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The core of a movement Fphoto and the rest of humanity a favor and conduct an Internet search for the of Ieshia Evans standing in the middle of a highway. The iconic

or those who equate Black Lives Matter to a terrorist group, do yourselves

‘Respect through reciprocation’ by a police officer in Baton Rouge, OLa.wasThekilled following night, a young black man was

All of this begs the question: How do you measure the value of a human life? Is the life of a police officer more valuable than the life of a young black man? If both the police officer is armed and killed by a police officer in Falcon Heights, Minn. the black man is armed, does the equation change?

Had it not been for live social What if you add in the factor that the black man is media memorialization of these simply “acting suspicious”? killings, news of neither would The killer in Dallas told officers during a standhave reached above the level off that he was “upset about Black of background noise.

Lives Matter.”

Certainly, flags would How do I believe that black lives matter. not be lowered to halfyou measure I also believe that concept is staff in their memory.

On the third night, the value of a not universally accepted among law enforcement. The all hell broke loose in human life? American by fact is, the lives of people of color downtown Dallas. A Ronald Angle are respected less than those of third young black man, The author is a white people. In Los Angeles an Army veteran, angry former part-time County, the former sheriff is awaiting a prison and possibly mentally disturbed, firefighter/EMT who sentence and, last month, the undersheriff was felt moved to make a statement lives in Chico. sentenced to five years in prison. Brutality and racial about the treatment of young discrimination of jail inmates was the central issue. black men by law enforcement.

Law enforcement must undergo a massive His method was to target law institutional attitude adjustment all across the nation. enforcement, especially white officers. He killed Respect cannot be demanded with the display of a five officers, injured seven others and was eventubadge and a weapon. Respect can only be earned ally killed by the police. Immediately, flags were through reciprocation. □ ordered to half-staff for the fallen officers. n a recent Tuesday night, a young black man

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photo taken in Baton Rouge, La., is what the movement is all about.

Evans, a Pennsylvania resident, traveled to the South to attend a peaceful protest on Saturday in the wake of the high-profile shooting deaths of two black men in two days at the hands of law enforcement. The photo was snapped moments before Evans was arrested for civil disobedience by police officers wearing black stormtrooper-esque body armor. There, in the middle of the roadway, the slim 28-year-old nurse wearing a long spaghettistrapped summer dress stands tall and poised in the face of intimidation not only from the approaching robotic-looking officers but also the additional wall of cops in the background.

Yet there’s something relatable about Evans, whose dress appears to catch a breeze, showing her left leg from the knee down. To their credit, the police officers handcuffed Evans peacefully, taking her into custody, where she remained overnight with more than 100 protesters, many of whom were roughed up despite the fact that the protest, which reportedly included poetry reading and live music, was generally peaceful.

The juxtaposition of Evans and the approaching armor-clad officers is symbolic of the great divide between America’s increasingly militarized law enforcement and the public. We understand that the nation’s peace officers are on edge—frightened, even—in the wake of the horrific shooting deaths of five Dallas police officers. Micah Johnson targeted them for extermination, an unconscionable and heinous act on innocent men doing their jobs to keep the peace as citizens carried out their First Amendment right to free assembly. What the former Army reservist did is sickening, heartbreaking and wrong. Each of the slain men leaves behind a family; most had children.

Americans must mourn for them and their families and support law enforcement personnel, but we also must not lose sight of the events leading up to their deaths and how the genesis is, in fact, racism. We must confront the very real and disturbing truth about the killing of black people, typically men—and especially unarmed black men—by law enforcement.

As The Washington Post reported earlier this year, police officers have shot and killed about 1,500 citizens since Jan. 1, 2015. When adjusted for the makeup of the United State’s population, the data show that blacks are shot and killed by law enforcement at more than double the rate of whites. Stats also show unarmed blacks are five times as likely as whites to die from police gunfire. The Post points out that, yes, the most recent FBI crime stats indicate a disproportionate amount of violent crime is committed by black Americans. However, experts also note that there is no correlation between such crime and the killings by the police.

That brings us back to the Black Lives Matter movement. The group exists to call attention to acts of violence against members of the black community, including killings and brutality at the hands of police. It began three years ago in response to the acquittal of George Zimmerman, the Florida man who killed teenager Trayvon Martin. It gained ground the next couple of years following the police killings of two unarmed men: 18-yearold Michael Brown, who was shot to death, and Eric Garner, a father of six who was choked to death while being arrested for selling individual cigarettes. Tragically, many others have followed.

Evans, the Pennsylvania mom who was photographed in Baton Rouge over the weekend, represents the best of the Black Lives Matter movement.

That her demonstration could strike such a chord throughout the nation gives us hope that peaceful resistance can effect change. □

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Homegrown racism I remember vividly the first time I heard someone use the N-word.

I was at a family member’s house for Thanksgiving and was walking down the hallway when I ran into a distant relative I’d seen a few times a year for my entire life.

Before I made it back to the festivities, he looked me up and down. His gaze fell on my clunky shoes, a pair of patent-leather loafers that were in style back home in the Bay Area. That’s when he nonchalantly asked me a question that has stuck with me for 25-plus years: “Where’d you get those, some kind of nigger store?”

Thinking I’d misheard him, I asked for clarification. “What did you say?” But instead of repeating himself, he flashed an impish grin and walked away. I’d heard him correctly, all right. I was dumbstruck. I was 14 years old. And up until that very moment, I had no idea that there were racists in my family. I felt ill.

I had that same feeling this week, as I perused a story by Action News Now about a protest at City Plaza over the weekend.

I watched video of the event after the fact on the local TV station’s Facebook page, where they’d streamed it live. What repulsed me were the comments—many of them outright racist, some simply naive and uninformed—about the concerns of black citizens.

I’m saddened—and also pissed off—that people in this community hold such backward views. I’m not going to mention the worst of the posts here, because I refuse to give a voice to ignorance. But I am going to drop a little knowledge.

The fact is, black folks are statistically much more likely to be shot and killed by the police. And before you start talking about “black-on-black crime” or pull out some statistics saying that cops shoot more white people than black people, read this week’s accompanying editorial for some context. There is no link between violent crime in a community and violence by police, and, big news flash, there are a lot more white people than black people in this country.

That black Americans are shot and killed disproportionately is a problem. We need to stop changing the subject. We need to talk about what’s happening; we need to get to the heart of the matter— that blacks are treated differently than white folks by law enforcement (and others). Shining a light on this subject is what Black Lives Matter is all about.

We also need to talk about bigotry in general. Nobody wants to be called a racist. I get that. But the fact is, racism abounds. Many of us know this because we’ve seen it close to home.

For me, hearing a family member use the N-word when I was a kid was a surreal experience. In the back of my mind, it cast a shadow on every other interaction I had with him, from that moment in the hallway until I stood in front of his casket years later.

The truth is, I cared for that man, which is why what he said made such an impression. I regret not having the sophistication as a teen to tell him how ugly he sounded.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

In four days, two more black men killed by police officers and five police officers killed by a black sniper.

We mourn. We talk about gun control. But, there are deep problems—beyond sentiment and guns.

And, we’ll go on misunderstanding the nature of those problems, because we are a zombie nation, increasingly unable to self-reflect. We nurse delusions of functionality, while our system spins out of control.

Affluent whites love the facade of black success: Oprah, Tiger Woods (oops!), Michael Jordan, Sean Combs, Robert F. Smith. But, when we read that wealth inequality is at a 100-year extreme, who do we think is getting hurt? It’s the millions of “poor white trash” and inner-city blacks; the same people with ancestors under the boot of poverty for decades or centuries.

(Contrary to any claim of racial “progress,” the wealth gap between white and black families has tripled since the 1980s.)

Cops don’t go looking for poor folks to shoot. They are hired to keep order—and that means keeping a lid on the mostly invisible and increasingly impoverished, frustrated masses. Same thing that’s happening in the slums of Rio—right next to the $10 billion party known as the “Olympics.”

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Things aren’t always as they seem.

That’s why our forefathers gave us the Fifth Amendment, which gives us a chance to tell our side of the story before a jury of our peers when we’re accused of a crime.

Accordingly, unless police are put in a situation of “kill or be killed,” they’re arguably bound to capture even known murderers alive.

In Dallas on July 7, this could have been accomplished by equipping the robot with tasers—or even tranquilizer darts—to subdue gunman Micah Johnson instead of blowing him up with a bomb. Such was arguably use of excessive force. One could even argue it was cruel and unusual punishment—an Eighth Amendment violation.

Police officers around the country clearly take the injury and killing of fellow police officers personally and often dole out vigilante justice against offenders.

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Risky business “It is when we all play safe that we create a world of utmost insecurity.” —Dag Hammarskjold Voting for Trump, directly or by not voting for Hillary, accepts a terrible risk. Signing America’s Declaration of Independence also carried a terrible risk.

Our Constitution’s authors anticipated Trump—they’d seen demagogues before. So the Constitution specifies three separate branches of government—remember high school civics “checks and balances”?—to neutralize would-be tyrants.

What those men didn’t anticipate was a very few people accumulating a wealth great enough to establish influence—if not dominion—over all three branches [of government]. There’s a six-page list of corporations who bought Hillary Clinton’s “speeches,” and they all considered it money wisely spent.

Electing Clinton would issue a clear statement, to the world and to ourselves, that we quit, we’ve lost our courage, we’re ready to surrender our country to the Kochs and the Clintons—to the very people whose depraved indifference brought us to the rage and

What those men didn’t anticipate was a very few people accumulating a wealth great enough to establish influence—if not dominion— over all three branches [of government].

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frustration and despair that drive Trump’s campaign. And that we’re prepared to ignore the wisdom, contained in that Constitution, of those Founding Fathers—which might be the biggest risk of all.

My grandchildren deserve better than that from me.

Chuck Greenwood Durham

A puzzling critique Re “Truck wars, part one” and “Truck wars, part two” (Chow, by Tuck Coop, June 30 and July 7): Every taco truck is a living testimony to years of relentless hard work, determination and a vision for a better life. These brave entrepreneurs are success stories in their community and models of the American dream.

That is why I was puzzled by some of the comments in last week’s Chow, by Tuck Coop.

The author’s mission is to assist the reader in making a thorough evaluation of Chico’s taco trucks.

He states that, when judging food quality, he has “two standards of judgment: how good the food tastes now, as you eat it, and how sick you feel in an hour, as you digest it.”

One has to wonder if he uses this same criteria when giving his opinion on food offered by other food trucks and restaurants? Are these two standards employed when assessing a vendor’s pizza, sushi or cupcakes? Hopefully Mr. Coop will consider taking a more positive approach in the future.

Don’t lose sight of the fact that every owner is feeding his or her family.

Chuck the clipboard critique approach and instead feature your favorite picks. Celebrate what makes these small businesses and their owners exceptional, and we will celebrate with you.

Melinda Vasquez Chico

Status quo cemented Re “Farewell to The Greatest” (Letters, June 9): After Muhammad Ali’s death, [local superdelgate] Bob Mulholland wrote a letter to the editor saying something about learning from Ali and that America is better for Ali having challenged the status quo. Mulholland is the status quo in cement.

I’d love to hear Ali, in his prime, rage about the idea of unelected superdelegates! Ali would have been a loud Bernie supporter. What would Ali have said about the Iraq War and the Hillary Clinton-instigated war on Libya and Syria?

When the draft called for Ali in 1966, he said, “Man, I ain’t got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.”

He refused to go. The refusal was an earthquake in a rigid society.

The vilification and penalties were huge. Such courage of conviction was magnificent.

In these times, we need more courage of conviction. I’m sure Ali, in his time of great courage, would have had marvelous words to describe Mulholland’s warmongering, Wall Street-supporting Hillary.

What we need is an army of Bernie Sanderses. Change could happen. The world could be saved from serious inequality, injustice, hate, endless wars and the relentless march of climate change.

Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE In broad daylIght

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office is investigating the death of a man found lying in an Oroville intersection at about noon last Friday.

Police responded to a 911 call to find Danny Davidson, 54, of Oroville, severely injured in the middle of the road at St. Ives Way and Camelot Lane. Despite life-saving efforts, Davidson was pronounced dead at 12:58 p.m.

“We’re considering the death suspicious at this point,” said Miranda Bowersox, BCSO public information officer. “He appears to have possibly been struck by a vehicle.”

An autopsy will be performed this week.

Anyone with information is urged to call the BCSO Investigations Unit at 538-7671.

MedI-pot Measure Moves on

An initiative aimed at establishing new guidelines for the growing and sale of medical marijuana in Butte County has enough signatures to qualify for the November ballot, county Clerk-Recorder Candace Grubbs confirmed Wednesday (July 13).

Petitions for the Medical Cannabis Cultivation and Commerce measure, or MC3, were submitted June 6 by Jessica MacKenzie, president of the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association. The measure needed 6,177 signatures, and Grubbs said her office stopped counting after that number was reached. The results will be certified at the July 26 Board of Supervisors meeting.

MC3 prescribes rules for the cultivation, manufacturing, testing, distribution, transportation and storage of medical cannabis within the county. If approved by voters, it will replace the current medi-pot growing ordinance (Measure A) and cancel a standing prohibition on dispensaries.

Card rooM gets green lIght

After having his plans to open a card room in downtown Chico a few years ago dashed due to zoning issues, local businessman Jon Scott finally got the royal flush he’s been holding out (and working hard) for. Last Thursday (July 7), the Chico Planning Commission gave the initial go-ahead for Scott to open a card room inside Quackers Fire Grill and Bar on East Avenue.

The card room, slated to include seven gaming tables, will take over 800 square feet inside the Quackers building. To mitigate issues with nearby McManus Elementary School, the business will construct a screen fence to block its view from the playground. The commission, in its 3-to-2 vote to provide Scott a use permit, also agreed to allow the card room to be open 24 hours, though Scott (pictured) told commissioners that would be a rare occurrence.

The proposal must be approved by the California Gambling Control Commission before getting the full green light.

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stop that train Climate change activists want to end transport of crude oil on Butte County railways gathered at the railroad tracks on First LStreet in Chico to remember the lives ast Friday (July 8), about 20 activists

lost in the 2013 LacMégantic rail disaster and to protest the story and photo by practice they feel led Ken Smith to those deaths—the transportation of crude kens @ n ew srev i ew. c o m oil by rail.

“On that day [July 6] three years ago, 47 people were incinerated,” said Dave Garcia, an organizer for Chico 350, a local chapter of national climate change action group 350.org. Garcia gave a brief account of the accident, in which a train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed in the small town of LacMégantic, Quebec, causing some of the oil cars to explode.

Since the accident, there have been more than a dozen other Bakken oil train derailments in the North America, with many resulting in explosions and oil spills.

The most recent was in Mosier, Ore., where last month several cars jumped the track near the Columbia River Gorge; four exploded, and 42,000 gallons of oil was spilled, some into the river.

Garcia and other speakers at the rail-

side rally, including Chico 350 co-founder Jake Davis, said trains carrying the same type of oil through Chico and the Feather River Canyon present significant risks to Chico residents and local water.

“We’re here to announce our intention to stop the movement of crude oil through Butte County,” Davis said. “The tracks we’re standing on run right through the middle of Chico, and we’re less than 100 feet from Chico State, which 20,000 students and faculty attend daily. If one of these trains blew up here, we’d be in big trouble.”

Garcia and some others at the rally are also associated with Frack-Free Butte County, the grassroots group behind the successful ballot initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing. The oil trains—which detractors commonly refer to as “bomb trains”— are a related issue, as some domestic crude oil is extracted from the Bakken Formation of Montana and North Dakota via fracking.

Bakken crude is more volatile than other crude oils due to a higher concentration of flammable liquid gases, such as propane. Increased domestic oil production has led to more oil shipments by rail in recent years.

Speakers noted trains run on a particu-

larly steep and winding track alongside the Feather River, which runs into Lake Oroville, and that the tracks through Chico run along the Sacramento River. Both have been sites of previous derailments.

In November 2014, 11 cars carrying corn derailed and fell down a cliff, spilling contents into the Feather River. In July 1991, a derailment on the Upper Sacramento River near Dunsmuir dumped 19,000 gallons of pesticide into that river, causing an ecological disaster.

At the rally, Davis said that “every day,

multiple trains with multiple cars” carrying crude oil pass through Chico and the Feather River Canyon.”

But it’s not Bakken crude oil, at least not in Chico at this time, according to Justin Jacobs, director of corporate relations and media for Union Pacific, which operates the track through town.

“Union Pacific shipped approximately 89,000 carloads of crude oil on our 23-state network in 2015; 11,396 of those carloads were transported through California,” Jacobs said by email. “We do not move any crude oil in California originating from the Bakken region.

Additionally, crude oil currently represents less than 1 percent of our business.”

Dave Garcia and members of environmental group Chico 350 gather to commemorate the third anniversary of the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster.

First look at Stonegate A big southeast-side development proposal comes under scrutiny

“We do not release specific information in regard to scheduling for safety and security reasons,” Jacobs wrote in response to questions about the frequency and amount of oil transported through Butte County.

Officials from BNSF Railway, which operates the tracks along the Feather River, did not respond to requests for comment on whether Bakken crude oil is currently transported on that line, though it has been in the past.

Chico Interim Fire Chief Bill Hack said local railways are used to ship additional dangerous chemicals as well.

“Trains are the No. 1 transportation method for hazardous materials in our country, and any derailment presents the risk of those materials being released into the environment,” he said. “As we live in a highly populated area, there’s significant potential for accidents.”

Hack said Union Pacific owns 4.5 miles of track running through 13 controlled intersections and over three waterways in Chico. The biggest risk for derailment in Chico is a train colliding with a vehicle, a situation he said happens all too often.

All Chico firefighters have hazardous material and first responder training, Hack said, and 12 are statecertified hazardous material specialists.

Special equipment for the Interagency Hazardous Material Response Team is housed at CFD’s Station 5 near the Elk’s Lodge.

Russ Fowler, battalion chief with Cal Fire-Butte County and head of that team, was unavailable for comment at press time, but previously expressed concerns to the CN&R about the safety of transporting oil through the Feather River Canyon (see “Russian roulette on the railways,” Greenways, May 25, 2015). Earlier this year, the department received a $30,000 grant to buy equipment to contain and clean oil spills on water.

While there may be no Bakken oil on local tracks today, oil company Valero plans to expand infrastructure at its Benicia refinery to bring two 50-car trains carrying up to 70,000 barrels of crude oil daily, which the oil company says would include Bakken crude. The Benicia City Council is expected to make a decision on whether to allow the project in September. □

aspect of Chico’s future is becoming visible to those paying attention to developAmentmajor plans for the southeast part of the city.

Three large projects there are either under construction, close to it or in the planning process. If all are built as envisioned, they cumulatively will create, at a minimum, more than 4,000 new dwelling units on more than 900 acres of land.

Two of the projects, the 270-acre Meriam Park Community and the 340-acre Oak Valley subdivision, have been approved. Construction is well underway on the latter, and the former is expected to break ground in the next few months (see “Groundbreaker,” Newslines, June 30).

The latest to enter the approval pipeline is the Stonegate subdivision, to be built on 313 acres east and west of Bruce Road between East 20th Street and the Skyway. It proposes 415 single-family homes on standard lots, 45 homes on half-acre lots, and an To comment: Write to Bob Summerville, City of Chico unspecified Community Development Department, number of 411 Main St., 2nd Floor, PO Box 3420, multifamChico, CA 95926, or email him at ily units on bob.summerville@chicoca.gov.

12.4 acres.

It also would set aside 35.2 acres for commercial use.

In addition, it would allocate 2.6 acres for a neighborhood park and 108.2 acres as open space along a Butte Creek diversion channel that bisects the property on its eastern side.

Epick Homes debuted its proposal on

Tuesday (July 12) at a scoping meeting held at City Council chambers. Epick is owned by longtime local developer Pete Giampaoli.

The scoping meeting was the first of several public meetings that will be held as Stonegate goes through the approval process, including hearings before the Planning Commission and City Council. Its purpose was to give members of the public an opportunity to say what issues they thought should be addressed in the project’s environmental impact report. Those unable to attend the meeting have until July 21 to submit comments (see info box).

Hosting the scoping meeting were Chico Senior Planner Bob Summerville and two representatives of San Rafael-based WRA, the consulting company hired to prepare the EIR. More than 20 people offered comments. About

half of them lived in the long-established neighborhood immediately to the west of the proposed project. They wanted the EIR to address the issue of traffic through their neighborhood.

Residents along Parkhurst Street, in particular, were concerned by the project’s plan to punch their quiet residential street through to Bruce Road, turning it into a cut-through that would greatly increase the number of cars and

SIFT ER Patriotic plunge Our national pride has hit a new low. A recent Gallup poll, which involved phone interviews with a random sample of 1,052 adults, shows that 52 percent of respondents were “extremely proud” to be Americans, down from a high of 70 percent in 2003. The researchers suggest the trend of eroding patriotism is due to broader concerns about the economy and a lack of faith in public institutions. The largest decline has been among young adults. Since 2003, the percentage of 18- to 29-year-olds who say they’re extremely proud to be an American has dropped from 60 percent to 34 percent. Political liberals were the second-least patriotic subgroup, at 36 percent.

This map shows the general scope of the proposed new Southgate neighborhood.

MAP COURTESY OF CITY OF CHICO

their speeds and put their children at risk.

“We don’t need a thoroughfare next to East 20th Street,” said Melanie Kendrick, who lives on Parkhurst.

Others wanted WRA to look closely at the project’s potential environmental impacts on vernal pools and endangered Butte County meadowfoam populations, which are on the verge of extinction.

Other questions: What impact would the development have on groundwater? How many wetlands would be lost? What about the historic rock walls on the property?

Patty Moriarty, speaking on behalf of the group Friends of Butte Creek, asked WRA to analyze the impact runoff into the diversion channel would have on lower Butte Creek.

Runoff water should be used to recharge the groundwater, not pollute the creek, she said.

Others wondered where the children in the new subdivision would go to school.

Julie Kistle, director of facilities and construction for the Chico Unified School District, said CUSD would like the EIR to address routes to existing campuses as well as the future high school planned for Chico.

Summerville pointed out that this meeting was just the beginning of the approval process. Epick must also obtain permits from several governmental agencies, including the federal EPA, which has not looked favorably on earlier iterations of this project. And it must convince the City Council that the several general-plan and zoning changes it wants to make are justified.

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eturn visitors to the Chico State president’s office should be prepared for some reorienRtation.

Superficially, at least on an interim basis, there’s been a geographical change. Gayle Hutchinson emerges from the opposite side of the reception room than Paul Zingg, her predecessor, who retired June 30. The official office is getting a spruce-up after 13 academic years with the same occupant, so Hutchinson works in a small space off the kitchenette.

Substantively, there’s a been a change in direction of the president’s attention.

Hutchinson officially started July 1, and though she intends to spend her first 100 days listening and learning about the university she’s returned to after a three-year absence, her first full week included a significant shift in personnel.

In an email to the “Campus Community” July 5, Hutchinson announced that Lori Hoffman, vice president for business and finance, “will be departing from her position and transitioning during the summer.” Two days later, Hutchinson’s choice for interim VP, James Hyatt, visited Chico State for interview meetings and a public forum drawing around 150 attendees.

Hutchinson told the CN&R, in an interview Tuesday (July 12), that she received positive feedback and planned to offer the temporary position to Hyatt, most recently a financial consultant at San Francisco State after a year in a comparable interim business VP position at the University of Arizona.

This whole process may seem compressed, but Hutchinson said the groundwork was laid before her official start date. She jointly evaluated candidates with Academic Senate Chair Betsy Boyd, Executive Management Evaluation and Development Committee Chair Charles Zartman and Interim Provost Mike Ward—the latter likely to be replaced by the end of January.

If there were any notion that Hutchinson’s appointment was simply cosmetic, to give Chico State a “new-car smell,” as this reporter put it, while keeping the vehicle unmodified, her first days on the job show otherwise.

“I would call it a tune-up: tuning up the car in ways that capitalize on our strengths as a university but also take into consideration the direction that we—the people on campus as well as people in the community—feel that we need to move in the future,” Hutchinson said.

“So it’s not necessarily [striving for] a new car; it’s taking that beautiful, classic car that’s served us well for a really long time and tuning it up so it can continue to last a really long time.”

Hutchinson has a long history at Chico State,

dating to 1990, when she joined the faculty in the Kinesiology Department. She became dean of the College of Behavioral and Social Sciences in 2007, leaving to take a provost position at CSU Channel Islands in 2013.

“Gayle couldn’t have been a better match for Chico,” said Boyd, an associate professor of agriculture who came to the university in 2008. “She understands the issues here and understands what we’re all about.”

Hutchinson noted that “a lot happens in three years, and I must dedicate myself to listening and really learning about those changes and how well those changes are working.” Yet she did not arrive, as most new presidents do, with a totally blank slate.

Thus, she had background on the Academic Senate’s vote of no confidence in her predecessor—a resolution that also included former Interim Provost Susan Elrod, who resigned soon after the Dec. 10 rebuke, and Hoffman.

Regarding the immediate change of business VP, Hutchinson said: “Presidents who come in are always looking for an opportunity to build [their own] team, and I’m grateful for her departure.”

Boyd called the replacement of Hoffman “one of the most positive steps in the right direction that [Hutchinson] could have made based on what the campus needed. There were a lot of people fearful that she would not act swiftly, and instead what she did was come in and very decisively maneuvered to make this change, but she also didn’t finalize it [before consultation].”

Gayle Hutchinson may be working out of a temporary office, but she’s already made a significant move as Chico State’s new president. photo by evan tuchinsky

(Hoffman did not respond to a request for comment.)

Should other administrators fear the ax?

Not immediately; Hutchinson said that because the university also has an interim provost, mounting two searches for top-level executives will demand significant effort—and collaboration—as the campus also prepares for a new strategic plan and for reaccreditation in 2019.

Consulting with others represents a shift in M.O., even if just in perception. Faculty took issue with Zingg’s administration for, among other things, initially appointing Elrod without input and a “lack of transparency” in budgeting (which hit Hoffman).

“Our vote of no confidence was a clear message that we can no longer have a healthy functioning university with those three individuals,” Boyd said.

Zingg, who rebutted assertions in the resolution, had a reputation as a students-first president. Hutchinson has no qualms with that priority; sticking with the auto analogy, she deems it important to care for the car to ensure conveyance of the passengers.

“Our first and foremost responsibility is to provide students with a high-quality educational experience … but we cannot serve our students well if we are not … a very strong working community,” she said. “We have extraordinary faculty here, we have outstanding staff, and we have at the moment a campus climate that is not as positive as it could be— and my job is to bring us together.”

—Evan TuCHinSky eva ntu c h insk y @ newsr ev iew.c o m

HEALTHLINES Leticia Ojeda, a senior at Hamilton High School, and Shianne Carpenter, a senior at Inspire School of the Arts and Sciences, participated in the Health-Careers Exploration Summer Institute at Enloe Medical Center. photo couRtESy of hESi

medical bills from his high school soccer injuries—Perez fell asleep at the wheel and crashed his car. Having spent the previous two weeks in and out of Enloe’s emergency room shadowing doctors and nurses, he had a better understanding of the seriousness of the situation.

“Even just lying there I thought, ‘I know what this can be. I might be bleeding internally,’” he said. “Worst case scenario, ‘Oh, God, I’m dying.’”

It turned out his most serious injury was a concussion. But quitting the program was not an option. Perez said he wanted to set a good example for his younger brother and sister. The son of Mexican immigrants, he is the first member of his immediate family to graduate from high school. This fall, when he starts classes at Butte College, he’ll be the first to attend college, as well.

His friendship with fellow HESI students helped him get through the tough period— and the program, he said.

HESI doesn’t charge students tuition, as many of them come from low-income fami-

Shadows in the ER Local high school students get hands-on medical experience by

Mason Masis

after high school, but she hadn’t Lyetmedicine chosen a specialty. Then, last month, the auren Keene knew she wanted to work in

Durham High School senior attended the Health-Careers Exploration Summer Institute (HESI) at Enloe Medical Center and she found her calling: pain rehabilitation.

The program, she said, “made me confident and passionate in medicine.”

Keene was one of 14 local high school students to participate in HESI, a jobshadowing program run collaboratively by

statewide medical training organization the Health Workforce Initiative, Enloe and Butte College. Students spent three weeks attending classes, going on rounds with doctors, and learning about the human body and how to care for it. They earned college credit along the way.

Ellese Mello, coordinator for the Health Workforce Initiative and a HESI instructor, launched the program locally last year after seeing it in action during a trip to San Diego.

“I had tears running down my face listening to these students that I didn’t even know,” she recalled. The local program has already gained so much popularity, in fact, that the Health Workforce Initiative will offer a sec-

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ond one through Butte College and Shasta Regional Medical Center later this month.

HESI is rigorous, Mello said. To be accepted into the program, students must have taken science and health classes in high school or anatomy at Butte College. They spent most of their time with nurses and other staff making rounds in the hospital— where they were exposed to catheter procedures, C-sections and even a natural birth— and the rest in the classroom with Mello.

They were assigned daily homework.

Bryan Perez, a recent graduate of Orland High School, said that, before HESI, he was torn between becoming a doctor or an engineer. He didn’t want to waste time and money changing his mind in college.

“I really needed this to know if medicine was for me,” he said. He encourages his peers to try the program if they’re interested in the medical field but have doubts about it. For him, HESI affirmed his love of medicine.

It wasn’t easy for Perez, however. One night a little more than two weeks in, exhausted from HESI and working two jobs—he was helping his family pay off

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HEALTHLINES lies, said Trudy Old, the Health Workforce Initiative deputy sector navigator. The program is paid for with support from the Enloe Foundation and a state-funded mini grant through Feather River College. Exposing young people to the medical industry and getting them excited about helping people is a way of investing in local health care, she said.

“There’s nothing like getting care from someone who lives in the area, grew up in the area and who has passion about the area,” she said.

Each day of the program concluded

with a debriefing session led by Mello. By coming together, she said, the students were able to process what they’d witnessed in the emergency room—including death.

That sort of experience is unique for a high school program, Old said. “When you are in college and are studying nursing, you do your clinicals in the third semester.

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sad things, but were able to pull through it.”

Some situations weren’t quite so dramatic, but still required a level of maturity some high school students might not have yet, Old said. For example, at the beginning of the program students might forget name tags or notes required for clinical rounds, or make jokes at inappropriate times. Old and Mello agreed, however, that there were no issues by the end of the program.

“They are leaving with a professionalism that they didn’t have coming in,” Mello said.

Mike Wiltermood, chief executive officer at Enloe, said the students brought enthusiasm to the hospital rotation. It was a valuable experience for both students and hospital employees, he said.

“It’s really about caring about other people. If you want to be in health [care], you have to be like that,” he said. “The students remind us why we are in the business.” □

WEEKLY DOSE Up in smoke Smoke from forest fires has descended on the North Valley. Some people might actually like the smell, but, to be sure, inhaling smoke is bad for you. According to the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Air and Radiation, woodsmoke can cause irritations such as burning eyes or runny nose, as well as aggravate chronic heart and lung conditions.

Protect yourself with these steps: • Watch for air-quality reports: Stay up on news coverage and health warnings related to smoke. Also, check out the local Air Quality Index at www.bcaqmd.org.

• Talk to your doctor: Especially if you’re an older adult or have children, discuss woodsmoke and its effects before it’s thick in the air.

• Use common sense: If it’s visibly smoky outside, don’t mow the lawn or go for a run.

• Keep inside air clean: Run your air conditioner, close your air intake and keep the filter clean to prevent smoke from getting inside.

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Summer eco-reads It’s time to get lost in a good (environmentally themed) book by

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ummertime in the mother of all election

years, and the reading needs to be easy.

No political tomes from us this year. The front pages and websites in our noisy media world have more than enough.

So, let’s get far from Brexit analysis and presidential politics. Head west. Start your environmentally themed summer reading with a Western.

Crazy Mountain Kiss,

by Keith McCafferty Bozeman, Mont., writer Keith McCafferty has published five whodunnits set in Big Sky Country, with the fifth out just this week. All feature the adventures of private eye Sean Stranahan and Sheriff Martha Ettinger. And in all, the environmental setting and details are just as important as the plot and characters.

McCafferty, longtime editor at Field and Stream, has spent a lot of time outdoors.

He has an easy familiarity with the bristling beauty that is Montana.

McCafferty has written the series to be read in any order. “The last thing I want is one huge novel broken up into books,” he told me when I caught up with him.

“One, that’s boring. And it’s more interesting if people can read them in any order they want.”

So start with the fourth book, Crazy Mountain Kiss.

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on the western flank of Montana’s Crazy Mountains.

“You go to other ranges, the Madison, the Absaroka, they have a soft side, meadows, flowers, they show you their beauty,” McCafferty writes. “You can feel the breeze, hear them breathe. But the Crazies are just a jumble of peaks. They’re nothing but hard edges and cold winds.”

Paper, by Mark Kurlansky Mark Kurlansky has found his niche, no question, writing insightful histories about simple commodities that have shaped our world. First came Cod, a 1997 history of the world filtered, as The New York Times observed, “through the gills of the fish trade.” Then came Salt (2002) and The Big Oyster (2007).

This year he shows how paper holds our world together. Paper mills have produced any amount of filth over the generations (a story last month out of Ontario being the latest example). But cheap paper led to the creation of enormous libraries. And from there the rest is, well, history.

Now, maybe you’re reading this on a mobile device, far from the clutter and

papers of your office. Worry not, Kurlansky concludes: Paper—transmitter of cultures, foundation of revolutions, bearer of news good and bad—is very much here to stay.

Mr. Green Jeans, by Chris McGee Jack Creek hits midlife in Chris McGee’s debut novel, sees the world going to hell around him and decides he has to do something.

And so he strikes his blow against American consumerism by taking down a box store’s billboard on the highway outside of town.

What follows is an adventuresome romp as Jack and his wife, Lake, wage a guerilla campaign urging action on climate change and better care for Mother Earth. This is McGee’s first eco-novel, and the writing can clunk. But the earnestness and emotion carry through.

If you’re stuck in a midlife slump, this, well, maybe won’t solve everything. But it will get you thinking.

About this story:

It was originally published at www.environmental healthnews.org.

Wilted Green Let’s end with a bit of fun. Take a rainy day, put down the books, extract the kids from their iPhones and pull out a game.

You might try Wilted Green, an eco-take on the popular Cards Against Humanity.

Like Cards, each round starts when one person draws a prompt card—dark green in this case. The rest of the group looks through their hands of light green cards to find the best response possible. The person who drew the dark green prompt card then chooses the winning response.

Sample prompt: “The key to a lowcarbon lifestyle is ...”

Possible (somewhat snarky) responses: “Vegan pizza” or “Emails from the Sierra Club” or “Fair-trade condoms.”

Game creator Josh Lasky writes that the game is “obviously meant to be lighthearted (and played while drinking organic, craft beer, of course).”

The game is the product of a successful Kickstarter campaign. Interested buyers should email wiltedgreen@gmail.com for purchasing info.

“I’m also hoping that, in a way, this little card game might provide a reminder to our community that a healthy sense of humor and an occasional dose of selfawareness are required in order for us to move toward a more sustainable future,” □ Lasky continues.

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Books meet art at ABC Those who think reading printed books is passé, that smartphones and e-books have completely taken over, can think again. ABC Books in Chico celebrated its 40th anniversary in March and the longtime business is a testament to the fact that the printed word lives on. To add a unique flavor to the local brick-andmortar bookstore scene, ABC also stocks its shelves with locally made jewelry, paintings and other original art. You’ll also find DVDs, audio books and puzzles. Run

by Beth Hoyt, with help from her husband, Richard, ABC Books has thousands of titles and buys hundreds of books daily—all for store credit. Visit the store at 950 Mangrove Ave. (in the Cash & Carry shopping center), log onto ABCBooksChico.com or call 893-4342 for more info.

Were you the original owners of ABC Books?

We’ve shopped at ABC Books since we were in our 20s, but bought it 16 years ago. ABC Books started on Nord Avenue, next to the original Burger Hut, and this is the fourth location. My husband, Richard, who retired from the ministry after 29 years, is a voracious reader and always said, “When I retire, I want to own a bookstore.”

How do you survive in the age of e-books?

There’s nothing like holding and touching a book.

Longtime Chicoans want to save money and lots of our books are competitive with newer e-books and even eBay, when you include shipping. Plus, so many printed books are not available on e-readers, which require a battery pack that can wear out unexpectedly. We don’t see them as competition. Our readers are locals in Chico and surrounding cities. Plus, avid readers have an attachment or “friendship” with their books, and want to recycle them through buying and selling.

I see you carry collectible books.

Yes, we have a vintage trunk displaying our most valuable books. Our most expensive one was an 1826 atlas that sold for $269. But most are priced very reasonably because we want them in people’s hands, not on our shelves.

You also sell art?

Through the years we’ve had customers wanting to show and sell their art without opening their own store or joining an artists co-op. Last fall, my husband said, “Why not open a store for local artists?” So we did. We started a separate store next door called ABC Books & More, but merged them in March. We have over 20 artists who make everything from fine jewelry to painted gourds to steampunk lamps. We like to place them in the book sections that correspond, like the custom aprons that we put in the cookbook section.

The turnover is good and it’s really fun to watch it grow. The prices are reasonable, from $5 to $200, and the jewelry always sells best.

Do you compete with The Bookstore downtown?

They’re not competition because we have different demographics. They’re near Chico State and we often refer customers to each other. Coincidentally, they also started 40 years ago and we think there are enough readers to support both of us.

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Wine: If you ever need to bribe me with something, it will probably do the trick. So, when we decided to feature local wineries in this week’s Farm to Table Issue, I was more than happy to jump on board. I ended up learning quite a bit about the local wine scene, and realizing how close-knit our winemaking community really is.

Many of Butte County’s wineries are located in Oroville, a city I’ve been writing a lot about lately, mostly because I see some really positive changes happening there. Much of them revolve around downtown, which seems to be buzzing with new businesses and the anticipation of the Oroville Inn’s residential wing opening up and bringing a whole slew of students from the Northwest Lineman College to the city center.

One of those new businesses, poised to open in the next few weeks in the Prospector’s Alley mini mall on Myers Street, is Butte County Wine Co. I reached out last week to one of the owners, Toby Leonard, who met me in the space, which I predict will soon be bustling with wine-loving locals and visitors hoping to drink in some of Butte County’s terroir.

“I really want to showcase local winemakers and promote the community,” he said. “I’m hoping to be a billboard for them.”

Leonard knows our region’s winemakers well. He’s been in the industry for a long time and his connections run deep—most notably, he used to be partners with Berton Bertagna in Long Creek Winery, and he currently teaches in Butte College’s viticulture program. Leonard’s partner at Butte County Wine Co. is Colin Nelson, one of his former students. So, it’s only natural that they’d create a place where people can access local wines—and beers, he said—and promote the agritourism attached to them.

As if on cue, Leonard asked if I’d checked in with George and Kate Barber, owners of Purple Line Urban Winery, lately. I had not, but what a great idea!

A few doors down While I was in the neighborhood, I took Leonard’s advice and popped over to Purple Line (at 760 Safford St.) to chat with George Barber, who was tending bar, about expansion plans. The current plot they’re on is 10,000 square feet, he said as he walked me outside and to the adjoining property, occupied by a house that recently became vacant— “We waited them out,” Barber said with a smile.

The house will be expanded into a second warehouse to accommodate a bigger production run, and the rest of the more than half-acre property will house two bocce courts and a large gazebo for live music. It’ll likely be another six months before plans become reality, due to permits and other paperwork, but it’s certainly another indication that Butte County’s wine scene is on the rise.

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VINO y E N I V CN&R’s annual

Grapes in their veins

Farm to Table Issue highlights local winemakers

Butte County has a vibrant and growing wine industry, which is apparent when scanning the shelves at local grocery stores or viewing a map of area wineries. In this Farm to Table Issue, the CN&R taps into a variety of local winemakers, from established, large-scale producers to boutique operations and even one that specializes in wines that use no grapes at all. Salut!

The Bertagna family continues to branch out into Butte County wine country

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ith three wineries and roughly 35 acres of accompanying vineyards, the Bertagna family has one of the biggest winemaking operations in Butte County.

But sitting on picnic benches with Berton Bertagna on a recent early morning and surveying the winemaker’s south Chico property—a small patch of grapes for his Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards dwarfed by the acres of nut orchards surrounding it—it’s apparent that the scope of the Chico farmer’s operation goes far beyond just grapes. All told, Bertagna estimates that he farms about 1,000 acres on properties from Chico to Artois.

Still, the wine operation of Berton and his wife, Carol, is a significant and foundational part of the local Almendra Winery & Distillery in Durham is all about the customer experience.

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wine scene, and that part of the business is growing fast. Already established with their popular Bertagna brand, a few years ago the couple— along with Toby and Jennifer Leonard, who have since sold their interest in the business—purchased retired local winemaker Lou Cecchi’s Long Creek Winery in Oroville. This past January, the Bertagnas opened the Almendra Winery & Distillery in Durham.

“All three are very unique, not only in the property but also the wines,” Bertagna said, explaining that each property has its own characteristic terroir. He also plans on keeping the wineries as separate labels, since doing so contributes that many more unique wineries to the region.

“It shows people what we can do up in the North State,” he said.

“It’s becoming a little more of a

wine destination. People want to see where their food, where their wine, comes from.”

The experience is a big part of the Bertagnas’ focus. There’s an impressive tasting room at the Long Creek property and the sprawling grounds feature a creek and a maintained pond. “The property is just magical,” he said. And the new Almendra facility, the operation of which is overseen by Carol, is especially geared toward the customer experience. In addition to being the tasting room for both Bertagna and Almendra lines, the gorgeously refurbished Durham property—with handcrafted wood features and chandeliers in each room—hosts live music on the weekends and is available to rent for events and special occasions such as weddings and bridal showers.

With the growth of these kinds of customer-focused wine venues on the

Left: Berton Bertagna has grown the family business from one winery to three. photo By JaSon caSSidy

rise, Bertagna said the next step in Butte County’s evolution as a wine region would be to get an American Viticultural Area designation, which would put it on the radar of wine publications and even more tourists. He pointed to the surging popularity of the wines of the Lodi area, and he has hopes for the same kind of renaissance for this region.

“We’re getting a lot more people coming through [Butte County wineries], and people are saying, ‘Wow, this is really good.’”

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Boutique winery Straw House Cellars creates bold flavors

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om Chase surveyed his property on a recent warm morning, describing the varietals grown at Straw House Cellars, his winery in the rolling hills of Butte Valley. “‘Boutique’ is the key word. Actually, if there’s something smaller than boutique, then that’s what we are,” he said wryly.

Indeed, Chase’s operation is small. He grows three red varietals, all heat-loving grapes— grenache noir, mourvèdre and tempranillo—on about 2 1/2 of the 6 acres surrounding the strawbale home and cellar for which the winery is named. Chase, a professional carpenter for 40 years who designed and built the setup, today gives his full attention to winemaking.

Chase explained that the heat and the mineralrich environment—basalt rock with shallow topsoil—stresses the vines and gives the wine its complexity. He bent over to inspect some of the tempranillos, an early harvest Spanish grape, pulling some dried leaves off a branch. The crop should be ready for harvesting in the first few weeks of August. The other varietals ripen a bit later.

“The tendrils are all drawn up,” he pointed out.

“All the energy is going to the fruit.”

Chase is friendly and unpretentious, and while he seems relaxed, the fact is, his journey into the wine business has been quite a ride, one that keeps him on his toes. On this particular morning, Chase was dealing with a minor emergency: The airconditioning unit cooling the The winery is home cellar was on the fritz. The to three varietals, spike in temperature shattered including young a jug of wine used to top off grenache noir vines. the oak barrels in which his photo By meliSSa daugherty creations age. On top of that, he and his wife were preparing to leave town for a few days. He was clearly a little nervous about being away from the operation.

Thing is, Chase is pretty much a one-man show: In addition to being the grower and winemaker, he’s also the winery’s salesman and delivery driver. “My line is, ‘I’m a carpenter, not a marketer,’” he said. “To get out and market—the sales—is a new thing for me, but since we live in such a great place, they’ve embraced us pretty well.”

Straw House typically sells out of the 300 cases Chase produces each year. The tempranillo is found on the wine lists of local restaurants and the shelves of independent grocers, such as S&S Organic Produce and Chico Natural Foods. (The mourvèdre needs

more bottling time and the grenache, the youngest vines, has yet to be bottled.)

Chase recalled the first batch of wine he fermented in his kitchen back in 2005.

He downplayed the fact that, technically, he’s been a winemaker for over a decade.

He referred to his efforts as “dabbling,” noting that he’s been bonded and licensed to sell for only about six years. But the humble Chase is doing something right.

His bold tempranillo is quite popular,

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farmer. His great-grandfather Natalio Bertagna came to the Chico area from Italy in 1918 and started with a 5-acre farm, growing almonds as well as grapes. But any wine made from his modest crop was for pouring at the family table only.

The Bertagna farming operations grew with each successive generation, with Berton’s grandfather Ben starting the family down the road of production farming. It wasn’t until the year 2000, at Carol’s urging, that Bertagna started thinking about adding winemaking to the business. “[She said], ‘Berton, what the heck, you’re Italian. Why don’t you grow grapes and make wine?’”

So he started teaching himself how to make wine, leaning on fellow local winemakers like Cecchi and Phil LaRocca for guidance. The couple opened Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards in April 2007, and in the beginning, the winery was just the two of them, with Berton making wines and Carol handling the business side.

As the wine business grew, the Bertagnas naturally brought in more people, notably current co-winemaker Connor Vasquez, who started as an intern and now works closely with Bertagna making wines and now spirits with Almendra. The chief product made from distilling wine is of course brandy, which Bertagna will eventually offer once it’s had time to age. In the meantime, this week Almendra will release some other varieties of wine-based spirits, including Frost, a clear unaged distillate as well as two infused varieties, one with local mandarins, Grove, and one called Harvest with toasted farmstead almonds.

Tiny but mighty and though Straw House is small and distributed only locally, the 2012 vintage took home a bronze metal in the prestigious San Francisco International Wine Competition last year.

Chase credits his wife, Beth, with introducing him to wine many years ago.

“When I met her, I was a Budweiser and Sierra Nevada kind of guy,” he said.

“And she’s created a monster. That’s what she says.”

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Durham’s Dog Creek Cellars puts focus on organic

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hen Neal and Judy Cline planted the first organic grapes on their Durham property in 2006, they knew they had a tough row to hoe. “The adage is: To make a little money in the wine business, start with a lot,” Neal said with a smile.

But a decade later, Dog Creek Cellars is producing awardwinning organic wines—the 2014 pinot grigio recently took home bronze at the California State Fair Commercial Wine Competition— and the Clines are offering tours and tastings at their boutique winery and tasting room.

Neal and Judy, who have day jobs at Enloe Medical Center in flight care and emergency services, respectively, had previously grown organic Asian pears on the property. Inspired by a trip to the Russian River Valley, they made the decision to try growing organic wine grapes. Though the Clines were fairly certain as to what they wanted to do, how to go about doing it was another question entirely.

“When we decided to plant grapes, we had an idea of what varieties we wanted, but we really didn’t know what to do,” said Neal. “So we went to a weekend course down st UC Davis; it was called Managing the Small Vineyard.”

“We did a series of those courses as we were establishing the vineyard and the winery,” added Judy. “They tell you, stepby-step, what to do, what not to do, the pitfalls, the pearls. It was amazing.” Neal went on to graduate from the two-year winemaking certificate program through UC Davis’ Department of Viticulture and Enology.

The next hurdle was coming up with a name for the operation. An

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established Sonoma County winery already had dibs on Cline Cellars.

So the couple looked to the past, and the four-legged members of their family—including an exceptionally large Weimaraner named Gustav and a pair of Boston terriers, Trix and Bosco—for inspiration.

“Growing up, my parents had some property north of here on Dog Creek Road, and that’s where I spent a lot of my time,” said Judy. “Dog Creek has a lot of meaning to me, and it’s got the dogs in there. We’re dog people.”

The winery even encourages fellow dog lovers to bring their dogs with them when they visit.

Visitors to Dog Creek Cellars can get a taste of its selection of wines, which, in addition to the pinot grigio, includes a sangiovese, a zinfandel and a rosé. All of the wines produced by Dog Creek Cellars are made using organic grapes and an organic winemaking process, two distinct levels of organic certification.

According to Neal, wine labeled “made from organic grapes” may not have been made organically.

Likewise, a certified organic winery may not be using certified organic grapes to make their wines.

Judy and Neal Cline in their Durham tasting room. photo by daniel taylor

For him, the dual certifications are worth the extra effort. “If you’re gonna do it, do it,” he said about choosing to go organic. “For us, it does ensure that the product is completely organic all the way through.”

With the recent success at the California State Fair, a growing regional following and their participation in local agritourism events such as the Sierra Oro Farm Trail, the Clines said the next step for Dog Creek Cellars is getting onto retail shelves. Organic wines are an increasingly popular choice for consumers and the Durham winery is positioned to capitalize on that trend.

“People are much more aware of what they’re willing to put into their bodies,” said Judy. “We’ve always felt like hopefully the market will eventually catch up with us, and then we’ll be ready with a product that we’re super proud of, and now we’re there.”

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Jess and Vanessa Pitney pour their hearts into Nesseré Vineyard

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n a recent Saturday afternoon, the tasting room at Nesseré Vineyards was filled to the brim with local oenophiles eager to take a first sip of what the new winery had to offer. Judging by the smiles and laughter, that sip—or more accurately, sips, as there were seven wines to sample—was satisfying indeed.

“We like bold, high-octane wines,” Vanessa Pitney, one of the winery’s owners and its namesake, said over a glass of sangiovese a few quieter nights later. Her husband and partner, Jess Pitney, agreed: “We like to stress the grapes out a little bit.”

The Pitneys bought their vinestudded property off Durham Dayton Highway—just 10 minutes from downtown Chico—in 2008, after a long search for an orchardtype place to live and raise a family.

After two years of tending to the grapes and selling them to other winemakers, they decided it was time to learn the craft for themselves. They took a few classes at UC Davis, visited a ton of wineries big and small, and eventually served as apprentices of sorts, under the tutelage of Tod and Alyse Hickman, who own Hickman Family Vineyards in nearby Bangor.

“We have a similar philosophy,” Jess said of the Hickmans.

“We both use organic grapes, no additives. We really want the grapes to speak for themselves.”

Three of the Pitneys’ wines are estate-grown—the sangiovese, pinot noir and barbera. Others use grapes grown mostly in the Sierra foothills, but from as far away as the Sonoma coast. “We’re committed to good grapes,” Vanessa said.

“But we aren’t afraid to blend— that’s the art of it, blending to make something completely different.” Aside from using all organic grapes, the couple have a commitment to doing things as sustainably

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as possible. To that end, much of the supplies used in building the winery were sourced from places like the Habitat for Humanity ReStore. Similarly, everything from the bar and stools to the cellar door and outside tables were all created from second-hand materials.

Building a winery almost from scratch—the grapes were already established—was no easy feat. Jess is a project coordinator for PG&E, and Vanessa works full time as a clinical dietician at Feather River Tribal Health. Plus, they have two small children—ages 1 and 3—who were both born alongside Nesseré.

The winery’s name originally was going to be Benessere, which means well-being in Italian, but that name was already taken. It worked out, though, as Vanessa’s childhood nickname was Nesser—hence the pronunciation (ness-ER-eh). “It was meant to be,” she said with a smile.

In the vineyards that surround the winery, the Pitneys maintain their commitment to sustainability. Before the drought, they dry farmed everything. The past few years, they’ve had to do some irrigation, but they water as minimally

Jess and Vanessa Pitney enjoy a rare relaxing evening on the back patio at their newly opened Durham winery. photo by meredith J. cooper

as possible. And, with a desire to remain a small, family-run and -oriented artisan winery, they have no plans to ship far and wide. Most of their sales will be made on-site, though they aren’t opposed to partnering with a restaurant or even selling in a local grocery store.

To succeed as a boutique business, they hope to tap into the agritourism market and connect with other winemakers to help make the region a destination for wine lovers. They recalled trips to Napa and Sonoma where, because the wineries were so huge, they never got to meet the winemakers or even anyone truly connected to the wine.

For the Pitneys, it’s all about that connection. “We want to connect with the community, to help show off what goes into making wine,” Vanessa said. “And we won’t make anything we won’t drink.”

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A sampling of Butte County’s bounty

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ow that we’ve introduced you to some of our area’s winemakers, go meet some—and taste their creations—for yourself. Please note that while we attempted to compile a comprehensive list of Butte County wineries (and one just over the Tehama County line), we may have missed some. If so, let us know! Also remember that tasting room hours may change, so call ahead before planning a trip. Enjoy!

Almendra Winery & Distillery

Tasting hours: Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 9275 Midway, Durham; 343-6893; almendrawinery.com

Bangor Ranch Vineyard & Winery

Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 5768 La Porte Road, Bangor; (510) 658-2056; bangor-ranch.com

Bertagna Son Kissed Vineyards

Tasting for the Chico winery at Almendra. Tasting hours: Tues.Sun., 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 9275 Midway, Durham; 343-6893; almendrawinery.com

Dog Creek Cellars

Tasting hours: noon-5 p.m. the first Sunday of each month or by appointment. 9975 Garden Creek Road, Durham; 345-3714; dogcreekcellars.com

Gale Vineyards

Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 9345 Stanford Lane, Durham; 891-1264; galevineyards.com

Grey Fox Vineyards

Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 90 Grey Fox Lane, Oroville; 589-3920; greyfox.net

Hickman Family Vineyards Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 77 Orange Ave., Bangor; 679-0679; hickmanfamilyvineyards.com

HoneyRun Winery

“Simple tastings” available most weekdays, 9 a.m.-3:30 p.m., but call ahead. 2309 Park Ave., Chico; 345-6405; honeyrunwinery.com

LaRocca Vineyards

Tasting room: Weds.-Fri. 1:308 p.m., Sat. noon-8 p.m., Sun.

1:30-6 p.m. 222 W. Second St., Chico. Vineyards: 12360 Doe Mill Road, Forest Ranch; 899-9463; laroccavineyards.com

Long Creek Winery & Ranch Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 323 Ward Blvd., Oroville; 589-3415; longcreekwinery.com

Nesseré Vineyards

Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 3471 Durham-Dayton Highway, Durham; 345-9904; nesserevineyards.com

New Clairvaux Vineyard

Tasting daily 11 a.m.-5 p.m.

26240 Seventh St., Vina; 839-2200; newclairvauxvineyard.com

Odyssey Winery and Vineyards

Tasting hours: Sat. 1-6 p.m., May-December. 6237 Cohasset Road, Chico; 891-9463

Purple Line Urban Winery

Tasting hours: Weds. 2-8 p.m., Thurs.-Sat. noon-7 p.m., Sun. noon-5 p.m. 760 Safford St., Oroville; 534-1785; purplelinewinery.com

Quilici Vineyards

Tasting by appointment.

72 Quail Hill Place, Oroville; 589-5088; quilicivineyards.com

Roney Wines

Tasting by appointment. 5900 Anita Road, Chico; 518-9333; roneywines.com

Spencer-Shirey Wines

Tasting hours: Sat.-Sun., noon-5 p.m. 6857 La Porte Road, Bangor; 205-3579; spencershireywines.com

Straw House Cellars

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2016-17 Season SEPTEMBER APRIL 10 Chico World Music Festival 1 Rhythmic Circus 11 Colvin & Earle 2 Broadway Boogie 13 Shanghai Acrobats 13-14 Banff Film Festival 22 Dr. Dolittle Jr. 30 Tosca MAY 25 La Boheme 25 Annie Jr. 26 Bruce Hornsby & The Noisemakers OCTOBER 5 Dave Rawlings Machine 8 Parsons Dance 14 It Gets Better: LGBTQ Celebration 27 Capitol Steps 30 Verona Quartet NOVEMBER 3 Whose Live Anyway?

12 David Sedaris 20 Asleep at the Wheel & Hot Club of Cowtown 27 Lucia di Lammermoor DECEMBER 1 - 4 A Very Chico Nutcracker 9 Jake Shimabukuro 11 Lee Ann Womack JANUARY 21 Booker T Jones: Stax Revue FEBRUARY 3 -4 Abbey Road: UDAC 9 Las Cafeteras 12 Elixir of Love 17 BiRDMAN LiVE: Antonio Sanchez 19 The Nile Project 26 Poemjazz Robert Pinsky & Laurence Hobgood MARCH 5 Enso String Quartet 18 Dervish 25 Lucky Plush 28 Movie: Dirty Dancing 30 Spotlight Performances Parsons Dance

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THIS WEEK The truth is out there Talking mansplaining and menstruation with Seattle poppy punks Tacocat length album sounds like a familiar Iphrase, you’re most likely a devotee f the title of Tacocat’s third full-

of The X-Files. Vocalist Emily Nokes is obsessed with the series, and penned Lost Time’s opening by Ryan J. Prado song, “Dana Katherine Scully,” in honor of the fictional FBI special agent.

The Seattle band has made a career—eightPreview: plus years—of observaTacocat performs tional punk and garagetonight, July 14, pop, honing in on the 9:30 p.m., at type of pop-culture Duffy’s Tavern.

Skin Peaks and minutiae you might Bad Mana open. find in a nostalgic Cost: $7 1990s TV retrospective.

But the band also deals in equal measure with socio-political fodder, and emerges as one of the Pacific Northwest’s most outspoken bands when it comes to feminism.

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a little bit of a complicated issue. I know a lot of women in bands who are very strong feminists but who think, when it comes to their music, they don’t wanna talk about it because it doesn’t have much to do with it.”

One of the issues the band’s members have embraced is menstruation. They took on the topic in “Crimson Wave” from 2014 album NVM, the first recording on Sub Pop imprint Hardly Art. Lost Time’s “FDP” is a companion song, with the chorus, “FDP, don’t fuck with me,” about the first day of a period.

Meanwhile, “Men Explain Things to Me,” a title borrowed from a Rebecca Solnit essay skewering male bravado, is a peppy, bubblegum-pop punk track.

“All the topics and everything are just basically very much things we discuss as friends,” McKenna said. “I was a teenage horse girl, so we did ‘Horse Grrls,’ and mansplaining at shows is definitely a thing that comes up with guys telling you how to use your microphone or whatever.”

The band evolved its sonic imprint on the new album by hiring producer Erik Blood, whose credits included the sparse,

dark indie hip-hop of Seattle crews Shabazz Palaces and THEESatisfaction.

Tacocat has had a run of exciting moments so far this year. Just prior to the April release of Lost Time, the band was approached about performing at a high-profile political campaign event in Seattle. “Somebody asked us to play a Bernie Sanders rally, and I was thinking it was like a barbecue or some weird benefit show,” recalled McKenna. “Then I got a couple of other phone calls about it, and we realized, ‘Oh, my God, this is at the stadium!’ So we had to do this.”

Despite the obvious bump up in notoriety by way of such sets, the band members’ feet remain firmly entrenched in the DIY underground. Still, they acknowledge that the mansplaining has been taken down a notch these days.

“At one show, Emily had a bad mic cord and some guy in the crowd was like, ‘You have to hold it two inches from your face!’ and gave some dumb advice on how to hold a mic,” McKenna said.

“That sort of thing used to happen all the time, but it’s dying down, maybe because we’re playing less sketchy dive bars or VRPHWKLQJ ³ Ɛ

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Special Events BEER RELEASE PARTY: Release party for the brewery’s Jester

Imperial Pilsner. Th, 7/14, 6pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfalls casino.com/brewing-co.

PARTY IN THE PARK: Weekly outdoor concert festival featuring live music, vendors, dance acts and more. This week: The Revells.

Th, 5:30pm through 8/25. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Drive in Paradise; (530) 872-6291.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Weekly market featuring farmers, produce, vendors, food trucks and live entertainment. Th, 6-9pm through 9/29. Downtown Chico.

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar assistant at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

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MOVIES IN THE PARK: MCFARLAND Saturday, July 16 Sycamore Field

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HAPPY TAILS MOVIE NIGHT: Drop the kids off for a

DRAGOPOLIS: “The future of drag” show hosted

couple hours of fun, pizza and an animalthemed movie. Pillows/bean bag chairs encouraged but not required. Third F of every month, 6:30pm. $10/first child; $6/additional children (same family). Butte Humane Society Education Center, 2156 Pillsbury Road Ste. 160; (530) 343-7917.

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

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: Weekly, outdoor concerts at City Plaza. This week: DeVoll (alt-rock). F, 6-7:30pm through 9/9. Free.

Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

Theater SABRINA FAIR: A romantic-triangle comedy about a chauffeur’s daughter and the two sons of the family her father works for. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 7/31. Opens 7/15. $14$18. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

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

MOVIES IN THE PARK: MCFARLAND: Relax on the grass at Sycamore field for CARD’s showing of McFarland. Sa, 7/16, 8:30-11pm. Free, snacks for purchase. Sycamore Field, Lower Bidwell Park Baseball Fields; (530) 895-4711; www.chico rec.com.

Theater SABRINA FAIR: See Friday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su, 2pm through 7/31. $14-$18. Chico Theater

Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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with an audition song that covers one verse and the chorus. Call for more info. Su, 7/17, 6pm; M, 7/18, 6pm. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chico theatercompany.com.

SABRINA FAIR: See Friday. Th-Sa, 7:30pm & Su,

2pm through 7/31. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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Special Events YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open-mic comedy with 20 open slots. Sign-ups start at 8pm. M, 9pm through 8/29. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 3434915.

FREE INSPIRATION Local art and fashion collective Chikoko is looking to spread some creativity around by inviting designers and makers to the Chico Women’s Club on Sunday, July 17, for a Mega Crafter Swap. Attendees are invited to bring fabric and other crafting materials to offer to fellow makers.

The event is free, as are all of the materials offered.

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Special Events STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE: The area’s top stand-up comics perform alongside those

trying their hand at comedy for the first time.

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

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

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with an audition song that covers one verse and the chorus. Call for more info. Su, 7/17, 6pm; M, 7/18, 6pm. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chico theatercompany.com.

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Special Events MEGA CRAFTER SWAP: Chikoko hosts a crafter extravaganza with loads of fabric and miscellaneous supplies for dreamy creations. Bring extra materials to trade. Su, 7/17, 10am-1pm.

No cover. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

FINE ARTS Art 1078 GALLERY: Seen and Heard: Local

Musicians as Artists, group show featuring the work of local musicians who also make visual art. Featuring Donald Beaman, Fera, Sean Galloway, Robert Howard, Robin Indar, Erin Lizardo, Jasuka Naomi, Sesar Sanchez, Scout and Lisa Valentine. Through 7/16. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Masters, for this year’s edition, the center presents past and present works by Jerril Dean Kopp, Chris Cantello and Waif Mullins. Through 7/29. No cover. 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: works by Susan Caron Proctor. The Healing Art Gallery features Northern California artists touched by cancer. Through 7/15.

265 Cohasset Road inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:

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Saturday, July 16 Maltese Bar & Tap Room SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Summer Show, the collages of Michael Mew. Through 8/17. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

NINTH AVENUE GALLERY & STUDIO: Water

Paper Stone, watercolor paintings of Nicolai Larsen. Through 8/12. 180 E. Ninth Ave.

RED TAVERN: Artwork of Amber Palmer, watercolor work by local artist Amber Palmer. Through 10/31. 1250 Esplanade, (530) 894-3463, www.redtavern.com.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY:

Landscape photography, new works by

Richard Powell. Through 8/6. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

WINCHESTER GOOSE: Art of Jesse Smith, realistic ink renderings of historical buildings and landmarks. Through 7/31.

800 Broadway St., (530) 895-1350, www.thewinchestergoose.com.

Museums CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Ongoing display highlighting 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.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Chico’s science museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of iceage skeletons. Check site for current special exhibition. Ongoing. 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, 2,000 years of Far Eastern creativity and ingenuity will be showcased through ceramic art. Through 7/31. Meriam Library Complex, Chico State.

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SCENE Louie the golden retriever, with handler Nancy Murillo, gets the rat’s scent during a barn hunt trial.

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on a recent hot Saturday morning in north Chico, the timid-looking by Dachshund was Mason a master—or at Masis least in the master class—at the Barn Hunt Trials.

Barn hunting is an organized sport that features a course/maze made of hay bales in which a live rat—inside a plastic tube—is hidden. Then the canine “ratters” navigate the maze to locate their prey and are judged on time.

Laurie Cowhig looked right at home surrounded by a sea of wagging tails and more than two dozen human onlookers. Cowhig runs Redwood Ratters, part of the Northern California Barn Hunt Association, and organized the recent weekend event late-June at Fidolites, a training facility in north Chico that soon will be relocating to Corning.

Cowhig described barn hunting as a “gateway sport,” and looking around it was apparent that it appealed to owners of a wide variety of dogs, with breeds ranging from German shepherds to English bulldogs. The day before the two-

day competition, she held training sessions for the beginners.

Cowhig, who lives in Petaluma, started organizing competitions throughout Northern California fulltime earlier this year, and holds at least two each month. Though the fastest dog/handler team in each category gets a ribbon, Cowhig said the competition is generally fairly casual.

“It’s a really fun way for people to come out and interact with their dogs and interact with like-minded people,” she said.

The rules are fairly simple: A dog of any breed that can fit through an 18-inch-wide tunnel enters the arena, owner at its side, with goal of finding the rat in the hay-bale stacks. There’s a time limit—between two and six minutes, depending on the division— and sometimes decoy tubes are set out along with ones holding rats. At higher levels, there can be multiple rats as well as requirements for dogs to jump up on high stacks of bales and even tunnel through them.

Trials are between dogs of the same class (novice, master, senior, etc.)

Join the hunt:

Redwood Ratters has several more barn hunt trials around Northern California over the summer. The next event at Fidolites, which is moving to Corning, will be Aug. 27-28. Visit www.redwoodratters.com for more info.

and further separated by dog size.

Cowhig explained that the competition is all about the handler’s relationship with the dog and being able to recognize that the dog has found something. If a dog chooses a decoy, it’s considered a fail.

Dixie Luebcke, Truffles’ handler, said she knows right away when Truffles has honed in on the rodent. “When he finds the rat, he knows it’s a rat. Some of the dogs give less of an indication, but he goes bananas,” she said. “You’ll hear him screaming.”

Luebcke, who’s from Sunnyvale, has been barn hunting with Truffles since the beginning of the year, and follows Redwood Ratters around Northern California to compete. She thought it would be a fun activity for Truffles because he loves chasing squirrels, and she’s since fallen in love with the community of barn hunters.

Truffles competed in four trials over the weekend, and though he failed to pass either of the Saturday heats, he did win one of the Sunday trials, earning a High in Class distinction as a small dog in the master class.

“It’s great because it gives you something to do with your dog, and all the people are really great,” Luebcke said. □

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UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Hosted by

singer/songwriter Jeb Draper. F, 5-8pm through 11/18. Free. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 State Hwy. 70 in Oroville, (530) 532-1889, www.Rock HouseHwy70.com.

Saturday, July 16 Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. SEE SATURDAY

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.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: Weekly outdoor concerts at City Plaza. This week: DeVoll (alt-rock). F, 6-7:30pm through 9/9. Free. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

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CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: Eclectic selection of tunes with Seid and a rotating cast of friends, including Larry Peterson, Bob Littell, Stevie Cook & Eric Peter. Th, 6:30-9:30pm through 7/28. Opens 7/14. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Cafe, 501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.has beans.com.

TACOCAT: These Seattle garage pop-rockers describe the band as “Go-Go’s meets The Monkees,” and the new album’s rad single, “I Hate the Weekend,” bears that out. Chico’s Skin Peaks and Bad Mana open. Th, 7/14, 9:30pm. $7. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party

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

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB LITTELL: Playing an eclectic set of live music. F, 6-9pm through 7/29. TwoTwenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W. Fourth St., (530) 895-1515, www.two twentyrestaurant.com.

TENNESSEE RIVER: Alabama tribute. F,

7/15, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

with a rotating cast of local and regional producers and DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm.

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

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

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BORN JOVI: Bon Jovi tribute. Sa, 7/16,

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

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

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

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

ESPLANADE BAND: Local party band

returns. Sa, 7/16, 5:30-7:30pm. Smokin’ Mo’s BBQ, 131 Broadway St., (530) 8916677, www.smokinmosbbq.com.

LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO: Every Saturday afternoon/evening come out for live music in a relaxed environment. Sa through 9/18. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 State Highway 70 in Oroville, (530) 532-1889, www.Rock HouseHwy70.com.

Those looking to add a little rock ’n’ roll to their next summertime outing into nearby mountain country should check out the Rock House Restaurant. In addition to a menu featuring pizza, sandwiches, coffees and “rocktails,” the rural restaurant—located along Highway 70 outside of Yankee Hill—offers an open mic hosted by Concow singer-songwriter Jeb Draper (pictured) on Fridays and live music on the patio every Saturday night. The summer lineup (available on the restaurant’s Facebook page) features bands like Da HotSpots and Chico fave Brad Peterson. And check out After That this Saturday, July 16, 5-8 p.m.

NOCHE LATINA: Latin night at Lost Sa,

7/16, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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: The local funksters play the hotel’s party room. Sa, 7/16, 8:30pm.

Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685 Manzanita Court, (530) 345-2491.

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FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: Join house band The Growlers with your instrument. W, 7/20, 7:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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

THE HOUSE CATS: Live jazz/swing

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favorites. W, 6:30-9:30pm through 8/31.

Italian Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988.

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Things are bound to get steamy at Lost on Main on Saturday, July 16, when the club hosts Noche Latina, featuring DJ Lil 50, DJ Infamous and DJ Eclectic spinning merengue, salsa, bachata, reggaeton, banda and corrido music.

LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

OPEN MIC MUSIC NIGHTS: Local musi-

UPTOWN: Cover band from Redding. Sa, 7/16, 8:30pm. No cover. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

WHITE WATER: The Glenn County party

band visits Chico. Sa, 7/16, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tacklebox chico.com.

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YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly

open-mic comedy with 20 open slots.

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

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BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

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

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

cians Jeff Coleman and Jimmy Reno hosts this open mic night. Bring your instrument of choice. W, 6-10pm.

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

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

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Every Sunday Industry night Karaoke (DownLo) July 16 Latin night July 21 Yak Attack July 22 Coolio The Underdog July 23 Devoll, Down the Well, Socorro Aug 5 David Gans and The Ascenders Aug 25 Red Baraat Sept 3 Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk

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Rhythm is gonna get you Filmmaker’s unique debut moves with the dance of life because, at first glance, it may not Tseempartly special at all, and partly because, even he Fits is something really special. That’s

at second glance, it may seem earnest but obvious and mostly undraby matic.

Juan-Carlos The key thing to Selznick know (or better yet, discover) about Anna Rose Holmer’s feature-film debut is that it is fundamentally a dance film. It has a story to tell and an interesting central charThe Fits acter to follow, and it has Starring Royalty Hightower, Alexis striking moments of mysNeblett and Da’Sean tery and drama. But dance Minor. Directed by forms, which here include Anna Rose Holmer. choreographed body lanPageant Theatre. guage and the rhythms of Not rated. everyday movement, are at the core of its dramatic energy and formal beauty.

The central character is a rather solitary preteen named Toni (Royalty Hightower), who we first see taking boxing lessons from her older brother Jermaine (Da’Sean Minor)

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in a community center gym. She’s holding her own in that otherwise all-male setting, but she’s also taking an increasing interest in the activities of the all-girl dance teams in another part of that gym.

As Toni gradually begins to join the freeform community that the dance team represents, something mysterious and troubling begins to happen within the group. Intermittently but repeatedly, individual dancers are hit by fainting spells, seizures, “fits” (hence the title). The film offers no explanation of these “fits” (though Holmer indicates in the press notes that there is a continuing historical record of such phenomena).

Some of the dancers, including Toni, are troubled by these occurrences, but others see them with a certain sense of wonder.

One of the pivotal moments in the film arrives during an early and particularly dra-

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The Fits

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated —J.C.S.

Veteran filmmaker Brian De Palma, that longtime purveyor of entertainment and disturbance, seems now to have graduated to the status of curmudgeonly Old Master. This documentary-style portrait by two younger directors, Noah Baumbach and Jake Paltrow, lets the man himself do all of the talking in a survey of his life and career. A zesty scattering of biographical detail arises mostly within the filmmaker’s reminiscences and commentary on his films (Phantom of the Paradise, Carrie, Dressed to Kill, Scarface, Casualties of War, The Untouchables, etc.). Shrewdly incorporated excerpts from the films themselves form the strongest element of the Baumbach-Paltrow portrait.

The few provocative scraps of De Palma’s life story left me wanting more—and hoping that some industrious biographer is already at work on a more fully developed account of this quirky rebel’s character. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

Brad Furman (The Lincoln Lawyer) directs this drama based on a real-life U.S. Customs agent (played here by Bryan Cranston) who went undercover to infiltrate drug cartels and bust up the money-laundering operation of Pablo Escobar in the 1980s. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Ghostbusters

A reboot of Ivan Reitman’s classic 1984 comedy brings in an all-female cast of Ghostbusters—Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig, Leslie Jones and Kate McKinnon—to do battle with the paranormal creatures that have invaded New York City. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Swiss Army Man

A fantastical tale of a man (played by Paul Dano) stranded on a deserted island who one day befriends another man (Daniel Radcliffe) who washes ashore as a corpse and joins him on a surreal adventure. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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matic “fit” scene. The fit itself is strange, but there’s also the mild shock of realizing that the only response of the witnesses to this moment is to record it on their cellphones.

What makes the moment pivotal is the eventual recognition that, for this film, those cellphone recordings are not a sign of heartless indifference, but rather a further extension of the film’s embrace of all forms of human movement, the mysterious and the mundane alike, as elements of dance.

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The BFG

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The film’s central subject is a unique and little-known piece of American history— a rebellion against the Confederacy in several counties in Mississippi during the Civil War. A group of disenchanted Confederate army deserters found common cause of a sort with runaway slaves in the swamplands of southern Mississippi, and took up arms against Confederate troops in Jones County and environs. The guerrilla leader,

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an outraged army medic named Newton Knight (Matthew McConaughey), proclaimed the aggrieved territory “the Free State of Jones.” Knight is neither a slave owner nor an abolitionist, but he is readily impressed with the savvy aid provided by a young “house slave” named Rachel (Gugu MbathaRaw), and he gradually finds an earnest rapport with a group of runaway slaves, including especially a gallant and articulate fellow named Moses (Mahershala Ali). The film is probably at its best, movie-wise, when it’s dealing out the dramatic action arising from acts of rebellion and resistance. Big chunks of the film, however, play out as exhibits and illustrations in its multifaceted history lesson. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The Jungle Book

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The Legend of Tarzan

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Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

Zac Efron and Adam DeVine star as a couple of trouble-making brothers forced by family members to find dates to their sister’s wedding, only to find a pair (Aubrey Plaza and Anna Kendrick) even more wild than they are. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Purge: Election Year

The Purge—the annual 12-hour period during which all crime is legal in America—is back, this time with a presidential candidate and her head of security on the streets during the mayhem, fighting for their lives and to put an end to the event. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

The Secret Life of Pets

Louis C.K. stars as the voice of terrier Max, whose cushy life is upended by the arrival of an unwanted new roommate and an ensuing adventure in the big city with a wideranging cast of talking animals. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Shallows

A pro surfer (Blake Lively) is stranded 200 yards from shore with an enormous great white shark between her and the safety of a secluded beach. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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with so few customers, but it still hit me hard when House of Bamboo closed after almost 13 years. My roommate, Zack, was only kind of joking when he said I had tried to keep it in business single-handedly.

I first stepped into the Asian eatery on East Second Street in August 2009, on my first night in Chico as an exchange student from Alaska. After Zack and I got situated in our crappy apartment on West Second Avenue (we’ve since moved), our families walked downtown, read the menu posted on the door, and went inside.

After that, I ate there dozens of times, given any occasion, including probably four or five birthdays.

When I met a girl in Philosophy 101 at Chico State, that’s where we went on our first date. It was my dad’s go-to dinner spot when he visited and became my family’s gold standard of Asian cuisine. A few summers back, when we took a fishing trip to Valdez, Alaska, we went to the town’s only Chinese joint, dined on MSG-soaked sweet-andsour chicken and pined for House of Bamboo, 2,500 miles away.

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restaurant’s website cited a mix of Chinese, Thai and Vietnamese influences. The stir-fried veggies were fresh and crunchy, the sauce on the plum chicken was subtle, never heavy, and the fried rice was something special.

It was confusing, though: An unerringly wonderful restaurant in a prime location that never seemed to fill more than two or three tables, even on otherwise bustling nights on the weekend. I guess not everyone was in love, though. A former CN&R intern once referred to it as “House of Shamboo” because, she said, the portions were small for the price. (Dishes were $10 to $12, and we’d usually order a few and pass them around the table.)

I told her: whatever.

On a Friday night a couple of weeks ago, my girlfriend, Abby, and I had what turned out to be our final meal there. I ordered what I always did—orange chicken, chow mein and house fried rice—and commented on how it tasted precisely the same as the first time. Seriously, I recall the quality suffering only once, on what must have been the night of high school prom because the

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restaurant was overwhelmed by formally dressed teenagers.

House of Bamboo was a small operation run by owner/chef Julie Ye with her son and server Ritch Ye. Ritch was always kind and never failed to comment on how clean our plates were, that we must have been hungry, etc. That Friday, after putting our leftover food in to-go boxes, he mentioned that we’d better savor them. With a pained expression, he said that the restaurant’s lease was up on July 1 and negotiations with the building’s landlord had fallen through. House of Bamboo would close the very next day.

When contacted by phone a couple of weeks later, Julie said she appreciates all of her customers over the years but that she’s decided to retire.

On the way to the car, I choked up in front of Abby and got embarrassed. I hadn’t realized how much the place meant to me, and how closely I associated it with my experience in Chico, until it was gone. □

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As more and more artists are priced-out of San Francisco, there are still a few bands left standing in the fog, one being Sonny and The Sunsets. The four-piece (with coming-andgoing pieces), fronted by Sonny Smith, is known for its odd beach pop. The group’s new album, Moods Baby Moods, has less of the Sunsets’ typical reverby wash and more crude electronic beats with a heavy 1980s influence. The constant is Smith’s quirky lyrical delivery, similar to the meandering charm of (now) Chico’s Jonathan Richman.

At the same time, there’s an overall stark raw quality that can be reminiscent of long-adored punk poppers The Unicorns (see “White Cops on Trial”). There are moments when the chorus keeps looping and it can feel like staring at modern art gone awry, but the pure charisma is a reminder that that’s in fact its point.

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lately. During the spring, favorite sons Explosions in the Sky blew the roof my head during a show down in Oakland at the Fox Theater, and in recent weeks I’ve been coloring my summer with jams from the deliriously fun Pile, the latest from one of the city’s better recent exports, A Giant Dog. And just last week, I spent a few days in the in the sweaty, electric, conductive city itself.

I’d been to and through Texas many times, but this was my first visit to the state’s capital, there with a few members of the N&R family for AAN 2016 (the annual conference for the Association of Alternative Newsmedia) and to devour as much of the city’s bounty as possible.

And, yes!, the city does live up to its nickname as the live musical capital of the world. Much as has been the case for its kindred city of beards, Portland, Ore., skyrocketing rents and home prices in recent years have squeezed hipsters out of the neighborhoods where their fun places to eat, drink and play are located. But as Austin Chronicle music writer Kevin Curtin wrote in a year-end column last December, and as I observed during my few nights there, venues (and bands, and restaurants, and bars) are sticking it out and “the promise of Austin as a place to play music, remain a slacker, and never get bored survives and thrives.”

Ours was a ridiculous threenight stand of live music that kicked off with Austin honky-tonk fave Dale Watson alongside Asleep at the Wheel’s Ray Benson charming the pants off the room at Stubb’s BBQ. The next night was Jimmie Vaughan and band at the legendary (and recently relocated) Antone’s.

We closed out the weekend with the rhythmic badassery of local experimenters Marriage (possibly their last show?) and a very lively set by Brazil psych-rockers Boogarins at Hotel Vegas. Thanks to some thoughtful long-distance advice from former Austinite and current Chico Natural Foods frontend manager Alissa Ziemianski and the tireless guidance of an Austin Chronicle intern Tucker Whatley, who stuck with our crew for two very long nights of fun, we also ate the tastiest meats and drank in some of the best dives and hip The Ameripolitan, Dale Watson hangouts in Austin’s East Sixth Street district.

As for the famed Dirty Sixth, the main drag of nightspots along Sixth Street, we steered clear other than to pass through. Sure, the streets are closed down for several blocks on weekend nights, and there’s live music pouring out of dozens of clubs for what amounts to one giant street party, but there were just as many DJs pumping out crappy club music as there were live acts, and every band I stopped to hear was playing tired weddingreception rock. Kind of like Chico, as a college town, Austin has a bro-centric party rep that the nondouches and locals have to live down, and thankfully we had friends to lead the way to the real Austin.

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adventures might make you more manly if you are a woman. If you are a man, the coming escapades could make you more womanly. How about if you’re trans? Odds are that you’ll become even more gender fluid. I am exaggerating a bit, of course.

The transformations I’m referring to may not be visible to casual observers.

They will mostly unfold in the depths of your psyche. But they won’t be merely symbolic, either. There’ll be mutations in your biochemistry that will expand your sense of your own gender. If you respond enthusiastically to these shifts, you will begin a process that could turn you into an even more complete and attractive human being than you already are.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I’ll name

five heroic tasks you will have more than enough power to accomplish in the next eight months. (1) Turning an adversary into an ally. (2) Converting a debilitating obsession into an empowering passion.

(3) Transforming an obstacle into a motivator. (4) Discovering small treasures in the midst of junk and decay. (5) Using the unsolved riddles of childhood to create a living shrine to eternal youth. (6) Gathering a slew of new freedom songs, learning them by heart, and singing them regularly—especially when habitual fears rise up in you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Your life

has resemblances to a jigsaw puzzle that lies unassembled on a kitchen table.

Unbeknownst to you, but revealed to you by me, a few of the pieces are missing.

Maybe your cat knocked them under the refrigerator, or they fell out of their storage box somewhere along the way. But this doesn’t have to be a problem. I believe you can mostly put together the puzzle without the missing fragments. At the end, when you’re finished, you may be tempted to feel frustration that the picture’s not complete. But that would be illogical perfectionism. Ninety-seven percent success will be just fine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you

are smoothly attuned with the cosmic rhythms and finely aligned with your unconscious wisdom, you could wake up one morning and find that a mental block has miraculously crumbled, instantly raising your intelligence. If you can find it in your proud heart to surrender to “God,” your weirdest dilemma will get at least partially solved during a magical threehour interlude. And if you are able to forgive 50 percent of the wrongs that have been done to you in the last six years, you will no longer feel like you’re running into a strong wind, but rather you’ll feel like the beneficiary of a strong wind blowing in the same direction you’re headed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): How often have

you visited hell or the suburbs of hell during the last few weeks? According to my guesstimates, the time you spent there was exactly the right amount. You got the teachings you needed most, including a few tricks about how to steer clear of hell in the future. With this valuable information, you will forevermore be smarter about how to avoid unnecessary pain and irrelevant hindrances. So congratulations!

I suggest you celebrate. And please use your newfound wisdom as you decline one last invitation to visit the heart of a big, hot mess.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): My friend

Athena works as a masseuse. She says that the highest praise she can receive is drool. When her clients feel so sublimely serene that threads of spit droop out of their mouths, she knows she’s in top form.

You might trigger responses akin to drool in the coming weeks, Virgo. Even if you don’t work as a massage therapist, I think it’s possible you’ll provoke rather extreme expressions of approval, longing, and curiosity. You will be at the height of your power to inspire potent feelings in those you encounter. In light of this situation, you might want to wear a small sign or button that reads, “You have my permission to drool freely.”

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

Free Will Astrology poll shows that 33 percent of your friends, loved ones, and acquaintances approve of your grab for glory. Thirty-eight percent disapprove, 18 percent remain undecided, and 11 percent wish you would grab for even greater glory. As for me, I’m aligned with the 11 percent minority. Here’s what I say: Don’t allow your quest for shiny breakthroughs and brilliant accomplishments to be overly influenced by what people think of you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You are

at the pinnacle of your powers to both hurt and heal. Your turbulent yearnings could disrupt the integrity of those whose self-knowledge is shaky, even as your smoldering radiance can illuminate the darkness for those who are lost or weak.

As strong and confident as I am, even I would be cautious about engaging your tricky intelligence. Your piercing perceptions and wild understandings might either undo me or vitalize me. Given these volatile conditions, I advise everyone to approach you as if you were a love bomb or a truth fire or a beauty tornado.

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CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): What do you want to be when you grow up, Capricorn? What? You say you are already all grown up, and my question is irrelevant? If that’s your firm belief, I will ask you to set it aside for now. I’ll invite you to entertain the possibility that maybe some parts of you are not in fact fully mature; that no matter how ripe you imagine yourself to be, you could become even riper—an even more gorgeous version of your best self. I will also encourage you to immerse yourself in a mood of playful fun as you respond to the following question: “How can I activate and embody an even more complete version of my soul’s code?”

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

a summer day 20 years ago, I took my 5-year-old daughter Zoe and her friend Max to the merry-go-round in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. Zoe jumped on the elegant golden-maned lion and Max mounted the wild blue horse. Me? I climbed aboard the humble pig. Its squat pink body didn’t seem designed for rapid movement.

Its timid gaze was fixed on the floor in front of it. As the man who operated the ride came around to see if everyone was in place, he congratulated me on my bold choice. Very few riders preferred the porker, he said. Not glamorous enough.

“But I’m sure I will arrive at our destination as quickly and efficiently as everyone else,” I replied. Your immediate future, Aquarius, has symbolic resemblances to this scene.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Early on in

our work together, my psychotherapist confessed that she only works with clients whose problems are interesting to her. In part, her motivations are selfish: Her goal is to enjoy her work. But her motivations are also altruistic. She feels she’s not likely to be of service to anyone with whom she can’t be deeply engaged. I understand this perspective, and am inclined to make it more universal. Isn’t it smart to pick all our allies according to this principle?

Every one of us is a mess in one way or another, so why not choose to blend our fates with those whose messiness entertains us and teaches us the most? I suggest you experiment with this view in the coming weeks and months, Pisces.

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Here’s the deal: I will confess a dark secret from my past if you confess an equivalent secret from yours. Shall I go first? When I first got started in the business of writing horoscope columns, I contributed a sexedup monthly edition to a porn magazine published by smut magnate Larry Flynt.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GALLAWAY CONSULTING, GDA CONSULTING, NORTHSTAR, NORTHSTAR ENGINEERING, NORTHSTAR ENVIRONMENTAL at 111 Mission Ranch Blvd., Suite 100 Chico, CA 95926.

MAP ASSOCIATES, INC. 111 Mission Ranch Blvd., Suite 100 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MARK ADAMS, PRESIDENT Dated: June 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000724 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as F.E.W. PRODUCTS at 5050 Cohasset Rd. Unit 50 Chico, CA 95973.

RICHARD A WALDSMITH 14064 Limousin Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD A. WALDSMITH Dated: June 6, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000736 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EGG ROLL KING at 659 Palmetto Ave Chico, CA 95926.

EGG ROLL KING, LLC 659 Palmetto Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: QUANG BACH NGO, MANAGER Dated: May 27, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000715 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL CLEANED CARPETS at 121 Hammon Park Dr Oroville, CA 95965.

SHAWN WEBBER 121 Hammon Park Dr Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AMAZON REALTY, CHRISTELLE GRILLET-AUBERT C. G. A. REAL ESTATE at 1805 Citrus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

CHRISTELLE GRILLET-AUBERT 1805 Citrus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTELLE GRILLET-AUBERT Dated: June 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000780 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COBALT REAL ESTATE, COBALT REALTY at 1805 Citrus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CHRISTELLE GRILLET-AUBERT 1805 Citrus Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTELLE GRILLET-AUBERT Dated: June 23, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000809 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OMIA GUEST HOME at 2130 Fogg Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

ANGELITA MARTINEZ 2130 Fogg Avenue Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANGELITA MARTINEZ Dated: June 16, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000772 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CRESTED LOAM DESIGNS at 1025 Oleander Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MIA RAY KRAKOWSKI 1025 Oleander Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIA KRAKOWSKI Dated: June 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000804 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as J AND J AUTOMOTIVE at 3199 Plummer Dr Ste 8 Chico, CA 95973.

JACOB W LESLIE SR 1354 Elliott Rd # 27 Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JACOB LESLIE Dated: June 20, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000786 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VALHALLA LAND CO at 72 Purple Rock Lane Oroville, CA 95966.

HAROLD W HIGGINS 72 Purple Rock Lane Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HAROLD W. HIGGINS Dated: June 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000720 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WJR REMODEL AND FINISH at 1372 Ringtail Way Chico, CA 95973.

WILLIAM JOSEPH RASH 1372 Ringtail Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WILLIAM RASH Dated: June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000791 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LARAIN’S FAMILY HOME DAYCARE at 1497 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926.

LARAIN JOY MADEROS 1497 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LARAIN MADEROS Dated: June 28, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000814 Published: July 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TLC BOOKKEEPING SOLUTIONS at 1450 Sleepy Hollow Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

TAMI L COLLISTER. This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TAMI COLLISTER Dated: June 16, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000774 Published: July 7,14,21,28, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HARRIS AND PLOTTEL, LLP at 3120 Cohasset Rd, Suite 10 Chico, CA 95973.

NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 3120 Cohasset Rd, Suite 10 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL Dated: June 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000832 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MONTESSORI CHILDREN’S HOUSE CHICO at 814 Glenn Street Chico, CA 95928.

SARAH LIVINGSTON 2575 White Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

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Signed: SARAH LIVINGSTON Dated: June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000792 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GAMESTOP 1323 at 1950 E. 20th Street #C305 Chico, CA 95928.

GAMESTOP, INC. 625 Westport Pkwy Grapevine, TX 76051.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL NICHOLS, VP-TREASURER Dated; June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000798 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GAMESTOP 2600 at 855 East Ave. #240 Chico, CA 95926.

GAMESTOP, INC. 625 Westport Pkwy Grapevine, TX 76051.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL NICHOLS, VP-TREASURER Dated; June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000799 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GAMESTOP 5227 at 690 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

GAMESTOP, INC. 625 Westport Pkwy Grapevine, TX 76051.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL NICHOLS, VP-TREASURER Dated; June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000800 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GAMESTOP 6741 at 1124 J Oro Dam Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

GAMESTOP, INC. 625 Westport Pkwy Grapevine, TX 76051.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL NICHOLS, VP-TREASURER Dated; June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000801 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARKSIDE PHYSICAL THERAPY at 1031 Village Lane Chico, CA 95926.

WESTERN PHYSICAL THERAPY, INC. 1495 Victor Avenue Suite A Redding, CA 96003.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DONALD BAAS, CEO Dated: June 21, 2016 FBN Number:2016-0000796 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTH STATE MICRO SYSTEMS 2499 Bruce Rd, Suite 30 Chico, CA 95928.

TRACY KEVIN REEDY 1228 A Oakdale St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TRACY REEDY Dated: June 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000823 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ST. THERESE CHURCH at 1749 Spruce Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SOCIETY OF PIUS X 11485 N. Farley Rd. Platte City, MO 64079.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JOHN BRUCCIANI, SECRETARY Dated; June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000795 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TASTY CHICO at 644 Crister Ave Chico, CA 95926.

KYLE NELSON 644 Crister Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KYLE NELSON Dated: July 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000841 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SWEET TREATS AND ADEPT PUMPS at 5250 Olive Hwy Suite I Oroville, CA 95966.

KATHERINE ELIZABETH MOLOHON 11111 Oro Quincy Hwy Berry Creek, CA 95916.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHERINE MOLOHON Dated: June 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000740 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as POWDER ROOM BEAUTY BAR at 239 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928.

CASSANDRA PIERRO 1402 Davis Street Chico, CA 95928.

DEANNA PIERRO 1402 Davis Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: DEANNA PIERRO Dated: June 3, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000732 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CLAY HILLIGAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CLAY LORAN HILLIGAS Proposed name: CLAY LAFARO ELLINGTON 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: July 22, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: June 10, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00630 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SANDRA ANN FRANKLIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DEGAN JACKSON HAYES Proposed name: DEGAN JACKSON FRANKLIN 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: July 22, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: May 25, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00477 Published: June 23,30, July 7,14, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner FNU WAJIA & MOHAMMAD ALI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FNU KHADIJA FNU SADEEA FNU ABDULLAH Proposed name: KHADIJA ALI SADEEA ALI ABDULLAH ALI THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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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: August 5, 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: June 24, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00809 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner FNU WAJIA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: FNU WAJIA Proposed name: WAJIA ALI 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: August 5, 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: June 24, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00808 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO CROSS-DEFENDANT: AIR-CON ENERGY, BOYD ELECTRIC INC., BUTTE DRYWALL; DURST INC., CUMBERLAND PLUMBING INC.; CORNING LUMBER COMPANY, INC.; DCJ VENTURES, INC.; GROENIGER & COMPANY; HARDESTY & SONS, INC., LIDDELL CONSTRUCTION SUPPLY, INC.; MESCHER DOOR CO.; MILLER GLASS, INC.; PRESLEY EXCAVATING, INC.; NORTHBROOK, INC., SORENSON CONCRETE, INC.; SOTO CONSTRUCTION; SHARON FURNITURE, INC., UPSTATE RAIN GUTTERS; CALDWELL ENTERPRISES, INC., CALDWELL’S CREATIVE LAMINATES; AND ROES 1 THROUGH 200, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY CROSS-COMPLAINANT: COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, INCORPORATED

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You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the cross-complainant. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response.

You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration awward of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Glenn County Superior Court 526 W. Sycamore Street Willows, CA 95988 The name, address, and telephone number of cross-complainant’s attorney, or cross-complainant without an attorney, is: JEROME R. SATRAN/JASON A. ROSE SBN 188286/271139 Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, LLP, 1478 Stone Point Drive, Suite 400 Roseville, CA 95661 (916) 724-5700 Signed: KEVIN HARRIGAN Dated: April 12, 2016 Case Number: 15CV01464 Published: June 30, July 7,14,21, 2016

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214 Centennial Ave 1171 Woodland Ave 611 Almond Grove Ct 14056 Hereford Dr 4330 Green Meadow Ln 1485 Oak Ridge Dr 1616 Oak Park Ave 4042 Guntren Rd 846 Coit Tower Way 618 Brush Creek Ln 1382 Huggins Ave

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$934,999 $798,999 $609,999 $588,999 $552,499 $548,999 $534,999 $509,999 $500,454 $445,000 $437,500

4/4 4/4 4/3 5/4 4/3 3/3 4/4 3/3 4/3 4/3 3/2

SQ. FT. 3,445 3,310 2,974 3,243 2,553 2,630 2,455 2,791 2,110 2,726 2,060

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236 Estates Dr 903 Yosemite Dr 1795 Roth St 655 Grafton Park Dr 8 Goldeneye Ct 2601 Chantel Way 39 Burney Dr 1144 Spruce Ave 905 Poplar St 1671 Cooks Way 7 Chancery Ln

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$415,000 $408,000 $400,000 $400,000 $386,000 $385,000 $380,000 $375,000 $375,000 $371,000 $315,000

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of june 27, 2016 – july 1, 2016.

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

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2775 Levi Ln

Chico

$307,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1,348

806 W 12Th Ave

Chico

$245,000

3/1

SQ. FT. 1,116

2624 Tuolumne Dr

Chico

$305,000

3/2

1,615

3181 Silverbell Rd

Chico

$244,000

3/2

1,317

2 Ginger Ln

Chico

$297,500

3/2

1,424

1530 Laurel St

Chico

$242,500

2/1

890

759 Lorinda Ln

Chico

$295,000

3/2

1,560

877 E 16Th St

Chico

$237,000

4/3

1,475

817 Penstemon Way

Chico

$290,000

3/2

1,393

2712 San Jose St

Chico

$234,000

3/2

1,020

1173 Patricia Dr

Chico

$278,000

3/2

1,654

730 Ivy St

Chico

$230,000

3/1

1,088

55 Lexington Dr

Chico

$265,000

3/2

1,522

1709 Lawler St

Chico

$229,000

2/2

1,500

1965 Belgium Ave

Chico

$262,000

3/2

1,406

1932 Salem St

Chico

$225,000

2/2

1,223

1734 Magnolia Ave

Chico

$257,000

2/1

944

1133 Ivy St

Chico

$209,000

2/1

880

1049 Windsor Way

Chico

$248,000

3/2

1,233

464 E 3Rd Ave

Chico

$205,000

2/1

805

18 Baroni Dr

Chico

$245,000

3/2

1,242

2024 Salem St

Chico

$193,000

2/1

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530-872-5880

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6635 CLARK RD

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SERVING ALL OF BUTTE COUNTY PARADISE–MAGALIA CHICO ADDRESS

CITY

BD/BA SQ. FT

PRICE

AGENT

PHONE

ADDRESS

CITY

867 Buschmann RD

PARA

LAND

1.63ac

$90,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

O Sky CT

CHIC

5086 Royal Oaks DR

OROV

2/2

1,248

$90,000

Nikki Sanders

872-5889

0 Runaway

BUTV

6550 Lesley CT

MAGA

2/2

1,528

$129,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

2934 Pennyroyal DR

CHIC

14801 Colter WY

MAGA

3/2

1,440

$134,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1362 Manzanita AV

6212 Kilgord CT

MAGA

3/2

1,920

$169,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

6820 Leone WY

PARA

2/2

1,539

$209,000

Jamie McDaniel

438 Plantation DR

PARA

2/2

1,308

$219,000

810 Seneca DR

PARA

3/2

1,433

5915 Yorkshire DR

PARA

3/2

453 Apple LN

PARA

1877 Norwood DR

PRICE

AGENT

PHONE

Land

$53,000

Robert Contreras

519-9801

Land

$89,000

Ronnie Owen

518-0911

3/2

1,103

$170,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

Chico

3/1

1,118

$225,000

Matt Depa

896-9340

372 Circlewood DR

PARA

3/2

1,239

$228,000

Tim Marble

864-5552

872-5891

1289 Palmetto AV

CHIC

5/3

1,802

$259,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

Annette Gale

872-5886

1124 Neal Dow AV

CHIC

2/2

1,152

$275,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

$229,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

625 Olive ST

CHIC

2/1

812

$275,000

Dan Bosch

896-9307

1,491

$258,500

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

1436 Trenta DR

CHIC

3/2

1,434

$262,500

Robert Contreras

519-901

3/3

1,653

$259,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1089 Windsor

CHIC

3/2

1,467

$279,000

Carolyn Fejes

966-4457

PARA

3/2

2,328

$286,750

Brian Voigt

514-2901

6 Hillsboro

CHIC

3/2

1,456

$300,000

Steve Depa

896-9339

96 Grinding Rock RD

PARA

3/3

1,766

$289,000

Susan Doyle

877-7733

6 Allie CT

CHIC

3/2

1,504

$314,900

Debbie Ziemke

519-1954

49 Lake Haven WY

OROV

2/2

1,564

$315,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

2332 Ritchie CR

CHIC

4/3

1,959

$335,900

Mark Chrisco

896-9345

6380 Glendale CT

MAGA

3/2

2,065

$319,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1865 Rose River AV

Chico

3/3

1,809

$339,900

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5906 Hazel WY

PARA

6/4

4,522

$355,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

12 Ralland CR

CHIC

Land

$349,500

Steve Depa

896-9339

1533 West DR

PARA

3/2

1,900

$369,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1771 Del Rita LN

DURH

3/3

2,292

$350,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

4495 Sierra Del Sol

PARA

3/3

2,217

$399,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

130 Secluded Oaks CT

CHIC

4/3

4,522

$355,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

1340 Sequoia CT

PARA

4/3

2,710

$419,900

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

1350 Salem ST

CHIC

4/2

1,973

$359,000

Shane Collins

518-1413

5061 & 5037 Pentz RD

PARA

4/4

4,895

$425,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

3 Sir Aaron CT

CHIC

4/3

2,163

$389,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5764 Hollis Hill DR

PARA

3/3

2,900

$464,000

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

69 Jackie DR

CHIC

3/2

2,209

$425,000

Brian Voight

514-2901

13670 Bader Mine RD

PARA

4/4

4,800

$824,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1174 E 7th St

CHIC

3/3

2,525

$639,000

Matt Depa

896-9340

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