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EDITORIAL

In the name of freedom Jamal Khashoggi—where to start? The longtime Saudi

Arabian journalist with a history of independent reporting, versus echoing the government’s agenda, was brutally murdered inside the Saudi Arabian consulate in Istanbul on Oct. 2. We’re only now hearing the details, of course, as the cover-up is slowly exposed.

What we’ve learned is that Khashoggi was killed and his body dismembered in what has been deemed a planned execution by operatives in Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s inner circle.

What this incident has highlighted is not just that country’s intolerance of a free press, but also the deep hatred its government had fostered for a man who threatened its way of life. Khashoggi was known for rocking the boat, having twice been fired from his position as editor of Saudi newspaper Al-Watan for expressing views that angered the royal family.

Last June, Khashoggi moved to the United States and shortly thereafter began writing for The Washington Post. His columns became increasingly critical of the Saudi government. He spoke out against the policies of bin Salman, and in favor of women’s rights as well as freedom of the press.

In a posthumous article published by the Post, received by his editor the day after he went missing,

Khashoggi wrote: “There was a time when journalists believed the Internet would liberate information from the censorship and control associated with print media.

But these [Arab] governments, whose very existence relies on the control of information, have aggressively blocked the Internet. They have also arrested local reporters and pressured advertisers to harm the revenue of specific publications.”

Here in the States, Khashoggi’s brutal murder illustrates a similar deep hatred for the media by our current executive branch.

President Trump came out this week and, no joke, first criticized the cover-up before saying those responsible “should be in big trouble.” His administration’s revocation of the visas of those thought to be involved has been widely criticized as having about as much force as the “big trouble” the murderers should face.

His initial response was even more feckless: “I don’t want to lose all of that investment that’s being made in our country. I don’t want to lose a million jobs. I don’t want to lose a $110 billion in terms of investment,” he said, referring to potential arms deals with the Saudis.

Indeed, to Trump, Khashoggi was just another part of the “fake news” media—something that threatens him, and most certainly threatens the crown prince. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

Sit/lie and what Jesus would have done T2015of thesit/lieJesusordinance Center primarily for objecting to the enacted by city authorities.

hree years ago I was fired as director by the board

Tellingly, over half of the members of that Christian board were realtors.

Since then, Christian leaders supporting Christians in city authority as well as most Christians in authority themselves—even local churches—remain silent in objecting to the reinstatement of an ordinance that flies in the face of Jesus’ own assault on the civic purity of his day.

Jesus carried within himself by the burden of those “unworthy” Bill Such The author, the Jesus at society’s edges. “Worthy” homeless suffer foreclosures, Center’s former executive director, natural disasters or unanticipated teaches online for circumstances like unemployment Simpson University. and bankruptcy, while “unworthy” homeless are unemployable addicts, mentally ill, chronically homeless and transient youths.

Jesus mixed with all, especially the “unworthy,” eating with them, offering them a seat at the table of

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the kingdom of God. Homeless himself, Jesus was finally executed among the “unworthy” as the crucified God. That’s Christian orthodoxy.

Five years ago, the affront of seeing homeless men and women waking up bleary-eyed on a Sunday morning in downtown places while the propertied “Church in Chico” seemingly drove unconcerned to places of worship was a moral problem leading me to begin Chico Street Pastors.

Today, with even more people without shelter, the forgotten 1990s WWJD fad must be brought back to combat the sit/lie ordinance and the obvious desire to remove homeless people from the downtown community.

I cannot speak to those of other traditions, but I can to my own. What Would Jesus Do? He would command Christians on to the highways and byways of Chico to speak the good news of transformation through what we disciples of Jesus call the gospel— the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus for our sins (Luke 14:23).

Our presence would rouse the unruly, offer hope to the hopeless, prayer for the mentally ill and potential resources for the desperate. Yes, risky business—but when did Jesus ever call Christians to produce discipleship in a gated community? Ω

SECOND & FLUME

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

Hit-piece season A few months ago, I wrote about how Rep. Doug LaMalfa works the system by sending out what are essentially taxpayer-funded campaign mailers. Under congressional rules, incumbents are allowed to fund constituent correspondence via public money so long as they follow certain criteria, including sending it out at least 90 days before an election and keeping the content unrelated to campaigning and apolitical in nature.

LaMalfa’s mailer bragged about President Trump’s tax bill— passed into law by LaMalfa and the GOP—though what it does is give corporations and the ultra wealthy a huge tax break while giving low-income folks pocket change. As I said previously, LaMalfa’s take is blatant GOP propaganda (see “Tricky Doug,” Second & Flume, Aug. 16).

I also mentioned that, based on previous elections, LaMalfa’s camp likely would send out hit pieces targeting challenger Audrey Denney in the coming months.

Well, he’s predictable. A recent mailer—stamped as paid for by the Doug LaMalfa Committee—says “Denney pledged her support to Liberal San Francisco Politicians.” Among other falsehoods, it contains a Photoshopped image of her signing said pledge that invokes the P-word: Pelosi, as in Nancy Pelosi.

In short, it’s ridiculous. What it really says is that Doug LaMalfa thinks his constituents are idiots.

While we’re on the subject, I found quite the surprise in my 7-year-old’s backpack this week, courtesy of another longtime politico, state Sen. Jim Nielsen, who is also up for re-election Nov. 6.

It appears to be an oversize—roughly 8-by-3 inches—bookmark picturing an astronaut looking at the moon. The double-sided flier reads: “Red Ribbon Week, October 23-31, 2018, Your future is key/Stay drug-free!” At the bottom, printed in all capitals, it reads: “Compliments of California State Senator Jim Nielsen.” The opposite side has the same messages in Spanish.

To be clear, my son goes to a Chico Unified School District elementary school. He didn’t have the bookmark when he left for school on Monday, and didn’t leave the campus during the day, but somehow came home with what’s essentially a campaign advertisement two weeks before the election.

That sent me straight to the state Fair Political Practices Commission’s website, where I looked up prohibited taxpayer-funded mass mailings. The short version: violations include tangible items (delivered by any means), printed with an official’s name, with 200 or more having been distributed in a calendar month. Check, check and (probably) check.

I emailed Sen. Nielsen’s camp asking questions about the mailer, including how it was paid for, but didn’t receive a response by press time.

Another came right before deadline in an envelope stamped as paid for by Chico Democrats, but this one may take me a few days to unpack. The gist is that LaMalfa is a Trump toady, which is true.

However, the mailer implies that the three conservatives vying for a Chico City Council seat are “LaMalfa’s hand picked candidates.”

It includes numerous sensational headlines, actually—some true, some hyperbolic and one alleging a candidate contributed money to Roy Moore, the twice-impeached former Alabama Supreme Court justice who lost a “safe” Senate seat to a Democrat when he was outed for being a creep. Stay tuned.

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Not a progressive Re “A Californian in the White House?” (Newslines, by Elizabeth Castillo, Oct. 18): The article touting Kamala Harris as possibly on the 2020 presidential ticket depressed me.

Within hours of being elected senator, state Democrats were drooling over Harris’ “demographic allure,” seeing her as the perfect 2020 presidential candidate.

As California Attorney General, Harris’ office declined to prosecute Steven Mnuchin’s OneWest Bank for foreclosure violations in 2013 after finding over a thousand violations of foreclosure laws by his bank, and expecting to find thousands more. In return, she was the only Democrat who ran on the national level to receive money from him that cycle.

Such simple-minded Democratic identity politics and its lust for big money are embarrassing and will guarantee Trump’s re-election.

Harris is ambitious, not progressive.

The Jacobin has a thoughtful article, “The Two Faces of Kamala Harris.”

Having no convictions that would impede her ambition, she voted yes on her first defense appropriation bill, though it was a huge increase and included $285 billion more than the Pentagon requested.

She voted no on the latest defense appropriation bill, realizing that a no vote was appropriate to appear progressive.

If Democrats can’t come up with better candidates, they deserve to lose.

Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

Editor’s note: Mnuchin donated $2,000 to Harris during the 2016 election cycle. Harris voted against Mnuchin’s nomination as Treasury secretary the next year.

Misdirected focus Re “Double take on single-payer” (Healthlines, by Evan Tuchinsky, Oct. 18): It was unfortunate that the central theme of the CN&R’s Oct. 18 article by Evan Tuchinsky was Assemblyman James

Gallagher’s surprise participation instead of the basic benefits of transitioning our broken medical system to a single-payer Medicare for All system—especially considering that the question of medical care is the single most important issue voters nationally are interested in and this is the only candidate forum of the season on this issue.

As the organizer responsible for interfacing with the candidates and media, I was very pleased that Gallagher attended because he clearly enunciated the Republican “fix” of deregulating our health care system as the solution. Whereas, all of the Democratic candidates explained portions of the benefits of eliminating private insurance and replacing it with Medicare for All single-payer (our government), which would extend comprehensive medical care to everyone for about the same amount we now pay for partial coverage for the many.

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Bruce McLean Chico

‘A particle of attention’ I appreciate your coverage of the reinstatement of sit/lie—another ratcheting-up of criminalization, directed at the poor and disabled.

(And a nicely orchestrated campaign stunt by Councilman Andrew Coolidge.) I hope our dissent brought a particle of attention to ongoing human rights violations on the streets of Chico.

Nevertheless, in June, about 40 people spoke against sit/lie. On Oct. 16, we were down to about 10. Why? Was it a “done deal,” so everyone stayed home? Big mistake: You create the narrative. Three council members spoke against this bilge and only 10 people, out of a population of 100,000, were there to support them? Sad. I’m especially disappointed in my baby boomer peers. We claim the idealistic high ground, but where the human rights of the poor are concerned, our interests hew toward gentrification, more than solidarity.

Speaking of boomers, I was called “grumpy boy” by one old peacenik. Seems I’m too “angry.”

I “piss people off.” Well, here’s my question: When will materially comfortable boomers make an emotional investment? When will they get angry? At what point does it become apparent that authoritarianism is on the march? Are you waiting for a big neon sign?: Genocide coming soon!

Patrick Newman Chico

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals recently ruled that “as long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter.”

The sit/lie law was recently renewed in spite of the new ruling.

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and has been ruled to be illegal.

Use your votes to elect City Council members committed to seeking solutions to this dilemma.

Rosemarie Kuhn Chico

Roundabout critic Re “Best of Chico Editors’ Picks” (Cover story, Oct. 11): Editors’ Pick!? Gateway to Chico? Sorry, I agree with Nicolette Gamache—what an absolute waste of money. A tree and some landscaping, sure, but $378,000?

The city of Chico sure knows how to waste money in tough times. Remember the sinking bandstand? How about the streets around Enloe? Upper Park?

Helping homeless veterans?

Who was the contractor that ripped the city off? I bet there’s some connections somewhere.

What a joke. Too bad a lot of us are not laughing. You’ve heard fewer screeches because it blocks the sound as well as your view across the roundabout!

William Strom Chico

Reader endorsements As I drive around town, I notice a lack of LaMalfa signs in yards.

The only two I have seen have been on commercial lots. You get to know a person’s left or right leanings from the signs on their lawns. The people on the right have Cox signs and conservative council candidates’. But no LaMalfa signs tells me that even the right is not supporting him.

I hope they will vote for Audrey Denney. I think she will make a great congresswoman. I also notice that I see Huber and Coolidge signs on both left and right lawns, which tells me they would probably be good, balanced council members.

Kelly Young Chico

Eileen Robinson is not afraid to make difficult or unpopular decisions for the sake of our students.

While I was a board member of Inspire School of Arts & Sciences, Eileen was the district representative to our board. I was surprised by her openness to the charter model and moved by her desire to serve all student populations. I witnessed first-hand her character

When will materially comfortable boomers make an emotional investment?

When will they get angry?

At what point does it become apparent that authoritarianism is on the march? Are you waiting for a big neon sign?: Genocide coming soon!

—patrick newman

and integrity. She demonstrated her acumen in understanding the myriad regulations, processes and procedures and her clarity of how all the pieces work together.

It is evident to me that she is compassionate with a student-first approach. She is focused on results and accountability. She will push back if the administration does not meet her high standards.

Most importantly, she does not get caught up in the moment. She does not waiver on her focus of the big picture—the well-being of all students.

As the Chico Unified School District heads into a challenging financial future, we need trustees who are experienced and fiscally minded. Children are our future, and I trust Eileen with that responsibility. She has my vote.

Rob Reddemann Chico

Driving north on Highway 99, I pass a number of large signs promoting Doug LaMalfa to retain his grip on Northern California.

“Water, Jobs and Liberty” the signs boast.

Well, the first two are no-brainers, sort of like saying, “I support ice cream.” But it’s the last one that gets me: “Liberty.” I’m curious as to how many of this district’s women feel that “liberty” includes having the government make all the decisions of their health issues. Or blaming them for being sexually harassed or raped. Or, does “liberty” mean the right to declare bankruptcy

because you can’t afford medical treatment? Do you relish the “liberty” for your children to breathe polluted air, drink tainted water?

Or how about the “liberty” of being able to buy an AK-47 without a background check? Do you love the “liberty” of more wildfires, hurricanes and heat waves due to global warming? If you do, then LaMalfa’s your man, because he supports all of the above.

If you’d rather see a more compassionate approach to local issues that affect each of you personally and not just the wealthy agricultural interests, you do have a choice, it’s Audrey Denney.

Dean Carrier Paradise

This is my editorial in support of Audrey Denney for the 1st District. Audrey understands the political environment of Butte County and the unique qualities that I fell in love with in Chico, where I have semi-retired.

Audrey honors her constituents and supports critical infrastructure improvements and advocates for the much-needed revenues to help fund first responders, including the full staffing of the Chico Fire Department, which is one-third understaffed.

There are many other critical issues that Audrey vets and performs due diligence on before making any recommendations or actions. She cares!

Ernest “Jim” Mead Chico

I encourage you to support Audrey Denney in her congressional race against Doug LaMalfa.

Audrey is the real deal. I have never said that about a political candidate. Audrey’s ideals and stances appeal to people across our district and across the political spectrum. I believe she will represent all of us and be someone we are proud to send to Congress.

This looks to be an incredibly close race. She needs all the support we can give her to help put her over the top. Please remember to vote and encourage your friends, family members, neighbors and co-workers to do the same. All of us can help make a difference in this election. Don’t sit this one out!

Adam Walton Grass Valley

‘Dummies don’t vote!’

Those under-30, younger Americans are the most powerful voters and many of the dummies don’t vote! They can come up with all kinds of excuses for not voting, but the reason they don’t vote is that they are dummies. None of us knows everything, although dummies think they do. So, we can all learn and change our ways and be the better for it. Our American future is in the hands of dummies.

Abe Sanchez Magalia

Corrections In the Best of Chico issue, published Oct. 11, we printed an incorrect phone number for Chico Creek Animal Hospital. It should be 343-3516.

Last week’s Healthlines article (see “Double take on singlepayer,” by Evan Tuchinsky) incorrectly identified the lead sponsor of the Oct. 10 candidates forum on health care. Butte County Health Care Education Coalition, a nonpartisan group, co-sponsored the event.

We regret the errors, which have been corrected online. —ed

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We’ve got too many letters for this space. please go to www.newsreview.com/chico for additional readers’ comments on past cn&r articles.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE SUPES DELAY AIRBNB VOTE

Responding to public comments, the Butte County Board of Supervisors postponed voting on short-term rentals Tuesday (Oct. 23), instead instructing the Development Services Department to modify the ordinance.

Supervisors sought three changes to the version approved unanimously by the Planning Commission (see tinyurl.com/ BC-RentalOrd). Two code revisions involve removing requirements in low-density areas for a rental unit—i.e., Airbnb or Vacation Rentals By Owner (VRBO)—to be the owner’s primary residence; the other would allow secondary dwelling units of any size, not just those over 1,200 square feet, to qualify.

The ordinance will return to the board Dec. 11.

Meanwhile, the Chico City Council will discuss short-term rentals at its next meeting, Nov. 6. That item relates to retroactive taxes levied on vacation home owners. (See “Blindsided,” Newslines, Oct. 4.)

Room to grow?

MORE COUNTY NEWS

Despite Butte County’s tight finances, the Board of Supervisors approved a pay increase Tuesday (Oct. 23) that will bump each of their salaries to $60,997 per year.

The 2.89 percent raise, retroactive to July 1, coincides with the state’s increase of judges’ pay. By law, county supervisors have the option to match judges’ raises. The budget impact of the change cited by county staff is $11,000 annually from the general fund.

Meanwhile, the county is preparing for the retirement of Development Services Director Tim Snellings, who oversees planning, building and code enforcement. He’ll work through the end of the year. His successor has not been announced.

Snellings has held the position for 13 years.

GRIDLEY, BIGGS HIRE POLICE CHIEF

Filling the gap created by the sudden resignation of Gridley-Biggs Police Chief Dean Price, the cities have hired Allen Byers as interim chief, effective Monday (Oct. 29).

Byers (pictured), a Biggs native, brings more than 20 years of law enforcement experience with the Gridley-Biggs and Oroville police departments.

He retired as Oroville assistant police chief in May. The interim chief’s take-home pay will be $9,166 per month, excluding health care and retirement costs.

Price was taking home $23,289 per month, a factor in both city councils considering his termination. (See “Gridley-Biggs chief exits,” Downstroke, Oct. 4.)

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Builders challenge study saying Chico has enough land to develop

A clear examples of mixed-use neighborhoods: offices, apartments, stores, eaterlong The Esplanade, Chicoans can find

ies and single-family homes, large and small—all sharing the same tree-lined, tightstory and knit corridor. photo by Ashiah “It’s a beautiful Scharaga array of types that are adjacent to each other as h i a h s @ n ew srev i ew. c o m and mixed just perfectly,” according to Tom DiGiovanni, a developer and founder of New Read up: Urban Builders.

Find the land When it comes to absorption study at housing density, plantinyurl.com/ChicoLAS. ning is a “design exercise,” not a counting exercise, he continued.

High density has become a taboo word— “a proxy for how oppressive it would be to the neighbors: too much traffic, too many people, [declining] property values.”

While the city’s 2030 General Plan doesn’t say to throw out the suburban single-family-style development, it prioritizes “a well-planned, quality built compact urban form,” with a variety of uses in the same area to create walkable, dynamic neighborhoods.

Last year, during the five-year review of the general plan, the Chico Builders Association—made up of tradespeople,

developers, real estate agents, banks and mortgage companies—lobbied the city to take a deeper dive into land supply and demand amid the state’s housing crisis.

Enter the land absorption study, a $62,000 city-funded survey prepared by consultant BAE Urban Economics Inc. Its intent is to help the city understand the building market, including what needs to happen to reach general plan goals through 2035, including the city’s projected growth.

The study concluded that Chico has an adequate amount of land to meet the demand for housing, when factoring in development already in the pipeline (3,249 single-family homes and 2,013 multifamily units). This includes larger developments on the outskirts of the city, such as Stonegate and Oak Valley.

Special planning areas (places with significant growth potential that require more detailed land use planning) generally will not be needed through 2035, the study says—though a proposal for Doe Mill/ Honey Run is anticipated, and Bell Muir is developing under county jurisdiction.

This conclusion, however, caught the members of the Chico Builders Association off-guard and, at face value, is misleading, association Executive Director Kate Leyden told the CN&R. “Chico is unique because we’re small,” she said, adding that it doesn’t want to build out like Sacramento or other large

cities, and “need[s] to have a variety.”

While vacant land may exist within city limits, it is not readily accessible, Leyden continued, and that is what the association, which focuses on middle-income first-time homebuyers, is most concerned about.

Projects have to overcome significant environmental, financial and infrastructurerelated hurdles—not to mention, not all vacant land is up for sale. The build-out anticipated for in the study, therefore, may not actually happen.

These barriers to developing land in Chico, Leyden said, are compounded by state building regulations and the rising costs of doing business, including the price of land.

“The only way to get affordable housing” is “production efficiency,” she added, and that’s achieved through economies of scale. In other words, when a developer builds more, the overall cost of the project goes down, which can lower the cost for buyers.

Leyden’s concerns were echoed during a recent City Council meeting by local builder Bill Webb, who added that developers have seen the study’s conclusions being used as “an anti-growth tool, and that’s concerning” to the association.

For local design consultant Mike Trolinder,

land use planning boils down to one thing: The city is not being fiscally responsible

Kate Leyden, of Chico Builders Association, says builders face significant barriers to increasing the city’s housing stock, including environmental constraints, lack of infrastructure, land owners unwilling to sell and the cost of doing business.

by allowing development that contributes to urban sprawl—low-density subdivisions that cater to only one or two segments of the population (i.e., building cluster apartments and single-family homes).

“A lot of people are being left out,” Trolinder said. “Until we build homes for everyone, some people are going to be homeless.”

Development fees may pay for the installation of the public infrastructure, Trolinder continued, but what about the upkeep? “You have to get the density up in order to get the property taxes for [maintaining] the infrastructure,” he said. “Until politicians decide they want to be fiscally responsible and use a land-use pattern that pays for itself, we’ll never see the end of this. We’ll always be looking for more land.”

A mix of housing is not only more efficient for land use and extends land capacity, DiGiovanni added, but also provides for a range of households with different preferences and capabilities. Not every household can afford a single-family home. Some households want to be closer to commercial areas, like downtown.

Moving forward, the study suggests that the city look for opportunities to ensure there is adequate land for workforce housing development and remove disincentives. (On Oct. 16, the city reduced impact fees for smaller units.)

People’s incomes have not been rising at the same rate as the costs of developing new housing, which has created a market that “appears dominated by the demands of the retirement community,” the study states.

The city has significant redevelopment potential at “opportunity sites” along key corridors of Chico, according to the study. Though these likely will be realized as student apartments near Chico State, “there is a significant demand for this use,” so it would be wise for the city to encourage more diversity among these projects, like retail-office community spots.

In DiGiovanni’s view, the study provides a sound analysis. “Some builders will be focused on infill and others will be focused on standard subdivisions,” he said. “But taken together, I think that will end up using the land supply … adequately.” Ω

Northern exposure Will Bay Area politicians keep their voter-turnout and funding advantages?

California is politically lopsided: Most of the

people live in the south, but most of the political power is based in the north.

For the last several years, the majority of politicians elected statewide have been Northern Californians—including the governor, lieutenant governor, schools superintendent and both U.S. senators.

That could change after November’s election, because a striking number of statewide races this year pit a Nor Cal candidate against So Cal candidate, testing the political power and competing priorities of the Golden State’s two most populous regions.

But don’t count on it.

Northern California is likely to continue to dominate for reasons that largely boil down to this: People in the Bay Area vote a lot more than those in Los Angeles. Economic and demographic changes overlap with voting trends, together situating California’s political nucleus in the heavily Democratic region in and around San Francisco.

“There is some built-in disadvantage for statewide candidates coming from the Los Angeles area,” said Mark Baldassare, president of the Public Policy Institute of California.

“The voter turnout and participation is dis-

SIFT ER Midterm malaise Like many families, chances are yours has an elder relative reminding you how fortunate you are to have the right to vote. The spiel starts, “I’ve voted in every election since [old year] ...” and ends “… people in [oppressed country] are dying to vote!” Crotchetiness aside, there’s reason to chide: On average, only 60 percent of eligible voters in America vote in presidential elections—40 percent in midterms, like this coming Nov. 6 election. In California, turnout was 58.7 percent for the 2016 presidential election versus 30.9 for the 2014 midterm. Registration efforts intensified this year, but if voters don’t do their part, the trends will hold. Here are turnout figures from recent years:

appointing in L.A., compared to the rest of the state.”

Even though Los Angeles is the state’s most populous county, it has the lowest turnout rate for registered voters. Of the 58 counties, L.A.’s turnout was dead last in the 2014 election and second-to-last in the June primary. Participation is so abysmal in Los Angeles County that voters there actually cast fewer ballots than voters in the nine-county San Francisco Bay Area—even though Los Angeles County has 1.2 million more people registered to vote.

Turnout is better in other populous So Cal counties such as Orange and San Diego, but still not as strong as in the Bay Area.

“It’s a tale of two economies. Where you have a declining middle class, you have fewer voters and less civic partici-

Of course, voters don’t always choose the

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pation,” said Mike Madrid, a GOP political consultant with expertise in Latino voting trends.

Southern California is home to a greater share of Latinos than the Bay Area, and has many more people living in poverty— both characteristics About this story: It is an abridged correlated with low version of the original, voting. Per-capita which was produced income is much highby CalMatters.org. er in the Bay Area and jobs there are being created faster.

That not only means people are more likely to vote but also gives candidates from the region a stronger network for fundraising.

“As the economy has separated, so has our democracy,” Madrid said. “The nine-county Bay Area is becoming whiter, wealthier and older. And that’s creating a power base that is driving the political leadership and discourse for the rest of the state.”

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candidate from their own region, and a home address in the Bay Area is no guarantee of a candidate’s success. Other factors—such as politics, fundraising and the power of incumbency—also come into play.

But with seven of the nine statewide races on November’s ballot featuring a north-south matchup, the question now is whether voters will defy the recent trend.

In the race for governor, the dominance of Northern California was clear when the primary was over in June. Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, the former mayor of San Francisco, beat out two fellow Democrats from Los Angeles to face Republican John Cox of San Diego on the November ballot.

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voters are registered GOP. Given their advantage in voter registration and fundraising, Democrats—no matter which end of the state they live in—are favored to win in statewide contests against Republicans. One test will be in the race for insurance commissioner, which features a Democratic legislator from Los Angeles against a Silicon Valley entrepreneur who is running with no party preference. Steve Poizner, who was insurance commissioner from 2006-2010, used to be a Republican but changed his registration to run this year. He splits his time between Silicon Valley and San Diego, and is facing state Sen. Ricardo Lara, a Los Angeles Democrat, in this down-ticket race.

Because of California’s nonpartisan election system, some races feature two Democrats, making the outcomes harder to predict.

Voters could choose a lieutenant governor who lives in San Francisco—real estate developer Eleni Kounalakis—or one who lives in Los Angeles, state Sen. Ed Hernandez. They could pick a statewide schools superintendent who hails from the Bay Area— Assemblyman Tony Thurmond— or one who helped run schools in Los Angeles, Marshall Tuck.

U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein—a former mayor of San Francisco—is fighting a challenge from the left from state Sen. Kevin de León, a Democrat from Los Angeles.

“All else equal in terms of platform, and political leanings, if you have connections to the Bay Area, that is considered to be an advantage,” said Mindy Romero, director of the California Civic Engagement Project at the University of Southern California.

“It’s both the voter strength in the Bay Area and the (fundraising) money that’s present in the Bay Area.”

Mike Trujillo, a Democratic political consultant in Los Angeles, said he’s hoping the energy this year over control of Congress will prompt more Southern Californians to vote. With several contested House races, the region is being blitzed by ads and volunteers reminding people an election is coming up.

“We do have a lot of those swing seats,” he said. “We’re hoping that is influential.”

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Democrats get big bucks from small-dollar donors In any campaign, big-money players get the most atten-

tion. But Democrats running in California’s seven most competitive congressional districts are vastly outraising Republicans in small-dollar donations, according to a review of campaign money compiled by the Center for Responsive Politics.

It’s a display of voter enthusiasm that can pay longterm dividends for beneficiaries.

Overall, Democratic candidates running in the seven GOP-held seats where Hillary Clinton beat Donald Trump in 2016 have raised $40 million to the Republicans’ $18.7 million. That’s a stunning turn of fortune from 2016, when Republicans running in those About this story: races raised $17.7 million to the It was produced by Democrats’ $5.7 million.

CALmatters.org, a Democrats running in those nonprofit, nonparseven districts raised $6.4 million tisan media venture in donations of less than $200, explaining California policies and politics. almost 10 times the $671,000 raised by Republicans through the first three quarters of 2018, campaign finance reports show.

“There has never been anything like this,” said Democratic strategist Bill Burton, who is involved in several congressional races in California. “Regular grassroots Americans are saying they want change in dozens of races across the country.”

Some examples: Altogether, Republican Congressman Jeff Denham of Turlock raised $4.1 million to Democratic challenger Josh Harder’s $6 million. Only 1.6 percent of Denham’s money is in small-dollar donations, while nearly 18 percent of Harder’s came in small amounts.

Republican Congressman Steve Knight of Palmdale raised $2.1 million, but less than 2 percent has come in small increments. Knight’s Democratic challenger, Katie Hill, raised $6.26 million, including 21 percent in increments of less than $200.

WALK FOR FREEDOM

Dozens of people gathered Saturday (Oct. 20) in downtown Chico and marched to bring awareness to the problem of human trafficking. For the Walk for Freedom, planned in conjunction with events around the world as organized through the Australia-based A21 Campaign, the group marched through downtown in the hopes of enlightening the general public to the fact that human trafficking is taking place across the world, including in all 50 states. Millions of people are enslaved in the world today, they said, and the industry, though underground, generates over $100 billion. The Walk for Freedom aims to move governments to abolish slavery, as only 1 percent of the enslaved are ever rescued, according to several international agencies, including the U.S. Department of State.

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Donors who give less than $200 aren’t identified by name in federal disclosures, and may not live in the candidates’ district. But candidates know who they are, collect their email addresses and send them solicitations.

Not all donors can afford to give the maximum $2,700 under federal law. But candidates can return to small-dollar donors multiple times to help fuel their campaign efforts, ranging from television ads to get-outthe-vote drives. They also know that people who give money vote and volunteer, if not for them then for candidates in their home districts.

The phenomenon extends to districts where no Democratic expert thinks Democratic challengers have any prayer of winning.

Chico Democrat Audrey Denney has outraised Republican Congressman Doug LaMalfa of Richvale in deep red District 1, $888,000 to LaMalfa’s $810,000.

Almost 40 percent of Denney’s money, $350,000, has come in small increments, compared with 2.8 percent of LaMalfa’s money.

There are Republican exceptions, much of them Trump-related: Little-known Republican Omar Navarro raised $546,000 in small sums in his long-shot challenge against Democratic Congresswoman Maxine Waters of Los Angeles. She and Trump regularly tangle.

Tulare County Congressman Devin Nunes has used his close alliance with Trump to raise his profile nationally, and to raise money—$10.5 million for this election, almost half of it in small-dollar donations. Challenger Andrew Janz has raised 54 percent of his $7.2 million from small donors in the first half of the year.

Republican Congressman Tom McClintock of Elk Grove raised 24 percent of his $1.5 million from small donors. McClintock, whose tenure in office dates to 1982, has cultivated his list for decades.

Overall, however, challenger Jessica Morse has outraised McClintock, pulling in $2.8 million.

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HEALTHLINES Rick Killingsworth and Chelsea Smith run the Chico location of their family’s business, Hempful Farms.

CBD, she explained, cannot have psychoactive effects because its chemical structure does not interact with receptors in the brain that trigger those responses. Cannabinoids have a “lock and key” relationship with cells throughout the body; that is, cell receptors are sensitive to specific compounds only.

Within this network, called the endocannabinoid system (or ECS), “there isn’t a one size fits all,” Smith said. “Your ECS is as unique … and as individualistic as you are.”

Thus, how a cannabinoid works for one person—type, dose, frequency—likely won’t work exactly the same for another.

Smith told the CN&R afterward that she found the right balance for herself through trial and error. That mirrored her experience with doctors and treatments.

“Growing up with Tourette syndrome, it’s a really nebulous thing to have,” she

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in Chico for his 70th birthday in March, W conversation naturally turned to family busi-

hen Rick Killingsworth’s relatives gathered

nesses. His daughter, Andi Martin, talked about the success she and her husband, Chris, have experienced in Phoenix with Hempful Farms, their medicinal supplement venture.

Hempful Farms manufactures and sells products containing cannabidiol (or CBD)— one of over 80 identified compounds, called cannabinoids, contained in cannabis plants.

CBD comes directly from hemp—though also is present in marijuana—and is not psychoactive, as opposed to other cannabinoids like THC that come from marijuana.

The discussion piqued Killingsworth’s interest. He’d already used CBD oils, rubs

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and capsules for pain relief; he started looking into the substance further.

“The more you delve into this and really study this, it’s amazing what you can come up with,” he said. “There’s so much out there, you can spend a lifetime just researching.”

Chelsea Smith, Killingsworth’s niece, came to the same conclusion.

She also attended the birthday party, the first time in years she’d spoken with her cousin. Scientific research had consumed Smith’s life. Her work at UC Davis integrated the fields of anthropology, archeology, biochemistry, genetics and human biology.

A year ago, “disheartened” by academia, she left her doctoral program; “it was in this time period when I was deciding what I wanted to do with my life,” she said, “[that] this sort of fell into my lap.”

Smith took a deep dive into the science of cannabinoids. One article, on CBD and neurology, resonated particularly because she has Tourette syndrome, a neurological disorder. Smith tried CBD and found relief for her tics.

Niece and uncle both felt Chico could benefit from a Hempful Farms sister store.

They opened it June 1 on Cohasset Road near The Esplanade. They carry CBD products not just for humans, but a line for pets, too.

“I love research, I love studying, I love acquiring new knowledge,” Smith said, “but ultimately [university work] felt like it was in a vacuum; I was producing a lot of literature that wasn’t helping anybody. Working at Hempful, I’ve really found a lot of fulfillment, because we can help people.”

Smith, who also teaches yoga locally, spends much of her time explaining CBD forms and dosages to customers.

Killingsworth—a former businessman and mayor of Prescott Valley, Ariz.—keeps an eye on the big picture of the operation, though he mans the counter as well. They’re helped by Mary Bankston, Killingsworth’s sister and Smith’s mom, who designed the shop’s interior with a day spa in mind.

“They drew me out of retirement,” Killingsworth said, “more because of the product [CBD]—I really like what it does and what it has to offer. Plus, being able to work with the family—even though she sends me to the corner once in a while,” he quipped, pointing to Smith.

Last Thursday night (Oct. 18), the co-owners

welcomed newcomers for a CBD informational session conducted by Smith. She spent the better part of a half hour introducing cannabidiol—such as its pronunciation, canah-bih-DIAL—before taking questions from the 15 attendees.

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said. “I went through so many different forms of medication that really what became apparent to my family was they were basically saying, ‘Try this [but] we really don’t understand how it’s going to work in your system.’…

There just came a point where I felt really comfortable being able to assess whether a therapy form was going to be effective and if I was willing to try it, if I did the research.”

Smith explained in her talk, and elaborated afterward, that she’s not in a position to provide medical advice to clients. The U.S. Food and Drug Administration regulates supplements; the agency prohibits manufacturers and retailers from diagnosing or prescribing.

So when people ask her if they can stop taking medicine after starting a CBD regimen—as happened Thursday evening—Smith has to limit her guidance.

“It’s a hard position to be in,” she said. “How much knowledge the doctor has on the ECS or can-

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“So, I’ll tell them what I’ve learned: People have tried it, a lot of people have found relief, but you need to approach it with caution. Talk to your doctor, talk about the symptoms that can occur if you cut your medication.”

Thursday’s event was the Chico store’s first. Videos are on Facebook and Instagram (see infobox). They have plans to hold more.

“We are always flabbergasted at the way that this just unfolded,” Smith said. “Both us us will be like, ‘Did you ever see this coming?’ No.” Ω

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GREENWAYS WAYS MoonBeam Farm property manager Ara Noble, left, holds one of Carolyn “Caz” Hansen’s “kids”: a loofah fruit, not yet peeled.

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sprawling vines at her Corning farm, she Acouldn’t resist stopping frequently.

s Carolyn “Caz” Hansen walked among the

“Hey, kids!” she called out to her plants as she strolled along. “You guys are looking for the last of the blooms, huh?”

Rows and rows of the cucumber-like fruits stretch across her farm on Columbia Avenue, a narrow rural road in Tehama County about 2 miles from Interstate 5. The life of the annual crop begins in April, and the fruits can grow as long as a forearm.

The “beasts” are something to marvel at, and during a recent private tour, Hansen grabbed her pocket knife when she found a ripe specimen. Slicing the top, she peeled back the yellowish skin, like she was about to dig into a banana.

The inside held a surprise: a tan, fibrous material, spongy and flexible—a loofah (also spelled luffa) in its natural shape and form, “however Mother Nature makes it,” Hansen said.

The first seeds of MoonBeam Farm were planted in May 2015, when Hansen started growing her first two rows of loofah (also spelled luffa). In that first year, she had about 200 plants. Now she has more than 4,000.

The farm, which also cultivates three types of lavender, opened to the public in August 2017, and a variety of products are sold at an on-site store—a barn painted an impossible-to-miss “Moroccan red.” There are loofah sponges and soaps, and lavender goods galore: neck pillows, soaps, sugar scrubs, bath bombs, beard oils and perfumes/ colognes. Everything is made and packaged

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by hand on the farm.

Hansen also offers free and low-cost classes on topics such as baking with lavender, experiencing loofah and creating felt soap and sugar scrubs. She hosts field trips and tours, as well.

She’s a multitalented Jill of all trades—a painter, craftswoman and accountant/ auditor—and is passionate about her work on the farm. MoonBeam Farm does not use pesticides or bleach or dye on the loofah, often a practice with imported products. Nor does MoonBeam force the weave into the shapes commonly spotted at drug stores.

“I’m trying to keep everything as basic and as close to the Earth as possible,” she said.

That’s why hers look and feel different.

Instead of stiff, pale, unyielding material, organic loofah is simply rinsed of its oily sap and seeds after it is plucked from the vine. Once air-dried, it is ready to be cut and packaged.

Loofah in that form has a variety of uses: tough enough to clean kitchen grime and floss a dog’s teeth, but soft enough to cleanse the skin.

MoonBeam Farm is a labor of love for a

small team. Hansen co-owns the farm with her father, Marvin, an 89-year-old veteran, and runs it with Ara Noble, her property Check ’em out:

MoonBeam Farm will host free loofah harvest experiences and tours Friday and Saturday (Oct. 26-27), 5:30-7 p.m., at 3911 Columbia Ave., Corning. Visit moonbeamfarm.com or call 586-7400.

manager. Volunteers and interns come through every now and then.

Hansen was born in New Zealand and raised in Holland until she was 10, when her family moved to the States and settled in Petaluma. Her grandmother cared for a couple of loofah plants there—Hansen’s first exposure to “land sponge.” They were drawn to the Corning property because of its land quality and proximity to Chico and its veterans services.

Noble also grew up outside of the U.S., working at her family’s urban convenience store in the Philippines. Her husband and great uncle built the barn for MoonBeam; she and Hansen hit it off. Noble now lives on the farm and provides hospice care for Marvin.

“I’ve learned a lot here,” she told the CN&R. “It’s a really big deal for me.”

The pair reminisced about the past three years, chuckling about Noble’s first time driving a tractor—she’s so light, they had to add sandbags to the seat to trigger the sensor.

Hansen reflected on more sentimental moments, too, like a significant loss of lavender crop her first year. As she has learned how to cultivate her trade, and as her father’s health care needs have increased, she’s learned to change her perspective.

Accounting is a high-stress profession, always about achieving “100 percent” success, but that doesn’t have to extend to other parts of her life. “[At the farm], there’s something about listening to the birds, being in the sun …

smelling the lavender,” she said. “I’ve now learned that life is OK at 80 percent or 85 percent.”

Hansen has many plans for MoonBeam Farm, such as adding African wedding brooms, pet products and lavender ornaments to her offerings. She is seeking wholesale opportunities and eventually wants to expand the barn and host weddings.

As the farm has grown, she has enjoyed fostering a connection with her community—her events have created a fun, quiet bonding opportunity for small groups, and her first lavender harvest celebration drew more than 1,000 visitors (see infobox).

“If anything, if that’s something we can do as a farm, for people to come and be a part of each other[’s lives],” Hansen said, “there’s something very exciting about that.” Ω

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Surrounded by miles of farmland, Gray Lodge Wildlife Area is a 9,100-acre area used by 230 bird species throughout the year.

Migrating birds and permanent residents can be spotted, plus otters and muskrats swim and frolic in the deeper waterways.

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Dracula’s Closet is celebrating its final season after 23 years. The owners, Bill and Mary Shelley (no relation to the famous author), moved to Chico in 1995 from the Bay Area, where they owned a party supply store. Bill says he really needed something else to do, so he decided to open a Halloween store because it was only seasonal and it would keep him busy. He was 58 at the time and expected that he would work it for a couple of years. He never expected it to take hold like it did. They started with a 1,200-square-foot store and it grew from there, reaching over 40,000 square feet when it was in the old Mervyn’s space at the North Valley Plaza. Bill has watched costume trends shift from scary to sexy, and he still can’t explain why women like to dress up for Halloween more than men. Visit Dracula’s Closet at 2540 Esplanade MondaySaturday, noon-8 p.m., and Sunday, noon-5 p.m. Hot tip: Everything in the store is at least 50 percent off.

How do you choose what to sell?

I try to pick costumes that I think the people would want, especially the plus sizes. When we go to the [trade] shows, my wife and I, we’ll call the biggest model out and ask what size she is—if she says 16 or 18, we’ll ask her to bring all the costumes that she puts on to us. If she

looks good in it and it doesn’t make her look like she’s a pear, we buy it, because too many times they make costumes that make a heavy lady look heavier and I don’t like that idea.

Have you worked with the same employees over the years?

Joyce here has been with me since 2012. It all started with her family with one kid that came in. We were so packed in that 1,200-square-foot store, and this kid came [in] … and I said, “You working?” He said, “No.” I asked, “You want a job?”

He said, “Yeah.” I said, “Get behind the counter.” That’s how he got hired and he stayed with me for 10 years. And after working with him, I’ve had his mother work for me, his father worked for me, his sister worked, his brother worked, his

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aunt, his grandmother worked ….

Why are you closing the store?

Mary had wanted me to retire like “normal” people. She said, “How long are you gonna do it?”

And I told her maybe [until I’m] 75. Then when I turned 75, she says, “This is the year?” “No ….”

So, I’ve drug it out another six years beyond that, but I’ve gotta go now. My legs are not making it, my back is not making it. Old age has taken hold. When you stop to think you’re only nine years from 90, it’s time.

Do you have a farewell message for Chico?

It’s been a great 23 years. I wish I had another 23 in me, but I don’t. I want to thank everybody for patronizing us over these years and being a friend.

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At long last, there is gambling in north Chico. I’ve stopped in to check on the progress inside Quackers Fire Grill and Bar several times over the past year or so, and much to my surprise, I got a phone call from some girlfriends Saturday night (Oct. 20) inviting me out to the new card room. It’s open?! OK! As everyone probably knows by now, I’m a pool player. So, I’m sad to report that several of the tables that used to occupy the room known as Crystal Billiards are now gone. But, they’ve been replaced by card tables. Just one was occupied Saturday night (Casino Chico owner Jon Scott, who was working the cage when I cashed out, informed me the place was just holding its soft opening, so dealers and other staff were still being trained).

I decided to try my hand (yes, I went there) at the blackjack table in the billiards room, while a group of what appeared to be high-rollers had taken up residence in the more exclusive area (more or less what used to be Edwards). Nobody at my table seemed overly confident, which was fine by me. The stakes were a bit high—$5 buy-in—but I started with $20, played about half an hour of cards, and walked away with $15 in my pocket. Not a bad deal.

As mentioned above, Casino Chico is still figuring itself out. I look forward to seeing how it evolves. In the meantime, be kind to the staff—they’re new—and hopefully you win big!

BuTT OuT Speaking of casinos, last week, Rolling Hills cut the ribbon on its new nonsmoking casino, at the north end of the Corning facility. With over 100 slot machines inside and separate doors, this promises to offer a healthier alternative for those with breathing problems or others, like me, who just hate coming home reeking of cigarettes.

THEy HavE THE mEaTs I remember a year or so ago, Arby’s released elk and venison sandwiches at select locations and I was bummed one of them wasn’t in Chico. While I honestly can’t even remember the last time I ate at the fast-food sandwich place, I do guiltily enjoy hearing Ving Rhames’ deep voice rave about its meats. And now, Chico’s on the special list.

Starting last Saturday (Oct. 20), the restaurant unveiled a seared duck breast sandwich specifically in places where duck-hunting is prevalent. It’s a limitededition ’wich, so if that’s your thing, go get your fill.

BOnus sHOpping I was walking through the Garden Walk Mall recently and noticed

signs for a flea market on Saturdays throughout October. I stopped in to Zot’s Hot Dogs & Deli and chatted with owner Leslie Montague, who informed me this Saturday (Oct. 27) is the last they’ll be holding the flea market, run by five of the Garden Walk business owners and taking up residence in a large space toward the interior of the mall. Items range from clothing to jewelry to all manner of knickknacks.

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he air is filled with the jangle of coins and chains—swinging silver ornaments on handstitched dresses flashing in the sunlight. It’s a hot October day as hundreds from Butte County’s Hmong community pour onto a field to celebrate their New Year. Tassels sway on high hats and beaded tucks. Men stroll by in dark suits and sunglasses.

Children fence with balloon swords. As people spread across the campus of Nelson Avenue Middle School in Oroville, the elders take time to publicly remember a lost homeland, a painful exodus and the seeds of a new beginning.

Left: Mai Yang, a Hmong refugee who’s father was killed fighting for the CIA’s “Secret Army,” sits remembering those days in her home in Oroville.

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It’s a story that played out under the shadow of the Vietnam War and nearly everyone who made it through was scarred.

One of those people is Mai Yang, whose father was among the 30,000 Hmong recruited by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency to battle North Vietnamese soldiers and Lao Communist insurgents on the Ho Chi Minh Trail. They would come to be remembered as “the Secret Army.”

Yang, who now lives in Oroville, can still remember her father carrying her on his back as he worked the fields. That was before he became a soldier, before their village in Laos was pulled into the regional fighting.

Yang says when she was 6, some North Vietnamese spies learned her father was part of a U.S.-sponsored brigade and had a hidden cache of weapons. They moved into the village, murdering him as Yang’s mother rushed the children into the jungle.

As the war intensified, and Hmong villages endured attack after attack from Communist raiding parties, Yang’s mother became overwhelmed with despair. Her children watched her get sick and grow dangerously weak. Yang remembers her mother rolling around in pain, calling out for her dead husband. Soon, Yang and her siblings were orphans in a war zone.

“So, there was only the four of us left,” she recalled during a recent interview, crying.

When the United States ended its war effort in 1975, Yang’s village joined a mass

exodus, fleeing from Communist soldiers seeking revenge. It was a vicious, running purge that killed thousands of Hmong people.

Some were able to immigrate to the United States nearly immediately, while others resided in refugee camps for years, even decades.

The final wave of refugee immigrants to the United States started arriving in 2004, and there are an estimated 200,000 Hmong living here today—mostly in California, Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Yet, when these war-scarred refugees first arrived, there were no government agencies or nonprofits trying to help them get counseling, or even explain the availability of therapy for what they’d been through.

It’s a story that second- and third-generation Hmong Americans know well, a public health legacy many of them—along with a number of medical experts—believe puts their elder community at a heightened risk for depression, isolation, paranoia, gambling addiction, domestic strife and suicide.

Dr. Carolee Tran, a psychologist in Davis who specializes in treating refugees from the Vietnam War—and, in fact, is a refugee herself—says there’s a serious issue with undiagnosed post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) among those who escaped that violence. Other clinicians in the area agree. At a Capital Region health forum in May, Norbee Xiong, a Hmong-American mental health counselor, said 90 percent of his patients are Hmong, and the most common diagnoses among the elders are PTSD and major depression. At the same event, Dr. Pachida Lo, a psychiatrist who treats Hmong patients, said stigma in the community about seeking mental health services prevents many from reaching out until they’re on the verge of tak-

Stigma in the [Hmong] community about seeking mental health services prevents many from reaching out until they’re on the verge of taking their lives. ing their lives.

In Butte County, that picture is improving. The Hmong Cultural Center is working with behavioral health specialists to try to get suffering elders the help they never had.

If you ask Yang, they’re succeeding in that mission.

A piercing past The Hmong have songs and ballads that recall 15 years of ravaging war in Laos. One person in Oroville who still thinks about those years is Yang Bee Xiong, an energetic, often-smiling shaman with a yard full of darting chickens. The spiritual leader has an infectious grin, but he can still recall the time when fear was part of his daily existence.

Xiong was 20 in 1976 and joining his family on a dangerous flight from their village in Sainyabuli toward Laos’ southern border. The war had ended, and the Hmong faced indiscriminate killings by the North Vietnamese or reprogramming camps at the hands of the Lao Communist militants.

Their only hope was crossing the Mekong River into Thailand. Xiong recalls sneaking through dense pockets of jungle, avoiding the roads at all costs.

“The [North] Vietnamese had come back to kill us,” he explained. “When it was dark, you slept with your shoes on and your backpack strapped onto your back. When you slept, you would just curl up in a corner to rest. So, whenever you heard gunshots, you could just get up and run.”

Not only were the Hmong being hunted, some were starting to die of starvation.

Yang Bee Xiong went from being a war refugee in Laos to an important shaman in Butte County’s Hmong community.

Survivors also describe a terrifying scene on the banks of the Mekong. Many crossing the river either drowned or were shot by Communist patrol boats. Escapees who made it through the gauntlet were crowded into Thai refugee camps like Ban Vinai, described by memoirist Kao Kalia Yang as a cramped, filthy place plagued by hunger and the screams of people waking from nightmares.

Danger and troop movements caused Xiong to wait three years before crossing the Mekong. When he did, he, his wife, Mai Lor, and other family members ended up in Ban Vinai along with 20,000 other Hmong people without a home.

Not long after, in 1985, the first Hmong families arrived in Butte County. They settled in, made friends with local farmers and began sponsoring other refugees trapped in Thailand. Within five years, Butte County had a new, fledgling community weaving itself into the fabric of daily life. Over time, many of the Hmong found jobs in local agriculture. Farming had, after all, been an integral part of their culture in Laos for centuries.

During the recent New Year’s celebration, District 1 Supervisor Bill Connelly reflected on how versatile the Hmong proved to the county’s broader workforce. He said members of the community now excel at everything from landscaping, construction and auto work to small business management, health care and law enforcement.

While the Hmong Cultural Center is located in Oroville, Chico is the true epicenter for the local community, with over 4,000 Hmong living in the greater area as of 2010.

In Oroville, there were 640 at last count. In 2012, community leaders in Chico decided to erect a statue of the legendary Hmong commander from the war, General Vang Pao. This is the trajectory Butte County’s Hmong were on in 1990 when Xiong’s brother, Chai, immigrated to the area. Xiong followed him in 1996.

It wasn’t long before Xiong heard from other Hmong people that Butte County’s Behavioral Health Department provided counseling for anyone who was having difficulties with memories of the war.

“They explained to me that, if you’re depressed or afraid, they will take you out to explore and provide a counselor for you to speak with,” he remembered. Xiong decided to try the counseling. He says he found it useful.

According to Robert By Khang, one of the first Hmong resettlement specialists in Northern California, the kind of outreach that Xiong and other refugees were getting in 1996 for trauma was nonexistent in the late 1970s and early ’80s when the first Hmong people arrived. Though the mental health field had been studying the effects of war trauma since the early 1950s—with

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Back at the Oroville celebration, dancers rang in the New Year, clapping, spinning and dipping with a sparkle in their sapphire shirts. These young Hmong-American performers are called Nkauj Hmoob Peev Xwm, or The Girls With Courage. They’re always a highlight of the festivities. Elected

and empowering families through culturally sensitive education, support and advocacy.

Over the years, improving public health also became part of its mission. The center created Zoosiab, which translates in English to “Happy People,” a program specially for the elders. Yeng Xiong worked for that program for last four years and was recently recruited as a Hmong-speaking social worker for the county.

During her time with the Zoosiab program, she brought Hmong elders—considered to be anyone over 50—together every Wednesday for activities and discussions.

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county officials, a congressman and even a member of the Lao royal family cheered as they cut across the stage; but to the side of the tent, out in the blinding sunlight, workers from the cultural center were missing the action. They held down the fort at an information booth, chatting with passersby.

The work they do may be quiet, but there is evidence it’s starting to reverse the trend of elder isolation and untreated trauma that’s plagued Hmong communities in America for decades.

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PTSD becoming an official diagnosis in 1980—Khang doesn’t recall that knowledge getting impressed on resettlement professionals of the era.

“The Hmong didn’t seek that type of support because they didn’t know about it, or know to look for it,” he explained.

Similarly, long before Dr. Tran was an expert at counseling Southeast Asian refugees, she was aware of that history of nontreatment. Tran evacuated as a little girl from Saigon. Her father, a commander in the South Vietnamese army, saw brutal fighting during the war. Her mother was forced on a heart-stopping escape from the Vietcong with her children. Yet when Tran’s parents arrived in the Bay Area, she didn’t recall any offerings of therapy or counseling.

“There was nothing of the sort,” she said. “There was not even [English as a second language]. Counseling was just the furthest thing on anybody’s mind. … There wasn’t even a symptom checklist.”

Tran stresses this legacy had consequences. In the 1990s, she and her husband, Hinton Ladson, conducted a study for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation that compared PTSD rates in the general population to those in the Vietnamese refugee community. They determined that the rate of people suffering from PTSD in the general population was 3.5 percent, while the rate for their refugee subjects was more than double, at 7.5 percent.

Though the research focused on the Vietnamese, Tran says her work with the Hmong, as well as Cambodian refugees who escaped the Khmer Rouge, reveals common trends around trauma. All of these groups witnessed extreme violence. Later, many, in raising children in the United States, dealt with disturbed family dynamics and abrupt intergenerational shifts in culture. Being targeted for racism, facing downward mobility and struggling to provide for their families often caused low self-esteem, especially with men, which Tran has found can retrigger memories of the war.

“All of these issues [elders experience]— the depression, the anxiety, the domestic violence, the gambling addiction—they’re all valid concerns when it comes to trauma in refugees,” she said.

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She says a typical day involves 20 to 30 seniors doing arts and crafts, physical activities or getting help with English. Employees at the center pick the participants up and drive them home as needed. This free offering would be a standard bulwark against elder isolation in any community, but in Butte County it’s also created a safe place for participants to openly discuss what they’ve endured. According to Yeng Xiong, many times that leads to intense moments of catharsis.

“When they’re together in a group of people their own age, I think they’re more open to share,” she said. “We have a lot of them that do share their stories, whether that’s their post-traumatic stress from the war, or whether it’s just problems in their relationships or marriage. And we all cry together when they share those stories, because we’ve all been affected.”

Helping people avoid internalizing trauma is an obvious win, but the center’s elder program has had successes on another front: Yeng Xiong estimates that 90 percent of the attendees have learned about—and more important, decided to use—counseling services at the Behavioral Health Department. Given that many of them can’t read or write, Yeng Xiong says some haven’t heard of the department and others have only a vague notion of what it is.

And while there are no words in Hmong for “mental health services,” just as there are no words for “stigma,” “trigger warning” or “post-traumatic stress disorder,” the cultural center’s employees have learned to translate the basic concepts in a nonintimidating way.

“The challenging part in the beginning is just building trust,” she noted. “Even though we’re part of the Hmong community, if they don’t know you, they might not trust you and they’re not going to attend … continuing to drop by and talk to them is the best way to get over that challenge, because it builds a relationship over time.”

In the course of building that confidence and credit, the center’s workers have observed that many elders are now blending American mental health concepts into their traditional belief system. The Hmong religion is one of animism, a faith that the spirit world and physical world are bridged in mysterious ways. Because of that, some people suffering from depression, listlessness, nightmares or flashbacks might view the challenge through a religious prism rather than a health-related one. But that generally hasn’t stopped those in the program from exploring how a counselor might help.

This evolution doesn’t surprise Pachia Lucy Vang, a Hmong-American ethnographer who’s interviewed refugees from California to Thailand. “The Hmong spiritual beliefs are pretty adaptable,” she

takes support on both ends.

“Helping them makes me happy,” he said. “But I can’t do it alone.”

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said. “We’ve taken some things from other cultures and religions we’ve encountered over the centuries. It’s a belief system that’s always brought new ideas into it.”

In Butte County, it helps that an influential shaman like Yang Bee Xiong encourages his fellow community members to seek mental health services if they’re struggling.

Having been personally impressed by the county’s health workers, Xiong sees no conflict between t;he help that he tries to render

Top, from left: Pajai Yang, Pa Kou Yang and Leon Xiong help keep Hmong traditions alive at Oroville’s Hmong New Year celebration on Oct. 13.

Below: The Nkauj Hmoob Peev Xwm dance troupe, aka The Girls With Courage, perform in front of a crowd of leaders and elders from Butte County’s Hmong community.

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people in the spirit world and the assistance they can get from doctors and clinicians.

Given what so many of the Hmong have been through, Xiong thinks sometimes it

With the New Year’s ceremonies reaching their zenith, local Hmong leaders asked Ed and Georgie Szendrey to come up to the stage. The Chico couple have worked closely with the Hmong community for years, helping document atrocities carried out against them by Communist forces in Laos and Vietnam.

The leadership at Butte County’s Behavioral Health Department understands the gravity of that story, too. Their partnership with the cultural center is helping clinicians navigate the intricacies of a traditional Hmong perspective and define trauma outreach in an ethnically sensitive way. This approach to treating trauma and depression in the elders can sometimes include a blend of modern and traditional methods.

Don Taylor, assistant director of Behavior Health, says group therapy in the form of social gatherings like potlucks and field trips is a good fit for a lot of the Hmong elders.

Behavioral Health has focused on outreach with the Hmong community since the early 1990s. Taylor remembers accompanying newly arrived refugees on community excursions when he was first hired in 1997.

From his view, making them feel like they belonged in places like Oroville and Chico took the edge off the anxiety that often comes with resettlement.

“It was tremendous, the difference we would see in terms of people being isolated and withdrawn,” Taylor said.

Behavioral Health developed additional outreach strategies over time. Even though Hmong isn’t one of the languages that counties are mandated to print their literature in, Butte’s department has published numerous fliers, brochures and custom publications in Hmong over the last decade.

Even more important, according to Taylor, has been its ability to hire trained clinicians who are bilingual Hmong-Americans. The county currently has four working in its Oroville office.

“A regular translator can speak Hmong, but they don’t always entirely understand the health concepts,” Taylor observed.

“Having professionals who are trained in the field who also speak Hmong makes a huge difference.”

He added, “There’s been a pretty concerted effort for the outreach because of how much trauma was associated with the war, and because it doesn’t just affect the individual, but affects the entire family ….

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Cultural Center has been a good ally.”

It was through the cultural center that Mai Yang learned of counseling at Behavioral Health. After being orphaned as a child, she and her siblings survived the wave of retaliation killings and ended up in the Ban Vinai refugee camp. Over the years, they bounced between Thailand’s various sanctuaries for the Hmong, staying in some until they were forced out by closures. Often, the family was dressed in rags.

American doctors visited the camps less and less. Disease started killing more of the dispossessed. And, of course, Yang always remembers the hunger.

Eventually old enough to marry, Yang found a husband who was open to moving to the U.S. The couple were granted permission to immigrate, but just then, Yang got pregnant. Her husband was suddenly convinced it was too risky to start a new life overseas with a baby. Yang reluctantly put off her dream of leaving Thailand. She raised three children in the squalor of the camps, finding ways to eek out a life for them. When her husband fell ill and passed away in 2005, Yang decided it was finally time to “come to America.”

The family arrived as part of the last wave of Hmong refugees to settle in the Golden State. Yang says that, in Butte County, they found a community with open arms—and a host of wrap-around services that had been built up over a decade and a half.

“They gave my children backpacks for school and registered them in school, so they could learn,” she said. “I was sick, so I went to the doctor … I was so happy because I came, that’s why I’m alive.”

Yang began participating in the cultural center’s elder program and was eventually brought to a county counselor to discuss her trauma.

“It helped,” she said of the therapy.

“There was an American [clinician] who really loved me and helped me out a lot.”

And so, as the Hmong New Year marks another turning of the seasons in an adopted homeland, elders like Yang are finding ways to heal from a painful past that’s never far away. For her part, Yang attributes the opportunity to find peace to everything from the generosity of the cultural center to the warmth of Butte County’s residents.

“How come we didn’t come earlier?” she asked herself, wiping tears away. “We suffered so much.” Ω

About this story:

Scott Thomas Anderson wrote this story while participating in the USC Annenberg Center for Health Journalism 2018 California Fellowship program.

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Getting lost on the Open Studios trail All in the golden afternoon/Full leisurely we glide—Lewis Carroll (from Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland)

Atall bungalow on Fifth Street. Atop the porch stood a regal standard poodle blue sign pointed to a vintage Chico

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Art Tour This quirky scene Weekend two: was the first stop on Oct. 27-28, what turned out to be 10 a.m.-5 p.m.

Tickets/maps available a magnificent mini for $12 at Chico Art adventure as my trio Center, Chico Paper biked around Chico Co., and many other locations (visit chico under afternoon sun arts.org/cac/osat2018 last Saturday (Oct. for list). 20) looking for the blue signs that corresponded with spots on the map for the Open Studios art tour. Of course, a big part of the charm of the Chico Art Center’s annual two-weekend event is being invited into the creation spaces themselves, where each stop offers not only a view of a different artist’s work, but also a unique art world to explore.

This year’s event features 49 stops (most in Chico, with one in Oroville and three in Paradise) and more than 70 artists, and the cosmic art on Fifth Street that promised to “clean the air in your home” belongs to Kathryn Silvera.

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The artist explained that her pieces that feature a certain combination of metals, quartz crystals and resin makes the art double as air filters for your home.

Whether one is skeptical of the powers of Silvera’s colorful “orgonite” slabs or not, the molded pieces of various sizes were indisputably gorgeous, as were her 3-D encaustic/oil/watercolor paintings in a side room.

Sharing space with her pieces on a huge wood-slat wall erected in the middle of the living room were complementary wood-and-metal works by Silvera’s husband, Justin. His wall-hangings featured various knick-knacks—a plastic goose, a brass pineapple, wooden giraffe head, etc.—attached to wood slabs alongside little metal spouts that he explained were once used for tapping maple trees. Unique, super cool and affordable ($50 and up).

The blue sign outside Dylan Tellesen’s studio was haphazardly affixed with blue painter’s tape to the side of a three-story building in downtown Chico, and despite being very familiar with his art and having known the artist for many years, I was stunned by what we found inside. Tellesen’s space is the stuff of artist fantasies.

Think: New York, industrial space and Andy Warhol. It takes up nearly the entire second floor of the First Street building, with high ceilings and brick walls and open-concept work spaces for him and his studio mates—designer/ illustrator/painter Susie Tolen and typographer/man-of-many-artistic-hats Max Infeld.

Nearly all of the works Tellesen had on display—both finished and inprogress—were his signature stylized portraits, most impressive of which were the large ones of well-known folks— Elliot Smith, Leonard Cohen, Angela Davis, etc. My favorite was “Bourdain,” a stunning, somber, blue-toned sad-eyed mural of the chef/author/TV personality.

Of all the potential new worlds to explore on the Open Studios tour, I doubt any can touch the magic inside at 7th Street Centre for the Arts. The performance and visual art center for Chico’s Mains’l Services—which provides art and dance classes, plus support for people with developmental disabilities— filled several rooms with an impressive collection of paintings, prints, collages and sculptures by its clients.

The pieces ranged from the striking thickly painted creamy-yellow figure “Silhouette 2” (by Glenda Davidson) and Nikki Davis’ bold thick-lined portrait of a “Blond Maiden” to several collaborative paper collages and intricate wood and linocut prints by David Plant. It’s as vibrant and expressive a show as you’ll ever see in Chico. If you’re heading out for the final weekend of the tour (Oct. 27-28), I highly recommend stopping there.

Fair warning, many of the artists bow out for the second weekend of the tour, but more than half will still have open doors this Saturday and Sunday (including the Silveras’ home studio and 7th Street). That’s more than enough for what promises to be another sun-soaked day, perfect for leisurely gliding along the arts trail. Ω

Schweig and health coach Danielle Cook present to patients, medical professionals and the interested public. Thu, 10/25, 6pm. Free. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade. thelymecenter.org

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ALMOND BOWL: PV takes on crosstown rivals Chico High to see who’s the best at sportsball. Fri, 10/26, 7pm. Chico High School, 900 Esplanade.

BEGINNING SIGN LANGUAGE: Learn ASL! Fri, 10/26, 10am. Paradise Library, 5922 Clark Road, Paradise. buttecounty.net

CIRQUE MECHANICS: Inspired by modern circus, this unique circus troupe finds its roots in the mechanical and its heart in the stories of American industrial ingenuity. Strongmen, aerialists, acrobats, a galloping mechanical metal horse and some clowning around await in this stunning performance. Fri, 10/26, 7:30pm. $15-$48. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 8986333. csuchico.edu

HANDI-RIDERS FALL FEST DINNER: Benefit tri-tip dinner and dance for Handi-Riders, an organization that provides equineassisted activities and therapies to children and adults with disabilities in Northern California. Fri, 10/26, 6pm. $30. Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave. 315-0654. handi-riders.org

PINK OCTOBER PARTY: Raise money for breast cancer research and treatment with dinner and a dueling pianos performance. Fri, 10/26, 7pm. $75. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Highway 45, Colusa. pink-october.org

TRIVIA BEE FOR LITERACY: Get your two smartest friends and register your trivia team for this fun Butte County Library fundraiser. Fri, 10/26, 7pm. $30. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. buttecounty.net

CIRQUE MECHANICS Friday, Oct. 26 Laxson Auditorium

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MARIACHI HERENCIA DE MEXICO Sunday, Oct. 28 Laxson Auditorium SEE SUNDAY, MUSIC

CHICO MALL COSTUME CONTEST: Fun, games and prizes, plus Anna and Kristoff from Frozen. Sat, 10/27, 2pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E 20th St.

DOWNTOWN PUBLIC ART TOUR: Free one-hour walking tour highlighting the epic public art of downtown Chico. Donations gladly accepted. Sat 10/27, 10am. Our Hands Sculpture, 411 Main St.

HALLOWEEN ON THE HILL: Music, dancing, costumes and prizes. Sat 10/27, 8pm. The Outpost, 7589 Humboldt Road, Butte Meadows.

ZOMBIE WRECKING CREW: Blast zombies with paintballs from an armored bus, escape on foot through a laser tag maze, and have fun in the kid zone. Fri, 10/26, 5pm. $8-$50. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. zombiewreckingcrew.com

Theater MYSTERY OF THE RED LEG: Gibson House Mystery Performers presents this audience-participation dinner theater show. Dress like a pirate, get involved in the show and enjoy a four-course dinner. Fri, 10/26, 6:30pm. $40.

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

ROARING ’20S MURDER MYSTERY: Travel back to the 1920s and solve a

PARADISE SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA DIAMOND JUBILEE Sunday, Oct. 28 Paradise Performing Arts Center SEE SUNDAY, MUSIC

murder mystery case by following clues and asking suspects questions. Fundraiser benefits local charities and is BYOB. Costumes encouraged. Fri, 10/26, 6pm. $35. Sierra Hall, 6165 Center St., Paradise. 518-8841.

SIDE SHOW: Based on a remarkable true story, this one-of-a-kind tale follows the legendary Hilton twins as they rise from conjoined side-show attractions to Hollywood celebrities, all while searching for love and acceptance amid the spectacle of fame. Fri, 10/26, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Butte College Black Box Theatre, ARTS Building, Oroville. 8937444. butte.edu

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Special Events AUTUMN FEST: Pony cart rides, craft and food fair, house tours and fall activities for kids.

Plus tons of pumpkins available for sale. Sat 10/27. $3-$5. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham.

JOHN MUIR & THE BIDWELLS: Randy Larsen discusses how Muir cultivated personal virtues such as reverence, curiosity and gratitude through his wilderness ramblings and how he tried to teach them to his good friend Annie Bidwell. Sat 10/27, 10am. $5. Chico History Museum, 141 Salem St. chicohistorymuseum.org

THE KILLING CROP SALLY’S NIGHTMARE: A little girl’s nightmare becomes your terrifying reality. Hardcore Halloween corn maze full of frights and fiends. Sat 10/27, 7pm. Country Pumpkins, 7152 Highway 32, Orland.

MONSTERITA: A fun night of margaritas, live music, appetizers and a Halloween costume contest to benefit the Butte Humane Society. Sat 10/27, 6pm. Clear Creek Sports Club, LLC, 2655 Everett Freeman Way, Corning. buttehumane.org

MOONLIGHT MEOWS: Fundraising dinner and gala for the Chico Cat Coalition. Sat 10/27, 5:30pm. $50. Chico Masonic Family Center, 1110 W. East Ave.

MUSEUM MONSTER MAYHEM: Monsters come out of the shadows to creep around the museum while you enjoy activities and challenges.

Fun and slightly creepy experiences in the museum gallery prepared by student curators. Sat 10/27, 11am. $5. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Chico State.

898-5397.

OLIVES & OROVILLE: Olive oil producer Lewis Johnson presents a history of how the olive industry has shaped Oroville, then tour two orchards. Sat 10/27, 10am. Free. Butte County Farm Bureau, 2580 Feather River Blvd., Oroville. 530-592-7631.

surrendered animals that need a loving paw up. Get out with your pup and start your Saturday in style. Sat 10/27, 8am. $25-$35.

Sycamore Field, Lower Bidwell Park. walkwoofwag.com

WILD & SCENIC FILM FESTIVAL: Friends of Butte Creek hosts the 12th film fest featuring 13 awesome nature films. Sat 10/27, 6pm. $10$55. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. 893-0360. sierranevada.com

ZOMBIE WRECKING CREW: See Friday. Sat 10/27, 5pm. $8-$50. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. zombiewreckingcrew.com

Music ... AND THIS ONE TIME AT JAZZ CAMP: Jazz X-Press celebrates fall with a week of jazz camps and classes at Nor-Cal schools, culminating in this concert featuring guest high schools, amazing guest artists and more. Sat, 10/27, 7:30pm. $6-$18. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144. 898-5152. csuchico.edu

CLASSICAL GUITAR PROJECT: Southern California musician Ryan Ayers performs on steel string guitar. The classically trained composer puts on a highly engaging show. Sat, 10/27, 7:30pm. $15. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St. ryanayersmusic.com

NORTH VALLEY BAND REVIEW: The Willows Honker Band hosts junior and high school marching bands from around the North State. Sat, 10/27, 9:30am. Sycamore Park, Willows.

TANNER RICHARDSON: Brunch music. Sat, 10/27, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. VIRGINIA MARLO: Wine tasting, pizza and a beautiful blend of pop, alternative and hip-hop on the piano. Sat, 10/27, 1pm. Almendra Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway Road, Durham.

Theater MYSTERY OF THE RED LEG: See Friday. Sat 10/27, 6:30pm. $40. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountrycasino.com

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Special Events AUTUMN FEST: See Saturday. Sun, 10/28. $3-$5.

Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham.

ODE TO MUIR: Teton Gravity Research film follows snowboarders as they carve powder deep in California’s John Muir Wilderness during a 40-mile, foot-powered winter trek. Sun, 10/28, 7pm. $12-$15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

PUMPKIN & PANCAKES: Fresh ground whole wheat flour pancakes, plus gluten free, vegan and corn options at this KZFR fundraiser. Also, live music from Susan Dobra, John-Michael Sun, David Leon Zink and the Paper Hats! Sun, 10/28, 8am. $10-$15. Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave. kzfr.org

ZOMBIE WRECKING CREW: See Friday. Sun, 10/28, 5pm. $8-$50. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. zombiewreckingcrew.com

Music BLUES IS...?: Composer and guitarist David Dvorin presents a program of original compositions influenced by the blues in all of its myriad forms. Joined by Randy McKean on clarinet and Clifford Childers on bass trumpet, trombone and harmonica, the trio will prod, push and pull at the musical boundaries of what makes the blues. Sun, 10/28, 2pm. Free. Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State, ARTS 279. 898-5152.

DIAMOND JUBILEE: The Paradise Symphony Orchestra celebrates 60 years of music with guest conductor Dawn Harms, a stellar musician whose roots are in Paradise and who currently performs with the San Francisco Ballet Symphony. The show will also feature special guests from Theater on the Ridge. Sun, 10/28, 7pm. $15-$20. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road. paradisesymphony.org

SIDE SHOW: See Friday. Sat, 10/27, 7:30pm. $10$18. Butte College Black Box Theatre, 3536 Campus Drive, ARTS Building, Oroville. 8937444. butte.edu

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THE TRUMPETER’S NEW CLOTHES, SHOW & BOOK SIGNING: Author Robyn Engel and illustrator Steve Ferchaud read and sing from their new book, sell copies and sign ’em. Familyfriendly. Sat 10/27, 2pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave. 433-1577. rawknrobyn.blogspot.com

WALK WOOF WAG: Annual fundraiser for Chico Animal Shelter, housing stray and

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BRAIN BUZZ Do you have what it takes to unseat Three Babies & No Men from their trivia throne? The clever team took home last year’s Trivia Bee championship and they’ve been packing away even more useless information for this year’s showdown! Sharpen up your trivia skills for Butte County Library Literacy Services’ annual event where three-person teams compete for the prestigious title of Trivia Champions of Butte County. The event takes place on Friday, Oct. 26, at the Sierra Nevada Big Room to raise funds for learning materials, resources and support for adults and children in our community working to improve their reading and writing skills.

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HAUNTED HONKY TONK: All-ages show featuring Pacific Northwest troubadour Karl Blau (Bright Black Morning Light, The Solvents, Mount Eerie) and the Easy Leaves. Expect 1960s- and 1970s-era country music and great songwriting. Child admission is free, costumes are encouraged and there will be activities for young buckaroos. Tue, 10/30, 7pm. $20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

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by Ann Pierce & Betty Polivka on going through December.

493 East Ave Ste 1 & 3, Chico • 530.345.3063 www.SallyDimasArtGallery.com

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Special Events DISCO DAWN: Sunrise rave, yoga, massage and breakfast. Wed, 10/31, 6:30am. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. discodawn. com

HALLOWEEN AT THE GLENN COUNTY FAIR: All aboard the Spook Train! Plus the Orland Kiwanis host their Halloween event at Flaherty Hall with a parade starting at the post office. Wed, 10/31, 6pm. $3-$5. Glenn County Fairgrounds, 221 E. Yolo St., Orland.

PUMPKIN DROP: Explore the intersection of physics and surplus agriculture. Wed, 10/31, 12pm. Butte Hall, Chico State.

SAFE & SANE HALLOWEEN: Family-friendly trick-or -treating. No gore, scary costumes or masks on adults. Wed, 10/31, 4pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St.

TREAT STREET: More than 100 downtown businesses are dishing out candy to costumed kids during this Chico Halloween tradition. Wed, 10/31, 2pm. Downtown Chico, Downtown Chico. downtownchico.com

Music LOW FLYING BIRDS: Celebrate Halloween with some foot-stomping bluegrass and Americana. Wed, 10/31, 8pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

Theater OEDIPUS: PV High School students perform the classic Greek tragedy on the king’s fall from grace. Wed, 10/31, 7pm. $6-$8. Pleasant Valley High School, 1475 East Ave. 891-3050.

Shows through Dec. 8 Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology SEE MUSEUMS

Art 1078 GALLERY: Just Lying in the Grass, illustrations and paintings by Wyatt Hersey inspired by unity with our landscape.

Through 10/28. 1710 Park Ave. 1078gallery.org

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE FURNISHINGS: Birds & Barns, show from local teachers Reta Rickmers and Caitlin Schwerin. Through 10/31. Free.

250 East First St., 487-7229.

B-SO GALLERY: Pouwels Exhibition, featuring the work of J. Pouwels, foundation coordinator at Chico State. Through 10/26.

Free. Plus, Marie Fox, BFA culminating exhibition. 10/28-11/1. Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BELL MEMORIAL UNION AUDITORIUM: Voices What’s Going on in Our World?, pop art exhibit from the Art Education Student’s club DaDa and AE401: Manga and Beyond. Cosplay show and reception on Wednesday, Oct. 31 at 5pm. Through 11/13.

Chico State, 400 W. First St.

BLACKBIRD: Group Show, works by Robin Indar, Sienna Orlando, Tiera May, Ben Schiff, Sesar Sanchez, Heather Kelly, Brandon McKie, Raymi Ray and Tiffani Myers. Through 10/31. 1431 Park Ave.

CHICO ART CENTER: Open Studios Art Tour, two weekends of fun & inspiration when local artists open their work spaces to art tour ticket holders. Buy your map/ticket ($12) and discover studios throughout Butte County. Through 10/28. $12. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726. chicoartcenter.com

FEATHER RIVER SENIOR CENTER: Nostalgic Collection, works on display from Artists of River Town. Through 10/31. 1335 Myers Street, Oroville. artistsofrivertown.org

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS GALLERY: Ann Pierce & Lois Cohen, works from the estates of two of Chico’s most honored artists, plus art by Pierce’s parents, Frederick Trucksess and Ann Hoar. Through 10/27.

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

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Deep Etch,

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exhibition features print work by Chico State art faculty, including the late artists Richard Hornaday, James Kuiper, Ann Pierce and Claudia Steel. Through 12/8.

400 W. First St. janetturner.org

MUNICIPAL AUDITORIUM: Beauty on the River Quilt Show, the Oroville Piecemakers’ annual show features amazing fabric arts and a raffle. Through 10/28. $7. 1200 Myers St., Oroville, 589-9139. orovillepiecemakers.org

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Black & White in Black & White, exhibit examines the optimistic era of “The New Negro Movement” through the photographs of African American photographer John Johnson. Also: Mandala of the Lotus: Lama Losang Samten has returned to create a stunning mandala sand painting in the MONCA library (through 11/10). $5.

900 Esplanade. monca.org

PARADISE ART CENTER: Around Butte County, art for this show will depict some aspect of Butte County, whether in realism, sculpture, or abstract renderings.

Through 10/27. 5564 Almond St., Paradise.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Susan Proctor, works in watercolors, acrylics and pen and ink contain hidden images incised into the medium. Through 10/27. 493 East Ave., Suite 1. sallydimasartgallery.com

Museums GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Zoom Into Nano, hands-on exhibition demonstrates how scientists observe and make things that are too small to see. Through 1/6. $5-$7.

625 Esplanade.

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: A Stitch In Time, quilts from the museum’s collection, along with the handiwork of people in our community and stunning works from the Ridge Quilters Guild. Through 11/4. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Reimagining Chico, find out what Chico looked like 100 years ago with this exhibit exploring the archaeology of our neighborhoods. Two excavations have yielded historic artifacts from boarding houses located on campus and the long abandoned historic Chinatown. Through 12/8. Free. Chico State, 400 W. First St., 530-898-5397.

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Of Montreal is playing the Sierra Nevada Big Room on Nov. 6. Speaking with the CN&R ahead of the show, Barnes discusses his latest creation, White Is Relic/ Irrealis Mood, a maximalist take on 1980s dance music with a decidedly dark undercurrent (listen to the jittery single “Paranoiac Intervals/ Body Dysmorphia”). He says his main inspiration for the album was months of Trump-related “simulated reality paranoia.”

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basically that the known universe and our everyday reality is a computer simulation—some real Black Mirror stuff. Are you still freaked out by that possibility?

It’s one of those things that’s impossible to prove one way or the other. It kind of seems like an absurd thing to say, but I feel like ißnternet technology, the ability to project yourself all over the world while staying in one place—I feel like the effects on the human brain haven’t been studied that much.

We’d need another 80 years or something to figure out what kind of detrimental effects that has on our brains. The simulated reality concept is becoming more prevalent, people are becoming more and more conscious of it and there are so many movies made about it.

The way the politicians are sort of attacking reality on a level that’s never been attempted, there’s so much going on for people to navigate through, so it makes sense that we would feel imbalanced and confused.

Is your paranoia related to the 2016 election? Is that when it started?

I think so. I think it was a dissociative experience because you just can’t believe what’s happening. People who have the complete opposite view on basically everything are running the country, and they’re taking over the planet.

There are so many Trump-like people running countries. It creates a deep insecurity and terror.

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whirlpool of that mentality, and it’s hard to step outside of it.

Actually, it’s not that hard—you just have to throw your phone and laptop away, and then you’ll be free. But it’s hard to imagine a life where you’re engaging with your fellow man without having those devices.

How did ruminating on these subjects influence the creation of the album itself?

Definitely lyrically. I mention simulated reality a lot, this paranoia of being listened to and monitored, or the possibility of those things happening. But, at the same time, it has a lot more positive subject matter. I was falling in love when I wrote the record, so there’s a lot of hopefulness as well. It’s not just a negative terror trip.

You used the same drum sample packs throughout the album. Why did you limit yourself like that?

It was mainly inspired by recordings done in the late ’70s and throughout the ’80s, where people would have a drum machine, and you couldn’t upload new samples.

You had to be creative with the samples that came with the drum machine. All of those Prince and Janet Jackson records, they were done with drum machines, not live drummers. There’s just something about having one palette throughout [the creation process] that I find inspiring. It’s a fun challenge to create new things out of the same material. Ω

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DON’T MISS THE OPENER!

Stevie Ray Vaughan tribute. Fri, 10/26, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

KYLE WILLIAMS: Talented singer

shares stories and songs. Fri, 10/26, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery Street, Oroville.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: Country band, SKIP CULTON: Singer/songwriter showcases his music and mullet. Thu, 10/25, 6:30pm. The Commons, 2412 Park Ave.

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THE ALAN RIGG BAND: A gumbo of jazz,

10/25, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

EMO NIGHT: DJs spinning Taking Back Sunday, Fall Out Boy, Panic! at the Disco, My Chemical Romance and more. Thu, 10/25, 8pm. $8-$12. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

blues, R&B, zydeco and more. Thu, 10/25, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade, 343-2056.

CARL BROEMEL: My Morning Jacket multi-instrumentalist hits town touring on his third solo album, Wished Out, which contains songs on science, love, the passing of time and the grind of the artistic struggle.

Steelism opens the show. Thu, 10/25, 7pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

LOVE IS: Acoustic showcase of love songs to support Catalyst Domestic Violence Services. Thu, 10/25, 6:30pm. $5. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

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performs for dinner. Fri, 10/26, 6:30pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.

HELLYWOOD: Barry Allen and DJ Jigga Julee, plus DJ Mack Morris, Cootdog and the 102.1 crew. Cash costume contest, tarot reader and more. Fri, 10/26, 9pm. $10-$25. Panama Bar & Café, 177 E. 2nd St.

HILLCREST AVENUE: Cover band plays Sublime, Johnny Cash, Green Day and more. Fri, 10/26, 6pm. Free.

Shakey’s Pizza, 2890 Olive Highway, Oroville.

THE HOUSE IS A ROCKIN’: Serious string bending and blues face with this

OH MY GODS!: Co-hosted by Top Cat Productions and Blue Room Theatre, a Halloween burlesque show inspired by delightful deities. Fri, 10/26, 7:30pm & 10:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

RIP ROOM: San Francisco art punk trio gets nasty with locals Severance Package and XDS. Fri, 10/26, 8pm. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

TWO STEPS DOWN: Country dance

music in the lounge. Fri, 10/26, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

TYLER DEVOLL: Happy hour tunes. Fri,

10/26, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

ZOMBIE STOMP: Live music from the Apologetiks, dancing, finger foods and a costume contest. Fri, 10/26, 7pm. $15. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. nortonbuffalohall.com

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beats by Thomas Linardos and local DJ Toroidal Vortices. Thu,

billy trio hits town on their Tricks No Treats Tour along with the mostly instrumental Messer Chups. Thu, 10/25, 9pm. $15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

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We’re lucky to have a horde of awesome touring acts coming through town, and not to take anything away from the headliners, but three opening acts caught our eye this week that you should probably check out: German B-movie, surf trio Messer Chups (opening for Nekromantix) performs at Lost on Main and pedal steel/guitar duo Steelism (opening for Carl Broemel) at Sierra Nevada’s Big Room—both shows tonight (Thursday, Oct. 25). Then on Sunday, Oct. 28, catch Heartless Bastards’ marvelous singer Erika Wennerstrom (pictured) opening for Devil Makes Three at the Senator.

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night of spooky tricks and tantalizing treats, plus a $2,000 costume contest. Sat, 10/27, 8:30pm. $10-$15. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountry casino.com

ANTHEM: Local all stars play radio rock at the Box. Sat, 10/27, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

BIG BAD BOOGIE ROCK: Retro funk, disco and rock from the 1970s and 1980s, plus goofy outfits. Sat, 10/27, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

CANAAN SMITH: Country singer/songwriter known for his hit song “Love You Like That.” Ticket sales benefit wildfire relief funds. Sat, 10/27. $30.

Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Highway 45, Colusa.

CHRIS WENGER TRIO: Guitarist and crew perform during the dinner hour. Sat, 10/27, 6:30pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.

DRIVER: Classic rock trio kicks out

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PARADISE ELKS HALLOWEEN PARTY: Pizza, pasta, a full cash bar, live music from Soul Posse and a costume contest. Sat, 10/27, 5pm. $6-$12. Paradise Elks Lodge, 1100 Elk Lane, Paradise., 828-8040.

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already a very rewarding movie year.

Based on a very fine novel by Oregon writer Patrick DeWitt, it has by a cast of American stars (Joaquin Juan-Carlos Phoenix, John C. Reilly, Jake Selznick Gyllenhaal) and an esteemed French director (Jacques Audiard). The story is set in Gold Rush-era Oregon and California, and Audiard and company present all that quite evocatively, even though the actual shooting took place almost entirely in Spain The Sisters Brothers and Romania. It impresses both as a Starring Joaquin thoroughly American tale and as a Phoenix, John C. Reilly, remarkably incisive “Euro-western.”

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Oregon, a gold prospector is chased Rated R. by the infamous duo of assassins, the Sisters brothers.” The title characters (played by Phoenix and Reilly) are, of course, the heart of the matter here, but these “infamous assassins” are also the story’s antiheroic protagonists, battling with past sins, with the treacheries of their fated “profession” and with and among themselves.

A particularly rich complication comes by way of the relationship that forms between Hermann Kermit Warm, the sought-after “prospector” (Riz Ahmed), and the gentlemanly John Morris (Gyllenhaal), who is more or less working in league with Charlie and Eli Sisters—with all three being employed by a lordly autocrat known as “The Commodore” (Rutger Hauer).

Morris and Warm ostensibly meet as sympathetically solitary souls, and are soon caught up in Warm’s schemes for a “recipe” of chemicals that will speed up the process of panning for gold as well as his hopes for a Utopian community free of violence and greed (in Texas!). As such, the two of them emerge, in effect, as a second set of radically conflicted “brothers” in The Sisters Brothers.

Some delicately brilliant acting turns up in moments involving those pairings. The nuanced ambiguities in the first conversations between Morris and Warm represent a particularly important case in point, and there are whole layers of near-demonic emotion in the ways Reilly and Phoenix look at each other in the course of their most contentious conversations.

From where I sit, Eli’s weirdly convoluted character and Reilly’s offhandedly mercurial performance in the role are emblematic of the film’s strongest appeals and its richest ironies. Eli is simultaneously a generic western character and an oddly ordinary guy, seemingly on loan from some dark-humored tragicomedy having nothing to do with the Old West.

Some of that same spirit is also at work in the fleeting interventions of three women in the story—an androgynous and tyrannical woman known only as “Mayfield” (Rebecca Root) who rules over an entire California town, a young prostitute (Allison Tollman) who indulges Eli with surprising sensitivity and dares to give him a crucial warning, and the brothers’ mother (Carol Kane) to whom they both return in a greatly diminished, but also somewhat enlightened, state. Ω

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Film No. 3 in the James Bond parody series, with Rowan Atkinson reprising his role as the bumbling secret agent who comes out of retirement to track down those responsible for a cyber attack. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Jonah Hill wrote and makes his directorial debut with this coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of Los Angeles during the mid-1990s and mixing the flavors of skateboarding culture and the era’s hip-hop soundtrack. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Writer (Cloverfield, The Martian) and director (The Cabin in the Woods) Drew Goddard wears both hats for his new film about a group of seven strangers staying at a hotel with dark secrets on the California/ Nevada border. Featuring an impressive ensemble that includes Jeff Bridges, Jon Hamm, Cynthia Erivo, Dakota Johnson, Chris Hemsworth and Nick Offerman. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Night School

Kevin Hart stars as a screw-up who joins a crew of troublemakers attending a night school class taught by a no-nonsense instructor (Tiffany Haddish) who uses unconventional methods to get through to her students. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Old Man & the Gun

David Lowery (A Ghost Story) directs Robert Redford as Forrest Tucker, a real-life bank robber who escaped from San Quentin at the age of 70 and went on a crime spree.

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See review this issue. Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —J.C.S.

3A Star Is Born

This direct sequel to the first film in the franchise picks up 40 years after the events of the 1978 original and features Laurie (Jamie Lee Curtis) squaring off against her old murderous nemesis, Michael, who has escaped from captivity and is apparently bent on taking care of unfinished business.

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The second film in the most recent series of adaptations of R.L. Stine’s classic youthhorror fiction series follows a group of kids living out one of the author’s stories as they try to save the world from a Halloween apocalypse. Starring Jack Black, Wendi McLendon-Covey and Ken Jeong. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Damien Chazelle (La La Land, Whiplash) directs this biopic about Neil Armstrong (Ryan Gosling) and the events leading up to and including the first mission to the moon.

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Call, Text, or Email mostly black neighborhood in which she lives and the mostly white affluent prep school she attends—who is faced with a crisis of conscious after witnessing the murder of her friend at the hands of police. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Gerard Butler and Gary Oldman star in this thriller about a submarine full of Navy SEALS on a mission to rescue the kidnapped Russian president and prevent World War III. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

WITH THE TOYS OF YESTERDAY

In this 3D animated feature, the Bigfoots (i.e., Yeti) are astonished to discover that the Smallfoots (humans) are real. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The familiar story is still there (a turbulent show-biz romance between a rising star and one who’s about to fall), but there’s very little about this latest A Star Is Born that feels seriously outdated. This time, a gifted and very alcoholic country music star named Jackson Main (Bradley Cooper) takes an aspiring young singer (Lady Gaga) under his wing professionally and into his days and nights romantically. Cooper, who is also making his directorial debut, gives a powerfully modulated performance, with reckless extremes and soulful reversals balanced in a kind of perilous harmony. But Ally (Lady Gaga) is the star being born here—a singer getting her big break within the story, but also a movie star emerging, in the movie and with it. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Venom

Tom Hardy stars as the title character, the conflicted Marvel Comics superhero whose powers come via the alien that’s taken over his body. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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That all changed a while ago, when I first sat down at Alpaca Bob’s Sandwich Adventures and bit into a Black Forest Bumble Bee ($7.95), the deli’s take on a classic ham and cheddar, accentuated with honey mustard and red onion. My dining companion had a Chico Chill ($9.45) with turkey, avocado, bacon and cream cheese. We traded halves, soaked in the atmosphere, had a delightful conversation with the effervescent Liz Guillaume (who co-owns the establishment with husband Mike) and her capable crew, and I left determined to return soon.

I did, and have continued to

do so often. Alpaca Bob’s, which celebrates its third anniversary this month, is centrally located in the Park Plaza Shopping Center (a few doors away from Safeway on Mangrove Avenue). The menu features sandwiches, served on a choice of rolls, ranging from simple (like the aforementioned Bumble Bee) to spectacular (e.g., a Not So Po Boy with shrimp, avocado, cream cheese, cashews, bell peppers and the deli’s own tangy Louisiana Lightning Sauce).

The deli offers one of its 19 signature sandwiches up as a Daily Deal, which means you get a fullsize sandwich, chips and a drink for $8. They also have a small selection of standards (chicken, egg or tuna salad on sliced bread) for $7.

I’ve sampled no fewer than a half-dozen sandwiches there and am eager to try them all, though I usually get hung up on my first favorite, a hot version of The Pope’s Hat (prosciutto, salami, mortadella, turkey, provolone, Swiss cheese and Italian dressing for $9.45). I may have a new favorite now, though, after recently trying one of their weekly specials, Kiss Me Like You Swiss Me (hot ham and cheese on mild rye garnished with chopped green olives). Though not on the regular

menu and no longer a featured special, the staff continues to make them upon request.

Alpaca Bob’s hot dog menu is equally as expansive as its sandwich menu, and features wieners, hot links and Polish sausages with a wide range of toppings. There’s even some international flair thrown in, like the Thai Dog (with sriracha and onions, $4.35) and the Sonora Dog (classic toppings plus bacon and avocado served on a tortilla, $5.35). While the hot dogs are tasty, the sandwiches are exceptional and make for a far more filling meal.

Even during the lunch rush, service at Alpaca Bob’s remains fast and friendly. The atmosphere is comfortable and inviting, if a bit kitschy. This kitsch is of the deliberate variety, however, and enhanced with accents like outdoor sandwich boards featuring flow charts to help customers decide what to order, a joke of the day and pun-heavy novelty signs covering one whole wall (“Spooning leads to forking, so please use condiments,” one reads).

I still make the trip, on occasion, to visit my old favorites. But Alpaca Bob’s definitely makes a quick and satisfying sandwich adventure far less arduous. Ω

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If you are on Medicare, like local mortician and storyteller (nationally regarded poet, local stand-up comedian, winner of CN&R’s 2015 Keep Chico Weird Talent Show and frequent contributor to the Snap Judgment radio show/podcast) Kyle Bowen, you don’t have a lot of choices for care. He’s facing death due to a failing heart and/or kidneys. However, if you are like Bowen, and you have spent much of your life inspiring and caring for others, you might be able to harness enough collective resources to die with some dignity.

With the help of a wide community of friends and fellow artists, Bowen’s been able free himself from the stifling bureaucracy of a bare-bones nursing home to the peace of a Kyle Bowen local motel. The goal is to keep that peace and the positivity it breeds, and to that end his friends have started the Help Kyle Bowen Die in Style fundraiser (search “Kyle Bowen” at Gofundme.com). Give if you can, and check in with Bowen on Facebook as he shares this very natural part of life with a spirit of “adventure and an appropriate amount of tears.”

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MUSIC WITH WITH FEELING There are two very intriguing and unique presentations from distinct corners of Chico’s musical matrix on the calendar this week: • Friday, Oct. 26, at 8 p.m., the Emo Night Tour hits The Maltese. The Sac-based emo dance party comes to town with a DJ who’ll spin “all the angst your teenage dirtbag heart desires all night long.” Best of all, the night will also feature a set of live emo covers by local metalcore superstars Gigantes.

You’ll laugh, cry, hug and sing your broken heart out all night long!

• Sunday, Oct. 28, 2 p.m., at Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State music instructor and musical innovator David Dvorin is putting aside his usual jazz/chamber/ electronic approach to experiment with his roots. For his Blues Is … recital, Dvorin will collaborate with three other musicians on four compositions that explore the blues of his youth, including a “piece for modular synthesizer and guitar that draws its inspiration from Blind Willie Johnson’s 1927 recording of ‘Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground,’ which was included on [NASA’s] Voyager.” And the show is free! Ω

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF oCtoBer 25, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In her

poem “Shedding Skin,” Harryette Mullen compares her own transformation to the action a snake periodically carries out to renew itself. Since you now have an excellent opportunity to undertake your own molting process, you may find her thoughts helpful. (I’ve rendered them in prose for easier reading.) “Pulling out of the old scarred skin—old rough thing I don’t need now—I strip off, slip out of, leave behind. Shedding toughness, peeling layers down to vulnerable stuff. And I’m blinking off old eyelids for a new way of seeing. By the rock I rub against, I’m going to be tender again.” Halloween costume suggestion: snake sloughing its skin.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Only the young and stupid are confident about sex and romance,” says 49-year-old author Elizabeth Gilbert, who has written extensively about those subjects. I agree with her. I’ve devoted myself to studying the mysteries of love for many years, yet still feel like a rookie. Even if you are smarter about these matters than Gilbert and me, Taurus, I urge you to adopt a humble and curious attitude during the next few weeks. The cosmos has prepared some interesting lessons for you, and the best way to take advantage is to be eagerly receptive and open-minded. Halloween costume suggestion: sex researcher, love explorer, intimacy experimenter.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “My way of

learning is to heave a wild and unpredictable monkey-wrench into the machinery,” wrote Gemini author Dashiell Hammett.

But I recommend that you use his approach very rarely, and only when other learning methods aren’t working. Most of the time, your best strategy for getting the lessons you need is to put lubricating oil into the machinery, not a monkey wrench. That’ll be especially true in the coming weeks. I suggest that you turn the machinery off for a while as you add the oil and do some maintenance. Halloween costume suggestion: repair person; computer techie; machine whisperer.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): The great

Swedish filmmaker Ingmar Bergman was a Cancerian like you and me. One of the factors contributing to his success was that he put his demons to good use, “by harnessing them to his chariot.” He also testified that he gained control over his demons by taking long walks after breakfast. “Demons don’t like fresh air,” he said. “They prefer it if you stay in bed with cold feet.” I suspect that now would be an excellent time to adopt his advice.

Halloween costume suggestion: Walk your demon on a leash, or make it into a puppet, or harness it to your chariot.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Throughout the

Halloween season, I encourage you to fantasize extensively about what your dream home would look like and feel like if you had all the money necessary to create it. What colors would you paint the walls?

Would you have carpets or hardwood floors? What would be your perfect lighting, furniture and decor? As you gazed out your windows, what views would you see? Would there be nature nearby or urban hotspots? Would you have an office or music room or art studio? Have fun imagining the sanctuary that would bring out the best in you. Halloween costume suggestion: the ultimate homebody.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “Extraor-

dinary things are always hiding in places people never think to look,” writes novelist Jodi Picoult. That’s crucial for you to meditate on during the coming weeks.

Why? Because your superpower is going to be the ability to find extraordinary things that are hiding in places where people have almost never thought to look. You can do both yourself and those you care for a big favor by focusing your intensity on this task. Halloween costume suggestions: sleuth, treasure hunter, private eye, Sherlock Holmes.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “There is

a season for wildness and a season for settledness, and this is neither. This

By roB Brezsny season is about becoming.” Author Shauna Niequist wrote that. In accordance with the astrological omens, I endorse her perspective as true and useful for you.

You’ve zipped through your time of fertile chaos, conjuring up fresh possibilities.

When January arrives, you’ll be ready to work on stability and security. But for now, your assignment is to blossom. Halloween costume suggestions: beautiful creature hatching from an egg; strong sprout cracking out of a seed.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “He

believed in magic,” writes author Michael Chabon about a character in his novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay. “Not in the so-called magic of candles, pentagrams, and bat wings,” nor “dowsing rods, séances, weeping statues, werewolves, wonders, or miracles.” Then what kind? Chabon says it’s the “impersonal magic of life,” like coincidences and portents that reveal their meanings in retrospect. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because now is a favorable time to call on the specific kind of magic that you regard as real and helpful. What kind of magic is that? Halloween costume suggestion: magician, witch, wizard.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“If adventures will not befall a young lady in her own village, she must seek them abroad.” Sagittarian author Jane Austen wrote that in her novel Northanger Abbey, and now I’m passing her message on to you, slightly altered. My version is, “If adventures will not befall Sagittarian people of any age or gender in their own neighborhood, they must seek them abroad.”

And where exactly is “abroad”? The dictionary says it might mean a foreign country, or it could simply mean outside or in another place. I’d like to extend the meaning further to include anywhere outside your known and familiar world.

Halloween costume suggestion: traveler on a pilgrimage or explorer on a holy quest.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

PR executives at a beer company offered to pay me a lot of money if I would sneak a product placement ad into your horoscope. They asked me to pretend there was a viable astrological reason to recommend that you imbibe their product in abundance. But the truth is, the actual planetary omens suggest the opposite. You should not in fact be lounging around in a haze of intoxication. You should instead be working hard to drum up support for your labor of love or your favorite cause. Very Important People will be more available to you than usual, and you’ll be wise to seek their input. Halloween costume suggestion: the Ultimate Fundraiser, Networker of the Year, Chief Hobnobber.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “What

kind of idea are you?” asks author Salmon Rushdie. “Are you the kind that compromises, does deals, accommodates itself, aims to find a niche, to survive; or are you the cussed, bloody-minded, ramrodbacked type of damnfool notion that would rather break than sway with the breeze?”

I pose this question to you, Aquarius, because I think you could be an effective version of either idea in the coming weeks.

If you’re the latter—the cussed, damnfool notion—you may change your world in dramatic ways. Halloween costume suggestions: revolutionary, crusader, agitator, rabble-rouser.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEAVY METAL BULLION, HEAVY METAL COINAGE, HEAVYMETALBULLION.COM, HEAVYMETALCOINAGE.COM at 5517 Paloma Ave Unit B Paradise, CA 95969.

ROBERT GREER DAVIS 5517 Paloma Ave Unit B Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT G. DAVIS Dated: September 25, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001226 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ARWEN ENTERPRISES at 2550 Lakewest Dr Suite 50 Chico, CA 95928.

ARWEN TRACY FUNK 1125 Sheridan Avenue #22 Chico, CA 95926.

HERBERT WALTER FUNK 1125 Sheridan Avenue #22 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: ARWEN TRACY FUNK Dated: August 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001110 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as YOUR HOME HELPER HANDYMAN at 1380 East Ave Ste 124-196 Chico, CA 95926.

YOUR HOME HELPER HANDYMAN LLC 1380 East Ave Ste 124-196 Chico, CA 95926.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OLDE TYME REALTY at 6200 Clark Road Ste B Paradise, CA 95969.

LISA EGLESON DIEGO 5699 Cherry Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LISA EGLESON DIEGO Dated: September 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001238 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name OLDE TYME REALTY at 6200 Clark Road #B Paradise, CA 95969.

TAMMY SPIRLOCK 13589 Miwok Court Magalia, CA 95954.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TAMMY SPIRLOCK Dated: September 27,2018 FBN Number: 2017-0001373 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VANDERHALL OF CHICO at 590 East 5th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

SSA III VENTURES, LLC 590 East 5th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: STEPHEN S. ADAMS, III, MANAGER Dated: September 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001202 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

The following person is doing business as HAZEL STREET VINTAGE AND COMPANY at 901 Hazel Street Gridley, CA 95948.

NELDA ZOE ANDES 542 B Street Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NELDA Z. ANDES Dated: September 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001179 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DPG ENTERPRISES LLC at 1385 E. LINDO AVE #11 Chico, CA 95926.

DPG ENTERPRISES LLC 1385 E. Lindo Ave #11 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BRUNO A. BICOCCA JR, PRESIDENT Dated: September 25, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001224 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO SEASONS at 1260 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

EMILY MARIE AUVINEN 1260 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: EMILY AUVINEN Dated: Otober 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001269 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ASIAN MASSAGE at 2070 E. 20th Street #140 Chico, CA 95928.

LINDA LIU 1842 Bedford Dr. Chico, CA

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A Relaxing Massage In a cool, tranquil studio. $40 special. By appointment only. 10:30am - 7pm. 530893-0263. No texting.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “There is

no beauty without some strangeness,” wrote Edgar Allen Poe. Fashion designer Rei Kawakubo ventured further, declaring, “Strangeness is a necessary ingredient in beauty.” She also added another nuance to her definition: “For something to be beautiful, it doesn’t have to be pretty.” I’ll offer you one more seed for thought: wabi-sabi.

It’s a Japanese term that refers to a kind of beauty that’s imperfect, transitory, and incomplete. I bring these clues to your attention, Pisces, because now is an excellent time to refine and clarify your own notion of beauty—and re-commit yourself to embodying it. Halloween costume suggestion: the embodiment of your definition of beauty.

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This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed; LINDA LIU Dated: September 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001208 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TURNKEY CLEANING SERVICES at 1530 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926.

KAYLA CASTILLO 1530 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KAYLA CASTILLO Dated: September 28, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001242 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FOOTHILL PROPERTIES at 1834 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

BLAKE ANDERSON 695 E 4th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BLAKE ANDERSON Dated: October 1, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001249 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as IMMIGRATION ADVERSITY DOCUMENTATION at 1721 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

NANCY A BRYANT 1721 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NANCY A. BRYANT Dated: August 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001111 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name TEB PANTRY at 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

ALI EMDADIAN 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

MOHAMMADREZA SOLEYMANI 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ALI EMDADIAN Dated: August 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2017-0001106 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CENTURY 21 SELECT COMMERCIAL GROUP, CENTURY 21 SELECT REAL ESTATE INC at 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

JACUZZI LYDON LTD 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed; DANIEL C. JACUZZI, PRESIDENT Dated: September 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001239

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FULL CIRCLE LANDSCAPING at 1241 Honey Run Road Chico, CA 95928.

ANNA ISAACS 1241 Honey Run Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANNA ISAACS Dated: October 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001287 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TWO LOVES THRIFT at 6171 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

KAYLA RENEE DURAN 5429 Foster Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KAYLA DURAN Dated: October 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001280 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOPHEAD at 5585 Scottwood Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

THERESA KEREAZIS-PAGE 5585 Scottwood Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: THERESA KEREAZIS-PAGE Dated: September 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001184 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DAYCAMP COFFEE, DAYCAMP COFFEE COMPANY at 1925 Market Place Ste 150 Chico, CA 95928.

DAYCAMP COFFEE, LLC 30 Aroyo Vista Ln Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed; MARK ROZELL, MEMBER Dated: October 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001284 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CLASSIC CABINETRY at 3178 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973.

ADAM DONALD SCHNEBERGER 1842 Cummings Lane Durham, CA 95938.

DONALD GEORGE SCHNEBERGER 1842 Cummings Ln Durham, CA 95938.

NICHOLAS ANDREW SCHNEBERGER 157 Picholine Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: DONALD SCHNEBERGER Dated: October 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001273 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOUNTAIN TRAFFIC SERVICES at 5521 Paloma Ave Paradise, CA 95969.

KEVIN JAMES SCOTT JR 5521 Paloma Ave Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KEVIN JAMES SCOTT Dated: September 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001200 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CALICONCEPT KITCHEN at 864 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CALIFLOUR FOODS, LLC 1057 Village Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JAMES P. LACEY, CFO Dated: October 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001322 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HAPPY HONEST HOME REPAIR at 1056 Eaton Rd Chico, CA 95973.

SCOTT CHESTER OGBORN 1056 Eaton Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SCOTT OGBORN Dated: October 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001304 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ARCANELY MADE at 1174 1/2 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

LUCEY RAINS 1174 1/2 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LUCEY RAINS Dated: October 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001314 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The folling persons are doing business as PARTNERS IN REAL ESTATE at 702 Mangrove Ave #263 Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID A LANDECK 3355 Shallow Springs Ter Chico, CA 95928.

PARTNERS IN REAL ESTATE 702 Mangrove Ave #263 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID A LANDECK, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: October 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001327 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JR FLAGGING SERVICES at 2928 Elm St Live Oak, CA 95953.

BALDO BOTELLO JR 2928 Elm St Live Oak, CA 95953.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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Signed: BALDO BOTELLO JR Dated: October 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001337 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

NOTICES ORDER ON REQUEST TO CONTINUE HEARING Petitioner/CARISSA MORRIS, through her attorney of record RODNEY E. BENSON of MCGLYNN & CLARK, 737 Washington Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080 (530) 527-1117, has filed a Request for Order re Modification of Visitation with the Tehama County Superior Court located at 1740 Walnut Street, Red Bluff, CA 96080, Civil Division, (530) 527-3484 in the matter of CARISSA MORRIS, Petitioner vs. ERIC CARLSON, Respondent, Case No. FL63165. There will be a court date of Monday, December 17, 2018 at 1:30 p.m. in Dept. 5 of the Tehama County Superior Court. This document was filed with Tehama County Superior Court on October 9, 2018. This is for notice to ERIC CARLSON, Respondent in the matter.

Published: October 25, November 1,8,15, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JUAN CARLO DELPORTILLO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JUAN CARLO DELPORTILLO Proposed name: CARLO KNIGHT WOLF 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: November 30, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: September 24, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03089 Published: October 4,11,18,25, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JASON PAUL NELSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JASON PAUL NELSON Proposed name: JAYSON PAUL NELSON 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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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: November 30, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: September 28, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03177 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HARRY VAUGHN BOATRIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HARRY VAUGHN BOATRIGHT Proposed name: VAUGHN BOATRIGHT 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: November 30, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: September 28, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03171 Published: October 11,18,25, November 1, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner EMILEE STILTNER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EMILEE STILTNER Proposed name: EMILEE RAY ARKOSE 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: November 16, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court

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1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: September 17, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02999 Published: October 18,25, November 1,8, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: December 14, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM 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: October 18, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03287 Published: October 25, November 1,8,15 2018

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: XA THI LE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

The petition requests authority to administer 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 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 the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: October 30, 2018

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Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 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: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965.

(530) 533-5661 Case Number: 18PR00434 Dated: October 1, 2018 Published: October 11,18,25, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE VINCENT S. ANZALONE, also known as VINCENT ANZALONE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: VINCENT S. ANZALONE, VINCENT ANZALONE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: VINCENT J. ANZALONE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: VINCENT J. ANZALONE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

The petition requests authority to administer 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 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 the

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authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 6, 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: 18PR00456 Dated: October 10, 2018 Published: October 18,25, November 1, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE CHARLES A. MCCAULEY, also known as CHARLES ANTHONY MCCAULEY, IV To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: CHARLES A. MCCAULEY, also known as CHARLES ANTHONY MCCAULEY, IV A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PAMELA K. CLOW in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: PAMELA K. CLOW be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

The petition requests authority to administer 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

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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 the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 13, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBA 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: KELLY ALBRECHT, ESQ 1440 Lincoln Street Oroville, CA 95965.

(530) 534-9900 Case Number: 18PR00447 Dated: October 9, 2018 Published: October 18,25, November 1, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE LINDA SELINE SWIHART, also known as LINDA S. SWIHART, also known as LINDA SWIHART To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LINDA SELINE SWIHART, also known as LINDA S. SWIHART, also known as LINDA SWIHART A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RONDA BRUNSON and CYNTHIA HARVEY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: RONDA BRUNSON and CYNTHIA HARVEY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court

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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 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 the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 13, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-18 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: JANE E. STANSELL 103 South Plumas Street Willows, CA 95988.

(530) 342-4524 Case Number: 18PR00450 Dated: October 9, 2018 Published: October 18,25, November 1, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE EMMA TOKIKO ROGERS aka EMMA T. ROGERS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: EMMA TOKIKO ROGERS aka EMMA T. ROGERS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: CAROLYN M. PADILLA and KATHERINE A. ROGERS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: CAROLYN M. PADILLA and KATHERINE A. ROGERS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

The petition requests authority

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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 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 the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 13, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 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: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965.

(530) 533-5661 Case Number: 18PR00461 Dated: October 15, 2018 Published: October 25, November 1,8, 2018

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