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a day to remember Monday (May 29) is Memorial Day. For many, it’s the first signal that

summer is upon us, a three-day weekend that offers opportunities to barbecue with friends, hit the river on tubes or head for the hills with family and camping gear in tow. That’s great—who doesn’t need a little R&R these days? But let’s not forget what Memorial Day is really about: our fallen soldiers. And let’s also not confuse the issues of patriotism and support for our government. Regardless of how you feel about President Trump, the wars and conflicts the United States has involved itself in, or any policy enacted by Congress, there are men and women out there fighting and sacrificing for our freedoms and our way of life. Some of them end up paying with their lives. Memorial Day traces its origins to the American Civil War, and it’s meant to pay tribute to all military personnel who’ve died in service to our country. Many of them called Chico home. In honor of those local fallen soldiers—and the families they left behind—Chico Cemetery and Glen Oaks Memorial Park (at 10 a.m. and 2 p.m., respectively) will celebrate on Monday with speeches and tributes, as well as the placement of hundreds of American flags. In the year 2000, Congress enacted the National Moment of Remembrance Act, designating 3 p.m. on the last Monday of May (Memorial Day) as an official minute during which to stop and remember. If you have a loved one who gave his or her life in service, we know you’ll take a moment, or more, to honor that sacrifice. For those who haven’t, we encourage you to take a break from your long weekend of merriment to celebrate the real meaning of Memorial Day. □

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Rethinking cats and kids M that. Then, last week, she texted the family: “I just had to put my cat down. Sage was 16 and

remember when you got her. Love to you and Sage.” How lame and inadequate I’m feeling. So I try again: “I’m ashamed I didn’t know what Rebekah and Anna knew. So here’s to you, Kate. And to what I’m heartbroken.” Trying to be sympathetic, I your sisters know about you. We’ll toast family grief wrote: “What was the disease? this afternoon.” I recognize the profound attachHow is it I scarcely knew Kate had a beloved ments between people and pets. rescue cat for 16 years? I don’t like cats. I’m afraid So sorry.” Katherine: “She of them. So I keep myself from thinking about ultimately had kidney failure. I Kate’s cat or imagining Sage in my house. Yet Kate had to do what was best for her. and I are very close. What else don’t I know about Thank you.” Then, trying to be her? warm, I wrote: People have things they “Want to come [My daughter] don’t like and don’t want to by over for drinks Donald Heinz think about. When these get and I are very and mourn to people we care The author is a your cat this close. What else attached professor of religious afternoon?” about, we cultivate not knowstudies and former don’t I know ing. In our silos the children Much better dean of the College of are always welcome, but not words came about her? Humanities and Fine necessarily things beloved by from daughter arts at Chico State. them, things whose loss they Anna: “I am so will one day profoundly grieve. And then we will sorry, Kate. I know what a dear seem obtuse and not know what to say. companion she was to you for So I’m rethinking cats. And wondering what else so many years.” And from Rebekah: “Oh, Kate, I’m I’m going to have to start liking. When I discover so sorry. It’s a testament to your love and care all it’s an important part of my children’s lives. □ these years that Sage lived to 16. That’s incredible. I y daughter Katherine loved a cat. I hardly knew

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Ohm sweet ohm After extensive displays of April showers and May flowers, summer swel-

ters have started hitting the North State. This year’s weather patterns—wild as they’ve been—demonstrate how climate change is not abstract; whether you believe scientists or skeptics, you only need to step outside to have climate change hit home. That’s why the CN&R is advancing an effort to address the issue where Chicoans live, literally. The city has scheduled home energy-efficiency workshops in three neighborhoods composed predominantly of older houses: Barber, Chapman and the Avenues. Speakers from the Butte Environmental Council and North Valley Energy Watch will describe quick retrofits, upgrade options and rebate programs. The workshops will take place on successive Wednesday evenings starting May 31 (see “Power to the people,” Greenways, page 16). You can’t beat the price: free. Organizers hope to boost attendance by serving ice cream—also free—and handing out prizes. Those who can’t go still can learn ways to reduce utility usage via the city’s sustainability website, www.chicosustainability.org, or by checking out a DIY Home Energy Saving Toolkit from the library or BEC. The workshops fall under Chico’s Million Watt Challenge, a campaign launched this year to cut electricity consumption citywide by 1 megawatt (yes, 1 million watts) by December. City officials arrived at that number because it’s round, achievable and catchy. For all its new construction, Chico has a lot of old houses. The older the house, the greater the opportunity to increase efficiency. Insulation and windows represent two areas where technology has improved protection from the elements as well as hard-to-detect leaks of heated and cooled air. It’s not hard to find other issues, other fixes. Spending an hour to reduce wasted energy is a can’t-lose investment. □

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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

roundabout Someone emailed me recently with a suggestion that the CN&R’s staff pull weeds in the roundabout adjacent to our office at Second and Flume streets. During the exchange, I realized she was referring not just to the center island but also to the portions on the other side of the circular traffic feature—including the strips of land next to US Bank and Sierra Central. Those outer areas have become quite an eyesore over the past few months. In some places, the weeds are a couple of feet tall. That made me wonder about progress on the efforts to beautify those spaces on this eastern entrance to downtown. To get the scoop, I spoke with Brendan Ottoboni, the city’s director of public works-engineering. Turns out, he expects to see construction start on the roundabout as soon as mid-July. What he described sounds similar to what’s found at Ringel Park—the small, triangular property leading into downtown from The Esplanade. The design there includes black wrought-iron fencing, a brick feature and a sign welcoming folks to the city, along with rose bushes and other greenery. From my conversation with Ottoboni, it sounds like drought-tolerant plants are planned for the roundabout. I’m a fan of native landscaping, but pretty much anything is better than the patch of dirt I’ve stared down upon since the completion of the First and Second Street Couplet project almost four years ago. These forthcoming finishing touches have been on the backburner primarily due to the statewide loss of redevelopment money in 2012. As for the talk of putting some sort of arts feature in the roundabout, Ottoboni said he pretty much put the kibosh on such a plan. That’s because the main function of those circular features is to control traffic, not aesthetic enhancement. Indeed, the roundabout has halved the number of collisions at that location, Ottoboni noted. An art installation has the potential to distract motorists or attract pedestrians looking for photo ops, he explained. However, the city is amenable to an installation in an adjacent space, likely one of the patches between Second Street and Municipal Parking Lot No. 1—aka the home of the Saturday farmers’ market— where further landscaping upgrades are planned. The Arts Commission will vet the projects brought forward by local groups this summer. Ottoboni thinks there’s enough interest that an organization would be willing to donate a piece. The rub is that the city likely would require the group to also maintain it— another sign of what Chico faces in the post-recession era. As for weed-pulling, well, let’s just say I’m leaving that to the city.

in other news: The CN&R picked up two first-place awards, along with two honorable mentions, in the 2016 Better Newspapers Contest organized by the California Newspaper Publishers Association. Staff writer Ken Smith’s excellent cover story about local Lego hobbyists (“Brick by brick,” June 16) took home the top award in the category of Profile Feature Story. Meanwhile, Managing Art Director Tina Flynn and Editorial Designer Sandy Peters earned the top award for Inside Page Layout & Design. The honorable mentions were in the categories of Coverage of Local Government (a package of stories and editorials related to the Esplanade Corridor project) and Front Page (three covers by Flynn). The CN&R competes against the state’s largest weeklies, so it’s nice to get a pat on the back in that context. Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

‘An important discussion’ Re “Homeless care” (Healthlines, by Evan Tuchinsky, May 18): Evan Tuchinsky’s article on the new bill (Assembly Bill 74) introduced to extend housing support for chronically homeless on Medi-Cal is an important discussion around costeffective governance. The direct savings for Medi-Cal alone by housing those with physical and developmental disabilities is so significant, the argument around big government and the rise of socialism seems an expensive luxury for those ideologues who want government out of social services. As a taxpayer, my priority would be to house them, take back the rivers, parks, and downtown sleeping spots— clean up my city, and save money in the process. The conservatives who want to refuse this safety net for our most vulnerable need to come up with a better argument for dealing with it besides criminalization and individual or church charity. The problem is too big and affects all of us. By supplying rental assistance to the homeless who receive significant public health care, we save in emergency room costs, police resources, and significantly improve our economic engine. The phenomenal advocacy groups (and hospitals) around here can ensure it’s only our long-term locals who benefit. Christine Boyle Chico

Singer says thanks Re “Can’t keep quiet” (Scene, by Ken Smith, May 23): As a member of Doin’ It Justice Community Chorus, I would like to thank Ken Smith for taking the time to write about the chorus. We appreciate how he captured the collaborative structure of the group. At the time of his visit, our Performance Team was meeting and that collaborative nature was in full action. We each bring a talent, expertise or interest that enriches us as a whole. What was missing from the article was the talent Warren Haskell brings and the dynamic relationship we all cherish with such a gifted musician. Singers need to have an ability to match notes, hold a key and carry their part in relation to the other parts. We all have that (most of the time, anyway), but only some of us read LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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It’s the media’s fault Re “The bear in the room” (Editorial, May 18): Don’t you realize that what is going on is a complete usurping of our political process by the liberal media, the Democratic party and by all of you who are willing to throw my vote, your parents’ votes, our military’s votes as well as over half of America’s votes in the garbage by mounting violence, fake stories and misinformation against our duly elected president? Yes, you. You who lifts his/her head up from Teen Mom and the Keeping Up With the Kardashians long enough to read erroneous posts by your liberal friends on Facebook, so you can then attest to their truthfulness yourself and spread the same leftist propaganda on your own page to prove your “coolness” and “acceptance” of others, in between the times you are spreading your hateful vitriol to all those who do not agree with you politically. Libs, they invented this new thing called elections and voting! Why aren’t you all calling for the heads of Hillary and her group for subverting Bernie’s election? This is proven interference in our election process, not wild speculation! But you are all fine with that. So, do what you do, but see yourselves as what you are—subversives to democracy! Garry Cooper Durham

Will you please tell us why the U.S. should be so afraid of Russia? I trust you’re sincere and don’t have an agenda to perpetuate the western major media and Washington, D.C., (and their investors’) narrative. Read the histories of Russia’s involvement in Georgia and Crimea (our excuses for NATO locking in Russia’s western border with nuclear capacity weapons). You’ll find U.S. handprints and provocations all over those “crime scenes.” 6

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Why isn’t the United States working for peace—anywhere, anytime? This is really what should be investigated. Linda Furr Chico

Trump, a retrospective With much talk about the “president’s” first 100 days, let’s take a look at some of the “accomplishments” of the Bumbler-in-Chief and his Republican minions: • Coal companies can now dump waste materials in streams and rivers. Didn’t create any jobs, but it did enhance coal companies’ bottom lines. • Mentally ill people can now freely buy guns. Doesn’t make the American people safer, but generated a lot of enthusiasm by the NRA and the gun manufacturers. • Fuel-efficiency standards have been rolled back even though manufacturers already spent millions preparing their factories for a policy they supported. Keep paying dearly at the pump, people, it makes the fossil-fuel industry very happy. • Carbon-emissions standards from existing power plants have been rolled back so far you could choke on this policy. Polar bears hate it, Koch brothers love it. • One step closer to the misguided attempt to take away 24 million Americans’ health care, for adults and children alike. Most major medical organizations oppose this ill-advised action. So who benefits? Insurance companies, pharmaceutical companies, investors and the richest of the rich would receive $1 trillion in cuts over the next decade. This is just the beginning, so 2018 can’t come too soon. Roger S. Beadle Chico

‘One-sided slam’ Re “Keep to the core mission” (Guest comment, by Patrick Newman, May 18): I know what the Jesus Center does for the needy. A lot. I have never heard of Patrick’s organization nor what it does to improve the lives of the homeless. This article seems like a one-sided slam against the Jesus Center, and I expected better from you! Tom Short Chico

“Our community deserves better training of the police, including implicit racial bias training, de-escalation and critical incident training. Our community deserves better mental health crisis response.”

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‘Marxist disinformation’ Re “The Orion” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, May 18): This week’s column sidestepped the hottest issue on campus with a small paragraph. I’m referring to the op-ed column in The Orion about false rape statistics on campus. This “triggered” a Marxist ad hominem blitz against the writer of the piece. Nowhere in the many letters to The Orion did I see college students reporting their research regarding the matter— instead I saw only haters. So I did some research and the Centers For Disease Control (CDC) reports that it is not 1 in 5 college women that is raped, rather it is that 1 in 5 women will be the victim of a rape or attempted rape over their entire lifetimes. Obviously, if 20 percent of college women were being raped, no woman would ever go to college. The stats also indicate that women are safer on college campuses than in life in general. Fragile young ladies away from home should not have to be the frightened victims of Marxist disinformation programs. The administration needs to clamp down on the Marxist activity on campus. Mike Peters Chico

Cop talk It has been two months since Desmond Phillips was killed by two Chico police officers who fired 16 shots. Desmond’s father had called 911 for medical assistance and the police knew of Desmond’s mental health history, which included PTSD from being beaten by Sacramento police for being unresponsive in prayer. After sitting on their hands, most Chico police are finally using body cameras. District Attorney Ramsey has ruled the killing of Desmond justified and washed his hands of the situation. Those

officers are now back on the job and our community is less safe because of that. Those officers should be fired. Our community deserves better training of the police, including implicit racial bias training, de-escalation and critical incident training. Our community deserves better mental health crisis response. The City Council has been talking about arming our park rangers and using tax money to pay for private security guards downtown. Both those things will make our community less safe and less welcoming. As Councilman Randall Stone said at the last council meeting, police should not be doing the job of a social worker and it costs the city more money for them to do so. Rain Scher Chico

I think this may be a good time to start a discussion about licensing individual police officers. Now that good cameras are everywhere, we are beginning to see scenes of police misconduct and poor judgment. Most cops, I believe, are not those guys! But right now, while police are given great responsibility and capability in our communities, even the power to kill, they are not licensed. Every profession, and even occupation, that involves potential hazard to the public requires that the individual be licensed, usually by the state they live in. It is a prerequisite to work, and ensures that professionals in that trade come up to the same state standard in upholding the law and conducting themselves professionally. All other professions and occupations that represent a potential hazard to the public are licensed. Let me list some of those: doctors, registered nurses, physical therapists, most medical lab workers, pharmacists, dentists, dental hygienists, massage therapists, social workers, lawyers, teachers K-12, paralegals, all car

Turn off your phones! On a recent Friday evening, my husband and I went to the Blue Room Theatre to see the beautifully difficult play The Faith Healer. The story is about Frank, an itinerant faith healer who has the gift but can’t control it; his long-suffering wife/not wife, Grace; and his loyal and loving manager, Teddy. The play, performed in four intense monologues, explores the slipperiness of reality and requires attentive intelligence from the audience and serious skills from the three actors. In other words, another exceptional Blue Room production. The just over two-hour play was in the last moments of the fourth and final monologue, in which we get to hear Frank’s version about the terrible thing that happened to him, and I was anticipating and enjoying the dramatic conclusion, when someone’s cellphone went off. The timing couldn’t have been worse. The excellent Bill Johnson (Frank) had to pause in character, while the person slowly silenced their cell (I think they may have even checked to see who called/texted). It was excruciating and infuriating and I was grateful that it wasn’t my cell (or my husband’s). This truly excellent play was almost ruined by that crummy cell. Regina Simpson Chico

At war with women Seems unnecessary for Saudi Arabia to purchase billions in U.S. military hardware when the only people the kingdom is violently at war with are those from its own female citizenry. Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos More letters online:

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Due to winter storms and more than normal snowmelt, Big Chico Creek is three times as full as it usually is this time of year. And it’s filled with lots of debris, to boot, according to a city of Chico press release. Because of this, the city is delaying the cleaning of Sycamore Pool—meaning, no official opening this Memorial Day weekend. The creek is a natural body of water, so the city can’t prohibit people from heading over to One-Mile Recreation Area to take a dip. But, city staff warns the public of swift currents as well as the presence of branches, rocks and silt in the water. Once Sycamore Pool is cleaned, lifeguards will take their positions. A tentative opening is set for June 9.

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Repair of the Oroville Dam spillway hit higher decibel levels this week when crews started using explosives to clear the way for construction on the lower portion. Kristyne Van Skike from the state Department of Water Resources told the CN&R that the blasts, which will last approximately five seconds, will take place over the next couple of weeks at around 6-6:30 p.m. While more intensive than previous demolition at the site, the sounds of these explosions are muffled, if audible at all, in Oroville, Van Skike said. Warning sirens go off ahead of the blasting. Unrelated to explosives, workers had a minor accident Tuesday (May 23) when the arm of an excavator smacked its bucket into the cab of another excavator, injuring that driver. The unidentified man was treated on-site and, due to the location, airlifted by helicopter to Enloe Medical Center. The hospital released him later Tuesday.

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An Oroville man on parole and wearing a GPS monitor was arrested by Oroville police officers shortly after allegedly robbing a bank on Oro Dam Boulevard East. Robert Badger (pictured), 48, is suspected of having used a note during the holdup at a Chase Bank location at about 11 a.m. on Tuesday (May 23). He then allegedly ran off with an undisclosed amount of cash, according to press releases from the Oroville Police Department. OPD officers initially searched for the then-unknown suspect with help from a Butte County Sheriff’s Office helicopter, but had no luck. Then, the BCSO Corrections Division positively identified the suspect—who was on parole—and used his ankle monitor to find him. He was arrested in a Motel 6 parking lot later the same day. 8

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farewell, 42 Butte County supervisors vote to close north Chico fire station

OhomeCleveland was settling into bed at his on the northern outskirts of Chico n the night of Dec. 3, 2006, Terry

when his wife came in to report something was amiss. He followed her downby stairs, where an unfaKen Smith miliar sound prompted him to walk outside in kens @ n ew srev i ew. c o m search of the source. That’s when he saw 10-foot flames pouring out of the eaves of the couple’s two-story farmhouse. “We called 911 and started gathering up all the kids, computers, guns and pictures to load in the car,” Cleveland recalled Tuesday (May 23) as he spoke during the Board of Supervisors meeting regarding the possible closure of Butte County Fire Station 42, from which firefighters responded to his call for help. “They arrived in six minutes and they moved all of our furniture and everything out of the way before they broke into our attic and started pouring in water,” Cleveland continued. “They were so careful with our property and did a wonderful job.”

Cleveland said the fire ultimately forced him and his wife to replace the home’s second story, but it likely would have been a complete loss had a crew from Station 42 not arrived so swiftly. “That area is located at the mouth of Rock Creek and Mud Creek canyons, so it’s like a funnel,” he said. “There’s so much human activity out there by the airport that, if a fire starts, it can turn into a real disaster in short order. [With fire season just starting], I can imagine people sitting here four months from now saying, ‘Why did you close that fire station?’” Despite additional comments from other local residents and Butte County Fire Department Chief Darren Reed in favor of keeping Station 42 open, the board ultimately voted 3-1 (with Chico Supervisor Larry Wahl dissenting and Maureen Kirk, the other Chico supervisor, absent) to close the outpost, effective July 1. The discussion of fire services didn’t end

there. The board also considered moving forward with a scheme to establish a new fire protection district to replace the cooperative agreement the county has had with Cal Fire since 1931.

Debate over the cost of fire service first flared up in summer 2015, when the county found it had to budget $1.1 million more than expected due to pay raises and increased costs of employee benefits, while having no say in Cal Fire labor negotiations. It’s become a hot topic again as the county faces an estimated $3 million budget shortfall for the 2017-18 fiscal year. The county hired a third party, the Matrix Consulting Group, to look at ways to cut fire service costs, and the consultants issued a report in April. Recommendations included the off-season (November to May) closure of stations in Stirling City, Jarbo Gap and Berry Creek, but the board voted April 25 to keep those open year-round through next summer. Matrix also suggested asking the city of Chico to fund Station 42, as roughly 80 percent of that station’s calls come from inside city limits. But Chico has its own fire service issues, and in March cut staffing for its department from 17 to 14 and closed two stations after losing grant funding that previously covered those costs. Supervisors recently asked the city to pay the roughly

Butte County Fire Station 42 will close July 1. Photo by Jordan rodrigues

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$1 million annually to keep Station 42 open, but the city declined in a May 10 letter from Chico City Manager Mark Orme to Butte County Chief Administrative Officer Paul Hahn. Butte County Fire Chief Reed, in addressing the board, noted the Matrix study didn’t take into account Chico’s recent cutbacks, which he said have resulted in diminished service to west Chico. He acknowledged Station 42 responded to over 2,000 calls from Chico residents in 2016, and emphasized its 236 responses to calls from unincorporated areas in the same period. Reed said he’d support moving Station 42 to the now-closed location of Chico Fire Station 6 (on Highway 32 near East Avenue), but not its closure. (Chico Fire Station 3, located at the Chico Municipal Airport, also closed in March.) Reed also noted that Cal Fire and the Chico Fire Department have an agreement to answer calls in or outside city limits using the closest resources: “We’ll always be team players to provide the best service to the community we can, whether they live in the city or unincorporated areas,” he said. Wahl made a motion to use reserve funds to keep Station 42 open, but nobody seconded. He also had harsh words for Chico officials who balked at picking up the tab for Station 42. “The city of Chico sorely disappoints me … to leave over 3,000 families’ homes without adequate protection is just very unfortunate, and that’s the kindest word I can use for it,” he said. The supervisors also considered directing county staff to begin the application process with the Butte Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo)—a state-mandated agency that oversees the formation or consolidation of new districts and services—to establish a county-wide fire district, a move also recommended in the Matrix study. They decided to punt that action until at least July, so that county staff can better gauge whether governing bodies of the county’s five municipalities—Chico, Oroville, Gridley, Paradise and Biggs— would consider joining the district, and so that Supervisor Kirk could be present for the discussion. □

hico City Councilman Andrew Coolidge stood near the footbridge crossing Big CChico Creek at Sycamore Pool on Tuesday

morning (May 23), surveying the area around that much-beloved part of Lower Bidwell Park. He opened a folder and pulled out copies of recent and older photographs of the area, noting the differences, including the loss of a giant valley oak on the north side of the creek. That approximately 80-year-old tree is one of dozens that have come crashing down at One-Mile Recreation Area in recent years, due either to the years-long drought or the heavy rains and wind that followed this past winter. Coolidge took notice of the decreasing canopy after hearing about the issue from regular City Council attendee Mat Bacior a few months ago. That prompted a visit to the site for a firsthand look at the problem. Further communication followed. “We talked about how One-Mile just wasn’t looking so great,” Coolidge said. In a phone interview, Bacior, who grew up in Chico and recalled spending time at Lower Park as a kid, expressed disappointment in the way the city has maintained it. He noted that there are either very tall trees or a few saplings.

“There’s not much in the middle, which means we haven’t been keeping up with planting over the years,” he said. His conversations with Coolidge led to an idea for a solution—a plan to plant enough acorns to grow about 100 new trees in the region. Discussions on that front expanded to include folks with Chico Tree Advocates, Butte Environmental Council and eventually city staff. And now, just a few months later, the talks have evolved into a real effort to help replenish the diminishing tree stock. according to erik gustafson, the city’s public

works director-operations and maintenance, the project is feasible. Gustafson said the city has committed to providing certain resources to make it work. That includes identifying the locations to plant the acorns and providing the signage or cages that will protect them. The idea is to find spots where the future trees will flourish naturally, he said. The other key to the project is having a stable of volunteers affiliated with CTA and BEC (the latter organization has a similar, ongoing program to replenish

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City Councilman Andrew Coolidge wants to make sure Lower Bidwell Park’s beloved canopy of trees remains well into the future. Photo by Melissa daugherty

the oak stock in Upper Park) to provide the manpower to plant the acorns. “The water table is pretty high and there’s great soil, so, as long as they’re planted correctly, hopefully the majority of them take and we’ll have beautiful trees in the future,” he said. Gustafson noted that summer is not the optimal time to put the nuts in the ground. Acorns rely on the springtime rain to get a good start, he explained, so the effort will pick back up in the late fall and early winter. In preparation, the city is starting to remove existing debris, including many of the fallen trees that dot the landscape. At last count, between 40 and 50 large trees have come down in Lower and Middle Park in the last year or so, Gustafson said. Crews will begin along South Park Drive and Petersen Memorial Way and then will head toward Woodland and Vallombrosa avenues. For Bacior, the effort makes total sense. After all, if there’s one thing in Chico that pretty much everyone can get behind, it’s a plan to preserve Bidwell Park. Indeed, when the concept was brought before the City Council last week (May 16), it was given a unanimous thumbs up (a 6-to-0 vote, with one council member absent). Based on the volume of park-goers on Tuesday morning, that enthusiasm sounds about right. By 9:30 a.m., some had already taken to the water, as the temperature crept past the 80-degree mark. Others biked, walked or sat under the shade of the giant sycamores and oaks in the surrounding landscape. As Coolidge looked around at all of the activity, he summed up the plan: “It’s not the giant leap I’d like it to be, but it’s a step in the right direction.” —Melissa Daugherty me lissad @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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Unified front Coalition calling itself Oroville Strong! emphasizes accountability s president and CEO of the Oroville Area Chamber of ACommerce, Sandy Linville is

accustomed to being on stage, to selling her city as a great place to live, recreate and do business. But her role took on a whole new dimension this past February, when all of a sudden her city of gold became known worldwide as a danger zone. “Everybody heard, ‘Dam failure imminent,’” she told a group of 50 or so local business owners, residents and politicians who’d gathered Tuesday (May 23) on the patio of Miners Alley Brewing Co. “It’s time for DWR to make amends for the damage caused.” The group had assembled to celebrate the official launch of Oroville Strong!, a coalition of businesses and individuals hoping to make their collective voices heard throughout California and beyond. “Our mission is simple,” Linville continued, “to find meaningful solutions to make the dam work for us.” Linville was the first of several speakers who braved the neartriple-digit heat to unveil their uni-

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fied message and keep the community abreast of ongoing efforts to not only improve Oroville’s image following the spillway disaster but also to work toward better safety measures and more complete answers about the dam from, in particular, the state Department of Water Resources. The region’s state representatives, Assemblyman James Gallagher and Sen. Jim Nielsen, didn’t mince words when it came to discussing the safety of the dam. “James and I, we consider it our major service to you to make sure they come clean,” Nielsen said of DWR officials. “The whole state has profited all these years from this dam—it’s not simply a

“Up here in Northern California, we get forgotten about. We need to be unified to be heard.” —Sandy Linville

Northern California issue.” Butte County Supervisor Bill Connelly, whose district includes Oroville, told the crowd he was OK with his growing reputation as a “hard-ass”—“I guess somebody has to be that,” he joked. In a more serious tone, he promised to hold DWR accountable not only when it comes to safety but also to promises made to protect the region’s economic viability. “We need respect from them,” he demanded. The overall message of Oroville

Strong!, which before Tuesday’s gathering boasted 72 members, was accountability, safety and presenting a unified message of “we’re still in business” to local residents as well as the public outside of Oroville. “Up here in Northern California, we get forgotten about,” Linville told the CN&R following the speeches. “We need to be unified to be heard.” In the two days that Oroville was under mandatory evacuation, she said local businesses lost a minimum of $5 million in revenues. “We decided right then—the day after the evacuation was lifted

Assemblyman James Gallagher tells a group gathered in Oroville that he’s working to ensure they don’t have to fear living in the shadow of the Oroville Dam. Photo by Meredith J. CooPer

—that we can’t have this happen again. We need to do something because there’s too much at risk.” And Oroville Strong!, at that time a mere idea and catch phrase, was born. In the immediate works is a digital visual marketing campaign for the region, which will include television commercials, social media outreach and a film about Oroville. A pamphlet about the campaign describes it: “In order to set the record straight, we are creating a campaign to heal the community, rebuild confidence in our infrastructure, and provide an accurate portrayal of who and where Oroville is.” While the business community

works to promote a positive image of Oroville, politicians like Connelly, Gallagher and Nielsen are working toward better communication with state officials and to ensure funding for the future, both in terms of infrastructure repair and to improve the local economy. Gallagher highlighted safety as one of his main concerns, both with the spillways as well as the levees that extend to his family’s home in Yuba City. He’s been part of two oversight hearings in Sacramento thus far, he said, and he’s dedicated to holding a third in Oroville so concerned locals have an opportunity to attend. A date is forthcoming. Nielsen, in addressing the crowd, spoke about the difficulty he’d had getting straight answers from DWR. In so saying, he suggested that problems didn’t end at the spillways. “You never just look at an isolated part of a major project like this,” he told the CN&R afterward. “We’ve observed patches of green in the dam. Green indicates water. I’ve questioned DWR, and they seem to be taking it lightly. “Now, it may not be anything serious,” he continued. “But it’s one of many red flags. It’s important that we keep after them and demand more than just cursory answers.” —Meredith J. Cooper mere d i thc @ n ew sr ev i ew. com

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Vallombrosa Avenue. It’s difficult to parse how widespread heroin addiction is in Butte County, but data indicates that the greater opioid epidemic is hitting the county hard. According to the state’s 2016 County Health Status Profiles report, which is based on data from 2012-14, Butte County’s rate of drug overdose deaths (30.7 deaths per 100,000 people) is three times higher than the state average. Oversaturation of prescription opioids is playing a role. According to the California Department of Public Health, in 2015, there were 1,376 opioid prescriptions for every 1,000 people in Butte County. In terms of curbing the epidemic, Chico needs more clinics that offer detox and rehab services, Tye said, especially given that several doctors in town who prescribe suboxone are set to retire within the next few years and Chico Life Restored is serving only a small portion of the population. “We’re pretty selective about who we take in. They have to agree to the counseling,” Tye said. “Quite frankly, we are taking only the people who are motivated to change.”

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Dtreated of addiction recovery, Dr. Ross Tye an alcoholic who had been exposed uring his first few months in the field

in utero and born with the disease. Now in his mid-20s, the man has a criminal record including three DUIs, Tye said, and seemed beyond help just a few months ago. But he has turned a corner: During a court appearance last month, according to Tye, his lawyer didn’t even recognize him. “He had cleaned up, had good color, had a whole different personality,” Clinic details: Tye said. “It’s Chico Life Restored is at just so satisfy95 Declaration Drive, Ste. 5. For more information, visit ing seeing peowww.chicoliferestored.com ple grab their or call 965-5918. lives back.” Tye, 75, is medical director of the Student Health Clinic at Butte College, plus works at Premiere Primary Care in Chico and Immediate Care Medical Center in Orland. He’s practiced in the North State for more than 30 years and has a long history of filling service gaps in rural communities, including overseeing medical care at nursing homes in Red Bluff, Williams and Willows. About six months ago, Tye started seeing a gap in Chico: “It became really obvious that Chico has a need for a rehab—both opioid and alcohol,” Tye said. Around that time, he struck up a working relationship with Mary Ellen Smith, a longtime certified

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addiction counselor. In February, Tye and Smith launched a new outpatient clinic called Chico Life Restored. It’s a small operation in north Chico. The only other employee is Tye’s wife, Connie, a certified nursing assistant. Tye handles the clinical aspects, such as prescribing medications—suboxone for opioid addiction and naltrexone for alcoholism—while Smith counsels patients and provides ongoing support. Chico Life Restored has aided the recovery of about 20 patients and, so far, none have relapsed, Tye said. Most have been referred from the court system. “I try to educate attorneys on addiction, how it is possible for people to clean up and improve their lives; get back to work, go to school,” Smith said. “People are stuck in an addiction they don’t know how to get out of. It doesn’t have to be a death sentence.” Of course, it can be. A couple of high-profile

heroin overdoses earlier this year have stayed in the back of Smith’s mind, she said.

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Bryce Goldstein, who coordinates sustainability efforts for the city of Chico, cites heating and cooling as significant ways homes in older neighborhoods can benefit from low-cost, energy-saving improvements.

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a familiar face in Chico. She’s Ionehasofbecome 68 CivicSpark fellows placed by n just over eight months, Bryce Goldstein

AmeriCorps across California; after graduating from Humboldt State, Goldstein came in September to help coordinate the city’s climate-action endeavors. While much of her work is administrative—analyzing data, setting up websites, conferring with local green groups—she’s championed sustainability to thousands of passersby at farmers’ market events downtown. Now she’s bringing the message to where people live. In partnership with the Butte Environmental Council and North Valley Energy Watch, Goldstein and Brendan Vieg of the city’s Planning Services Department have arranged three neighborhood home energy efficiency workshops. The sessions will take place three successive Wednesday evenings starting next week (May 31) in the Chapman, Barber and Avenues neighborhoods (see infobox for details). There’s no charge—in fact, organizers are giving things away: ice cream, LED light bulbs, ChicoBags, Klean Kanteens and prizes. Each program will be the same and run one hour. The idea is to introduce residents, particularly those in older houses, to the spectrum of low-cost, cost-saving options available. “We know that generally older houses are more poorly insulated [than newer homes], have single-pane windows, older appliances and fixtures,” Goldstein said. “It’s hard to keep them warm or cool, depending on the season. So they use a lot more energy.” “They present the best opportunity to do quick, easy, small fixes,” continued Vieg, Chico’s principal planner. “So what would be better than holding energy-efficiency work-

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shops in our three oldest neighborhoods?” If the response is positive, Goldstein and Vieg said the city would look to hold more workshops elsewhere. “The goal is not to be preachy [nor] to talk about, or focus on, greenhouse gas emissions, that bigger issue,” Vieg added. “It’s really to find a win-win situation and share with people that there’s a way to reduce their energy bills, as we’re seeing rates increase.” Goldstein agrees that tone is important. She considers it paramount to make the workshops “accessible to people, less scary to people, less political” than a nonenvironmentalist might stereotype. Becoming sustainable does not demand a social commitment, or an expensive purchase such as an electric car, Goldstein said—“you can replace your light bulbs and just do simple things to be more energy-efficient.” She’ll provide such suggestions to those who visit her booth at the workshops. Becky Holden from Butte Environmental

Council will conduct the presentations with Leo Guerra from Richard Heath & Associates. RHA performs building inspecNeighborhood workshops:

Chapman—Wednesday (May 31), 6 p.m., Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St. Barber—June 7, 6 p.m., aRC Pavilion, 2040 Park ave. Avenues—June 14, 6 p.m., Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade. More info: www.chicosustainability.org

tions and retrofits under a contract with North Valley Energy Watch—an energyefficiency program operating on grant funding from PG&E. The workshops fall within an overarching campaign, the Million Watt Challenge, in which Chico aims to reduce electricity usage by that amount by the end of 2017. The city’s Sustainability Task Force, with whom Goldstein works, identified businesses and vintage dwellings as focal points after assessing power consumption. Businesses offer “big bang for the buck,” Vieg said, while the areas chosen for workshops have “a direct correlation to where we saw a large ‘sink’ of energy use, the older neighborhoods with older housing stock.” Holden, BEC’s assistant director, said her nonprofit is participating to help the city advance its climate action goals. “The workshops are going to be a fun way to get people involved and spread the word about different types of programs that are available for home energy efficiency,” she said by phone. “It’ll be ... a positive event to go to and it’ll really put a good spin on the whole idea of upgrading your house. “It’s one of those things where we could do it now or later; if it’s free ice cream, it sounds like maybe it’ll be more fun to do it now.” Incentives and rebates may turn a solar system or HVAC replacement into a sensible investment for certain individuals. Guerra will discuss these sorts of options. However, as Goldstein mentioned, homeowners don’t

necessarily have to invest in bigticket items to save money. Holden, too, is hip to quick fixes. Along with replacing incandescent bulbs with LEDs, she recommends swapping standard showerheads with low-flow versions, plus taking shorter showers. Saving water—hot water in particular—saves energy. Holden also points to air leaks in inconspicuous spots: crawl spaces, drier vents, fan vents, recessed lights, holes behind outlets and switches. “There are products that are very inexpensive for helping to seal up some of those drafts,” she said, “and you would really be able to notice it in the extreme months like the hot, hot summers or the very cold parts of the winter.” Insulation and weather-stripping yields additional protection, cost-effectively. The workshops will cover more topics— but not exhaustively. Said Vieg: “This is just a tip-of-the-iceberg introduction.” □

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IN SEARCH OF SPARROWS According to the Altacal Audubon Society, three sparrow species are considered the “holy grail trifecta” of rarities for birders in Butte County—the black-chinned sparrow and black-throated sparrow were last documented here in 1984, while Bell’s sparrow is a regular resident of Glenn and Colusa counties. Saturday (May 27), Scott and Liam Huber will lead a free outing in search of these ultra-rare birds. Bring lunch and water and dress for warm weather. Call 321-5579 for meeting time and location.

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taps for all The idea behind The Chico Taproom, says co-owner Willie Matthews, is that it will offer styles of beer beyond the imperial stouts and IPAs popular with many craft-beer aficionados. “Once you have a place like this, you just want to buy all the beer that you like,” he said. “But everybody’s palate is a little different, and having 40 tap handles gives us that ability to offer a little something for everybody.” Matthews, 31, and his wife, Claire, met in Chico and helped run a 32-handle craft-beer bar and restaurant in Pacifica before returning here to buy a home and start a business of their own. The new beer bar opened in the Almond Orchard shopping center on May 5, and it’s looking spiffy with a shiny bar top, Chico-themed décor, an outdoor patio and a digital beer menu. Drop by for a drink at 2201 Pillsbury Road, Ste. 114, or search “The Chico Taproom” on Facebook.

How long has this been in the works? I’ve wanted to open a bar and restaurant pretty much my entire life, which is why going down to the Bay Area was a really good experience. I was able to cut my teeth and figure it out; neither of us had ever done the service industry before.

Is location a concern for you? Well, the bike path is right there. But the one thing we’ve heard ... is that people are really happy that we’re on this side of town. We did feel like the north side of town was a little underserved. And, yeah, volume is a concern, but we’re in our infancy and we’re still figuring all of that out.

So, why no food service? We did that in Pacifica, and I really liked running a busy food service when we were humming and my kitchen was good, my service was good. But it’s a lot of moving pieces and a lot can go wrong.

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There’s a financial consideration, too. It doubles your build-out cost and it triples your monthly overhead. I may look to do [food service] in the future if this place works out for us. Also, we’re cool with people bringing their own food in.

Did you have any problems getting an alcohol license? The plans went through the city pretty quickly. Not being downtown helped, and I assume not doing hard alcohol helped as well. We’re not a bar-type bar.

Are all 40 of your taps rotating? I don’t like dedicated handles. We will be rotating 39 handles, which includes three ciders.

So, one beer will be a fixture? Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. If we have the stones to call ourselves The Chico Taproom, we really should serve the beer that started the craft beer industry in California. —HoWARD HARDEE h owa rd h @new srev i ew. c o m

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Before last week, I had never been to Vintage Hen. The shop, one of five under the Little Red Hen umbrella, was tucked in a little spot behind the LRH Kitchen Store (which I’ve also never been to) off East Avenue. Then I got an email from one of the staff members inviting me to check out Vintage Hen’s new digs—right downtown on Main Street. Well, OK, then. If you’re at all into quirky old stuff, you must visit this store. A lot of it is kitchen-themed, as in serving dishes, plates, cups and mugs. But there also are old toys and games (the Holly Hobby board game sent me back to my youth), jewelry and all manner of décor. The furniture is fun and retro, too—and much of it is refurbished by the staff. While in the store, I caught the ear of sales instructor Sam Sloan-Wiechert, and she gave me the rundown. The operation is impressive. First of all, Little Red Hen is a nonprofit dedicated to creating employment opportunities for adults with developmental disabilities. Plus, 100 percent of sales goes to programs for disabled kids and adults. Truly “retail with a purpose.” Beyond that, Vintage Hen—in the old Tower Records space—sells a variety of vintage items (denoted with chickens on the price tag) and vintage-inspired pieces. As Sloan-Wiechert explained, they “pick” all the time, locally and around the country. In fact, a group just returned from picking in Austin, Texas. If you don’t find yourself downtown, Sloan-Wiechert said all of the Vintage Hen merchandise is also on the store’s Etsy page (search LittleRedHenVINTAGE). Go to www.littleredhen.org for more info.

Goin’ Green A few weeks ago, I wrote about the Sustainability Business Expo and Happy Hour being held at the Sierra Nevada Big Room May 17. I popped in to check it out and, I’ll be honest, it wasn’t well-attended. Apparently even the lure of free beer wasn’t enough to bring out the crowds. There were some interesting booths, though. The one I found most intriguing was that of Ray Morgan Co. I’d always associated Ray Morgan with copy machines and printers. As it turns out, they’re branching out. Sitting next to the Ray Morgan booth was a water dispenser. Jacquelyn Lucchese, corporate marketing and sales rep, explained it: Instead of requiring one of those big jugs, it captures the moisture from the air, filters it and turns it into drinking water. The company that makes the dispenser is called Skywell. Check it out at www.skywell.com, or you can rent one through Ray Morgan (3131 Esplanade, 343-6065) with an optional maintenance plan. it’s baaaaack I got a ton of response after reporting the drastic change in for-

mat of 101.7 FM (from rock/pop to conservative talk). I was clearly not the only one in town who tuned out after that. I am happy to inform former fans, then, that the station is going back to its roots as “a station for people who just like good music.” Effective immediately. So, go ahead and set the dial to 101.7 The Edge.

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t the planet’s most prestigious school, during an event designed to make sense of the most consequential upset in a year full of them, the world’s most prominent statistician admitted that his research and reporting, which millions of readers had turned to for reason during an unreasonable time, may have been open to misinterpretation. “It’s not intuitive, for people, to have numbers convey uncertainty,” pioneering data journalist and FiveThirtyEight founder Nate Silver explained at Harvard’s second annual Political Analytics Conference. Throughout the exhausting 2016 presidential race, millions followed the mathematical election forecasting popularized by Silver, whose previous precision had made him the darling of the political data world (and the sports world before that). Silver’s polling models correctly predicted the electoral outcomes of 49 states in the 2008 election, and in 2012 he called them all. So when his FiveThirtyEight formulas consistently showed Hillary Clinton as about a 3:1 favorite to defeat Donald Trump for most of the political season, onlookers took that to mean America’s first female presidency was all but a lock. As the headlines and Trump’s scandals became increasingly unpredictable, Silver’s metrics provided a degree of reassurance. Until, of course, they didn’t.

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With two weeks to go, Silver had Clinton at 86 percent likely to win, while his previous employers at The New York Times had the Democrat’s odds pegged at 93 percent. Her lead persisted in both until election night, when the Times had Clinton’s odds at 85 percent and FiveThirtyEight measured them to be 71 percent. When Donald Trump clinched his shocking Electoral College victory on Nov. 8, those who had come to believe that the odds were impossibly against a President Trump were dumbfounded—had the experts made a mistake, or were they mistaken to trust them? Neither, to hear Silver tell it. The mistake that nonquantitative thinkers made, he argues, was presuming fate from a tool meant only to calculate likelihood. They misread the numbers they were looking at. As his Times counterpart Amanda Cox put it in describing her own election night model, “It’s really probability, not prophesy.”

TRENDING Held recently at the Center for Government and International Studies in Cambridge, the Political Analytics Conference is the brainchild of Harvard University academics Ryan Enos and Kirk Goldsberry.

Enos is a fellow and professor of government at the school, specializing in political psychology. Goldsberry is a former visiting scholar whose expertise in visual communication and spatial reasoning led him to a career in sports analytics. He began as a sports journalist, presenting innovative new ways of understanding basketball to readers at ESPN’s Grantland, before ascending to his current role as the vice president of strategic research for the San Antonio Spurs. Sponsored by Harvard’s Institute for Quantitative Social Science and the Center for American Political Studies, the conference is modeled after MIT’s Sloan Sports Analytics Conference. What South by Southwest is to multimedia and Comic-Con is to Hollywood entertainment, Sloan is to the sports intelligentsia. Now in its 11th year, the conference picks up where Michael Lewis’ Moneyball left off, using principles derived primarily from the economics world to push forward more sophisticated means of understanding and driving success in sports. Goldsberry said it was time that deeper understanding find its way beyond athletics and into the realm of politics and political discourse. “We used Sloan as an inspiration in a way, because Sloan started as a very small confer-

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ence at MIT, with about this number of people, that blended media, practitioners and academics,” he said. If Sloan has helped to make sports smarter, Goldsberry has similar ambitions for Political Analytics, which he hopes can ultimately help heighten the understanding of the American electorate. “In a weird way, sports is ahead of politics in using analytical reasoning to uncover, to explore, and to confirm ideas,” he explained of the American public’s competitive disadvantage. “We want to provide a forum on an annual basis that brings together quantitative thinking and political discourse.” “I’ve been looking for something like this for the last couple of years,” said Travis Bunner, a data scientist with polling firm EMC Research who has attended both

installments of the conference. “I respect what these guys are doing because there is nothing like this.” Less unique was the topic of inquiry the conference pursued, which was the same as had been featured at innumerable symposiums since November, not to mention countless dinner table discussions and barroom debates. Attendees sought to answer one overriding question: How had a fear-mongering reality TV star and purported real estate titan been elected the nation’s 45th president, and why hadn’t any of them seen it coming? In the days since November, people have grasped for all kinds of explanations. By the readings of some, the election signaled that the nation’s gender biases were more intractable than its racial ones. Others saw race and racial identity as the deciding factors. Political operatives suggested a tactical failure. Some historians called it the inevitable result of ongoing demographic trends. The Harvard conference saw experts testify to all of these as causes of our national blindsiding, includ-

ing a set of qualitative perspectives on how blind one had to be in order to feel surprised. The powers and dangers of microtargeting, the lines Google and Facebook draw between their user data and voter registration data, the role of forecasting, race, the way we disseminate political information overall—each was cited as a data point during the day’s expansive postmortem.

“One of the ways to understand this election is to say that the white working class started voting like a minority group.” —Sean Trende, RealClearPolitics

In hindsight, according to experts, it was the forecasting models that had given Clinton hopefuls what turned out to be a false sense of security. After years of advance polling bearing out in eventual elections, Silver suggested that the masses over-learned their lessons, saying, “People took 2012 to be the iron law of how politics works and I think came to some sophomoric conclusions because of that.” Perhaps the group most guilty of misunderstanding, misinterpreting or misrepresenting the data was the national media—some of whom were on hand for confession. Looking back to the 2012 election, when Mitt Romney’s camp insisted all the way up to the finish line that polling trends would prove to be incorrect, MSNBC television journalist Steve Kornacki conceded that his on-air performance during this latest election night was shaped by a sense of certainty brought on by the leading indicators. “We all came in with a certain expectation [of] where things were likely to go … and the exit polls suggested that was probably where it was going to go,” he told the crowd of about 70 people. In an industry that puts a huge premium on being first, it was suggested that part of what made reporters treat a Clinton victory as an inevitability was a fear of eventual embarrassment. “I think the iconic moment from 2012 that hung over this entire election in the eyes of the media was Karl Rove, on the set of Fox News, saying, ‘It’s not over! They called it, but it’s not over,’” Kornacki said, describDATA C O N T I N U E D

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ing the former Bush strategist’s 2012 election night struggle to accept the notion of a second Obama win. “Nobody wanted to be Karl Rove.” For MTV News political columnist Ana Marie Cox, the election’s biggest surprise would be Trump’s ability to win over white college-educated women, despite his numerous public statements demeaning women and allegations of sexual misconduct. “It’s one thing to know intellectually that something can happen,” Cox said. “It’s another thing to be able to internalize it and believe it’s a real thing.”

THe gap Post-election, this perception gap has frequently been attributed to the idea of selfreinforcing “information bubbles,” largely shaped by interactions with social media. Robert D’Onofrio, Facebook director of data communications, was on hand in Cambridge to explain that, while the company is intimately aware of the issue, there are limits to its willingness to restructure its platform to address diversity of opinion in the shared space. “There’s a behavioral component to it that we can certainly influence, but we can’t change behavior,” D’Onofrio said. “Everyone has their own personal experience on Facebook. So we’re trying to take a product approach to Ana Marie Cox, of MTV News, was most surprised by Trump winning over college-educated women. photo by nrkbeta via flickr

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it, letting the user control as much as possible about their experience.” According to D’Onofrio, 128 million unique Americans discussed the election at some point on the platform. Internal research shows that the most frequent topics of these conversations were crime and jobs. But as eager as Facebook is to celebrate the volume of the discussions it hosts, the social media giant is reluctant to publicly divulge much data regarding the sentiments expressed by its users, especially around issues as culturally divisive as this last presidential election. And while Facebook could remain nonpartisan about the sentiment of individuals, others were tasked with delving right into them. Trump’s success has primarily been attributed to the emergent loyalty of the supposed “white working class.” According to pollster Matt Barreto, who has conducted extensive research into the minds of the electorate both before and after November’s contest through his opinion research firm Latino Decisions, the unifying principle held by Trump’s voter base was not rooted in financial concerns, but rather in cultural ones. Even after controlling for partisanship and ideology, “the most powerful explanatory variables for Trump,” Baretta said, “are the variables related to your views towards blacks, your views towards immigrants, and your views towards Muslims. In some cases, depending on how you build the model, the economic variables are flat. They are not more likely to predict a Trump or Hillary vote, at all.” While its various factions might not have ultimately been aligned by economic outlook, one demographic made its influence known as a bloc in November. “One of the ways to understand this election is to say that the white working class started voting like a minority group,” said veteran RealClearPolitics analyst Sean Trende,

citing Trump’s 70 percent margin with such voters. Before last year’s national election, Wisconsin public opinion pollster Kathy Cramer had seen firsthand her own governor, Scott Walker, build a similar coalition around racial and economic resentment in small towns. “They’ve been telling me since 2007 that they are not getting their fair share of attention and respect and resources,” she shared. In their minds, Cramer explained, the money they deserve is going to

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“city” folks, allocated by politicians they see as unsympathetic to their needs. “The racial anxiety and the economic anxiety are inseparable, and maybe that’s always been the case in the United States,” Cramer said. “Our conversations about redistribution are about race whether we are willing to admit it or not.”

Hurricane DonalD All these swirling complicating factors were explored during the conference’s competitive “hackathon” component, which saw teams composed of Harvard students, data science and visualization pros, and politicos coming together over a shared set of election data to try and extrapolate new and deeper insights. The winning team attempted to quantify the very anxieties Cramer and Baretta described. As Harvard undergraduate Alexandra Abrahams, who presented the team’s findings, explained, “We started out trying to answer the question of, ‘To what extent did racial resentment motivate turnout in the 2016 election?’” To calculate this, the group concocted a “racial conservatism” index, which tracked whether Obama voters had migrated to supporting Trump, cross-referencing their answers to racially charged questions like, “Do white people have advantages because of the color of their skin?” The findings weren’t conclusive, but a new model was built that could better judge that question as new data becomes available. For Matt Lackey, a data expert with experience on Obama’s 2008 campaign and the AFL-CIO who now serves as vice president of research and development for the progressive big data firm Civis Analytics, the most dire

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“Had Clinton gotten about a percentage point more of the popular vote, she would have won the Electoral College, and we would have had a conversation about data and analytics that’s the exact polar opposite of the one we’re having now.” —John sides, Washington post political scientist

issue facing American politics could be emerging concerns about the imperfection of survey research, which politicians rely on not only to win elections but also to shape policy. Citing the downtrend in response rates, Lackey expressed alarm that changing habits and interests make people less likely to answer telephone calls of unknown origins or spend upward of a half-hour answering detailed questions about politics, all of which diminishes the well of data from which researchers divine insight. “Nonresponse bias is a real problem,” Lackey said. “If we lose our ability to accurately measure what people think, we lose our ability to govern.” As for solving the challenges of a potentially ungovernable democracy, Americans will need to reconcile their discomfort with the differences between big numbers and sure things. “People tend to underestimate the likelihood of relatively low-probability events,” said New York Times Upshot reporter Nate Cohn. He continued: “Weather forecasters treat this problem way differently … If you have a 5 percent chance that you’ll be hit by a hurricane tomorrow, you’re in a hurricane warning. The forecasters aren’t saying, ‘There’s a 95 percent chance that you won’t be hit by a hurricane.’ If Trump is a category five hurricane outcome, we should probably take shelter and be prepared for that.” Many things considered, Washington Post political scientist John Sides warned against over-interpreting a single election. It was a pretty small sample size, after all. “Had Clinton gotten about a percentage point more of the popular vote, she would have won the Electoral College, and we would have had a conversation about data and analytics that’s the exact polar opposite of the one we’re having now,” he said. Even if they didn’t call a perfect game, analysts in this realm played a key role in the 2016 presidential election. As in professional sports, the influence of data cannot simply be measured by whether or not the ultimate victors had opted for analytically driven strategies. If the day had a persistent theme, it was that the low probability of a Trump victory and a misunderstanding of what that meant were perhaps the deciding factors that shaped the narrative around the campaign, which could have in turn dramatically affected the electorate. At Harvard, political analyst Sides couldn’t help but paraphrase another old, venerated institution. “The real lesson from this election is that data and analytics are the worst way to run a campaign, except for all the other ways,” he said with resignation. The truism held up to the scrutiny of a room full of data scientists, by any calculation or measurement. But if the Political Analytics Conference taught attendees anything, it was to be a little careful of looking backward when trying to think forward. Ω

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the nonprofit Over Grow the System “to promote a culture of resilient localized food systems in the gulf islands ... through music, feasts and storytelling.” That might sound like a radical undertaking, but for the Smith sisters, Chloe and Leah, it’s part of a continual commitment to sustainability that’s become a way of life. Chloe spent years tree-sitting in the redwoods with Earth First, and Leah went to Latin America to study the political climate of the Zapatistas. Music, actually, was a somewhat secondary interest. The sisters grew up in a musical household. As adults, they realized what a rare gift that was, and in turn made a gift for their family, a CD of folk songs recorded in a day. After being invited to perform a show in their then-home base of Atlanta, the sisters brought along extra copies of the recording and sold out in one night. The surprising turn of events led the Smiths to spend the next few years figuring out how they could combine music with their other interests. “I think from that we realized that activism, social-justice work, storytelling and the catharsis of music was feeding so many of the other things that were important in our lives,” Leah said. As the project grew, the band put an emphasis on finding ways to be environmentally conscious, such as building their own veggie-powered tour bus, stay-

ing in locally owned inns, encouraging venues to provide seasonal local food in green rooms, etc. In 2015, the sisters decided to dub their efforts the “Slow Music Movement,” named after a TEDx talk Leah gave in 2014. “Like anything in life, I think when you name something, it strengthens it,” Leah said. “We were able to really accelerate our intentions, and articulate our intentions a lot more.” The sisters also have spent the last few years developing relationships with nonprofits across the U.S., and often invite them to set up informational booths at shows. “The stage is a very powerful tool, and at any size or any level, opening up the power of the stage to talk about local issues is something anyone can do,” Leah said. “Finding out something that’s going on locally, or asking somebody to come speak for five minutes about it before the show.” Focusing on both musical and sustainable practices takes a lot of time, and the band often works nonstop between gigs to make everything fall into place. “I think if we just said, ‘Let’s just take the standard path of music, get on the tour cycle, let the music industry guide us,’ we’d have more mental bandwidth to do other things. But I think it’s still so satisfying,” Chloe said. “I think we work harder, but our caliber of connection and purpose is also higher.” □

SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: The largest carnival in the North State returns with concerts, livestock shows, a demolition derby, food vendors, exhibits, rides, all sorts of races and more. Visit website for complete schedule of events. Thu, 5/25, 4pm. $3-$8. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silver dollarfair.org

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown streets are closed to traffic each Thursday night for a community event featuring local produce and products, live music, food trucks and more. Thu, 5/25, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico, Broadway. 530-345-6500. www.downtownchico.com

WINE IN THE PINES: A fundraiser in Paradise between Pearson and Elliott roads along the Skyway, within walking distance of numerous wine-tasting stations and shops offering food specials. Participating businesses choose a nonprofit organization to donate to. Thu, 5/25, 5:30pm. $20. www.paradise chamber.com

WINE TASTING: Monthly wine tasting to benefit various local organizations. This month: Butte County Sheriff Search and Rescue. Thu, 5/25, 5pm. $7. Bidwell Park Golf Course, Golf Course Road.

Theater ANNIE JR.: Chico Performances and Playhouse Youth Theatre present the classic musical—as performed by more than 30 local youth actors—following the misadventures of Annie as she finds a loving home. Thu, 5/25, 7:30pm. $8-$15. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 530-898-6333. www.csuchico.edu/ boxoffice

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SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Sun, 5/28, 11am. $3-$8. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silverdollarfair.org

Music BLUES & BREWS FESTIVAL: A day-long celebration of live music and craft beer. The musical lineup features the Guitarsonists, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Rod Piazza and the Might Flyers and rock legends The Yardbirds Sun, 5/28, 1pm. $30. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. www.featherfallscasino.com

PARADISE COMMUNITY BAND CONCERT: A spring concert to celebrate Memorial Day. Sun, 5/28, 7pm. Free. United Methodist Church, 6722 Clark Road, Paradise.

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SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Fri, 5/26, 4pm. $3 - $8. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silverdollarfair.org

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weekend-long pow wow. Fri, 5/26, 1pm. $2. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: The summer concert series continues with Bad Daddy playing rock and boogie music. Fri, 5/26, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.down townchico.com

LOCASH: The modern country hitmakers perhaps best known for their single “I Know Somebody.” Fri, 5/26, 8pm. $20. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silver dollarfair.org

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participants who work in the garden. Sat 5/27, 9am. African American Family and Cultural Center, 2733 Wyandotte Ave., Oroville. 530-532-1205.

CRUISIN’ PARADISE CAR SHOW: Classic cars, raffles, food, live music, games and more. Sat 5/27, 9am. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. www.cruisin classicsofparadise.com

Special Events MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION: Presentations of military honors, speeches and tributes, a display of hundreds of American flags, and patriotic music from the Chico Community Band. Also, a 1921 Ford Model T Hearse and a horse-drawn funeral coach from the late 1800s will be on display. Mon, 5/29, 10am. Free. Chico Cemetery, 881 Mangrove Ave. 530-345-7243.

JIM PRESTON MEMORIAL POW WOW: A weekend-long celebration to honor the late member of the California’s Pit River tribe. Festivities including traditional dancing, music, food, arts and crafts vendors, raffles and more. Sat 5/27, 11am. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. www.oroville powwow.com

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SILVER DOLLAR FAIR: See Thursday. Mon, 5/29, 11am. $3-$8. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silverdollarfair.org

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Music RISING APPALACHIA: An Americana/folk band led by multi-instrumentalist sisters Leah and Chloe Smith playing folk standards, New Orleans soul and traditional mountain music. Tue, 5/30, 7:30pm. $29.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

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Theater FRESH INK: The creative process is laid bare with this collection of four short plays written and rehearsed in the span of two weeks. Wed, 5/31, 7:30pm. $10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroom theatre.com

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SEASON OpENER It’s that time of year when the college students leave, it gets oven-hot outside and Chico slows down considerably. What is there to do? First, check out the Silver Dollar Fair. During the all-too-brief window from Thursday, May 25, through Monday, May 29, at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, you can breathe in the smell of livestock and wood chips, lose at ring toss and maybe even try your luck with the combination of alcohol, fried food and carnival rides. But who are we kidding? The main attraction is obviously the All-Alaskan Racing Pigs.

Preservation Month, Randy Taylor and Frank Roberts lead this walking tour of downtown Chico. Sun, 5/28, 10am. Free. Old Municipal Building, 435 Main St. 530-345-7522. www.chicoheritage.net

JIM PRESTON MEMORIAL POW WOW: See Saturday. Sun, 5/28, 12pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. www.orovillepowwow.com

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Art 1078 GALLERY: Alma Mudder, recent works by Chico State ceramics grads on display. 5/255/27. 820 Broadway St. CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Monsters, papier-mâché “Monster” sculptures by Mark Palmer on display. 5/25-5/31. Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-877-5673.

CHICO ART CENTER: Confluence, digital media art and design by students at Chico State and Butte College. 5/25–5/26. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ann Pierce, watercolor paintings by Northern California artist Ann Pierce. The Healing Art Gallery of Enloe Cancer Center features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. 5/25-7/13. 265 Cohasset Road, 530-332-3856.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing Exhibit, rotating exhibits featuring local artists. 5/25-9/16. 493 East Ave., 530-345-3063.

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Branding Irons, a display of more than 200 branding irons, plus thousands of tools for every purpose. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

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.

COLMAN COMMUNITY MUSEUM: Cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. Through 6/30. 13548 Centerville Rd.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Amusement Park Science, a family-friendly exploration of the physics behind amusement park rides, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of Ice Age skeletons. Through 9/3. Chico State. www.csuchico.edu/gateway

OLD MUNICIPAL BUILDING: Historic Downtown Tour, as part of Preservation Month, Randy Taylor and Frank Roberts lead this walking tour of downtown Chico. 5/28, 10am Free. 435 Main St., 530-345-7522. www.chico heritage.net

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Railroads and Logging, the refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a museum with a working model train. 5570 Black Olive Dr., Paradise., 530 872-8722.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Stories of Our Own, displaying Hmong culture, identity and history. 5/25-7/27. Chico State.

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to creating collaborative projects that allow a sharing and celebration of many talents. The sold-out Night of Leonard Cohen Music (Saturday, May 20), produced at the Blue Room Theatre by longtime Chico musician Mark McKinnon, was an impressive showby case that illuminated the late master Carey songwriter’s craft through an enterWilson taining spectrum of performance and vocal styles. One couldn’t help but feel the man himself would have Review: A Night of Leonard approved of the show as a manifestaCohen Music, tion of his legacy. Saturday, May 20, Joshua Hegg, the omnipresBlue Room Theatre ent and apparently omniscient keyboardist who plays in local jazz troupe Bogg and anchors the popular Uncle Dad’s Art Collective, led off the evening gently with improvisational themes reminiscent of Keith Jarrett’s synthesis of classical and jazz tropes. This worked well in setting up Trish Berkow’s silky version of Cohen’s “Smokey Life.” And the sentiment of the lines—So set your restless heart at ease/Take a lesson from these Autumn leaves/They waste no time waiting for the snow … It’s light enough, light enough/to let it go—summed up the elegiac feeling of many of Cohen’s somehow celebratory, Buddhistic examinations of melancholy, loss, longing and acceptance. Singer Katrina Rodriguez and friends— including mandolinist Mark Wilpolt, percussionist Jerry Morano, and Bob Littell on harmonica—brought one of Cohen’s most iconic and apocalyptic lyrics to crowdpleasing life with their rendition of “First We Take Manhattan.” Rodriguez’ spirited delivery of the lyrics captured the inherent mysterious drama: I’m guided by a signal in the heavens/I’m guided by this birthmark on my skin/I’m guided by the beauty of our weapons/First we take Manhattan, then we take Berlin. The musicians

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took the song’s ominous pulse and dramatic melody into interesting territory with tasty filigrees of mandolin notes and a harmonica solo from Littell that brought a rush of spontaneous applause. The most theatrical performance of the evening came from Gordy Ohliger, who followed “You Got Me Singing” (backed by Morano’s brushed cabeza, Hegg’s piano, and beautifully laced with violin by Vera Marie Bridges) with a recitation of “Magic is Afoot,” adapted from a passage in Cohen’s 1966 novel, Beautiful Losers. The two pieces complemented each other perfectly, as the downbeat optimism of lines like, You got me singing/Ever since the river died/You got me thinking/Of the places we could hide/ You got me singing/Even though the world is gone/ You got me thinking/I’d like to carry on, became reflected in the sentiment of, God is alive, magic is afoot. Delivered in the mode of a barefoot beatnik prophet, the words and performance brought a moment of contemplative silence to the seated crowd. On the lighter side (if Cohen’s music has a lighter side), Laurie Dana’s performance of “My Secret Life” included bringing a toddler out of the front row to dance as Littell played an inspired harmonica solo. Additionally, McKinnon and Rodriguez teamed up for a fine, spooky duet of “A Thousand Kisses Deep” and an upbeat “Tower of Song.” But Peter Berkow provided the show-biz highlight of the event with some jaunty banter, a tribute to Cohen’s style (wearing a fedora and a black jacket trimmed in crimson), and a true showman’s approach to livening up the crowd. All things considered at this moving benefit for the community theater, Cohen’s black humor and iron faith at the heart of his masterpiece, “Hallelujah,” never rang so true: There’s a blaze of light in every word\It doesn’t matter which you heard/The holy or the broken hallelujah. □ M AY 2 5 , 2 0 1 7

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lounge. Fri, 5/26, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Hwy, Oroville.

HURRIKANE: Scorpions covers. Fri, 5/26, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls

Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & BOB LITTEL: Eclectic tunes for dining

with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 5/26, 9:30pm. $5. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

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JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: Eclectic tunes for dining pleasure. Thu, 5/25, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

ROBERT KARCH & FRIENDS: Latin jazz and blues. Thu, 5/25, 6pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

concert series continues with Bad Daddy playing rock and boogie music. Fri, 5/26, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.down townchico.com

UNCLE DAD’S NIGHT OF NEW MUSIC: The prolific local art collective presents an evening of never-before-heard music from Evin Wolverton, Michael and Ginger Bone, Joshua Hegg, Matthew Weiner, Erin Lizardo, and Madison and Addison DeSantis. Thu, 5/25, 8pm. $10. Naked Lounge Tea & Coffeehouse, 118 W. Second St. www.uncledad.co

GALA FUNDRAISER: An evening to benefit medical research of the Nurtured Heart Approach to ADHD, including live music from Webster Moore and the Electric Funk, food, a no-host bar and a silent auction. Fri, 5/26, 7pm. $30-$100. Canyon Oaks Country Club, 999 Yosemite Dr., 530-624-9043. tinyurl. com/nurturedheart

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pleasure. Fri, 5/26, 6pm. Free. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

hitmakers best known for their single “I Know Somebody” Fri, 5/26, 8pm. $20. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.silverdollar fair.org

NOCHE LATINA: A battle of the bandas with Banda La 8va Maravilla and Banda del Pacifico. Fri, 5/26, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

THE STUFF THAT LEAKS OUT: Extraweird rock ’n’ roll with The Stuff The Leaks Out, The Loki Miller Band, Danny Cohen and DJ Foxy Jeff. Fri, 5/26, 9pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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The Maltese Bar & Tap Room does weird really well. The neighborhood joint is well known for its eclectic music bills, drag shows, drunken spelling bees and fantastically diverse clientele. On Friday, May 26, the streak continues as a few of the odder apples in Chico’s music scene—The Stuff That Leaks Out (pictured), The Loki Miller Band, Danny Cohen and DJ Foxy Jeff— storm the stage.

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AJA VU: Steely Dan covers. Sat, 5/27, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino &

Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

BODY ROCK: A showcase of electronic DJs including Otter, Kim vs.

Arlee and Wagon Burna. Sat, 5/27, 9pm. $6. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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BOOZE & BOOKS: A monthly boozy book club. This month: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman. Sun, 5/28, 5pm. Free. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

HINDSIGHT: R&B, hip-hop and jazz

covers in the lounge. Sat, 5/27, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

JOSH BUDRO BAND: Old-time country covers. Sat, 5/27, 9pm. The Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

MOJO GREEN: Horn-heavy funk and

soul music. Sofa King opens. Sat, 5/27, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 5/27,

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long celebration of live music and craft beer. The lineup features the Guitarsonists, Lydia Pense and Cold Blood, Rod Piazza and The Mighty Flyers and rock legends The Yardbirds Sun, 5/28, 1-9pm. $30. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfalls casino.com

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HANK DUKE’S GOOD TIME TRIVIA HOUR: Teams of five players try and outsmart The Duke. Hosted by Jason Allen. Sun, 5/28, 8pm. Free. The Maltese Bar, 1600 Park Ave., 530-519-5673.

HINDSIGHT: R&B, hip-hop and jazz

covers in the lounge. Sun, 5/28, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: Eclectic tunes for dining pleasure. Sun, 5/28, 6pm. Free. 5th Street Steakhouse,

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According to CN&R sister paper the Reno News & Review, Mojo Green is one of the grooviest bands in Northern Nevada. The seven-piece outfit plays downright nasty, horn-heavy funk complete with poppin’ bass and wah-wah guitars. Along with locals Sofa King, they’ll get booties moving at Lost on Main on Saturday, May 27. Dig it.

LIVE MUSIC OPEN MIC: Early evening

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LOCALS ONLY: An all-local band blowout featuring Michelin Embers, Firefly with Erin Haley, Shibumi and Good Dog. Wed, 5/31, 8pm. $5. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

OPEN MIC COMEDY: Experienced and first-time comics work out their material in front of a live Studio Inn audience. Wed, 5/31, 9pm. Free. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, 925-577-0242.

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Opening this week Baywatch

An R-rated update of the iconic TV series with a shirtless Rock looking huge as he takes over the David Hasselhoff role of head lifeguard Mitch Buchannon. Also starring Zac Efron and Alexandra Daddario, plus cameos by some of the original cast. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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It’s either the fifth or 105th installment in the Pirates franchise, with Johnny Depp still kicking around as pirate Jack Sparrow, on the run from an army of ghost ships in search of the Trident of Poseidon. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

A Quiet Passion

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Quiet Passion is a richly textured drama and period piece about the life and character of the great 19th century American poet Emily Dickinson. It is somber, low-key and brilliant, and its casual disregard for the routines of the conventionally entertaining biopic has much to do with by some of its most rewarding qualities. Juan-Carlos Emily is, of course, the central Selznick figure in all this, but writer-director Terence Davies keeps the mysteries and paradoxes and imponderables of the poet’s character in the foreground throughout. Cynthia Nixon’s performance as the adult Emily is A Quiet Passion no star turn, but it offers a fully Opens Friday, May 26. convincing picture of a woman who Starring Cynthia Nixon, is, all at once, solitary, visionary, Emma Bell, Jennifer Ehle and Duncan Duff. wounded, indomitable, haunted. Directed by Terence (Emma Bell, who plays young Davies. Pageant Emily, does a nice job of evoking Theatre. Rated PG-13. those qualities in more incipient form.) While Emily’s career as a writer naturally provides a key narrative thread here, Davies organizes much of the film around an array of visits, meetings, celebrations, family gatherings, etc. The Dickinson household is far and away the dominant setting, and the poet’s parents, brother and sister, and assorted other relatives emerge as indelible figures in what becomes the portrait of a family and of social and cultural life in mid-19th century New England. The film opens with a school graduation scene in which a fiercely puritanical headmistress brands the unapologetically nonconformist Emily as a “no hoper.” Later, a domineering pastor will come into

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Director Ridley Scott is at the helm of this new installment in the Aliens franchise that follows a crew of space colonists to an uncharted planet that’s home to a deadly species hiding in the shadows. A prequel to Scott’s original 1979 sci-fi/horror classic. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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A film adaptation of the young-adult novel of the same name about a teen girl sheltered from the world due to an autoimmune condition who falls for the boy next door. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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conflict on religious matters with Emily’s father (Keith Carradine) and she will defy the same pastor even as her father relents. Religion, gender and social dominance are issues throughout, with Emily’s robustly snooty Aunt Elizabeth (a semi-Falstaffian Annette Badland) serving as a raucously presumptuous female counterpart to several paternalistic male characters. Emily’s brother, Austin (Duncan Duff), is part of the latter pattern in relation to Emily, but all three siblings (including sister “Vinnie”) take witty pleasure in irreverent wisecracks that puncture the pretensions of Aunt Elizabeth. Vinnie (warmly played by Jennifer Ehle) is the closest the film comes to having a conventionally sympathetic character, but she is just one of several fresh-minded female foils for the strikingly “rigorous” Emily. Susan Gilbert (Jodhi May) marries Austin but clearly prefers the company of his sisters. Mabel Loomis Todd (Noémie Schellens) is Austin’s “artistic” mistress, until Emily intervenes. And best of all, there is Miss Vryling Buffam (Catherine Bailey), rebellious, articulate, wildly funny, and pragmatically astute on social matters. All four of those younger women bring out aspects of Emily’s character that might otherwise go unnoticed. But there is also the Dickinson children’s mother, who is much revered by Emily in particular but rarely descends from the “Olympus” of her top-story room in the Dickinson mansion. Not the least of the film’s strengths and pleasures is that it creates its own distinctive pacing, nicely attuned to the subject matter and enchantingly immersed in what feels rather like the time and pace of an era other than our own. □

The fourth film in the franchise based on Jeff Kinney’s popular children’s book series finds wimpy kid Greg and his brother Rodrick trying to steer the family road trip toward a video game convention. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and the rest of his supergang get tangled up in more dangerous space adventures as they close in on the mystery of his true parentage. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni’s commercial flop has become a cult classic as a “hallucinatory dream-capsule of the revolutionary hippie movement in California.” One showing: Sunday, May 28, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Emily Dickinson biopic a brilliant period piece

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capture, and the CGI creation blends in nicely with his totally human, organic cast member. The cast and crew labor to make musical numbers like “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest” pop with the creative energy of the animated version, but they don’t quite reach those heights. They are nicely rendered, for sure, but not on the masterpiece level of the original. Beauty and the Beast tastes good, yet is ultimately empty fluff. Cinemark 14. Rated PG —B.G.

Disney’s wonderful 1991 animated musical adaptation of the classic French fairy tale has become the latest film on Disney’s Live Redo of a Beloved Animated Movie assembly line. This one is a big-budget effort starring Emma Watson as the iconic Belle and Ewan McGregor as a CGI candelabra. Is it an enjoyable distraction? Yes, even if it is completely unnecessary. Hermione makes for a strong Belle, and Watson’s performance is what makes the film worthwhile. As the Prince/Beast, Dan Stevens gives a decent enough performance via motion

Eugenio Derbez stars as a man who specializes in seducing older women. After his octogenarian wife of 25 years leaves him, he moves in with his sister (Salma Hayek) and sets his sights on a new sugar mama (Raquel Welch). Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

King Arthur: Legend of the Sword

Director Guy Ritchie gives King Arthur the Lock Stock/Sherlock Holmes treatment in this fantasy flick about the young king whose life is turned upside down after discovering the legendary Excalibur sword. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Lowriders

A coming-of-age tale about a young street artist torn between his ex-con brother and his lowrider-obsessed father. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Snatched

Goldie Hawn and Amy Schumer star as a mother and daughter on a comic misadventure in South America. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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then dried over the embers of a dying fire. About 100,000 of the by threads—each Henri flower has just Bourride three—make a pound of saffron, which retails here in the States for $70-$80 an ounce. While experts disagree on where the best saffron comes from—my favorite supplier swears by Iranian saffron—all agree that the brighter and redder the better and that the best Spanish saffron comes from the La Mancha region. They also agree that powdered saffron, while convenient, is vastly inferior. Saffron is used in many Mediterranean-style dishes—and even used to make tea—but it’s most often associated with paella, the traditional Spanish dish made with rice, seafood, chicken, pork and vegetables. In fact, most chefs will tell you that the only ingredient absolutely essential to paella— except for the rice—is saffron, which gives the rice its golden hue and distinctive flavor. Best known in the Mediterranean coastal cities of Valencia and Barcelona, paella is served throughout the Iberian

Peninsula, often after an antipasto plate and before the main course. However, it’s filling enough—and contains enough different ingredients—that it can easily be a meal in itself, although a light salad complements it nicely. A well-cooked paella is a work of art. The chef often brings it to the table and holds it up for all to see, usually earning a round of applause. While it’s traditionally cooked outside over an open fire, you can also cook it on a kettle barbecue or gas grill or inside on the stove. Ideally, you’d have access to a specially designed paella pan—large (13 to 18 inches in diameter), with sloped sides and two loop handles, although any large skillet will work. Best to cook paella while sipping a glass of Torres Sangre de Toro and listening to Miles Davis’ Sketches of Spain. This recipe is a variation of the traditional Barcelona paella. Other common ingredients include string beans, white beans, snails, rabbit, pork ribs, scallops, lobster and veal. Paella Barcelonesa 1/3 cup olive oil 3 garlic cloves, minced 1 each, green and red bell peppers, sliced 1 onion, sliced 2 tomatoes, cubed

1/2 chicken, cut into chunks 12 pork sausages 12 mussels 12 clams 1/2 lb. each: squid (cut into rings), large shrimp, cod or similar whitefish 3 cups small- or medium-grain rice pinch of saffron (six to eight threads) 6 canned artichoke hearts, halved 1/2 cup of peas 1 lemon, cut in wedges

Heat olive oil in large skillet and sauté garlic. Add chicken and sausages and cook until brown. Remove. Add peppers and onions and sauté until soft. Add tomatoes and cook until reduced. Mix well, add the browned chicken and sausages and stir in the rice, continuing to cook for about five minutes. Clean clams and mussels and boil in separate pan until shells open. Dissolve saffron in a halfcup of warm water. Add (to the paella) the squid, whitefish, peas, seven cups boiling water and the water with saffron in it. Stir well. Take the clams and mussels from water and remove a half shell from each one. Push each mussel, clam and artichoke partway into mixture (don’t stir), lay the shrimp on top of mixture (don’t stir), and cook for another 20 minutes or until rice is done. Garnish with lemon wedges. □

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IN THE MIX Tara Jane O’Neil Tara Jane O’Neil Gnomonsong Few people have the tenacity to really stick with something, specifically something creative. Luckily, there are artists like Tara Jane O’Neil to set a precedent of consistency. Besides her presence in mid1990s projects like Rodan and Retsin, O’Neil had her first solo release, Peregrine, back in 2000. Nearly two decades later, she’s on her eighth full-length (and first self-titled one), which has found a fit with the label Gnomonsong, home to the sunwashed melancholy folk niche of California music history. The album’s general tone is subdued, with choruses and instrumental swells fogged by hazy details like brush-swept drums, sly lap-steel, and O’Neil’s gentle vocal delivery nestled between lilting sonic waves. The record is indirectly lush, flaring around O’Neil’s quiet, straightforward guitar base. On “Kelley,” things keep breaking open, like on a road trip when you alternate between woods and wide-open expanse. But it’s not about where the record goes as much as where it sticks. —Robin Bacior

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Thurston Moore’s latest finds its pleasure in travel rather than a finite destination. Call it hippie music for nonhippies. Fans of his previous band, Sonic Youth, and bassist Debbie Googe’s former, My Bloody Valentine, should not be disappointed by Rock N Roll Consciousness, an album that wanders far and pleasantly away from Moore’s go-to compositional moves of loud-quiet-loud dynamics and into many slight yet equally thrilling reveals. Moore’s songs have often found their reward in tension and release, but his latest serves as an antithesis, with a relaxed pace that unfolds in many different directions. Despite the more subdued feel, the hypnotic chug and shimmer of guitars still push the volume dial, maximizing the beauty of this thrilling collection of songs. The album’s closer, “Aphrodite,” exhibits Moore’s unrestrained love of guitar noise sandwiched between waves of glittering guitar tones, and proves that the passing of time has done little to diminish the irresistible purity of the guitar innovator’s exuberance and love of sound. —Conrad Nystrom

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Goodbye, art This is the last week for the 1078 Gallery at its current location. After the alma Mudder group show closes on Saturday (May 27), the space will go dark and the longstanding community art/music/theater/ literature collective will be in limbo as it continues to look for a new home. Like many Chicoans, arts dEVo is still in shock. In many ways, 1078 is the heart of the local art scene, and even a temporary interruption of its activities—visiting contemporary artists, vibrant openings, community exhibitions, all-ages rock shows, classical guitar recitals—is going to hurt. Chico’s community of artists and those who appreciate the arts will be stuck without this lively hub. And, despite whatever conflicts there were between 1078 and its neighbors that led to its eviction, I imagine that many of those businesses in The Junction are going to miss the gallery’s cross-section of patrons— from 20-something students to 60-something professionals—who will no longer be flowing to their block on a regular basis. I know I won’t be around as much. the book scene Chico state and Butte College just announced the schools’

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF may 25, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Sin” is a

puerile concept in my eyes, so I don’t normally use it to discuss grown-up concerns. But if you give me permission to invoke it in a jokey, ironic way, I’ll recommend that you cultivate more surprising, interesting and original sins. In other words, Aries, it’s high time to get bored with your predictable ways of stirring up a ruckus. Ask God or Life to bring you some really evocative mischief that will show you what you’ve been missing and lead you to your next robust learning experience.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Attention,

smart shoppers! Here’s a special spring fling offer! For a limited time only, you can get five cutesy oracles for the price of one! And you don’t have to pay a penny unless they all come true! Check ’em out! Oracle No. 1: Should you wait patiently until all the conditions are absolutely perfect? No! Success comes from loving the mess. Oracle No. 2: Don’t try to stop a sideshow you’re opposed to. Stage a bigger, better show that overwhelms it. Oracle No. 3: Please, master, don’t be a slave to the things you control. Oracle No. 4: Unto your own self be true? Yes! Unto your own hype be true? No! Oracle No. 5: The tortoise will beat the hare as long as the tortoise doesn’t envy or try to emulate the hare.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Generation

Kill is an HBO miniseries based on the experiences of a reporter embedded with American Marines fighting in Iraq. Early on, before the troops have been exposed to any serious combat, they’re overflowing with trash talk. A commanding officer scolds them: “Gentlemen, from now on we’re going to have to earn our stories.” Although you are in a much less volatile situation right now, Gemini, my advice to you is the same: In the coming weeks, you’ll have to earn your stories. You can’t afford to talk big unless you’re geared up to act big, too. You shouldn’t make promises and entertain dares and issue challenges unless you’re fully prepared to be a hero. Now here’s my prophecy: I think you will be a hero.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In your

mind’s eye, drift back in time to a turning point in your past that didn’t go the way you’d hoped. But don’t dwell on the disappointment. Instead, change the memory. Visualize yourself then and there, but imagine you’re in possession of all the wisdom you have gathered since then. Next, picture an alternative ending to the old story—a finale in which you manage to pull off a much better result. Bask in this transformed state of mind for five minutes. Repeat the whole exercise at least once a day for the next two weeks. It will generate good medicine that will produce a creative breakthrough no later than mid-June.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re being invited

to boost your commitment to life and become a more vivid version of yourself. If you refuse the invitation, it will later return as a challenge. If you avoid that challenge, it will eventually circle back around to you as a demand. So I encourage you to respond now, while it’s still an invitation. To gather the information you’ll need, ask yourself these questions: What types of self-development are you “saving for later”? Are you harboring any mediocre goals or desires that dampen your lust for life? Do you tone down or hold back your ambitions for fear they would hurt or offend people you care about?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Dear Dream Doctor: I dreamed that a crowd of people had decided to break through a locked door using a long, thick wooden plank as a battering ram. The only problem was, I was lying on top of the plank, half-asleep. By the time I realized what was up, the agitated crowd was already at work smashing at the door. Luckily for me, it went well. The door got bashed in and I wasn’t hurt. What does my dream mean? —Nervous Virgo.” Dear Virgo: Here’s my interpretation: It’s time to knock down a

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): As long as you

keep Syria, South Sudan and North Korea off your itinerary, traveling would be food for your soul during the next 28 days. It would also be balm for your primal worries and medicine for your outworn dogmas and an antidote for your comfortable illusions. Do you have the time and money necessary to make a pilgrimage to a place you regard as holy? How about a jaunt to a rousing sanctuary? Or an excursion to an exotic refuge that will shock you in friendly, healing ways? I hope that you will at least read a book about the territory that you may one day call your home away from home.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): By now I’m sure you have tuned in to the rumblings in your deep self. Should you be concerned? Maybe a little, but I think the more reasonable attitude is curiosity. Even though the shaking is getting stronger and louder, it’s also becoming more melodic. The power that’s being unleashed will almost certainly turn out to be far more curative than destructive. The light it emits may at first look murky but will eventually bloom like a thousand moons. Maintain your sweet poise. Keep the graceful faith.

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21): Life is inviting you to decode riddles about togetherness that could boost your emotional intelligence and earn you the right to enjoy lyrical new expressions of intimacy. Will you accept the invitation? Are you willing to transcend your habitual responses for the sake of your growthinducing relationships? Are you interested in developing a greater capacity for collaboration and synergy? Would you be open to making a vulnerable fool of yourself if it helped your important alliances to fulfill their dormant potential? Be brave and empathetic, Sagittarius. Be creative and humble and affectionate.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as R AND S INSPECTIONS at 1731 Hyer Ct Durham, CA 95938. STEPHEN C HOWARD 1731 Hyer Ct Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: STEPHEN C HOWARD Dated: May 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000629 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLACKWHALE FITNESS at 1200 Sherman Ave Apt 20 Chico, CA 95926. RICHARD WHALEN 1200 Sherman Ave Apt 20 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RICHARD WHALEN Dated: April 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000544 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STUDIO TESLA, TESLA NEON at 454 E 10th Ave Chico, CA 95926. PATRICK COLLENTINE 454 E 10th Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PATRICK COLLENTINE Dated: April 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000490 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO CARE HOME FOR THE ELDERLY LLC at 1596 La Linda Lane Chico, CA 95926. LEGALINC CORPORATE SERVICES INCORPORATED 1596 La Linda Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: WINZELL MAESTAS, OWNER Dated: April 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000519 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STAR TAXI at 1865 E 8th St Apt 128 Chico, CA 95928. SHAWN HEATER 175 4th Ave Orland, CA 95963. ERIK SCHMIDT 1865 E 8th St Apt 128 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by Copartners. Signed: ERIK SCHMIDT Dated: May 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000658 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

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The following persons are doing business as NORTH COUNTIES REAL ESTATE at 1074 East Ave Ste B1 Chico, CA 95926. GAIL M PROSISE 4723 County Rd E Orland, CA 95963. ROBERT L PROSISE 4723 County Rd E Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: ROBERT L. PROSISE Dated: April 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000553 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTHSTATE BULLETLINER AND TRUCK ACCESSORIES at 6281 Broyles Road Chico, CA 95973. JOSEPH RAY DUGAN 6281 Broyles Road Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSEPH DUGAN Dated: April 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000583 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARADISE PINES TRAILS FUND at 14600 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954. NICK CHARLES COLLINS 14600 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: NICK COLLINS Dated: May 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000660 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BARK AVENUE at 2045 Park Ave Oroville, CA 95966. CHRISTINE ROGAN 4880 Foothill Blvd Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CHRISTINE ROGAN Dated: May 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000626 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CASCADIA INSTRUMENTS at 70 Vincent Lane Chico, CA 95973. CAMERON SCOTT 70 Vincent Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CAMERON SCOTT Dated: May 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000661 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following perons are doing business as GLYN PYE VENDING at 945 W 2nd Street Chico, CA 95928. WESERV INC 945 W 2nd Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: STEPHANIE ALHOURANI, OFFICE

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MANAGER Dated: April 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000581 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALPHA DRYWALL at 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, CA 95954. DONALD LARRY HUNT 13653 West Park Dr Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DONNY HUNT Dated: April 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000574 Published: May 18,25, June 1,8, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DIMENSION THREE INDUSTRIES at 13302 Cabin Hoolow Ct, Suite 110 Chico, CA 95973. JOSHUA LANE PHILLIPSON 8233 Streng Ave Citrus Heights, CA 95610. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOSH PHILLIPSON Dated: May 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000663 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 4RENTCHICO.COM, CHICO APARTMENT PROPERTIES at 11110 Arcadian Avenue Suite 1 Chico, CA 95926. MARY KRAUSE 1469 Oak Ridge Drive Chico, CA 95928. PAUL KRAUSE 1469 Oak Ridge Drive Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: PAUL KRAUSE Dated: May 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000688 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THUMBWORKS SPORTS MASSAGE at 1661 Forrest Ave #35 Chico, CA 95928. TANYA CROOKS 1661 Forrest Ave #35 Chico, CA 95928. RYAN KEEP 1661 Forrest Ave #35 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: TANYA CROOKS Dated: May 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000726 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as QUICK STOP #11 at 952 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926. JASVIR SINGH 2269 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926. MOHAN SINGH 25 Ewing Drive Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: JASVIR SINGH Dated: May 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000657 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LA MIRADA VILLA at 197 La Mirada Ave Oroville, CA 95966. VERONICA CORPUZ ALMOCERA 235 La Mirada Ave Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: VERONICA ALMOCERA Dated: May 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000692 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARADISE GARDENS II at 1060 Buschmann Rd Paradise, CA 95969. KIMBERLY L WEST 15032 Little Ron Rd Chico, CA 95973. MARK PAUL WEST 15032 Little Ron Rd Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: KIMBERLY L WEST Dated: May 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000624 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TOPWATER REACTION BAITS at 197 Brookdale Court Oroville, CA 95966. LAWRENCE FRANK MCFALL 197 Brookdale Court Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: LAWRENCE F MCFALL Dated: April 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000575 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 15TH STREET CAFE at 1414 15th Street, Suite 120 Chico, CA 95928. MARK ROBERT MCGINNIS 555 Vallombrosa Ave, #59 Chico, CA 95926. MICHAEL DEAN MCGINNIS 555 Vallombrosa Ave, #59 Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A General Partnership. Signed: MICHAEL DEAN MCGINNIS Dated: May 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000611 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KREATIONS at 130 West 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928. ANNEMARIE PETERS 970 E. 7th Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ANNEMARIE PARRELLI PETERS Dated: May 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000690 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NOEL MARIA OLIVIA

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CALDERWOOD-HOWELL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NOEL MARIA OLIVIA CALDERWOOD-HOWELL Proposed name: NOEL CALDERWOOD 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: June 9, 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: April 10, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00634 Published: May 4,11,18,25, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RYAN J. WARNOCK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RYAN JAMES WARNOCK Proposed name: RYAN JAMES WALKER 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: June 2, 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: April 11, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00551 Published: May 4,11,18,25, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MOSES LOPEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOSES MIRANDA LOPEZ Proposed name: ELIAS MIRANDA LOPEZ 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

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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: June 23, 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: April 21, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01039 Published: May 4,11,18,25, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SHEENA & ZACH HOBBS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: PAYTON PHOENIX BERRY-HOBBS LEILA FAITH BERRY-HOBBS BRADY MOON BERRY-HOBBS Proposed name: PAYTON PHOENIX HOBBS LEILA FAITH HOBBS BRADY MOON HOBBS 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: June 23, 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: April 11, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00599 Published: May 11,18,25, June 1, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MELISSA DURBIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MELISSA DURBIN Proposed name: MELISSA JACKSON 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: July 14, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA

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Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: May 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01045 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: LIBERTY LOPEZ and DOES 1 through 20, inclusive YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: CLEANRITE, INC., A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, DBA BUILDRITE CONSTRUCTION & RESTORATION NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. 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 Ave. Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS FERRIS & SELBY 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 Dated: January 5, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00044 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: BROOK ELIZABETH MORIN, AND ALL PERSON’S UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT,

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TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE TO THE PROPERTY, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 100. YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: ERIC LYTELL BERG NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting you 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 95926 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney is: MICHAEL M. ROONEY/ MICHAEL HOLT ROONEY LAW FIRM 1361 Esplanade Chico, California 95926-4900 Dated: April 4, 2016 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 16CV00008 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

SERVICE BY PUBLICATION ERIC BERG, Plaintiff vs. BROOK MORIN, and all person’s unknown, claiming any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the property adverse to plaintiff’s title to the property, and does 1 through 100, Defendants Hearing Date: June 30, 2017 Time: 10:30 AM Judge: Honorable Judge Candela 1. The real property (Property) that is the subject of this action is located in Butte County, California, is commonly known as 126 Dream Lane, Chico, CA 95973. 2. It is more particularly described as The East 1/3 of the South half of the North half of the Southeast quarter and the East 1/3 of the North quarter of the South half of the

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South-east quarter of Section 14, Township 24 North, Range 2 East, M.D.B.&M. It is located in the unincorporated area of the city of Cohasset, State of California, in the county of Butte. 3. APN Number of parcel is: 056-100-012 4. This publication is intended to give notice, to all persons unknown, claiming any legal or equitable right, title, estate, lien, or interest in the property adverse to plaintiff’s title to the property of the impending quite title action Attorneys for Eric Berg: Michael M. Rooney, SBN 190346 Michael A. Holtz, SBN 302713 Rooney Law Firm 1361 Esplanade Chico, California 95926-3330 Telephone: (530) 343-5297 Facsimile: (530) 897-0985 Case No. 16CV00008 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JOSHUA LANE JORDAN 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: December 16, 2016 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER

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Case Number: 16CV03070 Published: May 25, June 1,8,15, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE LARRY D. RICHTER AKA LARRY RICHTER, AKA LARRY DONALD RICHTER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LARRY D. RICHTER AKA LARRY RITCHER, AKA LARRY DONALD RICHTER Petition for Probate has been filed by: CATHRYN L. RICHTER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: CATHRYN L. RICHTER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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: May 30, 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

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Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. DRAWER 111 OROVILLE, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00109 Dated: May 02, 2017 Published: May 11,18,25, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DONNA ELIZABETH EAKIN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DONNA ELIZABETH MANGUS, DONNA HOESSLER Petition for Probate has been filed by: MATTHEW EAKIN, ELIZABETH MANGUS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: MATTHEW EAKIN AND ELIZABETH MANGUS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 11, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Petitioner: MATTHEW EAKIN & ELIZABETH MANGUS 1201 Swedes Flat Rd, Oroville, CA 95966 Case Number: 17PR00159 Dated: May 12, 2017 Published: May 18,25, June 1, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BESSIE M. BAKER AKA BESSIE MAE BAKER AKA BESSIE BAKER To all heirs and beneficiaries,

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creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BESSIE M. BAKER AKA BESSIE MAE BAKER AKA BESSIE BAKER Petition for Probate has been filed by: STEVEN T. BAKER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: STEVEN T. BAKER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: June 20, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: C-18 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965. (530) 533-5661 Case Number: PR-41582 Dated: May 22, 2017 Published: May 25, June 1,8, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE REBECCA L. SANGER, AKA

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REBECCA LEE SANGER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: REBECCA L. SANGER, AKA REBECCA LEE SANGER Petition for Probate has been filed by: WILLIAM J. SANGER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: WILLIAM J. SANGER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer 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 conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: June 20, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m. Dept: Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: MARGARET M. MCNULTY Law Office of Margaret McNulty 1550 Humboldt Road, Suite 4, Chico, CA 95928 (530) 809-0675 Case Number: 17PR00179 Dated: May 22, 2017 Published: May 25, June 1,8, 2017

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1115 Broadway St

Chico

$227,500

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

10 Franciscan Way

Chico

$115,000

3/2

3265 Rockin M Dr

Chico

$210,000

4/2

3524

26 Pebblewood Pines Dr

Chico

$202,000

2/2

1215 Boucher St

Chico

$199,000

2099 Hartford Dr #25

Chico

555 Vallombrosa Ave #10

1273

4876 Foothill Blvd

Oroville

$479,000

2/2

1967

1350

192 Valley View Dr

Oroville

$345,000

2/2

2489

4/1

1020

130 Crane Ave

Oroville

$275,000

3/2

1425

$190,000

3/2

1375

6283 Woodman Dr

Oroville

$190,000

3/3

1784

Chico

$177,000

2/1

902

4495 Sierra Del Sol

Paradise

$375,000

3/3

2156

1125 Sheridan Ave #33

Chico

$165,000

2/2

1009

1877 Moll Rd

Paradise

$350,000

2/3

2713

26 Herlax Cir

Chico

$151,000

3/2

1501

192 Valley View Dr

Paradise

$324,000

3/3

2040

1436 Oak Ridge Dr

Chico

$148,000

3/3

1499

6736 Woodland Dr

Paradise

$295,000

3/2

1881

855 E Lindo Ave

Chico

$140,000

2/1

768

466 Green Oaks Dr

Paradise

$242,000

2/2

1496

797 Cleveland Ave

Chico

$140,000

3/1

1040

5703 Paradise Ave

Paradise

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3/1

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CHIC

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CHIC

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1592

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CHIC

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MAGA

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1440

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2153 Moyer Wy

CHIC

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1,342

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1218

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1088

$204,900

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157 Picholine Wy

CHIC

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1,781

$340,000

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6084 Mason CT

MAGA

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1607

$209,500

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PARA

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1,281

$279,000

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MAGA

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1519

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576 Grand Teton Wy

CHIC

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1,332

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MAGA

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1777

$235,300

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960

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864-5552

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PARA

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1322

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HAMI

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2,500

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MAGA

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1742

$259,500

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CHIC

3/2

1,342

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321-8330

574 Castle DR

PARA

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1624

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CORN

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PARA

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1801

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CHIC

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2,411

$579,900

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546 Hillcrest DR

PARA

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2028

$379,000

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OROV

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2,312

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PARA

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2289

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CHIC

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1,810

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321-8330

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MAGA

4/3

3376

$549,900

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873-7640

2357 Florida Ln

DURH

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1,505

$240,000

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941-8800

5830 Acorn Ridge DR

PARA

4/3

2700

$599,000

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514-2901

720 W 8th Av

CHIC

3/2

3,032

$319,000

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864-5552

180 Redbud DR

PARA

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3080

$649,500

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