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Pamm Larry’s crusade Let’s hear it for Pamm Larry. Last September, the self-described

Wealthy don’t pay a fair share Ipaying most of the taxes and how it is a misrepresentation to say that there is an unfair tax burden on the middle class. It keep hearing the same story about the wealthy

is true that wealthy people like Mitt Romney pay millions of dollars more in taxes than the average middle-class taxpayer, but he is paying income taxes at a 15 percent rate, when a single, hard-working taxpayer is paying at a rate of at least 25 percent on money earned above $34,500. The problem is that stock market income, dividends and capital gains are taxed at a flat 15 percent no matter how much by income is received, while Jim Reed people working for a living are taxed with a proThe author, an gressive rate that tops out attorney from Fall at 35 percent. More than River Mills, is a 13,000 people for the year Democratic candidate 2009 reported at least to replace Wally $10 million in income on Herger in Congress. their tax returns; most of He will face off that income was from against Republican state Sen. Doug investments and was taxed at 15 percent. LaMalfa in November. Yes, 15 percent of $10 million is more dollars than 25 percent of $50,000, but is that fair? To be fair we must also look at the payroll tax that pays for Social Security and Medicare. Of the total revenue

the U.S. government receives, 41 percent comes from individual income taxes and 40 percent from the payroll tax. The payroll tax, which is matched by the employer, normally is 7.65 percent of an employee’s pay check (FICA) up to $110,000 in a single year. Once an employee earns $110,000, no further FICA deductions are taken from the pay check; this limit is known as the cap. There is no payroll tax on investment income. Of total revenue received by our government, nearly an equal amount comes from the payroll tax as the individual income tax, but the wealthy pay a disproportionately small part of the payroll tax, a tax that falls mostly on the hard-working middle class. Using dollars to argue the wealthy 1 percent are being treated fairly in our tax system distorts the overall picture. A single working person earning more than $34,500 is paying at least 10 percent more proportionally in income taxes and 7.65 percent in payroll taxes than the wealthiest 1 percent, who are living off their investment income. Ω

Yes, 15 percent of $10 million is more dollars than 25 percent of $50,000, but is that fair?

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“grandmother from Chico” woke up one morning determined to do everything she could to get an initiative on the California ballot to label genetically engineered foods. Ten months later, on June 11, Secretary of State Debra Bowen announced that the California Right to Know Initiative had qualified for the November ballot. It was the culmination of one of the more remarkable grassroots campaigns in modern state history, one that started small but steadily grew, building a statewide infrastructure of local chapters to the point where it was able to attract the funding needed to collect nearly 1 million signatures in just 10 weeks. The initiative has the potential to change farming and food packaging in profound ways. It also promises to be one of the most bitterly fought—and expensive—campaigns of the year, one pitting consumer groups and the organic-food industry, both of which support labeling, against conventional farmers, major food processors such as Kraft and Kellogg’s, and huge biotechnology companies like Monsanto. Proponents have a simple argument: People have a right to know what’s in their food and when it has been modified with genes from another species. They note that all the countries of Europe and many in Asia now require labeling. Opponents counter that GMOs are safe and that labeling would unnecessarily frighten consumers, leading them to reject food that is nutritious and has environmental and economic benefits. A 2010 poll showed that 90 percent of voters supported labeling, though of course that figure could—and no doubt will—change when Monsanto and its allies start dumping money into the campaign to defeat the initiative. Grassroots initiative campaigns, once common, are an anomaly these days. Most initiatives are underwritten by deep-pocketed special-interest groups, and the campaigns are carried out by professional firms hired for that purpose. Not this one. The Label GMOs group is a decentralized movement of citizens working together to spread the word and get out the vote. They won’t have the money their opponents will have, but like their leader, Chico’s own Pamm Larry, they will have passion on their side. We congratulate her and them for a remarkable achievement. Ω

Learn to dance, Mitt There are sugar daddies, and then there are sugar daddies.

Sheldon Adelson, the Las Vegas billionaire who donated $20 million to Newt Gingrich’s failed campaign and now has promised to give “limitless” funding to Mitt Romney, is one kind of sugar daddy. So are the other old, white billionaires spending tens of millions to defeat Barack Obama. Then there’s the other, traditional kind of sugar daddy, the kind certain women have their eyes on. But what about the presidential candidates? Which one do women think is the better sugar daddy, Romney or Barack Obama? Mitt, we have bad news for you. According to a poll of more than 30,000 of its members, SeekingArrangement.com, the world’s largest sugar-daddy dating website, has determined that 34.1 percent said they preferred having Obama as their sugar daddy, while only 11.9 percent preferred Romney, despite his being worth 20 times more than Obama. SeekingArrangement.com’s founder and CEO, Brandon Wade, elaborated on the results. “According to our survey,” he said in a press release, “most women say they chose Obama because he is more trustworthy, charismatic and sexy. Obama is funny and is known to be a good dancer. Unfortunately, Romney is still viewed by many as the ‘vanilla’ candidate.” Poor guy. He already has problems with women voters, who aren’t happy that he wants to defund Planned Parenthood and overturn Roe vs. Wade. Now we learn that they don’t find him sexy. Can he win if women think he’s dull? Or will he be able to overcome the sexiness gap? Stay tuned. Ω

FROM THIS CORNER by Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com

A chance for redemption One of my personal heroes, Bryan Stevenson, won a huge victory this week, when the U.S. Supreme Court issued a historic ruling holding that mandatory life-without-parole sentences for children are unconstitutional. The decision was based on two cases his organization, the Equal Justice Initiative, pushed to the fore. Stevenson is the director of EJI, which is based in Montgomery, Ala. It’s a nonprofit that provides legal representation to indigent defendants and prisoners caught up in the criminal-justice system. The recipient of numerous honors, including a MacArthur “genius” fellowship, Stevenson has dedicated his life to helping poor people, and especially poor people of color and juveniles, be treated fairly under the law. I learned of him from reading journalist Pete Earley’s excellent 1996 book, Circumstantial Evidence, about the first big case Stevenson won. Ironically, it involved a black man in Monroeville, Ala., the birthplace of Harper Lee and the setting of her novel To Kill a Mockingbird. That man was Walter McMillian, who had been wrongly convicted of killing a young white woman in 1986 and sentenced to death. Stevenson, fresh out of Harvard Law, turned down numerous offers from prestigious law firms, choosing instead to move to the Deep South to do public-interest legal work. Stevenson never doubted McMillian’s innocence. When the young woman was killed, McMillian was at a backyard fish-fry with some two dozen people. His alibi was ironclad, except that his witnesses were all black. The all-white jury ignored their statements. The local sheriff and others in Monroe County’s white power structure fought Stevenson all the way. They weren’t about to let some uppity Harvard nigra show them up. But Stevenson outsmarted them at every turn, showing that the state’s witnesses had lied on the stand and the prosecution had suppressed exculpatory evidence. McMillian’s conviction was overturned, and he was released after spending six years on death row. One of EJI’s focuses in recent years has been on children sentenced to death in prison. The Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision confirmed what the group has long argued: that children are biologically different from adults and less responsible for their wrongdoing, and that they have the capacity to rehabilitate themselves and lead good lives. California is not one of the 29 states that impose mandatory death in prison, so the court’s decision will have no impact here, said Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. The only local juvenile tried as an adult and sentenced to death in prison is Freddie Siordia, a Chico youth who was 16 when, during a gang fight, he stabbed two men, one fatally, shouting gang slogans as he did so. The judge in the case had the option of reducing Siordia’s jury sentence to 25-to-life but chose not to do so, Ramsey said, citing Siordia’s membership in a gang as the clincher. But family members said he was a kid trying to impress his older brothers, also members of the gang. Either way, Bryan Stevenson would argue, he was only 16. He should have been given a chance to redeem himself.

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Dressed for the season Re “New trail ahead” (Cover story, by Jason Cassidy, June 21): A funny item and a serious one: When I saw the cover of last week’s issue, it was folded in half, and I could tell it was Jason Cassidy from the tan shorts and black socks. He is the only guy I’ve ever seen playing basketball in those clothes. I have a theory that he puts them on in April and takes them off in October. The article about the Palermo woman’s mauling [“Out of control,” Newslines, by Katy Noah, June 14] led me to consider a punishment to fit the crime. Dogs are not born vicious, but some people seem to be. If somebody has a vicious dog that attacks a person or another dog, put them down. End of problem. JIM DWYER Chico

Glad he’s going Re “He’s had ‘a really good run’” (Newslines, by Katy Noah, June 21): Since when has CN&R been the propaganda venue for the city of Oroville? I thought that was the Oroville Mercury Register’s job. The city of Oroville has been audited by the California Department of Finance under G. Herald Duffey’s watch. Oroville home and business owners are thrilled to get rid of someone who has destroyed their historic, natural environment as well as the local economy. Here are the people who will be sorry to see him go: The Oroville City Council, who make lots of money off of Duffey’s lowincome projects in administration fees; and the low-income people who live or will be living in them. At one of the City Council meetings that residents attended to protest the destruction of historic Curran Hospital to replace it with a 50-unit, three-story “affordable housing” project, Duffey answered that it would be a three-story building, but only as tall as a twostory building. Good grief! Good riddance, G. Harold Duffey! KAREN STEFFA Oroville

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Re “Feeding on fear” (Healthlines, by Meredith J. Graham, June 21): Are you kidding me? The flesh-eating bacterium is “not worth worrying about”? Yes, necrotizing fasciitis is a rare bacterium to get, but, hello, telling people not to be afraid of it? I lost my usually very healthy husband to this horrific bacterium in the most surreal of circumstances! Three years ago he was scratched by our cat (and he cleaned it out and used anti-bacterial ointment); the next day he had a high fever, and the following day he had what we thought was the “flu,” but that evening his arm where it had been scratched looked like a third-degree burn from his wrist to his elbow. We took him to the walk-in clinic first, where they gave him a shot for the nausea and then they sent us to the ER, where he was quickly admitted to the ICU with toxic and septic shock, multi-organ failure, and was in a coma within hours. He spent nearly two months in the ICU before he died, leaving me a young widow with three little boys just 4, 5 and 7 (and an 18-year-old daughter by a previous marriage).

Come to find out, it wasn’t the cat’s fault; it was the particular bacterium that was on his skin that day he was scratched (even after taking a shower that morning). We all carry strep and staph bacteria on our skin, and that day he just happened to have the extremely bad form of strep there. I understand telling people not to be deathly terrified of it, but I have to disagree that it’s “not worth worrying about.” This horrific and surreal bacterium that after 48 hours had my husband in the ICU and dead less than two months later? Yes, necrotizing fasciitis is rare, but people need to be extremely aware of it and know what symptoms to look for (redness and warmth around the wound, blisters and oozing, fever, flu-like symptoms, feeling and looking very sick, and pain that seems extreme for a small injury) and take care of it immediately. Go to the ER before it’s too late. Not worth worrying about? Ask my three boys who are living their childhood without their daddy. Awareness is key! MICHELLE BERGERON Redding

What Evans would do Re “Council needs to foster jobs” (Letters, by Bob Evans, June 21) and “Unconstructive criticism” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, June 21): In his letter to the editor, Chico City Councilman Bob Evans makes his case that the city is failing to reduce unemployment. In his editorial response, Robert

Speer observes that Evans doesn’t say “what he’d do differently.” Sadly, we all know what Evans—and Councilman Mark Sorensen—would like to “do differently.” In February of 2011, the council appointed Evans. Within weeks, Evans—along with Sorensen—voted against the Chico General Plan; the plan, which allows for almost one thousand new housing units per year, was not seen as sufficiently progrowth. Next, Tea Partiers pushed Measure A, the purpose of which was to move the date of the city elections to June, theoretically disenfranchising environmentally sympathetic university students. Why? So development interests could pack the City Council with prodevelopment extremists. Regardless of unemployment rates, it would be more reasonable to elect candidates intent on turning Bidwell Park into a giant gravel quarry, hoping to generate a few more jobs, than it would to surrender Chico to the development industry. In November, please vote out Bob Evans. Please elect candidates who will resist urban sprawl and are committed to an environmentally sustainable future. PATRICK NEWMAN Chico

Correction The California HealthCare Foundation has informed the CN&R that its reported figures for childhood cancer incidence and mortality—as reported in our June 21 Pulse item, “Cancer rates mixed, but mortality drops”—are incorrect. Childhood cancer incidence has increased by 15.6 percent, not 12.3 percent, from 1989 to 2008. Childhood cancer mortality has decreased by 21.6 percent, not 49.7 percent, over the period from 1989 to 2008. Also the correct number of childhood deaths due to cancer per 100,000 population in 2008 is 2.9 (not the 44.7 that we had previously reported). CHCF has apologized for the errors and has taken measures to ensure a similar situation does not happen again.—ed.

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HWY 99 BIKE BRIDGE STARTED

Construction of one of the Highway 99 bike lane bridges over Little Chico Creek has begun. Work crews have been on the site just south of Humboldt Road and east of the highway for about two weeks. On Tuesday (June 26), a sub-contractor stretching orange fencing across the path said he thinks the project will be completed by fall. About a quarter-mile east of the project, a city worker fixing root eruptions on the bike path that runs parallel with Humboldt said he was unaware until that day that the bridge construction had begun. “I wouldn’t have known, except a guy I work with who rides his bike along here just told,” he said with a shrug. “It’s pretty cool.” Construction of a second bridge on the west side of the highway that will connect to Community Park possibly will start next year.

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The Bidwell Mansion Community Project, in its efforts to save the famed manor on The Esplanade, is filing for nonprofit status. BMCP formed last November as an ad-hoc committee established to raise funds to keep Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park alive in the face of state budgetary cuts. According to a press release, the group has raised more than $140,000 through a fund operated by the North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF). The group will file papers of incorporation with the Secretary of State’s Office and then hold a meeting to make it official. “We expect to be in a position to execute a contract with State Parks within the next week or two,” said Nancy Overton, who chairs the BMCP Steering Committee. The NVCF will maintain the fund and pay State Parks as directed by the BMCP under the terms of the donor agreement with the state.

REED PICKS UP TWO ENDORSEMENTS

Democratic congressional candidate Jim Reed has picked up endorsements from two former opponents, Republican Gregory Cheadle (pictured) and Gary Oxley, an independent. Reed is running against Republican state Sen. Doug LaMalfa for the 1st Congressional District seat to replace longtime incumbent Wally Herger (R-Chico). LaMalfa and Reed were the top two finishers in the primary election earlier this month, which fielded eight candidates, including five Republicans. In a press release from the Reed for Congress campaign, Cheadle is quoted as saying, “In Jim Reed I see a highly educated man with integrity, who can be a leader in D.C., not just another ‘go along to get along’ special interest entrenched Congressman.” In a direct slap at LaMalfa, whose family grows rice in Richvale, Cheadle continued: “I will not endorse a candidate who makes hundreds of thousands of dollars a year in subsidies and selling water allotments at the expense of hard-working Americans.” 8 CN&R June 28, 2012

Northstate Indian tribe seeks federal help in conducting annual Coming of Age celebration

Tbiggest step a young woman in the Winnemem Wintu tribe can take. After four days of he Coming of Age ceremony is the

prayer in a traditional birch hut and visiting the sacred spots of her people, she swims across the McCloud River to join her tribe, emerging by Howard on the opposite bank to celebrate Hardee her newfound womanhood. It is a deeply revered tradition passed howardh@ newsreview.com down by people who have inhabited the area for more than 6,000 years. So when passing Lake Shasta boaters yelled taunts and racial slurs, revved their engines and flashed breasts during such a ceremony in June 2010, the tribe considered it profoundly disrespectful. Tribal spokesman Gary Hayward Slaughter Mulcahy offered a comparison. “Let’s say a priest was in a prayer during Mass and someone blew a blow horn in the middle of church,” he said during a recent interview. “It’s about that disruptive.” For the last six years, the 150-member tribe has unsuccessfully lobbied the U.S. Forest Service to close a 400-yard secLearn more: tion adjacent to the McCloud Go online to Bridge Campground on Shasta www.winnemem Lake to ensure a peaceful cerewintu.us for more mony. But a recent outpouring information on of local public support—includthe Winnemem ing hundreds of phone calls and Wintu tribe and their fight for letters to Washington D.C. and federal Regional Forester Randy recognition. Moore—prompted the Forest

Service to announce it would close the McCloud River to boaters for the fourday ceremony beginning June 30. The Forest Service cannot, however, prevent passersby from entering the campsite—not without federal recognition of the tribe from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. “Unless the BIA tells the Forest Service, ‘Yes, these people are recognized descendants of California Natives and they are afforded the rights of all other Indian people,’ they can’t close the campground,” Mulcahy said. “The Forest Service has gone as far as they legally can. It’s ridiculous to have one federal agency causing the other so much trouble because of their inaction.” This year’s ceremony is particularly important. Chief Caleen Sisk’s 16-yearold niece, Marisa, will undergo the Coming of Age ceremony in preparation for her duties as future leader of the tribe. As the rite must be performed before a girl turns 17, this year represents a now-ornever moment for Marisa. Chief Sisk and her nephew, Arron, have been fasting in protest since June 19, and plan to continue until the BIA grants the Wintu tribe federal recognition and their ceremony can take place away from the public eye.

Winnemem Wintu Chief and Spiritual Leader Caleen Sisk. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE

The list, originally compiled in 1979, accounted for tribes with ratified treaties with the U.S. government and tribes with assets held in trust, he said. When Shasta Dam was constructed and Wintu tribal ground was flooded to create Shasta Lake, the Wintu were promised land and a cemetery in their name as compensation for their displacement. “They made the cemetery, but they named it the Shasta Reservoir Indian Cemetery and they did not provide the lands,” Mulcahy said. “When the BIA went through making their list, there were no assets in the name of the Winnemem Wintu, so they just overlooked us.” Mulcahy hopes the BIA will correct its mistake, much like it did earlier this year with the Tejon Indian Tribe in Kern

The Wintu have been inexplicably

missing from the Bureau of Indian Affairs’ list of Native American tribes since 1985, Mulcahy said. Until then, they received all the benefits a federally recognized tribe would expect, like health care and scholarships. Mulcahy speculates a decades-old bureaucratic error is to blame.

Part of the Winnemem Wintu tribe’s Coming of Age ceremony at Lake Shasta, circa 2006. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE WINNEMEM WINTU TRIBE

Cindy Wolff

County. The BIA conceded to omitting the Tejon Indians in error and granted them federal recognition in January. “They have taken away our right to eagle feathers, our right to scholarships and our rights to protect sacred places and be Winnemem,” Chief Sisk said in a statement. “It’s time we take those rights back.” Despite their ongoing struggle

with the BIA, Mulcahy says relations between the Wintu and the Forest Service have improved dramatically over previous years, when the tribe felt its requests were falling on deaf ears. “[Regional Forester] Randy Moore stepped up and did what was right,” Mulcahy said. “He saw what happened during the last two Coming of Age ceremonies. He saw the harassment, the threats and the possibility of some serious things. He did the right thing. He’s closing the river.” Mulcahy credits the closure to the overwhelming public support the tribe has received in the weeks leading up to the ceremony. One such supporter is Heidi Silva-Strand of Whitmore, who met members of the Wintu tribe through a community breakfast. When she became aware of their plight, she began reaching out to officials at the Forest Service. “It’s the right thing to do,” she said of her efforts. “This is where they have always lived. Not allowing them to hold their own private ceremony is offensive. They only ask this because they have been heckled and trashed.” In the meantime, Chief Sisk and her nephew will continue fasting in hopes the BIA will rectify its decades-old error and her tribe will be able to celebrate Marisa’s Coming of Age without incident. “We are fasting and praying because they need to come to the table and fix their mistake,” Chief Sisk said. “We are the indigenous people from here. Recognized or not, we have the right to hold our ceremony in privacy.” Ω

For the girls

CUSD gender-inequity complaint resolved Cindy Wolff didn’t think she would need to take on the entire Chico Unified School District when she set about helping to solve the gender inequities she perceived within the sports programs at Chico’s high schools. But that’s exactly what ended up happening, as her attempts to inform school leaders— including coaches, principals, school board members, and finally the top administrator, Superintendent Kelly Staley—were either rebuffed or ignored, repeatedly, for more than two years, starting in 2008, she said. Wolff, an articulate Chico State professor and director of the university’s Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion, eventually got their attention by filing a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights back in October 2010. In response, just over a year ago, the OCR dispatched investigators to Chico to look into claims that the district’s high school programs are biased in favor of boys, which takes sports opportunities away from girls and violates Title IX, the landmark 1972 educational amendment prohibiting gender discrimination in federally funded educational programs and activities, including sports. The complaint with the OCR was Wolff’s last recourse, aside from filing a lawsuit against the district. And that’s somewhere she wasn’t willing to go. In fact, one of the reasons she pushed so hard was to ensure that nobody would go there. “I wanted the district to avoid a lawsuit,” she said Tuesday (June 26) during an interview at the CN&R office. Based on the OCR’s “letter of find-

ings,” which was released last Friday (June 22),

SIFT|ER On Thursday (June 21), the Butte County Interagency Task Force (BINTF) presented its 2011 annual report. Bill LeGroan, BINTF chairman and Oroville Police Department chief, said there were 132 search warrants issued last year resulting in 242 arrests and the discovery and destruction of six methamphetamine labs. While that number is down in recent years, Butte County still ranks fifth overall in the state’s meth-lab seizures and second when measured per capita. Meth was involved in nearly half (48 percent) of the BINTF arrests, while marijuana accounted for 33 percent, mostly for possession for sale and cultivation. Most of those arrested for marijuana had valid 215 recommendations but were using the recommendations, according to the BINTF report, as a “blind shield to profit from selling the marijana.”

the day before the 40th university of Title IV, the district may very well have been vulnerable to such action. The letter includes a “Resolution Agreement” signed by Janet Brinson, the district’s director of educational services and Title IV coordinator, outlining the changes CUSD agreed to make to resolve the issues. (The agreement includes a caveat stating that the district makes the agreement “without admitting to any violation of law.”) The document includes two pages of resolutions, several of which address the disparity between the number of boy and girl athletes. For example, Chico High must establish girls’ juniorvarsity tennis and soccer teams, and also determine whether there is enough interest by female students to field a badminton team. Pleasant Valley, meanwhile, will form a junior-varsity tennis team. Those mandates stem from the part of Wolff’s complaint focusing on the stark gap in the participation rates between genders: more than 300 more team spots per year for boys between the two high schools. Other changes include upgrades to the fields used by the softball teams of both high schools. The facilities currently are vastly inferior compared to the fields used by the boys’ baseball teams, lacking protective cov-

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ering to shield players during inclement weather, for instance. Wolff explained the significance of several of the changes, noting that there’s more to the upgrades than meets the eye. The Chico High field, for example, because it is not fenced, is used as a shortcut for Chico State students, and others, interrupting games, and precluding the team from charging a fee to watch games, which further disadvantages them. The site has no scoreboard, seating and lighting, among other amenities found at the boys’ site, Wolff pointed out. Another significant finding of the investigation was that CUSD’s Title IX coordinator lacked sufficient expertise. According to the report, “[The district] failed to provide the coordinator with the degree of training that was consistent with the scope of her responsibilities.” Wolff wasn’t surprised at that finding. Prior to submitting the complaint, she had documented nine instances in which she asked the district to identify its Title IX coordinator. “I never got a response,” said Wolff, who only learned who the coordinator was from the OCR during the course of its investigation. Speaking in Superintendent Kelly

Staley’s absence Wednesday morning (June 26), Assistant Superintendent Bob Feaster told the CN&R that Brinson, the Title IX coordinator, will receive formal training and already has learned a lot through the OCR process. “She’s much more up to speed than before this process started,” he said. Feaster said CUSD has been working with the agency for the better part of a year, working cooperatively to right the issues. He said that Wolff’s complaint about participation rates between genders was valid, but he noted that the bulk of the OCR’s findings stem from the agency’s investigation, not her complaint. The district was found to be compliant in other areas of the complaint, such as coaching assignments and salaries, he pointed out. He said the district had been working to address participation rates prior to the investigation, and that CUSD is committed to achieving compliance. “We respect and believe in Title IX,” he said. Wolff said she spent thousands of hours of her time over the past four years, and at times she has been harshly criticized by members of the community, several of whom have labeled her an out-of-towner. That couldn’t be further from the truth; she’s a fifth-generation Chicoan and graduate of PV High. Wolff never intended to become to face behind the effort. Her complaint, which she filed as a member of the local chapter of the American Association of University Women, was supposed to be anonymous. She was inadvertently outed by the OCR during the agency’s investigative phase. Wolff is glad to see the district resolve the issues, but she appeared ambivalent about the outcome. “I’m happy for the girls, but sad it had to go through this process,” she said. —MELISSA DAUGHERTY melissad@newsreview.com

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Disc-comforting

A tour of Peregrine Park raises questions The disc-golf course. Mention those words to a Chicoan, and the reaction is one of profound support, determined opposition or a head-scratching “What’s the big deal?” The course, officially known as Peregrine Point in honor of the falcons known to have nested there, is seen by players as a source of inexpensive fun at a spectacular part of Bidwell Park. Opponents say the game brings too much impact to that sensitive part of the park that sits about three miles east of town on the north side of Highway 32. On June 19 the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission held a special meeting at the course to get a feel for the course and better understand its nature. The course has been there since the 1980s, bootlegged onto what was then U.S. Bureau of Land Management property. The city acquired it in 1994 and added it to the park. Opponents of the course called on the city to address it, but city officials said they couldn’t because it was not covered in the park’s master management plan. In 2008, after the plan was updated, the City Council voted to have the course removed. The disc golfers launched a referendum and gathered 8,000 signatures to force a ballot measure. But the city attorney ruled that the effort did not meet legal standards, and it was rejected. But Councilman Andy Holcombe said the people had spoken and called for a compromise to keep the course but make it more environmentally acceptable. The plan called for the removal of the heavily used short course on the site, the realignment of the lessused long course and yearly studies to determine the impact on the environment. A nonprofit called The Outsiders was formed to raise money for the studies and do the work of installing the new course with protective mitigation like tree barriers to deflect flying discs and mulch to protect tree roots and drip lines. Lon Glazner, a long-time disc-golf supporter, serves as the group’s secretary and self-described “reluctant spokesman.” Lon Glazner, right, and Dan Efseaff lead a tour of Peregrine Park disc-golf course. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

Glazner attended the June 19

meeting, as did Dan Efseaff, the city’s Park and Natural Resources manager. They were joined by just two of the five park commissioners, Lisa Emmerich and Jim Moravec; a couple of members of Friends of Bidwell Park, a staunch opponent of the course’s location; a couple of disc golfers; park ranger Jessica Erdahl; and Denise Britton, the city’s urban forester. Early in the tour Glazner said many of the disc golfers believe the city “is out to get them.” Efseaff asked what he meant, and Glazner suggested there is a double standard at work and the rangers pay more attention to the disc golfers than, say, people walking their dogs off leash and off trail. And he said golfers get kicked off the course in wet weather sooner than those using other parts of the park. Erdahl assured Glazner that people using Lower Park were much more likely to be cited than those in Upper Park where the course is located. During the tour of the course, Britton examined the blue oaks that stand in the course for limb and bark damage. “I think the mitigation is working,” she said, “but the monitoring to verify that takes a period of years.” The 2011 study draft report indicated rare plants like Bidwell knotweed and checkerbloom are

not being adversely affected, at least after one year of monitoring. However, an invasive non-native plant called barbed goat grass has been discovered. The pair of peregrine falcons for whom the course is named have apparently moved on to the Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, reports Josephine Guardino, a member of Friends of Bidwell Park. For his part Efseaff, who gained his position within the last few years, said he realized the matter is highly emotional and has been for some time. “I’ve been living in Chico for quite a while, and I’ve followed the drama that’s unfolded over the years about the course,” he said. “For me coming in at this time with [mitigations] getting shifted toward implementation, it’s a different conversation. Let’s see how we can make it have the least impact, be a nice facility—all of that stuff. It’s a different conversation than in the decade past.” Glazner said he respects Efseaff. “I think he is reasonable and nice guy and he is doing a good job. One of the things he seemed to want to do early on was tamp down the crossfire that was going on. That seems to have happened. “People look at me and what I have to say and think this is from all disc golfers. But I’m just a secretary of a nonprofit that was basically forced into existence by the city of Chico.” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

BEC tackles general plan

Voices concerns over ag land and water protection “It’s kind of hard balancing advocacy and being polite,” Butte Environmental Council advocacy consultant Nani Teves said half to herself, taking a moment before addressing a small group of concerned citizens and a pair of Butte County representatives. Teves and other speakers kept their passions largely subdued and the discourse congenial at a public information forum on proposed changes to the Butte County General Plan, new zoning ordinances and their environmental impacts. The event was hosted by the BEC on Tuesday (June 26) at the GRUB Cooperative on Dayton Road. It started with an informational session on the Butte County General Plan 2030 by two county representatives: Tim Snellings, director of development services, and Dan Breedon, principal planner. Snellings explained the new general plan was adopted in October 2010, the first change in several decades. Work on a new plan began as early as 2006, and since its adoption it has undergone several changes with more proposed in the General Plan Amendment. Snellings said the Butte County General Plan 2030 is the result of hundreds of meetings and public input, as are the related Final Draft Zoning Ordinance and Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Report (DSEIR). All three documents are in the last stages of review before being adopted by the county board of directors. Snellings and Breedon focused largely on the more positive aspects of the general plan, including a focus on sustainability and developing wind and solar power, and streamlined resource mitigation through coordinating with the Butte Habitat Conservation Plan. “Speaking as a planner,” Breedon said, “we’re taking a huge step into the 21st century in protecting our creeks and rivers and wetlands.” Several audience members expressed concern with plans to rezone some agricultural lands and forested foothill communities to low-population residential areas, not only taking away agricultural land but spreading the population wider, hypothetically creating more cars and pollution as there are no existing services in these areas.

Nani Teves presents BEC’s grievances with the county’s new general plan and zoning ordinances to county representatives during a forum in south Chico at the GRUB Cooperative’s main house. PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

resource-conservation areas.” A hot topic for the night was a proposed change to the Greenline, an imaginary boundary set up 30 years ago to protect agricultural lands from urban sprawl. The new zoning map converts 150 acres in the Bell Muir area of the Greenline to low residential areas, allowing these areas to be parceled into smaller lots primed for development. “The Bell Muir area is unique, and the original plan even mentions that its Greenline status should be looked at in the future,” Breedon said. “There have been and will likely continue to be many, many challenges to the Greenline and they all failed, except in this one small, unique area.” BEC members and others also expressed concern over two particularly large developments already considered done deals—Paradise Summit and Tuscan Ridge. The overall thrust was not about particular developments as much as setting dangerous precedents for future developers. “Of course we realize this development won’t start right away, but we just don’t want to leave ourselves open to overdevelopment in the future,” BEC Executive Director Robyn DiFalco said. “If everything were built to its full potential as it’s currently zoned, that would be far more development than we’d like to see in 20 years. “We don’t want to end up looking like Tracy or San Jose at any point.”

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GREENWAYS

SOOT STANDARDS GET TOUGHER

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will finalize more stringent soot standards by midDecember, a move that could save thousands of American lives each year. The EPA has proposed decreasing annual exposure to fine-particulate soot from 15 to between 12 and 13 micrograms per cubic meter of air, according to The Washington Post. The guidelines would force polluting counties like Riverside and San Bernardino—projected to be two of six counties in the United States that will not meet standards by 2020—to cut down on pollution or risk losing federal funding. Paul Cort, an Earthjustice attorney who represented the American Lung Association and the National Parks Conservation Association in a lawsuit forcing the EPA to issue the rule, vowed to fight for even tighter standards. Cort estimated reducing exposure to 13 micrograms per cubic meter would save 8,000 lives a year, but reducing the concentration to 11 micrograms would avoid 27,000 deaths.

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COAL RISES FROM ASHES

Worldwide attempts to reduce carbon emissions have been undermined by the resurgence of coal-fired power plants in China and India. Coal now makes up 30 percent of the global energy market, its highest share in more than 40 years, according to UK newspaper The Guardian. The BP Statistical Review of World Energy found industrialization of emerging countries like China and India coupled with low coal prices has driven demand, making coal the fastestgrowing fossil fuel. Consumption of coal in China rose by more than 9 percent in 2011, contributing to a 3 percent increase in global carbon emissions from energy production in the same time frame. Oil remains the world’s top fuel source, supplying 33 percent of worldwide energy consumption. The review estimated the planet’s oil reserves would supply current demand for 54 years.

UNBRIDLED BORDERLANDS ACCESS

The House passed legislation on June 19 to allow the U.S. Border Patrol unrestrained access to all federally managed lands within 100 miles of the borders of Canada and Mexico, including California’s Joshua Tree National Park. Proponents of the bill maintain laws like the Wilderness Act and the Endangered Species Act often impede agents from using vehicles in pursuit of drug smugglers and illegal immigrants, according to The Washington Post. Hunters, conservationists and Hispanic advocacy groups believe the bill guts crucial environmental protections, and say there is little evidence of illegal immigrants entering the country through national parks along the Canadian border. However, the Democratic-controlled Senate won’t likely pass the measure. Kristen Brengel, of the National Parks Conservation Association, says that the legislation could result in damage to historic sites and other protected areas such as Joshua Tree. 12 CN&R June 28, 2012

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Tpaint can stall even the most modest home makeover. I cannot count the number he question of health hazards in

of times I have spent an hour or more at the hardware store weighing the merits of competing “green” paints. Fortunately, eco-friendly paints made without volatile organic compounds—VOCs—are increasingly available and affordable. To start, here are a few VOC basics. Lots of household staples contain VOCs, including cleaners, glues, caulks, strippers and sealants. Strong fumes are a common indicator. The “volatile” in VOC means that these chemicals easily change from liquids to gases. VOCs in paint remain liquid in a sealed can but swiftly vaporize as they go onto a wall and dry. This process, known as “off-gassing,” means that breathing air inside a recently painted home can be much more unhealthful than breathing outdoor air. According to the U.S. Environmental

Protection Agency, health effects from VOC exposure can range from headaches and irritated skin to, perhaps, cancer. It’s hard to pin down the exact effects because they vary from one compound to another and also from one person to another. Scientists have found that even very low levels of some VOCs seem to bother people with asthma and respiratory conditions. In fact, a recent study showed that increased

levels of VOCs from house paint in bedroom air are associated with increased risk of asthma and respiratory symptoms in children. Moreover, VOC-laden paints contribute to air pollution, even when applied indoors. Sonya Lunder, a senior analyst with the Environmental Working Group, says that VOCs can interact with UV radiation to produce smog. “If you paint on an ozone action day,” Lunder explained, “you’re contributing to an overall air quality problem.” Following a few simple guidelines

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THE NORTH IS MELTING I subscribe to both Adbusters—a savvy, decidedly anticorporate Canadian magazine that has no advertising—and The Economist, a British publication revered in the business world for its extensive coverage of world events as they relate to investment and the global economy. At seemingly opposite ends of the spectrum, the two magazines together provide me an extensive, well-written and -analyzed view of current events. Interestingly, the June 16-22 issue of The Economist bears a cover photo of Arctic sea ice with the headline, “The vanishing north.” Inside is a 14-page special report called “The melting north” that goes into great detail in its acknowledgement of the fact that “[t]he Arctic is warming twice as fast as the rest of the planet,” as Economist environment editor James Astill wrote. “A heat map of the world, color-coded for temperature change, shows the Arctic in sizzling maroon. Since 1951 it has warmed roughly twice as much as the global average,” said Astill. “In that period the temperature in Greenland has gone up by 1.5 degrees C[elsius], compared with around 0.7 degrees C[elsius] globally. This disparity is expected to continue. A 2 degree C[elsius] increase in global temperatures—which appears inevitable as greenhouse-gas emissions soar—would mean Arctic warming of 3-6 degrees C[elsius].” Astill points out that almost all of the Arctic’s glaciers have receded and that “[t]he area of Arctic land covered by snow in early summer has shrunk by almost a fifth since 1966.” In 2007, the amount of Arctic sea ice “crashed,” as Astill put it, melting to a summer minimum about half the average of that in the 1960s. “This left the north-west passage, a sea lane through Canada’s 36,000-island Arctic Archipelago [from Nome, Alaska, to Nuuk, Greenland], ice-free for the first time in memory.” Astill goes on to declare that “[t]here is no serious doubt about the basic cause of the warming. It is, in the Arctic as everywhere, the result of an increase in heat-trapping atmosphere gases, mainly carbon dioxide released when fossil fuels are burned. Because the atmosphere is shedding less solar heat, it is warming.” This would all be welcome information in a semi-twisted this-is-proofof-global-warming kind of way, but that is where The Economist departs from the searing critique of the environment-degrading, oil-based capitalist economy that is the standard stuff of Adbusters. “In the long run the unfrozen north could cause devastation,” notes Astill. “But, paradoxically, in the meantime no Arctic species will profit from it as much as the one causing it: humans.

“Disappearing sea ice may spell the end of the last Eskimo cultures, but hardly anyone lives in an igloo these days anyway,” he says a little too coolly. “And the great melt is going to make a lot of people rich.” For one thing, “climate change caused by burning fossil fuels will allow more Arctic hydrocarbons to be extracted and burned.” Astill, as one would expect, does not rally for change that might help to shift the trend of global warming away from environmental catastrophe, but he does make some good observations, such as: “Oil companies are reluctant to admit that climate change plays a part in their northward shift. Naturally they do not want to be seen profiting from the environmental damage to which their activities have contributed.” EMAIL YOUR GREEN HOME, GARDEN AND COMMUNITY TIPS TO CHRISTINE AT CHRISTINEL@NEWSREVIEW.COM

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The Humble Kidney Neither as romantic as the heart nor as smart as the brain, the kidney is

blood test is required. “It’s important to be plugged into

the humble blue-collar worker of the

a primary care doctor, who is so

body’s internal organs. Each kidney

important in helping us make an early

comes with a partner, and working as

diagnosis of kidney disease,” he says.

a pair, the kidneys do the dirty work of

As with many diseases, certain

cleaning up after the body. The main

conditions can predictably precede

task is filtering fluids and expelling

– even cause – kidney disease. These

toxins via urine – work so essential that

include high blood pressure and

if the kidneys go on strike, the body

obesity. Smoking can correlate with

fails. The humble kidney is a vital asset.

high occurrence of kidney disease, too – but nothing, perhaps, is so closely

The kidney is the humble blue collar worker of the body’s internal organs.

associated with poorly functioning kidneys as diabetes. This disease prevents the body from utilizing dietary sugar, which builds up in the blood and can cause damage to blood vessels, tissue, and the kidneys. Exactly how

For Dr. Subil Go at Oroville Hospital,

high blood sugar harms the kidneys is

the kidney was so fascinating that

not well understood, Dr. Go says, but

it drew him off his initial course of

the correlation is clear: Of every 1,000

studying the heart, back when he

people with diabetes, almost 100 will

was a young medical student. Dr. Go

develop a form of kidney disease.

made the kidney his specialty as he

A treatment called dialysis can

graduated into medical programs at

accomplish the work that healthy

Rhode Island and Brown universities,

kidneys perform – but dialysis is time-

and today he is Oroville Hospital’s

consuming, often demanding several

lead nephrologist, or “kidney doctor.”

visits per week and several hours of

Dr. Go emphasizes the importance of

blood cleansing at a time. A kidney

maintaining healthy kidneys.

transplant can effectively cure kidney

“Kidneys are not just cleaning organs,”

disease, though at the cost of major

he says.“They produce important

surgery. Fortunately, our two kidneys

hormones in the body. Aside from that,

allow us to donate one if needed – but

they also regulate a lot of the electrolytes

there is a cure for kidney disease better

that keep your body in check and

than all the rest: prevention. So see

assure muscle health and nerve health,

your doctor regularly. Ask about your

like sodium, calcium, and potassium.”

kidneys. Keep them healthy.

In spite of the important roles that

And keep them at work.

the kidneys play in keeping a body healthy, the symptoms of a failing kidney can be surprisingly subtle. Toxins that should be expelled through the kidney’s filtration process build up in the bloodstream and in body tissues, Dr. Go explains, and the result is, simply, “a sick feeling.” To diagnose kidney disease, he says, a

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THE PULSE

HEALTHLINES

In-and-out surgery

NEW POLICY ON FLAME RETARDANTS

Gov. Jerry Brown has plans to overhaul California’s flammability standard in an effort to reduce the use of flame-retardant chemicals in furniture and baby products. Tobacco and chemical manufacturers have long promoted the rule known as Technical Bulletin 117, which has not been significantly altered since 1975—though federal and independent researchers have found flame retardants provide little or no protection from fires, according to the Chicago Tribune. Some chemicals commonly used in couches and easy chairs have been linked to cancer and developmental, fertility and neurological problems. The state plans to release a proposal in August, while hearings and responses to public comment could push a final decision back a year. The revised rule would have national implications, as many manufacturers apply California’s flammability standard to their products.

Skyway Surgery Center administrator and surgical nurse Laura Dahlin in front of the Raley Boulevard building housing the busy outpatient surgery center.

HOSPITALS PAID TWICE FOR SPINAL SURGERIES

California Workers’ Compensation Institute found state hospitals were paid twice for spinal surgeries performed on workers’ compensation patients in 2010. Spinal surgeries performed under workers’ compensation trigger “pass-through” payments in which hospitals are reimbursed for hardware or surgical instruments, according to California Watch. Researchers estimated the pass-through system added $20,000 each to the cost of such surgeries, resulting in $11.4 million in additional costs to taxpayers, though researchers found the cost of the instruments was already covered by initial payments. Sen. Ted Lieu (D-Torrance), who has penned legislation that would eliminate the passthrough payments, said they are the result of a “loophole” that has “unfortunately led to a cottage industry where you have some hospitals that do a huge proportion of workers’ compensation spinal-injury surgeries, and they take advantage of the double payment.”

LONELINESS DEADLY FOR SENIORS

Seniors who feel lonely are more likely to suffer declining health or an early death, a study finds. Researchers from UC San Francisco conducted a six-year study of 1,600 men and women over 60 years old and found a strong connection between loneliness and poor health, according to SFGate.com. Loneliness was defined as feeling left out or lacking companionship, as more than two-thirds of seniors who reported feeling lonely were married or living with a partner. Lonely seniors had a 59 percent greater risk of suffering a decline in overall function—being less mobile or able to take care of daily activities—and a 45 percent greater risk of dying compared to subjects leading satisfying social lives. “I’m hoping this paper allows people to look critically at themselves and how they treat elders around them,” said study author Dr. Carla Perissinotto. “This country is not great at caring for its elderly.”

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A Surgery Center in southeastern Chico, Laura Dahlin says, “I get to wear many s administrator of Skyway

hats.” Dahlin is more than just a business manager; she’s a surgical nurse who’s willing to do any job that helps maintain the flow at the fast-paced facility. “I emptied laundry today,” she said on a recent afternoon, in a phone interview that came right on the heels of her interviewing a prospective employee. Dahlin is busy because the place is busy. The surgeons at Skyway Surgery Center perform roughly 400 operations per month. Considering its office has four operating rooms and one procedure room, hustle and bustle are the norm. Still, Skyway Surgery Center isn’t overbooked, or even booked to capacity. It has room—and time—for more patients, provided more patients know to come. “What I hear over and over from patients is they had no idea we were here,” Dahlin said. Yet here Skyway Surgery Center has been since 2004, when it opened at the corner of the Skyway and Raley Boulevard. It’s the brainchild of surgeons and anesthesiologists from Enloe Medical Center and Feather River Hospital in Paradise who wanted their own site for outpatient proce-

dures—operations that do not require a hospital stay. Like the Chico Surgery Center across town on East Avenue, Skyway Surgery Center is an ASC: an ambulatory surgery center. Pioneered in 1970 by anesthesiologists in Phoenix, Ariz., the ASC concept is geared toward minor surgeries, scheduled in advance, after which the patient can return home in hours, not days. “We offer an alternative to hospital outpatient care,” Dahlin said. “We’re affordable, and we’re able to bring patients in and out fast. We’re not encumbered by emergencies; we don’t have to reschedule surgeries because a trauma case comes in. We don’t have sick patients, so our infection rate is very low. “We have a boutique kind of atmosphere here that patients appreciate.” Skyway Surgery Center has 19 “physician partners” with ownership stakes and

41 “non-partner physicians” who also perform procedures there. (Dahlin said two more are coming on board soon—an ophthalmologist and a pain-management specialist.) Many of the names are familiar because they are leading physicians in Chico and Paradise, such as Leonard Brazil and Brock Cummings (orthopedics), Barry Johnson (pain management), Joseph and Richard Matthews (colorectal), Erik Simchuk and Deron Ludwig (bariatric), and Larry Wainschel (neurosurgery). “Physicians like to work here, at a center that does one thing and does it well,” Dahlin said. “They work with the same [surgical] team every time. The turnover time between operations is 10 minutes [for an operating room, versus up to an hour in a hospital]. HEALTHLINES continued on page 19

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It’s very efficient for them when they come in here—they get a whole lot done.” Yet, despite the rapid pace, Dahlin says Skyway Surgery Center maintains a patient satisfaction rate of 99 percent. “We’re lucky to say we have a great team here,” Dahlin said, “many of whom have been here since the beginning.” What can a patient of an ASC expect?

From Skyway Surgery Center, at least, a phone call. A few days before the surgery, a nurse calls the patient to review the patient’s health history and make sure he or she doesn’t have any questions not answered by the printed information distributed when the surgical appointment was made. On the day of the surgery, the patient arrives and registers at the ASC. “Pre-op”— the preparations before surgery—takes roughly an hour. The patient gets wheeled into the operating room, goes under anesthesia and has the operation. He or she wakes up in the recovery room and within approximately an hour is ready to head home. “A lot of our patient satisfaction surveys comment that they can’t believe how fast it was,” Dahlin said. “Surgeries have become less invasive, and anesthesia techniques have improved dramatically.” A nurse places a follow-up phone call the next day to see how the patient is recovering. The list of surgeries performed is extensive. They include arthroscopic knee surgeries, shoulder surgeries, hand surgeries to repair carpal tunnel damage, tonsillectomies, hysterectomies, sinus surgeries and a range of gastrointestinal procedures. “The majority of our patients are healthy because we don’t have all the services that a

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hospital has,” Dahlin explained. “We’re less expensive because we don’t have the overhead costs of running a 24-hour operation with an emergency room. We pre-screen our patients for suitability for our center.” Skyway Surgery Center employs a staff of around 50, including registered nurses and surgery technicians. It dedicates one operating suite to GI procedures, three to other surgeries and one to more minor procedures. “It’s important for people to know we’re held to the same high standards that hospitals are,” Dahlin said. “We’re accredited by Medicare and the AAAHC [Accrediting Association of Ambulatory Health Care]. We have the same physicians, respected in the community, that the hospital does, and we have a very experienced staff as well.” Dr. Denis Westphal, a general and vascular surgeon who is one of the founding partners of Skyway Surgery Center, offered these words: “What makes it a good place for my patients and me? [It’s] efficient. Seldom do we have delays because of emergencies or add-on situations. The staff works very well together. It’s a modern, clean facility—patients find it comfortable. It costs less for insurers and patients than at a hospital. Data has shown a lower infection rate at ASCs. We’ve got very good, consistent anesthesia. “My patients come back to the office and almost without exception are complimentary about their experience.” Ω

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The doctor and his book ies—have contributed to the failure of the system. He worked mornings, starting at 5:30 and going until he either had a surgery to perform, usually around 7:30, or until 9, when he would go into his office. He also took Wednesdays off and on weekends often would go up to the family’s second home, at Lake Almanor, where he could work without interruption. “I never really thought I would finish this,” he said. He tried to quit three times, but each time Diana said, “Get back in there and write some more.” In addition to being his coach, she was also his proofreader and first editor, and he’s quick to say the book wouldn’t have happened without her.

The story behind Chico neurosurgeon Jeff Lobosky’s sharp critique of American health care

Jeff Lobosky is a soft-spoken, affable man of medium height

who looks at least 10 years younger than his 60 years. He and Diana have been married for 40 of those years. They met under rather unusual circumstances, he says. He was attending Bishop Amat, a Catholic high school in La Puente, in the San Gabriel Valley not far from where he grew up in East Los Angeles. The school had a rule that only seniors could date girls from public high schools. A friend of Lobosky’s, a junior, had been seeing Diana, who attended a public high school, and wanted her to be his date for the last dance of the year at Bishop Amat. To get around the restriction, the friend turned to Lobosky, who was a senior and, it so happens, dateless, and asked him to squire Diana to the dance. The idea was that, once there, they would trade dates, or something like that. Unfortunately for the friend, Jeff and Diana hit it off in a big way. They saw each other often that summer, and continued to maintain a long-distance relationship when he went off to Notre Dame University in Indiana. So strong was their connection that they stayed together despite frequent separations, finally marrying when he was 20 and she 19. Lobosky knew he wanted to become a doctor when he entered college. He’d chosen that career path when, at the age of 11, he split his chin playing baseball and had to go to the emergency room. He writes about being impressed by the gleaming surfaces and technological wizardry of the hospital, and “mesmerized by the bevy of pretty young nurses who whisked in and out of my cubicle in their starched white dresses, white nylons, and uniquely shaped white caps.” But what impressed him most was the ER doctor, a man who “projected both confidence and authority, but at the same time, a kindness and compassion that allayed my fears and filled me with trust and awe.” He knew then and there that he wanted to be a doctor, too. Lobosky attended medical school at UC Irvine and, at the age of 32, completed his residency in neurosurgery at the University of Iowa. “It is remarkable,” he writes, “that the rigors of medical training do not completely extinguish the idealism that characterizes most young physicians.” Fortunately, he continues, “the majority of my classmates and I emerged unscathed, and I entered practice in 1984 ready to live my dream.” That’s when he and Diana—who by then had given birth to all of the couple’s three children, daughters Holly and Kimberly and the youngest,

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s a physician, Jeffrey Lobosky has seen the failure of the American health-care system from the inside looking out. But it was never made clearer to him than when his then-14year-old son, Grayson, was diagnosed with a highly aggressive form of malignant lymphoma.

“Initially, the prognosis was dismal,” the Chico neurosurgeon writes in his remarkable new book, It’s Enough to Make You Sick: The Failure of American Health Care and a Prescription for the Cure. But the Loboskys found their way to Michael Link, a Stanford University pediatric oncologist, who was able to place Grayson into one of Stanford’s experimental clinical protocols. “The year-long chemotherapy treatments were brutal and, as you can well imagine, extraordinarily expensive,” Lobosky writes. “But fifteen years later, my son is alive, healthy, and free of any residual cancer. My wife and I thank 20 CN&R June 28, 2012

God every day for Michael Link and Stanford University. And I also thank God for my insurance carrier, for even though I am a well-compensated neurosurgeon, without insurance, the financial impact on my family would have been overwhelming.” In this case, the system worked. Lobosky was able to afford good insurance. But in the middle of Grayson’s ordeal, Lobosky was forced to confront the reality that not everyone is so blessed. “I remember coming home from Stanford after one of Grayson’s cycles of chemo,” he writes, “and seeing an announcement in the local paper about a fund-raising dinner to be held at the fairgrounds to benefit a family who had racked up over a quarter of a million dollars in medical bills for their son’s leukemia treatment. The glaring inequities of our system were staring me right in the face, just as they do for millions of Americans every day.” The fact that nearly 50 million Americans have no health insurance, and a similar number have insurance that “is so inadequate they might just as well have none, or they have a policy that is accompanied by such high deductibles and limited benefits that adequate treatment spells financial ruin,” is simply the most obvious and most discussed failing of the health-care system. It’s not why Lobosky wrote the book, however, or at least not the principal impetus. That came in mid-2006, when Enloe Medical Center, where Lobosky has long practiced, went through a terrible crisis resulting from a clash

between the hospital CEO and the group of doctors under contract to provide anesthesiology services. When the doctors quit en masse and were replaced by a smaller number of sometimes unreliable locum tenens, or traveling physicians, the hospital went into a tailspin that began to threaten its very existence. Lobosky fell into a funk. As he said recently during a book-signing talk at Lyon Books in downtown Chico, the crisis “really changed the way I felt about medicine. It was just not fun to practice anymore.” For the first time, he didn’t want to go to work. His wife, Diana, became concerned. She reminded him that he’d been editor of his high school newspaper and liked to write, and she suggested he write a book. Writing about what was bothering him would be therapeutic, she said. He agreed and, in February 2008, started jotting down ideas, focusing on what went wrong at Enloe. “Very quickly,” he said during a recent interview in the CN&R offices, “I realized it wasn’t Enloe, it was the whole system.” It’s a huge subject, especially for a first-time author. By the time his book went to the printer, Lobosky had researched and analyzed the myriad ways all the major players in American health care—hospitals, the health-insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, politicians and lobbyists, doctors, malpractice lawyers and, yes, we patients who all too often take better care of our cars than we do our bod-

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The story behind Chico neurosurgeon Jeff Lobosky’s sharp critique of American health care

Jeff Lobosky is a soft-spoken, affable man of medium height

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The doctor’s prescription

He’s got good ideas but no overarching solution Jeff Lobosky says he thinks it’s “ironic” that the health-care-reform law is called “Obamacare,” since much of what candidate Obama proposed is no longer part of it. Obama, he says, gave away some of the bill’s best parts—particularly the public option and the ability for Medicare to negotiate the cost of drugs—in order to get it passed. “I was disappointed,” he said. “The original bill was a step in the right direction.” He believes the public would have stood behind the president if he’d fought for the public option. Interviewed three weeks before the Supreme Court was scheduled to issue its opinion on Obamacare, Lobosky said that, even if the court ruled the individual mandate constitutional and left the package alone, “it won’t address or solve the problem.” To mention just one of several flaws Lobosky sees: It moves millions of low-income people into Medicaid, but there aren’t enough doctors for current Medicaid patients. “It will get them a card,” he said, “but it won’t get them care.” And without the individual mandate, he said, Obamacare simply won’t work. Now, Lobosky’s biggest worry is that the failure of Obamacare will “kill any hope for reform for years,” which would be a truly monumental disaster on many levels. So what’s the alternative? Not single-payer, or “Medicare for all,” as it’s often called, though Lobosky believes it “makes a lot of sense” and is infinitely more efficient and fair than the current system. It’s just not politically viable at this point, despite its popularity in the polls, he says: “You can be sure that the major special-interest groups will all oppose it,” beginning with the all-powerful insurance industry, which stands to lose everything if single-payer is adopted. And yet, he says, “we must fix health care if we hold out any hope of continuing as a nation of prosperity and providing an admirable quality of life for our children and grandchildren…. “If we agree that a single-payer system is unrealistic, a public option is untenable, and the status quo is unacceptable, how do we craft a solution that provides universal coverage and universal access while controlling costs?” Here are just some of the good doctor’s recommendations: • Make insurance regulations federal, not state-based, and establish minimum standards of coverage that include all reasonable treatments derived from evidencebased medical studies. • Create state-instituted insurance co-ops to purchase policies at volume rates for people not covered by their employers. Trigger a “public option” if the insurance companies don’t cooperate. • Require everyone to provide proof of health insurance when they file their income taxes. Be tough on those who opt out—make them pay cash for care, and stick to it. • Require a copayment, however small, for every service provided to discourage overuse. • Set an appropriate fee schedule for both private and governmental insurers. • Create a system designed to establish which treatments have the best outcomes and pay only for those. • Allocate resources that will preserve not just lives, but also quality lives. • Institute a representative “Task Force for Effective Care” to analyze medical data to determine which treatments have the best outcomes under a variety of conditions. • Set reasonable caps (say, $500,000) on malpractice judgments for non-economic losses (i.e., pain and suffering). • Bring down the “wall of silence” by which doctors protect the incompetent among them. • Place greater emphasis on staying healthy and less on treatment. Spend more on health club memberships and less on cardiac bypasses. Ultimately, though, any overarching solution rests with Congress, and Congress, Lobosky says, has been bought and sold. It will be up to the American people to rise up and demand reform, beginning with congressional term limits and campaign financing reform. Unfortunately, both proposals would require a constitutional amendment, and that’s beyond unlikely in the current polarized climate. But Lobosky’s other suggestions are good ones, and he’s right about another thing: We should take a good look at singlepayer. As he says, it makes a lot of sense. —Robert Speer roberts@newsreview.com 22 CN&R June 28, 2012

Grayson—moved to Chico, where he partnered with a fellow neurosurgeon, Bruce Burke, whom he describes as “mentor, teacher, role model and, above all, friend.” He and Diana both saw that Chico would be a wonderful place for their children to grow up. “It was the best decision we ever made,” he now says. He’s had a remarkable career here, not only as one of the premier surgeons in his field, but also as Enloe’s former medical chief of staff and current codirector of its Neurotrauma Intensive Care Unit. He is also an associate clinical professor in the Department of Neurological Surgery at UC San Francisco. He is perhaps most widely known locally for his successful efforts in the early 1990s lobbying for legislation requiring motorcyclists and minor bicyclists to wear helmets. His goal was to prevent injuries and save lives, but he also believed it was wrong for riders to expect taxpayers to pay for their post-accident care if they’d not worn a helmet. During his decades of practice in Chico he’s witnessed innumerable situations in which the health-care system has failed patients, and he’s sprinkled their stories throughout his book. His analysis of the health-care system is grounded in his own experiences, and in that sense Chico and the North State region make up a big part of the book. Local readers will feel they are on familiar ground as they move through the chapters. Lobosky’s first task is to

debunk the popular notion that the American health-care system is the best in the world. In an early chapter, he argues that for too long we Americans have been resting on our laurels, continuing “to boast about out past accomplishments and trumpet our democratic system without carefully analyzing whether those boasts are still warranted.” Yes, America has some of the greatest teaching hospitals and research centers in the world. “Most major breakthroughs in medical science and medical technology emanate from the United States,” Lobosky writes. “Patients with means from around the world come here for innovative Jeff and Diana Lobosky are celebrating their 40th wedding anniversary this week. He says his book wouldn’t have been written if it weren’t for her. PHOTO COURTESY OF THE LOBOSKYS

treatments.” But, according to the World Health Organization, which gathers data from its 191 member nations on a wide range of health issues, the United States ranks 29th for men and 30th for women in life expectancy, 33rd in infant mortality (tied with Cuba, Croatia, Estonia and Andorra), and 30th in maternal mortality rates. “Select almost any of the parameters studied by the WHO,” Lobosky writes, “and the U.S. system falls short in almost every single category: cancerrelated deaths (ninety-ninth), death from heart disease (twentysixth), childhood deaths from pneumonia (twenty-fourth), mortality rates from traumatic injuries (fifty-seventh), and the list goes on.” The United States comes in first, however, in two categories, according to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services: total expenditure on health care as a percentage of gross domestic product (17.6 percent) and annual per-capita expenditure ($8,086). “Am I the only one who thinks we are spending an extraordinary amount of resources on the health and well-being of our citizens for very modest returns?” Lobosky asks. America does have outstanding doctors and hospitals, he continues, “but a significant portion of the American population has limited or no access to that care.” For the poor, uninsured and “underinsured,” the nation’s lifesaving system is unavailable. Yes, Medicaid is available for

the very poor, but the reimbursement rates are so low that many doctors no longer take Medicaid patients. And too many people lack insurance altogether because they cannot afford it or have policies with such high deductibles and poor coverage that a serious illness can result in bankruptcy. Indeed, Lobosky notes, catastrophic medical debt is the No. 1 cause of bankruptcy in the country. How did it get this way?

Those looking for villains in Lobosky’s book won’t find them, though venal politicians who do the bidding of their campaign donors come close, and he believes managed care has deeply damaged the practice of medicine. Otherwise, the overall systemic failure has accreted over time, and our collective inability or unwillingness to address its ever-growing range of problems has only made a bad situation worse. Every sector involved in health care has contributed to its failure, Lobosky argues. He devotes a chapter each to the insurance industry, the pharmaceutical industry, politicians, hospitals, physicians, lawyers, and the terrible health habits of the American people. Along the way, he includes a short chapter on the decline in the amounts physicians are reimbursed and its consequences; another on the dramatic increase in female doctors; and a chapter on the crisis in emergency rooms. In each of these cases, Lobosky’s argument is grounded

According to the World Health Organization, which gathers data from its 191 member nations on a wide range of health issues, the United States ranks 29th for men and 30th for women in life expectancy, 33rd in infant mortality (tied with Cuba, Croatia, Estonia and Andorra), and 30th in maternal mortality rates. not only in his wide-ranging research, but also in his personal experiences. Take the chapter on the increase in female doctors, for example. It’s a subject rarely discussed outside the medical profession, but it’s had profound consequences. Today, there are nearly as many women in medical school as men, and in some specializations they are the majority. That wasn’t the case 40 years ago, when men dominated and an atmosphere of macho competitiveness suffused medical training, especially residency. “When I was in residency, we worked 100 to 120 hours per week, and we rarely saw our families,” Lobosky writes, “but we were proud of the fact that we were bent but not broken. At least we didn’t consider ourselves broken; I suspect our wives and children may have had a different perspective.” Most doctors of his generation went on to launch private practices, which required hard work and long hours and took time away from family—“missed baseball games and school plays, dinners without Dad, lost opportunities that could never be recovered and a shifting of the burdens on to spouses.” The new female doctors changed all that, Lobosky writes. “Once they were represented in sufficient numbers that they no longer had to be concerned with repercussions from their all-male superiors, women started questioning the very tenets that traditionally defined both medical training and medical practice.” One result is that by law medical trainees’ hours are now limited to 80 per week. Major university teaching hospitals have had to supplement the gaps created by the restricted work week by hiring nurse practitioners and physician

assistants. There is concern, too, that trainees are missing out on vital educational experiences because of the reduced work week. Still, Lobosky says, the changes are welcome: “We give up much to become doctors, everything from our financial resources to our youth. We should not have to also sacrifice our spouses and children on the altar of medicine.” But one consequence is that young doctors, men and women alike, are no longer willing to put in the hours their counterparts in the boomer generation put in. They’d rather spend more time with their families. Meanwhile, the number of medical schools and graduating doctors has stayed about the same, while the population—and thus the number of patients—has increased. The result: a serious physician shortage. “Believe me when I tell you that the physician shortage is upon us and it is real,” Lobosky writes. “This is especially true in fields such as neurosurgery, orthopedics, general surgery, gastroenterology, and cardiology.” Unlike their predecessors, newly minted doctors aren’t interested in setting up their own practices and “are looking instead to work as employees of the hospitals or in existing group practices.” Nor do they want to care “for uninsured patients at inconvenient hours [by being on call] in the emergency room.” And eventually they begin “to opt out of on-call responsibilities while shifting their now established practices to physician-owned surgery centers and freestanding specialty facilities,” pulling business away from and weakening community hospitals. Lobosky laments this change but doesn’t blame the young doctors. Remember, he writes, “my genera-

tion did not come out of residency with an average debt of more than $150,000. When my generation started practice, insurance carriers were still reimbursing us at a rate that made charity care much easier to absorb. … We did not have to rush patients through in high volumes just to make ends meet, and we had deeper and more rewarding personal relationships with those for whom we cared. It’s hard for a physician to develop a sense of loyalty to a community or for a community to develop a sense of loyalty to a physician in today’s model of assembly line medicine.” This is the kind of thoughtful, knowledgeable analysis that characterizes It’s Enough to Make You Sick. Lobosky often leavens this seriousness with a quizzical, even jokey tone suggestive of someone saying, “Can you believe this? I couldn’t make this stuff up.” His chapter titles are all written in this vein. Chapter 11, for example is “Crisis in America’s Emergency Rooms: Take Two Aspirins and Call 911 in the Morning.” He says he wanted to have a conversation with the reader, “but one where I do all the talking.” For a serious book about a complex subject, It’s Enough to Make You Sick is delightfully readable. Anyone who wants to understand what’s wrong with the American health-care system should read it. Unfortunately, as Lobosky acknowledges, he’s not Sanjay Gupta or Dr. Oz. If either of these celebrity doctors had written the book, it would be flying off the shelves. Still, the response to the book has been “everything I wanted it to be,” he said. Many people have told him they enjoyed reading it. As one woman put it, “You made a very difficult subject understandable to me.” Ω June 28, 2012

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Arts & Culture ‘Return to magic’

The many colors of the Wild Mountain Faire.

Butte County’s homegrown music fest celebrates spirit of Concow community

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Mountain Faire at the idyllic Lake Concow Campground produce something different. As a regular festivalgoer who has been going to this event since it was revived in 2007, I’ve seen the small community lovingly nurture a special multiday affair that is as much about spirit, community pride and folklore as it is about story and photos by music. Alan Sheckter Free of marketing strategies or official alsheck@ comcast.net spokespeople, the event tucked away in the Sierra foothills has an PREVIEW: organic charm. These The Concow days, the Faire crew Wild Mountain instead devotes its time Faire happens and resources toward Friday-Sunday, June 29-July 1, at building and crafting the Lake Concow the 78 acres into a magCampground. Visit ical multipurpose site. www.wildmountain Tony Salzarulo, a lifefaire.com for long Concow resident festival lineup and times. Tickets: and year-round tender $20/day; of the campground $60/three days. land, promises this year’s version will be the best yet. Lake Concow “We have a humonCampground 12967 Concow Rd., gous dance house, we Concow have a sweat lodge wildmountain again, we have a natufaire@ymail.com ral swimming pool of water, and we’ve done work around the creek that includes some surprises,” said the talented 53-year-old builder. Salzarulo and company are continuing a legacy of outdoor Concow fests that dates back to the mid-1970s. “I was involved even before it was called Wild Mountain Faire, in the summer of ’74,” added Sarah Salisbury, 63, who has maintained a local cabin for 40 years and has remained involved with the festival since the beginning. “We put on a play in Crane Park,” Salisbury said, about that first year. “It was for one day, and we performed A Midsummer Night’s Dream and we didn’t charge any money. About 200 people came. It was really fun and a real community event. We’d rehearse in an abandoned roadhouse by lantern and candlelight.” The event took its Wild Mountain Faire

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moniker the next year, and those one-day fests at Crane Park (a stone’s throw from the campground) continued for about 15 years, with food and generator-amplified music performed on a flatbed truck, Salisbury said. The festival would end when darkness overtook the site. “We benefited many local organizations, and there was country music, rock ’n’ roll, belly dancers, clowns, whoever wanted to perform,” Salisbury said of the fest that went dormant in the early 1990s before its return in 2007. The current incarnation of WMF continues to advocate and raise money for important community endeavors. Immediately after the devastating fire in 2008, the Concow Phoenix Project helped the community’s rebuilding efforts. Current projects include fundraising for children’s field trips to Chico Performances shows at Laxson Auditorium and an effort to garner scholarship funding for Concow residents to attend firefighting courses at Butte College. The WMF infrastructure has bulked up each of the past six years to now include, in addition to camping, food and artisan vendors, four stages, a Creekside Native Village with towering teepees, an Enchanted Kids Village, late-night DJs, drum circles, gonzo art creations and one mondo campfire ring. Of course, plenty of local and regional reggae, rock ’n’ soul, avant-garde, jam and electronic groups— from Swamp Zen to Dylan’s Dharma and Soul Union to Soul Butter—will provide the backbone of the entertainment.

THIS WEEK Local pride, with particular

respect to its native people, the Konkow Valley band of Maidu, and made all the stronger in the aftermath of the 2008 fire, are unifying themes here. The literal theme of this year’s fest is “Return to Magic,” Salzarulo said. “It seems like now everything’s coming back from the fire,” he said. “New trees are getting about 10-foot tall now, the oak trees are coming back and it’s getting green again.” But it might be the Native American influence that most permeates the festival. Salzarulo’s late mother, affectionately known as Granny Lou, was friends with Byron Beavers, one of the last native speakers of the Maidu language. And the Indian energy remains with the festival. Salzarulo said that Konkow Maidu tribal Chairwoman Patsy Seek will demonstrate native artifacts and answer questions. In addition, tribal Vice-Chairman Wally Clark will perform native dance and Jack Falls-Rock, founder of the People of the Earth Foundation, will travel down from Oregon and offer the festival’s opening prayer. These days, ubiquitous local DJ Hap Hathaway, of Resonators fame, is in charge of the music. Though not a Concow native, he “gets it.” “The fact that this festival started as a real family gathering that grew to something bigger gives it a genuine sense of tribe and family that many festivals don’t seem to invoke,” Hathaway said. “The sacred land and incredible lake scenery and riparian zones, along with the incredible native village that Tony and so many volunteers have built, add to a deep sense of connection with our past and a sense of responsibility for the land and the vibe of the gathering.” Ω

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Special Events LAST SHOW AT THE LAST STAND: It’s been a great, if brief, run for John Ross’s energetic and irreverent house of comedy. Help send him off in style at one last open-mic night ... and bring a chair. Th, 6/28, 8pm. The Last Stand Comedy Venue, 167 E. Third St., (530) 354-1936, www.laststandcomedy.com.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week: cowboy music with Adrian, smooth jazz with Chuck’s Place and more. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.

WHERE THE YELLOWSTONE GOES: A one-night only premier of an acclaimed fly fishing documentary. Director Hunter Weeks will be on hand to answer questions after the screening. Th, 6/28, 7:30pm. $10-$12. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.

WHERE THE YELLOWSTONE GOES Tonight, June 28 El Rey Theatre

SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: See Friday. Lake Concow

RAISING THE ROOF CONCERT Sunday, June 30 CUSD Center for the Arts

SEE SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

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Poetry/Literature Art Receptions DISCOVERY SERIES RECEPTION: Opening night for an exhibition of select local, regional and national artists. Sa, 6/30, 7-9pm. Free. Chico Art Center; 450 Orange St. Suite 6; (530) 8958726; www.chicoartcenter.com.

RAISING THE ROOF CONCERT: Eighteen amateur,

CONCERT IN THE PARK: The weekly series continues as Rippin’ Fifths will rock some serious socks. Festivities will include food, raffle prizes and a bounce house for the little ones. Th, 6/28, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

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Art Receptions IT’S OUR NATURE! RECEPTION: An opening reception for an exhibition of pieces by ceramist Tedo Best, plus works by Table Mountain Wildflower painters and illustrators. F, 6/29, 5-8pm. Free. Avenue 9 Gallery; 180 E. Ninth Ave.; (530) 879-1821; www.avenue9gallery.com.

Music WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: A three-day music festival with local and international artists. Festivities include late-night DJs, purification lodges, native singing and dancing, a kiddy village, workshops, vendors and more. All proceeds go to charities and education programs. Go online for a complete lineup. 6/29-7/1. $20-$60. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

student and professional musicians from the North State share the stage to benefit Habitat for Humanity’s building of a local home. Sa, 6/30, 7:30pm. $7-$10. CUSD Center for the Arts; 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus; (530) 891-3050; http://chico tix.com.

WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: See Friday. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

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Special Events KNOW THE POE FESTIVAL: All-day festival celebrating Edgar Allan Poe, with readings, poetry, a carnival, art and film feature, plus an evening concert with The Raven Band featuring Loki Miller, plus performances by Big Mo, Doug Stein, Scott Barwick, Lisa Valentine and many more. Su, 7/1, noon & 7:30 pm. Day Events: $10 (Kids 17-under free with paid admission) Evening Concert: $20 (all ages). Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave., (530) 891-5865, www.facebook.com/TheRavenMusical.

Music with bluegrass, Cajun, funk, southern rock, boogie, Caribbean, Latin and jazz influences. Su, 7/1, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 345-2739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

Special Events VINTAGE APRON FASHION SHOW & TEA PARTY: A

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Special Events 4TH OF JULY CARNIVAL: Feather Canyon Retirement is hosting its first Fourth of July carnival with food, music, a petting zoo, games, prizes and entertainment. W, 7/4, 1:30-3:30pm. Free. Feather Canyon Retirement Community; 5900 Canyon View Dr. in Paradise; (530) 877-2207.

4TH OF JULY CELEBRATION: Chico’s annual Fourth of July celebration with food, fun and sun at Sycamore Pool. W, 7/4, 7:30am-2:30pm. Free. One Mile Recreation Area; Bidwell Park; (530) 896-7200.

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.

LAKE OROVILLE FIREWORKS DISPLAY: A spectacular Fourth of July celebration over picturesque Lake Oroville. W, 7/4, 9:30pm. Free. Lake Oroville; 917 Kelly Ridge Rd. in Oroville; (530) 538-2542.

SILVER DOLLAR SPEEDWAY FIREWORKS DISPLAY: A grand fireworks show following the evening’s races. Call or go online for more info. W, 7/4, 6:30pm. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds; 2357 Fair St.; (530) 891-6535; www.silverdollarspeed way.com.

LEFTOVER SALMON: A “progressive folk” band

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trip down memory lane with a vintage apron fashion show, tea cakes, finger sandwiches, door prizes, entertainment and more. Call to reserve a space. Sa, 6/30, 2-5pm. $15. Oroville Center for Spiritual Living; 3135 Oro Dam Blvd East former location of Wheel & Deals in Oroville; (530) 675-2976.

and song. First M of every month, 7pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

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Music Music

WORD PLAY: A night of poetry, readings, comedy

IT’S OUR NATURE!

Friday, June 29 Avenue 9 Gallery SEE FRIDAY, ART RECEPTIONS

Art 1078 GALLERY: Interpreting Structures, two artists who take different approaches to address either cultural or personal interpreation within structural form. Through 6/30. 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: Its Our Nature!, an exhibition of works by ceramist Tedo Best, with Table Mountain Wildflower painters and illustrators. 6/29-7/29. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian

Garcia. Ongoing. 225 Main St. D, (530) 8953282.

BUSTOLINIS DELI & COFFEE HOUSE: Holly

Siemens, new works. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Closed Sunday. 800 Broadway St., (530) 892-1790.

CAFE FLO: Skateboard Art, by local Maia Illa.

Through 6/30. 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre, (530) 514-8888, http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovery Series, an exhibition of selected local, regional and national artists. 6/30-7/21. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, 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.

mythologies by Charles Barth. Through 7/28. Free. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE:

Reconstructed, original artworks by Andy Greer. Through 6/30. Gallery hours are Open daily. 118 W. Second St., (530) 895-0676.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Celebrating the

Figure, an exhibition of of pastels, chalk, pencil, water color, acrylic paints and various inks from 12 local artists. Through 6/30. Americana: Red, White & Blue, art done in watercolor, pastel, oil and collages. 6/298/31. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.

SATORI COLOR & HAIR DESIGN: Gitta Brewster, 13 locally-created paintings on display. Through 7/15. 627 Broadway St. Suite 120.

THE VAGABOND ROSE GALLERY & FRAMING: Will Chiapella Photography, “lost” B&W film images and digital photographs from abroad on display. Through 7/31; Tu, 7/31, 10am-5pm. 236 Main St., (530) 343-1110.

Call for Artists ART INSPIRED BY CHICO: The Chico Museum is planning a multi-media exhibit (including poetry, art, videos, sculptures, textiles and music) of original creations inspired by Chico. Go online for submission guidelines. Through 7/1. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336, www.chicomuseum.org.

CHICO ICONS: An exhibit that will focus on the endangered, fragile and precious aspects of our natural and man-made environment in Chico. Go online for a full prospectus. Through 6/30. Avenue 9 Gallery, 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, http://tinyurl.com/ d3b8jgg.

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

EMPIRE COFFEE: Windows, photos by Kyle Delmar, displayed in such a fashion as to create the illusion of reality. Through 6/30. 434 Orange St. Between 4th & 5th in Train Car, (530) 899-8267.

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.

Museums BOLTS ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Kitchen

Gadgets, a new display featuring kitchen gadgets past and present. M-Sa, 10am3:45pm; Su, 11:45am-3:45pm. $2 adults/kids free. 1650 Broderick St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497, www.boltsantiquetools.com.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Summer Exhibits, Exhibits exploring the California grizzly bear, an interactive video exhibit and a display of photographs of wildflowers and their pollinators running all summer. Through 8/10, 9am-1pm. $3-$5. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway.

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Oaxacan Huipiles & Prints, Brightly colored Huipils woven by Guatemalan women, telling stories of their heritage. Also exhibiting etchings depicting Mexican wrestlers, folklore and

Free day What’s better than a giant group of kids playing in a park, going completely nuts as they squeeze every bit of fun out the day’s sunlight? How about watching their EDITOR’S PICK awestruck faces awash in changing colors as they “ooh” and “ahh” over a massive fireworks display after it gets dark. The Fourth of July holiday is a fun one for kids, and for their parents, too, especially at a shindig like Chico’s annual daylong Fourth of July Celebration at One-Mile in Bidwell Park, featuring a pancake breakfast, community band, horseshoes, live blues music, pie-eating contest, games and barbecue. As for fireworks displays, no Chico Outlaws baseball team means no lightshow above the ballpark this year. That leaves Butte County with two choices for explosions in the sky—in Chico during the races at the Silver Dollar Speedway and in Oroville over the lake at Oroville Dam.

—JASON CASSIDY June 28, 2012

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BULLETIN BOARD Community BEGINNER/RECOVERY MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: A weekly beginning mountain bike course to work on fitness, technical skills and confidence. Th, 6-7:15pm through 10/25. Free. North Rim Mountain Adventure Sports, 178 E. Second St., (530) 345-6980, http://northrimadven ture.com.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary.

DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your mind, free your feet and your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 891-6524.

DINNER WITH THE DOCTOR: Helmuth Jones, M.D. presents “What’s new for your aching joints,” a free lecture as part of Feather River Hospital’s popular dinner series. Th, 6/28, 6pm. $8 for dinner. Paradise Seventh-day Adventist Church, 5720 Academy Dr. in Paradise, (530) 876-7154, www.paradiseadventistchurch.org.

EVENING STROLLS IN UPPER BIDWELL PARK: Learn about Bidwell Park’s geology, history, biology and native peoples. Meet at the Rod and Gun Club parking lot. Sa, 5-8:30pm through 6/30. Free. Bidwell Park, Bidwell Park, (530) 8953730, www.upperpark.net.

FARMER’S 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 in the campus plaza. W, 11am-2pm. Chico State, W. First St. Plumas Hall.

FARMER’S MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods,

honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more. Sa,

7:30am. Chico Certified Farmers Market, municipal parking lot on Second and Wall streets, (530) 893-3276.

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FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh food vendors with local crafts and food booths. Sa, 7:30am-noon through 11/17. Free. Oroville Farmers Market, Montgomery & Myers, Municipal Auditorium Parking Lot Montgomery & Myers in Oroville, (530) 8795303.

GOLF FOR VETERANS: A program to help combat veterans socialize with other veterans on the links. Ongoing. Free. Call for details, (530) 8998549.

HERBALIST TALK: A presentation by Harry

Chrissakis, C.M.T. natural healing. Fourth Th of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Chico Public Library, Corner Of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (891) 891-2726.

FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 6/29. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

PARADISE FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE:

Used book sale. Every other Sa, 10am-3pm. Prices vary. Butte County Library, Paradise Branch, 5922 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 8726320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/ Paradise.htm.

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) 891-6524.

SUMMER READING SKILLS PROGRAM: Chico State offers eight different reading skills programs for four-year olds through adults. Go online for a complete schedule and enrollment information. Ongoing. California State University, Chico, CSUC, (180) 096-48888, http://rce.csu chico.edu/reading.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed for those who have suffered through recent loss or turmoil looking to enhance their outlook and learn to cope. Tu, 6-7:30pm through 7/24; Through 9/25, 6-7:30pm. Lakeside Pavilion, 179 E. 19th St., 895-4711.

TEEN DAY CAMP: Teens entering grades 7-9 are invited to participate in two one-week sessions of ongoing stewardship and habitat restoration efforts. Call for more info. Through 6/29, 8am-1pm. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwell park.org.

basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 8727085.

SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ

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.

DAY CAMP FOR KIDS: Hosted by Oroville’s YMCA,

SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free

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this day camp is intended to get kids outside and to begin developing healthy life-long habits. Call for more info. M-F, 6:30am-6pm through 8/17. Call for fees. Oroville YMCA, 1684 Robinson St. in Oroville, (553) 533-9622, www.orovilleymca.org.

Art, 3851 Morrow Ln., (530) 354-2680, www.earthgirlart.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 website for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

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I most certainly did not take advantage. And while Bjornie’s Hof Brau, a little place on the outskirts of town, claimed to serve Chinese specials on by Sunday afternoons, the eatery’s two “ChiHenri Bourride nese” items were Aunt Tina’s Chow Mein, a sort of a Hamburger Helper with rice and hbourride@ yahoo.com soy sauce, and chop suey, often a concoction of overcooked vegetables, whose origin is, according to Snopes.com, as “mysterious as the dish itself is guileless.” So, moving to New York and then, years later, to San Francisco, Henri was 1 ★★★ ⁄2 thrilled by the huge number of authentic Chinese restaurants. And, I must add, he Tong Fong Low became rather an aficionado. Colette and I hadn’t been to Tong Fong Oroville: Low in a couple of years, but decided to 2051 Robinson St. head over one recent Sunday evening to 533-1488 help the restaurant celebrate its centennial. Open Tues.-Sun., 11 a.m.-9 p.m. First opened in Oroville in 1912, and more familiarly known at the time as “Charlie’s” Chico: or Charlie’s Chop Suey (after original 2072 E. 20th St., owner You “Charlie” Lee), Tong Fong Suite 100 Low’s Chico location was chosen last year 898-1388 by CN&R readers as Chico’s Best Asian Open daily, Cuisine. And deservedly so. 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Colette steered Pierre into downtown www.tongfong Oroville right about 6 p.m., and we were low.com struck by how empty and quiet the streets were—until we turned the corner and saw all the cars parked in front of the restaurant. Inside, it was bustling with customers who seemed to know not only each other ★★★★★ EPIC but also the help, and others coming and going for take-out. Clearly, there’s a reason ★★★★ AUTHORITATIVE it’s been around for a century. Tong Fong Low serves mostly Can★★★ APPEALING tonese food, the most common Chinese ★★ food in the United States, as it tends to be HAS MOMENTS less exotic and spicy than other Chinese ★ cuisines, although a section of the menu is FLAWED given over to Szechuan dishes. Additionally,

some of the Cantonese dishes are marked with a pepper, indicating spiciness. There are two dining rooms, an older one: dark, with large booths and tables and a long bar with a walllength mirror right out of the Old West. The adjacent room is light and airy with another dozen or so tables. We started with pork egg rolls (three for $2.75), which were huge, the cabbage and carrots crisp, the wrappers with just a hint of additional batter—delicious, especially dipped in the sinus-clearing hot mustard in the squeeze jar on the table. We also ordered the cashew chicken ($8.25), broccoli and shrimp ($10.95), garlic asparagus ($7.95), and seafood chow mein. We couldn’t decide between the steamed rice ($1.75) and the fried rice ($5.50), so our waiter offered to bring half an order of each. It was all very good, the vegetables—especially the asparagus—perfectly crunchy, the meat full of flavor. The highlights were the cashew chicken, with lots of whole cashews, green onions, large pieces of tender chicken breast, cabbage, water chestnuts, bamboo shoots, snow peas and garlic; and the chow mein, which included shrimp, scallops, white fish, calamari, green onions, garlic and red bell pepper. The following weekend we headed over to the new Tong Fong Low in Chico to try the lunch specials (which run $4.95-$6.95, with steamed rice or fried rice—50 cents extra for pan-fried noodles) at the second location which opened in 2009. High-ceilinged, well-lighted and ultramodern (Colette said she thought she was in a Jetsons cartoon from Beijing), the Chico restaurant has mostly the same menu. (Both locations, by the way, serve chop suey, which we did not try.) We split the Mongolian beef with the noodles, and it was more than enough. It’s definitely one of the best lunch deals in town, and a delicious continuation of a 100-year-old Butte County tradition. Ω

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Fantasy island

Opening this week Bernie

Director Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise, Dazed and Confused) helms this dramedy starring Jack Black as a mortician in a small Texas town who gets into a relationship with a wealthy elderly widow (Shirley MacLaine) and then kills her. Based on a real-life events. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Madea’s Witness Protection

Tyler Perry cross-dresses as the sassy Madea in entry No. 7 from the franchise that just won’t quit. This time there’s a Ponzi scheme, Tom Arnold and some other stuff. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

A funny, romantic and magical rite of passage

Magic Mike

A young stripper (Alex Pettyfer) learns the ropes from a veteran stripper (Channing Tatum) at a club owned by a former stripper (Matthew McConaughey). Directed by Stephen Soderbergh (Contagion, Erin Brockovich). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

It’s a kids’ world.

M Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc.), is a summertime comedy of an exceptionally poetic sort.

puffs on a corncob pipe. Suzy reads aloud from her favorite books, all of which she’s stolen from the local library. A costumed tour guide (Bob Balaban) occasionalWhile it has a big-name cast, the chief characters are two ly appears to provide on-screen narration. 12-year-olds, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy References to Benjamin Britten’s opera, Noye’s Flud(Kara Hayward), who fall in love and run away de, recur, and the film’s assortment of offhanded allusions to their own little romantic paradise on the to culture and the arts suggest several intriguing layers of by coastal island where they are spending their meaning. Ω Juan-Carlos respective New England summer vacations. Selznick It’s pointedly a storybook situation, and in the frisky scenario concocted by co-writers Anderson and Roman Coppola, it blossoms into a wistfully dreamy romantic comedy that Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter also revolves around and beyond the travails Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and and pratfalls of the various adult characters. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R. Sam and Suzy are a precocious pair—two by Craig Blamer gifted misfits fleeing the strictures of society and rushing into their own sweetly parodic ver- The thing to keep in mind about a movie called Moonrise sion of adulthood. He is a bespectacled orphan Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter is that there’s not Kingdom who goes AWOL from Khaki Scout camp on much gray area involved. It either sounds stupid as hell or Starring Jared the island to rendezvous with Suzy at a special like it might be a total blast. If it sounds stupid as hell to Gilman, Kara you, then it’s probably not your bag of coffin nails. And if Hayward, Bruce cove. Suzy, a talented singer and voracious Willis, Edward reader from a seriously artsy family, has a it seems like a blast, then your only hesitancy might be Norton, Bill wildly rebellious streak. that it won’t live up to the delirious promise of its comicMurray and Gradually, there emerges a sense that the book title. Frances Of course it doesn’t completely live up. How could it? McDormand. kids are innocent versions of various adults in But it mostly does. Directed by Wes their lives, while the adults in part remain chilAnderson. dren amid the challenges and disappointments The flick is goofy. The title promises as much, and the Pageant Theatre that life has brought them. But a buoyant movie delivers on that promise. But it plays the goofy and Paradise comic energy prevails even as the more bitterstraight, and as students of comedy know, that’s the best Cinema 7. Rated sweet themes weave themselves more promiway to play the goofy. PG-13. nently into the action. Here we have young Abe Lincoln (Benjamin Walker The adult roles, all cast more or less against getting his young Liam Neeson on) doing all those things type, provide ballast for the youngsters’ fanciwe know Abraham Lincoln did—like studying to be a ful love story. Bruce Willis plays the island’s lawyer and meeting Mary Todd (Mary Elizabeth Wingood-hearted police chief. Edward Norton stead) and growing a beard and freeing the slaves—but plays the faintly nerdy martinet in charge of the taking time outs in between to kill him some vampires. Poor Khaki Scouts. Frances McDormand and Bill Seems that the South back then wasn’t actually being run Murray play Suzy’s wildly flustered parents. by racist peckerwoods, but by a cabal of vampires using Tilda Swinton does a bold caricature as a child- those quislings to keep itself tippling in the blood of the protection officer who identifies herself simply slave class. (The more things change … ) Fair as “Social Services.” Seriously, going into the plot is a waste of my word But the young Gilman and Hayward are the count. The movie is called Abraham Lincoln: Vampire key players in all this. Both are perfectly suited Slayer. It’s written by the dude who brought us Pride and to the film’s central roles, and the deadpan Prejudice and Zombies (Seth Grahame-Smith) and Good directness of their respective performances is directed by the Russki who helmed the flashy vampire crucial to both the whimsy and the pathos in actioner, Night Watch (Timur Bekmambetov). Between the film’s subtly pungent brand of comedy. the two they’ve delivered a cinematic graphic novel that Very Good Plus it helps that there’s such a rich mixture makes good on its title. Sure, there are some things that of seemingly incidental detail. A hurricane is are hard to swallow. As both a lawyer and a Republican, approaching the coast. Suzy’s mom, who uses you’d expect professional courtesy to get in the way of a bullhorn to communicate with her family, has Lincoln’s agenda, but nope, he tears into those bloodExcellent a yen for Willis’ police chief. Sam occasionally sucking fiends like a boss. Ω oonrise Kingdom, the new film by Wes

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People Like Us

TV writers Alex Kurtzman and Roberto Orci (Fringe, Alias) team up (with Kurtzman directing) for this story of a young man (Chris Pine) who, after his father dies, finds himself tracking down a sister (Elizabeth Banks) he never knew he had to deliver her portion of the inheritance. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Ted

A childhood wish for a teddy bear to come to life becomes a nightmare when child and bear grow up, and the man (Mark Wahlberg) has little use for his fuzzy, foul-mouthed roommate. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Brave

Pixar’s latest animated feature tells the story of the fiery Scottish princess Merida who would rather work on her archery skills than follow tradition. Her defiance leads her on a journey that requires her to overcome her fear. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Moonrise Kingdom

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Rock of Ages

In his crazily good turn as singer Stacee Jaxx, Tom Cruise is belts out some of the biggest crap rock of the ’80s with a voice that’s some sort of blessed convergence of Axl Rose and Vince Neil. His magnificent rock act is surrounded by a movie that’s fun, but not nearly as good as him. Adapted from the Broadway play and directed by Adam Shankman (Hairspray), the plot is your typical “girl comes from a small town to make it in Hollywood” story. The paint-by-numbers plot is just a place setter for musical numbers featuring tunes by Def Leppard, Pat Benatar, Foreigner, Bon Jovi, etc. A mildly enjoyable musical goof, sort of like The Beatles Across the Universe, but with far crappier songs. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Seeking a Friend for the End of the World

Affirmations of love seem like a good thing to have on your bucket list even if the end of the world isn’t immanent. Still, making the end of the world one of the premises for a sobersided romantic comedy may increase the urgency for the would-be lovers, but it inevitably shortchanges the larger drama. So it’s no surprise that writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s oddball comedy-drama does better with “seeking a friend” than it does with the Final Days. It does manage a certain satirical bite with respect to a fatuously hedonistic society’s last wishes for itself. But that material soon runs thin, and the slowbrewing love story between solitary souls Dodge (Steve Carell) and Penny (Keira Knightley) takes precedence over everything else. Fortunately for the film’s entertainment quotient, Knightley brings a surprisingly sharp edge to her happy/sad character, and Carell shows nice, low-key dramatic chops along with his well-established gift for comic irony. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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The Avengers

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Men in Black 3

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HE WHO LAUGHS LAST, TURN OFF THE LIGHTS Tonight, June 28, at 8 p.m., will be the final

performance at the Last Stand Comedy Venue. After five spirited months of irreverent fun, owner John Ross is closing out with one last openmic hurrah at the intimate downtown space. A note on the venueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s website reads, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dear Last Stand patrons, supporters and friends. We regret to inform you that the Last Standâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s doors will be closed permanently. Thank you for all of the support â&#x20AC;Śâ&#x20AC;? AD takes his Energy Dome off to the very committed and super-sweet Ross for bringing something special to our little hick town. While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no official word yet as to the reason for the closure, if I were to hazard a guess it would be the same olâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; â&#x20AC;&#x153;Chico is too smallâ&#x20AC;? story. History has taught us that you need one of three things to survive as an arts venue here: Standing down. money from the sale of something (beer, food, picture frames or recording-studio time); nonprofit status; or a ridiculously devoted army of volunteers. If money at the door is the main revenue stream, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s going to be difficult to meet costs (overhead, paying artists) during the best of times, and when you factor in a dependence on the small percentage of arts-going Chicoans having the ability to regularly spend money in your specialized spot in addition to all the bars, clubs, galleries, theaters and cafĂŠs in town then, well, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not even funny. (Side note: Little birds have been telling AD that a semi-related local-arts institution is also feared dead. Well, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s missing at least, and concern over its well-being is high.)

GO BIG OR GO POE Turns out that local guitar savant/theater stud Loki Miller does not

mess around when he puts on a party. This Sunday, July 1, at the ARC Pavilion, Miller is hosting Know the Poe, a massive fundraiser for the upcoming San Francisco production of a musical version of The Raven (penned by his pop, Jerry Miller, and his frequent collaborator, Marcel Daguerre, and performed more than once in Chico over the years), which will open this October at the Victoria Theatre, the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;oldest operating theatreâ&#x20AC;? (since 1908). The celebration of Edgar Allan Poe is actually two parties: first, starting at noon, there will be a daytime Poe-themed festival featuring the Hop Frogâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Outdoor Carnival; The Raven Project: An Introduction to Poeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Prose & Poetry; Poe in Film (presented by CN&R film critic Craig Blamer); a comedy troupe called The Windenoughs; a Poe art contest and more. Then, in the evening, starting at 7:30 p.m., will be an epic concert featuring a wide range of local actsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;Big Mo, Lisa Marie, Danny Cohen, Doug Stein, etc.â&#x20AC;&#x201D;plus the The Raven Band (Miller, Kevin Briggs, Josh Hegg, Melinda Maxwell, Matt Hammons and Bertram Torres) playing till the midnight dreary. Keep telling yourself that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s just the wind.

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Dragons in more than 20 years, but to this day I can recall the armor-class bonus bestowed by a suit of elven chainmail and by Ken Smith how many hit dice an ogre has. kens@ newsreview.com I’d bet my bottom gold piece that the members of Bay Area band Glitter Wizard can, too. REVIEW: Glitter Wizard, The After witnessing Pushers and Dirty their siege on Filthy Mugs at Monstros Pizza Monstros last week (June Wednesday, 20), I’m fairly June 20. certain the necesMonstros Pizza sary prerequisites 628 W. Sacramento to join the band Ave. include a workwww.facebook.com ing knowledge of /monstrospizza the Monster Manual, a wicked sense of humor and the ability to shred like a 20thlevel barbarian armed with a vorpal Gibson SG. It was quite a scene at Monstros for a mid-week show; the Pyrate Punx, late returned and fired up from their yearly retreat to Libertatia, were in full force, as were a fair amount of Chico scenesters. There was even a mohawked tyke named Paul slipping in and out of the crowd and getting his rock fix at the all-ages show. I quit playing D&D around the

same time I started hanging out at shows and spending my dice and graph paper money on 40s of

Mickey’s, and there’s something about Monstros shows that takes me back to that time. It’s like I’m 14 again, hanging outside the Plumbers Union Hall in Redding and waiting to see some random metal or punk band. It’s a great feeling, sentimental reminiscence coupled with a sense of excitement for the next generation living something similar to the best moments of my proudly misspent youth. The Pushers—the latest in a string of Chico bands fronted by Cody K (aka Cody Que or Cody Von Peligro K)—has been active for about a year and features a great lineup, with Katie Kelley, Tom Little, Joshton Woodpond and the indomitable Steve Bragg. Unfortunately, I ran late and missed most of their set, but I loved the last two songs and intend to see the whole shebang at the earliest possible opportunity. Next up, Dirty Filthy Mugs clocked in a set of sweet and burly street punk. The Los Angelesbased band does this well; 1-2-3-4 punching punk combinations with big anthemic choruses. In honor of their excellent showing, and anticipating the night’s main event, I drank many PBRs for the working class, and was thankful I didn’t have to work the next morning. I was spurred to go see Glitter

Wizard by my buddy, Chad, who lives in San Francisco now and was one helluva Dungeon Master back in the day. I spent more time listening to Sabbath and slaying dragons with that dude than anyone, and we made the transition

from spending Saturdays rolling dice to being rock-’n’-roll delinquents together. I respect the guy’s opinion when it comes to rock ’n’ roll and all things dorky and told him I’d go. “And thus, you will be stoked,” he replied. I was not disappointed. In a world full of mediocre musicians who take themselves too seriously, it’s refreshing to see an act with a sense of humor. All the band members adopt stage names—Wendy Stonehenge (aka former Chico rocker Micah Warren of Dik Diks and Stars Upon Thars fame), Doug Graves, Lorfin Terrafor, Kandi Moon, Fancy Cymballs—and a style that’s part glam-rock retro, part Ren Faire. It was as if they’d raided Marc Bolan’s closet and had the clothes altered to fit normal-size folks (Bolan, the spawn of a human and a sprite, was about 3-foot-6). I believe the bass player is an Elf, albeit a tall one. And they have a lot of hair. Not to say it’s all style and no substance; Glitter Wizard rocks. Wailing guitars, moody organs, vocals like valkyries screaming to Valhalla. The music is equal parts Spinal Tap and Black Sabbath with a healthy knowledge of more esoteric acts like Hawkwind and Blue Cheer worked in. It’s psych-fueled fantasy metal at its finest delivered by some pretty boss dudes. These aren’t the kinda D&D dorks you made fun of on the bus. They’re the type of D&D dorks you’d be well advised to lock your daughters away from next time their adventures bring them this way. Mighty Wizards, indeed. Ω

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Dave and Tommy Malone, two of Louisiana’s greatest guitarist-singer-songwriters, have joined forces to form one of the most exciting new lineups in American music. Both men have spent most of their adult lives in legendary bands, but when Dave’s band “The Radiators” called it quits in June of 2011 and Tommy’s band “The Subdudes” decided to go on hiatus, the stage was set for the long awaited Malone Brothers band. The brothers are both superb accompanists as well as leaders, making their trade-off even more exciting. Separately and together they have written numerous great songs recorded by their own bands and other world famous musicians and are revered for their guitaristic excellence. The combination is a musical experience that fans of both men have wanted to hear for years. Get your tickets early cause the dance floor is open.

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THURSDAY 6|28—WEDNESDAY 7|4

29FRIDAY

THE ROCK HOUNDS: Live classic rock and

GRANT FARM: A unique blend of indie

AFTERNOON BLOOM

rock, country and disco. F, 6/29, 8pm. Free. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

Tonight, June 28 LaSalles

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

SEE THURSDAY

JOHN TRENALONE: Jazz and Broadway food, raffle prizes and a bounce house for the little ones. Th, 6/28, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011.

28THURSDAY AFTERNOON BLOOM: Mellow acoustic goodness with Karen Joy Brown, Aaron Lyon & Kim Ketner. Th, 6/28, 69pm. $3. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

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.

CONCERT IN THE PARK: The weekly series continues as Rippin’ Fifths rocks some serious socks. Festivities will include

JOHN SEID: John Seid and friends, featuring Larry Peterson and Steve Cook playing an eclectic mix of tunes all night. Th, 6:30-9:30pm. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestaurant.com.

standards. F, 6:30-8:30pm through 10/26. Free. Johnnie’s Restaurant; 220 W. Fourth St. inside Hotel Diamond; (530) 895-1515; www.johnniesrestau rant.com.

MIDNIGHT RIDERS: A cover band with a

repertoire of crowd-pleasing hits. F, 6/29, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

NORTHERN HEAT: Live southern rock. F,

6/29, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.

CANNON & LION OF JUDAH: Rootsy,

golden-age reggae. Th, 6/28, 9pm. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical guitarist Matteo plays film scores and light classics. Th, 6pm. Free. Angelos Cucina Trinacria; 407 Walnut St.; (530) 899-9996.

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

ROBBIE WALDEN & THE GUN SLINGER: Live

country originals. F, 6/29, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

TEEPH IS BACK!: A welcome-home show

for touring noisemakers Teeph. Master Lady and Lish Bills open. F, 6/29, 8pm. $5. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave., (530) 566-9476, www.cafecoda.com.

blues in the lounge. F, 6/29, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: A three-day music festival with local and international artists–including Dylan’s Dharma, The Resonators, Alli Battaglia and many more. Festivities include late night DJs, purification lodges, native singing and dancing, a kiddy village, workshops, vendors and more. All proceeds go to charities and education programs. Go online for a complete lineup. 6/29-7/1. $20-$60. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

ROBBIE WALDEN & THE GUN SLINGER: Live country originals. Sa, 6/30, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

THE ROCK HOUNDS: Live classic rock and blues in the lounge. Sa, 6/30, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.

ROCKIN’ DOWN THE HIGHWAY: A Doobie

Brothers tribute band. Sa, 6/30, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com

WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: See Friday. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

30SATURDAY HABITAT FOR HUMANITY BENEFIT CONCERT: Eighteen amateur, student and professional musicians from the North State share the stage to benefit the building of a home. Sa, 6/30, 7:30pm. $7-$10. CUSD Center for the Arts; 1475 East Ave. corner of East and Ceanothus; (530) 891-3050; http://chicotix.com.

1SUNDAY FUNKY KINGS: Live blues rock on the

patio. Su, 7/1, 2-6pm. no cover. Park Avenue Bar & Grill; 2010 Park Ave.; (530) 893-3500; www.parkavepub.net.

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

LEFTOVER SALMON: A “progressive folk” band with bluegrass, Cajun, funk, southern rock, boogie, Caribbean, Latin and jazz influences. Su, 7/1, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room; 1075 East 20th St.; (530) 3452739; www.sierranevada.com/bigroom.

WILD MOUNTAIN FAIRE: See Friday. Lake Concow Campground, 12967 Concow Rd. in Oroville, (530) 518-4531, www.wildmountainfaire.com.

CANNON & LION OF JUDAH

LONELY KINGS: Live music. Sa, 6/30, 9pm. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 8911853.

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NORTHERN HEAT: Live southern rock. Sa,

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THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24 DUFFY’S: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.

ROCKIN’ DOWN THE HIGHWAY

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

Saturday, June 30 Feather Falls Brewing Co.

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

SEE SATURDAY

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

11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229

Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.my space.com/theitaliangarden.

SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the

2MONDAY DINNER & JAZZ SERIES: Featuring the music of Charlie Parker, a driving force in the creation of Bebop and an innovative improvisational talent. First M of every month, 7-8:30pm. $10. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

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

Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

Robinson. W, 4-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

DON SHERIDAN: Jazz keyboard. Tu, 5-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

SWING DANCE WEDNESDAY: Every Wednesday night, swing dancing lessons 8-10pm. W, 8-10pm. Free. Crazy Horse Saloon & Brewery; 303 Main St.; (530) 894-5408.

MOLLY’S FAVORITES: Traditional Irish

music, open-jam style. First Tu of every month, 5-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveat flo.weebly.com.

JAZZ HAPPY HOUR: Carey Robinson hosts a jazz happy hour every Monday. M, 57pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.

3TUESDAY

SOLO JAZZ: Every Wednesday with Carey

4WEDNESDAY

AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-

writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the

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LOST ON MAIN: Best and latest reggae

and dancehall. Th, 9pm through 8/23. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

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

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

TACKLE BOX: DJ Shelley. Tu, Su, 6pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 East Park Ave., (530) 345-7499.

KARAOKE CRAZY HORSE: All-request karaoke. Tu,

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

FEATHER FALLS: Tu, 7-11pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.featherfalls casino.com.

KINGS TAVERN: M, Tu, 8pm. Free. Kings Tavern, 5771 Clark Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-7100.

LASALLES: Su, 9pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

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

LOST ON MAIN: A brand-new

electronic DJ crew. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. $3. Lost on Main; 319

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

Main St.; (949) 891-3729.

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

MADISON BEAR: Dancing

upstairs and on the patio. WSa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 891-1639, www.madisonbear garden.com.

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

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

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

DJ DANCING CRAZY HORSE: DJ Hot Rod and mechani-

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

OPEN JAM NIGHT: Join the jam. Drum kit, bass rig, guitar amp and PA system are provided, bring your own instruments. All ages until 10. W, 7pm. Free. Italian Garden; 6929 Skyway in

Broadway St., (530) 893-1891.

MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance party

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

AARON JAQUA Tuesday, July 3 Café FLO

STUDIO INN: With Brandon Hightower. Tu,

9pm-1am. Studio Cocktail Lounge, 2582

SEE TUESDAY

Esplanade, (530) 343-0662.

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

TORTILLA FLATS: Karaoke en Espanol. Su, 8-midnight. Free. Tortilla Flats, 2601

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

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8 Delaware Dr 1286 Howard Dr 6 Brittany Ln 1204 Whitewood Way 48 Birdwing Ct 3374 Canyon Oaks Ter 1 Lily Way 3178 Wood Creek Dr 101 Benson Ter 106 Antler Dr 9793 Esquon Rd

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of June 11, 2012 — June 15, 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. ADDRESS

2355 Serviss St 4420 Woodrose Dr 960 St Clair Dr 926 Dias Dr 15 Chattswood Ct 2271 Moyer Way 1301 Greenwich Dr 1468 Filbert Ave 297 Wild Rose Cir 6371 Forest Ln 6336 Diamond Ave

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Durham Butte Valley Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Paradise Paradise

$140,000 $310,000 $230,000 $320,000 $155,000 $215,000 $176,000 $227,000 $415,000 $125,000 $190,000

3/ 1 3/ 2 4/ 1.5 3/ 2.5 2/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 1 3/ 2.5 3/ 2 3/ 2

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1372 2270 1518 2249 1034 1252 1220 1403 2447 1654 1650

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13458 Achilles Ct 1155 Ida Lin Way 5565 Foland Rd 14630 Lafayette Cir 6246 Ponderosa Way 14335 Troy Way 6486 Grandview Ave 14859 Northwood Dr 11221 Holiday Dr 145 Greenbank Ave

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Magalia Paradise Paradise Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia Clipper Mills Oroville

$120,500 $120,000 $131,000 $125,500 $127,000 $199,000 $107,000 $112,500 $110,000 $150,000

2/ 2.5 2/ 1 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 2 2/ 2.5 2/ 2 3/ 2 3/ 3

1753 1278 1555 1823 1605 1728 1496 1152 1510 1651

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WESTERN PACIFIC CAFE AND CATERING at 2191 High St. Oroville, Ca 95966. AMANDA CORONA, 2925 S Villa Ave. Oroville, CA 95966. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: AMANDA CORONA Dated: May 8, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000707 Published: May 17,24,31, June 7, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as L2 SPORTS CARDS AND MEMORABILIA at 2711 Lowell Dr. Chico, CA 95973. LANCE HARLAN LOPER, 2711 Lowell Dr. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: LANCE LOPER Dated: May 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000666 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WINTER CONSULTING at 975 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926. SCOTT STERLING WINTER, 975 Filbert Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: SCOTT WINTER Dated: April 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000659 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE OVAL CHEVRON, BLUE OVAL FOODMART at 1025 Nord Ave. Chico, CA 95926. GURINDER SHILLON 1865 Rose River Ave. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: GURINDER DHILLON Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000791 Published: June 7,14,21,28 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BASKIN ROBBINS OF CHICO, BASKIN ROBBINS ON MANGROVE at 668 Mangrove Ave. Chico, CA 95926. GURINDER S DHILLON, 1865 Rose River Ave. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: GURINDER DHILLON Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000792 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SYNERGY HEALTH AND WELLNESS at 225 Main St. Suite M, Chico, CA 95926. TAMARA STOVER, 713 Grand Teton Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: TAMARA A STOVER Dated: May 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000720 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HANDOZER DISTRIBUTING at 2954 Hwy 32 #1300, Chico, CA 95973. MIKE T GROSBERG, 3168 Aloha Lane, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: MIKE GROSBERG Dated: May 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000777 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HITSVILLE DEVELOPMENT at 125 W 3rd St. #250, Chico, CA 95928. CHRISTOPHER MORRIS, 706 Parkwood Dr. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Christopher Morris Dated: June 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000847 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012

This business was conducted by an individual. Signed: DAN TORRES Dated: June 1, 2012 FBN Number: 2010-0000993 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CONSONANTS AND VOWELS RECORDINGS at 11 Cloud Ct. Chico, CA 95928. ROBIN ALISE BACIOR, 1364 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926. JILLIAN ROSE PUTNAM-SMITH 2450 Maxwell Ave. Oakland, CA 94601. This business was conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: Jillian Putnam-Smith Dated: May 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2011-0000019 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRISM at 1435 Arbutus Ave. Chico, CA 95926. CHRISTIAN SPENCER, 1435 Arbutus Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: CHRISTIAN SPENCER Dated: April 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000644 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MOUNTAIN SPIRIT YOGA at 16713 Catalyst Way Forest Ranch, CA 95942. NAN ELIZABETH CLUTE, 16713 Catalyst Way, Chico, CA 95942. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: NAN CLUTE Dated: April 3, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000516 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIGTASIA OLD WORLD FRUITS at 379 Stilson Canyon Rd. Chico, CA 95928. CHRISTY LOU STRAUCH, JAMES E STRAUCH, 379 Stilson Canyon Rd. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: JAMES E STRAUCH Dated: June 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000821 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YOGANICALLY, YOGANICALLY GROWN at 1390 E 9th St. #130, Chico, CA 95928. KRISTIANA DELCARLO LOPEZ, 846 Coit Tower Way, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: KRISTIANA D LOPEZ Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000788 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 12 VOLT TATTOO at 194 E 8th St. Chico, CA 95928. KAREN ACKER, ZACHARY ACKER, 730 Picaso Lane, Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: ZACHARY ACKER Dated: June 6, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000832 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICOICHI RAMEN at 243 W 9th St. Chico, CA 95928. WATANABE HILLS INC, 180 Honey Run Rd. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: REIKO WATANABE Dated: June 5, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000819 Published: June 14,21,28, July 5, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name WEEKEND WEARHOUSE at 225 Main St. Suite T, Chico, CA 95928. DAN TORRES, 3148 Coronado Rd. Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TIGER LILLY PRODUCTIONS at 1390 E 9th St. #130, Chico, CA 95928. Kristiana Delcarlo Lopez, 846 Coit Tower Way, Chico, CA 95928. Christine Louise Macshane, 1964 Zachary Ct. Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: KRISTIANA D LOPEZ Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000787 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PURE JUJU at 40 Jillian Lane #1, Chico, CA 95973. AMY BENITEZ, 40 Jillian Lane #1, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: AMY BENITEZ Dated: June 7, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000837 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as KAIA FIT CHICO at 2700 Hegan Lane, #106, Chico, CA 95928. LAURA C GILMORE, 75 Skymountain Circle, Chico CA 95928. This business is

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conducted by an individual. Signed: LAURA C GILMORE Dated: May 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000776 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as A SECOND LOOK at 5810 Pentz Rd. Paradise, CA 95969. ANNE RUSSELL, 5810 Pentz Rd. Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: ANNE RUSSELL Dated: May 29, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000798 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PCMD PC TREATMENT CENTER at 2117 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926. NICOLETTE BATTENFIELD, 355 E Lassen Ave. #5, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Nicolette Battenfield Dated: May 25, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000782 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DOMENICS SEPTIC SERVICE at 12360 Meridan Rd. Chico, Ca 95973. ROBERT PERKINS, 12360 Meridan Rd. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: ROBERT E PERKINS Dated: June 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000899 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KOKORO UNIVERSAL MARTIAL ARTS at 2145 Park Ave. #1, Chico, CA 95928. KOKORO UNIVERSAL MARTIAL ARTS INC, 9 Keystone Ct. Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: KEVIN D ATKINSON Dated: June 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000871 Published: June 21,28, JUly 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHOW LOVE THRIFT SHOP at 1405 Park Ave. Chico, CA 95928. TERRI LEE BLESSING, 933 Benson Dr. Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: TERRI BLESSING Dated: May 30, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000802 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 962 East Ave. Chico, CA 95926. RIVER VALLEY ENTERPRISES INC, 2565 Zanella Way, Suite C, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Dated: June 13, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000885 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STAR

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STUDIO’S at 1224 Mangrove Ave. #10, Chico, CA 95926. DONNA BRISTOL, WESLEY BLAKE BRISTON, 13735 Nimshew Rd. Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: WESLEY BRISTOL Dated: June 22, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000934 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons is doing business as JG PAINTING at 6038 A Clark, #149, Paradise, CA 95969. JAMES GOULARTE, 6038 A Clark #149, Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: JAMES GOULARTE Dated: June 20, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000913 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HONEYBEE LANDSCAPING at 1584 Rue Francais, Chico, CA 95973. MICHAEL E CHILDS, 1548 Rue Francais, Chico, Ca 95973. JAIME PASILLAS, 669 El Verano Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MICHAEL CHILDS Dated: June 12, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000881 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2012

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DAN JAMES COOK TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DAN JAMES COOK A Petition for Probate has been filed by: BOBBIE NELL COOK in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: Michael W. Murasko 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: July 12, 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

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appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Case Number: PR Attorney for petitioner: Richard S. Matson 1342 Esplanade Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530)343-5373 Published: June 14,21,28, 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: MALIA LAMPKIN, dressers, mattresses, boxes, chair, table, tote, back-packs. VIDAL ROJAS, desk, bed frame, chairs, boxes, clothes. To the highest bidder on: July 7, 2012 Beginning at 12:00pm. Sale to be held at: Extra Storage, 2298 Park Ave. Chico, Ca 95928. Published: June 21,28, 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: TIFFNY SMITH, xmas decor, household items, home repair items. MIKE SHERNICK, tool chest, washer/dryer, fridge, kitchen table set, misc furniture. DAVID DRAKE, holiday decor, washer/dryer, pool cues, large storage bins. MATT ROSSETTA, electric dryer,desk w/chair, telescope, misc. electronics ROSA SALINAS, love seat, dresser, dryer, coffee table. To the highest bidder on: July 7, 2012 Beginning at 1:00pm Sale to be held at: Extra Storage 3160 Olive Hwy, Oroville, CA 95966 Published: June 21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BOB YANG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BOB YANG Proposed name: GEORGE W. YOUNG 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

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for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 20, 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: May 22, 2012 Case Number: 156826 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JENELLE LYNN POSPISIL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JENELLE LYNN POSPISIL Proposed name: SOPHIA LYNN RIVERS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 27, 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: May 22, 2012 Case Number: 156962 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LEAH HOPSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: Abenie Kaitlyn Lenee Hopson Proposed name: Abenie Kaitlyn Lenee Derose THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 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: May 21, 2012 Case Number: 156819 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner DAVID HALPAINY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DAVID HALPAINY Proposed name: DAVID KELLY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 20, 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: May 21, 2012 Case Number: 156134 Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ELIZABETH GREGG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GABRIELLA ROSE KUMOR Proposed name: GABRIELLA ROSE GREGG THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 10, 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: June 12, 2012 Case Number: 156798 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LEIGH DANIELLE GRAVETTE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LEIGH DANIELLE GRAVETTE Proposed name: LEIGH DANIELLE YOUNG 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 objec-

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IT’S WORTH THE DRIVE! tion that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 3, 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: June 12, 2012 Case Number: 157017 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2012

SUMMONS CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 CHILDS NAME: DGD Case Numbers: J-35568

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To: CHAD RISER and anyone claiming to be a parent of DGD born on September 21, 2001 at Enloe Hospital, Chico, CA. A hearing will be held: Date: August 23, 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

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parental rights, the order may be final. The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present. Dated: May 25, 2012 Signed: Kimberly Flener Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: MARCELLA E MASTELLER aka MARCELLA WOOD, aka MARCELLA E EDENS, aka MARCY MASTELLER, aka MARCY EDENS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU, A CORP. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below. You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper

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legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court. There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local

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court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. The name and address of the court is: SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF BUTTE, 655 Oleander Avenue, Chico, CA 95926 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: Alfred W Driscol III 1339 The Esplanade Chico, CA 95926 (530)345-8472 Dated: October 21, 2011 Signed: Kimberly Flener Case Number: 155003 NOTICE TO THE PERSON SERVED: You are served as an individual defendant. As the person sued under the fictitious name of: aka MARCELLA WOOD, aka MARCELLA E EDENS, aka MARCY MASTELLER, aka MARCY EDENS. Published: June 7,14,21,28, 2012

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): If

you play solitaire, your luck will be crazy strong in the coming weeks. If you have candid, wide-ranging talks with yourself in the mirror, the revelations are likely to be as interesting as if you had spoken directly with the river god or the angel of the sunrise. Taking long walks alone could lead to useful surprises, and so would crafting a new declaration of independence for yourself. It’ll also be an excellent time to expand your skills at giving yourself pleasure. Please understand that I’m not advising you to be isolated and lonely. I merely want to emphasize the point that you’re due for some breakthroughs in your relationship with yourself.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Are you in

possession of a talent or interest or inclination or desire that no one else has? Is there some unique way you express what it means to be human? According to my understanding of the long-term astrological omens, the coming months will be your time to cultivate this specialty with unprecedented intensity; it’ll be a window of opportunity to be more practical than ever before in making your signature mark on the world. Between now and your next birthday, I urge you to be persistent in celebrating the one-of-a-kind truth that is your individuality.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): “Message in a

bottle” is not just a pirate movie cliche. It’s a form of communication that has been used throughout history for serious purposes. England’s Queen Elizabeth I even appointed an official “Uncorker of Ocean Bottles.” And as recently as 2005, a message in a bottle saved the lives of 88 refugees adrift in the Caribbean Sea on a damaged boat. Glass, it turns out, is an excellent container for carrying sea-born dispatches. It lasts a long time and can even survive hurricanes. In accordance with the astrological omens, I nominate “message in a bottle” to be your metaphor for the rest of 2012. Here’s one way to apply this theme: Create a message you’d like to send to the person you will be in five years, perhaps a declaration of what your highest aspirations will be between now and then. Write it on paper and stash it in a bottle. Store this time capsule in a place you won’t forget, and open it in 2017.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Every 10,000

years or so, reports the Weekly World News, hell actually does freeze over. A rare storm brings a massive amount of snow and ice to the infernal regions, and even the Lake of Fire looks like a glacier. “Satan himself was seen wearing earmuffs and making a snowman,” the story says about the last time it happened. I foresee a hell-freezes-over type of event happening for you in the coming months, Cancerian—and I mean that in a good way. The seemingly impossible will become possible; what’s lost will be found and what’s bent will be made straight; the lion will lie down not only with the lamb but also with the sasquatch. For best results, be ready to shed your expectations at a moment’s notice.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “In purely spiritual

matters, God grants all desires,” said philosopher and activist Simone Weil. “Those who have less have asked for less.” I think this is a worthy hypothesis for you to try out in the next nine months, Leo. To be clear: It doesn’t necessarily mean you will get a dream job and perfect lover and ten million dollars. (Although I’m not ruling that out.) What it does suggest is this: You can have any relationship with the Divine Wow that you dare to imagine; you can get all the grace you need to understand why your life is the way it is; you can make tremendous progress as you do the life-long work of liberating yourself from your suffering.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): A plain old ordi-

nary leap of faith might not be ambitious enough for you in the coming months, Virgo. I suspect your potential is more robust than that, more primed for audacity. How would you feel about attempting a quantum leap of faith? Here’s what I mean by that: a soaring

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “The dream

which is not fed with dream disappears,” said writer Antonio Porchia. Ain’t that the truth! Especially for you right now. These last few months, you’ve been pretty good at attending to the details of your big dreams. You’ve taken the practical approach and done the hard work. But beginning any moment, it will be time for you to refresh your big dreams with an infusion of fantasies and brainstorms. You need to return to the source of your excitement and feed it and feed it and feed it.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): A Chinese

businessman named Hu Xilin is the champion fly-killer of the world. Ever since one of the buzzing pests offended him at the dinner table back in 1997, he has made it his mission to fight back. He says he has exterminated more than ten million of the enemy with his patented “Fly Slayer” machine. And oh by the way, his obsession has made him a millionaire. It’s possible, Scorpio, that your story during the second half of 2012 will have elements in common with Hu Xilin’s. Is there any bad influence you could work to minimize or undo in such a way that it might ultimately earn you perks and prizes—or at least deep satisfaction?

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

From the 14th through the 18th centuries, many towns in England observed a curious custom. If a couple could prove that they had gone a year and a day without ever once being sorry they got married, the two of them would receive an award: a side of cured pork, known as a flitch of bacon. Alas, the prize was rarely claimed. If this practice were still in effect, you Sagittarians would have an elevated chance of bringing home the bacon in the coming months. Your ability to create harmony and mutual respect in an intimate relationship will be much higher than usual.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): “If I had my life to live over,” said Nadine Stair at age 85, “I would perhaps have more actual problems, but I’d have fewer imaginary ones.” I suggest you write out that quote, Capricorn, and keep it close to you for the next six months. Your task, as I see it, will be to train yourself so you can expertly distinguish actual problems from imaginary ones. Part of your work, of course, will be to get in the habit of immediately ejecting any of the imaginary kind the moment you notice them creeping up on you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Astronomer Percival Lowell (1855-1916) was instrumental in laying the groundwork that led to the discovery of Pluto. He was a visionary pioneer who helped change our conception of the solar system. But he also put forth a wacky notion or two. Among the most notable: He declared, against a great deal of contrary evidence, that the planet Mars was laced with canals. You have the potential be a bit like him in the coming months, Aquarius: mostly a wellspring of innovation but sometimes a source of errant theories. What can you do to ensure that the errant theories have minimal effect? Be humble and ask for feedback.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Throughout

the 16th century and even beyond, European explorers trekked through the New World hunting for the mythical land of El Dorado: the Lost City of Gold. The precious metal was supposedly so abundant there that it was even used to make children’s toys. The quest was ultimately futile, although it led the explorers to stumble upon lesser treasures of practical value—the potato, for example. After being brought over to Europe from South America, it became a staple food. I’m foreseeing a comparable progression in your own world during the coming months: You may not locate the gold, but you’ll find the equivalent of the potato.

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One of the newest vendors at the Thursday Night Market is Oliver Wong, a Chico High alumnus who recently returned to his hometown to pursue a career in the food industry. He spent a year at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., and a semester at Columbia University in New York City before deciding a liberal-arts degree and the added stress and expenses of college wouldn’t help him with his business ideas. This summer, Wong debuted Spoons, which he describes as a “unique and artful take on ice cream.” His customers will have to wait to purchase his ice cream, since he’s currently waiting to obtain a dairy manufacturing license. In the meantime, he’s selling sorbet and non-dairy “ices.”

What’s it like being an entrepreneur?

mac ’n’ cheese, ice cream.

How is your ice cream different? My ice cream is almost 100 percent organic. The dairy I’m using is organic, the eggs, and I’m buying my ingredients from local sources when I can. Not all of the ingredients are organic, like vanilla is through the roof because it’s from other countries so it’s so expensive. Then I’m making specialty flavors and the idea is they’re all things you wouldn’t be able to get from any other places in Chico. I have Chico themed flavors, like I’m using Chico Chai.

A lot of work, a lot of stress. You really have to want it because there are always things coming up; road blocks, red tape that you have to fight through. I had no idea I would have to buy this [complicated and expensive] machinery just to have a commercial-grade ice cream machine.

And there are no low-fat or sugar-free options?

Why ice cream?

How do you envision Spoons growing?

I knew that Chico didn’t have a specialty gourmet ice cream. I always liked going to those places in the Bay Area, and when I was thinking what kind of a food place I was interested in, I came back to comfort food like pot pies,

Eventually I’d like it to be more than ice cream, with the comfort food idea, but in the short term the first thing is to get the kitchen approved for ice cream, and the next thing might be ice cream sandwiches or sundaes.

It’s my opinion that desserts are a treat, not a meal. It should be a small, really intense, really good flavored scoop. You shouldn’t be eating a whole bowl of ice cream, you should just have a scoop, and as long as you’re eating it as a treat, you’ll be fine.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Cheers I recently saw a moment in a sitcom when I wanted to cheer. A thoroughly obnoxious character was ragging a surgeon about a failed love affair in the middle of an operation. After the last suture, the surgeon stabbed the guy in the arm, which was about what he deserved—major pain, though not life-threatening. Yes! I don’t think much of group punishment, but individual punishment makes a little sense to me, as long as we’re willing to take the heat, or the karma, if you prefer. I like it that the surgeon didn’t complain to the hospital administration, and he didn’t call a cop. He stabbed the guy, and I approve of this action. In the surgeon’s position I wouldn’t have stabbed the asshole, I don’t think. If I had a scalpel right there in my hand, it could easily have been a different story, but I’d like to think I wouldn’t stab him. I’d like to think I’d be mindful of his insecurity and isolation and loneliness and could feel compassion for his plight. That’s what I’d like to think. What I actually think is that I could ignore him, whether or not I could find my compassion, which is always right here somewhere. Also, I might stab him. Here’s another cheering moment. A long time ago I was lounging around the pool at my apartment when a woman who lived in my building showed up with her son, who lived there, and her younger sister, who didn’t.

This younger sister was in mid-adolescence and couldn’t have been more full of herself. She was visiting her real-life-model sister at her fashionable highrise apartment and hanging out at the swimming pool that was for residents only. The sister’s nephew was less impressed with their situation than she, and she ragged him about where he could be in the pool and how to enter it and how important it was not to run especially since there was no lifeguard and he just ate not long ago, and so on like that, whatever she could think of. That kind of thing is hard for me to watch, so I ignored them, which I’m usually quite good at, but not always. Then the sister strolled around the pool like she had just invented hips and was taking the prototypes out for a test run. As she paused to pose by the steps her nephew was suddenly there, and he pushed her in. I don’t mean to imply that the nephew appeared from nowhere and pushed her into the pool. No. Being part dog, I didn’t notice his approach because I was carefully examining the test run of his aunt’s new hips and registering my appreciation of her achievement. I seem to be hard-wired. Still, as soon as I realized that the lad had thrown off his mental chains and pushed his pain-in-the-ass aunt into the pool, I applauded and went over and shook his hand, which seemed to please him to no end. That was nearly 40 years ago, and I still remember his courage. I wonder if he does. June 28, 2012

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