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Step up and run for office Barring an unforeseen and improbable twist at the Democratic National

About guns and the Constitution

Convention, the legion of progressives who’ve rallied behind Bernie Sanders will need to find a new outlet for the transformational energy he’s galvanized.

We have a suggestion. Actually, it’s Bernie’s suggestion; we’re just giving it a strong second: Support, encourage or become a local candidate.

Sanders called on his backers to do just that last month: “I have no doubt that with the energy and enthusiasm our campaign has shown that we can win significant numbers of local and state elections if people are prepared to become involved.

“This will be part of transforming our country from the bottom on up.”

That means city councils, school boards and special districts. These nonpartisan offices hold significant sway when it comes to day-to-day living in our communities.

This year’s races will get attention: They’ll appear on the same Nov. 8 ballot as those for president, Senate and House.

The Chico City Council could pivot, with four incumbents up for re-election. The seats of all three left-leaning members—Tami Ritter and Randall Stone, in their first terms, and Ann Schwab, a former mayor in her third term—are open; hard-right Sean Morgan, the sitting vice mayor, also has his seat in play.

The city of Chico’s candidate-filing period opened this past Monday (July 18); paperwork is available at the City Clerk’s Office at 411 Main St. The Butte County Elections Office at 155 Nelson Ave., in Oroville, also began accepting candidacy-declaration forms this week for local community college, school and special district positions. The filing deadline for both offices is Aug. 12.

If you want to ensure that your values get reflected in decisions, make sure that decision-makers reflect your values. Step up and run. Or, if you’re not prepared to take that leap, volunteer on behalf of a candidate you believe in. Get involved.

Sanders said throughout the primary that the movement he sparked is bigger than one candidate in one race for one office. If you agree with his message, heed his words. □

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The writer rightfully indicates that the fear of tyranny was discussed by the framers. However,

that talk related to whether there should be a federal

standing army or state militias. A lot of other things them hard to believe. But this lack of knowledge, comprehension and common sense were discussed that didn’t get into the Constitution: is particularly evident in the views the right to own slaves (several presidents did); the of the pro-firearm community, right to vote, which is never explicitly ensured; and particularly those who don’t under- the presumption of innocence. stand the Constitution, its history But, Article I, Section 8, did get into the docuor its evolution. ment and it specifically indicates Does she really A recent CN&R Congress is required “To provide believe that the letter writer indicated for calling forth the Militia to that she, [like many execute the Laws of the Union, military would of] “us who don’t suppress Insurrections and repel turn tail when trust the government faced with citizens Invasions.” And Article III, Section by … fear the confiscaDean Carrier 3, specifically states: “Treason wielding rifles, against the United States, shall The author, a Paradise tion of our guns so shotguns and consist only in levying War against resident, is a wildlife that [its leaders] can handguns? biologist with 50 years enforce martial law them [the government].” of field experience. or install a dictator.”

“Insurrection” is a violent uprisReally? I’d wager that next to ing against an authority or government. So, I beg of her NRA bumper sticker is a “Support our troops” you, show me the passages in our Constitution that sticker—the very troops the government would call specifically spell out that “the right of the people upon to enforce martial law. to keep and bear Arms shall not be infringed” was Does she really believe that the military would specifically intended to allow the citizenry to rise up turn tail when faced with citizens wielding rifles, against our government it has accused of tyranny. shotguns and handguns?

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If you needed another reason to shop for local produce—and by that,

we mean foods grown in the North State—look no further than Southern California, Kern County in particular, where many farmers irrigate their crops with oil wastewater.

That parched region of the state is desperate for water and increasingly purchasing “recycled” water from oil companies (see “Contaminated crops?” Greenways, page 14). Thing is, the wastewater is known to contain carcinogens, such as benzene, and the government has failed to establish adequate controls and testing requirements to determine whether the food grown with it is safe.

In this scenario, the consumer is the guinea pig.

Moreover, the general public has no way to determine which products have been irrigated with the toxin-laden water. That’s because there is no labeling requirement to identify the farms that use the effluent. In fact, without labels, it’s likely grocers aren’t aware of this issue.

The group Protect California Food is sponsoring a petition that calls on Gov. Jerry Brown and state water officials to ban the use of oil wastewater in farming. Thus far, it’s been signed by more than a quarter-million people, including local residents, thanks to volunteers in our region. Still, foodsafety advocates foresee an uphill battle to prohibit the practice.

In the meantime, we urge shoppers to take caution. In the North State, residents can avoid purchasing wastewater-irrigated produce by shopping at farmers’ markets and independent grocers that stock their shelves with local goods. When in doubt, ask questions. □

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pikachu comin’ through Riding my bike through Bidwell Park may never be the same. OK, that’s an exaggeration. But I realized last week that something was different when a teenager on his bike nearly plowed into me on one of the trails in Lower Park. The object of his distraction: Pokémon Go, that new game beloved by those who played the original Game Boy versions as kids, as well as many others, including your average everyday Chicoan under the age of, say, 45.

Based on what I’ve seen, other than being relatively young, it’s impossible to peg the average devotee. That kid who came close to running straight into me was probably in high school. I moved out of his way, but because he was looking down at the game on his cellphone and didn’t see me coming, he swerved back into my path.

That’s when I yelled, “Hey, Pokémon!”

It worked. The kid looked up, shot me a knowing and slightly embarrassed smile and, most important to this park-goer, moved out of the way. My husband, Matt, has since come up with a better warning: “Pikachu comin’ through!”

Since Pokémon Go launched back on July 6, the park has most definitely become one of the hotspots in town. On any given day, there are dozens—sometimes hundreds—of players there. When Matt and I ride through in the early evenings with our 4-year-old in tow, the northwest corner of Caper Acres is especially dense with Poképhiles. We’ve seen upward of 60 or so people gathered there— many of whom hang out in small groups—searching for whatever it is one looks for when playing the game. CN&R intern Mason Masis tells me the area near the fairytale-themed playground is the site of a Pokémon Gym and some PokéStops, for what it’s worth (see his write-up on page 10).

I’ve heard a lot about how the game is getting people outdoors.

Sure, that’s great. But from what I’ve seen, most of the folks playing in the park are glued to their screens. They’re not exactly taking in nature. Still, for those who would ordinarily be sitting on the couch at home, a trip to a park seems like a healthy change of pace.

My only frustration with Pokémon Go is having to dodge people who aren’t paying attention to their surroundings. That close encounter in the park I described is one of at least a half-dozen I’ve had there in the past few weeks.

In truth, I’m happy to share the space. Bidwell Park is beautiful and full of natural wonders. Lately, I’ve been fascinated with the jumping oak gall wasp eggs that are everywhere. The other night, a Cooper’s hawk flew right over my head. That’s right after Matt pointed out a lone carp that swims in the same spot near the bridge over Sycamore Pool each day. I hope Pokémon Go users stop and appreciate what the greenway has to offer.

update time. I’m happy to report that the elderly Paradise resi-

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She sent me a sweet note this week sharing the good news. Thank you to all of CN&R’s readers who wrote in and called to try to help her.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About those oil trains Re “Stop that train” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, July 14): Judging by the photo in the article, the best way to stop an oil train in Chico is to trespass on railroad property. Like the article said, the biggest risk is for a train to collide with a vehicle or a trespasser. This has happened many times in Chico. An alternative would be to transport oil by pipeline, but the so-called “climate change activists” are against those, too.

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One of the benefits of ending the bankrupt war on marijuana would be making money available for truly needed programs.

Instead of spending hundreds of millions of dollars on investigating, arresting, prosecuting and incarcerating marijuana “criminals,” we could instead upgrade infrastructure (roads, bridges, buildings), further beautify parks and beaches, support sustainable energy research, hire more teachers, reduce tuition, award scholarships, more effectively steward natural resources, safeguard retirement portfolios, improve and expand drug abuse rehabilitation services, increase medical research, award grants to the arts, museums and other nonprofits, subsidize Medicare for All, etc.

Those presently employed in occupations dependent upon the drug wars—DEA and allied agencies, for-profit prison staffs, prison guards, probation and parole personnel—would take financial hits until alternative employment became available. However, that would be a good problem to have.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 a hugely disproportionate percentage of California’s prisoners are black or Hispanic, an injustice requiring extensive remedy. As with all wars, ending this one would be triumphant.

William Todd-Mancillas Chico

Hopefully support for Trump dwindles to just those attaining the exalted level of a Trump University certificate.

—Kenneth B. Keith

‘Rock on, Ruth!’

Raised in Flatbush, in Brooklyn, mom and sis dead by the time she was 16, Ruth Bader Ginsburg climbed the pinnacle of the legal profession, mightiest force ever for women’s rightful advancement—and deserving and qualified of expressing her ailing heart.

Ginsburg, the incomparably enlightened and accomplished associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, has evidently heard enough, especially from someone so indecent as to criticize veteran P.O.W. studs like John McCain. Rock on, Ruth!

Hopefully support for Trump dwindles to just those attaining the exalted level of a Trump University certificate. Golly, $34,000 buys a course outlining what worthless course to purchase next. That’s how to rake in millions—not with bankrupt casinos and golf courses.

This is who is raping our fellow citizens—it’s sure not my Mexican family.

Could he actually become the next president—this boorish, bully breed of predator politician? The Smothers Brothers defined politics as POLI (many) and TICS (heartless, blood-sucking organisms).

This might make the traditional role of the loyal opposition nearly impossible come November.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

Superdelegate update I wanted to share the latest information on the upcoming Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia, the week of July 25.

Five of us delegates (representing both Sanders and Clinton) from our congressional district had lunch together to share information on how the convention works.

Sen. Sanders will speak on Monday night. On Wednesday night, we will count the votes from California’s 551 delegates, so when the convention secretary asks, California, how do you vote?, the report will include the over

200 votes for Sen. Sanders. On Thursday night, Secretary Clinton will give her acceptance speech and then the Sanders/Clinton coalition will campaign across America.

Trump and the whole Republican ticket is clear: huge tax cuts for billionaires; abortion (even in the case of rape) criminalized; nuclear weapons given to Saudi Arabia (then a military coup); 12 million undocumented people picked up by vigilante groups and put in internment camps; Muslims barred from entering the U.S.; and extremists nominated to the Supreme Court, ones that will turn the clock back to the 1950s on civil rights.

Bob Mulholland Chico

Speak of the devil This is your last chance, Bob. If you and your superdelegate colleagues can be brave, you can strengthen the party to its strongest ever and easily defeat the Republicans by changing your vote to Sanders. You would reflect your community and the wisest choice for our progeny. Sway other superdelegates who know this is the right thing to do, even if it works against your and their own personnel standing with those who put money before all else.

You have a grave responsibility bestowed on you, unfairly or not. Be a hero, Bob, and have the satisfaction of knowing you did everything you could to secure a healthy future for all.

R. Sterling Ogden Chico

‘Important questions’ Another uproar: “Melanoma Rump gives plagiarized speech!!!”

And the real shame in this? Her husband failed to micromanage the writing team, to hire a competent lot of sycophants. How can a man be king when he can’t be trusted to

go into the free market and buy an original speech—one that makes his wife appear as something other than an utter fool?

Could this be more “misogyny” at work? Did the wannabe king throw the wannabe queen under the locomotive of patriarchy? Is there subconscious sexism in the mix? Sabotage?

Personally, I feel hurt. I listened in good faith, believing the speech to be as original as Melanoma’s puffy-cloud-sleeve, $90,000 dress.

I thought she probably scribbled the whole thing in Slovene, on an old lunch sack, while lurching along in a cigar-smoke-filled caboose—the way Lincoln done it.

(Well, OK, Lincoln wrote stuff in something like English.)

How do I go on? Yesterday the sky looked so blue. Today, the weather is the same, but the sky is a dirty sock sort of color—something like that.

Can we be great again? How do I restore my faith? These are important questions.

Patrick Newman Chico

Correction A story in last week’s Newlines (see “Stop that train,” by Ken Smith, July 14) incorrectly stated that BNSF Railway Co. operates the railroad tracks along the Feather River. The track is owned

by Union Pacific and used by BNSF through a trackage rights agreement. We apologize for the error, which has been corrected online. —ed.

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KILLINGS IN PALERMO

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office is investigating a double homicide that occurred at a Palermo residence on Monday night (July 18).

Shortly after 8 p.m., officers responded to reports of gunshots at a home on Cynthiann Lane and found two adult male victims outside the residence. Both men died at the scene of gunshot wounds. The names of the victims have not been released, no suspects have been identified and no motive had been confirmed as of press time.

“Right now, we’re investigating leads we’ve received,” said Miranda Bowersox, Butte County public information officer. Bowersox said that investigators had only positively identified one of the two victims. There was a small marijuana grow found on the property, but it’s not yet clear whether the shootings were drug-related. Anyone with information should call the sheriff’s office at 538-7671.

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The Chico Planning Commission will hold a public hearing tonight (Thursday, July 21) to discuss the draft environmental impact report for the proposed expansion of the Forest Avenue Walmart. The project includes adding grocery aisles, a drive-thru pharmacy and a pickup service area to the existing store, as well as two new standalone retail/restaurant buildings and a gas station.

The draft EIR was released last month and is in the midst of a 45-day public comment period set to end Aug. 1. A group of citizens opposed to the expansion has geared up and started an online petition at change.org that calls for stopping the project. Thursday evening’s meeting is meant to gather Chico residents’ input on the adequacy of the document, not the merits of the project, according to the Planning Commission agenda.

The meeting begins at 6:30 p.m. in the City Council chambers.

UP TO SEVEN

The race for four open Chico City Council seats is heating up.

Earlier this month, Jovanni Tricerri, of the North Valley Community Foundation, turned in a candidate intention statement for the November general election. Tricerri (pictured) is NVCF’s director of community engagement. He is the chair of the Chico Police Community Advisory Board and a member of the board of directors of the Downtown Chico Business Association and the Chico Children’s Museum.

Tricerri joins six others who’ve already filed candidate intention statements: incumbents Sean Morgan, Tami Ritter, Ann Schwab and Randall Stone, as well as challengers Loretta Torres and Lisa Duarte. To qualify for the ballot, however, each must file additional paperwork by Aug. 12.

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If you build it Community efforts turn a controversial property into a new park walked, jogged, biked and roller-bladed Aacross the new bridge spanning Comanche s each of more than a dozen people

Creek during the noon hour on Tuesday (July 19), a trio of women standing farther down the paved bike path giggled and exchanged satisfied smiles.

“Look at everyone using it,” Janet Ellner story and exclaimed to her comphoto by Ken Smith panions, Emily Alma and Liz Stewart. “It’s kens @ not even open yet and n ew srev i ew. c o m people have already found it and they’re using it.”

Park opening: For the women, The city of Chico and watching the public use Friends of Comanche Creek Greenway are the bike path and other hosting a ribbon- nearby trails to travel cutting ceremony at from Otterson Drive 10 a.m. Friday, July 22, to Meyers Street, or at the Otterson Drive entrance to the park- to explore the creekway. Regular volunteer side in the half-mile workdays are held at swath of city-owned the park from 9 a.m. semi-wilderness west to noon on the second Sundays and fourth of the Midway, is the Saturdays of each result of years of hard month. work. Ellner, Alma

and Stewart are members of Friends of the Comanche Creek Greenway and have worked with that organization and other groups for years to develop the 20-acre area into a park, complete with paved and unpaved biking and hiking trails, picnic areas, lighting, benches, a parking lot and more.

The first and largest segment of the project is complete, and will officially open with a ribbon-cutting hosted by the city of Chico and Friends of the Comanche Creek Greenway on Friday (July 22).

There is still work to be done, however, according to the Comanche Creek Greenway Improvement Project adopted by the city in 2012, with further improvements to be completed incrementally as funding permits. Upcoming plans include interpretive signs marking historic and natural points of interest.

“This area is home to animals, lots of native habitat, oak woodlands … there’s a lot here, and we’re happy people will be able to enjoy it now,” Ellner said.

“It’s a beautiful natural area that adds greatly to the aesthetic value of the city,” Shane Romain, park services coordinator, said by phone. “Additionally, it’s a great

addition from a transportation standpoint, because it connects the business park to neighborhoods and makes it much easier and safer for a lot of people to walk and bike to work.”

Friday’s ceremony marks the end of the

debate over the use of the property, which is largely surrounded by industrial development. To the west is the collective agricultural community Riparia, where Alma has lived since 1987.

The area first became the subject of controversy in 2000, when the City Council approved an extension from Otterson Drive to cut through the property to connect the Hegan Lane Business Park to South Park Avenue. A contingent of environmentally minded citizens, including Alma and Ellner, helped organize and gather signatures for a referendum, and voters shut down the project during a special election held in 2001.

A few years later, the Southwest Chico Neighborhood Creeks, Parks and Open Space Action Group was formed and eventually helped create improvement and management plans for the greenway adopted by the city in 2012. That group

became the Friends of the Comanche Creek Greenway.

The city initially owned 5 acres along the creek. In 2006, the City Council approved the purchase of 15 adjacent acres with $1.25 million in redevelopment funds. The intention was to turn the property into a low-impact park. However, the area was fenced off and quickly became a haven for the city’s homeless population. Lacking a plan to develop the park, the property sat in limbo for years, its future made more uncertain when the state dissolved redevelopment agencies in early 2012.

Members of the group have been holding volunteer work days to clean up trash from homeless encampments and remove invasive plant species twice monthly for several years (Stewart joined the group in this capacity in 2008), as well as regular meetings with city staff to move the project forward.

In late 2013, the Friends of the

Comanche Creek Greenway found funding in the form of a noncompetitive Housing Related Parks Grant from the state’s Department of Housing and Community Development, and $1.03 million in grant money was awarded to the city for the project in July 2014. That money didn’t become available until last summer, and work on the bridge and other improvements was carried out at a brisk pace through last winter to meet the grant’s June deadline.

“After waiting so long, it was a flurry of activity,” Stewart said. “There were a lot of factors involved in building the bridge … even the temperature and weather had to be right. Everything came together so fast.”

Friends of the Comanche Creek Greenway have additionally pledged to contribute $17,000 for each of the next three years for park maintenance and patrol. Alma said funding for the first year has already been raised through contributions from community members as well as several businesses in the Hegan Lane Business Park. The group also has pledges to cover some of those costs in upcoming years, but both the community group and city officials said they continue to seek additional grant funding for improvements and upkeep.

“I’m positive the project wouldn’t have moved along at the rate it did, or at all, if it wasn’t for community involvement and the Friends of the [Comanche Creek] Greenway,” Romain said. “The way things are nowadays, it’s really hard for any one agency or organization to go it alone on any project, so partnerships like this are essential.” □

Tribe on top County’s legal battle over proposed casino shot down in federal court s council chairman for the Mechoopda Indian Tribe of Chico Rancheria, Dennis Ramirez has spent the better part of a decade Adefending his identity.

The United States government recognizes the Mechoopda as an indigenous tribal people. The government of Butte County, however, in opposing a proposed development by the Mechoopda (with a casino as its focal point) on 625 acres south of Chico, has contested the tribe’s legitimacy in a series of legal challenges dating back to 2008.

“I think of my mother, my grandmother—my goodness, how can you not say that [the Mechoopda are a Native American tribe]?”

Ramirez told the CN&R during an interview Tuesday (July 19) at the tribal community center in Chico. “It just blows my mind how people think. Yeah, I could understand it a hundred years ago, but not today.”

In November 2014, Butte County sued to have the U.S. Department of the Interior reconsider a decision designating the development property as tribal land, asserting that the Interior secretary did not take into account all the available information before accepting the parcel as tribally owned.

In particular, the county has pointed to research by Dr. Stephen Dow Beckham, a historian from Oregon, concluding that the Mechoopda did not descend from a single tribe but rather represent a collection of Native Americans from assorted tribes who assembled in Chico to work for John Bidwell. Beckham filed a report for the county in 2006, then follow-ups in 2010 and 2014 that accompanied county appeals.

Last Friday (July 15), a Washington, D.C., court ruled in the tribe’s favor. Senior District Judge Frederick J. Scullin Jr. found that the federal decision regarding the Mechoopda’s right to the property “was not arbitrary or capricious” and that the Interior secretary “considered all the relevant issues.”

Dennis Ramirez, council chairman of the Mechoopda Indian Tribe, says he hopes the latest court ruling will lead to new discussion with Butte County, not new litigation.

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Mechoopda’s project. Building a casino on this creekside land along Highway 149 (a mile east of Highway 99) runs contrary to the county general plan, he said, and poses problems related to the environment, traffic and public safety.

Then there’s the contention over the Mechoopda’s legitimacy.

The county apologized for a 2006 letter to the Bureau of Indian Affairs in which former Chief Administrative Officer Paul McIntosh wrote that the tribe “manufactured its history of membership” and “manufactured a historic land occupancy.”

Yet, in a phone interview from his office this week (July 19), Alpert said the legitimacy matter is not a legal strategy—“it’s a reality. I know they take great offense to that, but it’s a reality.”

Beckham, whom Alpert calls “a world-renowned ethnohistorian” who’s an expert on Native Americans in this part of the country, reviewed all documents available locally and, Alpert added, “discovered documents that the tribe did not bring forward” while conductWhat’s next? That depends on the county. The Board of Supervisors ing his research. Thus, Alpert does not consider Beckham’s determiwill meet Tuesday morning (July 26) with County Counsel Bruce nation against tribal history to be supposition.

Alpert in closed session and then announce in open session what Asked if the relationship between the county and the Mechoopda action the panel decided to take. has become antagonistic as opposed to just adversarial, Alpert simply Alpert cited a list of concerns the county has with the responded: “I think it’s the county acting in a manner that protects its citizenry as a whole.”

Ramirez says the relationship devolved into antagonism, but hopes the sides can reconvene discussions instead of meeting again in court.

Driving mad He declined to say how much the proceedings have cost the tribe, however, the drain The American Automobile Association’s Foundation for has forced the Mechoopda to scale back plans Traffic Safety recently released its survey on aggresfrom what would have been “an elaborate sive driving. The results are not pretty. The company casino resort” to a smaller-scale facility. found that 78 percent of U.S. drivers admitted to Disputing the Mechoopda’s standing “is engaging in “aggressive driving behavior” one or more times in the previous year—everything from laying on a sensitive hit,” Ramirez said, “but we’ve the horn in anger to actually ramming into another moved past it. We’re looking at economic vehicle. development. We’re looking at childcare.

We’re looking at health care, at housing, aggro-driving incidence (in past year) % of americans something to take care of our elders, put Purposely tailgate . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51 people to work.

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yan Inouye stood in a group of over a dozen new friends on the Chico State campus late one recent evening. Around them were other similar clusters of people, all of them holding smartphones or tablets, hoping to catch an elusive Pokémon and comparing collections.

Inouye, a 34-year-old Chico resident and psychologist with Marysville Joint Unified School District, said he never visited the Kendall Hall lawn during his seven years as a student—he earned both his bachelor’s and master’s degrees in psychology at Chico State. He’s no stranger anymore, thanks to Pokémon Go. On this particular evening, he was already prepared for the exact minute the sprinklers on the west side of the lawn would turn on: 1:07 a.m.

That appears to be part of the point: to get people outside and socializing. In fact, the game’s website proclaims “Get up and go” boldly on its main page. Gaming experts point to its ease of use and the mobile platform as ways it reaches that goal.

Inouye is too old to have grown up with Pokémon—the franchise started in the U.S. as a Game Boy game in the late-1990s and evolved into a popular TV show, card game, comic book series, etc.—but he acknowledged the newest iteration’s allure. He compared Pokémon Go to a slot machine, explaining that it uses “variable reinforcement” to get people hooked. Though that may sound ominous, he said the game was great for social interaction, especially for people who have trouble in social situations.

“I think everyone feels a little vulnerable playing Go,” he said.

“We aren’t going to attack each other.”

At least not in real life.

Pokémon Go’s basics are simple: Players download the game (for free) to a mobile device and then use the camera feature to seek out Pokémon and catch them. Players

Ryan Inouye (in gray) searches for Pokémon with his newfound friends on the Chico State campus.

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and their Pokémon gain levels as they play, allowing them to catch and train better Pokémon to spar and battle with other players. Team functions get friends working together and Pokémon Gyms and PokéSpots, which are real-life locations where players can advance their virtual games, unite people.

Interviews with dozens of players in Chico revealed that the game’s stated goal, to get gamers outside, is working. Sitting in a lawn chair outside of Kendall Hall last week, Chicoan Hieu Ngo, 29, closed the game momentarily to proudly display his iPhone’s pedometer, which showed a recent uptick in his steps since starting the game.

“I would be doing other things inside the house instead [of playing Pokémon Go],” he said. “I’d be playing some other game.”

Michael Taylor, 25, was playing the game with his 15-year-old brother and a friend near Caper Acres in Bidwell Park. Taylor said since the game’s release he has spoken and interacted with

“hundreds” of people he would otherwise never have met. The trio said they have explored Butte County and have gone as far as Sacramento searching for Pokémon.

“I’ve used my mountain bike more in the last two weeks than I have since I got it,” Taylor said, laughing. “I’ve been outside more in the last couple weeks.”

Jorge Pena, an associate professor

of communications at UC Davis and an expert in video games and their effect on people and society, said Pokémon has become a household name and, as such, its accessibility was a key factor in Pokémon Go’s popularity.

“It’s free and you probably already own the phone, so it is less expensive than buying a video game console or a personal computer to play a game,” he said.

The catching aspect and the game’s somewhat competitive nature allow players to compare their collections, he said, resulting in the natural formation of relationships.

Big or small, Pena cited reports of people falling off cliffs as an example of negative aspects of the game.

Overall, however, he called it “an example of how we can harness the power of video games to change behavior [for the better]. I’d venture that any game that has you go outside is a positive,” he said.

Inouye agrees. Although school has been on break since Pokémon Go’s release, the psychologist said he felt the game would mostly have a positive effect on the students he sees.

“It gives them a common language when they are talking with their classmates,” he said. “It’s a shared interest. The more shared interests they have the better.”

He offered some words of caution, too: “I’ve also seen pretty severe addictions in kids with this game, so we’ll see.”

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Kicking the habit State, local agencies take on tobacco with a higher smoking age and stricter restrictions on e-cigs

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compact building that the American Lung FAssociation shares with another health nonrom a small office in southeast Chico, in a

profit, Shelly Brantley raises as conspicuous a ruckus as possible about the dangers of tobacco products.

Brantley, the association’s Northern California advocacy director, has a particular concern for youth. A 2015 report from the California Department of Public Health (CDPH) says 63 percent of smokers in the state pick up the habit before age 18 and 97 percent before age 26. Over 10 percent of high school students reported smoking at least one cigarette in a month; while that figure has dropped from over 20 percent in 2000, the number of teens vaping—using electronic cigarettes—has grown by a comparable magnitude.

Vaping is a relatively new phenomenon, so scientific study is correspondingly nascent. Proponents of e-cigs, notably trade groups such as the American Vaping Association, cite evidence that these products are healthier than tobacco and help smokers quit cigarettes. The Lung Association puts forth research findings, including from the U.S. Food and Drug

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Administration, that state e-cig liquids contain carcinogens—cancer-causing agents— and lung irritants.

Vaping liquids come in an assortment of flavors and different types of packaging; many, though not all, contain nicotine, the addictive chemical in tobacco.

Brantley’s group considers vapes “a tobacco product” and thereby holds e-cig use in the same ill regard as smoking traditional cigarettes, with adverse effects documented for decades.

“What the Lung Association and our public health allies fight for is saving lives,” Brantley said, “and one of the best ways to do that is to keep kids from tobacco. If that’s by raising the price, which taxes really help with; if that’s by raising the purchase age, that just forestalls the amount of time kids have to experiment with the product.”

California voters will have a chance to impact the price of tobacco products in the November election via Proposition 56, an initiative proposing a $2 per pack/package tax to fund educational outreach and public health costs associated with smoking-related illnesses.

The Legislature already has raised the purchase age—since last month, anyone in California (except active military) has had to show ID proving he/she is at least 21.

Moreover, state law expanded the definition of tobacco to include e-cigs and vap-

ing products. Gov. Jerry Brown put these changes into force by signing a set of five bills May 4.

The new regulations—particularly the age rule, labeled Tobacco 21—culminated years of effort.

“The Lung Association and our coalition partners were thrilled with the outcome and

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Shelly Brantley with the American Lung Association is pleased that the state’s new tobacco laws address vaping, which her group deems a health threat.

implementation,” Brantley said. “One of the things that really shows us [the significance] is a 1986 report that Philip Morris put out that said [tobacco executives] were really concerned about changing the minimum age from 18 to 21, because they said effectively it would gut their programs, gut their marketing strategies.

“I feel that anything that tobacco companies are afraid of … that’s a good law to have, because ultimately they are fighting for their bottom line.”

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for the new laws, though Dr. Karen Smith, CDPH’s state health officer, testified about e-cigarettes and youth tobacco use at a legislative hearing on public health issues.

Now, CDPH has a key role in putting the legislation into action. The first step is informing the public, especially the retailers who represent the front line of defense in keeping tobacco products out of kids’ hands.

The department has produced training materials in seven languages so clerks will understand to treat cigarette and vaping product sales just like alcohol sales.

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GREEN Volunteer signature-gatherers Mary Kay Benson (left) and Milo Sebanc are part of an effort to protect food crops.

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initiative to ban hydraulic fracturing in FButte County that more than 70 percent of ollowing the success of Measure E, the

voters supported in the June 7 primary election, local anti-fracking activists are setting their sights on a lesser known, but similarly troubling environmental issue: the use of wastewater from oil extraction processes to irrigate California crops.

“This is an area that people are not educated about,” said Mary Kay Benson, a volunteer with Protect California Food, an affiliate of Californians Against Fracking.

“Fracking has become pretty widely known now, and people take a stance one way or the other. But as far as our poisoned food, they don’t know about it.”

Benson and fellow volunteer Milo Sebanc were stationed outside of the Chico branch of the Butte County Library on Saturday morning (July 16) collecting signatures for a petition calling on Gov. Jerry Brown and state water officials to prohibit the use of oil wastewater for irrigation.

Chico was one of 11 California cities in which volunteers were gathering signatures.

According to the www.protectcafood.org, the petition has already been signed by more than 276,000 people online.

Recycled oil well wastewater has been used by farmers in California with the approval of state officials for more than two decades, but the practice is becoming more widespread. A 2015 story in Mother Jones reported that as much as half of

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45,000 acres of cropland in Kern County was irrigated using recycled oil wastewater provided by Chevron and other oil companies in 2014, up 35 percent from pre-2011 levels.

An expert panel assembled by the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board has called for an expansion of the oil wastewater recycling program due to drought-related water shortages. Oil companies, facing increasing scrutiny of wastewater disposal and looking to a new source of potential revenue, are happy to oblige. According to Bloomberg, the state’s largest oil producer, California Resources Corp., announced last year that it planned to quadruple the amount of wastewater it sells to California farmers.

The use of this water to grow food should be a concern for all Californians, Benson said.

“It affects us all because California grows about two-thirds of the produce and the nuts that the whole country consumes.

So what’s happening in Kern County affects the food that we all eat, in the whole country, since California is supplying most of the food,” she explained.

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California Food cites Halos mandarins, Sutter Home wines and Sunview, growers of several crops including raisins, as being among the more recognizable brand names that have been documented as using oil wastewater irrigation for fruit crops.

Although proponents of the practice claim it is safe, David Braun, an Oakland-based organizer with Rootskeeper and Californians Against Fracking who helped organize the Protect California Food petition, said by telephone that the safety of oil wastewater irrigation is still being determined using California consumers as test subjects.

“The industry’s position is that this is safe,” Braun said. “Our feelings are: Prove it. We don’t feel that children and people should be lab rats in an oil and gas water experiment. The best-case scenario here is that people’s lives aren’t threatened, and we’re not exposed to potentially cancercausing chemicals like benzene. So we would like to see this practice stopped until it’s absolutely demonstrable that this practice is safe.”

What chemicals may or may not be present in the oil field wastewater isn’t entirely clear. This is due, said Braun, to the wastewater being tested for the presence of only a small number of potentially toxic chemicals.

More alarming, he continued, is that the chemicals that are present in the wastewater aren’t being filtered from the water before it’s used.

“There’s not actually any sort of filtration set up to remove the contaminants,” Braun said. “They have separators set up to skim the oil and separate the water. They have these walnut husks to run the water through because the oil will adhere to the walnut husks. But they’re using hundreds of chemicals in oil field operations, for various purposes, that they currently are not testing for.”

The signatures gathered in Chico and elsewhere will be sent to the governor and the State Water Resources Control Board to encourage them to stop the use of oil wastewater for irrigation, or at least the very least do more comprehensive, unbiased testing.

“We feel that this really needs to be looked at and evaluated by independent science,” Braun said. “Until we have that science, and those studies and that data analysis happening, we will not be silent. We will continue to collect petitions. We will continue to highlight this for the general public so that they know that this dirty little secret of this industry and these water districts is going on.”

According to Benson, the governor and state water officials have so far been slow to react to growing concern over oil wastewater irrigation.

“They’re not really taking it very seriously because Gov. Brown has accepted a couple of million dollars from the oil and gas industry,” Benson said. “In spite of calling himself the green governor, this pretty much disqualifies him.” □

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Dutch Bros. settles downtown

Frozen fruit dreams Three years ago, Maria Lujano felt like there was something missing from Chico’s Thursday Night Market.

There was plenty of variety in the market’s food, Lujano said, but she wanted to appeal more to the local Hispanic community. Together with her daughter, 21-year-old Yareli Ruiz, a Pleasent Valley High School graduate, Lujano opened Chico Chamangos: Snacks & Raspados, a food truck that specializes in chamangos, frozen beverages made with shaved ice and mango. Chamoy gives the drinks a little spice, and they’re served with a tamarind candy straw. They also make other flavors of raspados (shaved ice drinks), as well as tostilocos, which are basically street nachos topped with hot sauce, lime, veggies, chamoy and chili powder. Lujano was born in Tijuana, Mexico, and later moved to Los Angeles before settling down in Chico 15 years ago. Ruiz is the second youngest of six children, but she’s not the first to get into the food truck business in Chico. Her brother Jesse Martinez runs Maria’s Gone Tamales with his wife, Elisabet. The Chico News & Review sat down with Ruiz after a recent busy market evening to discuss the mother-daughter business. The Chico Chamangos truck can be found at the Thursday Night Market; search for it on Facebook to learn more.

What inspired you to go into business?

We used to always come to the market and my mom thought, “It would be great to open a truck and make money.” She was inspired by growing up in Tijuana, where this is common and there wasn’t anything like that up here. So we wanted to bring it.

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Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

Anyone who drives Eighth Street through downtown on a regular basis as I do watched patiently as Dutch Bros. erected its newest coffee stand at the corner of Eighth and Main. I worried that traffic would become unbearable through that intersection—it’s already bad enough with the short, off-timed lights—but I’m happy to report that since Dutch opened a few weeks ago, I’ve seen no change in pace. They were smart to put the entrance on Wall Street instead of Eighth. All they need now is a sign inside the parking lot directing cars to the drive thru—the swirl of arrows on the pavement is confusing to say the least.

I finally stopped by earlier this week to check in on the new location—the fourth in town owned by Dan and Michal Richardson. To be totally honest, Dutch Bros. is not my favorite when it comes to coffee—but there is something to be said for the friendly service. No matter how crummy my day is, those guys (and gals) always seem to be having a blast and they infuse the few minutes waiting at the window with their enthusiasm and outgoing personalities. What’s more, the Richardsons are dedicated to giving back. Last Thursday, for their downtown grand opening, they served up $1 16 oz. drinks for 24 hours and donated the proceeds—totaling $7,277—to the National Alzheimer’s Association. Rock on.

So you went out and bought a truck?

We started as a booth before we had the food truck and it was very popular, so we figured this was better. It’s easier to set up, take down and move around.

How have people responded?

We get a lot of unfamiliar people saying, “What is this? I’ve never seen that.” But people liked it, and it looks kind of cool. We handed out a lot of samples the first year, but after people tried, it they became regulars.

What is your most popular item?

Chamango is. I feel like it is because it’s unique.

We use all natural flavors and the price is pretty good. People try to imitate us, but they can’t. My mom uses secret ingredients so other people’s just aren’t as good.

Other than at the market, where can people find you?

Right now my mom is working on getting a permit so we can roam around with the truck. As of right now, this is where you can find us.

—MASON MASIS

Empty pantriEs Since I moved out of my parents’ house, I’ve changed my address almost every single year. It’s a pain in the you-know-what, and despite best intentions, during each move I inevitably throw out some perfectly good stuff, including edibles.

Enter Move for Hunger. The national nonprofit is a network of moving companies that pick up unwanted food and deliver it to those in need. Local company Brady’s Moving & Storage Inc. recently signed on to the effort, meaning anyone who employs them can simply donate those unopened cans of tuna and Chef Boyardee on the spot. “When we realized how many of our neighbors were going hungry, we knew we had to do something,” Brady’s President Jim Rasdeuschek said in a press release. Donations will be delivered to the Salvation Army here in Chico. spEak up on Walmart Some people love Walmart. After all, it offers a huge selection, one-stop shopping and low prices. Those are all important factors in choosing a place to shop, especially for large families and those struggling financially.

In the big picture, however, Walmart has been shown again and again to be a detriment to the health of communities, particularly small, locally owned businesses. A group of concerned locals are drumming up opposition to the proposed expansion of the Forest Avenue store (see “Walmart opposition brews,” Newslines, June 30). They ask: Do we need a second gas station on that block? Do we need more grocery aisles, with both Winco and Foodmaxx nearby? If you have an opinion, you’ll have a chance to speak up at the Planning Commission’s meeting tonight (Thursday, July 21, 6:30 p.m., City Council chambers), where the main topic of discussion will be the environmental impacts—including social impacts—of expanding that store.

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The long road ahead

The messy job of reconciliation in America following centuries of racism, violence against black citizens

BY FANIA DAVIS

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am among the millions who have experienced the shock, grief and fury of losing someone to racial violence.

When I was 15, two close friends were killed in the Birmingham Sunday School bombing carried out by white supremacists trying to terrorize the rising civil rights movement. Only six years later, my husband was shot and nearly killed by police who broke into our home, all because of our activism at the time, especially in support of the Black Panthers.

As a civil rights trial lawyer, I’ve spent much of my professional life protecting people from racial discrimination. In my early twenties, I devoted myself to organizing an international movement to defend my sister, Angela Davis, from politically motivated capital murder charges aimed at silencing her calls for racial and social justice. Early childhood experiences in the South set me on a quest for social transformation, and I’ve been a community organizer ever since, from the civil rights to the black power, women’s, anti-racial violence, peace, anti-apartheid, anti-imperialist, economic justice, political prisoner movements, and others.

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1963 march in memory of the 16th Street Baptist Church bombing victims, Birmingham, Ala.

After more than three decades of all the fighting, I started to feel out of balance and intuitively knew I needed more healing energies in my life. I ended up enrolling in a Ph.D. program in indigenous studies that allowed me to study with African healers.

Today, my focus is on restorative justice, which I believe offers a way for us to collectively face this epidemic, expose its deep historical roots, and stop it.

The killings of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., and Eric Garner in New York have sparked a national outcry to end the epidemic killings of black men. Many note that even if indictments had been handed down, that wouldn’t have been enough to stop the carnage. The problem goes far beyond the actions of any police officer or department. The problem is hundreds of years old, and it is one we must take on as a nation. Truth and reconciliation processes offer the greatest hope.

A Ferguson Truth and Reconciliation process

based on restorative justice (RJ) principles could not only stop the epidemic but also allow us as a nation to take a first “step on the road to reconciliation,” to borrow a phrase from the South African experience.

A restorative justice model means that youth, families and communities directly affected by the killings—along with allies—would partner with the federal government to establish a commission.

Imagine a commission that serves as a facilitator, community organizer, or Council of Elders to catalyze, guide and support participatory, inclusive and community-based processes.

We know from experience that a quasi-legal body of high-level experts who hold hearings, examine the evidence, and prepare findings and recommendations telling us as a nation what we need to do won’t work. We’ve had plenty of those.

To move toward a reconciled America, we have to do the work ourselves. Reconciliation is an ongoing and collective process. We must roll up our sleeves and do the messy, challenging, but hopeful work of creating transformed relationships and structures leading us into new

futures. Someone like Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who headed up South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, might come to Ferguson to inspire and guide us as we take the first steps on this journey.

And the impact wouldn’t be for Ferguson alone. Unfolding in hubs across the nation, a Truth and Reconciliation process could create safe public spaces for youth, families, neighbors, witnesses, and other survivors to share their stories. Though this will happen in hubs, the truths learned and the knowledge gained would be broadly shared. Importantly, the process would also create skillfully facilitated dialogue where responsible parties engage in public truth-telling and take responsibility for wrongdoing.

Today, teenagers of color are coming of age in a

culture that criminalizes and demonizes them, and all too often takes their lives.

I work with youth in Oakland, where it’s gutwrenching to see the trauma and devastation up close. Black youth in the U.S. are fatally shot by police at 21 times the rate of white youth.

Children of color are pushed through pipelines to prison instead of being put on pathways to opportunity. Some make it through this soul-crushing gauntlet against all odds. But too many do not.

Defining how long- and far-reaching a process like this would be is difficult because, sadly, the killing of Mike Brown is only one instance in a long and cyclical history of countless unhealed racial traumas that reaches all the way back to the birth of this nation. Changing form but not essence over four centuries, this history has morphed from About this essay:

Fania Davis wrote this article for YES! Magazine, a national, nonprofit media organization that fuses powerful ideas and practical actions.

Davis is a civil rights attorney and co-founder and executive director of RJOY, Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth. She also has a Ph.D. in indigenous studies. She wishes to acknowledge discussions with professor Jennifer Llewellyn, the Viscount Bennett Professor of Law at Dalhousie University in Nova Scotia. Llewellyn has worked with the South African and Canadian TRC’s and writes and researches on restorative justice and truth and reconciliation processes.

March of concerned citizens after the 1979 Greensboro massacre.

First hearing of South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission chaired by Archbishop Desmond Tutu.

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Below: Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission members stand for the Walk for Reconciliation in 2015 after a six-year report examined the history and legacy of Indian residential schools. photo by Justin tang

slavery to the Black Codes, peonage and lynching, from Jim Crow to convict leasing, to mass incarceration and deadly police practices.

Bearing in mind its expansive historical context, the Truth and Reconciliation process would set us on a collective search for shared truths about the nature, extent, causes and consequences of extrajudicial killings of black youth, say, for the last two decades. Through the process, those truths will be told, understood, and made known far and wide. Its task would also include facing and beginning to heal the massive historical harms that threaten us all as a nation but take the lives of

Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them. black and brown children especially. We would utilize the latest insights and methodologies from the field of trauma healing.

This is urgent. Continued failure to deal with our country’s race-based historical traumas dooms us to perpetually re-enact them.

Though national in scope, the inquiry would zero in on the city of Ferguson and several other key cities across the country that have been the sites of extrajudicial killings during the last decade.

Specifics like this are best left to a collaborative, inclusive and community-based planning process.

The process will create public spaces where we face together the epidemic of killings and its root causes, identify the needs and responsibilities of those affected, and also figure out what to do as a nation to heal harms and restore relationships and institutions to forge a new future.

There are precedents for this approach: Some

40 Truth and Reconciliation Commissions have been launched worldwide to transform historical and mass social harms such as those we are facing.

Their experiences could help light a way forward.

The best-known example is the 1994 South

African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was charged with exposing and remedying apartheid’s human rights abuses. Under the guidance of Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission elevated apartheid victims’ voices, allowing the nation to hear their stories. Perpetrators had a means to engage in public truth-telling about and take responsibility for the atrocities they committed. The Truth and Reconciliation Commission facilitated encounters between harmed and responsible parties, decided amnesty petitions, and ordered reparations, and it recommended official apologies, memorials and institutional reform to prevent recurrence.

With near-constant live coverage by national television networks, the attention of the nation was riveted on the process. Although South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission was far from perfect, it is internationally hailed for exposing apartheid’s atrocities and evoking a spirit of reconciliation that helped the country transcend decades of racial hatred and violence.

There are North American examples as well, including the 2004 Greensboro Truth and Reconciliation Commission in North Carolina, the first in the United States. This effort focused on the “Greensboro massacre” of anti-racist activists by the Ku Klux Klan in 1979.

In 2012, Maine’s governor and indigenous tribal chiefs established a truth commission to address the harms resulting from the forced assimilation of Native children by Maine’s child welfare system.

It is still in operation.

And Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission, also still functioning, addresses legacies of Indian residential schools that forcibly removed aboriginal children from their homes, punished them for honoring their language and traditions, and subjected them to physical and sexual abuse.

Like South Africa’s and others, the Ferguson Truth

and Reconciliation process would draw on the principles of restorative justice. Rooted in indigenous teachings, for some 40 years the international RJ movement has been creating safe spaces for encounters between persons harmed and persons responsible for harm, including their families and communities. These encounters encourage participants to get to truth, address needs, responsibilities

and root causes, make amends, and forge different futures through restored relationships based upon mutual respect and recognition.

Restorative justice is founded on a worldview that affirms our participation in a vast web of interrelatedness. It sees crimes as acts that rupture the web, damaging the relationship not only between the individuals directly involved but also vibrating JUSTICE c o n t i n u e d

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out to injure relationships with families and communities. The purpose of RJ is to repair the harm caused to the whole of the web, restoring relationships to move into a brighter future.

Applied to schools, communities, the justice system, and to redress mass social harm and create new futures, restorative justice is increasingly being recognized internationally. In Oakland, where I cofounded and direct Restorative Justice for Oakland Youth (RJOY), school-based programs are eliminating violence, reducing racial disparity in discipline, slashing suspension rates, dramatically boosting academic outcomes, and creating pathways to opportunity instead of pipelines to incarceration. These outcomes are documented in a 2010 study by UC Berkeley Law School and a soon-to-be-released report by the school district. Oakland’s RJ youth diversion pilot is interrupting racialized mass incarceration strategies and reducing recidivism rates to 15 percent. (Based on discussions with folks who run the program—no studies as yet.)

Police and probation officers are being trained in RJ principles and practices.

Youth and police are sitting together in healing circles, and creating new relationships based on increased trust and a mutual recognition of one another’s humanity.

It’s impossible to predict whether similar outcomes would emerge from a Truth and Reconciliation process in Ferguson—and the United States. But it’s our best chance. And, if history is any guide, it could result in restitution to those harmed, memorials to the fallen, including films, statues, museums, street renamings, public art or theatrical re-enactments. It might also engender calls to use restorative and other practices to stop violence and interrupt the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration strategies. New curricula could emerge that teach both about historic injustices and movements resisting those injustices. Teach-ins, police trainings, restorative policing practices and police review commissions are also among the universe of possibilities.

In the face of the immense terrain to be covered on the journey toward a more reconciled America, no single process will be enough. However, a Ferguson Truth and Reconciliation process could be a first step towards reconciliation. It could put us on the path of a new future based on more equitable structures and with relationships founded on mutual recognition and respect. It could also serve as a prototype to guide future truth and reconciliation efforts addressing related epidemics such as domestic violence, poverty, the school-to-prison pipeline and mass incarceration. A Ferguson Truth and Reconciliation Commission could light the way into a new future. Ω 18

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Sisters united

By Sarah van GEldEr

Angela and Fania Davis on a new kind of civil rights activism

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ngela davis and her sister fania davis were working for social justice before many of today’s activists were born. from their childhood in segregated Birmingham, ala., where their friends were victims of the 16th Street Baptist church bombing, to their association with the Black panther party and the communist party, to their work countering the prison-industrial complex, their lives have centered on lifting up the rights of african americans. in 1969, angela davis was fired from her teaching position at ucla because of her membership in the communist party. She was later accused of playing a supporting role in a courtroom kidnapping that resulted in four deaths. the international campaign to secure her release from prison was led by, among others, her sister fania. angela was eventually acquitted and continues to advocate for criminal justice reform. inspired by angela’s defense attorneys, fania became a civil rights lawyer in the late 1970s and practiced into the mid-1990s, when she enrolled in an indigenous studies program at the california institute of integral Studies and studied with a Zulu healer in South africa. upon her return, she founded restorative Justice for oakland youth. today, she is calling for a truth and reconciliation process focused on the historic racial trauma that continues to haunt the united States.

Sarah van Gelder: you were both activists from a very young age. i’m wondering how your activism grew out of your family life, and how you talked about it between the two of you.

Fania Davis: When i was still a toddler, our family moved into a neighborhood that had been all white. that neighborhood came to be known as dynamite Hill because black families moving in were harassed by the Ku Klux Klan. our home was never bombed, but homes around us were.

Angela Davis: fania is probably too young to remember this, but i remember that strange sounds would be heard outside, and my father would go up to the bedroom and get his gun out of the drawer, and go outside and check to see whether the Ku Klux Klan had planted a bomb in the bushes. that was aboUT ThIS Q&a: a part of our Sarah van gelder wrote this article for life after oil, the spring 2016 daily lives. issue of yeS! magazine. Sarah is many people co-founder and editor at large of assume that the yeS! follow her on twitter @sarahvangelder.

bombing of the 16th Street Baptist church was a singular event, but actually there were bombings and burnings all the time. When i was 11 and fania was 7, the church we attended, the first congregational church, was burned. i was a member of an interracial discussion group there, and the church was burned as a result of that group.

We grew up in an atmosphere of terror. and today, with all the discussion about terror, i think it’s important to recognize that there were reigns of terror throughout the 20th century.

Sarah: So where were you when you heard the 16th Street Baptist church bombing had happened?

Fania: i was attending high school in glen ridge, n.J. and i didn’t take no stuff from nobody. i was always talking about James Baldwin or malcolm X, and always bringing up issues of racial equity and justice. i heard about the bombing when my mother told me that one of the girls’ mother had called her up—because they were close friends—and said, “there’s been a bombing at the church. come and ride down with me so we can get carole, because carole’s at church today.” and they drive down there together, and she finds that there is no carole, she’s been … there’s no body even. i think it fueled this fire, the fire of anger, and just made me determined to fight injustice with all of the energy and strength that i could muster.

Sarah: can you say more about what everyday life was like for you growing up?

Angela: We went to segregated schools, libraries, churches. We went to segregated everything!

Fania: of course, in some ways it was a good thing that we were very tight as a black community.

When we went outside of our homes and communities, the social messaging was that you’re inferior: you don’t deserve to go to this amusement park because of your color or to eat when you go downtown shopping. you must sit in the back of the bus. at the same time, at home, our mother always told us, “don’t listen to what they say! don’t let anybody ever tell you that you’re less than they are.” and so i found myself—even as a 10-yearold—just going into the white bathrooms and drinking out of the white water fountains, because from a very early age i had a fierce sense of right and wrong. my mother would be shopping somewhere else in the store, and

before she knew it, the police were called.

Sarah: let’s skip ahead to when it became clear that you, angela, were going to need a whole movement in your defense. and fania, you ended up spending years defending her.

Fania: yeah, about two years.

Angela: in 1969, i was fired from a position in the philosophy department at ucla. that’s when all the problems started, and i would get threats like every single day. i was under attack only because of my membership in the communist party.

Fania: angela had been very involved with prison-rights activism at the time, leading demonstrations up and down the state. and then she was all over the news: “communist fired from teaching at ucla,” you know, “Black power radical.”

Angela: then in august 1970, i was charged with murder, kidnapping and conspiracy. and so i had to go underground. i found my way to chicago, then to new york and florida, and finally i was arrested in new york in october. it was during the time that i was underground that the campaign really began to develop.

Sarah: So, fania, when did you turn your focus to supporting your sister’s cause?

Fania: the night before i left cuba, i found out that she had been captured. So instead of going home to california, i immediately went to where angela was in the Women’s House of detention in greenwich Village.

Angela: all of my friends and comrades began to build the campaign. once i was arrested and extradited, they all moved up to the Bay area.

We were active in the communist party, and, you know, whatever criticisms one might have of the communist party, we could go anywhere in the world and find people with whom we had some kinship, and people opened their homes. it was the party that was the core of the organizing for my release, and the movement was taken up by students on campus and church people. this happened all over the world. every time i visit a place for the first time, i always find myself having to thank people who come up to me and say, “We were involved in your case.”

Sarah: did you know that there was that kind of support happening?

Angela: i knew, and i didn’t know. i knew abstractly, but fania was the one who traveled and actually got to witness it.

Fania: yeah, i was speaking to 60,000

Above: Angela Davis (left, above and below) and sister Fania Davis.

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people in France and 20,000 in Rome, london, and East and West Germany, all over the world, and seeing this massive movement to free her.

Angela: It was an exciting era because people really did believe that revolutionary change was possible. Countries were getting their independence, and the liberation movements were going on, and there was this hope all over the world that we would bring an end to capitalism. And I think that I was fortunate to have been singled out at a moment of conjuncture of a whole number of things.

Sarah: your work since that time has centered on the criminal justice system. Are you both prison abolitionists?

Angela: Oh, absolutely. And it’s exciting to see that the notion of abolition is being broadly embraced not only as a way to address overincarceration, but as a way to imagine a different society that no longer relies on repressive efforts of violence and incarceration.

Abolition has its origin in the work of W.E.B. Du Bois and the idea that slavery itself was dismantled, but the means of addressing the consequences of that institution were never developed. In the late 1800s, there was

a brief period of radical reconstruction that shows us the promise of what might have been. Black people were able to generate some economic power, start newspapers and all kinds of businesses. But all of this was destroyed with the reversal of Reconstruction and the rise of the Ku Klux Klan in the 1880s.

Fania: yeah, we abolished the institution of slavery, but then it was replaced by sharecropping, Jim Crow, lynching, convict leasing.

The essence of the racial violence and trauma that we saw in the institution of slavery and in those successive institutions continues today in the form of mass incarceration and deadly police practices.

Angela: We’re taking up struggles that link us to the anti-slavery abolitionists, and the institution of the prison and the death penalty are the most obvious examples of the ways in which slavery has continued to haunt our society. So it’s not only about getting rid of mass incarceration, although that’s important. It’s about transforming the entire society.

Sarah: How might restorative justice help with this transformation?

Fania: A lot of people think that restorative justice can only address interpersonal harm— and it’s very successful in that. But the truth and reconciliation model is one that’s sup-

posed to address mass harm—to heal the wounds of structural violence. We’ve seen that at work in about 40 different nations; the most well-known is, of course, the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission.

In South Africa, the commission invited victims of apartheid to testify, and, for the first time ever, they told their stories publicly. It was on all the radio stations, in all the newspapers, it was all over the television, so people would come home and tune in and learn things about apartheid that they had never known before. There was an intense national discussion going on, and people who were harmed felt vindicated in some way.

That kind of thing can happen here, also, through a truth and reconciliation process. In addition to that sort of hearing commission structure, there could be circles happening on the local levels—circles between, say, persons who were victims of violence and the persons who caused them harm.

Angela: How does one imagine accountability for someone representing the state who has committed unspeakable acts of violence?

If we simply rely on the old form of sending them to prison or the death penalty, I think we end up reproducing the very process that we’re trying to challenge.

So maybe can we talk about restorative justice more broadly? Many of the campaigns initially called for the prosecution of the police officer, and it seems to me that we can learn from restorative justice and think about alternatives.

Sarah: Fania, you told me when we talked last year that your work on restorative

justice actually came about after you went through a personal transition period in the mid-1990s, when you decided to shift gears.

Fania: I reached a point where I felt out of balance from all of the anger, the fighting, from a kind of hypermasculine way of being that I had to adopt to be a successful trial lawyer. And also from around 30 years of the hyperaggressive stance that I was compelled to take as an activist—from being against this and against that, and fighting this and fighting that.

Intuitively, I realized that I needed an infusion of more feminine and spiritual and creative and healing energies to come back into balance.

Sarah: How did that affect your relationship as sisters?

Fania: My sister and I had a period—right in the middle of that—when our relations were strained for about a year, due in part to this transformation. It was very painful.

At the same time, I finally understood that it needed to happen because I was forging my own identity separate from her. I had always been a little sister who followed right in her footsteps. yeah, and so now we are close again. And she’s becoming more spiritual.

Angela: I think our notions of what counts as radical have changed over time. Self-care and healing and attention to the body and the spiritual dimension—all of this is now a part of radical social justice struggles. That wasn’t the case before.

And I think that now we’re thinking deeply about the connection between interior life and what happens in the social world. Even those who are fighting against state violence often incorporate impulses that are based on state violence in their relations with other people.

Fania: When I learned about restorative justice, it was a real epiphany because it integrated for the first time the lawyer, the warrior and the healer in me.

The question now is how we craft a process that brings the healing piece together with the social and racial justice piece—how we heal the racial traumas that keep reenacting.

Angela: I think that restorative justice is a really important dimension of the process of living the way we want to live in the future.

Embodying it.

We have to imagine the kind of society we want to inhabit. We can’t simply assume that somehow, magically, we’re going to create a new society in which there will be new human beings.

No, we have to begin that process of creating the Ω society we want to inhabit right now.

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Arts &Culture “Positano, Amalfi Coast, Italy,” by Richard J. Powell at Upper Crust Bakery & Cafe.

Below: Bill Shelton’s art attack at Has Beans Café & Galleria.

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A tour of restaurant exhibits in downtown Chico boy, ram head and ol’ bird skull Jall goat greeting me from the walls of downust another day in Chico, with the

town restaurants during an impromptu art walk last weekend. I toured the current exhibby its of four cafes and one Carey Wilson neighborhood bar and found a fresh collection of rich characters and interesting settings outside the confines of the usual galleries.

It’s not often that you get a chance to see a goat-footed boy dramatically perched on one hoof while tootling his flute. But there he is, in Positano on the Amalfi Coast of Italy. Photographer Richard J. Powell, a local doctor, transports us there via his current exhibit of landscape photography at the Upper Crust Bakery & Cafe in downtown Chico. In this particular photograph, the Faunus statue (the Roman equivalent of Pan) is in the foreground atop a balcony wall overlooking a blue Mediterranean bay flanked with terraces of houses climbing down a distant hill to where ant-size people dot the beach and tiny yachts and miniscule boats float serenely beneath a pale blue, cloud-smeared sky.

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depth of field and a range of color tonality that is reminiscent of the Renaissance masters he admires and emulates.

Around the corner on Second Street inside the Naked Lounge, graphic-designer-turned-tattoo-artist Jeremy Golden (of Eye of Jade Tattoo) is exhibiting Selected Work for Tattoos, pen and ink-wash drawings—a noble bird skull, a hooded human skull against a coffin-top background, etc.—that look just as fine decorating the walls of the café’s back lounge area as they would a bicep or thigh.

If you have an eye for colorful, psychedelic imagery or moody charcoal figure studies, a trip to Tin Roof Bakery & Café at Seventh and Broadway is in order. There you’ll find paintings by Tin Roof barista Raakel Alvord and drawings by Chico State graphic design major Cody Vierra overlooking the tables.

Alvord uses earthy and wildflower colors to render archetypal images such as the orange-eyed, ram-horned humanoid face

of “The Fawn” that serenely gazes back at its viewers with an enigmatic Mona Lisa-like smile.

Over at Fifth and Main streets, Has Beans Café & Galleria offers thrills of the interstellar variety. Lining the café’s main wall, the works of Chico painter Bill Shelton depict UFO invasions and journeys to distant planets rendered in a style reminiscent of folk artists Howard Finster or Grandma Moses. The naïveté of Shelton’s style is belied by the compositional craftsmanship and limited but carefully chosen palette he uses to compose his images. Stenciling the titles into the sky in 2-inch, black spray-painted letters and framing the pictures with what appear to be recycled wooden window frames gives the pieces warmth and a visceral immediacy.

After sufficient caffeination, a fancy brew is in order, and Chico’s swanky SOPO beer joint the Winchester Goose offers not only that life essential but also currently features a selection of pen-and-ink studies of architectural marvels by Chico State instructor and hematology researcher Jesse Smith.

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Special Events BEER-RELEASE PARTY: Brewmaster Roland Allen will be on hand for the release of the brewery’s Emperor’s Mandarin Wheat.

Th, 7/21, 7pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

COMEDY NIGHT: Andrew

Sleighter (Last Comic Standing, Comedy Central) and San Jose’s Butch Escobar perform.

Th, 7/21, 8pm. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountry casino.com.

PARTY IN THE PARK: Weekly outdoor concert festival featuring live music, vendors, dance acts and more. This week: Book’em Dano!.

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.

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U-JAM FITNESS 90-MINUTE DANCE PARTY: An athletic

cardio dance workout featuring world and urban music. Th, 7/21, 6pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

Music MARCIA BALL: The celebrated Gulf Coast blues pianist returns to Chico. Th, 7/21, 7:30pm. $25. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

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Theater SABRINA FAIR: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWILIGHT ZONE LIVE: See Thursday. Blue Room

Theater THE MUSIC MAN JR.: A Stagecoach Youth Theatre Summer Camp production of the classic musical directed by Loki Miller and featuring the TOTR stars of tomorrow. 7/21-7/23, 7pm. $6$10. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

TWILIGHT ZONE LIVE: Butte College theater instructor (and KCHO DJ) Tom Kinnee directs a live version of the classic Twilight Zone episode, “Jess-Belle.” Featuring a cast of 14 and live music by Peter and Tricia Berkow.

7/21-7/23, 7:30pm, Su, 7/24, 2pm. $8. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Poetry/Literature POETRY READING: Shared words and refreshments. Third Th of every month, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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Special Events DEER CREEK HIKE: Go birding, botanizing and hiking at Deer Creek. Meet at Highway 32 Park and Ride. Look up Northern California Regional Land Trust at www.facebook.com. F, 7/22, 7:30am. Call or visit website for details, Chico.

GREENWAY GRAND OPENING: Grand opening ceremony for the new bike bridge, walking and biking trails, historic spots of interest and the

riparian corridor along Comanche Creek. Meet at the southeast Greenway entrance near 444 Otterson Drive off Hegan Ln. F, 7/22, 10amnoon. Comanche Creek Greenway, Comanche Creek.

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: The Amy Celeste Band (blues/soul). F, 6-7:30pm through 9/9.

Free. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: A pretty impressive collection of reggae and rock artists from around the world land on the banks of the Feather River in Oroville for a three-day fest. Artists include Pato Banton, Bunny Wailer, LA Guns and many more. Visit site for info. 7/22-7/24. $55-$65. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, www.orovillerockreggaejamfest.com.

Theater THE MUSIC MAN JR.: See Thursday. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

SABRINA FAIR: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

POETRY READING Thursday, July 21 The Bookstore

SEE THURSDAY, POETRY/LITERATURE

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

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Special Events ANNUAL GARAGE SALE FUNDRAISER: Fundraiser featuring furniture, art, household items, plants and more. Sa, 7/23, 8am. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

Music OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: See Friday. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, orovillerockreggaejamfest.com.

Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.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.

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Music PAUL THORN: Renowned Americana and blues artist Paul Thorn returns for two nights in The Big Room. 7/25-7/26, 7:30pm. $22.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

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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.

PAUL THORN: Renowned Americana and blues artist Paul Thorn returns for two nights in The Big Room. 7/25-7/26, 7:30pm. $22.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

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SABRINA FAIR: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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

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Special Events DEATH CAFE: Bring your curiosity and stories to

this open, respectful, confidential space. Su, 7/24, 5:30pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 588-6175, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

Music OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: See Friday. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, orovillerockreggaejamfest.com.

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BACK IN THE ZONE For the next installment of the long-running Twilight Zone Live productions, the Blue Room Theatre crew is tackling an episode of the classic series called “Jess-Belle.” The original TV version aired on Valentine’s Day 1963, and reworked ancient legends involving witchcraft, jealousy, love potions and shape-shifting into a Blue Ridge Gothic thriller. The eerie mountain music central to the tale’s unfolding will be recreated live by Peter and Tricia Berkow for the Blue Room version, which plays Thursday-Sunday, July 21-24.

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Art 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. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

CHICO MUNICIPAL BUILDING: Public Art Tours, Chico Arts and Culture Foundation leads bimonthly tours. Meet at Our Hands sculpture.

Second and Fourth Sa of every month, 1011:15am through 8/27. Free (donations accepted). 411 Main St., (530) 896-7214.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: Summer Show, the collages of Michael Mew. Through 8/17. Paintings by Brian De Nova, large-canvas acrylic paintings. Through 8/27.

254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

NINTH AVENUE GALLERY & STUDIO: Water Paper Stone, watercolor paintings of Nicolai Larsen.

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RED TAVERN: Artwork of Amber Palmer, watercolor work by local artist Amber Palmer.

Through 10/31. 1250 Esplanade, (530) 894-3463, www.redtavern.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Favorite Vacations, new show with new works at the gallery.

Through 8/13. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

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.chico museum.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 ice-age 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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The play, which opened last Friday (July 15) at Chico Theater Company, is set in the wealthy Larrabee family’s mansion overlooking Long Island Sound in 1955. It begins with the unexpected return after a long absence of Sabrina Fairchild (Cassi Crowley), the daughter of the family’s longtime chauffeur, Tom Fairchild (Justin McDavitt).

As a child, Sabrina lived with her widower father above the garage, kept apart from the Larrabees by class differences.

They paid little attention to her, but she watched them with fascination, climbing trees for a better view and falling in love with David Larrabee, the playboy of the family.

For the past five years, Sabrina has been living in Paris and working for the U.S. government in some significant capacity. She has grown up and become a sophisticated young woman who embraces life with irresistible enthusiasm. She’s returned in part to explore her feelings for David, but also to show the Larrabees that she’s no longer the shy, unformed girl they remember.

There’s another brother, Linus Larrabee Jr. (Steve Jungen), who is everything David is not—disciplined, unsentimental, knowledgeable—which is why he now is CEO of Larrabee Industries. By the end of the first of two acts, it has become fairly obvious that the true romance in this tale is between Linus and Sabrina, and the fun is in watching these two hard-headed realists acknowledge their romantic natures and find each other.

The play is subtitled “A Woman of the World,” and it wouldn’t be a stretch to call it a “feminist” play.

Sabrina refuses to buy into the prevailing gender roles, and the same can be said of Linus.

It’s also a play about class.

To Linus’ parents, Linus Sr. and Maude, the idea that one of their sons might marry the daughter of one of their servants is anathema.

As the song goes, however, “The times, they are a-changing.”

At the heart of the play are two witty, flirtatious colloquies between Sabrina and Linus, verbal dances during which they challenge each other like equals, questioning their philosophies of life and love. They don’t yet know they’re falling in love, but the audience does.

These long and tricky scenes operate on two or more levels at once, and Crowley and Jungen handled them pretty well on opening night, given the complexities and the number of lines they had.

There were times when I wished they’d slow down and let moments of silence speak for them, but overall they succeeded in showing why these two characters were right for each other, despite their differences.

Several of the other cast members did good work, too. John Los was terrific as the blustery Linus Sr., whose favorite pastime is attending funerals, and Sandy Huseth was a strong figure as his wife, Maude, the matriarch of the family. J.J. Hunt brought creativity to her role as Aunt Julia, a longtime family friend who serves as a commentator on the action, and Daniel Morin was pleasantly loveable as the frivolous David. □

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THE FREEZING SUMMER/VITAMIN P. TOUR:

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage

blues and swing. Every other Th. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 3432056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

MARCIA BALL: The celebrated Gulf Coast

blues pianist returns to Chico. Th, 7/21, 7:30pm. $25. Sierra Nevada Brewing

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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

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

BEER-RELEASE PARTY: Brewmaster Roland Allen will be on hand for the release of the brewery’s Emperor’s Mandarin Wheat. Th, 7/21, 7pm. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

COMEDY NIGHT: Andrew Sleighter (Last

Comic Standing, Comedy Central) and San Jose’s Butch Escobar perform. Th, 7/21, 8pm. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (530) 5349892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

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

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

FAILURE MACHINE AND RUSTY MAPLES: Reno electric soul band Failure Machine returns to Chico with fellow Nevadans Rusty Maples. Locals Hi Strangeness open. Th, 7/21, 8pm. $6$10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

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. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party 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.

DURAN DURAN DURAN: Duran Duran Duran pays tribute to ’80s pop kings Duran Duran. F, 7/22, 9:30pm. $5.

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A night of hip-hop featuring Coolio Da’unda’dogg, Paige Raymond, Runya Jaw Johnson, G-Loc and $ide $how. F, 7/22, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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.

Lost on Main will host an evening of hip-hop on Friday, July 22, headlined by West Coast underground rapper and record label head Coolio Da’unda’dogg (not to be confused with Coolio Da’dudewhowasbig’inda’90s). Also playing the event—dubbed The Freezing Summer/ Vitamin P Tour—will be Paige Raymond, Runya Jaw Johnson, G-Loc and $ide $how.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: Weekly, outdoor concerts at City Plaza. This week: The Amy Celeste Band (blues/soul). F, 6-7:30pm through 9/9. Free. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

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.

JASUKA, SUNDAY IRIS & SCUBER MOUNTAIN: Local singer Jasuka Naomi teams up with the jazz dudes from Bogg.

Also, Lisa Valentine and Dave Elke’s new duo, Sunday Iris and Arcata “satirical lounge” outfit Scuber Mountain. F, 7/22, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

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.

LOOKING 4 ELEVEN: Locals Looking 4 Eleven play a solid set of rock ’n’ roll classics. F, 7/22, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 3457499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

OPEN MIC AT BARNES AND NOBLE: Guitar Center collaborates with the book store for all-ages open mic. Sign-ups start at 5:30pm. F, 7/22, 6-8pm. Free.

Barnes & Noble, Chico, 2031 Dr. Martin Luther King Pkwy., (530) 894-1494.

OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: A pretty impressive collection of reggae and rock artists from around the world land on the banks of the Feather River in Oroville for a three-day fest.

Artists include Pato Banton, Bunny Wailer, LA Guns and many more. Visit site for info. 7/22-7/24. $55-$65. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, www.oroville rockreggaejamfest.com.

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.RockHouseHwy70.com.

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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 20 TERRY MALTS: San Francisco’s Terry Malts come to town to play local rock duo Sex Hogs’ tape release show.

Chico punks Severance Package rounds out this stellar bill. Sa, 7/23, 9pm. $7. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

THE STUFF THAT LEAKS OUT, WILEY’S COYOTE: Summer weirdness with locals

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The Stuff That Leaks Out and openers Water Ego and Wiley’s Coyote, featuring members of The Veleveteen Habit.

Sa, 7/23, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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BLUE COLLAR MEN: Styx tribute. Sa, 7/23, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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

HOOTENANNY AT THE TACKLE BOX: Local blues, bluegrass and country from Lefty Fields’ Hillstomp Revival, Sons of Jefferson, Biggs Roller and Brian Batchley Blues Band. Sa, 7/23, 8pm. $5.

The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackle boxchico.com.

INSIGHT: A good-time trio of great musicians playing a broad selection of rock hits in the Bow & Arrow Lounge. Sa, 7/23, 8:30pm-1:30am. Free. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.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 Hwy. 70 in Oroville, (530) 532-1889, www.RockHouseHwy70.com.

A NIGHT OF LOCAL ROCK: Chico heavyweights DeVoll, Down The Well and Socorro take the stage at Lost on Main. Sa, 7/23, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: See Friday. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, orovillerockreggaejamfest.com.

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.

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JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Live duo playing an eclectic set of dinner music. Su, 7/24, 6-9pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St., (530) 8916328, www.5thstreetsteakhouse.com.

OROVILLE ROCK REGGAE JAMFEST 2016: See Friday. Riffles RV Campground, 4514 Pacific Heights next to Surplus City in Oroville, (530) 534-5550, orovillerockreggaejamfest.com.

LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

YOUR M.O.M. COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly open-mic comedy with 20 open slots.

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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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.

PATIO, HANDSOME DEVIL: An evening of

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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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. Next to transit center, (530) 891-3570, www.gogiscafe.com.

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Booooooo Ghostbusters reboot scares up very few laughs or thrills nality of the 1984 original Ghostbusters from this Ireboot/remake/whatever-you-want-to-call-it entry into

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a movie franchise that has remained dormant since the miserable 1989 sequel, Ghostbusters II. Considering the quality cast by that director Paul Feig assembled Bob Grimm (Kristen Wiig, Melissa McCarthy, Kate McKinnon and Leslie Jones), I bg ri m m @ new srev i ew. c o m did expect to have a good time.

That didn’t happen. I was bored.

Super bored. I laughed a total of 2 1/2 times at the new Ghostbusters, not once due to anything the headlining stars did. It’s as if Feig figured, “Hey, I have these stars and a big Ghostbusters budget for special effects. I don’t Starring Melissa really need a funny script, do I? McCarthy, Kristen These stars can just stand in front of Wigg, leslie Jones a camera and be funny, right?” and Kate McKinnon.

Perhaps they can, but not this time Directed by Paul Feig.

Cinemark 14, Feather out. Ghostbusters 2016 is a stale facRiver Cinemas and simile of the original. If you watched Paradise Cinema 7. those lousy preview trailers and worRated PG-13. ried that the franchise was creatively bankrupt, know that the stupid jokes in that trailer (“Ow, that’s gonna leave a mark!”) are about the best the film has to offer. I was really annoyed with the haters who judged this movie by those trailers before they saw the completed project. Sadly, I have now joined that camp, because I really hated this movie.

The normally reliable Wiig, as the sensible scientist, basically stands around looking lost. Comedic firecracker McCarthy, as the trailblazer scientist of the group, bumbles her way through her role with a smile but no material. My current favorite Saturday Night Live star,

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McKinnon, as the brainy yet eccentric science wiz, is allowed to mug like a crack addict on an NYC subway full of inebriated, unarmed billionaires. Jones, as the street smart Ghostbuster with no science chops, seems to equate volume with humor. She’s just loud.

After a promising start featuring Zach Woods, Ed Begley Jr. and a haunted house, the plot switches to a geek (Neil Casey) looking to cause a ghost apocalypse in Manhattan. He plants traps around the city to attract paranormal activity, perhaps because he’s lonely.

Then the new Ghostbusters band together to conquer the geek and save the city.

The CGI ghosts are dull, fluorescent things bolstered slightly by some decent 3-D effects. In one of the only real compliments I can bestow upon the film, the folks putting together some of the 3-D action did a pretty good job. There are moments where elements seem to come out of the movie frame and suspend in the air in front of you. Those moments won’t make you laugh, but they might wake you up a little.

Andy Garcia as the New York mayor made me laugh … once. Begley Jr. as a paranormal enthusiast made me laugh … once. Chris Hemsworth as a braindead receptionist almost made me laugh once, but it was more like a chortle. That’s it for the laugh count.

Stars from the original—Dan Aykroyd, Bill Murray, Ernie Hudson, Annie Potts and Sigourney Weaver—make useless, remarkably lame cameos. The late Harold Ramis (sort of) makes an appearance as well in one of the movie’s few inspired moments.

So far, this summer has blown it with blockbusters (see also: Batman v. Superman, Spielberg’s BFG and Independence Day: Resurgence). Will this weekend’s Star Trek Beyond give the summer the fun boost it needs? It’s probably too late, and more than likely 2016 can’t be redeemed at the cinema. □

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Opens Friday, July 22. Based on a novel by antic modernist Witold Gombrowicz, Cosmos is a rambunctiously surreal farce.

The final film of late cultish writer-director Andrzej Zulawski guides a mostly French cast through the elaborate tale of a group of passionate eccentrics, young and old, somersaulting through a mélange of emotional crises while sojourning in a Lisbon boarding house. Two extravagantly unsettled young men, a law student named Witold (an excellent Jonathan Genet) and a fledgling fashion designer named Fuchs (Johan Libéreau), set the tale in motion, but the boarding-house proprietors (Sabine Azéma and Jean-François Balmer), their newly wed daughter Lena (Victória Guerra), and the mildly disfigured housemaid Catherette (Clémentine Pons) all figure prominently in the proceedings. The openly gay Fuchs is very fond of Witold, but Witold has eyes for Lena, whose convulsively romantic eccentricities seem to match up well with his. The film’s artful tangle of love stories, philosophical musing, psycho-mythic folklore, poetic nonsense and self-reflexive cinephilia almost never makes any complete kind of sense, but it’s always interesting in some odd and essentially playful way.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated. —J.C.S.

Hillary’s America

Conservative propagandist Dinesh D’Souza takes aim at Hillary Clinton in his newest documentary that promises to reveal the “secret history of the Democratic party.”

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Ice Age: Collision Course

For installment No. 5 in the Ice Age animatedfilm franchise, the prehistoric gang somehow has to fend off annihilation at the hands of a giant meteor hurtling toward Earth.

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

Central Intelligence

An odd-couple/buddy action flick featuring a musclebound CIA badass (The Rock) who partners up with a former high school classmate and current mild-mannered accountant (Kevin Hart) and drags him into his world of espionage. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Finding Dory

In this sequel to the hugely popular Oscarwinning animated film Finding Nemo (2003), Dory (voiced by Ellen DeGeneres), the amnesic blue tang fish, is joined by Marlin and Nemo on a journey to uncover the family of her forgotten past. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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The Infiltrator

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.

The Jungle Book

Blending live-action and meticulous, very realistic CGI, this update of Rudyard Kipling’s classic anthropomorphic fables looks to be a visually stunning big-screen offering.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

The Legend of Tarzan

Tarzan (played by Alexander Skarsgard, the hottest man in the jungle), who has long since acclimated to civilian life in London, returns to the jungle where he was raised by apes and gets caught up in the nefarious plans of a villainous man. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Turns out there is something, something evil, to be very afraid of in the dark. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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. Rated R.

Star Trek Beyond

The Secret Life of Pets

Lights Out

The third film in the recent franchise reboot finds the young Enterprise crew stranded on a far-off planet facing its most ruthless enemy yet. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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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 wide-ranging cast of talking animals. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Swiss Army Man

The BFG

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. Pageant Theatre.

Rated R.

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soups, but summer soups, Mediterranean summer soups. Gazpacho.

Some of my fondest memories are of lazy afternoons spent wandering the back streets of seductive and sensuous European cities during my 20s, seeking out small cafés and enjoying complete anonymity as I sat alone sipping cappuccinos at sidewalk tables. Granted, by midnight I often had fallen in with a crowd and sometimes awoke in the morning on strangers’ couches and, on occasion, in strangers’ beds. But the afternoons! Alone and young and with every pore of my body open to experience and life!

Often I would sit for hours at a sidewalk café, reading and watching, watching and reading—and wondering about my former classmates back home who were surely working as mechanics and waitresses and sadly suffering from small-town, middle-America ennui.

My favorite summer, by far, was the one I spent in Barcelona. In April, after three glorious months exploring the city on my own, I met a young art student, and we moved in together. Many were the late mornings we spent in the museums—the Picasso, the Miro and others—and then, always, to our favorite outdoor café, Tres Gatos, for a long lunch before returning to our flat for our siesta.

And always it was the same. Though tempted by the fresh fish and the many variations on paella, we always ordered the gazpacho. Well, gazpacho, fresh bread, and two or three glasses of Rioja or, if we were feeling particularly mischievous, cava, a delightful Champagne-like sparkling wine.

I have fond memories of the wide, cool, refreshing bowls of gazpacho and our dark Catalán waiter, Xavier. Though it would be difficult to exactly duplicate the gazpacho from those days at Tres Gatos, I’ve been able to create the next-best thing. Dr. Epinards, take note.

Photo by thelonious Gonzo (via Flickr)

Gazpacho is a tomato-based soup, served cold and garnished with bite-sized pieces of other fresh vegetables, then topped with croutons.

Use the following as the basic recipe, keeping in mind that all amounts are adjustable and that it’s paramount that the vegetables, particularly the tomatoes, be fresh and, preferably, vine-ripened. And don’t forget the most important ingredients, the vino and the siesta.

Henri’s gazpacho 5-8 large tomatoes cut into wedges 1 onion, chopped 1 large cucumber, peeled, seeded and cut into chunks 2-3 cloves garlic, minced 3 tablespoons olive oil 3 tablespoons red- or white-wine vinegar 2 1/2 cups ice water 6 ice cubes 1-2 tablespoons salt Plus, any of the following for garnishes: cucumber, red and green bell peppers, onions, slices of hard-boiled egg, parsley, croutons

Purée the tomatoes, onion, cucumber and garlic in a blender or food processor, about a cup at a time.

Then pour the mixture into a large bowl or pitcher and add the oil, the vinegar and salt to taste. Whisk in the ice water and add ice cubes. Chill, then whisk again and serve. Cut garnishes into bite-sized pieces— should be arranged in separate bowls so that diners can customize their gazpachos to their individual tastes. Especially delicious with a good pinot grigio.

Salud! □

IN THE MIX Singing Saw Kevin Morby Dead Oceans Though only 28, songwriter Kevin Morby has made a dent in his career that can take some artists twice the time to achieve. With two successful bands under his belt (Woods, The Babies), Morby’s gone the solo route and has recently released his third album in three years, Singing Saw. His lilting voice and clear lyrical settings have garnered comparisons to the dry, folky delivery of Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen, and while the likenesses are most definitely apt, Morby continues to define his own sound apart from his influences. Songs like “I Have Been to the Mountain” and “Destroyer” exhibit the true caliber of Morby’s songwriting (not to mention his spectacularly sharp backing band). The album maintains a folky solo demeanor with the power of a full lively musical entourage: sparkling piano lines, crisp cymbals and tambourines, bright horns and fantastic harmonies. I look forward to what this man will be creating by his 30s.

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In a recent edition, released on July 3, her theme is “Art: Going With the Flow”—that is, shutting down the thinking mind and tapping into pure creativity. She illustrates this by showing examples of her own work as well as that of four other artists—Paula Busch, Waif Mullins, Reta Rickmers and Nicolai Larsen—who, like Mitchell, currently have work on exhibit in Chico. She also includes a blurb about an upcoming exhibit by several women who have survived cancer, including Rickmers and poet Joan Goudreau. In addition to describing what’s going on in the art scene, Mitchell explores the artistic process in a way that any reader can appreciate, artist or not. To subscribe, simply email Mitchell at dmitchell@csuchico.edu.

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Virtual treasure Oh, man, these are great times we are living in. If only

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the 11-year-old me could’ve have had access to a digital treasure map to follow along with as I searched for interactive cartoon characters!!! Like the rest of the planet, I tried Pokémon Go this week. And I’m pretty damn amazed at how overnight we’ve created a new frame of reference for seeing the world, augmenting reality with this on-thestreet interactive game filled with characters from a video game/ TV show/card game franchise born in Japan in the mid-1990s. This is just the cultural tipping point, of course; augmented-reality isn’t new. Everything from hospitals to the NFL to digital artists and the military are already using technology to expand the definition of Arts DEVO levels up. what is real.

While it was a kick to experience first-hand, Pokémon Go didn’t really do much for me. I’m much too old to have any nostalgia for it, and walking around swiping balls at cute little cartoons was kind of boring. To hold my interest, arts dEVo’s reality would need to be augmented by deeper personal fantasies, like riding a giant eagle shooting lasers from its eyes, or being OK with being seen in public without a shirt on.

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In addition to becoming a new permanent home for the school’s Janet Turner Print Museum and newly named Jacki Headley University art Gallery (in honor of the late Chico State arts alumna and downtown Chico ambassador/ entrepreneur), the new arts building features a brand-new performance venue, the Paul and yasuko Zingg Recital Hall. The intimate room named for the recently retired university president and his wife seats 200 in a stateof-the-art, wood-finished acoustic space. The first public performance in the hall will be Sept. 11, and will feature a quartet of Chico State faculty/ alumni ringers—Russell Burnham (clarinet), John Milbauer (piano), scott Cole (violin) and Michal Palzawicz (cello)—playing a free recital of inventive pieces in line with the year’s theme, with works by Chopin, Dahl, Shostakovich and Brahms. To scope out the entire school of the arts (and Chico Performances) 2016-17 schedule, pick up a copy of the just-released arts + ideas catalogue, or peruse it online at www.csuchico.edu/upe/performance/flipbook.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): You now have LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The more luxuriant access to divine luck than you’ve had in a long time. For the foreseeable future, you could be able to induce semi-miraculous twists of fate that might normally be beyond your capacities. But here’s a caveat: The good fortune swirling in your vicinity may be odd or irregular or hard to understand. To harvest it, you will have to expand your ideas about what constitutes good fortune. It may bestow powers you didn’t even realize it was possible to have. For example, what if you temporarily have an acute talent for gravitating toward situations where smart love is in full play?

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): A direc-

tory published by the U.S. Department of Labor says that my gig as an astrologer shares a category with jugglers, rodeo clowns, acrobats, carnival barkers, and stuntpersons. Am I, therefore, just a charming buffoon? An amusing goofball who provides diversion from life’s serious matters? I’m fine with that. I may prefer to regard myself as a sly oracle inflamed with holy madness, but the service I provide is probably more effective if my ego doesn’t get the specific glory it yearns for. In this way, I have certain resemblances to the Taurus tribe during the next four weeks.

Is it OK if you achieve success without receiving all of the credit you think you deserve?

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Over the

course of a 57-year career, Japanese movie director Akira Kurosawa won 78 major awards for his work, including a lifetime achievement award from the Oscars. Among the filmmakers who’ve named him as an inspirational influence are heavyweights like Ingmar Bergman, Werner Herzog, Bernardo Bertolucci, Robert Altman, Francis Ford Coppola, and Martin Scorsese. But Kurosawa wasn’t too haughty to create lighter fare. At age 86, he departed from his epic dramas to create a 30-second commercial for a yogurt drink. Did that compromise his artistic integrity? I say no. Even a genius can’t be expected to create nonstop masterpieces.

Be inspired by Kurosawa, Gemini. In the coming weeks, give your best to even the most modest projects.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Capricorns

may be the hardest workers of the zodiac, and Tauruses the most dogged. But in the coming weeks, I suspect you Cancerians will be the smartest workers. You will efficiently surmise the precise nature of the tasks at hand, and do what’s necessary to accomplish them. There’ll be no false starts or reliance on iffy data or slapdash trial-and-error experiments. You’ll have a light touch as you find innovative shortcuts that produce better results than would be possible via the grind-it-out approach.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My friend’s

12-year-old daughter Brianna got a B on her summer school math test. She might have earned an A if it weren’t for a problem her teacher had with some of her work. “You got the right answer by making two mistakes that happened to cancel each other out,” he wrote on her paper next to question seven. I suspect you will soon have a similar experience. Leo. But the difference between you and Brianna is that I’m giving you an A. All that matters in the end is that you succeed. I don’t care if your strategy is a bit funky.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Have ever

fantasized about being a different gender or race or astrological sign? Do you suspect it might be fun and liberating to completely change your wardrobe or your hairstyle or your body language? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to experiment with these variables, and with any others that would enable you to play with your identity and mutate your self-image. You have a cosmic exemption from imitating what you have done in the past. In this spirit, feel free to read all the other signs’ horoscopes, and act on the one you like best. Your word of power is “shapeshifter.”

Golden Goose Award is given annually to “scientists whose work may have been considered silly, odd, or obscure when first conducted,” but which ultimately produced dramatic advances. Entomologists Raymond Bushland and Edward Knipling were this year’s winners. More than 60 years ago, they started tinkering with the sex life of the screwworm fly in an effort to stop the pest from killing livestock and wildlife throughout the American South. At first their ideas were laughed at, even ridiculed. In time, they were lauded for their pioneering breakthroughs. I suspect you’ll be blessed with a vindication of your own in the coming weeks, Libra. It may not be as monumental as Bushland’s and Knipling’s, but I bet it’ll be deeply meaningful for you.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): I hope

it doesn’t sound too paradoxical when I urge you to intensify your commitment to relaxation. I will love it, and more importantly your guardian angel will love it, if you become a fierce devotee of slowing down and chilling out. Get looser and cozier and more spacious, damn it! Snuggle more.

Cut back on overthinking and trying too hard. Vow to become a high master of the mystic art of I-don’t-give-a-fuck. It’s your sacred duty to steal more slack from the soul-anesthetizing grind.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I regularly travel back through time from the year 2036 so as to be here with you.

It’s tough to be away from the thrilling transformations that are underway there.

But it’s in a good cause. The bedraggled era that you live in needs frequent doses of the vigorous optimism that’s so widespread in 2036, and I’m happy to disseminate it. Why am I confessing this? Because I suspect you now have an extra talent for gazing into the unknown and exploring undiscovered possibilities. You also have an unprecedented power to set definite intentions about the life you want to be living in the future. Who will you be five years from today? Ten years? Twenty years? Be brave.

Be visionary. Be precise.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Here’s one strategy you could pursue, I guess: You could spank the Devil with a feather duster as you try to coax him to promise that he will never again trick you with a bogus temptation. But I don’t think that would work, frankly. It may have minor shock value, in which case the Devil might leave you in peace for a short time.

Here’s what I suggest instead: Work at raising your discernment so high that you can quickly identify, in the future, which temptations will deliver you unto evil confusion and which will feed and hone your most noble desires.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): After a

cool, dry period, you’ll soon be slipping into a hot, wet phase. The reasonable explanations that generated so much apathy are about to get turned inside-out. The seemingly good excuses that provided cover for your timidity will be exposed as impractical lies. Are you ready for your passion to roar back into fashion? Will you know what to do when suppressed yearnings erupt and the chemicals of love start rampaging through your soft, warm animal body? I hereby warn you about the oncoming surge of weird delight—and sing “Hallelujah!” for the revelatory fun it will bring.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I’m

composing your horoscope on my iPhone after midnight on a crowded bus that’s crammed with sweaty revelers. We’re being transported back to civilization from a rural hideaway where we spent the last 12 hours at a raging party. I still feel ecstatic from the recent bacchanal, but the ride is uncomfortable. I’m pinned against a window by a sleepy, drunken dude who’s not in full control of his body. But do I allow my predicament to interfere with my holy meditation on your destiny? I do not—just as I trust you will keep stoking the fires of your own inspiration in the face of comparable irritations. You have been on a hot streak, my dear. Don’t let anything tamp it down!

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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.

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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

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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.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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

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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.

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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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY TACKLE AND PRO SHOP at 2368 B Lincoln Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

JAMES R. SORENSEN 853 E. 7th Street Chico, CA 95928.

DANIEL L. WELLS 53 Brenda Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JAMES R SORENSEN Dated: July 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000884 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BAD GRANDPA BAIL BONDS at 2055 Forest Ave. #7 Chico, CA 95928.

STEPHEN PAUL LORIMOR 4440 Marvin Lane Corning, CA 96021.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEPHEN P. LORIMOR Dated: July 13, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000881 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing buiness as BURGERS AND BREW at 301 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

CREPEVILLE INC. 330 3rd Street Davis, CA 95616.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DERAR ZAWAYDEH, PRESIDENT Dated: July 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000837 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SELBEE NATURALS at 2607 Forest Avenue Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928.

JOSEPH L SELBY 2607 Forest Avenue Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSEPH L SELBY Dated: June 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000797 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEART WIRED CONSULTING at 1133 Normal Ave Chico, CA 95928.

KAY PADEN 1133 Normal Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by Individual.

Signed: KAY PADEN Dated: June 23, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000807 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GREENWOOD LANDSCAPE MAINTENANCE at 5 St. Helens Ln Chico, CA 95973.

LOGAN M GREEN 5 St. Helens Ln Chico, CA 95973.

SAMUEL R WOOD 7 Ralland Circle #A Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by General Partnership.

Signed: LOGAN M. GREEN Dated: July 15, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000897 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HANKINS ELECTRICAL CONTRACTING, INC. at 275 Fairchild Ave. Suite 100 Chico, CA 95973.

HANKINS GROUP, INC. P.O. Box 481 Chico, CA 95927.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BRANNAN HANKINS, PRESIDENT Dated: July 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000863 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PHO LE at 2201 Pillsbury Rd Chico, CA 95926.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as WINE TIME at 26 Lost Dutchman Dr Chico, CA 95973.

JAMES COMPANY ESTATES 4990 Rich Bar Rd Chico, CA 9598.

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Signed: ROBERT G JAMES, PRESIDENT Dated: July 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000883 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ESTATE OF LOREN RICHARD MORGAN, aka L. RICHARD MORGAN, aka LOREN R. MORGAN, aka LOREN MORGAN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ESTATE OF LOREN RICHARD MORGAN, aka L. RICHARD MORGAN, LOREN R. MORGAN, LOREN MORGAN A Petition for Probate has been filed by: TYLER J. LIBBY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: CLAYTON B. ANDERSON, ESQ. Jacobs, Anderson, Potter, & Chaplin, LLP 20 Independence Circle, Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 16PR00192 Published: July 21,28, August 4, 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 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

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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 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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Classic Chico Rancher, 3 bd/ 2 ba, 2 car garage + workshop area. Locatedso 2 blocksld from Bidwell Park, beautifully updated & remodeled, with inground pool $425,000

Cabin on Butte Creek on 1 acre. $315,000

Amber Grove 3 bd/2 ba, 4 car garage plus so workshop area 1859ld sq ft $349,000

4 bed 2 bath in Chico large yard $279,500

Beautifully updated home 1 block from Sierra View elementary & 3 blocks to Bidwellld so Park. Home has 3 bd/ 2 ba, family + living room, & lovely front covered porch. $349,000

Lots for sale starting at $67,500

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15 Yr fHA: 2.750% fiXed APR: 4.088%

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2167 Montgomery St. Suite A OrOville, CA | (530) 282-4708 All advertised fixed mortgage rates are based on loans with the following criteria: $200,000 loan amount. Borrower with good to excellent credit with minimum FICO score of 740, single family, owner occupied, one unit dwelling and 0-1 point. The LTV varies depending on the product advertised. Conventional loan: 80% LTV (or a 20% down payment), FHA loan: 96.5% LTV (or a 3.5% down payment) and VA loan: 100% LTV (or 0% down payment). The advertised rates/APRs and terms are examples of loan products available as of this date: 06/27/16. Prices and guidelines are subject to change without notice. Not all applicants will qualify for financing, subject to review of credit and/or collateral. The actual rate/APR and terms you are offered, and all credit decisions, including loan approval will vary based on your specific loan request, your credit profile, other differences between your loan application and the above listed criteria used to derive the advertised rates. This is not a guarantee or commitment to lend. Elite Mortgage is a dba of Elite Norcal Corporation NMLS#338082/CA BRE#01525946.

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With locations in:

Chico: 894-2612 • Oroville: 533-2414 Paradise: 877-6262 • Gridley: 846-4005 www.BidwellTitle.com

Adorable 3 bed/2 bath, 1,039 sq ft, updated kitchen, laminate floors in living room.................................. $239,000 Durham fenced 10 acres with cottage, shop, barn ................................................................................ $549,000 Ag zoning, 6.78 acs, vineyard, stunning home, 5,000 +, income producing, + shops too ...............................$1,239,000 Senior condo, 2 bed/2 bth, 1,300 sq ft, 1-car garage, nice unit w/updated kitchen ....................................... $199,999 In town, 6.55 acres with custom 3 bed/2 bth, 1,714 sq ft plus shop! ............................................................. $475,000 Senior Mobile in Park, 2 bed/2 bth, 960 sq ft ....................................................................$17,000 pending GRAnIte te CounteRS, Counte CounteRS RS laminate floor + new carpet, 2-car garage, fruit trees! 2 bed/2 bth, 953 sq ft ............. $229,900 of ading cul de sac, 3-car garage, plus 3 bed/3 bth, 2,119 sq ft nice home! .................................... $379,000 Large lot, endpen Durham schools, 3 bed/2 bth bth, 1,948 sq ft, 1-ac, ............................................................................. $279,900 pending

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of july 4, 2016 – july 8, 2016.

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

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

2508 England St

Chico

$225,500

2/2

893

5615 Little Grand Canyon Dr

Paradise

$450,000

4/3

2,647

750 E Lassen Ave

Chico

$224,545

3/1

940

5691 Woodglen Dr

Paradise

$324,000

4/2

2,597

2932 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$145,500

2/2

904

625 Sunset Dr

Paradise

$293,000

3/3

2,024

6253 Jack Hill Dr

Oroville

$270,500

2/3

2,160

6900 Zenith Ln

Paradise

$270,000

3/3

1,635

95 Highlands Blvd

Oroville

$265,500

3/2

1,954

5737 Kibler Rd

Paradise

$267,500

1/2

1,883

3439 Hildale Ave

Oroville

$213,500

3/2

1,032

5960 Pine View Dr

Paradise

$247,500

2/2

1,355

2860 Stormes Ave

Oroville

$206,000

3/2

1,405

6769 Moore Rd

Paradise

$175,000

3/2

1,832

855 Pomona Ave

Oroville

$150,000

3/2

1,157

527 Valley View Dr

Paradise

$163,091

3/2

1,588

2115 Lumpkin Rd

Oroville

$145,000

4/2

2,292

12225 S Stoneridge Cir

Paradise

$161,000

2/2

1,287

101 Apache Cir

Oroville

$130,000

2/2

1,200

5244 California Way

Paradise

$145,000

2/1

864

6480 Apple Creek Dr

Paradise

$779,999

3/4

3,429

3559 Connie Cir B

Paradise

$135,000

2/2

1,140

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ADDRESS

Of Paradise

Of Chico

530-872-5880

530-896-9300

6635 clark rD

1834 mangrove

serving all of butte county

paraDise – magalia - chico - Durham

Julie Rolls - PRINCIPAL BROKER 530-520-8545

Marty Luger – BROKER/OWNER 530-896-9333

Brian Voigt – BROKER/OWNER 530-514-2901

Annette Gale – Realtor 530-872-5886

Nikki Sanders – Realtor 530-872-5889

Susan Doyle – Realtor 530-877-7733

Dan Bosch- REALTOR 530-896-9330

Craig Brandol – REALTOR 530-809-4588

Shane Collins – REALTOR 530-518-1413

Rhonda Maehl – Realtor 530-873-7640

Heidi Wright – Realtor 530-872-5890

Jamie McDaniel – Realtor 530-872-5891

Matt Depa – BROKER/ASSOCIATE 530-896-9340

The Laffins Team 530-321-9562

Tim Marble – BROKER/ASSOCIATE 530-896-9350

Kandice Rickson – Realtor 530-872-5892

Shannan Turner – Realtor 530-872-3822

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Christina Souther – Realtor 530-520-1032

Quinton Gozza – Realtor 530-354-6737

Bob Contreres – BROKER/OWNER Mark Chrisco – BROKER/OWNER 530-896-9358 530-896-9345

Vickie Miller – BROKER/ASSOCIATE 530-864-1199

Blake Anderson – REALTOR 530-864-0151

“ outstanDing agents. outstanDing results! ”

Steve Depa – BROKER/OWNER 530-896-9339

Carolyn Fejes – REALTOR Debbie Ziemke – REALTOR 530-966-4457 530-896-9353 calbre # 01996441

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