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Vol. 43, Issue 17 • December 19, 2019 OPINION

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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Second & Flume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Streetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

NEWSLINES

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Downstroke . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8 Sifter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .9

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Appointment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12 Weekly Dose. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

GREENWAYS

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Eco Event . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS

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15 Minutes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17 The Goods . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 17

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ARTS & CULTURE

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Arts feature . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 This Week . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22 Fine Arts listings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24 Music . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25 Nightlife . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26 Reel World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28 Chow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29 Arts DEVO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30 Brezsny’s Astrology . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

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OPINION

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EDITORIAL

ScOTUS decision clears a path forward Viewers of local TV news may have seen reports about

protests and counter-protests in Chico, Redding and around the nation Tuesday night (Dec. 17), the eve of the House of Representatives’ vote on whether to impeach the embattled president of the United States related to his assaults on democracy and national security.

During the demonstration at City Plaza here in the City of Trees, those in favor of giving Donald Trump the boot far outnumbered his supporters. There was a bit of drama in the city center that evening—a few minor skirmishes as tensions rose ahead of the historic vote—that overshadowed another protest on the steps of the City Council chambers related to local matters.

That’s too bad. It was an important one meant to shed light on the city’s inhumane treatment of the local homeless population in recent years—particularly the Chico Police Department’s efforts to roust folks on the streets, based on policy adopted by previous incarnations of the council.

We’re referring to the so-called sit/lie and Offenses Against Public Property ordinances—controversial local laws that homeless helpers, civil rights activists and this newspaper long have criticized as being unconstitutional. Both were codified on the premise that they

were “tools” for law enforcement to address vagrancy, camping, illicit drug use, littering, public urination and other issues associated with homelessness. However, in practice they criminalize homelessness.

Those policies likely will be amended or pulled from city code in the near future. That’s according to a story in this week’s issue (see “Protest success,” page 8).

The impetus for that action: the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision earlier this week to refuse to hear a challenge of Martin v. Boise, a precedent-setting case out of Idaho, in which a federal appeals court placed restrictions on that city’s efforts to crack down on homeless encampments. The lower court determined that prosecuting people who have no other place to sleep at night is a violation of the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment.

To be sure, this is a turning point for cities throughout the West. Ordinances such as Chico’s have always been the path of least resistance—efforts that were never going to make headway on addressing this crisis.

Now that these practices can’t continue, it’s time to turn the focus toward real solutions—affordable housing and shelters, chief among them.

We’re looking forward to the long-overdue discussions on that front. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

No mangers, straw for those on the streets M story. In many parts of the world, the tale is celebrated on Christmas Day. It is a simple story about ost of us are familiar with the Christmas nativity

how a husband and wife seek shelter as the wife is about to give birth.

In the end, they settle around a manger, surrounded by livestock.

A bed of straw becomes a birthing place and a child is born. Over time, this moment is celebrated in songs and tableaus and dramatic re-creations.

As you read this, hundreds are living right now in the greater by Chico area without even the benefit Ronald Angle of a bed of straw. You see them The author is daily pushing their carts on streets. a chico resident They sleep wrapped in cheap since 1980. blankets and sleeping bags, nestled not in a manger but at best in a doorway or alleyway or under bushes. Most likely they are on the hidden edge of a park or creek. If they

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are lucky, they may have the comfort of a leaky tent.

It is not the frustration that many of us experience facing the apathy and ignorance among our fellow Chico residents that bothers me. It is the outright anger that a small number of Chico residents display and encourage when addressing homeless issues.

The Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT) is one group of Chico residents that believes otherwise. Over time, they have raised funds and developed plans to establish a village of “tiny homes” in southeast Chico.

Simplicity Village is a tiny house village for unhoused seniors. Its proposed location is ideal for a senior population. The land has been secured. And CHAT already is providing housing for our less fortunate.

This holiday season, Simplicity Village needs immediate community support. There is a Grinch in this story and his heart is too small. One businessman’s opposition may bring an end to the story of Simplicity Village. I cannot understand the logic.

Elderly men and women pose little threat to a lumber yard. Would they be less dangerous if we simply built some mangers with straw? Ω

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

making things right Well, it’s definitely campaign season. Early as it might seem, one race is getting particularly interesting. Heated, one might say. That’s the three-way contest for the District 4 Board of Supervisors seat being vacated by Steve Lambert.

The folks seeking office are college instructor Sue Hilderbrand, farmer Tod Kimmelshue and Biggs Mayor Nathan Wilkinson, the businessman Lambert endorsed last spring.

One of the ignition points is apparently a CN&R story from 2012 in which Hilderbrand, who teaches political science, is attributed with inviting an activist speaker named Scott Crow to Chico (see “As the Crow flies,” Newslines, Dec. 13, 2012). Someone read the piece and wrote a letter to the editor published in the Chico Enterprise-Record last week about her “close ties to radical ideas.”

Kimmelshue has since run with that narrative on a social media post linking to the E-R write-up. It remains online despite Hilderbrand having penned a response in the daily in which she challenges one particular aspect of the letter that paints her in that light—her purported support of so-called “focused vandalism,” as reported in the aforementioned CN&R story.

Problem is, she doesn’t support vandalism and never said that she does. At least, that’s what she told this editor when she reached out to me last week—almost seven years to the date the original story was published—to complain she’d been misquoted.

I was skeptical. I mean, Hilderbrand is now a would-be politician.

But she made a good case—with screenshots of a conversation she had via Facebook with the author of the article the day after the story went to print, as well as an email she sent to the assigning editor.

She also pointed to a CN&R letter to the editor that ran the following week in which she expounds on the context of Crow’s anarchist-inspired efforts to help Hurricane Katrina survivors after that awful disaster (see “Clarifying anarchy,” Letters, Dec. 20, 2012), such as setting up relief clinics without getting the proper government approvals. Given what we’ve experienced with the Camp Fire— and the many ad hoc helpers who have sprung into action over the past year—that doesn’t sound radical to me.

Unfortunately, the letter didn’t specifically mention the misquotation and the mistake was never corrected in the online version of the story. Knowing everyone involved, I’m certain there was no malicious intent.

In defense of my predecessor, former CN&R Editor Robert Speer, Hilderbrand acknowledges she didn’t take her complaint directly to him back in 2012. As for yours truly, it’s now my job to make things right.

I’ve done so this week. Belated apologies to Hilderbrand and, by extension, Kimmelshue.

The beST reADerS Speaking of helping those in need, the CN&R

readers who purchased gifts for kids living at the Esplanade House deserve a big shout out. You came through once again this year and it’s much appreciated.

Also, thanks to the folks who’ve dropped off donations for the Camp Fire survivors experiencing food insecurity. We’re continuing to stockpile those supplies—mainly nonperishable food and toiletries—and plan to cart them up the hill to the Magalia Community Church’s de facto relief operation after the holidays. Cheers!

LETTERS

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Two on the cover Re “Witness to the catastrophe” (Cover story, by CN&R staff, Dec. 12) Thank you for the last issue in which you bared your souls to “witness” the Camp Fire. Your coverage of that tragedy has been relentless. You did not come to the scene, report, then leave. You did not return to the scene a year later to issue quick update news bites. Your staff has been there from the start. It continues to keep us informed about the painful aftermath ignited by that horrific blaze.

I live in Oroville, but have not personally gone to experience the ruins. I have not been able to bring myself to tour the destruction. We briefly housed two refugees, and their experiences, plus those from other survivors, paint images in real terms that only personal tales can tell.

So, thank you, for reporting to me, for going to ground zero, and for bearing the trauma and pain that

your professional duties require. You have all gone beyond the challenge, and your writings last week were deeply touching, important and hopefully therapeutic to all.

Your reporters are the best, courageous and deserving of all positive accolades that can be forwarded to you.

As the recovery goes on, I will be looking for you to get the word out.

Danny Wilson Oroville

We’re all hoping to cope—it’s everyone’s scope. I shunned all Camp Fire reporting because I’m no dope and this trauma makes me mope. The horrific cellphone videos, the ghastly written word, the sensationalized TV news—all of it. My sabbatical ended this morning with a noon deadline for CN&R Letters to the Editor hovering over this dope.

My burden eased yesterday when Barb Foy gifted me Trauma Stewardship [by Laura van Dernoot

Lipsky] while sharing how she coped and gave hope via Books for Butte Camp Fire Survivors. Barb’s laughter-laced conversation was a soothing realization for the medium of cope I leaned on the most: talking with people. The hugs, the cries, the sighs and the all too painful goodbyes.

Thank you, Barb. Thank you, CN&R. Thanks to all who lessened the suffering by telling the stories that needed to be told, and to everyone there to simply listen.

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Bill Mash Chico

Shelter discussion Re “Out of the cold,” (Newslines,

by Ashiah Scharaga, Dec. 12): Richard Muenzer was arrested for violating Chico Municipal Code Section 9.43.030. That is, the “days and hours” section included in our homeless criminalization laws— aka the Offenses Against Public Property ordinance.

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Under the terms of this ordinance, infractions—i.e., leaving a cart unattended (“storage”) or tying a rope to a tree or, in Richard’s case, simply being in an area where he was not allowed to “remain”—may meet with arrest. That is, very minor offenses are enforced as misdemeanors.

Richard was hidden from the street, trying to stay out of the rain, when he was carted to jail. As with others arrested on that night, he was then dumped on the streets of Oroville at 2 a.m.—no pack, no sleeping bag. This is routine treatment for our homeless population.

It’s laudable that Chico has funded a warming shelter. But, shelters are a form of incarceration in proportion to the level of coercion we employ. In the context of our many homeless criminalization laws—and in conjunction with engineered deprivation (intentionally depriving people of food, clothing, restroom access)—sheltering will remain the wilted carrot, preferred to the punishing stick. Our city’s “consolidation” scheme should be scrutinized in this light.

Patrick Newman Chico

At the Dec. 10 Chico City Council meeting, Councilman Sean Morgan, during deliberation before the council, voted to propose a revision of its warming center contract with local shelter organizations, said that if the shelters accepted the revisions, perhaps those could be accepted “in 10 minutes, without all these people lecturing us.” The “lectures” are called “public comment,” Councilman Morgan, and “these people” are your constituents, as they will be for another year before your term mercifully ends.

While you’ve made your disinterest in what we have to say more than plain, given that you spend the large majority of comment time staring at your phone, only the occasional eye roll indicating you’re listening at all, we still have a right to say it.

Maybe if you listened more, you’d need fewer lectures.

Nathaniel Perry Chico

Notes to councilman Re “Ensuring access” (Letters, by Scott Huber, Dec. 12): As the former park commissioner referred to in Scott Huber’s letter 6

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last week, my disappointment with his motion to open the Upper Park Road had nothing to do with opening access, but with the council ignoring a decision of the park commission and responding instead to editorial comments and a citizen’s complaint that he couldn’t drive to his favorite fishing hole in Upper Park.

Scott implied that the Upper Park Road was closed to limit access.

That’s wrong. It was closed when the road became unusable and the city failed to fund a fix. The commission has been trying to get it opened for years and all we got was less and less funding for the park.

Yes, Scott, the park commission’s mission is clear, but it is the council’s mission to assure adequate funding for the park so we can access it. And no, asking people to donate time and money because you have failed to fund the park is not a solution.

Tom Barrett Chico

I voted to keep the park road closed past Salmon Hole because park funding for rangers and staff for maintenance is far too low to safely and adequately maintain additional area. Period. I do, however, completely agree with the goal of making the park open and accessible to all of us, especially to folks with disabilities or the elderly or anyone who faces mobility challenges.

I suggest the members of the City Council work to fully fund and maintain Bidwell Park in order to make this goal feasible. If not, implementing the reasonable and very small parking fee, which Scott Huber and other councilors rejected despite park staff and commission recommendations, might be a fair place to start.

Anna B. Moore Chico

Editor’s note: The author is a member of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission.

‘Merry Griftmas’ There’s a Bud Light television commercial where the king is seated on his throne and his subjects pay fealty with Bud Light gifts, the king’s favorite beverage.

In the White House, Donald Trump sits at his desk (oh, how

he wishes he had a throne) and fondles the income sheets from his loyal subjects, who flock to his properties with cash: some for dinner, client receptions or lodging, and the bigger the suite the more one is noticed. Top bootlicker?

Trump’s personal consigliere, U.S. Attorney General William Barr, who hosted his annual Christmas party at Trump’s Washington hotel, shoveling $30,000 into Trump’s family vault.

Federal Election Commission records show that “since January 2017, at least $5.6 million has been spent at Trump properties by at least 90 members of Congress, 250 Trump administration officials, including 24 cabinet members, as well as more that 110 foreign officials from around 60 countries who have darkened the doorways of Trump properties.”

A violation of the law?

Definitely. Is this a problem for Republicans? Apparently not.

President Trump continues to profit from the power of the presidency, which has always been his priority.

Merry Griftmas to all, and to all a good night.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Fed up in Chico If only unemployment wasn’t at a 50-year high. If only the average median income class didn’t have more money to spend. If only our Constitution didn’t say a suspect is innocent until proven guilty by a jury (in the president’s case, the Senate.) If only U.S Representatives, like Maxine Waters and many others, hadn’t been calling for impeaching the president since his inauguration. Waters chanted “impeach 45” in 2017.

If only the “impeachment inquiry” had not been held in secret, in the basement of a building, instead of out in the open and televised. If only it had been held where we could see the same witnesses and evidence on television. If only Rep. Adam Schiff had come to present his “evidence” to the committee himself. If only Schiff had been sworn to tell the truth about his committee, and then been crossexamined by the Republicans, none of this would be happening.

If only eight weeks of nonstop impeachment news had not made us cross-eyed. And fed up!

Maybe the citizens of our country wouldn’t be saying enough.

Stop! Let us decide by voting on Nov. 3, 2020!

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

Editor’s note: The initial impeachment inquiry interviews held behind closed doors were done so according to rules approved

by House Republicans in 2015.

Subsequent hearings, with more than a dozen Trump administration officials, were open to the public and televised.

Awareness is key Are you aware of the current condition of our climate? The impact is already being felt throughout the world as glaciers melt, resulting in a rise of sea level. Even small increases can result in devastating results for coastal regions. Increases in sea level will also result in the destruction of certain ecosystems that animals rely on, such as fish.

The consequences will become unavoidable in other noncoastal regions as temperatures rise throughout the world.

As it stands, the consequences of climate change cannot be fully avoided. While large steps can be taken to prevent further damage, it will take years for the effects to lessen. Climate change is not going to be solved any time soon, thus we have to plan for long-term solutions to the problem. Even framing it as a generational problem itself is incorrect, as it is projected to change over this century and beyond.

Actions such as recycling or using fewer plastic products will also make a difference over time.

For now, the best action we can take is being aware of the resulting consequences to come. Awareness of how it will affect the world in the upcoming years will help us better prepare for the consequences and, with time, lessen them.

Damian Ramirez Chico

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“Lived, laughed, loved.” Probably because over the years I’ve learned to embrace all of those to the fullest extent and will live life to the fullest and go skidding in sideways to the grave!

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Whatever it is, I would want it to be meaningful to the people I leave behind. So perhaps have them choose something. If not, probably that I wish to leave this world a better place than when I came into it.

By 4th grade students are transitioning from learning-to-read to readingto-learn. Over 60% of 4th graders in our community (and nation wide) do not read at grade level1. Statistically, 2/3rd’s of students who are not proficient readers by 4th grade wind up in jail or on welfare2.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE CHARTER SCHOOL EXPANDING

Wildflower Open Classroom, a K-8 public charter school located in a strip mall off of Cohasset Road next to Spiteri’s Delicatessen, will be adding students and a second location for its middle-schoolers next year. On Tuesday (Dec. 17), the Chico City Council denied an appeal of a use permit allowing the school’s growth from 180 to 260 students, but added a caveat that roadways be improved. Councilman Sean Morgan was the lone dissenter.

Neighbor Dan Jenks, owner of Cathy’s Sew & Vac, filed the appeal, arguing that traffic congestion already is causing problems with safety and road degradation and is harming his business, and an expansion will make those problems worse. The school proposed a new traffic circulation pattern designed to address this issue by creating two new exit paths for cars separate from the entry point for drop-offs.

Protest success

OROVILLE, CITY OF CASH

At Tuesday night’s meeting (Dec. 17), the Oroville City Council was tasked with determining uses for $3.4 million in unanticipated revenues for fiscal year 2018-19.

While a majority of the increase was attributed to the Camp Fire and the 20 percent growth in population, a full $1.4 million came from the new 1 percent sales tax implemented April 1, as collected through June 30, confirmed Ruth Wright, Oroville’s finance director. Additionally, the transient occupancy tax brought in 40 percent over the previous year (more than Chico’s reported 25 percent).

The council’s vote included bolstering its general fund reserves, adding $1.5 million to reach a target goal of $3 million, and putting $1 million toward the pension fund.

CLIMATE COMMISSION APPOINTED

The Chico City Council made its first appointments to serve on the newly created Climate Action Commission on Tuesday night (Dec 17).

It will be responsible for acting upon the climate emergency the city declared earlier this year, and preparing and implementing a new climate action plan. Its first meeting will be held in January 2020.

Appointees include former Sustainability Task Force members Cheri Chastain, Chico State’s campus sustainability manager; Mark Stemen (pictured), a Chico State professor in the geography and planning department; and real estate agent Dave Donnan. New appointees include Tawny Vernau, a graphic designer; Rebekah Casey, deputy director of GRID Alternatives; Kirk Monfort, a retired Chico State professor and former planning commissioner; and Michael Nelson, a certified planner.

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Homeless citizens, advocates criticize city laws in light of Martin v. Boise

ABrian Lutzow says he awoke on the concrete in the City Plaza near the veterround 3:30 a.m. on Tuesday (Dec. 17),

an’s memorial, wrapped in blankets. Chico police officers told him he needed to move story and along because the plaza photo by was closed.

Ashiah Scharaga Later that same day, more than a dozen peoas h i a h s @ ple assembled outside n ew sr ev i ew. c o m the City Council chambers to protest the police department’s rousting and arresting of folks seeking shelter from the rain two weeks ago (see “Out of the cold,” Newslines, Dec. 12).

Lutzow was among the protesters. That morning wasn’t the first time Lutzow, who uses a wheelchair, was rousted from a public space while sleeping. Earlier this month, police ushered him out from under an awning at City Hall while it was raining, he told the CN&R. “I’m old, crippled. I’m blind. I have a catheter. … I’ve had strokes. I have [health] problems,” he told the City Council during the business from the floor portion of that evening’s meeting. “I don’t commit crimes.

I clean up my stuff always. Where’s the fairness in that? I understand that [those places are] closed, but I have nowhere to go.

Nowhere.”

The consensus from Lutzow and 16 others who addressed the council on this topic was clear: The city must stop arresting homeless people for being on public property. It is cruel and inhumane.

Several of those speakers went even further, telling the city its police officers’ actions were unconstitutional. They referenced Martin v. Boise, in which homeless citizens sued the city of Boise, Idaho, for being cited for resting and/or camping in public. The Supreme Court chose on Monday (Dec. 16) not to hear a challenge of that case, meaning the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals’ ruling stands: criminally prosecuting homeless people for sleeping outside on public property when there are no available shelter beds is cruel and unusual punishment prohibited by the Eighth Amendment.

The council made no comments to the gallery in response, but change is afoot.

After the meeting, Mayor Randall Stone told the CN&R he and Vice Mayor Alex

Brown had submitted a formal request that evening to agendize a discussion about rescinding the city’s sit/lie ordinance and amending its Offenses Against Public Property Ordinance. The latter, which was adopted in 2015 and used to move people along, stipulates a closing time for the Chico Civic Center, which encompasses the property around the City Hall.

“We have expected that the ineffective policy of rousting people while they’re sleeping is illegal, and we found that in Martin v. Boise,” Stone told the CN&R. “It’s surprising we continue to push failed methods that we know do not address the demands of all sides of the community.”

The protest that evening was part of a days-

long effort led by homeless people. On Monday night, the CN&R spoke with individuals gathered outside City Hall, under the same awning where protester Richard Muenzer was arrested on Dec. 2 for seeking shelter shortly after the property’s hours of operation ended.

They displayed cardboard signs facing motorists driving down Main Street with messages such as, “Tell us where to go and

Brian Lutzow, a homeless man who uses a wheelchair, joins others outside City Hall to protest city laws that usher homeless folks from public spaces.

not the BCJ [Butte County Jail].” Other signs grieved the loss of their homeless friends who’d died on the streets—this year there have been at least four.

Protester Traci Hull told the CN&R homeless people are “kicked out by the cops every five seconds … for trying to survive like everybody else.”

“We need something till we got somewhere else to go,” she added. “We’re losing too many people.”

Muenzer added that the city is not acting quickly enough. There needs to be a 24-hour, centrally located shelter, or at the very least, a place designated for legal camping, he said.

Last week, the council directed staff to make changes to its “Code Blue” program criteria for opening a warming center, which the city currently pays the Jesus Center to provide. Right now, the nonprofit opens a warming center when temperatures drop below freezing. The additions made by a unanimous vote of the panel would trigger a warming center when temperatures drop below 45 degrees and it is expected to rain threequarters of an inch or more, and when it is colder than 40 degrees with forecasted wind speeds of 15 miles per hour or more.

Those amendments weren’t in place during the rain (and hail) storm last weekend and still haven’t taken effect.

On Tuesday, the council formally adopted those changes and forwarded them to the Jesus Center, along with increasing the program’s budget from $30,000 to $60,000 for this fiscal year.

But the Jesus Center has to approve of the changes, which represent an increased demand for its staff. The city is waiting to hear from the center, Assistant City Manager Chris Constantin told the CN&R. During discussion on the item, Rhonda Magnusson told the council that while she’s been homeless for the last two years, she has slept on the streets along with senior veterans, those with physical disabilities and families.

The centers need to be open more often and provide beds and a meal, she added.

“This warming center should have already been into place, because let me tell you, I’m cold,” she said. “We can do a lot better besides [four] people dying again this year. … I’m not laying down and I’m not dying on this damn street.” Ω

Taking on water County explores Miocene Canal, Paradise pipeline and sustainability in water workshop

Ed Cox was prepared to chastise the Butte County

Board of Supervisors at the panel’s meeting Tuesday (Dec. 17) for what he called months of inaction regarding the Camp Fire-damaged Miocene Canal system.

Instead, Cox, a spokesman for the Miocene Canal Coalition, left the meeting encouraged.

The supervisors—led by a motion by Bill Connelly—voted unanimously to send a letter to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife that points out the environmental impacts of the dried-up, PG&E-owned canal system and asks the department to respond. The letter will be copied to multiple state entities, including Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office and Cal Fire.

“For the first time in eight months, [the board was] actually covering some ground,” Cox told the CN&R. “The Department of Fish and Wildlife has been AWOL.” The board’s action came during an hours-long discussion on the county’s water policies and goals that had been anticipated since Nov. 5, when the panel withdrew funding for a study exploring the feasibility of an intertie pipeline project between the Paradise Irrigation District (PID) and California Water Service Co.’s Chico branch (see “County sinks pipeline study,” Newslines, Nov. 7).

The concept was again discussed by the board, with Supervisor Doug Teeter, whose district includes the Ridge, making a motion to have the Butte County Water Commission review the project and provide recommendations to the board. The motion passed 3-2, with Supervisors Debra Lucero and Tami Ritter casting the dissenting votes.

“Let it come back to us, and then we can say, ‘Yeah, we support it,’” Teeter said.

“And then maybe PID can take our support and go get grant dollars. … If we don’t have a study, we’ll never know if it’s even possible.”

The vote, however, highlighted disagreements among the supervisors regarding the county’s role in a possible pipeline project.

Lucero noted that Tuesday’s discussion

SIFT ER Guns in California In 2017, the University of California Firearm Violence Research Center—a state-funded program to investigate gun violence and the effectiveness of prevention measures—was founded at UC Davis. This month, it released the first findings in its Firearm Ownership and Acquisition in California report. In the state, 4.2 million adults (14 percent of the adult population) own a gun, and an additional 3.1 million live in a home with a gun owner. Here are some other California gun ownership numbers.

• 73 percent of gun owners are male; 27 percent female • 60 percent of guns were purchased retail; 10 percent private-party; 30 percent were non-purchase transfers • 47 percent of guns are held by 10 percent of owners • 45 percent of firearms owned are handguns; 55 percent long guns • 55 percent of handguns were bought for protection against people

Ed Cox, of the Miocene Canal Coalition, says he’s encouraged by action taken by the Butte County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday (Dec. 17).

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about water was sparked by “misleading” language regarding the study’s scope. She said the study was set to examine—without explicitly saying so—use of the county’s “Table A” water, which is surface water the county pays for through a State Water Project contract. In a meeting at her office, including representatives from the city of Chico, PID and the county, she said people on all sides were unclear as to who would be selling water, who would be receiving water and how the project would work.

Further, Lucero said, the possible pipeline project has been misconstrued in the Board of Supervisors chambers and in the public. The project has been billed as a way for PID to remain financially viable after losing its customer base in the Camp Fire, “but it’s not realistic,” she said.

PID will receive two years of “backfill” money from the state totaling more than $14 million. It would take around five years, she said, to build a pipeline from Paradise to Chico.

“At the end of two years,” Lucero said, “you’re still in the same place because you don’t have a pipeline.”

Teeter disagreed, saying the study was going to examine three things, including the cost of the pipeline, water rights and “other water.” The “other water,” he said, included the county’s Table A water allocation and additional sources that come off the West Branch of the Feather River.

“I get you want to say it’s misleading,” Teeter told Lucero, “but it wasn’t.”

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Nevertheless, Paul Gosselin, director of the county’s Department of Water and Resource Conservation, told the board that in hindsight, he didn’t do an adequate job of explaining the concept behind the study of the pipeline project. It wasn’t meant to be an exhaustive examination of a pipeline, just an initial “first phase” look.

Gosselin added that the study did start the discussion about incounty use of Table A water, of which it pays for 27,500 acre-feet per year. He said the county had been funding the pipeline feasibility study with grant money earmarked for exploring groundwater sustainability projects. The county, he said, is principally interested in reducing groundwater pumping in groundwater-dependent areas, such as Chico. A pipeline from Paradise to Chico could move surface water—whether it be Table A or other available water in the county—to the basin to help curb over-pumping.

To avoid confusion raised by the pipeline study in the future, County Counsel Bruce Alpert suggested that the board direct staff to bring forward for discussion any ideas or projects that would use Table A water. The suggestion appeared to be met with approval by the supervisors.

In the final water-related action

taken Tuesday, the board unanimously approved a motion by Ritter that directed staff to explore water conservation in the county. Ritter said efforts to sustain groundwater basins shouldn’t look only at ways to refill them.

“When we are looking at conservation efforts, we have to start thinking differently,” she said. “We should be looking at other jurisdictions, what they have done. Look at places that have similar climates and how they xeriscape and how they use native species, and how that cuts down on water use.”

Gosselin said conservation techniques could fit nicely within the county’s sustainability goals, and he would report his findings to the board on a regular basis.

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CSU acknowledges Camp Fire effect The system didn’t cut funding to Chico State, despite significant enrollment drop When it comes to ensuring there’s enough money to

pay faculty and staff, purchase equipment like microscopes and projectors, and keep the lights on in Chico State’s classrooms, Debra Larson is your woman. As provost and vice president of Academic Affairs, she’s hands-on.

“Because academics is our primary mission, and we are the biggest division on the campus, it requires us to have a stay-at-home parent,” she said during a recent interview. “I work very closely with the faculty—my primary interface is with faculty and staff, and less so with students.”

That may sound like she’s removed from the student experience, but Larson’s job is very much tied to that realm of campus. So although enrollment is not her department, when it drops—or rises—it affects her budget and can lead to difficult decisions like canceling classes. Take, for instance, the significant decrease in students attending the campus this school year. There were 515 fewer students enrolled in the fall semester than in 2018-19. What’s more, each campus in the California State University system is expected to actually grow a certain amount every year. With funding tied to student bodies on campus, administrators were understandably nervous before budgets were released at the beginning of the school year that money would be tight.

“In the past, [the CSU] was very persnickety about meeting enrollment targets, in a really detailed way,” Larson said. “[But] we did get some additional dollars. They are saying, ‘We’re going to give you 2 percent enrollment growth [funding] even if you didn’t get that. That’s partly because the CSU understands the impacts of the Camp Fire last year.”

What this means is that the money that Chico State receives per student did not drop for 2019-20, despite the decline in enrollment. In essence, it got a pass.

The economic impact 515 full-time-equivalent pupils would have on the campus is significant: $3.82 million. That comes in the form of state dollars and tuition.

Academic Affairs also received a one-time allotment of

$1.1 million from the Graduation Initiative 2025 fund meant to help increase graduation rates across the CSU campuses. That money, Larson explained, plus the 2 percent growth dollars, offset any losses the campus would have felt due to lowered enrollment.

“The students aren’t feeling it,” she told the CN&R. She hasn’t seen any class cancellations related to the drop, she said. While there are natural shifts each school year, many of them due to student interest in different majors, she said, the faculty shouldn’t be feeling it either.

“They’ve received general salary increases over the past few years, funded by the Chancellor’s Office,” said Jennifer Mays, executive director of Budget and Academic Resources at Chico State.

“And they are good salary increases.”

One thing the campus does have its eye on, Larson said, is the drop in “nonresident” students, or those coming from out of state or even other countries. That number has been dropping the past few years, and therefore isn’t a mere blip, she said. The significance of that decline for her department is that nonresident students bring in more money to the campus—they pay higher tuition, for instance. So, recruitment officers are looking at strategic ways to boost those numbers.

Recruitment—and retention—will be keys to getting over the Camp Fire hurdle, Larson said. And they’re multifaceted.

“We’re not anticipating that what happened this year with enrollment will foreshadow some change in our budget [for 2020-21],” Larson said. “What will impact our budget next year is, how are we doing in recruiting and retaining students?”

“And some of those are transfer students from Butte College. But Butte College enrollment is way down,” Mays added, referring to the loss of 1,000 students since the Camp Fire at the community college. “So, there are all these different levers.”

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HEALTHLINES Doreen Fogle gets a blood pressure check up at Medspire Health’s December clinic in downtown Paradise.

The Medspire Health team came together

‘Really good hearts’ Nonprofit forms after Camp Fire, offers free medical care on the Ridge story and photo by

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FtoRosauer was providing free medical care Camp Fire survivors in Magalia when she our months after the Camp Fire, Katie

had an unforgettable experience: She met a paraplegic diabetic woman who was living in a tent without her medications, trying to stay warm with a gas heater in 30-degree weather.

In addition to organizing transportation to a local hospital, Rosauer, with the help of other volunteers, provided her with prescription refills and diabetic supplies, wheelchair cushions and adult diapers.

Situations such as this, unfortunately, are commonplace, even more than a year after the disaster, Rosauer told the CN&R. “People are living in conditions that I couldn’t even create in my head,” she said.

Rosauer is part of Medspire Health, an all-volunteer nonprofit organization made

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up of medical and mental health providers who offer free non-emergency health care to Ridge residents. Some of the helpers are Camp Fire survivors themselves, or, like Rosauer, used to work at Adventist Health Feather River Hospital. As for the people they serve, Rosauer estimates 95 percent are at or below the poverty level, and accessing adequate health care is a significant challenge.

“Being able to help these people and see a grin on their face because we came to them and they feel they are important because we feel they are important … there’s nothing better,” she said.

The nonprofit’s ultimate goal is to raise enough money to purchase a mobile medical unit—a custom truck and RV that will make it easier to provide care. In the meantime, Medspire has hosted seven clinics at different locations on the Ridge, primarily at churches. Its volunteers offer a variety of services, including wellness screenings, wound care, blood sugar and blood pressure checks, prescriptions and refills of important medications, flu vaccinations, health insur-

ance assistance, counseling and referrals to primary care and social services.

Medspire is partnered with the Maven Project—a nonprofit that provides consultations in such specialties as cardiology and neurology, via telemedicine—and is sponsored by the international humanitarian organization Direct Relief, which helps stock their clinics with supplies.

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because of the Camp Fire. In November 2018, dozens of health care providers showed up to volunteer at the East Avenue Church, one of the evacuation shelters that formed immediately after the fire broke out.

Elisabeth Gundersen, a Bay Area nurse practitioner who grew up in Paradise, showed up on Nov. 9 with her mother, Denise, and sister, Birgitte Randall, who were both nurses at Feather River. The family helped run an on-site clinic with triage centers and urgent care services.

“It was this very robust, very organized system that somehow sprung out of nowhere,” Gundersen told the CN&R. The volunteers served over 200 survivors, a majority of whom were medically fragile, had chronic health conditions, and/or relied on walkers, wheelchairs or other medical equipment.

That’s how Libby Andresen met Gundersen and her family. They formed a special bond with Andresen’s diabetic mother, and made sure she got insulin, a new glucose monitor and blood sugar testing supplies.

“The attention they were giving to the people coming in was unreal,” Andresen said. “They were so giving and so loving.

They spent so much time and energy in helping others.”

When the church shelter closed after a month, many of the volunteer providers felt compelled to keep caring for survivors because the need was so great and much of the Ridge’s medical infrastructure had been wiped out. Thus Medspire Health was formed. Gundersen is the president of Medspire; Randall, who lost her Paradise home to the blaze, is vice president; and their mother is a board member.

Rosauer, who also volunteered at the East Avenue Church, became the organization’s secretary and director of public relations. “[We] wanted to do something ongoing and lasting, and this is something I’ve believed in,” Gundersen told the CN&R. “I think there should be a safety net; there should be free health care available to anyone who needs it.”

Medspire held its latest free clinic on a recent

Sunday at the Lotus Center on the Skyway.

While the turnout was lower than average, likely due to the pouring rain, Medspire typically sees 20 to 50 patients at each event.

That day, Doreen Fogle took a deep

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GREENWAYS The Butte Choice Energy Authority board approved an implementation plan Monday (Dec. 16) in Chico that paves the way toward a 2021 launch.

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Panel approves energy implementation plan, aims for 2021 launch for local control story and photo by

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Ctoward a greener future in Butte County.

Ranchers using their unused grazing land hico Vice Mayor Alex Brown sees a path

to generate and sell solar power. Local energy providers maximizing existing hydroelectric facilities to provide electricity. Governments setting policies to attract green businesses and sustain the economy.

A significant piece toward that future, Brown told the CN&R, is the Butte Choice Energy Authority (BCEA), a community choice aggregation (CCA) set up between the city of Chico and Butte County to procure electricity on behalf of electric customers in those jurisdictions, placing energy sourcing in the hands of local government, not PG&E. “I think one of the major selling points that’s been discussed is this idea of cost savings … but what we can do from an infrastructure perspective—not just in sourcing energy, but in incentivizing local energy projects—is massive,” said Brown, who sits on BCEA’s board. She added: “I see it almost like a domino effect. You decide that the investment is going to be greater. You decide that you’re going to prioritize local projects.

Then people see an economic opportunity.”

The BCEA on Monday (Dec. 16) took a

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significant step toward launching its service in 2021, approving an implementation plan that will be submitted for approval by the California Public Utilities Commission. Over the next year, BCEA will gear up, hiring a chief executive, staff and contractors for such things as data management and marketing.

One of the selling points of CCAs is the realization of cost savings. CCAs generally offer rates that are 2 percent to 3 percent lower than the existing utility’s rates. That’s the intention of the BCEA as well.

According to the implementation plan, which is subject to change but reflects the board’s current thinking and goals, the BCEA will offer rates that are lower than PG&E’s (see “Power provider,” Newslines, Nov. 21).

It also plans to offer customers options “for a higher proportion of renewable energy and reduced [greenhouse gas emissions] relative to the incumbent utility, enhanced energy efficiency and customer programs, community focus and local investment and control.”

To that end, the BCEA, according to the implementation plan, intends to offer three options for customers: a “rate competitive” option that meets California’s prevailing renewable energy procurement mandates (about 35 percent at launch); a 50 percent renewable energy supply option; and a 100 percent renewable energy supply option.

Gary Saleba of EES Consulting Inc., the firm advising the BCEA, told the CN&R that the board—which comprises Brown,

Chico City Councilman Scott Huber and Butte County Supervisors Debra Lucero and Doug Teeter—has signaled it may pursue automatically enrolling customers into the minimum renewable, rate competitive option.

Customers could choose to enroll into one of the higher renewable energy supply options at any time, or opt out of the BCEA completely, sticking with PG&E as their power provider.

Regardless, electricity will continue to be delivered through PG&E’s existing distribution infrastructure.

A public hearing on the matter is likely about a year out, preceding the expected 2021 launch, Saleba said.

“The fourth quarter of next year will be busy,” he said. “That’s when you buy your power. You know what the rates are going to be, so you can have an actual discussion about what the different prices are for the different levels.”

It’s likely the board, when it sends out requests for proposals to purchase power, will prioritize and/or offer incentives to local power providers, such as South Feather Water & Power in the Sierra foothills. Large hydroelectric facilities are not considered a renewable energy source by the state, Saleba noted, but they are carbon-free.

“All four of [the board members] thought that would be a good idea,” he said. “Buy local.”

For Brown, the BCEA policies and initiatives

considered by the board also should explore opportunities for lower-income earners to participate in higher renewable energy supply options.

“PG&E already has programs dedicated to

low-income earners,” she said, “so how do we facilitate—and perhaps incentivize—a greener mix in that same context?”

The board must balance its investment in green energy sources while making sure costs do not become a financial burden to customers.

In discussions at BCEA meetings, Brown said she was heartened to hear that the cost of renewable energy is going down, and it could be comparable to the price of nonrenewable energy supplies by the time the BCEA launches.

It may make sense for the board, she said, to explore enrolling customers in a higher renewable energy supply option at the jump.

If such an option is determined financially feasible for the ratepayer, “why wouldn’t we pursue that?” Brown nevertheless reaffirmed that, regardless of the default option chosen, customers will have the ability to switch between the energy supply options offered by the BCEA. “I don’t want us to get complacent at this idea of ‘2 percent savings, 2 percent savings,’” Brown said, “without looking at the long-term trajectory—the price of renewables going down, the impact of local investment and renewable energy—and really combining that to a vision for the future.” □

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’Tis the season for community clean-up Litter piles up and weeds overgrow all year long, and with the rain and mud of wintertime your favorite trails and spots around beautiful Bidwell Park can quickly lose their luster. Thankfully, the Chico Park Division is on the ball, but it could use your help. Volunteer Fridays take place every week as community members join a park ranger and caravan to various places throughout the park that need attention.

If you want to pitch in, meet at the Caper Acres parking lot this Friday (Dec. 18) at 9 a.m. and plan to clean up until noon. Call Shane at 896-7831 for info.

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In the front yard of ordained minister Lisa Holeman’s quaint home hangs a large silver wind chime crafted by former Chico artist Gregg Payne. While the striking object attracts impromptu photo shoots from passersby, its main function is to provide peaceful melodies to newlyweds who’ve just been married in Holeman’s lush backyard sanctuary, Windchime Chapel. For 20 years, Holeman’s business, As You Like It Weddings, has provided ministry services to over 2,000 weddings all over California, many of which have been performed in her own intimate backyard setting. For more information, visit windchimeweddingchapel.com.

I grew up in St. Louis, Mo., in the golden age of the shopping mall (remember the board game Mall Madness?). For special occasions, I’d always receive gift certificates to the Galleria, our biggest, coolest shopping center. It was great, because I could use them at any store; it was a one-size-fits-all solution to gift-giving.

I learned last week from Anika Burke Rodriguez Kronmiller, owner of the Anika Burke clothing store, that downtown Chico now has its own version of that, a Downtown Chico Gift Card. They’re available at $25, $50 and $100 values and can be purchased at the Downtown Chico Business Association office (330 Salem St.) or Diamond W Western Wear (181 E. Second St.). Participating businesses (some 50 of them!) can be found on the DCBA website and include retailers (Bird in Hand, Kirk’s Jewelry, etc.) and restaurants (Crush, Parkside Tap House and more).

I’d been in contact with Rodriguez Kronmiller regarding the Downtown Chico Shoppe Hop that she and Kim Columbo, owner of 3 Seas, had organized for last Thursday (Dec. 12). She said they’d put that event together in response to customer complaints of having missed Christmas Preview, which this year was combined with the Tree Lighting. They got two dozen-plus businesses involved and offered a $100 gift card to one shopper who made purchases at three of them that evening. I wasn’t able to attend, but I hear it was a success. The coolest part, Rodriguez Kronmiller told me, was seeing so many downtown businesses working together.

How did you get into this business?

I had been living in Japan, and I came back here and told everyone I was looking for work, because there weren’t a lot of jobs available. There was a woman who was doing this [officiating weddings] and she needed help. After working my first wedding, I was so passionate about it and I thought, Oh, this is my calling! So I purchased the business from her. That was around ’95.

For the weddings you don’t officiate at your chapel, where do you go?

We go to country clubs, the CARD Center, The Palms … a lot of people have them at ranches and their backyards. I’ve seen

everything; people have arrived in limousines and carriages, and others show up in their work boots and Big Gulps in their hands. It’s so fun to see all the different visions people have for uniting.

Your backyard chapel is very charming. What kind of work went into creating the space?

The redwoods were planted many years ago, after I’d first moved to this house, and then we made a creek-like water feature. It’s very intimate and cozy.

If you love the outdoors, you’ll love it. People have always just loved it. And the wind chime is a pretty cool feature.

What’s your favorite part of this job?

Sometimes it’s like looking at the face of God. People are so vulnerable and their hearts are right out in the open and it’s so intimate, and I feel like it’s an honor to be in the presence of that.

Are there any ceremonies that were particularly memorable?

There’s one that sticks out. The bride was from Japan and the groom was American. They had a very intimate, small wedding here at the chapel with just their families. Each family stood in a circle, and neither spoke each other’s language, so the bride had to translate everything. I held a giant candle and everyone lit their taper candle from mine, while saying what they were going to bring to the union.

I thought it was so profound because not only were they merging cultures, but they were also expressing that marriage is more than two people, and that it’s valuable for families to support this love in any way they can. Today’s America needs that kind of love, where we ask, “What can we bring?” Bring your light and love, and not your judgment.

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MORE CLOSURES ’Tis the season, I suppose. I’ve learned recently of several more Chico establishments calling it quits. Heavenly Blue Fine Lingerie, on the second floor of the Grandview Building downtown, is one of them. Apparently owner Ellen Stephens is ready to retire. The store opened in 2010 and has the cutest little mascot, Chewy. Everything is on sale, so go use up gift certificates and store credit if you’ve got ’em.

Also retiring is Dovie Detches, owner of Dove’s Gypsy Heart Boutique, which relocated to the Chico Mall after the Camp Fire. “You know, I’ve had stores in Chico and Paradise for the last 33 years and am so grateful to have had this great career in retail,” Detches told me. “It’s a great time to retire.” She’ll be selling inventory through the 31st, then fixtures in January. There’ll be an art and wine event Jan. 17 (tickets $45). So, get on over and say farewell.

I happened to stop by The Buzz last week for a breakfast burrito and was sad to learn that it’d be serving its final Sunday brunch Dec. 15. I’ll miss the tri-tip Benedict and housemade corned beef, to be sure. And, just down the road at Fifth and Cedar streets, Tacos Pepe, the little hole in the wall with the well-seasoned taco grill with a “moat,” also has closed. I’d gone a few times at Arts Editor Jason Cassidy’s recommendation, and was not disappointed. But all good things must end.

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he mountains rising from the valley change things abruptly, pine-clad canyons cut through with scrub brush and manzanita, black rock faces jutting out as erect as standing stones, shielding ravines, gullies and caves. A labyrinth for lizards, rattlers, skunk and quail. Deer, bear, mountain lions. Wild turkeys.

A place of creeks and streams, high lakes and old conservation corps projects. A place of Native American legend, where you can still find hieroglyphs if you know where to look. A place, along with the flatlands of his childhood, Mac calls home.

It’s been over a year since the fire.

An eternity in the blink of an eye.

detourS Christmastime fiction They are finally, Jenna says, moving on. Which to Jenna is moving out.

Leaving his mom’s house at last for a place of their own, just in time for Christmas. He gets it, Jenna’s urgency.

Despite his mom’s assertion that she’d just been rattling around in Mac’s childhood home since Pops died, the house had quickly shrunk with the six of them. And even his mom had developed compassion fatigue. Still, for the first time since losing their own home, Mac is having trouble letting go. As if his mom’s house has offered him an odd holding pattern, where the cramped small rooms of his childhood staved off more recent memories.

“Keep your eyes closed until we get there, okay?” Jenna begs. The note in her voice says she knows he’ll love it, wait and see. Mac clowns for her, smiling, waving his hands blindly as

if to touch what’s right in front of him but isn’t really there. He’s still wearing some of Pops’ old clothes, his soft, faded Pendleton and scuffed boots. The old felt hat he pulled from the back of the closet that his mother made a face at.

I meant to throw that thing away.

His ears hold the sound of wind in a tree, his feet note tufts of grass, a kick of dry leaves. The decaying scent of cold. Jenna’s hand in the crook of his arm is firm and convincing. But it’s hard being truly blind, so he slits his eyes just a little, enough to let in light and shadow.

Jenna stops him. “Open.”

The house is clinker brick, with an ivy-covered porch. Camellia bushes ramble unchecked in the planter boxes, the last browned flowers drooping from waxy leaves, a fall of bruised petals lost on the lawn. Three mullioned windows face him, laced with cobwebs.

He tries to hold his smile.

“What do you think?” She’s up the porch steps, swinging back the door. The kids come tearing around the side of the house, bunch in behind her. Jenna’s two, Pele and Luz, both more boisterous than his son, Danny, racing as if life must be tackled breathlessly.

Danny, brooding and slow beside them, remnants of a sugar cookie clinging to his cheeks.

Their clamor is about the number of bathrooms and does it have Wi-Fi and can they pick their own rooms? Mac looks up to see an owl sweep overhead, its brown and white flecked chest ruffling. He jokes the house is obviously haunted, but only Danny turns back with any kind of belief.

He moves behind his family into the cool musty interior and takes off Pops’ old hat, lets his eyes adjust. The living room is large, with plaster walls, high old ceilings. The oak floors need polish, and dust motes float from their marred surface in the late winter sun.

A tarnished banister follows the curved stair to the second story. It’s a house

It wasn’t just a house, it stood for who he was, and where he chose to bring up his family ...

he would have liked, once.

Jenna waves her hand at the fireplace. Scorched above its hollow firebox from careless fires, the bricks protrude at a jaunty angle, their irregularity adding a cock-eyed effect. More clinkers. His muscles ache.

“We can string lights across the mantle. And the tree will fit right here.”

Jenna moves in front of a mullioned window. “It’s perfect,” she finishes, already imaging it whole.

He runs a fist around the inside of the felt hat. “You sound as if you’re sold.”

“Aren’t you?”

“Come look upstairs, Dad,” Danny interrupts. “Maybe the ghost is up there!”

Mac grabs his son’s chin and brushes the cookie crumbs from his cheeks.

“A ghost! And an attic!” Luz runs upstairs. Danny squiggles away, following her.

Jenna grabs Pele and pulls a measuring tape from her purse, marks the size of the small nook beyond the kitchen counter, measuring in hopes of squeezing in a yard-sale dining set she’s found. Pele holds the other end of the tape with an air of importance, a kindness toward his mother he’s FICTION C O N T I N U E D

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exhibited since the fire. A sweet change in him Mac, ironically, worries about. Just thank God you’re all safe, is his mother’s constant mantra. And Mac has, a thousand times. He’s carried the ball, too, making sure they are taken care of, secure, hopeful. So why does he suddenly feel unbalanced, like the madcap tilt and wobble of the clinker bricks?

holds up and the Amazon forest grows rampant. He’s sure it’s creating in them a feeling of helplessness.

“There might be termites,” he says, more to himself. “It’s not exactly a new house.”

The pounding stops, and when Danny emerges from the closet he holds a snow globe in his hands.

“It was on the shelf. Can we keep it?”

He shakes it up, sets it on the window sill. A happy, waving Santa in a swirl of white.

The house they lost he built

with his own hands. Coming up out of the ground with good intentions.

Spending the extra for two-by-six framing and laying the Mexican tile and wrapping the windows with hand-milled pine. He hefted in local stone and fashioned the fireplace.

Crafted the design in the large family room wood floor, and honed the outdoor deck of redwood shaded by cedars and digger pine. So it wasn’t just a house, it stood for who he was, and where he chose to bring up his family, an independent footfall away from the wild places he wanted to help them explore.

In the kitchen, Mac rubs his thumb along a hairline crack in the rough grout between tiles. The tile is white, with a single strip of blue riding the backsplash. Jenna will want it replaced someday. Are they really going to fill another house with what can vanish in an instant? Will this now be the place, like his childhood home, to show up someday—distorted—in their kid’s dreams?

Mac leaves Pele and Jenna and heads upstairs. Three bedrooms are tucked under the eaves. He finds Danny and briefly takes his hand, a solid chunk in his own. Luz is doing pirouettes in the largest room, the rubber sole of her shoe squeaking across the bare floor as she twirls. She giggles when she sees him and gives up her grace for a silly pose.

Danny opens the closet door and runs

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his hand down a row of empty hangers, making music. Pounds the walls.

“Maybe there’s a secret door to the attic in here.”

“Don’t get attached,” Luz scolds.

“This is my room.”

Danny keeps up his resolute banging, ignoring her. Luz comes over and leans against Mac, the exposed pin from her Save the Planet button on her sweater catching his sleeve.

“Ouch,” he scolds but doesn’t move away. He’s the only father she’s known for the last few years, and she likes to hold on to him.

“Are we going to get it?”

“I don’t know, it’s just for rent right now, with a lease option.” She nods gravely, her thin face, not unlike her mother’s, watching him. He likes what is evident in this face, trusting up to a point, tough in the end.

He examines the clasp of her Save the Planet pin, but it’s simply cheap, and there’s no remedy for that. It angers him that schools give kids such big issues to deal with. As if by sheer will (because what else do they have at this point?) they can make a world where the ozone

mountains on their wedding day, Mac and Jenna passed under a column of Chinese Pistache trees growing along the old highway, that arched up and met overhead in a perfect green canopy, sun patterning down between the leaves.

These trees stood so erect it was hard to guess they were over a hundred years old.

Behind them, stretching into the flat horizon, were miles of orchards and fields, the fields mostly rows of newsown corn, since it was early spring, the earth in long slices of furrow and mound surrounded by a great neat border of ditch, like a moat around a castle. A few miles south would be the rice fields of

Mac felt ready, walking into all this.

His children, her children, soon to be their children.

A cobbled-together family he meant to make whole.

his youth, stitched in their graceful, curving patterns.

Once, at a gallery near the coast, he’d seen aerial photos of looping rice fields, set on easels and turned into art.

A note beside each print warned that changes in technology had threatened their beautiful designs, that now they were being planted in straight rows, like everything else.

Did the disappearance of beauty from an aerial view matter? After all, before rice fields the land had been marsh and tulle on the flyway pattern of migrating waterfowl, the waterfowl now crowded into a diminishing refuge or two. But few people stepped back far enough to notice.

You lived on a land all your life, before you realized that beneath its placid surface the soil had degenerated from overuse, the fires lit to burn the fields had choked the air, and the riparian habitat along the river had vanished.

The cedars and pines were nothing but kindling.

On his wedding day, he’d cupped Jenna’s knee, driving one-handed. “You look nice. I’ve never seen your hair up like that.”

“I was saving it. Your mom will do okay with the kids, won’t she? I think she likes me,” Jenna said, fishing. “Your brother said I’m the only one she’s liked.

And of course Dad likes you better than he did Roberto. Is it bad luck to talk about former marriages on your wedding day?”

“My mother loves you.” He patted her and withdrew his hand. “And superstition is only for the first time around.”

She fingered the hair at the nape of her neck, the soft strands she’d curled because they wouldn’t stay up in the knot. The Chinese Pistache trees were far behind them, and they were passing through a grove of olives.

The olives had grass left up tight around their trunks but the rows were mowed, so that the grass muffs were edged by low, verdant green. The space

beneath their shaggy heads reeled with suffused light, a mysterious yellow.

They were not as old as the Pistache trees, but they looked older, as if in perpetual proof they’d descended from the first trees in the world. He saw this age even in the young saplings, growing in their gnarled and gnome-like poses, the wizened little fuzzed pellets forming among the slanted leaves. Don’t eat this fruit until you cure it.

“Want to take a detour?” he teased Jenna. “We can take the long way up. I know a place in the woods.” He slowed the car.

“Are you crazy?” She was startled.

“We’d be late.”

The wheels chewed gravel, pinging rocks into the skid pan as he slowly realigned the car with the highway.

Mac stands in the last bedroom, alone. It’s smaller than the others and smells like very old, damp books. Even the wallpaper looks less like a print than water marks on neglected pages. In retrospect, in this room, it seems perfectly reasonable that they should have taken that detour, that pause, on their wedding day. Not driving eagerly toward the church and the plot of land that marked their new life.

He remembered vividly the inside of that church. The stained glass gorgeously lit behind the minister’s head, the reds and purples on fire. Everyone was dressed

Mac has his own images of Christmas ... out duck hunting with Pops. Pops loved to hunt, and that’s when they’d bonded.

Going out on Christmas Eve, he had Pops to himself, a side of the man he didn’t usually experience.

like Easter, turned round to look at them, in whites, orchids and baby blues. But it wasn’t yet the time of year where the heat got to you, it was barely even warm, and the women in sleeveless dresses hugged their arms, noticing the chill.

Jenna had taken Danny shopping and bought him a suit, a miniature blue jacket and white pants. He held the satin pillow with the rings nonchalantly, crooked in one arm, like he might hold his mitt before practice. His hair was wet back from his face with some kind of goo (that would be Mac’s mother’s touch) and his forehead looked alarmed.

Mac felt ready, walking into all this. His children, her children, soon to be their children. A cobbled-together family he meant to make whole. Pele without a tie because he’d insisted, and Luz in her mother’s pearl necklace. Other people he knew and didn’t know, Jenna’s relatives and friends, acquaintances from work. Her father, a big man leaning on a preposterously small cane.

Pops, still alive but the sad gray tell-tale skin at his eyes already disfiguring, standing slightly shorter than Mac’s mother, in her new cream dress.

Here he’d had no image of the destruction that would ambush them, would have been appalled at this future twist of fate. This very church they were in reduced to ashes. To a heap of rubble and a slash of concrete wall, where a weeping woman would be painted, watched over by rows of chairs burned to silver skeletons, still lined up as

if for some exquisite feast.

Instead, Mac was intent on the prayers, and the service, could repeat every word of the sermon, and recall the look on the minister’s face, whose expression was too glad, not knowing them. Then, too, he was looking past the minister’s face, into the reds and purples, not seeing or hearing a thing. Thinking how he’d shake everyone’s hand afterward, and eat cake and drink champagne, because most sacred acts seem to be followed by a party. And it buoyed him up to find his dreams backed by all that good will.

Danny stepped forward with the rings, nervous after all, shaking so he nearly lost the satin pillow. He smiled encouragement at his son. We’ll be a real family now, eh partner? The minister nodded for them to turn.

They walked down the aisle and there was rice and music, a burst of fanfare like applause. Out on the steps Jenna was trembling, and she teased him for being so calm. People came up to them with kisses and handshakes. His mother cried. Jenna tossed her bouquet to a knot of girls on the lawn, their high, delighted squeals and the pastel skirts pressing at their knees in the wind, silken, following the short flight of jonquils and forget-me-knots tied with a yellow ribbon.

Jenna ran her hands down the front of her dress in a dusting motion, as if she were cleaning house, and he grabbed them and held them tight in his own, a man promising her a certain future.

How has he moved from

spring to winter in an instant? To a land scorched, a community scattered, a listing house that seems suffused with twilight? Everything precarious? The shadows spreading through the window in the bedroom are split on the opposite wall into hundreds of tiny squares. The squares breathe with the movement of a tree outside, a tall redwood whose boughs lift and fall in troublesome slow-

ness. The roof slopes down on either side of the window and Mac leans against the assurance of timber and sheetrock, the surviving brick and mortar of the outside wall. It’s a return to valley life. The yard will have to be enough, a fence marking boundaries with impunity. Across the way the neighbors have their lights strung up, a tree blinking through the window.

Mac watches the lights, but has his own images of Christmas. Not the litup house and a laden tree, but out duck hunting with Pops. Pops loved to hunt, and that’s when they’d bonded. Going out on Christmas Eve, he had Pops to himself, a side of the man he didn’t usually experience. The felt hat and bulky camo jacket, the hot bitter coffee from the battered Stanley thermos he passed to Mac as if sharing some illicit brew. Their breath steamy in the dank air, the stillness as the sun went low and the geese and ducks flew in. Pops and Mac both in thrall as the birds massed, held in the sky’s grip before floating down to kiss the water’s skin.

After he and Jenna were

married, the Chinese Pistache came down, a move for a wider highway. He imagines a pin that pleads, Save the Chinese Pistache, or Save the Looping Rice Fields. Maybe it helps just to name the loss. To acknowledge that he has been shaken, stirred to bits like that snow globe, and hasn’t settled.

Jenna calls from the foot of the stairs. He hears the loud echo of footfalls as Luz and Danny run down to meet her. But even with the kids around her, she calls up the stairs a second time, “Where is everybody?” making him smile.

He holds his answer, lost in the fullness of Christmas. This twilight time of year, where the laws of physics feel broken, the world slightly unhinged.

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WOMEN’S BASKETBALL: Catch the action: Butte vs Marin. Thu, 12/19. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus

Punks Michelle Cruz Gonzales and Alice Bag bring their tales to the page

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n The Spitboy Rule: Tales of a Xicana in a Female Punk Band, Michelle Cruz Gonzales describes growing up feeling like an outsider, “as a Mexican American, a Xicana in a hick town, I was never allowed to forget that I didn’t fit in, that I muddied their waters. I would show them.”

Gonzales, drummer for the empowering 1990s punk band Spitboy, and Alice Bag, singer of the seminal 1970s Los Angeles band The Bags, have each written memoirs about their experiences being Xicana women in the punk scene, a place where, historically, people who feel out of place in “normal” circles gravitate, by a community of people who feel othered. Still, Lindsay Oxford there are biases that seep into punk subcultures, and people of color, women and the LGBTQ Xicana memoirs community often have othering experiences.

The Spitboy Rule availIn their books, Bag and Gonzales share able at pmpress.org Violence Girl available stories from within a scene still dominated by at feralhouse.com heterosexual, cis-gendered white men. (e-version) and Bag has authored two books: amazon.com Violence Girl: East L.A. Rage to Pipe Bomb for the Hollywood Stage, a Chicana Punk Soul is available at pipebombforthesoul. Story and Pipe Bomb for the Soul. In blogspot.com Violence Girl, Bag describes her first (e-version) and impression of the punk scene as “a type amazon.com of kinship that had been missing for most of my life, a sense of community that I had never known, feeling as I always had [and still often do] like a misfit, a weirdo, an outcast.”

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Both Bag and Gonzales found a home in punk, yet both were still very aware that as Xicana women, their experiences were still very different.

“Alice wrote what is probably the first memoir by a Latina in punk, and I wrote the second,” Gonzales said.

“We are from different scenes and different punk eras, but we’re both from Los Angeles, and violence in our families shaped our lives— which all probably had a lot to do with why we got into punk.”

Gonzales, now a professor at Las Positas College in Livermore, released The Spitboy Rule in 2016. It comprises 21 essays that come together to tell the story of how she came to punk, and endured years as a drummer being told “you hit hard for a girl.”

Though their stints in the punk scene were decades apart, Bag says that she and Gonzales have a wealth of shared experiences.

“We’re from different times and different places, but we’re both steeped in Mexican traditions and live by our punk ethos,” Bag said. “Hearing both of us read excerpts from our stories can help the listener understand the quality and scope of the Chicana punk experience.”

“In some ways, our books are not about us,” Gonzales added, “but about how others react to people like us.” Ω

PINK MARTINI: Holiday “Joy to the World” performance by eclectic musical ensemble playing swinging jazz, cabaret, cinema scores, and more. Thu, 12/19, 7:30pm. $15-$64. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. chico performances.com

NOCHEBUENA: CHRISTMAS EVE IN MEXICO Saturday, Dec. 21 Laxson Auditorium

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FREE MOVIE: Call for movie title 891-2762. Sun, 12/22, 2pm. Chico Branch Library, 1108 Sherman Ave. buttecounty.net

Music EMMA GARRAHY & WILL HARTMAN FESTIVE MIX: Local duo plays set list of holiday favorites. Sun, 12/22, 3pm. Secret Trail Brewing Company, 132 Meyers St., Suite 120.

WINTER CONCERT: Holiday, popular and classical music favorites featuring the beginning, intermediate, and advanced musicians of Butte MTAC Youth Orchestra. Thu, 12/19, 7pm. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave.

Theater THE SANTALAND DIARIES: Celebrate the holidays on this hilarious ride through retail hell with local production of David Sedaris’ classic essay. Thu, 12/19, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre. com

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Special Events CHICO MALL FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Make the kids happy with Home Alone. Near Dick’s Sporting Goods. Fri, 12/20, 7pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St.

VOLUNTEER FRIDAYS: Join in picking up litter and pulling weeds. For more info call Shane at 896-7831. Fri, 12/20, 9am. Bidwell Park.

WORD MADE FLESH: See Thursday. Fri, 12/20, 6:30pm. $5. Red Bluff State Theatre, 333 Oak St., Red Bluff.

Music TYLER DEVOLL: Local singer/songwriter plays for happy hour. Fri, 12/20, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

Theater GIVE MY REGARDS TO CHRISTMAS: Legacy Theatre’s Christmas cabaret featuring new arrangements of some of your favorite classic carols, plus a live band and professional cast. Fri, 12/20, 7:30pm. $15 - $25. Apollo Piano, 936 Mangrove Ave., Ste. B. legacystage.ticketleap.com

THE SANTALAND DIARIES: See Thursday. Fri, 12/20, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP: Last-minute locally made gifts, vintage, textile art and more. Fri, 12/20, 1pm. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

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Special Events BEBER STORE GRAND OPENING AND HOLIDAY POPUP: Local almond milk store opens a shop.

Brunch by Near and Dear and beverages

by Brave Coffee and Armstrong Chocolates along with holiday goods. Sat 12/21, 10am. Beber Almondmilk, 144 Meyers St., Ste. 140.

CHAD OPITZ: TLC Comedy Night presents popular Bay Area comic who combines stand-up, storytelling and song. Sat 12/21, 8pm. $10.

Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

HOLIDAY POP-UP: Last minute holiday shopping with Billy Sky, Taylor Crafted and Poppy Rose Candles. Sat 12/21, 10am. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

HOLIDAY TEA & GLENWOOD FARM HOUSE TOUR: Holiday-themed afternoon with children’s choir, local harpist, tea and sweets. Sat 12/21, 2pm. $20. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham.

NOCHEBUENA: Celebrate the holidays and the traditions of Mexico with two premiere dance and music ensembles: Ballet Folklórico de Los Ángeles and Mariachi Garibaldi de Jaime Cuéllar. For tickets and more info visit chicoperformances.com or call 8986333. Sat 12/21, 7:30pm. $15-$38. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State.

Music BEN MASTERSON: Relaxing brunch tunes. Sat, 12/21, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. THE YULE LOGS: Annual holiday show with the greatest Christmas band of all time. Sat, 12/21, 6:30pm. $15. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

GIVe mY reGArDS TO cHrISTmAS Friday-Sunday, Dec. 20-22 Apollo School of Music See FrIDAY-SUNDAY, THEATER

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Deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

Theater GIVE MY REGARDS TO CHRISTMAS: See Friday Sat 12/21, 7:30pm. $15-$25. Apollo Piano, 936 Mangrove Ave.. Ste. B. legacystage.tick etleap.com

THE SANTALAND DIARIES: See Thursday. Sat, 12/21, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events COMMUNITY HANUKKAH PARTY: Traditional dinner for the community featuring music, menorah lighting, dancing, games and more. Call 3426146 for details. Sun, 12/22. City Plaza.

THE FAIR WEATHER TRIO: Vegan brunch with hot new jazz acoustic ensemble. Sun, 12/22, 11am. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St. SUNDAY SUPERJAM: Jam with and dance to The Loco-Motive Band at this weekly jam.

Rock, blues, country, funk—anything goes.

Sign up early, music starts at 2. Sun, 12/22, 2pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St.

Theater GIVE MY REGARDS TO CHRISTMAS: See Friday. Sun, 12/22, 2pm. $15-$25. Apollo Piano, 936 Mangrove Ave., Ste. B. legacystage.tick etleap.com

THE SANTALAND DIARIES: See Thursday. Sun, 12/22, 2pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St.

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LAST-mINUTe & LOcAL Look no more, you have four opportunities this week to buy gifts made by local artists for tough-to-shop-for loved ones or just those you’ve forgotten about until now: Holiday Bazaar at the Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology today (Dec. 19), 10 a.m.-4:30 p.m.; Holiday Pop-up Shop at The Bookstore on Friday, 1-6 p.m.; on Saturday (Dec. 21) visit the Holiday Craft Fair at the downtown Chico Certified Farmers’ Market, 8 a.m.-1 p.m., and the Holiday Pop-up at Tender Loving Coffee, 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. You’re welcome.

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Shows through Jan. 24 Healing Art Gallery See ArT

Art 1078 GALLERY: Six (For) Stories Eight, six artists showcase their work. Through 12/29.

1710 Park Ave. 1078gallery.org

CHICO ART CENTER: The Gift Show, artists sell handmade goods and artwork for the holiday season. Think global, buy local.

Through 12/27. 450 Orange St.

HEALING ART GALLERY AT ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Art by Christine MacShane, paintings by local artist. The Enloe Cancer Center, Healing Art Gallery shows work by artists whose lives have been touched by cancer (survivors, caretakers and healthcare givers). Through 1/24. Free.

265 Cohasset Road.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Reflection and Hope, group exhibit reflecting the experiences of survivors and the community a year after the Camp Fire. And, Bench Press, benches by 13 artists. 900 Esplanade, monca.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: Wonder and Light, group show featuring Mollie Flack, Jeannie Vodden and Susan Greaves. Through 12/25. 732 Fourth St., Orland.

RED TAVERN: Flora, Fauna and Fields, eclectic

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exhibit featuring paintings in oils and watercolor by Eva Farley, Candy Matthews and Dolores Mitchell. Through 1/1. Free. 1250 Esplanade.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Home for the Holidays, original artwork by Gary Baugh.

Through 12/31. 493 East Ave., Ste. 1.

Museums CHICO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Tons of cool stuff for kids to explore including a miniature city, complete with a junior vet clinic, dentist, cafe and farmer’s market, a giant fish tank, multi-sensory room, imagination playground and much more. Check the website for hours and admission information. Through 8/3. $7-$9. 325 Main St. chicochildrensmuseum.org.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Unbroken Traditions Basketweavers of the Meadows-Baker Families in Northern California, exhibition represents the culmination of one year of research and collaboration between Mountain Maidu weavers, other tribal experts, museums studies students, faculty and curators. Through 5/15. Chico State.

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Top 40 for 2019

Billie Eilish, duh

One playlist for an inspiring year in music

W Magazine’s year-end awards issue is dominated by females: omen owned 2019. Time

Person of the Year Greta Thunberg, Entertainer of the Year Lizzo, and by the U.S. womJason Cassidy en’s soccer team j aso nc@ as Athlete(s) of newsrev i ew.c om the Year. U.S. soccer’s Megan Rapinoe is also Sports Illustrated’s Sportsperson of the Year, and Lizzo and Billie Eilish ruled the Grammy nominations (eight and six, respectively).

Of course, the year also featured the inspiring Squad—Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Ayanna Pressley and Rashida Tlaib—kicking ass in Washington as part of the record 126 female members in the 116th U.S. Congress.

During a year in which I could barely keep my head above water due to a flood of incredible musical offerings, the bulk of the songs that floated to the top were by female artists. Five of the Grammy Album of the Year candidates are by women, three of which are maybe even my favorite releases in 2019: Lizzo’s fierce and bangin’ Cuz I Love You; the menacing electro-pop of Eilish’s When We All Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?; and Lana Del Rey’s dense and wonderful exploration of the twisted American dream, Norman Fucking Rockwell! Big

Thief’s Adrianne Lenker wrote two albums worth of excellent rock with perfect lyrics (U.F.O.F. and Two Hands). French/Chilean musician Ana Tijoux put out the lively “#Cacerolazo” in support of Chileans protesting economic inequality, complete with panbanging rhythms as an homage to the racket in the streets. And Olympia, Wash., singer/songwriter Eleanor Murray’s “My Rebellion,” an under-the-radar call to selfdetermination, might be my song of the year: “I close my eyes and sing/ This act is my rebellion/To keep my soul alive/In the wavering of times.”

The following list is just one mix of memorable tunes selected from my 2019 experiences, most (22 of the 40) sung by women.

Stream the playlist on YouTube at tinyurl.com/ArtsDevo2019.

• “Bad Guy” & “Bury a Friend” – Billie Eilish • “Cattails” & “Not” – Big Thief • “Cuz I Love You” & “Juice” – Lizzo • “Stay High” – Brittany Howard • “Alcohol” – FIDLAR • “Pub Feed” – The Chats • “Across an Open Field” – Donald Beaman • “Confessions” – Sudan Archives • “Going Norway” & “Shoulderblades” – Girl Band • “BmBmBm” & “953” – Black Midi

• “Air Conditioning” – Lightning Bolt • “All My Happiness is Gone” – Purple Mountains • “Thanks for the Dance” – Leonard Cohen • “This Life” & “Harmony Hall” – Vampire Weekend • “Nice Things” – Tank and the Bangas • “Aaron” – Palehound • “#Cacerolazo” – Ana Tijoux • “Hold Me” – Wished Bone • “Run” – WASI • “My Rebellion” – Eleanor Murray • “Dylan Thomas” – Better Oblivion Community Center • “OMG” – Sampa the Great • “Who’s My Eugene?” – Tropical Fuck Storm • “Fastest Horse in Town” – Sturgill Simpson • “Gloria” – The Shivas • “Pressure to Party” – Julia Jacklin • “Drunk II” – Mannequin Pussy • “Daddy Issues” – Pip Blom • “Don’t Look Down” – … And You Will Know Us By the Trail of Dead • “(I Blame) Society” – Titus Andronicus • “Norman Fucking Rockwell” – Lana Del Ray • “Earfquake” - Tyler, the Creator • “Father Of All …” - Green Day • “Refugee” – John-Michael Sun Ω

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CHAD OPITZ: TLC Comedy Night presents popular Bay Area comic who combines stand-up, storytelling and song. Sat, 12/21, 8pm. $10. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

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REEL WORLD FILM SHORTS Reviewers: Meredith J. Cooper, Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Bombshell

A biopic on the sexual assault scandal at Fox News after anchor Gretchen Carlson and others made allegations that brought about the resignation of the network’s CEO, Roger Aisles. Starring Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and Nicole Kidman as Carlson. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Cats

With CGI effects that blur the lines between cats and humans, director Tom Hooper (Les Misérables) brings Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical to the big screen with a cast that includes Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden and more. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Santa Sangre (1989)

Two late-night showings of Alejandro Jodorowsky’s surreal horror classic: Friday and Saturday (Dec. 20-21), at 10 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

A greatest performance of his beautifully erratic film career.

dam Sandler has just delivered what is, by far, the

With Uncut Gems, he joins forces with writers/ directors Benny and Josh Safdie (makers of the excellent Robert by Bob Grimm Pattinson vehicle Good Time) and delivers the kind of fully combg r i mm@ mitted dramatic performance that newsrev i ew.c om he’s hinted at in the past with his strong efforts in Punch-Drunk Love and The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected). Not bad for the creative force behind Grown Uncut Gems Ups 2.

Opens Dec. 25.

Sandler plays Howard Ratner, Starring Adam Sandler, a New York City jewelry store eric bogosian, Julia Fox, Idina menzel owner and gambling addict. It’s and Kevin Garnett. 2012, and he’s built up substantial Directed by benny and debts with a bunch of criminals, Josh Safdie. Pageant including his brother-in-law Arno Theatre. rated r.

(Eric Bogosian), who doesn’t give a shit that they are related. He’s owed money, and Howard will suffer greatly if he doesn’t pay.

Howard’s solution is to obtain a million-dollar black opal straight from Ethiopia, one that the likes of pro basketball superstar Kevin Garnett (yes, Garnett plays himself here) is ready to give him all kinds of money for because he thinks the stone has powers.

Of course, selling the stone at auction and solving all of his problems doesn’t prove so easy for Howard,

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portrayed bt Sandler as an out-of-his-mind kook who screws up every chance he gets. In all facets of his life—whether it’s business or his relationships with his with his soon-to-be-ex-wife (Idina Menzel) and his well-meaning mistress (Julia Fox)—Howard seems incapable of doing the right thing.

With a character whose life is so messed up that it’s sometimes funny, Sandler’s comedic chops come into play for some moments of dark humor as well.

But, for the most part, Sandler isn’t in this for laughs.

His Howard is a complete character study of a sad, complex man addicted to chaos who doesn’t know when to quit. He completely owns the role.

Uncut Gems thrives on more than just performances; it’s also bursting with style. It’s edited with the sort of electric pace that keeps you riveted. And the Safdies adopt a swirling approach to visual and sound design that makes Howard’s crazed adventure a real trip, including psychedelic detours inside opals, and even Howard’s colon. In addition to being one of the year’s best films, it’s one of the most original.

Sandler more than deserves his first Oscar nomination here. His work stands alongside Leonardo DiCaprio’s in Once Upon a Time …in Hollywood and Adam Driver’s in Marriage Story as one of the the year’s best. □

It’s the ‘60s, and Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) has had it with Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone) and his fast, flashy cars. He and cronies such as Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) and Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas) decide to send a message to the world that Ford isn’t just about family cars. The plan is to win races and appeal to a younger demographic by rolling out sporty Mustangs and the like. Enter Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a former race car driver turned designer and salesman. Ford hires Shelby to come up with a car that can beat Ferrari, namely at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. It’s a tall order, and it calls for a crazy guy behind the wheel. Ken Miles (Christian Bale) is a rule-breaking Brit who can drive as well as provide instant feedback on what alterations need to be made to make the damn thing go faster. His lack of convention causes Ford to bristle, Shelby gets in the middle, and we have ourselves a gripping tale about racing technology, volatile friendships and corporate clashes. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —B.G. Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) and her sister Princess Anna (Kristen Bell) and the rest of the gang are back on a journey beyond Arendelle in this sequel to the massively popular animated musical animated flick. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

Uncut Gems

Adam Sandler delivers in tense crime drama

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Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

It’s the Resistance vs. the First Order and the Jedis vs. the Siths as director J.J. Abrams returns to the Star Wars franchise for the final installment in the “Skywalker Saga” trilogy. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG-13.

Gem of a role

Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Reopening this week Fantastic Fungi

Documentary on the fungus kingdom that uses breathtaking time-lapse macro photography to illustrate a world underneath our feet that offers possible solutions to many of our most pressing environmental, therapeutic and medical issues. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

This is a beautiful film. Whimsical, sweet, complicated and full of warmth, just like that polite guy who used to put on his cardigan and sneakers for his long-running children’s show on PBS. Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers in a wonderful tribute to the man. But Fred Rogers is a supporting player (albeit a mighty important and present one) in director Marielle Heller’s heartfelt movie. The main protagonist is Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys of The Americans), a troubled journalist who grumbles upon getting an assignment to do a profile on the guy with a “hokey” TV show for Esquire magazine. The reporter bristles at first, but over the course of the film, the two become friends, and Rogers helps him with stresses in his life, including the impending death of his father. Heller brilliantly frames the film as an episode of the TV show, starting with Hanks delivering the infamous welcoming song, and then introducing Lloyd as a friend who needs help. The characters travel between different cities that are depicted like the train sets that had a presence throughout the run of the show. Cinemark 14. Rated PG —B.G.

Black Christmas

A group of sorority pledges is stalked by a stranger over winter break. Cinemark 14,

Actor Shia LaBeouf wrote the screenplay for this fictionalized exploration of how his rocky relationship with his father (with LaBeouf starring as one version of his old man) impacted his life. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Jumanji: The Next Level

The whole gang is back for the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017). This time around, they set out to save Spencer (Alex Wolff), who’s gone back into the game.

Turns out, the sequel is more difficult, and they must embark on a new adventure with a new nemesis (played with perfect intensity

by Rory McCann—GOT’s The Hound). To beef up the story, the familiar avatars (played

by Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan) get some new strengths and weaknesses, and are joined by a few new sidekicks (Awkwafina and a horse—don’t ask). In the human world, we get to meet Spencer’s grandfather (Danny DeVito) and his old business partner (Danny Glover), to add some “I’m too old for this shit” humor to the mix. Add to that some new tricks and/or glitches—like the ability to switch characters mid-game—and fans of the first film are in for a fun ride. The adventure is nonstop, and I can’t count the number of times I laughed out loud in the theater. A perfect escape film for the wintertime blues. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —M.J.C.

Knives Out

A star-studded black comedy from writer/ director Rian Johnson about a detective (Daniel Craig) investigating the murder of a wealthy author who winds up dead in his remote mansion soon after his dysfunctional family arrives. Also starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette and Christopher Plummer. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Richard Jewell

Clint Eastwood directs this biopic that tells the story of the security-guard hero of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing who came under heavy scrutiny as a prime suspect. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated R.

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Missing ingredient Trying to recreate a simple family recipe in memory of mom

Imake state of panic. I’m supposed to green beans almondine for

t’s Thanksgiving 2010 and I’m in a

the family dinner, but staring at the green beans on the kitchen counter, I’m certain by I didn’t buy Rachel enough.

Leibrock Did I have rach e ll@ time to brave newsrev i ew.c om the store? How many green beans could people eat anyway? Had I ruined our meal before it even started?

Upset, I called my mother and rattled off my worries as I tried to break down the calculus of the recipe applied to a dozen people.

Finally, as I paused for a breath, she interjected.

“It’ll be fine,” she said. “And if there’s not enough, after dinner go out in the front yard and check to make sure the Earth is still properly rotating on its axis.”

In other words, calm down and have a little perspective. In the moment, I laughed.

Now, a decade later I’m thinking of my mom’s words as I stare at the ingredients I’ve assembled. I’m trying

to re-create a vegetarian version of a dish she used to make. Known in our family as “Betty’s Meatballs,” they were a favorite. I haven’t eaten meat in more than 20 years, but sometimes I still crave them.

Something is missing, though.

Fresh garlic? More onion? Freshly chopped herbs? I’m certain I’ve forgotten something essential, ruining the meatballs before I’ve even started.

I long to call my mother for advice but can’t. She was diagnosed with Stage IV lung cancer in mid-February. Ten weeks later she was gone.

After her death, as my family cleaned out her house, it was my brother who whisked away her cookbooks and a beat-up recipe tin. Of her three kids, he’s the one who likes to cook the most. Still, at times, the loss of the recipes feels like an added, fierce strike of grief.

Over the months, my mind keeps returning to the idea of Betty’s Meatballs. Maybe I could make a meatless version. Maybe I could re-create that past taste of home.

A few weeks ago, I texted my

brother for the recipe.

His message back: Ground beef, tomato soup and rice.

I stared at the phone, frustrated. That’s it? Three ingredients? What about measurements or cooking times? Surely, there had to be more to them than this.

Then again, my mother wasn’t a fancy cook in the slightest. I’m not even sure she really liked to be in the kitchen. As a single parent, she relied heavily on convenience foods that were popular. TV dinners—the kind with little adventsize slots for each portion—and Hamburger Helper were staples in our house, along with canned peas and sloppy Joe mix, Rice-A-Roni and mashed potatoes from a box.

Indeed, my mother was never really one for domesticity. Cooking, like dusting and vacuuming and scrubbing floors, likely seemed futile. This endless loop of slicing and chopping, sautéing and baking—when would it ever end?

Or perhaps I’m projecting my own complicated relationship with cooking onto her memory. I like to cook, but I think I share my mother’s impatience for it. There’s always so much to do but so little time. Even so, I wanted Betty’s Meatballs again. But how?

What I remembered, specifically, was the sum of their parts: the crunch of the rice that studded the meat and the thick and hearty tomato broth.

How difficult could they be?

I interrogated the internet. As it turns out, the recipe isn’t unique.

More commonly, they’re known as “porcupine meatballs” and variations of the recipe abound.

Now, though, standing in my

The author and her mother, Barbara Gallaway, circa December 1975.

kitchen, I feel that same slight sense of panic that had overcome me a decade ago. There are so many ways to make them. Garlic powder or freshly minced bulbs? Fresh herbs or just a dash of pepper?

Canned soup or a homemade sauce of long-simmering diced tomatoes?

If anything, my mom’s cooking style was unfussy, so I decide to keep it simple.

I chop an onion, combine it with a quarter-teaspoon of garlic powder, rice (one cup dry) and a package of defrosted Beyond meat, the popular meat alternative.

The mixture makes approximately two dozen meatballs, which I then sear in olive oil. Next, I mix a can of Campbell’s condensed tomato soup with a can of water and a dash of

balsamic vinegar, the latter a vegan stand-in for the Worcestershire sauce in most of the recipes.

I arrange it all in a casserole dish, remembering with a flash of nostalgia the yellow and white flowered baking pan my mother used. I wish I had it now.

An hour later the meatballs are done and a richly fragrant aroma of onions, garlic and tomato fills my kitchen.

The result is better than I expected, if not exact. The crunch of the rice is just like I remembered, even as the tomato sauce seems to lack something. A mystery spice she added? More onion? I can’t decide.

Still, they taste like home.

Imperfect, but satisfying.

My mother is gone, yet the Earth still properly rotates on its axis.

Somehow. Ω

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by JASON CASSIDY • jasonc@newsreview.com

BEST ART PICS 2019 As is tradition for this second-to-last column of the year, Arts DEVO shuts up and stands back and appreciates his favorite photographs to appear alongside the arts stories in the CN&R over the past 12 months. As always, thank you, photographers, for making us writers look good.

Butte County native Shane Grammer garnered much national media attention for his 17 Beauty From Ashes murals painted amid the ruins of the Camp Fire, including the haunting “Holding Onto Hope,” installed inside a burned-out shop on the Skyway.

PHOTO BY SHANE GRAMMER

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Photographer Douglas Keister documented the “inferno, aftermath and recovery” of the Camp Fire in his book, People, Places and Pieces of Paradise, including this shot of artist Jess Mercer holding a jar of fire victims’ keys to be used in “The Key Phoenix” sculpture she unveiled in Paradise on the anniversary of the fire.

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The outside Museum of Northern California Art was impressively done up for the Cirque du MONCA gala fundraising party last spring.

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All of Bidwell Park was a stage for actor John Crosthwaite, who played the title character in the new Legacy Stage theater company’s maiden production, Macbeth, set in the outdoors last fall.

Paradise band Aberrance in front of ruins of the “Fortress of Duditude,” the house/practice space the members shared before the Camp Fire.

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6 Abbott Cir 2955 Ruby River Dr 10 Scarlet Grove Ct 17 Buttercup Ct 324 Sonora Ln 3244 Tinker Creek Way 534 Eaton Rd 2873 Longwood Dr 2186 North Ave 638 Brush Creek Ln 3324 Wedgewood Ln 899 El Monte Ave 227 Mission Serra Ter 29 Parkhurst St 2911 Ceanothus Ave 1188 Marian Ave 1090 Palmetto Ave 68 Glenshire Ln 1405 Arbutus Ave 359 Connors Ave 2756 Keith Hopkins Pl 1259 E 8th St

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TINAS MINI MART #2 at 1631 Park Ave Chico, CA 95928.

TEIG CHICO OIL INC 1248 Franklin Ave Yuba City, CA 95991.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: FARIA ALI, MANAGER Dated: October 24, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001218 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE HUMAN BEAN - CHICO at 2805 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973.

EDWARD BOOTH 2558 White Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: EDWARD BOOTH Dated: November 8, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001277 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LONGFELLOW EXPRESS LAUNDRY at 1383 Longfellow Ave Chico, CAL 95926.

KIEFER NELSON 1053 Palmetto Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ROBERT ZAVALA 1053 Palmetto Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ROBERT ZAVALA Dated: September 23, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001085 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PHOENIX PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1385 Ridgewood Dr Suite 106 Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COTTONPARTY at 337 Broadway St Chico, CA 95928.

ANGELA REBEKAH YOUNGBLOOD 1835 Broadway St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ANGELA REBEKAH YOUNGBLOOD Dated: November 19, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001312 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A TRANQUIL NEST at 1470 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

KATHLEEN K ROBINSON 1470 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHLEEN K. ROBINSON Dated: November 15, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001297 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name COTTONPARTY at 337 Broadway Chico, CA 95928.

KAREN DENISE LANGEN 476 East 1st Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KAREN LANGEN Dated: November 19, 2019 FBN Number: 2018-0000195 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROTECH, PROTECTION CONSULTANTS at 3199 Plummers Drive #4 Chico, CA 95973.

SCOTT CRAGER 3199 Plummers Drive #4 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SCOTT CRAGER Dated: November 22, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001327 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARADISE ROOTS, PARADISE ROOTS PRINTING COMPANY at 6225 Kilgord Ct Magalia, CA 95954.

BRANDON LEE PARKS 6225 Kilgord Ct Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRANDON PARKS Dated: November 14, 2019 this Legal Notice continues

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FBN Number: 2019-0001295 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INVENTIVE CONSTRUCTION LANDSCAPING at 1078 E 8th St Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN PHILIP PURVIANCE 1078 E 8th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN PHILIP PURVIANCE Dated: November 22, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001330 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as S AND S PRODUCE AND NATURAL FOODS at 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

RICH’S BUTCHER SHOP INCORPORATED 1900 Mangrove Avenue #30 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BREIN JONES, SECRETARY Dated: November 6, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001262 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHWERK CONSTRUCTION at 832 Alan Lane Chico, CA 95926.

ALEC MARTIN BINYON 978 Salem St. B Chico, CA 95928.

WOLF-DIETER BLESS 832 Alan Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ALEC BINYON Dated: November 25, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001338 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OROVILLE TIME SQUARE at 1345 Feather River Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

SIMA SABOURY 1251 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SIMA SABOURY Dated: October 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001169 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE PAMPERED POOCH at 118 D West East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JILLIAN LYNNAE NOELLE LEWIS 1329 Sherman Ave Apt 6 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JILLIAN LEWIS Dated: November 27, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001343 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JMAXX CONSULTING at 3471 Durham Dayton Hwy Chico, CA 95928.

VANESSA PITNEY 3471 Durham Dayton Hwy Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VANESSA PITNEY Dated: November 26, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001342 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TODDCO at 5870 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

JEREMY TODD 5870 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JEREMY TODD Dated: October 23, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001214 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PORCH-TO-PORCH REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATES at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KAREN MCCOLLUM, ADMINISTRATOR Dated: November 20, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001320 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WOFCHUCK HONEY CO at 1725 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL WOFCHUCK 1725 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL WOFCHUCK Dated: December 2, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001347 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FOOTHILL PROPERTIES at 695 E. 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

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

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BLAKE ANDERSON Dated: December 5, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001359 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PATHOLOGY SCIENCES MEDICAL GROUP at 183 E 8th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY HEIDI A JESS 34 Sparrow Hawk Lane Chico, CA 95928.

REBECCA L JOHNSON 368 Brookside Drive Chico, CA 95928.

NELSON K KANEISHI 979 E 6th Street Chico, CA 95928.

ANTHONY NASR 4523 Garden Brook Drive Chico, CA 95973.

GEOFFREY T SASAKI 3156 Shallow Springs Terrace Chico, CA 95928.

LESTER K WONG 347 Legion Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: LESTER K. WONG Dated: October 30, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001236 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

an Unincorporated Association.

Signed: BREIN JONES Dated: December 2, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001346 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following persons have withdrawn as partners from the partnership operating under PATHOLOGY SCIENCES MEDICAL GROUP at 183 E 8th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MARK R CARTER MD A PROFESSION 621 Breanna Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MARK R CARTER MD Dated: October 30, 2019 FBN Number: 2017-0001599 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHANASHEEL at 1301 Sheridan Ave #109 Chico, CA 95926.

JASIM WASI 1301 Sheridan Ave #109 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASIM WASI Dated: November 26, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001339 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JEANNIE’S, JEANNIE’S CONSIGNMENT at 491 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CAROL STARK 5486 Scottwood Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CAROL STARK Dated: November 12, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001283 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PURE HYDRATION at 325 Bridge Street Colusa, CA 95932.

THE VIGILANT ONE, INC. 325 Bridge Street Colusa, CA 95932.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TRACY RIDDLE, CRNA Dated: November 13, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001285 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STEWART PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

BREIN L. JONES TRUSTEE OF THE STEWART 2019 FAMILY TRUST 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD L STEWART TRUSTEE OF THE RICHARD STEWART LIVING TRUST 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO TATTOO COMPANY at 252 East Ave Suite C Chico, CA 95973.

TYSON BODE 2765 Montgomery Street Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TYSON BODE Dated: December 6, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001362 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE ORIGINAL BARBER JOHNS at 532 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926.

RICHARD ROY FUNKHOUSER II 2388 Serviss Street Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD R FUNKHOUSER II Dated: December 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001382 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALEX FIX IT at 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973.

ALEXANDER T ARAUJO 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ARAUJO, ALEXANDER Dated: December 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001383 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO GROCERY OUTLET at 2157 Pillsbury Rd Chico, CA 95926.

C AND T’S BARGAIN MARKET, INC 4297 Calernbar Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: CHRIS HOSTETTLER, OWNER Dated: November 18, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001307 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALPHA STRONG at 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

NEW STRONG INC 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KATHY HANKINS, CEO Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001375 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALPHA STRONG FITNESS 2 at 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

KATHY M HANKINS 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHY M HANKINS Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001376 Published: December 19,26, 2019 January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO BROW at 4070 Nord Hwy 141 Chico, CA 95973.

ASHLEY NICOLE ROOT BAZER 4070 Nord Hwy 141 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ASHLEY ROOT-BAZER Dated: November 18, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001310 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRO WIRELESS at 2554 Olive Highway Oroville, CA 95966.

NENG XIONG 2707 Fay Way Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NENG XIONG Dated: December 13, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001396 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

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

233ss PAUL JONES 6x12 (Boxes, Bins, Luggage) 205ss CARA MAYS 6x12 (Boxes, Bins) 127cc BOYDEN COURTNEY 6x12 (couch, boxes, house hold items) 426cc CRUMB DOUG 5x10 (instruments, boxes, instrument cases) 504cc DUNCAN DAVID A 6x7 (tool box, pictures, posters) 281ss CARMEN OCHOA 5x12 (Chairs, Camping gear, Boxes) 151cc ORTIZ SALVADOR 6x7 (Boxes, Kids toys, Desk, Computer) 390cc1 SHIRLEY SHERYL 5x12 (Bags, Totes) 084cc SLUSHER EMILY 5x10 (EMPTY) Contents to be sold to the

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highest bidder on: Saturday December 28, 2019 Beginning at 1:00PM Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage, 65 Heritage Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAUREL SAMSON CLARK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LAUREL SAMSON CLARK ILIA SIDHE CLARK DOMINIC HOWARD CLARK Proposed name: LAUREL SUZANNE SAMSON ILIA SIDHE MARGARET SAMPSON DOMINIC BAY EARL SAMSON 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: January 15, 2020 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: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: November 13, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03384 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CARSON MEDLEY JULIA MEDLEY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EVE CANTRELL MEDLEY Proposed name: BEATRIX CANTRELL MEDLEY 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: January 8, 2020 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 this Legal Notice continues

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Dated: November 7, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03297 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CRYSTAL JOY SANDBERG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CRYSTAL JOY SANDBERG Proposed name: KRISSY JOY TRITTEN 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: January 22, 2020 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: November 22, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03537 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ERIC ELISHA KNIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ERIC ELISHA KNIGHT Proposed name: DAVID ELISHA STOCKTON 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: January 8, 2020 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: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: November 1, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03107 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

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For the week oF December 19, 2019 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The English

word “hubris” means prideful, exaggerated self-assurance. In the HBO series Rome, the ancient Roman politician and general Mark Antony says to his boss Julius Caesar, “I’m glad you’re so confident. Some would call it hubris.” Caesar has a snappy comeback: “It’s only hubris if I fail.” I’m tempted to dare you to use you that as one of your mottoes in 2020. I have a rather expansive vision of your capacity to accomplish great things during the coming months. And I also think that one key to your triumphs and breakthroughs will be your determination to cultivate a well-honed aplomb, even audacity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): For years

I’ve lived in a house bordering a wetland, and I’ve come to love that ecosystem more than any other. While communing with reeds and herons and muddy water, my favorite poet has been Taurus-born Lorine Niedecker, who wrote about marshes with supreme artistry. Until the age of 60, her poetic output was less than abundant because she had to earn a meager living by cleaning hospital floors. Then, due to a fortuitous shift in circumstances, she was able to leave that job and devote more time to what she loved most and did best. With Niedecker’s breakthrough as our inspiration, I propose that we do all we can, you and I, as we conspire to make 2020 the year you devote more time to the activity that you love most and do best.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the

English language, the prefix “re” comes at the beginning of many words with potent transformational meaning: reinvent, redeem, rediscover, release, relieve, redesign, resurrect, rearrange, reconstruct, reform, reanimate, reawaken, regain. I hope you’ll put words like those at the top of your priority list in 2020. If you hope to take maximum advantage of the cosmic currents, it’ll be a year of revival, realignment and restoration.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I won’t be

surprised if you’re enamored and amorous more than usual in 2020. I suspect you will experience delight and enchantment at an elevated rate. The intensity and depth of the feelings that flow through you may break all your previous records. Is that going to be a problem? I suppose it could be if you worry that the profuse flows of tenderness and affection will render you weak and vulnerable. But if you’re willing and eager to interpret your extra sensitivity as a superpower, that’s probably what it will be.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Does the word

“spirit” mean anything to you? Or are you numb to it? Has it come to seem virtually meaningless—a foggy abstraction used carelessly by millions of people to express sentimental beliefs and avoid clear thinking? In accordance with astrological omens, I’ll ask you to create a sturdier and more vigorous definition of “spirit” for your practical use in 2020. For instance, you might decide that “spirit” refers to the life force that launches you out of bed each morning and motivates you to keep transforming yourself into the evermore beautiful soul you want to become.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “There are

people who take the heart out of you, and there are people who put it back,” wrote author Charles de Lint. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, your heart will encounter far more of the latter than the former types of people in 2020.

There may be one wrangler who tries to take the heart out of you, but there will be an array of nurturers who will strive to keep the heart in you—as well as boosters and builders who will add even more heart.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Composer Igor Stravinsky was born a Russian citizen, but later in life became a French citizen, and still later took on American citizenship. If you have had any similar predilections, I’m guessing they won’t be in play during 2020. My prediction is that you will develop

by rob brezsny a more robust sense of where you belong than ever before. Any uncertainties you’ve had about where your true power spot lies will dissipate. Questions you’ve harbored about the nature of home will be answered.

With flair and satisfaction, you’ll resolve long-running riddles about home and community.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Friendship is a very taxing and arduous form of leisure activity,” wrote philosopher and educator Mortimer Adler. He was exaggerating a bit for comic effect, but he was basically correct. We all must mobilize a great deal of intelligence and hard work to initiate new friendships and maintain existing friendships. But I have some very good news about how these activities will play out for you in 2020. I expect that your knack for practicing the art of friendship will be at an all-time high. I also believe that your close alliances will be especially gratifying and useful for you. You’ll be well-rewarded for your skill and care at cultivating rapport.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In 1933, Sagittarian artist Diego Rivera was commissioned to paint a huge mural in one of the famous Rockefeller buildings in New York City. His patrons didn’t realize he was planning to include a controversial portrait of former Soviet Communist leader Vladimir Lenin. When the deed was done, they ordered him to remove it. When he refused, they ushered him out and destroyed the whole mural. As a result, Rivera also lost another commission to create art at the Chicago World’s Fair. In any other year, I might encourage you to be as idealistic as Rivera. I’d invite you to place artistic integrity over financial considerations.

But I’m less inclined to advise that in 2020.

I think it may serve you to be unusually pragmatic. At least consider leaving Lenin out of your murals.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

“People mistake their limitations for high standards,” wrote Capricorn author Jean Toomer. In my astrological opinion, it’s crucial that you avoid doing that in 2020.

Why? First, I’m quite sure that you will have considerable power to shed and transcend at least some of your limitations. For best results, you can’t afford to deceive yourself into thinking that those limitations are high standards. Secondly, you will have good reasons and a substantial ability to raise your standards higher than they’ve ever been. So you definitely don’t want to confuse high standards with limitations.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Historians once thought that 14th century Englishmen were the first humans to track the rhythms of the planet Jupiter using the complicated mathematics known as calculus. But in 2015, researchers discovered that Babylonians had done it 1,400 years before the Englishmen. Why was Jupiter’s behavior so important to those ancient people? They were astrologers!

They believed the planet’s movements were correlated with practical events on Earth, such as the weather, river levels and grain harvests. I think that this correction in the origin story of tracking Jupiter’s rhythms will be a useful metaphor for you in 2020.

It’s likely you will come to understand your past in ways that are different from what you’ve believed up until now. Your old tales will change.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): China

produces the most apples in the world. The United States is second. That wasn’t always true. When Europeans first reached the shores of the New World, crab apple was the only apple species that grew natively.

But the invaders planted other varieties that they brought with them. They also imported the key to all future proliferation: honeybees, champion pollinators, which were previously absent from the land that many indigenous people called Turtle Island.

I see 2020 as a time for you to accomplish the equivalent, in your own sphere, of getting the pollination you need. What are the fertilizing influences that will help you accomplish your goals?

www.RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ Proposed name: BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER MORRIS 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: January 29, 2020 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: December 12, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03653 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHARISH L BLEVINS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: November 13, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV03741 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, Janurary 2, 2020

SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT KEVIN K. WISE You have been sued by petitioner: STACY R. KNAUSS You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

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

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

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

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

The name and address of the court are: Superior Court Of California County of Butte Chico - North Butte County Courthouse 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: STACY R. KNAUSS 7986 Railroad Ave. Oroville, CA 95966 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: October 30, 2019 Case Number: 19PA01874 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DANNY W. JARRETT, also known as DANNY WAYNE JARRETT To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DANNY W. JARRETT, DANNY WANYE JARRETT, DANNY JARRETT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DEBRA CUNNINGHAM this Legal Notice continues

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in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The 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: January 7, 2020 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 Dated: December 10, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00549 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE LAWRENCE E. HESCOCK, aka LAWRENCE EUGENE HESCOCK, aka LARRY HESCOCK To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: LAWRENCE E. HESCOCK, aka LAWRENCE EUGENE HESCOCK, aka LARRY HESCOCK A Petition for Probate has been filed by: this Legal Notice continues

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ROBERT HOLUB in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: ROBERT HOLUB 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: January 7, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-10 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 Dated: December 10, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00550 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MICHAEL JOHN WEINREICH To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MICHAEL JOHN WEINREICH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUSAN F. WEINREICH BEST in the Superior Court of this Legal Notice continues

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California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SUSAN F. WEINREICH BEST be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The 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: January 14, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBA Room: TBA 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.

Petitioner: 1585 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926 Dated: December 11, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00520 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

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