so easily giving up on that airfield,” he said. Mayor Mark Sorensen noted, however, that the airline industry is pulling out of small markets everywhere. “Either we can fill the seats or we can’t fill the seats,” he said. “We need to provide strong, compelling general-aviation services” before we can attract an airline.

ments on the marijuana front are in the works. When Andrew Merkel, a medical marijuana advocate, asked the council to agendize a discussion of the city’s response to new state laws governing medical marijuana, the council readily agreed to do so. In fact, said City Manager Mark Orme, the city’s executive team has been looking into the new laws and will present its finding to the council when the discussion occurs.

“Either we can fill the [airplane] seats or we can’t fill the seats. We need to provide strong, compelling general-aviation services.”

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ACE stands for Adverse Childhood Experience. Researchers have identified 10 exposures—abuse, neglect, traumatic household disruptions—that represent risk factors for addiction, violence, criminal behavior and chronic health conditions later in life. The issue is close to home. According to a report recently released by the Center for Youth Wellness, Butte County ranks first in California for ACE exposure: 76.5 percent of residents have at least one. The more ACEs, the greater the jeopardy. “More people in Butte County have four or more ACEs, which is kind of like the tipping point,” said DeAnne Blankenship, Chico-based director of program services for the nonprofit California Health

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Collaborative. “Four or more ACEs put you at considerably higher risk for all kinds of things: substance abuse, alcoholism … chronic disease as well.” The report, A Hidden Crisis: Findings on Adverse Childhood Experiences in California, finds that a person with four or more ACEs is twice as likely to have cancer

Butte County ranks first in California for Adverse Childhood Experience (ACE ) exposure. A person with four or more ACEs is three times as likely to smoke and/or binge drink, five times as likely to suffer from depression, seven times as likely to be an alcoholic.

and/or heart disease, three times as likely to smoke and/or binge drink, five times as likely to suffer from depression, seven times as likely to be an alcoholic, 10 times as likely to inject drugs and 12 times as likely to attempt suicide. “Some people are like, ‘Duh,’ but others are really enlightened by this,” Blankenship said. “No matter what you do as an adult, the research is showing that a lot of these conditions that you may suffer from are dictated by your exposure to trauma as a child. “Trauma doesn’t have to mean you were molested. It could mean that; but it also has lots of other [meanings]. It could be neglect. It could be a parent was incarcerated. It could be a parent had a mental illness.” The 10 ACEs are common denominators researchers found to be connected to risk factors for myriad conditions during a 1997 study of 17,000 Californians conducted by Kaiser Permanente in conjunction with the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Mitch Brown, director of training for the Drug Endangered Children Training and Advocacy Center (or DECTAC), compares

ACE problem, a host of North State agencies, including the California Health Collaborative and DECTAC, have joined forces. After training public health providers in Shasta County on ACEs—helping them become “trauma-informed”—Blankenship and several colleagues decided to organize similar sessions here. Their first planning meeting yielded the revelation that “this subject crosses all segments of the population,” she said. “Now we’re looking beyond health care-provider training.” The second meeting drew 30 attendees working in law enforcement, social services, education and health. The group hopes to attract clergy as well during the next meeting on Dec. 4. The goal is to form a tapestry of referral services along with informing the public about ACEs. “There’s work in small pockets on HEALTHLINES C O N T I N U E D

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tion AB 109. He found that 51 percent were exposed to at least four ACEs, compared to 12 percent of the general population in the original ACEs study from 1997, and the incidence of each ACE was much higher among the offenders (see chart). “All the various disciplines have a piece of the puzzle to make children and families better off by providing them early services and not waiting for catastrophes to happen,” Brown said, adding, “We can’t really think we’re helping people if we’re only addressing one of the 10 issues, and we know they have more than that. “We’re putting a frigging BandAid on it with no chance of success, as far as I’m concerned, without having a holistic approach.” Ω

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School in Oroville, a perfect IdayElementary for students to be out in the grass, learnt was a sunny Friday morning at Ophir

ing about biology and ecosystems and caring for the planet. And thanks to a whole lot of planning on the part of a relatively new educational group, that’s exactly what they were doing. Students in kindergarten through second grade formed half a dozen groups spread out in the school’s expansive outdoor area. Each was assigned a station, manned by local educators from the Stream Team, Chico State, Butte Environmental Council and California State Parks, among other organizations. Their presentations included everything from the importance of recycling and keeping creeks clean to the wonders of ecology and native wildlife. Laura Marciniak, resource teacher at Ophir Elementary, summed up her reaction with: “Wow. I could never get this done on my own.” That’s where Outdoor Education for All fits in. Formed in 2013, OEFA is a partnership of 170 local educators—teachers, principals, professors, field guides—and organizations ranging from the Chico Creek Nature

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Center and Lake Oroville State Recreation Area to Earthbound Skills and FISHBIO. “We all had a vision in common, of getting kids outside more,” said Nate Millard, supervisor of the First Year Experience Program at Chico State and a member of the OEFA steering committee. “And we realized that if we all get together, we will be way stronger.” Turns out they were right. They approached individuals and organizations that fit their mission—to expose more local children, particularly those from low-income households, to outdoor education—and were met with enthusiasm. In the first two years, they were able to serve more than 2,000 local students at four schools, including charter schools. “What I see [at the college level] is that many students have learned to hate school,” Millard said during a recent interview. “So if we can get them out with a bird expert, learning about birds, that could change their perspective of what science can do.” In fact, many of OEFA’s partners already were working toward the same goal, only on their own. The Stream Team offers lessons in testing local creek water, for instance, and rangers at Lake Oroville State Recreation Learn more about OEFA:

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Area and Lassen Volcanic National Park lead hikes and teach visitors about the land at their respective visitor centers. Jon Aull, a local naturalist, leads educational hikes in his capacity as outdoor education coordinator at Chico State’s Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve. And now all that knowledge, which until this point was independently dispensed, can be presented to local schoolchildren in one neat package. “Our goal is to offer local kids two to three outdoor science days a year,” said Tony Catalano, a former principal in the Thermalito Unified School District who now works at the Forebay Aquatic Center, organizing special events and school trips. Thus far, OEFA has been embraced by not only local organizations that focus on science, the Earth and nature, but also by the kids. With the additional support of local school teachers and administrators, Catalano and Millard say they feel primed for a bright future. OEFA’s steering committee, of which Millard and Catalano are both a part, has conducted surveys and assessments in order to put together a strategic plan through 2020. That plan includes a number of goals, from expanding the network of providers as well as training for educators to supporting providers in an attempt to offer more outdoor education opportunities. “OEFA partners have the capacity to raise educational standards, contribute to

Local naturalist Jon Aull discusses ecology and insects with a group of students at Ophir Elementary School.

healthier communities and support a deepened and expanded land stewardship ethic,” the plan reads. “Our future depends on people who respect and protect the earth.” One of the biggest challenges the group has faced thus far, Catalano said, is funding. Naturally, OEFA hopes to someday raise enough money in grants—it’s already received two—and donations to pay for a small administrative staff. An example of how funding might expand access to field trips to places like the Forebay Aquatic Center or Lassen Volcanic National Park is the need for transportation. “We’ve met with some of the principals from south county schools and we’re shocked to find out they have a $200 budget,” Millard said. “So even if we can get a great field trip organized, we can’t get [the students] there.” Catalano, having worked in the Thermalito Unified School District, understands the area’s unique challenges. “South county is a place where we can make the biggest difference,” he said. Thus far, the majority of field trips and on-site programs have focused on the Oroville area. OEFA’s target audience, however, spans all the schools in Butte County. “I feel like we’ve just gotten started,” Millard said. Ω

ECO EVENT BIKES ARE BETTER The Butte Bicycle Coalition advocates for access to safe cycling not just from a health and recreational standpoint, but also as a social justice, environmental and world peace issue. The group is dedicated to working toward a vision of “more biking, less driving” through education, advocacy and community involvement. People interested in ﬁnding out more about the group or local cycling can attend monthly drop-in meetings, the next of which is from 3 to 4 p.m. today (Thursday, Nov. 19) at the Chico Peace and Justice Center (526 Broadway). For more information, go to buttebicyclecoalition.org.

Travel to Tuscany with Mooney Farms The beautiful Tuscan style company store is open Monday through Friday from 10am-4pm. Every Wednesday during the holiday season, enjoy samples of Bella Sun Luci Italian favorites including their award-winning Bella Sun Luci Arbequina Extra Virgin Olive Oil and Sun Dried Tomato line. Gift baskets are available to purchase or create your own unique design. Shipping is available.

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MOONEY FARMS 1220 Fortress Street • Chico 95973 (530) 899-2661 • www.MooneyFarms.com Holiday hours Mon-Fri 10am to 4pm

Hot Holiday Accessories Anika Burke Eclectic Boutique enjoys providing Chico with the essence of California’s casual lifestyle. This ever– popular shop is chock-full of modern and classy women’s & men’s clothing and accessories. Dress with ease and rock every piece you wear! This week’s special offer: Fleece–lined leggings, five for $20 or $5.95 each. Available in 11 colors.

Anika Burke Eclectic Boutique 211 Main St • Chico (530) 918–8850 www.AnikaBurke.com

Give the perfect gift from 2015 Best Of Chico’s Day Spa. Sweetwater Gift Cards - Beautifully Boxed and Wrapped. Or Sweetwater’s Customer Favorite: The Holiday Face & Body Package for only $109! Includes Signature spa facial and Relaxation massage. Purchase now through December 31.

sweetwater day spa 1031 Village Lane Chico (530) 894–7722 www.SweetwaterChico.com

Tons of New Items in Stock This Year Chico’s very own downtown Chinatown has hundreds of new items in stock this year; just in time for the holidays! Stop in today to check out their wide variety of stuffed animals, puzzles, dolls, Hello Kitty, trinkets and much more. Great gifts for all ages at affordable prices!

House of Rice Oriental Imports & Gifts 338 Broadway Downtown Chico (530) 893–1794

Get the perfect gift for every food lover on your list California Olive Ranch makes certified extra virgin olive oils, 100% grown and crafted in California. While olives have grown in California for hundreds of years, 1we’ve pioneered ways of cultivating olives in order to make our extra virgin olive oil premium and affordable. We believe that taking care of the Earth’s resources is the right thing to do – and leads to better olive oil.

California Olive Ranch Shop.CaliforniaOliveRanch.com Local retailer CaliforniaOliveRanch.com/Store-Locator/

Your Snowboard Headquarters Carrying full lines of snow ski and snowboard equipment, accessories and clothing, Hughes Ski Hut has been the premier ski and snowboard shop in the North Valley for 45 years. With the best brands, and the latest styles, you are sure to find what you are looking for at Hughes Ski Hut. Brands: Burton, K2, Rome, Rossignol, DC, Lib Tech, GNU, Ride

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Share the rich, golden elegance of the AWARD WINNING Butte View olive oils. Pure, light and delicate – experience the wonderful aromas and distinctive accents that make each hand crafted oil truly unique and excellent. 250ml/500ml. Available in Chico at Maisie Jane’s, Made in Chico, S&S Produce, in Oroville at Collins & Denny Market & Wagon Wheel Market and in Paradise at Noble Orchard.

Shubert’s Homemade Ice Cream & Candy has been a Chico tradition for over 75 years! Homemade boxed chocolates, peanut brittle, English toffee and Divinity are just a few treats our families have come to look forward to during the holidays. Pre-order ice-cream pies now! The perfect holiday dessert! Don’t forget your Shubert’s Mints this season – no holiday celebration would be complete without them!

Butte View Olive Company 2950 Louis Ave. • Oroville 530.534.8320 • www.ButteView.com

Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy 178 E. Seventh St., Chico (530) 342–7163 www.Shuberts.com

Brew Your Own Right At Home The Chico Home Brew Shop is the place to go for all of your brewing and winemaking needs. We carry beer and wine makers equipment, ingredients, books, soda extract, cheese making ingredients, bottles, caps, corks, spouts, growlers, cider kits and much more. We are happy to answer any questions you may have too! Come by today! Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Friday until 6pm.

The Chico Home Brew Shop 1570 Nord Ave, Chico 530.342.3768 HomeBruShop@yahoo.com

Gifts. Fashion. Home This holiday season, find the perfect gift at Hubbs Stationery! Choose from a wide selection of trendy clothing, decorative items, seasonal home decor, jewelry, shoes, purses, personal care items & travel accessories, as well as decorative paper tableware, candles, gourmet foods, and bath and body care. The selection at Hubbs is always changing so you will always find something new and trendy!

Hubbs Stationery 956 Mangrove Ave. (530) 892-4940 www.HubbsStationery.com

Gift Cards Available Great food, great atmosphere! New, Tasty Entrees! Appetizers & Salads, Focaccia Sandwiches and Pizza, Lunch & Dinner Entrees, Desserts, Beer/Wine, Offering a full range of on-site and off-site catering OPEN Monday - Thursday 11:00 am - 8:30 pm, Friday - Saturday 11:00 am - 9:00 pm, Sunday 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Call For Pick-Up

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A Feast for the Eyes Set a beautiful Thanksgiving table with fresh flowers from Christian & Johnson! Warm, vibrant Fall colors will provide a feast for the eyes and add the perfect finishing touch to your gathering of friends and family. Stop by, give us a call, or order flowers over our brand-new website! Since 1907, C&J has been making the holidays beautiful!

CHRISTIAN & JOHNSON 250 Vallombrosa • Chico (530) 891.1881 www.ChristianAndJohnson.com

The NEW Wusthof Wusthof Classic #4038 3 1/2 ‘Clip Point’ Paring knife Fully forged German steel Regularly $78.00 Introductory Sale Price for the Holidays $29.99 See our huge selection of Wusthof cutlery at internet prices.

Fanno Saw Works 224 W. 8Th Ave Chico (530) 895.1762

Get Juiced Juiced U500 Electric Cargo Bike Travel up to 100 miles per charge on this industrial strength utility bike. Add a child seat and commute with the kids. Also perfect for carrying everything you need for your daily commute with its large cargo rack and optional additional front basket. Models available now starting at $1999.

Red Mountain Green Cycle LLC 455 E. 20th St. Suite #30 - Chico 899-7270 • rmgreencycle@gmail.com www.RedMountainGreenCycle.com

Give the gift of style! The Dressing Room women’s clothing boutique specializing in casual wear, special occasion, and professional attire for the modern woman. Offering clothing by Joseph Ribkoff, Three Dots, Silver Jeans Co., M. Rena & many more. New inventory arriving weekly with limited sizes per style. Timeless cotton button down shirt in Brick Stone from Three Dots, made in the U.S.A.

The Dressing Room 530 Broadway – Chico (530) 566-9394 Mon- Sat 10a-6p

The Tilley Endurables TH4 Hemp Sun Protection Hat This hat features a wide front/back sloping brim with 2 1/2” sides for even more sun shading protection. Made of the world’s strongest fiber, hemp hats are soft as linen but durable and resistant to mold, mildew and salt water. It is UPF 50+ rated for ultimate sun protection and has a high ventilated crown for added air flow. This hat is guaranteed machine washable and will never shrink. Excellent for those whose outdoor activities require a little extra shade.

Mountain Sports 176 E. 3rd Street • Downtown Chico (530) 345–5011 • Open Daily www.ChicoMountainSports.com www.facebook.com/chicomountainsports

Restored, Renewed, Recreated Looking for just the right gift? Come to ABC Books & More and you will find unique items from local artisans, collectibles, antiques and more! We’ve got something for everyone so come in today to find that perfect, one of a kind gift!

ABC Books & More... 940 Mangrove Ave. Chico (530) 893-4342 www.ABCbookschico.com

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Chico’s Own Locally Grown Wines The Perfect Holiday Gift An Awesome Gift for Wine Aficionados, $60-$90 The perfect gift for your wine loving friends is a stunning art glass wine stopper from Chico Valley Gallery. World recognized art glass marble maker Tim Keyzers has put his beautiful collector marbles on top of wine stoppers creating functional art showpieces. In Chico Valley Gallery you will find the most exquisite art glass pieces from around the US. Pendants, Marbles, Artistic Showpieces, Functional Glass, and much more. Visit the showroom and see for yourself why Chico Valley Gallery is becoming known for selling the finest art glass in the North Valley. Located in Downtown Chico next to Woodstock’s Pizza.

Chico Valley Gallery 152 E. 2nd Street Downtown Chico (530) 345-1528

Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards grows only the highestquality, organic grapes. Meticulous farming in the field and high attention to detail in the winery produces a higher quality product. Find our wines at Chico Natural Foods, S&S Produce, Chico Costco, Raley’s, Safeway, BevMo, Maisie Jane’s, The Olive Pit, Wagon Wheel Market, Tops Market and SaveMart to list a few. Please see our website for a complete listing. Taste Bertagna wines at the NEW Almendra Winery & Distillery opening soon in Durham. Ask for a bottle at your favorite restaurant!

Bertagna son kissed vineyards 3363 Hegan Lane • Chico (530) 343-8014 www.BertagnaWine.com

Quilters Secret Stash Cool Clothes from Every contributor to Kühl® ® comes to the company with an outdoor lifestyle. Kühl® people ski, mountain and road bike, backpack, camp, mountaineer, and travel world-wide. Kühl® aspires to contribute to mountain culture in their efforts to provide these like-minded enthusiasts with the finest quality outdoor clothing available. You’ll find quality throughout Sports LTD. From clothing to bikes, from shoes and boots to Yoga wear, the quality is always there. Make that list and bring it in. You’re sure to find “Only the Good Stuff!”

Smart quilters know that a great place to get material for their quilts is at the Chico Antique Center on Park Ave at 20th Street. Beautiful cloth ready to be stitched together to create awesome gifts for family and friends. Tis the season to be quilting, so stop by today and get the pick of the material. Chico Antique Center is where you will find treasures from bygone era’s. Recycle, Reuse, and Repurpose...it’s good for our economy and the environment! Before you pay for imported junk at a big box store, stop by Chico Antique Center to step back to a time when things were designed and built to last a lifetime.

Chico Antique Center 1900 Park Ave. Chico (530) 893-5536

Chico Sports LTD 698 Mangrove Ave. • Chico Safeway Shopping Center (530) 894.1110

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The ultimate fan gift Does someone close to you have a favorite band or sports team. Needham Stained Glass Studio has the ideal gift for Christmas. They can replicate almost any logo in beautiful stained glass. And you will be surprised at how inexpensive it can be. Giants, A’s, Warriors, Raiders, Dodgers, the Dead, you name it, they can probably do it. Stop by the shop today and place your order. Or choose from the many pieces of art they have on display to find that personal, thoughtful gift. For over 45 years Mick Needham has been producing award winning stained glass art including the work at Sierra Nevada Brewery. Needham Studios does not do “production” stained glass work, they do “made to match” pieces that highlight the nuances of its intended space.

RAY’S IS THE PLACE... Where all the fun begins. A long time mantra of the iconic liquor store. And now you can step back in time when fine wine, premium spirits, and good craft beer shared the shelves with the college crowds less than perfected pallet for alcohol. With plans to expand the stores selection of wine and create a wine cellar in the basement, soon you will find the finest vino that will satisfy even the most delicate pallet. Stop in Ray’s today, check it out, grab a gift for a friend or take home a bottle of wine for yourself. When you’re planning on having fun, remember it begins at Ray’s

Ray’s Liquor 207 Walnut St. Chico (530) 343-3249

Needham Studios 237 Broadway- Downtown Chico (530) 345-4718 www.NeedhamStudios.com

Give the gift everyone will Love... Flavorful Holiday gifts Want to share 5th Street Steakhouse with a friend or family member? Gift cards make it simple. Great for the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and company parties. 5th Street Steakhouse food tastes great on any occasion!

5th Street Steakhouse 345 West 5th St. (530) 891-6328 5thStreetSteakhouse.com

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A gift certificate from Tres Hombres. Choose any denomination, get a gift card, and your holiday shopping for friends & co-workers is complete. Try the “The BEST Margaritas in Chico” as voted by CN&R readers. Or skip the filler and try a shot of over 125 premium tequilas. Fiesta Hour Appetizers & Cocktails Daily 4-6. $4.00 La Casa Margs & $4.00 Draft Beer. Next time you’re making plans to gather just say...“Meet me at Tres.”

TRES HOMBRES 100 Broadway • Chico (530) 342–0425 • www.TresHombresChico.com

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Chicoans love Chico. Get more for your holiday dollars when you save up to 90% on gift certificates to local businesses. Or show your appreciation for local Chico events with limited edition T-shirts. Buy online anytime with a credit card or in person with cash, check or credit card Monday through Friday 9am – 5pm.

This Christmas, give the ones you love a gift certificate to Bidwell Park Golf course. Located in picturesque Upper Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park Golf Course offers 18 holes of beautiful scenery, well maintained greens, and a friendly and helpful staff. A gift certificate to Bidwell Park Golf Course can be used to book tee times and can also be used in the pro shop and in the Bidwell Bar and Grill.

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Planetfriendly home improvement Until recently, 33-year-old Monica Smith was a stay-at-home mom who raised animals and tended “massive vegetable gardens.” But over the last six years, as she learned more about the toxicity of common household goods and the burgeoning market for eco-friendly building supplies, Smith’s toyed with the idea of opening up a green home-improvement store. In May, the first-time business owner took the leap and opened Earthliving in south Chico. There she offers mostly regionally produced countertops, flooring, insulation and bedding and more—all nontoxic and environmentally friendly. Visit Earthliving at 2412 Park Ave., open from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Tues.-Sat., or call 487-7310. Look for a website in the new year.

So, it’s just you—no employees? It will be a lonely Christmas party, but I do have friends and family who help out. It works for the moment. It has to make sense for me to hire an employee.

Isn’t opening a business by yourself a massive undertaking? In times of old, this is how people opened up businesses. Loans and credit cards have taken over, but

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people used to open businesses with hard-earned money and their blood, sweat and tears. They didn’t just go, “Give me a $50,000 loan and if it doesn’t work out, whatever.” Everything in here is hand-built, all the cabinetry. This building was a gas station, then it was Tom Berry’s Tires for like, 60 years, so this place was nasty and needed a facelift—a little sweat equity.

come in. Maybe they don’t buy anything, but it gets their mind moving on the products they’re using. Your countertop really isn’t that toxic, but [producing it] can create a lot of toxicity. So, it’s about having products that make people think, “Wait, what am I using in my home, and what is the impact it’s making elsewhere?”

Why open a green building store?

I’ll reclaim wood, go strip barns or old fences and reuse it to make barn doors and cabinetry and such. I fill the back of my shop with it.

We live in such a toxic society; everything is toxic, when you really look into it. Your paint, your flooring, your insulation, your bed, your bedding—it’s pretty incredible, the toxic substances our homes contain. And I found it funny that we live in a city that kind of touts itself as being healthy and green and sustainable and there is not a single place that you can buy green home goods. You can buy that kind of food all day long.

Do you make anything yourself?

You’re handy? I’m really learning. I’ve taken over the power tool situation; it’s not as hard as it looks. And because it’s old wood, if it’s a little bit off, people kind of assume that’s how it should be. It’s like, “That’s cool, right there.”

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First it was the increase in employee health insurance costs. Then came the bump in California’s minimum wage. Add in a seemingly nonsensical citation from the state’s Department of Consumer Affairs and it became clear that the challenges were just too overwhelming for Woof & Poof, a 40-year-old Chico institution, to continue. CEO and owner Roger Hart, his wife, Sabrina, and sister Linda Gonzalez took over ownership of Woof & Poof, which currently employs 15, 2 1/2 years ago after the passing of founder Jacki Headley in 2012. Headley started the business in 1975, and since then, Woof & Poof’s stuffed Santas, decorative pillows and household décor have developed a fan-following with nationwide distribution in 600 stores. But the popularity of the Chico-made items are no match for what Hart said are “insurmountable” obstacles. Without mincing words, Hart said although there are a variety of factors pressing down on the Chico manufacturer, the largest hardship is being based in California. “It’s virtually impossible for us to compete. The high cost of doing business in California puts us at a distinct disadvantage competitively,” Hart said. Hart continued, saying the rising costs of doing business in the state would require him to raise product prices by 40 percent, and as a wholesaler, Woof & Poof sells to gift stores, which are struggling themselves to bring in customers. The last straw was a state citation over the font size and type on the company’s decorative pillows to conform with requirements for pillows made for sleeping. Hart said the fine was eventually waived, but the Department of Consumer Affairs said the changes—which Hart said would be expensive—still needed to be made, with the looming threat that the state could seize the company’s inventory if they weren’t. Though Hart said some advised him of taking Woof & Poof production offshore to increase profit margins, he felt that the option wasn’t right. Instead, the family is closing up shop. Manufacturing has ceased and the remaining inventory will continue to be sold in retail outlets, locally at downtown’s Made in Chico. Hart said he doesn’t know what the next move is for him professionally, but one thing is for certain in his mind: if he stays doing business in California, he’s going to be facing an uphill battle.

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orld leaders from more than 190 countries will convene in Paris during the first two weeks of December for the long-awaited United Nations Climate Change Conference. Will the governments of the world finally pass a binding global treaty aimed at reducing the most dangerous impacts of global warming … or will they fail in this task? Letters to the Future, a national project involving more than 40 alternative weeklies across the United States, set out to find authors, artists, scientists and others willing to get creative and draft letters to future generations of their own families, predicting the success or failure of the Paris talks— and what came after. Some participants were optimistic about what is to come—some not To read more so much. We hereby present letters or write your own, visit www.LettersToTheFuture.org. some of their visions of the This is a collaberative effort between this newspaper, the future. Association of Alternative

—Geraldine Brooks

Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author. Her 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She became a United States citizen in 2002.

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I just flushed my toilet with drinking water. I know, you don’t believe me: “Nobody could ever have been that stupid, that wasteful.” But we are. We use air conditioners all the time, even in mild climates where they aren’t a bit necessary. We cool our homes so we need to wear sweaters indoors in summer, and heat them so we have to wear T-shirts in mid-winter. We let one person drive around all alone in a huge thing called an SUV. We make perfectly good things—plates, cups, knives— then we use them just once, and throw them away. They’re still there, in your time. Dig them up. They’ll still be useable. Maybe you have dug them up. Maybe you’re making use of them now. Maybe you’re frugal and ingenious in ways we in the wealthy world have not yet chosen to be. There’s an old teaching from a rabbi called Nachman who lived in a town called Bratslav centuries ago: “If you believe it is possible to destroy, believe it is possible to repair.” Some of us believe that. We’re trying to spread the message. Friends are working on genetic editing that will bring back the heath hen, a bird that went extinct almost 80 years ago. The last member of the species died in the woods just a few miles from my home. Did we succeed? Do you have heath hens, booming their mating calls across the sand plains that sustain them? If you do, it means that this idea of repair caught on in time, and that their habitat was restored, instead of being sold for yet more beachside mansions. It means that enough great minds turned away from the easy temptations of a career moving money from one rich person’s account to another’s, and instead became engineers and scientists dedicated to repairing and preserving this small blue marble, spinning in the velvet void. We send out probes, looking for signs of life on other worlds. A possible spec of mold is exciting—press conference! News flash! Imagine if they found, say, a sparrow. President addresses the nation! And yet we fail to take note of the beauty of sparrows, their subtle hues and swift grace. We’re profligate and reckless with all this abundant life, teeming and vivid, that sustains and inspires us. We destroyed. You believed it was possible to repair.

nities Brief Oppor tu randdaughter,

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This Abundant Life

I Am Sorry I Have Been Sorry

I am sorry. As I sit here early in the morning and think about my great, greatgranddaughter, living in a climatechanged world, I am sorry is the main thought that keeps coming to mind. I am writing this letter to you for a newspaper project, but it is not remarkable for me to think so far ahead in time because, as a historian, I have made a life of thinking far into the past. My grandmother often told me of her grandmother . I was always struck at how diff erent my life is from hers, and I won der how different your life will be from mine. My great, great-grand mother came to this country with great hope and confidence in the future. That is where we part. I kno w too much about the devastating effe cts of climate change. I am sorry. I am writing in advance of the Pari s climate talks, round 21 to be exact. The hope of the talks is to produce binding CO reduction com mitments between countries, but I know that those “co2mmitments” are really between people, and I don ’t see the people around me com mitting to reducing their CO emissio ns. The city of Chico, where I live 2 , committed to reducing their gree nhouse gas production in 2008 and in the time since residents have incr eased their energy use by 20 perc ent. I know you don’t want to hear abo ut all the petty issues like plastic bag bans that kept us from making meaningful change. You don’t care that the city was broke and didn’t have the staff to see that we met our “commitments.” You can see from your vantage point that we did nothing to avert your futu re simply because it was easier for us to not think about it, to not thin k about you. That you won’t care about any of my excuses makes it hard to write this letter. Realizing that I am glad that I do not have to see this happen to you mak es me feel even worse, but thinking abo ut you has changed me in one way, and maybe that was the point of this exercis e. I am going to stop acting in ways that make me feel sorry. I am going to act and speak in ways that matter, no matter whom I have to apologize to, and maybe some of my great-grandmother’s hope will return.

—Mark Stemen

Stemen is a Chico State professor and president of the Butte Environmental Council board of directors.

—Jane Smiley

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—Geraldine Brooks

Brooks is an Australian-American journalist and author. Her 2005 novel, March, won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. She became a United States citizen in 2002.

Scientists, authors, artists and activists predict the outcome of the upcoming U.N. climate talks in Paris

nities Brief Oppor tu randdaughter,

PHOTO COURT ESY OF CHICO STATE

This Abundant Life

I Am Sorry I Have Been Sorry

—Mark Stemen

Stemen is a Chico State professor and president of the Butte Environmental Council board of directors.

—Jane Smiley

Newsmedia and the Media Consortium. Also visit www.facebook.com/lettersto thefuture.parisclimateproject.

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We Just Didn’t Realize .. . We didn’t

realize what we were doing. We didn’t realize ho just di w bad things wer e getting or how dn’t. We were going to ge bad they t. In my time we lived in a world plenty; plenty of of such food, plenty of cl ean water and ai stuff to enjoy. Ev r, plenty of erything seemed to be going so w of us never look el ed at what our lif estyle was doing l that most on which we depe to the planet nded. Everything was so imagined the uglin shiny, clean and new that we never ess it took to crea of us started to be te it. At some po int some come aware but by entire way of life was built on destr then it was too late. Our oying the Earth an didn’t know how to stop it. So we d we kept making and that stuff. buying all The only way to been to immedia prevent the impending chaos wou tely ld have deep and so far re reverse course. But by then we were in so moved from a “n atural” lifestyle th didn’t know how at to we didn’t have tim live without the stuff. And unfo we just rtunately e to learn how to that wouldn’t ruin make the stuff in a way our home. Our last chance came in 2015, w to discuss it. We hen our “leaders ” gathered ho things around. Bu ped they’d do everything they co uld to turn t they weren’t w illin required for us to continue. They di g to make the sacrifices dn’t realize ei See, we had this thing called mon ther. ey. It became the most important th ing in the world to us. so important that we forgot the im It became portance of air and water and food. We forgot abou intricate and finel y balanced ecosys t the tem of which we were a part. We forgot th at without those things the money meant nothing. Turned out, you couldn And so we sealed ’t eat money. our fate and your I’m so sorry. I w s. ish we’d done th in ferently. But we just didn’t realiz gs dife…

—Jake Davis

Davis is organizer of Chi a community volunteer and coco 350, a local of fshoot of 350.org.

Source: UNFCCC, IPCC, New York Times

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My Endless Sky Dear Future Robinsons, Back around the turn of the century, flying to space stuff was a rare human privilege, a dream come true, the ion of movies (look it up), and an almost impossible ambit d. aroun for children the world from But I was one of those fortunates. And what I saw is e shuttl space the of ws the cold, thick, protective windo never a was (I ing dream of years 40 my te despi something that, ned. young astronaut), I never remotely imagi know, I was somehow born Not that I was new to imagining things. As you may of the atmosphere. I built ries myste with a passion for the sky, for flight, and for the d university degrees in earne rly, prope fly to d and flew death-defying gliders, learne life exploring Earth’s atmosphere the science of flight, and then spent the rest of my never satisfied, and my love of was r from below it, within it and above it. My hunge many times. me kill to tried it h thoug flight never waned at all, even military jets, I always had then ft, aircra small then s, glider in fly to As I learned delirious burning blue” “long te infini the the secure feeling that the atmosphere was space and its nearabout knew well I e, peopl all of h of Magee’s poem, even thoug power and a little more little a ness. It seemed impossible to believe that with just “laughter-silvered on r highe and r highe climb more bravery, I couldn’t continue to phere and flight. atmos gift of sky, wings.” My life was a celebration of the infinite that violent, lifeing follow , space ng But what I saw in the first minutes of enteri me. changing rocket ride, shocked can see it “on edge”—gazing If you look at Earth’s atmosphere from orbit, you the gentle curve of the yesand above toward the horizon, with the black of space exquisite, luminous, delicate most the is see you what And it’s-round planet below. ethereal eggshell. “That’s it?!” an glow of a layered azure haze holding the Earth like paper-thin, blue wrapping of a only was sky— I thought. The entire sky—my endless the planet, and looking as tentative as frost. e and shockingly tiny— And this is the truth. Our Earth’s atmosphere is fragil know about, only one we life the all Of e. volum maybe 4 percent of the planet’s t-wrap. I hope we did, plane us blue species has the responsibility to protect that precio and I hope you do.

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—Stephen K. Robinson

included four shuttle missions After 36 years as an astronaut—with a tenure that 2012. He is now a professor in and three spacewalks—Robinson retired from NASA . Davis UC at eering of mechanical and aerospace engin

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Prominent scientists testify for the first time before U.S. Congress about dangers of global warming. Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) formed to gather and assess evidence.

In Rio de Janeiro, IPCC agrees a United Nations framework is needed to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.

The world’s governments gather in Kyoto, Japan, to negotiate a treaty to curb global warming. The U.S. never ratifies the treaty. A developing nation, China was never bound by the treaty.

The third IPCC reports that global warming likely will cause unprecedented sea level rise and extreme weather events. A few months into the next year comes a dramatic collapse of the Larsen B Ice Shelf in Antarctica.

Hurricane Katrina hits the Gulf Coast. This and other severe weather events spur debate over the impact of global warming. U.N. parties continue negotiations toward global carbon reductions.

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I’m Fighting for You

Do Not Rebuild

—Rhea Suh

Binyon Family Survivors, I lived in a time of staggering arrogance, when humanity was mentally ill. Since we discovered oil, our numbers have multiplied sevenfold, we’ve destroyed half of the world’s forests, poisoned the oceans, and changed life on Earth forever. We mined rare minerals in sites all over the ng world at horrific costs to the Earth and built thinki We connected all of ies. factor king y-suc energ in it of all machines out of and used that netgrid ical electr the thinking machines with an enormous alone, all while feel n’t would we so other each work to communicate to to believe but hard be barely knowing our neighbors. I know this all must the sea, by in tains moun ice were rgs it’s just the tip of the iceberg. Icebe the way. n that makes us We are infected by the normalcy bias, a phenomeno I write to you al. norm is es lifetim our in believe that whatever happens y of life on histor the in tion extinc mass st greate the of le from the midd ss saving discu to rs leade our of Earth, and soon there will be a meeting sustain to ability its and y, alread yed destro the planet. The Earth is half aciviliz Our : belief our civilization is near the end. Yet we cling to this e becom to ing evolv are we e believ tion can and must be saved. Many will save us all. But for demigods powered by technological miracles that ged the Earth more. dama every technology we’ve developed, we have than we save. We so more me consu we , For every efficiency we create te appetite on a finite infini our feed to way a ole, looph a desperately want Earth. We are deranged. of that opulence Fossil fuel civilization was an orgy. The intoxication civilization. our of ruin brought us to the alteration of our planet and the by the time sure I’m al. norm call will But what we will call calamity, you the dirt, in , again s mean its within living is nity this reaches you, huma s. forest ering under the shade of the new trees in the recov good as it may Do not rebuild what we lost. Our lives weren’t as Remember that fires. e villag your d aroun told are s storie sound when the se your forebecau only this you are one of the lucky few alive to read ness you meek their gh Throu dirt. the to return fathers weren’t afraid to have inherited the Earth. With Love, Your Great, Great, Great-Grandpa Binyon

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Dear Grandchildren, I can only imagine the wonderful world you are growing up in. I think of that world— your future—almost every day. I think about how to make sure it is a place where all your hopes and dreams can come true. A long time ago, my parents traveled across the world from Korea to the United States in search of a brighter future for me and my sisters. Today, I am writing you from Paris, a city that I have traveled across the world to get to, in order to make sure the world does the same for you. I’m fighting for you, for everyone in your generation across the world, to ensure that you have more than a fighting chance at that bright future. A world without the dangers of global climate change is the world that you will inherit. What is climate change? Never heard of it? I’m so very glad if you haven’t. Let me try to explain. I warn you, though, this can be kind of scary. When we first started building up our cities, roads and towns in what was called the Industrial Revolution, we burned all sorts of fuels—coal, oil and natural gas. While these things helped us heat our homes, drive our cars and expand our cities, we didn’t realize that they also clouded our air, dirtied our water and made us sick. More than that, the burning of all those fuels made our planet sick. All the other animals and plants that we share this world with were getting sick too. The planet became warmer, which created a mixed-u p chaos of terrible hurricanes, tornadoes, raging wildfires, drought and increased hunger, growing rates of asthma and lung disease, and the extinction of animals at an unprecedented rate. So my dear grandchildren, we faced a choice. We could keep doing what we had been doing, or we could make the choice to take a stand for our future—your future and the planet’s future—by creating the framework to begin to move away from this scary legacy. The wind turbines and solar panels that power your world, electric cars, high-spe ed trains and solar airplanes weren’t so commonplace in my time. They required a revolution in how we think about energy, about our relationship to the world, about our faith in our own capacity to innovate and change. What took us so long? Sigh. It’s a long story, but like many of the children ’s books you grew up with, it was a story of greed, short-sightedness and wizards with too much gold. But against these challenges, sometimes with great bravery, people—young and old from every nation—stood up and demanded that we take the steps to curb this terrible scourge. I hope you will know this to be true. I hope you will remember that many years ago, your grandma and many others across the world stood up and demanded that we make the world a better place. I hope you know that it was a difficult path, just like that of my parents so many years ago. And I hope you know we did it thinking of you and the future you now inherit.

—Alec Binyon

Suh is the president of the Natural Resources Defense Council, a nonprofit environmental advocacy organization.

. Binyon is a father, poet and entrepreneur from Chico

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An Inconvenient Truth, the Oscar-winning film version of former Vice President Al Gore’s lectures on climate change, is released. Climate science enters into popular consciousness but political polarization mounts.

Congress stalls on the climate, leaving state governments to lead the charge. California passes the Global Warming Solutions Act and soon leads the nation in energy-efficiency standards and regulation of emissions.

China overtakes America as world’s largest greenhouse gas emitter. NASA finds Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets and Arctic Ocean sea-ice cover shrinking faster than expected. Gore and the IPCC win joint Nobel Peace Prize for climate work.

Experts warn that global warming is arriving at a faster, more dangerous pace than expected. Meanwhile, the U.N. Framework Climate Change Conference talks, held in the midst of global recession, fail to negotiate binding emissions agreements.

UNFCCC meets in South Africa and parties agree to work on a new and universal agreement involving all countries, not just wealthy ones, to join in combating global warming. Accord to be negotiated in Paris.

Mean global temperature at warmest in thousands of years; concentration of carbon in the atmosphere highest it's been in millennia. Scientists and politicians become bolder in connecting increased extreme weather events and climate change.

Global rallies are held in 2,000 locations across the world demanding urgent action on climate change. Hundreds of thousands of people gather and continue a call for action.

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In an unexpected political breakthrough, China and the United States, which together produce nearly half of global carbon dioxide emissions, jointly announce future reduction plans.

Pope Francis releases unprecedented papal encyclical wherein he calls for urgent action on climate change. Two more populous countries—Brazil and India—make pre-Paris commitments to decrease emissions.

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The world’s governments convene in Paris to attempt negotiation of a unified, global accord and to put architecture in place to save humanity from the worst outcomes of climate change.

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Arts & Culture ! ’ n i k Smo Chico State theater department goes hilariously to pot

marijuana enhances one’s appreciation Cof music and art, heightens one’s wit and ertain authorities assert that ingesting

sense of humor and anesthetizes both physical and psychological pain. Others assert by Carey Wilson that imbibing marijuana flattens one’s emotional affect and sense of personal responsibilREVIEW: ity, dulls motivation, Reefer Madness: curbs creativity and may The Musical, final showing tonight result in despondence, (Nov. 19), 7:30 p.m., dependence or even in Wismer Theatre. psychosis. Chico State’s Tickets: $6-$15 Department of Music and Theatre’s musical Wismer Theatre Chico State campus production of Reefer 898-6333 Madness: The Musical www.schoolofthe plays these diametrically arts-csuchico.com opposed views against each other, and the result leans pretty heavily in support of the former. The play is based on the 1936 antimarijuana propaganda film, Reefer Madness, which lured audiences using such sensationalistic slogans as, “Women cry for it—men die for it!” The original, church-sponsored film was revived as an unintentionally campy satire by pro-pot movie fans in the 1970s, and became a cult favorite and midnight movie staple. This musical adaptation by collaborators Kevin Murphy and Dan Studney takes that satirical element to heights never intended by the original producers of the film, but does so by sticking

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with the basic story and melodramatic approach to the topic. Clean-cut, allAmerican teenager Jimmy Harper (Eric Gateno) and his saddle-shoed, sausagecurled blonde sweetheart Mary Lane (Michelle Moore), are lured into the downward spiral of the reefer-smoking life by the nefarious and abusive Jack (Eric Dobson), proprietor of the Reefer Den. His abused, addicted and degraded moll, Mae (Lara Tenckhoff), presides over the smoky Den, inhabited by the fidgety, hysterically giggling college dropout Ralph (Michael Bram) and negligent, stoned-out teen mother/prostitute Sally (Lacy Stephens). Introducing the characters from a mobile podium, the Lecturer (brilliantly done by quick-change artist Tyler Campbell, who shape-shifts into a satanic satyr, a soda jerk and a wheelchair-bound FDR, as narrative action demands) initially presents their story as a documentary illustrating his lecture. The opening production number, “Reefer Madness,” brings out the dance ensemble and vocal chorus in zombie regalia, and Wismer Theatre’s in-the-round staging is fully exploited by Sheree Henning’s choreography as dancers emerge seemingly from the theater’s seating to take over the central stage. Studney’s music—which morphs seamlessly between swinging jazz, show-tune smarminess and heavy rock in a manner reminiscent of soundtrack composer Danny Elfman’s days as Oingo Boingo frontman—is played live by an excellent band above the main stage.

The cleverly paced episodic narrative is punctuated by a Placard Girl (Cassandra Gutierrez), whose job is to present the audience with such moralistic cues as “Reefer gets you raped, and you won’t care!” in reference to Mae and the abusive Jack, and “Taking a hit of reefer makes you sell your babies—for drug money!” in reference to wayward pothead mother Sally’s doing just that. Reefer Madness presents many scenes and laughs, but highlights include appearances by a self-righteous, singing and dancing Jesus (a wigged and bearded Dobson), who appears after Jimmy has stolen money from church to support his habit, and Mary Lane’s transformation from school-girl innocent to raging dominatrix after puffing her first joint. Her transformation and subsequent domination of would-be seducer Ralph hilariously turns the tables on an ill-intentioned creeper in a manner that many a young woman can, if not relate to from personal experience, at least appreciate. The grand finale offers satirical glimpses of American patriotism, Christian heaven and the U.S. penal system, with cast and supporting ensemble bedecked in Sandy Barton’s costume designs, which reflect the 1930s-era aesthetic of the original black-and-white movie brought into sparkling color. With its cast packed with excellent singers and dancers, its beautifully crafted staging and its comical presentation of themes and scenes that any university student can relate to and laugh at, it’s no wonder that Reefer Madness (which ends tonight, Nov. 19) has been selling out each night. It sets a literal and figurative high bar for all future productions. Ω

Actors Lacy Stephens, Eric Gateno (middle) and Michael Bram give in to the high life in Reefer Madness. PHOTO COURTESY OF CHICO STATE

THIS WEEK

CHICO TWEED RIDE 2015 Sunday, Nov. 22 City Plaza

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

THURS Music

JOE HILL CENTENNIAL SHOW: Local musicians will perform and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the murder of folksinger/activist Joe Hill. Local musicians performing his songs include Gordy Ohlinger, Lynn Brown, Sherri Quammen, Jim Williams, Lisa Valentine, Mark Johnson, Katrina Rodriguez, David Longacre and Laurel Paulson-Pierce. A fundraiser for the Blue Room and the Bernie Sanders campaign. Call for info/tix: 532-0963. Th, 11/19, 6pm. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Theater BIG FISH: Musical following the life of charismatic salesman

Edward Bloom. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 12/6. $18-$25. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, https://tix4.centerstageticketing.com/sites/theatre ontheridge.

REEFER MADNESS: THE MUSICAL: Satirical musical based on the 1936 anti-cannabis propaganda B-movie that has become a cult classic. Th, 11/19, 7:30pm. $6-$15. Wismer Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com.

FINE ARTS

Theater BAREFOOT IN THE PARK: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

BIG FISH: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

SWEET CHARITY: See Thursday. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Butte Campus Dr.

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ROLLER DERBY Saturday, Nov. 21 Cal Skate

Special Events BHS DOWNTOWN: Visit the Butte Humane Society

SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

SWEET CHARITY: Neil Simon-penned Broadway musical about a young Times Square dancer. Through 11/21, 7:30pm, Su, 11/22, 2pm. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Butte Campus Dr.

Poetry/Literature POETRY READING: Shared words and refresh-

ments. Third Th of every month, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

FRI

Special Events BOB’S COMEDY COMPETITION: Local comedians compete. Featuring TJ Hudson, Rachel Myles, Travis Dowdy, Chris Bobertz, Becky Lynn and Trip Hazard. F, 11/20, 7:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

FEAST OF GRATITUDE & TREE DECORATING: Bring your favorite soup (or bread) to share with your community. Please bring an ornament that reflects your personal interpretation and

manifestation of abundance in your life to place on our holiday tree. F, 11/20, 6:30-9pm. No cost. The Center for Spiritual Living, Paradise, 789 Bille Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775673, www.paradisecsl.org.

SIERRA NEVADA BEER GEEK NIGHT: Tom Nielsen, Sierra Nevada’s hop master, will lead a tasting and talk. F, 11/20, 7:30-9:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

Music FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

Theater BAREFOOT IN THE PARK: Adaptation of Neil Simon’s romantic comedy following a couple over a few days in New York City. F, Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 11/22. $12-14. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

BIG FISH: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

4pm. Free Admission. Chili-tasting kits $5/ea. Durham Community Park, 1847 DurhamDayton Hwy in Durham, (530) 345-1921.

DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers

welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

FALL BALL: Blue Room Theatre’s annual casinonight/dinner fundraiser, featuring dinner, cocktails, music, auction, poker, blackjack and more. Sa, 11/21, 6:30pm. $75. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

HOMETOWN CHRISTMAS SOCIAL & TREE AUCTION: Annual event in support of the Torres Community Shelter featuring food, music, a live auction of Christmas trees, photo booth and more. Sa, 11/21, 6-10pm. $40. Chico Masonic Family Center, 1110 W East Ave. Corner of Nord Avenue and West East Avenue, (530) 342-7143.

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Jefferson State in the last home bout of the season. Featuring food, a beer garden and live music at halftime by Severance Package. Sa, 11/21, 7:30pm. $10-12. Cal Skate, 2465 Carmichael Dr., (530) 343-1601, www.facebook.com/Norcalrollergirls.

Music BATTLE OF THE BANDS: Butte College presents eight bands competing for a studio recording session. Featuring Slay It Forward, Socorro, The Night Life, Creekside, Two Door Ref, 3 House, Overture and High Minds Café. Sa, 11/21, 7pm. 47. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

CHILI-COOK OFF AND HOLIDAY CRAFT FAIR: Local community organizations, service clubs and businesses compete for the best chili. Plus, booths of local vendors selling handmade items, collectibles and more. Sa, 11/21, 9am-

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CHICO TWEED RIDE 2015: Wear your tweed threads and celebrate vintage bikes, vintage clothing and the holiday season with a ride through Bidwell Park and a picnic 5 Mile Recreation Area. Su, 11/22, 11am-3pm. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Downtown Chico will officially kick off the holiday season with the 38th Christmas Preview featuring stores with holiday decorations, refreshments, live performances and Santa Claus. Su, 11/22, 48pm. Free. Downtown Chico, (530) 345-6500, downtownchico.com/events/dcbaevents/cp.

BIG FISH: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8775760, www.totr.org.

SWEET CHARITY: See Thursday. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Butte Campus Dr.

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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.

Music DIEGO’S UMBRELLA: The San Franciso gypsy rock

crew returns. M, 11/23, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

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Special Events STANDUP COMEDY SHOWCASE: The area’s top comics as well as those trying their hand at comedy for the first time perform. Signups begin at 8pm. Hosted by Jason Allen. W, 9pm through 8/10. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

Theater BAREFOOT IN THE PARK: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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SWEET CHARITY: See Thursday. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Butte Campus Dr.

booth featuring 2016 Cal Fire/BHS calendars for sale, doggie sweaters, a pet photo booth and more. Su, 11/22, 4-8pm. Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works, 117 W. Second St., (530) 345-3443, www.chicobagels.info.

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SEASON KICKOFF

Santa Claus is coming to town, and as usual his first stop of the season will be in downtown Chico for the Christmas Preview on Sunday, Nov. 22. During this local tradition, now in its 38th year, downtown business owners deck the heck outta their digs, with refreshments and entertainment also offered at various locations—with roaming carolers from Children’s Choir of Chico, Sounds of the Valley Women’s Chorus, and the Gesundheit! Barbershop Quartet.

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1078 GALLERY: Interference, paintings and drawings by J. Pouwels exploring signal degradation, corrupted information and insufficient data. Through 11/28. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibition, new

work by John Dalton. Through 11/20. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

Matthews and pottery and ceramics by Chris Yates. Through 11/30. 180 E Ninth Ave.

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

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Space/Sea and The

Missing Pages, two new illustrated series by MaryRose Lovegren. Through 12/4. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Enigma — Code,

Narrative, Symbol, new work by MFA students exploring a modern interpretation of enigma, code and narrative. Through 12/12, 11am-4pm. Free and open to the public. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Figuratively Seeking,

new work by figure drawing students. Through 11/30. 400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.

NINTH AVENUE GALLERY & STUDIO: Fire and Water, watercolor paintings by Candy

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Museums CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

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

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

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Masters of the

Night, hands-on exhibit exploring bats through photos, models and interactive pieces. Through 1/3, 2016. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and log-

ging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

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modern fare, the familiar with the unfamiliar. How’s he doing so far? by Quite well, actually, and getRobert Speer ting better with each concert. We got a taste of his eclecticism in r ober t speer@ newsrev iew.c om the September concert, the first of the season, which ranged from Review: Smetana’s lively, joyful “Overture North state to The Bartered Bride” and symphony, maestro in the spotlight, Tchaikovsky’s Piano Concerto No. saturday, Nov. 14, at 1 (with the dazzling soloist Alpin Laxson auditorium. Hong) to that popular workhorse of the classical repertory, Beethoven’s Symphony No. 5. Tucked into that medley of the old and the not-soold was a 10-minute work by the modern American composer Michael Slayton called “Fifth Prelude for Orchestra.” It’s kind of a trick piece, one designed to serve as a prelude to any of several big symphonies such as Beethoven’s Fifth. So, although it’s almost brand-new (it had its world premiere in 2012), it sounds rather 19th century. That’s not the case with Lollapalooza, modern American composer John Adams’ 1995 composition that opened the symphony’s second concert of the season—dubbed Maestro in the Spotlight—on Saturday, Nov. 14, in Laxson Auditorium. As its title suggests, it’s a rhythmic, jazzy tour de force that is unmistakeably modern. Only six minutes long, it felt much longer—in a good way, like a rollercoaster ride that you don’t want to end. That was followed by the “Third Movement” of Russian composer Dmitri Kabalevsky’s 1948 composition Violin Concerto in C major, performed by 18-yearold Redding resident Brianna Ruiz, the 2015 Young Artist Auditions winner. Ruiz has been playing violin since she was 5 years old and has played with several

Symphony conductor Scott large ensembles, including as Seaton rehearses with concertmaster for the Shasta Youth Symphony. She chose the orchestra for Maestro in the Spotlight. Kabalevsky, she said, because Photo by brittaNy Waterstradt it’s joyful and fun to play, and her delight was evident in her confident performance. This was followed by Franz Joseph Haydn’s Symphony No. 90 in C major. This was standard-issue Haydn, precise as clockwork, until the trick ending, which had Seaton holding his pose two or three times to make us applaud because we thought the piece was over when it wasn’t. “Fooled you,” he said, smiling slyly. Afterward, he admitted he had hated Haydn (“he’s boring”) until he heard and saw this symphony being performed, complete with trick ending. The second half of the program began with the most famous of all waltzes, Johann Strauss Jr.’s “By the Beautiful Blue Danube.” For me, the piece mostly dredged up memories of being forced to attend the Severance School of Dance when I was a teenager, so I was eager to get on to the final work of the night, Leonard Bernstein’s Symphonic Dances from West Side Story. In 1961, four years after the stage version of the groundbreaking musical premiered, Bernstein created a single composition based on the play’s songs and dances, something clearly from the theater piece but independent of it. The result is 22 minutes of amazing music, all of it recognizably derived from the play but at the same time fresh and complete in its own right. Jazz rhythms predominate, and the orchestra’s percussionists got a workout Friday night, let me tell you. It was one of the most exhilarating performances I’ve seen from the symphony. Following a boisterous standing ovation, Seaton led the orchestra in a reprise of the vibrant, exuberant “Mambo” section of the piece. The result: another standing ovation. Keep on mixing it up, maestro. You’re on a roll. Ω

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THE GOOD LUCK THRIFT STORE OUTFIT Friday, Nov. 20 Chico Women’s Club

GARAGE-ROCK LEGACY

Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians

SEE FRIDAY

welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.hasbeans.com.

SUSAN SCHRADER, CHRIS WENGER, MARK SPRINGER: Live, eclectic music. Th, 11/19, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

20FRIDAY

BASSMINT: A weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888. of folksinger/activist Joe Hill. Local musicians performing his songs include Gordy Ohliger, Lynn Brown, Sherri Quammen, Jim Williams, Lisa Valentine, Mark Johnson, Katrina Rodriguez, David Longacre and Laurel Paulson-Pierce. A fundraiser for the Blue Room and the Bernie Sanders campaign. Th, 11/19, 6pm. Call for info/tix: 532-0963. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

19THURSDAY

ARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOE HILL CENTENNIAL SHOW: Local musicians will perform and commemorate the 100th anniversary of the murder

JOHN CRAIGIE: Portland-based folk singer/songwriter. Plus, Sarah Nutting of MaMuse. Th, 11/19, 7:30pm. $10. Café

THE ELECTRIFIED REDEMPTION PROJECT: Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia cover band. Plus, Maxwell Jones (rock). F, 11/20, 9pm. $5. The Graduate, 344 W. Eighth St., (530) 343-2790, www.thegraduatechico.com.

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.

THE GOOD LUCK THRIFT STORE OUTFIT & MIDNIGHT NORTH: Six-piece Americana band from Oakdale is joined by SF

Americana crew. Plus, Alex Nelson (singer/songwriter). F, 11/20, 7:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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.

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Funk/jam band. Plus, The Retrotones (classic rock) F, 11/20. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB LITTELL: Live music. F, 11/20, 6-9pm. Two-Twenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W.

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ute band. F, 11/20, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

LUKE SWEENEY: San Francisco singer/songwriter. Plus, Pat Hull (soul) and Shibumi (indie duo). Early show. F, 11/20, 7pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

SK!N PEAKS: Local garage rock band’s cassette release. Plus, Bad Mana and Donald Beaman and the Spirit Molecules. F, 11/20, 9:30pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

The Phantom Ships is a four-piece band from Portland, Ore., featuring ex-Mudhoney lead guitarist Steve Turner playing a 12string electric guitar. While the instrument isn’t a typical heavy rock accoutrement, the grunge god (aided by an overdrive pedal) uses it to lend a singular thickness to The Phantom Ships’ sound, made even thicker with the addition of vocal harmonies. The band visits Sunday, Nov. 22, at Maltese Bar and Tap Room, and locals Panther Surprise and Severance Package

21SATURDAY

BATTLE OF THE BANDS: Butte College

presents eight bands competing for a studio recording session. Featuring Slay it Forward, Socorro, The Night Life, Creekside, Two Door Ref, 3 House, Overture and High Minds Café. Sa, 11/21, 7pm. 47. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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ATOMIC MACHINES: SF punks Atomic

Machines are joined by locals Slay it Forward, Fight Music and Tionesta. Su, 11/22, 7:30pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

Friday, Nov. 20 Duffy’s Tavern SEE FRIDAY

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Live

music. Su, 11/22, 6-9pm, Su, 11/29, 69pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St., (530) 891-6328, www.5thstreetsteakhouse.com.

THE PHANTOM SHIPS: Portland-based DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show

MUSIC SHOWCASE: An open mic hosted by

hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

local country musicians Rich and Kendall. Sa, 5-9pm. Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Rd., (530) 710-2020.

ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock. Sa, 11/21,

FOREVERLAND: 14-piece big-band tribute to Michael Jackson. Sa, 11/21, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

8pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino

garage rock (featuring Steve Turner of Mudhoney). Plus, Severance Package (local garage punk) and Panther Surprise (heavy duo). Su, 11/22, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

SAFFELL: Soul singer/songwriter. Plus,

Julian Ruck (singer/songwriter). Su, 11/22, 8pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

SPY PICNIC: Rock cover band. Sa, 11/21.

KELLY MCDONALD: Live country. Sa, 11/21, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655

23MONDAY

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

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gypsy rock crew returns. M, 11/23, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open mic comedy with 20 open slots. Signups at 8pm. M, 9pm through 8/29. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

24TUESDAY

BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988.

MIDWEEK EARLY-EVENING OPEN MIC: Two hours of local talent at Gogi’s Café. Sign up starting at 5pm. Music, poetry, and spoken word welcome. Tu, 6-8pm through 12/20. Free. Gogi’s Café, 230 Salem St., (530) 891-3570, www.gogiscafe.com.

25WEDNESDAY

BLUES JAM: Live blues music featuring

Rube & the Rhuythm Rockers. W, 11/25, 6pm. Holiday Inn, 685 Manzanita Ct., (530) 345-2491, www.holidayinn.com.

PIANO NIGHT: Live piano music. W. Italian

ROOTS RADICAL On Nov. 19, 1915, the state of Utah executed labor activist/ musician Joe Hill for a murder, though many people believe he was innocent of the crime. Hill lives on through his own songs (i.e., “There Is Power in a Union”) and folk songs penned by generations of devotees, a local contingent of which will pay tribute on the 100th anniversary of Hill’s death tonight (Thursday, Nov. 19) at the Blue Room Theatre. Performers include Gordy Ohliger, Sherri Quammen, Lisa Valentine, Katrina Rodriguez and many more, and monies raised will go to the Bernie Sanders presidential campaign.

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319 Main St. • Downtown Chico (530) 892–2445 Wierd Wednesdays Every Wednesday, $1 Night November 19 Its Lit at Lost November 20 PYRX EP Release Session- J-Ras, Dylan’s Dharma, DJ Slee, & CaliReyes November 21 AB Krew Presents DJ Gio x DJ Lil 50 November 22 Saﬀell with Jullian Ruck (DownLo) 8PM November 28 Harvest ball- WaltzSaulSnakeNStein, Dylan’s Dharma, Garret Gray, Galaxy Broadcast, & Kyle Williams December 03 Its Lit at Lost December 04 Joy & Madness with Gravy Brain December 09 That 1 Guy w/ Eastwind Bellydance– EARLY show 8pm

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cast. The actual onscreen results, however, are not bad, but also not great. by Written by Abi Morgan (The Iron Juan-Carlos Lady, The Invisible Woman) and Selznick directed by Sarah Gavron, the film dramatizes women’s struggle for voting rights in Great Britain circa 1912. Morgan’s script incorporates some historical figures, but the main emphasis is on fictional composites of workingSuffragette class women who were drawn into the Ends tonight, most militant aspects of the campaign. Nov. 19. The central focus is on Maud Starring Carey Mulligan, Brendan Watts (Carey Mulligan), a wife and Gleeson, Helena mother who has worked since childBonham Carter hood in the East End sweatshop and Meryl Streep. laundry in which her mother worked Directed by Sarah Gavron. Cinemark 14. (and died young). A co-worker named Rated PG-13. Violet Miller (a fiery Ann-Marie Duff) is the first to nudge Maud toward the women’s movement. A left-leaning pharmacist named Edith Ellyn (Helena Bonham Carter) also serves as a key mentor for Maud’s burgeoning activism. Maud’s circuitous route toward radicalization puts her in the vicinity, however briefly, of some historical figures, including the soon-to-be-martyred Emily Wilding Davison (Natalie Press) and the great suffragette figurehead, Emmeline Pankhurst (Meryl Streep). King George V (Simon Gifford) and politician David Lloyd George (Adrian Schiller) also make brief, notable appearances. The other key player in Morgan’s scenario is the

fictional Arthur Steed (a gruffly avuncular Brendan Gleeson), a police inspector who dutifully oversees the government’s attempts at surveillance and disruption of the suffrage militants. In this telling, he is also a sensitive pragmatist who is capable of seeing the merits of the women’s cause and respecting the embattled courage of Maud and her militant friends. Suffragette pays its respects to the women of the British suffrage movement, particularly in its portrayal of the heavy human cost paid by the militant women. But much of it plays like a set of big-budget illustrations for a semi-familiar story full of stock sentiments. As the story of Maud’s radicalization, the film stacks the deck in ways that, ultimately, seem counterproductive. The steadily escalating array of injustices visited upon Maud verges on melodramatic excess and parody. That Maud is reluctant to take radical action until those ever-mounting repressions leave her no other option is one of the film’s most plangent ironies, but those same ironies also give credence to Steed’s pragmatism and caution. After watching the film this past weekend, someone asked me why Gleeson/Steed had such a prominent role in the story. My answer then was that he is both an agent of cultural and legal oppression and an intelligent official who is starting to respect the feminist cause. And now I’d add that he is central to a film that, intentionally or not, cautions against both radicalism and oppression. Ω

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Opening this week The Hunger Games: Mockingjay—Part 2

The dystopian action-fantasy franchise comes to a close as Katniss Everdeen (Jennifer Lawrence) gathers an army to save the oppressed districts from destruction at the hands of the Capital and cold-blooded President Snow (Donald Sutherland). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Labyrinth of Lies

A German film about a young prosecutor who, while trying to investigate and bring to justice a former Auschwitz prison guard who is now (20 years after the war) working as a school teacher, faces opposition from powers that be while digging through years of lies. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Night Before

A hard-R comedy about three best friends— played by Seth Rogen, Joseph GordonLevitt and Anthony Mackie—whose lives are changing as adult responsibilities take over, meaning their traditional Christmas Eve bro-down is about to come to end … after one, last, particularly crazy run, that is. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Secret in Their Eyes

Julia Roberts, Chiwetel Ejiofor and Nicole Kidman star in this slow burn of a murder mystery about the turmoil surrounding a couple of detectives, their district attorney boss and the killer who is on the loose after killing the daughter of one of the detectives. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Surprisingly, Bridge of Spies doesn’t overplay the twists that you more or less expect in a cinematic history lesson directed by Steven Spielberg and starring Tom Hanks. James Donovan (Hanks) is an insurance lawyer recruited by U.S. government agents to act as defense lawyer for Rudolf Abel (Mark Rylance), a man accused (circa 1957) of spying for the U.S.S.R. During the sentencing phase, Donovan raises the possibility of an exchange between the two countries of condemned spies. The film has already begun to follow the case of Francis Gary Powers, pilot of a U-2 spy plane shot down over Soviet territory, and Donovan serves as the key intermediary in an exchange of Abel for Pow-

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doughnut parts, I contemplated the physics of doughnutry. There are many factors and formulas involved, such as circumference of the hole in relation to the whole, but in my opinion it all comes down to density. Different doughnut types require different densities, and proper densities are the best indicator of doughnut quality. The Donut Nook nailed ’em all. The fritters were crispy on the outside (especially in the nooks and crannies) and perfectly doughy in the middle, while the raised bars were light and airy on the inside. The cake doughnuts are naturally more dense than the raised, with the old fashioned having their own even heavier density balanced by crispy ridges. The blueberry offerings were indeed a unique treat, while the Nook’s chocolate, maple and other icings were of the solid and sugary variety rather than the straight cake frosting unceremoniously slathered all over many a lesser doughnut. I saved the peanut-butter-chocolate-chip square for last, and was glad I did. The second my tongue met peanut butter I thought, Why, oh why, is this not a common thing? Bacon on maple bars has become a fad in recent years, but how has modern civilization survived this long without slathering peanut butter on all of our doughnuts? It’s divine. All told, my trip to the Donut Nook did indeed brighten my day, and got me some points around the office. Stiles and some other regulars imparted some other expert advice for my next visit. The Donut Nook is open all night, every night. Wednesday through Saturday, it’s open 24 hours, and Sunday-Tuesday, it’s only closed between 1 and 8:30 p.m. As one of the few places to congregate and grab a bite late at night in that part of town, the Donut Nook is often hopping in the early morning when fresh selections are coming out of the friers. Ω

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tionary.com defines the English word “balter” as follows: “to dance without particular skill or grace, but with extreme joy.” It’s related to the Danish term baltre, which means “to romp, tumble, roll, cavort.” I nominate this activity to be one of your ruling metaphors in the coming weeks. You have a mandate to explore the frontiers of amusement and bliss, but you have no mandate to be polite and polished as you do it. To generate optimal levels of righteous fun, your experiments may have to be more than a bit rowdy.

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arrived at a crossroads. From here, you could travel in one of four directions, including back toward where you came from. You shouldn’t stay here indefinitely, but on the other hand you’ll be wise to pause and linger for a while. Steep yourself in the mystery of the transition that looms. Pay special attention to the feelings that rise up as you visualize the experiences that may await you along each path. Are there any holy memories you can call on for guidance? Are you receptive to the tricky inspiration of the fertility spirits that are gathered here? Here’s your motto: Trust, but verify.

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model and TV personality Katie Price has been on the planet for just 37 years, but has already written four autobiographies. You Only Live Once, for instance, covers the action-packed time between 2008 and 2010, when she got divorced and then remarried in a romantic Las Vegas ceremony. I propose that we choose this talkative, self-revealing Gemini to be your spirit animal and role model. In the coming weeks, you should go almost to extremes as you express the truth about who you have been, who you are and who you will become.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): A flier on a

telephone pole caught my eye. It showed a photo of a 9-year-old male cat named Bubby, whose face was contorted in pain. A message from Bubby’s owner revealed that her beloved pet desperately needed expensive dental work. She had launched a campaign at gofundme.com to raise the cash. Of course I broke into tears, as I often do when confronted so viscerally with the suffering of sentient creatures. I longed to donate to Bubby’s well-being. But I thought, “Shouldn’t I funnel my limited funds to a bigger cause, like the World Wildlife Fund?” Back home an hour later, I sent $25 to Bubby. After analyzing the astrological omens for my own sign, Cancer the Crab, I realized that now is a time to adhere to the principle “Think globally, act locally” in every way imaginable.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How well do you

treat yourself? What do you do to ensure that you receive a steady flow of the nurturing you need? According to my reading of the astrological omens, you are now primed to expand and intensify your approach to self-care. If you’re alert to the possibilities, you will learn an array of new life-enhancing strategies. Here are two ideas to get you started: (1) Imagine at least three acts of practical love you can bestow on yourself. (2) Give yourself three gifts that will promote your healing and stimulate your pleasure.

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your full potential in the coming weeks, you don’t need to scuba-dive into an underwater canyon or spelunk into the pitch blackness of a remote cave or head out on an archaeological dig to uncover the lost artifacts of an ancient civilization. But I recommend that you consider trying the metaphorical equivalent of those activities. Explore the recesses of your own psyche, as well as those of the people you love. Ponder the riddles of the past and rummage around for lost treasure and hidden truths. Penetrate to the core, the gist, the roots. The abyss is much friendlier than usual! You have a talent for delving deep into any mystery that will be important for your future.

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Normally

I charge $270-an-hour for the kind of advice I’m about to offer, but I’m giving it to you at no cost. For now, at least, I think you should refrain from relying on experts. Be skeptical of professional opinions and highly paid authorities. The useful information you need will come your way via chance encounters, playful explorations and gossipy spies. Folk wisdom and street smarts will provide better guidance than elite consultants. Trust curious amateurs; avoid somber careerists.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some ath-

letes think it’s unwise to have sex before a big game. They believe it diminishes the raw physical power they need to excel. For them, abstinence is crucial for victory. But scientific studies contradict this theory. There’s evidence that boinking increases testosterone levels for both men and women. Martial artist Ronda Rousey subscribes to this view. She says she has “as much sex as possible” before a match. Her approach must be working. She has won all of her professional fights, and Sports Illustrated calls her “the world’s most dominant athlete.” As you approach your equivalent of the “big game,” Scorpio, I suggest you consider Rousey’s strategy.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): If you were embarking on a 100-mile hike, would you wear new boots that you purchased the day before your trip? Of course not. They wouldn’t be broken in. They’d be so stiff and unyielding that your feet would soon be in agony. Instead, you would anchor your trek with supple footwear that had already adjusted to the idiosyncrasies of your gait and anatomy. Apply a similar principle as you prepare to launch a different long-term exploit. Make yourself as comfortable as possible

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Here’s how Mark Twain’s novel The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn begins: “Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted; persons attempting to find a moral in it will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in it will be shot.” The preface I’d write for your upcoming adventures would be less extreme, but might have a similar tone. That’s because I expect you to do a lot of meandering. At times your life may seem like a shaggy dog story with no punch line in sight. Your best strategy will be to cultivate an amused patience; to stay relaxed and unflappable as you navigate your way through the enigmas, and not demand easy answers or simple lessons. If you take that approach, intricate answers and many-faceted lessons will eventually arrive.

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

Confederation of African Football prohibits the use of magic by professional soccer teams. Witch doctors are forbidden to be on the field during a match, and they are not supposed to spray elixirs on the goals or bury consecrated talismans beneath the turf. But most teams work around the ban. Magic is viewed as an essential ingredient in developing a winning tradition. Given the current astrological omens, I invite you to experiment with your own personal equivalent of this approach. Don’t scrimp on logical analysis, of course. Don’t stint on your preparation and discipline. But also be mischievously wise enough to call on the help of some crafty mojo.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Slavery is

illegal everywhere in the world. And yet there are more slaves now than at any other time in history: at least 29 million. A disproportionate percentage of them are women and children. After studying your astrological omens, I feel you are in a phase when you can bestow blessings on yourself by responding to this predicament. How? First, express gratitude for all the freedoms you have. Second, vow to take full advantage of those freedoms. Third, brainstorm about how to liberate any part of you that acts or thinks or feels like a slave. Fourth, lend your energy to an organization that helps free slaves. Start here: http://bit.ly/liberateslaves.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MORNING VIEW at 430 Nunneley Road Paradise, CA 95969. WRYNNA M KOHLER 430 Nunneley Road Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: WRYNNA M. KOHLER Dated: October 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001314 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as 1413 CONSULTING at 476 E. Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926. JOSEPH DEAN MORALLI 476 E. Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSEPH D. MORALLI Dated: October 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001299 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TNT TAXI at 2961 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973. TRACY THATCHER BRADBURD 5722 Bonnie Ln Paradise CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TRACY BRADBURD THATCHER Dated: September 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001148 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

FREDERICKSEN PROPERTIES at 1558 Bridge Street #12 Oroville, CA 95966. GORDON FREDERICKSEN 190 La Mirada Ave Oroville, CA 95966. SUE FREDERICKSEN 190 La Mirada Ave Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: GORDON FREDERICKSEN Dated: October 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001291 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HAPPY DAY RESTAURANT at 14455 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954. ZHONGMEI YANG 14455 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ZHONGMEI YANG Dated: October 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001322 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KELLY KIRLIN PHOTOGRAPHY at 1 Baja Court Chico, CA 95928. KELLY MARIE SCHILL 1 Baja Court Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KELLY M. SCHILL Dated: October 27, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001335 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as N AND R PUBLICATIONS at 353 East Second Street Chico, CA 95928. CHICO COMMUNITY PUBLISHING INC 1124 Del Paso Blvd Sacramento, CA 95815. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: DEBORAH REDMOND, CORP. SEC. Dated: October 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001247 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO PARTY BOUNCERS at 3147 Chico Ave Chico, CA 95928. TERESA CONTRERAS 3147 Chico Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: TERESA CONTRERAS Dated: October 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001325 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO PARTY BOUNCERS at 6 Sterling Court Chico, CA 95928. JENI BORGMAN 6 Sterling Court Chico, CA 95928.

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This business was conducted by an Individual. Signed: JENNIFER BORGMAN Dated: October 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2013-0000801 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DARTH SPROCKET FABRICATION at 830 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. JAMES LEE RAINES 830 Moss Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JAMES LEE RAINES Dated: October 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001320 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOJOMOTOSPORT.COM at 1380 East Ave Ste 124/176 Chico, CA 95926. DYLAN TRENT 13884 La Castana Dr Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DYLAN TRENT Dated: October 28, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001340 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as A2D POWERSPORTS LLC at 609 Entler Ave Ste 7 and 8 Chico, CA 95928. A2D POWERSPORTS LLC 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928. CHRISTOPHER M VIALE 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928. MICHAEL L VIALE 16 Phendx Dr Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: MICHAEL VIALE, OWNER Dated: October 29, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001343 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HPC CONSTRUCTION, INC. at 1916 Cameron Lane Chico, CA 95926. HPC CONSTRUCTION, INC. 1916 Cameron Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: BRYAN HENDERSON, PRESIDENT Dated: October 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001319 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VITALITY at 1324 Mangrove Ave Ste 208 Chico, CA 95926. BRITTAN NICOLE SCOTT 1020 Broadway St Apt 3 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: BRITTAN SCOTT Dated: October 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001242

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CARIBBEAN CAFE at 1738 Mulberry St Chico, CA 95928. RACHAEL MELIN 1738 Mulberry St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RACHAEL MELIN Dated: November 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001359 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TUSCAN VILLA APARTMENTS at 85 Rancho Vista Drive Oroville, CA 95966. HIGNELL, INCORPORATED 1750 Humbodlt Road Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Limited Partnership. Signed: PHILIP LARIOS Dated: October 14, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001281 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A BEAUTIFUL LIFE FURNISHINGS at 250 E 1st Street Chico, CA 95928. ALISA M WOODS 1535 Elm Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ALISA WOODS Dated: November 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001373 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DUST BUSTERS at 833 West Sandra Ln Oroville, CA 95966. KASSANDRA GRAHAM 833 West Sandra Ln Oroville, CA 95966. ROBERT SCHUMACHER 833 West Sandra Ln Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: KASSANDRA GRAHAM Dated: October 20, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001312 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NYSA THERAPY at 2064 Talbert Dr #302 Chico, CA 95928. STEPHEN MICHAEL DIGGS 977 Flying V Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: STEPHEN M DIGGS Dated: November 6, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001384 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as XYZZY STUDIOS at 411 Main St. #101 Chico, CA 95926. AUGUST CONNOLLY 1286 Glenn Haven Dr Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: AUGUST CONNOLLY Dated: November 5, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001380 Published: November 19,25, December 3,10, 2015

NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): KAYLA L. SHELTON and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): J.R.A. born on (date): May 1, 2014 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): ENLOE HOSPITAL CHICO, CA A hearing will be held on Date: January 7, 2016 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminated your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: October 19, 2015 Case Number: J-37169 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): JAMEY WALSH and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): C.P. born on (date): January 13, 2006 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and

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state): ENLOE HOSPITAL CHICO, CA A hearing will be held on Date: February 3, 2016 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminated your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: November 12, 2015 Case Number: J-37247 Published: November 19,25, December 3,10, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RUTH G. FERRIS aka RUTH FERRIS, RUTH CARRERAS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RUTH G. FERRIS aka RUTH FERRIS, RUTH CARRERAS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KIMBERLY CROWLEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KIMBERLY CROWLEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: December 1, 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.

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IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41667 Dated: October 28, 2015 Published: November 5,12,19, 2015

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES J. PICASO, JR. aka JAMES JEROME PICASO, JR. To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES J. PICASO, JR. aka JAMES JEROME PICASO, JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: VIRGINIA MAY DELACRUZ-KLEVER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: VIRGINIA MAY DELACRUZ-KLEVER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decedent’s wills and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: December 8, 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

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may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-5373 Case Number: PR41688 Dated: November 12, 2015 Published: November 19,25, December 3, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MAI SAETERN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ISIAH IKE HARRIS IV Proposed name: DERRICK MARCUS SAETERN 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 18, 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 29, 2015 Case Number: 165178 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

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 24, 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 28, 2015 Case Number: 165167 Published: November 5,12,19,25, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHIRLEY A IMMOOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SHIRLEY MAYERAK IMMOOS Proposed name: SHIRLEY A MAYERAK 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 24, 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 28, 2015 Case Number: 165159 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015

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

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names as follows: Present name: CHRISTIAN NICHOLAS MCGINNIS Proposed name: CHRISTIAN NICHOLAS GIBBS 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 7, 2015 Case Number: 165093 Published: November 12,19,25, December 3, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner STEPHANIE MARIE LAMB filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: STEPHANIE MARIE LAMB Proposed name: ELENA MARIE DUPLANTIER 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: January 8, 2016 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: November 9, 2015 Case Number: 165272 Published: November 19,25, December 3,10, 2015

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JESSICA RAE ELDREDGE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RHYLAN JAMES ROBERTS Proposed name: RHYLAN JAMES ELDREDGE 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: January 8, 2016 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: November 3, 2015 Case Number: 165006 Published: November 19,25, December 3,10, 2015

PUBLIC NOTICE The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Sacramento District has posted two Public Notices for SPK-2011-00467 to: www.spk.usace.army.mil/Media/ RegulatoryPublicNotices.aspx The Corps proposes to issue a Regional General Permit for activities covered by the Butte Regional Conservation Plan (BRCP) that result in the discharge of dredged or fill material into waters of the U.S. The BRCP’s Plan Area encompasses approximately 564.219 acres of public and private lands (Figure 1-1 of the BRCP). The Plan Area includes the western lowlands and foothills of Butte County bounded on the west by Tehama, Glenn, and Colusa counties; bounded on the south by Sutter and Yuba counties; bounded on the north by the boundary with Tehama County; and primarily bounded on the east by high elevation oak woodland natural communities. The proposed RGP applies only to BRCP Covered Activities, as set forth in Sections 2.2 through 2.5 of the BRCP (also see Definitions section). The applicant also proposes to establish an In-Lieu Fee Program that would cover the

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BRCP Plan Area and provide compensatory mitigation for activities authorized by Section 404 of the CWA. Written comments and/or a request for a paper copy of the notice may be submitted to project manager Ms. Krystel Bell at 1325 J Street, Room 1350, Sacramento, CA 95814, email Krystel.L.Bell@ usace.army.mil, or telephone 916-557-7745. Comments must be received by December 14, 2015. Published: November 19, 2015

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT ALMA MADDISON You are being sued by plaintiff: RANDY D. MCMAIN You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you. If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately. You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association. The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: RANDY D. MCMAIN 113 Blazeford Gulch Oroville, CA 95966 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 30, 2015 Case Number: FL-048309 Published: October 29, November 5,12,19, 2015

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHERYL MANIES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MYLES FREEMAN BAIRD Proposed name: MYLES FREEMAN MANIES THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to

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Love’s Real estate Carbon Compliance The Carbon Monoxide Poisoning Prevention Act requires carbon monoxide detectors to be installed in every “dwelling unit intended for human occupancy.” Every owner must install an approved carbon monoxide device in each dwelling that has a fossil fuel burning appliance, fireplace, or an attached garage. Q. Are there any penalties for noncompliance with this law regarding installation of carbon monoxide detector devices? A. Yes. A violation is an infraction punishable by a maximum fine of $200 for each offense. However, a property owner must receive a 30-day notice to correct first. If an owner who receives such a notice fails to correct the problem within the 30-day period, then the owner may be assessed the fine.

A. No. However, the buyer may be entitled to an award of actual damages not to exceed $100 plus court costs and attorney’s fees. Q. Do landlords have any special obligations regarding carbon monoxide detectors? A. Yes. All landlords of dwelling units must install carbon monoxide detectors. The carbon monoxide device must be operable at the time that a tenant takes possession. However, the tenant has the responsibility of notifying the owner or owner’s agent if the tenant becomes aware of an inoperable or deficient carbon monoxide device. The landlord is not in violation of the law for a deficient or inoperable carbon monoxide device if he or she has not received notice of the problem from the tenant.

Q. Can a buyer of a “dwelling unit intended for human occupancy” rescind the sale if the dwelling doesn’t have the necessary carbon monoxide detectors?

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

59 HORSE RUN LANE • CHICO AMAZING CREEKSIDE LOCATION! Just minutes from town. This lovely 4 bdrm 3 bath home is situated on two lush culdesac acres just 1/4 mile from Skyway. The spacious kitchen has stainless appliances, gas cooktop and center island with sink. Gleaming wood floors, gas fireplace in the den, and freestanding woodstove in the family room for those chilly fall/winter nights. The upstairs bonus room makes a perfect game room or quiet retreat. Enjoy your morning coffee on the screened-in porch or a leisurely swim in the fully-fenced inground pool. The grounds have numerous fruit trees, lilacs, and a full perennial garden. There is a fenced-in pasture, and private access to Comanche Creek. Attached 3-car garage, carports and shed provide plenty of space for parking and storage. The nearby Horse Run Equestrian Center offers boarding and a riding arena. This special home has such a private feel and yet is so close to schools, shopping and downtown. Become a part of the Butte Creek Canyon experience!

ASKING PRICE: $625,000

Open Houses & Listings are online at: www.century21JeffriesLydon.com BUILD YOUR DREAM HOME

$241,000

(530) 518-8453 • CalBRE#01963545

$105,000

18 Lobelia Court, 4 bd 2 ba, 1971 sqft

Doe Mill home with Studio

$354,000

$339,900

GARRETT FRENCH

Alice Zeissler | 530.518.1872

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

3258 Rockin M Dr 376 Picholine Way 615 El Varano Way 1524 Manchester Rd 869 Henshaw Ave 1240 Chestnut St 1303 Sunset Ave 21 Pebblewood Pines Dr 554 White Ave 17 Hemming Ln 873 Kern St

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$340,000.00 $339,000.00 $320,000.00 $296,000.00 $295,000.00 $267,500.00 $265,000.00 $260,000.00 $200,000.00 $255,500.00 $240,000.00

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SQ. FT. 1853 1781 1782 1818 2234 1392 1396 1889 1068 1231 1008

EMMETT JACOBI

530.228.1305 • GarrettFrenchHomes.com

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

Homes Sold Last Week

I am very thankful to have been able to help so many people with their real estate needs over the years, and for this amazing town that we live in!

Mountain Cabin

1/3 acre level lot with views in gated community off lower Pentz Rd in Paradise. $99,999

Kim Finlan

THANKFUL!!

3/2 in Chico on ½ acre

Cell 530.519.6333 • emmettjacobi.com

Sponsored by Century 21 Jeffries Lydon ADDRESS 1330 Boucher St 270 Vail Dr 30 Fairgate Ln 2607 Waverly Ct 12678 Centerville Rd 2306 Fern Ave 1207 W 11th Ave 225 Kentucky St 561 Obermeyer Ave 6916 Ridgeway 14099 Temple Cir

TOWN

PRICE

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Gridley Gridley Magalia Magalia

$209,500.00 $197,500.00 $197,000.00 $196,500.00 $162,500.00 $135,000.00 $131,500.00 $275,000.00 $255,000.00 $425,000.00 $230,000.00

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SQ. FT. 968 1306 1034 1357 1440 636 1394 2244 2148 3268 1758

Immaculate

1,934 sq ft 3 bed 2.5 bath custom home on nearly an acre in Forest Ranch, just an easy, scenic drive from Chico. Community pool & tennis courts, two-car garage PLUS 24 x 36 shop! $350,000

More Home for Your Money, on the Ridge in... CalBRE# 00991783

Heather Jay

Laura Burghardt

Aaron Jay

For all your Real Estate Needs call (530) 872-7653

more photos at www.CityofTreesRealty.com | (530) 864-6632

PRICE! CONDITION! LOCATION!

ALLERGIES??

open house Sat. 11-1 1520 Neal Dow Ave. (X St: 5th Ave) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,866 Sq. Ft . $314,900 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

Century 21 Select – Paradise Sat. 12-3 & Sun. 2-4 241 Zion Canyon (X St: Denali) 4 Bd / 3 Ba, 2,111 Sq. Ft $439,900 Kim Finlan 518-8453 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508 Sat. 2-4 4534 Sunset Oaks Drive (X St: Pentz/Canyon Terrace), Paradise 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 2,400 Sq. Ft $389,000 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 3151 Lake Mead Court (X St: Silver Lake Drive) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,719 Sq. Ft $342,000 Brad Azavedo 321-3454 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

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

Astounding 3BD/3BA 2,096 SqFt home. Oak cabinetry. Tile counters. Brick fireplace. Open beamed ceilings. Gorgeous landscaping. Oversized patio and deck. Paradises most sought after locations! Won’t last! Call today! Chari Bullock 530-872-6818 $319,900 AD#801

Laminate flooring is what you need! This affordable 2-bedroom home has it. .43 acres. 2-car garage. Fenced back yard. Call today to tour the inside A.W. Farra @ 530-327-8378 Ad # 796 $115,000

BEAUTIFUL ONE OF A KIND HOME! 3 Bd + bonus room. ½ ac +. New paint in/out. Remodeled Kitchen. Crown molding. Newer roof, windows, interior doors and flooring. Private lot. Hot tub. Detached 2 car garage with room above. Must See!! Amber Blood 530-570-4747 $213,000 Ad#779

Sat. 11-4 & Sun. 12-3 25 Pebblewood Pines (X St: East Avenue) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,559 Sq. Ft $264,000 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333 Marc Shapiro 426-2555 Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 12-3 8 Webster Drive (X St: Notre Dame) 3 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,229 Sq. Ft. $243,000 Marc Shapiro 426-2555 Norm Atkin 570-4079 Emmett Jacobi 519-6333

2bd/2ba light paneling thru-out with a pellet stove in the family room. Large laundry room with a built-in desk. Detached 2 car garage on .27 ac. $125,000 Ad#791 Donna Cass 530-520-8156

BRE# 01011224

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

Custom 3 bed/den, 2 bth, 2,308 sq ft .......................................................................... $379,900 Elegant 4 bd/5 bth, 5,009 sq ft, pool .............................................................................. $950,000 View! 3 bed/den, 2 bth, 2,531 sq ft .............................................................................. $435,000 Durham schools, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,948 sq ft, 1-ac, ......................................................... $319,900 Forest Ranch, 3 bed/1 bth, 1,580 sq ft, ..................................................................... $199,900 Rent to own/owc, new manufactured homes in 55 + required community styled Park $99,000-$105,000 Doe Mill, 2 bed/2 bth, 854 sq ft, 1-car garage ................................................................ $189,500 In town, 1.21 acs, 3 bed/3 bth, 2,500 sq ft, 720 detached unit, shop .................................. $575,000

JUST LISTED A Paradise Landmark 5697 Pentz Rd 4 beds/3 baths www.PentzRd.com

Marc MARCShapiro SHAPIRO

530.426.2555

Quality is a Universal Language

shapirohomes.com

3/2, 1600 sq ft, new roof. $249,000 4/2 near CSUC! $329,000 3/2 move-in condition NW Chico $269,900 40ac, North Chico zoned AG/Res. $118,000 2ac building lots $57,500 Single suite office space. $265-$450 monthly 5 ac lot. Owner carry $49,000

MARK REAMAN 530-228-2229

www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com www.ChicoListings.com • chiconativ@aol.com Mark.Reaman@c21jeffrieslydon.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of November 2, 2015 – November 6, 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. TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

14782 Colter Way

ADDRESS

Magalia

$155,000.00

2/ 2.5

SQ. FT. 1883

3757 Oro Bangor Hwy

ADDRESS

Oroville

$123,000.00

3/ 1

1105

14141 Citadel Way

Magalia

$134,000.00

3/ 2

1318

6327 Lilliput Ln

Paradise

$640,000.00

3/ 2

2801

74 Dadoma Ln

Oroville

$265,000.91

3/ 2

2035

5186 Royal Canyon Ln

Paradise

$559,000.00

4/ 3

3407

585 Plumas Ave

Oroville

$190,000.00

3/ 1.5

1400

2201 Stearns Rd

Paradise

$450,000.00

4/ 2.5

2483

19 Teancum Ct

Oroville

$190,000.00

3/ 2

1848

5232 Trafalgar Sq

Paradise

$279,000.00

3/ 2

1864

56 Feathervale Dr

Oroville

$153,000.00

2/ 2

1152

6150 Cliff Dr

Paradise

$277,500.00

4/ 3

2743

1649 Hammon Ave

Oroville

$141,500.00

1/ 1.5

1377

6596 Firland Dr

Paradise

$210,500.00

3/ 2

1379

1680 Bird St

Oroville

$140,000.00

4/ 2.5

2191

1800 Stark Ln

Paradise

$207,500.00

3/ 2

1071

2466 A St

Oroville

$140,000.00

3/ 2

1288

746 Brookhaven Dr

Paradise

$205,000.00

4/ 2.5

3543

75 Magnesio St

Oroville

$138,500.00

4/ 2.5

2386

1779 Whitaker Rd

Paradise

$155,000.00

2/ 1

912

190 Grand Ave

Oroville

$129,000.00

4/ 2

1514

968 Thomasson Ln

Paradise

$130,000.00

2/ 1.5

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