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a voice for immigrants We were pleasantly surprised to see the Butte County Board of Supervisors

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Long live the resistance to wreak havoc on our economy and democracy. DTrump isn’t even an American. He was born in

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Slovenia, in a little town not far from where his third wife, Melania, was born. Excuse me, but lies have worked for Trump, so I thought I’d take a whack at it. Recall the president’s lies: Climate change is a hoax, 3-5 million votes were illegally cast for Hillary Clinton. Obama wasn’t born in the USA— Trump pushed that gem for five years. He lied about his inauguraby tion crowd size—one lie almost Ed Schilling every day since the inauguration! The author, a Trump once attempted the Paradise resident, truth to con his followers: is a former parttime community “Hedge fund managers are college instructor getting away with murder,” he and overseas said. Later, Trump nominated language teacher. hedge fund manager Steve Mnuchin as secretary of the treasury. Mnuchin’s background includes buying a failing bank and foreclosing on thousands of homeowners. He made billions. Mnuchin was sworn into

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Trump’s Swamp Cabinet. Trump’s disgraced former national security adviser, Gen. Michael Flynn, enjoys lying. He got caught in a whopper and had to resign. Just before the election, he said Hillary Clinton was involved in “sex crimes with children.” He thinks “citizen journalism is the new future for truth.” So, today we have tweets by “citizen journalist” President Trump that millions “follow” because the press is “dishonest.” Trump once promised to “open up our libel laws.” News outlets could be sued for “false” or “purposely negative” articles. Trump on Twitter is like “Newspeak” in Orwell’s 1984. But what if Trump tweets “Kim Jong Un is a fat, impotent (deleted)”? Or maybe he’ll post a ballistic tweet about Iran or China. Could a tweet go nuclear? We hold these truths to be self-evident. Facts don’t matter. Twitter is news. Fake news is truth. Alternative facts are possible? If you repeat a lie enough times, does the lie become truth? No, but repetition reinforces prejudices. Like the lies about Muslims and Mexicans being a threat. “Big lies” worked for Hitler against the Poles. One becomes either numb to lies, or brainwashed. Or fights back. Long live the resistance! □

pass on an effort to designate our region as a place of non-sanctuary for undocumented immigrants. As CN&R’s Ken Smith reports this week (see page 10), after discussion from Kory Honea, the county’s law-degreeholding sheriff, that issue never came to a vote. Unsurprisingly, the non-sanctuary movement started in the axis of the State of Jefferson—first with our neighbors to the north, Tehama County, then up in Siskiyou County. It seems those North State regions have fallen for President Trump’s false narrative that undocumented immigrants are dangerous criminals, a notion countered by FBI crime statistics. We don’t think any good would come out of such a designation—here or anywhere else. In fact, as the sheriff noted when he discussed the issue with our Board of Supervisors, non-sanctuary status has the potential to harm local law enforcement’s ability to cooperate with undocumented individuals who might be the victims of or witnesses to actual crimes. As CN&R wrote in opposition to the non-sanctuary movement a few weeks ago (see “A craven designation,” March 2), we believe our elected representatives ought to acknowledge the valuable contributions undocumented immigrants make to our community—whether in agriculture, construction, manufacturing or service industries. We as a community must speak up for them as well as the many children they brought here in pursuit of a better life. CN&R intern Gabriel Sandoval tracked down two such individuals for this week’s excellent cover story on the young people who are temporarily shielded from deportation by Obama-era DACA protections (see “Chasing the dream,” page 18). The two young women he interviewed are academic overachievers who grew up in the United States, yet are now living with an uncertain future thanks to Trump’s nativist rhetoric and subsequent immigration crackdown. They have been failed by federal lawmakers’ inability to pass comprehensive immigration reform that would provide a path to citizenship for people who are an integral part of the nation’s economy and culture. And they deserve better. □

Failure to plan Last week, Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea unveiled a new interactive

evacuation map for the areas south of Oroville Dam. It’s great—userfriendly and based on a nuanced plan for the region. But let’s be real here: It’s not “new” in the sense that it’s replacing something old; it’s “new” as in someone just created it, a month after a near catastrophic failure of the emergency spillway and in the midst of an evacuation warning for the area. When it came to being prepared for this particular scenario, local authorities dropped the ball. Honea and Cindi Dunsmoor, director of the county’s Office of Emergency Management, each told the CN&R as much this week (see “Lessons learned,” page 9). Honea acknowledged the only evacuation plan in place before the February scare was in the case of the dam itself failing. “The honest truth is, we had never anticipated an uncontrolled spill over the emergency spillway,” Dunsmoor told us. Our question is this: Why the hell not? In what common-sense situation does one create an emergency measure and then not consider the implications of its deployment? The Department of Water Resources, “owner” of the dam, should have worked out contingencies in all possible scenarios. When you’re responsible for such a huge piece of infrastructure whose failure would endanger the lives of thousands of people, proper emergency procedures should be outlined and updated regularly. Locally, we should have had those things in place, too. Not after the fact. Our leaders failed us in not being prepared for this disaster. At least now we have a plan. Let’s truly use this as a learning experience and ensure we’re prepared for other possible threats as well. □

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

Knee-jerk A lot of folks have been dismissive of Chico’s poor ranking in a recently released national survey, the Gallup-Healthways 2016 Community Well-Being Index. In case you missed it, the 18 other California cities on the list—including Modesto, Stockton-Lodi and Bakersfield (aka the armpit of the state)—came in ahead of Chico. Worse yet, our City of Trees wound up 183rd among the 189 regions reported in the survey. The New York Times, in its California section last week, published a short article on Gallup’s findings, underscoring Chico’s standing. A reporter reached out to Mayor Sean Morgan, who took issue with the ranking. Morgan countered with the fact that this region is home to beautiful Bidwell Park and Chico State. He added that “the world’s best beer is brewed here.” I’m not going to argue with the mayor about any of that. I also love the park, Chico State is my alma mater, and I like a great beer now and again. However, those things alone do not translate to an adequate level of well-being. Indeed, as Gallup found, residents here have indicated their overall well-being is unsatisfactory. According to the pollster, this particular survey “measures Americans’ perceptions of their lives and their daily experiences through five interrelated elements that make up well-being: sense of purpose, social relationships, financial security, relationship to community, and physical health.” Chico ranked near the bottom in each of those categories. To be fair, when the poll lists Chico, it’s actually talking about the city’s so-called Metropolitan Statistical Area. In this case, that area encompasses a population of roughly 225,000 residents. So, we’re really talking about Butte County here. There are 382 MSAs in the country (not including the seven in Puerto Rico). So, Gallup’s well-being index of 189 regions covers roughly half of those designated areas. Redding, for example, is part of an MSA that basically comprises Shasta County. But you won’t find our neighbors to the north on this particular well-being index. That’s because Gallup reports only on those in which it completes at least 300 interviews with residents. The results released last week were based on 354,473 telephone interviews with U.S. adults across all 50 states and the District of Columbia between Jan. 2, 2015, and Dec. 30, 2016. All of them were conducted by phone, including cellphones and landlines, both in English and Spanish. In the case of Chico’s MSA, the pollster conducted 338 interviews. I’m not surprised about some of Gallup’s findings related to our neck of the woods, especially respondents’ financial security, which the pollster has found is “closely linked to their perceptions of their social relationships.” Last summer, I wrote about Chico ranking 48th on a list of the “50 worst cities to live in.” Financial news and opinion website 24/7 Wall St. made that determination based in large part on financial data showing that a) the median household income in Chico fell well below the national median and b) homes here cost 6.8 times the yearly household income (nationally, houses typically cost 3.4 times the median). Based on my research, Gallup’s well-being survey appears legit. Instead of dismissing its findings, leaders in each community should investigate what steps can be taken to improve their constituents’ lives. After all, that’s what we elected them to do.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Support this bill Re “Squeezed out” (Cover story, by Howard Hardee, March 9): Thank you for a fine article on the current state of housing in our region. It’s a difficult subject to tackle, and Howard Hardee did an excellent job looking at it from all angles. Without affordable housing developments such as North Point Apartments (managed by CHIP and built/owned by the Community Action Agency of Butte County), more at-risk households would be on the streets looking for shelter. In an era of diminishing federal resources, it’s time for state government to step up to the plate. State Sen. Toni Atkins has a bill that will create a statewide housing trust fund, using county recordation fees, not state general funds. Senate Bill 2, the Building Homes and Jobs Act, is supported by many groups, including the California Realtors. It will create additional affordable units in the least-affordable state in the country. For a region that does not have local voter-approved housing bonds, it is even more critical that our local voters encourage state legislators to support SB 2 this spring. Market forces alone can’t tackle this problem, and I urge the residents of the Sacramento Valley to support efforts to improve housing conditions. It’s good for the community and good for the economy.

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‘Bridge too far’ Re “Power from within” (Newslines, by Meredith J. Cooper, March 9): In Gloria Steinem’s sermon to the choir, we hear the claim that men seek to dominate women by eliminating reproductive freedom. This is one of many nonsense positions that support Steinem’s faux-radical, gender-toxic worldview. The ideological divide on reproductive freedom is not along gender LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 lines. For 30 years, on average, 50 percent of American women have opposed abortion—along with 50 percent of men. They oppose the right to abortion for the same reason they believe in the Genesis creation story: they are faith-based thinkers. Within their faith, a human embryo is a human being and abortion is murder. Men who are not aligned with this faith-based view are no more interested in eliminating reproductive freedom than are women. On the contrary, it is often the case that men desire the termination of a pregnancy, but have no power to do so. In this respect, women have the privilege of greater choice—as long is it not removed by their faith-based sisters. All that aside, were Steinem to really challenge—rather than shamelessly flatter—her mostly affluent female audience, she would have confronted the ecocidal evils in gender-equal American consumerism and the social evils in mostly gender-equal, rich-on-poor class warfare. Alas, a bridge too far.

refusal to criticize Putin? Trump himself insisted on removing passages from the Republican platform that Russians didn’t like, creating the impression that he’s putting some kind of deal with Putin over U.S. interests. Isolationism hurts our country in an era when democracy is under assault from Putin and other forces. Foreign aid helps ensure global peace and security and prevents terrorism, as well as helps famine victims, etc. It’s the obligation of the wealthy to help the poor, as all religions teach. These programs consume only about 1 percent of the national budget. The Muslim ban discourages highly educated tech workers, reduces tourism and violates the Constitution. That hurts job access here. Rounding up Mexican workers who are crucial for farm work and other labor others won’t do is harmful to farmers. Name one action that Trump’s supposed America-first policy has achieved, in contrast to the great harm done to U.S. leadership of Western democracy.

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Re “Why the resentment?” (Letters, by Brad Pankratz, March 9): In response to Brad Pankratz, who is baffled by why we’re suspicious of Trump’s nationalism that supposedly puts U.S. interests first, let’s say we go along with America first. Is the administration’s stated goal to deconstruct all our federal government departments helpful? What about the administration’s

America’s plutocracy now resembles a relief pitcher taking the hill late in the 10th inning. Our resurgent club had already mounted a successful comeback until he selfishly blew the lead, ruined the team and nearly butchered the entire franchise again. Not yet spring training and forecasts call for another long, grueling season.

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Impossible job Chico’s former park and natural resources manager, Dan Efseaff, had a genuine desire to steward the city’s environs. He had the impossible job of managing the city’s parks, open spaces, street trees and the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission with a budget and staffing levels at less than half their minimal historic levels. City parks and street trees show the shameful results. May his replacement be hired soon [and may that person have the] people skills, natural resource background and budgetary support from the City Council to succeed in preserving Chico’s environmental legacy, especially Bidwell Park. Woody Elliott Chico

Here’s an idea Citizens’ Climate Lobby has a new idea for solving climate change: a Fossil Fuel Fee and Dividend program. It would level the playing field for renewables while reducing demand for fossil fuels. It’s easy to collect a carbon fee at the coal mine or at the well head because we know how much

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carbon is in a ton or a barrel or a therm. Every adult gets the same share of those fees; children (up to two per household) get half a share. Economists estimate that by the 10th year each household would get a monthly dividend of $288. By the 20th year, that reaches nearly $400. The less carbon a household uses, the more they keep from their dividend. Note: Taxes bring in revenue, but fees simply recover the cost of providing a public service, such as lowering CO2 back to 350 ppm. A fee and dividend program would not grow the government, but it would improve the Sierra snowpack for irrigation, increase salmon in our rivers, and keep San Franciscans’ feet dry so they won’t move to Chico. Find out more on Thursday, March 23, at the Chico Guild Hall (formerly the Grange), free, 7-9 p.m. Lauren Ayers Chico

Beware the scams America is being attacked from all sides by international scams. I have been targeted personally and

indirectly in these ploys. The first scam was a trick to get me to send cash in exchange for a bogus check deposited to my account. Refusal to divulge the eight-digit claim number for money to be sent by a MoneyGram saved me more than a thousand dollars. On two occasions, friends I worked with 20 years ago were nearly [duped by scammers] using my name in reference. Both were saved from this ploy by contacting me. No, it was more sophisticated than bailing me out of jail in some foreign country. Fortunately, they contacted me in the nick of time. Then, I got an urgent call that my checking account was endangered as someone was trying to invade it, and to contact a number to protect it. Guess who was trying to gain access? Another scammer. I already heard the story about the fox guarding the hen house, and I resent both the analogy and the attempt to deceive. To me, this constitutes a much more serious homeland security problem than immigration. Why are our leaders not focused on correcting this threat? Make America safe again. Stop these terrorists. Dick Cory Chico

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Dozens of mayors and other local leaders throughout California and Nevada signed a letter Tuesday (March 14) to the CEO and executive vice president of labor relations at AT&T expressing their dissatisfaction with the company’s failure to provide broadband service as well as pledging support for AT&T employees fighting for better pay and benefits. “Not only is AT&T failing to provide access to 21st century high-speed connections to many communities, but it is also not maintaining the copper lines that are vital to landline phone access, 911 and emergency services and basic internet service,” reads the letter, which was signed locally by Chico City Councilmen Karl Ory and Randall Stone. In January, Oroville Mayor Linda Dahlmeier sent her own letter to AT&T expressing grievances over inadequate service, including lack of broadband, in her city.

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STUDENT NEWSPAPER GET PROPS

Chico State’s student newspaper, The Orion, recently won several awards from the California College Media Association, including first place for best large college newspaper in California. The students took home the awards earlier this month during the Midwinter National College Journalism Convention hosted by the Associated Collegiate Press in San Francisco. Competing against schools with student populations of 10,000 or more, The Orion took home two more first-place awards: best front page design and best feature story, along with second-place awards for inside spread design and breaking news coverage. Additionally, The Orion won two ACP awards—seventh place for best weekly newspaper and second place for best website.

NEW UNIVERSITY VP

Chico State has named a vice president of Business & Finance. Robbi Stivers, who will start his new job May 1, has served as executive director of the Office of Capital Projects at the University of Tennessee since 2011. “He impressed the CSU Chico community with his depth of knowledge relative to finance and auxiliaries, along with his approachable and collaborative manner,” search committee chair Charles Zartman said in a release. In his new role, Stivers (pictured) will oversee financial services, human resources, facilities management and construction at Chico State. His predecessor, Lori Hoffman, left her post in July, shortly after Gayle Hutchinson took the reins as university president. Months prior, the Academic Senate had issued a vote of no confidence in Hoffman, then-President Paul Zingg and then-interim Provost Susan Elrod, who left her position last spring. 8

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western side of Chico High’s campus, near the transition to Chico State. The campus story and photo by comprises two dozen Evan Tuchinsky portable buildings with a grass-patch eva nt u c h i ns k y @ n ew srev i ew. c o m courtyard—the solitary open space. Organizationally, it’s a locally funded charter school, meaning the public monies that pay for its operations come from the state to the county to the Chico Unified School District. Since opening in autumn 2010, Inspire has existed as a “quasi-legal” entity within CUSD: not wholly under district auspices but not wholly distinct either. It’s the only one of the seven charter schools under CUSD’s jurisdiction that did not begin as its own nonprofit. That status has changed: Inspire now has a 501(c)3 designation and an employer identification number with the Internal Revenue Service. The school and the district have spent this semester transferring legal, financial, technical and logistical functions. The deadline for many such matters is July 1, the start of the next fiscal year, because of challenges in switching

the district’s business programs. The parties have a longer timeline for certain other technological aspects. Concurrently, Inspire is racing to meet the June 5 deadline to apply for Proposition 51 funding. Prop. 51, passed in the November 2016 general election, allocates $500 million of a $9 billion educationfacilities bond to charter schools. That same election, Chicoans approved a $152 million schools bond, Measure K; Inspire hopes to take its share, $3 million, along with additional funds to match Prop. 51 funds for an $8 million project. Existing as an independent entity could assist Inspire in this endeavor. John Bohannon, the district’s director of state and federal programs, said the charter school previously could not even open its own bank account—so how could it secure millions in funding? Bohannon said CUSD is not pushing out Inspire; rather, the move is being made in “really more of a business perspective that I think both the district and Inspire feel in the long run will give Inspire more flexibility to do the things they want to do…. We don’t want to see the collaborative environment change in any way.” Principal Jerry Crosby echoed that sentiment. While her school may be going

independent faster than others have—in six months, Crosby said, versus two years at both Paradise Charter Middle School and Redding School of the Arts—Inspire retains district support. “This has just been a natural progression of growth,” Crosby said. “When the charter first formed seven years ago, it was a very, very young entity; the ties between the charter and the district were super, super tight. It was very much this district project, this district idea. “Now we’re kind of grown up, we’re very established, but we’ve never had our own legal entity. The quasi-legal relationship lacks clarity. The purpose of doing the 501(c)3 is actually to serve both the district and Inspire.” Inspire has—and has had from the start—its own board of directors governing decisions, including employment. CUSD, governed by its board, has administrative and functional responsibility for Inspire, including payroll and benefits. If Inspire isn’t separate, who’s ultimately responsible, such as for employees? “That’s one of those conundrums,” Crosby said, “one of those gray areas.” Now that Inspire is becoming unequivocally responsible, Crosby and her board have myriad decisions to make, ranging

Principal Jerry Crosby says the facilities of Inspire’s current campus, a cluster of portables at Chico High, constrain the arts and sciences charter school.

from choosing their own insurance packages to another Internet service provider and phone system. Inspire uses two CHS classrooms; the high schools will need to coordinate how their soonto-be different bell systems and computer technology will work together. Significantly, Inspire utilizes the CUSD Performing Arts Center to mount large-scale productions, such as the musical Into the Woods earlier this month. The district built the theater at Pleasant Valley High; neither Inspire nor CHS has such a facility. Crosby said Inspire will continue to use it. “The district has been very supportive of the process of change, and they’re working very closely with us,” Crosby said. “It’s going very rapidly; that would be my only one concern.” Inspire is a “regional school,” Crosby

said, with three-fourths of the 450-member student body living in Chico and others coming from Durham, Paradise, Oroville, Orland and Bangor. The campus is impacted for prospective and current students. “We do have a waiting list,” she said, “but the impact comes more through our limited facilities.” Inspire teaches seven theater classes without a theater. There’s demand for 11 dance classes, but with one dance room, Inspire can only hold eight. There’s one wet lab for 14 science classes and seven engineering classes. “We can’t build stage sets on campus because there is no space to create and store materials,” Crosby continued. “We can’t have regular assemblies because we have no space that can hold all our students. In fact, the largest group we can put together in one space is about 60—that doesn’t even allow for full grade level meetings. “Our great need at this point is a facility that allows us to take our programs from great to amazing.” That’s where Prop. 51 comes in. Inspire is finalizing plans to replace certain portables with modulars: prefabricated sectional buildings. Inspire appreciates its location, as the proximity to Chico State allows for visits to and from university faculty; it just wants to upgrade 20-year-old, cramped quarters. CUSD appreciates what Inspire is undertaking, with Bohannon calling the changes “a best-case scenario for Inspire and the district. “This [transition] is going to be a challenge in the short run, but in the long run both the district and Inspire will emerge in a better situation.” □

Lessons learned County rolls out new evacuation plan for area south of Oroville Dam eading up to the crisis at Oroville Dam, authorities responsible for the safety of Lcommunities downstream of California’s

second largest reservoir had become complacent, said Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea. The dam had never posed a threat, and “over the course of time, you begin to take it for granted.” Honea was speaking during a press conference held in Oroville on March 9 where he revealed a new evacuation plan for the area south of Oroville Dam, which is still under an evacuation warning. Such a plan did not exist on Feb. 12, when a catastrophic failure of the dam’s emergency spillway appeared imminent and Honea gave the order to evacuate Oroville—and chaos ensued. As the CN&R previously reported, fleeing residents gridlocked Highway 70 headed north toward Chico, including the section crossing the Feather River, leaving some motorists in the potential flood Know where to go: path. Go to buttecounty.net/oem to sign up for The emergency alerts and view an interactive California map of the new evacuation plan. Department of Water Resources had a decades-old emergency plan for the failure of the dam itself, Honea said, but no procedures were in place for the emergency spillway situation. Cindi Dunsmoor is the only staffer in the county’s Office of Emergency Management. Her role in developing evacuation plans is facilitating collaboration between the county, municipalities, fire officials and law enforce-

ment agencies. None of the stakeholders sounded the alarm prior to Feb. 12, she said. “I wish I could tell you we were working on it,” she said. “The honest truth is, we had never anticipated an uncontrolled spill over the emergency spillway.” Honea told the CN&R the same story. “From all the information I have, from what I’ve been told by DWR, no one contemplated a failure of the emergency spillway,” he said. “When it was built, it was probably considered highly unlikely that we would ever use it. … When it actually started happening, that was an opportunity to learn some incredible lessons.” Now the county has a plan should another crisis arise in the future, Honea said during the press conference. “Since the evacuation, we have a much, much better understanding of what can go wrong.” To identify safe evacuation routes, officials

used 3-D computer modeling to determine which areas would be inundated with water if the emergency spillway collapsed, said Joe Tapia, a battalion chief for Cal FireButte County. Previously, the only available inundation map showed the broader area

SIFT ER Workers want more flexibility Monumental changes in the American workplace are happening at a rapid pace, according to pollster Gallup’s State of the American Workplace report released last month. Based on data gathered from more than 195,000 workers over the last two years, it revealed that more people are working remotely (an increase from 39 percent to 43 percent between 2012 and 2016) and outside of traditional hours. The data show flexibility is in demand and employees aren’t afraid to seek out such opportunities, with 54 percent reporting they’d switch jobs for it. As for the job market, 47 percent said it’s a good time to find a quality job and more than half of those currently working (51 percent) are actively seeking better employment. Only 33 percent of American workers said they feel engaged at work, and a mere 21 percent “strongly agree” that their performance is managed in a way that motivates them to do outstanding work.

Emergency personnel in Oroville days prior to the evacuation on Feb. 12. PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

that would be affected by a complete failure of Oroville Dam. The new map is more nuanced. It breaks the cities of Oroville, Gridley, Biggs and surrounding unincorporated communities into 11 zones, each with individual evacuation routes, public assembly points and evacuation centers. To ease traffic congestion, the evacuation would be staggered, with the residents living nearest the dam in Zone 1 leaving first and the other zones following sequentially. Residents who were left behind during the first evacuation—i.e., homeless people— would be directed to public assembly points, where buses would pick them up and take them to strategically located evacuation centers on both sides of the Feather River. Ideally, the evacuation would start 12 to 24 hours before water begins flowing over the emergency spillway, Honea said. (On Feb. 12, residents were given about an hour to pack up their belongings and leave town.) To that end, local and state officials have produced a more sophisticated triggerwarning system based on the amount of precipitation forecast in the watershed above Lake Oroville. “Depending on how much water is flowing in, and how fast the water is rising, that gives us a timeline of when the overflow would go over the spillway,” Tapia said. The evacuation plan could change during a dynamic emergency situation. “We may have to adjust it depending on what we’re facing,” Honea said. Moreover, all of it depends on residents knowing which zone they’re in and where to go in the event of another crisis (see infobox). “Have a plan,” Honea said. “If you’re prepared, you’re in a much better position than if you hadn’t thought about these things.” —HOWARD HARDEE h owa rd h @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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No to non-sanctuary Supervisors oppose proposed state law, but pass on controversial declaration County is by no means a sanctuary jurisdiction, but makBingutte an official “non-sanctuary”

declaration is unnecessary and could be a detriment to public safety. That was the takeaway from the Board of Supervisors meeting Tuesday (March 14), when the panel considered two actions on the hot-button topic of immigration—the approval of a letter opposing a proposed “sanctuary state” law (Senate Bill 54) and the adoption of a resolution declaring the county’s non-sanctuary status. Supervisor Larry Wahl had suggested the non-sanctuary declaration based on a similar move made last month in Tehama and Siskiyou counties. Discussion of both actions was confined to one item on the agenda, and began with Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea giving some background on the recent history of federal and state immigration laws and his office’s ongoing efforts to comply with them. Much of the current controversy relates to local law enforcement’s responsibilities regarding ICE detainers—orders from U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) to hold undocumented inmates for up to 48 extra hours so its agents can take custody and begin deportation efforts. President Trump’s recent

executive order on immigration threatens to withhold federal funding from jurisdictions that declare ‘sanctuary’ status or otherwise don’t aid in ramped-up ICE efforts. Meanwhile, the state’s SB 54 would severely limit interaction between local police and ICE by, among other things, prohibiting ICE agents from entering local jails to interview persons of interest. The bill is still evolving in the state Senate, and was amended last week to require state prisons and county jails to notify the FBI 60 days before releasing an undocumented immigrant convicted of a violent felony. Honea explained that California law enforcement considered ICE detainers mandatory until the State Attorney’s Office declared compliance was voluntary in 2012. Since then, the Trust Act (passed in 2012), the Truth Act (which became law in January) and the fact that enforcing ICE detainers can put local agencies at risk of violating an individual’s Fourth Amendment rights (a detainer could qualify as a second, unlawful arrest) already limit police interaction with ICE. Honea said his department developed a policy in 2014 that allows its officers to comply with ICE detainers that fit the state’s current laws as long as ICE specifies charges and a judge signs a warrant indicating prob-

able cause. “This policy attempts to strike an appropriate balance between defining the current law, protecting the rights of individuals, mitigating the county’s exposure [to litigation] and my No. 1 priority, which is public safety,” the sheriff said. Honea said the proposed SB 54, aka the California Values Act, too severely limits cooperation with ICE even when it comes to dangerous criminals, and it could also end beneficial partnerships between local and federal agencies that have nothing to do with immigration (he cited high-tech crime and terrorism task forces made up of local and federal law enforcement agents as examples). Furthermore, he warned that refusing to work with ICE could harm local immigrant communities. “If [ICE] can’t come into our jails and interview people they’re interested in, they will go into our communities and arrest them there,” he said. “It could also result in collateral contacts resulting in the detention of individuals who are not the primary focus of ICE actions. “Frankly, as the sheriff, I’m always a little concerned when I have federal officers running around our communities knocking on doors and making arrests. That’s something I’d like to be able to coordinate and monitor.” Honea read a letter from District Attorney Mike Ramsey that echoed his concerns about SB 54 and urged the supervisors to send a letter opposing the bill in its present form to its author, state Sen. Kevin de Leon (D-Los Angeles). But Ramsey and Honea did not support the county declaring non-sanctuary status.

“The resolution is a correct statement of the law and practice in Butte County, but it’s my fear that there are those who will try to twist the board’s [statement] to

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea schools the county supervisors on immigration law. photo by Ken SMith

unduly frighten undocumented victims and witnesses of crime, and make them unavailable to provide vital testimony in our courts to protect public safety,” Ramsey’s letter reads. “Such a resolution would cause victims of hate crimes, human trafficking, immigration scams and other crimes to hesitate in coming forward and cooperating with local law enforcement and my office.” Honea agreed, adding that his responsibility to protect and serve extends to all residents of Butte County, regardless of their citizenship status. He also said his office doesn’t deal with ICE often enough for it to be an issue (right now, ICE is interested in just two of the more than 500 inmates in Butte County Jail, he said). Public comment was also weighted against the non-sanctuary declaration, with nine of 10 speakers criticizing the idea. “[This resolution] sends a message to our local immigrant community that they are not welcome here, and that we are watching them,” said Chico resident Morgan Kennedy. “It would reasonably cause mistrust of the local government and the police.” Kennedy was also critical because the supervisors were considering the action based partly on threats to funding from the Trump administration. “Is this the message we want to send our legal county residents?” she said. “That if our government makes a threat, and an empty one at that, we should bend to it?” In the end, the board voted unanimously to send the letter opposing SB 54. However, none of the supervisors made a motion regarding non-sanctuary. Wahl stuck to his guns, though, noting activists have been advocating for the Chico City Council to declare sanctuary status, and that he believes similar questions will come before the supervisors eventually. “At some point in the future, maybe we will have to make a resolution or decide that we aren’t a sanctuary city,” he said. —Ken Smith kens@ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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tising targeting them—targeting us—that made the choice,” she told a group of health professionals and media assembled at the Chico Elks Lodge last Wednesday (March 8). Korte, 16, is a junior at Chico High School who participates in a club called KLEAN: Kids Leading Everyone Against Nicotine. This was her first public presentation on behalf of the group, made during an event organized by the Butte County Public Health Department to announce the findings in a retail survey conducted under the auspices of a statewide program, Healthy Stores

for a Healthy Community. Following up on an initial report from 2014, surveyors logged the availability of products in neighborhood stores. The numbers that most alarm county public health officials relate to youth. It’s twice as easy to find fruit-flavored tobacco and alcohol than actual fruit, based on the proportion of stores that carry cigarillos and/or alcopops versus produce (see infobox). Cigarillos are small cigars, packaged brightly, that can cost less than candy; alcopops are sugary beverages also aimed at younger consumers. Also, as the popularity of electronic cigarettes has skyrocketed, so has availability. E-cigs are now the tobacco product teens use most and over three-fourths of Butte County stores carry them, a jump of nearly a third from three years ago. “It’s hard to make a healthy choice when the unhealthy option is so much closer,” Korte said, adding: “I don’t want to be targeted so someone can make money by killing my lungs.” Korte’s passion is personal. As a young child

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of medical marijuana for sale. Part of the requirements under MMRSA were that the state water board set up a permit procedure to ensure the protection of the environment. The board’s main focuses are on use of surface water to irrigate plants; wastewater discharge; and land clearing and grading. In order to receive the water board’s stamp of approval, then, one must comply with all land and water regulations. Those regulations are many. Just some that people might need (based on applicability): • If damming a stream—generally considered a “big no-no”—apply for a lake and streambed alteration permit from the Department of Fish and Wildlife. • If irrigating using surface water, ensure pump intake is appropriate so as not to harm any marine life. Also, ensure water use is consistent with water rights—and submit timely reports to the Division of Water Rights. • If on well water, get a well permit. “You will have to show the state where your water comes from,” Sherrell said. “If you’re using surface water diversions, they’re going to want you to start a rainwater catchment system so you don’t have to pump as much during dry months.” • If growing on a hillside, which is not ideal, use precautions to avoid soil erosion. • If using fertilizers or pesticides—even if they’re organic—they must be stored, separately, in containers that will prevent seepage into the ground. That’s just scratching the surface. But, for anybody in the agriculture industry, it’s really nothing new. Sherrell acknowledged that

most of this information is for growers who have yet to put plants in the ground, as many of these permits are required before the work is done. Because of the underground nature of the cannabis growing community, however, some folks may be requesting approval retroactively. In some cases, Sherrell warned, there may be fines involved. (For a comprehensive list of requirements, including best management practices for growers, go to tinyurl.com/cawaterboardcannabis.) While it might seem natural that Sherrell and Parker would be most concerned about protecting the water, Sherrell said in his experience, “the vast majority of pollution is from roads leading to the site. You’re trying to hide, so you put your plants way back in the hills. But then you had to carve a road to get there—that’s where we see a large amount of sediment and erosion.”

industry the cleanest, greenest, most wellregulated industry in California,” Sherrell added. Water board permits are based on the size and location of grow sites, Parker said. The fewer threats to the environment, the less the cost of the permit. They start at $1,000. In Butte County, growers cannot apply for water board permits at this time, though many of the other licenses and permits can and should be obtained, Sherrell said. The rules are strict, so “Anything you can obtain a permit for, do it.” □

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and discussion, most of the growers in the room seemed satisfied—few appeared overwhelmed or upset by the number of requirements. That changed during a discussion of pesticide use, when one member of the audience asked Sherrell, “Are the standards going to be higher on cannabis than other farmers, say, rice farmers?” Sherrell gave an emphatic yes. “There is greater pollution coming from other industries,” he said. “Traditional agriculture has protections under the federal Clean Water Act,” he explained. “But marijuana is still a Schedule I drug and illegal federally. So, the state of California has all the leverage at this time. “The state intends to make the cannabis

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How did you and Josh Morrow meet? I sold him and his nephew some shoes at Vans. He started asking me about my experience, kind of had an on-the-spot interview, and we decided to open this business together.

You don’t cater just to men, right? Being in a college town, you see so many girls riding around on longboards. It’s more comfortable and it’s easier, because you have bigger wheels. I see some girls shredding.

How is your store different from others in the mall? I really wanted to bring a local feeling into the shop, because the mall doesn’t have that. We have a local section of brands based in Chico, and we have work from a local artist hanging in the window. We like the people who are creating things in town.

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roused Just after the November election, I took a stroll through the Garden Walk Mall downtown and noticed a new thrift shop inside, Rouse & Revolt. I chatted for a little bit with the owners, who seemed very cool and driven, and browsed the racks. Now, not even six months later, the owners—Christina and Nicholle Haber— have stepped right up to Main Street. On March 11, they celebrated their grand opening in their new spot, still in the Garden Walk, but with big picture windows onto the street. Best of luck in your new digs!

Peace out! As Rouse & Revolt celebrates a move out, the folks over at Red Umbrella Consignment are saying farewell. The large shop at the corner of Main and Third streets just wasn’t getting enough shoppers, according to the store’s Facebook page. Too bad.

atteNtioN, shoPPers For those who shop at Safeway on Mangrove or East avenues, you may have seen the signs. Those grocery stores will no longer be open 24 hours, but instead will close from 2-5 a.m. There were some rumors flying that this was in response to a request from the city of Chico to in some way affect the homeless population around the stores. I checked with City Manager Mark Orme and he said there was no truth whatsoever to that rumor. So there you go.

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iovanna Vera was 3 years old when she came illegally to the United States from Mexico. She has only a vague recollection of her parents’ American friends driving her through a crossing at the border. During much of her childhood, she didn’t know she was an undocumented immigrant because her parents rarely discussed the issue. But not having papeles caught up with Vera while she was attending Pierce High School in Arbuckle—where she maintained a 4.0 GPA while holding leadership roles in the school’s Associated Student Body, Spanish Honors Society and Future Farmers of America chapter. Without a valid Social Security number, she discovered, she couldn’t apply for federal financial aid for college. That meant she’d have to pay out of pocket for higher education. Her family struggled financially, working under-thetable jobs for low wages, but Vera was determined to attend a top-tier university. “I guess I didn’t want to let anyone down,” she said. “I didn’t know how to explain that the valedictorian of the high school was going to a community college.” Undeterred, she applied for admission to several prestigious California universities, including Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo, where she was accepted and enrolled in 2010. She wanted to study civil engineering there because it consistently ranked as one of the finest engineering universities in the state. To make that happen without government assistance, she secured about $15,000 in private scholarships prior to her freshman year. However, eight months into her studies, she ran out of money. “I couldn’t even get loans, which was kind of like my backup,” she said. Vera reluctantly moved back to the North State, where she helped support herself by making and selling tamales. Slowly but surely, she scraped together enough cash to pay for one course at Butte College. Then, something happened that promised to change everything: then-President Obama unveiled a Department of Homeland Security pro18

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all of Obama’s executive orders, including gram called Deferred Action for Childhood DACA. Arrivals, aka DACA. Initiated in June 2012, One of Trump’s recently signed executhe program provides individuals who came tive orders, which streamlines the deportation to the country illegally as children two years process and gives Immigration and Customs of temporary relief from deportation, as well Enforcement (ICE) leeway in detaining as a permit to work in the United States, immigrants, has been particularly distressbut only for those who meet certain requireing to undocumented students. At least four ments, including not being convicted of a DACA recipients have been detained since felony or posing a threat to national security. Trump’s order came out, including one in Of the estimated 10.9 million undocumented Washington immigrants in the state who had United States, no criminal some 1.9 million record. Another were eligible for was detained in DACA last year Texas, reportand about 750,000 edly for possesenrolled in the sion of mariprogram between juana. A third 2012-16. was arrested Vera immedi—andrew holley, immigration attorney by Border ately applied for Patrol agents DACA and her in San Diego application was on charges approved about of immigrant smuggling. He’s currently a year later. By then, Gov. Jerry Brown had in detention in Georgia. In Mississippi, a signed two groundbreaking assembly bills, 22-year-old student was briefly detained after AB 130 and AB 131, making undocumented she publicly spoke about her fear of being people eligible to apply for institutional deported. Her status expired in November, scholarships and state-funded financial aid, but her renewal application was under respectively. Together, those laws and a review. few others including AB 540, which allows Trump’s order says: “We cannot faithfully undocumented students to pay in-state execute the immigration laws of the United tuition, formed the California DREAM States if we exempt classes or categories of (Development, Relief and Education for removable aliens from potential enforceAlien Minors) Act. ment.” Although this portion of the order But Vera, now 24, and others in her posiis vague, it implies that no undocumented tion are worried about the future of DACA immigrants, even DACA recipients, are under President Trump, who campaigned exempt from the possibility of deportation. heavily on matters of immigration. In speeches and at rallies, Trump cast immigrants as criminals, highlighting acts of it is unclear whether Trump will cancel violence, including murders. Even though DACA, or to what degree he’ll change it, numerous academic studies have shown says Andrew Holley, an immigration attorimmigrants commit crimes less frequently ney based in Chico. than native-born citizens, Trump promised to “Trump’s been all over the map, and that’s curb illegal immigration, build a wall along consistent with his inconsistency,” Holley said the U.S.-Mexico border and deport millions during a recent interview with CN&R. of immigrants—a promise he’s beginning Holley, who came to Chico from San to make good on. He also vowed to cancel Francisco to establish his own practice in

“Trump’s been all over the map, and that’s consistent with his inconsistency”

2014, says Trump has several options when it comes to DACA, including shutting out firsttime applicants. The president could allow people to maintain their work permits but not allow them to renew them, he explained. He could also cancel the program completely and authorize authorities to send recipients a letter instructing them to go to immigration court for removal proceedings. “On the other hand, he could expand DACA,” Holley said. “That’s what Obama was going to do. And he could even just keep DACA [in place].” The Chico attorney explained that Obama had tried to expand DACA by adjusting the age and time limitations, making older and younger undocumented immigrants eligible for the program. Those currently enrolled must have entered the country prior to June 15, 2007, before reaching age 16. In addition, only those born before June 15, 1982, qualify for the program. Applicants must also pay a fee, have their photos and fingerprints taken, as well as submit extensive paperwork verifying their personal and educational records, among other criteria. When the two-year period ends, recipients must reapply to renew their status. But Obama’s planned expansion of DACA and the initiation of another executive order, Deferred Action for Parents of Americans and Lawful Permanent Residents, aka DAPA—which would have given similar protections to millions of undocumented immigrants with American children as well as children granted lawful permanent residency—was met with legal challenges. The case eventually went to the U.S. Supreme Court, which deadlocked 4-4, so a decision by a lower court to disallow the orders was upheld. Vera renewed her two-year status just before Trump took office. It expires in 2019, if DACA remains intact. But other recipients have less time until theirs expire, and those who are not yet eligible because of age requirements are now especially vulnerable. On Feb. 20, Department of Homeland Security Secretary John Kelly released two

memos directing his department on the ways in which it should follow Trump’s immigration orders, including speeding up deportation hearings, expanding the pool of undocumented immigrants prioritized for deportation and training local law enforcement officers to act as immigration enforcers. As of press time, ICE raids had led to the detention of hundreds of undocumented immigrants across the country since late January. While federal authorities have said the sweeps are routine, many Democrats and immigrant advocates have fiercely opposed the efforts targeting low-level offenders and people with no criminal histories. Vera enrolled full-time at Butte College

after getting her DACA status, landed a job there as a student assistant in the Office of Recruitment, Outreach and Orientation, and

got involved in student government, ultimately becoming president. These days, she works as a staff member in the community college’s recruitment office, and she has moved on to studies at Chico State, where she expects to earn a degree in civil engineering in May 2018. Both of the local campuses have relatively small populations of undocumented students, and yet staff from each institution has gone out of the way to support them. Chico State has set up a Web page called Our Democracy, specifically to address concerns of the campus community. It includes a DACA and immigration section for “students, educators and social service providers” with answers to common questions. On Feb. 22, Chico State President Gayle Hutchinson forwarded an email from the California State University chancellor to

all students. It was in response to Secretary Kelly’s memoranda on immigration. “Unless otherwise required by law, we will not enter into agreements with law enforcement agencies for the purpose of enforcing federal immigration laws,” the message reads. “Our University Police Department will not honor immigration hold requests, nor will it contact, detain, question, or arrest individuals solely on the basis of being—or suspected of being—a person who lacks documentation.” Drew Calendrella, Chico State’s vice president for student affairs, said university staff members understand the concerns of students who fear the loss of DACA and the threat of deportation as a result of the prevailing rhetoric on immigration. “They hear stories, you know,” Calendrella said. “‘Immigration showed up

Chico State student Giovanna Vera applied for enrollment in the DACA program so that she could earn enough money to pay for college.

someplace and took somebody away.’ ‘Is that my parents?’ ‘Are they looking for me?’ So, there is a kind of paranoia, and understandably so, just because of a person’s status. “The beauty of it is,” he added, “we [at the university] don’t know what a person’s status is.” A recent estimate of the university’s undocumented student population is roughly 200 to 300, Calendrella explained, but that number could be low because the campus doesn’t formally track such students. Not all of the them are beneficiaries of DACA or the DREAM c o n t i n u e d March 16, 2017

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California DREAM Act, he noted. A cohort of staff informally counts them, but only the ones who voluntarily step forward. Vera says Butte College has about 200 undocumented students. She, attorney Holley and Cindy Melendrez-Flores, a program coordinator in Butte’s recruitment office, hosted a workshop at the community college for undocumented students following the election. It aimed to inform the mostly 18- to 20-year-old students about DACA, the California DREAM Act and their rights as residents of the state. “Every student said their biggest fear was DACA being taken away,” Vera said. “Our biggest hope was that students could really just stay strong” and not drop out of college. Since then, similar workshops and clinics have been held on both campuses and in the community. Holley’s participation includes sharing advice. “Avoid contact with law enforcement, if you can help it,” he said. “Go get a driver’s license, because the No. 1 way that undocumented immigrants come into negative contact with immigration and law enforcement is through driving and not having a driver’s license.” While California laws for undocumented

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ed having a place to stay and a job that paid them under the table so they could meet their living expenses. Not many undocumented people could afford to do that in years past, she continued, but the old way of life might become reality again if DACA gets axed. Claudia Martinez, 20, is a Chico State student who worked as a farm laborer in her teens. Born in Michoacán, Mexico, she crossed into the United States illegally with her family in 2003, when she was 5. On the day of Trump’s inauguration, Martinez met with CN&R inside a local coffee shop. She teared up throughout the interview. “Knowing that that permit is in jeopardy is really sad for me,” she said, “because I know what it’s like to be without it. I don’t want to go back to those old days.” In 2016, Martinez, who commutes to the university from a small town outside of Chico, won the CSU Trustees’ Award for Outstanding Achievement. The honor is given to one student per year from each of the CSU’s 23 campuses. It came with a $6,000 scholarship and the prestige of being the student of more than 17,000 on campus to win the award. A first-generation college student, she majors in concrete industry management, a field historically dominated by men, and serves as vice president of Women in Concrete, a student club. She also works as an assistant in the university’s Educational Opportunity Program office. The journey thus far, Martinez said, has not been easy.

Martinez recalled her 10-day trip to the United States, which began on a bus that departed from her hometown and arrived near the border. Along with her mom, older brother, grandpa, a bag of clothes and water, they commenced a two-day hike through Arizona to reunite with Martinez’s father, who was working as a farm laborer. Her mother had only mentioned the expectation of a better life, but nothing about how difficult the journey might be. “When we got to the desert,” she said, “that’s when I began asking myself, ‘Why am I here? Why did my mom not tell me this is what we were going to do? Why did she leave this part out?’ “One thing I will never forget is having to walk in the dark, and just feeling the cactus hit my knees and my shins, and I couldn’t scream, I couldn’t cry, I couldn’t make any noise.” At one point, Martinez’s grandfather had to pick her up and carry her. Along the way, Border Patrol agents detained them. They stayed the night in a U.S. holding facility and, in the morning, were sent back to Mexico. They stayed the night in a hotel, then trekked through the desert once again the following morning. This time, they ran out of water. So, they drank from a ditch. “I remember feeling the little grains of sand in my mouth and thinking, my mom would never let me do this in Mexico, why is she letting me do this here? What’s happening?” Martinez said, wiping tears from her eyes. To be sure, her biggest role models are her parents, who sacrificed so her family could have a better life, she said. “Dropping out and giving up is not an option. I have to make them proud.” She expects to graduate in May of next year.

Chico immigration attorney Andrew Holley has participated in workshops advising undocumented immigrants of their rights.

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County Republican Party and a district director for the California State Legislature. In a recent phone interview, he detailed his personal views on illegal immigration and DACA, but said they do not represent the views of his affiliations. Londono emigrated from Brazil to the States in his teens in the late 1990s. His father had obtained a work visa prior to bringing his family to Colorado. Londono eventually attended a San Diego college and moved around the state. In 2014, he became a naturalized American citizen. Londono understands the desires of immigrant families, given that his family wanted a better life, too. He nonetheless echoed the sentiment of many Republicans. “We’re a nation of laws,” he said. But having gone through the system himself, he supports immigration reform. “We not only need to reform our visa system, but we also need to reform our citizenship processes,” he said. “We need to reform just about everything as it relates to the immigration system.” He also noted the difference between wittingly and unwittingly breaking the law. “I certainly believe that part of the immigration reform bill should treat those who

came here as children, through no fault of their own, a little different than the rest,” he said. Londono’s opinions contrast those of District 1 Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who, along with some of his Republican colleagues in Congress, has expressed no desire to amend federal immigration laws. “We don’t need to reform immigration,” LaMalfa said in a video on his YouTube channel in November. “We need to enforce the immigration laws we have.” LaMalfa did not return CN&R’s request for comment on his views on DACA and illegal immigration. Under Obama, immigration enforcement

was strict. The former president actually set the record for the most deportations of any sitting president. Under his administration, more than 3 million people were sent back to their countries of origin, according to Department of Homeland Security records compiled by the Migration Policy Institute, a nonprofit, nonpartisan think tank. It should be noted, however, that the majority of those deportations happened at or near the U.S.Mexico border and, prior to 9/11, some of those would not have been categorized as deportations. With the growing furor surrounding recent ICE raids, California Democrats have introduced state Senate Bill 54, which, if passed, will turn the Golden State into a “sanctuary state,” meaning local law enforcement will be limited in its ability to assist ICE. In California, attorney Holley noted, there’s also the Trust Act, which already hinders the ability of local law enforcement to hold undocumented immigrants and hand them over to ICE. But many counties in the North State, he said, take that as optional, meaning they claim the discretion to comply or not comply. “I know this firsthand, that a lot of them do not comply with that,” he said, “because many of the law enforcement officers in these local counties, in this local area, have a predisposition, have personal preferences and attitudes regarding undocumented immigrants, and they want to deport and remove every single one of them.” He added that SB 54

likely won’t change local attitudes. The Truth Act is another California protection for undocumented immigrants, he noted. It became effective on Jan. 1 and says that, if local enforcement officials want to grant ICE an interview with a person in custody, that person must attest, in writing, to understanding his or her legal rights. Locally, in late February, the Chico City Council refused to even discuss the topic of becoming a “sanctuary city” when local community organizers spoke about the subject to the conservative-majority body in the packed council chambers. For Vera, news that local leaders either won’t discuss the topic of becoming a sanctuary or in fact want to be deemed a “nonsanctuary” region, is hurtful. “I love this city; it has given so much to me, and I feel like I’ve given just as much back,” she said. “To hear that is just a complete slap in our faces.” The Obama administration chose to unveil

DACA on the 30th anniversary of Plyler v. Doe, a landmark U.S. Supreme Court decision in 1982 that ruled it was unconstitutional to deny undocumented children the right to free public K-12 education. The case was prompted by a Texas law that had permitted local school districts to ban undocumented students or make them pay fees. The decision each of the nine times between 2003 and introduced the argument that undocumented 2010. In late 2010, House Democrats passed children were not at fault for their status because of a violation of law by their parents. the DREAM Act by a vote of 216 to 198. But days later, when the Senate voted, the As decades passed, so did millions of unauthorized immigrants through the nation’s bill narrowly failed with a vote of 55 in favor and 41 opposed. Only 60 votes were needed borders. Those immigrants brought children for it to pass, yet five Democrats opposed with them. Those children, who entered their party while three Republicans reached public school systems, pledged allegiance to across the aisle to register their support. the flag of the United States of America and An additional three Republicans (including coalesced with American culture. Hatch) and one Democrat did not vote. In 2001, Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat In Obama’s 2012 announcement on from Illinois, and Sen. Orrin Hatch, a DACA, he criticized the Republican lawRepublican from Utah, tried to remedy the makers who blocked the DREAM Act and mass influx of immigrants, which observers prevented him from signing it into law. He said stemmed from weak also noted that DACA security measures at the was not amnesty, borders and a broken immunity or a path to “I certainly immigration system that citizenship—as some failed to create a path to believe that part critics had argued. citizenship. The two senwas a “temporary ators, buoyed by immiof the immigration Itstopgap measure,” grant advocates and the reform bill should he explained, until stories they told, introCongress approved a duced a bill in Congress treat those who comprehensive immicalled the DREAM gration reform bill— came here as Act, which would have something that has yet provided undocumented children, through to transpire. people a path to citizen“Put yourself in ship. But the bipartisan no fault of their their shoes,” Obama bill failed to pass. told the crowd. own, a little Over the years, “Imagine you’ve done that legislation has different than everything right your been reintroduced in entire life—studied various incarnations by the rest.” hard, worked hard, both Democrats and —Saulo Londono, maybe even graduRepublicans in the U.S. Butte county republican Party chairman ated at the top of your Senate and House of class—only to sudRepresentatives, failing

Claudia Martinez, who’s studying concrete management at Chico State, was recently presented with one of the California State University system’s top student awards.

denly face the threat of deportation to a country that you know nothing about, with a language that you may not even speak. “We have always drawn strength from being a nation of immigrants, as well as a nation of laws, and that’s going to continue,” he continued. “And my hope is that Congress recognizes that and gets behind this effort.” Like many of their classmates, Vera and

Martinez have high hopes for the future—in the classroom and beyond—and are cautiously optimistic, given their circumstances. Both appear to be using the uncertainty as fuel, making them stronger by sharing their stories and educating themselves on their rights and the immigration process. They expressed appreciation for the struggles of their parents, who sacrificed for their families, either by working in the fields and orchards, in fast food restaurants, or on construction sites. “If anyone knows the undocumented community, and you see how hard people work just to get what they have, and to be where they are, and you see people who take everything they have for granted, and who are just complaining about the people who are legitimately trying to make their lives better,” Vera said, “it’s rather disheartening. Not just in the United States, but it makes you look at the whole picture—of how people treat each other.” □ March 16, 2017

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From The Hollies to Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, to just Graham Nash. PhoTo by ELEaNor STiLLS

Graham Nash isn’t resting on his laurels of Wild Tales: A Rock & Roll ALife,draftGraham Nash could hardly believe fter typing the last word of the first

that it was his autobiography. “I got to the end of the book, and I by looked down and said, Howard ‘Holy shit. I wish I Hardee was him.’ It sounded h owa rdh@ so incredible,” he said. newsrev iew.c om “This one person went through all of these Preview: incredible changes and chico Performances presents Graham was present at the birth Nash, Wednesday, of rock ’n’ roll and the march 22, 7:30 p.m., British invasion and all at Laxson auditorium. of that?” Tickets: $10-$54 Seeing the book Laxson Auditorium published in 2013 chico State was pivotal for Nash. 898-6333 Previously, he’d spent www.chico decades reliving—and performances.com dwelling on—his musical journey: Forming seminal English pop band The Hollies in the mid-1960s. Leaving The Hollies and becoming one-third of Crobsy, Stills and Nash. Turning the group into a quartet with Neil Young. Fighting bitterly with his bandmates. Moving from England to Southern California and living with his girlfriend, Joni Mitchell. Playing Woodstock in 1969. Taking a leading role in the 1970s counterculture movement. Calling out President Richard Nixon in a song. Becoming an officer of the Order of the British Empire. Getting inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (twice). All told, it was a lot to move on from. “It was an incredible release for me to realize that all happened in the past, and to get on with today,” he said. Graham spoke to the CN&R by phone ahead of his show at Chico State’s Laxson Auditorium on Wednesday 24

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(March 22). He’s touring to promote his first solo album in 14 years, This Path Tonight, a record that’s informed by recent personal upheavals. Two years ago, he divorced his wife of nearly 40 years, Susan Sennett, and moved from Hawaii to New York City. “My soul was washed clean, and I’m starting again at 75 years old,” he said. “It’s kind of crazy. Certainly, I’m smart enough to recognize that I’m on the back end of my life. I mean, how much longer can this go on? I’ve realized you’ve got to utilize every single second the best way you can. Life is very short. “So, there’s a lot of that on the album,” he said. “A lot of walking out of my past and into my future.” As one of rock’s senior statesmen, Nash easily could have banged out standards with some A-list guests and called it a record. He instead created something more personal; more vulnerable. This Path Tonight is somber, sweet and lonesome. On the title track, over minor-key acoustic guitar, Nash sings in his tenor, “I try my best to be myself/But wonder who’s behind this mask.” The new songs have dark vibes,

which Nash recognizes as a juxtaposition to the cheery peace-and-love songs that defined much of his early career. They reflect his view of the world today, and his feelings about turning on the TV and watching President Donald Trump push his ban on immigration, he said. “I’ve never seen it this crazy. It’s almost unspeakable, what’s going on now.” In that sense, he actually finds it disheartening that his 1972 song “Immigration Man”—written about a U.S. customs official who wouldn’t let him enter the country—is so relevant. “On one hand, it’s wonderful that songs written 40 years ago still resonate with people,” he said. “But on the other, it’s awful that we still have this same madness.” With America at a similar cultural crossroads, Nash says this country needs protest music, but he’s not hearing anything like “Ohio”—the classic CSNY song that helped amplify sentiment against the Vietnam War. “When you bring ideas to people, you’re changing the world slightly,” he said. “People listened to our music and got up and screamed about what happened to those four kids in Ohio.” □

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FEED YOUR SOUL – POP-UP DINNER: Bacio is preparing a four-course, family style meal with drinks, appetizers, a Moroccan inspired dinner and dessert. A benefit for Catalyst. Thu, 3/16, 6pm. $50. Creekside Rose Garden, CARD Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave. 3457787. www.eventbrite.com

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GOOD WITH FACES: World premiere of local playwright Hilary Tellesen’s farcical look at psychotherapy. Thu, 3/16, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. 1st St. blueroomtheatre.com

THE ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s classic mismatched-buddy dramedy about the fastidious Felix rooming with Oscar the slob. Thu, 3/16, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

Literary Arts POETRY READING: Free reading featuring local poets. Thu, 3/16, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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appointment with local experimental troupe Bogg. Fri, 3/17, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

Theater A DOLL’S HOUSE: After being postponed due to Oroville evacuations, Henrik Ibsen’s modernist classic is now up at the Birdcage. Fri, 3/17, 6:30pm. $10 - $12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. 533-BIRD.

GOOD WITH FACES: World premiere of local playwright Hilary Tellesen’s farcical look at psychotherapy. Fri, 3/17, 7:30pm. $15 - $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

THE ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s classic mismatched-buddy dramedy about the fastidious Felix rooming with Oscar the slob. Fri, 3/17, 7:30pm. $14 - $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

Art Receptions LOUD OUT: Reception for multipanel abstract narrative assemblages by Baltimore artist Michael Stevenson. Fri, 3/17, 6pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St. www.facebook.com

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your favorite local drag kings and queens performing. Sat, 3/18, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

HOME & GARDEN SHOW: The 31st annual Soroptimist Home and Garden Show will feature hundreds of home-improvement, landscaping, art and home furnishings vendors. More information: chicohomeand garden.com Sat, 3/18, 10am. $6. Silver Dollar Fair, 2357 Fair St.

KING OF THE CAGE: A full card of mixed martial arts action with Brian Wilkinson vs. Nick Sperling and many more. Sat, 3/18, 6pm. $45-$80. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Hwy, Oroville. www.goldcountry casino.com

SOUPER BOWL SATURDAY: Enjoy homemade soups in bowls crafted by local potters. Sat, 3/18, 5pm. $25. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. SPRING BEER PAIRING DINNER: Celebrate the arrival of spring with a pairing menu of Sierra Nevada beers with pickled crudités and cheeses, local greens and vegetables, braised short ribs, duck confit and potato and parsnip puree, and a tangerine tart. Sat, 3/18, 6:30pm. $50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. (530) 892-4647. www.sierranevada.com

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GOOD WITH FACES: World premiere of local playwright Hilary Tellesen’s farcical look at psychotherapy. Sat, 3/18, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

THE ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s classic mismatched-buddy dramedy about the fastidious Felix rooming with Oscar the slob. Sat, 3/18, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

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PEOPLE’S TOWN HALL WITH (OR WITHOUT) LAMALFA: Join Butte County residents for a town hallstyle meeting to discuss issues relevant to our district and find solutions. Sun, 3/19, 6pm. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.letterstolamalfa.com

SPRING EQUINOX DRUM CIRCLE: Health Rhythms group-empowerment drumming. Drums are provided or bring your own. Sun, 3/19, 1:30pm. $15. Chico Community Acupuncture, 1815 Mangrove Ave., Chico. 774-6388. drumcirclewellness.com

DERVISH: A ST. PATRICK’S CELEBRATION: Chico Performances hosts a St. Patrick’s celebration with Irish supergroup Dervish, playing traditional Celtic music with vocalist Cathy Jordan. Sat, 3/18, 7:30pm. $32. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St., 898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

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Theater A DOLL’S HOUSE: After being postponed due to Oroville evacuations, Henrik Ibsen’s modernist classic is now up at the Birdcage. Sun, 3/19, 1pm. $10 - $12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. 533-BIRD.

THE ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s classic mismatched-buddy dramedy about the fastidious Felix rooming with Oscar the slob. Sun, 3/19, 2pm. $14 - $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd, Ste F. (530) 894-3282.

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Music POOR MAN’S WHISKEY: The Bay Area jamgrass sensations will keep the dancefloor packed for a good old-fashioned outlaw

GARTH WEBBER & MARINA CROUSE: Guitarist Garth Webber, formerly of the Miles Davis Group, comes to Paradise with vocalist Marina Crouse. Openers include Big Mo, Volker Strifler and Lazy Lester. Sat, 3/18, 7pm. $20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise, 872-8454. www. eventbrite.com

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a FamILIar FacE “This is my portrait of trying to kill and give birth to the full-fledged female crazy in womanhood.” That’s playwright Hilary Tellesen, Chico actress and writer, talking about her original “farcical look at psychotherapy,” Good With Faces. The Blue Room Theatre is debuting the work about five patients coming to terms with the death of their therapist who was stabbed to death by a patient, and Tellesen is directing. And it’s a comedy. This ought to be fun! Opens tonight, March 16.

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CHICO ART CENTER: Replication Machine, a contemporary living art machine. Artists will replicate objects brought in by the public. Anyone can submit items to receive reproductions free of charge. 450 Orange St.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ken W. Moore, oil paintings and pencil drawings by Northern California artist Ken W. Moore. 265 Cohasset Road (inside Enloe Cancer Center), 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings by Sal Casa, early collection of the artist’s paintings representing his changing styles and perspectives. 254 E. Fourth St., 343-2930.

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THE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Artwork of Molly LittleBird, using recycled materials, mostly paper combined with acrylic paints to make textured abstract wall art. 789 Bille Road, Paradise.

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CALL FOR ARTISTS CALL FOR ART: The 7th annual Art at the Matador arts festival (May 12-13) is seeking artists. Call for a prospectus. Thu, 3/16. 1934 Esplanade, 318-2105.

new display of more than 200 branding irons. $2. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Permanent exhibit, housed in a large refurbished 1941 WW II Army Air Corps hangar and has an outdoor area with airplanes on display. 165 Ryan Ave.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St.

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, ongoing exhibit featuring Chico timeline, historic artifacts and photos, plus a preserved Chinese temple and a new exhibit on Hmong life in Chico. 141 Salem St. www.chico museum.org

COLMAN MUSEUM: Colman Community Museum, cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. 13548 Centerville Rd.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Toys: The Inside Story, new exhibit featuring 12 hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms found in most toys. Ongoing Exhibits: 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. 625 Esplanade. www.csuchico.edu

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Permanent exhibit, refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a railroad and logging museum. There is a working model train. Free. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 872-8722.

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. Meriam Library Complex at Chico State.

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in his music. That’s changed pretty significantly over last couple of by Ryan J. Prado years. “I’m creating music now knowing that I have a new priority that’s No. 1.” Preview: Hull is referPat hull vinyl-release party, saturday, ring to the March 18, responsibilities chico Women’s club, that come with with opener evin Wolverton and being the father of video projections by a 2-year-old son. erin Lizardo. dance In a way, though, party to follow. he’s also talking tickets: $10 about the artistic (www.brownpaper tickets.com) wellsprings that helped spawn his Chico Women’s new EP project, Club Origami Sessions. 592 e. third st. “When music was my No. 1 thing, I was so close to it that I’d kind of drown myself in it,” said Hull. “I realized I can remove myself from being so tied to it. There can be a greater creativity because I’m just letting go.” Letting go a little was the central thrust of Origami Sessions. Local recording engineer (and Origami owner) Scott Barwick took the helm for the album, and Hull was joined by regular collaborators Sean Raeside on drums and Evin Wolverton on guitar—as well as sev-

eral guest musicians—to cut a fully analog, live to 8-track reel-to-reel tape recording. With a smattering of new songs featuring Hull’s rich freeform folk, the EP feels loose, live and warm, adding a new resonance to Hull’s intimate songcraft. The approach was no accident. Hull wanted to capture the kind of spontaneous vibes of his live performances more than he had on past recordings. “When I play simultaneously with guitar and my voice, you can hear the difference in the delivery,” he said. “It’s a less calculated vocal delivery. It’s all just kind of happening. Nothing is really perfect.” Beginning with the sensual piano-and-guitar chiller “Surrender,” Hull’s epicene vocals flutter in unpredictable progressions, the live feel of the sessions emboldening his typically smooth tenor to explore uncharted melodic real estate. The trend continues on the fantastic “My Flame II,” a song that receives a bit of an update from its origins as a live-show staple that Hull’s been playing for a devoted local fanbase he’s been nurturing over the past decade. Allowing for the live element to enhance and change songs over time is a natural developmental impulse for Hull. “Excessive performances of songs will just do that, inherently,” he explained. “You don’t even know the songs are shifting.”

Origami Sessions is also the first of Hull’s releases to be pressed to vinyl, and he’ll celebrate with two record-release performances— one in Portland, Ore., and one in Chico (Saturday, March 18) at the Chico Women’s Club. The EP’s early spring arrival precedes an impending full-length release for Hull in the summer, dubbed Marrow. Started over two years ago, the album’s unusually long gestation period was the result of basically the exact opposite process he took with the EP. Hull traveled to Bennington, Vt., to record the basic tracks of Marrow with producers J.J. Beck and Michael Chinworth (aka The Mothers, with whom Hull has worked extensively in the past), and left the record entirely to the duo’s whimsies. The result, as Hull puts it, was a shockingly slick take on his normally subtle sonic approach. “It was like, ‘Here are the songs. I’m gonna play guitar and sing, and you just tell me when you think you’re done with it,’” Hull recalled. He was recently sent the mixes after two years. “The more I sat with it, the more I started to understand it, and I went from going through a grieving process to really enjoying all the routes they took with it. “The survival of a song depends on this evolution of it morphing into other things.” □

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night jazz featuring local musicians. Thu, 3/16, 8pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St.

LEANN COOLEY AND FRIENDS: Vintage blues and swing with Cooley and rotating guests. Thu, 3/16, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, 343-2056.

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Burning Man party, presented by KZFR. Featuring performances by The Ascenders, Bottom Bag Fries, Flowjam Twirling Arts and the Lumininjas. Beer and wine available for purchase. Fri, 3/17, 6pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. 3rd St., 895-0706.

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with local experimental troupe Bogg. Fri, 3/17, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

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JELLY BREAD & THE SEXTONES: It’s going to be a funky St. Patrick’s Day with a couple of Reno soul/ funk crews, Jelly Bread and The Sextones. Fri, 3/17, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

LIVE IRISH MUSIC & WINE: Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with Celtic band Molly’s Favorite. Fri, 3/17, 6pm. Free. Almendra Winery, 9275 Midway, Durham, 343-6893.

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ST. PATRICK’S DAY AT THE BEACH: A marathon of DJs to celebrate the holiday, with DJ Mikey Tan, DJ Eclectic and more. Fri, 3/17, 7pm. $4. The Beach, 191 E. Second St.

ST. PATRICK’S DAY WITH THE PUB SCOUTS: Annual St. Patrick’s Day celebration with Chico’s own purveyors of Celtic music. Fri, 3/17, 4pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., 864-0232.

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’80S BBQ PARTY: Local band Esplanade takes over the downtown barbecue spot for 1980s dance party. Sat, 3/18, 5:30pm. Smokin’ Mo’s, 131 Broadway.

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In addition to the usual green-beer shenanigans at local bars, there will be some quality Irish music taking over local stages during celebrations of Ireland’s favorite saint. On St. Patrick’s Day proper, Friday, March 17, Duffy’s Tavern’s house band, The Pub Scouts, will play a special holiday edition of its Friday happy hour sessions, and out at Almendra Winery & Distillery in Durham, locals Molly’s Favorite will entertain the wine crowd. And the following night, Saturday, March 18, Ireland’s own Dervish, with vocalist Cathy Jordan (pictured) will perform a St. Patrick’s Celebration at Laxson Auditorium.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

CAPER ACRES FUNDRAISER: A trio of Chico’s biggest cover bands perform to raise money to help rebuild the Crooked House in Caper Acres. Featuring: Looking for Eleven, Radio Relapse and Up to 11. Sat, 3/18, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave.

DERVISH: A ST. PATRICK’S CELEBRATION: Chico Performances hosts a

St. Patrick’s celebration with Irish supergroup Dervish, playing traditional Celtic music with vocalist Cathy Jordan. Sat, 3/18, 7:30pm. $32. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St., 898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

GARTH WEBBER & MARINA CROUSE: Guitarist Garth Webber, formerly of the Miles Davis Group, comes to Paradise with vocalist Marina Crouse. Openers include Big Mo, Volker Strifler and Lazy Lester. Sat,

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ISAAC ROTHER & THE PHANTOMS: Isaac Rother and crew bring “unspeakable horror” and garage rock down from Olympia. Also featuring the return of local faves The She Things plus new Chico punk crew Big Tuna. Sat, 3/18, 8pm. $7. Monstros Pizza, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.

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HOBO JOHNSON: Sad-boy hip-hop from Sacramento. Locals Conscious Dave, Sewercide and Jay Decay open. Sat, 3/18, 8pm. $8. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

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PAT HULL VINYL RELEASE: Local singer/ songwriter debuts the vinyl version of his new Origami Sessions EP. Evin Wolverton opens. Sat, 3/18, 8pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. 3rd St. www.brownpaper tickets.com

LIVE MUSIC OPEN MIC: Early evening open mic. Bring guitars, fiddles and whatever other instrument you enjoy and share some tunes. Wed, 3/22, 5:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 343-4915.

LOCALS ONLY WEDNESDAYS AT MALTESE: This installment of the Maltese’s weekly all-local night includes Royal Oaks, Legit Supreme, Kevin Briggs and Kirt Lind. Wed, 3/22, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 343-4915.

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SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 3/18, 5pm. Scotty’s Boat Landing, 12609 River Road, 710-2020.

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OUTLIER & STEAKSAUCE MUSTACHE: A night of moshing and singing along to energetic pop-punk, with San Jose’s Outlier, Oregon’s Steaksauce Mustache, and locals Gigantes, Lightfinder and Tionesta. Sun, 3/19, 6:30pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St. www.facebook.com

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surfer returns to Chico. Troubadour Grant-Lee Phillips opens. Mon, 3/20, 7:30pm. $25-$29. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade, Suite 142. www. chicotickets.com

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THRONE OF TYRANNY & AVOID THE VOID: Heavy-tech metal night with visiting crews Throne of Tyranny (Pomona) and Avoid the Void (Seattle), plus locals Every Hand Betrayed, Frequencies and I Sank Atlantis. Tue, 3/21, 7pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

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The Paradise Performing Arts Center is going to be the most jumpin’ place in all of Butte County this Saturday, March 18, as it plays host to a killer lineup of blues and blues-rock performers. The headliners alone are worth the drive up the hill, as opera singer-turned-blues diva Marina Crouse is joined on guitar by one-time Miles Davis sideman Garth Webber. And the openers are no less than a supergroup of blues and rock players, including Big Mo, Lazy Lester and Volker Strifler.

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presents the legendary singersongwriter Graham Nash. Touring in support of his new solo album, This Path Tonight, the Hall of Fame rocker will perform a mix of new and classic tunes. Wed, 3/22, 7:30pm. $10-$54. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St, 898-6333, www.chico performances.com

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Opening this week 1984

The latest installment in the Pageant and AK Press’ Subversive Cinema Series is Michael Radford’s adaptation of George Orwell’s classic dystopian novel. One showing: Sunday, March 19, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Beauty and the Beast

Emma Watson stars as Belle in this liveaction/CGI update of the classic French fairytale. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Belko Experiment

In the Colombia offices of an American company, 80 white-collar workers are locked inside a high rise and encouraged by a voice coming over loudspeakers to engage in a game of kill or be killed. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Let’s play Father-daughter story wrestles with the serious work of enjoying life

ILanguage nominated film from Germany (Best Foreign Film) doesn’t really exist, and yet he’s the n a sense, the title character in Maren Ade’s Oscar-

most influential figure in the film and the chief catalyst in its comic-dramatic story. This “Toni Erdmann” is the by imaginary friend, “brother,” alter ego Juan-Carlos and favored comic alias of a semiSelznick retired music teacher named Winfried Conradi (Peter Simonischek). Winfried is an unkempt, hulking fellow with a gloomy look to him and a nutty flair for offbeat jokes and “spontaneous” pranks. At this stage of his life, his main focus seems to be on reconnecting Toni Erdmann Ends tonight, March with his adult daughter, Ines (Sandra 16. Starring Peter Hüller), an ambitious “consultant” Simonischek and in international investments who’s Sandra hüller. Directed distinguished by her workaholic tenby Maren ade. Pageant Theatre. rated r. dencies and a 24/7 focus on finessing complex business deals. As a result, Ade’s Toni Erdmann is also a darkly comical father-daughter drama, a set of curious episodes from the not entirely estranged lives of Ines and Winfried. With the spirit of the Toni Erdmann persona pre-

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siding over it, the father-daughter relationship makes a paradoxical, sideways kind of progress. Winfried’s low-key buffoonery disrupts his daughter’s workcentered life in what look like all the wrong places, but his dogged persistence, however farcical, bespeaks a poignant deepening of emotional needs. And Ines, though much dismayed, begins to mirror her father’s Toni Erdmann spirit in some small but surprising ways. The father-daughter relationship gives the film its deftly understated emotional core, but there’s much else to observe and ponder in this long (158 minutes) and steadily intriguing movie. There’s a stinging comedy of contemporary manners in Ines’ various encounters with her colleagues and even more so in the encounters where her father is also present. Plus, Winfried’s Toni Erdmann moments become the focal point of a frisky little allegory on playfulness as a saving grace. In some ways, Ines seems “all work and no play” while Winfried, via Toni, can seem compulsively or even pathologically playful. Ade’s screenplay, however, takes care to insure that neither the characters nor the “play” allegory become simplistic. Eventually, the urge to disruptive playfulness begins to make itself felt with characters and scenes for which neither Winfried nor Toni is present. Simonischek is a great shaggy dog of a wounded clown in the Winfried/Toni role. Hüller’s Ines at first seems merely a tense caricature of stressed-out anxiety, but the overall performance is a small marvel of nuanced emotion and unspoken thoughts. And Hüller is the key figure and chief beneficiary of two of the film’s more memorable set pieces: a perversely anti-erotic sex scene with Ines and her workplace boyfriend (Trystan Pütter), and an over-the-top bit of karaoke balladry. □

The latest from Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother) is the story of a middle-age woman named Julieta (Emma Suárez), who, upon learning of the whereabouts of her estranged daughter, embarks on a journey of reflection (shown through flashbacks) that tell the story of what led to the two being separated. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Now playing Get Out

The directorial debut for comedian Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) is actually not a comedy. Not really. It’s a horror flick about a young black man and his white girlfriend who visit her family’s suburban neighborhood, where mysterious things go down. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

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. Rated R.

Kong: Skull Island

An all-star cast (Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, John C. Reilly, John Goodman) joins the biggest ape of all—plus a collection of other oversized creatures—on a freaky island in this reboot of the monster-movie classic. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The LEGO Batman Movie

The LEGO Batman Movie is a great Batman story, with Will Arnett voicing Batman with a super-amped, still dark but amazingly well-rounded and sometimes humorous incarnation. After all of these years watching dark (and sometimes brilliant) Batman movies, it’s nice to have one where we can also have fun with the character. And director Chris McKay—along with a long list of writers—has come up with a

story that will please adult Batman fans as much as the kids. Arnett’s Batman not only faces off against the Joker (a very funny Zach Galifianakis), but also finds himself in a scenario where he’s battling a smorgasbord of movie villains including King Kong, the Gremlins, Dracula, evil British robots and Harry Potter’s Lord Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), to name just a few. It’s a geek fest, a movie lover’s delight that has funny little trivia bits at nearly every turn, and an emotional center (Batman has family issues; the Joker longs to be hated) that gives the movie a surprising depth among the chaos. Cinemark 14. Rated PG —B.G.

Logan

Hugh Jackman says goodbye to Wolverine with Logan, a total shocker of a superhero movie that lays waste to the X-Men and various spin-off films that came before it. Director James Mangold revamps the character’s mythos and pulls along Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) for a gritty, bloody, awesome ride. It’s the future, and the X-Men are gone. A mutant hasn’t been born in a quarter of a century, and Logan isn’t looking too hot. He’s driving a limo to make ends meet, coughing up blood, and basically not aging well. He’s doing better than Xavier (the mutant formally known as Professor X), who is prone to seizures and suffering from some sort of degenerative disease in his powerful brain. But just when it seems as if the former superheros will waste away in their miserable existence, along comes 11-year-old Laura (a dynamite Dafne Keen). She’s a genetically engineered and created mutant equipped with the same retractable claws, healing powers and viciously bad temper as Logan. When her life becomes endangered, Logan throws her and Xavier in the back of his vehicle, and they are off on one wild, dark road trip. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —B.G.

Rock Dog

Animated feature about a dog (voiced by Luke Wilson) intent on leaving his mundane guard-dog life behind to pursue becoming a rock star. Also starring voices of J.K. Simmons, Eddie Izzard and Lewis Black. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

The Shack

Sam Worthington plays a man who, after his young daughter is murdered in the Oregon wilderness, is beckoned to a shack in the woods where spiritual forces await to guide him through his grief. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Toni Erdmann

Ends tonight, March 16. See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

A United Kingdom

British director Amma Asante (Belle) is the helm of this biographical romantic drama based on the real-life events surrounding the controversial relationship between a British woman and Seretse Khama, heir to the throne of the former British-controlled territory that would become independent Botswana. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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over which he will occasionally bet a glass of wine: What nationality was St. Patrick? Naturally, most will say Irish, at by which point Henri collects his purse. Henri The answer is English and Italian Bourride or, more accurately, English and h enri@ Roman. Historians believe, based newsrev iew.c om on St. Patrick’s own Confessions, that Ireland’s patron saint was born in England, the son of an English woman and Calpurnius, a member of the Roman ruling class. When the Roman Empire began to collapse in the early fifth century, many Roman men returned home to help attempt to stave off the invading barbarians, leaving many women and children in England ripe for kidnapping by Celtic raiding parties, who brought the children back to Ireland as slaves—which is what happened to young Patrick. At age 16, Patrick tells us, he was working as a shepherd in what is today either County Mayo or County Antrim, and then, at 23, he escaped his captors and returned to England, traveled perhaps even as far south as Rome, at some point being ordained a Catholic priest. He later returned to Ireland, from which, as legend has it, he drove away the snakes—that is, baptized and otherwise converted much of pagan Ireland. Though exactly when he died is uncertain, 461 has been popularly accepted as the year, and, of course, March 17 as the day, which has become the traditional Irish holiday that is celebrated around the world. What’s not traditionally Irish is the corned beef and cabbage dinner associated with the holiday—nor is the Beaujolais with which Henri pairs his St. Patrick’s Day feast. The corned beef was added in America around the turn of the last century, when impoverished Irish immigrants living on New York City’s Lower

East Side substituted beef for their traditional Irish bacon. (More on the Beaujolais later.) Though today the brisket is “corned” with various spices, in the days before refrigeration it was preserved with coarse grains of salt, or “corn.” Traditional corned beef and cabbage 2 to 2 1/2 pounds corned beef brisket* 2 bay leaves 1 teaspoon whole black pepper 3 medium carrots, quartered lengthwise 2 medium red onions, cut into wedges 4 to 6 potatoes (new, red, Yukon, etc.), quartered or cut into large chunks 1 head cabbage, cut into 6 wedges *Often the brisket you buy in the grocery store comes with a packet of spices. If so, add them rather than the pepper and bay leaves.

Place in an 8- to 12-quart pot or Dutch oven. Add enough water to cover meat. Add bay leaves and pepper (or spice packet). Bring to boil, reduce heat and simmer, covered, for about two hours, or until meat is almost tender. Add carrots and onions. Simmer, covered, for another 10 to 15 minutes. Add potatoes and cabbage. Cover and cook about 20 minutes more, or until vegetables and meat are tender. Discard bay leaves, remove meat and vegetables from pot. Slice the meat across the grain and place in center of large platter surrounded by vegetables. Serve with a side of mustard. About the wine: Henri understands full well that most prefer a pint of Guinness with their St. Patrick’s Day repast. However, he is committed to drinking wine whenever possible. Which is, in fact, always. In addition to Beaujolais, Henri also likes a good Chianti or even a chenin blanc or dry German riesling—the Irish holiday being one of the rare times he forgoes his beloved Bordeaux. May the wind always be at your back. Sláinte! □

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Care David Bazan Undertow Needless to say, 2016 took some rough turns, ending as a very large, to some, and frightening transition was to begin. In response to the surrounding confusion, as well as some turns in his personal life, David Bazan wrote his newest, Care. The album explores that temptation during those transitional times to turn away and hide out in nostalgia, and what it takes to stay present. Bazan teamed up with well-known Oregonian Richard Swift to create something similar to his earlier Headphones work, but slightly more refined. There’s often an undeniable coldness to Bazan’s arrangements, punchy drums under thumping synth rhythms and Bazan’s melancholy howls, but Swift helps smooth the edges, creating softer beds of reverb that make more of a dreamy haze enclosing Bazan’s endless lyrical questioning. On the buoyant toe-tapper “Keep Trying,” Bazan repeats, “Sometimes love isn’t all that it’s cracked up to be/Keep trying.” If Bazan can be optimistic, there’s hope for the rest of us as well.

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CHICO SUCKS Reading Gallup’s recently released Community Well-Being survey that found Chico to be the least well of the California cities it polled, Arts DEVO wasn’t surprised to see that people around here are stressed out about money and the lack of job prospects in the area. Many of my friends over the years have left Chico for those reasons and most haven’t come back. But despite its grim financial reality, Chico has contributed greatly to my well-being. From my poorest scrounging-for-change-in-seatcushions days (i.e., my first 20 years in town), to the days of living large (now being able to afford a burrito and a fancy beer when the mood strikes), Chico’s made my life better. No matter how poor or hopeless I’ve been, it’s always so easy to fall back into this small, supportive, freaky, active, friendly, rowdy, music-mad city built around a university and a gigantic park and feel like a more well being. GET PICKIN’ I never hear anything about this until the last minute, but it is one of Butte County’s coolest annual events: the California State

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random house Any critique of the overtly postmodern debut novel by George Saunders, Lincoln in the Bardo, should include praise for the book’s complex and aptly constructed montage of human voices. Set in Civil War-era America, with much of it taking place in the “bardo”—a Tibetan Buddhist term for the spiritual state between death and rebirth—the novel’s varying points of view depict Abraham Lincoln’s attempt to reconcile his presidential duties with the grief of losing his young son Willie, just as the lost souls inhabiting the bardo struggle to accept their fate in the afterlife. Lincoln in the Bardo is a fragmented, at times disturbing, tale told in the letters, brief dialogue and observations of an extensive cast of characters—some fictional, and some historical. However, as the meaning of truth and justice continues to vary wildly across the historically divisive American political landscape, Saunders’ radical departure from traditional prose forms is justified, providing a glimpse of a new common truth that gives equal voice to the living and the dead, to the wealthy and the poor, to the past and to the present.

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Fresh Air Johnny Nicholas Self-released Johnny Nicholas is probably best known for the time he spent with Asleep at the Wheel before he left music (in 1980) for 10 years to start a family. I don’t know what it is about Texas—his home for the last four decades—but it’s full of terrific songsters, him among them. An innovative musician (guitar, harmonica) and songwriter (this album features 11 originals and two covers), Nicholas is joined by a slew of people who, except for lap-steel guitarist Cindy Cashdollar, are all new to me. “Fresh Air is a collection of stories and melodies that have haunted me for some time,” Nicholas says in the liner notes. As might be expected of someone who’s worked with Johnny Shines and Snooky Pryor (among other famous bluesmen), he’s also steeped in the blues and on songs like his “Bayou Blues,” he hooks up with a swamp siren with predictably disastrous results. Willie Dixon’s “Backdoor Man” features Cashdollar’s steel guitar. And the title track urges us all to get some fresh air—excellent advice!

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(2374 Montgomery St.). It’s the 51st edition of the competition, and there will be various pickin’ and fiddlin’ contestants playing inside throughout each day, but the real action is outside where the RVs are gathered in the parking lot The late Lester Standiford, at the 2004 California along the Feather River and State Old Time Fiddle & Picking Championships. CN&R FILE PHOTO where generations of musicians gather for impromptu acoustic jams. For more info, visit the association’s website at www.csotfa.org, email brett@housermusic.com or call 533-9336.

CHICO AREA MUSIC EXPLOSION That rumbling coming from just beyond

the edge of March is the sound of music on the horizon. The Chico News & Review is once again gearing up for the CAMMIES Music Festival, preparing to blare the sound of Chico’s music scene over three-plus weeks of local music celebration. First up are the CAMMIES showcases, April 6-22, for which Chico’s music venues will present local music nights in support of the scene. And capping it all off, the CN&R will host the finale/awards show, a free, all-day, outdoor music marathon. In the first three issues of April, the CN&R will be promoting each week’s local music shows, so if your venue and or your band is putting something local together, send info about your event (happening April 6-22) to cnrcammies@gmail.com to be considered for publication. And include links to your event’s website so that we can sync it up with the CAMMIES Facebook calendar at www.facebook.com/chicocammies/ events. First on the calendar is the last on the calendar: the CAMMIES Finale & Awards Show (April 23, 2-7 p.m.) at Patrick Ranch, featuring a roster of 13 Chico acts alternating between two stages: Smokey the Groove, Pat Hull, Underhouse Music, Low Flying Birds, The Empty Gate, Hallelujah Junction, XDS, John Seid & Friends, Viking Skate Country, Max Minardi, Shibumi, Cat Depot and Scout Scout.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF march 16, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The more

unselfish and compassionate you are in the coming weeks, the more likely it is you will get exactly what you need. Here are four ways that can be true: (1) If you’re kind to people, they will want to be kind to you in return. (2) Taking good care of others will bolster their ability to take good care of you. (3) If you’re less obsessed with I-me-mine, you will magically dissolve psychic blocks that have prevented certain folks from giving you all they are inclined to give you. (4) Attending to others’ healing will teach you valuable lessons in how to heal yourself—and how to get the healing you yearn for from others.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I hope

you will consider buying yourself some early birthday presents. The celebration is weeks away, but you need some prodding, instigative energy now. It’s crucial that you bring a dose of the starting-fresh spirit into the ripening projects you’re working on. Your mood might get overly cautious and serious unless you infuse it with the spunk of an excited beginner. Of course only you know what gifts would provide you with the best impetus, but here are suggestions to stimulate your imagination: a young cactus; a jack-inthe-box; a rock with the word “sprout” written on it; a decorated marble egg; a fox mask; a Photoshopped image of you flying through the air like a superhero.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Many Geminis verbalize profusely and acrobatically. They enjoy turning their thoughts into speech, and love to keep social situations lively with the power of their agile tongues. Aquarians and Sagittarians may rival your tribe for the title of The Zodiac’s Best Bullshitters, but I think you’re in the top spot. Having heaped that praise on you, however, I must note that your words don’t always have as much influence as they have entertainment value. You sometimes impress people more than you impact them. But here’s the good news: In the coming weeks, that could change. I suspect your fluency will carry a lot of clout. Your communication skills could sway the course of local history.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your world

is more spacious than it has been in a long time. Congrats! I love the way you have been pushing yourself out of your comfort zone and into the wilder frontier. For your next trick, here’s my suggestion: Anticipate the parts of you that may be inclined to close down again when you don’t feel as brave and free as you do now. Then gently clamp open those very parts. If you calm your fears before they break out, maybe they won’t break out at all.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I like rowdy,

extravagant longing as much as anyone. I enjoy being possessed by a heedless greed for too much of everything that feels rapturous: delectable food, mysterious sex, engrossing information, liberating intoxication, and surprising conversations that keep me guessing and improvising for hours. But I am also a devotee of simple, sweet longing … pure, watchful, patient longing … open-hearted longing that brims with innocence and curiosity and is driven as much by the urge to bless as to be blessed. That’s the kind I recommend you explore and experiment with in the coming days.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know

that forbidden fruit you’ve had your eyes on? Maybe it isn’t so forbidden any more. It could even be evolving toward a state where it will be both freely available and downright healthy for you to pluck. But there’s also a possibility that it’s simply a little less risky than it was before. And it may never become a fully viable option. So here’s my advice: Don’t grab and bite into that forbidden fruit yet. Keep monitoring the situation. Be especially attentive to the following questions: Do you crave the forbidden fruit because it would help you flee a dilemma you haven’t mustered the courage to escape from? Or because it would truly be good for you to partake of the forbidden fruit?

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): I expect you

will get more than your usual share of both sweetness and tartness in the coming days. Sometimes one or the other will be the predominant mode, but on occasion they will converge to deliver a complex brew of WOW!-meets-WTF! Imagine chunks of sour apples in your vanilla fudge ripple ice cream. Given this state of affairs, there’s no good reason for you to be blandly kind or boringly polite. Use a saucy attitude to convey your thoughtfulness. Be as provocative as you are tender. Don’t just be nice—be impishly and subversively nice.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I want

to gather your darkness in my hands, to cup it like water and drink.” So says Jane Hirshfield in her poem “To Drink.” I bet she was addressing a Scorpio. Does any other sign of the zodiac possess a sweet darkness that’s as delicious and gratifying as yours? Yes, it’s true that you also harbor an unappetizing pocket of darkness, just like everyone else. But that sweet kind— the ambrosial, enigmatic, exhilarating stuff—is not only safe to imbibe, but can also be downright healing. In the coming days, I hope you’ll share it generously with worthy recipients.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Saturn has been in your sign steadily since September 2015, and will continue to be there until December 2017. Some traditional astrologers might say you are in a phase of downsizing and self-restraint. They’d encourage you to be extra strict and serious and dutiful. To them, the ringed planet is an exacting taskmaster. There are some grains of truth in this perspective, but I like to emphasize a different tack. I say that if you cooperate with the rigors of Saturn, you’ll be inspired to become more focused and decisive and disciplined as you shed any flighty or reckless tendencies you might have. Yes, Saturn can be adversarial if you ignore its commands to be faithful to your best dreams. But if you respond gamely, it will be your staunch ally.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Born in the African nation of Burkina Faso, Malidoma Somé is a teacher who writes books and offers workshops to Westerners interested in the spiritual traditions of his tribe. In his native Dagaare language, his first name means “he who befriends the stranger/enemy.” I propose that we make you an honorary “Malidoma” for the next three weeks. It will be a favorable time to forge connections, broker truces and initiate collaborations with influences you have previous considered foreign or alien.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE ADDRESS at 2444 Cohasset Road Chico, CA 95973. J AND M CAMERON VENTURES LLC 3515 Belle Estates Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: MONTE J. CAMERON Dated: January 31, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000148 Published: February 23, March 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as UNCLE PINGS RESTAURANT at 1958 Robinson Street Oroville, CA 95965. QUANAN GAO 14 Oak Hill Drive Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: QUAN AN GAO Dated: January 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000088 Published: February 23, March

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FRESH HOP CINEMA at 100 Risa Way 200 Chico, CA 95973. MAX MINARDI 100 Risa Way 200 Chico, CA 95973. JONNY SUMMERS 1801 Salem Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: MAX MINARDI Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000139 Published: February 23, March 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VEVA ARTE at 81 Mulford Ave Sonoma, CA 95476. EVA MONICA STEVENS 81 Mulford Ave Sonoma, CA 95476. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: EVA STEVENS Dated: December 27, 2016 FBN Number: 2016-0001581 Published: February 23, March 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CELESTINO’S NY PIZZA at 101 Salem Street #100 Chico, CA 95928. CELESTINO ENZO LLC 101 Salem Street #100 Chico, CA 95928. CELESTINO GENCARELLI 101 Salem Street #100 Chico, CA 95928. ENZO PERRI 101 Salem Street #100 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Limitied Liability Company. Signed: ENZO PERRI, MEMBER Dated: February 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000183 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING PARADISE at 789 Bille Road Paradise, CA 95969. PARADISE CHURCH OF RELIGIOUS SCIENCE 789 Bille Road Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: REV. ANDREW TORKELSON, SPIRITUAL DIRECTOR, BOARD SECRETARY Dated: January 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000143 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PREMIER BUILDERS at 616 Elliott Road Paradise, CA 95969. MATTHEW JOHN PLOURD 616 Elliott Road Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MATTHEW J. PLOURD Dated: February 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000257

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AB SELF STORAGE at 13670 Anderson Brothers Dr Chico, CA 95973. CARIJ CORPORATION 13670 Anderson Brothers Dr Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: CELESTE HERRICK DOE, PRESIDENT Dated: February 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000258 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SUPERIOR AUTO CLINIC at 2862 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973. MEGAN MARIE ZIMMERMAN 3283 Mount Whitney Ct Chico, CA 95973. WILLIAM MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN 3283 Mount Whitney Ct Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: MEGAN ZIMMERMAN Dated: February 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000243 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY DERMATOLOGY CTR at 251 Cohasset Rd., Suite 260 Chico, CA 95926. F. PAUL SAJBEN, MD INCORPORATED 659 Royce Ln Chico, CA 95973. KAFELE T. HODARI, MD INCORPORATED 9 Lily Way Chico, CA 95928. STEPHEN A. VANNUCCI, MD INCORPORATED 876 Whispering Winds Ln Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: KAFELE T. HODARI Dated: February 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000157 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LORI’S GROOMING at 5 Nancy Lane Chico, CA 95926. LORI MONIAN 5 Nancy Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LORI MONIAN Dated: February 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000193 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MUSIC FOR ALL at 420 Maple Street Chico, CA 95928. EMILY HILBERS 7997 Butte Avenue Sutter, CA 95982. RYAN RODRIGUEZ 420 Maple Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by

Copartners. Signed: EMILY HILBERS Dated: February 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000286 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CANDLE at 2 El Cerrito Drive Chico, CA 95973. MICHELLE GILE 2 El Cerrito Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHELLE GILE Dated: February 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000222 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RIPARIA, LLC at 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928. EMILY ALMA 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928. LESLIE JOHNSON 2310 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928. SHELDON PRAISER 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928. GUTHRIE SMITH 302 Salvas Road Huntington, VT 05462. ROBERT TRAUSCH 2310 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Limitied Liability Company. Signed: EMILY ALMA, PRESIDENT Dated: February 28, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000307 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GMO FREE CALIFORNIA at 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95926. PAMELA LARRY 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95927. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PAMELA LARRY Dated: March 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000316 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FASHION NAILS SPA at 2061 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Pky # 162 Chico, CA 95928. PHUC HO 1527 Desdemona Ct San Jose, CA 95121. TUYEN NGUYEN 3286 Vin Santo Ln San Jose, CA 95148. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: TUYEN NGUYEN Dated: February 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000294 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

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2961 Highway 32 Suite 37 Chico, CA 95973. JUSTIN R ALWARD 2961 Highway 32 Suite 37 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JUSTIN R. ALWARD Dated: February 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000224 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE OUTPOST at 7589 Humboldt Road Butte Meadows, CA 95942. EMMA JESSEE 7589 Humboldt Road Butte Meadows, CA 95942. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: EMMA E. JESSEE Dated: February 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000293 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JACK’S AUTO GLASS at 920 Skyway Ave Chico, CA 95928. GARY L ELLIS 2860 Swallowtail Way Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: GARY L ELLIS Dated: January 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000101 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NEWTON-BRACEWELL CREMATION AND FUNERAL SERVICE at 7675 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. NEWTON-BRACEWELL INCORPORATED 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: ROBERT BRACEWELL, PRESIDENT Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000344 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO MEMORIAL MAUSOLEUM, NEWTON-BRACEWELL CHICO FUNERAL HOME at 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926. NEWTON-BRACEWELL INCORPORATED 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: ROBERT BRACEWELL, PRESIDENT Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000346 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MERMAID MARKET at 31 Floating Cloud Drive Chico, CA 95928. ASHLEY REIMER 31 Floating Cloud Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ASHLEY REIMER Dated: March 7, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIMITLESS FITNESS AND NUTRITION at 6653 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969. KRISTEN HORST 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: KRISTEN HORST Dated: March 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000333 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as D SQUARED CONSULTING at 1661 Hooker Oak Avenue Chico, CA 95926. DUNCAN G DRUMMOND 1661 Hooker Oak Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DUNCAN DRUMMOND Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000341 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO LIFE RESTORED at 95 Declaration Drive Suite 5 Chico, CA 95973. ROSS W TYE MD PHD 3 Solar Estates Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROSS W TYE MD PHD Dated: March 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000323 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE CLOUD SMOKE SHOP CORPORATION at 1008 W Sacramento Ave # B Chico, CA 95926. THE CLOUD SMOKE SHOP INCORPORATED 1008 W Sacramento Ave # B Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: YOULA BETAR, OFFICER Dated: March 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000354 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): AMANDA K. EWING and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): N.E. born on (date): July 5, 2016 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): OROVILLE HOSPITAL OROVILLE, CA A hearing will be held on Date: May 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA

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Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928. At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer. The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated. You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you. If the court terminated your parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: March 7, 2017 Case Number: 16DP00158 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc. MARGIE KUELING-BAIN #420ACC (Clothes, misc. boxes) (5x6) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: March 25, 2017 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926. (530) 893-2109 Published: March 9,16, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARICELA BUENROSTRO, MITCHELL ADOLFO ZEPEDA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MITCHELL ALEJANDRO ZEPEDA Proposed name: ALEJANDRO MITCHELL ZEPEDA 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: April 7, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBD The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 7, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00323 Published: February 23, March 2,9,16, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRIAN JONES

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filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SOPHIA WYCOFF Proposed name: SOPHIA JONES 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 Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 12, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02696 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTINA GUARINO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NETHANIEL SHAKUR RAY LEATHERBURY Proposed name: NETHANIEL RAY SHAKURE GUARINO 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: April 7, 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 19, 2017 Case Number: 164346 Published: March 9,16,23,30 2017

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

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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: May 5, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E BENSON Dated: March 6, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00404 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: MELISSA M BATES YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP 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 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. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. (530) 343-0100 Dated: July 29, 2016

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Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV01663 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

Attorney for Petitioner: MARTY DUNLAP 5 Jerome Place Chico, CA 95926 (530) 520-8642 Case Number: 17PR00063 Dated: February 27, 2017 Published: March 2,9,16, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE THOMAS S. COOPER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: THOMAS S. COOPER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: THELDA ELI in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: THELDA ELI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petitiion 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 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: March 28, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: TBD Room: TBD Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE NOLAN SMITH JACQUES AKA NOLAN S. JACQUES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: NOLAN SMITH JACQUES AKA NOLAN S. JACQUES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DARRYL G. JACQUES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: DARRYL G. JACQUES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petitiion 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 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: March 28, 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

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clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC, ATTORNEY AT LAW P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00041 Dated: March 3, 2017 Published: March 9,16,23, 2017

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1928 Wisteria Ln 1828 Capstone Ct 1 Scarlet Grove Ct 1991 Preservation Oakdr 146 Secluded Oaks Ct 3415 Rodgers Ave 1008 Lori Dr 768 Vallombrosa Ave 444 W 1St Ave 220 Mission Serra Ter 1094 Manzanita Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$500,000 $475,000 $459,000 $450,000 $395,000 $340,000 $316,000 $310,000 $295,000 $295,000 $289,000

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

13 Tioga Way 11 Betsey Way 13 Delaware Dr 3497 Hackamore Ln 2411 Holly Ave 1036 Diablo Ave 1730 Laurel St 2780 Ceres Ave 5 Valley Lake Cmns 6 Jasper Dr 1110 W 8Th Ave 3

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$285,000 $280,000 $279,000 $270,000 $264,000 $246,000 $240,000 $215,000 $187,500 $177,500 $141,500

3/2 3/2 3/2 3/2 2/3 3/2 2/2 3/2 2/2 3/2 3/3

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The following houses were sold in Butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 27, 2017 – march 3, 2017. The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home. ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1415 Sheridan Ave 9

Chico

$117,500

1/1

SQ. FT. 714

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

140 Jade Ln

2614 White Ave

Chico

$92,000

3/2

46 Mallard Ct

Magalia

$584,999

6680 Hupp Coutolenc Rd

Magalia

6382 Molinari Ct

ADDRESS

Paradise

$360,000

3/3

2,320

1,350

5661 Cathy Ln

Paradise

$320,000

3/3

2,042

3/2

2,631

5311 Bennett Rd

Paradise

$312,000

3/3

2,199

$399,000

2/2

1,731

1487 Freestone Ct

Paradise

$310,000

3/3

1,728

Magalia

$189,000

2/2

1,554

6043 Supreme Ct

Paradise

$280,000

3/2

1,648

13854 S Park Dr

Magalia

$170,000

3/3

1,844

1843 Lillian Ave

Paradise

$268,000

2/2

1,211

17 Pleasant Oak Ln

Oroville

$295,000

3/2

2,107

5776 Kenglo Dr

Paradise

$259,000

3/3

1,302

5470 Royal Oaks Dr

Oroville

$273,000

2/3

2,664

6679 Brook Way

Paradise

$245,000

2/2

1,369

5715 Lower Wyandotterd

Oroville

$175,000

3/2

1,176

6790 Rexdale Ln

Paradise

$204,000

2/1

960

2115 Ontario Ave

Oroville

$55,000

2/1

625

744 Wagstaff Rd

Paradise

$169,000

2/1

1,026

4958 Lago Vista Way

Paradise

$519,999

4/4

3,454

5500 Sawmill Rd

Paradise

$152,727

2/2

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BD/Ba sq. ft

price

agent

phone

aDDress

city

BD/Ba sq. ft

price

agent

phone

14803 Goldcone DR

MAGA

2/2

1440

$39,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2601 Oro Quincy

OROV

4/2/1

2,312

$369,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

125 Water ST

SURP

3/1

1602

$101,200

Julie Rolls

872-5880

5482 Royal Oaks Dr

OROV

2/2

1,824

$259,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

14848 Magalia DR

MAGA

2/2

1540

$109,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2746 Mariposa Av

CHIC

3/2

2,539

$475,000

Dan Bosch

321-8330

5338 S Libby RD

PARA

2/2

1440

$69,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2462 England St

CHIC

4/2/1

1,197

$270,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

115 Valley View DR

PARA

Land

1.62ac

$130,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

4148 Stone Valley Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,810

$485,000

Dan Bosch

321-8330

111 Valley View DR

PARA

Land

1.98ac

$135,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

995,997,999 East Ave

CHIC

4units

3,216

$435,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

5709 Copeland RD

PARA

2/1

1105

$169,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1381 Huggins Av

CHIC

3/2

1,563

$339,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

830 Buschmann RD

PARA

2/1

1240

$174,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1659 Carol Av

CHIC

3/2

1,777

$429,000

Shane Collins

518-1413

438 Plantation DR

PARA

2/2

1308

$219,000

Annette Gale

872-5886

5 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$282,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

5520 Clark RD

PARA

3/1.5

1446

$229,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

4 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$282,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

1204 Alta Cedar LN

PARA

3/2

1294

$224,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

1438 Marin St

CORN

2/2

1,676

$159,000

Tara Taylor

518-2012

6372 Steiffer RD

MAGA

4/2.5

1758

$239,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

2357 Florida Ln

DURH

3/2

1,505

$240,000

Craig Brandol

941-8800

14309 Sinclair CR

MAGA

3/2

1639

$239,500

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

5627 Sawmill Rd

PARA

2/2

1,244

$169,900

Tim Marble

864-5552

6736 Woodland DR

PARA

3/2

1881

$299,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

6 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$282,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

612 W Burnt Cedar RD

LAKA

3/2

2746

$300,895

Julie Rolls

872-5880

15 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,382

$302,900

Marty Luger

624-3377

14783 Colter WY

MAGA

3/2

2100

$305,500

Barbara Peltola

873-7640

6390 Steiffer Rd

MAGA

3/2

2,115

$370,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

6631 Paragalia WY

MAGA

2/3

1801

$329,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1477 Flag Creek Rd

OROV

70acr

3/2+1,250 $550,000

Steve Depa

520-8672

5009 Big Bend RD

YANK

3/2.5

1952

$329,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

0 Eight St

ARTO

LAND

2.16acr

$35,000

Vickie Miller

864-1199

192 Valley View DR

PARA

3/2.5

2040

$339,500

Brian Voigt

514-2901

51 Lava Rock Dr

CHIC

LAND

0.82acr

$74,900

Bob Contreras

519-9801

1285 Elliott RD

PARA

4/2

2289

$439,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

5771 Acorn Ridge Dr

PARA

LAND

2.08acr

$95,000

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

4620 Sandpiper LN

PARA

4/2.5

2991

$535,000

Christina Souther

520-1032

6083 Kanaka Av

OROV

LAND

0.36acr

$45,000

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