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Hypocrisy in action Republicans in Congress, including our own District 1 representative, Doug

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tled Yeehaw-istas’ occupation of a wildlife refuge in Oregon has been underwhelming. No SWAT team has been deployed. No National Guard. No police in sight, except for when the local sheriff met with the lead occupier, Ammon Bundy, to kindly request that he leave the refuge.

Such restraint.

I had my own little occupation of federal land a couple of years ago. During the government shutdown, I ignored the Lassen Volcanic National Park’s closure order and climbed Mount by Harkness. It was glorious. I did it Allan Stellar to write a story in this newspaper The author, a about environmentalist Edward Butte County Abbey (see “Lassen Solitaire,” resident, is a psychiatric nurse Nov. 7, 2013) as he’d completed and author of several his seminal work, Desert Cn&r cover stories. Solitaire, in a fire tower there back in 1967.

The Lassen park rangers didn’t take my little occupation lightly: They dispatched a ranger, on the government dime, to drive five hours round-trip to my home in order to

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ticket me for illegal camping and refusing to obey a park closure order. I had to pay $250. It made me feel a little like Arlo Guthrie.

My spouse, Joni, also had her own occupation of federal land. Back in 1992, the forest service was going to allow logging on a huge grove of 500-year-old Engelmann spruce in Colorado’s San Juan National Forest. The trees were located at 9,000 feet; a replacement stand of trees would take hundreds of years to reach any considerable size. Joni climbed a tree and zipped around the canopy, frustrating law enforcement and curtailing the logging for a couple of days. The forest service brought in a SWAT team, armed with automatic weapons and night vision goggles, to apprehend her and break up a small encampment of hippies with bongos. Joni ended up in prison for a month.

Both of us have gotten more severe penalties from the government for our lowly occupations than the armed Oath Keepers and the Bundys have received for two illegal armed occupations. But then again, Joni and I are left-wing, unarmed enviros— the sort of people the government has no problem arresting and ticketing.

Let’s hope Bundy gets at least a $250 ticket for his shenanigans. □

LaMalfa, often rail against federal power while extolling states’ rights and local government as being closer to the people.

Now and then, however, something happens that reveals their rhetoric is just lip service. Take, for example, the Klamath Basin Water Recovery and Economic Restoration Act of 2015.

For decades, people have been feuding over water use and dams in the Klamath River Basin, on the Oregon-California border. Farmers, Native American tribes, commercial fishing operations and environmentalists have fought bitterly over how the water was allocated. This bill would have led the way to removal of four hydroelectric dams on the river, guaranteed water deliveries to basin irrigators, protection for the river’s salmon runs, and other environmental benefits.

When the four dams, owned by PacifiCorp, a subsidiary of Warren Buffet’s Berkshire-Hathaway, came up for their 50-year relicensing, the company realized it would have to spend $400 million cleaning out the toxic algae in the water behind the dams and adding fish ladders to the structures. PacifiCorp subsequently decided to support removal of the dams, as long as ratepayers and a California bond measure (since passed) paid for the dismantling.

Meanwhile, the various parties were seeking to negotiate a regional settlement that would meet everyone’s needs. Despite a long history of acrimony and distrust, they succeeded. A true grassroots, bottom-up product, the agreement was signed by a coalition of about 45 government agencies, two tribal governments, farmers, irrigators and environmental groups.

In January 2015 the four U.S. senators in California and Oregon introduced the bill in Congress, where it sat, stymied by Republican opposition, including LaMalfa’s, in the House Natural Resources Committee until its Dec. 31 signing deadline passed and it died.

So much for local control. There’s a word for this: hypocrisy. □

Don’t punish conservationists California has been in a drought for four full years, and many people, long

before the state imposed mandatory water reductions for residential users, have been smart enough to kill their lawns and other thirsty landscaping.

Enter the Aagaards, a Chico couple who were among those ahead of the curve. In 2012, they ripped out their turf, installed drip-irrigation, invested in concrete and other water-free features, as well as drought-tolerant plants.

By the summer of 2013, they’d significantly reduced their water consumption. Unfortunately for the Aagaards, that is the same year state water regulators chose as the baseline by which consumers must reduce their usage 35 percent (see Ernesto Rivera’s Greenways story, page 16).

Considering the Aagaards had already cut their water usage by 45 percent, it would be unfair to expect them to curtail it even more.

But the couple have been caught up in a bureaucratic nightmare with California Water Service Co., which has an appeals process established for this very situation. Somehow, the Aagaards haven’t gotten through to the company, which twice has rejected their appeal. Let’s hope the third time’s a charm.

Pulling out a whole yard and replacing it with new landscaping is an expensive endeavor. But it’s the responsible thing to do to sustain this valuable natural resource. Cal Water needs to better vet the appeals it receives from customers who took such measures and already were using less water than their neighbors before the regulations went into effect. Those who had the foresight to cut down should not be punished for their trouble.

In fact, we think that the Aagaards—and customers like them—should be rewarded for their conservation efforts. □

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Momentum and weirdness President Obama’s detractors can say what they will about him, but my feeling is that his presidency will be looked on favorably by historians and future generations of Americans.

During his last State of the Union Address Tuesday evening, the president was bold, but not bombastic, which is a nice change of pace from what we’ve seen in recent months from those who presume they have what it takes to replace him. In fact, Obama fired back at his would-be successors, saying, among other things, that anyone “claiming America’s economy is in decline is peddling fiction.” That’s true. The numbers back him up.

I could go on and on about his address, but what dawned on me while I was watching him speak is how he seemed to come from out of nowhere in 2007 and a year later went on to clinch the Democratic nomination from the grasp of Hillary Clinton. That he’s nearing the end of eight years at the White House is almost unfathomable.

The question in the coming weeks is whether Bernie Sanders can do the same thing. Sanders has an energized base, including, like Obama in 2008, many young people. The Vermont senator’s messages, particularly his taking on Wall Street, are resonating with them. That’s happening despite Sanders being old enough to be their grandfather (he’s 74). As I said last week in this space, I believe it’s because he is authentic. That’s hard to fake. Ask Clinton or any of the Republicans vying for the GOP nomination.

According to new polls, Sanders is widening his lead in New Hampshire and has pulled ahead in Iowa. That doesn’t mean he’ll come out victorious, but momentum is building and it’s building fast.

In other news, tickets for our third annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show are now on sale. Consider this your early warning. The popular event sold out days in advance last year. When I showed up to the El Rey Theatre on Second Street before its doors opened last year, there was a line down the street and around the corner, stretching all the way to Celestino’s. Literally hundreds of people were turned away.

For those unfamiliar with the Keep Chico Weird show—and the accompanying art show at 1078 Gallery—it’s CN&R’s now-annual celebration of our fair town’s quirky people and cultural identity.

There are Keep [insert name of town] Weird movements in other cities around the country, namely Austin, Texas, which adopted the motto many years ago in support of that metropolitan city’s small-business community.

Here in Chico, we have another take on it. If you’re a regular reader, you know that week in and week out this newspaper celebrates Chico’s offbeat characters, art-makers and out-ofthe-box thinkers. We also promote diversity and tolerance—the central messages of our Keep Chico Weird events and common themes on our op-ed pages.

We hope to see you at the 1078 Gallery on Jan. 28 and at the El Rey on Jan. 30.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Not going away Re “Standing tall” (Newslines, by Meredith J. Cooper, Jan. 7): I appreciate the informative article

by Meredith J. Cooper about the rising consciousness in the U.S. of the dreadfully cruel drone warfare program, and of my and fellow citizen activist Chris Nelson’s part in the ever-increasing noncooperating (read: civil disobedience) resistance to this way of dealing with terrorism.

The day after the article was in the stands, the federal district attorney dismissed the charges, so the “Beale 10” will not go to trial and will not be afforded our rightful opportunity to relate the urgent reasons for trespassing onto the military base.

Nevertheless, Beale 10 and many more rallied at the courthouse with street theater and delivered the message of protest and demanded a response from our representative in the Senate and its subcommittee on Foreign Relations, Barbara Boxer.

We will continue to do what needs to be done, even in the face of no apparent result, but trusting in the goodness of our action, the rightness of our cause, the urgency of public response. We are part of a movement—most feared by those in power—of ordinary Americans that will not go away.

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But how do Quammen’s emotional adjustments translate into radical behavioral change?

For example, to address our monster problem of biospheric collapse, we have to do at least seven things: 1) Push for a “one child” policy worldwide, 2) cut animalproduct consumption by 90 percent, 3) cut our transportation-related fuel consumption by 80 percent, 4) cut heating and cooling of living space by 80 percent, 5) localize food production, 6) phase in alternative power generation, and 7) do all this while LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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‘It’s gotta move’ Re “Junkyard watchdogs” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, Jan. 7): I think Chico’s best days are ahead of us. Chico is a beautiful place to live and work. Sierra Nevada Brewery is one of Chico’s treasures and our leading tourist attraction with 370,000 visits each year.

Unfortunately, as tourists finish a tour of Sierra Nevada, they step outside and see the junkyard, protected by Councilman Andrew Coolidge. Four council members, led by Coolidge, who was a paid consultant for [a political action committee led by Chico Scrap Metal’s owner], voted to keep the junkyard. Evidently, they see no ethical conflict with Coolidge leading the effort.

Eleven years of delays, postponements, extensions, broken promises—enough! The junk heap is not in compliance, and it is 165 feet from Chapman Elementary School. Moving the junkyard will bring new businesses and new jobs to East 20th Street. It’s gotta move.

Karl Ory Chico

Editor’s note: Mr. Ory is a former mayor of Chico.

Unhappy with editing Re “Undermining the public’s trust” (Guest comment, by Nathan Esplanade, Jan. 7): Apparently to undermine my anti-alcohol and -marijuana guest comment last week, the CN&R changed and deleted some of my words and made others

insensible, and completely omitted my conclusion.

In the same issue, the CN&R published more propaganda arguing legalizing pot would enable pain relief for the poor and enrich local governments. In so doing, it once again ignored the elephant in the room: Patients with a prescription can already acquire affordable medication via the Internet.

The CN&R’s argument that legalizing recreational marijuana would enrich local governments is similarly manipulative and short-sighted. Legalizing likely would enrich local governments by increasing demand for police, fire, legal, judicial, penal, health care and social services. However, handling this increase would force governments to raise taxes of even those who don’t use the drug.

Why doesn’t the CN&R just admit it wants marijuana legal so its staff, friends and other recreational users can enjoy disproportionate euphoria and wealth—at the expense of public and environmental health, wealth and safety—without guilt or fear of arrest? Probably because it realizes citizens so enlightened wouldn’t support such a self-serving and socially destructive mission.

Nathan Esplanade Tehama County

Editor’s note: Mr. Esplanade’s guest comment was trimmed for space and edited for libel, as per CN&R’s policy.

‘Appallingly predictable’ Re “Death and justice” (Newslines,

by Meredith J. Cooper, Dec. 24): It is appallingly predictable that District Attorney Mike Ramsey found the Patrick Feaster shooting “not criminal.” The video from Feaster’s dashboard camera clearly shows that he, without deliberation, shot Andrew Thomas as he was climbing out of his overturned vehicle. Feaster should also be held on criminal charges for neglecting to adequately attend to Darien Ehorn, who lay dying while he was looking for his bullet casing.

Ramsey has repeatedly failed the citizens of this county with his criminal bias. It appears he hasn’t seen a police shooting he didn’t consider “noncriminal,” even when police shot 19-year-old Breanne Sharpe, claiming her vehicle was endangering their lives.

Every questionable officer

shooting that Ramsey has determined to be justified or “noncriminal” should be reinvestigated by a citizen’s panel and charges filed against him if it is found that he played a role in covering up criminal police abuses and excessive use of force. Let justice finally be served.

Sherri Quammen Paradise

Councilwoman says thanks Re “What were they thinking?”

(Cover story, by CN&R staff, Dec. 31) I hesitate to respond, but I wanted to thank you. The incident at the council meeting was described as “stunning” and should have been described as “inappropriate.” Looking back (it was the first time I saw my words in print), I realized that my actions need to speak louder than my words.

Many citizens don’t know me outside of the council meetings and are unaware of the hours that I spend working directly with those in our community who need to get off the streets and into a safe environment. I do outreach in the creeks and tributaries of Chico and I’m confident that anybody would be shocked by the needles and drugs that we come across.

I’m sure you will agree that it is not safe for anybody to live in that environment. There are many amazing individuals out there who are not engaging in criminal activity who need new boots on the ground. It takes a team to help one get back on their feet.

I invite you or staff who care about Chico in the same way that I do to engage in similar activities that have a direct impact on those who need us the most.

Reanette Fillmer Chico

Editor’s note: Ms. Fillmer is a member of the Chico City Council.

Indiscriminate killings Most our lives we hear echoed the value of consistency. From parents, coaches, educators and employers, some learn steadfastness in our approach to daily affairs.

Doesn’t matter if you’re a chef, educator, landscaper or policy maker. The cuisine, curriculum, project beautification and decisionmaking should be consistent.

One prescribed method of raising

our children is with unwavering consistency. Of the countless sources available for learning this fine quality, none has been more instructive than being a near life-long passionate observer of American foreign policy.

This is exemplified by the presence of American F-16s in Iraq indiscriminately killing humans and animals again. As I read The New York Times, I’m reminded of Einstein’s insight that the difference between intelligence and stupidity is “intelligence has limits.” After the immeasurable horror and injustice levied forever on the people of Iraq—and consequently Americans—during Bonehead Bush and Black Water, Washington invariably declares we can somehow ameliorate conditions with this abhorrent policy. To think my extremely hard-earned legal tender is implicit in this inexcusable homicide.

Here we go again, fellow citizens: ready, fire!!! Now aim.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

Gun control his way Re “Blame Congress” (Editorial, Jan. 7): Remember when President Obama claimed Australia as the civilized model for gun control?

Recall Australia had a gun buyout and criminalized all weapons not turned over to the government.

Pictures were shown of shotguns and rifles being cut and ground into fragments. Now we hear Obama and cohorts touting executive power for more gun control.

We have yet to see the full rollout of his intentions.

Now, I’m for “gun control,” but with our interpretation. Gun control is a steady hand on the gun to hit at what you are shooting. As a former boy scout—their motto and mine—be prepared! Call 911 after you pick up your .38 or .357 caliber or 12-gauge.

Hugh Rhodes Magalia

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The court date that Chico activists Chris Nelson and Cathy Webster were anticipating on Tuesday (Jan. 12) didn’t happen after all. The federal judge dismissed their cases—they were arrested in September for trespassing on Beale Air Force Base land while protesting drone warfare (see “Standing tall,” Newslines, by Meredith J. Cooper, Jan. 7).

Despite the dismissal, the women, along with fellow anti-drone protesters, set up camp outside the federal courthouse in Sacramento Tuesday and Wednesday. Tuesday’s actions, which included street theater and a rally, coincided with a larger event in Washington, D.C., dubbed The Real State of the Union, the point of which was to bring attention to issues that President Obama would likely ignore during his annual speech.

King’s speeches

hot wheels

The Chico Fire Department responded to a series of vehicle arson fires in south Chico early Tuesday morning (Jan. 12), according to a Chico Police Department press release.

A motorcycle was reported burning at about 2:30 a.m. on New Dawn Circle. That fire ignited another vehicle parked nearby. As firefighters fought those blazes, a boat was reported burning on nearby Webster Drive.

All three vehicles were destroyed.

Citizens reported seeing three white juveniles in the area. Police found no suspects, but they did find scattered property removed from vehicles, windows broken in a nearby building and a burned mailbox.

Police are asking anyone with information or security camera footage to call 897-4900.

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Christopher Mark Heath, a Yuba County sheriff’s deputy who was arrested across the country Dec. 29 for allegedly transporting 250 pounds of marijuana, was arrested again Jan. 7 in Butte County.

Heath (pictured), a narcotics investigator for the Yuba County Sheriff’s Office, was one of three Butte County residents—along with Tyler Long and Ryan Folsone— arrested in Pennsylvania.

During a subsequent search of their homes, detectives reportedly found two illegal assault rifles connected to Heath and his wife, Tatum Heath, according to a Butte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

On Jan. 7, detectives simultaneously served search warrants at five homes connected to Heath, Long and Folsone, including the home of Long’s mother, Ramona Long—where detectives reportedly found 132 pounds of pot. She was arrested for possession and cultivation of marijuana for sale.

Both Heaths were arrested and booked into Butte County Jail; his bail is $1 million.

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MLK Day celebration to focus on marginalized communities focus on the black community, Cbutusually this year a Chico celebration is also

elebrations of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

including other marginalized groups in Chico: the homeless and Muslim populations. by Sue Hilderbrand, Esmeralda a spokeswoman for Ramirez the MLK Unity group organizing the event, said the choice may Rally together: seem strange, but the the MlK day celebra- spirit of King is shared tion, ‘til Justice rolls among all minoridown, starts at 3 p.m. ties—especially if they on sunday, Jan. 17, have been dehumanized at chico city plaza. a march through down- or criminalized. The town will end at trinity MLK Unity group aims united Methodist “to build community church (285 e. Fifth involvement and awarest.), and the program will continue with ness about the legacy of music, speakers and Dr. King and the ongoa community dinner. ing effort to achieve the event is free. Go to a just society for all facebook.com/beloved communitychico for peoples,” according to more information. the group’s website.

“They said this is basically about reaching out to the various communities, as Dr. King said: ‘This is how we build a beloved community. We reach out. We don’t exclude,’” Hilderbrand said.

Current events illustrate how King’s dream of equality and freedom is still unrealized. Political attacks against the Muslim community, as well as reports of vandalism and attacks on mosques, are

spreading across the country. Islamophobia is on the rise. In addition, locally, the Chico City Council voted last fall to approve the Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property Initiative, which prohibits the storage of personal property in public places and other perceived nuisances associated with homeless people. Some critics say the law is discriminatory.

Bill Such, former executive director of the Jesus Center, and Abdul Haq, imam of the Chico Islamic Center, will speak to those subjects during the ’Til Justice Rolls Down rally on Sunday (Jan. 17).

The Black Lives Matter movement will be incorporated into the event as well.

Such worked at for the Jesus Center for

10 years and was forced out last year by that organization’s board of directors, at the same time the controversial waterways ordinance exposed divides in the community regarding homelessness. The issue ties strongly into MLK Day, he said.

“Wherever there are people who are suffering, who are a minority within the population, then the symbolic parallelism between the civil rights struggle in the ’60s and how it relates then to the homeless situation is there,” Such said.

He classifies homeless people into two categories: the worthy and the unworthy.

He uses the word “unworthy” loosely, clarifying that no human is actually unworthy. The worthy, Such said, are those who through bankruptcy or divorce lose their home. The unworthy are people with alco-

hol or drug addictions or serious mental health problems. As a Christian, his job isn’t to advocate for drug addicts to continue their habits in a home, but to offer them a different life, one that removes them from their “walking zombie” lifestyle, he said.

“The unworthy person, the unworthy poor, the person who is on the street who has nowhere to stay because they could receive a warning from the police, this person is in a condition where they are a threat to us and to our existence,” he said.

“The homeless person represents a threat to us because ultimately the homeless person has got nothing, and we know that when we die, we’re going to go like that— in the sense of having nothing.”

Part of his speech will relate to the community, including churches, that homeless people deserve help, especially if they have an addiction. They deserve compassion. Such would like to see more night and day shelters where agencies can offer their services to help these individuals move on to a better life.

“There’s a blind eye, in my view, from many, many—most—churches in respect to the unworthy poor,” he said.

The soft-spoken Haq moved from New

Jersey to Chico three years ago, and now teaches at the mosque off Nord Avenue.

He wants the community to feel more connected and to help those who need it— without them having to ask.

Drawing from passages of the Quran

Abdul Haq, imam of the Chico Islamic Center, will speak about community connection during the ’Til Justice Rolls Down rally on Sunday.

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and the singing of the prophets, Haq has prepared a speech he hopes will inspire the public through unity, love and equality.

“My message is to come together, be one nation, not be divided, and to let our actions speak louder than our words,” he said. “Also, to transform this love into actions and not to be those who say, ‘Yes, we are together,’ while they are divided in their heart. Let us be sincere in our unity and love one another.”

The messages of equality and respect shared by King are similar to the teachings of Jesus and Muhammad, he said.

The messages are the same—that we should love one another and leave a positive legacy, because we only have one life to live.

“Be a human being, love others and love yourself, because life is very short and everyone should leave a good print in this life,” he said.

Sarena Kirk, a Chico State graduate,

says the event will allow attendees to show solidarity with neglected communities around Chico. Participating in such events helps open people’s eyes to new ideas, she said. For instance, becoming a member of the MLK Unity group has helped her understand the privileges she has as a white person that might otherwise have been overlooked, she said.

She recalled working at Chico State’s Gender and Sexuality Equity Center as a program coordinator in 2013 and helping a student who wanted more information on queer people of color.

She was puzzled at the question because she didn’t understand why someone would need separate resources. White was a default for her, she said.

“I think this is common for white people—that there’s anxiety about race or about talking about it; it kind of gets in the way of them doing anything about it,” she said. “For me, my anxiety was so much that I couldn’t really feel the issue. It was still pretty abstract to me.”

Thanks to mentorship from members at the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center and the Queer People of Color Society on campus, however, Kirk has a deeper understanding of race and is more aware of her white privilege, she said. On that note, she encourages members of the community to attend ’Til Justice Rolls Down—and take away something new. □

Power to the poor Activism, entertainment and info offered at Poor People’s Palooza fter experiencing homelessness as a youth, Bill Mash lived what he calls a “normal Alife”—military service, marriage, kids and a high-paying job as a program manager with Hewlett-Packard in the Bay Area, where he spent 25 years. But after his retirement funds ran out in 2012, he once again took to the streets.

The choice was partly a conscious one— he’d resolved to “walk with the homeless” and live humbly, filming conversations with other homeless people with the hope that the stories he collects can lead to better understanding of the homeless experience—but he also believes it was his only option. “It wasn’t a drill … I had no money,” he said during a recent interview.

It was one of those conversations that opened his eyes to a bigger picture: “I was under a bridge in Garberville, talking to this guy and he said, ‘No, dude, you’re not getting it, you’re missing the whole point … it’s not about homelessness; it’s about poverty.’”

Mash’s realization that homelessness was just one piece of a Poor People’s Palooza: much bigger The event will be held from 4-9 p.m. problem was Monday (Jan. 18) at Chico Country Day solidified School. Tickets on a sliding scale of $10-$25. by a fellow homeless advocate who told him, “The next time someone says homelessness is a choice, ask them why only poor people make that choice.”

Mash stopped walking when he came to Chico in 2014, and joined the local activ-

ist community.

His first direct action was organizing the Poor People’s Palooza on Martin Luther King Jr. Day that year to raise awareness about poverty’s roots and results.

Homeless people and other community members gathered at the Chico City Plaza, to eat donated food, learn about services, and express themselves through chalk drawings and other media. The event continued every Sunday for several months.

The Palooza returned last year as a film festival featuring some of Mash’s videos at the now-defunct 100th Monkey Café, with proceeds benefiting the 6th Street Center for Youth and Mash’s own outreach efforts.

The third annual Poor People’s Palooza and

Film Festival, subtitled “Affordable Housing Explained,” will take place Jan. 18 at Chico Country Day School. NVHT and Youth for Justice are hosting the event.

Youth for Justice is a program, also spearheaded by Mash, in which the Chico Peace and Justice Center is open to homeless youth Wednesday mornings for a meal and to practice creative endeavors.

The NVHT is a nonprofit organization

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Bill Mash has filmed roughly 500 video vignettes with homeless people from all over California.

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dedicated to raising funds for other local groups looking to provide said housing.

James Coles, the group’s executive director, explained that NVHT pursues local and other funding from public and private sources. The trust was formally established last August, and last year received a $500,000 state grant.

The first project it has helped fund, a 15-unit apartment complex for homeless or at-risk people with disabilities and overseen by Northern Valley Catholic Social Services, will break ground in March.

“We want to raise awareness, and we also want to offer solutions,” Coles said of NVHT’s involvement. He is one member of a panel that will discuss affordable housing and answer questions from the public at the event. Other panel members include Ed Mayer, executive director of the Housing Authority of Butte County and Chico City Councilwoman Tami Ritter.

Coles said there is a serious lack of affordable housing for low-income individuals in Chico. Based on data he’s gathered from the North Valley Property Owners Association and other groups, he estimates there is a mere 2 percent vacancy rate of available homes in the city. He shared information from the city of Chico’s 2015-19 HUD Consolidated Plan, which estimated 7,130, or 21 percent, of all Chico households pay more than 50 percent of their income toward housing, and that 6,280 of those households are classified as “extremely low income.”

“These households are at risk of becoming unsheltered,” he said.

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of medical marijuana on Tuesday (Jan. 12), Mayor Jody Jones took a moment to clear the air. The new ordinance, she said, won’t prohibit residents from using cannabis medicinally.

As an analogy, Jones likened the law to a municipal code that disallows certain livestock within Paradise town limits: “You can’t raise pigs in your backyard; you can still eat bacon,” she said.

One might observe that, unlike bacon, medical marijuana isn’t sold in stores—not in Paradise. Pot dispensaries are illegal under existing law. And that’s why the public hearing on the new ordinance packed Paradise Town Hall past capacity: For medicinal users who are home-bound by illness, injury or disability, growing weed or having it delivered are the only ways to get it.

Take Paradise resident Susan Scott, 74, who lives with fibromyalgia and cancer. Currently, cannabis oil capsules are delivered to her door, Scott said, and she can’t sleep without ingesting them at night.

“If I get to the point where I can’t drive … I just want you to really consider that,” she said. Her voice shook with emotion. “It’s really important that you don’t get rid of the delivery part.”

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The ordinance’s impetus is two-

fold, according to a staff report

presented by Town Manager Lauren Gill. For one, Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a package of bills—Assembly Bills 266 and 243 and Senate Bill 643—which comprise the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act, a statewide framework for controls on the cultivation, sale and delivery of medical marijuana. The bills give local governments the ability to regulate or prohibit those activities independently, but set a deadline to do so by March 1.

“If we have regulations in place, we have the option of removing or relaxing them in the future,” Gill said. “However, if we do not have regulations in place, we are stuck without the opportunity to have any say in regulating [medical marijuana].” Similar laws are being considered by dozens of municipalities throughout California, she added. (In Butte County, Oroville’s City Council voted to ban processing and delivery of medical marijuana on Jan. 5, and the Biggs City Council voted to ban cultivation and delivery on Jan. 12. The Board of Supervisors is poised to take up the issue of delivery in the coming weeks.)

Town staff also considered quality-of-life issues in Paradise.

Community Development Director Craig Baker said that many residents on the Ridge have complained of nuisances related to pot grows—namely, smelly plants, decreased property values, increased foot and vehicle traffic and criminal activity.

Some opponents of Paradise’s ordinance to ban the cultivation and restrict deliveries of medical marijuana touted cannabis as a natural alternative to pharmaceutical drugs. This speaker showed the Town Council his bottle of Norco prescription painkillers to illustrate that point.

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The complaints aren’t limited to the large, illegal, for-profit grows that exceed the maximum garden size of 50 square feet currently allowed, Baker said. An outright ban would also simplify things in terms of code enforcement, he added. Under the new ordinance, a grow of any size would be illegal.

Violating the law would be a civil matter punishable by citations and fines, rather than a criminal offense, he explained.

The ordinance cleared its first hurdle on Dec. 21, when the Planning Commission voted 3-2 to recommend its approval. As presented on Tuesday night, the ordinance would have banned deliveries of medicinal cannabis, as well.

After hearing the pleas of patients, however, Councilman Steve “Woody” Culleton proposed a compromise allowing “primary caregivers” to personally deliver cannabis to patients.

Fellow Councilman John Rawlings expressed misgivings about the new ordinance, but when it came to a vote, there was no opposition.

Following the meeting, Town Clerk Joanna Gutierrez told the CN&R the ordinance will come before the Town Council for a final reading during its next meeting, on Jan. 25, and will go into effect 30 days later.

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helicopters and pot farms Board of Supervisors discuss enforcement of Measure A, approve amendments es, the county is using helicopters to generate complaints Yagainst potentially out-of-compli-

ance medical marijuana gardens.

That was a revelation at the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday (Jan. 12), during discussions to evaluate the effectiveness of Measure A, the county’s medical marijuana cultivation ordinance, which has been in effect for a year. That revelation, however, took several attempts to be made clear.

“Did Code Enforcement use the helicopters?” Chairman Bill Connelly asked county Code Enforcement Supervisor Chris Jellison early on, during his presentation to the board.

“We worked with the sheriff’s department so we could get aerial, off of complaints that were either given to us by the public or law enforcement. [They were generally] sites that were hard to get to.”

Just to be clear, Connelly asked the question again: “You didn’t initiate the complaints from the helicopter?”

Jellison: “We follow up a complaint either by law enforcement or the public.”

Many members of the public, who showed up to comment on several amendments recommended for Measure A as well as the county’s Right to Farm Act, weren’t buying it.

“I live on 42 acres. You can’t see nothing of my grow unless you walk onto my property. But I got busted by Code Enforcement,” said Butte County resident Mickey Rogers. “They asked to go down and see my grow. They said, ‘We got an anonymous phone call complaint. But we also have photos from our helicopter. We flew over.’

“The bottom line is: I know my neighbors. Nobody called in a complaint—unless they walked onto my property, which is illegal.

Anything said otherwise is a flatassed lie.”

Following public comment, Connelly took the opportunity to back up Measure A enforce-

ment. “I get a lot of calls about sary paperwork,” explained Chief helicopters. People believe that the Deputy County Counsel Brad helicopters are being used by Code Stephens. So, he recommended Enforcement as a primary comgetting rid of citations and issuing plaint on the property,” he said. fines based only on the 72-hour “I’ve heard both sides of it. A lot notices. of times, it’s not who you think it The board haggled over a is—because they call me. It could change to the definition of “premsometimes be a jealous neighbor, ises,” which Stephens suggested or a relative who’s mad at you. It’s should include contiguous parcels not the intent [of Measure A] to owned and operated by the same have helicopters flying over lookperson. The point was to disaling for grows.”

But apparently, “I get a lot of calls despite Jellison’s conviction that Code about helicopters.

Enforcement is not using the helicopters People believe that to seek out grow sites, the helicopters are the county is, in fact, doing just that. being used by Code “To be really clear, law enforceEnforcement as a ment is who is flying primary complaint the helicopter. Law enforcement is who is on the property” filing the complaint.

They notify Code —Bill Connelly, Board of Supervisors chairman Enforcement and then Code Enforcement reacts,” explained Chief Administrative Officer Paul low the same person from setting Hahn. “It’s a small distinction, but up multiple gardens on the same it’s an important one.” property. After much debate, it was clarified that if one parcel— with its own house, etc.—was Despite all the talk of the methods rented to a separate individual behind enforcement of that two grow areas would be Measure A, the thrust of the permitted. meeting was aimed at amending The final discussion point the ordinance for clarity and interrevolved around new state regulapretation. tions that classify medical mari“Given what you were hoping juana as an agricultural commodto achieve, to cut back on a lot ity. Stephens recommended that, of grows in the foothills, there’s in order to avoid potential lawsuits been a lot of success with this in the future, the county should ordinance,” Hahn told the board. add language to the Right to Farm “Residents say they feel safer in Act that would disqualify the plant their communities because of it.” from being included in it.

That said, there were some The supervisors ultimately issues that affected the county’s unanimously approved all recomability to effectively enforce the ordinance. Currently, the ordinance mended Measure A amendments as well as a change to the wording calls for Code Enforcement to of the Right to Farm Act. issue a 72-hour notice to owners of properties they believe to be out —MereDith J. Cooper of compliance. At the same time, m e re d i t h c @new srev i ew. c o m they can cite these owners on the spot. “It created a lot of unneces-

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Leanne Chrisman, president of Healthy Solutions Insurance Services, a Chico-based brokerage that specializes in health insurance, estimates that of the 150 to 160 companies her firm serves, only about 25 have more than 50 employees. And most of them purchase insurance outside the Covered California marketplace.

Besides, she asked, “What good does it do if a person can’t get in to see a doctor?”

In her experience, local physicians aren’t accepting new patients insured by Covered California plans because, much like MediCal, they don’t pay enough to cover costs.

Katie Simmons, president and CEO of the Chico Chamber of Commerce, made a similar observation: “The word on the street is that Covered California isn’t finding enough doctors to handle the new patients,” she said.

Six years after its passage, Obamacare

remains a controversial work in progress.

Reorganizing the American healthinsurance system is no small task.

“The ACA has good components and bad components,” Chrisman said. Among the good components, she includes, are its extension of coverage to people with preexisting conditions, its mandate that children be able to stay on their parents’ plans

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That’s because, under the Affordable Care Act’s “individual mandate,” in 2016 uninsured adults will pay a penalty of $695—money to be taken from their federal tax refund. Uninsured families with children will pay $347.50 per child, or 2.5 percent of household income, whichever is greater.

A recent study by the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that the average household penalty in 2016 will be $969, a 47 percent increase from the average estimated penalty of $661 in 2015. Whether the penalty will be sufficient to compel people to buy insurance remains to be seen.

Individual consumers aren’t the only ones who could face penalties. Obamacare’s

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“employer mandate,” which went into effect on Jan. 1, decrees that any business with more than 50 full-time-equivalent employees must provide them affordable “minimal essential coverage,” according to an IRS website. That “minimal essential coverage” is equivalent to the bronze-tier plan, the least expensive of the four plans offered in the health-insurance marketplace operated by Covered California. That high-deductible plan pays 60 percent of a person’s medical bills.

If this all sounds rather onerous, that’s because it is. But the ACA won’t work if only sick people sign up for insurance; it will quickly go bankrupt. Nor will it work if employers refuse to offer coverage. So the government has given young, healthy people, who will pay more into the system than they will take from it, a disincentive to remain uninsured. And it has given businesses an incentive to offer health insurance to their employees.

The reality, however, is that most local businesses with 50 or more employees already offer their employees health insur-

ance. Transfer Flow, which manufactures after-market fuel tanks at the Chico airport, is a good example. It was providing its employees with full coverage long before passage of Obamacare, said Mark Forwalter, its human-resources officer.

What’s new is that the company, which has more than 50 employees, now will have to begin proving to the federal government that it is providing minimal and affordable coverage, which he said was an expensive bureaucratic hassle.

He’s not alone in his complaint, as a recent survey by the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans confirmed.

“Employers need to devote significant time and energy to maintain compliance with the law,” explained Julie Stich, director of research at the foundation, in a news release. “The extensive amounts of data that employers are required to collect can take hours [of labor] and even require complex IT infrastructures. The process has meant a cost increase for many, especially smaller organizations.”

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According to a study from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the uninsured rate in the United States has dropped to 9.2 percent, the first time its been in the single digits.

“Unfortunately,” Chrisman said, “the Affordable Care Act has lost its affordability aspect.”

Its innovatively transparent insurance exchanges, such as Covered California, were meant to spur competition among insurers, thereby pushing premium prices down for the consumer or at least keeping them from becoming egregiously inflated. That’s worked to some extent in California, where statewide rates are up by only 4 percent this year.

But elsewhere they’re rising much faster. According to data compiled from 37 states and Washington, D.C., by the Washington Examiner, the number of policies with double-digit rateincrease requests nearly doubled to 231 in 2016 from 121 requests in 2015.

In Butte County, rates rose by 11 percent.

Costs are rising even faster among non-ACA insurance plans.

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Such increases hit smaller businesses—those with fewer than 50 employees—especially hard. Chrisman said several of her clients saw recent increases of 40 percent or more.

A special program, called Covered California for Small Business, offers a 50 percent tax credit to employers who purchase insurance through its marketplace.

The credit is available for only two years, however.

Interestingly, the International Foundation of Employee Benefit Plans survey found that, while a majority of its respondents believed Obamacare had had a negative impact on their company, nearly all of them—96 percent— anticipated they would continue to offer health insurance into the future.

“Health care benefits are seen as essential for attracting future talent and retaining current highquality employees,” said the foundation’s Stich. “Employers may change the structure of their health care plans or shift some of the cost burden to their employees, but it doesn’t appear they will stop offering health-care benefits anytime soon.” □

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GREEN

Punished for preparedness Chico couple xeriscaped early, are paying the price

story and photo by

ernesto rivera

their home in May 2011 and immediately Estarted thinking of ways to make it their own. arl Aagaard and his wife, Gail, moved into

The next year, the Aagaards began a complete overhaul of their yard. To save water, they ripped out the grass and replaced it with concrete, some granite paths, and flowers and plants that are watered using a drip system. By the summer of 2013, their xeriscaping project was complete and the Aagaards had reduced their water usage by 45 percent from when they first moved in.

“I didn’t want to pay for horrendous amounts of water, particularly not for lawn,” Earl Aagaard said. “I wanted something productive like flowers or fruit.”

Then the drought hit, and it seemed like the Aagaards were ahead of the pack. When their neighbors were suddenly being asked to limit lawn watering and take other steps to cut consumption, they’d already taken those steps. But last year, the State Water Resources Control Board announced that it would mandate a 32 percent reduction of water use for customers in the Chico area.

Like all Chicoans, they were required to reduce their usage—or face a fine—based on the summer of 2013, the same summer the Aagaards achieved a 45 percent water reduction on their own.

“Some people have been careful about their water for years and years and others haven’t,” Aagaard said. “Using 2013 is ridiculous; I had already cut my water use almost in half and now they want me to go down 32 percent more. My neighbor waited until the water restrictions to take out his lawn and then … his water budget was double or triple mine because he waited.”

When the reductions were implemented, the Aagards simply couldn’t meet their goal. They received a fine of about $35 that first month. Cal Water did waive that cost, Aagaard said, along with subsequent fines,

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but he said it was made clear to him that come January the water service company wouldn’t be so lenient.

Aagaard said he thinks that an across-theboard cut for each home, based on the same criteria, is ignoring unique situations like his.

“I pointed out to them [Cal Water], ‘You are punishing the people who looked ahead and said “Let’s conserve” before the water restrictions came in. You’re rewarding the people who went right on using water and using water and using water until the government said you can’t.’”

Cal Water does have a way to evaluate unique situations, through an appeal process—forms are available on its website.

The Aagaards have filed three appeals to try to get a different baseline for their water budget. Each time they check the “significant water savings achieved since 2011” box on the form, thinking it fits their situation perfectly. The first was rejected with no explanation given. The second appeal also was rejected but came with a small increase in their water allowance. They are currently waiting for a response to their third appeal.

“They didn’t address the issue,” Aagaard said. “I’m not asking for an increase in my water budget; I’m asking that they take a reasonable baseline to figure my water budget.”

on a change in household size, medical need, significant water savings achieved or low water use in 2014.

“With the basic appeal, sometimes there are circumstances that are a little out of the ordinary in the criteria we usually use and it just doesn’t work,” Bonacich said. There’s an elevated appeal, he said, but about 70 percent to 80 percent of appeals are handled at the basic level.

Bonacich said that a lot of appeals end up being successful because of legitimate issues, but he admitted that some do get rejected. He could not comment specifically on the Aagaards’ case.

“There’s a fine line between things that are truly legitimate and a wish list,” he said.

Bonacich also praised the community, saying that between June and November, the cumulative reduction in water usage was 39.6 percent.

“So far, so good,” he said. “The community has done a fantastic job with this effort.”

Gail and Earl Aagaard ripped out their lawn before it was cool.

While there has been some recent rain and increase in snowpack, the state isn’t in the clear yet, Bonacich said.

“It’s going to take more than one big winter to get back to what we would consider normal,” he said.

Bonacich said he expects the state to extend emergency drought regulations through October, even after the next review they’ll do, in February. If they do change any of the restrictions, those changes likely will be minimal, he said.

“There’s no guarantee that next winter we’ll have the same thing or anything close to it,” Bonacich said. “We’ll see some recovery in Lake Shasta and Lake Oroville, but they’ll have to manage that water very carefully through the summer and try to hang on to it just in case next winter doesn’t pan out.” □

Last summer, Cal Water began an outreach

campaign to let people know about new water regulations including prohibited uses, as well as how the state would determine their reduced water budgets.

Today, Pete Bonacich, district manager for Cal Water in Chico, said he sees the vast majority of violations in prohibited uses simply due to people being unaware of, for example, turning off a sprinkler system when it rains or 48 hours after it rains. In terms of appeals, Cal Water has received numerous requests for increased water budgets.

The appeal form on the Cal Water website explains that customers can appeal based

ECO EVENT StArt experimentinG It’s time for the kiddos to start getting ready for the 2016 Chico Science Fair, scheduled for Feb. 29-March 3 at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. For kids in kindergarten through 12th grade and their parents who might need a little nudge toward designing their experiment, there is a free student/parent workshop scheduled for 7 p.m. on thursday, Jan. 14, at the Chico Junior High School library. Log onto chicosciencefair.org for more information and to enter the fair—sign-ups will be accepted until Feb. 22.

37 Years In BusIness

dr. barbara hanna President & CEO Congratulations to Dr. Barbara Hanna, President and CEO of Home Health Care Management, Inc, who recently completed her Doctorate in Nursing and Healthcare Leadership at the Betty Irene Moore School of Nursing at UC Davis. She founded the agency 37 years ago, and for the last 4 years, Dr. Hanna continued to oversee day to day operations with the help of Julie Lehmann, Acting Administrator and Director of Professional Services.

During Dr. Hanna’s time at UC Davis, she mastered many tools that she looks forward to utilizing here in Butte County and the north state. Her ability to research and analyze information and datasets will assist in better programming, improved training, and increased quality of care. Dr. Hanna is eager to focus on standardizing processes to improve care coordination among providers in the face of an everchanging healthcare system.

Her goals for 2016 include working directly with her patients and staff to improve overall satisfaction and utilizing technology to streamline functions and improve patient outcomes.

1398 ridgewood dr. // Chico // P: 530.343.0727 F: 530-895-1703 // www.homehealthcaremgmt.com

25 Years In BusIness

Whitney Wolff owner Whitney Wolff has been in the fitness industry for over 25 years and has always been on the cutting edge of fitness. She opened CrossFit Chico six years ago before CrossFit accelerated into what it is today. “My main goal has always been to offer effective programming that people are excited to do,” says Wolff.

Exciting is one way to describe her latest adventure. Wolff has built a full on obstacle course in her facility, complete with all the obstacles that you would find at a Spartan mud run race and most that you would find on the popular T.V. show, American Ninja Warrior.

CrossFit Chico offers Obstacle Course classes and CrossFit classes with professional coaching but has also expanded the Open Gym times so that people can come in on their own schedule and perform the workout of the day, create their own pro-

gramming, train to be an American Ninja Warrior, or just have fun on the obstacles.

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15 MINUTES

Chim chim cher-ee The extent of what most Americans know about chimney sweeps comes from a song in the musical Mary Poppins. Bob Ferrari, owner of White Glove Chimney and Air Duct Services, has learned considerably more in his 30-plus years in the business. Ferrari has traveled the world cleaning chimneys and indulging his other passion, mountain climbing, having been introduced to the business at the end of his free-wheeling younger days. He met wife Marina on a commune in Texas in the early 1970s and settled in Redding when he and his then-pregnant bride hitchhiked into town from the Trinity Alps. In 1983, the Ferraris bought the Redding-based business Flue Season, and two years ago changed the name and expanded into Butte County.

What services do you provide?

We do chimneys, which entails cleaning all wood, gas and pellet systems. Not all chimney sweeps do all that; some are just swabbers who run a brush up and down and call it a day. We’re licensed contractors and do installation and repairs. We also clean and service air ducts on commercial and residential HVAC systems. We clean dryer vents because they catch on fire also, and when they get clogged up, it can cause carbon monoxide issues. Our belief is you don’t just want a clean chimney, you want a chimney that’s safe to use. So if we

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sweep it, we also inspect it to make sure it’s not damaged and installed correctly. We work on swamp coolers, too.

How do most people perceive chimney sweeps?

Obviously, everyone’s seen Mary Poppins, and they think we climb on roofs and walk around dirty all the time, and there are beer commercials of us shooting soot out of our mouths. That’s kind of the image, and it’s not new. Robert Louis Stevenson once wrote, “I hung out down at the wharfs with sailors, thieves and chimney sweeps” and that his “companionship was constantly altered by the actions of the local magistrate.” Not all of the chimney sweep’s heritage is good.

How did you work on chimneys in other countries?

There’s kind of a brotherhood of chimney sweeps. They’re called The Brothers in Black. I’ve met people

all over, stayed with some of them and went on chimneys with some.

I swept a chimney in a castle in Scotland and saw some really weird chimneys in Greece and other places.

A few years ago, I took the whole company to the Spazzacamini [chimney sweep] Festival in Italy. There were 1,000 chimney sweeps from 27 different countries. Something like 20,000 people show up to this small village.

They have a big parade through town, and each country marches behind a banner. We had people chanting “USA! USA!” and lowering bottles of wine down to us. When you get to the main square, there are people in medieval garb firing off blunderbusses and blowing off cannons. We all just looked at each other and said, “Wow, plumbers don’t do this.”

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I lived in Boston for a brief stint in grad school, and this time of year I’m always thankful I’m back to my California roots. Shoveling snow out of my driveway required more cardio strength than I could manage, and I slid down my icy front steps almost daily, causing massive bruises that lasted through spring.

Though I was happy to get back to the sunny Golden State, one of the things I miss about Boston is the incredible seafood. Lobster rolls, crab cakes and shrimp were abundant. Living in the inland Sacramento Valley, we don’t see too much of those options.

Siblings Jennifer and Lenny Klishis have brought some East Coast flavor to town, opening a restaurant at 234 W. Third St. late last year. Jennifer runs the front of the house, with Lenny serving as the chef. The downtown eatery, where Tannins used to be, is what Jennifer called “Napa-style French bistro cuisine.” As she talked me through some of the restaurant’s menu items, I fixated on one dish in particular: the Maryland crab cake.

The Klishises are originally from Maryland—in fact, their greatgrandfather opened a restaurant in 1941 in Baltimore called Rallo’s, which was family-owned for 72 years. As an homage to that legacy, Jennifer and Lenny opted to name their new venture Rallo’s West and have brought a touch of their roots to their restaurant through some signature dishes, including the crab cake.

The crab is shipped in from Maryland, and the cake is baked with sweet peppers and Old Bay Seasoning, just the way it would be prepared in Baltimore. On the smaller side, they also have peel-and-eat shrimp with Chesapeake Bay-style cocktail sauce.

If you’re not a seafood lover, don’t worry. The menu includes items such as braised pork belly, hanger steak and an artisanal cheese and charcuterie plate that allows you to pick how many and what types of meats and cheeses you want. They also serve beer and wine (including gluten-free beer). Check them out from 4 to 9 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday; 4 to 10 p.m.

Friday; and 5 to 10 p.m. Saturday.

Speaking of dining out A while back, I wrote about two new restaurants coming to town, and the wait is now over. Lost Dutchman Brew out by Wine Time and Unwined at 980, a wine bar and restaurant in the old Blockbuster Video on Mangrove Avenue that features a bistro and market called Ready Chef Go, are now open for business. Be sure to add both to your list of dining-out options.

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19 Years In BusIness

4 Years In BusIness

California mentor

The Lyme CenTer

“A home is more than a house – it is where we develop lasting relationships and share our lives with the people we call family. At California MENTOR we are building relationships and family connections through our Family Home Agency (FHA) programs.”

If you have ever thought about making a difference in the life of an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability, California MENTOR’s FHA program provides this opportunity.

California MENTOR partners with Regional Centers and nurturing caregivers within the community. Caregivers, who are called “Mentors,” provide individuals the services and support they need in a place they can truly call home. The staff is knowledgeable, compassionate and dedicated to the individuals they serve and the Mentors they partner with.

What is Lyme disease and does it exist in California?

opportunity to make a difference in the life of an adult with an intellectual or developmental disability, while earning extra money at home, please contact California Mentor to learn how.

Serving Butte, Glenn, Lassen, Modoc, Plumas, Shasta, Siskiyou, Tehama and Trinity counties.

Mentors are the greatest resource! If you have an extra bedroom and would like the

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Lyme disease is the fastest growing hidden epidemic in the U.S. and has been found in every county within California.

Some common symptoms of Lyme disease include; fatigue, muscle and joint pain/ stiffness, headaches/migraines, depression, insomnia, neck and back pain, light/ sound sensitivity, anxiety, brain “fog” and poor memory. Lyme disease is known as “The Great Imitator” because its symptoms mimic other diseases like MS, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Parkinson’s, Fibromylagia, ALS and Lupus.

group on the third Monday of the month for those persons with Lyme disease, their caregivers and family members. For more information, call (530) 877-6666.

The Lyme Center was founded in 2012 and is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote community awareness, education and advocacy about Lyme disease and other tick-borne illnesses. The Lyme Center hosts a free monthly support

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17 Years In BusIness

Yellowstone FamilY DentistrY Christopher lim, DDs robin saunders, DDs The husband and wife team of Dr. Christopher Lim and Dr. Robin Saunders is the backbone of Yellowstone Family Dentistry.

Along with their excellent and caring staff, Dr. Lim and Dr. Saunders are committed to providing personalized dental care to every one of their patients. Their passion for dentistry is matched only by the desire to build lasting relationships with their patients. They help their patients make informed decisions about their oral health and truly believe that preventative care and education are optimal to dental health. The entire family is welcome at Yellowstone Family Dentistry. Both doctors have a devotion to community service.

They both have privileges at Enloe Medical Center, Feather River Hospital, and

Skyway Surgery Center, where they often perform full mouth oral rehabilitation surgery on children and those with special needs. Dr. Saunders is also licensed to perform oral conscious sedation on children and adults. They offer special incentives for their patients including free teeth bleaching for life, half-off new patient exams, and free second opinions. Dr. Lim and Dr. Saunders will always give your family something to smile about!

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MOVING MOUNTAINS A Butte County runner takes on the stigma of epilepsy by conquering the Colorado Rockies

by

Carson Medley

J

enny LaBaw sat on the side of the road, 10,000 feet high in the Rocky Mountains. She’d just run 5 miles up a steep grade and started questioning whether she could go on, if she had it in her to keep running day after day toward the finish line some 180 miles away.

“I stood up, dusted off my butt from sitting in the dirt and started forward again. I didn’t have an option. I had to keep going.”

That’s just one of the insights the 33-year-old shares on her blog, www.LaBawLife.com, chronicling her nearly 500-mile run a few months ago from the border of southern Colorado to where the state meets Wyoming.

LaBaw lives just outside of Oroville and works as an independent personal trainer and strengthtraining coach. She moved here in 2010 from Rifle, Colo., after her boyfriend, Marcus Brown, a Chico native and videographer, enticed her to come visit. She is a Reeboksponsored athlete, a CrossFit Games champion who excels at that competition’s athletic medley of weight-lifting, running, gymnastics, biking, swimming and mental endurance. LaBaw finished sixth at the 2011 CrossFit Games and won the 2012 Northern California regionals.

LaBaw has the physique of a Renaissance sculpture. Her eyes burn with a fierce, piercing gaze of concentration. But what makes her a warrior is that she has turned her own frailty into triumph. LaBaw has epilepsy. In mid-September, she set off on a personal journey,

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running 489 miles in 31 days and raising $52,510 for the Epilepsy Foundation—the majority of donations coming from social media outreach. She aptly titled her adventure “Move Mountains: A Run for Epilepsy.”

For more than 20 years, LaBaw

kept her epilepsy a secret from most people. Shortly after she won the 2012 CrossFit regionals, however, she released a video describing life with the disorder. The main message: Don’t let it stop you from doing anything. LaBaw had always used epilepsy as motivation to catapult her to greater heights.

She wanted others do the same by helping expunge the stigma associated with epilepsy, one steeped in history.

“People with epilepsy have been portrayed historically as being demons. They were exorcized.

Locked away in asylums. The stigma stretches back to the Bible,” LaBaw said. She also wanted to confront the humiliation. “Losing control in a crowded place in front of total strangers. Peeing all over yourself. Can you imagine?”

The response to her video was overwhelming.

“People reached out to me from all walks of life explaining how much my story meant to them,” she said. “They had epilepsy—or their son, mother, best friend did—and in some way I had inspired them or given them hope they had lost.”

The nearly 500-mile run is just a subplot to a story that began when LaBaw was a child, a story just as much her mother’s as her own.

Cathy Desautels—a nurse—first noticed her young daughter had problems clutching things with her right hand.

“She’d drop a toy. Sometimes she’d fall off the jungle gym. But she always laughed when it happened, so it wasn’t so alarming,” Desautels recalls on her daughter’s blog. Then the situation worsened.

“When she lost control of her bladder,” she said, “it was clear something bigger was going on.”

LaBaw was soon diagnosed as having simple partial gelastic seizures likely caused by a scar on her brain due to bacterial meningitis when she was a baby. Her mother spent countless hours in medical

“I let my mind go to the worst possibilities, the whatifs, and the oh-myGods. … All the while, I kept those fears from her.

Those were not a kid’s to bear.”

—Cathy Desautels, Jenny LaBaw’s mother

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For most folks, a 500-mile run across the

Rockies would take a year to plan. But LaBaw is not most folk. Late last June, she and Brown took a trip to Colorado to visit her family. While driving north out of Durango on Highway 550 with the windows down, LaBaw could taste the mountain air.

The aroma of pine needles flooded the car.

The sky above was cloudless and azure blue.

Home, the Rocky Mountains, where she was raised. All the old feelings rushed in.

“I looked out at the mountains,” LaBaw wrote in her blog, “and then I looked at Marcus. I told him I was going to run across Colorado and raise money and awareness for epilepsy. Marcus looked at me and smiled.

Said ‘OK. I’m in.’”

Long-distance running is a lot like black licorice. You either love it or hate it. The lovers tend to be introverts, thinkers. LaBaw fits that model. Ask a long-distance runner what he or she thinks about while running, and you’re likely to get an array of answers.

Some say they think of nothing. Others say they think of everything. LaBaw said, “My brain goes from simple thought to complex ones. Bright thoughts. Deep thought. Dark thought.”

“Getting on trails, getting dirty,” she said, “that’s heaven.”

What better place, then, for LaBaw to spend the next 30 days running and getting in touch with her inner John Denver: “And the Colorado Rocky Mountain high, I’ve seen it raining fire in the sky. You can talk to God and listen to the casual reply, Rocky Mountain high.”

Running is an individual sport, but running nearly 500 miles in a month is a team sport. Chico author and sports massage therapist Tory Zellick would take care of LaBaw’s body. Zellick’s father, Vaughn, drove the truck called Big Blue with flashing lights, a kitchen and a first-aid kit most often used for LaBaw’s feet. Brown visually chronicled the adventure. Throughout the month-long journey, LaBaw’s Labrador retrievers, Ziggy and Pogo, provided emotional support. And her mother and father, Desautels and Jeff LaBaw—who divorced when LaBaw was in the sixth grade—joined her most of the way.

The original plan was to camp along the route, but the members of team LaBaw did so about only two-thirds of the time thanks to strangers—soon-to-be friends—who donated their cabins and purchased hotel rooms for them.

On her blog, LaBaw wrote with a Whitman-

like eye for detail and observation, an elaborate tapestry bolstered by beautiful photos that create an amazing scratch-and-sniff story of blood, sweat and tears. She didn’t write it to create a guidebook or a diary of her trip; it’s not a self-published vanity project. She wrote to express how her journey was trans-

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libraries researching her daughter’s condition, searching for the best treatment. The family traveled all over their home state of Colorado meeting with pediatricians and neurologists. LaBaw was given numerous trial medications.

“We’d find a medication that worked for a while, only for the seizures to start up again several months later,” Desautels said.

The darkest hour for Desautels came when 14-year-old LaBaw, always the most physically active person at school, went through a series of extensive evaluations.

The doctors kept her sleep-deprived, flashed lights in her eyes; essentially tortured her to try and induce a seizure so they could locate where the brain activity was coming from.

“It made my heart ache to sit with her as she was confined to a hospital room while tethered by wires to an EEG machine and with mirrors capturing her every move for two weeks at a time while nurses and technicians tried to induce seizures,” Desautels wrote. The doctors confirmed that LaBaw had a tonic clonic (grand mal) seizure—loss of consciousness and violent muscle contractions. Surgical intervention was ruled out as a treatment.

In recalling those days, Desautels acknowledges that she grieved her daughter’s diagnosis and wept privately as she watched her go through the embarrassment of incontinence or the unexpected falls that made her scared to attend school.

“I let my mind go to the worst possibilities, the what-ifs, and the oh-my-Gods. Will she ever be able to have children? Will she be able to live a normal life, go to school, drive? All the while, I kept those fears from her. Those were not a kid’s to bear. I remember silently begging any spirit that was listening to let me endure the side effects of all the meds for her,” she wrote.

Today, LaBaw takes an anti-seizure medication called Keppra. She has not had a seizure in two years, but she has a constant tingling in her right arm. “It’s there 100 percent of the time,” she said.

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formational and even transcended its original purpose to raise awareness of epilepsy. The descriptions of each day she chronicled are both delightful and instructional.

LaBaw began the journey at the New Mexico/Colorado border. She ran to Durango, covering 24.8 miles on the first day. Day two hit 85 degrees. To put this temperature in context, the 2012 Boston Marathon sent more than 100 runners to hospitals for heat exhaustion; it was in the low 80s. She struggled.

“My head hurt,” she wrote. “My feet hurt.

My legs hurt. My mind was starting to go to a dark place.” She questioned herself: “Can I really run 500 miles?”

The great ones explore these deep, dark places and look for light. Inspiration. A spark. Day three marked the first of eight mountain passes that LaBaw would climb: a 3,875-foot ascent and 1,417-foot descent for a total of 23.5 miles in five hours. Blisters boiled on both feet. Her mind spiraled toward the abyss. Finally, the spark arrived when a professional ultrarunner saw LaBaw struggling up the pass. The woman pulled her car over and ran several miles with LaBaw while offering advice: “She told me to learn to take eight-minute naps, and to eat Oreos even if you don’t eat Oreos,” LaBaw wrote.

The day-three fire turned to embers by day six. Her mind was beating her body.

Jenny LaBaw started her nearly 500-mile journey at the New Mexico/Colorado border, about 25 miles south of Durango, and headed north toward Wyoming along this route.

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LaBaw wrote: “I bounced from positive thoughts of how amazing it is to be running through the mountains, to negative thoughts of how hard it is to be running alone, to moments of clarity of how lucky I am to be running at all.”

She ran through crippling pain and low spirits and then Lydia Shaeffer entered her mind. A friend of Lydia’s mother had contacted LaBaw not long after she announced her run. Lydia died on Mother’s Day in 2014 from Sudden Unexpected Death in Epilepsy (SUDEP). She was only 7 years old.

“Lydia and her strength carried me through,” LaBaw wrote.

Day nine brought more blisters. Her feet were a mess. Hot, black asphalt and a 16.1-mile descent made it worse. Courting disaster, the following mantra entered LaBaw’s mind: Keep moving forward. A woman named Lenora Raines had contacted her. “She told me of her daughter, Katie, and that she had lost Katie to SUDEP,” she wrote. “Lenora said Katie always said to keep moving forward. I think of this when the steps get heavy and hard.”

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DesmonD e. smith, m.D. specializing in cardiovascular health Dr. Smith graduated in 1979 from the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York. During his schooling, Dr. Smith had the honor of being selected as New York State’s Outstanding Student, before completing his residency at Columbia University.

With over thirty years serving at Smith Center for Cardiovascular Wellness, Dr. Smith has consistently demonstrated the desire, knowledge, and passion for patient care necessary to be considered among the best during his years in practice. He is never afraid to change, to learn new things, and always invests in his own continuing education.

At Smith Center for Cardiovascular Wellness, the goal of Dr. Smith and his staff is to teach patients how to prevent heart disease with a holistic approach. If a patient already has blockage of arteries or

heart disease, they strive to slow down its progression as best as possible.

Dr. Smith possesses board certification in Internal medicine, Hypertension, Geriatric Medicine and a former Associate Professor of Medicine specializing in diabetes and preventative cardiology. Since much of heart disease can be prevented by nutrition, the practice also has a certified nutritionist on staff.

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Day 18 found LaBaw running to her hometown. She ran 26 miles from Glenwood Springs to the front steps of the house where she grew up in Rifle. Her mind reeled.

“I thought of all the times I’ve spent up on top of those beautiful mountains with my dad and brother camping, hunting and fishing,” LaBaw wrote. “That’s where I first learned to drive a stick shift, where I saw my first bear in the wild, and where I first drew back my bow at an elk.”

The girl who once harbored a secret would run back to her high school as a woman now liberated from it.

Long-distance running allows—maybe invites—thoughts to drift in and out of the mind. Thoughts bring respite to the monotony. After two hours of intense running, at the peak of Ripple Creek pass and on her way to West Lost Lake, LaBaw lost herself in a reverie about a father/daughter weekend spent here.

“It seemed like yesterday that I was anxiously following his footsteps as we hiked to go spend some time throwing a line in the lake, roasting hot dogs over the campfire LaBaw lifts 185 pounds during a competition at Level 10 CrossFit in Oroville. photo by marcus brown

and feeling like the most special girl in the world,” LaBaw wrote. Only on day 23 after running up Dunckley Pass at 9,764 feet did LaBaw pause to revel in her accomplishments. “I stopped for a minute to look back at what I had come over,” she wrote. “I could see the end of the initial 5-mile downhill followed by the pass I had just climbed. I had a moment of pride. A moment of, ‘Holy cow, I’m actually doing it.’”

A minute later, LaBaw would take the laurel wreath off her head and move forward.

The last 6 miles were rough. Trucks whizzed by. She wrote: “One of my favorite quotes ever is, ‘Of all the paths you take in life, make sure some are dirt.’ Today I not only got to take a dirt path, but I got to taste it and breathe and was completely covered in it.”

The runner has a unique vantage point.

Walking allows one to focus too long on a singular thing, whereas on a bike you can whiz by too fast. But when running, things become a pop-up book filled with one vibrant vignette after another. Runners really get to see an object, focus on it just long enough to absorb the important details, and then it vanishes.

Day 26 was filled with country road switchbacks with oak brush and quakies at the pinnacle of their late fall and early winter brown with touches of red. The land opened up to meadows and rolling hills practically swallowed up by mountains. Farmhouses and barns flanked both sides of the road.

“I started to dream about living on one of these ranches,” she wrote.

“Living a simple, hard-working, funloving life.”

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long-distance runner aren’t that different from the bittersweet excitement of the traveler arriving at a destination. As the plane makes its descent, an early morning kind of peace calms the mind and allows the traveler to be in three places at the same time: past, present, future. In the air, time is suspended.

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rape crisis intervention & prevention

Mark G. WoMack, DDS

The next time you’re in a room with 6 people, think about this:

Dr. Mark Womack is an experienced oral and maxillofacial surgeon committed to eliminating the anxiety and fear that patients often experience when anticipating surgery.

He established his private practice in Chico in 1994.

oral and Maxillofacial Surgeon

1 in 3 teens experience sexual or physical abuse or threats from a boyfriend or girlfriend in one year.

1 in 4 women and 1 in 6 men were sexually abused before the age of 18.

1 in 5 men have experienced some form of sexual victimization in their lives.

your soccer team, the friend you meet for coffee, your daughter or son.

1 in 3 women will be raped or beaten in her lifetime.

The silence and shame must end!

Why should you care?

These are not numbers.

They’re your mothers, grandmothers, fathers, grandfathers, brothers, sisters, aunts, uncles, cousins, girlfriends, boyfriends, co-workers, extended family, next-door neighbors, friends and children.

They’re the person you share your dreams with, the people in your church group, your teenager’s best friend, the guy on

Since 1974, Rape Crisis Intervention & Prevention has been shedding light on this darkness. They are there to listen.

Tell everyone you know: No. It is a complete sentence.

Serving Butte, Glenn & Tehama Counties since 1974

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Mark G. Womack, DDS

952 Lupin ave. Suite 110 // chico // Phone: 530.345.7127 Fax: 530-345-4914 // www.jawmender.com

Debbie HOlt

Certified Audioprosthologist by the American Conference of Audioprosthology, Board Certified Hearing Instrument Specialist, Hearing Aid Dispenser,

Personal trainer

License #HA3884 As owner of Chico Hearing Aid Center, Deanna McCoy proudly carries on the tradition of a family owned local business that has been “Changing Lives Through Better Hearing” since 1949.

As a Certified Audioprosthologist, Deanna McCoy has completed a comprehensive course of upper level education in hearing instrument fitting, which far surpasses state requirements. She is active in state professional associations and

Dr. Womack is also an active member of the following professional organizations: • American Dental Association • California Dental Association

• Northern California Dental Society • American Association of Oral and Facial Surgeons • California Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons • American Dental Society of Anesthesiology • California Dental Society of Anesthesiology

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DEANNA MCCOY, ACA, BC-HIS

Deanna and her staff are focused on helping people enjoy the best hearing possible, which is why she offers the unique no deposit Try-BeforeYou-Buy program. This allows people to wear hearing aids adjusted to their needs in their normal environments to see how beneficial hearing aids can be, before they invest money in a purchase.

Dr. Womack has particular interest in anesthesia, dental implants and third molar extractions as well as combined surgical orthodontic procedures to treat severe malocclusions. He has dedicated his practice to providing the community with a state–of– the–art outpatient surgery facility, and with a committed, friendly and competent team of administrative and surgical associates.

continually invests in additional education to stay at the forefront of her profession.

With many technological advances, hearing aids have become more discreet, more sensitive, and more effective. There are also more options.

Deanna’s expertise includes matching the right device to each person after a thorough hearing evaluation with sophisticated equipment and a lifestyle needs analysis.

1600 Mangrove Ave., Ste 160 // Chico // 888.637.5664 // www.ChicoHearingAidCenter.com

Debbie’s start in the fitness industry happened after her second child turned one. Debbie would go swimming every morning, but the extra inches and pounds stayed. When the weather got cooler, she joined a local gym and started working with a personal trainer. Her trainer explained the importance of exercise and proper nutrition in order to get results.

Debbie’s hard work paid off and she lost 80 pounds. Her success lit a fire, and encouraged her to go back to school. Since then she has earned more than 5 different national fitness certifications. Fifteen years later, Debbie now owns her own business, Just Move Body & Mind Fitness. Debbie opened Just Move because she wanted a place where her clients could exercise in a clean, non-aggressive, non-competitive and private setting. Most importantly, she wanted a place where her clients could be held accountable for their health with the

help of a personal trainer who personally knows what it likes to transform your life through fitness.

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The IveRsen WeLLness & ReCoveRy CenTeR And Med CLInIC

MICHELLE RIVERS Acupuncturist Michelle Rivers, L.Ac. is the founder of The Pinwheel, a non-profit affordable acupuncture clinic. She is dedicated to accessibility in healthcare: “Access is about more than price,” she said (treatments cost $15-35) “it’s about making the clinic as comfortable as your best friend’s living room. I want it to be a place where any of my uncles would be happy to go for back pain.”

Rivers treats patients using only points on the arms, legs, and head, while they are fully clothed, relaxing in recliners in a group treatment room. She spends just a few minutes chatting with each person, places the pins, and then moves on to the next person while they rest for up to an hour.

hope. support. Respect.

in Redding. The co-op has its own school, POCATech, and Rivers loves her trips to Portland to teach the newbies.

In addition to running the non-profit clinic here in Chico, Rivers also volunteers for the nationwide cooperative, POCA, which helps start and support clinics like hers around the country, including the newly opened Shasta Community Acupuncture

740 Flume St. Chico // 530.345.5566 Tues-Fri 1-6pm, Sat 10-2pm

The Iversen Wellness & Recovery Center offers an environment of inclusiveness, recovery, and wellness to adults living with persistent mental illness. It is a stigma-free environment offering activities, groups, and social support opportunities. The Iversen Center promotes and encourages tolerance, acceptance, and growth within its members that reflects respect for diversity and differences. All services (with the exception of Med Clinic) are FREE and open to members of the public 18 and over.

Recovery oriented activities and services include: • Peer and Staff-led Groups and Activities • Peer Support • WRAP Groups • Socialization • Med Support (through Butte County Behavioral Health) • Computer Lab

Join us for a FREE eight week WRAP (Wellness Recovery Action Plan) Group!

Starts Wed Jan 20 at 2:30 PM. Also, we are partnering with Promotores to offer WRAP in Español! Starts Tues Jan 19 at 3:30 PM. Call for details!

The Iversen Center is supported by Butte County Department of Behavioral Health and MHSA funding.

Iversen Wellness & Recovery Center

492 Rio Lindo Avenue // Chico (530) 879-3311 Iversen // (530) 879-3974 Med Clinic nvcss.org/butte/iversen-wellness-recovery-center

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Anne & Kevin WeAver ‘Ohana Health Holistic Health Center

Anne Weaver has been practicing the healing art of massage for over 15 years.

She is a certified oncology massage therapist and a Usui Reiki Master. Anne wanted to share her knowledge with the community, and with the help of her husband Kevin, opened ‘Ohana Health.

‘Ohana Health is the first of its kind and is truly a unique place for well-being. They provide low cost care in a community oriented atmosphere with the help of local health care providers and professionals. They offer many types of alternative healthcare to meet any need. Therapeutic massage, community acupuncture, yoga, and meditation are just a few of the services they provide, as well as a very rare healing tool known as a Bio-Chromatic Integrator Pad. Only 19 other pads exist in the world.

The mission of ‘Ohana Health is to support individuals and families who are seeking to gain or maintain a balance of the mind, body and spirit. ‘Ohana means family, and at ‘Ohana Health everybody who walks through the door is family!

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Marisa sMiley Owner Teaching people how to reach lifestyle goals and to stay active, even in the face of health challenges or chronic pain, is a big part of what Strong Again offers.

Showing individuals how to modify movement by adding to their resources through Yoga (Yoga means to yolk the body, heart and mind) and blending in other fitness modalities as complimentary training, has been a successful model for many of my clients.

The same thing happens when running. Only when the plane lands, when the runner crosses the finish line, does real time commence.

For LaBaw, nearing the finish line allowed her time to reflect.

“My thoughts were consumed with confusion of the upcoming last two days of the run,” she wrote. “One moment I was focused on the pride and amazement that I was actually going to complete 500 miles across the Colorado Rockies. The next moment I was literally in tears that it was almost over. The next I was flooded with the honor that we were well on our way to achieving our set fundraising goal. I couldn’t turn my brain off.”

Day 30 brought mashed-potato skies.

Rain here and there. But the weather gods had smiled upon LaBaw; only in the last 5 miles of her journey did it rain. She climbed through a valley of shotgun-blast reds and browns and into an ocean of naked, silvercolored aspens. The road changed from pavement to gravel. One of the great rewards of long-distance running are the profound truths

“My head hurt.

My feet hurt. My legs hurt. My mind was starting to go to a dark place. ... Can I really run 500 miles?”

—Jenny LaBaw

LaBaw (foreground) on the second to last day of her 489-mile run. Her boyfriend, Marcus Brown (background, on bicycle), chronicled her journey on video.

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discovered in the end; perspective.

“Not only am I able to witness the changing of seasons in one of the most beautiful places I’ve ever been to,” LaBaw wrote, “but I’m able to do it by foot at 6 to 7 miles per hour. The details of the blackened bark from knots on trees, the pattern of protruding roots from the bank of the road, the scatter of fallen silver leaves blanketing the ground.

My appreciation for the power of nature has been magnified in the last month.”

The night before she was set to finish her run, LaBaw, friends and family camped out by a campfire. She anticipated a good night’s sleep. Hardly.

Thirty straight days of doing anything is hard. The novelty soon wore off and turned to hardship. Day 31 dawned. LaBaw stepped out of her cabin to greet the day. Cold mountain air kissed her cheeks. She took a deep gulp of the air. Exhaled. Tears followed. She stood on the porch and cast that steely gaze toward a grove of aspens that had lost the battle with Jack Frost.

“I wasn’t sure what the tears were from,” she wrote. “Happiness, pride, sadness, fear, exhaustion. Maybe a little bit of everything.”

LaBaw would run another 18.3 miles before her journey ended at the Wyoming border. Her body had been torn asunder. She had run 489 miles, burned 62,100 calories, taken 880,200 steps. She had climbed a total elevation gain of 35,000 feet and dropped 34,000 feet. LaBaw was 13 pounds lighter MOVING MOUNTAINS C O N T I N U E D

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Transformation starts when you stop ignoring pain and create healthy habits. Making intelligent and safe changes in movement patterns with awareness of alignment within your exercise regime and daily activities can increase over all well-being and health. This sets the stage for increased enjoyment in life’s activities. Helping you

build and integrate a well-rounded fitness platform that takes into consideration any special challenges and concerns is my specialty. Whether rekindling your strength or fanning your internal flames, Strong Again offers individual sessions and small group classes with attention to the individual needs and goals of each client.

Call for a free phone consultation // 530.864.7758 www.strongagainyoga.com // strongagainyoga@gmail.com 24 Years In BusIness

b. scott hood, dds orthodontics “I have been practicing orthodontics for 26 years, and love the chance to get to know my wonderful patients! I love seeing the dental changes in my patients, but also love watching the changes a beautiful smile can make in their lives!”

-Dr. B. Scott Hood Dr. B. Scott Hood has proudly served the people and families of Chico since 1992 with efficient orthodontic treatments and gentle care. His practice has a family-friendly atmosphere with the highest quality services for all ages.

Dr. Hood’s practice offers braces for children, teens and adults as well as Invisalign® clear aligners, Invisalign Teen™ and the Damon® System. Dr. Hood and his talented staff have the experience and knowledge needed to provide a truly gentle and comfortable visit, every time!

Come in and visit them for a complimentary consultation. Dr. Hood will sit with you to talk about your plans for treatment and which services best fit your needs. Contact either their Chico or Paradise orthodontic office today!

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and had lost 4.5 inches from each thigh. She had also lost a few toenails.

The thought of the finish line (a Wyoming flag that Vaughn Zellick borrowed from a neighboring rancher and tied to a tent pole) was not enough of a spark to get her across.

She was in that strange runner’s time warp that is neither past, present or future—a state of mental, physical and spiritual exhaustion when the runner’s high turns to running Purgatory. She had to go deep. She thought of all the people who had helped her along the way. That turned to introspection, back to the 8-year-old girl who was told she couldn’t do what the other kids could do because she was different.

“I thought about the embarrassment of peeing my pants in front of my friends,” she wrote. “I thought about the scary times when I was leaned over the toilet in retching attacks. I thought about the girl inside of me that is still scared to completely let go and tell the world about my epilepsy. For the first time the entire run, I decided to run for her.

It felt so good. She was being freed from the pain and the fear.”

Weary and plodding forward, LaBaw told Brown, “I want my mom and dad.”

Moments later, she heard the roar of the diesel engine. She could see her father’s red truck. It pulled up beside her. Her mother was with him. This was the first time in 22 years they had been in the same vehicle.

“That made everything worth it,” she LaBaw’s parents, Jeff LaBaw and Cathy Desautels, escort her across the finish line in Wyoming.

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“I thought about the girl inside of me that is still scared to completely let go and tell the world about my epilepsy.”

—Jenny LaBaw

wrote. “An expectation I didn’t have. Didn’t even know was possible.”

When the Wyoming flag was 50 yards away, LaBaw paused. She asked for her parents to finish with her. With dad on the left and mom on the right, they walked hand in hand beneath the archway and to the Battle Creek Bridge in Wyoming.

“I lost it. My mom and dad and I embraced and they just held me like they had so many times as a little girl,” she said.

LaBaw ended the journey by dipping her feet in the ice-cold creek water one last time.

Blood covered her toes. The toenail that had been dangling for hundreds of thousands of steps continued to dangle. She tore it off, laughing, and tossed it into the creek.

What great feat does LaBaw hope to accomplish in 2016? For starters, she wants to start a nonprofit organization to support children with epilepsy. Then, there’s another ambitious goal: “I also want to learn how to lay on the couch.” □

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Arts &Culture Antidivas founder Ruth Greenfield (center) leads the a capella group in rehearsal.

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THURS

No divas

Music ANTSY MCCLAIN & THE TRAILER PARK TROUBADORS: Listen to the sweet sounds of country, rockabilly, jazz and swing music from this Americana band. Th, 1/14, 9pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

Songs old and new get a capella treatment

Theater DETROIT: Bay Area director Paul Stout returns to Chico to pres-

her all-female a capella group, the RAntidivas.

In a culture that idolizes indiuth Greenfield has a philosophy for

vidual singers as celebrity figures, the members of her ensemble are more modest story and photo by in their approach; they Howard Hardee collaborate to make “something bigger than howardh@ newsrev iew.com what one person can do alone,” she said.

“I want to showcase the composers and The Snowball: The Antidivas will the music rather than perform The Quality of the singers—to let our Mercy as part of the voices be vehicles for Snowball on Sunday, someone else’s art.”

Jan. 17, at the Chico That’s been the misWomen’s Club.

Doors 6 p.m.; sion since Greenfield music 6:30 p.m.; formed the group with hors d’oeuvres at students at Inspire 7:30 p.m.; School of Arts and dancing 8 p.m. $10 suggested Sciences five years donation. ago, including her RSVP to myantidivas@ daughter, Lucy—who gmail.com also was part of the Chico Women’s Club school’s first fresh592 E. Third St. man class and is still a member of the ensemble. Greenfield, a music teacher at Chico Country Day School and a onetime regular in the local rock scene (see bands Uncle Rosco, Mimi Crevola), later expanded the group to include students from other schools, and then adults from the broader community.

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Greenfield favors very old music for the ensemble. The current set list includes a traditional Scottish ballad, a Bach chorale, and a couple of pieces from the Middle Ages—all of which are rearranged, including percussion and instrumental parts, using strictly vocals.

“I love to have early music in the mix,” she said over coffee in downtown Chico. “It’s musically very pure and not very densely textured. The voices can sing without a lot of vibrato or heavy embellishments.”

It’s not that Greenfield dislikes pop singers’ vocal tricks; there just isn’t room for that when nine women are singing simultaneously. “It’s very close-knit,” she explained. “The harmonies are stacked right on top of each other. So, the purity of tone is really important.”

This year, for the first time, the general public is invited to the Antidivas’ annual performance, which takes place during another of Greenfield’s creations, the Snowball (at Chico Women’s Club on Sunday, Jan. 17). Originally offered as an alternative event for students who aren’t so stoked on high school dances, the Snowball became a hit with parents and other adults, too. “Now people in their 30s come and make a date night of it, dressed in formal attire of all eras,” said Greenfield. “We’ll waltz and swing and contra dance and do The Hustle.”

In addition to music obscured by time, the Antidivas’ program, titled The Quality of Mercy, will include more rec-

ognizable tunes from The Beatles, The Police, U2 and Björk. “I’m a rock ’n’ roll sort of girl, myself,” Greenfield said.

An album version of The Quality of Mercy, recorded at Faith Lutheran Church in Chico, will be available for purchase.

Listeners likely will be struck by the age range of voices. The group is composed of Greenfield and her sister-in-law, Laura Bogart, both in their 40s; five college-age women and two high school students. Greenfield intentionally blends young and older voices both for musical effect and to encourage mentorship. “I wanted there to be more adult influence,” she said. “Not just me and the kids.”

The “kids” have to be at least 15 years old, however. That’s when the female voice “begins to mature and really take off,” Greenfield said.

Of the songs the Antidivas have recorded, Greenfield is most excited about “Mercy Street” by Peter Gabriel.

Arranging a percussion-heavy pop song with only vocals, yet still “honoring the composer,” was a challenge, but Greenfield had a creative breakthrough when she realized that the Greek translation of “Lord, have mercy,” “kýrie, eléison,” is a percussive-sounding phrase.

“So, I put that phrase to the rhythm of Peter Gabriel’s drum kit. For the bass line, the girls use the same phrase low in their register,” she said. “It comes across NLQG RI FRRO ³ Ɛ

ent Detroit, an explosively dark comedy about our uncertain economic times. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 1/30. $15-$18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

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Music EBONY IVORY CONCERT SERIES: Laurie Dana will kick off the 2016 series with Sapphire Soul and others for a night of blues, folk and swing music. F, 1/15, 6:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE Opens Friday, Jan. 15 Chico Theater Company SEE FRIDAY-SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

MEMBER SHOWCASE Chico Art Center SEE FINE ARTS

FINE ARTS DETROIT

Opens Thursday, Jan. 14 Blue Room Theatre

Art

Museums

SEE THEATRE

1078 GALLERY: Mahakala: Guardian of the Temple, new work by

CHICO AIR MUSEUM: An ongoing display highlighting local aviation

David “Dragonboy” Sutherland featuring up-cycled art pieces.

Through 1/23. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE & BREAKFAST JOINT: Altered/Altars, THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: Chico Theater Company presents the classic upbeat musical comedy. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 2/7. Opens 1/15, Su, 2pm matinees starting 1/24. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Special Events CHICO CHAPTER BASKETBALL RECEPTION: Join fellow alumni and friends of Chico State for a reception at Mom’s and then watch the men’s and women’s basketball teams take on Sonoma State in Acker Gym. Sa, 1/16, 4-6pm. $10 for reception at Mom’s, $5 for basketball game tickets. Mom’s Restaurant, 209 Salem St., (530) 898-6472, http://tinyurl.com/ phmcn4v.

DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted

by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers

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

Theater DETROIT: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

THOROUGHLY MODERN MILLIE: See Friday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Special Events 3RD SUNDAY BREAKFAST & BAKE SALE: Oroville Aerie 196, Fraternal Order of Eagles hosts a country breakfast and bake sale. Su, 1/17, 7:3011am. $6.50. Eagles Hall, 2010 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 403-0859, www.facebook.com/ events/1728596674021816.

SNOWBALL: THE QUALITY OF MERCY: At the fifth annual Snowball, the Antidivas all-female vocal group will perform everything from Medieval music to contemporary rock followed by a dance featuring traditional and modern styles.

Doors 6pm; music 6:30pm; hors d’oeuvres at 7:30pm; dancing 8pm. $10 suggested donation

(RSVP: myanitdivas@gmail.com). Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

altars and being altered, works by Sisko. Through 1/31. 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 894-2800, www.chicobeatniks.com.

Music OUTLAWS ON THE OUTSKIRTS: A free punk show on the north side of town, featuring Arek Owell, Jay Decay, Dun Bin Had, Fight Music, Nothing Left, Public Trash. Su, 1/17, 5:30pm. No cover. Shenanigan’s, 3212 Esplanade, (530) 8091088.

CHICO ART CENTER: Members Showcase, the Chico Art Center kicks off its 50th year with the annual Members Showcase group exhibition. 1/15-2/6. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Photos of local wildlife, photography exhibit by local musician John Seid. Through 1/31. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

UNDER THE STREETLAMP: Chico Performances presents Under the Streetlamp, a doo-wop group that’s appeared on PBS and covers musical territory from Motown to old-time rock ’n’ roll. Su, 1/17, 7:30pm. $10-$42. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Call for Artists BLC’S SHORT STORY CONTEST: Butte Literacy Council is accepting entries for its annual short story contest. Entries must be postmarked by March 14. See site for details. Through 3/14.

Chico Library, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.butte literacycouncil.org.

Art Reception

history. Ongoing. 165 Ryan Ave., (530) 345-6468.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Mik cupu Dy: This is Our Home, Here We Remain, presented from the perspective of the Mechoopda people, focusing on the tribe’s heritage and history and using the four seasons to delineate periods of happiness, success and tragedy. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chico museum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Grossology, an exhibit based on science teacher Sylvia Branzei’s best-selling Grossology. Explore how and why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk in this colorful exhibit with more than 20 interactive displays. 1/17-5/8. Members & children under 3: free, nonmembers: $4-$7. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in

Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Drive, (530) 877-1919.

GROSSOLOGY RECEPTION: A kick-off celebration for this new exhibit that explores how and why your body produces mushy, oozy, crusty, scaly and stinky gunk in this colorful exhibit with more than 20 interactive displays. Su, 1/17, 5pm. Members & children under 3: free, nonmembers: $4-$7. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/ gateway.

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Sign-ups begin at 8pm. Hosted by Jason Allen.

W, 9pm. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

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The human body may be one of nature’s greatest creations, but when you get down to the nuts and bolts of it, it can get pretty nasty. The Gateway Science Museum’s spring exhibit, Grossology: The Impolite Science of the Human Body, celebrates the human form, warts, fluids, smells and all. The installation uses sophisticated animatronics and other displays to show how the body works, including its baser functions. Side displays include “Tour du Nose,” “Gas Attack,” “Burp Machine” and a climbable replica of human skin. The exhibit kicks off with a party on Sunday, Jan. 17.

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

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AN EVENING WITH JOHN HAMMOND: Blues Hall of Famer John Hammond will be making a stop in Chico on his current tour. This is your chance to see this legend up close and personal in the Big Room. Tu, 1/19, 7:30pm. $22.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 3452739, www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

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The great films that skipped Chico theaters in 2015 2015 never made it into local Smovie theaters, but most of them ome of the best films I saw in

are now on DVD. The following items deserve special recogby Juan-Carlos nition and— Selznick except for The Wonders—are available for streaming via Amazon Prime as well as other online outlets.

Far From Men, a French/ Algerian adaptation of an Albert Camus short story, is about a Frenchman, a schoolteacher in a remote part of Algeria in the 1950s, who is ordered by a patrolling gendarme to escort an Arab prisoner into the town where he will be jailed.

Writer/director David Oelhoffen is faithful to the Camus original while making (with co-writer Antoine Lacomblez) apposite additions of character (a posse of angry French cattlemen, an old comrade from WWII) and incident (a visit to a bordello, a hostage situation with a band of Algerian rebels). Viggo Mortensen delivers an outstanding performance as the teacher, a conflicted man of action, whose deepest roots are both European and North African. Reda Kateb makes a strong and moving impression as the prisoner, especially when the film is evoking the stages of his mostly silent partnership with the teacher. Especially in film form, the story’s resemblances to Elmore Leonard’s twice-filmed story, Three-Ten to Yuma, become strikingly evident.

By my lights, Bone Tomahawk, a combination Western/horror film, is an overlooked gem and one of the best American films of 2015.

It’s the directorial debut of novelist/screenwriter S. Craig Zahler, and it features Kurt Russell, Richard Jenkins, Patrick Wilson and Matthew Fox as an Old West posse that ventures into uncharted territory with the aim of rescuing a kidnapped woman. The woman (Lili Simmons) is the town doctor, and the kidnappers are cannibalistic troglodytes who are both ferocious and mute. Russell is back in something like his Wyatt Earp mode in the role of the sheriff, but with a touch or two of his character in The Hateful Eight. Jenkins is superb as Chicory, the elderly deputy and sidekick, and Matthew Fox is very good as a gunfighter/ womanizer/Southern gentleman.

The horror elements emerge mainly in the very grisly encounters with the troglodytes, but the film remains primarily a darkly comical, “revisionist” Western, pungent and rough-hewn, a mashup of myth and realism that insists on the proximity of gallantry and atrocity, in legend as well as history.

In The Wonders, director Alice Rohrwacher, the younger sister of actress Alba Rohrwacher, has made another friskily impressionistic family drama and coming-ofage tale based at least in part on her own German-Italian family’s story. Here the crankily countercultural father (Sam Louwyck) is a beekeeper trying to raise a family outside the crassly commercial

boundaries of post-war Italy. Sister Alba plays the free-spirited mother, but the central figures are the two eldest children, Gelsomina (Maria Alexandra Lungu) and Marinella (Agnese Graziani), both of whom are growing into more central roles in the family. Monica Bellucci has a fine semi-satirical role as a beauty queen and reality TV star.

The first portions of About Elly are a little like an Iranian The Big Chill as couples and old friends gather for a festive seaside reunion. Much of the rest of the film, however, might seem a variation on Michelangelo Antonioni’s classic L’Avventura, as the sudden disappearance of one of the guests becomes a perplexing mystery that affects the other characters in unexpected and revealing ways. This subtle, engaging 2009 drama by Asghar Farhadi didn’t get an American release until 2015, after the success of his more recent films (A Separation, The Past).

In Timbuktu, the distinguished Mauritanian filmmaker Abderrahmane Sissako builds the tale of what happens to the lives of ordinary people living in and around the Malian city of Timbuktu during its occupation by Islamic fundamentalists. A cattle herder (Ibrahim Ahmed) and his wife (Toulou Kiki) are particularly significant, as the effects of social breakdown spread outward. The political message is clear, but not simplistic, thanks in particular to the intimate, multifaceted realism of Sissako’s approach. □

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

EBONY IVORY CONCERT SERIES: Laurie Dana will kick off the 2016 series with Sapphire Soul and others for a night of blues, folk and swing music. F, 1/15, 6:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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ANTSY MCCLAIN & THE TRAILER PARK TROUBADORS: Listen to the sweet

sounds of country, rockabilly, jazz and swing music from this Americana band. Th, 1/14, 9pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 5669476, www.cafecoda.com.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Live,

eclectic set of tunes. Th, 1/14, 6-9pm, Th, 1/28, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Cafe,

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.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON: Live music

for dining and getting together. F, 1/15,

6-9pm, F, 1/22, 6-9pm, F, 1/29, 6-9pm.

Two Twenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W. Fourth St., (530) 895-1515, twotwenty restaurant.com.

QUEEN NATION: Tribute band Queen Nation pays homage to the golden age of vintage Queen. F, 1/15, 9:30pm. $5.

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

TAINTED LOVE: Cover band will play an ’80s-themed party. F, 1/15, 9pm. $5.

Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

THREE FOR SILVER & MICHELIN EMBERS: Portland anti-Americana crew Three For Silver is joined by like-minded locals the Michelin Embers and Hallelujah Junction. F, 1/15, 9pm. $7.

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

TRIBAL SEEDS: Tribal Seeds will be headlining the 2016 Winter Reggae Land Tour. They’ll share the stage with The Skints, from London, and The Steppas, from the Hawaiian islands. F, 1/15, 8pm. $17. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

WITH OUR ARMS WIDE OPEN: The progressive art-rock band from Arizona joins locals Burial Grounds, My Lanta and Death Rattle. F, 1/15, 7-11pm. $5.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 3431973, www.facebook.com/events/ 740474059419790.

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If you close your eyes while listening to With Our Arms to the Sun, it’s easy to envision the Arizona desert the band hails from as wide open soundscapes crash into frenetic, rocky interludes, then open up again. Math rock, metal and more meld into something psychedelic and cerebral. The band plays 1078 Gallery Friday, Jan. 15, with My Lanta, Death Rattle and Burial Grounds.

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OUTLAWS ON THE OUTSKIRTS: A free punk show on the north side of town, featuring Arek Owell, Jay Decay, Dun Bin Had, Fight Music, Nothing Left, Public Trash. Su, 1/17, 5:30pm. No cover.

Shenanigan’s, 3212 Esplanade, (530) 809-1088.

UNDER THE STREETLAMP: Chico CHAD WILKINS AND SHIBUMI: Australian singer-songwriter Chad Wilkins and local music duo Shibumi will be at the Yoga Center. Sa, 1/16, 7:30pm. $15. Yoga Center of Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave., Ste. 150, (530) 342-0100.

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

Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $3.

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

ABERRANCE & ROLAND: Paradise heavymakers Aberrance stops by 1078 and performs with Roland (SF), plus locals Lazerwolf and Kattattak. Sa, 1/16, 8pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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

THE ATOMIC PUNKS: The Atomic Punks, dubbed “Best Tribute Band” by LA’s Rock City News, will be cranking out rock ballads from David Lee Roth-era Van Halen. Sa, 1/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feath erfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

STEVE COOK, JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON: Live music. Sa, 1/16, 6-9pm. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Drive, (530) 899-9250, www.winetimechico.com.

Performances presents Under the Streetlamp, a doo-wop group that’s appeared on PBS and covers musical territory from Motown to old-time rock ’n’ roll. Su, 1/17, 7:30pm. $10-$42.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperforman ces.com.

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BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

from local musicians. Tu. Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988.

AN EVENING WITH JOHN HAMMOND: Blues Hall of Famer John Hammond will be making a stop in Chico on his current tour. This is your chance to see this legend up close and personal in the Big Room. Tu, 1/19, 7:30pm. $22.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 345-2739, www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

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

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FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: The Growlers

will be performing at Feather Halls Casino for a night of blues. Bring an instrument and sign up to be a guest player, or just kick back and enjoy a smokin’ hot show! W, 1/20, 7:30pm. $5.

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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Apparently, north Chico venue Shenanigan’s is totally down with the punks. On Sunday, Jan. 17, the bar and restaurant will host Outlaws on the Outskirts, a free show with a huge bill including Arek Owell, Jay Decay, Dun Bin Had, Fight Music (pictured), Nothing Left and Public Trash.

STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE: The area’s top stand-up comics perform as well as those trying their hand at comedy for the first time. Sign-ups begin at 8pm. Hosted by Jason Allen. W, 9pm. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

WELL OKAY AND FRIENDS: The former Chico solo acoustic-rocker returns to town and is joined by fellow troubadours Jeff Coleman and Jade Hopkins.

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Western peopled by mountain men, Native Americans, fur trappers, and roaming warriors of several sorts. by Juan-Carlos Hugh Glass (Leonardo DiCaprio) Selznick is a fur-trapping adventurer who underwent the now-legendary ordeal dramatized, at length and in harsh and intimate detail, in this tumultuous action drama. Director Alejandro González Iñárritu (Birdman) deploys The Revenant DiCaprio through long-take action Starring Leonardo scenes in perilous location settings, DiCaprio, Tom Hardy and Domhnall Gleeson. with the result that the actor’s physiDirected by Alejandro cal exploits very nearly become one González Iñárritu. with those of the character.

Cinemark 14, Feather In 1823, Glass was mauled by River Cinemas and a grizzly bear during a fur-trapping Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R. expedition somewhere along the Missouri River. His companions— including Major Andrew Henry (played by Domhnall Gleeson), John Fitzgerald (Tom Hardy), and teenage Jim Bridger (Will Poulter)— judged him to be mortally wounded and, eventually, left him for dead. But he did not die. In time, he made the arduous trek all the way back to Fort Henry, the expedition’s home base.

In legend, at least, Glass crawled most or all of that distance. The film, which is based on a novel by Michael Punke, sticks with the legend on that point and veers beyond the historical record with oth-

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ers. In this telling, Glass has a Pawnee wife (Melaw Nakehk’o) and a teenage mixed-blood son named Hawk (Forrest Goodluck). The wife has been killed by a derelict soldier and the son is in danger from his father’s own comrades.

Most crucially, this version posits Fitzgerald as a treacherous and lethal rival to Glass. The desire for revenge becomes a driving force behind Glass’ epic return journey. And that movie-friendly “motivation” keeps rather forced company with the segments in which Glass seems to draw strength from the earthy, soulful wisdom that he remembers hearing in his departed wife’s utterances. (The title may refer to Glass and his apparent return from the dead, but he sees and feels her living presence often enough for us to guess that the title refers to her as well.)

DiCaprio’s tour-de-force performance is indeed very impressive, but the script’s characterization of Glass feels like a watering-down of the character implicit in his most impassioned actions. Hardy’s Fitzgerald, in turn, is portrayed mostly as a standardissue redneck villain (something that apparently has no real basis in the historical record). Still, for a few brief flashes, he seems on the verge of a more complex kind of awareness, and in those moments he almost becomes the most interesting character in the film.

At its best, The Revenant is like a widescreen, R-rated version of a really intense Jack London story (“To Build a Fire,” e.g.). The bravura single-take set pieces—Glass’ fight with the bear, Glass struggling to escape detection in the narrow gully of a mountain stream, etc.—are masterfully done.

But while it’s fearsomely meticulous with the grim and strenuous details, it’s also sloppy enough to show DiCaprio firing a single-load musket twice without reloading, or tromping around in an icy creekbed in a way that makes you wonder what Hugh Glass could possibly have done to get dry and stay warm and how the star, and the cast and the crew, actually did do it. □

Opening this week 13 Hours: The Secret Soldiers of Benghazi

Michael Bay (Armageddon, Transformers) directs this adaptation of Mitchell Zuckoff’s book Benghazi, which tells the story of the 2012 attack on the U.S. embassy in Benghazi, Libya, from the point of view of the American security team that fought to protect the compound. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Janis: Little Girl Blue

Exciting archival footage is combined with current interviews and excerpts from Janis Joplin’s personal correspondence in this documentary on the legendary 1960s rock singer. Narrated by Chan Marshall (aka Cat Power). Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

An animated feature about a polar bear named North who, along with his three lemming pals, is displaced from from his Arctic home to New York City. Starring the voices of Rob Scneider and Heather Graham.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Ride Along 2

Ice Cube and Kevin Hart are both back in this sequel that now finds the bumbling former security guard (Hart) working as a cop but still trying to win the favor of his skeptical future bro-in-law, the grizzled detective.

Hijinks and disapproving scowls aplenty.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Reopening this week In Brooklyn, Eilis Lacey (Saoirse Ronan) comes of age just in time to find herself on the horns of a remarkable dilemma. No sooner has she emigrated from Ireland to the U.S. and started a new life of her own there than she’s called back to Ireland (for the funeral of an older sister who has died young) and begins discovering an alternative “new life” where there was none before. Her dilemma is magnified by the fact of having a very attractive suitor in both places—a wildly devoted working-class Italian American named Tony (Emory Cohen) in Brooklyn and a gentlemanly middle-class lad named Jim (Domhnall Gleeson) in Ireland. But romance is just one aspect in the drama of cultural dynamics that must play out in her emerging sense of selfhood. Novelist/screenwriter Nick Hornby, has adapted Colm Tóibín’s novel and fashioned a comedy/drama that scores points as a coming-of-age tale, as a cultureclash sketch, and as a richly contextualized love story. And director John Crowley presents it all with brisk sensitivity. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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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

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The subject of The Big Short is the economic collapse of 2008, as seen from the vantage point of a handful of Wall Street misfits who foresee the collapse and are appalled and/or enraged by the official indifference to the carefully documented evidence of what will soon transpire. Using Michael Lewis’ book on the subject as their central source, writer-director Adam McKay and co-writer Charles Randolph have fashioned a serio-comic drama that serves both as gnarly social satire and as a gonzo kind of morality play. And those misfit brokers—Steve Carell, Christian Bale, Ryan Gosling, among others—are seemingly the rag-tag heroes of a semi-comic caper, but they too get their assorted moments of notso-comic reckoning. McKay and company do an effective job of presenting the specifics of subprime mortgages, the housing bubble, the delusional enthusiasm of bankers, brokers and the “clients” of both. But the real brilliance of The Big Short resides in the mixed sympathies of its main characters and in its sidelong evocations of a kind of collective insanity in the era of “too big to fail.”

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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A docudrama that revisits the events surrounding the real-life controversy involving CBS News producer Mary Mapes and anchor Dan Rather—and the accuracy of a report on George Bush’s military record that aired on 60 Minutes in the months leading up to the 2004 presidential election. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Still here Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Road Chip Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

Daddy’s Home

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Forest

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The Good Dinosaur

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Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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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. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The latest from director Todd Haynes (Far from Heaven) is adapted from the 1950s romance novel The Price of Salt and stars Rooney Mara as an aspiring photographer who gets involved in a relationship with an older woman (Cate Blanchett) who going through a divorce. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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To grow food, we need the bees

A of wild bees—crucial to agriculture for their role in crop s most people know, populations

pollination—are dropping around the country.

Meanwhile, by the demand for Alastair Bland insect-pollination services is increasing, according to a paper published this month in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

To combat this trend, which eventually could compromise the United States’ food supply, UC Davis scientists are working with farmers throughout the Central Valley to restore native plant habitats adjacent to cropland.

Their hope is that this will prompt a resurgence in numbers of wild bees, on which many farmers rely for pollination services.

Neal Williams, an associate professor of entomology at UC Davis and a co-author of the new paper, says he and colleagues have been planting native, drought-tolerant plants at 17 farm sites between Chico and Lost Hills, near Bakersfield.

The hope, he said, is to build up wild bee numbers and reduce farmers’ dependence on domesticated honeybees, populations of which have been struggling for years around the world.

Bees are a linchpin of the

world’s agricultural economy. In California, crops like blueberries, squash, apples and avocados may not bear fruit if insects do not frequent the orchards and fields during bloom time and transfer flower pollen from one plant to the next.

In the case of almonds, the need for pollination is so huge that millions of hives of domesticated honeybees—distinct from the scores of native bee species that also live in North America—are shipped in from around the country and placed in the vast orchards of the San Joaquin and Sacramento valleys during the winter bloom.

Williams says the idea of his work is not necessarily to replace domesticated honeybees with wild bees as pollinators.

“No big grower would rely exclusively on wild bee populations, since there just aren’t enough,” he said.

Having wild bees in proximity to almond groves helps farmers in several ways. For one, the insects assist directly with pollination, meaning farmers may need to rent fewer beehives.

The presence of wild bees also seems to cause honeybees to work more efficiently. Williams explains that almond orchards are often planted with two tree varieties, alternating from row to row—an arrangement critical for cross-pollination between the

varieties. However, honeybees often prefer to move along a single row of trees, since that way they remain in a continuous canopy of food and shelter, he explained.

This is a behavior pattern not favorable to farmers.

However, Williams’ research has shown that honeybees, when in the presence of foraging wild bees, tend to cross the rows of trees more frequently, increasing the efficiency of their pollination services by about 20 percent.

The sites on which Williams is working amount to just a handful of acres so far. His goal, though, is to show farmers everywhere the potential benefits of planting and maintaining bee-friendly habitat adjacent to or within their cropland.

The paper was led by scientists at the University of Vermont and mapped the widespread decline of wild bees. The research found that wild bee abundance dropped in 23 percent of the nation from 2008 to 2013. The study also observed that 39 percent of American cropland that depends on insect pollination faces a “mismatch” between increasing pollination demands and declining bee numbers.

“Our hope is that wild bees can help offset drops in honeybee numbers,” Williams said. “But if we lose the habitat wild bees need, we can’t bring them back.” □

IN THE MIX My Road Bob Margolin Steady rollin’ records Even if he never played another lick on his guitar, “Steady Rollin’” Bob Margolin has earned his place in blues history due mainly to the seven years (1973-1980) he spent with Muddy Waters before leaving to start his own band. Margolin has also won several blues awards, so given his background I was surprised by My Road.

Forgoing the blues for most of the album in favor of a pop-song format, he focuses on his trials and tribulations and his mournful (and often shaky) vocals make his stories even sadder. On “Goodnight,” a slow, bittersweet account of an ended relationship—he grieves that “goodbye” is too irrevocable. “My Whole Life” recounts the pleasures/pains of a musician—“For every note I’ve played there are 50 years of shows/2 million miles of highways and a passion that just grows.” His evocative slide guitar surfaces on “Devil’s Daughter” and Tad Walters’ harmonica livens up a few tracks, most notably on the peppy blues “Feelin’ Right Tonight,” a song that ought to satisfy his many blues fans—it pleased me!

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Released on Dec. 18 (and currently available for streaming) on Netflix, the series follows the story of Steven Avery, a Wisconsin man who, after serving 18 years in prison for crimes he didn’t commit, becomes the primary suspect in a new, more serious crime. DNA evidence exonerated Avery in the original rape/attempted murder case, which bolstered claims that he’d been railroaded by several levels of law enforcement in Manitowoc County, Wisc. Two years after his release, as he’s in the midst of filing a lawsuit that could possibly bankrupt the county, he’s arrested once again, and the filmmakers stick with him over the course of the next 10 frustrating years as his case makes its way through what appears to be a deeply flawed—and in the case of his home state, possibly corrupt—legal system.

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With a change in name comes a change in direction, as the Detroit indie-rock band formerly known as Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr. strips away the famous-racer part of its moniker and steers away from the fun pop-rock anthems of its first two albums (2011’s It’s a Corporate World and 2013’s The Speed of Things) into new, more adventurous territory. What this means on the self-titled JR JR is more soul-searching lyrics (dealing with heartbreak and insecurity in the modern world with “Break My Fall”), and an eclectic sound that goes from Beatles-like baroque pop (“Philip the Engineer”) to an experiment in merging an R&B slow jam with synths and electronic percussion (“James Dean”). It makes for a varied playlist that is a mostly sedated (the bouncy “Gone” is an exception, with a bright and insistent sound juxtaposing lyrics about relationship troubles—“I can’t be everything you want me to be/Finally, I can see the light through the leaves/But it’s all gone”), but impressive for its subtlety and variety. All in all a fantastic success.

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art don’t die In the video for his new single “Lazarus,” there are two versions of david Bowie: one dressed in white, frail and struggling in a hospital bed, face partially enshrouded in bandages; and one in black, fidgeting at a writing table and frantically racing against the clock to pour out every drop of ink in the well.

Bowie died last Sunday. He knew it was coming, and he spent his last year working on the album on which “Lazarus” appears, Blackstar—released two days before he died. And watching that video with this knowledge in mind is pretty overwhelming. I don’t feel sad, though; I feel thrilled. I mean, he knew he was dying, and he considered his life and this portion of it and made some goddamn art! It’s so courageous, beautiful and inspiring that I can hardly handle it. Bowie’s legacy as an uncompromising rock star was cemented decades ago, and this final bold creation is an exclamation point on a life committed to always bringing something new into the world and a great reminder to the rest of us to keep busy living.

Bowie’s death comes on the heels of that of another great one—Motorhead frontman and uncompromising badass Lemmy Kilminster—adding to a list of seminal musicians to leave us in recent years, including Lou Reed, Pete seeger, B.B. King and Tommy Ramone (which means all the original Ramones are dead). And it’s probably healthy to be prepared for these announcements to become even more frequent. Anyone born in 1950 or earlier is officially a senior citizen, and the majority of the rock icons of the 1960s were born before Bowie is risen. then, as were many of the greats of the 1970s.

All of the surviving Rolling stones are in their 70s. aretha Franklin is almost 73. dylan will be 75 this year. Even The Boss is 68!

Personally, I don’t feel sad at the news of the death of any artists who’ve lived full lives (or several in the case of Lemmy), and along the way contributed to a soundtrack that will be played for the rest of everyone’s lives. I feel happy that they will continue to always be a part of me through their music, and grateful for their example of how to kick ass at life. Let’s get out there and rock!

Put a desk in it As I write this, I’m getting my first listen to above the

Ground or Under, the just-released solo EP by Chico recording engineer and pop-rock genius Chris Keene (perhaps best known to many as the frontman of local band surrogate). In conjunction with the digital release (at christopherkeene.bandcamp.com), Keene and his band of local ringers—The Shimmies’ stephen Galloway (bass); Amarok/Cold Blue Mountain frontman Brandon squyres (keys); Surrogate bassist daniel Taylor (drums); and local troubadour/Armed for Apocalypse frontman Kirk Williams (guitar)—have simultaneously dropped a video featuring a desk. The live version of “deluge” was filmed inside downtown Chico’s historic Silberstein building by local videographer Michelle Camy and is being entered in NPR’s annual Tiny desk Concert

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For the week oF january 14, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): You love

autonomy. You specialize in getting the freedom and sovereignty you require.

You are naturally skilled at securing your independence from influences that might constrain your imagination and limit your self-expression. But here’s a sticking point: If you want the power to help shape group processes, you must give up some of your autonomy. In order to motivate allies to work toward shared goals, you need to practice the art of interdependence.

The next test of your ability to do this is coming right up.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Nothing

is really work unless you’d rather be doing something else.” So said Taurean writer James M. Barrie (1860-1937), who created the Peter Pan stories. Your challenge and invitation in the coming months is to increase the amount of time you spend that does not qualify as work. In fact, why don’t you see how much and how often you can indulge in outright play? There’ll be no better way to attract grace and generate good fortune.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Here’s my

proposal: Get in touch with your madness.

And don’t tell me you have no madness.

We all do. But listen: When I use the word “madness,” I don’t mean howling rage, hurtful lunacy, or out-of-control misbehavior. I’m calling on the experimental part of you that isn’t always polite and reasonable; the exuberant rebel who is attracted to wild truths rather than calming lies; the imaginative seeker who pines for adventures on the frontiers of your understanding. Now is an excellent time to tap into your inner maverick.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here’s

an excerpt from Dorianne Laux’s poem “Antilamentation”: “Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read / to the end just to find out who killed the cook. / Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark, / in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication, not / the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot … Not the nights you called god names and cursed / your mother, sunk like a dog in the living room couch, / chewing your nails and crushed by loneliness” I’m giving you a good dose of Laux’s purifying rant in the hope that it will incite you to unleash your own. The time is favorable to summon an expanded appreciation for the twists and tweaks of your past, even those that seemed torturous in the moment. Laux doesn’t regret the TV set she threw out the upstairs window or the stuck onion rings she had to sweep off the dirty restaurant floor, and I hope you will be that inclusive.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “Modesty is the

art of drawing attention to whatever it is you’re being humble about,” said Alfred E. Neuman, the fictitious absurdist whose likeness often appears on the cover of Mad magazine. I’m here to tell you, Leo, that now is an excellent time to embody this aphorism. You are in a perfect position to launch a charm offensive by being outrageously unassuming. The less you brag about yourself and the more you praise other people, the better able you will be to get exactly what you want. Being unegotistical and non-narcissistic is an excellent strategy for serving your selfish needs.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “To go wrong

in one’s own way is better than to go right in someone else’s,” says a character in Fyodor Dostoyevsky’s novel Crime and Punishment. I don’t agree with that idea 100 percent of the time. Sometimes our wrong ideas are so delusional that we’re better off getting interrupted and redirected by the wiser insights of others.

But for the near future, Virgo, I recommend Dostoyevsky’s prescription for your use. One of your key principles will be to brandish your unique perspectives. Even if they’re not entirely right and reasonable, they will lead you to what you need to learn next.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “I love kissing,” testifies singer-songwriter Sufjan

by rob brezsny Stevens. “If I could kiss all day, I would.

I can’t stop thinking about kissing. I like kissing more than sex because there’s no end to it. You can kiss forever. You can kiss yourself into oblivion. You can kiss all over the body. You can kiss yourself to sleep.”

I invite you to temporarily adopt this expansive obsession, Libra. The astrological omens suggest that you need more sweet, slippery, sensual, tender interaction than usual. Why? Because it will unleash sweet, slippery, sensual, tender emotions and sweet, slippery, sensual, tender thoughts, all of which will awaken a surge of dormant creativity. Which you also need very much.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Every-

thing has been said before,” said French author André Gide, “but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again.” I am happy to inform you that you’re about to be temporarily exempt from this cynical formulation. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be able to drive home certain points that you have been trying to make over and over again for quite a while. The people who most need to hear them will finally be able to register your meaning. (P.S. This breakthrough will generate optimal results if you don’t gloat.

Be grateful and understated.)

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Do you want more money, Sagittarius?

Are there treasures you wish you could have, but you can’t afford them? Do any exciting experiences and life-enhancing adventures remain off-limits because of limited resources? If your answer to any of these questions is yes, now would be an excellent time to formulate plans and take action to gather increased wealth. I don’t guarantee total success if you do, but I promise that your chance to make progress will be higher than usual. Cosmic tendencies are leaning in the direction of you getting richer quicker, and if you collaborate with those tendencies, financial magic could materialize.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “It’s

a terrible thing to wait until you’re ready,” proclaims actor Hugh Laurie. He goes even further: “No one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready.” His counsel is too extreme for my tastes. I believe that proper preparation is often essential. We’ve got to get educated about the challenges we want to take on.

We need to develop at least some skills to help us master our beloved goals. On the other hand, it’s impossible to ever be perfectly prepared and educated and skilled.

If you postpone your quantum leaps of faith until every contingency has been accounted for, you’ll never leap. Right now, Capricorn, Laurie’s view is good advice.

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

has transformed a part of your life that you didn’t feel ready to have transformed.

I won’t offer my condolences, though, because I’ve guessed a secret that you don’t know about yet. The mythic fact, as I see it, is that whatever you imagine you have had to let go of will ultimately come back to you in a revised and revivified form— maybe sooner than you think. Endings and beginnings are weaving their mysteries together in unforeseen ways. Be receptive to enigmatic surprises.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Good news:

Your eagerness to think big is one of your superpowers. Bad news: It’s also one of your liabilities. Although it enables you to see how everything fits together, it may cause you to overlook details about what’s undermining you. Good news: Your capacity for intense empathy is a healing balm for both others and yourself. At least potentially, it means you can be a genius of intimacy. Bad news: Your intense empathy can make you fall prey to the emotional manipulation of people with whom you empathize. Good news: Your willingness to explore darkness is what makes your intelligence so profound. Bad news: But that’s also why you have to wrestle so fiercely with fear. Good news: In the next four weeks, the positive aspects of all the above qualities will be ascendant.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as REJUVENE’ at 251 Cohasset Road Suite 240 Chico, CA 95926.

HODARI MD DERMATOLOGY INCORPORATED 251 Cohasset Road Suite 240 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KAFELE HODARI, MD, PRESIDENT Dated: December 7, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001497 Published: December 24,31, 2015, January 7,14, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EDWARDS PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 123 W 6th Street #130 Chico, CA 95928.

TINY TIM EDWARDS 670 E. 5th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TINY TIM EDWARDS Dated: December 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001543 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CENTER FOR PSYCHOTHERAPY, CHICO CHILDREN’S CENTER at 286 E 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

AN BULKENS 16 Carriage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AN BULKENS Dated: December 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001529 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LAS TAPATIAS at 1950 East 20th B209 Chico, CA 95928.

KARLA CAZARES 2270 Notre Dame Blcd Apt 3 Chico, CA 95928.

MA GUADALUPE CAZARES 2270 Notre Dame Blvd Apt 3 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: GUADALUPE CAZARES Dated: December 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001545 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DONE RIGHT HANDYMAN at 1230 Eilliott Road #10 Paradise, CA 95969.

JOSEPH MCDANIEL 1230 Eilliott Road #10 Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOE MCDANIEL Dated: December 1, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001482 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PREMIER PLUS at 426 Southgate Court Chico, CA 95928.

DENNIS THOMPSON 426 Southgate Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DENNIS THOMPSON Dated: November 18, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001432 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GRASSHOPPER EXPRESS at 7707 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

ESTEN PIEPER 7707 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ESTEN PIEPER Dated: December 21, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001541 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MID VALLEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, MID VALLEY REALTY at 2720 Cohasset Rd Ste B Chico, CA 95973.

LOUISE ELLEN JOHNSON 14445 Essex Ct Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LOUISE ELLEN JOHNSON Dated: December 22, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001550 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TOKA BRANDING, TOKA BRANDING COMPANY at 1020A West 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

AARON BURSTEN 1020A West 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON BURSTEN Dated: December 15, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001521 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO SALT COMPANY at 934 Neal Dow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

DONNA GARRISON 934 Neal Dow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DONNA GARRISON Dated: December 16, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001527 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BETTY JEAN SHOP, BETTY JEAN’S at 15 Leslie Lane Oroville, CA 95966.

JOHN RODNEY CASNER 15 Leslie Lane Oroville, CA 95966.

PAMELA LEA PAXTONCASNER 15 Leslie Lane Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: JOHN R. CASNER Dated: December 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001568 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATMENT The following person is doing business as CURE at 574 Manzanita Ave Chico, CA 95926.

SHEENA UHL 157 Cavalier Way Chico, CA

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95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHEENA UHL Dated: December 30, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001573 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLISS NAIL AND SPA 2 at 2015 Forest Avenue Suite 40 Chico, CA 95928.

MANG LEPHAM 1450 Springfield Dr Apt 178 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MANG LEPHAM Dated: December 29, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001564 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HOMEWOOD FINISHES at 4107 Keefer Rd Chico, CA 95973.

JOHN FERRELL 4107 Keefer Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN FERRELL Dated: December 8, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001501 Published: January 14,21,28, February 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SATLINK at 3198 Sspe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

SHANE MOSLEY 4107 E Encinas Ave Gilbert, CA 85234.

JACOB SPARACIO 3198 Sespe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JACOB SPARACIO Dated: December 11, 2015 FBN Number: 2015-0001508 Published: January 14,21,28, February 4, 2016

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE LAWRENCE O. SPECK aka LAWRENCE OVALEE SPECK JR. To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LAWRENCE O. SPECK aka LAWRENCE OVALEE SPECK JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ROBERT J. SPECK in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: ROBERT J. SPECK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

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however, the representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 9, 2016 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd., Ste. 10 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: PR41646 Dated: December 18, 2015 Published: January 14,21,28, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BEVERLY BRYANT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DEREK LEMONT SIZEMORE Proposed name: SIR EBYNN LEMONT BRYANT 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:

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Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPEHEN E. BENSON Dated: November 18, 2015 Case Number: 165313 Published: December 24,31, 2015, January 7,14, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RICHARD ALAN GARSKA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RICHARD ALAN GARSKA Proposed name: JACOB ALAN 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 29, 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: December 3, 2015 Case Number: 165299 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

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 Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: November 24, 2015 Case Number: 164100 Published: December 31, 2015, January 7,14,21, 2016

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

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MADELINE BAILEY CHINCHAY 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: Februrary 19, 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: December 16, 2015 Case Number: 165411 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HEIDI KIM MURPHY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HEIDI KIM MURPHY Proposed name: HEIDI KIM JOLLY 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: March 4, 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: December 24, 2015 Case Number: 165507 Published: January 7,14,21,28, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTY SEIM, JOSHUA SEALY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SAMANTHA LYNN EVANS-SEALY Proposed name: SAMANTHA LYNN SEALY 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,

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the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: February 19, 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: December 17, 2015 Case Number: 165421 Published: January 14,21,28, February 4, 2016

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Sweeter Than Wine This eighty-something-year-old lady, June, smiled at me and winked. “I have kisses sweeter than wine,” she said.

She was merely relating an opinion expressed by her late husband, Otto.

“You know that song ‘Kisses Sweeter than Wine’?

Otto always said that song told his life story.” She giggled. “He would say, ‘What could I do? You had kisses sweeter than wine!’”

I met Otto a year earlier, when he and June invited me over to talk about selling their house. I was antsy, in the middle of a frantic day. He was hunkered down in his overstuffed easy chair, in no hurry.

I didn’t have time for this.

He gestured around the room with a slow wave of his hand, showing off tarnished paneling and wrinkled carpet. “This ain’t much,” he said. “But, partner, I’m a rich man.

“Kids, grandkids, great-grandkids, and a bushel of good friends,” said Otto, smiling. Then he nailed me.

“I see you’re in a hurry, friend,” he said. “Well, sir, my time is short, too. My hope is you will find time to help us.”

This time, a year later, the house is sold. June played “Kisses Sweeter than Wine” on the turntable.

The last verse said, “I had a lotta kids, a lotta trouble and pain, but oh lord, well I would do it all again, because she had kisses sweeter than wine.”

“That’s Otto’s life in a song,” said June. “Two minutes and thirty seconds.”

Then June said, “Thanks for taking the time to help.”

“Always time for a friend,” I said.

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

Great West side location

Sits at end of Lane. Ceiling fan in living room plus fireplace with blower and gas starter. Beautiful glass door to outside.

Newer remodeled bathrooms with tile counters. Gas range in kitchen, built in microwave, tile counters and large pantry across the hall. Laundry room in hallway plus lots of built in cupboards & storage closet. Office/den with built in desk, wet bar, ceiling fan and skylight. New heat and a/c. Ceiling fan in master bedroom. Chandelier in dining room not included in sale. Seller will replace with light fixture. Newer attic installation. Dual pane windows. Newer main breaker box. Refrigerator, Washer/Dryer included. Under house storage. New deck.

listed price: $219,000 Ad#737 | Call Susan G. Thomas @ 518-8041 or Donna Cass @ 520-8156 to see!

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$348,000

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$339,900

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4785 Songbird 1221 Citrus Ave 806 Normal Ave 1217 W Sacramento Ave 355 E 10th Ave 365 E 10th Ave 433 W 8th St 2631 Chantel Way 354 Idyllwild Cir 420 W Lassen Ave 614 Brush Creek Ln

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$564,000.00 $520,000.00 $520,000.00 $518,000.00 $440,000.00 $440,000.00 $440,000.00 $387,500.00 $360,000.00 $354,000.00 $350,000.00

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2897 Cussick Ave 971 Madrone Ave 3283 Mt Whitney Ct 707 Brookwood Way 2320 Estes Rd 2126 Bar Triangle St 61 Skymountain Cir 25 La Casa Ct 1544 Laurel St 15 Marci Way 6 Carmel Pl

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$345,500.00 $345,000.00 $340,000.00 $336,000.00 $329,000.00 $325,000.00 $300,000.00 $299,000.00 $287,500.00 $270,000.00 $268,000.00

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SQ. FT. 2748 2388 1774 1699 1702 2105 1582 2023 1720 1392 1709

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open house Century 21 jeffries lydon Sun. 1-3 9508 Lott Road (X St: Oro Chico Highway) 4 Bd / 4 Ba, 2,620 Sq. Ft. $519,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227 Sat. 11-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1981 Bending Oak Way (X St: Heritage Oak) 3 Bd / 3 Ba, 1,656 Sq. Ft. $311,000 Traci Cooper 520-0227 Jeff Condon 592-6791 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

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Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 12-4 72 Artesia Drive (X St: Floral Avenue) 4 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,740 Sq. Ft. $275,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508 Alice Zeissler 518-1872 Chris Martinez 680-4404

BEAUTIFUL ONE OF A KIND HOME! 3bd +bonus, Remodeled kitchen. Crown molding.

Newer roof, windows, interior doors & flooring. Over half ac. private lot. Private hot tub. A Must See! $200,000 Amber Blood 530-570-4747.

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Asking $15,000.

Call Sue Mawer (530) 520-4094.

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Darin Wilson GREAT HOME IN DURHAM! Triple S style. Downstairs master. Open beam vaulted ceiling. Balcony. Upstairs bedrooms with Jack and Jill Bath. Detached 2 car gar/shop. $229,000.

Shelinda 530-520-3663 ad #785

Sat. 12-2 & Sun. 12-2 13 Garden Park Dr. 3bd/2ba 1,519 Sq. Ft. $308,880 Darin Wilson 530-570-2575

Sat. 11-1, 2-4 & Sun. 11-1, 2-4 1539 W. 5th Ave (X St: Pomona Ave) 2 Bd / 2 Ba, 1,123 Sq.Ft. $235,000 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Chris Martinez 680-4404 Kevin Schuller 518-9841 Michele Bridgeford 541-221-2341

GREAT WEST SIDE LOCATION! 2bd/2ba + office, 1458 sqft .36 ac.

Dual pane windows.

New heat and a/c. $219,000 Susan Thomas 530-518-8041 ad# 737

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

Hardwood floors, RV space, lovely 3 bed/2 bth, 1,584 sq ft, BIG yard! ............. $265,000 4 bed/2 bth, 1,727 sq ft, new carpet! .................................................... $295,000 Durham schools, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,948 sq ft, 1-ac, ......................................................... $305,000 Forest Ranch, 3 bed/1 bth, 1,580 sq ft, ..................................................................... $199,900 Rent to own/owc, new manufactured homes in 55 + required community styled Park $99,000-$105,000 ING3 bed/3 bth, 2,500 sq ft, 720 detached unit, shop .................................. $575,000 In town, NDacs, PE1.21 ING 2 bth, 2,308 sq ft .......................................................................... $379,900 Custom 3 ND bed/den, PE NDING View! PE 3 bed/den, 2 bth, 2,531 sq ft .............................................................................. $435,000 INGbth, 854 sq ft, 1-car garage ................................................................ $189,500 Doe Mill, bed/2 PE2ND

Durham 9508 Lott Rd in Durham 4 bed, 3 ½ bath, 1.13 acre $519,000

3/2, 1600 sq ft, new roof. $249,000 4/2 near CSUC! $329,000 3/2 move-in condition NW Chico $259,900 40ac, North Chico zoned AG/Res. $118,000 2ac building lots $57,500 Single suite office space. $265-$450 monthly 5 ac lot. Owner carry $49,000

$199,000 3217 Hwy45 in Glenn 2 bed, 1 bath, ¾ acre Chico - 1981 Bending Oak Way 3/2, 1656 sq. ft. $311,000

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of December 28, 2015 – January 1, 2016.

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

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495 E 8th Ave

Chico

$260,000.00

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SQ. FT. 1602

25 Paseo Haciendas Ct

Chico

$193,000.00

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1581 Arch Way

Chico

$260,000.00

3/ 2

1301

539 W 12th Ave

Chico

$192,500.00

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8 Webster Dr

Chico

$246,000.00

3/ 2

1229

1156 Metalmark Way

Chico

$189,000.00

3/ 2

1126

31 Via Verona Cir

Chico

$246,000.00

3/ 2

1961

1261 East Ave

Chico

$184,000.00

4/ 2

1666

1201 Whitewood Way

Chico

$245,000.00

3/ 2

1270

758 E 20th St

Chico

$177,500.00

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1069 Windsor Way

Chico

$245,000.00

4/ 2

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3228 Grand View Ave

Oroville

$201,000.00

3/ 2

1708

1511 Bidwell Dr

Chico

$232,500.00

2/ 1

1184

565 Yuba Ave

Oroville

$198,000.00

4/ 2

1584

2516 England St

Chico

$225,000.00

2/ 2

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20 Linda Dr

Oroville

$190,000.00

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1518 Sheridan Ave

Chico

$212,000.00

3/ 2

1378

2545 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$179,000.00

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1368

1876 Santa Clara Ave

Chico

$210,000.00

3/ 1

1440

196 Valley Ridge Dr

Paradise

$260,000.00

3/ 2

1566

2416 Tom Polk Ave

Chico

$200,000.00

3/ 1

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512 Valley View Dr

Paradise

$252,000.00

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