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CHICO’S FREE NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME 40, ISSUE 9 THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2016 WWW.NEWSREVIEW.COM

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Paid Political Advertisement

This candidate (As in Jon Scott) isn’t placing a single campaign sign. In fact, if you know of anyone that has put one up kindly ask them to take it down!

I DO want your vote. But I want your vote only because you have heard my positions on issues that mater to you and find those positions compatible (or at least palatable) with your own.

Over the next several weeks, right up until the election, I will be placing ads just like this one where I will discuss a variety of issues that affect the Chico community.

The same day the advertisement appears in the paper you can find the same at http://jonscott.com

Worth repeating… no CaMpaign SignS! Are you voting for a campaign sign? All around Chico (and everywhere else) you will see campaign signs in windows, yards, sides of buildings, and of course every major street corner.

The bigger the sign and the more of them present is an indication of more “big money” behind the candidate.

What the signs don’t tell you quite frankly is one damn thing about the candidate.

Campaign signs posted everywhere are nothing more than a vanity and ego contest.

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No fancy flashing website, just a small piece each week about the position I support on issues of importance to citizens of Chico.

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

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

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

As opposed to the vanity contests you can view my DIRECT POSITIONS on issues that mater to you here: http://jonscott.com

Jon Scott for City Council 2016 Paid for by Jon Scott. Not a cent of outside contribution.

No contributions of any kind will be accepted. I will represent ALL citizens of Chico. I am not for sale to campaign donors.

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Local endorsements There’s no substitution for experience. That’s something we’re painfully

GUEST COMMENT

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funds need to be spent to find a cure. Apart from the close of a very contentious presidential campaign, epidemic, LGBT lives are at stake in other areas.

Uganda, for example, keeps attempting to pass an interesting convergence. legislation that would make homosexuality a crime One thing we as a community learned from the punishable by death. What does it have to do with AIDS epidemic was that we had the election in our country? Donald Trump has been to learn to organize since we endorsed by the very evangelicals who support this were fighting for our lives. We legislation. To date, it was only the Obama adminishave a new generation that does tration that has kept this from becoming law. not know what that time was How about here in the like, what Trump’s running United States? Trump’s running that statement mate believes in conversion meant or how mate believes in therapy—the torture and it shadows conversion therapy imprisonment of LGBT youth. this election. by Still not enough?

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Centers for Disease Control and Trump then said he’d stop gay terrorists from the National Institutes of Health coming into this country. What about the antigay did not act quickly because they received silence terrorists who are Americans? Oh, he’s standing on from elected officials, namely President Reagan. a stage with them, shaking their hands and accepting In times of crisis, a president can make all the their endorsements. difference.

Vote like lives depend on it. They do. □ What about today? We’re still fighting AIDS and

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aware of when it comes to the Chico City Council, based on having reported on the panel and its many inexperienced and ineffectual members over the years.

That’s part of the reason we’re endorsing Karl Ory, Tami Ritter, Ann Schwab and Randall Stone. Each has the breadth and depth of knowledge needed to guide the city not only through its still-tenuous financial state, but also to move the city forward on important issues, such as the health of Bidwell Park and the urban forest, that have been ignored during the last two years under the conservative majority council.

The past few years, the conservative narrative has been that the liberals created the city’s financial woes. However, Chico’s economic struggles, just like those of municipalities up and down the state, were a result of the state’s dissolution of redevelopment agencies and the national economic meltdown (aka the Great Recession). The lefties became the scapegoats, but it is purely by chance that they held the majority when the bubble burst.

If anyone should carry the burden of not stanching the city’s budget deficit, it’s former City Manager Dave Burkland, who didn’t adequately advise the panel on the measures necessary to maintain solvency. He didn’t tell the council that it needed to cut loose employees—lots of them. We know that because this newspaper attended every one of the City Council meetings leading up to and through the financial crisis.

We must also give credit where credit is due, and the fact is, it was during a liberal majority between 2012 and 2014 that the council, under the guidance of a new city manager, made the layoffs necessary to bring the city out of its fiscal hole.

The three progressives who were there then, plus Ory, a former mayor and current member of the Airport Commission, are also the same candidates we believe have the political will needed to address the issues surrounding homelessness—vagrancy, crime and also the well-being of human beings living on the streets.

We haven’t seen a shred of compassion nor any desire to address the root causes of our homeless crisis from Vice Mayor Sean Morgan. He has instead championed local laws that criminalize homelessness and have done nothing to reduce the population of those experiencing it. The so-called conservative’s biggest accomplishment has been to enrich the members of the police union by voting in raises for them during a time when the city was still climbing out of an economic abyss.

Regarding the other candidates, while several have potential, they aren’t ready for prime time. None has served on a city board or commission.

None has a firm grasp of the issues.

CN&R’s editorial board discussed council endorsements over several days. We reached consensus and are confident in our picks: Karl Ory, Tami Ritter, Ann Schwab and Randall Stone.

Experience also was one of the major factors behind our endorsement for Butte County supervisor, District 5. We like Maurice “Big Mo” Huffman. The Board of Supervisors could use another progressive on the dais, and we believe Huffman would bring a fresh perspective. On the other hand, we don’t think he’s done his homework, which worries us about his follow-through. That’s why we’re going with the incumbent, Doug Teeter, a hard-working conservative.

Measure J: Butte College’s $190 million facilities bond. The money would pay for a veterans center and improve facilities that would open up impacted programs. If passed, property owners in Butte and Glenn counties would pay $25 per $100,000 (assessed value, annually). Yes Measure K: Chico Unified’s $152 million facilities bond would upgrade or replace badly dilapidated structures at elementary schools, including replacing the old portables that are literally falling apart. Chico property owners would pay $60 per $100,000 assessed value yearly. These upgrades are critical. Yes Measure L: An imperfect but important effort to force our conservative county to allow the commercial sale of medical marijuana in unincorporated areas. We’re tired of the problems associated with the black market. Yes □

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SECOND & FLUME

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

First strike I’d considered taking Bob Evans’ $100 bet about local liberals putting out a hit piece tying the conservative Chico City Council candidates to the giant baby (my words) who is the GOP’s presidential candidate (see “A betting man,” Letters, page 6). Evans is a former city councilman, veteran and a staunch conservative, among other things. I like the guy, just as I like many other conservatives, including friends and neighbors, and especially the many members of my own family.

In hindsight, what I should have done is made a counter-wager— I should have bet Evans that local conservatives would strike first.

I would’ve won. On Tuesday, I received a mailer saying that Councilmembers Tami Ritter, Ann Schwab and Randall Stone—the three left-leaning incumbents—“voted to DESTROY the Esplanade!”

This particular hit piece is referring to their votes to place roundabouts on that roadway. The flier is paid for by the political action committee Butte County for Awareness and Accountability, which is run by tea partier Thomas Kozik, and funded by conservatives, including Supervisor Larry Wahl and businessmen Wayne Cook, Tom Dauterman, Lewis Everett and Jim Ledgerwood. As of early October, according to finance reports filed with the city, those men had contributed $6,500 to that PAC—the same one responsible for the hit pieces targeting Scott Gruendl, Chico’s former mayor, prior to the 2014 election (Gruendl lost).

There are a couple of major problems with the recent piece of propaganda. First of all, if Ritter, Schwab and Stone voted to destroy The Esplanade, then so too did conservative darling and Chico Mayor Mark Sorensen. That’s because Sorensen also voted aye on the roundabouts. In fact, he was the swing vote. Meaning, it was his vote that determined the road would get roundabouts.

What happened next was your classic buyers’ remorse. Stone called for the panel to reconsider that course of action. He’d changed his mind. The roundabouts were put back up for a vote, and everyone except for Schwab balked on them. In other words, the issue of adding those traffic features along Chico’s beloved boulevard is long dead. What’s alive and well is dirty politicking by the likes of this PAC. Speaking of the City Council election, Assistant News Editor Howard Hardee and I interviewed 10 of the 11 candidates recently. Vice Mayor Sean Morgan was the only one who chose not to meet with us. Morgan is also the only member of the council I’ve never sat down with one-on-one, though I invited him to do so last year.

As you’ll see from our endorsements, the vice mayor didn’t get CN&R’s nod. But it’s not because he spurned us; there are many reasons, but it’s mostly because we believe he’s in the pocket of special interests, especially the police union.

Hardee and I had great conversations with each and every one of the rest of the candidates. Our editorial board endorsed only those we believe are best prepared for the job, although we can see potential down the line in several of those who aren’t our picks. They genuinely seemed like they want to change Chico for the better. We just don’t agree on how to get there.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About CN&R’s picks Re “Federal, state endorsements” (Editorial, Oct. 20): While I see that your paper endorses Hillary Clinton because she is the better choice than Trump, I am astonished that there is no mention or interest in the fact that she is the first woman in our history as a country that will most likely become president.

It is ironic she is running against a man who is openly degrading to women. Because of this, there has been a huge backlash on women.

What troubles me is that I think many young women and men are unaware or take for granted the rights that have been hard-won for women.

This seems to me an opportunity to educate people on the significance of a female president.

While I would not support someone solely based on his or her gender, in this case, and given the climate of misogyny, it is the perfect time to make a stand for women and to understand fully the long road to equality we have been on.

Gabrielle Walters Chico

How can CN&R support a presidential candidate who spews endless lies and whose career has been all about enriching friends and herself with more riches and power?

It wasn’t that long ago that many Democrats—including Clinton, CN&R and its readers—were in lockstep support of the Occupy Wall Street movement and its fight against the 1 percent. Now the CN&R supports the 1 percent, the banks and corporations? Nearly all of Wall Street and corporate funding is going to Clinton.

The Clintons are Wall Street. Doesn’t that say enough?

Another State Department employee takes the Fifth when questioned about their role in the email/server scandal? It seems like the entire department has taken the Fifth and been given immunity from prosecution. I thought immunity was given in exchange for testimony?

What would the CN&R say if Chico city administrators all took the Fifth when questioned about important city functions? Nothing?

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 having the Clintons continue their power, corruption and usual crooked ways.

Taft Petersen Chico

Proposition 61 is a straightforward proposal to protect consumers from the pharmaceutical industry’s price-gouging. It requires that the state of California pays no more for prescription drugs than is paid for the same medication by the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs. California could also negotiate prices below those paid by that entity. California currently purchases $4 billion per year in prescription drugs. Think of the billions that the state taxpayers could save over the next 10 years.

No wonder the drug companies are advertising so heavily against it.

Vote yes on Proposition 61.

Paula Woods Forest Ranch

I was disappointed to see that you are not endorsing a yes vote on Proposition 61. As a registered nurse at Enloe Medical Center, I see every day the issues that people face with not being able to afford their medications: either not being able to take them at all due to cost, taking less than they should to make them last longer or going without other essentials such as cutting their food budget in order to afford their medications.

Prop. 61 would help to alleviate the high cost of prescriptions for Californians. The No on 61 campaign is being paid for by the big pharmaceutical companies.

Yes on 61 is endorsed by Bernie Sanders and the California Nurse’s Association. I urge everyone to consider voting yes on Prop. 61.

Sharon Kaplan Chico

‘A big FU’ Re “Whose bike is this, anyway?”

(Newslines, by Robert Speer, Oct. 20): Not moving Chico Scrap Metal is not only a big FU to the disenfranchised Chapman residents, it is also a slap in the face of Chico’s favorite son. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. has put this town on the map. That company’s generosity to local charity events, the jobs they have created, and the tourist dollars they have brought to this town have benefited us all.

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business across the street from the brewery (when we were promised it would move) is not a fiscally conservative decision; it smacks of corruption. I say it is time for a personal lawsuit against Councilmembers Mark Sorensen, Sean Morgan, Andrew Coolidge and Reanette Fillmer for violating the public trust. Any lawyers out there willing to pick this up?

R. Sterling Ogden Chico

Three on The Donald Re “Trump’s assault on democracy” (Guest comment, by Robert Speer, Oct. 20): I’m sure Robert Speer regrets saying that Clinton’s policies or actions could not be worse than Donald Trump’s questioning the legitimacy of this U.S. presidential election. Clinton actually working with Dick Cheney’s former foreign policy adviser, the vile Victoria Nuland, to continue Bush’s wars for dominance in the Middle East is far worse than words from Donald Trump’s mouth.

I’m still haunted by the beautiful little Syrian girl asking over and over from her hospital bed, “Will my foot grow back? Will my foot grow back?”

The hallmark of Clinton’s tenure as secretary of state (with Nuland by her side) was to pour fuel on unrest in certain chosen nations until anger blew up into chaos and violence, infrastructures were destroyed and vacuums were filled by terrorists. How cruel for the innocent people of those countries! What a heartless foreign policy!

Linda Furr Chico

Donald Trump’s rants about a “rigged election” are based on the fallacy of “voter fraud.” This claim is the classic red herring; “something that misleads or distracts from a relevant or important issue.” The real issue is “election fraud” caused by privately owned (proprietary) computer software counting our votes. This is an issue of democracy, therefore not partisan.

The latest occurrence happened in the Democratic primary, where the exit poll numbers were changed to match the computer totals (see the Stanford University study). This raises the question: “Are we witnessing a dishonest

election?”

A racketeering lawsuit has been filed in Ohio in this most recent case. This is similar to the lawsuit filed by Cliff Arnebeck and Bob Fitrakis over the 2004 presidential election, which, through discovery, exposed the outsourcing of Ohio’s 2004 election votes to SmarTech in Chattanooga, Tenn. In sworn testimony in this lawsuit, Bob Magnan, an IT specialist for the state of Ohio during the 2004 election, said there was no computer failure in Ohio and that he was sent home at 9 p.m. on election night and private contractors ran the system.

That’s the real issue. Private contractors counting our votes!

Paul Ellcessor Durham

Should Trump have his way (God forbid) and we close our borders to refugees from Syria and other war-torn nations for fear of possible terrorists, to avoid being hypocritical we should drop “home of the brave” from our national anthem.

Dan Johnson Paradise

Conflict of interest?

Re “High stakes” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, Oct. 6): Ken Smith succinctly pointed out how special interests are trying to buy the Chico City Council election.

What irks me is that candidate Sean Morgan basically stated that his vote is not for sale. Maybe he should have thought about that when his home-based business accepted $10,000 to $100,000 in both 2014 and 2015 from Golden Valley Bank for “consulting services.” At least five of the bank directors and stockholders have contributed to his current campaign.

Could this be related to Morgan seconding and voting as a Chico City Councilman in favor of a $10,000 nonrefundable fee to Golden Valley Bank on Oct. 15, 2013, for a $5 million loan the city never needed or used?

The state Fair Political Practices Commission’s conflicts-of-interest section clearly states that “a public official has a disqualifying conflict of interest in a governmental decision if it is foreseeable that the decision will have a financial impact on his or her personal finances or other financial interests.” The public has a right to

know exactly when Morgan made his deal with the bank.

Seth Derish Chico

A betting man I’ll wager $100 that there will be a hit piece distributed by liberals that links conservative City Council candidates to Donald Trump. If that’s their best strategy, they must want to avoid debating local issues.

This election should be all about local issues, and the track record of both the conservative council and the liberal council when each had its opportunity to determine the city’s direction.

So how did the liberals rule when they controlled the council?

Between 2007 and 2012, they overspent revenues by $20 million.

They drained dozens of individual city accounts, including the operational reserves and even the emergency reserves. Results? City Hall was laid bare because massive layoffs were necessary to avoid bankruptcy.

Crime increased due to attrition in public safety. Park maintenance, road repairs and preventative maintenance of city assets were slashed. Finally, funding for critical nonprofits was eliminated, impacting many of Chico’s less fortunate. And, yes, we’re still digging out of the financial hole the liberals created.

That is why I endorse Sean Morgan, Jovanni Tricerri and Loretta Torres. They are the best candidates to ensure Chico completes its financial recovery and public safety remains our top priority.

Bob Evans Chico

Stone’s their guy As a former City Council member and vice mayor for the city of Chico, I am endorsing Randall Stone for re-election. Randall was instrumental in saving the Chico Saturday farmers’ market, kept Caper Acres open for families to enjoy, saved Chico’s only public Fourth of July celebration, and was the only council member to fight for pension and salary reform.

Meanwhile, the incumbent conservative candidate, Sean Morgan, voted to spend $1.5 million for police officer salaries, and not one police officer was hired as a result.

Randall Stone cannot be

bought. He is his own man and has integrity in his decisions to prove this point. Randall’s financial expertise is what we need on this council. Randall has been elected as the president of the Sacramento Valley Division of the League of California Cities. Do you want a “yes man” to special interests?

No way! I want someone on the council who is going to challenge the special interest groups. These groups want to change the general plan to benefit developer contributors, destroy the Greenline and our quality of life.

I also support Ann Schwab, Tami Ritter and Karl Ory for City Council.

Tom Nickell Chico

Councilman Randall Stone has been the driving force in balancing the Chico city budget, mainly by addressing and controlling city employee costs.

He passed legislation to return $4 million to the general fund to fully fund public safety, parks and road improvements.

Stone has put a budget emphasis on keeping a fully staffed police department. He passed the Police Staffing Plan, and just as importantly, he found a way to pay for it. Stone’s neighborhood crimefighting efforts have included organizing NextDoor.com user groups, and personally investigating and initiating the removal of a problem recycling center and the bicycle chop shop that thrived around it.

Stone’s regional and statewide involvement allows him to share data, experiences and techniques with civic leaders from many other cities, large and small. Chico benefits from the knowledge and experience Stone has gained in the important areas of economic development, housing economics, homelessness and vagrancy issues, and associated drug and crime problems. Stone has found creative ways to keep Bidwell Park and Caper Acres open during times of staffing shortages.

Randall Stone is concerned with the best interests of all the citizens of Chico. He deserves to be re-elected.

Ron Sherman Chico More letters online:

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Paradise police are looking for a suspect who shot a man in the face last week (Oct. 21) with what they believe to be a compressed-air BB gun.

Officers responded to calls from Paradise High School staff reporting there were several people on the football field at about 10 p.m., according to a Paradise Police Department press release. Responding officers found the victim, Bradley Hess, 19, who said the assault was unprovoked and that the shooter had run off. As Hess was transported to Feather River Hospital for treatment of his injuries, police searched the area but didn’t find anyone.

Police confirmed Wednesday (Oct. 26) that they are still looking for a suspect, and have no further details or description. Anyone with information should call 872-6241 or the Paradise PD tip line at 872-6161, ext. 233.

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It’s that time of year when the trees are shedding leaves in bulk. As a result, the city of Chico will begin its annual leaf collection program on Monday (Oct. 31).

The service removes leaves from roadways not only to keep public rights-of-way clear, but also to prevent clogged storm drains and potential flooding, according to a city press release. The program is not intended for leaves and yard waste generated from trees on private property, alleyways or the unincorporated areas within the city.

The release reminds residents to rake leaves into piles—not into plastic bags—at least 1 foot away from the curb, but not in bicycle lanes. The program will end on Jan. 2. Go to www.ci.chico.ca.us for more information.

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Butte County Public Health recently was awarded a one-year, $118,000 grant to fund local efforts to boost car-seat safety for children, according to a press release.

The Keeping Baby Safe Right From the Start grant, awarded by the California Office of Traffic Safety, will help educate the public about a law set to go in effect on Jan. 1. It mandates that children under 2 years old must ride in a rear-facing car seat, unless the child weighs 40 or more pounds or is 40 or more inches tall.

“Children under the age of 2 are five times more likely to suffer a severe injury if they are forward-facing,” said Ann Dickman (pictured), the county’s public health nurse.

The funds also will be used to host monthly car-seat classes and checkup events and to train technicians to staff fitting stations throughout the county.

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Chico State athletes stand behind social media campaign despite hateful online response

OWakefield year at Chico State, soccer player Dylan was walking down Ivy Street n Halloween night during his freshman

when a woman on the porch of a house yelled a racial slur at him. by “She said, ‘Hey, Howard look, it’s an N-word,’” Hardee he said. “I was with a h owa rd h @ couple of girl friends n ew srev i ew. c o m and they were really upset. Some random guys were sympathetic and said, ‘Wow, dude, I can’t believe she just said that to you.’” Wakefield, now 21, recently has been exposed to hundreds more insensitive, crude and downright hateful comments. This time, rather than being hurled from a house party, they’re coming from strangers online.

Wakefield’s one of about 20 student athletes at Chico State who participated in a social media campaign called “You Don’t Say.” It tackles commonly used but potentially offensive terms—i.e., “gay,” “retard” or “pussy”—in a series of images

with captions. One features cross-country runner Olivia Watt and the statement, “I don’t say ‘you’re a pussy’ because a part of a woman’s body should never be a connotation for weakness.” Each athlete wrote the statement that accompanies his or her photo. Wakefield’s reads, “I don’t say ‘nigga or nigger’ because it is derogatory and offensive to me, my family, and to people of color.”

“It’s a sensitive term for everyone,” he told the CN&R during a phone interview.

“I don’t find it OK for black people to say it, white people, anybody. It’s one of those terms that should be avoided, but it’s become overused and almost popular.”

The campaign has blown up since launching on Oct. 20. The photos have been shared thousands of times on various social media platforms, Forbes ran a short story online and the subject has served as opinion fodder for Fox News. Now, Chico State Athletics is fielding interview requests from national TV news programs.

It’s been a whirlwind, but above it all, the response on social media has been

overwhelming, said Haley Kroll of the women’s cross country team. The positive comments are “outweighed by the negative ones tenfold.”

Internet trolls lurk on message boards and

comments sections online, purposefully disrupting conversations and upsetting people.

Many of the comments posted about “You Don’t Say” are of this sort: men debating which female athletes they’d prefer to “smash” (have sex with); white people protesting the “inequality” of the N-word being “restricted to black people”; and social media users of all stripes chortling about how two Chico State basketball players “look retarded.” And that’s the tame stuff.

Notably, the majority of the nasty comments have been made by people who don’t live in Chico, according to Luke Reid, the university’s sports information director.

Some of the comments fall into a different category. As noted in a recent New

‘the public’s doctor’ York Times editorial, many Americans identify with presidential candidate Donald Trump’s rejection of the politically correct culture emanating from liberal university campuses. The term “PC” itself has become something an insult, a catch-all phrase to describe people who tip-toe around offensive subjects and language.

That’s evident in the vitriolic postings to Chico State Athletics’ Facebook page. One calls for “euthanasia of the language police.” Another laments “the pussification of America.” Yet another adds that, “Maybe it’s easier to list the words that we can say.” Indeed, buried in the toxic spew is the general attitude that hypersensitivity is trampling free thought and free speech.

“It may not be a nice thing to say, but this is still America and we still have the First Amendment to consider,” writes one commenter, “which is way more important than anyone’s feelings.”

Kroll, 22, is co-president of the Chico

State Student Athlete Advisory Committee, a student body representing every sports team on campus. She got the idea for “You Don’t Say” from a similar campaign at Duke University and, with the committee’s full support, gave it a soft launch in April by placing posters around campus. The athletes who participated wanted to spur productive conversations.

“We wanted everyone to feel comfortable expressing who they are,” Kroll said. “We wanted our language to reflect what we stand for as Chico State Athletics.”

The initial response was overwhelmingly positive, said Athletics Director Anita Barker. “This is supposed to be thought-provoking and a conversation starter,” she said. “That’s what it did in April, and that’s what it’s doing now.”

It took a few days for the social media campaign to go viral, Kroll said.

“I never would have dreamed it would get as big as it has,” she said.

“We expected some backlash, but didn’t necessarily expect it to this degree.”

Recently, the student athletes considered removing the posts, but they unanimously chose to leave them up.

“I was pretty wrapped up in [the comments] for a couple days, but I stopped looking,” Kroll said. “What do I care what these people say? I know what I’m doing is right and I’m passionate about it, and that’s what’s important.” □

Local physician ruminates on new job as Butte County health officer Miller has dedicated much of his professional life to helping others be healthy.

AHendy got into medicine, he says, thinking he’d

end up retiring as a family practice doctor.

But sometimes life has other plans. While working at Northern Valley Indian Health, he saw his role shifting to administration. Then this week, he took the reins as Butte County health officer.

“The biggest change for me will be from working primarily with individuals to populations,” he said by phone. “It will take a lot of time and learning on my part. But that’s one of the really exciting things about it, all the opportunities for growth.”

Miller’s roots are planted firmly in Butte County. His family moved here in the 1800s.

“We’ve been in the community for a little while,” he said with a chuckle. Miller grew up in Chico and he and his wife, Mimi, who teaches education at Chico State, now live in Durham and have a 20-year-old son and 17-year-old daughter.

For the past 14 years, he’s worked at Northern Valley Indian Health, the past eight as medical director. As a family practice doctor, he has a particular interest in parents and children. He translated that passion to the community by working to open the NVIH Children’s Health Center—previously owned

by Enloe Medical Center, now a full-service clinic that accepts Medi-Cal patients. Then, earlier this year, Miller helped NVIH open the Women’s Health Center, focused on prenatal care and other OB-GYN services. It also accepts Medi-Cal. “Dr. Miller has proven over the years that he has a public health heart and a heart

for our community,” said Mark Lundberg, whose shoes Miller is filling.

Lundberg resigned from the health officer position this summer after 21 years on the job for a position at Butte County Behavioral Health. “I hope that this new position will give him new opportunities and new ways to serve the community I know he loves.”

When Miller spoke with the

CN&R on Tuesday (Oct. 25), it was only his second day on the job, a bit premature to ask him about full-fledged goals and department assessments, but he did say he’s looking forward to taking his career from the exam room to the public sector.

Some of the issues Miller says he knows public health officials continuously work with are “chronic disease, smoking rates, diabetes, homelessness, getting health care to the most vulnerable.” Reaching underserved populations is something he’s passionate about, he says. He sees opportunities to expand on the work he did at NVIH to serve larger groups of people.

“Clinics here have shrunk, as public health clinics across the country have shrunk,” he said. “I and the director who hired me are hoping to reverse that here.

[With the Affordable Care Act], we expand-

SIFT ER Not just sweets Halloween is big business. Just look at all the decorations on your neighbors’ houses and the costumes on kiddies and adults alike on All Hallow’s Eve. According to the National Retail Federation, spending on Halloween will reach an estimated $8.4 billion this year.

That’s an all-time high, based on the trade association’s annual survey. Among the findings: 171 million Americans will celebrate the holiday, their average spending will run $82.93 and 7 out of 10 consumers will hand out candy. In other words, there will be plenty of treats (and money) to go around.

Dr. Andy Miller, shown here at the North Valley Indian Health Women’s Health Center, which he helped open. cN&r file phOtO by hOward hardee

ed medical access but we didn’t really expand capacity.”

One realm in which Miller and Lundberg likely will interact is that of addiction services. That’s one of Lundberg’s primary focuses in his new role as physician with substance use disorders at the Department of Behavioral Health, and one that he spoke animatedly about. He’s optimistic about a few new programs that have the potential to help local people who struggle with opiate addiction and alcoholism.

“Many people are looking for solutions,” Lundberg said. “They end up in our jails and on our streets if you don’t treat them and find them help.”

Looking back, Lundberg said he found great satisfaction in the work he did as public health officer. “But 21 years is enough time to do it.” Now, he said, he’s ready to focus on working for the health of the community in a different way. As for words of wisdom for his successor, he said one thing Miller will have to grasp onto earlier than later is being in the spotlight.

“He’s already a trusted member of the medical community,” Lundberg said, “but he’ll need to work on new relationships that he hadn’t worked with before.

“He’ll be a trusted face of public health.

I consider him the public’s doctor.”

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Avoiding conflicts Councilwoman defends her duty to recuse herself Oct. 4, the Chico City Council a budget adjustment Othatndiscussed included improvements to the downtown sidewalk in front of Zucchini & Vine. Councilwoman Ann Schwab co-owns a business just down the street, so she recused herself to avoid a potential conflict of interest.

But as Schwab headed for the lobby, fellow Councilwoman Reanette Fillmer deviated from the meeting’s agenda to speak her mind.

“I think we need to get some clarification on when we can recuse ourselves and when we can’t, because it seems like the El Rey [Theatre] was within 500 feet of her business as well,” Fillmer said, referring to a previous discussion about the theater, in which Schwab did participate.

“But she can recuse herself from an appropriation issue?”

Schwab turned around and responded that she’d consulted with City Attorney Vince Ewing to confirm her eligibility to participate in the El Rey discussion under Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) regulations, which state that public officials can’t make decisions on issues within 500 feet of their private financial interests. Ewing also spoke up, confirming that the the-

ater is an acceptable distance from Schwab’s downtown business, Campus Bicycles.

“It kind of caught me off guard and it was definitely an awkward situation, as I was leaving the room and didn’t really have an opportunity to address the question,” Schwab said of Fillmer’s comments during an interview this week.

Schwab has sat on the council for 12 years, served as mayor from 2008 to 2012 and is currently running for re-election.

Fillmer continued the criticism when interviewed for an Oct. 22 Chico Enterprise-Record article focused on the fact that Schwab has recused herself 16 times since September 2015.

Fillmer—who refused interview requests for this article—told the E-R: “I think that we have a judiciary responsibility to vote on a majority of the items. If we find there’s a conflict on so many items that are so significant to the city ... which are a lot of items Ann has recused herself from, then maybe you should reconsider whether you can adequately vote for the citizens of Chico.”

Fillmer doubled down on Facebook, where she posted a link to the E-R article and posed the question: “So, for your informa-

tion, we did further research and Ann Schwab has recused herself 114 times since she started in office. What are your thoughts?”

The post has since been removed.

Schwab said the E-R article spurred

her to take a closer look at her own voting record. Of the 16 instances referenced, she found—and the CN&R confirmed—that all but three ended in 6-0 votes, meaning her vote generally wouldn’t have altered decisions.

“People think 16 votes sounds like a lot, but when you look at how many votes we take over the course of a year, it’s just a small fraction,” she said, noting that decisions recalled due to FPPC violations are rendered null and discussion must start anew. “FPPC guidelines say you should recuse yourself if there’s a real or even a perceived conflict. I think the community appreciates that I’m being ethical and am not willing to cross that line.”

According to Google Maps, Schwab chose correctly on Oct. 4.

The El Rey Theatre is more than 700 feet from her business, and Zucchini & Vine sits about 490 feet from the cycle shop.

Though unable to speak specifically to Schwab’s situation, FPPC Communications Director

Jay Wierenga offered some insight about conflicts of interest.

“It’s always best for a public official to err on the side of caution,” he said. “Generally speaking, votes can be put off until questions are answered, so it’s always better for someone to not participate if they suspect there’s an issue,” Wierenga said. “If they’re unsure, we encourage them to start with their city or county attorney, and to contact our legal department if they need advice.”

The 500-foot rule and other conflict-of-interest guidelines are established by the state’s Political Reform Act, adopted in 1974. The guidelines are available on the FPPC’s website, as are results of recent actions. In September, for example, City of Commerce Mayor Ivan Altamirano was cited $15,500 for multiple transgressions, including voting to place an all-way stop sign within 150 feet of his home. In July, Port Hueneme City Councilman Jonathan Sharkey was fined $3,000 for voting to approve a city budget and capital improvement program that included funding for two parks within 500 feet of his residence.

Schwab said she herself was the target of FPPC scrutiny in 2010, when Mayor Mark Sorensen— then a fledgling councilman— complained about a partnership between Chico State and the city’s Sustainability Task Force, which she chaired: “He alleged my employment with CSU, Chico, was a conflict in that participation, but I’m not an employee of CSU, Chico, so that complaint was completely unfounded.” (Schwab is program director at Community Action Volunteers in Education and employed by the Associated Students).

Schwab said Fillmer’s focus on her recusals harkens back to that episode: “If I have questions about a fellow council member’s stance, their motivation on an issue, or why they choose to recuse themselves, I’d go talk to them directly,” she said. “As far as Councilmember Fillmer is concerned, an appropriate way to address her concerns would have been to put the issue on the agenda so we could have a discussion, rather than shout it from the dais as I was leaving the chambers.”

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ACorey, and without fail, they’ll mention his laugh. It was a one-of-a-kind, tittering sk anyone who knew my oldest brother,

chuckle that came easy and often, sometimes escalating to fits of mirth. I first realized something was seriously wrong with him when he stopped laughing.

We were at breakfast the morning after his daughter, Cassie, got married in 2010.

Corey lived in Washington and we saw each other only a few times a year. He hadn’t seemed himself that weekend. I’d chalked it up to worry over the wedding until my sister pulled me aside that morning and said, “Watch Corey. Something isn’t right.”

We all tried to engage Corey, asking questions and relating funny memories, but he’d respond only with a pained grin and uncharacteristically empty laugh. The confusion in his eyes suggested he was struggling to understand our conversation. He tried to play along, either unaware something was amiss or, for our sake, pretending it wasn’t.

A few months later—at the age of 50—Corey was diagnosed with early onset dementia resulting from a degenerative brain disorder called Lewy body disease (LBD), also known as Lewy body dementia, a condition that eventually would take his life.

Like most people, my family had never heard

of LBD, which is caused by abnormal deposits of proteins—known as “Lewy bodies”—in the brain. It’s relatively unheard of but hardly rare, as it affects an estimated 1.3 million Americans and is the second leading cause of dementia behind Alzheimer’s disease. That’s according to the Lewy Body Dementia Association, a 12

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national organization dedicated to raising awareness about the illness, which also notes on its website that many cases go undiagnosed because even doctors remain woefully unfamiliar with the illness. LBD is often misdiagnosed as Alzheimer’s or Parkinson’s disease, and can co-occur with those conditions.

Like those illnesses, there is no cure; symptoms may be slowed in some cases, but never stopped. Further complicating treatment is the fact that some medications commonly used to treat other forms of dementia can actually speed up LBD’s progress.

Beyond dementia, the illness also causes visual and aural hallucinations and progressive loss of cognitive and physical abilities.

Life expectancy from the time of diagnosis is roughly six to eight years, because the disease doesn’t just rob those afflicted of their memory, personality and mental capacity, but also eventually affects the most basic bodily functions. After victims forget how to walk and talk, their bodies forget how to breath or swallow. As the body falters, it also becomes incapable of fighting off other illnesses. My own brother’s death last summer was hastened by a respiratory infection.

It’s hard to explain Corey’s cause of death to most people, given that the most common response when I mention Lewy body disease is, “Louie who?” I usually try to explain by relating it to the death of another man also remembered for laughter, albeit on a much wider scale—Robin Williams.

The comedian’s 2014 death spurred some dialogue about anxiety, depression and suicide, for which I am thankful. However, I also am frustrated by the missed opportunity to inform more people about LBD, which autopsy reports show Williams suffered from.

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His widow, Susan Schneider Williams, has since dedicated herself to spreading awareness about the disease. She joined the board of directors of the American Brain Foundation, which advocates for those afflicted with LBD and other disorders, and in recent months has traveled the country speaking about her late husband’s illness.

She also penned an essay published in the journal Neurology last month, “The terrorist inside my husband’s brain.”

In the article, Susan describes Robin’s rapid deterioration in heart-wrenching detail, and relates many of the frustrations common to LBD victims and their loved ones— incorrect and insufficient diagnosis, negative reaction to medications, and a feeling of utter helplessness.

“Robin was growing weary,” she writes of his final days. “The Parkinsonian mask was ever present and his voice was weakened. His left hand tremor was continuous now and he had a slow, shuffling gait. He hated that he could not find the words he wanted in conversations … At times, he would find himself stuck in a frozen stance, unable to move, and frustrated when he came out of it. He was beginning to have trouble with visual and spatial abilities in the way of judging distance and depth. His loss of basic reasoning just added to his growing confusion.”

The last time I saw Corey was on his 55th

birthday. He’d been in a full-time care facility for the past few years and his condition

The author’s brother, Corey Smith, died in 2015 after a long bout with Lewy body disease. Robin Williams’ widow believes the same disease drove the comedian to suicide in 2014.

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had deteriorated to the point that his children were considering hospice and end-of-life care. My surviving siblings, Chris and Kim, made the trip with me to say goodbye.

Corey had long lost the ability to laugh, walk and talk or to feed or dress himself. I like to believe the briefest moments of recogni-

tion I’d detected on his face were real rather than wishful thinking, but I can never know for sure. By the time he took his final breath one month later, I was devastated, but found solace in the fact my long-tortured brother was free of his broken vessel.

A few months after Corey passed, I shared his story with my own doctor. He asked if I wanted to be screened for LBD, to which I replied, “Is that possible?” He seemed surprised by his own answer: “I have no idea.” □

WEEKLY DOSE Night of a thousand treats The average trick-or-treater bags 3,500 to 7,000 calories’ worth of candy on Halloween night, according to the University of AlabamaBirmingham’s School of Public Health. Such volumes of sugary loot may be concerning to parents who encourage healthy eating, but keep in mind that Halloween is something of a kids’ rite, and it’s only one night. So chill out. Also, here are some tips for a healthy holiday: • Stuff them with other stuff: If your child just ate dinner, they probably won’t eat as much candy. (Probably.)

• Keep only the choicest sweets: When they get home, help them sort out the candy they really want. Hide or discard the rest.

• Fix consumption: If they bring home a bunch of candy, that’s OK if it’s rationed over the next few weeks. Let them have a few pieces of candy a day, preferably after lunch or dinner, and don’t let them binge.

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Ctoward DeAtley pulled a white pickup truck up a large pile of grain near a barn at the hico State assistant professor Kasey

University Farm and motioned to it, as if to say, “Here it is.”

“It smells really great at this time,” she said as she leaned down and grabbed a handful. “It’s fresh.”

Typically, a pile of grain would be unimpressive, but this one was special. These particular oats had been used to produce beer.

DeAtley, who teaches animal and range science in Chico State’s College of Agriculture, is working with her students to research the effects and cost efficiency of feeding the grain to dairy cows.

The university’s partnership with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. started 17 years ago, DeAtley said, when the brewery decided to raise its own steers for beef to be served in its restaurant. Students at the University Farm raise, manage and process the Sierra Nevada cattle. They also conducted research on the effects of feeding them byproducts of the brewing process, including brewers’ grains—barley, etc.—stripped of their starches.

“Even when the brewers’ grain comes out of the brewery, it still has really great nutritional value to it,” DeAtley said. “The only stuff that comes out is the starch, which is used for the alcohol portion of the beer. So the grains are still very, very high in protein and high in energy, so it makes it a really good feed source for cattle.”

Researchers began studying the use of spent grain as a feed source in the 1960s, DeAtley said, though mostly with corn distillers. When she began teaching at the farm in 2009, California was in a literal drought and a figurative microbrewery monsoon. To that point, the farm fed brewers’ grain only

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to the steers, but reduced grazing land for milk cows and a surplus of brewers’ grain statewide led DeAtley and her students to wonder: Could we feed the grain to dairy cows, too?

“Feed prices were really, really high,” she said. “That, coupled with not having a lot of rangeland, made it difficult for producers. We kept getting the question: Is there any way we can feed the brewers’ grain to the cows? We couldn’t find anything in the literature. So we said, ‘Let’s do a study.’”

The study was organized with several goals in mind: To find out how long the grain would keep in storage, if it was healthy to feed spent grain to heifers, how microbes reacted to the grain in a cow’s stomach, and whether transporting the grain is economically feasible.

They’ve already answered some of their original questions. First, they determined that brewers’ grain will begin to dry out after five days in summer and fall heat; in colder months, the grain keeps for a few days longer. Then, in studying the heifers’ health effects of eating the grain, they found that they were identical to a control group fed regular feed. They created access ports in the cows’ first stomachs to best be able to study the digestion process (cattle have four stomachs).

Two years ago, Chico State partnered with the University of California’s Sierra Foothill Research Station to study the effects the grain has on dairy cows. To do this, cows at the research station were separated into two groups. One is fed brewers’ grain;

the other a protein supplement. DeAtley expects this part of the study to take another year.

DeAtley said the partnership with the Sierra Foothill Research Station, which is 60 miles from Chico in Browns Valley, also offers an opportunity to research the economics of transporting brewers’ grain, which is 80 percent water, to areas farther away from a brewery. Previous research had indicated that 90 miles was the farthest one would want to ship the grain, to be costefficient.

“I don’t know if that’s still true today because our fuel prices have gone up so much. It may only be feasible within 40 miles of the brewery,” DeAtley hypothesized.

The explosion of microbrewing in California was an additional factor in the farm’s research, DeAtley said. According to the California Craft Brewers Association, a craft brewing advocacy group, the number of microbreweries in California grew from fewer than 70 in 1990 to more than 700 in 2016.

“We were just curious from a microbrewery standpoint, because we have all of these microbreweries all over the place and they are creating another feed source for producers that may be a little cheaper,” DeAtley said.

Scott Colby, communications manager at Sierra Nevada, said the brewery’s relationship with the University Farm is important on many levels. Studying the sustainability of grains will help more than just the local

brewery, too. Spent grain “is of huge value for local farmers,” for both livestock and crops. DeAtley said the school’s farm alone receives 4 to 5 tons of brewers’ grain from Sierra Nevada every week.

“The really cool part about it is it completes that whole waste cycle,” DeAtley said. “We have grains going into the brewery, being processed for one thing, and coming out and not going to the landfill, but going back into the cattle and being utilized that way. It’s very cool.”

Ultimately, DeAtley, a Chico State alumna who herself studied in the farm science program, noted how the university’s partnership with Sierra Nevada and other organizations provides opportunities for hands-on teaching.

“The best part about it for me is that it creates research projects,” she said. “We get to create groups of cattle that have to be weighed. We have to take calculations and performance measures, which is phenomenal for the classroom. At the end of the day, if my students can’t be involved, then I don’t wanna do it.” □

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In the North State, a county, a bay, a historic road and other geographical features bear Alexander von Humboldt’s name, but his story is not as familiar.

Author andrea Wulf is working to change that, as Humboldt (1769-1859) is the subject of her latest book, the Invention of Nature: alexander von humboldt’s New World. The New York Times named the work—which focuses on the naturalist’s adventurous life and enduring legacy— one of the 10 best books of 2015. Wulf will talk about Humboldt tonight, oct. 27, at 7:30 p.m., at Zingg Recital hall on the Chico State campus.

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In 2010, Justin Marshall had been working at Build.com for a couple of years and decided to take what he learned there to create his own business selling hydroponic gardening supplies. That year, he started HydroBuilder. com, a complete gardening supply company with a focus on indoor gardening. Marshall says he was inspired after noticing that online “grow shops”—those geared toward cannabis growers—back in 2010 were somewhat sketchy. They often didn’t provide contact information, he recalls, and didn’t appear to be the type of websites one would trust with credit card information. With HydroBuilder, Marshall hoped to present a professional site that was accessible for indoor and outdoor gardeners and also combated pot-grower stereotypes. His customers are not armed gangsters who slash and burn forests, he says. Google AdWords and Facebook indicate they’re most often older men or even grandmas with medical cards. Though he believes that at least 85 percent of what is sold on his website is used for growing marijuana, Marshall says HydroBuilder has worked with produce companies on massive indoor farming systems and has helped individuals successfully grow a variety of plants.

What kind of response have you gotten locally?

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ing because there are so many people that are pro [pot legalization], but Butte County is a very conservative county. One of the issues we face is they are not differentiating between the cartel grows that are leveling the forest, diverting the water and really kind of ruining the land—they are not differentiating between those growers and the backyard growers who want four or five plants in their backyard.

cal]. In California, you can have six plants if they vote to legalize. We have complete kits that are geared toward six complete plants ... all you’ll need to do is add water and a plant.

How has legalization in other states affected the business?

What about customers who aren’t growing marijuana—what are they growing?

When we first started this business, it wasn’t all about marijuana. We started before Colorado, Washington and Oregon ... decided to legalize it. Ever since then, it would be stupid of us not to capture that market. So now we focus on that.

How are you preparing for potential legalization in California?

When Colorado and Washington changed, we saw a huge spike, because you get the commercial side of it as well [as the medi-

Who is your typical customer?

The people we sell to most often are the older adult males whose kids have all grown up and moved out, or were in the military or have worked all their life.

A lot of herbs—tomatoes, basil.

We have a lot of people in the Midwest that have really poor soil conditions. So they will grow a vegetable garden, or salsa gardens are really popular. We also have people who are growing miniature fruit trees outside, but in the winter it’s zero degrees so they will bring them inside. So they need a fluorescent light to keep them alive.

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Butte County is a pretty great place to live. I should know—I’ve lived everywhere from Southern California to the Midwest to the Rocky Mountains to Europe. I’ve noticed recently that local government is trying to make the region more attractive to not only live but also work. That’s a great thing. The more businesses that locate here, the more good jobs are created to sustain the beauty we all love.

The latest push to market the area as business-friendly is the Butte County Business Ambassador Program, which launched this month with the release of two YouTube videos highlighting the first two ambassador businesses, Almendra Winery & Distillery in Durham and All Metals Inc., a metal distributor in Oroville.

First, I have to say that the video quality is pretty awesome. In each one, the owners—Carol and Berton Bertagna and Ed Lazzareschi, respectively—speak about their experience owning and running their businesses in Butte County. The Bertagnas highlight how welcoming and accommodating the county staff were when they opened Almendra last year, and Lazzareschi talks about the quality of schools and low cost of living in the area.

“The most refreshing thing for me is when we get people in here from out of town … They come in here not expecting very much from this little old place in Durham, but they leave very impressed and very happy that they came. And most of them come back or bring people back with them because they just can’t believe what we’ve done here,” Carol Bertagna says in the Almendra video.

I’m eager to see who is chosen next to represent Butte County. To check out the videos and learn more about the Business Ambassador Program, go to buttebusinessresources.com/butte-county-business-ambassadors.

An APP for thAt There’s an app for everything these days. My latest download:

Cinemark Connections, a new rewards program that lets you earn points for every movie ticket and soda you buy. I was already on the theater’s email list, so I’d get offers for free popcorn, etc. This promises to be even cooler, as you can choose your rewards, redeeming points for things like autographed posters, soundtrack downloads and other movie merch.

ooh-lA-lA It’s not easy to find cute dresses and pants in plus sizes, especially in Chico, where clothes-shopping options are limited. So, the upcoming opening of Torrid in the Chico Mall is exciting news. Torrid, which offers clothing in sizes 10-30, is a little less alt than its sister store, Hot Topic, but the website advertises everything from “going out” attire to “cosplay dresses,” so it’s bound to be a fun addition to Chico’s clothing scene. Construction is currently underway—the store will be situated between Maurices and Justice—with a grand opening slated for Dec. 10.

And they’re hiring! Go to jobs.jobvite.com/torrid for info on how to apply.

SignS Are A-chAngin’ I ran into restaurateur Mohammed Shabbar (of Teller’s Grill, which he says is on hold due to construction delays) outside the old House of Bamboo (162 E. Second St.) last week and he told me to watch for Petra Cafe to open there in the next couple weeks. Can’t wait!

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Possessed by the spirit Halloween is a way of life for some locals by

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ach October, the time of year when true believers say the veil between the world of the living and the realm of the dead is at its thinnest, several sites in Butte County undergo a sinister transformation.

In north Chico, a family living on the grounds of a fictional former insane asylum is tormented by grotesque creatures who take up temporary residence in their barn; another Chico home, a picture of normalcy from the outside, hides a sweet grandmother’s dark obsession; and south of Oroville, the last line of defense against the zombie apocalypse is a busload of volunteer militia members armed to the teeth … with paintballs.

The CN&R visited these spooky sites to meet the minds behind them and find out what drives some to such lengths in pursuit of freaky kicks. There’s the Barbee family, who open their home to the public each year to host a haunted attraction called Asylum of the Dead; Linda Chadbourne, curator of an enormous private collection of decorations she’s amassed over the past 25 years; and Thomas Taylor, who combined his passion for paintball and the love of the undead into an intense interactive experience called Zombie Wrecking Crew.

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A family frightmare The first Halloween after the Barbees moved from central Chico to a centuryold farmhouse on the outskirts of town, they realized something was terribly wrong with their new home: No trick-ortreaters came to the door.

“It’s pretty far out The Esplanade and has the long driveway,” Tammie Barbee said. “We wanted to get people to come get candy, and also so we can scare them, because that’s what we love doing.”

So, the family decided to build a haunted house. Tammie’s husband, Walter, a professional plumber and allaround handyman, told Tammie he’d build the attraction inside of an old wooden barn and attached five-vehicle carport on the property if she drew up the plans. On Oct. 1, the Asylum of the Dead—as the Barbee family’s haunted house is known—opened for its third year.

Every alleged haunting is driven by a good ghost story and, inspired by the fact that the home was historically owned by a doctor and the Barbees found an antique surgical table on the property, Tammie created the fictional asylum’s backstory. She said it has been

fleshed out and updated over the years by her daughter, Anna Nattress, one of the couple’s three adult children from Tammie’s previous marriage, whose ongoing involvement makes the asylum a family endeavor. The other two children, Alex and Andrea Nattress, are also on-hand most nights to help run things.

The tale runs something like this: In the late 1800s, a doctor and his wife built the farm and had a son named Charlie. The bright but troubled boy began conducting foul experiments on animals after the untimely death of his mother. He was institutionalized, only to break out 10 years later and return home to find his father had remarried.

The doctor and his new bride became the first of Charlie’s human experiments.

When the Barbees moved in and began renovating the barn, it awakened the grotesque creations and the spirits of his other victims.

“It’s not just asylum-themed, though,” Tammie said, explaining the Get your freaky on:

Asylum of the Dead is located at 3163 Esplanade.

Suggested donation: $5 adults, $3 children. Open every Friday and Saturday night in October and on Halloween from 7-10 p.m. Search Facebook for more details.

The Barbee family does some serious bonding at Halloween. (Left to right): Andrea Nattress, Walter Barbee (holding Walle), Anna Nattress, Tammie Barbee, Alex Nattress.

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story is pretty loose and that some rooms incorporate themes from contemporary horror films like Saw. “I mean, it might be fun to fill the whole thing with zombies, but not everyone is afraid of zombies. But everyone’s afraid of something, though, and maybe they’ll find it in there … a doctor, a clown, who knows?”

During a recent late-afternoon visit, Walter offered a tour of the then-empty asylum to show off his handiwork. The Barbees borrowed ideas from other attractions they’ve visited, including big-dollar productions in Sacramento and San Francisco. There are engineering challenges in constructing a safe, semipermanent structure for the express purpose of scaring people, so the asylum features many interesting accoutrements—swing-away false walls, camouflaged “trap” windows that drop open with a startling bang, and much more.

The layout changes—and grows—each year. When asked how he figures everything out, Walter smiled and offered the source of his secret knowledge: “YouTube.”

The family collects suggested donations of $5 from visitors. In past years, they’ve donated the proceeds to charity—the Butte Humane Society in 2014 and veterans’ group Wounded Warriors Project in 2015. This year, the money will benefit a famous family member. Walle, one of four of the family’s dogs who haunt the asylum’s grounds, won the World’s Ugliest Dog Contest in 2013.

The beagle/basset hound/boxer mix’s victory was due in part to his humped back, which now desperately requires surgery.

As sundown approached, more than a dozen volunteers ranging from teen to middle age congregated at the property’s main house to prepare for the evening. All of the volunteers are organized through a Facebook group overseen by Anna, and many return year after year. The organizers try to ensure there are at least 15 costumed “scare masters” manning the Asylum every night, and the Barbees said they rarely have problems finding willing volunteers.

Tammie shared a story about one girl who “pumpkined” out as a visitor the first year, but continues to volunteer as a scare master. (“Pumpkin” is a code word used at the asylum to signal that a visitor is too scared and needs to be escorted out; other codes the volunteers use to communicate include “fresh meat” to announce new arrivals and “rabbit” to indicate a belligerent visitor. Walter said between two and four people commonly cry pumpkin nightly; “Rabbit” has been invoked only once, when an inebriated guest—drugs and alcohol are forbidden at the asylum— was asked to leave.)

After nightfall, the asylum was alive and running like a well-oiled machine.

Two young women collected donations and prepped guests on the rules, and once inside the barn, another woman recited the asylum’s origin story as screams and laughter rang through the air. It took several minutes to walk through the maze-like interior, and it’s packed with a fair number of starts and Brionne Saseen and Nick Quedens explore the Asylum of the Dead. phOtO by JOhn dOmOgma

scares ranging from gory to goofy.

Each room offered something entirely different and each appealed to various basic human fears, both natural and supernatural—there’s a slaughterhouse, an execution, a crazy carnival, and much more. Perhaps in homage to Walter’s day job as a plumber, one of the most frightening details to watch for is a horrifying clogged toilet. As recent visitors recounted their walk-throughs outside the exit and the asylum’s residents howled from within, a new group of victims entered, and one voice rose above the din.

“Fresh meat!”

The Good Witch of north Chico The only outward indicators of the horrors lurking inside Linda and Doug Chadbourne’s north Chico home during Halloween season are a life-size pumpkin-headed butler dummy near the front door, next to a wooden sign that reads, “An Old Bag o’ Bones Lives Here With His Favorite Ghoul.”

Stepping inside the house, however, is like entering a horror-themed carnival attraction. Thin, black curtains hang over the windows, leaving the interior lit by lamps resembling witches’ legs of all shapes and sizes. A wooden hutch laden with brightly colored glass skulls and skeleton figurines serves as a Day of the Dead altar, and the fireplace is adorned with faux-granite tombstones and plastic pumpkins.

It’s difficult to step in any direction without waking motion-activated monster mannequins lurking in every corner of the home’s common areas—a spooky fortune teller and her skeletal pet dog; disembodied, talking busts with glowing eyes; an undead musical duo who play dueling banjos. Even the bathroom isn’t a safe haven, with bloody handprints dripping down the shower curtain.

“For me, there’s Halloween, and then there’s the countdown to Halloween,” Linda said during a recent tour of the home, explaining that her love for all things macabre began when she first read Bram Stoker’s Dracula as a teenager. Given her sugary demeanor, Linda’s dark proclivity—like her

Linda Chadbourne has been collecting Halloween decorations for 25 years. phOtO by Ken Smith

home’s decorated interior—is a bit jarring; one would more likely guess her favorite holiday activity involves fruitcakes rather than phantoms.

Linda, who with her husband owns Chico’s Chadbourne Office Supplies, said she’s been collecting decorations for at least a quarter-century. Today, her annual budget for Halloween decorations is $5,000. She collects year-round, mostly through mailorder company Grandin Road, saying she prefers the company’s quality products over other brands.

She picks up more items for the collection on the twice-yearly vacations she takes with her husband. “I get myself two souvenirs each trip: a Halloween treasure and a new scarf,” she said. The couple have traveled all over the world, often choosing destinations and activities that play into her love of all things spooky: “I made sure we went down to the crypts when we visited Paris,” she noted as an example, adding they’ve already planned their next trip, in March—to Eastern Europe, and specifically to visit Transylvania, home of Dracula’s Castle.

“I’ll finally get to see the castle,” she said.

“That’s at the very top of my bucket list.”

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Doug emerged from the couple’s home office to add his commentary, playing the perfect foil to his haunt-happy wife. As Linda talked travel, he interjected a few stories about nearly missing flights because of Linda’s habit, like the time she had to deconstruct a motorized “haunted vacuthe Chadbournes decorate their um cleaner” and front yard in spectacular fashion line her luggage at sundown on Halloween night. with the pieces See the display at the corner of netters circle and Sandi drive. because the box was too big to carry on.

“While she’s doing that, I’m standing in line looking at the ‘Now boarding’ sign,” Doug said with mock exasperation.

The bulk of Linda’s collection is PG-rated, at least for the time being: “As my

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grandchildren get older, I can get scarier, but the youngest one is only 10 right now,” she said. “So I don’t have anything too scary … no clowns, no snakes, no dead babies or too much gore. I don’t mind the clowns, but my husband and grandchildren don’t like them.”

Linda said the decorations are mostly stored in one of two large warehouses the couple maintain—one for their business and one for her collection—during the off-season.

The decorations come out in mid-September and most come down immediately after the big night, save for a guest bedroom that remains Nightmare Before Christmasthemed until that holiday passes. Doug built Linda a shed last year so she could keep her favorite items close to home. The outbuilding, christened “The Dead Shed,” has now become part of Linda’s backyard display,

which also features a koi pond haunted by a life-size swamp monster.

The Chadbournes invite neighbors, family and their customers to walk through their home each season and view the display. Linda’s biggest event is an annual bunco party: “The girls and I all put on our witches’ hats while we play; we have so much fun!”

The only fully public part of the display happens exclusively on Halloween night, when the Chadbournes’ lawn is filled with more than 50 gigantic inflatables, including a 16-footlong dragon, 7-foot-tall maneating plant, gargoyles, a hearse and more. As she talked about the blow-ups, Doug reappeared to grumble about how long it takes to put up and take down the front-yard display.

“Halloween is very busy for us; we have people here every night and they bring their grandmothers, their great-grandmothers, everybody,” he said. With a smile that belied his curmudgeonly words, he added, “Do you wanna know what my favorite part of Halloween is? First of November, the day it all comes down.”

The killing fields “Hands off your weapons until the lights go down,” Thomas Taylor admonished visitors one recent Saturday night as they boarded a converted school bus in the southern reaches of Oroville, where thick riparian woodland along the Feather River intersects with the paint-splattered battlegrounds of Combat Zone Paintball Park.

The bus, painted black and equipped with a front-mounted “wrecking plow,” looked like something out of Mad Max. Fifteen guns bristled from windows on each side, and passengers—30 at a time, departing every 30 minutes—sat on bench seats lining the windows. The bus rolled out, bumping through the night past cars in various states of disrepair and bombed-out-looking structures.

“Looks like we’ve got some walkers coming up here,” Taylor, dressed in military-style tactical gear, yelled to the eager riders. “Get ready!” Just then, the running lights turned dark blue, the stereo kicked up to 11 and a pack of zombies emerged from the darkness.

All of the riders simultaneously squeezed their triggers and kept squeezing, punctuating the blaring rap-rock with the nonstop popping of paintball gunshots. All the while,

Taylor ran the length of the bus, urging the shooters, “Yeah! Get ’em! Kill ’em! Kill ’em!”

Zombie Wrecking Crew, as Taylor’s interactive adventure is called, is operating for its third year. A professional paintball player and co-owner of Combat Zone, Taylor said his idea for a seasonal Halloween attraction was born of a desire to share the sport he loves and continue in it after his pro days are over.

“We wanted something that was completely different, fun and creative,” Taylor said via phone on a day off from leading tours. “We wanted it to be a cross between a haunted house, a paintball ride and something you’d see in a horror movie. We also want to pull people out of reality for that time and make it feel like you’re part of something rather than just shooting people for the heck of it.”

Given their popularity the last decade and his own preference, he said, zombies were an obvious choice for the theme: “I love zombies, they’re awesome, and it seems like most people do. I’ve had so many conversations with people, from all over the

Zombie Wrecking Crew is located at 4444 pacific Heights road in Oroville. the ride is $25, and more for extra ammunition. it is open fridays-Sundays through nov. 5. gates open at 5 p.m. go to zombiewrecking crew.com for more details.

To distinguish Zombie Wrecking Crew from other haunted attractions, creator Thomas Taylor included a custom school bus with mounted paintball guns. pHOtO by HOward Hardee

world doing paintball, about what they’ll do when the zombies come.

Everyone has a plan for the ‘zombiepocalypse.’”

Initially, Taylor thought the ride Life isn’t easy for the undead: Taylor estimates guests fire about 50 thousand paintballs at actors playing zombies most nights, and more than 100 thousand on busy nights. pHOtO cOurteSy Of ZOmbie wrecking crew

would primarily appeal to the typical paintball demographic, namely adolescent to 30-something males.

But people brought young children to ride on their laps, so he scrapped an age-8-and-above rule. Then a group who booked a tour the first year made him realize the experience’s broader appeal.

“Someone made a reservation

for an 80-something-year-old woman’s birthday party,” he recalled.

“She showed up with a group of her friends who were all about the same age. We helped them on the bus, they shot the piss outta some zombies, then we helped them off the bus.

“There’s something about going out there and shooting people, or zombies, without the threat of being shot back that appeals to all generations.”

As for the undead, Taylor admits that—though zombies are provided protective masks and padded gear—paintballs have a way of slipping past even the best defenses. “Every night someone says, ‘One got past my mask and gave me a fat lip,’ or, ‘Ouch, my shoulder!’” To ensure the zombies—who are paid employees and, Taylor noted, usually introduced to the ride as paying guests—can take it, he’s developed an unusual audition process.

“We give them the mask and the overalls, but no pads at all.

Then we line them up in front of the bus, execution-style, and rip into them. We figure if they can take 300-400 hits like that, they can handle the job.”

Ryan Soulsby, who prefers the nickname “Cowboy,” works for the Butte County Public Health Department and moonlights as a zombie. He says he’s taken some licks, especially on his first night, when he ended up being the last zombie the bus encountered.

“I was the guy everyone had to unload their hoppers [paintball magazines] on if they had any shots left,” he said. “I must have been hit with 10,000 paintballs that night.

“But it’s worth it,” Soulsby continued.

“When I hear everyone on the bus laughing and cheering and having the time of their lives, I don’t feel the pain at all.” □

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Chico rapper Esquire Ali throws annual October party

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SOct. 28,It’swith at the 1078 Gallery on Friday, Schwogtoberfest, a night chwog is everywhere.

of live Nor Cal hip-hop featuring underground MCs from Chico and the Bay by Area and headlined and Jason Cassidy organized by rapper Esquire Ali—who is jasonc@ @schwog on Istagram/ newsrev iew.com Twitter, SchwogTV Preview: on YouTube—to Schwogtoberfest, mark the occasion of Friday, Oct. 28, the release of his new 7 p.m., at album, Schwogtober 4.

1078 Gallery.

With performances In fact, every October

by Esquire Ali, that he’s lived in Underhouse Music, Chico, the 22-year-old Uncle Pill, Nsmokiee, anthropology/graphic Dee Dot Jones, Bassline Dave, Maroon design major has Tha Goon, Pervert, dropped a new release NDGO Sosa and called, you guessed Hound Beats. it, Schwogtober (with Cost: $5 numbers 1, 2 and 3 pre1078 Gallery ceding his latest).

820 Broadway So, what the hell is 343-1973 Schwog?” www.1078gallery.org “You ever went to the pool, and when you jumped in, it was Jell-O? … Have you ever looked in a telescope and seen yourself? That’s what that Schwog is about.”

Got that?

That’s the “answer” I found at least while searching around online, landing on a promisingly titled YouTube video called “What is Schwog?” featuring a very chill Ali, blunt in hand, joking with fellow MC/producer White Django.

It wasn’t until I recently tracked down Ali by phone that I found out that the word is an acronym for what turns out to be the rapper’s personal motto: Souly Creating Happiness Without Oppressing God. “It was given to me. It was something that was murmured from the intangible,” Ali said when I asked about its origins.

“It’s something that was just pumped

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Special Events WINE TASTING: Tastings from Hahn Family Wines, Boneshaker and Smith & Hook to support GRID Alternatives, a nonprofit organization that brings the benefits of solar technology to communities that would not otherwise have access. Th, 10/27, 5-7pm. $5. Bidwell Park Golf Course, 3199 Golf Course Road, (530) 891-8417.

through me from the intangible to the tangible.”

That sort of metaphysical answer and the surreal pondering in the video before it are clues to Ali’s rap-meetspsychedelia style. His is a wide-open approach that incorporates varying musical styles (rap, plus several electronic genres) and vocals/lyrics that range from the typically fast and complex wordplay of underground rap to crowd-pumping party jams—often all in the same song (hear: “Bounce,” the fun and appropriately bouncy collaboration with producer Worldcoast from Schwogtoberfest 2).

And Ali has been exploring all of it over the past four years via a prolific outpouring of recordings. In addition to the four Schwogtobers, as well as several other collaborations and guest spots, the busy rapper has found time to record a couple more solo albums, 2014’s Esoteric and, earlier this year, Reality Distortion Field, a trippy, 26-minutelong concept album with producer KJ Dramatic.

But where Ali really gets to put the “creating happiness” part of his credo to work is in the live setting. Despite there not being a lot of outlets for live rap in Chico (especially since LaSalles closed its doors last year), Ali and his cohorts have worked their way into opening sets for visiting rap acts like Andre Nikatina and Coolio, college parties and all-ages

highly energized productions that they’ve put on at the 1078 Gallery under the umbrella of a loosely organized group of local hip-hop and rock artists called the Vibe Tribe Art Collective.

“To embody being an MC, to embody the hip-hop culture is to come with it,” Ali said of his approach to putting on a show. “I pride myself on being very specific in how I present it. It’s the intangible things that aren’t spoken that will take things from, ‘That shit’s tight,’ to ‘I really want to know what’s going on with you.’ I just really want to connect. … There’s so much disconnection.”

Schwogtober 4—which won’t be officially released until Oct. 31 (at sound cloud.com/esquireali and other online/ streaming outlets)—marks an evolution in Ali’s music, as the MC recorded the album himself, taking on the production as well as vocal duties.

“If I wasn’t making music, I don’t what I would do,” Ali said. “I have an existential job to do.”

And once he graduates from Chico, the Bay Area native says he’ll move back home to continue his work, building on a foundation of shows he played in the area this past summer.

“That’s where it’s at,” he said.

“There’s immense culture that is poppin’ off. It’s hoppin’. There’s so many kids WKHUH ª , MXVW JRWWD FDWFK WKDW ZDYH ³ Ɛ

Music BOOMBOX CARTEL: DJ/producer duo from Mexico with a hybrid EDM sound all their own. Lemay, Isaac Lee and Jaxx open the show. Th, 10/27, 8pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmaxproductions.net.

Theater A HEART LAID BARE: A theatrical adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Fall of the House of Usher, The Tell-Tale Heart and The Raven, all imagined as a single interwoven story of spine-tingling horror. Th-Sa, 7:30pm. $14.99. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

THE ECLECTIC ORGAN Sunday, Oct. 30 Harlen Adams Theatre SEE SUNDAY, MUSIC

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

THE RED LAMP: See Friday Birdcage Theatre, THE PRODUCERS: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

THE RED LAMP: A comedy about a lucky lamp that, when lit, brings about a whole host of unforeseen complications. F, Sa, 6:30pm, Su, 1pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcage theatre.net.

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Special Events CAPITOL STEPS: Comedy group, originally formed from a group of Senate staffers, roasting each candidate in this year’s election mercilessly with parodies and satire. Th, 10/27, 7:30pm. $10-$35. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/upe/ performance.

THE PRODUCERS: Mel Brooks musical telling the story of a Broadway producer and an accountant who discover that they could get richer by producing a flop. Th-Sa, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

Poetry/Literature ANDREA WULF: THE INVENTION OF NATURE: Acclaimed author Andrea Wulf will discuss her book The Invention of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt’s New World, named one of the 10 best books of 2015 by the New York Times. Th, 10/27, 7:30pm. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/humanities center.

Art Receptions A COLLECTING PLACE: Reception for the new exhibit of works by printmaker Susanna Crum.

Th, 10/27, 5-7pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

PHOTOGRAPHS BY LARRY LEIGH: Reception for new images from Chico photographer Larry

HOT BUTTERED RUM Friday, Oct. 28 Chico Grange

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THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CHICO MUSEUM: Valene Leigh, whose metal-infused photographs depict local landscapes. Th, 10/27, 5-7pm. Chico Paper Co., 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

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Special Events MONSTER MASH VINTAGE HALLOWEEN DANCE: Halloween party and dance with East Coast swing dance lessons and costume “dance off” with prizes. F, 10/28, 7-11pm. $7 dance/$10 dance with lesson (members free). Studio One, 707 Wall St., (530) 636-0326, www.chicovintage nights.com.

TRICK OR TRUNK: Kids fifth grade-age and younger are invited for games, prizes, trunkto-trunk trick-or-treating, a bounce house and more. F, 10/28, 5:30-7:30pm. Free. Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. First St., (530) 343-1484.

Music HOT BUTTERED RUM: San Francisco Americana string band comes to town for a show benefiting the Grange School of Adaptive Agriculture.

Boston bluegrass singer Peter Rowan will also be on hand, along with a costume contest, photo booth, games, homemade hard cider and an assortment of other libations and food for sale. F, 10/28, 6:30pm. $35. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 895-1976.

Theater A HEART LAID BARE: See Thursday Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Smith, retired Chico State professor, will speak about the closing of Chico’s Carnegie Library in the 1970s, the proposal to the city of Chico to turn the building into a Chico museum and the success of that endeavor. Sa, 10/29, 10-11am. $5. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

HALLOWEEN COSTUME PARTY & ZOMBIE STOMP: Celebrate Halloween at the newly named Norton Buffalo Hall (formerly the Paradise Grange) with live music by Bahapki, costume contest and Halloween-themed snacks. Sa, 10/29, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive in Paradise, (530) 877-4995.

OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR: Annual public tour of local artists’ studios, providing a glimpse into artists’ working process and a chance to meet the people that make Chico an art community. Sa, 10/29, Su, 10/30. $10 for guidebooks (aval. at Chico Art Center). See listing for details, www.chicoartcenter.com.

THRILL THE WORLD: Dress up as a zombie and

dance along with Michael Jackson’s Thriller in the plaza, in conjunction with thousands of other flash mobs around the world. Sa, 10/29, 3pm. Chico City Plaza, downtown Chico, www.ttwchico.com.

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

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Special Events DAY OF THE DEAD DINNER: A vegetarian, Latinthemed dinner raising funds for the Guatemalan art and education project Creando Me Futuro, with Guatemalan art, textiles, jewelry and gifts for sale and live music

by Jimmy Brobeck and Diane Suzuki. Su, 10/30, 5-8pm. $15 requested donation. Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St., (530) 5189992, www.doroteia.org.

DOGGIE HAPPY HOUR & COSTUME CONTEST: One lucky dressed up pup will win a prize package with treats and some Dumps for Trump doggie waste bags. Su, 10/30, 4-7pm. No cover.

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

GRUB CONTRA DANCE: Music will be provided by The Pub Scouts with caller Mark Goodwin.

Benefit for the GRUB Education Program. Su, 10/30, 6pm. $10/$5 with costume. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (239) 272-9661.

OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR: See Saturday. www.chicoartcenter.com.

Music MUSIC FOR THE MOON: A night of music featuring the symphonic winds ensemble, including works by Roger Cichy, Libby Larsen and Antonin Dvorak. Sa, 10/29, 7:30pm. $6-$15.

Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 8985152, www.csuchico.edu/hfa.

Theater A HEART LAID BARE: See Thursday Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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string quartet at the famed Julliard School of Music. Su, 10/30, 2-4pm. $10-$32. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Theater THE RED LAMP: See Friday Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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Special Events HAUNTED HOUSE & TREAT STREET DANCE PARTY: Halloween dance party geared for kids in the theater’s wood room, with Halloween music, snacks, candy and guided tours up to the haunted attic. M, 10/31, 2-6pm. $5 per child.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

TREAT STREET: Nearly 100 downtown business will be offering treats (including candy alternatives ) and activities include costume contests with prize packages valued $100-$250 each. M, 10/31, 2-5pm. Free.

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Special Events COSMIC HORROR STORIES: Tiara Diamond, NASA

Music THE ECLECTIC ORGAN: Thomas Mellan, a rising star in the organ world, performing works from Cléambault, Mozart, Messiaen, Schumann, Liszt and Johann Sebastian Bach on Chico State’s Centennial Organ. Su, 10/30, 2pm. $6-$15. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/hfa.

VERONA QUARTET: This young and vibrant string quartet is the current graduate resident

WICKED HALLOWEEN PARTY: Live music by Katrina Rodriguez, snacks and free esoteric readings available. Costumes are encouraged, and those who bring a beverage will be entered into a raffle. Sa, 10/29, 8pm. Moonstone Artist Collective, 835 Main St.

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Postdoctoral Program Fellow at the Goddard Space Flight Center, presents the final lecture of the 2016 Museum Without Walls series. W, 11/2, 7:30-8:30pm. $3/free for members and students. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade, (530) 898-4121, www.csu chico.edu/gateway.

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WICKED GOOD TIME No holiday offers as wide of a range of celebratory possibilities as Halloween. On one end of the spectrum you have treats for the kids, with events like Treat Street, Monday, Oct. 31, where downtown businesses serve up sweets to a parade of costumed little ones. And on the dark side, there are many tricks in which to indulge—from ChicoWeen on Oct. 31 (with music by Smokey the Groove and friends) at Lost on Main to the Zombie Stomp on Saturday, Oct. 29 (with music by Bahapki) at the Norton Buffalo Hall in Paradise. In the middle is a rich vein of spookiness for both young and old with good, dirty fun like the Asylum of the Dead haunted house in Chico and the zombie bloodbath on the Zombie Wrecking Crew bus in Oroville.

See This Week (pages 22-24), Nightlife (page 26) and this week’s cover story (page 18) for more info.

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10/27-11/26. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Wide Open

Spaces, featuring large-scale Janet Turner prints with photos of the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve by advanced photography students showing the spaces featured in the prints as they exist today. Through 12/10. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

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Dia de los Muertos, Dennis Wickes’ photos from Dia de los Muertos in San Miguel, Mexico, 2015. Through 11/30. 789 Bille Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5673.

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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.

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

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Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

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

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

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

141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chico museum.org.

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

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

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Joe Hilsee (left) as Edgar the Narrator and Rob Wilson as Roderick Usher in the Blue Room’s Poe mashup, Heart Laid Bare.

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Horror or humor?

Poe gets a fresh treatment at Blue Room

Othelends itself to parody more than Gothic horror found in Edgar f all the literary styles, none

Allan Poe’s tales of the macabre.

That may be why Joe Hilsee by chose to write Robert Speer his director’s rober tspe er@ note for the Blue newsrev iew.c om Room Theatre’s production of A Heart Laid Bare Review: as a parody of Heart Laid Bare, that style.

Friday, Oct. 21, at the The horror Blue Room Theatre. in this case, he writes, was that, just five weeks before his troupe was scheduled to mount a new play it “had no script, no cast, merely a looming and gloom-inducing abyss in the calendar that was approaching with an ominous and ceaseless footstep.”

Well, deadlines don’t take footsteps, much less “ominous and ceaseless” ones, but that’s Gothichorror parody for you.

Fortunately, Hilsee continues,“the rare and radiant” Amber Miller, a core member of the Blue Room troupe, “noticed the look of rank terror in my eye and the quaver of consummate fear in my voice. … ‘Why not Poe?’ she asked with a tone that I am sure she meant as reassuring, yet nonetheless it sent a chill so

frightful through my veins, that the vision at once became indelibly etched and scarred within my brain. ‘Yes,’ I whispered. ‘Poe!’” Hilsee goes on in this delirious manner to describe how he and Miller “chopped and hacked and reassembled Poe’s words” to create “a single overriding arc, a unifying narrative that would communicate Poe’s vision of gloom and dread.”

That “unifying narrative” is made up of scenes and images from two Poe short stories, “The Fall of the House of Usher” and “The Tell-Tale Heart,” along with elements from four of his poems, including “The Raven.”

“The Fall of the House of Usher” provides the framework.

The story’s narrator, here called Edgar (and played by Hilsee, who’s made up to look like Poe), has been summoned by his boyhood friend Roderick Usher (Rob Wilson) to the foreboding “mansion of gloom” where he and his twin sister Madeline (Julia Rauter) are both suffering from mysterious and likely fatal mental disorders.

They are being cared for by a Nurse (Miller, costumed in a nun’s habit).

Poe’s story contains virtually no dialogue. It’s almost all narration, and on the rare occasions when Roderick speaks, it’s in whole paragraphs. While the

new play contains a smattering of dialogue, placed there apparently during the reassembling process, it’s not enough to lighten the ponderousness of the text, especially Edgar’s long descriptions of events and his own fearful and horrified reaction to them.

Hilsee, one of Chico’s finest actors, doesn’t hold back; we watch as his Edgar becomes an emotional wreck as he witnesses the terrible demise of Roderick and Madeline and the House of Usher.

But his perfervid narration, and the moaning and groaning it demands, is so overwrought that it verges on parody, and I, for one, sometimes felt like laughing. Perhaps that was the creators’ intention.

The interpolation of a reading of “The Raven” into the middle of the Usher tale serves mostly to point out the awkwardness of trying to tear apart and then reassemble selections from several of Poe’s works. I searched for a “unifying narrative” and couldn’t find it.

That said, one has to admire the courage of the Blue Room troupe.

They took a big risk, memorized a boatload of lines, and came up with something that’s fresh and audacious and either funny or macabre, depending on your taste and your fondness for Poe’s unique brand of Gothic horror. And it’s just in time for Halloween. □

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NIGHTLIFE BOOMBOX CARTEL Tonight, Oct. 27 Senator Theatre

THURSDAY 10/27—WEDNESDAY 11/2 Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St., (530) 895-3888.

BONEYARD BLUES: Veteran Chico musicians playing blues on the patio. F,

10/28, 7-9pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road, (530) 899-7070.

HARVEST BALL: Chico jam rock legends Electric Circus join fellow locals Swamp Zen, Dylan’s Dharma and Pretty Brunette for this annual harvest/Halloween-weekend party. F, 10/28, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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BOOMBOX CARTEL: DJ/producer duo from Monterrey, Mexico with a hybrid EDM sound all their own. Lemay, Isaac Lee and Jaxx open the show. Th, 10/27, 8pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St., (530) 898-1497, www.jmax productions.net.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

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.

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage

blues and swing. Every other Th. Farm

HER TRAGIC MISTAKE & THE EMPTY GATE: Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 3432056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

LEFTY’S BLUES JAM: Monthly blues jam.

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

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

Chico band channeling the vibe of gothic, new wave and post-punk bands like The Cure, Bauhaus and Joy Division gets weird with fellow local sad-pop band The Empty Gate. F, 10/28, 9pm. $8. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

HOT BUTTERED RUM: San Francisco Americana string band comes to town for a show benefiting the Grange School of Adaptive Agriculture. Boston bluegrass singer Peter Rowan will also be on hand. F, 10/28, 6:30pm. $35. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 895-1976.

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.

THE DEVIL’S MUSIC

Harvest traditions come in many flavors. There are the celebrations of freshly picked crops, with sleepy-eyed twirlers cutting loose on the dance floor while the buds dry in the hills (8th Annual Harvest Ball, Friday, Oct. 28, at Lost on Main with Swamp Zen, Dylan’s Dharma, Electric Circus and more). And, there are the rowdier rituals, where pagan revelers sniff glue and set the fields on fire, stomping around and around and shouting toasts to the dark half of the year (Duffy’s Halloween with Pinhead, Wild Gift and Skin Peaks, Saturday, Oct. 29, at Duffy’s Tavern).

LOSE YOUR ILLUSION: Tribute to leg-

endary rock band Guns ’N’ Roses. F, 10/28, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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

MONSTER MASH VINTAGE HALLOWEEN DANCE: Vintage Halloween party and dance with East Coast swing dance lessons and costume “Dance Off” with prizes. F, 10/28, 7-11pm. $7 dance/$10 dance with lesson (members free).

Studio One, 707 Wall St., (530) 636-0326, www.chicovintagenights.com.

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

SCHWOGTOBERFEST: A mega-bill of local and regional hip-hop including Esquire Ali, Uncle Pill, Nsmokiee, Dee Dot Jones, Basslinedave, Maroon tha Goon, Ndgo Sosa, Hound Beats and Pervert. F, 10/28, 7pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

UNPLUGGED OPEN MIC/JAM: Hosted by

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

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Chico for a night of dance fusion alongside Arcata-based soul, funk and R&B band Object Heavy. Sa, 10/29, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

BIG BAD BOOGIE ROCK: Supercharged party band playing high-energy retro funk and rock from the ’70s and ’80s.

Sa, 10/29, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls

AFROLICIOUS: One of San Francisco’s

most acclaimed live bands returns to

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

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Ryan Stiles Greg Proops Jeff B. Davis Joel Murray Thursday, November 3 | 7:30 p.m.

David Serdaris Humorist Author NPR Radio Host Past life as an elf Saturday, November 12 | 7:30 p.m.

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reunite for one last show. Aberrance, Blood Cabana and Lingering Torment open. Sa, 10/29, 7:30pm. $6 in advance.

1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

DRIVER: Paradise band playing classic

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ZOMBIE STOMP: Celebrate Halloween at the newly named Norton Buffalo Hall (formerly the Paradise Grange) with live music by Bahapki, costume contest and Halloween-themed snacks.

Sa, 10/29, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive in Paradise, (530) 877-4995.

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THE POSEYS: Husband-and-wife duo DUFFY’S HALLOWEEN: Halloween cover night with Pinhead doing the Ramones, Wild Gift (featuring members of Severance Package) playing X and Skin Peaks playing a special cover set. Sa, 10/29, 9pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

FAIRLADY: Seattle garage rock band joins up with locals The Lolos and Tionesta for an eclectic bill. Sa, 10/29, 9pm. $7.

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

HALLOWEEN PARTY: Live country music from Northern Traditionz, costume contest for $250 in gift certificates and many other spooky surprises. Sa, 10/29, 9pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

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

LIVE MUSIC: Live music in a relaxed environment. Sa, 5-8pm through 12/18.

Rock House, 11865 Highway 70 in Yankee Hill, (530) 532-1889.

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

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

WICKED HALLOWEEN PARTY: Live music by Katrina Rodriguez, snacks and free esoteric readings available. Costumes are encouraged, and those who bring a beverage will be entered into a

playing a wide assortment of swing, jazz and blues. Every other Su, 4:306:30pm through 1/1. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, (530) 343-2056, www.farmstarpizza.com.

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

SUPER SPOOKY SMASHED SPELLING BEE: Adult, drinking game-style spelling bee for $25 in prizes. Hosted by Ottis McTugboat. Su, 10/30, 7pm. No cover.

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

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TALENT SHOW: Jan. 28, at the El Rey Theatre ART SHOW: Jan. 26-28 (reception Jan. 26), at 1078 Gallery With prizes, celebrity judges, live music, and featured weird performers.

Artists of every style of performing and visual arts are eligible to participate. Must be 18+. Deadline for submissions is Dec. 14.

Visit www.facebook.com/keepchicoweird for complete submission guidelines.

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swing, blues and jazz from local hus-

band-and-wife duo. W, 11/2, 6:30-8:30pm. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000

CHICO-WEEN: Loco locals come out to play some Halloween grooves with sets from Smokey The Groove, High Strangeness, Mad Tantra and Bogart The Monster. M, 10/31, 9pm. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

Notre Dame Blvd., (530) 342-8500.

STAND-UP COMEDY: Sets from touring comedians Jim Bruce and Donald Lacy.

W, 11/2, 8pm. No cover. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville, (530) 534-9892, www.goldcountry casino.com.

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SWING DAMES: Harmony trio who, along with a four-piece band, travel to military bases all around the world entertaining the men and women of the US armed services. W, 11/2, 6pm. $10 show/$40 dinner and show.

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

BLUES NIGHT: Live weekly blues music

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

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

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LIVE JAZZ: Eat pizza and enjoy live jazz

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

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

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

BLEEDING OUT

It’s been eight years since one of Chico’s heaviest metal bands last shredded. Fresh off winning the 2008 CAMMIE for Best Metal Act, Blood of Cain disappeared into the ether without a proper send-off.

So, this Halloween season, the dudes have pulled it together for an actual final show, Saturday, Oct. 29, at 1078 Gallery. Current local metal crews Aberrance, Blood Cabana and Lingering Torment open.

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

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In this Polish horror-thriller, Piotr (Itay Tiran), aka “Python,” has come from Britain to marry Zaneta (Agnieszka Zulewska) in rural Poland at a house that has been in her family for generations.

Zaneta and her roistering brother Jasny (Tomasz Schuchardt) give him a warm and friendly welcome, but her crusty father (Andrzej Grabowski) withholds full approval, and soon Piotr is glimpsing strange and unsettling things amid the shrubs and trees behind the somewhat run-down main house. An energetically loopy physician (Adam Woronowicz), an elderly but not entirely uninspired teacher (Wlodzimierz Press) and an oddly passive priest (Cezary Kosinski) all contribute to the emerging madness even as they seek to promote one kind of “balance” or another. With special help from the brilliantly gloomy cinematography of Pawel Flis, the late Marcin Wrona, who directed and co-wrote (with Pawel Maslona), has conjured up an intensely atmospheric ghost story that also serves as a stingingly effective vision of Poland as a dark forest deeply haunted by the very restless ghosts of its political and religious past. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The Dressmaker

A warm story of a cranky old widower and his family of neighbors

A Lassgård) comes off as a supersized version of the standard-issue grumpy old man. He’s a serial

t first, the eponymous Ove (burly, moonfaced Rolf

scoffer, an apparent loner, rather stand-offish and not much inclined to socialize, let alone by “make nice.”

Juan-Carlos Soon enough, however, we see Selznick that his mostly younger acquaintances, at work and in his tidy little suburban neighborhood, tolerate him, more or less, both as local eccentric and as resident curmudgeon. And through flashbacks and A Man Called Ove everyday occurrences, we begin to Opens Friday, Oct. 28. understand why there’s so much Starring rolf Lassgård, sorrow mixed in with his amusingly bahar Pars and Ingrid quarrelsome quibbles and comengvoll. Directed by Hannes Holm. Pageant plaints. theatre. rated PG-13.

When we first meet Ove, he’s arguing with a store clerk who’s explaining to him why he can’t use a 2-for-1 coupon on the purchase of a single bouquet of flowers. Shortly afterward, we learn that the flowers are for his weekly visit to the grave of his wife, Sonja (a glowing Ida Engvoll). Flashbacks show us that Sonja remains a fresh and intense presence in Ove’s memories, a half-decade after her death from cancer.

And the same thing seems to be true with the one distinctly heroic figure in Ove’s life, his father (Stefan Gödicke), who also died relatively young.

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off from work, by the two feckless millennials who’ve inherited the small factory at which he’s worked since adolescence. And that crisis seems to dovetail with troubles at the housing complex: there’s the growing threat of a hostile corporate takeover, and on a more personal level, Ove seems particularly discombobulated when an oddball neighbor (goofy Tobias Almborg) suddenly returns with a new wife, a charmingly pragmatic immigrant woman named Parvaneh (Bahar Pars), with two young children of her own in tow.

Parvaneh, in the story’s relatively upbeat second half, and Sonja, in the flashbacks, are the film’s saving graces. They are also the prime emissaries of the warmhearted goodwill that emerges as the film’s presiding sentiment. The psychology of each woman’s rather angelic attachment to Ove is never very clear, but the story (adapted from Fredrik Backman’s bestselling novel) and the performances of Pars and Ingvoll generate currents of emotion that seem to sustain the whole enterprise.

The Swedish film, however, is probably at its best in the earlier portions when it’s flirting with tragicomedy of a rather rambunctious sort. After all, A Man Called Ove also puts across a number of brash, serio-comic motifs—Ove’s farcical series of suicide attempts, an ongoing feud over makes of car (Saab vs.

Audi!), Ove’s deep-seated disdain for “the whiteshirts” (bureaucrats), petty-minded power struggles at the homeowners’ association, etc. Plus, the cat that lives with Ove registers as one of the film’s most distinctive characters (and one of its best actors, as well). □

Finally, an American release for this 2015 Australian comedy/drama starring Kate Winslet as a seamstress who, after traveling abroad to learn the art of haute couture, returns to Australia and transforms the residents of her rural hometown.

Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Rachel (Emily Blunt), musing about her habit of scrutinizing and speculating on the lives and character of the people she sees in passing from her seat on the commuter train she rides each day. The early stream of images anchored to Rachel’s voice-over narration seems to put us inside Rachel’s mind in ways that hint at confusions and contradictions in her account of things and nudge us toward questions about what is “real” in Rachel’s story (and in the film itself). Those questions apply to Rachel in particular, but also to a half-dozen other characters who figure prominently in her account of the devastation she experiences after an acrimonious divorce from husband Tom (Justin Theroux). Rachel’s studious voyeurism is especially focused on two neighboring women: Anna (Rebecca Ferguson), who is now married to Tom, and Megan (Haley Bennett), Anna’s nanny. By the time the whole thing settles down to the business of being a bait-and-switch murder mystery, those characters and more are all entangled in the film’s routinely deceptive brand of character drama. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —J.C.S.

Jack Reacher: Never Go Back

Tom Cruise is back as the title character, a former military police officer who is now on the run from authorities as he tries to clear his name and uncover the truth behind a government conspiracy. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Keeping Up With the Joneses

Zach Galifianakis and Isla Fisher star as a suburban couple living next door to the Joneses (Jon Hamm and Gal Gadot), a seemingly normal couple who turn out to be secret agents. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Kevin Hart: What Now?

Two classic horror flicks for the price of one, Saturday, Oct. 29: Carnival of Souls (2 p.m.) and Night of the Living Dead (3:45 p.m.). Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Comedian Kevin Hart’s latest stand-up was filmed in front of an intimate crowd of 50,000, outdoors at Philly’s Financial Field.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Inferno

Film three in the Dan Brown DaVinci Code series finds Harvard professor/symbologist Robert Langdon (Tom Hanks) awoken from amnesia in Italy by a doctor (Felicity Jones) whom he joins in a race against time to save the world from a deadly virus. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Ouija: Origin of Evil

The second entry in the Ouija franchise is set in 1967 Los Angeles, where a widow and her two daughters scam people by conducting fake seances. When a Ouija board enters the picture, things suddenly become all too real. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Now playing The Accountant

Ben Affleck stars as a math whiz who cooks the books for criminal organizations, and when a treasury agent (J.K. Simmons) starts sniffing around, people start to die.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Boo! A Madea Halloween

Tyler Perry is back in drag again as the larger-than-life Madea, this time fending off troublemakers on Halloween. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13

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The Magnificent Seven

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Middle School: The Worst Years of My Life Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children

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

Storks

Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

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underwear and eating cereal out of the box at 2:30 story and on a weekend photo by afternoon. Yep, a Mark Lore nice cut of meat, ma rk l@ a great beer newsrev iew.c om and the perfect (and, in my case, overthought-out) music selection, and I’m more than content. I definitely grill more during the spring and summer months … but there’s no way in hell a little rain is going to keep me off the coals.

As fall has quickly arrived, and the weather has taken a turn, I’m still good for about one ’cue a week. I recently grilled up a couple of boneless pork chops, and a few days ago, I did a couple of boneless, skinless chicken breasts.

For both I used my tried-and-true marinade, with beer and chili garlic sauce, which gives everything a real kick in the pants. (I’ve also used it on beef, so it works on any kind of meat, and even vegetables.)

While most styles of beer will work, I find that IPAs give the marinade a more robust flavor. And the brown sugar—something I use in a lot of my sauces and marinades— offers a nice, sweet counterbalance to the chili garlic sauce. Of course, the longer you let it marinate, the better (to a certain extent; you can overdo it), but I’ve thrown this together in an hour or two and the

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meat was plenty flavorful.

Now, allow me to step atop my soapbox. Part of the joy of grilling is the process; that said, I don’t do gas grills. Not only is charcoal a better choice as far as flavor, the extra time it takes to heat up the briquettes in a chimney gives me a little more time for prep, for flipping the record, and for cracking open a fresh beer.

Like I said, music is just as important to the grilling process as the flame—not what you listen to, but that you’re just listening to something. The Kinks always work for me (1971’s Muswell Hillbillies was my go-to grillin’ music for a while). I enjoy old country, too— Buck Owens, Merle Haggard, Willie Nelson. Most recently, I decided to go with side one of Nazareth’s Hair of the Dog—on repeat—because it’s a righteous slab of hot rock, and “Love Hurts” will always rule.

So get to it. Here’s to doing summer all the time—minus the triple-digit heat that makes me cry like a baby.

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Hot and Hoppy Marinade Ingredients: 2-3 tablespoons olive oil 2-3 heaping tablespoons chili garlic sauce (or 2 teaspoons cayenne) 1/3 12-ounce IPA (I used Mosaic eruption from Mazama brewing co. out of corvallis, Ore.) 2 tablespoons brown sugar 1 tablespoon crushed garlic 3 teaspoons cumin 2 teaspoons oregano 2-3 pinches salt cracked pepper to taste

Directions: Mix olive oil, beer and chili garlic sauce in a 6-by-4inch dish (about 1 inch deep). Add dry ingredients and garlic. Stir until well-mixed. Taste, and add more cracked pepper if needed.

Drop the meat into the marinade, refrigerate and let sit for one or two hours. Grill it up, and serve with your favorite sides. □

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IN THE MIX www.putintrump.org Of all the worrisome aspects of the very real prospect that Donald Trump may be elected president of the United States, none stands out more than his relationship with Russian strongman Vladimir Putin and his support for Russia’s latter-day expansionism. Trump has praised Putin’s “strong leadership,” questioned the value of America’s historic alliance with NATO, invited Russian hackers to meddle in the presidential election, and hired campaign staffers with financial ties to pro-Russian politicians in Ukraine. Less often discussed, however, are Trump’s own financial ties to Russia. While it’s true that he hasn’t invested in Russia, as he’s said, it’s fact that Russia has invested heavily in him. Not only have Russian investors lent him hundreds of millions of dollars, they also have purchased many of his expensive residences. This website, funded by left-of-center billionaire Rob Glaser, exists solely to highlight Trump’s Russian connections, and it does an excellent job, believe me.

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From Roadhouse to Your House—Live!

Terry Hanck Band Vizztone After 16 years of playing at the California State Fair each summer, tenor sax man Terry Hanck finally got around to documenting one of his visits in July 2015 when he and his longtime band (Johnny “Cat” Soubrand, guitar; Tim Wagar, bass; Butch Cousins, drums) were joined by ex-Robert Cray pianist/organist Jimmy Pugh. From Roadhouse to Your House gets right down to business: Hanck’s own “Good Good Rockin’ Goin’ On” is a seven-plus-minute intro to the musical wonders that make up the disc’s 13 tracks. His powerful sax rips on “Flatfoot Sam,” a high-energy hard-luck tale primarily of Sam’s financial problems, that’s also enlivened by Pugh and Soubrand’s contributions.

Hanck’s soulful singing is as forthright as his playing and mixed in with the blues is a batch of original songs like the ballad “Smilin’ Through My Tears” and the uptempo “Cupid Must Be Stupid.” He and the band really jump on Louis Jordan’s lively “Ain’t That Just Like a Woman.” Hanck’s at his best in front of an audience, and this CD doesn’t disappoint.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF october 27, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): I invite you

to fantasize about what your four greatgrandmothers and four great-grandfathers may have been doing on November 1, 1930. What? You have no idea how to begin? You don’t even know their names? If that’s the case, I hope you’ll remedy your ignorance. Your ability to create the future you want requires you to learn more about where and whom you came from.

Halloween costume suggestion: your most interesting ancestor.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At any

one time, more than 2 million frozen human embryos are stored in tissue banks throughout Europe and North America.

When the time is right, their owners retrieve them and bring them to term. That’s the first scenario I invite you to use as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks.

Here’s a second scenario: Scotch whisky is a potent mind-altering substance. Any particular batch must mature for at least three years, and may be distilled numerous times. There are currently 20 million barrels of the stuff mellowing in Scottish warehouses. And what do these two scenarios have to do with you? It’s time to tap into resources that you’ve been saving in reserve—that haven’t been ripe or ready until now. Halloween costume suggestions: a woman who’s nine months pregnant; a blooming rose or sunflower; ripe fruit.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): To create a

bottle of cabernet sauvignon, a winemaker needs about 700 grapes. Compare this process with rain-making. When water vapor that’s high in the sky becomes dense enough, it condenses into tiny pearls of liquid called cloud droplets. If the humidity rises even further, a million of these babies might band together to form a single raindrop that falls to earth.

And what does this have to do with your life? I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will have both an affinity and a skill for processes that resemble wine-making and rain-making. You’ll need a lot of raw material and energetic effort to produce a relatively small marvel—but that’s exactly as it should be. Halloween costume suggestion: a raindrop or bottle of wine.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Some

Brazilians eat the heads of piranhas in the belief they’re aphrodisiacs. In Zimbabwe, women may make strategic use of baboon urine to enhance their allure. The scientific name for Colombia’s leaf-cutter ant is hormiga culona, translated as “fat-assed ant.” Ingesting the roasted bodies of these critters is thought to boost sexual desire.

Since you’re in a phase when tapping into your deepest erotic longings will be healthy and educational, you may want to adopt elements of the aforementioned love drugs to create your Halloween costume. Here are other exotic aphrodisiacs from around the world that you might be inspired by: asparagus; green M&Ms; raw oysters; wild orchids; horny goat weed.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you know how

to repair a broken zipper or patch a hole in your bicycle tire? Are you familiar with the art of caulking a bathtub or creating a successful budget? Can you compose a graceful thank-you note, cook a hearty soup from scratch or overcome your pride so as to reconcile with an ally after an argument? These are the kinds of tasks I trust you will focus on in the coming weeks.

It’s time to be very practical and concrete.

Halloween costume suggestion: Mr. or Ms. Fix-It.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In the film

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Arnold Schwarzenegger played a benevolent android who traveled here from the future. As a strong, silent action hero, he didn’t need to say much. In fact, he earned $21,429 for every word he uttered. I’m hoping your speech will pack a comparable punch in the coming days. My reading of the astrological omens suggests that your persuasiveness should be at a peak. You’ll have an exceptional ability to say what you mean and mean what you say. Use this superpower with flair and precision!

Halloween costume suggestions: ancient

by rob brezsny Greek orator Demosthenes; Martin Luther King Jr.; Virginia Woolf; Sojourner Truth; rapper MC Lyte; Winston Churchill.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): It’s the pros-

perity-building phase of your cycle. Let’s celebrate! Let’s brainstorm! Are there rituals you can create to stimulate the financial lobes of your imagination, thereby expediting your cash flow? Here are a few ideas: (1) Glue a photo of yourself on a $20 bill. (2) Make a wealth shrine in your home.

Stock it with symbols of specific thrills you can buy for yourself when you have more money. (3) Halloween costume suggestions: a giant bar of gold; a banker carrying a briefcase full of big bills; Tony Stark; Lady Mary Crawley; Jay Gatsby; Lara Croft; the Yoruban wealth goddess Aje.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During this

Halloween season, you have cosmic permission to be a bigger, bolder and extrabeguiling version of yourself. I trust you will express your deep beauty with precise brilliance and imagine your future with superb panache and wander wherever the hell you feel like wandering. It’s time to be stronger than your fears and wilder than your trivial sins. Halloween costume suggestion: the superhero version of yourself.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): I

won’t offer you the cliché, “When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.” Instead, I’ll provide alternatives. How about this, from the video game Portal 2: “When life gives you lemons, don’t make lemonade.

Make life take the lemons back! Get mad!

Say, ‘I don’t want your damn lemons!’”

Or you could try this version, from my friend Barney: “When life gives you lemons, draw faces on them like Tom Hanks did on his volleyball in the movie Cast Away, and engage them in sexy philosophical conversation.” Or consider this Brazilian proverb: “When life gives you lemons, make caipirinhas.” (Caipirinha is Brazil’s national cocktail.) Suggestion: Play around with these themes to create your Halloween costume.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): All

of us are creators and destroyers. It’s fun and healthy to add fresh elements to our lives, but it’s also crucial to dispose of things that hurt and distort us. Even your body is a hotbed of both activities, constantly killing off old cells and generating new ones. But in my understanding, you are now in a phase when there’s far more creation than destruction. Enjoy the exalted buzz! Halloween costume suggestions: a creator god or goddess, like the Greeks’ Gaia or Prometheus; Rainbow-Snake from the Australian Aborigines; Unkulunkulu from the Zulus; or Coyote, Raven, or Spider Grandmother from indigenous North American tribes.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1938,

a chef named Ruth Wakefield dreamed up a brilliant invention: chocolate chip cookies. She sold her recipe to the Nestlé company in return for $1 and a lifetime supply of chocolate. Maybe she was happy with that arrangement, but I think she cheated herself. And so I offer her action as an example of what you should not do.

During the next 10 months, I expect you will come up with many useful innovations and intriguing departures from the way things have always been done. Make sure you get full value in return for your gifts!

Halloween costume ideas: Thomas Edison; Marie Curie; Hedy Lamarr; Leonardo da Vinci; Temple Grandin; George Washington Carver; Mark Zuckerberg.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Speaking

on behalf of the cosmic powers, I authorize you to escape dull realities and go rambling through the frontier. Feel free to fantasize twice as hard and wild as you normally do.

Avoid literalists and realists who think you should be more like them. This is not a time to fuss over exacting details, but rather to soar above the sober nonsense and see as far as you can. You have permission to exult in the joys of wise innocence. Halloween costume suggestions: bohemian poet; mad scientist; carefree genius; brazen explorer.

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WALTER M BECK 1258 Arch Way Chico, CA 95973.

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DAVE’S TILE CITY, INC. 2694 Foothill Blvd Oroville, CA 95966.

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Signed: DAVID GRESHAM, PRESIDENT Dated: October 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001256 Published: October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

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

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VICTOR E THOMAS 3083 6th Street Biggs, CA 95917.

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Signed: VICTOR E. THOMAS Dated: September 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000549 Published: October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

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WILLIAM BRADLY WHITE 1775 Bridge Street Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WILLIAM BRADLY WHITE Dated: October 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001241 Published: October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FEATHER RIVER PROPERTIES, FEATHER RIVER REALTY at 681 Oro Dam Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

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Signed: KRISTYN MARQUEZ Dated: October 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001240 Published: October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

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LAURA LEA CHANDLER 2495 Esperanza Ave Palermo, CA 95968.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAURA LEA CHANDLER Dated: October 3, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001227 Published: October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

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SYMMETRY ENTERPRISES INC 1424 Manchester Road Chico, CA 95926.

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JACUZZI LYDON LTD 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DANIEL JACUZZI, PRESIDENT Dated: October 4, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001231 Published: October 20,27, November 3,10, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SALON CONCEPTS at 6607 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

BARBARA J RYAN 4333 Pentz Rd 4B Paradise, CA 95969.

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ROBERT RINEHART 1560 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: ELAINE RINEHART Dated: October 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001239 Published: October 20,27, November 3,10, 2016

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BETH BELLO 21 Tarn Circle Oroville, CA 95966.

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RICE VILLAGE LLC 1950 E 20th St. Ste 213 Chico, CA 95928.

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JACUZZI LYDON LTD 1101 El Monte Ave Chico, CA 95928.

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NOTICES 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.

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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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHERINE DIANE HOGAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MALLORY ANN OJAN Proposed name: MALLORY ANN KINSEY 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 16, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02027 Published October 13,20,27, November 3, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DARCI D’ANN MARIE PECK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KRISTIAN MICHAEL MERRILL-CRANDELL, BRENDEL LYRIC MERRILL PARDUE Proposed name: KRISTIAN MICHAEL PECK, BRENDEL LYRIC PECK 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 18, 2016 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBD The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: August 30, 2016 Case Number: 16CV00980 Published October 20,27, November 3,10 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARKUS HEDRICK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARKUS ANTHONY HENDRICK Proposed name: MARKUS ANTHONY JULIAN 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: December 2, 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 12,2016 Case Number: 16CV01990 Published October 27, November 3,10,17, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MOHAMMAD ALI filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOHAMMAD ALI Proposed name: MOHAMMAD-ALI NAIM 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: December 9, 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: October 18, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02301 Published October 27, November 3,10,17, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner REBECCA BARKER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DENNIS E BAKER DRAKE D BAKER SOPHIA LORRAINE BARKER Proposed name: DENNIS ELLIS BARKER DRAKE DOUGLAS BARKER SOPHIA LORRAINE BARKER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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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: December 9, 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: October 17, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02346 Published October 27, November 3,10,17, 2016

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: JANICE H. LUCCHESI 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.

Date: December 6, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Attorney for petitioner: W. Z. JEFFERSON BROWN Attorney at Law 1 Governors Lane Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-4412 Case Number: 16PR00357 Published: October 27, November 3,10, 2016

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES RAY NIMMO JR., JIM NIMMO To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES RAY NIMMO JR., JIM NIMMO A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SARAH GAGNEBIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SARAH GAGNEBIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 15, 2016 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Petitioner: SARAH GAGNEBIN 398 Lonely Oak Street Yuba City, CA 95991 Case Number: 16PR00352 Published: October 27, November 3,10, 2016

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3358 Canyon Oaks Ter 392 Brookside Dr 240 Speedway Ave 1758 Vallombrosa Ave 10684 Player Ln 2350 Burlingame Dr 880 Woodmont Ct 40 Quadra Ct 2428 Alamo Ave 3157 Middletown Ave 1045 Sir William Ct

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SQ. FT.

2973 Gallatin Gtwy 201 Degarmo Dr 256 E 1St Ave 2965 Bancroft Dr 709 San Antonio Dr 70 Lexington Dr 7 San Pablo Ct 114 Degarmo Dr 2435 Floral Ave 948 Christi Ln 263 White Ave

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SOLD $315,000

Senior condo, 2 bed/2 bth, 1,300 sq ft, 1-car garage, nice unit w/updated kitchen ....................................... $195,000

AMBER GROVE, 4 bedrooms, 3 baths, 3 car garage, family room plus living room, 2151 sq ft, $425k

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Darling Charmer! 2 bed/1 bth, 816 sq ft open floor plan, garden spaces galore, covered carport!.................. $178,500

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Longfellow Area, Lovely 4 bed/2 bth, 1,824 sq ft with large yard ................................................................ $284,900

G Avenues 3 bed/2 bth, 1,678 sq ft, backyard w/inground pool ........ $359,900 IN Yesteryear charmerPE withND today’s updates.

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the following houses were sold in butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of october 10, 2016 – october 14, 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

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

3059 Whistler Way

Chico

$272,000

3/2

1,213

5461 Alpine Ct

Paradise

$350,000

3/2

2,336

2613 Monterey St

Chico

$271,000

4/2

1,501

1441 Wagstaff Rd

Paradise

$306,000

2/2

1,300

2568 White Ave

Chico

$248,000

3/2

1,127

1471 Freestone Ct

Paradise

$270,000

3/2

1,784

1512 E Lassen Ave

Chico

$245,000

3/2

1,119

1820 Bille Rd

Paradise

$250,000

2/2

1,290

1544 Warner St

Chico

$240,000

2/1

976

687 Van Fossen Rd

Paradise

$236,000

5/3

2,061

917 Sheridan Ave

Chico

$240,000

3/2

1,260

568 Crestwood Dr

Paradise

$219,000

4/2

2,642

1412 N Cherry St 6

Chico

$112,000

2/1

864

544 Casa Dr

Paradise

$200,000

2/2

1,344

2952 Grand View Ave

Oroville

$239,000

4/2

2,352

5366 Sawmill Rd

Paradise

$190,000

2/2

1,040

2413 Yard St

Oroville

$155,000

3/1

1,841

2349 Stearns Rd

Paradise

$165,000

3/2

1,484

3757 Oro Bangor Hwy

Oroville

$120,000

3/1

1,105

1196 Arlene Way

Paradise

$145,000

2/1

1,145

5862 Crestmoor Dr

Paradise

$355,000

3/3

1,993

6752 Clark Rd

Paradise

$121,000

3/2

1,194

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1653 Ginny LN

PARA

2/2

1152

$125,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

482 E 5th Av

CHIC

1/1

620

$115,000

Dan Bosch

321-8330

5912 Pentz RD

PARA

2/1

1092

$130,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

536 Plumas Av

OROV

2/1

806

$129,000

Tara Taylor

518-2012

945 Bille RD

PARA

2/1

999

$142,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2934 Pennyroyal Dr

CHIC

3/1

1,103

$160,000

Dan Bosch

321-8330

6198 West Wagstaff

PARA

3/2

1530

$169,000

Shannan Turner

872-3822

15484 Nopel Av

FORA

2/2

1,338

$169,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

13650 W Park DR

MAGA

3/2

1357

$174,500

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1714 Elm St

CHIC

2/1

810

$205,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

555 Vallombrosa AV #66

CHIC

2/1

902

$187,000

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

1215 Joy Wy

WILL

3/2

1,405

$217,500

Vickie Miller

864-1199

6133 Skyway

PARA

Comm

2958

$189,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

1185 E Lassen Av

CHIC

3/1

1,456

$224,900

Dan Bosch

321-8330

1024 Maple Park DR

PARA

2/2

1085

$199,900

Susan Doyle

877-7733

711 W Cedar St

WILL

2/1

2,478

$225,000

Vickie Miller

864-1199

438 Plantation DR

PARA

2/2

1308

$219,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

39 Ranchita Wy

CHIC

2/1

985

$229,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1865 June WY

PARA

3/2

1220

$224,900

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

396 E 1st Av

CHIC

3/2

1,376

$229,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

920 W 11th Av

CHIC

2/1

1,176

$259,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

13685 Endicot CR

MAGA

2/2

2004

$249,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901 1048 Southampton Dr

CHIC

3/2

1,402

$269,900

Blake Anderson

864-0151

13983 Dobbs CT

MAGA

3/3

2122

$254,900

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

1289 Palmetto Av

CHIC

4/3

1,802

$314,500

Dan Bosch

321-8330

766 Edwards LN #A & B

PARA

3/2

2269

$270,000

Christina Souther

520-1032

406 Cherry St

CHIC

3/2

1,429

$355,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5424 Edgewood LN

PARA

4/2

1882

$319,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

5954 Hazel Wy

PARA

3/2

2,514

$369,500

Bob Contreras

519-9801

61 Sutter RD

PARA

3/3

2344

$349,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

6390 Steiffer Rd

MAGA

3/2

2,115

$380,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

5906 Hazel WY

PARA

6/4

4522

$355,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1105 Kentfield Rd

CHIC

3/3

2,063

$399,900

Dan Bosch

321-8330

6095 Timber Ridge DR

MAGA

3/3

3242

$369,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

3547 Shadowtree Ln

CHIC

4/3

2,795

$499,900

Shane Collins

518-1413

5247 Laguna CT

PARA

3/2

2260

$419,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

1477 Flag Creek Rd

OROV

3/2

1,250

$750,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

4620 Sandpiper LN

PARA

4/2.5

2991

$599,000

Christina Souther

520-1032

3374 Canyon Oaks Te

CHIC

4/3

3,483

$775,000

Bob Contreras

519-9801

6217 Mountain View DR

PARA

4/3

3190

$645,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

374 Honey Run Rd

CHIC

4/3

3,315

$969,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

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