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J O i n T h E F u n A n d C E l E b r AT E

NO CAMPAIGN SIGNS!

Are you voting for a campaign sign? All around Chico, and everywhere else, you will see campaign signs in windows, yards, sides of buildings, and, of course, every major street corner. The bigger the sign and the more of them present is an indication of more “big money” behind the candidate.

What the signs don’t tell you, quite frankly, is one damn thing about the candidate. Campaign signs posted everywhere are really nothing more than a vanity and ego contest.

The same day the advertisement appears in the paper you can find the same at http://jonscott.com. No fancy, flashing website, just a small piece each week about the position I support on issues of importance to citizens of Chico.

As I stated above I DO want your vote. Managers protect the status quo. Leaders challenge it. I am running to challenge the status quo, because in my opinion we all deserve better than we’re getting! I will be a leader for you!

If my positions are too far removed from your own, or you think that the dismal status quo is quite acceptable, please vote for someone else. It will not hurt my feelings a bit.

Let’s have a campaign where we vote on issues instead of those completely uninformative eyesores known as campaign signs.

Jon Scott for City Council 2016

Paid for by Jon Scott. Not a cent of outside contribuThis candidate (as in Jon Scott) isn’t placing a single tion. No contributions of any kind will be accepted.

I will represent ALL citizens of Chico. I am not for campaign sign. In fact, if you know of anyone that sale to campaign donors. has put one up kindly ask them to take it down!

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

the million-dollar question Once again, this newspaper’s staff is baffled by the fact that a reality-

television star is vying for the highest office in the land. It’s like a nightmare from which we cannot awaken. The differences between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton have been stark from the beginning, but at no point were they clearer than during the first general election debate Monday evening.

Trump couldn’t control himself. His eye-rolling, guffaws and interruptions—of Clinton and moderator Lester Holt—took away from his message. Then again, it’s difficult to decipher what exactly the billionaire businessman is saying to begin with. But, seriously, this is a man who interrupted Clinton 51 times during the course of the forum (Clinton interrupted him 17 times). Composure is not his strong suit.

We’re still trying to figure out what skills Trump possesses that would make him an effective POTUS. As far as we can tell, he’s adept at a few things. One is getting the attention of major television outlets, from Fox News to CNN. Trump is indeed a master propagandist. Another is lying to the American public with little repercussion. He does so regularly and without compunction. In fact, according to debate fact-checkers, Trump lied more than two dozen times during the 90 minutes he squared off with Clinton.

He lied about the origins of the “birther” conspiracy. He lied about New York’s “stop and frisk” program. He lied about his business bankruptcies.

He lied about his denial of climate change. The list goes on …

Of course, Trump doesn’t lie about everything. He’s correct that ISIS has grown. He’s right to say that China could and should go into North Korea to deal with the country’s whack-job dictator. America does need more jobs.

Here’s the million-dollar question: Do we trust him to have the competence and demeanor to address any of these and other pressing issues? We think not. □

GUEST COMMENT

thanks, Vinny “Ayou may be.”

I first heard those words when the Dodgers

very pleasant good evening to you, wherever

left baseball-mad Brooklyn for the post-war expansion of Los Angeles. They would come to mean so much to me, as Vincent Edward Scully’s lilting voice would become the soundtrack for my summers.

As a child, I visited Dodger Stadium. The portable transistor radio had just become common and every fan had one. Vinny’s descriptions drifted through the park like the aroma of Dodger by Dogs. Hence his nickname, “The David Kagan the author is a Chico Voice of God.” In my teens, I worked in my State physics professor and a writer for the dad’s retail shop—Scully calling Hardball times. the action on the radio. When I moved north for college, I listened to Vin through staticfilled broadcasts from Fresno.

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Stand up to bully banks cadence recalls my youth. He enlivens slow innings with a story of meeting Babe Ruth or having dinner with Joe DiMaggio. He describes racing Jackie Robinson—on ice skates! Baseball has no clock, but Vin built the drama of Sandy Koufax’s perfect game by repeatedly citing the time: “9:46 p.m. in the city of the angels ...”

In 1988, Kirk Gibson hit his famous World Series home run. Vinny shouted, “High fly ball to right field. She is gone!” For the next 67 seconds, Scully remained silent, letting the camera tell the story.

Then he summarized, “In a year that has been so improbable, the impossible has happened.”

Two months before my kidney transplant, I caught a foul ball. Vinny was just 12 rows behind me. When the game ended, I held up the ball and pantomimed signing it. He took pity on the sickly fellow below and waved me toward the booth. I couldn’t see inside. I tossed the ball up and it was soon dropped back to me neatly autographed “Vin Scully.”

Each spring, I eagerly await Vin’s call on opening day. Alas, he’s calling his final game on Oct. 2.

This coming spring, one fewer bird will sing. I will sadly whisper, “a very pleasant good evening to you, wherever you may be.” □

The latest corporate scandal involves one of the world’s Big Four banks,

Wells Fargo. With 70 million customers around the globe, one might assume its employees—all the way up to the CEO—can be trusted to take care of our money. Apparently that old saying about not assuming—yeah, it applies here.

Over several years, Wells Fargo employees opened 1.5 million fake bank accounts and filled out about 500,000 fake credit card applications in order to inflate numbers and keep their jobs. But those fake accounts were linked to actual Wells Fargo customers and the repercussions could be felt for years. When an account is opened and you don’t know about it, you don’t pay the associated fees and start to rack up penalties. Those penalties show up on your credit report, which in turn determines whether you’ll qualify for a home or car loan, in some cases whether you can even get a new cellphone.

The bank has been ordered to pay $185 million in fines. CEO John Stumpf and executive Carrie Tolstedt, whose division was found to have carried out much of the fraud, will fork over $45 million and $19 million worth of stock, respectively. But that’s not enough. As a huge financial institution, Wells Fargo is getting off the hook with a relative slap on the wrist. Where’s the accountability? The punishment that fits the crime?

That’s where we come in. Our money speaks volumes. Go into Wells Fargo, Citibank—remember last year, when Citibank was found to have bilked customers out of $700,000 through hidden fees and false marketing?—Bank of America or Chase and close your accounts there. Then walk on over to a local bank or credit union and deposit your money there. It’s time we stood up to the bully taking our lunch money. Enough is enough. □

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SECOND & FLUME

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

amateur hour Get out the popcorn. Next week is the Chico Police Officers’ Association’s Chico City Council candidates forum. If it’s anything like it was two years ago, we’ll get to watch the fat cats from the city’s most powerful union size up the folks they believe will line what some might consider their already overstuffed pockets.

According to city data, the CPOA’s members—police officers and sergeants—make an average of $112,000 a year in salary and benefits (not including the city’s workers’ comp contributions). Those numbers go up, of course, when the police department’s managers are factored in. Remember, we live in a community where the median household income is about $43,000.

If you didn’t have the pleasure of watching the last forum hosted by the CPOA in 2014, you missed quite the spectacle. It was amateur hour and in no way a primer for voters. Here’s a question that encapsulates the gist of that dog and pony show: “In regards to the compensation that members of the CPOA currently receive, do you feel it is adequate in order to retain and recruit quality officers to work for this association knowing that other associations of similar size are receiving as much as 25 percent more?”

Let me jog your memory here. The previous year, according to the State Controller’s Office, Chico was pegged as the 25th most generous place in the state for overall employee compensation.

That’s out of more than 480 incorporated cities and counties. The CPOA was crying poor shortly after the city teetered on the verge of bankruptcy due to the perfect storm of previous city managers and councils—conservative and liberal alike—approving significant raises for public safety personnel on the lead-up to the Great Recession.

That largesse became an issue only when the economic meltdown began, and it really hit the fan in 2012. Dozens of city employees were laid off that year, yet not one of them was a cop. Sure, the department couldn’t fill open positions at that time and there were some folks out on workers’ comp. But the Chico Police Department’s budget largely remained unscathed.

The next year, however, when the CPOA was in contract negotiations, its leaders ramped up a propaganda campaign to frighten the public about the safety of the city. In the next election cycle, the bargaining group endorsed newcomers Reanette Fillmer and Andrew Coolidge, as well as then-Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen. A few months later, those three, plus council members Sean Morgan and Ann Schwab, voted in favor of an agreement costing the city more than $1.5 million over its three-year span.

The cops’ rhetoric in advance of that vote focused mostly on how CPD was critically understaffed, yet it ended abruptly once the contract was signed—before the ink was even dry—despite the fact that the money didn’t provide for a single new cop. What a joke.

I have a running bet on exactly whom CPOA will endorse this year. Lunch is on the line. Sean Morgan and Jovanni Tricerri are sure things, of course. I have my theories about the other two.

In the meantime, voters, for unbiased and professionally run candidates forums, look to the League of Women Voters. The nonpartisan group’s events begin tonight (Thursday, Sept. 29) and run through Oct. 24. Find a full schedule at www.lwvbuttecounty.org.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Two views on re-opening Re “Road block” (Cover story, by Howard Hardee, Sept. 22): “Access denied” is all too true in describing Upper Bidwell Park for many people in Chico. Older people (like me), people with many kinds of disabilities, and even many people who simply lack the ability to bike or walk very long distances are denied access to Upper Park without being able to drive on the road. Even families with small children aren’t able to access Upper Park without the road.

As a taxpayer who has frequently been blocked by the gates, I believe the city’s goal should be to enhance access, not to limit it more. Upper Park is a wild area, but not a wilderness. There should be options for solving this that don’t keep people out of the park because they can’t walk or bike long distances.

Earl Nance Chico

It has always been my desire to climb to the top of Mount Shasta.

But the years went by, my knee was replaced, then my ankle, and at age 77 my stamina just isn’t up to it.

But wait, I’m a tax-paying citizen!

Doesn’t the government owe it to me to provide access to the peak so I can experience the view; maybe an escalator from the city of Mount Shasta?

A sad fact of life is that most of us will never have the mental, physical or economic capacities to achieve all of our loftiest of desires. I will never be able to swim like Michael Phelps, understand the universe like Stephen Hawking, or finance global disease control as Bill Gates does.

As much as I would love to, I can no longer pedal a trail bike or hike to Devil’s Kitchen or Brown’s Hole.

Why should the city be obligated to provide a means for me to drive there? Why do we believe society is responsible to provide everyone with everything they want? We’ve modified Yosemite so that “everyone” has access and now there are valley traffic jams, air pollution and debris deposition. Let’s not ruin Upper Bidwell for the same reasons.

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Song omitted Re “Honesty is key” (Arts & Culture, by Robin Bacior, Sept. 22): Loudon Wainwright III is by no means the household name of that of Pete Seeger or Joni Mitchell, but the mention of his name “... can be a little dizzying.” Ms. Bacior’s implication that Mr. Wainwright is not a well-known name is further promulgated by not mentioning Wainwright’s early 1970s smash “Dead Skunk,” as it is best to mention a performer’s background and, specifically, early works, in order to provide context for the reader. Bacior’s failure to note the song leads me to believe that she’s never heard of it, and that her age may be a prohibiting factor.

The year 1973 was, of course, the Stone Age to many on your staff who lack life experience and, most often, general knowledge of a topic. “Dead Skunk” was on the only record to chart for Wainwright, and reached No. 8 in Canada and No. 12 Down Under.

“The many associations that come to mind (when mentioning Loudon Wainwight III) ...” are even more “dizzying” when such important facts are omitted, leaving we senior citizens asking, “Huh? Why?” Bill Collins Paradise

Editor’s note: Ms. Bacior is a CN&R contributor. The remark Mr. Collins takes issue with is related to the breadth of Wainwright’s work, which includes recording 26 albums, as was noted in the story.

Council supporters I have been a registered voter in the city of Chico for 20 years. I have supported and campaigned for numerous candidates on both sides of the aisle. I have never been as excited as I am to support Jovanni Tricerri for Chico City Council.

Jovanni is a bridge builder.

He brings people from the right, left and center together to find real solutions that work for all.

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the way to build a community.

He has already demonstrated he is a leader through his work as a founding member of the Downtown Ambassadors and the Chico Children’s Museum.

He currently serves hundreds of nonprofits, and our community, as the director of community engagement for the North Valley Community Foundation. His desire is to empower others to serve and that is why I urge you to vote for Jovanni Tricerri for Chico City Council.

Jodi Drysdale Chico

I first met Ann Schwab when I arrived in Chico 20 years ago.

She worked for and now directs C.A.V.E., a program that organizes Chico State students to volunteer their time and energy for the citizens of Chico. I said, “That’s cool; her job helps everybody.”

When elected to City Council, Ann led the effort for environmental protection and chaired the Sustainability Task Force—while some council members called it a waste of time. I was impressed; she maintained her energy and determination.

As a downtown Chico smallbusiness co-owner and chair of the Mayor’s Business Advisory Council, Ann urged the city to prioritize clean economic development and balanced growth. In light of past efforts to sell off parts of Bidwell Park and current grading of viewshed land to the east and north for more developments, I said, “That makes sense, thank you, Ann.” I recently asked one of my heroes, a Chico firefighter who had come to the rescue of a friend, why he supported Ann so strongly.

He said, “She understands the real meaning of public safety.” I agree.

I trust her to keep valuing “all” of us in Chico.

Paul Friedlander Chico

Pot pros and cons Some law enforcement personnel and organizations oppose Proposition 64: Orange County Sheriff Sandra Hutchens, El Monte Police Chief David Reynoso, San Bernardino County District Attorney Mike Ramos, Orange County District Attorney Tony Rackauckas, Association for Los

Angeles Deputy Sheriffs, Riverside Sheriffs’ Association, etc. This group argues that legalization will lead to more crime, despoiled environment, increased use among young people, and encourage use of harder drugs.

Other law enforcement personnel and allied organizations support Proposition 64: Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP), retired Orange County Superior Court Judge Jim Gray, Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, Republicans Against Marijuana Prohibition (RAMP), etc. This group argues that the drug war has been an abject failure, astronomically expensive, discriminates against minorities and poor people, has ruined hundreds of thousands of lives (both in this and especially in other countries), corrupted law enforcement, and enriched gangsters and syndicates.

One would hope that voting decisions are based not on the political affiliations of supporters versus advocates, but upon careful consideration of evidence instead of tiresome, unsupported accusations. Too much of what we read in letters to the editor are opinions based on fuzzy logic devoid of supporting documentation. We can and should do better.

William Todd-Mancillas Chico

Two years ago, before Measure A was passed by the lawabiding voters of Butte County, it was the Wild West in Butte County—all because marijuana laws were lax and allowed open grows. Measure A passed and, for the past two years, the incident rate for home-invasion robberies, driveby shootings, dope rip-off robberies and murder over marijuana dropped. People now could enjoy sitting on their deck or porches and not be driven inside by the obnoxious smell of maturing marijuana plants.

Now these same dopers are attempting to repeal Measure A and replace it with an even more lax marijuana grow measure.

Measure L would cancel Measure A and we would be back to the lawlessness of three years ago. Our land would be transformed into an insecticide- and fertilizer-damaged landscape with contamination of our water supply.

Colorado is now facing a 150 percent increase in emergency

room admissions of juveniles suffering from marijuana overdoses, mainly due to “edible” marijuana, an increase in homeless individuals who arrived for marijuana, and small-business owners are leaving the state due to no competent employees in the job market. Do we really need this in Butte County?

Measure A allows for medicinal grows and use within reason, not grows for profit. Let’s keep Measure A. Measure L is a loser for Butte County.

Everett Gremminger Magalia

Support CP&J Center The Chico Peace and Justice Center’s annual dinner is coming right up, this Wednesday, Oct. 5. We are pleased to have Sue Hilderbrand as keynote speaker, presenting clips from her forthcoming film, A Frayed Nation—New Views on Gun Issues.

The filmmakers interviewed gun enthusiasts, who describe a day at the range in terms of a “fun” gathering with friends; members of the Huey P. Newton Gun Club about the legacy of the Black Panthers in terms of self-reliance and self-preservation of the black community; and a rescue worker who witnessed the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, when civil society collapsed.

Roots Catering will provide a delicious dinner, including a vegan option; music by folk artist Sherri Quammen; free child care; a drawing for two beautiful quilts, vacation get-away and more. Purchase early bird tickets for $40 at Pullins Cyclery, 801 Main St., or online at www.chicopeace.org.

This will be a thoroughly enjoyable evening—we hope folks will join us.

Emily Alma, CPJC board of directors Chico

Notes on The Donald It is very weird that a country founded largely to get away from imperious rule is showing interest in having a king again. The spirit of our nation and the French awakened the world to the ancient ignorance of monarchy. I believe the Trump followers are so frustrated that his emperor-like bearing seems fresh and original. He is very different, arrogant, spoiled,

defiant and, like Dirty Harry, everything is fixed with force.

Well, my fellows, we may have to waste a lot of our time and treasure putting “his majesty” back in the 17th century, where kings reign and people like you and I dream of self rule.

Giovanni Lavezzi Chico

Just from listening to him, I don’t think Donald Trump would be a very compassionate president, but I think he could be a very cruel dictator.

Barbara Ortiz Magalia

‘A beautiful event’ Re “Singing for a cause” (Guest comment, by Dan Holmes, Sept. 22): The benefit for Torres Shelter guests that Dan Holmes is spearheading is going to be a beautiful event. It would be a shame for anyone reading this to miss it. It will be held at 7 p.m. on Oct. 1 at Neighborhood Church (the dome).

There was a sample of the event Saturday at a flash mob in the mall. I’ve never been part of a flash mob before and so I really didn’t know what to expect. When one of the Chico Gospel Choir members started to sing, I worried her voice wouldn’t be heard over the crowd noise. Within seconds, her brave voice rose above everything and then dozens of other voices joined in. I sat there awestruck; it was beautiful.

I found myself thinking about these 100 people participating that come from so many backgrounds, so many economic situations, so many political ideologies, so many faith denominations, and have so many other differences between them. We live with much divisiveness in the world these days. It sure did my heart good to see and hear the unity of all those voices joining together selflessly to help others. Absofreakinlutely wonderful!

Brad Montgomery, Torres Community Shelter executive director Chico

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The North Valley Community Foundation’s annual Annie B’s Community Drive is coming to a close on Friday (Sept. 30). That’s the last day to donate through the drive to more than 250 local nonprofit groups dedicated to causes such as animal welfare, the arts, education, the environment and more.

Contributions to participating organizations yield matching funds from a pool of money donated to help bolster contributions to local charitable causes. The drive is named for Annie Bidwell, the wife of Chico founder John Bidwell and a pioneer in her own right.

Now in its 10th and final year, Annie B’s has raised more than $11 million for charitable causes. It’s the largest grant program of its kind in the region, involving organizations in Butte, Colusa, Glenn and Tehama counties.

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Eric Avalos-Guevara, 24, was arrested by Wheatland Police officers at about 1 a.m. on Sunday (Sept. 25). With help from the FBI, the Chico Police Department was able to identify Avalos-Guevara as a suspect in the Sept. 30, 2015, robbery of Umpqua Bank on The Esplanade.

Yuba County Superior Court records show Avalos-Guevara—a resident of the Yuba County community where he was arrested— has a criminal history. He was charged with three felonies for threatening a police officer in April. The felonies were dismissed and he was given three years probation after pleading no contest to resisting arrest, a misdemeanor.

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An Oroville man was arrested on Sept. 23 for allegedly shooting at a park-goer with a compound bow and brandishing it at people in a convenience store.

On the evening of Sept. 21, a caller reported being shot at by a bow-wielding man at Riverbend Park, according to an Oroville Police Department press release. The caller provided a description of the attacker’s vehicle, but a search was unsuccessful. At 8:15 p.m., another caller said a man was pointing a bow and arrow at people in a Tower Mart. The man was gone by the time police arrived.

Around 2 a.m. on Sept. 23, a police officer saw a vehicle matching the description of the suspect’s and approached the driver, 51-yearold John Wilkeson (pictured), and reportedly saw a compound bow in the passenger seat.

Wilkeson was arrested for assault with a deadly weapon, among other charges.

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No place to live Affordable housing is scarce in Chico—especially for residents who qualify for government assistance including as a restaurant manager in Jdowntown Chico during the 1980s and

ulie Parker worked hard for 37 years,

’90s. In more recent years, as she struggled to make ends meet, the only work she could find was waiting tables story and at diners. Then she photo by Howard Hardee couldn’t work at all.

One of her disabilih owa rd h @ ties is physical. She’s n ew srev i ew. c o m had bad knees since childhood. “My whole body is kind of crooked because of it,” she said.

“Now it’s affecting me a lot, and I have a hard time working in restaurants.” The other is mental: severe chronic depression.

The latter condition became debilitating about a year and a half ago. Unable to work, she lost her home and has been living with friends ever since.

Parker (not her real last name) is 57 years old and has lived in Chico since 1984. As she waits for disability benefits to come through, her only income is $330 a month from Butte County’s

General Assistance program. She needs help if she’s going to have a home of her own again.

So she asked. Parker recently applied for a Section 8 housing voucher and was accepted through a random lottery. She has until Oct. 22 to find an apartment and, based on her single status, rent and utilities, can’t exceed a total of $735. It’s been a challenge. Parker was provided with a list of apartment complexes that accept the vouchers, but all she’s heard from landlords—sometimes brusquely—is no. In some cases, they have months-long waiting lists for people seeking subsidized housing. In others, she believes she’s been discriminated against for needing assistance.

“The attitude I’ve been getting is, ‘Ew, you have a Section 8 voucher. We don’t want you here,’” she said. “It feels like a fight.”

As executive director of Butte County’s

Housing Authority, Ed Mayer oversees administration of the Section 8 program.

Also known as the Housing Choice

Voucher, it provides assistance to very low-income families and people who are elderly or disabled. Those who qualify use the vouchers to secure housing on the private market and the federal government pays participating landlords directly.

In Butte County, 1,950 voucher-holders currently are in subsidized housing, but having a voucher doesn’t guarantee a place to live.

Parker’s struggle illustrates the scarcity of affordable housing, Mayer said.

That’s the picture painted by statistics published quarterly by the North Valley Property Owners Association. In any real estate market, Mayer explained, a baselevel vacancy rate is preferable “so people can move around and find housing.” For instance, in 2009-10, the vacancy rate for apartments in Chico was around 6 percent—considered healthy for a market like Butte County’s in which the average annual rate of population growth is about 1.5 percent.

Without much new construction following the Great Recession, Chico’s apartment vacancy rate has been in a nosedive

Ed Mayer, executive director of Butte County’s Housing Authority, says local construction isn’t keeping pace with demand for housing.

for several years. It’s currently hovering around 1.5 percent to 2 percent and appears to be dwindling even further, Mayer said.

One sign of the squeeze is how long it takes people who have Section 8 vouchers to sign a lease. In 2014, it took voucher-holders an average of 53 days.

Last year, it took 70 days. This year, the Housing Authority expects an 85-day wait.

“That tells us the local market is tightening up,” Mayer said. When that happens, landlords can be picky about whom they rent to. “It’s taking longer and longer for folks to find housing.”

The local Housing Authority opened the

waiting list for Section 8 vouchers from Sept. 1-16, creating a lottery in which 1,200 applicants were chosen at random from a pool of about 2,750 local individuals, couples and families. Only about one-third showed up to an eligibility interview. From that point, about 80 percent went to a briefing to receive their Section 8 vouchers. Based on previous years, Mayer says 68 percent of eligible applicants—a total of about 220—likely will sign a lease.

One-third of the people who have vouchers won’t find housing for a variety of reasons, Mayer said. Some may be looking only at “gold-plated apartment complexes” beyond their means.

Very old or disabled tenants may not find a unit with adequate access. People with mental or behavioral disabilities can have difficulty communicating on their own behalf.

Most often, however, it’s because the voucher-holders don’t meet the qualifications of property owners. “They have terrible credit histories; they have criminal histories,” Mayer said. It’s up to the landlords to decide whether they will participate. More than 600 landlords in the county do, Mayer said, but some aren’t so welcoming.

“Not all of them entertain someone at their door with a Section 8 voucher in a very gracious fashion,” he said.

That’s been Parker’s experience.

Recently, she expanded her search for a home into Paradise. She can’t use the voucher to stay at her friend’s place because the program doesn’t allow for roommates, so she might have to apply for an extension to her deadline.

“I thought it would feel nice, for one time in my life, to have security in my home,” she said. “But it’s really hard to get.” □

The issue that won’t go away Supervisors again struggle with marijuana laws

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he members of the Butte County Board of Supervisors are tired of talking about medical marijuana. It’s the issue that won’t go away.

Now, five years after they began trying to come up with an ordinance acceptable to all stakeholders—five years filled with numerous noisily contentious hearings and competing ordinances and ballot measures—they’re no closer to clarity.

Their weariness was evident at the beginning of yet another marijuana-related discussion at their meeting Tuesday (Sept. 27).

“We should try to get along and politely debate after the [staff] presentation,” board Chairman Bill Connelly implored, sounding as if another nasty free-for-all was more than he could take.

Fortunately for him, the discussion was educational only; no action was to be taken, so no fighting was called for.

The discussion centered around a report prepared mostly by Casey Hatcher, of the administration staff, with the participation of numerous department heads. It was prepared in response to an earlier request by the board for an analysis of the potential impact of two marijuana-related items on the Nov. 8 ballot.

One was state Proposition 64, which would legalize adult use, sales and cultivation of recreational pot. The other was Measure L, a local initiative sponsored by a coalition of medi-pot patients and growers led by the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association. In June, the group submitted more than 10,000 signatures to qualify the measure for the ballot.

Hatcher’s very thorough 25-page report tried to answer three questions: What if only Prop. 64 passes? What if only Measure L passes? And what if both pass?

Prop. 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act,

is structurally similar to the current ordinance governing medical marijuana in Butte County, Hatcher explained. Its most significant provision would extend the right to grow and use pot now available only to medical-marijuana patients to all adults.

They would be allowed to possess up to an ounce of the herb and cultivate as many as six plants for personal use.

The county could require that these plants be grown indoors or in locked outdoor buildings. It also would be able to restrict or prohibit commercial pot businesses such as dispensaries, and it would be allowed to tax those enterprises it permitted.

Chief Administrative Officer Paul Hahn assured the supervisors that “a great deal of local control is still in your hands” under Prop. 64. However, they will have to deal with the matter of the six-plant exemption, inasmuch as the current ordinance doesn’t allow indoor grows or grows on more than 50 square feet on parcels smaller than 5 acres.

Measure L is “a different animal” and “a game changer,” Hahn said. As Hatcher explained, it would permit the commercial growing of medical marijuana in nearly every zone in Butte County, allow up to 100 square feet for individuals’ grows and 500 square feet for up to five patients. No other restrictions would apply for personal cultivation, such as residency, permitted residences with water and wastewater sources, or setbacks and fencing.

County voters would be able to authorize the taxation of licensed commercial pot enterprises and the county could adopt user fees for them. In Colorado, which legalized marijuana in 2013, total tax revenue in FY 2014-15 was $82.1 million.

SIFT ER Pro-pot numbers higher than ever Californians planning to vote in favor of legalizing recreational marijuana this November outnumber those opposed 2 to 1, according to survey results released last week (Sept. 22) by The Field Poll/Institute for Governmental Studies. The results show that 60 percent of likely voters said they will cast their ballot in favor of Propo-

sition 64, while 31 percent say they will vote against the measure (9 percent were undecided). The pro-legalization percentage is the highest the organization has recorded since it began tracking attitudes about pot in 1969.

However, Colorado has found that it has created a “gray market” in which legal and illegal pot are mixed, legally grown pot is sold out of state, and burglaries and robberies of marijuana businesses have increased—though this last assertion is belied by statistics from a March 2016 study by the Colorado Department of Public Safety showing that the number of industryrelated burglaries are relatively few, and robberies even rarer.

Measure L’s provisions are also confusing and inconsistent, Hatcher stated. County Counsel Bruce Alpert agreed, stating that it would be “very hard to enforce Measure L. It would create costly litigation on many, many levels with no ending.”

Butte County officials historically have

opposed liberalizing marijuana laws, and to some extent the report, as even-handed as it is, reflects that leaning. It should be noted, though, that the officials are in synch with county voters, who approved 2014’s Measure A tightening pot regulations with 60 percent of the vote.

“As long as marijuana is illegal in other states, there will be a black market,” Jessica MacKenzie, executive director of the cannabis farmers’ group, told the board. But that doesn’t mean we should go backward, she added.

In an interview during a break in the meeting, she noted that collectively we’re in the early stages of figuring out how to handle marijuana, but that the movement is steady toward greater acceptance of legalization, regulation and taxation. Financially, socially and morally, it makes sense to stop putting people in prison for marijuana, she said.

Supervisor Larry Wahl wanted the board to go on record immediately in opposition to Measure L. Its authors, he said, “should be ashamed of themselves. It’s not going to work, and it’s going to cost a lot of money.”

Alpert reminded the board that the item hadn’t been agendized. “You can oppose it individually, but not collectively as the board,” he said. The supervisors voted unanimously to add it to an upcoming agenda.

One could almost hear them muttering, “Not again.”

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Those who stayed home were participating in a national action called for earlier this month by actor Isaiah Washington and documentarian/activist Madelon “Blue” McCullough called #StayAtHomeSeptember26. A dramatic rally, in which more than 300 members of the campus community locked arms or held hands and stood silent for 10 minutes, occurred at about noon that day at Trinity Commons.

“We ... stand in solidarity [with those] who are attempting to make sense of the continued slaughter of our brothers and sisters in acts of violence by police, the repeated denial of due process to black citizens, even when the body cam is on, and the systemic silencing of our voices of protest,” reads an email dispatched by the university’s Black Faculty and Staff Association on Friday (Sept. 23). “These issues and oth-

ers have left some of us within our community feeling as though our voices, experiences, and lives do not matter. Thus, in an act of self-care, self-awareness, and selfpreservation, we will participate in #StayAtHomeSeptember26.”

Egypt Howard, an assistant program coordinator at the university’s Cross-Cultural Leadership Center (CCLC), said she organized the rally to allow people who couldn’t miss work or school to participate on campus. The intent of the national action, she said, was to show how much blacks contribute to the economy and what communities would look like without them. The sit-out also made a symbolic statement: “Oftentimes, we feel our voices are not being heard, so by taking our bodies out of the picture, our absence can speak for some of our frustrations and feelings toward racial issues right now,” Howard said Tuesday.

Another event, organized by the school’s Black Student Union—a candlelight vigil sparked by the Sept. 20 shooting of Keith Lamont Scott by police officers in Charlotte, N.C.—was scheduled for Wednesday night, after press

More than 300 people participate in a rally on Chico State’s campus to denounce the killing of black Americans by law enforcement officers.

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time. According to The Guardian’s national database of police shootings, Scott was the 194th black man—and 790th person—killed by officers so far this year. A similar Internet database called Killed by Police lists that total as 844 deaths.

Howard said the rally was also for “allies” of all races who wanted to show their support for the black campus community. She said she was inundated with messages from people who wanted to be involved after the announcement from the Black Faculty and Staff Association that its members would participate in the stay-home effort.

“The turnout was amazing, considering it all came together in three days,” she said, noting the only negative feedback she was aware of was a single Facebook post that has since been deleted by the user who posted it. “It was from someone who felt we were being more divisive than unifying … but I honestly feel the rally was very unifying. There were no negative messages, no violence and

nobody was being targeted specifically. It wasn’t about one incident, but about how our community fits into the larger community here.”

Tray Robinson, director of the school’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion, said he was impressed by the level of participation in the rally and sit-out: “It was very evident what we accomplished,” he said. “It brought unity to the campus and allowed folks who are directly affected [by racial issues] to see support from their allies, the administration and the community.”

Robinson said he encouraged faculty who did show up on Monday to incorporate conversations about race relations into their curriculum, and that he hopes faculty will continue to do so. On a related note, English Department Chair Tracy Butts is recruiting colleagues to conduct a series of “teach-ins” focusing on black issues. The events will be open to the public, held in the school’s new Arts & Humanities Building, and could begin as early as Oct. 10.

Though there have been no high-profile incidents of policeon-black violence in the North State, Howard said there are local race-related problems that need to be addressed, both on and off campus. She pointed to low black enrollment at Chico State as an example. In the fall of 2015, black students accounted for 2.3 percent of the student body, compared with a state average of 4.3 percent, according to Chico State and the California State University system.

The National Center for Education Statistics said blacks accounted for 14.5 percent of college students nationally in 2014.

Howard also said that students regularly report more personal instances of racism to her.

“I think many students here deal with direct and indirect microaggressions on a daily basis and deal with more serious incidents here and there,” she said. “A lot of students tell me they get things thrown at them or someone will yell the N-word while they’re walking down the street. I love Chico a lot and it’s not as bad as some places, but there are definitely moments when I wonder, ‘Am I safe here? Do people value my life?’”

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Trisha Seastrom. “Marijuana has an impact on motivation that, in the adolescent brain, is particularly insidious,” she said. “Young people often find that they’re not achieving the goals they set for themselves.”

A lack of motivation isn’t the only negative side effect of heavy pot smoking. Many of the young people Seastrom works with as a licensed drug and alcohol counselor reach a point where cannabis impacts their daily functioning. Some “wake and bake”—or use first thing in the morning—to avoid physical and psychological withdrawal symptoms, she said. Others become extremely anxious if they don’t get the right dosage throughout the day.

It’s a pattern of abuse that can negatively affect performance at school and work as well as personal relationships, she added.

Seastrom is the program director of Chico State’s Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center (CADEC). Speaking generally about attitudes toward marijuana—not just among college students—she says there’s a common perception that there’s no such thing as cannabis addiction, and if there is, it’s not that bad of a condition. However, the scientific and medical communities hold that

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marijuana addiction exists and causes harm.

“Cannabis use disorder” is recognized by the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), considered the bible for psychiatrists, as a spectrum that ranges from mild to severe.

“It is a psychoactive drug that leads to tolerance and withdrawal,” Seastrom said, “which are hallmarks of physical dependence.”

strains today are much higher in tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the psychoactive ingredient in cannabis.

“The THC content has become so high and growing techniques have become so

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Nationally, young people’s attitudes toward

marijuana are trending toward greater acceptance, according to the University of Michigan’s annual Monitoring the Future report, which surveys about 50,000 students in eighth, 10th and 12th grades throughout the U.S. In 2015, the percentage of students who reported using cannabis remained virtually unchanged from the year before—about 24 percent. However, the percentage of students who perceive smoking it to be a “great risk” was the lowest ever recorded in the study: 58 percent in eighth grade; 43 percent in 10th grade; and 32 percent in 12th grade.

Over the last few years, Seastrom says, colleges throughout the U.S. are seeing more young people seek treatment in substance abuse programs for cannabis alone. On top of society’s normalization of the drug, Seastrom attributes this to pot’s increasing potency. Compared with when Seastrom went to high school in the 1970s and ’80s,

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sophisticated—all you have to do is Google it—people are developing more profound dependencies,” she said.

Dr. Ruben Baler is a health science administrator with the National Institute on Drug Abuse, a Maryland-based organization dedicated to advancing addiction science.

It sponsors research on the health aspects of drug abuse and addiction, including the Monitoring the Future report.

Speaking with the CN&R by phone, Baler said the latest edition of the DSM reflects a shifting paradigm regarding addiction in general. The vagueness of terms such as “physical dependence,” “psychological dependence” and “addiction” only feed confusion.

“DSM moved away from those terms because they don’t mean much,” he said.

“Medical professionals and scientists now are recognizing that these disorders are dimensional; they’re spectrum disorders.

That means they come in many different flavors with different grades of severity.

“There is a number of criteria to define a person with a substance use disorder, but we will not say you have it/don’t have it,” he continued. “We say to what degree you’re suffering from a substance use disorder.”

Such conditions are defined by the behaviors they entail, Baler said. Users act compulsively despite potentially damaging consequences “but they just can’t control themselves.” In that regard, cannabis is a

Still, it’s not nearly as addictive as,

lack of appetite, problems sleeping, irritability and anxiety. Depending on the level of use, those symptoms may be magnified, he added.

“If you’re further along in the severity of the disorder,” he said, “you will feel the withdrawal symptoms more severely as well.”

The good news, Baler says, is that all substance use disorders are treatable. “If you feel like you are suffering from a cannabis use disorder—you probably can tell if you are or you’re not—seek professionals trained to help you on the recovery trajectory,” he said.

Relapsing is an expected part of the process, Baler emphasized.

say, nicotine. Nearly half of U.S. adults have smoked marijuana at some point in their lives, according to a Pew Research Center poll, and about 9 percent of people who try it develop some level of use disorder, Baler said. That’s similar to “It’s a myth that alcohol, but far below nicotine—about onecannabis is a benign third of people who drug that cannot try smoking cigarettes become addicted. As cause addiction.” with all substances —Dr. ruben baler of abuse, the earlier someone starts, the higher their risk of developing a problem “It is not a sign of failure of later in life, he said. treatment,” he said, “it a sign of The symptoms of withdrawal a condition that is chronic and from cannabis aren’t nearly as bad relapsing, like diabetes or hyperas from harder drugs such as herotension. You have to stick with in, cocaine and methamphetamine, it.” □ Baler said. The most common are

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“You definitely can be quoteunquote ‘addicted to cannabis,’ and you definitely can suffer from the use disorder,” he said. “And the proof is in the pudding—you can go to the emergency room because of withdrawal symptoms.

“It’s a myth that cannabis is a benign drug that cannot cause addiction.”

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Opening the field

ChicoBag founder Andy Keller displays a Produce Stand bag, made from blending cotton and hemp fibers, in his company’s Chico headquarters.

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Tconscious innovative products geared toward ecocustomers like his, Andy Keller o keep current on new businesses and

makes a point to attend Natural Product Expo trade shows.

Keller—founder of ChicoBag, the local company that pioneered compact reusable shopping totes—has observed a trend: trendiness. Particularly on the food side, one item a year seems to become chic.

“A few years ago it was the acai berry; everyone was on the acai berry kick,” he said. “Then it was the chia seed; everything’s got chia seed in it.”

Hemp is on the cusp of that cachet. Oils, salves and textiles have existed for years— ChicoBag, in fact, incorporates industrial hemp into the natural-fiber blend for its Produce Stand bag—but Keller has seen offerings expand. In fact, Gridley’s Mary’s Gone Crackers offers a Chia & Hemp variety in its Super Seed line.

“As it becomes legalized in different states,” he said, “the interest in it as a health product or a food product will increase, and the demand will increase.”

Come November, California could jump on the legalization bandwagon, joining 16 states that allow cultivation of industrial hemp for commercial purposes. This would happen with the passage of Proposition 64, the Adult Use of Marijuana Act, which includes hemp provisions as part of the overall regulation of cannabis.

Hemp differs from marijuana most notably for its low concentration of the psychoactive compound THC. Under Prop. 64, industrial hemp must contain no more than 0.3 percent THC; by comparison, marijuana’s THC content is 1 percent to 5 percent in average plants and around 20 percent in

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some specially cultivated hybrids.

California already has a hemp-cultivation law on the books, but that part of the Food and Agriculture Code will not become active unless the federal government removes hemp from the drug schedule where it sits with marijuana. Prop. 64—currently polling at 60 percent voter support—would bypass that law and process.

Michael Bowman, board chair of the National Hemp Association, sees this initiative as a positive development. A Colorado farmer-turned-advocate who lives part-time in California, he worked with his industry group to get hemp included in the 2014 Farm Bill. (Section 7606 permits hemp cultivation for research.)

“Industrial hemp is an agricultural commodity—it is a crop that should be treated as such,” Bowman said by phone from Pasadena. “If I have corn, I can make cattle feed or high fructose corn syrup or bourbon.

If I have wheat, I can make bread or beer.

It’s the same thing with an industrial hemp plant: I can make fiber for textiles, CBD oil [i.e., cannabidiol, for nonpsychoactive remedies], protein cake for human consumption that we would use as a supplement.

“Those plants, growing next to each other, not a single one of them poses a single health threat to anyone.”

Hemp is a green crop, beyond its associated

color and money potential.

“The California implications are significant,” said Bowman, who mentioned he’s currently working with a hemp researcher at Cal Poly Pomona, Tony De Veyra.

Hemp grows in a variety of soils, Bowman explained, and even can help reduce the salinity level in high-salt soil prevalent in the Imperial Valley. It requires less water than many other crops, such as cotton—and compared to cotton, he said, “it can grow four times more fiber per acre, with valuable coproducts.” Hemp also requires fewer herbicides and pesticides.

“Lastly,” Bowman continued, “as we look through the climate goals that the state of California has, industrial hemp absorbs four times more CO2 per acre than a standing forest or any crop we could grow.”

Colleen Cecil, executive director of the Butte County Farm Bureau, has not heard any talk among her members about hempgrowing should Prop. 64 pass.

She anticipates issues. If cultivating both hemp and marijuana becomes legal per Prop. 64, neighboring growers risk cross-pollination.

That proximity concern, Bowman said, delayed implementing Oregon’s law.

Within the confines of their farms, Cecil said hemp represents an “unknown” to local farmers.

“We already have some challenges—there’s a particular chemical input that you’d use on rice that would completely kill a walnut orchard,” she explained. “There’s scientific application information that’s truly lacking about how industrial hemp would grow in our environment, with those crops that we already do grow.”

Hemp poses distinct manufacturing challenges, at least for textile-makers. Getting the plant defoliated, then its fibers soft and pliable, requires enzymes, water, machinery and sometimes chemicals.

“It’s not necessarily like this environmental wonder on the production side,” Keller said. “On the growing side, it has a good story; on the production side, it’s not as good of a story.”

Still, he said, because of its image, hemp promises “a big opportunity that will go for years in the future, which could drive industry in the North State.” □

ECO EVENT HOW YA LIKE THEM APPLES? John Chapman—better known as Johnny Appleseed—was so eccentric it’s hard to distinguish the facts from fables about his life. But first-hand accounts from people who met him indicate he really was a vegetarian, animal-loving, apple-orchardplanting pacifist and Christian mystic who traipsed around the frontier barefoot with a tin pot atop his head. The town of Paradise has been paying homage to this legendary weirdo, proto-environmentalist and historical hippie annually since 1888, making the town’s Johnny Appleseed Days—happening this weekend (Oct. 1-2)—the oldest harvest festival in the state.

The event will be at Terry Ashe Park (6626 Skyway).

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15 MINUTES out there. I’m not saying you don’t have to have a level of physical-ness to play this sport, but it’s as much a mental game as a physical game. So the older you get, you learn to use your mental game.

Dragon slayer Margaret Brunelle has taught fencing locally for 11 years. The self-described “crazy lady with the sword” runs My Fencing Center (2290 Ivy St., Ste. 180), which operates under the motto “Dare mighty things.” Fencing had been a lifelong dream for Brunelle, one that went unrealized until she moved to Chico in 2001 after accepting a job at Blue Shield of California. Office work was less physical than her former profession as a horse trainer, she said, and was not very healthy. She watched herself and her officemates put on extra pounds every year—two of her co-workers had heart attacks, Brunelle said—and not wanting to suffer a similar fate, she finally tried fencing and discovered she had a knack for it. In tournaments, she’s since placed in all three weapon categories—foil, saber and épée.

And it was her competition success that made Brunelle decide to teach, with hopes of piercing the glass ceiling and getting young women involved in the sport. She started teaching with the Chico Area Recreation and Park District and eventually settled into her permanent location two years ago. Visit www.myfencingcenter.org to learn more.

How is fencing a mental game?

Basically, you’re laying a trap for your opponent. You set up something that looks like this is what you’re going to do and they bite on it, then you really follow through with your action. When you get on a higher level it becomes a dance in a lot of ways ... and it can go to third- and fourth-level intentions, which are absolutely a joy to watch.

You also raise horses. Have you thought of combining the two businesses?

No. The kids have wanted me to bring them so we can joust. The insurance will not cover jousting in the building. So no, we do not do that.

The Paralympics have fencing, too. How does My Fencing Center provide for people with disabilities?

Which fencing win are you most proud of?

My best result was at the senior games down in San Francisco. [My opponent] had just medaled in Europe, and I hadn’t fenced in six months.

How fit does one have to be to fence?

There isn’t anybody, depending on age, physical ability, whatever, that cannot learn the sport and have a measure of success. And I think that’s what’s different [between] this sport and a lot of sports

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One of my projects right now has been working with autistic children, because it works. I’ve had them come in here with ADD, ADHD, Asperger and on the spectrum, and they can do it. And I’ve had the feedback ... that they have seen a marked improvement from fencing. To me, that means more than the tournaments.

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A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Phoenix Building Gift Shop shutting its doors.

Well, it turns out a couple more downtown businesses are calling it quits. The first holds a special place in my heart, so its absence on Second Street is a particular bummer.

Around 2008, during the height of the Great Recession, my co-workers and I at the CN&R decided to take a temporary pay cut to avoid anyone having to be laid off. It was worth it, of course, but it also made things a little more difficult.

So, I bought a sewing machine and some fabric and started making farmers’ market shopping bags and purses. Etsy didn’t really work for me, so I gave Konjo, a brand-new consignment store, a shot. Before long, I was dropping new creations off regularly and making a little extra money off my hobby.

Konjo went through changes over the years—even trying live music at night—and was open inconsistent hours, but every time I went in there I found awesome locally made fashions as well as hand-picked items. Libby Liebenberg and Kirk Johnson, your shop will be missed! Waiting for the silver lining? The prime space (112 W. Second St.) is already spoken for. It will soon be home to Woodzee, a super cool local company that specializes in sustainable, wood-frame sunglasses.

The second downtown closing is MCM Vintage & Wax Museum Records. The shop, opened in August 2015 by Dan and Lorna Lewis, specialized in midcentury modern décor as well as, naturally, vinyl records. In addition to selling their own chosen goods, the Lewises also offered up space to consignors. A note to customers indicates they hope to reopen in a different location. Closing sales already have begun; the store will shut its doors by mid-October.

What’s olD becomes neW The Chico Mall will be seeing some changes over the next couple of months. First off, local company Coast Board Shop will be opening, offering skateboards and skating equipment and accessories. Second, mall shoppers likely have noticed that Bath & Body Works has temporarily moved.

That’s because it’s undergoing a remodel, which includes expanding to make room for White Barn Candle. Now we’ll all have more of a reason to stop and smell the, ahem, rose-scented candles.

Family-style upgraDe Chico’s Olive Garden recently got a makeover to make the most of its new logo and updated, modern design scheme. I haven’t had a chance to check it out yet, but it gives me a good reason to go eat my all-time favorite food and St. Louis staple, toasted ravioli (the only other place I’ve found them locally is at Celestino’s on East Avenue).

Olive Garden spokeswoman Fernanda Horvath informed me that the remodel includes some fancy-schmancy new video monitors in the lobby, dining-area wine-pouring stations and a new back bar with plugs for cellphone charging.

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Learning Boulder, Colo., is similar to Chico in many ways, so how is marijuana legalization going there?

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our years ago, when backers of Colorado’s Amendment 64 predicted tax revenues on the marijuana industry would reach $100 million, many scoffed at the idea.

“It’s not a surprise that a report paid for by an outof-state, pro-legalization organization, the Drug Policy Alliance, overstates the impact of legalizing marijuana for recreational use,” leading No on 64 advocate Roger Sherman told Westword, Denver’s alternative weekly, back in 2012. “This report triples the estimate from the state’s unbiased, nonpartisan Office of Legislative Council ….”

In fiscal year 2015-16, the state collected nearly $70 million in marijuana taxes—both sales and excise. And that’s not including local taxes and licensing fees, which reached $29 million in Denver alone. Nearby Boulder, with a population of about 100,000, has seen extra revenues to the tune of $2 million annually. It’s a significant amount of money, Boulder officials say.

“I’m not a tax expert, but it seems to vary between 2 and 3 percent of our overall sales tax,” said Mishawn Cook, licensing adminisILLUSTRATION BY SERENE LUSANO

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trator for the city of Boulder. “That’s nothing to sneeze at. It’s been relatively substantial.

Boulder is a lot like Chico. It’s a college town, mostly white, with a median age of 28.7 (Chico’s is 28.6). Residents of the Colorado city that borders the Rocky Mountains skew Democratic and liberal, just as Chico’s voters do—though Chico has more registered Republicans at 30.3 percent, vs. Boulder’s 20 percent.

“One of the city’s initial focuses, and also our City Council’s initial focuses, was that we wanted these businesses to fit in to our city, not for our city to fit in with these businesses,” Cook said. Much like Chico, Boulder boasts a vibrant downtown area and takes pride in its open park spaces in the foothills of the Rockies. “It’s not a circumstance where you have marijuana location after marijuana location in a particular spot. It’s not allowed to perpetuate.”

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This November, California is poised to join

Colorado, Oregon, Washington and the District of Columbia in legalizing recreational cannabis. While a similar initiative six years ago failed to gain voter approval in the state, a recent poll by USC Dornsife/ Los Angeles Times found that 58 percent of Californians support Proposition 64, aka the Adult Use of Marijuana Act (AUMA).

Prop. 64 would allow anyone 21 and older to possess up to 1 ounce of marijuana and 8 grams of concentrated cannabis for recreational use. The existing Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation would be renamed the Bureau of Marijuana Control and charged with licensing and regulating marijuana businesses on the state level. In addition, counties and cities would be empowered to set up their own set of rules, including taxes. The state would impose a 15 percent sales tax on pot and a weight-dependent excise tax on flowers and concentrates.

Money generated through taxes and licensing fees—estimated at tens of millions—would first go to cover the costs of enforcement and administration and then toward marijuana research, education and drug treatment programs. Local jurisdictions would have the authority to use collected revenue for their own purposes. For instance, in Boulder, the money goes to youth education programs and the county health department; the rest is deposited into the general fund.

To put this in perspective, in 2014, the California Board of Equalization had licensed about 1,600 medical marijuana dispensaries, according to its website. Those dispensaries brought in $570 million, translating to $45.9 million in state taxes. That money currently goes into the state’s general fund.

Just like in Colorado, medicinal cannabis will continue to exist. So, Prop. 64 does not remove or supercede Proposition 215. In the Centennial State, dispensaries for both medicinal and recreational marijuana exist.

Some even occupy the same space. For lawmen like Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, this poses a problem.

“The distinction between what’s recreation and what is medicinal is going to get extraordinarily difficult to determine,” he said recently by phone. “In Colorado, there’s

“We needed to figure out how to make it work, not whether to make it work” —Boulder Mayor Suzanne Jones

an interesting gray market. You have stuff that’s grown legally for the recreation market but then sold on the medicinal market for no tax. How the regulators are going to keep track of that [in California] is going to be rather interesting.”

Colorado does tax medicinal marijuana, but at a lower rate than recreational pot.

Ramsey has long been a vocal opponent of legalization, both as medicine and recreation. He led the charge against several medicinal cannabis dispensaries that opened in the county nearly 10 years ago.

All have since shut down. Some businesses do operate as mobile dispensaries in Butte County, however, occupying the current gray area MMRSA (the Medical Marijuana Regulation and Safety Act) hopes to eliminate by laying out specific permitting, licensing and operational procedures for commercial medical cannabis.

Ramsey walks the hard line, however.

“Why put another substance out there that people can abuse? There’s already enough out there: alcohol, tobacco ...” he said. “I’m officially against it [Prop. 64]. My big concerns are that we’ll see, as we have seen in Colorado, a spike in adult use. And that legitimizes teen use, so that goes up.

I’m concerned that we’ll see impressionable adolescents going down a road they probably shouldn’t go down.”

Data do show that adult past-month marijuana use increased after legalization in Colorado—63 percent, in fact, between 2011-12 and 2013-14. It’s a different story for kids and teens, however. According to

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data posted on the Colorado Department of Public Health & Environment’s website, young people’s pot habits have remained about the same since marijuana became legal.

In fact, the percentage of middle- and highschoolers who reported having smoked pot in the previous 30 days dropped from 25 percent in 2009 to 21 percent last year.

“Second,” Ramsey continued, “I’m concerned about adults driving stoned. We have way too many deaths already.”

That’s a sentiment shared by Chico Mayor Mark Sorensen. “One flaw [in Prop. 64] is a very serious flaw: They don’t define intoxication,” he said. “That is a glaring omission. Granted, we kind of lack the science. Even the .08 [blood-alcohol level] standard doesn’t work perfectly because alcohol affects different people differently.”

The states of Washington and Colorado have set a “drugged driving” limit at 5 nanograms of THC. A similar threshold has been proposed in California via Assembly Bill 2740. That bill is currently in the Assembly Appropriations Committee. Additionally, Colorado and Washington treat weed like booze when it comes to having an open container while driving. Smoking in your vehicle as well as in public is illegal.

Boulder is a good example of what the

future of legalized pot would look like for Chico, as Prop. 64 is substantially similar to

Amendment 64 (though the numbers are a coincidence).

Mayor Suzanne Jones says her city decided to allow marijuana businesses because a majority of local voters approved Amendment 64, which empowers local governments to regulate or ban such businesses.

“We needed to figure out how to make it work, not whether to make it work,” she said by phone. “We devoted a lot of staff and council time to figuring it out because it was important to make it right. What we ended up with was a pretty strict regulatory structure.”

Jones’ main concerns, which echoed many of her constituents’ concerns, revolved around youth access. “We wanted to make sure we regulated in a way that’s fair to businesses but also protects underage youth from an increase in accessibility,” she said. To that effect, Boulder adopted numerous rules regarding advertising—dispensaries can only display the name of their business, not sales or deals, in their windows, for instance, and they can’t have a booth at an event that is expected to attract a crowd made up of more than 30 percent of people under 21.

Locally imposed taxes also targeted protection of youth. In addition to state taxes, Boulder imposes a 3.5 percent sales tax and a 5 percent excise tax, says Licensing Administrator Cook. Last fiscal year, local POT C O N T I N U E D SEPTEMBER 29, 2016

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taxes from 83 licensed businesses added up to about $2 million. To ease the transition, she said, they started with medical marijuana dispensaries, which were allowed in Boulder starting in 2010.

“We gave our medical locations about a six-month head start before we started taking brand-new license applications,” she said.

“Plus, our City Council has decided not to have a license numbers cap. Instead, they’ve decided to sort of control numbers by virtue of distance from schools, density, etc. So, we can’t have more than three marijuana locations within 500 feet of each other.”

The tax revenue has more than paid for the administrative costs associated with regulation and enforcement of policies, Cook said. “Those dollars have been used to fund

a marijuana enforcement [police officer], an additional fire inspector, and city licensing has also gotten an additional staff person,” she said. “We’ve also been able to fund things like youth education, and to award moneys to our county health department for campaigns on how to talk to your kids about marijuana use.”

Jones pointed to the city’s strict regulations as important in shaping the industry in Boulder. Those include mitigation measures to eliminate odors, sustainability requirements because indoor growing, for example, uses a lot of electricity, and safety concerns.

“We don’t have a ton of room to grow Indoor grows, like this one in Colorado, use a lot of electricity, prompting Boulder to create strict sustainability requirements for them.

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and expand. One concern was that we not be overrun by marijuana businesses and growing [operations],” she said. “And because it was all brand new, we wanted to be sure to weed out the bad characters and end up with responsible business owners who met community values.”

Cook agreed. She said the city formed a multidisciplinary team, which she’s a part of, that meets every two weeks. “Marijuana is our project and our focus, and we’ve all been working together now for a number of years. That’s proven to be invaluable to us.

What one person doesn’t know another one does. We’ve been strict with licensing and enforcing our city code, and that’s resulted in better, more compliant businesses—as opposed to folks who haven’t ever run a business but they gravitated toward the

marijuana part of it.”

In addition to its employees working together, the city also has been proactive about communicating with the community.

Early this year, the city put together an advisory board made up of city staff as well as those in the marijuana business, public health officials and regular folks. They spent six months hashing out the pros and cons and came up with a list of recommendations moving forward. The council will probably adopt most of them, Jones said.

“In my estimation, our local code has done many things well,” Cook said. “There aren’t secondary community impacts. So, people who have a business right next door to a marijuana grow aren’t going to be affected by odor and security issues. We tried to think ahead to sort of think of those things.”

Boulder, of course, is not the only place to buy pot in Colorado. But many jurisdictions have decided to opt out. Vail, for instance, does not allow marijuana businesses, citing a desire to remain a tourist destination because

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More local pot talk:

The Butte County Board of Supervisors discussed the possible outcomes of the November election’s marijuana initiatives: Proposition 64 and local Measure L, which deals with commercial medical marijuana. See page 9.

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of its superb natural beauty and (non-pot-related) recreation activities. A recent article in the Aspen Times indicates, however, that views there might be changing—Vail already has created a working group to discuss the possibility of allowing such businesses.

“Honestly, they’re missing out on sales tax,” Jones said of jurisdictions that have banned cannabis businesses. “It was clear that we should allow recreational marijuana and figure out how to make it work. If other communities decided not to allow it, we would just get their business.”

Locally, DA Ramsey already has voiced his opinion on

the matter and says he’ll continue to do so—to recommend that Butte County and its municipalities not allow marijuana businesses. Sorensen seemed more open to learning more about the issue.

“We’ve all gotten exposed to—or is it bombarded

with—information,” he said. “I’ve certainly read many statements [from constituents]. Even among the marijuana industry, some of those folks are pretty upset about it; they’re not for it.”

Considering the changing nature of laws and the fact that Prop. 64 has yet to be put to a vote, Sorensen acknowledged he hasn’t done a ton of homework just yet. City Manager Mark Orme says staff is currently looking into the matter.

“Cities across the state are taking various approaches to this issue,” he said. “Some are looking to ban both medical and recreational uses; others are choosing to allow certain medical marijuana activities, including dispensaries, growing but maybe not delivery; others are allowing all uses permitted under state law, which, if Prop. 64 passes, will include recreational uses.”

He added that, should Chico decide to create a local tax on marijuana, it would have to be approved by a vote of the people. There is no scheduled discussion for council at this time.

“My advice to you is to make sure you have your own flow of money,” Jones said to the city of Chico.

“That money should cover administrative costs—and that can be significant. Grows use a lot of electricity, and there are issues around smell. Go get these things inspected, follow up on enforcement and complaints, do background checks.

“Start with robust protections in place,” she continued, “then, once things get established, you can tweak them. Be in charge of your own destiny.” Ω

“One flaw [in Prop. 64] is a very serious flaw: They don’t define intoxication.”

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“We’ve never considered ourselves a ‘political band’ like world politics, but we’ve always been more about the neighborhood politics, if you will,” said lead singer Al Barr during a recent phone interview.

“Kenny had the vision to realize that as we get bigger, there’s gonna be a perception out there of us, and we’ve always been about giving back, so why not have a vehicle like the Claddagh Fund where we can directly affect communities with raising money for charities?” Barr said.

“That was a direct way for us to show that we aren’t just talking the talk, that we are willing to walk the walk.”

In contrast to its current prestige, the Dropick Murphys had simple and happenstance beginnings. The band was started as somewhat of a joke when Casey was asked to form a group on a bet. A year later, the band was opening for fellow Bostonians and ska-punk luminaries The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, and after adding Barr the following year, started putting rubber to the road and building its reputation as a tireless touring act. Dropkick Murphys was no longer a joke.

“We were only just a band,” said Barr.

“We were four guys getting in a van with another guy selling merch for us, with a little trailer and opening up for other bands. In the first eleven months I played over 300 ... shows with the Dropkicks.

It was basically right out of the gate we were gangbusters.”

The band’s “Celtic punk” description gives a fairly clear indication of its sound, a fusion of the often lively nature of traditional Celtic music with the raucous delivery of punk rock. The key common element between the styles is high, surging energy, which has attracted an eclectic and devoted fanbase.

“We still have a very rabid loyal following of people that are entrenched in punk rock, but also we’ve managed to attain a following of music lovers from all walks of life,” Barr said.

As the Boston band kicks off its third decade with a 20th anniversary tour (stopping at the Senator Theatre, Saturday, Oct. 1), a new record to be released in winter, and another to follow shortly after, it would seem the members aren’t slowing down … for the most part.

“I’ve been in bands for the last 32 years of my life, my chicken sprung a long time ago,” Barr said. “I go to bed early after the set; I don’t go out. I’m on the slippers-and-robes bus. We try to take care of ourselves so we can do what we GR XS WKHUH ³ Ɛ

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Special Events LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS PUBLIC FORUM: A public forum for Durham Unified School District candidates, followed by a pros and cons presentation of selected measures and propositions.

Th, 9/29, 6:30-8:30pm. Durham Memorial Hall, 9319 Midway in Durham.

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

Music TECH N9NE: Kansas City rapper who has emerged from the underground to become one of the biggest names in hip-hop returns to Chico with openers Krizz Kaliko and JL. Th, 9/29, 8pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

Theater THE VEIL: A drama by Conor McPherson, directed by Joe Hilsee weaving Ireland’s troubled colonial history into a transfixing 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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Special Events SIERRA NEVADA OKTOBERFEST: Slap on your lederhosen and hoist a stein for this annual celebration with Sierra Nevada beer (including the new Oktoberfest collaboration), Germaninspired food, live music, live glassblowing demonstrations and auction, chicken dance contest, ’stache competition and more. Check website for ticket availability. F & Sa, 5-10pm through 10/8, $51.50 general admission/$30 designated driver. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierra nevada.com/oktoberfest.

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

TIM BLUHM: Though he made his name as frontman for Chico’s The Mother Hips, Tim Bluhm has become an acclaimed solo artist in his own right. He’ll be joined by husband-and-wife duo Johnny Irion and Sarah Lee Guthrie (daughter of Arlo). F, 9/30, 7:30pm. $25.

Chapelle de l’Artiste Chateau & Retreat, 3300 Inspiration Lane in Paradise, (530) 228-0941, www.chapelledelartiste.com.

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

Art Receptions 35 ALIVE: Reception for the new exhibit with live music by Cat Depot. F, 9/30, 5-7pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

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Special Events BLUES ’N’ BREWS: A fundraiser for Paradise school music programs featuring seven bands, beer, wine, food and fun. Sa, 10/1, 1-9pm. Free.

Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 872-6291.

CHICO ANTIQUES & DESIGN FALL FAIRE: A day of seasonal treasure hunting with 100 percent of gate proceeds benefiting the Patrick Ranch Museum. Local vendors on-hand will include Country Junnkin’, Blingy Barn, Refound, Little Red Hen and many more. Sa, 10/1, 9am-4pm. $5. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359.

THE FABULOUS FALL COMEDY SHOWCASE: Comedy showcase hosted by Jerm Leather and featuring Chico comics Hank Duke, T.J. Hudson, Trip Hazard and Mark Leathers, Kristen Sullivan and Trey Ellis from Redding, and Sacramento funnyman Ben Rice. Sa, 10/1, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

GROWING UP IN THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY LOGGING CAMPS: Author and local historian Bill Dennison will present a lecture detailing his experiences growing up in Butte County. Sa, 10/1, 10-11am. $5 donation. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chico museum.org.

HUMANE HEROES: An opportunity for children

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ages 6-12 to help find forever homes for homeless pets while having fun, learning about animals and developing empathy, respect and

compassion. First Sa of every month, 1-2:30pm through 12/3. Free. Butte Humane Society Education Center, 2156 Pillsbury Road Ste. 160, (530) 343-7917, www.buttehumane.org/ humane-heroes.

JOHNNY APPLESEED DAYS: Celebrating the oldest harvest festival in California with two days of family fun. Local entertainment, vendors, lots of delicious food and, of course, more than 1,000 homemade apple pies. Sa, 10/1, 10am5pm, Su, 10/2, 10am-4pm. Terry Ashe Center, 6626 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9466.

NATIONAL FUTURES YO-YO CONTEST: National contest showcasing some of top best 18-and-under yo-yo talent in the country. Sa, 10/1, 10am-5pm. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico.

PERRY MASON DAY: The Butte County Historical Society celebrates the life and times of Erle Stanley Gardner, author of the Perry Mason series of detective novels, who once lived in Oroville and Paradise. Buffet lunch will be served from 12-1 p.m. Sa, 10/1, 11am-3pm.

Donations. Ehmann Home, 1480 Lincoln St. in Oroville, (530) 533-5316.

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THE DANIEL HIESTAND MEMORIAL CONCERT:

THE VEIL: See Thursday Theatre on the Ridge

Featuring performances by Chico State Wind Ensemble and Alumni Band. Honoring the late Daniel Hiestand and supporting the scholarship in his name. Sa, 10/1, 7:30-9pm. Free (donations accepted). Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chico performances.com.

DROPKICK MURPHYS: As part of their 20th anniversary tour, the Boston-based band brings their Irish music-infused punk rock sound back to Chico with openers Jesse Ahern & The Roots Rock Rebel Revue and Hoist The Colors. Sa, 10/1, 7:30pm. $30. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net.

Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Special Events JOHNNY APPLESEED DAYS: See Saturday. Terry Ashe Center, 6626 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 876-9466.

J-STALIN: Veteran Oakland rapper who’s appeared on tracks with everyone from E-40 to G-Eazy. Openers include Stevie Joe, Pooh Herner, Chippas and Lil Blood with sounds provided by DJ Lil 50. Sa, 10/1, 9pm. $20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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SING 4 SHELTER: The 100-voice Chico Community Gospel Choir will perform with help from local musicians and dancers with proceeds benefiting the Torres Community Shelter. Sa, 10/1, 7pm. Free (donations accepted). Neighborhood Church of Chico, 2801 Notre Dame Blvd., (530) 343-6006, www.sing4shelter.org.

TOUCH OF CHICO: Local massage therapists share their skills and help raise money for local community radio station KZFR, as well as awareness of the holistic health options. Live music by Stevie Cook, High Minds Café, John Michael Sun, Jimmy Brobeck and more. Sa, 10/1, 12-6pm. Free ($1-a-minute for massage).

Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 895-0706, www.kzfr.org.

TOURS FOR EQUAL JUSTICE: Tours examining the history of women’s suffrage in America and the ties both Annie and John Bidwell had to that effort. A special exhibit in the Visitor Center will illustrate the many women and men who crusaded for voting and other rights for women in the 19th and 20th centuries. Sa, 10am through 10/29. Opens 10/1. $6 adult/$3 children. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144, www.bidwellmansionpark.com.

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MASON IS THE MAN Some Oroville history buffs are very proud of the fact that Erle Stanley Gardner—author of the Perry Mason mystery novels—lived in the community as a young man. Those books were the source of a massively popular 1950s/’60s TV series and 1980s/’90s TV movies in which Raymond Burr famously played the lawyer/sleuth. For the 14th year running, the Butte County Historical Society will celebrate this bit of literary history on Saturday, Oct. 1, with Perry Mason Day at the Ehmann House, featuring refreshments, memorabilia and a dramatic performance by historical reenactor Alberta Tracy, also known as The Lady of Butte County.

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Lady, which will run Jan. 20-Feb. 12, 2017. Please come prepared with at least 32 bars of sheet music (or a CD with instrumental) for an audition piece. Su, 10/2, 6pm, M, 10/3, 6pm. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com/auditions.

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Special Events BIKE SAFETY/DRUNKEN DRIVING AWARENESS EVENT: Fourth annual event honoring the life of Chico State student Kristina Chesterman, who was struck and killed by a drunken driver in 2013.

The event includes bike raffles, free bike lights, safety tune-ups by local bike shops and more. M, 10/3, 11am3pm. Trinity Commons, outside Trinity Hall at Chico State.

LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS PROS AND CONS PROGRAM: A presentation of the pros and cons of selected measures and propositions that will be on the ballot this November. M, 10/3, 7-8:30pm.

Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 5387642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

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Special Events LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS PUBLIC FORUMS: Public forums for candidates for Biggs and Gridley city councils, followed by a pros and cons presentation of selected measures and propositions.

Tu, 10/4, 6:30-9:30pm. Guardian Building, 200 E. Spruce St. in Gridley.

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Special Events STAND-UP COMEDY: Free laughs with traveling comedians Phillip Medina and Wayne Jackson. W, 10/5, 8pm. No cover.

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and his musical partner Gillian Welch have both received Lifetime Achievement Awards for Songwriting from the Americana Music Association.

A must-see for fans of folk, country and rock. W, 10/5, 7:30pm. $10-$38.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chico performances.com.

Art 1078 GALLERY: 35 Alive, an exhibition celebrating 35 years of the 1078 Gallery as well as the founders and other individuals who helped get the gallery off the ground. 9/29-10/22.

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.BFA Group Exhibition, new works by current Chico State art students. 10/3-10/14.

Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Whitespace-

Bluespace: Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe, multimedia solo exhibition by New Mexico printmaker Ren Adams.

10/5-10/27. 3536 Butte Campus Drive in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO ART CENTER: Small World, Small Works, an exhibition of 12x12-inch art created by local artists of all ages and from all walks of life. Through 9/30. 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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) 3432930, 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.

NINTH AVENUE GALLERY & STUDIO: Counting

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

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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) 8943463, www.redtavern.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Abstract

Expressions, new show with new works at the gallery. Through 9/30. New Works, pastels

by Joyce Rendon and turned wood by Frank Wm. Link and Dave Dragoman 10/2-10/31.

493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Cosmic

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

Museums CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Ongoing display highlighting local aviation history. Ongoing. 165 Ryan Ave., (530) 345-6468.

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, a permanent exhibit, featuring a variety of displays depicting Chico’s history—from John Bidwell and the Mechoopda Indians to Robin Hood and remains of an old Chinese temple.

Ongoing. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

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

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and log-

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

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

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

MUSIC Bruce Hornsby and The Noisemakers making a pleasant racket at Laxson Auditorium.

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the way it still is An energetic Bruce Hornsby and band live up to musical legacy Laxson Auditorium (Sept. 26), Pmyatfamiliarity with and appreciarior to Monday night’s concert

tion for Bruce Hornsby’s music began and ended by with his beautiCarey Wilson fully melodic, poetically melancholy radio hits, such as “The Way It Is,” “Mandolin Rain” Review: and (writing/ bruce hornsby and performing with the noisemakers, monday, Sept. 26, Don Henley) Laxson auditorium, “The End of the Chico State Innocence.” So I went in with high but vague expectations, and Hornsby and his band The Noisemakers surpassed them with nearly two hours of music played with exuberance and the spontaneity of players who truly enjoy and respect each other’s ability to take songs into uncharted territory, romp around a bit, and then get everyone safely back home.

Tall, lanky and wearing casual clothes, Hornsby drew the audience in with a dry sense of humor and a personable manner that made us feel like we were hanging with an old pal and his band in a cozy clubhouse rather than sitting at a formal concert hall.

He kicked of the concert with an up-tempo piano improvisation that

drew on jazz, classical, bluegrass and rock ’n’ roll before the full band kicked into a long, rollicking exploration of Hornsby and Robbie Robertson’s “Go Back to Your Woods.” It gave each of The Noisemakers a showcase for individual virtuosity as well as ensemble playing.

Drummer Sonny Emory, who has played with everyone from Steely Dan to Earth, Wind and Fire, is obviously in his element as a Noisemaker. Like Hornsby, he possesses an ability to joyfully improvise around the core of a song while never diverting from his mission to supply a solid rhythmic underpinning for the rest of the band. Complementing Emory’s energetic drumming, bassist J.V. Collier held down the bottom end of the rhythm section with a smile, playing with unobtrusive dexterity and taste that kept the songs moving while also conveying the emotional elements of the vocals and the musicians’ melodic solos.

And of solos, there were plenty. Guitarist Gibb Droll added a flavor that fans of Hornsby’s stints with the Grateful Dead (1988-1995) certainly appreciated, especially during extemporaneous additions to “The Valley Road” and a new arrangement of “The Way It Is,” both of which featured Hornsby strumming a dulcimer rather than playing piano (on

Hornsby and The Noisemakers’ new album—Rehab Reunion— dulcimer is the only instrument he plays). Violinist and mandolin player Ross Holmes, who continually added subtle emotional and melodic nuances to every song, also came to the fore during an excellent rendering of “Mandolin Rain,” with beautifully arranged support from keyboardist John “J.T.” Thomas, who supplied atmospheric, nearly symphonic background textures to every song.

But of course the star of the show was Hornsby himself, who seemed to be having a great time leading a band of fantastic players through an unscripted set that allowed him plenty of space to perform as a singer. His voice was strong and free, matching the power of lyrics still relevant 30 years after the “The Way It Is” was released: “Standing in line marking time/Waiting for the welfare dime/ ’Cause they can’t buy a job/The man in the silk suit hurries by/As he catches the poor ladies’ eyes/ Just for fun he says, ‘Get a job.’”

Opening the show, Sean Watkins, formerly of bluegrass wunderkind band Nickel Creek delivered a set of beautifully crafted, sung and picked songs reflecting the strong connection of his contemporary songwriting sensibilities with the traditions of American mountain music. □

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of Pop’s greatest hits, from his early days in the Jackson 5 through his long, illustrious solo career. F, 9/30, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

IRISH-MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradi501 Main St., (530) 894-3033, www.has beans.com.

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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, 9/29, 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 through 11/30. Free.

Studio Inn Cocktail Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

ERIC PETER: An eclectic mix of dinner

music on the patio. Th, 9/29, 6-9pm.

Grana, 198 E. Second St., (530) 8092304.

GIGANTES: An extremely heavy birthday

emerged from the underground to become one of the biggest names in the world of hip-hop returns to Chico with openers Krizz Kaliko and JL. Th, 9/29, 8pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net. celebration for Gigantes members Ignacio Ysern, Matt Stein and Walker Trotchie that also features Lizard King from San Jose and local hardcore outfit The Buried Heart. Th, 9/29, 7pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage

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

LEFTY’S BLUES JAM: Monthly blues jam.

All musicians welcome. Bass amp and drums provided. Last Th of every month, 7pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Cafe,

Dave Rawlins is best known as the long-time musical partner of alt-country queen Gillian Welch, and he’s no slouch himself. Rawlins has collaborated with and/or produced albums by the likes of Ryan Adams, Bright Eyes and Old Crow Medicine Show. His own rambunctious band, The Dave Rawlins Machine (which also features Welch), plays Laxson Auditorium on Wednesday, Oct. 5.

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

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: A delicious mix of dinner-appropriate tunes in the lounge. F, 9/30, 6-9pm. Free.

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

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: A night of rock-

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and regional producers and DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm.

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

EVOLFO: Brooklyn-based garage soul band joins locals Mad Tantra and Sunny Acres for a night of far-out rock music. F, 9/30, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

FOREVERLAND: A 14-piece Michael Jackson tribute band playing the King

solid local country music with an opening set from Jerry Hat Trick. F, 9/30, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

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.

RUBEN RHYTHM: Live music on the patio.

F, 9/30, 7-9pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road, (530) 345-7330.

(daughter of Arlo). F, 9/30, 7:30pm. $25.

Chapelle de l’Artiste Chateau & Retreat, 3300 Inspiration Lane in Paradise, (530) 228-0941, www.chapelledelartiste.com.

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TIM BLUHM: Though he made his name as frontman for Chico’s The Mother Hips, Tim Bluhm has become an acclaimed solo artist in his own right. He’ll be joined by husband-and-wife duo Johnny Irion and Sarah Lee Guthrie

ACOUSTIC MUSIC JAM: A jam hosted by Butte Folk Music Society and led by local musician Steve Johnson. First Sa

of every month, 4-6pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, 130 Main St., (530) 345-4128.

BLUES ’N’ BREWS: A fundraiser for Paradise school music programs featuring seven bands, beer, wine, food and fun. Sa, 10/1, 1-9pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 872-6291.

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DROPKICK MURPHYS: As part of their 20th anniversary tour, the Bostonbased band brings its Celtic-infused punk rock sound back to Chico with openers Jesse Ahern & The Roots Rock Rebel Revue and Hoist The Colors. Sa, 10/1, 7:30pm. $30. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

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J-STALIN: Veteran Oakland rapper who’s appeared on tracks with everyone from E-40 to G-Eazy. Openers include Stevie Joe, Pooh Herner, Chippas and Lil Blood with sounds provided by DJ Lil 50. Sa, 10/1, 9pm. $20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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.

THE FABULOUS FALL COMEDY SHOWCASE: Comedy showcase hosted by Jerm Leather and featuring Chico comics Hank Duke, T.J. Hudson, Trip Hazard and Mark Leathers, plus Kristen Sullivan and Trey Ellis from Redding and Sacramento funnyman Ben Rice.

Sa, 10/1, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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ROCK ’N’ SHOP: A chance for crafters, artists, hipsters, rockers, rollers and everyone in between to buy or sell their cool stuff, or just share a drink and their favorite tunes. Su, 10/2, 28pm. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

TEAM SKINS: Local shirtless dudes anchor a bill featuring a couple of Reno’s finest experimental bands, Atlas Frame and Rob Ford Explorer. Su, 10/2, 8pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

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The Magnificent What the new version does have Seven Starring Denzel going for it is mostly a matter of Washington, Chris Denzel Washington (in the Brynner pratt, Haley bennett, role) and a diverse and appealing byung-hun Lee and set of supporting roles, including a peter Sarsgaard.

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Actor/filmmaker Nanni Moretti (The Son’s Room, We

Have a Pope) makes his new film a kind of split-level drama about creativity and mortality. Mia Madre is well-acted and richly observed, a multigenerational slice of life that brings patience and low-key compassion to the tangled emotions and personal uncertainties of its main characters.

The central character is Margherita (Margherita Buy), a filmmaker who’s caught in two concurrent crises: one personal (her mother, the title character played by Giulia Lazzarini, is hospitalized and may be in her last days) and the other professional (her new film, which features a problematical American actor, isn’t working out as she had hoped). Moretti himself plays her serious-minded brother, who’s spending most of his time attending to their mother’s care while also undergoing a professional crisis of his own.

Margherita’s bright, troubled teenage daughter, Livia (Beatrice Mancini), has a bond with her grandmother that eventually will yield rewards across three generations of the family. Along the way, the erratic American actor, Barry Huggins (a manic John

best film, 8-1/2, which is itself about a director trying to make a film amid a multitude of personal problems. Mia Madre isn’t much concerned with matching Fellini’s grand gestures, but it does offer some pungent comedy on what goes on behind the camera during the making of a film, and there’s a quirky kind of poetry in this tale’s half-solved mysteries. □

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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 KeeganMichael Key. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Oliver Stone’s film about the Edward Snowden case has merit as a kind of legal/ political brief on Snowden’s behalf, but a special richness of character and observation is what really distinguishes it as a dramatic movie experience. 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, but it’s the scenes involving key figures Snowden’s professional and (emerging) political life that give the film its greatest vitality and interest. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

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IN THE MIX Ultimate Painting trouble In mind records UK duo Ultimate Painting’s music is minimalist in approach, but there is still a lot to latch onto. Most of that comes from the dual guitars, which jangle and intertwine softly and impeccably, held in place by sturdy and steady bass lines and spare drums. The Velvet Underground’s 1969 self-titled LP is what first comes to mind with Dusk, particularly in breezy psych numbers like “Monday Morning, Somewhere Central” (which features Wurlitzer) and “I’m Set Free.” Core members Jack Cooper (Mazes) and James Hoare (Veronica Falls) trade off hushed vocals, but the harmonies are no less striking. This is especially so on lead-off track “Bills,” which moves at a steady bob as the Krautrock bass line leads the way. Like the rest of Dusk, the song is gentle and seemingly barely there, like being lost in a daydream.

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March: Book Three John Lewis, Andrew Aydin, Nate Powell top Shelf productions A powerful work, representing a voice still absent from textbooks, March’s story is as relevant today as in 1965—not for its historical atrocities mirrored on our nightly news but for the people who continue to fight. The final installment in Sen. John Lewis’ graphic novel series, March: Book Three, recalls the senator’s experiences in the civil rights movement between September 1963 and August 1965. Along with co-writer Andrew Aydin, Sen. Lewis refuses to downplay the horrors and pain created by institutionalized racism, but March’s focus remains on the strength, hope and determination of the individuals and communities who oppose the inequality in our nation. Void of artistic pomp, Nate Powell’s black-and-white art organically depicts emotions grand and small, letting the terrors and triumphs of bombings, murder, marches and songs stand on their own. In word and image, March is an inspiring lesson in the true power we possess within.

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Each song feels so overly polished. To be fair, they’re not bad songs, but there isn’t one that stands apart from the next, and overall the album feels like it’s manipulated for the mainstream rather than naturally grown. Sometimes that kind of plastic pop can work, but knowing this group is capable of something much stronger makes it a bit disappointing.

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To celebrate its birthday, the 1078 is holding an exhibition titled 35 alive, showcasing works by artists involved in the gallery’s entire history. It opens today, Sept. 29, and the reception— It’s alive! The 1078 Gallery is alive! with live music by Cat depot—is this Friday, Sept. 30, 5-7 p.m.

Food truckS and jockey boxeS Chico Beer Week is a week away! (Visit www.chicobeerweek.net and see how the calendar of local beer-centric events is shaping up!). To kick off the week of craft-beer exploration, the Chico news & Review Foundation, along with Fork in the Road, is putting on Brewfork: a Craft Beer and street Food Rally Thursday, Oct. 6, 5:30-8:30 p.m., at Patrick Ranch. There will be a dozen local food trucks on hand plus breweries from around California—Sierra Nevada, Knee Deep, Drake’s, Wildcard, Rubicon, Etna, Ballast Point, Lost Coast, Feather Falls Casino, Feather River and up-and-comer Secret Trail—pouring samples of their beer to raise money for the CN&R Foundation and its mission of supporting investigative journalism.

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Love worriers fret so much about not getting the love they want that they neglect to develop their intimacy skills. Love warriors are always vigilant for how their own ignorance may be sabotaging togetherness, while love worriers dwell on how their partner’s ignorance is sabotaging togetherness. Love warriors stay focused on their relationship’s highest goals, while love worriers are preoccupied with every little relationship glitch. I bring this to your attention, Aries, because the next seven weeks will be an excellent time to become less of a love worrier and more of a love warrior.

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You’ve educated the most immature part of yourself and nurtured the most neglected part of yourself. To my joyful shock, you have even worked to transform a dysfunctional romantic habit that in previous years had subtly undermined your ability to get the kind of intimacy you seek. What’s next? Here’s my guess: an unprecedented exemption from the demands of the past.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Are you

able to expand while you are contracting, and vice versa? Can you shed mediocre comforts and also open your imagination to gifts that await you at the frontier? Is it possible to be skeptical toward ideas that shrink your world and people who waste your time, even as you cultivate optimism and innocence about the interesting challenges ahead of you? Here’s what I think, Scorpio: Yes, you can. At least for right now, you are more flexible and multifaceted than you might imagine.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): How will

you deal with a provocative opportunity to reinvent and reinvigorate your approach to work? My guess is that if you ignore this challenge, it will devolve into an obstruction. If you embrace it, on the other hand, you will be led to unforeseen improvements in the way you earn money and structure your daily routine. Here’s the paradox: Being open to seemingly impractical considerations will ultimately turn out to be quite practical.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You Sagittarians are famous for filling your cups so full they’re in danger of spilling over. Sometimes the rest of us find this kind of cute. On other occasions, we don’t enjoy getting wine splashed on our shoes.

But I suspect that in the coming weeks, the consequences of your tendency to overflow will be mostly benign—perhaps even downright beneficial. So I suggest you experiment with the pleasures of surging and gushing. Have fun as you escape your niches and transcend your containers. Give yourself permission to seek adventures that might be too extravagant for polite company. Now here’s a helpful reminder from your fellow Sagittarian, poet Emily Dickinson: “You cannot fold a flood and put it in a drawer.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is it pos-

sible that you’re on the verge of reclaiming some of the innocent wisdom you had as a child? Judging from the current astrological omens, I suspect it is. If all goes well, you will soon be gifted with a long glimpse of your true destiny—a close replica of the vision that bloomed in you at a tender age. And this will, in turn, enable you to actually see magic unicorns and play with mischievous fairies and eat clouds that dip down close to the earth. And not only that: Having a holy vision of your original self will make you even smarter than you already are. For example, you could get insights about how to express previously inexpressible parts of yourself. You might discover secrets about how to attract more of the love you have always felt deprived of.

believe that during the coming weeks you will have an extra amount of freedom from fate. The daily grind won’t be able to grind you down. The influences that typically tend to sap your joie de vivre will leave you in peace. Are you ready to take full advantage of this special dispensation? Please say, “Yes, yes, a thousand times yes!” Be alert for opportunities to rise above the lowest common denominators. Be aggressive about rejecting the trivial questions that trap everyone in low expectations.

Here are my predictions: Your willpower will consistently trump your conditioning.

You won’t have to play by the old rules, but will instead have extra sovereignty to invent the future.

asking you to tell me about the places and situations where you feel safe and fragile and timid. I want to know about where you feel safe and strong and bold. Are there sanctuaries that nurture your audacious wisdom? Are there natural sites that tease out your primal willpower and help you clarify your goals? Go to those power spots. Allow them to exalt you with their transformative blessings. Pray and sing and dance there. And maybe find a new oasis to excite and incite you, as well. Your creative savvy will bloom in November if you nurture yourself now with this magic. reliable formulas may temporarily be useless or even deceptive. An ally could be withholding an important detail from you.

Your favorite psychological crutch is in disrepair, and your go-to excuse is no longer viable. And yet I think you’re going to be just fine, Leo. Plan B will probably work better than Plan A. Secondary sources and substitutes should provide you with all the leverage you need. And I bet you will finally capitalize on an advantage that you have previously neglected. For best results, be vigilant for unexpected help.

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

cording to my analysis of the astrological omens, you can expect an unlikely coincidence or two in the coming days. You should also be alert for helpfully prophetic dreams, clear telepathic messages and pokes from tricky informers. In fact, I suspect that useful hints and clues will be swirling in extra abundance, sometimes in the form of direct communications from reliable sources, but on occasion as mysterious signals from strange angels.

Warning! One of your signature fears is losing its chokehold on your imagination.

If this trend continues, its power to scare you may diminish more than 70 percent

by November 1. And then what will you do?

How can you continue to plug away at your goals if you don’t have worry and angst and dread to motivate you? I suppose you could shop around for a replacement fear—a new prod to keep you on the true and righteous path. But you might also want to consider an alternative: the possibility of drawing more of the energy you need by feeding your lust for life.

that inner work you’ve been doing with such diligence? I’m referring to those psycho-spiritual transformations you have been attending to in the dark … the challenging but oddly gratifying negotiations you’ve been carrying on with your secret self … the steady, strong future you’ve been struggling to forge out of the chaos? Well, I foresee you making a big breakthrough in the coming weeks. The progress you’ve been earning, which up until now has been mostly invisible to others, will finally be seen and appreciated.

The vows you uttered so long ago will, at last, yield at least some of the tangible results you’ve pined for.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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,

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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 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

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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.

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

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.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KINDER KIDS CHILD CARE at 2845 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973.

NEYSA NEELY 9668 Teal Ln Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NEELY Dated: September 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001155 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PAULA’S HANDYWOMAN SERVICES at 2 Comstock Rd Chico, CA 95928.

PAULA ANN CARR 2 Comstock Rd Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PAULA A CARR Dated: September 16, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001170 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO EXPRESS CLEANERS at 614 Walnut Street Chico, CA 95928.

HUSAM MAKHOUL 18 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HUSAM MAKHOUL Dated: September 16, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001171 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GRAND OLE AND DISCOUNT CHIMNEY SWEEPS at 10386 Chayote Drive Durham, CA 95938.

GRAND OLE AND DISCOUNT CHIMNEY SWEEPS LLC 10386 Chayote Drive Durham, CA 95938.

MICHAEL JAMES HIDAHL 10386 Chayote Dr Durham, CA 95938.

GARY LEE PARKER 5612 Glen Park Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MICHAEL JAMES HIDAHL, PRESIDENT Dated: September 2, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001104 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MERCHANT BROKER DIRECT at 702 Mangrove Avenue Suite 234 Chico, CA 95926.

RICHARD COLE LYON, INCORPORATED 702 Mangrove Avenue Suit 234 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RICHARD COLE LYON, PRESIDENT Dated: September 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001185 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 20161

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name

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DISCOUNT CIGARETTES at 1124 Oro Dam Blvd #J Oroville, CA 95965.

MAZEN HANOUN 14 Nicole Ln Chico, CA 95926.

TONY NAOUM JARJOUR 2995 Lower Wyandotte Ave #4 Oroville, CA 95966.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MAZEN HANOUN Dated: September 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2015-0001075 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GOLDEN MINDSET APPAREL at 1051 E Lassen Ave #5 Chico, CA 95973.

TAYLOR MARIAH IRVINE 1051 E Lassen Ave #5 Chico, CA 95973.

CODY DAVID ROOSA 1051 E Lassen Ave #5 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: TAYLOR M IRVINE, CODY ROOSA Dated: September 12, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001145 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GIFTS OF BLESSINGS at 1199 Parque Drive Chico, CA 95926.

CHRISTINA MIRANDA 1199 Parque Drive Chico, CA 95926 AI#: 971.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTINA MIRANDA Dated: September 26, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001199 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRO NAILS AND SPA at 1950 East 20th Street #A102 Chico, CA 95928.

THONG NGUYEN 1290 Notre Dame Blvd Apt 69 Chico, CA 95928.

BINH T TRAN 1290 Notre Dame Blvd #69 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BINH Dated: September 6, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001112 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BITER BEADS at 3254 Tinker Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

ANDREA MONTGOMERY 3254 Tinker Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANDREA MONTGOMERY Dated: August 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001078 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

FICTITOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PEAK PROPERTY SOLUTIONS at 1850 Humbolt Road Apt #20 Chico, CA 95928.

JUSTIN EDWARD LARIOS 1850 Humbolt Road Apt #20 Chico, CA 95928.

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This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JUSTIN LARIOS Dated: September 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001121 Published: September 29, October 6,13,20, 2016

NOTICES 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

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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 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

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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

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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

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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: 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

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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

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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

PETITION 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

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representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

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

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOHN LEE HOLMES aka JOHN HOLMES, JOHN L HOLMES, JACK HOLMES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOHN LEE HOLMES aka JOHN HOLMES, JOHN L HOLMES and JACK HOLMES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: MARION REEVES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: MARION REEVES 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 25, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a

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copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: MARK JOHNSON 2531 Forest Ave, Ste 100 Chico, CA 95928 (530)345-6801 Case Number: 16PR00308 Published: September 29, October 6,13, 2016

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

3286 4Th St

Biggs

$69,000

2/2

1,550

1774 Roth St

Chico

$335,000

3/3

1,472

5 Sega Dr

Chico

$694,999

3/3

4,042

3014 Grasshopper Creek Way

Chico

$325,000

3/2

1,519

12 Crabapple Ct

Chico

$587,499

4/3

2,795

5 Windbridge Ct

Chico

$315,000

3/2

1,713

1798 Vallombrosa Ave

Chico

$495,000

3/3

2,170

51 Terrace Dr

Chico

$310,000

3/3

2,105

2351 E 8Th St

Chico

$462,500

4/3

2,110

3094 Gallatin Gtwy

Chico

$303,000

3/2

1,519

887 Henshaw Ave

Chico

$385,000

3/2

1,970

610 Brookwood Way

Chico

$284,000

3/2

1,502

368 Picholine Way

Chico

$375,000

3/3

2,167

948 Karen Dr

Chico

$265,000

3/2

1,175 1,434

817 Ivy St

Chico

$367,500

4/2

1,592

1436 Trenta Dr

Chico

$252,000

3/2

841 W 2Nd Ave

Chico

$355,000

4/3

1,774

682 E 19Th St

Chico

$230,000

2/1

960

61 Paseo Haciendas

Chico

$335,000

4/2

1,977

332 W 4Th Ave

Chico

$220,000

4/2

1,318

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the following houses were sold in butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of september 12, 2016 – september 16, 2016. the housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1022 Ivy St

Chico

$185,000

2/1

720

3044 Monticello Ln C

Chico

$155,000

2/1

1,031

2055 Amanda Way 44

Chico

$147,000

3/2

1,008

9866 Esquon Rd

Durham

$524,999

4/3

2,703

2379 Epperson Way

Durham

$104,000

2/2

1,459

Forest Ranch

$330,000

3/2

1,622

Gridley

$524,999

3/2

1,282

295 Oregon St

Gridley

$127,500

2/1

850

13668 W Park Dr

Magalia

$195,000

3/2

1,645

6106 Dana Cir

Magalia

$185,000

3/2

13929 W Park Dr

Magalia

$135,000

2/2

15996 Wagon Rd 492 Johnson Clan Ave

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

4400 Tao Way

ADDRESS

Oroville

$460,000

4/3

2,380

388 Skyline Blvd

Oroville

$360,000

3/2

2,629

1284 Montgomery St

Oroville

$303,500

3/3

3,722

36 Sunnybrook Ln

Oroville

$288,000

3/2

1,600

2434 Oro Quincy Hwy

Oroville

$210,000

3/2

1,740

5338 Diane Ct

Oroville

$165,000

3/1

1,140

5297 Crest Ridge Dr

Oroville

$158,000

3/2

1,152

5 Westwood Way

Oroville

$90,000

3/2

1,564

1,779

5065 Country Club Dr

Paradise

$431,000

3/3

2,867

1,032

3622 Connie Cir D

Paradise

$130,000

2/2

1,224

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price

agent

phone

aDDress

city

945 Bille RD

PARA

2/1

999

$142,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

6083 Kanaka Av

ORO

620 Elliott RD

PARA

2/1

1180

$149,000

Nikki Sanders

872-5889

332 Street S Butte

WLLS

6266 Coppel CT

MAGA

2/2

1392

$189,500

Brian Voigt

514-290

1124 Neal Dow Ave

5878 Clark RD

PARA

COMM

1748

$205,000

Susan Doyle

877-7733

438 Plantation DR

PARA

2/2

1308

$219,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

6441 Rocky LN

PARA

2/2

1129

$219,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1865 June WY

PARA

3/2

1220

$234,900

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

6318 Hidden Lake LN

MAGA

3/2

1712

$239,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-589

5939 Del Mar AV

PARA

3/2

1465

$239,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

905 Buschmann RD

PARA

2/2

1370

$259,500

Annette Gale

872-5886

1366 Elliott RD

PARA

3/3

1824

$285,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

6380 Glendale CT

MAGA

3/2

2065

$319,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

15123Skyway

MAGA

2/2

1728

$325,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

61 Sutter RD

PARA

3/3

2344

$349,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

5906 Hazel WY

PARA

6/4

4522

$355,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

6095 Timber Ridge DR

MAGA

3/3

3242

$369,000

Rhonda Maehl

5887 Rising Star CT

PARA

3/2.5

1814

$379,000

4495 Sierra Del Sol

PARA

3/2.5

2217

13813 Pine Needle DR

MAGA

2/2

5247 Laguna CT

PARA

6217 Mountain View DR

PARA

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BD/Ba sq. ft

price

agent

phone

LAND

$45,000

Carolyn Frejes

966-4457

3/1

1,647

$175,000

Vicki Miller

864-1199

CHIC

2/1

1,152

$109,500

Brandi Laffin

321-9562

536 Plumas Ave

ORO

2/1

806

$129,000

Tara Taylor

518-2012

1215 Joy Wy

WLLS

3/2

1,405

$225,000

Vicki Miller

864-1199

2329 Fair St

CHIC

3/1

1,509

$224,900

Bob Contreras

519-9801

6475 Loyola Ct

MAGA

3/2

1,842

$235,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

920 W 11th Av

CHIC

2/1

1,176

$268,000

Brandi Laffin

321-9562

1048 Southampton

CHIC

3/2

1,402

$279,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

1361 Greenwich Dr

CHIC

3/2

1,447

$299,000

Dan Bosch

321-8330

10 Allie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,534

$308,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

10 Redeemers

CHIC

3/2

1,566

$321,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

1289 Palmetto Av

CHIC

4/3

1,802

$329,500

Dan Bosch

321-8330

5954 Hazel Wy

PARA

3/2

2,514

$369,500

Bob Contreras

519-9801

1105 Kentfield Rd

CHIC

3/3

2,063

$419,500

Dan Bosch

321-8330

611 Windham Wy

CHIC

5/4

2,523

$434,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

873-7640

3 Hidden Grove Ct

CHIC

4/3

2,326

$499,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

Brian Voigt

514-2901

3547 Shadowtree Ln

CHIC

4/3

2,795

$499,900

Shane Collins

518-1413

$399,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1 Scarlet Grove Ct

CHIC

4/3

3,073

$515,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

1850

$409,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

0 Coal Canyon Rd

ORO

LAND

$550,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

3/2

2260

$419,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

1477 Flag Creek Rd

ORO

3/2

1,250

$795,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

4/3

3190

$645,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

374 Honey Run Rd

CHIC

4/3

3,315

$1,050,000

Brandi Laffin

321-9562

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