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Keep an open mind The CN&R has occupied a front-row seat for Chico’s hottest controversies

in recent memory, including the sagas of Chico Scrap Metal and the Saturday farmers’ market. We’ve observed the way some issues touch a nerve, especially when they concern places and ideas central to the community’s identity. That’s why we believe the city’s upcoming discussion regarding Upper Park Road could get people riled up (see this week’s cover story, by Howard Hardee, on page 18). After all, what’s more Chico than Bidwell Park? In summers past, the road provided automobile access to some of the most distant areas of Upper Park, including Salmon and Brown’s holes. However, for about four years now, with the road in disrepair, the city has locked the gate near the Diversion Dam. The move has blocked access to motorists, effectively turning the upper reaches of the park into a space for hikers and mountain bikers. What’s new is that city leaders are looking at fixing the road and considering whether or not to restore vehicle access. Many folks are in favor of keeping the gate locked and turning the road into a hiker-biker thoroughfare. Not surprisingly, others argue that enjoying Upper Park’s most remote swimming holes is a quintessential Chico experience that shouldn’t be limited to people able to walk or bike to them. This has the makings of another polarizing and drawn-out saga. We’re going to listen carefully during the public-input process and look over park staff’s proposals before adding our two cents. We urge the community to also keep an open mind as this conversation progresses, because it’s an issue worth careful consideration. □

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Singing for a cause constantly amazed and delighted by the sound of Avoices singing in harmony. I have had the pleasure

epidemic proportions, especially in our state and our community. I try to look away from the proverbial elephant in the room, but it doesn’t work because the elephant seems to be growing. of teaching thousands of Chico youth and adults So, with the help of some of my friends, I have the wonders of music making rallied 100 singers to perform a benefit concert for over 30 years. I am on Oct. 1 at Neighborhood lucky to do this kind of Church in Chico for the Torres work. I’ve found that Community Shelter. The Over the years, it’s easy to be concert will feature soloists, however, I have thankful in a a dance team and a live band witnessed a lot of folks in our community, world where we backing up the newly formed Chico Community Gospel including children, see refugees at Choir, which has turned out who haven’t been as every corner. to be a group of wonderful, fortunate. by Dan Holmes talented people from our town I’ve found that it’s who share my feelings about the homeless crisis easy to be thankful in a world the author is director of the and are coming to rehearsals and practicing at home where we see refugees at every Chico Community because they want to help. corner. I call them refugees Gospel Choir. With winter just around the bend, I’m hoping because so many are trying to that there are others out there who will attend our escape violent situations, memoconcert and support the shelter and its clients. They ries of war, and a world where need our help, so here’s an opportunity to see a great they cannot sustain a home because of economic live concert featuring people from our community inequality. The word “homeless” bothers me, when there are who, like you, care for those in need. For more information about the concert, go to more vacant houses in America than there are famiwww.sing4shelter.org. □ lies on the street. And homelessness has reached s a music teacher and choir director, I am

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thanks to the league November’s general election is going to be dizzying for voters.

In addition to state races and the very polarizing presidential contest, the ballot includes 17 statewide propositions, such as the controversial Prop. 64, an initiative to legalize the recreational use of marijuana for adults. The description of that proposed law alone, including its summary and analysis, would take the average voter hours to wade through. Forget about reading the actual text; it’s written in legalese. In other words, you’d better start doing your homework. Speaking of reading up, voters soon will receive their official Voter Information Guide. This year, it’s a whopping 224 pages. No kidding. Then there are our local races. Voters in Butte County have a lot of candidates and ballot measures to research before they hit the polls. Thankfully, Butte County is home to a local chapter of the national League of Women Voters, an extremely active and organized one to boot. That group is holding eight events comprising 17 local candidates races. It also is holding 11 presentations—seven to social and civic groups and four open to the public—covering the pros and cons of ballot measures. Additionally, the league’s members are doing outreach to get citizens registered to vote. The group does all of this, and more, without a political agenda (see “Voting and vigilance,” Newslines, page 8). It is nonpartisan, does not endorse candidates or parties, and rarely takes a stance on specific issues. Moreover, everyone is a volunteer. A way to thank the league is to take advantage of its upcoming events. Some will be televised, but we’d like to encourage voters to attend in person. Citizens can also support the group by giving it a tax-deductible donation and attending annual fundraisers. A lot of energy from a lot of people makes these upcoming events possible. Let’s make the efforts worth their while, and get informed in the process. □

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Steinem and Warren I was pretty disappointed when Gloria Steinem implied that young women who were supporting Bernie Sanders were backing the Vermont senator for the purpose of meeting men. How patronizing. I’m not exactly young, so that wasn’t my beef. As a woman and unabashed Sanders supporter, however, it stung. Plus, there’s a certain irony in the Mother of Feminism (the Second Wave, anyway) making a case for Hillary Clinton by putting down other women. Imagine what she would have said to a man who made such a claim. Steinem made those comments last winter. Only recently did I find out she walked them back. I missed that headline. Steinem apologized for the implication that young women, as she put it in her mea culpa, “aren’t serious in their politics.” I was happy to hear that. I have a soft spot for Steinem thanks to my mom. I grew up in a house in which a framed quote by the famous feminist—“A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle”—hung prominently on the wall. As a 30-something divorcee who worked her butt off while rearing two challenging kids, my mom was my first feminist role model. Of course, Steinem has been a role model for millions. And now, because her new book, My Life on the Road, has been chosen as this year’s Book in Common, thousands of locals, men and women, will read and be inspired by Steinem’s personal account of her early years fighting for women’s rights. What’s more, CN&R just found out that Steinem will be speaking at Chico State on March 1. On the topic of badass women, my hero these days, and for the past few years, is Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren. I first wrote about Warren back in 2013, when she was advocating for Congress to reduce the interest rates on student loans to the same rates that banks pay the U.S. Treasury for the money they borrow. As I wrote at the time, “Warren points out that the government takes in $51 billion annually in profit from student loans. Why, she asks, are we making money off poor and middle-class college students at a time when big banks can borrow money at such low rates?” Warren’s become one of the most vocal watchdogs in Washington, especially when it comes to Wall Street. On Tuesday, Sept. 20, she put the screws to Wells Fargo CEO John Stumpf, grilling the embattled banker during a Senate hearing regarding the bank’s practice of creating accounts in customers’ names without permission, injuring some of their credit ratings. Stumpf had pressured employees to meet quotas of eight accounts per customer under the ridiculous rationale, Warren pointed out, that “Eight rhymes with great”—something Stumpf had written in a memo back in 2010. Warren called him out for blaming the fraud that resulted on the low-paid (“$12-an-hour”) employees, not firing any of his executives and for profiting personally to the tune of $200 million from increased stock prices driven in part by the scheme. She then called for him to resign and to return his earnings, and for the Securities and Exchange Commission and Department of Justice to take up criminal investigations. It was a thing of beauty. I sure like a woman who tells it like it is. Big shocker, I know.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Two on the cover Re “Charting a course” (Cover story, by Meredith J. Cooper, Sept. 15): Supposedly, Whisper Ridge will flourish with a flood of tourist dollars. This is as flimflam of an idea as was ever cooked up, to appeal to real estate agents, construction firms, fastfood outlets, gas stations and a few rich golfers. I live just down the road from this proposed nightmare. Not one word in this story was about what plans there are regarding the need of improvements and cost of high-traffic infrastructure with this kind of growth in population. Whisper Ridge Golf Resort will be using the same source of water (South Feather Water & Power) that I depend upon. What happens when drought strikes? Since this resort is closer to the source of water, what will residents do when a golf course is sucking it all up to irrigate its turf? It should be legally stated and agreed upon that this golf course will not receive any irrigation water from SFWP during water shortages. Looking at the rendering of the vision for Lake Wyandotte is also pure madness of excess by investors who have more money than they know what to do with. It reminds me of all those dead orchards planted way up on the dry hills along Interstate 5, south of Tracy. Remember and take pleasure in the unspoiled places. Tom Fitzwater Oroville

A world-class golf resort? First of all, there are no breathtaking views of Lake Oroville; it’s been an eyesore from day one. Riding around in little carts or walking around in polyester pants on a manicured lawn that is an over-user of water is not experiencing “nature,” and what about all the fertilizers to keep the “nature” green in a hot, dry summer? Nobody knows who the investors are. How many times have “investors” talked about building a world-class resort or some other project and split after they made some bucks? They LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 leave and write off the expense, and the locals are stuck with a money-losing project. Just look at Lake Oroville: What a winning “project” that is. Who really gives a rip about a 49ers Museum-esque complex? And the win-win for the kids all throughout Northern California? Teaching them about modern man and “his” environment. If this project moves forward, a few people will make a lot of money and a number of people will make decent money (bulldozer operators, road pavers, etc.). But after the dust settles and all the wildlife is displaced, only a fraction of low-paying service “jobs” will be left. This is another overblown proposal filled with human ego.

process … Oliver bowed low by the direction of the beadle, and was then hurried away to a large ward where, on a rough, hard bed, he sobbed himself to sleep. ... What a noble illustration of the tender laws of England! They let the paupers go to sleep!” —Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist Surely, our local authorities charged with removing “transients” from our midst might aspire to at least as much empathy as that displayed by the tender laws of Dickensian England. Mary Nelson Chico

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Three intersecting sufferings plague the world, all rooted in greed and consumerism: the suffering of the poor, the suffering of exploited animals and the suffering of ecosystems—the latter portending environmental collapse. Radical change could make a difference, but if lifestyle is any indicator, neither Trump nor Clinton can deliver. Trump and Clinton epitomize greed and consumerism: palatial homes, private planes, elaborate parties, endless recreational travel, mind-boggling extravagance for their offspring, etc. (With her $3 million wedding, Chelsea Clinton is as indulged as any Trumpling.) Saint Matthew said it all: “...where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” And supporters? Are middleclass Clintonians much different from Trumpsters? Yes, the Clintonistas ride their comfort bikes to the farmers’ market, on three Saturdays in spring. But they don’t much care about the poorest people (criminalizing homelessness is A-OK), animals (i.e, the suffering inflicted by hedonistic food choices) or the environment (if it means any real sacrifice—like emptying the bucket list of travel destinations.) “Hey, I’m no racist, like the evil Donald, so hands off my consumption zone!” After resenting Nader for throwing the election of 2000, I find myself on Planet Ralph: Tweedledum, Tweedledee. Donllary Clintrump 2016.

Re “First impressions” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Sept. 15): “For the combination of both these blessings in the one simple

Do you want to be safe? Since the Obama-Hillary era we have had many terrorist attacks in this

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Bikes getting pillaged Please get onto the Chico Stolen Bike Facebook page. We are tracking brazen thefts every day and getting groups together to recover our own bikes. Chico citizens are being victimized every single night. Thieves are now breaking into locked garages and stealing bikes. Seriously, this is nightly. What has the Chico Police Department done, new and novel, and not just complain that they don’t have resources, not just telling us to close our blinds? (See a recent press release about the guy who had to catch a burglar himself.) We need patrols in the hotspots: VIP patrols, explorer patrols, something outside the damn box. Perhaps the crime prevention officer can take a few shifts and so can any officers on some collateral duties or details. We want to know what they are doing because most of us have never seen a patrol car in our area and we are just being pillaged. Someone will get hurt. We have started contacting national media and coordinating efforts to contact congressmen and anyone else we can think of. Michelle Hale Chico

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country alone! More last Saturday! From Fort Hood to Boston, San Bernadino to Orlando! Now New York, New Jersey and a Minnesota mall! Not counting France, Belgium, Germany and England! In spite of the fact that all of these terrorists attacks have been by radical Islamists (they call themselves a state), Obama has just finished admitting 10,000 Syrian “refugees” into this country, after he declared they would be vetted for two years, he stepped it up to three months! Our government did a great job vetting San Bernardino jihadist Tashfeen Malik! Not looking at her Facebook account! Hillary wants to increase the number of Syrian refugees by over 550 percent! In an interview on Face the Nation, Clinton said she would like to see even more refugees allowed into this country! From 10,000 to 65,000! The FBI’s James Comey says it’s impossible to completely vet these “refugees.” Common sense and the American people want this to stop! Why are Democrats willing to play roulette with American lives? Jess Furtado Corning

The reality of this election is that the new president will be in the position of selecting as many as three new Supreme Court justices. One seat is vacant, but two justices are in their 80s, and one of them is a cancer survivor. Both of the latter are among the liberal voices on the court. If we think Citizens United is so disastrous for our democracy, think of what could happen if Trump gets to make the appointments. He could be elected and in four years and not survive a reelection, but his choices for the court will be on the bench for life. This means that they could be making the most critical decisions affecting all of our lives for the next 40 years or more. So swallow hard, hold your nose, or whatever else you may have to do and accept that the reality is that either Clinton or Trump will be elected. One or the other will make the selections for justices we will have to live with for a long time. For those who want a thirdparty choice, third parties are started from the bottom (think local) up, not the top down. So start working here and with others doing the same thing in other

communities in state and across the country. You have four years to lay a solid foundation. Judith Podolske Chico

Election season is well underway, but we’ve heard little so far about problems affecting our country. The paramount issue is certainly the economy. Eight years under Obama have produced a steady rise, which Hillary would continue. Another vital concern is to fill the Supreme Court vacancy. The tragic Citizens United decision of the conservative court must be reversed to get corporate money out of politics. Only Clinton would name a liberal justice to break the deadlock. In my view, privatization of our public institutions is a real danger. Charter school advocates in Sacramento County spent nearly half a million dollars to get their candidates elected to a school board there. A Republican Congress gutted the U.S. Postal Service by making it pre-pay pensions for 75 years. Trump brags that he will send waiting veterans to private hospitals. Much is at stake in November. Consider the better world had Gore become president instead of Bush/ Cheney. Either Clinton or Trump will be president. Choose carefully. Robert Woods Chico

The voters’ helper Have you registered to vote? The League of Women Voters of Butte County can help. We offer two opportunities next week: On Sept. 22, at the Thursday Night Market, 6-9 p.m, look for our booth and stop by to register to vote. On Sept. 27, 8 a.m. to 6:30 p.m., there’s an open house at the League of Women Voters Office, 635 Flume St., Chico. Come in and register to vote. Feel free to ask about ballot propositions, too. The LWV encourages informed and active participation in government and we work to increase understanding of public policy issues. The LWV does not support or endorse any political party or candidate. Please go to www.lwvbutte county.org for the dates and times of our 17 candidate forums and our four public ballot proposition “Pro

& Con” programs. Our programs are held throughout Butte County. Our five City Council forums, State Assembly District 3, Chico Area Recreation and Park District and United States Representative District 1 forums will be recorded by BCAC TV and made available by a link at our website three days following the program. Please take this opportunity to register to vote and attend our events. In-depth election information is also available at http:// votersedge.org/ca. Margaret Swick, president, League of Women Voters of Butte County Chico

Editor’s note: For more on the league’s efforts, see page 8.

Repartee continued Re “More wordplay” (Letters, by Patrick Newman, Sept. 15): I went to elementary school with Buddha ... up to fifth grade. Sid (or Bud as his mom called him) and I would cut school at lunch and go home to watch Romper Room. Maybe we were getting a little too old, but our favorite part was the “Magic Mirror” segment— you, too? “Magic mirror, tell me today, did all my friends have fun at play?”—and wait to hear your name be called! I know the show made a big impact on Sid and his teaching career; he would ying (“All life is sorrowful”) and I would yang back (“Joyfully participate in the sorrows of the world.”) We did mutually agree that the elimination of reincarnation was a good idea and leaned more toward a be-herenow program. The sponsors must have sensed this before we did with guest appearances of Bozo the Clown to keep the children from crying if their name was not honorably mentioned or heard the deranged spider monkey to soon put on the endangered species list. Other Sid type visionary guru-ji’s, like Yogi Berra, prophesized, “It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.” Quack-a doodle-do! Rick Vagts Chico

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A Magalia man was charged with a hate crime for allegedly spewing racial slurs and threatening a man, the Butte County Sheriff’s Office announced in a press release on Tuesday (Sept. 20). Several witnesses reported that on Sept. 12, 63-year-old Richard Cosentino threatened a man waiting with his son at a bus stop on Imperial Way. Cosentino allegedly used racial slurs and said he was going home to get his gun to shoot the victim. He reportedly left and returned several minutes later, appearing to hide something behind his back. The victim and witnesses then left the scene. BCSO followed up with eight high school students who witnessed the incident, and on Sept. 13 searched Cosentino’s home, finding two guns and ammunition. Cosentino was arrested on Sunday (Sept. 18) and booked into Butte County Jail with bail set at $500,000.

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Excavators recently dug up the roundabout outside the CN&R office at Second and Flume streets and discovered something nasty. The problem dates back to when the Second Street Couplet project was completed in 2013, said Brendan Ottoboni, the city’s director of public works-engineering. The public sewer line wasn’t fully connected to lateral lines hooking up nearby businesses Sierra Central Credit Union and Chico Creek Wellness, which caused sewage to pool and eventually back up. Last week, workers properly connected the lines. As far as landscaping the roundabout’s bare dirt, Ottoboni said, that’s been on the back-burner because Public Works staff has had its hands full. “There’s capital project money to do it,” he said. “It’s a matter of when we can actually get to it. It’s a great opportunity to finish off that project.”

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A U.S. Air Force plane crashed near the Sutter Buttes Tuesday (Sept. 20), killing one pilot and injuring another. The plane was a U-2 Dragon Lady assigned to the 1st Reconnaissance Squadron at Beale Air Force Base. It crashed at about 9:05 a.m., shortly after taking off for a training mission, according to statements from Air Force officials. Eyewitnesses reported that both pilots ejected from the plane before impact, but the Air Force later confirmed that one of the pilots died. The U2 (pictured) is primarily used for surveillance and can operate at altitudes above 70,000 feet—twice as high as commercial airliners. Another Beale AFB-based U2 crashed into the parking lot of the Oroville Mercury-Register on Aug. 7, 1996. That crash killed the pilot and a woman on the ground. 8

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Voting and vigilance The League of Women Voters of Butte County kicks off election forums, doesn’t choose sides at any level is no small undertaking. ONavigating the scheduling concerns of

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multiple people vying for public office during campaign season to bring them together story and photo by on one stage is a feat Ken Smith in itself, and ensuring kens @ the discourse between n ew srev i ew. c o m those candidates—and the attendant public— Get informed: remains cordial and prothe League of Women ductive can be equally Voters of butte County challenging. will host a presentation It’s such a monuon “Civil Discourse in mental task that Rose the political Arena” at 10 a.m. Saturday, Kelley, who is organizSept. 24, at the ing such forums for the First baptist Church nonpartisan League of (850 palmetto Ave.) Women Voters (LWV) and an open house at its headquarters of Butte County this (635 Flume St.) all day election cycle, recently on tuesday, Sept. 27. codified her process Important information into 20 steps accounting for voters can be found at Voter’s edge for venue, volunteer, (votersedge.org/ca). technical and other considerations. A note at the bottom of the list reads “Repeat 16 times.” “It’s a full-time job for the next few months,” said Kelley, who, like other

LWV members, is a volunteer. The LWV kicks off the first of eight events comprising 17 races next Thursday, Sept. 29, with five candidates vying for three seats on the Durham Unified School District meeting at Durham Memorial Hall. The forums—invaluable resources for the public and the press—continue through Oct. 24, when candidates for Paradise’s irrigation districts, school district and park and recreation district meet at Paradise Town Hall. Between those events, the league will host similar forums for races ranging from Biggs City Council (Oct. 4) to U.S. Representative for District 1 (Oct. 6). The Chico and Oroville city council forums in particular promise some fireworks, with 11 candidates participating in each race. The local LWV also will put on four pro-and-con sessions analyzing ballot measures. Year-round, the group does regular voter outreach, registration and education at local high schools, colleges and public events. It also partners with the County Clerk’s Office to stock local post offices with voter registration forms. Additionally, the group sends watchdogs to public meetings throughout the county to ensure elected bodies do not violate the Ralph M.

Brown Act, the state’s open-meetings law that guarantees public participation and transparency. Meanwhile, the affiliated national LWV maintains a website called Voter’s Edge (votersedge.org) with information about measures and candidates. The League of Women Voters was formed in

1920, the same year the 19th Amendment was ratified granting women the right to vote. The local chapter was formed in 1966, and has been dedicated to nonpartisanship since inception. “The League of Women Voters does not support or endorse any political candidate or party, and that’s core to our mission,” said Margaret Swick, president of the LWV of Butte County, during an interview with her and Kelley. “We encourage civic engagement and for citizens to be active in politics, but don’t take positions with parties or candidates. “I find it refreshing, and a real safe haven for us to do important political work without the rancor,” Swick said of maintaining nonpartisanship. “We don’t wear our personal politics on our sleeve. I sit on a board [of directors] table with 15 people and couldn’t tell you their politics for the most part, or their religion. We leave

Rose Kelley (left) and Margaret Swick, forum director and president of the League of Women Voters of Butte County, respectively, said the organization currently has about 125 volunteers.

each other that personal space, but we all believe deeply in voting and civic engagement.” The league sometimes takes stances on specific issues, but only on rare occasions and when most of its members are in agreement: “It is a political organization,” Swick said, “so we do study some issues and, once we reach consensus, we’ll advocate on that issue. So we’re slow, very thoughtful, and rather out-of-step [with other political groups] in that way.” Swick said she’d admired the LWV since she was a kid and observed “these dedicated, white-haired women who were very involved and speaking to important matters in our society, so I thought, ‘I want to grow up and be one of them.’” She joined the LWV in the mid-2000s, noting the group isn’t solely made up of older women today, and in fact welcomes anyone who’s interested—male and female—over 16 years old. Kelley joined the group after her husband, Dave, made an unsuccessful bid for Chico City Council in 2012: “I thought, ‘Now what do I do?’ I spent all this time mapping out precincts, identifying likely voters and all kinds of research. Then I got a phone call from the [LWV] search committee, and it seemed like a good match.” In addition to directing the forums, Kelley also oversees the Brown Act watchdogs, and said several local governmental bodies have infringed on the law—or come close to it—in recent years. “We’ve had to stand up at meetings and remind people about the Brown Act,” Swick said, “but most of the time, they don’t even realize they’re doing anything wrong and we can get things back on track with a phone call after the meeting.” This firm but fair philosophy relates to how the group handles forums, as well, Swick explained. “Candidates know they have a safe haven with the league,” she said. “We’re not going to challenge their politics or hit them with ‘gotcha’ questions and personal attacks. “We’re not setting out to embarrass people; we just want to make sure things are done right. We believe in public service, and we believe in transparency and openness for the sake of voters.” □

Setting the stage City Council votes to discuss ‘saving the El Rey Theatre’ iven how the Chico City Council’s procedural vote on Tuesday (Sept. 20) drew Genthusiastic applause from a nearly packed

house, the audience must have expected an encore. They’ll have to wait. Following its unanimous decision, the council is set to discuss “saving the El Rey Theatre,” as Councilwoman Ann Schwab put it, during its next meeting. The panel agendized the topic at Schwab’s request. “I’m sure the rest of the council has [also] gotten a number of emails, petitions and phone calls regarding the future of the El Rey,” she said, “and what options the council has in assuring that the interior of the building and the artwork there stays unaltered.” The theater is up for sale. As the CN&R previously reported (see “Staging opposition,” Newslines, Sept. 8), the building’s owner, Eric Hart, has entertained a proposal from potential buyers based in San Luis Obisbo who would transform the theater into commercial and housing Sign the petition: space. The El Search for the “El Rey Theater” Rey Theater at change.org. Alliance, a group working to preserve the building for use as a theater, attempted to raise $1.4 million by Sept. 9 to purchase the theater. The nonprofit’s crowdfunding campaign fell well short, raising about $5,000, said organizer Lisa West. Now, the group has changed course, attempting to gather sponsorships for each of the theater’s 700 seats in

the form of $2,000 pledges—which would total $1.4 million—though the alliance is unsure whether Hart is still willing to strike a deal. On a parallel track, the group’s organizers are petitioning the city to protect the El Rey as a historic landmark. As of Tuesday, volunteers had collected 627 written and 452 electronic signatures. Sandra Quiring, volunteer coordinator for the El Rey Theater Alliance, said she hopes the City Council gets the message. “If we’ve gathered this many signatures in two weeks, we’ll have a lot more [by the next council meeting],” she said. However, it’s unclear to what extent the City

Council can intervene in plans for a private property. While changes to the façade would require review by the city’s Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board, there’s no city ordinance in place to protect the fairy murals inside the theater, which were painted in 1947 by German artist Martin Ravenstein with assistance from

SIFT ER Young and indifferent Both major parties are increasingly struggling to retain devotees, and that’s especially true when it comes to younger voters. According to Gallup, 44 percent of millennials—those born between 1980 and 1996—are politically independent. In the same survey, titled “How Millennials Want to Work and Live,” the pollster also found that this population of 20-year-olds to mid-30-somethings are detached when it comes to employment. Fifty percent reported they planned to stay at their current job a year from now, while just 29 percent said they felt “engaged” at work.

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Chico State students. “The artwork is so astounding,” Quiring said. “It’s a unique piece of history that won’t ever return if it’s destroyed.” During the council’s brief discussion on the agenda item, Schwab floated the possibility of drafting an emergency ordinance to protect the theater’s interior. City Attorney Vince Ewing said he will report on the legality of such a move during the council’s next meeting on Oct. 4. The El Rey was originally constructed in 1905 and has served as an entertainment venue ever since. Chico State student Carson Auld wants to keep it that way. He’s personally gathered nearly 500 written signatures for the El Rey Theater Alliance’s petition, he told the CN&R following the meeting. “Venues like that are commodities that are getting more and more rare, especially on the West Coast,” he said. “I personally value that architecture, and it’s a great glimpse into the past.” Among the people who filled the Chico City Council chambers were a good number of high school and college students, suggesting that Auld isn’t alone. He believes he speaks for young “culture creators” when he says that turning the theater into something generic would diminish what makes downtown Chico unique. “Converting [the El Rey] into a chain restaurant and housing … wouldn’t make me want to stay here. I value places that have character and appreciate antiquity and the arts. That’s the kind of city I want to live in.” —HOWARD HARDEE h owa rd h @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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in Congress, he encounters signs with a familiar message: Water*Jobs*Liberty It’s déjà vu from 2012, when Reed first challenged Doug LaMalfa, a Republican rice farmer from Richvale who’d served as a state senator and assemblyman. LaMalfa won that election, then beat Democratic challenger Heidi Hall in 2014, and now has a rematch with Reed, a tax- and estate-planning attorney who’s moved from Redding to Red Bluff. LaMalfa seemingly pulled his old signs out of storage, or at least dusted off the same design, because Reed recognizes the slogan. For the Democratic challenger, the incumbent’s implicit commitment to water rights is “a platitude” because he sees no tangible impact from LaMalfa’s leadership. Traveling the district— California’s northeasternmost— Reed has heard from an array of citizens worried about our local share of the statewide water supply. The North State serves as a primary source for Central California and Southern California. The level of concern struck Reed as so pressing that he decided to hold an informational forum last Thursday (Sept. 15) at the Chico Women’s Club instead of a standard meetand-greet fundraiser with a stump speech. The event drew 30 attendees, Jim Reed (left) speaks with constituent Robert Eberhardt during the candidate’s recent forum on water. PHOTO BY EVAN TUCHINSKY

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but Reed deemed it enough of a success to inform his fellow presenters—wildlife biologist Lindsay Wood, habitat preservationist Lucas RossMerz and environmental activist Dave Garcia—that he intended to organize another water forum in Grass Valley. Reed’s overarching message to the audience of water-watchers: “We have to solve our problems with a multifaceted approach.” That approach in his estimation includes Sites Reservoir, a multibillion-dollar project slated for west of Maxwell that would store up to 1.8 million acre-feet (586.5 billion gallons) of water, though yielding roughly one-third of that amount for consumption. Planning has gotten expedited in order for Sites to contend for $2.7 billion in Proposition 1 funding. Reed told forum attendees that “it’s got to be the start, not the end” of water measures and that, as a GOP-backed idea, Sites represents an olive branch to Republicans, something that is necessary to move forward on other matters requiring bipartisan support.

He acknowledged afterward, “The room was against me on that one.” Reed is accustomed to such senti-

ment. He holds certain views that run contrary to dyed-in-the-wool Democratic loyalists—in fact, he says on his website that “I lean Libertarian on most issues” and the website banner describes him as “the moderate Democrat who can reach across the aisle to help end gridlock in Washington.” Reed supports gun ownership rights, though also some limited gun control measures. He supports the death penalty, though with safeguards against wrongful convictions. He supports regulating businesses, though only large corporations. In referencing Sites during the forum, he commented that “maybe compromise is needed to get things done.” He feels his position on the political spectrum—closer to center than left wing in a conservative district, where there’s a 10 percent difference in registration between Republicans and Democrats with 30 percent independents—plus the

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polarizing nature of GOP presidential nominee Donald Trump and the low approval rating of gridlocked Congress make his campaign a viable effort. “If just 5 percent of the Republicans voted for me, we’d have an even race,” Reed said, “and I know I’m going to win with that 30 percent who are not affiliated with either Republicans or Democrats.” Water is a bipartisan issue. Even though Reed sprinkled political statements into his presentation and answers to attendees’ questions, the forum focused on information-sharing. Wood, who serves on the Butte County Forest Advisory Committee, discussed adverse conditions faced by species in local watersheds. RossMerz, executive director of the Sacramento River Preservation Trust, explained the state’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), which cedes governance for water pumping to local agencies. Garcia, active with the Sierra Club and a spokesman for Frack-Free Butte County, talked about the hazard posed by trains carrying crude oil; a derailment in the Feather River Canyon likely would contaminate Lake Oroville and thus a substantial part of California’s drinking and agricultural supplies. “Virtually the whole North State is committed to making sure we protect our water, hopefully both quality and quantity,” Reed told the CN&R following the 2 1/2 hour session. “I think there is an outrage up north that our highquality water ends up in Southern California, and we’re doing the conservation up here…. “We need solutions. This is a long-term problem. Global warming is a real thing, it’s only going to get worse, and this is the time we’ve got to tackle it. That’s why I thought today would be the right time to have this conversation.” —EVAN TUCHINSKY evantuc hin sk y @ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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have historically faced a number of challenges, says DeAnne Blankenship, project manager of Smoke-Free North State, an anti-tobacco group based in Butte County. For instance, her organization and the California Lung Association are the only agencies that regularly offer grants north of Sacramento. “So, everything else north of here, they don’t have any anti-tobacco funds,” she said. And though rural areas usually have high rates of smoking, the total number of smokers doesn’t come close to urban areas—and that affects how grant money is allocated. “For schools, the funding mechanism is pretty difficult,” she said. “The amount of money per student is so low. They have few students because they are rural rather than urban. It ends up costing three weeks of someone’s time that would essentially provide $4,000.” Funding for anti-smoking efforts has taken a plunge statewide, she said, mainly due to a decrease in revenue from California’s tobacco tax. “Essentially, if you want to quit smoking and you have a difficult time, the only place

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Office of Education, Samantha Warfel goes to local schools to spread information on smoking and health to sixth-graders. She’s 22 years old but looks younger, which is often an advantage when reaching out to teens and preteens. Making a connection can be as simple as understanding social media. “The kids think I’m 16, so they listen,” she said. “We can connect on a lot of the same levels.” Warfel was born and raised in Lake County, but said

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she fell in love with Butte County during a visit and decided to move here for college. It took her less than a year to land the job with the BCOE after graduating from Chico State with a degree in health sciences. She was hired by Bruce Baldwin, a student health and prevention program manager. “Of all the people I’ve hired, she’s by far the best hire I’ve ever had,” he said. He’s worked at the BCOE since 1995. Baldwin is not the only one impressed by Warfel. In August, she was chosen to become part of the Truth Initiative Youth Activism Fellowship, a year-long program that will take her across the country to learn about the latest in anti-smoking advocacy and policy. Founded in 1999, the Washington, D.C.based group—previously called the American Legacy Foundation—was

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tions—especially in technical fields, such as mechanical engineering—is invaluable. Salam Ali, who graduated from Chico State in May, knows this first-hand. As part of the university’s Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering Capstone Design Project class, she was able to put what she learned to practical use. Ali and four fellow students, with funding from the Associated Students Sustainability Fund, created what they say is the first thin-film solar-powered charging station in America. Used to charge electronic devices, the station is powered by a 600-watt solar photovoltaic array attached to the top of umbrellas in the outdoor seating area of the Bell Memorial Union terrace. “This is where you show what you have learned,” Ali said of the class. “You have an entire year to solve a real-world problem.” The aim of the Capstone class, which spans two semesters, is to give students a full engineering experience by working to solve real-world problems. Students are first provided a list of potential projects, from which they make their top choices. The professor then assigns groups based on individual preferences and skills. Many Capstone projects are funded by the university. For instance, the School of Agriculture worked with a Capstone group to build a solar dehydrator to reduce the waste of unsold produce at the University Farm. Outside sponsors also present potential projects to the class. Two years ago, Capstone students created more efficient machinery to package nut butter made by Maisie Jane’s California Sunshine Products. And in 2013-14, students helped design a self-cleaning system for solar arrays for Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Many, but not all, of the projects focus on sustainability.

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One thing that sets the solar charging sta-

tion apart from other Capstone projects is its visibility on the campus. It’s a very real representation of what Chico State students can—and do—accomplish. “I think this project in particular deserves credit because it was student-designed and built for students. I think they can not only come and use it, but [also] admire what our students can do,” said Greg Kallio, professor of the Capstone class and adviser for the solar project. “It exhibits what our students can do and also provides a very useful function on campus.” Kallio was involved in the project from the beginning, after legal studies major Trenten Bilodeaux pitched him the idea. “Trenten knew I was teaching a solar energy class and he came to me one day saying, ‘Hey, we don’t have a way to charge things outside on campus.’ And he had heard about these solar charging stations,” said Kallio.

The two submitted a proposal for funding from the A.S. Sustainability Fund and were awarded $12,000 for the project. They ultimately needed $16,000 to complete it, with the additional $4,000 coming from the College of Engineering, Computer Science

and Construction Management. Part of the cost lay in the portability and compact nature of the thin-film photovoltaic panels used to power the station. Instead of rigid silicon panels—like the ones most commonly seen on rooftops—that can weigh up to 40 pounds, the team chose MiaSole panels, which weigh only 11.1 pounds each. There are three of them attached to the station’s umbrella, and each one gives off 220 watts. The charging station has a timer limiting when the energy is accessible—Sunday through Friday, 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. A project like this can take some serious organizing and time management, which is part of why it was chosen for the Capstone class. Other than the hard technical labor, project manager Ali said the bigger battle with implementing the project was going back and forth with the university on all of the required approvals. “We didn’t know we needed permits and any sort of permission. We assumed that because it got accepted and approved by the campus planning committee and it was a project funded by the campus that everything would be fine,” she said. “We were so wrong about that.” Aside from the organizing setbacks, the charging station came out as planned. “How it was designed, it definitely came out how we intended. There were a few minor cosmetic changes, but that was it,” Ali said. “The entire wiring, all of what we wanted it to do, what we wanted it to sustain, turned out perfectly.” And Ali is doing well herself. Having graduated in May with a degree in mechanical engineering—and a major project under her belt—she’ll be starting a job as a flight test engineer with the Naval Air Welfare Center Weapons Division in China Lake next month. □

ECO EVENT GOOdy GOOdy Gundruk Though many Americans may have never heard of gundruk, the sauerkraut-like dish made from fermented greens is incredibly popular in Nepal. Generally served as a side dish or appetizer, gundruk is considered an important part of the Nepalese diet, as it is a good source of minerals in winter months when the only produce readily available is starchy tubers and corn. GruB Education is offering a Gundruk Workshop at 5 p.m. on Wednesday, Sept. 28, at the Chico State university Farm (311 Nicholas C. Shouten Lane),

at which GRUB will provide the greens and teach attendees how to make their own gundruk. For more information, go to www.grubed.org.

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new star at Five and i Aleef “Hollywood” Shehadeh, 35, has lived in Chico only since November, but he moved here with noble intent: to create delicious sandwiches. In March, he opened Ike’s Place across the street from Riley’s at the corner of West Fifth and Ivy streets. Shehadeh had previously managed multiple Bay Area locations of the restaurant that his brother, Ike Shehadeh, started. As he put it, he was his “brother’s assistant.” Founded in 2007, Ike’s Place has grown to five California locations: in Santa Rosa, San Francisco, San Diego, Los Angeles and, now, Chico. Each location has tailormade menu items based on local historical figures and places. In addition to sandwiches, Ike’s serves burgers and also offers an extensive vegetarian menu. The CN&R recently sat down with Shehadeh to talk about the food, the decor and the business. To check out the menu, visit ilikeikesplace.com/chico or stop by and see for yourself at 648 W. Fifth St.

How’s the move treating you? This is the farthest I’ve lived from [home]. I moved here in November of last year trying to help get the store opened. It was an opportunity I couldn’t pass up. My brother wanted to open up a store out here and he wanted me to be an owner, so I moved out here.

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You have some creative sandwich names and some pretty specific to Chico. Whenever we open at a new location, we try to pick names that are friendly with the community, so to speak, or that the community will relate to. We also try to create new sandwiches. Like “The Bidwell” is exclusively here because Bidwell was a big influence on this community.

Have you named or created any sandwiches? The “Hollywood Ultimate Cheesesteak.” Every time I used to go out anywhere, I would always eat a cheesesteak. So when it came time for my brother to open a sandwich shop, he instinctively made a cheesesteak for me, and I’ve been making tweaks to it ever since. This one is exclusive to Chico. Since I love Philly cheesesteaks, I love bell peppers and I always want

bell peppers. We used to have it [with bell peppers] a long time ago, but we didn’t continue that. When we came here, because it was my store, I was like, “I want bell peppers.”

You’re open late on weekends—is that a marketing strategy? We started being open late Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays because, obviously, the kids are out pretty late. We wanted to try to tap in on that and get some extra business.

Your face is painted on the wall. What’s the story there? We had a friend from the Bay Area come paint our walls and she was like, “Since it’s his store and he did all this work, can I put his face up?” I went away for a couple of days and my face was on the wall. —MaSON MaSiS

Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

It had been a while since I stepped foot in a Raley’s, so when I heard about the recent remodel at the store on Notre Dame Boulevard, I was intrigued. I do most of my grocery shopping at Safeway, which I happen to live closest to. But I’ll often wander into other stores—Winco if I’m in the neighborhood and need to stock up on food staples; New Earth Market for cheese; S&S Produce for bacon … So, my boyfriend and I were at Home Depot recently and, since we were in the neighborhood, stopped into Raley’s to check out the new look. It’s impressive. The aisles are wide and the décor is modern while feeling warm and welcoming. Frankly, it reminded me of homier markets like New Earth or Holiday in Paradise. One of the coolest features was in the cold cases. Our visit was late at night, around 10 or so, so there weren’t a lot of shoppers. As we walked to the rear of the store, looking for salami to pair with our cheese, the cases, which were dark, began to light up. Gone are the days of turning off the lights on every other aisle to preserve electricity—just put in motion sensors! Genius!

the appliance game For those who frequent the Chico Mall, you’ve always known

you could stop into Sears and check out major appliances. Now you can do the same at JC Penney. Starting last month, the department store chain began selling refrigerators, washing machines, etc., at about 500 stores, including Chico’s. Apparently the added merchandise is all part of the company’s new strategy announced late last year, which also includes an upgraded mobile app that allows shoppers to upload coupons as well as order online for in-store pickup or delivery. The store is also working to increase its clothing options for plus-size, petite and big-and-tall customers.

happy birthday! I didn’t realize it because Evans Furniture Galleries’ Chico store has been open only since 2010 (it took over the space vacated by Ashley Furniture HomeStore), but the business got its start 50 years ago in Yuba City. That’s quite a milestone. The family-owned business, which also has a location in Redding, celebrated this week. Congrats!

big time I recently wrote about a local app company called Pocket Points, which rewards students for turning their cellphones off while they’re in class. Well, co-founder Mitch Gardner emailed me recently to let me know that the company has formed a partnership with Office Depot, which has become the “exclusive, national school supply retailer on Pocket Points.” Not too shabby.

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rom a view on the north side of Big Chico Creek, something glinted in the grass below the south rim of the canyon. Without raising his binoculars, Doug Laurie knew the sun was reflecting off an abandoned Isuzu Trooper. He had hiked to it years ago. Sometime in the late ’80s or early ’90s, the 65-year-old outdoorsman recalled, it crashed through the rail on Highway 32 and into a gully below. The vehicle hasn’t moved since coming to rest on a slope with basalt rocks and blue oaks, and Laurie always takes a moment to spot it while passing through the area in Upper Bidwell Park known as the Devil’s Kitchen. “If I’m on my mountain bike, it’s where I catch my breath,” he said. “I always look up and, yep, the Isuzu Trooper is still there.” It’s a visual reminder that cars, trucks and SUVs have passed into some of the park’s wildest reaches for a long time, only usually via the recommended route: Upper Park Road.

This gate at Diversion Dam on Upper Park Road has turned away motorists for nearly four years.

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A gate prevents motorists from driving deep into Upper Park— should it stay locked? Brown’s Hole

Locked gate at Diversion Dam Devil’s Kitchen

This map of Upper Bidwell Park shows Upper Park Road designated in red.

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Every summer dating back at least to Laurie’s youth in the ’60s, the road provided motorists with easy access to swimming areas such as Day Camp and Alligator, Bear, Salmon and Brown’s holes. Not so much anymore. More than half of the road is currently inaccessible to automobiles, including entrances to Salmon and Brown’s holes. Out there, city officials say, the road has deteriorated to the point of being impassable, even dangerous—so, for nearly four years, they’ve kept it closed with a locked gate. The road block galls Laurie. He’s documented damage to the road with photographs and hounded city employees to restore motor access. Even in its current sorry condition, he says, it remains passable. “The picture being painted is that the whole road is ruined,” he said. “It’s bullshit. We know that’s not the case. … This is about the city blocking reasonable access to the park.” “Reasonable access” has different interpretations, depending on whom you ask. Hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians can easily go around the gate or use Upper Park’s vast system of designated trails, and some of those park users prefer that motorists keep out. Thad Walker, for instance, is an avid

“This is about the city blocking reasonable access to the park.”

—Doug Laurie

mountain biker and trails advocate. During a recent interview, he said that a wild-feeling place unspoiled by vehicle traffic is something worth preserving. “If you open it all the way up to cars, you take away that backcountry experience,” he said. “It’s so close to town. I mean, how fast can you get out there and be in a fairly remote natural environment?” As this ideological divide emerges, the city’s Park Division is beginning to explore how to fix the road. The public process

kicked off during the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s Natural Resources Committee meeting on Sept. 13. Within the next few weeks, the commissioners were told by park officials, a contractor will conduct a survey of damage to the roadway. The next step is to solicit community input, which will help city leaders decide how to improve the road and to what extent, if any, motor vehicles will be permitted. “It’s not as simple as ‘make the improvements or don’t,’” said Janine Rood, park commission member and executive director of Chico Velo Cycling Club. “It’s about being thoughtful about what uses we as a community want to promote for that road.” What sorts of outdoor recreation should deep Upper Park accommodate? The debate will shape its access road. The temperature hovered around 100 degrees

on the afternoon of July 6. Laurie was taking an informal, city-guided tour of Upper Park Road with Dan Efseaff, the city’s parks and natural resources manager, and Erik Gustafson, public works director-operations and maintenance. The CN&R tagged along. With Efseaff driving, the group set out

from Horseshoe Lake, where Wildwood Avenue turns into Upper Park Road. It starts out paved, passing the iconic Monkey Face rock, and turns to dust and gravel as it parallels Big Chico Creek through increasingly remote sections of the 3,670-acre park. From end to end, the road is roughly 4 miles long. Laurie pointed out the entrance to Day Camp, a shallow swimming area along the creek. It was the site of a day camp in the ’70s, he said, and he was a camp counselor. As a young adult, he worked all sorts of jobs for Chico Area Recreation and Park District. He went on to earn his master’s degree in recreation from Chico State, completing his thesis on motor vehicle access to recreational areas. Laurie then worked for the California Conservation Corps and California State Parks before retiring in 2010. Now, when he’s not fishing in the Feather River, he’s doggedly advocating for full access to local public lands. “This is a public road,” he emphasized. And it’s pretty well maintained up until it reaches the entrance to Diversion Dam, a concrete structure upstream of Bear Hole that swimmers use as a platform for jumping into the creek. That spot is about 1.7 miles from Horseshoe Lake, and it’s where the locked gate blocks motorists. Most of the time, at least. On this particular day, someone—perhaps frustrated that the gate had been locked through Fourth of July weekend—had taken heavy-duty bolt cutters to the iron chain. The road was wide open. It’s a recurring problem, Efseaff said. “Pretty frequently, people cut the lock off ROAD C O N T I N U E D SEPTEMBER 22, 2016

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and throw it in the bushes.” In other cases, four-wheel-drive vehicles have gone past the gate by driving over a grassy embankment to the side. As the party pressed on, about 15 vehicles were spotted beyond the Diversion Dam. Gustafson radioed for a park ranger to come clear everyone out. One of the first drivers headed in the opposite direction was at the wheel of a rumbling diesel pickup truck. He stopped, rolled down his window, and looked at Efseaff’s light SUV with a critical eye. “You’re not going to make it very far in that thing,” he warned. Indeed, from that point forward, the passage narrowed, in places allowing only one-way traffic, and became steep and rough. Everyone got jerked around on the bumpiest sections. However, at no point was the road impassable. Efseaff was able to maneuver around the deepest ruts. Slowly, he made it to the end of the road, then turned around in a cul-de-sac past Brown’s Hole and returned to Horseshoe Lake, the vehicle and its occupants all in one piece. The trip took about two

hours. Drivers don’t always fare so well past the Diversion Dam, Efseaff said. Since the gate has been locked, a handful of people who have made their way around it have gotten stuck and had to get towed. “That’s an issue in terms of park staff resources,” Gustafson said. “When somebody gets stuck on the side of the road, it consumes the rangers for hours.” Historically, the gate at Diversion

Dam has been locked off and on since the ’90s, according to a report Efseaff prepared and presented to the Natural Resources Committee. It was closed to vehicles on Sundays and Mondays, giving hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians free rein. To prevent damage during the wet season, it was closed seven days a week from Nov. 1 to May 1. Typically, the road was graded prior to the peak summer months. Four winters ago, a storm forced a complete closure, Efseaff’s report says. More than 2 inches of rain fell on Chico in one day, followed by nearly 5 inches over the next four

days. Minutes from a Bidwell Park and Playground Commission meeting on Dec. 17, 2012, show that Efseaff made an announcement: “At this time, the Upper Park road has sustained a large amount of damage due to a recent winter storm and the road will remain closed probably until the end of spring,” he said. That was right around the time the city, facing an immense general fund deficit, drastically cut its budget and laid off employees in every department. As such, the funding never materialized to repair and reopen Upper Park Road, and “over the years, the road had degraded to the point of not being sustainable or maintainable with available resources,” Efseaff’s recent report reads. The gate stayed locked and the road deteriorated, but it wasn’t forgotten. The matter came up during a Chico City Council meeting last March, when the panel discussed vehicle access in Bidwell Park. Mayor Mark Sorensen took the opportunity to express his frustration with the closure of Upper Park Road and suggest that it wouldn’t take much work to make it drivable. “We could take a couple farm boys, a 5-yard dump truck and a front-loader, and we could have it Erosion damage on Upper Park Road beyond the gate at Diversion Dam.

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“We could take a couple farm boys, a 5-yard dump truck and a front-loader, and we could have it done in a day.” —chico mayor mark Sorensen

done in a day, in terms of fixing the deep ruts,” he said. Over the past few years, Efseaff says, the city has brought in small amounts of base material and graded the road, focusing maintenance mostly on the areas leading up to Bear Hole. Due to the road’s original design and poor upkeep, however, drainage and erosion are continual issues. Unlike, say, modern U.S. Forest Service roads, Upper Park Road isn’t raised above its surroundings and is instead sunken into the landscape. When it rains, it becomes a temporary

From left: Erik Gustafson, the city’s public works director-operations and maintenance; Doug Laurie; and Dan Efseaff, the city’s parks and natural resources manager, pictured on July 6.

riverbed. The problem is made worse by about 60 roadside culverts—most of which are blocked by vegetation or damaged beyond usefulness, Efseaff says. As a result, heavy rainfall washes away the road’s surface material, exposing bedrock. During a recent phone conversation, Gustafson acknowledged that, at this point, Upper Park Road needs a complete overhaul, the cost of which would “be pretty astronomical,” he said. Off the cuff, he estimated that designing and building the road would run the city between $750,000 and $850,000. “That sounds like a lot, and that is a lot,” he said. Still, Gustafson says he’s determined to move the project forward. In the last several months he’s repeatedly told the CN&R that Upper Park Road is a priority for his department. “It’s doable and it’s going to have to be budgeted accordingly,” he said. And the city is finally budging. In June, as part of its 2016-17 budget, the City Council approved a capital project cost of $57,000 for a physical survey of the road to assess the cost of improvements.

A contractor will complete the survey within the next few weeks, Gufstafson said, and if there’s money left over, it will go toward temporary repairs to make sure service and emergency vehicles can get in and out. No matter what form the improvement plan takes, it will require an environmental impact review and approval from the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission and then the City Council, he said. “The policy decisions are going to drive the cost,” Gustafson said. “If the policy calls for full access, we’re going to need to ask the council for the budget dollars to get full access.” The direction the city takes will be

heavily influenced by public input, Efseaff said. For example, if people overwhelmingly want to drive to all of the park’s swimming holes, the city may bring the road up to modern standards, he said. If preserving the feeling of remoteness is considered more of a priority, a different tack would be turning it into a narrower path for hikers and bikers and keeping cars, trucks and SUVs out for good. Walker, the mountain biker, pitched the latter approach during the recent Natural Resources Committee meeting. He proposed restricting access to Upper Park Road past the locked gate to “human-powered recreation.” Converting the road into a hikerbiker thoroughfare to serve as the backbone of the trail system would be more affordable to design, build and maintain, Walker said. He’s a Chico Velo board member and director of Chico Velo Trailworks, a group that supports the creation and maintenance of trails. Since he’s relatively new to Chico, he’s never shared remote Upper Park Road with motorists and doesn’t want to start. “It’s kind of a graded experience,” he said. “At Monkey Face, the trails are wider, there are more people and not a lot of rough terrain. As you get further into the park, the trails get narrow and become more technical. You see fewer people; you don’t see cars.” Chico Velo’s board hasn’t taken an official stance on Upper Park Upper Park Road in the evening.

Road, Rood said, but as executive director she has leeway to express her personal opinion. And, as a member of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, she ultimately will vote on the issue. She tends to agree with Walker: “It’s great to ride up there without cars and dust,” she said. Michael Jones, an avid hiker, also knows what it’s like to choke on dust kicked up by the tires of passing vehicles on Upper Park Road. As the founder of the Chico Hiking Association, he, like Laurie, champions public access to Bidwell Park, but he tries to see both perspectives. “As a hiker, I like it closed to private vehicles,” he said, “but that’s selfish and I’m not sure that’s good public policy. If by doing that you’re making people drive farther away … you’re not properly utilizing what Annie Bidwell gifted us.” Laurie explained why he feels so

strongly about unlocking the gate at Diversion Dam and fully opening

Upper Park Road. Nostalgia is part of it, he admits. In an album, he keeps sepia-tone photos of summers past on Big Chico Creek, a reminder that Upper Park has changed since he first explored it. Custom homes have encroached on the south rim of the canyon. Power lines have gone up, rope swings have come down, and hardly anyone remembers that there used to be an actual day camp at Day Camp. Laurie says he’s not alone in feeling that way. He advocates for park access on behalf of longtime locals who have “childhood memories they’re now locked out of.” There’s more to it, though. For Laurie, it’s wrong to exclude people who are physically unable make it far into the park under their own power—people with disabilities, the elderly and parents with very young children. “There is an extensive trail system for equestrians, hikers and mountain bikers,” he said, “but there’s only one access road to Upper Bidwell Park.” Ω

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is mentioned, the many associations W that come to mind can be a little dizhen the name Loudon Wainwright III

zying. He sang that song â&#x20AC;&#x153;Daughterâ&#x20AC;? from the Knocked Up soundtrack, right? But wait, didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t he play the by Robin Bacior doctor in that movie as well? Wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t he in MASH? Isnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t he Rufus Preview: Wainwrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dad? Loudon Wainwright and In a career spanning Iris Dement perform alone and together at more than 46 years, Paradise Performing heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s managed to be all Arts Center, Saturday, those things, and what Sept. 24, 7:30 p.m. makes that astounding Tickets: $24-$31 (add $4 at door) is, he hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t stopped. The Grammy Award Paradise winner has made 26 Performing Arts albums, with his most Center 777 Nunneley Rd., recent being 2014â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Paradise Havenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t Got the Blues 345-8136 (Yet). He also released a www.chicotickets.com single last spring called â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Had a Dream,â&#x20AC;? a satirical and sobering take on what life would be like if Donald Trump won the presidency. His range is impressive, but for Wainwright, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s all in a dayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My job is to write songs, and occasionally I get an acting job.â&#x20AC;? Wainwright said in a phone interview. â&#x20AC;&#x153;[Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m] just getting up and thinking about what I want to work on and then being lucky enough to have people that want to work on it with me.â&#x20AC;? Wainwright has a knack for simplifying seemingly anything into a concise folk song, whether it be the mundane task of trying to find parking in New York City (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Spacedâ&#x20AC;?), or explaining the early years of a relationship with his ex-wife to their child (â&#x20AC;&#x153;I Knew Your Motherâ&#x20AC;?). â&#x20AC;&#x153;I have a tendency to be an open book,â&#x20AC;? Wainwright said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Maybe Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m 22

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an exhibitionist, or a psychic flasher. Certainly the people in my family, whether theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re my kids, my parents or ex-wives, theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re kind of the big characters in the play that is my life. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not all note-for-note verbatim truth, but basically it comes from true experience, and I fashion these three-minute songs from those experiences.â&#x20AC;? Though itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s often told through the filter of campy folk sincerity, the content itself is quite raw, the kind of soul-baring not everyone could easily handle. â&#x20AC;&#x153;When someone gets up on a stage and sings a song about something thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deeply personal, some people think, â&#x20AC;&#x2DC;Gosh, how could that person do that? Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s so personal.â&#x20AC;&#x2122; But Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve always maintained thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a safety in that, so Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve never hesitated to do that,â&#x20AC;? Wainwright said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Certainly, I censor myself, but the general rule is: If Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve written a song I think is good, then Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll put it out there.â&#x20AC;? That self-revealing nature seems to run in the family. Wainwrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kids, Rufus and Martha, have become widely successful musicians, and have also been open with specific songs (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dinner at Eightâ&#x20AC;? by Rufus and â&#x20AC;&#x153;B.M.F.A.â&#x20AC;? by Martha) centering around a try-

ing relationship with their father. Even Wainwrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own father, Loudon Wainwright Jr., was best known for his column in Life Magazine, â&#x20AC;&#x153;The View From Here,â&#x20AC;? which was both informative and highly revealing on a personal level. Recently, Wainwright has created a oneman show titled Surviving Twin during which he reads his fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s columns and pairs them with his own songs. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s very gratifying for me to do it,â&#x20AC;? Wainwright said. â&#x20AC;&#x153;My fatherâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been dead since 1988, but as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve been telling people, Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m getting along with him great now. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a real pleasure to share his work with my audience, to collaborate in a posthumous way,â&#x20AC;? he said. Wainwright will be performing some of that material as part of a co-headlining evening with Iris Dement at Paradise Performing Arts Center this Saturday (Sept. 24). Having recently turned 70, one might think Wainwrightâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s career would be winding down,, but he seems far from retiring. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a physically draining jobâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;hauling your ass through an airport, to a rental car, to a hotel. As long as Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m physically able to pull it off and people want to see LW ,ÂľOO NHHS JRLQJ , OLNH WKH ZRUN Âł Ć?

In Treatment) and directed by acclaimed actress 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.

THE VEIL: A drama by Conor McPherson, directed by Joe Hilsee weaving Irelandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;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.

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

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

25SUN Special Events STRIDES FOR DIABETES: 5k run or 3k/5k walk promoting healthy lifestyle choices and featuring music, youth fun zone and more. Register online. Su, 9/25, 8-11:30am. $5-$25. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 876-7297, www.strides4 diabetes.com.

TASTE OF CHICO: Roam the downtown Chico

23FRI Special Events FEATHER RIVER NATURE CENTER DINNER & DANCE: An evening of food and dance, featuring an elegant dinner, music from The Crawlers and the Charlie Robinson Trio, raffle and more. F, 9/23, 6pm. $25 adult/$12 children. Feather River Nature Center, Montgomery St. & Old Ferry Road in Oroville, (530) 520-4742, www.salmonfestoroville.org.

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

Music SUMMER SCHAPPELL: Redding-based country

singer and former contestant on The Voice who Adam Levine dubbed the “human firecracker.” F, 9/23, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

24SAT Special Events ART HOUSE THEATER DAY: Celebration of art house theater culture with three film screenings, special film ephemera, exclusive items to give away and other surprises. Sa, 9/24, noon11pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageantchico.com.

BUTTE HUMANE SOCIETY’S 105TH ANNIVERSARY: Burlesque-themed event with three dinner options, live auctions and entertainment. Costumes encouraged. Sa, 9/24, 5:30-10:30pm. $125. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 343-7917 ext. 133, www.buttehumane.org.

AN EVENING TO TREASURE: Fundraiser gala to support the Gateway Science Museum includ-

ing elegant dinner, silent auction, live auction and dessert auction. Sa, 9/24, 6pm. $110-$115. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., (530) 898-4121.

EVERY MILE COUNTS: Walk/run to benefit local work of the Society of St. Vincent De Paul providing assistance to needy families. Sa, 9/24, 9am. Donations. St. John the Baptist Catholic Church, 435 Chestnut St., (530) 898-5984.

NOR CAL ROLLER GIRLS: The Chico roller derby squad takes on Roseville’s Floodwater Roller Derby. Sa, 9/24, 7-9pm. $10/$12 at the door. Cal Skate, 2465 Carmichael Drive, (530) 343-1601.

OROVILLE SALMON FESTIVAL: Annual event celebrating the thousands of spawning salmon that make their way from the ocean back up the Feather River. Free event includes street fair kayaking, color run, music, salmon tasting, tours of the hatchery and plenty of fun for both kids and adults. Sa, 9/24, 9am-4pm. Free. Visit site for info, www.salmonfestoroville.org.

streets, sampling the North State’s finest restaurants, caterers, breweries and wineries while taking in live music, open-air art gallery and more. Su, 9/25, 12-4pm. Free entry/Taste packages $20-$35. www.downtownchico.com.

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

Music LA BOHEME: Part one of Chico Performances, four-part San Francisco Grand Opera Cinema Series. Puccini’s great opera is a story of two starving artists who fall in and out of love in 19th century Paris. Su, 9/25, 2pm. $10-$18. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 8986333, www.chicoperformances.com.

26MON Music BRUCE HORNSBY & THE NOISEMAKERS: Legendary pianist and songwriter Bruce Hornsby and his band deliver an eclectic mix that includes songs old and new. M, 9/26, 7:3010pm. $10-$46. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chico performances.com.

27TUES Art Receptions ART + LUNCH = FOOD FOR THOUGHT: Curator Kelly Lindner hosts a lunchtime discussion of the current exhibition, Walczak & Heiss’s SHAKER. Bring your own lunch, beverages and cookies provided. Tu, 9/27, 12-1pm. Free. Jacki Headley University Art Gallery, Chico State.

28WED 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.

F O R M O R E M U S I C , SEE

evening with two celebrated singer/songwriters performing both alone and together. Sa, 9/24, 7:30pm. $24-$31 in advance, $28-$35 at the door. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, (530) 872-8454, www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

WADE BOWEN: Texas red-dirt country superstar who spent a decade burning up the underground country circuit before breaking into the mainstream with hit singles “Saturday Night” and “Songs About Trucks.” Sa, 9/24, 8pm. $20. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

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CINEMA CELEBRATION It’s a big weekend for the Pageant Theatre and its ilk across the country, as Sept. 24 is Art House Theater Day, a nationwide celebration of these revered—and, unfortunately, increasingly rare—venues. The Pageant is celebrating with special events and screenings of some excellent movies, including the Terry Gilliam fantasy classic Time Bandits (3 p.m.); rock documentary Danny Says (6 p.m.), featuring a Q&A with Jonathan Richman about his days with the Modern Lovers and Velvet Underground; and the 1979 horror classic Phantasm (9:30 p.m.), feaTime Bandits turing a post-film livestream session with director Don Coscarelli. There will also be free cinemacentric giveaways all day, and a Parking Lot Poster Sale noon2 p.m.

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Art 1078 GALLERY: One Artist, Four Visions, a miniretrospective of the art of local artist and art instructor Ruben Heredia. Through 9/30. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

3RD FLOOR ART GALLERY: Diverse Passions, new exhibit highlighting contemporary Hmong perspectives. Through 10/7. BMU, Third Floor, Chico State, (530) 898-5489.

B-SO SPACE: Garret Goodwin: BFA Culminating

Exhibition, new exhibit featuring works by BFA candidate Garret Goodwin. Through 9/30. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Elemental 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 12”x12” art created by local artists of all ages and from all walks of life. Through 9/30. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Voyanic, new show featuring sculpture by Sienna OrlandoLalaguna and drawings by Trevor Lalaguna. Through 9/30. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

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) 332-3856.

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:

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.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

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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ELEMENTAL FORMING: COLOR AND MIND Butte College Art Gallery SEE ART

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) 3453063.

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.bidwellpark.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) 891-4336, www.chico museum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Chico’s science museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of ice-age skeletons. Check site for current special exhibition. Ongoing. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

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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receive from marrying a wealthy English aristocrat. As the play begins, two men tasked with escorting Hannah to England arrive. They are The Rev. Berkeley, a defrocked Anglican priest, and Charles Audelle, a laudanum-addicted “philosopher” with a troubled past. These men, it turns out, have an ulterior motive. They’re aware that Hannah has extrasensory powers and want to use her to ferret out the “spirits” of dead people—notably her own father—who they are convinced haunt the house. That’s just the beginning, of course. The Veil has some scary moments, but it is much more than a ghost story. As Hilsee suggests in his program notes, it’s a historical metaphor outlining the relationship between the English aristocracy and its impoverished Irish tenant farmers. It’s also a Chekhovian family drama, though with a dash of horror story thrown in. And it’s a spiritualist drama that explores the thin veil between ordinary reality and the “spirit world.” If The Veil sounds overstuffed,

that’s because it is. Too much of the story is conveyed by talking about things that have happened elsewhere. This is especially true in the case of The Rev. Berkeley. Christopher Scott does a fine job with this pompous and deceitful character, but he’s got so many lines he sometimes sucks the air

out of the play. Nick Anderson, who as Audelle doesn’t have quite as many lines, is so creepy I wondered why anybody would trust him to care for Hannah. She’s played by Alexandra Hilsee with febrile determination. She resents being “sold” into marriage but understands that her mother has no other options. Meanwhile, she’s hearing “voices,” and Berkeley and Audelle are conspiring to use her powers to their advantage. The Irish characters are Mrs. Goulding (Dona Gavagan Dausey), a housekeeper and nurse; Clare Wallace (Tatum Hazelton), a housemaid; and Mr. Fingal (Bruce Dillman), the estate manager. Dausey and Dillman do a good job of sounding Irish, especially Dillman, the aggrieved manager who catalyzes the play’s resolution (suffice to say that a shotgun was introduced in the first act). Then there’s Grandie (Mary Burns), Madeleine’s demented grandmother, who provides comic relief with a half-dozen wacky lines boldly shouted. Burns is terrific. And Lacque, as Madeleine, is solid as the realist in the bunch. McPherson may have tried to do too much in The Veil, but he gave his actors a lot to work with. Hilsee and his cast have taken full advantage of the richness of the script and transcended its limitations. □

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NIGHTLIFE WADE BOWEN Saturday, Sept. 24 El Rey Theatre SEE SATURDAY

DONALD BEAMAN: Local singersongwriter joined by his backing band the Spirit Molecules for a night of haunting folk rock. Th, 9/22, 8-10pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

22THURSDAY

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

CHICO UNPLUGGED SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: A platform for emerging singers and songwriters to showcase their work presented by Chico State’s School of the Arts Productions. Th, 9/22, 7-9pm. No cover. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

DANGER DAVE’S TRIVIA NIGHT: Free weekly trivia event with prizes for top scores. Th, 9:30pm. Free. Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

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LIFT: A night of world-class dance music featuring progressive house artist Ron Reeser and Los Angeles-based producer Sokko, with local support from DJ Eclectic and Nocturnal. Th, 9/22, 9pm. $5. The Beach, 191 E. Second St., 898-9898, www.facebook.com/ TheBeachChico. LIVE MUSIC: Musical entertainment provided by a rotating cast of local talent. Th, 5:30pm. Miner’s Alley Brewing Company, 2053 Montgomery St. in Oroville, www.minersalley brewingco.com.

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

ROBERT KARCH AND FRIENDS: Guitarist/vocalist Robert Karch, pianist Shigemi Minetaka and bassist

THURSDAY 9/22—WEDNESDAY 9/28

Ethan Swett playing jazz, standards, blues and more. Th, 9/22, 6:30-9pm. No cover. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farm starpizza.com.

23FRIDAY

BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and regional producers and DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

CHUCK EPPERSON JR. BAND, HOT FLASH: Two veteran local bands take over The Maltese for a night of rock, blues, R&B and everything in between. F, 9/23, 8pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

HIGH VOLTAGE: AC/DC tribute band playing selections from the band’s legendary catalog. F, 9/23, 9pm. The Cabin Saloon, 8057 Golden State Hwy in Los Molinos.

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

MOJO GREEN: Seven piece band from Reno quickly becoming known as one of the premier funk and soul bands on the West Coast. Locals Hi Strangeness open things up. F, 9/23, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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.

SUMMER SCHAPPELL: Redding-based country singer and former contestant on The Voice who Adam Levine dubbed the “human firecracker.” F, 9/23, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Hosted by

singer/songwriter Jeb Draper. F, 5-8pm through 11/18. Free. Rock House, 11865 Highway 70 in Yankee Hill, (530) 5321889, www.RockHouseHwy70.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.

JIM SCHMIDT & LARRY PETERSON: A tasty assortment of dinner music in the lounge. F, 9/23, 6-9pm. Two-Twenty

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BLACKOUT BETTY: Chico band playing

high-energy, high-octane rock ’n’ roll.

Sa, 9/24, 8:30pm. No cover. Feather

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Aubrey Debauchery became a fixture in the Chico music scene when she started playing stages around the city in the late 1990s, at the age of 13, and remained such until last year when she set off for greener pastures in Portland. On Wednesday, Sept. 28, Debauchery will be in town to play Naked Lounge Tea & Coffeehouse along with longtime musical cohort Drew Danburry. 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

CLASSICAL GUITAR PROJECT: An evening of classical guitar music featuring award-winning guitarists Yuri Liberzon and Piotr Pakhomkin. Sa, 9/24, 7:30pm. $15/$10 students. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 3431973.

IRIS DEMENT & LOUDON WAINWRIGHT III: A special evening with two celebrated singer/songwriters performing both alone and together. Sa, 9/24, 7:30pm. $24-31 in advance, $28-$35 at the door. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, (530) 8728454, www.paradiseperforming arts.com.

JAMES AARON BAND: Country band playing a mix of ’90s country hits and modern country favorites from George Strait to Zac Brown. Sa, 9/24, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, http://tackleboxchico.com.

LIFE IN THE FAST LANE: Six-piece band performing selected cuts from The Eagles’ long list of hits. Sa, 9/24, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

LIVE MUSIC: Live music in a relaxed environment. Sa, 5-8pm through 12/18. Rock House, 11865 Highway 70 in Yankee Hill, (530) 532-1889.

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

LIFT WITH RON REESER NOR CAL ROLLER GIRLS: The Chico roller derby squad takes on Roseville’s Floodwater Roller Derby. Sa, 9/24, 79pm. $10/$12 at the door. Cal Skate, 2465 Carmichael Drive, (530) 343-1601.

RADIO RELAPSE DOES NEVERMIND: Local band celebrates the 25th anniversary of the release of Nirvana’s Nevermind by playing the album in full, following opening sets by Slay it Forward and Moonbears. Sa, 9/24, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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.

Tonight, Sept. 22 The Beach SEE THURSDAY

Legendary pianist and songwriter Bruce Hornsby and his band deliver an eclectic mix that includes songs old and new. M, 9/26, 7:30-10pm. $10-$46. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperfor mances.com.

STOP THE OIL TRAINS: Concert to raise funds to fight oil trains. Attend the workshop before the show, from 57pm, for free entry to concert. Sa, 9/24, 7:30pm. $5 minimum donation. Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St.

cnrcalendar@newsre Garden, 6929 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9988.

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

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AUGUST BURNS RED: Ferociously technical Pennsylvania metal band whose latest album debuted at number 9 on the Billboard 200, alongside solid opening acts ERRA, Silent Planet and Make Them Suffer. Tu, 9/27, 7pm. $17.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music from local musicians. Tu. Italian

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BLUES JAM: Monthly blues jam with

amps, drum kit and P.A. provided. W, 6-10pm. Free. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685

Manzanita Ct., (530) 345-2491.

DREW DANBURRY, AUBREY DEBAUCHERY: An intimate, stripped down show featuring Chico ex-pat Aubrey Debauchery and her longtime friend and tourmate. W, 9/28, 7:30pm. Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse, 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

FRANKIE BOOTS: Americana folk-rock band hailing from the San Francisco Bay Area. W, 9/28, 8-10pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

GAELIC STORM: Chart-topping, multinational Celtic band mixing traditional Irish music with modern influences. W, 9/28, 9pm. $10. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather

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

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

NOT SO SUBLIMINAL

At first listen, August Burns Red sounds something like many other melodic metal-core bands, but listen closely and you might happen upon a remarkably unmetal message: “Praise the Lord!” There’s plenty of metal, too, of the ferocious, extremely technical variety. The band will crank up the Christ and the crazy riffage at the Senator Theatre on Tuesday, Sept. 27.

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FILM SHORTS Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Art House Theater Day

Saturday, Sept. 24, the Pageant celebrates the independent theaters that keep the art of cinema alive with a day of special screenings (Time Bandits, Danny Says, Phantasm), talks, live music and memorabilia sales. See A&C listings (p. 23) or visit www.pageantchico.com for more info. Pageant Theatre.

Born in Flames (1983)

A one-time showing of director Lizzie Borden’s feminist “proto-Riot Grrrl classic” kicks off the new Subversive Cinema series co-presented by the Pageant and AK Press. Sunday, Sept. 25, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not Rated.

Don’t Think Twice

portraits of resistance Oliver Stone’s intriguing meditation on Edward Snowden affair got a rave review from Peter Hartlaub in the OSancaseFrancisco Chronicle, but most of the reviews in liver Stone’s movie about the Edward Snowden

the national press seem to have been lukewarm, at best. At least some of that caution is by always needed with any movie dealJuan-Carlos ing in major controversies that are Selznick both current and urgent, but still very far from being resolved. But while I can’t quite match Hartlaub’s enthusiasm for Stone’s Snowden, it does strike me as a much more intriguing and accomplished movie than you might gather from Snowden most of the early reviews and box Starring Joseph office reports. Stone’s film has merit Gordon-Levitt, rhys as a kind of legal/political brief on Ifans, melissa Leo Snowden’s behalf, but a special richand Nicolas Cage. Directed by Oliver ness of character and observation is Stone. Cinemark 14 what really distinguishes it as a draand paradise matic movie experience. Cinema 7. rated r. The title character is of course the central figure in all this, but Snowden isn’t, strictly speaking, a biopic. Rather, it makes its strongest claims on our attention with its gallery of portraits of the friends, colleagues, authority figures, relatives, etc. who are witnesses to Snowden’s brief career with the CIA and the NSA and the extraordinary acts of protest that emerge from it. Joseph Gordon-Levitt is smartly understated and thoroughly convincing in the title role, which Stone further enhances with a late, perfectly timed twist of casting. But it’s the scenes involving key figures in Snowden’s professional and (emerging) political life that give the film its greatest vitality and interest. Stone uses Snowden’s dramatic meeting and interview with journalist Glenn Greenwald (Zachary

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Quinto) and filmmaker Laura Poitras (Melissa Leo) in a Geneva hotel room as a kind of framing device for Snowden’s own emerging account of what led him to his epochal act of whistleblowing resistance. Those two are particularly memorable as contrasting examples of activism and integrity, as are Snowden’s two contrasting role models and would-be father figures at the CIA, Corbin O’Brian (Rhys Ifans) and Hank Forrester (Nicolas Cage), albeit in dramatically different ways. Snowden’s long-running relationship with Lindsay Mills (Shailene Woodley) gives the film an appositely quirky touch of romantic-comedy, but there, too, the picture’s most pressing concerns—personal, political, moral, professional—get a strenuous workout. Woodley’s rendering of a genuinely mercurial character, someone who is both frivolous and dead serious, is one of the film’s most pungent surprises. Leo’s Poitras is a study in moral courage, both patient and battle-tested. Leo/Poitras and Cage’s gonzo surveillance analyst might be taken as partial stand-ins for Stone himself, but the film’s most remarkable performance comes from Ifans. His haunted-looking CIA honcho is the most complex and mysterious character in the entire film. For me, Snowden is a film trying to get the measure of tyranny in the 21st century. Its gallery of portraits is making inquiries into what the faces and forms of resistance to that tyranny might look like. Edward Snowden’s swagger-free heroism is the centerpiece in that gallery, but there’s also room for those already mentioned as well as various cameo glimpses—a cheerfully amoral CIA agent (Timothy Olyphant), a techie with flagrant hippie tendencies (Ben Schnetzer), an activist/defense lawyer (Ben Chaplin), a cocky young mid-level data analyst (Scott Eastwood), etc. □

Comedian Mike Birbiglia wrote and directed this story about an improv troupe struggling with the imminent closure of its theater and the fact that two of its members were invited to audition for a Saturday Night Live-like comedy show. Also starring Keegan-Michael Key. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Magnificent Seven

A remake of the 1960 American Western of the same name (which was an adaptation of Akira Kurosawa’s 1954 classic, Seven Samurai), with the likes of Denzel Washington, Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke and Vincent D’Onofrio making up the rag-tag gang of gunslingers hired to protect a small town. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Storks

In this 3-D, computer-animated flick starring the voices of Andy Samberg, Kelsey Grammer and Jennifer Aniston, storks have gone from delivering babies to delivering packages for a giant Internet company, until one day … . Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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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 and his college friends returning to the ill-fated woods to try and find his missing sister. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Bridget Jones’s Baby

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.

Hell or High Water

wild-running Howard brothers, Tanner (Ben Foster) and Toby (Chris Pine), are mostly unalike, but both are wholly committed to their privately declared mission of robbing a series of small-town banks in order to raise enough cash to save their deceased parents’ ranch from foreclosure. Gradually, and convincingly, director David Mackenzie and screenwriter Taylor Sheridan build a sense that the Ranger and the brothers are separate parts of a tragic triangle that’s riding on the fumes of Wild West mythology, the romance of the Texas-style outlaw, legends of the Texas Rangers, etc. Cinemark 14 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. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Sully

One of the most storied events of recent times, an occasion for rare heroic triumph, came when pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger successfully and safely landed a stricken jet airliner on the Hudson River in January 2009. Sully, with Tom Hanks in the title role, revisits that event in ways that are both compact and complex, and unexpectedly moving as well. The film gives a genuinely riveting account of the landing itself while also developing multifaceted “inside views” of the event and its aftermath, including some of the more personal aspects of the pilot’s experience. It’s an intense kind of action film 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. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

The Wild Life

A computer-animated update on the Robinson Crusoe story told from the point of view of the island’s animals, including a parrot named Mak. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Ranger Marcus Hamilton (Jeff Bridges) is a widower, a gruff old-timer nearing retirement, but not at all inclined to attach himself to anything other than an active Texas lawman’s way of life. His superficially contentious relationship with his Ranger partner, Alberto Parker (Gil Birmingham), is pretty clearly the most meaningful part of what’s left of his life, personally as well as professionally. The

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF september 22, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Even if you

are a wild-eyed adventure-seeker with extremist views and melodramatic yearnings, you’ll benefit from taking a moderate approach to life in the coming weeks. In fact, you’re most likely to attract the help and inspiration you need if you adopt the strategy used by Goldilocks in the fairy tale “Goldilocks and the Three Bears”: neither excessive nor underdone, neither extravagant nor restrained, neither bawdy, loud, and in-your-face nor demure, quiet and passive—but rather, just right.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Some

of my readers love me but also hate me. They are drawn to my horoscopes in the hope that I will help relieve them of their habitual pain, but then get mad at me when I do just that. In retrospect, they feel lost without the familiar companionship of their habitual pain. It had been a centerpiece of their identity, a source of stability, and when it’s gone, they don’t know who they are anymore. Are you like these people, Taurus? If so, you might want to avoid my horoscopes for a while. I will be engaged in a subtle crusade to dissolve your angst and agitation. And it all starts now with this magic spell: Your wound is a blessing. Discover why.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In my

dream last night, bad guys wearing white hats constrained you in a canvas straitjacket, then further wrapped you up with heavy steel chain secured by three padlocks. They drove you to a weedy field behind an abandoned warehouse and left you there in the pitch dark. But you were indomitable. By dawn, you had miraculously wriggled your way out of your confinement. Then you walked back home, free and undaunted. Here’s my interpretation of the dream: You now have special skills as an escape artist. No cage can hold you. No riddle can stump you. No tangle can confuse you. (P.S. For best results, trust yourself even more than you usually do.)

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The next

four weeks will be a favorable time to come all the way home. Here are nine prompts for how to accomplish that: (1) Nourish your roots. (2) Strengthen your foundations. (3) Meditate about where you truly belong. (4) Upgrade the way you attend to your self-care. (5) Honor your living traditions. (6) Make a pilgrimage to the land where your ancestors lived. (7) Deepen your intimacy with the earth. (8) Be ingenious about expressing your tenderness. (9) Reinvigorate your commitment to the influences that nurture and support you.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What tools will

work best for the tasks you’ll be invited to perform in the coming weeks? A sledgehammer or tweezers? Pruning shears or a sewing machine? A monkey wrench or a screwdriver? Here’s my guess: Always have your entire toolbox on hand. You may need to change tools in midtask—or even use several tools for the same task. I can envision at least one situation that would benefit from you alternating between a sledgehammer and tweezers.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’m confident

that I will never again need to moonlight as a janitor or dishwasher in order to pay my bills. My gig as a horoscope columnist provides me with enough money to eat well, so it’s no longer necessary to shoplift bread or scavenge for dented cans of beets in grocery store dumpsters. What accounts for my growing financial luck? I mean besides the fact that I have been steadily improving my skills as an oracle and writer? I suspect it may in part have to do with my determination to cultivate generosity. As I’ve become better at expressing compassion and bestowing blessings, money has flowed to me in greater abundance. Would this strategy work for you? The coming weeks and months will be a good time to experiment.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s my

translation of a passage from the ancient Gospel of Thomas, a gnostic text about the teachings of Jesus: “If you do not awaken

by rob brezsny and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will damage you. If you do awaken and develop the potential talents that lie within you, they will heal you.” Whether you actually awaken and develop those talents or not depends on two things: your ability to identify them clearly and your determination to bring them to life with the graceful force of your willpower. I call this to your attention, Libra, because the coming months will be a highly favorable time to expedite the ripening of your talents. And it all starts now.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You can’t

completely eliminate unhelpful influences and trivial saboteurs and debilitating distractions from your life. But you’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when you have more power than usual to diminish their effects. To get started in this gritty yet lofty endeavor, try this: Decrease your connection with anything that tends to demean your spirit, shrink your lust for life, limit your freedom, ignore your soul, compromise your integrity, dishonor your reverence, inhibit your self-expressiveness or alienate you from what you love.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Work too much and push yourself too hard, Sagittarius. Eat corn chips for breakfast, ice cream for lunch and french fries for dinner—every day, if possible. And please please please get no more than four hours’ sleep per night. If you have any extra time, do arduous favors for friends and intensify your workout routine. Just kidding! Don’t you dare heed any of that ridiculous advice. In fact, I suggest you do just the opposite. Dream up brilliant excuses not to work too much or push too hard. Treat yourself to the finest meals and best sleep ever. Take your mastery of the art of relaxation to new heights. Right now, the most effective way to serve your longterm dreams is by having as much fun, joy and release as possible.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

I propose that you and I make a deal. Here’s how it would work: For the next three weeks, I will say three prayers for you every day. I will ask God, Fate and Life to send you more of the recognition and appreciation you deserve. I will coax and convince them to give you rich experiences of being seen for who you really are. Now here’s what I ask of you in return: You will rigorously resolve to act on your core beliefs, express your noblest desires and say only what you truly mean. You will be alert for those times when you start to stray from the path with heart, and you will immediately get yourself back on that path. You will be yourself three times stronger and clearer than you have ever been before.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you

loosen yourself up by drinking an alcoholic beverage, don’t drive a forklift or ride a unicycle. If you have a hunch that your luck at gambling is peaking, don’t buy lottery tickets or play the slot machines. If you’re drawn to explore the frontiers of intimacy, be armed with the ancient Latin maxim, Primum non nocere, or “First, do no harm.” And if you really do believe it would be fun to play with fire, bring a fire extinguisher with you. In presenting this cautionary advice, I’m not saying that you should never push the limits or bend the rules. But I want to be sure that as you dare to experiment, you remain savvy and ethical and responsible.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): I invite

you to explore the healing power of sex. The coming weeks will be a favorable time to do so. You are also likely to generate good fortune for yourself if you try to fix any aspect of your erotic life that feels wounded or awkward. For best results, suspend all your theories about the way physical intimacy should work in your life. Adopting a beginner’s mind could lead you to subtly spectacular breakthroughs. (P.S. You don’t necessarily need a partner to take full advantage of this big opening.)

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Rummage Sale at Centerville Schoolhouse A rummage sale will be held at the Centerville Schoolhouse Complex from 8am-4pm on September 24 at 13548 Centerville Rd. There will be a free breakfast while supplies last from 8-10am and a Cemetery Tour at 10 led by Canyon Storyteller John Westland. Come, get fed, learn some local history and buy until your heart’s content. All proceeds go to the Centerville Schoolhouse and Colman Museum.

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, INTIMATE DESIRES LINGERIE, INTIMATE DESIRES ORGANICS, INTIMATEDESIRES LINGERIE.COM at 6453 Hollywood Rd Magalia, CA 95954. JAMES B DETTLE 6453 Hollywood Rd Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: J.B. DETTLE Dated: August 26, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001060 Published: September 8,15,22,29, 2016

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. This business is conducted by an Individual. 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

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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. This business is conducted by a Married Couple. 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. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO SMALL BUSINESS BOOKKEEPERS at 752 East 6th St Chico, CA 95928. MARTHA THREEWIT 752 East 6th St Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MARTHA THREEWIT Dated: September 6, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001111 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as C AND J SERVICE CENTER at 541 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969. CECIL R COOPER 17188 Pine St Stirling City, CA 95978. JOSHUA F PICKENS 17188 Pine St Stirling City, CA 95978. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: CECIL R. COOPER Dated: September 2, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001096 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL TECHNOLOGY at 57 Skymountain Circle Chico, CA 95928. CASH BUCKMINSTER WEAVER 57 Skymountain Circle Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CASH WEAVER Dated: September 9, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001126 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL PAIN BILLING AND MANAGEMENT at 5 Abbott Circle Chico, CA 95973. KELLI MARIE LEWIS 5 Abbott Circle Chico, CA 95973. ZACHARY JACOB LIPMAN 647 West East Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by Copartners. 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. JOHN FREDERICK DEAN 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969. ELIZABETH L YOUNG 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: ELIZABETH YOUNG Dated: August 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001076 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARADISE CLEANING SERVICES at 5812 Golden Oaks Road Paradise, CA 95969. KATHLEEN SEVENNS 5812 Golden Oaks Road Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KATHLEEN SEVENNS Dated: September 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001124 Published: September 22,29, October 6,13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EL GUAYACAN MEXICAN RESTAURANT at 2201 Pillsbury Rd Ste 124 Chico, CA 95926. JESUS J. GOMEZ-CASTELLON 540 Howard Ct Unit A Susanville, CA 96130. ANA E RODRIGUEZ-MEJORADO 540 Howard Ct Unit A Susanville, CA 96130. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: ANA RODRIGUEZ Dated: August 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001079 Published: September 22,29, October 6,13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIMPLY-PUBLISHING CO at 1055 East Lassen Ave #73 Chico, Ca 95973.

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RICHARD HUBBARD 1055 East Lassen #73 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RICHARD P. HUBBARD Dated: August 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001071 Published: September 22,29, October 6,13, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MONTZ FAMILY FARMS at 2468 Marsh Ct Durham, CA 95938. HELENA MONTZ 2468 Marsh Ct Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: HELENA MONTZ Dated: September 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001164 Published: September 22,29, October 6,13, 2016

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

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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 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

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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 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 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 least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing

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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 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:

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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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