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50 years of failure The night before President John F. Kennedy signed a bill

imposing a financial and commercial embargo on Cuba, he asked an aide to go out and purchase 1,000 Cuban cigars for him. Just to be safe, the aide came back with 1,200 stogies.

That was 50 years ago this month. American teenagers were doing the twist, we had yet to put a man on the moon, and a first-class stamp cost 4 cents. The smokes are long gone, but the embargo is still in place.

If ever there was a policy that serves no useful purpose and, in fact, is detrimental to the economic and political health of this country, the embargo is it. It has failed to bring down the Cuban government, ungenerously penalized the people of Cuba, kept American businesses from enjoying the fruits of commerce with more than 11 million potential customers, and, until recently, kept American tourists from enjoying one of the most vibrant and scenic countries in the Americas.

In the meantime, the embargo has been roundly condemned, year after year, by the United Nations. In the eyes of the rest of the world, the embargo is a stain on America’s image as a freedom-loving nation.

And what’s the point? We trade with China and Russia. We even trade with Vietnam. If we can trade with former communist enemies, why can’t we trade with a nearby country where people drive old American cars and baseball is the national sport?

There’s a simple explanation why this failed policy remains on the books: Florida. It’s a presidential battleground state with a large anti-Castro Cuban-American population, and candidates don’t want to risk defeat there by taking an anti-embargo position. Barack Obama is no exception. He has said he favors better relations with Cuba, and has loosened some restrictions on travel and financial transfers, but the embargo remains in place.

We can only hope that, if he wins re-election and no longer has to appease Cuban-Americans, he will end it once and for all. Ω

The way to peace W

hen people talk of peace, it is assumed they

are referring to the cessation of war. As ideal as that sounds, it is not going to happen. Humankind has been at war throughout history; it is unrealistic to think it will end.

The peace to which I am referring is a state of mind. As possible as that kind of peace is, we can, without being aware of it, erect subtle roadblocks to that peace.

One roadblock is comparing ourselves to others. Cyrano de Bergerac talks about two snakes, pride and doubt.

Comparing ourselves to those by in worse condition than we Thomas Mays are opens us up to be bitten by the pride snake. ComparThe author, a seminary graduate ing ourselves to those doing with a brief stint as a far better than we are opens pastor, is a retired us up to be bitten by the doubt housing contractor. snake. Either way, we are He lives in Chico. robbed of the peace of being content with who we are.

Another roadblock is the fear of failure. Morihei Ueshiba, who developed the martial art of aikido, said, “Failure is the key to success. Each mistake teaches us something.” Lao Tzu said, “Failure is an opportunity.” We need not fear failure; it can be our best teacher.

Peace can find the beauty in the ordinary circumstances of life. Elizabeth Barrett Browning said, “Earth’s crammed with heaven, and every common bush afire with God: But only he who sees takes off his shoes. The rest sit round it and pluck blackberries.”

Being at peace is like water that nourishes all things without trying to. Some may not understand and criticize us; that is not our concern. Caring about people’s approval gives them power over us. Our best friends will accept us for what we are. It would be boring if we were all alike. If too many people think alike, too few people are thinking.

In his new translation of the Tao Te Ching, Stephen Mitchell puts the words of Lao Tzu in plain English. He describes the peaceful life with beautiful simplicity: In dwelling, live close to the ground.

In thinking, keep to the simple.

In conflict, be fair and generous.

In governing, don’t try to control.

In work, do what you enjoy.

In family life, be completely present.

Peace begins with you. Maintain that peace, and all aspects of your world will change for the better. Ω

Peace can find the beauty in the ordinary circumstances of life.

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The true cost of gas News reports this week are warning that gasoline prices could

go as high as $5 a gallon by this summer—a daunting figure, to be sure.

But in fact the cost of gas at the pump is only a fraction of its real cost, which the Center for Investigative Reporting estimates to be $15 per gallon, based on a $4-per-gallon pump price.

That figure includes the “external” expenses that society pays that are not included in gasoline’s pump price. Those include the health-care bills and lost productivity associated with pollution-triggered illnesses, reduced crop yields, oilspill cleanups (think Deepwater Horizon) and carbon emissions.

In Los Angeles, for example, it’s estimated that air pollution results in illnesses that add $1,250 annually to the cost of the average person’s health care. Worldwide, the external cost of gasoline falls somewhere between $550 billion and $1.7 trillion a year.

And, because of climate change caused largely by the burning of fossil fuels such as gasoline, those costs are going to rise—and be paid for by our grandchildren.

One expense the CIR report doesn’t include is the cost of maintaining an American defense capacity strong enough to protect the countries that provide us with oil, including those in the Middle East. If those trillions of taxpayer dollars were figured in, the true cost of a gallon of gas would be much higher than $15.

Think about that the next time you feel like grousing about the cost of gas. Ω

If such “externalities” as air pollution and health-care costs are included, a gallon of gas costs $15 or more.

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SWOT team The Chico City Council’s “State of the Community” forum, held last Thursday (Feb. 9) in council chambers, was enlightening in unexpected ways.

The idea was to invite leaders representing several important public institutions in Butte County (Chico city government, Chico State, Butte College, the Chico school district, CARD, county government) to do a SWOT analysis (strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, threats) of their agencies as a way collectively to assess the “SWOT” of Chico and Butte County.

An outsider of sorts, state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, was also present. He didn’t exactly SWOT the Legislature, but he did admit it had “a hard time coming together and getting things done” and faced unrelenting budgetary problems because “the shoebox” didn’t contain as much money as lawmakers wanted to spend. LaMalfa, a Republican, has staunchly resisted any new taxes.

As it turned out, a lot of the threats others mentioned came from that selfsame Legislature. Financially, most of the agencies (CARD, a special district, is the lone exception) are downstream from the State Capitol, and all are threatened by state budget uncertainty and loss of revenue. As university President Paul Zingg put it, “The declining economic support [from the state] is tragic.”

What was new here was seeing so many local leaders saying the same things in the same place. Their message to LaMalfa was powerful: Needs aren’t being met, the situation is desperate, something must be done. Zingg gave an especially impressive presentation, cataloguing the school’s many accomplishments, making it clear that something had to give, but insisting as well that “our best days are yet to come.”

Andrea Lerner-Thompson, president of the Chico school board, also gave a strong presentation. After listing the many threats the district faced (declining enrollment, increased poverty, budget uncertainty, deferred maintenance), she said, “The real threat is that we will come to accept this [state of affairs]. The thing we most have to fear is complacency. … We must help our children become their dreams.”

When the agency leaders had finished speaking, members of the City Council got their turn.

Jim Walker recalled working on the CARD board with Ray Richter, a staunch conservative, and how despite their philosophical differences they were able to get things done by each giving a little. Lawmakers need to do the same, he told LaMalfa.

Andy Holcombe was more explicit. Returning to something Butte College President Kimberly Perry had said about all the new buildings at the college that were financed by bond Measure A, he insisted that “bond measures and taxes are a good thing for governments and our community. … We need to invest in the services government can provide.” Let the people vote on taxes, he said. “We need a bigger shoebox and a new pair of shoes.”

Was LaMalfa convinced? Highly unlikely. From what I can tell, Republican lawmakers believe they know better than the many city council members, county supervisors, college presidents and school district presidents who are trying to deal with the mess they’ve created.

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Piling on Steve Re “The other Steve Jobs” (Guest comment,

by Jaime O’Neill, Feb. 9): Much of what you write about Steve Jobs might be true— although I’m puzzled by the statement that each Chinese worker produces $400,000 in profit. Is that over a lifetime? The number seems improbable.

But my real objection to your piece is the idea that Steve Jobs has been canonized. I know no one who views him as a saint or as a savior of capitalism—although many people who own Apple stock are glad they do.

I favor creating work for Americans. I believe that the true costs of outsourcing are not revealed; some people benefit, large numbers are harmed.

But your article does not give any hints about how we could create and keep the work here. Really, it’s more of a “piling on” piece than a piece that clarifies our thoughts or understanding.

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Editor’s note: In a major Jan. 21 piece on Apple, the New York Times reported, “Last year, it earned over $400,000 in profit per employee, more than Goldman Sachs, Exxon Mobil or Google.”

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Unfortunately, electronics manufacturing will probably never return to the U.S.—in fact, Jobs said as much to President Obama at a meeting a year or so back. It’s not because of wage differences, as that is a small percentage of an iPhone’s or an iPad’s cost; rather it’s the complete integration of manufacturing infrastructure—parts suppliers, the support staff, employees living on site, manufacturing engineering—all subsidized by the Chinese government.

This can never happen here; even if the U.S. government supported such a policy, it is prohibitively expensive.

As far as Jobs’ management style is concerned, he was a demanding perfectionist who did not suffer fools gladly. His worst mistake was hiring the Pepsi chairman as CEO. Also, his wealth came mostly from Pixar and Disney; Apple Computer, not so much.

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Vlamis also raised $72,000 and filed a coalition lawsuit in April 2009 to stop the state’s Drought Water Bank from draining the Tuscan aquifer. This successful litigation stopped the groundwater transfer and resulted in a settlement that included repaying legal expenses so that advocates would have a legal-defense fund to challenge future water-heist schemes.

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I urge everyone to join with me in supporting AquAlliance’s efforts to defend the foundation of our well-being in the North State.

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Excitable boy Re “Playtime 4 Chico” (15 Minutes, by Howard Hardee, Feb. 9): Sticks and stones might break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.

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Repainting is not the same Re “Pugh to repaint mural” (Downstroke, Feb. 9): Chico State should apply its considerable ingenuity to maintain John Pugh’s mural Academe in its present location. This is a public treasure, a monumental marker physically and metaphorically welcoming student and visitor alike to the university. There is really no other “façade” to Chico State University; this is the interface between the college and the town.

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“The real [Academe] mural exists: Why invest in a copy if the original is not valued enough to be preserved?”

—Maria Phillips

That John Pugh, our now internationally renowned alumnus, may be willing to make an exact replica (to the tune of $70,000) is beside the point. The real mural exists: Why invest in a copy if the original is not valued enough to be preserved?

Since plans have not yet been drawn for the new building, nor has an architect been chosen, this mural could be the perfect vehicle to determine the final design in a way that serves the future but acknowledges the past.

Academe launched Pugh’s career. The piece was chosen from among more than 200 others, many in more celebrated places, for the cover of Kevin Bruce’s recent monograph on the artist.

The mural makes us look good; preserving it would communicate a powerful lesson about honoring our heritage instead of trivializing it.

The writers of the EIR made a monumental mistake by not recognizing that it is not just age but substance and cultural value and identity that determine the need to preserve a monument. “Young” as it may be, Academe is already part of Chico’s historic heritage.

MARIA PHILLIPS Chico

Documenting fracking If you haven’t seen the documentary Gasland, you should. It documents Josh Fox’s travels through 26 states exposing the results of “fracking”—a technique for mining fossil fuels in which huge amounts of highly pressurized water (typically 20,000 to 80,000 gallons per well) are forced deep underground to release oil and natural gas.

He found people living near these wells who could hold a cigarette lighter up to their kitchen tap and actually light the water on fire because it was so contaminated.

Some said that their water was making their whole family sick.

Environmentalists claim the BLM has leased over 2,500 acres in California to oil companies for fracking without sufficient analysis of possible impacts. Last month it was reported that Gov. Brown pressured a top state regulator to

shortcut the permitting process for fracking, and then removed that regulator after he refused to comply.

California’s water supply is already stretched to the limit. The last thing we need to do is to contaminate what precious water we have.

We need to cut our dependence on fossil fuels. Developing light rail would be a major improvement in this regard. Please write Gov. Brown a letter. Tell him to cut fracking and develop light rail.

SHARON FRITSCH Chico

Birds of a feather Re “Of bowerbirds and courtship” (Feature story, by Robert Speer, Feb. 9): The great bowerbird, Chlamydera nuchalis, the topic of your ditty—and quite a scoundrel, if I may say—was not the beast in the article’s photo. Ptilonorhynchus violaceus, the satin bowerbird, somehow made the cut. Scoundrel too! Anyway, these things matter to the English. To the fanatics— even more.

CHRIS DURNIAK Chico

Corrections Due to a misunderstanding, Tom Gascoyne reported in his Newslines article last week, “CSU provost quits suddenly,” that a woman who answered the phone in the provost’s office said, “We weren’t surprised,” when they learned of Sandra Flake’s resignation. In fact, as the woman has since informed us, she said, “We were surprised.”

Also, in his City Council report last week, “Riding the waves,” Robert Speer misidentified Paul Sullivan as the owner of Alternative Energy Systems. He is the sales manager.

Our apologies. The errors have been corrected online.—ed.

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Nutrishop owner Toby Schindelbeck says the city’s re-engineering of Forest Avenue in front of one of his stores hit him right where it hurts, in the pocket book.

Because of that, he says, he’s running for City Council.

THE TAX POLICE COMETH

This month, representatives from the Board of Equalization—the agency that administers and collects business taxes and fees in California—are conducting door-to-door checks of Chico retailers and service providers for appropriate permits and licenses.

The visits are part of the BOE’s Statewide Compliance and Outreach Program (SCOP), designed to educate businesses on salesand use-tax reporting responsibilities and increase tax compliance.

Businesses found out of compliance with the BOE are given instructions on how to register and secure necessary licenses.

SCOP began in 2008 and to date teams have visited more than 280,000 businesses.

The BOE reports roughly 2 percent of businesses in the state operate without licenses, contributing to a $2 billion gap in sales and use taxes owed and not paid.

ANOTHER JUDGE SAYS SO LONG

A second Butte County Superior Court judge has announced his pending retirement this year. On Feb. 10 Judge Gerald Hermansen said he would step down from the bench effective March 31. Hermansen joins fellow Superior Court Judge Steven Howell, who announced in January that he would retire at the end of this month.

Gov. Pete Wilson appointed Hermansen to the Municipal Court in 1996. One year later, Wilson promoted Hermansen to a newly created position on the Superior Court.

Hermansen began his legal career as a deputy district attorney in San Bernardino County in 1971. Two years later he and his wife, Ruth, moved to Oroville, where he served as a deputy district attorney for Butte County until 1977.

WHEN NEWS COMES A-KNOCKIN’

The CN&R found itself in the middle of a news story Feb. 15 when a Pacific Gas and Electric crew busted a plastic gas service line on Second Street, about 30 feet from our front door, releasing a stream of gas that quickly fouled the CN&R offices.

The break occurred about 9 a.m.

Wednesday (deadline day!) during work to prepare for the city’s sidewalk and roadway improvement project, said PG&E spokesman Paul Moreno. Local businesses were evacuated, and the other local media descended on the scene. The broken line was patched and all returned to normal by 11 a.m.

The city’s project, changing First and Second streets to one-way routes, is waiting for a second round of bids from contractors. Last year, the bids that were submitted came in too high, said Tom Varga, the city’s director of Capital Project Services.

He expects new bids by April and construction to begin this summer.

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Fed (and pumped) up Chico business owner announces run for City Council

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Schindelbeck, a competitive by bodybuilder who moved here in Vic Cantu 2006 from Riverside County, vscantu@ says he’s tired of the city of sbcglobal.net Chico, which touts itself as a haven for entrepreneurs, tramphotos by pling on the rights of small-busiKyle Emery ness owners like him.

Schindelbeck, 33, owns Chico’s two Nutrishop weightloss and health-supplement stores. What drove him to run for office, he said, was the recent lane modification in front of his Forest Avenue shop, which sits in a business complex near Highway 32. That modification, which prevents traffic heading south on Forest from turning directly into the small shopping Early entrepre- center where his store is located, neurship: was completed Jan. 2. Since According to the then, Schindelbeck said, his Nutrishop Facebook page, business has decreased severely.

January sales were down Schindelbeck has a 14-year history $11,000 from the same month in the sports- last year, he said. Other businutrition industry. nesses in the same complex At the age of 20 he opened a Max were also hard hit, Schindelbeck Muscle store added, including the 7-Eleven, in Riverside. whose owner reported a 27 per-

cent sales dive during the same period.

“It was like Chico told me, ‘Happy New Year, you’re screwed,’ ” Schindelbeck said. “But the straw that broke the camel’s back and got me to run was when I found my network of business-owner friends all had similar horror stories.”

The roadwork in front of his store was completed in time for the new CVS pharmacy, which opened a few weeks ago on Forest Avenue, directly across the street from his shop.

“At first I thought having a CVS here would be awesome because it would bring more people since we had no pharmacy in this part of town,” Schindelbeck said. “Then the construction started and my sales plummeted.”

Vikramgit Gill is the franchise owner of the 7-Eleven on the corner of Forest and Highway 32. “All my losses since January have been due to the road changes,” he said.

Schindelbeck said he sees what has occurred as favoritism of big, nationally owned businesses over locally owned ones.

Bob Greenlaw, the city’s senior

civil engineer, said the changes have been in the works for years—long before the CVS store located there—as part of a larger project to widen Highway 32 from Yosemite Drive to Highway 99. Those changes include the creation of a cement median along that

block of Forest, cutting off the middle turn lane.

That means southbound traffic on Forest must travel an extra half-block to Humboldt Avenue and then either make a U-turn to get to the Forest Avenue entrance or a make a left and then enter the complex through the Humboldt access to the parking lot. That Humboldt entrance is busy at certain times during the week with cars taking students back and forth to nearby Marsh Junior High School.

Both Schindelbeck and Gill received a map of the scheduled changes from the city in mid-December, but they said it was a confusing, hand-drawn depiction that led them to believe a left turn into their businesses from Forest would still be possible. As such, they didn’t fully read the involved written explanation of the changes on the back of the map.

Once the impacts were felt, Schindelbeck and some other owners in the complex arranged meetings with City Manager Dave Burkland, city engineers and City Council members. They wanted four changes: 1) painted wording on the street in front of the Humboldt entrance reading, “Do not block”; 2) changes to the Humboldt parking-lot entrance, which now forces cars to make a tricky “S” turn; 3) a change in the timing of the two traffic lights on Forest to facilitate traffic; and 4) reopening the old Forest Avenue left-turn lane mid-block.

The answers they received, they said, were noncommittal, but held the promise of continued discussions and traffic monitoring.

“We told them we wanted action steps now because we were losing money,” Schindelbeck said.

Greenlaw said all four demands are possible, but noted that changing any one element affects the other three. He said that opening up the old left-turn lane is least likely because traffic on Forest— both north- and southbound—is so heavy that turning left in the middle of the block across two lanes could be risky.

He also defends the city by saying it had notified the public and affected businesses of the changes since 2009 via invitations to workshops, focus groups and letters. The city has also taken out ads in this paper and the Chico Enterprise-Record.

“We reached out,” he said.

But Schindelbeck is less than

satisfied with the city’s response to his situation. In a Jan. 30 press release announcing his plans to run for council, Schindelbeck said other business owners he’s talked to have similar stories.

“They want people on the council who represent them, who know how hard it is to start and grow a business and employ people,” he said. “The small businesses of Chico and their employees need an advocate on the council, and I am the man to do it.”

He goes on to say he is “tired of the ‘good ol’ boys network’ of career politicians who have held the city of Chico back for years.”

On Feb. 7 Schindelbeck addressed the Chico City Council at the end of its meeting, without identifying himself as a candidate. He told the council of his and 7-Eleven’s January sales losses.

“With all due respect to the city engineers,” he said, “I’m sure their engineering capabilities are considerable, but it doesn’t seem like they have their finger on the pulse of what it takes to run a small business.”

He mentioned the meetings he’d had with Greenlaw, Burkland and Councilman Bob Evans, adding that the results were less than satisfying.

“We need to get this taken care of and we need to get something fixed,” he told the council. “I cannot take the wait-andsee attitude the city has taken, and do more traffic counts and see what they can do. We need action now.”

Others who have filed papers of intention to run for City Council at this early juncture are incumbents Ann Schwab and Bob Evans; Planning Commissioner Dave Kelley and Park Commissioner Mark Herrera;, and newcomers Sean Morgan, a Chico State instructor, and Andrew Coolidge, who runs a publicrelations firm. Kelley and Herrera have both run in the past. Ω

The overlooked candidate Happy Valley man wants Herger’s seat Wally Herger’s announcement last month that he would not seek re-election to the congressional seat he’s held for the last quartercentury triggered a wave of interest, with a couple of widely known politicians jumping into the race.

Fourth District state Sen. Doug LaMalfa, who’s been blessed with the incumbent’s endorsement, announced his intentions just as Herger made his plans official. LaMalfa’s predecessor, former state Sen. Sam Aanestad, made public mention of his interest in the job soon after and then made it official on Feb. 10.

Joining those two Republicans running in the June 5 primary are the candidates who ran for Herger’s seat two years ago: retired Air Force Col. Pete Stiglich of Cottonwood, also a Republican, and Democrat Jim Reed, an attorney out of Fall River Mills.

But there is another Republican candidate in this race; a real-estate broker from Happy Valley named Gregory Cheadle who is making his initial venture into politics. He’s not received much in the way of press beyond a story last November in the Anderson Valley Post, a mention or two in the Redding Record Searchlight and a recent a piece on Redding’s KRCR news.

But Cheadle announced his candidacy last May, challenging the incumbent well before Herger said he would not run again.

“I like Wally,” Cheadle said in a recent interview. “Every time we see each other we hug, so there is no bad blood between us or anything. But he’s a career politician, and I just disagree with some of the stands that

he’s taken.”

Cheadle announced his candidacy early, he said, to get a head start on the other candidates.

“Everyone else is going to have tons more money than I do, so the way to get in the game was to get in early,” he said.

He’s campaigning door to door.

“I’m getting donations,” he said.

“Not very many because I’m not seeking them. I guess I’m shooting myself in the foot, but my priority is not fundraising. My priority is to be out with the people. I’ve gotten donations as small as 86 cents. And that was a lot of money to this woman; she wasn’t working, but she had faith in what I was doing.”

Cheadle, 55, was born in

SIFT|ER Crime down in Chico The Chico Police Department released statistics last week that indicate 2011 was a little brighter than 2010 when it came to crimes in Chico. Crimes against both persons and property were down, although auto theft, robbery and homicide numbers increased. In fact, 2011 saw the highest number of homicides—five—in the past decade. Here are some of the stats. For more information, go to www.chico.ca.us/police/home_page.asp

Crimes against persons Crimes against property Larceny (theft) Burglary Auto theft Assault Robbery Rape Homicide Arrests made

Gregory Cheadle, a candidate for Wally Herger’s congressional seat, says he’s tired of the elitists running the nation.

Cleveland and raised there and in Oakland.

“My parents divorced, and so I played ping-pong between Oakland and Cleveland growing up,” he said.

He moved to the Redding area about 11 years ago. Besides being a realestate broker, he said, he has a bachelor’s degree in psychology and a master’s in public administration, is one class away from finishing a degree in nursing and is about two months shy of earning a law degree from the Cal Northern School of Law in Chico.

He also owns a business called Uncle Greg’s Playhouses, which builds “luxury playhouses” that, according to the company website, sell for between $12,000 and $15,000. And he is a single father of three— two daughters ages 26 and 13 and a son who is 19.

His decision to run for Congress, he said, came from his frustration with where the country is headed: expanding government, overreaching regulations, reliance on foreign

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oil and policing the world with our military.

And, he said, sounding more like an Occupier than a Tea Partier, he is tired of our country being run by “elitists.”

“Our political system was designed so that everybody, from the homemaker to the home builder to whatever, could run for Congress,” he said. “It wasn’t supposed to be an elitist group of people.”

He says he knows LaMalfa and Aanestad, both of whom he described as “wealthy.”

He said growing up as a black kid in the 1960s in inner-city Cleveland and Oakland pretty much coincided with the general perceptions that came out of that time—racism, segregation and violence.

“My father was what they called a ‘shoeshine boy’ in those days,” Cheadle said.

“Then he went into shoe repair.”

He called the time a “bloody period in our history,” a time that saw the deaths of Malcolm X, Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy.

“It was a very hostile, very racist time,” he said. “There were riots all over Cleveland.

It was like, ‘What in the world is going on?’

You go to your house one day, and the next it’s locked up and there are tanks going up and down your streets.”

Candidate filing for the open seat began Monday (Feb. 13). The top two candidates in the June 5 primary, regardless of party affiliation, will face off in the November general election.

Does he worry as a conservative black man about getting labeled as an “Uncle Tom” but other blacks?

He laughed at the notion. “I don’t think so. There are only about 17 or 18 black people who live in the Redding area.”

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Math anxiety Butte College students struggle with requirements At the State of the Community address in the City Council chambers on Feb. 9, community leaders pinpointed the strengths and weaknesses of their respective organizations. During her presentation, Butte College President Kimberly Perry identified the success rate of her math students as one of the school’s biggest challenges.

Of specific concern are students who need to pass corerequirement math classes in order to receive their associate’s degree or transfer to a four-year university. For Butte College students seeking a degree outside a math or science major, Intermediate Algebra is often a difficult final hurdle before graduation.

Samia Yaqub, vice president of Student Learning and Economic Development at Butte College, said students need to tackle math early in their college careers and persist until they get through their core requirements.

“First, students put off math because they find it difficult,” she said. “Second, math is tough because one block builds upon the last in a way that you just don’t see in many other disciplines. Students who assess into low levels in math [pre-algebra and below] are far less likely to get through math

than those who start at transfer level or in intermediate algebra.”

The same goes for all of California’s 112 community colleges, as the statewide success rate for math students in the fall of 2010 was just 55 percent, according to a report by the nonprofit education analysis agency EdSource. Butte College is near the head of the pack in that regard, with success rates ranging from 55 percent in beginning algebra to 65 percent in intermediate algebra.

The Math Department at Butte also ranks highest among its peers when measured with the Basic Skills Progression Rate, a metric the state uses to track the percentage of students who are successful in foundational courses and then continue to progress at higher levels. However, there are still too many students struggling with a subject that can seem outside the realm of their regular studies.

A big factor is the gap between math courses most students will experience between high school and college—students are not required to take math after the sophomore year of high school.

“When you think about it, you use writing and speaking skills every day,” Yaqub said. “It’s a rare day when you need to use algebra.

These skills atrophy between the time the students finish math in high school and when they take it in college.”

The key, Yaqub says, is getting students enrolled in math their first semester and making sure they are

successful, creating “early momentum” that will give them the necessary confidence to build upon their math skills. Students who fail early on can develop anxiety and self-doubt, thereby limiting their chances of succeeding in the next math course.

There are differing philosophies on how to ensure students have the best chance to move on with their education. For the last 12 years, De Anza College in Cupertino has offered a program for struggling math students in which class times are double the standard 50-minute block. The school has reported an 85 percent success rate for students taking intermediate algebra through the program, compared to a 56 percent success rate for students taking regular classes.

While administrators at Butte College recognize the benefit of longer class times—many of the school’s math courses are more than the standard three credits— they have chosen to focus on an “acceleration model” that will strive to consolidate the time students take to complete a string of math requirements.

“Our focus is to limit the number of steps by eliminating those at the bottom, putting students who assess into basic math into prealgebra and providing them with greater assistance so that they have a better chance of success,” Yaqub said.

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Shrinking in size Two local college newspapers see big cuts Two North State colleges accustomed to full-size campus newspapers have seen large setbacks this semester due to the changing times. Chico State’s award-winning The Orion has cut its size and format, while the Shasta College Lance is scrambling to keep from being canceled altogether.

The main changes to The Orion have been an approximately 40 percent drop in the number of pages beginning with the Feb. 8 issue, as well as a reduction from four sections to two. The four pull-out sections over the years have traditionally included news, sports, features and arts. These subjects are still printed, but have been condensed into two pull-out sections.

Orion adviser and journalism professor Glen Bleske says the downsizing is due to reduced advertising revenue.

“Some colleges get money from their school to pay for their paper,” Bleske said, “but ours is completely funded by ad sales.”

The loss of revenue, he explained, is an outgrowth of the recession, which has hit The Orion of late. “If you don’t have enough money to run a Cadillac, you’ve got to go with a Volkswagen,” he said.

Bleske stressed that the paper could grow back to its normal size if ad sales pick up. In fact, he said he expects them to do so, as is typical each April with the influx of studenthousing ads. He said shaving the number of stand-alone sections from four to two saves the paper 30 percent in printing costs.

Orion Editor in Chief Ally Dukkers said the number of pages has traditionally been 25, but the last two issues have hovered around 15. She said the staff members were shocked to hear of the cuts two weeks ago but have recovered nicely. Though the number of articles has been reduced in the print version, more stories are being published online (at www.TheOrion.com).

Dukkers said she hopes that the online version will eventually become a daily. The smaller number of print articles will also give reporters the time to investigate stories more deeply.

Another space-saving move calls for putting the calendar section exclusively online.

The sports section has also been downsized to consist of mostly player profiles, with game-by-game reports now mostly online.

Dukkers said the paper is also being improved by adding QR codes, symbols that when scanned by smart phones lead the reader to exclusive online content and videos.

Dukkers remains positive about The Orion’s situation.

“A reporter from the Sacramento Bee gave us a critique after our first downsized issue and said we handled it well,” she said.

“We’d love to have the paper go back to how it was, but it’s a good learning experience.”

As for the Shasta College Lance,

though a Feb. 2 article in the online aNewsCafe.com proclaimed the paper dead this semester, news of its demise may be premature. Ralph Perrin, dean of Shasta College’s Department of Arts, Communication and Social Science, said the paper is slow in getting out due to a fundamental shift in how it is produced.

“The Lance has traditionally been published through a class called Newspaper Production, which was canceled this semester due to low enrollment,” Perrin said. “But the Student Senate has decided to take over the reins and publish it on their own.”

This is new to the senate, so putting out a paper will be a challenge. The first issue is expected in late March and may be smaller than in previous semesters, said Student Senate Adviser Sherry Nicholas. She added that the Lance will switch from a bi-weekly to a monthly.

Perrin said the low enrollment in the newspaper class, when only six students signed up this semester, may simply be due to student scheduling incompatibility. He said that Shasta College no longer offers an AA degree in journalism but still offers some journalism classes.

Nicholas said that the downsized school budgeting has forced the cancellation of classes in many subjects with low enrollments.

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Allergan Inc., the maker of the familiar Lap-Band weight-loss device, has ceased selling the device to surgery centers associated with the massive 1-800-GET-THIN advertising campaign.

Since 2009, at least five Southern California patients have died after undergoing Lap-Band surgeries affiliated with 1-800-GET-THIN, which has been marketed with ads on billboards, radio, television and the Internet, according to The Los Angeles Times. All of the patients were treated at two surgery centers—the New Life Surgery Center in Beverly Hills and the Valley Surgical Center in West Hills, both of which have ceased performing the procedures pending a “top-to-bottom medical and operational review.”

The centers are owned by brothers Michael and Julian Omidi, who now face a string of government investigations and civil lawsuits including a whistleblower suit brought by two former employees who claimed the brothers ran unsanitary facilities and billed patients for medically unnecessary procedures.

The Lap-Band is a ring surgically placed around the stomach to discourage patients from overeating.

CLIMATE CHANGE PUTS POOR AT RISK

An examination of Los Angeles and Fresno counties concluded poor, urban and minority residents of California will be most at risk for health problems related to climate change.

The California Department of Public Health’s recent report looked at potential environmental factors associated with climate change, like rising sea levels and public transportation access; it found that black and Latino populations will be more affected by heat waves, poor air quality, flooding and wildfires linked to climate change, according to California Watch. The report noted that neighborhoods near Santa Monica and Long Beach were at significant risk mostly due to the possibility of sea-level rise, but also had poor public transit, wildfire risk and a large number of elderly citizens living alone. The report also considered a portion of western Fresno County near Mendota to be at particular risk.

KOMEN VICE PRESIDENT STEPS DOWN

Following Susan G. Komen for the Cure Foundation’s controversial decision to cut funding to Planned Parenthood, the organization’s senior vice president for policy, Karen Handel, resigned from her position on Feb. 7.

Handel (pictured), who opposes abortion, compelled the foundation not to renew aspects of its partnership with Planned Parenthood, which performs abortions in hundreds of clinics throughout the country, according to the Huffington Post. The decision to cut funding was reversed after immediate public and political uproar, including multiple online petitions to get Handel fired.

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Tbuzz words and labels, and to those he food industry is rife with

unfamiliar with celiac disease or the slew of related illnesses, a fear of “gluten” seems to be just another health trend for paranoid eaters. Boxes of crackers, cake mixes, sauces and beers with gluten-free claims line grocery-store shelves; the gluten-free industry has made nearly $7 billion from products sold in the past couple of years.

Cute phrases like “g-free”—coined by The View co-host Elizabeth Hasselback— are thrown around, to the chagrin of some doctors and their patients who take the term “gluten-free” quite seriously. With celebrity endorsements and foodie blogs more highly publicized than scientific evidence, it can seem that cautionary statements about bread, pasta and pastries are unfounded.

But the current relationship between many Americans and their food has resulted in a rise of obesity and diabetes, and an addiction to sugar and processed foods. An epidemic of gluten intolerance has come to the forefront of medical research.

While conventional wisdom says a well-rounded diet full of vegetables is the

key to keeping illness, premature aging and weight gain at bay, grains are a mixed bag. On the updated food plate designed by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, a suggested serving of grain takes up a little more than a quarter—nearly equal to the suggested amount of vegetables. The old food pyramid recommended six to 11 servings of grains per day. That means that the past couple of generations have grown up eating cereal for breakfast, sandwiches for lunch, and carbo-loaded meals for dinner.

Some scientists claim that some grains are OK to digest, and can contribute to long-term heart health. San Francisco neuroscientist Darya Pino argues that intact, legitimately whole grains, the ones that still maintain their natural shape and nutrients, are good for humans to consume—

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it’s the ones incorrectly labeled “whole” that are the problem, because they are often simplified in the process of inserting them into whole-grain pastas or breads.

Researchers are divided about when grain was first cultivated for consumption by humans, and whether it’s even necessary at all for humans to incorporate into their diet. This has led to the establishment of diets like Paleo, a revised cavemanesque diet, which advocates veggies and meat over corn and wheat.

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Wheat is often bleached for products like white bread or packaged pastries.

In a 2010 article published in the Huffington Post, physician Mark Hyman stated, “American strains of wheat have a much higher gluten content … than those traditionally found in Europe. This supergluten was recently introduced into our agricultural food supply and now has ‘infected’ nearly all wheat strains in America.”

While it is estimated that almost 40 percent of the population in America suffers from a form of gluten intolerance, a lack of reliable testing by medical professionals makes it hard to know just how serious this may be. And, quite simply, many people are reluctant to give up the foods on which they have come to rely. Mac-and-cheese is an American staple.

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stration defines gluten as complex proteins found in grains like barley and rye that, when mixed with water, thicken and create a sticky substance. It’s what gives dough its gummy texture.

An overabundance of gluten in a person’s digestive system can lead to an attack on the tiny villi that line the stomach, which filter out the nutrients from food. When the villi are destroyed, people develop a leaky gut, which sends the toxins of foods into the bloodstream. The immune system goes into overdrive to prevent the person from getting sick, which can result in constant pain and fatigue, or make other existing

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The amount of villi damaged is what distinguishes an intolerance from a full-blown disease, but many who are already sensitive to gluten are at risk for developing celiac disease later on in their lives.

Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder in which the healthy bacteria present in the stomach can’t properly absorb the nutrients from food, leaving a person sick and tired. According to the medical journal Lancet, 30 percent of people of European descent possess the gene for celiac disease.

Wheat allergy is essentially like other food allergies and affects people differently, but generally contributes to an increased likelihood of nasal allergies, headaches and migraines.

Gluten intolerance is often linked to other ailments such as low gland activity, including adrenal and thyroid disorders, but can also worsen symptoms of neurological disorders like epilepsy or fibromyalgia.

“A review paper in The New England Journal of Medicine listed 55 ‘diseases’ that can be caused by eating gluten,” according to the Huffington Post article. “These include osteoporosis, irritable bowel disease, inflammatory bowel disease, anemia, cancer, fatigue, canker sores … rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, multiple sclerosis and almost all other autoimmune diseases. Gluten is also linked to many psychiatric and neurological diseases, including anxiety, depression, schizophrenia, dementia, migraines, epilepsy and neuropathy.”

How many times must humans be told that the things to which we get addicted are poisonous before we stop ingesting them? People still smoke cigarettes, still refuse to exercise, still drink and eat to excess. Americans are conditioned to live in opulence—which has resulted in millions living shorter, painful, disease-ridden lives. Ω A longer version of this story originally ran in the Reno News & Review.

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GREENWAYS Left to right: Butte County Air Quality Management District’s Jim Wagoner, Armen Kamian and Jason Mandly in front of a Butte County air-quality map, at the district’s office in Chico.

SALTY WATER POISONS FARMLAND

The Westlands Water District, which provides water to farms in Fresno and Kings counties, is suing the federal government for $1 billion for failing to clean up salty irrigation drainage that is poisoning farmland.

The lawsuit, filed in late January, comes more than a decade after an appellate court ordered the U.S. Department of the Interior to clean up the tainted water trapped beneath the soil’s surface, according to the Fresno Bee. “We’re tired of waiting,” said Westlands General Manager Thomas Birmingham. “We’ve been paying for drainage service for decades. The land is sustaining irreparable harm.”

The case was filed in the U.S. Court of Federal Claims because Westlands is seeking monetary damages rather than actual cleanup of the farm land, which covers an area roughly twothirds the size of Los Angeles.

Air-quality index by color: green = good

yellow = moderate

orange = unhealthy for sensitive groups

SHALE OIL CUTBACK?

The Obama administration announced a proposal to reduce production of shale oil in Utah, Colorado and Wyoming, a project originally backed by former President George W. Bush.

The Feb. 3 announcement came just days after House Republicans advanced a bill that would turn Bush’s development plan into law, according to Environment and Energy Daily. The Bureau of Land Management’s proposal would reduce the area of land available for shale-oil research and development by 75 percent and limit lease holders to research until the industry proves commercial development to be “technically viable and environmentally safe.”

Bush’s 2008 plan allowed for the development of 2 million acres in the three states, while Obama plans to restrict commercial activity to 461,965 acres.

“Once again, the Obama administration caved in to their liberal environmentalist allies and said no to creating jobs and lowering energy costs for Utahns,” said Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah).

GEO-ENGINEERING THE ATMOSPHERE

A small collection of climate scientists backed

by Bill Gates and other members of the world’s financial elite are making a push to manage climate change through geo-engineering.

The group is lobbying politicians to get behind controversial technological fixes such as spraying millions of tons of reflective sulfur dioxide into Earth’s atmosphere, according to the UK’s Guardian newspaper. While some climate scientists believe such measures would provide a quick and relatively inexpensive means to slow the effects of global warming, there is concern geo-engineering the atmosphere would irrevocably alter the planet’s climate patterns.

Environmentalists are worried the small group, backed by the likes of Richard Branson, tar-sands oil tycoon Murray Edwards, Skype cofounder Niklas Zennström, as well as Gates, will have a disproportionate effect on geo-engineering policy-making.

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“Y away from the big cities, it shouldn’t be an issue,” said Monique Bird on a ou’d think being up here,

recent Sunday. She and Roylene Mahic were talking about Chico’s air quality, while sitting together not far from the head of the mosaic dragon in Lower Bidwell Park’s Caper Acres playground. Their sons, both 7, briefly checked in before darting off again at full speed to another part of the packed play area.

“People have it worse elsewhere, for sure, but I think because we think it’s a small town, we assume the air is good,” Mahic said.

The two mothers were disheartened to hear that the day’s air quality was forecast to be poor, but they didn’t restrict the length of their sons’ outdoor play.

“I’m not concerned about it,” offered another parent, Mary Roll, as she watched

her daughter run laps around Caper Acres’ play structures.

That might have been a mistake, said Jason Mandly, air-quality compliance specialist at the Butte County Air Quality Management District (BCAQMD). The day was forecast to be unhealthful for sensitive groups—an “orange alert” according to the agency’s color-coded system defining air quality.

Notably, Chico has had a record-shattering 25 orange-alert days this winter, up from just eight last winter. The air-quality

Find out more: • www.airnow.gov: Current, forecast and historical air-quality data for the whole United States.

• www.bcaqmd.org: Information on the Check Before You Light program and the air-quality forecast for Chico (click on Air Quality, then Today’s Conditions).

• www.epa.gov/pmdesignations: The Environmental Protection Agency covers basic information including health impacts of PM 2.5.

index’s color-coding moves from green, or good air quality; to yellow, which is moderate; to orange; and to red, which is just plain unhealthful, and beyond. During an orange alert, those with lung or heart disease, as well as the elderly and children, should avoid strenuous outside activities because “they will be affected, especially if they are exposed over a long period of time,” explained Mandly.

Then again, being outdoors might not have been a mistake. The forecasts are based on “a 24-hour average,” Mandly said, explaining that “the air quality could be pristine in the afternoon, and then when the inversion happens”—when a cool pocket of air keeps pollutants low to the ground, which often occurs in the evening, right when people start burning in their fireplaces—air quality can “deteriorate at night.”

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want to make sure your children aren’t, say, playing soccer in bad air. And, if you can smell the smoke at all, “that would be a good time to reduce prolonged exposure and heavy exertion.”

An orange alert also automatically generates a Check Before You Light day—another program operated by BCAQMD to request that residents restrict the use of wood stoves and fireplaces to prevent air quality from worsening.

Roll had heard about the Check Before You Light advisory issued

by BCAQMD through the Chico Enterprise-Record’s Twitter feed, but didn’t know exactly what that meant in terms of air quality. And she seemed fairly unfazed.

“I’m used to it, I guess, so it doesn’t bother me. I’m used to the agricultural burning, the dust,” she said, as she shook her head.

The E-R, like other media outlets, health agencies and schools, receives an advisory notice from BCAQMD when the district declares a Check Before You Light day, which is any day when air quality is forecast to be orange or red. For county residents, the program is voluntary. A new Chico city ordinance, however, makes the days into mandatory no-burn days for Chico residents. Despite this, Chico’s number of orangealert days has been sky-high this winter.

“It’s the most we’ve had,” said

Jim Wagoner, air-pollution control officer with BCAQMD. Wagoner suspects the high number of orange-alert days is the result of a combination of weather—fewer storms to clear out the air, and more high-pressure inversions to trap smoke low to the ground— and better forecasting.

“In years past, there have been days that turned out to be bad days that we weren’t able to predict.

We’re better at doing those predictions,” due to better modeling, he said.

Air quality for Chico is moni-

tored at a small station on Manzanita Avenue run by the state Environmental Protection Agency’s Air Resources Board.

The station monitors ozone levels and “PM 2.5,” or particulate matter that is smaller than 2.5 microns in diameter. Ozone, which Mandly calls “a summertime smog pollutant,” results in several yellowalert days every year. But it’s the wintertime accumulation of PM 2.5 that results in unhealthful air worthy of keeping the kids inside.

The station “will draw in the air through a sampling inlet, and it’ll knock out any particulates that are over 2.5 microns in size,” Mandly said. The remaining tiny particles are the type that can lodge deep into the lungs and create or aggravate health issues, such as respiratory and cardiovascular diseases.

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Too many particles found in one sampling will push the BCAQMD to declare an orange or red alert. It’ll also help the Sacramento Valley Air Basin Smoke Management Program, run by the state, determine how many acres of agricultural land may be burned in Butte County for the day. The program allocates fewer acres to burn on days with higher PM 2.5 levels. Pass the threshold into an orange alert, and no acres can be burned, said Mandly. Roughly 14 percent of wintertime PM 2.5 comes from agricultural burning, according to the BCAQMD. The burning of diesel is another contributor of PM 2.5.

But the vast majority—possibly up to 75 percent, according to BCAQMD—comes from our homes’ chimneys. And our chimneys keep puffing.

Mahic, for one, doesn’t like that unincorporated Chapmantown residents are burning regardless of air quality, as their chimneys are not affected by the city mandate. And Roll finds the Check Before You Light program a nuisance, saying, “In the outer areas, everyone else burns.”

Mandly recognizes these problems, and admits that one’s neighbors may be the biggest factor in a yard’s air quality, saying “because smoke is kind of a localized issue, it definitely is a possibility that one part of town has much more smoke temporarily than another part of town.” Ω

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month’s Bioneers Video Series at the Chico Women’s Club, noting that I wanted to learn more about the intriguing, three-installment, eco-friendly program that kicked off on Feb. 9. No sooner had I put the word out than Women’s Club member Joy Mendoza sent me an email telling me more about this Thursday’s (Feb. 16) program.

That was not long before I ran into another member, Rosemary Quinn, at the Saturday-morning downtown farmers’ market; Quinn shed even more light on the youth-centric Feb. 16 event, which starts at 7 p.m. and is titled “Youth, Food Justice & Computer Games.”

Featured during the three-part series are videos of speakers from the 2011 Bioneers National Conference in Marin County.

Leading off Feb. 16 is pioneering online-journalist/gamer/techno-whiz Joshua S. Fouts, executive director of New York science-education-promoting nonprofit the Science House Foundation and executive producer at Dancing Ink Productions (www.dancinginkproductions.com).

“Fouts has an extensive career on the cutting-edge of journalism, online media, games, culture and foreign policy and a history exploring the impact of new technology tools for media years before they are adopted by the mainstream,” according to the Dancing Ink website.

The dynamic Fouts will speak on “how 12-year-olds with computers can solve real problems.”

Designer Karen Brown—not to be confused with local songstress Karen Joy Brown—is creative director of the Berkeley-based Center for Ecoliteracy (www.ecoliteracy.org); Brown’s filmed talk will be about her mini wind turbine and the importance (and ease) of engaging K-12 students in sustainability issues via her kid-friendly invention.

She has lectured worldwide on the human and environmental consequences of design, and is instrumental in the creation of the center’s forward- Eco-literate designer Karen Brown thinking online and print publications such as its Rethinking School Lunch Guide and educators’ guides to the films Food, Inc. and Nourish.

But, Quinn is most excited about the presentation of Ghana-born real-food activist Anim Steel, whose filmed talk on “mobilizing students for the real-food challenge” will serve as the sweet cream in the Oreo cookie, sandwiched between Fouts’ and Brown’s talks.

Steel is the director of national programs at The Food Project in Boston; its stated mission is “to create a thoughtful and productive community of youth and adults from diverse backgrounds who work together to build a sustainable food system” (see www.thefoodproject.org). The Food Project currently employs more than 100 Boston-area teenagers who grow, sell and donate more than 250,000 pounds of organic produce annually. The Food Project is also working to build a national youth movement aimed at creating just, sustainable food systems.

In 2008, Steel co-founded the Real Food Challenge to redirect $1 billion of university food purchases “away from industrial farms and junk food and toward local/community-based, fair, ecologically sound and humane food sources … by 2020” (see www.realfoodchallenge.org).

Cost for the Feb. 16 event is a mere suggested donation of $2 to $5; students are free. This event (as well as the third one, Real-food activist Anim Steel on Feb. 23, called “Scaling Up”) is a benefit for the Chico Women’s Club Scholarship and Community Fund, which goes to helping keep Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park open. More info: www.chicowomensclub.net.

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The amazing life of Vang Pao As Chico prepares to memorialize him, we should understand why the Hmong people regard him as their greatest hero by

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sculptured likeness of Vang Pao will come soon to an honored place in Chico, thanks to a decision by the City Council in November to permit a statue of him to be placed outside council chambers. His picture already hangs in honored places in thousands of homes in Hmong communities now scattered all over the United States. We should know something about him and the many reasons why we should be proud that he and the Hmong people will achieve a deserved recognition.

Vang Pao is pictured here in his Clovis home in 2009.

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Vang Pao is not exactly the George Washington of the Hmong— there, after all, is no Hmong government anywhere in the world.

And none is on the horizon. But if adulation by large numbers of ethnic kinsmen is any criterion, Vang Pao invites comparison to George Washington. Gen. Vang was on hand to unite and inspire and focus the Hmong people at a crucial juncture in their very long migratory history.

“He is like the earth and the sky,” a Hmong refugee told a Fresno Bee reporter in 2007.

“I trusted Gen. Vang Pao with my life,” said Chai Vang Thao, a spokesman for the Hmong community in Butte County.

The salutes from Americans who knew him are even more enthusiastic. William Colby, the director of the CIA in the 1970s, called Vang Pao “the biggest hero of the Vietnam War.” Vint Lawrence, one of the earliest of the CIA agents to know Vang Pao, said the general seemed unconcerned about his safety in battle—perhaps he believed that divine spirits controlled his fate. In any case, “His reaction [to danger] was extraordinary. He assumed he was not going to get shot. He just exuded bravery.”

President Bill Clinton, belatedly, authorized a plaque at Arlington

Vang Pao and Air America The history of Vang Pao and the Hmong people and American involvement in the origins of the Vietnam War intersected for the first time in 1960. American presence in Vietnam, in the wake of the earlier (1954) French defeat, was limited at that time to a small number of “advisers” working to prop up an anti-communist regime in Saigon. The full-scale commitment of U.S. ground troops was two presidents in the future—Jack Kennedy and then Lyndon Johnson.

Nonetheless, President Eisenhower, worried about a communist insurgency in Laos, declared in 1960 that that country must be kept out of communist hands. The “falling domino principle” was cited as reason. China

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National Cemetery in 1997. The valor of Gen. Vang Pao’s troops would never be forgotten, it reads.

Lionel Rosenblatt, a founder of Refugees International, put the matter quite bluntly when he said that Vang Pao’s Hmong were put “into this meat grinder, mostly to save U.S. soldiers from fighting and dying [in Vietnam].” Rosenblatt went on to become one of the main movers in the effort to relocate larger numbers of Hmong to the United States after the end of the Vietnam War—a matter by no means taken for granted at the time.

Many in Washington thought the problems attendant on resettlement of large numbers of Southeast Asian farmers would overwhelm U.S. resources. Former Wyoming Sen. Alan Simpson stated publicly that Hmong families were incapable of integrating themselves into American culture.

After Vang Pao’s death in January 2011 efforts were made to bury him in Arlington.

Rep. Dana Rohrbacher, R-Calif., noted that he “saved the lives of thousands of Americans in the Vietnam War. … He deserves to be buried in Arlington.” Rep. Jim Costa, DCalif., wanted to extend burial rights in U.S. national cemeteries to foreign-born Hmong veterans—estimated to number as many as 6,900. The Arlington burial efforts failed.

Hmong in America, including many veterans of the war, were bitterly disappointed.

This photo was taken circa 1972, during the “secret war” in Laos. Gen. Vang Pao (arrow) is pictured holding hands with Thai Army Chief of Staff Surakij Mayalab at a site overlooking Hmong–CIA headquarters in Long Tien, Laos. To the left of Mayalab is CIA case officer Burr Smith (with shaved head).

The rest of the men in the photo are Thai soldiers who served in Laos with Lao-Hmong forces.

was already communist; Vietnam was threatened; Laos would be next; Cambodia …

Thailand … where would it end?

In 1960 Vang Pao was 31 years old and already an experienced soldier. As a teenager he had fought with the French against the Japanese who controlled most of Southeast Asia during the Pacific War. Later, in the 1960s, he was a major when Americans met him and soon became a major general in the Royal Lao Army—the highest rank achieved by a Hmong in that force. The Hmong, while they had grudges against the Lao royal government whose powerbase was in the lowland areas of Laos, felt they had a better chance for autonomy under it than under the communist insurgency known as Pathet Lao. The Pathet Lao leadership was trained by Hanoi.

Vang Pao first met American counterinsurgency agents in 1960. These CIA agents, often disguised as civilian operatives in the bogus corporation “Air America,” went to work to enlist Hmong villagers in the remote fog-shrouded highlands of central and north Laos. The Americans immediately recognized Vang Pao as their most valuable ally.

With Vang Pao’s help, Hmong allies were recruited and assigned to gather intelligence, protect American radar sites, operate advance radio and surveillance outposts, and rescue downed American airmen. Many Hmong soldiers lost their own lives in their effort to rescue Americans. The Hmong engaged in fierce combat on the contested border region between Laos and Vietnam. One expert estimates that for more than a decade the 40,000-strong Hmong forces prevented as many as 70,000 Vietnamese troops from overrunning Laos.

Vang Pao was compared by one expert as a Hmong version of Gen. George Patton: He could think like his enemy. But instead of great powerful armies, Vang Pao, at least in

With Vang Pao’s help, Hmong allies were recruited and assigned to gather intelligence, protect American radar sites, operate advance radio and surveillance outposts, and rescue downed American airmen. Many Hmong soldiers lost their own lives in their effort to rescue Americans.

the early days, commanded men wearing homespun clothes who often took wives and children into battle. They abandoned their traditional homes, their fields, their livestock, and settled in encampments, many concentrated in mountaintop areas surrounding the Plaine des Jarres. (The French named it that after the thousands of stone jars that dotted the landscape and were thought to be prehistoric burial places.)

In the early 1960s, when Americans first met them, Hmong recruits carried handmade flintlock rifles—Vang Pao presented one to President Johnson in 1968 on the occasion of a visit to the United States. Walt Rostow, national security adviser, sent a note to LBJ praising Vang Pao: “He is a real asset to us, a feisty little fighter ….”

The Secret War By the mid-1960s, as full-scale war in Vietnam evolved, the Laos-Vietnam border area became ever more crucial. The famous Ho Chi Minh Trail, the supply route from communist North Vietnam to the South, weaved its way inside and out of the territory of Laos. Interruption of the flow of supplies from Ho Chi Minh’s regime in the north to their Viet Minh allies in the south became a principal strategic goal of the United States.

And that in turn dictated a strong American presence in Laos. A clandestine presence.

Thus the “secret war” in Laos (and also Cambodia).

“Laos was officially neutral; that didn’t stop the North Vietnamese communists nor the Americans nor Mr. Vang,” commented the Economist.

By the mid-1960s Vang Pao and the Hmong were often in the air. “He loved aviation,” writes Jane Hamilton-Merritt, author of Tragic Mountains, a gripping story of the secret war and the heroic role thousands of Hmong played in it. At first he “rode shotgun” on missions, but before long Gen. Vang was flying a Cessna 185 or H-34 helicopter.

He persuaded the Americans that Hmong could be trained as pilots, and scores of them were. Vang Pao regarded Hmong pilots as braver and more skilled than the Lao, or Thai, or even American flyers. The Hmong

were flying to protect their people. For them every mission was a life-and-death mission.

“American pilots typically flew 100 combat missions, celebrated with a champagne party and went home with medals for bravery,” writes Hamilton-Merritt. “Hmong pilots had no 100-mission parties with champagne, no R&R in faraway cities, and no end of tour. Instead they flew until they were blown out of the skies.”

The Controversial Vang Pao Vang Pao had his enemies and critics. Not surprising for a general fighting guerrilla warfare, he could be ruthless. It is said that his recruitment policies included drafting very young boys; those who resisted were not treated well. He could and did order summary executions.

And it is widely acknowledged now that he financed much of his patriotic activity by being an opium warlord. This was especially true in the early 1970s, as the United States began its strategic retreat from Vietnam.

Financial assistance to Vang Pao began to dry up. He still had to pay his ever-morebesieged troops—and their families. The narcotics trade was a way to solvency.

Critics of American policies in Southeast Asia point to the Secret War as a moral low point in the Cold War. U.S. bombers flying from distant Guam or bases in nearby Thailand dropped more than 2 million tons of bombs on Laotian territory—more than the total dropped on all of Germany during World War II. By another calculation, the 580,000 bombing missions over Laos between 1964 and 1973 constituted the heaviest aerial bombing in history.

Historian Sucheng Chan, though not Hmong, writes with great sympathy for the plight of the Hmong in her 1994 book Hmong Means Free. The North Vietnamese and Americans fought the “Second Vietnam War” partly in Hmong homelands, she says, but neither side cared much about the needs of Laos or the Hmong. They made use of Laos for their own ends.

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Who are the Hmong?

Perennial outsiders, they have mastered the art of survival are as many as 350,000 Hmong (the “h” is silent) living in the United States today. At first Hmong refugees settled in the Central Valley of California. Quickly, however, colonies sprouted in Montana. Then they moved to Minnesota; Ttodayhere the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area has the largest concentration of Hmong in the United States. The tendency to migrate is in keeping with their historic practices in Laos, some say.

The Hmong people are traced back originally to Mongolia. About 2,000 years ago they migrated to the southwest of China. There are still sizable Hmong populations there today—along with other “national minorities,” as the Chinese call them. A recent census in Vietnam revealed that more than a million Hmong live there—almost all in the north.

The Hmong who live in the United States today mostly resided in Laos three generations ago. But they are not Lao. Lao people speak a language similar to Thai and are devoutly Buddhist. Not so the Hmong. Lao surnames tend to be long—like Souphanavong. Hmong names are usually one syllable, like Pao, Thau or Xiong. The Lao people dominate the lowland plains of Laos and the cities along the Mekong. The Hmong lived in remote highlands. Rice cultivation prevails in the lowlands but not in the Hmong highlands.

(Most of what I have written about the Hmong people can be ascribed to the Mien, who are ethnically close to the Hmong. The Mien were also involved in the secret war and also migrated to the United States—though in much smaller numbers than the Hmong.)

The Hmong language is akin to Chinese, though Chinese and Hmong speakers cannot begin to understand each other. The Chinese forbade the Hmong, under penalty of death, from employing the Chinese ideographic writing system.

The Hmong were without a written language until a Romanized alphabet was created in the early 1950s by foreign missionaries. It remains today as the only written language for Hmong speech.

The Hmong were regarded as alien by the ruling class of China. They were not schooled in Confucianism and so were denied access to the privileged literati. Further, Hmong were often unfamiliar with Buddhism. They were (and often still are) fundamentally animists living in a world of good and evil spirits.

Traditional Hmong spirituality centers on shamans, healing practitioners, men or women, chosen by the spirits to act as intermediaries between the spiritual and physical worlds. The ritual killing of chickens by the shaman in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 movie Gran Torino got that approximately correct, say Hmong I have consulted.

But Eastwood’s portrayal of the Hmong as passive folk in need of rescue by heroic Caucasians did not set well with many Hmong. As Bee Vang, the Hmong lead in the film, put it in a recent interview, “I was supposed to be clueless and have no self-respect in order for the white elder man to achieve his savior role.”

It was, he added, “like making a deal with the devil. To the extent that I did a good job, I reinforced that image of effeminate Asian guys who are wimps, geeks and can’t advocate for themselves.”

As shunned outsiders in China (and later in Laos), Hmong often resorted to illicit activities—drug trafficking, for example. That of course further marginalized them.

The more marginalized the Hmong became in China, the more they were inclined to migrate farther south. As Anne Fadiman wrote in her brilliant 1997 account of a Hmong family struggling with intercultural problems in Merced, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: “Over and over again, the Hmong have responded to persecution and to pressures to assimilate by either fighting or migrating—a pattern that has been repeated so many times, in so many different eras and places, that it begins to seem almost a genetic trait, as inevitable in its recurrence as their straight hair or their short, sturdy stature.”

And that brought many Hmong to the borderlands of China and Laos—as well as Thailand, Burma and Vietnam—over the last two centuries. And, finally, in the last few decades, to a grand and trying diaspora to Canada, France, Australia, Argentina and French Guiana. And finally to Chico, Calif. Do they deserve our attention and admiration? Yes, they do.

— John Boyle

Above: Hmong actor Bee Vang and Clint Eastwood in the 2008 movie Gran Torino.

Right: Hmong New Year Festival 2011 in Chico.

The 2010 census estimates more than 4,300 Hmong are living in Butte County.

was determined to end its involvement in Southeast Asia and was looking for a way to extricate itself ‘with honor’ from a conflict that had cost more than a million lives (all participants combined) and left a legacy of ecological destruction that still boggles the mind,” Chan writes.

After 1975 With the American retreat from Southeast Asia in 1975, a decision had to be made who among our Hmong friends could be saved. In the last days, amid great turmoil at remote airstrips, the CIA managed to evacuate Vang Pao and a few thousand officers and their families to safety in America and elsewhere around the globe.

Recall the pictures of the panic scenes as people scrambled to board the last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975? The same scenario played out mostly beyond camera range in Hmong villages at about the same time.

The rank-and-file Hmong left behind

were subjected to brutal attacks by the communist victors, who used vastly superior firepower and chemical and biological warfare in an attempt to exterminate the Hmong. The Hmong in general were treated badly; those suspected of ties with the CIA were worked to death by day and put into holes in the ground by night. As many as 100,000 perished; another 100,000 fled Laos.

Of those Hmong people who remained in Laos, tens of thousands were sent to reeducation camps as political prisoners, where they served indeterminate, sometimes life sentences. Many of these people are unaccounted for; it is easily assumed that most perished.

For the vast majority of Hmong survivors, the American pullout meant that their only hope was fleeing to refugee camps in Thailand. Can we possibly understand the terror and panic of a peo-

ple constantly in flight and pursued by troops of the post-1975 government of Laos, which had promised to “wipe out” Hmong who had allied themselves with the United States?

The early stages of escape took them through the Lao jungle, relocating every few months as the communists discovered their locations. They were unable to farm or grow anything in the jungle.

“They depended on whatever edible roots they could find,” writes former Marysville resident Her Vang in his recently completed Ph.D. dissertation, “Dreaming of Home, Dreaming of Land: Displacements and Hmong Transnational Politics, 1975-2010,” at the University of Minnesota.

The final stage of the escape involved crossing the Mekong—but many could not swim. There are no great, wide rivers in the Lao highlands. The desperate clung to makeshift bamboo rafts or inflated plastic bags. And they dodged bullets from pursuing troops—and sometimes from Thai soldiers chasing them back from the “safe” side. Many did not make it. How many infants really didn’t have a chance?

And when the lucky survivors waded onto Thai territory, to commence what for many would be permanent exile from their homeland, they ended up in squalid refugee camps, some for years, some for two decades. While there, they were always coping with the threat of repatriation to Laos, where they faced torture and death.

Many Hmong turned down offers of resettlement in America because it would mean that they would have to abandon their families in the refugee camps. One estimate holds that for every person in the camp at Ban Vinai who emigrated to the States, a child was born in the camp. It had a population of about 38,000 in 1987.

The forced resettlement of Hmong continues to be a source of terror for the relatively small numbers of Hmong remaining in Thai camps. In May 2009, Doctors Without Borders withdrew in protest from Ban Huay Nam Khao detention camp in Thailand because of the country’s forced-repatriation policy and abuse of the Lao Hmong refugees. The camp is the last remaining Lao Hmong refugee camp in Thailand.

Doctors Without Borders left behind a trove of accusatory evidence regarding Thailand and the plight of the Hmong.

Jane Hamilton-Merritt pleaded to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “Read the report about the fear of those who are about to be forcibly returned to their abusers in Laos. Know their stories. Hear their cries.”

This rendering shows how the memorial to Gen. Vang Pao, which the City Council approved in November 2011, will look.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF CHICO

Fortunately for the Hmong cause, Vang Pao had a wide range of connections.

But Vang Pao also never gave up the dream of returning and organizing the ragtag rebels holding out in isolated jungle camps and establishing a Hmong homeland in Laos. The jungles

of Laos remained “unfinished business” in his mind.

Central to these dreams was the notion of Chao Fa, a mystical group of Hmong warriors who fought against French colonial rule nearly a century ago. The general dreamed of returning to Laos and reviving the Chao Fa goals.

Vang Pao and many Hmong of his generation were quite different from other refugees America has absorbed. They were not convinced that their final destiny was to be found in the United States. Almost all of them felt a deep connection to their Laos homeland and to their Hmong relatives stranded there. Their quandary was and is an ongoing tragedy.

Vang Pao’s last years produced an episode of great controversy. In 2007 U.S. federal courts ordered Vang Pao’s arrest for allegedly plotting to over-

throw the communist government of Laos. Federal agents charged the general and several others with plotting to assemble an arsenal of weapons that they intended to ship to anti-Laotian resistance forces inside Laos.

Appeals came from many quarters to drop the charges. Not lost in the debate was the fact that decades earlier the U.S. had trained and supported Vang Pao to resist the (ostensibly) same regime.

Vang Pao and others were arrested and denied bail. Adding some confusion to this situation, Vang Pao at times insisted that he intended to broker a deal between the Lao authorities in Vientiane and the minorities. Vientiane responded by saying that they would kill him if he set foot in Laos. He was soon released from prison, and after two years of hearings, in 2009 all charges against Vang, by then 80 years old, were dropped. He died in January 2011 in Clovis. A six-day funeral brought thousands to the streets and public places of nearby Fresno—and to Hmong communities across the nation.

Author’s postscript I’d like to make this suggestion to whoever is in charge of writing the inscription on the Vang Pao memorial sculpture: Please make it abundantly

clear that the dedication is not just to Gen. Vang, but also to the heroic and long-suffering Hmong people who committed themselves to the American cause three and four decades ago in faraway Laos.

And to their children and grandchildren who now are increasingly less interested in a resurrection of the Chao Fa kingdom than they are in the daunting task of making their way in America.

The new generations of Hmong will not and should not forget the sacrifices of their parents and grandparents’ generations. If a sculpture of Vang Pao helps them (and the rest of us Americans) to honor those sacrifices, then it will be a worthy contribution to our city. Ω

Author John Boyle is a retired professor of Asian history at Chico State University. He has been a “reading pal” with about 30 Hmong second- and third-graders over the last 15 years. He is shown here recently with one of them, Pangsee Xiong, holding a photo of them taken in 1996. She recently graduated from East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., with a major in public health and a concentration in community health.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN BOYLE

Vang Pao’s Last Years Gen. Vang Pao spent most of his time, as one commentator put it, leaning on “his network of former spooks, soldiers and diplomats to twist arms in Washington, D.C., and win help for his kinsmen.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF BUTTE COUNTY HMONG ASSOCIATION

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“VANG PAO” continued from page 19

Who are the Hmong?

Perennial outsiders, they have mastered the art of survival are as many as 350,000 Hmong (the “h” is silent) living in the United States today. At first Hmong refugees settled in the Central Valley of California. Quickly, however, colonies sprouted in Montana. Then they moved to Minnesota; Ttodayhere the Minneapolis-St. Paul metropolitan area has the largest concentration of Hmong in the United States. The tendency to migrate is in keeping with their historic practices in Laos, some say.

The Hmong people are traced back originally to Mongolia. About 2,000 years ago they migrated to the southwest of China. There are still sizable Hmong populations there today—along with other “national minorities,” as the Chinese call them. A recent census in Vietnam revealed that more than a million Hmong live there—almost all in the north.

The Hmong who live in the United States today mostly resided in Laos three generations ago. But they are not Lao. Lao people speak a language similar to Thai and are devoutly Buddhist. Not so the Hmong. Lao surnames tend to be long—like Souphanavong. Hmong names are usually one syllable, like Pao, Thau or Xiong. The Lao people dominate the lowland plains of Laos and the cities along the Mekong. The Hmong lived in remote highlands. Rice cultivation prevails in the lowlands but not in the Hmong highlands.

(Most of what I have written about the Hmong people can be ascribed to the Mien, who are ethnically close to the Hmong. The Mien were also involved in the secret war and also migrated to the United States—though in much smaller numbers than the Hmong.)

The Hmong language is akin to Chinese, though Chinese and Hmong speakers cannot begin to understand each other. The Chinese forbade the Hmong, under penalty of death, from employing the Chinese ideographic writing system.

The Hmong were without a written language until a Romanized alphabet was created in the early 1950s by foreign missionaries. It remains today as the only written language for Hmong speech.

The Hmong were regarded as alien by the ruling class of China. They were not schooled in Confucianism and so were denied access to the privileged literati. Further, Hmong were often unfamiliar with Buddhism. They were (and often still are) fundamentally animists living in a world of good and evil spirits.

Traditional Hmong spirituality centers on shamans, healing practitioners, men or women, chosen by the spirits to act as intermediaries between the spiritual and physical worlds. The ritual killing of chickens by the shaman in Clint Eastwood’s 2008 movie Gran Torino got that approximately correct, say Hmong I have consulted.

But Eastwood’s portrayal of the Hmong as passive folk in need of rescue by heroic Caucasians did not set well with many Hmong. As Bee Vang, the Hmong lead in the film, put it in a recent interview, “I was supposed to be clueless and have no self-respect in order for the white elder man to achieve his savior role.”

It was, he added, “like making a deal with the devil. To the extent that I did a good job, I reinforced that image of effeminate Asian guys who are wimps, geeks and can’t advocate for themselves.”

As shunned outsiders in China (and later in Laos), Hmong often resorted to illicit activities—drug trafficking, for example. That of course further marginalized them.

The more marginalized the Hmong became in China, the more they were inclined to migrate farther south. As Anne Fadiman wrote in her brilliant 1997 account of a Hmong family struggling with intercultural problems in Merced, The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: “Over and over again, the Hmong have responded to persecution and to pressures to assimilate by either fighting or migrating—a pattern that has been repeated so many times, in so many different eras and places, that it begins to seem almost a genetic trait, as inevitable in its recurrence as their straight hair or their short, sturdy stature.”

And that brought many Hmong to the borderlands of China and Laos—as well as Thailand, Burma and Vietnam—over the last two centuries. And, finally, in the last few decades, to a grand and trying diaspora to Canada, France, Australia, Argentina and French Guiana. And finally to Chico, Calif. Do they deserve our attention and admiration? Yes, they do.

— John Boyle

Above: Hmong actor Bee Vang and Clint Eastwood in the 2008 movie Gran Torino.

Right: Hmong New Year Festival 2011 in Chico.

The 2010 census estimates more than 4,300 Hmong are living in Butte County.

was determined to end its involvement in Southeast Asia and was looking for a way to extricate itself ‘with honor’ from a conflict that had cost more than a million lives (all participants combined) and left a legacy of ecological destruction that still boggles the mind,” Chan writes.

After 1975 With the American retreat from Southeast Asia in 1975, a decision had to be made who among our Hmong friends could be saved. In the last days, amid great turmoil at remote airstrips, the CIA managed to evacuate Vang Pao and a few thousand officers and their families to safety in America and elsewhere around the globe.

Recall the pictures of the panic scenes as people scrambled to board the last helicopters out of Saigon in 1975? The same scenario played out mostly beyond camera range in Hmong villages at about the same time.

The rank-and-file Hmong left behind

were subjected to brutal attacks by the communist victors, who used vastly superior firepower and chemical and biological warfare in an attempt to exterminate the Hmong. The Hmong in general were treated badly; those suspected of ties with the CIA were worked to death by day and put into holes in the ground by night. As many as 100,000 perished; another 100,000 fled Laos.

Of those Hmong people who remained in Laos, tens of thousands were sent to reeducation camps as political prisoners, where they served indeterminate, sometimes life sentences. Many of these people are unaccounted for; it is easily assumed that most perished.

For the vast majority of Hmong survivors, the American pullout meant that their only hope was fleeing to refugee camps in Thailand. Can we possibly understand the terror and panic of a peo-

ple constantly in flight and pursued by troops of the post-1975 government of Laos, which had promised to “wipe out” Hmong who had allied themselves with the United States?

The early stages of escape took them through the Lao jungle, relocating every few months as the communists discovered their locations. They were unable to farm or grow anything in the jungle.

“They depended on whatever edible roots they could find,” writes former Marysville resident Her Vang in his recently completed Ph.D. dissertation, “Dreaming of Home, Dreaming of Land: Displacements and Hmong Transnational Politics, 1975-2010,” at the University of Minnesota.

The final stage of the escape involved crossing the Mekong—but many could not swim. There are no great, wide rivers in the Lao highlands. The desperate clung to makeshift bamboo rafts or inflated plastic bags. And they dodged bullets from pursuing troops—and sometimes from Thai soldiers chasing them back from the “safe” side. Many did not make it. How many infants really didn’t have a chance?

And when the lucky survivors waded onto Thai territory, to commence what for many would be permanent exile from their homeland, they ended up in squalid refugee camps, some for years, some for two decades. While there, they were always coping with the threat of repatriation to Laos, where they faced torture and death.

Many Hmong turned down offers of resettlement in America because it would mean that they would have to abandon their families in the refugee camps. One estimate holds that for every person in the camp at Ban Vinai who emigrated to the States, a child was born in the camp. It had a population of about 38,000 in 1987.

The forced resettlement of Hmong continues to be a source of terror for the relatively small numbers of Hmong remaining in Thai camps. In May 2009, Doctors Without Borders withdrew in protest from Ban Huay Nam Khao detention camp in Thailand because of the country’s forced-repatriation policy and abuse of the Lao Hmong refugees. The camp is the last remaining Lao Hmong refugee camp in Thailand.

Doctors Without Borders left behind a trove of accusatory evidence regarding Thailand and the plight of the Hmong.

Jane Hamilton-Merritt pleaded to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton: “Read the report about the fear of those who are about to be forcibly returned to their abusers in Laos. Know their stories. Hear their cries.”

This rendering shows how the memorial to Gen. Vang Pao, which the City Council approved in November 2011, will look.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF CHICO

Fortunately for the Hmong cause, Vang Pao had a wide range of connections.

But Vang Pao also never gave up the dream of returning and organizing the ragtag rebels holding out in isolated jungle camps and establishing a Hmong homeland in Laos. The jungles

of Laos remained “unfinished business” in his mind.

Central to these dreams was the notion of Chao Fa, a mystical group of Hmong warriors who fought against French colonial rule nearly a century ago. The general dreamed of returning to Laos and reviving the Chao Fa goals.

Vang Pao and many Hmong of his generation were quite different from other refugees America has absorbed. They were not convinced that their final destiny was to be found in the United States. Almost all of them felt a deep connection to their Laos homeland and to their Hmong relatives stranded there. Their quandary was and is an ongoing tragedy.

Vang Pao’s last years produced an episode of great controversy. In 2007 U.S. federal courts ordered Vang Pao’s arrest for allegedly plotting to over-

throw the communist government of Laos. Federal agents charged the general and several others with plotting to assemble an arsenal of weapons that they intended to ship to anti-Laotian resistance forces inside Laos.

Appeals came from many quarters to drop the charges. Not lost in the debate was the fact that decades earlier the U.S. had trained and supported Vang Pao to resist the (ostensibly) same regime.

Vang Pao and others were arrested and denied bail. Adding some confusion to this situation, Vang Pao at times insisted that he intended to broker a deal between the Lao authorities in Vientiane and the minorities. Vientiane responded by saying that they would kill him if he set foot in Laos. He was soon released from prison, and after two years of hearings, in 2009 all charges against Vang, by then 80 years old, were dropped. He died in January 2011 in Clovis. A six-day funeral brought thousands to the streets and public places of nearby Fresno—and to Hmong communities across the nation.

Author’s postscript I’d like to make this suggestion to whoever is in charge of writing the inscription on the Vang Pao memorial sculpture: Please make it abundantly

clear that the dedication is not just to Gen. Vang, but also to the heroic and long-suffering Hmong people who committed themselves to the American cause three and four decades ago in faraway Laos.

And to their children and grandchildren who now are increasingly less interested in a resurrection of the Chao Fa kingdom than they are in the daunting task of making their way in America.

The new generations of Hmong will not and should not forget the sacrifices of their parents and grandparents’ generations. If a sculpture of Vang Pao helps them (and the rest of us Americans) to honor those sacrifices, then it will be a worthy contribution to our city. Ω

Author John Boyle is a retired professor of Asian history at Chico State University. He has been a “reading pal” with about 30 Hmong second- and third-graders over the last 15 years. He is shown here recently with one of them, Pangsee Xiong, holding a photo of them taken in 1996. She recently graduated from East Carolina University, in Greenville, N.C., with a major in public health and a concentration in community health.

PHOTO COURTESY OF JOHN BOYLE

Vang Pao’s Last Years Gen. Vang Pao spent most of his time, as one commentator put it, leaning on “his network of former spooks, soldiers and diplomats to twist arms in Washington, D.C., and win help for his kinsmen.”

PHOTO COURTESY OF BUTTE COUNTY HMONG ASSOCIATION

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Arts & Culture Cubanabooks founder Sara Cooper.

THIS WEEK In the words of cubanas Chico State professor starts small press devoted to female Cuban authors

CCooper is an unabashed Cubanophile—a lover of all things Cuban. Or, as she prefers to put it in her hico State Spanish professor Sara

impeccable Spanish accent: a cubanófila.

It’s no surprise then that Coopstory and photo by er, in May 2010, founded CubanaChristine G.K. books, a small independent press LaPado aimed specifically at bringing the christinel@ writings of female Cuban authors newsreview.com to a larger audience. As the Cubanabooks website puts it, “Publishing select literary gems in English or in bilingual Book release: English/Spanish volumes, CubanA Cubanabooks abooks aims to correct the current release party for Nancy Alonso’s U.S. unavailability of excellent Disconnect/ literature from Cubans living in Desencuentro , Cuba.”

Thursday, So far, Cubanabooks has pubMarch 15, 3-7 p.m., lished Havana Is a Really Big at Chico State’s Cross-Cultural City and Other Stories, a collecLeadership Center. tion of short stories by widely www.csuchico.edu/ known Cuban author Mirta Yáñez cubanabooks (translated into English by Cooper), and has just released Nancy Alonso’s bilingual Disconnect/ Desencuentro, which will be the focus of a bookrelease party on Mar. 15 at Chico State’s Cross-Cultural Leadership Center.

“I’ve always been a leftist,” said Cooper, explaining her love of Cuba (which she has visited a number of times) and Cuban writers, “but I didn’t know a lot about the Cuban Revolution.” That is, not until she moved from Texas—where she was “ABD” (all but dissertated) at the University of Texas at Austin—to California “for love” in 1995.

“Love didn’t last,” as Cooper put it, but after getting involved in Oakland’s lesbian community, Cooper had the good fortune to meet Dutch-American filmmaker/ activist Sonja de Vries, who had just completed the documentary film Gay Cuba. The film was made, as Cooper pointed out, “to document the shift in the official stance [of the Cuban government] toward homosexuality.” “[The film] intrigued me, and started me reading 22 CN&R February 16, 2012

a lot more about literature and culture in Cuba,” said Cooper, who also teaches Latin American literature and multicultural/gender courses in Chico State’s English Department. “Through that, I realized that gender roles and attitudes toward sexuality had developed completely differently in Cuba in contrast to the rest of Latin America,” as a direct result of the Cuban Revolution.

“In 1959, [Cuban] women found themselves with a new role, a new set of expectations,” said Cooper.

One of the tenets of the revolution, she noted, was that “all humans are equal, and should be treated equally regardless of gender or race—no class divisions. … All of a sudden the [male-dominated] Catholic- and European-imposed role of ‘the angel at the hearth’ was blown out of the water.”

Add to that the structure of women’s roles that had been integrated into Cuban society from African cultures—“the slave trade resulted in women and men contributing equally [as workers] in the fields”—and Cuba became ripe for the creation of the modern Cuban woman: “Strength and subversiveness was built in from the very beginning.”

“Castro and Che Guevara, from the beginning, started stirring up participation by women,” Cooper said, and while there was “a lot of documented participation” in guerrilla warfare on the part of women, women still found themselves expected to do all the cooking and cleaning when they got home after they were done “toting rifles … and bombing federal soldiers.” Even today, “Cuban women know they are supposed to be the equal of men, yet they are still struggling with the same glass ceiling and the same double standard that women are facing in the United States—and they’re pissed!”

Next on the release schedule for Cubanabooks is another collection of short stories, Aida Bahr’s Ophelias/Ofelias; two poetry collections, one by Georgina Herrera and another by black feminist author Nancy Morejón; as well as another work by Yáñez, a novel called The Bleeding Wound.

“I consider her a close friend,” Cooper offered admiringly of Yáñez. “She’s got such a mouth on her. She’s so funny. She’s the quintessential outspoΩ ken Cuban woman.”

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Special Events PRESERVING THE NAKANAI: John Lane, a modern-day explorer and Chico resident, an international group of scientists and Chico State students will present their experience from their conservation expedition in the jungles of New Guinea. Th, 2/16, 6:30pm. Free.

Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/ bigroom.

Music JUNIOR REID & PRESIDENT BROWN: An evening of reggae with headliners Junior Reid and Preisdent Brown and special guests Water Truck Sounds, Cootdog and Katherine Ramirez, Shane-T and Blaze 1. Th, 2/16, 9pm. $20-$25. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 8911853.

KAORI FUJII & ERIC CECIL: Flutist Kaori Fujii and guitarist Eric Cecil perform pieces ranging from Bach to Brazilian choro. Go online for tickets. Th, 2/16, 7:30pm. $25. Oroville State Theatre; 1489 Myers St. Corner of Robinson & Myers in Oroville; (530) 538-2470; www.oroville concertassociation.com.

RON WHITE: Strap in for a scotch-soaked evening of comedy as the raspy-voiced Ron White hits the showroom stage with his stogie in hand. Th, 2/16, 8pm. $35-$57. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy, Oroville, (530) 5349892, www.goldcountrycasino.com.

Art Receptions

Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: A musical biography takes the audience through the life and times of the legendary Hank Williams. 2/172/18, 7:30pm; and Th-Sa, 7:30pm 2/23-3/10. $12-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroom theatre.com.

PANTHEON DARK & BRIGHT RECEPTION: new sculptures by Goat at Boho in the Garden Walk Mall. Th, 2/16, 5-9pm. Free. Garden Walk Mall; 225 Main St.

RON WHITE

Tonight, Feb. 16 Gold Country Casino SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS

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HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY

Special Events

Opens Friday, Feb. 17 Blue Room Theatre

BUDDHISM ON THE INTERNET: A lecture on the parallels between the rapid spread of Buddhism along the communication routes of the ancient world and the modern information highway, the internet. F, 2/17, 7-9pm. $10 donation. Sky Creek Dharma Center; 120 Three Oaks Ct.; 8938088; www.skycreek dharmacenter.org.

SEE FRIDAY, THEATER

featuring a little bit of everything from 18 different artists at the RAYRAY Gallery’s new location. The theme: Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed and Something Blue. Music by Jpeg. F, 2/17, 6-9pm. Free. The Last Stand; 167 E. Third St.; (530) 354-1936; www.thelaststandcomedy.com.

Music MANZAREK-ROGERS BAND: Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboardist for the Doors, and world-renowned slide blues guitarist Roy Rogers collaborate in a hard-driving blues rock project. Big Mo and the Full Moon Band open. F, 2/17, 6:30pm. $24-$34. Paradise Performing Arts Center; 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454; www.chicotickets.com.

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA: Legendary experimental guitarist Frank Zappa has passed the reins on to his virtuoso son, Dweezil, who will play a selection of his father’s music and original works. F, 2/17, 8pm. $27.50-$54. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Friday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events KEITH JENSEN: The up-and-coming comedian, who has worked with the likes of Chris Rock, Robin Williams and Norm McDonald, will grace the Last Stand stage. Sa, 2/18, 7pm. $10. The Last Stand; 167 E. Third St.; (530) 354-1936; www.thelaststandcomedy.com.

BOHO: Pantheon Dark & Bright, new sculpBEYOND THE CHAIR: A special screening of local filmmaker Alex Bridgman’s “Beyond The Chair,” a character-driven documentary following Andrew Shelley, a 90-pound man with muscular dystrophy as he backpacks around the world in his wheelchair searching for happiness. Sa, 2/18, 6:30-9pm. $12. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

Music THE RAILFLOWERS: The harmonious folk quartet play a set in honor of their second album release. Evin Wolverton, John Paul Gutierrez and Origin open. Sa, 2/18, 7-11pm. $10-$12.

Origami Lounge; 7th And Cherry Streets.

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY: Treasures Beloved & Unknown: The North State Symphony takes the Laxson Auditorium stage, playing audience favorite Beethoven’s “Symphony No. 7” then going off the beaten path with Chabier’s Spanish piece “Habanera” and Rebecca Clarke’s “Viola Sonata,” with guest musician Melissa Matson. Sa, 2/18, 7:30pm. $18-$32.

Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Friday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Music LOS LONELY BOYS: The Grammy Award-winning rock trio play the Laxson Auditorium stage in support of their latest album, Rockpango. W, 2/22, 7:30pm. $20-$32. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

REBELUTION: The reggae outfit out of Santa Barbara has a growing following, with their latest album, Peace of Mind, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard Top 200. The Green and Pep Love open. W, 2/22, 8pm. $20. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

Theater OFF THE CUFF: Bi-monthly improvisational performances. Every other W, 7:30pm. $5 advance/$8 door. Blue Room Theatre; 139 W First St.; (530) 895-3749; www.blueroom theatre.com.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 28

tures by Goat on display at Boho in the Garden Walk Mall. 2/16-3/21. 225 Main St.

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: The Voodoo

Hills, pictures by Rachelle Montoya. Through 2/24. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. Inside the ARTS Building in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

CHICO CITY MUNICIPAL CENTER: Joel Collier

Photography, a display of Joel Collier’s photography on all three floors of the City Municipal Center building. Through 7/13. 411 Main St. City Hall, (530) 896-7200.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Dragonflies and Damselflies, a photo exhibit by Robert Woodward. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO PAPER COMPANY: Monuments by Bill

DiGrazia, works by DiGrazia, who manipulates photographs to detach the structure from recognizable surroundings. Also, Jake Early Ca. Mountain Series. Through 4/30.

345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopaper company.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Current exhibits, by Northern California artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Currently featuring watercolors by Amber Palmer.

Ongoing. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

HUMANITIES CENTER GALLERY: Black and White in Black and White, large-scale historical photos of predominantly African American citizens of Lincoln, Nebraska between 19101925 on display. Through 2/24. 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, Trinity Hall.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: Art by

Carob, colorful portraits of people local artist Carob finds particularly inspiring.

Through 2/29. Gallery hours are Open daily..

118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Simple Pleasures, art exhibit featuring 20 local artists.

Through 3/10. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 3453063.

SATORI COLOR & HAIR DESIGN: Michael

Mulcahy Paintings, bright bold works of pop art, figures, animals, landscapes, and abstracts. Through 3/15. 627 Broadway St. 120.

TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Biennial National

Print Competition Exhibition, works by emerging artists who are pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, also on display at the University Art Gallery.

Through 3/4. 400 W First St. Meriam Library breezeway, CSU, Chico.

UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Biennial National

Print Competition Exhibition, works by emerging artists who are pushing the boundaries of traditional printmaking, also on display at the Turner Print Museum.

Through 3/4. 400 W First St. Taylor Hall, CSU, Chico.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Simple

Images, photos from the travels of Marianne Werner on display. Through 2/29.

130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

Museums CHICO MUSEUM: Amazing Grains, the story of

rice in California and beyond. Through 2/29. $3 adults/$2 students and seniors/kids 14 and under free. 141 Salem St., (530) 8914336.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Toys: The Inside

Story, an exhibit featuring 12 hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms found in most toys. W-Su, 12-5pm. $3-$5. 625 Esplanade.

AFRICAN MOSAIC: African and Caribbean cuisine are accompanied by African Mosaic, a theatrical work that blends dance and music from Haiti, Cuba and West Africa. Su, 2/19, 59pm. Chico Womens Club; 592 E. Third St.; (530) 894-1978.

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Opposites Attract, Paula Busch’s latest encaustics on display. Tu-Sa, 9am-5pm through 3/30. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 3432930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

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some of Sal Casa’s early work depicting classic Sicilian culture. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

Names, stone sculpture by Augie Velasquez and computer-manipulated photographs and paintings by Darren Names. 2/17-3/16.

180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

AUGIE VELASQUEZ & DARREN NAMES RECEPTION: A reception for Augie Velasquez and

RAYRAY RECEPTION: A reception for a gallery

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Sal Casa Gallery,

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Augie Velasquez & Darren

Art Receptions Darren Names, whose respective works of sculpture and computer-manipulated photographs and paintings are on display. F, 2/17, 5-8pm. Avenue 9 Gallery; 180 E. Ninth Ave.; (530) 879-1821; www.avenue9gallery.com.

works by object-based sculptor Joe Meiser and multi-media artist Michael Arrigo on display. Through 2/24. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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NORTH STATE SYMPHONY Saturday, Feb. 18 Laxson Auditorium

SEE SATURDAY, MUSIC

Friday night classics This is going to be one of those flip a coin Friday nights. Two rock legends—The Doors and Frank Zappa—will be represented at two different shows in Butte County on the same night, Friday, Feb. 17. Up the hill at the Paradise Performing Arts Center, Doors keyboardist and former Jim Morrison collaborator Ray Manzarek will be performing with blues slide EDITOR’S PICK guitarist Roy Rogers in the wake of the duo’s recent disc, 2011’s Translucent Blues (and local blues fave Big Mo & The Full Moon Band will be opening the show). And at the same time, in downtown Chico’s El Rey Theatre, Zappa’s son Dweezil will be leading his big band through Zappa Plays Zappa, a tribute to his father’s eclectic, genre-defying catalog of music and weirdness. Maybe both bands can meet somewhere in the middle—like the Tackle Box!—for an after-show jam? See MUSIC, Friday for info.

—JASON CASSIDY February 16, 2012

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BULLETIN BOARD

THE 2012

Snow Goose Festival was a BIG success!

Community BACKYARD BIRD COUNT: Identify birds with Chico

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

meeting. Every other Tu, 9am. Board of Supervisors Chambers, 25 County Center Dr. in Oroville, (530) 538-7631, www.buttecounty.net.

BUTTE PARENTS FOR CPS AND COURT REFORM: A meeting to share and discuss stories related to Children’s Services. M, 7pm. Free. Cozy Diner, 1695 Mangrove Ave., (530) 895-1195.

CARTOONING & ART CLASS: All skill levels are welcome to join this six-session class where students will learn techniques to draw cartoon and comic book figures, horses, dragons and flip book animation. W, 3:30-4:30pm through 2/22. $70. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale.

Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, free your feet and your spirit.

Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 8916524.

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative and uplifting group dances honoring many of the world’s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation.

Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., 8918789.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS & GORILLAS Monday, Feb. 20 Chico Creek Nature Center SEE COMMUNITY

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more. Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot On Second And Wall Streets, (530) 893-3276.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 2/24. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., 345-8134.

MINDFULNESS IN RELATIONSHIPS: A day-long retreat in which practitioners of the Buddhist tradition will guide students on mindfulness in relationships. Sa, 2/18, 9am-4pm. $35-50 donation. Sky Creek Dharma Center, 120 Three Oaks Ct., 566-5032, www.skycreekdharma center.org.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Sa, 10am-3pm. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm.

Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary. Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 895-4707.

EXTRAORDINARY BIRDS & GORILLAS LECTURE: Roger Lederer and Carol Burr guide for a virtual trip through Uganda highlighting an array of amazing birds and mountain gorillas. M, 2/20, 6:30pm. Free. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

FARMERS MARKET - CHAPMAN: Free blood-pressure screenings, recipes and kids activities at 16th and C streets. EBT SNAP cards accepted.

Volunteer BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park web site for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

F, 2-5:30pm through 2/29. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 624-8844, www.cChaos.org.

FARMERS MARKET - CHICO STATE: The Organic Vegetable Project’s weekly sale of freshpicked greens of chard, kale, cabbage, flowers, herbs, veggies, farm-fresh eggs and more. Location: Student Learning Center plaza. W, 9am-1pm. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

FARMERS MARKET - FIREHOUSE: Locally grown fruits and vegetables and resources for better health. Th, 11am-3pm through 8/31. El Medio Fire Department, 3515 Myers St. in Oroville, (530) 592-0889 ext. Message, www.cChaos.org.

MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.

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Creek Nature Center naturalists and help contribute to a nation-wide effort to track bird populations. Bring appropriate clothing, binoculars will be provided. Su, 2/19, 12-2pm.

Free. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

We want to extend a HUGE thank you to everyone who participated in this year's festival...our special guest and keynote speaker, Greg Miller; our trip leaders, workshop instructors, venue owners, CCC crews, our incredible sponsors, our exhibitors, all the artists, the media for their outstanding coverage, the generous silent auction donors, and every volunteer and attendee! Our Steering Committee also deserves a BIG round of applause for the many hours of time and expertise they contributed.

Major Sponsors SNOW GOOSE ($2,500 or more)

Altacal Audobon Society

River Partners

California Conservation Corps

U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex

Sierra Nevada Brewing Company

KIXE Channel 9

California State Parks Northern Buttes Districts

Chico News & Review

Supporting Sponsors GREAT BLUE HERON ($1,000+)

TUNDRA SWAN ($500+)

Butte County Fish and Game Commission Central Valley Joint Venture Chico Museum: A Far West Heritage Association Museum Iris Software Kelly Meagher Pacific Gas & Electric Company Sacramento River Preservation Trust

California Rice Commission Chico Creek Nature Center New Urban Builders Out of this World-Discount Binocular The Printed Image

SNOWY EGRET ($250+)

WHITE-FACED IBIS ($100+)

Audubon California Ducks Unlimited Lundberg Family Farms Mountain Sports Oxford Suites The Nature Conservancy Swarovski Optik

Big Chico Creek Watershed Alliance Birkenstock’s of Chico Butte Environmental Council Chico Chamber of Commerce Friends of Butte Creek Sacramento River Discovery Center

Snow Goose Festival Steering Committee & Subcommittees, Super Snow Goosers of the Festival Raeann Bossarte, Publicity Cathy Carter, Art Reception Debbie Chakarun, Program & Youth Activities Lollie DeYoung, Silent Auction/Banquet Mike Fisher, Treasurer Shelia Frisk, Exhibits &Vendors Marilyn Gamette, Exhibit Coordinator & Program Kathryn Hood, Art Reception Kathleen Huber, Administration Assistant

Ruth Kennedy, Registration Steve King, Maps Aubrie Koeing, Art Reception, Youth Activities Chuck Lundgren, Website Master Sandy Makau, Silent Auction Mary Lou Martin, Registration Kathleen McPartland, Youth Activities John Merz, Committee Chair Marvey Mueller, Publicity Chair & Field Trip Coordination Steve Overlock, Workshop Coordination

Jennifer Patten, Festival Coordinator Maria Phillips, Art Exhibit John Scott, Workshop Coordination Sue Scott, Art Reception Goodie Sweatt, Registration Kathy Trevino, Registration Darah Votaw, Art Exhibit Gayle Womack, Silent Auction Mary Wrysinski, Art Reception

2012 TRIP LEADERS Linda Angerer Jo Anna Arroyo Skip Augur Jon Aull Chris Barr Jay Bogiatto Jim Burcio Carol Burr Rex Burress Ranger Zack Chambers

Dick Cory Tim Davis Michael Denega Dan Dugan Dan Efseaff Steve Emmons Mike Fisher Marilyn Gamette Dawn Garcia Mela Garcia

Gaylord Grams Herman Gray Tom Griggs Pricilla Hanford Janice Hofmann Leroy Hord Mike Hubbartt Scott Huber Lin Jensen Phil Johnson

Raina King Steve King Shelly Kirn Roger Lederer Lundberg Family Farms Staff Charlie Mathews John “Mac” McCormick Margery McNairn Greg Miller

Zach Miller Jeff Mott Mary Muchowski Nancy Nelson Michelle Ocken Sharon Perry Mike Peters Sophia Pospisil Shane Romain Frank Sanderson

Peter Sands Ron & Nancy Sanford Mauricio Schrader Julie Shaw Jackson Shedd Joe Silveira Bob Solari Marty Steidlemayer Nani Teves Richard Thieriot

Dave Tinker Scott Toricelli Andy Wahl Jamison Watts Bruce Webb Greg Weddig Dale Whitmore John Whittlesey Rick Wulbern Steve Zachery

SPECIAL THANK YOU’S Bidwell Mansion, State Historic Park | Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve | Chico Certified Farmers Market Chico Creek Nature Center | City of Chico | John Seid Trio | Mission Linen February 16, 2012

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A special pre-St. Patrick’s Day Celtic music event!! “Seeing and hearing Karan Casey in concert constitutes an event.” ~ The Irish Echo. “John Doyle has a magical touch...a dream guitarist.” ~ Irish Edition. Irish vocalist Karan Casey and guitar virtuoso John Doyle were founding members of traditional super group Solas, a band known for rousing, furious tunes and striking renditions of traditional songs. Since Solas, Karan Casey has recorded five solo albums, has won Best Irish Female Vocalist twice, Best Irish Folk album and a GRAMMY for her collaboration with Paul Winter.

John Doyle’s rhythmic guitar chops and effortless harmonies make him much in demand as a musical partner. He currently tours with Joan Baez as her musical director, and with virtuoso fiddler Liz Carroll. Doyle and Carroll played for President Obama in March 2009, and their CD Double Play received a 2010 GRAMMY nomination.

Come celebrate St. Patrick’s Day with two of Celtic music’s biggest stars. As a special local treat, opening the show with be Chico’s own Ha’penny Bridge trio featuring Mark McKinnon and Molly Paul.

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Forrest Day out in front of his funky live band.

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Forrest Day is taking off with a dance-friendly blend of indie-rap, rock, jazz and reggae

AForrest Day appears to be the Next Big Thing. His band and its

Forrest Day’s self-titled debut album (released through Ninth Street Opus late last year) is mostly unique, crowd-friendly sound sell about himself, touching on deeply out some of the personal themes of paranoia, conbiggest venues in fusion and self-medication. by San Francisco “I’m really a self-absorbed perHoward (The Indepenson,” Day said. “I write about what Hardee dent, Slim’s), and I feel and think, so if it sounds howardh@ most of the area’s autobiographical, it is.” newsreview.com major papers— Through a mix of impressively The Chronicle, dexterous rapping and traditionalish soul singing, we are given an Preview: Bay Guardian Forrest Day and SF Weekly— inside look at an intriguing perperforms Friday, have published sona. Day’s music is at once Feb. 17, 8 p.m., at glowing reviews. engaging and disquieting—even as Maxwell’s Eatery But when Day you’re compelled to bob your head in Redding or tap your feet, you are aware of (www.maxwells steps outside of distinctly dark undertones. eatery.com) and his realm of sucThursday, Feb. 23, cess to play A good example is the album’s 8 p.m., at the shows at more lead single, “Sleepwalk,” an infecBlue Lamp in modest venues on tiously catchy (yet haunting) track Sacramento tours along the that alternates between surreal, airi(www.blue ly sung verses and more punctual, lamp.com). West Coast (like www.forrest Redding’s jarring choruses set to a hip-hop day.com Maxwell’s Eatery loop. The song relates what it’s like this Friday), his to suddenly wake from a dream in band is just an unfamiliar place, a circumstance another up-and-comer trying to Day regularly experiences during build a following, a dozen or so his reoccurring sleepwalking audience members at a time. episodes.

“It is a dose of reality, and it “I’ll wake up injured or on ranhappens all the time,” Day said dom floors,” he said. “I’ve during a recent phone interview. elbowed a hole in a wall, I’ve “It’s fun to go play the place where woken up with a cracked rib, I’ve people know us and they’re slammed my head through a winscreaming the lyrics out and danc- dow. Yeah, all kinds of crazy shit.” ing, and the next day we’ll be in Day’s first musical forays began some town where nobody knows in elementary school, where he us. Obviously, the majority of the played jazz saxophone, but he didworld doesn’t know who we are.” n’t write his own music until he Appropriately enough for some- was a teenager experimenting on one deserving an introduction, the piano. t home in the Bay Area,

“I took jazz reasonably far,” he said. “Piano made it easier to write songs, because when you get into it as a jazz soloist you really have to understand chords, and those are the skills you really hone as a sax player. When I turned that into playing chords on the piano, it made my whole chord IQ much higher.”

It was around that same time he started singing and found he had a naturally soulful voice, but was unable to break from that mold until he started drawing influence from early Jay-Z records and independent rappers like Atmosphere’s Slug.

“It’s not even what I wanted to sound like, it’s just how I sounded,” he said of his singing voice.

“Then I got more and more into hip-hop, and there were periods where I wanted to be a rapper. The rhythm and freedom in a good vocal flow in hip-hop is just unbeatable, so I had to incorporate it into my singing.”

Day, now 31, has stayed true to his many influences and created something original and exciting, a project that seems poised for bigger success. Although he welcomes such a possibility, he doesn’t plan to tackle a national tour anytime soon.

“I really just want to focus on California and build up our fan base here, and we’ll spread out naturally,” he said. “I’ve decided to not take on the whole country—it’s too tiring and it doesn’t make much sense anymore.” Ω

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R prices shot through the roof, from $1.50 per pound to more than emember when quinoa

$5 in just several years? Exactly what happened in global supplyby demand ecoAlastair Bland nomics is hard allybland@ to pinpoint, but yahoo.com one thing is certain: Quinoa— that would-be staple of nearly every healthy household, that grain that is always whole, that grain that nourished the Incas and was fast on a New Age comeback—went walking out of many lives.

Like mine. For a period of at least two years there was a sorry gap. Those evenings when quinoa would have provided the main starchy course, we had only brown rice, potatoes or bread. We ate like peasants again, bereft of our main dietary link to the progressive world of health-hungry hippie foodies.

But then one day, while browsing the bulk food aisle of a Bay Area organic grocery store, I encountered a barley-like grain whose name I had only heard whispers of once or twice before. I gave it a chance, and though I didn’t know it yet, what had been lost with quinoa would be all but regained with this new, pretty stranger named farro.

Farro, as I was fast to learn, is a hearty variety of wheat important in Italian cuisine. Also called emmer—and, erroneously, spelt

(which is a different product)— farro cooks in 30 to 40 minutes.

Though it resembles barley or spelt, cooked farro is particularly light and silky, and of the world’s staple grains it’s surely among the most elegant.

It serves well as a salad base, the soft and pliable kernels readily absorbing olive oil, vinegar, and citrus juice, as well as sauces. Its Mediterranean origins make farro a fit for dishes bearing dates, figs, pomegranate seeds, nuts, olives, basil and other sweet and savory ingredients of Mediterranean agriculture, though I don’t see why soy sauce, wasabi, coconut milk and other such elements of the Orient wouldn’t do well with farro, too.

Though it seems to be trend-

ing into modern popularity, farro has been among us all along.

Pliny the Elder is supposed to have praised it, and there is evidence that the Greeks and Romans relished the grain.

Ancient Egyptians, according to archaeologists, made bread from farro.

Even then, under the shadows of the pyramids and the glare of the sphinx, farro was old news.

For millennia prior—between 11,000 and 12,000 years ago— farmers in southeast Turkey are believed to have domesticated farro. Five thousand years earlier still, pre-agriculture chefs of the Near East were cooking and serv-

An elegant and versatile grain, farro can be added to most any dish, such at this bean and farro soup.

ing farro’s ancestor, wild emmer, which still grows in the area today and is often classified in the same species as farro, Triticum dicoccum.

But that’s just history, and the dinner bell is ringing, so here is my suggested farro recipe—an easy vegetarian dish I totally winged for a recent potluck dinner party: I cooked two cups of farro in four cups of salted water until soft yet firm. When it had cooled, I combined the grain with chopped pistachios, a finely minced apple, diced dates, ground cumin and shredded arugula in a large bowl.

I dressed the salad with Meyer lemon juice, olive oil and red wine vinegar. An hour later, the rib roast was only half eaten—but the farro salad had been demolished.

Farro’s retail price will almost certainly preclude it, for now, from becoming anything but a treat. S&S Produce, for instance, sells 12-ounce bags of Earthly Choice brand (grown in Italy) for $6.99, expensive enough to make many of us opt for filling a sack with quinoa and leave thinking we’ve scored a bargain.

But in other regions, farro can cost less than $4 per pound—and if prices should drop to just a bit lower than that, farro could again be a staple starch. But if prices should blow through the roof as they did with quinoa, we must, I suppose, go looking for the next great grain. Ω

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THURSDAY 2|16—WEDNESDAY 2|22 SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: An evening

HOOLIGANZ & THE WHAT Friday, Feb. 17 LaSalles

STUMP JUMPERZ: Live music at the

Tackle Box. Th, 2/16, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

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16THURSDAY Saloon & Brewery; 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

BROWN CHICKEN BROWN COW: Acoustic folk with Brown Chicken Brown Cow. Broken Rodeo opens. Th, 2/16, 8pm. $5.

Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 892-1790; www.facebook.com/events/1842625083 40126/?context=create.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

Th, 8-11pm. Free. The DownLo; 319 Main St.; (530) 892-2473.

evening of reggae with headliners Junior Reid and Preisdent Brown and special guests Water Truck Sounds, Cootdog and Katherine Ramirez, Shane-T and Blaze 1. Th, 2/16, 9pm. $20-$25. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

KAORI FUJII & ERIC CECIL: Flutist Kaori Fujii and guitarist Eric Cecil perform pieces ranging from Bach to Brazilian choro. Go online for tickets. Th, 2/16, 7:30pm. $25. Oroville State Theatre; 1489 Myers St. Corner of Robinson & Myers in Oroville; (530) 538-2470; www.orovilleconcertassociation.com.

PHOENIX: Party-starting rock hits from

JOHN SEID: John Seid, Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing the blues, the Beatles and standards. Th, 2/16, 710pm; Th, 2/23, 6:30-9:30pm. Free.

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AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music

songwriter’s showcase with Alex Light, and Lisa Marie and Nolan Ford. Th, 2/16, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 5148888.

est sons are lined up to melt faces at the Origami Lounge. Zabaleen and Ape Machine open. F, 2/17, 8pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th And Cherry Streets.

BUSTER BLUE: Buster Blue stops in Chico during their tour in support of their album, When the Silver’s Gone. F, 2/17, 7:30pm. $5. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 8921790.

COUNTRY SHOWCASE: Rich & Kendall’s

weekly revue. F, 4:30pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

FOUR SPEED: Live classic and modern

rock. F, 2/17, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

HOOLIGANZ & THE WHAT: Local hip-hop trio Hooliganz and their new live back-

ing band the What headline. Linguistix and Tre Jones open. F, 2/17, 8pm. $5.

LaSalles; 229 Broadway St. 2nd street; (530) 893-1891.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with a traditional Irish music session by the Pub Scouts. F, 4pm. $1. Duffys Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

JOHN TRENALONE: Jazz and Broadway

standards of the last 100 years. F, 6:30-8:30pm through 4/27. Free.

Johnnies Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

MANZAREK-ROGERS BAND: Ray Manzarek, the legendary keyboardist for the Doors, and world-renowned slide blues guitarist Roy Rogers collaborate in a hard-driving blues rock project. Big Mo and the Full Moon Band open. F, 2/17, 6:30pm. $24-$34. Paradise Performing Arts Center; 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 872-8454; www.chicotickets.com.

MCBRIDE BROTHERS: Classic rock covers in the lounge. 2/17-2/19, 8:30pm.

Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

Kansas supported by the Boogie Band.

F, 2/17, 8pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 5148888.

SUPER HUEY: A Huey Lewis tribute band

in the brewery. F, 2/17, 9:30pm. $5.

Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

SWAMP ZEN: Chico’s beloved jammy and trippy Swamp Zen headline with supporting act SpeakEasy. F, 2/17, 9pm. $5.

Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 8911853.

ZAPPA PLAYS ZAPPA: Legendary experimental guitarist Frank Zappa is honored by his virtuoso son, Dweezil, who will play a selection of his father’s music and original works. F, 2/17, 8pm.

$27.50-$54. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

18SATURDAY BETA: Monthly electronic-dance night.

Performers include Kezwik, Mike Z and Simple Science. Sa, 2/18, 9pm. $3. Lost On Main, 319 Main St., (530) 891-1853.

ERIN MCKINNEY: Live country music. Sa, 2/18, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino;

2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghillscasino.com.

GUITAR PROJECT: Warren Haskell’s clas-

sical guitar project showcase. Sa, 2/18, 7:30pm. $10. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

MARDI GRAS WITH SWAMP DADDY: A cele-

THE RAILFLOWERS Saturday, Feb. 18 Origami Lounge

bration of New Orleans’ flamboyant festival with Swamp Daddy, a bluesinfluenced R&B group. Cajun and creole dishes will be served, of course.

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POLICE TEETH: Cafe Coda gets a taste of Seattle grunge with Police Teeth.

Americas, Surrogate and the Miracle Mile open. F, 2/17, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

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NIGHTLIFE Sa, 2/18, 8-11pm. $5. Nashs Restaurant; 1717 Esplanade; (530) 896-1147; www.nashsrestaurantchico.com.

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THE RETROTONES: The Retrotones are sure to quench your desire for nostalgia-rock. Sa, 2/18, 9pm. $3. Studio Cocktail Lounge; 2582 Esplanade; (530) 343-0662.

MCBRIDE BROTHERS: Classic rock covers in the lounge. 2/17-2/19, 8:30pm.

Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

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TOM DRINNON: A night of honky-tonk country music. Sa, 2/18, 9:30pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

Michael Springer hosts third Sat. music jam. Third Sa of every month, 2-5pm. Augies Fine Coffee & Tea; 230 Salem St.; (530) 894-3764.

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 5-7pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 5148888.

19SUNDAY AEROMYTH: Aerosmith comes to life in

quartet play a set celebrating their second album release. Evin Wolverton, John Paul Gutierrez and Origin open.

Sa, 2/18, 7-11pm. $10-$12. Origami

this spot-on tribute act. Su, 2/19, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

KARAOKE

in the lounge. 2/17-2/19, 8:30pm.

Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfallscasino.com.

2/18, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill;

OLD-TIME MUSIC JAM: Old-time fiddler

THE RAILFLOWERS: The harmonious folk

MCBRIDE BROTHERS: Classic rock covers

REWIND: Live music at the Tackle Box. Sa,

MUMBO GUMBO: A mix of soul, rock, afro-

pop and balladry in the brewery. Sa, 2/18, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

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21TUESDAY POPPET: Poppet is an eccentric singersongwriter preoccupied with all kinds of birds, like post-apocalyptic pelicans. Letters, Fera and Bran Crown open. Tu, 2/21, 7-10pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 5148888.

CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

9pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

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KINGS TAVERN: M, Tu, 8pm. Free. Kings

Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

Wednesday, Feb. 22 Senator Theatre

Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

REBELUTION: The reggae outfit out of

Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.

Santa Barbara has a growing following, with their latest album, Peace of Mind, debuting at number 13 on the Billboard Top 200. The Green and Pep Love open. W, 2/22, 8pm. $20. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

LASALLES: Th, 10pm: DJ Mac Morris; Fr,

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party�; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St. 2nd street, (530) 893-1891.

MADISON BEAR: Dancing upstairs and on the patio. W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.

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LOS LONELY BOYS: The Grammy Awardwinning rock trio play the Laxson Auditorium stage in support of their latest album, Rockpango. W, 2/22, 7:30pm. $20-$32. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

w/ DJ2K. F, 9pm-2am through 4/6. Free.

Maltese Bar & Taproom, 1600 Park Ave., (530) 343-4915.

cal bull contest. F, 9pm-1:30am. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery, 303 Main St., (530) 894-5408.

MONTGOMERY ST.: W, F Sa, 8pm. Free.

The DownLo, 319 Main St., (530) 892-2473.

DUFFYS: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1.

FEATHER FALLS: Su, 8pm-midnight. Free.

Last Call Lounge, 876 East Ave., (530) 895-3213.

LYNNS OPTIMO: F, Sa, 9pm. Lynns Optimo, 9225 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-1788.

MONTGOMERY ST.: Tu, 8pm. Free. Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

QUACKERS: Th, 9pm. Free. Quackers Lounge, 968 East Ave., (530) 895-3825.

SMOKIE MOUNTAIN: F, Sa, 9pm. Free.

Smokie Mountain Steakhouse, 7039 Skyway in Paradise, (530) 872-3323, www.smokiemtnsteakhouse.com.

Montgomery St. Pub, 1933 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 533-0900.

DOWN LO: DJ Ron Dare. Tu, Sa, 9pm. Free.

Duffys Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

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LAST CALL LOUNGE: M, Th, 8pm-midnight.

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gradually reverts to merely generic moves.

The film’s flashy, propulsive Bourne-style action sequences are its main highlight-reel material. But they are weightless and abstract in ways that the best of the dialogue sequences are not. Several Frost-Weston scenes work especially well, and a couple of Weston’s scenes with his French girlfriend (Nora Arnezeder) and Frost’s ill-fated encounter with an old ally (Ruben Blades) have a nice dramatic weight to them as well.

There’s definite gravity in the supporting cast—Vera Farmiga, Brendan Gleeson, Sam Shepard (all as CIA honchos) and Blades and Arnezeder as well—but all their roles prove generically disposable. Washington is good as the formidably elusive Frost, and Reynolds delivers a workmanlike performance—with a little help from flash-editing in the action sequences. Ω

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Opening this week The Artist

For a film with bunch of Golden Globes in hand that has just earned 10 Oscar nominations, it’s about time Butte County gets a chance to see The Artist. French writer/director Michel Hazanavicius’ silent film about silent films follows the story of a young dancer with stars in her eyes who suddenly enters the life of movie star George Valentin just as his stature in Hollywood is threatened by the arrival of talkies. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

Nic Cage is back in this second installment of the film series based on the motorcycle-riding comic character with the flaming skull. This time, Ghost Rider is enlisted to help save a young boy from the devil. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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The Secret World of Arrietty

Japanese animated feature co-written by legendary animator/director Hayao Miyazaki and produced by his Studio Ghibli. Originally released in 2010 in Japan, the North American version features the voices of Amy Poehler, Will Arnett, Bridgit Mendler and Saoirse Ronan in this fantasy film about the relationship between a sick young boy and the family of 4-inch-tall people living in the floorboards of his house.

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Chronicle

Teen Andrew (Dane DeHaan) has some issues. He’s bullied at school, his mom is dying slowly and his unemployed old man only comes out of the bottle long enough to slap Andrew around. So Andrew buys a camera to chronicle these abuses but gets distracted when his cousin Matt (Alex Russell) and all-around popular dude Steve (Michael B. Jordan) drag him away from a ragin’ rave and pull him down into a rabbit hole that leads to a big, glowing ... um, something. After an electromagnetic pulse of some kind knocks them on their asses, they wake up discovering that they now have nascent super powers. Andrew soon forgets the “with great power comes great responsibility” admonition and starts using his powers to blow shit up. Chronicle is clever, fun, well-paced and the leads come across as actual teenaged dudes, rather than brooding male models in high school jackets. Of course—unlike its used carpriced “found-footage” antecedents—it cost $12 million to make. But all that money doesn’t come into play until the effectsheavy battle royale that serves as a third act. And the battle royale is pretty spiffy.

Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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The Descendents

George Clooney plays Matt King, a Hawaiian businessman, soon-to-be-widowed father of two troubled daughters and head of a clan whose roots in Hawaii go back to the 19th century. He’s a mild sort of take-charge guy who’s also a bit of a clueless doofus. Writer-director Alexander Payne puts Clooney/King at the center of things here, but the center in this case is always part of a larger and ever more entangled situation: King’s comatose and dying wife, the sorrows and travails of the two young daughters, the belated discovery of the wife’s infidelity, and the impending sale of virgin wilderness that has belonged to the King clan for more than a century. It’s the stuff of soap opera and tragic melodrama, but Payne and company enliven and complicate all that by taking it in yet another direction—toward the comedy of contemporary middle-class manners. Each of the story’s plot strands involves a test of regions of King’s character that he has heretofore neglected, and the zig-zag path of his quirky integrity is comically crucial but never independent of the tougher issues involved. Cinemark 14.

Rated R —J.C.S.

Ghost Rider: Spirit of Vengeance

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The Grey

There’s a pulp sensibility running through Joe Carnahan’s The Grey that evokes the man vs. nature adventure stories from the ’30s that were packaged between the lurid covers of men’s magazines, refined with a touch of Jack London’s eye for the desolate wilderness that served as a backdrop for his early Alaska tales. And that is good. However, if one goes into The Grey expecting to see Liam Neeson unleash all sorts of badassery on the timber wolves at hand, one might be disappointed. The film is heavy on the existentialism, light on the badassery, as Neeson and his erstwhile posse of survivors summon everything they can just to stay ahead of the snapping white fangs. Carnahan displays an evocative feel for old-fashioned story-telling, and a nuanced sense of dark irony. And while he follows the template of body-count horror, he also takes the time to define the characters beyond the expected caricatures and tweak the narrative tropes we’ve come to expect from a Hollywood thriller with a subtle hand. Cinemark 14. Rated R —C.B.

Journey 2: The Mysterious Island

A young man (Josh Hutcherson), his stepdad (The Rock) and his girlfriend (Vanessa Hudgens) take off on a fantastical adventure to a mysterious island of monsters, volcanoes and mountains of gold to find his missing grandfather (Michael Caine). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

One for the Money

Katherine Heigl plays a bounty hunter who ends up chasing down an old flame (Jason O’Mara) on her first assignment. An adaptation of the first book in Janet Evanovich’s best-selling series of romance/adventure novels centered on the exploits of bounty hunter Stephanie Plum. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Safe House

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Star Wars: Episode 1— The Phantom Menace (in 3-D)

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ify d. p by , and grab Jar Jar Binks’ droopy ears with both handshand wrestle him to the ground in this 3-D update of George Lucas’ 1999 space adventure.dult Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

This Means War

McG (Charlie’s Angels, Terminator Salvation) directs this action/romance about a couple of hottie CIA agents/friends (Chris Pine and Tom Hardy) who, after finding out that they are both dating the same woman (Reese Witherspoon) utilize all their spy talents and resources in a battle for her affection. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

The Vow

After his wife (Rachel McAdams) awakes from coma after a severe auto accident with severe amnesia, a young man (Channing Tatum) tries to win her heart all over again. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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The Woman in Black

It’s been a while since Hammer Films has been active. Known primarily for their lush but aggressively exploitative approach to Gothic horror (think bared fangs hovering over deep, heaving cleavage), “Hammer Horror” titles like The Vampire Lovers and Horror of Dracula were essential viewing for nascent horror buffs up through the early ’70s. And then, Hammer time ended. The graveyard fell silent up until recently, when Hammer crept into the multiplex with its American remake of Let the Right One In. But while it was a vampire film—and a solid remake in its own right—regrettably there were none of the studio’s signature motifs.

So if nothing else, The Woman in Black is a welcome return to the House of Hammer.

The Woman in Black is proto-Hammer (albeit without the rampant sexuality), a slow burn approach to the classic ghost story as a widower (Daniel Radcliffe) takes the train from Victorian London to visit a forbidding estate that looks down on an isolated village with dark, empty eyes; and finds that whatever walks there, walks alone. Radcliffe makes the transition to adult role admirably, and the film itself is satisfactorily atmospheric and chilling. Welcome back, Hammer. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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The Swedish invasion continues, this time in the form of two unassuming sisters with an iron grasp on American roots music. Johanna and Klara Söderberg are First Aid Kit, and their sophomore full-length The Lion’s Roar is a threadbare love letter to folk, country and the ever-inspirational broken heart. Multi-instrumentalist Mike Mogis—who’s spent the past decade as a member of Bright Eyes—mans the boards and adds more layers than on their 2010 debut The Big Black and the Blue. But even with additional bells and whistles, it’s the sisters’ voices that are the centerpiece, weaving a dark shroud over traditional guitars, piano, strings and woodwinds. “Dance to Another Tune” is the highlight; it’s also the gloomiest of the batch, while the xylophone on “Blue” offers a flicker of brightness to the song’s cheery refrain, “Now you’re just a shell of your former you … why’d you look so blue?” “Emmylou” buries itself in its own hokiness, even if it is sincere (“I’ll be your Emmylou, and I’ll be your June / If you’ll be my Gram and my Johnny, too”). There’s nothing new here, but these two young women are charming enough to keep The Lion’s Roar from going out with a whimper.

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If you’d wanted to buy an album by The Chieftains back when JFK was president and computers were the size of a small house, you would have gone to an establishment known as a record store. You wouldn’t have found them under “Celtic music,” or “world music” because those categories hadn’t been introduced to the American music trade yet. If the store carried The Chieftains at all, you’d have found their vinyl disc in the section known generically as “folk.” Now, of course, you can hear this Chieftains’ 50th anniversary album on compact disc, or you can download it. One thing remains constant, however: This is a great band.

They laid the foundation for the appreciation of Celtic music worldwide, and they’ve taken an amazing journey of musical exploration, collaborating with musicians and musical styles from all over the world, blending the sounds of Ireland with music from nearly everywhere else. And here, on this celebratory album, they play with some of the best younger bands around—the Carolina Chocolate Drops, The Low Anthem, The Decemberists—musicians whose parents were babies when The Chieftains started. All hail The Chieftains, musical kings of the Emerald Isle.

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reason to have a column here devoted to sports. Because, this week, I want nothing more than to add my voice to the “Linsanity” and talk about the New York Knicks’ Jeremy Lin, the Chinese-American Harvard grad who wasn’t recruited out of high school, wasn’t drafted by any NBA team, was cut by two teams after making it to the league, and has (as of this writing) started six games at point guard for the Knicks (after being sent down to the D-League by the team). In those six games, Jeremy Lin he’s averaged 26.8 points and 8.5 assists, and PHOTO BY NICHOLAS LA led his team to a 6-0 record, along the way capturing the imaginations of everyone who loves the game with his twisting drives and late-game heroics. With that said, I’m forcing myself move onto the appropriate topics:

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Also, gotta give a big shout out to Chico writer David Cassel who, under his pen name Moe Zilla, had an article he wrote on his blog Me and My Kindle (www.beyond-black-friday.com) about Family Circus creator Bill Keane featured on Reader’s Digest’s list of the 20 Best Reads of 2011 (joining the likes of Woody Allen and writers from New York Times Magazine).

ART A couple of new art shows open Friday night (Feb. 17): Avenue 9

Gallery is hosting a two-person exhibit (reception 5-8 p.m.) featuring the stone sculptures of Augie Velasquez and computer-manipulated photos by Darren Names. And RayRay Gallery opens a group show (reception 6-9 p.m.) called Something Old, Something New, Something Borrowed, Something Blue, its first show in its new shared space—The Last Stand comedy venue.

AND … MONEY! Yes, arts and artists need money to create and to

live, and local artists have been increasingly taking advantage of the fundraising powers of Kickstarter.com. Currently, there are five active local projects seeking funding, including one for the production of a new album by dread-headed troubadour Kyle Williams. I was most impressed by the beautiful work by ceramic artist Kelly Lynn Daniels (www.dancingclay.blogspot.com), who is seeking funding for further training at a school in North Carolina.

And the rewards she is offering those who help out are her amazing pieces of art! Search for “Chico, Ca” and help local artists make it happen.

And, speaking of helping out, as you’ve probably read in previous Shino canisters by Kelly Lynn Daniels columns of my CN&R colleagues, our friend, local artist and all-around beautiful human Janice Porter is in Arizona receiving cancer treatment at the Oasis of Healing Center in Mesa. More than $23,000 of the $30,000 target of the online campaign has already been raised, but more help is needed. Visit www.givefor ward.com/forjanice to donate.

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15 Hilda Way

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$206,000

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$205,000

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$305,000

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2009 Oak Park Ave

Chico

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4 Sunrise Hill Rd

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111 Winchester Ct

Chico

$168,000

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$105,000

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7 Jerome Pl

Chico

$178,000

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795 Colusa Ave

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$110,000

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856 Moss Ave

Chico

$192,000

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3963 Stevens Ave

Chico

$434,000

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429 Plantation Dr

Paradise

$185,000

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1600

594 Paseo Companeros St

Chico

$475,000

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2063

6074 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$219,000

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$204,000

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5549 Foland Rd

Paradise

$172,500

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1628 Almendia Dr

3805 Addys Ln

Chico

$335,000

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14612 Colter Way

Magalia

$107,000

2/ 2

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1433 Winkle Dr

Chico

$355,000

3/ 3

2696

6232 Wesleyan Ct

Magalia

$160,000

3/ 2

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This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: STEWART 0’MARAH Dated: January 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000094 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name WASHER WAREHOUSE at 1436 Nord Ave. #E, Chico, CA 95926.

MARILYN R SCHMIDT, MICHAEL W SCHMIDT, 1131 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: MARILYN R SCHMIDT Dated: January 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2007-0000584 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MANZA BIRD PRODUCTS, RIDGETOP RANCH at 151 Verner Oaks Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

HEATHER GRAY, JOHN GRAY, 151 Verner Oaks Rd. Oroville, CA 95966.

Signed: JOHN GRAY Dated: January 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000070 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOVELY PRECIOUS MOMENTS at 2321 Honey Run Rd. #39, Chico, Ca 95928.

Angela Marie Fonseca Salerno 2321 Honey Run Rd. #39, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ANGELA SALERNO Dated: December 13, 2011 FBN Number: 2011-0001684 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PERFORMANCE ORIENTED at 2776 Alamo Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

PAUL ABBOTT, 2776 Alamo Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PAUL ABBOTT Dated: January 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000092 Published: January 26, February 2,9,16, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LION OF ENTERTAINMENT at 1850 Humboldt Rd. #61, Chico, CA 95928.

OLIVER T POLLARD, 1850 Humboldt Rd. #61, Chico, CA 95928. This business is

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE PAW SPA at 762 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

LORI MONIAN, 702 Mangrove Ave. #232, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: LORI MONIAN Dated: January 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000072 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LATENIGHTAIRCOOLED at 2961 Hwy 32, #91, Chico, CA 95973.

BRYAN HOUSTON, 1223 Stewart Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BRYAN HOUSTON Dated: January 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000137 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STRANGE SEED MUSIC at 134 W 13th St. Chico, CA 95928.

SCOTT CAMERON, 134 W 13th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: CAMERON SCOTT Dated: January 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000148 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name QUEEN NAIL AND SPA at 801 East Ave. #112, Chico, CA 95926.

TONY LE, 400 Mission Ranch #39, Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: TONY LE Dated: January 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2009-0001694 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as QUEEN NAIL SALON at 801 East Ave. #112, Chico, CA 95926.

DUY LE, 10127 Barnes Ln. S Tacoma, WA 98444.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DUY LE Dated: January 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000156 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JIMMY JACKS at 305 Main St. Chico, CA 95938.

LISA N COOKE, TYLER COOKE, 1574 Kona Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: TYLER COOKE Dated: January 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000134 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

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The following persons is doing business as ENLIGHTENED FITNESS at 24 Tarn Circle, Oroville, CA 95966.

AIYANA CASSANDRA MILLER, 24 Tarn Circle, Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: AIYANA MILLER Dated: December 28, 2011 FBN Number: 2011-0001732 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WHIRLED EVENTS at 865 E 6th St. Chico, CA 95928.

STORMI D TURNER, 865 E 6th St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: STORMI D TURNER Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000129 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as FULL SERVICE PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 641-643 Flume St. Chico, CA 95928.

DAVID M HOWARD, 1722 Hemlock St. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DAVID M HOWARD Dated: January 4, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000011 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as COUPONACODE at 1281 Arch Way, Chico, CA 95973.

NICHOLAS KOEHLER, 1281 Arch Way, Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NICK KOEHLER Dated: January 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000105 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CELESTINO’S LIVE FROM NY, CELESTINO’S NY PIZZA at 101 Salem St. #100, Chico, CA 95928.

CELESTINO ENZO LLC, CELESTINO GENCARELLI, ENZO PERRI, 101 Salem St. #100, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ENZO PERRI Dated: January 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000097 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BARRY FISCHER PROPERTIES LLC at 14401 Hwy 99 N, Chico, CA 95973.

BARRY FISCHER PROPERTIES LLC, 27 Veneto Circle, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ROBERT B FISCHER Dated: January 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000141 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PUREHEART ACADEMY LLC at 2961 Hwy 32 #15, Chico, CA 95973.

PUREHEART ACADEMY LLC, 2961 Hwy 32 #15, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Limited

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Liability Company.

Signed: JEREMY ROSALES Dated: January 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000158 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as P1 MARKETING CHICO at 3470 Brook Valley Commons, Chico, CA 95928.

JAMES EDWARD GROSS, SANDRA MAE GROSS, 3470 Brook Valley Commons, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: SANDRA GROSS Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000168 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as HIP ROOF REAL ESTATE, HIP ROOF REALTY at 1372 E 1st Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

KANDACE ANN CAULFIELDCHESSCHER, 226 Nicalog Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: Kandace Ann Caulfield-Chesscher Dated: February 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000196 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO MOVING SERVICES, DOG GUY JOSH at 1339 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

JOSHUA NICOLAS PITTS, 1339 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOSH PITTS Dated: January 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000145 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PINK EYE STUDIO at 4243 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

EVAN JOSHUA WOOLERY, 4243 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: EVAN WOOLERY Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000180 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BALLOU ENTERPRISES at 2389 England St. Chico, CA 95928.

TARA DANIELLE DAVIS, 2389 England St. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TARA DAVIS Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000117 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person is abandoning the use of the fictitious business name DISCOUNT CIGARETTE AND CIGAR MARKET at 1229 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHAMIYA YASIN

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Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2007-0000340 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DISCOUNT CIGARETTE AND CIGAR MARKET at 1229 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

SAMAHER HADEED, AKRAM HAKIRI, 400 Mission Blvd. #21, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: AKRAM HAKIRI Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000127 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name XHALE TOBACCO at 337 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

Shamieh Abdel Raouf Yasin, 400 Mission Ranch Blvd. #160, Chico, CA 95926.

This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: SHAMIEH YASIN Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2009-0000539 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as XHALE TOBACCO AND GIFTS at 337 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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Mission Blvd. #21, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: SAMAHAR HADEED Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000128 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STONER AND ASSOCIATES at 3120 Cohasset Rd. #8, Chico, CA 95973.

JOAN STONER, 81 Chico Canyon Rd. Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOAN E STONER Dated: January 24, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000084 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name VISIONS HAIR AND NAIL DESIGN at 680 Rio Lindo Ave. #10, Chico, CA 95926.

JILL WORSWICK, 1980 Durango Way, Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by an individual.

Signed: JILL S WORSWICK Dated: January 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2008-0001154 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAIL CANDY

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at 169 Cohasset #6, Chico, CA 95926.

SCOTT C OGBORN, JILL S WORSWICK, 949 Downing Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JILL S WORSWICK Dated: January 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000025 Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MANGROVE BOTTLE SHOP at 1350 Mangrove Ave. #160, Chico, CA 95926.

NAIM HABROUN, 433 Windham Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NAIM HABROUN Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000211 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RILEY’S BAR AND GRILL at 702 W 5th St. Chico, CA 95926.

NICK ANDREW, 3557 Bell Estates Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

KEVIN RILEY, 235 Idyllwild Cr. Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: KEVIN RILEY Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000164 Published: February 16,23 March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO PAWS & CLAWS at 264 Autumn Gold Dr. Chico, CA 95973.

GARY THOMAS SWIETANSKI, 264 Autumn Gold Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GARY SWIETANSKI Dated: February 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000217 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LOGOS WRITING & EDITING at 1394 Huggins Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

Elliott Andrew Smith Haught, 1394 Huggins Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ELLIOTT HAUGHT Dated: January 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000045 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PUREHEART APPAREL LLC at 2961 Hwy 32, #15, Chico, CA 95973.

PUREHEART APPAREL LLC, 2961 Hwy 32, #15, Chico, CA 959973. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JEREMY ROSALES Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000212 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME -STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name NEW BEGINNINGS HOUSE OF RECOVERY at 647 W 2nd Ave. #1, Chico, CA 95926.

STACY JOHNSON, 2697 White Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

RAFAEL VEGA, 3449 Page St. Redwood City, CA 94063.

This business was conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: STACY JOHNSON Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-00000016 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LAND IMAGE LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTS at 627 Broadway #220, Chico, CA 95928.

BRIAN FIRTH, 732 Churchill Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BRIAN FIRTH Dated: January 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000079 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE LAST STAND COMEDY VENUE at 167 E 3rd St. Chico, CA 95928.

KAYLENE ANISSA ROSS, JOHN MORRIS ROSS IV, 2581 California Park Dr. #257, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JOHN ROSS Dated: February 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000197 Published: February 16,23 March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALL APPLIANCE AND AIR CONDITIONING at 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA

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95965.

WILLIAM JAMES KUKRAL, 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA 95965. 79 Hidden Mine Rd. Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: WILLIAM KUKRAL Dated: January 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000066 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PALOOKAVILLE CLOTHING at 857 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

JASON POWERS, 857 Lynn Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: JASON POWERS Dated: January 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000091 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WRETCHED PRODUCTIONS at 630 W 2nd Ave. #11, Chico, CA 95926.

HEIDI NICOLE MOORE, 630 W 2nd Ave. #11, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: HEIDI MOORE Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000179 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MEANT TO BE at 1125 Sheridan Ave. #53, Chico, CA 95926.

LINDSEY HENRICKSON, 1125 Sheridan Ave. #53, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed; Lindsey Henrickson Dated: February 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000186 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as M AND P ENTERPRISES at 15815 Forest Ranch Rd. Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

PEGGY MARTHA HOWELL, 15815 Forest Ranch Rd. Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: PEGGY M HOWELL Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000238 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JACK’S AUTO GLASS at 4331 Hedstrom Way, Chico, CA 95973.

GARY L ELLIS, 920 Skyway Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: GARY ELLIS Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000236 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO IMPORTS, CHICO IMPORTS AUTO SERVICE at 1430 Locust St. Chico, CA 95928.

DAVID STANLEY FELVER, 1430 Locust St. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: DAVID S FELVER Dated: January 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000083 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

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

THE Petition for Probate requests that: MARGARET KAISER 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: FEBRUARY 23, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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.

Case Number: PR40137 Attorney for petitioner: RICHARD D HARDIN, INC. 7 Williamsburg Lane Chico, CA 95928 (530)895-8868 Published: Februayr 2,9,16, 2012

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JO ANN PRATT TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JO ANN PRATT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: Comerica Bank & Trust, N.A. in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

THE Petition for Probate requests that: Comerica Bank &

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Trust, N.A. 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: March 8, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander 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 four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above.

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.

Case Number: PR40142 Attorney for petitioner: Kenneth H Horowitz 951 Mariners Island Blvd. #240 San Mateo, CA 94404 (650)378-7680 Published: February 9,16,23, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NATALIE LOUISE BOYETTE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NATALIE LOUISE BOYETTE Proposed name: NATALIE LOUISE FROST 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 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

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Date: February 24, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Stephen E Benson Dated: December 28, 2011 Case Number: 155510 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MELISSA ANNE HICKS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MELISSA ANNE HICKS Proposed name: CAROLYN ANNE GOLDSTONE 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 days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L Mclean Dated: January 24, 2012 Case Number: 155729 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DENISE E STEELMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TRISTAN JAMES CRUZ Proposed name: TRISTAN LLOYD CRUZ 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 days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L Mclean Dated: February 3, 2012 Case Number: 155792 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAYSON PAUL LANDES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYSON PAUL LANDES Proposed name:

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JAYSON PAUL THOMPSON 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 days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted.

If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Robert Glusman Dated: February 1, 2012 Case Number: 155793 Published: February 16,23, March 1,8, 2012

SUMMONS CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CHILDS NAME: B.S.S. Case Numbers: J-35950 To: CANDACE C. STRUVE and anyone claiming to be a parent of B.S.S. born on 7/03/11 at Enloe Hospital, Chico, CA. A hearing will be held: Date: March 15, 2012 at 8:30 a.m.

Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is Superior Court of California, County of Butte, Juvenile Branch 1 Court Street, Oroville, CA 95965.

At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

If the court terminates your parental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

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Dated: January 31, 2012 Signed: Kimberly Flener Published: February 9,16,23, March 1, 2012

SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT JOAN B SMITH You are being sued.

Petitioner’s name is: ALEX J SMITH You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120 or FL-123) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form.

If you want legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

You can get information about finding lawyers at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court One Court St. Oroville, CA 95965 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: Alex J Smith 5678 Clara Lane Paradise, CA 95969 Signed: Kimberly Flener Dated: August 15, 2011 Case Number: FL040372 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2011

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT MAX LEE CRICK and BETTY CRICK and DOES 1 to 10 You are being sued by Plaintiff: STATEWIDE CREDIT AND COLLECTION BUREAU, INC. 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

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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 SelfHelp Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Chico, CA 95926 The name, address, and telephone number of the plaintiff’s attorney, or the plaintiff without an attorney, is: Troy M Wilkinson 589 East Ave. Chico, CA 95926 530-342-6142 Signed: Kimberly Flener Dated:October 19, 2011 Case Number: 154960 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Have you

ever gazed into the eyes of goats? If you have, you know that their pupils are rectangular when dilated. This quirk allows them to have a field of vision that extends as far as 340 degrees, as opposed to humans’ puny 160-210 degrees. They can also see better at night than we can. Goats are your power animal in the coming week, Taurus.

Metaphorically speaking, you will have an excellent chance to expand your breadth and depth of vision. Do you have any blind spots that need to be illuminated? Now’s the time to make that happen.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In the ani-

mated film The Lion King, two of the central characters are a talking meerkat named Timon and a talking warthog named Pumbaa. Their actions are often heroic. They help the star of the tale, Simba, rise to his rightful role as king. The human actors who provided the voices for Timon and Pumbaa, Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, originally auditioned for the lesser roles of hyenas.

They set their sights too low. Fortunately fate conspired to give them more than what they asked for. Don’t start out as they did, Gemini. Aim high right from the beginning— not for the bit part or the minor role but rather for the catalyst who actually gets things done.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “He who is

outside his door already has a hard part of his journey behind him,” says a Dutch proverb. Ancient Roman writer Marcus Terentius Varro articulated a similar idea: “The longest part of the journey is said to be the passing of the gate.” I hope these serve as words of encouragement for you, Cancerian. You’ve got a quest ahead of you.

At its best, it will involve freewheeling exploration and unpredictable discoveries. If you can get started in a timely manner, you’ll set an excellent tone for the adventures. Don’t procrastinate.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): You’re so close to

finding a fresh perspective that would allow you to outmaneuver an old torment, Leo. You’re on the verge of breaking through a wall of illusion that has sealed you off from some very interesting truths. In the hope of providing you with the last little push that will take you the rest of the way, I offer two related insights from creativity specialist Roger von Oech: 1. If you get too fixated on solving a certain problem, you may fail to notice a new opportunity that arises outside the context of that problem. 2. If you intensify your focus by looking twice as hard at a situation that’s right in front of you, you will be less likely to see a good idea that’s right behind you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Thirty-two carrier pigeons were awarded medals by the United Kingdom for their meritorious service in the World Wars. Of course, they probably would have preferred sunflower seeds and peanuts as their prize. Let that lesson guide you as you bestow blessings on the people and animals that have done so much for you, Virgo. Give them goodies they would actually love to receive, not meaningless gold stars or abstract accolades. It’s time to honor and reward your supporters with practical actions that suit them well.

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to-butterfly transformation is such an iconic symbol of metamorphosis that it has become a cliche. And yet I’d like to point out that when the graceful winged creature emerges from its chrysalis, it never grows any further. We human beings, on the other hand, are asked to be in a lifelong state of metamorphosis, continually adjusting and shifting to meet our changing circumstances. I’ll go so far as to say that having a readiness to be in continual transformation is one of the most beautiful qualities a person can have. Are you interested in cultivating more of that capacity, Libra? Now would be an excellent time to do so.

Remember that line by Bob Dylan: “That he not busy being born is busy dying.”

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): This would be an excellent time to round up a slew of new role models. In my astrological opinion, you need to feel far more than your usual levels of admiration for exceptional human beings.

You’re in a phase when you could derive tremendous inspiration by closely observing masters and virtuosos and pros who are doing what you would like to do. For that matter, your mental and spiritual health would be profoundly enhanced by studying anyone who has found what he or she was born to do and is doing it with liberated flair.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): WD-

40 is a spray product that prevents corrosion, loosens stuck hinges, removes hard-to-get-at dirt, and has several other uses. Its inventor, Norm Larsen, tried 39 different formulas before finding the precisely right combination of ingredients on his fortieth attempt. The way I understand your life right now, Sagittarius, is that you are like Larsen when he was working with version number 37. You’re getting closer to creating a viable method for achieving your next success. That’s why I urge you to be patient and determined as you continue to tinker and experiment. Don’t keep trying the same formula that didn’t quite work before. Open your mind to the possibility that you have not yet discovered at least one of the integral components.

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

person who emits a huge angry shout produces just .001 watt of energy. Even if he or she yelled continuously 24/7, it would still take a year and nine months to produce enough energy to heat a cup of coffee.

That’s one way to metaphorically illustrate my bigger point, which is that making a dramatic show of emotional agitation may feel powerful but is often a sign of weakness.

Please take this to heart in the coming week, Capricorn. If you do fall prey to a frothy eruption of tumultuous feelings, use all of your considerable willpower to maintain your poise. Better yet, abort the tumult before it detonates. This is one time when repressing negative feelings will be healthy, wealthy, and wise.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Jeep vehi-

cles always feature seven slots on their front grilles. Why? For the manufacturer, it’s a symbolic statement proclaiming the fact that Jeep was the first vehicle driven on all seven continents. Let’s take that as your cue, Aquarius. Your assignment is to pick an accomplishment you’re really proud of and turn it into an emblem, image, glyph, or talisman that you can wear or express. If nothing else, draw it on dusty car windows, write it on bathroom walls, or add it to a Facebook status update. The key thing is that you use a public forum to celebrate yourself for a significant success, even if it’s in a modest or mysterious way.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): A sign outside

the Apostolic Bible Church in Bathurst, New Brunswick invited worshipers to meditate on a conundrum: “Why didn’t Noah swat those two mosquitoes?” After all, if the builder of the Ark had refused to help the pesky insects survive the flood, we’d be free of their torment today. (Or so the allegorical argument goes.) Please apply this lesson to a situation in your own sphere, Pisces. As you journey to your new world, leave the vexatious elements behind.

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Kasey Robinson has been reading tarot cards for nearly a decade—and she’s just 22 years old.

Originally from a small town in Pennsylvania, Robinson recalls knowing from an early age that she was gifted with “second sight.” Her first revelation occurred while getting ready for church one morning. She had a vision that a woman needed her help. On the way home from church, Robinson saw an old woman lying in a heap in the snow and told her parents to pull over. They found that the woman had sprained her ankle and may have frozen to death had she not been helped. Looking back, Robinson declares that moment as a confirmation to herself that she needed to help people spiritually. After graduating last year with a bachelor’s degree in fine arts from Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Robinson moved to the West Coast with her also-spiritual boyfriend last summer after a dream that urged her to take her skills to the Chico area. Since moving to Chico, Robinson has continued reading into the spiritual world. Those interested in a tarot reading can call Robinson at (561) 445-2191.

How has Chico taken to your tarot readings?

down with the energy healings and vibes. I think what might be missing is the old-school ritual and history of tarot readings, if that makes sense.

What do you see in the future for your tarotreading business?

I’d love to find a way to open a shop. I had an idea to have like, black magic on one side and white magic on the other side, with black and white spiraling in the middle of the ground, so everyone feels welcome. I’d like to help as many people as I can through readings. I’m also a reiki practitioner, which involves hands-on, energy-healing work. The store would be so jam-packed, every herb you can imagine, every medicine, every statue; if it makes some people afraid, I don’t care!

What advice do you have for skeptics or doubters?

There are a lot of tarot readers in the area, so it’s very cool. I just responded to an ad to do a very serious house clearing.

What I like about Chico is there’s not too many problems, people are already pretty

Well, I’m a skeptic myself. I like to tell people that it’s about remembering your own power, your own personal powers and desires.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

The bus I recently rode a Greyhound bus from Chico to Phoenix. It was a trip. I took a bus from Saint Paul to Chicago in the late ’80s and encountered the same kind of motley assortment of poor people. Of course I have no way of knowing they were poor people other than my keen analytic and deductive skills, and they fit the stereotypes in my head.

The drivers were all polite and professional, including the one out of Sacramento who warned a bunch that sat together in the back that there weren’t gonna be any shenanigans this trip. No loud talking, no radios, no cellphone conversations, pretty much nothing audible.

As far as I could tell he picked them out solely on the basis of how they dressed and carried themselves. He was profiling. In his position, I would have expected some hubbub before we got to L.A., also based solely on how they were dressed and carried themselves. They clearly used the same fashion consultant, and I bet they were used to getting special attention. Folks who fly in Muslim garb probably experience the same thing.

Even given the state of corporate paranoia I was

still surprised when some guy with a “security” patch on his shirt rifled through our carry-ons before we could board to leave Los Angeles. He put the bags on a little table by the bus door and—maybe because the light was so dim—stuck his hand in each one and felt around inside for God-knows-what.

There were a lot of fat people, mostly women. I just managed to get my arm rest in place before one plopped down next to me. She flowed over anyway, but the steel barrier saved me.

The most popular luggage, as it were, was plastic bags, mostly black yard-waste and white garbage bags and some from low-end retail stores. One dapper young man dressed in white used a clear plastic bag for his stuff. Clear. There were a few roll-along suitcases and a couple of paper bags, too.

I tend to look askance at parents who dress themselves more warmly than they do their child.

Several times I found myself wanting to say, “Cover that baby’s head, you ninny!” Not being armed, I didn’t.

Sincerely wishing to avoid the onboard toilet, I opted for dehydration, and for the 19-hour trip I limited myself to two Tin Roof cookies, 12 ounces of water, and a truck-stop sandwich sealed in plastic, which I decided would go down best in the dark. I was right.

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About the Q&A’s For this issue of All You Can Eat, we set out with a set of 15 questions to reveal the personality behind some of Chico’s favorite restaurants.

Keeping it fresh A Q&A with Ann Leon, chef, owner and namesake of Leon Bistro

by Catherine Beeghly

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hef Ann Leon’s dream of having her own restaurant came true on Mother’s Day, 2008, with the opening of Leon Bistro. She studied at the California Culinary Academy in San Francisco, and was deeply influenced working with revolutionary chef Alice Waters at the famed Chez Panisse in Berkeley. Leon has worked as a chef in many hotels and restaurants, including Rolling Hills Casino. Leon, 45, was voted Best Chef in the Chico News & Review’s 2011 Best of Chico reader’s poll, and is working to become a contestant on TV’s Iron Chef.

What is your culinary specialty?

I’m classically French trained, and Mediterranean is my area of expertise. It’s a fusion, with Vietnamese, Thai and Indian.

That was my youth, growing up in the Bay Area. I learned to reach out and get those ethnic flavors, so there aren’t a lot of

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fats in what you’re eating. With French, you have butter in everything. But my thing here, the point of my plate, is each corner of the plate has a different entity, but it all comes together in balance. Each bite from a plate will have different flavors. The flavors have a sepa-

rate identity, and all come together.

Where do you look for inspiration for new recipes?

I always have to keep creating to keep my passion, my fire, going. I try to keep some of the food here real old-school, for people who like that, and let the ingredients speak for themselves. My influences come from my farmers. What comes in on a delivery at 4 in the afternoon will be on your plate that night. If we’ve already produced our menu and some golden raspberries, or something fabulous comes in, we’ll change it.

What dish would you like to include on your menu, but worry that it might be too exotic for Chico?

Foie gras. I’ve been criticized for that. People go to Wikipedia

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or their smart phone and read that it’s bad because of the way it’s produced, but it’s come a long way. It’s sustainable now.

People don’t understand it’s done in a humane way. Also sweetbreads, and I’m pushing a lot behind the scenes so people will try them. Then the next thing you know, they come back seeking it. I love sweetbreads.

We already have boar and bison, and I bring in fish that people don’t see a lot of. So I challenge people.

What won’t you eat?

Nothing. I won’t even tell you some of the things I’ve eaten. I’ve had Rocky Mountain Oysters [bull testicles] and they’re very tasty. I like to throw some head cheese out there and get people to try it.

What is the ingredient you can’t live without?

Fresh herbs and sweet Thai chili sauce. And, I’m addicted to coconut milk. That’s a principal ingredient here, since it’s nondairy. So I would say all condiments.

At home, what three things are always in your fridge?

I don’t keep a lot there.

There’s always something citrus, and I use it for everything. I have a variety of different vinegars at all times. Some we make ourselves. Probably a demiglace. Again, condiments!

As a pro, what mistakes do you see novices make most often?

One thing I’ve noticed in the younger set is putting olive oil in the pan, and not letting it get hot enough before they start

cooking things in it. No one wants to wait for it to get hot!

Also, confidence. See, I think a recipe is just a series of someone else’s mistakes. You have to be willing to do some trial and error, then you turn it around and make something of it. You learn from it. So really, just go for it, and we’ll work on it from there. I like to help cooks gain confidence.

What’s the most underrated ingredient, in your opinion?

Vegetables, from the agricultural community here. People are intimidated by things they don’t know, like different greens and beets. It’s probably because they had bad childhood experiences. I love to do sauces that enhance the different flavors of vegetables.

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What’s the strangest ingredient you’ve ever used in a dish?

I don’t think of it as strange. A lot of the intestinal stuff you have to work on people to try, like the stomach linings that are used in sausage casing. In my sausage classes, a few people get a little freaked out.

Where do you like to eat out of town?

You should be getting it once a week.

I seek out food from ethnic hole-in-the-wall places, especially when I’m in Berkeley. Bahn mi are Vietnamese sandwiches, and that’s a fun thing to have. I look for places that might be dive-y to others, but if you know the inside scoop, you can find out which are the best.

What’s the most outrageous thing that’s happened in a kitchen where you’ve worked?

I had a bat fly at me at a restaurant where I worked. It came into the dining room and kitchen area. It dived down on me and barely grazed my head. Trying to avoid it, I smacked my head on a barstool. Yes, the most unusual thing was the bat.

What’s your death-row meal?

My childhood favorite was a dish my mom used to make: chicken livers seared in a cast-iron skillet. The sauce was a light marsala reduction with caramelized onion, served over basmati rice.

When I was 9 or 10 years old my mom asked what I wanted served at my birthday party, and I picked that. She didn’t think it would go over that well … But it just melts in your mouth. It’s incredible.

Describe the restaurant you would create if cost and demographics were not an issue (your fantasy restaurant).

It would have an open kitchen, with a woodburning oven and a coal-burning oven. And I’ve

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I like to come out and talk with the guests, to feel them out and see what they like, find out what they want.

And I would love for my restaurant to be in Greece, because I just love that place.

Who was the biggest cooking influence in your life?

Definitely Alice Waters, and my mom and grandmother. And each and every chef I’ve worked under has given me a lot. You take something from every chef who teaches you. It creates your personality.

Growing up, we never had canned vegetables in our house.

We were all about community, and getting people together and involved. At 4:30 in the morning, my mom and I would go to the farmers’ market to get the freshest foods, then sell them at wholesale from our front porch to our neighbors. That was Alice’s philosophy, too, to get people involved from the soil to the plate, so people can understand it. That’s why I’m really ● passionate about my job.

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Mediterranean flavor A Q&A with Mohammed Shabbar, Petra’s outspoken chef and owner

by Catherine Beeghly

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ohammed Shabbar, 32, was born in Jordan and moved to the United States in 1997. After running a Wienerschnitzel franchise in Redding, he moved to Chico. He began working at The Golden Waffle Restaurant, bought it, and ran it a few years before selling it. He also cooked for a time at Mamacita’s Mexican Restaurant, formerly in Chico.

In December 2008, he opened Petra Mediterranean Cuisine in the busy heart of downtown. Shabbar is launching another original eatery in Chico, scheduled to open soon. Corner Café will be a “coffee and crêpe house” at Second and Walnut streets.

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What is your culinary specialty?

I have a lot of things I like to cook. The main thing is Mediterranean food. I love rice dishes, learning more about spices, working with a variety of meats like lamb and goat. If I taste something in a Mexican restaurant that I like, I will try it in a Mediterranean dish. I love to go to Asian places, like Thai restaurants, and have their dishes with coconut milk and ginger. And I did try putting those in a sauté with my Mediterranean ingredients, and it worked.

It was delicious.

Where do you look for inspiration for new recipes?

I like to look in small, hole-in-the-wall type restaurants. I meet the people and I ask them about the food. I love to go try new food different places. If I eat something, I can tell you what’s in it.

Especially if I leave it to set until the next day, then I can taste it even better.

What is the ingredient you can’t live without?

Spices, especially Allspice. I use it to cook everything. I have a seven-spice blend I use in my dishes here, and it’s 50 percent Allspice, from a plant.

It just has good flavor. That’s how we do food here. I use it for meat dishes, sauces, and in chicken. I “shock” my chicken—I boil it, then put it on ice.

Allspice takes that bad chicken smell out.

What dish would you like to include on your menu, but worry that it might be too exotic for Chico?

Lamb chops. People think they’re gamey, and they’re not. It’s how you cook them. You’ve got to learn to cook them right.

And if you’re cooking lamb, American lamb is the best to use. It’s just the best tasting.

At home, what three things are always in your fridge?

Pita bread. I grew up eating everything with pita bread. It was a main thing for us. Next is some goat cheese, so I can have something to snack on. And olive oil I also use with everything. I can put all three together and have something delicious.

What won’t you eat?

Pork. First, it’s against my religion, and when you study the cleanliness and some other things about the industry … I wouldn’t even think about it.

As a pro, what mistakes do you see novices make most often?

The first thing is that they want to work too fast. Second is they don’t watch what they’re cooking. No cell phones. You have to be alone with it [the food]. Third is saying, “That’s how we did it in the old place.”

No. You have to learn new recipes. You have to learn how we do it here.

What’s the most underrated ingredient, in your opinion?

I have a few. Cloves for seasoning, cardamom, olive oil, ginger for your stomach, and honey is really healthy for your body.

When it comes to local ingredients, what are your faves?

Olive oil is good in Chico.

There are so many good vegetables, and things like parsley, tomato and cilantro. I love to use those in our falafels. And eggs from Chris the Egg Man. They have the best flavor, so fresh. I love fresh mint and basil. I’m very addicted to basil.

Kevin [Coy] at Monks [Wine Lounge and Bistro] makes the best chicken pesto with it.

What’s the strangest ingredient you’ve ever used in a dish?

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You can order any of those meals. Once a week I go to the city to get some supplies for my restaurant here.

What’s the most outrageous thing that’s happened in a kitchen where you’ve worked?

This is more funny than outrageous. When I was a cook at Mamacita’s, I got an order for a Chicken Taco Salad. So I took one of the big tostada shells, filled it with the lettuce and tomato and all, and then I grabbed a chicken taco and put it on the side. That’s what I thought the order was. I think of that now, and it’s funny to me.

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A Q&A with Sicilian Café head chef James Taylor by Catherine Beeghly

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ames Taylor is in his 34th year cooking in Chico restaurants. Born in Watsonville, Taylor moved to Chico in the early ‘80s, and was head chef at The Oaks restaurant (where Mom’s is now) for 18 years. Taylor, 49, continues to love his work as CEO, executive chef and sommelier at Sicilian Café. “I’m the luckiest man in the world,” he says, in appreciation of his family, job, customers and co-workers.

What is your culinary specialty?

It’s Italian infused with Northern California. Fresh is what I do. I’m proud of the way we prepare our scampi. In fact, I’ve been told our calamari is the best in the world. I’ve been told that about our Chicken Piccatta, that it’s second to none.

But, I’ll take second place to anything your mom cooks. I won’t try to compete with your mom.

Where do you look for inspiration for new recipes?

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this point in time, with the Internet and all the other technologies. I love to watch what trends are happening now. I enjoy the cooking shows on TV, and reading great books from my favorite chefs.

What dish would you like to include on your menu, but worry that it might be too exotic for Chico?

We’ve done a few of those here. Osso bucco is a specialty dish. It’s a veal shank slowcooked. We can’t serve it every night, because we don’t want to waste product. It’s a recipe from

my family, and that’s what we do. It’s delicious. People are afraid to eat veal, though.

What won’t you eat?

I won’t do eyeballs. My mom and her family are from Tunisia in North Africa, and they eat the eyeballs from the lamb. I won’t go where my mother has gone in that respect. It’s also traditional Italian to serve half a lamb’s head, with the eyeballs in it. It’s a delicacy, but I’m not doing it. I can’t eat something that’s looking at me!

What is the ingredient you can’t live without?

At home, what three things are always in your fridge?

Garlic. Garlic and olive oil are my two staples. It’s the mainstay of what we do here. We use extra-virgin olive oil. Those are what life is about here.

Tortillas—that’s for sure in there. They’re my daughter’s favorite. Chocolate milk, because it’s also my daughter’s favorite. She has to have that

“Garlic and olive oil are my two staples.”

every morning. And lettuce.

We’re big salad people. Salad is what I love, and I love getting our biggest favorite, the spring mix salad, from the farmers’ market.

As a pro, what mistakes do you see novices make most often?

Lack of reading skills. They can’t read or comprehend what’s written on the ticket. That’s the biggest thing for new people.

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A Q&A with Sicilian Café head chef James Taylor by Catherine Beeghly

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ames Taylor is in his 34th year cooking in Chico restaurants. Born in Watsonville, Taylor moved to Chico in the early ‘80s, and was head chef at The Oaks restaurant (where Mom’s is now) for 18 years. Taylor, 49, continues to love his work as CEO, executive chef and sommelier at Sicilian Café. “I’m the luckiest man in the world,” he says, in appreciation of his family, job, customers and co-workers.

What is your culinary specialty?

It’s Italian infused with Northern California. Fresh is what I do. I’m proud of the way we prepare our scampi. In fact, I’ve been told our calamari is the best in the world. I’ve been told that about our Chicken Piccatta, that it’s second to none.

But, I’ll take second place to anything your mom cooks. I won’t try to compete with your mom.

Where do you look for inspiration for new recipes?

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this point in time, with the Internet and all the other technologies. I love to watch what trends are happening now. I enjoy the cooking shows on TV, and reading great books from my favorite chefs.

What dish would you like to include on your menu, but worry that it might be too exotic for Chico?

We’ve done a few of those here. Osso bucco is a specialty dish. It’s a veal shank slowcooked. We can’t serve it every night, because we don’t want to waste product. It’s a recipe from

my family, and that’s what we do. It’s delicious. People are afraid to eat veal, though.

What won’t you eat?

I won’t do eyeballs. My mom and her family are from Tunisia in North Africa, and they eat the eyeballs from the lamb. I won’t go where my mother has gone in that respect. It’s also traditional Italian to serve half a lamb’s head, with the eyeballs in it. It’s a delicacy, but I’m not doing it. I can’t eat something that’s looking at me!

What is the ingredient you can’t live without?

At home, what three things are always in your fridge?

Garlic. Garlic and olive oil are my two staples. It’s the mainstay of what we do here. We use extra-virgin olive oil. Those are what life is about here.

Tortillas—that’s for sure in there. They’re my daughter’s favorite. Chocolate milk, because it’s also my daughter’s favorite. She has to have that

“Garlic and olive oil are my two staples.”

every morning. And lettuce.

We’re big salad people. Salad is what I love, and I love getting our biggest favorite, the spring mix salad, from the farmers’ market.

As a pro, what mistakes do you see novices make most often?

Lack of reading skills. They can’t read or comprehend what’s written on the ticket. That’s the biggest thing for new people.

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When it comes to local ingredients, what are your faves?

In this area, it’s olives, basil, tomatoes, olive oil—plus, every herb is perfect, and I look forward to serving them here. Also, our local wine. Those are what I enjoy every second of every day, serving those foods. When you come here, I want it to be an event. I want everyone who leaves here to come out happy.

“My grandfather ... he gave our family the experience of his cooking knowledge. He was Sicilian, and very appreciative of food.” that’s subtle, simple, and that’s it.

What’s the most outrageous thing that’s happened in a kitchen where you’ve worked?

Downstairs from The Oaks one time, the fire system was being tested, and during the fire check, this foam was emitted that gave off a residual smoke. The fire-suppression system was tripped accidentally by the people doing the testing. It freaked everyone out, and we had to close everything down.

We had to evacuate the whole restaurant, and it stayed closed for three days. That was the freakiest thing. Thank God I had nothing to do with it.

Where do you like to eat out of town?

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What’s your death-row meal?

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Prosecco, with Calamari Originale. Then I’d like a Walnut Bleu Cheese Citrus Salad, a 6-ounce fillet, prawns scampi, roasted fingerling potatoes and, for dessert, warm chocolate cake.

Describe the restaurant you would create if cost and demographic were not an issue (your fantasy restaurant).

It would be close to the downtown area, with plenty of parking, open with skylights, with a patio area overlooking the creek. It would have a fantastic nighttime ambiance all lit up, with an open kitchen, and a small venue for live music.

We might have something like that here, yes. But I want to see more of the sun and moon. People would know if it’s a full moon or raining outside.

Lots of open glass.

Who was the biggest cooking influence in your life?

My grandfather. Not that I worked with him that much, but he gave our family the experience of his cooking knowledge. He was Sicilian, and very appreciative of food. I remember he had this layered calamari eggplant dish. His influence was his execution of dishes, and how to put flavors together from the simple to the exotic. And it was just there. It was just perfect. He was an extraordinary man. No fanfare; no “I’m the best.” I’ll never forget him, and I try to emulate him here, and give back to people what he gave to ● our family.

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scrambles, plus Eggs Benedict and homemade quiche. Champagne served daily and a full-service espresso bar.

Open daily for breakfast and lunch, 7am-2pm. Open daily for breakfast and lunch. $ CC ATM

The Cheesesteak Shop

Spiteri’s Delicatessen

995 Nord Ave., 345-2565. $ CC ATM

971 East Ave., 891-4797. $ CC ATM

Chico Locker & Sausage Co.

Sub Station

196 E. 14th St., 343-7370. $ CC ATM

160 Convair Court, 898-1020 and 2404 Park Ave., 343-9178. $ ATM

Sin of Cortez 2290 Esplanade, 879-9200. $$ CC ATM

The Roost Cafe 1144 Park Ave., 892-1281.

This cozy, old-school diner serves real food, real butter and real good home cooking. A variety of Eggs Benedicts to choose from! Breakfast and lunch daily. Sunday brunch. $ CC ATM

Burgers, Delis & Dogs

The Dog House 1008 W. Sacramento Ave., 894-3641 and 1354 East Ave., 894-2242. $ CC ATM 672 Mangrove Ave., 342-3456. $ CC ATM

Fast Eddie’s 788 East Ave., 342-8555.

Featuring tri-tip and pulled-pork sandwiches, in addition to a large menu of specialty sandwiches, all made on local bread. Mon.-Fri., 10am-8pm; Sat. and Sun., 11am-6pm. $ CC ATM

The Graduate 344 W. Eighth St., 343-2790. $ CC ATM

146 W. Second St., 893-0633. $ CC ATM

221 1/2 Normal Ave., 342-3354. $ CC ATM

Big Al’s Drive In

Kona’s Sandwiches

1844 Esplanade, 342-2722. $ CC ATM

Big Chico Burger 1550 East Ave., 891-6100. $ CC ATM

Burger Hut 3211 Cohasset Road, 342-4555; 933 Nord Ave., 891-1418; 2451 Forest Ave., 891-1430. $ CC ATM

Burgers & Brew 201 Broadway, 879-9100. $$ CC ATM

Bustolini’s Deli & Coffee House 800 Broadway, 892-1790. $ CC ATM Fast Eddie’s

225 Main St. (Inside Garden Walk Mall), 345-2820. $ CC ATM

EJ’s Dogs & Subs

Kinder’s Custom Meats & Deli

Beach Hut Deli

Zot’s Hot Dogs

138 Main St., 893-4344 and 965 Nord Ave., 894-1635. $ CC ATM

Madison Bear Garden 316 W. Second St., 891-1639. $ CC ATM

Marcelli’s Sandwiches & More 215 W. First St., 892-1329.

Marcelli’s has the quality, premium deli sandwiches you desire. Choose from more than 24 sandwiches like the Reuben or meatball. Fresh salads and more. Catering available. Located across from Chico State. $ CC ATM

Nobby’s 1444 Park Ave., 342-2285. $ ATM

S&S Barbeque & Deli 1924 Mangrove Ave., 343-4930 ext. 11. $ CC ATM

Scotty’s Landing 12609 River Road, 710-2020. $ CC ATM

Smokin’ Mo’s BBQ 131 Broadway, 891-6677. $ CC ATM

Coffee Shops, Cafes & Bistros Augie’s Fine Coffee & Tea 230 Salem St. $ CC ATM

Bellachino’s Espresso & Panini Cafe 800 Bruce Road, 892-2244. $ CC ATM

Bidwell Perk 664 E. First Ave., 899-1500. $ CC ATM

Cabana Café 1293 E. First Ave., 893-CAFE. $ CC ATM

Cafe Flo 365 E. Sixth St., 402-7121. $ CC ATM

Cafe Paulo 642 W. Fifth St., 343-0704. $ CC ATM

Cal Java Coffee Roasters 216 W. East Ave., 891-8935; 1601 Esplanade, 894-3534; 2485 Notre Dame Blvd., 893-2662; and 1835 Mangrove Ave. (drive-through only), 879-1832. $ CC ATM

Chambers Harvest Shop 629 Entler Ave., 345-3352. $ CC ATM

Empire Coffee 434 Orange St., 899-8267. $ CC ATM

Has Beans Creekside 1080 Humboldt Ave., 345-6379. $ CC ATM

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Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria 501 Main St., 894-3033. $ CC ATM

Mondo’s Café 951 Nord Ave., 895-0878. $ CC ATM

Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse 118 W. Second St., 895-0676.

Visit downtown Chico’s local tea and coffeehouse! Mouth-watering mochas and cappuccinos, and premium looseleaf teas in a unique and relaxing environment. Featuring monthly local art shows. Now nonsmoking. www.facebook.com/nlchico Open 6:30am-11pm daily. $ CC ATM

Peet’s Coffee & Tea 145 Main St., 894-6716. $ CC ATM

Tin Roof Bakery & Cafe 627 Broadway, 345-1362. $ CC ATM

Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery 130 Main St., 895-3866.

Fine pastries, cakes and pies from scratch; lunch entrees; homemade soups; espresso and teas. Vegetarian and vegan offerings. Urban patio seating. www.uppercrustchico.com Open daily. $ CC ATM

Open weekdays from 11:30 a.m. to 7:30 p.m. www.baciocatering.com Open weekdays 11:30am-7:30pm. $ CC ATM

Broadway Heights California Cuisine 300 Broadway, 899-8075. $$ CC ATM

Five and Eye 648 W. Fifth St., 343-4555. $ CC ATM

Grilla Bites 196 Cohasset Road, 343-4876. $ CC ATM

Leonardo’s 973 East Ave., 342-8840. $ CC ATM

Pelican’s Roost Chowder House 1354 East Ave., 899-2762. $ CC ATM

Petra Mediterranean Cuisine 138 Broadway, 899-9958. $ CC ATM

Pluto’s 201 Main St., 343-0165. $ CC ATM

The Pour House 855 East Ave., 893-3000. $$ CC ATM

Priya Indian Cuisine

Eclectic Eats

2574 Esplanade, 899-1055. $ CC ATM

Sipho’s Restaurant & Cafe

www.newsreview.com

Bacio Catering & Carry Out 1903 Park Ave., 345-7787.

Places an emphasis on seasonal and local offerings in their delicious food fare. Take home or eat on the premises.

The Pour House

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1228 Dayton Road, 895-1866. $

Star of India 685 Manzanita Court, 345-2491. $ CC ATM

Sultan’s Bistro 300 Broadway, 345-7455. $ CC ATM

T. Tea Bar and Fusion Café 250 Vallombrosa Ave., 895-8100. $ CC ATM

Fine Dining

LUNCH • DINNER Take-Out

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5th Street Steakhouse 345 W. Fifth St., 891-6328.

Full-service steakhouse featuring USDA prime beef, fresh seafood, house-made desserts. Extensive wine list. Reservations accepted SundayThursday. www.5thstreetsteak house.com $$$ CC ATM

Basque Norte 3355 Esplanade, 891-5204.

Steak, lamb, chicken, quail, barbecued ribs and seafood, served familystyle, in a rustic Basque atmosphere.

Full bar and tapas as well. Familyowned since 1975. Wed.-Sun., opens at 5 p.m. Closed Mon.-Tues. www.basquenorte.com $$$ CC ATM

Christian Michaels Ristorante 192 E. Third St., 894-4005. $$$ CC ATM

Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. At Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville, 533-3885. Steaks, pasta, burgers, salads, sandwiches and hand-tossed pizza. Oroville’s only fresh sushi. Seven craft beers on tap, plus seasonals. www.featherfallscasi no.com/brewing-co $$ CC ATM

Gooney Bird Bar and Grill 3312 Esplanade, 892-9534. $$$ CC ATM

Johnnie’s Restaurant 220 W. Fourth St., 895-1515. $$$ CC ATM

2540 Esplanade at East Ave.,Chico • 342-8564 1937 E. 20th St., Target Shopping Center • 342-6304

MLB PACKAGE 15 HD BIG SCREENS

Daily Specials 3–5 & 10–Mid

FREE Pool Sundays

2 for 1 Burgers Mon 5-9PM 1007 W. 1st St 343-4305

FROM HEARTY TO HEART-HEALTHY! Come try our expanded menu of fresh fruit, salads & wraps.

Leon Bistro 817 Main St., 899-1105.

Organic, local, sustainable. Freshly caught fish, grass-fed beef, local lamb and bison. Call ahead or tell your server about your dietary needs and the’ll try to accommodate. Large wine/beer selection. Open 5-9pm DINING LIST continued on page 24

342–9717 352 Vallombrosa Ave Mon–Fri 6:30am–2pm Sat–Sun 7am–2pm

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Weds.-Thurs., 5-10pm Fri.-Sat. and 10am-3pm Sun. $$$ CC ATM

Monks Wine Lounge & Bistro 128 W. Second St., 343-3408. $ CC ATM

Nash’s Restaurant 1717 Esplanade, 896-1147.

Celebrating our 20th year! Nash’s is your “anytime” favorite restaurant, offering breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Fresh, creative, California cuisine with casual and fine-dining options, all beautifully presented by our chefs. NashsRestaurantChico.com $$ CC ATM

Red Tavern 1250 Esplanade, 894-3463. $$$ CC ATM

Sicilian Cafe 1020 Main St., 345-2233.

A Chico favorite since 1983, featuring the freshest local ingredients. Our menu includes a variety of antipasti, seafood, pastas, chicken, veal and beef, decadent desserts and an extensive wine list. Siciliancafe.com $$$ CC ATM

Sierra Nevada Taproom & Restaurant 1075 E. 20th St., 345-2739. $$ CC ATM

Spice Creek Cafe 230 W. Third St., 891-9951. $$$ CC ATM

Dreamcatcher Buffet At Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville, 533-3885.

Breakfast, lunch and dinner daily.

All-you-can-eat dinner now $9.95 every day, 4pm-close. Champagne brunch Saturday and Sunday. Featuring nightly New York steaks and pasta bar. Open daily. www.featherfallscasino.com/dining $ CC ATM

Jack’s Family Restaurant 540 Main St., 343-8383. $ CC ATM

Kalico Kitchen 2396 Esplanade, 343-3968.

Enjoy Kalico’s breakfast skillets and breakfast burritos in the morning, club sandwiches and crispy chicken salad for lunch and chicken-fried steak and homemade meatloaf for dinner. Homemade pies and soups.

Free wi-fi. www.kalicokitchenchico.com $ CC ATM

Russell’s Family Restaurant 185 Cohasset Road, 343-5543. $ CC ATM

Italian Angelo’s Cucina Trinacria 407 Walnut St., 899-9996. $$$ CC ATM

Caffe Malvina

Homestyle

234 W. Third St., 895-1614. $$$ CC ATM

California Pasta Productions 118 W. East Ave., 343-6999. $ CC ATM

CJ’s Last Chance Diner 4365 Ocean Dr., 343-1901. $ CC ATM

Country Morning Bakery & Café 2625 Aztec Dr. $ CC ATM

Cozy Diner 1695 Mangrove Ave., 895-1195.

Serving breakfast, lunch and dinner every day. Cozy favorites: crepes, Cobb salad, prime rib burger, broasted chicken, steak, espresso, bear and wine. Outside patio and meeting room available. Free wi-fi. www.cozy dinerchico.com $ CC ATM

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Crush Italian Cuisine & Lounge 201 Broadway, 342-7000.

Sol Mexican Grill

Crush Italian Cuisine & Lounge is a restaurant beyond any local experience specializing in a combination of traditional and contemporary flavors mixed with fresh, local and seasonal ingredients. Happy hour Mon.-Thurs.

4:30-6:30pm, Fri. 2-6:30pm. Latenight happy hour 10pm-2am Fri-Sat. chicocrush.com $$$ CC ATM

Franky’s 506 Ivy St., 898-9947.

Locally owned for 19 years. Delivery through Entree Express. Happy hour 4-6pm Monday-Friday. Open Mon.Sat. 11:30am-9pm, Sun. 4-9pm. frankyschico.com $$ CC ATM

Italian Cottage 2234 Esplanade, 343-7000; and 2525 Dominic Drive, 342-7771. Familyowned and -operated since 1965, serving local favorites: sandwiches, pizza, pasta, salads and breakfast.

Voted Best Italian Restaurant since 2005. www.TheItalianCottage.com $$ CC ATM

Panighetti’s Eatery 2760 Esplanade, 809-1640. $$ CC ATM

Pete’s Restaurant and Brewhouse 2495 Carmichael Dr., 891-0611. $$ CC ATM

Mexican Aca Taco 450 Broadway, 343-1039; and 1000-D W. Sacramento Ave.,343-0909 .

Authentic Acapulco-style food, including tacos, burritos and housemade enchiladas. $ ATM

Adanberto’s 450 Broadway, 343-1039. $ CC ATM

Amigos De Acapulco 820 Oroville Ave., 898-8488. $ CC ATM

Arsenio’s 969 East Ave., 893-2767. $ CC ATM

Burrito Bandito 2485 Notre Dame Blvd., 342-2584. $ CC

Casa Ramos 216 W. East Ave., 894-0119; and 2490 Fair St., 893-5050. $$ CC ATM

Chronic Tacos 119 W. Second St., 895-8226. $ CC ATM

El Patron Taqueria 1354 East Ave., 343-9779; and 2454 Notre Dame Blvd., 891-8888 (El Patron II). $ CC ATM

El Rey Mexican Grill 465 E. 20th St., 342-4121. $ CC ATM

Gordo Burrito 1295 E. Eighth St., 809-1211.

Giant tacos, burritos and other authentic Mexican food fare served up quickly. The shrimp items are the stuff of legends. Open Mon.-Fri. 6am-9pm, Sat. 9am-8pm. $ CC ATM

La Cocina Economica 905 Wall St., 809-0370.

Affordable and authentic Mexican breakfast, lunch and dinner, conveniently located in downtown Chico.

This is where the locals eat and widely recommend. www.lacocinachico.com $ CC ATM

La Comida 954 Mangrove Ave., 345-2254. $ ATM

La Familia Restaurant 1008 W. Sacramento Ave., 898-9029 $ CC ATM

La Hacienda 2635 Esplanade, 893-8270. $ CC ATM

Ricardo’s Mexican Restaurant 2365 Esplanade, 895-9607. $ CC ATM

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Sol Mexican Grill 3269 Esplanade, 342-4616.

Tacos, burritos, tostada salads, chili rellenos, tortas, enchiladas, chimichangas and churros. News expanded seating area. Bear, wine and margaritas. Free wi-fi. Call ahead for to-go orders. www.solmexicangrill.com $ CC ATM

Speedy Burrito Mexican Grill 1031 Nord Ave., 896-0141. $ CC ATM

Speedy Burrito Mexican Grill 1031 Nord Ave., 896-0141. $ CC ATM

grove Ave., 895-0731; and 2009 Forest Ave., 345-7331. $ CC ATM

Chili’s 1908 E. 20th St., 345-1687. $$ CC ATM

Chipotle Mexican Grill 620 Mangrove Ave., 343-8707. $ CC ATM

Cold Stone Creamery 146 Broadway, 891-3331. $ CC ATM

Denny’s

Tacos Cortés

675 Manzanita Court, 345-1146. $ CC ATM

1530 Park Ave., 342-3797. $ CC ATM

Domino’s Pizza

Tacos Tijuana

324 Walnut St., 891-5888. $ CC ATM

1441 Park Ave., 343-6762. $ CC ATM

Dutch Bros. Coffee

Tacos Tonaya 409 Nord Ave., 519-2118 and 244 Walnut St., 893-8972. $

Tacos Villa Acapulco 1141 Forest Ave., 892-2858. $ CC ATM

Taqueria Los Amigos 3524 Highway 32, 342-9113. $ CC ATM

Teddy Malibu’s 1002 W. Fifth St., 894-8226. $ CC ATM

480 E Park Ave.; 2393 Cohasset Road; and 1733 Esplanade. $ CC ATM

Great Harvest Bread Co. 237 W. East Ave., 566-9605; 1141 Forest Ave., 345-7155; and 1223 Mangrove Ave., 899-7273. $ CC ATM

Hometown Buffet 2021 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, 899-1507. $ CC ATM

International House of Pancakes 2040 Business Lane, 893-4988. $ CC ATM

Jamba Juice

2601 Esplanade, 345-6053. $ CC ATM

201 Broadway, 345-5355; 855 East Ave., 891-9340; and 2027 Forest Ave., 891-5901. $ CC ATM

Tres Hombres Long Bar & Grill

Java Detour

Tortilla Flats

100 Broadway, 342-0425. $$ CC ATM

1055 Mangrove Ave., 893-2828 and 2519 Esplanade, 566-9556. $ CC ATM

Jimmy Jack’s Rib Shack

Names you know

305 Main St., 893-1903. $$ CC ATM

Little Caesar’s Pizza 118 W. East Ave., 894-5707 and 598 E. Eighth St., 894-8300. $ CC ATM

Logan’s Roadhouse Applebee’s Grill and Bar

1900 E. 20th St., 891-1098. $ CC ATM

2030 Business Ln., 343-6888. $$ CC ATM

Marie Callender’s

Baskin-Robbins 241 W. East Ave., 891-1131; 668 Man-

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Olive Garden 2020 Business Lane, 898-8075. $$ CC ATM

Outback Steakhouse 1990 E. 20th St., 899-8112. $$ CC ATM

Panda Express 2443 Cohasset Road, 345-7389. $ CC ATM

HALF–OFF ENTREE Buy one entree & two drinks, get the second of equal or lesser value half off.

Limit two coupons per table. No other discounts. Expires 7/26/12. Not valid Fri or Sat after 5pm.

Papa Murphy’s Take ‘n’ Bake Pizza

Sat/Sun e gn Champa Brunchm 9am-2p

1305 Mangrove Ave., 345-6403; 2485 Notre Dame Blvd., 898-1560; and 14 W. Eaton Road, 343-3993.

Gotta love that take-and-bake! www.papamurphys.com $ CC ATM

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240 Broadway, 899-2847. $ CC ATM

Pizza Guys 2471 Cohasset Road, 894-8888. $$ CC ATM

Quiznos Sub Shop 2471 Cohasset Road, 891-9500. $ CC ATM

Red Lobster 2010 Business Lane, 893-5595. $$ CC ATM

Round Table Pizza 964 Mangrove Ave., 343-4254; 2201 Pillsbury Road, 891-1200; and 2027 Forest Ave., 342-7265. $$ CC ATM

Sbarro 1950 E. 20th St., 345-7266. $ CC ATM

Starbucks 246 Broadway, 343-8182; 1910 Esplanade, 892-8569; 2009 Forest Ave., 894-7533; 2471 Cohasset Road, 894-1323; 995 Nord Ave., 343-8586; and 146 W East Ave., 343-3434. $ CC ATM

Subway 1000 W. Sacramento Ave., 342-9777; 2485 Notre Dame Blvd., 893-4782; 1947 E. 20th St., 343-5803; 1398 East Ave., 894-8757; 240 W. East Ave., 894-6779; and 722 Mangrove Ave., 891-1400. $ CC ATM

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Celebrating 100 years in business this fall!

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Donut Nook

Pizza

958 East Ave., 342-2118. $ CC ATM

Donut Rising 1008 W. Sacramento Ave., 894-7847.

Local and family-owned. Specialty donut shop offering delicious creations using homemade custards, icings and jams. Excellent tea and coffee. Tues.-Fri. 6:30am-3:30pm, Friday night 5-11:30pm, Sat.-Sun. 7am-2pm. $

Celestino’s New York Pizza 101 Salem St., 896-1234.

Award-winning New York-style pizza.

Whole pizza and by-the-slice available. Fresh salads, hot sandwiches, lasagna, calzones and more! Located on the corner of Salem and First Street in downtown Chico. celestinos pizzachico.com $ CC ATM

Celestino’s Pasta & Pizza

The End Zone

Donut Wheel 2404 Esplanade, 345-4528. $ CC ATM

1354 East Ave., 345-7700. $ CC ATM

Bella’s Sports Pub

Farm Star Pizza

The Down Lo

2359 Esplanade, 343-2056. $$ CC ATM

319 Main St., 892-2445. $ CC ATM

Helen’s Donut Nook

The End Zone

807 Main St., 343-4031. $

Fatte’s Pizza 1380 East Ave., 892-1122. $$ CC ATM

134 Broadway, 893-5253. $ CC ATM

250 Cohasset Road, 345-7330. $ CC ATM

Gelayo Frozen Yogurt & Gelato 1380 East Ave., 345-7626. $ CC ATM

Jon & Bon’s Yogurt Shoppe

Grana

1007 W. First St., 343-4305. $ ATM

300 Broadway, 899-9580 and 1722 Mangrove Ave., 899-0484. $ CC ATM

198 E. Second St., 809-2304. $$ CC ATM

Panama Bar & Cafe

Kiwi Blast

Left Coast Pizza Co. 800 Bruce Road, 892-9000. $$ CC ATM

Mad Dash Pizza 2391 Cohasset Road, 899-1010. $ CC ATM

Main Street Pizza 331 Main St., 345-6246. $

Monstros Pizza & Subs 628 W. Sacramento Ave., 345-7672. $

Oasis Bar & Grill

177 E. Second St., 895-8817. $ CC ATM

Park Avenue Bar & Grill 2010 Park Ave., 893-3500. $$ CC ATM

Riley’s 702 W. Fifth St., 343-7459.

Happy hour, $1 sliders, daily thigh Thursdays, all-you-can-eat two-forone burgers on Mondays. Locally owned for 25 years. $ CC ATM

Tackle Box Bar & Grill 375 E. Park Ave., 345-7499. $$ CC ATM

Mountain Mike’s Pizza 1722 Mangrove Ave., 893-1923 and 1105 W. Fifth St., 899-9115. $$ CC ATM

Woodstock’s Pizza 166 E. Second St., 893-1500. $ CC ATM

Pub Grub

Specialty Drinks & Desserts Brain Freeze Yogurt

645 W. Fifth St., 343-2828. $

Orange Julius 1950 E. 20th St., 894-8304. $ CC ATM

Powell’s Sweet Shoppe 121 W. Third St., 332-9866. $ CC ATM

Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy 178 East Seventh St., 342-7163.

This local favorite has produced ice cream and confections for more than 70 years. Enjoy banana splits or root beer floats on the benches and tables out front! www.shuberts.com Open daily. $ CC ATM

Top Spot Yogurt and Crepes 1947 E. 20th St., 894-2400. $ CC ATM

Top This Frozen Yogurt 201 Broadway, 879-9100. $ CC ATM

Wine

2760 Esplanade, 636-4525. $ CC ATM

The Banshee 132 W. Second St., 895-9670. $ CC ATM

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The Cookie Shoppe 1600 Mangrove Ave., 899-3385. $

Creekside Cellars 250 Vallombrosa, 894-7696. $ CC ATM

Mmm—the SWEETEST DEALS! A list of top-notch local restaurants offering money-saving ‘Sweetdeals’

W

e love good food. We also love good food at super good prices.

These restaurants—some of our most favorite—are participating in the CN&R’s Sweetdeals program whereby one can save tons of money (up to 75 percent off) by simply going to http://cnrsweet deals.newsreview.com and purchasing a Sweetdeals certificate. In addition to getting some great food at a fraction of the cost, you can feel good about your purchase also knowing that proceeds go toward the community’s alternative weekly newspaper—the CN&R— and independent journalism.

Annie's Asian Grill Blondie's Diner (Oroville) The Boss Burger (Oroville) The End Zone Five & Eye Gordo Burrito Jon & Bon's Yogurt Lake View Restaurant (Oroville)

Morning Thunder Oasis Bar & Grill Scrambles Speedy Burrito Star of India/The Inn Place/ On the Rocks Tortilla Flats Upper Crust Wok 'n Roll

This list was current as of press time. See the Sweetdeals website for the complete, current list of Sweetdeals available. Yum!

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Index

5th Street Steakhouse.......23 Aca Taco..........................24 Adanberto’s .....................24 Amigos De Acapulco .........25 Angelo’s Cucina Trinacria...24 Annie’s Asian Grill..............5 Applebee’s .......................26 Arsenio’s…………………..25 Augie’s Fine Coffee & Tea....20 Bacio Catering & Carry Out......................22 The Banshee ...………………28 Baskin-Robbins ....…………..26 Basque Norte ...................23 Beach Hut Deli .................20 Beatniks ...........................6 Bellachino’s Espresso & Panini Café ......20 Bella’s Sports Pub .............28 Bidwell Perk ....................20 Big Al’s Drive In ...............20 Big Chico Burger ..............20 Big Tuna Sushi Bistro .........5 Brain Freeze Yogurt………..28 Breakfast Buzz...................6 Broadway Heights California Cuisine .............22 Broadway Market and Deli…………………….5 Brooklyn Bridge Bagel Works.......................6 Burger Hut ......................20 Burgers & Brew……………20 Burrito Bandito ................25 Bustolini’s Deli & Coffee House.................20 Cabana Café .....................20 Café Coda ..........................6 Café Flo...........................20 Café Paulo .......................20 Caffé Malvina...................24 Cal Java Coffee Roasters ....20 California Pasta Productions .....................24 Casa Ramos......................25 Celestino’s New York Pizza.................28 Celestino’s Pasta & Pizza....28 Chada Thai Cuisine .............5 Chambers Harvest Shop.....20 Chan Pheng’s Mandarin Cuisine ...............5 Chang Hing House..............5 The Cheesesteak Shop.......20 Chico Locker & Sausage Co. ..................20 Chili’s..............................26 Chipotle Mexican Grill.......26 Christian Michaels Ristorante .......................23 Chronic Tacos...................25 CJ’s Last Chance Diner.......24 Cocodine Thai Cuisine.........5 Cold Stone Creamery .........26 The Cookie Shoppe ...........28

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Country Morning Bakery & Cafe .............................24 Country Waffles .................6 Cozy Diner.......................24 Creekside Cellars...............28 Crush Italian Cuisine & Lounge.........................24 Denny’s ...........................26 The Dog House .................20 Domino’s Pizza .................26 Donut Nook .....................28 Donut Rising ……………..28 Donut Wheel....................28 The Down Lo....................28 Dreamcatcher Buffet .........24 Dutch Bros. Coffee............26 Egg Roll King.....................5 EJ’s Dogs & Subs...............20 El Patron Taqueria and El Patron II ......................25 El Rey Mexican Grill ..........25 Empire Coffee...................20 Farm Star Pizza ................28 Fast Eddie’s......................20 Fatte’s Pizza.....................28 Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co. .....................23 Five and Eye ....................22 Flavor Falls ........................5 Franky’s ..........................24 Gelayo Frozen Yogurt & Gelato ....................…..28 Gen Kai Japanese Cuisine....5 Ginger’s Chinese Restaurant ........................5 Gooney Bird Bar and Grill ...23 Gordo Burrito...................25 The Graduate ...................20 Great Harvest Bread Co. ....26 Grilla Bites ......................22 Happy Garden....................5 Has Beens Creekside .........20 Has Beans Internet Café & Galleria ........................22 Helen’s Donut Nook ..........28 Hometown Buffet .............26 House of Bamboo ...............5 Hula’s Chinese Bar-B-Q........5 International House of Pancakes .....................26 Italian Cottage............12, 24 Izakaya Ichiban…………….5 Jack’s Family Restaurant ...24 Jamba Juice.....................26 Japanese Blossoms .............6 Java Detour .....................26 Jimmy Jack’s Rib Shack.....26 Johnnie’s Restaurant ........23 Jon & Bon’s Yogurt Shoppe .................28 Kalico Kitchen .................24 Kinder’s Custom Meats & Deli ....................20 Kiwi Blast........................28 Kona’s Sandwiches............20

Kwando Restaurant ............6 La Cocina Economica.........25 La Comida .......................25 La Familia Restaurant .......25 La Hacienda.....................25 Left Coast Pizza Co. ..........28 Leon Bistro......................23 Leonardo’s .......................22 Little Caesar’s Pizza ..........26 Logan’s Roadhouse ...........26 Mad Dash Pizza ................28 Madison Bear Garden ........20 Main Street Pizza .............28 Marcelli’s Sandwiches & More ............................20 Marie Callender’s ..............26 Mekkala Thai Cuisine..........6 Mom’s ...............................6 Mondo’s Café....................22 Monks Wine Lounge & Bistro ...............24 Monstros Pizza & Subs ......28 Morning Thunder Café ........6 Mountain Mike’s Pizza.......28 Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse… ...........22 Nash’s 7th Avenue Omelette House .................6 Nash’s Restaurant .............24 Nobby’s ...........................20 Noodle House ....................6 Oasis Bar & Grill ...............28 Ojiya Japanese Steakhouse & Sushi Bar .......................6 Olive Garden ....................27 Outback Steakhouse .........27 Panama Bar & Café ...........28 Panda Express ..................27 Panighetti’s Eatery ...........24 Papa Murphy’s Take ‘n’ Bake Pizza ...........27 Paradise’s Place.……………6 Park Avenue Bar & Grill.....28 Peeking Chinese Restaurant ........................6 Peet’s Coffee & Tea............22 Pelican’s Roost Chowder House.................22 Peter Chu’s Mandarin Cuisine ...............6 Pete’s Restaurant and Brewhouse ...................…24 Petra Mediterranean Cuisine............................22 Pho C & C ..........................6 The Pita Pit .....................27 Pizza Guys .......................27 Pluto’s.............................22 The Pour House……………22 Powell’s Sweet Shoppe ......28 Priya Indian Cuisine..........22 Quiznos Sub Shop.............27 Rawbar Restaurant & Sushi Bar…....................6 Red Lobster .....................27 Red Tavern ......................24

Red Tiger ..........................6 Ricardo’s Mexican Restaurant.......................26 Rice Bowl ..........................6 Rice Wok...........................6 Riley’s .............................28 The Roost Café .................20 Round Table Pizza ............27 Russell’s Family Restaurant.......................24 S&S Barbeque & Deli .........20 Sbarro .............................27 Scotty’s Landing...............20 Scrambles..........................6 Serrano’s Mexican Grill ......26 Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy ..........................28 Sicilian Café.....................24 Sierra Nevada Taproom & Restaurant....................24 Sin of Cortez....................20 Sipho’s Restaurant & Café .............................22 Smokin’ Mo’s BBQ .............20 Sol Mexican Grill…………..26 Sophia’s Authentic Thai Cuisine ......................6 Speedy Burrito Mexican Grill....................26 Spice Creek Café ...............24 Spiteri’s Delicatessen ........20 Star of India ....................22 Starbucks ........................27 Sub Station .....................20 Subway ...........................27 Sultan’s Bistro..................23 T. Tea Bar & Fusion Cafe ....23 Tackle Box Bar & Grill .......28 Tacos Cortés.....................26 Tacos de Acapulco ............26 Tacos Tijuana ...................26 Tacos Tonaya....................26 Tacos Villa Acapulco..........26 Taqueria Los Amigos .........26 Teddy Malibu’s .................26 Teriyaki House ...................6 Thai Basil ..........................6 Tin Roof Bakery & Café .....22 Togo’s..............................27 Tong Fong Low...................6 Top Spot Yogurt and Crepes ..28 Top This Frozen Yogurt .....28 Tortilla Flats ....................26 Tres Hombres Long Bar & Grill ...............26 Turandot North China Gourmet Cuisine ................6 Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery..........................22 Windy’s Chinese Restaurant ........................6 Wok In..............................6 Wok ‘n’ Roll Asian Food and Hawaiian BBQ..............6 Woodstock’s Pizza.............28 Zot’s Hot Dogs……………..20

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