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Know your enemy Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s town hall forum in Chico on Monday (Aug. 7) unfolded

predictably. Angry constituents challenged him; he dismissed their concerns with glibness, condescension and stump-speech recitations. It should be obvious, around eight months into the Trump presidency and the 115th Congress, that Republicans like LaMalfa discount dissent. They wave off citizens’ concerns as “Internet talking points,” unflattering media coverage as “fake news.” Public meetings are formalities. LaMalfa believes the Affordable Care Act merits repeal and Trump merits support. Cajoling him will not change him. Gentle persuasion probably won’t, either. He’s entrenched. So, those who oppose his and the GOP’s agenda need to do more than wave signs and yell. They also need to recognize ally from opponent. Just ahead of LaMalfa’s whistle stop, a Facebook meme hit the refresh button on infighting that’s fractured so-called progressives. The meme depicts a Venn diagram with Democrats on the left, Republicans on the right, overlapping all they purportedly have in common. The only distinctions, according to this assessment, are stances on abortion, guns and accepting climate change. Otherwise, the parties are clones. We understand this cynicism. The Democratic Party leans more centerleft than left. However, to equate the values of Democrats with those of Republicans is to create a false equivalence. We’ve given up on one major political party, not both. We harken to Bernie Sanders, who’s opted to change the system from the inside by joining with the Democrats. He sees allies, his vision not obscured by a mask of ideological purity. Keep the pressure on our congressman. Understand, however, that the most meaningful action in that regard may be, as a town hall button read, “Repeal and replace LaMalfa.” That won’t happen if progressives keep misplacing aggression. □

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Waste of money, insult to tribe court costs fighting the federally granted right W for the Mechoopda to develop a casino on the tribe’s hy has Butte County wasted over $600,000 in

land over the last 10 years? Why does the Board of Supervisors continue to squander taxpayer resources on a legal dead end? And what can we as a community do about it? Despite community opposition (including editorials in the local press opposing the board’s actions and supporting the by Mechoopda’s rights) and losing Sara Trechter another legal battle last summer the author, a Chico in federal court, the county filed state linguistics a new appeal in January without professor, is a holding a public forum. Such an member of Friends insulting move also demonstrates of the Mechoopda, a fundamental misunderstanding a group supporting of the historical place of the tribal sovereignty. Mechoopda in our community. The Mechoopda tribe is both a sovereign nation recognized by the U.S. government and integral to Butte County. Its right to self-determination is guaranteed by federal law. The

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Mechoopda have obtained all the required permits to build a casino and develop 91 acres out of a 625-acre parcel. If the county’s appeal succeeds, it thwarts the Mechoopda’s economic development plans to provide funding for education, healthcare and eldercare from casino revenues. Mechoopda tribal members are consistently responsible to our collective community by contributing their knowledge and practice of sustainable land practices and by educating children in our schools. Through their actions, they demonstrate an ability to balance traditional practices with responsible development of their lands. As the Mechoopda nation strives to recover from a history of disenfranchisement and persecution, we are compelled to support their efforts toward economic independence. We live together on ancestral, indigenous lands, and Mechoopda contributions to Butte County should be valued and cultivated. This means respecting the cultural and educational contributions of the tribe and ending wasteful expenditures of taxpayer funds on already settled legal sovereignty matters. Please contact the Butte County Board of Supervisors to put an end to these futile and unreasonable expenditures. □

Bread and circuses “Two things only the people anxiously desire: bread and circuses,” the

Roman poet Juvenal wrote. He was lamenting the slide of the democratic Roman Republic into the autocratic Roman Empire and its citizens’ civic passivity as long as they were fed and entertained. Instead of gladiator bouts at the Coliseum, the Trump administration gives us scandal on top of scandal, lie on top of lie—and we’re riveted. Thus, we’re distracted from seeing the significant, even dangerous, changes his downriver minions have made in federal policy. As David Graham, writing in The Atlantic, notes, the Trump administration is “remaking the justice system, rewriting environmental rules, overhauling public-lands administration and green-lighting major infrastructure projects” such as the once-controversial Keystone XL pipeline. It is also, Graham adds, “appointing figures who will guarantee the triumph of its ideological vision for decades to come.” Nowhere is this more evident than at the Environmental Protection Agency, which is working to, as The New York Times reports, “undo, delay or otherwise block more than 30 environmental rules, a regulatory rollback larger in scope than any other over so short a time in the agency’s 47-year history.” Changes similar in scope and impact are occurring at the Justice Department, where Attorney General Jeff Sessions is harking back to the “tough on crime” mindset of the failed War on Drugs. The administration also has sought to weaken both the financial-regulation law Dodd-Frank and the Consumer Finance Protection Bureau. And the Interior Department has lifted a ban on coal mining on public land. The list goes on. So don’t let yourself be distracted by Trump’s follies. He may play the buffoon, even be one, but he’s staffed his agencies with capable people eager to carry out his ideological vision. □

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

Missed opportunity Count me among the many locals who would have liked to attend Doug LaMalfa’s recent town hall. That he held his shindig at 8 a.m. on a weekday made it pretty darn inconvenient for folks with jobs. In my case, I could have penciled the event into my work schedule. Call me one of the lucky ones. But it would have required me to adjust my home life—namely, it conflicted with the time I typically drop off my son at preschool. That was a deal breaker. Like most people around these parts, that’s left me reliant on the news coverage of the event. I’ve checked out everything I can get my hands on, from the local daily to the Los Angeles Times, which, as it’s wont to do, parachuted into town for the big show and led with a zinger—in this case, quoting a man who said he hoped the congressman would “die in pain.” Of course, the CN&R wouldn’t dare miss a LaMalfa appearance in our backyard. Check out Ken Smith’s report on page 8. For the record, Smith says the “die in pain” comment didn’t go over well in the room of LaMalfa detractors. Still, thanks to the Times, the diatribe is making the rounds on places like Breitbart, the bottom feeders of the journalism world. The next time I get an opportunity to see our dear congressman in person may just be the local League of Women Voters’ forums during the 2018 election season. LaMalfa already has several challengers thus far: Democrats Dennis Duncan, Martha Walters and Jessica Holcombe, from Magalia, Quincy and Auburn, respectively. They have active campaigns. Democrat Brandon Storment of Redding is listed on the filing website of the Federal Election Commission, but I don’t see any activity from him. Also listed: Joe Montes, a Republican whose battle with LaMalfa in 2016 led to a local schism within that party. It looks like Montes, then based in Chico, won’t give it another go next year. He’s now in Spokane, Wash., working in real estate. Montes is a nice guy, but he’s also an ideologue. He may have had support in the North State from some well-heeled folks, but he didn’t have the flexibility to pull in votes from moderates or lefties. Indeed, LaMalfa is pretty safe around these parts. He will be until at least the next recession or until those who blindly vote for him realize he’s part of the machine that serves only to enrich those who keep people like him in power.

Mea culpa: Last week, after returning from a lousy vacation, I

wrote about that trip to beautiful far-Northern California, a place I’d never explored. Within hours of the paper hitting the stands, I got a message that I’d erroneously written that Dunsmuir is in Trinity County, when, in fact, it’s in Siskiyou. Several more followed—some of them snarky, some of them kind. I wanted to give a shout out to one of the latter, a reader in Red Bluff, 95-1/2-year-old Robert, who wrote a nice message on a lovely postcard picturing Shasta Dam, the lake and the mountain in the background. It’s now up on my bulletin board, serving as a reminder that I ought to return to the area for a proper visit.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Insulting to constituents I attended the Doug LaMalfa town hall meeting and was disgusted after only 20 seconds into the meeting. Mr. LaMalfa decided to open up the discussion with a holy prayer that ended with the often-used “Thank you, our Lord, Jesus Christ.” How can he hold a town meeting to discuss federal policy and allow a religious prayer representing one dominating religion? I felt left out and insulted and feel there is no place for any one religion to dominate. The separation of church and state has become a sham. We have separation of church and state for a reason. We must hold town hall meetings without religious prayer if one religion is favored. Paying homage to only one religion is an insult to all other beliefs. Naomi Eisenberg Chico

Editor’s note: Ms. Eisenberg isn’t the only one who felt insulted by Mr. LaMalfa. Read Ken Smith’s report on page 8 to get a fuller picture of the congressman’s town hall.

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Struck a nerve Re “Confessions of a reluctant racist” (Guest comment, by Jaime O’Neill, Aug. 3): Jaime O’Neill is absolutely right. He is a racist! Racism by definition is “a belief or doctrine that inherent differences among the various human racial groups determine cultural or individual achievement, usually involving the idea that one’s own race is superior and has the right to dominate others or that a particular racial group is inferior to the others.” So Mr. O’Neill is judging all white people based on the misdeeds, avarice and detestable actions of a few. Using his logic, all blacks are welfare-dependent, gang-banging drug dealers. All Hispanics are MS-13 members and a societal drain. Of course, this thinking is execrable! As is Mr. O’Neill! He did get one other thing right, however. He should be ashamed to go out in public with his pasty white, melanin-challenged skin because he might be accused of of being “one of them ... you know, an a-hole.” You are an a-hole, Mr. O’Neill, but not for the reasons you think! Michael Pulliam Paradise

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CITY OF CHICO NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING REGARDING AMENDMENT OF THE CITY’S DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE SCHEDULE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City Council of the City of Chico will hold a public hearing on Tuesday, August 15, 2017, at 6:00 p.m. in the Council Chamber of the Chico Municipal Center, 421 Main Street, for the purpose of discussion and consideration of changes to Development Impact Fees. The proposed changes include fees in the following categories: Administrative Building, Fire Facilities, Animal Shelter, Police Facilities, Sewer-Trunk Line, Sewer-Water Pollution Control Plant, Bikeways, Greenways, Parks-Neighborhood, Parks-Community, Bidwell Park Land Acquisition, Street Maintenance, Urbanization, and Street Facilities. All persons interested in this matter and wishing to submit comments are invited to attend. Copies of the proposed changes of fees and supporting data are available for public review in the office of the City Clerk, 411 Main Street, Chico, California. For more information, contact Brendan Ottoboni, Public Works DirectorEngineering at (530) 879-6901, or Brendan.ottoboni@chicoca.gov.

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A high-five for Jamie O’Neill’s guest commentary. O’Neill described the so-called millions of citizens who voted for Trump as a “horde of greed freaks, honkies, crackers, evangelicals, and high school dropouts.” Trump refers to the high school dropouts as his precious “poorly educated supporters.” Speaking of racist, the Electoral College was designed to protect slavery, and was championed by James Madison as the infamous “three-fifths compromise.” To quote a famous philosopher, “The Electoral College is a disaster for a democracy.” This quote was made by none other than comrade Trump in a tweet dated Nov. 6, 2012. Trump is still whining about losing the popular vote by 3 million citizens, and insists it was voter fraud. Poppycock. I applaud O’Neill for his veracious article. Like Harry Truman said, “I don’t give them hell, I just tell the truth about them and they thinks it’s hell.” Hopefully O’Neill hit some right-wing whacko nerves. Ray Estes Chico

Regarding Jaime O’Neill’s recent commentary, I agree with him. He’s a racist. To denigrate a whole segment of a population based solely on their race (i.e., “whites”) is racism. In his selfloathing, guilt-ridden catharsis (why so common in “liberals”?), he either ignores or is ignorant of the innumerable instances throughout history of groups of all color hues and varying religious ideologies committing atrocities against those not like themselves. But apparently Mr. O’Neill seems to believe this deplorable intolerance is restricted to the “white” genome. Interesting phenomenon within his own diatribe. Even though several of the recent high-profile deaths at the hands of police were from nonwhite police, the blue uniform apparently turns these “bad cops” white. Another convenient distortion/omission. I’m not particularly religious, nor did I vote for Trump, but I know many high-quality people who did. O’Neill would have you believe that all 60-plus million Trump voters are inherently evil 6

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“white” Christian fanatic Nazis. His brand of hateful rhetoric is no better than someone who espouses that all Muslims are jihadists or all blacks are criminals. Thankfully for the U.S. education system, O’Neill is now a retired community college instructor. Charles Wilhite Chico

Although it is often amusing to read various rants from far-left liberals, Jaime O’Neill’s piece really takes the cake. His essay on why he loathes himself for being born Caucasian was utterly revolting, and exposed his deeply felt bigotry toward anyone who may have been born “white” or whatever that rather broad noncolor “category” might encompass. Because O’Neill happens to be white, he fears going out onto the streets in anticipation of being labeled an “a-hole,” from which he then infers that all people of noncolor are simply some form or other of a sphincter (talk about divisive racism!). I guess that his bigotry extends across the globe, even to the unborn children of, say, Lithuania, who by nature of their yet-to-beexpressed genetic code are also therefore “a-holes.” Outrageous. Since my sons are half Hispanic, one can only wonder in awe at what label the self-hating professor would deem fitting for them. O’Neill’s essay was neither informative, useful nor interesting. It was simply another example of liberal literary self-immolation, and I was frankly surprised that it passed editorial scrutiny. Mike Birch Chico

Really, Jaime? You really believe the entire white race is a “lousy segment of humanity,” and that the millions who voted for Trump are a “horde of crackers, Nazi nostalgiacs, evangelicals, high school dropouts, and privileged plutocrats”? It’s obvious you’re mad, but please take a breath before you pop a blood vessel. Actually, you should be mad. According to Obama, Hillary Clinton was the most qualified candidate for president in his lifetime. And her Republican

opponent? A flawed reality show host with no political experience. Hillary should’ve won by a landslide. And yet ... Jaime, why besmirch Trump voters when the real blame for Hillary’s failure rests with the multitude of disillusioned Democrats and independents who preferred Trump’s vision? That blame rests squarely on the Democratic leadership: by naming Hillary their “chosen one” long before the primary; by losing faith with their working class base in favor of Hollywood elites, political correctness, etc.; by presenting no real vision except for bashing Trump; and whose arrogance turned the Midwest and its unemployed blue-collar workers into “flyover country.” Be mad, but please direct your anger at those who’re really responsible. Continually blaming the winners for winning gets you and your party nowhere. Bob Evans Chico

Trying again Re “‘Privilege, not a right’” (Letters, by Brad Pankratz, Aug. 3): A letter to your newspaper indicated that I believe everyone should get free health care, or at the very least healthy people who don’t need it should pay for it for older people who do. Nowhere in my previously submitted letter did I put forth such musings. What I attempted to point out is that an existing health care plan that currently helps protect more than 80 million Americans was on the brink of being dismantled by the Republican Party. This was an unconscionable action inasmuch as they had no plan of their own to offer in its place, thereby adversely affecting millions of people, many who are elderly or disabled, while creating chaos in the insurance market. Health care isn’t a privilege; it’s something that every civilized industrial country in the world makes sure their citizens have. There were 643,000 family medical bankruptcies in 2013. The Affordable Care Act has its positives and negatives. Congress, working together for country, not party, needs to fine-tune the

Health care isn’t a privilege; it’s something that every civilized industrial country in the world makes sure their citizens have. —Roger S. Beadle

positives and fix the negatives. It is the decent thing to do. If my car breaks down, I don’t drive it into a ditch and walk away. I have it repaired and keep using it. Roger S. Beadle Chico

Protect the trees Re “Trees and Ranger Bob” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Aug. 3): I have been in Chico for 25 years and have seen a major change in our urban forest. Our great valley oaks are being replaced by smaller trees that do not have the greater canopy of the oaks and sycamores. I was disheartened to read Ms. Daugherty advocating for the cutting down of two pin oaks that I understand are healthy. Please reconsider your stand. These great trees provide shade, clean air, habitat for various birds and will live for hundreds of years. Bill Kurnizki Chico

Book recommendation I highly recommend the book Hamilton by Ron Chernow to anyone who would like to learn something about the founding of our democracy. Contrary to what many believe, politics in the United States has had differences of opinion since its beginning. There is an excerpt from this book that I think everyone should see and reflect upon. It was said by Alexander Hamilton after he was accused by Thomas Jefferson and James Madison of wanting to destroy our fragile republic. Even though Madison and Hamilton were originally close friends, Madison was concerned

about the federal power being created by Hamilton in his role as treasury secretary. Nevertheless, the acceptance of vocal and written disagreement in the way of moving the democracy forward ceased when Hamilton was accused of wanting to destroy it. If he had wanted to impose a monarchy upon America, Hamilton said, he would’ve followed the classic path of a populist demagogue: “I would mount the hobbyhorse of popularity, I would cry out usurpation, danger to liberty, etc., etc. I would endeavour [sic] to prostrate the national government, raise a ferment, and then ride in the whirlwind and direct the storm.” Hmmm ... seems like someone describing the antics of our current president. William Fisher Chico

Speaking of POTUS What goes up usually comes down—somewhat like the intellectual quotient of those waywardyet-well-intentioned souls who still believe this deeply troubled and shamefully incoherent creep can actually transform their hopelessly fragmented nation into greatness. Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

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I actually fought super hard for and won a silent raffle from the Novembeard 2016 event. It’s a print of Garth, from Wayne’s World, wearing a Darth Vader helmet. I love it so much, and it’s beautiful.

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I have a lot of African-themed pictures and paintings in my home. But what I consider art is old school hip-hop and R&B music from the ’70s, ’80s and ’90s. It’s an art form. Those are hip and like Rembrandts to me. I’m a pastor now, but I still haven’t got rid of those classics. You can’t use a lot of the words from the hip-hop ones on Sundays.

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Butte and Glenn counties recently were awarded $124,196 and $19,673, respectively, in federal grant funding to expand the capacity of emergency food and shelter programs. According to a press release from Catalyst Domestic Violence Services, the Federal Emergency Management Agency grants were distributed to high-need areas of the country by the national Emergency Food and Shelter Program. A local board will determine how the funding is distributed to social service agencies. Qualifying volunteer groups are encouraged to contact Anastacia Snyder of Catalyst at 343-7711. The deadline to apply is Aug. 25.

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The Butte County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously in closed session on Tuesday (Aug. 8) to file a lawsuit against the California Department of Water Resources for failing to adequately assess the impacts of Gov. Jerry Brown’s enormous water infrastructure project, known as California WaterFix. The controversial $15 billion project would divert water from the Sacramento River to the Central Valley via twin tunnels underneath the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. On July 21, DWR certified its environmental analysis of WaterFix under the

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According to a press release, Butte County has a list of concerns that have not been addressed by the environmental analysis and, “if ignored, the failures would lead to actions that will ultimately damage the region’s economy, environment and communities.”

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After snubbing a federal grant last month, local homeless services provider Stairways Programming has accepted the money and plans on handing it to the Torres Community Shelter sometime next week. Stairways walked away from a $72,000 U.S.

Department of Housing and Urban Development

grant for a project to provide transitional housing for LGBT individuals (see “Crack in the continuum,” Newslines, July 20). Stairways’ executive director, Michael Madieros, cited a lack of support from and distrust of the Butte

Countywide Homeless Continuum of Care (CoC), the body that

administers the grants locally. However, Madieros (pictured) told the CN&R on Tuesday (Aug. 8) that he has formed a new partnership with Kristina Carter, interim director of the Torres Shelter—an organization he has publicly criticized for its admission policies. The Torres Shelter will provide housing for the LGBT project and Stairways will provide supportive services. Had Stairways not accepted the grant, the funding allocation could have been lost next year, according to CoC board member Ed Mayer.

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LaMalfa takes a licking Congressman rolls with verbal punches, jabs back at town hall meeting advice of several people who spoke at IMonday’s (Aug. 7) town hall meeting in f Rep. Doug LaMalfa were to take the

Chico and resign from his job immediately, he might find a second career in the world of professional wrestling. by The Republican Ken Smith congressman, who kens @ stands well over 6 feet n ew srev i ew. c o m tall and looks every bit the rice-fed farm boy he proudly claims to be, doesn’t just fit the bill physically; on Monday, he seemed to relish playing the role of the heel—the bad-guy wrestler crowds love to hate. Not only did he appear unaffected by the boos and jeers that rained down upon him from many of the roughly 400 constituents who attended the 8 a.m. meeting at Manzanita Place, but he also repeatedly loosed comments that served no other purpose than to stir the ire of his detractors. Most of the crowd seemed to be there to express opposition to his stated positions on health care, the environment, immigration and other issues, and LaMalfa assumed a combative stance from the out-

set. As people shouted their concerns that his lengthy preamble was cutting into the hour allotted for questions and comments, LaMalfa warned people to be respectful “if we want to do any more [town halls].” “I’ve got the mic, folks,” he said as the crowd reacted to his chiding by booing and waving red sheets of paper meant to express disapproval (most reserved their green sheets for LaMalfa’s critics). “Yeah, go ahead and boo away.” LaMalfa’s jabs continued throughout the event, each time invoking a chorus of derision. After Dan Everhart of Chico spoke about growing economic inequality and asked the congressman why he’s supported cuts to social services and tax

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breaks for the rich, LaMalfa said, “Those are great talking points you got off the Internet somewhere.” When another man spoke about a lack of affordable housing, LaMalfa pivoted to comment on environmental protections: “The high cost of land and only being able to use a little bit of it because of a fairy shrimp or something— that’s what drives the cost of housing.” And when a woman questioned LaMalfa’s repeated assertions that humanity plays no role in climate change, he said, “I agree

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… mankind is preventing us from doing forest management that keeps our forests from burning all summer.” Health care—and specifi-

cally LaMalfa’s support of the Republican effort to repeal and replace the Affordable Care Act with the American Health Care Act—was by far the most frequently raised issue at the town hall. The first public comment came from a Chico woman, Ann Sisney, who held up a picture of her son William, who died of an opioid overdose in 2015. “The health care you voted for, the AHCA, would discontinue health insurance [for many people],” said Sisney, on the verge of tears. “It would dramatically increase premiums for people over 50, but probably the scariest thing is it strips away essential benefits, preventative care, drug treatment and mental health treatment. “I want you to know these are life-and-death decisions you are making.” Though LaMalfa stood by his support of the AHCA and repeated his criticisms of the cost and “lack of choice” under the ACA, he acknowledged that the AHCA passed by the House of Representatives “wouldn’t be the be-all, end-all.” He said the bill was rushed in an effort to allow the Senate’s attempt to pass a health care bill during the budget reconciliation process, during which the panel needed only a simple majority (51 votes) rather than a three-fifths vote (60 votes) to pass the legislation. (It received just 49 yeas.) He also said the AHCA was part of a three-phase plan that included giving broader power to Secretary of Health and Human Services Tom Price and further legislation to allow health insurance sales across state lines. LaMalfa also criticized a nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office report released in May that said the AHCA, as proposed by the House, would raise premiums by 20 percent by 2019 and lead to 23 million uninsured Americans by 2026. He suggested that

17 million of those people would be uninsured by choice: “They don’t want that health care, they’re being forced into it,” he said. “There’s a lot of misperception about this,” he continued. “We really want to give choices back to the people and we need to get government out of the way. We all like choices, right?” LaMalfa was criticized because his family’s farming operation accepted $5.3 million in rice subsidies in a 20-year period while he supported cuts to food stamps for 2 million Americans in the 2014 Farm Bill; for his stance against abortion and for his perceived allegiance to President Trump. Altogether, with dozens of people offering comments and questions, only one of the speakers praised LaMalfa, saying he supported the congressman and lamented the level of discord in political discourse. After the meeting, Butte County Supervisor Larry Wahl, whose district includes parts of Chico and who attended the town hall, shared similar comments. “It took some guts to get up there in what was sure to be a hostile crowd, he said. “He and I don’t agree on everything, but we do agree on a lot of things when it comes to Republican values. “I wish people would have been a little more respectful and let him talk. All the yelling and carrying on just because they don’t agree with what he says … I don’t think any of that helps.” Everhart, the man LaMalfa accused of cribbing his talking points from the Internet, had a much different takeaway: “He didn’t seem to take any questions very seriously and, perhaps encouraged by Trump’s example, doesn’t mind being a bully,” he told the CN&R. “Overall, he seemed only marginally engaged and confident in the Republican majority he enjoys in this congressional district. “You have to wonder why he even bothered facing this predictably hostile crowd. Maybe he just wanted to slap his opponents around a little.” □

Butte supervisors ban sales, allow deliveries—for now Butte County Board of was presented TwithheSupervisors a series of options on

Tuesday (Aug. 8) during opening discussions of Proposition 64 and, more specifically, whether to allow commercial activity regarding marijuana or to ban it. After a brief presentation, over an hour of public comment and a short Q&A session with staff, the supervisors voted unanimously to ban it all—save for delivery services—until at least next May. Of the dozens of speakers, a majority of whom represented those who favor allowing commercial activity, some touted the benefits of regulating the industry and others highlighted the potential tax revenue. “I don’t see an end game for banning it,” said Evan Sanders, a cannabis proponent. “I’m offended that people paint us as all bad actors. If we had a regulated market, then cannabis would be getting regulated.” Others disagreed. “Remember when Butte County was a nice place to live? If you pass commercial marijuana, you will see a mass exodus in this county,” said one woman, who acted as the spokesperson for those in attendance opposed to commercial cannabis. The county’s task that day wasn’t a simple one. As outlined by Casey Hatcher, the county’s Economic and Community Development manager, the panel had several options before it: first, whether to allow commercial activity—including cultivation, manufacturing, testing, delivery and distribution—and if so, whether to tax it. The panel can, Hatcher emphasized, choose to allow some activities and not others. And, to make

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matters more confusing, the law still differentiates between medical and recreational use, meaning the supervisors could allow one and not the other. “On the federal level, it is a Schedule I drug—that hasn’t changed in decades,” Hatcher told the board. However, she added, President Obama implemented the Cole Memo, which effectively says that if local jurisdictions take steps to thoughtfully regulate the drug, the feds won’t interfere. Since California voters approved Proposition 64 last November, the state has been working to implement a regulatory framework for commercialization. That will go into effect Jan. 1, 2018—hence a ticking clock for local governments to choose to regulate or ban. Any tax, she explained, would need to be approved by four out of five of the supervisors (a two-thirds majority is needed) and then put to a vote of the people. Butte County’s incorporated communities will NEWSLINES c o n t i n u e d

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and agreed. Supervisor Maureen Kirk, whose district includes parts of Chico, suggested not regulating delivery services, several of which currently operate within the county. “I believe delivery is a way of life in Butte County—we ought to continue with delivery,” she said. “I haven’t heard of any problems at all. And it seems to me it would be incentive not to grow, not to go to black market.” County Counsel Bruce Alpert interjected that delivery presented the biggest enforcement issues for the county, mainly because transportation is legal on the state level and cannot be regulated locally. For instance, the state has said it’s legal to transport the drug through Butte County to points elsewhere and proving an end destination within the county would be time-consuming and not cost-effective, he said. Supervisor Larry Wahl, who also represents parts of Chico, has long been a vocal opponent of any kind of legalization. He first proposed the board enact a ban on everything and come back for discussion within 12 months. He didn’t bat an eye at Kirk’s suggestion to add a friendly amendment allowing deliveries, however, and 12 months was amended to May, with discussion accompanied by reports from law enforcement and city staff on how other jurisdictions are handling Prop. 64. Bill Connelly, board chair, also insisted a committee be formed to include all interested parties. “I’m not for marijuana,” Connelly said. “I have my opinions, personally, but I heard some pretty compelling discussion today that we ought to at least start talking to the other side. We have to figure a way to move this forward. I don’t want to be stagnated.” The motion passed unanimously. —MeredIth J. Cooper me r e d i th c @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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of Veterans Affairs and Defense haven’t responded with any significant research initiative. “The bottom line is that there is no pink ribbon to raise awareness for festering, foul-smelling wounds that don’t heal,” said Caroline Fife, a wound care doctor in Texas. “No movie star wants to be the poster child for this, and the patients … are old, sick, paralyzed and, in many cases, malnourished.” The NIH estimates that it invests more than $32 billion a year in medical research. But an independent review estimated it spends 0.1 percent studying wound treatment. That’s about the same amount of money NIH spends on Lyme disease, even though the tick-borne infection costs the medical system one-tenth of what wound care does, according to an analysis led by Dr. Robert Kirsner, chair at the University of Miami Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery. Emma Wojtowicz, an NIH spokeswoman, said the agency supports chronic wound care, but she said she couldn’t specify how much money is spent on research because it’s not a separate funding category. “Chronic wounds don’t fit neatly into any funding categories,” said Jonathan Zenilman, chief of the division for infectious

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GREENWAYS Assistant Superintendent Kevin Bultema shows one of Chico Unified’s newer school buses, much like ones on order.

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Chico Unified gets grants to replace school buses, add electric model by

Elizabeth Castillo

W for their school bus, sometimes they’ll hear the arrival before spotting the big yelhen students wait on a street corner

Union High school districts. The grant award is up to $400,000 for the bus and $5,000 for the infrastructure—that low vehicle. Buses, which traditionally are will cover most of the cost, but will require powered by diesel fuel, can be loud and an additional $3,000 to $4,000 from CUSD obnoxious. coffers. The board approved the purchase Imagine a bus so quiet, no one may in June. The bus should be delivered by realize it’s approaching; so quiet that it’s December 2018, according to Ontiveros, equipped with an audio amplification system once it’s completed. programmed with noises like a trolley car, The electric bus will be the first of its kind just so it’ll emit running sounds. for the school district. Chrystal Ales, the air School bus manufacturer Bluebird makes quality district administrator who’s overseen such a model—an electric bus, newly Chico’s grant, said CUSD’s aging transportareleased. North Staters will soon find out tion helped earn the grant. In demonstrating how quiet it is, as Chico Unified School need, Ales explained, “they chose their oldest District has one on order. bus with the most miles on it. It was a 1987 This new bus will help CUSD reduce two diesel bus with over 400,000 miles.” types of pollution: noise and air. The goal of the grant, known as the Rural “It’s going to be basically silent,” School Bus Pilot Project, is to decrease Transportation Manager Bob Ontiveros said. greenhouse gas emissions by helping dis“This is another advantage [beyond emissions tricts accelerate the process of turning over and efficiency]—the ride will be a lot quieter.” their fleets. This program has a budget The electric bus is part of a nine-bus of $10 million and gives priority to rural upgrade for the district, with much of the areas that have less access to funding. The costs covered by California Air Resources grants. In the next Board partnered with several months, Chico the air quality district— “We’re going to be also will roll out eight which serves Humboldt, able to turn over new diesel buses. Del Norte and Trinity CUSD received almost 30 percent counties—on the grant a grant administered project. of our fleet.” by the North Coast “We’re rural, and —kevin bultema Unified Air Quality we understand what the Management District rural schools have to to purchase the electric deal with,” Ales said. bus and related infrastructure, such as buildOlder buses produce twice as much ing a charging station. Chico, along with 24 pollution as a semi-truck, Ales said. The other districts, was selected from more than pollution poses a significant health risk for 400 applicants statewide. Other local recipichildren since their respiratory systems are ents include Palermo Union and Oroville still developing.

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The state air resources board, part of the California Environmental Protection Agency, funded three studies that examined school bus passengers’ exposure to air pollutants. According to the agency, while students sit inside a diesel-fueled bus, pollution leaks into the cabin. “It’s not good for the kids, the environment or the drivers of the buses,” Ales said, noting the emissions from older buses especially. The new bus will be “zero emissions,” meaning that it will add no more pollution to the air since it’s electric. Kevin Bultema, assistant superintendent for

business services for CUSD, said the district is looking forward to having an electric bus as part of its fleet, which he described as “very old” and “outdated” overall. “It was a great opportunity that the cost of a full bus was going to be provided, and we think it’s going to be good for the environment,” he said. The district already has picked out the route: It will make stops at Little Chico Creek Elementary, Chapman Elementary and Chico High School. The electric bus can get 100 miles per charge. The district plans to charge it midday so it can extend the bus’ daily mileage. CUSD had its choice of manufacturers. Ontiveros said the district chose a Bluebird bus because of the company’s reputation for making buses. CUSD already has diesel buses from Bluebird. In the past, Bultema said, Chico Unified didn’t have the funding to replace its buses. But since the economy started to improve, the school district can dedicate more to that

effort. Grant funding from CARB helped with purchasing the diesel-fueled buses, too, Ontiveros said: Of the $175,000 price tag for each, grant money is covering $84,000. Chico’s replacement buses—expected to arrive this November— will have greater fuel efficiency and lower emissions to meet current standards, Ontiveros confirmed. As a bonus, they will offer WiFi access. Rural schools can have some of the oldest and dirtiest buses, Ales said. In Chico, Ontiveros said, the average school bus is 15 to 16 years old. The Rural School Bus Pilot Project grant allows districts to choose an electric bus, a hybrid bus or a bus that uses renewable fuel—Ales said the electric bus option has been the most popular option. “We’re excited for the opportunity,” Bultema said, adding that by leveraging both grants, “we’re going to be able to turn over almost 30 percent of our fleet.” □

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MOUNTAIN BIRDING Take a leisurely hike in Butte Meadows and look for mountain birds such as woodpeckers, Pacific wrens and mountain chickadees with the Altacal Audubon Society on Saturday (Aug. 12). Meet at the Chico Park and Ride on Highway 32 at 7 a.m. with water and a packed lunch; the group will return to Chico around 2-3 p.m. Contact Matt Forster at findforster@yahoo.com or (619) 347-2269 for more information.

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Crystallized vision After getting his geology degree at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Kasey Buckley worked his way to California, eventually finding himself in Chico and deciding to set up shop here. He opened his online rock shop three years ago and it did well—well enough to go brick-and-mortar last month. His Geology Rocks! and Minerals store, at 835 Main St., features some stones that the 27-yearold found himself, but the majority of the inventory comes from trade shows. Eventually, he said, he’d like to hold events and collaborate with other entities such as schools, groups like local Boy Scouts and the Gateway Science Museum to expose more people to the wonders of the natural world. The store’s open Monday-Saturday, 11 a.m.-6 p.m. Call (916) 717-8424 for more information.

Why Chico? Chico’s nice. It’s low-key. It’s a little town and I can get to the middle of nowhere in any direction fairly easily, within a couple hours. So, that leaves a lot of room to find a lot of things. And that’s what I like to do.

What got you into geology? I like rocks better than people. I like to be alone, out in nature, to explore. Geology gave me a

Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

It’s that time of year again, the beginning of what feels around here a bit like the first spring dew, promising another joyous few months ahead. Of what, you ask, do I speak? Best of Chico! Each year around this time, the CN&R opens the readers’ polls. For me personally, that signals fun to come as I’ve overseen the “big reveal” issue almost every year since I started working here in 2006. There’s something magical about counting all the votes, seeing which businesses and service purveyors have snagged another win and which eked out enough votes to outbid their opponents. Here in the office, it’s a time of secrecy. The Editorial staff closes doors and talks in hushed tones so as not to tip off our counterparts in Sales. Then we send our minions out around town to gather juicy tidbits about all the first-place winners for our write-ups. So, get out and vote for your faves (www.chicobestof.com). May the best of the best win!

chance to just nerd out and be in my work.

Who’s your target audience? Anybody. Especially kids. I’m trying to create nerds. I feel like science, especially earth science, in schools just gets touched on really briefly. We live in a world that was created by geology. To get kids interested just by showing them a shiny rock, or by telling them the story of how a fossil was created, is really nice. That’s my goal, is just to get people to go outside and adventure and want to find things like crystals.

Getting outside seems to be getting lost to technology—but are the two mutually exclusive? No. We can show the kids that they have technology but they also have this, and just encourage them to appreciate both. We definitely use them hand-in-

hand here. Especially if we want to go exploring someplace that someone told us about, I pull out old maps and read old journals, then I look on my GPS to make sure it’s not private land. I speak with the BLM to make sure it’s OK to take what I take. Plus I program my phone and all my GPS locators to let me know where I am when I have no signal. So, technology is very useful. Once I’m out there, though, my phone’s in my pocket.

Any big plans for the store? Honestly, I’m overwhelmed by what direction to go in first. I think we’ll slowly start to incorporate new events. Now I’m focused on adding more product, connecting with more jewelry artists and artists to get more of that kind of thing on display. —MEREdiTh J. CooPER m e re d i t h c @new srev i ew. c o m

a hop, skip and a jump A few downtown businesses are making some changes this month, moving locations to be a little closer to the inner action. The first, Live Life Juice Co., moved into its new shop at 220 Broadway—vacated in March by Sweet Cottage—at the beginning of August. Their previous spot, at 220 W. Sixth St., was admittedly off the beaten path. I remember trying to find it for the first time and driving right by, only to see the colorful carrot mural in my rearview mirror and turning around. There are new murals in the new space, which is in full swing. Best of luck to the Rasmussen sisters on this new chapter. Speaking of Sweet Cottage, there is some news on that front as well. The shop closed in March, and its owner, Robin Rowe, announced then via Facebook that she’d spent 11 days in the hospital after being overwhelmed with sleep deprivation and stress. It seems she’s re-emerged reinvigorated, however, and, much to the delight of pie fans everywhere, has rejoined the market circuit. Find Sweet Cottage’s mobile cart at the Thursday Night Market and Saturday morning’s Chico Certified Farmers’ Market. In other downtown move news, Envee Salon is ditching its Third Street digs for larger pastures at 152 E. Second St. (next to Peet’s Coffee). The salon will now have 10 hair stations and two treatment rooms in its new 1,700-square-feet space. Closing time Bank of America customers on the Ridge will soon have to drive to Chico for all their in-branch needs. That’s according to a letter a Paradise reader shared with me that announced the closure of the Skyway location effective Nov. 14. Phone calls to the branch were not answered. A recent report by the Economist, however, indicates that BofA’s closure of financial center locations is part of a bigger shift toward online and mobile banking that’s taking the industry by storm. (Wells Fargo last month announced the closure of 450 branches by the end of 2018.)

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Why is my memory so bad? Seeking help for the scatterbrained by

Kris Vagner krisv@newsrev iew.com

icture a giant carrot cake—the size of a suburban ranch house. Here’s why: I recently learned a new word, “epicaricacy.” The legitimacy of this word is debatable. Urban Dictionary condones it. Traditional dictionaries do not, and it’s sparsely used. It means the same thing as “schadenfreude”—that is, taking pleasure in someone else’s pain—and, while its obscurity probably will keep me from using it in print much, it does solve a common household problem. “Schadenfreude” is a handy word that I have occasion for regularly—like, every single time my kid beats me at chess and eagerly relishes my defeat—but, as far as I can tell, I’ve never really pronounced it correctly. So, when I first heard “epicaricacy,” which rolls off the non-German-speaking tongue pretty easily, I decided to adopt it for frequent colloquial use. But I had some trouble getting the word’s unfamiliar combination of syllables to lodge itself in my memory. I had to keep asking, “What was that word again?” until finally I devised a method to make it stick. I thought, “What does ‘epicaricacy’ sound like that would be easy to remember? Well, it kind of sounds like ‘epic carrot cake.’” So, I pictured a carrot cake the size of a house, and it worked. The word hasn’t slipped my mind since. Kris Vagner PHOTO BY JERRY SNYDER

About the author:

Kris Vagner is arts editor at the Reno News & Review, CN&R’s sister paper.

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But a lot of other things have slipped my mind. It happens all the time. Apart from being able to associate far-fetched images with hard-to-remember words pretty easily, my memory is terrible. You should hear me trying to recall the plot of a movie a few months after I’ve seen it: “Uhh. Umm.” And, once a week or so, when a colleague says, “Don’t you remember we just had this conversation?” I tend to say something like, “That does seem like a conversation we would have had, but, umm, no, this does not ring a bell.” So, I set out to learn why my memory is so faulty and what, if anything, could be done about it. Along the way, I learned a bit about what local memory scientists do.

What is memory, anyway? Let’s start with the basics. Memory is the brain’s system of encoding, storing and retrieving information. Physiologically speaking, those jobs are done by neurons, which are the brain’s nerve cells, communicating with each other via neurotransmitters, the chemicals that allow the transmission of signals. One fairly common assumption is that memory works like a file cabinet—we put information in there, it stays safe and well-organized, then, we pull it out when we need it. But in reality the process is quite a bit messier than that. Memory is malleable, and when it comes to autobiographical memory, the kind that helps us recall our own experiences, it’s also pretty unreliable. “It fades,” according to Dr. Marian Berryhill, a psychology professor at the University of Nevada, Reno (UNR). “It’s conflated across time and space, and everyone who was at a particular event has a different kind of memory for what happened. And every time you retrieve a memory, it changes.” To describe just how it changes, Berryhill likes to use a food metaphor. Think of a dish of food you’ve stored in the fridge and later reheated. “It’s going to be largely the same, probably, but when you take it out and warm it up again, the cheese sags,” she said. “The vegetables get a little wimpier. It’s not exactly the same. Sometimes it’s like reheating lasa-

gna. It’s not going to be entirely different. But sometimes it’s like letting ice cream melt. So, for some of those more fragile memories, you take it out, maybe it’s still occupying the same volume, you still recognize that it’s strawberry. But the structure, the shape, those are fundamentally pushed around.”

by researcher Betsy Sparrow, then with Columbia University, found something called the “Google effect” or “digital amnesia.” Explaining her findings to PBS NewsHour, Sparrow said, “When people expect to have information accessible to them later, they don’t remember it as well as when they don’t expect to.”

What could go wrong?

Science—slow and steady

There are a lot of things that can go wrong with memory. Some of the bigger problems include, of course, Alzheimer’s disease—which causes neurons to stop working, stop communicating with each other and die—and brain injuries, including those common childhood concussions, which can cause temporary or permanent loss to short- or long-term memory. But what we’re looking for here are reasons why the ordinary, noninjured brain can’t remember where it put its keys or recall what’s on the grocery list. For one thing, stress can decrease the ability to recall things—and the ability to encode them in the first place. Age affects memory loss, too—and sooner than you might think. Memory actually starts declining when we’re in our 20s. And a lot of people who are in their 60s notice they start forgetting things that seemed permanently stored, such as an ATM PIN or an acquaintance’s name. The good news is that, if in your 60s, you’re annoyed by this type of memory loss, that’s actually a sign that you’re doing OK. If it were Alzheimer’s setting in, you likely wouldn’t even notice that you were forgetting things. As you may have suspected, if you’ve ever jumped into the same Wikipedia hole twice or GPSed the route to your best friend’s house for the fifth time, our reliance on technology has made our memories worse, too. “When you know equipment is backing up your cognition, you don’t code it— you don’t keep it,” said Berryhill. There are mountains of studies to back that up. A 2008 study conducted in Tokyo found that pedestrians drew less accurate maps of the routes they had walked if they’d used a GPS than if they hadn’t. And an often-cited study from 2011, led

Berryhill works in the Cognitive and Brain Sciences Program and the Memory & Brain Lab, within UNR’s Department of Psychology, along with a team of colleagues and students. They devise and conduct experiment after experiment in the hope of slowly adding to the world’s cumulative knowledge of how the brain works. They work in a couple of small, hallwayshaped labs brightened by window light, with desks against the walls and a few computers. Some of the monitors show lines of code, which students have to write themselves. (For that reason, the program attracts its share of grad students who come from math or engineering backgrounds.) “Participants come in—usually they sit at boring computers,” said Berryhill, opening the door to a closet-size experimentation room inside one of the labs. On a small desk is an old, boxy CRT monitor, which is no longer manufactured but is still favored by researchers in cognitive and vision sciences. “Here’s some electrodes,” said Berryhill, picking up a cord with what looked like a small, damp, kitchen sponge at its end. “You just put these on the head. You put a tiny amount of current into the brain.” The team has used this experiment to try to determine whether electric current can stimulate memory—and they’ve found that it can, but typically only in people whose memories are already work-

ing well to begin with. If a breakthrough that small sounds like it would try your patience, a career in this type of research might not be up your alley. Progress is slow, and the parameters of what this team is looking for might appear, to the nonscientist’s eye, very narrow. They want to learn things like whether people can recognize symmetry well, or remember a specific, Rorschach-looking shape that flashes on a monitor for a split second, or try to measure how people’s eyes adapt to blur. “On scientific research, you’re trying to add one more bead to a string,” Berryhill said. While the team’s discoveries might seem modest in the grand scheme of things, she argued that their cumulative effects are invaluable. “So there’s … bench-to-bedside

Age affects memory loss, too— and sooner than you might think. Memory actually starts declining when we’re in our 20s.

research that’s very clearly targeting disease,” she said. “But there’s also the basic research, that is so easy to ridicule. It’s so easy to pull a paper out of a stack and go, ‘Can you believe these monkeys? They went off and studied … mosquito larvae that live in this particular tree.’ “But my opinion—and there are good data to support the view—is that you don’t even know the consequences of not funding research,” said Berryhill. She also mentioned that, at a moment when grant funding is under federal scrutiny, students’ ability to learn to evaluate data is of paramount concern to her. She added that in some cases that data relates to immediate concerns within students’ own families. “Parkinson’s, depression, MEMORY C O N T I N U E D

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addiction, PTSD, these are commonly discussed topics in the world around us that we will never get to the bottom of [without continued research].”

Can memory be improved? In national and international memory tournaments, contestants compete to memorize things such as decks of cards, lists of numbers, images of faces and random lists of words. Researchers in the Netherlands set out to determine the difference between the brains of the people who win these tournaments and those of ordinary people. They took brain scans of 23 of the world’s top 50 memory champions and 23 scans of nonchampions whose ages, genders and IQs matched those of their counterparts. In the study, published in March, the researchers didn’t Dr. Marian Berryhill is a professor and memory researcher in UNR’s Cognitive and Brain Sciences Program. PHOTO BY KRIS VAGNER

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find any real physical differences between the two groups’ brains. They did find a difference in the way the memory champions’ brains were acting, though. When the champions recited long lists of words, the parts of the brain associated with memory and the parts associated with spatial reasoning were interacting, and in the laypeople’s brains, they were not. Memory champions are also sometimes called “memory athletes.” And one of the ways they train is to associate things they’re trying to remember with visuals. (Could it turn out that in the world of memory whizzes, the link between giant carrot cakes and new vocabulary words isn’t actually all that weird?) Another expert who talks about memory being developed through practice is Kevin Horsley, author of the book Unlimited Memory. He likens memory to biceps—you’re not born with them, you work for them. Horsley was diagnosed dyslexic as a child and told he didn’t have much hope to develop strong concentration or memory.

Concentration is critical and multitasking is a sure-fire way to ensure that facts and observations never even get absorbed through the thick skulls of us multitaskers, let alone remembered. Oh, and we should not check our email, Facebook and Twitter 50 times a day.

He graduated from high school a shaky reader. Shortly afterward, he read a book on memory development and concluded, “Our memory is just a habit, and habits can be improved with the right kind of training.” Ten years later, he memorized pi to 10,000 digits, and he now is an official Grand Master of Memory. That title goes to people who prove they can memorize 1,000 random digits in an hour, memorize 10 decks of cards in an hour, and memorize one deck of cards in under a minute. I decided to take Horsley’s advice.

Picture that Unlimited Memory reads a lot like a self-help book. It starts with instructions to silence your inner critic, change your mind about your abilities and be in the moment, instead of being mentally all over the place. Worry and stress are memory killers, Horsley says. Concentration is critical and multitasking is a sure-fire way to ensure that facts and observations never even get absorbed through the thick skulls of us multitaskers, let alone remembered. Oh, and we should not check our email, Facebook and Twitter 50 times a day. (Yes, 50 times a day is an actual figure that Horsley said he’d come across.) At this point in the book, I confess that I was thinking, “Sure, buddy, I will simply drop all my stubborn habits in one fell swoop. I will turn off my phone. I will achieve inner peace in a jiff, and all will be well. No sweat.” But then, as if he’d predicted the exact page at which I was planning on throwing in the towel on even considering his ambitious self-improvement project—page 49, to be exact—he began offering specific tips on exactly how to remember things better. He had a list of foreign words, with ideas for remembering them. In Zulu, inja means dog. “Picture an injured dog,” he advised. After that, there are pages of similar exercises for how to match a spacial concept with something you’re trying to memorize. It turns out that when you are using your creativity, at all, it becomes easier to absorb and retain.

I got a 100 percent on the foreign words quiz. I tried a more elaborate test with my family, memorizing a 14-item grocery list by picturing the groceries in ridiculous situations, the dried fruit mashed into my speedometer, an egg thrown at my passenger. All four of us who took the quiz got a pretty good score on the first try, and either a 13/14 or a 14/14 on the second try, as Horsley predicted. A few days later, I can still recite the list in its entirety. So, why do so many avenues of memory improvement seem to lead back to visuals and mnemonics? It turns out that way back in the 1400s, the invention of the printing press— and the widespread literacy that eventually caught on as a result— may have had an even bigger impact on human memory than digital technology has had more recently. Before we could store knowledge in books, we had to remember the things we needed to know. And visualizing things apparently played a big role in that process. Historian Elizabeth Eisenstein wrote in her book, The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, “As learning by reading took on new importance, the role played by mnemonic aids was diminished.” Does that mean our ancestors went around picturing house-size carrot cakes? Maybe they did. And, in my experience, Horsely’s advice for memory improvement— including the mindset change, less multitasking and the practice exercises—which at first seemed barely surmountable, was easy to start picking up. I’m going to keep trying it. Maybe I’ll even remember that movie I saw two months ago. Ω

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David Davalos plays Richard Nixon (with Kelly Houston as Jack Brennan in background) in the Blue Room’s Frost/Nixon. PHoto by Joe Hilsee

Blue Room’s Frost/Nixon is a powerful staging of historic encounter

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play about the nearly 30 hours of interviews ex-President Richard Nixon gave to British talk show host David Frost by in 1977, three Robert Speer years after resignrober tspe er@ ing his office in newsrev iew.c om disgrace. Both men approached the encounter as history-making Review: high-stakes intelFrost/Nixon, now showing at the lectual combat. For Frost it was blue Room, thursdaysaturday, 7:30 p.m., an opportunity to through aug. 12. establish himself as a tickets: $15 world-class television Blue Room Theatre interviewer, something 139 W. First st. that had narrowly 895-3749 eluded him because www.blueroom of his reputation in theatre.com some circles as a party boy more comfortable interviewing celebrities than powerful politicians. He knew that if he could get Nixon finally to admit his illegal involvement in the Watergate coverup and apologize to the American people, it would be one of the greatest coups in American television history. It was also a way for Frost to recoup his financial investment, some $2 million, of which $600,000 plus a share of the profits went to Nixon. For Nixon, who had not yet given a post-resignation interview, this was an opportunity to get out from under the Watergate cloud and call attention to what he saw as the many accomplishments of his tenure, beginning with the opening to China. He was eager to leave

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Special Events PARTY IN THE PARK: The Ridge community’s weekly summertime celebration with arts and crafts, food vendors and live music from Rube & the Rhythm Rockers. Thu, 8/10, 5:30pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise. www.paradisechamber.com

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his self-imposed exile in San Clemente and rejoin the East Coast world of power politics, where his experience and intelligence would be appreciated. The play, which is now receiving a sterling performance in Chico’s Blue Room Theatre, resonates with foreshadowings of the scandals currently mushrooming in our nation’s capital. Its most famous line, “I’m saying that when the president does it, that means it’s not illegal,” hits even harder today than it did in 1977. As its title suggests, the play centers around the two men, so a production’s quality hinges on the actors portraying them. Fortunately, they are played here by Joe Hilsee (as Frost) and David Davalos (as Nixon) both skilled actors who give commanding performances. Davalos’ Nixon, fired up for the interviews, shows the slippery charisma and potent intelligence that enabled this West Coast son of the lower middle class to outsmart the East Coast elite and twice win election to the highest post in the land. And Hilsee’s Frost is at once a preening popinjay born for the camera and a study in courage and determination. Davalos and Hilsee are a couple of

scenery-chewers, appropriately so in this case, but fortunately the actors backing them up are just as good in their smaller roles. Allen Lunde plays Jim Reston, a widely known journalist who, along with investigative reporter Bob Zelnick (Sean Green), formed Frost’s research team. It was Reston who, poring over transcripts of the White House tapes, found a previously unnoticed but brutally incriminating conversation between Nixon and resident thug Charles Colson. When Frost challenged his opponent to deny that he had intended to buy off potential witnesses, it was like a blow to Nixon’s gut that sucked the air out of the man. Other noteworthy performances include Rob Wilson as John Birt, Frost’s producer; Dave Sorensen in a delightful characterization of Irving “Swifty” Lazar, Nixon’s agent; Kelly Houston as Nixon’s hyper-protective chief of staff, Jack Brennan; and Suzanne Pappini as Caroline Cushing, Frost’s girlfriend at the time. Credit should also go to director Roger Montalbano and his tech crew for their economical but powerful staging. If you’re as appalled (and/or fascinated) by the D.C. circus as I am, you will enjoy this play. It’s spot-on. □

fic each Thursday night for a community event featuring local produce and products, live music, food trucks and more. Thu, 8/10, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico. 530-345-6500. www.downtownchico.com

U-PICK PEACHES: The annual peach-pickin’ bonanza. The farm provides buckets for picking, but customers take fruits home in their own containers. Thu, 8/10, 8am. $1.50 per pound. University Farm, 311 Nicholas C Shouten Lane. 530-898-4989.

CelebRatioN gosPel CHoiR Saturday, Aug. 12 Bethel AME Church

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KZFR CAMP OUT: Camp with KZFR 90.1 FM, listen to some acoustic music by the campfire and then view the Perseid Meteor Shower. Sat 8/12, 7pm. $25. Forebay Aquatic Center, 930 Garden Drive. www.kzfr.org/events

U-PICK PEACHES: See Thursday. Sat 8/12, 8am. $1.50. University Farm, 311 Nicholas C Shouten Lane. 530-898-4989.

Music CONCERT IN THE PARK: Oroville’s summertime concert series continues with Christian rock from Forgiven. Thu, 8/10, 6:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2821 Wyandotte Ave., Oroville. www.frrpd.com

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: A heartwarming comedy following renowned efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth and his wife, Lillian, who raise their 12 children by the clock. The parents have help from their eldest daughter, Ann, but challenges and humorous situations still arise. Thu, 8/10, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-8943282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

FROST/NIXON: This timely play follows the events leading up to and including David Frost’s interview of President Richard Nixon, during which Nixon confesses and apologizes for his involvement in the Watergate scandal. Thu, 8/10, 7:30pm. $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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SHARED VISIONS RECEPTION: The reception for a show with a theme extending beyond the formal display of visual art to offer an educational, hands-on experience. Fri, 8/11, 5pm. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

U-PICK PEACHES: See Thursday. Fri, 8/11, 8am. $1.50 per pound. University Farm, 311 Nicholas C Shouten Lane. 530-898-4989.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Chico’s signature concert series continues with classic rockers Looking 4 Eleven. Fri, 8/11, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtown chico.com

RURAL CONCERT: The Feather River Recreation and Park District presents this summer’s final concert in the boondocks with rock ’n’ roll covers and originals from Spork. Fri, 8/11, 6:30pm. Free. Palermo Park, Ludlum Avenue, Palermo. www.frrpd.com

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Fri, 8/11, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

Special Events DINNER AT THE DISTILLERY: The new rum distillery hosts an evening of free cocktails, tours, food trucks and raffles. The first 50 people get a free shot glass. Fri, 8/11, 5pm. Free. Hooker Oak Distillery, 2420 Park Ave. www.hookeroakdistillery.com

KZFR CAmp oUT Saturday, Aug. 12 Forebay Aquatic Center

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FROST/NIXON: See Thursday. Fri, 8/11, 7:30pm. $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events CHIKOKO BACKYARD TRADING POST: Arts and crafts vendors peddle jewelry, natural body and bath goods, accessories and clothing behind the store. Sat 8/12, 10am. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

VETERANS PARK CEREMONY: The new park’s

Music CELEBRATION GOSPEL CHOIR SUMMER CONCERT: Chico’s Celebration Gospel Choir performs traditional spirituals and gospel songs. Sat,

8/12, 6pm. Free. Bethel AME Church, 821 Linden St. 530-762-0270.

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Sat, 8/12, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

ties to inspire families to be more creative at home, including mini workshops, craft tables, snacks and a cardboard village. Sat 8/12, 10am. Free. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

THE HAPPIEST HOUR-COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE: A fundraiser including cocktails, wine and beer tastings, food, raffle prizes, a silent auction, a photo booth and live music. Proceeds benefit Valley Oak Children’s Services. Sat 8/12, 6pm. $40-$50. Almendra Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway, Durham. 530-899-4969. www.valleyoakchildren.org

ICE CREAM SOCIAL & GARDEN TOUR: Chico Museum presents an old-fashioned social with ice cream sundaes, crafts and games for kids, music, tours of the grounds, a raffle and cake sales. Proceeds benefit both museums. Sat 8/12, 1pm. $6-$10. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham. www.chico museum.org

FREE LISTINgS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar assistant at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com. Deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

Special Events SUMMER SIZZLER 5K/10K RUN: A hot, sweaty race in the flat and fast Lower Bidwell Park to benefit Butte County Sheriff Search and Rescue. Sun, 8/13, 7:30am. $40. Cedar Grove, Lower Bidwell Park. www.underthe sunevents.org

U-PICK PEACHES: See Thursday. Sun, 8/13, 8am. $1.50. University Farm, 311 Nicholas C Shouten Lane. 530-898-4989.

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Sun, 8/13, 2pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

FROST/NIXON: See Thursday. Sat, 8/12, 7:30pm. $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

dedication ceremony honoring service and sacrifice. Sat 8/12, 9:30am. Free. Oroville Veterans Memorial Park, 2374 Montgomery St., Oroville. www.orovilleveterans memorialpark.org

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pICK YoUR oWN It’s a tradition going on two decades: Each fall, the University Farm opens its 1-acre peach orchard for U-Pick Peaches, a multiday stone fruit bonanza during which you pick as many peaches as you want (for $1.50 per pound, that is). Starting on Thursday, Aug. 10— and continuing as long as supplies last—you’ll have your run of three varieties currently ripe for harvest: Hale, Fay Elberta and O’Henry. The farm will provide buckets for picking, but you are obliged to bring your own boxes or other containers to haul the goods home. You can already taste the juice on your chin, can’t you?

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FINE ARTS Art CHICO ART CENTER: Shared Visions, an exhibition curated by Erin Lizardo featuring collaborations between adult artists and children, extending beyond the formal display of visual art. Through 9/1. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726. www.chicoartcenter.com

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by John Schmidt, paintings by Northern California artist John Schmidt. The Healing Art Gallery of Enloe Cancer Center features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Through 10/13. 265 Cohasset Road, 530-332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Saluzzo Italy 1931 -1999, Leo Remigante’s plein air paintings of Italian villages. Through 8/31. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

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

SATORI SALON: Strange Animals, an exhibition of brightly colored birds and bison in the imaginative style of Chico artist Michael Mulcahy. Through 8/31. 627 Broadway, 530-228-4949.

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

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Food Safety Investigation Station, an exploration of food preparation with an up-close look at the most infested areas of kitchens and how contaminants can get into our food. Sat, 8/12, 1-3pm. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade, 530-898-4121. www.csuchico.edu

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: A collection of Maidu Indian artifacts, blacksmith and print shops, gold sluices, a miner’s cabin, a schoolhouse and a covered bridge that spans the width of a rushing creek. Through 12/31. Free. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. www.goldnugget museum.com

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Reed Applegate Collection, the inaugural Monca collection of Northern California artwork. $5. 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: The refurbished

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Branding Irons, a display of more than 50 branding irons. Through 11/4. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Through 9/16. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St.

COLMAN COMMUNITY MUSEUM: Cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. Through 9/16. 13548 Centerville Road. www.buttecreek canyon.info

Paradise Depot serves as a museum with a working model train. Through 9/19. Free. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 530 872-8722.

PATRICK RANCH MUSEUM: History Through the Lens of a Camera, an exhibition featuring vintage cameras and photos dating from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. Through 10/28. Free. 10381 Midway, Durham, 530342-4359. www.patrickranchmuseum.org

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family. That’s the party line if you ask the local Tplayers, and it’s generally true. But that’s not the

he Chico music scene is intimate, friendly; like a

most striking feature of this community. What’s most inspiring—at least to this longtime observer of the comings and goings—is the general openness to new and different story and ideas and expressions, and the show photo by last Friday (Aug. 5) at the Maltese Jason Cassidy offered an eye-opening sample of j aso nc @ an engaged scene unafraid of taking new srev i ew. c o m risks. With that said, Friday night did Review: feel like family night at the south Bad Mana, tri-Lateral Chico bar. Five bands, all local, Dirts Commission, were on the schedule, playing for a DMt, Cat Depot and Black Magnet, Friday, full house of friends and regulars. Aug. 5, Maltese Bar & It was like a party, with plenty of tap Room hugs, laughter and energetic backand-forth between the wide range of adventurous players and an audience that was game for anything. The night was basically split into two acts: three brief sets of ambient semi-experimentation in the first, and two supercharged bouts of noisy fun in the second. Cat Depot is the quieter alter-ego of Team Skins guitarist Mathew Houghton, for which he empties his full bag of tricks onto the guitar. When he’s playing plugged in—as he was to kick things off this night— those tricks include the ubiquitous green Line 6 DL4 delay/loop pedal, which Houghton uses to create an intricate looping guitar line as backdrop for each instrumental tune. Over that bed of sound, Houghton casually went off, tapping, picking, sliding across the strings while also rhythmically thumping the body of his guitar with fingers and palm. It comes across like a one-man band, but with just one instrument being turned into many. It’s complex, gorgeous music built with layers of hooks and melodies to hypnotic effect. After just a few songs, Houghton was joined onstage by bassist Cameron Harry (formerly of Blaster Dead) and guitarist/vocalist Erik Elliot for the newly formed project Black Magnet. Known for the elec-

Rami DMT takes the Maltese on a short trip.

tronic experimentation of his E.E. solo project, Elliot brought a heavy arsenal of effects units to create a dense wash of dreamy sound. The trio played only a few unnamed songs that were impressively committed to the aesthetic of what might be Chico’s only goth/ darkwave band. After being hyped on genre-blending experimental trio DMT by more than one local scenester, I was disappointed to hear that two members were no-shows. Frontman Rami DMT still put on a brief show, though, sitting cross-legged on stage facing his amplifier and foregoing his usual spoken word vocals in favor of putting a bunch of electronic effects and guitar to use for some wonderfully noisy atmospheric improv. Bad Mana opened the night’s second act with a pal-

pable fury. Frontman Don Parrish (aka Bran Crown) creates a singular brand of hollerin’ garage rock (think Bob Dylan fronting Thee Oh Sees), and his trio always delivers a spastic good time. But this night was different. The volume was louder than normal, and there was an unspoken intensity among the players—including the frenetic-yet-precise rhythm section of Madison DeSantis (drums) and Elliot Maldonado (bass)—that the crowd responded to in kind with its own wild energy, especially during the stop/start fun of the super catchy “Volunteer.” The final stylistic shift of the night was provided by the hard-to-peg Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission, and it was a drastic and intense one. Actually, to call the performance intense doesn’t do it justice. A lot of bands in the metal and punk realms that the Magalia/Paradise trio float among throw themselves into loud, fast-paced sets of screaming, emotional catharsis. But Tri-Lateral seems different. After each extended burst of breakneck craziness, the band appeared as calm as can be. Like nothing happened. Actually, its members kind of seem born wild—especially wide-eyed drummer Seabass—as if they’re just doing what comes naturally, which is executing tightly wound, impossibly fast, dramatically shifting thrash without raising their heart rates above 74 BPM. Overall, an impressive serving of brave and creatively free performances. One that Chico gladly ate up. □

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Backyard kitchen Henri turns off the oven and grills his meat outside

Athefinest kitchens around the world, it’s only been in last decade that he’s ventured outside to cook— lthough Henri has donned aprons in some of the

since he moved to California, where outdoor grilling, he has observed, seems to be a virtual requirement for chefs both by amateur and master. Henri Bourride And Henri has definitely caught the grill bug. In addition to coaxing wonderful flavors from a wide range of foods, cooking outside helps keep the house from heating up on these hideously hot summer evenings. Steaks, chicken and fish—as well as vegetables—are all easy to cook to succulent perfection on a gas or charcoal grill, as long as you keep in mind Henri’s First Culinary Commandment: Thou shalt not overcook. Or: It’s better to take the food off the grill too soon than too late—you can always throw it back on and cook it a bit longer. A current favorite—and an absolutely divine summer meal—is grilled country-style ribs with mixed vegetables, the latter to which I’ve become shamelessly addicted thanks to my square little grill-top wok-type pan that I picked up years ago at Collier Hardware. With its angled sides, you can toss the vegetables as they cook without losing them to the grill itself or to the fire below. Henri’s famous grilled country-style pork ribs: Note: Despite how they’re labeled, “country-style ribs”—or, sometimes, “boneless pork ribs”—they aren’t actually ribs at all. Usually, they’re porkshoulder slabs, about 2 inches wide, 2 inches deep and 6 to 8 inches long. But they’re much meatier than true ribs, and less expensive, and, cooked right, they’re absolutely delicious. Place ribs in a sealable container (or plastic bag) and cover with a mixture of equal parts apple juice

and balsamic vinegar and half as much Worcestershire sauce. Refrigerate overnight. Remove ribs from marinade and rub with a premixed spice rub for pork or mix one up yourself (try equal parts ground black pepper, salt, cayenne pepper, paprika, brown sugar and dry mustard). Wrap meat in foil, two or three slabs to a package, and grill slowly on a low fire (on my Weber, I use two of three burners, on low). Keep the cover on the grill pried open about an inch with an old garlic press, and try to sustain a temperature of 250. Cook until meat pulls apart when you poke it with a fork (check from time to time by peeling back foil)—at least two hours, depending on how consistent you can keep the temperature. Remove from grill, and let stand in foil while you cook the vegetables. Henri’s famous grilled mixed-vegetable medley: Gather a wide range of fresh vegetables. I like to use two or three bell peppers (in various colors for a festive presentation), an Anaheim or other more spicy pepper, summer squash, zucchini, a couple of onions (at least one red), broccoli crowns, Swiss chard or spinach. Other possibilities: green beans, snap peas, eggplant, carrots. Cut veggies into bite-sized pieces and place in large bowl. Toss with fresh herbs (rosemary, sage, oregano, basil) and about one-half cup of olive oil. Grill in wok or pan over moderately high heat, while continuing to toss occasionally. You can also add more oil, soy sauce, stir-fry sauce or salad dressing while you cook, but be careful that it doesn’t drip through onto the flames and flare up into the veggies. Cooking time: about 15 minutes. When the veggies are done, transfer back to bowl and toss again with a bit more olive oil. Add salt and fresh-ground black pepper to taste. Remove pork slabs from foil and serve veggies and ribs together with a good pinot noir, syrah, or even a riesling. □

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REAL NUMBERS: A DIY indie pop band out of Minnesota headlines alongside locals Team Skins. Solar Estates opens. Thu, 8/10, 9:30pm. $7. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

JAZZ NIGHT: A weekly performance by

The Chico Jazz Collective. Thu, 8/10, 8pm. Free. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

REESE WEIL: Original tunes from the

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local singer-songwriter and guitarist. Thu, 8/10, 8:30pm. Free. Parkside Tap House, 115 Third St.

eclectic mix of tunes for dining pleasure. Thu, 8/10, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

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MILES CORBIN, ROBERT KARCH & FRIENDS: An evening of original,

brother—and an accomplished singer-songwriter in his own right—plays selections from his deep catalog of folk and country originals. Thu, 8/10, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 530-762-1490. www.nortonbuffalohall.com

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DINNER AT THE DISTILLERY: An evening of free cocktails, tours, food trucks and raffles at the new facility. The first 50 people get a free shot glass. Fri, 8/11, 5pm. Free. Hooker Oak Distillery, 2420 Park Ave. www.hookeroakdistillery.com

DURST CASE SCENARIO: KZFR 90.1 FM presents comedian and satirist Will Durst, who will explain— hilariously—how America is changing during the Trump era. Locals Merry Standish Comedy opens. Fri, 8/11, 7pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Chico’s signature concert series continues with classic rockers Looking 4 Eleven. Fri, 8/11, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

THE GATEWAY SHOW: Four comedians tell jokes, leave the stage to get really, really stoned and then attempt to tell more jokes. Fri, 8/11, 9pm. $8-$12. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Main St.

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Comedians are probably saving our collective sanity during the time of Trump, and who better to explain how America is changing than satirist Will Durst? KZFR 90.1 FM is bringing his national Durst Case Scenario tour to the Chico Women’s Club on Friday, Aug. 11, during which he’ll work off an overhead projector and act as a doctor who is diagnosing America’s severe case of “PTSD: President Trump Stress Disorder.” Let’s hope he has a cure. Merry Standish Comedy opens. present, including Shibumi, Heather Michelle, Firefly with Erin Haley and Katrina Rodriguez of The Rugs. Fri, 8/11, 8pm. $7-$10. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

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TRIVIA NIGHT: Get quizzed on useless knowledge. Mon, 8/14, 9pm. Free. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

STEVE JOHNSON ACOUSTIC GUITAR & VOCALS: Local musician Steve Johnson takes the mic with his acoustic guitar—and some musical guests. Sat, 8/12, 6pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

HOUSE OF FLOYD: A Pink Floyd cover band incorporating sound effects, moving lights, lasers and video projection. Sat, 8/12, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

THE KELLY TWINS DUELING PIANOS: Identical twin brothers trade piano licks and smart remarks. Sat, 8/12, 9pm. $5. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed,

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West Coast dance lesson followed by a party under the black lights. Come decked out in UV paint, neon and white,. Sat, 8/12, 8pm. $8-$13. Studio One Ballroom, 707 Wall St. www.studiooneballroom.com

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Severin Browne isn’t the most well-known singersongwriter in his family— his brother, Jackson, takes that cake—but he’s an accomplished musician in his own right. In the early 1970s, he became the first white folk singer on Motown’s roster, and he’s since released eight albums, drawing influence from soul, R&B, Van Morrison and his own brother. He’s playing at the Norton Buffalo Hall tonight, Aug. 10. Expect personal lyrical themes, plenty of acoustic guitar leads and smooth vocals.

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who wants to team up for one last heist. Listen for Julie Andrews as their mom. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Annabelle: Creation

In the fourth film in the Conjuring supernatural horror series (and prequel to 2014’s Annabelle), a possessed doll terrorizes a group of orphaned girls. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography

Dunkirk

The latest from acclaimed documentarian Errol Morris (The Thin Blue Line, Fog of War) tells the life story of Elsa Dorfman, known for taking large-format Polaroid portraits—including many of famous Beat generation personalities—in her Cambridge, Mass., studio for 35 years. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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The Glass Castle

Adaptation reduces Stephen King series to rubble

few years ago there was talk of Ron Howard direct-

ing a big screen adaptation of Stephen King’s The Dark Tower. The film was to be an introduction to the Dark Tower universe, to be followed by a TV series, and Javier Bardem was cast as by Roland Deschain the Gunslinger, the Bob Grimm main protagonist of King’s multinovel series. bg rimm@ newsrev iew.c om The main players were subsequently switched out for Idris Elba in the Roland role, and a relative novice in Nikolaj Arcel (A Royal Affair) for director, and the film’s budget was reduced to $60 million, a price you The Dark Tower would normally see for a Hollywood starring Idris rom-com, not for the launch of what Elba and Matthew was proposed to be an epic, blockMcConaughey. Directed by Nikolaj Arcel. buster franchise. All of the uncertainty and delays Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and that plagued the production are Paradise Cinema 7. immediately apparent in the final Rated Pg-13. product. This movie is a catastrophe, and a complete slight to fans of the King books, fans of Matthew McConaughey (playing the Man in Black here), and fans of science fiction/fantasy. Oh hell, this thing slights everybody. It looks like a low-level episode of Dr. Who, the really schlocky 1970s Dr. Who. You get the sense watching it that they used the same sound stage for all of their interiors and just repainted shit. The CGI is terrible, the pacing is ridiculously, unnecessarily fast, and the plotting is confusing for those who haven’t read the books. I haven’t read the books and, after watching this, I don’t really care to. The story involves some kid named Jake (Tom Taylor), a sad teenager who is gifted with “the Shine,” the psychic powers Danny had in King’s The Shining.

He dreams of another world where there is a Dark Tower that acts as some sort of barrier between other dimensions, protecting planets like Earth from evil. He also dreams of a gunslinger (Elba) who is trying to kill the Man in Black. No, it’s not Johnny Cash. McConaughey’s character is some sort of devil man whose intention is to hunt people with the Shine because their brains harness the power to shoot laser beams into the Dark Tower, thus destroying it and releasing goofy CGI monsters upon the Earth. Tom winds up traveling to something called the Mid World, where he joins forces for a brief hike with Roland before winding up back on Earth in present day New York City for some kind of apocalyptic battle. You can go ahead and badmouth me all you want if I got any of this wrong, but I assure you that’s the best I could gather from this hackneyed, rushed, underwhelming production. When considering the apparent scope of the novels, it’s a bit of a shocker that the film clocks in at 95 minutes. There is a definite sense that a lot of backstory and exposition has been removed in order to dumb things down and streamline the pace. Elba growls intermittent dialogue, with his character amounting to nothing more than shallow archetype. Also, if you are going to have a gunslinger with a western motif, give him a cool hat. Elba, as always, looks and is cool, but something as simple as a hat would’ve fleshed out the gunslinger character. McConaughey roams from sloppy set to sloppier set looking lost and perhaps even a little pissed that he signed on for this garbage. He’s not all bad; he’s just given next to nothing notable to do. There are still some sketchy plans to follow up this film with a TV series. Whatever the plan is, scrap it and start over a few years from now, when the memory of this unfortunate cinematic event has subsided. □

An adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ bestselling 2005 memoir about her tumultuous upbringing with her dysfunctional parents and three siblings. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Goodnight Brooklyn

Documentary on the legendary NYC underground venue Death by Audio that was destroyed by gentrification. A benefit for Blackbird, a soon-to-open Chico bookstore/DIY space. One showing: tonight, Aug. 10, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power

Former Vice President Al Gore is featured in this sequel to the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, as he continues his efforts to help in the battle against climate change. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

The Little Hours

An outrageously raunchy comedy set in a Medieval convent and packed with funny stars—Aubrey Plaza, Molly Shannon, John C. Reilly, Fred Armison, Dave Franco, Nick Offerman, Alison Brie, Kate Micucci—that is sure to piss off more than a few Catholics. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Christopher Nolan’s extraordinary new movie has gotten widespread raves and praise from reviewers and critics. And, somewhat to the surprise of the usual “observers,” it has also done very well at the box office in its opening week. It’s a riveting tale about a major event from World War II—the 1940 rescue and evacuation of the massive numbers of Allied troops trapped and hemmed in by the German army on the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. As such, it has great appeal both as a fast-moving, multicharacter action drama and as an artfully complex war film in which the stories of several sets of individual characters are intricately intertwined with each other and with the unfolding events of an epic moment in modern history. The best performance of all, however, may belong to Kenneth Branagh. He plays Commander Bolton, the British naval officer in charge of the evacuation to the hospital ship who stays on to oversee further evacuations when the civilian vessels arrive. Branagh quietly brings a full range of large-scale emotion to key scenes with little or no dialogue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

The Emoji Movie

An emoji named Gene has an adventure inside a smartphone. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Girls Trip

Four lifelong friends (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish and Jada Pinkett Smith) reconnect during a wild “girls trip” to New Orleans. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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The third iteration of Spider-Man film franchises continues sometime after the events of Captain America: Civil War, with the young web-slinger (played here by Tom Holland) being mentored on superhero life by Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Halle Barry stars as a single mom who goes full action-hero as she chases down the kidnappers who abducted her son. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

A 3-D animated feature about a purple squirrel and his animal friends trying to save a natural park from being bulldozed to build a less critter-friendly amusement park. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

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. Rated R.

War for the Planet of the Apes

The Dark Tower

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Despicable Me 3

Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) meets his longlost twin brother, Dru (yes, also Carell),

The third and final entry in the Planet of the Apes reboot finds ape leader Caesar searching for a way to save his species in their ongoing war with the humans. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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Katherine Bigelow (Zero Dark Thirty, The Hurt Locker) directs this crime drama based on the real-life Algiers Motel incident (during racially charged riots in Detroit in1967, during which police and National Guard members killed three black teens. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Itinerant Arias Christopher Paul Stelling Anti Christopher Paul Stelling strikes a perfect balance of solo singer/songwriter intimacy and more raucous full-band Americana. The songs on Itinerant Arias feel like broken-in leather, maybe due to the fact that Stelling’s been touring the country consistently, having played more than 400 shows in the last few years alone. Steady groovers with Stelling at the center are built on swirling finger-picked licks under his gravel-torn howl, a tone sometimes similar to Marcus Mumford. “The Cost of Doing Business” features a sing-along rowdy chorus and ear-candy horn hooks; or “Oh, River” showcases intermittent big swells and driving strings between swaying waltz verses. The album’s softer moments are just as charming—“Red Door” or the closer “A Tempest” feels a little more up-close, but never loses momentum. Well-worn, and well-done.

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Most Dangerous Place James Grippando HarperCollins Fans of John Lescroart, the Davis-based author of sophisticated legal thrillers set in San Francisco, should check out his East Coast counterpart, James Grippando. Like Lescroart, Grippando crafts carefully plotted, up-to-the-moment tales set against a vividly rendered cityscape, in this case Miami, where he lives and still works as an attorney. Most Dangerous Place is the 13th in his series featuring the criminal-defense lawyer Jack Swyteck, and his usual cast of characters—including Swyteck’s pal Theo, whom he saved from the electric chair—is present. As the novel begins, his childhood friend Keith is arriving at the airport with his wife, Isabelle, and their daughter when suddenly Isabelle is arrested and charged with a long-ago murder. There’s a complex backstory involving Venezuelan politics, a rape that may have led to the murder, Isabelle’s hostile relationship with her shadowy father, and much more. Indeed, shadows abound in this novel; nobody seems to be telling the truth, including Swyteck’s client. The truth will get out, of course, but only at the end of this absorbing tale.

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Morningside Fazerdaze Flying Nun New Zealand’s post-punk lineage—marked by a Velvet Undergound bloodline, skewed melodies and rhythmic strumming—welcomes something new and significant to the family tree: Amelia Murray. On Morningside, the first full-length for her Fazerdaze project, the 24-year-old Kiwi is backed by an intuitive combo bringing hooks and crystalline guitar lines that call to mind the country’s greats (Straitjacket Fits, Verlaines), but with a more expansive vision of the potential of the pop song. “Last to Sleep”—with its drowsy-eyed reverb, heavy vocals and understated guitar lines—is the lover suspect, for the moment secure yet when the eyes close the center of the heart plunges out of sight and out of reach. “Lucky Girl” may be the album’s sweetest pop moment, the words mourning heartbreak yet to come (“Are the walls getting closer, as I’m getting closer to you?/And are we falling faster, now that we have further to fall?”). It’s hard-fought wisdom: The more we love, the more we have to lose.

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GREEN HAIR, GREEN DAY By now, many of you have already seen the news online or on TV of local musician Maddi Gruber’s big moment at the Green Day show at Oakland Colosseum last week (Aug. 5), but Arts DEVO feels compelled to weigh in. If you haven’t heard, during the band’s regular cover of Operation Ivy’s “Knowledge,” Gruber was singled out of the crowd by lead singer Billie Joe Armstrong and brought on stage to play guitar with the band. Search YouTube and you’ll see that Green Day does the shtick all the time, with Armstrong teaching the simple three-chord proBillie Joe and Maddi. gression before turning the spotlight over to a guest and then sending him or her off with the guitar as a souvenir. What you won’t see on most of the videos is the audience member completely killing it like Gruber did. The 18-year-old went off, jumping around the stage with her green and blue hair flying around as she nailed the part like a pro. I’ve been a fan of Gruber’s since she was a part of the excellent but short-lived indie-rock outfit Lips of Renegade, and I’ve followed the local high-schooler’s indie/punk/rock projects—from Astro Turf to the current MADD—and been impressed by her devotion to making original music as well that of her parents to supporting their kids’ passions. (I’ve seen her dad, Geno Gruber, at as many shows as I’ve seen Maddi.) It’s no accident that she was ready for her moment in the spotlight. Nice work, everyone.

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): I hope you’re LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): This is the making wise use of the surging fertility that has been coursing through you. Maybe you’ve been reinventing a longterm relationship that needed creative tinkering. Perhaps you have been hammering together an innovative business deal or generating new material for your artistic practice. It’s possible you have discovered how to express feelings and ideas that have been half-mute or inaccessible for a long time. If for some weird reason you are not yet having experiences like these, get to work! There’s still time to tap into the fecundity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Uru-

guayan writer Eduardo Galeano defines “idiot memory” as the kind of remembrances that keep us attached to our old self-images, and trapped by them. “Lively memory,” on the other hand, is a feisty approach to our old stories. It impels us to graduate from who we used to be. “We are the sum of our efforts to change who we are,” writes Galeano. “Identity is no museum piece sitting stock-still in a display case.” Here’s another clue to your current assignment, Taurus, from psychotherapist Dick Olney: “The goal of a good therapist is to help someone wake up from the dream that they are their self-image.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sometimes,

Gemini, loving you is a sacred honor for me— equivalent to getting a poem on my birthday from the Dalai Lama. On other occasions, loving you is more like trying to lap up a delicious milkshake that has spilled on the sidewalk, or slow-dancing with a giant robot teddy bear that accidentally knocks me down when it suffers a glitch. I don’t take it personally when I encounter the more challenging sides of you, since you are always an interesting place to visit. But could you maybe show more mercy to the people in your life who are not just visitors? Remind your dear allies of the obvious secret—that you’re composed of several different selves, each of whom craves different thrills.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Liz, my

girlfriend when I was young, went to extreme lengths to cultivate her physical attractiveness. “Beauty must suffer,” her mother had told her while growing up, and Liz heeded that advice. To make her long blonde hair as wavy as possible, for example, she wrapped strands of it around six empty metal cans before bed, applied a noxious spray, and then slept all night with a stinky, clanking mass of metal affixed to her head. While you may not do anything so literal, Cancerian, you do sometimes act as if suffering helps keep you strong and attractive—as if feeling hurt is a viable way to energize your quest for what you want. But if you’d like to transform that approach, the coming weeks will be a good time. Step One: Have a long, compassionate talk with your inner saboteur.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Each of us comes

to know the truth in our own way, says astrologer Antero Alli. “For some it is wild and unfettered,” he writes. “For others it is like a cozy domesticated cat, while others find truth through their senses alone.” Whatever your usual style of knowing the truth might be, Leo, I suspect you’ll benefit from trying out a different method in the next two weeks. Here are some possibilities: trusting your most positive feelings; tuning in to the clues and cues your body provides; performing ceremonies in which you request the help of ancestral spirits; slipping into an altered state by laughing nonstop for five minutes.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Would you

scoff if I said that you’ll soon be blessed with supernatural assistance? Would you smirk and roll your eyes if I advised you to find clues to your next big move by analyzing your irrational fantasies? Would you tell me to stop spouting nonsense if I hinted that a guardian angel is conspiring to blast a tunnel through the mountain you created out of a molehill? It’s OK if you ignore my predictions, Virgo. They’ll come true even if you’re a staunch realist who doesn’t believe in woo-woo, juju, or mojo.

Season of Enlightenment for you. That doesn’t necessarily mean you will achieve an ultimate state of divine grace. It’s not a guarantee that you’ll be freestyling in satori, samadhi, or nirvana. But one thing is certain: Life will conspire to bring you the excited joy that comes with deep insight into the nature of reality. If you decide to take advantage of the opportunity, please keep in mind these thoughts from designer Elissa Giles: “Enlightenment is not an asexual, dispassionate, head-in-the-clouds, nails-in-the-palms disappearance from the game of life. It’s a volcanic, kick-ass, erotic commitment to love in action, coupled with hard-headed practical grist.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Some

zoos sell the urine of lions and tigers to gardeners who sprinkle it in their gardens. Apparently the stuff scares off wandering house cats that might be tempted to relieve themselves in vegetable patches. I nominate this scenario to be a provocative metaphor for you in the coming weeks. Might you tap into the power of your inner wild animal so as to protect your inner crops? Could you build up your warrior energy so as to prevent run-ins with pesky irritants? Can you call on helpful spirits to ensure that what’s growing in your life will continue to thrive?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

The fates have conspired to make it right and proper for you to be influenced by Sagittarian author Mark Twain. There are five specific bits of his wisdom that will serve as benevolent tweaks to your attitude. I hope you will also aspire to express some of his expansive snappiness. Now here’s Twain: 1. “You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus.” 2. “Education consists mainly in what we have unlearned.” 3. “It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare.” 4. “When in doubt, tell the truth.” 5. “Thunder is good, thunder is impressive; but it is lightning that does the work.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “My grandfather used to tell me that if you stir muddy water it will only get darker,” wrote I. G. Edmonds in his book Trickster Tales. “But if you let the muddy water stand still, the mud will settle and the water will become clearer,” he concluded. I hope this message reaches you in time, Capricorn. I hope you will then resist any temptation you might have to agitate, churn, spill wine into, wash your face in, drink, or splash around in the muddy water.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1985,

Maurizio Cattelan quit his gig at a mortuary in Padua, Italy and resolved to make a living as an artist. He started creating furniture, and ultimately evolved into a sculptor who specialized in satirical work. In 1999 he produced a piece depicting the Pope being struck by a meteorite, which sold for $886,000 in 2001. If there were ever going to be a time when you could launch your personal version of his story, Aquarius, it would be in the next ten months. That doesn’t necessarily mean you should go barreling ahead with such a radical act of faith, however. Following your bliss rarely leads to instant success. It may take years. (16 in Cattelan’s case.) Are you willing to accept that?

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Tally up

your physical aches, psychic bruises, and chronic worries. Take inventory of your troubling memories, half-repressed disappointments, and existential nausea. Do it, Pisces! Be strong. If you bravely examine and deeply feel the difficult feelings, then the cures for those feelings will magically begin streaming in your direction. You’ll see what you need to do to escape at least some of your suffering. So name your griefs and losses, my dear. Remember your near-misses and total fiascos. As your reward, you’ll be soothed and relieved and forgiven. A Great Healing will come.

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names as follows: Present name: ALEX MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH ELSON Proposed name: OLEKSIY ROMANOVYCH AL-SAADI 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: September 8, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 27, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01863 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAI LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAI LOR Proposed name: YENG KONG 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 without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 8, 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: July 26, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02071 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ROBERT ROBERTS, BELIEVED TO BE DECEASED, AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY OR THROUGH, OR UNDER SUCH PERSON, AND THE TESTATE AND INTESTATE SUCCESSORS OF ROBERT ROBERTS, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: CANYON CREEK PRIVATE ESTATES, INC.

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NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS 200981 Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 Dated: May 12, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01582 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: G. DELZELL, ZENA DELZELL, 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 THERTO AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: LINDA CHMIELEWSKI, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE JOHN VLASOFF REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED AUGUST 20, 2002 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

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will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: 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: KEVIN J. SWEENEY, ESQ. 083972 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA. 95973 (530) 893-1515 Dated: May 26, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01473 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: OSCAR VAZQUEZ AKA OSCAR RECENDEZ YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you

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cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928. (530) 366-4290 Dated: March 2, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00665 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOHN A. GRAY, JR., ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN ALFRED GRAY, JR. To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOHN A. GRAY, JR., ALSO KNOWN AS JOHN ALFRED GRAY, JR. Petition for Probate has been filed by: KRISTINE ANN GRAY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTINE ANN GRAY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court. The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority. A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 12, 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: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-5373 Case Number: 17PR00276 Dated: August 4, 2017 Published: August 10,17,24, 2017

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the following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of July 24, 2017 – July 28, 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

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180 Pauletah Pl

Chico

$295,000

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1411 Heather Cir

Chico

$248,500

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154 Terrace Dr

Chico

$291,500

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2354 Kennedy Ave

Chico

$234,000

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1740 1481

12 Garden Park Dr

Chico

$290,000

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9458 Yokum St

Chico

$225,500

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137 Echo Peak Ter

Chico

$283,636

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1332 Laurel St

Chico

$215,000

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948

1207 Warner St

Chico

$281,000

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1068

2099 Hartford Dr #18

Chico

$200,000

2/1

1375

8 Olympus Ln

Chico

$273,000

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1119

1640 Davis St

Chico

$175,000

3/1

546

2655 San Jose St

Chico

$272,500

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1579

458 Nord Ave #14

Chico

$128,000

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864

1302 Palm Ave

Chico

$270,000

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1193

428 W 16th St

Chico

$110,000

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988

3125 Rogue River Dr

Chico

$266,091

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4955 Lago Vista Way

Paradise

$582,000

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108 Valley View Dr

Paradise

$513,000

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2503

160 Roe Rd

Paradise

$457,000

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2144

249 W 3rd Ave

Chico

$263,500

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1111 Wendy Way

Chico

$260,000

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