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Vol. 40, Issue 6 • October 6, 2016 OPINION

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Second & Flume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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Arts feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 This Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fine arts listings. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Scene . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Nightlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Reel World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 In The Mix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31 Arts DEVO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 32 Brezsny’s Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . 35

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Fast forward to today. My son is 21 and a pre-med student at UCSB. I imagine if he had come here, by himself, in the same circumstances I did 38 years ago. I imagine him walking the same Chico streets. I feel FEAR. My wife will not go downtown unless I escort her. My 10-year-old daughter sees sprawled out transient bodies and clutches me tightly when she accompanies me to my downtown office on 5th street. Does anyone reading this really feel like the City Plaza is a place for a family picnic?

For the last 20 years our city leaders keep telling us “it’s getting better”, “New ideas and businesses are coming”, “be patient it is just a short matter of time”, etc. etc.

Well I call BULL$@!T

This guy saves you money.

It is not getting better. Many of our downtown store fronts are empty. The businesses that would thrive (since citizens DO “vote” with their spending dollars) are effectively barred from entry by endless, time consuming “city stuff”, and subjected to an essential “star chamber” that decides whether the business is even allowed to try.

To open a business downtown is to walk an expensive gauntlet of regulations and red tape. If you don’t have six I have lived in Chico since Friday May 19, 1978. I came figure money to blow off, you can forget about it. into town on a small motorcycle, my only transportation, and a job. Other than a few changes of clothing, a We get left with empty store fronts that serve as transient couple of saved paychecks, and that job, I had nothing. sleeping facilities, toilets, or both!

The paychecks rented my first unfurnished apartment We have twenty plus years of seeing what doesn’t that afternoon. work. Want a change? VOTE FOR A LEADERSHIP

FEEL SAFE DOWNTOWN?

I fell in love with Chico that same day. At 19 years of age I was looking for dancing, girls, and new friends in the community that I had just arrived in.

I wasn’t disappointed. I literally walked the entire downtown area that evening, from the Bear to the Graduate and every place and downtown street in between.

What a great town! Friendly and never a fear for my personal safety. I walked home that night on the railroad tracks that once ran down The Esplanade to my empty $180 a month apartment at 353 Rio Lindo Avenue.

CHANGE.

Insanity is voting for the same leaders over and over again and expecting a different result. This time vote for the no BS candidate. Vote Jon Scott for city council.

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EDITORIAL

Follow the rules Here at the CN&R, we have a stomach for politics, but this year has been a

bit hard to bear. The rhetoric has reached new heights, a certain candidate and his running mate continue to lie with impunity, and we’ve seen that misogyny is alive and well even at the highest reaches of the political spectrum.

We’ve also seen propaganda and conspiracy theories flood our inbox for letters to the editor (cnrletters@newsreview.com). That’s why, on the run-up to Election Day, we are instituting some new rules regarding letters to the editor.

First off, to make room for more voices, we will not print multiple letters from the same author on a single subject. If you’ve weighed in on something or someone, you’ve had your say. Can’t stand Donald Trump?

Great. Join the club. But you get one shot at saying so in this paper.

Support Jill Stein? OK. Give her some love and be done with it.

Additionally, we will not print letters containing conspiracy theories, such as the one about Hillary Clinton supposedly having an ear piece in during the first presidential debate. Not gonna happen. Further, we will not spend an inordinate amount of time fact-checking a letter. If you provide a few citations from credible sources—not left or right think tanks or propagandists (Breitbart, Occupy Democrats, etc.)—your letter will be considered for publication.

CN&R prints most of the letters we receive, but we absolutely have the right to round-file the ones we view as not fit for print. We will not publish vulgarities, for example. It’s not censorship, by the way; it’s editing. You are welcome to express your opinions elsewhere.

In other news, check out CN&R’s extensive election coverage by clicking on the Election ’16 link on our homepage (newsreview.com/chico).

Also, don’t forget that the Butte County League of Women Voters’ forums begin this evening (Thursday, Oct. 6). And finally, we want to remind those who aren’t registered to vote that there’s still time. In California, the deadline is Oct. 24. Please don’t delay. □

GUEST COMMENT

changing our approach to homelessness weather, everybody complains about the homeless Jcrisis, “but nobody does anything about it.” ust like Mark Twain supposedly said about the

But that isn’t true of all places. Utah, for example, has managed to reduce chronic homelessness by 91 percent in about 10 years.

Chronically homeless people are those who have been homeless for more than a year, and who have mental health issues.

According to an April 17, by 2015, Washington Post article by Leslie Johnson Terrance McCoy, Utah decided the author is a to try a “surprisingly simple, member of cHAt, cost-effective method [to address an organization homelessness] ... Give homes to working to ensure the homeless.” This is known as that everyone in our community has the “housing first” model, which experts in the field now consider access to housing. the most promising solution to chronic homelessness.

Although some might think this would be an expensive plan, Utah discovered that homelessness is actually more expensive than getting people into housing. The state found it was spending about $20,000 annually on each chronically homeless

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person. It now saves about $8,000 per person annually by providing housing (and services) to those who were previously homeless.

Chronically homeless people often suffer from poor health, and they frequently require emergencyroom care and have a disproportionate number of law enforcement interactions. Locally, additional expenses related to homelessness include cleaning up our creekside areas, parks and downtown. There are financial impacts on our local businesses as well.

Wanting to learn more about Utah’s model, our community has invited the former director of that state’s Homeless Task Force to speak in Chico. Lloyd Pendleton, who was instrumental in implementing Utah’s housing first plan, will discuss the successes there. Old approaches have not worked, and a housing first approach could save a substantial amount of money for our communities while reducing the human cost of homelessness and making Chico a more business-friendly and attractive place to live.

Mr. Pendleton will speak at 1 p.m. on Oct. 10, World Homeless Day, at Bidwell Presbyterian Church (208 W. First St. in Chico) and at 5-7 p.m.

Oct. 11 at the Southside Oroville Community Center (2959 Lower Wyandotte Road). We hope community members will attend and learn about implementing some real, proven solutions. □

enjoy beer Week responsibly CN&R’s fourth annual Chico Beer Week begins today with Brewfork, a beer-

tasting and food-truck rally at the beautiful Patrick Ranch. It’s the launch party for 10 days of beer-centric events and offerings at local establishments, from restaurants and pubs to bottle shops and cafés.

There’s a lot to celebrate here in our backyard. That not only includes the granddaddy of American craft brews, Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., co-presenter of Chico Beer Week, but also our region’s breweries in the making. Read all about them in our special Beer Issue.

Additionally, in these pages, you’ll find a calendar of special events and creations at a wide array of businesses around town, from beer/food pairings at eateries such a B Street Public House and Two Twenty Restaurant, to beer-infused sweet treats at Tin Roof Bakery (Beeramisu cupcakes!), to the many tap takeovers at local craft-beer bars, to the second weekend of Sierra Nevada’s Oktoberfest celebration.

So, rejoice, fellow craft-beer devotees. There is plenty to discover from our local purveyors and the breweries that are heading into town to celebrate with us.

We want everyone to enjoy this year’s impressive festivities and to do so while drinking responsibly. In that vein, for Brewfork, there will be free shuttles to and from the event starting at the Our Hands sculpture outside of City Hall. So, please, take care when imbibing. Do not drink and drive.

Chico Beer Week is about the exploration and celebration of an industry with a keen sense for quality and attention to detail. It isn’t about binge drinking.

Cheers! □

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

politics and beer Two years ago, when Reanette Fillmer raised a ton of money and became a member of the Chico City Council, I realized that anyone can buy a seat at the dais.

Fillmer had never served on any municipal board or commission.

She had an abysmal voting record and little or no community service experience. What she does have are fundraising skills. Fillmer took in $47,000. And that’s the point: money talks.

That makes Chico Vice Mayor Sean Morgan the person with the loudest voice in this year’s council election. The incumbent, oneterm councilman has raised a whopping $51,000. Eyebrows up. Way up. See Ken Smith’s report on that total, along with those of the other candidates, on page 10.

Indeed, Morgan’s coffers are impressive. As I’ve written about before, he got an early start last summer (see “Buzz-cut barbecue,” Second & Flume, July 30, 2015). By my count, Morgan’s cookout raised in one day more than $13,000 from his hosts and sponsors, and that doesn’t include his numerous $50-a-plate attendees.

His guest list included a bunch of heavy hitters in the local business community, along with a trifecta of regional Republican bigwigs: Assemblyman James Gallagher, Sen. Jim Nielsen and Congressman Doug LaMalfa. All three politicos gave speeches during the event.

Things get interesting at this intersection. That’s because Morgan appears to be the anointed one in the cast of our area’s low-level Republicans. That is, it seems to me that he’s being groomed for bigger things than the little old City Council. Morgan has a lot going for him in this realm. He’s youngish (mid-40s), has high-school-age kids who will be out of the house soon and, for the most part, the state and federal districts are easy pickins for Republicans. Jim Nielsen is in his early 70s, so we can expect (hope) he’s going to retire one of these years. Morgan may make his move then.

For now, he needs to keep his coucil seat. Thing is, the vice mayor seems tight with LaMalfa, and ever since LaMalfa’s smear campaign against primary challenger Joe Montes, a lot of local conservatives, the ones who supported Montes, are none too happy with Morgan.

Speaking of LaMalfa, the day this paper hits the stands is the day our not-so-venerable congressman takes on Democratic challenger Jim Reed during the League of Women Voters forum at Marsh Junior High School. I’ve been a panelist during at least one of the candidates forums LaMalfa has participated in over the years. My favorite that I attended, however, was the 2014 face-off with Democrat Heidi Hall. She ran circles around the Richvale native.

I’d like to be there this year, too, but I have another task on my plate. I’ll be helping out at the kick-off event for CN&R’s annual Chico Beer Week, our region’s week-plus-long celebration of all things craft brew. Brewfork, a beer-tasting event featuring 11 breweries with proceeds supporting a nonprofit journalism fund, also includes a dozen food trucks you’re familiar with through the popular Fork in the Road events as well as live music from my favorite Chico band, the Michelin Embers. It’s a great partnership and a great time out at the lovely Patrick Ranch, so I hope to see a great turnout.

Cheers!

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Pot talk Re “Learning curve” (Cover story, by Meredith J. Cooper, Sept. 29): This story paints a one-sided, tempting picture because of the tax revenues associated with marijuana legalization, but it ignores how the homeless population in Colorado has spiked since legalization. It is especially ironic that two other stories ran in the same issue—“No place to live,” about the lack of affordable housing, and “The issue that won’t go away,” on Proposition 64/Measure L. All three stories intersect when it comes to marijuana legalization and homelessness.

Take a look at Pueblo, Colo., for example. Yes, revenues increased, but so has the homeless population.

Does Chico need this? Good luck, merchants, keeping downtown attractive. Good luck, Chico State, convincing parents that Chico is wholesome.

When I went to college, Chico was known as the “party school.”

What’s next? According to a story in International Business Times, “Pueblo, in fact, has become widely recognized for marijuana.” The article continues, “Families tell [the director of Posada—a homeless services center] they’ve come from places like Tennessee and Oklahoma because of marijuana, and they end up camping outside of town and using Posada for showers.”

“It looks like something out of The Grapes of Wrath,” the director is quoted as saying.

Chris Sommers Bangor

The U.S. has not always been paranoid about marijuana. In fact, until a hundred years ago, even opiates were readily available and prescribed by physicians to manage heroin addiction (Chasing the Scream, 2015).

So, what happened? With the end of alcohol prohibition, Harry Anslinger (commissioner, Federal Bureau of Narcotics, precursor to the DEA) needed an alternative mission to justify his agency’s continuance.

His solution was promulgating myths about drugs making people crazy, causing blacks and Mexicans to rape and pimp white maidens, and go on killing sprees. In fact, Reefer Madness was based on his “Assassin of Youth” LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 article (American Magazine, 1937). He spectacularly frightened the public into supporting drug wars that have ever since been fixtures of public policy.

Maine Gov. Paul LePage is a current incarnation of Anslinger.

LePage claims 90 percent of drug traffickers are black or Hispanic and are impregnating white women. His evidence consists of a thick stack of newspaper clippings, which he apparently cannot presently locate. Some public figures and agencies profess to safeguard us from dangers they themselves fabricate. We must insist they use reliable, valid evidence to substantiate their claims. “Taking their word for it” is not an option.

William Todd-Mancillas Chico

A clue for the seemingly clueless: If you want to legalize marijuana in California, stop referring to it as “weed” and “pot” and quit talking about “bongs.”

Take a page from the conservative master propagandist Frank Lutz, who came up with the terms “pro-life,” “death tax” and others, and create a new term that is more palatable, like “the green herb” or something like that.

Bill Donnelly Chico

Don’t bag on big banks Re “Stand up to the bully banks” (Editorial, Sept. 29): The News & Review suggests that we all abandon our big banks and go over to a local bank or credit union. The suggestion is flawed on two accounts. First, whatever happened recently at Wells Fargo was, according to my contact, isolated, at least in California, and corrected quickly.

Second, how about the negative economic impact on those folks at the big banks when they lose their jobs because we abandoned them?

The best advice for anyone should be to look at your bank statements and regularly balance your accounts. Then look at your credit card statements and immediately report all irregularities.

BT Chapman Chico

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be re-elected. Ann remains an advocate for a vision of Chico that embraces more than a sound budget, security and fixed potholes. She has a vision of a vibrant, prosperous, sustainable, friendly community.

Ann came to town originally to attend Chico State and fell in love with Chico, its natural setting, its friendliness, its nature as a community of people interacting with and supporting each other through community involvement.

Besides being a partner with her husband in a longtime successful downtown business, Ann has worked for many years for CAVE at Chico State; encouraging, guiding and supervising students through participation in local volunteer activities.

As the distribution of her lawn signs around Chico shows, she is supported by voters in every neighborhood. On the council she deals with every issue on its merits. Her voting record shows something similar; she is open to argument, no matter who it comes from. I urge you to vote for Ann Schwab.

Kirk Monfort Chico

School board backs tax The Chico Unified School District board of trustees and the 13th District PTA have voted to endorse Proposition 56, the tobacco tax initiative. Prop. 56 will save lives and keep children from smoking by raising the tobacco tax by $2 per pack of cigarettes.

Each year, nearly 17,000 kids start smoking in our state and almost a third will eventually die from tobacco-related diseases. The negative ads about Prop. 56 on television are funded by the tobacco industry in an effort to deceive voters and protect industry profits.

Prop. 56 will increase funding for anti-tobacco programs in schools and provide more funding for research and treatment of tobacco-related diseases. The CUSD board of trustees joins a broad coalition of school officials, including State Superintendent of Schools Tom Torlakson and the California School Board’s Association, who are standing up to Big Tobacco and saying “enough” to their efforts to prey on our children. The measure is supported by the American Lung Association in California, the American Heart

Association and the American Cancer Society Cancer Action Network. Join us in helping save lives by voting yes on Prop. 56.

Eileen Robinson, CUSD board president Chico

Reverse sexism Re “Steinem and Warren” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Sept. 22): Chico State’s Book in Common—My Life on the Road—is really not a book in common. It was written for a narrow readership: materially comfortable, white, middle-aged women—centrist in their politics and sexist in their views. The book is a study in reverse sexism and I feel sorry for undergraduates; they will be expected to worship “icon” Gloria Steinem, when in any real institution of learning, they would hear at least one person eviscerate this book in a public forum.

Gloria Steinem has a long history as a chameleon. She worked for the CIA and admires war criminal Henry Kissinger.

While Steinem’s romantic interests and husbands were all rich celebrities, her memoir turns this toward a long tale of earnest fundraising at a posh resort. As if to inoculate herself from charges of materialism and elitism, she fawns on famous American Indian women.

In all her enlightening travels, I wonder if Steinem ever had time to sit with a homeless Indian man?

It’s no surprise that Steinem tried to shame millennial women for supporting Bernie Sanders.

Steinem is an Oprah Winfrey, Jane Fonda feminist: They’ll never be radicals on any level. They have way too much to lose.

Patrick Newman Chico

Kaepernick no criminal Newsflash! NFL players didn’t appear regularly on the field for the National Anthem until 2009. From 2008 until the present, the National Guard has funneled millions to all 32 teams for producing patriotic spectacles at games.

Most Americans know nothing about the anthem or the Pledge of Allegiance. At nearly every event, fools disrespect the glorious colors and chorus by talking, eating, wearing hats and, of course, texting—mainly from

ignorance and lack of parenting.

Colin Kaepernick has justification for expressing concern. He’s not a criminal. His ethnicity has been brutalized by mine for centuries.

You don’t have to be an astrophysicist to discover this.

Still, inexcusable conditions persist unabated while merely “talking about it” remains nonconstructive.

Intelligent, brave change is in order. Let’s see if any criticism comes when the first non-AfroAmerican takes a knee to join the mounting protestation against the blatant injustice in America.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

Saying ‘Hello’ is OK When I chose Chico State back in the 1990s to finish my degree, it was because of the people of Chico. It was just an initial vibe I felt, but as a struggling student now living here, I was treated very kindly by locals who would employ me to do odd labor jobs.

I couldn’t tell you how many times a relative stranger purchased a sandwich for me at lunchtime as I painted their garage or whatever.

I remember saying to myself, “Chicoans are my kind of people.”

Chico has certainly grown since I moved here. Much of that growth is from transplants from the Bay Area and Southern California and increased student population.

All are welcome, of course, but certain advice needs to be given.

In Chico, you may be approached by a stranger. This stranger may even look directly in your eyes.

Having your L.A. game face on, your initial response may be to look away or pretend you are not aware of what is about to happen.

Fight that off. When the stranger says “Hello,” the best response is a smile and a return greeting. It will be OK, I promise!

Jeff Straub Chico

‘Inspiring to witness’ Re “Mni wiconi: Water is life” (Greenways, by Samuel White Swan-Perkins, Sept. 15): It’s inspiring to witness indigenous activists using nonviolence to challenge the powerful extraction industry over the Dakota Access Pipeline, which threatens at least four major rivers. The Sacred Stone Camp began with a

ceremony that taught [the protesters] that, if they conducted themselves in prayer and ceremony they would win, but if their resistance turned to violence they would not.

The only violence so far has been committed by contractors and authorities against the peaceful movement. When violence is exerted against nonviolent protesters it exposes an underlying brutality in the system, which then undermines broader public cooperation.

Nonviolence teaches that efforts for advancement should be characterized primarily by constructive activities aimed at improving things; obstructive activities are best left as last resorts. If the Sacred Stone resistance continues into a fully rounded nonviolent movement, then perhaps an important turning will have finally begun its overdue rotation.

Water is life, say the water protectors in North Dakota, mni wiconi in their words—may the wisdom of protecting it find us all.

Dan Everhart Chico

Bring back rollerskating With new life coming into downtown Oroville, why not bring back the old rollerskating rink? I’m told by a senior citizen in the area that it was “really something”—a very beautiful place, took up a good portion of the block. Now that the Oroville Inn is restored and bringing in the students, creating more business, and restoring the old State Theatre, downtown Oroville will again be a place people will go to spend money and enjoy their leisure time.

Chris Logan Oroville

Correction Last week, the CN&R reported that bank robbery suspect Eric Avalos-Guevara pleaded no contest to a charge of resisting arrest in Yuba County earlier this year (Downstroke, “Alleged bank robber busted,” Sept. 29). He actually pleaded no contest to delaying a police officer. We apologize for the error, which has been corrected online. —ed.

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Butte County sheriff’s deputies subdued and arrested a reportedly suicidal man in Oroville on Sunday (Oct. 2).

The man’s stepfather called 911 and said that he was wielding a knife, a bat and a machete and threatening to kill family members, according to a sheriff’s office press release.

Deputies responded to the home on Fall River Court around 7:30 p.m. and found a man “who was intoxicated, highly agitated and suicidal.”

Brandishing the bat and knife, he allegedly moved toward deputies, who twice shot him with bean bag rounds. Eventually, the man ran into a garage, where he was arrested.

After being treated for his injuries at Oroville Hospital, the man—whose name has been withheld to protect his medical privacy—was booked into Butte County Jail for brandishing a weapon other than a firearm and resisting an officer.

more complete picture of what goes on, Pahlka said, at least when it comes to sexual harassment and misconduct among the campus community.

“Title IX, they’re responsible for investigating anything that is happening to students regardless of where it happened, right, whether it’s a student victim or a student perpetrator,” Pahlka explained.

The Title IX report also includes faculty and staff victims and perpetrators.

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A correctional deputy resigned from his position at the Butte County Jail and was charged with inappropriate sexual conduct after his alleged sexual relationship with a female inmate came to light last week.

On Sept. 29, staff at the Butte County Sheriff’s Office got word that Ryan Woolery, 32, was involved in a relationship with a jailed woman, according to a BCSO press release.

Investigations conducted by the BCSO and Butte County District Attorney’s Office revealed Woolery had engaged in consensual— but nonetheless illegal—sexual contact with a prisoner. Changes made after previous similar incidents aided in the investigation.

Woolery resigned after being arrested and is scheduled to appear in Butte County Superior Court on Oct. 21.

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On Monday (Oct. 3), a local man was found guilty by a federal jury of receipt and distribution of child pornography and conspiracy to sexually exploit a child.

Jesse Davenport (pictured), 41, was on parole in September 2013 when a parole agent seized a memory card from his phone during a search, acting U.S. Attorney Phillip Talbert said in a press release. The card contained a video of a woman performing sex acts on a 3-year-old girl. Angela Martin, from Connecticut, admitted to conspiring with Davenport, aka Draco Flama, to create the video. He then sent the video to a third party.

Davenport was found guilty and, because of prior offenses, faces a minimum sentence of 25 years in prison. Davenport, who had a prior offense in Kansas, was arrested in Chico in 2010 for intercourse, sodomy and oral copulation with a 17-year-old girl.

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two tales Reports paint differing pictures of sex offenses in the Chico State community

Acivilian manager, Curtis Pahlka prepared Chico State’s Annual Security s the University Police Department’s

Report, which was released on Sept. 29 via an email to students, staff and faculty members. However, he’s by Gabriel fully aware that many Sandoval students probably don’t pay attention to the numbers and, furthermore, they don’t tell Read the reports: the whole story of how to read chico state’s crime affects students. title IX report, go to “How many people www.csuchico.edu/ title-ix. actually know it exists [and use] it to make for the annual security report, go to rational decisions about www.csuchico.edu/ anything?” he asked up/clery_report.shtml. during a recent interview, adding: “Just simply looking at the numbers isn’t going to tell the story of what goes on.”

The report, which is mandated by the Jeanne Clery Disclosure of Campus Security Policy and Campus Crime Statistics Act, shows the number of crimes reported in 2015 on campus and in affiliated buildings, such as recognized Greek houses.

But while the security report is useful

for looking up policies—anything from the university’s procedure for handling reports of missing students to its responsibility to protect victims’ privacy—Pahlka said it’s not as helpful for identifying crime trends.

That’s because of the geographical boundaries outlined in the Clery Act, he explained. The report doesn’t include everything reported to police; only what happens on property owned by or affiliated with the university or immediately adjacent public property—thereby excluding the student neighborhoods just a stone’s throw from campus.

The most common incidents were referrals to Student Judicial Affairs or the Campus Alcohol and Drug Education Center for violating state liquor laws. The total of 188 was almost triple the number of “liquor law referrals” in 2014. There were 33 referrals for drug-related incidents, and also 13 burglaries; eight car thefts; seven arrests for weapon possession; six aggravated assaults; four reports of domestic violence; two reports of fondling; and one case of stalking.

Regarding sexual assaults, there were six reported rapes, three of which occurred on campus. That’s one more than was reported in 2014.

Chico State’s Title IX Activity Report, released on Monday (Oct. 3), paints a

Clery, who was a student at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Penn., in 1986, when she was raped and murdered by a fellow student inside her residence hall.

A jury sentenced the assailant to death, but years later that was reduced to life in prison.

Following Clery’s death, her parents mounted a campaign seeking to improve the safety of campuses nationwide. After finding that administrators failed to offer enough information for the public on crimes committed on campus, they fought for change.

In 1990, Congress approved the Crime Awareness and Campus Security Act, which became known as the Clery Act. It requires colleges that receive federal aid to keep a crime log that’s open to the public and to publish crime and fire reports every year by Oct. 1. In 2013, President Obama amended the Clery Act by signing the Violence Against Women Reauthorization Act, which requires colleges to include in their annual reports incidents of dating violence, domestic violence, stalking and sexual assault.

Title IX, on the other hand, was established years earlier. In 1972, President Nixon signed the law, which prohibits discrimination based on sex in education programs that receive federal aid.

In recent years, the interpretation of Title IX has evolved. Everything related to gender equity, including sexual assault, now falls under its jurisdiction. Plus, the interpretation of Title IX has changed with the times. For example, in the 1970s, transgender rights were not a big issue, but now they are, which means colleges must protect transgender students from discrimination based on gender.

In June 2015, CSU Chancellor Timothy White mandated annual Title IX training

for all CSU employees and compelled Chico State to publish the Title IX report this year for the first time.

The report details 53 incidents of sexual harassment and misconduct, dating or domestic violence, or stalking from July 1, 2015 to June 30, 2016. It includes the nature of the complaint, a brief description and the university’s response. Of those reports, 27 of the accused perpetrators were students, two were university employees and 24 were unknown or unaffiliated with Chico State.

“Their statistics,” Pahlke said of Title IX, “show sexual assault way up here, where our [report] shows them way down here, and people just get confused.”

Indeed, there’s a marked difference in statistics between the Title IX and Clery reports. One reason for that is the removal for Title IX of geographical boundaries. A second is the time frame—Clery results are for the calendar year, while Title IX is for the fiscal year.

Dylan Saake, Chico State’s director of labor relations and compliance, also serves as the university’s Title IX coordinator. He says that as awareness of sexual assault has risen, so have reports—which is promising.

“We like to see increased reporting,” Saake said. “We don’t think it’s indicative of increased activity. We think it’s indicative of more people feeling comfortable sharing [their experiences].”

Saake said that since fall 2015, all CSU employees have completed training to help them identify sex discrimination and understand their obligation to report it.

That’s progress, because in 2014, state auditors found that Chico State— along with UCLA, UC Berkeley and San Diego State University—failed to adequately educate employees on how to handle reports of sexual misconduct.

Specifically, the auditors said victims of sexual assault or misconduct felt discouraged from filing Title IX reports.

In addition to training staff, Chico State also rolled out a program called Not Anymore that’s required of all incoming students. It offers information about relationship violence, consent and bystander intervention as a way to curb sexual assaults and other crimes.

Saake says he believes the programs are working. “My guess is if the trend continues that we’ve seen so far this year, we will see increased reporting when the report comes out one year from now,” he said. □

Intermission City Council has hands tied regarding the El Rey Theatre past year, Steve Depa has been tryto sell the 110-year-old FEloringReytheunsuccessfully Theatre. The local real estate broker

has pitched the property to hundreds of business owners and investors, he says, but the most interested party to date would turn it into a restaurant. Nobody has considered preserving it as a theater.

He explained why during the Chico City Council’s discussion of the El Rey on Tuesday (Oct. 4).

“I’ve had theater groups come up from Los Angeles, and they said that it’s a movie theater, not a [performance venue],” Depa said. “There’s no wing space, there’s no back stage. … To use it as something other than for film, it doesn’t function that way.

“We haven’t kept this a secret that it’s for sale,” he continued. “Now we have an eleventh hour [effort to] save the theater, and I’d just ask the crowd: Who’s seen a movie there in the past five years?”

Most people in attendance raised their hands. Granted, nearly all of them were volunteers with the El Rey Theater Alliance, a group working to preserve the theater. They showed up in force on Tuesday with petitions asking the city to protect it—they’ve gathered 1,076 written and 550 electronic signatures—and picket signs reading “Save the El Rey.” Seventeen people spoke during the public comment portion of the meeting, and most made glowing remarks about the theater’s cultural and historical significance.

One speaker, referencing the fairy murals on the interior, implored the council to “save the fairies.”

The panel can’t do much, it turns out.

It could vote to list the El Rey on the city’s Historic Resources Inventory, but that wouldn’t mean the murals are safe, said Community Development Director Mark Wolfe. A proposal to demolish or make major alterations to a listed property would trigger an environmental review and a public hearing, he said, but there’s nothing stopping the property owner from painting over the murals.

The council could craft an emergency ordinance to protect the interior, but City Attorney Vince Ewing advised against that approach. Such laws are passed only in cases where there’s an urgent threat to public health, welfare and safety, he said. Protecting the interior of a private building would be a stretch.

“It’s my opinion that the city would be exposed [to litigation] because this doesn’t rise to the level of a public safety issue,” Ewing said.

Without much course for action, the council directed city staff to look deeper into what protections might be gained by designating the El Rey as a historic landmark.

Councilwoman Ann Schwab, who requested

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the council’s discussion, encouraged the volunteer group’s effort to raise $1.4 million to purchase the El Rey and commended “the outpouring of love, passion and support.”

In other city news, the Chico Fire Department

recently lost out on a $4.1 million grant, Interim Fire Chief Bill Hack told the CN&R by phone.

In 2014, the city secured the $5.3 million Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant, which created 15 new positions for the fire department.

Chico’s application for a second grant was rejected by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), but Hack isn’t sure why.

“We have not received any letters that specify why it wasn’t accepted,” he said.

“Over the phone, [FEMA] confirmed that they were not giving out any additional grants over this period. … It’s disappointing, but we knew this was coming eventually, either this year or the next.”

Without an unforeseen infusion of cash, he’d have to make layoffs and reduce daily staffing at Chico’s six fire stations from 17 to 12 firefighters. “You can’t staff six fire stations with 12 people,” he said. “That means the permanent closure of at least one fire station, if not two.”

Hack is set to present a report on the future of his department during the City Council meeting on Nov. 1.

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ith about a month to go before the Nov. 8 general election, W Chico Vice Mayor Sean Morgan

has raised more than twice as much money as any other council candidate, according to campaign disclosure statements filed last week with the City Clerk’s Office.

Morgan has raised $51,044 toward his re-election bid. The next highest fundraiser is firsttime candidate Jovanni Tricerri with $20,970. Morgan’s war chest is not only the largest amassed in recent elections, as current Councilwoman Reanette Fillmer topped 2014 fundraising with a then-shocking total of $46,900, but he has also spent more this election cycle—$25,824—than any other single candidate has even raised.

During a phone interview this week, Morgan sounded surprised to learn he’d out-fundraised the other candidates, and he expressed his misgivings about the need for such efforts. “Would I like it more if [campaigning] was totally grassroots and you could just go doorto-door and talk to people to get your message out?” he said. “Sure,

that’s the ideal, but it just doesn’t work anymore. The unfortunate reality is it takes money to win.”

Of the 11 candidates running for office, seven submitted forms detailing funds they’d raised and spent as of Sept. 24. Lisa Duarte, Mercedes Macias, Jeffrey Glatz and Jon Scott haven’t raised or spent enough money to meet the threshold requiring disclosure.

Additional disclosures are due on Oct. 27 and Nov. 3.

The other candidates who reported campaign contributions, in order of highest to lowest, are Karl Ory ($21,827); Ann Schwab ($19,044); Tami Ritter ($16,611); Randall Stone ($16,491) and Loretta Torres ($13,950).

Part of Morgan’s fundraising suc-

cess can be attributed to an early start. He is one of only three candidates who started raising money in 2015, filling his campaign coffers with $21,500 by New Year’s Day. Stone raised $5,230 last year and Torres started by lending her campaign $1,000.

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Sean Morgan, Chico’s current vice mayor, has spent more money on his re-election campaign than any other candidate has raised.

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LaMalfa, James Gallagher and Jim Nielsen each contributed $500 to Morgan’s re-election effort, the highest total amount a single person or entity is allowed to contribute to one campaign in the fouryear period leading up to Election Day, according to campaign finance guidelines established in the Chico Municipal Code.

Donations and their sources are listed in the disclosure documents, and others who’ve contributed the $500 maximum to Morgan’s campaign in the last three months include several Chico residents and businesses including Fifth Sun, Immediate Care Medical Center, Sol Mexican Grill and The Hignell Companies.

“I’m just doing the same thing I did last time almost verbatim,” Morgan said of his strategy.

“I’m sending letters to people I know and people who I think are interested in Chico politics. Our response rate is obviously pretty

good, but I think that’s mostly because people [give because they] are happy with the direction of the city.”

Morgan listed television commercials, mailers, billboards, “palm cards” to hand out while canvassing, and lawn and commercial signs as campaign expenses.

Scott, one of the candidates who hasn’t raised any money and doesn’t intend to, is taking a more minimalist approach. He’s running weekly ads in local newspapers until election day and making it a point to show up at every candidates forum. He’s self-funding his effort, and expects to spend about $10,000 by Election Day. Though he didn’t point fingers, Scott expressed his belief that some people and groups exercise too much influence over the current council.

“I want the decisions I make to be the ones I come to after I assess the situation. I don’t want to owe anybody anything for my being there,” he said. “If I win a seat on the council, I want it to be because enough people thought I was worthy, and I don’t want to have to start thinking about who gave me money should they have issues that come before the council.”

Morgan said perceived favortrading is a common misconception about politics: “I don’t trade dollars for support, and I wouldn’t take money from anyone who would suggest I do that,” he said. “And to be honest, nobody’s ever asked me. That’s exactly how politics isn’t supposed to work, and I think most of the time it doesn’t work that way.”

Candidate Jeffrey Glatz, who also didn’t have funds to disclose, said he is accepting contributions for his campaign, but not actively pursuing them.

“I find it disheartening that in a local City Council race the candidates are having to raise something like $50,000 to stand a chance of winning,” Glatz said via email. “I will rely on my website, forums, interviews, word-of-mouth and social media to spread the word.

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As senior vice president for Connecture, a company that designs health information systems, including for PBM (pharmacy benefit manager) firms, Jim Yocum says that not only have prices exceeded the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics’ Consumer Price Index for the past two decades, many patients also pay more “because of the way that medical benefits are now structured with larger deductibles and higher percentages of cost-sharing specifically for prescription drugs.”

Unlike other countries, “by and large the government here does not set prices or negotiate prices,” he continued. “There’s less bargaining power here in the U.S. because our buyers of these drugs are fragmented compared to the negotiating power of a country.”

U.S. patent laws—particularly the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009, governing biological-based remedies—allow manufacturers to protect their brands for significant periods of time before generic alternatives can come to market. Moreover, Yocum said, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration accepts outside reports when making evaluations about a medication’s effectiveness, even from

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W Pharmacy in 2007, the role of a pharmacist was a lot different than it is today. hen Okwudili Ahiligwo opened Bidwell

In fact, it’s probably the role you’d expect a pharmacist to play.

Ahiligwo is a native Nigerian who moved to Chico in 1999 with his wife, a Belgian he met while living in Europe.

He spent his early years in the profession focused on medicines. He’d ensure patients received the correct drug and amount prescribed by the doctor; that a newly prescribed medication did not pose a risk of harmful interaction with something else the patient was taking, and that he was available to provide advice and information.

He still does all of that. Increasingly, though, he and other pharmacists also must

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play the roles of accountant, investigator, mediator and sometimes even benefactor.

Insurers vary wildly on which drugs they cover. Doctors rarely know whether the “formulary” for a patient’s health plan includes a particular medicine; these drug lists change, as do coverages. Even a doctor who wanted to make a medical choice incorporating economics would be hard-pressed to do so.

When arriving to pick up prescriptions, patients often don’t know what price tag awaits. The burden of explaining—or intervening with insurance companies—falls predominantly on the pharmacist.

“I will tell you the truth; that’s not what I came in for when I opened,” Ahiligwo said.

“We have these different hats. The problem is the time that it’s taking—I can’t tell you how much time we put in. Most people don’t see it.

“It’s not the science of pharmacy anymore, it’s just dealing with the money part.”

Moments before saying that on a recent

afternoon, Ahiligwo spent 10 minutes trying to help a patient who expressed surprise at the $75 cost of her medication. He already had tried to find a discount plan or manufacturer’s coupon. With neither of those available, he offered to reduce the price. Instead, she decided to ask her physician for free samples and left without her medicine.

“Most people don’t know what I did there: I cut down my own pay to accommodate that,” Ahiligwo said. Other customers have accepted his offer. “I would rather make less to make sure that somebody gets their prescription.”

The high cost of prescription drugs got national

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pharmacist and IT expert agree: Get informed.

Yocum suggests checking your insurer’s website. Whether your plan is public or private, chances are good that your insurer has a pharmacy benefit manager— a firm in charge of negotiating prices, etc.—associated with it.

Connecture serves nearly half of the country’s PBMs with a drugcomparison interface; other PBMs offer online programs with differing amounts of data.

“Our tools are designed to help close the communication gap sometimes between the pharmacy, which is going to tell you what it’s going to cost, and the insurance company, which is going to tell you how much they’re going to cover and what you’re going to cover—and then what the doctor’s understanding of what these costs are,” Yocum said.

Connecture’s system allows a patient to research not just a medication’s cost and how it’s covered, but also if a specific pharmacy offers a lower copay and whether a cheaper alternative exists. Patients then can speak with their doctor or pharmacist.

Ahiligwo has those discussions. Even without consultation, when he finds a prescription is expensive or not covered, he’ll call physicians to inquire about switches.

The effort is intensive but worthwhile for everyone involved.

“Cost of drugs is one of the big determinants in adherence to a drug regimen,” Yocum said. “The cheaper the drug is, the more likely the patient is going to be able to afford it, stay on it and gain the benefit of that drug.” □

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competitors, “so the other side gets a vote in this, which in most countries would be seen as unusual.”

Even when a generic drug becomes available, not every physician may wish to prescribe it.

“Some of the doctors like the brand names,” Ahiligwo said. “[They feel] some of the generics are not as good as the brand name; if you can get the brand name for the price of getting generic, why don’t you go for it?”

Indeed, not all generics are cheaper, or even priced equally.

Insurers make contracts with drugmakers and may favor particular manufacturers over others.

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become the next Ken Grossman, but Bin the origin story of Lassen Traditional en Nielsen did not come to Chico to

Cidery, it’s hard not to hear echoes of Sierra Nevada Brewery.

As with Grossman and company, Nielsen started small: in this case, releasing batches from a small unit in an industrial park near Park Avenue. He faced some skepticism and indifference, most notably at a craft brewing event where beers eclipsed his ciders, but also earned enough fans to secure local distribution—plus a major award (silver medal in the 2016 California Cider Competition, for his Farmhouse Dry variety).

Nielsen, a 39-year-old engineer who relocated from Oregon last year, has no plans to expand on the scale of Sierra Nevada. He uses only California apples available within a 160-mile radius of Chico; he could not find enough supply to meet the demand of mass production even if he wanted to. Like Grossman, he values local sourcing and sustainability. Several varieties age in recycled wine barrels—again, suited only to a smallscale operation.

So, while well-acquainted with Sierra Nevada’s history, Nielsen has a different plan for Lassen Traditional Cidery.

“I’m not looking at making it rich doing this,” he told the CN&R during a recent tour and tasting. “I just want to make a living doing something that I enjoy…. It’s exciting doing something on my own, having a lot of pride in it, some heart.”

Nielsen works alone, apart from occasional labor by family and friends. His cider

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is completely different from grocery-store cider, even most liquor-store cider. For one, it’s not sweet; it has no flavors added. The apples ferment naturally due to yeast collected from the environment—no added sulfites—while other inherent microorganisms, such as lactobacillus, contribute to the process. He does not pasteurize his products; secondary fermentation in the bottle adds to the carbonation.

“The best beers I’d had were wild-fermented, so I decided that was the way to go,” Nielsen said. “I sacrifice control in favor of uniqueness. I love that—I like the variety in that.”

Indeed, no two batches come out alike, akin to wine vintages.

“Wild fermentation is something that beer-heads, cider-heads, are really excited about,” said Rob Rasner, owner of the Winchester Goose in Chico, the lone tavern serving Lassen cider.

(It’s also sold at Spike’s Bottle Shop, Star Liquors and Mangrove Bottle Shop.)

“This is really high-end,” Rasner continued, “so it’s easy for us to get behind. It goes with our ethos.”

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2005. A home brewer of beer since college, he branched out after moving next to a house with apple trees. He’d hold

an annual “cider-pressing party” at which friends would come to juice fruit for his creations.

That was in Corvallis, Ore., where he received a master’s degree in materials science engineering from Oregon State University. He found jobs as an engineer but didn’t enjoy the work and switched careers in 2013.

Nielsen chose Chico for multiple reasons.

First, he has family here—namely Holly Nielsen, his sister. This region also is rich in varietal apples, with few cider-makers seeking them.

“My focus is using the right kind of apples for ciders,” he explained. “I’m using a lot of the heirloom varieties that have a lot more flavor and complexity than your average supermarket apple…. These are all apples that were used for cider a long time ago, and these orchards kind of disappeared because apple sales have been taken over by the mass-produced five or six American varieties you see everywhere.”

Finally, he said, “it just seems like Chico has the right kind of culture, where people are into supporting local small businesses [and] local agriculture.”

Nielsen buys his fermentation barrels from a wholesaler in Chico who acquires used stock from wineries. The cidery will get about three years’ use from a barrel before repurposing the wood. A local pig farmer is taking the apple pulp, which Nielsen previously brought to a composting location.

Lassen Traditional Cidery offers four brands: three in bottles, one by keg. Each is approximately 8.5 percent alcohol by volume. Production is seasonal, only when apples are ripe. The cidery made 1,800 gallons this year; Nielsen projects 2,500 gallons for 2017 from this fall’s crop.

“It’s basically just all about the apples and giving them the time to do their thing, to mature,” he said.

“It’s more like wine, closer to a farm-to-table product…. With beer it’s more about the brewing process, what you are doing with those ingredients; with cider, it’s more about what you’re starting with.” □

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CROSS-COUNTRY COFFEE On Sept. 15, filmmaker Mark Foster and company set out from Bovina, N.Y., with a trailer-mounted coffee-shop-cum-tinyhouse in tow on “a community-positive road trip film project.” The mission, dubbed Ground Support USA, will take the idealistic, coffee-making nomads to preselected sweet spots—like Austin, Tex.; Boulder, Colo.; Portland, Ore.; and good old Chico—to film uplifting stories about people working toward creating a sustainable future. At each stop, they set up their mobile coffee shop and host community gatherings to screen footage of the trip thus far. From the Ground Up Farms is hosting Ground Support USA at the Kentfield Community Garden (1125 Kentfield Ave.) on Tuesday, Oct. 11, at 10 a.m.

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beer meets candy at Joy Lyn’s Having just reopened for the season on Saturday (Oct. 1), Joy Lyn’s Candies in Paradise is busy preparing goodies for the holidays, which are quickly approaching. Pam and Bill Hartley, owners of the business since 2000, have a passion for sweets that they enjoy sharing with the community. In 2006, they founded the Paradise Chocolate Fest.

And several years ago, they created a partnership with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and concocted several delicious confections infused with the brewery’s Pale Ale and Stout beers. The former is featured in the ever-popular Beer Brittle, which comes in regular, chocolate-crunch and jalapeño flavors. The Hop Salt Stout Caramels are made by cooking Sierra Nevada Stout beer into the caramel and lightly sprinkling it with hop salt that is also made at the brewery. This past summer, Joy Lyn’s took home the Retail Confectioners International (RCI) award for Best New Packaging with its newly designed labels for the Beer Brittle candies. In addition to chocolates and beer brittle, Joy Lyn’s also specializes in caramel apples, pumpkin pie truffles and freshly made seasonal candies. Bill recently sat down with the CN&R to talk about the business. Find Joy Lyn’s at 1183 Bille Road, 872-9167, or www.joylyns candies.com.

What motivates you?

Pride in owning a business, manufacturing the highest quality of candy, and we get to put our candy next to confectioners’ from all across the state at the confectioners conference. We are involved in the community by giving support with donations, and in 2006, we founded the Chocolate Fest, which now benefits a multitude of youth organizations in Paradise. It is now a nonprofit entity.

What skills do you bring to the business?

packaging, merchandising and developing. I am the public relations expert, and Pam brings the administrative end to it.

What’s your best advice for running a business?

Be passionate and live within a budget. Don’t grow too fast too soon. Don’t overextend yourself.

What have been your biggest successes?

Our Beer Brittle association with Sierra Nevada, and joining RCI, where we’ve won awards and come up with new ideas.

What is your best-selling item? What are your personal favorites?

One-pound assorted chocolates [are the bestsellers]. Our favorites are the Hop Salt Stout Caramels and chocolate butter creams. Since owning it, we’ve tweaked everything, and wouldn’t do anything differently. We grew at a slow pace and managed to keep our quality.

Ever have any critics?

Yes, a few. We keep open, honest communication and reach out. We listen and let them talk.

We are all creative in our own way with the ideas,

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The coolest thing, though, about flying out of Chico was the ambiance. The terminal was small and people were friendly. Instead of disappearing into video games, we talked. I struck up a conversation with a Chico State professor who was on his way to Indonesia to help preserve native dialects disrupted—and possibly doomed—by the 2004 tsunami. It fascinated me. I even ended up calling him when we were both back stateside and wrote a story about his efforts.

While I enjoyed my experience flying on that tiny plane out of little Chico, I never again splurged for a flight from our local airport. So, when passenger service left Chico, I wasn’t all that surprised.

That was then; this is now. If we can find an airline that will fly not only to the Bay Area but also to L.A. and Portland, that would be a coup for Chico and could certainly help attract new businesses. I recently sat down with the newly hired airport manager, Sherry Miller, who was obviously very busy and also quite optimistic about the future.

Miller, who recently moved to Chico from South Lake Tahoe, says she’s enjoying her new environs. While Tahoe was beautiful, it was very seasonal, she said.

She pointed out her window to where crews were working on a $3.7 million ramp reconstruction. They started in early September and were already halfway through. That project was mostly funded by the Federal Aviation Administration.

This month, Miller will be attending an air service conference in Kentucky, where she’s already set up meetings to discuss future commercial flights with Delta, American and SkyWest, the latter of which abandoned service between Chico and San Francisco in 2014.

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n the oak-strewn foothills just north of Chico, British expat Stephen Kay and his family have been quietly making preparations to provide craft beer aficionados in Chico and the surrounding area with a lineup of internationally inspired beer options.

Production at the family’s British Bulldog Brewery is set to begin later this year, when construction of the facility is completed and the proper permitting and licenses are in place. But the brewery will not be the sort of tasting room and restaurant setup that’s the norm for many microbreweries. Rather, it’s located in a low-profile building just a quick walk across the driveway from the house where Kay has been perfecting his homebrew technique for the last six years. This is convenient not just for Kay, but for the rest of the British Bulldog team: his wife, Alison, daughter Emma Martin and sonin-law Justin Martin.

“It’s a family affair,” Kay said. “The whole thing started as a family affair, and it’s going to stay as a family affair.

That’s basically the idea of the brewery:

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This whole industry is going to be built as a family, village-like brewery.”

Fittingly, the idea to take Kay’s homebrew beer—a hobby he originally picked up as a teenager in England—and market it commercially grew out of a challenge

by Justin when Kay, an accountant and business consultant with a background in microbiology, found himself at something of a crossroads professionally. Kay was dubious about whether a small-scale operation like his would be financially viable.

“Any article you read online says, ‘Never get into nanobrewing; never get into microbrewing. It doesn’t work. It’s going to be 50 years until you get a profit. You’re always going to be too small,’” Kay said. “So I started looking at the numbers just to prove to him it doesn’t work. And, well, it does.”

According to Kay, the key to getting British Bulldog Brewery to pencil out is limiting both the size and the scope of the The Bulldog family (from left): Stephen and Alison Kay, and Justin and Emma Martin.

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Brewmaster Stephen Kay shares a Bulldog sample from his kegerator.

operation. The beers will be available only in kegs and growlers, and will not be available in stores.

And the brewery’s maximum projected output of 1,000 barrels (the equivalent of 2,000 standard kegs) a year is just one-thousandth of the million-barrel production capacity of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Chico facility.

“The fact of the matter is that it does work as a nice small business if you always want it to be a small business and you always want to self-distribute and you just want to be local—beyond that, you need to be 10 times the size to make the same money, in terms of volume—and we thought, well, we could do that.”

Before going any further, however, Kay felt it was wise to get a few outside opinions about the quality of his beer.

“The final test really was to say that we’re still not going to do this unless people like our beer outside of the family,” Kay said. “And that was the piece that I was trembling at.” But after Justin set up staff taste-testings at several local bars and restaurants, Kay’s uncertainty about British Bulldog’s potential commercial viability were put to rest.

“We took some bottled samples of what we had on at that time,” Kay said. “They sat down and sampled them and said, ‘So, when can we start delivery?’”

The answer to that question is: soon. A brewing system, currently being manufactured by Nevada City’s BrewBilt, will be delivered soon and British Bulldog Brewery hopes to be up and running by November, with beers

Building the Bulldog house:

Visit the British Bulldog Facebook page (www.facebook.com/britishbulldogbrewery) to watch a time-lapse video of the initial construction of the brewery, and get more info on the beers at www.britishbulldogbrewery.com

IS CHICO FINALLY ADDING SOME NEW CRAFT BREWERIES TO ITS BEER SCENE? Charlie Barrett, Secret Trail Brewing Co.

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n recent years, Chico’s seen the addition of some excellent beer bars and ever-expanding shelf space for craft beers at local bottle shops and grocery stores, elevating our status as a diversified beer town. Of course, to fully arrive, Chico needs the kind of influx of new craft breweries that has helped cities like Reno, Sacramento and Bend, Ore., become beer destinations.

Today, Chico has Sierra Nevada plus the malted-rice beers of 2-year-old Eckert Malting & Brewing (not to mention the just-opened Lassen Traditional Cidery—see “All in the apple,” page 16). But there are others on the cusp. In addition to British Bulldog, at least two more brewers are in the process of opening breweries in Chico.

on tap at local bars and restaurants soon after.

To start, Kay said that British Bulldog will be focusing on Britishstyle pub ales with one or two yearround staples, plus rotating seasonal beers. Beyond just the name of their brewery and the names of their individual beers (all of which are inspired by military history—Barrage Balloon Blonde, Red Baron Red Rye, Mad Jack Scottish Ale, etc.), British Bulldog hopes to honor the long tradition of beermaking by brewing authentic British beers.

“If you closed your eyes and drank one of our beers,” Kay said. “You should feel like you could be in a British pub.” Ω

SECRET TRAIL BREWING CO. Charlie Barrett has been brewing for more than eight years. And last year, after retiring as a building inspector in Yolo County, he and his wife, Michelle, decided to turn his hobby into a

business. The couple came up with a business plan and started looking for investors for Secret Trail Brewing last January. Now, more than halfway through their goal of raising $400,000, they are actively searching for a building to set up a 10-barrel system. “We are just waiting to find the right building,” Barrett said.

In the meantime, Barrett has been sharing his beer with fellow beer enthusiasts, pouring samples at community events and winning first place at several home-brew competitions. Follow Secret Trail’s progress at www.facebook.com/ secrettrailbrewing.

ZYTHOS BREWING CO. Zythos Brewing brewmaster Brad Liapis knows what it takes to open a brewery from scratch. He helped start California Brewing Co. in Palo Cedro a couple of years ago. Now he has designs on opening a brewery and taproom in Chico. While he is still trying to find a suitable building for Zythos, Liapis continues brewing (he recently upgraded to a six-barrel system), keeping his nine home taps stocked with IPAs, saisons, stouts and ciders.

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ohn Abbott, the longest-running member of the Chico Homebrew Club, started making his own beer in Hawaii in 1981. Since then, he’s made hundreds of beers, including several that earned blue ribbons at state fairs and other competitions, and at least one that’s become world famous—Kona Brewing Co.’s Longboard Lager.

He’s also brewed some tasty marinades, albeit unintentionally.

The topic of flavoring meat came up during a recent midday interview with Abbot and other club members (over beers, of course), as he remembered his first attempt at a ginger-based brew, when his overzealous addition of the star ingredient resulted in red eyes and coughing fits upon tasting. That prototype, much like his tongue-scorching ghost pepper porter, failed to become a refreshing beverage but was repurposed to add some zest to the next day’s dinner.

The inadvertent invention of sauces seems to be a situation familiar to other homebrewers: “That reminds me of the time I tried to make a bacon-infused beer,” club President Alex Lucero said. “It was terrible for drinking, but amazing to marinate meat in.”

Disaster is rarely so delicious, however, and failure is a natural byproduct of the experimentation at the heart of homebrewing. And one of the Chico Homebrew Club’s main goals is to provide an avenue for do-it-yourself beer-makers to share their skills and experience and to help each other learn from each others’ mistakes. Lucero said the club’s current roster includes brewers of all skill levels, from those who’ve yet to brew their first drop to those who’ve been able to turn 20

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their homebrew hobby into a living.

“Our membership includes some very accomplished homebrewers that now work for big breweries, or small breweries with big reputations,” he said, naming Sierra Nevada, Wildcard (Redding), FiftyFifty (Truckee) and Elysian (Seattle) as examples. He said a handful of members are in the process of opening their own breweries, and Abbott owned the now-defunct Chico Brewhouse (“I realized I’m a brewer and not a restaurateur, so we sold it,” Abbott said). Abbott has also brewed professionally, and was working at the Kona Brewing Co. when he developed the original recipe for Longboard Lager.

The origins of the club, like the origins of beer itself, are unclear.

Abbott has been a member since moving to town in 1999, and said he thinks the club started in its current incarnation around 1997. Before that, another club called the Butte

County Brew Crew had been active since at least the mid-1980s, he said.

The club currently has roughly 60 members, about half of whom regularly attend monthly club meetings. The meetings are sometimes at public places, other times at members’ homes.

Lucero noted that state law prohibiting patrons from bringing their own brews to commercial establishments makes it difficult to meet in public, but those issues should be solved soon; on Sept. 24, Gov. Jerry Brown signed Assembly Bill 2172, which will allow homebrew clubs to meet, share the juice of their labors, and hold competitions at venues licensed to serve beer beginning Jan. 1.

At each meeting, 12 members assigned to brew different styles of

beer—a porter, a gose, a cream ale, etc—bring in their own homemade creations to share with the group.

“We go over whatever business there is to attend to, and then we start pouring,” Lucero said, noting the club—which has nonprofit status—is “only as formal as we have to be.” Everyone tries samples of the beers brought by members— tasting, discussing and evaluating each according to Beer Judge Certification Program guidelines.

Abbott is a certified beer judge and as such serves as the club’s de facto competition coordinator and “chief educator.”

“Typically people want feedback,” Lucero said. “You’ll smell it, taste it, converse a little and maybe someone will say, ‘Hey Jim, I think it had a little dicetyl [a compound that can cause off flavors] in it.’ Then he’ll tell us what the recipe was, how he made it, what the conditions were, and we try to pinpoint any problems.”

“As long as they can tell us what they did, a lot of members can identify whatever the potential issue might be and help them make it better,” Abbott said. He and Lucero agreed that the most common problem most homebrewers face comes from contamination due to improper sterilization of their equipment.

The club also participates in events like the American Club member Eric Simmen shares homebrewing knowledge at the California Craft Beer Summit in Sacramento.

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Chico Homebrew Club members (from left) Shevonne Prewitt, Alex Lucero, John Abbott and Cheryl Romanak take a break from drinking their own recipes to meet at the bar.

Homebrewers Association Big Brew, in which brewers around the world share a toast and start brewing at noon in honor of National Homebrew Day (the first Saturday in May). For the past two years, the club has been invited to the California Craft Beer Summit to demonstrate homebrewing techniques, and they also host an annual Chico Homebrew Competition.

Lucero, who began home brewing just three years ago, said it’s possible to Join the club: More information acquire all of about the chico the necessary Homebrew club can equipment and be found at chico ingredients to homebrewclub.com. brew a batch of beer for about $150. With only ingredients to buy for subsequent batches, it’s a small investment with a big payoff.

“There’s a tremendous satisfaction that comes with brewing your own beer instead of buying it,” he said.

Abbott agreed, adding that sharing the interest with fellow enthusiasts is also uniquely rewarding: “It’s all about the camaraderie,” he said.

“The education is important, and we all learn a lot from each other, but you meet people in the club that become friends for life.” □ MOre

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relatively small batch of Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s firstever sour beer, a Flanders red ale, just keeps getting better, says James Conery, assistant brewmaster.

It was brewed one time in 2014 and what’s left is aging in 55-gallon oak barrels. The sour ale may see a wider release once it’s refined, but there’s no saying when.

“It could take years to get where we want,” Conery said.

Such is the nature of barrel aging, the process of adding complex character and flavor by barrel-

ing brew and letting it sit, usually for six months to two years. “It’s all relative to the beer,” he said.

“Sometimes it takes two months.”

It’s possible to age just about any style of beer, he added, given “the right barrel and the right time frame.”

The brewery has been experimenting with aging beer for years, but usually only in small volumes for special events. A full-time program launched in earnest about 2 1/2 years ago and already has produced some of Sierra Nevada’s highest-rated beers. The barrel

house is off-site from the main brewery in a nondescript warehouse in south Chico that isn’t open to the public. Conery recently guided the CN&R on a private tour.

Through the door, the first sight is a huge wall of barrels and the warehouse smelled strongly of bourbon. It was cool inside— 55 degrees.

When the facility is at maximum capacity, it holds 2,300 barrels, Conery says. Some, such as whiskey barrels that Conery purchased in Scotland, are decades

old. Oak is the wood of choice due to its tight grain and strong seal.

The wood itself doesn’t affect the flavor much; the wine or spirit that was previously stored inside makes more of a difference. At first, the brewers worked mostly with old bourbon barrels from Kentucky, but have moved toward wine barrels from Napa County. “Once we got into wine barrels, we’ve found that there’s a significant difference in the flavor [based on] the types of wine,” Conery said.

As an example, they aged Otra Vez, Sierra Nevada’s popular prickly pear cactus gose, in a chardonnay barrel and debuted the Chateau Otra Vez in the brewery’s taproom.

Under Conery’s supervision, two

employees do all the brewing, sampling, hand-bottling and physical labor for the barrel program. “As far as gigs at the brewery go, it’s one of the better ones from a creative standpoint,” he said. “We’re pretty much given free rein to do whatever we want.

“The beauty of this program is that it’s really from the bottom up,” he continued. “We all sit down and say, ‘Hey, we have some special red wine barrels coming in—what would be fun to brew?’” There is no deadline pressure. For example, in two huge, wooden storage tanks, a brown ale is aging with 1,000 pounds of peaches picked from the Chico State University Farm. It will sit until the brewers are satisfied that it’s the best it can be.

James Conery is Sierra Nevada’s assistant brewmaster and oversees production at the brewery’s barrel house in south Chico.

“We’re in here all the time, sampling the beers,” he said. “We have a running list of everything we have in barrels, and we try to sample them all once a week or once a month. Once we think it’s ready, we’ll schedule a time for bottling.”

Some of the brews are released only in the gift stores of the breweries in Chico and Asheville, N.C., and the Sierra Nevada Torpedo Room in Berkeley. However, three barrel-aged beers are set for a limited national release: Ginger Bigfoot Barleywine Style Ale; a strong pale ale in the French bière de garde style, aged in bourbon and red wine barrels; and Narwhal Imperial Stout aged with black and red currants.

About 300 barrels’ worth of each will be distributed.

As for what to expect further into the future, Sierra Nevada recently got on the sour beer bandwagon. The barrel house has a separate “sour room,” where the air has a distinctive funk thanks to the wild yeast at work.

“One fun thing we’ve done is generate a Chico-only wild sour culture,” Conery said. “We just filled up these big metal totes full of wort and parked our truck in a peach orchard overnight and let it spontaneously inoculate.

“It’s under the radar right now.

Hopefully, in a couple of years, we’ll be able to put out something that lives up to the name.” □ OctOber 6, 2016

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Arts &Culture Two images—of a young woman reading a book and a little girl with an Edison phonograph—from two of John Johnson’s century-old glass plate negatives.

PHOTOS BY JOHN JOHNSON FROM THE DOUGLAS KEISTER COLLECTION

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Century-old negatives find home in Smithsonian Museum

Ponemajor museum. Doug Keister is experiencing that thrill—at of the Smithsonians no less—even if the prints he made hotographers dream of having their work on exhibit in a

for the gallery walls aren’t of his own images.

Keister, a longtime Chicoan raised in the Midwest, owns 280 negatives from John Johnson, a black by photographer who chronicled life in his Evan Lincoln, Neb., neighborhood between 1910 Tuchinsky and 1925. That period coincided with the eva ntu c hin sk y @ New Negro Movement: a time of cultural and newsrev iew.com educational growth in black communities, such as the Harlem Renaissance in New York A nation’s story City.

Visit the National Photographs documenting this era are so Museum of African rare that Keister’s set has been declared a American History & Culture online at historical treasure in Nebraska and now has www.nmaahc.si.edu. a place in the Smithsonian. The National Museum of African American History & Culture, which opened Sept. 24, requested 60 of the photos for its permanent collection.

Keister made prints and digital copies. Four grand-opening installations incorporate Johnson’s images.

Keister says his photo set “illuminates an unknown chapter in American history. People tend to think of African-American history as the Civil War and the civil rights movement. There’s 100 years between that!”

Speaking with the CN&R a few days before President Obama dedicated the museum, Keister foreshadowed remarks about contemporary relevance and the importance of viewing exhibits such as the Johnson photographs.

“With what we see on TV—the protests and the riots and the shootings—we don’t see ennobling images,” said Keister, who’s white. “We do occasionally, with certain leaders, but they get squashed by all this other stuff.

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“This whole Black Lives Matter [message], these pictures are so good at showing that.”

Keister acquired Johnson’s work by happenstance. In 1965, when he was a teenager working in a darkroom, a friend and the friend’s father bought glass negatives from a farmer who told them the stack contained an image of an Edison phonograph, which the father collected. Unwilling to sort through the pile, they sold the set to Keister for $10, taking a $5 loss.

Appreciating the images, Keister made prints and sold them for $1 or $2 apiece.

“My first sales as a photographer were pictures taken by somebody else,” he observed, laughing.

If not for this sentimental tie, he might not have kept them when, in young adulthood, he moved to California.

The glass negatives—standard stock for the time—remained in storage for 35 years until he received a newspaper clipping by mail from his mother in 1999 detailing the discovery of 36 glass negatives in the closet of a black woman’s home in Lincoln. Keister felt it “looked like the same ‘eye’” as his collection, and the Nebraska State Historical Society concurred.

Since then, he and the society’s Edward Zimmer have identified not only the photographer, Johnson, but also many of the photos’ subjects—and continue that effort.

The collection’s path to the Smithsonian was also serendipitous. In 1999, Keister contacted Lonnie Bunch at the National Museum of American History, who Keister says was the first person to recognize the photographs’ significance. Bunch left the Smithsonian but then returned as the inaugural director of the African American History & Culture Museum.

That initial outreach proved Keister’s “foot in the door” of the Smithsonian.

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Special Events AMERICAN CROWN CIRCUS & CIRCO OSORIO: Las Vegas-based touring circus featuring trapeze artists, acrobats and other acts performing under the big top. Th-F, 7pm; Sa-Su, 5pm & 7pm; M, 7pm. $20 adults/$10 kids 10-under. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

CURIOUS NOVELTIES: THE POWERS OF INVENTION IN PRECARIOUS TIMES: Indiana University professor and author Patricia Ingham will discuss how studying the history of invention might help us to dream a sustainable future. Th, 10/6, 7:30-9pm. Free.

Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 898-6341, www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter.

Art Receptions DIVERSE PASSIONS: Reception for this exhibit of student work

featuring spoken word performances and poetry readings. Th, 10/6, 5pm. 3rd Floor Art Gallery, BMU, Third Floor, Chico State, (530) 898-5489.

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PARSONS DANCE COMPANY: Chico Performances presents one of the world’s most exciting modern dance groups. Sa, 10/8, 7:30pm. $10$34. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Music CHICO STATE LOW BRASS CHOIR: Chico State’s Low Brass Choir presents a smorgasbord of classical and jazz music. F, 10/7, 7:30-9pm.

Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/hfa.

EBONY AND IVORY: GRAND FINALE: Music from guitarist/pianist Alan Rigg and his trio with special guests The Artful Horns and a barbecued chicken dinner on the patio. Proceeds go toward the restoration of the club’s 1911 Steinway B Grand Piano. F, 10/7, 6-10pm. $35.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 8941978, www.chicowomensclub.org.

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ART, WINE & FAIRY DOOR WALK: Enjoy a glass of local wine and stroll through over 25 downtown Chico businesses, meeting artists and seeing their artwork. Children can also participate in a fairy door hunt. Activity map and info available at: Made in Chico, Diamond W Western Wear, Zucchini & Vine, Vagabond Rose, Kirk’s Jewelry and Formal Education. F, 10/7, 5-8pm. Downtown Chico. Contact DCBA for details: 345-6500, www.downtown chico.net.

MYSTIC CIRCUS: Mystic Circus has been touring

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the country with an adults-only circus that’s heavy on blood, sweat, tears and skin. Expect sword swallowing, skin piercing, burlesque dancing and much more. F, 10/7, 9:30pm. $8 in advance/$10 at the door. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

ART IN THE GARDEN: An art show and garden party featuring the work of several local artists on display and for sale. Sa, 10/8, 4-8pm.

Free. Magnolia Gift & Garden, 1367 East Ave., (530) 894-5410, www.magnoliagardening.com.

CHAPMANTOWN NIGHT OUT: A celebration of the Chapmantown community with barbecue, snow cones, crafts, games for children and tabling by local nonprofit organizations. Sa, 10/8, 5pm. Free. Dorothy Johnson Park, 775 E. 16th St. Near the DJ Center, (530) 846-2266.

CHICO REPTILE SHOW: Reptile breeders from across California and beyond will have thousands of exotic pets on display and for sale.

Sa, 10/8, 10am-5pm. $4-$7 (kids 5 and under

free). Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666, www.chicoreptileshow.com.

COMING OUT FOR ART: Annual art show featuring visual and interactive art, poetry, film, performing artists, musicians and open-mic night to create a multidimensional experience with respect to the LGBTQ community and allies, as a way to acknowledge National Coming Out Day (Oct. 11). Sa, 10/8, 6:30pm-1:30am. Free.

Habitat Lab, 199 E. 13th St., (530) 893-3336, www.stonewallchico.org.

FAMILY FUN NIGHT: A day of family fun featuring carnival games, face painting, food trucks, arts and crafts, fun contests and an outdoor showing of Star Wars: The Force Awakens, with all proceeds going to local Chico Elks Lodge charities. Sa, 10/8, 4-10pm. $10. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzinita, (530) 966-0778.

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar assistant at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

FIBER FUSION: A celebration of all things fiber.

See how natural, plant and animal fiber is used in traditional and creative ways such as weaving, spinning, lace-making, knitting, tatting, dyeing and quilting with demonstrations, hands-on activities, mini-workshops and more. Sa, 10/8, 10am-5pm, Su, 10/9, 10am-4pm. $5. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359, www.fiber-fusion.org.

HAUNTED REGATTA & CONCERT: Get a jump on your Halloween spirit with this haunted floating party. Make your water vessel all spooky, get it to Riverbend Park by 6pm deliver your car to River Reflections, shuttle back and hop in the water by 6:45pm. Stick around for the afterparty with live music. Call or email for more info. Sa, 10/8, 6pm. $50/couple (includes camping); $15/afterparty concert only. River Reflections, 4360 Pacific Heights Road, Oroville, (530) 403-3948, www.rvparkresorts.com.

KING OF THE CAGE: UNCHALLENGED: A night of action-packed mixed martial arts action with Richard Blake squaring off against David Mitchell in the night’s main event. Sa, 10/8, 7pm. $40-$75. Gold Country Casino Showroom, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 538-2542.

LUSH DE LUXE POP-UP SHOP: A fundraiser for the Chico Bike Music Festival, this pop-up shop will feature unique local goods from Chikoko, Sadiedeluxe, Turkey Tail Farm, Everything Herbal, Telos and Henna Trails and music from DJ Mojohito, Carribbean Dance Radio’s Grant Parks and DJ Hocus Pocus, as well as games, snacks and more. Sa, 10/8, 12-5pm. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

SIERRA ORO FARM TRAIL PASSPORT WEEKEND: Meet the growers and vintners behind the thriving agricultural scene in Butte County.

Participants can set their own pace, take selfguided tours of the scenic agricultural trails, meet local farmers and winemakers and sample the local bounty. Sa & Su, 10/8 & 10/9, 10am-5pm. $30 advance/$35 the day of. Call or visit website for details, Chico, (530) 891-5556, www.sierraoro.org.

WALK TO END ALZHEIMER’S: The annual Alzheimer’s Association fundraiser is the world’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Register to help raise funds or just come out and show support. Sa, 10/8, 8:3011:30am. Sycamore Baseball Fields, Bidwell Park, (530) 895-9661, www.act.alz.org.

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YOURS 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. $6 adult/$3 children.

Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 8956144, www.bidwellmansionpark.com.

Theater AUDITIONS FOR A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Auditions for men and women open to playing multiple roles and a male and a female vocalist comfortable with singing a cappella and harmonizing. Sa, 10/8, 1-3pm. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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FIBER FUSION: See Saturday. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, (530) 342-4359, www.fiber-fusion.org.

SIERRA ORO FARM TRAIL PASSPORT WEEKEND: See Saturday. Call or visit website for details, Chico, (530) 891-5556, www.sierraoro.org.

Music HUGH HAMMOND: Local singer-songwriter play-

ing keyboard-driven pop music. Su, 10/9, 11am-1pm. Bidwell Perk, 664 E. First Ave., (530) 899-1500.

PULL-STRING DUO: The Chico State Department of Music and Theatre presents Pull String Duo performing Dust Bowl Mix, a new work by Emmy-nominated experimental composer and guitarist David Dvorin for guitar, violin and electronics. Su, 10/9, 2pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/muta.

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Special Events AMERICAN CROWN CIRCUS & CIRCO OSORIO: See Thursday. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St., (530) 895-4666.

JOHN MACK FARAGHER: Yale history professor and author tells the story of early Los Angeles, a drama of conquest and ethnic suppression, collective disorder and interpersonal conflict that’s found in his book, Eternity Street: Violence and Justice in Frontier Los Angeles.

M, 10/10, 7:30pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/ humanitiescenter.

WORLD HOMELESS DAY: Homelessness expert Lloyd Pendleton will speak on how Utah was able to reduce chronic homelessness by more than 90 percent using the “housing first” model. M, 10/10, 1-3pm. Free. Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. First St., (530) 518-9992.

Music RICHARD SHINDELL: Critically acclaimed singersongwriter whom the Wall Street Journal calls “a master of subtle narrative” touring on his first album of new material in seven years. M, 10/10, 7:30pm. $21 advance/$24 at the door.

The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade 142.

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Special Events COMMUNITY COFFEE, CAKES AND CONVERSATION: Ground Support USA is a mobile coffee shop taking an “episodic social medial road trip” across the country in search of communitypositive organizations, to help share their stories. Tu, 10/11, 10am-1pm. Free. Kentfield Community Garden, 1125 Kentfield Ave., (530) 320-8406, www.fromthegroundupfarms.org.

LLOYD PENDLETON MEET & GREET: The homelessness expert will talk about how Utah has addressed homelessness through the “housing first” model. Tu, 10/11, 5-7pm. Free.

Southside Oroville Community Center, 2959 Lower Wyandotte Road in Oroville, (530) 5189992.

Theater INTO THE WOODS: The Chico State Department of Music and Theatre presents this Tony Awardwinning musical from Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine that takes favorite storybook characters and blends them into an evening of musical theater. 10/11-10/15, 7:30pm, Su, 10/16, 2pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/hfa.

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new exhibit highlighting contemporary Hmong perspectives. Through 10/7. BMU, Third Floor, Chico State, (530) 898-5489.

B-SO SPACE: BFA Group Exhibition, new works by current Chico State art students. Through 10/14. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE & BREAKFAST JOINT: Karma Boyer Photography, an exhibition of canvas and framed print photography, celebrating travel and landscapes. Through 11/30. 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 894-2800, www.chicobeatniks.com.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: Whitespace-

Bluespace: Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe, multimedia solo exhibition by New Mexico printmaker Ren Adams. Through 10/27. 3536 Butte Campus Drive in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Northern California

CAR & BIKE NIGHT: Monthly event hosted by the Wanderers MC in front of the brewery with awards, raffle prizes and live music. W, 10/12, 5-8pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 534-5125, www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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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:

INTO THE WOODS: See Tuesday. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/hfa.

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3RD FLOOR ART GALLERY: Diverse Passions,

exhibit featuring works by participants in the 2016 Open Studios Art Tour. 10/7-10/30.

450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chico artcenter.com.

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Through 10/22. 820 Broadway St., (530) 3431973.

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Dreaming of San Francisco, bold and brightly colored paintings by Dolores

Mitchell of her adventures in the City by the Bay. Through 10/31. no cost. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Wide Open

Spaces, featuring large-scale Janet Turner prints with photos of the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve by advanced photographystudents showing the spaces featured in the prints as they exist today. 10/1012/10. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

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

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: New Works, pastels by Joyce Rendon and turned wood by Frank Wm. Link and Dave Dragoman Through 10/31. 493 East Ave., (530) 3453063.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Painting

with Paper, collages by Richard Robinson.

Through 10/30. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

Museums 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.csu chico.edu/gateway.

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

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While revelers dance around to polkas and toast the fall harvest, artists blow molten glass into goblets, beer mugs and growlers and sell them to the partiers to raise money for charity.

Organized by local artist Jeff Lindsay and his Red Hot Metal studio, the glass-blowing demo has become a fixture at the annual event. And at story and last week’s photo by opening weekSaunthy Nicolson-Singh end, Roberta Eichenberg flew halfway across Glass show: the country to Sierra Nevada’s demonstrate her Oktoberfest—with glass-blowing glass-blowing skills, which demo—continues this week. Saturday’s were born in the event is sold out, but 1980s during there are still tickets her time in the ($51.50) for Friday, Chico State glass Oct. 7, 5-10 p.m. studio. Now Sierra Nevada an art profesBrewing Co. sor at Emporia 1075 E. 20th St. State University 893-3520 www.sierranevada. in Kansas, com/oktoberfest Eichenberg marks this as her fourth glassblowing demo at Sierra Nevada.

On Saturday (Oct. 1), in the hop fields next to brewery, the heat from the “glory hole” furnace kept her warm on the chilly night, and Eichenberg seemed to be enjoying herself as she shaped mugs as attendees watched.

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Flume Art Glass, and made fast friends with Lindsay, who was then a tech at the studio. Fast-forward to 2008, when Lindsay, working as a Chico art commissioner, began to assemble artists to blow glass at Sierra Nevada events.

“Jeff contacted me the first time and it was really fun,” Eichenberg recalled. Plus, she added, “I reconnected with a bunch of friends,” including Lynn Facchini, Robert Herhusky, Bruce Sellers, Rick Satava, all Chico glass artists, some of whom had been her fellow students at Chico State.

The Museum of Glass in Tacoma, Wash., has a mobile glass studio that Lindsay rents for the event, Eichenberg explained. “It has two glory holes, annealers, a wooden platform and two benches to make small pieces.

“The glass is auctioned off as it’s being blown,” she added. This year, guest auctioneers from the Chikoko artist collective helped sell the glass art, the proceeds of which will go to the soon-to-open Museum of Northern California Art. A Redlands native, Eichenberg was

encouraged to follow art by her mother, who was a painter, and she said she ended up at Chico State almost as an afterthought.

“Some friends of my sister were going to Chico for school. I

Roberta Eichenberg puts on a glass-blowing show for Oktoberfest revelers.

went with them. I started a week late and begged Mike Monahan, the Art Department chair in 1976, to let me in,” Eichenberg said. “I started out in painting and drawing.” But molten glass entranced Eichenberg, and she was lured into focusing on glass-blowing.

She spent eight years in Chico before making her way to Ohio State, to work on a master’s in fine arts, and eventually on to working at the esteemed Pilchuck Glass School in Stanwood, Wash.

Eichenberg has been at Emporia State for 16 years, and she continues to show her glass pieces in both group and solo exhibitions around the country. Her art reveals an expansion of vision, juxtaposing other materials like jute and plastic tubing to highlight and contrast the transparent hardness of glass, and emphasizing a sense of movement.

She’s expanded her scope beyond blown work to encompass cast glass and slumped glass as well.

As busy as she is, Eichenberg is happy to make the trek back to Chico to demo glass (although she was able to stay for only the first weekend of Oktoberfest) and see old friends.

“Yeah, I could move back,” she admitted. “It’s so familiar. I had fun in college.” □

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

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that fuses reggae, rock and hip-hop.

Local original roots-rock reggae band Triple Tree, and Conquering Lion get things started. Th, 10/6, 9pm. $7. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party 10/6, 7-9pm. No cover. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

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

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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.

St., (530) 892-2473.

CHICO UNPLUGGED SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: A platform for emerging singers and songwriters to showcase their work. Presented by Chico State’s School of the Arts Productions. Th,

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.

CHICO STATE LOW BRASS CHOIR: Chico

ing-piano duo Jon and Chris Kelly. Th, 10/6, 8pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

State’s Low Brass Choir will be presenting a concert featuring a smorgasbord of classical and jazz music. F, 10/7, 7:30-9pm. Free.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csu chico.edu/hfa.

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THE KELLY BROTHERS: Chico’s own duel-

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main

THE FLUX CAPACITORS: 1980s-themed costumes, humor, and live performances of 1980s favorites including all the music from Back to the Future. F, 10/7, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/brewing-co.

GREG LOIACONO: Mother Hips guitarist

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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

on the patio. Proceeds go toward the upkeep of the club’s 1911 Steinway B Grand Piano. F, 10/7, 6-10pm. $35. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.chicowomensclub.org.

vided by a rotating cast of local talent.

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

from guitarist/pianist Alan Rigg and his Trio with special guests The Artful Horns and a barbecue chicken dinner

celebrates the release of his first fulllength solo album, Songs From a Golden Dream. Opening things up will be San Francisco folk singer Sam Chase and Chico’s Shibumi. F, 10/7, 9pm. $13. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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People looking to take the kids to the circus should check out the American Crown Circus and Circo Osorio’s five-day run in at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds this week (see This Week, p. 22), but those whose big-top dreams are a bit racier will prefer watching Mystic Circus at the Maltese Bar & Tap Room on Friday, Oct. 7. The adults-only circus features heaps of dark humor, harrowing freak-showstyle performances, thrilling circus arts and lots of exposed skin.

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

MYSTIC CIRCUS: Mystic Circus has been touring the country with an adultsonly circus that’s heavy on blood, sweat, tears and skin. Expect sword swallowing, skin piercing, burlesque dancing and much more. F, 10/7, 9:30pm. $8 in advance/$10 at the door.

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

OPEN MIC: All-ages open mic hosted by

Highway 70 in Yankee Hill, (530) 5321889, www.RockHouseHwy70.com.

Jodi Foster, Julie Bos and Chris Henderson. F, 7-10pm. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

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RICHARD SHINDELL: Critically acclaimed HANZ BRONZE: Ashland-based singersongwriter heads up a night of acoustic rock that also features locals Brady Shaw (formerly of Socorro) Jeremy Crossley (from Bogart the Monster), Will Hennessy and Filthy Luke. Sa, 10/8, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

RED MOON BAND: West Coast blues band exploring the magic of the groove. Sa, 10/8, 8:30pm. No cover. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

Lap-steel guitarist Roosevelt Collier and his all-star Cali Get Down band pay a funked-out tribute to the legendary Jimi Hendrix. Locals Freak Wind Flyer open up the show. Sa, 10/8, 9pm. $15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

Classic jazz favorites. Sa, 6:30-9:30pm through 9/24. Smokie Mountain Steakhouse and Lounge, 7039 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-3323.

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band covering three decades of the band’s hit-heavy catalog. Sa, 10/8, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

benefit for Chico schools, hosted by Keith Kendall and Friends. Sa, 5-9pm.

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

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

LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

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Sacred steel is a hard-rocking form of traditional gospel music centered around the lap-steel guitar, and Roosevelt Collier is one of the genre’s luminaries. He’s currently on tour with a rotating group of crack musicians collectively known as Roosevelt Collier’s Cali Get Down, and the band will swing through Lost on Main on Saturday, Oct. 8. For this outing, Collier and company will be playing the music of one of God’s greatest gifts to mankind, Jimi Hendrix.

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

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

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singer-songwriter, whom the Wall Street Journal calls “a master of subtle narrative,” touring on his first album of new material in seven years.

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Lions, is one of EDM’s rising stars whose live show combines an infectious blend of trance, dubstep, house and drum ’n’ bass with unique visual effects. Pegboard Nerds, Unlike Pluto and Grum open the show. W, 10/12, 8pm. $21-$26. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net.

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

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A solidly thrilling retelling of historic oil disaster

That’s because Berg’s film drops you into a situation where fire and Bob Grimm explosions are so realistic, you can bg ri m m @ feel the heat and disorientation of the new srev i ew. c o m 2010 BP oil disaster, which claimed the lives of 11 men and led to an oil spill eclipsing all other oil spills.

Mark Wahlberg is first rate as Mike Williams, a man who was on the rig at the time of the disaster.

Deepwater Kurt Russell equals his power as Horizon Jimmy Harrell, who questions the Starring Mark integrity of the rig, and then proceeds Wahlberg, Kurt to have the worst shower in cinema russell, Kate Hudson history since Janet Leigh had a showand John Malkovich. down with Anthony Perkins.

Directed by Peter The setup is a doozy: Williams berg. cinemark 14, Feather river cinemas and Harrell head out for a three-week and Paradise cinema stay on the Deepwater Horizon along 7. rated PG-13. with a couple of BP stuffed shirts.

Much to their amazement, some men who were supposed to be conducting all-important tests are leaving upon their arrival without conducting anything, so that gets Harrell all riled up. This is a good thing, because Russell doing “all riled up” is always fun.

The lack of testing leads to a showdown with a sleazy BP employee, played by a slithery John Malkovich. Some backward reasoning leads to the acceptance of some bad drill results, and Deepwater Horizon is cleared to start up. Unbeknownst to the by

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higher ups and technicians, there’s a cataclysmic clog in the works, causing mud to explode upward, eventually followed by a massive gas leak, and you probably know the rest.

Berg puts his film together in a way where the mere sight of some mud oozing from a pipe is terrifying.

When the disaster shifts into high gear, it’s as scary as any horror film to hit screens this year. The staging of explosions and fire in this one, many executed on an oil rig built exclusively for the film, are award-caliber.

There’s also a true sense of isolation and disorientation when the action goes full throttle. Props to the editor for creating a sensation of being utterly lost in mayhem.

It’s not all about the fire and explosions, as Berg, his writers and performers all give the movie a true heroic element, one that results in heartbreak after the film plays out. Kate Hudson plays Williams’ wife, who is having a Skype conversation with him when everything starts to go south. Hudson has always been good for waterworks, and she gets an opportunity to show off that talent in this movie.

Other standouts include Ethan Suplee as one of the men in the ill-fated drill command center, Gina Rodriguez as an employee who must endure the incompetence of a co-worker, and Dylan O’Brien as a drill worker who couldn’t have been closer to the initial stages of the disaster.

To call this a disaster film in the same vein as Irwin Allen’s 1970s genre classics—The Poseidon Adventure and The Towering Inferno—is both a compliment (hey, some of those were pretty great) and a bit belittling. While this film follows a similar, schlocky blueprint at times, it has a little more substance and heart than those goofy blockbusters. □

Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week The Birth of a Nation

A retelling of the real-life story of Nat Turner, an enslaved man who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831. Nate Parker directed and stars as Turner, and his film recently won both the Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award in drama at Sundance. Cinemark 14.

Rated R.

Girl Asleep

An Australian coming-of-age film about a 14-year-old girl fighting to hold onto her childhood, and who, after her parents throw her a surprise 15th birthday party, finds herself thrown into a parallel reality.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Ixcanul

The debut by Guatemalan filmmaker Jayro Bustamante has been described as a “mesmerizing fusion of fact and fable” that tells the story of the conflict between the modern and the traditional Mayan people living on a coffee plantation at the base of a volcano.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

The Girl on the Train

Emily Blunt plays a recently divorced woman who fantasizes about the relationship of a neighbor couple and is subsequently drawn into a missing-persons mystery when the wife disappears. Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life

Rafe Katchadorian is a middle-schooler who is stifled by the rules at his school and leads a rebellion to break them all. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Voiceless

A Christian faith-based film telling the story of a military veteran who protests the abortion clinic that’s opened up across the street from his church. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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

Don’t Breathe

Fede Alvarez (Evil Dead 2013) directs this horror flick about a group of young friends who, upon breaking into the house of a rich blind man, find out he’s not so helpless after all. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

The Magnificent Seven

What Antoine Fuqua’s remake has going for it is mostly a matter of Denzel Washington and a diverse and appealing set of supporting roles, including a Mexican (Manuel Garcia-Rulfo), a Native American (Martin Sensmeier), a Korean (Byung-hun Lee) and a woman (Haley Bennett). Chris Pratt, Ethan Hawke, Vincent D’Onofrio and Peter Sarsgaard make solid contributions as well. Denzel is Denzel, and that’s always a good thing, although the film never really gives him a chance to be more than good. Pratt has some fun amid the boy’s

Masterminds

Zach Galifianakis stars as an air-headed dude working as an armored-car driver who is coaxed into taking part in a hair-brained scheme to steal millions from his company.

Also starring Owen Wilson, Kristen Wiig and Jason Sudeikis. Directed by Jared Hess (Napolean Dynamite). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

A teen boy travels to an orphanage on a remote island and encounters the fantastical inhabitants as he investigates the strange world of the stories his grandfather told him. Eva Green, Asa Butterfield, Samuel L. Jackson, Judi Dench and more star in director Tim Burton and screenwriter Jane Goldman’s adaptation of Ransom Riggs’ best-selling young-adult dark-fantasy.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Storks

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

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A film adaptation of the DC Comics antihero team, a group of supervillains released from prison on the condition of carrying out dangerous missions for the government.

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Sully

One of the most storied events of recent times, an occasion for rare heroic triumph, came when pilot Chesley “Sully” Sullenberger successfully and safely landed a stricken jet airliner on the Hudson River in January 2009. Sully, with Tom Hanks in the title role, revisits that event in ways that are both compact and complex, and unexpectedly moving as well. The film gives a genuinely riveting account of the landing itself while also developing multifaceted “inside views” of the event and its aftermath, including some of the more personal aspects of the pilot’s experience. It’s an intense kind of action film while Sully’s plane is in the air and/ or on the Hudson, but a sizable portion of the film’s dramatic power resides in the scenes of Sully and co-pilot Jeff Skiles (Aaron Eckhart) facing off with investigators from the National Transportation Safety Board. While the brilliantly rendered in-flight and landing sequences have something like the power of gloriously recovered memory, the most intricately sustained moments of suspense arrive via the pilots’ climactic confrontations with NTSB investigators. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Trecipes, cooler, I start planning soup and I always look forward he second the weather turns

to making the first pot of my famous, not-sofamous chili. story and Not only photo by does the recipe Mark Lore include beer, it’s m a rk l @ also mandatory new srev i ew. c o m that you drink a beer while you make it. Maybe even two. I’ve used a few different styles, mostly on the sturdier, full-bodied side—including Sierra Nevada Porter, IPAs like the 10 Barrel Apocalypse (Bend, Ore.), and a Laurelwood Free Range Red (Portland).

This time I went with Ninkasi Brewing’s seasonal (don’t be scared, I know it’s only October) Sleigh’r winter ale, a dark and malty beer that has just the right amount of hops to give it a boost.

The malt also adds some sweetness, which is part of what I’m going for here, as you’ll see. Plus, it’s named after the band Slayer, so horns up to that.

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problem is, every time someone asks me for the recipe, I can’t tell them. Not because it’s top secret, but because I don’t measure anything when I cook—a pinch and a dash and a skosh is the way I roll. However, for this, I was forced to measure everything, and it felt like I was taking a damn calculus test. But I did it for you.

For us.

In keeping with the Sleigh’r heavy metal theme, I used dark red kidney and black beans, and added more cayenne for extra fire. The result is a hearty, blood-red chili that’s slightly sweet with a nice kick.

Sleigh’r Black and Red Bean Chili Ingredients: 3 tablespoons olive oil 1 small or 3/4 large yellow onion, chopped 3-4 smoked andouille chicken sausages (I like the ones at Trader Joe’s— really good, with a nice kick), halved and sliced 1 tablespoon garlic, crushed 2 28-ounce cans diced tomatoes (low sodium) 1 12-ounce can tomato paste 1 12-ounce bottle Sleigh’r 3/4 cup chili powder 3 teaspoons cayenne

2-3 tablespoons cumin 2 tablespoons oregano 1 teaspoon thyme 1/3 cup brown sugar 4-5 teaspoons salt (or to taste) 2 15.25-ounce cans kidney beans 2 15.25-ounce can black beans Cracked pepper to taste

Directions: Add olive oil and onion to Dutch oven and set on burner at medium heat; add salt and pepper and cook 5-10 minutes, then add sausage. Add more salt and pepper, and add garlic. Once those stew together nicely, turn heat to medium-high and add tomatoes and paste. Bring to a boil, then add beer, chili powder, cumin and cayenne.

Add oregano and thyme. Add brown sugar, and salt and pepper to taste.

Stir and let that work around a little (taste chili, sip beer) while you rinse the beans in colander.

Turn heat to low and add beans.

Stir well and cover. Cook on low heat (the longer the better). After an hour or so, invite significant other in to give a taste test. Sip beer, and serve.

The Sleigh’r proved a good pairing, and any IPA will work, too. □

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Saisons and sours are two beer types with cult followings in craft-beer circles, but they struggle to find shelf space among the thick forest of IPAs. However, saisons are slowly coming into the light. Natomas Table Saison is a small-batch offering from Sacramento’s Track 7 Brewing Co.—available only at its Natomas Tap Room—that could make it in a wider market. Brewed with Elephant Heart plums—large plums with juicy, red flesh—and coming in at 5.4 percent alcohol by volume, the deep-yellow beer balances depth and drinkability. Unlike many saisons, Natomas Table Saison isn’t that strong on fruit or spice. Coupled with high carbonation, mild but present hops, and just a hint of sweetness, the refreshing beer lives up to its name as a table beer. The Natomas beer is brewed in friendly competition with a counterpart saison made just for Track 7’s Curtis Park taproom, which chose to do a Petite Saison with kiwis. If you can’t make it to Sac, look for Track 7’s new cans—including Daylight Amber, Left Eye Right Eye double IPA and Bee Line Blonde—where better beers are sold.

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Upright Brewing Portland, Ore. Farmhouse ales and saisons are some of the more intriguing styles to gain popularity in the past few years—they run the gamut of funky and sour to smooth and crisp, and can be divisive. Taking their name from the instrument of jazz legend Charles Mingus, Upright Brewing has specialized in farmhouse ales since 2009, offering many adventurous takes on a seasonal style that originated in a French region of Belgium in the 19th century (saison is French for “season”). The Portland, Ore., brewery has defied the city’s IPA-heavy beer landscape, and with great success. Its best known are four year-round options, which are numbered for their starting gravity in Belgian brewing degrees— the Four is a smooth and drinkable option, while the Seven is a stronger, modern twist on the style. Upright is still nestled in the basement of a commercial building in north Portland, but the secret’s out as its beers are now being distributed in several western states. This is one of the finest farmhouse breweries around.

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—Mark Lore

LIP RIPA Triple Rye IPA Fall river brewing co.

This beer from Fall River Brewing Co. (Fall River Mills, east of Redding) has danger written all over it. If you pronounce its name, LIP RIPA, correctly— “lip rippa”—you’ll understand that the image of the fish on the bottle with the hook in its mouth is the “before” picture. Also written on the side of the 22-ounce bottle is the whopping 13 percent alcohol by volume. It’s what this reviewer (or rather his wife) would call a “daddy-go-ni-night” beer.

Adding to the danger is that, unlike most big beers, this triple rye IPA goes down deceptively easy. It’s pretty unbelievable that it could be so huge and so balanced—no booziness, perfect hop mix (citrus, slightly piney) and a sweetness that’s balanced by the peppery notes from the rye. It’s another excellent entry in Fall River’s stellar IPA portfolio that includes the Widowmaker double IPA and the nonpareil Hexagenia IPA, except this one comes around only once a year. Find it (Spike’s Bottle Shop, Chico Natural Foods) before it’s gone.

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It’s a little hard to wrap your arms around the site. There’s some basic beer-industry news, plus reports from the field and the breweries and beer events Brooks attends. But the bulk of the posts are on a range of beerrelated ephemera and history. Recurring features include the recognition of birthdays of historical (as well as current) players in the world of beer (Oct. 3 marked the birth of German immigrant and early American brewer Fred Horix—1843-1929); beer-industry patents (Patent No. 568133A: Apparatus for Barreling and Bunging Beer); and best of all, “Art and Beer,” featuring images from old beer advertisements.

A recent ad series Brooks has been highlighting is a 1952-53 campaign

by Ballentine Beer that asked famous writers: “How would you put a glass of Ballantine Ale into words?” Here’s an excerpt from Ernest Hemingway’s contribution: You have to work hard to deserve to drink it. But I would rather have a bottle of Ballantine Ale than any other drink after fighting a really big fish.

We keep it iced in the bait box with chunks of ice packed around it. And you ought to taste it on a hot day when you have worked a big marlin fast because there were sharks after him.

You are tired all the way through. The fish is landed untouched by sharks and you have a bottle of Ballantine cold in your hand and drink it cool, light, and full-bodied, so it tastes good long Get that man a Ballantine Ale. after you have swallowed it.

• Lush de Luxe: Saturday, Oct. 8, noon-5 p.m., at The Bookstore: It’s a pop-up fundraiser for the Chico Bicycle Music Festival, and it will have just about everything a discerning townie could desire. There will be handmade clothing, jewelry, art, food, etc., from local purveyors—Chikoko, Sadiedeluxe, Turkey Tail Farm, Everything Herbal, Telos, Henna Trails—music by DJ Mojohito, Caribbean Dance Radio and more, plus games for the kids and Sierra Nevada brews for the adults.

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• Coming out for art reception: Saturday, Oct. 8, 6:30 p.m.-1 a.m., Habitat Lab: National Coming Out Day is Oct. 11, and the Habitat Lab is hosting a group show (Oct. 8-15) that kicks off with this party featuring visual art, interactive installations, poetry, film, live music and performances by the LGBTQ community and its allies. There also will be appetizers and a no-host bar, and the evening is a benefit for Stonewall Alliance

• Pull-string duo: Sunday, Oct. 9, 2 p.m., Zingg Recital Hall: Chico State music professor David Dvorin performs his original composition Dust Bowl Mix with his duo. The work combines guitar, violin and electronics in a way that “tunes into California’s migratory past while reflecting on the environmental present.” And it’s free! A great opportunity to hear something different as well as check out the new performance hall.

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party, a guy I hardly know questioned my authenticity. “You seem to have had an easy life,” he jabbed. “I bet you haven’t suffered enough to be a truly passionate person.” I didn’t choose to engage him, but mused to myself, “Not enough suffering? What about the time I got shot? My divorce? My five-year-long illness? The manager of my rock band getting killed in a helicopter crash?” But after that initial reaction, my thoughts turned to the adventures that have stoked my passion without causing pain, like the birth of my daughter, getting remarried to the woman I divorced and performing my music for excited audiences. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you, too, will soon have experiences that refine and deepen your passion through pleasure rather than hardship.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): It’s the

Frank and Focused Feedback Phase, Taurus—prime time to solicit insight about how you’re doing. Here are four suggestions to get you started. (1) Ask a person who loves and respects you to speak the compassionate truth about what’s most important for you to learn. (2) Consult a trustworthy adviser who can help motivate you to do the crucial thing you’ve been postponing. (3) Have an imaginary conversation with the person you were a year ago. Encourage the Old You to be honest about how the New You could summon more excellence in pursuing your essential goals. (4) Say this prayer to your favorite tree or animal or meadow: “Show me what I need to do in order to feel more joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many of my

readers regard me as being exceptionally creative. Over the years, they have sent countless emails praising me for my original approach to problem-solving and artmaking. But I suspect that I wasn’t born with a greater talent for creativity than anyone else. I’ve simply placed a high value on developing it, and have worked harder to access it than most people. With that in mind, I invite you to tap more deeply into your own mother lode of innovative, imaginative energy. The cosmic trends favor it. Your hormones are nudging you in that direction. What projects could use a jolt of primal brilliance? What areas of your life need a boost of ingenuity?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Love wants

more of you. Love longs for you to give everything you have and receive everything you need. Love is conspiring to bring you beautiful truths and poignant teases, sweet dispensations and confounding mysteries, exacting blessings and riddles that will take your entire life to solve. But here are some crucial questions: Are you truly ready for such intense engagement?

Are you willing to do what’s necessary to live at a higher and deeper level? Would you know how to work with such extravagant treasure and wild responsibility? The coming weeks will be prime time to explore the answers to these questions. I’m not sure what your answers will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us contains a multiplicity of selves. You may often feel like there’s just one of you rumbling around inside your psyche, but it’s closer to the truth to say that you’re a community of various characters whose agendas sometimes overlap and sometimes conflict. For example, the needy part of you that craves love isn’t always on the same wavelength as the ambitious part of you that seeks power. That’s why it’s a good idea to periodically organize summit meetings where all of your selves can gather and negotiate. Now is one of those times: a favorable moment to foster harmony among your inner voices and to mobilize them to work together in service of common goals.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Pikes Peak

is a 14,115-foot mountain in Colorado. It’s not a simple task to trek to the top. Unless you’re well-trained, you might experience altitude sickness. Wicked thunderstorms are a regular occurrence during the

by rob brezsny summer. Snow falls year-round. But back in 1929, an adventurer named Bill Williams decided the task of hiking to the summit wasn’t tough enough. He sought a more demanding challenge. Wearing kneepads, he spent 21 days crawling along as he used his nose to push a peanut all the way up. I advise you to avoid making him your role model in the coming weeks, Virgo. Just climb the mountain. Don’t try to push a peanut up there with your nose, too.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “It isn’t

normal to know what we want,” said psychologist Abraham Maslow. “It is a rare and difficult psychological achievement.”

He wasn’t referring to the question of what you want for dinner or the new shoes you plan to buy. He was talking about big, long-term yearnings: what you hope to be when you grow up, the qualities you look for in your best allies, the feelings you’d love to feel in abundance every day of your life. Now here’s the good news, Libra: The next 10 months should bring you the best chance ever to figure out exactly what you want the most. And it all starts now.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Practitio-

ners of the Ayurvedic medical tradition tout the healing power of regular selfmassage. Creativity expert Julia Cameron recommends that you periodically go out on dates with yourself. Taoist author Mantak Chia advises you to visualize sending smiles and good wishes to your kidneys, lungs, liver, heart and other organs. He says that these acts of kindness bolster your vigor. The coming weeks will be an especially favorable time to attend to measures like these, Scorpio. I hope you will also be imaginative as you give yourself extra gifts and compliments and praise.

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Why do I say that? Because you’re likely to emerge triumphant! That’s right, you lucky, plucky contender. More than I’ve seen in a long time, you have the potential to draw on the crafty power and unruly wisdom and resilient compassion you would need to be an unambiguous winner. A winner of what? You tell me. What dilemma would you most like to resolve?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL TECHNOLOGY at 57 Skymountain Circle Chico, CA 95928.

CASH BUCKMINSTER WEAVER 57 Skymountain Circle Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CASH WEAVER Dated: September 9, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001126 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL PAIN BILLING AND MANAGEMENT at 5 Abbott Circle Chico, CA 95973.

KELLI MARIE LEWIS 5 Abbott Circle Chico, CA 95973.

ZACHARY JACOB LIPMAN 647 West East Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: KELLI LEWIS Dated: September 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001116 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DRUNKEN DUMPLING at 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

JOHN FREDERICK DEAN 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

ELIZABETH L YOUNG 6409 Forest Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ELIZABETH YOUNG Dated: August 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001076 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARADISE CLEANING SERVICES at 5812 Golden Oaks Road Paradise, CA 95969.

KATHLEEN SEVENNS 5812 Golden Oaks Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHLEEN SEVENNS Dated: September 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001124 Published: September 22,29, October 6,13, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EL GUAYACAN MEXICAN RESTAURANT at 2201 Pillsbury Rd Ste 124 Chico, CA 95926.

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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.

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you grunting and sweating as you struggle to preserve and maintain the gains of the past? Or are you smooth and cagey as you maneuver your way toward the rewards of the future? I’m rooting for you to put the emphasis on the second option.

Paradoxically, that will be the best way to accomplish the first option. It will also ensure that your motivations are primarily rooted in love and enthusiasm rather than worry and stress. And that will enable you to succeed at the second option.

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

believe that you are mostly just a product of social conditioning and your genetic makeup? Or are you willing to entertain a different hypothesis: that you are a primal force of nature on an unpredictable journey? That you are capable of rising above your apparent limitations and expressing aspects of yourself that might have been unimaginable when you were younger? I believe the coming weeks will be a favorable time to play around with this vision.

Your knack for transcendence is peaking.

So are your powers to escape the past and exceed limited expectations.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In one of

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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.

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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.

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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 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

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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.

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 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SPUN TONGUE NUTTERY AND DRY GOODS at

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KATHERINE ANNA LANDRY 778 Sierra View Way Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT WAYNE LANDRY 778 Sierra View Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KATHERINE ANNA LANDRY Dated: September 14, 2016 FBN Number: 20161-0001162 Published: October 6,13,20,27, 20116

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICOPARTY.COM, CONFETTI PARTY HEADQUARTERS, PARTYCONFETTI.COM at 2961 Hwy 32 Suite 15 Chico, CA 95973.

LINDA LEE CRAWFORD 101 Risa Way Apt 13 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LINDA LEE CRAWFORD Dated: August 24, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001051 Published: October 6,13,20,27, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as REAL TIME AUTO RECOVERY at 4950 Cohasset Road #6 Chico, CA 95973.

GREG HOWELL 19 Top Flight Court Chico, CA 95928.

VANNESSA HOWELL 19 Top Flight Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: VANNESSA HOWELL Dated: September 12, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001143 Published: October 6,13,20,27, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FORESOLAR at 1258 Arch Way Chico, CA 95973.

WALTER M BECK 1258 Arch Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WALTER M. BECK Dated: September 29, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001220 Published: October 6,13,20,27, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ROOTED LIFE REIKI at 1 Williamsburg Lane Suite C Chico, CA 95926.

JANE VICTORIA MINERS 1933 Mars Way Chico, CA 95923.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JANE MINERS Dated: September 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001119 Published: October 6,13,20,27, 2016 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENTS The following person is doing business as FRANK MATTEI CONSTRUCTION at 215 Tonea Way Chico, CA 95973.

FRANK GINO MATTEI 215 Tonea Way Chico, CA 95973.

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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 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.

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 7, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: August 24, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01818 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: October 28, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: September 1, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01749 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 4, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: September 8, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01827 Published: September 15,22,29, October 6, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LINDA KAYE SALANTI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LINDA KAYE SALANTI Proposed name: LINDA KAYE GLENN 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: TBD The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: September 9, 2016 Case Number: 16CV01899 Published October 6,13,20,27, 2016

PETITION 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: 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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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

5 Five Iron Ct 73 Temperance Way 3471 Brook Valley Cmns 3011 Hancock Dr 16 Goldeneye Ct 12 Phyllis Ct 379 E 2Nd Ave 26 Ceres Cir 1921 Ascolano Way 4 Savannah Ln 2849 Nord Ave

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$514,999 $480,000 $457,000 $395,000 $390,000 $350,000 $347,000 $325,000 $319,500 $293,000 $287,000

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

SQ. FT. 2,524 2,054 2,285 2,038 1,724 1,626 979 1,655 1,673 1,529 1,690

4 bed 2 bath 2006 built single story home near schools and shopping - great neighborhood. High ceilings, goodsized bedrooms & mature landscaping. $389,000

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20 acre olive ranch with house and shop.

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

900 Greenwich Dr 22 Whitewood Way 15 Trieste Way 3 Thomas Ln 1413 Salem St 3 Dorset Ct 2154 Bar Triangle St 2352 Porter Way 13 Mayfair Dr 2776 Ceres Ave 461 Redwood Way

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$285,000 $275,000 $274,000 $265,000 $260,000 $256,000 $244,000 $239,500 $235,000 $232,000 $228,000

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

1,424 1,324 1,567 1,183 2,760 1,407 1,407 1,050 1,241 1,123 1,718

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the following houses were sold in butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of September 19, 2016 – September 23, 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

274 Saint Michael Ct

Chico

$200,000

3/2

1,317

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

3130 Claremont Dr

Oroville

$175,000

4/2

14 Ranchita Way

Chico

$194,000

2/1

985

1,340

385 Table Mountain Blvd

Oroville

$165,000

3/2

1125 Sheridan Ave 18

Chico

$167,500

2/2

1,371

1,064

30 Shadow Oak Ct

Oroville

$152,000

3/2

295 White Ave

Chico

$161,500

1,142

2/1

1,144

823 Bird St

Oroville

$135,000

3/2

258 Panama Ave

Chico

1,449

$99,000

3/1

1,357

1264 12Th St

Oroville

$75,000

2/1

435 Oakvale Ave

1,344

Oroville

$254,500

3/2

1,453

1445 Pine Creek Way

Paradise

$382,000

3/2

2,255

350 Canyon Highlandsdr

Oroville

$245,000

3/2

1,448

1526 Forest Cir

Paradise

$298,000

3/2

1,759

2765 Center St

Oroville

$230,000

5/2

2,317

1522 Forest Cir

Paradise

$264,500

3/2

1,588

1516 7Th Ave

Oroville

$227,000

3/2

1,529

6160 Berkshire Way

Paradise

$193,000

2/2

1,228

2490 Oro Ave

Oroville

$190,000

2/2

1,168

5126 Foster Rd

Paradise

$165,000

2/1

1,077

3081 Orange Ave

Oroville

$185,000

3/2

1,443

500 Friendly Way

Paradise

$101,000

2/1

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