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A good first step It’s been a few years since nearly a dozen train cars derailed and tumbled

down a steep embankment along the Feather River Canyon, spilling their contents into the waterway below. Fortunately, those cars were carrying corn and not crude oil, especially the highly flammable Bakken variety.

Today, the threat of a potentially catastrophic spill remains. CN&R has been warning about this scenario for years (see “On track for disaster,” July 10, 2014). Environmental groups have taken up the cause and, more recently, the Butte County Board of Supervisors has begun taking it seriously.

As evidence, the five-member panel this week unanimously approved a letter addressed to the Federal Railroad Administration (see “Unlikely eco-warriors,” page 10). It calls for added safety measures and for the Department of Transportation to study alternative routes for train cars carrying hazardous materials. Such trains have the potential to contaminate Lake Oroville, the state’s second largest reservoir and the headwaters of the State Water Project, which supplies water to more than 25 million Californians and 750,000 acres of farmland.

The canyon in our backyard is classified as a high-hazard area by the California Public Utilities Commission, so concerns about oil spills aren’t hyperbolic. In fact, over the last decade, there have been numerous other spills, including one involving diesel fuel, at the site.

CN&R commends the supes for taking an official stance by reaching out to the Federal Railroad Administration. It’s a good first step, but keeping the pressure on the federal agency is essential to mitigating the threat to our community and state water supplies. □

reporter not the guilty party GUEST COMMENT

On Sept. 3, Democracy Now! released video of security guards hired

elevating nonviolence N

onviolence, in the English language, has not been

a been a positive evocation in people’s vocabulary. It is not mainstream—yet.

The Buddha, Jesus, Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. are big names among thousands who over the many years of human societies made big impacts on our way of dealing with each other. Yet, we are enmeshed in a culture that believes in the myth of redemptive violence, with a mindset that accepts violence as a given for humans. Walter Wink said that by the world’s greatest religion is Cathy Webster faith in violence. the author is a longtime I say let’s change that Chico activist. now. Already there has been a committed effort to elevate nonviolence to a practical, integrative, easily understood way of life. Among other efforts, Campaign Nonviolence, a project of the peace organization Pace E Bene, has energized a Week of Nonviolence Actions, Sept. 18-24 this year. The UN International Day of Peace is Sept. 21.

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opening the City Council meeting on Sept. 20, and is expected to proclaim that week the Week of Nonviolence Actions in Chico.

Recently, the Chico Peace and Justice Center held the first of eight insightful workshops titled Everybody’s Revolution: Exploring the Wheel of Integral Nonviolence. This is open to anyone on the third Wednesdays throughout the series.

Sept. 17 is National Police Appreciation Day. Also, on Saturday, Sept. 17, the Chico Peace Vigil invites everyone to join fellow peace seekers at the corner of Third and Main streets, from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. for friendly, fun, creative public inspiration.

Later that day, from 4 to 8 p.m., the Ridge Coalition for Peace and Justice (RCPJ) and the Paradise Grange are hosting the Unity in Diversity Festival at the Paradise Grange, off Pearson Road.

Admission is free.

On Sept. 21, “100 Thousand Poets for Change” invites all to Chico Community Labyrinth at Children’s Playground, from 6 to 7:30 p.m., to celebrate in creative solidarity for global uplift with poetry, art and music.

Finally, kindness, understanding, patience and persistence with yourself and those around you can continue forever. □

by builders of the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline attacking Native American water protectors—men, women and children—with pepper spray and dogs. The video, narrated by host Amy Goodman, went viral and was rebroadcast by several major networks.

Over the Labor Day weekend, in pursuit of the story, Goodman and her camera crew had followed, filmed and interviewed the protesters who’d entered privately owned land to stop bulldozers from razing sacred burial grounds. For Goodman’s diligence as a reporter, authorities in Morton County, N.D., issued a warrant for her arrest on criminal trespassing charges.

“This is an unacceptable violation of freedom of the press. I was doing my job by covering pipeline guards unleashing dogs and pepper spray on Native American protesters,” Goodman said in a statement.

We wholeheartedly agree.

Before Goodman’s report, mainstream media had largely ignored Standing Rock Reservation’s protests against the pipeline. With representatives from more than 100 tribes joining the Sioux in recent months, the demonstration is the largest gathering of Native Americans in a century (see “Mni wiconi: Water is life,” page 16).

Thanks to Goodman and Democracy Now!, the issue is one of the nation’s top news stories. Moreover, federal authorities have since stepped in to halt the project pending further scrutiny.

And what a story it is, touching as it does on environmental, cultural, historical and legal issues, as well as questions of corporate greed versus public good. It remains in the best interest of those building the 1,172-mile interstate pipeline—which has the potential to affect millions of Americans, Native and otherwise—that the whole story not be told. Calling for a journalist’s arrest for doing her job is a flagrant attempt to suppress the ugly facts and intimidate others from reporting them.

Luckily, there are measures in place to protect journalists, not the least of which is the First Amendment. There are real crimes, against people and against nature, happening in North Dakota today, and they’re not being perpetrated by Goodman. □

by Melissa Daugherty m e l i s s a d @ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m

First impressions Last week, I attended the Chico City Council campaign forum—the first this season—hosted jointly by the Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Chico Business Association. First impressions are important for wannabe politicians. Here are my mine, starting with the four incumbents.

Sean Morgan: Chico’s vice mayor played it safe, a departure from his tendency to shoot from the hip (and shoot off his mouth). He sat motionless when the panel was asked for a show of hands on support for or opposition to two local school bond measures. Lots of red, white and blue on his campaign flier—no surprise there.

Tami Ritter: She seemed to take issue with challengers pointing out the panel’s tendency toward partisanship and responded by noting cooperative efforts that have transcended it. She also called BS in response to a couple of statements by newcomer Jovanni Tricerri, including his view that, “If you want housing in this community, you can get it.”

Ann Schwab: The former mayor and longtime councilwoman sounded measured and said she wasn’t sure whether Chico’s council is partisan or just simply passionate. Come on, it’s both. The environmentally minded politician’s campaign literature—a tri-fold—is printed on recycled paper, naturally.

Randall Stone: There’s a fine line between noting your accomplishments and sounding self-congratulatory. Stone crosses that line too often. He rightly pointed out the hypocrisy of his conservative colleagues giving the police raises during the city’s financial crisis. He gets a nod for recycling—the brochure I picked up was from his 2012 campaign.

Lisa Duarte: The contemplative-sounding Duarte gets the prize for minimalism. No glossy brochures, just your basic white photocopy for this gal. Some of Duarte’s ideas are offbeat, but I agree with her on the city’s failure when it comes to infrastructure. Pot holes, anyone?

Jeffrey Glatz: The council needs to remember that it’s nonpartisan, he said. Agreed. But Glatz needs some schooling on civil rights issues.

He lumped in so-called “transients” with criminals, saying, “these folks need to be, basically, removed from our town.” He should also see how much of the general fund is spent on police before making statements about the council not supporting them.

Mercedes Macias: A no-show.

Karl Ory: A former council member and mayor from back in the 1980s, Ory is better known today for his work on the Airport Commission, advocating for the Saturday farmers’ market and opposing Chico Scrap Metal’s efforts to dodge amortization. Jobs are his first priority, he says.

Jon Scott: Hands down, he has the best voice. No mic needed for this baritone. The local businessman calls himself the no-BS candidate. Scott did a nice job of calling it how he sees it while not sounding like a blowhard. He hinted at a local tax to pay for city services.

Loretta Torres: I can’t look at the hat-wearing conservative without thinking of actress Diane Keaton. Torres is all about fiscal responsibility.

Jovanni Tricerri: His claim to fame is authoring Chico’s police staffing plan. He was correct when he said we live in a compassionate community, but he’s off by saying we spend more on housing than we do on public safety. Like, way off. He also hinted at a local tax.

But don’t take my word for it. See for yourself at tinyurl.com/ CouncilKickoff, BCAC TV’s video of the event.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

On the cover Re “Gone to Mexico” (Cover story,

by Catherine Beeghly) and “Flip the border talk” (Letters, by Jo Ann Mondon) Sept. 8: Ms. Mondon asked a question about laws pertaining to Americans, and the editor says “See this week’s cover story.” What? To live and work in Mexico full-time, legally you need an FM3 (long-term visa). Not easy to get. Or leave every six months and re-enter on a tourist visa. May I see your FM3?

Puerto Vallarta is probably one of the most Americanized (Canadianized, too) cities in Mexico. Yes, Starbucks, Walmart, Home Depot, Sam’s Club, McDonald’s, etc.

They are all there.

How much is your rent? Sure, street tacos are cheap, but the chance of typhoid fever and other sicknesses are there. Authentic Mexico? I think not. I have a friend who drove down to southern Mexico a year ago and came back early after being robbed twice on the highways.

Over 160,000 Mexicans have been murdered in the last 15 years by their own people! I traveled all through Mexico in the 1990s and lived full-time for three years in 2002-04 in Tepic, Nayarit (capital, about 300,000 people, and very few expats) and Sayulita (a popular tourist town north of PV). My sons’ mother was Mexican (long story). It is a beautiful country, with beautiful people, but it’s another world. Paradise?

William Strom Chico

Editor’s note: Last week’s reference to the cover story was made with tongue planted firmly in cheek. For the record, Ms. Beeghly returns to the U.S. every six months.

Down on the Democrats Re “Review history” (Letters, by Robert Woods, Sept. 1): The lipstick Bob Woods has applied to the Democratic Party and Clinton’s tenure as U.S. secretary of state can’t hide the neoliberalism (unfettered capitalism) they’ve embraced. Transglobal corporatism is their golden calf. Quantifiable profit is all that matters. Forget about old saws LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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And now, war-loving former Republican neoconservatives like Paul Wolfowitz are mingling their money sources with Democratic money sources to back Hillary Clinton. There will be no stopping transglobal trade pacts that supersede nations’ laws. Wars won’t stop until the U.S. is the only superpower in the world—as deemed in the neocons’ Project for the New American Century.

Also, please Google wikileaks/ clintonfoundation to learn of the pay-for-play schemes set up to receive money from hugely wealthy, undemocratic dictators of the world. The Saudis today are slaughtering Yemeni with weapons the State Department didn’t sell them until the Saudis gave a multimillion-dollar donation to the Clinton Foundation.

The Democrats’ bowing to neoliberalism and neoconservatism is the exact opposite of honoring international law. I don’t like it.

Linda Furr Chico

Standing with Trump Re “Stand by your man” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Sept. 8): I take offense to Ms. Daugherty’s assumption that it “takes a special person to agree with [Donald] Trump’s xenophobic rhetoric, his racist and misogynistic screeds ...” Really? Are you calling all Trump supporters hateful names? First, Trump has apologized for his inappropriate rhetoric.

As Hillary has “apologized” for putting our national security at risk for her inappropriate use of a private email server! A much bigger “mistake,” and she was not indicted because we have a corrupt government, so yes, so far no laws broken. Second, Trump is not a politician, and had a lot to learn in a short time!

Trump has been giving speeches and rallies weekly and biweekly about his policies, so if you listened to them, you might know what he envisions for America, but my favorite was the speech/rally in Phoenix where he introduced his “angel moms and dads”—parents who have heart-wrenching stories about how their children were killed by illegals! There are so many! So 6

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Trump’s first order of business is to keep Americans safe! Somehow that’s wrong? Ask Ray Tranchant, whose 16-year-old daughter Tessa was killed by illegal [drunken driver] Alfredo Ramos Really, name-calling?

Paula Garcia Orland

Trump’s policies are on his website. For the economy, Trump wants to “reduce the burdens on the American economy and create fair trade deals.” He wants tax reform, including no taxes on childcare expenses. Trump wants regulatory reform, trade reform, energy reform, to repeal and replace Obamacare (for which we are almost all paying more for our deductibles and insurance)! Trump wants to improve and grow our infrastructure!

Most importantly, he wants safety, security and prosperity for Americans! Fences make good neighbors. A nation without borders is not a nation. Trump wants nationwide E-Verify and a mandatory return of all criminal illegals. More about it on his website!

He went to Mexico and met with Mexican President Enrique Nieto, wearing a hat, “Make Mexico Great Again.” Trump recently revealed his education reform, which includes education for all children at the local level (state), and ending Common Core, and school choice for every American child living in poverty (1 in 5)! Parents choosing the school of their choice that’s best for their child and family! Trump’s policies are directly opposite of Hillary’s!

What has Hillary done in the last 30 years?

Jess Furtado Corning

‘Vote third party’ The two-party system has created a world that is horrific, to put it mildly. A place where untold millions of people have been killed in wars, thousands of species have been extinguished for the profit of a few and the environment is on a path to where mammals will not be able to survive on the surface (you are a mammal).

Whether a Republican or Democratic candidate achieves federal or state office, they will continue to represent the insanewith-greed, loyal-to-no-country

wealthy humans and their corporations; not you. Stop being motivated by fear. It is time to be brave. Vote third party this election and we will have an alternative next election.

R. Sterling Ogden Chico

Re “Swallow hard and support Clinton” (Guest comment, by Chris Verrill, Sept. 8): Like Bill, Hillary Clinton “represents too much of what is wrong with our political system … saying whatever it takes to get votes—that calculated pandering, the huge donors buying elections.”

It is disgusting, but that’s politics as usual.

Sanders “lost” because the DNC rigged the primary election with voter suppression, disenfranchisement and fraud throughout.

What did Clinton do to make it right? She hired the person who was responsible to work on her campaign. That’s telling.

In the past 24 years, Democrats have been POTUS for 16 and yet things have gotten progressively worse for 99 percent of Americans.

With bailouts to the Wall Street crooks who collapsed the economy, escalation of the “war on terror”—a guise for U.S. imperialism to enrich U.S. corporations, environmental devastation from fracking, the transportation and use of oil products, the proliferation of GMOs/pesticides/herbicides, pushing dangerous “trade deals” like the TPP that make NAFTA seem mild in comparison, all of which Hillary Clinton supported.

A vote for Clinton is a vote for politics as usual, unbridled corporate greed and increased corporate control of our lives.

Swallow hard on that.

Now is the right time to vote Green. Jill Stein 2016!

Sherri Quammen Chico

Earning their keep?

Re “Cop talk” (Cover story, by Ken Smith, Sept. 1): The police officers [interviewed

by CN&R] described their work as both “hard” and “soul-crushing,” and I am sure that it often is.

Nurses, teachers and social workers, among others, might agree that this is true of their work, too. But police work is financially compensated far better than other public service jobs in Chico.

According to 2015 data, of the 62 police officers listed, 25 had an annual salary $100,000-$135,000, 25 made $75,000-$100,000 and 13 made $50,000-$75,000. Generous retirement and health benefits add to these costs. This in a city where the median household (not individual) income is $43,000.

Overtime in particular seems to add to individual police salaries.

It may be true, as the officers say, that only police officers can understand police work. But it is also true that Chico residents and their elected representatives can best assess if police officers are meeting the community safety, behavior and service standards that are as high as the compensation we have agreed to pay them, year after year. Regrettably, there does not seem to be widely known and clear performance measures that would contribute to mutual understanding and cooperation between Chico’s police and the residents of Chico.

It is not too late.

Douglas Ferguson Chico

More wordplay Re “Back and forth” (Letters, by Rick Vagts, Sept. 8): Joining myself and Feminista Quammen, Rick Vagts plopped down in the letter-writing sandbox and pulled a loudly quacking mechanical duck from his diaper.

Top drawer Romper Room humor.

All this toddling audacity inspired research: a slow reading of the missives de Vagts. I diligently searched for a coherent thread, or the odd dalliance with principle—all to no avail. I did notice a reference to Buddha and George Carlin, together in one paragraph; a promising glimmer of intelligent life. But alas, on closer examination, twas the sparkling eye of a deranged spider monkey, pounding on a typewriter, ad infinitum and with King Lear in potentia. In a hundred billion years, Buddha and Carlin shall meet again, no less eloquently without Vagts: “… yellow doorknob Buddha goat Voltaire hubcap Carlin Neptune albatross Cordelia gonorrhea Goneril ...”

I do appreciate sweaty old Vagts, jabbing his flaccid spear at my bubbles of sanctimonious greenhouse gas. I dearly hope he soldiers on. But, let it be said, that no heap of half-baked cynicism or

spastic Rorschach word associations will obscure the crippling moral lethargy conspicuous in America—50 years into the Anthropocene.

Patrick Newman Chico

Stop the wasteful fliers I once again have received the Chico Enterprise-Record’s weekly flier. I have requested twice for them to stop leaving it in my driveway every week. I have notified the City Council to see if it is even legal.

Why does this bother me? I don’t look at the ads. Many of my neighbors don’t either. What an enormous waste of resources. We are requested to ration water usage and recycle all that we can. How much water does it take to produce thousands of these fliers? The E-R hires people to drive around town and flip them out the windows of their cars. How much gas is being consumed by these cars? I’m breathing enough exhaust fumes already. I assume the advertisers are paying for the production and the delivery and the paper is making a profit. Is that profit worth the cost to the environment? I wonder what percentage of people take advantage of the ads and how many copies go directly to the trash. It’s probably not great for the landfill either.

My complaints went to the City Council four weeks ago. I hope they take up the matter of the legality and the wastefulness of it.

What if every business decided to drop a flier at every house?

Chuck Samuels Chico

Corrections In last week’s Streetalk (“What song inspires you?” Sept. 8), the wrong photo was published with Sherry Sommer’s response.

Additionally, the photo of the Paradise Pow Wow that appeared in CN&R’s calendar (page 30) was incorrectly credited. Paula Schultz took the photo.

We apologize for the errors.

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A 16-year-old boy was shot in the leg several times during one incident in a string of shootings in Oroville last weekend.

Five separate incidents between Friday (Sept. 9) and Sunday (Sept. 11) have authorities investigating whether the spree is gangrelated, according to a Butte County Sheriff’s Office press release.

All but one shooting took place on the 2300 and 2400 blocks of D Street, with the other happening on the 2400 block of Fort Wayne Street. In four of the instances, bullets struck homes. The juvenile was injured at about 4:15 a.m. on Saturday, and the same house was targeted at the same time Sunday morning.

Detectives are asking anyone with information or surveillance camera footage of the incidents to contact the BCSO Investigations Unit at 538-7671.

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The renovation of a historic home in Chico is moving forward with the approval of the California Office of Historic Preservation.

Chico State is refreshing the Albert E. Warrens Reception Center, a Mediterranean-style home in Mansion Park designed by Julia Morgan.

The interior will be repainted and the exterior doors and windows retreated “with tender loving care,” wrote Sandra Beck, the university’s campus architect, in an email to the CN&R. Earlier this year, local history experts feared that the facelift would harm the home’s historical integrity (see “Preservation reservations,” Newslines, April 14), but members of the Chico Heritage Association are now satisfied with the plan, said member Michael Magliari, a Chico State history professor.

“It sets a good precedent that we hope will be the new standard for dealing with historic properties on campus,” he said.

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A Chico man convicted of producing child pornography was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Sept. 9, acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert announced in a press release.

In September 2013, Joshua Landon Klipp, 34, brought his cellphone to a repair shop in Chico, where a technician found multiple images of suspected child pornography. The technician reported the images to the Chico Police Department, which collaborated on an investigation with the FBI. They determined that, earlier that year, Klipp (pictured) had persuaded a minor to send him pictures and videos of sex acts, some of which were transmitted live on the Internet.

Klipp, who was convicted of separate sex offenses involving a minor in 2009, pleaded guilty to the charges on March 11. According to the CN&R’s archives, Klipp co-wrote the song “If God Wrote a Country Song,” which was recorded in 2011 by musician Rich McCready.

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Great parking debate Opinions differ on just how drastic a remodel of downtown Oroville lot should be

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ing a lot of changes these days. To walk down Myers or Bird streets today is a much different experience than it was even a few years ago. story and Buildings have been photo by bought and restored.

Meredith J. New businesses have Cooper opened up shop. m e re d i t h c @ But while much of n ew srev i ew. c o m the energy downtown has been positive, an unexpected announcement earlier this year was, at least for some, cause for alarm. The city revealed plans in June to revamp Parking Lot A, aka the “Mike” Elisabeth Isch Lot, and remove the 150 or so parking spaces in favor of a community plaza.

For Mayor Linda Dahlmeier, the plan makes perfect sense. The lot as it currently sits isn’t particularly pretty to look at.

And a community gathering spot, with a small stage, benches and stations set up for street vendors seemed like a nice fit for the area. After all, it had gotten the approval several years ago of the Arts, Culture and Entertainment District.

Problem is, some of the downtown busi-

ness owners either weren’t aware of the plan or weren’t aware of its imminence, says Dawn Nevers, assistant planner for the city of Oroville. It resurfaced unexpectedly for everyone, in fact, earlier this year when PG&E announced that the soil underneath that parking lot is contaminated and will need to be cleaned up. (The lot is the former site of a manufactured gas plant that closed in 1926 and is not currently a health hazard, PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno told the CN&R in May. There is no official timeline yet for the cleanup.)

“With PG&E coming in to take out part of the parking lot, we thought, ‘Instead of just putting back the parking lot and following through with the plan to create a downtown center there years in the future, why not do it now?’” Nevers explained.

“We wanted to be proactive.”

Downtown business owner and developer Bud Tracy was none too thrilled to hear the news, however. As renovation for the Oroville Inn, which he owns, nears completion, and other business downtown is growing as well, this is not the time to eliminate parking, he says.

“This was something that the city planned four years ago,” he said. “Nobody

believed it was going to happen.”

The lot, situated along Montgomery Street

between Huntoon and Myers streets, is located in front of the old Municipal Auditorium. It currently contains 153 parking spaces and is the occasional site of community events such as the Salmon Festival and Feather Fiesta Days. The Saturday farmers’ market, held during the warm months, used to be located there, but news of PG&E’s work on the lot in May prompted the market to move to Riverbend Park for the season.

“They wanted a great, big, massive platform in the back of property toward the river,” Tracy said by phone. “Other than when there is a band, there will be homeless. It wouldn’t work. Not in the middle of town, hidden away enough that the lack of activity at the back of the parking lot would draw homeless in.”

Tracy wasn’t alone in his opposition to the plaza concept. He and some other key players got together to form an alliance representing businesses in the historic downtown area. “The Downtown Oroville Riverfront District, the Oroville Downtown Business Association, the Downtown

Parking Lot A in downtown Oroville faces Montgomery Street, in front of the Municipal Auditorium.

Property Owners, the Oroville Economic Alliance, and the Oroville Area Chamber of Commerce commit to organizing an alliance to deal with review of the planning done to date, and to make positive suggestions for future planning,” reads a petition circulated in July.

The effort worked. The group, dubbed the Historic Downtown Oroville Business Alliance, was born. And together with the city its members have discussed alternatives to the plan introduced in the spring.

“With so much growth happening in the downtown area, they were concerned there would not be the parking necessary to meet that growth,” Nevers said. “Downtown definitely is very active right now. This has actually made the city’s relationship with the downtown businesses stronger. We’re working together. It’s been great.”

Tracy agrees. “Dawn has put us on an email list and is now sending us notices of meetings,” he said. “Now we see what’s getting ready to go on. It’s very helpful. She asked for a meeting with the [alliance] a week ago. We sat down and they presented three alternatives of how it could be developed.”

Those alternatives will be brought before the Oroville City Council on Tuesday, Sept. 20.

As for the alliance members, Tracy says they favor “Option B,” which includes a small park area along Montgomery Street but a loss of only about 15 parking spaces. He’d also like to see the electrical features updated to better accommodate special events.

Others, like Dahlmeier, would like to look at all the options more closely.

“My opinion is to take a second look at this and try to be creative about improving the way it looks, and taking advantage of having a partnership in PG&E when it comes to putting it back together in a manner that’s more aesthetically pleasing,” she said.

Part of the problem as she sees it is that the parking lot plan was fasttracked because of PG&E, but it was supposed to be part of a bigger picture.

And that’s getting lost.

“There’s a bigger picture and it needs to work for everybody,” she said.

“We’ve done everything the same for so long, and it’s hard to step outside the box. But we’ve got new blood. Let’s not make the parking such a fixture. Let’s create an area where people can actually sit and relax.” □

Asking for influence Eco, ag groups offer input on state water regs a particularly dynamic portion of the Butte County Water Commission meetAingfter last Wednesday (Sept. 7), Natalie Carter

and Colleen Cecil left with roughly the same degree of optimism.

Good thing, because fortune has made them allies.

Carter, executive director of the Butte Environmental Council, and Cecil, executive director of the Butte County Farm Bureau, had asked the commission to allow their respective constituents a greater voice in governing local water resources.

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), a California law passed in 2014, requires government entities and water districts to adopt plans for managing each state-defined water basin. The final deadline is Jan. 31, 2022—but by June 30, 2017, all eligible agencies in a particular basin must agree to a governance structure approved by the California Department of Water Resources.

Butte County is one such agency, representing groundwater users in unincorporated areas not part of an Groundwater information: irrigation For more about SGMA, as well as the district, county’s Inventory and Analysis Report, where visit the Water and Resource Conservation property home page at www.buttecounty.net (click on the “Departments” tab). owners may use wells to pump water. Many well users are farmers, but other “private pumpers” also reached out to the Farm Bureau seeking representation, so Cecil spoke for more than just the agricultural sector at the Water Commission meet-

ing when she asked for a voice in the planning process.

Carter, too, spoke for others. BEC took the lead in a coalition of 15 groups and individuals seeking a water advisory committee representing environmentalists and private pumpers.

Vickie Newlin, assistant director for the Department of Water and Resource Conservation, on the spot drafted plans for a session among the parties represented by the Farm Bureau and BEC—facilitated by a professional mediator—to hash out how an advisory committee might work. Time is of the essence. The next SGMA planning meeting is Sept. 22. The mediation session was set for Wednesday (Sept. 14), after the CN&R’s deadline.

Both Carter and Cecil said they understand the sense of urgency. Even a preliminary plan—with a rough outline agreed upon now, details to come later—would represent a better alternative to both parties than water policies decided strictly by the county and water districts.

“I think we’re coming closer to having common ground on this issue and coming together as a county to defend groundwater users that aren’t represented by [an agency] and also those environmental concerns, those beneficial uses of our water in our county,” Carter said after the meeting.

Said Cecil, whose pumpers collectively encompass 50,000 acres: “If we can’t be an

SIFT ER Print books on top Despite what some might think, reading is still cool.

In a recent telephone survey of 1,502 adults, the Pew Research Center found that the percentage of Americans who’ve read any sort of book in the last year has held steady (73 percent) since 2012, and people are far more likely to read a traditional book than a digital one—65 percent of Americans have read a print book in the last 12 months, while 28 percent have read an e-book and 14 percent have listened to an audio book. The pollster also noticed a shift in how people are consuming digital products: More Americans are reading e-books on tablets and smartphones than dedicated e-readers. Since 2011, the percentage of people reading e-books on tablets has tripled and the percentage of readers on phones has doubled.

Natalie Carter of BEC helped lobby for a water advisory committee.

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actual [agency] at the table, then we need to find the best way to be influential in making sure that a plan is written to allow everyone to be able to do what it is that they’re doing to grow the economy in Butte County.”

Many people think of the Sierra Nevada snow-

pack and reservoirs when it comes to water supply. The other piece of the hydrology puzzle is the groundwater that—as opposed to surface water—moves below the earth’s surface, through porous geology (i.e., the Tuscan Aquifer locally), and gets tapped via pumps and wells.

One wet winter did not offset four years of drought, as was evident in a presentation on the 2016 Water Inventory and Analysis Report at the Water Commission’s September meeting (see infobox).

The SGMA discussion highlighted acute concerns about groundwater management.

The law requires coordination between various agencies with overlapping authority in a particular water basin; once those entities form a shared-governance system, they must craft—then implement—a state-approved Groundwater Sustainability Plan.

SGMA includes provisions for environmental protections, which is why BEC has championed a water advisory committee for eco- and user-oriented input. That proposal, along with a plan from Cecil, was set for discussion Wednesday.

“It’s definitely a need, to start engaging those groups,” Carter said. “Here we go!”

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tion of Maureen Kirk), responded to necessity at their meeting Tuesday (Sept. 13) and took several actions designed to protect the land, trees and water. Here’s a rundown: Our dying trees: Up and down the Sierra, trees are dying by the millions as a result of the drought and an infestation of bark beetles, greatly increasing the danger of fire. The situation isn’t as bad in Butte County as in several San Joaquin Valley counties. However, as Sang Kim, deputy county administrator, told the board, the beetle is definitely here.

In response, the county has formed a Tree Mortality Task Force made up of folks from public, private, nonprofit and government agencies. Its job is to monitor tree mortality in the county, identify trees that pose a threat to people, roads and bridges, and identify available informational resources.

One solution would be simply to remove the dead trees, but

there are just too many of them.

Supervisor Doug Teeter, whose District 5 includes Paradise and Magalia, noted that the Ridge has the highest concentration in the state of people living among the pines. Why not identify and remove the infested trees before the beetles take over? he asked.

It was clear, however, that for as long as the drought continues, the bark beetle will continue to spread, and there’s little anyone can do about it. Landowners with pine trees need to educate themselves. (The website readyforwild fire.org is a good place to start.)

Train to disaster? County supervi-

sors, who like many residents are concerned about the Union Pacific trains carrying Bakken and other crude oil through the twisty and geologically unstable Feather River Canyon, unanimously voted to send a letter to the Federal Railroad Administration outlining their concerns.

The letter notes that the river drains into Lake Oroville, which provides water for more than 25 million Californians. A major

oil spill would be catastrophic.

In recent years there have been several derailments in the canyon, including of diesel fuel, though nothing environmentally devastating. But it’s just a matter of time, the letter suggests.

The county is requesting, first, that the Department of Transportation seek out an alternate route. In the meantime, it wants notification of laws to be enforced, the number of cars per trip limited to 15, and the use of DOT 117 cars instead of antiquated tankers. Maximum speed limit should be reduced, and Union Pacific should work with the county “to provide adequate emergency response supplies located so as to facilitate immediate response to release or threatened release.”

Hands off our water! Once again,

Butte County has expressed its intense opposition to what is now being called the California WaterFix. That’s the plan to construct two huge underground tunnels to transport Northern California water south, bypassing the Delta.

Based on a similar letter sent last year, this missive to the State Water Resources Control Board reiterates the supervisors’ conviction that approval of the WaterFix “would lead to actions that will

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“water is life” was the rallying cry for several hundred people who gathered at chico city Plaza Tuesday afternoon to express their support for Standing Rock Reservation’s protests against the construction of the dakota access Pipeline (see “Mni wiconi: water is life,” page 16). The event was organized by environmental group chico 350 and included speakers and singers from several local and national native american tribes. photo by Ken Smith

ultimately damage the region’s economy, environment and communities.”

Among other things, the WaterFix disregards area-of-origin rights and “calls for extracting more water from the northern Sacramento Valley,” the letter reads. “[It] will deplete and, in some instances, draw down upstream reservoirs to dead pool conditions.”

The board voted unanimously to send the letter.

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Pooped out: What to do with all that

sewage? That was perhaps the most nettlesome question the board faced all day. Here’s why: The Neal Road Recycling and Waste Facility, which receives 80 percent of the septage generated in the county, is running out of room. Officials there want to place a fifth solid-waste cell where the septage ponds are now located— thus the question.

Staff came up with three options. The first, and preferred, was to build a transfer station on site that would upload the waste into much larger trucks that then would take it to a disposal site in Lincoln. Cost: up to $1 million.

A second option was to take it to Chico’s Water Pollution Control Plant, but officials there were unwilling to accept the waste, saying it was too strong for their system. A mini-treatment plant to partially clean the septage would cost as much as $3 million, and even then it might not meet the city’s standards.

Another option was simply to stop offering the septage collection service, something none of the supervisors wanted to do.

“Why not just buy more land?”

Supervisor Steve Lambert asked.

Bill Mannel, the county waste facility’s manager, replied that the neighboring landowner didn’t want to sell. Noting how much the other options cost, Lambert hinted— without saying the words—that perhaps the county could use eminent domain. Board Chairman Bill Connelly also seemed to think that was a viable option, though he didn’t use the terminology either.

The board approved Option 1 unanimously, while calling on staff to continue working to buy more land.

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HEALTHLINES Ann Dickman—director of maternal, child and adolescent health for Butte County—says new data on teen motherhood is encouraging.

offer longer-lasting contraceptives such as Depo-Provera injections and Nexplanon implants.

With these newer choices, or the IUD (intrauterine device), “a woman doesn’t have to remember to take something every day,” Dickman said. “She’s covered regardless—and there’s a belief in our [public health] system that if we can get teens on something like that, they’re going to get more effective birth control.”

Holly Kralj, a local certified nurse midwife on the faculty at Chico State, sees a shift in attitude along with medical changes.

“A lot more teens are comfortable using birth control and probably it’s more socially acceptable,” said Kralj, who has teenagers among her patients. “It used to be more of a taboo for women to be on birth control—it implied they were promiscuous—and I don’t think that’s the case anymore.”

This, in turn, has yielded an increased sense of openness. Kralj (pronounced “cry”) notices the difference in speaking with teen girls at Enloe Women’s Services.

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the point of adolescence that Tsomereached parents dread, when they might come

racy Weeber remembers when her children

home and tell her that she’d be becoming a young grandmother.

That didn’t happen, however. Her four kids—now between 20 and 24 years old— avoided teen parenthood, as have a growing number of 15- to 19-year-olds statewide, particularly in Butte County.

Weeber is a clinical nurse specialist at Enloe Medical Center, where she’s worked extensively in the maternity ward. She credits the health class her children took in high school as having had a significant impact in her household. In a unit on sex education, Weeber explained, upperclass students calculate the cost of raising a child from birth to age 18. For extra credit, they can carry a simulated baby, which cries when it needs something.

“I know that was a deterrent for my children, once they figured out how much it would cost and what it meant,” Weeber said.

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Fewer teens in California are facing the challenges of parenthood. According to the California Department of Public Health, the state’s birth rate for adolescent mothers has dropped to record-low levels. Data recently released by CDPH show a 2014 rate of 20.8 births per 1,000 females ages 15-19, a drop of 10 percent since 2013 and 55 percent since 2000.

Butte County falls below the state rate.

For the three-year period of 2012-14, the rate for California was 23.4 births per 1,000; the county’s was 20.2. Marin County has the lowest (7), and Kern the highest (45.1).

“It’s interesting because overall for health outcomes, Butte County is really poor,” Weeber said, referring to medically tracked conditions such as addiction, obesity, smoking and chronic disease. “So it seems to fly in the face of those statistics that our teen birth rate is down.”

It’s hard to pinpoint exact causes for the

trend, though. Ann Dickman of Butte County Public Health offered some possible

explanations.

First, the fertility rate in general has decreased, in the county as well as the state, “so that’s just part of that same trend,” said Dickman, director of maternal, child and adolescent health. The state birth rate for all women, not just teens, fell to 13.1 per 1,000 in 2013, versus 15.6 in 2000 and 20.6 in 1990.

Particularly for young women, Family PACT may be having an impact.

The Legislature established the Family Planning, Access, Care and Treatment program through the Office of Family Planning in 1997 to provide confidential services to low-income residents. This state-funded support helps teens and adults obtain birth control and educational counseling, including from clinics such as Planned Parenthood and Women’s Health Specialists.

Whether eligible for Family PACT or not, teens know about such resources.

“I know [for] Planned Parenthood, the word is out,” Weeber said.

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Beyond what they might learn in

health class, adolescents have greater access to education.

“With the Internet, I think teens are more savvy,” Kralj said. “If you wanted information on something, that’s easy to get, you don’t have to feel embarrassed—you can Google it…. And there’s probably more peer pressure in using birth control, in a positive way.”

If so, that could be due in part to ongoing outreach efforts Dickman’s department undertakes.

For instance, Health Education Specialist Tou Chanh makes presentations at high schools and health fairs as part of Public Health’s Family PACT services.

Whatever the reasons, Dickman sees the decline as “good news” from a public health perspective.

Not having a baby in adolescence means “teens being able to finish their schooling, set goals and accomplish them,” she said.

“We know there are many teen moms who do great,” Dickman added. “But we know for some moms, this does tend to be the end of the road for them; they end up being caught in a cycle of poverty and hopelessness.

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“In general I’d say they are more comfortable with their sexuality,” Kralj said, “and I see a lot of teens coming in with moms to talk about birth control…. I would imagine that young women who are able to talk to parents about birth control have an easier time not getting pregnant.”

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Water protectors chained themselves to bulldozers and backhoes in order to protect traditional grave sites.

Mni wiconi: Water is life

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to halt the installment of the Dakota Access Pipeline, intended to send crude oil from the Bakken fields south to Illinois. Although this situation may be surprising to some, it is the actualization of an ancient prophecy many Plains Natives were raised with.

According to the Lakota Black Snake Prophecy, “A time will come when a snake will encircle Turtle Island. And everywhere it goes, it will spit its venom, and everywhere the venom goes, it leaves destruction.” I first heard this story nearly two decades ago, and today the world is seeing this prophecy come true near a place called Standing Rock Reservation.

Standing Rock Reservation has a large population of Hunkpapa Lakota and Yanktonai Dakota residents. This is the land of Gall, Sitting Bull and John Grass, prominent chiefs who sacrificed so that the Seventh Generation, my generation, might survive. The area is northern plains and the sheer vastness and beauty of the place cannot be easily expressed. The reservation itself is roughly 3,575 square miles or 2.3 million acres of hunting, fishing and horseback riding paradise and home to nearly 9,000 members of the Lakota and Dakota nations.

In the 1920s, oil extraction techniques and technology began improving and companies started to seek out virgin ground. Surveys of Native American territory, legally off limits,

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revealed huge deposits of uranium and other resources. Within the next generation or so, pressure was on the tribes to cash in. Despite the genocide that had occurred and the subsequent loss of culture, our elders were able to hold onto two basic tenets: Water is sacred, and in all our decisions we must consider the next seven generations.

The Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) route does not pass through Standing Rock Reservation land, but it abuts it in places and first crosses over the Missouri River in Cannon Ball. From there, the river flows south, providing recreation and drinking water to the Native tribes. While the U.S. government has temporarily halted construction of the pipeline near the reservation, much land and water is still threatened by it.

What happens when a pipeline bursts?

In short, an ecological disaster with farreaching effects on tribal nations. Game and fish, critical as food sources, are also important components of ceremonial and artistic expression; without them, culture is lost. Consider the environmental impacts the Keystone XL pipeline has had on the children of Ponca City, Okla. A report by Auburn University found that children living in areas surrounding the pipeline were About the author:

Samuel White Swan-Perkins (Tsalagi/Welsh/Siksika/ German) is the owner of White Swan-Perkins Cultural Consulting and a freelance journalist who lives in Butte County. He writes for Native American media outlets such as Indian Country Today Media Network and News from Native California. He penned this piece for the CN&R. His tie to the Standing Rock Reservation is through a grandson of Chief John Grass, Dr. Barney Hoerner.

56 percent more likely to develop leukemia than children living just 10 miles away.

Another study, published in Nature magazine, found that oil-sands development in Alberta, Canada, has not only degraded the land and damaged ecosystems but also “elevated waterway concentrations of chemical contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic compounds that are toxic to fish and other aquatic organisms and has been associated with a tenuous but troubling rise in rare cancers in downstream indigenous communities.”

It’s no wonder solar companies are doing so well on tribal lands.

In May, construction began on the DAPL. There were issues from the start; the land that the project passes through in Cannon Ball, a mere half-mile from the Standing Rock Reservation, is privately owned but contains important Native burial grounds and other sites and artifacts. The oil companies ignored that fact and construction began in short order.

A cry for help went out on social media and what happened next was not only historically significant, but something that holds great spiritual significance as well; to date, over 100 Native American nations have responded and are currently holding the largest gathering of our people in more than a century.

Mni wiconi. Water is life. All of us use it for cooking, cleaning and in ceremony.

At one point in human history, the rivers were all considered sacred sources of life— including the Sacramento.

As political analyst Lawrence O’Donnell so aptly pointed out in his commentary on Sept. 8: “They [Native Americans] don’t

understand why we [non-Natives] don’t understand what water means to them and to us. They know that we’re taught that there could be no life of any kind on this planet without water. They know that we know that the first thing we search for on other planets is any trace of water, because water is life.” □

ECO EVENT WINGED SURVIVORS Think life as a human is tough? Imagine navigating the world as a hollow-boned, nearly weightless creature that essentially appears like a beautiful edible toy to most predators. Over the eons, birds have adapted some remarkable physical and behavioral traits just to be able to survive. Local bird lover and author Roger Lederer’s latest book—Beaks, Bones and Bird Songs—was released a few months ago and takes an in-depth look at the amazing ways birds have adapted to keep winging through the modern world. Lederer will give a presentation on the topic at 6:30 p.m. Monday, Sept. 19, at the Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E. Eighth St.). The event is free.

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she bought a bar Kings Tavern has been called the “Best little bar in Paradise,” sort of like a Cheers on the Ridge. Jennifer White, a Paradise resident, mother of three and former employee turned owner has taken over the reins of the Clark Road establishment.

Currently under renovation, which is planned to be completed by December. Kings Tavern is home to a colorful cast of characters and showcases local bands and entertainment. White says she’s in the process of “cleaning house”—adding new carpeting, a fresh coat of paint, refinishing the restrooms and cleaning up the parking lot and building façade. Inside, she plans to move the bar and make a bigger dance floor. She’s hoping to maintain her regular clientele of Sams, Norms and Cliffs while also attracting younger bargoers—former regulars at The Canteena, which closed earlier this year. She wants to make this a “neighborhood bar, not a dive bar—with a little couth,” and is seeking all types of entertainment to fill her stage. About the name? Well, she’s contemplating having a contest to see who can come up with one that fits the bill; but at the same time, she says, the choice is kind of personal. The bar is open, so stop in to check out the changes at 5771 Clark Road.

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Things don’t stay the same. Sad as that might be in some cases, it can create some grand opportunities in others. I’ve been thinking about the El Rey Theatre a lot lately in this regard. Of course, it’s beautiful and a local landmark. I’ve seen some amazing shows there, too—if it’s turned into something other than a performance venue, it’d be a damn shame. But we’ve been down this road before.

And the last time around, turning the old El Rey into a shell for mixed-use tenants just wasn’t viable.

The El Rey Theater Alliance folks didn’t make their goal of raising enough money to buy the place. Can’t say I’m completely surprised—a million-plus is a lot to get together in a few days. But the group is still working to save the venue. As of press time, they’d raised $5,000.

speaking of change For longer than I’ve been in Chico (10 years now!), Lois and

Aside from bartending, what other business experience have you had that you’ll bring to owning a bar?

My ex and I owned a heating/air business; I did cooking, cleaning—I do it all.

How do you keep yourself grounded?

Do you have a favorite motto or saying?

“If there’s will, there’s a way.”

What kinds of entertainment will you offer—what’s your favorite genre of music?

I keep a journal and write down three to four positive things daily, keeping positive thoughts, which I forget some days.

Not just local bands—out-ofarea bands and new bands. I love all kinds of music—country, blues, jazz. I’m looking to meet the needs of everybody.

What made you decide to buy the business?

How did you adjust from employee to boss?

I was approached by Wayne Stout, the former owner. I want this bar. I took a year and thought about the commitment. I want people to have somewhere to go, have events, and dancing. I love business; I love what I do.

People are used to you one way instead of the other way when you buy a business where you worked. If I’m good to my employees, they’ll be good to me.

We need to be a team.

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Jon Morehead’s Phoenix Building Gift Shop has occupied the front window space in that iconic downtown building, which they also own. Not for much longer. I stopped in recently and chatted with Lois after noticing “going out of business” banners outside.

Here’s the skinny: She’s ready to retire! After 18 years owning the shop—after 23 years as a teacher in Chico Unified School District—it’s time to turn to other things. Everything sort of gelled after Alex D’Angelo, owner of Spin Again Records— which occupies a small rear shop in the building—asked Lois one day about the window space. The time was just right, she says.

So, the gift shop’s last day will be this Sunday, Sept. 18. Spin Again will move into the bigger spot soon thereafter—at least by Nov. 1, Lois said. That’s when Paradise Jewelers, owned by locally renowned jeweler Jack Massie, will be moving into the old Spin Again shop. Just browsing some of Massie’s creations via Facebook, Chico is getting a real gem. (Ba-dum-ch.)

so sad OK, I said sometimes change is good, sometimes it’s sad. News that my

favorite Oroville eatery, The Broken Plate, was closing made me very sad indeed.

The spaghetti and the gyros are now regular cravings. Run by award-winning pizza-maker Michael Athanasopoulos, this was Greek food worth raving about. The restaurant’s Facebook page cites family reasons for closing. The silver lining?

Athanasopoulos’ food truck, The Lamb & The Wolf, is still up and running. You can find it at the old restaurant 11 a.m.-3 p.m. on Mondays, starting Sept. 19 (1836 Feather River Blvd.) and at 5836 Clark Road in Paradise 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Tues.-Fri.

LittLe green thumbs I got word this week from Tractor Supply Co. that it’s offering grants for elementary schools to help start school gardens. The store launched the program, called Dig It, last spring in Tennessee and New York and had great success, according to a press release. This year, it’s expanding to California and wants to provide one grant for each store location. So, Chico schools, start applying! Go to tinyurl.com/tractorsupplydigit to apply. Deadline is Oct. 15.

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Charting a course World-class golf resort, education center backed by the 49ers inch closer to reality at Lake Oroville by

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ill Connelly remembers when Oroville Dam was built, long before he took his oath of office as Butte County supervisor 12 years ago. Plans to dam the Feather River, which once flowed mightily through the town of Oroville and offered recreation activities from water skiing to boat regattas for those who lived there, began to take shape in the 1950s. By 1968, the tallest earthen dam in the world was completed.

Then-Gov. Ronald Reagan attended the dedication. “I see rising on the shores luxury hotels, places where people can enjoy themselves and where one of the greatest recreation areas in the nation will one day come into being,” he proclaimed.

Project Vicinity

A restaurant and shopping complex was promised for where the visitor center now sits, recalls Connelly, who grew up in Oroville. But since those promises of creating a recreational destination at Lake Oroville were never etched in stone—“they were written down, but never signed contractually,” Connelly explained— they never came to fruition. That’s irksome, he said.

“As an elected official, we need something to offset the impact of the dam.”

That’s why Connelly has been so supportive of a plan by developers Loafer Creek LLC to build a golf resort on unincorporated land just south of the lake. The project, dubbed Whisper Ridge Golf Resort, includes a spa, three restaurants and a villa-style hotel.

It would create jobs for the area, Connelly said, while also attracting tourists who would contribute to the area’s tax base.

The plans were approved by the county in a unanimous, uncontested vote three years ago, but got held up by the Army Corps of Engineers, whose approval

was needed because the site includes wetlands. That hurdle was cleared a few months ago, prompting the whole ship to rev back up. And now there’s even more momentum behind it, with the addition of a companion project aimed at empowering local underserved youth.

The strange thing is, Whisper Ridge—and its accompanying Lake Wyandotte project, which crept onto the scene quietly, backed by heavy hitters—is a huge deal. A deal the likes of which this county has not seen perhaps since the dam was built. And almost no one is talking about it. But with bulldozers poised to break ground any day, excitement over the prospect is beginning to brew.

Whisper Ridge’s origins can be loosely

Lake Oroville visitor center

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traced back to the early 1990s, when local landowner Robert Taylor submitted plans to develop part of his unincorporated property south of Lake Oroville.

He envisioned a resort, with a hotel and spa as well as residential development.

He submitted what became known as the Stringtown Mountain Specific Plan to the Board of Supervisors and got all the required approvals.

Then, nothing happened—no hotel, no spa, no homes—reportedly due to lack of funds.

But the specific plan was still in place, and when Butte County drafted its General Plan 2030, staff took it into consideration.

In fact, they took the principles of the Stringtown plan and expanded on them, creating an even bigger swath of land zoned for recreation and tourism.

“During the general plan process in 2010, we affirmed this area for development and specifically for a resort and additional residential development,” said

The view of Lake Oroville from what will become the clubhouse at Whisper Ridge Golf Resort. photo by meredith J. cooper

Pete Calarco, assistant director of development services for the county.

That was right around the time a development group calling itself Loafer Creek LLC, comprising a few local residents and several out-of-towners, began purchasing land in Butte County. Much of it was slated for environmental protection in the form of mitigation banks, including the 2,400-acre Dove Ridge Conservation Bank and its vernal pools that contain Butte County meadowfoam, fairy shrimp and tadpole shrimp. The development group attempted at one time to create a large housing development north of Chico near the Tehama County line, but that plan fizzled.

In all, Loafer Creek LLC bought about 22,000 acres of land, including over 850 acres abutting Taylor’s property south of Lake Oroville. So, when the county’s general plan was drafted, expanding on the Stringtown Mountain Specific Plan, their property was automatically zoned with future recreational development in mind.

The groundwork, so to speak, had been laid.

“That was key in ... public support of the project,” Calarco said of Whisper Ridge Golf Resort.

Indeed, when the Board of Supervisors met to discuss the environmental impact report for Whisper Ridge in 2013, there

An artist’s rendering of the entrance to Whisper Ridge Golf Resort, which will be part of the first phase of development once the project breaks ground.

were no naysayers whatsoever. The panel approved the project unanimously.

“There was essentially no public opposition. That is virtually unheard of,” said Tim Snellings, director of development services, in a conference call with Calarco. “A project near Lake Oroville—that’s always been a vision for that area.”

(Loafer Creek LLC has always been protective of its members’ identities. It’s unclear, then, how many of them are still involved since the CN&R last wrote about the group in 2007. We do know that many of them live in the Detroit area. Steve Mardigian, of Newport Beach, is the only name we could confirm. Voicemail messages were not returned by press time.)

name for himself in 1999 with the original course at Bandon Dunes on the southern Oregon coast, now a premiere golf destination. More recently, he designed the Castle Course at the world’s oldest golf complex, St. Andrews, Scotland.

Kidd could not be reached for comment for this story, but his website describes his philosophy when designing a course: “A golf course offers modern man the opportunity to explore his environment, experience nature first hand and interact with friends in a pursuit where competitors congratulate rather than berate one another. How can we, as golf designers, do all we can to promote these interactions?”

Turns out his philosophy is very much in line with that of Whisper Ridge.

The terrain where it will be situated is varied and wild. A rough path has been carved around what will become the route of car and cart traffic on the site. The site offers breathtaking views of Lake Oroville and the surrounding mountains as well as ridges, valleys and small lakes. The area is home RESORT c o n t i n u e d

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Resort began to take shape in 2012.

Loafer Creek brought on course designer David McLay Kidd, a Scotland native who made a

Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly is still miffed that nothing ever came of promises to create a recreation destination at Lake Oroville when the dam was built nearly 50 years ago. He’s pictured at the visitor center, where a large restaurant and shopping complex was meant to go. photo by meredith J. cooper

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to plenty of wildlife, including deer—a large portion of the Loafer Creek property has been set aside for deer roaming habitat—as well as turkeys, other birds and even a bear.

“The developers are committed to utilizing the natural features in their design and operation, thereby adding to the beauty of the area as opposed to detracting from the natural beauty,” county Economic and Community Development Manager Jennifer Macarthy said in an email.

In addition to the 18-hole course designed by Kidd, there will be a 9-hole course modeled after the par 3 course at Augusta National in Georgia, arguably the nation’s most famous golf club and home of the Masters Tournament. Designed

by Clive Clark, a former pro golfer who’s created more than 30 courses, this will be the first project on the site to break ground, alongside the entryway to the resort. Other amenities include villa-style cottages, three restaurants and a fullservice spa. Greens fees will be in the range of $150 per round, while a night at the resort will run $295 and higher.

“The jobs that this development will create, coupled with the positive impact the development will have on the tourism industry

Lake Wyandotte, as seen from the “vista point” labeled at the top left of the artist’s rendering.

PHOTO BY MEREDITH J. COOPER

in general, will really make a positive impact on the Butte County economy,” Macarthy said.

Others agreed.

“It will create a lot of jobs,” Snellings said. “And it will bring people to the area for recreational purposes who probably would not have had Butte County on the radar.”

The first goal of the Whisper

Ridge project is to create a worldclass golfing destination. But

Loafer Creek also wants to give back to the community. In that vein, Whisper Ridge launched an after-school program now in its third year at 19 K-12 campuses throughout Butte County. The program, through international youth organization The First Tee, teaches life skills and values through golf.

“First of all, I’m seeing that students are definitely getting more interested in golf,” said Mary Ellen Garrahy, program manager for

Butte County Office of Education’s expanded learning programs. “If you don’t have parents who are interested in that sport, you may never get out on a course or even hold a golf club. So, it’s cool seeing them exposed to that. Beyond learning the basics of golf, we’re big on emphasizing being responsible, good sportsmanship, being honest, shaking hands.”

Whisper Ridge sponsors the First Tee program at those 19 campuses, most of which are in

Oroville, Garrahy said. It paid for golf clubs for each of the sites as well as training sessions for teachers. This week, about 60 local students headed out, via chartered bus, to Pebble Beach Golf Links for the Nature Valley First Tee Open, which matches pro golfers with First Tee participants.

“Many of the kids, in years past, have never even seen the ocean,” Garrahy said of the field trip. “It’s a really cool experience—they go down as spectators to see what the potential is if they continue with First Tee and golf.”

Local golf courses, including Sunset Hills in Chico and Table Mountain in Oroville, have hosted tournaments for First Tee golfers the past two years, Garrahy said. Part of the allure of Whisper Ridge opening is the fact that the 9-hole “wee course” is designed with young golfers in mind. It will give First Tee participants a home course, so to speak, where they can develop their game.

“We’re creating a pipeline of interest in golf among young people,” Garrahy said. “Whisper Ridge is going to be a nice course.

For some people it will be difficult [to afford], but it’s meant to be really accessible for the First Tee students.”

Another element of Whisper Ridge,

which is in line with The First Tee program, was conceptualized quite by accident. The Whisper Ridge developers were looking into irrigation for the property, which is served by South Feather Water & Power, and noticed nearby Lake Wyandotte, owned by the utility.

They approached the company’s board with a proposal to lease the property surrounding and including the lake for use in additional youth development programs.

One thing led to another and before they knew it, they were talking with representatives from the San Francisco 49ers, who built the team’s Museum and STEM (actually, now STEAM) center, which teaches kids science, technology, This artist’s rendering shows the vision for Lake Wyandotte, which includes a large agricultural component on the left and sports—including the 49ers complex—to the right.

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engineering, art and mathematics through football.

The project includes a large 49ers Museum-esque complex, accompanied by several sports fields and courts, a large agricultural component featuring an organic garden, which would supply the kitchens at Whisper Ridge, and labs focusing on everything from health to fabrication.

“Creating a venue like that and developing curriculum that includes STEM and key pieces of what’s going on in the region will really allow the kids that live here to see relevance and see real life reflected back in the things that they’re learning,” Jesse Lovejoy, director of STEM education for the 49ers, explained during a special meeting of the Butte County Board of Education in May. That meeting is available to watch on YouTube, thanks to a video editing project by Pleasant Valley High School students.

“What we’ve found in doing that in an informal setting, meaning not a classroom, is you get a different receptivity from kids in terms of wanting to explore those concepts,” Lovejoy continued. “If you do that right, they re-enter their classrooms, their homes, their after-school centers, their conversations with their brothers and their sisters and their friends, with a different view of what STEM is, of what those key principles are. And they start look-

ing at what they want to be when they grow up.”

Local educators, interviewed by Pleasant Valley students after the meeting for inclusion in the video, seemed overwhelmingly enthusiastic.

“The greatest thing about this project is it will allow the children to get out into the environment— we all know kids learn by doing,” said Tim Taylor, superintendent of BCOE. “So being out there in a STEM environment up at Lake Wyandotte hosted by the 49ers can only be a win-win for all kids. Kids all throughout Northern California will really benefit.”

Butte County Supervisor Doug Teeter also attended a meeting where the 49ers presented their vision for Lake Wyandotte. He came out of it fired up about the potential. When he was in school, he told the CN&R by phone, he got hands-on training in metal fabrication. Programs like that have gone by the wayside.

“I was so disappointed when schools discontinued industrial arts. America, in my eyes, is falling behind in having youth be able to run the machines,” he said. “The real benefit that I had as a child with industrial arts is it gives you an idea of how things are made. How to— say you get an idea, you come up with an invention—how to fabricate it. It gives you keys to success.

“I hope it all comes together like they’re proposing,” he added.

“It would be a real benefit to our county.”

Whisper Ridge could break ground

any day. A spokesman for the project said Loafer Creek LLC is in the process of selling a property in Chico and once that sale goes through, they’ll move forward with construction.

“For me, the key is, the hardest step is the first step,” Snellings said. “They’ll be designing a beautiful entry to these first nine holes.

And that will be the catalyst for this whole project. We haven’t seen anything on this scale in the county since ... I don’t know if we’ve ever seen a project on this scale.”

Lake Wyandotte is still in the design phase, but with backing from an organization like the San Francisco 49ers and enthusiasm from the community, those involved don’t see many roadblocks ahead.

“None of the projects we’ve worked on ever became successful without the support of the community,” said Peter Sollobug, one of the 49ers Museum architects, to the BCOE meeting attendees. “They have to start from the ground up.

If you have that, it’s magic. If you don’t have that, it doesn’t happen.

We’re really delighted to be part of your community.”

The support, from local educators to local government leaders, certainly seems to be there. Now it comes down to follow-through.

“It is exciting. There’s no shortage of vision for what’s possible out there,” Snellings said. □

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COMMUNITY WATER FORUM: Monthly discussion of local water issues hosted by local environmental groups. Th, 6pm. Bell Memorial Union, Room 204, 548 W. Second St.

MURRAY VALERIANO, JILL MARAGOS: Two of California’s best up-

City and Ohio and from cities up TandYork down California. One is flying in from hey’re coming from Hawaii and New

Europe. And they’re all paying their own way to be part of a celebration of the life and work of their former story and photo by voice and performance Robert Speer teacher, Gwen Curatilo.

It’s been 17 years ro ber tspeeer@ newsrev iew.com since Curatilo retired after 23 years as director of Chico State’s Opera Workshop, Preview: but the affection her Celebrating students feel for her Gwen Curatilo, remains as strong as an opera gala ever. Many of them featuring singers past and present. Saturday, have gone on to have Sept. 17, 7:30 p.m., rewarding careers Harlen Adams Theatre. in music and opera, A benefit for Chico whether as performers, State/CUSD production of The Little Sweep. designers or teachers, For more information and they credit “Mrs. on the event, including C,” as she is affectionbackground on the ately known, for providperformers, visit the gala’s calendar listing ing the skillful training at www.schoolof and loving encouragethearts-csuchico.com. ment that propelled Tickets: $10-$20 them forward.

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will community members who had parts in the many productions—full-length operas, opera galas and the annual Opera Ball—Curatilo created and directed.

The idea for the celebration came from Bradley Martin, the new chair of the university’s Department of Music and Theatre. Shortly after he arrived in Chico, he heard about Curatilo and the tremendous vocal program she had created, and he wondered why it no longer existed.

He also learned that she had left a legacy: thousands of dollars in scholarship money that is frozen because there is no voice program.

Martin wants to revive the vocal program and has hit upon the celebration as a way to kick-start the process.

Curatilo, who is passionate about encouraging children to sing, went along when she learned that the proceeds would be used to offset part of the cost of staging Benjamin Britten’s delightful threescene, sing-along opera The Little Sweep before 1,500 Chico Unified School District students.

Curatilo is 83 years old, but she has the

energy of someone much younger. She continues to teach (she has seven private voice students), is a major supporter of the Chico Children’s Choir (which will be performing at the celebration), and often offers her lovely, art-filled Durham home for fundraising concerts. Just

recently she hosted 60 people at a scholarship benefit for one of her students.

Although the celebration wasn’t her idea and is a huge project for an 83-yearold to take on, Curatilo inevitably will end up directing the show. As she put it, laughing, “Who else is there?”

Fortunately, she will have plenty of help. Just as singers are flying in from everywhere, local folks who love and appreciate Curatilo are stepping forward.

One, Julie Clemens, has created a spreadsheet to track the performers’ arrivals; the university’s Steven Ellis is coming out of retirement to create a lighting design; Tim McDonald, a co-founder of Chico City Light Opera, is flying in from New York not only to sing, but also to emcee; and so forth.

Headlining the show will be Jeanette Blakeney, a mezzo-soprano who is perhaps Curatilo’s most successful former student as a singer. She will be flying in from Europe, where she is performing in a production of Porgy and Bess.

Joining her will be Zachary Gordin, a highly praised baritone whose voice is “commanding and intense without ever descending into coarseness,” according to the Seattle Times.

There will be solo performances, duets, trios and a grand chorus at the end.

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and-coming stand-up comedians. Th, 9/15, 8pm. No cover. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

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

Theater THE HOW AND THE WHY: Written by Sarah Treem (House of Cards,

In Treatment) and directed by local TV/film star Amanda Detmer, this play explores the difficult choices faced by women of every generation. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 9/24. $15 advance/$18 door. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: A fun evening of campy horror and tasty tunes featuring a meek florist and carnivorous, foulmouthed plant. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 9/18. $16-22.

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

CHILDREN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL Sunday, Sept. 18 Chico Women’s Club

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LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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

THE VEIL: A drama by Conor McPherson, directed by Joe Hilsee, weaving Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a story about the search for love, the transcendental and the circularity of time. Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 10/2. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

Art Receptions PROJECTIONS: Reception for this show of works

by Chico State MFA program alumni. Th, 9/15, 5-6pm. B-So Space, Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

VISUAL METRICS: PRINTS & POETRY: Curator’s talk by Jeanne Clark, professor of English, for the current exhibit at the Janet Turner Print Museum. Th, 9/15, 5:30pm. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 898-6333.

Poetry/Literature POETRY READING: Shared words and refresh-

ments. Third Th of every month, 6:30pm. Free.

The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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

WINE IN THE PINES: Enjoy downtown Paradise while sampling local wine, food and art. A portion of ticket sales will benefit the Boys and Girls Club of the North Valley. F, 9/16, 5:307:30pm. $20. (530) 872-6291x112.

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

Theater CHILDREN’S FAIRYTALE CHOIR & MUSICAL THEATRE: Children’s skits and productions. F, 9/16,

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AUTO, BIKE AND TRUCK SHOW Saturday, Sept. 17 Manzanita Place

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7pm, Sa, 9/17, 1:30pm. $12 adults/$10 children.

Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

THE HOW AND THE WHY: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Art Receptions ALL ABOUT ART: Two-day event showcasing the

importance of visual art in our society. F, 9/16, 5-7pm, Sa, 9/17, 10am-7pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

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Special Events ALMOND BREW: Brewfest, wine mixer and crawdad feed benefiting local high school football programs and featuring more than 25 different local beers, wine, food and music outside in the parking lot. Sa, 9/17, 3-7pm. $35 in advance/$40 at the door. Riley’s Bar and Grill, 702 W. Fifth St., (530) 343-7459.

BIDWELL PARK AND CHICO CREEKS CLEANUP: 29th annual Bidwell Park and Chico creeks cleanup organized by the Butte Environmental Council.

Visit site for info on registration and locations.

Free barbeque for volunteers afterwards provided by Madison Bear Garden and Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Sa, 9/17, 9am-noon. www.becnet.org/bidwell-park-clean-up.

DRAGOPOLIS: Monthly “future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

LAUGHS FOR LEE: A live comedy and music fundraiser for Lee Ross hosted by Travis Dowdy and featuring a lineup of Chico’s best comics with music by Team Skins and Katrina Rodriguez, food and raffle. Sa, 9/17, 8pm. $5$20 recommended donation. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafe coda.com.

NATIONAL BULLRIDING CHAMPIONSHIP FINALS: Check out professional riders on bulls, broncs and dirt bikes, and stick around for a concert by country music star Keith Anderson. Sa, 9/17, 7pm. $25-$35. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

OLD OROVILLE CEMETERY TOUR: Learn some fascinating facts about this cemetary, which dates to the 1850s. Sa, 9/17, 11am. Oroville Cemetary, 2600 Feather River Blvd. in Oroville.

PEOPLE’S CHOICE AUTO, BIKE AND TRUCK SHOW: Hosted by Vietnam Veterans of America’s Butte County chapter, this show will also feature 50/50 drawing, Sea Cadets posting of the colors and flag-folding ceremony, vendors, and music by DJ Glen and Valuroso. Sa, 9/17, 10am-4pm. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzinita, (530) 966-0778.

ROCK, GEM AND JEWELRY SHOW: Feather River Lapidary and Mineral Society hosts this annual show featuring over 30 vendors and lots of children’s activities. Sa, 9/17, 9:30am5pm, Su, 9/18, 9:30am-4pm. $3 adult/ 16 and under free. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.feather riverrocks.org.

barbeque dinner, silent auction and raffle. Sa, 9/17, 6-11pm. $40 advance/$50 at the door.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

UNITY IN DIVERSITY FESTIVAL: Outdoor celebration of cultural art featuring performers from a range of cultures including a Native American invocation, Gospel-inspired hip-hop, Irish folk music, Hmong dancers and Eastern European folk dances as well as a wide array of food trucks, kids activities and more. Sa, 9/17, 4-8pm. Free. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive in Paradise, (530) 873-1370.

Music OPERA GALA: CELEBRATING GWEN CURATILO: A celebration of former Chico State Opera Workshop director, featuring exciting singers from the past and present. Benefit for January 2017 production of The Little Sweep.

Sa, 9/17, 7:30pm. $10-$20. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333.

Theater CHILDREN’S FAIRYTALE CHOIR & MUSICAL THEATRE: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.bird cagetheatre.net.

THE HOW AND THE WHY: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

ROCK THE BARN: Ninth annual barn dance fundraiser for local education scholarships featuring music by Northern Traditionz,

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FAMILY FUN DAY: Benefit for Wings of Eagles, the Joseph Alvarez Organization for Seriously Ill Children. Bring a chair or blanket and enjoy the petting zoo, face painting, bounce house, raffles and more. Sa, 9/17, 10am-2pm. $5 suggested donation. Two By Two Ranch & Petting Zoo, 13080 Hosler Ave., (530) 893-1088.

HOT QS & COLD BREWS BBQ COOK-OFF: Professional barbeque teams battle in the main parking lot for a California state title and $31,000 in cash prizes, with music provided by Whitewater. Sa, 9/17, 11am-5pm. Free entry, tasting tickets for purchase. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

A WEIRD NIGHT AT THE BAR Most David Liebe Hart fans became familiar with his offbeat brand of humor via his regular appearances on the late, great Adult Swim series Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! On Monday, Sept. 19, Hart and musical cohort Jonah Th’Mole Mociun will bring their latest multimedia extravaganza to Duffy’s Tavern. The Pageant Dads open what’s guaranteed to be an awkward and surreal night of yuk-yuks and “WTFs?”

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Art Receptions ALL ABOUT ART: See Friday. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

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Special Events CHILDREN’S MUSIC FESTIVAL: Benefit for the Torres Shelter featuring music by Big Mo, Jeff Pershing Band, Gravy Brain, Smokey the Groove and many more along with arts & crafts activities, face painting and all-ages open mic. Su, 9/18, 10am-10pm. $15 adults/under 18 free. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

DURHAM ROTARY HARVEST FESTIVAL: Pancake breakfast, car show presented by Chico Strollers Car Club, craft show, pony rides, bounce house, music by the Chico Community Band and much more. Su, 9/18, 7:30am-3pm.

Free. Durham Community Park, 1847 Durham/Dayton Hwy in Durham, (530) 3451921.

ROCK, GEM AND JEWELRY SHOW: See Saturday.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.featherriverrocks.org.

Theater LITTLE SHOP OF HORRORS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

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

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Awesome Show, Great Job!) presents hilarious multimedia spectacular with backing musician Jonah Th’Mole Mociun. Locals Pageant Dads open. M, 9/19, 8:30pm. $10 in advance. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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Special Events STAND-UP COMEDY SHOWCASE: The area’s top stand-up comics perform alongside those trying their hand at comedy for the first time.

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

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

Forming: Color and Mind, an exhibition of oil paintings by New York artist Tori Patterson Through 9/22. 3536 Butte Campus Drive in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Small World, Small Works, an exhibition of 12x12” art created by local artists of all ages and from all walks of life.

Through 9/30. 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Northern California artists touched by cancer team up for a poetry and art show. Paintings, photographs and poetry by Joan Goodreau, Patricia Wellingham Jones, Caroline Burkett, Barbara Luzzadder and Reta Rickmers. Through 10/14. 265 Cohasset Road inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 3323856.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY:

Shaker, a new sculpural work by artist team Walczak & Heiss. Through 10/15. Chico State.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS:

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Visual

Metrics, a collaboration with the Chico State Department of English in which selected prints from the Turner Collection served as inspiration for creative writing students. Through 10/1. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

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Exhibition, a new exhibition of material from Chico State’s Ira Latour Visual Resource Center. Through 9/16. Garret Goodwin: BFA Culminating Exhibition, new exhibit featuring works by BFA candidate Garret Goodwin. 9/19-9/30. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

Dreaming of San Francisco, bold and brightly colored paintings by Dolores Mitchell of her adventures in the City by the Bay. Through 10/31. no cost. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

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featuring sculpture by Sienna OrlandoLalaguna and drawings by Trevor Lalaguna.

Through 9/30. 434 Orange St., (530) 8958726.

the book’s author, Roger Lederer, on how the struggle for survival has shaped birds’ behavior. M, 9/19, 6:30pm. Free. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

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mini-retrospective of the art of local artist and art instructor Ruben Heredia. Through 9/30. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

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Sheep Drawing Clouds, new works from artist Phil Dynan reflecting his interest in

exploring a contemporary take on Cezanne’s plein aire style. Through 9/30.

180 E. Ninth Ave.

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

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Abstract

Expressions, new show with new works at the gallery. Through 9/30. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Cosmic

Currents, new exhibition of paintings by Nicolai Larsen. Through 10/1. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

Museums CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Ongoing display highlighting local aviation history. Ongoing.

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

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, a 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) 8914336, www.chicomuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Chico’s science museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of ice-age skeletons. Check site for current special exhibition. Ongoing.

625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and log-

ging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm.

5570 Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 8771919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Dragons: Tails of Myth and Meaning, exploring the cultural significance and history of the dragon with figures and artifacts from local collectors. Through 10/8. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

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the who and the what A thought-provoking exploration of womanhood humanistic play from a script Twhose tension and conflict derive, o create a sympathetically

or evolve, from scientific debate would seem a by daunting propoCarey sition. But in the Wilson hands of local theater veterans—director Review: Amanda Detmer the How and the Why and the twoshows thursday- person cast of Saturday, 7:30 p.m., through Sept. 24, at Joyce Henderson the blue room. and Hannah tickets: $15 Lockhart—the Blue Room’s Blue Room Theatre 139 W. First St. production of 895-3749 Sarah Treem’s www.blueroom The How and the theatre.com Why meets the challenge.

The play’s two characters, Zelda (played by Henderson) and Rachel (Lockhart), are evolutionary scientists whose work involves researching and hypothesizing about the evolutionary justification for the human menstrual cycle. Treem uses this fascinating—albeit generally neglected, or sublimated—topic as a basis for exploring human relationships in general, with her two characters bouncing dialectic counterpoints back and forth like table tennis masters.

The play opens in Zelda’s academic office, succinctly realized

by Amber Miller’s design of brick walls with arched windows looking out on autumn trees, a comfortablelooking leather visitor’s chair, an elegant but cluttered desk, books, plants and an incidental table littered with binders. Henderson’s Zelda—in short gray hair, a sumptuous white blouse and chunky necklace—is an obviously vital and confident professor and researcher.

Enter Lockhart’s Rachel, looking every bit the harried grad student in faded jeans and a ponytail.

There’s an emotional edginess to the women’s meeting that reveals both the strength of character and intelligence possessed by both, but also hints at Rachel’s vulnerability and insecurity at meeting her more academically accomplished elder.

Their relationship provides vital subtext for the play’s dramatic tension. Gradually, the two achieve a fragile rapport over 10 a.m. champagne and begin to discuss Rachel’s research and hypothesis, which she wants to present at an upcoming forum.

But her abstract—which posits a revolutionary theory that the menstrual cycle evolved as a means of protecting the uterus from the biological contamination introduced by penetration of the virusand bacteria-bearing penis during sex—hasn’t been accepted for presentation by the forum’s male-

dominated board of directors.

Zelda, who gained her academic reputation by developing the “Grandmother Hypothesis,” which explains menopause as an evolutionary development that freed older women in primitive societies to devote their later years to assisting the family by gathering food rather than remaining continually pregnant, is sympathetic to Rachel’s desire to share her hypothesis, which Rachel says “could change the way men and women have sex.” Though skeptical of Rachel’s logic, Zelda admires her adamance and agrees to sponsor her as a forum presenter.

The second act takes place in a seedy, somewhat nondescript bar where Rachel and Zelda meet some time after the forum presentation to discuss the audience’s reactions.

“Your opinion is the only one that matters,” Zelda says.

Working with two excellent and experienced actors who inhabit their roles with conviction, Detmer brings those characters to vividly realized life. The various tensions and the intimacy between Henderson and Lockhart was palpable, and in what could have otherwise been more of a scientific dialectic instead becomes a representation of two inquisitive minds and vulnerable human hearts struggling to accept and understand their own biological imperatives. □

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JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: John Seid and Larry Peterson playing an eclectic mix of great tunes for dining. Th, 6-9pm. No cover. Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 809-2304.

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage

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

LIVE MUSIC: Musical entertainment provided by a rotating cast of local talent.

Th, 5:30pm. Miner’s Alley Brewing Co., 2053 Montgomery St. in Oroville, www.minersalleybrewingco.com.

MURRAY VALERIANO, JILL MARAGOS: Two of California’s best up-and-coming stand-up comedians. Th, 9/15, 8pm. No cover. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive

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

SURROGATE: Local indie pop sounds on

the patio at sundown. Th, 9/15, 8pm. $3.

Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

TREVOR BORDEN: Americana-inspired folk music by way of Kenya with locals KLEZ and The Unexpected Guest as well as touring artist Mimi Gilbert. Th, 9/15, 6pm. $5. Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse, 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

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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.

THE DALY BLUES: Live blues on the patio.

Hosted by Kevin Daly. F, 9/16, 7-9pm. No cover. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road, (530) 345-7330.

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

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 AND FRIENDS: John Seid and Larry Peterson play a delicious assortment of dinner music in the bar lounge. F, 6-9pm . No cover. Two-

Twenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W. Fourth St., (530) 895-1515, www.twotwentyrestaurant.com.

LA BANDA DEL PACIFICO: Celebrate Mexican Independence Day with live music from La Banda del Pacifico and a DJ set from DJ Lil 50. F, 9/16, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

NIGHTSNAKE: Whitesnake tribute band celebrating 30 years of rock history with masterful guitar, thundering drums and flowing manes. F, 9/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

PARLEZ VOUS PUNK ROCK? HAI! The Chico punk scene is getting hella cosmopolitan this week, with two exceptional bands of globetrotting noisemakers passing through. First up, buzzsaw rockers HOW from Japan are at Monstros Pizza & Subs on Saturday, Sept. 17, with locals Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission and The Primers. Then on Wednesday, Sept. 21, French hardcore band Birds in a Row play 1078 Gallery with Worship (Salinas), Dying for It (Redding) and locals Sicko.

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OPEN MIC: All-ages open mic hosted by Jodi Foster, Julie Bos and Chris Henderson. F, 7-10pm. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

OPEN MIC NIGHT: All-ages, family friendly event. All musicians, poets and comedians welcome. F, 9/16, 6-8pm. Free.

Barnes & Noble, 2021 Martin Luther King Pkwy., Chico, (530) 894-1494.

PUNK ROCK NIGHT: A night of local punk rock featuring Severance Package, Pinterlifter, Sex Hogs II and The Miscreants. F, 9/16, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Hosted by

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BLACK FONG, CHRIS SCHADT BAND: Two of Chico’s funkiest bands team up for a

night of music and dancing. Sa, 9/17, 8:30-11:30pm. No cover. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685 Manzanita Court, (530) 3452491.

BLACK SLAX: Local band specializing in classic rock mixed with surf, blues and

rockabilly. Sa, 9/17, 8:30pm. No cover.

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CHUCK EPPERSON JR. BAND: Live music blending elements of soul, R&B, pop, jazz and rock. Sa, 9/17, 9pm. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

DRAGOPOLIS: Monthly “future of drag” show hosted by Claudette de Versailles. All entertainers welcome to perform. Third Sa of every month, 10pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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OPERA GALA: CELEBRATING GWEN CURATILO: A celebration of former Chico State Opera Workshop director, featuring exciting singers from the past and present. Benefit for January 2017 production of The Little Sweep. Sa, 9/17, 7:30pm. $10-$20. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333.

RADIO RELAPSE: Alt-rock and ’90s cover HOW: Punk rock from Japan with local openers Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission and The Primers. Sa, 9/17, 8pm. $7.

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

JELLY BREAD: High-powered funk rock from Reno with an opening set by local funkmaster DJ Spenny. Sa, 9/17, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

LAUGHS FOR LEE: A live comedy and music fundraiser for Lee Ross hosted

by Travis Dowdy and featuring a lineup of Chico’s best comics with music by Team Skins and Katrina Rodriguez, food and raffle. Sa, 9/17, 8pm. $5-$20 recommended donation. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

band performing a set of originals with Bogart the Monster’s Jeremy Crossley opening up the show. Sa, 9/17, 9pm. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

LIVE MUSIC ON THE PATIO: Live music in a relaxed environment. Sa through 9/18.

Rock House Restaurant, 11865 State Hwy. 70 in Oroville, (530) 532-1889, www.RockHouseHwy70.com.

ROCK THE BARN: Ninth annual barn dance fundraiser for local education scholarships featuring music by Northern Traditionz, barbeque dinner, silent auction and raffle. Sa, 9/17, 611pm. $40 advance/$50 at the door.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

LONG TIME: Tribute to the ’70s rock powerhouse Boston and other great bands of the era including Kansas, Led Zeppelin, Journey, Thin Lizzy and Deep Purple. Sa, 9/17, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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

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

OFF THE RECORD: The best of 80’s music from Guns & Roses to Michael Jackson. Sa, 9/17, 7pm. $5.

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LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

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

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

SUNDAY IRIS: Local duo featuring singer Lisa Valentine and guitarist Dave Elke.

Tu, 9/20, 6:30-8:30pm. Bidwell Perk, 664 E. First Ave., (530) 899-1500.

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BIRDS IN ROW: French hardcore band on a North American tour joined for the night by Worship from Salinas, Redding’s Dying for It and locals Sicko.

W, 9/21, 8pm. $8. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

SLAY IT FORWARD: Local high-energy, heavy-duty pop-punk for your

lunchtime listening pleasure. W, 9/21, noon. Free. Trinity Commons, outside Trinity Hall at Chico State.

SWEETWATER STRING BAND: Cello-driven soulgrass to help raise money for local

water advocacy group AquAlliance. W, 9/21, 8pm. $7. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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We need a hero An intense and moving modern-day biopic occasion for rare heroic triumph, came when pilot OChesley “Sully” Sullenberger successfully and safely ne of the most storied events of recent times, an

landed a stricken jet airliner on the Hudson River in January 2009. Sully, with Tom Hanks in the title role, revisits that event by in ways that are both compact and Juan-Carlos Selznick complex, and unexpectedly moving as well.

Scripted by Todd Komarnicki (with a nod to the memoir written by Sullenberger and Jeffrey Zaslow) and directed by Clint Eastwood, the film Sully gives a genuinely riveting account of Starring tom Hanks, the landing itself while also developAaron eckhart and ing multifaceted “inside views” of Laura Linney. Directed the event and its aftermath, including

by Clint eastwood. some of the more personal aspects of Cinemark 14, Feather river Cinemas and the pilot’s experience.

It’s an intense kind of action film paradise Cinema 7. rated pG-13. while Sully’s plane is in the air and/ or on the Hudson, but a sizable portion of the film’s dramatic power resides in the scenes of Sully and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) facing off with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board. While the brilliantly rendered in-flight and landing sequences have something like the power of gloriously recovered memory, the most intricately sustained moments of suspense arrive via the pilots’ climactic confrontations with NTSB investigators and their seemingly condemnatory computer simulations of the landing.

The NTSB scenes produce a brief, pungent lesson or two about the value of “the human factor,” and the film comes across, in part, as a series of off-handed reflections on heroes and heroism, and what they might mean for actual human beings, ordinary and otherwise.

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to everyone involved in that emergency landing and subsequent rescue seems fundamental to the Eastwood/ Komarnicki version of his story.

For this movie’s “Sully,” a significant part of modern-day heroism is also a matter of maintaining personal integrity and moral perspective while navigating the convoluted entanglements of contemporary society and culture. There may be some fuel for political disputes in all that, but none of it matches the emotional intensity and conviction that the film brings to its cameo portraits of individuals (an air traffic controller, for example) who are only tangentially involved in the airliner’s emergency, but feel a bone-deep connection all the same.

I’ve held off from calling Sully a “Clint Eastwood movie,” partly because it’s so much more than what a great many people might assume with a film given that label, and partly because Eastwood’s conspicuously obtuse public pronouncements are unworthy distractions from the quality of his work as a director.

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Opening this week The Beatles: Eight Days a Week

Ron Howard directs this documentary covering The Beatles’ touring years—from early shows in Germany to their final concert at Candlestick Park in 1966. Two showings, tonight (Sept. 15), 6 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. In theaters one night only in advance of its online-streaming release on Hulu Sept. 17. Pageant Theatre. Not Rated.

Blair Witch

This sequel to the 1999 found-footage horror flick takes place 22 years after the events of the original, and finds the brother of original lead Heather returning to the ill-fated woods to try and find his missing sister. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The second sequel to Bridget Jones’s Diary (wait, there was a first sequel?) finds the protagonist (Reneé Zellweger) entering her 40s and suddenly pregnant and unsure if the father is her estranged lover (Colin Firth) or a new suave American in her life (Patrick Dempsey). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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The little men of Ira Sachs’ sharply observed, bittersweet social comedy are Jake (Theo Taplitz) and Tony (Michael Barbieri), a pair of artistically inclined 13-year-olds who become best friends when Jake’s parents (Greg Kinnear and Jennifer Ehle) inherit the building in which Tony’s mother (Paulina García) leases space for her seamstress business. The idiosyncratic friendship of the gifted young artist (Jake) and the aspiring actor (Tony) thrives, and both set their sights on admission to an elite high school of the arts. But their respective families are increasingly at odds. Tony’s mother can’t afford anything greater than the modest rent that Jake’s late grandfather charged, but Jake’s aunt, who shares ownership, is pressuring her brother (Jake’s dad) to treat their shared inheritance as an investment opportunity to be exploited at full market value, etc. The resulting comedy of manners cuts an amusing, ironic path toward several sorts of pathos. Kinnear is especially good as the kindly but beleaguered dad, and Barbieri and Taplitz are charmingly distinctive in their respective prodigy roles. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG —J.C.S.

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style outlaw, legends of the Texas Rangers, etc. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Kubo and the Two Strings

An ambitious-looking stop-motion/CGI animation feature about a young boy who taps into his storied past and a magical suit of armor worn by his late father in order to fight off monsters. Starring the voices of Rooney Mara, Charlize Theron, George Takai, Matthew McConaughey and Ralph Fiennes.

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Pete’s Dragon never descends to the level of mere “Disney-fied” entertainment. It’s rated PG, but its blend of drama, comedy and fantasy is fresh, expansive and forthright throughout. The Pete of the story is a small boy (played by Oakes Fegley) who is orphaned while traveling on “an adventure” with his parents in mountain wilderness. We quickly learn that he survives for several years without human contact, his only companionship coming from a not unfriendly dragon, a legend in the region but rarely sighted. Eventually, both the boy and the dragon become objects of sympathetic and problematical attention from a forest ranger named Grace (Bryce Dallas Howard) and her wilderness-loving family. The devotion of the ranger and her father (Robert Redford) to the natural world signals some of the film’s main themes. But the Redford character is both an outdoorsman and a spinner of yarns and tall tales, and storytelling and the power of myth and imagination are also central to the film’s dramatic concerns. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG —J.C.S.

Oliver Stone directs this biopic about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden (played here

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As a tribute to the recently deceased Gene Wilder, The Pageant presents a one-nightonly showing of the classic dark musicalfantasy, featuring Wilder in one of his signature twisted roles. Saturday, Sept. 17, 3 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Anna Gunn (Breaking Bad) stars as an investment banker trying to navigate a financial system rife with corruption. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S. When the surrogate (Jaz Sinclair) carrying their baby starts to show her true colors, a young couple (Morris Chestnut and Regina Hall) must fight for their marriage and the life of the unborn child in this psychological thriller. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Cheeseburger paradise A return to the basics of an American classic (Sept. 18), and whether you would normally take Nit with onions, without tomatoes, or as a vegan blackational Cheeseburger Day is this Sunday

bean burger with soy “cheese,” pickled radishes and Sriracha aioli in a butter-lettuce wrap, take a moment to consider the by American icon in its classic form.

Matthew While regional styles and Craggs personal tastes alter the ingredients and cooking techniques, the cheeseburger in its base form is some combination of bun, ground beef, cheese, fresh vegetables, pickles and condiments. A wonderful cacophony of wet and dry, melty and crunchy, fatty and salty, tart and sweet, the basic cheeseburger—undisturbed by current culinary trends—is a perfect invention.

Whether you drive-thru, make it from scratch or would gladly pay Tuesday for a cheeseburger right freakin’ now, a few key—and fresh—ingredients and a some basic culinary rules are all you need to make it classic.

Too often dismissed as a mere vessel, the hamburger bun plays an essential supporting role.

Sponge dough, for which a yeast starter (aka “the sponge) is allowed to ferment before being added to the dough’s other ingredients, has a more developed flavor over white bread; the hamburger bun’s texture has some give while maintaining shape. As a general sandwich rule, the bun’s height—top and bottom combined—should equal the height of everything that comes in between. Ever since McDonald’s popularized their addition on the Big Mac in 1968, sesame seeds are an acceptable option, and I’ll be damned if the bun is not lightly toasted as well.

Now, the beef. Each patty (yes, go double, no judging here) starts as one-third pound, 30 percent fat ground chuck. And make it beef that your greatgrandparents would recognize—local, organic and grass-fed. Cook on a flat-top griddle—please, do not

squish it with a spatula—adding salt and pepper while cooking (don’t blend in before) and flipping once. The patty will cook down to a true quarter-pounder.

It’s tempting to simply unwrap some American cheese and throw it on when you flip the burger— which, according to one legend, is what a Pasadena cook named Lionel Sternberger (that’s his name, for real) did when he created the first cheeseburger in the early 1920s—but everyone outside the fast-food industry knows cheddar is better. Low-moisture, highfat, aged medium cheddar will leave a melted, gooey slab that holds its shape while adhering to the greasy patty below and vegetables above.

Next, dressing the cheeseburger’s toasted buns with a secret sauce, a special sauce, or just Thousand Island dressing, is admittedly delicious, but only ketchup, mayonnaise and mustard—the holy trinity of condiments—should adorn a classic cheeseburger. The former two on the top bun, the latter on the bottom.

Last, the vegetables. On top, it’s the fresh produce.

For the bold, the unsung hero of a great cheeseburger is shredded iceberg lettuce, piled high. Leafed lettuce—even when done right by In-N-Out Burger, chilled in icy water and generously hand-leafed—too often wilts from the patty’s heat. Next, one half-inchthick and juicy slice of a ripe tomato, spanning the width of the bun, resting atop a thin slice of red onion.

Both provide a pop of color while their respective widths allow each to stand on its own while complementing the cheeseburger with salt and spice. Pickles are slippery and need to be kept separate from the rest of the vegetables. Arrange them in a single layer and trap them between the burger and bottom bun with their partner in tartness, mustard.

There you have it, a blueprint for the classic cheeseburger, submitted for culinary consideration.

Though it may not be how you celebrate National Cheeseburger Day, it’s important to pay respect the classics. □

KISS Rocks Vegas KISS eagle rock/Universal It was only a matter of time before KISS turned into a Vegas act, right? The band did nine shows at the Las Vegas Hard Rock Café in November 2014, documented it all, and showed it one time only on the big screen earlier this year. Now the band offers its fans KISS Rocks Vegas, a DVD and CD/vinyl set of that performance, culled from the nine-show residency. It’s still spectacular. The 4,000-seat The Joint at the Hard Rock gives an intimate look at the aural and visual assault of the stage show. The band is tight, and the production on both the CD and DVD doesn’t sound sterile or touched up. The show itself is pretty scripted these days, and the set list is tired (no deep cuts here, but a couple surprises in songs like “Tears Are Falling” and “Creatures of the Night”), but this package is one of the better live documents of KISS in recent years.

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Payne’s also squeezed in working with the likes of Cass McCombs, King Tuff and Six Organs of Admittance, to name a few. Amid all his sonic multitasking, he’s found time to create a new solo record, Famous Blondes. The record manages to be simultaneously straightforward and allusive. Its surface structure can feel crude: simple beats, distinct clunky electric layers, and Payne falling somewhere between singing and chanting—all coming together like it could be blaring out of a blown-out boombox speaker. But coiled within that very structure are miles of altered voices, faint electric blips hitting bottomless floors and odd storylines. What that boils down to is its own brand of pop. Not the shiny, easy kind crutched on mimicry, but rather the catchy, unique one—the one that stands on its own.

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reStoring peace The Rev. Junkyard Moondog lives on! Thanks to retired

Chico State English instructor and longtime CN&R contributor steve Metzger, the home of the late Jim “Moondog” dwyer—the Chico State librarian and local arts freak who died last summer—is being preserved. Metzger bought the house from Moondog’s family at the beginning of summer and has since been busy cleaning and remodeling the place. And the best part is, the goal of the transformation is to make it a monument to the memory of the man.

As many Chicoans know, Moondog was a passionate advocate for peace and a voracious supporter of all of the arts—music, poetry, theater, visual arts, literature. The newly dubbed Blue Peace House will pay tribute by featuring some of his poems and posters on the walls and a library of his books inside, and a repaired version of Moondog’s rooftop peace sign—made of discarded freeway lanemarker dots—outside. When it’s all finished, Metzger Blue Peace House said he plans on turning it into a limited Airbnb-type property as well as renting it out to visiting lecturers at Butte College or Chico state.

The Blue Peace House should be ready for action sometime this fall, at which time Metzger and Moondog’s friends (including arts dEVo) will gather for an open house—of course with live music and poetry. Stay tuned.

SongS of compaSSion There is a lot of community fun to be had in Butte County this weekend: car shows, barbecues and even a national bullriding championship (Saturday, Sept. 17, 7 p.m., at the silver dollar Fairgrounds). One of the more ambitious events is the all-day Children’s Music Festival going down this Sunday, Sept. 18, at the Chico Women’s Club. The dual purpose of the festival (presented by Big oak Promotions) is to raise money for the Torres Community shelter, and to immerse local kids in music—as performers, students and witnesses to an eclectic slate of local bands (everyone from Big Mo to smokey the Groove). In addition to the music—including a kids open mic (noon-3 p.m.) hosted by Chico Rockstars: school of Music—there will be arts, crafts, face painting, dancers, food vendors and more. And kids get in free! Tickets for adults are $15 in advance (at Bootleg and the Naked Lounge) and $20 at the door. auf wiederSehen A big shout out to my friend and physical trainer Taylor Wakefield, who is leaving next week for grad school in Germany. I know I speak for many people in Chico who passed through his personal-training classes at in Motion Fitness when I say that his super-chill, casually encouraging approach (with an assist from some sick EDM playlists) inspired me to push my body to do exercises at a level that once seemed impossible and increased my quality of life along the way. While there was a proper goodbye blowout last weekend (complete with a badass cake in the form of a shirtless soonto-be grad student wearing lederhosen created by Mim’s Bakery artists Melissa Peters and Leah duensing), I just wanted to raise one last glass for one of Chico’s good guys as he sets off to kick some ass in Germany (just as oktoberfest is getting started, you lucky sonofa …).

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF september 15, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): What should

you do if your allies get bogged down by excess caution or lazy procrastination?

Here’s what I advise: Don’t confront them or berate them. Instead, cheerfully do what must be done without their help. And what action should you take if mediocrity begins to creep into collaborative projects? Try this: Figure out how to restore excellence, and cheerfully make it happen.

And how should you proceed if the world around you seems to have fallen prey to fear-induced apathy or courage-shrinking numbness? My suggestion: Cheerfully kick the world’s butt—with gentle but firm good humor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For the

foreseeable future, your main duty is to be in love. Rowdily and innocently in love. Meticulously and shrewdly in love. In love with whom or what? Everyone and everything— or at least with as much of everyone and everything as you can manage. I realize this is a breathtaking assignment that will require you to push beyond some of your limitations and conjure up almost superhuman levels of generosity. But that’s exactly what the cosmic omens suggest is necessary if you want to break through to the next major chapter of your life story.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): What do

you hope to be when you are all grown up, Gemini? An irresistible charmer who is beloved by many and owned by none?

A master multitasker who’s paid well for the art of never being bored? A versatile virtuoso who is skilled at brokering truces and making matches and tinkering with unique blends? The coming weeks will be a favorable time to entertain fantasies like these—to dream about your future success and happiness. You are likely to generate good fortune for yourself as you brainstorm and play with the pleasurable possibilities. I invite you to be as creative as you dare.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Dear

Soul Doctor: I have been trying my best to bodysurf the flood of feelings that swept me away a few weeks ago. So far I haven’t drowned! That’s good news, right?

But I don’t know how much longer I can stay afloat. It’s hard to maintain so much concentration. The power and volume of the surge doesn’t seem to be abating. Are there any signs that I won’t have to do this forever? Will I eventually reach dry land?

—Careening Crab.” Dear Careening: Five or six more days, at the most: You won’t have to hold out longer than that. During this last stretch, see if you can enjoy the ride more. Reimagine your journey as a rambunctious adventure rather than a harrowing ordeal. And remember to feel grateful: Not many people have your capacity to feel so deeply.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): If there can be

such a thing as a triumphant loss, you will achieve it sometime soon. If anyone can slink in through the back door but make it look like a grand entrance, it’s you. I am in awe of your potential to achieve auspicious reversals and medicinal redefinitions. Plain old simple justice may not be available, but I bet you’ll be able to conjure up some unruly justice that’s just as valuable. To assist you in your cagey maneuvers, I offer this advice: Don’t let your prowess make you overconfident, and always look for ways to use your so-called liabilities to your advantage.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Caution: You

may soon be exposed to outbreaks of peace, intelligence and mutual admiration.

Sweet satisfactions might erupt unexpectedly. Rousing connections could become almost routine, and useful revelations may proliferate. Are you prepared to fully accept this surge of grace? Or will you be suspicious of the chance to feel soulfully successful? I hope you can find a way to at least temporarily adopt an almost comically expansive optimism. That might be a good way to ensure you’re not blindsided by delight.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Brainwash-

ing” is a word with negative connotations.

by rob brezsny It refers to an intensive indoctrination that scours away a person’s convictions and replaces them with a new set of rigid beliefs. But I’d like to propose an alternative definition for your use in the coming days.

According to my astrological analysis, you now have an extraordinary power to thoroughly wash your own brain—thereby flushing away toxic thoughts and trashy attitudes that might have collected there.

I invite you to have maximum fun as you make your inner landscape clean and sparkly.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): My astro-

logical divinations suggest that a lightning storm is headed your way, metaphorically speaking. But it shouldn’t inconvenience you much—unless you do the equivalent of getting drunk, stumbling out into the wasteland and screaming curses toward heaven. (I don’t recommend that.) For best results, consider this advice: Take shelter from the storm, preferably in your favorite sanctuary. Treat yourself to more silence and serenity than you usually do.

Meditate with the relaxed ferocity of a Zen monk high on Sublime Emptiness. Got all that? Now here’s the best part: Compose a playfully edgy message to God, telling Her about all the situations you want Her to help you transform during the next 12 months.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Novelist Tom Robbins said this about my work: “I’ve seen the future of American literature and its name is Rob Brezsny.”

Oscar-winning actress Marisa Tomei testified, “Rob Brezsny gets my nomination for best prophet in a starring role. He’s a script doctor for the soul.” Grammy Award-winning singer-songwriter Jason Mraz declared, “Rob Brezsny writes everybody’s favorite astrology column.

I dig him for his powerful yet playful insights, his poetry and his humor.” Are you fed up with my boasts yet, Sagittarius?

I will spare you from further displays of egomania under one condition: You have to brag about yourself a lot in the coming days—and not just with understated little chirps and peeps. Your expressions of selfappreciation must be lush, flamboyant, exultant, witty and sincere.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

By normal standards, your progress should be vigorous in the coming weeks.

You may score a new privilege, increase your influence or forge a connection that boosts your ability to attract desirable resources. But accomplishments like those will be secondary to an even more crucial benchmark: Will you understand yourself better? Will you cultivate a more robust awareness of your strengths and weaknesses, your needs and your duties?

Will you get clear about what you have to learn and what you have to jettison?

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m confident that you would never try to sneak through customs with cocaine-laced goat meat or a hundred live tarantulas or some equally prohibited contraband. Please use similar caution as you gear up for your rite of passage or metaphorical border crossing. Your intentions should be pure and your conscience clear. Any baggage you take with you should be free of nonsense and delusions. To ensure the best possible outcome, arm yourself with the highest version of brave love that you can imagine.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Should

you be worried if you have fantasies of seducing a deity, angel or superhero? Will it be weird if some night soon you dream of an erotic rendezvous with a mermaid, satyr or centaur? I say no. In fact, I’d regard events like these as healthy signs.

They would suggest that you’re ready to tap into mythic and majestic yearnings that have been buried deep in your psyche.

They might mean your imagination wants to steer you toward experiences that will energize the smart animal within you. And this would be in accordance with the most exalted cosmic tendencies. Try saying this affirmation: “I am brilliantly primal. I am wildly wise. I am divinely surprising.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SOLAR SHINE at 1026 Arcadian Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JAMES R CRANE 1026 Arcadian Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES R. CRANE Dated: August 19, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001031 Published: August 25, September 1,8,15, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JIMMYNET, JIMMYNET COMPUTER SERVICES AND REPAIR at 5793 Acorn Ridge Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

JAMES BUNDLIE 5793 Acorn Ridge Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES BUNDLIE Dated: August 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001040 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as IDHOMEPARTIES.COM, INTIMATE DESIRES HOME PARTIES, INTIMATE DESIRES LINGERIE AND HOME PARTIES, INTIMATE DESIRES STEAMPUNK LINGERIE, INTIMATE DESIRES, INTIMATE DESIRES IN-HOME PARTIES AND LINGERIE, INTIMATE DESIRES LINGERIE AND IN-HOME PARTIES, INTIMATE ORGANICS, INTIMATE DESIRES ENTERPRISES,

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL YOGA at 2581 California Park Dr #213 Chico, CA 95928.

MELISSE BOYD 2581 California Park Dr #213 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MELISSE BOYD Dated: July 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000954 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIGFOOT FEVER, MODERN WORLD BELT AND BUCKLE COMPANY, MODERN WORLD STUDIOS at 1292 Pennisue Way Chico, CA 95926.

PEDRO TAVERA 1292 Pennisue Way Chico, CA 95926.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS Room In Private Home For Rent Seeking working adult or retired senior. Call 530-532-1079 if interested. 6115 Lincoln Blvd., Oroville, CA. Available now.

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JAMES B DETTLE 6453 Hollywood Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

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Signed: PEDRO TAVERA Dated: August 26, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001061 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LIVE TRUE at 1740 Elm Street Chico, CA 95928.

CCHAOS 1740 Elm Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ALICIA WARR, SECRETARY OF THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Dated: August 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001077 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DRIPPITY CONE at 1147 Neal Dow Ave #9 Chico, CA 95926.

KEITH BOLIN 1147 Neal Dow Ave #9 Chico, CA 95926.

VICTORIA-LYNN BOLIN 1147 Neal Dow Ave #9 Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: KEITH BOLIN Dated: July 27, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000943 Published: September 8,15,22,29,2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TIPS TOO TAXI OF OROVILLE at 475 Glen Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

BOB L DAVIS 866 Central Park Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

ROBERT R HARRIS 475 Glen Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

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Signed: ROBERT R. HARRIS Dated: August 23, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001047 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

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Signed: CECIL R. COOPER Dated: September 2, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001096 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL TECHNOLOGY at 57 Skymountain Circle Chico, CA 95928.

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Signed: KELLI LEWIS Dated: September 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001116 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DRUNKEN DUMPLING at 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

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NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BONNIE L. KLEIN aka BONNIE LORAINE KLEIN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BONNIE L. KLEIN aka BONNIE LORAINE KLEIN A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LLOYD W. KLEIN, JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: LLOYD W. KLEIN, JR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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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: October 4, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 16PR00290 Published: September 8,15,22, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES L. O-MIELA To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES L. O-MIELA A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BILLY R. SCARPETE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: BILLY R. SCARPETE 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.

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

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A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: October 4, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 16PR00294 Published: September 15,22,29, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TANIA WOOD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TANIA LAURA WOOD Proposed name: TANIA LAURA MICH 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: October 7, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court

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1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: August 15, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01546 Published: August 25, September 1,8,15, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KAYLA PINEDO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HAYDEN CHRISTOPHER-ORION WUEST Proposed name: HAYDEN CHRISTOPHER-ORION PINEDO 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: October 7, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: August 15, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00832 Published: September 1,8,15,22, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NORMA ARACELI RAMIREZ CASTILLO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NORMA ARACELI RAMIREZ CASTILLO Proposed name: NORMA ARACELI SANTAROSA 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: October 7, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: August 16, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00490 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ANDRE BROWN

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a filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SUMMER GALIANO Proposed name: SUMMER BROWN 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: October 7, 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: August 19, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00311 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HEATHER LYNNE CLARK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TAYTUM RENAE DALSHAUG Proposed name: TAYTUM RENAE CLARK 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: October 7, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: August 17, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00088 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRADLEY DAVID GLOVER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRADLEY DAVID GLOVER Proposed name: BRADLEY DAVID PISENTI THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at

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least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 28, 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: August 31, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00674 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JASMINE SIMONE BEALL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JASMINE SIMONE BEALL Proposed name: JAYDON BEALL 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: October 7, 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: August 24, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01818 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TASHIA HARDEMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TASHIA JANIEL HARDEMAN Proposed name: TASHIA JANIEL HARDEMAN MARTINEZ 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: October 28, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: September 1, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01749 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner WAPOSTA CHEEKKAHLA VAN ETTEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: WAPOSTA CHEEKKAHLA VAN ETTEN Proposed name: WAPOSTA CIKALA RED LEAF 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: November 4, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: September 8, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01827 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANTS: MITCHELL R. MCGRATH aka MITCH MCGRATH, an individual; and DOES 1 through 75, inclusive, YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: AMERICAN CONTRACTORS INDEMNITY COMPANY, a California corporation NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or a phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. if you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs

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on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, CENTRAL DISTRICT 111 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TRACY A. STEVENSON (Bar No. 162408) (714) 620-2350 LANAK & HANNA, P.C. [#22386] 625 THE CITY DRIVE SOUTH, SUITE 190 ORANGE, CA 92868 Dated: January 4, 2016 Signed: SHERRI R. CARTER, ANABELLA FIGUEROA Case Number: 16K00105 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016 SUMMONS NOTICE TO CROSS-DEFENDANT: BOYD ELECTRIC YOU ARE BEING SUED BY CROSS-COMPLAINANT: COMMUNITY HOUSING IMPROVEMENT PROGRAM, INCORPORATED You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the cross-complainant. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

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

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: Glenn County Superior Court 526 W. Sycamore Street Willows, CA 95988 The name, address, and telephone number of cross-complainant’s attorney, or cross-complainant without an attorney, is: JEROME R. SATRAN/JASON A. ROSE SBN 188286/271139 Koeller, Nebeker, Carlson & Haluck, LLP, 1478 Stone Point Drive, Suite 400 Roseville, CA 95661 (916) 724-5700 Signed: KEVIN HARRIGAN, DOBBIE WILLEY Dated: April 12, 2016 Case Number: 15CV01464 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

12738 Centerville Rd 4330 Ocean Dr 324 Crater Lake Dr 5 Stoney Point Way 538 Burnt Ranch Way 756 Silverado Estates Ct 834 Brandonbury Ln 42 Barker Ct 1678 E 8Th St 2332 Ritchie Cir 2130 Ramsey Way

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$514,999 $465,000 $425,000 $418,000 $410,000 $407,500 $375,000 $361,500 $335,000 $330,000 $330,000

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

SQ. FT. 2,647 1,714 2,151 2,118 3,113 2,189 1,978 1,626 1,796 1,959 1,503

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

239 Legacy Ln 921 Madrone Ave 7 Amber Way 37 Skymountain Cir 1215 Downing Ave 1406 Bidwell Ave 3005 Silverbell Rd 9 Turnbridge Welles 1292 Palmetto Ave 35 Garden Park Dr 687 Victorian Park Dr

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$328,500 $328,000 $300,000 $280,000 $279,000 $275,000 $269,500 $269,000 $264,000 $263,500 $230,000

3/2 4/2 3/2 3/2 4/2 3/1 3/2 3/2 3/2 3/3 2/2

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

1061 Diablo Ave

Chico

$225,500

3/2

1,039

35 Butte Woods Dr

Oroville

$255,000

3/2

1,531

3985 Ord Ferry Rd

Chico

$184,000

3/2

1,336

2236 D St

Oroville

$175,500

3/2

1,507

1010 Elmer St

Chico

$154,000

1/1

545

31 La Mirada Ave

Oroville

$145,000

3/2

2,602

431 W 15Th St

Chico

$120,000

1/1

475

39 Bonham Rd

Oroville

$137,000

1/1

506

1420 Sherman Ave 17

Chico

$103,000

2/2

920

2048 Hardnett Ct

Oroville

$92,500

5/4

2,420

1095 E 7Th St

SQ. FT.

ADDRESS

Chico

$89,500

3/1

1,296

6751 Woodland Dr

Paradise

$360,000

3/3

1,790

9761 Lott Rd

Durham

$554,999

4/3

2,838

274 Tranquil Dr

Paradise

$338,000

4/4

3,028

13815 Granada Dr

Magalia

$187,500

3/2

1,530

253 Burden Ter

Paradise

$224,000

2/2

1,270

6329 Bliss Ct

Magalia

$150,000

3/2

1,489

5349 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$212,000

3/2

2,024

6298 Ponderosa Way

Magalia

$105,000

2/2

1,057

5730 Cherokee Dr

Paradise

$115,000

1/1

900

85 Oakvale Ave

Oroville

$263,636

2/2

1,197

5558 Newland Rd

Paradise

$75,000

3/2

1,314

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1241 Wagstaff RD

PARA

3/3

1,380

$119,500

Annette Gale

872-5886

8th Street

ARTO

13983 Potomac DR

MAGA

2/2

1,356

$120,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

0 Cohassett RD

620 Elliott RD

PARA

2/1

1,180

$149,000

Nikki Sanders

872-5889

6198 West Wagstaff

PARA

3/2

1,530

$169,000

Shannan Turner

3345 Hamlin Canyon CT

PARA

LAND

6.76 ac

$175,000

6266 Coppel CT

MAGA

2/2

1,392

372 Circlewood DR

PARA

3/2

2444 North AV

CHIC

438 Plantation DR

price

agent

phone

LAND

35,000

Vicki Miller

864-1199

COHA

LAND

40,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

0 Sky CT

CHIC

LAND

52,500

Bob Contreras

519-9801

872-3822

51 Lava Rock DR

CHIC

LAND

79,500

Bob Contreras

519-9801

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

332 Street, S Butte

WLLS

3/3

1,647

175,000

Vicki Miller

864-1199

$189,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1215 Joy WY

WLLS

3/2

1,405

225,000

Vicki Miller

864-1199

1,239

$214,500

Julie Rolls

872-5880

17 Alameda Park CR

CHIC

2/3

1,566

254,950

Mark Chrisco

624-7772

3/2

1,540

$218,500

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2364 England ST

CHIC

2/2

1,344

262,000

Carolyn Frejes

966-4457

PARA

2/2

1,308

$219,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

1048 Southampton Dr

CHIC

3/2

1,402

279,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

6441 Rocky LN

PARA

2/2

1,129

$219,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

7 Clara Ln

CHIC

4/2

1,506

282,500

Mark Chrisco

624-7772

5939 Del Mar AV

PARA

3/2

1,465

$249,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1605 Ridgebrook WY

CHIC

3/2

1,316

294,500

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

1629 Diamond AV

CHIC

3/1

1,147

$269,000

Nikki Sanders

872-5889

3320 Shadybrook LN

CHIC

LAND

299,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

1366 Elliott RD

PARA

3/3

1,824

$285,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

10 Allie CT

CHIC

3/2

1,534

311,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

6380 Glendale CT

MAGA

3/2

2,065

$319,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

124 Delaney DR

CHIC

3/2

1,653

329,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

15123 Skyway

MAGA

2/2

1,728

$325,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1289 Palmetto AV

CHIC

4/3

1,802

329,500

Dan Bosch

896-9330

61 Sutter RD

PARA

3/3

2,344

$349,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

12 Goldeneve Ct

CHIC

4/2

1,588

339,000

Dan Bosch

896-9330

5887 Rising Star CT

PARA

3/3

1,814

$389,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1350 Salem St

CHIC

4/2

1,973

343,000

Shane Collins

518-1413

13813 Pine Needle DR

MAGA

2/2

1,850

$409,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1105 Kentfield Rd

CHIC

3/3

2,063

419,500

Dan Bosch

896-9330

5247 Laguna CT

PARA

3/2

2,260

$419,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

920 Bruce Ln

CHIC

4/2

2,072

549,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5764 Hollis Hill DR

PARA

3/3

2,900

$424,800

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

0 Table Mtn BLVD

OROV

LAND

695,000

Mark Chrisco

624-7772

6217 Mountain View DR

PARA

4/3

3,190

$645,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

3374 Canyon Oaks TE

CHIC

3,483

784,500

Bob Contreras

519-9801

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