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Corporations aren’t people Are corporations people? As one wag put it, “I’ll believe it when

Vets’ home: money down the drain S $88 million, 150-room veterans’ residential-care facility you can’t afford to open? o, what do you do with a brand-spanking-new

Although 98 percent complete, the Redding veterans’ home probably won’t open until around January 2014, if then. Gov. Jerry Brown says there’s no money to hire the required staff and operate the facility.

Even by government standards of inefficiency and ineptitude, this screw-up rises to a new level of incompetence and lunacy. Heads ought to roll for making a decision to construct such a by facility without guaranPete Stiglich teeing funds were going to be available to actually The author is a use it. retired Air Force The governor’s solucolonel who has tion is to put the home in announced his candidacy for Wally “mothball” status until Herger’s seat in the state can afford to Congress. He lives in officially open it. This Cottonwood. includes paying a cadre of folks to babysit the facility even though no one’s going to be using it for quite some time.

For the 2012-13 fiscal year, according to my sources, California taxpayers get to

pay a tidy little sum of $1.4 million to implement Brown’s “mothball” plan for the Redding home. That’s roughly $140,000 a month!

What an absolute waste! Nothing like pouring good money down the proverbial rat hole and getting absolutely nothing in return.

It’s an insult to every taxpayer in the state.

And voters ought not to tolerate it.

If the state can’t open the Redding Veterans Home on schedule for its intended purpose of serving California’s veteran community, then it needs to find another good use for it … at least in the short term.

Frankly, it seems unconscionable to me to have such a beautiful housing facility sit idle and empty when so many of our brothers and sisters find themselves without shelter from the elements during these hard times. Perhaps a partnership between state and local philanthropic groups could be formed to make something good out of an otherwise very distressing situation.

Dare I say, it’s the right thing to do. Ω

Even by government standards of inefficiency and ineptitude, this screw-up rises to a new level of incompetence and lunacy.

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I see a corporation on death row.”

Joking aside, corporate personhood is a serious issue, and the Chico City Council was right to ask its Internal Affairs Committee to examine it.

The IAC began its discussion on Feb. 14 and will continue it on March 13.

Specifically, the IAC is studying a request from former city Planning Commissioner Jon Luvaas that the City Council either adopt a resolution supporting an amendment to the U.S. Constitution ending the designation of corporations as “people,” as given in the U.S. Supreme Court’s controversial Citizens United decision, or put an advisory measure to that effect on the November 2012 ballot.

If the council does support Luvaas’ recommendation, Chico will join several other cities, including Los Angeles; Boulder, Colo.; Missoula, Mont.; and Madison, Wis., in calling for a constitutional amendment.

Some argue that corporate personhood is not an issue that involves Chico and that the council has no business wasting time considering it. But that’s a short-sighted view.

As Luvaas writes in his letter, “Corporations, for all their benefit to the economy, have progressively acquired power and rights that vastly exceed those of natural human beings. This accumulation of power has become the greatest threat to our democracy since its inception, and the inability or unwillingness of our national leaders to curtail abuse by major corporate powers has unleashed our current economic crisis.”

It was Wall Street corporations, after all, that caused the Great Recession and, with it, the loss of $7 trillion in household wealth and more than 8 million jobs. Chico has felt its share of that pain.

The immediate manifestation of the Citizens United decision is the rise of “super PACs” able to raise and spend unlimited amounts of money anonymously and without accountability. As the Republican presidential primary has shown, big donors have become far and away the most powerful force in elections. Jane Mayer, writing in The New Yorker, puts it this way: “In this campaign, every candidate needs his own billionaires.”

This is exactly what the Occupy movement has been protesting: more and more power in fewer and fewer hands. We all should take a stand against it, including the city of Chico. Ω

What ‘war on religion’?

Let’s see whether we’ve got this straight: President Obama

authorizes a rule that church-owned businesses such as universities and hospitals, but not churches themselves, include contraception in the health insurance they provide their employees. It’s a rule that 28 states already have, with nary a peep of protest until now.

Catholic bishops get all upset, saying being forced to provide contraception is an assault on the church, so Obama compromises, requiring insurance companies to provide the coverage. The insurance companies are fine with that, since contraception is less expensive than birthing babies.

Catholic woman are OK with it too, since 98 percent of them who are sexually active and of child-bearing age use contraception.

But that isn’t good enough for the bishops. They loudly protest this assault on their “religious freedom,” and the Republican presidential candidates pile on, charging the president with “making war on religion” and attacking “religious liberty.”

Whose religious liberty? The bishops’? Because nobody else is upset about this. In fact, most people think contraception is an everyday fact of life and don’t understand why such a fuss is being made. If anything, the bishops are trying to impose their religion on the non-Catholics who work for Catholic businesses.

Is this the best the Republicans can come up with? Don’t they have bigger fish to fry—like the economy, the war in Afghanistan and the looming war with Iran? Ω

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Smooth operator Some politicians have the star quality that lights up a room. Bill Clinton has it. So does Barack Obama. And so does California Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom, as he showed to several hundred people in Chico over the course of two days last week.

His first appearance was at an invitation-only reception held Thursday evening (Feb. 16) in the adjoining penthouse apartments of Bob Linscheid and Pam Montana and Steve and Charlene Gonsalves atop the Sixth and Main building. Linscheid is the economic-development go-to guy in Chico, and Steve Gonsalves heads up the local office of the big Northern California architectural firm Nichols, Melburg & Rossetto.

Linscheid and Newsom have gotten to know each other while serving as trustees of the California State University, so when Linscheid invited the lieutenant governor to Chico to talk to local business people and educators, Newsom accepted.

The penthouse event was strictly social, so Newsom didn’t give a speech, but he managed to talk with most of the 75 or so people there via a series of five- or six-person clusters that developed around him as he slowly worked the room. He’s a good-looking 43-year-old, about 6-foot-4, with a flashing smile and swept-back hair reminiscent of James Dean in Rebel Without a Cause. And he engages easily with people, moving smoothly from light bantering to serious discussion while maintaining strong eye contact throughout.

For such a young guy Newsom’s accomplished a lot— successful businessman, supervisor and then mayor of San Francisco and now lieutenant governor—and he exudes the confidence of someone who is used to being the brightest star in the room.

But he’s also a gutsy politician with passionate beliefs.

He got way out in front on marriage equality right after being elected mayor in 2003, when he defied state law and allowed same-sex couples to wed. The rest of the country is now starting to catch up to him. And he also created an action plan that turned San Francisco into the first city in the country offering universal health care—another first.

As a member of the CSU Board of Trustees, he’s been a staunch opponent of funding cutbacks and fee hikes, a position that has put him at odds with his fellow Democrat, Gov. Jerry Brown. The way he put it, speaking to a group of local business owners and educators over breakfast Friday morning at Mom’s Restaurant in downtown Chico, the current administration is focused on solvency, and higher education is an easy target for cuts.

Yes, it’s important to balance the state budget, he said. But we have to look to the future, as well. That’s why our higher-education systems, the greatest in the world, are so important. They’re the “conveyor belt of talent.” And yet the state has cut $2 billion in higher-ed funding in just one year. That’s “appalling,” Newsom said, and it has to stop.

Newsom is clearly angling for higher office. His challenge is to prove he’s more than a fast talker with a pretty face. He took a step in that direction during his visit to Chico.

Robert Speer is editor of the CN&R.

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Vang Pao and Vietnam Re “The amazing life of Vang Pao” (Cover story, by John Boyle, Feb. 16): So little of the reality of the Vietnam War is known that it was a pleasure to read an accurate article.

Our schools teach a cartoon version of the Vietnam War. The one bit I would take issue with is the statement that American pilots flew 100 missions, partied and went home. Missions over Laos and Cambodia didn’t count, so it might have been 150 missions, and I recall one American pilot saying he had flown around 400 missions.

My squadron, the 561st TFS, sent over 12 planes and had four shot down—one of them the last F-105 shot down in Vietnam. (Our “Wild Weasels” air-combat missions had a 63 percent casualty rate during the course of the war.) The Soviet Union made sure that North Vietnam had one of the most intense airdefense systems in the world.

MIKE PETERS Chico

Your article failed to mention the numerous wives Vang Pao had, and the numerous children resulting. All these zealots who followed and still follow him, I believe, only did/do so because there is nobody else Hmong for them to follow.

Not all of us idolize such a bigoted and greedy man. So the Americans appointed him as general during the war: I do not believe he earned it, as most generals do; they simply had to pick someone during a tumultuous war, and out of the hat came his name. It could have been anybody.

And for a people who had no country and never have, of course the majority are not going to question his purported authority simply because he is one of their own.

I believe the Hmong have never been a peaceful, law-abiding people. They always had to migrate because of their inability to be ruled—too extremist to get along with others, not bold enough to claim their own country. I would compare the man, at the very most, to some of the more enigmatic cult leaders of this country, unorthodox in my American eyes, chauvinist brute in my feminist eyes.

Sometimes, if you listen carefully, you can hear the resentment in some elders’ voices when they talk about Vang Pao and the war. Usually they are not Vangs themselves.

And usually they are quick to retract their statements, or they don’t finish what they’re saying out of fear, or outright disrespect, I suppose.

A statue is not going to make me feel any better about me or my culture; he does not represent me or my history. I will not be idolizing the man, in life or in death.

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Nicely written article. But I would urge you to double-check the history behind the migration of the Hmong from Mongolia.

Hmong history is documented further back in Chinese history. They were and still are referred to as the “Miao” occupying the southwestern regions of China.

CHONG LOR Berkeley

This is love

—Randy Glass

Re “What is love?” (Feature story, Feb. 9): I am a product of the ‘60s psychedelic revolution with a lifelong interest in spirituality and the experience of the transcendent. By that I mean we all have the capacity to experience directly the fact that all of nature, all of the cosmos is connected in a divine dance of energy transformation. Scientifically we understand this truth, and through the ego-death experience we can directly know this reality.

“What is love?” you ask. Love is the fundamental reality of this “totality of being.” We are love because it is all one energy-lightvibration. For fully conscious beings love is everywhere.

Ram Dass has said, “Romantic love is meeting someone who awakens within you that which is love.” We truly are all soul mates, emerging from the one light at birth, returning to that one light at death, and in between we get the chance to dance together in love for love. The universe is trying to “download” love to us. It is just our egos living in fear that blocks the flow. Remember, the opposite of love is fear, not hate.

NELSON PARMERTER Chico

If only Cuba were like China Re “50 years of failure” (Editorial, Feb. 16): Walk into Walmart or any other large store anywhere in the United States and see what percentage of its products say “Made in China.” If you haven’t been paying attention, that is a communist country that regularly employs prisoners as forced, cheap labor.

Need an organ transplant? Go to China. They will find a suitable donor on death row, execute him, and voilà, you get a kidney, or a liver or whatever organ you have bargained for. But I can’t legally get a Cuban cigar?

Too bad Cuba isn’t an industrial nation with a virtually limitless workforce and without an environmental conscience like China.

Then I could get a cigar.

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“Need an organ transplant? Go to China. They will find a suitable donor on death row, execute him, and voilà, you get a kidney or a liver or whatever organ you have bargained for.

But I can’t legally get a Cuban cigar?”

Who are the ‘elitists’?

religious beliefs. In the name of respecting religious freedom, let’s see where this might lead: Having up to four wives is allowed in Islam (and was in Mormonism, until the federal government prohibited it). Perhaps we need to revisit governmental intrusion into this religious practice and allow everyone this freedom?

In Islam and Judaism, the charging of interest on loans is prohibited. Shall banks be forced to lend money at 0 percent interest? (Hey … that would kick-start the economy!)

There’s more. Some religious sects prescribe prayer over blood transfusions. Many don’t believe in abortion even when the mother’s life is in danger. Some evangelical Christians think that sparking Armageddon in the Middle East will precipitate the Kingdom of God; shouldn’t we therefore support a more belligerent military posture?

But, should Buddhists and social-gospel Christians be forced to tolerate innovating new weapons systems, waging preemptive wars, and killing strangers in their name?

And with so many religions requiring special exemptions, might we need to create a cabinetlevel Department of Religion-andState just to manage it all?

Re “The overlooked candidate” (Newslines, by Tom Gascoyne, Feb. 16): My friend Tom Gascoyne isn’t going to enough Tea Party meetings. In his otherwise interesting and informative piece on Gregory Cheadle, the Happy Valley Republican with the impossible dream of replacing Wally Herger, Tom characterizes the man as sounding like a member of the Occupy movement when he speaks out against “elitists.” But Tom should know that whining about the “elitists” is part of the Tea Party catechism, right up there with complaints about any and all government assistance given to people who ain’t them.

But the “elitists” the Tea Party targets as their most dreaded foes are not the same people who have been the focus of the Occupy movement’s attention. The “elitists” the Tea Party people hate and fear are people who work for the “lamestream media,” or the rich Hollywood types who tend to support causes and politicians that Rupert Murdoch or the billionaire Koch brothers have told them are bad. In the Tea Party universe, even teachers and trade unionists are members of that band of elitists who demand scorn.

What guys like Cheadle (and the hack politician he dreams of TOM BLODGET replacing) definitely don’t mean Chico when they talk about “elitism” is N E Wthat S &tiny R E1V perI E W B U S I N E S S U S E O N LY the monied elite, DESIGNER ACCT. EXEC. cent of the population that nowISSUE DATE Superstition vs. fact MTH 10.28.10 AMB controls 40 percent of the nation’s Re “Can science FILE NAME REV. DATEand religion be wealth, those CEOs and Walton friends?”

(Newslines, by Kim WOMENSRESOURCE_102810R2 FWVG10 family members who use their Weir, Feb. 9): Religion and science deep reservoir of money to ensure are incompatible. Religion is based that the game remains rigged and on superstition and dogma. Scithe money keeps flowing, unimence deals with observable fact. peded, in their direction.

JAIME O’NEILL Magalia

ALLEN D. HOFFMANN Magalia

Old-time religion So the Catholic Church believes the government is violating its constitutional right to not offer contraceptive services owing to its

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CHICO STATE’S FLAKE REPLACED

Chico State President Paul Zingg has announced an interim replacement for Sandra Flake, the university’s former provost and vice president who suddenly stepped down from her position on Feb. 2.

Phyllis Fernlund, who served as the dean of the College of Communication and Education from 2004 to 2011, will assume the role of vice president of academic affairs while Zingg conducts his search for a long-term replacement. In the meantime, Zingg will personally assume the responsibilities of the provost.

Zingg will interview candidates for Flake’s former position this spring and bring a handful of candidates to campus in May, hoping to announce her successor by Aug. 1.

Flake, who was hired in December 2006, will begin a teaching position in the English Department at Chico State this fall.

BIDWELL MANSION EFFORTS BOOSTED

Chico’s Bidwell Mansion Community Project is inching closer to its goal of raising $100,000

by March 31. At press time, the group had $36,239.87 in the bank, according to spokeswoman Maria Phillips. A recent $5,000 donation from the Chico Area Recreation District has yet to clear the bank.

The Bidwell Mansion Association, which has long championed Chico’s favorite pink house, has also added $25,000 to the effort.

The money, which has been put in a special account, will be counted by State Parks toward the BMCP’s goal of raising $100,000.

Phillips explained that her group set the $100,000 goal based on how much they estimate it will cost to run the mansion for a year. She said the donation from the BMA is a welcome addition but her group is not counting it toward the goal.

FAMOUS BASSIST DIES IN CHICO

Michael Davis, bass player for legendary ’60s Detroit proto-punk band The MC5 and a recent resident of Chico, died of liver failure Feb. 17 at Enloe Medical Center. He was 68.

Davis (pictured circa 1970) moved to Chico in June 2011 with plans to finish the BFA degree he was pursuing in 1963, when he dropped out of art school at Wayne State University to join The MC5. He was a student at Butte College and planned to transfer to Chico State.

After The MC5 folded in 1972, Davis’ musical career continued in Destroy All Monsters and other bands. In the last decade, he participated in a series of MC5 reunions and also worked as a producer and visual artist. With his wife, Angela, Davis founded a nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting music education called The Music Is Revolution Foundation in 2006.

According to the Associated Press, Davis’s death followed a month-long hospitalization at Enloe. He is survived by his wife and four children.

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Anthony Watts has made headlines from here to Great Britain after leaked documents link him to controversial funding.

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Leaked documents hit home Climate-change scandal has a local connection

L Chicago-based think tank that were posted online last week have created a ripple effect eaked documents lifted from a

that’s been felt from Great Britain to Chico.

The documents, leaked to websites DeSmogBlog and Climate Progress, show that the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank whose efforts include the denial of man-made climate change, has received millions of dollars over the years from well-heeled donors and corporations, including the Koch Brothers, Microsoft and by Tom Gascoyne General Motors. And it has received more than $8 million tomg@ from a single anonymous source newsreview.com over the past four years.

The documents, leaked by Oakland-based climate researcher and water expert Peter Gleick, also reveal who is on the receiving end of Heartland Institute funding—and that’s where Chico enters the picture. Local radio weather forecaster Anthony Watts, who for years has also hosted a blog Early on climate change called “Watts challenger: Up With That?” will receive Anthony Watts says he has $88,000 to create a website that questioned the will post and decipher data gathnotion of human- ered from the National Oceanic caused climate and Atmospheric Administration change since as it pertains to climate change.

1996. For more on This week Gleick posted a him, check his website at statement at the Huffington Post http://wattsup that said he received a document withthat.com. at the beginning of the year For more on “describing what appeared to be the leaked documents, go to details of the Heartland Instiwww.desmog tute’s climate program strategy. I blog.com. solicited and received additional

materials directly from the Heartland Institute under someone else’s name.”

Gleick, director of the Berkeleybased Pacific Institute and a recipient of a MacArthur “genius” award, said his actions in obtaining the documents were wrong.

“My judgment was blinded by my frustration with the ongoing efforts— often anonymous, well-funded, and coordinated—to attack climate science and scientists and prevent this debate, and by the lack of transparency of the organizations involved. Nevertheless I deeply regret my own actions in this case. I offer my personal apologies to all those affected.”

The document naming Watts said he “has deep expertise in Web site design generally and is well-known and highly regarded by weathermen and meteorologists everywhere. The new site will be promoted heavily at WattsUpwith That.com. Heartland has agreed to help Anthony raise $88,000 for the project in 2011 [actually, 2012]. The Anonymous Donor has already pledged $44,000.

We’ll seek to raise the balance.”

Another document that generally describes the upcoming projects says Watts will receive $90,000.

Last week Watts posted a reaction

on his website that said the leaked information “gets the operational details wrong—especially the points about my project, rounding up to $90,000 from a very specific budget number of $88,000.

This suggests trying to inflate the number for a purpose.”

In 2008 Heartland, whose stated mis-

sion is “to discover, develop, and promote free-market solutions to social and economic problems,” began hosting what has become an annual climatechange conference that features prominent climate-change skeptics. Watts confirmed he has been paid to speak at each of the conferences.

A document titled “Weather

Stations Project” says Watts’ blog is “one of the more popular and influential science blogs in the world …” It goes on to commend his “past work exposing flaws in the current network of temperature stations—work that The Heartland Institute supported and promoted .…”

Last week Watts posted this on his website in response to the stories published on the issue: “I’m surprised at the number of articles out there on this where journalists have not bothered to ask me for a statement, but rather rely on their own opinion. To date, only Suzanne Goldenberg of the Guardian has asked for a statement, and she used very little of it in her article. Her colleague, Leo Hickman (writing in the Guardian), asked me no questions at all for his article, but instead relied on a comment I sent to Bishop Hill. So much for journalism.”

Hickman wrote: “This revelation is potentially damaging to Watts as he has previously laughed off the notion that he is being funded by any corporate- and/or vested-interest group. ‘AGW [anthropomorphic global-warming] proponents seem hell bent on trying to repeat this “linked to” nonsense at any cost,’ he wrote last May. ‘Heh, I’ve yet to see that

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check or any from Exxon-Mobil or any other energy or development company.

Somebody must be stealing checks out of my mailbox. /sarc – Anthony.’ ” When contacted last Friday

(Feb. 17) by the CN&R, Watts refused a phone interview, citing his hearing impairment, and said he would answer emailed questions. This week he responded via email, strongly defending his actions, suggesting he is the victim of Gleick’s illegal activities.

“What happened here is that I’m being libeled by the act of a criminal, a man by the name of Dr. Peter Gleick of the Pacific Institute in Berkeley,” Watts wrote. “He has admitted that he used lies and deception to obtain internal documents, including one document that was externally fabricated to give the story legs. Without that faked document, it is a non-story.”

The document he suggests was fabricated outlined the organization’s 2012 climate strategy.

Watts also pointed out that the Koch Foundation’s funding, as reported this week in the New York Times, went toward a health-care research program, not the climate-change debate.

“This is a non story,” he repeated.

“I’ve done nothing wrong, yet I have been libeled as a ‘Koch-whore’ and worse, even though it has been proven that Koch contributed nothing towards climate.”

Soon after the leaked documents were posted, Heartland President Joseph L. Bast sent out this statement: “For 28 years, The Heartland Institute has engaged in fierce debates over a wide range of public policies—school reform, health care, telecommunications policy, corporate subsidies, and government waste and fraud, as well as environmental policy. We frequently and happily engage in vigorous, robust debate with those who disagree with our views.

“We have resorted in the past to legal means only in a very few cases involving outright fraud and defamation. The current situation clearly fits that description, and our legal counsel has advised that the first step in defending ourselves should be to ask the blogs to take down the stolen and forged documents.”

Ironically, Heartland was one of the groups that attacked scientists on the basis of stolen emails that were purloined from the University of East Anglia’s climate-research unit in 2009. The resulting “Climate-gate” scandal ended only when investigators determined the scientists had done nothing wrong.

As to the “school reform” policy Bast mentions, the documents show an effort to introduce an anti-climate-change curriculum to the nation’s public schools.

The documents have not, as of press time, been removed from the Internet. Ω

Special Olympics event canceled New Chico State policy puts end to 40-year b-ball tourney The 40th annual Special Olympics basketball tournament of Northern California, scheduled for just two weeks from now, has been canceled due to miscommunication and major unexpected policy changes at Chico State.

“It’s disgusting that it’s come to this,” said Butte County’s Special Olympics Area Director Randall Stone, a volunteer faculty member of Chico State’s Kinesiology Department and a world-champion triathlete.

For decades his group has hosted the annual event on the first Sunday of March at Chico State’s Shurmer and Acker gyms as well as the gym at Chico High School. The all-day event is aimed at approximately 400 disabled children and adults from dozens of Northern California teams.

“All their lives they’ve been told they can’t play sports,” said Stone, a financial planner and real-estate developer. “Most of them live alone or in care homes, so this is a huge highlight in their lives.”

The athletes, he said, have been practicing for the event since early January. As he’s done in the past, Stone emailed a reservation request for the gyms last November. But he hit two major roadblocks this month, less than three weeks before the tournament was slated to take place.

On Tuesday, Feb. 14, he received a call from Kimberly Scott at Chico State’s Recre-

For more on the new fee schedule to rent university facilities, log onto www.csuchico.edu/fres/index. shtml, click on “Facilities Use/Charge Process” and then “Facility Charges.”

Adding insult to injury,

Stone received an email Friday, Feb. 17, saying the usual fee of approximately $350 for the tournament had skyrocketed to $3,800. He’d Athletes at the 2011 Special Olympics basketball tournament at Chico been able to avoid $897-aState’s Shurmer Gym. Gym rental fees have increased from $350 last day charges for practicing in year to $3,800 this year.

Shurmer Gym—previously PHOTO BY MEGAN SILLS free—by booking his 14 practices leading up to the ational Sports Department notifying him that tournament in Chico High’s gym. The tournathe university had already reserved one of the ment price tag, however, seemed unavoidable. two gyms for a volleyball tournament March 4.

“I feel like we’re being extorted,” he said.

The Special Olympics tournament, which “We’re being asked to pay 10 times our premust be played in a single day, requires both vious rate, which is what the Monsanto Corp.

Chico State’s and Chico High’s gyms with would be charged to use the gyms.” seven courts due to the large number of Stone said members of the Kinesiology teams, each playing three games. Stone was Department had offered to waive the $3,800 told that his group was never officially fee this year if he could reschedule the tourbooked because of new budget-tightening nament to April. Unfortunately, he said, rules that require those holding non-classthat’s not possible because the tournament is related events pay new fees and make a a lead-up to the Special Olympics champideposit—rules he hadn’t been made aware of. onships, which take place March 17 in Redding.

“I thought it was ridiculous, as I’d been The new fees were also lamented by led to believe by everybody under the sun Rebecca Lytle, who chairs the Kinesiology since November that our March 4 date would Department. be fine,” Stone said.

“It’s something that’s happening all over Maggie Payne, interim dean of the Colcampus, not just to the Special Olympics,” lege of Communication and Education, she said.

“Everyone feels badly, and I’m which includes kinesiology, confirmed the afraid that they’ll never have their tournagroup was given verbal assurances. ment on campus again because of it.”

In defense of university administrators, Lytle said that after receiving complaints the increased fee schedule is being reviewed to make it more affordable.

She said there is no one to blame but that the policy should change because it drives away groups like the Special Olympics, Who benefits in the ‘entitlement society’? which provide a learning opportunity for hundreds of student volunteers.

The Republican presidential candidates would have us believe that our “entitlement socieStone said the collateral damage looks ty” has created a nation of deadbeats who could be working but live off government beneeven worse in light of Chico State President fits instead. But, according to a study by the nonpartisan Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, most of the federal safety-net dollars go to the elderly, disabled or working poor Paul Zingg’s early February challenge for driven by an aging population and the rising cost of medical care. Overall, only about students to perform 125,000 hours of volun9 percent of government benefits go to able-bodied people who either can’t or won’t find a teer service this year. Stone said that the basjob. And most of that 9 percent goes for medical care, unemployment insurance benefits, ketball tournament results in 1,000 to 2,000 Social Security survivor benefits, and to Social Security retirees between ages 62 and 64. volunteer hours.

“I feel like the volunteers requested by Benefits Going to Elderly, Disabled and Working Poor President Zingg are being kicked off campus,” he said.

Zingg countered in an email, saying, “A scheduling error in no way compromises the University’s commitment to community service.”

In a press release issued Tuesday night (Feb. 21), Stone expressed his disappointment in the way things were handled.

“We hope to have solutions with Chico Unified School District in place for next year pending some rational conclusion with the University.”

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Last April Butte College announced it would no longer broadcast the local public-access television Channel 11. The school had actually indicated its intentions to the city of Chico four months earlier. The station has long carried local programming, including the Chico City Council meetings, area school board meetings as well as Butte County Board of Supervisor meetings.

When news of the pending shutdown was made public, a group of local citizens calling themselves North Valley Cable Access contacted the city and said they would form a nonprofit organization to run the station.

Last December the City Council authorized City Manager Dave Burkland to enter into a contract with the association. The transfer should be complete by mid-March, said NVCA member Mike Donnelly. The group is working with local cable provider Comcast.

“We’ve filed our articles of incorporation, we have draft bylaws in place, as well as a draft business plan, and we have a board of directors,” said Donnelly. “So we are looking pretty solid. All we really need now is some money.”

According to that draft business plan, the mission “is to promote community media and to encourage, educate and engage residents in Butte, Glenn and Tehama counties, as well as the greater Northern California region, to use new media and technology, to improve civic involvement, learn new media skills and enhance the culture, the economy, health and quality of life in the North State.”

County’s community-access television.

In April he read an article in the Chico Enterprise-Record that Butte College was getting out of the broadcast game.

“I met a few people who said we should save community TV because it is a vital component of democracy. So we started looking at ways we could kind of keep it going.”

He said community broadcasting has come a long way over the years and mentioned Al Mitchell, the late political commentator who hosted a show in the mid-90s called A Work in Progress.

Mitchell was a firebrand who sat in a chair in front of the camera and warned people about the political storms that were brewing here and abroad. He would regularly tell his audience, in what seemed a bit counterproductive, to turn off their TVs and throw them away.

Butte College, Donnelly said, has been cooperative through the transaction.

“They’ve extended their deadline to let us to put all our affairs in order and work with the city to

Donnelly has a background

in television, first as a cameraman for The Moriss Taylor Show in the 1980s, then as a reporter and later a news anchor for KHSL Channel 12 news. He is currently in the realestate business.

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The city is putting up about $20,000 from its Public Education and Government (PEG) programming fund, which is generated by a fee paid by cable TV customers.

Donnelly said equipment must be transported from Butte College to the basement of the Old Municipal Building in downtown Chico.

NVCA is renting out a small office in the KZFR studios on the fourth floor of the Waterland-Breslauer building, which is also in downtown Chico.

Part of the franchise agreement with Comcast says the station cannot go off the air.

“We will probably have to run some filler programming like community calendar or something like that just to keep it on the air while we hook up the computer equipment,” Donnelly said. “I think within a couple of days of that move, we should be able to resume exactly how it’s being run now.”

NVCA board members include Sue Hilderbrand, former director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center, and political activist Quentin Colgan. Cathy Emerson serves as the board chairwoman.

“I like to think I got named [chairwoman] because I know nothing about community-access public TV,” said Emerson, who is project manager for Chico State’s Center for Economic Development.

“On the other hand, I understand groups, I understand people management, I understand accessing and motivating people who show up with passion and desire to participate. I know that I can make order out of chaos.”

She said she will be in charge of fianancing the station, which will include fundraisers and business partners who recognize the value of community access TV “We need to figure out a way to start the mechanisms so that NVCA is at the forefront for anybody who wants a public voice,” she said. “We represent the means by which individuals can have a space to be heard, to make their voices known.”

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PROFESSIONAL City Finance Director Jennifer Hennessey provides the numbers so council members can debate what to do with them.

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To rank or not to rank?

Council debates setting budget priorities To hear Chico City Council members talk at their meeting Tuesday (Feb. 21), the city is like someone who needs to go on a diet but doesn’t know whether to put a lock on the fridge or rely on self-discipline to eat less.

It’s budget time for the city, so the council members were talking about money, not food. Specifically, they were trying to decide whether they should rank the city’s priorities in budgeting or continue with its current, more flexible “guiding principles for budget development” that simply call for “a balance between public safety, infrastructure and quality-of-life services.”

This may seem esoteric, but it could have significant effects on future spending decisions. And council members were deeply divided on which course to take.

At issue was a proposal Councilman Bob Evans made late last year that the council give first priority in the budgeting process to “replenishing” its reserves, second to restoring city staffing to comfortable levels, and third to raising salaries.

Council members discussed Evans’ proposal following a lengthy budget study session, the first of several leading up to adoption of the FY 2012-13 budget in June, and a quarterly financial report from Finance Director Jennifer Hennessey.

Despite the many hits the city’s revenue streams have taken, the budget is still balanced, Hennessey said, and in some respects things are looking up as the economy slowly improves.

She acknowledged, though, that during the recession the city has used its operational reserves to help balance the budget, and that the fund was down to about $120,000. The separate emergency reserve has $5.7 million.

Historically, policy has been to keep about $3 million in the former and $9 million in the latter.

Some council members were more concerned about the reserves than others. All wanted to see them replenished, but some didn’t want to put city staff in a strait-jacket by making it a rule that money had to go into reserves first.

As Mayor Ann Schwab put it, “Do we lay people off to add to the reserve? Do we not pick up leaves or fund community-based organizations?”

Councilman Andy Holcombe thought it was a mistake to have “forced ranking.”

What if the city had a chance to land a huge federal grant, he asked, but it needed to come up with $1 million in matching funds?

“I might want to do that before I put money in an emergency reserve or hire more staff.”

Vice Mayor Jim Walker, in contrast, thought Holcombe was being too literal. “I don’t see how Bob’s priorities lock us into anything,” he said. In fact, they are entirely consistent with existing budget policies.

“These are basic, simple, fundamental guidelines that don’t require any dollar amounts.”

For his part, Evans pointed out that the city was still reeling from loss of its RDA money. He added that the state “is in a very precarious position right now,” which makes future funding highly uncertain. The city has depleted its reserves, contrary to its own policies, and needs to replenish them.

Laughing, Councilman Scott Gruendl said he agreed with everyone, and that Holcombe had “hit the nail on the head.” At the same time, he added, “not having an operational reserve is a red flag. What happens if [Gov. Jerry Brown’s] sales tax doesn’t pass and AB 109 [the realignment bill] isn’t funded? Is the county going to charge us for use of the jail? The county could potentially run out of options.”

And so it went. Evans’ proposal hadn’t been agendized as an action item, so the council took no vote, instead putting it over to a later meeting.

The council will hold a special meeting next Tuesday, Feb. 28, at which it will hear a presentation on strategic planning and priorities by Assistant City Manager John Rucker.

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A study conducted by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has concluded Southern Californians are among those most at risk of death and illness from air pollution in the nation.

The study, published in the journal Risk Analysis, used data collected in 2005 to determine areas of the United States most exposed to fine-particulate and ozone pollution, according to California Watch. Of the most populated metropolitan areas in the state, Los Angeles had the highest estimated rate of deaths attributable to air pollution at 10 percent, with San Jose ranking lowest at 3.5 percent. A similar study conducted in the Bay Area last year concluded that about 3.8 percent of all deaths were caused by poor air quality.

Two separate studies published in the Archives of Internal Medicine suggested living in a metropolitan area is linked to a higher risk of stroke and a more rapid decline in thinking and memory skills, in addition to exacerbating respiratory illness and increasing risk of heart attack.

TROUBLE AHEAD FOR STATE HOSPITALS

The financial problems facing many California hospitals will continue in 2012 and likely result in closures, the California Hospital Association predicts.

In a report released in January, the association cited “federal and state health-care reform implementation, together with state and federal budget pressures and other environmental market forces” as reasons some rural and urban hospitals will be at high risk of closing in 2012, according to California Healthline. The report also predicted health-care worker unions will act more aggressively in response to proposed pay cuts, while hospitals will likely lose business to retail clinics and physicianoperated ambulatory-care centers.

Compounding the issue, citizens 65 and older represent the fastest-growing age group in the state, suggesting the demand for health-care services is likely to increase in the coming year.

ENLOE’S BENEFIT TO CHICO

In a report submitted to the state detailing the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, Enloe Medical Center valued its community benefit at $95.6 million.

The report, which is required of nonprofit hospitals in California, noted that Enloe’s community benefit increased by 23 percent over 2010, according to an Enloe Medical Center press release. Community benefit is mostly determined by measuring the amount of uncompensated care provided, either through charity care or bad debt from uncollectible accounts.

Most of the contribution is attributed to the difference between state and federal payments for Medicare and Medi-Cal services and the actual cost of providing those services. Payments for Medicare and Medi-Cal were $31.7 million and $49.3 million short of operating costs, respectively.

Charity care accounted for $4.7 million of the hospital’s community benefit, an increase of more than 66 percent over the previous fiscal year.

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Mary Ficcardi oversees the nurses in the Paradise Unified School District.

‘Never-ending work’ School nurses in cash-strapped California work extra hard for their money

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loads increase, both in quantity and acuity—and she’s not alone in that observation or circumstance.

Nationwide, particularly in California, school nurses care for an increasing number of children. And they don’t just treat cuts and bruises—they administer injections, change urinary catheter bags and stop seizures. Sometimes they do all of this in one day, on multiple campuses.

“There’s just never-ending work,” said Sagers recently. She has worked for the Paradise Unified School District (PUSD) for 10 years. “The more you know about the job, the more there is to do.”

Sagers wasn’t complaining; she was explaining reality. She and Janine Roy are the two registered nurses for approximately 3,700 PUSD students from

We’re No. 42:

With an average of one school nurse per 2,187 students, California ranks 42nd among the 50 states in nursing ratios, according to the National Association of School Nurses. Vermont, with 311 students per nurse, ranks No. 1.

kindergarten through 12th grade. Sagers covers one elementary school, the intermediate school, the comprehensive high school and the alternative high school— but if a call comes from another campus, she may need to rush from Paradise to Magalia.

PUSD is typical of districts across cash-strapped California. The National Association of School Nurses conducted a study in 2009 that found school nurses in our state, on average, have 2,187 students under their care. HealthyCal.org reports that one Southern California district has just one nurse per 13,000 children, and some rural districts assign a single nurse to cover students in schools located hours’ drives apart.

Staffing levels have decreased since the 1970s, when the passage of Proposition 13 impacted the revenues state and local governments receive from property taxes.

“Before Prop. 13, every school in California had a school nurse,” Linda Davis-Alldritt, the Sacramento-based president of the National Association of School Nurses, told HealthyCal.org.

“After that, the number of school nurses gradually declined.”

The state has approximately 2,500

school nurses, down more than 400 in just three years. DavisAlldritt told HealthyCal.org that nursing positions are among the first cut by districts during budget crises.

Ironically, nurses generate money for the schools they serve.

Both Medicare and Medi-Cal pay districts to perform medical services that require certified professionals like registered nurses.

“Health secretaries”—secretaries with training in basic healthcare—work at each PUSD campus, but the scope of their treatment has limits.

Health secretaries represent “a decent compromise not to lose that service when bad budget cuts hit the district—all districts,” said Mary Ficcardi, PUSD’s director of special services, which include special education and nursing.

“Whoever comes to us, we serve.

The more high-need the students, the more involved the nurses are with them.”

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Doctors of Movement Carl Fairburn and Ryan Sharrett know the pain

joints. The hip, for instance, may pay the price for

Fairburn says. “This opens up their chest and gets

of injuries, the frustration of disability, and what it

poor form in other parts of the body.

their cardio vascular system going, which helps

may mean to a person to fully recover. Sharrett

“So, if a patient is having hip problems, we

with their recovery.”

But better than recovery is injury prevention,

and Fairburn – both physical therapists at

have to look at the big picture, study the whole

Oroville Hospital – played football in high school,

body to see where the trouble with the hip is

and the body responds positively to regular use

and each was injured. Sharrett tore his posterior

originating,” Sharrett explained. “Once we’ve

and activity. Exercise keeps joints lubricated,

cruciate ligament, and Fairburn separated his

done that, it’s our job to help change the way

bones strong, and muscles, tendons, and

shoulder. Both athletes made full recoveries,

people move.”

ligaments limber.

then turned their greater energies toward finer

Oroville Hospital’s physical therapists work

studies of the human body. In fact, they were

mostly with outpatients who come to the hospital

both studying anatomy and physiology at Chico

with an injury or ongoing symptom, commonly

State (a few years apart) when they made their

an orthopedic issue. But they also

decisions to become physical therapists.

play an important role in

“Your body and your joints need to move, and it’s important to stay active,” Sharrett advises.

inpatient care by helping people recover who

“Your body and your joints need to move.”

have been admitted to the hospital for long-term treatment, often with lung infections like

In the years following, they deepened their focus on anatomy and physiology,

pneumonia or sepsis.

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again,”

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS Robyn DiFalco recently came on board as executive director of the Butte Environmental Council.

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Britain’s government has placed a monetary value on its air quality, fresh water, green spaces and other environmental resources in an effort to make a financial case to preserve nature and is urging other countries to follow its example.

Caroline Spelman, the UK’s environment secretary, is proposing that countries begin “green accounting,” an audit of natural resources to be considered along standard metrics such as gross domestic product when measuring a nation’s wealth, according to the UK’s Telegraph newpaper. Britain is setting up a Natural Capital Committee, which will report to the Treasury, in the hope its findings will be considered in future national policy-making on infrastructure, education and health.

“We believe you can really drive significant ‘greening’ if you take proper account of the value of natural capital in your government accounts,” Spelman said.

‘NO-DISCHARGE ZONE’ ESTABLISHED

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved a state proposal to ban most large ocean-going vessels, such as cruise ships, from discharging sewage along California’s coastline.

Jared Blumenfeld, the EPA’s Pacific Southwest regional administrator, signed a rule on Feb. 9 that prevents ships from dumping sewage— even treated sewage—in the waters from Mexico to California, including areas around major islands, according to an EPA press release.

Estimates project the rule will prevent the discharge of more than 22 million gallons of treated vessel-sewage introduced to California’s marine ecosystem each year.

The “no-discharge zone” is a part of the Clean Coast Act, introduced by state Sen. Joe Simitian (D-Palo Alto), that prohibits commercial ships from dumping hazardous waste, sewage sludge, oily bilge-water and “gray water” from sinks and showers into state waters.

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Extreme weather patterns linked to climate change continue around the world, causing the formation of a giant crack in Antarctica’s fastest-melting glacier and bitterly cold winters in Alaska and northern Europe.

A crevasse 19 miles long and 260 feet wide has formed in Pine Island Glacier in West Antarctica (pictured), which scientists expect will cause the calving of an iceberg covering 350 square miles, an area larger than all of New York City, according to National Geographic.

Paradoxically, melting ice in the Arctic has been linked to Europe’s bitterly cold temperatures—which have killed scores in the Ukraine, Poland and Romania—because previously frozen areas of ocean are now exposed to the atmosphere, thus changing wind patterns. The same phenomenon Pine Island Glacier's has been linked to vast crack, pictured via NASA January’s record satellite late last fall. cold in Alaska.

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Last year’s Procession of the Species at BEC’s popular Endagered Species Faire.

PHOTO COURTESY OF BEC

The re-blossoming of BEC After a rocky few years, the hiring of a new executive director helps rejuvenate the eco-activist organization

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Tcil (BEC) was the quintessential environmental nonprofit organization when it

he Butte Environmental Coun-

was formed in 1975 by the fusion of several local groups, including one called Chico Community Gardens and another—a recycling-focused group—that went by the name Forces to Restore Earth’s Environment, or FREE. Thirty-seven years later—the last few a bit rough-going since the well-publicized, somewhat tumultuous 2009 departure of then-Executive Director Barbara Vlamis— BEC is poised to be back on track as the effective eco-activist organization it originally set out to be, and has been for so many years.

A significant part of the good news is that on Feb. 21 Robyn DiFalco, who stepped down from her position of the past

six years as Associated Students sustainability coordinator at Chico State, is now at BEC’s helm as executive director. BEC reinstated the position after solving some financial problems and eliminating the two-part directorship structure that went into place following Vlamis’ leaving.

Chico State professor Mark Stemen, who chairs BEC’s revitalized board of directors, couldn’t be more thrilled that BEC “could entice such an incredibly talented woman to leave such a stable job.”

DiFalco, who referred recently to her

On the BEC horizon:

The 33rd annual Endangered Species Faire will be held May 5 in Lower Bidwell Park’s Cedar Grove. Vendors and people to march in the event’s Procession of the Species are being sought; sign up for free puppet-making workshops in March and April to make a costume for the procession. Learn more at www.endangeredspeciesfaire.org. More about BEC at www.becnet.org.

A.S. position as her “dream job,” is even more excited about coming on board to lead BEC. “I’m excited to work in the community more broadly than I’ve been able to, because I’ve been on campus, which is so all-consuming,” she said. “Also, environmental work is a little different from sustainability. I started my career working in environmental activism [in the Bay Area]; this is a little bit like getting back to those roots.”

But the energetic 36-year-old would not have been hired had it not been for BEC’s phoenix-like rising from the ashes of some serious financial woes. Without saying too much, Stemen—who has been on BEC’s board for two years—noted that during that time “we have tried our best to reorganize and get our organization back on stable financial footing.” When Vlamis left, BEC was in debt, he said. “We’ve now worked our way out of debt—we’re debt-free. It was a rough up-and-down out of that.”

Stemen credits longtime ARC of Butte

Last Year

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Asparagus: Needs full sun, and soil on the sandy side.

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Bunching onions: Like its name suggests, this variety grows in bunches and multiplies on its own.

Garlic : Full sun, and most any (well-drained) soil will do.

Horseradish: Just harvest the side roots and leave the tap root to reproduce.

Kale: The perennial varieties of this superfood will produce in many different climates.

Radicchio : Don’t dig it up and it will perennially produce its spicy, bitter bounty.

Rhubarb : Does best in cold climates. Keep in partial shade and well-drained soil.

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economics. He has a bachelor’s degree in economics and public administration.

“In my 39 years of being involved in nonprofits, well, somebody had to do the math, I guess.

And I was good at math,” he said during a recent interview in his ARC office.

McGinnis said he came back to BEC last summer after not being involved since he was elected to

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Chico’s City Council in the late 1980s. He had been talking with Stemen about the possibilities for ARC involvement in a community garden on a piece of city-owned land that had been acquired when McGinnis was on the council, and then the conversation “just morphed into how I could be reinvolved with BEC.” McGinnis, who was one of several BEC board members who interviewed DiFalco, said that he is excited about her coming on board, as “she seems like an extremely bright and mature individual.

“I think she comes with a sense of the importance of the issues that we’re facing,” he noted, both locally and in the big picture.

“Climate action would be one of those—climate change caused by man,” McGinnis continued.

Because of recent negative publicity poo-poohing the existence of climate change (such as that of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich), the number of Americans deeming climate change an important issue has actually lowered rather than increased.

McGinnis believes there is “even more need for agencies like BEC to be active. Nobody has a sense of urgency about [dealing with climate change], which is unfortunate.

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County Executive Director Michael McGinnis—a co-founder of BEC who was on the original board of directors, and is now back serving on the board—with providing the financial expertise necessary to bring BEC into the black, so much so that it could afford to hire DiFalco.

“We were in the depths of darkness, and into that walks Michael McGinnis,” Stemen said. “Michael really straightened out our finances.”

“He’s a knight in shining armor,” offered DiFalco.

In addition to McGinnis’ accounting expertise, part of BEC’s financial repair came about as a result of money brought in by several fundraisers, including North Valley Community Foundation’s Annie B’s Community Drive, and BEC’s annual Birthday Bash last fall, which sold out the ARC Pavilion.

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… Climate action is just one symbol of how important environmental groups like BEC are.”

Besides actively working to raise awareness about climate change, BEC will also be working to create a vibrant community garden and help other struggling environmental outfits, such as the Chico Bicycle Music Festival, survive and thrive—as well as continue putting on time-honored ecoevents like the annual Endangered Species Faire, which has been in existence for more than three decades.

This year’s Endangered Species Faire, in May, will see BEC partnering with Kids and Creeks and the Chico Creek Nature Center. The event’s theme will be “Environmental Communities—Big and Small.” “It really is this idea that we’re all the same community and we all need to work together on this stuff,” Stemen said.

“I see myself and many see me as a next generation of BEC,” DiFalco said. “Any organization needs to replenish itself with those who do the good work that the founders started.”

“What we are really doing is returning to our roots,” said Stemen, who served as a BEC intern years ago when he was a student at Chico State. “Robyn is a milestone in a process that’s going to unfold over the next year. We’re excited about the prospects of what she can do with a platform like BEC—the premier environmental organization in the North State.” Ω

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al This Way to Sustainability conference at Chico State, March 1-3. Three keynote speakers—marine biologist Wallace J. Nichols, corporate chef and culinary health educator Laura Stec and global-warming expert Peter G. Joseph— are the highlights of a three-day event featuring dozens of workshops, including “The School Garden-Kitchen Model,” presented on March 1 by Sherwood Montessori’s Richie Hirshen and John Howlett; “What We Are Leaving Behind in Iraq—The Environmental Footprint of War,” presented on March 2 by U.S. Army vet and Chico State student Michael Fitzpatrick; and Zen master Lin Jensen’s “Zen and the Return to Earth.” Yours truly will also be presenting on the morning of March 2.

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Edwards, a former English teacher in Indiana, quit his job after winning a writing contest that offered as its prize seven months of living in a cabin on the homestead two hours from the nearest town, sans electricity or neighbors.

“In prose that is by turns lyrical, introspective, and funny, Breaking Into the Backcountry is the story of what he discovered: that alone, in a wild place, each day is a challenge and a gift,” is how the book’s publisher, the University of Nebraska Press, puts it. “Whether chronicling the pleasures of a day-long fishing trip, Steve Edwards, author of his first encounter with a black bear, Breaking Into the Backcountry a lightning storm and the threat of fire, the beauty of a steelhead, the attacks of 9/11, or a silence so profound that a black-tailed deer chewing grass outside his window could wake him from sleep, Edwards’s careful evocation of the river canyon and its effect on him testifies to the enduring power of wilderness to transform a life.”

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The artist as business leader

DOWNTOWN’S HISTORIC

Jacki Headley was in the forefront of a downtown renaissance

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ne of the seminal events in the modern history of downtown Chico—and in the life of a young businesswoman named Jacki Headley—occurred in 1980, when Crocker Bank, then located on the corner of Third and Main streets, announced it planned to demolish the building next door to make way for an expanded bank with drive-through lanes.

The doomed structure was the historic Nottelmann Building on West Third Street, between Broadway and Main. Once the home of Nottelmann’s Harness and Saddle Shop, it had been in that location for most of the 20th century.

When Chico’s first mall opened in 1967, downtown was devastated.

Here’s how it was reborn stronger than ever

Our annual Business & Entrepreneur package begins with a lovely profile of Jacki Headley, the owner of Woof & Poof and Made in Chico, who died from cancer Jan. 28 at the age of 60. She was one of the leaders in the entrepreneurial movement of the late 1970s and early ’80s that led to the revival of Chico’s downtown in the wake of the devastation wrought by the opening of Chico’s first mall in 1967.

We commissioned Pam Figge, a longtime friend of Headley’s, to write the piece when we learned Headley was ill and didn’t have long to live. We planned it for this issue, thinking we would combine it with shorter profiles of other business owners who were part of downtown’s rebirth. We’re sad that she didn’t live long enough to see it.

We know, though, that she would have enjoyed this story of how she helped save the historic Nottelmann Building, created a business with worldwide reach, and founded the Shop Local movement here (with her store Made in Chico) before it even had a name.

The six other business owners profiled all played a role in downtown’s rebirth, and one of them, Dave Kilbourne, developed his experience co-founding and running the Downtown Chico Business Association into a thriving consultancy that has helped more than 100 other communities to revitalize their downtowns.

Suddenly aware that their downtown had a history that was worth Pam Figge fighting to preserve, many local residents began to picket the Crocker pamf igge@ building, while behind the scenes gmail.com influential citizens worked to forestall the demolition.

Finally, during one of the protests, bank representatives met outside the building and explained to an angry crowd that they didn’t want to demolish the building, but no one had stepped forward to buy it. Jacki Headley, the 29-year-old owner of Woof & Poof, quickly raised her hand and yelled, “I’ll buy it!” The fact that she had no assets didn’t seem to enter her mind.

Headley met with the bank, and not only did Crocker officials agree to sell the building to her, they financed it as well. by

With her action, Headley emerged as a leader among the group of young entrepreneurs who were then revitalizing Chico’s downtown following the defection of such big national retailers as J.C. Penney and Montgomery Ward to the recently constructed North Valley Plaza Mall.

Headley, who died in her home at the age of 60 on Jan. 28, dedicated herself to a lifetime of entrepreneurship and community service. The Chico icon made an indelible mark among local business owners and on the fabric of the Chico community she so loved. She was a woman of great style and creative energy, determination and spunk. Preserving the history of Chico and working to ensure new structures and uses would not distract from the historical legacy of the town would serve as an ongoing theme in her life.

Headley’s retail business, Made in Chico, celebrates

Above: Jacki Headley with her husband, Graham Hutton, on a trip to Seattle.

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Right: Headley in her Woof & Poof facility located in the former Gold’s Gym. CN&R FILE PHOTO

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30 years of operation this year. After previous stints elsewhere downtown, it is now housed in the very Nottelmann Harness and Saddle Shop building Jacki Headley Local was so instrumental in preserving.

The late 1970s and early 1980s represented a “renaissance” period in downtown Chico spurred on by the relocation of major downtown retail stores to the North Valley Plaza Mall (a process that would be repeated, to a lesser degree, following the opening of the Chico Mall on East 20th Street in 1988).

The retail drain left downtown Chico with lower square-footage rents, and a group of young entrepreneurial artists seized the opportunity to start businesses in the vacant storefronts.

Headley, Nancy Lindahl, Dave Kilbourne, Fred Marken, Bob and Barbara Malowney, Bruce Hart, Rebecca Shadd and Rick and Nan Toffanelli all started downtown retail and restaurant businesses at around the same time. Many of them had come out of the Chico State Art Department. These “young Turks,” as Lindahl has called them, quickly became a force downtown by injecting new, young energy and ideas with businesses such as Kilbourne’s Pyromania Tallow Works, Marken’s Metamorphosis women’s-clothing boutique and LaSalles Restaurant and Bar, Lindahl’s Zucchini & Vine home specialty shop, the Tofanellis’

Local

Nantucket Quilt Shop (now Nantucket Home), the Malowneys’ Bird in Hand store, Hart’s Mountain Sports outdoor gear, Shadd’s Perché No! ice cream and espresso shop, and Headley’s Made in Chico.

Headley, Lindahl and Tofanelli attended a Downtown Chico Business Association (DCBA) meeting focused on the upcoming holiday season. Most of the members were long-time, mature and conservative business people. Their collective jaws dropped when the three young business owners surprised the group by dressing up in elf costumes and performing a choreographed dance to Cabaret’s LOCAL “Money Makes the World Go Round” while jingling coins in their pockets.

While the “Made in Chico” label pinpointed our college town north of the 37th parallel, most folks didn’t know that Headley’s flagship company, Woof & Poof, founded when she was just 24, produced her stuffed, uniquely designed characters to be shipped across the nation to mega-businesses like Macy’s, Bloomingdale’s, Neiman Marcus, Eddie Bauer and L.L. Bean. Her designs are the originals that now have been pirated, reproduced in China and shipped back to the United States.

Jacki Headley’s life as an entrepreneur began

almost 50 years ago, when she was growing up in Orange County.

She was the first of two daughters (her sister is named Jan) born to Jack and Jean Headley. Jack Headley was the skipper on John Wayne’s yacht, The Wild Goose, docked in Newport Beach. Her mother worked in banking and optometry. Jean reports that Jacki was interested in creative clothing design at an early age, making her first dress in the second grade out of paper sacks with a woven grass belt.

At 14, the young entrepreneur presented a dress she had made to an exclusive boutique shop on Balboa Island and asked the proprietor if he was interested in buying it. The gentleman liked her creation, but told her he would need a dress in every size he sold.

Headley took that proclamation as encouragement and promptly set about drawing and cutting patterns in the specified sizes and making all the dresses. The boutique owner was floored when the teenage couturier walked in with a multitude of sized dresses.

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Here, Headley moved in with her friend Nancy Lindahl and began to make aprons that she sold to Oser’s department store, which had been a fixture downtown for more than a century and had resisted the lure of the shopping mall.

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Drs. Brannen and Vogel are board-certified and specially trained in minimally invasive “interventions” -- targeted treatments that are performed using image guidance to see inside the body and treat disease directly at the source. “Interventional procedures are a viable option to traditional surgery,” says Dr. Vogel. “We work closely with other physicians to come up with the best treatment plan for each patient.”

Interventional Radiology is used to treat the following: • Varicose Veins and other complications of Chronic Venous Hypertension – Total Vein Care

John Brannen, MD • Alexander Vogel, MD Interventional Radiologists • Chronic Back Pain or Spinal FracturesSpinal Injections & Vertebroplasty or Kyphoplasty Advantages of Interventional Radiology: • Outpatient or brief hospital stay • Minimal discomfort; general anesthesia usually not required.

• Risk, pain, and recovery time often reduced.

• Generally less expensive than surgery or other alternatives.

• Uterine Fibroids – Uterine Fibroid Embolization • Cancer Care – Tumor Ablation, Chemoembolization, Venous Access

1702 esplanade / ChiCo (530)898–0520 / www.nsradiology.Com

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The Evans’ staff pursues every measure possible in providing exemplary service to all who visit them.

Their goal is to ensure customer satisfaction beyond the initial purchase of furniture, in hopes of earning their trust and commitment for the future.

Today, Evans showcases over 36,000 square feet of home furnishings, making them the largest Home Furnishings retailer north of Sacramento to the Oregon border.

The staff of sales associates are professionally trained by the manu-

facturers and are ready to assist customers in fulfilling their needs without making them feel pressured.

The relaxed atmosphere makes it easy for the customer to feel free to roam the gallery as they please.

Harry and his team welcome you to come be their guests and experience the Evans Furniture difference!

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Begun in 1938 when Leonard C. Shubert left Montana, at age 54, to find a location in California for an ice cream shop.

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Leonard Shubert’s original 5-gallon And that’s what Shubert’s is really ice cream-making machines. And the all about, distinctive homemade taste. business is still in the same family, currently with three generations of Come in to the shop and sample a Pulliams making ice cream, rolling out bit of Chico history! candies and dipping chocolates right on the premises.

This unbroken connection to Chico’s history and to traditional entrepreneurship is reflected in the family’s dedication to maintaining the highest standard of quality in their products. Everything at Shubert’s is

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The practice covers full-spectrum family medicine including acute care for colds, flu, and ear aches as well as management of chronic illnesses like asthma, diabetes and obesity. Additional services include women’s care and gynecology, skin biopsies, nutrition counseling and weight loss. Dr. Harwood places an emphasis on prevention, wellness

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Dannielle Harwood M.D. graduated from Loma Linda University 1997 and completed her residency 2000. She moved to Chico in 2005 because this is where she spent her summers growing up, visiting her grandparents and playing in Bidwell Park.

You can follow Dr. Harwood for health and nutrition advice on Facebook or Twitter. Look for “Studio MD” or DannielleHarwoodMD@ MyStudioMD.com.

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Since 1985 thousands of adults just like you have chosen to train with Grandmaster Farshad Azad.

A Martial Artist for over 38 years, Grandmaster Azad was recently promoted to the rank of 9th Dan and the successor to his late Tai Chi Chuan Great Grandmaster Sifu Vavallette.

Azad’s Center offers classes in Mixed Martial Arts, Muay Thai Kickboxing, Hapkido, Taekwondo, Karate, Tai Chi Chuan, and South East Asian martial arts. With over 80 classes per week and 10 professional certified instructors, Azad’s Martial Arts Center offers classes to kids and adults of all ages.

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Each year Azad’s Center donates thousands of dollars to variety of

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Over the last three years Rape Crisis Intervention & Prevention Center (RCI) has faced drastic funding cuts. These cuts drastically impact the clients who seek RCI services. Most are afraid to speak out about the atrocities of sexual violence, but together the community must stand and no longer be silent.

The local service area covers Butte, Glenn and Tehama counties. The agency deals specifically with sexual violence through crisis-intervention, follow-ups, counseling, advocacy, accompaniments, support-groups, community education, prevention and outreach. All of these services are free.

al violence. This April will be the second “3-cents-for-30 days ”Campaign.

If 50k residents in the Tri-County area donate just 90 cents (less than a cup of coffee); there will be a huge impact in the lives of several Sexual Assault Survivors and their families.

April is National Sexual Assault Awareness Month; for 30 days Rape Crisis will “Shine-the-Light” on sexu-

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Christian & Johnson has a strong tradition of quality and creative floral design, and they offer a wide variety of beautiful and unique gifts and décor.

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ChristianAndJohnson.com, or stop by their showroom on Vallombrosa Avenue, next to Morning Thunder and T. Bar. The crew at C&J says THANK YOU, CHICO for over a century of business!

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A self-appointed “Plant Nerd”, Denise and her team of Flower Floozies, Rebecca Yarrow, Nancy Shanks and Sammy Brown, love everything about gardening, decorating, creating beautiful spaces and encouraging others to be creative as well.

and quality of material that can be found at the Plant Barn is made possible by the team’s love of plants and their dedication to making sure the customer is getting the right plant for the right space.

The Plant Barn doesn’t just sell plants, they also like to sell success.

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The ACA designation is your assurance of the superior standard of care you expect and deserve. Deanna has been a specialist at Chico Hearing Aid Center for 14 years and has trained another specialist, Ashley Main, to assist her in keeping up with the high demand for the outstanding service that has built the business.

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“Having the room to be able to expand the opportunities for special events and teaching is exciting and we can now create an even larger oasis of beauty for people to experience,” says Kelly.

It is music to Denise’s ears when she hears customers tell her that the Plant Barn is “their happy place” and that they “love coming here and seeing what’s new.” The Plant Barn is a magical place, which has become a unique and delightful destination for so many. The diversity

Owner Melissa Heringer and her Design Staff have many years of experience in floral design. They love fresh, gorgeous flowers, and they appreciate their wonderful customers!

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If you or someone you know has difficulty in understanding conversations, especially in noisy environments, call the professionals who specialize in hearing instruments at Chico Hearing Aid Center.

Founded in 1949, they continue to strive to bring you the most current technology at honest and reasonable prices.

With a staff fully trained to handle minor maintenance and repairs, there is always someone available to assist you.

Chico Hearing Aid Center

California Licensed Hearing Aid Dispensers

1600 mangrove ave, suite 160 / ChiCo 342-8132 / 800-600-9787 / www.ChiCohearingaidCenter.Com

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The business prides themselves in offering customers dedicated, conscientious service. Chico Paper Company’s owner Jana Strong says,”When quality counts, Chico Paper Company is your framing choice. We offer an unparalleled collection of more than 2,000 frames, 5,000 mats and 7 different glass options. Our clients experience a ‘softview’ of framing and matting options with our cuttingedge video technology and software. Quality doesn’t have to cost

more. Representing over twentyfive of the area’s best artists, we make sure our framing is to the highest standard and let the art do the rest.

We are thrilled to be part of Downtown Chico and we love what we do.” CN&R “Best of” winners year after year, you can find them at: www.chicopapercompany.com and www.jakeearlyart.com.

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He made things from scraps of leather left behind when his father, an avid sportsman, repaired his outdoor equipment. He first realized the value of this hobby when a friend saw a pair of expensive knee-high moccasins in a store window.

She couldn’t afford them, so Alan made her a pair! After a stint in the service, where he continued to refine his craft, Alan opened Iron Mountain Leather.

He has over 40 years experience in the business and specializes in leather jackets and motorcycle gear for both men and women. If you can’t find exactly what you want, he can special order it for you, as he works with a wide variety of suppliers. Alan makes most of his hats, belts and Indian

artifact reproductions found in the store, and many of the wallets, slippers and purses. Swords and knives for collectors and reenactors are also available. Alan also offers quality leather hides and supplies for craftersmen.

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creations to friends and by word of mouth.

She worked in Lindahl’s dining room designing, cutting and sewing her creations. Lindahl recalls that the only problem with using her home for production was “painfully finding Jacki’s hidden straight pins in the white shag carpet.” Headley credited Lindahl with encouraging her with good business sense and asking her periodically, when Headley became discouraged, “Where would you rather be and what would you rather be doing?” Headley’s answer was always: “In Chico sewing.” Lindahl would remain a lifelong friend and business ally.

Headley made a firm commitment to stay and do business in Chico. With $750 borrowed from her parents, money she repaid within the year, she purchased two sewing machines. “Jacki took to the sewing machine like a pianist to a piano!” said her mother.

Her textile art gained national attention in 1975 at a gift show in Seattle when she displayed four pillows with different appliquéd characters on the covers. Her creations had personalities, and names like “Uncle Ned,” and her fabrics were carefully selected and unique to her design concept.

Around this time, Headley and Hutton took a trip to visit his family in England. When she came down with a cold, Hutton’s mother, June, brought her a hot-water bottle to take to bed. The idea of making covers for the bottles that looked like soft, fluffy sheep popped into Headley’s head. The whimsical sheep covers became a huge success. Former First Lady Jackie Kennedy Onassis ordered 200 of them.

The success happily sent Headley to the drawing board to create many more unforgettable stuffed creatures over the next 35 years.

Eventually, Headley found a space in the basement of the old downtown building currently occupied by the Down Lo. She called her business Woof & Poof, “woof” referring to weaving yarns to create cloth and “poof” being a play on the French word “pouf,” which symbolizes stuffing a pillow.

Unfortunately, the building was prone to flooding, so in 1982 Headley and Hutton, by now married, purchased the site of the former Gold’s Gym, most recently the nowdefunct Café Culture.

At the same time, Headley rented a small space near the corner of Wall and Third streets.

She hired a manager to sell her creations and other locally made crafts. Her retail store, Made in Chico, was launched—and, with it, the Shop Local movement in this community.

By the late 1990s, Woof & Poof employed

more than 60 workers, enabling the company to produce and ship 40,000 Christmas stockings for Eddie Bauer Holdings Inc. during one holiday season. Quite a feat for a small, family-owned business.

In 1997, having outgrown the Gold’s Gym location, Headley built a production and warehouse buildings on Orange Street adjacent to the railroad tracks. Consistent with her design background and commitment to architecture that reflected the local vernacular, she hired local architect Tom Tarman to draw buildings with the oldstyle, sawtooth roof lines of warehouses and factories historically found along rail-

Headley shortly after she purchased the historic Nottelmann Building in 1980.

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road tracks. The buildings received acclaim from the city of Chico and the Chamber of Commerce for their architectural integrity.

Headley and Hutton, who married in 1978, formed not only a lasting matrimony that produced two sons, Christopher and Oliver, but also a business partnership. Both were characterized by family, friends and colleagues as creative, independent and entrepreneurial. Hutton has been an artist and woodworker for more than 30 years and refers to himself as a “build it, fix it” guy. Those who know him might also refer to him as the Headley-Hutton rudder and a gourmet cook.

Headley’s business savvy was matched by her commitment to the Chico community. She served on the city’s Architectural Review Board, the Chico Heritage Association board, the 1994 Chico General Plan Task Force, and the Janet Turner Museum board. She was named Business Woman of the Year by the Chico Soroptimist Club and received Chico State’s Distinguished Alumni Award through the College of Humanities and Fine Art. She was a frequent guest speaker in Chico State business classes and the annual Sustainability Conference, where her interest and expertise in migration and population were recognized.

Down-to-earth and without the ego that could be attached to someone who was as talented and successful as she was, Headley was most accurately characterized as sincere, friendly, almost bubbly. She engaged everyone with genuine interest.

“A woman of style and good taste with dirt from her garden under her nails” was how many friends might have described her.

Together she and Hutton cultivated many of those friends over the years.

Meandering through their vegetable and rose gardens while Headley harvested homegrown produce for a meal, you could see the joy she felt in her life. The leftbrained businesswoman and the rightbrained artist were in perfect harmony. Ω more “RENAISSANCE” stories on page 27

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“Dog Guy Josh” offers private coaching and activity based classes in the Chico area.

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If you asked her, she’d honestly say that she “loves retail.” For Christianne, shopping is not just choosing an item and paying for it, it’s an experience. She believes that when you walk into a shop you should be inspired, delighted, and amused. She has built her shop around this idea and her love for design and home decor.

Chico lacked a downtown shop that provided modern and quirky decor that was pocket-book friendly.

Enter Home Ec, a shop that has a random mix of awesomeness that you won’t find anywhere else including smartly designed home wares, unusual gifts, handmade goods and eco-friendly items!

When she returned to Chico and was decorating her own home with her husband, Jim, and daughter, Maudie, she quickly realized that

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–Dr. B. Scott Hood Dr. B. Scott Hood has proudly served the people and families of Chico since 1992 with efficient orthodontic treatments and gentle care. His practice has a familyfriendly atmosphere with the highest quality services for all ages.

Dr. Hood’s practice offers braces for children, teens and adults as well as Invisalign® clear aligners, Invisalign Teen™ and the Damon® System. Dr. Hood and his talented staff have the experience and knowledge needed to provide a

truly gentle and comfortable visit, every time!

Come in and visit them for a complimentary consultation. Dr. Hood will sit with you to talk about your plans for treatment and which services best fit your needs. Contact either their Chico or Paradise orthodontic office today!

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Tim and Penny Henderson have lived and worked in Chico for over 30 years. Owning a business has always been a goal of this duo. In June 2009, they purchased a 30 year established print shop from Bob and Suzy Roach.

Tim and Penny owe much of their success to their staff: Brent McMenomey, Jennifer Tancreto, and Keith Burritt. This team is among the best in their field.

Tim and Penny would like to thank all of their customers and the community of Chico for all the support and kindness shown them over the last three years.

Chico Printing provides graphic design for new and established businesses. Just about anything on paper can be printed at Chico Printing! Chico Printing also provides complimentary pickup and delivery.

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Anna, now the fifth generation.

Together their goal is to a provide a place where people can go and shop for those unique, inspiring finds to reflect their own personal style.

With the same values and philosophies, Brian opened his own business; and now working beside him are his two daughters Tia and

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Teresa Larson has been a full time Realtor with Century 21 Jeffries Lydon for 19 years. She was born and raised in Chico, raised her two children here and will soon be a proud Grandma.

When asked why she loves her work Teresa told us, “What other kind of a profession can you actually make friends for a life time, while you work through one of the biggest changes of someone’s life?” Teresa is in the top 3 in her office due to her dedication to her clients, her marketing, and most importantly her referrals and repeat clients.

Teresa attributes the enduring success of Century 21 Jeffries Lydon to management support and being able to work with what she says are the best agents and support staff in town. Her work

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e don’t just sell merchandise here, we sell the knowledge behind it,” said Harold Park, who with his wife, Catherine, has owned House of Rice for nearly 40 Local staple, the Asian years. A downtown imports store has occupied its current Broadway location since 1982.

“If people come in with health problems, I can recommend certain Chinese herbs,” he continued. “If people want a Buddha, I can tell them the stories of all the different Buddhas from all the different countries. If someone wants to cook a dish, my wife can Top: Catherine and Harold Park are the sole tell them the right ingredients, the right employees at House of Rice.

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LOCAL Park explained this is the reason he and Above: The Parks, outside their store in 1989. his wife, at the ages of 72 and 71, are the CN&R FILE PHOTO store’s sole employees, working eight to 10 hours a day, six days a week: “We tried having employees, but not for the last 25 years, ing lists of what “Americans” bought. He listed pages of items, and one of the shopbecause they didn’t have the knowledge.

Without the knowledge, you have no trust.” keepers kindly gave him a list of distributors and advised him how to deal with them.

Trust, Park said, is essential to the busiThe Parks opened a revamped store in The ness’ longevity. “People trust us and tell Almond Orchard Shopping Center, the suctheir friends and family. We are now servcess of which prompted them to move ing our third generation of customers, downtown around 1980. because the grandmas bring the moms, and House of Rice’s range of merchandise— the moms bring the kids.” as well as the Parks’ knowledge—is vast House of Rice began as an Asian foods and ever-expanding: “If two people ask for market located on The Esplanade in 1974.

Though it did well with Butte County’s eth- a certain item we don’t have, I find it somehow,” Park said. “Now I have almost everynic population, the Parks, who are Korean thing Asian import. Even in Chinatown you by heritage, realized they needed broader have to go to 10 stores to find the items we appeal to succeed: “We couldn’t survive have right here in one place. This store is serving 3 percent; we needed to attract 90 like a compact Chinatown.” percent of the population.”

Park said he spent three days in San —Ken Smith Francisco’s Chinatown, watching and makkens@newsreview.com more “RENAISSANCE” stories on page 28

environment has given her many friendships, and a successful 19 years, which she clearly regards as a blessing.

If you are looking for a compassionate, straight-forward person to work for you, Teresa would be happy to assist you.

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Jill Lacefield is the spiritual director and proud owner of Center for Spiritual LivingDowntown Chico and 100th Monkey Books: Books, Music & Art for an Awakening World.

Located at 830 Broadway, both ventures merge Jill’s passion as an educator, spiritual seeker, and humorist to support a community gathering place where good ideas, community, and fun are fostered.

Jill is a minister in the international organization, Centers for Spiritual Living, and a Communications professor at Butte College. Author of A Little Cancer on the Side: A Survivor’s Book of Laughter and Inspiration, Jill’s writing, humor, and Sunday talks combine an awareness of the deep challenges of life with irreverent humor and a dedication to mining the gold in every life

experience.

100th Monkey Books hosts its first Cinema for Change with the screening of the inspirational film, “I Am” on February 25th, and the first Chico Story Hour: You Just Can’t Make This Stuff Up! on March 31st. CSL-Downtown Chico’s weekly Community Sundays begin March 4th at 11 a.m. with the theme “2012: A Tipping Point.”

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Meet Allyson Wilhite, Family Therapist Allyson is no stranger to addiction, abuse, or anguish. Born into a family of abandoning, abusive addicts, it was no mistake that she began a career in healthcare at 14 and later became a trauma nurse in the US Navy.

Crisis mode was as natural as breathing. After marriage, the birth of three children; oldest suffering a severe mental illness, divorce, and then deployment during Desert Storm, Allyson sought help for her own healing. In the process, she became a Family Therapist. 12 years in private practice, her experience includes counseling individuals and couples, facilitating groups; PSD groups for Vets, Victims of Crime, and Drug Diversion for medical

professionals. As a psychiatric nurse, she also coordinates necessary medication management.

Her compassion, her knowledge and skill give hope for healing.

She comments, “A heart must break to open. Open the heart, open the Spirit. Experience love, peace, and joy.

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Fire and security protection important to BUSINESS everyone, something not lost on Steve Pereira. He received his electronics training while serving in the US Navy. In 1978 he provided subcontract services to an international alarm company.

After a year he was asked to work directly for them as a manager in the central valley area. Steve accepted the position with the understanding that “my vision is to return to Chico and put down roots”. After a few years, he decided the time had come to return home to Chico and start Certified Systems. The foundation had been laid.

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In 1984 Steve installed his first security system for Larry and Jo Ellis of Ellis Plumbing. The Ellis’s are still his customers as well as their son Todd. Not many can

claim to have retained their first customer after 28 years!

Since that time Steve has turned Certified Systems into the “Premier Installation and Service Company” it is today focusing on residential/commercial security systems. Certified Systems has a highly trained technical staff and is a UL listed fire alarm installing company.

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ruce Hart has long been a lover of the B1973, outdoors, but if you’d asked him back in when he obtained his bachelor’s

degree in biology from Chico State, what he wanted to do with his life, his answer would likely have been a lot different from how it turned out. But to see him today, sitting in his comfortable office inside Mountain Sports, one could surmise everything turned out just the way it was supposed to.

Hart bought Mountain Sports from a buddy in 1977. The store, which specializes in outdoor adventure gear for the hiker, skier and climber, was 2 years old and occupied a small space on Main Street next to Tower Records.

“We had about 1,100 square feet,” Hart recalled. “It was not enough space. So we moved down Main Street between Third and Fourth streets.”

Back then, that stretch of Main was a hotbed of retail activity, he said. He nestled into a second-floor space and stayed there for 11 years. Then, in 1988, the “new mall” was built. Until that time, downtown had just about everything people needed, from clothing to gifts to hardware to food—in the form of a grocery store (Gold Country Market) in addition to restaurants and cafés.

A fine-china shop vacated its spot on Third Street, making way for Mountain Sports’ second and final move.

“They saw the writing on the wall; they knew they wouldn’t be able to compete with the malls,” Hart said of the china store.

“Downtown was really a core spot for everybody’s needs, with a nice collection of businesses. A lot of them were put out of business by the mall and big stores like

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Penney’s, Troutmans and Gottschalks.

“Fortunately, my business is a specialty store,” he added. “I’d close my doors before moving into a strip mall.”

Being in Chico’s downtown is part of what makes Mountain Sports the store it is, Hart explained. Having grown up in a very small town, he said he always embraced the idea of local businesses and business owners helping each other. That’s the mentality fueling his focus on customer service, and it’s customer service that has kept many of the downtown shops alive throughout the years, despite competitive prices at big boxes or online.

“I think in many respects, Chicoans are cognizant of the fact that they can come into Mountain Sports and the staff will help them find quality products that fit their needs—so they don’t need to go on the Internet,” Hart said. “As a small, locally owned business, we give people a part of us.”

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Owner Bruce Hart moved Mountain Sports to its current location on Third Street in 1988. It’s more than four times the size of the first store.

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Riley’s customers are a very special group. It has become a place that some consider their second home. A sign proudly hangs over the front door that reads “Enter as a stranger...Leave as a friend,” and that symbolizes everything that Kevin and Nick have worked for.

They strive to give their friends a great atmosphere with great food, great drinks, and great specials.

Kevin and Nick would like to extend an invite to you to visit the Biggest Little Bar in Chico!

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Everyone at 5th Street Steakhouse looks forward to serving you soon!

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This passion for quality food, top-notch service and a lively atmosphere has made 5th Street Steakhouse a memorable and cherished landmark of the Chico community as well as a Best of Chico Living Legend 7 years running.

General Manager Angela Gauoette & Chef Michael Hall

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5th Street Steakhouse also offers a banquet room which is attached to the main dining room area, but provides a private section for any special event. This beautiful facility is perfect for birthdays, wedding rehearsal dinners, anniversaries, religious celebrations, graduations, fundraisers, holiday parties, and private meetings. With an array of menu options and an extensive wine list, you are sure to find

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Butte View Olive Co. and Stella Cadente, two wildly popular olive oil labels that serve cooks across the nation, are produced right here in Oroville by Lewis Johnson and his family.

excellent – just one more reason why these olive oils are “Gold” and LOCAL “Best of Class” medal winners.

It all began in 1935, when Johnson’s grandfather first began farming the 150 acres of olive trees that they still have today. In 1999 Johnson produced the first bottle of Butte View olive oil after three years of fine-tuning his process.

Available in Chico at Maisie Jane’s, Made in Chico, S&S Produce and Collins & Denny Market in Oroville in 250ml and 500ml bottles.

Mr. Johnson welcomes you to LOCALCalifornia suncome experience shine in a bottle!

Today, Butte View produces a wide variety of extra virgin olive oils infused with flavors including: jalapeño, garlic, basil, lemon, lime, blood orange and rosemary. These pure, light and delicate hand crafted oils provide wonderful aromas and distinctive accents to any dish making them truly unique and

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Franky’s was built with “family” in mind. Nick Andrew and Kevin Riley started Franky’s back in1992 with the concept of a casual and friendly “Cheers” type atmosphere in a restaurant setting.

When Nick was young and still living at home his mother would make spaghetti every Friday night. Today Franky’s still uses the family recipe for their delicious meat sauce.

Franky’s offers a diverse wine selection and a full bar that is unrivaled in the North State. Franky’s bartenders are renowned for their knowledge of cocktail preparation and offer a dizzying variety of martinis for those that like their drinks, “Up,” “Over,” “Neat” or whatever your preference may be.

Pablo Juarez, Prep Cook cordy Humble, Chef Franky’s is the perfect choice for dates, business lunches, family dinners, birthdays, or whatever the occasion may be!

Get together and enjoy friends, family and fine food and drink at Franky’s.

A little bit of Italy, hidden right here in Chico!

The menu offers a variety of freshmade pasta, caesar salad, fresh-tossed pizzas and so much more. With deals for students and families too, there is always a meal to satisfy everyone at Franky’s.

506 ivy st / open mon-sat at 11:30am, sun at 4pm take-out: 898-9947 reservations: 898-9948 www.frankyschico.com February 23, 2012

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Not Quite Hollywood (NQH) is an active part of a developing film industry right here in Northern California. Shawn Dyer and James Smith, the founders of NQH, work with some of the finest film crews in the region, combining talent, creativity and teamwork to create locally-made films and videos and to assist other filmmakers on their projects. NQH works to create opportunities locally and is a member of CiAO (www.ciaoifilm. net), the Open FMA (www.openfma. com), and is involved in a number of other projects and initiatives.

Last year, the Chico Cabaret, NQH, Laughing Raven, CiAO and local filmmakers teamed up with the community, local businesses and the media to launch the first annual Show Us Your Shorts! Film Fest. The community’s enthusiastic support ensured a smashing

success with over 30 films shown over 3 days. This year, the newly renamed Shortz! Film Fest (www. shortzfilmfest.com) will bring filmmakers back in contact with the community and provide a fun-sized good time for all.

This is a great time to get involved. Be inspired!

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owntown was much different in those “D days,” said Rebecca Shadd. She was speaking about 1982, the year she opened

Perché No!, an Italian ice cream and espresso shop located on Second Street, where Chronic Taco is today. “It seems like every other door was empty, and there was always a lot of parking.

“Things were hard economically at the time, but we went in not thinking about that, and not thinking about things like paying back our loans. We just thought it would do very well and things like that would just happen.”

Despite Shadd’s lack of business acumen, the eatery stayed open for 20 years, and the experience helped form the successful foundation of Upper Crust Bakery & Eatery, which Shadd has co-owned with Lori Powers since 1993. Powers explained she and Shadd bought the business from a previous owner, and Upper Crust had existed for several years, but with a “smaller vision.”

“I had no restaurant background careerwise,” Powers said of the partnership, “but I always had a strong interest in food, and the interest led the way. Becky was the one who came in with true in-the-trenches work experience.”

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Kyle Pickett is looking forward to a second decade doing what he does best.

It’s been ten years of outstanding musical leadership and a focused vision of the Symphony in the community. Depending on the concert, Kyle may develop new ways to reach out, such as integrating photography and music, or provide surprisingly excellent performances of the classic standards like Beethoven and Brahms.

It’s not only music he speaks of, when describing his job. “Every time I read a book, watch a film or a play, it deepens my understanding of music. Hopefully I also get better and better at communicating that.

My audience is everyone, from some who know music backwards and forwards, to others who can be blown away, hearing a symphony for the very first time. We’re blessed that many in the community, and at

the university, are passionate about supporting us and growing our role.

With their help, we’re surviving the recession in good shape, and have exciting plans for the future.”

The North State Symphony’s next concert in Chico features Kyle conducting 15 of the Symphony’s finest musicians in works by Copland, Debussy and Strauss on Mar 4 at 2PM.

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Shadd said Perché No! expanded its menu over the years, adding things like waffles and sandwiches to “round out the day,” a strategy that has continued with the bakery.

“Over the years we’ve realized we love the bakery and everything baked, but we know there’s a balance and sought to meet that balance,” Powers said. “So we layered the business with more hearty foods, things so people realize they can get a meaningful meal. We keep listening to people and try to make subtle shifts to meet their needs.

You’re always in evolution.”

After 30 years, Shadd seems secure in the choices she’s made and happy to be part of the downtown community. “There’s always a lot of camaraderie downtown,” she said.

“When you’re in business for yourself it’s not a job but a lifestyle. You basically live there, and your friends are other business owners around you and your customers. It’s really a way of life, and I like it a lot.”

“I hope the maturity of our downtown takes us to a place where those types of businesses that aren’t here now see the possibility, see a future for themselves, and maybe swing back,” Powers said.

“It’s always sad to see empty storefronts,” she continued. “I think there are young minds out there right now with great ideas, and I think they’ll find new possibilities that maybe we haven’t thought of yet.”

Rebecca Shadd opened Perché No! on Second Street in 1982.

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Lori Powers joined Shadd in buying the Upper Crust, a thriving downtown eatery.

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Dr. Charles Garretson, M.D. Graduated from the Marshall University School of Medicine in 1987. Originally a member of the U.S. Army Health Care System, Dr. Garretson had a long and distinguished career in the Army, first as an NCO, and eventually as a Commissioned Officer from 1966 until his retirement in 1998.

Dr. Garretson’s desire to help individuals has been the main driver in his career. He developed a keen interest in pulmonary diseases and internal medicine early in his career. Dr. Garretson’s bedside manner and perseverance are strong qualities that have distinguished him from others in his field, along with his empathetic attitude, focused and dedicated patient care and well educated

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knowledge of his field. He truly gets to know his patients and develops great relationships with them.

A published landscape photographer, fly fisherman and avid outdoors man, Dr. Garretson moved to Oroville in 2005 and opened a new office in 2011.

Debbie Belser, F.N.P recently joined his practice and they both look forward to 2012!

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Mary Waldner, founder of Mary’s Gone Crackers, was inspired by her own struggles with Celiac Disease to develop something delicious and nutritious to eat.

Waldner created Mary’s Gone Crackers in 2004 after finding a shortage of nutritious, gluten free options that tasted good. Her handcrafted recipe became a hit not only with Celiac sufferers, but with consumers eager for delicious snacks they could feel good about eating. Mary’s Gone Crackers now offers 3 product lines including 5 flavors of crackers, 3 flavors of pretzels, 4 varieties of cookies and was awarded the Vegetarian Times Best Gluten Free Cracker for their 2011 Foodie Awards.

Stop in and discover the wonders of Chico’s Downtown Chinatown!

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If you have any questions during your shopping excursion to House of Rice, Catherine and Harold are more than happy to assist you. They can tell you anything you need to know about everything in the store. With

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Since 1974 husband and wife, Harold and Catherine Park, have been working side-by-side serving three generations of customers in their unique Asian imports store.

What has now become Chico’s very own Downtown Chinatown, House of Rice offers a unique blend of Asian food, clothing, home décor, jewelry, herbal remedies and so much more.

House of Rice also has the largest selection of teas and sake in town.

Perhaps some of the most striking items in the shop are the pieces of Oriental art and Harold’s very own photography. Both are as beautiful as they are intriguing.

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licensed marriage and family therapist.

Waldner is married to Dale Rodrigues with whom she created Mary’s Gone Crackers.

“Our mission is to heal humanity and the planet by inspiring Conscious Eating!”

“I love offering people truly nourishing food that tastes great. I suffered for so many years not knowing that I had gluten intolerance. You don’t have to be gluten intolerant to enjoy our food though. All of our products are also vegan, organic and delicious,” states Waldner.

Prior to co-founding Mary’s Gone Crackers, Waldner practiced as a psychotherapist for 26 years; she holds a master’s degree in clinical psychology and is a

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In 1989 Gabrielle Ferrar Diamonds opened its doors with the mission to provide the Chico community with the highest rating, standard and quality of jewelry.

If you ask their customers if they have achieved this you will hear a resounding YES! Mother and daughter Madeleine and Lisa Nolta have created a full-service and welcoming store that offers the largest loose stone collection in Northern California, as well as rare stones, precious gems and so much more.

Lisa’s custom designs are based on a strong sense of creativity and expertise. By creating images of distinction in jewelery, which capture all of the power and emotion of fine jewelry design in each of her creations, Lisa’s award-winning designs are pieces of wearable art.

Gabrielle Ferrar also offers exceptional customer service with a well educated staff on diamonds and other fine gems along with having the highest attainable rating with the jeweler’s board of trade and are affiliates of the Gemological Institute of America.

Stop in and be dazzled by one of Chico’s beautiful gems, Gabrielle Ferrar!

Gabrielle Ferrar Diamonds & Exceptional Jewelry

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Creative Composition has spent the better part of 5 decades helping Northern California businesses thrive and flourish. The company has evolved to meet the changing needs of its clients, growing from a forms design business, to a commercial printing and mailing facility, and has now developed into a full service marketing company.

ranging from the side of a vehicle to the side of a building. Large Format Printing makes it possible to draw attention in any environment- from trade shows, to stadiums, to anywhere your potential customers gather.

Creative Composition is here to help cultivate your seeds of inspiration into success.

Your company’s image now has to extend far beyond business cards and letterhead. The latest evolutionary step is Large Format Printing. Creative Composition’s technology has moved beyond paper to being able to print on a wide range of materials and in new and expanding spaces,

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Since Royal Knight Security, Inc. began, they have striven to provide professional security officer services with friendly customer service to all of their clientele. The command staff has both the ability and experience to serve their customers with the utmost professional customer service.

Lieutenant Michael Wheeler leads the staff with professional training and supervision from his experience as a former marine and 14 years in the security industry including working as an EMT.

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Corporal Miguel Rodrigues is the automotive controller with the abilities to install equipment and maintain their fleet of five vehicles with 5 years in the automotive industry. As Royal Knight Security, Inc. continues to grow they hope that they can serve you!

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Serving the northstate for over 10 years, Sleep Diagnostics is a locally owned and operated, full service diagnostic facility specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of many common sleep disorders. Sleep Diagnostics also assists physicians and their patients in diagnosing other abnormal nocturnal events, such as narcolepsy, periodic limb movement disorder, as well as various other sleep related disorders.

in the fields of sleep medicine and respiratory care. Patients are monitored with full sixteen channel, state of the art diagnostic equipment and video technology.

All four northstate facilities boast spacious, non-clinical, comfortable rooms that allow patients to relax in queen size beds with satellite T.V. A better night’s sleep is just a phone call away!

Expert testing by highly trained, registered polysomnographers (RPSGT’s) and licensed respiratory care practitioners (RCP’s) is provided. A physician Board Certified in sleep disorders provides interpretation. The staff brings years of specialty training and expertise

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Gold and silver has exploded in value over the last 2 years. It’s good to know there’s a place you can go that has been buying and selling precious metals in Chico for 25 years. Chico Coin and Jewelry has earned the reputation of providing the best prices on gold, silver, platinum coins, bullion and jewelry. We are competitive at a national level on American Gold Eagles, Canadian Maple Leafs, and South African Krugerrands. The same is true for our line of silver bullion, coins and bars. It’s good to know you can get on the spot cash for your rare coins, placer gold, 10kt-24kt gold jewelry in addition to all forms of gold and silver bullion.

You’ll also find a larger selection of estate rings, necklaces, and pendents. You won’t find the

huge markup on this jewelry you regularly see in the boutique stores downtown. You will find it priced fairly, often just 10-20% over the market value of the gold and silver.

When you find yourself in the need for cash you can trust Chico Coin and Jewelry to give you the best price in town on your precious metals.

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in fact, they spent a good part of the early ’70s living out of a van in Bidwell Park, happy so long as they were parked in Chico.

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Bob Malowney recalled the infectious excitement of Chico’s downtown renaissance during a recent interview.

“The whole community coalesced around downtown,” he said. “It was like every other town in California that was losing business to the strip malls, but had to concentrate on one, so we decided on people in Chico had the spirit to save what Local Localthe store. We sold the print equipment and Local was commonplace, and now it’s unique.” concentrated on the store as our only busiThe Malowneys’ business soon began branching out—they started selling T-shirts, ness in January 1996.”

Bird in Hand has become a mainstay in posters and kites in front of their print shop.

Chico, attracting local and visiting shoppers “We just kept adding on,” Malowney looking for a taste of a downtown atmossaid. “After kites we thought, ‘Whatever phere that has become a rarity. To preserve happened to all those childhood things like that special feel, Malowney feels a revival jacks, marbles, hopscotch and yo-yos?’”

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Though the locations changed (the store moved three times, most recently in 1994, —Howard Hardee when it moved from where the Rawbar is to howardh@newsreview.com its current location) the Malowneys maintained both businesses until it became clear the store was taking off.

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Bob and Barbara Malowney with “Big-Yo,” the largest wooden yo-yo in the world.

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Serving delicious Chinese food in Butte County since 1912, Tong Fong Low has become a popular, familyfriendly, locally owned and operated restaurant in Oroville. Just three years ago, Tong Fong Low opened a second location in Chico and it has quickly become a local favorite.

Flavorful dishes and generous portions can always be found at Tong Fong Low, but this restaurant is more than just great food. The fast and friendly staff make you feel right at home. Don’t be surprised if they get to know you on a first name basis!

Celebrating 100 years in business, the Tong Fong Low family has designed a T-shirt to celebrate their centennial birthday with 100% of the proceeds going to local charities. Just one more way for Tong Fong Low to express their gratitude to their community for their continuous support.

Tong Fong Low’s family members would also like to express much gratitude to their patrons for voting Tong Fong Low the “Best Restaurant in Oroville” for 2009 and 2010 and “Best Asian Restaurant” in 2011.

Happy dining and good health to you!

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Outdoor enthusiasts will be in their element when shopping at Mountain Sports. You’ll find shopping at Mountain Sports to be gratifying and memorable, receiving the personal attention that can only be found in a store of this quality. Your outdoor needs for traveling, hiking, backpacking, mountaineering, rock climbing, snowshoeing, cross country skiing and more can all be met at Mountain Sports.

It is locally owned and has been in business since 1975. Bruce graduated in 1973 from CSUC with a degree in Biology. After several years of working as a research biologist, he realized his life was better suited educating and selling outdoor clothing and equipment and returned to Chico to become a businessman.

passion for the mountains began.

His love for the mountains has taken him as far north to Alaska to climb on Mt. Foraker, Mt Silver Throne and Denali.

Bruce realizes that his success is more than his love for his business. He says “I believe in the people that I hire and their strengths and passion for the outdoors and of course, Mountain Sports.”

Growing up in the Sierra Nevada Mountains is where his

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Caffé Malvina led the way on coffee and pizza downtown

At the age of 16, Richard Braak, President and CEO of Quadco Printing, began his first job at a print shop, fell in love with the work, and never looked back.

Over the years Braak has seen a lot of new technology come and go, but has always embraced it so that he could be at the forefront of his trade.

to imagine downtown Chico with no Ttheryspecialty coffee drinks and no pizza by slice.

continues to look for ways to exceed customer expectations.

Braak’s personality and business integrity have also lead to his success.

Today, such businesses abound in any college town. But in 1977, Sal and Denise Corona opened Caffé Malvina and introduced North State residents to their influences from San Francisco and Italy.

The java learning curve was steep at first. Getting people used to drinking out of a demitasse cup, instead of a standard dinerstyle coffee mug, was a challenge. “People would say, ‘Where’s my coffee?’” Sal remembers. “I would say, ‘It’s right there, so try it!’”

But soon, the Coronas recall, customers became pleasantly addicted, and the lines were out the door daily. Of course, in those pre-Starbucks days, there were no special orders, such as soy milk, “half-caff” or frozen dairy-type coffee drinks. The five options were cappuccino, espresso, café latte, mocha and mocchiato. And the coffeeon-the-run phenomenon hadn’t yet picked up steam, so to speak. “We wanted people to sit and relax and enjoy their drinks in a cup, not in something plastic,” Sal says.

The original Caffé Malvina, located on Broadway between First and Second streets, was a large open space with picnic tables, pool tables and local bands playing at night.

“It was a hippie-type place,” Sal remembers, with a mischievous grin.

Denise steps in to explain. “There were a lot of raised eyebrows—I mean, there were tons of bikes out front, dogs tied to the parking meters—things that would annoy the hell out of us today.”

After six years, Caffé Malvina moved to its current location at 234 W. Third St., where it’s been creating cozy lunches, as well as family and romantic dinners, for 29 years. Sal’s now 64, and Denise is 59.

The restaurant has relied on word of mouth, doing little advertising, to bring customers back for the tastefully presented, satisfying cuisine.

As Braak stated, “There are constant opportunities to improve products and services. If you are looking for a printer talk to your business friends; word-of-mouth is Quadco’s most successful salesperson.”

“I live by two statements that I also share with my team. Always be worth more than you’re getting paid and always tell the truth. That way you don’t have to remember what you said,” says Braak.

These truths have translated well for Quadco with their customers. Known for their dependability, innovation, integrity, quality product and service, Quadco

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Just a few of the 65 vendors that sell their antiques and collectables at Eighth & Main Antique Center in Chico. All have keen eyes for past treasures looking for a new home.

Next time you stop in the beautiful new showroom at Eighth & Main make sure you give yourself ample time to look around the 30,000 sq. ft. center. It’s like stepping back in time when quality and expert craftsmanship trumped hype and cheap imported goods. Come by and browse for classic and vintage chic furniture and jewelry. You’ll find gifts for every occasion from Tiffany glass to Disney collectables, from Rock & Roll memorabilia to classic toys and much more. It’s a one stop shopping play land.

If you are looking for a gift, a little something for yourself, a piece for your home or office, or just want to kill some time, stop by the corner of Eighth & Main. Find them on facebook.

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“We have basic Italian food,” Sal says. “I fool around with a dish, everyone tastes it, and if they say it’s good, we put it on the menu. We keep it simple, and everything is made fresh. Everything’s cooked to order.

And, I also cut and clean my own veal.”

Attesting to the food’s popularity, Denise adds, “Some people have traveled all over the world, and they come back and say we’re up there with those restaurants, and that’s a compliment.”

The Coronas’ two daughters, now young adults, grew up helping in the restaurant, and Caffé Malvina continues to encourage families to join them. “People have said it’s too noisy,” Sal muses. “I say, it’s an Italian restaurant—what do you want?”

“You can’t put a value on the people we meet here,” Denise says. “Our daughters have met so many interesting people from around the world. There’s a lot of personal value to us there.”

Sal played soccer for Chico State’s men’s team in 1969 and ’70 and continued to play locally in adult leagues for many years. “Back then a lot of students needed jobs,” he says. He has given jobs to many Chico State soccer players and other students—as many as 200, by his estimate.

—Catherine Beeghly catherinebeeg hly@gmail.com

The top photo shows Sal Corona (right) with an unidentified employee shortly after he moved his restaurant to West Third Street.

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So, they decided to fix the problem and open a shop of their own.

Opening just 4 months ago, Airmid Organics has made it a mission to provide products that are made of environmentally sensitive materials, striving to stock only American made products. Some Fair Trade products are also available. Their love of hemp and bamboo translate to an always expanding range of products available in these materials! Kim and Edie also use 100% post-consumer recycled paper or hemp paper to print on. They also reuse boxes and packing materials that are shipped to them, and don’t be surprised if you find old news-

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These dedicated women believe that the more environmentally conscious products can be introduced into the consumer consciousness the more consumers will become aware of the awesome eco-friendly products available and the better off the world will be.

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readers is they are always honest, trustworthy and ready to help.

Whether you’re looking for a new personal or business computer or need your computer fixed right, stop by and talk to your friends at PCI. For your Better Buy, try PCI!

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Everything takes back seat to getting it fixed. Whether it’s your laptop or desktop it’s good to know PCI Computer Services, Inc. has been helping people with their computer problems for over 12 years. PCI has experienced and knowledgable technicians who will correctly diagnois and fix any computer problem, without sending it back to the manufacturer. Located in the Garden Walk Mall in downtown Chico, you’ll find both new computer sales and a top notch service department in one convenient location.

PCI builds computers right here in Chico and sells them at prices competitive to online sources. The reason PCI was voted Best Local Computer Store 2011 by CN&R

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The boys from Jersey opened Chico Celestino’s in 1997. Real N.Y. Style pizza has earned them the CN&R Best of Chico award for best pizza year after year. Made with only the finest ingredients ensure a tasty consistent pizza.

Hand tossed and baked to perfection makes Celestino’s a favorite with students and budget conscious downtown patrons.

“It’s the thin crust, homemade sauce and fresh cheese that makes the pizza so good” says Celestino. “If it’s not a great cheese pizza to start, any topping you put on it won’t make it better” chimes in Enzo. Pick it up, fold it, and eat it…that’s the N.Y. way.

Chicken Parmigiana hot sandwichs. Homemade Lasagna.

Calzones...and of course Spaghetti with Meatballs.

Open every day from 10:30am to 10pm. 101 Salem St. across from the Bear. 896-1234. 1354 East Ave. 345-7700.

Other favorites include the fresh salads, caesar/slice combo,

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LATENIGHTAIRCOOLED is a complete shop like no other in this area. It started with Bryan’s love LOCAL for Volkswagens, a love he got from his dad who got him working on VW’s when Bryan was only 15.

Volkswagens. If you’re lucky Bryan never stopped, and has enough to own an aircooled VW, worked exclusively on aircooled look no further because Bryan Volkswagens for 35 years. His has been “Specializing in aircooled long time experience with the Volkswagens since forever.” cars has made him extremely knowledgeable. He’s equipped to do anything for your vehicle, they install windows, do interior work, and lower front beams and rear trailing arms. They do paint and body work, build engines and transmissions, and do all electrical work. They can do simple tune ups and oil changes or build a car from the ground up.

Bryan knows one thing: aircooled

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Chico Beauty College was first established in the late 50’s in downtown Chico, across from Montgomery Wards on 2nd street and then relocated to Chico’s first strip mall, the “Longfellow shopping center,” in 1964 where it remains in operation today.

In 1976 the Beauty College joined in a partnership with Butte Community College for training in cosmetology, manicuring and recently for skincare.

Over 6,000 students have graduated from their programs since the beginning.

The Beauty College is a proud partner in training with Redken, Opi and Dermalogica for product and education.

Chico News and Review was one of the first places that we started advertising when we opened almost two years ago.

We got immediate response from even the smallest sized ad, and continue to get calls regularly. That’s the main reason to advertise in this paper. However, having grown up in Chico, owner and acupuncturist Olivia Peters-Lazaro, L.Ac. knows that the weekly CN&R is not only a source of news, but is also a source of information about most things going on in Chico and surrounding areas.

We love supporting a locally owned paper that is really a hub of our town: it supports community involvement, the arts, news, and it is a great way for us to reach all the folks that benefit from using Chico Community Acupuncture.

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The instructional staff includes credentialed & competition-winning instructors with a combined total of over 200 years of teaching and hairdressing experience.

Ron Morrison and Leroy McClellan wish to thank the residents of the North Valley for their continued support in helping train future hairdressers, manicurists and estheticians.

Special recognition to graduate

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Throughout the twelve years the business has continued to evolve and Jessica has enjoyed being a part of the Chico business community.

Glazed Creations specializes in group gatherings such as birthday parties for kids as well as adults, staff team building events, bridal showers, school field trips and Girl Scout troops. They work with home school programs and many schools to offer kids of all ages the chance to paint pottery. Also, throughout the years, Glazed Creations has become popular for families to gather together to paint. Each summer Glazed Creations has summer camps, which are very popular.

tion is 142 W. 2nd Street, between Broadway and Main, upstairs from the Beach Hut Deli. Jessica is excited to be downtown again and is looking forward to getting to know even more of the community when they come in to paint!

Glazed Creations has recently undergone a big change and moved back downtown. The new loca-

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Marlene Brenden came to Chico in 1978. She graduated from Chico State with a B.A. In Health Education. She has been an educator for over 20 years and holds a Multiple Subjects teaching credential, a Pupil Personnel Services Credential and a Masters in School Counseling.

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Pat had a background in teaching, business, public service as an elected school district trustee, and computers as she had attended CSU, Chico in the Master’s program in Computer Science.

As the program expanded over the years, Pat and her volunteers were able to receive larger quantities of computer donations and place greater quantities of computers in schools

Presently, CFC occupies a 25,000 square foot facility, and has become the first non profit nationally to become R2 certified (responsible recycler). Since reuse is 25 times better for the environment than just recycling, CFC is an important link in fulfilling a great need for technology to those who cannot afford to buy new systems.

CFC also assists low-income families and nonprofits by setting up systems too slow for classroom use but still great systems.

CFC has been placing 5,000 computer systems per year and has handed out more than 40,000 working, guaranteed systems since the program’s inception. This year they reached 1 million lbs of donations.

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dents that struggle with dyslexia.

In addition, they offer academic pre-kindergarten classes.

Chico Center for Learning is a non-profit organization operated for charitable and educational purposes. Students of any race, color and national or ethnic origin are admitted.

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On February 22nd, 1938, 36 year old Chico Police Officer Carleton Bruce responded to LOCAL a report of a unknown type disturbance at Joe’s Tamale Parlor in the 100 block of Main Street. As Officer Bruce entered the restaurant, he was gunned down by a man inside who was armed with a rifle.

Officer Carleton Bruce is the only Chico Police Officer killed in the line of duty.

On this anniversary of his tragic death, Chico Police Officers ask the community to join us in taking a moment remember Officer Bruce and his sacrifice defending our city.

At New Again, “quality of work” and “cost of materials” sets them apart from all others. All work is performed by a licensed general contractor, and because they are a major supplier of materials to the industry, costs are at their very lowest. You’ll find hardwood cabinets, laminate flooring, real granite counter tops and beautiful fixtures.

Experienced design consultants will assist you in all phases of the

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remodel. They will help with layout, color and material selection keeping downtime to a minimum, cost within budget, and satisfaction guaranteed.

Stop by the beautiful, newly remodeled showroom today and talk with Keith, Tanya, or Ric and get on the road to a New Again Kitchen & Bath.

New AgAiN Kitchen & Bath your remodeling resource

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Hula’s Chinese Bar-B-Q has been a Chico landmark for almost 22 years. Its roots go back even farther, to 1984 when the first “Hula’s”, a Hawaiian style plate lunch restaurant, was opened on the west side near the University. Its founders, Rick and Linda Storey opened Hula’s Grill and served everything from Teriyaki Burgers to Stir-frys.

Those Stir-frys became a favorite, with the customers often asking Rick to “hold the onions and bell peppers.”

It became evident that a Mongolian Style restaurant would work well in Chico, allowing customers to create their own stir-fry. Hula’s Chinese Bar-B-Q was opened in 1990 to accommodate the wishes of their fans.

plus employees to carry on the Hula’s tradition. Even though she had not been the driving force in the business, Linda learned, through necessity, how to continue to make the restaurant thrive even in tough economic times by carefully fine tuning the Hula’s experience to benefit the business and their customers.

Rick passed away from cancer in 2003, leaving Linda Storey and her 80

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Brothers Nezar and Nedal Saeidah chose to move to Chico after visiting the town and realizing it would be a wonderful place to raise their families. Soon after they decided to open The Dungeon in downtown Chico, affording them the opportunity to become more involved in the Community.

Quality products and incredible customer service are what Nezar and Nedal are best known for by their customers. From the moment a customer enters the shop and until they leave the customer will be given their full attention and treated with the utmost respect.

is a two way street. Our customers update us on new trends and products we need to carry to be able to provide the ultimate shopping experience,” says Nezar.

The Dungeon carries and extensive line of body jewelry, handblown glass, vaporizers, pipes/ waterpipes, adult novelties, posters, clothing and much more.

“We try to educate our customers on the products we carry in the shop, but the learning process

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ave Kilbourne was one of the “young Dtown’s Turks” who took advantage of downcheap rents in the early 1970s to

open a crafts business, Pyromania Tallow Works.

They and others like them—people who sold leather goods and used records, for example—met every week after work to talk shop and drink beer, and eventually they gave themselves a name: The Guild.

Before long, they realized they shared the goal of making downtown more attractive by planting trees and cleaning it up.

After a while, members of the traditionalist Downtown Chico Businessmen’s Association contacted them to set up a meeting. The Guild said OK, but it would have to be at their usual haunt, the Red Dog Saloon on Second Street.

The meeting took place on Feb. 10, 1974. It was a little stiff at first—“like a gathering of cats and dogs,” Kilbourne says—but eventually the beer did its job, and everyone relaxed. “The mall is killing us,” the old-timers said. They wanted to do more marketing and push for better parking, but their organization had no source of funding.

The meeting, scheduled to last two hours, went on until well after midnight, Kilbourne says, and by the time it ended the participants were slapping each other on the back and had agreed to merge into a new group called the Downtown Chico Business Association.

This picture is one of several dozen taken of Dave Kilbourne in disguise during a time in the 1980s when he ran a series of advertisements for the DCBA called “Downtowntalk” that were humorous take-offs on the CN&R’s Streetalk feature.

Kilbourne had recently read of a new law, AB 103, that allowed business owners to form “business improvement districts” and assess themselves to pay for improvements. Three cities in California already had done so, including Sacramento, so he drove there and learned how it had been done.

As fast as it could, the group incorporated, drew up the parameters of the BID, and put it to a vote of the 300 business owners involved. It was not an easy sell: Opponents said it was “a communist plot,” Kilbourne says. “They called us all kinds of names.” But it passed, and the rest, as they say, is history.

Kilbourne soon became the DCBA’s first executive director, turning management of Pyromania over to friends. He hired Bob Malowney to design posters, created such special events as “A Slice of Chico” and “A Taste of Chico,” and generally worked to make being downtown a rich experience.

While doing that job, he earned a master’s degree in community development from Chico State. His thesis, “A Downtown Revitalization Manual,” is a how-to source for any community wanting to create a BID. When it was completed, the university sent it to every city in California and every capital city in the United States. Kilbourne started getting calls.

To make a long story short, he became the pre-eminent authority on creating BIDs and downtown revitalization—so much so that he had to go half-time at the DCBA and then leave it altogether in 1990. Through the years, he has helped more than 100 communities go through the six-month process of creating a BID and setting in place the mechanism for revitalization.

It’s been quite a journey for a hippie candlemaker, he says.

—Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

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Kilbourne in his north Chico home.

The pillows were made by Jacki Headley, who briefly lived in the house in the early 1970s.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

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the perfect tattoo for you. They take pride in their craft and ensure that their clients get the best in ink. There is also body piercing available and a nice selection of body jewelry.

The three tattoo artists: Kyle Nelson, Nikki Ventura, and Chuck, have over forty years of combined experience. They have thousands of designs to choose from, or they can custom design

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Feb. 23 & 24, “New music” can be “a little vague,” 7:30 p.m., in admitted new-music advocate and highly Rowland-Taylor accomplished pianist Sarah Cahill in a recent Recital Hall. interview in advance of her upcoming appearThursday: student composer ance at Chico State Friday, Feb. 24. “But in this concert; case it’s music you would hear in a concert hall Friday: piano rather than in a club or a stadium. It’s related to performance by classical music, but some of the composers Sarah Cahill. Both have grown up with rock ’n’ roll or pop music, performances are free. so that occasionally finds its way into these pieces as well. I’m playing a piece by New Rowland-Taylor York composer Phil Kline—it’s called “The Recital Hall Long Winter”—and he calls it a sonata in two Performing Art movements. But Phil Kline also played in rock Center, room 134 bands, and that energy infuses his piece as Chico State www.school well.” oftheartsCahill lives in Berkeley and is a faculty csuchico.com member of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, as well as curator of a new-music concert series at the Berkeley Art Museum, and her performance is part of Chico State’s annual New Music Symposium. The no-cost, two-day event, held each year in honor of late Chico State music professor and composer Alfred Loeffler, also will feature a student-composer concert on Thursday, Feb. 23.

Kline’s daring résumé includes founding New York “nowave” band The Del-Byzanteens with filmmaker Jim Jarmusch and the creation of experimental sound installations. His piece will be part of the peace-themed program Cahill will perform called A Sweeter Music, which she debuted in Berkeley in 2009 and has since performed around the world. The program also

Special Events LUMA THEATRE LIGHT SHOW: A pitch black Laxson Auditorium stage will be illuminated with colorful illusions of shadow and light, performance art combining gymnastics, dance, puppetry and physics. Th, 2/23, 7:30pm. $12-$25. Chico State; 400 W. First St.; (530) 898-6333; www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

Music NEW MUSIC SYMPOSIUM: Day one of the New Music

Pianist, writer, producer, teacher and radio host Sarah Cahill visits Chico State.

Symposium honoring long-time Department of Music faculty member Alfred Loeffler ends with a concert by student composers (Th, 2/23); day two (Fr, 2/24) concludes with nationally renowned pianist Sarah Cahill.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Th, 2/23, 7:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:30pm. Free. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostateboxoffice.com.

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features new-music composer Meredith Monk’s “Steppe Music,” as well as Frederic Rzewski’s “Peace Dances” and Japanese composer Mamoru Fujieda’s “The Olive Branch Speaks.”

“All of the [six] pieces on Friday’s program were commissioned by me, and it’s such a pleasure to receive these new scores and get to know them over time,” offered Cahill.

“Mamoru Fujieda has been obsessed with the voices of plants, and hooks up a device to the plants’ leaves to pick up bioelectric fluctuations, and then somehow translates that into music. For this project, since the theme is peace and war, Mamoru cultivated an olive tree on the balcony of his Tokyo apartment.”

Colfax-based composer Terry Riley, who has written numerous compositions for the Kronos Quartet, also wrote a piece for A Sweeter Music. Called “Be Kind to One Another,” it makes use of “material he improvised at the piano to lull his grandchildren to sleep as a lullaby,” Cahill said.

A classically trained pianist, Cahill said she “still love[s] playing Bach and Beethoven and Schubert,” and occasionally gives classical concerts. “I have a weekly classical-music radio show on KALW in San Francisco, so I’m constantly listening to classical music,” she offered. “But as a pianist, I feel particularly inspired and excited to work with living composers. And I feel more of a sense of purpose, as if I have a real mission, commissioning and premiering new works rather than performing Beethoven sonatas. There are so many pianists who play classical music, but there are new pieces being written which deserve to be heard and which I feel I can bring to life.” Ω

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MEMBER’S EXHIBITION Opens Saturday, Feb. 25 Chico Art Center

SEE SATURDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

FINE ARTS Art 1078 GALLERY: Joe Meiser & Michael Arrigo, 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.

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

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Augie Velasquez & Darren Names, stone sculpture by Augie Velasquez and computer-manipulated photographs and paintings by Darren Names. Through 3/16.Go Figure, figure art by in-house guild artists. Through 3/16. Sculpting talk: Velazquez will talk about his choice of stones and his inspiration he draws from Native American legends. Su, 2/26, 2pm.

Free. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

BOHO: Pantheon Dark & Bright, new sculptures by Goat on display at Boho in the Garden Walk Mall. Through 3/21. 225 Main St. D, (530) 895-3282.

RED STAR ARMY CHORUS & DANCE

BUTTE COLLEGE ART GALLERY: The Voodoo

Hills, pictures by Rachelle Montoya. Through 2/24. 3536 Butte Campus Dr. Inside the ARTS

Wednesday, Feb. 29 Laxson Auditorium

Building in Oroville, (530) 895-2208.

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HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: A musical biog-

NEW MUSIC SYMPOSIUM: See Thursday.

raphy takes the audience through the life and times of the legendary country-music pioneer Hank Williams. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 3/10. $10-$15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

Poetry/Literature WILDFLOWERS OF TABLE MOUNTAIN BOOK SIGNING: Local authors Albin Bills and Samantha Mackey Hillaire will speak on their book Wildflowers of Table Mountain, with a book signing to follow. Th, 2/23, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books; 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 891-3338; www.lyonbooks.com.

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Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Thursday.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

SCHEHERAZADE: Comedy, revenge, magic and mystery weave together in this tale adapted from the stories of The Arabian Nights. F, Sa, 7:30pm. Su, 2pm through 3/11. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 5332473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

BRENDAN LYNCH: Bay Area comic Brendan Lynch brings his astute observational style to the Last Stand stage. 2/24-2/25, 8:30pm. $10. The Last Stand, 167 E. Third St., (530) 354-1936, www.thelaststandcomedy.com.

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MOONLIGHT MELODIES: A fundraiser for the Children’s Choir of Chico will include fine dining, dancing to the Art Davis Combo with Bob Speegle and the Fabulous Swing Kings, auctions and raffles. Sa, 2/25, 6pm. $60. Butte Creek Country Club; 175 Estates Dr.; 342-2775; www.buttecreekcountryclub.com.

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CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Arts Center

CHICO ART CENTER MEMBERS SHOW RECEPTION:

LUMA THEATER

A reception for the gallery of works by the center’s members. Sa, 2/25, 7-9pm. Free.

Chico Art Center; 450 Orange St. 6; (530) 8958726; www.chicoartcenter.com.

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, works by DiGrazia, who manipulates photographs to detach the structure from recognizable surroundings. Through 6/1.Jake Early, Calif Mountain series. Through 4/30, 9:30am-6pm.

345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chico papercompany.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.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

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.

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) 345-3063.

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.

Call for Artists CALL FOR YOUTH ARTISTS: The City of Chico Arts Commission calls for artists in grades 7-12, including visual arts, theater, dance, creative writing, new media and music.

Each participant must have a sponsor 18 years or older. Through 3/7. Call or visit website for details, Chico, 896-7214, www.ci.chico.ca.us.

GROWING HEALTHY CHILDREN WALK & RUN ART CONTEST: A call for artists aged 5-18. All entries must be a picture or symbol that represents physical activity, nutrition and healthy living. Through 3/16. OPT for Healthy Living, 1311 Mangrove Ave. B 3rd Ave and Mangrove behind Papa Murphys, 345-2483.

HUMANITIES CENTER GALLERY: Black and White

Tonight, Feb. 23 Laxson Auditorium

SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Members Show, an exhibition of works by Chico Art Center Members. 2/25-3/24. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

1925 on display. Through 2/24. 400 W First St. CSU, Chico, Trinity Hall.

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in Black and White, large-scale historical photos of predominantly African American citizens of Lincoln, Nebraska between 1910-

Opening this week

FREE LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar. Once posted, your CN&R calendar listing will also be considered for print. Print listings are also free, but subject to space limitations. Deadline for print listings is one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

Three new plays open this week, two of which kick off this weekend at community theaters on opposite sides of the county: Opening Friday, Feb. 24, at Oroville’s Birdcage Theatre is Scheherazade, named for the storyteller of the Arabian Nights stories on EDITOR’S PICK which Susan Pargman’s play is based; and the following night, Saturday, Feb. 25, Chico Theater Company starts its run of Oscar Wilde’s final and most celebrated play, the Victorian satire The Importance of Being Earnest. But, perhaps the most intriguing selection of the week doesn’t open until leap day, Wednesday, Feb. 29, when Chico State stages Vatzlav in · Harlen Adams Theatre. Written by Polish playwright Stawomir Mrozek, the 77scene political farce about the adventures of a shipwrecked slave who washes onto the shore of a country populated with absurdities of many stripes—a bear man, a bat couple, Oedipus Rex, and more—promises to be theater of the most absurd.

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Music HIGH SCHOOL BATTLE OF THE BANDS: The Wild Oak

BIONEERS VIDEO SERIES

Music Group hosts the annual competition, with six bands vying for musical supremacy.

Sa, 2/25, 7pm. $7. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

Today, Feb. 16 Chico Creek Nature Center SEE COMMUNITY

LUKE BYRON CD RELEASE PARTY: Folk-rockin’ Chico State grad Luke Byron returns for an album-release show. Perpetual Drifters open.

Sa, 2/25, 7:30pm. $8-$12. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 892-1790.

Theater HANK WILLIAMS: LOST HIGHWAY: See Thursday.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 8953749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

THE IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST: The classic romantic comedy and satire of Victorian society by Oscar Wilde. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 3/11.

Su, 2pm 3/4 & 3/11. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company; 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F; (530) 894-3282; www.chicotheater company.com.

SCHEHERAZADE: See Friday. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

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Poetry/Literature THE HUMBOLDT WAGON ROAD BOOK SIGNING: A presentation and book signing with local authors Marti Leicester and David Nopel and their book, The Humboldt Wagon Road. Su, 2/26, 2pm. Free. Lyon Books; 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 891-3338; www.lyonbooks.com.

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Music RECKLESS KELLY: A twangy rock band from Texas that likes to dabble in some country, or maybe

a country band that plays rock. Boy howdy. Tu, 2/28, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierra nevada.com/bigroom.

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Special Events COMEDY NIGHT: Weekly comedy night on Wednesdays inside Spirits Lounge at Gold Country Casino. W, 8pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

RED STAR ARMY CHORUS & DANCE ENSEMBLE: A 45-member ensemble of Russia’s finest dancers, singers and musicians appearing at Laxson Auditorium. W, 2/29, 7:30pm. $18-$30.

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

Theater VATZLAV: Chico States Department of Theatre presents its first show of 2012, a political farce following a shipwrecked slave by Polish playwright Slawomir Mrozek. In Harlen Adams Theatre. 2/29-3/3, 7:30pm; Su, 3/4, 2pm. $6-$15.

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

Community BIONEERS VIDEO SPEAKER SERIES: The Bioneers Conference for sustainability and social justice will present “Scaling Up” as the third part of the three-part video series. Th, 2/23, 7pm.

Free. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978.

BLOOD DRIVE: A BloodSource blood drive, with appointments available every fifteen minutes.

As always, drink plenty of fluids and eat a good meal within four hours of giving blood. F, 2/24, 11:30am-2:30pm & 3:30-5:30pm. Enloe Conference Center, 1528 Esplanade, 332-6444.

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.

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

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.

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.

GLUTEN CONFUSION SEMINAR: Dr. Patrick Giammarise will host this seminar to clear up the confusion on what a gluten sensitivity is and how testing and treatment can offer relief for some bowel problems. Th, 2/23, 4:305:30 & 6-7pm. Free. Allergy & Digestive Relief Center, 2639 Forest Ave. 100, 8998741, www.digestionreliefcenter.com.

HABITOUR: An in-depth tour of Habitat for

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

PEMA CHODRON DOCUMENTARY: A viewing of

Pema’s Personal Journey, a documentary on the American practitioner of Tibetan Buddhism. Sa, 2/25, 9pm. Free. Sky Creek Dharma Center, 120 Three Oaks Ct., (530) 8938088, www.skycreekdharmacenter.org.

PROJECT S.A.V.E.: Salvage All Valuable Equipment, an organization that recycles medical and dental equipment and donates it to needy hospitals and clinics around the world, hosts a luncheon and presentation with Director Janice Walker. Sa, 2/25, 12-2pm. Cozy Diner, 1695 Mangrove Ave., 865-5120.

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.

SEWING, KNITTING & CRAFTS CLASSES FOR KIDS:

ATTENTION TRAVELERS If you have made reservations with any of a large number of hotels in the last 10 months, you may be owed money damages for privacy violations.

To learn more, call now:

Scot Bernstein Law Of fices of Scot D. Bernstein, A Professional Corporation 1(800)916-3500 toll free Free Confidential Consultation

Classes for kids hosted by Earth Girl Art. Go online for class schedule. Ongoing. Earth Girl Art, 3851 Morrow Ln., (530) 354-2680, www.earthgirlart.com.

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.

SPAY DAY USA: A clinic to educate the public on

how to help prevent animal overpopulation. Tu, 2/28. Butte Humane Society, 2579 Fair St., (530) 343-7917.

For Kids CHILDREN STORY TIME SERIES: Reading events

sponsored by Lyon Books. Every other Th, 3pm.

Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbook.com.

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.

Humanity, offering an opportunity for questions about the organization’s operations and facilities. W, 2/29, 5:30-6:30pm. Free. Habitat for Humanity of Butte County, 220 Meyers St., (530) 343-7423.

HERBS & SUPPLEMENTS FOR BREAST CANCER: A one-hour lecture covering the use of herbs and supplements for breast cancer with holistic therapist Harry Chrissakis. W, 2/29, 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Chico Public Library, Corner Of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (891) 891-2726.

INTERNATIONAL FOLK DANCING: No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 2/24. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., 3458134.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 50

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

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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The line to get a taste of Russian River’s Pliny the Younger was already down the block by 9 a.m. on a Saturday, but the twohour wait (for those of us up front) was well worth it.

O morning I was on the front line of the craft-beer revolution.

Well, not right at the front of the line; that spot was occupied by story and a spirited group photos by of friends in Jason Cassidy matching blue jasonc@ Forever Lazys, newsreview.com the full-body “onesie” pajamas for adults. I was actually about a hundred people back from the front, waiting with my wife, sister and brother-in-law for Russian River Brewing Co. to open the doors of its Santa Rosa pub to the fast-growing crowd happily lining up to taste one particular beer: Pliny the Younger.

Why all the fuss? Why would anyone, especially those currently living in Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s home town, wait for hours just to drink a beer? Well, for one, according to those who keep track of the thousands of brews now being produced in this brave new world of craft brewing (where nearly 2,000 breweries have opened in the United States since Sierra Nevada helped spark things some 30 years ago), Pliny the Younger is either the best beer in the world, or close to it. Currently, it’s sitting at No. 1 on the top-beers list at beeradvocate.com and No. 6 at ratebeer.com.

And, second, Russian River releases the triple India Pale Alestyle brew (with triple the hops, and much more alcohol by volume than the average IPA) only once a year, for two weeks only starting the first weekend in February, and only on draft at its pub (and in limited quantities at select beer bars on

the West Coast and in Colorado).

Plus, the small brewery situated in the fertile north Bay Area craft-brewing region is one of the most respected in the craft-beer world. Two more of its beers are also featured in the top 20 at Beer Advocate, including Pliny the Younger’s cousin (well, uncle, actually), the popular double IPA named for the Roman naturalist who died during the eruption of Mount Vesuvius and was (possibly) the first person to write about hops, Pliny the Elder (at No. 4).

So, with all that said, was it worth waiting two hours (or up to five hours for those still winding around the block when we left) to taste the beer? Most definitely.

We were seated within 15 minutes of the doors opening at 11 a.m., and we all giggled when, as a courtesy, the server asked what we wanted to drink. Less than five minutes later we were raising our 10 oz. glasses of glowing (I swear, the beer was glowing) gold-and-orange-hued Pliny the Younger. The fruity floral aroma was intoxicating on its own, and though a bitter blast of citrus peel and pine needles slammed my taste buds with the first drink, it didn’t linger too strongly. In fact, a slightly sweet fruitiness and a good measure of maltiness were nearly as prominent as the bitter hops, and provided a nice fullbodied (with a kind of buttery mouth feel) drinking experience.

Almost immediately, I admitted that it was probably the best IPA I’ve ever had. But while my sister and her husband both really liked it, they each said they would pick Pliny the Elder if given the

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Saying it’s best in the world, though, across all styles of beer, is kind of ridiculous. The best stout or pilsner is going for a completely different profile of flavors, and isn’t comparable. And if you prefer those styles, there is no way Pliny the Younger would be your favorite.

Of course, Pliny the Younger’s popularity does raise the question, “Why not brew it year round?”

The brewery says that it’s an expensive beer to make and that it takes up a lot of time and space at the small brewery.

I for one am glad the beer is released this way. The anticipation of and excitement over the occasion and hanging out with a bunch of happy beer lovers were major parts of what made drinking the beer so memorable.

Besides, we can now get the Elder version pretty much year round at many outlets in Chico (Spike’s Bottle Shop, S&S Produce, Mangrove Bottle Shop, Ray’s Liquor, and on draft at the Pour House and Burgers & Brew), which should more than tide us over until Younger returns next February. Ω

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The 2012 Chico Area Music Awards will be taking over Chico this spring with an insane marathon of the best local music—four shows per night, three nights in a row at a total of six venues.

And we’ll return the following week for the all-day 2012 CAMMIES Music Awards Show:

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Williams is—for this author included—one of the most beloved artists ever.

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Miller directs the play and stars as Williams. An accomplished actor and musician, Miller more than meets the need for an actor who can also play guitar and sing, but he transcended all expectations.

Williams is a complicated character, and Miller managed to capture his many facets, from the mamaand-Jesus-loving rube with big dreams to a tortured, vice-addled superstar in decline.

The story begins with Williams’ death at age 29—road-sick, drunk, drugged and alone in the back seat of a Cadillac—then goes back to the beginning. It plays out through dramatic interludes punctuated with spectacular live musical performances, with Miller backed by Kevin Briggs, Jeffrey Burkhart and Steve Valine as Jimmy (guitar), Hoss (bass) and Shag (pedal steel), respectively. Of special note is the phenomenal pedal steel playing of Valine, which is used in the musical performances and to add atmosphere throughout the production.

The voice of Dave Myers, who plays Tee Tot, a black street musician who tutored a young Hank musically, was similarly used.

Myers stayed in the corner of the stage throughout most of the play, moaning old blues and gospel lyrics to amplify the ambiance and color the spoken interplay between characters.

Lisa Marie Hiatt also shined as Audrey, Williams’ proto-Yoko manager/wife. It seemed like it was difficult for her to sing poorly even when the script called for her to do

so, and Hiatt delivered Audrey’s sweet and not-so-sweet scenes fantastically.

I’m always amazed at how effectively the Blue Room crew manages to transform the same tiny black box into whatever is necessary to tell the story, and the set of Lost Highway may be my favorite yet. Steps from the Grand Ole Opry stage lead down to a deck that extends practically into the audience, and are flanked by a diner and an old Alabama homestead house. The play is nonlinear, and the set and lighting are effectively used to affect ellipses in setting and time without being confusing.

There are no small roles in Lost Highway, and all of the players handled their responsibilities swimmingly. Natalie Valencia struck a perfect balance of loving and stern as Williams’ mother, Mama Lily; Dave Sorenson was excellent as Fred “Pap” Rose, as was Nikki Sierra as a love-lorn truckstop waitress.

Lost Highway is a fantastic production, and the cast and crew manage to honor the whole of Williams’ life, with no painting over of un-pretty parts. Any criticisms I might have—brief lulls in action and dialogue—could be chalked up to opening-night jitters.

The Blue Room also scored demographically with Lost Highway. It was especially nice to see a number of older folks, some decked out in Western shirts and boots, clap to Williams’ songs alongside 20-something hipsters, proof of the power of Williams’ Ω legacy.

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Much of the film’s special élan is concentrated in the lead players. Dujardin is a suave comedian doing variations on the farcical narcissist he’s played previously in the OSS 117 series of James Bond parodies (also written and directed by Hazanavicius). Here he channels the likes of Gene Kelly, Fredric March and Douglas Fairbanks with charming nonchalance.

Bejos provides a crucial spark as Peppy Miller, a frenetic Roaring ’20s flapper, all toothy charm and frantic hilarity. And Uggie, who plays Valentin’s canine sidekick (and nemesis to his estranged wife and former costar), is one if the star dog characters of a movie year that saw several exceptional examples (Le Quattro Volte, The Adventures of Tintin, and the “rediscovery” of Rin Tin Tin).

Plus, there’s a special inventiveness at work in the film’s jokes involving sound (and talk) or the lack of it. In a dream sequence and in the climactic episode in particular, we get “sound-gags” to go alongside the customary sight-gags. Ω

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movie actors struggling with the transition to talking pictures—but it all works very nicely, both as a comic entertainment and as a frisky homage to by old-time moviemaking.

Juan-Carlos The story itself harks back, in part, to a couSelznick ple of chestnuts from the golden age of Hollywood talkies—Singin’ in the Rain (1952) and A Star Is Born (1937), but without the latter’s unhappy ending. The title character is George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a swashbuckling star of silent movies who refuses to make the The Artist change to sound. His professional fall from Starring Jean grace is set off against the rise to success of Dujardin, Peppy Miller (a delightful Bérénice Bejos), an Bérénice Bejo ingénue who makes a spectacular debut with and John Valentin and then goes on to stardom in talking Goodman.

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Poor Hazanavicius and Dujardin are French and so is their production crew. While there are several Americans and a couple of Brits in the cast, the production itself is basically Fair French. The film’s historical frame of reference includes a few nods to European silent cinema, but Hollywood in the 1920s is its chief backdrop—a setting that The Artist evokes via Good replicas of Hollywood’s portraits of itself, intentional and otherwise, in its own silent N E W S & R E V I E W B U S I N E S S U S E O N LY films.

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movie because it was a Marvel comic-book adaptation with Nicolas Cage. In theory, while the combination might be fun, it wasn’t really worth risking 10 bucks to find out. However, when I heard that they were bringing Mark Neveldine and Brian Taylor (directors of the

deliriously twisted Crank and Crank: High Voltage) in to helm the sequel, I folded up my sawbuck and headed to the theater.

Could that $10 have been used for something better? Yes. I’m thankful I didn’t go in for the 3-D showing. (You can throw glitter on shit but then all you have is shit with glitter on it.)

But, it’s not all bad. Ignoring the first entry (from what I’ve heard, a good idea) GR: Spirit of Vengeance at least works as a stand-alone film. Here our disaffected anti-hero Johnny Blaze (Cage) brings us up to speed on the backstory over a crudely animated montage. Fortunately, soon enough Blaze’s head explodes into flames and he’s roaring around Eastern Europe as Ghost Rider on his blazin’ motorcycle snapping flamin’ chains around evildoers and making them explode into oily clouds of embers. There’s also a hot Euro MILF whose boy is the spawn of Satan who the

Reviewers: Craig Blamer, Christine G.K. LaPado and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week Act of Valor

During a mission to rescue a kidnapped CIA operative, a Navy SEAL team uncovers an imminent threat that requires them to embark on a new secret operation with global implications. The film stars a real-life group of active-duty Navy SEALS. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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After her sister is kidnapped, a young woman (Amanda Seyfried) is convinced that the person who took her is the same serial killer from whom she escaped years earlier, and she only has till sundown to track him down and save her. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Good Deeds

Triple-threat Tyler Perry writes, directs and stars as Wesley Deeds, a wealthy businessman who veers from his doing-what’sexpected-of-him script after falling for the single mother working for the cleaning crew in his office. Cinemark 14and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Wanderlust

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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

bad guys want to groom into being the Antichrist. I suppose that’s about all of the story you need before it starts getting in the way of the fire. And there’s a lot of CGI fire in this puppy. It’s like an action screensaver for stoners. “Dude! Fire! Fire! Fire!”

Unfortunately, while the action does have Neveldine and Taylor’s Cheetos-stained fingerprints all over the place, the craziness you’d expect from those two seems a li’l repressed. I’m guessing it’s more the fault of Disney protecting its Marvel Comics investment in addition to the lack of imagination of go-to superhero writer David Goyer (of the Batman reboot). Spirit of Vengeance is a sadly dispirited entry. While the flaming bits work well enough and Neveldine and Taylor get to play their usual hyperkinetic games with the toys, there’s really not much else to recommend here to anyone who isn’t sparking up a bowl before going into the theater. Ω

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 car-priced “found-footage” antecedents—it cost $12 million to make. But all that money doesn’t come into play until the effects-heavy battle royale that serves as a third act. And the battle royale is pretty spiffy. Cinemark 14.

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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 takecharge 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.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —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.

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characters. The central premise has a young, untried CIA agent named Matt Weston (Ryan Reynolds) charged with the desperate task of bringing in Tobin Frost (Denzel Washington), a notorious rogue agent. That increasingly complicated pairing plays out against the larger backdrop of counterespionage and intra-agency scheming, all ostensibly in the name of national security.

Initially, Frost is the larger-than-life antagonist to Weston’s perhaps life-size protagonist, but the nature of that match-up shifts as events unfold. The plausibility of these shifts (and of Weston’s own character) gets increasingly thin as the twists of plot and character become more frenetic. And the movie itself, after starting out with a grab bag of disparate but intriguing premises, gradually reverts to merely generic moves.

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“Delightful” doesn’t even begin to describe this newest animated film from Studio Ghibli. Based on Mary Norton’s juvenile fantasy novel The Borrowers, Arrietty’s screenplay was co-written by Japanese animation king Hayao Miyazaki (Ponyo, Howl’s Moving Castle). Miyazaki’s sensitive hand is all over this film that tells the story of a 10centimeter-tall “Borrower” girl named Arrietty who lives under the floorboards of the house of a wacky woman named Hara (voiced by Carol Burnett in the U.S. version) with her mother Homily (Amy Poehler) and father Pod (Will Arnett). Things get interesting when a human boy named Shawn comes to stay with Hara and discovers Arrietty (Bridgit Mendler) in the garden. Arrietty is at first reluctant to befriend a “human bean,” as the Borrowers refer to people, as past experience has proven dangerous, even fatal. The colorful, nuanced artwork and animation is stunningly beautiful and delicate, rivaled only by the fairy sequence in Walt Disney’s Fantasia. The film is truly a must-see for viewers of all ages. Cinemark 14. Rated G —C.G.K.L.

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

It will seem as though you can just reach out and grab Jar Jar Binks’ droopy ears with both hands and wrestle him to the ground in this 3-D update of George Lucas’ 1999 space adventure. Cinemark 14. 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.

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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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THURSDAY 2|23—WEDNESDAY 2|29 OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

THE QUICK AND EASY BOYS: The Quick and easy boys are a riff-heavy funk/punk band from Portland, Oregon. Will McCall opens. Th, 2/23, 7:30pm. $5. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 8921790.

REGGAE & DANCEHALL NIGHT: Weekly Th,

9pm-1:45am through 3/29. Opens 2/23.

JUST LIKE VINYL Friday, Feb. 24 Origami Lounge

23THURSDAY BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam. Th, 8pm-

midnight. Lynns Optimo; 9225 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 872-1788.

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

JEFF PERSHING BAND: A funky trip to the islands with Chico mainstay Jeff Pershing and crew. Th, 2/23, 6-9pm.

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

JOHN SEID: John Seid, Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing the blues, the Beatles and standards. Th, 2/23, 6:309:30pm. Free. Johnnies Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond;

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

TERRY MALTS: Noisy post-punk outfit Terry Malts, hailing from San Francisco. The Hambones open. Th, 2/23, 9:30pm. $5. Duffys Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.

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MCBRIDE BROTHERS: The authentic ‘60s rock’n’roll experience. Th, 2/23, 9pm.

Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

APPLE Z: Classic rock covers all night.

2/24-2/25, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa, (530) 458-8844, www.colusacasino.com.

NEW MUSIC SYMPOSIUM: Day one of the New Music Symposium honoring longtime Department of Music faculty member Alfred Loeffler ends with a concert by student composers (Th, 2/23); day two (Fr, 2/24) concludes with nationally renowned pianist Sarah Cahill. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Th, 2/23, 7:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:30pm.

Free. Chico State, 400 W. First St., (530) 898-6333, www.chicostatebox office.com.

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.

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JUST LIKE VINYL: Former Fall of Troy vocalist and guitarist Thomas Erak brings his new project Just Like Vinyl to the Origami Lounge. Hail the Sun, Final Last Words and Clouds on Strings open. F, 2/24, 7:30pm. $8. Origami Lounge; 7th And Cherry Streets.

LIVE MUSIC SHOWCASE: Rich & Kendall’s weekly music revue featuring the Retrotones. F, 4:30pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

NEW MUSIC SYMPOSIUM: See Thursday.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. Th, 2/23, 7:30pm; F, 2/24, 7:30pm. Free. Chico

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

Butter open. F, 2/24, 9pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway St. (530) 893-1891.

25SATURDAY APPLE Z: Classic rock covers all night.

2/24-2/25, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa, (530) 458-8844, www.colusacasino.com.

BADD MEDICINE: Big hair, big riffs and plenty of glam with this 80s hair metal cover band. Sa, 2/25, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill; 375 East Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

BLUEGRASS JAM: An open jam for bluegrass musicians hosted by Lucy Smith.

Fourth Sa of every month, 1-4pm. Opens

2/25. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 514-8888.

HIGH SCHOOL BATTLE OF THE BANDS: The Wild Oak Music Group hosts the annual competition, with six bands vying for musical supremacy. Sa, 2/25, 7pm. $7.

1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 3431973; www.1078gallery.org.

LUKE BYRON CD-RELEASE PARTY: Folkrockin’ Chico State grad Luke Byron returns for an album-release show.

Perpetual Drifters open. Sa, 2/25, 7:30pm. $8-$12. Bustolinis Deli & Coffee House; 800 Broadway St.; (530) 8921790.

ZEN ROAD PILOTS: It’s like, modern classic rock. Whoa. Sa, 2/25, 9pm. Free.

Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave.

SHOOK TWINS AND JOHN CRAIGIE: Traveling folkie John Craigie is joined

by Portland’s Shook Twins, a trio feat.

New local duo Tumbler, featuring Scott Itamura and Ellen Knight of The Railflowers, opens. F, 2/24, 7:30pm. $5.

Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.

SKYNNYN LYNNYRD: A Lynyrd Skynyrd tribute band in the brewery. “Free Bird” requests are encouraged, for once. F, 2/24, 9pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Company; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com/brewing-co.

THRIVE: A hybrid of rock and reggae out of Santa Cruz. Strange Habits and Soul

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26SUNDAY THE GROWLERS AND ALLAH-LAS: The

Growlers’ “beach goth” (reverb-laden vocals and psychedelia from So. Cal) joins forces with L.A. surf-rockers Allah-Las. The Hambones open. Su, 2/26, 8pm. $8. Origami Lounge; 7th And Cherry streets.

Carey Robinson Trio. W, 12-2pm. Free.

Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; 514-8888.

A LEAP OF METAL SHOW: LaSalles’ growlin’, shreddin’ local-metal showcase. Taunis Year One headlines, with A Plague Upon Her and the Castless. W, 2/29, 9pm. $5. LaSalles; 229 Broadway St. 2nd street; (530) 893-1891.

LEAP YEAR PARTY: Portland folk-rockers Fruition party with locals the Rhythm Rebels and space-funk stars Gravy Brain. W, 2/29, 8pm. $5. Lost On Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

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Italian Garden; 6929 Skyway in Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.my space.com/theitaliangarden.

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; 514-8888.

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

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restaurant. W, 8-11pm. Tortilla Flats; 2601 The Esplanade; (530) 345-6053.

RECKLESS KELLY: A twangy rock band from Texas that likes to dabble in some country, or maybe a country band that plays rock. Boy howdy. Tu, 2/28, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

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

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

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

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

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

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

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party

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

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

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

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TORTILLA FLATS: Karaoke en Español. Su,

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Wildflowers of Table Mountain Albin Bills and Samantha Mackey Studies from the Herbarium, CSU, Chico “Despite the odds, patches of ‘Muir-ness’ still remain.” One of those patches is right here in Butte County, atop the vast flat-topped formation known appropriately as Table Mountain. And that “Muirness,” referred to in the preface of this guidebook by Butte College biology instructor Albin Bills and botanist Samantha Mackey, is a reference to the sea of wildflowers that—much as it used to across the whole Central Valley during John Muir’s day—overtakes the landmark mountain above Oroville each spring. Early chapters give tips on visiting the area, plus information on how the mountain formed as well as botanical insights on its flowers, but the bulk of the book is a guide to 70 or so wildflower species on Table Mountain—everything from the delicate Bird’s-Eye Gilia (Gilia tricolor) to the sulpher-yellow Johnnytuck (Triphysaria eriantha), aka “butter-and-eggs,” aka “Bidwell’s owl’s-clover” (collected by and formerly named for Annie Bidwell).

This second edition augments the botanical drawings of Larry Jansen with full-color photos of all the flowers, and it comes out just in time for the wildflower season that begins in mid-March.

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Listen, Whitey! The Sounds of Black Power 1967-1974 Various Artists Light In the Attic Records The title says it all. Listen, Whitey! (the companion soundtrack to the book from activist and writer Pat Thomas) is a gritty and important look at everything white folk feared during one of the most politically and socially explosive times in America. There’s a diverse cross-section of artists here, too, from Bob Dylan and Gil Scott-Heron to Roy Harper and noteworthy Black Panther house band The Lumpen. Included in the collection are speeches, songs and spoken word that explore the black experience during the late ’60s and early ’70s as Black Power upped the ante of the Civil Rights Movement, and men like Bobby Seale and Huey Newton emerged as revolutionaries. Listen, Whitey! also gets into the history of Motown Records and its short-lived Black Forum label, which from 1970 to 1973 released spoken-word recordings by Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Stokely Carmichael and Elaine Brown (Carmichael’s “Free Huey” and Brown’s “Until We’re Free” are included in the collection). Highlights are The Lumpen’s funky and ramshackle “Free Bobby Now” and the jarring spoken word “Die Nigga!!!” from The Original Last Poets. This is an intriguing and comprehensive collection from a not-so-pretty time in America. And it’s definitely worth revisiting.

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GIRL ON FILM Amanda Detmer is coming full circle. The Chico-bred

actress is back in town, filming a new movie in the same area where she got her first break. Back in 1995, Detmer was part of the cast (along with Growing Pains’ Tracey Gold) of the made-for-TV movie Stolen Innocence, filmed right here in Chico (it included a shootout scene at the Thunderbird Lodge). Now, the actress who has gone on to star in several more films (Saving Silverman, The Magestic) and TV shows (Man Up, Medium) is back to film the indie flick Super Tuesday with fellow Chico expat (and director) Coy Middlebrook.

Amanda Detmer in Saving Silverman.

Filming at various Butte and Glenn County locations—including Chico Airport, Duffy’s Tavern and Christian Michael’s Ristorante—started Feb. 15 and will continue through Feb. 26.

RIP LOIS This past Sunday, Feb. 19, the Chico arts community lost one

of its most energetic members when Lois Cohen died. She was 92.

In the 25-plus years she lived in Butte County, the Paradise resident created a lifetime’s worth of paintings, drawings and prints, but before she ever came to us, she had already had several prolific decades of art-making under her belt. Born in Chicago, she began drawing at the age of 6, and by 14, shortly after moving with her family to Pittsburgh, she was getting paid $25 to draw sketches of people and pets. After art school, Cohen went to work as a fashion illustrator for May Co. department stores before moving out to California and eventually getting work at a series of studios—MGM, RKO, Disney, Samuel Goldwin, Fox—as a set designer and storyboard artist.

In the 30 years that she made art for films, Cohen worked on everything from An American in Paris to Around the World in 80 Days, while also exhibiting her works at major California museums (de Young, L.A. County Museum, Oakland Museum of Art) and, starting in 1973, doing space paintings as L.A.’s Griffith Observatory’s artist for 13 years.

Around here, though, Cohen was perhaps best know for her collection of paintings at James Snidle Fine Arts and her constant presence in local art classes and at plein-air paint-out events (as well as for being the mother of local singer/songwriter Danny Cohen).

The picture here is from one of the plein-air painting events, and was sent to me

by Avenue 9 Gallery’s Maria Phillips. “[It was] the quintessential Lois: It was a freezing cold windy day, most of the plein air painters had packed it up. Loispersevered. Armed with her paints, and in her red ear muffs, green hat and purple jacket, she took it to the finish line. We’ll miss Lois Lois Cohen but always have her and her beautiful art in our hearts.”

I also received a note from James Snidle announcing a public memorial for Cohen at his Chico gallery during a reception featuring her work April 5, 5-8 p.m.

“She was the most prolific and amazing artist that I could have ever befriended,” said Snidle. “She seemed to have no attachment to the product but reveled in the joy of the process of making paintings, prints and drawings and watercolors. Her skill and ability even in her 90s would blow most people away.

“I had the honor to paint with her for 10 years. We rarely missed a week, regardless of the weather threats. We celebrated the landscapes of Butte County, choosing a location every week to record what we saw. She was so courageous that going under barbed wire to reach a place we wanted to set up was never a problem. She produced art daily. She was accomplished at all she touched. When I moved to S.F. 14 years ago [current Snidle gallery manager] Dean Willson took my place and for years became her painting partner. We both got the greatest gift of spending precious time in her presence and painting.”

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620 Burnt Ranch Way

Chico

$300,000

4/ 3

3113

1718 Spruce Ave

Chico

$157,000

2/ 1

944

656 Crister Ave

Chico

$239,000

3/ 1.5

1168

1621 Chico River Rd

Chico

$145,000

3/ 1

1352

1844 Arcadian Ave

Chico

$219,000

2/ 1

2800

73 Artesia Dr

Chico

$140,000

3/ 2

1302

12 Cloud Ct

Chico

$179,500

3/ 2

1253

788 Colorado St

1884 Devonshire Dr

Chico

$174,500

3/ 2

1320

12317 Bean Clipper Rd

93 Lexington Dr

Chico

$171,000

3/ 2

1163

210 Little Ave

54 CN&R February 23, 2012

Chico

$132,000

2/ 1

1080

Clipper Mills

$121,500

2/ 1

1500

Gridley

$107,000

4/ 3

2304

Home Week of tHe

open

house

Century 21 Jeffries Lydon

3 Bd, 2 Ba, 2139 sq. ft.

Emmett Jacobi 519-6333 Mark Reaman 228-2229

Sat 2-4 & Sun 11-1

Sat 11-1, 2-4 & Sun 11-1, 2-4

4 Benton (X St: Eaton) 4 Bd, 2 Ba, 1727 sq. ft. $248,790 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Alice Zeissler 518-1872

1932, 1933 & 1944 Wisteria Lane (X St: Glenwood) 3&4 Bd, 2 Ba, 1707-1928 sq. ft. $297,900--$341,100 Brandi Laffins 321-9562 Sherry Landis 514-4855

Sat 11-1, 2-4 & Sun 11-1, 2-4

Sat 11-1

739 Moss (X St: Filbert) 4 Bd, 3 Ba, 2712 sq. ft.

Ken Martin 828-9440 Carolyn Fejes 966-4457 Diane Williams 514-4021 Anita Miller 321-1174

Sat 11-1, 2-4 & Sun 2-4 3188 Summit Ridge Terrace (X St: Ridge Hollow) 4 Bd, 3 Ba, 4030 sq. ft. 799,931 Paul Champlin 828-2902

Sat 11-1, 2-4 131 W 22nd Street (X St: Park Avenue) 4 Bd, 2 Ba, 1822 sq. ft. $188,000 Kimberley Tonge 518-5508

2877 Godman ave • CHiCo

Sun 2-4 3315 Keefer Road (X St: Cohasset Road) 5 Bd, 4 Ba, 4467 sq. ft. $799,000 Sherry Landis 514-4855

Come see this updated north Chico home situated on large .28 acre corner lot! Home features three bedrooms and two bathrooms with both step down living room and family room cozy masonry fireplace. The home is accented with laminate flooring, carpeting and complimentary neutral tone paint. The large backyard which boasts a covered patio will be a welcome feature for outside entertaining. Home has dual pane windows, whole house fan, sprinkler system, oversized attached two car garage and rv parking, with the added bonus of being on city sewer and water! Get a free one year home warranty. Open house Saturday from 1pm-3pm

Sat 11-1,2-4 & Sun 11-1, 2-4 115 Zinnia (X St: W. 11th Avenue) 4 Bd, 3 Ba, 2300 sq. ft. $378,500 Mark Reaman 228-2229 Steve Kasprzyk 518-4850 Paul Champlin 828-2902

Fabulous Durham home on 4.36 acres of walnuts w/ good income & production. Built in 2000 4 bd/3 ba, 2917 sq ft,. All goodies you would expect, pool & 3 car garage.

Only $595,000.00 Call me for details.

Steve Kasprzyk Steve Kasprzyk (Kas-per-zik) 530-518-4850 www.deangaskey.com

All Utilities & Sewer

894-4503

SMILES ALWAYS

Sun 2-4

1733 Mulberry Street (X St: 17th Street) 5 Bd, 3 Ba, 1430 sq. ft.

GREAT PRICE FOR A BUILDABLE LOT IN CORNING... $28,500

Russ Hammer Russ Hammer 894-4503 HH AMMER SELLS @@ SBCGLOBAL .NET AMMER SELLS SBCGLOBAL .NET

251 Idyllwild (X St: Lakewest Drive) 3 Bd, 3 Ba, 2126 sq. ft. $335,000 Ronnie Owen 518-0911

Sat 11-1, 2-4

2643 Chantel Way (X St: Henshaw)

3bd/2.5ba on 1.6 ac Keifer Area $429k

Sun 2-4

3374 Canyon Oaks Terrace (X St: Shadybrook) 4 Bd, 3 Ba, 3483 sq. ft. $599,000 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

Sat 2-4 & Sun 2-4

LD $185k Nice 3bd/2ba w/pool SO Country 3bd/2ba on .49 ac $215k

187 E. Lincoln (X St: Oleander) 4 Bd, 3 Ba, 2804 sq. ft. $379,000 Johnny Klinger 864-3398 Brandi Laffins 321-9562

2 Tilden Lane (X St: Cal Park Dr.) 3 Bd, 2.5 Bas, 1318 sq. ft.

1161 Viceroy (X St: Ceanothus) 3 Bd, 2 Ba, 1127 sq. ft. $210,000 Ron Kelly 521-3629 Justin Jewett 518-4089 Mark Reaman 228-2229

Waller Real Estate | P. 530-896-0700 www.WallerRealEstate.net | License #01358682

Sat 11-1, 2-4 & Sun 11-1

Sun 11-1

Sat 11-1, 2-4 & Sun 11-1, 2-4

Listed at: $219,000

1152 Manzanita Ave. (X St: Ceres Ave.) 3 Bd, 1 Ba, 1560 sq. ft. $209,000 Sherry Landis 514-4855

JOYCE TURNER 571-7719

jturner@century21chico.com

Success and experience bring outstanding results! #6 in production for 2011!

JOHN WALLACE

(530) 894-4514 www.JohnWallaceHomes.com jwallace@homesaleschico.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 6, 2012 — February 10, 2012.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

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Magalia

$194,500

4/ 2.5

2539

1912 Cox Ln

Palermo

$110,000

4/ 2

1836

13770 Finch Ct

Magalia

$190,000

3/ 2

1750

1423 Gracephil Ln

Paradise

$257,000

3/ 2

1565

6230 Odessa Ct

Magalia

$149,000

3/ 2

1645

5045 Malibu Dr

Paradise

$228,000

3/ 2.5

2314

14425 Carnegie Rd

Magalia

$121,500

4/ 2

1568

1149 Covert Ln

Paradise

$144,000

1/ 1

536

6236 Jack Hill Dr

Oroville

$233,500

3/ 3

2996

7529 Skyway

Paradise

$133,000

2/ 1.5

3276

1 Patrick Ct

Oroville

$174,000

3/ 2

1712

1490 Bader Mine Rd

Paradise

$110,000

2/ 2

988

112 Buck Run Dr

Oroville

$135,000

4/ 2

1687

1260 Fawnbrook Pl

Paradise

$109,000

2/ 2

1015

50 Naranja Ave

Oroville

$132,000

3/ 2

1175

1235 Broadway St

Richvale

$131,000

3/ 1.5

1488

1044 Mt Ida Rd

Oroville

$120,000

2/ 2

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530-893-0263.

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ACTORS/MOVIE EXTRAS Needed immediately for upcoming roles $150-$300/day depending on job requirements. No experience, all looks. 1-800-560-8672 A-109. For casting times/ locations. (AAN CAN)

1970 MGB Classic Convertible Restored, pristine condition. All records. $8,995.00. 530-345-9373 Days or Evenings.

BULLETIN BOARD

$25 Call Lee CMT 893-2280 Shower Available

$$$HELP WANTED$$$ Extra Income! Assembling CD cases from Home! No Experience Necessary! Call our Live Operators Now! 800-405-7619 EXT 2450 www.easywork-greatpay.com (AAN CAN)

EARN $500 A DAY Airbrush & Media Makeup Artists For:Ads - TV - Film - Fashion. Train & Build Portfolio in 1 week.

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We meet twice a month.

Joel Castle, 354-8665

ROOMS FOR RENT

Butte County Surplus Sale 14 County Center Dr. Oroville, CA Friday, March 2, 2012 9am-2pm.

Items include: Couches, air purifiers, metal shelf units (some enclosed), bulletin boards, file cabinets, A/V carts, (1) table saw for $200, desks, office chairs, misc office goods and more. Open to the public.

Next sale June 1, 2012 Wanted for Consignment Yard art, garden tools, patio furniture, sporting goods, commercial equipment, antiques, furniture, bikes, jewelry, costume jewelry, and just about anything that is in good condition and priced to sell at our warehouse consignment store.Stop by 2450 Valine/Meyers between 1-4pm or call John at 894-1628. Near the Habitat for Humanity’s ReStore and Wilbur’s Feed.

WANTED TO BUY CASH FOR CARS: Any Car/Truck. Running or Not! Top Dollar Paid. We Come To You! Call For Instant Offer: 1-888-420-3808 www.cash4car.com (AAN CAN)

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(AAN CAN) JOHNSON HOUSE OF SOBRIETY Men and women, a sober living environment, rooms for rent. $350/month + utilities. 647 W 2nd Ave. #4 resident mgr. Neal, 354-3395 ROOMS NOW: Sober & Community Living.

Single or Share. $425per month +$175 dep. Includes All Utilites + Food.

Dianna 1-530-923-6162

APARTMENT RENTALS ChicoApts.com

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MEDICAL MARIJUANA EVALUATION Locally Owned

J.H. Schwartz M.D. $100 New Recommendations $50 Renewal 24/7N VERIFICATIO

Private & Confidential CHICO NATURAL SOLUTION For Chronic Pain 530.899.9976

BY APPOINTMENT ONLY

www.chiconaturalsolution.com

AUTOS 1983 Full-sized Chevy Blazer. All original. Most factory options. Very well kept condition. 530-895-8171 Audi 1996 A6 Quattro 4WD, automatic, 4door, CC, PW/PD, CD, ski storage, new tires, runs great, $4900. 186K mi.

530-570-5113 New Prius Are Here!

50 MPG, best warrantee, 2 year service free, call Lee McKim, Hybrid Specialist, at 530-354-7782 at Chuck Patterson Toyota.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 conducted by an individual.

Signed: OLIVER POLLARD Dated January 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000069 Published: February 2,9,16,23, 2012

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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT 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

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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 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

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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 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.

SAMAHER HADEED, 400 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

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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 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,

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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 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.

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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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PROFESSIONAL GARDEN COMPANY at 1239 Elliott Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

NORMAN TICKNER, 1239 Elliott Rd. Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: NORMAN TICKNER Dated: February 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000176 Published; February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27944 at 1930 E 20th St. Chico, CA 95928.

OCAT INC, 801 10th St. 5th Floor, #2, Modesto, CA 95354. This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID OLSON Dated: February 10, 2012 FBN Number: 20120000234 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as JAMBA JUICE at 201 Broadway St. Chico, cA 95928.

WHIRL PARTNERS LLC, 2000 Alameda De Las Pulgas #250, San Mateo, CA 94403.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: TODD HENDERSON Dated: February 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000209 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE VILLAGE GREEN at 2159 Park Ave. #100, Chico, CA 95928.

PAUL EDWARDS, 6086 Mason Ct. Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: PAUL EDWARDS Dated: February 17, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000275 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO GUN SAFE at 1351 Mangrove Ave. Suite A, Chico, CA 95926.

MICHAEL GRAY, 328 Southgate Ave. Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: MICHAEL GRAY Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000246 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FABULOUS FAITH DESIGNS IMAGE STUDIO at 1035 Village Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

ELIZABETH FAITH ALFANO, 400 Mission Ranch Bl. #76, Chico, CA 95926.; This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: ELIZABETH ALFANO Dated: January 19, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000095 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as OLD CROW ESTATE SERVICES at 1916 Laburnum, Chico, CA 95926.

TAMMARA ASKEA, 852 Wisconsin St. Chico, CA 95928.

PAUL SUHY, 1916 Laburnum, Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: TAMMARA ASKEA Dated: February 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000240 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BEAST CLUB ACADEMY at 3821 Hilldale Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

TYREE JONES, 3821 Hilldale Ave. Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: TYREE JONES Dated: February 15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT

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The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27946 at 757 East Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

OCAT INC, 801 10th St. 5th Floor, #2, Modesto, CA 95354.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAVID OLSON Dated: February 10, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000235 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

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FBN Number: 2012-0000260 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as VOODOO TATTOO at 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #12, Oroville, CA 95965.

DEBBY VAKUTA, STEVE VANDERVORT, 77-6581 Sea View Circle 1C, Kailua-Kona, HI 96740.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: STEVE VANDERVORT Dated: February 9, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000224 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SPA PIERMAN at 2059 Forest ave. #6, Chico, CA 95928.

APRIL R MANN, 2059 Forest Ave. #6, Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: APRIL MANN Dated: January 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000162 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

NOTICES 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 & 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

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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

NOTICE OF APPLICATION TO SELL ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES To Whom It May Concern: The name of the applicant is: JOHN MORRIS ROSS The applicants listed above are applying to the Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control to sell alcoholic beverages at: 167 E 3rd St. Chico, CA 95928-5403 Type of license applied for: 40 - On-Sale Beer Published: February 23, March 1,8, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California self-storage facility act (B&P code 21770 et sec) the undersigned will sell the contents of units: CHRISTINE WILSON, bike boxes, mattress, chair, cart, totes, x-box.

QUENTIN BOWEN, tote, bags, clothes, sml laptop, books, tools, toolbox, sleeping bag, camp grill.

RONALD MULKEY, boat, bath tub, chair, golf clubs, lamp, fishing pole, duffle bags, boxes, clothes, bird cage, stereo.

DONNA DRAEGER, speakers, heater, laptop computer, tote, pictures, tv, cabinet tv stands, shelf clothes, chairs, boxes.

To the highest bidder on: March 10, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 2298 Park Ave. Chico, Ca 95928.

Published: February 23, March 1, 2012 NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE OF SALE OF PERSONAL PROPERTY Pursuant to the California selfstorage facility act: (B&P code 21770 et.sec.) the undersigned will sell the contents of: ANDREW STOFFLET, chair, guitar, clothes.

ELIZABETH SMITH, books, clothes, household items.

DAVID DRAKE, xmas decor, washer/dryer, storage bins,.

MELINDA FLICK, artist supplies, flip top table, easel.

To the Highest Bidder: On March 10, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm.

Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 3160 Olive Hwy, Oroville, CA 95966 Published: February 23, March 1, 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

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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 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.

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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: 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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MICHAEL DAVID ROLEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MICHAEL DAVID ROLEN Proposed name: MICHAEL DAVID REYNOLDS 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: April 6, 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 8, 2012 Case Number: 155826 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Luz Maria Valdes Reynolds filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Luz Maria Valdes Reynolds Proposed name: LUZ MARIA REYNOLDS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to

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(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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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 be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your country law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements.

You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site

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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

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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.

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

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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: April 6, 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 16, 2012 Case Number: 155885 Published: February 23, March 1,8,15, 2012

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TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you’re a

woman, you could go to the perfume section of the department store and buy fragrances that would cause you to smell like Jennifer Lopez, Britney Spears, Eva Longoria, or Paris Hilton. If you’re a man, an hour from now you could be beaming an aroma that makes you resemble a celebrity like Antonio Banderas, Usher, David Beckham, or Keith Urban. You could even mix and match, wearing the Eva Longoria scent on your manly body or Usher on your female form. But I don’t recommend that you do any of the above. More than ever before you need to be yourself, your whole self, and nothing but yourself. Trying to act like or be like anyone else should be a taboo of the first degree.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “I try to take

one day at a time,” says Ashleigh Brilliant, “but sometimes several days attack me all at once.” I think you may soon be able to say words to that effect, Gemini—and that’s a good thing. Life will seem more concentrated and meaningful than usual. Events will flow faster and your awareness will be extra intense. As a result, you should have exceptional power to unleash transformations that could create ripples lasting for months.

Would you like each day to be the equivalent of nine days? Or would four be enough for you?

CANCER (June 21-July 22): When actor

Ashton Kutcher is working on the set of his TV show Two and a Half Men, he enjoys spacious digs. His trailer is two stories high and has two bathrooms as well as a full kitchen.

Seven 60-inch TVs are available for his viewing pleasure. As you embark on your journey to the far side of reality, Cancerian, it might be tempting for you to try to match that level of comfort. But what’s more important than material luxury will be psychological and spiritual aids that help keep you attuned to your deepest understandings about life.

Be sure you’re well-stocked with influences that keep your imagination vital and upbeat.

Favorite symbols? Uplifting books? Photos of mentors? Magic objects?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Veterans of war

who’ve been wounded by shrapnel often find that years later, some of the metal fragments eventually migrate to the surface and pop out of their skin. The moral of the story: The body may take a long time to purify itself of toxins. The same is true about your psyche. It might not be able to easily and quickly get rid of the poisons it has absorbed, but you should never give up hoping it will find a way. Judging by the astrological omens, I think you are very close to such a climactic cleansing and catharsis, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Distilled water

is a poor conductor of electricity. For H2O to have electroconductivity, it must contain impurities in the form of dissolved salts. I see a timely lesson in this for you, Virgo. If you focus too hard on being utterly clean and clear, some of life’s rather chaotic but fertile and invigorating energy may not be able to flow through you. That’s why I suggest you experiment with being at least a little impure and imperfect. Don’t just tolerate the messiness. Learn from it; thrive on it; even exult in it.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According to my

A place to play

by Rob Brezsny neither in a red-alert situation nor are you headed for one. A pink alert may be in effect, however. Thankfully, there’s no danger or emergency in the works. Shouting and bolting and leaping won’t be necessary. Rather, you may simply be called upon to come up with unexpected responses to unpredicted circumstances. Unscripted plot twists could prompt you to take actions you haven’t rehearsed. It actually might be kind of fun as long as you play with the perspective Shakespeare articulated in As You Like It: “All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players.”

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Vic Cantu

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Dear Rob:

For months I’ve had a recurring dream in which I own a pet snake. Here’s the problem: The only cage I have to keep the snake in is sadly inadequate. It has widely spaced bars that the snake just slips right through. In the dream I am constantly struggling to keep the snake in its cage, which is exhausting, since it’s impossible. Just this morning, after having the dream for the billionth time, I FINALLY asked myself, what’s so terrible about letting the snake out of its cage? So I gratefully wrote myself this permission note: ‘It is hereby allowed and perfectly acceptable to let my dreamsnake out of its cage to wander freely.’ —Scorpio Devotee.”

Dear Devotee: You have provided all your fellow Scorpios with an excellent teaching story for the upcoming weeks. Thank you!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): For

million of years, black kite raptors made their nests with leaves, twigs, grass, mud, fur, and feathers. In recent centuries they have also borrowed materials from humans, like cloth, string, and paper. And in the last few decades, a new element has become quite popular. Eighty-two percent of all black kite nest-builders now use white plastic as decoration. I suggest you take inspiration from these adaptable creatures, Sagittarius. It’s an excellent time for you to add some wrinkles to the way you shape your home base. Departing from tradition could add significantly to your levels of domestic bliss.

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

are many examples of highly accomplished people whose early education was problematical. Thomas Edison’s first teacher called him “addled,” and thereafter he was homeschooled by his mother. Winston Churchill did so poorly in school he was punished.

Benjamin Franklin had just two years of formal education. As for Einstein, he told his biographer, “my parents were worried because I started to talk comparatively late, and they consulted a doctor because of it.”

What all these people had in common, however, is that they became brilliant at educating themselves according to their own specific needs and timetable. Speaking of which: The coming weeks will be an excellent time for you Capricorns to plot and design the contours of your future learning.

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

has abundant deposits of petroleum. Since 1974, oil companies have paid the country billions of dollars for the privilege of extracting its treasure. And yet the majority of Nigerians, over 70 percent, live on less than a dollar a day. Where does the money go? That’s a long story, with the word “corruption” at its heart. Now let me ask you, Aquarius: Is there a gap between the valuable things you have to offer and the rewards you receive for them? Are you being properly compensated for your natural riches? The coming weeks will be an excellent time to address this issue.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Gawker.com

notes that American politician John McCain tends to repeat himself—a lot. Researchers discovered that he has told the same joke at least 27 times in five years. (And it’s such a feeble joke, it’s not worth re-telling.) In the coming week, Pisces, pease please please avoid any behavior that resembles this repetitive, habit-bound laziness. You simply cannot afford to be imitating who you used to be and what you used to do. As much as possible, reinvent yourself from scratch— and have maximum fun doing it.

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For the week of February 23, 2012

For decades Chico has been home to musicians trying to make it big locally and beyond. But practicing for those cherished public gigs has resulted in many a complaint and eviction. To the rescue comes musician Lathanyo Garth and his beautifully designed Garth Studios, located on Fifth Avenue, where he rents space for bands to practice. Garth also teaches several instruments, in addition to singing, and is putting together a children’s choir. For more information, log onto www.garthstudios.com.

and Salsa Bella.

What are the main services you offer?

Do you run this all by yourself?

We have a pretty big variety. We give local bands a professional rental space to practice, and I teach lessons in vocals, guitar and keyboards. We have a separate room for ballroom-dancing lessons. For those who can’t come personally, I teach voice lessons using Skype to people as far away as Romania. It requires an eight-week commitment because that’s how long it takes for people to change their existing singing habits.

None of this would happen without the great help of my wife, Kim.

How did you start your studio?

You’ve got a couple of nicely framed posters of famous singers in your lobby.

I was majoring in music education at Chico State in 2007 when I was diagnosed with ulcerative colitis and spent eight days in the hospital. I eventually lost 40 pounds and it cut my education short, but I turned it into a good thing. I decided to create this space that teaches music and allows bands to hone their skills.

How many people use your studios?

We have about 35, but I’d like to increase that to 60. We’ve had many different bands here, such as Johny Wallz, Some Kind of Sorcerer, Great White Buffalo, Consider the Dreamer

How does your ulcerative colitis affect your life?

There are different levels of severity. Stress usually aggravates my colon, which makes it hard for me to work. I still have some rough days, but medication and keeping my diet under control with my wife’s help really improves things.

Yes, we have lots of young students who are inspired by them. I eventually want to have a whole wall lined with pictures of famous performers.

What did you think about the tragic death of Whitney Houston?

I loved her music. It was the soundtrack to many of our lives. But it’s no secret she was into drugs and alcohol, which destroyed her voice. The biggest lesson is to stay focused on your original goals and ambitions.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Arizona I was recently in Arizona, a mixed blessing, like pretty much everything else. I didn’t have many expectations about Arizona other than lots of desert and heat. It being February, there wasn’t much heat. There was a lot of sunshine, though, which I always love and appreciate.

I remembered having read only one thing about Arizona. The unknown writer had been unfavorably impressed by the plethora, not to mention surfeit, of strip malls. I don’t mind strip malls, at least not as long as they’re not in my neighborhood. In your neighborhood—fine. I recognize strip malls’ right to exist somewhere else, and I was prepared to tolerate your defense of that right. That was before I went to Mesa, one ’burb away from Phoenix in Maricopa County.

Now that I’ve been to Mesa, Tempe, Gilbert, Chandler, Apache Junction, and other areas of what to an outsider—which I gratefully am—still looks like Phoenix, I can understand why that writer was antistrip mall. Maricopa County has a lot of strip malls.

I’d go so far as to say that Phoenix and environs have too many strip malls. I say “too many strip malls” not because I think there’s an optimal number of strip

malls per unit area or per capita or per anything. I say Maricopa County has too many strip malls because many of them have died for lack of a reason to be there. Several showed no signs of ever having been active at all, just a block or two of empty brown storefronts.

Maricopa County seems to be mostly shades of brown, from écru to chocolate. There are great swaths of sand-colored buildings along the ginormous streets—Second Street in the heart of downtown Chico would be an alley in Mesa—mile after mile of beige carefully accented by burnt umber and coffee, with the occasional flamboyant splash of auburn.

I like brown, and not just because I’m personally brown. I like many kinds of brown surfaces, from skin to wood and actual sand and autumn leaves, and still Maricopa County, in addition to too many strip malls, might be said to have too much brown. In the desert, brown makes sense, and although I found the brown buildings usually inoffensive and occasionally elegant, I began to think that local government put the kibosh on bright colors, the way slaves in parts of the Old South were forbidden to wear bright colors.

I also went to Sedona, which oozes charm and smells like money, and the Grand Canyon, which is awesome.

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