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The long view Some fixes are patchwork. Take, for instance, Chico’s Offenses Against

Waterways and Public Property ordinance, which was recently expanded by the City Council. As an effort to address homelessness in our community, it’s the equivalent of putting a Band-Aid on a gaping wound.

The best kind of fixes aim at the root of a problem. Chico Youth Court, set to launch next month, is one such effort (see Howard Hardee’s report on page 10). In what looks to be a great benefit to local young people, the youth court will allow first-time offenders to be sentenced to some form of community service by their peers and encouraged to re-engage with their schools, families and the broader community. The alternative is facing the traditional juvenile criminal justice system and having a criminal record before reaching adulthood.

Research shows that juveniles who commit crimes are likely to become adult offenders, so it’s sensible to intervene early and encourage at-risk youth to make meaningful changes in their lives. Down the road, that means fewer criminals, less burden on local law enforcement, more space in jails and more active community members. In other words, this program has the capability of being a real, long-term solution—not a Band-Aid. Furthermore, Chico Youth Court is a great example of collaboration across party lines. Founding members include Chico City Councilwoman Tami Ritter, a progressive, and Joe Montes, a Republican running for Doug LaMalfa’s seat in Congress. They don’t see eye-to-eye on many social issues, and they came together for a cause they are both passionate about.

We’d like to commend them and encourage our other local policymakers to take note. Crime, homelessness and public safety are systemic issues that need smart solutions. When it comes to addressing our community’s most pressing problems, political affiliations don’t have to get in the way. □

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fish deformities in Canada’s Chaudière River following the Lac-Mégantic Bakken crude oil spill in 2013. This catastrophic train derailment, which killed 47 people and ravaged parts of the small town in Quebec, underscores the danger of spilled toxic crude oil getting into our waterways and affecting living organisms.

I find the Canadian government’s report very distressing—even for Butte County.

That’s because, just last week, by I observed a train of 97 railcars Dave Garcia loaded with crude oil travelThe author, a ing through the Feather River longtime Oroville Canyon and downtown Oroville. resident, is the The California Public Utilities spokesman for Commission has designated this Frack-Free rail route as high risk because of Butte county. its sharp curves and steep grade; it travels next to the Feather River, which feeds into Lake Oroville, an integral part of California’s domestic water supply.

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You may have heard that 2015 was the hottest year in recorded history,

If you think that railway shipping is safe, think back to 2014. That’s the year 14 railcars derailed, falling down into the canyon and spilling their loads of grain into the Feather River. The last thing we need, especially in a time of drought, is crude oil poisoning the water of our second-largest reservoir.

In 2010, it took over $1 billion to clean up the Kalamazoo River crude oil spill. But you can never really clean up a crude oil spill in pristine freshwater, as the deformed fish from the Chaudière River reveal.

Keeping crude-oil-carrying railcars on the state’s tracks is simply not worth it. Less than 1 percent of California’s imported oil is transported by railway.

Californians receive little benefit, but bear the risks to their communities and watersheds from this practice.

Since Lac-Mégantic, there have been nine more crude oil derailments, explosions and spills into waterways. We need to learn a lesson from those catastrophes. We must convey to our politicians— local, state and federal—our priority of protecting our communities, fisheries and waterways. Let’s not let what happened in Quebec happen in Butte County. □

but what you may not have heard is that, just last week, the average temperature around the Northern Hemisphere rose to higher than 2 degrees above the “normal” mark for the first time in recorded history and probably the history of humankind.

As environmental activist Bill McKibben noted in a subsequent essay, governments have agreed that rising above 2 degrees Celsius over preindustrial temperatures (aka “normal”) would be calamitous. The internationally agreed upon do-not-break threshold, which world leaders ostensibly are working to avoid, came much sooner than scientists expected—even though the breach was short-lived.

That disastrously momentous occasion underscores the importance of mitigating the amount of greenhouse gases that are warming our world and will trigger further catastrophic environmental consequences for every living species. Think Arctic ice melts, sea-level rises and subsequent flooding, along with other extreme weather events, drought and famine, among other things.

And now consider this: Not a single one of the Republican presidential candidates wants to do anything substantive to curb global warming. In fact, the two leading GOP candidates—Donald Trump and Ted Cruz—don’t believe there’s such a thing as man-made climate change. Trump has actually said he believes climate change in general is a hoax.

Mind you, they’ve taken these positions despite findings by national security experts, including the Department of Defense, which has concluded that climate change is “a present security threat, not strictly a long-term threat.”

In short, the richest nation on Earth needs the kind of representation that will lead on this issue—the most important not only of our lifetimes, but for generations to come. Remember that this election season. □

LETTERS

After watching the first several presidential debates, both Republican and Democratic, I took a little break. It seemed redundant. But with the candidates heading further into the caucuses, I decided to check out their latest strategies and talking points—you know, the rhetoric.

On Sunday, I tuned in to CNN for the latest showdown between Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders. It was surprising to see the moderators—Anderson Cooper and even the typically underwhelming Don Lemon—ask questions about the environment, including climate change and fracking. Finally.

I have no doubt that emphasis had something to do with the debate being held in Flint, Mich., a city mired in an environmental crisis of poisoned water supplies.

When asked about hydraulic fracturing, a controversial method of natural-gas extraction, Sanders was unequivocal in his response.

“No. I do not support fracking.” His comment followed Clinton’s nuanced answer calling for certain regulations. “By the time we get through all of my conditions, I do not think there will be many places in America where fracking will continue to take place,” Clinton said.

To me, that means Clinton supports fracking. However, the former secretary of state’s position is an about-face considering that, during her time with the State Department just four years ago, she championed fracking not only in the United States but also abroad.

Speaking of turnabouts, Clinton, as Sanders put it, has “discovered religion” on another issue: trade agreements. The Vermont senator called her out for supporting “disastrous” trade deals— including NAFTA during Bill Clinton’s administration and the recent TTP under President Obama—that have led to the outsourcing of millions of U.S. jobs and the collapse of the middle class. Sanders’ opposition spans decades.

Things definitely got a bit fiery during the debate. In my eyes, Sanders’ consistency over his political career and candor on today’s issues made him the better performer. Clinton got made for what she is: a flip-flopping establishment candidate with ties to Wall Street and corporate America.

That’s why I was confused by subsequent commentary on CNN and elsewhere giving Clinton the edge. One of the first stories I read was political correspondent James Hohmann’s The Daily 202 rundown in the venerable Washington Post. It’s headlined “Five reasons Bernie Sanders lost last night’s Democratic debate.” Not only was Hohmann off base on pretty much all five, but from a quick Google search of the Post’s work on the two candidates, it also appears the newspaper has its head shoved way up Clinton’s ass.

No. 2 on Hohmann’s list was that Sanders “seemed condescending when he cut off Clinton.” Um, try replaying the debate—Clinton interrupted Sanders. If anything, Sanders is interrupting her interruptions.

In short, dear readers, trust no one—especially the pundits— when it comes to following the debates. Watch them and decide for yourselves.

In other news, I want to give a quick shout out to Toni Scott. Toni started her journalism career as an intern with CN&R in 2007, and nearly two years ago, returned to write an excellent bi-weekly business column. She’s off on new adventures these days and is saying goodbye (see page 19), but I have a feeling this isn’t the last we’ll hear from her.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

“The first step” (Cover story, by Richard Heinberg, March 3): The Chico News & Review is to be commended for publishing the fossil fuels article by Richard Heinberg.

Most significant is the warning in the last paragraph that the transition to sustainable energy use is not optional.

Nature will play the trump card.

Although the author explains various ways that use of energy derived from fossil fuels can be reduced, he leaves out the one way that is probably the most important. When it comes to use of natural resources, the average amount used per individual is significant, but the number of individuals doing the consuming is also very important. If there are more consumers, there will be more consumption, and if there are fewer consumers, there will be less overall consumption.

Census data reveal that during the last several decades at least 75 percent of the nation’s population increase has been due to immigrants and their children. Over a million immigrants now enter the country legally each year.

It is long past time our legislators reduce the number of immigrants, both legal and illegal, that enter the country. With those efforts in place, the nation could eventually achieve a more sustainable economic and environmental condition.

Paul Smith Chico

‘Walk a mile’ Re “Nowhere to go” (Newsline, by Howard Hardee, March 3): The Chico City Council’s understanding of homelessness is abstract at best; this is best reflected in the most recent nondecision regarding public restrooms while expanding various penalties. I challenge the council and other decision-makers to walk, sleep, eat and relieve themselves [without being homed] for just two nights and two days to better get in touch with the issues.

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The city of Chico has closed the bathrooms while the police write tickets to the students and homeless. All of these people have a right to sue Chico collectively (class action). I spoke with an attorney about this, and he is interested. Mr. Berg’s office is on The Esplanade, if anyone would like to contact him. All records are on file with the police department and can be pulled up anytime.

I used to love Chico, but Chico has changed. The shame falls directly on the far-right faction of our Chico City Council. Arresting people is not the answer. It costs thousands of dollars to arrest and then transport people to the county jail (housing, public attorney, court, etc). A farm where they could work a couple of hours a day for safe space is the answer.

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In her column, Melissa Daugherty stated that she was struck by “how many people had either experienced domestic violence personally or were close to someone who had.” I realize that domestic violence isn’t a one-sided issue, but considering that 80 percent to 85 percent of domestic violence victims are women, maybe it’s time we ask ourselves why.

According to a 2014 Gallup poll, 75 percent of people in this country still believe that the Bible is the “word of God.” The same God who, in the book of Genesis, allowed Lot to offer his daughters up to be gang raped by two men and later, after Lot’s wife was murdered for her disobedience, Lot had sex with his daughters to assure that they would have children, because he felt no man would have them now since they had been made “impure.”

These are just a few examples of how the “word of God” has instructed men to treat women.

Since over 75 percent of the U.S. population believes that “God” not only allowed these atrocities to occur, but also that they were divinely sanctioned by him, why would the act of abusing one’s wife or daughters, or any woman for that matter, be so unfathomable?

Sherri Quammen Paradise

Kudos commissioners Re “The big scrap” (Cover story,

by Ken Smith, Feb. 25): I want to applaud the CN&R and Ken Smith for excellent coverage of the Chico Scrap Metal (CSM) debate, and thank the City Planning Commission for its careful deliberations regarding the CSM plan for aesthetic improvements to stay across the street from Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. The Chapman-Mulberry Neighborhood Plan was developed by the community, and approved by the city and county a dozen years ago. Zoning plans serve multiple purposes, not the least of which is protecting residential neighborhoods from incompatible activities that pose health and environmental risks and nuisances (noise, smells, pollution, attracting garbage, etc).

Processing scrap metal next to families with kids, and near schools and parks in a low-income neighborhood, is wrong.

CSM is still contaminated, and capping it with concrete will not prevent further accumulation of PCBs and heavy metals as long as scrap metal is processed there.

CSM has had 12 years to find a more suitable location for scrap metal recycling, and in that time almost 20 Habitat for Humanity houses have been build right next door under the assumption CSM would move. Let’s find a solution to this problem that will allow CSM to operate in Chico where it should—in an industrial area.

Adrienne Edwards Chico

Joe continued Re “Just say ‘thank you’” (Letters,

by Bob Evans, March 3): Bob Evans says I oughta “thank” wannabe Congressman Joe Montes. Montes supports homeless

criminalization, but I should gratefully focus on his charity. There’s a term for this: suspension of disbelief. Like thanking someone for a cupcake while knowing there’s a turd baked into it.

In other news, Michael Madieros continues to prove he’s unlike any homeless advocate in America. At the March 1 City Council meeting, he went to the podium in support of expanding homeless criminalization ordinances—meaning more rousting, churning and punishing of the homeless population. According to Madieros, criminalization builds trust. Next—with stunning mendacity—Madieros returned to the podium on the homeless restroom issue and gave a rousing plea for elaborate facilities—for which the Sorensen/Morgan/Schwabtypes will never grant a permit.

But, while Madieros blew smoke, he once again refused to support Councilwoman Tami Ritter in her quest for decency: opening existing restrooms and installing portables. Ritter’s pragmatic approach is not “dignified” enough and just coincidentally—wink, wink—the downtown elite will not support the action.

Madieros gains influence as an arm of the Chico Police Department, an advocate for landlords and the go-to Enterprise-Record homeless guru. But, as a friend of street people, he’s down the toilet.

Patrick Newman Chico

Joe responds Re “Turbocharging neo-fascism” (Letters, by Patrick Newman, Feb. 11); “Backing Joe” (Letters,

by Michael Madieros, Feb. 18) and “Just say ‘thank you’” (Letters, by Bob Evans, March 3): Over the last several weeks I have been the object of both condemnation and praise. While I obviously appreciate and prefer the latter, as a veteran and former judge, I am a strong advocate of the First Amendment (and all of our Constitutional rights), and I support Mr. Newman’s right to express his opinion. I have always tried to be fair, open-minded and courteous to others, and I will be no different in this case.

In that spirit, I would ask that my opinion also be heard. I am neither a puppet nor a hired gun for my friend and mentor, Wayne

Cook, whom I call “Coach.” I am my own person, and I have always spoken with my own voice. There is perhaps no one on Earth with more experience than me saying “no” to Coach.

I would like to say this to Mr. Newman: Although I have never met you, and I know not what offense I have committed against you, I apologize. I need your help to continue working on the important issues in this community. And I would like to invite you to join me in the Chico Youth Court and Stairways programs.

Joe Montes Chico

Read the entire text Re “Enough with the religion” (Letters, by Nathan Esplanade, Feb. 25): The writer cites the Constitution and urges that its First Amendment be respected, but then asserts that “[N]o person who’s practiced a religion or otherwise demonstrated belief in a supernatural deity in the last 10 years should be allowed to hold public office.”

I would suggest this person read the entire First Amendment, which states that Congress shall make no law prohibiting the free exercise of religion. I would also suggest that he read the last sentence of Article 6, which states that “no religious test shall ever be required as a Qualification of any Office or public trust under the United States.”

The writer further calls for a written test to qualify candidates for public office based on their “knowledge, intelligence and motivation.” Could he construct such a test or even pass one?

The writer exercised his right of free speech under the First Amendment when he sent his letter. But neither he, nor anyone else, has the right to deny to others the rights that we all enjoy under the entire text of the Constitution.

I am proud that I live in a country where the exact same rights are guaranteed to atheists that are guaranteed to believers of all faiths.

Paul Cella Chico More letters online:

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Chico State graduate student Emma Clancy, 26, grew up in a household where she was given second chances, and she wants to offer the same to Chico’s troubled youth.

FOR THE KIDS

Chico-based North Valley Community Foundation recently received an anonymous $1 million donation, which the nonprofit has earmarked to help children in need.

The huge windfall provided seed money for the Chico Children’s Endowment Fund, the purpose of which is to bolster services, fund advocacy and provide access to resources for children growing up in physically or emotionally adverse conditions, according to a blog post on the organization’s website.

NVCF is encouraging community organizations aimed at helping children living in vulnerable housing situations to apply for the Youth Development Grant Program made possible by the endowment fund. Grants ranging from $2,500 to $10,000 will be awarded based on demonstrated results and project needs.

Applications can be submitted online through April 30 at www.nvcf.org.

SHELTER SPARED

The Torres Community Shelter is weathering its latest financial crisis thanks to an outpouring of donations.

In January, Brad Montgomery, director of the shelter, announced the facility had the funds to continue operating only another six to eight weeks due to delays in grant money, fewer donations than expected during the holiday season and an increased need for services.

Since then, the shelter had received more than $170,000 in donations, including $20,000 from Enloe Medical Center. Montgomery said the bulk of that came from private citizens giving whatever they could afford.

Montgomery added that the shelter, which provides housing and services for about 100 guests each night, remains chronically underfunded and dependent on ongoing community support.

NEW CHIEF AT CHICO STATE

Chico State’s next president and successor to Paul Zingg, who’s led the university since 2004 and is set to retire in June, will be Gayle Hutchinson. She’ll be the first female president in the university’s history.

Hutchinson (pictured) is currently provost and vice president of Academic Affairs at CSU Channel Islands, but she worked at Chico State for more than 20 years as a faculty member, state academic senator and dean. She won’t officially step in until July 1, but Hutchinson will visit campus within the next few weeks.

“I’m grateful to all the men and women who came before me and helped mentor me and shape my leadership skills,” she told the CN&R by phone. “I feel great responsibility because I want to be a role model for young women and men and show them leadership can come in all sorts of packages.”

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In (and out) of trouble Chico Youth Court hopes to divert juveniles from the criminal justice system

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traditional, isolation-based punishments American society hands down. Bad behavior gets children grounded, put in timeout or suspended story and from school. Crimes photo by committed by adults are Howard Hardee penalized with jail and prison sentences—true howa rd h @ n ew srev i ew. c o m ostracization from the community.

For teens, particularly, that’s not a sound approach to rehabilitation, said Clancy, who’s set to earn a master’s degree in social work from Chico State in May. “It’s really important that we give youth in our community a second chance,” she said during an interview in downtown Chico. “When they get in some kind of trouble in school or with the law, our traditional response is punitive, rather than re-engaging them in the community.”

Clancy is the only intern for a program that will take a different tack on curbing criminality: Chico Youth Court. The founding members, including progressive Chico City Councilwoman Tami Ritter and Joe Montes, a Republican candidate for Congressional District 1, believe the court will, by diverting teens from real trouble with the juvenile justice and school sys-

tems, get to the heart of long-term issues facing the community—public safety, strain on police resources, jail overcrowding and homelessness.

“The No. 1 factor determining whether someone will be incarcerated as an adult is whether they were incarcerated as a juvenile,” Ritter said by phone. “You can pretty much draw a straight line.”

“I work with homeless people, many of whom have a [criminal] record, and it usually started while they were juveniles,” Clancy added. “They were introduced to the criminal justice system pretty young.”

Chico Youth Court recently ran a few mock trials to refine the process and trained about a dozen volunteers, Ritter said. It will begin accepting referrals in April.

A little more than two years ago, when

Montes came to Chico by way of Sacramento, he was considering a campaign for City Council. Looking to establish connections, he noted that, on many issues that come before the conservativemajority council, Ritter often went against the grain by casting the lone dissenting vote, which to Montes indicated that she was “a woman of principle.” Despite their political differences—Montes is staunchly conservative—he reached out to her.

At the time, Ritter was beginning to develop an “alternative dispute-resolution center” with Lyn Harrord and Barbara Lucich, fellow founding members of Chico Youth Court, but their vision was unclear.

She invited Montes to their weekly meetings and found that they shared some common ground.

“We obviously have very different political affiliations, but we were able to talk about what we have in common, seeing where the overlap was,” Ritter said.

“There’s a lot to be learned from hearing other people’s perspectives.”

In light of 2013’s sweeping cuts to the city’s budget and the Chico Police Department’s low staffing levels, Ritter and Montes agreed on the need to conserve police resources. Both also wanted to help youth. As a teen, Montes was a serial troublemaker who benefited from the intervention of a responsible adult. Ritter, on the other hand, worked with at-risk youth during her graduate studies on restorative practices.

Ritter’s background helped shape the developing program. “The premise [of restorative practices] is that people are more cooperative, more productive and more willing to make positive change when people who are in positions of authority do things with them rather than

to them—or for them,” Ritter explained.

After studying examples in other cities, the group decided on the youth court model, in which an individual’s peers determine his or her sentence for minor delinquent offenses. They then put together an advisory board, including local experts in various fields, and became a special program of the North Valley Community Foundation. Chico Youth Court will operate out of the NVCF office on Main Street.

Here’s how it will work: First-time

offenders will be referred by police, Chico Unified School District or Butte County Juvenile Probation. An intake process involving a parent or legal guardian will lay out the program’s methods and expectations. The youth can always opt out and be referred back to the agency handling disciplinary action.

The kids will then go through a series of classes covering basic life skills, drug and sex education, how to apply for and keep jobs, financial responsibility and criminality, Ritter said. “They’re things we expect high school students to know but never really train them on.”

What comes next is decided by input from volunteer case managers as well as the people in the program. It could be a simple conference with facilitators, a discussion with peers or appearing in court. In youth court, Montes explained, the individual has already admitted wrongdoing, so the process is more like “sentencing with an explanation.” After a few trial runs, the founding members decided that the judge will sit at the table, rather than a bench, to avoid intimidation. “People may be more inclined to give their stories,” Montes said. “It’s a less threatening environment.”

The sentences will be based around community service and restorative practices, Clancy said. “We’ll help youth see the harm caused by their actions— and to assume accountability,” she said. “‘We say, ‘Yeah, what you did wasn’t the best choice, but let’s fix this and move on. Rejoin your class or rejoin your community.’”

The entire program should take about 90 days, Ritter said, but its scope won’t become apparent for much longer.

“Maybe we aren’t going to see the results of this program for a couple years, when these kids go on to lead meaningful lives and pursue opportunities they wouldn’t have otherwise had,” Ritter said. “We want to have a longterm vision, keep kids out of the juvenile justice system so we can keep adults out of the criminal justice system.” □

Murder trial begins Shedding light on events surrounding Angelica Weems’ death, life estimony in the trial of a Chico man accused of murder got emotional Tuesday T(March 8), when family members of the

defendant, Zir Weems, took the stand, some of them fighting tears while recalling interactions with their brother and his wife before her disappearance in September 2014.

Weems faces a first-degree murder charge in the death of Angelica Weems, whose remains were found along the Sacramento River weeks after she went missing.

Scant details were known of the case before it went to trial last week, but many more have unfolded thus far. As the CN&R previously reported, Angelica was 23 when she died, and a mother of four. She went missing Sept. 13 in Willows after she and her husband went for a walk, and she never returned. The next day, Weems was found with self-inflicted wounds to his arms.

An extensive law enforcement search was launched, but it was family who located Angelica’s body.

Tuesday was the fourth day of the trial, which is expected to span three weeks, and in which Deputy District Attorney Stacy Edwards hopes to prove—despite only circumstantial evidence—that Weems strangled Angelica before disposing of her body near

Ord Bend Park, a place his family frequented when he was a child.

“This is a circumstantial evidence case,” Edwards told the jury in her opening statements last week. “There is no eyewitness.

There is no smoking gun, so to speak … no confession.”

Weems’ defense attorney, Eric Ortner, challenged the jury to take each bit of testimony and piece together the chain of events and web of family relationships as best they can. He suggested that Weems’ mental health would be a factor in the case. (Weems underwent mental health screenings prior to

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Stacy Edwards presents opening arguments last Wednesday (March 2) in the trial against Zir Weems, in which he is accused of killing his wife, Angelica.

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trial and was found competent.)

The families of Weems and Angelica are, in fact, large and interwoven. As has been revealed in testimony thus far, Weems is one of 11 siblings, and two of his brothers are married to Angelica’s two sisters (she also has one brother). Angelica worked at TJ Maxx, along with her mother, Lorena Hernandez. And one of Weems’ brothers also works there. When Angelica went missing, her father-in-law, Tom Weems, was the only other adult present in his mother’s—Zir Weems’ grandmother’s—house in Willows, where the men were working to retile the kitchen floor.

That evening sometime, on Sept. 13, 2014, Weems and Angelica stepped outside to take a walk—a common occurrence, Tom testified—and Weems came back inside, saying Angelica had taken the walk alone.

“It was my impression that, because he was helping me, he came back,” said Tom, an older man with long, dark hair and long, white beard. But Angelica never returned, and when Tom awoke the next morning, his son also was nowhere to be found. Sunday evening, a neighbor called for medical assistance; and Weems was found bleeding on the ground outside a large shop building at the back of his grandmother’s property. He had wounds on both arms, explained Sgt. Troy NEWSLINES c o n t i n u e d March 10, 2016

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McIntyre of the Willows Police Department, the first to arrive on the scene. A large window on the side of the shop appeared to have been broken from the inside.

Law enforcement witnesses including McIntyre were the first to testify, describing arriving at Weems’ grandmother’s property, finding him with chunks of skin removed from his arms and large pools of blood inside the shop. The first they learned of Angelica’s disappearance, they said, was upon the arrival of her mother at the scene.

About 10 days into the investigation of Angelica’s disappearance, one of Weems’ brothers called McIntyre and suggested he concentrate the search on the Ord Bend Park area.

“He said when they were younger the family used to go to that park and it was significant while they were growing up,” McIntyre testified. Though he and another officer searched the park, they found nothing. On Oct. 5, the family searched a sandy beach area along the river—about half a mile from the park where McIntyre looked previously—and found a body that turned out to be Angelica’s. Nearby, hanging from a tree branch, was a Dr. Pepper can. Based on several witnesses’ testimony, Weems’ favorite soft drink is Dr. Pepper or generic forms thereof.

On Friday (March 4), testimony shifted from those involved in the investigation of Angelica’s disappearance and death, the cause of which was asphyxiation due to manual strangulation, to those who knew Angelica. Numerous co-workers and managers at TJ Maxx testified to seeing her arrive at work with injuries on her body, including black eyes and handprint-looking bruises around her neck and arms. Four of Weems’ siblings took the stand Tuesday and described a background of physical abuse in the family and anecdotes depicting Weems as controlling over Angelica.

“She looked to him for when to talk and interact,” one sister said. “She was scared when he was in the room, and she’d be crying when he left.”

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On to the voters Protested pot ordinances bound for June’s primary ballot

Butte County Board of struggled to mainTtainheSupervisors control during the public com-

ment period at its regular meeting Tuesday (March 8), directing speakers to stick to the topic of two specific medical marijuana cultivation ordinances and making repeated pleas for civility from rambunctious audience members on both sides of the issue.

The meeting teetered on the edge of chaos as soon as the discussion started and reached its peak about halfway through roughly two hours of public commentary, as speaker JR Thiara used his turn at the podium to sermonize for medical marijuana long past his allotted two minutes.

“And God said, ‘Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the Earth, and every tree, in which is the fruit of a tree yielding ...’” Thiara said, making it through several verses of Genesis

as a medi-pot opponent in the audience started shouting, “[The Bible] says don’t get drunk, too … it says don’t get high!”

Proponents shared stories of how medical marijuana saved their lives, while anti-pot speakers described how their neighborhoods were ruined by the smell of pot.

Many expressed their support or disdain for Measure A, the medical marijuana cultivation ordinance adopted by Butte County voters in November 2014. But as board Chairman Bill Connelly said several times, the only issues up for discussion were two ordinances adopted by the board in January and protested by petition in February.

Ordinance No. 4106 changed the county’s Right to Farm ordinance to specify that medical marijuana cultivation is not an agricultural operation, and therefore not subject to the same rules that govern other farming ventures. New

state regulations classify medical marijuana as an agricultural commodity, and the ordinance was aimed at reducing future legal challenges if existing ag regulations do not line up with Measure A rules.

The second ordinance, No. 4107, amended Measure A to streamline the enforcement process, doing away with citations to base fines solely on 72-hour notices given to those believed to be out of compliance with cultivation rules.

Both ordinances were passed at the supervisors’ meeting Jan. 12 and adopted Jan. 26. They would have taken effect Feb. 25, but a group called the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association spearheaded an effort to collect more than 12,000 signatures protesting their adoption. Butte County Clerk-Recorder Candace Grubbs certified the petitions were valid at Tuesday’s meeting.

The supervisors had two options Tuesday—repeal the ordinances outright or put them to the voters. They further had to decide whether to add the ordinances to the next scheduled election (the June 7 primary) or hold a special election. They eventually voted 4-1 (with Supervisor Doug Teeter dissenting) to let voters decide about

the Right to Farm amendment, and unanimously to let the public decide on the Measure A amendment. Both ordinances will be on the primary ballot.

Paul Hahn, chief administrative officer for the county, said that since the primary ballot is already filled with local issues including an anti-fracking ordinance, the cost of adding the two measures would be minor, amounting to a few thousand dollars at most.

Jessica MacKenzie, director of the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association, said she was mostly happy with the outcome: “I think there was movement made on both sides and we had some good dialogue,” she said, acknowledging things got rowdy but noting her group helped keep the conversation mostly cordial.

“I’m disappointed they didn’t repeal 4106, because it’s completely unnecessary … and that they didn’t look at the totality of enforcement when discussing 4107, because complaints have been filed and abuses have been noted,” she said. “But June is just around the corner.”

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HEALTHLINES Kelli and Kevin Cotter, owners of New Earth Market in Yuba City, are opening a second location in Chico this spring. The store is still under construction.

the dots between what they put into their bodies and how it affects them.”

Dylan Tellesen, CNF’s marketing manager, agrees. “When we opened in the ’70s, this kind of lifestyle was considered alternative,” he said of eating fresh and organic food. “Then it became aspirational, and now it’s more mainstream. Everyone wants access to it.”

Today, Chicoans have more health food

choices than ever before. Nearly all major conventional grocery stores have a health, wellness or organics section. But the word “healthy” has become quite a broad term, and so have others. Tellesen warns that marketing can be misleading to customers.

He offered an example: “Take the term ‘local.’ There’s a health benefit to shopping local, and it’s good for the environment and economy, too. But the word doesn’t have a strict definition. What does it mean?

What relationship do you have with local producers?”

With such vague terminology thrown around, having some parameters is important. For New Earth Market, that means having a list of more than 100 banned ingredients that simply aren’t allowed on shelves, including various artificial sweeteners, such as aspartame and maltitol, and food preservatives like sorbic acid.

CNF uses purchasing guidelines to prevent certain ingredients like MSG. And

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ing a natural foods store in Yuba City, W Kevin Cotter tells a specific story.

hen explaining his motivation behind open-

“When my daughter was younger, she had an asthmatic cough that lasted 24 hours a day, seven days a week,” he said. “First she was prescribed Singulair, then we moved on to a steroid, but I thought, ‘We can’t give this 4-year-old a steroid the rest of her life.’

So we found a homeopathic doctor, and it was the weirdest thing. He just looked at her and said, ‘I think I know what’s wrong; take dairy out of her diet.’

“We did that, and her asthma went away,” he recalled. “She’s been off meds for 13 years.”

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That experience was the catalyst for major changes in Cotter’s own life—namely, a new diet and a complete career shift.

Formerly in the trucking business, Cotter says he used to be a “fast food junkie— overweight and unhealthy.” After seeing the effects of eliminating dairy from his daughter’s diet, though, he began thinking differently about the food he put into his body. He quit his job and opened New Earth Market, a full-service natural foods grocery store in Yuba City, under the mentorship of John Swann, owner of Greenlife Grocery in Asheville, N.C. “He educated us on what should and shouldn’t be in the store, and we’ve modeled our business off theirs,” Cotter said.

This spring, he and his wife, Kelli, are opening a second location in Chico, on East

Avenue next to Walgreens. But Chico’s already home to two other health-conscious and locally owned grocers—S&S Organic Produce and Natural Foods and Chico Natural Foods Co-op—which raises the question: Is the market for health food in Chico strong enough to support all three businesses?

The short answer is yes. “Competition is a good thing,” said John Campbell, manager of CNF. And Rich Stewart, co-founder of S&S, adds, “The population of Chico can handle another business like this.”

The consensus is that the growing popularity of health products and stores reflects a simple, positive change in the community: a desire to eat and live better. “We’re seeing a shift in awareness relating to health,” Cotter said. “I think people are starting to connect

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Unlike the other two, S&S operates a full-service butcher shop, offering an extensive selection of meats from California, all without hormones or antibiotics.

All in all, each store has its place.

“We welcome more people like us,” Stewart said.

“It’s more about complementing than competing,” echoed Cotter, adding that he’s just happy to see the growing interest in health food. “It’s hard to tell someone how good it feels. ... But, man, when you eat well and you have that energy and you’re alive, oh, it’s off the charts!” □

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when receiving products containing any one of the eight crops most likely to be genetically modified, the store requires the farmer or distributor to prove it’s non-GMO. For Cotter, research on the industry is continual. “I’m always educating myself,” he said.

“Before going into the business, I knew about some of the health [dangers], like preservatives, but there are so many hidden terms.”

While S&S, CNF and New Earth Market are arguably competitors, each store has its own niche. Cotter is excited to share his store’s extensive food-service program. “We’ll have 40 to 50 salads prepped, and a hot food bar and sandwiches and sushi.” New Earth Market also has just been registered for a 5-acre organic farm next to its Yuba City location, which Cotter hopes will supply both stores with fruits and vegetables starting next spring.

For CNF, the “local” element has always been a fundamental part of the business’ ethos. “Most of our local ingredients and foods come from within 50 miles of the source,” Tellesen said. “We’ve done an incredible amount of work to make it a real business practice.”

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GREEN Jules Pescon creates tinctures and salves in her kitchen/lab in Paradise.

Nature’s pharmacist North State herbalist takes to the great outdoors to harvest her medicines

erties around Paradise, Chico and Feather Falls, educating land owners about the offerings around their homes. “People want to know what kind of plants are on their property and how they can use them. I’ve also studied with the Shoshone Indians, so I know the traditional uses of these plants.”

Thanks to the abundance of available land around the North State, she’s able to harvest plants exclusively within a 60-mile radius of Chico and Paradise.

When asked about native Butte County plants that can be used for medicinal remedies, Pescon says the list is endless, but she offered a few favorites. “We harvest elderberries a lot; we use the flower as a soothing element in salves, and we harvest the berry, which is a strong immune-system booster.

We’re also working with local plants that help fight Lyme disease, like the teasel root and the Japanese knot weed. And with spring approaching, there are a lot of plants to look forward to!” □

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Pescon was fighting a battle against breast Icancer.

While she’d had the lump surgin 2009, while living in McCall, Idaho, Jules

cally removed, she was hesitant to continue treatment with radiation and chemotherapy, aware of the tolls they took on the body.

She explained the dilemma to her neighbor, who offered her what turned out to be a very valuable, life-changing piece of advice. “If I were you, I’d march right over to Darcy Williamson’s house,” she said. Williamson, who lived just across the ridge, was a master herbalist in McCall who was sustainably harvesting and processing plants into medicinal alternatives to Western medicine.

“I set up an appointment with her and never left,” joked Pescon, who spent the next six years apprenticing under Williamson, foraging for plants in the Salmon River Valley while learning how to incorporate the medicines into her own recovery process.

“They [the plants] helped save my life and now I advocate for them.”

For Pescon, advocating for the plants meant bringing what she’d learned to a new area. Having grown up around Chico and Paradise, she made frequent trips back to Butte County from Idaho, and quickly discovered there was a need for more access to herbal wellness information and products.

“Nobody knew anything about it, and I told Darcy I needed to stay here [in Butte County].” For the last two years, she’s been sharing her medicinal plant teachings in the North State. Pescon recently set up her shop, Fiona’s Forest, in Paradise, and she also operates a stand on Saturdays at the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market, where she sells a variety of natural beauty and health

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products, including soaps, body creams, tinctures, hydrosols and salves.

Made primarily from a combination of plants that she’s harvested together with other local products, Pescon takes pride in using “only ingredients that you can pronounce” in her goods, with her beauty products made mostly using coconut and almond oils.

Perhaps one of the most unique aspects of her mission is “wildcrafting,” or going out and searching for essential ingredients to then harvest into medicines. Every Sunday she invites anyone who’s interested to come forage with her in nature, where she looks for native plants that can be processed into useful health products. That process takes part in Pescon’s kitchen/lab, which plays host to a bevy of jars, distillers and other containers full of plant parts awaiting transformation into new forms, from healing

Join the hunt:

For those interested in harvesting sessions with Jules Pescon, stop by Fiona’s Forest (5390 Skyway road, Paradise) on Sundays at 10 a.m., or visit www.fionas forest.com for more information.

salves to hydrosol liquids.

She explains one of her favorite projects: making tinctures, or highly concentrated medicinal liquids. “A tincture is a plant material and you put it in a food-grade container, and cover it with alcohol, which dehydrates the plants so that all the constituents are left in the alcohol. You only need half a teaspoon, twice a day.” She offered a sip of a particularly strong tincture to this reporter. “These are made of cleavers; they grow down in the valley. They’re a strong immune-system booster, and they’re a lymphatic cleanse. It’s a triple tincture, so it’s very strong; in the spring, I harvest them before they flower in the valley, and then I’ll harvest at a higher elevation about six weeks later and then another six weeks later.”

While harvesting the plants, she makes sure to follow sustainable practices. “We just go out and harvest things that are growing in their natural environment. If things are growing in a patch, we take only an eighth of the patch, and if we’re taking leaves, we’ll only take the tip, so the plant can still thrive.”

Thanks to word of mouth, she’s been able to find and forage from several private prop-

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High-tech art Watercolor and graphic design aren’t obvious art mediums to mix, but for Katie Curry, they’re the foundation of her new creative design company, Honey Brush Design. Curry has been a lifelong artist and majored in graphic design at Chico State, where she learned how to combine tangible art prints with computerized graphics. With support from her husband and family, Curry opened an Etsy store in January and has since been designing artwork nonstop, creating unique prints of nature scenes, flowers and inspirational quotations. She also does wedding artwork, including personalized invitations and watercolor prints of bridal bouquets and offers online wedding invitation templates. Follow Honey Brush Design on Facebook or visit Curry’s Etsy site at www.etsy.com/ shop/HoneyBrushDesign.

Where do you find your inspiration?

In nature, mostly. Natural elements are so fun, because there is so much. I love being outside—there is always something new to see or even seeing something old in a new way. I also do most of my work at home, and I have a great view from my window.

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Why did you start Honey Brush Design?

When I was younger, I wanted to take all the art classes in college.

Instead, I decided to become a graphic design major, and I learned a lot more about modern art concepts and ways to create. Then, I wanted to design my own wedding invitations. I was able to paint the watercolor, scan them, and upload them into InDesign on the computer. I realized that I loved it and that I wanted to do it for work. I’ve had really good success so far, thanks to Etsy and word of mouth.

What are you currently working on?

I just finished teaching a watercolor class for children. It was really fun. I had to teach myself what I know so I would be able to teach

them. I’m also teaching myself calligraphy for word art, and that way I can add more elements to my digital prints. I’m creating more templates for invitations, finding fonts, and always painting more things. I also have a funny desire to paint a cotton plant with watercolor. I think it would be really difficult to capture, and I want to challenge myself.

Where do you hope to go from here?

I want to get heavily involved with the wedding industry. Making invitations is a good way to start, but I think I could give a lot of creative contributions to someone’s wedding, and I want to go in that direction.

—WHITNEY GARCIA

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Almost two years ago, the Chico News & Review presented me with the opportunity to write about our local business community through a new column. I jumped at the opportunity, and figured it wouldn’t be much different from the reporting side of journalism. I was accustomed to having my name in print and my work out in public and thought an opinion column would be a similar experience.

Really, it was, with one major exception—my picture appeared next to what I wrote. I hated it. Yes, it’s probably because I’m vain and not remotely photogenic (I’m always the one ruining group photos with my eyes bugging out to epic proportions), but it was also a bit creepy seeing my face in a publication that tens of thousands people read each week.

I thought about that last month when CN&R Editor Melissa Daugherty and I discussed ending my time writing this column. In January, I became a business owner and the chair of the Chico Chamber of Commerce. It’s just not feasible for The Bottom Line to continue to be written by me with those duties.

“No more printed picture!” was my first thought, with a sigh of relief.

A few days later, my husband and I popped into Zucchini & Vine, and as we were checking out, I saw my column about their Christmas olive oil hanging behind the counter. It was then that I realized how special it has been to have my photo next to my words, my face connected to the success and struggles of our local business owners. My column gave me the opportunity to be more than just a byline—to transcend beyond the black and white text and show the human connection to commerce.

My face got to be at the forefront of some big changes in our community—the shuttering of Woof and Poof, the downtown opening of Wild Ink Press, the closure of The Graduate, the final chapter for Lyon Books, the arrival of Forcella, the end of Marie Callendar’s. It also let readers see the personal side of my life. My wedding day and the passing of my grandmother took place a few months into writing this column, and I had the chance to share those experiences here.

Maybe in the future my photo will accompany a new column in CN&R. Hopefully, it will be ridiculously flattering. But for now, I’m honored and thankful to have been welcomed, name, face and all, into these pages that our community reads and into the lives of our local business owners.

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few Sundays ago, a round 6 p.m., officers from the C hico Police Department respon ded to Enloe Medic al Center, where a co llege student had b een admitted with a gun shot wound to the hand. Apparently, w hat happened was, while showing his .4 0 caliber semi-automatic handgun to a friend in his fratern ity house, Alpha Gamm a Rho, it accidentall y went off.

“Fortunately, he did n’t hit someone els e or hurt himself any worse than he did,” said Chico PD Lt. R ob Merrifield.

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is an agricultureAlpha Gamma Rho, or AGR, liat affi ed with the centered fraternity that is not while it is made is, ns university. What that mea close ties with the has , ents stud te up of Chico Sta se is on Ivy Street hou College of Agriculture and its no oversight has R AG , area in the south-campus arding drinking in the from Chico State. So, rules reg ing—which all affilihaz house, minimum GPAs and must abide by or else ated fraternities and sororities risk sanctions—do not apply.

Greek houses in AGR is one of six unaffiliated have national chapters town. Three, including AGR, The other three— and therefore some oversight. and Delta Psi Delta (a ta The ma Alpha Chi, Tau Gam ectively)—are 100 sorority and two fraternities, resp to no one, accordwer ans percent local and therefore d of Fraternity and ing to Malcolm McLemore, hea te. co Sta Sorority Affairs (FSA) at Chi sen to live by the cho e hav “Our organizations put policies and We . sity ver uni standards of the safe and help the ents standards in place to keep stud beneficial way,” a in ard forw ve organizations to mo w. “Not all of them he said during a recent intervie some have chosen and s, want to live by those rule because of that. For sity ver uni the of not to be a part ations are allowed to example, none of our organiz some, that’s a stickFor se. drink alcohol in the hou ing point.” to disaffiliate rathTwo unaffiliated houses chose them. The first, inst aga ns ctio er than carry out san 3 201 for brewing alcoSigma Chi, was suspended in ta Chi, was found The , ond hol in the house. The sec s, regarding alcohol, in violation of several policie McLemore said. programming and recruitment, house is a big part a ing join , For many students s and sororities offer of going to college. Fraternitie to socialize and es seemingly endless opportuniti

network, in addition to offering housing and meals. Beyond all the visible benefits, though, students in affiliated houses—there are 24 at Chico State, representing 1,600 students—have the support and resources of the university. Only affiliated houses can set up booths at certain events and participate in formal rush festivities.

And, had AGR been affiliated, for example, Toomire would have answered to—but not necessarily faced punishment by—the Interfraternity Council, the FSA or both.

Visually, it’s nearly impossible to tell the difference between an affiliated and unaffiliated Greek house. After all, they display their letters proudly.

Sam Franzoia, a senior and a member of the Alpha Sigma Phi fraternity, says he is proud to be part of an affiliated house and that he appreciates the rules set forth by the university.

“You’re going to have to follow rules and be held accountable anywhere in life, especially after college,” Franzoia said. “I’m glad we try to abide by all the rules they set forth.”

In addition to his fraternity membership—he is also past president of his house—Franzoia serves as a paraprofessional for the Interfraternity Council. In that capacity, he acts as a liaison between the fraternities and the university. And, despite what Hollywood might lead us to believe, joining a sorority or fraternity isn’t just about climbing the social ladder and working on one’s alcohol tolerance.

“Every year we put on a new-member orientation, where we explain the standards for Greek life at Chico State,” Franzoia explained. “Essentially, we try to get the point across that if you’re here for the party, you might want to look somewhere else.

Because it is about more than just the party—it’s leadership, school, graduation and getting all you can out of your college experience.”

Many of Chico State’s regulations

regarding the recognition of fraternities and sororities stem from the Feb. 2, 2005, hazing death of 21-year-old student Matthew Carrington.

At the time, he was pledging the unaffiliated Chi Tau fraternity and undergoing a ritual in which he and his fellow pledges were forced to drink large quantities of water and do calisthenics.

Carrington’s brain swelled due to water intoxication and he died.

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The following year, Chico State re-e valuated its policies regarding fraternities and sororities, particularly in the areas of hazing and alcohol. “We’re coming up on the 10-year mark,” McLemore said. “Currently, we’re look ing at a process of looking over our policies again.”

Overall, however, McLemore says he’s seen positive change over the past decade.

He was initiated into Kappa Alpha Psi the sam e semester Carrington died. That had a profound effect on him and other Greeks at the time, he said.

“A lot of responsibility was put on us.

At the same time, a lot of us came out of that situation really great Greek leaders,” he said. “We had our fun—but it was responsible recklessn ess.”

But while momentum seems to be posi tive on the whole, Chico State’s fraternities and sororities have attracted negative attention sinc e 2006. Both McLemore and Franzoia look to 2012 as a black eye on the system. That year, after the alcoholrelated death of 21-year-old Mason Sum nicht, who was rushing the Sigma Pi fraternity , Chico State President Paul Zingg decided to bring down the hammer on the Greek system and suspend every single house. At the time, 10 out of 26 rec-

to have to “You’re going d be held n follow rules a ywhere n a accountable lly after in life, especia college.” erfraternity Council paraprofessional —Sam Franzoia, Int

ognized houses were tied up in Student Judicial Affairs for violating alcohol and hazing policies.

Following Sumnicht’s death—and the alcohol- or drug-related deaths of three other college students in Chico that year—the university tasked each organization with submitting a selfevaluation and completing a Safe Place Violence Prevention Education program, both requirements for reinstatement. Administration also put into place new guidelines for parties, as well as clear sanctions for violations. Today, according to Chico State spokesman Joe Wills, one chapter, fraternity Gamma Zeta Alpha, is suspended for hazing violations dating back to 2014. That suspension is schedule to end next year.

More recently, the Chico Police Department, which is responsible for answering calls to nonuniversity-owned properties (including unafilliated Greek houses) in the south-campus area, has successfully championed several anti-partying ordinances, including one banning indoor furniture on front porches and another banning “unruly gatherings.” Just this year, Chico PD and the University Police Department came together to form a new memorandum of understanding, which calls for the UPD to respond to more student calls at nearby off-campus residences.

“I would have to say that, generally, we don’t respond to any more calls at unrecognized fraternities than we do at some of the places that happen to be just big party houses,” Merrifield said.

Drew Calandrella, vice president of Student Affairs at Chico State, agrees. “I think it is fair to say that some, though not all, of the unaffiliated houses, continue to host large parties that offer large amounts of alcohol to underaged students and community members and these parties sometimes get out of control,” he wrote in an email. “But so do other houses that just house students from Chico and Butte College.”

Speaking of AGR in particular, Merrifield said that Chico PD hasn’t received an undue number of calls to that house. He also hasn’t seen many incidents involving guns in student housing. The gun that Toomire shot himself with was legally registered to him, he confirmed.

Toomire declined to comment on the incident.

“I’m sure there are hundreds of firearms in the south-campus area that people aren’t hurting each other with,” Merrifield said.

The university has no policy regarding students owning firearms and keeping them in off-campus housing, Calandrella said. Many fraMalcolm McLemore oversees the office of Fraternity and Sorority Affairs at Chico State.

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ternities and sororities, however, Sam Franzoia is a Chico State senior and member of Alpha do have house rules prohibiting such items, according to Franzoia. Sigma Phi who says he appreciates the relationship his He pointed to liability insurance, affiliated fraternity has with the which each resident of most, if university. not all, houses—at least those affiliated with national organizations—help pay for in the form of dues.

An email seeking comment from the Pacific region representative of AGR was not returned by press time. It is therefore unclear if students living in Chico’s AGR house—which, according to its website, is recognized by the national organization—pay for liability insurance.

Chico State has long held a reputation for

being a party school. But university administrators—and even some students—have been combating that image in earnest over the past decade. That’s involved cracking down on alcohol and hazing at fraternities and sororities, as well as working with the university and city police departments to stymie the drinking culture.

“I believe that the campus has moved quite nicely from the tired old ‘party school’ image, though some folks locally and many alumni help to [perpetuate] the image, mostly waxing nostalgically about their ‘good old college days,’” Calandrella said.

Carrington’s mother, Debbie Smith, has maintained a relationship with Chico State even after the death of her son at a rogue fraternity house. She feels strongly that the university has done a good job of implementing policies to eliminate hazing, her main concern. In the past 10 years, she’s worked tirelessly on behalf of other parents and young people—speaking publicly, backing legislation and creating a nonprofit combating hazing—determined to see that what happened to 22

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Carrington doesn’t happen to anybody else.

“Chico did not kill Matt; ignorance killed Matt,” Smith said during a recent phone interview. “We don’t want these things to keep happening.”

In September 2006, California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed Matt’s Law, which turned death or serious injury due to a hazing ritual into a penal code felony, rather than a misdemeanor under the education code.

Four of Carrington’s fraternity brothers pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter for his death.

Carrington’s fraternity, the nowdefunct Chi Tau, was unaffiliated with Chico State when he was a pledge.

Smith didn’t know that, nor did she realize the difference it could have made.

“Before Matt’s Law, you had to be affiliated with the school,” Smith said about facing even a misdemeanor charge related to hazing. “Now, if a group were to do something hazingwise, whether it’s a fraternity or just a little made-up house, a sports team or whatever, they can still be held accountable.”

She maintains, however, the importance of being proactive as a parent in finding out what kids are getting into at school.

“Ask the questions; push the envelope a little,” she said. “The more aware we can be of the situation, the more open conversations we can have with our kids. That’s what makes the difference.”

Franzoia echoed her sentiments,

“I think it is fair to say that some, though not all, of the unaffiliated houses, continue to host large parties that offer large amounts of alcohol to underaged students and community members and these parties sometimes get out of control. But so do other houses that just house students from Chico and Butte College.”

—drew calandrella, vice president of Student affairs

saying he sees value in orientations and educational outreach when it comes to rules for fraternities and sororities.

Of course, members of houses that are unaffiliated with the school are not required to attend those orientations.

“With any organization or group without oversight, you’re kind of without boundaries and borders, so the possibilities are there,” McLemore said.

“If you have alumni and advisers, the closest might be in Sacramento or the Bay Area. So, there’s no supervision to help them out.”

Generally speaking, much of the university’s oversight comes down to self-regulation. In order for McLemore to know that a house is violating drinking or hazing policies, for example, a student would have to tell him about it.

This practice came under fire in 2012, The Alpha Gamma Rho house, where a student recently shot himself in the hand accidentally, chose to not affiliate with the university several years ago.

when so many of the Greek organizations were in violation of one policy or another. However, McLemore said he believes it does work.

“I will get a call that this organization is doing this,” he said. “If they are recognized, I can go directly to them and have conversations with them, their nationals and alums to rectify the problem. If they’re unrecognized, it gets to a point where police have to deal with it.”

For Smith’s part, she’s hoping to soon start a Chico State chapter of her new nonprofit, the Anti Hazing Awareness Movement, aka AHA Movement. The goal is to build a network of peer mentors and ambassadors who are trained to deal with hazing and other issues students routinely deal with. Basically, she said, they’re “people you can talk to.”

“I think to change the culture of basically a whole city is about evolution, not revolution. It just takes time,” McLemore said. Ω

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provide a live score to the German silent film Nosferatu (1922), the first vampire movie. Two showings. Th, 3/10, 6 & 8:30pm. $10.

Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageant chico.com.

An old theme emerges in a new batch of VOD and streaming films n Theeb, a young boy and his older

in a deadly ambush. In A Perfect Day, a couple of rowdy Americanos swagger by around in a desert war Juan-Carlos Selznick zone; turns out they’re trying to help refugees and other victims of war. In The Wind Journeys, a solitary youth intently follows an old musician on a burro around, from one “duel” to another, in the radiant countryside.

It sounds as though these films— releases that bypassed local theaters but have recently become available via video-on-demand, or Netflix and/or DVD—might be Westerns, and the same could be said of a couple of other noteworthy but somewhat marginalized new releases, The Treasure, from Romania, and the L.A.-based Mojave.

But while only the latter is actually an American production and none of them is a Western in any strict sense of the term, all five have intriguing and even crucial links to Western movies (mythic journeys, harsh landscapes, deadly conflict, etc.).

As such, they might also be seen as further developments in the fitfully flourishing mini-trend of “revisionist” Westerns and of “Westerns by other means.” For me, at least, that terminol-

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ogy is an umbrella under which there’s room for Django Unchained, The Revenant, The Hateful Eight, Slow West and Bone Tomahawk, as well as other recent examples such as Timbuktu (from Mali), Jauja (from Argentina), Far From Men (Algeria), Deadwood and Justified on television, and noirish rural crime stories like Blue Ruin and Ain’t Them Bodies Saints.

The canyon ambush in Theeb, an Oscar nominee for best foreign film, takes place in World War I-era Jordan.

The title character is the younger of the two brothers, and his post-ambush journey through assorted hostile territories is a trial by fire for him and a riveting adventure story for us viewers. Director Naji Abu Nowar makes brilliant use of Jordanian desert landscapes and gets excellent performances from a cast of Bedouin nonprofessionals. And there’s nothing silly or childish about the climactic choices of young Theeb (“wolf”).

A Perfect Day is a Spanish production filmed in English by director Fernando León de Aranoa. The setting is Bosnia in 1995 and the Americanos mentioned above are humanitarian relief workers played by Benicio Del Toro and Tim Robbins. Their story is a picaresque adventure in which roistering, free-form “cowboy” heroics do Quixotic battle with implacable forces of bureaucratic militarism and genocidal chaos.

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spectacular outdoor visuals (especially with some near-psychedelic Cinecolor panoramas) and a youthful protagonist bent on taking big risks sooner rather than later. The old man on the burro is a traveling musician and the “accursed” accordion he carries is his weapon of choice in the deadly serious musical duels he fights at neighboring fiestas. Released in 2009, and only on DVD in the U.S., The Wind Journeys ranks as a fresh discovery, a remarkably vivid and earthy folk tale with Orphic overtones. The film is the work of Colombian filmmaker Ciro Guerra, the director of Embrace of the Serpent, another of this year’s Oscar nominees for best foreign film.

In The Treasure, Romanian auteur Corneliu Porumboiu has a couple of rather tattered functionaries and one very grumpy guy with a metal detector venture out for a farcical nighttime treasure hunt on some old family property. It’s sort of The Treasure of the Sierra Madre restaged as Theater of the Absurd in post-Soviet Romania.

In William Monahan’s Mojave, a campfire in the desert is the starting point for an increasingly menacing battle of wits between a brooding Hollywood producer (Garrett Hedlund) and a strangely loquacious and shabby-looking drifter (Oscar Isaac). Much of this strange story devolves into cliché, but Isaac’s drifter remains starkly fascinating Ɛ WKURXJKRXW

Art Receptions CURATOR’S TALK/RECEPTION: SUSTENANCE: Joan Giampaoli, associate nutrtion and food science professor discusses exhibit focusing on food and culture. Reception to follow at the Turner Print Museum. Th, 3/10, 5:30pm. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State.

Theater HARVEY: Elwood P. Dowd insists on including his friend Harvey in all of his sister Veta’s social gatherings. Trouble is, Harvey is an imaginary six-and-a-half-foot-tall rabbit. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 3/20. $14-18. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road., (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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The Hill People. Sa, 3/12, 6pm. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

IFL MAKERS SHOWCASE: An exploration of local creativity and innovation as local makers display and demo works. Sa, 3/12, 12-6pm. Idea Fabrication Labs, 603 Orange St., (530) 5920609.

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Paradise Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Road. in Paradise, (530) 877-3977.

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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.

Music SOLAS: The Philly-based modern Irish-American band visits the Big Room. W, 3/16, 7:30pm. $25.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

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BRIDAL SHOW: All your wedding-planning needs in one spot, with vendors and more.

Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and champagne. Su, 3/13, 12-3pm. Free. Canyon Oaks Country Club, 999 Yosemite Drive, (530) 3432582 ext. 11, www.countryclub receptions.com/wsw.

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1078 GALLERY: My Witness Is the Empty Sky, new

CHICO AIR MUSEUM: An ongoing display highlight-

work by Alicia Escott, Cameron Kelly, Cybele Lyle and Holly Ray Wright exploring survival.

Through 4/2. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

CHICO ART CENTER: Creative Fusion, annual art

3 ACTS, 2 DANCERS, 1 RADIO HOST

show featuring work by junior and senior high school students. 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

IRA GLASS, MONICA BILL BARNES, ANNA BASS

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Watercolor Paintings, work by Peter Jodaitis along with other art from local and regional artists. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

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PARADISE ART CENTER: Watercolor Exploration, featuring new watercolor work. 5564 Almond St. in Paradise, (530) 877-7402.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Lovin’ Chico, watercolor by Caryolyn Cameron and Marilyn Walsh.

Through 3/31. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

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phy, large and small landscape prints on canvas and metal. Ongoing. 627 Broadway St. 170, (530) 345-1362.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Head Over Heels, San Francisco artist Kara Maria’s vibrant paintings and works on paper create a visual dialogue between abstraction and representation. Through 3/11. Free and open to the public. Trinity Hall Chico State, (530) 898-5864.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Repurposing

with Mosacis, an exhibit of recent work by Susan Van Horn. 3/10-4/3. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

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TIN ROOF BAKERY & CAFÉ: Landscape photogra-

ing local aviation 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: Chico Through Time, a new permanent exhibit, featuring a variety of displays depicting Chico’s history—from John Bidwell and the Mechoopda Indians to Robin Hood and remains of an old Chinese temple. 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.

Through 5/8. Members & children under 3: free, Non-members: $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 in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Fired Earth: Beauty and Tradition in Asian Ceramics, 2,000years of Far Eastern creativity and ingenuity will be showcased through ceramic art. Through 7/31. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

MUSIC Musical chameleon Joe Craven.

Photo by John DoMogMa

no genre left behind Joe Craven and friends liven up Chico Women’s Club meandering musical pathway that Jweaves between the realms of jester, oe Craven joyously treads a

troubadour, shaman, elf and kindly, twinkly eyed teacher. In person, Craven’s jauntily upturned mustache and nifty beard, broad-brimmed straw chapeau, embroidered vest, by multicolored polkaCarey Wilson dot pants, and ultra-expressive face and body language manifest a Review: fun-filled physical Joe craven & the awareness. Craven Sometimers, with and his Sometimers hannah Jane Kile, bandmates, Bruce presented by KZFr Friday, March 4, MacMillan (guitars, Dobro, lap steel, chico Women’s club. vocals) and Jonathan Stoyanoff (standup and electric bass, vocals), have just released Blender, a set of—as the band’s cdbaby.com page describes—“irreverent, yet tasteful acoustic reinterpretations of compositions and styles from the last several hundred years.”

During Saturday’s concert at the Chico Women’s Club, the band brought those recordings to exuberant life, much to the delight of a capacity audience, several members of which had a hard time staying in their seats once the music picked up. The band took the stage with a friendly, enthusiastically received greeting from Craven and opened with a rousing rendition of Joe South’s judge-not anthem, “Walk a Mile in My Shoes,” with its admonitory refrain, “Before you abuse, criticize and accuse/walk a mile in my shoes,” reminding us that walking a crooked mile is made all the more enjoyable by remaining open-minded.

Craven, who has shared stages with such luminaries of psychedelicized American music as David Grisman, Jerry Garcia and David Lindley, is no glory hog and he gave his bandmates plenty of room to deliver equal shares of musical finesse. MacMillan switched from Dobro to guitar and took over lead vocal for a soulful, bluegrass-via-Venice rendition of The Supremes’ classic, “Stop! In the Name of Love,” that Craven embellished with shimmering mandolin strumming while Stoyanoff held down the bottom end with a bass groove worthy of Motown’s immortal James Jamerson.

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And “with a little help from technology” via Craven’s electronically looped percussion and human beatbox, Stoyanoff’s vocal showcase piece, The Beatles’ “Blackbird,” became a surprisingly jazzy, exotica-infused number that freshly conveyed the motivational poignancy of the original lyric and melody.

There were far too many highlights in the nearly two hours of music in the Sometimers’ two sets to try to describe here, but their rendition of Johnny Cash’s “Get Rhythm,” which began with another demonstration of Craven’s human-beatbox prowess and featured a moody, growling steel guitar intro by MacMillan, hit a definite peak of musical energy that inspired many in attendance to act out the song’s title. By the encore of “I Hear You Knockin’,” a line of dancers had snaked its way through every aisle from the back of house to the front of the stage.

All of that energy didn’t happen without some priming. Opening the show was Americana prodigy Hannah Jane Kile. With musical cohorts Barry Prior (electric and upright bass, backup vocals) and Corey Morgan Strange (cajon, drum kit, banjo, backup vocals), the trio filled the hall with a set of soulful, blues-tinged Kile originals and rollicking interpretations of classics such as Cab Calloway’s “Minnie the Moocher,” which won over the audience and evoked a justifiably sincere standing ovation.

If you regret missing this show, you might want to check out Craven’s next local appearance at what he called “the perfect place to find me,” the California Nut Festival, April 16, at Patrick Ranch in Durham. □

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DENGUE FEVER Friday, March 11 Lost on Main

country singer. F, 3/11, 9:30pm. $5.

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

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CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

NOSFERATU WITH LIVE SOUNDTRACK: Austin-based Invincible Czars provide a live score to the German silent film Nosferatu (1922), the first vampire movie. Two showings. Th, 3/10, 6 & 8:30pm. $10. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageant chico.com.

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

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

501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.has beans.com.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON: Live music

for dining. F, 3/11, 6-9pm, F, 3/18, 6-9pm.

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

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BASSMINT: A weekly EDM 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.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ & DYLAN’S DHARMA: The dance floor will be packed all night with two of Chico’s most well-loved party bands. F, 3/11, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, tackle boxchico.com.

DENGUE FEVER: Los Angeles-based Cambodian-psychedelic-rock band returns to Chico. F, 3/11, 9pm. $15. Lost 0n Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

ALL FIRED UP!: Classic rock/dance music.

Sa, 3/12, 9pm-1am. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning, (530) 528-3500, www.rollinghillscasino.com.

BURNAL CHIQUINOX 2016: A gathering of Burners and non-Burners at the halfway point to the next Burn.

Featuring avant garde performances, live music by GravyBrain, video featurettes, the Bi-Polar Express, Eastwind Bellydance, Swami Koz McKev, and Matthew Of The Hill People.

Sa, 3/12, 6pm. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

CARAVANSERAI: Santana cover band. Sa, 3/12, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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

C.J. BOYD: Experimental solo bassist returns to Chico. Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy (heavy) and Americas (schizoid noise rock) open. Sa, 3/12, 8pm. $7.

Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

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DRIVER: Live music by the Paradise guys.

Sa, 3/12, 7pm. Free. Shenanigan’s Bar & Grill, 3312 Esplanade Corner of Esplanade and Tonea Way, (530) 8091088.

MERCY TIES & DRAG ME UNDER Punks from Seattle (Mercy Ties) and Reno (Drag Me Under) join Nor-Cal crews Icko Sicko and VEXED. Sa, 3/12, 8pm. $7.

Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave., (530) 345-7672.

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Cinephiliac musical collective The Invincible Czars compose their own soundtracks to classic silent films. Their latest project is a suitably creepy score for the grandaddy of vampire flicks, Nosferatu (1922), which the Austin, Texas, band will accompany live during two showings at The Pageant Theatre tonight, March 10.

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MELT

8pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

THE TWO TENS: A beautiful night of trashy rock with this LA garage punk duo joined by The She Things and Bad Mana. Sa, 3/12, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

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MELT & MISTER TANG: Two Portland

garage-rock crews join locals Skin Peaks. M, 3/14, 9pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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WHITE WATER: Variety of covers. Sa, 3/12, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379

East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, tackle boxchico.com.

ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock covers. Sa, 3/12, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino

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

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall & Friends. Sa, 5-9pm.

Free. Scotty’s Landing, 12609 River Road., (530) 710-2020.

SOFA KING ... PLUS METAL!: An eclectic night at the Oroville theater with, the Chico funk/soul joined by metalmakers Into The Awakening and Myth.

Sa, 3/12, 7pm. $6. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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every Saturday night. Sa, 8:30-11:30pm through 2/25. Free!. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685 Manzanita Ct., (530) 3452491, www.morasounds.com.

TVSK & (WANING): Oakland and

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

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JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Live

music. Su, 3/13, 6-9pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St., (530) 8916328, www.5thstreetsteakhouse.com.

OPEN MIC: Everyone welcome. Su, 3/13,

11am-2pm. Has Beans Creekside, 1080

Humboldt Ave., (530) 345-6379, www.hasbeans.com.

SATURDAY NIGHT MUSIC: Live music

BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

TIM BLUHM & SCOTT LAW: Mother Hips

up starting at 5pm. Music, poetry and spoken word welcome. Tu, 6-8pm. Free.

Gogi’s Café, 230 Salem St. Next to transit center, (530) 891-3570, www.gogiscafe.com.

LIVE JAZZ: Eat and enjoy live jazz music

performed by Carey Robinson and friends. W. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

SOLAS: The Philly-based modern Irish-

American band visits the Big Room. W,

3/16, 7:30pm. $25. Sierra Nevada

Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

BLUHMIN’ LAW

Tim Bluhm is best known as frontman for once-upon-a-time local band The Mother Hips, as well as playing keys behind his wife in Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers. Bluhm is taking the rare step away from those acts for some solo outings, including an intimate show at the Chico Women’s Club with guitarist Scott Law on Sunday, March 13.

NONPOINT: Heavy metal quintet from Chicago comes to Chico to destroy the stage alonside locals Esoteric (metal), Death Rattle (metal), Blackout Betty (hard rock) and Slay It Forward (pop punk). Tu, 3/15, 7pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

singer/guitarist stops into town on his solo tour with Scott Law (Americana).

Su, 3/13, 6:30pm. $25-$45. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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The rom-com shuffle Middle East war comedy dances around satire recent well-received novel by David W Shafer. The new Tina Fey movie has hiskey Tango Foxtrot is the title of a

the same title, but it’s based on a different book—The Taliban by Shuffle: Strange Days in Juan-Carlos Afghanistan and Pakistan, Selznick a memoir by Kim Barker.

That might seem a mere literary footnote in the review of a new movie, except that in this case the difference between the Whiskey Tango two titles also reflects (at Foxtrot Starring Tina Fey, least in part) the movie’s margot robbie, martin somewhat disingenuous Freeman, alfred relationship with its own molina and Billy Bob subject matter, and with its Thornton. Directed

by Glenn Ficarra and little piece of recent hisJohn requa. cinemark tory in particular.

14 and Feather river To be sure, Whiskey cinemas. rated r. Tango Foxtrot is an apt enough title for a comedy/ drama about a female reporter’s “strange days” as a war correspondent in the Middle East. And Taliban Shuffle seems an unlikely moniker for a large-scale entertainment film, including even an amusingly sardonic one like this, with Fey and

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Opening this week 10 Cloverfield Lane

A young woman (Mary Elizabeth Winstead) wakes up in the underground bunker of a survivalist (John Goodman) who has “saved” her from something big—worldwide chemical attack? Alien invasion?— happening on the surface. A “blood relative” but not sequel to Cloverfield. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Brothers Grimsby

Louis Leterrier (The Transporter series) directs and Sacha Baron Cohen wrote and stars in this British spy-comedy about a pair of estranged, and mismatched, brothers—one a spy (Mark Strong) and one a bighearted English football fan (Cohen)—forced to team up on a mission to save the world.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Nosferatu (1922)

The German silent film, the first vampire movie, gets a live soundtrack from Austin, Texas, band Invincible Czars. Two showings tonight, May 10, 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

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Margot Robbie in starring roles. The main trouble is that the edginess and irony that seem rife in Barker’s original title seem increasingly marginal in the film’s version of the memoir.

That said, the story still makes a very lively vehicle for its star (who co-produced with Lorne Michaels and worked with a script credited to longtime collaborator Robert Carlock).

Barker was a print journalist working for a newspaper in Chicago; Fey’s Kim Baker is a writer for a second-level TV news outlet.

In the memoir and the film, Kim sees the Afghanistan assignment as a great career break, plunges into it all with surprising zeal, and then nearly flames out on three years’ worth of the adrenaline rushes that go with 24-hour cycles of risky behavior.

Kim has a hit-and-miss romance with a Scottish photojournalist (a charmingly obnoxious Martin Freeman) and gets friendly

the filmmaker “invading” other countries— France, Italy, Finland, etc.—to uncover the alternative ways other nations deal with the kinds of societal ills currently plaguing the United States. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Young Messiah

A biblical drama about a 7-year-old Jesus who leaves Egypt for Nazereth with his parents and begins to find out the truth about his life. Based on Anne Rice’s 2005 book Christ the Lord: Out of Egypt. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Now playing Deadpool

The latest Marvel superhero film is based on a former special-forces operative who, after undergoing an experimental treatment to cure his cancer, is accidentally mutated into Deadpool (played here by Ryan Reynolds), a somewhat unstable antihero with accelerated healing powers. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Eddie the Eagle

A biopic chronicling the real-life story of Eddie “The Eagle” Edwards, an amateur British skier who switched to ski jumping—a sport he had no experience with—in order to more easily qualify for the Olympics as the sole member of Great Britain’s ski-jump team at the 1988 games. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

guidance, both serious and flippant, from Tanya Vanderpoel (Robbie), a blonde TV reporter and party girl who is younger than Kim but somewhat more experienced.

A buffoonishly randy Afghan official (Alfred Molina) propositions Kim repeatedly. She has teasingly ambiguous relationships with the local Marine commander (a poker-faced Billy Bob Thornton) and an ultra-protective and surprisingly tender Afghan “fixer” (Christopher Abbott). A muscle-bound driver (Stephen Peacocke),

Gods of Egypt

A bunch of British and Australian actors play Egyptians in this epic fantasy film about gods and mortals doing battle in ancient Egypt. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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The Lady in the Van

Alan Bennett’s script, based on events in his own life, is a clever and witty combination of comedy and drama. Bennett (played by Alex Jennings) appears as twins in his own story—his writerly self and the somewhat lonely fellow who lets the homeless “Miss Shepherd” (Maggie Smith) live in a van parked in his front driveway. The mystery of Miss Shepherd’s actual identity and past plays out alongside the puzzles of Bennett’s relationships with his aging mother (Gwen Taylor), his fuddy-duddy Camden Town neighbors, and the occasional late-night rent-boy. Bennett’s script entertains smartly throughout, but it never really commits to its gently Pirandellian paradoxes about art and life. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

London Has Fallen

A sequel to Olympus Has Fallen, with badass U.S. secret serviceman Mike Banning (Gerard Butler) in London this time, fighting terrorists intent on killing world leaders gathered for the prime minister’s funeral.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

a bright-eyed young infantryman (Evan Jonigkeit), and another who is clownish and very tall (Nicholas Braun) contribute complications, large and small, to Kim’s story.

There’s satire aplenty (with the military, the media, corrupt officials, male chauvinists and naïve careerists as special targets), but much of it gets soft-pedaled. By the finish, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot seems intent on retreating to the relatively safe territory of a mildly quirky romantic comedy. □

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Ginnifer Goodwin) teams ups with a smalltime con-artist fox (Jason Bateman) to solve a mystery. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Whiskey Tango Foxtrot

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

The Witch

The Witch is a low-budget indie production that’s been marketed as a horror film/ costume drama. But, as journalists and reviewers are now noting, it’s better than those generic labels might suggest. It’s getting special praise as a meticulously crafted period piece (the setting is New England in the 1630s) and as an unusually intelligent and perceptive approach to the horror genre. The frights and shocks of horror movies are present, but the emotional lives and psychological propensities of a Puritan family who have been cast out as heretics is the film’s main subject. Writer-director Robert Eggers and a cast of unknowns (two adults and four children) give a remarkably effective account of how a contagion of terror might overtake an entire family of true believers. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

How to Be Single

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Kung Fu Panda 3

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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The Revenant

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R —J.C.S.

Risen

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

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A sampler from Priya’s lunch buffet.

PHOTO BY JOHN DOMOGMA

All about that buffet Lunchtime is the right time at local fave Priya on The Esplanade, is that it has a distinctive Tnamerant(“Priya” means “beloved”). It isn’t called “Taste he first thing I like about Priya, the Indian restau-

of India” or “Taj Mahal,” as almost all other Indian restaurants are. It gets better.

Priya has a conventional lunch by and dinner menu, but I ignore it and Tuck Coop head straight for the buffet (available only at lunch). It’s cheaper ($10.95 Priya Indian vs. $15-$18 for menu meals) and has Cuisine several advantages: 1) You get to eat 2574 Esplanade right away—you can go straight to 899-1055 the buffet line and be at your table Open daily for lunch, eating in about two minutes; 2) You 11 a.m.-2:30 p.m.; can eat an infinite amount of food. and dinner, I typically try to arrange my visits 5-9:30 p.m. to Priya so I arrive hungry, stuff myself, and cruise through the rest of the day and evening, eating only a light salad for dinner; 3) Instead of looking at names on a menu, guessing what’s good, and living with the result, you can sample a dozen different dishes, then ignore the ones you don’t like and gorge on the ones you do.

I encourage you to begin by taking one spoonful of every dish in Priya’s buffet; 4) You get to eat a little of a lot of things. The flavors of Indian food are intense, so I never want to eat an entire plate of any one taste.

Buffets have some drawbacks. For starters, you can’t get leftovers. The food, because it’s sitting out, can get cold or old. For this reason, you want to go to Priya when it’s busiest, so the food is moving through the pipeline at maximum speed. Additionally, certain kinds of dishes don’t show up in buffets. If you crave dishes that are pricey (shrimp), labor intensive (samosas), or unsuitable for ladling out of trays (dosas), you’ll have to order from the menu.

Another downside has to do with naan. American

culture thinks of bread as something eternal—you buy a loaf of Safeway bread and it sits on your kitchen counter for months unaltered. Real bread is ephemeral.

Naan is magnificent for 30 seconds, then good for 2 minutes, then it’s just cooked dough.

Hence the problem. Priya brings out trays of naan periodically, so the naan may be well past the serveby date, or if business is slow you may sit for most of the meal waiting for any naan at all. So keep the naan tray in your peripheral vision at all times, and when the new naan emerges from the kitchen, sprint to the buffet table.

The elephant in the dining room in any Indian restaurant is the spiciness level. I’m a wimp when it comes to burn, so Priya’s very temperate heat level suits me fine. Priya’s owners, Raja and Venkata Reddy, admit they had to learn to dial the heat way down for American palates. If you order from the menu, they can make it as hot as you like.

Another way in which Priya is user-friendly is its labeling of dishes. No vindaloos and aloo tikkis here. The mixed vegetables in creamy sauce is called “Mixed Vegetables in Creamy Sauce,” for instance.

There’s a low-key but not-to-be-missed hummus-like sauce made from coconut and chickpeas, called (can you guess?) “Coconut and Chickpea Sauce.”

But I don’t really read the labels. I think of all Indian dishes as “Something or other in a tasty sauce.”

Priya’s sauces make anything taste good. All the flavors are fresh and bright and as good as any I’ve known. Priya is the only place where I eat cauliflower.

The restaurant’s buffet has little to offer in the way of desserts. A very nice kheer (rice pudding) and very mediocre fruit salad is it for weekdays. The buffet has gulab jamun (usually called “sweet ball”) on weekends. This may determine when you visit, because gulab jamun is food for the gods. □

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Rhythm Future Quartet Magic Fiddle Music Taking its name from a Django Reinhardt tune, this fearless foursome consists of violinist Jason Anick, Finnish guitarist Olli Soikkeli, second guitarist Max O’Rourke and bassist Greg Loughman. While Rhythm Future Quartet’s 2013 debut album was more about gypsy jazz, here the focus is more on the group’s original music, which is inspired by both gypsy jazz and its worldwide travels. Loughman’s “Iberian Sunrise” opens the album, and we’re quickly drawn into Reinhardt’s milieu by Soikkeli’s blazing guitar solo followed

by Anick’s equally hot improvisation à la the QHCF’s Stéphane Grappelli. Soikkeli opens his “For Paulus” in a relaxed manner before being joined by Anick and—blam!—we’re in the gypsy-jazz world again; then Sokkeili gets his Django groove going, and they’re both on fire when trading choruses (an effective device they use elsewhere). Soikkeli’s “Bushwick Stomp” is another barn burner, and Anick’s soulful violin is featured on his “Still Winter.” This is a terrific album that’s both sweet and lively.

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Batman action figures DC Collectibles Batman: The Animated Series (1992-1995) was a wonderfully stylistic take on the Caped Crusader. The original action figure line was above par for the time, and now DC Collectibles is re-vamping it with detailed sculpts, great accessories and cult characters. The line captures the stylistic animation perfectly, but that does create some articulation problems—exaggerated torsos and tiny joints limit range of movement.

Additionally, initial waves used weak plastic for small joints, which often broke; however, DC Collectibles is addressing this problem in future versions. But the aesthetics are top notch and the accessories—such as Mad Hatter’s control panel and Batman’s grappling gun—are unique and well-crafted. Plus, upcoming releases will include fan favorites such as Zatanna, Harvey Bullock and The Ventriloquist. An inspired line worthy of the “collectible” moniker and attendant price hike—each figure is in the $23-$30 range.

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Last Danger of Frost Steve Kimock Big Red Barn Productions Comprising a variety of delicately composed passages that feature a multiplicity of stringed instruments, guitar master Steve Kimock’s new album delivers with a splendid collection of musical hypnotics and subtleties with a Far East flavor.

An enigma in the contemporary instrumental-music scene since the 1970s, Kimock is revered and respected in improv/jam-band circles.

On Last Danger of Frost, Kimock sets aside the rock-band approach he’s employed in such bands as Zero, Ratdog, Phil Lesh and Friends and Steve Kimock Band, in favor of a solo recording of personal expression. “Music Tells a Story” kicks off the album with a 20-minute-long, always-interesting, four-part suite featuring a multi-instrumental layering of textures and tones that conjure up a dreamlike scene of reclining under the stars while observing a busy collection of nature’s nocturnal creatures. The intricate guitar work continues on the title track, an uplifting, floating-ona-cloud piece of soul-contemplating of music.

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THE 2016 POETRY 99 CONTEST IS CLOSING SOON.

by JASON CASSIDy • jasonc@newsreview.com

To The riff raff: We saluTe you! Arts DEVO loves that Chico is full of freaks who are really good at getting weird and having fun, and before I share a very Chico calendar of freakiness coming this weekend, I need to dip into the pool of wild fun that flooded the 1078 Gallery on a stormy Saturday night this past weekend. Things got really nuts and really fun when 24 local bands and all their friends showed up to party hard and show their roots at the freewheeling 1970s Punk Cover Night.

Full disclosure: This columnist was the organizer of the event, but this isn’t about me. I bring it up for one reason: It needs to be put on record that, on a night overflowing with noteworthy performances, local garage-rockers Severance Package, with guest vocalist Tommy Ghiorso (of Criminal Wave), completely ruled with a thrilling version of AC/ DC’s punk-spirited, riff-tastic classic, “Riff Raff.”

It was a jolt of electrical energy that evoked the dangerously wild spirit of the song’s originators and got all the beautiful freaks moving: “I ain’t done nothin’ wrong/I’m just havin’ fun!”

And coming up for all you riff raff, in addition Riffin’ riff raff! to the usual dive-bar, live-music, communitytheater antics, there’s an impressive schedule of Chico-ness (plus another batch of storms) on tap this weekend: • Thursday (tonight), March 10: Live soundtrack at the Pageant Theatre, with the eclectic bohemians of Austin, Texas, band The Invincible Czars playing “ein symphonie des gravens” alongside two showings of the 1922 silent vampire flick Nosferatu (6 and 8:30 p.m.).

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• Friday, March 11: Reception for [notes from the field], a collection of new mixed-media drawings by one of Chico’s favorite freaks, Dragonboy—at Great Northern Coffee, 3:45-5:45 p.m.

• Saturday, March 12: Idea Fabrication Labs has invited all makers to show-

Send your poems to the Chico News & Review today! Top Adult, High School, Junior High and Kid poets will be chosen by established local writing professionals, and winners’ work will be published in the CN&R’s annual Poetry 99 issue on April 7.

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by Jesse Shepherd, the first episode featured, among other things, a Martian weather forecast with the Weather Daddy (Elliot Maldonado); a discussion with Chico State philosophy professor Robert C. Jones on the existence of numbers; and Angie Taylor demonstrating how to make croissant-weiners, aka Pocket Dogs.

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For the week oF march 10, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “He in his

madness prays for storms, and dreams that storms will bring him peace,” wrote Leo Tolstoy in his novella The Death of Ivan Ilych. The weird thing is, Aries, that this seemingly crazy strategy might actually work for you in the coming days.

The storms you pray for, the tempests you activate through the power of your longing, could work marvels. They might clear away the emotional congestion, zap the angst and usher you into a period of dynamic peace. So I say: Dare to be gusty and blustery and turbulent.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Quoting

poet W. H. Auden, author Maura Kelly says there are two kinds of poets: argumentmakers and beauty-makers. I think that’s an interesting way to categorize all humans, not just poets. Which are you? Even if you usually tend to be more of an argument-maker, I urge you to be an intense beauty-maker in the next few weeks. And if you’re already a pretty good beauty-maker, I challenge you to become, at least temporarily, a great beauty-maker. One more thing: As much as possible, until April 1, choose beauty-makers as your companions.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To have any

hope of becoming an expert in your chosen field, you’ve got to labor for at least 10,000 hours to develop the necessary skills—the equivalent of 30 hours a week for six-and-a-half years. But according to author William Deresiewicz, many young graphic designers no longer abide by that rule. They regard it as more essential to cultivate a network of connections than to perfect their artistic mastery. Getting 10,000 contacts is their priority, not working 10,000 hours. But I advise you not to use that approach in the coming months, Gemini. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you will be better served by improving what you do rather than by increasing how many people you know.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “I sit

before flowers, hoping they will train me in the art of opening up,” says poet Shane Koyczan. “I stand on mountain tops believing that avalanches will teach me to let go.” I recommend his strategy to you in the coming weeks, Cancerian. Put yourself in the presence of natural forces that will inspire you to do what you need to do. Seek the companionship of people and animals whose wisdom and style you want to absorb. Be sufficiently humble to learn from the whole wide world through the art of imitation.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The marathon is

a long-distance footrace with an official length of over 26 miles. Adults who are physically fit and well-trained can finish the course in five hours. But I want to call your attention to a much longer running event: the Self-Transcendence 3,100-Mile Race. It begins every June in Queens, a borough of New York, and lasts until August. Those who participate do 3,100 miles’ worth of laps around a single city block, or about 100 laps per day. I think that this is an apt metaphor for the work you now have ahead of you. You must cover a lot of ground as you accomplish a big project, but without traveling far and wide. Your task is to be dogged and persistent as you do a little at a time, never risking exhaustion, always pacing yourself.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In old

Vietnamese folklore, croaking frogs were a negative symbol. They were thought to resemble dull teachers who go on and on with their boring and pointless lectures.

But in many other cultures, frogs have been symbols of regeneration and resurrection due to the dramatic transformations they make from egg to tadpole to full-grown adult. In ancient India, choruses of croaks were a sign of winter’s end, when spring rains arrived to fertilize the earth and bestow a promise of the growth to come. I suspect that the frog will be one of your emblems in the coming weeks, Virgo—for all of the above reasons.

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Your anger is

a gift.” So proclaims musician and activist Zack de la Rocha, singer in the band Rage Against the Machine. That statement is true for him on at least two levels. His fury about the systemic corruption that infects American politics has roused him to create many successful songs and enabled him to earn a very good living. I don’t think anger is always a gift for all of us, however. Too often, especially when it’s motivated by petty issues, it’s a self-indulgent waste of energy that can literally make us sick. Having said that, I do suspect that your anger in the coming week will be more like de la Rocha’s: productive, clarifying, healthy.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Even

now, all possible feelings do not yet exist,” says novelist Nicole Krauss. In the coming weeks, I suspect you will provide vivid evidence of her declaration, Scorpio. You may generate an unprecedented number of novel emotions—complex flutters and flows and gyrations that have never before been experienced by anyone in the history of civilization. I think it’s important that you acknowledge and celebrate them as being unique—that you refrain from comparing them to feelings you’ve had in the past or feelings that other people have had. To harvest their full blessing, treat them as marvelous mysteries.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Look at yourself then,” advised author Ray Bradbury. “Consider everything you have fed yourself over the years. Was it a banquet or a starvation diet?” He wasn’t talking about literal food. He was referring to the experiences you provide yourself with, to the people you bring into your life, to the sights and sounds and ideas you allow to pour into your precious imagination. Now would be an excellent time to take inventory of this essential question, Sagittarius. And if you find there is anything lacking in what you feed yourself, make changes!

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

cording to a report in the journal Science, most of us devote half of our waking time to thinking about something besides the activity we’re actually engaged in. We seem to love to ruminate about what used to be and what might have been and what could possibly be. Would you consider reducing that amount in the next 15 days, Capricorn? If you can manage to cut it down even a little, I bet you will accomplish small feats of magic that stabilize and invigorate your future. Not only that: You will feel stronger and smarter. You’ll have more energy. You’ll have an excellent chance to form an enduring habit of staying more focused on the here and now.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One of

the legal financial scams that shattered the world economy in 2008 was a product called a Collateralized Debt Obligation Squared. It was sold widely, even though noted economist Ha-Joon Chang says that potential buyers had to read a billion pages of documents if they hoped to understand it. In the coming weeks, I think it’s crucial that you Aquarians avoid getting involved with stuff like that—with anything or anyone requiring such vast amounts of homework. If it’s too complex to evaluate accurately, stay uncommitted, at least for now.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “I wish

I knew what I desire,” wrote Palestinian poet Mahmoud Darwish, born under the sign of Pisces. “I wish I knew! I wish I knew!” If he were still alive today, I would have very good news for him, as I do for all of you Pisceans reading this horoscope.

The coming weeks will be one of the best times ever—ever!—for figuring out what exactly it is you desire. Not just what your ego yearns for. Not just what your body longs for. I’m talking about the whole shebang. You now have the power to home in on and identify what your ego, your body, your heart and your soul want more than anything else in this life.

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JOHN DANIEL PEACOCK 7106 Rush River Dr Apt #124 Sacramento, CA 95831.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN PEACOCK Dated: January 28, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000117 Published: March 3,10,17,24, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABAANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name: LOVELY GLOW TANNING SALON at 206 Walnut St, Ste C Chico, CA 95928.

SARAH AKIN 206 Walnut St, Ste C Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

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Signed: SARAH AKIN Dated: February 24, 2016 FBN Number: 2015-0000964 Published: March 3,10,17,24, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EXTRA SELF STORAGE CHICO at 2298 Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

DANIEL R KENNEDY 800 Cynthia Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL KENNEDY Dated: February 23, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000244 Published: March 3,10,17,24, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANDERSON PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 125 W 3rd Street #200 Chico, CA 95926.

DANIEL ANDERSON 1271 Calla Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL ANDERSON Dated: February 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000237 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENTWOOD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1166 E. Lassen Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

ENTWOOD PROPERTY MANAGEMENT, INC. 1166 E. Lassen Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: THERESA HANEY, CEO Dated: March 2, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000287 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PERMAFUNK at 2604 W Sacramento Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

ROSA MAICAS 2604 W Sacramento Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROSA MAICAS Dated: February 24, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000249 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as INTELIFY at 359 Mill Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

SWS ENTERPRISES LLC 359 Mill Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Corporation.

Signed: SPENCER SMITH, MEMBER Dated: February 25, 2016 FBN Number; 2016-0000260 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH STATE BALLET, NORTH STATE DANCE at 312 Otterson Drive, Ste G Chico, CA 95928.

NORTH STATE BALLET, LLC 312 Otterson Dr Ste G Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liabaility Corporation.

Signed: HEATHER WYSONG, OWNER, MEMBER Dated: February 26, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000263 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JANICE M. KENT aka JANICE MELVA KENT To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JANICE M. KENT aka JANICE MELVA KENT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BEVERLY J. WALKER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 22, 2016 Time: 9:00a.m.

Dept: C-18 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC PO Drawer 11, Oroville, CA (530) 533-5661 Case Number: PR41600 Dated: February 29, 2016 Published: March 3,10,17, 2016 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE THOMAS MICHAEL GROARKE, aka THOMAS M. GROARKE, aka THOMAS GROARKE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may

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otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: THOMAS MICHAEL GROARKE, aka THOMAS M. GROARKE, aka THOMAS GROARKE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LESLIE LEA in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: LESLIE LEA be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 12, 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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: CLAYTON B. ANDERSON, ESQ. 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: PR41802 Dated: February 17, 2016 Published: March 3,10,17, 2016 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE VERNA A. PYE aka VERNA ADELE PYE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: VERNA A. PYE aka VERNA ADELE PYE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: HAROLD O. PYE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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requests that: HAROLD O. PYE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 29, 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 representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 16PR00015 Dated: March 4, 2016 Published: March 10,17,24, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BENJAMIN MICHAEL VANDERMATE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BENJAMIN MICHAEL VANDERMATE Proposed name: BENJAMIN MICHAEL VANGARMO 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

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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: April 8, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 3, 2016 Case Number: 165630 Published: February 18,25, March 3,10, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner IVAN PAVLOVICH ISURIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: IVAN PAVLOVICH ISURIN Proposed name: IVAN PAVLOVICH VOLKOV 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: April 1, 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: February 3, 2016 Case Number: 165629 Published: February 18,25, March 3,10, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner VICTOR ARTURO OROZCO-OCARANZA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: VICTOR ARTURO OROZCO-OCARANZA Proposed name: VICTOR ARTURO OROZCO 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 18, 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: January 29, 2016 Case Number: 165620 Published: February 25, March 3,10,17, 2016

names as follows: Present name: ROBERT LEE QUALLS Proposed name: ROBERT LEE MILTON 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 18, 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: January 28, 2016 Case Number: 165616 Published: February 25, March 3,10,17, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner FRED RICK GERHARDT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FRED RICK GERHARDT Proposed name: FRED RICK LEFEBVRE 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: April 15, 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: February 16, 2016 Case Number: 165412 Published: February 25, March 3,10,17, 2016 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner REYNALDO FIDEL GUILLERMO MORALES & EDELYN FRIEDELINDE BERNARDO MORALES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows:

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner EDELYN FRIEDELINDE BERNARDO MORALES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EDELYN FRIEDELINDE BERNARDO MORALES Proposed name: FRIEDELINDE SCHWANHILDE ADELINE BERNHARDE VON WURDEMANN 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: April 15, 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: February 18, 2016 Case Number: 165759 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner REYNALDO FIDEL GUILLERMO MORALES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: REYNALDO FIDEL GUILLERMO MORALES Proposed name: REINHOLD WIELAND ULRICH WOLFRAM VON WURDEMANN 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: April 15, 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: February 22, 2016 Case Number: 165760 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016 PUBLIC NOTICE City of Oroville Pulbic Safety Department Public Notice Sealed Proposal for the following are being accepted: METAL BUILDING AND CONCRETE SLAB and INSTALLATION OF METAL BUILDING AND CONCRETE SLAB Will be receiving at the City Clerks Office, for the City of Oroville, 1735 Montgomery Street, Oroville, CA 95965 until March 29, 2016 at 12:00 P.M., at which time they will be publicly opened and read.

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

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Present name: EDMUNDO WILHELM BERNARDO MORALES REYNALDO HEINRICH BERNARDO MORALES GUILLERMO SIEGFRIED BERNARDO MORALES Proposed name: FRIEDRICH WILHELM HERMANN ROLAND VON WURDEMANN HEINRICH RUDIGER KONRAD KARL VON WURDEMANN SIEGFRIED VOLKMAR HELMUT RUDOLF VON WURDEMANN 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: April 8, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 22, 2016 Case Number: 165758 Published: March 10,17,24,31, 2016

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Durham schools, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,948 sq ft, 1-ac, ......................................................... $305,000 10 acres in Durham, fully fenced, horse property with 2-stall barn, large shop with bathroom, metal oversized carport and adorable 1 bed/ 1 bth, 720 sq foot cottage. .......................... $549,000 Teresa Larson (530)899-5925 www.ChicoListings.com chiconativ@aol.com

GORGEOUS CEDAR HOME on 1.8 acres near Oroville/ Chico/Paradise. Hickory floors and Knotty Pine Ceilings.

Kitchen features granite and high-end appliances. Game room below. $329,900 Ad# 813 A.W. Farra 530-872-6819

Ranchette on .42 of an acre, 3 bed 2.5 bath, RV parking, 2-car garage. .................... $289,900 Cal Park, 4 bed/2 bth, 1,556 sq ft, fresh paint, newer roof! ................................... $317,500 Butte Creek Country Club, Executive styled duplex, 5bed/6bth, 3,900 sqft, with huge Rv garage/shop .......................................................................................... $699,000

9508 Lott Rd in Durham 4 bed, G $509,000 INacre ND1.13 3 PE ½ bath,

3/2 Cul-de-sac, newer $299,500 3/2 Huge lot $279,999 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 1 bed 1 bath, 913 sqft. $135,000 5 ac lot. Owner carry $49,000

$199,000 3217 Hwy45 in Glenn 2 bed, 1 bath, ¾ acre Duplex in Chico, 578 E. 19th St. $269,000

MARK REAMAN

TRACI COOPER • 530.520.0227

530-228-2229

www.tracicooper.com • CalBRE #01952704

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

The following houses were sold in Butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 22, 2016 – February 26, 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.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

2763 Ceres Ave

Chico

$136,500.00

3/ 2

1170

3474 Ashley Ave

Oroville

$219,000.00

3/ 1.5

1998

1182 E 1st Ave

Chico

$124,000.00

3/ 1.5

1206

21 Hart Dr

Oroville

$199,500.00

3/ 3

2207

Cohasset

$267,000.00

4/ 2.5

2392

502 Silver Leaf Dr

Oroville

$199,000.00

3/ 2

1387

Durham

$505,000.00

3/ 2

1576

2920 Stormes Ave

Oroville

$187,000.00

3/ 1.5

1223

Forest Ranch

$188,000.00

3/ 2

1872

3439 Hildale Ave

Oroville

$119,500.00

3/ 2

1032

1445 Hwy 99

Gridley

$450,000.00

3/ 1

1840

3000 Craig Ave

Palermo

$380,000.00

2/ 2

1850

1355 Hazel St

Gridley

$145,000.00

2/ 1

1085

5828 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$410,000.00

3/ 2.5

2895

6130 Lambert Ln

Magalia

$215,000.00

3/ 2

1920

3985 Neal Rd

Paradise

$215,000.00

3/ 2

1384

14210 Sherwood Cir

Magalia

$137,000.00

2/ 2

1232

526 Horseshoe Hill Dr

Paradise

$145,000.00

2/ 1

1016

14241 Caldwell Ct

Magalia

$128,000.00

2/ 1.5

1148

798 College Hill Rd

Paradise

$130,000.00

2/ 1

1020

13 Moonridge Ct

Oroville

$290,000.00

3/ 2

1790

7129 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$106,000.00

2/ 1

928

25 Vincent Ln 2780 Grainland Rd 5503 Headwaters Rd

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

march 10, 2016

SQ. FT.

CN&R

39

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