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Time to stand strong It’s easy these days to get lost in the stream of headlines about the latest

government appointments and actions. After all, it’s important to stay informed. But there are other issues that need our attention. Take Standing Rock. The mainstream media has all but left North Dakota, but there’s a protest still mounting. And it’s as important now—if not more so—than ever.

This week, the Army Corps of Engineers, in charge of issuing permits for the remaining portion of pipeline that would go underneath the Missouri River, upstream of the Standing Rock Sioux reservation, was primed to remove the final roadblock to construction. And while the tribal council has bowed to government interests and asked that protesters disband, individuals—including Sacred Stone Camp founder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard—refuse to give up the fight. We support them. And we hope our readers will, too. And we hope the world will take notice March 10 for the Rise With Standing Rock Native Nations March on Washington.

We also support the journalists who have made the trek to Cannon Ball, N.D., in an effort to tell the stories behind what’s happening there. Without Democracy Now!’s Amy Goodman’s footage of armed guards releasing attack dogs on protesters, the story of Standing Rock may not have been told. Her arrest last fall for trespassing while reporting made national headlines. Last week, another journalist covering the protest—independent reporter Jenni Monet, embedded since December while writing for many small news outlets including YES! Magazine—was arrested in much the same manner. She’s still behind bars.

We must not let our voices be silenced. Join us in rallying behind Monet, who doesn’t have the backing of a show like Democracy Now! and its millions of viewers. Her First Amendment rights are being threatened, and that affects all of us. Call or write the Morton County state’s attorney and the North Dakota attorney general and speak out on her behalf. □

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imagined. But now I want to confront this force with an intelligence and compassion that brings peace and descent, I am shaken to my core by the actions resolution to my soul. of President Trump and his gang that bar Muslim We need to restore and energize our spirits to immigrants from our shores. confront this violence to humanity. We need courage During World War II, Jews were killed because of the callous to express our feelings openly. And we need mutual support to do whatever we can to prevent a handful disregard of nations toward of demagogues from destroying our democracy. desperate people trying to escape For me, it’s truly one day at a time. a horrific fate. There That’s very hard for me to do; to keep was a ban on immiEvil feels an even ground. I just want to make grants in the United real in a way sure we humans have plenty of days States then, too. left. I am exploring actions that help I had not Only a “quota” of me feel enlivened rather than enraged.

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Don’t mess with the West President Trump is known for going on the defensive, and apparently he’s

feeling threatened by on the Golden State. In remarks he made this week to Bill O’Reilly during an interview on Fox News, the president called California “out of control.” He was discussing sanctuary cities— municipalities that refuse to uphold federal immigration orders.

On Monday (Feb. 5), state lawmakers introduced a bill that effectively would implement the sanctuary city model statewide, making California, as conservative commentator O’ Reilly put it, “a sanctuary state.” Under the bill, California and local law enforcement departments would be barred from using their staff or facilities to comply with federal immigration policy. In response, Trump, who was trounced by Hillary Clinton in the general election in the state, threatened to pull federal funding should California move forward on that front.

Trump didn’t get specific on what type of funds he would attempt to withhold, but his threat rings hollow. Congress is the authority over budget allocations, not the White House. Moreover, while the GOP-held House may not agree with California’s stance, federal lawmakers understand that states have the right to craft their own public safety policies.

Congress also knows better than to play hardball with a state that’s the sixth largest economy in the world—California ranks just above France and below the United Kingdom—and responsible for 13 percent of the nation’s gross domestic product.

State Democrats fired back at Trump, saying, among other things, that California is growing jobs “faster than any other state and immigrants are key to our economic prosperity.” That’s a partial quote from Senate President pro Tempore Kevin de León, who joins other high-ranking officials, including Gov. Jerry Brown, in opposition to many of Trump’s baseless threats. The message: Don’t mess with the West. □

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

Hank and Jessie I’ll do just about anything for my son, Henry. I was reminded of that during a trip to Bidwell Park after a recent big storm, the one that flooded the banks of Big Chico Creek and downed that giant 80-year-old oak tree on the north side of Sycamore Pool.

That day, my husband and I, with 5-year-old Henry in tow, bundled up and, like others suffering from cabin fever, set out to survey the scene. By then, the water had receded to just below the edge of the pool. Hank had brought with him Jessie from the Toy Story franchise. She’s the cute, red-headed yodeling cowgirl doll—pull her string and she says things like, “Sweet mother of Abraham Lincoln!” and “Yodelaheehoo!”

I’d purchased Jessie the previous day and Henry seemed pretty enamored with her. That’s why I was surprised when he hurled her into the raging water, right where the creek ends and the pool begins. You’ve got to be kidding me, I thought to myself as I turned to my husband and he turned to our son, whose face instantly told us that he regretted his compulsion to see if she could swim.

Turns out Jessie’s a floater. Seconds after she started bobbing downstream, I dropped my bike to the ground and started sprinting.

I was wearing boots that are better suited to horseback riding, and I’m completely out of shape, but somehow I caught up with her in a flash. Problem is, she’d drifted just out of arm’s reach. I had to make a split-second decision—was I willing to get into the frigid, swiftmoving water to save a doll?

Apparently I was, so long as I could hang on to one of the ladder rails. So, I ran ahead of Jessie, threw my gloves to the ground and prepared to hop in at some stairs about midway down the pool.

Behind me, on a bench, a young couple watched me react as Jessie floated to the center. Moments later, a glimmer of hope emerged.

The rapids started pushing her back toward the edge—yet not quite within reach.

I need something to grab her with, I thought. I ran up the bank to some of the branches and twigs left over from the flooding. The sturdiest one gave me an extension of an extra arm’s length. By the time I turned around, Jessie was getting close to the end of the pool. If she went over the dam, that’d be all she wrote. She’d wind up snagged out of sight or maybe even make it to the Sacramento River.

A little girl, probably a year or so older than Henry, gasped when she saw the recognizable doll bobbing along. “It’s Jessie,” she lamented to her father. They froze in suspense after I sprinted past; a few others looked down from the footbridge feet away.

I got ahead of the doll by about 10 feet, dropped to my belly on the cold concrete, chest over the water with arm and stick outstretched.

The moment of truth .... Got her! Crisis averted.

Henry didn’t get Jessie back that day. I put her in a cup holder on the ride home. After she dripped dry in the shower, I pulled her string. Her response: “Yeehaw! I’m so happy you’re my friend.”

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Help for addiction Re “Healing journey” (Cover story, by Howard Hardee, Feb. 2): If an opioid-addicted person’s life mission is to find out how to pay for their addiction, why shouldn’t we make it public information as to where they can seek and obtain treatment and financial support for programs that provide Suboxone treatment. They need to know that this is out there and that there is financial support for programs and prescriptions if they qualify.

In Butte County, there are medical programs like Medi-Cal and the County Medical Services Program (CMSP). Do either of these programs cover the cost of Suboxone prescriptions?

This information should be available; if it’s not available, that addicted person will turn to finding opioids and not a medical way to free themselves from addiction.

What about free programs available for the cost of Suboxone? There is a program called Medication Outreach Prescription Assistance Services. It covers the cost of prescriptions for those who qualify. I am not sure how many individuals the program supports, but this service is out there.

More information needs to be provided to the public than what was shared in this article. Our community needs help.

Kimberly Lamb Chico

‘Hollow comfort’ “An omnivore’s dilemma” (Greenways, by Alastair Bland, Feb. 2): First, I would like to thank Alastair Bland for offering important counterpoints about the environmental impact of the cattle industry. That being said, it’s a disservice to the vegetarian lifestyle to follow with “… some argue swearing off meat altogether isn’t the answer.”

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 it threatens the relative ease and comfort they have enjoyed. But it will be necessary, as we will increasingly feel the impact of deforestation, habitat destruction, species extinction, pollution from fossil fuel usage, animal methane, effluent waste, and water and land consumption, not to mention increased drought and famine brought on by climate change.

Unfortunately, there is no such thing as humanely raised meat.

There is no USDA enforcement of laws defining “grass-fed” or “free-range” standards, and the production of meat is harmful down to the treatment of workers putting their safety on the line in meat-processing factories. There may be a comfort in paying extra for a grass-fed, free-range or organic label, but the reality is it is a hollow comfort.

Megan Thomas Melly Chico

Alastair Bland is foodie-focused on wines, beers and cheeses.

And Bland’s approach to meat consumption, as an environmental/ ethical issue, was formulated atop our Mt. Olympus of foodie consumerism. That’s the seat of our popular culture gods of gastrohedonism: Gordon Ramsay, Oprah, Martha Stewart, President TrumpSteak, Anthony Bourdain, etc.

Hence, Bland begins his exploration of the ethical implications of meat consumption by meeting with an “omnivore” chef. Chefs are the high priests of hedonism, so why not? And, in order to baste the ethical chops of said priest, why not immediately highlight chef’s “nod” to the California drought: providing water only when requested. Inconveniently, production of one pound of beef requires enough water to fill 16,000 glasses.

One paragraph in and already I’m smelling a rat—maybe behind the Molteni range.

Anyway, is it nobler to suffer the arrows of grass-fed beef? As opposed to what? The feedlot beef consumed 99 percent of the time?

If you are one of the elite, with access to the niche food markets of restaurateurs, etc., you have access to an array of life-sustaining plant foods. Is “conscious omnivorism” really a moral crucible? Or a game, played on the road to Le Delicieux?

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‘Fiscal sense’ Re “Chico: Allow dispensaries” (Editorial, Feb. 2): Open letter to Butte County Board of Supervisors and Chico City Council: The city of Shasta Lake, population 10,350, is located within the boundaries of Shasta County, population 177,000.

Currently, Shasta Lake has three medical marijuana dispensaries, their business tax is 10 percent.

The previous fiscal year generated $365,000 in revenue and this year the city expects revenues to rise to $450,000 in the next fiscal year.

While population demographics change from county to county, I believe it is safe to surmise that the licensing of three dispensaries in Chico would generate over $500,000 based on the extrapolation of the aforementioned figures to the base population of Chico and Butte County. Based on continued revenue and budget shortfalls in the city of Chico, additional revenues could go a long way in relieving the budget constraints facing additional funding for firefighters and police.

Medical marijuana has been legal for years, and this past November, 53 percent of Butte County voters voted in favor of Proposition 64, which legalized the recreational use of marijuana.

Doesn’t it make fiscal sense to allow properly regulated, licensed dispensaries to operate in the city and county?

Lesley Beadle Chico

Beware the plutocrats Re “Autocracy in the making” (Editorial, Feb. 2) “My country ’tis of thee; Sweet land of liberty, Of thee I sing; Land where my fathers died; Land of the pilgrims’ pride; From ev’ry mountainside, Let freedom ring!”

Great lyrics we’ve all been brought up to believe. Sadly, in our new oligarchy, freedom only rings for the plutocrats, “an elite or ruling class of people whose power derives from their wealth.” Some estimates of Trump’s cabinet’s wealth round out at $35 billion.

Let’s take Jeff Sessions, the new attorney general. He entered the employ of the U.S. government two years out of law school and has remained a public servant ever since. I entered the government

Sadly, in our new oligarchy, freedom only rings for the plutocrats ...

—Dean Carrier

right out of college, too, so it’s amazing to me that a career government employee could amass a net worth of $6 million (unless, of course, he had some really lucrative part-time night jobs). The same goes for Gen. James Kelly, who Bankrate magazine indicates is worth $4 million and that “A government pension is responsible for most of his wealth, according to Forbes.” Then there’s Betsy DeVos ($5.1 billion), who inherited her wealth and married into money.

As my Trump-loving acquaintances keep telling me, “Get used to it.” I wonder when they’ll discover it’s not something they really want to get used to.

Dean Carrier Paradise

Speaking of autocracy As national politics descend into chaos and we drift toward autocracy, the Chico City Council just demonstrated that it’s on board with the new program.

The council acted shamelessly by initiating a lawsuit against Move the Junkyard. At considerable taxpayer expense, the lawsuit seeks to ignore, derail and kill the intentions of 9,200 Chico voters.

Legal complaints about the referendum petition (and my responses below) are threefold.

The city says: 1. A legal technicality in the text of the petition disqualifies the petition. (Really? We’re going to disregard the will of the people because of a minor technicality?)

2. Amendment of the Chapman/ Mulberry Neighborhood Plan is an administrative, not legislative, matter, thus not subject to referendum. (In the principled pursuit of justice, who cares?)

3. The petition would result in an unreasonable, arbitrary, and unlawful ordinance that would cause irreparable harm to the city. (Oh, come on. Sanctioning noncompliance of the cityapproved neighborhood plan is

truly arbitrary and poses real risk of irreparable harm to residents and children.)

These obstructionist concerns about Move the Junkyard’s petition are unconvincing and unacceptable. But I guess “you know what” rolls downhill, and apparently, it’s arrived in Chico.

Sadly, so much for democracy!

James P. Aram Chico

For more on this subject, see Ken Smith’s report on page 8.

No waiting, no way Re “And more ...” (Letters, by Loretta Ann Torres, Feb. 2): Ms. Torres’ Feb. 2 letter to the CN&R asks, “Can’t you all just wait a few months—see how his ideas pan out?” The answer is clearly “no” if you keep up with his unconstitutional actions.

Already, Trump secretly wiped out over 100,000 people’s visas, harming the universities, tech companies and other organizations where they work and study. He removed funding from global health centers that merely mention to a woman she has a right to an abortion.

He insulted key allies, including Australia and Mexico, hanging up on the former’s prime minister and threatening the Mexican president with sending U.S. troops into his country after “bad hombres.”

He appointed Steve Bannon to be his chief strategist, nominated an uninformed billionaire who has never stepped foot in a public school to be secretary of education, and nominated a climate change denier to be head of the EPA. He lies frequently and has denuded consumer protections and many more harmful executive orders.

Isn’t that enough evidence that a narcissist is harming our country?

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has suggested impeachment may soon be in order for this, the leastpopular president since Nixon. I am old enough to remember all too well what happened to this nation in the Nixon years, leading up to his resignation, and the damage to the credibility of the Republican Party for decades after. I fear we may be about to go through a national trauma like that again, with dissent, violent protest, and even, dare I say it, removal from office by force. No president, no matter how many nor how few voted for him, is worth the price we seem to be paying for Trump’s frolic in the Oval Office. To my fellow Americans I say, protest, resist, defy, and when necessary, monkey wrench every executive order this charlatan writes until Trump gets the message: You have had your chance and you have already blown it. Resign or be impeached!

Joe Hlebica Red Bluff

Millions voted third party Re “And more ...” (Letters, by Bob Mulholland, Feb. 2): Regarding Bob Mulholland’s somewhat hectoring letter blaming all non-Clinton voters for electing President Trump, perhaps he is unaware that millions of people voted for a third party candidate.

Citizens registered as Independent voters cannot have their vote expected or counted on by either major party candidate, and some voters were so disgusted by both presidential candidates that they did not vote at all. Ergo, not all non-Clinton voters elected the current president.

Valerie Shaw Flynn Chico

Two-word takes Trumpysteria reigns.

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To do what, precisely? Prove that he has any intention of acting like anyone but what we already know him to be, an autocratic malignant narcissist? In a matter of days, he has proven to the shame of America and to the shock of our allies that he is incapable of coherent, rational governance.

During the last week, Sen. Castro of Texas, among others,

POTUS ANUS Warren Dodge Chico

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Facing increasing enrollment, Chico State’s School of Social Work has filed to change its admission status to “impacted,” which means the number of qualified students who have applied to the program exceeds the space available. As a result, the program will place priority on social work students who live in Northern California and are interested in working in the region, according a Chico State press release.

If approved by the CSU Chancellor’s Office, the impaction will affect incoming freshmen in the 2018-19 academic year. The change reflects a growing interest in social work. As Program Director Vincent Ornelas notes in the release, the number of juniors in the program is triple the size of the graduating class 10 years ago.

Two other programs at Chico State are already impacted—recording arts and nursing.

sPillway shuts down

The Department of Water Resources shut off the flow of water down the Oroville Dam spillway on Tuesday (Feb. 7) after a 250-foot pothole was discovered in the concrete chute.

Engineers are investigating the problem, according to a press release.

The DWR said the concrete erosion presents “no anticipated threat to the dam or the public.” Lake Oroville has the capacity to capture the rain forecast to continue through the end of this week, the release notes. The reservoir can hold 3.5 million acre-feet of water and currently contains 2.8 million acrefeet. In other words, it’s about about 80 percent full.

In order to avoid a dramatic reduction in water releases to the Feather River, the DWR has increased flows from the Thermalito Afterbay, a small reservoir downstream from the Oroville Dam.

city council tidbits

On Tuesday (Feb. 7), the Chico City Council voted unanimously to approve a $28 million tax-exempt revenue bond that will allow Enloe Medical Center to purchase and install an electronic health records system.

The bond—issued by the California Statewide Communities Development Authority—required approval by the council, but the city of Chico will not bear the debt and has no liability related to the bond, according to a letter from the hospital to City Clerk Debbie Presson.

The council also voted unanimously to enter a draft memorandum of understanding with Butte County and the Rock Creek Reclamation District to manage the Vina and West Butte groundwater sub-basins. Together, the jurisdictions will implement a plan to achieve groundwater sustainability by 2042 as required by California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

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sued by the city Councilman defends referendum against legal challenge

Lnamed on the Chico City Council, Karl Ory was as a defendant in a lawsuit filed

ess than two months after winning a seat

by the city he’d been elected to serve. story and The lawsuit, which photo by was filed Jan. 23 and Ken Smith also names the citikens @ zens’ group Move the n ew srev i ew. c o m Junkyard as a defendant, seeks to nullify a referendum effort aimed at reversing council actions taken last November to let long-embattled recycler Chico Scrap Metal stay at its East 20th Street location.

But Ory, an outspoken progressive who’s long advocated that the business move in keeping with improvement plans for the surrounding neighborhood and past council decisions, characterized the legal complaint as a partisan attempt to deprive local residents of their say in the longrunning saga.

“This is the four Republicans on the City Council suing city voters,” Ory said by phone, referring to Move the Junkyard’s reported count of more than 9,000 Chico residents who signed a petition to qualify the referendum. (The Butte

County Clerk-Recorder certified the signatures after counting a safe number past the requisite 5,001.)

The City Council discussed the lawsuit in a closed session Tuesday (Feb. 7), but no public action was taken. Thus far, the only legal proceeding on the docket is a case management conference scheduled for July 28.

Ory was one of the founders of Move the Junkyard, but said he stepped back after being elected to the council in order to avoid perceived conflicts of interest, and to help negotiate a move with the business.

He says the petition is sound and believes it will withstand legal scrutiny, but admitted the lawsuit is jarring on a personal level.

“I have to believe that the voters will win out, and I have to say that it does cause worry in my household,” he said.

To allow Chico Scrap Metal to stay, the City

Council agreed to alter zoning codes, longterm city plans and a decade-old ordinance calling for the business to move; it also approved a development plan pitched by CSM to make operational changes and aesthetic improvements at the property.

Those actions were finalized in November, but the referendum calls for the council

to either rescind them or let Chico voters weigh in during an upcoming election.

Move the Junkyard and Ory’s stance has been that once the changes are rescinded, the city should negotiate with the business to help it relocate.

The complaint against Move the Junkyard and Ory was prepared by City Attorney Vince Ewing and two other representatives from his Southern California law firm, Alvarez-Glasman & Colvin.

Ewing expounded on several items listed in the complaint during a phone interview Tuesday, beginning with the city’s claim that each page of the petition should have included the entire text of the neighborhood plan.

“The way we read the elections code, it states that if you’re circulating a petition for signatures, you need to provide all of the relevant information,” Ewing said.

“By not including a copy of that plan and attaching all of the relevant documents, we believe they didn’t correctly inform people of what they were signing.”

The complaint also alleges the city’s actions on Chico Scrap Metal were executive rather than legislative, and therefore beyond the scope of a referendum’s power, making the referendum illegal and unen-

Chico City Councilman Karl Ory also served on the council and as mayor in the 1970s and ’80s.

forceable under city, state and national laws. He explained that legislative decisions affect broad laws and policy, while executive—or, as he called them, “adjudicated”—decisions affect specific things, such as a single property.

“A referendum can’t tell the City Council to move the junkyard, or otherwise engage in taking of land,” he said.

“If a vote was to undo what the city has done, that would result in the city taking land, which would require just compensation. We don’t believe that would be a lawful taking of land.”

In addition to asking that the referendum be nullified, the complaint requests that the defendants pay for attorney’s fees and further relief as the court sees fit.

Attorney Richard Harriman is represent-

ing Move the Junkyard in the lawsuit, while Chris Loizeaux is representing Ory. Harriman was reluctant to comment on particulars in the city’s complaint as his team is still analyzing it, but he spoke about the bigger picture.

“It seems the city has already spent enough money making mistakes on this particular project,” he said. “The majority on the City Council purports to be business-smart and shrewd, yet they continue to waste taxpayers’ money.

“My clients believe there are more effective ways to deal with this, like letting the people vote on it so we can see what the people of Chico really want,” he said. “If the referendum petition was supported by the necessary number of voters, then the city ought to allow that vote.”

Harriman said it’s not uncommon for a city to challenge a referendum, but that those legal challenges generally come after the public votes. He added it’s the first time he’s seen a city sue a sitting council member.

“That’s unprecedented, in my experience,” he said. “It seems strange Karl Ory is being victimized instead of being respected for exercising his First Amendment rights.”

City Attorney Ewing said Ory was included because he was the contact person listed on the referendum.

“The referendum gave the city two choices—they could have put it on the ballot or rescinded and started negotiating,” Ory said. “Instead, we’re subjected to a long and expensive delay, but in the end it will come right back around to those two choices.” □

Put out Chico City Council votes to lay off nine firefighters

Fire Chief Bill Hack left the City Council chambers on Tuesday (Feb. 7) Candhico was greeted with a round of applause

from the men and women who’d just lost their jobs. Some were in tears. “Thank you for trying,” one said.

Hack, choking up, managed to say, “A single defeat is not a final defeat. We will show up tomorrow and do the best we can.”

In 2014, Hack wrote the proposal for a federal grant that awarded the Chico Fire Department $5.3 million to hire 15 firefighters for two years. At the time, he considered it his greatest professional accomplishment, but now he’s convinced that the Staffing for Adequate Fire and Emergency Response (SAFER) grant hurt more than it helped. While other city departments recovered modestly from the sweeping layoffs of 2013, the fire department was artificially buoyed by the grant, Hack told the CN&R. Now that money is gone—and he has to lay off nine firefighters. That’s on top of the five who were cut loose in January.

The council’s decision not to provide additional funding ahead of the next budget cycle represents the worst-case scenario for his department, Hack said. Starting on March 7, he’ll reduce daily staffing to 14 firefighters, two fewer than the worst

point during the Great Recession and the lowest level since the early 1990s.

He regrets applying for the SAFER grant in the first place, he said. “It’s become my greatest professional disappointment.”

The city’s 2016-17 budget, passed by the coun-

cil in June, assumed the city would secure an extension of the SAFER grant. There was no backup plan when it fell through in October. The next month, with the funding set to expire on Jan. 1, the council voted to fully staff the department until March 7. That gave members of the panel time to review the Standards of Response Coverage Plan, a data-based report on the city’s fireprotection strategies completed by a Missouri-based independent consultant—

SIFT ER Singles, sized up Yep, it’s that lovey-dovey time of year again. Come Tuesday (Valentine’s Day), restaurant reservation books will be overflowing, florists will be so over red roses and jewelers will be looking forward to a break. But what if you’re single? Match.com recently released the results of its annual Singles in America survey, revealing the habits and desires of the untethered. Here are some of the findings: • 64 percent of singles hope to pick up a date at a bar, while 42 percent are looking for love while working out.

• Men are three times more likely than women to try to turn a one-night stand into a relationship.

• 58 percent of respondents say complaining on Facebook is a turnoff.

• 12 percent of single men want to date only casually.

• Millenials are 48 percent more likely than other age groups to have had hooked up before their first date.

• 53 percent of women have received a “dick pic.” Interestingly, 49 percent of them didn’t request it.

The Chico Fire Department put out 73 structure fires last year.

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Fitch & Associates—at a cost of $50,000.

The report concludes that Chico should have a minimum of 17 firefighters on duty at its six stations, based on the city’s demands.

Last year, the department responded to more than 12,000 calls for service and put out 73 structure fires.

Moreover, Chico has an especially risky college-age population, Hack said during an interview at Fire Station 1 on Salem Street.

Intentionally set mattress and couch fires in the student neighborhoods largely account for why Chico had the highest rate of arson of any California city in 2015, according to FBI crime data.

At the worst point during the Great Recession, daily staffing fell from 22 to 16 firefighters, Hack said. Since securing the SAFER grant, he’s kept a minimum of 17 firefighters on duty at all times, boosting staffing when he anticipates a lot of medical calls on big party weekends.

Hack considers 17 firefighters to be a skeleton crew, but vowed to make do with the resources providing for three fewer. “The council could vote to staff the fire department with five people, and I would give them the best damn five-person fire department there is,” he said. “My job is to let them know what the risks are.”

On Tuesday, Hack presented the council with

three options for staffing the department: make no layoffs and maintain daily staffing of 17 firefighters, as per the Standards of NEWSLINES c o n t i n u e D February 9, 2017

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Coverage report’s recommendation, at a cost of $352,150 through the end of the fiscal year; reduce daily staffing to 16 firefighters and make three layoffs at a cost of $200,000; or provide no additional funding, lay off nine firefighters and reduce daily staffing to 14.

Eight members of the public spoke on the issue. Some urged the council to fund street improvements or more police officers rather than the fire department, while others brought up the perhaps unforeseen consequences of cutting firefighters. “When a fire department is understaffed, the community’s ISO rating will drop,” said Brett Sanders, a local insurance agent. “That increases insurance premiums for Chico citizens and business owners, adding another burden on top of inflated housing costs and cost of living.”

Cost was the main concern for city officials, as well. The city’s sales tax revenues are declining and costs of employee benefits and retirement plans are skyrocketing, said City Manager Mark Orme. Though a one-time general fund allocation could bail out the fire department temporarily, the city doesn’t have the money long term.

“We’re on thin ice,” he said.

Councilman Andrew Coolidge made a motion to maintain the fire department’s current staffing level until the next budget cycle in June. That motion failed 2-5, drawing a yes from Councilwoman Ann Schwab.

Councilman Randall Stone countered with a motion for the third option: provide the department with no additional funding.

Before voting yes, Councilman Mark Sorensen said there was no ambiguity when the council accepted the SAFER grant.

“When the funding ran out, positions ran out,” he said.

Stone’s motion passed 4-3, with Coolidge, Schwab and Vice Mayor Reanette Fillmer dissenting. Hack will decide which fire stations to close by next month.

—Howard Hardee h owa rd h @ newsr ev iew.c o m

EYE ON 45 A biweekly rundown of news items out of the Trump White House and Congress

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riday (Feb. 10) marks three weeks from the day Donald Trump moved into the White House, and what a rocky start to his presidency it has been.

Beginning with this issue, CN&R is launching this special report, Eye on 45, as in the 45th president of the United States. We expect to compile it biweekly for the foreseeable future, to give readers an idea of what is taking place under the Trump administration.

Here’s just a snapshot of what’s happened over the last few weeks: Jan. 20: Inauguration Day. Trump is sworn in as president and gives a speech filled with populist rhetoric and dark undertones (e.g., “This American carnage stops right here and stops right now.”).

Hours later at the Oval Office, in a toothless yet symbolic move, he signs his first executive order (EO), which calls for the government to unravel the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare). That ball remains in Congress’ court.

Jan. 21: While millions of Women’s March participants demonstrate throughout the world, Trump gives a speech at CIA headquarters, ostensibly to win over members of the intelligence community after repeatedly criticizing the agency for its investigation concluding that Russia attempted to influence the election in his favor. Later that day, Trump spokesman Sean Spicer, during the administration’s first press briefing, lambasts the media for its coverage of the inauguration, specifically taking issue with reports that fewer people had attended the event than had attended either of President Obama’s two swearing-in ceremonies.

Jan. 22: Speaking with Meet the Press host Chuck Todd about Spicer’s comments a day earlier, Trump counselor Kellyanne Conway defends his statements by calling them “alternative facts.”

Jan. 23: POTUS signs an EO that revives the socalled “Mexico City” policy, which withholds U.S. federal funding from NGOs that offer or even simply discuss abortion services.

Jan. 24: Trump signs five executive directives.

Among them is a memorandum calling for the fasttracking of major infrastructure projects, paving the way for the controversial Keystone XL and Dakota Access pipelines, both of which were held up over environmental concerns during the Obama administration.

Jan. 25: POTUS signs two EOs. The first calls on the Department of Homeland Security to begin building a nearly 2,000-mile-long wall on the border of the U.S. and Mexico. The second calls for increased deportation of undocumented immigrants, plus a 10,000-strong increase in immigration enforcement officers. It also threatens to hold back federal funding from sanctuary cities—municipalities that vow to protect such immigrants.

Jan. 26: Following Trump’s assertion that Mexico would repay the U.S. for the cost of the wall, the president of that country, Enrique Peña Nieto, cancels his planned trip to the States. POTUS then floats the idea of an import tax on Mexican goods— a plan that experts note would thrust the cost of the wall into the laps of American consumers.

Following an ABC interview the previous day in which the president suggested he’s open to bringing back waterboarding, POTUS appears on Fox News and echoes his take that he believes the now-outlawed practice works.

Jan. 27: Trump signs perhaps his most controversial EO—a directive barring people from seven Muslim-majority countries (Iran, Iraq, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria and Yemen) from entering the U.S. for 90 days. This includes those with valid visas as well as permanent residents (i.e., those with green cards). The order also calls for a four-month ban on refugees, and an indefinite hold on Syrian refugees.

Jan. 28: Responding to a lawsuit filed by the ACLU over the ban, a federal judge issues a stay on deportations of those with visas.

POTUS elevates Steve Bannon, his chief strategist, to the National Security Council, an unprecedented move that critics in both parties say jeopardizes its nonpartisan nature.

Jan. 29. Trump gives the green light to a raid in Yemen that results in the death of a U.S. Navy SEAL, along with civilians, including 15 women and children, at least one of them American.

Jan. 30: Trump fires acting Attorney General Sally Yates, who refused to defend his travel ban.

Jan. 31: Trump nominates a conservative federal appellate court judge for the Supreme Court.

In light of arguments the travel ban is unconstitutional because it targets a religious group, Press Secretary Spicer attempts to walk back the idea that it’s a ban. This, despite Trump’s own words: “Donald J. Trump is calling for total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our representatives can figure out what the hell is going on.”

Feb. 2: The president announces he intends to repeal a federal law that prohibits nonprofits, including religious groups, from participating in politics.

Feb. 3: Trump signs two executive orders related to consumer protections. The first is a review of Dodd-Frank financial regulations, a precursor to undoing that Wall Street reform enacted after the financial crisis leading to the Great Recession.

Another EO puts the brakes on a rule requiring financial advisers to work in the best interests of their clients.

A federal judge out of Seattle temporarily halts the travel ban nationwide based on a separate ACLU lawsuit.

Feb. 5: In an interview with Fox’s Bill O’Reilly, after the host of The O’Reilly Factor called Vladimir Putin a “killer,” Trump says: “We have a lot of killers, got a lot of killers. What, you think our country is so innocent?”

Feb. 7: Vice President Mike Pence casts the tiebreaking vote in the Senate that approves the confirmation of controversial secretary of education nominee Betsy DeVos, a wealthy GOP donor who gave millions to the Trump campaign and critics consider wholly unqualified for the job.

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HEALTHLINES “Since most [centers] are not Christianbased, there’s a fear of the culture shock,” she said. “People think, ‘Are there going to be people there all dressed up in robes?

Will they make me stand around holding a candle?’ They might also be worried that they don’t know the customs, so they decide to save themselves the discomfort and embarrassment rather than try it out.”

Addressing both of those hurdles are

hundreds of mobile apps designed to teach first-timers basic mindfulness skills at their convenience. These range in quality, price and reputation. A British app called Headspace has been leading the pack and is used in a half-dozen published scientific studies showing positive correlations between use of the app and stress reduction and job happiness, among other benefits.

Headspace was founded in 2010 by Andy Puddicombe and Rich Pierson.

Pierson is a marketing whiz, but Headspace’s content is developed largely

by Puddicombe, a former Buddhist monk with a degree in circus arts. (In a 2012 TED Talk, he juggles to illustrate how our minds are easily distracted and the benefits of focus.)

The app’s mindfulness training begins with a free program called Take 10, a series of 10 guided meditation exercises and supplementary animation sequences narrated

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pathologist and vice president of the Sky Creek Dharma Center’s board of directors.

She says she’s personally benefited from mindfulness—a mental state focused on the mind and body at the present moment, achieved through meditative breathing and relaxation techniques.

The advantages of mindfulness and meditation have been well-studied and -documented in recent decades. Local psychotherapist Steve Flowers says he’s seen its efficacy firsthand in pain management and the treatment of anxiety, depression, insomnia, irritable bowel syndrome, psoriasis, high blood pressure, and many more ailments in his 20 years of teaching Mindfulness-Based Stress Reduction programs through Enloe Medical Center. He also noted several cases in which he’s seen mindfulness supplant the need for expensive—and toxic—prescription medications, and said it can even be effective in helping alleviate the mental crises

many people are experiencing over the state of American politics.

“A lot of things happening now cause us to move our minds toward the future and imagine the worst,” Flowers said. “But if we focus on the present, we can come to terms with the way things are. That doesn’t mean we should stop trying our best to improve this world and circumstances around us, but by staying in the present we can avoid a lot of anxiety and terror, and focus on acting rather than reacting, and not judging and condemning.”

Despite the known benefits and a wide interest

in meditation and mindfulness, many people don’t take the first steps. That can partly be attributed to assumptions that meditation requires rigid discipline, and Ragsdale noted a fear of the unknown can also intimidate people, particularly in the case of meditation centers like Sky Creek.

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Apps can be a good start, Ragsdale

said, cautioning that “I’m sure there’s some crappy ones out there.

“Everybody has their own personal connection point with meditation and mindfulness, but some people never utilize it,” she said. “That connection might be someone they know who meditates or a group they hear about, but if

Get mindful:

Headspace is available for iPhone, android or online at headspace.com.

The Sky Creek Dharma Center is offering free introductory meditation classes on the fourth Sunday of each month through May. Go to skycreekdharmacenter.org for more information. for info about Mindfulness-based Stress reduction courses held locally and online, go to mindfullivingprograms.com.

that first point of contact happens to be an app, I think that’s great.

Maybe they’ll continue to develop an interest to touch on other places with meditation and maybe they won’t, but I think any point of contact is a positive one.”

She also encouraged people with a deeper interest to find a group to meditate with, noting she practiced alone for years, but that her own development increased exponentially when she started visiting Sky Creek.

“The most important thing is to do it,” she said. “Because you can read about meditation, you can write about meditation, you can listen to instructions about meditation, but until you give it an earnest effort you have no idea what it will mean to you.” □

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10 days I’m going to show you a really simple way of getting some more headspace in your life,” the program begins.)

Take 10 emphasizes basic concepts like breathing, focusing on the here and now, and mentally scanning one’s body to be more aware of physical issues. It also dispels common misconceptions, such as the belief that meditation and mindfulness are about silencing one’s thoughts and blocking out surroundings to transform the mind into a blank slate.

Mindfulness, it teaches, is actually about awareness and acceptance of these distractions, then learning to focus through them.

Beyond Take 10, users can subscribe to Headspace by the month, year, or lifetime (beginning at $12.95 per month) or buy batches of sessions targeting certain goals (improving athletic ability, health, relationships, etc.).

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Let’s be clear: Sodium—you know, salt—is critical for basic body function, including regulating the balance of body fluids, but most Americans consume too much of it. U.S. Dietary Guidelines recommend that most adults consume less than 1,500 milligrams of sodium a day. Based on population studies, diets with lots of processed, packaged and restaurant food with high salt content can increase your risk of hypertension.

Here are some other risks associated with overusing the salt shaker: • Bone loss: High sodium intake increases the excretion of calcium in urine, which causes calcium to leach from bones.

• Kidney failure: Salt contributes to hypertension and that, in turn, can cause kidney dysfunction and failure.

• Stomach cancer: Some studies have linked too much salt to cancers of the stomach, colon and rectum, as well as stomach ulcers.

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Changing minds with open hearts Standing up for the poor, the environment and America’s diversity

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roll down from the top office of the Oland—orders that dismantle health coverne after another, the executive orders

age and launch the building of a wall while demolishing efforts at climate protection and access to birth control. And then a new set—excluding from the United States desperate refugee families from seven Muslim countries.

That was just in week one.

Each one of these policies is an affront to the extraordinary and diverse people we are as a nation and to our hopes for peace and well-being for all.

I watched this unfold as I was launching my new book, The Revolution Where You Live, with talks in Seattle, Portland, Ore., and other Northwest communities before heading out to the East Coast. As I tell stories from my road trip to the Rust Belt, Appalachia, and to Native American reservations, I am also weaving in ways we can apply the lessons from these stories to this time of Trump administration shock and awe.

“How do I speak to neighbors who are Trump supporters?” one person asked at a packed book event at Powell’s City of Books in Portland. Another person asked, “What do I do with the anger I’m experiencing every day?”

I thought about the responses of Standing Rock water protectors to the multistate, heavily armed police force there to protect the pipeline and its investors.

Water protectors have little besides their bodies and public support. And prayer.

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teer medics sweep in to care for the injured and for those disabled by pepper spray and blasts of icy water.

On one occasion while I was there, Lyla June Johnston, a young Navajo woman, led a prayer walk to the Morton County Sheriff’s headquarters to offer forgiveness and prayers for police officers and their families.

“We don’t want to become the very thing that is hurting us,” she said as people gathered for the prayer walk. “We want to keep our minds, hearts and spirits clear. Only then will the ancestors be able to move through us to protect the water, the women, the children, the elders.”

We can learn from this, regardless of whether prayer is part of our belief systems.

We can let anger energize us but not turn it into violence. We can start difficult conversations by speaking from the heart, sharing our own pain, and our wish for a world where people of all races and backgrounds are safe and free.

By beginning sentences with the word “I,” we can stay grounded in our own experiences and passions rather than projecting our anger onto others. And we can use that grounding to help us listen without About this story:

Sarah van Gelder wrote this article for yeS! Magazine.

Sarah is co-founder and editor at large of yeS! Magazine. Her new book, The revolution Where you Live: Stories From a 12,000-Mile Journey Through a New america, is available now from yeS! read more about her road trip and book here and follow her on Twitter @sarahvangelder.

getting triggered.

That doesn’t mean compromising on our stands for justice, ecological sanity and inclusiveness.

“When we go unarmed, this is not an indication that we are weak,” Johnston said.

“It’s an indication that we are profoundly courageous. Even though we’re scared, we’re stepping out with love as our leader.”

There are reasons to believe that such a heart-centered approach works.

A few years ago, when same-sex marriage was still banned in many states, LGBTQ couples publicly declared their love for each other. When one state cracked open its laws and couples rushed to get married, there was an outpouring of joy and celebration. As LGBTQ people spoke more freely, nearly everyone eventually discovered that they too knew LGBTQ people.

It took some time, but today same-sex marriage is so well-established that it wasn’t even an issue in an election characterized by culture-war politics. Love won.

Research on communication regarding climate change shows something similar.

When a climate skeptic hears concerns about global warming from a trusted friend, the message is much more likely to get through.

We learn more deeply and change more readily when there is an emotional connection. And as important as facts and figures are, citing research and experts can be experienced as one-upmanship.

We will need to rise up again and again in resistance to Trump appointments and policies. Sharing our own stories, fears and aspirations can change minds and open hearts.

Native American activist Lyla June Johnston inspires the author through her message of open-heartedness. Find her music videos on YouTube.

It’s difficult to be vulnerable, but inspired by Lyla June Johnston, I believe we can use our open-heartedness to overcome Trump’s hatefilled white nationalism and build toward an inclusive and progressive nation. □

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What do your customers like best about your restaurant?

Our atmosphere, where nearly everyone knows each other.

Also that we buy our ingredients fresh locally, including our meat from a local butcher, which keeps the money in our community. They like our diverse menu, such as roasted chicken, and fish and shrimp tacos. But we’re famous for our hand-ground, 1/3-pound Grande Burgers, chili verde, and our handmade milkshakes made with premiumgrade ice cream. Plus, you get a free 4-ounce chili while you wait on your food.

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I hear Taco Tuesday is a big hit.

Yes, we started it in the ’80s and it’s reached cult status. You get two tacos for just $1.80, and it’s usually standing-room-only. We serve about 2,000 tacos each Tuesday, and people don’t mind waiting up to an hour. They socialize, drink, eat free chili, and everyone knows each other.

How do you keep it running after all these decades?

It’s hard work and dedication. I work seven days a week, opening and closing, while others go to birthday parties and vacations.

Self-employed restaurant owners don’t get weekends, nights or holidays off if they want to stay in business. But I don’t do it on my own. We have a great staff, including my managing son, Levi, and we get very gracious support from the community.

What brought Guy Fieri in here?

He actually ate our tacos here twice, a year apart, about three or four years ago. He came in with a local friend during

Oroville’s annual Salmon Festival.

He joked that we were “a bunch of White guys making Mexican food.”

What inspired you to open Mike’s Grande Burger?

I ran my own burger place in Gridley called The Feed Bag. I knew burgers and wanted to do it in a bigger town. This place had a nice building, so here we are 36 years later!

What do you like best about it?

Getting to know everyone in town, including generations of customers. We’re on our second generation now, who were kids when we opened. Now the grandkids of our original customers are coming in.

Anything new?

Our whole indoor bar area was built just last spring and adds to the casual atmosphere. We’ve also built a large outdoor patio with a stage, which will have live music this summer.

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February is here (already). Who’s stuck with their New Year’s resolutions this far? Yeah, well, I was pretty practical this year and didn’t set any hard and fast rules for myself. That generally leads to disappointment. I do want to try to get into better shape, though, and have long struggled with that dreaded thing called motivation.

I’ve noticed recently that there seem to be more gyms in town than there were a few years ago. Several of them are based on high-intensity CrossFit workouts (Google counts six in Chico!). Others, like In Motion Fitness (where I have a membership) and Chico Sports Club, are large, well-equipped, generally busy exercise meccas. Where’s the in-between? There’s Anytime Fitness, on Forest Avenue, which is open 24/7. And then there’s Orangetheory Fitness, the new kid in town. I popped in to the small studio in the New Earth Market complex last week to find out more about the “orange bikes place.” I was immediately greeted by the energetic Eryk Thomas, who explained the gym’s philosophy and how it works. It’s certainly not your traditional gym.

First of all, there are no on-your-own workouts here. Orangetheory offers one-hour classes throughout the day and members sign up for the ones they want. (I like this, as I have a hard time committing to the same time, same day, week after week.) Thomas walked me over to a set of large windows with a view of a row of treadmills and then pointed to a screen that showed the heart rates of those in the class (members wear heart monitors during workouts). There’s a science behind it that I didn’t quite understand, but the gist is that the “orange zone” is optimal and can lead to up to 36 hours of calorie-burning.

The workout room is organized by station and consists of the treadmills, water rowing machines and benches/weights, etc. The music seemed insanely loud from the other side of the glass, but everyone looked pretty pumped. A trainer with a mic walked the room.

Overall, I like the concept. And the fact that Thomas addressed most of the people who walked in by name. He invited me for a free trial workout—if I get the guts (and the motivation), I’ll check it out and provide appropriate updates in this space.

As an aside: That complex is looking nice, with the new SunPower showroom now open there as well. Unfortunately, it’s all a little overshadowed by the stillempty Hollywood Video building and the ramshackle old Scrambles.

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Gut check Exploring the microscopic worlds inside of us

STORY AND PHOTOS BY JOSIE LUCIANO

W

hen I was in the third grade, my class took a field trip to the Ruth Lilly Health Education Center in Indianapolis. As the lights dimmed in the amphitheater, a spotlight directed our gaze toward TAM—the Transparent Anatomical Manikin best known as the skinless, winged model on the cover of Nirvana’s 1993 album, In Utero.

Even as 8-year-olds, we knew TAM was beautiful. Her organs blinked on and off while a disembodied voice narrated the story of her parts. We giggled when her breasts flickered and gawked at her endless intestines. But TAM was missing the 100 trillion microbes that reside in what scientists sometimes call the “forgotten organ”—the human microbiome. This is the teeming community of bacteria, fungi and viruses that silently makes its home in our guts.

I recently saw TAM on sale for $1,900 on a museum listserv, and thought I would write her a primer on her missing part.

Dear TAM, grab a sandwich. This is going to take about 12 minutes to read.

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Biochemist David Mills has spent decades studying microbes.

Small wonders The fact that we’re crawling with microbes is not breaking news. Humans have been aware of bacteria since the late 17th century, when Dutch basketmaker and amateur scientist Antonie van Leeuwenhoek discovered tiny “animalcules” swimming in circles under his microscope.

Over the years, microbiology grew up alongside natural selection and germ theory. By the 1870s, the initial wonder and amazement surrounding microbes had been replaced by a shock-and-awe campaign aimed at destroying all diseasecausing pathogens.

Today, germ theory still maintains a strong foothold in hospitals (a necessary thing) and sterilized playgrounds (an unnecessary thing), and, until recently, at every CVS checkout counter across the country that sold antibacterial hand soap (a thing that was banned by the FDA back in September).

But just as CVS was preparing to stop stocking its shelves with these products, it was restocking the Greek yogurt and probiotic supply. Things are changing, and it definitely seems like the narrative around microbes is, too. “Germs” are now “bacteria,” and “bacteria” is now a “good guy.”

Sort of.

As in any other ecosystem, good guys are only good when they’re in the right place at the right time, and the same goes for the bad ones. Whatever part of our forgotten organ they live in—stomach, small intestine, large intestine—every part has a different state of “normal” that changes over time.

For humans, our long-term relationship with microbes begins on Day One. During birth, babies travel from the sterile womb to a world that is decidedly not. On the way out, they pick up their first residents

and spend the next few years nurturing them.

It’s a subject that David Mills, a professor and biochemist at UC Davis, has been studying for the past 20 years.

“It’s all about how the baby gets inoculated,” Mills explained to me in his lab.

“When a baby is born, especially vaginally, there’s a whole bunch of microbes in the vagina that get into the mouth of the baby. This is going to get gross—but as the baby comes out, its face is typically facing mom’s rectum. And I think nature intended it that way … a baby starts out in life literally with an inoculum from mom.”

He went on to explain that babies born via C-section are colonized differently, mostly picking up skin microbes during delivery. Research suggests that although the longer-term impacts on eventual gut flora are still up for debate, there is often a delay in prominent members of the formative gut microbiome.

What isn’t as questionable is the impact of breast milk on development. If you

“Germs” are now “bacteria,” and “bacteria” is now a “good guy.”

Sort of.

were going to design a health food specifically formulated to shape the human gut, it would look exactly like breast milk.

Besides providing essential nutrients and fatty acids, breast milk antibodies also inhibit the growth of certain microbes while prebiotic fiber—indigestible to babies—is broken down in the colon by a different set of beneficial microbes.

One subspecies in particular, Bifidobacteria longum infantis, can “vacuum it all up,” according to Mills. “It has every kind of glycosyl hydrolase cutting enzyme necessary to cleave any human milk oligosaccharides that can be thrown at it. And it has all the transport systems for pulling stuff into the cells, so we think it co-evolved with human milk. It’s literally a partner to mom’s milk.”

After 300 million years of mammalian evolution, breast milk is a strong example of symbionts that benefit each other over the long run. But we shouldn’t be fooled into projecting any intended generosity on their part.

Roommates, not lovers “The bacteria are not there for us,” explained Shavawn Forester, a dietician and nutrition professor at the University of Nevada, Reno. “They’re in it for themselves. We just happen to be their environment. … They work together because they’re in balance, whatever that balance might be, even if that balance is a little bit more of one than the other.”

Forester’s take on symbiosis may run counter to the commonly held belief that symbiosis implies mutual intent, but intention is never part of the equation. Even when two organisms “help” each other, their cooperation is based only on a shaky alliance of function and individual benefit.

If something surrounding the environmental conditions of that relationship changes, so does the relationship itself.

Take E. coli for example. Though we often think of Escherichia coli bacteria as the pathogen responsible for incidents like GUT C O N T I N U E D

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the infamous outbreak at Jack in the Box in 1993 or the two to three beef/sprouts/ salad-related headlines we have come to expect every year, there are plenty of nonpathogenic strains that are usual residents in our gut.

These strains provide the important function of producing Vitamin K and B-complex vitamins as well as taking up important real estate that could otherwise become a home to more harmful microorganisms. However, if E. coli crosses a perforated intestinal barrier, it can cause problems such as urinary tract infections in its new conditions.

Given the thousand or so species of microbes that live in our inner ecosystems, there is a whole lot of potential for interaction. So much, in fact, that we’re just beginning to map the basic patterns that play out in our guts every day.

“What we’re learning is that we change the microbiome when we change diet,” Forester said. “We can see differences in people who eat a mostly meat-based diet compared to a plant-based diet. We can see differences in younger people versus older people, people who exercise versus people who don’t exercise.”

Vegetarians might have a greater concentration than do omnivores of Prevotella, a genus-level bacteria that helps break down carbohydrates. But all that means is that vegetarians feed microbes more carbohydrates and therefore colonize a niche of bacteria that breaks down carbs.

Their numbers are also determined in part by having less competition with fat- and protein-eating bacteria.

Although there are correlations between certain phyla-level bacteria for conditions such as obesity and heart disease, specific genus species for particular diseases like food poisoning and yeast overgrowth,

as well a general association between diversity and health—it can be frustrating to know there isn’t a definitive list of microbes that make up a healthy gut.

Unless there’s a pathogenic species present, DNA sequencing provides a snapshot for a moment in time and a stage of succession.

Forester put it broadly, “There are differences, and those differences contribute to health. And I would say, for the most part, that’s kind of what we know for sure.”

She still subscribes to the same diet that she always has for her patients— a 50-60 percent plant-based diet, and although Forester advises eating lots of vegetables with prebiotic fiber for our microorganisms to eat, she stops short of recommending probiotic supplements, calling into question the use of airdropping a dozen species into a gut that already has hundreds of established communities.

Others echo this sentiment. Jack Gilbert, the microbial ecologist behind projects such as the Earth Microbiome Project and the Hospital Microbiome Project cites the success of targeted probiotic use for certain conditions like diarrhea and food allergies, but decries many of the claims that the unregulated probiotic industry is known for.

“It’s hard, isn’t it?” Gilbert said in a recent phone interview. “The vast majority of the spurious claims are around the improvement of ‘wellness’ in your gut.

Because that’s the only claim. … There’s no evidence that consistent consumption of a probiotic yogurt or of a probiotic pill will have any substantial influence on maintaining health.”

This is probably true for a majority of the population for the majority of the

“There’s no evidence that consistent consumption of a probiotic yogurt or of a probiotic pill will have any substantial influence on maintaining health.”

— Jack Gilbert, microbial ecologist

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probiotics out there—but don’t worry, TAM, there’s still promise. A recent study by microbiologist Jens Walter of the University of Alberta demonstrated that when volunteers were given a strain of Bifidobacterium longum, a common gut bacteria belonging to the same species as Mills’ B. longum infantis, almost a third of the participants retained the bacteria in their gut for as long as six months, demonstrating that it is possible to establish a residence of probiotics far more permanent than the typical three-day flush.

The key to making them stick? There needs to be a niche available for the bacteria to fill. So, those who were best able to integrate the new species were also those who already had less B. longum as well as fewer bacteria that performed similar functions. Just like any species in any ecosystem.

Number 2 Even if you have missed every microbiome headline that has graced science and news magazines alike for the past few years, you might have still managed to hear about fecal microbial transplants (FMTs). And they are exactly what they sound like.

While scientists step through all the hoops to perform exploratory mouse experiments and double-blind, peerreviewed studies on things like milk, probiotics, and gut-brain axis studies, there has been a different kind of demand for one particularly nasty pathogen called Clostridium difficile, or C. diff, as it’s commonly known.

Though C. diff is a naturally occur-

Mills, a UC Davis professor, thinks Bifidobacteria longum infantis co-evolved with human milk.

ring bacteria in a small percentage of the population, it doesn’t affect the majority of people who carry it. Those who do become infected often have compromised immune systems from recent antibiotic use that paves the way for C. diff to out-compete a gut that’s depleted of its regular flora.

Overnight, those afflicted with a severe infection can experience chronic bouts of diarrhea, abdominal cramping, vomiting, colitis, and even kidney failure. It’s a terrible disease, and patients will do anything to find relief.

Due to the persistent and crippling nature of the disease, it had been common for C. diff patients to go the DIY route, well before official human trials were underway. A mix of a friend or family member’s stool sample, a blender and an enema bag is just about all you need.

When word spread that it actually worked, a still bustling Internet community sprung up around the procedure. In 2013, the first randomized human trial took place and produced a staggering 94 percent success rate, an unheard of number for medical studies. The next year, FMTs were classified as an “investigational new drug” by the FDA for cases of C. diff.

But until FMTs are formally approved for other inflammatory bowel diseases such as Crohn’s, people continue to administer them on their own. Many thousands of people have been helped by FMTs, but it is not all smooth sailing for patients. Since FMTs move entire microbial ecosystems from one person to another—an interaction that the medical com-

munity still knows very little about on a species-to-species basis—there are bound to be unintended consequences.

In a FMT performed last year, the concept behind a mouse trial was unwittingly replicated in humans when a 32-year-old woman experienced significant weight gain (41 pounds) in the two months following the procedure after receiving a stool sample from her daughter who, although obese, had no other health problems that came up during screening. Although the patient’s C. diff symptoms have disappeared, she has been unable to lose the weight, according to the clinician’s report.

Looking ahead to the future of FMTs, weight gain is probably one of the lighter consequences of undergoing a procedure that is not well understood. But since they seem like the magic ticket to a population that would do just about anything to get rid of their pain, it goes without saying that clinical doctors and scientists have a responsibility to point out the potential dangers of transplants and the holes that exist in screening.

This doesn’t always happen, though, which is the reason that microbiologist Jonathan Eisen has taken to the Twitterverse to chide doctors and fellow scientists for hyping what science hasn’t yet proven.

Over the past few years, Eisen has given out several “Overselling the Microbiome” awards to doctors who recommend FMTs for neurological disorders, an unproven treatment.

Although it is too soon to make the assertion that FMTs should be used to treat disorders like schizophrenia, depression or Alzheimer’s, the concept of the gut-brain axis is sound.

Basically, it describes the twoway communication that happens between the body’s two brains—the enteric nervous system (located in the gut and gut flora) and the central nervous system. This can happen a few different ways. Like when the GI tract sends signals up to the brain through the vagus nerve. Or when the gut bacteria secrete neurotransmitters such as GABA and tryptophan. Or bloodborne chemicals. Or hormones. In many cases, the enteric nervous system does not even need to communicate with the central nervous system to elicit reflexes.

... the concept of the gut-brain axis is sound. All of this has earned the gut its “second brain” nickname and has inspired research ... the way the gut regulates appetite and the effect that probiotics and gut flora have on stress.

All of this has earned the gut its “second brain” nickname and has inspired research ranging from how microbiome formation affects neurotransmitters to the way the gut regulates appetite and the effect that probiotics and gut flora have on stress.

This last study was recently presented at Sierra Nevada College in a talk by UC Davis physiologist Melanie Gareau titled “Gut Feeling: How Intestinal Microbes Modulate Mood and Behavior.” It was delivered to a packed house.

During the talk, Gareau presented mouse trials showing that negative manipulation of the gut microbiota could lead to permeability and therefore changes in mood and behavior. They also found that adding beneficial bacteria mitigated this response. No one in the audience missed the implications of this result—the possibility that probiotics might just work after all.

The rest of the evening was spent with Gareau graciously fielding personal health questions, a gesture that, in the midst of her special research presentation, captured the tricky state of microbiome research in general—just a few facts and a gut full of questions.

After the talk was over, as we were walking back to our cars, I overheard one woman say aloud what I was thinking in my head.

“Goodbye, TAM.” Just kidding. What she said was, “It’s an exciting time for science.” Ω

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Arts &Culture “Empire of the Ants,” by Michael Mulcahy

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Paintings that go ‘pop!’

Crazy cartoon figures in new 1078 show

‘IMichael ings. I don’t really know what is going on in them myself,” Mulcahy said, laughing heartily.

never know what people see when they come to these paint-

Mulcahy laughs a lot, which may explain his fondness for cartoon images, as evidenced by the 25 paintings that comprise his new show at Chico’s by 1078 Gallery.

Robert Speer It’s called The Monday Funnies, perhaps to distinguish it from “the Sunday funnies” in rober tspe er@ daily newspapers. Those cartoons tell stories, newsrev iew.c om but these vivid “pop-artish” paintings, to use Mulcahy’s description, do nothing of the sort—or, rather, they leave it up to the viewer Review: Michael Mulcahy’s to find a story, or stories, in them.

Mulcahy calls them “collages in paint,” The Monday Funnies shows through Feb. 27 acknowledging that their cartoon elements at 1078 Gallery. often bear no relation to each other and are 1078 Gallery there simply because Mulcahy thought they 820 broadway brought color or architectural balance to the 343-1973 painting. www.1078gallery.org The retired building contractor and antiquarian book dealer has lived in Chico since 1994, having moved here from the Bay Area.

Of medium height and with a neatly trimmed white beard, he talked with energetic enthusiasm during the Thursday (Feb. 2) reception for the show. He pointed out that the first painting on the left as one enters the gallery, “The Artist Eagerly Awaits Visitors to Open Studios 1988,” is a cartoonish self-portrait made “when my hair was a little redder.”

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that sparks his imagination, and builds a painting around it.

He’s been painting such images since the 1970s, and he calls this exhibit “sort of” a retrospective because it looks back at only one of several styles he’s developed.

Mulcahy’s website (mulcahyart.artspan.com) shows he’s also painted figures, landscapes, “strange animals” and Middle Eastern scenes, among others. What they have in common is his affection for “bold, brilliant color” that goes “pop!” and his devotion to the acrylic medium.

Special Events RETHINKING MEXICAN INDIGENISMO: Professor Stephen E. Lewis explores what the rise and fall of indigenismo can tell us about indigenous people and the nation in contemporary Mexico. Th, 2/9, 7:30pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 8986333, www.csuchico.edu/humanitiescenter.

Music LAS CAFETERAS: Born in the streets of Los Angeles, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern-day stories with a mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock. Th, 2/9, 7:30-9pm. $10-$16. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperformances.com.

Theater OF KITES AND KINGS: Northern California playwright Gary Wright’s hysterical account of America’s revolution through the eyes of Benjamin Franklin’s landlady and confidant, Polly Stevenson. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Road in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

In his gallery talk, Mulcahy said he was like most kids in that

his love of cartoons began early. It started with Disney figures, but he soon graduated to such outré cartoonists as the great George Herriman, creator of the often surreal Krazy Kat, in which Ignatz the mouse pelts Krazy with bricks but the cat takes it as a sign of love.

Herriman was a big influence on the generation of cartoonists who emerged in the ’60s, people like R. Crumb, Charles Schulz, Gilbert Shelton and Art Spiegelman. For his part, Mulcahy has never been attracted to traditional cartooning, with its running casts of characters and storylines. He’s not a storyteller, he says; he’s a painter who appropriates cartoon images and transforms them into something else.

Whether that qualifies as art, and whether Mulcahy’s paintings in this exhibit are good art, is really up to the viewer. I myself don’t know. I enjoy the brilliant colors and fanciful figures and appreciate the artist’s technical prowess, but most of these pieces are a jumble. Mulcahy says he can’t make sense of them—well, neither can I. Others will have a different experience, of course. That’s why I recommend that anyone who enjoys cartoons, or cartoon-style illustrations, or even just colorful paintings see this show. You’ll enjoy it. □

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BOBBY BONES: Host of nationally distributed

GRAND OPERA CINEMA SERIES: ELIXIR OF LOVE:

radio program The Bobby Bones Show brings his Funny and Alone Stand-Up Comedy Tour to Chico with openers country musician Walker Hayes and Australian singer/songwriter Nikita Karmen. Sa, 2/11, 7:30pm. $26.25- $51.25.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State, (530) 8986333, www.csuchico.edu/upe.

BOBBY BONES Saturday, Feb. 11 Laxson Auditorium

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CHICO WINTER OPEN 8-BALL TOURNAMENT: The Chico Men’s and Women’s Pool Leagues host an open 8-ball tourney with roughly $1,000 in prizes ($500 first place). Call 966-5632 or 9660843 for more info. Sa, 2/11, 1pm. $10 entry fee.

Oasis Bar & Grill, 1007 W. First St., (530) 3434305, www.oasisbarandgrill.net.

FAMILY FUN DAY: Family friendly fun at Chico Museum, including carnival style games, a magician, crafts and all of the museum’s historical exhibits. Sa, 2/11, 11am-3pm. Suggested donation $3-$5. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

MY FAIR LADY: Classic Lerner and Loewe musical in which pompous phonetics professor Henry Higgins takes it upon himself to transform a Cockney working girl into a cultured member of high society. Th-Sa, 7:30pm, Su, 2pm. $16$22. Chico Theater Company, 166-F Eaton Road, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheater company.com.

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CELEBRATING OUR PAST AND PRESENT: Department of Music and Theatre faculty take part in the “Year of Creativity” presented by the College of Humanities and Fine Arts, honoring colleagues from years gone by with a recital. F, 2/10, 7:30pm. Free. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-5152, www.csuchico.edu/muta.

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.

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LOVE NARRATIVES & SENTIMENTAL MUSINGS:

OF KITES AND KINGS: See Thursday. Theatre on

Reception for new exhibition of artwork by Caitlin Schwerin about love and subduing struggles with thoughts of positivity. F, 2/10, 5-8pm. A Beautiful Life Furnishings, 250 E. First St. downtown Chico across from the US Bank, (530) 487-7229.

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

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

Music THE BROTHERS COMATOSE: Hard-touring San Francisco band with Southwestern-tinged, rowdy stringband sound. Locals Low Flying Birds open the show. F, 2/10, 8pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 342-2727.

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FIX CHICO SKATEPARK FUNDRAISER: Fundraiser for the Chico Skatepark including a dinner, first-hour hosted wine bar, silent/live auction and music from John Seid and Friends featuring Bob Littell and Larry Peterson. Sa, 2/11, 6-10pm. $45. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., (530) 518-3452, www.fix chicoskatepark.com.

I HEART ANTHROPOLOGY FAMILY DAY: A free day at the museum with tours of the new exhibit, Hmong Reflections, and activities including designing a story cloth, learning about animal symbols in Hmong textiles, taking a US citizenship test, Hmong folk tales and Hmong dancers. Sa, 2/11, 11am-3pm. Free. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Meriam Library Complex At Chico State.

Showing of 2008 recording of this comedic opera set in a small Italian-American community in the Napa Valley, circa 1915, sung in Italian with English subtitles. Su, 2/12, 2pm. $10-$18. Zingg Recital Hall, 400 W First St., (530) 898-6333, www.csuchico.edu/upe.

SCRIBES IN LOVE: Local poets will be making themselves available to create on-demand love poetry just in time for Valentine’s Day, with refreshments provided. Su, 2/12, 1pm. $5 per poem. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

SPEED DATING FOR PET LOVERS: Event providing an opportunity for single pet lovers to get together in a casual, exciting and pressurefree environment while helping to raise funds for BHS. Register online to reserve your spot.

Su, 2/12, 2-6:30pm. $15 for admission. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-7917 ext. 109. www.buttehumane.org/event/ speed-dating-for-pet-lovers.

Music A VALENTINE AFFAIR: LADY & GOD’S FIDDLER: A memorable tribute recital to famed violinist Jascha Heifetz that also acts as a benefit concert for the North State Symphony’s “Explore Music” program with the Butte Music Teacher’s Association of California Youth Orchestra. Su, 2/12, 7pm. $45. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.northstatesymphony.org.

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

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Theater SLOW THEATRE: Rob Burton and Paul Redmond

read And Then Come the Night Jars by Bea Roberts, a finalist for the Susan Blackburn Smith Award 2016. M, 2/13, 7pm. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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Special Events VEGGIE STARTS FOR YOUR SWEETHEART: Grub Ed provides the seeds, soil, six-pack container and growing instructions, you provide the love. Tu, 2/14, 1-4pm. Free. Chico Natural Foods Cooperative, 818 Main St., (239) 272-9661, www.grubed.org.

Music DARK STAR ORCHESTRA: Long-running Grateful Dead tribute act that has been recreating the Grateful Dead live experience for more than 15 years and has played over 2,000 shows. Tu, 2/14, 7pm. $28 in advance/$33 at the door.

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

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

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VALENTINE’S COMEDY NIGHT: Hosted by Rachel Myles and featuring Shahera Hyatt and Johnny Taylor Jr. from Sacramento, and locals Becky Lynn, Hank Duke, Rich Morarre, Caleb Maines and Casi Pantalóne. Sa, 2/11, 8pm. $5.

Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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

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

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BARELY SKATING BY Made up of skaters, parents and other folks who just want to get involved, Chico Skatepark Solutions is a local nonprofit that is hoping to not only expand and improve Chico’s languishing skatepark, but also help the city build additional skateparks. To that end, the group is hosting its second annual Fix Chico Skatepark Fundraiser at The Big Room on Saturday, Feb. 11. The event features live music and a hosted wine bar, but the real attraction is a live and silent auction that includes items like a guitar signed

by Tommy Emmanuel, Chrome Bags, skateboards, bikes, local art and more.

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FINE ARTS A WEAVER’S JOURNEY Shows through Feb 23 Butte College Art Gallery SEE ART

Art 1078 GALLERY: The Monday Funnies, bright, Pop Art-ish works by Bay Area artist Michael Mulcahy. Through 2/25. 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: A Weaver’s

Journey, exhibition of textile work by Chico artist Sandy Fisher. Through 2/23. 3536 Butte Campus Drive in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

BUTTE COUNTY LIBRARY, OROVILLE BRANCH: Black History Month Photo Exhibit, photo exhibit exploring the history of black migration to Southside Oroville. Through 2/28, 4:30-5:30pm.

1820 Mitchell Ave. in Oroville, (530) 538-7642, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovery Series, annual

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exhibition featuring artists with limited exposure. This year’s artists are Bonnie Smith, Sandra Reylea and photographer Jamie Blankenship. Through 2/24. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Kandis Horton-Jorth, mixed media pieces by Chico artist Kandis Horton-Jorth. Through 2/28. 434 Orange St., (530) 895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ken W. Moore, oil paintings and pencil drawings by Northern California Artist Ken W. Moore. Through 4/14.

265 Cohasset Road inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Artworks by James

Snidle, oil paintings and mono prints created

by James Snidle, over the years. Many are recognizable plein-air paintings of the Butte County scenes and locals. Through 2/25.

254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Currency, 11th Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition, a biennial event showcasing national print artistry through an exploration of the theme of “currency,” curated by Erin Sullivan Maynes. Through 3/4. Chico State, (530) 898-4476, www.theturner.org.

KENDALL HALL: Black History Month Art Show, exhibition of art celebrating Black History

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Month with a portion of proceeds going to benefit the Chico State Black Faculty and Staff Association. Through 2/28. Chico State, (530) 898-5397.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing exhibits, rotating exhibits featuring local artists.

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

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Currency, 11th Turner National Print Competition and Exhibition, a biennial event showcasing national print artistry through an exploration of the theme of “currency,” curated by Erin Sullivan Maynes. Through 3/4. Chico State.

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

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

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

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, a permanent exhibit, featuring a variety of displays depicting Chico’s history—from John Bidwell and the Mechoopda Indians to Robin Hood and Hmong Life in Chico. 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.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY:

Hmong Reflections: Stories of Our Own, Hmong history, culture and identity as told by students from the local Hmong community.

Through 7/27. Meriam Library Complex at Chico State.

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More than 60 performers bring Beatles music to life at Laxson Abbey Road had broken up. The band had not performed Ba liveBeatles concert for three years, preferring to pursue their y the time

was released in 1969, The

musical and sonic craftsmanship within recording studios under the mentorship of producer and collaborator George Martin, and by Carey Wilson thus avoided the chaos of shrieking Beatlemaniacs and the unsatisfactory audio output of live-music technology in the pre-stadium rock days. So Review: naturally, many of the band’s admiruncle Dad’s art ers have longed for and imagined Collective and how those late, great albums—Sgt. Chico Performances Pepper’s, White Album, Abbey present abbey road, Friday, Feb. 3, Road—might’ve translated live.

Last weekend, for two nights Laxson auditorium (Feb. 3-4), Chico’s Uncle Dad’s Art Collective brought its own vision of Abbey Road, plus a few of the band’s other late hits, to the Laxson Auditorium stage, and one can only wonder what John, Paul, George and Ringo would have made of the spectacle.

The Uncle Dad’s folks, who’ve proved their mastery of presenting genuinely spectacular renditions of popular hits with their previous tributes to Michael Jackson’s Thriller, Prince’s Purple Rain and Queen’s A Night at the Opera, outdid themselves with the Beatles extravaganza. Staging and costumery were backed by elaborate musical arrangements, performed by the 17-member Uncle Dad’s orchestra, plus several well-chosen guest vocalists and bands from the Chico scene. All that was combined with full Vegas-worthy choreography and acrobatics that transported the Laxson audience to theatrical heights that my 15-yearold brain would have found unimaginable listening to the album on the family hi-fi back in ’69.

Opening number “Come Together” emerged from a surge of thrumming electronic pulsations, the iconic drum beat bringing us into the world of rock ’n’ roll musical theater through which the collective would shepherd us for the rest of the evening as the Uncle Dad’s company vocalists—Jenise Coon, Daun Weiss, Kristin Baugher and Ashiah Scharaga—belted out the lyrics with gospel intensity surrounded by a cloud of dancers. Segueing seamlessly into George Harrison’s gorgeous “Something,” the ensemble earned an enthused round of applause leading into featured vocalist Madeline Matthews’ musical-theater-style rendition of “Maxwell’s Silver Hammer,” performed with

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apparently unrelated but well-executed choreography

by Choreo Chaos, one of the show’s many dance and/ or acrobat troupes.

Featured singer Ira Walker’s rendition of “Oh! Darling” followed the original arrangement fairly faithfully, but jettisoned the vocal acrobatics of Paul McCartney, opting instead for a shouted blues approach. Counterbalancing the blues, guest vocalist Erin Lizardo’s rendition of “Octopus’s Garden” was a delight for the young at heart, with fantasy costumes (designed by Lizardo, the show’s costumer) and a gaggle of dancers under wafting seafoam silk.

Also providing contrasts of the yin/yang extreme were John Mahoney’s cocktail-jazz rendition of “Across the Universe,” complete with a stellar horn solo by Rocky Winslow, and the genuine psychedelic rock of local funk band GravyBrain’s “Happiness Is a Warm Gun,” featuring Glenn Tucker’s far out keytar and Brian Asher’s incisive guitar backed by sparkling singers Kai’om Fossum and Katie McConnell.

Opening the second “side” of the concert, musical theater veteran Kelly Houston sang a piano-colored interpretation of “She’s Leaving Home” that illuminated the song’s maudlin bourgeois narrative. Keeping with the show’s presentation of songs that contrasted each other, Kyle Williams’ gorgeous, ukulelestrummed rendition of “Strawberry Fields Forever” managed to project the psychedelicacy of the original in a very folksy and crowd-winning manner.

Following Pat Hull’s charming, country-blues rendition of “Blackbird,” party-rockers The Quasimofos gave Sgt. Pepper’s “A Day in the Life” a turgid treatment that built to a dramatic climax that was perfectly complemented by the brilliant eight-song suite at the end of Abbey Road. And a lineup of Chico allstar vocalists delivered the suite’s tunes, highlighted

by Hannah Jane Kile’s “You Never Give Me Your Money,” and singer Evin Wolverton and aerialist Courtney Oosten’s without-a-net interpretation of “Golden Slumbers.”

All in all, the show was a crowd-thrilling extravaganza, proving once again that the Uncle Dad’s Art Collective has tapped into the beating heart of Chico’s middle-class, middle-age theater and music lovers with great insight and marketability. Can’t wait to see what they do next! □

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THURSDAY 2/9—WEDNESDAY 2/15 ACEYALONE

Re-Notes. F, 2/10, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 3434915.

Friday, Feb. 10 Lost on Main

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that also includes AZ.Redsmoke, AfriCali, Hap Hathaway and Himp C, with art by Johnny Dutro and more. F, 2/10, 6pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

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CHICO UNPLUGGED: Singer-songwriter showcase and contest put on once a semester by Chico State’s SOTA Productions. Th, 2/9, 7-9pm, Th, 2/16, 7-9pm, Th, 2/23, 7-9pm. Free. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 310-1657, www.www.facebook.com/ ChicoSOTAP.

MONOPHONICS: Bay Area psychedelic soul band that incorporates elements of doo-wop, rock ‘n’ roll and pop to create uniquely cinematic music.

Locals Swamp Zen get things started.

Th, 2/9, 9pm. $20. 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.

LAS CAFETERAS: Born in the streets of Los Angeles, Las Cafeteras are remixing roots music and telling modern-day stories with a mishmash of punk, hip-hop, beat music, cumbia and rock. Th, 2/9, 7:30-9pm. $10-$16.

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

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ACEYALONE: West Coast rapper known for his innovation as both a solo artist and a member of groups like Freestyle Fellowship, headlines a stacked lineup

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.

BLUE COLLAR MEN: Rocking tribute to the

look and sound of Styx. F, 2/10, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 5333885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

THE BROTHERS COMATOSE: Hard-touring San Francisco band with Southwestern-tinged, rowdy stringband sound. Locals Low Flying Birds open the show. F, 2/10, 8pm. $18. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St., (530) 3422727.

THE INFAMOUS SWANKS: SAMMIE Awardwinning Sacramento rockabilly band meets up with Chico’s The Cretin’s Cattle and Jimmy Reno & The

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

Underhouse Music heads up a stellar lineup of local talent including GOLDCVP, Maverik, Howflyy, Matt Wezand and OG Chris. F, 2/10, 8pm. $5 advance/$7 at the door. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: John Seid and Larry Peterson play an eclectic range

of live music in the lounge. F, 2/10, 69pm. No cover. Two-Twenty

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

LOKI MILLER BAND: Local guitar hero Loki Miller and his band rock the Box with help from the Retrotones. F, 2/10, 8:30pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

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

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San Francisco’s Brothers Comatose are a throwback to simpler times, not just with their banjo and violin-driven stringband sound, but also with the members’ work ethic. The band, founded by brothers Alex and Ben Morrison, has built a growing fan base the old-fashioned way: hitting the road hard, including appearances at High Sierra, Delfest, Outside Lands and Pickathon. The band returns to Chico for the second time in six months at The El Rey Theatre on Friday, Feb. 10.

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DEFCATS: Local rock party band playing upbeat dance, pop, and classic rock

with five-part vocal harmonies. Sa, 2/11, 8pm. The Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., (530) 345-7499, www.tackleboxchico.com.

PAPERBACK WRITER: Painstakingly accurate tribute to British rock band The Beatles with songs spanning the entirety of the band’s catalog. Sa, 2/11, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

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Teacher’s Association of California Youth Orchestra. Su, 2/12, 7pm. $45.

Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, (530) 898-6333, www.northstate symphony.org.

PINE DOGZ: Cover band playing a wide

WHITE-HOT GUITAR DUO: A pair of fiery,

range of music from rock ’n’ roll to country, R&B and everything in between. Sa, 2/11, 8:30pm. No cover.

Feather Falls Casino - Bow & Arrow Lounge, 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

passionate and technical flamenco/ classical guitar wizards. Sa, 2/11, 7:30pm. $10-$15. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 899-0308, www.1078gallery.org.

TIONESTA: Local band fusing pop punk and alternative rock anchors a bill with fellow locals No Wave and Los Angeles’ The Unexpected Guest. Sa, 2/11, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

VALENTINE’S COMEDY NIGHT: hosted by Rachel Myles and featuring Shahera Hyatt and Johnny Taylor Jr. from Sacramento, and locals Becky Lynn, Hank Duke, Rich Morarre, Caleb Maines and Casi Pantalóne. Sa, 2/11, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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JOHN SEID AND FRIENDS: John Seid and Larry Peterson play an eclectic set of dinner music. Su, 2/12, 6-9pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St., (530) 891-6328, www.5thstreetsteak house.com.

A VALENTINE AFFAIR: LADY & GOD’S FIDDLER: A memorable tribute recital to famed violinist Jascha Heifetz that also acts as a benefit concert for the North State Symphony’s “Explore Music” program with the Butte Music

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CURTIS MAYFIELD PERFORMED BY THE B-SIDE PLAYERS: A Valentine’s Day special featuring this San Diego-based funk, rock, jazz and hip-hop band applying their skills to the catalog of legendary soul singer and songwriter Curtis Mayfield. Tu, 2/14, 8pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

DARK STAR ORCHESTRA: Long-running Grateful Dead tribute act that has been recreating the Grateful Dead live experience for more than 15 years and has played over 2000 shows. Tu, 2/14, 7pm. $28 in advance/$33 at the door.

Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road in Paradise, (530) 8728454, www.paradiseperforming arts.com.

improv guitarist who channels his Bhutanese upbringing and fearless intuition into a chaotic but curiously appealing avant-garde style. Dynamic duos The Americas, Panther Surprise and Experimental Dental School also join the fray. Tu, 2/14, 8:30pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St., (530) 3431973, www.1078gallery.org.

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FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: Two sets by

house band The Growlers featuring special guest Drew Sallee, with an open blues jam with the band hosted

by 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, 2/15, 7:30pm. $5 (free for players). Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Drive in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

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2/15, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

LOW FLYING BIRDS: Live bluegrass featuring members of Swamp Zen and Electric Circus. W, 7-10pm. No cover.

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I traipsed into my local cinema this week to see Rings, the second (and what I hoped would by would be a much better) sequel to Bob Grimm 2002’s The Ring.

A quick scan of the cast revealed bg ri m m @ new srev i ew. c o m Vincent D’Onofrio has a role in it.

That’s good, right? Wrong. Rings is a slog from the get-go, a poorly conceived follow-up to what was a decent American remake of a great Rings J-Horror film.

Starring Matilda Lutz, Italian-born actress Matilda Lutz alex roe, plays Julia, bright-eyed girlfriend to bonnie Morgan and Vincent D’Onofrio. Holt (Alex Roe), a college boy with Directed by F. Javier whom she’s in a Skype relationship.

Gutiérrez. rated In one of their talks, Holt mentions PG-13. a super cool teacher named Gabriel (Johnny Galecki from The Big Bang Theory), and then gets interrupted by two fellow students forcing him to attend some sort of club meeting.

That club turns out to be a social gathering instigated by Gabriel, who recently purchased a mysterious videotape. He watched said videotape and somehow figured out he was going to die in seven days due to the viewing. (In response to this, I figured out I would die in about four days after watching this movie, it’s corrosive effects attacking my liver, pancreas and sense of self. Don’t worry, I’m countering these effects

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with lots of vegetables, salmon and life-assuring walks with my dog.)

Anyway, Gabriel figures out that if you make somebody else watch the tape before the seven days are up, the curse passes along to them, and so on, and so on. So a bunch of college kids are having a grand old time with his experiment, like some sort of chess club, passing on the curse and gathering to talk about it. Sometimes they use computers and mobile phones to watch the tape, effectively taking the whole franchise into “the now.” It’s so hip, it’s scary!

In addition to the story of Samara (played by contortionist Bonnie Morgan), the girl in the well who will kill you in a week if you watch her shitty art film, there’s this whole thing involving Julia and her quest to free Samara, a quest that leads her to the origins of Samara’s mom and an old house featuring a creepy blind dude (D’Onofrio). This leads to a finale that rips off The Silence of the Lambs. It’s also a scene that delivers a near deathblow to D’Onofrio’s career.

Mind you, it’s a severe wound to his upper leg, so a good tourniquet might prevent him from bleeding out and staving off career demise long enough for the next near-fatal blow, which looks to be the upcoming remake of Death Wish co-starring Bruce Willis.

The movie was shot about three years ago, and experienced various delays before its release. And this year looks to be the recipient of another long-delayed horror sequel, Amityville: The Awakening, which has been bouncing around for three years as well. And just like that, the optimism fades. □

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and Jackson accomplished and endured, but it does bring their historical significance to light. Cinemark 14. Rated PG —B.G.

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La La Land

Writer/director Mike Mills (Thumbsucker) has been nominated for a Best Screenplay Oscar for this story set in 1979 about a single mom (Annette Bening) who leans on her boarding house tenants (Billy Crudup and Greta Gerwig) to help her teach her teen son (Lucas Jade Zumann) about life. Pageant Theatre Rated R.

Lion

Eraserhead (1977)

David Lynch’s surreal classic is one of two offerings this week in the Pageant’s repertory series. One showing: Saturday, Feb. 11, 11 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Can Anastasia save kinky Christian from his dark past? Can your boyfriend sit through the length of the film without hurling his popcorn? Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Harold and Maude (1971)

This idiosyncratic love story is one of two offerings this week in the Pageant’s rep series. One showing: Sunday, Feb. 12, 7 p.m.

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

John Wick: Chapter 2

Retired hitmen have a hard time staying out of the workforce, and John Wick (Keanu Reeves) is no exception. This time he’s pulled back into the underworld once again to face off against some of the baddest hired killers in the world. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The LEGO Batman Movie

The kids will come for the LEGOs and the parents will come for Will Arnett as Batman doing battle with Zach Galifianakis as The Joker. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Now playing The Comedian

Taylor Hackford (Ray, The Devil’s Advocate) directs this story about an aging comic (Robert De Niro) trying to reinvent himself.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

A Dog’s Purpose

Lasse Hallström (The Cider House Rules) directs this story following a dog (voiced by Josh Gad) through its life, and its reincarnations, as it seeks purpose. Starring Dennis Quaid. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Dev Patel stars as a young man who, after being separated from his parents as a young boy in India and adopted and raised by an Austrailian couple, returns to his home country in search of his family. Also starring Nicole Kidman and Rooney Mara. Nominated for six Academy Awards, including Best Picture. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7.

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The Space Between Us

Upon turning 16, the first human born on Mars (Asa Butterfield) visits Earth for the first time and is determined to connect with a girl he met online (Britt Robertson) and explore this beautiful new world no matter the cost to his health. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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M. Night Shyamalan has finally made his first good movie since Signs (2002).

Split is a down-to-basics, creepy thriller propelled by excellent performances from James McAvoy and Anya Taylor-Joy. TaylorJoy plays Casey, an introverted high school outcast attending a birthday party for Claire (Haley Lu Richardson) thanks to a “mercy invite.” Casey’s stuck after the party, so Claire’s dad offers her and another friend, Marcia (Jessica Sula), a ride home. Claire’s dad never gets his car out of the parking lot because a strange, angry man (McAvoy) takes the driver’s seat and knocks the three girls out. They wake up together in a prison cell. It’s no big reveal to let you know that McAvoy’s character is suffering from a multiple personality disorder. In addition to the man who kidnaps them, he’s a stately, mannered woman; a 9-year-old child; and, well, a bunch of others. McAvoy is bone-chillingly good here, seamlessly segueing into each personality, and giving each an original vocal and physical spin. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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More hardcore man action with Vin Diesel in this third installment of the XXX franchise, featuring the muscleman reprising his role of Xander Cage, the eXtreme athlete-turnedCIA operative trying to save the world from something or other. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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from the crowd? As they say in Gypsy, you gotta have a gimmick. by Chico’s Bulldog Tuck Coop Taqueria (there’s another Bulldog, the original, in Oroville), at the Bulldog Taqueria intersection of 925 nord ave.

Nord and West 592-3605 www.bulldog Sacramento taqueria.com avenues, has … ceiling. hours: This is your sunday-thursday, place if you find 9 a.m.-10 p.m.; Friday-saturday, yourself going to 9 a.m.-3 a.m. Mexican eateries and saying, “Sure, the food is great, but the ceilings are just too low.” Or you’ve just come from the carnival and you want your helium balloons to soar. This place is cavernous. Its former incarnation was a Pizza Factory, which doesn’t explain it. The architects must have specialized in blimp hangars.

There’s an air of impersonality and desolation to the place. The color scheme is near-black green and dark cranberry, and, thanks to the high ceilings, there’s a ton of it.

The decor runs to black furniture and corrugated metal. Two of the walls are entirely glass, which could be warming except that the view is of your parked car and the Nord gridlock. The service is basically indifferent. The place is always deserted when I go, at 6 p.m.

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comes from the TV sets, of which there are five—three in the small side room and two in the public space—screening sports.

The menu is heavy on a la carte items and light on complete meals, which means you can mix and match—order one fish taco, one sope, one enchilada, one taquito, and one tamale if you’re of a mind, all for $14.50. My favorite thing on the menu, however, are sides: rice and beans. Among the few meals are “meals without tortillas,” but this turns out to mean “without tortillas on the side,” so rest assured the enchilada filling will not be running free on the plate.

The menu and preparation have a lot of pros and cons. Among the pros: 15 kinds of meat, including birria and lengua; sopes; a choice of grilled or fried fish; menudo on Saturday and Sunday; agua fresca (a big “Yay!”); free refills on fountain drinks (a very big “Yay!”); and, for the compulsives among us, corn tacos specified as “4 1/2 inches” in size.

Among the cons: chips cost $2 (the napkins are free); items

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are generally a mite pricey ($3 for a tiny fish taco, $3 for a single taquito); there’s an extra $1 charge for any meat that’s been flavored, which is almost everything; and other than the rice and beans much of the menu I find bland.

If you order food “for here,” it comes in to-go containers. There are no desserts. The entirely satisfactory paper frequent-flier punch card has been replaced by an electronic equivalent that requires you to go home and “register” your name and ID number on a website (yuck). None of these is a deal-breaker, but cumulatively they weigh on my spirit.

There is plenty of space, however, for college students to spread out and for families, and there are all those TVs to accommodate large groups on game days.

And it’s open late, with Friday and Saturday hours going until 3 a.m.

There are two kinds of Chico restaurants—those with the occasional half-off coupon and those without. Bulldog is the former. □

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Strong Like That The Fabulous Thunderbirds Severn records Although this album’s title might suggest otherwise, I found Kim Wilson’s return to the Fab T-Birds format—singing and playing harmonica backed by a small combo featuring guitarist Johnny Moeller (a nine-year T-Bird regular)—a huge disappointment: it’s weak. Long regarded as one of the top blues harpists, here, on the 10-song, 41-minute Strong Like That, I kept waiting for him to bust out blazing but instead suffered through his pallid playing and singing. He rarely plays a full chorus on this collection of mostly pop/soul songs (all but one with fade-outs), which deal with lost love, (e.g., “I Know I’m Losing You,” “Where’s Your Love Been?”) complete with a two-person background vocal section on four songs. Further backing includes a four-man horn section that provides a little sass and guitarist Anson Funderburgh briefly lends his talents on “Don’t Burn Me” (“I’ve been ripped off before/Don’t burn me”). Where’s the passion he and the T-Birds showed us on songs like “Why Get Up?” and the title track of their 1986 chart-busting LP, Tuff Enuff?

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The series is a benefit for the David Lynch Foundation and has Malkovich impressively transforming into, among others, The Log Lady from “Behind all things are reasons.”

Twin Peaks, the Elephant Man, the Lady in the Radiator from Eraserhead (which happens to be playing this weekend at The Pageant Theatre) and even Lynch himself. Watch them all at www.playinglynch.com.

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And, just as he explained, “it’s just drawing,” live each Tuesday, 4-7 p.m., on the station’s YouTube channel. I watched some of the first episode this week as anonymous hands, young and old, penned drawings, fiddled with smartphones and ate dinner (chicken and waffles!) while a kick-ass soundtrack played over the top. Strangely mesmerizing. Visit www.tiny.cc/drwshw for info and links.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF February 9, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your

reputation is in a state of fermentation.

Will this process ultimately produce the metaphorical equivalent of fine wine or else something more like pungent cheese?

The answer to that question will depend on how much integrity you express as you wield your clout. Be as charismatic as you dare, yes, but always in service to the greater good rather than to self-aggrandizement. You can accomplish wonders if you are saucy and classy, but you’ll spawn blunders if you’re saucy and bossy.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Using a

blend of warfare and diplomacy, Napoleon extended French control over much of Western Europe. In 1804, he decided to formalize his growing sovereignty with a coronation ceremony. He departed from tradition, however. For many centuries, French kings had been crowned by the Pope. But on this occasion, Napoleon took the imperial crown from Pope Pius VII and placed it on his own head. Historian David J. Markham writes that he “was simply symbolizing that he was becoming emperor based on his own merits and the will of the people, not because of some religious consecration.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, Taurus, you have the right to perform a comparable gesture. Don’t wait for some authority to crown you. Crown yourself.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you

heard the fable about the four blind men who come upon an elephant for the first time? The first man feels the tail and declares that the thing they’ve encountered must be a rope. The second touches one of the elephant’s legs and says that they are in the presence of a tree. The third strokes the trunk and assumes it’s a snake. Putting his hand on a tusk, the fourth man asserts that it’s a spear. I predict that this fable will NOT apply to you in the coming weeks, Gemini. You won’t focus on just one aspect of the whole and think it’s the whole. Other people in your sphere may get fooled by shortsightedness, but you will see the big picture.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For now,

at least, your brain is your primary erogenous zone. I suspect it will be generating some of your sexiest thoughts ever. To be clear, not all of these erupting streams of bliss will directly involve the sweet, snaky mysteries of wrapping your physical body around another’s. Some of the erotic pleasure will come in the form of epiphanies that awaken sleeping parts of your soul. Others might arrive as revelations that chase away months’ worth of confusion. Still others could be creative breakthroughs that liberate you from a form of bondage you’ve wrongly accepted as necessary.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Human beings

upload 300 hours of videos to YouTube every minute of every day. Among that swirling flow is a hefty amount of footage devoted exclusively to the amusing behavior of cats. Researchers estimate there are now more than 2 million clips of feline shenanigans. Despite the stiff competition, I suspect there’s a much better chance than usual that your cat video will go viral if you upload it in the coming weeks. Why? In general, you Leos now have a sixth sense about how to get noticed. You know what you need to do to express yourself confidently and attract attention—not just in regards to your cats, but anything that’s important to you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I know you

haven’t literally been wrestling and wrangling with a sweaty angel. But if I were going to tell a fairy tale about your life lately, I’d be tempted to say this: Your rumble with the sweaty angel is not finished. In fact, the best and holiest part is still to come. But right now you have cosmic permission to take a short break and rest a while. During the lull, ratchet up your determination to learn all you can from your friendly “struggle.” Try to figure out what you’ve been missing about the true nature of the sweaty angel. Vow to become

by rob brezsny a stronger advocate for yourself and a more rigorous revealer of the wild truth.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Even if you’re

not an occult wizard or pagan priestess, I suspect you now have the power to conjure benevolent love spells. There’s a caveat, however: They will only work if you cast them on yourself. Flinging them at other people would backfire. But if you do accept that limitation, you’ll be able to invoke a big dose of romantic mojo from both your lower depths and your higher self. Inspiration will be abundantly available as you work to reinvigorate your approach to intimacy and togetherness.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s

some advice from Scorpio writer Norman Rush: “The main effort of arranging your life should be to progressively reduce the amount of time required to decently maintain yourself so that you can have all the time you want for reading.” It’s understandable that a language specialist like Rush would make the final word of the previous sentence “reading.” But you might choose a different word. And I invite you to do just that. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to devotedly carve out more time to do The Most Important Thing in Your Life.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sixteenth-century Italian painter Titian was renowned for his brilliant use of color. He was also prolific, versatile and influential. In 2011, one of his paintings sold for $16.9 million. But one of his contemporaries, the incomparable Michelangelo, said that Titian could have been an even greater artist if he had ever mastered the art of drawing. It seems that Titian skipped a step in his early development. Is there any way that your path resembles Titian’s, Sagittarius? Did you neglect to cultivate a basic skill that has subtly (or not so subtly) handicapped your growth ever since? If so, the coming weeks and months will be an excellent time to fix the glitch.

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Our obsessive use of digital devices has diminished our power to focus. According to a study by Microsoft, the average human attention span has shrunk to eight seconds—one second less than that of a typical goldfish. I’m guessing, though, that you Capricorns will buck this trend in the coming weeks. Your ability to concentrate may be exceptional even by pre-internet standards. I hope you’ll take opportunity of this fortunate anomaly to get a lot of important work and play done.

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

time is now, Brave Aquarius. Be audacious about improving the big little things in your life. (That’s not a typo. I did indeed use the term “big little things.”) For example: Seek out or demand more engaging responsibilities. Bring your penetrating questions to sphinx-like authorities. Go in search of more useful riddles. Redesign the daily rhythm to better meet your unique needs.

Refuse “necessary” boredom that’s not truly necessary. Trust what actually works, not what’s merely attractive. Does all that seem too bold and brazen for you to pull off? I assure you that it’s not. You have more clout than you imagine. You also have a growing faith in your own power to make subtle fundamental shifts. (That’s not a typo. I did indeed use the term “subtle fundamental shifts.”)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Love does

not at first mean merging, surrendering, and uniting with another person,” wrote the poet Rilke, “for what would a union be of two people who are unclarified, unfinished, and still incoherent?” That’s an excellent meditation for you to entertain during the Valentine season, Pisces.

You’re in the right frame of mind to think about how you could change and educate yourself so as to get the most out of your intimate alliances. Love “is a high inducement for the individual to ripen,” Rilke said, “to become something, to become a world for the sake of another person.”

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRIAGE ENTERPRISES at 5475 Skyway Unit B Paradise, CA 95969.

TROY DUANE BEACH PO Box 983 Magalia, CA 95954.

BRIAN MICHAEL KOPKA 386 Valley View Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: TROY D. BEACH Dated: January 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000065 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LD MARINE at 18 Alyssum Way Chico, CA 95928.

LARRY DAVID DE LEGE 18 Alyssum Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LARRY DE LEGE Dated: January 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000030 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRU GANICS at

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25 Foreman Creek Road Berry Creek, CA 95916.

CERTAPHYD, LLC 25 Foreman Creek Road Berry Creek, CA 95916.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: SHAWN MORRIS, OWNER Dated: December 21, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001546 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VIDEO STORE at 1900 Oro Dam Blvd Ste 10 Oroville, CA 95965.

CRYSTAL COX 160 Rutherford Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CRYSTAL COX Dated: December 14, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001531 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DINO 8 FOOD AND FUEL at 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928.

MRAS ENTERPRISES, INC 2036 Forest Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: MONTY BHOGAL, PRESIDENT Dated: December 13, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001528 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SUNSET AUTO WHOLESALE at 954 Royal Dr Chico, CA 95973.

WILLIAM J HOLESTINE 954 Royal Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WILLIAM J HOLESTINE Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000080 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CACTUS AFFINITY at 37 Terrace Dr Chico, CA 95926.

LAWRENCE SMITH 37 Terrace Dr Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAWRENCE SMITH Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000079 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE CABLE COMPANY at 121 Wine Blossom Dr Chico, CA 95973.

THE CABLE COMPANY 121 Wine Blossom Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MICHAEL MCEVOY, OFFICER Dated: January 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000082 Published: January 19,26, February 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FAST EDDIES SANDWICH SHOP at 1175 East Ave Chico, CA 95973.

EDWARD LEE FORTUNE JR 1892 Auburn Oak Way Chico, CA 95928.

STEPHENIE GENE FORTUNE 1892 Auburn Oak Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: STEPHENIE FORTUNE Dated: January 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000087 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALISUN FARMS LLC at 16246 Calle Tierra Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

CALISUN FARMS LLC 16246 Calle Tierra Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: LAWRENCE ELKINS, MANAGER Dated: January 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000069 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EYELASH EMPIRE at 3545 Smith Ave Biggs, CA 95917.

SAVANNAH ROSE FORRISTER PO Box 239 Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SAVANNAH FORRISTER Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000025 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BETTER BUILT FENCE COMPANY at 1540 Second Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

WILLIAM WALTHER PATTERSON 1540 Second Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WILL PATTERSON Dated: January 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000059 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO HANDS, CHICO MASSAGE, CHICO MASSAGE THERAPY at 341 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

SHELLEY BOWER 1128 Valley Oak Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHELLEY BOWER Dated: January 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2013-0001357 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

The following person is doing business as CHICO MASSAGE THERAPY at 260 Cohasset Rd Ste 190 Chico, CA 95926.

JONI MARIE JOBE 5968 Hayes Ln Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JONI JOBE Dated: January 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000047 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHARKEY COMPANY at 230 Walnut St. Suite C Chico, CA 95928.

TIMOTHY J SHARKEY II 3375 Bodero Ln #2 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TIMOTHY J SHARKEY II Dated: December 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001596 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name TIMOTHY INDUSTRIES at 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973.

TIMOTHY JOESPH SHARKEY 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973.

OLGA MONIKA MORSKA-SHARKEY 3375 Bodero Lane Unit 2 Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted

by A General Partnership.

Signed: OLGA MORSKA-SHARKEY Dated: December 30, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0000264 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MEDIAPLUS at 1228 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928.

LAWRENCE A MARQUEZ 1228 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAWRENCE A. MARQUEZ Dated: January 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000135 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A-1 AND SON HANDYMAN SERVICES at 14737 Wildlife Drive Magalia, CA 95954.

WILLIAM STEVEN BUNN 14737 Wildlife Drive Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: WILLIAM STEVEN BUNN Dated: November 7, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001386 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

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The following persons are doing business as TRUE REST FLOAT SPA at 1357 East 8th Street Chico, CA 95928.

VERGEO ENTERPRISE, LLC 53 Chinese Wall Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: VERONICA G CARPENTER, MANAGER Dated: January 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000064 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name SERVANT LEADERSHIP NETWORK at 3015 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973.

CITY LIGHT OF CHICO PO Box 9199 Chico, CA 95927.

This business was conducted

by A Corporation.

Signed: JACKLYN HAGBERG, TREASURER Dated: January 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2014-0000178 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SERVANT LEADERSHIP NETWORK at 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926.

LOVE RESOLUTION NOW 1479 Hooker Oak Ave Unit 2 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: RANDALL C. STARK, TREASURER Dated: January 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000102 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TAYLOR CRAFTED at 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926.

MELISSA LYNN TAYLOR 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926.

STEPHEN KILE TAYLOR 752 Brandonbury Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: STEPHEN TAYLOR, MELISSA TAYLOR Dated: January 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000020 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SCOTT MICHAELS at 5782 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969.

SCOTT J MAYER 3149 Silverbell Road Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SCOTT MAYER Dated: February 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000158 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KELLER WILLIAMS CHICO REFERRALS at 2080 E 20th St Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E 20th St Suite 170 Chico,

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CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: ERICA MARTINI, PRESIDENT Dated: January 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000112 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BROWN BOX BAKESHOP at 1975 Bruce Road #105 Chico, CA 95928.

MONICA F JOHNSON 1975 Bruce Road #105 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MONICA F. JOHNSON Dated: January 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000086 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name BUTTE COUNTY JANITORIAL at 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

CONNOR STANDLEY 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CONNOR STANDLEY Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0000580 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE COUNTY JANITORIAL at 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

BRITNEY CHRISTINE SAWYER 12 Noyo Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRITNEY SAWYER Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000146 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIGNUM COMMERCIAL at 125 W 3rd Street #200 Chico, CA 95928.

DANIEL ANDERSON 1944 Cummings Lane Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAN ANDERSON Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000145 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIGNUM COMMERCIAL at 2619 Forest Ave #100 Chico, CA 95928.

AARON STEWART 25 Pine Oaks Road Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON J. STEWART Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000144 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLINE DUST, DOG CREEK CELLARS at

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NEAL WAREN CLINE 9975 Garden Creek Road Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NEAL CLINE Dated: December 1, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001471 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as INTEGRITY HOUSE at 606 Center Ave Gridley, CA 95948.

NORTHERN CALIF THERAPY SERVICES INC 2889 Cohasset Road #6 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: SUSAN K. MADSON, PRESIDENT Dated: February 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000178 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.

MONIQUE AND MORGAN BIRD (6X12) #449cc (Tools, Paint sprayer) KAITLYN DAVIS (6X7) #157cc (misc boxes, kitchenware, clothes) DAVID DUNCAN (6X7) #504cc (posters, tool box, misc boxes) SHELTON WARDSWORTH (6X10) #143cc (misc boxes, kids toys, clothes) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: February 25, 2017 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 893-2109 Published: February 9,16, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARA WILCOX filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAQUALYNN MARIA PLASCENCIA Proposed name: JAQUALYNN AURORA WILCOX 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: March 10, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 12, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00018 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KAESHA FLEMING filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KAESHA LELAMARI FLEMING Proposed name: KAESHA LELAMARI ABRAMS 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: March 24, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 11, 2017 Case Number: 16CV02820 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ANDREW JONATHAN DAVIS AND DOES 1-100, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: GEORGE S. KILKENNY-JOHNSTON NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

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on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without and attorney, is: CHRISTOPHER COLE (065493) & JENNIFER ZARICH (276130) Law Office of Christopher Cole 601 Montgomery Street, Ste. 712 San Francisco, CA 94111-2610 (415) 978-9999 Dated: March 4, 2016 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV00247 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

PETITION

administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-18 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00012 Dated: January 17, 2017 Published: January 26, February 2,9, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ESTHER GRAVES AKA ESTHER E. GRAVES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ESTHER GRAVES AKA ESTHER E. GRAVES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RONALD L. GRAVES, SR. in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: RONALD L. GRAVES, SR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WILLIAM RALPH LACEY To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM RALPH LACEY, ALSO KNOWN AS WILLIAM LACEY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JONNELLE LACEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

STATEMENT OF DAMAGES To: ANDREW JONATHAN DAVIS Plaintiff: GEORGE S. KILKENNY-JOHNSTON seeks damages in the above-entitled adction, as follows: 1. General damages Pain, suffering, and inconvenience $1,000,000.00 Emotional distress $1,000,000.00 2. Special damages Medical expenses (to date) $68,367.00 Future medical expenses (present value) $500,000.00 Other (specify) Future lost earnings $200,000.00 Dated: December 12, 2016 Signed: JENNIFER ZARICH ATTORNEY: CHRISTOPHER COLE (065493) JENNIFER ZARICH (276130) Law Office of Christopher Cole 601 Montgomery Street, Ste. 712 San Francisco, CA 94111-2610 (415) 978-9999 Case Number: 16CV00247 Published: February 9,16,23, March 2, 2017

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A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: KELLY ALBRECHT, ESQ. 1440 Lincoln Street Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 534-9900 Case Number: 17PR00013 Dated: January 17, 2017 Published: January 26, February 2,9, 2017

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: February 21, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBD Address of the court: Superior Court of California

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County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: JANE E. STANSELL 901 Bruce Road Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 342-4524 Case Number: 17PR00022 Dated: January 23, 2017 Published: February 2,9,16, 2017

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BR/BA

SQ. FT.

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

Berry Creek

$135,000

3/1

1,680

849 W 11Th Ave

Chico

$157,500

3/2

1,808

1683 Filbert Ave

Chico

$544,999

4/3

2,490

2934 Pennyroyal Dr

Chico

$155,000

3/2

1,103

2262 Honey Run Rd

Chico

$419,500

3/2

1,958

70 Lexington Dr

Chico

$94,500

4/2

1,727

2645 Escallonia Way

Chico

$360,000

4/2

2,014

2459 Durham Dayton Hwy Durham

$88,000

3/2

1,512

409 Legacy Ln

Chico

$290,000

3/2

1,418

1745 Blue Heron Ct

Gridley

$295,000

4/3

2,490

939 Karen Dr

Chico

$210,000

3/1

1,192

1370 Gilstrap Ave

Gridley

$240,000

3/2

1,552

174 Terrace Dr

Chico

$180,000

3/1

1,121

419 Paradox Dr

Gridley

$225,000

5/2

1,494

1103 Bald Rock Rd

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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.

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SQ. FT.

165 Idaho St

Gridley

$210,000

3/2

1,237

6494 Ridgeside Ct

Magalia

$230,000

3/3

6300 Brevard Cir

Magalia

$192,000

5225 Honey Rock Ct

Oroville

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211 Mira Loma Dr

Oroville

25 Hunter Dr

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BR/BA

SQ. FT.

612 High St

Oroville

$145,000

2/2

1,641

2,213

209 Wakefield Dr

Oroville

$122,500

2/2

1,624

3/3

1,472

2290 Elgin St

Oroville

$95,000

3/2

1,320

3/3

2,233

4091 Foothill Blvd

Oroville

$65,000

2/1

755

$230,000

4/2

1,687

2985 Elgin St

Oroville

$51,500

1/1

444

Oroville

$187,000

3/2

1,520

6255 Mountain View Dr

Paradise

$649,999

4/3

3,637

3346 Stauss Ave

Oroville

$180,000

3/1

1,325

6230 Pinecrest Dr

Paradise

$165,000

2/1

1,014

864 Harlan Ave

Oroville

$178,000

4/1

1,518

3559 Connie Cir C

Paradise

$136,500

2/2

1,284

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