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ON THE COVER: PHOTO OF ELISABETH HOSSEINI COURTESY OF THE HOSSEINI FAMILY.

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Repeal and replace this Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell may have trouble wrapping his

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the party line.

A good example is our esteemed congressman, I commented to my wife, “If I were 20 years Doug LaMalfa. His motto is, “He’s one of us!” younger, I’d think about running for Congress.”

Really? I guess I have to wonder who “us” is. Is it She laughed and said, “You’d never get past the the 17 percent of the public that supports the repeal nomination for primaries!” of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act? I asked why.

LaMalfa has repeatedly voted to “Two reasons,” eliminate it. Or maybe it’s the 34 she said. “First, you His motto percent who approve of Trump’s would answer queshandling of the Oval Office? tions based on your is, “He’s LaMalfa tends to support everyknowledge of the thing done by the president. facts, not on what one of us!”

Maybe it’s the 35 percent you believed the Really? I who support a wall between the questioner wanted and Mexico that President to hear. guess I have U.S. by Trump also wants us to pay for?

“And secondly, Dean Carrier Or perhaps it’s the 29 percent who to wonder when they asked you The author, a Paradise to reduce taxes on the wealthy what church you resident, is a wildlife who “us” is. want and increase them for the lowerattended, you’d tell biologist with 50 years income groups? them that was not a of field experience.

Then there’s his brave stand political issue.” beside the 3 percent of climatological scientists who I guess she’s right. But I’m question whether we are experiencing global warmstill mystified as to why many ing, as opposed to the 97 percent who say we are. of those we do elect get by with never answering Quite a guy, that Doug. But I’ll bet he hangs on questions or voting in favor of the people they in 2018. Because, you know, “He’s one of us!” Ω purportedly represent, as opposed to following

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head around the number 22 million, but at least he understands the number 50 when it comes to the Obamacare repeal he tried to steamroll to passage this week.

McConnell unveiled his chamber’s version of the American Health Care Act, which a dozen Republicans drafted in secret, last Thursday (June 22).

Monday, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office released its analysis, concluding that nearly as many Americans would lose coverage under the Senate’s bill as the House’s—22 million versus 23 million in the next decade—and that while funding cuts would come more gradually under the Better Care Reconciliation Act, the cuts will be deeper.

GOP policy on health care does not have popular support in any state.

Polls put the favorability rating at around 20 percent nationally. Yet, McConnell was adamant about holding a vote today (June 27) … until Republican senators balked under pressure. Dean Heller of Nevada and Susan Collins of Maine said Monday that they’d vote no; McConnell could afford no more defections, and Tuesday three others said they’d delay debating the bill as written. Now, the vote won’t happen until after the July 4 recess.

After the setback, McConnell told reporters that GOP leaders were “still working to get 50 people in a more comfortable place [on] a very complicated subject.” At least 22 million people hope he finds a new place of comfort.

If the American Health Care Act is “mean”—to quote President Trump’s description of it—then the Better Care Reconciliation Act is cruel. Rather than lift off a bandage quickly, it picks at a scab slowly, causing more pain and greater risk of harm. That both bills do so while cutting taxes for the most wealthy, in the face of opposition across party lines, makes this plan all the more objectionable.

Repeal and replace the GOP health plan. Ω

For the record When it comes to Oroville Dam, the state Department of Water Resources

has been anything but forthcoming in response to California Public Records Act requests. Chico-based advocacy nonprofit AquAlliance sued DWR for documentation relating to asbestos that may have been uncovered during a break in the main spillway (see “Dam records sought,” Downstroke, June 15). Meanwhile, DWR has stymied area media, stalling in many cases and blacking out large sections of documents the agency does release.

The CPRA holds that government documents belong to the people and must be surrendered promptly when requested. However, journalists long have known that public agencies are slow to respond and reluctant to release documents that may be embarrassing.

Problem is, the CPRA has no teeth. There are no penalties for failing to comply with its provisions.

A bill recently passed in the Assembly, AB 1479, would give public entities an incentive to obey the law. It would allow a judge to levy a penalty of up to $5,000 against any agency that flagrantly violates the CPRA by withholding records, unreasonably delaying their release, charging excessive fees for duplication or simply acting in bad faith.

The bill has the support of the ACLU, First Amendment groups and newspapers up and down the state. Some cities and counties complain about the penalty’s cost, but of course there would be no cost if they obeyed the law.

The imbroglio in D.C. reminds us repeatedly of the importance of a free press. Apropos of this, the Trump White House got sued last Thursday (June 22) for allegedly violating the Presidential Records Act with widespread use of encrypted internal communications, thereby preventing a meaningful archive for the public.

The California Senate should pass AB 1479, and the governor should sign it. Now is a good time to strengthen the Public Records Act. Ω

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aunt alice I couldn’t get through this week’s cover story without crying, and I’m certain many readers will have the same reaction. The heartbreaking piece by one of my News & Review colleagues, Raheem F. Hosseini, is about his mother’s attempts to get through the bureaucratic red tape surrounding California’s aid-in-dying law, the End of Life Option Act. That legislation was intended to alleviate the suffering of terminally ill patients who want to end their lives on their own terms. It allows physicians to prescribe to qualified patients—those with less than six months to live who are deemed mentally competent—a lethal dose of medication. But medical professionals aren’t mandated to participate, and there’s an issue with buy-in. Without it, people who would otherwise ingest medication and pass away peacefully will end up dying in anguish.

We don’t like to talk about it, or even think about it, but death is a certainty for all of us. For those facing that inevitability sooner, the aid-in-dying law is a comforting prospect. A report released this week by the state Department of Public Health reveals that 111 Californians had ended their lives through the End of Life Option Act between June 9, 2016, when the law went into effect, and Dec. 31.

It’s disappointing that Butte County apparently is letting down the residents who would choose a medically assisted death (not a single one of our major medical providers is a participant). My hope is that, as time passes, qualified local health practitioners will get on board.

Perhaps stories like Raheem’s will aid in that effort. It certainly struck a chord with me. Not only is the piece beautifully written, but it also reminds me of the passing of a loved one who succumbed to a rare gastrointestinal cancer 11 years ago at the age of 53.

Aunt Alice was the picture of health prior to her diagnosis: She worked out religiously, didn’t drink and ate healthfully. On top of that, she was one of the most thoughtful people I’ve ever known. My aunt never forgot a family member or friend’s birthday, anniversary or graduation—a card would invariably show up days in advance.

It made no sense that she would wind up with cancer.

In the context of that terrible diagnosis, my aunt’s otherwise healthy body held on for a long time. The last time I saw her, I couldn’t fathom how she was sustaining life—her tiny body, wracked by the disease, was a shell. I barely recognized her, but did my best to keep it together.

I’ll never forget her asking me if I’d brought my boyfriend with me. She’d heard about Matt, my now-husband, and desperately wanted to meet the guy she hoped would be “the one.” Matt and I had been dating for only a few months, not nearly long enough to ask him to accompany me on a visit with a terminally ill relative.

“Next time,” I told her before I left, though that pledge rang hollow considering the circumstances.

Aunt Alice passed away as my brother and I raced south on Highway 99 to her home in the Central Valley to try to say a last goodbye.

Over the weeks that followed, my mother shared with me some of the details about her final days and hours that I will never forget. It was a brutal exit for her and those who loved her.

I don’t know if my aunt would have opted for a medically assisted death, but I wish she’d had the option.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Notes on the council Re “Elections for sale” (Newslines, June 22) and “Three strikes” (Second & Flume, June 22): Great coverage of the campaign finance issue by Howard Hardee and Melissa Daugherty. A crap storm, boiling down to this: Mayor Sean Morgan’s campaign coffers have been filled by developers and landlords from day one. In effect, Morgan believes the rich should exert political influence proportional to their net worth. This we call plutocracy.

On the other hand, no mention was made of item 1.7, the presentation of the Point-in-Time homeless survey by Sherisse Allen and Laura Cootsona.

Both did a great job, especially in responding to objections transparently cooked up to undermine a highly credible study. Predictably, Councilwoman Reanette “I stepped in shit” Fillmer succeeded mainly in reminding us of her mathematical limitations.

As to Hardee’s reference to my contribution to the evening’s entertainment: My prepared remarks would have fallen within the time limit, had I not been interrupted by Councilman Andrew Coolidge. And, what’s with Morgan hollering, “Chief! Chief!”?

Was Mike O’Brien supposed to tase me for going 10 seconds over Morgan’s conjured-up deadline?

All that aside, we should bear in mind that this council has an execrable and deeply embarrassing record on all homeless issues and basic services for the poor. It’s time we engage.

Patrick Newman Chico

We stand at a crossroads in Chico politics. Will the future of our community be determined by the will of the people or the power of large political donors?

A case in point: The 2016 City Council elections. Sean Morgan received $64,000 from individual contributors and $31,000 from two PACs funded primarily by real estate, developer, banking and tea party dollars. He came in 231 votes ahead of Ann Schwab, who raised and spent $27,000.

Morgan received 29 maximum limit $500 checks. From January to June 2016, only one of his 35 contributions was under $100. Meanwhile, Schwab received $22,500 from LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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She received four maximum limit $500 checks from January to June 2016, and 25 of her 45 contributions were under $100.

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Paul Friedlander Chico

After attending my first Chico City Council meeting on Tuesday (June 20), I was inspired to write the following poem: Active Listening In Council Chambers, safe from the heat, Vice Mayor Fillmer whispers when the public speaks. She whispers to Mayor Morgan on the left and Mr. Sorensen on the right. From homelessness to campaign financing, she whispers all night.

Vice Mayor Fillmer, do you not know your whispering distracts from the star of the show? The public speaks to inform you. But, when you are whispering, you are not listening. As our representative, you must be more attentive. Stop whispering and listen when the public speaks.

April Pearce Chico

Three on the commentary Re “CSU must return to its core mission” (Guest comment, by Susanna Boxall, June 22): Thank you, Susanna Boxall, for your guest comment regarding CSUC’s underpaid faculty, job insecurity and the struggles of lowincome students.

Since the beginning of the Reagan era, quality of life has diminished for all workers. More hours, less pay, more stress. Half of Americans are now dead broke.

It’s no surprise employees are abused in our public university system.

The number of underpaid, part-time faculty positions greatly increased in the wake of Proposition 13, which destabilized California’s budget. Making future employment uncertain, semester by semester, adds yet another injury.

The fact that students suffer in this system, unable to rely on class schedules (while going deeper into student debt), is outrageous.

From a cynic’s perspective, it makes sense that a corporation like Walmart wants to squeeze its employees. But why must our public institutions descend to the same lack of standards?

Hilary Locke Chico

California already has fallen off into the ocean as far as education goes: We’re ranked only 42nd out of the 50 states in education.

I warned folks for decades, but nobody listened. I remember when I warned that boys were being shunted out of education, and I was right; only 40 percent of college students now are male.

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Susanna Boxall’s guest comment was so infinitely better written and reasoned than the boilerplate routinely issued by the managerial class at CSUC, from the president down, that it demands respect.

As former longtime tenured faculty and briefly (to my great misery) manager, I cannot emphasize enough the importance of the work done by our cheap adjunct faculty, or our shame in exploiting them. But what to do when few students and even fewer parents desire instruction in philosophy, history, literature or indeed anything very worthwhile? Who pays the piper?

Carl Peterson Paradise

Talking about dark money The U.S. Chamber of Commerce was the largest nondisclosing “dark money” 501(c)(6) contributor in Senate races for 2016. These groups don’t disclose where they get their money. They donated exclusively to Republicans and spent $26 million in 10 Senate races, $30 million total in congressional races. They were second only to the NRA in spending in

2016, and first in spending on congressional races, outspending No. 2 by $15 million, according to Public Citizen (www.citizen.org).

This shows local members who believe they are members of a nonpartisan group how partisan the U.S. Chamber is. The senators you helped support are now ripping up the ACA and trying to replace it with a tax break for the wealthiest in the country and a “mean” take away of Medicaid and Medicare for the rest of us.

Ten of the 13 senators doing this in secret are beneficiaries of the Chamber’s $26 million.

Local members should remember business isn’t an inherently partisan endeavor, and at least half of all consumers are likely to disagree with much of the Chamber’s agenda. Why should companies continue to fund an organization that places partisan interests above business interests and risks alienating a good part of their customer base?

Rich Meyers Oroville

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE PhilliPs family files claim

The family of Desmond Phillips—the 25-year-old black man shot to death by Chico police officers during a mental health episode March 17—has filed a wrongful death claim against the city.

The claim, filed June 8, alleges responding officers used “negligent police tactics” during the fatal encounter. District Attorney Michael Ramsey declared the shooting justified in April.

According to state law, a wrongful death claim must be filed before a wrongful death lawsuit.

In related news, USA Today ran an essay about the killing by Desmond’s father, David Phillips, online June 18. It links to a petition calling for an independent investigation by state Attorney General Xavier Becerra, which has more than 48,000 signatures.

Bidding on betterment

Guns in Green sPaces?

After hours of discussion that included more than a dozen members of the public voicing opposition to a proposal to convert the city’s existing park rangers into so-called sworn rangers, the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission voted 4-3 in favor of a hybrid option that leaves one traditional ranger position intact.

Under that plan, two of the three rangers would go through police academy training and be managed by the Chico Police Department.

They would carry firearms and be responsible for enforcement in the city’s green spaces.

The third position would remain under the supervision of the city’s Public Works Department and continue typical ranger duties, including education and interpretation.

The commission’s vote is not definitive, but rather a recommendation to the City Council, which is expected to take up the issue before the end of the summer.

field(s) of dreams

Envisioning facilities and amenities for youth sports that serve as a magnet for tourism and economic development, the nonprofit Everybody, Healthy Body (EBHB) pitched a Chico sports complex Monday afternoon (June 26) to 75 stakeholders at Lakeside Pavilion.

Members of the group said they have a purchase agreement in place through 2017 for 264 acres between Skyway and Highway 99 at $1.6 million—about $6,060 per acre, a fraction of local land cost. The complex, which the group would not own or operate, would be built in phases.

Members told the CN&R that funding would come via “private-public partnerships” but not bonds nor from city or county coffers.

Jovanni Tricerri (pictured) is project coordinator for EBHB, which has retained a Baltimore-based fields firm, Sports Force, for initial studies. The nonprofit’s initial fundraising push is $150,000.

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Downtown advocates take initiative— and vote—to clean up city center

ADiGiovanni home for the past 29 years, Tom has an abiding connection to— s a Boston native who’s called Chico

and concern for—the heart of the city.

“Downtown is in my by DNA,” DiGiovanni said Ken Smith Monday (June 26) at kens @ the office of New Urban n ew srev i ew. c o m Builders, the development company he runs. “I’ve Heads up: always gravitated toward The chico city council the vibe and offerings of meeting that includes downtown areas, and the the PBid is 6 p.m. civic and social engagement Wednesday (July 5), they provide.” not Tuesday, because But DiGiovanni’s love of independence day. of Chico’s city center isn’t blind. He’s seen the area’s fortunes rise and fall over the years, with the last decade marked mostly by decline.

He and a group of business advocates have proposed a plan to address cleanliness, safety and economic development in downtown Chico through the formation of a property-based improvement district (PBID). In mid-May, property owners within the proposed PBID area received ballots, which must be turned in by Wednesday (July 5). The ballots will be counted at the Chico City Council meeting that night.

Though the effort has already received a nod from the city, the vote is far from a slam dunk, as some property owners have expressed concerns over who will make up the PBID’s governing board and other details.

A PBID is an area in which property owners pay a self-imposed assessment, with the funds dedicated to the management and improvement of the area. In Chico’s case, it includes 323 commercial and residential properties in two zones encompassing roughly 45 blocks. Those properties are owned by about 180 people and entities, each with a weighted vote determined by how much they will pay in annual assessments if the PBID is approved.

Assessments are calculated according to location and square footage of properties and buildings. DiGiovanni said that, minus the single largest and smallest contributors, assessments average $2,242 a year. The total amount raised each year is projected to be around $450,000.

DiGiovanni said the bulk of PBID payments will go toward making downtown “clean and safe,” primarily via an ambassador program and clean-up brigade.

Ambassadors would serve as guides and “eyes on the street” to help visitors and report crimes to Chico police; the PBID

will fund between 200 and 240 man hours to pay them and other staff focused on clean-up, including pressure washing storefronts and sidewalks.

If that sounds familiar, it’s because for the past two years the DCBA has been running a Clean and Safe program, which was itself based on an earlier initiative called R-Town.

R-Town was formed during the 2014 holiday season, when some downtown business owners raised about $65,000 to help fund volunteer ambassador and clean-up programs, as well as hire armed security guards to patrol downtown. The DCBA has raised money since to keep a slimmed-down effort going, with security on-call to its members.

“The Clean and Safe effort was admirable but insufficient for the task,” DiGiovanni said. “The DCBA was out there hat-in-hand trying to raise funds for it every year, but I don’t believe it ever amounted to more than $50,000 a year.

That money was from the same few folks pitching in every year.

“The [PBID] mechanism ensures those responsibilities are more rationally distributed and equitably worn.”

DiGiovanni said that it’s “highly unlikely” that PBID money will be used for secu-

Tom DiGiovanni outside his office on Flume Street.

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rity: “Our steering group has analyzed the best practices employed by other PBIDs across the country, and in those, armed security is not part of the picture.”

An anonymous letter criticizing the PBID

plan was mailed to potential members in late May, and DiGiovanni mailed a response countering the letter’s claims June 5. Other critics have been more open with their opposition.

“I believe that the property owners that have put together the PBID have great intentions,” said Teri DuBose of Broadway Pawn. “We all want to clean up our downtown and reduce crime so that the citizens will come enjoy it and feel safe. We just have different thoughts on how to obtain that.

“I voted no on the PBID,” she continued. “We already pay taxes for the services that the PBID is offering.…

Perhaps there could be more discussion about the details of the PBID, but at this time there are too many questions.”

Dubose’s questions include what staff will be hired and how security will function.

DiGiovanni said some of the finer details still need to be worked out, which will be done with the input of members and experts who’ve been involved in similar projects in other cities. There are more than 100 PBIDs operating in California, and more nationwide.

One such expert is Michael Ault, executive director of the Downtown Sacramento Partnership—the country’s first PBID, founded in 1995. That effort started with a clean-and-safe focus similar to the current local attempt; it has grown into a $6 million-a-year organization with 70 employees and wideranging business services.

Ault noted PBIDs—Chico’s included—must be reviewed and re-voted upon five years after they’re formed; they can be extended by five- or 10-year increments. He said the Sacramento PBID started with a 65 percent majority, and 90 percent voted in favor of a 10-year extension in 2016. Ault visited Chico earlier this month and said he believes the local downtown would benefit greatly from a PBID plan.

“This could give property owners and business people in Chico a real, direct opportunity to control their own destiny,” he said. “It’s very uncommon for PBIDs to not have a significant, positive impact.” Ω

Austerity wins, programs lose Boys and Girls Club, Chico library hit by cuts in Butte County’s 2017-18 budget familiar story: In the recovery since the FGreat Recession, Butte County has found or those who follow local politics, it’s a

more stable financial footing—but the longterm outlook is alarming.

“We’ve been able to come back from those years of pain,” said Paul Hahn, the county’s chief administrative officer. “Yet, it seems like no matter how much progress we make, every year we get new roadblocks in our way.”

Hahn was addressing the Butte County Board of Supervisors during the panel’s budget session on Tuesday (June 27). He outlined how the county’s CalPERS pension obligations are projected to increase sharply over the next several years. Likewise, the county is expected to pay a greater share of In-Home Supportive Services—currently funded by the state—to the tune of millions of dollars. Costs associated with Cal Fire contracts and operating the new jail facility also represent challenges moving forward.

Spending will outstrip revenue starting next fiscal year, according to the county’s

projections. If the underlying assumptions don’t change, the county will face a $4.7 million general fund deficit by fiscal year 2021-22.

“As a result, the budget being presented to you today is pretty austere in its recommendations,” Hahn said.

Indeed, the $536.5 million 2017-18 budget represents a 0.2 percent decrease from last year. It eliminates 86 positions, including a total of 62 from the departments of Employment and Social Services and Behavioral Health. The vast majority of those positions are allocated but unfilled, Hahn said, adding that a handful of employees may lose their jobs.

SIFT ER Proud to be American! Sorta ...

As we approach Independence Day, most Americans retain national pride—but when it comes to the U.S. government, that’s a whole other story. Gallup recently conducted a survey asking people to list the nation’s most important problem. Dissatisfaction with government and/or leadership ranked first at 25 percent; no other issue came in at more than 8 percent (see list). Meanwhile, in the most recent Gallup poll on patriotism, 75 percent of Americans responded that they’re extremely proud or very proud of the country. That’s a new low, dragged down by a 67 percent favorability from Democrats and 73 percent from independents versus 92 percent from Republicans.

Top U.S. problem Government . . . 25% Terrorism . . . . . . . 8% Health care . . . . . 7% Economy. . . . . . . . 6% Race. . . . . . . . . . . . 6% Disunity . . . . . . . . 6%

Paul Hahn, Butte County’s chief administrative officer, said Tuesday (June 27), “We don’t have the resources to help everyone we want to.”

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The budget provides $580,000 to operate

rural fire stations in Stirling City, Jarbo Gap and Berry Creek. During a meeting on April 25, Hahn recommended closing the so-called Amador stations during the off-season, from November to May, but the supervisors voted to keep the three stations open year-round. (About a month later, they voted to close Butte County Fire Station 42 in north Chico.)

As Hahn explained to the CN&R following the meeting, funding the Amador stations created “a hole in the budget” that was filled partially at the expense of community programs such as the Boys and Girls Clubs of the North Valley and the Chico branch of the Butte County Public Library.

The Boys and Girls Club had a contract with the county’s probation department for $240,000 to support youth crimeprevention and intervention efforts. The proposed 2017-18 budget cut that funding by $186,000, which likely would result in layoffs of 10 staff members throughout the county, said Rashell Brobst, CEO of the Boys and Girls Club. More critically, about 200 youth would be turned away from the organization’s after-school programs.

“We get the throwaway kids that nobody wants,” she told the supervisors. “We get the kids who are kicked out of every single program and we work with them. We never, ever expel a child. … Nobody else does what we do.”

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that would shield such communications. his week’s Eye on 45, the 11th installment of The same day, The Associated Press reports CN&R’s biweekly feature, begins on the Monday that POTUS referred to the House bill to repeal and following former FBI Director James Comey’s testireplace the Patient Protection and Affordable Care mony before the Senate Intelligence Committee—the Act (aka Obamacare) as “mean.” apex thus far of the investigation into the Trump Meanwhile, according to ProPublica, Marc team’s potential role in Russia’s interference into Kasowitz, the president’s personal the 2016 general election. attorney, bragged to friends that he June 12: The Washington Post was instrumental in Bharara’s firing. reports that, a few days before Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ June 14: The Washington Post scheduled testimony before the reports that Mueller, the special Senate Intelligence Committee, the counsel, is investigating Trump for Justice Department argued that obstruction of justice. it’s OK for the president’s busiThe New York Times reports that nesses to take in money from forthe so-called American Health Care eign governments. The DOJ’s posiAct is so unpopular that is not suption is a defense for the charges ported by any state in the nation.

Trump faces under the so-called In fact, as the Times put it, “[the emoluments clause. proposed legislation] is the most During an interview on ABC’s unpopular piece of major legislation Congress has considered in decades This Week, Preet Bharara, a forAttorney General Jeff Sessions … and much more unpopular than mer federal prosecutor whom PHOTO BY GAGE SKIDMORE VIA FLICKR the [ACA].”

Trump cut loose a few months into Bloomberg reports that POTUS revised the lanhis presidency, told reporters he had a story eerily guage of his languishing proposed 90-day travel similar to the one Comey laid out during testimony ban—a prohibition on entry to the U.S. from certain the previous week—that, as The New York Times foreign nations, mostly Muslim-majority counput it, “Trump tried to cultivate a relationship with tries—because that three-month period would have [Bharara] in the months before he was abruptly expired on June 15. fired in March.”

CNN Money reports that Trump earned an “F” Bharara described a meeting with the then-Presiin a survey administered at Yale’s CEO Summit, an dent-elect at Trump Tower, followed by several phone event attended by CEOs, government officials, acacalls in which the president made small talk. After the demics and other conservative heavy hitters. last missed call, which Bharara did not return and instead informed the DOJ about, he was abruptly fired.

June 16: The Washington Post reports that Mueller’s In a new poll, by Public Policy Polling, 49 percent of investigation now includes Trump’s son-in-law, Jared American voters say they believe the president comKushner—specifically, Kushner’s business affairs. mitted obstruction of justice; 37 percent think he’s Meanwhile, The New York Times reports that honest; a majority (53 percent) say Trump’s a liar; Trump family event planner Lynne Patton has been and 47 percent want him impeached. tapped to lead the New York/New Jersey regional office of the Department of Housing and Urban June 13: The New York Times reports that Trump is Development. Patton has worked for Housing considering firing Robert Mueller, the special counsel Secretary Ben Carson for a few months, but prior who’s leading the independent investigation into the to that had no experience in the realm.

Trump campaign’s alleged ties to Russia. The revelaUnder Trump, the Pentagon will send upward of tion came from Trump ally Christopher Ruddy, CEO of 4,000 additional troops to Afghanistan to battle the Newsmax Media, a conservative media company.

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The biggest news of the day was Sessions’ sometimes contentious testimony during a meetJune 22: Senate Republicans release their ing of the Senate Intelligence Committee. Sessions 142-page health care bill, the so-called Better Care fervently denied colluding with the Russians; denied Reconciliation Act, revealing a plan that would gut meeting with Sergey Kislyak, the Russian ambasMedicaid and many of the patient services mansador, in April 2016; and countered certain aspects dated under the ACA, including mental health treatof Comey’s recent testimony—specifically, the forment, and eliminate coverage for tens of millions. mer FBI director’s allegation that, as the Times put However, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell it, Sessions “had not responded when Mr. Comey found immediate pushback from within his party. asked him not to leave him alone with Mr. Trump Despite what he’d implied on Twitter weeks earagain.” The attorney general charges he agreed that lier, Trump tweets that he didn’t tape his conversathe FBI and DOJ needed “to follow follow departtions with Comey. ment policies regarding appropriate contacts with June 23: An NBC/Wall Street Journal poll reveals the White House.” that Americans, by a 2-to-1 margin, believe Comey Sessions would not repeat the conversations he over Trump in regard to the events leading to the engaged in with Trump about the Russia probe and former FBI director’s firing.

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Former Chico Police Chief Bruce Hagerty argued that the youth programs produce lawabiding citizens. “There is no better crime prevention program on the planet,” he said.

Steven Bordin, the county’s chief probation officer, explained that his department must direct its limited resources toward presentday criminals.

“Right now, I have almost 2,400 adult felons on probation that I have to supervise,” he said.

“If I do not supervise them properly, they have a 45 percent recidivism rate. I’m asking you, please, follow [Hahn’s] recommendations and allow me to come back to you in 60 days with an alternative to mitigate this reduction to the Boys and Girls Club.”

District 3 Supervisor Maureen Kirk made a motion to provide the probation department with $45,000 of contingency funds to support the Boys and Girls Club for a few months. That failed by a 2-2 vote. (District 5 Supervisor Doug Teeter recused himself from the discussion because his wife’s business contracts with the Boys and Girls Club.)

District 1 Supervisor Bill Connelly countered with a motion to make the cut and direct Bordin to draft a proposal for restructuring the county’s relationship with the nonprofit organization. That passed unanimously.

“I’ll say ‘aye,’ but I don’t like it,” Kirk said.

Next on the chopping block was the Chico library. As proposed, the budget cut $60,000 from the library, which would force it to close on Mondays.

Larry Wahl made a motion to preserve the library’s hours as well as staffing at Fire Station 42 in north Chico, which drew a second from Kirk.

Their colleagues balked at “spending money we don’t have,” as District 4 Supervisor Steve Lambert put it. The motion failed by a 3-to-2 vote.

Lambert made a motion to pass the 2017-18 budget as recommended. That passed 3-2, with Chico’s Wahl and Kirk opposing.

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Nursing requires a or exhausted you A good nurse range of aptitudes and might be. elements of personal Beyond all of is infinitely character that extend far that, there is the what training physical immediacy more noble than beyond can implant. The ability of giving care to to provide care, even to people who are sick, lots of other those we love, takes us the blood and bodily to the far frontiers of fluids, the pus, the categories of love, devotion, patience, coughs and sneezes that generally seem Homo sapiens kindness and empathy.

I’ve been a nurse to my repellent or threatening to most people. that spring to own beloved wife for months, and if this job Nurses are exposed was about the money, to possible contamind.

I’d have quit by now gions during every because it’s too demandshift they work, and ing to make any amount of money quite they often leave their own sick kids or enough. spouses at home to take care of other So this essay is for the earthly angels people’s kids and spouses. who come off their shifts exhausted, This is not a job anyone would do having seen more human suffering in a solely for a paycheck. The work is hard, month than most people see in a lifetime, but the caring is harder. Choosing nurswho bear witness to the sorrows and the ing with salary as a first priority would sufferings to which all flesh is heir but not pan out or pay off even in places resist becoming inured to it, resist what where the pay was good, which is not a given. Anyone motivated to go into nurs- must surely be an ongoing temptation to harden their hearts or shield their souls. ing solely by pecuniary interests could Bless those hearts and souls. never hope to be good at it, anyway. Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Wellness in a pot It’s common knowledge that getting out in nature—interacting with plants and trees—is good for human health. But what about bringing a little of the great outdoors inside? There’s evidence that indoor plants have benefits as well, such as: • Improving indoor air quality. As NASA discovered by researching whether plants could detoxify the air in its space stations, numerous types of indoor plants effectively remove formaldehyde, benzene and other pollutants from air. The common spider plant and golden pothos were found to be particularly effective.

• Boosting mood and productivity. A 2014 study published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology found that concentration, productivity and job satisfaction are higher in workplaces with plenty of plants.

• Aiding in healing. Numerous studies show that hospital patients who receive plants and flowers have more positive outcomes following surgery.

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This is an abridged version of the full story, which can be found at CALmatters.org. CALmatters is an independent public journalism venture covering California state politics and government.

Foam fight Activists go local as legislators balk at state ban

Polystyrene easily becomes litter.

PhoTo iLLuSTrATion by TinA FLynn

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Lauren Rosenhall

Fplastic eventually could go the way of the flimsy shopping bag: banned. oam burger boxes and ice cream cups

tant who tracks ordinances common across California cities.

More than 100 cities and counties in California already have outlawed foam food packaging, a trend that is likely to grow— and as local governments make up their own rules, pressure will mount on the Legislature to create a uniform policy throughout the state.

It’s a playbook environmentalists used effectively when they lobbied for a ban on plastic bags.

It’s not likely to happen this year— environmentalists who’ve pushed for a ban lost a big fight last month when the Legislature voted down Senate Bill 705, which would have banned foam takeout containers statewide.

Year after year, the Legislature rejected a But growing pressure from communities statewide ban on plastic shopping bags. So that are passing bans could be a game changthe green campaign went local, eventually er in the future, as environmentalists continue persuading so many California cities to adopt to make the case that the foam plastic known some type of plastic bag ban that, by 2014, as polystyrene is associated with myriad ecothe Legislature was compelled to act. logical hazards.

Suddenly grocery stores that previously • It doesn’t biodegrade. opposed a statewide plastic bag ban made a • It easily becomes litter because it’s so light. deal to support it by collecting 10-cent fees for paper shopping bags, arguing that the • It breaks down into small plastic bits that hodgepodge of local rules made business flow into waterways and harm wildlife. difficult for store owners and confusing for With inaction in the state Capitol, the shoppers. environmentalists’ war on plastic turns to cit“It was intentional to create a patchwork ies and counties. of local policies as a means of motivating “That is going to be a continuing strategy opponents to come together and find a statefor interests that don’t have the muscle to wide solution,” said Mark Murray, execugo to the Legislature or the tive director of Californians money to go to the statewide Against Waste, an environballot. They are increasingly mental advocacy group that Local ordinances: going to go to local governbacked the plastic bag ban.

Though 108 jurisdictions statewide ments,” said Mike Madrid, a The push to get local govhave polystyrene bans, none is in Republican political consulthe northern Sacramento Valley. ernments to ban polystyrene

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is inspired by the success of the plastic bag ban, Murray said, but is not a centralized effort.

“It’s no longer something we can completely control,” he said. “You start things going, but then local activists, community groups that become passionate, take it over and they make it their own.”

Polystyrene bans are not the same from city to city. Some ban the product only at government facilities. Some ban it only at restaurants. Some include retail products like foam coolers, packing material or pool toys.

It causes headaches for restaurant owners who have a few locations in different cities, said Matthew Sutton, a lobbyist for the California Restaurant Association. His group would like to see the rules streamlined across the state, but it opposed the bill to ban polystyrene. Restaurants like using the product, he said, because it’s good for food with heavy sauces.

“Let’s increase and expand the infrastructure for recycling—not pick and choose products to ban,” Sutton said.

A report by the state’s Environmental

Protection Agency draws a distinction between plastic bag bans and foam container bans. Bag bans result in less trash because people instead use reusable shopping bags, the report said, while foam container bans would just force businesses to switch to another kind of disposable carton.

Those other containers are more expensive. Hard plastic containers cost 84 percent

more than foam, and compostable paper containers cost 145 percent more, according to research by the California Restaurant Association.

Bills to restrict the kinds of disposable food packaging used in California have failed a half-dozen times in the last decade.

Marce Gutierrez-Graudins, an environmental advocate who supported SB 705, said she doesn’t think the Legislature will approve a statewide ban on polystyrene until environmentalists engage more Latino communities in supporting the policy. Polling shows Latinos are concerned about plastic litter they see in urban parks and waterways, Gutierrez said. The bill’s proponents fell short, she thinks, by publicizing it in elite coastal cities rather than building support across a broader swath of the state.

Next up, will California consider a ban on plastic drinking straws? No bills have been introduced in the state Capitol, but Santa Cruz County already has banned them, and some of the cities that were first to ban polystyrene now are discussing their own restrictions on straws. Ω

ECO EVENT FROLIC IN THE MEADOWS Hike the cool climes of Jonesville on Sunday (July 2) with the Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society.

Expect to see wetland flowers like camas, leopard lilies, little elephant heads and more on this walk through meadows at an elevation of 4,800 feet. Meet at the Chico Park and Ride on Highway 32 at 9 a.m.

Bring suitable footwear—the hike will get marshy—as well as lunch, water, sun/ insect protection and money for ride sharing. Call Janna Lathrop at 228-0010 for more information.

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Kerri Bell grew up in Chico and has fond memories of eating at Sultan’s Bistro when it first opened over a decade ago. She was working at Big Al’s Drive-In then, but eventually she made her way down The Esplanade and into the Phoenix Building, where she served gyros and dolmas to eager customers for about four years. “I always joked that I was gonna buy this place someday,” she said, smiling. She took a break from food service to run a house cleaning business for a few years, and her former bosses approached her when they were ready to sell Sultan’s—“because they saw my passion.” Bell has been the proud proprietor since January. Six months later, a period in which she cleaned up the place and repaired equipment, Bell opened for business earlier this month with her sole employee, longtime friend Samantha Bill. Sultan’s is open 11 a.m.-9 p.m., MondaySaturday, at 300 Broadway.

Don’t be surprised if there are belly dancers on weekends.

Everything. I loved this place when it was the original. So, I called Sandy and Yildirim [Karatekeli], the original owners, and these were their family recipes. So, I got everything back to the original. Sandy and Yildirim came in and tasted my food and were like, “Oh my God, this is good!” and I’m like, “I nailed it!”

What inspired you to buy Sultan’s?

What else sets you apart?

I just fell in love. How could

I love that we’re vegan-friendly.

you not love this—I mean, the kitchen is right here, I get to interact with everyone. I don’t have to be in the back. And it’s fun because these workers [at Jon and Bon’s], we were just joking that it feels like we all work here together, and yet we’re separate businesses. You’re never bored. And we’re making it more lively. We want to bring in belly dancers. We want to be the heartbeat.

So, you bought all the recipes?

Not a lot of restaurants cater at all to vegans, and we do.

What’s your favorite item on the menu?

My favorite thing is the chicken and rice plate. I love the hot sauce and house dressing all over it. And our french fries. I should say the beef and lamb is my favorite—it’s really rich, though.

So, now that you’re open, how are you feeling?

I love it. I’m so happy I’m here.

But, this is just the beginning. I’m going to do the tapestries, the lighting, the music—everything.

I can’t wait for it all to fall into place. The future goal for this is … I think this is the perfect little place to franchise out. So, hopefully, if it goes well, that’s what I’ll do: I’ll franchise it out.

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I’ve been eagerly awaiting the unveiling of Explore Butte County’s plan for marketing our region as a tourist destination, and that finally happened last Wednesday (June 21). After about a year and a half in the getting-it-together phase, during which a board was assembled, a direction chosen, a marketing company hired— now it’s live, and already I’m hearing mixed reviews.

At Wednesday’s presentation in the Sierra Nevada Big Room, representatives from Explore Butte County—which is a nonprofit—explained how the process of branding Butte County evolved. Basically, in November 2015, hotels throughout the county were asked to join a Tourism Business Improvement District and collect an extra 2 percent of short-term room revenues. Sixty percent in any municipality had to say yes for the whole city to sign on. This led to a weird thing—Gridley’s hotels didn’t bite, so Gridley is strangely absent from Explore Butte County (perspective: Cohasset and Forbestown are on the list, as part of unincorporated Butte County).

I liked and identified with a lot of the messages put forth. As far as branding Butte County, for instance, the marketing team used descriptors like “laid back,” “unpretentious” and “friendly.” Right on. They also identified five target “personas.”

These mostly fit for me: the casual adventurer, the college connection, the getaway artist, the beer lover and the agriculture/local food lover.

The last two, in my opinion, should probably be one. I get it. We have Sierra Nevada. It’s awesome. We also have a handful of other breweries, but some of them are so new, nobody could even think of their names when asked to write them on an inspiration board in the lobby. Did I bring my family to SN when they visited? Hell yeah. Do I consider Butte County a place to market to beer lovers? Not yet.

The website promises big things, but clearly it’s still a work in progress. The first indication of that was Googling “Explore Butte County” and not finding explore buttecounty.com. Then, the businesses included on the site’s map are a strange lot.

Under restaurants, Cafe Malvina is listed, though Caffe Malvina went out of business in 2012. At the same time, there’s no Almendra Winery & Distillery on the winery map.

The suggested itineraries are kind of funny, too. I’m going to hold out hope that the list of attractions just hasn’t been fully populated yet and will improve with time.

Explore Butte County’s calculable goals are lofty: to increase travel spending from $271 million to $322 million in five years and to increase hotel revenues by $3.9 million in the same time. We shall see. I’m optimistic—that’s just who I am— but I also see a lot of work to be done.

Another sAd fAreweLL I heard some grumblings and then, before I could blink, Rallo’s West announced its imminent closure. I stopped by last week for a final sip of wine and tapas (mmm, bacon-wrapped scallop) and to give my condolences to the chef, Lenny Klishis. He says he’s already thinking of new things for the future— so I don’t think we’ve seen the last of him yet. (At least I hope not!)

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ast the double sets of sliding doors and a pharmacy bustling with gray-faced patients, up one floor and across from the pediatric specialties department, Elisabeth Hosseini shifts on a crepe paper mat waiting to learn how much time she has left. Sitting on an exam table, my mother gestures to a row of glass waste containers standing at attention in the corner of her oncologist’s small office.

“Those are for me,” she says, trying to lift our spirits.

Dad and I wear sandbagged expressions. We’re a tough audience.

It’s September 7, 2016. In 45 days, my mom will be gone.

But we don’t know that yet.

Elisabeth Hosseini in her least favorite place in the world: a hospital room at Kaiser Permanente.

PHOTO COURTESY OF HAMID HOSSEINI

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For almost as long as I can remember, my mother has been fighting for her life. In 1994, she was diagnosed with multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that warps the protein cells inside bone marrow like a sweeping zombie plague. The cells stop producing necessary antibodies. Bones rot and crack from the inside. Organs falter. There is no cure.

By rejecting traditional cancer treatments and embracing holistic remedies, my iron-willed German mother quadrupled the average life expectancy and confounded her physicians.

“Raheem, I will beat this,” she used to tell me, her eyes crackling with a blue-green fire. Defiance always looked so beautiful on her.

But every heroine’s story ends eventually. And while my mother had been preparing her own final chapter for years, a well-intentioned bureaucracy was about to stand in her way.

A month earlier, Mom’s cancer sank to new depths. A mysterious fluid began filling her abdomen, constricting her lungs and heart and whipsawing us into emergency rooms in search of relief and answers. Her body was taking on water like a ship with a burst hull. But the doctors didn’t know

A year after its implementation, California’s End of Life Option Act provides only patchwork relief to terminal patients

where to find the leak or what it portended.

We had our suspicions, but no one wanted to utter them. No one wanted to believe that Elisabeth Katharina Hosseini—daughter of Tornow, Germany; uniter of cultures; woman of our dreams—was mortal after all.

The door opens. Dr. Philip Sardar enters with a file folder in his hand and pinched jowls. Mom starts to ask a question about her liver, but he interjects.

“Just listen to me for a second,” the longtime Kaiser Permanente oncologist says.

Sardar says something about the yellow brine they’ve been pumping out of her, how it’s rich in protein that should be coating her blood vessels—but, instead, he says, “Your liver is weeping.”

I’ve never heard something so terrifying put so poetically.

Then Sardar breaks the news. “It’s going to be hard for you to sustain living like this for more than a few months,” he says.

I want to scoop Mom up and take us far from this hopeless world of pastel waiting areas, vampiric needles, sour smells and inscrutable terminology that never means anything until it means you’re finished. But Mom doesn’t budge. She was always the brave one.

“So how many more months is it?” she asks, point-blank.

Sardar has a hard time looking her in the eyes. He’s grown fond of this stubborn woman who never listens to him. He wants to believe she’ll prove him wrong again, like she did so many times before, he tells her. But down deep he knows better. “My concern is, no matter how strong you are, nobody can survive like this more than two, three months,” Sardar parses out gradually.

“Well, there’s the end-of-life pill, right?”

Mom says.

“Pardon?”

“You can choose end of life,” she says.

“Yes,” her doctor says.

“Because I don’t want to suffer,” my mother says.

A MOTHER’S JOURNEY Long before her myeloma crossed the terminal threshold, Mom knew how she wanted to end her life. She spoke often and clearly about her desire for a medically assisted death that was both quick and painless.

In March 2014, for instance, right before

Hamid Hosseini inventories $5,000 worth of unused vitamin supplements, balms and teas—his wife’s last, desperate attempt at a natural cure.

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being told her latest bone marrow exam indicated her “smoldering” myeloma had reached a feverish tipping point, Mom mused on the distance between her home in Folsom and Washington and Oregon, the nearest states with medical suicide laws at the time.

“That’s a long journey,” she observed.

“Wow.” When she later learned that those states required at least six months of residency before a patient would even be considered eligible, she was deflated. “Furchtbar,” she said in German. “Terrible.”

Some time later, I dropped by to check on Mom before heading to work. Her immune system had long abandoned her. Pneumonia visited her as often as the common cold.

Confined to her bed, my mother confessed that her sister Ellen was socking away sleeping pills on her behalf. “I can’t do it anymore,” she cried helplessly.

“I know, Mom, I know,” I said.

Grieving there together, Mom promised there would be a party. The guest list would be exclusive: the little sister she followed to America; the son she brought across the Atlantic; the Iranian husband who cracked through her armor; and the two boys they made together. I told her I wanted to reserve the spot closest to her. She squeezed my hand and said, of course.

On the way out, I passed through the kitchen. On the table, prominently displayed, was the October 27, 2014, issue of People magazine, the one with Brittany Maynard on

the cover, sporting a Mona Lisa smile and standing confidently beside the headline, “My Decision to Die.” The next year, California passed its own aid-in-dying law, joining Oregon, Washington, Montana (sort of) and Vermont as the states that offered terminal patients a ceiling to their suffering. It would be nine more months for the California End of Life Option Act to take effect, but its mere existence soothed my mother’s anxiety. At long last, she knew how her story would end. We thought we did, too.

LAW OF DISADVANTAGES Dr. Wayne McKinney is running out of time.

A retired physician with terminal bladder cancer, McKinney lives in an area of Southern California where the hospitals refuse to participate in the state’s aid-indying law.

“I’m fighting like hell to get it available locally,” he says. “But I realize that I may not be able to do that before I go.”

As drafted by legislators and signed into law by Gov. Jerry Brown in October

End of Life locally:

Butte County’s largest health care providers— Enloe Medical Center, Feather River Hospital and Oroville Hospital—do not participate in California’s aid-in-dying act.

2015, the California End of Life Option Act, or ELO, doesn’t mandate the participation of hospitals or individual physicians.

According to the advocacy nonprofit Compassion & Choices, 498 health care facilities have opted into the law. By my count, there are some 866 hospitals and health care systems scattered through California. On the blacklist, California’s entire portfolio of Catholic-affiliated medical providers, which represents approximately 13 percent of the state’s hospital network.

Their lack of participation makes some sense, as faith-based health care operations are notoriously moralistic when it comes to what services they’re willing to provide their patients. That extends to the dying process.

“We’re going to do nothing to hasten a person’s death,” says Lori Dangberg, vice president of the Alliance of Catholic Health Care, which represents the state’s Catholic hospitals. “The proponents of this law have set up a false narrative that you either die in absolute pain and suffering or your only option is assisted suicide.”

Plenty of secular medical providers have taken that view.

“We were opposed to the legislation, but it’s what we call the ‘soft oppose,’” said Jan Emerson Shea, of the California Hospital Association, a nonprofit corporation that lobbies on behalf of nearly 400 hospitals and health systems. “We had members on all sides of the issue.”

That entrenched ambivalence—the law is currently the subject of a lawsuit—has created a patchwork system for desperate patients and families of the terminally ill. It’s especially created problems for communities with concentrated senior populations, says Matt Whitaker, Compassion & Choices’ director in California and Oregon. Whitaker points to the town of Rancho Mirage, where Eisenhower Medical Center has expanded its assisted death prohibition by buying up smaller private practices throughout the Coachella Valley.

“Not only do they have the hospital, but they have 65 clinics in that area that they operate,” he says. By monopolizing health care, Whitaker says, Eisenhower has “effectively END OF LIFE C O N T I N U E D JUNE 29, 2017

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cut off access to a whole region of people.”

Dr. McKinney is one of those people. His story drew attention when his Desert Hot Springs newspaper published two of his opeds last year. The three secular hospitals in his area, including Eisenhower, don’t allow their physicians to comply with the ELO Act. McKinney continues to lobby his local hospitals for mercy despite his illness. But time is not on his side. On hospice care for approximately nine months now, he’s already informed his caregivers of his second- and third-choice options.

“All I’ve authorized them to do is snow me under with pain medication when, you know, the pain really starts in something fierce,” he says. “And then, as a backup, I can simply stop eating. And more than likely would be dead in 10 days to two weeks.

That’s my final option.”

It’s certainly not an ideal one, Whitaker notes. “It’s not as gentle and peaceful as medical aid in dying,” he says. “You take medication and you’re asleep in five minutes.

And your heart stops beating in like an hour.

You’re unconscious and you die in your sleep essentially.”

Even in areas where the law is embraced, however, invisible hurdles put the terminally ill in a cruel race against the clock.

To be eligible for ELO Act consideration, patients can have no more than six months to live—and no fewer than two weeks, Whitaker says. Within that narrow span, patients must navigate formal written applications and two separate diagnostic appointments to reconfirm that they’re actually dying, are of sound mind and can muster the strength to administer the fatal doses when the time comes.

Meanwhile, there’s nothing in the law that says how soon terminal patients must be seen once they’ve requested assisted dying. And with most physicians opting out, a very tight bottleneck exists even at the most sympathetic hospitals.

“All these different things can effectively make it impossible for a person to get through the process if they don’t start early,” Whitaker cautions.

But Whitaker has some good news.

Kaiser Permanente, through which my mother is insured, “is really the gold standard when it comes to implementing the law,” he says.

Then why do I have such a bad feeling?

The audiTion My dad guides Dr. Greg Naughton through the foyer. The earnest, young physician gives us a rundown of why he’s here this morning.

In truth, nothing could be clearer in our minds.

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A final moment between mother and son. photo by raheem f. hosseini

While my mother had been preparing her own final chapter for years, a well-intentioned bureaucracy was about to stand in her way. a month just to get the paperwork delivered, which Valerie Booker, our end-of-life coordinator at Kaiser, insisted had to be physically mailed despite a downloadable version on the state’s website. After her assistant twice forgot to send the application, Booker drove a copy to my parents’ doorstep.

By then, my mother could barely sign her name.

That wasn’t the only hurdle, either.

Initially, we received mixed messages from Kaiser and Snowline Hospice about which entity needed to kick-start the process to the next phase. A week passed. After that was ironed out, our coordinator had to reach out to three different doctors before she found one willing to conduct that first consultation. Each one had three days to respond, letting more sand fall through the hourglass.

And then, when my 95-pound mother could no longer stand, we debated the meaning of “bedridden” with hospital and hospice officials as we tried to get Kaiser to schedule a house call.

Through it all, we received heartfelt apology after apology. But there seemed to be a baffling lack of urgency.

Dad explains this all to Naughton. This is his wife’s last wish. But the red tape has strangled our hopes of her moving to the next round.

“Maybe she’s not able to respond the way you want her to,” Hamid offers hesitantly.

“And I didn’t want to take that [choice] away from her.”

It’s “a valid concern,” Naughton acknowledges. Death does not yield for bureaucracy, after all.

Naughton is one of the good guys. The problem is there are so few doctors like him.

I will later ask Kaiser and Sutter Health how many of their terminal patients fall short of their dying wishes due to delays in the process and a lack of participating doctors.

The health networks will refuse to answer, referring me to the California Department of Public Health, which tracks the law’s implementation. But the agency doesn’t ask how many patient requests result in denials, a spokesman will tell me.

Maybe the state doesn’t want to know.

We pad softly into the bedchamber where Ellen sits at the foot of her sister’s bed, keeping a permanent vigil. My younger brother, Ali, hangs outside the door, unable to watch.

Dad bends down and introduces Naughton.

“Do you understand what I’m saying, love?” he prods.

She musters up a haggard “yes.” It plummets like a lead balloon.

Naughton sets his already boyish voice a few octaves higher. “Hi, dear,” he chirps.

“My name’s Greg Naughton. I’m one of Kaiser’s doctors. Are you able to talk to me for a few minutes?”

“I don’t know,” she sighs.

“You’re pretty tired.”

“Yes,” she says.

“Do you know why I’m here?”

“Yes,” she answers quickly.

Naughton asks Mom to describe her illness, but the request doesn’t penetrate whatever fog has subsumed her. I try. “What do you think is happening right now?” I say.

“The end of life,” she says.

“OK, good,” I say.

Naughton tags in. “I understand from your family that this is important for you,” he says. “But to move forward with the process, it’s very important that you’re able to talk with me and answer a few questions.”

She slurs a thread of clumped vowels that Naughton can’t assemble. But I can. She says, “Yeah, I want to know what took you so long.”

My dad pleads for simpler questions.

Naughton is sympathetic, but the law is not.

It requires “meaningful” answers.

Mom whirrs like a skipping record. “I just want to know why—why it took so long,” she groans.

“I’m sorry it took so long,” Naughton says.

“Yeah, me too,” she murmurs.

“And I don’t have a good answer for that,” he says. “But we’re here now.”

Pressing on, Naughton starts his line of questioning at the top. Can she summarize her illness and describe the end-of-life law? She answers fitfully. She gets the year wrong. She says it’s 1969.

He slogs past that one. “Can you tell me what’s happening to your body?” he says.

“It’s starting,” she says.

He asks if she remembers seeing Dr. Sardar. She does. What did he tell her, Naughton asks. There’s a long pause. Then she speaks. Her voice goes high, like she’s done something wrong.

“That I was dying,” she says.

I stroke my mother’s threadbare back. I hate our roles here. We should be protecting my mom from this guy, not helping him interrogate her.

Naughton gives us a transparent look.

“I think,” he starts, “I think we’re in the difficult situation where her disease has progressed to the point where she might not qualify for this law.”

Reeling, I try one last time. She doesn’t know this strange doctor or his unfamiliar voice. But she knows me. She knows her son.

“Do you want the end of life pills?” I ask shakily.

“Yeah,” the wisp of a voice says. “I’m in pain.”

“What do you think the end of life pills will do for that pain?”

I stare at her, trying to summon the words. They come unstuck one by one.

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“I cannot take it anymore,” she says.

Silence. We sit there listening to her lungs rattle. It’s like she’s operating on backup generators and we’re watching the lights flicker, seeing how long they’ll hum. I caress her arm. It feels like wax paper. Naughton catches our plaintive eyes.

“Maybe we can talk outside the room real fast,” he whispers.

It’s over.

As Naughton steps out into the hall to break the news, I hang back and feel my lips stick to a damp forehead. “OK Mom,” I say, “no more questions.”

“What?”

“You did good, Mom,” I whisper.

“No more questions?” she asks.

“No more questions.”

She starts to say something else. “I don’t want, I don’t want to go …” The rest crumbles into dust.

Outside, my father’s broken heart comes out in angry shards. He appeals for clemency. But the law is the law. And the governor isn’t taking requests.

cold shiver in my guts.

“It won’t be pretty,” she warns.

I ask what we can do to make sure Mom doesn’t suffer like she did the previous night, after Naughton left. Ali and I rushed to the house, bidden by our dad’s SOS text, to find Mom whimpering and moaning. The medications they gave us did nothing. We climbed into bed and asked her to give us the pain, but it was no use.

Lydia tells us to keep dosing her with morphine and diazepam, increasing the frequency as needed. Don’t hold back, she counsels. They didn’t give you enough to kill her anyway.

That’s not what I want to hear.

When I rush into the room a few hours later, Mom has already been carried to the hospital bed by my two brothers. Her head is twisted to the left while spasms rock her

to alleviate her distress. They told us it would be ugly. But this.

Ellen coos to her big sister in German, urging her to go. “Ich komme bald,” she promises. “I’ll come soon.”

I wrap my hands around hers and bow my head against this crucible of fingers. I beg her to go. I beg her to die. I make her a silent promise and wait.

When it finally happens, the stillness that shudders through the room feels sacred, like a thought taking flight. There is a quiet that has nothing to do with sound. Nothing at all.

I plunge my face into her side and howl an ancient song. Strange hands find my back.

By the time I come to, Dad is standing opposite me. His hand reaches out tentatively, like a boy who wants to wake a parent after he’s had a bad dream but is afraid to. When his mouth opens, it’s like a levee breaking.

Ali says goodbye.

“Lissy, you left me all alone,” he sobs.

Ali shakes his head and rises. “No, no,” he says. “No, you’re not.”

A son goes to his father. I find my legs in this new world more slowly. The gravity is different here, heavier. We huddle together, the three of us, like space rocks orbiting a fading star.

It’s Saturday, October 22, 2016. She was 76. It’s lovely outside.

WHAT TO EXPECT WHEN YOU’RE EXPECTING Hours rearrange the night. A pale gray light finds me sunk into a medical bed. Mom coos like an injured bird under rumpled sheets. Ali is gone. I hear Dad sniffling outside. I find him on a couch in the alcove. I set myself beside him and absently rub his shoulder.

“What are we going to do without her?” he says.

“I don’t know,” I say.

Hamid met Elisabeth when she briefly took a hostess job at the Sacramento restaurant where he was a waiter back in the mid1970s. Two immigrants from different parts of the world, brought into each other’s orbit by vastly different circumstances. A single mother of a 13-year-old son, Elisabeth had given up on love. But there was something about this man. He was handsome and dark skinned, just as she pictured he would be when she was a girl. But he was also kind and generous and so ebullient. He must have told her his whole life story on that first dinner date.

A few years later, they eloped.

In 1994, after that first bone marrow test, they sat together in the hospital parking lot and cried. They knew it was bad news.

Whatever it was, they would face it together.

She called him “Hah-mit.” And because she did, so did everyone else. “My Hah-mit,” she would say.

“Poor girl, she’s suffered so much,” Dad says into the new dawn.

A few hours later, the day nurse arrives.

A poker-faced young woman, Lydia tells us we’re in the final stretch, but can’t say for how long. Could be hours, could be days. A

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matchstick frame. Quick, shallow breaths, strangled through a wetness in her throat.

Sights and sounds I can’t forget.

“What do we do?” I ask. The faces that turn toward me are helpless, scared. No one knows. I sink into a folding chair at her side and take her hand. I keep touching her—petting her ballpoint shoulder, smoothing her hollow cheek, laying an upturned palm gently against a shimmering forehead. I wonder if the woman I love is there. I pray she is and she isn’t.

Ali makes a call. Thirty minutes later, a kid from hospice rolls in a moped engine on wheels with a plastic tube attached to it. He instructs us how to use the suction machine.

After he leaves, Ali cranks the guttural motor and gently works the tube into the hollows of Mom’s cheeks. It makes a terrible sound. Yellow froth whips through the clear plastic straw. But the machine does nothing

TERMINUS The rest of the day fades into a watercolor delirium. A hospice nurse named Susan appears with a black luggage roller in tow.

She records the official time of death two hours after my mother’s actual passing.

Death is a house guest that overstays its welcome.

I watch as Susan takes a wet washcloth to my mother’s body. This is her job, every day, to enter homes like ours and toil on the

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periphery of death.

Susan tells us that she experienced the same thing with her father. We’re now part of a secret society where the members recognize each other by the thousand-yard stares.

Seeing ours, Susan reassures us that death looks worse to the observers than it feels to those going through its jagged door.

Ali and I ache to believe her. Dad is a little better at finding succor in Susan’s words.

“I’m very happy that she went this way. I don’t think she would have ever reached the point that she took those pills,” he says quietly, as if not to wake his wife. “This was on her own time and she did it.”

“Gorgeous woman,” Ali chimes in.

“She always did it the right way,” Dad says.

Later, two men in rumpled suits and rumpled faces arrive in a black van. They’re from a crematorium whose website promotes dignity, affordability and the company’s female ownership. Mom would have approved.

Dad and Ali have many questions for these modern-day ferrymen on the river Styx.

The one who talks promises to text Ali as soon as they arrive at the crematorium.

In the weeks that follow, there is much debate over what my mother experienced during those long, final hours. Sometimes I ask her whether she felt it, her death, whether it harmed and whether I let her down. I don’t get an answer.

This is strange to me. In the simplest sense, I cannot fathom my mother’s nonexistence.

I listen over and over again to recordings I made of our breakfasts together, following her terminal diagnosis. She would regale me with stories from a past I wasn’t alive for.

“One thing I have to say is, I always had great friends in my life,” she told me one morning, two weeks before she died. “I was a cute girl. People loved me. They’d always say, ‘Elisabethchen, come here!’ Yeah, they loved me.”

And later, there was the man she met, the love they made and their own breakfasts, seated at a sun-splashed kitchen table with a slumbering newborn between them. She didn’t think she wanted more children. “But then this feeling just came over me,” she said. “I was so happy.”

I was starting to understand what she meant, I told her. I had this glimmer of a future I don’t yet own, with a daughter as spirited and brave as her grandmother.

Together, we stole time that did not belong to us.

And when I rose to leave, she always offered me more toast and eggs. Because she’s my mom. And she always will be. Ω JUNE 29, 2017

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Irish-American singer finds inspiration in time spent alone

‘I singer/songwriter That’s an idea Irish-American Aoife O’Donovan think time alone is time well-spent.”

takes to heart when it comes to creativity. At first glance, one by might find that Robin hard to believe.

Bacior Besides her decade fronting Preview: the progressive kZFr presents aoife bluegrass group o’Donovan Friday, Crooked Still june 30, 7:30 p.m., at and side project chico Women’s club. alli battaglia opens. Sometymes Why, Tickets: $20 (available O’Donovan has at chico Paper co. or spent summers www.brownpaper traveling with A tickets.com) Prairie Home Chico Women’s Club Companion, as 592 e. Third st. part of the radio www.kzfr.org show’s musical cohort, and formed a supergroup with Grammy-winning Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins (Nickel Creek) called I’m With Her. On top of that, there’s the endless momentum of her solo work.

“A couple weeks ago, I was on tour in Europe by myself, but I wasn’t driving around. I was schlepping all my stuff on the streets of whatever European city, up 10 flights of stairs onto a train, and that kind of leaves a lot less time for being truly alone and singing in the car or thinking about new music,” O’Donovan said during a recent interview. “I’m a really social person and I come from a big family, which is why it is nice to sort of step away and remember I enjoy the thoughts I have when I’m alone.”

It’s those solo moments that formed the base of her 2016 studio release, In the Magic Hour, a collection of clean songs that balance pop precision and folk tendencies that nod toward O’Donovan’s Irish roots. It’s O’Donovan’s voice that illuminates these songs, with its Alison Krauss-tinged angelic clarity and quick bluegrass dexterity,

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paired with tasteful acoustic undertones that seem to make the 10 songs glide by.

O’Donovan wrote the album shortly after her grandfather’s passing, which finds its way into the lyrical matter on songs such as “Magic Hour” and a step further by finding his actual voice layered into the tail end of “Donal Óg.”

“I think it just felt natural, and I of course didn’t want it to feel exploitative or anything like that. But, like I said, I’m very close to my family and his passing was certainly not tragic by any means—he was a very old man who had a beautiful life—but I think the reason why I wanted to bring his actual voice in is because I reference it in a couple other songs, and it just seemed fitting,” she said.

O’Donovan spent 2016 crisscrossing the U.S., and through those extensive tours the songs began to grow.

“When I was on tour with the band last year with a great drummer and guitar player, they definitely changed shape and took on completely new life, and that always happens when you go on tour with a record and you’re open to it,” O’Donovan said.

That new life led to Man in the Neon Coat: Live From Cambridge, a concert album (released last fall) dipping into the highlights of O’Donovan’s catalog. Though there aren’t any strong diversions from their studio predecessors, the live takes have a stripped-down, well-worn sturdiness, and O’Donovan’s vocal delivery remains pristine throughout the performance.

O’Donovan will be bringing an intimate solo version of those songs to the Chico Women’s Club on Friday (June 30).

“Looking forward to coming back to Chico, always good to be in California in the summer,” O’Donovan said.

Following her solo tour, O’Donovan will be hopping back on the road with A Prairie Home Companion, and I’m With Her will be touring with Punch Brothers and Julian Lage. Ω

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SPECIAL EVENTS CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Lincoln Potters. Thu, 6/29, 7pm. $7 - $14. Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St. www.chicoheat.com

PARTY IN THE PARK: The Ridge community’s weekly summertime celebration with arts and crafts, food vendors and live music from the Alan Rigg Band. Thu, 6/29, 5:30pm. Free. Paradise Community Park (5582 Black Olive Drive). www.paradisechamber.com

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, 6/29, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

WINE TASTING: A benefit for the North State Symphony. Thu, 6/29, 5pm. $7. Bidwell Park Golf Course. 530-898-6692. www.northstatesymphony.org

MUSIC CONCERTS IN THE PARK: Oroville’s summer concert series continues with bluegrass and Americana from the Strung Nugget Gang. Thu, 6/29, 6:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Park, 2821 Wyandotte Ave. www.frrpd.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Marysville Gold Sox. Sun, 7/2, 7pm. $7-$14.

Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St. www. chicoheat.com

THEATER CHICAGO: See Thursday. Sun, 7/2, 2pm. $22.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. (530) 894-3282. www.chicotheater company.com

THEATER CHICAGO: Local actors perform the classic musical set in Prohibition-era Chicago satirizing corruption in the criminal justice system and the concept of the celebrity criminal. Thu, 6/29, 7:30pm. $22.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheater company.com

SEUSSICAL: The culminating show for California Regional Theatre’s summer camp for kids 5 to 10 years old. Thu, 6/29, 7pm. $10. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www. crtshows.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Lincoln Potters. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. $7 - $14.

Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St.. www. chicoheat.com

HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: The culminating show for California Regional Theatre’s summer camp for kids 11 to 16 years old. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. $10. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

former lead singer of the Boston-based progressive string band Crooked Still and a regular on A Prairie Home Companion Fri, 6/30, 6:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: The summer concert series continues with family-friendly dance rockers The Alice Peake Experience. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

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SPECIAL EVENTS CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Marysville Gold Sox. Also: Fireworks! Tue, 7/4, 7pm. $7-$14. Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St. www.chicoheat.com

INDEPENDENCE DAY 5K: A flat, paved fun run and walk to celebrated the Fourth of July. Tue, 7/4, 7:30pm. $20-$30. One-Mile Recreation

pancake breakfast, vendor booths, a horseshoes tournament and patriotic music from the Chico Community Concert Band. Tue, 7/4, 8am. Free. One-Mile Recreation Area, in Lower Bidwell Park.

LAKE OROVILLE FIREWORKS: A spectacular Independence Day display over the water. Tue, 7/4, 9pm. Free. North Themalito Forebay, Oroville. 530-538-2542.

MUSIC PRIDE IN AMERICA: Unique arrangements of patriotic favorites performed by the Oroville Community Concert Band. Tue, 7/4, 1:30pm. $10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. www.occband.org

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SPECIAL EVENTS FORK IN THE ROAD: A gathering of Chico’s food trucks. This month: live music by

funk monsters Smokey the Groove. Wed, 7/5, 5:30pm. Free. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave. 530-520-2593. www.fork intheroadchico.weebly.com

Area, in Lower Bidwell Park. www.chico runningclub.org

INDEPENDENCE DAY CELEBRATION: Chico’s annual

FOR MORE MUSIC, SEE NIGHTLIFE ON PAGE 28

Fourth of July celebration complete with a

CHICAGO: See Thursday. Fri, 6/30, 7:30pm. $22.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheater company.com

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HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2: The culminating show for California Regional Theatre’s summer camp for kids 11 to 16 years old. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. $10. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

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THEATER CHICAGO: See Thursday. Sat, 7/1, 7:30pm. $22.

Chico Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

SEUSSICAL KIDS & HIGH SCHOOL MUSICAL 2 Friday, Saturday (June 29-30) CUSD Center For The Arts SEE FRIDAY, SATURDAY THEATER

The Chico Heat are off to a strong start this season, currently battling for first in the Great West League with the Medford Rogues. (Boo! Hiss!)

So, the home team is playing good baseball, but there’s another reason to come out to Nettleton Stadium on Tuesday, July 4—fireworks! The stadium lights will go down shortly after the Heat are finished with the Marysville Gold Sox. (Boo! Hiss!) And if last year’s fireworks show was any indication, the summer night sky will light up with a spectacular display.

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BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Branding Irons, a

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CHICO ART CENTER: All Media National Juried Exhibition, an annual glimpse into the creative and artistic minds of artists from across America. Juror Tony Natsoulas chose finalists from more than 200 entries.

Through 7/28. Free. 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. Through 7/13.

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings and Prints, colorful acrylic paintings on canvas and mono prints by David Hoppe. Through 6/30.

Free. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Ceramics, works by David Gilhooly on display. Through 8/31. Free.

254 E. Fourth St.

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IDEA FAB LABS: Altars of the Elements, works by

rotating exhibits featuring local artists.

Through 9/16. 493 East Ave., 530-345-3063.

display of more 50 branding irons. Through 6/30. $3. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Through 6/30. $2-$4.

1968 E. Eighth St.

COLMAN COMMUNITY MUSEUM: Changing Exhibits, cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. Through 6/30.

13548 Centerville Road.

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

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Railroads and Logging, the refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a museum with a working model train.

Through 6/30. Free. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 530-872-8722.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Stories of Our Own, displaying Hmong culture, identity and history. Through 7/27. Free.

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Taj Mahal (seated) and Keb’ Mo’ share the spotlight in Chico.

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ith over 50 albums, seven Grammy awards and

80 years of combined musical experience between them, two masters of contemporary Americana, world music and blues—Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’—combined forces this year to bring the fruits of their experience and collaboration by to world stages, including Chico’s Carey Wilson Laxson Auditorium last Thursday (June 22).

After a short and sweet intro set Review: by Black Pacific, a trio of Mahal’s TajMo: The Taj Mahal children, the Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ & Keb’ Mo’ Band Band kicked off with a hyperkinetic Laxson Auditorium bass line building to bluesy horns that Thursday, June 22 led to a first taste of Mahal’s signature vocal style. What followed was a band-showcasing instrumental section featuring trumpet crescendo, boogie-woogie piano, wailing saxophone and some tasty Keb’ Mo’ guitar. This is music that’s meant to get you out of your seat and onto the dance floor, and despite the lack of such in Laxson, a few true believers managed to create their own dance space on the peripheral aisle.

Seated for most of the show, the 75-year-old Mahal showcased deep lung power on harmonica and vocals for “Don’t Leave Me Here.” He traded lead vocals with Keb’ Mo’, who was also in fine form and unleashed stinging flurries of Chicago blues notes from his guitar.

The soulful declaration of identity from the bluemen’s new album, TajMo (released in May), “That’s Who I Am,” highlighted the blues in rhythm and blues, but by stacking the musical deck with rhythmic interactions of horn section, harmonica and vocals, the mood projected was one of strength, intent and purpose—presenting a living example and definition of genuine soul music.

A rendition of Sleepy John Estes’ classic “Diving Duck Blues,” which Mahal first recorded for his

eponymous 1968 debut album, featured both bluesmen on resonator guitars for an intimate and crowd-pleasing exploration of country blues that made use of Laxson’s acoustic properties to allow the nuances of the quiet playing to ring through the hall.

Another highlight came in Mahal’s rendition of the exquisitely melodic Carole King/Gerry Goffin song “Take a Giant Step.” Mahal obviously enjoyed breaking the news that he didn’t actually write that title song of his breakthrough 1969 album. He was happy to pass along credit for the composition of the song, which deftly weaves Brill Building pop with a country blues flavor perfectly suited to Mahal’s sensibility and style.

After pausing to introduce the members of the Taj Mahal & Keb’ Mo’ Band, which included Mahal’s two daughters from Black Pacific singing background vocals, the music shifted into a blues-funk mode that coaxed a few more irrepressible souls out of their seats to join the sideline dancers.

The shoulder-shimmying rhythm of Mahal original “She Caught the Katy” increased the urge to dance; so perhaps to ease the frustration, the next number, “Om Sweet Om” from the new album, slowed things to a more sedate mode, showcasing Keb’ Mo’s voice and guitar over a slow ode to peaceful contemplation.

Alternating favorites from Mahal’s extensive songbook—such as the classic “Going up to the Country, Paint My Mailbox Blue,” with its mid-tempo groove and exuberant vocal, and the gospel fervency of new songs, including the band’s “All Around the World”— kept the audience rapt throughout the nearly two-hour concert, oscillating pleasantly between the reflective reverence and rowdy, whooping reveling that are the unifying polar extremes of the blues spectrum.

The solid two minutes of standing-ovation applause at the close of the show gave evidence that, for this audience, a dose of the blues succeeded at delivering cathartic celebration. Ω

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THURSDAY 6/29—WEDNESDAY 7/5

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE Thursday, June 29 Farmstar Pizza SEE THURSDAY

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: Featuring Peter and Tricia of Bird and Wag; Jonathan Arthur of Sapphire Soul; Zoe Karch and Sierra Hall; Aamir Malik and Robert Karch performing their favorite songs. Thu, 6/29, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

STARSHIP: Featuring Mickey Thomas, one of the lead vocalists for Jefferson Starship. Thu, 6/29, 8:30pm. Sold out. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

TEAM SKINS: Loose and wild post-punk math rock enhanced by partial nudity. Thu, 6/29, 9pm. $3. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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AOIFE O’DONOVAN: KZFR 90.1 FM pres-

Robert Karch

BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 6/30, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

BONFIRE: An AC/DC cover band. Fri, 6/30, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls

Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

CHPPENDALES: Chiseled and glisten-

ing man-bods on display. Fri, 6/30, 9pm. $19-$35. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. www.goldcountrycasino.com

FIT FOR AN AUTOPSY: Death metal of excessive force. Tombs, Moon Tooth, Aberrance and God Van Damme open. Fri, 6/30, 8pm. $12. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: The summer concert series continues with family-friendly dance rockers The Alice Peake Experience. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

ents the former lead singer of the Boston-based progressive string band Crooked Still and a regular on A Prairie Home Companion. Fri, 6/30, 6:30pm. $20. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

INSIDE STRAIT: Danceable country

ARIZONA JONES: Classic R&B covers in

OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by

the lounge. Fri, 6/30, 8:30pm. Free.

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

covers in the lounge. Fri, 6/30, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

Thunder Lump and Steve Givens.

Music only. Fri, 6/30, 7pm. Free.

DownLo, 319 Main St.

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BUST A GUT

During Shahera Hyatt’s last performance at Duffy’s Tavern in November, she told the audience, “On a personal note, I’m a social worker and I do comedy. So, yeah, now I have two jobs I don’t do for the money.” The Sacramento-based comedian/advocate for homeless teens will return to Duffy’s on Friday, June 30, during Summer Strange Comedy, an evening of stand-up also featuring Joe Kelley from Seattle and a handful of local acts.

THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24 6/30, 9pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

TERRA BELLA: The Nashville-based country duo—husband and wife Joseph Costa and Martina Otterbeck Costa—return to Chico. Fri, 6/30, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

SHADOW LIMB: The four remaining members of La Fin Du Monde keep playing music as heavy as a sledgehammer. West by Swan and Horseneck open. Fri, 6/30, 9pm. $7.

The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

INSIDE STRAIT: Danceable country

SPAZMATICS: A fantastically dorky

New Wave cover band. Sat, 7/1, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

VIDA NOCTURNA: ABK Events & DJ Lil

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50 present Noche Latina. Sat, 7/1, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

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ACOUSTIC JAM: A monthly jam with the Butte Folk Music Society. Sat, 7/1, 4pm. Free. Upper Crust Bakery &

TERRA BELLA Friday, June 30 Tackle Box SEE FRIDAY

PIZZA & PASTA NIGHT: A buffet dinner followed by dancing to the RevAtomics. Fri, 6/30, 5pm. $6-$12.

Paradise Elks Lodge, 1100 Elk Lane, Paradise, 530-877-3977.

Eatery, 130 Main St.

SUMMER SLAM: Chico Area Punks present an all-ages hardcore show with Ingrown, Voyeur, D-FY and Outside Looking In. Fri, 6/30, 8pm. $7. Monstro’s Pizza, 638 W. Sacramento Ave.

SUMMER STRANGE COMEDY: Stand-up with comedians Joe Kelley from Seattle and Shahera Hyatt from Sacramento. Hosted by Rachel Myles, with support from Travis Dowdy, Jerm Leather and more. Fri,

ARIZONA JONES: Classic R&B covers in the lounge. Sat, 7/1, 8:30pm. Free.

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

LIGHTFINDER: A five-piece melodic hardcore band. Boat Race Weekend and No Wave open. Sun, 7/2, 8pm. $5.

Naked Lounge Tea & Coffehouse, 118 W. Second St.

3MONDAY

CHPPENDALES: Chiseled and glisten-

ing man-bods on display. Sat, 7/1, 9pm. $19-$35. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. www.goldcountrycasino.com

4TUESDAY

covers in the lounge. Sat, 7/1, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & OPEN MIC: A weekly open mic hosted by local singer-songwriter Andan Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

Casamajor. Tue, 7/4, 6pm. Free. Gogi’s Cafe, 230 Salem St. SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 7/1, 5pm.

Scotty’s Boat Landing, 12609 River Road.

OLD TIME FIDDLERS: A good, old-fashioned jam. Mon, 7/3, 7pm. $3. Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, 1650 Broderick St.

RED, WHITE & BOOZE: An Independence Day party with beer pong, stiff shaved ice, a barbecue, cornhole and karaoke. Tue, 7/4, 5pm. Free.

The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

CHAIN NERDS

Ever heard of a chain band? Well, it’s actually multiple bands performing under the same name. Take, for instance, The Spazmatics, a 1980s New Wave cover band that dresses up in bow ties, plaid pants and taped glasses in an homage to Revenge of the Nerds. They have bands based in major cities across the U.S., and on Saturday, July 1, you can catch them totally dorking out at Feather Falls Casino and Lodge.

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319 Main St. • Downtown Chico June 30 Fit for an Autopsy July 1 Noche Latina “Vida Nocturna” July 8 Naughty Professor & The Sam Chase July 13 Nasty Bass July 15 Hiphop with DJ Lil 50 July 21 ZROCK presents Blacktop Mojo Open Mic Night is Back!

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REEL WORLD Just Marky Mark savin’ the human race.

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

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Opening this week Beatriz at Dinner

Salma Hayek squares off with John Lithgow when her holistic medicine practitioner faces his bourgeois billionaire at a dinner party after her car breaks down. Chloe Sevigny, Connie Britton and Jay Duplass also appear. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Despicable Me 3

Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) meets his longlost twin brother, Dru (yes, also Carell), who wants to team up for one last heist.

Listen for Julie Andrews as their mom. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

The Hero

Brett Haley (I’ll See You in My Dreams) directs Sam Elliott as a crusty iconic actor at the end of the line—in his career and life—who strikes up a relationship with a stand-up comic (Laura Prepon) while trying to reconnect with his estranged daughter (Krysten Ritter). Nick Offerman co-stars.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Crash and burn

The House

Robot/car franchise sinks to new depths in fifth film

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ransformers: The Last Knight gets the dubious distinction of being the worst in the series.

That is some sort of major accomplishment. It’s not the easiest thing in the world to look at this collective pile of movie manure and deciby pher which of the five is the worst.

Bob Grimm It’s like going to a frat house the first week of a semester at Dickhead bg r imm@ University and trying to pick out the newsrev iew.c om dumbest, drunkest douchebag in the place. All of the qualifiers are terribly, criminally lame.

I’m giving Transformers: The Last Knight the award of franchise worst because it’s just so clear how Transformers: every participant in this enterprise— The Last Knight from director Michael Bay right on Starring Mark down to the production assistant Wahlberg, Anthony Hopkins, Josh who smeared glycerin on Mark Duhamel and Laura Wahlberg’s pecs—is jaded, tired and Haddock. Cinemark 14, played out. Nobody really wants to Feather River Cinemas, be in this thing. The stink of “Who Paradise Cinema 7. gives a shit—just pay me!” hits your Rated PG-13. nostrils with Wahlberg’s first line delivery.

Yes, Wahlberg, who has the honor of essentially being Shia LaBeouf’s stand-in for the series, returns for his second round, and he looks embarrassed. He should be. He’s publicly declared that this is his last Transformers movie, with his performance and demeanor indicating he checked out the day cameras started rolling. You just get the sense of a guy who is mocking the whole thing.

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Also along for the ride, the formerly acclaimed Sir Anthony Hopkins, acting all nutty like he did in Francis Ford Coppola’s Dracula, when in fact this is a Michael Bay film.

I can’t pretend to tell you what happens in this flick. I know Optimus Prime was frozen and floating toward his home planet when he gets sucked into some sort of scheme to betray his race and all humans.

His part is kind of like Vin Diesel’s in the last Fast & Furious movie, that of the pawn in somebody else’s evil scheme who probably won’t go rogue for the entire film. The big difference here is that Optimus Prime doesn’t get to mush his mouth all over Charlize Theron’s and, it goes without saying, the giant robot has a greater acting range than Diesel does.

The best part of this movie is when Hopkins inexplicably goes to Stonehenge to witness a robot battle, which leads to the silliest death scene ever.

Other folks who show up include John Turturro, whose “I’m in a Transformers movie, but it’s OK because I’ve sold out in an unorthodox, hip sort of way!” shtick got tired four films ago, and the voices of John Goodman and Steve Buscemi. That’s actually three-quarters of a The Big Lebowski reunion.

I’m surprised they didn’t throw some money at Jeff Bridges to deliver a few lines. That would’ve been the most novel thing in the movie.

Transformers: The Last Knight plays like a Worst of Michael Bay sizzle reel. It’s 2 1/2 hours of things smashing into each other in fast-cut fashion, accompanied by bombastic music and lots of crane and slo-mo shots. In other words, it’s exactly what we’ve come to expect at this point. Ω

After two parents (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) lose their daughter’s college fund, they concoct a scheme with their neighbor to earn the money back fast. Can you guess where this is going? We’re betting you can— 4-to-3 odds. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Kubo and the Two Strings

Special showing of the 2016 animated hit about a young boy who must find a magical suit of armor worn by his father to defeat a vengeful spirit. Characters’ voices include Oscar winners Charlize Theron and Matthew McConaughey. Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

Now playing 47 Meters Down

Two sisters go scuba diving and get trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean with less than an hour’s worth of oxygen left. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13

All Eyez on Me

A dramatic biopic following the life and death of rapper, actor, poet and activist Tupac Shakur. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Baby Driver

A jukebox musical in which a young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) is coerced into working for a kingpin (Kevin Spacey) in exchange for a better life. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Book of Henry

With the help of her genius son, a single mother (Naomi Watts) attempts to rescue a young girl from her abusive stepfather.

Closes today. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) takes another lap in the third installment of Pixar’s animated car series. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated G.

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

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

Rated PG-13.

I, Daniel Blake

Director Ken Loach guides this gripping human tale about Daniel Blake, a gruff but good-hearted carpenter who suffers a heart attack and is subsequently failed by the welfare system. Closes today. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Megan Leavey

A biopic based on the real-life story of the bond between U.S. Marine Megan Leavey and bomb-sniffing military dog Rex. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Mummy

A princess mummy (Sofia Boutella), awakened from centuries of slumber, wreaks havoc on humanity and only Tom Cruise, strengthened by a mummy curse, can save the planet. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

It’s either the fifth or 105th installment in the Pirates franchise, with Johnny Depp still kicking around as pirate Jack Sparrow and on the run from an army of ghost ships in search of the Trident of Poseidon.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Rough Night

Five high school friends—including characters played by Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon—reunite in Miami for a wild bachelorette party that takes a dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper.

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

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In a world of straightforward confessional songs, it can be refreshing to hear epic lyrical landscapes spanning tales of vampires, street performers and talking flowers. Neil Holyoak has spent the last few years living in varied physical landscapes—moving between Montreal, Hong Kong, British Columbia and L.A.—and playing in various arrangements along the way under the moniker Holy Oak. All that experience is distilled into an earthy, alt-folk approach to narrative on the band’s fourth studio album, Second Son. Songs like “Just Married” manage to carry a broad, long tale with barebones finger-picking and Holyoak’s meandering vocals serving the song more than vice versa. The song spans nearly seven minutes, cycling the same simple melody, but the time passes easily under hypnotic storytelling. The down-tempo folk rock feels akin to Canadian artist Jonas Bonnetta (aka Evening Hymns) as well as the late Jason Molina, specifically during Holyoak’s vocal wavering on opener “Basilisk.” Songs like “Cockatoo” almost feel timeless, perhaps part of Holy Oak’s kaleidoscopic effect.

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Migration Blues Eric Bibb Stony Plain Records In the liner notes to this, his 30th recording, Eric Bibb writes, “Whether you’re looking at a former sharecropper, hitchhiking from Clarksdale to Chicago in 1923, or an orphan from Aleppo, in a boat full of refugees in 2016—it’s migration blues.” Except for Bob Dylan’s “Masters of War,” a scathing indictment of the munitions barons, and Woody Guthrie’s always timely “This Land Is Your Land,” the remaining 13 compositions on Migration Blues are Bibb’s and feature the folksinging guitarist in a mostly trio setting. His smooth vocals belie the fervor that underlies songs like “Refugee Moan” (“If there’s a road to a peaceful country/Lord, make that highway my way/to the Promised Land”) and “Prayin’ for Shore,” which he dedicates to the thousands of refugees who have drowned attempting to reach land in unseaworthy boats. It’s not all doom and gloom, however. On “Brotherly Love,” Bibb sings about believing that “we can change/and before it’s too late, replace fear and hate with brotherly love.” Let’s all hope he’s right.

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Ends With And Helium Matador Records Mary Timony has made an admirable career for herself, both solo and fronting bands Autoclave, Helium, Wild Flag and, more recently, the excellent power-pop group Ex Hex. Close to 20 years since it was a band, Helium’s former record label, Matador, has reissued the majority of the group’s recorded output. Ends With And is the newest addition to the catalog and compiles singles, outtakes, demos and a couple of live recordings.

What it also does is illustrate the band’s growth from a curiosity with potential to one of the more striking and inventive bands of the early to mid-1990s. And frankly, there is nothing here that sounds dated or out of place in 2017. If anything, current bands could stand to tear a page from the Helium playbook and spend more time on song craft, use the studio as an instrument unto itself, and constantly challenge listeners. “Lucy” is an essential track capitalizing on what the band does best with Timony’s trademark breathy vocals and brittle guitar tone over the steady rhythm section, allowing her guitar noise to explore at will.

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Roll coal, kill aRts DeVo I know how I’m going to die. It’s not going to be heart disease, cancer or a rollover on Highway 99; it turns out that my greatest risk factor for being pushed off this mortal coil is Prius repellant. You know, those enormous plumes of soot that gush from the exhaust pipes of snickering truck-nutters who point their enhanced pipes at anything smaller than their giant four-wheelers—motorcycles, bikes, pedestrians and especially hybrid cars—and “Roll Coal!!!”

This is a real thing. Thousands of dollars are spent just to modify diesel engines to leave a monster-truck-size carbon footprint in poisonous protest to, supposedly, [former] President Obama’s environmental policies.

And being a caveman myself, this is just the sort of mindless grunting and banging that sets my amygdala all atwitter, giving me the overwhelming urge to whip my own club out and start swinging it around the circle.

Bully up! I hate bullies (and despite whatever claims of political protest are made in Prius repellant! explanation of coal rolling, those assholes are merely bullies), but I have never actually been in a real fight. I’ve been beaten up several times—all before the age of 18—but I’ve never even thrown a real punch at anyone. However, as a kid growing up in Redding, I was pretty good at mouthing off and instigating fights, and from grade school through high school I always had a bully or three at the ready, more than happy to oblige.

One of the more memorable of my nemeses was a barrel-chested bear I ran into during the ninth grade. We had P.E. together, and one Friday morning before class he was entertaining the gathered with a game of keep-away. He’d snatched the hat off the head of a particularly selfconscious and rail-thin classmate we called Billy idol and was daring him to retrieve it. (We called the guy Billy Idol because his bleached-blond hair was gelled stiff and standing on end in badass Idol fashion, and he wore the hat because some members of our class relentlessly mocked his daring sense of style.)

When the chance presented itself, I swatted the hat out of the bully’s hand and handed it back to Billy Idol. I was immediately “called out,” as was the custom of the day, and for some reason the call-out was scheduled for the following Monday morning before school on the track around the football field.

Having a weekend to stew about my fate and get increasingly freaked out by my cousin Mike telling me how much of a notorious beast this guy apparently was, I desperately devised a plan for survival. My cousin and I decided I had to strike first and strike cheap.

So, standing on the dirt track that cool, fateful morning—watching a giddy crowd streaming toward the track site in anticipation—I suggested to my bully that we move the fight to the grass. After taking a couple steps toward the field, I turned and, before he could react, kicked him square in the Li’l Bully.

He barely flinched.

After the first punch fattened my lip, I retreated to a face-down position and let him tire himself out on my ribs and the back of my skull.

Despite the humbling ordeal, I still continued to poke at the angry bear—by making grunting noises at him in the hallways, even slow dancing with his girlfriend at a party—prompting more pain and a decent amount of spilled blood. I was an idiot for sure. I wonder if still am?

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF june 29, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): This is a

perfect moment to create a new tradition, Aries. You intuitively know how to turn one of your recent breakthroughs into a good habit that will provide continuity and stability for a long time to come. You can make a permanent upgrade in your life by capitalizing on an accidental discovery you made during a spontaneous episode.

It’s time, in other words, to convert the temporary assistance you received into a long-term asset; to use a stroke of luck to foster a lasting pleasure.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Physicist

Freeman Dyson told Wired magazine how crucial it is to learn from failures. As an example, he described the invention of the bicycle. “There were thousands of weird models built and tried before they found the one that really worked,” he said. “You could never design a bicycle theoretically.

Even now, it’s difficult to understand why a bicycle works. But just by trial and error, we found out how to do it, and the error was essential.” I hope you will keep that in mind, Taurus. It’s the Success-ThroughFailure Phase of your astrological cycle.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): According

to my analysis of the astrological omens, you should lease a chauffeured stretch limousine with nine TVs and a hot tub inside. You’d also be smart to accessorize your smooth ride with a $5,000 bottle of Château Le Pin Pomerol Red Bordeaux wine and servings of the Golden Opulence Sundae, which features a topping of 24-karat edible gold and sprinkles of Amedei Porcelana, the most expensive chocolate in the world. If none of that is possible, do the next best thing, which is to mastermind a long-term plan to bring more money into your life. From an astrological perspective, wealth-building activities will be favored in the coming weeks.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When Leos

rise above their habit selves and seize the authority to be rigorously authentic, I refer to them as Sun Queens or Sun Kings.

When you Cancerians do the same—triumph over your conditioning and become masters of your own destiny—I call you Moon Queens or Moon Kings. In the coming weeks, I suspect that many of you will make big strides toward earning this title. Why? Because you’re on the verge of claiming more of the “soft power,” the potent sensitivity, that enables you to feel at home no matter what you’re doing or where you are on this planet.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You may not realize it, but you now have a remarkable power to perform magic tricks. I’m not talking about Houdini-style hocus-pocus. I’m referring to practical wizardry that will enable you to make relatively efficient transformations in your daily life. Here are some of the possibilities: wiggling out of a tight spot without offending anyone; conjuring up a new opportunity for yourself out of thin air; doing well on a test even though you don’t feel prepared for it; converting a seemingly tough twist of fate into a fertile date with destiny. How else would you like to use your magic?

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Feminist

pioneer and author Gloria Steinem said, “Writing is the only thing that, when I do it, I don’t feel I should be doing something else.” Is there such an activity for you, Virgo? If not, now is a favorable time to identify what it is. And if there is indeed such a passionate pursuit, you should do it as much as possible in the coming weeks.

You’re primed for a breakthrough in your relationship with this life-giving joy. To evolve to the next phase of its power to inspire you, it needs as much of your love and intelligence as you can spare.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): One of the

21st century’s most entertaining archaeological events was the discovery of King Richard III’s bones. The English monarch died in 1485, but his burial site had long been a mystery. It wasn’t an archaeologist who tracked down his remains, but a screenwriter named Philippa Langley.

by rob brezsny She did extensive historical research, narrowing down the possibilities to a car park in Leicester. As she wandered around there, she got a psychic impression at one point that she was walking directly over Richard’s grave. Her feeling later turned out to be right. I suspect your near future will have resemblances to her adventure.

You’ll have success in a mode that’s not your official area of expertise. Sharp analytical thinking will lead you to the brink, and a less rational twist of intelligence will take you the rest of the way.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): The tides

of destiny are no longer just whispering their message for you. They are shouting.

And what they are shouting is that your brave quest must begin soon. There can be no further excuses for postponement.

What’s that you say? You don’t have the luxury of embarking on a brave quest?

You’re too bogged down in the thousand and one details of managing the dayto-day hubbub? Well, in case you need reminding, the tides of destiny are not in the habit of making things convenient. And if you don’t cooperate willingly, they will ultimately compel you to do so. But now here’s the really good news, Scorpio: The tides of destiny will make available at least one burst of assistance that you can’t imagine right now.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In my dream, I used the nonitchy wool of the queen’s special Merino sheep to weave an enchanted blanket for you. I wanted this blanket to be a good luck charm you could use in your crusade to achieve deeper levels of romantic intimacy. In its tapestry I spun scenes depicting the most love-filled events from your past. It was beautiful and perfect. But after I finished it, I had second thoughts about giving it to you. Wasn’t it a mistake to make it so flawless? Shouldn’t it also embody the messier aspects of togetherness? To turn it into a better symbol and therefore a more dynamic talisman, I spilled wine on one corner of it and unraveled some threads in another corner. Now here’s my interpretation of my dream: You’re ready to regard messiness as an essential ingredient in your quest for deeper intimacy.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Your word of power is “supplication”—the act of asking earnestly and humbly for what you want. When practiced correctly, “supplication” is indeed a sign of potency, not of weakness. It means you are totally united with your desire, feel no guilt or shyness about it, and intend to express it with liberated abandon. Supplication makes you supple, poised to be flexible as you do what’s necessary to get the blessing you yearn for. Being a supplicant also makes you smarter, because it helps you realize that you can’t get what you want on the strength of your willful ego alone. You need grace, luck and help from sources beyond your control.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In the

coming weeks, your relationships with painkillers will be extra sweet and intense.

Please note that I’m not talking about ibuprofen or acetaminophen or aspirin.

My reference to painkillers is metaphorical. What I’m predicting is that you will have a knack for finding experiences that reduce your suffering. You’ll have a sixth sense about where to go to get the most meaningful kinds of healing and relief. Your intuition will guide you to initiate acts of atonement and forgiveness, which will in turn ameliorate your wounds.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Don’t wait around passively as you fantasize about becoming the “Chosen One” of some person or group or institution. Be your own Chosen One. And don’t wander around aimlessly, biding your time in the hope of eventually being awarded some prize or boon by a prestigious source. Give yourself a prize or boon. Here’s one further piece of advice, Pisces: Don’t postpone your practical and proactive intentions until the mythical “perfect moment” arrives. Create your own perfect moment.

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This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: CATRINA ZOTZ, OPERATIONS MGR Dated: May 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000735 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO OROVILLE OUTDOOR ADVENTURERS, COOA at 21 Tarn Circle Oroville, CA

95966.

BETH BELLO 21 Tarn Circle Oroville, CA 95966.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BETH BELLO Dated: June 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0001515 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SWPPIN at 624 West 8th Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

C BRYAN GRAVES 857 Reavis Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

JUDITH MARLENE GRAVES 624 West 8th Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: JUDITH MARLENE GRAVES Dated: June 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000782 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JEFF ROSS FINANCIAL, TAXPRO at 2635 Forest Ave., Ste 100 Chico, CA 95928.

ROSS FINANCIAL SERVICES INC 2635 Forest Ave., Ste 100 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: JEFFREY M. ROSS, PRESIDENT Dated: June 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000794 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE INDEPENDENT PRESS at 2704 Hegan Lane Suite 152 Chico, CA 95928.

MARCEL MITCHELL 1129 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARCEL M. MITCHELL Dated: June 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000827 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALIFORNIA PARK MARKET, CITY LIQUOR AND MARKET, DOWNTOWN LIQUOR MARKET, HWY 32 MINI MART, LIQUOR BANK #1, LIQUOR BANK #2, RAYS LIQUOR at 598 E 8th Street, Suite 140 Chico, CA 95928.

SAYEGH BROTHERS, INC 598 E 8th Street, Suite 140 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: SAM SAYEGH, PRESIDENT/CEO Dated: May 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000686 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as

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BRIGIT LYNN HULL 1532 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

TIMOTHY ANDREW HULL 1532 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BRIGIT HULL Dated: June 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000826 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SOLAR CLEANING SPECIALISTS at 48 Quista Dr Chico, CA 95926.

AMY ELIZABETH BRECHEISEN 48 Quista Dr Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID JOSEPH BRECHEISEN 48 Quista Dr Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: AMY BRECHEISEN Dated: June 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000844 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CHOCOLATE COMPANY at 710 W Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

AMY L FORD 710 W Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMY FORD Dated: June 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000841 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as B AND R AUTO WRECKING at 2815 Feather River Boulevard Oroville, CA 95965.

BORING AUTO WRECKING LLC 30545 Se Hwy 212 Boring, OR 97009.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BRIAN PERLENFEIN, MANAGER Dated: May 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000758 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALIFORNIA CARS AND TRUCKS at 2522 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973.

PAJOUH MOTORS, INC. 2522 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: DIANE RICO MIHANPAJOUH, VP Dated: June 14, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000831 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as POSADA TOWNHOMES at 480 and 490 Posada Way Chico, CA 95973.

ANTON KUCICH 5400 Snow Spring Place Antelope, CA 95843.

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Signed: ANTON KUCICH Dated: June 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000793 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE COMMONS at 2412 Park Ave Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO 345 GEN, INC 2599 Oak Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: JESSE GRIGG, PRESIDENT Dated: June 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000866 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SKIE DREAMS at 1432 Lofty Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

CIELO ANN ABELLAR BRADSHAW 1432 Lofty Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

PETER JAY ABELLAR BRADSHAW 1432 Lofty Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: PETER BRADSHAW Dated: June 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000869 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE OVAL CHEVRON, BLUE OVAL FOODMART at 1025 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926.

GURINDER DHILLON 1373 Mallard Creek Drive Roseville, CA 95747.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GURINDER DHILLON Dated: May 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000746 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CELLAR DOOR CIDER at 129 W. 21st St Chico, CA 95928.

BRYAN ALEXANDER SHAW 129 W. 21st St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRYAN SHAW Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000878 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HOLLY HILLS MOBILE ESTATES at 14672 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954.

AHRS PARADISE LLC 14672 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: RANDALL C AHR Dated: June 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000847 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

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The following person is doing business as HEIRLOOM FOOD COMPANY at 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SHAWN PAUL MINDRUM 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHAWN MINDRUM Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000877 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business names HEIRLOOM FOOD COMPANY, CHICO LOCAVORE at 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SHAWN MINDRUM 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

NATHAN JOHNSON 2235 Hutchison Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted

by A General Partnership.

Signed: SHAWN MINDRUM Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2016-0000931 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEVOLL, DEVOLL MUSIC at 2118 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

REBECCA ANDRES 6343 Rd 200 Sp 71 Orland, CA 95963.

SCOTT CORY 476 Hoopa Circle Chico, CA 95926.

TYLER DEVOLL 2118 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

WILLIAM HEPWORTH 1145 Loser Ave Gridley, CA 95948.

ANDREW LOESER 2400 McGie Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: BECKY ANDRES Dated: June 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000799 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHERN HOLISTICS at 34 E Tehama Orland, CA 95963.

NORTHERN HOLISTICS LLC 34 E Tehama Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: NICHOLAS HATTEN, MANAGER Dated: June 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000881 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATMENT The following persons are doing business as MOCKINGBYRD at 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

BORIS BRECKINRIDGE 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

LORI BRECKINRIDGE 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BORIS BRECKINRIDGE Dated: June 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000805 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ALEC MARTIN HOFFMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALEC MARTIN HOFFMAN Proposed name: ALEC MARTIN MONTGOMERY 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 Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: May 08, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00487 Published: June 8,15,22,29, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAMIAN DEWAYNE GRIFFIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DAMIAN DEWAYNE GRIFFIN Proposed name: DAMIAN DEWAYNE WISCHER 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 21, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P CANDELA Dated: May 24, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01175 Published: June 8,15,22,29, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KARREN MARIE RANDOLPH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KARREN MARIE RANDOLPH Proposed name: KARREN MARIE DRAKE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter

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appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 21, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P CANDELA Dated: May 25, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01174 Published: June 8,15,22,29, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GUIQIU LIU filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GUIQIU LIU Proposed name: LINDA LIU 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 28, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P CANDELA Dated: May 30, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01372 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEE VANG & ZELEE LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TOUA LOR Proposed name: LOG TOUA LEE 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

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 4, 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: June 8, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00923 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARA BETH THOMAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SARA BETH THOMAS Proposed name: AURORA ELIZABETH THORNE 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: August 11, 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: June 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01225 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: HAROLD E. CARTWRIGHT, SEE ADDITIONAL PARTIES ATTACHMENT YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: GEORGE J. BOEGER, JR. 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

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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: Butte County Superior Court 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 LAW OFFICES OF FERRIS & SELBY 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 ADDITIONAL PARTIES: Defendant believed to be deceased, and all persons claiming by or through, or under such person, and the testate and intestate successors of HAROLD E. CARTWRIGHT, MYRTLE A. CARTWRIGHT, believed to be deceased, and all persons claiming by or through, or under such person, and the testate and intestate successors of MYRTLE A. CARTWRIGHT, REGIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION, a California corporation, as Trustee of Deed of Trust Dated February 10, 1999 and recorded February 16, 1999 as Serial No. 19990006411 of Official Records, Butte County, and All Persons Unknown, Claiming Any Legal or Equitable Right, Title, Estate, Lien or Interest in the Property Described in the Complaint Adverse to Plaintiff’s Title, or Any Cloud on Plaintiff’s Title Thereto and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive ATTACHMENT ONE: This action affects title to specific real property identified in the pleading situated in the County of Butte, State of California, and more particularly described as follows: LOT 30, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “RANCHO LINDO SUBDIVISION UNIT NO. 1”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON MAY 5, 1953, IN BOOK 19 OF MAPS, AT PAGE(S) 48 AND 49.

EXCEPTING THERFROM ALL OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS AND MINERALS NOW OR AT ANY TIME HEREAFTER SITUATE THEREIN AND THEREUNDER, TOGETHER WITH THE FREE AND UNLIMITED RIGHT TO MINE, DRILL, BORE, OPERATE AND REMOVE FROM BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND AT ANY LEVEL OR LEVELS, 50 FEET OR MORE BELOW THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT OR REMOVAL OF ALL OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS AND MINERALS SITUATE THERIN OR THEREUNDER OR PRODUCIBLE THEREFROM. APN: 007-080-033 Dated: February 17, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00510 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT LITA VALDEZ You are being sued by plaintiff: TROY A. CROOKS You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court North Butte County Court House 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: TROY A. CROOKS 1563 Montgomery Street #C Oroville, CA 95965 AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-7777 LDA #22 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: May 11, 2017 Case Number: 17FL00905 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARVEL MASTELOTTO To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARVEL MASTELOTTO, ALSO KNOWN AS MARVEL HELEN MASTELOTTO AND MARVEL H. MASTELOTTO Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOHN W. MASTELOTTO in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN W. MASTELOTTO be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 18, 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: Kelly Albrecht, Esq. 1440 Lincoln Street Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 534-9900 Case Number: 17PR00207 Dated: June 08, 2017 Published: June 15,22,29, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BRUCE ALEXANDER BELLIN, AKA BRUCE ALEX BELLIN, BRUCE A. BELLIN, BRUCE BELLIN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BRUCE ALEXANDER BELLIN, AKA BRUCE ALEX BELLIN, BRUCE A. BELLIN, BRUCE BELLIN Petition for Probate has been filed by: CHERI MARIE GAMETTE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: CHERI MARIE GAMETTE 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

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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: July 18, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: Clayton B. Anderson, Esq. 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 17PR00204 Dated: June 07, 2017 Published: June 15,22,29, 2017

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

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

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.

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A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 18, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: VANESSA J. SUNDIN Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Suite 302 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 17PR00213 Published: June 22,29, July 6, 2017

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTOPHER D. BONNER 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

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court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 11, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 17PR00224 Dated: June 19, 2017 Published: June 22,29, July 6, 2017

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“I hate squirrels!” screamed the pest inspector, Roy Bartlett. His voice came muffled from somewhere in the attic space of this old two-story farmhouse. My buyer, Gloria Smith, and I stood in the side yard and stared up at the source of the muffled scream, the attic access hole a good twenty-five feet high, just below the roof peak.

Second 3: Roy held up a bloody forefinger. He screamed, “Dang bitin’ squirrels!” He flung a screwdriver fast and hard toward the squirrels. It sailed harmlessly away.

Within the next sixty-second time period, the following occurred.

Second 4: Mrs. Perry, the seller of the place, comes running around the covered porch from the front of the house. She gives Roy the stink-eye. “Thank God they’re okay,” she says.

“No harm is to be done to any squirrels on this property, in perpetuity. I’m putting it in the deed!” She stomps off.

Second 1: A grey squirrel shot out of the attic access hole, and sprang to the branch of a giant sycamore tree.

Seconds 5 through 60: Gloria says, “’In perpetuity’? Does that mean forever? Can she do that?”

Second 2: Roy’s head popped out of the attic access hole, immediately followed by two smaller grey squirrels, who used Roy’s bald spot as a launching pad to follow the first squirrel to the sycamore tree. Once on the branch, the three squirrels lined up and barked and chittered back at Roy.

“I think so,” I said, “and I think so.”

“Oh well,” said Gloria. “I really want this place. And the squirrels are really cute. She can put it in the deed and I’ll take care of them.”

“Cute?” said Roy. He looked at Gloria like she was crazy.

He shook his head and said, “I hate squirrels!”

Provided by doug Love, Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon. email escrowgo@aol.com, or call 530-680-0817.

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1413 Manchester Rd 1983 E 8th St 1576 Filbert Ave 1787 Roth St 997 East Ave 8 Blanqueta Ct 549 Mission Santa Fe Cir 10 Geneva Ln 355 Henshaw Ave 1694 Oak Vista Ave 1215 Peninsula Dr

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$599,999 $544,999 $435,000 $396,000 $392,000 $350,000 $339,500 $332,500 $320,000 $320,000 $311,000

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

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NEW LISTING!

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

920 Neal Dow Ave 7 Benton Ave 2820 Rodeo Ave 382 Chestnut Rose Ln 993 Azalea Ave 4669 Angelena Way 2099 Hartford Dr #20 598 Troy Ln 1367 Honey Run Rd 74 Chicory Rd 1114 Nord Ave #6

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$309,500 $303,000 $300,000 $295,000 $215,000 $213,636 $197,500 $195,000 $189,000 $169,273 $141,000

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of june 12, 2017 – june 16, 2017.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1116 Neal Dow Ave

Chico

$132,500

3/1

1206

2613 Forestview Dr

Oroville

$175,000

3/2

1170

1648 Broadway St

Chico

$78,182

3/1

1580

2110 Rosedale Ave

Oroville

$172,000

3/2

1148

150 District Center Dr

Oroville

$315,000

3/2

1596

391 Starlight Ct

Paradise

$509,999

3/3

2620

5313 Mount Ratchel Ct

Oroville

$304,000

3/2

2391

3945 Rainbow Ranch Ln

Paradise

$486,000

3/3

3090

5204 Honey Rock Ct

Oroville

$269,000

3/2

1945

6161 Coral Ave

Paradise

$300,000

3/2

1404

215 Spur Ave

Oroville

$225,000

3/2

1440

6567 Center Pine Dr

Paradise

$257,000

3/2

1544

405 Dack Ct

Oroville

$215,000

2/2

1344

471 Crestwood Dr

Paradise

$247,000

2/2

1459

326 Shady Oak Dr

Oroville

$205,000

3/2

1160

5495 Edgewood Ln

Paradise

$225,000

3/2

1296

1517 Lumpkin Rd

Oroville

$200,000

2/2

1001

6130 Bowles Blvd

Paradise

$219,000

2/2

1403

25 Gang Way

Oroville

$180,000

4/2

1092

1383 Forest Service Rd

Paradise

$218,000

2/1

1188

106 Valley View Dr

Oroville

$175,000

3/2

1220

5604 Sawmill Rd

Paradise

$146,000

3/2

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