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Plan lacks transparency Last week, leaders at the Torres Community Shelter asked the Chico

GUEST COMMENT

What makes men lethal is enduring has many causes. Among them, I Tbelieve, is something I have observed working at he nightmare of mass killings that our nation

universities and now as a marriage and family therapist, and it contributes to some men becoming lethal.

Young men in our culture crave a transition into manhood.

Unfortunately, they don’t know how to do it, nor should they— that wisdom is held by men who have come before them. Binge drinking, hazing and sexual exploits are typical attempts at a rite of passage, and they by Joe Wills are devised by the young men themselves without any guidance The author is a licensed mFT and from older men. former public affairs In a college setting, most director at Chico dorms are filled only with State. first-year students, and even fraternities are often bereft of upperclassmen, who have moved on to the task of graduating. This results in young men who don’t know when or if they have “passed

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the test” and joined the ranks of mature men, or worse, decide it is not important any longer and stay ensconced in a kind of perpetual adolescence.

The confusion, malaise, fear and/or anger young men feel can be reduced by what they know of the family and culture they come from. Sadly, many do not know or have forgotten the stories, customs and personages they spring from, and our society does not encourage knowing. The myth of the “selfmade” man and the consumerism that exalts the new and disposable are just two factors that discourage appreciation of one’s roots.

Left to their own devices, young men can stop feeling a part of anything. And the world around them, weary of their struggles and the damage they cause, says “Man up!”—the right advice, which they don’t know how to follow. Many men lick their wounds and keep moving, but a few see no way forward—a disaster for them and us all.

“Lethal” stems from the Greek word for forgetfulness. Lethal men are oblivious to their true calling as men, and even the frustration that led them to feel rootless, rudderless and powerless. We have no sympathy for these monsters; and yet, somehow, we must. □

City Council to slow things down when it comes to moving the centrally located Jesus Center to south Chico and creating a sort of homeless services clearinghouse on the same city-owned property surrounded primarily by commercial and industrial businesses.

It’s an ambitious project, based on what we heard from City Manager Mark Orme and Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center.

Among other things, as the CN&R reported last week (see “Under one roof,” Newslines, Nov. 9), Cootsona mentioned plans for a day center, a medical and dental clinic, and a shelter large enough to hold 100 beds and additional rooms for families.

The effort was mostly couched as a consolidation of services, but based on what we saw, it looks a lot like a plan to push this population out of the city center. What made that crystal clear is the fact that the Torres Shelter has been largely left out of the discussion. To say that’s odd is an understatement. Consider, if you will, that the existing shelter—the only year-round facility of its kind—houses more individuals by far than any other agency in the county. Further consider that the shelter is located literally yards from the proposed new Jesus Center site.

That’s not to say establishing those services in proximity to one another is a bad idea. In a lot of ways it makes sense, especially as it relates to a day center, the creation of which the CN&R has advocated for years.

Our issue here is that the city, in its laser-focused goal to draw the poor to a less visible location, seems to have put all of its eggs in one basket. We aren’t wholly convinced the Jesus Center has the experience, vision and resources to properly develop and run such operations.

Indeed, is the Jesus Center the best option for that job? That’s a real question, and we don’t have an answer. That’s partially because the city, as has become its modus operandi in recent years, runs important community topics by the public only as an afterthought.

When considering the Jesus Center as the potential lead in this effort, it’s important to remember that it is a religious organization that relies mostly on community support. There’s nothing wrong with that—per se.

However, the Jesus Center does not have a history of attaining the federal funding that would seem essential to establishing and running what was pitched during that recent meeting.

Cootsona has noted in the past that the Jesus Center’s lack of reliance on such public funds means she has the freedom to use the organization’s private contributions as she sees fit. But again, there’s the rub, because we know the Jesus Center has allocated funds in a way that seems to run counter to the government’s approach to addressing the issue: through housing first. Case in point: a consultancy with Robert Marbut, a controversial figure who is known nationally for, among other things, dismissing housing first and calling on communities to stop feeding the poor.

How much was Marbut paid by the Jesus Center? We don’t know, because Cootsona refuses to tell the CN&R. We do know that he was paid more than $100,000 for his work in Sarasota County, Fla., where, according to the Daytona Beach News-Journal, the region “ended up with very little direct benefit.” We should note that this isn’t the only instance in which the Jesus Center has been secretive about its budget. This newspaper’s attempts to simply report on the success of its annual Run for Food event has been met with a refusal to share that information as well.

Our view: Before the city agrees to a lease of the taxpayer-owned property, there needs to be a much more thorough vetting of this potential project. It should include not only the stakeholders (the Torres Shelter, the Chico Homeless Action Team, etc.), but also input from the public. Bottom line, the city must insist on transparency and accountability from the Jesus Center and any other organization that wants to rely on public resources.

Right now, that’s not happening. □

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

Ladies’ night A friend of mine recently got out of a toxic relationship and she desperately needed to laugh, so we went to the movies to see A Bad Moms Christmas. It’s a follow-up to the 2016 film Bad Moms, starring Mila Kunis of That ‘70s Show fame, along with Kristen Bell (Veronica Mars) and the hilarious Kathryn Hahn, an actress who’s done a bunch of stuff but I’m mostly familiar with from her role in an early- to mid-aughts TV show called Crossing Jordan.

I don’t go the movies all that often—typically I head there for films I feel can be fully appreciated only when seen on the big screen (the Star Wars sequels, for instance and, say, anything by director Wes Anderson, the genius behind The Royal Tenenbaums). But Sometimes you just need something you’re pretty sure will make you forget your troubles. And though I’d never seen Bad Moms, the trailers for its sequel looked funny—albeit entertainment of the lowbrow variety.

My friend and I (let’s call her Sammie) went to Cinemark 14 more than a week after the movie opened. It was a Thursday evening, so we expected a lighter crowd, and the theater ended up being about a third full. What was unsurprising, but something I’d never experienced before, was the makeup of the audience—nearly all women.

Right before the lights went down, two men came in—accompanied by women. Other than that, it was pretty much ladies’ night at Tinseltown.

Moments later, I heard the unmistakable sound of champagne corks popping and beer tabs opening, followed by a cacophony of cackling. Clearly, Sammie and I weren’t doing things right. We had ordered a couple of drinks (iced tea and soda) and a big popcorn, but the only thing we sneaked in was leftover Halloween candy. Our mistake.

I’m a little serious about movie-watching etiquette—I like to go to the theater to forget everything else in the world, to get sucked into the story. The last time I was at Tinseltown, I was there to see Alien Covenant. A few minutes into it, after a couple one row behind me kept jabbering on and distracting me and others during the film’s complex set-up, I had no problem turning around to ask them to shut the hell up while also telling them how incredibly rude they were being. I may have been a little curt.

But, with seeing something like Bad Moms Christmas, where there was no need to concentrate to keep up with a plot, combined with the fact that half the theater obviously was going to be tanked by movie’s end, it was clear from the start that audience engagement was a big part of the draw. I mean, we’re talking about a movie with stripping Santas and raunchy, cliché montages set in a shopping mall.

On Rotten Tomatoes’ Tomatometer, critics give Bad Moms Christmas a 29 percent. However, the movie’s audience favorability rating comes in at 52 percent. My guess is that slim majority is composed of women who, like what I witnessed locally, gathered with friends and imbibed liberally—a method of catharsis I can’t argue doesn’t have its merits.

As for stone-cold-sober Sammie and me, I guess you could say we enjoyed the movie vicariously through the others in the audience.

Somehow the chit-chatting, sustained laughter and shouting are what made the film worth watching. And to that, I say, Cheers.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

‘A ghetto plot’ Re “Under one roof” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Nov. 9): It is encouraging to see the community coming together finally prepared to do something about extreme poverty other than just criminalizing it, but trying to isolate all homeless people out on the edge of town is a ghetto plot promoted by business interests that blame poor people for weak sales. I wonder if Sears blames the homeless, too.

The distorted and worsening distribution of wealth we’re suffering is bound to leave the poorest people even more desperately impoverished.

The cheapest shelter options are eventually razed under pressure from higher property values; shantytowns and trailer parks are unwelcome in gentrifying neighborhoods. Our society encourages extreme wealth inequality while simultaneously eradicating the cheapest shelter alternatives available to those squeezed out the wrong end of a ruthless economic system. We are forcing people into homelessness.

The expensive and oppressive urge to impose your own standards of conduct on those who offend you is almost certain to create a ghetto of outcasts, misfits and rogues banished for not reflecting the gleam of capitalism with sufficient shine. On the other hand, encouraging self-managed tiny house villages can foster a community intent on looking after one another with minimal impact on budgets or domestic tranquility.

Dan Everhart Chico

Support for single-payer Today, over two-thirds of all health care costs are paid by the government when you total Medicaid, Medicare and Veterans Administration payments, along with tax subsidies and private insurers being paid a huge share for the plans of our police, firemen and other public workers.

What the heck is all this argument about? Who gets to reap the last 20 percent for their care? We already have single-payer insurance and we have about 15 separate bureaucracies administering them at probably more cost than what it would take to just take care of them.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 Obamacare [the Affordable Care Act] is nothing but a farce! I am a staunch fiscal conservative, but it is time to stand up and support a national health care (single-payer) model for health care. Most have it and the rest deserve it!

Cut off immigrant funding and aid to other nations if need be. I support our president, and I hope he sees my plea. He did, in fact, one time support it and he may again if our voices are heard.

Both parties need to stand up and demand our health care!

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What’s up with the ad?

Devin P. Kelley used a semiautomatic assault rifle Ruger model AR-556 when he murdered 26 people in a church in Texas on Nov. 5. It is based on the military assault rifle M-16 and has a suggested retail value of $799, but can be found on sale at various outlets. The Nov. 9 CN&R features this exact rifle on sale for $649.99.

It is nice to know that we can find bargains on this rifle in our town so soon after a national tragedy.

Seth Derish Chico

Editor’s note: The author is referring to an advertising insert in the CN&R from retailer Sportsman’s Warehouse.

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Re “Tactical takeover” (Healthlines, by Kevin Fuller, Nov. 9): Reporter Kevin Fuller wrote a very nice article on bike lanes and their importance for bike safety in Chico. I found it a little sad and amusing that he would choose to photograph a bike rider who was not wearing a helmet to illustrate his piece.

As someone who survived a bike crash some years ago, only because I was wearing a helmet (helmet ruined, head concussed but intact), I can attest to the importance of all bike riders wearing helmets.

Also a bit jarring—speaking of safety—was the ad insert promoting guns. Just sayin’.

Bill Monroe Chico

If we are to effectively address the opioid crisis, we need to confront the conditions that breed it.

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‘Deaths from despair’ Re “An uphill battle” (Healthlines,

by Evan Tuchinsky, Nov. 2): In his excellent article, Evan Tuchinsky outlines the dimensions of the opioid crisis and medical and public health responses to it.

But there are other issues we need to address if we are to effectively deal with this crisis.

American life expectancy has stagnated in recent years and has actually declined among white Americans. Major contributing factors have been suicide and deaths related to drug and alcohol abuse, what researchers Nancy Cole and Angus Black refer to as “deaths from despair.” This “despair” is related to dramatic increases in economic inequality, the deterioration of our communities, a sense of hopelessness and powerlessness on the part of many Americans—particularly lowincome citizens— and a general failure of social solidarity.

If we are to effectively address the opioid crisis, we need to confront the conditions that breed it. Particularly the massive and ongoing concentration of wealth and political power that disempowers our citizens and destroys our communities. We need to ensure that there are decent, well-paying jobs available to any American willing to work, and if the private sector cannot provide such jobs, the public sector should.

availability is allowed time and time again by our cities’ misguided representatives granting licensing for its distribution and thereby encouraged consumption.

The allowance of a wholesalestyle warehouse distribution facility, and most recently a rezoning of an entire district to allow for microbrew establishments to flourish, just adds to the already overwhelming presence of local retail providers.

Rampant alcoholism accounts for socially destructive addiction and more declining health issues than any other current drug problem. It has become a primary factor in many incidents of domestic violence, rape, vehicular tragedies and violence in general, requiring increased policing and medical assistance at the expense of all citizens both economically and socially.

Yet, the four obstructionists on our City Council continue to restrict and demonstrate noncompliance with a majority of their constituents—who rightfully desire legal access to and availability of cannabis—while identifying its personal and medicinal use as being the problem. This displays a blatant lack of representation and reflects their own personal authoritarian desires toward alcohol promotion and cannabis vilification.

Unacceptable.

Jimi Gomez Chico

Correction The owner of Geology Rocks!, Kasey Valle, was incorrectly named in a feature on Aug. 10 (see “Crystallized vision,” 15 Minutes,

by Meredith J. Cooper). We apologize for the error, which has been fixed online. —ed.

Tom Reed Chico

What about alcohol?

By far, the most damaging drug available today is a socially accepted multibillion-dollar industry that lobbies our political process to ensure its continued revenue flow. Its access and

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE CaNNabis law ChalleNged

Local activists have formed a loosely structured group to protest the ordinance passed last week by the Chico City Council banning commercial cannabis in town. Their biggest issue with the measure, says spokeswoman Denice Lessard, is that it goes against what Chico voters want.

“We analyzed Measure L, and while it failed in the county, it passed by 63 percent in Chico,” Lessard said. Measure L was on the ballot last November and would have allowed for medical dispensaries and other commercial activity in the county. “We feel there is support in Chico for a dispensary and also other cannabis businesses.”

The group has created a petition that calls for the repeal of the city’s ordinance and would allow for a dispensary and delivery services in town. People can find petition gatherers at the Saturday farmers’ market and through local delivery services.

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The wife of the man identified as the suspect in a shooting spree that included an elementary school Tuesday (Nov. 14) in Rancho Tehama is now among the dead, according to media reports of a press conference held Wednesday morning (Nov. 15).

Tehama County Assistant Sheriff Phil Johnston said law enforcement officials believe 43-year-old Kevin Janson Neal killed his wife prior to killing four others and injuring at least 10 people—including two children. Investigators reportedly found her body in a hole in the floor of the couple’s home.

Johnston also said Neal used two semiautomatic rifles that were “obtained in an illegal manner.” Neal was killed by law enforcement officials, bringing the death toll to six.

State Sen. Jim Nielsen was quick to offer prayers in response, via press release: “We lift up in prayer those killed and wounded, their families and loved ones, and the first responders and others who put their lives on the line to protect and save innocent lives.”

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The Justice for Desmond Phillips effort—which is seeking an outside investigation into the March killing of Phillips by Chico police—was bolstered by two events this past week.

On Nov. 9, Phillips’ father, David, and civil rights lawyer John Burris met with state Attorney General Xavier Becerra to introduce new evidence and discuss the case, according to an email from the Phillips family.

More details of the meeting are forthcoming.

Also this week, in a GQ cover story naming former NFL player and police brutality activist Colin Kaepernick citizen of the year, Kaepernick is pictured wearing a shirt with Phillips’ name listed among victims of police violence.

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CHAT’s Housing Now program enables formerly homeless individuals to help themselves—and each other comedian, given to coloring even the Jdarkest details of a life hard-lived with wry ohn Davis is equal parts curmudgeon and

wit. His humor is obviously appreciated by his roommates, several of whom gathered on the porch of their Chapmantown home Monday morning (Nov. 13) to share a few smokes, stories, gripes and laughs before getting on with the day.

“I still got my name on a dumpster down by the tire store,” Davis said with a crooked smile as he pulled on a Pall Mall perched between nicotine-stained fingers.

“It’s reserved.”

Davis came to live in the house—one of 11 homes that provide housing for a total of 40 individuals run by the Chico Housing Action story and Team (CHAT)—about photo by Ken Smith two years ago, after spending more than a kens @ year on the streets. He’d n ew srev i ew. c o m developed a bleeding ulcer and was severely Contribute: safe space is in need ill when the organization of volunteers, materi- brought him into the als and meals for this home, and is currently winter, and the Chico recovering from surgery housing action team is running a fundraiser to remove a tumor in his through dec. 31 for stomach. “These days, the shelter and its I’m not sure when I’m other programs. for not having some serious information on how to contribute, visit Chat’s medical problems,” he facebook page or quipped about his health www.chicohousing issues. actionteam.org.

Davis set all jokes

aside when asked what might have happened had CHAT not intervened: “I probably woulda died of exposure like so many people are doing these days,” he said.

“I had a couple people I knew from the streets who died like that.”

Protecting the unhoused from that fate is

one of the driving factors behind CHAT, an all-volunteer, grassroots organization formed in 2013, said founding member Bob Trausch, between visits to two of the homes on Monday. The houses are part of a CHAT program called Housing Now. The group also runs Safe Space, a lowbarrier seasonal shelter that began when the Chico Peace and Justice Center opened its doors for 16 days in December 2013 to provide a warm place to sleep for up to 30 people each night. Safe Space has grown exponentially since, and last year hosted 246 individuals—averaging around 50 per night—overnight for 12 weeks at churches rotating on a weekly basis. The shelter is currently recruiting volunteers and gathering materials to operate that program for the same time frame this year, beginning Dec. 10.

CHAT’s latest program aims to create a tiny house community for homeless individuals called Simplicity Village, an effort recently given some support by the Chico City Council’s agreement to further look at its feasibility.

With the exception of a small grant to provide mental health help for some resi-

dents, Trausch said CHAT runs entirely on donations and monies raised through fundraising campaigns and special events. The group is currently holding a fundraiser to benefit Housing Now called the Let’s End Homelessness Campaign. A group of CHAT founders have committed to matching funds donated through Dec. 31, and a letter from CHAT announcing the fundraiser says the campaign is meant to make up for funds formerly raised through the North Valley Community Foundation’s annual Annie B’s Community Drive, which was discontinued last year.

For Housing Now, Trausch explained, CHAT

works with compassionate rental owners to house several people in each home.

Members undergo an application process and pay a small fee to participate in the program, which covers housing, utilities, Internet and even some food regularly donated by sources like Trader Joe’s and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.

Trausch said the program’s participants represent a wide cross-section of the homeless population, including many who struggle with addiction and mental and physical disabilities. CHAT provides wrap-around support, ensuring clients can make it to doctor’s appointments, receive their medication regularly and connect to other needed services. CHAT volunteers visit on a weekly basis to check in and troubleshoot any situations that arise, and

John Davis, Tammy Tuel and Dennis Kimbler gather on the porch of the home they share with two other formerly homeless individuals in Chapmantown. The house is one of 11 residences run by the Chico Housing Action Team.

Trausch said the program eschews any one-size-fits-all model to meet the needs of residents, giving each house a distinct character.

“Some of the houses want to be dry and clean and sober and we certainly support that,” Trausch said. “In others, maybe other things have happened in people’s lives that led them to be unhoused. We try to adjust each house to fit the people there.

“We try to get a sense of where a person or couple would fit in, then we go through an interview process with the people in that particular house to make sure it’s a good fit,” he continued.

“We try to develop families, so we really want a good fit.”

The concept of forming families, and of addressing wide-ranging needs, was evident during visits to two CHAT houses that morning. Three of six residents at another house, a beautifully maintained Craftsman in north Chico, shared the widely different circumstances that led to their homelessness.

A man named Alan said he’d struggled with alcoholism and trouble with the law; Mark Fowler has medical issues, and was evicted from an area retirement community where he said his privacy was regularly invaded; and Susan Gannon had trouble finding employment after taking a decade away from her career as a social worker to care for her sick mother.

They also shared some of the progress they’ve made since finding stable housing, and Trausch gave details about other program participants who’ve kicked addiction, reunited with their children, found employment, received much-needed medical, mental and dental attention, and otherwise improved their individual situations. Gannon said her housemates may even have saved her life several months ago, when they found her nonresponsive due to issues with her kidneys and called 911.

“We’re all still dealing with a lot of things,” said Alan, whose housemates refer to him as “the glue” holding that house together and their go-to guy in times of crisis. “We have trauma from our past, and other issues going on, but this has been such a blessing. We draw our strength from each other to get by.

Sure we have our ups and downs, but that’s family.” □

Custody battle Esplanade House caught in the middle of dispute between founders, board

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t was like a longtime marriage gone sour.

A vital 26-year relationship ended abruptly last week, when the board of the Community Action Agency of Butte County voted unanimously to sever all ties with the founders of the Esplanade House, a transitional living and healing facility for homeless families in Chico, one of several programs the CAA oversees.

The decision was made primarily in response to the founders’ demand, outlined in an Oct. 23 letter to CAA board members, that the longtime chief executive officer of the CAA, Tom Tenorio, be removed from oversight of the Esplanade House after 23 years in that role.

“We have come to a crossroads,” the founders—Dr. Gary Incaudo and builder Greg Webb—wrote. “If we can’t work out an acceptable partnership with CAA and/or find a

new non-profit partner to help us run the program by Dec. 1, 2017, we will be compelled to withdraw all our support for the Esplanade House….”

That support is considerable. The founders have a separate foundation, the Esplanade House Children’s Fund, has come to the Esplanade House’s fiscal rescue on several occasions. It has partially financed certain core positions, funded parenting classes, expanded the computer lab and facilitated a child care center, among other things. In addition, Webb has been closely involved in maintenance of the facility’s buildings.

The founders have spent tens of thousands of dollars of their own money in support of the Esplanade House.

The possible loss of these contributions doesn’t seem to faze Tenorio, however. In a phone interview Tuesday (Nov. 14), he said

he’d met with residents the day before and assured them their housing was safe. The loss of the founders’ support “is not going to affect us in a substantial way,” he said.

It was 1990 when Gary Incaudo and Greg

Webb first met and learned they both wanted to give back to the community by doing something about homelessness in Chico, and especially homeless families. They began working to convert a dilapidated 12-unit motel on the north Esplanade into a transitional facility. Webb did the remodeling, while Incaudo, an allergist, put a healing program together and, with the help of public-relations maven Lynne Bussey, put out the word.

One important step was to hook up with the CAA, which provided the organizational and structural tools for soliciting grant funds and managing operations.

It worked … sort of. The idea was to help homeless families by providing shelter as well as immersing them in a panoply of services to address the factors that led them to become homeless: drug and alcohol abuse, domestic violence, lack of education and parenting skills, poor health and legal problems.

But the site was not good, as it turned out, so the founders decided to create a bigger and better facility, one that provided a safe environment, a day care center and, as Bussey writes in her online history of the Esplanade House, “a strict on-site program developed for those families who truly wanted to change their lives.”

Webb found and purchased a site just to the north and financed a $4 million, 60-unit facility off East Shasta Avenue that he eventually sold to the CAA for costs. Since then, the Esplanade House has been a Chico success story, with numerous families graduating from the healing program and going on to live productive, healthy lives.

Tenorio became CEO of the CAA in 1994.

Marching against war The City Plaza in downtown Chico became the gathering spot Saturday (Nov. 11) for a march by a group of peace activists who’ve launched a protest called Confronting Endless War. Those activists include Cathy Webster (left) and Emily Alma. The celebration was not for Veterans Day, but rather in honor of Armistice Day, marking the 99th anniversary of the armistice signed in 1918 and ending World War I. photo by charles FiNlay

Troubles started in the late aughts, when the recession hit and federal funding decreased.

This loss was compounded a few years later, when a governmental preference for “housing first” programs cut into funding for the Esplanade House, which insists on sobriety as a precondition for admission.

The founders believe Tenorio failed to respond to these developments in a timely manner and further exacerbated financial losses by failing to investigate and seek out new funding sources.

The founders knew “far in advance that HUD’s Housing First/rapid rehousing approach was going to create a funding crisis” in 2016, Incaudo writes in a separate letter to the CAA board, “and so offered NEWSLINES c o N t i N u e d November 16, 2017

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he most important news since the last installment of Eye on 45 relates to the continuing investigation into the allegations Trump’s election campaign colluded with Russia. The probe has heated up considerably, putting several members of the Trump camp in the hot seat.

Oct. 18: During a query before the Senate Judiciary Committee, Attorney General Jeff Sessions defended Trump’s decision to fire former FBI Director James Comey. He also refused to share with the panel his conversations with the president surrounding that decision.

Oct. 19: CIA Director Mike Pompeo made the false claim that the outcome of the presidential election wasn’t affected by Russian interference, reports The Washington Post.

According to a Marist poll, more than 58 percent of Americans believe Trump will go down in history as one of the nation’s worst presidents.

Oct. 24: The Washington Post reports that the Democratic National Committee and Hillary Clinton’s campaign contributed funding to an investigation that led to a dossier containing not only allegations about Trump’s connections with Russia but other salacious claims (read: prostitutes).

The Daily Beast reports that a $300 million contract to rebuild hurricane-ravaged Puerto Rico was awarded to a tiny Montana-based company called Whitefish Energy Holdings that had reported having a staff of only two fulltime employees.

According to the report, the company’s chief financier is a Trump supporter who’d given his campaign and the Republican Committee tens of thousands of dollars during the 2016 election cycle. Meanwhile, The Washington Post reports that that the company’s CEO is friends with Trump Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke, who grew up in White Fish, the tiny town for which the company is named.

The same day, The New York Times reports that Vice President Mike Pence cast the tiebreaking vote in a move to overturn a rule that would allow Americans to join together in class-action lawsuits to go after financial institutions. That Obama-era measure was one of many established as a result of the work of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a watchdog group that formed following the economic meltdown of 2008 as a result of lax controls on Wall Street.

Oct. 27: The New York Times reports that the Russian lawyer who’d met with Donald Trump Jr., Trump son-in-law Jared Kushner and former campaign manager Paul Manafort during the presidential campaign has ties to one of the Kremlin’s top officials, Yuri Y. Chaika. The revelation runs counter to Natalia Veselnitskaya’s claims that she was meeting with the Trump associates purely as an

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independent, private citizen. She’d set up the meeting to discuss a memo that included allegations against the Democratic Party, and records show she’d discussed the same information with Chaika, according to the Times. Furthermore, Chaika’s office had given a document similar in nature to Rep. Dana Rohrabacher, a Southern California-based Republican who’s known for his pro-Russia stances.

Oct. 29: Puerto Rico’s Electric Power Authority announces the cancellation of the contract with Whitefish Energy.

Oct. 30: The New York Times reports that Robert Mueller, the special counsel investigating allegations that the Trump campaign colluded with Russia, announced charges against three of President Trump’s associates: Manafort (the embattled former campaign manager), Rick Gates (a former campaign adviser) and George Papadopoulos (a former foreign policy adviser) who secretly pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI and was cooperating with the investigation. To date, Papadopoulos’ plea is the strongest evidence of a coordinated effort between the Kremlin and Trump’s camp to get the now-president elected.

Oct. 31: Following revelations of Papadopoulos’ guilty plea, Trump goes into damage-control mode by downplaying the former foreign policy adviser’s role in his campaign: “Few people knew the young, low-level volunteer named George, who has already proven to be a liar,” he tweeted.

Meanwhile, in written testimony to the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee, Facebook officials estimate that 126 million Americans likely were “exposed” on the social network to Russian-government propaganda designed to meddle in U.S. politics for just over two years beginning in June 2015, reports CNN. Nov. 2: The GOP reveals its Tax Cuts and Jobs Act—a revision of the tax code Republicans have said benefits the middle class but detractors note is most beneficial to businesses, since it cuts the corporate tax

rate from 35 percent to 20 percent.

The New York Times reports that unsealed court documents undermine statements made by both Trump and Attorney General Sessions denying any knowledge of the Trump camp being in contact with Russians during the campaign. Documents reveal that Papadopoulos had pitched the idea of Trump meeting Russian President Vladimir Putin, including during a meeting at which Sessions and Trump were present and Sessions reportedly shot down the idea.

Meanwhile, another former Trump foreign policy adviser, Carter Page, told CNN he had informed Sessions he was traveling to Russia during the 2016 campaign. Page said he had revealed that info to the House Intelligence Committee the previous day. The testimony further undermines Sessions’ stance that he was unaware of any contacts between Trump’s camp and the Kremlin, and in fact Sessions himself had testified thusly back in June during his confirmation hearing.

Nov. 6: Veselnitskaya, the Russian lawyer who met with Trump associates during the campaign, stated that Donald Trump Jr. told her his father, should he win the election, could re-examine a law targeting Russia that came as a result of the murder of “a tax accountant who accused the Kremlin of corruption,” reports Bloomberg. Veselnitskaya stated she met with the Trump advisers to lobby against the law and to present allegations of tax evasion by big Democrat donors.

Nov. 8: Politico reports that Page, the former Trump foreign policy adviser, during his testimony before the House Oversight Committee the week prior, said that he’d sought permission to travel to Russia from Corey Lewandowski, onetime Trump campaign chief. He also testified that he’d sought permission from Hope Hicks, current White House communications director. Lewandowski had previously said he had no knowledge of Page’s trip, but has since acknowledged he’d communicated with him about it and was clear that his visit should not be connected to the campaign.

Nov. 10: Republican senators began scrambling to distance the party from Roy Moore, the controversial Senate candidate from Alabama vying for the seat left vacant

by Sessions’ promotion to attorney general.

Moore has been accused of sexually harassing teenagers when he was in his 30s. One of the accusations comes from a woman who says he assaulted her while he was district attorney.

Nov. 13: Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, among others, says he believes the women and called for Moore to step aside.

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HEALTHLINES Cathy Raevsky, director of Butte County Public Health, says her previous work toward national accreditation helped open the door for her current job.

of public health. In the early 1900s, poor water quality and sanitation spread infections, as it still does in many impoverished countries. Life expectancy for Americans has jumped by 30 years in a century—from living 45 years to 75 years—with the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention attributing 25 of those gained years to public health advances.

That delineation between public health and health care isn’t a hard line, however.

Increasingly, medical offices and hospitals—“health care”—have responsibilities to public health such as reporting certain diagnoses such as tuberculosis and measles.

“Over the years we have seen how public health and health care really need to work together to best protect the health of the community,” Raevsky said. “The medical care community is a vital part of what we do.”

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n the 40 years Cathy Raevsky has worked in

World Health Organization in 1970, contributed to the eradication of the crippling disease in the United States and near-eradication worldwide. Tobacco use and death from heart disease have decreased; early detection of cancer has increased. Treatments for cancer and HIV/AIDS have improved.

The list goes on.

One thing hasn’t changed, a thing that remains a source of frustration for her and others in her field: The general public doesn’t understand public health.

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As director of the Butte County Public Health Department, Raevsky oversees clinics and labs, with their clinicians and techs.

She also oversees animal control, water quality, restaurant inspection, birth and death certificates—a lattice of programs.

The connection is public health’s mandate to safeguard the entire community.

Raevsky contrasts this definition with that of “health care,” which she characterizes as focused on an individual patient. Butte County Public Health does see patients, but only for specific reasons—such as screenings, immunizations, sexually transmitted diseases—that fit in the broader context. “[What public health does] is a hard message to get across,” Raevsky told the CN&R at her Oroville office. “People understand health care because it’s their personal experience … but a lot of the stuff that we’re doing, they don’t necessarily see—and also

because it has so many faces.”

Butte County Public Health has approximately 125 employees. Inconspicuousness is one measure of their success—no outbreaks, no attention. Another measure is national accreditation by an independent organization, which the agency received this fall from the Public Health Accreditation Board.

Raevsky said two common misconceptions persist about public health: “Either that it’s limited to health care for the poor or they think we’re everything to everybody.”

By the first, she means residents assume public health clinics care for Medi-Cal and Medicare patients who otherwise go untreated. Butte County Public Health does not provide primary care, urgent care or emergency room services.

By the second, she referred to individuals and groups approaching the department seeking support for an issue: gun control, domestic violence, human trafficking.

“They all want to define that as a public health problem,” she continued. “Therefore, it should be our No. 1 priority. And while there are parts of those problems that are public health, and will work with people, it’s not central to what we’re trying to do.”

The main focus is disease control. That, Raevsky explained, was the original purpose

its recent certification an achievement transcending the department.

The national accreditation, at its essence, “demonstrates [to residents] that their health department is meeting the highest of standards and has been confirmed by an outside entity [to be] a high-functioning health department,” said Gene Azparren, Butte County Public Health’s accreditation manager. “It’s a really great accomplishment, and it ties to the community because that’s where our services are and we detailed our collaboration with the community—stakeholders and community members.

APPoInTmenT ON MICROBES Learn about food safety, get an upclose look at the dirtiest areas of kitchens and find out how contaminants get into food at the Investigation Station from 1-3 p.m. on Saturday, Nov. 18, at the Gateway Science Museum (625 Esplanade). Chico State’s Microbiology Club will also teach participants about how bacteria reproduce and survive. This activity is free with museum admission ($5-$7).

Go to www.csuchico.edu/gateway to learn more.

“So it’s not really a health department achievement but a community achievement as well.”

It’s also rare. Of 3,410 eligible health departments nationwide (local, state and tribal), just 198 have national accreditation. Butte County is among 10 of 61 in California so certified by the Public Health Accreditation Board; the only other north of San Francisco is Humboldt County.

Butte County Public Health was accredited in September, culminating a process that began formally in May 2014. Preparations began a few years earlier, in 2012-13, after then-state health officer Ron Chapman added to what Azparren described as encouragement “at the national level” to pursue accreditation.

The accrediting agency formed in 2011. Its criteria stem from research and practice standards.

Turns out, Raevsky played a part in that development: The public health department where she worked in Michigan, for the 12 years prior to coming to Butte County in March 2013, had statelevel accreditation and participated in a multistate learning collaborative “that was like the laboratory before national public health accreditation.”

(Her previous department got nationally accredited in 2014.)

Department details:

visit www.buttecounty.net/publichealth for clinics, services and the Public Health accreditation.

“I was hired here, in part, to get this department nationally accredited,” she said.

Currently 161 departments are mid-process and 360 more have applied, according to the organization’s website. Azparren said “hundreds if not thousands” are preparing to apply.

The process begins with the department performing a self-assessment based on the established requirements. The accreditation agency requires documentation; Azparren said Butte County Public Health “must have reviewed more than 1,000 documents and ended up submitting 488.” (That happened in July 2016, more than two years after starting.) Finally, the accreditation body sends a trio of professionals for a site visit to validate the department’s report by inspecting facilities and interviewing staff and community partners; a team visited Butte County in May. Accreditation runs for five years, at which time a department can seek to get reaccredited.

Why go to this effort?

Azparren said Butte County Public Health has gotten better and will continue to get better thanks to accreditation.

“It’s a continuous quality improvement process,” he explained. “For us, it was a great opportunity to assess programs and services, and compare them [to] those standards, and then always seek to improve…. That’s why we’ve really appreciated the program and the process.” □

WEEKLY DOSE Don’t pick poison The rainy season is here, so you’re likely to see mushrooms poking up all over the place, especially if you travel to coastal areas. But be wary: Contrary to popular myth, poisonous mushrooms aren’t always brightly colored.

In fact, they typically look like most edible varieties, according to California Poison Control System (CPCS), which recently released a warning against picking and eating wild mushrooms.

Last winter’s heavy rains produced a bumper crop of Amanita phalloides—aka “death cap” mushrooms—and an increase in human poisonings reported to the CPCS. In a statement, Dr. Craig Smollin, medical director at CPCS for the San Francisco area, said, “No matter how experienced one is at mushroom identification, there is always a risk in eating wild mushrooms,” adding that buying cultivated mushrooms from a grocery store or farmers’ market is your best bet.

Untreated poisoning can lead to liver damage or death. Symptoms typically develop six to 12 hours after ingestion and include: • abdominal pain • cramping • vomiting • diarrhea

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GREENWAYS

Love for the creek

Angel Gomez at a spot along Big Chico Creek where the Water Warriors have cleaned out invasive species to make more of a sight line to the creek.

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and Parks District Center in Chico, near W One-Mile Recreation Area, one might find alking behind the Chico Area Recreation

a completely different scene than a few months ago. Old, overgrown blackberry bushes and shrubs between the path and neighboring Big Chico Creek have been cleared out, and piles of wood chips now block rogue trails headed to the creek.

“The amount of litter has dramatically decreased and the amount of illegal camping has decreased,” said Shane Romain, park services coordinator for the city of Chico.

This is thanks to a new nonprofit group called Water Warriors that’s dedicated to cleaning up the waterways. Angel Gomez, a co-founder of Water Warriors and program coordinator for Butte Environmental Council (BEC), said she and her colleagues decided to shift away from what had seemed to be the obvious solution to making the park more beautiful: picking up the seemingly endless amounts of litter.

“We asked ourselves, ‘What do we do to address the cause of the problem?’” Gomez said during a recent phone interview.

The group, which is under the umbrella of BEC, started in August with about a dozen people. It aims at creek restoration, which Gomez described as having multiple layers.

One part of the problem is invasive weeds and bushes such as Himalayan blackberry, Japanese privet and ailanthus, among others overgrown around waterways, make it possible for people to venture off trail and create illegal camps that are hidden from view. Another part of the problem is a lack of native plants, such as Santa Barbara sedge, which help prevent erosion next to waterways such as Big Chico Creek.

“We want to get ahead of it,” Gomez said.

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The group started small in hopes of eventually making a large impact, initially choosing two areas of focus—Teichert Ponds, between Highway 32 and East 20th Street along Highway 99; and the area behind the CARD Center. The plan is to clear out invasive plants and replace them with native species.

The group is working toward its goal with the backing of a city program called Adopt a Spot, which encourages community involvement in the park by providing resources such as tools, volunteer help and a management plan.

“The Adopt a Spot program is extremely valuable,” Romain said. “It helps to bring our partners together and gives citizens and organizations the opportunity to be responsible for their favorite spots throughout Chico’s parks and greenways.”

The city has come up big for Water Warriors, providing pruning shears; McLoed rakes, which are small rakes with bladed sides used for trail restoration; first-aid supplies; gloves; and manpower.

It’s not just providing tools either; the city also is providing a plan.

“Our job is to support their efforts by providing them with a work plan and guidance,” Romain said.

The issue lies with invasive species taking over certain areas, so Romain, who Get involved:

Those looking to volunteer with Water Warriors can visit butte environmental Council’s website at becnet.org, or contact Angel Gomez at watershed@becnet.org.

understands the detriment of invasive species, provides guidance on which plants are troublesome in the area and should be removed, as well as suggesting which native species should be planted in their stead to help prevent bank erosion.

“There’s very little native vegetation in there now,” said Gomez, referring to area behind the CARD Center.

Water Warriors relies mostly on volunteers, donations and partnerships like the one with the city. CARD has also stepped up, providing volunteers for the program, as has The Stream Team, another local nonprofit that works at protecting Big Chico Creek.

Additionally, Recology has donated bins for waste removal. Floral Native Nursery has provided seeds for the planting of native vegetation. And Chico State has lent hand, providing students from its Community Action Volunteers in Education program (CAVE).

Water Warriors took part in two volunteer days. The most recent one, on Make a Difference Day (Oct. 30), focused on the area behind the CARD Center. Chico State provided about 100 student volunteers that day. The previous was back in September, when about 15 people went out to work on the area around Teichert Ponds. The group cleared out invasive vegetation around a kiosk near the bridge.

In its short existence, the group is already making strides. The work behind the CARD Center in particular is visible and already paying off.

“It has been a great help for us,” said

Terry Zeller, director of parks and recreation for CARD. “The overgrowth created a lot of nuisances because it was a place to hide. It’s a better environment.”

The group is hoping the public sees the benefits of its efforts and becomes more involved.

“We want to see the community take ownership of the care of the creek,” Gomez said.

Romain agrees and said the parks and waterways need attention and that Water Warriors’ work will go a long way in keeping the areas maintained.

“Our waterways through Chico are super important,” he said. “They need constant taking care of.” □

ECO EVENT

BIRDS APLENTY Look for red-breasted sapsuckers, wood ducks, great horned owls and bald eagles at Butte Creek Ecological Preserve (off Honey Run Road) with a guide from Altacal Audubon Society on Saturday, Nov. 18, at 8 a.m. You also might see otters and beavers during the 3- to 4-mile hike along the creek.

Wear sturdy shoes or boots and bring water and snacks. For more information, contact Wayland Augur at 519-4724 or wba@acm.org.

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THE GOODS

Getting into the holiday spirit

happy and healthy Whether customers stop by for a quick meal-replacement shake on their way to work, come in for a free workout class or just want to hang out, Erin Johnson says her goal with ReFuel Nutrition is to create “a place for people to come together to become happy and healthy.” ReFuel opened up at 206 Walnut St., Ste. A, in May, but it’s not entirely new to Chico. Before that, it was Rapid Refuel and located inside Off the Wall Soccer on East 20th Street.

The closure of that business prompted the move and Johnson says it’s been a positive change overall. The shake bar is clean and simple and uses Herbalife products that co-owner Johnson swears by. Staff members offer workout classes—for free—at Rosedale Elementary around the corner, with schedules posted on Facebook. They also do oneon-one coaching to ensure each customer reaches his or her goals. Open 7 a.m.-7 p.m.

Monday-Friday and 10 a.m.-2 p.m. most weekend days (check Facebook for updates). The CN&R recently sat down with Johnson to learn more.

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Like it or not, Christmas is here. Might as well get over the old whine about why the shelves are filled with wreaths and doggy Christmas sweaters before Thanksgiving. Just give up, throw in the towel, and accept the damn cheer, OK? Now that we’re straight on that, let’s celebrate Thanksgiving, why don’t we?

Those who frequent the farmers’ markets are likely familiar with Pyramid Farms, which specializes in local, fresh, organic produce. Every year around Thanksgiving, owner Matthew Martin designates a Saturday during which he’ll donate 100 percent of sales to Heifer International. His philosophy: While purchasing food for your own dinner table this Thanksgiving, you can also help a farmer in a developing nation feed his or her family. Heifer International provides cows (and other livestock) and training to poverty-stricken villages in order to teach entrepreneurship while providing a sustainable food and income source. Good deal!

more holiday spirit I was in the Dollar Tree recently and, upon checkout, was Tell me about your shakes.

The shake is a full healthy meal replacement. So, it has all of the vitamins, minerals, protein and fiber, but it’s still low in sugar, low in calories—it’s less than 250 calories a shake. It’s really going to keep you full, give you energy, make you feel good. It’s like healthy fast food.

What are the workouts like?

We do all body-weight workouts—we never use equipment. I say it’s more of the highintensity interval training style, so really what we do is we find fun ways to do simple workouts as a group. I like to go on Pinterest and, you know you always pin those workouts that you can do at home, like I’m going to do this!, but then you never do? That’s what we do here.

Everything is very simple to do and follow and modifiable to anyone’s needs, so whatever fitness level you’re at you can still participate.

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asked if I’d like to donate a buck to Operation Homefront. Ever curious, I asked about the charity. Operation Homefront provides financial help as well as food and other assistance for American military families. Not only can you donate cash at checkout, there are also collection bins inside Dollar Tree stores for toys that will be delivered to local children this Christmas. What’s more, Operation Homefront has received stellar ratings from charitynavigator.org for truly giving back, with 92.3 percent of expenditures going to programs and services. The drive ends Dec. 7.

What do you do when the weather is bad?

We still work out! We go outside anyway.

How do you help people with meal planning and nutrition?

We do monthly trainings down in Sacramento so we can learn all about the [Herbalife] products— how they work, what’s used to create them, what’s the best way to use them.

What kind of results do you see?

Everything we’ve seen here has been entirely incredible—we have a before-and-after wall filled with people who’ve gotten amazing results, whether it’s muscle gain or weight loss. We just know we have some of the best products here and as long as you’re willing to come up with a plan and stick with it, you’ll be able to see results.

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santa is cominG to town Have you completed your wish list yet? If so, head on over to the Chico Mall starting Nov. 17 and whisper it into Santa’s ear. an apple a day … Congratulations are in order for Ben Nielsen, owner of Lassen Traditional Cidery in Chico, as his Newtown Pippin cider made it to the finalist round in the Good Food Foundation’s Good Food Awards. The winners will be chosen ahead of the awards ceremony in San Francisco in January. I have tasted Nielsen’s creations and they really are good. See for yourself on Saturdays, noon-5, in the tasting room at 26 Bellarmine Court.

I perused the list of other finalists for the awards, which recognize food and drink makers who master both the art of craftsmanship and sustainability. One other local company is in the running: Berkeley Olive Grove 1913, for its California Mission Blood Orange olive oil. Sounds delicious! The company’s website describes it this way: “Enlivening, some will be tempted to breathe it in or bathe in it.” Go to berkeleyolivegrove.com for more info. open for biz If you haven’t heard, Breakfast Buzz closed down a couple months

ago and was bought by Isaac and Krystin Anderson (of Ike’s Smoke House, which parks around the corner in front of Ray’s Liquor). They relaunched the restaurant a few weeks ago as The Buzz, with a new staff and new breakfast and lunch menu featuring Ike’s smoked meats. I’m a little biased, as my boyfriend, Chuck Lockhart, is the head chef—so I’ll let you come to your own conclusions. Beer and wine (meaning mimosas!) started up last weekend, so go ahead and get your buzz on at 208 Cedar St.

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avoid making furtive movements as the two women holding machine guns eye me curiously. There’s a tall one and a short one, both dressed in crisp gray shirts, black slacks and bullet-proof vests, the snouts of their rifles pointing downward as they guard entry into the country.

Or are they preventing escape?

I didn’t have an appointment, hadn’t even rehearsed what to say. I just showed up, expecting to be let in. Typical American.

Stationed beneath a metallic sign that read “UNITED STATES CONSULATE GENERAL,” the short one asked how she could help. Wearing a Bob Dylan T-shirt and running shorts, sweat dappling the backs of my knees, I slinked through the nonexistent queue, a fiction created by two yellow ropes leading to a mobile podium on small wheels, and furrowed my brow.

What’s the right way to defect to Canada?

A day earlier, my brother, girlfriend and I touched down in Vancouver, British Columbia, for what was supposed to be a temporary holiday.

It was 10 months after the United States elected its first openly rapey president, and the grand experiment was not faring well.

Our white-supremacist-in-chief was toilettweeting us into World War III and searching out new adversaries to bury in swamp muck, from the GOP to the NFL to the people (and pronunciation) of Puerto Rico. Besides the ghastly parody that America was becoming, my hometown was grinding me down as well.

I was always going to come back, of course. Until I wasn’t.

I didn’t tell any of this to the heavily armed guard. Instead, I babbled something about being a California reporter wanting to learn about the immigration process (true enough). Within minutes, an embassy official appeared and broke the news: I was at the wrong government agency. The consulate’s office was for Canadians trying to reach the United States.

No wonder the queue was empty.

I capped my pen, shoved my reporter’s pad into a drawstring gymsack and jogged away. Oh, Canada, you’re not keeping me out that easily.

NO ESCAPING TRUMP Wearing mirrored shades, a hay-colored mop of hair and a sweet ’stache, Bill has the air of a children’s television show host who’s dropped too much acid. Piloting the charter bus up to the Capilano Suspension Bridge Park—“Bill’s excellent adventure,” as he calls it—he might just be the most learned man in Canada.

Vancouver’s resident big-wheel philosopher gives his passengers delightful lectures on everything from the Lions Gate Bridge and earthquake trends to water quality.

Lumbering through the financial district, Bill explains the city’s vertical construction patterns, with gentrification pushing into the higher elevations as poverty circles the drain below.

My girlfriend and I witnessed this firsthand, when we rented wobbly blue bicycles through the city’s bike-share program and chugged into Chinatown. Under the tiled gateway arches that promised old-world flourishes, Vancouver’s skid row awaited.

Blighted SROs, littered transit stops, throngs of people cloaked in poverty and the occa-

sional bystander yelling obscenities at invisible opponents. As far as I can tell, this is where the city’s poorest residents have clustered.

Up until this point, I’d wondered where Vancouver’s homeless people were. I’d only seen traces of them my first two nights in the country.

The Vancouver metropolitan region and Sacramento County claim to have homeless populations of similar size: around 3,600.

(That’s a baseline figure based on overnight censuses done earlier this year.) The big difference between the two is that most of Sacramento’s homeless residents are literally unsheltered, while Vancouver’s are under some sort of roof, whether belonging to shelters, transition homes, safe houses, detox facilities, hospitals or jails.

In other words, the Vancouver area is doing a better job of managing its neediest residents.

Aboard the charter bus, Bill shows us how the other half lives as he maneuvers his large rig past a gleaming luxury hotel with a familiar name: Trump Tower.

“All right, people, eyes right. Nothing to see here,” Bill raps into his headset microphone. “That’s how you avoid a political discussion.”

Bill tells the eight or so souls on board that the construction project began several years ago, back when the Trump brand was still palatable, at least to local politicians hoping to ride the tourism wave. But construction delays and funding issues kept the hotel from opening until well after the election—and now there was trouble. (For any other person, getting elected president would be good free publicity.)

“The problem was it opened in March,” Bill said. (Feb. 28, to be precise.) Protesters gathered outside for that grand opening. In June, local media reported that Trump Tower Toronto was relinquishing the unpopular name under new ownership, leaving Vancouver as the only Canadian city with a big, phallic tribute to America’s most successful con artist.

VANCOUVER: AN ALTERNATE TIMELINE What do I really know about Canada?

I make a quick mental inventory. Hockey, maple syrup, moose—mooses? No, moose. A chief export is comedic personalities (Mike Myers, Jim Carrey, Justin Bieber). Did I mention hockey?

This is embarrassing. I need to dig deeper.

I grab a copy of The Georgia Straight outside a breakfast commissary called Yolks and thumb through the paper, which happened to put out its Best of Vancouver issue while we were there. If you’re ever new in town, pick up an alternative weekly, which can’t hide its contempt for social injustice or political incompetence even when tasked with celebrating happy stuff.

By the end of my third cup, I learn that British Columbia’s welfare rates are so low some destitute people say they can make more panhandling; the synthetic opioid fentanyl is stealing lives here as well; supervised injection sites are a thing; and police are doing more to respect the rights of transgender individuals, but still raiding medical marijuana dispensaries.

Then there’s Canada’s original sin.

About five years ago, aboriginal communities drew wider recognition of the institutionalized neglect and forced assimilation they’ve faced since French and British colonialists began fighting over their lands almost 500 years ago.

Specifically, their protests shined a spotlight on the epidemic murder and disappearance rates of aboriginal women, which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police documented in a 2014 report. A year later, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Canada looked at the disproportionately bad health, education and foster care outcomes for ESCAPE C O N T I N U E D

You’ll find bike-share stations outside of most public transit stops in Vancouver, like this one between City Hall and an underground rail station.

I was always going to come back, of course.

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aboriginal children, who used to be “abducted” into church-run residential schools intent on stripping them of their identities, says Vancouver City Councilwoman Andrea Reimer.

Reimer was the only one to volunteer to meet with me when I spammed her and her council colleagues with emails from an American reporter whose Airbnb was just down the street from City Hall.

British Columbia plays a unique role in Canada’s native rights history, Reimer notes.

The province is home to half of the First Nations, most of which didn’t sign treaties with “the Crown.” (Even though Canada negotiated its independence from British rule in the early 1930s, this is how Canadians refer to their government.) Reimer says a “crushing” number of court rulings since the ’70s established that these indigenous communities still retain absolute authority over their lands, putting them on equal footing with the official government. These rulings “super-charged what already was pioneering work” on the issue of reconciliation, she adds.

“It was like a thread that got pulled,” Reimer says.

During our trip, I see frequent reminders of this ongoing, soul-searching dialogue.

Signs, art, planned events, marches—I’m reminded of being in Germany, where public acknowledgments of the Holocaust are prolific. It’s a painful, necessary vigilance.

Whereas, in America, we have Black History Month and Indian casinos, and seem content at leaving our great shames at that.

Reimer says she would like to see a reconciliation process take place for African-

Americans. (They can’t even quietly kneel without our president throwing a conniption.)

She gets choked up speaking about what she’s seen happen in her country, in her lifetime, that she didn’t expect.

“If you can’t find a pathway forward for the truth to be told, for the healing to begin, it’s the same trauma over and over and over again,” she says. “The only path forward is reconciliation.”

Vancouver is by no means a utopian society. But it has diverged from our timeline in critical ways. Let me cherry pick two other examples that will resonate: homelessness and prostitution. In recent years, Vancouver has taken steps to decriminalize both.

In October 2015, the city eased its urban camping prohibition in direct response to a U.S. Department of Justice opinion that it’s unconstitutional to arrest people for sleeping outside when there isn’t enough shelter.

Acknowledging the cruel and unusual Catch22, the Vancouver City Council revised its ordinance so that homeless people could legally rest on public property between the hours of 9:30 p.m. and 6:30 a.m., without fear of being ticketed or arrested.

Just to be clear: A foreign government adjusted its laws in response to a U.S. legal opinion that other U.S. cities, including Sacramento, have so far ignored.

To be fair, Reimer says, the city was responding to forces other than the U.S. Justice Department. There were other provincial court rulings that forced local governments to act, including one that granted homeless people the right to refuse shelter if they feel their safety is at risk. Plus, British Columbia’s provincial government in Victoria has been more consistent at supplying money for shelters and permanent housing than California legislators have.

Vancouver is also pilot-testing a new tax on real estate speculators, which Reimer hopes will induce property barons to open up more housing options across the city. If they don’t, they pay into a fund for affordable housing.

These are among the reasons that Reimer says Vancouver probably has the reputation as the most progressive city in Canada. She chooses the term carefully.

“The left doesn’t necessarily see us as left,” she chuckles.

THE AMNESTY CHALLENGE It takes a little poking around on the Canadian government’s website, but I finally find a link to a questionnaire that promises some answers about whether I’m eligible for citizenship in this PG-13 America. I’m excited. I love online quizzes, and this one looks like it runs on a more perceptive algorithm Vancouver provides public washrooms to residents and tourists alike.

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than most. (No way am I Ross from Friends.)

Scanning the drop-down options, I tell the government spooks where I’m from, when I was born, where I want to move (British Columbia), what I plan to do (find a job, I guess?) and how long I plan to stay (forever!). A couple more clicks, I crack my knuckles and wait for Mother Canada to spread wide its wings and—rejected?

It must be a mistake. I try again, saying this time that my main reason for coming is self-employment “as a farmer, sportsperson or artist.” Crap, now they’re asking me my net worth. Um, no, I don’t have any interest from angel investors or venture capitalists just yet, but—another rejection!

I call up Nir Rozenberg, a licensed immigration counsel whose firm assesses foreigners like me hoping to plant stakes in Canada. Most of his clients become permanent citizens through their Canadian spouses. The other 30 percent to 40 percent are doctors, IT workers, chefs, truck drivers and the like applying for skilled-worker visas.

“What we do is evaluate their credentials and qualifications against the Canadian immigration system, which is skill-based.

It’s a points-based system,” Rozenberg explains. “A lot of our clients are Canadians bringing in spouses. Other clients of ours are Americans who have gone to school in Canada and are looking to become permanent residents or are just Americans that, now, with everything going on, are interested in Canada because it’s a different option.”

Hey, that’s me. I want a different option.

I ask Rozenberg if Trump has made that big a dent in his business. He answers with one word, repeated three times: “Yes. Yes. Yes.” “As soon as Trump won the election, we saw the very next two, three days, into that week, an influx of phone calls,” he says.

“And those phone calls have not necessarily stopped coming in.”

This new run on Canada by desperate Americans does not make the math work in my favor. The country has granted permanent residency to 6,130 Americans through the first three quarters of 2017, according to Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada. That’s fewer than the 6,980 American expatriates the country admitted over the same time last year, but more than the first three quarters of 2015, when Canada adopted fewer than 6,000 dissatisfied Americans.

It might be too soon to see the Trump effect laid out in an Excel spreadsheet, but Rozenberg says his office has been fielding more calls. The immigration counsel says there are some 60 different ways a person could become a permanent resident, most of which require education or work experience in Canada, both of which I lack.

But unlike America, the Canadian government offers its poor, huddled masses yearn-

ing to be free a legal pathway to achieving its national dream. This pathway to citizenship is called Express Entry, which is a misnomer, Rozenberg says. It’s more of a points-based selection system that can also function like a lottery.

“The U.S. doesn’t have any program like this,” Rozenberg says.

Here’s how it works: Got a college degree? Proficient in English? Have several years experience in a desirable profession? If Canada likes the media more than our president, then yes to all three.

Then Rozenberg pops my balloon: Between the age of 21 and 35?

Nuts. I’m 37 going on 80.

Rozenberg says all is not lost. Sure, I lose points for aging, kind of like a lame Logan’s Run, but he says the English requirement is the one that matters. Still, I need an ace in the hole if I want my citizenship application to make the cut. And I think I know who to call.

SAVE ME, RYAN REYNOLDS Ryan Reynolds sounds different on the phone.

I’ve been desperately trying to make contact with a Canadian celebrity since returning to the States. My editor thought it would make the story more interesting to read,

IMMIGRATION DETENTIONS Canada:

6,251 (SOURCE: CANADA BORDER SERVICE AGENCY, 2016-17)

United States:

352,882

(SOURCE: GLOBAL DETENTION PROJECT, 2016)

but I had ulterior motives. After the immigration attorney confirmed for me that my humiliating rejection from Canadian Border Services was no fluke, I knew I needed an edge to get the government to reconsider. I needed a celebrity endorsement.

I started Googling for famous Vancouverites. Clicking on a 2014 slide show from Van City Buzz, I sized up my unsuspecting benefactors: Jason Priestly? I tried, but the former 90210 star’s people never got back to me. Property Brothers’ Drew and Jonathan Scott? Gross.

Seth Rogen? Before Trump blundered along, the wheezy comedian was the person most likely to start a war with North Korea. Ryan Reynolds? Like I’ll ever be able to track down contact information for—oh wait, here it is.

That was easy.

When the superstar actor of Deadpool fame answers, he sounds younger and is less quippy than I expected. He says I’m reaching him at his studio in San Jose.

(He has his own movie studio? In San Jose? Interesting.) He shocks me by saying he’s not working on a Green Lantern sequel, but preparing for a February art show at the B Sakata Garo gallery in Sacramento.

Typical Hollywood, I think. Make enough money and they’ll let you dabble in any medium. Remember Eddie Murphy’s pop album? I can’t forget it.

Reynolds says he’s actually been painting for 20 years and that he specializes in slightly abstract oil renderings of landscapes and scenes of suburbia. Then he tells me he’s also an art teacher at Santa Clara University. “It’s the oldest college in California actually,” he says.

Something’s wrong here. I ask him point blank, is he Ryan Reynolds the actor?

“Oh no,” he says. “I’m Ryan Reynolds the artist.”

It turns out this Reynolds was born in Southern California and is not married to Blake Lively. He gets this sort of thing all the time, he says. One time, at an airport in Utah, someone holding a sign with his name on it drew an eager, and then disappointed, crowd. It’s a funny story, but I’ve got pressing concerns.

“So you would have no in with the Canadian government, say, if someone like me was trying to relocate?” I ask. “It’s not like you could call up Justin Trudeau …”

I hear laughing.

“I wish I could,” he says. “That would be great to have that kind of clout. But no, I’m afraid I don’t even know that many Canadians honestly.”

Julio Molina, a Sacramento resident and DACA recipient, reminds the author that the American Dream is still worth fighting for.

COMING (BACK) TO AMERICA I’ve been back home for a few weeks now and the dream of Canada has started to fade. The daily grind is like that—it grinds you down until all you see is what’s in front of you.

There are mass shootings to be horrified about, late-season wildfires to be terrified of, fresh hells to cover. Sitting in my car, idling behind a line of other cars, I’m reminding myself to breathe when I spot the shirtless man whose karate moves have backed up traffic.

He has hair like Kurt Russell, a sturdy gray beard and a pinched expression of haughty disregard for the motorists threading around him. He makes a point of waiting for the lights to change so that he can wade into oncoming traffic and perform what looks like some off-the-books version of tai chi. Yet I don’t see anyone lose their cool, lean on their horns or threaten to bumper-tag him out of their way. We accept this man. We honor his performance. And then we roll on.

Even with the delay, I manage to beat Julio Molina to Ink Eats and Drinks on N Street.

Molina works at a nearby property development company and is president of the nonprofit Dream. Develop. Do., which focuses on making higher education more accessible within marginalized communities.

Molina knows this terrain intimately.

The 26-year-old was brought by his parents to Sacramento from their native Mexico in the early 1990s, when Molina was just 2. Growing

up undocumented in America, Molina says there was no expectation that he would attend college.

When he was in high school, an art teacher grabbed hold, introducing him to different clubs and community colleges, which was an alien concept at the time. He eventually graduated from UC Santa Cruz.

Molina knows why his parents broke immigration laws to come here. If you’re a mother or a father, you probably know the reason, too.

It’s that old saw about wanting your kids to have the opportunities you never did.

Molina’s father dropped out of elementary school to enter the workforce. His mother dropped out of nursing school when she became pregnant with him. In a cartel-run city in the state of Acapulco, the reasons to leave were not hypothetical.

“My uncle was just killed. Most of my dad’s friends are dead and murdered,” Molina says.

The next generation is faring somewhat better.

Molina renewed his DACA status before the recent upheaval, caused by a Trump administration making political sport out of human lives. Not all of his friends or family members have been so lucky. One of his cousins has been deported. His mother received an e-verification notice that basically lets her know immigration enforcers know where she works. She’s not under immediate threat, but given the administration’s relaxation of enforcement standards, she’s fair game as well.

“They’ve given godlike powers to the Department of Homeland Security,” Molina says of Trump’s executive orders. “It’s like an attorney once told me, we’re the nails, they’re the hammer.”

Molina’s story makes me feel ungrateful.

Here I’ve been daydreaming about a great escape from a country he, his loved ones and my parents have only made better since their fraught arrival. It’s a complicated reality. I ask him if he ever thinks about leaving the United States.

“Of course,” he says. “If I live here, I have to fight the rest of my life.”

Molina says his conscience won’t let him rest until all 11 million undocumented are safe from persecution. That’s a heavy burden for one man to bear, I say. He agrees. People have told him to relax, that Trump is a onetermer. He’s not so sure, but even so.

“How can you get through four years when you can’t even get through one?” he asks.

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HOLIDAY JEWELRY BAZAAR: A holiday bazaar with libations, bites, door prizes and discounted goods. Thu, 11/16, 3pm. Amy Waltz Designs, 290 Airpark Blvd. 530-330-5624. www.amywaltz.com

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W stream in 2004, he quickly gained attention with a seeming juxtaposition: a hen Matisyahu entered the main-

man mixing reggae with strong elements of his Hasidic Jewish faith. It wasn’t novelty, by but it did become his Robin niche. Yet for Matisyahu Bacior (born Matthew Miller), it was just what came Preview: naturally.

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517 main St. “It gave me a new www.jmax perspective on what productions.net Judaism could be to me. It just felt natural to blend the two things.”

That’s exactly what he did. With a full beard and Hasidic garb, he sang and beatboxed about his faith at a fluttering pace over buoyant reggae pulses, as on his breakthrough single “King Without a Crown,” which found its way onto multiple Billboard charts, including No. 18 on the Hot 100 and No. 1 on Reggae.

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Over the next few years, there were a couple of gold albums and another big single (2009’s “One Day”), and then, in 2011, Matisyahu made a change. Via a Twitter post, he revealed a picture of his clean-shaven face and explained he’d be taking his project in a new direction, a departure from his Jewish faith. The shift was met with mixed emotions; some saw it as an abandonment of Judaism, but for Matisyahu it was more of a natural transition.

“There’s always gonna be random people at shows because their girlfriend dragged them out and they heard about this Hasidic guy or ‘King Without a Crown,’ but those aren’t my fans,” Matisyahu said. “The fans that make up the core that allow me to do what I do for real, they know, they’re fans not of the ‘once-Hasidic Matisyahu’ or the ‘new Matisyahu,’ but the whole concept of a person that evolves in their lives, makes decisions, because that’s what most of them are going through in their lives.”

After more than a decade on the road, averaging 200 shows a year, Matisyahu has recently found himself, once again, ready for something new.

“I started to notice a trend in my music, that we started making all the songs faster and I started singing all my songs in a certain higher range, and it was all about trying to have this kind of energy

on stage and lock people in,” Matisyahu said. “I’d find myself up on stage and I’m supposed to be happy and inspiring people, and I’m depressed because I’m not really being authentic to myself and the music. So I just made a decision that I’m going to change the songs.”

His live shows became more spontaneous, sometimes with some songs being cut short and others growing into 25-minute pieces with lyrics riffed into transitions between new and old songs.

Those improvisations are the foundation of his newest album, Undercurrent, an exploration of deep sonic pockets, with emphasis on curiosity and mood over pop clarity. With some songs stretching as long as 10 or even 14 minutes, there’s a sense of melancholy threading through the new album. But no matter the sentiment, for Matisyahu, it’s a genuine expression—something he’s never shied away from.

“People might like it or they might not. I might have to play smaller rooms, but at the end of the day that’s what’s gonna make me happy,” Matisyahu said.

“Undercurrent is the celebration. To me, it’s more like real art; it explores the whole range of human emotions. If there’s gonna be a release or a moment that’s happy, there has to be some kind of tension leading up to that. That’s what life is.” □

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11/16. Various businesses in Paradise. www.paradise chamber.com

NORTH STATE MANUFACTURING EXPO: Thousands of students and job-seekers from 11 counties in the North State gather to get a taste of manufacturing careers. Includes interactive displays, job boards, intro classes and opportunities to meet potential employers. Open to the public. Thu, 11/16, 9am. Free.

Bell Memorial Union, Chico State. 530-892-9600, ext. 211. www.northstatemanufacturingexpo.com

POETRY READING: Poets read poems. Includes refreshments. Thu, 11/16, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St. TRANS WEEK OF RESILIENCE: A week-long series of events hosted

by GSEC to honor the lives of trans people lost due to prejudice and violence. Includes panel discussions, film screenings, training sessions and more. Thu, 11/16. AS Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, Chico State. 530-898-5724. as.csuchico.edu

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CRAFT FAIR: Quality handcrafts and homemade goodies. Sat 11/18, 9am. Calvary Chapel, 14388 Dogtown Road, Magalia. 530-873-3114.

CHriSTmaS prEviEW Music JOHN MILBAUER PIANO CONCERT: The piano virtuoso and former Chico State piano instructor plays a rousing concert inspired by politics, populism and the intersection of ethnicity and identity. Thu, 11/16, 7:30pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State. www.csuchico.edu/ humanitiescenter

Theater THE GAME’S AFOOT: In this comedy directed by Jerry MIller and set in 1936, Broadway star William Gillette invites his castmates to his Connecticut castle for a weekend of revelry.

But when one of the guests is stabbed to death, the festivities in this isolated house of tricks and mirrors quickly turn dangerous. Thu, 11/16, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-8775760. www.totr.org

RESERVOIR DOLLS: A play based on the classic Tarantino film, Reservoir Dogs, with a gender-bending twist. Adapted and directed

by Erika Sorensen. Thu, 11/16, 7:30pm. $14.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events CRAFT FAIR: Quality handcrafts and homemade goodies. Fri, 11/17, 9am. Calvary Chapel, 14388 Dogtown Road, Magalia. 530-873-3114.

EAGLES ARTS & CRAFTS FAIRE: A two-day faire with vendors offering Christmas decorations, jewelry, paintings, baked goods, quilts, toys, homemade sewing items, antiques, clothing, knitting items and more. Proceeds benefit local charities. Fri, 11/17, 10am. Eagles Hall, 1940 Mulberry St. 530-933-5409.

FRIENDSGIVING FUNDRAISER: A family-friendly dinner and dance benefiting Blue Oak Charter School. Featuring danceable bluegrass by the Michael Shay Trio. Fri, 11/17, 6pm. $8-$40. Blue Oak Charter School, 450 W. East Ave., 530-879-7983.

HOLIDAY PREVIEW: See Thursday. Fri, 11/17. Various businesses in Paradise. www.paradisechamber.com

SANTA ARRIVES: The holiday season kicks off at Chico Mall with the arrival of Santa Claus.

Festivities include entertainment by Full Force Dance Company followed by a showing of The Nightmare Before Christmas outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods. Fri, 11/17, 6pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.shopchicomall.com

SPAGHETTI FEED & SILENT AUCTION: To raise money for Pleasant Valley Baptist School. Fri, 11/17, 6:30pm. $10. Pleasant Valley Baptist Church, 13539 Garner Lane. 530-343-2949. www.pvbaptist.org

TRANS WEEK OF RESILIENCE: See Thursday. Fri, 11/17. AS Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, Chico State. 530-898-5724. as.csuchico.edu

Sunday, Nov. 19 Downtown Chico

SEE SUnday, SPECIAL EVENTS

TRIVIA BEE FOR LITERACY: Teams compete for the title of trivia champion to raise funding for Butte County Library’s Literacy Services and support adults and children improving their basic reading and writing skills. Fri, 11/17, 6pm. $30. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary

Music GREG LOIACONO BAND: KZFR 90.1 FM presents The Mother Hips co-founder playing in support of his first full-length solo album, Songs From a Golden Dream. Local songstress Hannah Jane Kile opens. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

LET THE RIVER RUN: The 60-voice Synergism Chorus’ fall concert celebrating life-giving water with songs like Billy Joel’s “River of Dreams.” Fri, 11/17, 7pm. Chico First Baptist Church, 850 Palmetto Ave.

Theater

Friday, Nov. 17 Chico Women’s Club SEE Friday, MUSIC

530-933-5409.

FESTIVAL OF TREES AUCTION & GALA: Quota International of Paradise presents an auction of fully decorated Christmas trees, plus hors d’oeuvres and no-host cocktails.

Proceeds benefit disadvantaged children on the Ridge. Sat 11/18, 6pm. $25. Elks Lodge, 6309 Clark Road, Paradise. 530-521-4027.

HOLIDAY ARTISAN FAIRE: Artisan goods for sale. Sat 11/18, 10am. De Sabla Guild, 15247 Skyway, Magalia. 530-774-5529.

HOLIDAY CRAFT & GIFT FAIRE: Art vendors sell their wares to support local veterans. Food and drinks available for purchase. Sat 11/18, 10am. Free. Veterans Memorial Hall, 2374 Montgomery St., Oroville. 530-534-5659.

HOLIDAY PREVIEW: See Thursday. Sat 11/18. Various businesses in Paradise. www.paradisechamber.com

TORRES COMMUNITY SHELTER’S GRATITUDE GALA:

Due to holiday scheduling, submissions for the Nov. 30 print calendar are due by Monday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m.

Music MATISYAHU: JMAX Productions presents the Jewish American reggae vocalist, beatboxer and alternative rock musician best known for his 2005 hit “King Without a Crown.”

Orphan opens. Sat, 11/18, 8:30pm. $22.50.

Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. www.jmax productions.net

Theater ALADDIN JR.: California Regional Theatre’s youth program presents the classic Disney musical performed by players 11-16 years old. Sat, 11/18, 7pm. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

THE GAME’S AFOOT: See Thursday. Sat, 11/18, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. www. totr.org

JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH JR.: See Friday. Sat, 11/18, 12pm. $10. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

RESERVOIR DOLLS: See Thursday. Sat, 11/18, 7:30pm. $14-$0. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

A fundraising event for the shelter featuring catered dinner, a full bar, live and silent auctions and an uplifting program emceed

by Mark Francis, CEO of Golden Valley Bank. Semi-formal attire is requested. Sat 11/18, 5:30pm. $100. Lakeside Pavilion, 2565 California Park Drive. 530-891-9048. www.gratitudewins.org

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THE GAME’S AFOOT: See Thursday. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge,

EDITOR’S PICK

3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. www.totr.org

JAMES & THE GIANT PEACH JR.: California Regional

GrEG loiaCono band

EAGLES ARTS & CRAFTS FAIRE: See Friday. Sat 11/18, 10am. Eagles Hall, 1940 Mulberry St.

Early dEadlinE

Theatre’s youth program presents the classic based on the book by Roald Dahl. Fri, 11/17, 7pm. $10. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

RESERVOIR DOLLS: See Thursday. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. $14. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

FrEE liSTinGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar editor 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.

pian0 and proTEST Most world-renowned piano virtuosos don’t play protest music, but then again, most aren’t John Milbauer. The former Chico State piano instructor with impeccable technique has worked with orchestras and symphonies from Japan to Brazil, and he’s coming to Zingg Recital Hall tonight (Nov. 16) to play what promises to be a rousing concert inspired by politics, populism and the intersection of ethnicity and identity. But that’s not all—he’ll also dabble in Civil War songs, Yahi chants, Latin American antifascist tunes, Gypsy music and transcendentalist philosophy.

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Special Events CHICO TWEED RIDE: Cyclists on vintage bikes and dressed in tweedy attire ride through Lower Bidwell Park and picnic at Five-Mile Recreation Area. Sun, 11/19, 11am. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade.

530-228-1895.

CHRISTMAS PREVIEW: Locals come together to kick off the holiday season as downtown merchants roll out the red carpet to debut their Christmas offerings. Festivities include strolling carolers, on-street events, choir performances and an appearance

by Santa Claus himself. Sun, 11/19, 4pm. City Plaza, downtown Chico. 530345-6500. www.downtownchico.com

THE GAME’S AFOOT: See Thursday. Sun, 11/19, 2pm. $10-$18. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530877-5760. www.totr.org

HARVEST FEAST POTLUCK: Stonewall Alliance Center hosts a community feast with vegan and gluten-free dishes, live music by Sandra B. Good, a photo booth and fall-themed trivia. Sun, 11/19, 2:30pm. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave. www.stone wallchico.org

HOLIDAY PREVIEW: See Thursday. Sun, 11/19. Various businesses in Paradise. www.paradisechamber.com

Theater ALADDIN JR.: See Saturday. Sun, 11/19, 2pm. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.crtshows.com

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Special Events TRANSGENDER DAY OF REMEMBRANCE: A memorial service and affirmation of life for those affected by anti-transgender violence. Hosted by Stonewall Alliance Center. Mon, 11/20, 6pm. Free.

Faith Lutheran Church, 667 E. First Ave. 530-893-3336.

teacHerS & faciLitatorS SHoW Shows through Dec. 16 Paradise Art Center See ART

Art B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibition, paintings by Erika Warmington. Through 11/17.

Chico State.

CHICO ART CENTER: Dios de los Muertos, art celebrating life and recognizing the value of the people, places, animals and happenings that positively shape our lives. Through 11/24. 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Bird Photography on Two Sides of a Continent, images taken

by Dean Carrier in Ecuador and Brazil. 11/20, 6:30-9pm. 1968 E. Eighth St.

HEALING ART GALLERY - ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Works by Jenny C. Marr, watercolor paintings, soapstone sculptures and pine needle baskets by the Northern California artist.

The Healing Art Gallery of features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer.

Through 1/19. 265 Cohasset Road.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Vanished, a chronicle of loss and discovery across half a million years. Through 12/15. Chico State. universityartgallery.wordpress.com

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Music JEFFERY BROUSSARD & THE CREOLE COWBOYS: Accordion mastery and soulful vocals from the former member of Zydeco Force, who delivers pack-the-floor renditions of Creole classics and a unique brand of contemporary Zydeco. Mon, 11/20, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

Watercolors, dreamy, translucent works by Frances Miller. Through 12/29. 254 E. Fourth St.

MERIAM LIBRARY: We’ve Been Here, We’ll Always Be Here, traditional and contemporary Native American art. Through 12/15. Chico State.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Notes From a Spanish Dutchman, a retrospective exhibition of artwork created by James Kuiper, artist and long-time faculty emeritus with the Chico State Art Department.

Through 12/31. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

PARADISE ART CENTER: Teachers & Facilitators Show, paintings and drawings by the gallery’s instructors. Through 12/16. 5564 Almond St. www.paradise-art-center.com

WINCHESTER GOOSE: Furious Beauty of Earth,

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photography by Owen Bettis, including images from his time in China and Singapore as well as sweeping landscapes from Western America. Through 12/31.

800 Broadway St.

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kilimanjaro Trek Talk, the museum’s speaker series continues as Patty (Bolt) Wright gives an informative talk and shows slides from her hike to the summit of Mount Kilimanjaro in Africa. 11/18, 10am. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

BUTTE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: WWI Exhibition, recently renovated exhibits demonstrating the profound changes in American society caused by The Great War. Through 7/29. 1749 Spencer Ave., Oroville.

DURHAM COMMUNITY UNITED METHODIST CHURCH: Going to School in Chico, during the electric street car era. A presentation of the Butte County Historical Society. Through 11/19.

2404 Durham-Dayton Highway. www.butte countyhistoricalsociety.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Food Safety Investigation Station, the Chico State Microbiology Club provides an up-close look at the most infested areas of kitchens and how contaminants can get into our food. 11/18, 1-3pm. Zoo in You The Human Microbiome, exploring the vibrant world of our inner microorganisms through engaging, interactive and bilingual exhibits. Also on display: Journey to Africa: Elephants and Tiger, Tiger! Through 1/7. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade., 530-898-4121. www.csuchico.edu/ gateway

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Permanent exhibits, including 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.goldnuggetmuseum.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: The Meaning of Life - Visual Analogy, an exhibition adding visual layers to the biggest question—how we assign meaning to human existence.

Through 12/9. Chico State. www.theturner. org

PIONEER HISTORY MUSEUM: Holiday Open House, a festive event with refreshments and tours.

11/18, 10am-4pm. 2332 Montgomery St., 530-538-2429.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Shadow & Water, a display of puppets from Indonesia and Vietnam. Through 12/20. Free.

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Of the five works on the Infectious Rhythms program, only one, Hector Berlioz’s romantic “Roman Carnival Overture,” predated the 20th century (it was composed in 1844). Maurice Ravel’s Tzigane, for violin and orchestra, dates from 1924, and Huapango,

by Mexican composer José Pablo Moncayo, was written in 1941.

Capping the concert was a performance of Igor Stravinsky’s delightful Firebird Suite, composed in 1919.

All were relatively short pieces, and together they offered an eclectic assortment of often surprising and always intriguing modern music. Noticeably absent was the usual dominating symphonic work such as Jean Sibelius’ Symphony No. 2, which was featured in the previous North State Symphony concert, in September.

The Berlioz overture got the program off to a good start. It’s just nine minutes long, but those

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minutes are rich in colorful themes cribbed from Berlioz’s opera Benvenuto Cellini, for which the piece originally was meant. It’s gorgeous music, and the orchestra gave it a flawlessly confident rendering.

Next was the Pinkston concerto, which quickly marked a dramatic shift in tone and structure.

Anyone expecting something like Pinkston’s Shostakovich-inspired Symphony No. 1, which the NSS premiered in 2010, was sure to be surprised—one hopes pleasantly so—by the concerto’s bold mix of tonal and atonal melodies, offbeat percussion and folk and jazz motifs and rhythms.

Guaranteeing the piece’s success was the performance of the soloist, violinist Chloé Trevor, who attacked the score with skillful authority and seemed undaunted by its complexity. Trevor, a slender redhead who was resplendent in a silky green off-shoulder dress that set her off beautifully from the black-and-white-garbed symphony musicians, brought similar power and fearlessness to the next piece, Ravel’s Tzigane.

Theodore Bell, author of the program notes for the concert, writes that Ravel himself said it “must be a piece of great virtuosity … certain passages can produce brilliant effects, provided that it is possible to perform them.”

Tzigane is based on Gypsy folk music and makes dazzling use of the violin, including extended piz-

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zicato runs (plucking of strings).

Trevor was unfazed, snapping those strings as if she was playing bluegrass banjo.

That was followed by Moncayo’s Huapongo. The title refers to a genre of Mexican folkdance music native to southeastern Mexico. Moncayo’s piece uses three dance tunes that he found in Veracruz, interweaving them to great effect. This is a rousing work rich in recognizable Mexican rhythms and melodies.

What made the Huapongo performance especially notable was that about half the orchestra was made up of student musicians from the Butte-MTAC (Music Teachers Association of California) Youth Orchestra and the Shasta College Chamber Strings. It’s a pleasure to report that they played very well.

Yes, their articulation was sometimes a little squishy, but overall their performance was impressive.

José Pablo Moncayo would have loved it.

The concert ended with the Firebird Suite, the dazzling, delightful orchestral composition adapted from Stravinsky’s score for his ballet based on a famous folk tale. It’s an artful blend of classic symphonic themes and Russian folk melodies, and the Laxson audience gave it a standing ovation, the third of the night. □

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THUrSDAY 11/16—WeDneSDAY 11/22

eArlY DeADlIne Due to holiday scheduling, submissions for the Nov. 30 print calendar are due by Monday, Nov. 20, 9 a.m.

DAVID LIEBE HART: Best known for his

PAT HUll bAnD Friday, Nov. 17 Lost on Main See FrIDAY

role on Tim & Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!, Hart is an outsider musician, actor, stand-up comedian, ventriloquist and painter.

Appearing with backing musician Th’ Mole, he performs old favorites and new songs, puppets and video accompaniment. Severance Package and Licky Lips open. Fri, 11/17, 9pm. $8-$12. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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BEER RELEASE PARTY: Brewmaster

Roland Allen rings in the holidays with the release of Seasons Cranberry Ale. Thu, 11/16, 6pm.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. www.feather fallscasino.com

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & STEVIE COOK: Eclectic tunes for dining pleasure. Thu, 11/16, 6pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

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THE ALTERNATORS: Rock, funk, alternative and pretty much everything else. Fri, 11/17, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 11/17, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

party in the remodeled back bar with new cocktails, discounted drinks and gift card raffles. Fri, 11/17, 7pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

GREG LOIACONO BAND: The Mother Hips co-founder plays in support of his first full-length solo album, Songs From a Golden Dream. Local songstress Hannah Jane Kile opens. Fri, 11/17, 7:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: Playing an eclectic mix in the lounge. Fri, 11/17, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

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LOCKED-N-LOADED: Danceable country

in the lounge. Fri, 11/17, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

THE MAKER’S MILE: A mix of funk, rock,

reggae and hip-hop. Fri, 11/17, 9pm.

White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

NORTHERN HEAT: A variety of classic

rock and country covers. Fri, 11/17, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by Tito (aka Thunder Lump). All forms of performance art welcome. Fri, 11/17, 7pm. $1. DownLo, 319 Main St.

PAT HULL BAND: The local singersongwriter plays with his full band.

Bill also includes Wicked Man, an indie-soul outfit out of Oakland blending pop melodies, haunting lyrics and Afrobeat rhythms. Fri, 11/17, 10pm. $8. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

ary country band Alabama. Fri, 11/17, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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CHICAGO THE TRIBUTE: An upbeat

tribute to the hit-making band. Sat, 11/18, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls

✶$300 cash prize to first-place winner ✶Artists of every performance style are eligible to participate

✶Must be 18-over

DEADLINE to enter is Jan. 10, 2018

GOSPEL WORKSHOP: The Celebration

Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

CHUCK EPPERSON BAND: Led by the longtime local rock and funk guitarist. Sat, 11/18, 8:30pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

DRAG SHOW: Another night of dancing, drinks and drag hosted by Coco and Millian. Sat, 11/18, 10am. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

Gospel Choir of Chico invites members of the community to learn about the roots and techniques of black gospel music and sing with the choir. Sat, 11/18, 2pm. Free. Bethel AME Church, 821 Linden St.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & BOB LITTELL: Playing an eclectic mix in

the lounge. Sat, 11/18. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

Get Y Toge our Ac t ther !

The Chico News & Review wants to hear about it! Submissions are now being accepted for the fifth annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show, happening Feb. 24, 2018, at the Senator Theatre

✶Art of all media is accepted

Anna Fritz, a classically trained cellist and folksinger out of Portland, Ore., has plenty of rock star cred, having recorded with big indie bands, such as Band of Horses and The Decemberists, and shared the stage with Garrison Keillor and Andrew Bird. Fritz is impressive by herself, too, as her original music— often a powerfully simple combination of cello and voice—explores themes of spirituality, racial justice, climate change, gender identity and connection to the natural world. She plays Chico Women’s Club on Monday, Nov. 20.

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Got a strange talent?

A freaky act? A singular performance style? A bizarre approach to entertaining crowds of people?

We’re also accepting submissions for the Keep Chico Weird Art Show, Feb. 22-25, at the Museum of Northern California Art (Monca)

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Visit www.facebook.com/keepchicoweird for submission guidelines.

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THIS WEEK: FInD more enTerTAInmenT AnD SPeCIAL evenTS on PAGe 20 OPEN MIC: For musicians of all

ages. Sat, 11/18, 7pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

THE POSEYS: Swing, jazz, blues

and vintage Western. Sat, 11/18, 5pm. Free. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 Highway 70.

SAFETY ORANGE: Surf-rock and reggae in the lounge. Sat, 11/18, 8:30pm.

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

TERRA BELLA: A husband-and-wifefronted country band out of Nashville. Sat, 11/18, 9pm. $5.

Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: An eclectic blend of music to dine by. Sun, 11/19, 6pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St.

THE LALAS BURLESQUE: A sultry troupe

of professional dancers. Sat, 11/18, 8pm. $15-$35. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. www.goldcountrycasino.com

THe LALAS bUrLeSQUe Saturday, Nov. 18 Gold Country Casino

and hipsters sell their crafts, vinyls and vintage clothes. Sun, 11/19, 3pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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LOCKED-N-LOADED: Danceable country in the lounge. Sat, 11/18, 8:30pm.

Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

MATISYAHU: JMAX Productions presents the Jewish American reggae vocalist, beatboxer and

ROCK ’N’ SHOP: Local rockers, rollers

alternative rock musician best known for his 2005 hit “King Without a Crown.” Orphan opens. Sat, 11/18, 8:30pm. $22.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. www.jmaxproductions.net

ANNA FRITZ: KZFR 90.1 FM presents

the cello-wielding activist/folksinger from Portland, Ore., who has toured and recorded with the likes

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JEFFERY BROUSSARD & THE CREOLE COWBOYS: Accordion mastery and soulful vocals from the former member of Zydeco Force who delivers pack-the-floor renditions of Creole classics as well a unique brand of contemporary Zydeco. Mon, 11/20, 7:30pm. $20.

Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

OLD TIME FIDDLERS: A good, old-

fashioned jam. Mon, 11/20. $3.

Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum, 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

THIRD MONDAY JAZZ JAM: A jam to celebrate the music of Duke Ellington and Billy Strayhorn. Curated by Uncle Dad’s Art Collective. Mon, 11/20, 7:30pm. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Get quizzed on useless knowledge. Mon, 11/20, 9pm. Free.

Down Lo, 319 Main St.

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JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & STEVE COOK: Playing an eclectic mix of tunes for dining pleasure. Wed, 11/22, 6pm. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd.

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 11/22, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival teams with your squad of up to six fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 11/22, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

ZYDeCo FIX

Zydeco is a musical genre blending blues, R&B and the indigenous music of the Louisiana Creoles. One of the finest modern examples of the style was the longrunning band Zydeco Force, which last released an album in 2005, but a former member of the band has reignited the torch. Jeffery Broussard and The Creole Cowboys play the Sierra Nevada Big Room on Monday, Nov. 20, and the soul-singing accordion master and band are sure to pack the dance floor.

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

Opening this week Justice League

In a world without Superman, it’s up to Batman (Ben Affleck) and his newly assembled league of superheroes—including Wonder Woman (Gal Gadot), Aquaman (Jason Momoa), Cyborg (Ray Fisher) and The Flash (Ezra Miller)—to save the planet from dark forces. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Julia Roberts and Owen Wilson star as parents of a fifth-grade boy with genetic facial deformities who is struggling to make a go of it in a mainstream school where some students are less than accepting. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Wonderstruck

Quirky direction plus a star-studded cast equals decent remake

Ipretty it does seem to me that Kenneth Branagh is having a good year, movie-wise. t’s nothing that needs shouting from the rooftops, but

Dench, Derek Jacobi, Leslie Odom Jr., Daisy Ridley and Josh Gad have roles of some consequence as the mysteries aboard that snowbound luxury train unfold once again.

His steadfast performance as a British naval offiBranagh’s Poirot is a tightly wound perfectionist cer in Christopher Nolan’s Dunkirk by was one of the chief highlights of that sporting a monstrous handlebar mustache that someJuan-Carlos remarkable film from earlier this year. times comes to look like the sort of longhorn hood Selznick ornament that a party-loving cattle rancher might put And now there’s his ultra-eccentric portrayal of Hercule Poirot in the new on a pink Rolls Royce. Be that as it may, this Poirot film version of Murder on the Orient is also a genius-level fussbudget with a small but very telling touch of the tragicomic buffoon to him.

Express, which he also directed—in Branagh the director, however, seems more the eccentric and (at times) spectacular exuberantly antic extrovert here—a second-string fashion. movie magician in the Orson Welles mold, reveling Mildly tweaked and “updated” Murder on the in the extravagant visions that the machinery of the but basically faithful to the Agatha Orient Express movies makes possible. Branagh uses CGI and bizarre Christie original, Branagh’s verStarring Kenneth camera angles to wild, near-surreal effect for scenes branagh, Penélope sion of the Poirot/Christie story is Cruz, Johnny Depp, worthy of the company it keeps with whose main action is mostly a matter of intimate and/ Willem Dafoe and Judi the 1974 movie version (directed by or fraught conversation.

Dench. Directed by There’s no clear or obvious reason for these techniKenneth branagh. Sidney Lumet, with Albert Finney in cal displays, but observing an important conversation Cinemark 14, Feather the Poirot role) and the Masterpiece/ river Cinemas, PBS version with David Suchet as from the vantage point of a camera looking straight Paradise Cinema 7. Poirot. This version sticks to the post- down at the tops of the actors’ heads serves a practirated PG-13. cal purpose while also creating a kind of “god’s-eyeWorld War I setting of the original, but applies dibs and dabs of historical view” poetry.

Branagh seems to have encouraged offbeat subtlehindsight to certain details of character ties in several of the main performances, but this film and situation.

Branagh’s cast can’t match the dazzling star power doesn’t give that talented cast a whole lot to explore of Lumet’s cast in the ’74 version, but there are plenty in depth. The best-acted sequence in the film comes fairly early on—a multifaceted conversation between of stellar faces and presences on hand here just the Branagh’s Poirot and the sleazily complex scoundrel same. In addition to Branagh himself, Johnny Depp, □ Michelle Pfeiffer, Penélope Cruz, Willem Dafoe, Judi played by Depp.

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Todd Haynes (Far From Heaven, Velvet Goldmine) directs this adaptation of Brian Selzick’s acclaimed illustrated novel, interlacing two stories set 50 years apart about two different children on personal quests.

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

Now playing A Bad Moms Christmas

For this sequel, the three bad moms—Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell and Kathryn Hahn—have their holidays disrupted when their own bad moms—Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines and Susan Sarandon—invade for Christmas. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Daddy’s Home 2

Let There Be Light

A Christian faith-based film about a notorious atheist who, after a drunken-driving accident, has a worldview-challenging moment. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

A Christian faith-based computer-animated feature with Bo the donkey and his animal friends as the heroes of the first Christmas. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

All aboard

moment that is quite good. I hope the PA or intern who did the work on that one got an extra Snickers for the effort. I’d give you a plot synopsis but, hey, what’s the point, right? It’d just be me running off a bunch of characters played by actors and actresses you don’t really know dying at the hands of convoluted killing contraptions—like the nonsensical spinning blade thingamabob rigged to a motorcycle engine that makes little to no sense, or the wire rigging sniggle-dee-doo that chops a dude’s leg off, etc., ad nauseam. Cinemark 14. Rated R —B.G.

Just in time for A Bad Moms Christmas across the cineplex comes another parental invasion featuring two dads (Mel Gibson and John Lithgow) of two co-dads (Mark Wahlberg and Will Ferrell) making a nuisance of themselves around the holidays.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The hallucinogenic plot drops Thor (Chris Hemsworth) on a crazy garbage planet bent on round-the-clock violent entertainment and led by the Grandmaster (Jeff Goldblum). The Grandmaster shaves Thor’s head, dresses him in gladiator gear, and throws him into the ring for a bout with his prized competitor. That would be the Hulk, held captive on the planet for the past couple of years. He’s been nothing but the Hulk the whole time, with alter ego Dr. Bruce Banner (Mark Ruffalo) trapped inside. Thor and Hulk have a battle royale for the ages. There’s a whole other, apocalyptic subplot going on, where Thor’s long-lost sister Hela (Cate Blanchett) is causing major havoc on his home planet of Asgard. To say the result of all this is trippy is an understatement. The movie looks like Thor meets Boogie Nights (minus the porn) meets The Lord of the Rings. It scores high marks in the fantasy genre realm while being one of the year’s funniest movies, and that’s high praise. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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breast side down.

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Close lid and adjust the heat to 325. Cook for 75 minutes.

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The Hanged Man Ted Leo Self-released

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In the world of generic pop records, Ted Leo’s new 14-song solo album, The Hanged Man, is a glass of fresh water. But that’s Leo in general; unabashed and creating worlds to experience. His music is a fusion of punk rapidity, distorted textures and screechy leads, with Leo’s clear tone that can move from soft pop to a sonic attack in a second. “Can’t Go Back” feels instantly classic, almost with the shape of a show tune, and it’s quickly followed by “The Future (Is Learning To ...),” a punk-pop mover in line with his previous work with backing band The Pharmacists. “William Weld in the 21st Century,” on the other hand, is a lazy folk-rocker in which Leo’s honeyed voice sings a song of politics in America. This is the kind of spastic shape-shifting few can pull off, the kind of artistry shared by greats like Elvis Costello or Nick Lowe. Leo’s spent nearly three decades making music, and the versatility and precision of this record shows it.

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Sweet Aloha Sweet Beets & The Kind Hearted Self-produced Christina “Sweet Beets” Boyden’s Sweet Aloha is an irresistible folksy mix of Maui rainbows and Nashville-like twang. A longtime DJ who settled in Hawaii, Boyden filled her first full-length project with meaningful and memorable songs by virtue of a deep-rooted positivity, a lack of pretension and a lilting voice that exudes childlikeinnocence. Supporting the original songs is The Kind Hearted, a band composed of players from the David Nelson Band and Moonalice, including bassist Pete Sears, lead guitarist Barry Sless, drummer John Molo and accordionist/keyboardist Mookie Siegel. Sless’ fingerpicking, in particular, weaves magical acoustic melodies that tie together the material and provide the album’s continuity. On the title track, Boyden paints an enticing scene of her life on Maui: “I love sunshine on my face, blue skies, rainbows in my eyes/Maybe a turtle or two swimming next to me/I love to surf in the deep blue sea/And now I love how you’re here with me.” Available via cdbaby.com, Amazon and iTunes.

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I Feel Very Close to You Right Now Glances Self-released Sometimes the stars align. Ashley Thompson met Micah Waldron in Chicago in 2012, then a year later met Christian Whiting while living on a farm in Hawaii. She convinced Whiting to join them back in Chicago, and the trio known as Glances was born. Their debut, I Feel Very Close to You Right Now, feels just as fluid and exploratory, a series of light electronic numbers with faded choral highs and slow synth pulses. The album’s opener, “Btwe2s,” kicks off with a subdued Bon Iver-like air, a sort of nonchalant anthem conjured from a simple guitar lick and falsetto layered voices and a poignant punch at the end of each verse phrase. The songs don’t build or burst. Rather, they slowly dissolve from lilting synth melodies into a sort of dream-pop haze pinned by a rhythmic foundation that keeps it from meandering into ambient territory. There’s some buoyancy here, too; “Xoxo” has a sweet beat to it, the kind that hints at a strong live version.

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BRING THE NOISE Last week, Arts DEVO watched Rolling Stone: Stories

From the Edge, the four-hour HBO documentary on the history of Rolling Stone magazine, and I thoroughly enjoyed what is an excellent look at the magazine’s groundbreaking work in telling the story of rock and the counterculture movement of the late-1960s and ’70s. I always get pumped reliving rock history, and hearing about the journalistic daring of the magazine’s early years—especially the gonzo (and smart and thoughtful) exploits of Hunter S. Thompson—was inspiring as well.

To their credit, filmmakers Alex Gibney and Blair Fosterthey didn’t shy away from shining a light on the magazine’s less exemplary moments.

For me, something that stood out was Rolling Stone’s initial reluctance to allow subsequent musical/counterculture movements of late-1970s and the 1980s—the early punk and rap scenes—to share space with the by-then established forerunners (Dylan, the Stones, etc.).

Even now, decades after the fact, I often find that baby boomers plug their ears to much of the music (“You call that singing?!”) to come after that of the founding classic rockers. Despite the fact that The Beatles, Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Who and many others made plenty of racket, there is a persistent stigma that what the kids of the generations X, M and Z listened to is just noise.

Actually, some of it is noise—by design. Like Hendrix’s “Star-Spangled Banner,” many of the best examples from genres like punk, rap, hard rock, metal and electronic music are purposefully constructed to grate against the status quo. Personally, I don’t know how all humans with souls and beating hearts in 2017 America aren’t slamming their heads into a wall in time with the nastiest, loudest, most explosive riffs they can get their ears on. In a very real way, the noise keeps me sane. My usual go-tos are anything by Andrew W.K. or now-defunct Seattle postpunkers The Blood Brothers. As Henry Rollins said, “The Blood Brothers make music that will save us all. What a great fuckin’ racket these guys make.” I agree.

Lately, I’ve also been super into the nasty noise of rap duo Run the Jewels (“Blockbuster Night Part 1” will get you through a brick wall). But for one of my all-time faves, I go back to the ’90s and English indie punk band Huggy Bear’s playfully disjointed call to fighting the man, “Pansy Twist”: “Does it make you more a kid if you wanna KARP: Kill All Redneck Pricks off a pig? Does it make you more a pig if you wanna off a kid?”

While writing this column, I reached out to a handful of my favorite music nerds to get their top loud jams, and they didn’t disappoint in supplying a cathartic YouTube playlist. Start with KARP (anything by KARP), and turn it up: “Pie” (or “We Ate Sand” or “Lorch-Miller”)—KARP “Malpractice”—Faith No More “Committed”—Unsane “Please Don’t Wait for Me”—Yak “Diver”—Oozing Wound “Plague” (or “No Heroes”)—Converge

NOW ON TAP What!? This is really for realz happening? Yes, Chico is officially getting its second brewery/taproom this weekend, as Secret Trail Brewing Co. opens its doors at 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120, to the public this Saturday, Nov. 18. Find Secret Trail on Facebook for info.

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Culture magazine celebrated its 100th issue with a look back eight years at their beginning, when only 14 states had medical marijuana laws, and 60 percent of Americans were against legalization. Now, with features on cutting-edge celebrities like CNN’s Anthony Bourdain and the electro-dance duo Krewella, Culture is influencing how cannabis fits into our definitions of contemporary style.

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Weed World focuses on cannabis strains and seeds, while Emerald offers ideas for cannabis infused meals, home brews, and do-it-yourself projects. Edibles List features recipes, and Dope magazine concentrates on activities like skateboarding and street art, with an emphasis on inclusivity. Elevate Nevada centers around the issues unique to

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF november 16, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “Many

people go fishing all their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after,” observed Henry David Thoreau. The spirit of Thoreau’s observation is true about every one of us to some extent. From time to time, we all try to satisfy our desires in the wrong location, with the wrong tools, and with the wrong people. But I’m happy to announce that his epigram is less true for you now than it has ever been. In the coming months, you will have an unusually good chance to know exactly what you want, be in the right place at the right time to get it, and still want it after you get it. And it all starts now.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I predict

that during the next ten months, you will generate personal power and good fortune as you ripen your skills at creating interesting forms of intimacy. Get started!

Here are some tips to keep in mind. 1. All relationships have problems. Every single one, no exceptions! So you should cultivate relationships that bring you useful and educational problems. 2. Be very clear about the qualities you do and don’t want at the core of your most important alliances. 3. Were there past events that still obstruct you from weaving the kind of togetherness that’s really good for you?

Use your imagination to put those events behind you forever.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You may be

entertaining an internal dialog that sounds something like this: “I need a clear yes or a definitive no . . . a tender revelation or a radical revolution . . . a lesson in love or a cleansing sex marathon -- but I’m not sure which! Should I descend or ascend?

Plunge deeper down, all the way to the bottom? Or zip higher up, in a heedless flight into the wide open spaces? Would I be happier in the poignant embrace of an intense commitment or in the wild frontier where none of the old rules can follow me? I can’t decide! I don’t know which part of my mind I should trust!” If you do hear those thoughts in your brain, Gemini, here’s my advice: There’s no rush to decide. What’s healthiest for your soul is to bask in the uncertainty for a while.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According

to storyteller Michael Meade, ancient Celtic culture believed that “a person was born through three forces: the coming together of the mother and father, an ancestral spirit’s wish to be reborn, and the involvement of a god or goddess.” Even if you don’t think that’s literally true, the coming weeks will be a favorable time to have fun fantasizing it is. That’s because you’re in a phase when contemplating your origins can invigorate your spiritual health and attract good fortune into your life. So start with the Celtic theory, and go on from there. Which of your ancestors may have sought to live again through you? Which deity might have had a vested interest in you being born? What did you come to this earth to accomplish? Which of your innate potentials have you yet to fully develop, and what can you do to further develop them?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I predict that

starting today and during the next ten months, you will learn more about treating yourself kindly and making yourself happy than you have in years. You will mostly steer clear of the mindset that regards life as a numbing struggle for mere survival.

You will regularly dream up creative ideas about how to have more fun while attending to the mundane tasks in your daily rhythm. Here’s the question I hope you will ask yourself every morning for the next 299 days: “How can I love myself with devotion and ingenuity?”

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): This may be

the most miscellaneous horoscope I’ve ever created for you. That’s apropos, given the fact that you’re a multifaceted quick-change artist these days. Here’s your sweet mess of oracles. 1. If the triumph you seek isn’t humbling, it’s not the right triumph. 2. You may have an odd impulse to reclaim or recoup something that you have not in fact lost. 3. Before

by rob brezsny transmutation is possible, you must pay a debt. 4. Don’t be held captive by your beliefs. 5. If you’re given a choice between profane and sacred love, choose sacred.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The next

ten months will be an ideal time to revise and revamp your approach to education. To take maximum advantage of the potentials, create a master plan to get the training and knowledge you’ll need to thrive for years to come. At first, it may be a challenge to acknowledge that you have a lot more to learn. The comfort-loving part of your nature may be resistant to contemplating the hard work it will require to expand your worldview and enhance your skills. But once you get started, you’ll quickly find the process becoming easier and more pleasurable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Ev-

erything that can be invented has been invented.” - Charles H. Duell, Director of the U.S. Patent Office, 1899. “Heavier-thanair flying machines are impossible.” - Lord Kelvin, President, Royal Society, 1895. “All the music that can be written has already been written. We’re just repeating the past.” - 19th-century composer Tschaikovsky. “Video won’t be able to hold on to any market it captures after the first six months. People will soon get tired of staring at a box every night.” - filmmaker Darryl F. Zanuck, commenting on television in 1946. I hope I’ve provided enough evidence to convince you to be faithful to your innovative ideas, Scorpio. Don’t let skeptics or conventional thinkers waylay you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Of all the signs in the zodiac, you Sagittarians are most likely to buy a lottery ticket that has the winning numbers. But you’re also more likely than everyone else to throw the ticket in a drawer and forget about it, or else leave it in your jeans when you do the laundry, rendering the ticket unreadable. Please don’t be like that in the coming weeks. Make sure you do what’s necessary to fully cash in on the good fortune that life will be making available.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): In

the game of basketball, if a player is fouled by a member of the opposing team, he is given a “free throw.” While standing 15 feet away, he takes a leisurely shot at the basket without having to deal with any defenders. Studies show that a player is most likely to succeed at this task if he shoots the ball underhanded. Yet virtually no professionals ever do this. Why? Because it doesn’t look cool. Everyone opts to shoot free throws overhand, even though it’s not as effective a technique.

Weird! Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming weeks, Capricorn.

In my astrological opinion, you’ll be more likely to accomplish good and useful things if you’re willing to look uncool.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In 1991,

Aquarius rock star Axl Rose recorded the song “November Rain” with his band Guns N’ Roses. It had taken him eight years to compose it. Before it was finally ready for prime time, he had to whittle it down from an 18-minute-long epic to a more succint nine-minute ballad. I see the coming weeks as a time when you should strive to complete work on your personal equivalent of Axl’s opus.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STILSON CANYON GRANITE AND MARBLE at 2700 Hegan Ln Ste 162 Chico, CA 95928.

JASON CHRISTOPHER LIND 5326 Becky Ln Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASON LIND Dated: September 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001281 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name PATS SANDBLASTING SERVICE at 5355 Miners Ranch Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

KARL SODERBERG

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5355 Miners Ranch Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KARL SODERBERG Dated: October 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0001140 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PINEAPPLE GANG at 1013 W. 7th St. Apt. 26 Chico, CA 95928.

ANDREW DAVIS 1013 W. 7th St. Apt. 26 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANDREW DAVIS Dated: October 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001402 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO BUILDING at 280 Boeing Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

WESTERN WOODS INC. 275 Sikorsky Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: CHRISTOPHER RICHTER, PRESIDENT Dated: October 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001350 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GRAMPA’S GOURMET COOKIES at 5195 Bennett Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

KENNETH BEARD 5195 Bennett Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KENNETH BEARD Dated: October 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001387 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ELEVATE at 1015 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT L NORMAN 952 E Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT L. NORMAN JR. Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001320 Published: October 26, November 2,9,16, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FAMILY TREE HYDROPONIC EMPORIUM LLC at 2961 Hwy 32 Unit 27 Chico, CA 95973.

FAMILY TREE HYDROPONIC EMPORIUM LLC 711 S Carson Ste 4 Carson City, NV 89701.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: KASEY VALLE, MANAGER Dated: October 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001384

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN SIERRA ECO FRIENDLY LAWN CARE at 935 Waggoner Road Paradise, CA 95969.

MATTHEW JAMES ARMSTRONG 935 Waggoner Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MATT ARMSTRONG Dated: October 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001419 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STEP BY STEP TUTORING at 352 E 8th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

MIHAELA BEATRICE HARJAU-BROUGHTON 352 E 8th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MIHAELA BEATRICE HARJAU-BROUGHTON Dated: October 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001422 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as J SCHLESINGER PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT at 2734 Brenni Way Chico, CA 95973.

JOSEPH ERIC SCHLESINGER 2734 Brenni Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSEPE E. SCHLESINGER Dated: October 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001409 Published: November 2,9,16,22, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREEN GODDESS at 701 Biggs East Hwy Biggs, CA 95917.

APRIL L RODRIGUEZ 347 C Street Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: APRIL L. RODRIGUEZ Dated: October 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001346 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PAKALOLO EXPRESS at 230-C Walnut St Suite 127 Chico, CA 95928.

KANWALJIT SINGH 18 Cameo Drive Apt 4 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KANWALJIT SINGH Dated: October 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001439 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing

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business as NORPAC, NORTH BRIDGE HOLDINGS, NORTH BRIDGE INTERNATIONAL, NORTH BRIDGE INVESTMENTS, NORTH CREST INTERNATIONAL, NORTH PACIFIC HOLDINGS, NORTH PACIFIC INVESTMENTS, XAN GROUP, XANCREST at 2059 Forest Ave, Ste 5 Chico, CA 95926.

KENSHI ALEXANDER HENMAN 229 W. Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KENSHI HENMAN Dated: October 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001429 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUICKLY PHO KING BEST at 1124 Oro Dam Blvd E Suite F Oroville, CA 95965.

KOY H CHAO 1920 48th Ave #A Oakland, CA 94601.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KOY H. CHAO Dated: October 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001424 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BUZZ at 208 Cedar St Chico, CA 95926.

ISAAC WARREN ANDERSON 805 Oak Lawn Ave Chico, CA 95926.

KRYSTIN A ANDERSON 805 Oak Lawn Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: ISAAC W. ANDERSON Dated: November 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001463 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EXPEDITE MOBILE NOTARY at 4025 Rio Bravo Dr Chico, CA 95973.

KIMBERLY MARIE JOHNSON 4025 Rio Bravo Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY JOHNSON Dated: October 20, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001408 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TAQUERIA at 645 West 5th Street #110 Chico, CA 95928.

SALVADOR HERNANDEZ HERNANDEZ 43221 County Rd 17 Woodland, CA 95776.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SALVADOR HERNANDEZ Dated: October 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001413 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WOLFS CONSTRUCTION MANAGEMENT CONSULTING at 567 Troy Ave Chico, CA 95973.

EDWARD BURCHARDT 567 Troy Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: EDWARD F BURCHARDT Dated: October 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001416 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OLDE CLIPPINGS at 14154 Skyway #2 Magalia, CA 95954.

DANIEL ROSS WELTON 13760 W Park Dr Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DANIEL R. WELTON Dated: October 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001378 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TURKEY TAIL FARM AND EVERYTHING HERBAL at 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

CHRISTOPHER NELSON TCHUDI 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

SUSAN JANE TCHUDI 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

SAMANTHA ZANGRILLI 10846 Nelson Bar Road Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: SUSAN JANE TCHUDI Dated: November 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001462 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NETWORK MORTGAGE at 155 E. 3rd Ave Chico, CA 95926.

WILSON INVESTMENTS INCORPORATED 155 E. 3rd Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: DARIN WILSON, PRESIDENT Dated: November 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001464 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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

RONI BENNETT (6X12) #258ss (Misc Boxes) AMANDA FARRIS (5X10) #268ss (toys, boxes, tools) WILLIAM PLUMLEE (6X10) #242ss (Boxes, tools) LACY REDHEAD (5x15) #227ss (Boxes, dresser, toys) CYNTHIA WYSONG (6X12) #331cc1 (bookshelves, paintings) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: November 25, 2017 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MORANDA SEREINA PINE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MORANDA SEREINA PINE Proposed name: MORANDA SERINA DONN 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: December 15, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: October 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02637

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MIYAGI COLIN POCOCK Proposed name: MIYAGI TOMEY POCOCK 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: December 15, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: October 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02718 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAHLELAH FRANCIA PAULUS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAHLELAH FRANCIA PAULUS Proposed name: JAHLELAH FRANCIA 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: December 22, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: October 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02902 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NICOLE ELAINE SAMPSON Proposed name: NICOLE ELAINE BARBOUR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the

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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: December 15, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: October 17, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02974 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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

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

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

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

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

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court North Butte County Courthouse 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: JOHN A ABEYTA 15 Big Fir Road Forbestown, CA 95941 AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-7777 LDA #22 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 14, 2017 Case Number: 17FL01831 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: TIMOTHY R OSBORN 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

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

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

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 366-4290 Dated: April 21, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01121 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: AMANDA ROSS, PROPERTY MANAGER; VILLA EAST APARTMENTS; CHICO VILLA EAST; PALO VERDE APARTMENTS; BACO REALTY CORPORATION; DOE 1 JASMINE; AND DOES 2 THROUGH 25, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: TAMARA HAWORTH NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respong 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

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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: SAN FRANCISCO SUPERIOR COURT 400 McAllister Street San Francisco, CA 94102 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: MATTHEW P. GUICHARD, SBN 107450 WILLIAM L. PORTELLO, SBN 166845 Guichard, Teng & Portello, A.P.C. 101 Ygnacio Valley Road, Suite 112 Walnut Creek, CA 94596 (925) 459-8440 Signed: ARLENE RAMOS Dated: April 21, 2016, August 8, 2017 Case Number: CGC-16-551616, 17CV02469 Published: November 9,16,22,30, 2017

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 28, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Address of the court:

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Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: VANESSA J. SUNDIN Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Ste. 302 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 17PR00395 Dated: October 24, 2017 Published: November 2,9,16, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOI DE VIE ART AND WORD at 788 Silverado Estates Court Chico, CA 95973.

ISABELLA ANNE STEWART 788 Silverado Estates Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ISABELLA STEWART Dated: November 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001473 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

ALTERNATIVE LIMOUSINE SERVICE at 1929 Perservation Oak Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

ESTHER BARNES 1929 Preservation Oak Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ESTHER BARNES Dated: November 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2014-0001345 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as APIARY INNOVATION at 2829 Clark Road Oroville, CA 95965.

MARK DILLON HOOVER 1467 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926.

BRYAN JOHN HOUTMAN 343 Roe Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: BRYAN HOUTMAN Dated: October 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001434 Published: November 16,22,30, December 7, 2017

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1246 Basswood Ct 256 White Ave 121 Delaney Dr 1270 Whitewood Way 515 Redwood Way 1025 Raven Ln 23 Elisha Ct 1985 Belgium Ave 2526 Valhalla Pl 998 Eaton Rd 6 Caraway Rd

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$358,000 $357,000 $346,000 $342,000 $338,000 $315,000 $314,000 $290,000 $290,000 $278,000 $276,000

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

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The following houses were sold in butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of october 30, 2017 – november 3, 2017.

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

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

34 Terrace Dr

Chico

$270,000

3/1

1029

6379 Woodman Dr

Oroville

$360,909

2/2

1554

20 Hemming Ln

Chico

$260,000

3/3

1286

6 Crazyhorse Ct

Oroville

$259,000

3/2

1592

1516 E Lassen Ave

Chico

$253,000

3/2

1248

6 Berry Ct

Oroville

$235,000

3/2

1270

1066 La Mesa Dr

Chico

$250,000

3/2

1416

220 Fairhill Dr

Oroville

$228,500

3/2

2211

32 Alameda Park Cir

Chico

$246,000

2/3

1566

2396 Via Canela

Oroville

$189,000

3/2

1435

1407 Laburnum Ave

Chico

$242,000

3/1

1652

474 Lodgeview Dr

Oroville

$180,000

2/2

1886

482 E 5th Ave

Chico

$241,000

3/1

868

2020 Spencer Ave

Oroville

$179,000

2/1

1103

1152 Oleander Ave

Chico

$210,000

2/1

814

1366 Elliott Rd

Paradise

$299,000

3/3

1256

1129 Stewart Ave

Chico

$172,000

2/1

972

432 Nadena Way

Paradise

$225,000

2/2

1119

54 Mill St

Chico

$125,000

3/1

1302

2267 Stearns Rd

Paradise

$220,000

4/2

1680

Oroville

$670,000

2/2

1005

6174 Alamo Way

Paradise

$190,000

2/2

1010

1023 Flag Creek Rd

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ADDRESS

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Well Maintained Home Near Concow Lake, Garage plus huge RV/shop $255,000 Ad #22 Don’t delay call Dori today!

530-872-6829

Turnkey Restaurant completely Remodeled in 2014, sale Includes restaurant equipment, new Pressure dose septic system $395,000 Ad#20 Heather Harper 530-521-0944

Charming Home!

2BD/1.5BA offers new paint, new base boards, recess lighting, new laminate floors, newer roof,, spacious private deck. $215,500 Ad#31 Amber Blood 530-570-4747

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NEW LISTING

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$39,500 REDUCTION!

$10,000 REDUCTION

REDUCED PRICE

4 Bed, 3 Bath, 3-Car Garage, 2173 SF 3 Bed, 2.5 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 2277 SF 3 Bed, 2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1645 SF New home in gated new subdivision of 14 Fantastic setting for this recently updated & Nice home in the heart of Paradise. Fenced lots. Split bdrm plan with great room area & remodeled home. Very nice owner’s suite. rear yard. Large living room windows. patio with valley & city lights views. $489,500 300+sf room behind garage. $329,900 Covered rear patio. $295,000

4 Bed, 2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 2380 SF 3 Bed, 3 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1688 SF 5 Bed, 2 Bath, 1998 SF Newer home in Kelly Ridge Estates. Large End-of-street location with canyon view.

Fresh interior paint,new carpet, new HVAC, open kitchen with eating bar. Spacious living Large yard, detached garage & circle drive. owned rooftop solar, fully fenced backyard room with valley views. $264,900 5% buyer premium paid at close. $229,900 with mountain views. $225,000

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40 Acres in Upper Magalia Fairly flat property. Beautiful trees & seasonal colors. Multiple possible home sites.

Filtered view of Sawmill Creek. $210,000

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3 Bed, 2 Bath, 3-Car Garage, 1200 SF Minutes from Oroville on a fully fenced corner lot, just under 1 acre. Room for toys!

Double-paned windows. $175,000

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2 Bed, 2 Bath, 2-Car Garage, 1440 SF Good-sized front and back yards. Large living room, spacious kitchen & dining, indoor laundry with lots of storage. $89,000

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