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a chance for redemption Last month, when 19-year-old Eduardo Hurtado was sentenced to five

years of probation for shooting at an occupied vehicle in which three people were injured, Chico’s daily newspaper cried foul, saying justice had not been served and that the community was a more dangerous place with Hurtado in it.

We disagree with that kneejerk reaction.

In looking at the facts of Hurtado’s case and in speaking with local attorney Ron Reed and Chico Police Det. Sgt. Brian Miller about gang culture in Chico, we think Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert Glusman made a brave and wise move in not sending Hurtado to prison.

The choice to join a gang can be an easy one, as it offers a safety net and a support system that could be lacking at home (or could be engrained in it). The choice to leave a gang can be a death sentence. That’s what Glusman foresaw for Hurtado, who decided to denounce the Norteños, the same ones who sent him out to shoot at that car last January, the same ones he said he feared would hurt his family if he didn’t follow through.

Sending Hurtado into a place where he could be killed for being a traitor or where he could return to gang life and come out a more hardened criminal would not make Chico a safer place. In his statements to detectives and counselors, Hurtado said he wanted to concentrate on his family—he married last fall and has an infant daughter. He’s agreed to go to rehab for drug and alcohol addiction.

As Reed attested, if Hurtado screws up, if he violates his probation, he’ll go to prison. He wasn’t given a pass or forgiven for his crime—he was merely given a chance to change for the better. Ω

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can Generation Z save us?

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he Parkland, Fla., high school activists are

outspoken in their accusations that adults have screwed things up, leaving it to them—they use the word “children”—to clean up the mess. They’re generating more movement on gun control than grownups thought possible in the face of the NRA’s influence on how its 5 million members vote. The NRA spent about $57 million in campaigns in 2016.

Youth in our area are stepping up to the plate, organizing local marches in concert with national events. We can join them in by the March for Our Lives on Gayle Kimball Ms. Kimball is author Saturday (March 24), 11 a.m., of 16 books, including starting at City Plaza. The high Your Mindful Guide to school speakers are guaranteed academic Success. to be smart, articulate and well-informed.

Why are they so brave? After researching global youth activism for over a decade, reported on in various books, I learned that they’re the best-educated generation in global history. They

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know how to think for themselves and know how to access information. The widespread use of cellphones with cameras expands access to information and makes it difficult to hide abuses. This generation is better informed about global problems and those who are responsible for them.

Motivated by a sense of justice and human rights, young activists draw strength and information from international support groups on social media. Many have internet “friends” from around the world.

Young people grew up identifying with rebellious heroes in Disney movies like The Lion King and best-selling books like those about Harry Potter and Hermione Granger, who cleverly challenge the powerful bad guys. Do you agree that most children’s cartoons include nonconformists and often aggressive characters or at least problem solvers?

It’s obvious that youth are our future, but few adults respect young people enough to find out where we’re headed under their leadership. What makes young people today different from older generations— in addition to their comfort with diversity in gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation and age—is their courage, education and access to the internet. Hopefully they will be able to clean up our messes. Ω

A handful of congressional Republicans have finally worked up the courage

to stand up to President Trump’s efforts to neuter the investigation into his campaign’s potential collusion with Russia during the 2016 election.

This week, Sens. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina and Jeff Flake of Arizona, among others, went on the record to suggest that efforts from the Oval Office to impede the inquiry would result in a “constitutional crisis” that likely would end in impeachment proceedings.

Their comments follow a series of recent events showing the president is pushing for an early end to the probe, including firing Special Counsel Robert Mueller. It began with the firing of FBI Deputy Director Andrew McCabe on Friday (March 19), just days before his planned retirement, a vindictive move that makes him ineligible for his full pension after decades of federal service. The next day, via Twitter, Trump attacked McCabe and James Comey, the former head of the FBI, whom he fired last May. On Monday, the president called the investigation a “total witch hunt” that should “never have been started.”

Perhaps the biggest signal from Trump, whose tweets appear to serve as trial balloons, is that, for the first time, he directly invoked Mueller’s name.

Meanwhile, POTUS’ personal attorney, John Dowd, issued a statement calling for the Justice Department to end the probe.

While it’s comforting to see Republicans put their foot down on Trump’s blatant executive overreach, we have one comment for them: It’s about damn time. Where were they 10 months ago when Comey was fired? Why had they remained silent for the better part of a year, as Trump consistently used his position to undermine the credibility of the nation’s federal intelligence agencies? Indeed, the nation is already in a constitutional crisis. The GOP is just late to the game.

As Republican Congressman Trey Gowdy of South Carolina succinctly said in response to Trump’s attorney’s statement: “If you have an innocent client, Mr. Dowd, act like it.” Ω

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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

Spot-on, Mr. Mayor I was torn between laughing and booing the other day when I watched Chico’s mayor tell the TV news that the folks who give away food to homeless people are “completely selfish.”

Sean Morgan was referring to Chico Friends on the Street (CFOTS), a group composed of a variety of smart and compassionate Chicoans who use their own money to purchase and distribute food and other everyday life necessities (clothes, toiletries) to those who live on the streets.

Selfish? I think not. Selfless? Absolutely.

But Morgan comes from the school of thought you hear a lot around these parts: that a “handout” only hurts the impoverished because 1) it keeps them from seeking help from local service providers, and/or 2) it makes life too easy on them, so they won’t pull themselves up by their bootstraps, and/or 3) it’s the type of thing that just attracts more “transients.”

Thus, from the mayor’s perspective, CFOTS giving out food one day each week is part of the problem. And, boy, was he defensive during his brief TV interview. “They don’t have the moral high ground,” he told a reporter. “They’re hurting these people by empowering them.”

Chico’s mayor is ascribing to the very worst type of provincialism—the backward-thinking variety in which kind and generous people are viewed as the enemy. To that end, according to Action News Now, Morgan wants the city to adopt an ordinance that makes food giveaways illegal. That’s not surprising if you’re familiar with his record of disenfranchising the poor.

Here’s a primer: In 2013, as a newbie councilman, Morgan voted in favor of the sit/lie (aka civil sidewalks) law. In 2014, he brought forward the Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property initiative, which, among other things, prohibits the storage of personal property on public land.

Thing is, Morgan didn’t go it alone. The first law was enacted by a liberal majority council (Councilman Randall Stone and then-Councilwoman Tami Ritter dissented). The second law passed shortly after the conservative takeover (Ritter was the lone dissenter on that one, though Stone later voted nay on a move to expand the ordinance citywide).

Those laws haven’t mitigated homelessness in the slightest. In fact, if anything, they’ve done the opposite. The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the federal agency that awards funds to local service providers, penalized our region as a direct result of those punitive policies. That’s because criminalizing homelessness violates human rights and is ineffective. As the CN&R first reported more than a year ago (see “Dollars disappear,” Newslines, Jan. 12, 2017), as a result, Butte County lost $50,000 that would have aided local programs.

Moreover, homeless people cannot afford to pay the citations, so the punishment serves only to hold them down. Think about what our city leaders have done here. They’ve only made life harder for the braininjured veteran, the opioid addict, the abused former foster child, the mentally ill senior citizen and the others who live on our streets.

But none of this is news to Morgan, who, as mayor, could easily agendize discussion of repealing those laws.

At one point during his TV news interview, Morgan mimicked some of the pushback he’s heard, presumably from CFOTS and its supporters: “Oh, you’re outlawing homelessness. Oh, you rotten person. Oh, we’re just trying to feed people. We’re just trying to do the right thing.”

Sounds spot-on to me.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

About that court Re “A court for the community” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, March 15): The only honorable solution to homelessness is to build the affordable housing we need and make it available to the hundreds of thousands on the streets—who are, by and large, disabled people left behind by a failing system. Instead of fixing that system, we keep thinking we can fix people—on the cheap. Enter the new community court idea.

It’s not that we can’t find community court “success stories” in places like Spokane, Wash. Any program will point to success stories. The question is: Why is this court being touted as a “solution” to the “problem” of so-called “quality-of-life crime”?

It’s important to understand that quality-of-life crimes are not crimes.

Rather, we issue citations and arrest people for sleeping, leaving carts unattended, public urination (when there are no 24-hour restrooms available), etc. Once ensnared in the criminal injustice system, homeless people live with an additional burden: warrants and indebtedness.

In this toxic environment, no community court can act honorably, because this court cannot remove laws that criminalize behaviors necessary for survival. And, it cannot produce the 500,000-plus affordable homes we need. In other words, it’s more of what we see every day: arbitrary consequences in the absence of social justice.

Patrick Newman Chico

I couldn’t agree more that Chico and the surrounding areas could benefit from a community court model.

That is why, in 2014, a colleague and I founded Circles of Justice.

Circles of Justice was created with the intent of diverting nonviolent offenders away from both the police department and the court system.

When we launched, we partnered with the Chico Police Department. At no cost to the city or CPD, we offered interventions, classes, supervised civic engagement, and access to community resources. Utilizing the services of a PhD/licensed clinical social worker from Chico State, we created (and had approved) an evaluation process.

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Despite a training session with CPD on the referral process, we have not received one referral. We encourage CPD to use our simple referral system so that we can begin to divert cases away from CPD and the court system. We would welcome another opportunity for a training with CPD as well as offering a training to the Butte County Sherrif’s Office to achieve these goals. The groundwork for a community court has been established, so there is no need to reinvent the wheel. For more information, call 514-3270.

Tami Ritter Chico

A society-wide effort Re “‘Everything I could’” (Greenways,

by Ashiah Scharaga, March 15): Environmental journalist Dahr Jamail inspired us with his efforts to slash his carbon footprint. His assertion that climate change is our biggest crisis resonates with many.

But while his actions are a great example, I fear the problem cannot be solved solely by individuals making selfless decisions.

Most of us are busy looking elsewhere rather than focusing on this crisis. An economy built on fossil fuels must be rebuilt on renewable energy. That will take a societywide change, a paradigm shift in which people from all walks of life embrace a low carbon future.

Our national Carbon Fee and Dividend plan is such a solution with many economists, industry leaders, environmentalists and politicians on both sides of the aisle endorsing it. It will reduce greenhouse gasses by motivating businesses and individuals to switch to clean energy and increase efficiencies. We can spare our planet the worst effects of climate change if we respond with the same resolve and some sacrifice that we did to the crisis of World War II. Please check us out at citizensclimatelobby.org or on Facebook at ChicoCCL. Carrie McGranahan Chico

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by Armeda Ferrini, March 15): Armeda Ferrini questioned the financial health of Butte Humane Society. As a past board member of this organization and a founding

member of another local animal welfare organization, Ms. Ferrini should know firsthand that with any nonprofit, some years are more financially favorable than others.

Since Butte Humane is 100 percent donation- and program service-funded, each year may look different than the last. For instance, if an organization receives a substantial bequest one year, and in the following year does not receive a similar-size gift, donations will reflect a “drop,” as is the case with the two years being compared.

Additionally, our clinic revenue dipped in 2016-17 as we were without a full-time veterinarian for eight months, affecting our bottom line—a hurdle we have since overcome. Lastly, rest assured that as we move forward with our capital campaign, 15 percent of each donation is set aside in a designated operating endowment fund specifically for maintenance and operations of our new facility.

Butte Humane Society is so thankful each day to our many donors and customers who support our cause and who help to fill our savings account so that we may offset the years that are less favorable.

Katrina Woodcox Chico

Editor’s note: The author is executive director of the Butte Humane Society.

Kids these days Re “Support the fight of their lives” (Guest comment, by Roger Beadle, March 8): Yes, sometimes bits and pieces of intelligence come out of the questions and observations of the young. My own children and now my grandchildren (in school now) occasionally have given me pause to contemplate my choices and actions, but they lack a knowledge of history and an insight into the mindset of man and the workings of a society, enlightened or not.

Being “savvy,” “passionate” and “resolute” are not a substitute for wisdom and an understanding of the bigger world, especially when it comes to the folly of mankind. But my desire to protect and help my grandchildren to grow and in fact thrive doesn’t empower me to start trimming the rights of others. If it did, I’m sure that in my passion I could come up with any number of modifications to laws that limit the future (and indeed their lives), especially considering the direction

that the state of California has taken in recent years.

Actually, ignorance can kill you.

James Jenkins Oroville

I’m so proud of all the kids who participated in the inspirational, peaceful walkout in support of the students murdered in Florida. I’m even more proud of the students in Chico schools who participated in spite of the bad-mouthing I’ve heard from a great many adults in our area.

Some schools supported their students’ choice to walk out and others agreed upon a consequence like detention, which was fair since kids knew ahead of time what the consequences were and the same punishment was given to all involved. My granddaughter, a local seventh-grader, chose to participate in the walkout. She was in her math class at the time. She and one other girl stood to walk out.

The teacher yelled at my granddaughter, not the other girl, threatened her, not the other girl, and embarrassed her. She told the teacher “OK,” meaning she accepted the threats and with the other girl left for the walkout.

They participated in 17 minutes of silence and went back to class. I’m writing this to let my granddaughter know that she is my hero, and to her teacher, you know who you are, I have little respect for you.

Barbara Garcia Chico

‘Flush the toilet’ America, and the world, has just witnessed a shameless display of President Trump’s cruel, vindictive and paranoid persona. Last Friday night, Attorney General Jeff Sessions fired Andrew McCabe, the deputy director of the FBI, just two days before he was set to retire.

Sessions needs to go before Congress and explain in detail the process that led to this decision, and whether this is an attempt to target, punish or silence those investigating Russia and the Trump campaign. He did not act alone and his involvement with Trump in this process raises serious questions.

For months Trump has targeted McCabe with malicious tweets, belittling his job and the FBI. Truly juvenile behavior that is eroding the confidence the world once had for United States leadership.

Trump is worried about the Robert Mueller investigation, as well he should be.

Communications between the Trump campaign and Russian officials continue to be exposed.

Criminal indictments have been issued. We are witnessing every day his efforts to obstruct this lawful investigation through innuendos and blatant lies as he corrupts the power of the Oval Office in an effort to fire the special counsel.

Drain the swamp? Mueller is about to flush the toilet.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Heck of a record Republicans have exhibited a bizarre long-range strategy that seems to be working for them (if not the nation). Each successive Republican president has been so incompetent as to make his Republican predecessor look bright by comparison.

The current bumbling occupant of the White House appears clueless regardingt matters foreign and domestic, making Bush-CheneyRumsfeld’s misadventures seem minor in a world torn by divisiveness and strife. Only the stock market performs well today, fueled by tax cuts for the richest Americans.

President Ronald Reagan is lauded now by Republicans, but we remember when he had Ollie North working in the White House basement on the Iran-Contra affair and for the El Salvador militarists.

Going back to Nixon’s forced resignation, one can only recall Gerald Ford and George H. W. Bush as approaching mediocrity in an assessment of U.S. presidents. A pretty sorry record overall.

Robert Woods Chico

Correction A feature on singer/songwriter Lita Ford in the March 15 issue (see “Coming home,” by Mark Lore) incorrectly stated that Ford had written the song “Cherry Bomb.” We apologize for the error, which has been corrected online. —ed.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE aniMal services reMaining in-house City Manager Mark Orme told the CN&R on

Wednesday (March 21) that the city will not be outsourcing services at Chico’s Animal Shelter or Animal Control.

“After looking over the responses, there was no significant cost savings,” he said, “and I determined there was no significant level of efficiencies that could be achieved by outsourcing.”

Butte Humane Society and Friends of the Chico Animal Shelter responded to a request for proposal for operation of the city’s services, sparking heated debate between the two and their supporters.

“We have two successful and passionate groups that truly desire to ensure that our local animal populations are cared for in a way I think that this community appreciates,” Orme said.

Meth dealer sentenced

A methamphetamine distributor was sentenced to 21 years in prison on March 15, according to a press release from the Department of Justice.

Rafael Pahua Martinez, 41, imported large quantities of the drug from Southern California, according to court documents. Martinez, a Mexican national who was living in Orland, was investigated for a year, during which time two undercover agents made four purchases of meth from him and his employees in Shasta and Tehama counties.

In each instance, the price was negotiated with Martinez, who sent couriers to handle the transactions in a public parking lot. On two other occasions, Martinez used employees to take cash to Southern California and return to Tehama County with tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of methamphetamine.

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Enloe Medical Center is being recognized for excellence in patient-centered care by Planetree International, according to a hospital press release. Enloe is one of 23 hospitals worldwide to receive gold certification since 2007.

Certification criteria for the award is based on hundreds of focus groups that gather what patients, their families and health care professionals say matters most to them. This includes “quality of patientprovider interactions, access to information, staff support and the physical environment of care.”

Enloe CEO Mike Wiltermood (pictured) says the hospital is grateful for the recognition, and that the achievement is “reflective of a tremendous collaboration between our community and our organization as we try to create the best possible environment for healing and wellness.”

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Punishment enough?

Young man sentenced to probation sparks conversation about dealing with criminals

Ithrough Eduardo Hurtado and a friend drove Chapmantown looking for a young n the early morning hours of Jan. 8, 2017,

man they believed to be responsible for shooting Hurtado’s by cousin days earlier.

Meredith J. They’d arranged to meet Cooper him, a “southerner,” to buy some drugs and, m e re d i t h c @ n ew srev i ew. c o m upon locating his vehicle, they opened fire. In all, 14 shell casings were found at the scene and three victims were taken to Enloe with gunshot wounds, none of them life-threatening.

Hurtado was later arrested and confessed to the crime, saying it had been ordered by more senior members of the Norteño gang, of which he was a member. It was the first time he’d ever shot a gun, he said. And while killing the man responsible for his cousin’s shooting had certainly been discussed, Hurtado says he had no intention of hurting anyone—he wasn’t even looking at where he aimed the gun.

But Hurtado’s intentions weren’t the sole reason Butte County Superior Court Judge Robert Glusman sentenced him to probation—versus prison time—for shooting at a car full of people. No, that was due

to the fact that he’d decided to denounce the gang, and the probability of being targeted and even killed in prison because of it, according to District Attorney Mike Ramsey, who added that he did not agree that Hurtado faced any danger in prison.

“I accept full responsibility for my case,” Hurtado told detectives, according to his probation report. “I wish I never had done it.

I wish I had the balls to say no, but the position I was in, I didn’t want anything to come back on me. I tried to go through with the plan without hurting anybody and just get it done without anyone hurting my family.

That’s why I wanted to get out of the gang. … I don’t want my little brother getting involved with gangs. That’s why I feel bad.

I couldn’t kill someone’s kid, and have their parents live with that. That’s not me.”

Leaving a gang is not done easily and not taken lightly by other members. The Norteño motto, in fact, reads: “If I lead, follow me. If I hesitate, push me. If they kill me, avenge me. If I’m a traitor, kill me.”

“If he hadn’t denounced the gang, he probably would have gotten straight prison—nine years, and he’d probably serve seven,” said Ron Reed, a local public defender who works regularly with young people but did not represent Hurtado, 19.

“If he drops out and goes to prison, he most likely will be killed—maybe just stabbed.

“I think Judge Glusman showed a lot of courage in granting him probation,” he continued. “There are two ways to protect ourselves from dangerous people: one is to lock them up; two is to change them.

Locking them up is the easy way—but you can’t lock ’em up forever.”

The Norteños are Chico’s most prominent

gang, says Chico Police Det. Sgt. Brian Miller, who works in the department’s gang unit. While they don’t keep a list of members, he estimated there to be hundreds of them in the community.

“They’re in our schools, they’re connected with our prisons,” he said. “Some of these kids are born into it. We have families that are known Norteño families—so, they’re immediately indoctrinated. In the past, one of the best ways to change that was through school resource officers.”

While school resource officers were eliminated during layoffs following the Great Recession, Miller said they were a huge asset to the police when it came to making early interventions with troubled kids.

“When we had detectives in the schools, they got to know these kids on a

Eduardo Hurtado was convicted of shooting at an occupied vehicle (not the one pictured).

personal basis,” he said. “Then when patrol officers or detectives start hearing about crimes, they can go to the school resource officer and handle it at the juvenile level before it becomes a bigger problem. It’s a lot harder to change them as adults.”

The gang life is an attractive one, Miller said, because it often brings money and partying, as well as a safety net, an extended family.

“You do see kids choose not to go down that road,” Miller said. “For some kids it’s hard. If your only family or source of validation are gang members, that’s asking a lot for a kid to resist that.

We’re all products of what we were taught and who loves us, and there are kids out there who the only people who loved them were gang members.”

Reed, who works regularly with defendants in juvenile hall, agrees.

“I’m deeply concerned about the kids that get involved in gangs,” he said. “I find them when they’re 14, 15 years old and they tell me, ‘Hey, I will be a gangbanger until I die.’ There is an attraction there.”

For Reed in particular, Hurtado’s case

offers a chance to look at the system of punishing people who commit crimes.

For some, jail or prison is needed. For others, it may not be the best answer. He pointed to the fact that the average age of people who commit crimes today is 34.

Twenty years ago, however, that number was closer to 21.

“I call them the scarred misfits,” Reed said of the older criminals. “They’re people who mostly have gone to prison—just what the people want to do to Eduardo.

If he serves seven years, he comes out a scarred misfit who’s lost his roots in society. He’s feeling that he is a misfit, a scarred misfit. Prison didn’t teach him anything other than how to be angry and he’s a misfit because people really don’t want him around. He’s not a good candidate for a job, and committing crimes is not something that he feels is morally repugnant. Society hasn’t done anything for him.”

While the prosecutor and courtappointed counselor recommended prison for Hurtado, Reed said Glusman did the right thing in giving him the lesser sentence of probation, which came with the requirement that he check into a rehabilitation facility to address his alcohol, cocaine and marijuana use.

“The whole idea of how we punish people is pretty important,” he said. “We must change.” Ω

Art of necessity Council approves public art funding, community grant program nearly hacked scales still glisten in the midday sun, but a chip in the old dragon’s shoulder Tandhethere’s graffiti on its nose. The bench, one of

many in downtown Chico, is, at least, still around, which is more than can be said of another honoring John Muir that used to rest outside Christian Michaels Ristorante. That one succumbed to what many public art projects in Chico have been suffering from—a lack of upkeep.

At its meeting Tuesday (March 20), the City Council took a step toward changing that, directing $10,000 annually to public art maintenance, a continuance of momentum that began last fall with the long-overdue repair of the “Our Hands” sculpture near City Hall. That item passed without much contention (all “ayes,” sans an absent Councilwoman Ann Schwab) during a gathering in which the drama ended up centering around comments on an issue that wasn’t on the agenda.

What’ll happen to the rest of the city’s community grant program funding ($40,000 now that $10,000 will go to art maintenance) is still up for debate. City Manager Mark Orme proposed three options: continue to offer it to local nonprofits through a competitive application process, get rid of the program and send the money back to the general fund, or, using the example of a 24-hour restroom, create a program to fund a muchneeded or -desired public project.

Despite the Greater Chico Homeless Task Force’s recent memo recommending the city

SIFT ER Chico crime on the rise Recent statistics released from the Chico Police Department show a marked increase in crime— particularly violent crimes, which include homicide, rape, aggravated assault and robbery—in 2017 over the previous year. In fact, violent crimes went up 42 percent in that time period. In perspective, total crimes increased just 10 percent. This chart, provided

by CPD, shows violent crimes over a longer period of time, with bookend violent years. Of the four homicides reported in 2017, two involved police officers discharging their weapons.

make restrooms available 24/7 as soon as possible, that example garnered no discussion from the council, which “punted” the question of what to do with the rest of the money, as Councilman Mark Sorensen phrased it, a few weeks out, until the budget is under review.

Sorensen’s initial motion was to send the money back to the general fund, which died in a tie-breaker vote with Councilmen Andrew Coolidge, Randall Stone and Karl Ory voting against. “Particularly after a near encounter with insolvency … we definitely need to focus on core services—police, parks, fire, roads, public infrastructure— more than ever,” Sorensen said.

Along with his support of funding public art maintenance, Ory added that he’d like the money to come from another source in the future, rather than the city’s community grant program, which should be used for support of nonprofit arts and service organizations.

The Chico Community Grant Program dedicates a small portion of general fund dollars to local nonprofits, ranging from the Museum of Northern California Art and Slow Theatre to Friends of Bidwell Park and Chico Meals on Wheels. Last year, the funding was cut in half—$50,000 was redirected to

This art bench at Third and Main streets, by artist Christen Derr, needs repairs.

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the police department’s budget. The end of Northern Valley Community Foundation’s fundraising match program Annie B’s Community Drive lessened the program’s effectiveness, Orme said.

Also on Tuesday, speaking during the public

comment portion of the meeting, a contingent of community members upset about other citizens providing free food to homeless people asked the council to create a law that regulates such activity. Orme told the CN&R that there is no ordinance or anything currently being drafted related to such a law.

Josh Pitts approached the dais wearing the fluorescent garb of Downtown Property Based Improvement District Ambassadors, and said that a weekly food giveaway downtown (referring to the Sunday lunches organized by Chico Friends on the Street) lack safety and oversight and result in extensive trash and vandalism.

While a lot of those who are homeless are “fine people” who are “down on their luck,” the population itself is problematic, said downtown business owner Wayne Cook, and don’t just make it difficult on the business environment, but “poison it.”

“I want people fed,” he said. “This country has plenty of capacity to feed its poor and we need to do it somewhere else [other than] in the center of our city.”

The CN&R reached out to Patrick Newman, of Chico Friends on the Street, who said via email that the organization has been “protesting criminalization by meeting with homeless people in Chico City Plaza” for more than two years. The group has never left trash in the plaza, he said, cleaning the area every time it meets. “Where are we going, as a country,” he wrote, “when it becomes illegal to hand a homeless person a lunch or a clean pair of socks?”

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made documentary on guns, he thought he knew what was coming.

Co-director Sue Hilderbrand is a faculty colleague in Chico State’s Political Science Department, known for her progressive views. She’s a former director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center and hosts a publicaffairs talk show on KZFR radio, The Real Issue.

So, at the November screening, Gibson anticipated a film with “a progressive message about guns.”

However, as he told the CN&R by phone this week, that’s not what unspooled.

“I defy you to find that kind of message in there,” he said.

American Totem turned out to be—and remains in the near-final edit—vignettes and interviews giving weight to a broad spectrum of perspectives. It examines different values that people associate with this same object, and how we reached our current national

flashpoint.

Hilderbrand and co-director Dan Carter, a communications design instructor at Chico State, may have their opinions on guns, but their documentary eschews a stance.

“The message is conveyed in the title,” Gibson said. “It’s the subtle message that, whether we like it or not, Americans take guns as a symbol of identity, and it’s part of the extremely divisive tribalism that has emerged in America today.

“It seems like a perfect film to me to start a conversation about gun ownership in America, and also the opportunities.”

Hilderbrand has begun entering American Totem into film festivals.

Meanwhile, with the final version delivered by editor Jim Miller for the filmmakers’ review this week, Gibson has arranged a screening and panel discussion on campus Monday (see infobox).

After three years in production, Hilderbrand is eager to reach audiences.

“I would really like for people to be able to humanize the other people, the other side, and start thinking about the deeper cultural and social changes that are happening, that are resulting in this rise of more guns and more mass shootings,” she said. “It’s one of the themes of the film: Politically, socially, economically, we’re going through a big transition in this country—globally—and people are afraid of these changes.

We’re seeing shifts in the power structure, and the people that are feeling the most threatened are buying firearms.”

Hilderbrand’s interest in guns first

piqued with the Columbine shooting, which she learned about via Time magazine while serving with the Peace Corps in Morocco. She was home 13 years later when the 2012 Aurora, Colo., shooting shocked Americans similarly; the Sandy Hook shooting that December “overwhelmed her,” prompting her to cry during her radio show the next day.

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Protesting violence Hundreds of students took to the streets last Wednesday (March 14) to protest gun violence in the wake of the recent shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., which left 17 people, mostly students, dead.

Each year, 1,300 children ages 17 and younger die from firearm-related injuries, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Of those, 53 percent are homicides, 38 percent are suicides and 6 percent are unintentional.

(The remaining 3 percent was due to “legal intervention and deaths of undetermined intent.”)

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Chico State’s Political Science Honor Society will host a free screening of American Totem Monday (March 26) at 6:30 p.m. in the Bell Memorial Union Ballroom. A panel discussion, including filmmaker Sue Hilderbrand and university President Gayle Hutchinson, will follow. Visit www.americantotem.com for more on the film.

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In 2015, finding herself “between projects,” she approached Carter about a documentary on guns. They watched Oscar winner Bowling for Columbine and a counterpoint (Assaulted: Civil Rights Under Fire) before opting to take a neutral approach. They convened a panel of experts from across the U.S. and Canada at a Sacramento hotel, then set out to make their film.

“I was so naive that I thought, ‘We’re just going to get some interviews, pull it together and figure out the problem—and we’ll finish it in eight months,’” Hilderbrand said. “Within the first couple of months, I realized the issue of the gun is about stories [and] the gun debate is much deeper than talking points and statistics.”

The documentary distilled to one easel-size Post-it note, affixed to the spice rack in her house. A thesis, an intro, three points—that’s the full outline of American Totem.

The vision: “Have a smart film, not catering to emotion, [with] nobody in the film shown disrespectfully or made to look stupid.”

To safeguard against bias, Hilderbrand consulted friends and colleagues. Those who’ve reviewed the film include Richard Slotkin, Wesleyan professor and noted cultural critic, who in an email to her called it “terrific!”

Slotkin continued: “The multiplicity of voices provides a formal base for the thesis … that the ‘gun problem’ symbolizes and also obscures the bases of social and personal fear/insecurity that produce violence and fear in our society.”

In addition, he wrote, American Totem “handle[s] the ‘gun cultures’ fairly—giving the different communities a fair shot at the viewer— and making clear that these are communities, with traditions that deserve respectful hearing.”

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HEALTHLINES Happy at Home owner Kaliahna Baxter is passionate about creating bonds with her clients.

a week to 24/7 care, depending on their needs. Caregivers are trained in assisting with activities of daily living, such as bathing, feeding and dressing, as well as more complex activities, like housekeeping, shopping and medication reminders.

“But the most important service of all is companionship,” stressed Baxter. “Whether you’re there to run errands or help them bathe, you’re there to provide companionship.”

Lorrie Badour, community relations director at Amber Grove Place (Chico’s newest residential care facility for the elderly, which specializes in memory care), agreed this sense of community is a crucial element of both preventive care and longevity.

“Socialization is one of the key components in potentially postponing cognitive loss,” Badour said. “And isolation is closely linked to depression. Whether someone stays at home as they age, or moves to a facility, it’s extremely important to develop and maintain close relationships.”

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KHome, speaking about her clients at Happy at an in-home care service for senior aliahna Baxter paused recently while

citizens. She was trying to think of an anecdote—and it wasn’t that she couldn’t remember a good one, there were simply too many to choose from. Finally, she smiled and pointed to a photo hanging on the purple wall of her Esplanade office. It was of her with an elderly man, grinning ear to ear. “I know you’re not supposed to have favorite clients, but ...” she shrugged.

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before he passed; he didn’t have a lot of local family around,” she recalled. “I happened to be pregnant during the time we worked together, and he was so excited that I was having a boy. I told him I was thinking of naming my son Banton, and he said, ‘Oh, my god, you can’t name him that!’ He chose the name Brian and now I have a son named Brian,” she said with a laugh.

Happy at Home celebrates five years in business this year. Along with her parents, Don and Vickie Cutler, Baxter runs the operation that today employs 135 people around Butte County and Sacramento, serving 80 clients and providing 250 hours of in-home support every 24 hours.

Happy at Home was born from Baxter’s

desire to provide quality in-home care and companionship services to aging seniors. “I started doing in-home caretaking work when I was in college, and that’s when the light bulb went off; I realized how cool it was to help people stay in their homes as they aged.” Baxter was additionally motivated after seeing her great-grandmother pass in the comfort of her own home.

Happy at Home provides an extensive list of nonmedical services, and clients can receive anywhere from two hours of support

is amplified by Butte County’s specific demand for services. “We tend to be an older population,” said Joe Cobrey, director of Passages, a Chico nonprofit agency that focuses on supporting caregivers and those in their care. “According to the Department of Finance, roughly 57,350 people are over age 60 in Butte County, which is 25 percent of the population. And by 2030, 20 percent of the nation is expected to be over age 60.”

This influx of aging citizens is directly correlated to the baby boomer generation.

“Our county has already surpassed the national statistic [of the expected aging population], so where will we be in another 10 years?” Cobrey said.

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Cobrey offered a slew of things to consider in preparing for stages of aging, from making homes accessible to seniors, to ensuring there are enough care facilities and medical services available. He also points out an important catch-22: “Baby boomers will live longer than previous generations of elders, because they are able to address chronic conditions. But they need more help to sustain this level of health. The demand for services is going to continue growing.”

Roy Bishop, medical director of Chico’s Argyll Medical Group, notes that while the health care system is often complicated (and costly) for seniors to navigate, there are ways to alleviate such difficulties. He says in-home care services, such as Happy at Home, can reduce feelings of isolation between seniors and the medical community. “With in-home care, a patient can communicate with a caregiver or RN, who can then communicate to a doctor, without the patient having to leave their home or make appointments.”

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living facility or in-home care, the importance of senior caregiving services is invaluable for current and future generations. For aging individuals and their families, Badour says “being mentally and financially aware of what’s ahead is important” for making smoother transitions.

And while there are many adjustments to make, Badour suggests that there’s much to look forward to, as well. “Aging is often thought of as ‘the end.’ But it’s a new chapter of life, and can remain very fulfilling.”

With her work at Happy at Home, Baxter gets that sense of fulfillment daily. “I was once a caregiver and now I’m able to train others as caregivers and that’s really special,” she said of the business she started with only 12 employees five years ago. “And for those who need the care, it’s awesome to know that they have providers who will continuously show up to help them and even expose them to the outside world. They can retain a sense of freedom and that’s really important.” Ω

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GREENWAYS Chico State professor Mark Stemen examines the nonexistent buds of a cherry tree on campus. He says climate change prevents it from blooming.

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Hplanted Stemen regularly passes a cherry tree to memorialize John Bidwell’s

eading to and from Chico State, Mark

orchard. That land, bequeathed by the city’s founder in 1887, became what’s now the university; trees with map markers denote corner boundaries, including the venerable cherry by the campus-entrance side of Laxson Auditorum.

Last week, between rain showers, Stemen stopped his bike at the tree. He gently grasped a branch and inspected the buds.

Unlike neighboring flora, the cherry had no blossoms.

“Bidwell’s orchard wouldn’t grow today,” remarked Stemen, a Chico State professor and chair of the city’s Sustainability Task Force. “And he wouldn’t recognize the weather.”

Fruit trees, nut trees—of varieties old and new—along with other staples of North State agriculture have become affected by shifting conditions connected to climate change. A recent study from scientists across multiple University of California campuses, including UC Davis, details “consequent impact on crop yields … and agricultural vulnerability to climate risks.”

That report (titled “Climate Change Trends and Impacts on California Agriculture,” published Feb. 26 in the journal Agronomy) meshes with work Stemen has undertaken with former student Molly Marcussen, a CivicSpark fellow assigned jointly to Chico and Butte County. Using data and forecasting models from stateauthorized software CalAdapt, along with analysis from Stemen’s students, Marcussen is preparing climate vulnerability assessments for both the city and county that will set the stage for climate adaptation measures

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required under state law.

These findings don’t just involve growers and governments.

They hit home for anyone with a garden—or a fruit tree.

Stemen planted a cherry tree in his mother’s front yard around four years ago.

This year, he wanted to put in a plum. He realized, however, he couldn’t select any varietal in the nursery section of any store and expect it to bear fruit by the time it’d mature. He went to Hodge’s Nursery in Durham, where he found a Santa Rosa plum instead of the Burgundy plum he’d initially eyed for aesthetics.

Even more striking, as the statewide climate changes, entire types of fruits and nuts “will no longer be viable,” Stemen explained. “For example, cherries: It’s estimated that by 2040, there will be no more place available to grow cherries. Or pears.

Or apples.

“Almonds probably aren’t going to be affected; but stone fruits—like peaches, nectarines, plums—are going to be problematic, and another crop that falls into that same category is walnuts.”

Thinking back to the cherry tree he planted, a Rainier variety, Stemen added: “The [UC] study points out, and I even realize this, that people are making 10- to 25-year investments here. It’s going to take 10 years for my cherry tree to ever get to being a big,

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hodge’s Nursery in Durham conducts periodic gardening clinics that include tips on trees, such as leaf density and ground cover. Visit hodgesnursery.com for details, as well as chill hours needed by various fruit and nut trees.

producing cherry tree, and by then it won’t work.”

The change in climate most Californians

notice is heat, which can hurt some crops.

For fruit and nut trees, though, cold is the more significant problem.

At issue is the cumulative total of chilling hours, time spent below 45 degrees. Stemen pointed to the study’s summation that “the lack of adequate chilling hours can delay pollination and foliation,” or the emergence of leaves, and result in “reduced fruit set and poor fruit quality.” Walnuts and pistachios have male and female flowers whose synchronized timing “is regulated by the number of chilling hours.”

Around 1950, chilling hours in the Sacramento Valley ranged between 700 and 1,200 per winter, depending on the spot. During the past four years, chilling hours have fallen below 500. That’s fine for almonds and olives, which need just 200— but not for stone fruits and walnuts (700) nor apples and cherries (1,000-plus) over the long haul.

Marc Walsh, a physical scientist who’s been forecasting for Chico-based Western Weather Group since 1989, said his firm’s agricultural clients have noticed the recent years’ trend. In fact, it’s been evident to anyone who’s observed that Tule fog no longer is a routine occurrence.

“By just that phenomenon alone, I’d say there were more chilling hours 10 to 20 years ago than there are now,” Walsh said by phone. Although dry years, such as the mid-2000s and 2011-15, and urban development are factors, “1 or 2 degrees can make a difference in the fog formation in the valley.”

That trend will continue, based on forecasting from CalAdapt and other models in the UC study.

Ken Hodge, who owns Hodge’s Nursery, said by phone that he’s seen the difference chilling hours make, even year to year. Cherries have been “hit and miss” recently; “the previous winter we had lots of chilling hours and cherries bore like I’ve never seen before,” but other years have had “mild winters and we won’t have enough chilling hours to trigger the fruit buds.”

A nuance such as chilling hours, he said, “most people don’t think about.”

Yet chill—and heat—have ripple effects.

Eye-opening effects.

“If you know that’s what’s happening in your garden,” Stemen said, “imagine what’s happening in the California garden.” □

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Jason Banghart and Kevin Hana, both 33, best friends and aspiring video game developers, wanted a place they could work when not driving taxis.

Instead of just renting an office, they opted to open their first business together, Game Cave Paradise (5923 Clark Road). The small shop offers a little bit of everything: board games and cards (including Pokemon and Magic the Gathering), comic books and manga, memorabilia, and consoles and video games, from shrink-wrapped new releases to used Atari and Super Nintendo games. But it’s not just a store; it’s also a place for people to hang out and play card and video games. An added bonus: Banghart and Hana take commissions for the shop’s 3-D printer and are able to make some console repairs. While most of their inventory is used or traded in, they test every game and console received, never putting out anything that’s in bad shape, Banghart (pictured at right) says. For more info, go to facebook.com/gamecaveparadise or call 762-2235.

Why a video game store?

Banghart: This is right up our alley. We grew up with video games and whatnot and both like them; we play them all the time. We have a lot of the retro stuff, and I’m really excited about that because I really want to introduce the newer genera-

tion to the older stuff. The young kids, they might look at the older games and go, “Wow, this is frustrating,” but there’s a certain element to those, I feel, that is very rewarding once you do kind of figure it out, how to play.

Hana: We wanted to do something different, do something that we really care about, ’cause I’ve played games all my life. I played a lot of Nintendo and Sega Genesis, so it was a lot of Sonic and original Nintendo with Mario Bros.

How’s business?

Hana: The community, they seem to be really loving it.

They’re way more excited than I expected. There’s been a lot of people that lost the old systems and they come back here and it kind of restarts their childhood

or brings back that nostalgia, and they love that. I love this stuff; I wasn’t sure if anybody was at that same level.

Is there a benefit of having this business in Paradise?

Banghart: There’s not much to do up here for youth. Social media, unfortunately, is not good in the sense of it kind of robs people of physical, social interaction, and people need that to kind of battle awkwardness, social anxiety and things like that. And this, coming in, playing the cards and whatnot, it’s a great way for [combating] that.

People come in, they make new friends, and when we get video games up [and ready to play], that just adds a new avenue for that same sort of thing.

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They say good things come to those who wait. And in Chico’s case, the wait—2 1/2 years—seems to have been worth it. I’m referring here to the long-anticipated reopening of LaSalles. I had an opportunity to check the place out during its soft opening last week and the transformation is nothing short of amazing.

Looking back at my late-night escapades during my time in Chico, I can remember spending quite a few evenings as a single twentysomething at LaSalles—drunkenly dancing to DJ music with my girlfriends, rocking out to CAMMIES bands on the indoor stage or trying to hustle a free drink or two on the Jack Daniels-felted pool table.

Oh, the memories. I admittedly wasn’t around for LaSalles’ fern bar days, when the place was apparently quite swanky and cool. For me, it’s always been a party scene, a place with a line around the block just to get inside and fight for drinks—so you get two and then you’re hammered.

The owners of Riley’s, Franky’s and 5th Street Steakhouse, Kevin Riley and Nick Andrew, also own LaSalles. With this remodel, they’re clearly upping their game.

The steakhouse has always been a classy spot, but LaSalles is now next-generation classy, á là Parkside Tap House and Taps Bar & Grill. The décor is modern but rustic, which creates an immediate warmth while still feeling big-city chic. The bathrooms are a bit strange—communal hand-washing—but the back patio, with multiple fire pits, is full-on awesome And there’s food! The menu offers a nice mix of options between sharable appetizers, pizzas, sandwiches and fancy entrees. My boyfriend, Chuck, and I sampled several items, from the pretzel and beer cheese (too smokey for me, but he liked it), fried portobellos (the sauces made this dish) and ahi tacos (perfect little morsels) on the appetizer menu to the Dungeness crab melts (slider-size, on sourdough). For our main course, Chuck tried the War Pig sandwich (pork on pork on pork deliciousness) and I ordered the miso-glazed ahi (generous portion, seared to perfection, a bit lacking in glaze). No complaints overall. As you perfect your menu, LaSalles, I’ll just suggest upping the sauce ante a bit—they’re all good, there just wasn’t enough of them.

I’m eager to see what LaSalles becomes. It’s certainly a welcome addition to downtown, something that will add sophistication to an already fun restaurant and cocktail scene. Check lasalleschico.com for updates or see for yourself at 229 Broadway—the official opening was Friday (March 16).

Put a fork in it A few weeks ago I wrote about Fork in the Road’s decision to not host its monthly summer events at Manzanita Place after a drastic rent increase.

Well, it turns out the popular food truck gathering has found a new home: at DeGarmo Park. Organizer John Geiger (co-owner of Inday’s Filipino Restaurant) tells me it will be held on the third Friday of each month, April-September. The first month will not feature alcohol, but they should have permits in place by May to offer beer for sale. Eat on!

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ust before the new year, Donald Trump said, in signing the annual military expenditures bill, “In recent years, our military has undergone a series of deep budget cuts that have severely impacted our readiness, shrunk our capabilities and placed substantial burdens on our warfighters. … Today, with the signing of this defense bill, we accelerate the process of fully restoring America’s military might.”

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Endless military spending drags down the United States—and California

The military might of the United States had shrunk so much that it was only about three times that of China, only about six times that of Russia. In fact, it took the total combined spending of the next six largest national military budgets (France, Britain, Saudi Arabia, India, China, Russia) to even equal the profligacy of the poor United States.

In any other nation, comments by a national executive like that of Trump on such a budget would be considered delusional. In the United States, spendthrift extravagance on the military is so engrained in the culture that few give it any thought. And Trump thinks of the military budget as the plight of the Pentagon.

Why are we there?

On Oct. 4, 25-year-old Sgt. La David Johnson was on patrol in Niger when his patrol was attacked. He was killed, along with Staff Sgts. Bryan Black, Jeremiah Johnson and Dustin Wright. The attack made front page news across the United States, where most citizens likely could not find Niger on a map and did not know America had men in harm’s way there.

For those who tried to make sense of the incident, the facts are startling. Though there are competing figures, and the Pentagon tries to obscure the truth, there are more than a thousand U.S. military installations encircling a planet that has only 200 countries.

In Africa alone, besides Niger, there’s a U.S. military presence in places like Algeria, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Chad, Djibouti, Ethiopia, About the author:

He’s news editor at the Reno News & Review.

Gabon, Ghana, Kenya, Mali, Namibia, São Tomé and Príncipe, Senegal, the Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somalia, South Sudan, Tunisia, Uganda and Zambia. By most counts, though the U.S. government is cagey about its doings, there are U.S. troops in most African nations, and there are 47 of them.

More than once in our history, U.S. officials have put U.S. servicepeople in harm’s way and then seized on the killing of a U.S. serviceperson to launch a major war.

In his book, Base Nation, David Vine wrote, “While there are no freestanding foreign bases on U.S. soil, today there are around 800 U.S. bases in foreign countries, occupied by hundreds of thousands of U.S. troops. … Although few U.S. citizens realize it, we probably have more bases in other people’s lands than any other people, nation, or empire in world history. And yet the subject is barely discussed in the media.”

As best I can tell after weeks of searching, there is not one reporter in journalism, anywhere among publications covering international affairs in any nation, assigned to cover solely this empire of U.S. military installations. That heralds a mighty lack of curiosity in an industry supposedly built on curiosity.

“Temporary” bases are not counted by the Pentagon, but once in, rarely out. It has been a quarter-century since the Kuwait war, but there are still six U.S. bases there.

This reporter was stationed in the 1970s at Panzer Kaserne, a U.S. base in Germany outside Stuttgart. Any reason for the base had long since disappeared—Germany was a powerful country with an industrial economy that could take care of itself.

But today, Panzer is one of several bases around Stuttgart serving the Army, Navy and Marines—in their Africa needs.

Competence It would be nice if all this money was being used wisely and prudently.

“I know there are always some people who feel that Americans are always young and inexperienced, and foreigners are always able and tough, and great negotiators,” President John F. Kennedy once said.

“But I don’t think that the United States acquired its present position of leadership in the free world if that view were correct.”

One can only wonder what Kennedy would think today. In the last half-century, the United States has had a history of blundering into regions, walking into walls and setting off unintended consequences in every corner of the globe, always while missing more serious threats.

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates told West Point cadets in 2011, “And I must tell you, when it comes to predicting the nature and location of our next military engagements, since Vietnam, our record has been perfect. We have never once gotten it right, from the Mayaguez to Grenada, Panama, Somalia, the Balkans, Haiti, Kuwait, Iraq and more. We had no idea a year before

... there are more than a thousand U.S. military installations encircling a planet that has only 200 countries.

any of these missions that we would be so engaged.”

When the United States invented the “nation” of South Vietnam during the Eisenhower administration, it cut the north off from its food supply in the Mekong Delta. No nation could tolerate such a thing. Yet there is little evidence in the Pentagon Papers or other early records that U.S. policymakers understood what they were doing to Vietnam’s food system.

Since the United States helped invent the nation of South Sudan in 2011, that unfortunate “nation” has had two civil wars. Private armies roam the land.

There is not a lot of progress indicated by those two inventions separated by 57 years.

Nick Turse of TomDispatch, a website that

has carefully tracked the growing U.S. military empire, reported in 2014 on the bungling by U.S. policymakers in various nations: “A U.S.-backed uprising in Libya, for instance, helped spawn hundreds of militias that have increasingly caused chaos in that country, leading to repeated attacks on Western interests and the killing of the U.S. ambassador and three other Americans. Tunisia has become ever more destabilized, according to a top U.S. commander in the region. Kenya and Algeria were hit by spectacular, large-scale terrorist attacks that left Americans dead or wounded. South Sudan, a fledgling nation Washington recently midwifed into being that has been slipping into civil war, now has more than 870,000 displaced persons, is facing an imminent hunger crisis, and has recently been the site of mass atrocities, including rapes and killings.

Meanwhile, the U.S.-backed military of Mali was repeatedly defeated by insurgent forces after managing to overthrow the BLOAT C O N T I N U E D

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EMPIRE Here’s what we pay to fund the U.S. Department of Defense’s global presence: These figures, from the National Priorities Project, reflect spending from fiscal year 2015. In his first two years in office, President Trump has increased Department of Defense spending by an average of 11 percent.

elected government, and the U.S.-supported forces of the Central African Republic (CAR) failed to stop a ragtag rebel group from ousting the president.”

How we got the system After the Great War, as World War I was originally called, the United States disassembled its military back to a 100,000-person force, and the nation enjoyed a peace dividend.

“We were proud of our small standing army,” Kurt Vonnegut wrote.

But after World War II, there was no such stand-down.

In 1951, President Harry Truman signed a secret U.S. policy paper, NSC 68, that planned a cold war, militarized its goals, and created a global-involvement rationale allowing U.S. intervention around the world. A peacetime draft was imposed in 1948, freeing presidents from needing congressional action.

Congress approved the “Truman Doctrine” allowing the president to aid “free peoples who are resisting attempted subjugation by armed minorities or by outside pressures.”

And GOP congressional leaders overrode the Republicans who objected when Truman took the nation to war in Korea without permission from Congress.

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dency and Republicans too cowardly to buck the patriotism police, three elements—a draft, a “doctrine” and unaccountable authority— had been assembled, the elements needed for decades of tragedy and endless war.

It also signified that the war profits that accompanied World War II would continue.

That bothered few, but in 1953, a military man became president.

Dwight Eisenhower had no need to prove his “defense” credentials to anyone.

(Preparing for years in which America would intrude in every corner of the world without being threatened, Congress had changed the name of the War Department to the Defense Department.) He had commanded Allied forces in the largest land theater of war in history. He had watched the consequences of NSC 68 and the Truman Doctrine. In his first state of the union, he cautioned, “To amass military power without regard to economic capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another.”

Three months after he became president, he gave a broader and more detailed warning about the evolving war economy in remarks to the American Society of Newspaper Editors that were carried live to the nation on television and radio.

“Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are

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not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. The cost of one modern heavy bomber is this—a modern brick school in more than 30 cities. It is two electric power plants, each serving a town of 60,000 population. It is two fine, fully equipped hospitals. It is some 50 miles of concrete pavement. We pay for a single fighter plane with a half million bushels of wheat. We pay for a single destroyer with new homes that could

“To amass military power without regard to economic capacity would be to defend ourselves against one kind of disaster by inviting another.”

—President Dwight Eisenhower

have housed more than 8,000 people. This is, I repeat, the best way of life to be found on the road the world has been taking. This is not a way of life at all, in any true sense.

Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron. … Is there no other way the world may live?”

What Eisenhower famously dubbed the “military industrial complex” has since taken up bigger and bigger chunks of the federal budget. Housing and transportation rate only 4 percent of the budget, which has prompted state and local officials to scramble around the U.S. government’s imperialistic priorities. Workarounds to pay for what the White House won’t cover are causing headaches all around the Golden State.

California Democrats are bracing for a midterm backlash thanks to their support for Gov. Jerry Brown’s legislation raising the gas tax. The first such boost in more than two decades will collect an additional $5.2 billion annually starting next year for the state’s weathered roads and bridges, and neglected transit networks.

The system reaches a peak Saving this kind of money from foreign ratholes like Iraq would seem to be a popular notion.

But Eisenhower reckoned without the Democrats. He had taken office during McCarthyism and as his term of office passed, Democrats realized that one of the ways they could protect themselves from red-baiting was by taking aggressively belligerent positions on the military. Figures in the Senate like Stuart Symington, Lyndon Johnson, John Kennedy and Henry Jackson began complaining loud and long about the restraint Eisenhower imposed on acquisition of hardware and buildup of the military. The tension between Democrats and the president at times became very angry, with Eisenhower on one occasion calling the criticism despicable.

Democratic Sen. Mike Monroney of Oklahoma: “The administration put a balanced budget ahead of a balanced national defense.”

All this was a prelude to Kennedy’s claim in the 1960 presidential campaign of a missile gap between the U.S. and the U.S.S.R.— at a time when British and U.S. overflights of the Soviet Union showed not a single launch site for intercontinental, intermediate-range or medium range ballistic missiles. After the election, JFK’s administration admitted there was no gap, but that did not stop it from recommending to Congress that the military

spending faucet be turned on. Eisenhower did not like criticizing his successor, but in June 1962, he took on both JFK and Congress: “I personally believe—with, I am sure, very little company in either party—that the defense budget should be substantially reduced.”

If Eisenhower felt isolated in his own Republican Party, his views had the support of a similarly solitary Democrat. U.S. Food for Peace Director George McGovern, a war hero from South Dakota, went to the Senate in 1963 and quickly took up the cause of weaning the country off military spending.

He believed it could not be done abruptly, for fear of throwing the economy into a downturn, so dependent had the nation become on military spending. But he said then was the time to begin planning for the inevitable end of the Cold War and introduced an Economic Conversion Act requiring military industries to prepare plans for converting military economic activities to civilian works. It died repeatedly.

According to McGovern’s biographer, after President Kennedy’s murder, McGovern asked JFK aide Ted Sorensen what Kennedy had thought of the measure. “He thought it was naïve,” Sorensen said. “He didn’t think you realized the tremendous pressures there are in this country to keep defense spending high—the industries, the unions, the Pentagon and all the other special interests.”

Of course, Kennedy had helped create that pressure. McGovern was not dissuaded and plugged away. When he took the issue into his 1972 presidential campaign, Republicans sneered at the notion of McGovern being an ally of the sainted Eisenhower.

When the end of the Cold War came, the government was not ready and instead cast about for new enemies to keep military spending high—the drug war after the fall of the Berlin wall, then terrorism after Sept. 11. A few figures floated other ideas. Bill Clinton proposed cutting operations at the Nevada nuclear test site and converting it and its workforce to high speed train technology. Little was heard of the idea after Clinton became president.

Today, figures

like Eisenhower and McGovern who speak up against the bloat are just as rare. U.S. Sen. John McCain: “In fact, the military-industrial complex has become much worse than President Eisenhower originally envisioned: It’s evolved to capture Congress. So, the phenomenon should now rightly be called, the ‘military-industrial-congressional’ complex. … Those words describe root causes of why big programs fail—aggressive promises for ‘revolutionary’ capablity; poorly understood or fluid requirements; unrealistic initial cost estimates; overly optimistic schedules and assumptions; unreliable manufacturing and integration risk assessments; starting major production with an immature design or unproven critical technologies; and poorly performing government and industry teams.”

Finding ways to cut is not difficult. The Atlantic Monthly on why the U.S. Fifth Fleet should be disbanded: “There is no shortage of American military and even naval facilities outside the Gulf that are capable of providing a quick military response if necessary. After all, we survived just fine before the Fifth Fleet was recreated in 1995. With the Iraq war winding down, it is time to draw down the overall U.S. presence.”

It’s difficult to know how many installations the U.S. military has around the world because it plays games with terms like bases, facilities, outposts, installations and so on. If it chose to be clear and definitive, it would find the correct words. Few entities are more skilled than the Pentagon at using language to conceal instead of disclose.

Does it matter?

All of this is dangerous enough. There is also this: For the first time since the American Revolution, the United States of America is not paying for its wars. They are being fought on debt. With Republicans in thrall to no new taxes and Democrats too cowardly to buck the patriotism police after Sept. 11, Congress launched wars in Afghanistan and Iraq on credit. Debt from the Bush bailouts and the Bush wars have been piling up ever since.

There are some who predict that the time is nearing when war debt will equal the cost of the wars themselves. Who knows what that will mean for the U.S. economy?

Hedrick Smith wrote a book titled Who Stole the American Dream? Toward the end of it, he identified three obstacles to the U.S. regaining its economic strength. One was endless, unaccountable military spending.

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Arts &Culture Citysick, from left: David Hollenbeck, Conner Lewis, Curtis Loyless and Kevin Ristow. Foreground: Kaleb Sievers.

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of the lyrics, the emphasis on melodic songwriting, the sadbastard barroom sinstory and galongs, or the strong photo by Howard sense of community Hardee they’ve found in the local scene. h owardh@ newsrev iew.c om For bassist Kevin Ristow, the style was embedded in his Preview: psyche early on.

“I got into music at Citysick performs Wednesday, the height of the Hot March 28, 7 p.m. Topic/emo phase,” he with Glacier Veins, Bogues and Eyes said. “I remember going Like Lanterns. to the Warped Tour Cover: $7 when I was like, 10.”

Taking cues from Naked Lounge bands like American 118 W. Second St. 487-2634 Football, Citysick’s particular brand of emo has a glossy, post-rock sheen. In December, the band released the five-song EP Get Better, a follow-up to last year’s debut, Thanks for Trying.

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David Hollenbeck’s apartment—it’s a clean-sounding, crisply produced record.

Lyrically, it follows a theme of making the best of negative situations.

“Our last EP was very honest and very personal, but at the same time it was just kind of a bummer,” said guitarist Kaleb Sievers. “It was just so depressing.

So, when we were writing Get Better, we wanted to make songs that were a little more fun to move to, had more of a fun live element. Our music is always going to be a little bit of a downer, but this stuff is about how things are going to get better, life is going to improve.”

The CN&R caught up with Citysick ahead of their show at the Naked Lounge on March 28. The band is made up of Hollenbeck, Ristow, Sievers, Conner Lewis (drums) and Curtis Loyless (guitar)—all of whom are either from Southern California or the Bay Area and came to Chico for school.

Hollenbeck and Sievers write Citysick’s lyrics together, but the entire band collaborates on instrumentals, adhering to a selfless philosophy when it comes to who plays what.

“It’s about whoever has the idea that makes the most sense,” Hollenbeck said.

“Not everyone always plays the part that

they wrote, which is kind of a bummer when you write something you like, but you can’t play it because you’re singing at the same time, or whatever. But I get to play this riff that Curtis wrote, and it’s one of my favorite things to play.”

Generally, the five-piece favors relatively simple individual parts that form a greater whole rather than focusing on complex, look-at-what-I-can-do guitar and bass lines.

“Stepping away from your own part and writing for someone else gives you a better understanding of where the cohesive work is going,” Sievers said. “If I’m working on a bass part with Curtis, it becomes really easy to lock in and make it sound really clean when I play my own part, because I helped write his.”

Basically, they’re better together.

Everyone in the band agrees that emorock is best consumed in a live setting: One time, they caused a venue to run out of Pabst Blue Ribbon after a night of rowdy singalongs, an achievement Sievers is particularly proud of. And they all savor being approached by fans who find meaning in their lyrics.

That’s what their music is all about, Hollenbeck said: “It’s about connecting with people on a really personal level.” □

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humor. Sold out. Sat 3/24, 8pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

ENCORE PARADISE!: Comedy, music, dance routines and more during this community variety show. Sat 3/24, 7pm. $5-$15.

Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. paradise performingarts.com

NIGHT HIKE: The (hiking) freaks come out at night. Guided walk with the head naturalist of the Chico Creek Nature Center. Register in advance. Sat 3/24, 8:30pm. Bidwell Park.

530-891-4671. ccnaturecenter.org

SEARCH FOR TALENT: Variety show featuring an astounding array of local acts. Presented by the Oroville Exchange Club. Sat 3/24. $5-$10.

Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville. orovillestatetheatre.com

TRIBAL BELLY DANCE FOR BEGINNERS: Drop in and shake those hips. Sat 3/24, 10am. $10.

Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade.

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Special Events FIELDWORK TAKEOVER: Berkeley’s Fieldwork Brewing Co. on tap: sours, darks, Belgians, IPAs and a dry-hopped lager. Fri, 3/23, 12pm. Chico Taproom, 2201 Pillsbury Road, Suite 114. thechicotaproom.com

SILVER DOLLAR SPEEDWAY RACING SERIES: You hear that sound from halfway across town?

360 Sprints, Sport Modified, Hobby Stocks and Wingless Sprints tear ass around the track. Fri, 3/23, 6:30pm. $6-$12. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. silverdollar speedway.com

Music GUITAR GREATS: Guitarist and singer Gene Kelly

Music ATHENA TERGIS & MICK MOLONEY: Traditional Irish music and powerful stories from longtime collaborators. Proceeds benefit KZFR. Fri, 3/23, 6:30pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. kzfr.org

THE REFORMED WHORES: Music, comedy and musical comedy! Southern-fried duo take the piss out of country culture with hilarious songs and bits, plus local music groups and comedians. Fri, 3/23, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

SUNNYSIDE BOYS: Bluegrass and pizza! Fri, 3/23, 6pm. Shakey’s Pizza, 2890 Olive Highway, Oroville.

Theater 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Fri, 3/23, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166

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Saturday, March 24 Feather Falls Casino & Lodge SEE SATURDAY, MUSIC

Eaton Road, Suite F. chicotheatercompany.com

MIDNIGHT OF THE SOUL: A preacher estranged from his religion searches for faith and redemption in this powerful story of second

chances. Fri, 3/23, 6:30pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. birdcage theatre.org

THE VILLAGE BIKE: See Thursday. Fri, 3/23, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

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leads an open jam session as part of the museum’s instrument exhibition (See Fine Arts). Thu, 3/22, 12pm. $5-$10. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Road, Paradise. 530872-8722. goldnuggetmuseum.com

KALIMBA: Do you remember the 21st night of September? Named after the African thumb piano featured in each of Earth, Wind and Fire’s albums, this tribute act is seriously good. Hear all the hits from “Shining Star” to “Let’s Groove.” Sat, 3/24, 9:30pm. $5.

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

Special Events new memoir The Gospel of Trees, detailing her adolescence as the daughter of Baptist missionaries in Haiti during the ’80s. Sat., 3/24, 7pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave. quilts and more available at this fundraiser. Sat 3/24. First Baptist Church, 903 First St., Orland.

BUBBLES & BLING WINE TASTING: Music, dancing, appetizers, vendors and raffle prizes at this tasty Quota Club of Oroville event benefiting the community. Sat 3/24, 6pm. $20. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St., Oroville.

530-370-5855.

DAVID SPADE: SNL alum’s sarcasm-coated routine showcases his sharp wit and caustic

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9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Sat, 3/24, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. chicotheater company.com

MIDNIGHT OF THE SOUL: See Friday. Sat, 3/24, 6:30pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. birdcagetheatre.org

THE VILLAGE BIKE: See Thursday. Sat, 3/24, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events BMX CRUISE: Get rad and ride the park. Meets at Sycamore Pool. Sun, 3/25, 12pm. One-Mile Recreational Area, 300 South Park Drive.

BOOZY BOOK CLUB: The club discusses

Wrinkle sequel A Wind In The Door. Sun, 3/25. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

CHICO KITE DAY: Harness the wind for a super fun day in the park, soaring with other highflying kite fans. Souvenirs available from Bird in Hand, BOB FM will be pumping the tunes and there will be food trucks selling tasty bites. Sun, 3/25, 12pm. Free. Community Park, 1900 Dr. MLK Jr. Parkway. 530-895-4711. chicorec.com

NEIGHBORHOOD BARBER-Q: Kick-ass cookout for the Barber Neighborhood (and beyond) with food, drinks and music from the Barber Baldies DJ collective. 21+ Sun, 3/25. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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FUNNY FLOOZIES We’re glad they finally got off their backs.

Although they’re still out selling themselves, these tarts have followed a natural career path, from sex work to musical comedy.

Armed with ukelele and accordion, The Reformed Whores have taken the torch from the likes of Flight of the Conchords and Tenacious D, putting a “cuntry” spin on their hilarious hussy humor. Katy Frame and Marie Cecile Anderson have opened for fellow accordion aficionado Weird Al Yankovic and now you can see them at Lost on Main, Friday, March 23. Local comedy music acts Legit Supreme and Hank Duke also perform, plus a bevy of comedians including brilliant Sacramento comic Mike E. Winfield (The Office), Jordan Riggans, Trip Hazard and Bob Backstrom as emcee.

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Theater 9 TO 5 THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Sun, 3/25, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. chicotheatercompany.com

MIDNIGHT OF THE SOUL: See Friday. Sun, 3/25, 1pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. birdcagetheatre.org

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BEGINNING SPANISH: Free lesson focused on learning basics and conversational skills. Tue, 3/27, 6:30pm. Chico Peace & Justice Center, 526 Broadway St.

J.A. JANCE: Reading and signing from New York Times bestselling mystery author.

Her latest is Duel to the Death, an electrifying thriller about Bitcoin, artificial intelligence and murder. Tue, 3/27, 7pm. Free. Chico Branch Library, 1108 Sherman Ave. 530-521-4402.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Unleash your [trivial] mind powers. Tue, 3/27, 7:30pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville.

Music DELLA MAE: Old-timey bluegrass and Americana tunes straight outta Nashville. Amazing musicianship and mesmerizing vocal harmonies. Tue, 3/27, 7:30pm. $22.50. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

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Music ALICE DIMICELE: Americana singer/ songwriter with her band Force of Nature and soulgrass outfit Low Flying Birds Wed, 3/28, 6:30pm. $22. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade, Ste. 142. chicotickets.com

TURKUAZ!: Nine-piece “powerfunk” band who sound like the musical love child of Sly & the Family Stone and Talking Heads. Thick grooves, ’80s dance flavors and a wailing, high-energy show. Wed, 3/28, 8pm. $18-$22. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

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Museums Art B-SO GALLERY: Payton Cahill, BFA student’s culminating exhibition. Through 4/6. Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE: Paper Art Collage, Molly Amick’s work elevates the lowly cocktail napkin to new artistic heights. Through 3/31.

1387 E. Eighth St.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Jim Lawrence, 20 years of watercolors chart the artist’s progression. Through 3/29. 789 Bille Road, Paradise., 530-877-5673. paradise csl.org

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Florin Hategan, selected for the solo exhibition prize from the Turner National Print Competition, Hategan’s drawing and printmaking work dissects the collision of new and old, humanity and technology, and anatomy and architecture. His art has been featured throughout North America, Europe and Asia Through 3/31. Chico State, 530-898-4476.

MASTERS OF FINE ARTS GALLERY: All is Ephemeral, Photography and archival pigment print works of MFA student Robert Curl. Through 3/31. Chico State, ARTS 122.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: What, Us Worry?, an exhibition featuring sculptures by Tony Natsoulas, Paul DiPasqua and Michael Stevens. Through 3/29. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: The Artist and the Camera, Featuring works from the Tehama County Photo Club. Through 3/24. 732 Fourth St., Orland. orlandartcenter.com

PARADISE ART CENTER: Constructions, sculpture, pottery, assemblages and other three dimensional works on display. Through 3/24.

5564 Almond St., Paradise. paradise-artcenter.com

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., 530-538-2528. boltsantique tools.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.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Permanent Exhibits, including the The Janeece Webb Living Animal Museum and the Nature Play Room. Through 12/15. 1968 E. Eighth St. ccnaturecenter.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Brain – The World Inside Your Head, an exhibit exploring the inner workings of the brain – neurons and synapses, electricity and chemistry. Through 5/6. 625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Guitar Greats, Jim Campbell’s collection of antique, vintage, signature, and boutique guitars returns to the museum. Guitarist and singer Gene Kelly leads an open jam session on March 24 at 5pm. Through 4/1. $5-$10. Also, Harvey Girls, an interactive presentation on Fred Harvey’s railroad “eating houses,” the famous waitresses who worked there and the clever advertising that beckoned travelers.

Through 3/22. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. goldnuggetmuseum.com

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Imprisoned at Home, excellent and enlightening exhibit on Japanese Americans held at the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp during WWII. Through 5/18. Also, Sacred Splendor, exhibit chronicles the history and influence of Christian colonization, underscoring the faith’s movement across the globe from Indo-Portuguese carvings to a William Morris cartoon. From the collection of Judith E. Hilburg. Through 5/11. Chico State. csuchico.edu

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able to mount several productions of plays written by and cast with black, Latino and Asian writers and actors. by Robert Speer OSF also has cast more actors of color in productions of plays that, r ober t speer@ like Shakespeare’s, originally had no newsrev iew.c om parts for them. OSF’s directors have challenged audiences to suspend their disbelief when they see, for example, Review: OSF presents Othello, a couple of black actors in the current Sense and Sensibility production of Sense and Sensibility. and Henry V, now Shakespeare’s Othello, now on showing through stage in the Bowmer Theatre, is a October. Visit site for info. special case because it’s specifically about race. Othello (Chris Butler) Oregon is described as a “black man” and Shakespeare a “Moor,” and his racial difference Festival 15 S. Pioneer St., from the Venetians and Cypriots who Ashland, Ore. surround him makes him an isolated (800) 219-8161 outlier and contributes to his sense of www.osfashland.org being wronged by his wife’s supposed infidelity. Butler is excellent. He’s especially effective during the battle scenes, where he emerges as a brilliant and charismatic leader. His scenes with Desdemona (Alejandra Escalanteare) are problematic, however—or so they seemed to this reviewer.

Director Bill Rauch has set the production in modern times, more than 400 years after the play was written, and attitudes have changed. Othello’s response to his adoring wife’s protestations of innocence seem over-the-top, even for a man with a weak ego. Others in the audience on the night I saw the play didn’t seem to agree with me, however. They gave the production a standing ovation.

I saw two other plays during the season’s opening week (Feb. 24-26), Shakespeare’s Henry V and a theat-

rical version of Jane Austen’s famous novel Sense and Sensibility, written by Kate Hamill.

Henry V is the last of Shakespeare’s history plays.

Gone are Falstaff and the other bawdy tavern dwellers of Henry IV, Parts One and Two, replaced by a focus on the young Henry’s new life as king. Immature but full of promise, Henry is eager to prove himself and so decides to go to war with France to reclaim land and wealth he believes is rightfully England’s. His venture culminates in the great Battle of Agincourt, in which the English prevailed against superior numbers.

The play is being staged in the Thomas Theatre, the smallest of OSF’s three venues and its most intimate.

Director Rosa Joshi has opted for a minimalist set, and overall it works well, though some of the battle scenes almost overwhelm the space.

Holding it all together is the young actor who plays Henry, Daniel José Molina. He’s at once the hapless boy of the earlier plays and the fiercely charismatic warrior king who fights alongside his soldiers. He lit up the stage.

I highly recommend this production, especially if you’ve never seen a staging of Henry V. Sense and Sensibility—showing in Bowmer—is a lighthearted respite from Shakespeare’s intensity. But this tale of the genteel Dashwood sisters, whose lives are disrupted when their father dies and his money and the family home go by law to their male cousin, has a serious thread: Lacking incomes of their own, the sisters are forced to seek monied husbands to survive.

This dilemma animates the production, which otherwise is more comedy than drama. If you like Austen, you’ll love this play.

Altogether, OSF is presenting 11 plays this season, several of which are freshly written and innovative—including Destiny of Desire, “an unapologetic telenovela in two acts,” and Manahatta, a drama about a Native American securities trader dealing with the consequences of the country’s history of attempting to destroy her people’s culture. Ω

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NIGHTLIFE FOX mEDIcINE Saturday, March 24 Naked Lounge SEE SaTUrDaY

ThUrSDaY 3/22—WEDNESDaY 3/28 & Band and Cat Depot also perform. Thu, 3/22, 9pm. $10. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

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AUDIOBOXX: Classic rock covers in

the lounge. Fri, 3/23, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

CAREY ROBINSON TRIO: Light jazz and standards, plus food available from Gnarly Deli. Fri, 3/23, 6pm. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St., Oroville.

CELTIC CREEK: Fiddle and guitar Irish

folk duo. Fri, 3/23, 6pm. Pitts Stop Cafe, 15474 Forest Ranch Way, Forest Ranch, 530-897-0665.

CLASSIC ROCK: Legend and Symblance

unearth classic rock gems. Fri, 3/23, 8pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

PUB SCOUTS: A Chico tradition: Irish

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KELLY TWINS ACOUSTIC: Jon and Chris

play favorite acoustic tunes (and probably some requests). Thu, 3/22, 6pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

THOSE TWO DUDES: Music, good

times and grub in the Ranch. Thu, 3/22, 6pm. Pitts Stop Cafe, 15474 Forest Ranch Way, Forest Ranch, 530-897-0665.

XYLOURIS WHITE: Xylouris White is innovative singer and lute player Giorgos Xylouris and drummer Jim White (Dirty Three). Donald Beaman

music for happy hour. Fri, 3/23, 3:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

RACHELLE DEBELLE & ZACH WATERS: The Jamfest Miracles and Waters’ power trio rock the house, joined

by Chico’s Kyle Williams and Sunday Iris. Fri, 3/23, 8:30pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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RADIO RELAPSE: Your favorite ’90s rock jams, plus a set from psych-fuzz band Million Year Trip. Fri, 3/23, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

THE REFORMED WHORES: Music, comedy and musical comedy! Southern-fried duo take the piss out of country culture with hilarious songs and bits, plus local music groups and comedians. Fri, 3/23, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmain chico.com

RUNNING IN THE SHADOWS: Fleetwood Mac tribute act. Fri, 3/23, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

SAFETY ORANGE: Sunny San Diego beach tunes for a landlocked county. The band kicks out rock, reggae and good vibes in the lounge. Fri, 3/23, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfalls casino.com

Don’t sleep on this one. Greek singer/lute player Georgios Xylouris and Australian drummer Jim White join forces for a momentous night of music on Duffy’s wee stage, on Thursday, March 22. Xylouris comes from a long line of Cretan musicians, hailed as royalty in his home country.

White is a founding member of the Dirty Three, an inspiring, virtuosic drummer able to carve rhythm into magic.

You may have seen him play with Nick Cave or Cat Power.

Donald Beaman & Band and Cat Depot also perform.

SOUL POSSE: R&B, blues, rock and a touch of country for your dancing pleasure. Fri, 3/23, 6pm. Almendra Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway, Durham, 530-828-8040.

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AUDIOBOXX: Classic rock covers in

the lounge. Sat, 3/24, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

CHUCK EPPERSON JR. BAND: Light rock,

jazz, soul and R&B. All originals. Sat, 3/24, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave., 530 895-8257.

HEADRUSH: Two-piece rock ’n’ roll, along with Madison Chik and The Barrel Aged. Sat, 3/24, 6:30pm. $7.

Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave.

KALIMBA: Say, do you remember dancing in September? Named after the African thumb piano featured in each of Earth, Wind and Fire’s albums, this tribute act is seriously good. Sat, 3/24, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino. com

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Nature and soulgrass outfit Low Flying Birds Wed, 3/28, 6:30pm. $22.

The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade, Suite 142. chicotickets.com

CHAMBER MUSIC: Classical(ish) chamber music, dining and wine. Wed, 3/28, 6pm. Wine Time, 26 Lost

SINGER/SONGWRITER NIGHT: Music from Travis Rowdy, Cat Depot, Jeff Coleman and Glisel Moon. Wed, 3/28, 8pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

love child of Sly & the Family Stone and Talking Heads. Thick grooves, ’80s dance flavors and a wailing, high-energy show. Wed, 3/28, 8pm. $18-$22. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

TURKUAZ!: Nine-piece “powerfunk” band who sound like the musical

Dutchman. northstatesymphony.org

COMEDY OPEN MIC: Tell jokes in front Room, 1600 Park Ave., 530-513-7638. fromthegroundupfarms.org

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OPEN MIC MADNESS: Music/comedy

open mic hosted by Jimmy Reno. Mon, 3/26, 6pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

8:30pm. Ramada Plaza Chico,

MIXTAPE: Rock ’n’ roll party band plays dance floor shaking covers. Sat, 3/24, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

685 Manzanita Court.

SLUDGE/HIP-HOP/HC: Post-grunge psych from Eugene’s Fox Medicine, plus sets from noise-rappers Pervert and the Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission thrash dudes. Sat, 3/24, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

RUNNING IN THE SHADOWS: Fleetwood Mac tribute act. Sat, 3/24, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

SAFETY ORANGE: See Friday. Sat,

3/24, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

SPRING SOWING CIRCLE: Positive vibes

SALSA NIGHT: Bailemos, bailemos ...

sino estamos perdidos. Sat, 3/24,

and hip-hop from Coot Dog, Dub Heezy, Big Slim, One Up the Acoustic DJ and more to benefit From the Ground Up Farms. Sat, 3/24, 8pm. $7-$10. The Maltese Bar & Tap

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DELLA MAE: Old-timey bluegrass and Americana tunes straight outta Nashville. Amazing musicianship and mesmerizing vocal harmonies. Tue, 3/27, 7:30pm. $22.50. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

28WEDNESDaY ALICE DIMICELE: Americana singer/

songwriter with her band Force of

of strangers. Totally not intimidating. Wed, 3/28, 8pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

DREAM POP: Denver’s Tyto Alba perform glistening indie pop with sets from Solar Estates and Coyote Church. Wed, 3/28, 7:30pm. $7.

Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

raINBOW FULL OF FUNK

Let’s jam a bunch of people on stage and have a party!

That seems to be the M.O. of Turkuaz!, Brooklyn’s colorful “powerfunk” band. With a full horn section, backup singers and bucket of soulful dance songs, the nine-piece band has been killing it on the festival circuit from Bonnaroo to Mountain Jam. Their last visit to Chico tore the roof off.

Let’s do it again Wednesday, March 28, at Lost on Main.

DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and Amburgers spin funk, pop and hip-hop. Wed, 3/28, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

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

3/28, 7pm. $2. Norton Buffalo

Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 530-877-4995.

PUNK & EMO: Dream punkers Glacier Veins and heartfelt rock from Bogues, plus local acts Citysick and Eyes Like Lanterns. Wed, 3/28, 7pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

319 Main St. • Downtown Chico March 24 Comedy: The Reformed Whores, Mike Winfield, Legit Supreme and more!

March 28 TURKUAZ plus Amburgers!

Apr 5 Delhi 2 Dublin Apr 10 Charlie Overby Apr 12 Dante HH, Red Devil Vortex, and Mad Chemist Apr 13 Andre Nicatina Apr 14 Gene Evaro Jr. and Black Fong Apr 17 Rebirth Brass Band-EARLY SHOW Apr 20 Low Flying Birds and Smokey The Groove Apr 24 Ripe, The Dip Apr 27 The Sextones with Midtown Social Apr 28 Dusty Green Bones & Achilles Wheel Trio May 5 PROF, Mac Irv, Cashinova, Saint Jame ft. Calvin Black May 25 Andy Frasco and the U.N.

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Opening this week Midnight Sun

A romantic drama about a teen girl with a disease that causes her to have extreme sensitivity to sunlight who meets a boy during her nightly excursions to her front porch to play her guitar. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Multiple Maniacs (1970)

Game Night

“John Waters’ gloriously grotesque second feature is replete with all manner of depravity, from robbery to murder to one of cinema’s most memorably blasphemous moments.” Sounds like the perfect movie!

One late-night showing: Saturday, March 24, 10 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated X.

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in this dark comedy about a group of friends whose regular game night turns into an actual murder mystery. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

I Can Only Imagine

Pacific Rim: Uprising

It’s been a decade since the humansinside-giant-robots defeated the creatures from The Breach, but now in this sequel the huge Kaiju are back and a new generation of robot weapons must battle to save Earth. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Paul, Apostle of Christ

A Biblical drama telling the story of Paul, Christian-persecutor-turned-apostle.

Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13.

Moving pictures and does so in a way that’s Fbothcategorization, casual and frolicsome, but never evasive,

aces Places rather charmingly eludes easy

let alone willfully obscure.

In the simplest and most reductive and practical terms, it’s a by Juan-Carlos documentary. But it’s also an Agnès Varda film, the latest in her Selznick string of poetically eccentric and offhandedly personal documentaries (The Gleaners and I, The Beaches of Agnes, etc.). Plus, this one is also a collaboration with the radical street artist JR, with whom she here shares directorial and authorial credit.

Faces Places Varda, still a flourishing artist Starring and in her 80s, is sometimes referred directed by agnès to as the godmother of the French Varda and Jr. Netflix, amazon New Wave, and she and Jean-Luc Video. rated PG. Godard, who also figures crucially in Faces Places, are the last surviving and still-active greats of the movement. JR, still in his early 30s, has meanwhile achieved great renown in Europe and elsewhere, as a roving artist, a photographer who makes huge photo images of people and scenes he encounters in his travels, and then has them mounted on buildings and other structures in the settings he finds.

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In Faces Places, Varda and JR travel to the north of France and elsewhere in a van that has a huge photographic image of a camera covering its right side. The van also contains a photo booth complete with the apparatus for producing largeformat prints on the spot. The photos produced and the people encountered are key parts of the film’s amiably nonchalant storytelling.

Bits and pieces of Varda’s own life story become parts of the film’s rambling, multifaceted travel tale, and the collaboration with JR leads to an intertwining of two separate lives and selves, of past and future, of youth and age, in the present tense course of time, in the little miracles of miscellaneous motion and discovery.

JR and Varda emerge as distinctive characters in their own right, via their interactions in the course of their collaboration, but also through their interaction with the sights that they and the people they encounter and photograph.

There’s the farmer who works 2,000 acres by himself, with help from some old-school resolve and state-of-the-art technology. There’s Janine, the last resident of an old neighborhood slated for demolition. There’s the dockworker in Le Havre who stops work just long enough to register full appreciation of the project that Varda and JR have undertaken. In Faces Places, they all count for something special. Ω

The true story behind the chart-topping single “I Can Only Imagine,” which was recorded by the Christian rock band MercyMe. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle

The Rock, Kevin Hart, Karen Gillan and Jack Black star in this video game-inspired sequel to the 1995 film based on the popular children’s book. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Love, Simon

Simon Spier (Nick Robinson) must reveal a secret to his friends and family—he’s gay—and come to terms with his identity.

Also starring Jennifer Garner, Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Sherlock Gnomes

A fun road trip with two French artists

the fictional African nation of Wakanda. His Black Panther-infused superpowers derive from vibranium, the super-strong metal that is the basis of Wakanda’s radically advanced technology. A key premise of the tale is that Wakanda has heretofore kept its highly developed civilization hidden from the rest of the world. Eventually, the new king will move to change all that, and Boseman proves to be well attuned to both the warrior and the statesman in the character. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

A 3-D computer-animated sequel to Gnomeo & Juliet, featuring the previous film’s title gnomes hiring a gnome named Sherlock Gnomes to help them find some other gnomes. Gnome sayin’? Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

Peter Rabbit

A live-action/CGI update of the classic children’s story with James Cordon starring as the voice of the titular bunny. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Thoroughbreds

Red Sparrow

A psychological thriller about a couple of cold-blooded upper-class teen girls in suburban Connecticut who hatch a plan to solve each others’ problems. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Hunger Games director Francis Lawrence again teams up with star Jennifer Lawrence (no relation) in this thriller about an elite Russian spy on a complicated mission involving the CIA and a possible mole.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Watership Down (1978)

This week’s repertory pick is the animated film adaptation of Richard Adams’ 1973 adventure-fantasy novel. One showing: Sunday, March 25, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre.

Rated PG.

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Black Panther

A family goes to stay with some relatives, finds their mobile home park inexplicably deserted before being terrorized by masked psychopaths. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

With its black superhero and predominantly black cast, and its special mixture of action fantasy and social history, Black Panther is a monumental cultural event.

And a key part of its specialness is that it’s also a richly entertaining movie. Writerdirector Ryan Coogler and co-writer Joe Robert Cole have produced a very engaging mixture of action movie and epic/utopian allegory. It’s an impressively mounted production throughout, and even with elements that are routine or generic, it makes fine use of a large and appealing cast. Chadwick Boseman has the title role.

He is T’Challa, the newly coronated king of

The video game-based adventurer Lara Croft returns to the big screen in this reboot of the original. With Alicia Vikander in the lead role, Croft finds herself on the island where her father disappeared. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

A Wrinkle in Time

The classic sci-fi/fantasy novel by Madeleine L’Engle gets the blockbuster treatment (complete with Oprah Winfrey). The story follows Meg (Storm Reid), who, along with her brother and friend, is tasked with going to space and rescuing her scientist father from an unspeakable evil. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Taste of change Pacific Culture is all about transforming food Specifically, he’s excited by the concept of harnessing Cmicroorganisms to change a food product into somearlos Gonzales is captivated by transformation.

thing it wasn’t—like turning a cucumber into a pickle.

“Through fermentation, food can story and take on different qualities,” he said. photo by “Certainly, preservation is a big aspect.”

Howard Gonzales is the co-owner of Hardee Pacific Culture, a local preservationby-fermentation business with a small storefront on Humboldt Avenue and a booth at the Saturday farmers’ market. Along with his sister, Amber Smith, he launched the business in the spring of 2014. They sell their sauerkraut, pickles and kombucha throughout the North State.

During a recent visit to the store, Gonzales explained that he started fermenting food when he was a student at the University of Southern California.

“I was your typical pizza-eating college student,” he said. “I was researching and trying to understand how to make the best pizza possible, and after a surprisingly long time, I finally realized that pizza’s all about the dough and crust. So, I learned about sourdough cultures—instead of using commercial yeast, you have this sourdough culture that you feed flour and water twice a day.”

As a mix of yeast and bacteria, sourdough is a type of fermented food, and it turned Gonzales on to the wide world of fermentation. From there, he progressed to experimenting with pickling vegetables, and he eventually saw an unfilled niche in Chico’s growing craft-food scene after he was done with college and working for his father’s company, Fifth Sun. Now, Pacific Culture is a staple at the Saturday farmers’ market in downtown Chico alongside other local food purveyors such as Live Life Juice Co. and Beber Almondmilk. From Gonzales’ viewpoint, the rise in popularity of high-quality and locally sourced food products is entirely driven by customers.

“It’s all about the customer, what they’ve been exposed to, what they want and what they’re willing to spend,” Gonzales said. “We sell our jars of sauerkraut as affordably as possible, but we’re still $7, $8, $9 on the shelf. You can go to Costco and get a gallon of sauerkraut for a few dollars, I’m sure. But, you know, I think customers are becoming more savvy to differences in quality and what’s out there.”

Pacific Culture got started by making sauerkraut and pickling locally grown, in-season organic vegetables, but they’ve since branched out to other fermented foods.

Their big push these days is kombucha, the fermented, lightly carbonated tea-based drinks that have become enormously popular over the past decade.

It took about a year for Gonzales and brewmaster Indra Clark to develop Pacific Culture’s kombucha recipe. They started selling it about 18 months ago.

At the moment, it’s available at more than a dozen locations around town on draft. They’re just beginning to bottle the bubbly beverages, which land somewhere between tea and beer, and are slightly alcoholic. They offer a variety of flavors, including Salty Dog (brewed with juniper, grapefruit and sea salt), Dark and Stormy (hōjicha, ginger and spices) Concord Grape and Turmeric. Bottles of Pacific Culture kombucha sell for $5 at the farmers’ market and are just starting to hit the shelves of local retailers.

More than ever, consumers are aware of the probiotics present in fermented foods and their connection to gut health. That’s been a boon for marketing, Gonzalez acknowledged, but it’s also another source of wonder for him personally.

“There are probably more bacterial organisms living inside you than human cells,” he said. “There are billions of bacteria in your body, and you’re helping that system’s health by consuming fermented foods. I find that fascinating.” Ω

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Loner Caroline Rose New West Need a modern pop-rock fix? Caroline Rose can help you out. For her second record, Loner, she’s teamed up with producer Paul Butler (Devendra Banhart, Hurray for the Riff Raff) on a batch of songs that depart from her humorladen, Americana-influenced debut, and land instead in well-produced pop territory. It’s hard to not smile while listening to a tune like “Soul No. 5,” when Rose somersaults through syllables in the verses before breaking into big, open, exuberant choruses that simply bounce on the words “I got soul.” Rose’s well-crafted tunes are in line with the buoyant pop of the Australian singer/songwriter Alex Lahey, with a little more of a synth drive. The album closes with “Animal,” a powerhouse tune in which Rose moves tentatively through rhythmic verses before free-falling into a soaring chorus. Bouncing across the full spectrum of pop—from surf-rock candy (“Bikini”) to big, bright orchestral fun (“Getting to Me”)—this is one catchy and very good album.

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While Arts DEVO is recuperating, enjoy this classic column from Dec. 18, 2014.

SLOW ROAD TO ARTS DEVO I grew up in Redding, in an environment fairly devoid of artistic and cultural influence. Poor white trash would be an unkind, but not entirely inaccurate, way to frame the circumstances of my youth, but thanks to the influence of music, specifically the Columbia House Record Club (“13 records or tapes for $1”), MTV and my Uncle Craig’s vinyl collection, the sights and sounds of the bigger world leaked into my sheltered sphere.

KISS jumpstarted me at an early age, putting the idea into my head of humans having the ability to bring whatever new, loud, colorful worlds that they could dream up into being, which led me to other theatrical musical performers in the years that followed— Queen, Adam Ant, Prince, a bunch of hair-metal bands. Then, in the middle of high school, I caught a whiff of the warm, dark atmosphere bubbling up from the American South thanks to an up-andcoming jangly, mumbling and mysterious “college rock” band called R.E.M., and into the underground I went, seeking various music and film alternatives (and trying my hand at creating my own) before college and its art and lit classes clued me into the rest of the continuum.

Looking back, there were a lot of brushes with art that began to stoke the flame that craved something “other”—other people, places, ideas and cultures. A dubbed cassette of the Beat Street soundtrack and demos of some of the related dance moves from a kid on my paper route; the unavoidable and unmistakable magic of Michael Jackson and Thriller ; and the very fortuitous high-school reading-list choice of W. Somerset Maugham’s wanderlust-inducing The Razor’s Edge.

All that is to say, for the sake of something different, I’ve decided to make a (ridiculously restrictive) list—that doesn’t include such elemental building blocks of mine as Shakespeare, Hemingway, Gordon Gano, Toni Morrison, Nick Cave, Johnny Cash, Calvin Johnson, Hieronymus Bosch, Elvis Costello, the Beats or the spirits of Harry Smith’s “old weird America”—of the 10 artists, musicians, writers and filmmakers to whom I was eventually led and who ended up making the biggest impression on me and how I interact with the world and you readers. (Send me yours!)

Arts DEVO’s top 10 artists of all time: 1. David Lynch 2. Walt Whitman 3. Sonic Youth and The Velvet Underground 4. Pablo Picasso 5. Rainier Maria Rilke 6. Jonathan Richman 7. Leonard Cohen 8. Bob Dylan 9. Stanley Kubrick 10. Facteur Ferdinand Cheval (French mailman and builder of the visionary environment Palais Idéal) Facteur Cheval

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF march 22, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The “School

of Hard Knocks” is an old-fashioned idiom referring to the unofficial and accidental course of study available via life’s tough experiences. The wisdom one gains through this alternate approach to education may be equal or even superior to the knowledge that comes from a formal university or training program. I mention this, Aries, because in accordance with astrological omens, I want to confer upon you a diploma for your new advanced degree from the School of Hard Knocks.

(P.S.: When PhD students get their degrees from Finland’s University of Helsinki, they are given top hats and swords as well as diplomas. I suggest you reward yourself with exotic props, too.)

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Europeans used to think that all swans were white.

It was a reasonable certainty given the fact that all swans in Europe were that color. But in 1697, Dutch explorer Willem de Vlamingh and his sailors made a pioneering foray to the southwestern coast of the land we now call Australia. As they sailed up a river the indigenous tribe called Derbarl Yerrigan, they spied black swans.

They were shocked. The anomalous creatures invalidated an assumption based on centuries of observations. Today, a “black swan” is a metaphor referring to an unexpected event that contravenes prevailing theories about the way the world works.

I suspect you’ll soon experience such an incongruity yourself. It might be a good thing! Especially if you welcome it instead of resisting it.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Crayola

is one of the world’s foremost crayon manufacturers. The geniuses in charge of naming its crayon colors are playful and imaginative. Among the company’s standard offerings, for example, are Pink Sherbet, Carnation Pink, Tickle Me Pink, Piggy Pink, Pink Flamingo, and Shocking Pink. Oddly, however, there is no color that’s simply called “Pink.” I find that a bit disturbing. As much as I love extravagant creativity and poetic whimsy, I think it’s also important to cherish and nurture the basics. In accordance with the astrological omens, that’s my advice for you in the coming weeks. Experiment with fanciful fun, but not at the expense of the fundamentals.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): According

to Vice magazine, Russian scientist Anatoli Brouchkov is pleased with the experiment he tried. He injected himself with 3.5-million-year-old bacteria that his colleagues had dug out of the permafrost in Siberia. The infusion of this ancient life form, he says, enhanced his energy and strengthened his immune system. I can’t vouch for the veracity of his claim, but I do know this: It’s an apt metaphor for possibilities you could take advantage of in the near future: drawing on an old resource to boost your power, for example, or calling on a well-preserved part of the past to supercharge the present.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Booze has played

a crucial role in the development of civilization, says biomolecular archaeologist Patrick McGovern. The process of creating this mind-altering staple was independently discovered by many different cultures, usually before they invented writing. The buzz it provides has “fired our creativity and fostered the development of language, the arts, and religion.” On the downside, excessive consumption of alcohol has led to millions of bad decisions and has wrecked countless lives.

Everything I just said is a preface to my main message, Leo: The coming weeks will be a favorable time to transform your habitual perspective, but only if you do so safely and constructively. Whether you choose to try intoxicants, wild adventures, exhilarating travel, or edgy experiments, know your limits.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The astrological omens suggest that the coming weeks will be favorable for making agreements, pondering mergers, and strengthening bonds. You’ll be wise to deepen at least one of your commitments. You’ll stir up

by rob brezsny interesting challenges if you consider the possibility of entering into more disciplined and dynamic unions with worthy partners.

Do you trust your own perceptions and insights to guide you toward ever-healthier alliances? Do what you must to muster that trust.

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ney in the coming weeks may be as weird as an R-rated telenovela, but with more class. Outlandish, unpredictable, and even surreal events could occur, but in such a way as to uplift and educate your soul.

Labyrinthine plot twists will be medicinal as well as entertaining. As the drama gets curioser and curioser, my dear Scorpio, I expect you will learn how to capitalize on the odd opportunities it brings. In the end, you will be grateful for this ennobling respite from mundane reality!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Love is the only sane and satisfactory answer to the problem of human existence,” wrote philosopher Erich Fromm. I would add a corollary for your rigorous use during the last nine months of 2018: “Love is the only effective and practical way to graduate from your ragged, long-running dilemmas and start gathering a new crop of fresh, rousing challenges.” By the way, Fromm said love is more than a warm and fuzzy feeling in our hearts. It’s a creative force that fuels our willpower and unlocks hidden resources.

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

goal here is to convince you to embark on an orgy of self-care—to be as sweet and tender and nurturing to yourself as you dare to be. If that influences you to go too far in providing yourself with luxurious necessities, I’m OK with it. And if your solicitous efforts to focus on your own health and well-being make you appear a bit self-indulgent or narcissistic, I think it’s an acceptable price to pay. Here are more key themes for you in the coming weeks: basking in the glow of self-love; exulting in the perks of your sanctuary; honoring the vulnerabilities that make you interesting.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): One

day, Beatles’ guitarist George Harrison decided to compose his next song’s lyrics “based on the first thing I saw upon opening any book.” He viewed this as a divinatory experiment, as a quest to incorporate the flow of coincidence into his creative process. The words he found in the first book were “gently weeps.”

They became the seed for his tune “While My Guitar Gently Weeps.” Rolling Stone magazine ultimately named it one of “The Greatest Songs of All Time” and the 10th best Beatle song. In accordance with the astrological omens, I recommend you try some divinatory experiments of your own in the coming weeks. Use life’s fun little synchronicities to generate playful clues and unexpected guidance.

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That’s because I have embedded subliminal codes in these words that will at least temporarily transform even the dreamiest among you into passionate pragmatists in service to your feistiest ideals. If you’ve read this far, you are already feeling more disciplined and organized. Soon you’ll be coming up with new schemes about how to actually materialize a favorite fairy tale in the form of real-life experiences.

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This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: XIAOHU XU Dated: February 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000259 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PERFECTLY IMPERFECT at 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

ASHLEY MCMAHAN 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

MARIA MCMAHAN 3116 Coronado Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MARIA MCMAHAN Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000229 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PLANT BURGER at 5161 Eden Road Paradise, CA 95969.

BERLYN HALE 5161 Eden Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BERLYN HALE Dated: February 23, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000271 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DATADANCER MEDICAL SYSTEMS at 1644 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL L KOHUT 1644 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL L. KOHUT Dated: February 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000247 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEYOND THE BARN at 1785 Heron Lane Chico, CA 95926.

LAURA MARIE HAZEL 1785 Heron Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAURA M. HAZEL Dated: February 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000206 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CANOPY HAIR STUDIO at 1245 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

REBECCA M WALKER 23 San Ramon Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: REBECCA M WALKER Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000238 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WORTHINGTON MEDIA SERVICES at 1605 Downing Ave, Apt 3 Chico, CA 95926.

JEFFREY PAUL WORTHINGTON 1605 Downing Ave, Apt 3 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JEFFREY WORTHINGTON Dated: February 28, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000289 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEROS CORNER GAMES AND MERCHANDISE at 1380 East Ave Ste 116 Chico, CA 95926-7349.

ROBERT MCINTOSH 15 Woodside Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT MCINTOSH Dated: January 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000141 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VASHTI NATURAL SKINCARE at 113 W Lindo Ave #7 Chico, CA 95926.

MARILYNN HUDSON 113 W Lindo Ave #7 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARILYNN HUDSON Dated: February 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000285 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OLD CHICO REALTORS at 180 E. 4th Street Suite 120 Chico, CA 95928.

PETER TICHININ 1275 E. Lindo Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PETER TICHININ Dated: February 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000287 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HAVEN OF HOPE ON WHEELS at 79 Rolling Hills Ct Oroville, CA 95966.

OROVILLE SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION INC. 79 Rolling Hills Ct Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KEVIN THOMPSON, CEO Dated: February 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000211 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HAVEN OF HOPE RESOURCE CENTER at 3110 Myers St Oroville, CA 95966.

OROVILLE SOUTHSIDE COMMUNITY IMPROVEMENT ASSOCIATION, INC. 79 Rolling Hills Ct Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KEVIN THOMPSON, CEO Dated: February 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000284 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YESCA CLOTHING at 1145 W 2nd St #3 Chico, CA 95928.

BAILEY SCOTT NOWLIN TUCKER 1145 W 2nd St #3 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BAILEY TUCKER Dated: February 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000256 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JOHN’S HANDYMAN SERVICE at 236A W East Ave #350 Chico, CA 95926.

JOHN FREDERICK INNOCENTI 714 Bradford Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN F INNOCENTI Dated: February 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000248 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JAS ADVERTISING at 168 Estates Drive Chico, CA 95928.

JONATHAN GRAHAM 168 Estates Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JON GRAHAM Dated: January 30, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000158 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ROJO LOCO ENTERPRISES at 2 Griffith Park Ln Chico, CA 95928.

RON GILMORE 704 Fremont Ave Apt F South Pasadena, CA 91030.

JORGE SALAS 2 Griffith Park Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JORGE SALAS Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000304 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TNTSHIRTS at 766 Plumas Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

DONALD TIMOTHY DAVIS 766 Plumas Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

TERESA ANN DAVIS 766 Plumas Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: TERESA DAVIS Dated: February 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000282 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO AUTO CENTER at 2267 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

ANNE M MONLUX, TRUSTEE 24 Shari Lane Chico, CA 95928.

GUY R MONLUX, TRUSTEE 24 Shari Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This busines is conducted by a Trust.

Signed: GUY MONLUX Dated: February 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000280 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GATE MINDER at 13 Freight Ln Chico, CA 95973.

LACY LOUISE MEADOWS 75 Harvest Park Ct 114 Chico,

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This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LACY MEADOWS Dated: March 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000299 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as REVSIGN at 6 Heartwood Ct Chico, CA 95928.

MARIO ARMANDO MAGLIOZZI 6 Heartwood Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARIO MAGLIOZZI Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000310 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JD PLUMBING at 5402 Hickory Way Paradise, CA 95969.

JARED DAVID DERRICK 5402 Hickory Way Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JARED DERRICK Dated: March 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000328 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PARKWAY REAL ESTATE CO. at 168 E. 3rd Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

B AND A CHICO ASSOCIATES, INC. 3263 Summit Ridge Ter Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: LORI K. AKERS, PRESIDENT Dated: March 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000326 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SIERRA ENGRAVING, TOKA BRANDING, TOKA BRANDING COMPANY at 818 Salem Street Chico, CA 95928.

AARON BURSTEN 1080 Ivy Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON BURSTEN Dated: February 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000213 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAINTENANCE 4 U at 3148 Rae Creek Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DAVID RUSSELL GRISSOM 3148 Rae Creek Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DAVID R GRISSOM Dated: March 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000319 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PET SITTERS EXPRESS CHICO at 1959 Citrus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

PET SITTERS EXPRESS CHICO LLC 1740 Elm Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company Signed: DYLAN SEID, OWNER Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000306 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO PILATES STUDIO at 1390 East 9th Street Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928.

NANCY MANGAN ACKERMAN 977 Norman Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NANCY M. ACKERMAN Dated: February 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000252 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AFFORDABLE AUTOMOTIVE at 2106 Park Ave Chico, CA 95928.

AFFORDABLE AUTOMOTIVE LLC 106 Park Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MICHAEL BUTTON, PRESIDENT Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000303 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CJ’S TRUCKING AND TRANSPORTATION at 120 Acacia Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

CHRISTOPHER JOSEPH LANE 120 Acacia Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRIS LANE Dated: February 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000286 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SM PAINTING at 372 Main Street Hamilton City, CA 95951.

SERGIO G MARTINEZ 372 Main Street Hamilton City, CA 95951.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SERGIO G MARTINEZ Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000311 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RESTORATION 1 OF NORTH VALLEY at 232 W 21st Street Chico, CA 95928.

NORTH VALLEY RESTORATION LLC 232 W 21st Street Chico, CA 95928.

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a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JOHN K. WHEATLEY Dated: March 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000330 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FILIPINO FOREIGN SCHOLARSHIP FOUNDATION, FILIPINO MARKET, FORK IN THE ROAD, GRUB SHACK at 1043 W 8th Street Ste B Chico, CA 95928.

ETHEL CABAHIT GEIGER 1490 Heritage Oak Drive Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN DAVID GEIGER 1490 Heritage Oak Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a A Married Couple.

Signed: JOHN GEIGER Dated: March 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000314 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ASAP BOOKKEEPING at 1040 Richland Court Chico, CA 95926.

GYPSY SOUL ADVENTURES, INC. 1040 Richland Court Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RENEE BURKE, PRESIDENT Dated: March 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000307 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DEADMAN SPRINGS TRUCKING COMPANY at 81 Gopher Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

JAMES NATHAN ANDERSON 81 Gopher Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES ANDERSON Dated: March 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000355 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CATCH IT QUICK BALLOONS, CATCH IT QUICK JUGGLER, CATCH IT QUICK JUGGLING COMPANY at 2062 Chadwick Dr Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL G. TAYLOR 2062 Chadwick Dr Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL G. TAYLOR Dated: March 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000333 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MID VALLEY PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 2720 Cohasset Road Ste B Chico, CA 95973.

ELLEN K SHEPHERD 2513 El Paso Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ELLEN K. SHEPHERD Dated: March 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000345 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BOMBSHELL BLOWOUTS at 3093 3rd Street Biggs, CA 95917.

ANGELA CLOSSON 3093 3rd Street Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANGELA CLOSSON Dated: March 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000367 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BUBBLES LAUNDRY at 664 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

MCR GROUP, LLC 6 Merle Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: MARY RUMIANO, MANAGER Dated: March 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000344 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OROVILLE CAR WASH at 2525 Feather River Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

FADI ABDULMASIH 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

RITA ABDULMASIH 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

ORO DAM CAR WASH INC 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: FADI ABDULMASIH, OWNER Dated: March 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000371 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DYE HAIR SALON at 6412 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

MICHELE JULIANA LEWIS 1676 Nunneley Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHELE LEWIS Dated: March 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000376 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACCURATE PAYROLL AND SECRETARIAL SERVICE INC at 2720 Cohasset Road Suite A Chico, CA 95973.

ACCURATE PAYROLL AND SECRETARIAL SERVICE INC 2720 Cohasset Road Suite A Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DEBORAH PELAK Dated: March 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000315 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

NOTICES CITATION TO PARENT TO MITCHELL MARES: PLEASE TAKE NOTICE that on

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April 25, 2018, at 1:30 p.m. in Department TBD in the above-titled court at the North Butte County Courthouse at 1775 Concord Avenue, Chico, California 95928, the Petitioners, ANTHONY BRUSCHI and DENISE BRUSCHI, will petition the court to terminate the parental rights of MITCHELL MARES pursuant to Family Code Sections 7800 et seq. and Probate Code Sections 1516 et seq. By order of this court you are hereby advised that you may appear at the above-referenced action, then and there show cause, if any you have, why your parental rights should not be terminated, and why ALORA KAY SHAE JOHNSON should not be declared free from your custody and control for the purpose of freeing ALORA KAY SHAE JOHNSON for adoption.

The following information concerns rights and procedures that relate to this proceeding for the termination of parental rights pursuant to Family Code Sections 7860 et seq.: 1. Any person having the custody or control of the child, or the person with whom the child is, is REQUIRED TO APPEAR at the above-stated time and place of the hearing.

2. Since Minor is under the age of ten (10) years old, the Minor’s presence at the above hearing is not required absent the issuance of a court order after necessity has been shown.

3. At the beginning of the proceeding the court will consider whether or not the interest of ALORA KAY SHAE JOHNSON requires the appointment of counsel. If the court finds that the interest of ALORA KAY SHAE JOHNSON does require such protection, the court will appoint counsel to represent her, whether or not she is able to afford counsel.

4. This petition is filed for the purpose of freeing the child for placement for adoption.

5. Under Family Code Section 7862, “If a parent appears without counsel and is unable to afford counsel, the court shall appoint counsel for the parent, unless that representation is knowingly and intelligently waived.”

6. Under Family Code Section 7864, “the court may continue the proceeding for not to exceed 30 days as necessary to appoint counsel and to enable counsel to become acquainted with the case.”

7. Under Family Law Code Section 7883, “if a person personally served with a citation within this state as provided in Section 7880 fails without reasonable cause to appear and abide by the court order of the court, or to bring the child before the court if so required in the citation, the failure constitutes a contempt of court.”

Case No: 16AB00090 Attorneys for Petitioners Fritzgerald A. Javellana, SBN 266073 Brandon T. Williams, SBN 257958 WILLIAMS & JAVELLANA LLP 140 Amber Grove Drive, Suite 157 Chico, California 95973 Telephone: (530) 592-4305 Facsimile: (877) 551-6885 Published: March 15,22,29, April 5, 2018

NOTICE TO CREDITORS SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA COUNTY OF BUTTE Case Number: 18PR00086 NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF In re the Trust Estate of: DAVID E. WEISS, also known as DAVID EVAN WEISS, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN to

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the creditors and contingent creditors of the above-named decedent that all persons having claims against the decedent are required to file them with the Butte County Superior Court at 1775 Concord Avenue, Chico, California, 95928, and mail a copy to the Trustee of the DAVID E. WEISS REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST dated April 14, 2014. The name and mailing address of the trustee is: LAURA LEE GOMES, Trustee, c/o Jane E. Stansell, Attorney at Law, 103 South Plumas Street, Willows, CA 95988. The decedent herein is DAVID E. WEISS who was the settlor of the trust. The time for filing a claim is within the later of four months after the first publication of this Notice to Creditors, (see noted dates of publication) or sixty (60) days after this Notice is mailed to you or personally delivered to you. A claim form may be obtained from the court clerk. For your protection you are encouraged to file your claim by certified mail, with return receipt requested.

Dated: March 6, 2018 Signed: JANE E. STANSELL, Attorney for LAURA LEE GOMES, Trustee, 103 South Plumas Street, Willows, CA 95988.

Published: March 15,22,29, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TONI SUZOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEE NICOLE RYDEN Proposed name: ASHLEE NICOLE SUZOR THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 30, 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00360 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CHONG LOR Proposed name: CHONG LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 20, 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 14, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00274 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEE VANG & ZELEE LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOUA LOR Proposed name: MOUA MONG LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00299 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEE VANG & ZELEE LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GER LOR Proposed name: PAKER LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARSHA T. NEWSUM, ALSO KNOWN AS MARSHA JEAN NEWSUM To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARSHA T. NEWSUM, ALSO KNOWN AS MARSHA JEAN NEWSUM A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PAUL E. NEWSUM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: PAUL E. NEWSUM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 10, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 18PR00087 Dated: March 6, 2018 Published: March 15,22,29, 2018

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

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

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The indepenedent 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 the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 24, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-8 Room: 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: JAROM B. PHIPPS Forethough Law, PC 1101 Investment Boulevard, Suite 150, El Dorado Hills, CA 95762 916.235.8242 Case Number: 18PR00090 Published: March 15,22,29, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARIA GODINEZ, ALSO KNOWN AS MARIA SOCORRO GODINEZ TO all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARIA GODINEZ, MARIA SOCORRO GODINEZ A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ARTHUR GODINEZ in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: April 10, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 18PR00092 Published: March 22,29, April 5, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WILLIAM ROBERT JOHANSEN AKA BOB JOHANSEN To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WILLIAM ROBERT JOHANSEN AKA BOB JOHANSEN A Petition for Probate has been filed by: KATHRINE DAVIS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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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: April 10, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 The Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-5373 Case Number: 18PR00117 Published: March 22,29, April 5, 2018

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOSE DE JESUS FLORES BOTELLO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing

NOTICE SUPERIOR COURT OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA FOR THE COUNTY OF TEHAMA, CASE NO. 17CI-000194.

NOTICE TO DEFENDANT, JAMES JACKSON., FROM PLAINTIFF JEM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING, LLC, BY AND THROUGH ITS COUNSEL OF RECORD, JERRY P. REMPEL, STANDER REUBENS THOMAS KINSEY, 1459 HUMBOLDT RD STE D, CHICO CA 95928-9100, T: (530) 895-8927; F: (530) 895-8971.

Defendant, JAMES JACKSON, is being provided notice that a Petition has been filed requesting an Order Expelling Defendant as a Member from JEM EQUIPMENT MANUFACTURING, LLC. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. A complete copy of all pleadings can be obtained from counsel for Plaintiff by you contacting him at the address, telephone or fax numbers noted above.

Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after legal papers are served on you to file a written response at Tehama County Superior Courthouse located 1740 Walnut Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 and have a copy served on the plaintiff at counsel’s office which address is noted above. A letter or phone call will no protect you. Your written response must be a proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the 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

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CODY STEVEN OCAMPO 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: June 3, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01436 Published: March 8,15,22,29, 2018

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SAVANNAH ROSE SANDERS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SAVANNAH ROSE SANDERS Proposed name: JUDITH ANNE BEDBURY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 4, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: March 13, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00677 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

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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 cost 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.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MARGARET ELIZABETH RIEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MARGARET ELIZABETH RIEN Proposed name: ELIZABETH RIEN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: April 20, 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 14, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00403 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

names as follows: Present name: JOSE DE JESUS FLORES BOTELLO Proposed name: JESUS FLORES THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: May 11, 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: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: March 14, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00736 Published: March 22,29, April 5,12, 2018

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Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00298 Published: March 1,8,15,22, 2018

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The following houses were sold in Butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of march 5, 2018 – march 9, 2018 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.

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2751 Monterey St

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141 Apache Cir

2578 E 20th St

Chico

$230,000

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921 Pomona Ave

Chico

$229,000

1066 E 8th St

Chico

1921 Spruce Ave

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$190,000

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150 Edgemont Dr

Oroville

$180,000

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3015 Spencer Ave

Oroville

$166,000

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$220,000

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4918 Malibu Dr

Paradise

$675,000

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4139

Chico

$188,000

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1650 Which Way

Paradise

$311,500

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304 W 17th St

Chico

$120,000

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5689 Fickett Ln

Paradise

$300,000

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1438 W 7th St

Chico

$100,000

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1776 Whitaker Rd

Paradise

$237,000

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49 Arroyo Way

Chico

$65,000

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896 Wagstaff Rd

Paradise

$205,000

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74 Magnesio St

Oroville

$349,000

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1664 Kings Row

Paradise

$175,000

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13499 Vista Ridge Rd

Oroville

$225,000

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1787 Whitaker Rd

Paradise

$170,000

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6 Service Cir

Oroville

$210,000

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12253 S Stoneridge Cir

Paradise

$164,000

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