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Settle it Here we go again … The Butte County Board of Supervisors decided

The importance of preserving nature by—and can be reversed by—human action Iarecaused significant because they accept humanity as part nternational agreements that climate change was

of nature. Accepting responsibility for climate change must be expanded to include other environmental impacts by social groups (e.g., religions, nations, political parties and trade unions) and the objects they produce (arrowheads to spaceships). In the last thousands of years human cultural activities have been changing and replacing the natural world produced by billions of years of natural selection. by Populations of microbes, Doug Alexander plants and animals are maintained The author and his by natural selection on the exceswife came to Chico sive production of similar but in 1965. He taught biology at Chico State potentially different new generafor 35 years. tions. These populations, interacting in distinctive environments, form units that we call ecosystems. Maintaining these ecosystems under the threat of human activities can be achieved by the self-control of our actions.

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less natural world, the quality of our lives will be improved when we preserve nature and incorporate it into our cities. A properly preserved natural world, through methods such as regulating water flow or maintaining a more predictable climate, provides an unending flow of resources and useful services.

Preserving the finite world requires controlling our population growth and halting unlimited consumption of natural resources. Population regulation includes fewer children and increased generation time. China’s one-child policy could have been relaxed to allow larger families, if the first child was restricted to mothers 35 or older. A positive way to achieve delayed child birth, without forced abortion, is by encouraging women to develop job skills before starting a family. This increase in the age of starting a family results in smaller families and longer generation times. Also, this should increase the time parents can spend together and with their children.

A sustainable world needs international agreements among nations to use political, economic and social pressure to control resource consumption, reduce pollution and encourage smaller families that start at older ages. Sustainability is appreciated by individuals when they are encouraged to enjoy natural areas and grow some of their own food. □

Tuesday (July 26) to mount another legal objection to the Mechoopda Indian Tribe’s claim to land south of Chico. Just counting the appeals filed in federal court, not any procedural motions, this will mark the fourth time the county has taken the tribe and the U.S. government to court in an attempt to block the Mechoopda’s planned development, centered around a casino.

The decision came just 11 days after a New York judge on a D.C. district bench ruled that the Department of the Interior had considered “all the relevant issues” when designating the property as tribal land. (See “Tribe on top” in July 21 Newslines.) Supervisors, who deliberated in closed session, were divided 3-2, with Chico’s Maureen Kirk and Larry Wahl dissenting.

The county contends the 625-acre parcel along Highway 149 presents so many issues related to traffic, public safety and environmental impacts that it should not be developed. We understand that concern. However, we cannot go along with the second part of the county’s argument, which has formed the basis of its legal challenge.

County officials, leaning heavily on the research of one historian, assert that the Mechoopda have no right to the land because they cannot prove that their ancestors migrated that far from the Chico Rancheria. We assert that no one can prove the Mechoopda didn’t.

The era of John Bidwell was not chronicled by Twitter and Facebook on GPS-enabled smartphones. It’s presumptuous to say a specific tribe frequented what’s now Silver Dollar Fairgrounds but not a creekside greenbelt accessible by horse and foot.

The county may see this tack as its avenue of recourse, due to tribal sovereignty. The Mechoopda see the supervisors’ decision as “desperately trying to derail” the tribe’s efforts and, in the same statement, labeled legal action a “futile attempt” that will “waste more local money.”

After eight years of court appearances and attorneys’ fees for both parties, we believe it’s time to drop the legal battle. Understandably, there are some hurt feelings involved, but we believe the tribe is capable of rising above that to work with the county to resolve issues. The alternative— continuous, contentious litigation—serves no one. □

New plan, same problems Walmart: the big-box store everybody loves to hate. Don’t get us wrong,

though—we don’t hate Walmart. In fact, we see its value to the community, as it offers the convenience of one-stop shopping as well as low prices.

What we don’t see, however, is a reason for the Forest Avenue store to grow.

Let’s look at the big picture, as several concerned Chico residents did last week before the Planning Commission, which met to discuss the draft environmental impact report for the planned expansion (see “Bigger box,” page 10). That expansion includes over 55,000 square feet of added grocery space, a drive-through pharmacy, a full gas station/convenience store and two pads for additional retail and restaurant tenants.

We agree with many of the speakers at last week’s meeting that the mitigation measures proposed regarding traffic are not adequate. More than that, though, we echo their concern for the future of other businesses—and their employees—that would be affected by such an expansion. The draft EIR predicts that “one grocery store could close and some restaurants. The result could be the equivalent of up to 80,000 square feet of vacant space ….”

In our minds, that’s not insignificant.

The last time Walmart proposed an expansion, concerned citizens and conscientious City Council members stood up against the retail giant and argued that the benefits of added jobs and sales tax revenues did not outweigh the negatives of traffic impacts and store closures. Those impacts haven’t changed; the expansion is just being presented in a prettier package. □

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coffee with the chief I met Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien for a cup of coffee the other day, and was paying the tab when a middle-aged man with dreadlocks started chatting him up. I didn’t want to interrupt what I could tell was a friendly interaction, so I hung back. At the end of their short conversation, the man handed the chief a white crystal the size of a large marble.

This was the day after a gunman ambushed Baton Rouge law enforcement officers, killing three in that embattled Louisiana city.

A little more than a week before that, five officers were killed by a heavily armed sniper during an otherwise peaceful march in Dallas.

I don’t know if the man recognized O’Brien as Chico’s top lawman, but he certainly could tell the chief was a cop—being strapped with a pistol gave him away. Regardless, the crystal was a nice way to show gratitude to a longtime police officer who, like other law enforcement officials, has had a rough go lately.

O’Brien said Chico Police Department personnel have been inundated with similar acts of kindness from community members— families with small children bringing in cards and flowers, an elderly woman who baked a big batch of cookies, among other gestures.

“I’m overwhelmed by the support,” he said.

The chief had invited me to chat. It’d been about year since our last meeting. The timing was strange this time around, though, given the scrutiny of police based on questionable shootings of civilians at the same time as a national outpouring of support for law enforcement. There’s a lot of rhetoric on both sides, we agreed.

Regarding the Black Lives Matter movement, specifically, O’Brien said: “We need to have those tough conversations.”

That was the backdrop of our meeting, so the conversation held a serious tone.

I was glad to hear O’Brien’s responses to several of my questions. I found out a lot—that the department is close to having every officer equipped with a body camera (a win for transparency), that racial-bias training is standard every two years (a California thing), that the department has recently recruited three additional women (female officers are less likely to use excessive force).

Diversity is still an issue. (Chico’s only black cop is also the first black sergeant in the department’s history).

I also asked O’Brien about a recent Black Lives Matter rally at City Plaza during which Chico police were viewed as less than welcoming. According to the chief, there was more to the story than the officers throwing their weight around. He told me that a local man had posted a threatening message—that he’d “like to see an officer shot in the head”—on social media in response to the event.

No wonder they were on edge. The good news is O’Brien and some of his staff met with the organizers in an attempt to form a relationship. He told them about the threatening language to give them context for his employees’ response to the rally, and they all agreed to continue the dialogue.

One of O’Brien’s primary messages is that the police department should be a part of the community. Communication is a big part of the equation. “You can’t fix anything if you move into isolated camps,” he said. Hear, hear.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Lest we forget Re “The long road ahead,” Cover story, by Fania Davis, July 21: In response to Fania Davis’ thoughtful and engaging piece on the need for Restorative Justice through a Peace and Reconciliation process, let us not believe that a uniquely insidious form of American racism does not exist in Chico. Sadly, it is alive, well, and exemplified by my 19-year-old African-American niece’s most recent experience: being called the “N” word by someone driving by as she walked her dog on The Esplanade last week. I use the term “recent” because this slur has been directed at her on several other occasions, again shouted by individuals who do not know her, who somehow feel free to speak what once was considered unspeakable.

But legitimizing offensive, vile, and hurtful rhetoric by the Republican candidate for president has taken such language to a new level of unacceptability and has, in part, been the impetus for much of the unrest now spreading across this country.

My niece is intelligent, thoughtful, funny, and kind. She is one of the sweetest individuals I know … even if I am her aunt! But the pain she suffers when accosted by strangers hurling such invectives is deeply saddening and disturbing. I would like to have thought that Chico was better than this, but such examples in our community—one that, on the surface, appears to be welcoming and inclusive—should give us pause.

Until we openly and thoughtfully address issues of race and economic disparity through community awareness, we will continue to be part of the problem, a problem not reflected as a pretty picture. Rather, the picture is fraught with ugliness, ill-will, and potential violence.

Marianne Werner Chico

Mutual respect Re “About guns and the Constitution,” Guest comment, by Dean Carrier, July 21): I support both the Constitution LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 and the NRA, and see no conflict.

The court has ruled several times that the Second Amendment gives individual citizens the right to bear arms. I don’t believe that modernday weapon owners are concerned about government tyranny and expect to battle our military forces with rifles and shotguns. But, it’s nice to know that we have the right to protect ourselves and loved ones in the event of our homes being invaded by an intruder.

Some in our government, President Obama and Hillary Clinton to name a couple, would like to take away that right if they could. The majority of weapon owners, I believe, would stay in their homes and let law enforcement and/or military forces cope with the situation. Many responsible citizens these days own weapons for target practice and hunting purposes, rather than the expectation of taking arms against authorities. I support the right of the guest commenter to not own any weapons, but ask him to respect my right to own weapons in accordance with our Supreme Court’s interpretation of the Second Amendment.

Maurice Picard Chico

Which clunker?

Why do I get the feeling that I’m at the Mulholland Auto Mart, with a salesman named “Bob”?

There are only two cars on the lot: A Trumpywagon, with loose steering, no brakes, bull horns bolted to the hood, a nice aftermarket “coal roller,” a built-in slot machine and wicked-ish flame graphics dancing down the quarter panels.

Then there’s a Hillarymobile: the Liberal Limousine model, with a nasty pull to the right—especially when Palestinians are on the sidewalk. Seems the Hillary is a salvage car with a bent frame, an old stained dress in the backseat and a sociopath named Henry Kissinger in the trunk. It’s a “steamer,” burning bales of Wall Street cash—and it gets terrible mileage. But, screw all that, it’s got a nice pink paint job and some sweet rainbow upholstery.

Bob tells me the Hillary is a sweet ride—what a deal.

I think I’d rather walk.

Patrick Newman Chico

Bad track record A brief history of walls: There was a wall at Jericho, sure stopped the Hebrew invasion. Hadrian put up a wall to keep Britain in the Roman Empire—good job of that! Chinese built a wall against Northern barbarian types, Genghis Khan said, “Nice try!” and then slaughtered his opposition. The communists built a wall to keep freedom out of Berlin and it’s doing just swell, right? Donald Trump and his gang want walls on the U.S. borders so we will stay white, pure and Christian forever and ever, Amen. To that I say “Hah-hah-hah!” Pink Floyd had the best advice: “Tear Down the Wall” (but Trumpsters do need education, won’t take it).

James Mielke Corning

Not amused Re “Important questions” (Letters,

by Patrick Newman, July 21): As a twice-now survivor of melanoma, I was disgusted but not surprised by Patrick Newman’s referring to Melania Trump as “Melanoma Rump”: A tolerant and accepting liberal striving to be humorous will always start in the gutter and strive no higher.

Cancer is not a funny subject, Mr. Newman, and neither are you.

It is a disease not to be wished even upon a snarky bitch such as yourself. Have a nice day.

P.S.: Get thee to a dermatologist.

John Henry Lyons Chico

Not cruel and unusual Re “More cop talk,” Letters, by Nathan Esplanade, July 14 Nathan Esplanade writes “... unless police are put in a situation of ‘kill or be killed,’ they’re arguably bound to capture even known murderers alive.” Is anyone that naive? A military-trained active shooter has killed five officers and plans to kill more, and you want to read him his Miranda rights? The police officers did what they are trained to do: Protect your butt!

To suggest tasers or tranquilizer darts via robot is nonsense. And to even suggest that it was “cruel and unusual punishment” is completely ignoring and demeaning the cruelty of Micah Johnson butchering five husbands and fathers while they

were just doing their job. He was the criminal. How would you feel if you were shopping in downtown Chico and some nutcase walked up and shot your wife dead and then aimed at your kids?

Would you want to take him alive or advise him of his rights?

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Review busted Re “Booooooo,” Film review, by Bob Grimm, July 21: I am glad that my teenage daughter dragged me to see the new Ghostbusters movie before reading your review, because it might have prevented me from seeing it. I was thoroughly entertained and was laughing from beginning to end. Maybe it is my simple sense of humor that found Kate McKinnon’s performance so hilarious. Maybe it is because I am a woman that I found a movie with strong, educated female characters saving the day so appealing.

Sharon Kaplan Chico

I take serious issue with Bob Grimm’s review of the new Ghostbusters film now playing in theaters. I think his review exhibits the same patriarchal values the new Ghostbusters are up against in this reboot. His main issue seems to be that the film was unfunny to him as he must have expected it to be a laugh-out-loud comedy. (For the record, I thought it was plenty smart and funny.)

The new Ghostbusters have to contend with gaslighting and discreditation within their academic community (hmm, sounds like an all-too-familiar feminist theme is emerging...) and then the political system and entire populace of their city at large.

They forge together and follow their hearts and minds to work toward their common goal despite all the naysayers and machinations of the city and national government to shut them down (sisterhood is powerful, y’all) and ... I won’t go on so no need for a spoiler alert.

Perhaps Mr. Grimm was viewing Ghostbusters with too narrow a patriarchal lens.

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The Chico Police Department scored a hat trick last weekend when officers recovered three stolen vehicles and arrested three suspected car thieves in less than an hour.

The first suspect, Robert Secrest, 36, was arrested after being caught inside one of the vehicles on the 1500 block of Park Avenue just before midnight on Sunday (July 24). Two 17-year-olds were arrested about half an hour later after being pulled over on Broadway Street downtown.

A third stolen vehicle was found at 12:48 a.m. at 100 Salem St. and appeared to have been recently abandoned, as the engine was still running. A suspect in that case is yet to be identified.

SPIRITS ON TAP

A little over six months after opening its wine tasting room, Durham-based Almendra Winery & Distillery is set to start offering spirits at its 12,000-square-foot facility on the Midway.

Almendra is owned by the Bertagna family, which also runs Bertagna Son Kissed and Long Creek wineries. “The rich history, custom crafting and endless possibilities of expanding beyond wine was alluring. I’ve been waiting for this moment [the spirit release] ever since,” Berton Bertagna said in a company press release. Almendra’s spirits are distilled from wine and infused with fruits and nuts.

The grand opening, which will include live music, public tours and tasting flights, is set for Sunday (Aug. 7) from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at 9275 Midway. A small batch of brandy will debut for the occasion.

NEW RABBI ON THE BLOCK

The local Jewish community is set to welcome a new rabbi at Congregation Beth Israel: Sara Abrams, a transplant from Westchester, N.Y. Abrams (pictured) has an extensive education covering ordination, religious studies, science and elementary education, according to a press release from the temple. As rabbi, she will provide “pastoral care and spiritual growth” to congregants and cultivate connections in the greater Chico community. The release notes Abrams’ background in instructing yoga and meditation; she also writes her own prayers, poems and music.

Abrams will start her new job on Friday (Aug. 5) during a 7:30 p.m. Shabbat service at Congregation Beth Israel (1336 Hemlock St.).

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Park or parking lot?

Neighbors accuse Enloe of reneging on agreement a development agreement Tforapproved Enloe Medical Center’s $110 million

en years ago, when the Chico City Council

expansion project, it was on condition that by the time the expansion was complete, by Robert Speer Enloe would mitigate some of its impacts on r ob e r t s pe e r@ the surrounding residenn ew srev i ew. c o m tial neighborhood.

Specifically, the hospital agreed to retrofit as many as 35 nearby houses to lessen noise from emergency helicopters. It also pledged to repair streets damaged during construction, to keep Magnolia Avenue as a through street, and to construct a park immediately west of the new addition to serve as a buffer between the hospital and the neighborhood.

The results so far, according to members of the Chico Avenues Neighborhood Association: Only one house has been retrofitted; only the streets nearest the hospital have been repaired; and only a tiny children’s playground has been built where the park was supposed to be. Magnolia has remained a through street, but awkwardly so because it is no longer clearly linked to the neighborhood grid.

Worst of all, in the neighbors’ minds, the hospital came to CANA in June with new plans to reduce the size of the park to make room for more parking—even though anywhere from 100 to 150 of the 700 spaces in its four-story parking garage are usually empty, they say.

To the neighbors, this is yet another example of the hospital’s willingness to ride roughshod over them as it creeps ever outward. As CANA’s president, John Whitehead, put it, “They want what they’ve decided they want, and that’s it.”

Bill Seguine is the property development

and facilities manager at Enloe. As such, he’s in charge of designing and building the park, as well as negotiating with the neighbors.

On July 20, he attended a CANA board meeting held at the Enloe Conference Center. The main topic was the park.

Seguine had been invited to attend, he said, and was there primarily to take notes and answer questions.

It turned out there were a lot of questions, beginning with this one: “Why are we now, at the whim of another CEO, renegotiating this plan?” The reference was to current CEO Mike Wiltermood,

who according to Seguine is pushing for more parking, and former CEO Dan Neumeister, who some 15 years ago abandoned long-held plans to build a new hospital on Bruce Road and instead opted to expand the existing facility in the heart of a residential neighborhood.

There was grumbling among the board members. Someone said the word “lawsuit.”

Seguine informed the group that Enloe had “already complied with every aspect of the development agreement.” The agreement calls for a park, he said, but nowhere does it “speak to the size of the park.” In fact, he added, the small children’s playground is enough to qualify as a park.

Members of CANA pointed out that a map of the Enloe campus attached to the development agreement showed the word “park” square in the middle of the block between Fifth and Sixth and Arcadian and Magnolia avenues Seguine stated that Enloe had no desire to stick closely to the letter of the law and was committed to the “spirit” of the law.

Part of the problem is that the situation on

the ground has changed—and is still changing. When the development agreement was signed, there were four Enloe-owned

buildings on the block as well as one old house whose owner refused to sell.

Since then, one of the Enloe buildings has been demolished. Of the three remaining, two are in use. They are the Arcadian House at Fifth and Arcadian, which is headquarters for Butte County EMS, and the Sierra House at Sixth and Arcadian, where the Enloe Foundation and Enloe’s Marketing and Communications department are located.

The third building, an older yellow house next door to the Sierra House, is also set to be demolished. The most recent plans envision the land freed up by the demolitions being used for the park.

The homeowner who refused to sell has since died, and Enloe has purchased the house from the heirs and plans to demolish it, as well. The hospital wants to use the space for additional parking, bringing the total number of parking spaces on the site to approximately 72.

If the hospital prevails, the north half of the block will be devoted to the park and the south half to parking.

The neighbors don’t think that meets the goal of creating a buffer between the hospital and the neighborhood.

They charge that the parking lot would increase vehicle noise and light pollution in a historic neighborhood that is already experiencing decreasing property values and increasing transition from owner-occupied homes to college rentals, thanks to Enloe’s incursions.

There’s a reason for those incursions, of course. Enloe serves a sevencounty area whose population is steadily and inevitably growing. If it’s pushing outward, it’s because hospital administrators know there’s high demand for life-saving health care.

The parking lot is intended, Seguine said, to serve people coming to the nearby Emergency Department. The parking structure is too far away, he said.

Not so, said the CANA folks. A person needing emergency care can be dropped off at the ER while the car is being parked in the parking structure.

Or Enloe can restore the valet service it used during construction.

Neighbors also suggested that parking meters be installed around the hospital to encourage people, especially employees, to use the parking structure.

They also noted a complete lack of signage telling people where parking is available.

Whitehead and other CANA board members are meeting with City Manager Mark Orme and Community Services Director Mark Wolfe on Friday, July 29, to discuss the many issues the association has raised. □

Familiar tunes

In June, local drug enforcement agents busted this illegal cannabis operation in Bangor.

Old arguments arise as county supervisors send medi-pot initiative to voters

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may be noted for its calming effects, but, as a matter of discussion, it Csureannabis can stress people out.

As a case in point, emotions ran high on Tuesday (July 26) during the latest Butte County Board of Supervisors public hearing on medical marijuana. Residents filled the chambers in Oroville and split into two familiar, opposing camps—those who’d like to see cannabis normalized, legalized and regulated, and those who want marijuana farming and associated nuisances eradicated from the foothills.

Consider Bonnie Marciniak, who spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting, firmly in camp two.

“People are sick and tired of everything the pot industry stands for,” she said. “The smell, the poisonous pesticides, the crime, the contamination of our soil and our groundwater—the list of negatives goes on and on. It is not a harmless plant.”

The matter at hand was an initiative called the Medical Cannabis Cultivation and Commerce measure, aka MC3. It would replace Measure A, the current law regulating the cultivation of medical marijuana in Butte County, which passed with about 60 percent of the vote in 2014 and was amended by Measure H this past June.

Pot advocates consider Measure A prohibitively strict, as it limits garden size to 150 square feet. MC3 would loosen rules on garden size and establish guidelines for the cultivation, manufacturing, testing, distribution, transportation and storage of medical marijuana.

SIFT ER Against the wall Most Americans oppose Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s stated plans to deport all undocumented immigrants and build a wall along the border between Mexico and the United States, according to poll results released by Gallup last week. Based on 3,000 people polled, 84 percent of Americans favor offering immigrants

In early June, the Inland Cannabis Farmers’

Association—the group behind MC3—submitted nearly 12,000 signatures of registered county voters to the Clerk-Recorder’s Office.

On Tuesday, the supervisors were tasked with certifying the signatures as valid and deciding whether to adopt the initiative as an ordinance or put it to a countywide vote.

A couple of big-picture factors colored the discussion. For one, there’s a real chance that, in November, California voters will legalize the recreational use of cannabis under Proposition 64. Also, the supervisors themselves are burnt out on the subject; they’ve overseen dozens of similar hearings in recent years.

All of that isn’t lost on Jessica MacKenzie, ICFA president.

“We’re tired of it, too,” she said. “We’re tired of struggling for equilibrium in an ever-

a path to citizenship if they meet certain requirements over a period of time. Broken down along party lines, 91 percent of Democrats and 74 percent of Republicans favor a path to citizenship. Meanwhile, 16 percent of Dems and 50 percent of Republicans say we should deport all illegal immigrants. As for the wall, 66 percent of respondents opposed the idea, including 88 percent of Democrats and 38 percent of Republicans.

changing landscape where the pendulum swings from one extreme to the other. What we’re really advocating for is changing the mindset away from eradication to regulation. … History tells us, in no uncertain terms, that eradication and prohibition do not work.”

MC3, if passed, would move in the other direction. It would allow for personal gardens up to 500 square feet, lift the county’s prohibition on cannabis dispensaries, and establish a framework for commercial activity as outlined in the state’s new Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act. For instance, it would set up a business licensing program for growers and allow property owners to dedicate up to 25 percent of their parcel to commercial operations (not to supercede allowances outlined in MMRSA).

County Counsel Bruce Alpert offered the supervisors his take on the initiative: “I don’t mean to sound flippant, but this is a pretty large wish-list for people who not only want to see personal use expand, but want commercial marijuana to become a part of the fabric of our community.”

The supervisors could have directed county staff to study the full implications for 30 days, but Paul Hahn, the county’s chief administrative officer, said that that would push the initiative off the ballot until June 2018.

Ultimately, District 5 Supervisor Doug Teeter made a motion to certify the signatures and place the initiative on the Nov. 8 ballot as written. His motion passed 4-1, with Chairman Bill Connelly dissenting.

Prior to casting his nay vote, Connelly expressed misgivings.

“There’s just so much we don’t know,” he said.

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Chico. Their biggest concerns?

Traffic and a bigger store’s impact on existing retail in the area, especially other grocery stores. Now Walmart has another plan to grow the store and, though the details have changed, the concerns remain the same.

This was apparent at the Chico Planning Commission meeting on July 21, the first forum held for members of the public to weigh in on the new project. Though commentary was limited to content of the project’s draft environmental impact report, about a dozen speakers took to the podium, with two expressing support for the expansion.

The draft EIR has been available on the city’s website since June 17, and the Planning Commission meeting was held to obtain feedback as part of the document’s 45-day public review period. Written comments will be accepted by the city until 5 p.m. on Monday (Aug. 1).

Walmart wants to expand the Forest Avenue store by up to 66,500 square feet on the existing building’s south side, increasing the store’s footprint from 131,302 to 197,802 square feet (the former plan would have increased the size to approximately 208,000 square feet).

The company also wants to build an eightpump fuel station with a 1,500-square-foot convenience store, and two pads for future retail stores or restaurants totaling 52,000 square feet. The development would involve expanding south to Wittmeier Drive and splitting the property into three separate parcels. Most of the Staff from the city’s Community Development Department discuss Walmart’s expansion plans July 21. photo by Ken Smith

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growth on the main store—55,730 square feet of it—would be used to establish a full-service grocery department including produce, a deli and a bakery.

Traffic issues were the primary

citizen concerns. Mike Sawley, an associate planner with the city’s Community Development Department, kicked off the meeting by outlining mitigation measures the company has proposed to alleviate increased traffic. He said Walmart has agreed to fund improvements to the intersection of Forest Avenue and East 20th Street, including restriping the road to create more turn lanes and reprogramming traffic lights. Walmart will also pay for the installation of traffic lights at Forest Avenue and Wittmeier Drive, and Sawley said impact development fees could help fund further street improvements.

Taking the podium, speaker Chris Nelson called the EIR “inconsistent, inadequate and inaccurate,” noting it doesn’t remedy one of Chico’s strangest traffic situations at Business Lane and East 20th Street, where drivers leaving Walmart and adjacent businesses have to cut through the Toys R Us parking lot.

“It’s the most ridiculous and ineffective way to route traffic,” she said. “It’s already in place and there’s no plan to change it from the look of things.”

Nelson and other speakers also said the traffic study done for the EIR, which monitored traffic in the area for three days in October, was inadequate. She quoted a passage from the EIR that reads: “The timing of physical intersection improvements cannot be guaranteed to occur prior to the future traffic volumes that would cause the intersection [at East 20th Street and Forest Avenue] to operate at an unacceptable level of service.”

“This is vague and alarming,” she said. “How much are we going to put up with so [Walmart] can collect more profits?”

Ben Perle, regional vice president of operations for Oxford Suites, was also concerned with traffic.

“The EIR does not address the fact that Walmart is proposing to continue to use and actually increase the use of private roads, Business Lane and Baney Lane,” he said. “There’s no maintenance plan in place and Walmart is asking private businesses to foot the bill for long-term maintenance of those roadways. Both Baney and

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Business lanes were constructed to service businesses along those roads and they were never intended for all the 18-wheelers and double axles that use them now.”

Perle also said sound measurements were not properly executed and that Walmart used Oxford Suites property without permission to record the data.

“The EIR doesn’t provide necessary documentation about the number of trucks using Business Lane, or the time of day it was measured,” he said. “… [T]hat’s a pretty significant omission …

Walmart is asking to increase the truck traffic between 8 p.m. and 8 a.m., and possibly even double that traffic. As you know, hotels sell a good night’s sleep, and added traffic can have a big impact on our business.”

Other speakers complained that the EIR doesn’t adequately address the impact the expansion could have on local businesses, with several prognosticating that Walmart’s entry into the local grocery business could lead to other stores closing and urban decay. The EIR acknowledges this possibility, stating “one grocery store could close and some restaurants. The result could be the equivalent of up to 80,000 square feet of vacant space ….” That, however, is considered a “less than significant” impact, according to the report.

Tom Nickell argued that one store closing is significant, and said that he fears Walmart’s expansion could affect more businesses. As a former City Council member whose tenure included Walmart’s first expansion attempt, he said the Walmart enlargement could lead to the closure of other supermarkets, specifically Food Maxx, and that his independent research during Walmart’s last bid to go bigger indicated a potential loss of more than 200 local jobs.

“This new project EIR really hasn’t changed anything since back when I was on the council,” Nickell said.

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HEALTHLINES Sarah Blofsky (left) and Andrea Gleason say they get at least as much as they give in the Enloe Infertility Support Group, which they founded and facilitate.

Gleason to ask Enloe to sponsor a support group for couples like her and Michael, and the Blofskys. The medical center agreed. The group would need facilitation, of course, so Gleason turned to her friend.

Blofsky overcame initial reservations and agreed to share the moderator duties with Gleason.

The Enloe Infertility Support Group meets monthly (see infobox). It launched this past January and draws an average of a dozen attendees. Along with open discussions, in which they share experiences, participants hear from physicians and other experts.

Dr. Mark Garrison, a gynecologist with Enloe

Better together Local women bond over infertility, start support group to help others

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upbeat personality, Andrea Gleason wages Imedical battles that would leave most peon contrast to her vital appearance and

ple with a perpetual frown.

Many of her 29 years have been spent in and out of hospitals. Both she and her sister required kidney transplants; Gleason received hers at age 16. She subsequently developed a rare condition, Caroli Disease, that has put other organs in jeopardy; she expects to need a liver transplant.

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Gleason has shared her story publicly as an advocate for organ- and tissue donation.

Yet, there’s a part she once kept private.

Only those close to her have known how deeply she yearns to start a family with her husband, Michael, but cannot carry and deliver a child on her own.

The Gleasons sought help from a specialist. No doctors in Chico offer infertility treatment services, so they traveled to Stanford. They began the process for in vitro fertilization (IVF) with a female relative of Andrea’s to serve as surrogate.

“I wasn’t sure what to expect,” she said, “but then going through it, it was a lot.”

Gleason works at Enloe Medical Center in the Human Resources Department. One

of her close friends there, Sarah Blofsky, transferred from Recruiting to the Mother & Baby Care Center as a neonatal technician.

When Gleason revealed to Blofsky that she was starting IVF treatment, she got an unexpected response.

Blofsky and her husband, Eric, were doing the same thing.

“I remember my jaw about hit the floor,” Gleason told the CN&R. “I had never, ever had anyone say, ‘I’m doing it, too.’”

The Blofskys had been just as private: Only close friends and family members knew at first.

“People ask all the time, ‘When are you going to have a baby? Don’t wait too much longer!’” said Blofsky, 30. “So I asked Eric, ‘What do you tell people when they start asking?’ He said, ‘I just tell them we’re doing IVF … because then they don’t ask you any more.’”

Hearing that, Gleason laughed, and Blofsky joined her. They can look on the lighter side, even though infertility weighs heavily on both couples, because they have each other for encouragement. They no longer feel alone.

The feeling of connectedness inspired

Women’s Services, says 1 in 6 couples struggle with infertility.

“It’s substantial,” Garrison said.

The term infertility is defined as an inability to get pregnant after trying for at least a year, and/or having multiple miscarriages. Garrison said a woman under 35 should seek medical treatment after a year of unsuccessful attempts to conceive. Until that time, she should continue to monitor her cycles and check her fertility timetable with over-the-counter ovulation tests.

Better still, he advises, couples should see their doctor(s) before starting.

“Just make sure that your general health is good, see if there are any issues that need to be addressed as part of preconception counseling [and] go over the family history,” Garrison said. “Once you know everything is good, you’re on your prenatal vitamins, avail yourself of every available scientific technology to be smart about the timing.”

Even then, some couples won’t conceive. That’s when it’s time to consult a specialist. Urologists in Chico can send semen specimens to a local lab for sperm counts. For actual remedies, both men and women mostly go to Sacramento, the Bay Area or beyond. Treatments, with or without surrogacy, typically are not covered by insurance and run tens of thousands of dollars.

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HEALTHLINES and related therapies using assisted reproductive technology require doctors to remove multiple eggs from a woman’s ovary, but in order to get enough eggs ready at once, she must take hormones that cause discomfort.

Blofsky underwent treatment in September 2014 so doctors could fertilize her eggs, freeze them and reintroduce them two at a time.

She is in good health; nonetheless, she received medication to boost hormones to stimulate pregnancy.

Two attempts have failed.

The Gleasons, meanwhile, suffered a painful disappointment: Their relative did become pregnant with their child, but lost the baby at 13 weeks last year.

“I felt like the rug was just taken from under me,” Gleason said. “I found myself feeling so alone, lost, with nowhere to turn. I didn’t know anyone else who was struggling with these same issues, and I just knew I couldn’t be the only person.”

She wasn’t and isn’t. Now she and Blofsky have cultivated a community, which they hope will grow.

In the meantime, each couple is moving forward. The Gleasons

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Meeting details

Infertility Support Group meets the first Thursday each month, 6-7 p.m., at the Enloe Conference Center (1528 Esplanade).

For more information, call Andrea Gleason at 517-1447 or Sarah Blofsky at 519-2268.

thought last year’s pregnancy might be their last chance, because they cannot afford a surrogate on top of IVF, but a mother of two in Willows, where they live, heard about their plight and has agreed to carry their child free of charge.

The Blofskys, after taking a year break, plan to try again next month without all the medications from the previous rounds.

“Mother’s Day was really hard for everybody in that group, but you feel like everybody else is pumped,” Blofsky said. “I texted Andrea [saying], ‘Hey, I’m having a really hard day today,’ and she [replied], ‘Yep, me, too.’ I couldn’t text my best friend because she has three kids, so Mother’s Day is an amazing day for her, and I’m very glad about that.

“To have that sense of normalcy, to know that’s all I have to say [for Andrea] to know how I feel, you instantly feel relief in that.” □

WEEKLY DOSE Keep your cool Temperatures this week climbed back into the triple digits. When it gets that hot—and stays that way—people can fall victim to heat-related illnesses like rashes, cramps, edema, exhaustion, hyperventilation and heat stroke. Avoid these side effects, especially if you’re out in the sun most of the day, by following these steps: • Take cool showers • Avoid prolonged exposure to direct sunlight • Wear light-colored clothing, and sunscreen • Drink more water than usual • Take refuge in air-conditioned areas • Check on the vulnerable

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

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GREEN Felisa Trujillo works in the community garden at Murphy Commons Apartments.

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Murphy Commons Apartments three W years ago with her sister and their parents, hen Felisa Trujillo moved into Chico’s

she found more than a home. The community garden run by fellow residents beckoned, and it revealed to her something she did not know she had: a green thumb.

Trujillo has worked in the garden ever since, and for her dedication was recently named resident manager, charged with overseeing its care. So, when she learned that a new grant through the city of Chico would make watering the garden easier—and more sustainable—she was understandably excited.

The city chose Murphy Commons, an 86-unit apartment complex run by the Community Housing Improvement Project (CHIP), as one of six locations to benefit from a stormwater grant program through the State Water Resources Control Board.

This summer, Franklin Construction has been busy installing a 2,825-gallon water storage tank and solar-powered pumps that will divert stormwater into the garden.

Additionally, gutters on eight apartment units were diverted toward the front of the building to help water newly planted drought-friendly yards.

Steven Karnowski, the complex’s property manager, said he hopes that all the buildings in the complex will be similarly outfitted.

The city and CHIP have a long-term lease agreement for the garden, which is on city property, said Linda Herman, administration manager of the Public Works Department.

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ent. The other projects funded by the grant include delawning and bioswale initiatives at city hall; the Chico Amtrak station; a Habitat for Humanity plot at the corner of 16th and D streets; and Chico Fire Station No. 1.

The stormwater diversion system is just

the newest sustainable addition to Murphy Commons, Karnowski said. Exterior lights for the complex and hot water for the main office are powered by solar panels, which are installed throughout the property. And the original recycled paint is green, both literally and in the environmental sense.

In 2011, the city granted CHIP a lease on a large plot of land next to Murphy Commons to start the community garden.

Since its inception, the garden has inspired others around town. The garden is entirely run by the residents, a point Karnowski made multiple times both as a sense of pride and to explain its somewhat wild appearance.

In the garden, residents grow for free whatever they want. Some of the plots are specialized, with long rows of corn and other tall plants shooting from the earth.

Others are a hodgepodge of herbs, veggies and fruits. During a recent visit, residents pointed out the variety, explaining that seeds are often scattered by animals or the wind

across the entire garden and, as such, they’re sometimes surprised by what grows.

Before moving to Murphy Commons, Trujillo said she had never gardened, but she and her father, Oscar Trujillo, are now hooked. A vegetarian, she said it was nice to be able to grow her own food, even if she admits she’s a novice relying mostly on luck at this point.

“It’s not like work; it’s just fun,” she said.

She added that there is ample opportunity to learn from fellow residents, some

of whom are veteran gardeners, as well as from members of Chico GRUB (Growing Resourcefully Uniting Bellies), which collaborates with Murphy Commons residents on the garden.

Though she’s still learning the ropes, at press time Trujillo’s corn, lettuce and kale were doing well. Her carrots, not so much.

Nonetheless, she’s enjoying herself and is grateful to have access to such a great resource.

“It’s amazing. Some places barely have room for a barbeque. We have a garden.” □

ECO EVENT BE A SCIENCE WIZ! For all the Harry Potter fans out there who have secretly (or not so secretly) wanted to attend Hogwarts and try their hand at magic, the Gateway Science Museum is the next best thing. Head on over to the museum, where you can purchase the new Harry Potter & the Cursed Child—Parts I & II (while supplies last) and then dive into some real-life wizardry. Investigate exploding polyjuice potions, discover dry ice divinations and explore herbology. Sunday, July 31, noon-5 p.m., at 625 Esplanade.

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Batting 1.000 One night about a year and a half ago, friends Nathan Kanemoto (pictured, at left) and Nick Koehler were talking over drinks when they decided to go into business together.

They both had experience with online sales but were no longer satisfied with their jobs. Their shared enjoyment of softball— they each played on a company team and Koehler still plays in an adult league—led them to quit their jobs and open 99Bats, a baseball and softball sporting goods store (loosely named after Highway 99). The business started online and is still primarily Internet-driven. Last Friday (July 23), they celebrated their first day in their new retail store (at 3030 Thorntree Drive, Ste. 12) in north Chico.

Koehler and Kanemoto sat down with the CN&R while their shop—inside a medium-sized warehouse—was still being set up, the walls lined with bats, gloves and branded shirts and hats. Still looking to fill space, the pair said they plan to build batting cages, which would allow customers to test out bats and help them continue creating product-testing videos for online customers. Stop by their shop or check out their website, www.99bats.com, for more information.

What sets you apart from other sporting goods stores?

Kanemoto: Our passion. We were playing softball a lot. That’s

something we love to do. I think that sets us apart—our enthusiasm. A customer comes in and we can talk for 30 minutes and not even know that time passed.

You go to your Dick’s Sporting Goods, there really isn’t that invested interest. They have a great selection, but if you go there, there are employees that may be Chico State students, and they may not care as much as you do. [Nick] plays still, where if you go to Dick’s you have people who don’t even play baseball or softball.

Your business is primarily online right now. Do you see that growing?

Kanemoto: We want to provide more [online] content. We’re going to put a batting cage in so we can do videos and actually inform the customers about the new products that come out. There are so many bats out there and unless you have a sporting goods store in your town, you’re just relying on a

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Over the past couple years, I’ve begun to embrace the wonder that is breakfast.

No mere scrambled eggs and toast for moi, either. My boyfriend chuckles at my decadent concoctions: an over-easy egg on top of a crab cake; a crostini topped with cream cheese, smoked salmon and scrambled egg sprinkled with paprika (I stole that one from B Street, though I can’t yet master the hollandaise like they do).

I’d heard that Inday’s Filipino Food had started serving breakfast (7-11 a.m.

Mon.-Thurs., 8 a.m.-1 p.m. Fri.-Sun.), so I headed over on a recent morning. Excellent choice. I took my time discussing menu items with the friendly John Geiger— formerly Mr. Crazy Dog, he closed his hot dog cart and now works full-time with his wife, Ethel “Inday” Geiger—and settled on the Filipino specialty known as bangus, aka fried milkfish with rice (I chose garlic-flavored) and eggs (over-easy).

If you haven’t tried breakfast at Inday’s (1043-B W. Eighth St.), do so. The bangus was bangin’. I plan to go back for one of their scrambles, with ingredients like wild salmon, prawns, chicken adobo and, yes, Spam. Oh, and the mango mimosas are amazing.

picture or someone’s information handed down to you.

Will people be able to come and hit in the batting cages?

Koehler: They [will be] mainly for content creating. And customers can come in and have a demo of that bat. As far as a business to pay to use the batting cages, that’s not where our mindset is.

How much of a difference does having the right bat make for a player?

Kanemoto: It matters if you’re trying to get a scholarship. Let’s say you get 10 extra hits, your batting average goes up, you get a couple extra home runs in a year, next thing you know you’re getting a full-ride scholarship somewhere. We had a local kid who was swinging a 30-ounce bat and he wanted a lighter bat and we had that bat.

And on his very first at-bat he hit a home run.

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M’OROVIllE Last weekend, I stopped by The Galley in south Chico to get my regular cheese fix and got to chatting with owner Manny Muellenbach. Turns out, he’s ready to expand. He recently purchased the shop being vacated by Feather River Kitchen & Gifts, at the corner of Bird and Myers streets in downtown Oroville. He expects a grand opening at the end of August—stay tuned!

Muellenbach has good timing, I can just feel it. In May, the Oroville City Council agreed to set aside nearly $100,000 to help fix up the nearby historic Miners Alley.

(Not to be confused with the brewing company with the same name. However, the Montgomery Street pub backs up to its namesake and owner Steve Vandervort is very much involved in the project.) A group of students from Chico State’s School of Engineering, Computer Science and Construction Management put together an impressive proposal and work is set to begin soon.

CHICKEN SOFT TACO, PlEASE One of my favorite fast-food menu items of all time is

the chicken soft taco at Del Taco. It may have been that white sauce, some combo of mayo and sour cream, that eased me into Mexican food to begin with (I don’t like spicy). The good news (and the reason I bring this up): Pretty soon I might be able to get my fix without driving to Yuba City, as a Del Taco is being proposed for the corner of Forest Avenue and East 20th Street (now home to a vacant Valvoline Express Care).

Insider’s hint: Del Taco apparently has a secret menu phrase, à la In-N-Out’s “animal-style.” Simply say “go bold” and they’ll add the DT secret sauce and fries to your order. You’re welcome!

TSK, TSK Mary’s Gone Crackers, which recently announced its HQ will be moving from Gridley to Reno, has agreed to pay $1.5 million after being caught hiring— and rehiring—employees who were ineligible to work in the United States. D’oh!

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plume of smoke rose from the woods early in the afternoon of Wednesday, Sept. 9, 2015. Gary Rose was on his way home to his rural house in Mountain Ranch, in Calaveras County, and his wife, Monika, called to ask if he could see the fire.

“He told me it was over the ridge, on the Amador side, and that it wasn’t coming our way,” she recalled.

By the next day, however, the plume had grown larger and closer, smearing the sky a rusty, smoky brown. That afternoon, the Roses, along with two of their three adult children, packed their belongings. Their state of uneasy nervousness grew into a frantic rush as the fire moved closer and closer.

In the morning hours before sunrise, they piled into the truck as, behind them, the flames soared 150 to 200 feet above the ground. Rose says propane tanks could be heard exploding as the inferno claimed each additional home in its path.

“I could hear the fire breathing,” she said. “It was like a dragon coming down the mountain, and if it wanted something, it took it.”

The Butte Fire eventually burned 70,000 acres, destroyed hundreds of homes and took two human lives. The Roses were allowed to return after nine days. They were lucky. Their home and their small herd of cows survived the fire, but within a half-mile of the Rose property, 11 neigh-

bors’ homes were destroyed—about a 50 percent loss rate.

“They were totally gone,” she said. “It was eerie, like a war zone. The trees were all blackened and standing like a charred cathedral, and where the houses had been, there was nothing left at all—nothing, not even pieces of metal.”

In California, wildfires have been getting worse for years—larger, more frequent and more expensive to put out. In fact, 2015 ended up being one of the most destructive fire years ever. A record-setting 10 million acres of the United States—mostly in Alaska and other western regions—went up in flames. This year could be even worse for the West, experts worry.

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Chico resident Mike Lopez, a veteran firefighter

with the California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection, currently serves as president of Cal Fire’s Sacramento-based firefighters’ labor union. He says large fires used to occur most often in the summer and fall, but thanks to a warming climate and drier winters, they are increasingly burning year-round.

“We no longer have fire seasons—it’s more of a fire year now,” said Lopez, who worked for 23 years in Butte County firehouses.

He and many others believe climate change is driving longer droughts and warmer conditions that have pushed California into a new era of bigger, hotter fires—and today, after nearly five dry years, the West’s forests are perhaps as likely to burst into flames as they ever have been. Tens of millions of trees, killed by the drought, are ready to burn.

Decades of fire suppression practices have also contributed to the woodland fuel load, allowing understory shrubbery to build like kindling in a campfire ring.

Forest managers hope to avert disastrous fires by thinning out that fuel load—but there may not be time. Already, furnace-like conditions statewide have sparked such blazes as the deadly Erskine Fire near Bakersfield and the Trailhead Fire in Placer County. It’s likely the summer will see record heat in the months to come, and wildfire officials are facing what could very well blow into the worst fire season in state history.

“California has always been a flammable place,” said Jens Stevens, a plant ecoloMike Lopez, a Chico resident and longtime firefighter, believes California’s wildfires are only getting worse. photo courtesy of Mike lopez

gist at UC Davis’ John Muir Institute of the Environment. “What’s different today is there’s evidence the forests are denser than ever before. This is going to create bigger, hotter fires.”

Lopez doubts things will get better anytime soon, if ever. Already, in fact, 2016 is shaping into a record heat year—just like 2014 and 2015.

“Conditions are getting warmer as well as drier,” Lopez said. “The forecast is that this is the new normal.”

For millennia, fire has burned through the

hills and mountains of the American West.

Some plants, such as manzanitas, depend directly on the intense heat of fires to activate seed germination. The lodgepole pine, too, needs fire to open its pine cones. The landscape as a whole benefited from regular fires, which cleared away dense underbrush and allowed animals to use the area. The heat of the flames generally had little negative effect on most adult trees, protected by thick bark and internal water content.

The entrance of European Americans into California’s landscape abruptly changed the way fire plays into California’s ecology.

Beginning around the turn of the 20th century, people became extremely effective at putting fires out. Andrew Latimer, an associate professor of fire ecology and plant biology at UC Davis, says this change in fire patterns can be seen in tree ring data, viewable in the cross sections of old mountain conifers.

“You can see the scars of fires, every six years, 10 years, 20 years,” Latimer said.

“Then, starting around the late 19th century, early 20th century, it just stops entirely.”

For almost 100 years, local and state fire officials and the U.S. Forest Service extinguished fires aggressively and efficiently across the American West. The introduction of airplanes, fire engines, chemical deterrents and heavy machinery advanced people’s power to subdue fires, and for a time, it seemed, Americans had conquered one of the most formidable forces of nature.

But fire suppression programs backfired.

Trouble is, in the absence of fire, the woods grew thicker.

“You had all this fuel building up on the forest floor, with branches and needles dropping and just staying there and piling up,” Latimer said. “There were also many trees that would have been killed before but were able to grow up, so you had … a forest that was much, much denser.”

Eventually, so much wood had accumulated that even advanced firefighting strategies could not subdue the force of fire anymore. Latimer says an uptick in frequency of large blazes began in the 1980s and 1990s.

The 1991 Oakland hills Tunnel Fire killed 25 people and destroyed 2,900 buildings.

Twelve years later, in October 2003, the Cedar Fire consumed 273,000 acres of San Diego County, killing 16. In 2008, so much of Northern California went up in flames that many wines made with grapes grown that year tasted like smoke. Massive fires, includ-

ing the Rush and the Rim fires, roared over the state in the years following.

Last October’s Valley Fire in the North Bay destroyed 1,955 structures and killed four people.

Paul Duncan lost his house in that fire. He was at home, in Hidden Valley Lake, with his family on Sept. 12 when the fire broke out. A firefighter with Cal Fire, Duncan was called immediately to duty. Over the course of the next few hours, the fire moved explosively over the land. The 1,300 residents of Middletown were ordered to pack up and leave. Then Hidden Valley Lake, population 5,000, was evacuated. While Duncan worked the fire, his wife and their three teenage children barely escaped after rescuing a neighbor’s dog and driving away on roads that were socked in with smoke and, in places, roaring flames.

Duncan, who now lives in a new home in the same town, says the Valley Fire burned much more rapidly than most fires do, thanks to the especially dry conditions.

“It showed behavior that none of us had seen before,” he said, describing how the fire quickly jumped from the waist-tall grasses into the high branches of the trees—what firefighters call “crowning out.” This jump usually takes a few hours to occur, but with the Valley Fire, the blaze escalated into an emergency almost immediately.

Crowning fires soar hundreds of feet into the sky and generate so much heat that they can create localized thunderheads and turn living, microbe-rich soil into barren, dead dirt that remains essentially lifeless for years.

They sweep over the land as fast as a person can run, can melt metal and are almost impossible to control.

“When a fire crowns out and starts moving, you just have to stand back and let it go, because there is nothing on this earth that can stop it,” Lopez said.

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Rim and Rush fires—are especially hard to stop when the wood they are burning is dead and dry, as much of the state’s forests now are. Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service have estimated that the drought has killed more than 60 million trees in California alone.

Firefighter Kyle Jacobson, with the U.S. Forest Service’s Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit, says there are places in the Sierras where virtually every tree is dead across hundreds of acres.

“In places like these where we have tons of dead and downed trees, it will be almost impossible to put fires out,” he said.

Across the West, fire crews are laboring to thin this fuel load. The simplest approach is mechanical— basically cutting down small trees and removing them from the woods. However, mechanical thinning, which involves men and women on foot in the woods with chainsaws, can be brutally laborious and can’t be done across more than a fraction of the state’s woodlands.

“We just don’t have the manpower,” Jacobson said.

The other option for reducing fire danger is prescribed burning—basically, intentionally starting a fire during a period of cool or damp weather to reduce the risk of larger fires later. This approach involves less labor than mechanical thinning, as fire itself does the brunt of the work. It eats up the woody fuel of the forest floor, leaving the large trees unharmed.

Trouble is, prescribed burns themselves can get out of control. The Cerro Grande Fire of New Mexico began as an intentional burn set in May 2000 by the National Park Service. The blaze was meant to clear the underbrush from a small patch of woodland— about 900 acres—but the burn got way out of hand. It wound up burning for two weeks, consuming 48,000 acres and destroying hundreds of homes.

One way or another, forest managers must thin out the fuel load of the state’s woodlands.

“But we’re a long way from that,” said Steve Burns, a South Lake Tahoe fire chief with the U.S. Forest Service. He says that with strict limits on logging and the safety issues associated with controlled burns, drought-induced tree mortality is outpacing our ability to thin the forests—and it isn’t likely that forest managers will get a handle on the problem anytime soon.

“With the fuel load out there,” he said, “we’re going to be seeing these mega-fires for years.”

Burns himself almost lost his South Lake Tahoe home

in the 2007 Angora Fire, which destroyed 254 other homes in the area. Burns is just one of millions of Californians who now live in fire-prone areas. In the past 25 years, more than half of new homes in the United States have been built in areas of woodland or other vegetation likely to catch fire, according to the research firm Headwaters Economics in Montana. Nationwide, 15 million homes are now at risk of burning in wildfires, U.S. Forest Service officials have estimated.

The number of homes built in the danger zone continues to grow as urban areas sprawl into woodland and wilderness.

Even in the remote Sierra Nevada, communities or enclaves of cabins make any wildfire a top priority for firefighters to extinguish.

“We used to see fires of 100,000 acres that would destroy one or two homes,” Lopez said. “Now, we might have fires that are 10,000 acres burning 100 homes.”

The Tunnel Fire in Oakland consumed a mere 1,600 acres but destroyed more homes than any other fire in California’s history—almost 3,000.

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“I could hear the fire breathing. It was like a dragon coming down the mountain, and if it wanted something, it took it.”

—homeowner Monika Rose

bility by clearing the brush from around their properties. Evatt has lived in Amador County for 37 years and is the president of the Foothill Conservancy, a conservation group focused on Amador and Calaveras counties. Evatt and her husband, Pete Bell, built their home in a wooded, fire-prone area when Evatt was just 22 years old.

“I was too young to know any better,” she said.

Today, rampant building in wilderness areas at high risk of burning—a land zone officials refer to as “the wildland-urban interface,” or WUI, pronounced “whoo-ee”—continues.

“A lot of people come from the city and move into the WUI like I did without knowing the risks,” she said. “They think that there will be an immediate response if there is a fire.”

Evatt, who helped form a still-operational community fire department in the 1980s, wants county governments to prevent new woodland developments when necessary. Rural sprawl, she says—especially with isolated homes set deep in forests— is a dangerous way to continue with development. Homes should instead be clustered in already developed areas to

A scene from the devastating 2015 fire in Mountain Ranch in Calaveras County that destroyed 70,000 acres and hundred of homes. photo courtesy of monika rose

improve the efficiency with which firefighters may guard homes from blazes. Local agencies, she adds, should also take a more active role in educating residents on how to better protect their homes from fire.

Evatt says there must also be more laws requiring real estate companies to tell potential buyers about local fire risks.

A major problem caused by building homes in fire prone forests, Evatt explains, is that firefighters, who have a responsibility to protect property and lives over uninhabited woodland, become unable to focus entirely on controlling the fire itself when homes are deemed to be threatened.

“They have to send their fire engines to go and guard the homes, so they become less effective at firefighting,” Evatt said.

As for her own home, Evatt has taken steps to protect it from fire. She and her husband built it with metal roofing. They’ve cleared the brush from around the house in a 100-foot radius. They are also thinning the dead wood from the adjacent forest, and Evatt and Bell have have plans to layer the ground surrounding her home with three feet of gravel and to build—and fill—a large water tank with spigot fittings compatible with firefighters’ hoses.

Controlling vegetation growth is what helped save the Rose household in Mountain Ranch.

Monika Rose says she and her husband had always kept the acreage surrounding their home trim and tidy. The constant grazing of the cows and their goats helped, too.

But Rose says she knew the mountains around their home would eventually catch fire.

“We’d seen the heavy undergrowth and the thick trees, the amount of fuel and all the dead trees—we knew the danger was real,” she said. Some of her neighbors, she says, were not so careful. “They were right under the trees, and the very thing that they loved, the beauty of the forest, actually caused their undoing.”

The misguided philosophy of firefighters and forest managers was once to put out fires, period.

Today, firefighters want to see the natural fire cycle returned to the West’s landscape.

“What we want is fires of high frequency and low intensity,” said Burns, with the Forest Service.

“That’s how fire cycles work naturally, but where we are now, we’re having fires of low frequency and high intensity.”

Through the dry season of 2008, smoke covered much of the state as fires burned about a million acres. It was the most expensive year for putting out fires in the state’s history, with a bill that rang up at just over half a billion dollars. However, the fires were mostly of low intensity.

They burned the understory and killed relatively few adult trees. It was, Latimer says, an ecologically healthy fire year, with lots of mellow fires smoldering across the foothills.

“There were a lot of health impacts associated with the smoke, but that’s what a natural fire year in California might have looked like,” Latimer said.

Last winter brought heavy precipitation in parts of the state. Deluges of rain fell in January before more downpours arrived in March. Meanwhile, snow blanketed the

higher elevations, but Lopez says this winter’s moisture didn’t do much good.

“All that rain did was delay the fire season a month or two,” he said.

Duncan, in Lake County, says the winter’s rainfall was, in fact, just enough to make fire conditions especially bad.

“It started all that grass growing, which is now 4-feet high and dry,” he said, adding that the rain wasn’t enough to significantly dampen the standing trees. In effect, the precipitation only fueled the burning of the woods. “So far we’ve seen some explosive fire behavior. It’s shaping up to be a bad season.”

By June, fires were burning all over the state.

The large Erskine Fire, for example, consumed about 48,000 acres of forest in the mountains near Bakersfield and killed two people. Duncan was among the many firefighters who helped control that blaze.

The heavy blanket of snow laid over the state in the winter is nearly gone, melted at a rapid pace by unseasonable spring heat. It’s among many strong indicators that the climate is warming. One result of this change is that the mountain tree line seems to be moving upward, according to researchers at UC Davis. In a study published last summer, scientists with the John Muir Institute of the Environment reported that trees are growing higher than they did in the recent past. They also found that, before 1980, fires rarely burned above 8,000 feet. Now, they reported, several fires each year burn in this subalpine zone, thanks to increasing Steve Burns, a South Lake Tahoe fire chief with the U.S. Forest Service, says the drought—among other problems—has greatly impacted firefighters’ ability to control blazes.

fuel load and decreasing moisture levels.

Scientists, officials and firefighters all agree that the era of indiscriminate fire suppression must end.

The practice simply doesn’t work. Fires can be kept out for only so long before they erupt again.

“The answer to California’s fire problem is going to have to involve fire in some way,” Stevens said.

For now, fire suppression remains standard.

Virtually every fire that can be put out is put out, even though experts know this practice may cause more problems than it solves.

The question they’re grappling with is how to return fire to a landscape that is so densely packed with fuel. Stevens says that in a healthy forest, mellow fires burn through every 15 years or so. Some scientists and forest managers are hopeful that, eventually, fires could again burn on such a cycle.

Meanwhile, rural homes and communities could be protected by buffer perimeters of intensively thinned woodland. Building with fire resistant materials is another defensive tactic—but none of these measures will guarantee safety. Evatt, with the Foothill Conservancy, says she knows a local man who went to great lengths to protect his home from burning. However, last year’s Butte Fire destroyed his house. It did not actually catch fire from the outside, thanks to the fire resistant materials the structure was built with. Rather, the home heated up like a furnace and eventually exploded into flames from the inside out.

In Mountain Ranch, the house of the Rose family was spared once, but the danger, Monika Rose knows, remains.

“There’s still tons of fuel left out there to burn,” she said. “There are dead trees all over, still just waiting for the next fire.” Ω

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Arts&Culture The Empty Gate frontwoman Trish Howard down on the farm.

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music scene since 1985, Twhenpartsheof thegotChico her start as vocalist for an rish Howard (née Rowland) has been a

influential band of musical misfits, Vomit Launch. Howard’s legend as a gaminesque frontstory and woman was cemented photo by with that seminal punky Carey Wilson proto-indie-pop crew that put out four albums Preview: and toured the country The Empty Gate often over the course of demo-release show, seven years. There have Saturday, July 30, been other bands since 9 p.m., at the Maltese.

The LoLos and Pink then—Charm Fueled, The Bandana open. Repeat Offenders—but Cost: $7 it’s been a long musical (includes swag bag) dry spell for Howard.

After a life-threatening Maltese Bar & Tap Room illness, a change in careers 1600 Park Ave. (from realtor to horticul343-4915 turist) and a move across www.themaltese bar.com the county line, Howard is back in the spotlight, performing in self-described “dance, goth, punk, pop” rock band The Empty Gate with local singer/songwriter Mark Zempel (bass/vocals), husband Robert “Mad Bob” Howard (guitar/vocals), drummer Matt Coogan and keyboardist Gregory Spont.

The band will unveil its debut recording during a demo-release show this Saturday, July 30, at the Maltese Bar & Tap Room.

The CN&R recently visited with Howard at her idyllic Double Happiness Farm in Los Molinos—where she lives with her dogs,

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cats and Bob—to talk about her musical evolution.

What inspired you to get another band going?

I was finally ready to attempt playing music again! The bad taste had mostly left my mouth, I felt strong enough, and Mark Zempel proposed the thought of working together. We share a musical vocabulary.

It’s been a total joy.

What took you and your husband so long to start a band together?

Bob and I met about 17 years ago at a show that the Transexpistols opened for The Repeat Offenders. Bob and I have wideranging musical tastes, which we can usually agree on. I was a punk in high school, and he was a metal head, so that’s different. [But] Bob and I didn’t start this band together; Mark and I did. Bob is in the band because our guitar players either didn’t work out or moved away, and Bob was willing to try! We pretend to not be a couple whilst doing the band thing, The Empty Gate has a sound informed by 1980s alternative music, much like your first band, Vomit Launch, an actual ’80s band. How would you compare the creative processes between the two?

It’s so interesting that people reference the ’80s and ’90s with The Empty Gate.

That’s not intentional. Vomit Launch grew organically, and this band is doing so as well. It’s just a different starting point. We don’t have any preconceived “sound” we’re aiming for. We all write our own parts and

try to put the puzzle pieces together. That being said, maybe the musical style is somehow imprinted on me. Maybe it’s similar to an abandoned thing always recognizing the face of its rescuer.

You withdrew from performing for quite a few years and during that time moved from Chico to Los Molinos. Has the change in lifestyle/setting altered your approach to music?

The change in setting has definitely influenced my lyrical content. A bigger jump, though, is being a cancer survivor.

For years I hadn’t found the right people to be in a band with; that’s pretty crucial, like being in a marriage.

After coming down with a case of invasive breast cancer, I was too weak and out of it to write music for years. I’ve had over six major surgeries, and am on strong receptor blockers for chronic pain. Because of all of this, I’ve had an opportunity to really attempt to winnow out a lot of useless things, like some self-destructive behaviors—self-loathing, guilt, blame, all of that awful kind of smothering crap we drag around with us. It’s been a total sea change.

Lyrically, I really let my mind go and see where it takes me. All of this is enhanced greatly by the beautiful, peaceful place where we live.

It’s a tremendous gift to be in this band right now. The Chico music scene has never been better—there are so many amazing bands to see! It’s an exciting thing to be a SDUW RI Ɛ

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Special Events OKTOBERFEST BEER RELEASE PARTY: Celebrate the release of Sierra Nevada’s seasonal Oktoberfest beer in the Big Room with live music from Jasuka. Oktoberfest-inspired food and beer for purchase. M, 8/1, 6:45pm. $10.

Sierra Nevada Brewing 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) 3434915.

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MEMORIES OF ELVIS DINNER SHOW: Chris MacDonald brings back the magic of the King with his Elvis tribute show. Dinner option includes Elvis-inspired appetizer, entree and

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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.

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, a new

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.chicoartcenter.com.

NINTH AVENUE GALLERY & STUDIO: Water

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

RED TAVERN: Artwork of Amber Palmer,

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dessert. W, 8/3, 6:30pm. $10; $40 with dinner.

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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) 3432930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

Tuesday, Aug. 2 Lott Home, Oroville

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medieval entertainment including a utensilfree meal, live music, juggling, archery, sword fighting and more. Sa, 7/30, 6pm. $40/single; $70/couple. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville, (800) 803-1911, www.gold countrycasino.com.

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New Clairvaux Vineyard, the Vina winery and Trappist monastery, is a rare place where ancient traditions meet modern diversions, perhaps best evidence by the annual Blessing of the Grapes. This year the event falls on Saturday, July 30, and kicks off with the titular ceremony at 10:30 a.m., during which the resident monks bless the harvest and workers to ensure a robust growing season. Then it’s party time, with wine tasting, vendors and a small fleet of food trucks.

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

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CHICO CERAMICS CENTER Works by Delbert Rupp and Ciara Hart SEE ART RECEPTIONS, FRIDAY, JULY 29

permanent exhibit, featuring a variety of displays depicting Chico’s history—from John Bidwell and the Mechoopda Indians to Robin Hood and remains of an old Chinese temple. Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Chico’s science 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.

museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of iceage skeletons. Check site for current special exhibition. Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Fired Earth: Beauty and Tradition in

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

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ous moments. There’s a relatable absurdity here that The Far Side’s Gary Larson would find delicious.

Hot Dog Taste Test Drawn & Quarterly’s Hot Dog Taste Test is author/artist Lisa Hanawalt’s love letter/breakup text to eccentric chefs, tasty travels, pooping and by anything else her Matthew crazy brain can Craggs connect to the culinary world.

Disjointed and brilliant, this collection comprises both new work and pieces originally published in her James Beard Award-winning food column for Lucky Peach Magazine. Hot Dog Taste Test reads and looks like Julia Child whipped together a feast for Hunter S. Thompson— using the good doctor’s medicine cabinet as a spice rack. Suffice it to say, there are decidedly more bird genitalia than your average culinary tome.

Hanawalt’s sharp wit bounces from the ridiculous to the satirical as she skewers foodies and humanity in general, while greedily devouring the subjects she puts in check. Infusing the laugh-out-loud ridiculous humor and culinary commentary with personal honesty, Hanawalt explores how food is a part of life’s silly and seri-

Clean Room, Volume 1: Immaculate Conception As with comedy comics, horror is a tough genre to crack—too little and it’s laughable, too much and it’s a shallow bloodbath. With Vertigo Comics’ Clean Room, author Gail Simone and artist Jon Davis-Hunt find the right balance—somewhere between creepy and bloody, between getting under your skin and tearing it away.

Simone and Davis-Hunt are equally comfortable subjecting their characters to both inner and outer demons in this story that unravels a mysterious self-help guru linked to a string of high-profile successes and horrific murders.

Simone is one of the mainstream comic industry’s best writers thanks to her ability to tell otherworldly stories securely rooted in human emotions. It’s this skill that allows the creative team to dial down the gore—effectively using it in small, strong bursts—while filling every panel with a sense of unease, fear or confusion, which Davis-Hunt amplifies with subtle facial expressions or the way a character carries him or herself.

Unfortunately, this first volume (issues 1-6) of Vertigo’s ongoing series raises more questions than it answers and, while this is a natural byproduct of good storytelling, the

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arc could have used more denouement to round out the setup for what promises to be an engagingly, disturbing series.

Doctor Strange, Volume 1: The Way of the Weird Though it’s not connected to the upcoming film version of Doctor Strange (opening Nov. 4 and starring Benedict Cumberbatch), author Jason Aaron’s story in this horror/fantasy collection (issues 1-5) is a great introduction to Marvel character Stephen Strange, the doctor with magical powers who might be less familiar to mainstream audiences.

The opening page looks back at the character’s origins creatively and succinctly, and jumps right into the distinct weird world Aaron and artist Chris Bachalo have created. Bachalo’s depiction of the Netherworld and its interdimensional bacteria that cling to unknowing human hosts is visually striking. And the contrast between black-and-white and brightly colored nightmares recalls the 1980s/’90s cartoons Beetlejuice and The Real Ghostbusters. It’s great fun to see just how strange Strange’s world is. In addition to a solid story, Aaron keeps Strange’s eccentricities and rude behavior in check with a tortured rationale, preventing the Sorcerer Supreme from crossing the line from unfriendly to despicable. □

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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.

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ANA POPOVIC: One of contemporary

blues’ most electrifying performers returns to the North State with her unique blend of electric funk and slide guitar, jazzy instrumentals and soulful vocals. Th, 7/28, 9pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

BLUES JAM: Monthly blues jam with amps, drum kit and P.A. provided.

Fourth Th of every month, 6-10pm. Free.

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

BUTANNA: Oakland glam-punk band Butanna comes through Chico to join a stacked bill that also features local

rockers Los New Huevos, Cell Block and Redding’s Dying for It. Th, 7/28, 8pm. $7. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

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

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

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

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERTS: Weekly, outdoor concerts at City Plaza. This week: Mystic Roots (reggae/pop). 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.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB LITTELL: Playing an eclectic set of live music. F, 6-9pm through 7/29. TwoTwenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W.

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Fourth St.; (530) 895-1515; www.twotwentyrestaurant.com.

LED ZEPAGAIN: Los Angeles-based Led Zeppelin tribute band puts on a show so accurate it has to be seen to be believed. F, 7/29, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

Noise rock vet Ben Verellen (formerly of Harkonen) leads Pacific Northwest metal trio Helms Alee, (pictured) which is swinging by the 1078 Gallery on Tuesday, Aug. 2.

The band’s take on metal ranges from sludgy to soaring, and includes a healthy dose of humor. Also playing are locals Shadow Limb and Cold Blue Mountain.

THE LOVE DIMENSION, THE SPIRAL ELECTRIC: A pair of San Francisco’s finest psychedelic acid rock bands make their Chico debut. F, 7/29, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

MOSSY CREEK: Outdoor concert featuring well-known local bluegrass group Mossy Creek. Come early to get dinner and drinks, starting at 6pm. F, 7/29, 7pm. $15. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive in Paradise; (530) 8731370.

THE RETROTONES: Classic rock and country tunes from The Retrotones F, 7/29, 7-10pm. Shenanigan’s Bar & Grill, 3312 Esplanade Corner of Esplanade and Tonea Way; (530) 809-1088.

SCHLEMIEL O’NEAL, BEAR CALL: San Francisco garage pop bands celebrate their new split release with a stop in Chico. Locals Tionesta and Sunny Acres round out this rocking night. F, 7/29, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Hosted by

singer/songwriter Jeb Draper. F, 5-8pm through 11/18. Free. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 State Highway 70 in Oroville; (530) 532-1889; www.RockHouseHwy70.com.

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DRIVER: Live music by the Paradise guys.

Sa, 7/30, 9pm. Free. Outpost, 7589

Humboldt Road in Butte Meadows; (530) 873-3050.

LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO: Every Saturday afternoon/evening, come out for live music in a relaxed environment. Sa through 9/18. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 State Highway 70 in Oroville; (530) 532-1889; www.RockHouseHwy70.com.

MEDIEVAL NIGHTS DINNER SHOW: A night of medieval entertainment including a utensil-free meal, live music, juggling, archery, sword fighting and more. Sa, 7/30, 6pm. $40; $70/couple. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Highway in Oroville; (800) 803-1911; www.goldcountrycasino.com.

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cnrcalendar@newsre HELMS ALEE: Epic Seattle sludge masters Helms Alee bring their tongue-incheek tonefest to 1078 Gallery for a night of loudness with locals Shadow Limb and Cold Blue Mountain. Tu, 8/2, 8pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.; (530) 343-1973.

OPEN MIC MUSIC NIGHTS: Local musicians Jeff Coleman and Jimmy Reno host this open mic night. Bring your instrument of choice. W, 6-10pm.

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

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OKTOBERFEST BEER RELEASE PARTY: MUMBLEFINGER: Multifaceted Red Bluff rock band makes its first appearance at The Tackle Box. Sa, 7/30, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499; www.tacklebox chico.com.

THE ROCKHOUNDS: Classic rock done

right with veteran Chico band. Sa, 7/30, 8:30pm. No cover. Feather Falls

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

THE EMPTY GATE DEMO RELEASE: Local rock supergroup The Empty Gate showcases its new recording with help from Pink Bandana and The LoLos. Sa, 7/30, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville; (530) 5333885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

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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.

SPY PICNIC: Paradise band playing an eclectic mix of danceable originals and deep-cut covers from the 1970s to today. Sa, 7/30, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls

Celebrate the release of Sierra Nevada’s seasonal Oktoberfest beer in the Big Room with live music from Jasuka. Oktoberfest-inspired food and beer for purchase. M, 8/1, 6:45pm. $10.

Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St.; (530) 892-4647; www.sierra nevada.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.

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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THE HOUSE CATS: Live jazz/swing

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

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

LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

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SWAMP JAM: Bring an instrument and enjoy swamp-themed food and drinks available for purchase. Last Su of every month, 7-11pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499; www.tackleboxchico.com.

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BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

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

MacDonald brings back the magic of the King with his Elvis tribute show.

Dinner option includes Elvis-inspired appetizer, entree and dessert. W, 8/3, 6:30pm. $10-$40 with dinner. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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Ana Popovic currently calls Tennessee home, but her journey to Memphis has been a long one. She was already a budding teenage blues guitarist when the Balkan War caused her family to flee its native Serbia for Amsterdam, where she had early success with the group Hush. She eventually landed stateside, and her impressive accomplishments include appearing on Blue Haze: Songs of Jimi Hendrix alongside the likes of Buddy Miles and Eric Burdon. Popovic plays Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. tonight, July 28.

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again. Dad promises to make things better soon, and then he goes to see what’s causing by that strange shadow out in the hallJuan-Carlos way. Something weird starts hapSelznick pening with the lights in the office, and then something really drastic happens.

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Lights Out Martin’s big sister, Rebecca (Teresa Starring Teresa Palmer), is cavorting with her very Palmer, Gabriel Bateman and Maria attentive boyfriend, Bret (Alexander Bello. Directed by DiPersia), and begins encounterDavid F. Sandberg. ing some of the same weirdnesses.

Cinemark 14, Feather That carries over into worries about River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. whether her little brother is safe with Rated PG-13. the mother she detests.

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Sandberg and company achieve this partly through a set of psychologically fraught characterizations.

Mom Sophie, the Bello character, is the most conspicuously disturbed of the film’s characters, with Rebecca (who at times might be her double) a not too distant second. But the psychological twists in those two act as a kind of emotional virus for everyone else in the film, including even little Martin.

Plus, there’s the demon in the story, a character called Diana (Alicia Vela-Bailey) who can be glimpsed only in darkness (hence the film’s title) but who can make a fearsome impact on the physical world and the people in it. As a result, the battle of darkness and light is both literal and symbolic for the film and its characters.

Keeping the lights on becomes a kind of moral imperative for the chief characters in this movie. And the mere presence of darkness and light in a scene creates anxiety and suspense. One of the eeriest shots in the film is a wide shot of a dark street in which a tattoo parlor’s flickering neon sign and the “don’t walk” light at a crosswalk hover like gloomy omens.

Most of Lights Out is smartly staged and nicely understated. The only thing I disliked about it is its needless dependence on conventional, heavy-handed “shock effect” music and sound for otherwise welldeveloped dramatic moments that are perfectly capable of standing on their own. □

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Opening this week Bad Moms

Jon Lucas and Scott Moore, the writer/ director duo behind The Hangover, turn the comedy reins over to the women (Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, Kathryn Hahn, Jada Pinkett Smith and Christina Applegate) in this story about a group of “overworked and underappreciated” moms who ditch their responsibilities for a prolonged jag of wild living. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Café Society

Woody Allen’s latest is a romantic-comedy period piece set in the 1930s, when a young Bronx native (Jesse Eisenberg) goes to Hollywood and falls in love and returns home to join the party of New York’s high society.

Also starring Steve Carell, Kristen Stewart, Blake Lively and Parker Posey. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13.

Jason Bourne

ing 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. The new Ghostbusters band together to conquer the geek and save the city. The normally reliable Kristen Wiig, as the sensible scientist, basically stands around looking lost. Comedic firecracker Melissa 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, Kate McKinnon, as the brainy yet eccentric science wiz, is allowed to mug like a crack addict on an NYC subway. Leslie Jones, as the street smart Ghostbuster with no science chops, seems to equate volume with humor. And the CGI ghosts are dull, fluorescent things bolstered slightly by some decent 3-D effects. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13. —B.G.

Hillary’s America

Conservative filmmaker 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.

Director Paul Greengrass (The Bourne Supremacy, The Bourne Ultimatum) returns for this fifth installment in the Bourne franchise, which brings former CIA assassin Jason Bourne (Matt Damon) out of hiding to do battle with U.S. government forces that are hunting him down. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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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. Rated PG-13.

The directorial team behind Catfish (Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman) is at the helm of this techno-thriller about a high schooler who finds herself manipulated by an anonymous community playing a deadly online reality video game. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Neon Demon

Nicolas Winding Refn (Drive) directs this horror story starring Elle Fanning as an aspiring model who moves to Los Angeles and is besieged by a group of ruthless, beauty/ youth-obsessed, fashion-industry women.

Also starring Keanu Reeves and Christina Hendricks. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Tickled

A documentary that delves beneath the surface of the tickling fetish subculture and finds a dark, sinister and vast underground empire that turns out to be nothing to laugh about. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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

Mike and Dave Need Wedding Dates

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

The Secret Life of Pets

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

Star Trek Beyond

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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6. Tacos el Tapatio (corner of East First and Longfellow avenues): This truck is a classic: stripped down, no frills, capturing the essence of the taco truck experience. Spanish is the language of choice. The menu lists a total of four items. No kidding. This truck is very popular for one reason: The regular burrito (480 grams) costs $3, including tax.

No Mexican newspapers, no gran baile posters, no black beans, but perk points for Mexican Coke, chorizo, plentiful shade and “shrimp.”

5. La Cocina Economica (corner of Ninth and Wall streets): This taqueria isn’t perfect. The impersonal cinder-block interior

isn’t welcoming, the background music is annoying generic rock, and the food, despite the wonderful name, isn’t all that cheap—$6.25 plus tax for a 460g burrito. Its greatest selling point is the superb breakfast burrito, especially the veggie version with rice, beans, eggs, tater tots and the usual extras.

Perk points for free limes and peppers at the pick-up counter (very easy to overlook). A cold case has beer, and a soda fountain has poor PepsiCo offerings. Chips and salsa are 80 cents and aren’t worth the money.

4. The Taco Truck (parking lot of All the Best Video, 2422 Cohasset Road): This is your taco truck for the 21st century—slick, hip and fairly Americanized. The pork is called “pork” on the menu, not carnitas or pastor (they have both if you ask).

No gran baile posters, Mexican newspapers or ads for money transfers. Too corporate-looking?

You decide. The food is marvelous and cheap ($5 including tax for a 540g burrito) and they take their shrimp seriously. Perk points for an extensive menu (tortas, tamales, enchiladas, taco bowls, fish, lots of shrimp), that very meta name, and a large map of Mexico where I have wiled away many a happy hour musing “So, that’s where Chiapas is!” Double bonus points for the

occasional half-off coupon. One small table with umbrella in the midst of a brutally hot parking lot.

3. Gordo Burrito (1295 E. Eighth St.): Gordo has the best vibe among my winners. When the owner, Jose Uriarte, isn’t there, it’s a pleasant, friendly spot. When he is, it’s a party. Uriarte is having fun and wants you to join in. He keeps the conversation as Spanish as you can handle, so you know you aren’t at Chipotle. Gordo’s art is unforgettable, both the Aztecan murals and the logo (a campesino pulling a wagon swamped by an enormous burrito), which you can score on a T-shirt. Double bonus points for the occasional half-off coupon.

The chicken at Gordo has a distinctive, smoky flavor you love or hate. It can get dry, so it needs some moisture. Perhaps sensing this, Gordo’s “basic” burrito is loaded (with avocado in addition to the usual toppings), and is priced accordingly ($6.50 for 580g). I actually gravitate toward the enchiladas when I’m not comparison shopping.

Perk points for the condiment/ salsa bar, and the novelty of getting your soda from the gas station/quickie mart next door.

Good veggie burrito. Uriarte also owns the Gordo Burrito truck at Ninth and Pine streets, if you want to eat al fresco. □

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I obviously get a little dramatic at the thought of it all, but I can’t help it—the season of summer isn’t even half over!

The challenge, for those of us whose duties and liabilities increase when school returns (e.g., community-newspaper editors and their Kindergarten-teaching spouses) is to not let our responsibilities kill off the rest of the season prematurely. We have to create boundaries to contain what we have Communing with the sky on Brokeoff Mountain. to do, and then be prePhoto by ama PoSey pared to bust out and leave it inside the wall as we go wild on the other side during the weekend … at least till the actual end of summer.

Thankfully, our town is right next to a 3,670-acre oasis, and getting a fix of natural freedom is only a dusty Bidwell Park trail and an idyllic swimming hole away. But it’s also worth remembering that Muir’s beloved sierra nevada and the Cascade Range to its north are basically in our backyard, and in 90 minutes you can be breathing “air as delicious to the lungs as nectar to the tongue.” Last weekend, Mrs. DEVO and I did just that as we joined a pack of adventure-seeking friends in taking many big gulps of glorious mountain air as we hiked to the top of Brokeoff Mountain (aka Mount Tehama), Lassen’s shorter, yet more challenging-to-hike, neighbor.

It’s probably the lingering effects of our Sunday getaway that have me all worked up about that fleeting summer feeling. But I’m going to try and stop whining and get back to doing. In fact, I have a week off, and next on the summer checklist is hopefully (depending on the results of a last-minute hiking permit lottery) a day-long hike to the summit of yosemite’s daunting Half dome and back this Friday. Following that will be a week stuffed with as much summering as I can handle. If you’re around, hit me up. We’ll wear ourselves out launching off the Diversion Dam into Big Chico Creek and laze away the rest of the day with some tacos and beers on the lawn.

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Be grateful for its magic. Love the blessings it bestows on you. Celebrate its fierce, animal elegance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): The people

of many cultures have imagined the sun god as possessing masculine qualities. But in some traditions, the Mighty Father is incomplete without the revitalizing energies of the Divine Mother. The Maoris, for example, believe that every night the solar deity has to marinate in her nourishing uterine bath. Otherwise, he wouldn’t be strong enough to rise in the morning. And how does this apply to you? Well, you currently have resemblances to the weary old sun as it dips below the horizon. I suspect it’s time to recharge your powers through an extended immersion in the deep, dark waters of the primal feminine.

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esting Opportunity is definitely in your vicinity. It may slink tantalizingly close to you in the coming days, even whisper your name from afar. But I doubt that it will knock on your door. It probably won’t call you seven times on the phone or flash you a big smile or send you an engraved invitation. So you should make yourself alert for the Interesting Opportunity’s unobtrusive behavior. It could be a bit shy or secretive or modest. Once you notice it, you may have to come on strong—you know, talk to it sweetly or ply it with treats.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): [Editor’s

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by Rob Brezsny. If you have any problems with it, direct your protests to the Queen Wow, not Brezsny.] It’s time to get more earthy and practical about practicing your high ideals and spiritual values. Translate your loftiest intentions into your most intimate behavior. Ask yourself, “How does Goddess want me to respond when my co-worker pisses me off?”, or “How would Goddess like me to brush my teeth and watch TV and make love?” For extra credit, get a T-shirt that says, “Goddess was my co-pilot, but we crash-landed in the wilderness and I was forced to eat her.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Be alert for white

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VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You have just

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In fact, I suspect we will ultimately see you undergo at least one miraculous and certifiably melodramatic transformation.

A wart on your attitude could dissolve, for example. A luminous visitation may heal one of your blind spots. You might find a satisfactory substitute for kissing the sky.

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

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Of all the forbidden fruits that you fantasize about, which one is your favorite?

Among the intriguing places you consider to be outside of your comfort zone, which might inspire you to redefine the meaning of “comfort”? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to reconfigure your relationship with these potential catalysts.

And while you’re out on the frontier dreaming of fun experiments, you might also want to flirt with other wild cards and strange attractors. Life is in the mood to tickle you with useful surprises.

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I hope you will regard this not as a confusing paradox but rather as an exotic strength. With your inner child and your inner mentor working in tandem, you could accomplish heroic feats of healing. Their brilliant collaboration could also lead to the mending of an old rift.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Where

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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: 2016-0000801 Published: July 14,21,28, August 4, 2016

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

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

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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

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

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

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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

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

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

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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

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

KYLE NELSON 644 Crister Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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

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

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

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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

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

CASSANDRA PIERRO 1402 Davis Street Chico, CA 95928.

DEANNA PIERRO 1402 Davis Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

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

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

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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.

JAMES TRAN 2018 Huntington Dr Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES TRAN Dated: July 15, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000900 Published: July 21,28, August 4,11, 2016

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.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO AUTO CENTER at 2267 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

KAY L LOGAN TRUSTEE 1050 Holben Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ANNE M. MONLUX TRUSTEE 24 Shari Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Trust.

Signed: ANNE MONLUX Dated: July 20, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000914 Published; July 28, August 4,11,18, 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

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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 Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: CLAYTON B. ANDERSON, ESQ. Jacobs, Anderson, Potter, & Chaplin, LLP 20 Independence Circle, Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 16PR00192 Published: July 21,28, August 4, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE PAULINE ROMANO, AKA PAULINE KRAM, MRS. MIKE KRAM, MRS. MICHAEL KRAM To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: PAULINE ROMANO, AKA PAULINE KRAM, MRS. MIKE KRAM, MRS. MICHAEL KRAM A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MICHAEL KRAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MICHAEL KRAM 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.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: August 16, 2016 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Petitioner: MICHAEL KRAM 4781 Tree Ridge Lane Poulsbo, WA 98370 Case Number: 16PR00206 Published: July 28, August 4,11, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE STEVEN W. ZINK aka STEVEN WARD ZINK To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: STEVEN W. ZINK aka STEVEN WARD ZINK A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DEBORAH K. FILTER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: DEBORAH K. FILTER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. the will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: August 16, 2016 Time: 9:00a.m.

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

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

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

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notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 16PR00215 Published: July 28, August 4,11, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE RUTH ELAINE WEINREICH, also known as RUTH E. WEINREICH, also known as RUTH WEINREICH To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: RUTH ELAINE WEINREICH, also known as RUTH E. WEINREICH, also known as RUTH WEINREICH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUSAN WEINREICH BEST in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SUSAN WEINREICH BEST be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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: September 2, 2016 Time: 1:30 p.m.

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

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

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

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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: JANE E. STANSELL 901 Bruce Rd, Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-4524 Case Number: 16PR00220 Published: July 28, August 4,11, 2016

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due.

The following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.

ROBERT DRAGONE: Unit #178ss (7x8) (misc. items) JOSE GALVEZ: Unit #465cc (5x5) (dresser misc. items) CORY ONEAL: Unit #137cc (6x7) (motorcycle helmets, dog kennel, misc items) CHRIS PERIER: Unit #446cc (5x5) (misc items) MARK PIXELY: Unit #364ccl (6x12) (misc items) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: August 13, 2016 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

Published: July 28, August 4, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE GAIL M. MILLER, aka GAIL KNIESE MILLER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: GAIL M. MILLER, aka GAIL KNIESE MILLER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CHRISTOPHER M. WILSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: CHRISTOPHER M. WILSON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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 23, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 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

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objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: Law Office of Margaret McNulty 1550 Humboldt Road, Suite 4, Chico, CA 95928 (530) 809-0675 Case Number: 16PR00221 Published: July 28, August 4,11, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JEANNE PROTEAU-SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JEANNE PROTEAU-SMITH JEANNE HAVERTY JEANNE WEISBURD Proposed name: JEANNE PROTEAU JEANNE PROTEAU JEANNE PROTEAU 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: September 16, 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: July 21, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00057 Published: July 28, August 4,11,18, 2016

NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs 6101-6107 U.C.C.) 1.Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below: 2.The name(s) and business address of the seller(s) are: GORDON WAYNE STOUT 14072 Skyway Rd. Magalia, CA 95954.

3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is (if “same as above” so state): 5771 Clark Rd., Paradise, CA 95969 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: JENNIFER L. WHITE 546 Castle Drive Paradise, CA 95969 5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: KINGS TAVERN Escrow Holder: BIDWELL TITLE & ESCROW CO. 500 Wall Street, Chico, CA 95928 ESCROW OFFICER: Becky Schroer Order No. 00254719-002 DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: September 1, 2016 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: August 31, 2016 Notice is hereby given that Transferor intends to make a BULK SALE of the assets of the above described Business to Transferee including all stock in trade, furniture and equipment used in the said Business, to be consummated at the office of Escrow Holder at the time of consummation or thereafter.

Creditors of the Transferor may file claims with the Escrow Holder on or before the last day to file claims stated above. This sale is subject to Sec. 61066107 of the California Commercial Code.

Transferor has used the following business names and addresses within last three years so far as known to Transferee: Oroville Lounge; Timber Ridge Real Estate Signed: JENNIFER L. WHITE Dated: July 20, 2016 Published: July 28, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LINDA LUCY CRABTREE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LINDA LUCY CRABTREE Proposed name: LINDA LUCY LUCERO 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: September 30, 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: July 7, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00397 Published: July 28, August 4,11,18, 2016

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Adorable 3 bed/2 bath, 1,039 sq ft, updated kitchen, laminate floors in living room.................................. $229,000 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, Counter CounterS S 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

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: 07/26/2016. 15 YR FHA APR 4.189% 30 YR FHA APR 4.362% 15 YR VA APR 3.028% 30 YR VA APR 3.315% 15 YR CONV APR 2.803% 30 YR CONV APR 3.482%. 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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Chico: 894-2612 • Oroville: 533-2414 Paradise: 877-6262 • Gridley: 846-4005 www.BidwellTitle.com

Traci cooper ∙ 530.520.0227

40ac, North Chico zoned AG/Res. $118,000

www.tracicooper.com • CalBRE #01952704

2ac building lots $57,500

• Canyon Oaks 3358 canyon oaks Tr. 4bed 3bath 3150 sq ft - $730,000 • 2443 Monte Vista ave oroville 3bed 1bath 1160 sq ft - $185,000 • 408 openshaw rd on 6 ½ acres Oroville - $565,000 • 695 Victorian park Dr, 3 bd/2ba, 1,131 sq ft. - $249,000

1 bed 1 bath, 913 sqft. $135,000 5 ac lot. Owner carry $49,000 Single wide on 60ac, North Chico $239,900 Cohasset hunting cabin, 30ac $65,000

mark reaman 530-228-2229

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

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of july 8, 2016 – july 15, 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

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

5 Geneva Ln

Chico

$286,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 2,064

2171 Mulberry St

Chico

$205,000

2/1

1,395

402 W 12Th Ave

Chico

$277,500

2/2

1,226

1429 Sheridan Ave

Chico

$198,000

2/1

995

63 Pauletah Pl

Chico

$275,000

3/2

1,391

337 W 15Th St

Chico

$195,000

2/1

776

1394 Lucy Way

Chico

$273,000

3/2

1,471

958 Wisconsin St

Chico

$179,500

2/1

811

369 E Lindo Ave

Chico

$269,000

3/2

1,124

555 Vallombrosa Ave 77

Chico

$160,182

2/1

902

1379 Arlington Dr

Chico

$268,000

3/2

1,258

2932 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$145,500

2/2

904

824 Chestnut St

Chico

$259,000

3/1

1,245

1114 Nord Ave 18

Chico

$129,000

3/2

960

9786 Cohasset Rd

Chico

$239,500

2/2

1,280

1114 Nord Ave 15

Chico

$117,500

3/2

960

1004 Regency Dr

Chico

$238,500

3/2

1,124

650 Bird St

Oroville

$360,000

1/1

5,110

875 El Dorado St

Chico

$235,000

4/2

1,162

841 Deer Haven Ct

Paradise

$450,000

3/2

2,422

378 W Lassen Ave

Chico

$211,000

3/2

1,867

5844 Kibler Rd

Paradise

$399,000

4/3

2,592

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aDDress

city

BD/Ba sq. ft

price

agent

phone

5086 Royal Oaks DR

OROV

2/2

1,248

$90,000

Nikki Sanders

872-5889

0 Cohasset RD

COHA

Land

$42,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

14722 Bridgeport CR

MAGA

3/2

1,344

$109,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

0 Sky CT

CHIC

Land

$53,000

Robert Contreras

519-9801

6418 Ventura DR

MAGA

2/2

1,440

$115,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

Pennyroyal DR

CHIC

3/2

1,103

$170,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

6189 Center ST

PARA

2/1

1,670

$116,200

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1793 Modoc DR

CHIC

2/2

1,466

$220,000

Carolyn Fejes

966-4457

1241 Wagstaff RD

PARA

3/3

1,380

$129,500

Annette Gale

872-5886

69 Jackie DR

CHIC

3/2

1,108

$239,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

14167 Wingate CR

MAGA

3/2

1,371

$150,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1436 Trenta DR

CHIC

3/2

1,434

$262,500

Robert Contreras

519-9801

6212 Kilgord CT

MAGA

3/2

1,920

$169,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1089 Windsor WY

CHIC

3/2

1,467

$272,950

Carolyn Fejes

966-4457

5375 Pentz RD

PARA

2/2

1,040

$175,000

Quinton Gozza

354-6737

625 Olive ST

CHIC

2/1

812

$275,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

6198 West Wagstaff

PARA

3/2

1,530

$189,000

Shannan Turner

872-3822

7 Clara LN

CHIC

4/2

1,506

$289,950

Mark Chrisco

896-9345

6820 Leone WY

PARA

2/2

1,539

$209,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

6 Hillsboro CR

CHIC

3/2

1,456

$298,000

Steve Depa

896-9339

438 Plantation DR

PARA

2/2

1,308

$219,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

1361 Greenwich DR

CHIC

3/3

1,447

$299,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

5390 Filbert ST

PARA

2/2

1,132

$219,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

3320 Shadybrook LN

CHIC

Land

$299,000

Steve Depa

896-9339

14712 Julliard CT

MAGA

3/2

1,680

$234,500

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

2440 Guynn AV

CHIC

4/2

1,792

$330,000

Shane Collins

518-1413

96 Grinding Rock RD

PARA

3/3

1,766

$289,000

Susan Doyle

877-7733

1865 Rose River AV

CHIC

3/3

1,809

$339,900

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

49 Lake Haven WY

OROV

2/2

1,564

$289,950

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

1422 Dartwood DR

CHIC

4/2

1,867

$339,950

Mark Chrisco

896-9345

6380 Glendale CT

MAGA

3/2

2,065

$319,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1771 Del Rita LN

DURH

3/3

2,292

$350,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5906 Hazel WY

PARA

6/4

4,522

$355,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1817 Wisteria

CHIC

3/2

1,854

$396,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

1533 West DR

PARA

3/2

1,900

$359,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

3027 Saint Lawrence

CHIC

4/2

2,310

$485,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

6095 Timber Ridge DR

MAGA

3/3

3,242

$369,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

3 Hidden Grove CT

CHIC

4/3

2,326

$505,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

4495 Sierra Del Sol

PARA

3/3

2,217

$399,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

0 Coal Canyon RD

OROV

Land

$550,000

Steve Depa

896-9339

13813 Pine Needle DR

MAGA

2/2

1,850

$409,000

Quinton Gozza

354-6737

95 Table Mountain BL

OROV

Land

$1,725,000

Steve Depa

896-9339

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