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CHICO’S FREE NEWS & ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY VOLUME 41, ISSUE 16 THURSDAY, DECEMBER 14, 2017 WWW.NEWSREVIEW.COM

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Vol. 41, Issue 16 • December 14, 2017 OPINION Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

A worthy proposal It’s been years since the CN&R started hearing chatter about a proposed

GUEST COMMENT

Thankful for those sharing their pain Iwith going around on Facebook and Twitter. It has to do the number of (mostly) women who are now

are not confronted, their behavior is OK. That is why I am glad so many women are coming forth and speaking the truth about what has happened to them. I know there are men who do not willing to talk about their personal experiences of assault or harass women in any way, but they seem sexual harassment and assault. to be few and far between. Even men close to me If your definition of sexual admit that they have done some of the above things assault includes a man exposing when they were much younger, or that they have himself to children or adults; remained silent in the face unexpected and unwelof other men talking about come touching; remarks I hope men women in sexist ways. about body parts; looks will let these I hope men will let these at body parts meant to painful stories sink in and intimidate; or anything painful stories change them. I hope they else with a sexual sink in and by will let these stories open component intended to Cheryl Leeth shame, entice, provide change them. them to examining the ways The author, a chico they have contributed to a for power over someone resident and retired culture that has made sexual or a full-on attack, then social worker, states harassment/assault of mothvirtually 100 percent of her daughter Nikki ers, daughters, sisters—of all women—normal and Hunt helped her craft the women I have known (in the acceptable.

United States) have experienced this commentary.

More than this, I hope that men will move sexual harassment or assault.

The batch of well-known men beyond words of apology and promises of change to action—speak up and confront others when such recently accused of sexual misconduct and/or abuse behaviors are witnessed. And I hope women and seems to share one thing—feelings of embarrassgirls keep sharing their stories until the stories stop ment, but not of shame. They care only about being happening. □ caught, not about their behavior; therefore, if they have been thinking a lot lately about the #MeToo

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local tiny house village for members of the homeless community. The idea came onto our radar via the Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT), starting as far back as the summer of 2014. At that time, we were extremely skeptical of the idea.

Indeed, talk about it conjured images of shanty towns—substandard and unsightly housing associated with developing nations. Back then, we couldn’t get behind an effort to build places to live that didn’t include the traditional comforts of home—a kitchen and bathroom, for starters.

But we’ve since had a change of heart, for several reasons, and we hope that the reporting in these pages inspires a change of heart in the greater community—from our friends and neighbors to the folks over at the Chico Municipal Center and County Center Drive in Oroville.

First, we’re seeing unprecedented levels of homelessness in this region compared not only with prior years for Chico and Butte County, but also with other locales and the national average. To get a sense of the scope of the problem our community faces, see the sidebars that accompany Managing Editor Meredith J. Cooper’s cover story about CHAT’s proposed tiny home community (page 16). There, you’ll find some startling statistics.

For instance, the national rate of homeless per 10,000 population is 17.

Now chew on this: Chico’s rate is 120 per 10,000. You read that correctly.

Our city of trees has a homeless rate that’s more than seven times the national average.

Second, we know that people who live unsheltered year-round are vulnerable in myriad ways. They are more likely to encounter violence and succumb to the elements—the heat, rain, cold. This newspaper has reported on the deaths of many homeless individuals over the past several years, including in a cover story two years ago about three people who died within eight days of each other (see “The final kindness,” Dec. 17, 2015). Thing is, we’re by no means comprehensive in our coverage—there certainly are many unreported cases.

What ultimately changed our minds on the issue of tiny house villages was conducting in-depth reporting on the subject, including visiting one such facility, 14Forward in Marysville. Seeing how it functions, and then interviewing the managers of similar facilities elsewhere as well as the folks behind the local effort, Simplicity Village, convinced us that creating a local tiny home community is one of the fastest and most cost-efficient ways to get people off the streets.

But it’s also through this reporting that we can tell how the wind is blowing at City Hall. While the Chico City Council has directed city staff to look into the feasibility of Simplicity Village, it’s clear to us that the city manager and the community development director are not sold on the idea. At the very least, they’re skeptical that Chicoans are open-minded enough to allow such a development in their neighborhoods. We hope they’re wrong.

Meanwhile, neither the council nor the Butte County Board of Supervisors has declared a shelter crisis, a designation that would allow for the construction of facilities that don’t meet traditional code requirements for living quarters. But clearly, looking at the numbers, we have reached a crisis level.

We understand that this project should be vetted carefully, but it’s important to note that most of the hard work will be accomplished by the private sector, as CHAT is primarily looking for community donations for construction costs and maintenance. We’d also like to remind our elected leaders and the administrators at both the city and county that people will continue to literally die on our streets if they do not take action on approving additional sheltering options.

Simplicity Village isn’t a cure-all. It won’t shelter everyone who needs a place to call home. But from what we’ve seen, it is a viable project aimed at addressing the root cause of homelessness—a lack of affordable housing.

This is no time to kick the can down the road. □

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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

Strange scoop Here at the CN&R, we have a mantra that goes something like this: We may not write it first, but we’ll definitely write it best.

Indeed, when you’re a reporter at a weekly in a town with a daily, you have to set your work apart by upping the ante. That means digging deeper in the reporting and writing process, not just repeating what the cross-town paper printed.

Over the past decade, those of us working here at the corner of Second and Flume streets have watched the Chico EnterpriseRecord’s newsroom contract, in concert with its plummeting circulation. As a result, we oftentimes scoop the publication that puts out a paper seven days a week (at least for now).

Take, for example, our story about a federal lawsuit in which a Butte County Sheriff’s Office deputy alleges sweeping racial discrimination. On Tuesday (Dec. 12), the Chico E-R got around to printing a story on the same subject—nearly two months after we printed ours—but sans an interview with the deputy who filed the lawsuit.

Thing is, the daily should have had that one in the bag. Its reporter interviewed most of the sources that we did back in September, but for some reason the paper held off on printing anything. That’s according to the local chapter of the NAACP, members of which came to us noting that they’d been interviewed, and then crickets. No story. The photos that accompanied the E-R’s coverage are dated in September, backing up that narrative.

It’s anyone’s guess why the newspaper held off on a story that was timely months ago.

I also have to wonder why folks with an important story to tell would go to the daily first. Sure, it’s technically the paper of record.

But with one-fifth of the CN&R’s circulation, according to the E-R’s most recent audit (about 8,000, according to the Alliance for Audited Media), I don’t see the appeal. To read the CN&R’s take on the charges against the BCSO, which, again, includes an interview with the complainant, head to our free-to-read archives and search for “Culture of discrimination,” Newslines, Oct. 26.

And just to be clear, I’m not saying the daily is irrelevant. I actually think it’s vital to Chico. Obviously, the CN&R doesn’t have room for everything.

While I’m on the subject of local media, I want to point readers to CN&R Staff Writer Ken Smith’s excellent recent cover story on the armed guards who were pretty much working in secret for the city of Chico before his reporting uncovered the company’s contract with the municipality.

Both local TV news stations chased the story—and acknowledged the CN&R’s investigative reporting, which is much appreciated—but some of the facts relayed in this complex story were misconstrued.

For those who missed Smith’s piece, see “Under the gun,” Nov. 30, at www.newsreview.com/chico.

Some good newS: Last week in this space, I noted that the CN&R’s office was once again the pick-up and drop-off location for gifts for kids living at the Esplanade House. As in years past, we want to make sure they don’t get left out of the season. I’m happy to report that readers came through—all of the kids now have generous folks shopping for them. Their gifts are due back here by Dec. 20. Thanks, readers!

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About the cover story Re “Vanishing act” (Cover story, by Alastair Bland, Dec. 7): As a frequent fisherman of Northern California’s coastal waters, I was shocked at the cover of this week’s CN&R. “Meet the species devastating Northern California’s marine wildlife” was printed next to a bright orange fish.

My first instinct was to question why a state-protected fish is being protected if it’s devastating marine wildlife. After reading the article, much to my relief, the orange fish was just an innocent bystander caught up in the picture.

The fish, a Garibaldi, is California’s official marine state fish and protected by law with a zero catch limit.

Bill Martin Chico

Editor’s note: The species that is devastating marine life, including the red abalone, is the purple sea urchin, which is featured prominently on the cover of last week’s issue.

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Let’s pay attention Re “Compassion or containment?”

(Newslines, by Ken Smith, Dec. 7): In Ken Smith’s article, the executive director of the Jesus Center is quoted as saying, “I really believe that the mark of a healthy community is one where we each take care, provide opportunities and come alongside those who are suffering, who are on the margin for whatever reason.”

This paints an incomplete picture.

Care and concern by private citizens toward our homeless brothers and sisters is certainly important. But so is moral outrage at a system that fails and continues to target the most vulnerable among us.

Homeless advocate Patrick Newman has articulated four systemic practices against the homeless that we must challenge: demonization, criminalization, deprivation and containment. We need to end the punishing practices that are now routine in the city of Chico. And, we need to pay attention as the city moves forward on any plans to manage the homeless population. Who will benefit from these plans? Who is harmed?

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Taking council to task Re “Last-ditch effort” (Newslines,

by Howard Hardee) and “Common sense be damned” (Editorial, Dec. 7): The City Council’s pot ban is supposed to be for public safety.

But this same council has cut police traffic patrols and closed fire stations, both of which are definitely against public safety!

Six of 10 city voters chose legalization, which the council chooses to ignore. They render your vote a waste of time, so they can pursue their own agenda.

This is not democracy. Thus, the entire council should be recalled.

Public servants? What a joke. They also have a short deadline to get signatures [to put the issue to a vote]—basically railroading the public. They should be removed for putting illegal drug dealers back in business.

Don McMurray Chico

Some great recent examples of how democracy works. Last year, 61 percent of Chico voters (a virtual landslide by current standards) voted to remove criminal penalties for marijuana.

The response of the rightwing City Council majority?

Dramatically restrict access (no dispensaries, no more delivery service) and approve a new mandate that the growing of all weed (even medical) be done under energy-consumptive indoor lighting. Oh, and don’t forget the mandatory inspections of the interior of your house by city workers.

Apparently the task of implementing the actual will of the people is just too big of a job for

our City Council majority.

Maybe we need smarter leaders.

Mayor Sean Morgan took it a step further, explaining his decision to do the opposite of what voters requested. No need to follow their desires, he said, because “the majority of Chicoans don’t vote.” Apparently he understands and wishes to honor the unknown choices of his own silent majority, the nonvoters.

So Mr. Morgan, a question for you: If, as you say, voting percentages don’t matter, because most people don’t vote, on what basis do you consider yourself to be mayor?

Not surprising that many people don’t bother to participate.

Dave Hollingsworth Chico

Editor’s note: Mayor Sean Morgan said the above quote to Chico E-R reporter Ashiah Scharaga following the Dec. 5 meeting at which numerous citizens lambasted the council for adopting a law prohibiting commercial cannabis operations.

Ten suggestions Re “Red flags” (Second & Flume,

by Melissa Daugherty, Dec. 7): In response to questions of confidence in Jesus Center management, here are 10 suggestions: 1) Include former Jesus Center Executive Director Bill Such in the conversation. 2) Become more financially transparent. Donors should not be in the dark as to executive compensation or Jesus Center assets. 3) The current executive director sits on the board of the DCBA; eliminate this conflict of interest. 4) The

Jesus Center board is very heavily weighted toward the business sector. Recruit a new board with more ministers, social workers and advocates. 5) Create public forums and make decisions with wider community input, especially from the homeless. 6) The director is apologetic for the presence of the homeless on Park Avenue. Instead, advocate for homeless access to the public space. 7) The Jesus Center is no longer following a hospitality model and it’s not following a best practices social work model.

Return to the hospitality model and bring in social workers from Chico State for additional analysis and direction. 8) Initiate an ombudsman program, providing independent homeless advocacy.

9) Reinvigorate day programs.

10) Implement these suggestions simultaneously; they are interdependent.

Patrick Newman Chico

Rotten, indeed A movie in the ’80s titled Dirty Rotten Scoundrels, starring Michael Caine and Steve Martin, portrayed two con men bent on fleecing rich women. Today we have our own dirty rotten scoundrels, a Republican Congress that is hell-bent on fleecing working families, aspiring young people and vulnerable seniors.

While the economy is growing for big business, the economic well-being of most Americans is diminishing. It’s simple. Those who have most of the wealth want all of the wealth, and the only place left to find it is in the weathered wallets of the heart and soul of our economy, the

working class. This self-serving agenda is diametrically opposed to common sense. Biting the hand that feeds you is the sign of a rabid dog, one that will destroy all that sustains it and then starve to death.

Unintended consequence.

Worldwide, eight men control as much wealth as the combined wealth of 3.6 billion people who represent the poorest half of humanity. Many are Americans struggling to survive on a poor man’s wage while Republicans, who mock them as parasites sucking the blood of the economic well-being of our country, would like to see them disappear. A rabid dog indeed.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

‘Consider the tragedy’ Re “Under the gun” (Cover story,

by Ken Smith, Nov. 30): Thanks to the CN&R for the great article about armed guards in Chico. I was very uncomfortable that this is referred to as an “industry.” We are a community and certainly don’t require industrial, gun-toting hired mercenaries, and I was so glad to read the DCBA is moving away from armed guards. Individual businesses must consider the tragedy that could have been avoided in the death of Tyler Rushing.

My hope is the Chico Police Department will not rely on armed guards, and I urge everyone to let Chief Mike O’Brien know your thoughts.

The key word in all of this is “armed.”

It is really disturbing to have ads for guns for Christmas gifts fall out of the CN&R each week.

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On Jesus’ birthday the greatest respect would be to honor the call to peace. Stop profiting from violence and death!

Chris Nelson Chico

RNC is shameful I am shocked from reading that the RNC is again financially supporting an accused child molester. I can understand an accused [sexually assaulting] president offering support to an accused pedophile wannabe senator, who allegedly sexually assaulted a 14-year-old girl.

I am surprised to see that the Republican National Committee has become a supporting organization. Shame on you. What you are doing is giving a green light to pedophiles to have free range to sexually assault children.

Where there is no condemnation of the behavior, sexual assault of children, there is no moral compass. America has always had a moral compass. By making a determination that pedophiles have a higher status in America than Democrats, you have engaged in making children in America less safe.

If I understand your position, family values now include that it is OK for daddy to diddle daughters, deny the accusations and run for political office. How shocking to hear this level of immorality from an organization that professes the sacredness of birth.

Peggy Lopez Red Bluff More letters online:

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE mosquito Districts reorganizeD

Last Thursday (Dec. 7), the Butte Local Agency Formation Commission (LAFCo) voted unanimously to finalize a review of two tiny, taxpayer-funded mosquito abatement districts in Oroville and Durham.

The vote put the Durham Mosquito Abatement District on probation for one year to bring its level of service up to that of the

Butte County Mosquito and Vector Control District and annexed about 15,000 acres of rice

fields the district has failed to treat effectively. LAFCo is also pushing for the eventual dissolution of the Oroville Mosquito Abatement District, which monitors and treats 12.7 square miles of mosquito territory.

In September, Jeff Cahn, the Oroville district’s longtime manager and sole staff member, was killed in an auto accident on Highway 99. The tragedy left the agency with nobody to oversee day-to-day operations, and meanwhile, two members of its fivemember board were removed due to not living within district boundaries.

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pot refernDum falls short

An eleventh-hour attempt to challenge the

city of Chico’s new cannabis ordinance via

referendum has failed.

A loose collective of cannabis supporters tried gather the necessary 5,000 verifiable signatures to put the ordinance—which bans commercial cannabis activity that will become legal statewide Jan. 1, as well as all outdoor grows—before local voters.

Ultimately, the effort fell short of its goal.

The new ordinance took effect on Dec. 7.

pac treasurer faces fines

Former Chico City Councilman David Guzzetti is facing $24,000 in fines for allegedly using a political action committee’s campaign funds for personal use, including gambling, dining and groceries.

The Fair Political Practices Commission (FPPC) is expected to levy the penalty at its Dec. 21 monthly meeting. According to documents available on the agency’s website, Guzzetti allegedly used $11,917 from the Chico Conservation Voters PAC between August 2012 and January 2015, while serving as the PAC’s treasurer and co-chair. The FPPC charges that Guzzetti didn’t report or misreported expenditures on approximately 148 occasions, violations of the Political Reform Act. The FPPC’s summary notes Guzzetti cooperated with its investigation, and submitted a note from his doctor saying that health problems—including liver cancer, Parkinson’s disease and chronic hepatic encephalopathy—caused memory lapses and cognitive difficulties during that period.

Guzzetti declined to speak with the CN&R, citing the advice of his attorney.

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for students, by students City enlists Chico State classes to improve south campus neighborhood State, Anthony Burgess commuted to Bschool from his house on Pomona Avenue on ack when he was a student at Chico

a bicycle, crossing the tracks on Fifth Street, hanging a left on Orange story and and riding along rows of photo by old houses in the south Howard campus neighborhood.

Hardee He recognized the h owa rd h @ beauty of the student n ew srev i ew. c o m neighborhood’s oldgrowth heritage trees Get involved: and historic homes, but to learn more about as a civil engineering the south campus neighborhood project student, Burgess also or flag problem areas knew how badly the on google maps, go to area needed improvewww.southcampus ments to its pedestrian neighborhood project.com. and cycling infrastructure. Most of the roadways were cracked and crumbling; some areas, lacking adequate street lighting, fell into near-total darkness at night; and perhaps most relevant to safety, the trees and parked cars made it hard to see vehicle traffic coming around corners—even in daylight.

Not much has changed since Burgess graduated last December.

“The neighborhood is pretty rough,” he

said during a recent phone interview. “It needs some simple fixes, and also some harder fixes.”

Burgess is one of hundreds of past and present Chico State students who have contributed to the South Campus Neighborhood Project, a comprehensive, three-year study coordinated by the university’s Resilient Cities Initiative and the city’s Department of Engineering.

Having previously assessed the state of the neighborhood’s historical character, urban forest, transportation, street lighting and crime, students recently completed the project’s second phase, which included pitching ideas for actual improvements. The goal is to present a final plan for approval from the Chico City Council in early 2019 and then potentially secure grant funding to turn the students’ ideas into reality.

According to Brendan Ottoboni, the city’s director of public works-engineering, the project represents a rare opportunity for students to help shape the neighborhood many of them live in.

“It’s a tangible thing they can see and understand rather than some theoretical homework assignment,” he said. “They can walk down the street and understand what the project is all about.”

The south campus neighborhood is a six-by-

seven-square-block area adjacent to both downtown and the university. Originally laid out by Chico’s founder, John Bidwell, in the 1860s, it is the city’s oldest neighborhood— and it needs significant safety upgrades.

That point was driven home in 2015 by the deaths of Chico State students Nickolas Klein, 21, and Nicholas Castellanos, 18, both of whom were fatally struck by vehicles near campus. That spring, a petition for stop signs to replace yield signs in all residential areas of downtown gathered 1,200 student signatures, and a separate petition calling for more street lights gathered 500 more. In response, the City Council fast-tracked replacing several yield signs with stop signs and approved a long-term study of traffic in the south campus neighborhood. The panel also directed city staff to enlist the help of Chico State classes to collect data.

The city-university partnership is based on the University of Oregon’s Sustainable Cities Initiative, a think tank aimed at cross-disciplinary approaches to solving community sustainability issues that has been replicated by dozens of universities across the country. Using that model, the South Campus Neighborhood Project has

The intersection of Fifth and Ivy streets is within an area studied for potential improvements.

put more than 500 Chico State students to work across eight academic departments and four colleges.

Burgess, for instance, was in charge of collecting data on pedestrian and bicycle traffic in the student neighborhood, which involved setting up infrared counters and laying down pneumatic air tubes to detect cyclists.

“The greatest aspect for the student population is that any major can get involved,” he said. “Many student populations get to give a piece to a greater whole.” the students have focused on improv-

ing public rights-of-way and “complete streets”—those that are friendly not only to motorists, but also to bicyclists, pedestrians and disabled people of all ages.

Fletcher Alexander oversees the South Campus Neighborhood Project as Chico State’s sustainability programs manager. He says some of the ideas are pretty far out—like solar roadways at a cost of $1 million per block—and others are more basic, such as cutting back foliage to increase streetlight visibility and turning Third and Fourth streets into one-ways, as they are downtown, to cut down on traffic conflicts. And a number of improvements have already been made due to increased attention on the area, Alexander said, including striped bike lanes on Ivy Street, stoplights where Ivy crosses Eighth and Ninth streets and new LED streetlamps installed by PG&E throughout the neighborhood.

That’s progress, but the neighborhood needs many more streetlights to ensure that students aren’t walking home in the dark, Alexander said: “Certainly, people would feel safer, and hopefully would be safer.”

Whether the city lands grant funding to complete the project remains to be seen, but any such proposal may have a competitive edge because the plan is the result of a student-driven movement, Ottoboni said.

“Any time it’s a community-led effort, that helps your project,” he said.

After graduation, Burgess got a job as an engineering technician for the city of Poulsbo, Wash. He says when it comes to Chico, he’s proud of what he and his fellow students have already accomplished.

“It gave us a sense of ownership;

you knew that you were benefiting

future generations of students,” he

said. “It’s a neat thing to be able to put your finger on that project and say,

‘Yeah, I did that.’ There aren’t a lot of school projects like that with real-world impacts.” □

taking it to the streets Protesters rally in opposition to House tax bill crowd of nearly 100 filled the sidewalk and spilled into the parking lot outside of ARepublican Congressman Doug LaMalfa’s

Oroville office on Tuesday (Dec. 12). Some held signs dissing LaMalfa; others targeted the tax bill he voted for last month.

“I’m here because LaMalfa has voted to cut my son’s health care—he’s on MediCal—and my own health care—I’m on Medicare,” said Karen Duncanwood, a Paradise resident. “He wants to raise taxes on every Californian.”

“LaMalfa is only in it for himself,” said Chicoan Mary Kay Benson. “We’re all here to repeal and replace LaMalfa. We are the people who care about people and the planet—not just the rich.”

Duncanwood’s and Benson’s sentiments were echoed by those around them, many of whom had personal reasons for opposing the Republican tax bill the House of Representatives passed in November. A similar bill passed the Senate and a committee is currently working to find a middle ground— a final vote is expected next week.

LaMalfa, who was in Washington while the protesters pumped their signs at cars driving down Olive Highway, issued a statement following his yea vote. “Under the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act, the vast majority of North

State residents will save money, period,” he said. Those in attendance Tuesday at the rally, organized by the Democratic Action Club of Chico and Chico Indivisible, argued otherwise. One of those people was Jessica Holcombe, a resident of Auburn who is challenging LaMalfa in 2018.

“Doug LaMalfa claims that the tax bill will help those in our district,” Holcombe said over the loud speaker set up in the parking lot. “But the top 1 percent will primarily benefit over the bottom 40 percent.”

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the median household income in LaMalfa’s District 1 is $47,488.

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Protesters filled the sidewalk outside Congressman Doug LaMalfa’s Oroville office on Tuesday. Among them was Jessica Holcombe, who’s challenging LaMalfa for his seat in the November 2018 election.

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“Our forefathers fought for no taxation without representation,” Holcombe said.

“It’s high time we had a congressional representative who represents our interests, the interests of working Americans.”

Holcombe described herself as a fourthgeneration Northern Californian who reaped the benefits of student loans and scholarships, which helped her through her undergraduate studies at Georgetown University and graduate school at UC Davis. Having grown up poor—at one point living out of the family van with her mother and six siblings—Holcombe said she’s fighting for the working class.

“I want to make sure that working families will have the opportunities that I had,” she told the CN&R. “In looking at LaMalfa’s voting record, he represents the largest corporate donors—not his constituents.”

David Welch, who helped organize Tuesday’s event as part of the Democratic Action Club of Chico, said he felt the timing was right for a rally, with the final tax bill vote still pending. “The Republicans are still trying to resolve the Senate and House versions,” he explained. “We wanted to make our voices heard before the vote.”

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new directions Board of Supervisors gets crash course in new affordable housing laws n Butte County, disputes over new housing developments someItimes play out on the floor of the Board of Supervisors chambers, where passionate arguments by developers and would-be neighbors are heard by the five-member panel that votes on land-use matters that can make or break a project.

The board’s degree of discretionary authority is just one thing that will be affected by the passage in September of 15 bills aimed at addressing California’s affordable housing crisis. The new laws address a range of issues that

have impeded development of low-income housing. They include fast-tracking permitting, funding affordable housing programs, lowering construction costs and limiting the power of local jurisdictions to block new development.

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Keep the net open About 20 people gathered in front of the Verizon Wireless store on Mangrove Avenue in Chico last week (Dec. 7) to show their support for net neutrality. Similar protests were held around the country in advance of a Federal Communications Commission vote on the issue scheduled for today (Dec. 14). FCC Chairman Ajit Pai—a former lawyer for Verizon— has proposed eliminating existing regulations that prevent Internet service providers from blocking or slowing traffic to certain sites. Opponents say the move would limit free and fair access to information. Locally, protesters handed out leaflets encouraging passersby to contact their federal representatives and FCC leadership to demand neutrality remains protected. photo by Ken Smith

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“I think you can see that the state of California has now gone deep into the local land-use authority of city councils and boards of supervisors,” Kim said in summarizing the new laws. “For over 150 years, the power of land use was completely at the discretion of local governments. But as you can see, things have shifted.”

The package of laws has six main

components, as outlined in Kim’s staff report: to fund affordable housing efforts; change planning and zoning laws to allow easier development; streamline building processes; strengthen enforcement of housing laws; require localities to submit annual progress reports on housing; and provide advance notice when low-income housing protections expire on existing properties.

Several of the bills are designed to keep local governments from stopping low-income housing development. Senate Bill 167 and Assembly Bill 1515, for example, would strengthen the state’s Housing Accountability Act to ensure disapproval of development is supported by a preponderance of evidence that the project does not comply with the locality’s zoning ordinance and general plan.

Another bill, AB 1505, affirms that local jurisdictions can pass ordinances mandating that marketrate developments set aside a number of units for low- to moderate-income residents, a practice known as “inclusionary zoning.”

Supervisor Maureen Kirk asked if the new laws mandated localities to adopt such a policy.

“It’s very close to that,” Thistlethwaite said. “There’s a common theme you’ll see throughout these bills that none of them specifically require the county or any jurisdiction to adopt an inclusionary housing requirement.

However, in order to meet the requirements and [avoid] the penalties that can occur from noncompliance, we’ll probably be needing to look at adoption of an inclusionary housing program as part of our 2022 housing element.”

A housing element is part of

the county’s general plan, and provides analysis of the community’s housing needs for all income levels, as well as strategies to meet those needs. Butte County’s current housing element was adopted in 2014; many of the new laws will affect the next version.

Two of the new laws are designed to fund new and existing affordable housing programs: Senate Bill 2 imposes a document recording fee for real estate transactions ($75 each, to a maximum of $225 per transaction), which Kim said could generate $225 million to $265 million statewide in 2018 and approximately $2 million for the county. SB 3 places a $4 billion bond measure on the November 2018 ballot, which includes $1 billion set aside for a program that helps military veterans purchase homes.

In response to the presentation, Supervisor Doug Teeter said he thinks it’s “unfathomable” that Californians would vote to approve that and other bond measures on next year’s ballot, while Supervisor Steve Lambert was critical of the entire package of bills.

“It blows my mind the state keeps putting more stuff on us and taking away jobs instead of going out and focusing their energy on creating jobs so that [the economy] will drive itself with good housing,” Lambert said. “Why not [help] people make enough money to buy a house?”

Contacted by phone after the meeting, Ed Mayer, executive director of Butte County’s Housing Authority, gave a more positive approximation of the package of laws. He called them a “sea change” in state policy, which he said has evolved over the last 30 years to make it impossible for communities to build at a rate that meets their housing needs. “[The laws are] exciting, because all of our policies up until now have benefited those that own property and disadvantaged those who don’t,” he said. “But it will take a couple of years to see if the state’s actions here are really effective.”

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HEALTHLINES Diabetes treatment in California is a $27.6 billion industry.

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betic enrollees in Medi-Cal. That project, based on a CDC model called the Diabetes Prevention Program, can cut the risk of developing diabetes in half. In addition, it is expected to save about $45 million in treatment expenses over the next five years, said Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, a Kingsburg Democrat and physician who cochairs a health subcommittee.

Flojaune Cofer, an epidemiologist and director of state policy and research for the nonprofit Public Health Advocates, said that about 25,000 people will be able to participate each year.

“We can’t just wait until people get sick because it’s not a viable system,” Cofer said.

Adult diabetes, or Type 2, doesn’t get the

Billions on treatment, little on prevention Lawmakers, health experts say state must refocus efforts to stem diabetes by

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teenage girl walks the hardscrabble

streets of Richmond, a Bay Area city, rapping about the challenges of drugs, violence—and diabetes. Here, she says, big dreams are “coated in sugar,” and innocence is “corrupted with Coke bottles and Ho Ho cupcakes.”

She’s performing in a video by a local youth group that counts diabetes, a national epidemic that has hit California hard, as one of the killers in her neighborhood. Type 2 diabetes, which is spreading and driving up health costs, now impacts more than half the state’s adults, especially people of color and the poor.

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face of heavy opposition by the well-funded beverage lobby.

The state will soon begin funding a program for anti-diabetes education, counseling and lifestyle coaching, but it’s a modest investment regarded only as a start.

“Investing more now in diabetes prevention and education will save our state billions of dollars down the road,” said state Sen. Bill Monning, a Democrat from Carmel who has proposed soda taxes in the past and tried unsuccessfully this year to require warning labels on sweetened drinks.

A UCLA study last year found that 9 percent of adults in California have been diagnosed with diabetes, a chronic condition in which the body does not process sugar well and which can lead to blindness, heart disease, stroke and infections resulting in amputations. Forty-six percent— including about a third of those under 40—are prediabetic, with elevated sugar levels that likely will develop into diabetes.

That’s 55 percent of the state’s adult population swept up by the disease.

same attention as some other deadly diseases, such as cancer. Nor is it considered as blameless as Type 1 diabetes, a childhood disease diagnosed when the body produces little or no insulin, which affects about 5 percent of those with diabetes, according to the CDC. Type 2 is considered mostly preventable by changes in diet and physical activity.

But its spread has increased 32 percent in California in the past decade, according to state statistics. The disproportionate impact on low-income communities and people of color may partly explain why it gets short shrift, experts say.

Treating diabetes costs government, private

insurers and patients about $27.6 billion a year in California for such expenses as doctor visits, testing, medication, surgery and hospital costs, according to the American Diabetes Association. The state and federal governments shoulder most of that expense through Medi-Cal, which is California’s health program for those living in poverty, and the national Medicare system that covers seniors.

A state audit of the California Department of Public Health diabetes prevention efforts released two years ago said that California lagged in such spending. The state spent about $1 million from the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, a sum that has since grown to $1.4 million, but did not devote state money to such programs. New York, the audit points out, was spending $7.2 million, although some of that money went to anti-obesity programs.

Beginning in July, with the next budget, $5 million in state funds will go toward a nutrition and exercise program for predia-

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“There’s a general belief that it’s slothful, lazy people making bad choices,” said Dean Schillinger, professor of medicine at UC San Francisco, a leading expert on diabetes and prevention and chief of the state’s diabetes control program from 2008 through 2013.

“But if you have to choose between buying a fast-food meal for your family of five for $15 or going to Whole Foods and spending $80 on health food, it’s very rational what people are doing.”

Add to those economics the marketing of beverages and snack foods to children, especially through targeted advertising in lowincome communities, and you have a natural intersection for the disease, he said.

Diabetes is also increasing among white people, Schillinger noted, just not as quickly.

Sedentary lifestyles, fat-rich diets and time spent in front of screens large and small cut across all communities.

Another contributor is a health care industry that has been primarily focused on treatment instead of prevention, said Monning: “Prevention, including diabetes prevention, is not profit-generating.”

He and a handful of other state legislators have been trying to pass measures to blunt the growth of diabetes for years, focusing on the role of sugar-sweetened beverages because

with less sugar,” Kane said. they are the leading cause of increased But Monning blames the industry for calories in children. The lawmakers’ targets pushing hard enough—and spreading include not just sodas but also other sugary enough money around Sacramento—to scare drinks camouflaged as more healthful: sports off the “yes” votes needed to pass prevendrinks, juices and enriched waters. tive measures. The beverage group has spent Monning tried this year to require labels $282,000 on lobbying in California so far on certain drinks to state that “drinking this year, according to its required reports to beverages with added sugar contributes to the state. obesity, diabetes and tooth decay.” Other efforts have involved a statewide tax on such drinks, but that requires a two-thirds vote of There has been a slight decline nationally the Legislature and has been a hard sell. in the consumption of soda, studies show, The beverage industry argues that the although the void may be at least partly causes of diabetes are complex, involvfilled with other sweet drinks. Experts credit ing much more than soda, and that the best local measures to tax sweetened beverages way to build strong, healthy communities and require warning labels on billboards that is to work together to “help people baladvertise them, among other moves. ance their calories and improve their diets,” Such taxes have been imposed in said Lauren Kane, a spokeswoman for the Berkeley, San Francisco and Oakland.

American Beverage Association.

Others, including Richmond, have tried and The group says taxes don’t work and failed to pass them. San Francisco approved labels are misleading. a requirement two years ago that certain “America’s beverage companies are beverage ads be labeled, but the beverage already helping people cut their sugar industry sued to block the measure in a case intake from beverages that is ongoing. through our collective More local taxes and efforts to reduce porlabeling requirements tion sizes and introcould prompt state lawAbout this story: duce smaller, more makers into action eventuThis is an abridged version of an article from calmatters.org. convenient packages ally, as plastic-bag bans

throughout the state did, said Monning.

Once a tipping-point number of cities outlawed the bags, it became easier for the Legislature to adopt a statewide policy.

Schillinger said he has seen first-hand that prevention efforts can stem, or even reverse, an epidemic tide. When he started his medical career, at the height of the AIDS epidemic, half his patients were dying from HIV infection, he recalls. Within 15 years that epidemic was pushed back by a combination of grassroots activity, well-funded public health work and scientific research, he said.

“At that time, one out of 15 to 20 of my patients had diabetes,” he said. “Flash forward and I have no patients with AIDS who are dying. Our AIDS ward is empty. But instead we have the diabetes epidemic,” and half his patients have the disease.

Schillinger lauds community awareness efforts, like the videos posted by Youth Speaks as part of its diabetes-prevention program. Even armed with statistics and an M.D. degree, Schillinger said, he has participated in too many disappointing policy discussions with lawmakers about diabetes.

“There has to be a different way to talk about this,” he said, “and it has to come from different people.” □

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GREENWAYS Molly Marcussen will compile student data on climate change for use by local government.

beyond the grade Chico State students’ project on climate change effects will shape local public policy story and photo by

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Chico State, Natalie Kinney didn’t give Bextensive thought to climate change. She efore the start of the fall semester at

understood the phenomenon generally. As with so many others—fellow students, fellow Chicoans, fellow Americans—it didn’t hit home.

Now, it’s personal.

Kinney, a senior, just finished a course taught by professor Mark Stemen titled Community Service Practice in Geography (aka Geog 506). As their class project, the 19 students used the climate-modeling software Cal-Adapt to forecast conditions in Butte County for the years 2050 and 2100, then anticipated potential consequences.

Their work—a de facto climate vulnerability assessment—will help inform the statemandated adaptation and resiliency strategies that the county, as well as all cities, must add to the general plan. The requirement stems from Senate Bill 379, signed by Gov. Jerry Brown in October 2015.

Molly Marcussen, a Chico State grad who took Geog 506 last year, is drafting these documents for both Chico and Butte County for her CivicSpark fellowship.

CivicSpark is an AmeriCorps program for California dedicated to sustainability initiatives in local governments.

Marcussen, along with Brendan Vieg from the city’s Planning Department and Dan Breedon from county planning, worked with the class. All attended a public forum last Wednesday night (Dec. 6) in Colusa Hall where students answered questions about their findings.

“I knew about climate change [before the course],” Kinney said, “but I didn’t think of it as much as I do now, and how much it’s going to impact everyone and everything.”

Kinney’s group focused on impacts to public health. A duo, seniors Matt Sterkel

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and Samuel Lowinger, assessed infrastructure. Others looked at agriculture. Groups also examined water management and biological resources.

“I got some really good responses from a good number of them, especially the public health group and the agriculture group,” Marcussen said. “They laid a good foundation for me to build off of; while a lot of the work wasn’t necessarily turned in ready for a county document, they sparked a lot of ideas.”

Take, for example, one that resonates deeply with Kinney.

For the scenario she crafted—the “Dispatch from the Future” assigned by Stemen, describing the conditions and mitigation measures—Kinney wrote about a woman and her dog. Kinney’s roommate owns a dog; often, she’ll take the pet for a walk or for an afternoon in Bidwell Park.

She’ll even “borrow” friends’ dogs.

Climate projections from Cal-Adapt indicate a significant rise in average temperature (see box) but also in peak-heat days.

Humans and animals alike are vulnerable to dehydration and sunstroke; dogs, additionally, can suffer burns on their paw pads from scorching streets.

Climate changes: cal-Adapt figures for butte county: Current 2050 2100 Temp 71.1 76.4 79.7 Rain 41.9” 46.8” 50.9” Snow *18.7” 4.2” 1.2” Fire **2,277 2,980 3,595 *average: butte meadows, bucks Lake, Gold Lake **area of wildfires, in hectares

“Sometimes [a person’s] only exercise is taking the dog out on a 10-minute walk,” Kinney said. “Knowing that when I have a dog in the future, and that’s not going to be a possibility [in extreme heat], that’s what made it so personal.”

We’re already seeing temperature spikes.

Stemen, in his introductory remarks, said summer 2017 virtually mirrored the recordsetting summer of 2006 in terms of extreme heat days (over 103 degrees) and heat waves.

Noted Kinney: “Even right now, in December, it’s sunny out and people are wearing shorts and short sleeves. That’s not a thing.”

Just that day, the high of 66 was 9 degrees above the historical average and 21 degrees hotter than the same Wednesday in 2016.

Climate change’s impacts on public health alone, delineated by Marcussen to the 25 forum attendees, include overheating, depression, post-traumatic stress and suicide.

“Not a lot of people think of public health when they think of climate change,” Kinney said. “They think of water rising and snowpack and temperature, but not a lot of people focus on how it’s going to impact you. That’s a big part of climate change, and that’s why it affected me, because it’s going to happen to me personally.”

Kinney, who’s majoring in geography, intends to pursue a career in transportation planning. Classmate Daysi May brought a different perspective: She’s a senior biol-

ogy major and environmental studies minor who took a big-picture approach with her assignment, biological resources. May raised the issue of wildlife populations, which Marcussen said she hasn’t seen in other counties’ vulnerability assessments.

“Vernal pools and how they’re going to be responsive to increased temperatures are things I didn’t even think about,” Marcussen said, citing one example. May also brought up wetlands, woodlands and forests, plus waterways that support chinook salmon.

“I was thinking about not just the flora and fauna we see with our eyes,” May explained.

“I was thinking about the microbes in the soil, the microbes in the water that we all need, that the aquatic life needs …. There’s a lot to it when I think about it.”

Marcussen found that systemic approach complemented the micro scale in other reports.

She expects to have a draft version of the county climate impact within a month; by February, Marcussen will sit with city and county staff to start the adaptation strategies.

The full process will extend past her fellowship, which ends in August.

Nonetheless, her work—and the students’—will shape government policy.

“I think that’s really cool; it’s awesome,” May said. “I didn’t just do something for a grade—I did it to help this county that I really love.” □

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ONE BIRD, TWO BIRDS All levels of birders are welcome to participate in Altacal Audubon Society’s annual Christmas Bird Count on Saturday, Dec. 16.

Participants will be assigned an area and spend the day counting birds to contribute to a national wildlife census assessing the health of bird populations. Meet at Chico Creek Nature Center (1968 E. Eighth St.) at 7:30 a.m. with warm clothes, lunch, binoculars and birding books. RSVPs are encouraged. Contact Mary Muchowski at 228-0625 or mmuchowski@earthlink.net for more information.

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Mary Chin is a professionally trained chef who was poised to be promoted to sous chef at Terra, a Michelin-star restaurant in St. Helena, when she found out she was pregnant with her first child. “I kind of had to leave the kitchen scene after that,” she says. After moving to Chico and giving birth to a second child nearly four years later, she decided she could still be a mother and follow her passion in the kitchen. Chin decided to open My Oven’s Meals (aka M.O.M.), a prepared-food-for-order business. Customers order at least three meals for the week, with pickups on Mondays. Check myovensmeals.com for weekly menus and ordering information. Chin recently chatted with the CN&R about her new venture.

Where did you get the idea for this concept?

I kind of wanted to do something where I’m the boss, I can write my own menu, decide what I want to prepare. A friend had showed me some other prepared-food companies that are here in Chico and said, “I think you can do that.” I’ve been stirring with it for about a year.

How many meals would you say you make in a week?

So far, I’m averaging around 60 meals a week. We have about 10 to 12 orders, and people order multiple meals with that. Some

people order three meals, some people order one of each every week.

How does your menu vary?

I change my menu every week.

If people have favorites, I try to integrate them back in each month. I try to keep everything pretty seasonal. I have some farmers that tell me what they have available. So, I kind of base it on that. I try to mix chicken and beef and pork around. Some people don’t eat pork; some people don’t do chicken thighs.

I try to blend that through the month. I do a couple vegetarian options, and I play around with some vegan options as well.

So you work with local farmers?

It’s probably about 50/50. I get a lot of produce from Pyramid Farms. Then I have a family

farmer out in Durham where I get some produce, too. I do the Chico State ag for beef.

Currently, I am working with Del Monte to get my chicken and pork. I just made a connection with Massa Natural Meats—they’re going to start doing chickens in the spring, and I hope to use them in our poultry dishes. I also recently made a connection with a cattle farmer out in Glenn County. I am hoping to have a 200-mile radius of all my vendors. Staying local is so important.

Any thoughts of a brick-andmortar?

At the moment, no. I like what I am doing now. I took this on so I could keep my full-time job as mom, and part-time job as chef.

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I’m just plain perplexed when it comes to this so-called “War on Christmas” I keep hearing about. Who declared this war? And who on earth is fighting it? Not this Jew, anyway. If I choose to say “happy holidays,” it has nothing to do with dissing Santa and everything to do with the fact that I honestly don’t think most people would truly appreciate a “happy Hanukkah.”

So, go ahead and wish me a “merry Christmas” if that’s how you’re feeling.

And if I respond with a “happy holidays,” a “happy Hanukkah” or a “happy hump day,” please accept the well-wishes as just that and not an attack on your religion or holiday of choice.

With that in mind, ’tis the gift-giving season, ’tis it not? Have you made your way through your nice list yet? If not, I’d love to take this opportunity to encourage you to shop locally. For every $100 that you spend at online retailers or big-box chains like Walmart and Best Buy, only $43 stays in the community.

By contrast, if that $100 were spent locally, $68 would stay here, according to independentwestand.org, a small-business promoter. That alone should be worth it.

You can take that one step further and buy gifts that were made locally as well as sold locally. If you’re looking for inspiration, check out any of the craft fairs or farmers’ markets. Plus, here are a few of my favorite places: Hooker Oak Distillery, Lundberg Family Farms in Richvale, Made in Chico (duh), Maisie Jane’s Sunshine Products, Moody Farms, Nesseré Vineyards in Durham, The Olive Pit in Corning, and Purple Line Urban Winery and Sohnrey Family Foods in Oroville. If you have other favorites, I’d love to hear about them!

SHameleSS Self-promotion A few weeks ago, I mentioned the new metal gate

at Formal Education that serves as an homage to the soon-to-be-demolished Beatles mural across Main Street. Turns out that wasn’t enough recognition for Aveed Khaki, owner of the men’s clothing store. No, Khaki decided to go big with this one and put a photo of it on the cover of Upgraded Living, which he also, ahem, owns. For those who aren’t familiar, the upscale lifestyle magazine features “articles” about local people and businesses, paid for by the businesses that get featured. So, it should come as no surprise that Khaki would so shamelessly feature himself on the cover. But it is surprising. Like, wow.

bye-bye, pool tableS If you know me at all, you know I love playing pool. And while it’s been a good, long while since I’d made it over to the Madison Bear Garden tournaments on Thursday nights, I have had fun there. So, it’s a bummer to announce that the Bear has taken out its pool tables, which filled a large room on the second floor. I called over there to inquire as to the future of that room and was told, quite curtly, “I don’t know.” The owner wasn’t in to clear up the mystery, so stay tuned—as soon as I learn more, I’ll pass it along.

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Tiny houses, big potential

Support is growing for Simplicity Village in Chico, but roadblocks remain

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he tiny houses at 14Forward, a community near the Feather River in Marysville, are spartan—each contains two twin beds—no more, no less. Outside, there are two small patches of turf and two lawn chairs. For those who call 14Forward home, however, it’s a far cry from living in a creekbed or sleeping on the streets.

The small community, which includes 20 tiny homes as well as a community building, portable toilets, a dog run and covered picnic benches, is a transitional housing program for those experiencing homelessness in Yuba County. Most of its first residents—it opened its doors in July 2016— had previously lived in nearby tent encampments.

With a roof over their heads, case workers to help with finding jobs and permanent living arrangements, counselors and a rescue mission next door that offers meals and showers, 14Forward is a step up and off the streets.

“We help them build the skills they need through mentoring and intensive services,” said Chaya Galicia, homeless project manager for the Yuba County Department of Health & Human Services, which oversees 14Forward. “They build a family here. They’re safe, and they’re looking out for each other.”

The 14Forward program is just one of many tiny house villages sprouting up across the state and nation as a way to address the housing crisis. Its amenities are designed to be temporary; others are more permanent.

In Chico, talks have begun about a tiny house community called Simplicity Village, which is gaining support due to the huge number of unsheltered homeless in our community and the proven track record of similar projects around the United States. It does face obstacles, however, in the form of bureaucratic red tape and NIMBYism.

“I have been so impressed with how neat these places are,” Charles Withuhn said during a recent interview. A homeless advocate and member of the Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT), Withuhn is the driving force behind Simplicity Village. “We’re going to have to start thinking differently about our housing reality.

Are there other ways [than the single-family home] to house people?”

Russ Brown, communications and legislative affairs coordinator for Yuba County, and Chaya Galicia, homeless project manager, stand in front of one of the tiny houses at 14Forward in Marysville.

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Partnering with CHAT, Withuhn has come up with a plan to do just that. He’s presented his ideas to the Butte County Board of Supervisors and the Chico City Council.

Both seem supportive, at least in theory. At the Nov. 7 council meeting, the panel voted unanimously to direct staff to consider the feasibility of Simplicity Village. Withuhn views that as a major step forward.

“We need to make something happen quickly, with as few barriers as possible,” he said. With the homeless population growing, he sees the need to do something as urgent.

“Where is our outrage?”

The homeless population in the

United States increased in 2017 for the first time since 2010, according to statistics released last Wednesday (Dec. 6) by the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. The majority of that increase was attributed to the lack of affordable housing on the West Coast, particularly in big cities.

“In many high-cost areas of our country, especially along the West Coast, the severe shortage of affordable housing is manifesting itself on our streets,” HUD Secretary Ben Carson said in a press release. “With rents rising faster than incomes, we need to bring everybody to the table to produce more affordable housing and ease the pressure that is forcing too many of our neighbors into our shelters and onto our streets. This is not a federal problem—it’s everybody’s problem.”

In the United States, on a single night this past January, volunteers canvassed the streets, riverbeds and shelters to best estimate the number of residents living without a permanent home. The total came to 553,772 people, though the actual number is likely much higher. Of all the states, California saw the greatest increase in homeless individuals and families, reporting a 13.7 percent increase over 2016 and equaling 134,278 people without housing—a rate of 34 out of every 10,000 people. It also was home to the greatest number of unsheltered homeless, with over 91,000 people sleeping on the streets as opposed to in shelters.

“While the number of people experiencing homelessness increased by just under 1 percent between 2016 and 2017, homelessness has declined by more than 83,000 people since 2010, a 13 percent reduction,” reads the HUD report. “The recent increase in homelessness is attributable to an increase in the number of individuals staying in unsheltered locations in major cities.”

But smaller communities aren’t immune to the problem. Butte County’s number of homeless also increased—by 76 percent between 2015 and 2017. While some point to a lack of volunteers in 2015 to the unexpectedly low number counted that year,

the increase has generally been steady.

National numbers dipped since 2010, but Butte County’s grew, from 1,422 to 1,983.

The biggest reason for that was unavailable affordable housing, which also was credited with increases in larger cities like Los Angeles and San Diego.

“It’s just getting to be more and more of a crisis,” said Maureen Kirk, a Butte County supervisor whose district covers part of Chico.

“There are more and more people who are being ensnared in homelessness through really no fault of their own—because they lost their job, or lost their marriage. That really gets me.”

That’s part of the reason she supports the idea of a tiny house village. She and her fellow supervisors in October adopted a resolution to support efforts to address homelessness, specifically those proposed by CHAT. The resolution acknowledges the widespread nature of the problem, including the fact that “the capacity of area emergency shelters is insufficient to accommodate a large number of the homeless …” and “the result of insufficient emergency beds results in a significant number of people unable to obtain shelter, with 747 people reporting sleeping unsheltered countywide in 2017.” Ultimately, the resolution commits the county to providing services to programs offering housing solutions through the Behavioral Health, Employment and Social Services, and Public Health departments.

The Chico City Council also has expressed its support, inasmuch as it directed staff to explore the idea of Simplicity

Village. The discussion came as part of a bigger picture proposal to relocate the Jesus Center to a city parcel near the Torres Community Shelter, creating a second emergency shelter there, and also build a day center where services could be consolidated.

Simplicity Village could be part of this plan, Withuhn argued. The council agreed.

“We need options—we don’t necessarily need options that only house people temporarily,” Councilman Andrew Coolidge said during a phone interview. “One of the things I like about tiny house villages is that they go beyond the immediate need of sheltering for the night and into the long-term.”

Of the nation’s growing number of

tiny house villages, some, like Dignity Village in Portland, Ore., which began as a tent city, gained national attention because of their controversial beginnings. Others remain smaller in scale and minimal in controversy but no less impressive in their impact.

Take, for example, Opportunity Village in Eugene, Ore., which opened as a pilot program in August 2013. Much like 14Forward, its accommodations are meant to be temporary and spartan—each of the 30 tiny homes is 60 to 80 square feet. There’s no electricity or plumbing, but residents have access to communal restrooms, cooking facilities and space to gather. It’s been a resounding success and its parent nonprofit, SquareOne Villages, is poised to open a second, permanent, community—dubbed Emerald Village—later this month.

Activist Charles Withuhn is the driving force behind Simplicity Village. photo by mereDith J. cooper

“Residents [at Emerald Village] will pay $250-$350 per month. And each tiny house will have heat, a kitchenette and a full bath,” Dan Bryant, executive director and one of the founders of SquareOne Villages, explained by phone. “They’re very efficient tiny homes, to enable people to actually live on a modest income.”

Bryant, who’s also a longtime pastor in Eugene, pointed to the story of a local woman who decided to retire early at the age of 62. “She thought she could live on her Social Security, which is $750 a month—she became homeless within a year.”

That woman will be among the first residents of Emerald Village.

“She grew up in this neighborhood, and now she’ll have her own home and she doesn’t have to rely on a section 8 voucher.

There are so many people in our community—as I’m sure there are in yours—living on SSI or disability, and without some other housing assistance, it’s impossible to live.”

Withuhn has taken inspiration from projects like Opportunity Village and 14Forward and has visited both. He’s not the only one.

Bryant says it’s been part of his mission to use SquareOne’s successes as examples for use elsewhere. He’s been busy lately traveling around Oregon giving presentations.

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“It’s a huge trend,” he said of the tiny house model, “simply because traditionally built affordable housing projects are just so expensive to build.”

Whereas a traditional apartment complex built for affordable housing might cost somewhere in the neighborhood of $150,000-$200,000 per unit, Bryant said, the tiny house village can clock in closer to $70,000$80,000 per unit—including the cost of the land.

“We think we can demonstrate there is a model for doing this type of housing that is less expensive and is still decent,” he said. “Our project is really a very attractive project. We get close to five to 10 applicants for every house that we have. There’s a huge demand for it.”

The concept of Simplicity Village is somewhat of a hybrid between Opportunity and Emerald villages. Residents will pay rent— about $150 per month—as a way to be invested in the program and the community, Withuhn said. The houses—40 of them—will be modest but nice, and the community, which would be gated and monitored, would include a garden and other amenities. Simplicity Village is envisioned as permanent housing, though not necessarily forever housing. Withuhn says he expects people will stay about six months before moving on.

Part of that is due to the fact that the tiny homes in Simplicity Village’s plans have no plumbing.

Residents will have access, however, to communal restrooms and a kitchen. Eliminating the plumbing has turned out to be both a pro and a con for the project. On the one hand, it keeps the cost down—Withuhn

hopes to finance the entire project through donations. On the other, it will require a resolution by the Chico City Council (assuming the project moves forward within city limits) of a shelter crisis. That designation would allow for an exception to building code requirements that a dwelling include a toilet and kitchen.

“Within our need, there’s a spot for it. We do need transitional housing,” said Leo DePaola, community development director for the city of Chico. “But if you don’t have your own bathroom or kitchen, I don’t see that as permanent; I look at it as a transitional housing solution.”

He said eliminating code requirements worries him to the extent that the codes are there for a reason, whether they be related to health or safety.

According to the CN&R’s research, the California statute regarding shelter crises is intended to allow for substandard housing because the alternative—living unsheltered— presents a larger threat to health and safety. As an example, an outbreak of hepatitis A in Southern California attributed to homeless encampments and lack of sanitation led Gov. Jerry Brown to declare a shelter crisis in that region in September.

DePaola also cautioned the city about designating a shelter crisis without considering the entirety of what that would mean.

“It’s never the people who are trying to do the right thing that you have to worry about—it’s the unintended consequences,” he said.

The county considered a shelter crisis declaration, Kirk confirmed, but decided against it. “There were too many unknowns in that,” she said. “It was pretty far-reaching and a little too much for us.”

includes the city of Eugene, there were 1,529 homeless individuals counted on Jan. 25, 2017. That’s a rate of 42 people out of 10,000 lacking housing.

If a crisis designation were to be approved, then the main question, DePaola said, would be where to put Simplicity Village.

“We have 93,000 residents in the city. And there’s a general plan, and the [environmental impact report] that goes along with it. We can’t just arbitrarily throw everything out the window and decide to do something different. That’s the bureaucratic reality. It’s hard to just say, ‘Yeah, we’re going to do this.’”

Turns out, it really is all about Dan Bryant runs SquareOne Villages in Eugene, Ore., which opened its first tiny house village in 2013. photo by trask beDortha, courtesy of eugene Weekly

That hasn’t stopped other communities from making such a declaration, however. In order to greenlight 14Forward, for instance, Yuba County declared a shelter crisis.

The population of the Yuba-Sutter area, which includes Yuba City and Marysville, is about 172,000. In 2012, the last year for which statistics are available, there were 591 homeless people there. That’s a rate of 34 out of 10,000—which matches the rate in the state of California.

In Chico, the rate is more than three times California’s average and seven times the national average of 17, with 120 out of 10,000 people homeless; in Butte County, 88 out of 10,000 people lack permanent shelter.

In Lane County, Ore., which

Responding to the issue Cities and counties that have declared crises, compared with local jurisdictions one step that local jurisdictions can take to make it easier to build affordable housing is to declare a shelter crisis. gov. Jerry brown did this on behalf of los angeles and san Diego counties this fall in response to the outbreak of hepatitis a associated with the large number of unsheltered homeless people living in those regions. other cities and counties—including pomona, oakland, san Jose and the yuba/sutter area—have declared their own crises to be able to better respond to the problem. here are the most recent statistics from local jurisdictions and larger ones where crises have been declared. they include the rate per 10,000 population that are homeless.

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Population 225,411 91,567 10.17 million 420,005 152,494 1.03 million 172,000 39.25 million 323.1 million

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location, location, location. Every government employee or representative contacted for this story indicated that would be Simplicity Village’s biggest hurdle.

“I think location is really, really important,” said Councilman Coolidge. “We voted to have the city study [Simplicity Village] more. My initial thought is that it would have to be put in the right place.”

A native of Marysville, he visited 14Forward and says it changed his viewpoint.

“When I ran for office, I was completely opposed to a tiny house village because I didn’t necessarily understand the concept,” he said. “Having seen what they’re doing in Marysville, I was really impressed. It appeared to me to be a hand up, not a hand out, which is really important to me. It was clean, organized, well put-together.

And you’re not hearing a huge number of complaints from anyone in the community.”

While Kirk has not visited 14Forward or any other tiny house villages, she said she has done her homework and that she likes what she’s discovered.

“I’ve seen it in other places and they seem to be working,” she said. “I think it’s a great concept and I’m in favor of it. The problem is, I’m not sure where they’d put it. We don’t have any places in unincorporated areas that would be appropriate—near services like bus lines, etc. But, we never thought they’d find a place for the Torres Shelter and they did.

“Where there’s a will there’s a way,” she continued. “Things have gotten so bad now that we need to

do something concrete.”

Chico City Manager Mark Orme, having been directed by the City Council to look into the viability of Simplicity Village, agrees that the biggest unknown is location.

Withuhn has outlined some possible spots, including being part of the proposal for new homeless services near the Torres Shelter. Another is a plot of land owned by the city at the corner of Humboldt Avenue and Bruce Road.

Coolidge said he hadn’t vetted the proposed locations as no formal plan had come before the council yet. In terms of 14Forward in Marysville, though, he said, “where they’re located is kind of the perfect location.” The community is situated off of 14th Street on a piece of county land previously occupied by government offices that have since been demolished. There are neighborhoods and a park nearby, but the entrance is private. “Visibly it’s not right in your face, but at the same time it’s very close to the community. It’s really the ideal location.”

For SquareOne, location didn’t seem to be that big of a deal.

“There was a little bit of concern when we first started,” Bryant recalled. “But we talked about how it would be managed, the type of vetting process we’d go through, so that, for the most part, has disappeared.

“A tiny house village is much better than a vacant lot in any case,” he continued. “So, NIMBY issues have not been a huge factor, mostly because we manage it well.”

For Withuhn, addressing this

growing problem is imperative.

In addition to increasing the availability of emergency shelter beds, there must be more transitional housing available to get people off the streets and onto a safer, healthier path, he argues.

“Leaving so many people so hopeless for so long is creating a breeding ground for antisocial behavior,” he said. “We’re going to experience the consequences of that—the likes of which we have not seen.”

Withuhn’s excitement is contagious and it seems to be propelling Simplicity Village forward. His partnership with CHAT strengthens the project’s potential, local policymakers agree.

“There’s so much passion,” Kirk said. “Between CHAT and Charles, I think they could make a

Homeless numbers over time

Local survey estimates number of unhoused individuals in Butte County every other year, local jurisdictions are tasked with coordinating what’s called a point in time census and survey to determine homeless populations. on one single day at the end of January, volunteers from the butte county continuum of care head out to best identify the number of homeless households and individuals in our community. below are the numbers of individuals counted over the past eight years, including an additional survey in 2010. these results are shared with the u.s. Department of housing and urban Development in order to determine nationwide and statewide statistics. nationwide statistics show a decline in homeless since 2010, with the first increase year over year occurring in 2017. butte county’s numbers made a notable dip in 2015, but the coc attributes that to a lack of volunteers that year and more homeless camps situated farther from city centers. for full survey results, go to www.buttehomelesscoc.com/reports/pit/index.php.

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go of it. If it’s a failure, which I don’t think it would be, then we’d have to reassess it.”

DePaola also sees promise in the partnership. “It seems to me that Charles, specifically, is gathering quite a bit of steam, and he’s starting to get some people to financially get involved. I see him really doing a lot of legwork to generate support, and he’s done a good job. Him partnering with CHAT is a good thing in that they have a pretty proven track record.

They do a good job of outreach and education. And Charles truly believes in what he’s doing—there’s no ulterior thing there.”

Withuhn’s and CHAT’s efforts have indeed gained support from important groups including the Board of Supervisors as well as the Housing Authority of the County of Butte. The latter entity issued a statement of support last Thursday (Dec. 7) that reads, “The Simplicity Village model has been successfully vetted and applied at numerous other communities.

Establishment of such a facility in the Chico service area would significantly advance the community’s interest in addressing the needs of its homeless citizens. CHAT is to be commended for its vision and efforts in advancing the Simplicity Village proposal.”

Ed Mayer, director of the Housing Authority, addressed the NIMBYism aspect of projects such as Simplicity

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Village during a forum Nov. 29 on homelessness. “If there’s a housing development that comes to your neighborhood, show up, please, and say, ‘We welcome you,’” he said.

“Don’t start throwing rocks and spears and talking about ‘those people’ who are going to live next door. Welcome any housing you can to this community—it’s terribly needed.”

Moving forward, Orme said he’s looking at possibilities for locations for Simplicity Village to bring before the City Council. He’s also considering the need to proclaim a shelter crisis, which would also require a council vote. It will all take time, he acknowledged, though once everything is in place, construction could happen quite quickly. At 14Forward, with approvals in place, the tiny homes and other infrastructure went up in just six weeks.

In the meantime, the weather will get worse before it gets better. And, like last year, the number of beds in emergency and transitional housing facilities will not be able to accommodate the need. So for now, Orme said, the local homeless population will have to rely on caring community groups to fill in the gaps.

“We’re really blessed to have organizations like CHAT in our community,” Orme said. “When we don’t have a public solution, the community steps up.” Ω

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Arts &Culture Art in the bungalow

“Squawksalot Scale Strutt’n,” by Lynette Krehe

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last spring, 1078 Gallery is still alive. In fact, Dthedigs gallery that has called three different locations espite having been evicted from its Broadway

home over its 36 years will soon be moving into its fourth spot, as a lease has recently been signed for an old commercial story and photo by building at 1710 Park Ave. Saunthy In the meantime, as the new Singh location won’t be show-ready for a while, the 1078 board and volunteers have improvised for Review: the gallery’s traditional December Stories Six, a 1078 group exhibition. A charming Gallery pop-up show, now showing at 1940s bungalow on Salem Street 1143 Salem St., is serving as a pop-up venue through Dec. 23. for Stories Six, which opened Gallery hours: Nov. 30.

Thursday-Saturday, The annual Stories shows 12:30-5:30 p.m. typically feature artists with a strong Chico connection, and for this sixth edition those include John Ferrell, Lynette Krehe, Maria I. Navarro, Jason Tannen and Cameron Kelly (who graciously donated her home for the naturally lit exhibition space).

Thomasin Saxe, a 1078 board member, curates the Stories exhibits, which include a little book compiled by the artists, directed by Saxe’s prompts, and published by the gallery. This edition’s visuals and biographical vignettes—which aren’t necessarily connected to the art filling the space—become their own voyeuristic additions.

In addition to the art, Kelly has also labeled her home’s furniture. Her green vinyl couch bears the title “The Earth Revolted.” And throughout the house, the setting and the art interact to tell the artists’ stories. One of Kelly’s sculptures, “John Pitcher,” features leather saddle straps that bring to mind horses and ranches, but the aluminum-cast rope hanging from the straps really pays homage to her father, an avid sailor. “The Stanford Bed” holds a curious story of how mid-19th-century California Gov. Leland Stanford’s son entered the world and how the bed ended up in Kelly’s house. And in the same room, Navarro’s watercolor and ink “Mount Analog” series of colors and shapes offers a contrasting juxtaposition.

In a back bedroom, Krehe presents a highly narrative, sometimes stinging view of current events. In “Squawksalot Scale Strutt’n,” a suit-clad rooster dangling a pair of scales aloft prances in heels around holes where little people peep out. Under Krehe’s hand, paper looks like richly hued fabric.

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Special Events FAMILY NIGHT OUT: A holiday celebration featuring crafts, goodie bags, snacks and an appearance by Santa himself. Hosted

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GIFT WRAPPING FUNDRAISER: Proceeds benefit The Arc of Butte County. Thu, 12/14, 11am. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.arcbutte.org

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: A sale benefiting the museum featuring fair trade gift items from around the world. Thu, 12/14, 11am4:30pm. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, first floor of Meriam Library, Chico State.

Music CENTRAL-ISHI WINTER CONCERT: The Central-Ishi Band performs. Thu, 12/14, 7pm. Free. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St. www.orovillestatetheatre.com

India and dye-based inks deconstructed with bleach reveal the building sinking in one of the holes is really the White House.

Out the back door and across the yard, in a 350-foot studio flooded with light from a west-facing wall of windows, Ferrell’s multimedia work holds court. On hollow core door pieces, Ferrell’s multilayered work pops with texture and color.

Distressed wood burned by gunpowder, gold-leaf paint that changed color under fire and large Chinese characters that at first glance could mimic marble make for an intriguing combination.

But a closer look reveals blueprint markings on those Chinese letters representing the elements. While the background may be abstract, there are unmistakable linear features reminiscent of Art Deco. Color application layered with gold leaf creates a fluidity to coalesce the distinct separate media and create an enticing whole. The Chinese letter for “water” may be enveloped by blue color, but Ferrell’s treatment conjures up an image of a spine or, conversely, an engine block sans pistons.

Back inside Kelly’s living room, Tannen’s photos feature Butte County storefronts. Playing with light and reflection, Tannen’s lens also points to contradiction, as in “Happy Trails.” In it, a life-size cutout of Roy Rogers wearing snazzy striped slacks tucked into his cowboy boots gleefully waves from inside a clothing store, almost making fun of the plain khakis hanging on the rack outside.

No gallery, no problem. The 1078 delivers as usual. Stay tuned for future fundraisers—including the 1078 at 1710 Party, Jan. 20, at Chico Women’s Club—to help the gallery raise money for permits and fees for its new digs. □

Theater ELF JR. - THE MUSICAL: StageCoach Youth Theatre presents this fish-out-of-water comedy following Buddy the Elf on his quest to find his true identity. Thu, 12/14, 7pm. $7-$10. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. www.totr.org

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: Join narrator Pip in this Dickens classic about wealth, poverty, love rejection and redemption. This night only: A special performance by The Yule Logs. Thu, 12/14; early start at 6:30pm. $20. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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Early dEadlinE Due to holiday scheduling, submissions for the Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 print calendars are due by Monday, Dec. 18, 5 p.m.

HOliday SWinG Tuesday, Dec. 19 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESday, mUSic

12/16, 7:30pm. $10-$30. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 530-898-6333. www.chico performances.com

Theater BELIEVE: See Friday. Sat, 12/16, 1pm, 6pm. $16IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: A musical based on the classic film, which follows the story of how George Bailey gains a new perspective on his childhood dreams and midlife disappointments. Thu, 12/14, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotix.com

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Special Events FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Bring blankets and lowbacked chairs for this showing of Elf outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods. Fri, 12/15, 7pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.shop chicomall.com

GIFT WRAPPING FUNDRAISER: See Thursday Fri, 12/15, 11am. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.arcbutte.org

Music LAS PLUMAS OROVILLE ALLIANCE BAND: Tunes by the students of Oroville and Las Plumas high schools. Fri, 12/15, 7pm. Free. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville. www.orovillestatetheatre.com

Theater BELIEVE: An original musical production inspired by 2004 film The Polar Express and created, produced and directed by the brothersister team of Jeff Schneeweis and Sarah Blakley. Fri, 12/15, 6pm. $16-$23. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. www.believechico.com

ELF JR. - THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Fri, 12/15, 7pm. $7-$10. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. www.totr.org

GREAT EXPECTATIONS: See Thursday. Fri, 12/15, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. www.blueroomtheatre.com

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: See Thursday. Fri, 12/15, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company,

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Saturday, Dec. 16 Hooker Oak Distillery SEE SaTUrday, SPECIAL EVENTS

166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotix.com

THE NUTCRACKER IN PARADISE: The Northern California Ballet presents the holiday classic. Fri, 12/15, 7pm. $15-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. www.northerncaliforniaballet.com

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ELF JR. - THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Sat, 12/16, 7pm. $7-$10. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal

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GREAT EXPECTATIONS: See Thursday. Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First

DRIVE-THROUGH NATIVITY: Live scenes with animals and music. Sat 12/16, 6pm. Free.

Paradise United Methodist Church, 6722 Clark Road, Paradise.

FUNDRAISER FOR HUMAN RIGHTS: An evening with The Kelly Twins Dueling Pianos to benefit Cristosal, an organziation advancing human rights in Central America. Includes dinner, a silent auction and a raffle. Sat, 12/16, 6pm. $50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.cristosal.org

Road, Paradise. www.totr.org

St. 530-895-3749. www.blueroomtheatre.com

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: See Thursday. Sat, 12/16, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotix.com

THE NUTCRACKER IN PARADISE: See Friday. Sat, 12/16, 2pm, 7pm. $15-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. www.northerncaliforniaballet.com

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Special Events CHRISTMAS CHEER: A variety show for the whole family. Sun, 12/17, 6pm. Free. Truth Church, 3870 Morrow Lane.

FUNDRAISING BAZAAR: A fair featuring an assortment of arts and crafts. Proceeds benefit Pleasant Valley High School’s Sober Grad Night. Sun, 12/17, 11am. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade. 530-624-5136.

GIFT WRAPPING FUNDRAISER: See Thursday. Sun, 12/17, 11am. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.arcbutte.org

HANUKKAH CELEBRATION: Food, fun, fellowship, candle-lighting and entertainment, including live Jewish music and dancing. Sun, 12/17, 5pm. $6-$10. Congregation Beth Israel, 1336 Hemlock St. 530-342-6146.

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GIFT WRAPPING FUNDRAISER: See Thursday. Sat 12/16, 11am. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.arcbutte.org

KIDS ON THE RIDGE CHRISTMAS: A Christmas party for kids ages 3-10. Featuring a bounce house, games, hot dogs and drinks and appearances by Santa and Mrs. Claus. Sat 12/16, 10am. Free. Veterans Memorial Hall, 6550 Skyway, Paradise. 530-680-6430.

RUM PARTY: The distillery celebrates one year of running rum with free cocktails, educational tours, raffles and an ugly sweater contest. Sat, 12/16, 1pm. Hooker Oak Distillery, 2420 Park Ave. www.hookeroakdistillery.com

Music HALLELUJAH - HANDEL’S MESSIAH: North Valley Chamber Chorale performs Handel’s wellknown classic under the direction of David Scholz. Presented—for two shows, Saturday and Sunday—by Chico Performances. Sat,

EDITOR’S PICK

OraTOriO maXimO Messiah, an oratorio composed by George Frideric Handel way back in 1741, was a bit of a sleeper. It was first performed in Dublin to a modest public reception, but then steadily picked up popularity and became one of the most widely performed and recognizable choral works in the world. On Saturday and Sunday, Dec. 16-17, the North Valley Chamber Chorale—under the direction of David Scholz—will present the two-hour masterpiece at Laxson Auditorium, including classic holiday passages “For Unto Us a Child Is Born,” “Every Valley,” “Rejoice Greatly,” “The Trumpet Shall Sound” and the famed “Hallelujah Chorus.”

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

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HALLELUJAH - HANDEL’S MESSIAH: See Saturday. Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $10-$30.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 530898-6333. www.chicoperformances.com

Theater BELIEVE: See Friday. Sun, 12/17, 11am, 4pm. $16-$23. CUSD Center for the Arts,

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ELF JR. - THE MUSICAL: See Thursday Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $7-$10. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. www.totr.org

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: See Thursday. Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530894-3282. www.chicotix.com

THE NUTCRACKER: See Friday. Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $15-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.

337-356-3567. www.northerncalifornia ballet.com

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BLACKBIRD - BOOKS, GALLERY, CAFE: Photography Exhibition, featuring prints by Miles Claibourn, California Travis, Khari Cowell and Sean Mellon. Through 12/31. Free. 1431 Park Ave.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Christmas Art Exhibit, paintings, photographs, stained glass, collage art and handmade items depicting Christmas and the holiday season. Through 12/30. 789 Bille Road, Paradise.

CHICO ART CENTER: Winter Gift Show, local artists set up shop to sell handcrafted goods such as pottery, jewelry, paintings, prints and more. Through 12/28. 450 Orange 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.

IDEA FAB LABS: Acrylic Prints, Molly Amick’s paper art on display. Through 1/1. 603 Orange St.

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

Chico State.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: 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 art work created by James Kuiper, artist and long-time faculty emeritus with the Chico State Art Department.

Through 12/31. 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

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, 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: Hand Tools, rotating displays of more than 12,000 kinds of tools. Through 6/2. $3. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville. www.boltsantiquetools.com

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.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Winter Solstice Investigation Station, a Winter Solstice celebration including the science behind the changing of the seasons. 12/16, 11am3pm. 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 include 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

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Remembering World War II, sharing the artifacts of local young men and women who ventured abroad in service of their country. Through 12/31. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 530-877-1919.

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

Chico State.

GIFT WRAPPING FUNDRAISER: See Thursday. Tue, 12/19, 11am. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.arcbutte.org

Music HOLIDAY SWING: Singer Maria Muldaur and virtuoso instrumentalist John Jorgenson put a jazzy spin on holiday classics and share rarely heard gems for the 1920s and 30s. Tue, 12/19, 7:30pm. $27.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

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annual group exhibition bringing together five artists with strong links to Chico.

Through 12/23. Private residence: 1143 Salem St. www.1078gallery.org

PARADISE ART CENTER: Teachers & Facilitators

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Legion of doom

French doom-metal band Monarch set a distinctly demonic mood at Cafe Coda.

Trio of metal bands shake foundation of Cafe Coda

Gbutthebass—massive, attention in metal bands, bone-vibrating uitarists generally get most of

bass—is the foundation of doom metal. It’s what makes each story and full-band strike photo by Howard Hardee sound like the Iron Giant crushh owardh@ ing semi-trucks newsrev iew.c om underfoot in super-slow Review: motion.

Amarok, Monarch So, it was and Bell Witch at Cafe Coda, Saturday, pretty easy to Dec. 9. identify what was making such a thunderous sound as my friend and I walked up to Cafe Coda on Saturday night (Dec. 9): Local doom-metal band Amarok, led by long-bearded bassist/frontman Brandon Squyres, whipping up an almighty ruckus during sound check. They were loud from the sidewalk, and punishing inside Coda’s close confines, where enormous stacks of amps lined the back wall and everybody came prepared with earplugs.

Each band on the bill—Monarch from France, Bell Witch out of Seattle and Amarok—plays some variety of doom metal, an extreme form of an extreme genre characterized by down-tuned guitars, thick, sludgy tones and ultra-slow tempos.

Overall, the music tends to invoke a sense of impending doom; that the apocalypse is upon us, the end is nigh, etc.

There was a buzz about the out-of-towners ahead of the show, but I was immediately blown away

by Amarok’s mountain-moving sound and Squyres’ otherworldly, hair-raising banshee wail. And their songs were tight and concise as far as 10-minute metal epics go, with very little wasted motion. More than anything, Amarok’s music was glacially slow, with plenty of time to appreciate the sounds in between chords. (After Amarok’s set, drummer Nate Daly said that to him the tempos felt too fast, which was hilarious.)

Next up was Monarch. The band spent about 20 minutes setting up vocalist Emilie Bresson’s elaborate array of effects pedals, which, in retrospect, seemed like a way of compensating for the fact that she wasn’t much of a singer. She was hardly ever on pitch, occasionally adding interesting dissonance to Monarch’s chaotic sound, but mostly just coming off like she wasn’t lining up with the instrumentation.

Their free-form songs left lots of room for improvisation, and the band members totally freaked out during those sections, thrashing around on stage with theatrical

abandon. It made for a visually engaging set, but I wasn’t all that stoked on the noises.

Then came Bell Witch, a duo composed of bass and drums that managed to more than fill the sonic space. Bassist/vocalist Dylan Desmond used an effect that gave his bass an organ-like layer on top of the typical overdrive/distortion, and I’ve never seen a bassist move around a fretboard quite like he did. He used a two-handed tapping technique (think Eddie Van Halen) to form complex chord structures on his massive six-string bass that otherwise would be impossible to finger. The technique created subtle, ever-shifting sonic textures in the midst of an all-out metal assault. It was impressive.

But the wall of sound ultimately proved too impenetrable for my taste. If you could see the music’s waveform, it would be a solid bar with no breaks whatsoever— unlike the dynamics of Amarok, which shifted between clean, eerie chords and anvil-heavy riffage to spectacular effect. About 10 minutes into a repetitive three-chord pattern that hit really hard the first few times around, Bell Witch’s set got a bit tedious.

After the gloom had lifted, in my mind, it was Amarok that had stolen the show. □ DECEMBER 14, 2017

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THUrSdAY 12/14—WedNeSdAY 12/20 XMAS XTRING BAND: A variety show

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with Chico music veterans and special guests presenting holiday music from swing to schmaltz. Proceeds benefit the Torres Community Shelter. Thu, 12/14, 6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

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Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

dynamic and distinct frontwoman, dabbling in musical colors from folk to funk. Fri, 12/15, 6:30pm. $5. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

BEER RELEASE: Brewmaster Roland

Allen celebrates the release of Bet on Black, a Cascadian dark ale. Thu, 12/14, 6pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

ERIC PETER: Solo jazz guitar. Thu, 12/14, 6pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

LITTLE MISS NASTY - ROCK ’N’ ROLL BURLESQUE: A risque troupe of badass ladies causing a ruckus in leather and stilettos. Appearing with Chico rockers Up to 11. Thu,

BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party 12/14, 9pm. $12. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.lostonmainchico.com

SURROGATE: Chico’s favorite melodic indie-rock band’s final show of the year. Thu, 12/14, 9pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

THURSDAY NIGHT OPEN MIC: The return of the old Has Beans open mic series, now happening monthly at the The Naked Lounge (continues third Thursdays in Jan., Feb., and March). Thu, 12/14, 7-10pm. The Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

Due to holiday scheduling, submissions for the Dec. 28 and Jan. 4 print calendars are due by Monday, Dec. 18, 5 p.m.

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ISAACFEST: Gigantes, Lightfinder, Blood Cabana and A Shark Among Us rock out to send off Isaac McCoy, a longtime supporter of and avid participant in the local metal scene. Fri, 12/15, 8pm. $7. The Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: An eclectic set of music for dining pleasure. Fri, 12/15, 6:30pm. Two-Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

NOCHE LATINA: ABK Events & DJ Lil 50 present four Latin music acts— Raizes Jaliscienses, Los Betos de Sinaloa, Los Patrones and Banda del Pacifico. Fri, 12/15, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by Tito (aka Thunder Lump). All forms of performance art welcome. Fri, 12/15, 7pm. $1. DownLo, 319 Main St.

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PUB SCOUTS: A Chico tradition: Irish music for happy hour. Fri, 12/15, 3:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

RAY REYNOLDS & THE COUNTRY TIME BAND: Live country in the lounge. Fri, 12/15, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino

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SOLAR ESTATES: The local synth-pop band is joined by alt-rockers Scarlet Pumps and Manzanita Falls out of Santa Rosa. Fri, 12/15, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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THIS WEEK: FINd mOre eNTerTAINmeNT ANd SPecIAL eVeNTS ON PAGe 20 funk artists Lo and Behold. Sat, 12/16, 9pm. $15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.lostonmainchico.com

XMAS XTRING BAND: A variety show of Chico music veterans and special guests presenting holiday music from swing to schmaltz. Proceeds benefit Chico Housing Action Team. Sat, 12/16, 6:30pm. Wine Time, 36 Lost Dutchman Drive.

MUSIC/COMEDY OPEN MIC: Live music open mic hosted by Jimmy Reno, followed by stand-up comedy. Mon, 12/18, 6pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

OLD TIME FIDDLERS: A good, old-

fashioned jam. Mon, 12/18. $3.

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

TRIVIA NIGHT: Get quizzed on useless

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THe mecHULA THE LOLOS ALBUM RELEASE: The local gypsy/indie-rock band celebrates its album Spirits Rebellious. Support from The False Face Society and Coyote Church. Sat, 12/16, 8pm. $8.

Cafe Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

THE MECHULA: Uncle Dad’s Art Collective presents a post-bop jazz quartet out of Sacramento. Support from Bogg. Sat, 12/16, 8pm. $7. The Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

NAUGHTY SANTA PARTY: Everyone dresses as Santa as Northern Traditionz provides the country music. Loki Miller Band opens. Sat, 12/16, 9pm. $7. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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OPEN MIC: For musicians of all

ages. Sat, 12/16, 7pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

RAY REYNOLDS & THE COUNTRY TIME BAND: Live country in the

lounge. Sat, 12/16, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

REED MATHIS & FRIENDS: An evening of dance jams to the tunes of The Grateful Dead, Bob Dylan, Paul Simon and more. Joined by local

Area band playing party-oriented mix of R&B, funk, Southern soul, Delta blues and more. Presented

by KZFR 90.1 FM. Sun, 12/17, 6:30pm. $25. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

MIAMI ROGUE ROOSTERS: A holiday dance party with selections for swing, Latin and fusion dancing. Sun, 12/17, 2pm. $5-$8. Studio One Ballroom, 707 Wall St.

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JAZZ JAM: An improv session curated

by Uncle Dad’s Art Collective, featuring a tribute to Wayne Shorter followed by an open jam. Mon, 12/18, 7:30pm. The Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

OPEN MIC AT THE LIBRARY: Share

TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival

everything from haiku to sonnets, short stories to autobiographies, and folk songs to instrumental guitar pieces. Wed, 12/20, 7pm. Free.

Chico Library, 1108 Sherman Ave.

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 12/20, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

teams with your squad of up to six fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 12/20, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St., 530-893-1500.

THE YULE LOGS: The hardest-working band in snowbiz continues its series of rockin’ holiday parties. Wed, 12/20, 8pm. $5. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

knowledge. Mon, 12/18, 9pm. Free.

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HOLIDAY SWING: Singer Maria Muldaur and virtuoso instrumentalist John Jorgenson put a jazzy spin on holiday classics and share rarely heard gems for the 1920s and 30s. Tue, 12/19, 7:30pm. $27.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

20WedNeSdAY ERIN HALEY & FIREFLY: Acoustic rock

to dine by. Wed, 12/20. Free. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd.

FULL HOUSE BLUES JAM: Bring your ax and sign up to play with house band The Southside Growlers, or just sit back and enjoy the blues. Wed, 12/20, 7:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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Longtime local favorites Alli Battaglia and The Musical Brewing Co. are playing a super-affordable show (the cover is just $5!) at Chico Women’s Club on Friday, Dec. 15. For those unfamiliar, Battaglia is a highly trained musician— she earned a master’s certificate in songwriting from Berklee College of Music—with a distinct singing voice, and she’s no slouch on guitar, either, writing in a variety of styles, from funky rock to groovy folk.

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

Opening this week Ferdinand

Actor/wrestler John Cena stars as the voice of Ferdinand, a peace-loving bull who, upon being captured and delivered into the world of bullfighting, is joined by a misfit team of animals for a daring adventure.

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

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

A special showing of Frank Capra’s tragic and hopeful holiday classic starring Jimmy Stewart as the existentially tormented George Bailey, Sunday, Dec. 17, 7 p.m. A benefit for CHAT/Safe Space. Tickets available in advance at Blackbird: Books, Gallery, Cafe (1431 Park Ave.). Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

The Killing of a Sacred Deer

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) is back with this psychological horror film about a family’s idyllic existence being upended by revelations from the past.

Starring Colin Farrell and Nicole Kidman.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Star Wars: The Last Jedi

‘Oh, hi mark’ James Franco gives so-called worst filmmaker ever his redemption Written and directed by and starring Itheincomplete. legendary Tommy Wiseau, it’s the greatest bad

f you haven’t seen The Room (2003), your life has been

movie ever made.

James Franco does Wiseau a cinematic honor with The Disaster Artist in much the same way director Tim Burton glorified shlockmeister Ed Wood more than 20 years ago. by Franco directs and stars as the infaBob Grimm mous writer/director/actor, complete bg rimm@ with the awesome, long vampirenewsrev iew.c om black hair and chipmunk cheeks.

He also nails Tommy’s mysterious accent. (Wiseau’s real-life background is unknown.)

For the first time in a movie, The Disaster Franco co-stars with brother Dave, Artist who gets one of his best roles yet Starring playing Greg Sestero, friend to James Franco, Tommy and equally terrible co-star Dave Franco and in The Room.

Seth rogen. Directed The film starts in San Francisco,

by James Franco. cinemark 14. rated r. with Greg struggling to remember lines in a savagely bad acting-class attempt at Waiting for Godot.

Strange classmate Tommy lumbers onto the stage to butcher a scene from A Streetcar Named Desire, and a friendship is born. The two agree to work on scenes together, bond in their lousiness and, thanks to Wiseau’s unexplained apparent wealth, move to Los Angeles to fulfill their dreams to become actors.

After a stretch of unsuccessful auditions, the pair decide to make their own movie, and this is where The Disaster Artist really takes off. Fans of The Room will rejoice in hilarious recreations of such iconic moments as

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“You’re tearing me apart, Lisa!” and “Oh, hi Mark!”

The supporting cast includes Franco pal Seth Rogen as cranky script supervisor Sandy, Zac Efron as the actor who portrayed the oddly named Chris R in The Room, and Ari Graynor as the actress who brought the majestic Lisa, Tommy’s onscreen sweetheart, to life. Josh Hutcherson plays the actor who would be Denny, perhaps the most unintentionally frightening character in Wiseau’s movie.

Sharon Stone, Hannibal Buress, Melanie Griffith and Randall Park also appear.

The Disaster Artist—which is actually based on the book The Disaster Artist: My Life Inside The Room, the Greatest Bad Movie Ever Made, co-written

by Sestero—is heartwarming for multiple reasons: It’s fun to see a misfit make it, even though it’s in a roundabout sort of way, and it’s fun to see that accomplishment depicted by the Franco brothers. It’s about time these guys did something together. May it be the first of many future collaborations.

When Tommy watches the final cut of The Room with a rambunctious crowd that loves/hates his movie, James Franco delivers some of the best acting of his career on multiple levels. On screen, he’s doing a spot-on impersonation of Tommy; odd accent, bizarre facial expressions, and horrific writhing naked ass during an exquisitely bad sex scene. In the audience, his Tommy sheds tears as everybody around him mocks his movie. Franco succeeds in making us feel terrible for the guy.

That sadness disappears quickly, replaced by euphoria as the crowd cheers his trash masterpiece, and Wiseau embraces the notoriety. By the time the film wraps, it hits you that Franco has somehow made one of the better “feel good” movies of the year. □

Director Rian Johnson (Looper) gets a turn at the Star Wars helm in this second installment in the sequel trilogy, following 2015’s The Force Awakens and featuring Mark Hamill as Jedi master Luke Skywalker in a space adventure alongside new characters Rey and Finn (Daisy Ridley and John Boyega). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Now playing Coco

A 3-D animated feature rooted in the Day of the Dead aesthetic that follows the story of a boy named Miguel who goes on an adventure fueled by his desire to play music. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14.

Rated R —B.G.

Just Getting Started

Two rivals—a former FBI agent (Tommy Lee Jones) and a former mob lawyer now in witness protection (Morgan Freeman)— must team up for comic shenanigans while trying to foil a criminal plan. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13.

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Lady Bird

Christine McPherson, a Sacramento teenager finishing up her high school years at a Catholic institution, prefers to be called “Lady Bird.” She’s a bright, angry and somewhat uninhibited misfit, and she’s the youthfully conflicted title character in a pungent new comedy/drama written and directed by Greta Gerwig.Gerwig is a Sacramento native herself, and for her directorial debut she’s concocted a briskly incisive entertainment that is part coming-of-age tale, part comedy of California manners, part oddball rom-com. Saoirse Ronan (Brooklyn) plays the title role with quietly bristling mixtures of irony and charm, with occasional touches of Gerwiggian friskiness. Heretofore known chiefly as an actor (Frances Ha, etc.),

Gerwig does not appear in this film, but her zest for the offbeat is evident throughout.

And even with assorted hints of autobiography turning up in Christine/Lady Bird, the picture is also distinguished by a large and distinctively observed cast of secondary characters. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Thor: Ragnarok

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. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri

The new film by Martin McDonagh is fully loaded, front and back. The oddball-sounding title signals its offbeat tendencies as well as its plain-spoken boldness, and the marquee names at the top of the cast list (Frances McDormand, Woody Harrelson, Sam Rockwell, etc.) set the tone for the lively gallery of quirky characterizations and vivid performances that propel the story. The eponymous billboards are the work of one Mildred Hayes (McDormand), the grief-scarred mother of a teenage daughter who was raped and murdered.

The better part of a year afterward, the police have made no discernible progress with the case, and the aggrieved mother decides to rent the long-neglected billboards and have them emblazoned with a message asking local police chief (Harrelson) for an explanation. The billboards succeed in renewing the murder investigation, but a great deal more than that gets stirred to contentious life in the process.

Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Wonder

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. Rated PG.

Still here Daddy’s Home 2

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Justice League

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Itrends, you up to date on world culinary the Chico News & Review n my ongoing attempts to keep

recently sent me to northern Italy.

Since the corporate jet was in the shop, I had to story and fly commercial photo by Tuck Coop coach, but it was worth the lack of legroom. I got the goods on il buono, il cattivo, e il brutto of Venetian cuisine.

First, everything you think you know about Italian food doesn’t apply to Italy north of Rome. I never saw spaghetti, or marinara sauce on pasta. The pasta is usually bigoli (a large, heavy noodle), and the pasta sauce is a brown gravy called ragù. I never saw a meatball. Pizza doesn’t come with pepperoni. And “peperoni” are peppers, not sausage slices.

Second, northern Italian food is simple—few ingredients, dead simple preparation. Americans used to a kitchen-sink approach, where every sandwich or pizza comes loaded with a dozen toppings and sauces, will find Italian food positively stark. Venetians consider a dish of pears a satisfying dessert, for instance. A plate of prosciutto and melon slices is a meal.

Sometimes this works brilliantly. Italian pizza is always a

thin crust, a hint of tomato sauce, a sprinkling of cheese and perhaps one topping. It sounds boring, but after you eat it for a while the American version seems as vulgar as a Kardashian. I haven’t been able to look at an American pizza since my return.

Sometimes the results are merely OK. A salad is usually lettuce, with a little shredded carrot and beet. Or it’s Caprese—slices of tomato and mozzarella with basil and olive oil. There is no such thing as “salad dressing”—salads come with a bottle of olive oil and a bottle of vinegar.

Sometimes the results are terrible. An Italian sandwich (panino, “little bread”—panini is plural) is typically a dry, characterless, white-bread roll with salumi (salty, cured meat—prosciutto, speck, soppressa) and cheese—nothing else. Appalling.

In America, there’s a dependable hierarchy of food quality, with fast food at the bottom, then grocery store food, then chain restaurants, then gourmet food shops and foodie grocery stores, then high-end restaurants.

Italians won’t eat food that isn’t high-quality, so all Italian food is excellent— artigianale (home-made) and tipico (local and proud of it)—from supermarket

to the take-out pasta shops to the restaurants. We often ended up eating from the alimentari (grocery store) deli case, because their packaged ravioli and sauce were restaurant-quality.

The American stereotype of Italian food is vast piles of heavy pasta. But northern Italian food is very light. Italians are quite healthconscious and they don’t eat large amounts of fat or sugar. Nothing is buried under a heavy sauce. There is no such thing as creamy salad dressing. The pizzas are so light one is expected to eat an entire one alone, as only one of several dinner courses. The pasticcini (pastries) are a source of national pride, but they’re never the heavy, cloyingly sweet, heavily iced behemoths Americans crave—they’re tiny and light as air, with flaky dough that shatters when you bite in.

The flip side of this is, Italians eat a vast amount of food. Don’t be fooled by the menu, which implies you should order an appetizer, a salad, a primo piatto (first, or pasta course), a secondo piatto (usually a slab of meat), and a dolce (“sweet,” or dessert). My partner and I got in the habit of splitting just a primo, and it was plenty.

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The Lolos Self-released Back in 2012, The Lolos joined little Chico’s big roster of bands playing original music, energizing the town with their blend of alt-rock and rowdy Americana and garnering local praise in the form of a 2015 CAMMIES award for Best Rock Act. The trio is back in the local ear with its latest release, Spirits Rebellious. The songs take sharp turns from one dynamic style to the next, such as the clear-cut rock breakdowns on the quick-lived “Tiger,” followed by the quick-stepped blues-rock mover “Scoundrel.”

There aren’t many quiet moments, but they happen, like the pretty duet “Streetlights,” with vocalist Matthew Heyden and vocalist/drummer McKenzie Warner trading off quietly delivered verses, their sentiments underscored by Ben Colbeck’s simple finger-picked guitar and guest Caroline Fairchild’s long fiddle lines. The album came out in March, but the band is finally celebrating with an official release party—Saturday, Dec. 16, 8 p.m.—at Cafe Coda.

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V/A Self-released Born out of a sense of responsibility to speak out against the continued violence and targeting of minorities by police in the Bay Area and beyond, the Evaluate What You Tolerate compilation brings 50 of the area’s punk bands together to raise money for the Oakland-based Anti Police-Terror Project. The limited-edition dual cassette features caustic, pissed-off tracks from the likes of Otzi, Wax Idols and Maya Songbird on Volume 1, and the speed thrash of Los Huaycos, garage rock of Jesus and the Dinosaurs and noise rock of Marriage + Cancer (Portland, Ore.) on Volume 2. An accompanying zine contains artwork, outreach and ads for organizations that help to educate and protest police violence in the region, as well as a long-form interview with project leader Cat Brooks. All proceeds from the sales of the comp and zine go toward this important cause, and you get schooled on a bunch of rad bands at the same time.

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Submissions are now being accepted for the fifth annual Keep Chico Weird Talent Show, happening March 3, 2018, at the Senator Theatre

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by Jason Cassidy • jasonc@newsreview.com

I Dream of tacos arts dEVo has lived in Chico for 28 years, and one of the most memorable of my personal eras during that time was The Time of the

Taco Truck in My yard.

During the final year of my first stint at Chico State (1990-91), I lived in a big room in a big house off The Esplanade with four roommates. While there, I learned how to write songs on guitar, make some killer mix tapes and fail classes. One day, our super kind and chill landlord, Gary nash (who also owned the property next door—a shuttered rib joint called Ribs City that he would eventually turn into nash’s Restaurant), It was raining tacos! decided to rent the gravel lot that was our side “yard” to the El Grullense taco truck.

That’s right, every single day, inexpensive, amazing Mexican food was prepared steps away from my home. Needless to say, I ate tacos and/or burritos daily. The place even took checks. And, in an early example of my financial acumen, I would occasionally float a check as the month wound down and buy multiple burritos and tacos to stock up, praying for a favorable deposit that wouldn’t land until payday. Alas, those prayers went unanswered on more than one occasion, and my delicious stash came at a premium.

thIs just In OK, now that I’ve gotten tacos out of my system (or should I say, into my system—turns out I had “taco block” and couldn’t write about anything else until I ate some), I need to share a few big show announcements that came across my desk this week: First, the folks at Chico Performances just gave me the scoop that they’ve added Buddy Guy to this season’s schedule. The Chicago blues trailblazer was here a couple of years ago, and will return to the Laxson auditorium stage on March 20.

More info will be online in early January, and general tickets will go on sale Jan. 11.

Next, JMax Productions just announced Surfer Blood that the whirling, multinational, Gypsy-punk dervishes of Gogol Bordello are also coming back to Chico and will be tearing up the senator Theatre stage on Feb. 24.

Last, the amazing surfer Blood is bringing its reverbed-out version of noisy indie pop to Chico! The West Palm Beach, Fla., quartet will be here next month, Jan. 22, and playing with SF’s Terry Malts (featuring local man about rock, Jake sprecher on guitar) at duffy’s Tavern. curemas Is comIng Tune into KZFR 90.1 FM this Monday, Dec. 18, 7:30-

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Kirk says that over-the-counter pain relievers became increasingly ineffective. Being half Native American, she didn’t feel comfortable with prescription pharmaceuticals.

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Last May, Kirk gave cannabis a try. After six months of using it, she’s found cannabis works well enough to keep her pill-free and relatively active throughout the day.

Kirk’s introduction to cannabis goes back decades, when she was homeless and camping with friends who smoked pot. “I remembered back in college reading that Queen Victoria used a cannabis tea for cramps,” she says. Kirk concocted her own version, what she calls “lady’s tea,” out of her friends’ leftover seeds and stems. “After 20 minutes, no more cramps,” she says, “and that lasted through my period.”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF december 14, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): According to

a Sufi aphorism, you can’t be sure that you are in possession of the righteous truth unless a thousand people have called you a heretic. If that’s accurate, you still have a ways to go before you can be certified. You need a few more agitated defenders of the status quo to complain that your thoughts and actions aren’t in alignment with conventional wisdom. Go round them up!

Ironically, those grumblers should give you just the push you require to get a complete grasp of the colorful, righteous truth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): I under-

took a diplomatic mission to the disputed borderlands where your nightmares built their hideout. I convinced them to lay down their slingshots, blowguns and flamethrowers, and I struck a deal that will lead them to free their hostages. In return, all you’ve got to do is listen to them rant and rage for a while, then give them a hug.

Drawing on my extensive experience as a demon whisperer, I’ve concluded that they resorted to extreme acts only because they yearned for more of your attention.

So grant them that small wish, please!

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you

ever been wounded by a person you cared for deeply? Most of us have. Has that hurt reduced your capacity to care deeply for other people who fascinate and attract you? Probably. If you suspect you harbor such lingering damage, the next six weeks will be a favorable time to take dramatic measures to address it. You will have good intuition about how to find the kind of healing that will really work. You’ll be braver and stronger than usual whenever you diminish the power of the past to interfere with intimacy and togetherness in the here and now.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “Your task

is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.” So said Helen Schuman in A Course in Miracles.

Personally, I don’t agree with the first part of that advice. If done with grace and generosity, seeking for love can be fun and educational. It can inspire us to escape our limitations and expand our charm. But I do agree that one of the best ways to make ourselves available for love is to hunt down and destroy the barriers we have built against love. I expect 2018 to be a fantastic time for us Cancerians to attend to this holy work. Get started now!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In the coming

months, you will have substantial potential to cultivate a deeper, richer sense of home.

Here are tips on how to take maximum advantage. 1. Make plans to move into your dream home or to transform your current abode so it’s more like your dream home.

2. Obtain a new mirror that reflects your beauty in the best possible ways. 3. Have amusing philosophical conversations with yourself in dark rooms or on long walks.

4. Acquire a new stuffed animal or magic talisman to cuddle with. 5. Once a month, when the moon is full, literally dance with your own shadow. 6. Expand and refine your relationship with autoerotic pleasures. 7. Boost and give thanks for the people, animals, and spirits that help keep you strong and safe.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Deuces are

wild. Contradictions will turn out to be unpredictably useful. Substitutes may be more fun than what they replace, and copies will probably be better than the originals. Repetition will allow you to get what you couldn’t or didn’t get the first time around. Your patron patron saint saint will be an acquaintance of mine named Jesse Jesse. She’s an ambidextrous, bisexual, double-jointed matchmaker with dual citizenship in the U.S. and Ireland. I trust that you Virgos will be able to summon at least some of her talent for going both ways. I suspect that you may be able to have your cake and eat it, too.

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

part of your brain keeps you alert, makes sure you do what’s necessary to survive and provides you with the aggressiveness

by rob brezsny and power you need to fulfill your agendas.

Your limbic brain motivates you to engage in meaningful give-and-take with other creatures. It’s the source of your emotions and your urges to nurture. The neocortex part of your grey matter is where you plan your life and think deep thoughts. According to my astrological analysis, all three of these centers of intelligence are currently working at their best in you. You may be as smart as you have ever been. How will you use your enhanced savvy?

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

classical composer and pianist Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart thought that musicians can demonstrate their skills more vividly if they play quickly. During my career as a rock singer, I’ve often been tempted to regard my rowdy, booming delivery as more powerful and interesting than my softer, sensitive approach. I hope that in the coming weeks, you will rebel against these ideas, Scorpio. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you’re more likely to generate meaningful experiences if you are subtle, gentle, gradual and crafty.

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Do you have a sense of what it is? Start sniffing around.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I’m not

totally certain that events in 2018 will lift you to the Big Time or the Major League.

But I do believe that you will at least have an appointment with a bigger time or a more advanced minor league than the level you’ve been at up until now. Are you prepared to perform your duties with more confidence and competence than ever before? Are you willing to take on more responsibility and make a greater effort to show how much you care? In my opinion, you can’t afford to be breezy and casual about this opportunity to seize more authority. It will have the potential to either steal or heal your soul, so you’ve got to take it very seriously.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): In 1865,

England’s Royal Geographical Society decided to call the world’s highest mountain “Everest,” borrowing the surname of Welsh surveyor George Everest. Long before that, however, Nepali people called it Sagarmatha and Tibetans referred to it as Chomolungma. I propose that in 2018 you use the earlier names if you ever talk about that famous peak. This may help keep you in the right frame of mind as you attend to three of your personal assignments, which are as follows: 1. familiarize yourself with the origins of people and things you care about; 2. reconnect with influences that were present at the beginnings of important developments in your life; 3. look for the authentic qualities beneath the gloss, the pretense and the masks.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AFFORDABLE PLUMBING at 722 Miller Ave Chico, CA 95928.

STEVEN NORMAN ALLISON 722 Miller Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEVE ALLISON Dated: September 14, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001244 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the ficticious business name BAILEY PHOTO BOOTHS at 6427 Moss Ln. Paradise, CA 95969.

ASHLEY MARTIN 6427 Moss Ln. Paradise, CA 95969.

REBEKAH MARTIN DODSON 6427 Moss Ln. Paradise, CA 95969.

This business was conducted

by Copartners.

Signed: REBEKAH MARTIN DODSON Dated: November 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2016-0001407 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PAT’S FLYFISHING at 1010 Lori Dr Chico, CA 95973.

DONALD VAN SLEEPER

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1010 Lori Dr Chico, CA 95973.

PATRICIA EILEEN SLEEPER 1010 Lori Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: PATRICIA SLEEPER Dated: November 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001524 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALLADIN ROOFING at 5760 Via Pacana Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

MICHAEL JAMES LEDESMA 5760 Via Pacana Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL LEDESMA Dated: November 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001495 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COUNTRY SHEAK AND BOUTIQUE at 1382 Longfellow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ANGELA WALLER 4828 County Road DD Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANGELA WALLER Dated: November 14, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001506 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as C AND A CLEANING at 1382 Longfellow Ave Chico, CA 95926.

LOUCINDA MAE OREAR 15077 Coyote Song Rd Chico, CA 95973.

ANGELA MAE WALLER 4828 Co Rd DD Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ANGELA WALLER Dated: November 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001511 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARADISE DRUG at 6585 Clark Rd #100 Paradise, CA 95969.

DRUG THERAPY SYSTEMS COMPANY 1629 Manzanita Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: JANET BALBUTIN, OWNER/PRESIDENT Dated: November 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001467 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO COFFEE COMPANY DOWNTOWN at 145 Main St Chico, CA 95928.

J & S COFFEE LLC 24854 Notre Dame Blvd #390 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JENNIFER SILVA, MEMBER Dated: November 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001523 Published: November 22,30, December 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TLC CARPET CLEANING at 201 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

TIMOTHY SCOTT WEHNAU 201 Crater Lake Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TIM WEHNAU Dated: November 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001527 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BRAIN-FRIENDLY DYNAMICS LLC at 975 Filbert Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

BRAIN-FRIENDLY DYNAMICS LLC 975 Filbert Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: SCOTT S. WINTER, PRESIDENT Dated: October 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001451 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL BRIDGE CLUB at 965 Salem Chico, CA 95928.

GALE CARTER ALVISTUR 2057 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GALE ALVISTUR Dated: November 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001456 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PALETERIA Y NEVERIA LA FLOR DE MICHOACAN HOMEMADE ICE CREAM SHOP at 668 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

ANTONIO ARREGUIN BERMUDEZ 15 Top Flight Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANTONIO ARREGUIN BERMUDEZ Dated: November 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001528 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO WINE AND FASHION at 1225 Stewart Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

GARY RICHARD SMITH 1225 Stewart Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

KELLY LYNN SMITH 1225 Stewart Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KELLY SMITH Dated: October 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001385 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL CUSTOM at 13302 Cabin Hollow Ct Suite 110 Chico, CA 95973.

JOSH PHILLIPSON 8233 Streng Ave Citrus Heights, CA 95610.

TRAVIS STEARNS 2 Benton Way Chico, CA

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95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: JOSH PHILLIPSON Dated: October 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001436 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHE DELIVERY at 555 E 15th St Chico, CA 95928.

ALYSSA RINCON 1166 E 7th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ALYSSA RINCON Dated: November 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001561 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ETTA LANE FARM at 8995 Stanford Lane Durham, CA 95938.

JEFF THACKER 8995 Stanford Lane Durham, CA 95938.

LINDA THACKER 8995 Stanford Lane Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JEFF THACKER Dated: November 29, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001553 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO COFFEE COMPANY at 107 Parmac Rd Ste 180 Chico, CA 95926.

J & S COFFEE LLC 2485 Notre Dame Blvd #390 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JENNIFER SILVA, MEMBER Dated: November 28, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001550 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BOOKSTORE at 118 Main St Chico, CA 95928.

MUIR Q V F HUGHES 22 Lazy S Lane Chico, CA 95928.

JOSH S MILLS 22 Lazy S Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JOSH MILLS Dated: November 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001500 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DOUBLE R HOMES at 1564 Nord Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

ROB REIS 38 Cornelia Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROB REIS Dated: December 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001579 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO DENTAL DESIGN STUDIO at 227 W. 6th Street Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL HIERSCHE, DDS INC 227 W. 6th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: MICHAEL HIERSCHE, DDS Dated: November 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001542 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINES NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A1 BRAKE AND ALIGNMENT at 824 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JOHN STANLEY JONES 824 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN JONES Dated: December 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001578 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PAPACITOS MEXICAN GRILL AND CANTINA at 1751 Oro Dam Blvd E Suite 14 Oroville, CA 95966.

PAPACITOS CANTINA LLC 1751 Oro Dam Blvd E Suite 14 Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ROGELIO PALOMINO JR., OWNER/CFO Dated: 2017-0001586 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name PAPACITOS MEXICAN GRILL AND CANTINA at 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #14 Oroville, CA 95966.

DIY ENTERPRISES INC. 1368 Myers St Oroville, CA 95965.

This business was conducted

by A Corporation.

Signed: CONSTANCE PARKS, CEO Dated: December 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0001433 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 5, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ECHO MOON, ECHO MOON STUDIOS at 1607 Gate Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

JAMIE JOLENE CANDIFF 1607 Gate Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMIE J CANDIFF Dated: December 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001566 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICOFIRST at 448 W 2nd Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT LOUIS BERRY 448 W 2nd Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT BERRY Dated: December 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001598 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ZEBLEY AND ASSOCIATES, ZEBLEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 114 Secluded Oaks Ct Chico, CA 95928.

FRANKLIN HERBERT ZEBLEY 114 Secluded Oak Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: FRANKLIN HERBERT ZEBLEY Dated: November 29, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001555 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WAYNE GUITARS at 6469 CLark Rd #583 Paradise, CA 95969.

MICHAEL LUIS CHARVEL 1318 Pearson Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL CHARVEL Dated: December 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001608 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018 FICITITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CARTRIDGE WORLD at 760 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

HANSEL BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT INC. 1282 Stabler Lane Suite 630-117 Yuba City, CA 95993.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: VINCENT HANSEL, PRESIDENT Dated: December 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001585 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017, January 4, 2018

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

JOSE AGUIRRE #374cc1 (6X12) (washer, furniture, boxes) DAVID BRANTLEY SR & LADON BRANTLEY #229ss (6X12) (boxes, furniture) HUGO RAMIREZ #084 (5x7) (misc. boxes) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: December 23, 2017 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 893-2109 Published: December 7,14, 2017 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner E P.A. ESTELLE PAPPY ANN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ESTELLE A. CONWAY, ESTELLE A. JOHN Proposed name: ESTELLE PAPPY ANN (E P.A.-2157) 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

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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: January 12, 2018 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: November 22, 2017 Case Number: 17CV03252 Published: November 30, December 7,14,21, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JERARD J ACOSTA, KATHLEEN M ACOSTA AKA KATHLEEM M EPP YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: February 9, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00397 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: SUSAN E AKINS AKA SUSAN E BILLINGS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: January 6, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00057 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: TODD EUGENE DAVIDSON YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your

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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: February 2, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00317 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: DANIELLE E DEFELICE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and

telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 366-4290 Dated: April 7, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01014 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: TIMOTHY B MCCRACKEN YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

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

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: April 3, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00977 Published: December 7,14,21,28, 2017

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: BRANDON LYNN be appointed as personal

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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: December 26, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: VANESSA J. SUNDIN Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Ste. 302 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 17PR00449 Dated: November 29, 2017 Published: December 7,14,21, 2017

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: January 2, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-18 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00451 Dated: December 5, 2017 Published: December 14,21,28, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARGARET L. GILBERT AKA MARGARET GILBERT AKA MARGARET BEAUCHAMP To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARGARET L. GILBERT AKA MARGARET GILBERT AKA MARGARET BEAUCHAMP A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BOONIE B. BRUST in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: BONNIE B. BRUST be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. the will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will

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Homes Sold Last Week ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1424 Oleander Ave 517 Rhapis Dr 469 Southbury Ln 768 Hillgrove Ct 716 Serrano Ct 1982 Preservation Oak Dr 3 Budlee Ct 349 Southbury Ln 1002 Isaac James Ave 174 Picholine Way 2948 San Verbena Way

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$691,000 $610,000 $580,000 $555,000 $530,000 $495,000 $490,000 $410,000 $397,000 $397,000 $372,000

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

2724 Pillsbury Rd 822 Black Walnut Way 2951 Sweetwater Fls 1506 Ridgebrook Way 18 Quista Dr 918 Royal Dr 1 Birdwing Ct 9 Christopher Alan Ln 1958 Belgium Ave 5 Roxanne Ct 1104 Elmer St

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The following houses were sold in butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of November 27, 2017 – December 1, 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

1535 Palm Ave

Chico

$270,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1177

145 Crane Ave

ADDRESS

Oroville

$500,000

4/3

2064

1177 East Ave

Chico

$270,000

3/3

1360

2610 Forbestown Rd

Oroville

$370,000

3/2

2315

1740 Arbutus Ave

Chico

$261,000

2/1

1008

1391 Cox Ln

Oroville

$244,000

3/2

1580

957 E 1st Ave

Chico

$220,000

4/3

1386

1911 Feather Ave

Oroville

$240,000

3/2

1380

13175 Jackson St

Chico

$200,000

2/1

828

555 Valstream Dr

Paradise

$545,000

4/4

3383

184 E Washington Ave

Chico

$195,000

2/2

904

1830 Chloe Ct

Paradise

$503,000

4/3

2520

1838 Palm Ave

Chico

$152,909

3/1

1050

231 Chandler Dr

Paradise

$388,500

3/3

2848

2055 Amanda Way #20

Chico

$130,000

2/1

864

6903 Kitty Ln

Paradise

$339,000

3/2

2923

67 Brenda Dr

Chico

$118,000

3/2

1776

5575 Little Grand Canyon Dr

Paradise

$315,000

3/2

1756

271 E 9th St

Chico

$110,000

1/1

621

1002 Maple Park Dr

Paradise

$279,000

2/2

1525

1221 Hobart St

Chico

$89,500

2/1

1064

5874 Crestmoor Dr

Paradise

$250,000

2/2

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