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National security at stake Americans know that the billionaire class is a threat to the health of our

democracy. We know about the Kochs of the world and their efforts to bend Washington to their will. And so it came as a surprise that so many would vote for a billionaire president who has shown time and again that he’s willing to mow down the little guy, including the many hundreds of small-business owners he didn’t pay while building his financial empire. And now he’s stacking his cabinet with filthy rich cohorts who similarly have documented pasts that include efforts that run counter to the interests of the United States. Perhaps the most troubling pick is Rex Tillerson, the Exxon Mobil CEO Trump has tapped for secretary of state. Tillerson has ties to Russian President Vladimir Putin, a dictator whom Arizona Sen. John McCain called a “butcher, murderer and thug.” One only has to look at the travesty in Aleppo this week to understand those comments. Tillerson’s connections to Putin are further troubling in light of the CIA’s report on the Kremlin’s interference in the U.S. general election. McCain is poised to underscore Tillerson’s conflicts of interest during upcoming confirmation hearings on his appointment. But his Republican colleagues are going to take some prodding to go against Trump. Now isn’t the time for them to be meek. They must put the interests of the country ahead of partisan politics. National security hangs in the balance. □

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Get involved you, don’t get upset, get involved. Dfrightens What are the signs we in the LGBT community

LGBT Pride reception in June at the White House? The other day I went to pick up my lunch from a place I often visit and where I know the staff well. When I arrived, a staffer said to me: “[After the should be looking for? In a recent 60 Minutes interview, Trump said marriage equal- election], I felt really sad for myself and my family. That’s nothing compared to what your community ity is already the law of the land. must feel.” The words just But how about the flowed out of my mouth: “Thank Equality Act, so We remember you, but we’ve been here before that members of our community are feeling invisible and we know how to fight back if necessary. We were here not discriminated and helpless. and fought back during Nixon, against? We then Reagan and Bush. We’re stronger What about all now and more organized.” those executive organized, and Which led me to understand orders President by we did it well. Mark Segal why many in our community Obama signed to over 50 years of age look at this give our commuThe author is an award-winning a little differently. We remember nity what relief he could without commentator in LGbT the Equality Act? The presidentfeeling invisible and helpless. We then organized, media and the author and we did it well. And that is the answer: Get elect promised during his of the memoir And campaign to undo all of Obama’s involved. If this shock creates one thing, it might Then I Danced. very well end the apathy of our community and the EOs on the first day. Does he understand that some have value? realization that our struggle is not simply having cocktail parties and chatting with office holders. It’s Will there be any LGBT appointments to highdoing what this community did well, but no longer level positions in a Trump administration? Or are does: getting in their faces and not allowing them to we to be invisible again in government? And what forget us. □ about the small things like Pride? Will there be an onald Trump is president-elect. If that angers or

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tend to be cheerful, a little nicer and more generous. However, it’s also the time of year when a criminal element surfaces to take advantage of others. Just last week, for example, there were reports of people going door to door in Chico asking for donations for the Second Chance program. The thing is, that Southern California-based nonprofit doesn’t go knocking on doors. Scammers had hijacked the organization’s name and were working their grift in our fair city for at least the second time in recent memory. There also have been reports of stolen packages from front porches, and, soon enough, there will be reports of break-ins. CN&R’s on the lookout for this year’s schemes and we have compiled some tips to help readers fend them off. Here’s some advice from us and the Better Business Bureau: • When buying gifts online, be wary of look-alike websites—that is, URLs that look similar to those of well-known outlets but that are really phony ones out to get credit card numbers. • Don’t fall for phone calls from “friends” or “relatives” claiming to have been in an accident, put in jail or stranded in another country while traveling. Scammers troll obituaries for vital info, such as the names of the deceased’s loved ones. Typically, they target the surviving spouse, mainly elderly folks, by pretending to be a relative who’s in a desperate situation that requires a transfer of funds. • Identity thieves use the Web to target victims, so watch out for things like fake shipping notifications. Do not click on links or open attachments from unknown sources, and never give out personal info. Meanwhile, the Chico Police Department this week is warning residents about the threat of theft during the holidays. Here’s the agency’s advice: • Keep gifts and other pricy items hidden from view—both in your house (close your drapes) and car while you’re out shopping. • Do not leave small valuables behind when you go out of town. • Temporarily stop your newspaper and mail delivery or ask a neighbor to pick them up each day. Put your house lights on a timer. • Keep news that you’re out of town on the downlow, especially when it comes to social media. Take these precautions and enjoy the season. □

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dynamic duo Here’s a short primer on how voting works at the City Council level: A member of the council makes a motion, another member will “second” that motion, and that’s when the full body votes on said motion. But that’s not what happened last week when Chico’s panel voted for Reanette Fillmer to be vice mayor. After Sean Morgan became mayor by unanimous vote, he made a motion for Fillmer to take that role. Crickets. Nobody seconded it. The motion should have died there, but neither staff nor anyone at the dais caught the blunder, including City Clerk Debbie Presson, who called for a vote, and Morgan, who is now the person in charge of leading meetings and making sure such rules are followed. Nominating Fillmer was Morgan’s first official motion as mayor. He biffed it. Mind you, I don’t think there’s any going back. The nomination process was one of the those times when it’s speak now or forever hold your peace. The panel will move forward with Fillmer as vice mayor, but the record will show that Morgan was the only one who thought that was a good idea. Fillmer became vice mayor on a 6-to-1 vote, with Schwab dissenting, which means she got ayes from Karl Ory and Randall Stone. It was big of those progressives to go along with the conservative majority, but I bet they quickly regretted it. Ory, the self-described “newbie,” abstained on a couple of votes that evening. In response, Fillmer, who can’t resist throwing barbs, made a snarky remark while casting her vote (“’cause we’re here to vote—yes”). If you missed Howard Hardee’s report on the meeting, it’s worth checking out (see “All shook up,” Newslines, Dec. 8). My question is, what would have happened if Presson or Morgan had appropriately noted that the motion to nominate Fillmer had failed? The next logical conclusion would be for the nomination of Andrew Coolidge as vice mayor. Considering the conservatives weren’t about to let one of the liberals have the vice mayor gig, Coolidge would have been a lock. If you ask me, he got ripped off. (Although Schwab almost got the nod, since Councilman Mark Sorensen accidentally voted for her—Presson caught that screw-up because it was so unexpected.) If you think about it, the dynamic duo of Morgan and Fillmer makes perfect sense. I mean, this is a year when a vulgarian was elected president of the United States. I don’t think anyone’s surprised that the City Council’s two most immature members are now charged with leadership roles—even if they are largely symbolic considering Chico has a weak-mayor system. Let’s not forget that these two middle-age Chicoans are the ones who have cursed from the dais—Morgan by forgetting his mic was hot (F-bomb) and Fillmer for effect while talking about homelessness (S-bomb). Prior to serving as mayor and vice mayor, Morgan and Fillmer sat next to each other. In those close quarters, they would routinely turn to each other and whisper. Sometimes Fillmer would playfully smack Morgan in the arm. And now, with their promotions, they’ve both simply moved a chair over and will continue to be side-by-side. So, we can look forward to another two years of high school antics. Lucky us.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About the forests Re “Pines imperiled” (Cover story, by Howard Hardee, Dec. 8): It’s sad to see all the trees decimated by the bug kill. The drought has caused a lot of damage. But look at Google Maps, at the devastation of the clear-cuts Sierra Pacific Industries has done from Stirling City to Manton in the last five years. When you cut down trees (timber) at such a massive volume, the pheromones released by damaged trees attract bark beetles. The bugs were already here before the drought. The larger population of woodpeckers— pileated and flickers—increased due to the insect-infested trees. This goes for the stumps and damaged trees left behind by the timber company. The drought has brought a huge die-off. However, if Sierra Pacific Industries had not clear-cut so much acreage, maybe the natural order of the forest would have been able to keep up with the bark beetle outbreak.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 streets. As we drift in this direction, what can we expect to see, other than more shelter-related problems and outright disasters? Contrast Trump Tower—where Donald, Melania and Barron share 30,000 square feet of Rococo splendor—with the Ghost Ship, where dozens of people shared a dilapidated warehouse. (Or, contrast Trump Tower with the 2 to 3 million homeless people, in crowded shelters or under tarps.) We are seeing injustice made visible and “code enforcement” ain’t gonna fix it.

scale in Donald Trump’s favor in states like Wisconsin, Michigan and Pennsylvania, handing to him and his cabinet of billionaires the White House on a silver platter. Recent history proves that voting for third-party obvious losers was a vote for Trump, or, as in the 2000 Florida vote, George W. Bush. (Ralph Nader garnered more than 97,000 votes in the fateful 2000 Florida disaster that Bush won by 537 votes.) In the meantime, good old Bernie bought himself a new $750,000 home. Ray Estes Chico

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‘On a silver platter’ Bernie Sanders [switched his party affiliation to] Democrat, yet the now-fired Debbie WassermanSchultz allowed him to run in the primaries against Hillary Clinton. Add to the recipe in the general election Libertarian Party candidate Gary Johnson and Green Party candidate Jill Stein, and enough votes were cast for these no-chance losers to tip the

Will the Electoral College elect the candidate that won the popular vote by almost 3 million or the guy the Russians want in office? R. Sterling Ogden Chico

We may have gotten lucky on Trump’s pick for the Department of Energy. During the Republican debates in 2012, that was one of three departments that Rick Perry

promised to abolish if he were elected president and the one he couldn’t remember when stating that position. There’s a good chance he’ll forget to go to work.

Buckle up, people Noam Chomsky says that wages— adjusted for inflation—haven’t increased in the U.S. since 1979. I hear that if minimum wage had kept pace with inflation since the ’70s it would now be over $20 per hour. I began working as a mechanic (“technician” is the term Honda prefers) in 1978. So, my entire career has been in a period in which working people got no raises. Years of training, decades of hard work, doing skilled work and making money for my employers never mattered. This is the story of tens of millions of us in this country. We are getting paid less than we were 40 years ago! How can we be surprised when working men and women elect someone who seems different? If the trend doesn’t

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change, we can look forward to some real unpleasantness. As the mechanic in that old ad says, “Pay me now, or pay me later.”

Hostile takeover Have you ever heard of Tammany Hall politics? That organization dominated Democratic politics in New York during the mid-1800s. Its tactics were thuggery and bullying to control the political machine that elected “anointed candidates” into office. I witnessed such a “Tammany Hall” meeting on Dec. 8 at the regular monthly meeting of the Butte County Republican Central Committee! I sat next to the chairman and vice chairman expecting to say the Pledge of Allegiance and a prayer (as we usually do at our meetings). Instead, your senator, Jim Nielsen, took over and called the meeting to order, loudly proclaiming he was installing the new members of this body (elected in June 2016) himself! No parliamentary procedures were followed!

Loud shouts of no! no! followed from the current members of the committee! I, too, was elected in June to be a delegate in 2017, but was appalled to find most of the other delegates were staff members of elected officials! (Current bylaws state that installation of officers and delegates occurs in January, not December!) Methinks this was done by our elected officials to head off possible changes in bylaws preventing staff members from being officers! Dirty politics just got dirtier! Loretta Ann Torres Chico

Correction A story in last week’s issue (see “All shook up,” by Howard Hardee, Dec. 8) incorrectly reported the vote count on the nomination of Reanette Fillmer as the Chico City Council’s vice mayor. The error has been corrected online. —ed.

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On Friday (Dec. 9), former Paradise Police Officer Patrick Feaster was sentenced to 180 days in county jail for involuntary manslaughter in the shooting death of Andrew Thomas last Thanksgiving weekend. Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey had requested that Feaster spend four years behind bars. “This is an extraordinarily serious case involving a highly trained police officer killing an unarmed man who was attempting to exit a dangerously overturned vehicle,” Ramsey wrote in his sentencing argument, which he shared with the CN&R. “Under our system of laws, other than an outright, malicious murder, I dare say there are few more serious cases than a sworn officer of the law so recklessly violating the trust the public has bestowed on that officer.” Feaster will be eligible for early release based on good conduct. He’s been placed in Lassen County Jail—presumably where he won’t be known to other inmates, said Sheriff Kory Honea.

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A Chico State student reported having been sexually assaulted in one of the school’s dorms early Sunday morning (Dec. 11), according to an email to the campus community from University Police Department Chief John Feeney. The suspect is known, and believed to be a University Housing resident, the email reads. The incident is being investigated by University Police and the school’s Title IX office. Annual security reports on campus crime indicate there were four rapes reported at the school last year, three of which occurred on campus.

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After extinguishing a fire at an Oroville residence Monday morning (Dec. 12), Butte County Fire personnel found the home had been burglarized before being intentionally set ablaze, according to a press release from the Butte County Sheriff’s Office. A BCSO deputy responded to the scene on Arbol Drive, and while searching a nearby wooded area found property taken from the home, including an ATV. He also found Richard Thomas Harris (pictured), 33, of Montesano, Wash., hiding in a pile of brush. Harris was allegedly in possession of a handgun and ammunition stolen from the home, drug paraphernalia and items stolen from a Medford, Ore., residence. Harris is being charged with numerous offenses including arson, two counts of burglary, and being a felon in possession of a firearm. He is being held in Butte County Jail with no bail due to an outstanding warrant in Placer County. 8

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ILt.Chico Police Department, Rob Merrifield is charged n his current position at the

with supervising operations in three key areas by of the city— Ken Smith downtown, kens @ south campus newsreview.com and Bidwell Park—oversees the Target Team, and acts as a liaison with some of Chico’s most valued institutions, like Enloe Medical Center and Chico State. In a word, it’s a prestigious place to find himself after 28 years with the CPD. But during a recent interview regarding his retirement, Merrifield said he would have happily remained a patrol sergeant until the end of his career. “The lieutenant thing … it’s an important job and somebody has to do it, but it’s more administrative,” he said. “Patrol sergeant is the ultimate assignment, because you’re still out in the field, still doing that kind of police work, and you’re really connected to your team.

“I’m not complaining, but as far as doing fun stuff and really feeling like a cop, I miss being back out there more.” Merrifield’s retirement is one

of several personnel shifts occurring in the department. Also retiring are Lt. Mike Nelson, current head of the department’s detective bureau, Officer Rob Sheridan and a K-9 named Luna. Nelson has

been at the department since 1999; Sheridan since 1994; and Luna is a nine-year veteran of the force. The retirements coincide with the swearing in of six new officers, a reserve officer and two new chaplains last week. Interviewed by phone, Police Chief Mike O’Brien noted the department has finally reached its full staffing goal of 92 sworn officers—at least

until Friday (Dec. 16), when Merrifield leaves. The others will leave by the end of the year, and O’Brien said he hopes to hire officers to fill those vacancies in 2017. “It definitely puts us in a better position than the department has been in some time,” O’Brien said of the new hires. He described the retirements, though, as “bittersweet.” “These guys are my rocks. They’re just so solid, they’ve been here since I joined the department and they’ve really stepped up to fill the gaps we’ve needed in the past few years,” he said. “As sad as I am to see them go, it’s nice to see them walk out in one piece, on their terms and with their heads held high.” Merrifield has filled many roles

in his nearly three-decade career with the CPD; he’s also worked in the department’s now-defunct traffic division, in the patrol unit and detective In the 1990s, Merrifield became the first motorcycle cop in Chico in half a century. photo courtesy of rob merrifielD

Lt. Rob Merrifield (right) was honored for 28 years of  service by then-Mayor Mark Sorensen at the Dec. 6  Chico City Council meeting.   photo by howarD harDee

bureau (as both a rank-and-file officer and supervising sergeant), and as a public information officer. During an interview with CN&R, he delivered a candid overview of his experience and some insight into life as a lawman. A North State native, Merrifield was born in Red Bluff and raised in “various places out in the woods,” as his father worked for the U.S. Forest Service and as a firefighter. His family eventually settled in Chester, where he graduated from high school. He spent four years in the Navy, where he operated listening systems aboard surveillance planes hunting Russian submarines. He attended Butte College with the goal of becoming a game warden, but eventually decided law enforcement was a better fit. He began working for the CPD in 1988, and mentioned two other positions he’s particularly proud to have filled—heading up the Chico Police Explorer Post, a program for young people considering careers in law enforcement; and as Chico’s first motorcycle cop in nearly half a century. “We used motorcycles back in the 1940s and ’50s, but quit until we started again in the ’90s,” he explained. The department still has four motorcycles and staff certified to ride them, but they sit mostly idle with no traffic division. Merrifield personally owns two motorcycles and rides often outside of work. He’s also an avid cyclist, flyfisherman and likes to travel, all hobbies he hopes to indulge in during retirement. When asked how he’s dealt with the psychological impacts of being a police officer, Merrifield said it’s important for cops to maintain friendships with people outside of law enforcement and that he’s always found comfort in his family. His wife, Kimberly, is a Butte County Superior Court judge, and the couple have a son (22) and daughter (19). “It’s essential to have those people you can share things with, or not share things with, when you need to,” he said. Merrifield said that, looking back, he has no regrets about his career choice. “Becoming a police officer is the luckiest thing that’s ever happened to me,” he said. “About once a week, I’ll be getting coffee and someone will walk up and say, ‘Thank you for your service.’ What do you say to that? I always just honestly say, ‘Thanks for letting me do it.’” □

Let the recall begin Candidates tackle hot topics at forum for Paradise Irrigation District special election

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everal dozen people filled the Paradise Town Council chambers on Monday (Dec. 12) in preparation for next month’s recall election for two Paradise Irrigation District seats. Five candidates sat at the dais—the two recalled directors, Larry Duncan (Division 3) and Sep Carola (Division 4); and their respective opponents—for a forum held by the League of Women Voters of Butte County. The tone, overall, was cordial and quietly combative, as the recalled directors spoke defensively at times while their opponents touted their expertise in water and willingness to work together for change. Questions came from the league, audience and Paradise Post Editor Rick Silva. They ranged from policy to costs to claims that the current board is dysfunctional. “I’ve heard that we’re dysfunctional and it’s true to some extent,” said Duncan, a former mayor of Paradise who’s served on

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the PID board since the 1990s. “It’s very hard to get five people to agree to anything. … Unfortunately, some of us have personal agendas, and are using this to disrupt the board. I’m hoping it’ll go away.” As can be expected from candidates challenging incumbents, the newcomers had less to say about issues of the past, while the recalled directors seemed obliged to stand up for their actions on the board. “I’m definitely the new kid on the block,” said Wally Schmidt, running for Division 3 along with Ann Rice, also a newbie to running for office. “I was blissfully ignorant until Feb. 8 of this year, when there was a Proposition 218 meeting .... I was surprised at the behavior there, and I started paying attention. It seemed important not only because of the subject matter but also because of the emotions in the community.” Prop. 218, which governs how districts can impose changes to water rates, is one of

A shrine in honor of Maria Flores sits near the corner of nord and West Sacramento avenues, where the 20-year-old  artist and poet was struck and killed by a suspected drunken driver early on the morning of Dec. 7. Known by her  friends as “Bunny,” Flores is remembered for her free spirit, love of adventure and giving heart. A GoFundMe account  has been started to help with funeral costs (search “Maria’s funeral fund”). Chicoan Bryan Dawson has been charged  in Flores’ death. He faces arraignment Dec. 21 for felony gross vehicular manslaughter, two counts of felony DuI and  an enhancement for fleeing the scene. Dawson reportedly called police half an hour after the collision to report having  been in an accident. photo by mereDith J. cooper

the big issues facing the PID. The board’s first attempt this year to raise rates was thwarted by angry customers—many of them the same who led the recall effort in March—who collected enough signatures to block the increase. Some blame poor communication from the district for creating such a rift in the community. A second attempt to raise rates did pass. “It was not a fun time for the directors, staff or anyone in this town,” said Carola, who is current board president. “Moving forward, more information to the public is required. We tried to do as much outreach as possible, but obviously much more was needed.” Among the other big issues discussed Monday were administrative costs, such as health benefits for directors. “I’m in favor of discontinuing health benefits. [They cost] $87,000 a year for five directors. In five years, that’s big money,” said Rice, who has 24 years in the water industry, both at a treatment plant and in the laboratory. She also promised to waive her salary should she be elected. “I would support a vote to revoke health benefits,” said Marc Sulik, who has 35 years experience working at a wastewater treatment plant. He’s hoping to unseat Carola in Division 4. He added, “I do think it’s a good thing to have some incentives to run for a board position.” The final bone of contention discussed Monday was a plan to build a new water filtration plant—to the tune of $15 million. This has been an ongoing issue for the board, which is largely in favor of the plant but has discussed alternatives. Better filtration is mandated by the state, and the clock to move forward on a plan is running down. “I’d be open to different ideas, but we’re really at the eleventh hour,” Sulik said. “I’ve read the alternatives report multiple times, and [the plant] is actually a good project. It’s a well-designed, well-engineered project.” By the time the allotted 45 minutes were up, Lorene Eagleson, representing the recall committee, said all the candidates had responded well to the questions presented. She’s looking forward to receiving her mailin ballot next month—the recall election is entirely mail-in, with ballots being mailed to customers Jan. 6, to be returned by Jan. 24. —Meredith J. Cooper me r e d i th c @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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Will executions resume? Californians voted for the death penalty, but Gov. Jerry Brown has a long history in opposition lthough he has served as governor longer than anyone else in ACalifornia history, Jerry Brown has never been forced to make one of the weightiest decisions governors face: whether to spare a convicted criminal from execution. California has executed more than 500 people, but the death penalty has been on hold pending legal challenges during both of Brown’s two-term stints as governor. It’s been a politically convenient coincidence for the Democrat who rose to prominence as an outspoken opponent of capital punishment, even as California voters repeatedly demonstrated support for it. Their most recent affirmation came this November. Voters rejected Proposition 62, which would have abolished capital punishment, and passed Prop. 66, which seeks to expedite death penalty appeals. The outcome means California may resume executions during Brown’s final two years as governor, potentially challenging the legacy of the former Jesuit seminarian who was once so morally opposed to capital punishment that he protested outside the gates of death row. It’s not certain that executions will resume; death penalty opponents have filed a lawsuit trying to block Prop. 66 and a separate challenge of a law that gives cor-

rections officials broad authority to establish execution procedures. A federal court would need to lift a decade-old stay on lethal injections in California. But supporters insist they will prevail in court, and that executions will begin next year. They were suspended in California in 2006 when a federal court ruled that the state’s three-drug lethal injection process amounted to cruel and unusual punishment. Since then, corrections officials have been drafting a new execution procedure using only one drug, while also responding to a tangle of lawsuits challenging the way they were planning to reinstate the death penalty. The single-drug plan introduced last year, like many proposed state regulations, doesn’t go into effect until after a public review period. But one piece of Prop. 66 removes that review period—allowing prison officials to more swiftly move ahead with single-drug lethal injections. “The [corrections department] should be able to begin use of the protocol that it’s already established, which means that execution dates can be set,” said Kent Scheidegger, a Sacramento attorney who helped write Prop. 66, and whom The Atlantic once called “Mr. Death Penalty” for his advocacy on the issue. “I’m sure it will

be an intensely fought battle. But we’ll certainly make the argument that there’s been far too much delay and courts shouldn’t delay any further.” If courts allow Prop. 66 to proceed—more action on the suit is expected after election results are certified in mid-December— execution dates would be established after district attorneys seek death warrants from the trial courts. Eighteen of the 748 death row inmates have exhausted all their appeals, making them likely to be executed soonest. They include Harvey Heishman, who raped an Oakland woman and then murdered her in 1979 before she could testify against him; Richard Samayoa, who broke into a San Diego home in 1985 and beat a young mother and her toddler to death with a wrench; and Tiequon Cox, who murdered four Los Angeles family members of Kermit Alexander, the former pro football player who put Prop. 66 on the ballot. Despite his activism against the

death penalty as a young man, Brown never weighed in publicly on the November initiatives. “I think he just felt he would be compelled to do whatever the voters decide and therefore did not enter into the fray,” said Cruz

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Reynoso, a former California Supreme Court justice and death penalty opponent. Reynoso—one of three Brown appointees tossed off the Supreme Court in a 1986 campaign that targeted them for overturning death sentences—said if executions are scheduled before 2018, he wouldn’t expect Brown to block them. “Jerry Brown, like yours truly, may have a moral position,” he said, “but as a public official will enforce the law.” The governor’s staff declined to answer questions about potential executions. But Brown biographer Chuck McFadden said if executions did resume in his final term, “He wouldn’t like it, not one bit. “It’s an open question whether he would say anything publicly decrying the execution …. But he would certainly be unhappy about it, even though he’s a far different person today than he was in 1960.” In that year, Brown famously lobbied his father, then-Gov. Pat Brown, to stay the execution of a convicted rapist. Seven years later, the younger Brown stood vigil outside of San Quentin as a cop-killer was put to death inside the prison. Governors have broad authority under state law to block executions. The elder Brown spared 23 death row inmates by commuting their sentences but allowed 36 to be executed. In his biography Public Justice, Private Mercy: A Governor’s Education on Death Row, Pat Brown described the difficulty of being “the last stop on the road to the gas chamber.” “It was an awesome, ultimate power over the lives of others that no person or government should have, or crave,” wrote the elder Brown, who contended that his qualms about it helped Ronald Reagan unseat him in 1966. After 1967, legal challenges put the death penalty on hold in California for 25 years. Because Jerry Brown’s first two terms as governor (from 1975-1983) came during this hiatus, he avoided the clemency decisions that had racked his father. —LAUREL ROSENHALL C ALm at ter s

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It’s up to the birth mother whether the adoption is open or closed, Hendrix said, but most prefer ongoing contact and the full exchange of identifying information (i.e., phone numbers and addresses). In most cases, they choose a family that doesn’t live in their immediate community due to the potential emotional difficulty of running into them at a restaurant or the grocery store. A great misconception is that women who choose adoption are unfit to be mothers or don’t care about their children, she said. In her experience, it’s an informed and purposeful decision women make because they care about their child. “It’s like any huge loss, but it has different components,” Hendrix said. “Let’s say your mom dies—you’re going to grieve, but you didn’t choose for that death to happen. A birth mom’s grief is really unique.”

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despite it being an uncomfortable subject for some people. A couple of years ago, she literally broadcast her personal story to the community during an interview on KZFR 90.1 FM. However, she stressed that her experience doesn’t represent everyone’s, and that plenty of adopted children have positive feelings toward their birth parents. Her adoption was closed, which means her birth mother’s identity and contact information were sealed; they’ve never met—nor has she met most of her siblings. Peeples’ somewhat negative view of adoption—and the mother who gave her up—was turned on its head when she decided to put her own child up for adoption years later. That was a different story. In an open adoption, the birth parents choose

to have contact with the adoptive parents and the child, explained Marikathryn Hendrix, co-founder of Adoption Choices of Northern California. That’s become the most common arrangement, but it wasn’t when

the nonprofit launched in 1975. “Closed adoption was standard up until the 1980s,” Hendrix said. “I think it was the norm because society couldn’t handle a woman being pregnant out of wedlock. It was to protect the birth mom. … It was just a really different time and there was much more secrecy and shame.” Attitudes have changed, thanks in part to organizations like Adoption Choices. The Chico-based agency offers information, counseling, advocacy and support throughout the adoption process, all under the umbrella of Women’s Health Specialists. More often than not, people are interested in adopting because they are biologically incapable of having children, Hendrix said. They apply for the program, fill out a questionnaire and create a profile packet, then the birth mother considers their information and sets up in-person meetings. “It’s always a little miracle when strangers meet, form a bond and develop enough trust for the mother to say, ‘Here, have my baby,’” she said.

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HEALTHLINES she said, and moved back to Butte County when she was 17 years old, hoping to leave her substance abuse issues behind. She didn’t, though. “I had to learn to actually, like, deal with it myself,” she said. At 20 years old, she had finally gotten clean—and then she got pregnant. That was confirmed during an appointment at Women’s Health Specialists, which led her to Adoption Choices. “I think the [clinician] could tell I wasn’t ecstatic about it,” she recalled. “I ended up meeting Marikathryn, and she gave me a couple of profile packets to look through families who wanted to adopt.” That seemed like the best option. She had a long-term boyfriend, but she was personally unstable, fighting urges to use again. “I was trying to stay off drugs, and I chose to adopt her because I felt she’d be better off with a family that was prepared for it,” she said. Peeples met a family from Yuba City while she was still pregnant, and felt immediately that it was the right fit. She chose an open adoption and, in the seven

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years since, she has stayed clean and in close contact with her birth daughter and her adoptive family, experiencing peaks and valleys of emotion throughout. Sometimes, she’s sure it was the right decision; others, she’s more doubtful. “Mother’s Day is always interesting, but it hits me differently every year, and some years it doesn’t hurt at all,” she said. Choosing for her daughter to be raised by different parents has given her a new perspective on her own childhood. She isn’t angry at her birth mother anymore. “A big stigma for birth mothers is that they’re not capable of handling [being a parent],” she said. “It becomes more of a selfish idea than a selfless one, and that’s how I always viewed my birth mother. … Seeing it from the outside put me at ease about my own situation.” □

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Lunnoticed darkness, Steve Callan was able to remain by the two armed duck poachying prone in the tules under the cover of

ers as they crossed the road in front of him, mere feet away, disappearing briefly into the dry ditch on the opposite side of the road before re-emerging and speeding off in a waiting getaway car. Callan crawled into the ditch, discovering the poachers’ hidden stash of 30 illegally killed ducks. In this case, the poachers weren’t the only ones who would be facing the wrath of the local game warden. Fourteen-year-old Callan was supposed to have been waiting safely in the car while his father, game warden Wally Callan, searched for the poachers. Young Steve would escape with merely a stern lecture, while the poachers would be spending some time in Glenn County Jail. Steve Callan would go on to spend 30 years as a game warden for the California Department of Fish and Wildlife, experiencing more than enough harrowing adventures and humorous encounters to fill his first book, Badges, Bears, and Eagles, published in 2013. This tale, however, was recounted in his second novel, The Game Warden’s Son, in which Callan harnessed his well-honed storytelling style to write about growing up in Orland as the son of a game warden, and to tell the stories of fellow game wardens who served with both him and his father.

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in Butte, Modoc and many other Northern California counties. As with his first book, Callan said that he hopes The Game Warden’s Son will give readers a clearer picture of what game wardens actually do. “I wanted people to know that there’s a whole lot more to the job; Fish and Wildlife officers are involved in a whole lot more than just checking fishing licenses,” Callan said. “People say, ‘Well, did you actually carry a gun?’ Of course we did. Fish and Wildlife officers had the most law enforcement power of anybody in the state, jurisdiction-wise. And [with] federal law, related to wildlife; we were deputized U.S. Fish and Wildlife agents also.” Increasing regulation of hunting and fishing has done little to protect many of California’s most precious natural resources, Callan said. Beyond his work in the field, he’s also been involved in a number of other conservation projects, including working with city and county officials on establishing development-free zones along the Sacramento River and its tributaries in Shasta County. He said he does his best to remain optimistic about the future of wild spaces in California. “Hopefully we can conserve as much as possible, but it’s a battle,” Callan said. Book signing: “What kind of life Steve Callan will be signing copies of his new book, would this be if we The Game Warden’s Son, on Saturday, Dec. 17, didn’t have wildlife 10 a.m.-4 p.m., at Barnes & Noble (2031 Dr. Martin and open space? I Luther King Jr. Parkway). Find a list of online and local wouldn’t want to live bookstores carrying Callan’s books at his website, www.steventcallan.com. in a world like that.”

“They asked me if I had anything in mind for a sequel, and I said, ‘Actually, I really do,’” Callan said of a conversation he had with the publishers of his first book, Seattle’s Coffeetown Press. “My dad was a fish and game warden over in Orland between 1960 and 1970, and I spent a lot of time riding on patrol with my dad. So I said, this time, I’ll start back in the 1950s, when this all began.” The book, released in March, opens with Callan as a child in Southern California, patrolling the Channel Islands with his father. In search of a more rural lifestyle, his family made its way to Orland, where a young Callan got the chance to tag along with his father in pursuit of commercial duck poachers, deer spotlighters and other unsavory characters before becoming a game warden himself in 1974. Interspersed with Callan’s own stories as a game warden, first in remote Southeastern California and later as supervisor of the game warden force in Shasta County, are those of others in the field

And despite spending his career in pursuit of hunters running afoul of the law, Callan said that law-abiding hunters and fishermen are foremost among those doing their part to conserve what’s left of natural spaces and native animals. “Hunters and fishermen pay the bills. They’re not responsible for the diminishing of wildlife resources. It’s loss of habitat, it’s commercializing wildlife, it’s pollution, all these different things; legal hunters and fishers are actually beneficial. A lot of the habitat we have is because of money from legal sport hunters and fishers.”

“What kind of life would this be if we didn’t have wildlife and open space? I wouldn’t want to live in a world like that.”

—Steve Callan

Although Callan could easily be spending his retirement years as one of those hunters or fishermen, enjoying the quiet solitude of the outdoors, instead, he and his wife, Kathy, travel California promoting his books and giving presentations, hoping to pass along what he’s learned over the course of a childhood and career spent in California’s wild spaces. “That’s the main reason I wrote the book, to impress upon people how important it is to value wildlife and to protect what we have left,” Callan said. “We’re not making a million bucks doing this. It’s because we want to help spread the word.” □

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS photo by vic cantu

15 MINUTES

THE GOODS

Living the good life

Giving back and grand openings

Mike Wreyford, aka “Mike the Wine Guy,” enjoys helping people find the finer things in life. A resident of Browns Valley, he was recently hired to be the wine director at New Earth Market in Chico and Yuba City. A recognized wine expert who has hosted dozens of tastings throughout the region, his motto is: “Life’s too short for bad wine.” He also hosts his own weekly radio show called “The Good Life Show,” which features enthusiasts in food, wine and travel. Listen to it locally on KKXX FM 104.5 and AM 930, or find it on iTunes. Visit New Earth Market at 864 East Ave. or log onto www.MikeTheWineGuy.com for more info.

Thrift stores are meccas of all things kitschy, old-school and just plain one-ofa-kind. And when the proceeds go to a good cause, it makes forking over a few bucks for that must-have barbecue-utensil wind chime all the more worth it. At HAL Thrift Shop here in Chico, proceeds benefit the Human Animal League, a nonprofit that supports local animal charities. That will soon be changing. “Beginning in the new year, HAL Thrift Shop will transition to new management as the Human Animal League moves forward in the next phase of building an animal rescue and rehab, our ultimate goal,” HAL Thrift announced on its Facebook page. As of Jan. 1, HAL will change its acronym to Helping Animal Lives, according to Tracy Mohr, animal services manager for the city of Chico. As head of Chico Animal Shelter, she dispelled the notion that CAS would be taking over the thrift store. Instead, it will be self-run, she said, adding that part of the proceeds will go to help the animals in her care. HAL Thrift Shop is seeking volunteers for shifts Tuesday-Saturday, 11-6 p.m., as well as for scheduling and opening and closing the store. The store is located at 611 Walnut St. Email thriftshop43@yahoo.com for a volunteer application.

What is your role at New Earth Market? My mission is to make New Earth Market well-known, and to optimize the wine department to fit the needs of our community. I want to be an advocate for anyone who is enthusiastic about wine, from beginner to expert. Over 80 percent of our wines here are between $10 and $25. We also have $60 to $80 bottles, but most people want weekly wines to go with their spaghetti or pork chops. My job is to help people find what’s comfortable for them.

What are the wine tastings like at the store? They take place about once a month, with up to 60 people. We have different formats, such as a focus on wine makers, or a variety of world wines. There’s no pressure to like any wine. If they don’t like it, I tell them it’s OK to pour it out. The tasting on Dec. 8 was our last for 2017.

Why do you think New Earth picked you? I have a track record of assisting retail stores like Grocery Outlet in organizing and selling wine. “Mike the Wine Guy” is also my known brand. Plus, I help sell wines by putting my “Mike’s Likes” Facebookstyle “Like” thumbs-up shelf tag next to wines I’ve tried and really enjoyed.

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Grand openinGs First, I want to mention that Ulta Beauty is finally open next to Costco. The beauty supply big box celebrated its grand opening at the beginning of the month and offers everything from hair care products to waxing services. This weekend marks the grand opening of two very different businesses here in Chico. The first, locally owned Hooker Oak Distillery, makes a variety of rums, including traditional, pineapple and apple pie flavors. Yum! Grand opening is Saturday (Dec. 17), noon-5 p.m. Must be 21 to attend. The distillery is at 2420 Park Ave. and can be reached at 809-0720. Grand opening No. 2 on Saturday is at the Chico Mall, where Torrid will be handing out gift cards for up to $100 to the first 50 customers. Torrid, sort of like the big sister to Hot Topic, is known for its trendy plus-size (10-20) clothing.

Your radio show, “The Good Life,” sounds fascinating. Yes, it encourages people not to give up on their dreams. I’ve interviewed over 500 interesting people like world-class wine makers, travel experts and restaurant owners. No politics or bad news. I say, “My show is the antidote for the rest of the week.”

How’d the radio show come about? Well, I’d owned restaurants, golf courses, and sailed over 40,000 miles at sea, but eight years ago I realized my main goals of independent financial success and a great relationship were not met. I moved to Browns Valley to care for my aging parents ... Then I had a powerful inspiration: “Do the best you can with what you’ve got, where you are, in the moment.” That kind of became my show’s motto. When I accepted that I couldn’t reach my other goals, other doors, like my radio show, opened. —ViC CANTU

Gift of GivinG The Torres Community Shelter got a much-needed cash infusion earlier this month, when locally owned Golden Valley Bank signed over a check for $10,000 to the nonprofit. What’s particularly cool about this is that employees worked all year, holding bake sales and other fundraising events, in an effort to bolster the nonprofit. Altogether, they raised $5,000 and the bank matched their total. verGe of bankruptcy A new report by Fitch Ratings, one of the “big three” credit reporting agencies, predicts the potential bankruptcy of seven major retailers over the next two years. Four of them have stores in Chico: Sears Holdings Corp. (which also owns Kmart), Claire’s, 99 Cents Only and Rue21. The report attributes these companies’ demise to competition from online shopping and discount chains like dollar stores and Walmart. Sears announced last week that it will be closing 64 Kmart stores this month, but none of them are in Butte County.

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Trying to find that “wow” gift? We at Gaumer’s can help you. From classic to unique, we have an extensive inventory of gold and silver jewelry. Or let our jewelers create a timepiece specifically for you, using your gems or ours. We also have a fabulous selection of fossils, minerals, and polished stones. Come see what you can find. Gaumer’s Jewelry has been happily serving our community for 49 years.

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Give the gift everyone will love...

Enjoy a True Chico Tradition

a gift certificate from Tres Hombres. Choose any denomination , get a gift card, and your holiday shopping for friends, family and co-workers is complete. Try the “Best Margarita in Chico” as voted by CN&R readers for the last 12 years. Make your choice from over 125 premium Blue Agave tequilas.” Fiesta Hour Appetizers & Cocktails are served Daily 4-6. La Casa margs Draft Beer just $4. Next time you’re making plans to gather just say “Meet Me At Tres!”

Shubert’s Homemade Ice Cream & Candy has been a Chico tradition for over 75 years! Homemade Boxed Chocolates, Peanut Brittle, English Toffee and Divinity are just a few treats our families have come to look forward to during the holidays. Pre-order Snowballs now! The perfect holiday dessert! Don’t forget your Shubert’s Mints this season! No holiday celebration would be complete without them!

Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy 178 East 7th Street • Chico (530) 342-7163 www.shuberts.com

Tres Hombes 100 Broadway • Chico (530) 342–0425 • www.TresHombresChico.com

Acapillow Home Furnishings Acapillow Home Furnishings is Chico’s newest furniture store! Acapillow Home Furnishings offers premium vintage decorative pillows, handmade in Chico, together with eclectic, contemporary and vintage home décor and furnishings. They also offer a complete custom made to order line of upholstery. From pillows to curtains to bedding, you can custom design to your needs.

Acapillow Home Furnishings 830 Broadway St. Chico (530) 487-8494 www.acapillow.com

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How about a Gift Card from Bacio?

Give The Gift Of Golf! This Christmas, give the ones you love a gift certificate to Bidwell Park Golf course. Located in picturesque Upper Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park Golf Course offers 18 holes of beautiful scenery, well maintained greens, and a friendly and helpful staff. A gift certificate to Bidwell Park Golf Course can be used to book tee times and can also be used in the pro shop and in the Bidwell Bar and Grill.

Or two or three… Your friends who understand quality know that the ingredients and food at Bacio are just about the best in town! Open Monday- Friday from 11 until 7. Give your food savvy friends just what they want this year. BONUS: Get a FREE Bacio Klean Kanteen with each $50 Gift Card purchase. Happy Holidays!

Bidwell Park Golf Course 3199 Golf Course Rd. Chico (530) 891-8417 www.GolfBidwellPark.com

Bacio Catering 1903 Park Ave (530) 345–7787 BacioCatering.com Mon–Fri 11am to 7pm

Flavorful Holiday gifts

Holiday Wine Gift Box

Want to share 5th Street Steakhouse with a friend or family member? Gift cards make it simple. Great for the holidays, birthdays, anniversaries and company parties. 5th Street Steakhouse food tastes great on any occasion!

Make the holidays merry & bright! Take our wine bottle gift box to your next dinner, holiday party or housewarming. Pick your two favorite wines and you’re ready to go. It’s gift-giving made easy! Looking for an extra treat? Choose a bottle of our locally made, small batch brandy and add two high ball glasses. No wrapping required!

5th Street Steakhouse 345 West 5th St. (530) 891-6328 5thStreetSteakhouse.com

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Almendra Winery & Distillery 9275 Midway, Durham (530) 343-6893 AlmendraWinery.com

Where the Best Adventures Begin Not sure what to get for a friend or relative that “has everything”? Why not a gift certificate for the outdoor enthusiast in your life from Chico Best Place to Buy Outdoor Gear! Purchase a gift certificate in any denomination at Mountain Sports and gift the gift for the best adventure!

Mountain Sports 176 E. 3rd Street Downtown Chico (530) 345–5011 • Open Daily www.ChicoMountainSports.com www.facebook.com/chicomountainsports

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Brew Your Own Right At Home

Last Minute Gifts Get the best knee, elbow, ankle, calf, wrist and back support braces you will find anywhere with Incredibraces by Incrediware. Maximize Performance & Recovery in the Health & Fitness world for athletes and people who are seeking to live active and healthy lifestyles. Enriching the quality of life! For a great selection of gifts, many under $20, think Chico Sports LTD. You’ll find stocking stuffers, clothing, bikes, yoga, shoes, and much more. Gift certificates available. Sports LTD where you’ll find “Only the Good Stuff!”

The Chico Home Brew Shop is the place to go for all of your brewing and winemaking needs. We carry beer and wine makers equipment, ingredients, books, soda extract, cheese making ingredients, bottles, caps, corks, spouts, growlers, cider kits and much more. We are happy to answer any questions you may have too! Come by today! Open Tuesday-Saturday 10am-5pm. Friday until 6pm.

Chico Sports LTD 698 Mangrove Ave. • Chico Safeway Shopping Center (530) 894-1110

The Chico Home Brew Shop 1570 Nord Ave, Chico (530) 342-3768 HomeBruShop@yahoo.com

Learn The Art of Fencing

Give The Perfect Gift From 2016 Best Of Chico’s Day Spa

My Fencing Center is the longest running continuous fencing club in Chico. My Fencing Center offers fencing instruction for beginners to advanced. Kids as young as 7 up to adults of any age! They offer state of the art equipment and flooring. Fencers enjoy recreational fencing up to National levels. This holiday season, give the ones you love the gift of fencing with a membership to My Fencing Center. For a limited time, buy one month and get the second month free! Equipment provided (exclusions apply).

Choose a Sweetwater Gift Card- beautifully wrapped, or Sweetwater’s customer favoriteThe Holiday Face & Body Package for only $129! Includes a signature spa facial and a relaxation massage. Purchase now through December 31

Sweetwa ter Day Spa 40 Declaration Drive • Chico (530) 894–7722 www.SweetwaterChico.com

My Fencing Center 2290 Ivy St, STE 180. Chico (530) 828-1718 www.myfencingcenter.org

Boots—Style & Comfort! A pair of authentic Western Boots is the most comfortable footwear, if you are fitted properly. Unlike shoes, which are flat, Western Boots have a built-in arch that supports your feet. Therefore, boots must be the right length and the right width to fit comfortably. At Diamond W Western Wear, the friendly and knowledgeable staff will help you find the right pair of boots with the right fit. You’ll find every pair of boots on SALE now, just in time for your Holiday gift giving. At Diamond W you will find all major brands as well as exclusive custom brands. Locally owned for over 38 years, with the Lowest Prices Guaranteed!

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Give The Gift Of Noodle + Bao Momona Noodle + Bao offers gift certificates in any denomination for the ramen and bao lover in your family! Momona serves Japanese and Hawaiian influenced food and drinks, including Japanese-style ramen, bao (aka steamed buns) and Hawaiianstyle poke. Momona also offers one of the best sake selections in Chico. Join us for Pau Hana Hour for cheap bao, cocktails, beer and wine during the first and last hour of dinner service, Monday - Saturday.

Momona • 230 W. 3rd Street Downtown Chico (530) 487-7488 • momonachico.com #momonachico Hours: Mon - Thurs 11-4, 5-9, Fri-Sat 11-4, 5-10

California Olive Ranch Extra Virgin Olive Oil • Proudly based in Chico, California • Award winning extra virgin olive oil grown and crafted in California • Trusted by top-tier chefs • Makes the perfect holiday gift for every foodie on your list

California Olive Ranch Online: shop.californiaoliveranch.com Local Retailer: californiaoliveranch.com/store-locator

Market Baskets

Holiday Gifts & Decor to Treasure!

are a great gift for any budget. At the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market you can purchase quality, handmade baskets. Not only will the baskets last many years but your purchase will help small farmers in Ghana. These are the best prices in town. Available at either of the 2 year round markets. While you’re at the market fill it with the best local food and artisan crafts the north state has to offer. Two Year Round Markets in Chico, Rain or Shine: Wednesday, North Valley Plaza parking lot on Pillsbury Rd, 7:30 am to 1:00 pm Saturday, Downtown 2nd & Wall St, 7:30 am to 1:00 pm

Christian & Johnson has been making the Holidays beautiful for over a century! Lovely nativities, unique gifts, fun ornaments, complimentary gift-wrapping, fresh flowers, gorgeous poinsettias... Let the crew at C&J help with all of your gift-giving and decorating! The Happiest of Holidays to you and yours from your friends at Christian & Johnson!

Christian & Johnson 250 Vallombrosa • Chico (530) 891-1881 ChristianAndJohnson.com

Chico Certified Farmers’ Market (530) 893-FARM • ChicoFarmersMarket.com

Chico Life Calendar- $19.99

Give the Gift of Food and Knowledge!

Introducing Chico Life Calendar. Give the gift of Chico that gives all year round to that special someone. 2017 Chico Life Calendar Every Month includes a photo of an iconic location in the Chico area by a local photographer. A contest was held in August to find the best photos by local artists. We were blown away by the quality and talent that Chico photographers are blessed to have. Each calendar also gives a generous giving donation to a non-profit of your choice by returning the included postcard and includes free shipping anywhere in the US to your loved ones who would enjoy seeing Chico at it’s best for the holidays. You can make a purchase at ChicoLifeCalendar.com or you can purchase one in your downtown retailers like Made in Chico or Bird in Hand.

A Rawbar gift card is the perfect gift for the holidays. Buy two $50 gift cards for only $90! The Rawbar serves more than just great sushi including appetizers, rice bowls, ribs and tempura. Much of the menu is also available for catering and that holiday party you’re hosting or attending. Cooking classes are also offered for DIY sushi and Thai and are a fun gift that keeps on giving. For Happy Hour, Mon-Sat 3pm-5pm, the line-up is changed regularly. You’ll find Spicy Edamame, Oyster Hot Shots, Korean Tacos w/Kalbi Short Rib, Cabbage & Kimchi Sauce and so much more. Gift cards are offered in many denominations, so stop in today, have lunch, dinner or enjoy Happy Hour and cross off a few names on your list!

Local’s Choice Printing • 1359 E 8th St, Chico • (530) 636-4278

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Just Opened Gift for Wine Aficionados The perfect gift for your wine loving friends is a stunning art glass wine stopper. World recognized art glass marble maker Tim Keyhas has put his beautiful collector marbles on top of wine stoppers creating functional art showpieces. Black Diamond Gallery is a cultural hub for contemporary artwork and clothing. Brands such as Grassroots, Cookies, and Rebel 8. You’ll find a bright and colorful variety of jewelry, glass pendants, drinking vessels, and even functional glass artwork! Stop in today and be visually stimulated by awesome glass art from around the country.

Black Diamond Gallery 152 E 2nd St. between Peet’s and Woodstocks. Mon-Sat Noon to 8 / Sun Noon to 6 530-487-7020 blackdiamondboutique.com

Butte Creek Bikes is a full service bicycle shop, specializing in electric bicycles. Whether you are looking to modify an existing bike or design one from the ground up, Butte Creek Bikes has you covered. They offer a wide selection of electric bikes, electric scooters, electric bike motors and replacement parts and they also offer service and repair. The featured electric bike can reach speeds of 28 MPH and can go 25 miles before needing to be recharged.

Butte Creek Bikes 7 Three Sevens Lane, Chico (530) 591-3081 www.ButteCreekBikes.com

Love & Sandwiches

California Sunshine in a Bottle

Ike’s Place gift certificates make great holiday gifts and are redeemable at any Ike’s location. When you come to Ike’s Place it is their goal to make you feel like the unique individual that you are. If that isn’t enough to set them apart, did we mention that the bread is baked fresh to order? And their Ike’s Dirty Secret Sauce is spread on every sandwich and baked right in the bread. Mmmmm…are you hungry yet? Ike’s Place offers a variety of mouth watering sandwich options, including vegan and vegetarian options.

Share the rich, golden elegance of the AWARD WINNING Butte View olive oils. Pure, light and delicate – experience the wonderful aromas and distinctive accents that make each hand crafted oil truly unique and excellent. 250ml/500ml. Available in Chico at Maisie Jane’s, Made in Chico, S&S Produce, in Oroville at Collins & Denny Market & Wagon Wheel Market and in Paradise at Noble Orchard.

Ike’s Place 648 West 5th St. Chico (530) 924-3171

Butte View Olive Company 2950 Louis Ave. • Oroville (530) 534-8320 • www.ButteView.com

Gets Better with Age Toast the Holiday’s with a shot of 20 year old Pappy Van Winkle Straight Bourbon Whiskey! Soooo smooth! The Van winkle bourbon is just one of many Premium Spirits gift packs you’ll find at Ray’s. They’re always a hit as holiday gifts. You’ll find wines from the finest vintners in the world, over 1,000 different craft beers and all the varieties of premium spirits. Expect the best prices on wine, beer, and spirits. Feel the sincere smiles from the always friendly staff! Come experience the tradition of Ray’s. Ray’s is the place where all the fun begins.

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Modern & Eclectic Fashion

Time Tested Quality Gifts

Anika Burke Eclectic Boutique enjoys providing Chico with the essence of California’s casual lifestyle. This ever popular shop is chock-full of modern and eclectic women’s clothing, accessories & gifts. Dress with ease and rock every piece you wear!

These refurbished antique trunks will look great in any home! You’ll find something for everyone on your list. There are over 60 vendor in 29,000 sq. ft. that offer gift ideas not found anywhere else, like; Classic Collectables, Vintage Jewelry, Up-Cycled Home Decor, Retro Mid Century Modern, French Country, and much, much more. If you need decorations for the home or tree there are many vintage Christmas collectibles on display when you walk in the door. You’ll feel better about gifting this holiday when you purchase a gift certificate from Eighth & Main Antique Center. Recycle, Reuse & Re-Purpose.

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Stop by Eighth & Main Mon Dec. 19 for some Holiday Cheer!

Anika Burke Eclectic Boutique 211 Main Street, Chico (530) 918–8850 www.AnikaBurke.com

Eighth & Main Antique Center. 745 Main Chico (530) 893-5534 find them on Facebook

For Those Naughty & Nice!

Fresh. Delicious. Affordable.

Santa Claus, also known as Saint Nicholas, Father Christmas, Kris Kringle, or simply “Santa” lives at the North Pole with Mrs. Claus, a countless number of magical elves, and 8 or 9 flying reindeer. He’s making a list as he prepares to deliver presents. Long-time Art Glass glass blower Mike Shaw also has many pieces for sale and on display. Bernie Vigallon, retired Chico Principal, continues to make a difference for students by building and selling bird houses with the profits helping students at Chico YouthBuild. Take a few lessons from Santa and prepare a list starting with Shopping at Sally Dimas for one-of-a kind locally made Gifts.

This Christmas, give the gift of La Comida. Starting December 1st through December 24th, get a FREE $5 gift card with any $25 gift card purchase! Since 1968, La Comida has been serving fresh, fast and affordable Mexican food in an always family friendly environment. All menu items are made from scratch. At La Comida you will always find the perfect meal to fit any appetite and budget!

La Comida 954 Mangrove Ave. Chico (530) 345-2254 6155 Skyway. Paradise (530) 577-5246 LaComidaRestaurants.com

Sally Dimas Art Gallery Celebrating 19 years of local art by local artisans! 493 East Ave #1 • Chico • (530) 345–3063 Open Tues – Sat 11am – 5pm or by appointment

Sweet Holiday Deals Chicoans love Chico. Get more for your holiday dollars when you save up to 90% on gift certificates to local businesses. Or show your appreciation for local Chico events with limited edition T-shirts. Buy online anytime with a credit card or in person with cash, check or credit card Monday through Friday 9am – 5pm.

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Give the Gift of Chico’s Best Italian! “A Chico Dining Tradition Since 1965” Come find out why we’re Chico’s best spot for Breakfast, Lunch and Dinner! Fun Stocking Stuffers available at both Italian Cottage locations; Italian Cottage Gift Certificates, Parm Shakers, Chico Bags, Klean Kanteen, T-Shirts or Coffee Mugs!

Italian Cottage Restaurants 2234 The Esplanade Chico 343-7000 2525 Dominic Dr. Chico 342-7771 Open 7 days a week Breakfast, Lunch & Dinner

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he report’s findings were unequivocal: Given the current pace of water diversions, the San Francisco Bay and the Delta network of rivers and marshes are ecological goners, with many of their native fish species now experiencing a “sixth extinction,” environmental science’s most dire definition of ecosystem collapse. Once a vast, soaked marsh and channel fed by the gushing Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, the Delta has diminished dramatically over the past century as those rivers and their mountain tributaries have been diverted to irrigate Central Valley farms and Bay Area urbanity. With winnowing supplies of chinook salmon available for food, orcas off the coast are starving. So, too, are seals and fish-eating birds. And the Gulf of the Farallones, a national marine sanctuary, is suffering from a lack of freshwater fed by the bay.

UTTER STAGNATION by

Julie Cart

As water stakeholders wring their hands on replumbing the Delta, the ecosystem continues to collapse

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Those grim conclusions in this fall’s report by scientists at the Bay Institute, an environmental group focused on the bay’s ecosystem, would normally have set off alarm bells—except that those warnings have been sounding for decades. That’s about as long as state agencies have been in the planning process to replumb the region that supplies close to half of California’s water and supports world-leading agricultural production, fisheries and tourism. The state’s goal: recalibrate the water flows that have drained vital rivers down to as low as 10 percent of their natural levels—just a fifth of the 60 percent flow scientists say is necessary to preserve the ecosystem. But the mechanism for change— the state water board’s muchanticipated update to its Bay-Delta Plan—is running “way, way behind,” according to board officials. The plan hasn’t had a significant update in more than two decades. And recent

progress has been agonizingly slow. The first of the plan’s phases— setting targets for turning the tap on and off on the vanishing San Joaquin River, and for reducing water salinity—has been six years in the making and runs thousands of pages long. It isn’t expected to be finalized until next summer. After analyzing possible flow rates, the state board’s staff, in its draft, sets a target that would have to be met: an “adaptive range” of 30 percent to 50 percent of the average unimpeded water flow for the San Joaquin River and its key tributaries, the Merced, Stanislaus and Tuolumne rivers. Such a flow, averaging about 40 percent, will “provide reasonable protection of fish and wildlife while moderating impacts to water supply for drinking water and agriculture.” The second phase will set water quality targets for the Sacramento River and its tributaries, including the Delta and its outflow.

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Trump, who, while campaigning in Fresno in May, proclaimed that it was “insane” to “shove water out to the sea” on behalf of endangered fish. Nobody knows quite what to expect from a Trump administration, but it could try to undermine the state effort by withholding federal funds for restoration of the San Joaquin River and by relaxing federal Endangered Species Act protections. A Republican-controlled Congress also could weigh in by passing federal laws that could govern how water is divvied up. “We all know that the Delta as it exists today is not sustainable,” said Michael George, who serves as the Delta watermaster for the State Water Resources Control Board. “People have been waiting for a policy and no one is making any long-term investments because the policy is so uncertain. There’s wariness. Nobody in the Delta wants Sacramento to do anything other than go away.” Amid the cacophony of claims and assertions about who owns water in California, there is one sobering point that all seem to agree upon: There’s not enough water to satisfy all takers and that is not likely to change. What will have to change is the way scarce water supplies are allo-

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In the third phase, at best a few years down the road, the state will play the role of Solomon, determining which competing parties get what amount of water. “It’s when lawyers begin to line up in front of a judge,” said Jon Rosenfield, the lead scientist on the Bay Institute report.

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cated. And that’s where the fight begins. “It’s a game of musical chairs right now and we are missing about three chairs,” said Chris Scheuring, a water lawyer for the California Farm Bureau Federation, which is fighting to preserve water supplies on behalf of the state’s powerful agriculture industry. “It’s a zero-sum game and somebody has to lose. The drought has intensified. Climate change is on the horizon. We have a declining snow pack. This is putting us on the path of an epic train wreck.”

On a recent morning, the fog shrouding parts of the Delta was so dense that a pessimist might have seen it as a misty manifestation of the gloom enveloping the intense debate about the state’s pending plans. But the watermaster is not given to negativity. George, whose background is as a water attorney, sees past the bitterness, the name-calling and the state’s redlining spiral of water guzzling. He is focusing instead on the chance for an enduring agreement. The situation has come down to powerful forces wrestling over a few drops. At any given time, more than 80 percent of the water that would naturally flow through the various rivers, tributaries and sloughs feeding the Delta and Bay is siphoned off for storage, agricultural or municipal use. What comes out the south end, or into the San Francisco Bay, is often less a flow than a trickle. The San Joaquin River, for example, at some points has become almost a dry bed, its key tributaries also tapped (the Tuolumne, for example, feeds the Hetch Hetchy reservoir that supports San Francisco). As a result, last year less than 10 percent of the San Joaquin River’s water was available to replenish the Delta. Drought and climate change have transformed an intermittent crisis into a full-time emergency. “We all recognize the Delta is broken, and there’s blame to go around,” said Heather Cooley, director of the Water Program at the Pacific Institute, a global

water think tank. “Several years before the drought, I would attend meetings and people said, ‘Is there a water problem?’ I don’t think you would get that anymore.” The catastrophic collapse of the estuary has driven the 3-inch Delta smelt to the brink of extinction and decimated the Sacramento splittail, as well as two runs of chinook salmon, Central Valley steelhead, among others. The first phase of the state’s plan, by setting its 40 percent flow target, attempts to help fish populations recover. Although that flow would amount to a veritable flood in sections that are seeing less than 10 percent of natural levels, it would still be one-third below the board’s own 2010 analysis that pegged 60 percent flow as best for fisheries recovery. “If the 40 standard does anything beneficial for the fish, it sends them to extinction less quickly,” said Rosenfield, of the Bay Institute. “Chinook salmon are the hardiest fish species we know of. They colonized every watershed from Monterey through Alaska to Japan. If chinook salmon cannot live in your rivers, something is very, very wrong.” But water board chairwoman Felicia Marcus stressed that a 60 percent standard represents “what fish would have asked for if the fish could talk”—and that the final plan must balance the needs of all water users. “I was stunned to see that over half the time we are diverting 80 and as much as 90 percent of water out of these rivers. That’s gonna be tough on these fish,” she said. “At the same time, people have to realize you can’t put it all back. We’re coming to grips with where we’ve been and where we need to go. We need to figure out how to share the rivers and water more thoughtfully, between human use and nature. It’s a question of figuring out how to get there. It’s not going to be easy.” What’s good for the fish is often in conflict with the reality of a region that has been markedly altered by human hands. Nineteenth-century federal policy that favored bending nature to boost commerce meant draining the Delta’s marshes and swamps to make way for farming islands and ever-growing settlement. Today an estimated 98 percent of the Delta’s historic tidal wetlands have disappeared. The state—and the estuary itself—has been struggling to accommodate all the claims on its waters. “We don’t have enough water to serve all of the demands that we put on it,” George said, framing the obvious and most difficult issue in the debate. Not farms versus fish, not cities versus rural areas, not California’s age-old north verses south. It’s Michael George, watermaster for the Delta, is hoping for a long-term agreement regarding Delta and San Francisco Bay water. photo courtesy of california Water association

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“There’s not a shortage of water, there’s a shortage of cheap water. If we are at all smart, we will make sure that we have enough water for the most important things. That’s not going to be easy.” —Jay lund, director, center for Watershed sciences at uc Davis

an all-of-the-above crisis. The point is not that the state is simply going to run out of water, as a report on water myths from the Public Policy Institute of California once noted. But it will have scarcity, said Jay Lund, one the report’s authors and director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis. “There a wonderful saying that economists have: There’s not a shortage of water, there’s a shortage of cheap water,” he said. “If we are at all smart, we will make sure that we have enough water for the most important things. That’s not going to be easy.” It’s particularly difficult because everyone’s favorite pastime is the blame game, said Jon Christensen, an environmental historian at UCLA’s Institute of the Environment and Sustainability. “Farmers, cities, salmon fisheries offshore, people in Los Angeles, like myself, where some portion of my drinking water comes from the Bay-Delta. I’d like to think that history has bequeathed this responsibility to us. We are all in this together.”

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the Sacramento River, George swept an arm to take in what was once a bustling commercial corridor of towns and farms huddled by waterways that had been teeming with barge traffic. Much of that farm-to-town economy is dormant, as investors have waited for consistent signals from Sacramento about the future of water policy. Farm machinery sits rusting and once-busy marinas and docks are choked with mats of invasive water hyacinth. “The economy is stagnant, uncertainty about policy has been hanging there for a decade,” said Jeffrey Michael, director of the Center for Business and Policy Research at the University of the Pacific in Stockton. His group produced an economic study in 2011 that recommended against one of the state’s largest water engineering projects ever, the proposed 40-foot-wide Delta twin tunnels that would ferry water from the Sacramento River to serve cities and farms to the south. The project’s supporters say the twin tunnels, the centerpiece of Gov.

Jerry Brown’s so-called California WaterFix, would be an improvement on the current powerful pumping stations whose operations entrap threatened and endangered fish, and thus need to be shut down when the fish are running. The proposed twin tunnels, if ever built, would have to comply with the flow requirements and other standards set out in the Bay-Delta Plan. Regardless, the complex and often conflicting plans have added to the region’s apprehension about its water future. “These projects could turn the Delta into a massive construction zone for decades,” Michael said. “That’s an investment deterrent. The combination of uncertainty about the future of the Delta as well as the regulatory climate poses too much risk. The businesses out there today are on pretty thin margins. They are small enterprises that are not heavily capitalized. I am very concerned about their ability to survive.” The farm bureau’s Scheuring said growers have adopted new water methods that have enabled them to produce twice the value of crops with the same amount of water as they required 30 years ago. Now, he says, farmers can’t give up any more water. Neither can San Francisco, according to Charles Sheehan, spokesman for the city’s Public Utilities Commission. The region’s 2.6 million frugal customers are already consuming water at less than half the statewide average, he said. Less water has meant shorter showers, browner public parks and, officials say, restrictive economic development. The commission’s analysis of the BayDelta Plan envisions “serious economic impacts,” Sheehan said, especially in drought years. “This has the potential to restrict new housing development. Affordable housing is a big issue here.”

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systems is taking a financial toll on other industries, such as the seafood business. Only about 3 percent of salmon survive the weeks-long journey through the Delta to the Pacific. Part of the problem is that salmon fry cannot survive in the Delta’s waters, which

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are now shallower and therefore warmer. The other is a deadly migratory collision—the fewer young salmon swimming downstream to the bay, the more these new generations are wiped out in a feeding frenzy when they run into oncoming spring spawning runs of striped bass. That’s a hard blow on coastal businesses waiting on the other end of the pipe for salmon. An October report from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration showed that between 2014 and 2015, the value of the California fishing harvest plummeted 53 percent. It’s not only fish that can’t make it to the endpoint in the San Francisco Bay. Freshwater is in scarce supply, creating fewer stocks of fish that themselves support fish-eating birds and whales. Wetlands and beaches are missing the sediment that would have been carried along with high flows. And without the natural flushing action of arriving freshwater, a dangerous mix of pollutants and toxic algae blooms continues to accumulate and worsen water quality. Across the state, people are lining up to recount similar tales of water woes. Often at the top of their lungs. In recent months, Stanislaus County officials flatly accused state water officials of lying—and the rhetoric at a Merced County Board of Supervisors meeting got so heated that one citizen compared the impact of the Delta plan on farmers to the Holocaust. At a recent meeting of the San Joaquin

County Board of Supervisors, local water district representatives characterized the state water board’s draft Bay-Delta Plan as a “water raid” and a “dirty deal.” The board unanimously voted to oppose the state draft after Les Grober, the water board’s deputy director in the Division of Water Rights, was subjected to a verbal flaying. “To propose any kind of change is never going to make everyone happy,” Grober, a long-suffering veteran of many acrimonious public meetings, said in an interview. “We hear, ‘How can you take our water?’ But this is the water of the people of the state of California. The science tells us we need 60 percent flows for fish and habitat. On the supply side, there is an unlimited demand for water. How do you balance all that? We have to keep talking about it.” Marcus, the state water board’s hard-nosed but pragmatic chair, invites all the parties to engage in a “rational conversation instead of lobbing grenades from the corner. “It’s not the most comfortable place to be; people are always mad at you,” she said. “But we are going to make these decisions. Either you help us make the decision or we are going to move. Our objective is to make this work.” Back in the Delta, George—himself an avid boatman—relishes showing off every waterway and marsh. Making it all work for as many groups as possible will be a heavy lift, he said, and requires careful, careful planning. But he’s optimistic despite the president-elect’s campaign comments, insisting he sees no indication from federal partners that the government would wish to undo what the state has put in motion. Even if the federal government delisted various threatened and endangered fish species—which would take years and need to be accompanied by an extensive scientific report—that would remove just one of many justifications for restoring flows. As far as the state board is concerned, increased flows are necessary for the health of the entire system. “We are way behind and we feel it,” he said. “I think we ought to be moving at warp speed. But before we move at warp speed, you better know where you are going to end up.” Ω

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Special Events HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Drop in for complimentary goodies, holiday ambience, fair trade gift ideas, kids holiday crafts activities and a brand new exhibition. Th, 12/15, 11am-5pm. Free. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Meriam Library Complex Chico State, (530) 898-5397, www.csuchico.edu/anthmuseum.

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W A Christmas Carol at least once? Hollywood has churned out dozens ho hasn’t seen Charles Dickens’

of versions of the tale, and it has been staged thousands of by times in front of milRobert Speer lions of people all around the world. ro ber t spe er@ newsrev iew.com When most members of an audience are familiar with a play, Review: A Christmas Carol, whether it’s Hamlet or Dec. 10, at Death of a Salesman the Blue Room. or A Christmas Carol, Continues Thursday- the challenge facing Saturday, 7:30 p.m., its presenters is to through Dec. 17 Tickets: $14.99 freshen it by bringing Blue Room Theatre something new to the 139 W. First St. production. 895-3749 This is especially www.blueroom true of a group such theatre.com as Chico’s Blue Room Theatre, which is known for trying new things and taking chances—as it did with its last production, A Heart Laid Bare, which audaciously merged several stories and poems by Edgar Allan Poe into a single play. Longtime local theater veteran Roger Montalbano did a good job of adapting A Christmas Carol for the Blue Room stage, emphasizing the relevance of its portrayal of 19th-century urban misery— “full of poverty, homelessness and

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cruelty,” as he writes in the playbill—to our own time. The script also draws a sympathetic portrait of Ebenezer Scrooge, the miserly pinch-penny at the center of the play. Montalbano, who also plays Scrooge in the production, describes him as “a man who sadly ignores his inherent humanity as a reaction to a lack of love and the cruel incidents in his life ….” The actor’s portrayal of Scrooge’s transformation into a generous and lifeaffirming man joyfully dancing about the stage—“I’m so happy!” he exclaims—is a delight to watch. A Christmas Carol presents a number of staging challenges, not least of which is that it has more than 25 distinct characters who flit in and out of numerous scenes. Fitting them all into the Blue Room’s smallish confines was no easy task. This Christmas goose is fully stuffed. In addition, those 25 characters are played by just 10 actors for this production, which means most play at least two and often three parts. This requires numerous costume changes, which Amber Miller, who directs the play, has chosen to occur off to the side, in full but shadowed view of the audience. She also locates a group of street people there—“an ensemble of vagrants,” as she calls them in her director’s note— who are meant to represent “the bleak-

ness that Scrooge turns his back to.” They also provide the music that stitches the scenes together, a series of classic Christmas carols designed (nicely so, by Addison DeSantis) to complement the shifting scenes. The performances were uniformly good on Saturday (Dec. 10), especially those of the lead actors: the formidable Kelly Houston as the ghost of Jacob Marley and the spirits of Christmases past, present and yet to come; Joe Hilsee as the young Scrooge and his nephew Fred; Shawn Galloway as Bob Cratchit (among others); David Sorensen as Fezziwig (among others); and Lea McCleary as his wife (also among others). This multiplicity of actors and roles was confusing at times. It wasn’t always clear, for example, who Hilsee was playing, Fred or the young Scrooge. The fact that he doesn’t at all resemble Montalbano, the old Scrooge, added to the confusion. Easy enough for me to say, you may be thinking—and you’re right. Community theater works with the resources it has. In this case, the chief resource is a vision of the kind of compassionate and kind people we all are capable of being, if only we do as Scrooge does—look deeply into our hearts and change. This production of A Christmas Carol LQVSLUHV XV WR GR MXVW WKDW Ɛ

Theater A CHRISTMAS CAROL: Family-friendly take on the classic tale of redemption, adapted for the stage from the 1953 movie by Roger Montalbano and directed by Amber Miller. Friday show includes a special opening set by the Yule Logs. Th-Sa, 7:30pm. $14.99. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

A CHRISTMAS CAROL (PARADISE): StageCoach Youth Theatre presentation of Charles Dickens’ classic holiday tale with the addition of familiar Christmas carols to festively move the action along. A one-act adaptation with a running time of approximately 40 minutes. Th-Sa, 7pm. $6-$10. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

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Sa, 12/17, 8am. Free. Center for Spiritual Living, 789 Bille Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5673.

BIDWELL MANSION HOLIDAY EVENING TOURS: See Friday. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 895-6144, www.bidwellmansionpark.com.

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EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME): Irreverent production in which instead of performing Charles Dickens’ beloved holiday classic for the umpteenth time, three actors decide to perform every Christmas story ever told. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

Poetry/Literature POETRY READING: Shared words and refresh-

ments with local readers. Third Th of every month, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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Special Events BIDWELL MANSION HOLIDAY EVENING TOURS: Special evening tours of all three floors of the mansion, decorated in Victorian holiday style. Staff and volunteers dressed in period costumes will be available to answer questions or provide insight into the history of this special home and live music will be played on Annie Bidwell’s beautiful grand piano. F, 6:30-8pm, Sa, 6:30-8pm. $10 adult/$4 children under 12. Bidwell Mansion, 525 Esplanade, (530) 8956144, www.bidwellmansionpark.com.

FIFTH GRADE BOOK SIGNING: Chico Country Day School fifth grade students will be presenting their newly published book, showcasing the wonderful activities and experiences that are available in Chico. Come pick up your copy and meet the authors. F, 12/16, 10am-4pm. Made in Chico, 127 W. Third St., (530) 894-7009.

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

POLAR EXPRESS: Family Movie Night featuring

the animated holiday film Polar Express. Bring your low back chairs and blankets to sit on. F, 12/16, 7-9pm. Free. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St., (530) 343-0706, www.chicomall.com.

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

JONATHAN RICHMAN: The legendary troubadour returns with sidekick Tommy Larkins on drums and special guests Wolfthump opening up the show. A portion of the proceeds will benefit local community radio station KZFR. F, 12/16, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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

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

EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME): See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

INTO THE WARDROBE: Full-length ballet based on C.S. Lewis’s book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe, choreographed and directed by North State Ballet’s Heather Wysong and Laurel Tennant. F, 6pm, Sa, 1 & 6pm, Su, 1pm. $18-$22. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 891-3050.

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production of the Christmas classic. F, 7:15pm, Sa, 2:15 & 7:15pm, Su, 2:15pm. $12-$20. Paradise

welcome to take part in this annual count. Bring warms clothes, hiking shoes, bird books and binoculars. You will be assigned an area and will spend the day counting birds in this area. Call or email to RSVP. Sa, 12/17, 7:30am. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 228-0625, www.bidwellpark.org.

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

HOLIDAY MAKER MARKET 2016: An opportunity for creators to display the magic that is usually confined to their workshop, and for givers to find one-of-a-kind treasures for the holiday season, with a full gallery of community submitted art, various exposés, demonstrations, workshops and vending booths. Sa, 12/17, 12-6pm. Free. Idea Fab Labs, 603 Orange St., (530) 592-0609.

REINDEER BREATH WITH CHICO DANCE HAMS: Chico Dance Hams present an evening of dance featuring our children’s division The After School Hams, story telling, and music. Sa, 12/17, 6:30pm. $7/adults; $5/with costume; free/12-under. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973.

Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

Art Receptions GROUP HOLIDAY SHOW: Reception for new holiday show featuring work by local artists including Matt Barber, Eablo Pscobar, Andy Greer, Seamonster, Suzy Tolen, Mim. Roeder and many more. F, 12/16, 4-7pm. Great Northern Coffee, 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

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RUNNING WILD: Special screening of Running Wild, the inspiring story of Dayton O. Hyde, a remarkable cowboy who triumphs in his quest to protect wild horses and the American West. Proceeds go to support The Mustang Project Sa, 12/17, 2-4pm. $10 per ticket, proceeds go to help The Mustang Project. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 526-5368.

A TOUCH OF GLASS: First annual glass art show with live glass blowing demonstrations and more than 15 local glass artists exhibiting both functional and nonfunctional glass pieces. Live music by Hi Strangeness. Sa, 12/17, 5pm. Free. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 8941978.

Music HOLIDAY CONCERT: North State Symphony’s holiday concert featuring special guest soprano Carrie Hennessey and the Red Bluff Masterworks Chorale. Sa, 12/17, 7:30pm. $15-$30. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave., (530) 894-1971.

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

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

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Fairly bazaar Chico State’s Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology may not be the first place you think of when it comes to holiday shopping, but the museum’s Holiday Bazaar today (Dec. 15), includes a selection of fair trade gift items from Thailand, Nepal, Bali, Guatemala and Peru. The Holiday Bazaar is also a great opportunity to donate gently used purses for Purses 4 Primates—a local nonprofit that raises funds to protect orangutans and their native habitat in Borneo and Sumatra—or, at the very least, to give yourself the gift of checking out the museum’s newest exhibit while enjoying some complimentary cider and cookies.

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Special Events CHICO GENETIC RESOURCE CENTER HIKE: The Sierra Club, Yahi Group is hosting this easy, 3-4 mile hike along the outer loops on the Conservation Center. Meet at parking lot. Rain cancels. Su, 12/18, 9am. Free. Mendocino National Forest Chico Genetic Research Center, 2741 Cramer Ln., (530) 891-8789.

THE GREAT DICTATOR: The next installment in the ongoing Subversive Cinema series with AK Press featuring Charlie Chaplin’s controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator. Su, 12/18, 7pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageantchico.com.

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EVERY CHRISTMAS STORY EVER TOLD (AND THEN SOME): See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.

INTO THE WARDROBE: See Friday. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave., (530) 891-3050.

THE NUTCRACKER: See Friday. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road in Paradise, (530) 872-8454, www.paradise performingarts.com.

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1078 GALLERY: Stories Five, fifth annual 1078 Stories exhibition featuring artists with links to Chico. This year’s exhibit includes art by Martin Azevedo, Patrick Collentine + Susan Larsen, Michelle Davis, Eileen Macdonald and Edie Overturf. Through 12/29. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org. bition of works by upper division Art students. Through 12/16. Ayres 107, Chico State, (530) 898-5331.

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: Singer-songwriter Nicki Bluhm and her band return to the Big Room for two nights of folk, rock, country, psychedelia, blues and pop. M, 12/19, 7:30pm, Tu, 12/20, 7:30pm. $27.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierranevada.com.

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CHICO ART CENTER: Winter Gift Show, annual holiday show with one-of-akind, handcrafted goods from local artists, including pottery, jewelry, paintings, prints, cards, accessories and more. Through 12/28. Free. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Group

Holiday Show, holiday show featuring work by local artists including Matt Barber, Eablo Pscobar, Andy Greer, Seamonster, Suzy Tolen, Mim. Roeder and many more. Through 12/31. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings by

Martha Witte, colorful landscape and still life paintings from the late, German-born artist, including many recognizably from the time she was living in California. Through 12/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

NAKED LOUNGE: Dwelling, exhibition of

Special Events KRAMPUS PARADE: Channel your inner demon, dress up and hail Krampus! Prizes will be awarded for the best dressed Krampus, with music, dancing and drink specials all night long. W, 12/21, 9pm. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Home for

the Holidays, holiday exhibit of art glass by Mike Shaw with wood turned by Frank Wm. Link and fall and winter paintings. Through 12/31, 6-9pm. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

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Call for Artists SNOW GOOSE FESTIVAL WILDLIFE ART EXHIBIT: Submissions are being accepted for this wildlife exhibit to be held in Chico from Friday, January 27, through Friday, February 12, 2016. See website for prospectus. 12/151/9. Ninth Avenue Gallery & Studio, 180 E Ninth Ave., www.ninthavenue gallery.com.

Museums CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Ongoing display highlighting local aviation history. Ongoing. 165 Ryan Ave., (530) 3456468.

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.chicomuseum.org.

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

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: A railroad and logging museum in Paradise.

Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Drive in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

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teers laid out a red rug “stage” on the floor of the warehouse-styled by art gallery and Mason presented a fourMasis hour wall of angst and emotion last Tuesday (Dec. 6). Local bands Citysick, Sunny Review: Acres and Le Wolves, Citysick, Creekside and Creekside, plus Sunny Acres, Fresno invader Le Dec. 6, at Wolves, were all 1078 Gallery energetically on board for a night of catharsis—both for themselves and for the willing audience. Chico band Sunny Acres opened the show with a solid front of screaming and hitting things as hard and as fast as one can, which is to say, they did everything right. The trio’s songs varied between slightly ska, grunge, punk and even power metal, but a loud-and-proud style permeated all of the genres. Drummer Manuel Lopes impressed with a blitzkrieg of percussion that built a foundation for the barely contained chaos. And the band’s cover of Bowie’s “The Man Who Sold the World” did justice to the late legend. Visiting garage/grunge/psychedelic/punk crew Le Wolves played a varied and unique set, equally at ease with mellow power ballads as go-as-fast-as-we-can punk. Peering out from a curtain of long hair,

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THE BIG ROOM MONDAy jANuARy 16TH, 2017 frontman Keanu Huerta showed impressive vocal range and dexterity and accompanied his singing with yelp-like war cries. Guitarist Nathan DeRaud shone during the song “B.M.M.” (“Beat My Meat”), a hard and chaotic and crunchy raver that gave him plenty of leeway to shred. Though there had been two attempts to start a mosh pit during Le Wolves’ time on stage, it was local band Creekside that really got the crowd riled up with its angry and unapologetically emo style. The crowd pushed and threw elbows throughout the band’s set (much to the anguish of anyone unlucky enough to lose their footing on the gallery’s unforgiving cement floor). Creekside put forward a traditional emo set filled with tight and crisp guitars, drums and the obligatory “why me’s” that mark the genre.

If Creekside was emo, Citysick was super-duper emo. Vocalist/ guitarist Kaleb Sievers opened the set asking the crowd to get closer because “we don’t really have songs to hit people to.” Instead, he explained, they play music to get sad to. The band’s set consisted of songs about alcoholism, drug abuse, missing the dead, depression and just being all-around good-fornothing people. Its appropriately self-deprecating and depressive style worked well and ended the show on a high note. And as a last act of defiance, Sievers decided to quickly teach lead guitarist David Hollenbeck a new song—which turned out to be a cover of Smash Mouth’s “All Star”—which the band played roughly half of before throwing down their instruments and unceremoniously leaving the stage. Their exit, loud and abrupt, was a perfect summation of the night. □

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BROTHA LYNCH HUNG Friday, Dec. 16 Lost on Main SEE FRIDAY

Gigantes for a night of superior riffage. F, 12/16, 7pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. First and Third Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse

Saloon, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408, www.facebook.com/crazyhorsesaloon.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday night jazz featuring local musicians. Th, 811pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

GHOST SHIP FIRE FUNDRAISER: Nice Up presents a night of reggae, jungle, dub and dancing with a portion of the proceeds going toward the victims of the Ghost Ship fire in Oakland. Performers include producer and DJ Jacky Murda, reggae jungle selectress Sunday Lion

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and belly dancer Andrea Green Fiyah. Th, 12/15, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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

SURROGATE: Local indie shoegazers play a double set of moderately intelligent rock songs. Th, 12/15, 9pm. $3. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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ANCHORS OVERBOARD: Riverside melodic hardcore band joins Anderson’s Frequencies and locals Lightfinder and

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

BROTHA LYNCH HUNG: Long-running Sacramento rapper and producer comes to Chico for a show with Humboldt County hip-hop duo Potluck. F, 12/16, 9pm. $20 in advance/$25 at the door. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

HURRIKANE: Los Angeles-based tribute to German rock band the Scorpions. F, 12/16, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with

traditional Irish music by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: John Seid, Bob Littel and Larry Peterson provide live music in the lounge.. F, 12/16, 6-9pm. Two-Twenty Restaurant/Lounge, 220 W. Fourth St., (530) 895-1515, www.twotwentyrestaurant.com.

JONATHAN RICHMAN: The legendary troubadour returns with sidekick Tommy Larkins on drums and special guests Wolfthump opening up the show. A portion of the proceeds will benefit local community radio station KZFR. F, 12/16, 7:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

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Chico heavy metal crew Blood Cabana is capping off its recent 18-date No Quarter Tour, which took the band as far as Arizona and New Mexico, with a homecoming show on Saturday, Dec. 17, at Blood Cabana The Down Lo. The band will be showing off its newly tour-tightened technical chops alongside a pair of Texas bands out on a tour of their own—The Devil Himself and Dawn of Flames—and locals Red Sky and Kill Jar.

OLIVER MOORE: Up-and-coming musician from Chico’s Inspire School of Arts live in the tasting room. F, 12/16, 6-9pm. Free. Almendra Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway in Durham, (530) 3436893, www.almendrawinery.com.

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

XMAS XTRING BAND AT MIDTOWN LOCAL: The Xmas Xtring Band will be performing swingin’ holiday music to benefit the Torres Community Shelter. F, 12/16, 7pm. Free - donations accepted. Midtown Local, 365 E Sixth St.

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BLOOD CABANA: Tour homecoming show for Chico’s Blood Cabana that also features a pair of Texas bands on tour, The Devil Himself and Dawn of Flames, as well as locals Red Sky and Kill Jar. Sa, 12/17, 6-10pm. Free. The Down Lo, 319 Main St. downstairs beneath Lost on Main, (530) 693-0864.

CREAM OF CLAPTON: Tribute to guitar legend Eric Clapton and featuring a wide range of songs from his extensive catalog. Sa, 12/17, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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

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12/20, 7:30pm. $27.50. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 892-4647, www.sierra nevada.com.

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XMAS XTRING BAND AT WINE TIME: The Xmas Xtring Band will be performing swingin’ holiday music to benefit Safe Space Winter Shelter. Sa, 12/17, 7pm. free - donations accepted. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Dr., (530) 899-9250, www.winetimechico.com.

HOLIDAY CONCERT: North State Symphony’s holiday concert featuring special guest soprano Carrie Hennessey and the Red Bluff Masterworks Chorale. Sa, 12/17, 7:30pm. $15-$30. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave., (530) 894-1971.

HOUSE CATURDAY NIGHT AT SMOKIES:

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

THE JEFF PERSHING BAND: Funk, jam, rock and blues from this long-running local band. Sa, 12/17, 8:30-11:30pm. No cover. Ramada Plaza Hotel, 685 Manzanita Court, (530) 345-2491, www.morasounds.com.

JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: John Seid and Larry Peterson play Christmas tunes, Beatles songs, blues, standards and

more. Sa, 12/17, 9-11am. Free. Cal Java Coffee Roasters, 216 W. East Ave., (530) 891-8935.

MOMMA T & THE GENTS: Sacramento band playing a wide variety of music, from rockin’ roots to blues, jazz, pop and a little country. Sa, 12/17, 8:30pm. No cover. Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

THE POSEYS: Husband-and-wife duo playing a wide assortment of swing, jazz and blues. Sa, 12/17, 5-8pm. 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.

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THE GREAT DICTATOR: The next installment in the ongoing Subversive Cinema series with AK Press featuring Charlie Chaplin’s controversial masterpiece The Great Dictator. Su, 12/18, 7pm. Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St., (530) 343-0663, www.pageant chico.com.

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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.

NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: See Monday. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 8924647, www.sierranevada.com.

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NICKI BLUHM & THE GRAMBLERS: Singersongwriter Nicki Bluhm and her band return to the Big Room for two nights of folk, rock, country, psychedelia, blues and pop. M, 12/19, 7:30pm, Tu,

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demon, dress up and hail Krampus! Prizes will be awarded for the best dressed Krampus, with music, dancing and drink specials all night long. W, 12/21, 9pm. No cover. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

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FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: Two sets by house band The Growlers featuring special guest Amy Celeste, with an open blues jam with the band hosted Joe Hammons and Leah Dionne in between. Bring an instrument and sign up to be a guest player, or just kick back and enjoy the show. W, 12/21, 7:30pm. $5 (Free for players). Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda

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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.

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complexities with story elements that are, at times, simply lurid and grim. It’s a kind of suspense film, but mostly along crudely cerebral by lines—how will this provocative but Juan-Carlos uninvolving mess resolve itself? Will Selznick it even do that? A good cast—Amy Adams, Jake Gyllenhaal, Michael Shannon and more—helps to keep the thing afloat, but the first half of this movie is a nasty ordeal that had me thinking about skipping the second half. The Nocturnal mid-movie arrival of a character Animals played by Michael Shannon and a Starring Amy Adams, flickering of professional curiosity Jake Gyllenhaal, Aaron Taylor-Johnson were barely enough to keep me in and michael Shannon. my seat. Directed by Tom The prerelease plot synopsis Ford. cinemark 14. tells us the film is about a woman rated r. (Adams) who reads a novel by her ex-husband (Gyllenhaal) and finds herself swept into nightmarish experiences of a decidedly personal sort. That’s true enough, but only up to a point. What’s left out is that (1) most of the film’s action is a visualization of the story that the Adams character finds in the ex-husband’s novel and (2) said visualization seems to represent the woman’s subjective, and ostensibly autobiographical, interpretation of what she’s reading. The story within the story, the narrative of that novel, comes off as a species of pulp fiction that flirts

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occasionally with something bordering on psychokiller porn. In it, a husband, wife and daughter have an increasingly deranged nighttime confrontation with a trio of psychopathic rowdies on a lonely Texas highway. (In the film’s visualization, the beleaguered husband is played by Gyllenhaal, and two Adams lookalikes, Isla Fisher and Ellie Bamber, play his wife and teenage daughter.) As the Adams character’s reading proceeds, we also get flashback-style glimpses of her relationship with Gyllenhaal’s novelist and with a handsome young financier (Armie Hammer) who matches up more closely with the prosperous type that her elegantly domineering mother (Laura Linney) would prefer her to marry. Gradually, we get the sense that nearly everything in the film reflects in some way on the increasingly lavish convolutions in the psyche of Susan Morrow (Adams). It is, however, disconcerting to find that while the film succeeds in building a multileveled portrait of an inscrutably disoriented character, it fails to give it anything like the moral and emotional weight that emerges in the narrative of the ex-husband’s novel. That fictional misadventure gains considerably from the presence of a cowboy/lawman named Bobby Andes (Shannon), who steps in to sort out some of the tortured mysteries involving the kidnapped wife and daughter, while also exuding a few darknesses of his own. Susan is the character that gets to say something about human nature and “nocturnal animals,” but Shannon’s spookily paradoxical cowboy is the best and perhaps only real embodiment of such notions in this film. □

FILM SHORTS she can decipher the messages emerging from the outer-space creatures that have just landed their massive spacecraft in Montana and nearly a dozen other locations around the world. Louise Banks (Adams) and a physicist named Ian Donnelly (Jeremy Renner) plunge into their task with far more zeal and passion than their military minders have bargained for. The imponderables and uncertainties are part of what works best. Louise’s linguistics and Ian’s physics are more a part of the film’s aura of otherworldly dimensions than of its central structures. And the film’s venture into those other dimensions eventually spirals toward an exploration of “inner,” rather than outer, space. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Opening this week Collateral Beauty

Will Smith stars as a successful New York business executive who, after suffering a tragedy, writes letters to Love, Time and Death, and actually gets responses from the not-so-abstract entities. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Great Dictator (1940)

The latest installment in AK Press and the Pageant Theatre’s Subversive Cinema Series features the revolutionary anti-fascist satire starring—and written, directed and produced by—Charlie Chaplin. Shows Sunday, Dec. 18, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Doctor Strange

Benedict Cumberbatch stars as a neurosurgeon who, after losing use of his hands in an accident, becomes the latest superhero in the Avengers sphere, gaining superpowers of the mystical kind. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Love Witch

An impressively stylized Technicolor throwback with a feminist streak about a witch whose “love magic” gets her into trouble with the men on whom her spells are cast. Pageant Theatre. Not Rated.

Fantastic Beasts and Where to Find Them

J.K. Rowling wrote the screenplay for this epic fantasy, a spin-off from her Harry Potter series, about the adventures of a young British wizard named Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) who has inadvertently let loose fantastical creatures in prohibitionera New York City. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Manchester by the Sea

Casey Affleck stars as a lonely janitor, divorced after a tragedy in his life, who is entrusted as guardian of his 16-year-old nephew after his brother’s death. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Rogue One: A Star Wars Story

Hacksaw Ridge

The first standalone offshoot from the Star Wars franchise, this origin story follows Rebel efforts to steal the plans for the construction of the Death Star. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Seasons

The latest documentary from the directors behind Winged Migration and Oceans (Jacques Perrin and Jacques Cluzaud) begins with the last Ice Age and tells the history of the seasons and forests and the animals and humans that inhabit and influence them. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

Silent Night, Deadly Night (1984)

Sleep in heavenly pieces with an ax-happy St. Nick after this late-night showing of the controversial slasher flick. Saturday, Dec. 17, 11 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Now playing Allied

The latest from director Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump, Contact) is a romantic thriller set during WWII that follows the story of the relationship of a Canadian intelligence officer (Brad Pitt) and French resistance fighter (Marion Cotillard) and a question of allegiances that puts their love and lives in danger. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Arrival

I’ll begin at the end, in a sense, and say that Denis Villeneuve’s smartly beguiling film brews special magic out of a combination, both low-key and inspired, of deft performances, deceptively casual atmospherics, a cool and expansive musical score (by Jóhann Jóhannsson), and an astutely modulated approach to the dynamics of genre (sci-fi, in this case). And, I’ll give you this version of a bare-bones synopsis: In Arrival, the government calls a linguist (Amy Adams) into service as an interpreter, in hopes that

Miss Sloane

John Madden (Proof, The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel) directs this political thriller starring Jessica Chastain as a high-profile Washington lobbyist who takes on the powerful “gun lobby.” Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Moana

A Disney animated feature about Moana (voiced by Auli’i Cravalho), a strong-willed teen daughter of a Polynesian chief who embarks on an ocean quest—teaming up with the demigod Maui (Dwayne Johnson) along the way—in order to save her people. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14. Rated R —J.C.S.

Office Christmas Party

Josh Gordon and Will Speck, the directors behind Blades of Glory, are back with this comedy about an office holiday party that gets way out of hand. Starring Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller, Olivia Munn and Kate McKinnon. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Trolls

The latest Dreamworks animated feature is based on the popular wild-haired dolls of the title. Starring the voices of Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, Zooey Deschanel and Russell Brand. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Mel Gibson directs this WWII biopic based on the real-life events surrounding Desmond Doss, a conscientious objector who refused to carry a weapon while serving as an Army medic yet nonetheless received the Medal of Honor for his life-saving feats of bravery. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Ilovemid-July afternoon in Chico—that’s how much I it. I enjoy making soup probably as much as I do ’ll eat a blistering hot bowl of soup on a 107 degree

eating it. It’s kinda like meditation—the world slows down ever so slightly, and all of the noise and negativity seems by to dissipate into the warm, herbMark Lore scented air. Isn’t that nice? m a rk l @ I felt a special need for this new srev i ew. c o m ritual recently due to a couple of things: There was a fowl carcass from Thanksgiving taking up space in the fridge. And more important, there is a foul, bronzed buzzard about to take up space in the White House, and I needed an afternoon to put that fact out of my mind. To that, I said, “Soup’s on! And bottom’s up!” Some of my favorite things to make involve a giant pot, or in this case, a Dutch oven. My favorite recipes also call for beer—for the dish, but mostly for my belly while cooking. I looked up at the clock. It was a little before noon. I proceeded to the fridge and pulled out the foil-covered tray with the turkey, as well as a cold bottle of Celebration Ale (tssst). Baby’s sleeping; no one will know except for me and this bird. If you’re planning on preparing a turkey for your next holiday meal, then this recipe will come in handy. If not, it’ll work any time (even summer) with chicken or game hens, whether you cook them yourself or just buy ’em precooked—either way, it’s going to require getting your hands a little dirty. Makes me thirsty (tssst). Normally, I’d put on a record that’s more in tune with the comforting nature of making a hearty pot of soup, but I needed something with a little more power. So I went with the record I’ve essentially been listening to nonstop since the election (tssst): Never Mind the Bollocks, Here’s the Sex Pistols. It sounds as

caustic and nihilistic as it did four decades ago, and it makes the idea of taking on the looming authoritarian regime sound like a good fuckin’ time. I’m in. Are you in? We better eat some soup first. And (tssst) have another beer. Post-Traumatic, Post-Election, Post-Thanksgiving, Post-Punk Turkey Soup Ingredients: Turkey carcass, carved and picked over 8-10 red potatoes, cut into 1/2-inch cubes 4 quarts low-sodium chicken broth 3 celery stalks, chopped 3 carrots, peeled and chopped 2 onions, one halved, one chopped 1 bay leaf 2 tablespoons garlic, crushed 2 tablespoons butter 1 tablespoon cayenne 1 teaspoon thyme Salt and pepper to taste

Directions: Carve and pull meat from turkey, and set aside. Place carcass into Dutch oven with 2-3 quarts of chicken broth, onion halves, 1 chopped carrot and 1 chopped celery stalk. Add salt, pepper and 1 tablespoon of garlic. Set to medium-high and bring to a boil; lower heat and simmer for 45 minutes to an hour. Strain, reserve broth and return it to Dutch oven over low heat. In a medium saucepan, add butter and remaining onion, carrots and celery. Add salt, pepper and remaining garlic. Sautée on medium heat until vegetables are just starting to soften. Add remaining chicken broth to Dutch oven, bring back up to a boil and add cooked vegetables. Add thyme, cayenne, and salt and pepper to taste. Add potatoes and turkey meat and cook on low heat for 20-30 minutes. Serve with bread and beer (tssst). □

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF december 15, 2016 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Living is a

form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how,” said dancer Agnes De Mille. “We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark.” As true as her words might be for most of us much of the time, I suspect they don’t apply to you right now. This is one of those rare moments when feeling total certainty is justified. Your vision is extra clear and farseeing. Your good humor and expansive spirit will ensure that you stay humble. As you take leap after leap, you’ll be surrounded by light.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “We are

torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange,” wrote author Carson McCullers. Are you ready to give that adage a twist, Taurus? In the coming weeks, I think you should search for foreign and strange qualities in your familiar world. Such a quest may initially feel odd, but will ultimately be healthy and interesting. It will also be good preparation for the next chapter of your life, when you will saunter out into unknown territory and find ways to feel at home there.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “If you

don’t use your own imagination, somebody else is going to use it for you,” said writer Ronald Sukenick. That’s always true, but it will be especially important for you to keep in mind in 2017. You Geminis will have an unparalleled power to enlarge, refine and tap into your imagination. You’ll be blessed with the motivation and ingenuity to make it work for you in new ways, which could enable you to accomplish marvelous feats of creativity and self-transformation. Now here’s a warning: If you don’t use your willower to take advantage of these potentials, your imagination will be subject to atrophy and colonization.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Why are

Australian sand wasps so skilled at finding their way back home after being out all day? Here’s their trick: When they first leave the nest each morning, they fly backward, imprinting on their memory banks the sights they will look for when they return later. Furthermore, their exiting flight path is a slow and systematic zigzag pattern that orients them from multiple directions. I recommend that you draw inspiration from the sand wasps in 2017, Cancerian. One of your important tasks will be to keep finding your way back to your spiritual home, over and over again.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Vault 21, a res-

taurant in Dunedin, New Zealand, serves sautéed locusts. For $5, patrons receive a plate of five. The menu refers to the dish not as “Oily Sizzling Grasshoppers,” but rather as “Sky Prawns.” Satisfied customers know exactly what they’re eating, and some say the taste does indeed resemble prawns. I bring this to your attention, Leo, because it illustrates a talent you will have in abundance during 2017: rebranding. You’ll know how to maximize the attractiveness and desirability of things by presenting them in the best possible light.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The literal

translation of the German word kummerspeck is “grief bacon.” It refers to the weight gained by people who, while wallowing in self-pity, eat an excess of comfort food. I know more than a few Virgos who have been flirting with this development lately, although the trigger seems to be self-doubt as much as selfpity. In any case, here’s the good news: The trend is about to flip. A flow of agreeable adventures is due to begin soon. You’ll be prodded by fun challenges and provocative stimuli that will boost your confidence and discourage kummerspeck.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Since you are

like no other being ever created since the beginning of time, you are incomparable,” wrote journalist Brenda Ueland. Pause for a moment and fully take in that fact, Libra. It’s breathtaking and daunting. What a huge responsibility it is to be absolutely unique. In fact, it’s so monumental that you may still be shy about living up to it. But

by rob brezsny how about if you make 2017 the year you finally come into your own as the awesomely unprecedented creature that you are? I dare you to more fully acknowledge and express your singular destiny. Start today!

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “To dream

… to dream has been the business of my life,” wrote author Edgar Allan Poe. I don’t expect you to match his devotion to dreams in 2017, Scorpio, but I do hope you will become more deeply engaged with your waking fantasies and the stories that unfold as you lie sleeping. Why? Because your usual approaches to gathering useful information won’t be sufficient. To be successful, both in the spiritual and worldly senses, you’ll need extra access to perspectives that come from beyond your rational mind. Here’s a good motto for you in 2017: “I am a lavish and practical dreamer.”

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Physicist Stephen Hawking is skeptical of the hypothesis that humans may someday be able to travel through time. To jokingly dramatize his belief, he threw a party for time travelers from the future. Sadly, not a single chrononaut showed up to enjoy the champagne and hors d’oeuvres Hawking had prepared. Despite this discouraging evidence, I guarantee that you will have the potential to meet with Future Versions of You on a regular basis during the next nine months. These encounters are likely to be metaphorical or dreamlike rather than literal, but they will provide valuable information as you make decisions that affect your destiny for years to come. The first of these heart-to-hearts should come very soon.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

During these last few weeks, you may have sometimes felt like smashing holes in the wall with your head, or dragging precious keepsakes into the middle of the street and setting them on fire, or delivering boxes full of garbage to people who don’t appreciate you as much as they should. I hope you abstained from doing things like that. Now here are some prescriptions to help you graduate from unproductive impulses: Make or find a symbol of one of your mental blocks, and bash it to pieces with a hammer; clean and polish precious keepsakes, and perform rituals to reinvigorate your love for them; take as many trips to the dump as necessary to remove the congestion, dross and rot from your environment.

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

songwriter Tom Waits has a distinctive voice. One fan described it this way: “Like how you’d sound if you drank a quart of bourbon, smoked a pack of cigarettes and swallowed a pack of razor blades. Late at night. After not sleeping for three days.” Luckily, Waits doesn’t have to actually do any of those self-destructive things to achieve his unique tone. In fact, he’s wealthy from selling his music, and has three kids with a woman to whom he’s been married for 36 years. I foresee a similar potential for you in the coming weeks and months. You may be able to capitalize on your harmless weirdness … to earn rewards by expressing your charming eccentricities … to be both strange and popular.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Was punk

rock born on June 4, 1976? A fledgling band known as the Sex Pistols played that night for a crowd of 40 people at a small venue in Manchester, England. Among the audience members was Morrissey, who got so inspired that he started his own band, the Smiths. Also in attendance was a rowdy guy who would soon launch the band Joy Division, despite the fact that he had never played an instrument. The men who would later form the Buzzcocks also saw the performance by Johnny Rotten and his crew. According to music critic David Nolan, these future pioneers came away from the June 4 show with the conclusion, “You don’t have to be a virtuoso or a musical genius to be in a band; anyone can do it.” I see parallels between this seminal event and your life in the coming weeks.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOUNTAIN CHARLIE’S SHEDS at 2006 4th Street Oroville, CA 95965. CARY SHAWN BARNETT 1435 Bridge Street Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CARY BARNETT Dated: November 22, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001438 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIERRA PACIFIC PACKING at 984 East Ave. Suite B3 Chico, CA 95926. ROBERT LYNN HIGHTOWER 536 Madrone Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBERT HIGHTOWER Dated: November 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001355 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PIGGS LIQUOR at 3046 Myers Street Oroville, CA 95966. ELIAS DORGHALLI 86 Taige Way Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ELIAS DORGHALLI Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001415 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FLOWERS BY RACHELLE at 2485 Notre Dame Blvd Ste 240 Chico, CA 95926. RACHELLE NEAL 12 Cleaves Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RACHELLE NEAL Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001418 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACTION TRANSMISSION at 6420 Hollywood Rd Magalia, CA 95954. MARIE BRINAR 14905 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954. REX L BRINAR 14905 Skyway Magalia, CA 95954.

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This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: MARIE BRINAR Dated: November 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001383 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIRTH INTO BEING at 277 Tranquil Drive Paradise, CA 95969. ELENA TONETTI 277 Tranquil Drive Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ELENA TONETTI Dated: November 17, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001430 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RED EYE’Z DELIVERY at 944 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926. HEATHER MAYO 944 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: HEATHER MAYO Dated: November 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001433 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL CONTRUCTION, INC at 2286 Oroville-Chico Hwy Durhum, CA 95938. NORCAL ENTITIES, INC 325 Sharon Park Dr Ste 706 Menlo Park, CA 94025. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: KASIA LEWIS, TREASURER Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001500 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOESPH FARMS at 10116 Midway Durham, CA 95938. FRANK LEWIS 923 Harmon Drive Menlo Park, CA 94025. KASIA LEWIS 923 Harmon Dr Menlo Park, CA 94025. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: FRANK LEWIS Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001501 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SHIFT BICYCLE CAFE at 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926. BRISA MAY HANNA-BARTON 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926. JOHN PHILIP HANNA-BARTON 1627 Arcadian Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: JOHN HANNA-BARTON Dated: December 8, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001499 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE MUSHROOM AUTHORITY at 3080 Thorntree Dr Ste 115 Chico, CA 95973. TREVOR BOEGER 810 Pomona Ave Chico, CA 95928. KEVIN HANLEY 2677 Kennedy Ave Chico, CA 95973. TIM RAMERO 3 Peacock Ln Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: KEVIN HANLEY Dated: December 6, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001489 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUINN DESIGNS at 805 Whispering Winds Lane Chico, CA 95928. RAYMOND C LAAGER 805 Whispering Winds Lane Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RAYMOND C. LAAGER Dated: December 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001493 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FRESH OLIVE CONCEPTS at 1367 E. Lassen Ave. Suite A-1 Chico, CA 95973. CALIFORNIA OLIVE RANCH, INC. 1367 E. Lassen Ave. Suite A-1 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: DANA GOODMAN, CFO Dated: november 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001405 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIAMOND EQUITY REMODELERS at 260 East Lassen #12 Chico, CA 95973. DONALD EUGENE RHODES 260 East Lassen #12 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DONALD EUGENE RHODES Dated: December 5, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001482 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRIAGE ENTERPRISES at 5475 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. TROY DUANE BEACH 13884 Olivet Dr Magalia, CA 95954. BRIAN MICHAEL KOPA 386 Valley View Dr Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: TROY D. BEACH Dated: December 12, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001509 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

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CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING CHICO at 14 Hillary Ln Chico, CA 95973. CHICO CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE 14 Hillary Ln Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: EDWARD BOOTH, PRESIDENT Dated: December 2, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001478 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MATTHEW JAMES TABER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MATTHEW JAMES TABER Proposed name: MATTHEW JAMES CROSS 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 23, 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 27, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02381 Published: November 23, December 1,8,15, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DEBORAH MARIE WRIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DEBORAH MARIE WRIGHT Proposed name: WILLOW MARIE WRIGHT 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: January 13, 2017 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: November 28, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02710 Published: December 8,15,22,29, 2016

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GLORIA JEAN STRACNER Proposed name: VIDA JOY SHALOM RIVERTREE 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: January 20, 2017 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: December 6, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02885 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CARLOTTA LOUISE VAN ETTEN DESIMONE DE ARELLANO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CARLOTTA LOUISE VAN ETTEN DESIMONE DE ARELLANO Proposed name: CARLOTTA LOUISE RED LEAF THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: January 13, 2017 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: November 28, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02735 Published: December 15,22,29, 2016, January 5, 2017

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

390 Honey Run Rd 62 Fairway Dr 261 Idyllwild Cir 652 Cromwell Dr 172 E Washington Ave 372 Idyllwild Cir 3030 Calistoga Dr 362 Silver Lake Dr 2878 Wingfield Ave 353 Saint Augustinedr 533 Mission Santa Fecir

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$1,099,999 $579,999 $417,000 $413,000 $402,000 $397,000 $395,000 $390,000 $380,000 $377,000 $359,000

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

SQ. FT. 6,202 3,126 2,034 1,844 1,005 2,115 1,961 1,904 1,763 1,782 1,493

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

2555 Banner Peak Dr 1490 Hannah Rose Ct 2 Noyo Ct 1227 Peninsula Dr 333 W 14Th St 1350 Salem St 235 Legacy Ln 22 Moraga Dr 1966 Modoc Dr 1274 Filbert Ave 1197 Ravenshoe Way

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$345,000 $339,000 $325,000 $320,000 $312,500 $307,545 $300,000 $299,500 $290,500 $290,000 $286,000

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

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The following houses were sold in butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of November 28, 2016 – december 2, 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

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

424 Royal Glen Ln

Chico

$279,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1,436

972 Madison St

Chico

$139,000

2/1

SQ. FT. 1,235

1663 Magnolia Ave

Chico

$272,500

3/2

1,340

362 E 3Rd St

Chico

$107,500

4/2

1,117

568 Desiree Ln

Chico

$267,000

3/2

1,196

2889 Lovell Ave

Chico

$90,500

4/2

1,917

10 Betsey Way

Chico

$264,000

3/2

1,381

3650 Circle Four Ct

Oroville

$571,999

3/3

2,258

112 Benson Ter

Chico

$245,000

2/2

1,451

348 Riverview Dr

Oroville

$500,000

4/3

3,431

3177 Bell Rd

Chico

$240,000

2/1

1,100

3450 Glen Ave

Oroville

$303,000

3/2

1,819

11 Saint Helens Ln

Chico

$235,000

3/2

1,119

3624 Sunview Dr

Paradise

$474,000

4/4

3,532

469 E 5Th St

Chico

$232,500

3/1

1,000

821 Big Sky Dr

Paradise

$375,000

3/3

2,409

1381 Huggins Ave

Chico

$195,000

2/1

1,061

651 Roberts Rd

Paradise

$350,000

3/3

2,373

285 Bordeaux Ct C

Chico

$165,000

2/1

928

6277 Dawnridge Ct

Paradise

$339,000

3/2

1,838

637 W 9Th St

Chico

$150,000

3/1

1,070

6255 Pinecrest Dr

Paradise

$300,000

5/2

1,906

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