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and setting them afire is a good thing. The smoke given off is toxic, and firefighters are required to respond to fires that are entirely preventable—124 in 2014 alone. Most if not all of the couches are pulled off front porches before being burned, so it’s understandable why the Chico City Council, at the behest of the Fire Department, recently passed an ordinance banning stuffed furniture on front porches. But that makes it illegal to have a couch on the front porch simply because couches elsewhere have been pulled off front porches and set on fire. It presumes a violation (starting a fire) before one occurs. That’s not how laws are supposed to work. Like the update to the noise ordinance passed in November, this was another example of the council’s piecemeal approach to dealing with the problems in student neighborhoods—problems that require a disproportionate amount of police and, as we now know, Fire Department attention. On several occasions a Chico couple, Melinda Vasquez and Ken Fleming, have called the council’s attention to Fort Collins, Colo., a residential university town much like Chico that has developed a comprehensive approach to its annual influx of young people. On its website, the city has a 145-page “Landlord-Tenant Handbook” that provides a wide range of information about leases and security deposits and other practical matters. But it goes much further, discussing neighborhood nuisance codes (including noise violations), animal codes and neighborhood relations, mediation services and activities that promote good relations among students, landlords and homeowners. Fort Collins’ comprehensive, preventive approach has reduced the need for police patrols in student neighborhoods, saved taxpayer money, and reduced friction between students and their homeowner neighbors. Chico should follow that city’s example. □

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most of them seem to agree that Donald Trump is a dangerous demagogue. He has given them plenty of supporting evidence by way of racist rhetoric during his campaign for president, but Trump hit one out of the park on Monday by calling for a complete ban on Muslims entering the United States. That is, this candidate for president of the most powerful nation in the world advocated for a policy that would apply a religious test for entry into this country, a nation of immigrants who, under the U.S. Constitution, have the right to practice any religion they choose as well as to practice no religion at all. Trump has been roundly criticized for his latest xenophobic take on addressing the threat of domestic terrorism. House Speaker Paul Ryan and former Vice President Dick Cheney denounced the billionaire’s comments. Barring entry to the United States based on religion runs counter to the values of the United States, they said. Jeb Bush responded by calling Trump “unhinged,” but let’s not forget that Bush himself said American aid for Syrian refugees ought to focus on those who are Christian. Sen. Ted Cruz has been more overt about wanting to bar Muslim refugees and is backing legislation to do just that. Moreover, last month, the Republican-controlled House voted in favor of legislation that would stop the resettlement of refugees, a majority of whom are Muslim. The question remains: Has Trump has finally gone too far for the general public? We hope so. We fear the presidency of a man who we believe is a danger to our national and financial security, as well as our long-held identity as a nation. It’s time to dump Trump, but it’s also time to dump the other candidates who continue to cater to the lowest common denominator within the conservative base. □

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Harbor, Hawaii, on a Sunday morning that would be remembered thereafter as “a date which will live in infamy.” Slightly more than two months later, the president issued Executive Order 9066, which resulted in the forced relocation of approximately 5,000 JapaneseAmerican citizens from the West Coast of the United States. The camps to which these Americans were assigned during the course by Ronald Angle of the war were harsh and The author, a retiree, intolerable locations. For most came to chico in internees, their wealth and their 1980 and lives in the property were seized and never chapman neighborreturned. hood. He has written To this day, many of the for newspapers surviving detainees have not since 1958. been fairly recompensed. It is a disgrace that resulted from the preconception that all JapaneseAmericans could not be trusted.

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On Dec. 7, 2015, as I write these words, the issue is religion rather than race. A demagogue posing as a presidential aspirant is calling for the closing of our borders to all who identify as Muslim. This is the same firebrand who has called for the expulsion of hundreds of thousands of undocumented immigrants. Our nation has a long history of intolerance and hatred. It simmers without stop and boils over into violence whenever a loud voice turns up the heat. Today’s Muslims will soon be tomorrow’s N-word. It is not going to be pretty. I have a friend of 35 years who is a Muslim. He is also an American. His cultural heritage is Palestinian, although you would not assume that from his appearance. He has always reminded me of one of Santa’s elves, both with his appearance and his personality. His name is Ali Sarsour and he is very well-known and well-liked in our community. If that demagogue with really bad hair ever has his way, perhaps my friend Ali would lose his citizenship, being an adherent of the second largest religion in the world. Yet nowhere in the Five Pillars of Islam is there any reference to the kind of violence we recently experienced. Pearl Harbor. San Bernardino. Hatred. □

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plaza and pinot A few weeks ago, on the run-up to the U.N. climate talks in Paris, about 250 locals marched downtown in solidarity, calling on our government to take substantive efforts to curb climate change. This Saturday (Dec. 12), the day after the closing of the conference on the most urgent issue of our lifetime, let’s double that number. Heck, why not triple it? Butte Environmental Council and Chico 350, the new local advocacy group affiliated with 350.org, are organizing a rally at Chico City Plaza. The High Noon for the Planet event will have speakers, music, activities and, most important, info on solutions to mitigate the atmospheric carbon emissions that are wreaking havoc on our world. Last year was the hottest on record, and this year stands to break that record. The effects of global warming are already significant. Oceans are acidifying, the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and extreme weather, including extended drought, is taking a toll on agriculture, jeopardizing our water and, subsequently, food supplies. These are consequences of our own making and what’s truly scary is that, despite consensus from the world’s leading scientists about the severity of climate change, our representatives have not found the will to address it. They are doing little to nothing and we have been complicit by keeping them in office. To put it another way, we are destroying our beautiful planet. We’re ruining it in our short lifetimes and we’re screwing over future generations—our own relatives—by bequeathing to them a home where life is harder. Let that sink in a little. How many of us have parents or grandparents who were old enough to suffer through the Great Depression? Think about the sacrifices they made to make our lives better. What sacrifices are we willing to make for our children and grandchildren and so on and so forth? Let’s flood City Plaza at noon on Saturday. I’ll see you there. Now that you have weekend plans, you might as well pencil in another cause. Next Thursday (Dec. 17), Chico News & Review Foundation will be the beneficiary of a wine-tasting fundraiser out at the Bidwell Bar & Grill at Bidwell Golf Course. Each month, CN&R and Chico’s Grocery Outlet, in collaboration with the golf course, sponsor a different nonprofit. The effort has raised money for dozens of worthy organizations over the past couple of years. I’ll be there this time around, helping collect donations and answering questions about the foundation. The event goes from 5-7 p.m. and costs $5. Every dollar will go to our account at the North Valley Community Foundation and eventually to a reporter hired to do in-depth enterprise and investigative reporting on complex issues that affect our communities. We are working against the clock to raise $25,000 because an angel donor has agreed to chip in an additional $10,000 should we meet that goal by the end of this year. Any amount helps. Make a tax-deductible donation at nvcf.org/fund/chico-news-reviewfoundation or write a check payable to NVCF/CN&R Foundation and mail it to: North Valley Community Foundation, 240 Main St., Ste. 260, Chico, CA 95928. Or, come drink wine with me and other CN&R staffers this coming Thursday.

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Pope ponderings Re “Rock star” (Cover story, by Jake Highton, Dec. 3): When I read the headline about Pope Francis, I knew he must be doing an excellent job. In the world of Catholic apologetics, the article by Jake Highton is what is commonly referred to as a “shotgun list.” In other words, raise so many objections to the church at once that most are overwhelmed. I’m not overwhelmed. I and many other novice apologists can refute this article if given the time and opportunity. Since you’d give me neither, I’ll bring up one subject. Why is it that when describing the priest scandal your ilk always describes it as pedophilia? Sex with a 14-year-old boy is nothing more than homosexuality. Ask your friends in the man/ boy club—or whatever it is you call it—if they think sex with young boys is pedophilia. I would imagine they would tell you it is just a “natural” sex act between two males that “love” each other. The devil knows he can get at Jesus through the priesthood. Just like he gets at all of us. The Catholic Church is holy because Jesus is holy, not because its individuals are holy. The Church is not a museum of saints but rather a hospital for sinners. Chris McCurley Cherokee

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Re “Meter matters” (Letters, by Don Walker, Dec. 3): While observing the sidewalk from a moving car, letter writer Don Walker separates the homeless mentally ill from young malingerers; the “mentally ill lady” who is worthy of our help from the “young bum” who should be harassed until he leaves town. I’d guess many people believe they have this same psychiatric superpower. It’s been my observation that I learn a lot by talking to people on the street—as opposed to making judgments on the basis of how they appear during a drive-by. Instead of everything falling into two neat categories, I find things get very confusing. And the more confusing things get, the more difficult it becomes to tell who is worthy or unworthy. This is also true as I reflect on my own limitations—I’m not what I appear to be, especially to myself. Walker proposes that we feed the new homeless meters—this will help the “lady” and drive out the “bum.” I’ll continue to give cash directly to people, both ladies and bums. I like how Walt Whitman said it: “This is what you shall do; Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to everyone that asks …” Patrick Newman Chico

Everyone deserves pie Re “Turn out the obstructionists” (Editorial, Dec. 3): Is it a coincidence that environmental perils have been bombarding the media at an increasing rate since the post-war boom started fizzling out in the 1970s? I’d like to shout out a resounding no! It shouldn’t come as a surprise that things aren’t what they appear to be on the surface when it comes to politics, and environmental issues have become a political battlefield. It’s true that cars and factories release emissions into the air and it appears that many of our natural resources may not be as infinite as we had hoped, but isn’t it convenient that this is all coming to light at a time when the U.S. is in fear of losing its grip as global super power? The industrial revolution helped make this country great and I believe that all of the political jargon about environmental devastation is simply another ploy to oppress those less privileged. It’s mighty easy for me to eat my slice of the pie, then withhold yours while claiming I’m helping you watch your cholesterol. Doesn’t America stand for freedom? I think it’s time we stop keeping the impoverished down and let others have a piece of the pie, too! Paul Ennis Chico

Stabucks and alcohol Re “Baristas to bartenders” (The Bottom Line, by Toni Scott, Dec. 3): As if getting another bar in downtown Chico isn’t bad enough, but this is one more baby step in corporatization. Local watering holes and their patrons may want to take notice. Nina Widlund Chico

See this play Plays offer a variety of permutations: good plays with poor actors, poor plays with good actors, etc. When a challenging play is performed by a group of excellent actors, don’t miss it. On Friday my wife and I saw The Other Place by Sharr White at the Blue Room Theatre. Here is an opportunity to see a thought-provoking play

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beautifully directed by Joe Hilsee and performed by talented actors: Cynthia Lammel, William Johnson, Hilary Tellesen and Hilsee. The “facts” established at first by the seemingly reliable Juliana Smithton (Lammel) dissolve and reshape themselves as she confronts the “realities” of her husband (Johnson), and daughter (Tellesen) who is married to Richard (Hilsee). The result is that the audience is challenged to fit the various twists and turns in Juliana’s life into a cohesive whole: Who is the girl in the yellow-string bikini? Does Juliana have a brain tumor? And many more. There are many layers to Juliana’s character. It is a real treat to witness how easily Lammel shifts between the many moods demanded of her character. Truly a professional achievement. Make certain you don’t miss this. Lynn Elliott Chico

Editor’s note: For a review, see this issue, page 33.

Do some research Re “Change is … inevitable” (Letters, by James R. Jenkins, Dec. 3): Mr. Jenkins brings up the hoary old chestnut so revered by conservative climate change deniers of the global cooling “forecasts” of the 1970s. Had Jenkins done a little research, he would have found that very few climate scientists embraced the “impending ice age” theory. I can find no record of any articles being published in scientific journals on this subject. Articles were published in Time magazine and Newsweek, which sensationalized the theory. According to an article cited in Wikipedia, this global cooling hypothesis “had little support in the scientific community, but gained temporary popular attention due to a combination of a slight downward trend of temperatures from the 1940s to the early 1970s and press reports that did not accurately reflect the full scope of the scientific literature.” There never was any agreement

in the scientific community that an ice age was imminent. However, there is overwhelming agreement within this same community that global warming is on the way. For those of you still in doubt, you may want to check on global temperatures for the last couple of years. Charles W. Bird Chico

‘Bigots and buffoons’ If the polls are to be believed, a majority of Republicans now feel that ignorance, incompetence and bigotry are important requirements for high political office. How else to explain the popularity of Donald Trump, whose capacity for racist lies is equaled only by his overweening arrogance and self-promotion. Or Dr. Ben Carson, who may be the world’s only neurosurgeon who doesn’t believe in science. Both Trump and Carson appear to know less than my dog about foreign policy. I have watched the political debates of both parties and am strongly supporting the candidacy of Sen. Bernie Sanders. However, the comparative lucidity of all the Democratic candidates and the issueoriented focus of their debates has led me to conclude that any of them— Sanders, Clinton or O’Malley—are vastly preferable to any of the prospective Republican candidates. It’s time to reject the likes of Trump and Carson. Our country is too precious to be entrusted to the care of bigots and buffoons. Tom Reed Chico

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Hunting for Christmas trees in the Philbrook area took a harrowing turn for five people in two separate incidents recently, according to a pair of press releases from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office. The BCSO received a phone call at 8:30 a.m. Tuesday (Dec. 8) reporting a family of four that had gone searching for a tree the previous afternoon and had not returned. Search and rescue teams were dispatched, and located the family around noon. Their vehicle had broken down, and they took shelter overnight in a cabin. That rescue mission came after a man— 65-year-old Wayne Cateron—went missing while looking for a tree in the same area Dec. 2. Cateron also took refuge in an empty cabin, and was found Dec. 4.

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Sports network ESPN will be on-hand to catch the action when Chico State’s basketball teams tip off against Cal Poly Pomona early next year. The cable-satellite station will broadcast the Feb. 19 men’s and women’s games against the Broncos on ESPN3 live as the network’s Division 2 Game of the Week. ESPN broadcasts to more than 90 million households in the United States. The men’s teams from both schools are currently ranked in the top 25 in the Cali-

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Chico State women’s team has advanced to the NCAA championship tournament 10 times in the past 13 seasons. This will be the network’s first visit to Chico. The women’s game starts at 5:30 p.m., and the men play at 7:30 p.m.

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Chico State leaders face withdrawal of support from Academic Senate dissatisfaction with Chico State’s leadIership, the Academic Senate may soon

n what would be a serious expression of

deliver a vote of no confidence in three of the university’s top story and executives—longtime photo by President Paul Zingg; Howard his second-in-comHardee mand, Interim Provost h owa rd h @ Susan Elrod; and n ew srev i ew. c o m Lorraine Hoffman, vice president for business and finance. The vote Critical vote: is set for today Chico State’s Academic Senate will consider a (Dec. 10) at the senvote of no confidence in ate’s regular meeting. university administraThe proposed tion today (Dec. 10) at resolution cites a host 2:30 p.m. in Colusa 100 A & B. of grievances. “The failure of senior executives to make timely decisions and maintain working relationships has resulted in uncertainty and unpredictability; faculty, staff, and student stress; increased workload; deterioration of morale; loss of jobs; and very high turnover rates in administrative positions campus-wide.” Some on campus, such as English lecturer Anna Moore, believe a formal rebuke of upper-tier administration has been a long time coming. “I feel like it’s been so frustrating for faculty and staff to do their jobs here for such a long time,” she said during a phone interview. “I hope the no confidence vote is

passed—absolutely. It’s long overdue.” But it’s no slam-dunk decision. A petition signed by 26 members of Hoffman’s management team in the Division of Business and Finance urges the senate to reject the resolution. “These actions will negatively affect the students we are here to serve and tarnish this great institution’s reputation,” the petition reads, “and to what end?” In any case, the senate’s debate comes amid recent turmoil. As the CN&R reported last week (see “Classes dismissed?” Newslines), instructors were informed just prior to Thanksgiving break that, due to cuts to the Academic Affairs budget, some classes that students are already enrolled in for next semester may be canceled. Then it emerged that individual departments across campus—including Meriam Library—are unexpectedly short on funding heading into next semester. But why, exactly? After all, in June, Gov. Jerry Brown approved a state budget that includes an additional $97 million for the entire California State University system, and Chico State’s Office of the Provost reported in an email to the Academic Senate on Dec. 2 that the spring budget had actually increased by $5.1 million compared with last year. At the senate’s regular meeting on Thursday (Dec. 3), Elrod explained “why people are feeling squeezed.” While it’s true that the Academic Affairs budget increased by about 8 percent,

to a total of $78.3 million, personnel costs—salary increases, benefits and new hires—increased even more, she said. Acknowledging that long-term budget planning was lacking in years past, Elrod said those hiring processes were put in motion before she became interim provost a little more than a year ago, which she likened to “coming on board a moving train.” “Essentially, for the past two years, Academic Affairs has not had the management expertise or the process for budgeting that would enable us to have a clearer and earlier understanding of the situation,” she said. “At the divisional level, we haven’t really had a budget plan.” Elrod said her office’s next steps include providing funding from reserves to meet student demand for classes next semester, providing a preliminary budget estimate for the 2016-17 academic year in February and forming an ad-hoc budget task force to develop a new model for the Academic Affairs budget. Though Elrod’s presentation appeared well-received by members of the senate, some mistrust lingers among faculty. With both Zingg and Elrod looking on, the senate voted 32-0 to agendize deliberation on the vote of no confidence for its next meeting. For his part, Zingg says that heading into

next semester, his last before retirement, with a vote of no confidence would make

it more difficult for the university to attract his successor. In a four-page letter delivered to members of the senate on Wednesday (Dec. 9), he writes that “supporting a resolution that lacks clarity, specificity and accuracy would have a chilling effect on the strength of the pool and the interest of the candidates.” Zingg is defensive at times throughout the statement, but adds that “it is sad and deeply troubling to me personally that individuals have reached a point of frustration, anxiety and/or anger that compels such a resolution.” Much of the debate has centered on the appointment of the university’s top positions. At the beginning of this semester the local chapter of the California Faculty Association said Zingg “violated the spirit of shared governance” when, on Aug. 21, he announced in a campus-wide email that Elrod had been appointed as permanent provost—without consulting faculty and staff. Then, just four days later, Zingg sent a follow-up email announcing that Elrod had declined the permanent provost position, but would continue serving as interim through the end of the academic year. Not appointing Elrod as permanent provost “upon listening to the university faculty and others,” Zingg argues in his Dec. 9 letter, demonstrates his willingness to hear out faculty and staff. Similar scenarios have played out elsewhere in the CSU system. Rollin Richmond, former president of Humboldt State University, came under fire in 2009 for foregoing a national search and appointing Interim Provost Robert Synder to a permanent position, according to the Eureka TimesStandard. The university’s faculty association delivered a vote of no confidence and asked Richmond to retire within two years; he stepped down in 2013. (Coincidentally, while Zingg recuperated from heart surgery last spring, Richmond came out of retirement to serve as his temporary replacement.) Chico State’s Academic Senate has considered a no confidence vote in Zingg at least once before. In October of last year, the body of faculty members spoke publicly about campus-wide dysfunction and requested the CSU Chancellor’s Office appoint an independent consultant to evaluate problems on campus and offer solutions. The Chancellor’s Office ultimately did not honor the request, leaving the university to sort out its own problems, and the senate did not deliver a vote of no confidence at that time. □

A kinder, gentler community Alternatives to Violence Project moves to Chico, aims to train locals to lead workshops on nonviolence ark Fisher was three years into a six-year prison sentence when he decided it was M time to make a change. He’d found himself

in High Desert State Prison in Susanville because of a bar fight—he’d been found guilty of assault with a deadly weapon—and that wasn’t the first time he’d gotten violent, especially while drinking. “I decided to start changing things in my life, seeking different programs,” said Fisher (who asked that his name be changed for this story). A cellmate of his introduced him to the Alternatives to Violence Project (AVP), which offered three-day workshops inside the prison. “The first Attend an AVP workshop: time I went, The next community workshop in I didn’t like Butte County will be Friday-Sunday, Dec. 11-13, at the African American it. But I tried Family & Cultural Center in Oroville. it again and I For more information on how to sign liked it—it was up—cost of attendance is on a slidmostly about ing scale of $45-$150—email Justin me changing Lin at justin@avpcalifornia.org. For more on AVP, go to avpcalifornia.org. myself.” Now Fisher is a free man— he’s been out of prison for five years—and living and working in Chico. Some weekends, however, he goes back inside to facilitate AVP workshops for current prisoners.

“When I was inside, AVP helped me feel better about myself. I was learning things,” he said. “I wanted to be able to help other people learn the things I was learning.” Many of those lessons have found their way into Fisher’s everyday life, he says. He regularly uses skills like dealing with anger, and how to talk out problems with others rather than resort to violence. And he’s seen a big difference in himself and fellow former inmates since taking the AVP workshops. “It is very powerful to let guys know I was incarcerated and now I’m out here and I’m doing well,” he said. “There’s a group of guys I stay in contact with who all did the workshop and they’re all doing really well.” AVP was started 40 years ago inside Green

Haven Correctional Facility in New York. As a collaboration between inmates and local Quakers, the program quickly grew and now includes local chapters all over the United States and abroad. While the thrust of AVP’s mission takes place inside prisons, community workshops have been successful in solving neighborhood conflicts as well as giving community members tools to resolve issues

SIFT ER Clean energy explosion The clean energy economy is booming in California, where clean jobs increased by 23 percent, from 297,179 to 368,288, between 2010 to 2014. That’s according to a recent report by the Pacific Coast Collaborative, formed in 2013 by the governors of Washington, Oregon and California and the premier of British Columbia with the goal of creating a clean economy and reducing carbon emissions. Over that same period, the gross domestic product of California’s clean economy increased from $39.7 billion to $52.6 billion. The explosive growth of solar energy has been a driving factor—in 2014 alone, about $11.8 billion was invested in solar installations, and the industry employed 28,000 people.

The Alternatives to Violence Project offers three-day workshops, ranging from basic to intermediate to training to become a facilitator. The workshops aren’t made up of lectures, though, but rather participatory sessions. PHOTO COURTESY OF AVP

nonviolently. They’re also a good way for families to prepare for a loved one to get out of prison, says Justin Lin, an AVP outreach coordinator who recently moved to Chico to start a local chapter. Lin’s move to Chico in September came after AVP received a grant to develop a pool of facilitators who could serve the High Desert prison in Susanville. So, in addition to offering tools to those who seek them in the community, he’s hoping local workshops will attract people who want to become volunteer facilitators and lead the workshops inside the prison. He also hopes to work with local courts to offer alternative sentencing through AVP. “In just three months, I’ve seen a strong response [locally] from people in the social justice community and the peace churches,” Lin said. “There’s a lot going on in Chico, in terms of what you can do as a volunteer here.” Personally, Lin got involved in AVP after a job opening came up in the Bay Area. He’d heard about the organization several times, including during a fellowship in Africa, and was excited to be a part of it. His training was done in Sing Sing Correctional Facility in New York. “I really saw how powerful the program was,” he said. “It gave me a perspective on how rough prison can be.” Fisher agrees that life in prison is different. “There’s a big abundance of violence inside,” he said. “That’s how you deal with problems in there. There’s not a lot of talking or coming up with ways to figure out how to do things [nonviolently]. So, I wanted to be able to go inside and teach those gentlemen tools on how to deal with anger and conflicts.” —MEREDITH J. COOPER me r e d i th c @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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“This map paints a stark picture of how climate disasters drive hunger. In Paris, we must decide between a future world where ending hunger is achievable—or one where we and every future generation continue this losing struggle responding to the scourge of global hunger,” Ertharin Cousin, executive director of the World Food Programme, said in a statement. The most vulnerable countries are in sub-Saharan Africa—a region where one in four people is already undernourished. Asia and both South and Central America are vulnerable as well. The interactive map paints a drastically different picture depending on your level of

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Jewish rapper L.E.E., also a Chico State student, performs Tuesday night (Dec. 8) at Chico City Plaza as part of the Chabad Jewish Center’s 10th annual Hanukkah celebration. Three of the giant menorah’s eight candles, plus the shamash in the center, which is used to light the rest of the candles, were lit to represent the third of eight nights of Hanukkah, the Jewish Festival of Lights. pHoto bY emiLY teague

2080s, the country’s food insecurity increases 60 percent over present day numbers. The World Food Programme’s most recent estimates find that, globally, about 795 million people already do not have enough food to be healthy. Scientists warn climate change does, and will continue to, exacerbate this, largely through increased disasters such as prolonged droughts, floods, tornadoes and sea level rise. Even if heat-trapping gas emissions totally stopped, millions of people would still face climate-caused food insecurity by the 2050s because of a delayed response from previous emissions. But the map—which works by using climate projections, economic models and current food availability stats—shows we can curb how many people will suffer. And that large swing in hunger prevalence in places like Mozambique will be, in part, determined by what comes out of Paris this month, where delegates from 195 countries descended last week to the United Nations climate change meeting dubbed COP21, or the 21st meeting of the Conference of Parties. The goal? A legally binding agreement to keep the warming of the planet’s average temperature below 2 degrees Celsius over the temperature since the Industrial Revolution. The linchpin of such an accord will be an agreement on major global carbon emission reductions. The other sticking point is money: how much are rich nations willing to pony up to help the Mozambiques of the world mitigate and adapt to climate change? The World Food Programme has an ambitious goal of ending world hunger in the next 15 years. And Cousin said this new map is illustrative of the urgency at the Paris talks on this effort. “Only if leaders get it right in Paris will we end hunger by 2030 and provide future generations with the opportunity to enjoy sustainable and durable global food security,” Cousin said. —BRIAN BIENKOWSKI

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“You have people feeling let down,” Taylor explained. “Maybe they didn’t enjoy the holidays as much as they could have. They built it up in their head that it’s going to be this big thing, and if it’s not, it’s a big letdown.” And for others who did enjoy the holiday season, there’s an abrupt shift back to everyday life. “The holidays are a very festive time with lots of lights, happy people, singing, the stores are bright and shiny,” Taylor said. “Then, suddenly, it’s just gone. New Year’s is over, and everything is back to normal.” That’s why it’s common for people from all walks of life—not only those with diagnosed mental health conditions—to seek mental health treatment in January and February, Nichols said. As a psychiatrist, Nichols’ works with six to 12 patients a day at Enloe Behavioral Health, helping them identify the root causes of mental health problems. That involves “working out the narrative,” he said. “People always come in with a story explaining what’s going on,” he said. “One

of the reasons people don’t get better is because their reason is plausible, but it’s not true.” For example, in the past month, two patients who were experiencing depression “perked up after just a couple days with us,” Nichols said. While the patients attributed the change to taking new medication, Nichols suspected that they’d both been suffering from seasonal affective disorder—a condition triggered by a lack of sunlight and vitamin D—and that the clinic’s bright fluorescent lights had impacted them positively. “We started talking about their work environments, and they’re working in places that are trying to conserve energy, and they don’t get outside much,” Nichols said. “That’s a better narrative: You need light therapy. Exploring why people are depressed is really important.” So, when a patient tells Nichols that he or she is struggling over the holidays, he doesn’t doubt them. He just believes that labeling a condition as the “holiday blues” is generally false attribution. “They say they’re depressed because it’s

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Failing to turn those habits around, or get back into an exercise routine, once the holidays have passed also can be discouraging. “People make New Year’s resolutions, which are often broken within the first 30 days,” Taylor said. “Then people say, ‘Wow, that didn’t last long. I must be a bad person.’ That may stir more depression.” And, of course, the holidays often come with a burdensome price tag. “A lot of folks who are on limited income stretch it out to get presents for everyone,” Taylor said. “Then they’re in debt or spent money they shouldn’t have spent, and January isn’t looking so lovely.” And for someone with a preexisting mental health condition, getting a big credit card bill “can be the last straw,” Nichols agreed. “A lot of the serious suicide attempts are in January,” he said. “A lot of times, people kind of push through certain landmarks like the holidays; they’ll hold off until January.” Additionally, the holidays are often used as a marker for tragedies, Nichols said. “If someone close has died in the past year, it’s the first Christmas since. They’re really overemphasized as markers for good and bad life events.”

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GREEN Kristin Gruneisen is the program supervisor for the Center for Healthy Communities, which recently launched its Fresh Pick meals program. Below: A recent meatloaf dinner.

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healthy and active lifestyles in and around W Chico, the Center for Healthy Communities ith goals centered around promoting

has implemented over half a dozen projects in its 14 years. The newest, Fresh Pick, launched last month. Its purpose is to provide healthy, made-from-scratch meals to working individuals and parents who may not have the time to cook for themselves. “Most families now have two parents working outside of the home and the last thing you want to hear at 5 p.m. is, ‘What’s for dinner?’” said Kristin Gruneisen, program supervisor for CHC, a nonprofit that operates under the support of Chico State’s Research Foundation. CHC operates many other successful programs, including its Get Cookin’ classes, where participants get free lessons and tips on preparing budget meals, and the Harvest of the Month and Farmer of the Month programs, which partner with local farmers and gardens to educate students about the benefits of healthy, local nutrition options. But it was the success of Senior Meals that inspired the development of Fresh Pick. Partnering with Passages at Chico State, CHC has worked with Senior Meals for the last two years to provide daily made-fromscratch lunches to senior citizens around Butte County. According to Gruneisen, the positive feedback was enough to get the organization thinking about expansion. “We were recognizing that we and [the community] liked what we were cooking and wondered, ‘How can we expand this to help working families?’” Gruneisen said. Fresh Pick hopes to fill that need, at least twice a week. On Tuesdays and Thursdays, between 4-6 p.m., customers can pick up preordered, premade meals for $9 a plate. The current fall/winter menu features six dishes chosen by production manager

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Sheena Gruenberg, and prepared by local chef Jessica McDougall using rented space at Italian Guy Kitchen. Depending on the day, customers can sample from pork and veggie enchiladas, a barbecue bowl, savory meatloaf, the Chico Harvest bowl, Thai chicken bowl and black bean butternut squash chili, five of which are available in vegetarian options. “I picked recipes that I felt as a working mom I wouldn’t make during the working week because it involved a lot of labor. It was also important to make these meals healthy while still tasting delicious and looking visually appealing,” Gruenberg said. All dishes are made from scratch, down to the balsamic vinaigrette and pan-roasted yams, with Chico State interns occasionally helping with cooking and packaging. And like their other meal services, the initial feedback looks promising. “This is the third time I’ve bought meals from Fresh Pick, and they’ve all been really good,” local customer Patrick Doyle said last Tuesday evening while picking up two orders of the meatloaf. “And the enchiladas? Oh, my goodness. I think I bought four of those last time, two of which were for people who don’t usually like enchiladas, and they loved them.” Launched on Nov. 10, the program is still in the infancy stages, but Gruneisen says customer growth is already apparent. “We sold 82 meals the first week and the second week was 90. Our eventual goal is 140 a week.” As the program expands, Gruneisen hopes to focus on cooking with local ingre-

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dients. “Purchasing locally is the ultimate goal, but we’re not there yet. We do it when we can, like using Lundberg rice for our Chico Harvest bowl. Eventually we’d like to be buying from the local markets.” Reaching that goal will become easier as Fresh Pick increases its customer base and, in turn, its revenue. The proceeds from the meals go back into CHC, helping subsidize the many costs that come with running a nonprofit. “To implement all we do, there’s a price tag, so it’s nice to offset some of that. We can generate more support for Senior Meals and our kids programs with the help of Fresh Pick.” At $9 a plate, Gruneisen says the price may not be ideal for students, but is still reasonable compared to most restaurant prices. “Aside from restaurant take-out options, I don’t know of many services like it in the area. There are programs like Blue Apron, where they send you the recipes and ingredients, but you still have to deal with the cooking and cleanup.” Dream Dinners, a similar service offered in Redding, encourages customers to consolidate their meal prep time by dropping by the center and cooking several meals at once, with the intention of being frozen for later use. While there are dozens of other food services around Chico offering quick meal fixes, from take-out to fast food, it’s the nutritious component of a homemade meal that may set Fresh Pick apart. “The healthiness and convenience of these meals—that’s the best part given today’s lifestyle,” said

Doyle. That lifestyle, of course, is the one that keeps most families so busy that the drive-through line often seems like the most appealing option come dinner time. But made-from-scratch meals from Fresh Pick let customers trade the preservatives for more wholesome choices. As a working parent herself, Gruneisen says she’s also become a customer. “Even as someone who likes cooking, it’s nice to have a break sometimes.” □

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The final showdown Many environmentalists and scientists believe that—if it’s not too late already—immediate, sweeping action is necessary to stop climate change before it leads to global disaster. That’s the kicker behind high noon for the Planet— a climate change rally on saturday, dec. 12, at noon, at Chico City Plaza. The event, which coincides with the end of the U.N. Climate Change Conference in Paris, will include speakers and information to help people take action on a local level, as well as live music by smokey the Groove, food and more. The rally is organized by Butte environmental Council and Chico 350.

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You had me at ‘woof’ Flavors of the world A fresh life of adventure recently manifested itself for Mike and Liz Guillaume in the form of fulfilling a lifelong dream: owning their own sandwich shop. The Guillaumes came to Chico from the Bay Area, where they had over 30 years of business experience in marketing, office managing and self-employment. Once their two children went off to college, the couple began looking for a new career path. This past July, they found that EJ’s Dogs and Subs, in the Safeway shopping center off Mangrove Avenue in Chico, was for sale. They quickly jumped at the opportunity and bought the business, moved to Paradise, and with the generous help of the previous owner, Ed Crim, they reopened as Alpaca Bob’s Sandwich Adventures in mid-October. The Guillaumes take pride in offering a menu with flavors inspired from around the globe, like their Thai dogs, Italianstyle paninis, Soviet sauce or Cajun hotlinks. The Guillaumes recently sat down with the CN&R to share their excitement of making sandwiches for a living and their hopes of creating a philanthropic dynamic between the shop and those in need. Find Alpaca Bob’s on Facebook, or visit them in person.

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Who is Alpaca Bob? Mike: Alpaca Bob is the legend of the adventurer who searches the world looking for the best sandwich. His sidekick is Buttercup the alpaca.

Do you think he would find the best sandwich here? Mike: Hopefully! We really want to offer new things to our customers. The previous owner’s menu and recipes are still being used, but we are going to experiment all the time. Good thing we love to eat!

Why did you choose to start a new career in Chico? Liz: We wanted to live in a diverse place, with lots of culture, and we wanted out of the Bay Area. We loved it there, but it literally took us longer to drive 3 miles across our town than it does to drive from Paradise to Chico. Our kids are out of the house, we

wanted to be somewhere where we could eventually retire, and Chico is close enough to our friends and family. And, as we have recently learned, Chico is full of fun, dynamic characters that make our day here at the shop. Mike: Absolutely. And we strive to bring good back to the community. If someone comes in who is obviously hungry and only has $3 and not $3.50, we understand. We have seriously thought about the idea of allowing people to buy a hotdog for the homeless; they would pay for two hotdogs, and we would be able to give one to someone who needs it.

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ast winter and spring, thousands of adult chinook salmon nosed upstream past Richmond, through the Carquinez Straits and into the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, on their way to spawn in the Sacramento River. At about the same time, officials at Shasta Dam did something that critics say was stupid, negligent and illegal: They opened the spigot on the reservoir’s outflow pipes in order to send extra water downstream for farmers—and they didn’t save enough for the fish. Lake Shasta’s levels dropped so low, and the summer grew so hot, that even the deepest, darkest, coldest corner of the lake—the pocket of water abutting the base of the dam—grew steadily warmer. By the time the salmon had reached their summer spawning grounds, the water exiting Lake Shasta and flowing past the fish was almost 60 degrees—dangerously warm for temperature-sensitive fertilized chinook eggs. For the second summer in a row, environmentalists and fishermen say, an entire year class of the endangered winter-run chinook was mostly annihilated. Just how this happened, and whether it could have been avoided, has been the source of finger pointing, excuse making and legal wrangling. Officials with the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, the federal agency that operates Shasta Dam, have blamed the drought for the mass salmon die off and say there simply wasn’t enough water to go around. Louis Moore, spokesman for the bureau, said in an interview that his agency worked with all stakeholders to ensure that water was released from reservoirs at the most optimum time, considering the needs of farmers as well as fish and wildlife. But environmentalists and fishermen note that by the end of summer 2015, many farmers in the Central Valley had received 75 percent of their water conAbout this story: tract allotments, while at least 95 percent of the This story originally endangered winter-run chinook’s fertilized eggs appeared in the and newborn fish had been killed. Impacts to the East Bay Express.

fall-run chinook—the run that supports the coastal fishery—are still being assessed. Environmentalists say the Bureau of Reclamation had the power to protect the fish but opted to prioritize the state’s agricultural industry instead. “The way this keeps getting told is that drought killed the winter-run chinook salmon,” said Jon Rosenfield, a conservation biologist at The Bay Institute. “But the agencies just chose not to protect the endangered winter run, the spring run, steelhead, and the fall run—which is commercially valuable.” Indeed, there’s likely never been a worse time to be a salmon in California than right now. Dams and levees have made most of the state’s major rivers incapable of supporting wild salmon, and increasing human demand for water threatens what habitat remains. Gov. Jerry Brown insists he has a plan to save the delta and its salmon, but critics warn that his vision of diverting the Sacramento River underground through two giant tunnels and into the San Joaquin Valley will destroy the delta ecosystem. Global warming will also have its impacts on salm-

on. Making matters worse, long-term forecasts call for reduced precipitation and warmer winters. Salmon are known to be a resilient species. If their habitat remains intact, they can bounce back from population drops in just a generation or two, thanks to short life spans and female fish that carry thousands of eggs. That means if plenty of rain falls this winter and the next, the numbers of salmon in California could rise back toward the 1 million-adult mark. “But they’re only resilient to a point,” noted Doug Killam, a biologist with the California Department of Fish and Wildlife who studies the spawning fish each year near Redding. “The run is on the edge now. The bottom line is: Fish need water, and if it doesn’t rain soon, they’re going to be in real trouble.” And so is California’s fishing industry.

If the state’s reservoirs don’t refill this winter, extinction of the winter-run chinook will become an imminent threat. Fishery managers will probably curtail the ocean fishery in 2016, and may even close it to protect the winter run from decimation. If that were to happen, it could throw the coastal fishing economy—already reeling from the closure of the Dungeness crab season— into turmoil. Last January, officials with the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS) sent a letter to California water officials warning them that their temperature modeling system wasn’t working. “[T]hroughout much of the summer of 2014, actual water temperatures ... were upward of 4 [degrees] higher than Sacramento River temperature modeling results,” the letter stated. NMFS regional administrators Maria Rea and William Stelle advised David Jon Rosenfield said the Bureau of Reclamation ignored its own plan to save cold water for salmon this year. PHOTO BY BERT JOHNSON

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Murillo, regional director of the Bureau of Reclamation, to recalibrate his agency’s temperature modeling system in order to avoid a repeat of 2014, when the bureau released warm water from Lake Shasta onto millions of winter-run salmon eggs and newborn fish, destroying nearly all of them. The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and The Bay Institute sent water authorities a similar warning notice in May. But in the end, almost the exact same thing happened in 2015 as the year before. “We classify this as a ‘year class failure,’” said Rea, referring to 2015. “We think of the chinook as a three-year fish, so losing two years in a row is serious.” Before the Gold Rush, chinook salmon swarmed for months each year in the Central Valley’s river system. There were easily a million spawners annually—and maybe twice that amount—with fish nearly clogging even the mightiest of California’s waterways. Numbers began declining as European Americans arrived and made California their home. Mining activities sent mountains’ worth of sediment into rivers, burying gravel beds where the fish spawned, while intensive fishing pressure curbed the population downstream.

Then, in the 1900s, as huge dams began appearing on most major rivers in the Central Valley, the chinook became cut off from hundreds of miles of spawning grounds. Populations crashed. In the San Joaquin River, the fish never came back, while hatcheries in the Sacramento Valley, built specifically to offset the impacts of the dams, have helped maintain stable numbers of salmon. However, with more water leaving the delta than ever before via powerful pumps near Tracy, even the remnant runs of fish are now failing. The Sacramento River’s wild chinook salmon spawn in the cold water that flows out of Lake Shasta. By measuring water temperatures throughout the lake, knowing the current volume of the reservoir, and looking ahead through the year at agricultural demands from the valley downstream, dam operators are able to calculate precisely how much water they can release while preserving the cold water pocket at the base of Shasta Dam. But sometimes they mess up. Bureau of Reclamation officials told this reporter that a pivotal thermometer in the lake wasn’t working early this year. “They also had a lame excuse that their temperature control device wasn’t working

Indeed, there’s likely never been a worse time to be a salmon in California than right now. and they didn’t know,” said Tom Stokely, director of the environmental group California Water Impact Network. The temperature control device to which Stokely was referring is a large metal box placed over the outlet hole on the inside face of Shasta Dam. It extends deep down into the cold bottom water that is so critical for salmon. On this box are shutters from top to bottom. When water managers open shutters at the bottom of the box, only cold water exits the lake, passing through electricity turbines as it heads into the Sacramento River. When salmon are not spawning downstream, shutters higher on the box open up, releasing warmer water and saving the cold water for later.

However, an exchange of letters in 2004 between Stokely and fishery managers with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) shows that federal agencies have known for at least the past 11 years that the temperature control device on Shasta Dam doesn’t function properly. In that exchange of letters, Rodney McInnis, regional administrator for NOAA fisheries at the time, suggested that entirely bypassing the turbines and using a separate outflow at the base of the dam could solve problems relating to releasing warm water into the Sacramento River. That same solution could have been used this year to protect the spawning salmon in the river, Stokely noted. “But, of course, that would have meant losing hydropower generation, and the bureau wasn’t going to do that.” Stokely also noted that water from the Trinity River, which is pumped through a tunnel in the coast range and into the Sacramento River system just below Shasta Dam, is usually several degrees warmer than the Sacramento’s water. He said the Bureau of Reclamation was pumping this water into the Sacramento during the summer spawning season. Holding off for a few weeks could have helped preserve the critical temperature levels. “I am personally outraged at the deception and the lies by the Bureau of Reclamation and the fisheries regulatory agencies and how they just can’t cop to the fact that their priority is to send water to [agriculture],” Stokely said. “It’s not to save fish.” Rosenfield said the Bureau of Reclamation officials wrote up a decent plan for releasing flows from Shasta through 2015—but then changed it. “They said, ‘This is how much cold water we’ll need, so we’re going to release water at a certain rate during the SALMON c o n t i n u e D December 10, 2015

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summer—this is our temperature plan,’” Rosenfield said. “Then they proceeded to not follow their temperature plan.”

Attorney Kate Poole says it’s illegal to favor agriculture over endangered fish. photo by bert Johnson

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Plan,” issued last January, the bureau stated that it would release from Keswick Reservoir—a holding pool just below Lake Shasta—3,250 cubic feet of water per second through much of the spring, and then start to increase flows in late May. Instead, the bureau boosted flows dramatically in midApril. By April 18, water was gushing out of the reservoir at a rate of 4,000 cubic feet per second, and then a little more than a week later, the releases reached 7,000 cubic feet per second. Saving just some of that water in Shasta, Rosenfield said, could have saved millions of salmon. In a normal water year, when reservoir supplies are plentiful, the senior water rights holders in the Sacramento Valley receive about 2.1 million acre-feet of water. That’s enough to fill a skyscraper about 400 miles tall. This water comes mostly from Lake Shasta, but also from the Trinity River via a tunnel drilled decades ago in an aggressive maneuver to secure more water for farmers in the dry San Joaquin Valley. Because 2015 was a critical water year due to the drought, the Central Valley’s senior rights farmers didn’t receive their normal allotments of water and instead got 60 to 65 percent, according to Thad Bettner, general manager of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, a consortium of farmers northwest of Sacramento. But that’s still a lot of water, according to environmentalists and fishermen who think deliveries should have been cut even more. Just a fraction of that volume, they’ve argued, could have been enough to keep cold water for the salmon eggs. Last month, the NRDC, The Bay Institute, the Winnemem Wintu Tribe, and several other groups filed a court complaint, alleging that the Bureau of Reclamation repeatedly violated the Endangered Species Act. They alleged that by releasing so much reservoir water from Lake Shasta for farmers, the bureau failed to safeguard the cold water in the lake that is critical for salmon. The complaint is being added to a decade-old lawsuit focused on delta smelt. Kate Poole, a senior attorney with the NRDC, said that favoring farmers—no matter how senior their water rights—over endangered fish is illegal. Even protection of the fall-run chinook, which is not listed as threatened or endangered but is a commercially valuable resource, must be prioritized above senior water rights, she argued. “The seniority of water rights does not insulate [water agencies] from their obligations to protect public trust uses,” Poole said. However, Bettner of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District contends that the estimated mortality rate of 95 percent of the winter-run salmon this year from the lack of cold water 20

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in the Sacramento River may be exaggerated. He suspects that other factors are causing the low fish counts. The counting method used to estimate the survival rate of the young salmon, Bettner suggested, could be skewed. He also speculates that predators, like striped bass and even native trout, may be eating the young salmon. He’s also argued that it’s possible that the 2015 brood of winter-run juveniles is still in the river and that they just haven’t migrated downstream past the fish counting station near Red Bluff, where a battery of rotary screw fish traps has been placed across the river. But Jim Smith, a biologist with the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, said that Bettner’s optimism isn’t supported by evidence. In most years, he said, the majority of juvenile winter-run salmon would have migrated out of the upper river by now. He believes the fish traps are working correctly and that mortality is indeed alarmingly high. He blames warm water. “Temperatures were higher in the river than they’ve been in 25 years,” he said. The drought has brought

misery to some farmers. In places, they have watched trees die and wells run dry. Heightened environmental restrictions on pumping from the delta caused additional burdens, and many farmers wound up with zero surface water allowances in the past two years, forcing them to irrigate their orchards with groundwater, buy surface water at high prices from others, or fallow their land. Yet despite these challenges, farmers are still doing quite well in California. The state’s agriculture industry sold $54 billion worth of crops in 2014—an all-time record, though that was partly due to inflated prices in foreign markets. The almond industry, increasingly a symbol of one arid region’s dependence on water imported from wetter places, is also thriving. Since June 2014, California farmers have planted 12 million almond trees—resulting in 75,000 acres of

new orchards, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The almond industry, expanding rapidly for years, now occupies more than a million acres of California. That’s about 1,600 square miles. Meanwhile, not far away from these lucrative trees, one of the most prolific estuaries in the world is dying, with a lineup of fish species edging briskly toward extinction. The delta smelt is now considered to be doomed, if not quite gone. Right behind them are green sturgeon, Central Valley steelhead trout, river lamprey, Sacramento splittail and Longfin smelt. Now, both the winter- and spring-run chinook seem to be edging into the queue for extinction. But many farmers say the destruction of the state’s once-mighty salmon runs is not their fault. Mike Wade, director of the California Farm Water Coalition, a group that represents farmers throughout the Central Valley, claims that the decline of native fishes is largely the result of predators—like black bass, striped bass and sunfish—that were introduced into the estuary. And he said that because the restrictions on pumping that were intended to reverse the declines aren’t working, other factors must be more significant. “We’ve been curtailing our pumping for 25 years, and we’re still seeing fish declines,” he said. “So we need to start being smarter.” Wade argues that cyclical shutdowns of ocean productivity and loss of inland habitat where juvenile salmon used to spend the first

Mike Wade, director of the California Farm Water Coalition, claims that the decline of native fishes is largely the result of predators—like black bass, striped bass and sunfish— that were introduced into the estuary.

months of their lives are key factors in chinook declines. In fact, many scientists would agree and are now at work on projects that would restore the floodplains and wetlands alongside the Sacramento River, separated from these areas long ago by levees. But scientists, environmentalists and fishermen say the correlation between water pumping from the delta and declines in fish numbers is too strong to ignore. In the 1960s, when both striped bass and chinook salmon were still very abundant (along with many other fish species), water diversions from the delta via the pumping stations near Tracy were about 1.5 million acre-feet a year. Water exports grew to about 4.5 million acrefeet annually in the 1970s and continued to steadily increase. In the early 2000s, water exports exceeded 6 million acre-feet for several years—record high pumping rates that were followed within three years by record low returns of salmon. The commercial salmon fishery was shut down for two years—a disaster for the state’s salmon fishermen. Nonetheless, Wade contends that the correlation between water exports and fish declines is just a coincidence that does not prove causation and does not merit denying farmers the water they need to prosper. But Peter Moyle, a fisheries scientist at UC Davis, said many inter-related factors have affected salmon abundance, and while water diversions from the river system are not necessarily the direct cause of mortality, they have much to do with salmon survival rates— both in freshwater and in the ocean. “Anyone who looks for a simple causeand-effect relationship in [n]ature doesn’t understand how things work,” Moyle wrote in an email. “Flows rarely act alone in affecting salmon survival. The timing of flows, for example, may be more important than the amount of water. Warm water from low flows may increase survival of predators and competitors, resulting in lower survival of juvenile salmon. Adult salmon may die on the way to spawn because of warm water from inadequate flows, resulting in fewer fish in following years.” Salmon fishermen, meanwhile, can’t help feeling that they and the fish they live on have been shortchanged by California’s water allotment system. “When 80 percent of the state’s [available] water is going to [2] percent of its gross domestic product, farmers have no room to complain whatsoever,” said Chuck Cappotto, a retired commercial fisherman who sits on the board of directors of the Pacific Coast Federation of Fishermen’s Associations. Mike Hudson, a commercial salmon fisherman in Berkeley, said that aside from removing major dams, the most obvious fix for the state’s straggling salmon populations would be to cut the water pumping rates from the delta. Of the 35 to 40 million acre-feet of water used by agriculture in California each year, just 5 to 6 million acre-feet originate in

John McManus notes that when you protect the salmon fishery, you also protect habitat for other species. Photo courtesy of John mcmanus

the delta. “It’s basically a very small percentage of the water for farms,” Hudson said. “And we just want them to cut it back to 3 million acre-feet.” That’s the level of water that fishermen and environmental groups, including the Environmental Water Caucus, say could be sustainably removed from the delta each year. Hudson believes this would have a tremendously beneficial effect on salmon numbers at a relatively small cost to the state’s agriculture industry. “That’s the easiest thing to be done,” he said. “But it’s also the hardest thing.” For many commercial fishermen,

the year ahead could be a financial disaster. The Dungeness crab season has been delayed indefinitely due to toxins detected in samples of crab flesh—an action that will cut into the incomes of thousands of people. Now, to protect winter-run chinook, fishing is probably going to be tightly restricted, if not closed entirely, next year. While fishermen on the ocean mostly catch the relatively abundant fall-run fish, baited hooks in the water can easily catch winter-run salmon. So

imposing tighter restrictions on all salmon fishing in Northern California waters may be the only way to ensure that the endangered fish are not eliminated. Along the entire coast, commercial salmon fishermen are wondering how they will cope. Many are thinking about buying a costly state permit to fish for rockfish. Some are gearing up to fish far from shore for deepwater sablefish, usually marketed as black cod. Hudson has considered installing an expensive refrigeration system on his boat so he can motor north into Oregon waters to fish for tuna. But the investment would cost at least $20,000, he said, and he probably isn’t ready to take the plunge. “So, I’m looking at tying up the boat,” he said. Cappotto said a shutdown of the salmon season in coming years will create financial hardships that many small-boat, independent fishermen will not be able to overcome. “Crab season has got this enormous interruption, and so it will deliver a two-punch combo to the small-boat fisherman,” he said. “In the past, we would balance our fisheries one against the other. When salmon was bad, hopefully we’d have a good crab season, and

when crab was bad, hopefully we’d have a good salmon season.” Protecting the salmon fishery benefits more than just fishermen, added John McManus, executive director of the Golden Gate Salmon Association. The fishing economy, he said, serves as a sort of protective umbrella for much of the state’s water resources. “When you’re protecting salmon habitat, you’re protecting freshwater habitat for many species,” he said. “Protecting fishermen’s jobs has been one of the most persuasive reasons for protecting the environment.” Because the Central Valley’s watersheds have been so impacted by dams, pumps, canals and levees, there would be almost no salmon at all if it weren’t for fish hatcheries. Several of these cement-and-steel facilities produce millions of chinook every year. These fish are not farmed, but neither are they

For many commercial fishermen, the year ahead could be a financial disaster. entirely wild. They are produced by capturing adult fish by hand from the river and combining their eggs and sperm in trays and eventually releasing the juveniles into the wild to live out their lives. Because many of the natural selection forces that hone the strength and instincts of wild fish are removed by the hatchery system, the salmon produced by it essentially constitute a domesticated species, scientists have said. Purists in the fisheries science field want to see greater populations of truly wild California salmon, and some have even sug-

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gested closing the hatcheries down, since they interfere with wild fish populations. “But there isn’t enough habitat left to have wild fish,” said Hudson. “Without hatcheries we wouldn’t have any salmon at all.” In spite of the hatcheries, the numbers of salmon continue to decline for a variety of reasons. Projects are advancing that could improve post-spawn conditions for chinook. The group California Trout is behind a plan that would restore thousands of acres of the Sacramento Valley’s historic floodplains— wetlands that could provide critical habitat for newly born salmon and greatly improve their odds of reaching the ocean safely. Also, the NMFS is discussing plans to help transport adult salmon around Shasta Dam so they can spawn in the headwaters of the McCloud River, which flows off the slopes of Mount Shasta and runs icy cold all year long. But the problems impacting salmon survival may be insurmountable. Some scientists believe the booming human population, its increasing demand for water, and a warming planet will eventually eliminate Pacific salmon, including chinook as well as Coho, from the southern end of their range. According to these predictions, chinook will be extinct in California before the end of the century. But Hudson believes there is a future in California for salmon and fishermen. It depends, however, on leaving enough water in the delta and the state’s rivers. From the perspective of California’s agriculture industry, on the other hand, farmers have already sacrificed enough. “I don’t know how much more water [environmentalists and fishermen] think that agriculture can give,” Wade said. Environmentalists and fishermen note that, unlike salmon, California farmers are in no danger of extinction. In fact, they now grow more fruits and nuts than ever before. “Do they want to kill everything in the state just to grow a few more crops?” Hudson asked. Ω

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This holiday spirit jersey is not only cute and comfy, but also festive. Perfect for a trendy Chico State student, alum, or a Chico local! Dressed up or down, it will make a statement. Check out our selection of holiday gear in store or online at www.chicostatewildcatstore.com.

Chico State Wildcat Store 101 Hazel Street · Chico (530) 898-5222 www.chicostatewildcatstore.com

Boots—Style & Comfort! A pair of authentic Western Boots is the most comfortable footwear, if you are fitted properly. Unlike shoes, which are flat, Western Boots have a built-in arch that supports your feet. Therefore, boots must be the right length and the right width to fit comfortably. At Diamond W Western Wear, the friendly and knowledgeable staff will help you find the right pair of boots with the right fit. You’ll find every pair of boots on SALE now, just in time for your Holiday gift giving. At Diamond W you will find all major brands as well as exclusive custom brands. Locally owned for over 37 years, with the Lowest Prices Guaranteed!

Diamond W Western Wear Pat’s Shoe & Boot Repair E181 E 2nd Street • Downtown Chico Open Every Day • (530) 891-1650

Chikoko Presents the 9th Annual Bizarre Bazaar Come to Chico’s Alternative Craft Fair on Saturday Dec. 12th (10-6) and Sunday Dec. 13th (10-5) at the Chico Women’s Club. Over 25 local artists will be selling innovative wares, high quality unique art and offering a truly local experience. Plus, start the weekend off with a bang, come to the Voom Voom Variety Show on Friday Dec. 11th for local performances and an amazing raffle of surprises. Doors open at 6pm, Chico Women’s Club.

Chico Women’s Club 592 East 3rd St. Chico www.Chikoko.com

California Sunshine in a Bottle 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.

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Enjoy a True Chico Tradition 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 Snowballs now! The perfect holiday dessert! Don’t forget your Shubert’s Mints this season! No holiday celebration would be complete without them!

Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy 178 East 7th Street • Chico (530) 342-7163 www.shuberts.com

You’ll find the BEST Spirits... at Ray’s Liquor. Names like Jose Cuervo 250 anniversary, Old Rip Van Winkle, Remey Martin XO, Crown Royal XR, John Dewar Blended Scotch Whiskey, Small Batch 1792 Kentucky Straight Bourbon. Just a few of the top shelf spirits you’ll find. Whether you’re buying as a gift or just building up your liquor cabinet, stop by Ray’s and check out the selection. It’s quite impressive! Ray’s Liquor has made some noticeable changes in the past few months. It’s cleaner. It’s Easier to find what you’re looking for. They Brought in Top Shelf Liquors. Their wine selection is growing and features well known wines and wineries...and they’ve only started to make it better. Probably the most important change is how your treated when you walk in the door...as a friend, greeted with a smile and a kind word. Ray’s is the place, come in and find out why.

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

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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Let them decide... on a holiday gift from you by giving them a gift certificate to Chico Antique Center. You’ll guarantee someone a delightful and appreciated shopping experience. They’ll spend hours having fun looking for a hidden treasure for their home or office. Be a smart, thoughtful gift giver this season. 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

Holiday Gifts & Decor to Treasure! Christian & Johnson has some of the most beautiful poinsettia plants we have ever seen! From small and sweet to grand and gorgeous, we have it covered! Gifts, Decor, Flowers, Plants, Complimentary Wrapping... let Christian & Johnson help make your gift-giving beautiful. Since 1907, C&J has been making Holidays bright in Chico.

CHRISTIAN & JOHNSON 250 Vallombrosa • Chico (530) 891-1881 www.christianandjohnson.com

TAKE 25% OFF... everything in the store through December 17 (except consignment items). Save 25% on pendants, many different styles and looks designed by the worlds most talented glass artists. Save 25% on wine stoppers. The perfect gift for your wine loving friends. Save 25% on marbles, functional glass, art, bracelets and much more! You’ll find something for everyone on your “NICE” list at Chico Valley Gallery. Visit the showroom today and see for yourself why Chico Valley Gallery is known for offering the finest art glass in the North Valley, and right now at 25% OFF. Located in Downtown Chico next to Woodstock’s Pizza.

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

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Quality that lasts a lifetime. Sure, your small son or daughter will grow out of their new bicycle. But don’t get rid of it. It will be around and in good shape for years and years. Gift it from one child to the next. Pass it from one generation to the next. That’s why you buy at Chico Sports LTD. Because it lasts! Everyone loves gifts from Sports LTD. You’ll find stocking stuffers, clothing, bikes, yoga, shoes, and much more. If you can’t decide what to get, a gift certificate is always appreciated. Shop Sports LTD where you’ll find “Only the Good Stuff!”

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

The NEW Wusthof

Chico’s Own Locally Grown Wines The Perfect Holiday Gift 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

Trying to find that “wow” gift?

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.

We at Gaumer’s can help you. From classic to unique, we have an extensive inventory of gold and silver jewelry. Or let our jewelers create a timepiece specifically for you, using your gems or ours. We also have a fabulous selection of fossils, minerals, and polished stones. Come see what you can find. Gaumer’s Jewelry has been happily serving our community for 48 years.

Gaumer’s Jewelry 78 Belle Mill Road • Red Bluff, CA 96080 530-527-6166 • Follow Us on Facebook

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

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.

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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. These Redengine jeans are vintage inspired, confidently modern denim that fits and feels fabulous from the inside out. Made in the USA. Available in two colors (Wine & Gilded Chocolate).

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

Italian Cottage Gift Cup Set Italian Cottage coffee mug and Italian Cottage Chico bag $10. Add a special touch with an Italian Cottage gift card in any amount.

Italian Cottage restaurants 2234 The Esplanade Chico 343-7000 2525 Dominic Dr. Chico 342-7771 Open 7 days a week Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

Dive in to these great gift ideas! Looking for ideas and inspiration for Holiday gifts? Scuba Hut has a wide range of equipment, accessories, oceanic themed jewelry, and much more for the outdoors and water sports community. Take advantage of our gift card special - receive 10% back on any gift card purchase over $25. Stop by our boutique style showroom for those last minute stocking stuffers.

Scuba Hut Open Mon, Tue, Th, Fri 12-6 and Sat 12-5 2540 Esplanade #14 (next to Hula’s) (530) 636-2640 • www.scubahut.org

AUTHORIZED KLEAN KANTEEN DEALER Chico Honda Motorsports is proud to announce it’s now a Klean Kanteen dealer! Visit both of our locations this holiday season to purchase your BPA Free Klean Kanteen water bottle. Makes a perfect gift for friends and Family. We also carry the full line of Klean Kanteen insulated bottles and containers to keep your coffee hot all morning or your iced lemonade cold all day! Dishwasher safe and perfect for on the go!

Chico Honda Motorsports 1950 E. 20th Street – Chico Mall Next to Maurices in Space D407. OR main location 11096 Midway.

Give the gift of Madam Ruby Give the gift everyone will Love... 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

This year, give the ones you love the chance to see what the new year holds. Madam Ruby offers spiritual assistance and will provide you with advice in love, marriage, business, and more. Whatever you need to know, you will be told. She offers psychic readings, palm readings, aura cleansing, and tarot card readings. With over 60 years of experience, Madam Ruby will tell you your past, present, and future.

1119 Mangrove Ave. • Chico 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. Ste 7 • Oroville (530) 895-9465

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Shop Inside the “Jewelry Box” today for One of a Kind Gifts by Local Artisans • Gold jewelry celebrating natural texture. • Silver adorned with Gems. • Pearls for every Season. • Art Glass to decorate your holiday home. • Select a perfect handcrafted gift for each special person on your list.

AicoraGems“Jewelry Box” Gallery 1334 Mangrove Ave. • Chico (530) 809-1034 • www.chicojewelrybox.com Open Tues-Sat 11am to 6pm

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Fresh. Delicious. Affordable. This Christmas, give the gift of La Comida. Starting December 3rd through December 24th, get a FREE $5 gift card with any $25 gift card purchase! Since 1968, La Comida has been serving fresh, fast and affordable Mexican food in an always family friendly environment. All menu items are made from scratch. At La Comida you will always find the perfect meal to fit any appetite and budget!

La Comida 954 Mangrove Ave. Chico (530) 345-2254 6155 Skyway. Paradise (530) 577-5246 LaComidaRestaurants.com

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.

Meet Luci Outdoor - the outdoor enthusiast’s new best friend. With Luci’s hardy solar-powered LED glow at hand you have a lightweight, waterproof and reliable light source for camping, boating, night hiking or any unforeseen circumstances Mother Nature delivers. Versatile Luci has three convenient settings including a high visibility emergency flashing setting. Luci Outdoor is the same great light as Luci Original, but packaged for the outdoor enthusiast. You’ll never walk alone again!

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

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

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/

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Rossignol Circuit Amptek Snowboard a sweet gift Receive a FREE “Stock” jar of California Wildflower Honey from Chico Honey Company with any purchase of $50 or more. Limit one per person.

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

The Rossignol Circuit Amptek snowboard is the perfect gift for the beginner or intermediate snowboarder in your life. From all mountain to freestyle riding, the Circuit Amptek can do it all. This board is medium flex, giving new boarders the ability to learn while being comfortable doing it. The Circuit Amptek board is made with Amptek Auto Turn technology which gives it maneuverability and floatation in powder and lots of stability.

Hughes Ski Hut 13600 Hwy. 99, Chico (530) 891-4032 www.HughesSkiHut.com

Tons of New Items in Stock This Year Chico’s downtown Chinatown has tons of great gifts for your friends, family and loved ones this holiday season! Sake, sake sets, tea, tea sets and so much more to choose from. You are sure to find something for everyone on your list. Visit House of Rice today for a great selection of unique gifts at affordable prices.

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

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 300 Broadway 11:00 am - 5:00 pm Upstairs Call For Pick-Up 899.8075

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BROADWAY HEIGHTS Upstairs 300 Broadway – Downtown Chico (530) 899-8075 www.BroadwayHeightsChico.com

Sweet Holiday Deals 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.

CN&R Sweetdeals 353 East 2nd St. (530) 894-2300 www.newsreview.com

GIVE THE GIFT OF GOLF!

JON & BON’S 530.899.9580 300 BROADWAY |AVE | 530.899.0484 1722 MANGROVE

Gift Certificate

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.

Bidwell Park Golf Course 3199 Golf Course Rd. Chico (530) 891-8417 www.GolfBidwellPark.com

Shenanigan’s 3312 Esplanade | 530.809.1088

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Arts &Culture Get animated

Animation Chico founders Josh Funk (left) and Shawn Dyer in the studio with Funk’s replica of the festival’s home, the El Rey Theatre. PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY

Below: 3-D-printed character from Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud’s “Chase Me.”

Two local filmmakers launch animation fest cians, Chico is a pretty wide open art Ftown, with fun venues and an established or artists, theater actors and musi-

support network in place. But for filmmakers—an arts niche that has been growing by steadily locally over Esmeralda Ramirez the past decade or so— there have been very ANIMATION CHICO few outlets. Other than Saturday, Dec. 12, the annual Shortz! Film 3 p.m. (doors at 2:30 p.m.; ends Festival—which celapprox. 7:30 p.m.), at ebrated its fifth year of El Rey Theatre showcasing short films Tickets: $10 at the this past September— door. Free popcorn. and the occasional El Rey Theatre screening at the Pageant 230 W. Second St. Theatre, there are only www.animation sporadic opportunities chico.com for showing off locally made films. This Saturday, Dec. 12, at the El Rey Theatre, Chico will take at least one more step toward building up the film scene with the debut of Animation Chico, an international animated short-film festival created by two local filmmakers, Shawn Dyer and Josh Funk. “There are a lot of filmmakers around here and they’re all looking for a place to show their work and most of them go to either Redding or Sacramento because there’s nothing in their town to support them,” said Dyer. The two grew up in Chico and have been friends since high school. Dyer, a co-founder of the Shortz! festival and creator of last spring’s Ha! Fest comedy film festival at the El Rey, has

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been making and showing his original full-length and short films for nearly a decade. Funk, on the other hand, is a relative newcomer to the scene, having moved from making music in local bands to creating his own stop-motion animated films since 2012. “The main reason behind [Animation Chico] is actually to bring more people from other markets to Chico,” Dyer said. The duo started accepting festival entries mid-summer, and received 71 submissions from around the world over the course of three months. They settled on 36 shorts in a variety of animation styles—traditional, computer-animated, stop-motion, even 3-D—that will be spread among four roughly one-hour blocks during the festival. Naturally, especially for Funk, another goal of Animation Chico is to shed light on the art of animation. “I think a lot of people don’t understand all of the different forms of animation that are out there and also don’t understand the amount of time that goes into making these,” he said. Chico State has a large and celebrated animation program, and Funk pointed out that a lot of those students go on to work on big blockbuster movies, but many locals aren’t aware of all that talent. And though they didn’t get any entries from the university this year, the hope is

that Animation Chico can be a showcase for student works in the future. For the inaugural event, viewers can expect a wide variety of films from many different countries, Funk said, including a six-minute piece directed by French animator Gilles-Alexandre Deschaud titled “Chase Me,” which was produced using 2,500 pieces created on a 3-D printer. Other countries represented include China, Brazil, Thailand, Canada, Hungary and Israel. “A lot of the content that we’ve received is wonderful, from perspectives other than the average American perspective and you’d be surprised what people come up with outside the U.S.,” Dyer said. “A lot of times with animation, there are no words, which is kind of nice that it translates all over the world,” Funk added. “You can say a lot with just body movements of a character.” For its awards, the festival is divided into three categories of animated films: student, international and stop-motion, and a $150 prize will go to the winner in each category. For the jury, Funk and Dyer brought in three artists: animator and Chico State instructor Mark Pullyblank, local graphic designer/comic artist Aye Jay Morano and animator Clayt Ratzlaff. Also on the program (but not eligible for the competition) is the world premiere of Funk’s stop-motion music video for local band the Michelin Embers’ song “Diggin’ On,” which will be followed by a three-song performance E\ WKH EDQG Ɛ

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Special Events PAULY SHORE: Yeah, buddy! The one-time TV/movie star and

stand-up comedian returns to Chico. Th, 12/10, 8pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

Music PINK MARTINI: Chico Performances presents the jazz and world

pop ensemble with frontwoman Storm Large. Th, 12/10, 7:30pm. $10-58. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

VOOM VOOM VARIETY SHOW Friday, Dec. 11 Chico Women’s Club

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FINE ARTS SANTA CLAUS AT THE GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Santa brings his bag of treats to the museum. There will be crafts, goodies and photo opportunities. Sa, 12/12, 12-4pm. Free. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

Art Receptions

11am-5pm. Free. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144.

HOLIDAY PHOTOS: See Saturday. M, Sa, Su, 10-

11am through 12/14. $20. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144, www.bidwell mansionpark.com.

JACK FROST 10K: Run benefiting Catalyst and

Wings of Eagles. Su, 12/13, 8am. Bidwell Park.

SHERI KREMER TRUNK SHOW: Local jeweler will

PINK MARTINI Tonight, Dec. 10 Laxson Auditorium

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Art Receptions

ALI BABA & THE BONGO BANDITS: Stage Coach

WINTER ART AND GIFT EXTRAVAGANZA: Reception

Youth Theatre presents story of Ali Baba in Old Baghdad. 12/10-12/12, 7pm. $6-10. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

THE OTHER PLACE: Juliana Smithton is an intelligent and successful neurologist whose life is coming apart. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 12/19. $15-18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events CHOIR NIGHT: Featuring local high school choirs

as part of the annual light and music show. F,

12/11, 7pm. Chico Nut Co., 2020 Esplanade.

CIRCUS DE PARADISE: Featuring dancing, singing, acro yoga, art, photo booth, juggling and more. F, 12/11, 6pm. $10-15. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

HOLIDAY SING-ALONG: Featuring holiday dishes and sing-along. F, 12/11, 6pm. Paradise Pines Property Owners Association, 14211 Wycliff Way in Magalia, (530) 873-5266.

SHOP, DINE AND SAVE FRIDAY IN DOWNTOWN: Downtown Chico is offering free parking on Fridays during the holidays, while shops and restaurants are open late. F, 10am-8pm through 12/18. Free. Downtown Chico, (530) 345-6500, www.downtownchico.com.

VOOM VOOM VARIETY SHOW: Chikoko kicks off its Bizarre Bazaar with a wild variety show featuring local talent. F, 12/11, 6pm. $5. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

featuring artists displaying jewelry, sculptures, paintings, pottery and more. F, 12/11, 5-7pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

ALI BABA & THE BONGO BANDITS: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

OTHER DESERT CITIES: Brooke Wyeth returns home to Palm Springs after a six-year absence to celebrate Christmas with her family with news about publishing a memoir featuring tragic events in the family’s history. F, Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 12/20. $11-$14. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

THE OTHER PLACE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events ANIMATION CHICO: An international film festival featuring a wide variety of animated short films from around the world. Sa, 12/12, 3pm. $10. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

BIZARRE BAZAAR: Chikoko’s 10th annual alternative craft fair featuring utilitarian art, shoe whisperer, jewelry, food and more. Sa, 12/12, 10am-6pm, Su, 12/13, 10am-5pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978. with an appetizer reception, photo booth, traditional holiday dinner and dessert, Caper Acres chronicles, champagne toasts, auction items and more. Sa, 12/12, 6pm. $75. Bidwell Park Golf Club, 3199 Golf Course Rd., (916) 6172664.

HIGH NOON FOR THE PLANET: Rally featuring music, art, keynote speakers and information on climate change. Sa, 12/12, noon. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

HOLIDAY OPEN HOUSE: Featuring light refreshments, raffle prizes, music and the quilt drawing. Sa, 12/12, 4:30-6:30pm. Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St. in Oroville, (530) 5335316.

HOLIDAY PHOTOS: Opportunities to take holiday photographs in selected areas of the Bidwell Mansion. No commercial photographers allowed. No flash photography is permitted. M, Sa, Su, 10-11am through 12/14. $20. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144, www.bidwellmansionpark.com.

Tonight, Dec. 10 El Rey Theatre

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XTREME XMAS GIVE-BACK: Holiday metal show

Theater ALI BABA & THE BONGO BANDITS: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

OTHER DESERT CITIES: See Friday. Birdcage

day music, fashion show, food, auction and more. Sa, 12/12, 1-4pm. $20. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

MOVIE NIGHT: Community movie night at Chico Nut as part of their annual light and music show. Sa, 12/12, 6pm, Sa, 12/19, 6pm. Chico Nut Co., 2020 Esplanade. Hand-crafted art, jewelry, decorations, apparel, a bake table and much more. Proceeds will benefit local scholarships. Sa, 12/12, 10am-3pm. Eagles Hall, 2010 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-1024, www.facebook.com/events/1698032693766453.

PARADE OF LIGHTS - OROVILLE: A hometown Christmas in historic downtown Oroville with floats, vehicles, horses, music and Santa riding a fire truck. Sa, 12/12, 5pm. Downtown Oroville, Bird And Myers streets.

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar assistant at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com. Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

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OTHER DESERT CITIES: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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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.

HOLIDAY PHOTOS: See Saturday. M, Sa, Su, 10-

11am through 12/14. $20. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144, www.bidwell mansionpark.com.

Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

THE OTHER PLACE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events BIZARRE BAZAAR: See Saturday. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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HOLIDAY MUSIC AT BIDWELL MANSION: A day-long holiday open house including musical performances held in the parlor of the mansion and refreshments in the visitor center. Su, 12/13,

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Art 1078 GALLERY: Stories Four, fourth annual exhibit featuring five artists with strong links to Chico. Featuring David Barta, Steve Miranda Byer, Sandi Escobar, Jeff Rindels and Erin Wade. Through 1/2, 2016. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973

3RD FLOOR ART GALLERY: Under Pressure, group show featuring works from the relief-printmaking class. Through 12/18. BMU, Third Floor, Chico State, (530) 898-5489.

B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibition, new

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BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Post-Art! Art

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Magic, Wonder & Peace, original paintings by Amaji Fox. Through 12/31. 789 Bille Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5673.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Fused glass by Northern California artist Dia Kimm. The Healing Art Gallery features Northern California artists touched by cancer. Through 12/31. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Happy Holidays at

James Snidle Fine Arts, a group show featuring Francis Miller’s watercolors, David Hoppe’s monoprints and paintings and Stan Sours’ ceramics, wood sculptures and paper trophy heads. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

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.

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9 Art Guild Reunion, a reunion of former Avenue 9 Art Guild members Claudia Schwartz, David Shimamoto, Candy Matthews, Dolores Mitchell, Sheryl Cummings, Jim Woronow, Delbert Rupp, Valerie Payne, Naty Osa and Waif Mullins. Through 1/4, 2016. 260 E. First St. 1st & Wall, (530) 899-8443.

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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.

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

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PINK MARTINI: Chico Performances presents the jazz and world-pop ensemble with front woman Storm Large. Th, 12/10, 7:30pm. $10-58. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

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.

HAPPY FUNKIN’ HOLIDAZE: Featuring Reno’s Mojo Green (funk/soul) and S.F.’s Swoop Unit (seven-piece funk). F, 12/11, 9pm. $10. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

HASHTAG YEAH & JIVING BOARD: All-local night with disco-pop funk meeting funky horn-heavy fun. F, 12/11, 9pm. $5. The Graduate, 344 W. Eighth St., (530) 343-2790, www.thegraduatechico.com.

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

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death metal. Plus, ONI (hardcore), Icko Sicko (hardcore), Tri-lateral dirts commission (fastcore) and Shit Eating Grin (hardcore). Sa, 12/12, 7pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 3431973.

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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.

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NAUGHTY SANTA PARTY: Featuring live music by Northern Traditionz, plus prizes and food. Sa, 12/12, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, tacklebox chico.com.

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7:30pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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

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glimpsed previously (on TV and in his mother’s storytelling). For his mother, it’s re-entry into her family and a society from which she’s been forcibly sequestered for over seven years. And for both of them and others, there’s the highly fraught issue of a child conceived in captivity. Some of the best moments in the film arise from its handling of that last issue. The overall dramatic effect, however, is uneven at best. Jack is the pointof-view character for many of the film’s best dramatic moments, and that’s fine insofar as Room is about Jack’s fall from innocence and his youthfully heroic role in his mother’s personal struggles. But a handful of adult dramas are also part of the mix here, and several of them raise more questions than the film has time or room to properly answer. Larson and young Tremblay both deliver persuasive performances that give the film an emotional coherence even when the narrative gets a little fragmented and chancy. But the stories of Jack’s grandparents, who are divorced, cry out for fuller development. Joan Allen, as the Larson character’s mother, manages to imply a considerable range of mixed emotions while also mirroring the beleaguered courage of her daughter. William H. Macy, meanwhile, gets no opportunity to do much of anything with the alienated father-andgrandfather role. The Nick character plainly has a strange and twisted story of his own, and Donoghue’s script gives it a couple of brief nods. Nevertheless, Bridger’s Nick is mostly a stock figure (an ordinary-looking guy with a bad temper), and ultimately he’s more significant for what he’s not than for what he is or who he might have been. Room is an Irish-Canadian production. The director, Lenny Abrahamson, is Irish. Emma Donoghue, who is also one of the film’s producers, was born in Ireland and educated in the UK and is now a Canadian citizen. Room was filmed in Toronto, but the story is set, explicitly and credibly, in “America.” □

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In the Heart of the Sea

Ron Howard (Apollo 13, The Da Vinci Code) directs this ocean adventure based on a real-life events surrounding the sinking of the whaling ship Essex by a giant sperm whale in 1820 (the story of which was part of the inspiration for Melville’s Moby Dick). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Room

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Film No. 7 in the Rocky franchise passes the torch to Apollo Creed’s son Adonis Johnson Creed (played by Michael B. Jordan), who seeks out a retired Rocky Balboa (Sylvester Stallone) to be his trainer. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Good Dinosaur

The latest Pixar 3-D animated feature imagines a world in which dinosaurs were not wiped by an asteroid hitting Earth, where a displaced dinosaur and a young caveboy become unlikely friends. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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.

Krampus

Michael Dougherty (Trick ’r Treat) directs this horror take on the legend of Krampus— the foil to St. Nick—who here lays siege on the family of one bad little boy. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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.

The Peanuts Movie

A 3-D animated update to the iconic comic strip with Snoopy facing his nemesis the Red Baron and that loveable blockhead Charlie Brown pursuing the Little Red-Haired Girl, who just moved to the neighborhood. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated G.

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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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Director Sam Mendes (Skyfall, American Beauty) and lead Daniel Craig are back in this 24th installment of the Bond film franchise, this time with 007 on the trail of the shadowy criminal organization known as SPECTRE. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Spotlight

As a rousing newspaper drama, Spotlight is both riveting and uncommonly intricate; as a socio-cultural exposé, it is tactful, humane and relentless in its honesty; as a portrait of a kind of collective identity crisis in a major American city, it is incisive and very moving. Writer-director Tom McCarthy (and co-writer Josh Singer) have taken on a hugely dramatic subject—investigative reporters for the Boston Globe exposing the massive, systemic coverup of sex abuse in Boston’s Catholic churches— and presented it in terms that are brashly realistic and compelling while also remaining averse to cheap-shot sentiments. The film’s title refers to the Globe’s Spotlight unit, a group of four reporters devoted to longterm investigative journalism. In the film, that group is played by Mark Ruffalo (as Mike Rezendes), Michael Keaton (as Editor Walter “Robby” Robinson), Rachel McAdams (as Sacha Pfeiffer) and Brian d’Arcy James (as Matt Carroll). Liev Schreiber (as publisher Marty Baron) and John Slattery (as Managing Editor Ben Bradlee Jr.) are key figures in the action as well. Those six are the face of the film—six deftly sketched, workaday varieties of moral and journalistic dedication. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Dalton Trumbo (1905-1976) was an Oscar-winning screenwriter in Hollywood in the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s. He is best known, however, as the most flamboyant figure in the “Hollywood Ten,” the group of screenwriters who were jailed and blacklisted for their various refusals to cooperate with the McCarthy-era House Un-American Activities Committee. Trumbo, written by John McNamara and directed by Jay Roach, is a combination biopic and history lesson, a period piece that recounts events from the time of HUAC, the Hollywood blacklist and its aftermath. The film portrays Trumbo (Bryan Cranston) as a kind of genteel rebel, a family man much invested in the good life, California-style, but also a social activist who truly has the courage of his political and moral convictions. McNamara’s script touches on a variety of dramatic hotspots in this bit of American cultural history, but the finished film is, for the most part, little more than a diverting set of sketches. This somewhat lighthearted version of the story reaches a conventionally satisfying conclusion, but its sharpest energies reside almost exclusively in Cranston’s Trumbo and in a wildly uneven array of cameos/caricatures. Paradise Cinema 7 —J.C.S.

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Every week, Dave Miller starts milling grain on Thursday using this mill, built in Austria, in preparation for baking about 400 loves of artisan bread to sell at the Saturday farmers’ market in Chico.

Natural Foods Cooperative and S&S Organic Produce & Natural Foods, they must now purchase them exclusively at the Saturday market. Miller likes it that way. “I think it’s the ideal place to sell and buy food,” he said. “Everything’s transparent. Customers can ask me whatever they want about the bread, and any farmer, for that matter.” However, some of those interactions became frustrating for Miller as the gluten-free fad peaked about two years ago and he was approached with every bread-related conspiracy imaginable. Customers were blaming wheat for all sorts of chronic conditions, such as heart disease and diabetes. “The unfortunate thing is that most of it is, you know, total bullshit,” Miller said. For instance, many people are under the impression that most wheat has been genetically modified, when GMO wheat is extremely rare compared with, say, GMO corn, soybeans or rice. And while there’s also been plenty of negative hype surrounding so-called hybrid wheats, Miller argues that there’s nothing inherently dangerous about crossing the genetic material of crops. “When somebody comes up to my booth and says they don’t trust the new hybrid wheat [varieties], I give them a friendly challenge to find anything at the farmers’ market that isn’t a hybrid, that hasn’t been crossed many, many times by well-intentioned human beings to get the right size, shape, color and nutrition,” he said. “Every onion and apple has been crossed many times over, just like wheat. These crosses happen in nature, too. If you’re afraid of hybrid wheat, you should be afraid of everything you eat.” □

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ness sneaks through a door you didn’t know that you left open,” said actor John Barrymore. I hope you’ve left open a lot of those doors, Aries. The more there are, the happier you will be. This is the week of all weeks when joy, pleasure and even zany bliss are likely to find their ways into your life from unexpected sources and unanticipated directions. If you’re lucky, you also have a few forgotten cracks and neglected gaps where fierce delights and crisp wonders can come wandering in.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What

state of mind do you desire the most? What is the quality of being that you aspire to inhabit more and more as you grow older? Maybe it’s the feeling of being deeply appreciated, or the ability to see things as they really are or an intuitive wisdom about how to cultivate vibrant relationships. I invite you to set an intention to cultivate this singular experience with all your passion and ingenuity. The time is right. Make a pact with yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Like Metallica jamming with Nicki Minaj and Death Cab for Cutie on a passage from Mozart’s opera The Magic Flute, you are redefining the meanings of the words “hybrid,” “amalgam” and “hodgepodge.” You’re mixing metaphors with panache. You’re building bridges with cheeky verve. Some of your blends are messy mishmashes, but more often they are synergistic successes. With the power granted to me by the gods of mixing and matching, I hereby authorize you to keep splurging on the urge to merge. This is your special time to experiment with the magic of combining things that have rarely or never been combined.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I hope you

can figure out the difference between the fake cure and the real cure. And once you know which is which, I hope you will do the right thing rather than the sentimental thing. For best results, keep these considerations in mind: The fake cure may taste sweeter than the real one. It may also be better packaged and more alluringly promoted. In fact, the only advantage the real cure may have over the fake one is that it will actually work to heal you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): There’s a sinuous,

serpentine quality about you these days. It’s as if you are the elegant and crafty hero of an epic myth set in the ancient future. You are sweeter and saucier than usual, edgier and more extravagantly emotive. You are somehow both a repository of tantalizing secrets and a fount of arousing revelations. As I meditate on the magic you embody, I am reminded of a passage from Laini Taylor’s fantasy novel Daughter of Smoke & Bone: “She tastes like nectar and salt. Nectar and salt and apples. Pollen and stars and hinges. She tastes like fairy tales. Swan maiden at midnight. Cream on the tip of a fox’s tongue. She tastes like hope.”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I bought an

old horoscope book at a garage sale for 25 cents. The cover was missing and some pages were water-damaged, so parts of it were hard to decipher. But the following passage jumped out at me: “In romantic matters, Virgos initially tend to be cool, even standoffish. Their perfectionism may interfere with their ability to follow through on promising beginnings. But if they ever allow themselves to relax and go further, they will eventually ignite. And then, watch out! Their passion will generate intense heat and light.” I suspect that this description may apply to you in the coming weeks. Let’s hope you will trust your intuition about which possibilities warrant your caution and which deserve your opening.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The secret

of being a bore is to tell everything,” said French writer Voltaire. I agree, and add these thoughts: To tell everything also tempts you to wrongly imagine that you have everything completely figured out.

by rob brezsny Furthermore, it may compromise your leverage in dicey situations where other people are using information as a weapon. So the moral of the current story is this: Don’t tell everything! I realize this could be hard, since you are a good talker these days; your ability to express yourself is at a peak. So what should you do? Whenever you speak, aim for quality over quantity. And always weave in a bit of mystery.

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

are the most unflappable creatures I know. Cats are often regarded as the top practitioners of the “I don’t give a f---” attitude, but I think ducks outshine them. When domestic felines exhibit their classic aloofness, there’s sometimes a subtext of annoyance or contempt. But ducks are consistently as imperturbable as Zen masters. Right now, as I gaze out my office window, I’m watching five of them swim calmly, with easygoing nonchalance, against the swift current of the creek in the torrential rain. I invite you to be like ducks in the coming days. Now is an excellent time to practice the high art of truly not giving a f---.

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My old friend Jeff started working at a gambling casino in Atlantic City. “You’ve gone over to the dark side!” I kidded. He acknowledged that 90 percent of the casino’s visitors lose money gambling. On the bright side, he said, 95 percent of them leave happy. I don’t encourage you to do this kind of gambling in the near future, Sagittarius. It’s true that you will be riding a lucky streak. But smarter, surer risks will be a better way to channel your good fortune. So here’s the bottom line: In whatever way you choose to bet or speculate, don’t let your lively spirits trick you into relying on pure impulsiveness. Do the research. Perform your due diligence. It’s not enough just to be entertained. The goal is to both have fun and be successful.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Ancient Greek philosopher Epicurus was a pioneer thinker whose ideas helped pave the way for the development of science. Believe nothing, he taught, unless you can evaluate it through your personal observation and logical analysis. Using this admirable approach, he determined that the size of our sun is about two feet in diameter. I’m guessing that you have made comparable misestimations about at least two facts of life, Capricorn. They seem quite reasonable but are very wrong. The good news is that you will soon be relieved of those mistakes. After some initial disruption, you will feel liberated.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Here’s an

experiment that makes good astrological sense for you to try in the coming weeks. Whenever you feel a tinge of frustration, immediately say, “I am an irrepressible source of power and freedom and love.” Anytime you notice a trace of inadequacy rising up in you, or a touch of blame, or a taste of anger, declare, “I am an irresistible magnet for power and freedom and love.” If you’re bothered by a mistake you made, or a flash of ignorance expressed by another person, or a maddening glitch in the flow of the life force, stop what you’re doing, interrupt the irritation, and proclaim, “I am awash in power and freedom and love.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE BOX BAKERY, CONSCIOUSNESS KEY at 466 Panama Ave Chico, CA 95973. LYNN MARIE TOSELLO 466 Panama Ave Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LYNN M. TOSELLO Dated: November 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001364 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CORNUCOPIA RESTAURANT at 515 Montomgery St Oroville, CA 95966. GAIL BARNES 4395 Via Hermosa Red Bluff, CA 96080. TODD BARNES 9 Woodcrest Drive Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: GAIL BARNES Dated: November 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001395 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GOLD CITY GRILL at 935 Oro Dam Blvd Oroville, CA 95966 GAIL BARNES 4395 Via Hermosa Red Bluff, CA 95966. TODD BARNES 9 Woodcrest Drive Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: GAIL BARNES Dated: November 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001396 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as L G JUGUM RANCH, MOUNTAIN VIEW APARTMENTS at 9648 Jones Avenue Durham, CA 95938. DEBORAH A BAGNATO 1180 Riverberry Drive Reno, CA 89509. HELEN MARIA DENTON 9648 Jones Avenue Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: HELEN MARIA DENTON Dated: November 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001399 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUNSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EUROPEAN WAX CENTER at 728 B Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926. CHICO EWC INC 2219 O’Keefe Pl Davis, CA 95618. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: TRACY DUNNE, PRESIDENT Dated: November 9, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001397 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DULCINEA IMPORTS at 2704 Hegan Ln #142 Chico, CA 95928. RABBIT HOLE HAY INCORPORATED 680 Rio Lindo Ave #40 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: JASON KRUEGER, COO Dated: November 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001408 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SLEEP BETTER NORTHSTATE at 555 Salem St Chico, CA 95928. ROBERT NORUS RYAN, DDS 1419 Rim Rock Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT NORUS RYAN, DDS Dated: October 29, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001344 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AT TRAINING AND ASSESSMENT at 5803 Pinewood Ct Paradise, CA 95969. CHRISTY HANOSH 5803 Pinewood Ct Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CHRISTY HANOSH Dated: October 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001354 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GREEN HERON HOMES at 9 Trieste Way Chico, CA 95926. PAUL A KAYSON 9 Trieste Way Chico, CA 95926. SUSAN KAYSON 9 Trieste Way Chico, CA 95926. This buesiness is conducted by a Married Couple. Signed: PAUL A. KAYSON Dated: November 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001434 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SUBURBAN RENEWAL at 22 Nicole Lane Chico, CA 95926. WILLIAM FUNKE 22 Nicole Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: WILLIAM FUNKE Dated: November 3, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001367 Published: December 3,10,17,24, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO COFFEE COMPANY at 107 Parmac Rd Ste 180 Chico, CA 95926. SHAWN ODELL HAMILTON 6 Highland Circle Chico, CA 95926. JENNIFER LYNN SILVA 6 Highland Circle Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: JENNIFER SILVA Dated: November 23, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001460 Published: December 3,10,17,24, 2015

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO FARM AND ORCHARD INC at 9 Three Sevens Lane Chico, CA 95973. CHICO FARM AND ORCHARD INC 9 Three Sevens Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KAYLEE DIXON, OFFICE MANAGER Dated: November 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001438

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LOCAL MARKETING GROUP at 2405 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. DR. AUTO INC 2405 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: ROBERT LUGO, PRESIDENT Dated: December 1, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001480 Published: December 10,17,24,31, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGUNDY AND BRUSHES LLC at 2265 Santa Clara Avenue Chico, CA 95928. BURGUNDY AND BRUSHES LLC 2265 Santa Clara Avenue, Chico CA 95928 This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: CAIRA HART, CO-OWNER Dated: November 10, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001401 Published: December 10,17,24,31, 2015

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FEATSTER, SKYWAY

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NOTICE OF INTENTION TO CIRCULATE PETITION Notice is hereby given by the person whose name appears here on of his intention to circulate the petition within the county of Butte for the purposes of repealing 4075 and adopt and implement measure __. A statement of reasons of the proposed action as contemplated in the petition as follows. I now request a title and summary from county council. MEDICAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION MEASURE This measure is to repeal Butte County’s ordinance 4075 and adopt and implement measure __. Measure __ has no setbacks, no lot size restrictions, no anonymous complaints, no landlord permission requirements, no water restrictions, no number of plant restrictions, no fence restrictions and no fines for medical cannabis cultivation. Dipensaries can open immediately. Sheriff helicopter stay at least at 500’ altitude away from authorized gardens,

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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:

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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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARAH NIKOEL SWEET filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SARAH NIKOEL SWEET Proposed name: SARAH NICHOLE MCCLURE 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: October 26, 2015 Case Number: 165204 Published: November 25, December 3,10,17, 2015

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DESIRE DAVIS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DESIRE DAVIS Proposed name: DESIREE DAVIS 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 22, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as B AND B AUTO SALES at 2426 Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928. BENJAMIN COBIAN LEPE, JR 307 Saint Michael Court Chico, CA 95973. GREGORY PAUL NICHOLAS 2299 Blossom Lane Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: BENJAMIN LEPE, JR Dated: November 25, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001472 Published: December 10,17,24,31, 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 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

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIG PICTURE LEARNING at 1752 Walnut Tree Lane Chico, CA 95928. JOHN LINHARES 1752 Walnut Tree Lane Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOHN LINHARES Dated: December 2, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001487 Published: December 10,17,24,31, 2015

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no harassment of low fly bys. A YES vote means you would adopt this measure __ and implement these provisions and repeal 4075. A NO vote means you do not support them. If a majority of the votes cast on __ is YES then __ will be approved and will be adopted. STATEMENT OF THE REASONS FOR PROPOSED ACTION 1. Current law 4075 obstructs cooperative or collective cultivation of “cannabis” of authorized Butte County 215 patient’s rights in the SB-420/11362.775. 2. 4075 also burdens financially 215 patients of Butte County forcing us to control property. 3. Governor Jerry brown mayor of Oakland when the first dispensary opened there 18 years ago. We now know after this precedent that “safe access” lowers crime, cultivators need to recoup growing costs access to sell legally, SB-420. 4. The voracious persecution of 215 patients by district attorney Mike Ramsey from bringing federal agents to Chico city council meetings to coerce them not to have dispensaries, to the thousands of arrests, fines and crushing these vulnerable people and their families for the last 20 years since Prop 215 passed. Now, patients are still forced into the criminal world with this policy of Butte County’s District Attorney. 5. Butte County’s previous Sheriff Jerry Smith and, now sheriff Honea raided dispensaries and violated many patient/doctor HIPAA rights. No charged persons and no lawsuit class action filed against Butte County. This measure will ensure this will never happen again without serious consequences to Butte County. 6. There are existing fence and water laws residential or, agriculture, we don’t want to be singled out over any other crop. 7. Finally summing up this new measure __ enhances “safe access” for 215 patients and stops the persecution by political elected officials of Butte County. This measure will tell them how you feel about criminalizing patients rights to cultivate collectively. Persecution of 215 patients will stop with adoption of this measure and repealing 4075. Joel Castle P.O. Box 5277 Chico, CA 95927 MEDICAL CANNABIS CULTIVATION MEASURE If adopted by a majority of the voters, this initiative would repeal existing Butte County Ordinance Number 4075 and establish new regulations regarding medical cannabis cultivation. The new regulations would amend existing law by eliminating setbacks, eliminating lot size restrictions, prohibiting anonymous complaints, eliminating landlord permission requirements, eliminating water restrictions, eliminating restrictions on the number of plants, eliminating fence restrictions, and eliminating fines for medical cannabis cultivation. The new regulations would also permit dispensaries within the County and require the Butte County Sheriff’s helicopter to remain at least 500 feet above authorized medical cannabis gardens. Published: December 10, 2015

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