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A powerful voice silenced JGermany on July 20. He was 71. He was born in Scotland, grew up in Ireland but settled in Petrolia, Calif. His
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father, novelist Claud Cockburn, penned the novel Beat the Devil, which was made into a movie starring Humphrey Bogart. Alex adopted the title for his column in The Nation. I met him when I was assigned to cart him around before his lecture at Chico State in the early ’90s. Alioune Fame, then-director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center, had brought him here. Cockburn said the center, then located at Seventh and Flume streets, was the biggest by “P&J” building he’d ever visited. He’d Tom Haithcock seen a few, tucked into the corners of communities he’d visit in support of antiThe author is a war efforts and environmentalism. Fame, former coordinator of by the way, is mentioned in Cockburn’s the Chico Peace & book, The Golden Age Is in Us. Justice Center and Cockburn graduated from Oxford but former executive never studied journalism. Still, he’ll be director of the Chico Creek Nature Center. remembered as one of the most knowledgeable and uncompromising writers He’s also a local musician. and critics in that profession. He was a columnist for The Nation, edited Counterpunch with Jeffrey St. Clair, wrote for The Village Voice and The Wall Street Journal, and authored several books. He also wrote for the Anderson Valley Advertiser, out of Boonville. Former Edi4 CN&R August 9, 2012
tor Bruce Anderson’s recent appreciation notes that Cockburn wrote perfect first drafts, and quickly. His caustic wit set him apart from other political writers. Though to some he embodied the quintessential left, he skewered players from across the political spectrum with an illuminating disdain for hypocrisy, corruption and greed. His jousts with writer Christopher Hitchens and others were well known, but the challenges he offered rivals led to a greater understanding of the issues for the reader. I last saw Cockburn on C-Span with Brian Lamb. For more than two hours he eloquently responded to questions from the host and callers, some of whom unjustly attacked him as an anti-Semite. He quieted them with reasoning that undermined the premise of their accusations. He never sugarcoated his views on the Israeli government’s treatment of Palestinians, but that does not an anti-Semite make. One Chico activist said to me she felt like she’d lost a friend even though she didn’t know Cockburn. She isn’t alone. “He brought clarity,” writes Anderson. Indeed he did. Here’s to you, Alex! I think I’ll hold onto my dusty Nation magazines a little longer now in case I need a laugh or a lesson from you. Ω
painfully obvious that America’s largest banks and investment firms had indulged in an orgy of wild betting on sliced-and-diced unsecured subprime mortgages and, suddenly leveraged beyond any ability to cover their losses, were on the verge of collapse. Because these financial behemoths were “too big to fail” without taking the rest of the economy down with them—with consequences too dire even to imagine—taxpayers had to bail them out. With that, the United States entered its worst recession since the Great Depression. More than 8 million people lost their jobs, the housing market crashed and burned, millions lost their homes to foreclosure, other homeowners lost as much as 40 percent of their equity, tax-starved states began to shred the social safety net and cut spending to the bone, and unemployment soared. There was a lot of angry talk about coming down hard on the banks, but by the time the Dodd-Frank reform bill got through Congress, past the army of deep-pocketed Wall Street lobbyists working to derail it, it had been diluted down significantly, and the banks happily went back to their old, corrupt ways. This July, for example, we discovered that the global bank HSBC has been used by Mexican drug cartels to get cash back into the United States, by Saudi Arabian banks with terrorist ties needing access to dollars, and by Iranians seeking to circumvent UN sanctions. Then, in July, we learned of the Libor scandal, in which officials at Barclays and, allegedly, other banks including JPMorgan Chase, Bank of America and Citigroup were colluding to manipulate interest rates and then betting against them—the ultimate in insider trading, in this case involving trillions of customers’ dollars. Later that month, the Los Angeles Times reported that the California Independent System Operator, a state-managed nonprofit that runs 80 percent of the state’s electrical transmission system, had charged JPMorgan Chase with illegally gaming the California energy market for its own profit and at a cost to consumers of at least $100 million and perhaps $200 million or more. This is the same JPMorgan Chase that in May was reported to have lost as much as $6 billion of customers’ money making bad bets on credit derivatives. Since then, the bank has lost another $20 billion in shareholder value as its stock price has plummeted. What (or who) will it take to convince Congress that Wall Street desperately needs reform, even restructuring? How about Sandy Weill, the man who pretty much created the “too big to fail” phenomenon? It was Weill, then head of Citibank, who was behind its merger with Travelers and Salomon Brothers to create Citigroup, the first great TBTF outfit—and one that ended up taking $45 billion in TARP money. It was the Citigroup merger, remember, that pushed Congress into abolishing Glass-Steagall, the 1933 bill prohibiting commercial banks (like Citibank) from acting like investment banks (like Salomon Brothers) and using customers’ savings to engage in the kind of high-risk betting that led to Wall Street’s crash. Now Weill is calling for TBTF banks to be broken up. “I’m suggesting,” he said during a recent live interview on CNBC, “that they be broken up so that the taxpayer will never be at risk. … What we should probably do is split up investment banking from banking.” It was a shocking comment, given the source, but it was exactly what reformers, including Rep. Barney Frank, co-author of Dodd-Frank, have been saying for years: Banks should not be able to make risky bets with customers’ savings funds, and no bank should be too big to fail. If Sandy Weill, of all people, understands this, Congress should as well. Ω
“What (or who) will it take to convince Congress that Wall Street desperately needs reform, even restructuring?”
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Gore Vidal in Chico News last week that writer Gore Vidal had died, at the age of 86, brought back memories of the time, 30 years ago, when he visited Chico, staying a couple of days and making himself remarkably available to local folks. He was at the height of his powers then; two of his great historical novels, Burr and 1876, had come out and been bestsellers, and the third, Lincoln, was on its way. Vidal had become the quintessential American man of letters. Why he’d agreed to spend two full days schmoozing with the good burghers of Chico was a mystery. This was in mid-February, and word was that he was planning a run against Gov. Jerry Brown in the June primary for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senate. Asked at one point whether he was running, he quipped, “I’m hardly standing still.” Some of us surmised that he was inoculating himself against the ordeal of campaigning among the hoi-polloi. But that was before we saw him in action, “scattering about his pungent observations and insightful drolleries with Attic elegance,” as I later wrote. “In Chico, these were by no means pearls cast before swine,” I continued. “If at times Vidal seemed to overwhelm his listeners, even—through no fault of his own— intimidate them, it mattered not. They may have been slightly awestruck, but they knew what they wanted to know. So for two days they asked this visiting luminary, this raconteur of café society in the global village, the questions that most concerned them—questions about war and peace, about people and nations, about this country’s rulers and the world of the future … if there is to be a future.” It resembled “a game of intellectual slow-pitch baseball,” I suggested, “with the people of Chico rotating at the pitcher’s mound, serving up one curiosity after another as Vidal took batting practice in his ‘maybe-Iwill, maybe-I-won’t’ run for the U.S. Senate.” What struck me was how much he seemed to be enjoying himself, despite the frequent banalities and sometimes hostile questions he had to endure. And he was gallantly patient as he was trundled like a piece of precious cargo from event to event, ending on the first night at a downtown restaurant for a late-night gathering of the Chico Democratic Club. By then his voice was giving out and he looked tired, but his wit, so quick and sharp all day, hadn’t deserted him. Seeing the hastily arranged tables, which “resembled a dominoes game after about four moves, and the 20 or so people sitting around them, waiting tensely for The Great One to speak, he quipped: ‘Looks like three Last Suppers.’” The following evening he spoke at Laxson. There wasn’t an empty seat in the house. Rereading my account of it, I realize that what he said then—about how war has been the business of America for half a century because, as he put it, “war or its threat is one of the ways those who control the economic life of the country can make maximum profits”—remains as true and relevant today as it was then.
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Whose side is he on? Re “Ghost tribe” (Cover story, by Marc Dadigan, Aug. 2): Good story in the sense that it makes me aware of a deplorable situation. Building Shasta Dam wipes out most of the Winnemem Wintu tribe’s land, and they are not recognized as Indians by the great chief in Washington. Talk about being on the bottom of the ladder of life and looking down! I don’t know about you, but I am contacting this lunkhead congressional candidate, Jim Reed, whoever that is, with a plea to recognize all Indians. Reed’s No. 2 objective on his website is “Speaking in Washington for the people of the District, rather than political parties or special interest groups.” I guess he doesn’t regard the Wintu as people, if his actions are any clue. You can email Mr. Reed at info@jimreed2012.com.
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Re “Not ready for prime time” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, Aug. 2): Thanks for pointing out Mitt Romney is not ready for “prime time,” but I will vote for him anyway. Was our current president ready for prime time? Not even close. Come on, Mr. Speer, this has been a rough four years for our country, and the “blame Bush strategy” is finally fading. President Obama will have to work with Republicans to get our economy moving, and he has not shown me he is willing to do that. I am not a real smart man, Mr. Speer, but I do remember the ’90s with President Clinton, and he worked with a majority of Republicans in both houses and things were pretty good, right? Mitt Romney and the Republicans are like Noah and the Ark in the Bible: Hey man, the ark stinks, but the boat does float! Finally, this is a great country because we have great freedoms, not because we have a big government.
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Temple an ‘amazing asset’ Re “Good-bye, Goddess Temple” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, Aug. 2): This is really a travesty! How could Butte County close down such an amazing asset to the community? There is no place like this anywhere else in the world, and we were lucky enough to have it right here in Chico! Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., Knudsen/Smuckers, Bidwell Park and the Chico Goddess Temple are all positive additions to our wonderful city, and a handful of unhappy neighbors took the last one away. Sad, Sad, SAD IT IS!!! MARY CECILE Chico
Medi-pot pros and cons Re “A spiteful insult to voters” (Editorial, Aug. 2) and “Board gets tougher on pot” (Downstroke, Aug. 2): God bless the supervisors for showing the right stuff to help the voiceless who are not out to make big bucks by growing pot, which we all know is not for the sick as much as it is for the profit of those who will disrupt our peace. A person in my neighborhood rents out his house to out-of-state people who grow, cash out and move on. It’s all for the profit. And profit is what brings these pot growers to the hearings to yell and protest, while the rest of us sit home and hope that some smart supervisors will do the right thing.
Kings County has it right, and I say, “Go, supervisors of Butte County!” DANIEL L. MCCARTY Oroville
These guys have the wrong “stuff” if they think they can just ignore the voters, who have already spoken. Voters approved the referendum, Measure A. Supervisors Larry Wahl of Chico, Kim Yamaguchi of Paradise and Bill Connelly of Oroville are clearly acting out of out of vindictiveness. They’re like little children who didn’t get their way, and now they want to throw a tantrum at taxpayers’ expense. Next time I vote, it will be against them. They are poor representatives of Butte County voters. RON CREMO Chico
Editor’s note: For the record, and to correct an error in the CN&R’s editorial last week, voters did not approve Measure A. Rather, they voted it down, thereby overturning the county’s medicalmarijuana-cultivation ordinance. Is the Butte County Board of Supervisors on the payroll of Mexican drug cartels? Like it or not, California’s medical-marijuana law allows consumers to purchase locally grown marijuana of known quality and safety from dispensaries that generate tax revenue. At least that is what voters intended when they passed Proposition 215. In Butte County, however, medical-marijuana dispensaries have been banned. As long as there is a demand for marijuana, there will be a supply. Is it somehow preferable that consumers purchase untaxed marijuana from Mexican drug cartels that also sell cocaine, meth and heroin? Marijuana prohibition is a gateway-drug policy. ROBERT SHARPE, MPA Common Sense for Drug Policy Washington, DC
Follow the charter—or else I am so excited and hopeful because Chico Mayor Ann Schwab dedicated time during the City Council meeting on Aug. 7 to talk about how to ensure transparency in government. Wow, she must be up for re-election or something! Oh wait, she is!! Glad to hear that she finally wants transparency. I hope she also means transparency regarding the Compliance with Article IX, Section 908 of our City Charter. According to it, “The finance director shall submit to the council through the city manager monthly statements of receipts, disburse-
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ments and balances in such form as to show the exact financial condition of the city.” This transparency is extremely important to the taxpayers of Chico, and as a requirement in our City Charter, it is non-negotiable. [Finance Director Jennifer] Hennessy must either follow the charter or we must find a new finance director who is capable of doing so. I am not sure why Mayor Ann Schwab and City Manager Dave Burkland have let this lack of extremely important transparency continue. This is unacceptable. Our public servants need to follow the charter and stop picking what laws they want to follow. JOHN SALYER Chico
Royal pain in the purse On the same day that the California State University trustees and state legislators both shoveled yet more money and perks into a trough for our High Administrative Class, the King of Spain took a pay cut. What is wrong with the current crop of European royalty, anyway? This sort of an equitable move can set a very bad precedent! We all know that austerity is for the lower and middle classes, not our beloved leaders. Believe you me, the next time there is some sort of a War of Spanish Succession or something, they will have a lot of difficulty attracting a “the best and the brightest” of royal administrators! Gosh, don’t they get it? No wonder the euro is in crisis! MICHAEL MULCAHY Chico More letters online:
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CITY NOT OFF THE HOOK ON PAYMENT
There’s still no final word on how much the city will have to pay the state in “true-up” payments following a phone conference Tuesday with state Department of Finance officials, Senior Planner Shawn Tillman told the City Council Tuesday (Aug. 7), but it won’t be the $11.2 million originally sought—enough “to put the city in insolvency,” as Councilman Scott Gruendl said. Under terms of a hastily drawn bill, AB 1484, the DoF came up with a flawed methodology that led the county auditorcontroller to determine the successor agency (i.e., the city) owed $11.2 million to settle its redevelopment books. The city came up with an alternative amount, $961,000, and paid it under protest, in the belief that in fact it owed nothing. The phone conference was designed to clear things up, and Tillman characterized the results as “satisfactory,” but exactly how much the state will squeeze out of the city remains “inconclusive.”
WEAPONS ARREST IN CHICO
The national issue of gun control sort of hit home Sunday, Aug. 5, with an arrest in Chico involving a high-capacity gun clip. According to a Chico police press release, a car with four men from Yuba County was stopped following a response to a reported fight in front of Panama’s Bar downtown around 1:30 a.m. A detective driving nearby spotted a white Buick sedan at Fifth and Flume streets and then stopped it for a vehicle violation at Cherry and 10th streets. Passenger Jan Lor was found with a concealed, loaded 9mm semi-automatic gun and two illegal, high-capacity, 30- and 15-bullet clips for it. “Any magazine that carries over 10 rounds is illegal in California,” said police Lt. Mike O’Brien. Lor was arrested on charges of possession of a concealed firearm in a vehicle and possession of high-capacity magazines. The vehicle’s driver, Ronny Khang, was taking in for allowing the weapon in the car.
ENLOE NURSES APPROVE CONTRACT
Though negotiations faltered in recent months, Enloe Medical Center and more than 700 registered nurses agreed to terms on a new three-year contract on Tuesday, Aug. 7. The contract ensures the nurses—who are represented by the California Nurses Association—will receive a 2.25 percent annual raise on top of the 3 percent step increase provided to most nurses, according to the Chico Enterprise-Record. The agreement also addresses more specific issues like permitted uses for sick leave and providing more notice before nurses are scheduled for shifts. Negotiations have been ongoing since last November, as the most recent contract expired in January. The two parties hired a federal mediator when talks stalled in April, and Enloe made an offer late last month. 8 CN&R August 9, 2012
Shlomie Kagan, left, and Mendel Karczag ask passersby in downtown Chico, “Are you Jewish?” The men are in town as part of the worldwide Roving Rabbis program.
Here come the rabbis Jewish leaders-in-training visit the North State to share and learn
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in front of Chronic Tacos in downtown Chico on Friday, Aug. 3. To say the least, they stood story and out from the everyday downphotos by Tom Gascoyne town Chico crowd of shoppers, business people, employees and tomg@ panhandlers. newsreview.com “Are you Jewish?” they enthusiastically asked a curious passerby. The negative answer didn’t dampen their enthusiasm, and after a brief discussion they agreed to an interview that led to this story. Mendel Karczag and Shlomie Kagan were in town as part of an effort called Roving Rabbis, in which rabbis-in-training go to places in China, India and rural Northern California, where Jewish communities are small and members supposedly have lost touch with their roots. Karczag and Kagan, both 21, How kosher: are part of the Chabad RabbiniAccording to the Chabad.com cal Visitation Program out of the website, the Chabad-Lubavitch Chasidic student rabbis movement of Orthodox Judaism, subsist on a diet based in the Crown Heights secof matzah , canned tion of Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s the fish and canned vegetables for largest Jewish organization in weeks on end. the world, they said.
Each summer, according to Chabad.org, hundreds of rabbinical students “spend their summers on the road, sharing their passion for Jewish life and bringing Jewish awareness and observance wherever they go.” Karczag himself is from Brooklyn, and Kagan is from Monsey, N.Y., a bit farther upstate. Both speak with thick New York accents. They will spend a total of three weeks in the area, staying at the Chabad Jewish Center at Chestnut and Fourth streets when in Chico and getting around in Rabbi Mendy Zwiebel’s car. It’s no coincidence that the rabbi’s wife, Chana, is Kagan’s sister. “We prearranged the stay because of that,” said Kagan, “but someone would have come here as part of the program regardless.” The Chabad Center also serves
as a center for Chico State’s Jewish students. On the day of the interview, Karczag and Kagan were headed to Redding by way of Red Bluff and had meetings set up with members of the Jewish communities in those towns. Before coming to Chico, they’d spent the early part of the summer working in a Chicago high school. Kagan said there are really two parts to the mission—getting a feel for and an understanding of smaller Jewish com-
munities and bringing to them the Orthodox Judaism in which he and Karczag have been immersed. They’ve each been studying to become rabbis since they were 13 years old. “We want to meet the people and see what it’s like to live over here,” Kagan said. “Because as rabbis-in-training you never know if you might end up in a smaller Jewish community, and therefore you need to have a feel for what it is like. “We also want to meet with the members of that community. You know, many people are just too busy living their lives and taking care of all the mundane things and they sometimes forget about their Jewishness.” The men said they’d discovered that Chico has a very small Jewish community, as is typical in the more rural parts of the nation, particularly out west. “We have a friend doing this in Orange County, and he’s telling us that he’s meeting so many more Jews right now,” Karczag said. “Chico’s is very small, but on the other hand it is very inspirational to see. Even though it’s such a small community, everyone still has their Jewish traditions, their thing that they are still Jewish about.” Karczag said the smaller communities have something he and Kagan can learn as well. “There is always the big ‘hoo-ha’ in the larger cities,” he said, “but here there
is something we can learn from someone living in a smaller community.” He said the Chabad Center and the Congregation Beth Israel on Hemlock Street, led by Rabbi Julie Danan, are the main institutions serving the local Jewish community.
Noisy neighbors
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Anyone who has been kept awake at night by noisy neighbors knows it’s irritating. But what if it happens every weekend, or several times a week? Then it becomes agonizing. In a town like Chico, with its many partyloving young people, late-night noise is a significant problem. When the Police Community Advisory Board held a series of meetings in Chico’s older neighborhoods last year to learn what residents’ biggest concerns were, noise was at the top of the list. Officials at the Police Department decided that the current ordinance’s greatest weaknesses are that it calls for a written statement from the complainant and requires officers first to issue a written warning that comes with a 72-hour window. If the noise-makers offend again within that window, they can be cited; otherwise, no. That opens the door to having a blow-out party every week, or even twice a week, without fear of citation. In 2010, the Police Department issued 410 written warnings, but from them issued only three citations. So the police came up with a proposal for changing the ordinance. It had three parts: 1) remove the written-warning requirement; 2) remove the need for a written statement from the complainant; and 3) allow the police officer to issue a citation upon verification of the citizen’s verbal complaint. On July 3, the City Council held a public hearing on the recommendations at which more than 30 people spoke. That hearing was continued to this week’s meeting, on Tuesday (Aug. 7), at which time a similar number of people spoke. Opinions ranged widely,
from homeowners pleading with the council to give the police the tools they need to deal with noise, to musicians worried they might be cited for playing or practicing. Before the hearing began, however, CPD Lt. Linda Dye explained that conflicts over noise arise all over town, but primarily in the “transitional” neighborhoods where both permanent residents and younger adults live. Residents’ complaints are valid, she said. Instead of mandating a warning, the new policy would give officers the ability to use their discretion to choose whether to give a warning or issue a citation, she said. This concerned Councilman Andy Holcombe, who has held all along that any ordinance should require a first warning. At the July 3 meeting the opinion had been expressed that any new ordinance also should include ways to hold landlords accountable for their tenants’ behavior. Asked about that, Dye said the challenge would be “how to contact the landlord.” She suggested the department’s TARGET team might serve that function. And Councilwoman Mary Goloff said she would like to see an escalating fine structure, such that a second offense would cost more
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impressions of Chico have been positive so far. “It’s been very, very welcoming,” Kagan said. “Even people who are not Jewish are saying, ‘How are you enjoying Chico?’ They welcome us and they try to think of any Jewish friends to help us out. “Everyone is very welcoming and understanding. And you know, coming from New York, that’s a bit of a change. No one has time for you there, because they all are running around cutting business deals or whatever.” Kagan said they’ve received very little in the way of negative responses when contacting local businesses and people on the streets. He said they walked into one business—he couldn’t remember the name—where they got less than a warm welcome. “This lady who was working there said, ‘We don’t have time for this now.’ So we left. A few blocks down the street another lady pulls up in car and says she’s not Jewish, but that she was working in the office and talking on the phone when we came in. She said she felt really bad how this other lady was rude to us. She said she really wanted to apologize. This lady drove all the way to catch up with us to apologize. That’s very touching.” He said he understands the less-thanpleasant encounters. “When people are rude, you can’t really blame them,” he said. “They are in the middle of doing something, and they are busy, and then these rabbis come in. They don’t know how to react to that.” Karczag said that just three days after arriving in town, their presence was getting some notice. “We’ve made calls to people to set up meetings, and one of them said, ‘Yeah, my wife saw you walking downtown.’ It gets back to us because this is something they don’t see every day; rabbis with beards in downtown Chico.” They said they had visited the mall the day before and met one man who said he wasn’t Jewish but that his wife was. He gave them her contact information. They also met some Israelis at the mall and did a tefillin procedure with them. That involves a leather strap wrapped around a person’s arm and another wrapped around the head and jaw. “It is a commandment of God that reconnects us,” Kagan explained. “It helps put together your mind and heart and hands and focus you for the purpose of God. People call it the Jewish bloodpressure test.” Ω
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Students let the good times roll at this house party. Nighttime noise is a big problem in Chico. FILE PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
than a first. Currently the fine is $259, including court costs, Dye said. As occurred at the July 3 meeting, several people offered personal horror stories of trying to deal with bad neighbors who kept them awake at night, played music at high volume, urinated on their lawn, climbed on the roof and in general created a disturbance night after night. As Melinda Vasquez, someone who has had to deal with such neighbors, put it, “Chronic noise forces people from their homes. It creates blight.” Her husband, Ken Fleming, said the city “largely through neglect has allowed its heart to be trashed.” Noise devalues property, he said, and invites crime. But others argued that it was unfair to target students and not to give them a warning when they are being too loud. Daniel Martinez said he thought the proposal was “discriminatory” against young people, students and the poor. “It’s a class issue,” he said, adding that as a musician “I would have no place to practice, no place to play.” Several board members of the North Valley Property Owners Association weighed in on the landlord element, asking that their organization be involved in crafting its language. Among the council members, it quickly became apparent a majority—Mayor Ann Schwab, Scott Gruendl, Goloff and Holcombe—was unwilling to eliminate the required warning. In the end the council voted, 5-2, with Bob Evans and Mark Sorensen dissenting, to have city staff craft an ordinance along compromise lines proposed by Gruendl. It would require a warning be given and that it be in effect a longer period (six months was suggested), but also allow certain exceptions to the warning requirement (multiple complaints, for example). It would also establish a graduated fine structure and mandate that the ordinance be revisited in six months, at which time council will look at the landlordaccountability issue. —ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com
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Wahl of defiance Can new, tougher medi-pot ordinance stand up to legal challenge? A Chico lawyer and medical-marijuana advocate contends the new medi-pot ordinance under consideration by the Butte County Board of Supervisors is illegal and a slap in the face to voters who recently rejected a less-restrictive ordinance. On July 31, the board, at the suggestion of Supervisor Larry Wahl, voted 3-2 to direct county staff to draft an ordinance similar to that adopted by Kings County last year. That ordinance states: “Cultivation of medical marijuana is prohibited in all zones of the county, except for cultivation for personal medicinal use by a qualified patient within a secured, locked and fully enclosed structure on their personal residence.” “They said they wanted to do this, but hopefully they won’t follow through with it, because it’s undemocratic and would be very disrespectful to their constituents,” said Robert Mackenzie, a land-use attorney who represents the group Citizens for Compassionate Use. “They got a pretty clear mandate from the voters,” he continued, referring to the defeat of Measure A, a ballot initiative on the county’s plan to limit marijuana cultivation based on property size, with no plants allowed on parcels of a halfacre or smaller. That plan was rejected by 55 percent of voters. “It seems pretty disrespectful to say, ‘Well, now we’re going to do something even more draconian.’” Mackenzie said Measure A’s defeat strengthens future legal cases if the county is sued over a new ordinance. He made it clear he wasn’t threatening to sue the county, but added, “It’s likely someone will.
“They’re doing something inside of a year from the certification of the election results, so if there is litigation it seems like the presumption would go to the voters,” Mackenzie said. “Legislative bodies get a wide degree of deference from courts, normally, but in this situation … it’s unlikely a court would extend that same degree of deference to the supervisors.” Measure A was added to the June 5 primary as a result of a referendum petition—a signaturegathering campaign to get it in the ballot spearheaded by Citizens for Compassionate Use. Mackenzie said that another referendum is an option, but that litigation seems a more likely way for opponents to shut down the new ordinance. “[The proposed ordinance] is also irresponsible, fiscally speaking, because they’re inviting themselves to be sued,” Mackenzie said. “When Mr. Wahl decided he wanted to try this ordinance out, I don’t know that he had a legal opinion from county counsel on it. If they do get a legal opinion, I think they might realize how bad the whole deal is and just decide to scotch this whole thing. “We’re in a wait-and-see mode, because I want to give them the chance to do the right thing. If they do, no harm, no foul.” Mackenzie said there are legal problems with the Kings County template, including the fact that that it bans collectives and cooperatives and doesn’t make provisions for caregivers who grow for those who are disabled or otherwise unable to cultivate their own. He said this is in direct defiance of state law, specifically the Medical Marijuana Program Act, also known as Senate Bill 420, a 2003 measure that implemented 1996’s Proposition 215, which originally legalized medical marijuana in California. Supervisor Wahl disagrees
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with county counsel, as well as people in Kings County who vouch for the ordinance’s effectiveness. “Our major interest in mind was finding another county that had successfully implemented that prohibition [on outdoor cultivation]. “We’ve been without an ordinance for a long time,” he said about the board’s action so soon after Measure A’s defeat. “I think it’s appropriate we have an ordinance that protects the safety and welfare and quiet enjoyment of residents throughout Butte County.” Wahl also rejected Mackenzie’s suggestion that the supervisors’ actions were disrespectful to voters (“I don’t see it that way at all,” he said) and overly restrictive. “For some folks it probably will be; for others I don’t think it is,” he said. Mackenzie’s predictions for a possible legal battle have partly played out recently in nearby Nevada County. On July 27, Nevada County Superior Court Judge Sean Dowling ruled that the county couldn’t enforce the prohibition of collectives. The ruling resulted from an injunction filed by Americans for Safe Access after that county’s board of supervisors voted 4-1 May 8 to adopt two ordinances regulating indoor and outdoor cultivation. “The Court recognizes that plaintiffs suffer various illnesses, and that their request for relief implicates not only their right to live comfortably, but also their basic human dignity,” Dowling’s ruling read in part. “The Court also acknowledges that California recognizes marijuana as an effective treatment for individuals like the plaintiffs … By democratic process, the cultivation, possession and use of medical marijuana has been sanctioned, supported and immunized from state criminal prosecution.” —KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com
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Murder charges Enloe doctor comes to the defense of colleagues An Enloe Medical Center doctor has written a letter to the Butte County district attorney criticizing the July arrest of an Enloe cardiologist and his wife in connection with the death of their 2-year-old adopted son. Dr. Doug Benson, an Enloe orthopedist, says that Benjamin Yhip’s death was most likely from an inherited health disorder rather than blunt force trauma as determined during an investigation by the Butte County Sheriff’s Office and DA investigators. Benson’s letter to DA Mike Ramsey was revealed in a story by the Sacramento Valley Mirror on Aug. 4. “You should be advised that Benjamin Yhip had a very RARE inherited metabolic disorder that is USUALLY FATAL in the first year of life,” the letter reads. “His failure to thrive, malnourishment, infections and Pseudofractures—which have now been claimed as evidence of abuse are all associated with this disorder.” Ramsey said he doesn’t put much credence in Benson’s letter and said Benson and Dr. James Yhip, Benjamin’s father and an Enloe cardiologist, are friends. On April 18 Edelyn Yhip, the child’s mother and an Enloe nurse, made a 911 call from the Yhips’ north Chico home to report her son was unresponsive, according to a Sheriff’s Office press release. A medical crew took the boy to Enloe, where he was stabilized and then transported via helicopter to Sutter Memorial Hospital in Sacramento. He was pronounced dead the following afternoon. Three months later sheriff’s detectives arrested James Yhip on charges of murder and felony child endangerment. Edelyn Yhip was arrested on charges of abuse of a child causing death and child endangerment. Ramsey said the investigation offers medical evidence negating Benson’s letter. “It does absolutely nothing to explain the traumatic brain injury, contusions and bruis-
ing and hematoma,” he said. “The kid had a million dollars in medical tests [performed over time] and then died of some mysterious undiagnosed disease?” At the time of the Yhips’ arrest, Dr. Paul Wasserman, a Chico pediatrician, told KNVN TV news Benjamin’s frequent medical encounters in his young life perhaps were a sign of abuse. “There’s obviously trauma,” Wasserman said. “Fractures make you pretty suspicious. Then you check out the story, and certainly more than one fracture... The more injuries, clearly the more suspicious you are.” Ramsey told KNVN that the signs of abuse could have been dismissed because both parents are in the medical profession. “Some of the bumps and bruises that might have raised a red flag, or some of the medical conditions that may have raised a red flag with professionals dealing with the children, didn’t at that time because of the status of the mother and father.” Benson’s letter to Ramsey addresses that July 20 TV newscast. “I saw your interview on last night’s news and read in this morning’s paper that you had, after some consideration, decided to charge Benjamin Yhip’s parents with child abuse and hold them responsible for his death,” he wrote. “The charges and opinion that was expressed by you is completely contradictory to the care we observed of the parents while the child was our [patient].” Ramsey said the state Medical Board has called for the suspension of the Yhips’ medical licenses based on the county’s investigation. James Yhip’s bail was set at $1,050,000 and his wife’s at $2,050,000 because she allegedly delivered the fatal injury. The couple covered the bail by putting up their and friends’ properties as collateral. They were due back in court Friday, Aug. 10. (Benson’s brother, Stephen, is the presiding judge of the Butte County Superior Court.) The couple’s other children, Benjamin’s twin brother and his adopted sister, have been placed with Butte County Children’s Services since Benjamin’s death.
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California has put construction of the largest prison medical facility in the nation on the fast track in order to comply with a federal court order to improve health care for inmates. The $900 million, 144-acre California Health Care Facility just outside of Stockton, which is about halfway built, will house 1,700 inmates too ill to live in regular housing, many of whom will require 24-hour nursing care, according to Southern California Public Radio. The project is part of the state’s effort to improve a prison medical system deemed so poor the federal government assumed an oversight role ensuring California spends the money needed for new prison medical facilities. As California adopted lengthier prison sentences, many prisoners have remained incarcerated past the age when chronic disease develops. Nearly 70,000 of the state’s prisoners receive treatment for a chronic illness.
HEALTHLINES Tory Zellick, author of The Medical Day Planner. The impetus for Zellick’s book was her experience as primary caretaker of her mother as she was dying of breast cancer.
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CHEMICALS IN PLASTIC LINKED TO DIABETES
Chemical compounds called phthalates, commonly found in household plastics and medical supplies, have been linked to higher rates of diabetes in women, a study finds. Research led by Harvard Medical School scientists found the chemicals doubled the rate of diabetes in women with the highest levels—typically black and Latino women living in poverty, according to Environmental Health News. Phthalates, which make plastics more flexible, can be found in vinyl flooring, adhesives and shower curtains. Though obesity is a risk factor for Type 2 diabetes, nearly a quarter of normalweight adults have a metabolic disorder, which has led some scientists to suggest exposure to chemical contaminants like phthalates could explain the disconnect. Previous research found attention problems, reduced IQs and fertility issues in boys exposed to phthalates in the womb. More than 75 percent of Americans have traces of the compounds in their urine.
PRENATAL PREVENTATIVE CARE COVERED
The medical services provided to pregnant women in the United States changed significantly on Aug. 1. The Affordable Care Act now requires insurance providers and Medicaid to cover clinical preventative services for women without charging co-pay, co-insurance or deductibles, according to California Public News Service. The new requirements will cover prenatal care but not maternity care, though all maternity care will be covered by all new individual, small-business and government exchange plans beginning in 2014. National rates of women dying during or shortly after pregnancy have steadily risen in recent years. “This is a big win for women in California,” said Dr. Elliot Main, director of the California Maternal Quality Care Collaborative, noting that millions of women will now gain access to health care. 12 CN&R August 9, 2012
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Help Navigate the Medical Maze, is such a thing. Born out of her long-term involvement as primary caretaker to her terminally ill mother, Zellick’s book offers a beacon in the storm that is so often experienced by those caring for loved ones in their last days. Anyone who has functioned as primary caretaker knows how overwhelming it can be to attend to the many and increasing needs of a dying person, while trying to cope with one’s own exhaustion and grief over the impending loss. Add to that the unfamiliarity of much of the territory involved—numerous trips to numerous doctors, an often bewildering array of medications, dealing with legal issues such as obtaining power-of-attorney and the writing of a will, to name only a few—and it is easy to see why a book that demystifies the caretaker experience and offers everything a person needs to know to function effectively would be more than welcome. “According to the AARP, there are 66 million informal caregivers in the United States,” offered Zellick in a recent interview. “There are 66 million people who have been told at some point in their lives that someone they love has an ailment, disease or disorder that requires care. So in that moment, those 66 million people are probably overwhelmed, concerned and unsure of what’s important to track during the care process.” The Medical Day Planner is poised to be exactly what the doctor ordered when it comes to help for the caregiver.
Formatted similarly to a sturdy
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such crucial information as how to find a suitable attorney to help make sure that the affairs of the dying loved one are in order, what an advanced health-care directive is, the difference between a will and a trust, and the importance of knowing whether a loved one wants to be buried or cremated and which facilities perform such duties. The planner also contains a phone-book section in which to write down names and contact information for physicians, other providers and medical facilities; a medication section in which to track meds and vitamins; an appointments section; a section listing details about hospitalizations; and more. Flipping open the book to the section in which to list medications, Zellick pointed to a box that reads “D/C.” “That means ‘discontinue date,’” she said—the date when a patient is supposed to stop taking that particular drug. As Zel-
lick points out in The Medical Day Planner, “[s]ome medications cannot be taken within a certain length of time after another.” Zellick said that she never knew to keep track of discontinue dates at first during the 3 1⁄2 years she took care of her mother before she passed away in January 2009 at the age of 50. “If Dr. A prescribes a medication, if you go to Dr. B … he asks you what the discontinue date is of that medication. He doesn’t have that information because he didn’t prescribe it,” Zellick explained. “If you have that information at your fingertips, you can proceed with the conversation with Dr. B so you don’t have to call Dr. A.” Granted, this situation is changing with the advent of electronic health
APPOINTMENT HEART-HEALTHY EATS On Monday, Aug. 13, at 10 a.m., community members will share their favorite hearthealthy summer garden recipes at Enloe Cardiac Rehabilitation (888 Lakeside Village Commons, Building C) in classroom A. Bring your extra summer produce for the group. Call Ken at 343-2000 for more information.
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“Our patients know that we care.” It’s no secret that there is a severe shortage of primary care physicians in this country. That’s where physician assistants and nurse practitioners come in; they are sometimes referred to as mid-levels because their training is between that of a doctor and a nurse. To address this shortage, Stanford University has a program that is specifically tailored to train family-practice mid-levels. After receiving his bachelor’s degree from Chico State and working for five years as an EMT, Ruby attended and completed the physicianassistant program at Stanford University. At the same time, he earned a master’s degree in medical science from St. Francis College. “My job is to listen to my patients and help them live a long, happy life,” Ruby says with a smile. And he adds, “I love my job, I love my patients, and I love working here. This is what I was meant to do.”
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records, but not every physician and provider has gone high-tech with patient records. Zellick’s book is sprinkled throughout with “Helpful Tips.” For example,“Helpful Tip 12,” in the Appointments section, reads: “If possible, bring more than one person to any given appointment. Every person hears something different when discussing information with physicians or medical providers. … Having extra ears will increase your chances of getting the most knowledge out of any given appointment. The pretty, poised Zellick—a 28-yearold Chico-based pain-management massage therapist who keeps a regular blog on caretaker issues at allthingscaregiver.com—has spent the last four-plus weeks on a media tour promoting her book. Zellick has appeared on such high-profile television shows as the NBC morning talk show, Today in LA, and ABC’s Sacramento-based show Sac & Co. She’s been on Southern California radio shows, and locally has appeared on Nancy’s Bookshelf on KCHO 91.7 FM and at a packed book-signing at Lyon Books. “It’s been a wild ride,” she said of her whirlwind publicity tour. At first, she said, she was nervous about appearing on television, but once she discovered that her Today in LA interviewer had been a caregiver to a parent for five years, Zellick relaxed. With a number of interviews now under her belt, she says she is comfortable with the interview process, having discovered that “everyone [that she has come into contact with in the course of publicizing her book] has either ‘been there’ [as a caregiver] or has known someone who has been terminally ill.”
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Zellick is particularly keen to get the word out “to inform medical staff that a product like this now exists so that they are able to recommend it at diagnosis.” Zellick’s voice grows quieter when
she talks of her mother’s last day of life. “She was in her bed. The only people present were my dad, my brother, and my mom’s sister—and her dog. Which was just the way she wanted it. “After the longest night in history…she threw up blood that looked like dried coffee grounds and she lay back with a smile on her face and took her final breath. … “I asked my dad, ‘What now?’ My dad replied, ‘She’s gone.’ But that wasn’t the question I was asking. I was asking, ‘Who do we call? Do I call the coroner? Do I call hospice? Do I call the Neptune Society? What next?’ “I wish that on the day of [my mother’s] diagnosis someone would have handed me something like this—my life would have been easier,” said Zellick of her book. “This allows you to track everything. It takes the guesswork out of it—if you’re diligent enough to write it down.” Ω
WEEKLY DOSE Summer’s bounty Veggie gardens across Chico are starting to burst with yummy tomato goodness— from big fat juicy beefsteak tomatoes and long red Romas, to green zebras and other pretty striped tomatoes, to little cherry, pear and grape tomatoes in yellow, orange and red. There’s nothing quite like a fresh tomato straight out the garden to please the palate of just about anyone except the most ardent tomato hater. But in addition to their great taste, tomatoes offer a number of health benefits, making it a nobrainer to justify gorging oneself on them. Among the benefits listed at WebMD.com are: •
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GREENWAYS GRUB’s Max Kee starts young fruit trees with the aid of compost made from food scraps he’s collected from restaurants around Chico.
WATER-POLLUTION GUIDELINES TOSSED
A federal judge overruled the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s guidelines for mountaintop removal—intended to reduce water pollution from Appalachian coal mining operations. On Aug. 2, U.S. District Judge Reggie B. Walton ruled EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson “infringed on the authority” of West Virginia officials to govern their own pollution and water quality programs, according to the Charleston Gazette. The EPA’s water quality guidance included stricter permit-application reviews through detailed studies of whether mining impacts can be minimized or avoided, new testing for potential toxic mining discharges, and recommended limits on pollution-related electrical conductivity, an indicator of water quality. Walton concluded the EPA has “only a limited role” once states are granted federal permission to run their own water-pollution permitting agencies. The ruling is the third courtroom defeat this year for the EPA’s effort to regulate mountaintop removal.
Inset: Kee takes a look at one of the large compost piles in his fruit orchard that his chickens peck through looking for insects.
CLIMATE CHANGE, OZONE LINKED?
Scientists have made a surprising connection between the ozone layer and climate change. Scientists from Harvard University found strong summer thunderstorms send water vapor miles into the stratosphere, which interacts with lingering CFCs—refrigerant gases banned by the international Montreal Protocol treaty since the late 1980s—in an ozonedestroying reaction, according to the New York Times. The risk of ozone damage will increase if large storms spurred by climate change become more common, the study noted. Thinning ozone above the United States would increase ultraviolet exposure for millions, increasing the likelihood of skin cancer. While scientists have kept the issues of global warming and thinning ozone separate for years, now they are “intimately connected,” said lead author Dr. James G. Anderson. “It’s the union between ozone loss and climate change that is really at the heart of this,” Anderson said.
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KEYSTONE XL’S SOUTHERN LEG GETS APPROVAL Environmentalists hoping to stall construction of the controversial Keystone XL pipeline were dealt a crushing blow as the federal government granted approval for the project’s southern leg on July 27. TransCanada received the last of three permits from the Army Corps of Engineers it needed to begin construction on the southernmost 485-mile stretch of pipeline, now known as the Gulf Coast project, according to The Washington Post. Environmental groups like the Sierra Club and Friends of the Earth have long fought the project— which would deliver tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada, to the Texas Gulf Coast—based on potential damage to wetlands and rivers and are appealing to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to overrule the Army Corps under the Clean Water Act. The 36-inch pipeline is set to run across 654 “aquatic features.” 16 CN&R August 9, 2012
Musual perspective on trash. What many people see as garbage—such as ax Kee doesn’t have your
withered grocery-store produce and leftover food from local restaurants—Kee sees as a soil amendment for fruit trees, topquality feedstock for pigs, and the perfect snack for chickens. And so, three times a week, along with his partners, Elliot Proffitt and Tim Elliot at the GRUB Cooperative (Growing Resourcefully Uniting Bellies), Kee loads up an old Dodge pickup truck with garbage cans filled with plate scrapings, vegetable peels and compostable paper napkins that they collect from more than a dozen Chico establishments—a task he performs for free. Almost 14 percent of the United States’ waste in 2010 was food waste, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency—that’s second only to paper waste. Here in Chico, Kee had no problem
finding restaurants, coffee shops and other venues willing to hold onto their food and paper waste to feed his compost passion. He hopes that his program not only diverts food away from the landfill, but also helps change peoples’ perspective on what is waste. “When we start looking at our wastes as valuable resources, you can’t help but realize we’re in total abundance,” said Kee. The composting program Kee heads up—one of the three initial foci of the GRUB cooperative since its inception in 2007, along with its popular CSA (community-supported agriculture) farm, and a thriving sustainability-education program—started off with perhaps too much abundance. GRUB received a small startup grant from Chico State’s SFAC (Sustainability Fund Allocation Committee), a student-created program that sets aside a few dollars of each student’s tuition to fund sustainability projects on campus and around town. Kee jumped right in. “I started going around every single day picking up compost—and it was way too much,” said Kee of those early days. “I really had no idea what to do with all the food scraps.”
Kee and crew started off collecting compost on bikes fitted with custom-built trailers, hauling it initially to an eighth-acre back yard. He quickly moved the fledgling operation to GRUB’s then-newly-acquired location on Dayton Road in south Chico. With the extra space, and the realization that few other bikers were willing to risk getting a flat while hauling hundreds of pounds of compost, Kee switched to a large truck, which he loads these days with roughly 800 gallons of compost a week. He estimates that over the course of the almost five years he’s been running the program, he’s diverted about 130,000 gallons of organic matter from the local landfill. Over the years, Kee has refined the program, now regularly picking up compostable items three days a week from 17 downtown establishments. He provides these venues with clean bins as part of the free pick-up service. Kee spends about three hours each time he goes out to gather the bins—about an hour and a half to pick Dig deeper:
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up the scraps, and then additional time to distribute the scraps to GRUB’s chickens and pigs, clean out the bins and truck, and clean up the scraps after the animals have gone through them. “There’s always twist ties, plastic straws … metal utensils. Cleanup is just a part of it,” he explained.
The Mount Lassen Chapter of the California Native Plant Society will host a 4.5-mile hike of Caribou Wilderness—bordering Lassen National Park—on Sunday, Aug. 12. The easy loop will take the group past several beautiful small lakes and open forest. Meet at Chico Park & Ride (Highway 99 and East Eighth Street) with lunch, water, sun protection and appropriate clothing at 8 a.m. Call Gerry at 893-5123 for more information.
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fruit orchard, fertilized by compost made from coffee grounds from Empire Coffee and Naked Lounge and leftovers from diners at Noodle House and the T-Bar. Dozens of chickens pick through the large compost piles at the GRUB property on Dayton Road in search of insects as the scraps from Chico Natural Foods’ vegetable trimmings decompose. Elliot, also a GRUB resident, feeds his pigs gourmet scrapings collected from Sicilian Café and Leon Bistro. Kee still collects from some of his very first “customers,” including Bustolini’s Deli & Coffee House. Kee says that Bob Backstrom, the owner of Bustolini’s, was tired of throwing away his kitchen scraps, and encouraged Kee early on to start a regular program. “He was really persistent…[so] I was willing to try it out because I knew that at least one person really wanted to start.” Every so often, said Kee, “I get up some gumption to add a few
more restaurants, and just walk in and say, ‘Hey, I’ve been doing this thing for four, almost five years now, and it seems to be working out really well and people are happy with it.’” And so he’s recently added newer establishments like Bacio Catering & Carry Out and upscale wood-fired pizza restaurant Grana. Kee began collecting scraps from Sipho’s Restaurant & Cafe, the neighboring Jamaican eatery also on Dayton Road, as soon as it opened its doors last summer. “We give them our compost, and I get certain types of vegetables from them when they’re in season. … It’s like one big family, you know?” said Sipho Merritt, the owner of the eponymously named restaurant, who calls Kee “a hard
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more relationships with local businesses the compost project will help him break even on such things as the cost of gas and the bins versus what he reaps in terms of compost, eggs and saleable produce, something that he isn’t currently certain is the case. “It just feels like it’s starting to open up more and more windows,” he said. Tin Roof Bakery & Café recently purchased two boxes of peaches and a box of potatoes from him. “I probably wouldn’t have made that connection if we hadn’t been picking up the compost.” Kee hopes that the longer he continues his project, the more natural it will seem for people to compost food scraps rather than toss them. “More than anything, the importance is in the mentality around it—that we’ve been doing it … for nearly five years now. It’s becoming commonplace that someone goes and gets the valuable food scraps,” said Kee. “It feels really good to hold a space for that to be normal in our community, that the food [being composted] is valued.” Ω August 9, 2012
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HELP THE CAUSE I can’t say enough good things about David Zoppi and Ken Swain’s new, socially conscious clothing-and-accessory business, Young Love Outfitters. CN&R readers know I’ve said a number of good things already, both in my July 5 GreenHouse column and in a Greenways feature story, “The Goodness of Their Hearts,” published July 12. Swain and Zoppi’s online business (which now has a booth at the Thursday Night Market) features hip, eye-pleasing T-shirts and canvas bags designed by them that feature such thought-provoking slogans as “Provide & conquer” and “Build your tribe.” But the best thing about their endeavor is that 15 percent of each purchase goes to one of three worthy sustainability-focused causes, such as buying desks and chairs for classrooms in West Africa via Chico’s LeapingStone Foundation, and helping replant forests in areas of deforestation via San Diego-based rural-poor advocacy outfit Plant with Purpose. Customers get to pick the cause they wish to donate to, and causes currently listed will be replaced with others as the financial goal listed for each is met. Young Love’s latest e-newsletter popped into my inbox recently. In it, Zoppi and Swain write, Fifteen percent of your Young Love purchase can go to help “First, we wanted to replant five forests in areas of deforestation via rural-poor thank everyone for advocacy outfit Plant with Purpose. supporting a brand we are extremely proud of and passionate about. The response we have received in the first month [of business] is amazing, but we are far from where we want our brand to be. “We need your help. When we started Young Love, we set out on a mission to raise awareness and make a lasting impact with our brand. We saw so many problems and so many people in need, and we knew we could make a difference—with your help.” Among other things, Swain and Zoppi point out that “800 million people don’t have access to clean, safe drinking water. That is 1 in 9 of us.” Also, “90 percent of the 30,000 deaths that occur every week from unsafe water and unhygienic living conditions are children under 5 years of age.” In response, Young Love’s third current charity cause is charity:water, which provides clean water to residents of Third World countries. Do go to www.younglove.co to check out Young Love Outfitters and maybe pick up a cool new canvas shopping bag or a shirt and, in the process, help make a difference in the world. “Nature’s very good for you.”
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Local woman says Chico is failing to comply with disability laws
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ecky Barnes-Boers never thought she’d spend so much time being an advocate for the disabled. Then she ended up in a wheelchair. What a life-changing experience.
The 45-year-old single mom is one of the most visible and active members of the local disabled community and a familiar sight to many in Chico. On any given day, she may be spotted downtown or on the other side of town in her battery-powered wheelchair. She’s usually accompanied by her 4-year-old son, Gabriel, who walks at her side or, oftentimes, sits sweetly on her lap, his mother’s arms wrapped around him. Barnes-Boers moved from the Midwest to the North State back in 2004, first to Oroville, and then to Chico the next year. The harsh winters in northern Illinois were taking a toll on her physically, exacerbating the symptoms she suffers from fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and reflex sympathetic dystrophy, increasingly debilitating and painful conditions stemming from several accidents, including a couple of car crashes. Barnes-Boers learned about the area’s Mediterraneanlike environs, and, without knowing a soul here, packed up her belongings and headed west. Back then, she was getting around with the aid of a cane. But about six years ago, her conditions worsening, Barnes-Boers realized she needed a wheelchair. These days, her motorized chair is her main mode of transportation. Barnes-Boers may appear to get around easily, if slowly, but looks can be deceiving. 20 CN&R August 9, 2012
This reporter’s recent walk beside her in the streets east of downtown near Lower Bidwell Park was an eye-opening experience, a window into the life of someone who relies on a wheelchair for mobility. She struggled at times with uprooted sidewalks and with curb ramps with high, jutting transitions from crosswalk to sidewalk that caused a distinct scraping sound as the bottom of her footrests hit the concrete below. At various points, neglected shrubs and other landscaping growing over the sidewalk along private residences and the park nearly forced her into the street. On Third Street, Gabriel ran ahead and picked up a garden hose lying across the sidewalk, where someone was watering a
This spot at the corner of Cypress Street and city tree in the landscaping nearest the Woodland Avenue is one of the many obstacles street. “I’ll move it,” exclaimed the preschooler, who put the hose back once his Becky Barnes-Boers encounters on her way home. PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY mother had passed. Farther along, the corner of Woodland Avenue and Cypress Street may as well with Disabilities Act of 1990, a federal have been a cliff. A steep curb met the end civil-rights law prohibiting discrimination of the crosswalk, making the transition to against the disabled. She has encyclopethe sidewalk impossible for her to maneu- dic knowledge of it and can recite porver. Instead, she took to the street. She tions of its text, along with its associated does so at countless other spots in the city. terminology. Barnes-Boers is on a mission to gain Barnes-Boers spent years as a legal access to many of the activities able-bod- assistant at a law firm, and there’s an officeied people take for granted. Things like like feel to her home, where she keeps getting home safely on sidewalks and tak- countless documents related to the ADA. ing her son to an event at City Plaza. In For years, she has been meticulously doing so, she has studied the Americans chronicling the multitude of ways in
which Chico is out of compliance with the law, reporting them to city officials and others. But for the most part, Barnes-Boers’ says, her complaints have fallen on deaf ears. And while she isn’t an attorney, if even half of what she has reported is true, it reveals an institutional failure to comply with the law. “If, 20 years into the Americans with Disabilities Act, you don’t know it, you’re intentionally ignoring it,” she said. Her dogged pursuit started in 2007,
after she attended a public workshop of the city’s Housing and Neighborhood Services Department at a privately owned, historic downtown building not easily accessed by the disabled. The city accommodated her by
placing a ramp at the entrance to the building, where there is a large step, but no thought was given to the fact that the women’s restroom was not wheelchair accessible, which forced her to leave the meeting. Looking back, Barnes-Boers wishes she had known her rights. “I didn’t know enough to say, ‘You cannot hold a public meeting in a non-ADA-compliant building,’” she said during a recent interview at her Chico home. But she knew that it didn’t seem right, so she started familiarizing herself with the sweeping law that former President George H.W. Bush signed just more than 22 years ago, on July 26, 1990. She quickly learned that the ADA man-
dates that local government agencies with 50 or more employees undertake certain measures to aid compliance. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, this includes designating one employee as the person in charge of coordinating compliance and investigating complaints (an ADA coordinator), and having a published procedural process for members of the public who would like to file ADA complaints. Barnes-Boers found neither at the city. She started inquiring shortly after that public meeting and says nobody at the Chico Municipal Center could give her definitive answers. Instead, in January 2008, she was referred to an employee in the Risk Management Department, Jessica Henry, who she says
Barnes-Boers and son Gabriel pause in front of Ringel Park at the northern entrance to downtown. PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
blithely handed her a piece of paper, instructing her to write down all of her complaints. Barnes-Boers says she told Henry about her arthritis, and that she couldn’t write out everything. She left fuming, beyond frustrated. “Discrimination is not frustrating; it’s an illegal federal violation,” she said. “And that’s kind of what people aren’t getting here.” She worked with several other employees in Risk Management, but kept pressing the city to find out who the ADA coordinator was. “ACCESS” continued on page 22 August 9, 2012
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Local woman says Chico is failing to comply with disability laws
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B
ecky Barnes-Boers never thought she’d spend so much time being an advocate for the disabled. Then she ended up in a wheelchair. What a life-changing experience.
The 45-year-old single mom is one of the most visible and active members of the local disabled community and a familiar sight to many in Chico. On any given day, she may be spotted downtown or on the other side of town in her battery-powered wheelchair. She’s usually accompanied by her 4-year-old son, Gabriel, who walks at her side or, oftentimes, sits sweetly on her lap, his mother’s arms wrapped around him. Barnes-Boers moved from the Midwest to the North State back in 2004, first to Oroville, and then to Chico the next year. The harsh winters in northern Illinois were taking a toll on her physically, exacerbating the symptoms she suffers from fibromyalgia, rheumatoid arthritis and reflex sympathetic dystrophy, increasingly debilitating and painful conditions stemming from several accidents, including a couple of car crashes. Barnes-Boers learned about the area’s Mediterraneanlike environs, and, without knowing a soul here, packed up her belongings and headed west. Back then, she was getting around with the aid of a cane. But about six years ago, her conditions worsening, Barnes-Boers realized she needed a wheelchair. These days, her motorized chair is her main mode of transportation. Barnes-Boers may appear to get around easily, if slowly, but looks can be deceiving. 20 CN&R August 9, 2012
This reporter’s recent walk beside her in the streets east of downtown near Lower Bidwell Park was an eye-opening experience, a window into the life of someone who relies on a wheelchair for mobility. She struggled at times with uprooted sidewalks and with curb ramps with high, jutting transitions from crosswalk to sidewalk that caused a distinct scraping sound as the bottom of her footrests hit the concrete below. At various points, neglected shrubs and other landscaping growing over the sidewalk along private residences and the park nearly forced her into the street. On Third Street, Gabriel ran ahead and picked up a garden hose lying across the sidewalk, where someone was watering a
This spot at the corner of Cypress Street and city tree in the landscaping nearest the Woodland Avenue is one of the many obstacles street. “I’ll move it,” exclaimed the preschooler, who put the hose back once his Becky Barnes-Boers encounters on her way home. PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY mother had passed. Farther along, the corner of Woodland Avenue and Cypress Street may as well with Disabilities Act of 1990, a federal have been a cliff. A steep curb met the end civil-rights law prohibiting discrimination of the crosswalk, making the transition to against the disabled. She has encyclopethe sidewalk impossible for her to maneu- dic knowledge of it and can recite porver. Instead, she took to the street. She tions of its text, along with its associated does so at countless other spots in the city. terminology. Barnes-Boers is on a mission to gain Barnes-Boers spent years as a legal access to many of the activities able-bod- assistant at a law firm, and there’s an officeied people take for granted. Things like like feel to her home, where she keeps getting home safely on sidewalks and tak- countless documents related to the ADA. ing her son to an event at City Plaza. In For years, she has been meticulously doing so, she has studied the Americans chronicling the multitude of ways in
which Chico is out of compliance with the law, reporting them to city officials and others. But for the most part, Barnes-Boers’ says, her complaints have fallen on deaf ears. And while she isn’t an attorney, if even half of what she has reported is true, it reveals an institutional failure to comply with the law. “If, 20 years into the Americans with Disabilities Act, you don’t know it, you’re intentionally ignoring it,” she said. Her dogged pursuit started in 2007,
after she attended a public workshop of the city’s Housing and Neighborhood Services Department at a privately owned, historic downtown building not easily accessed by the disabled. The city accommodated her by
placing a ramp at the entrance to the building, where there is a large step, but no thought was given to the fact that the women’s restroom was not wheelchair accessible, which forced her to leave the meeting. Looking back, Barnes-Boers wishes she had known her rights. “I didn’t know enough to say, ‘You cannot hold a public meeting in a non-ADA-compliant building,’” she said during a recent interview at her Chico home. But she knew that it didn’t seem right, so she started familiarizing herself with the sweeping law that former President George H.W. Bush signed just more than 22 years ago, on July 26, 1990. She quickly learned that the ADA man-
dates that local government agencies with 50 or more employees undertake certain measures to aid compliance. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, this includes designating one employee as the person in charge of coordinating compliance and investigating complaints (an ADA coordinator), and having a published procedural process for members of the public who would like to file ADA complaints. Barnes-Boers found neither at the city. She started inquiring shortly after that public meeting and says nobody at the Chico Municipal Center could give her definitive answers. Instead, in January 2008, she was referred to an employee in the Risk Management Department, Jessica Henry, who she says
Barnes-Boers and son Gabriel pause in front of Ringel Park at the northern entrance to downtown. PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
blithely handed her a piece of paper, instructing her to write down all of her complaints. Barnes-Boers says she told Henry about her arthritis, and that she couldn’t write out everything. She left fuming, beyond frustrated. “Discrimination is not frustrating; it’s an illegal federal violation,” she said. “And that’s kind of what people aren’t getting here.” She worked with several other employees in Risk Management, but kept pressing the city to find out who the ADA coordinator was. “ACCESS” continued on page 22 August 9, 2012
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Barnes-Boers eventually took her inquiry to City Manager Dave Burkland, and about a month later he told her that Dan Fulks, the director of Human Resources and Risk Management, was the ADA coordinator. Fulks, she said, was helpful and attentive to her concerns. “That’s the essence of the ADA coordinator—so the disabled public has someone to go to,” she said. “A big part of this is just to be listened to and the whole thing taken seriously and understood.” But that assistance was short lived; Fulks left his job with the city not long after. She was subsequently referred to one person after another in Risk Management. Then, one day, Jessica Henry told her to stop calling in her complaints. Barnes-Boers asked her to put that in writing. In a letter dated Oct. 17, 2008, Henry instructed Barnes-Boers to put her accessibility concerns in writing and direct the complaints to her (Henry), with the exception of emergency situations, during which she should call her by telephone, or call Code Enforcement in the event of her absence. “This contact procedure will better enable the City accurately track [sic], process, and respond to your accessibility concerns,” Henry wrote. “It needs to be recognized that the City of Chico has been very responsive to your concerns in the past, many times immediately, that were submitted by you in writing and verbally,” she continued. “This has included having the Code Enforcement division investigate and respond to over 80 areas or issues of concern relating to accessibility. Your use of the procedure outlined above will help the City to continue to address your concerns in an effective and timely manner.” Barnes-Boers said she now realizes she should never have had any contact with Henry. The people who had helped her in Risk Management
were ADA coordinators for personnel, a position that oversees complaints regarding employment, not other types of accessibility issues. She said the city should have identified the correct ADA coordinator from the beginning, but she’s fairly certain she knows why that didn’t happen. “I don’t think they had an ADA coordinator for the public at large,” said Barnes-Boers, who had been referred to no fewer than eight people in two years’ time. Then, in a letter dated June 2, 2010, Tom Varga, the director of the city’s Capital Project Services Department, told Barnes-Boers that the formal ADA coordinator was Fritz McKinley, the director of Building and Development Services, but that the duties had been delegated to him (Vargas). Barnes-Boers has myriad
ADA complaints of multiple agencies, including the Butte County Association of Government’s BLine transit system (about noncompliant bus-stop sites) and Chico Unified School District, among others. Most of them are related to accessibility. However, one of her other main concerns is related to ADA signage. For years, she’s been documenting instances in which, she charges, construction companies have violated ADA law due to missing and incorrect signage at work sites on public property. Barnes-Boers says the city is the ADA-enforcing agency in Chico, but that she has not been able to compel city officials to force the companies to comply with the law. This, she said, is true even with city projects. In recent weeks, for example, she’s been documenting some alleged violations related to construction of the city’s First and Second streets couplet project. One such instance occurred directly in front of the CN&R offices in midJune. Barnes-Boers stopped on a nearby city sidewalk to take photo-
“First, we need to learn the ADA and stop building non-compliantly. Then we’ve got to go back and start fixing things that are non-compliant, so that everybody has access in a safe manner.” —Becky Barnes-Boers
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Four-year-old Gabriel regularly pulls hoses and other debris off of the public sidewalk, making it easier for his mother to travel. PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
graphs of the site, which was missing signage instructing the public to keep out of the area and directing them to an alternate route. Shortly thereafter, a Chico police officer showed up and questioned her about her purpose there. What most disturbed her was that the officer knew who she was. “He said to me, ‘So, you’re the one causing trouble on East Eighth and Ninth streets.’” That comment referred to the complaints Barnes-Boers had been filing with the city over the construction of Bidwell Park Apartments, a 38-unit affordable-housing project partially financed by city redevelopment funds. Her problem with that project stemmed from construction activities on both Eighth and Ninth streets blocking the entire shoulder of the roadway, a public right-of-way, without signage giving pedestrians an alternate route or efforts to provide a safe pathway around the work. Someone called the police on her there, multiple times in recent months, reporting that she was endangering her child when using her wheelchair to bypass the project. Barnes-Boers says she’s been verbally abused by workers there on several occasions while photographing the site or while going by it. Meanwhile, she’s watched the same workers cordially greet other pedestrian passersby. At one point, she asked the city to pull the company’s encroachment permits for the stretch between the roadway shoulder and the property, and also to pull its building permit. She said her concerns were not taken seriously. “What I kept saying is, if it’s unsafe for me, it’s unsafe for everybody,” she said. “Put ADA signage up warning people not to go through there.” That never happened. (Construction at the project is now largely out of the right-of-way.) Barnes-Boers, who lives a few houses down from the project, filed an “ADA request for reasonable accommodation” with the city in February. Varga, in a written response, informed BarnesBoers that, since the roadways are a portion of Highway 32, a state route, he was deferring the issue to the state of California (i.e. Caltrans). “This State highway has limited sidewalks. Most of the
highway edge is a combination of paved or gravel shoulders. …[A] shoulder is not a sidewalk and not necessarily an ADA path of travel,” he wrote. Barnes-Boers said that may be true outside of city limits, but it’s not true in this residential portion of the city. “That’s the ADA path of travel,” she said. “That’s how I have to get through.” Brannon Diones, who works as a lead investigator for ADAAC, a nonprofit ADA-accrediting and consulting company contracted with Caltrans, is very familiar with Barnes-Boers. He said the company has received hundreds of ADA requests from her, but only a small amount are within Caltrans’ jurisdiction. The others are forwarded to the city of Chico. ADAAC contracts with state and local government agencies developing on-site accessibility surveys and ADA transition plans, and works with the public to investigate ADA requests. Diones said compliance with the law varies greatly depending on locale. “We’ve called cities where they don’t have ADA coordinators; they don’t even know what they are,” he said. Conversely, some municipalities, such as the Sacramento suburb of Citrus Heights, are completely on board with efforts to achieve compliance.
Diones said some people consider accessibility complaints a nuisance, but those same individuals should keep in mind that disabilities can happen to anyone at anytime. “If people don’t really shift their mentality when it comes to the ADA, nothing’s going to get done,” he said. Barnes-Boers has been mak-
ing her concerns more visible lately, by attending public meetings and voicing them to city leaders, always speaking calmly and distinctly and never raising her voice. At the June 5 City Council meeting, for example, she spoke about an agenda item in which the panel was considering a change in funding sources allocated to Habitat for Humanity of Butte County for its East 19th Street subdivision in Chapmantown. Barnes-Boers pointed out that the homes in the project, which sits down the street from her son’s preschool, are being constructed without sidewalks and curbs. “I went down 19th Street, and you’ve not put in sidewalks and curbs. You have the street and then a gutter … and I object to that. … “And as a disabled person, I object to no sidewalks being put in for the safety of the public in general, especially the disabled public that you are now turning around and continuing to put on the streets. I am hearing from the Chapmantown
neighborhood that those are the way they want their streets—they don’t want sidewalks put in—but they don’t exclusively get to make those decisions. You need to hear from your disabled public also….” Barnes-Boers is careful to note that her only problem with the project is its lack of safe accessibility. The same is true of her concerns surrounding the construction activities at Bidwell Park Apartments. “Thirty-eight families deserve to live in that complex,” she said. Barnes-Boers has made
progress with another agency when it comes to ADA compliance. In April, she was informed that the U.S. Department of Education’s Office of Civil Rights had concluded an investigation into the Chico Unified School District based on ADA complaints she had filed with the agency. As usual, Barnes-Boers had attempted to work with CUSD before filing her grievances. She had asked that the district provide a ramp on the north side of Chapman Elementary School, where her son attends the Head Start program, because she was forced to enter the campus by traveling upon vehicular pathways. When the district refused to accommodate her, and instead instructed her to use the street and then the school’s parking lot to gain access, Barnes-Boers began looking for additional violations elsewhere at the school, along with the District Office on East Seventh Street, and also at the Corporation Yard, a place she had been referred to during her effort to gain access to the school. In each case, the OCR found valid grievances. The case has concluded with a resolution agreement between CUSD and the OCR in which the district has agreed to myriad changes to correct the issues, including repairing the gaps and cracks along the pathways leading to the Head Start classroom, and providing an accessible pedestrian route from the sidewalk at the District Office to the ADA entrance at the rear of the old building.
require ADA signage to be placed at their own job sites, does not work with the disabled public to create alternate paths of travel and has not responded to or implemented my ADA Request for Reasonable Accommodation to do so submitted in 2010 and rediscussed in 2011,” reads part of the document. Among her complaints is that the city has not adequately updated its ADA Transition Plan, an evaluation that typically determines to what extent individuals with disabilities have restricted access to city activities, policies, programs and facilities. Chico’s plan, first implemented around 1995, covered only municipal buildings and properties. In 2009, in response to a DOJ complaint by another disabled resident, a separate document was constructed to include portions of the city’s public rights-of-way. In it, 1,800 separate locations were identified as needing corrections. However, it did not include a reassessment of city buildings and properties. As Barnes-Boers pointed out, ADA has been updated quite a bit in the last 17 years, meaning those facilities need correcting, too. Moreover, she maintains that there are recent city projects that haven’t been built to ADA standards, including portions of City Plaza and the newly built public restrooms in Lower Bidwell Park. “First, we need to learn the ADA and stop building non-compliantly,” she said. “That would be the first step forward. Then we’ve got to go back and start fixing things that are non-compliant, so that everybody has access in a safe manner.” Varga, the city’s ADA coordi-
nator, said the city is in the process of updating its original transition plan. In the meantime, he said, the city is working to fix deficiencies. He said that the plan will not include every single issue—or, as he put it: “It’s not a grocery list of every item that needs to be addressed.” “Really, the transition plan is a convenient way of accumulating the priorities,” he said. The 2009 plan is also getting an update. That document, he said, did
Currently, Barnes-Boers
is awaiting word on another complaint, this one with the U.S. Department of Justice, over dozens of alleged ADA violations within the city. She filed the complaint in March as a last resort after nearly five years of attempting to work with city officials, Barnes-Boers noted. In it, she takes the city to task: “The City of Chico condones discrimination of the public around their own job sites and does not
Top: Uprooted sidewalks like the one pictured here in May at the corner of East Sixth and Cypress streets make certain areas impassible for Barnes-Boers. PHOTO BY MELISSA DAUGHERTY
Below: The city of Chico recently fixed this corner, flattening the area that the giant sycamore had affected and putting in new sidewalks, including truncated domes, a textured-surface feature warning the visually impaired of the oncoming street. PHOTO BY KYLE DELMAR
not set aside a list of ADA projects. Rather, it was designed to make sure that ADA is a part of all capital projects, including the couplet project. He pointed to other already completed major improvements, such as the Fifth Avenue project (between The Esplanade and Mangrove Avenue). Varga sent a member of his staff to determine whether the city’s new public restrooms at the park are compliant with ADA standards, and said he can say definitively that they are. He is also looking into BarnesBoers’ concerns about City Plaza; whether it was compliant when built, and, if that has changed, what an appropriate solution might be. He pointed out that the ADA is constantly evolving and said it’s one of the most difficult sets of laws to keep up with. “What I thought I
knew clearly six months ago has changed, and I need to update my knowledge about that,” he said. Varga acknowledged that the city is in charge of ensuring that proper ADA signage is put up at construction projects, and maintains that, overall, this is occurring. He said there are times when the signage gets disturbed, which presents an ongoing challenge. He also said that, sometimes, Barnes-Boers’ requests go beyond what’s legally required. “She has a set of personal preferences that she would like to see, but those aren’t necessarily ADA standards,” said Varga, who has nearly 30 years’ experience in the public-works business. Varga confirmed that he took over the role of ADA coordinator in response to Barnes-Boers’ com-
Join the fight:
Becky Barnes-Boers recently started attending D.O.G. f .I.T.E. of Chico’s monthly meetings. The group’s name is an acronym for Disability Organizing Group for Initiating Total Equality. The meetings are organized by the nonprofit Independent Living Services of Northern California. Go to www.ilsnc.org to learn more about the group, or attend its next meeting on Monday, Aug. 13, at 4 p.m., at Independent Living Services, 1161 East Ave.
plaints. “She found a shortcoming, and we adapted and fixed it,” he said. And since then, he maintains, the city has responded adequately to her concerns, pointing to extensive records of correspondence. “We do respond to her quite regularly, and sometimes she does not find the responses up to her standards,” he said. He also maintains that the city is knowledgeable about the law and is implementing it aggressively. Barnes-Boers thinks otherwise, and is hopeful that the DOJ complaint will resolve the issue. However, in the meantime, she feels compelled to continue reporting alleged cases of non-compliance. Last week, she spent considerable time near the intersection of West First and Salem streets, where the roadways are torn up for one of the first portions of the downtown couplet project. She informed the city about multiple issues, including a lack of signage at certain street corners indicating an ADA path of travel, and areas cordoned off in such ways that only ambulatory pedestrians could pass through. While there, she saw two city of Chico building inspectors on site. Barnes-Boers said the city’s apathy has set a bad example for the private contractors it hires and has put her in a position of calling the companies herself. She doesn’t want to do that. In fact, she said she cringes each time before approaching anyone about issues she considers violations. While Barnes-Boers and Varga say they have a cordial relationship, elsewhere, she’s seen little compassion from those she’s encountered. Many people have been extremely defensive, and oftentimes downright cruel. She’s been insulted, ignored and belittled. Still, she wants to be helpful, and is willing to work with anyone. Most important, she refuses to give up. “I don’t want an apology,” she said. “I just want them to start taking the steps forward to correcting things.” Ω August 9, 2012
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Arts & Culture Anthony Varicelli (left) as host Lamar Heddy in Radioland’s 1949 Cavalcade of Stars. The three players in Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh: (below, from left) Matt Hammons as Alexis, Hannah Knight as Marie Antoinette and Ashley Garlick as Elisabeth.
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PHOTOS BY JERRY MILLER
THIS WEEK
Music, Shakespeare and an ill-fated queen mark 23rd year of summertheater fest
T seems particularly fond of stalking community-theater musicals, always lurkhe phantom of local yokelry
ing in the wings intent on tainting the best-intended productions; it takes a particuby Ken Smith larly powerful collection of talent to ward off its kens@ unwanted influence. newsreview.com Fortunately, Jerry Miller, primary organizer behind the Chico Summer fest Summer Theatre FestiChico Summer val, assembled such a Theatre Festival group for Radioland’s continues with one 1949 Cavalcade of final show at the Stars, which kicked off Chico Women’s Club, Marie Antoinette: the festival’s 23rd year The Color of Flesh, last Thursday (Aug. 2) Thursday-Saturday, at the Chico Women’s Aug. 9-11, Club. (Great Moments 7:30 p.m., with with Shakespeare, eight matinees Saturday & Sunday, scenes of the Bard’s Aug. 11 & 12, greatest hits, ran for two 2 p.m. Come early nights only—Tuesday for free children’s and Wednesday—and puppet theatre on Marie Antoinette: The the patio. Tickets: $15/adults; $5/kids Color of Flesh will 12-under. Available at begin tonight and run Lyon Books, online at through Sunday.) www.totr.org, or at In a phone interview the door (add $5). before I attended the Chico Saturday matinee perWomen’s Club formance of Radioland, 592 E. Third St. Miller—who wrote and directed the show with longtime collaborator Marcel Daguerre as musical director and arranger—promised a “big rolling barrel of fun. “It’s a joy for us to put on, getting all these amazing people together to sing great songs and do comedy,” he continued. “There’s a feeling of lightness, even for the actors. Since it’s a radio show there’s no blocking, they’re just at their 24 CN&R August 9, 2012
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THURS mics reading and having a really good time with it.” Miller said the fest’s performers—more than three score volunteers contributing to all three productions—represent the cream of Chico’s theater crop. As promised, Radioland was a hoot. Presented in old-timey variety radio show fashion, a group of consummate singers and actors called the Sophisticated Six anchored the action, reading tongue-in-cheek serials such as “The Adventures of the Scarlet Ranger” and “Zap Flanagan, Spaceketeer,” humorous ads and jingles and musical performances from a cavalcade of Chico’s finest backed by a five-piece live band, Lord Windsmere and the Windbreakers. Further aural stimulation came by way of sound effects by Thomas Billheimer III and Tom Billheimer II— including a theremin to approximate spaceship sounds and banging pots and pans to simulate a robot battle—and added greatly to the show. There was plenty of double entendre and ribald humor, much of it punctuated by perfectly placed winks and hip bumps courtesy of Arin Larson’s bombshell Bonnie “Baby” Dahl. Other highlights were Bavarian folk act The Kraukaiser Singers (Shauna, Christa and Terra Jones with the hilarious Judy Clemens) and Loki Miller and band performing as Luke and the Drifters (one of Hank Williams’ favored alter egos), reprising roles they played in the Blue Room’s Lost Highway. Great Moments with Shake-
speare was directed by Jeff Dickenson and included scenes from As You Like It, The Two Noble Kinsmen, Measure for Measure, Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, Henry IV Part 1 and Much Ado About Nothing. The Shakespeare show took the
festival back to its roots, as it originally began as Shakespeare in the Park—first in Bidwell Park, then in the City Plaza. “Since we left the plaza we ceased to be Shakespeare in the anything,” Miller said. “It wasn’t so much a matter of making sure we did some Shakespeare as it was the individual director’s choice. We also really wanted to have something for everyone, and I think we have that covered—comedy and music with Radioland, the classics with Shakespeare, and high drama with Marie Antoinette.” Miller was particularly excited about the festival-closer, which he is also directing. Marie Antoinette: The Color of Flesh was written by Joel Gross and focuses on a love triangle between the ill-fated queen (played by Hannah Knight), her historical friend and portrait artist, Elisabeth Vigée Le Brun (Ashley Garlick), and the fictitious playboy, Count Alexis de Ligne (Matt Hammons). “I got my dream cast, and the material is just so good that it’s going to be a really beautiful, poetic production,” Miller said. “We re-envisioned how to set up the theater for the show. It’s on the floor and seating had to be cut in half. It’s a very intimate and in-your-face setup. It will be almost like being a voyeur in the bedroom, you’ll be right there with them.” The play may also be Miller’s last contribution to the Summer Theatre Festival, leaving the future of the event in uncertainty: “I am retiring from the festival,” he said, noting that he is the artistic director at Theatre on the Ridge and directs and teaches at Butte College. “Between the three projects I just don’t have the time to produce the festival, and I have not been able to find anyone either interested enough or foolish enough to take over the reins … 16 years is enough for me.” Ω
Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown Chico’s weekly marketplace with local produce, vendors, entertainment and music. This week, a dance showcase with Chico Hula Club, acoustic guitar with Bob McDaniel and ukelele wizardry from Bella’s Uke. Th, 6-9pm. Prices vary. Downtown Chico; www.downtownchico.net.
OPEN MIC: COMEDY: Everyone is welcome to try their hand at stand-up comedy. Th, 8/9, 8-10pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
Music CONCERTS IN THE PARK: The Feather River Gypsies perform at the FRRPD’s weekly Concerts in the Park series. Festivities include food, raffle prizes and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/9, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011; www.frrpd.com.
PINK FLOYD LASER SPECTACULAR: The music of the prog-rock legends happens to go well with a brain-frying laser show. Be sure to arrive comfortably numb. Th, 8/9, 8:30pm. $17. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.
Theater CLUE THE MUSICAL: A fun-filled musical bringing the world’s bestknown suspects to life and inviting the audience to help solve the mystery: Who killed Mr. Boddy? Th-Sa, 7:30pm; Su, 2pm through 8/19. $12-$20. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
HARRY SQUIGGLES: SECRET AGENT 059: The Blue Room Youth Theatre’s Young Company presents Harry Squiggles, the tale of a dingbat super-spy and his nemesis, Dr. Bigboy. Order tickets by phone. 8/98/11, 7pm; 8/10-8/11, 2pm. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.
BERRY CREEK BERRY FESTIVAL Saturday, Aug. 11 Berry Creek Grange
SEE SATURDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS
FINE ARTS Music DAY OF MUSIC FUNDRAISER: A showcase of local
LAST STAND OPEN MIC Thursday, Aug. 9 Café Flo
music to benefit the Boys and Girls Club. The bill will include performances by Accent Music Academy, Pyrx, The Hooliganz, The Melodramatics, Twisted Strategies, Furlough Fridays and more. Sa, 8/11, 12-8pm. Donations. Downtown City Plaza; 418 Main St.; (707) 5707617; www.bgcnv.org.
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SEE THURSDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS
CLUE THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
HARRY SQUIGGLES: SECRET AGENT 059: See MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH: A dramatic love triangle set during the turbulent years around the French Revolution, as part of Chico Summer Theatre Festival. 8/9-8/11, 7:30pm; 8/11-8/12, 2pm. $5-$20. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.chicotix.com.
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HARRY SQUIGGLES: SECRET AGENT 059: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.
MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.chicotix.com.
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MOVIES IN THE PARK: Oroville’s weekly outdoor
movie series continues with Kung Fu Panda 2. F, 8/10, 6:30pm. Free. Bicentennial Park; Downtown Oroville in Oroville; (530) 538-2542.
STANSBURY HOME ICE CREAM SOCIAL: Featuring gelato from Powell’s Sweet Shoppe, informal tours and an art glass raffle. F, 8/10, 6pm. $3$5. Stansbury House; 307 W. Fifth St. On the corner of Salem and 5th street; (530) 8953848.
ARTABOUT ART WALK: It’s the Uptown edition of ChiVAA’s monthly art walk. F, 8/10, 5-8pm. Multiple locations. Visit website for details. www.chivaa.org.
THE BAG O’ JUNK SHOW: An open-entry exhibition and reception featuring work produced from “high-grade” bags of junk provided by Manas with live music, refreshment and junk games. F, 8/10, 8pm. Manas Art Space & Gallery; 1441 C Park Ave.; (530) 588-5183.
Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE ALICE PEAKE EXPERIENCE: The weekly concert series continues
Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.chicotix.com.
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BERRY CREEK BERRY FESTIVAL: Live music with Jim Halsey and Lee Side Riders, food and craft booths, an art show, kid’s activities, 600 blackberry pies and more to benefit Berry Creek’s Volunteer Fire Company, scholarships for Berry Creek grads, the Grange and other local projects. Sa, 8/11, 10am-4pm. Prices vary. Berry Creek Grange; 1477 Bald Rock Rd. in Berry Creek; (530) 589-5380; www.berry creekca.org.
fashioned cowboy cooking as Dutch Oven chefs from California and Nevada compete in this judged contest. Festivities include samplings, drawings and a silent auction to benefit the Boys and Girls Club and the Gold Nugget Museum. Sa, 8/11, 10am-8pm. $5. Gold Nugget Museum; 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise; (530) 521-1984; www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.
SUMMER SIZZLER 5K/10K RUN: A scorching run through Bidwell Park with both 5K and 10K options to benefit North Valley Animal Disaster Group, Chico Sunrise Rotary Club, Wings of Eagles and Far West Heritage Association. Visit Fleet Feet (241 Main St.) or go online to register. Sa, 8/11, 8am. $30-$40. Cedar Grove; Lower Bidwell Park; (530) 8967800; www.fleetfeetchico.com/races/ summer-sizzler-10k.
Violinist Michael Eby, tenor Alex Frankel and pianist Dr. Robert Bowman perform to benefit the Torres Homeless Shelter. Su, 8/12, 3pm. Donations. St Johns Evangelist Episcopal Church; 2341 Floral Ave.; (530) 521-2518.
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: Chico Icons: Endangered!, an exhibition of over 30 artists depicting endangered natural and man-made Chico landmarks. Through 9/1. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.
BLOODSOURCE: 2D for the Show 2, an exhibition of submitted art on the back of 1078’s invitation cards, which will be sold at a culminating reception on Aug. 18. 8/9-8/18. 555 Rio Lindo Ave., (530) 893-5433.
CLUE THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F, (530) 894-3282, www.chicotheatercompany.com.
MARIE ANTOINETTE: THE COLOR OF FLESH: See Thursday. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 894-1978, www.chicotix.com.
Auditions CHICO COMMUNITY BALLET AUDITIONS: For boys and girls aged 6 to 18. Call for more info. Su, 8/12, 1-5pm. $10. Chico Creek Dance Centre; 1144 W. First St.; (530) 893-9028.
SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Americana: Red,
White & Blue, art done in watercolor, pastel, oil and collages. Through 8/31. 493 East Ave. #1, (530) 345-3063.
Call for Artists CATALYST DOMESTIC VIOLENCE EXHIBIT: All mediums will be accepted and should reflect the theme “In Honor of Love: Separate Identities and Equal Partners.” Call or email to submit art of for more information. Through 10/5. Catalyst, 330 Wall St. 40, (530) 343-7711, www.catalystdv services.org.
BOHO: Stay Up Fly On, artwork by Christian
Garcia. Ongoing. 225 Main St. D, (530) 8953282.
CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Art Center
Discovery Series II, exhibiting four contemporary artists drawn from around the nation—Fidalis Buehler, Pancho Jimenez, Gina Tecson, and Steven Wilson. Through 8/18. Free. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.
CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Dragonflies and Damselflies, a photo exhibit by Robert Woodward. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.
GYPSY ROSE SALON: Christian Marquez, a three-artist show including paintings by Christian Marquez. Ongoing. 151 Broadway St, Chico, CA, (530) 891-4247.
HEALING ART GALLERY: Cancer Exhibit, by
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Colusa St. Bottom floor of Orland Laurel Masonic Lodge Building in Orland.
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.
LOTT HOME IN SANK PARK: Hand Fan Display, a display of hand fans of all eras and purposes at the historic Victorian home, circa 1856. Through 9/3. 1067 Montgomery St. in Oroville, (530) 538-2497.
JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS: David Hoppe Paintings & Prints, David Hoppe’s latest combination of modern surreal and realist styles. Through 9/28. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.jamessnidlefinearts.com.
ORLAND CENTER FOR THE ARTS & GALLERY: Annual Group Exhibit, featuring 24 local and regional artists. Through 8/25. 431
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RAT PACK SOCIAL: A classy, 1950s throwback night at LaSalle’s hosted by The Hooliganz, complete with a Frank Sinatra playlist and formal attire. Email to RSVP. M, 8/13, 9pm. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
THEORY OF A DEADMAN: Polished post-grunge alternative rock in the same vein as Nickelback. Like-minded acts Aranda and Charm City Devils open. F, 8/10, 8pm. $23. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.
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characters populate thirty-six humorous stories in Dave Kilbourne’s new book, Miss Gladys and the Pit Bull Barracuda. Tu, 8/14, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books; 121 W. Fifth St.; (530) 891-3338; www.lyonbooks.com.
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One person’s junk … For its first open-entry exhibition—The Bag O’ Junk Show—not only will the new MANAS Art Space be showcasing works fashioned from materials from “highgrade bags of junk” that the gallery distributed to potential artists, but the opening itself is grab-bag of arts-and-music fun. Highlights EDITOR’S PICK for the Friday, Aug. 10, reception include a junk show-andtell, live music by Ernesto Alvarado, Ayrian Dilts and Dream Weapon and an interactive junk installation by gallery co-founder Dragonboy entitled, “Princess Chelsea’s Floating Empire.”
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BULLETIN BOARD Community AFRO CARIBBEAN DANCE: Dances of Cuba, Haiti, Brazil and
West Africa with live drumming. Tu, 5:30pm. Chico Womens Club, 592 E. Third St., (530) 345-6324.
ALTERNATIVES TO TOXICS WORKSHOPS: Two workshops, the first covering health hazards presented by common household products and the second covering chemical treatment of yard and garden. Call to register. Tu, 8/14, 2-3:30 & 45:30pm. Feather River Hospital Wellness Center, 5734 Canyon View Dr. in Paradise, (530) 876-7154.
BEGINNER / RECOVERY MOUNTAIN BIKE RIDE: A weekly beginSpecial Pride Festival Performance by
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ning 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://northrimadventure.com.
CARIBOU WILDERNESS HIKE: A 4.5 mile hike through Caribou Wilderness bordering Lassen National Park. Bring lunch, water, sun protection and appropriate clothing. Su, 8/12, 8am. Free. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 893-5123.
CHICO CONTRA DANCE: Traditional contra dance with music by the Pub Scouts. Second Sa of every month, 6:30pm. $4-$8. Chico Grange, 2775 Nord Ave., (530) 877-2930.
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.
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CHICO POLICE COMMUNITY ADVISORY BOARD: Monthly meeting hosted by the Chico Police Chief to discuss community issues. Third W of every month, 5:30-7pm. Seventh Day Adventist Church, 1877 Hooker Oak Ave., (530) 342-7777.
CREATING THE NEW WORLD WORKSHOP: A workshop outlining a locally autonomous, globally coherent world-building movement. Go online to register. Sa, 8/11, 10am-6pm. Free. Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 895-4711, http://ctnwchico.event brite.com.
DANCE SANCTUARY WAVE: Bring a water bottle, drop your
mind, free your feet and your spirit. Call for directions. Tu, 6:30-8:30pm. $10. Call for details, 8916524.
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Saturday, Aug. 11 Paradise Senior Center SEE COMMUNITY
stellations. Bring a blanket, lawn chair, beverage and a snack. Sa, 8/11, 8pm-midnight. $5. Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, 3521 Hwy 32 14 miles east of Chico, (530) 898-5010, www.csuchico.edu/bccer/public_use/hikes.shtml.
SAMARITAN FREE CLINIC: This clinic offers free basic medical care and mental health counseling. Call for more information. Su, 2-4pm. Free. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Dr. Next to Long’s Drugstore in Paradise, 872-7085.
SOUL SHAKE DANCE CHURCH: Drop your mind, find your feet and free you spirit at this DJ dance wave to a range of musical styles. No previous dance experience necessary.
Su, 10am-noon. $8-$15 sliding scale. Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 891-6524.
SUMMER CLASSIC BLOOD DRIVE: Bring a photo ID and drink plenty of fluids before donating blood. Blood drive also held at 1705 Manzanita Avenue. Call or go online to schedule an appointment. F, 8/10, 6am-6pm. BloodSource, 555 Rio Lindo Ave., (866) 822-5663.
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.csuchico.edu/ reading.
FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods, honey, fruits and
SURVIVING & THRIVING: A presentation designed for those
FARMERS MARKET: OROVILLE: Produce and fresh food vendors
TIE DYE IN THE PARK: Tie dye techniques with Tamara. F, 1-
veggies, crafts and more. Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Municipal Parking Lot on Second and Wall streets, (530) 893-3276.
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) 879-5303.
FAVORITE GARDEN DELIGHTS: Community members will share their favorite heart-healthy summer garden recipes. Bring your extra summer produce for the group. M, 8/13, 1011am. Free. Enloe Outpatient, 888 Lakeside Village Commons Dr., (530) 343-2000.
FOLK DANCING: Teaching during the first hour, followed by
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YOGA ON THE RIDGE
request dancing. No partners necessary. Call for more information. F, 8pm through 8/10. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.
FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor medical ail-
ments. Call for more info. Su, 1-4pm. Free. Shalom Free Clinic, 1190 E. First Ave. Corner of Downing and E. 1st Ave, (530) 518-8300, www.shalomfreeclinic.org.
GOLF FOR VETERANS: A program to help combat veterans
socialize with other veterans on the links. Ongoing. Free. Call for details, (530) 899-8549.
HERBALIST TALK: A presentation by Harry Chrissakis, C.M.T. natural healing, who will discuss the use of herbs before, during and after cancer treatment. Second Th of every month, 6:30-7:30pm. Free. Chico Public Library, corner of E. First & Sherman Avenues, (530) 933-8244.
HIKE & SWIM: A drive and hike to a wild swimming location within an hour of Chico to escape the summer heat. Call for more info. Su, 8/12, 9am. Free. Chico Park & Ride, Hwy 99 & E. Eighth St., (530) 872-8258.
who have suffered through recent loss or turmoil looking to enhance their outlook and learn to cope. Through 9/25, 6-7:30pm. Lakeside Pavilion, 179 E. 19th St., 895-4711.
4pm. Free. One Mile Recreation Area, Bidwell Park, (312) 415-8461.
TOXINS AND MARINE LIFE PRESENTATION: Stephen Arrington, chief diver and expedition leader the Cousteau Society, presents on the impact of toxic pollutants on whales and dolphins. Sa, 8/11, 7pm. Paradise Seventh-day Adventist Church, 5720 Academy Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-4454, www.paradiseadventistchurch.org.
YOGA ON THE RIDGE: An all-day yoga festival to benefit the
Paradise Ridge Senior Center. Go online for more info. Sa, 8/11, 7am-7pm. $75-$85. Paradise Ridge Senior Center, 877 Nunneley Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-1733, http://yogaon theridge.org.
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, 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.oroville ymca.org.
SEWING, KNITTING & CRAFTS CLASSES FOR KIDS: Classes for kids hosted by Earth Girl Art. Go online for class schedule.
Ongoing. Earth Girl Art, 3851 Morrow Ln., (530) 354-2680, www.earthgirlart.com.
LATIN DANCE CLASS: A fun, friendly dance class open to all
ages. No partner required. Tu, 7pm-midnight through 12/18. Free. AMF Orchard Lanes, 2397 Esplande, (530) 354-3477.
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) 872-6320, www.buttecounty.net/bclibrary/Paradise.htm.
PERSEID METEOR SHOWER VIEWING: Join BCCER staff in exploring the night sky, identifying stars, planets and con-
MORE ONLINE Additional listings for local meetings, support groups, classes, yoga, meditation and more can be found online at www.newsreview.com/chico/local/calendar.
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Cool breeze in a bowl Henri fights the summer heat with his homemade gazpacho
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excess—in love, food and drink— are of lazy summer days explorby ing Barcelona’s Henri Bourride Barrio Gótico, hbourride@ yahoo.com the city’s Gothic Quarter. The crooked, Medieval cobblestone streets and alleys held mystery and surprise—the sweet, lilting melody of a street musician’s violin drifting in and out of shadows, a tiny, rarebook store, its window clouded from dust and smoke stains, an old blind vendor selling scarves, an absinthe bar, the Picasso museum and balconies with wrought-iron railings and bougainvillea cascading from earthenware pots. And then, suddenly, around a corner: a small café with a couple of tables on the sidewalk outside and a dark Catalan boywaiter, with a cigarette and starched white shirt, leaning against the little restaurant’s ancient stone doorway. A brief rest and a bite to eat. A glass of chilled white wine and a bowl of Gazpacho Andaluz. Then later, perhaps, a nap. The classic Spanish gazpacho originated in Andalusia, in southern Spain, where the cold, puréed soup helped ward off the area’s notoriously blistering summer heat. Served with a wide array of garnishes—from hard-boiled eggs to bell peppers—it’s found on menus and in kitchens today from Sevilla and the Costa del Sol to Cadaqués and San Sebastián, as well as in Portugal. It’s also become popular in California, which shares Iberia’s Mediterranean
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climate and where the soup’s ingredients grow bountifully. Although tomatoes are a key ingredient in most gazpacho recipes, the soup dates from long before tomatoes were brought to Europe from the New World. Originally, the principal ingredients were stale bread, garlic, olive oil and vinegar. In fact, tomatoes are still not included in some Andalusian gazpachos, including “white gazpacho,” made with almonds. Other variations include non-puréed, chunky gazpacho, as well as gazpacho manchego, from La Mancha, a warm stew made with rabbit and game birds. Chico might be the perfect town for Gazpacho Andaluz. Not only does the summer heat prescribe it, but nearly all the ingredients are grown locally and are available—fresh and inexpensive—at the farmers’ markets in town. Bell peppers, cucumbers, garlic and, of course, the red juicy tomatoes—for around $10, you can buy everything you need. Henri has found that the markets’ sweet Armenian cucumbers work wonderfully in his basic recipe. Paired with an appropriate beverage—and perhaps a nap—a big bowl of gazpacho can deliver at least partial relief from the heat of a Chico summer afternoon. The following is Henri’s basic recipe for gazpacho, which L. used to call “the salad you drink.” Feel free to experiment, especially with garnishes.
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Garnishes: Cucumbers, bell peppers (all colors), onions, avocado, celery, chives, parsley, croutons, hard-boiled eggs, ham Cut the tomatoes into quarters. Peel and seed the cucumber, and cut into bite-sized chunks. Remove the stem from the bell pepper, and slice. Chop onion and garlic. Purée all vegetables in a blender or food processor, then pour into a large bowl. Add oil, vinegar, salt, and whisk until smooth. Add ice water (with the ice cubes), and stir. Transfer to large glass pitcher, and chill in refrigerator. Cut your chosen garnish ingredients into small, bite-sized pieces and place in small, individual bowls. When gazpacho is chilled, whisk again, and serve. Top with at least three or four of the different garnishes and salt and pepper to taste. Note: Despite Henri’s penchant for Bordeaux, he prefers a lighter, drier wine with gazpacho. For authenticity, try a crisp rose (a pink Spanish rosado) or a fino sherry (Manzanilla). Gazpacho also pairs well with a light, dry Riesling or a Chenin blanc. Better yet, a sparkling wine. Henri’s recommendation: Blanc de Noirs from Gloria Ferrer, the Sonoma vineyard and winery that traces its origins to 19th-century Spain. Ω This article originally appeared in the July 3, 2008, issue of the CN&R.
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Preserving place Artists focus on Chico’s ‘Endangered Icons’ for annual Avenue 9 Gallery exhibit
“Ohouses, Layers of Time,” a water-media painting by Dolores range Street Ware-
Mitchell, renders a vision of the iconic Chico buildings marked with telling blurby Willow Sharkey riness. A mixture of hazy grays and bursts of bright color, made with expressionistic watercolor brushstrokes, the warehouses, long a REVIEW: Chico Icons runs staple of Chico’s through Sept. 1 west side, emerge at Avenue 9 as closer to a Gallery. dreamy reminisHours: cence than a docWed.-Sat., noon-5 p.m. ument of a real place. Like many Avenue 9 works in Avenue Gallery 9 Gallery’s cur180 E. 9th St. rent exhibition, 879-1821 www.avenue9 Chico Icons, gallery.com Mitchell’s piece gives us a picture of an integral community landmark that appears in danger of only existing as a fading memory, ever harder to hold onto. This year’s Chico Icons exhibit is the ninth showing in an annual series at Avenue 9 Gallery. Taking “Endangered Icons” as its theme, the show gives glimpses into the many ways in which to engage with life in Chico, and the need for efforts toward preservation of its 28 CN&R August 9, 2012
local histories and public monuments. Many local artists, working in an array of mediums, have contributed, each honing in on different aspects of structures and places that could be in need of closer communal attention and support. In some works artists provide visual meditations on fragmented portions of iconic Chico spots, offering fresh impressions of dusty haunts so familiar as to seem beyond notice. To see “Washington and the Esplanade (Veterans Memorial Hall)” through the eyes of watercolorist Cynthia Sexton is to notice the richness of the building’s brick-red accents setting off against the warm, soft-yellow coloring of its as yet still-standing pillars. Peter Hogue’s wistful, comic photographs offer up images that suggest tiny pieces of much larger possible narrative arcs. A close-up of a mysterious corner of the city seems to say, “If only you were there” at this special “Auto Rest on Broadway” (as the title of the photo calls it) one long-ago hot eve (or maybe, if only we could somehow experience new, electric encounters in such special local spots in great, future, halcyon days). Twilight and the moon are frequently recurring motifs, as in Linda Smith’s “Red Sky over Bidwell’ and Richard Baldy’s “Moon over post office.” As such, the tone of the show is equal parts romantic reverence for the seasonal beauties
of the local natural and urban landscapes, and elegiac lament for the aspects of all that could easily vanish. The Renaissance-inspired architecture of the downtown post office, the much beloved Bidwell Mansion, the terrain of Bidwell Park and land along the Sacramento River are all neglected to varying degrees, through lack of funding, maintenance and general care. Here, each place is given time and careful, painterly attention, either with intimate detail or greater abstraction, but always with a tendency to translate the local with tenderness and devotion. This Chico Icons show takes on a quiet urgency, and not just in giving over its attention to what is at stake for the community in regard to its endangered monuments and special lands. The apparent immediacy is also in its affirming belief that one of art’s continued functions in a community is giving form and sensibility to a particular place. Much like David Hockney’s paintings give unique color and shape to visions of L.A. life, and Richard Diebenkorn and Wayne Thiebaud provide complex insights into the workings of Bay Area social life and landscape, these works on view at Avenue 9 contribute to the historical present of life in the Sacramento Valley, and it is up to the viewers whether these are pictures of what is inevitably fleeting, or what we will, together, Ω continue to preserve.
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Dave Kilbourne Flying Pig Press The Miss Gladys of Dave Kilbourne’s delightful collection of 35 loosely autobiographical stories is Gladys Mae Kilbourne, the author’s “Sainted Mother” and the main character in the title story. It’s about the time she competed—most reluctantly—in the Georgetown (S.C.) Fishing Rodeo and took home the first-place ribbon after catching a barracuda that (the author insists) weighed more than she did. A photo of her and her then 10-year-old son on their boat graces the cover. Eventually the author grew up, moved around a lot and did a bunch of different jobs, from fire lookout to swampsnake exterminator, before landing in Chico. There he opened a candle store with his “previous, first, ex and only wife, Nancy Lynne Quiggle,” and later found his cherished spot in the Church of the Holy Nectar, aka the Sierra Nevada Taproom and Restaurant, “back by the pizza oven,” where he composed these pretty tall tales that he swears are mostly true. What they are is mostly funny and sometimes downright hilarious. Kilbourne is a Southern humorist in the tradition of Mark Twain, Roy Blount Jr. and Dave Barry, which is to say he’s not afraid to make stuff up if it suits his comedic purpose. I laughed out loud quite a few times, and quietly chuckled pretty much all the way through.
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Aimer et Perdre: To Love and To Lose, Songs, 1917-1934 Various artists Tompkins Square Dom Flemons touted this double album on his Facebook page, and when it comes to music, I’m inclined to check out what guys like him recommend. Flemons is one of the Carolina Chocolate Drops, and he knows a thing or two about authentic musical Americana. And he sure was right about Aimer et Perdre, which is the latest in Tompkins Square’s Long Gone Sounds series. I can’t remember ever seeing such a gorgeous presentation of music. The CDs are encased in a booklet beautifully illustrated with photos and drawings, some of them by R. Crumb, a guy who aficionados of old-time music know as the leader of the Cheap Suit Serenaders, a band devoted to resurrecting forgotten music from the 1920s. This is an eclectic batch of 36 songs that provides an aural window to the past, featuring Ukrainian dance bands, all-but-forgotten early Cajun and Creole players, Polish ensembles from Chicago and even an early Carter family cut. If I had to pick a favorite, it might be “Never Let the Same Bee Sting You Twice,” by Richard “Rabbit” Brown, but everything here is interesting, musically, historically and sociologically.
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NIGHTLIFE
9THURSDAY 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.
GREAT ELK: Sad, sparse and heartfelt indie rock out of Brooklyn. Th, 8/9, 7:30pm. $5-$10. 1078 Gallery; 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.
MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical guitarist Matteo plays film scores and
THEORY OF A DEADMAN Friday, Aug. 10 Senator Theatre
light classics. Th, 6pm. Free. Angelos Cucina Trinacria; 407 Walnut St.; (530) 899-9996.
MCBRIDE BROTHERS: 60s rock ‘n’ roll and Americana covers. Th, 8/9, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles; 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.
OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: The Feather River Gypsies perform at the FRRPD’s weekly Concerts in the Park series. Festivities include food, raffle prizes and a bounce house for the kiddies. Th, 8/9, 6:30-8pm. Free. Riverbend Park; 1 Salmon Run Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-2011; www.frrpd.com.
PINK FLOYD LASER SPECTACULAR: The music of the prog-rock legends happens
SEE FRIDAY
THURSDAY 8|9—WEDNESDAY 8|15 to go well with a brain-frying laser show. Be sure to arrive comfortably numb. Th, 8/9, 8:30pm. $17. El Rey Theatre; 230 W. Second St.; (530) 342-2727.
THE RETROTONES: Live classic rock
covers. Th, 8/9, 8pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave., (530) 3457499.
SINGER/SONGWRITERS: Local singer-
songwriter Lish Bills, who also happens to be a rippin’ metal guitarist, plays solo while fantastically dark songwriter Lisa Marie appears without Kelly Brown. Struyf and Pendery open. Th, 8/9, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
10FRIDAY THE BLUE HIPPIES: A folky jam band in
the lounge. F, 8/10, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.
CHUCK EPPERSON JR. BAND: Live funk,
soul and R&B. F, 8/10, 9pm. Free. The End Zone; 250 Cohasset Rd.; (530) 345-7330.
COLD BLUE MOUNTAIN: Totally megaheavy Cold Blue Mountain releases their self-titled album and kicks off their first tour. Helm of Cerberus, Icko Sicko and White Russian open. F, 8/10, 8pm. $5. Origami Lounge; 7th and Cherry streets.
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DECADES: A cover band performing all
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the number one hits from the ‘20s to today. F, 8/10, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusacasino.com.
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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: THE ALICE PEAKE EXPERIENCE: The weekly concert series continues with family-friendly dance rock from the Alice Peake Experience. F, 8/10, 7-8:30pm. Free. Chico City Plaza; 400 Main St.
THE BLUE HIPPIES: A folky jam band in the lounge. Sa, 8/11, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino; 4020 Olive Hwy at Gold Country Casino & Hotel in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountrycasino.com.
FUNKY FRIDAYS: DYLAN’S DHARMA: A weekly showcase of local funk. This week: Reggae/funk with Dylan’s Dharma, world, jazz and funk with The Rhythm Rebels, and acoustic soul with Jessica Braun. F, 8/10, 8:30pm. $5. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.
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.
KARAMO SUSSO: An African musician specializing in the kora, a 21 string bridge harp. F, 8/10, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
MUMBO GUMBO: A danceable blend of rock, soul, Afro-pop and country in the brewery. F, 8/10, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.feather fallscasino.com.
STEVE WALKER BAND: Entertaining
Frank Sinatra and more in the lounge.
F, 8/10, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls
Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.
THEORY OF A DEADMAN: Polished postgrunge alternative rock in the same vein as Nickelback. Like-minded acts Aranda and Charm City Devils open. F, 8/10, 8pm. $23. Senator Theatre; 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxpro ductions.net.
11SATURDAY THE AMY CELESTE BAND: Traditional blues, jazz, soul and original tunes as part of the Grange’s monthly 490 Cabaret showcase. Lisa Welsh opens. Homemade desserts and refreshments available. Sa, 8/11, 7pm. $10. Paradise Grange Hall; 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.
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CHUCK EPPERSON & ERIC PETER:
Contemporary jazz stylings. Sa, 8/11, 8:30pm. Farwood Bar & Grill; 705 Fifth St. in Orland; (530) 865-9900.
DAY OF MUSIC FUNDRAISER: A showcase of local music to benefit the Boys and Girls Club. The bill will include performances by Accent Music Academy, Pyrx, The Hooliganz, The Melodramatics, Twisted Strategies, Furlough Fridays and more. Sa, 8/11, 12-8pm. Donations. Downtown City Plaza; 418 Main St.; (707) 570-7617; www.bgcnv.org.
DECADES: A cover band performing all the number one hits from the ‘20s to today. Sa, 8/11, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort; 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.
MANDY JOE & THE HOLY MACKAREL: A seven-piece acoustic outfit playing an array of bluegrass, country and folk covers. Sa, 8/11, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo; 365
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NIGHTLIFE atmospheric. Taunis Year One, Exhausted Prayer and Epitaph of Atlas open. Sa, 8/11, 8pm. $5. Café Coda; 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 566-9476; www.cafecoda.com.
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MUSIC CIRCLE: An open jam for all levels of musicians with Robert Catilano. Second Sa of every month, 1-4pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
NOISE-A-TRON: Noise-A-Tron, a Seattle two-piece, is equal parts heavy and
NORTHERN HEAT: Live classic rock and
country music. Sa, 8/11, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino; 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rolling hillscasino.com.
SOLO SHOWCASE: Performances by Hobilly M.F., Loki Miller, Kawasaki Ledbetter, Fera and Dane Barbo. Sa, 8/11, 8pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Taproom; 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 3434915.
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STEVE WALKER BAND: Entertaining covers of Elvis Presley, James Brown, Frank Sinatra and more in the lounge. Sa, 8/11, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.
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UNCLE BUFFET: A tropical tribute to
Jimmy Buffet in the brewery. Sa, 8/11, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino; 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com.
12SUNDAY BENEFIT RECITAL FOR THE TORRES SHELTER: Violinist Michael Eby, tenor Alex Frankel and pianist Dr. Robert Bowman perform to benefit the Torres Homeless Shelter. Su, 8/12, 3pm. Donations. St Johns Evangelist
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Episcopal Church; 2341 Floral Ave.; (530) 521-2518.
JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria; 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.
INTO THE OPEN EARTH: Crunchy, frantic trash metal that occasionally slows down into the realm of sludge. BayArea sludge act Tigon, Bone Dance and Aberrance open. M, 8/13, 8pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 3437718.
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.
ROCK ‘N’ ROLL ADVENTURE KIDS: Ballsout rock covering topics like boobies, panties and erections. The Hambones open. M, 8/13, 10pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern; 337 Main St.; (530) 343-7718.
14TUESDAY AARON JAQUA: An open singer-song-
writer night. Tu, 7-9pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
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BOGG: Improvisational avant-garde fusion jazz from members of Clouds on Strings and Teeph. W, 8/15, 7:30pm. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
JAZZ TRIO: Every Wednesday with Carey
Robinson and company. W, 4-7pm. Free. Cafe Flo; 365 E. Sixth St. Next door to the Pageant Theatre; (530) 514-8888; http://liveatflo.weebly.com.
MY GRAVEYARD JAW: All-original, bootstompin’ country-folk from New Orleans. Local post-atomic moon skiffle outfit Michelin Embers and heartfelt singer-songwriter Bran Crown open. W, 8/15, 8pm. Maltese Bar & Taproom; 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 3434915.
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
Paradise; (530) 876-9988; www.my space.com/theitaliangarden.
SALSA BELLA: Live Salsa music in the
restaurant. W, 8-11pm. Tortilla Flats; 2601 Esplanade; (530) 345-6053.
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.
DOWN LO: DJ Ron Dare. Tu, Sa, 9pm. Free.
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DUFFYS: DJ Lois & DJ Spenny. W, 10pm. $1. Duffys Tavern, 337 Main St., (530) 343-7718.
FEATHER FALLS: Su, 8pm-midnight. Free. Feather Falls Casino, 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville, (530) 533-3885, www.feather fallscasino.com.
LASALLES: Th, 10pm: DJ Mac Morris; Fr,
11pm: on the patio; Sa, 9pm: “That 80s Party”; and Tu, 10pm: DJ. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St. (530) 893-1891.
LOST ON MAIN: Best and latest reggae and dancehall. Th, 9pm through 8/23. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.
LOST ON MAIN: A brand-new electronic DJ crew. Sa, 6/9, 9pm. $3. Lost on Main; 319 Main St.; (949) 891-3729.
MADISON BEAR: Dancing upstairs and on the patio. W-Sa, 9pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St., (530) 8911639, www.madisonbeargarden.com.
MALTESE: Dirty Talk: LBGT dance Party
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.
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Opening this week The Bourne Legacy
Jeremy Renner takes over the Bourne franchise from Matt Damon, playing an agent from another CIA black ops program who is on the run from those who made him into an equally badass operative. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Déjà vu all over again Energetic remake of sci-fi classic still misses point of source material
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Starring Colin Farrell, Kate Beckinsale, Jessica Biel and Bryan Cranston. Directed by Len Wiseman. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
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Can Remember It for You Wholesale.” Both versions use the Dick story mostly as an excuse for a bizarro action movie, with Dick’s famously paranoid frenzies (psychological, political and cultural) treated variously as mere generic dystopian backdrop. The R-rated 1990 version may have had more a Dickian “edge,” but the new one (rated a softer PG-13) at least holds its own as a B-movie fandango with high-tech furnishings. Here again, furious pacing and crazed iconography take precedence over narrative coherence and dramatic emotion. The preview trailers in particular make this new Total Recall look like an empty exercise in videogame imagery, but on the big screen Len Wiseman’s film has an appealing kinetic energy for most of its two-hour running time. There’s plenty of CGI in action and settings alike, but not so much that a certain visceral sense of the characters’ physical reality gets entirely lost. Wiseman’s cast, head-
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ed by Colin Farrell and Kate Beckinsale, delivers a sort of pulp-fiction vitality, even as the special effects approach a suffocating critical mass. Farrell does yeoman duty as a troubled bloke who is both “ordinary” and possessed of action-hero capabilities. As the women in his puzzlingly multi-layered life, Beckinsale and Jessica Biel are the yin and yang of an action-boy fantasy girl. The archvillain Cohaagen (Bryan Cranston) is an all-purpose evil dictator, mad scientist, technocratic megalomaniac outfitted with both an absurdly Byzantine will to imperial power and a peculiar willingness to take care of (lethal) business up close and personal, if all else fails. Cranston tries to camp up the absurdities of this over-the-top stock character, but to little effect in a movie whose assorted moments of weird humor barely register amid the pseudo-apocalyptic flim-flam. Early on, the thing works pretty well as sci-fi action fantasy. But Wiseman and company are much better at taking us into the story’s special world—with its dream implants, artificial memories, identity erasures, Rubik’s Cube architecture, and environmental catastrophes— than they are at getting us to some point at which the journey seems genuinely worthwhile. Neither of the Total Recalls really faces up to the element of Dick’s story that links the memory implant/dream adventure scheme of the future to the motion pictures we already have. And in the case of Wiseman’s film in particular that may leave you feeling that the movie you’ve just watched is just one more example of the sort of thing that Dick was satirizing. Ω
Austin Powers/Meet the Parents director Jay Roach helms this comedy about a wacky race for Congress between a longtime incumbent played by Will Ferrell and a naïve challenger played Zach Galifianakis. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.
Hope Springs
Meryl Streep and Tommy Lee Jones play a couple who, after 30 years of marriage, embark on a week-long, life-changing counseling session (with a therapist played by Steve Carell). Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.
Now playing 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 to reverse a witch’s curse. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.
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The Dark Knight Rises
I have to say, despite a nearly three-hour running time, The Dark Knight Rises manages to not overstay its welcome. Unfortunately, it also never rises to meet the potential set up by director/writer Christopher Nolan’s first two entries in his Batman trilogy. If you’re content with turning off the brain and coasting on spectacle and nostalgia, then it probably will deliver. But if you require a competent narrative to go along with the eye candy, then Nolan’s innate weakness as a writer will consistently hobble the show. While inarguably a gifted stylist, Nolan’s scripts are notoriously full of plotholes big enough to flip an 18-wheeler. And here there are more than a few times when the story makes outrageous jumps. I mean, just exactly what was the villainous plot supposed to achieve? Roll in a neutron bomb that’s set to go off in five months? The waiting period just seems like a lazy way of giving breathing room to another plot point. Long-story-short: the sporadic action is entertainingly action-y, although delivered without inspiration. The Dark Knight Rises isn’t a bad time. It’s just not a good movie. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —C.B.
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Dog Days
Entry No. 3 in the film franchise based on Jeff Kinney’s popular pre-teen fiction series checks in on middle-schooler Greg Heffley as he tries to salvage summer vacation after his plans go awry. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.
Ice Age: Continental Drift
For this fourth installment in the animated-film franchise, the mismatched crew of prehistoric animals—Manny, the wooly mammoth (Ray Romano), Sid, the sloth (John Leguizamo), and Diego, the saber-toothed cat (Denis Leary)—are forced into an adventure on the high seas atop a chunk of iceberg after the continents are split apart. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.
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Moonrise Kingdom
The new film by Wes Anderson (Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, etc.) is a summertime comedy of an exceptionally poetic sort. While it has a big-name cast (Bruce Willis, Edward Norton, Frances McDormand, Bill Murray, Tilda Swinton), the chief characters are two precocious, gifted 12-year-olds, Sam (Jared Gilman) and Suzy (Kara Hayward), who fall in love and run away to their own little romantic paradise on the coastal island where they are spending their respective New England summer vacations. 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 also revolves around and beyond
the travails and pratfalls of the various adult characters. Gradually, there emerges a sense that the kids are innocent versions of various adults in their lives, while the adults in part remain children amid the challenges and disappointments that life has brought them. But a buoyant comic energy prevails even as the more bittersweet themes weave themselves more prominently into the action. Feather River Cinemas and Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.
Step Up Revolution
Entry No. 4 in the Step Up franchise features more kick-ass dance moves plus a convoluted plot about a rich dancing girl and her new, poor boyfriend trying dance their way into keeping her rich dad from bulldozing his poor dancing neighborhood. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated. PG-13.
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Ted
Ted is the best sitcom never allowed to air on television, an onion of ’80s-nostalgia porn that positively bursts at the seams with a giddy excitement at getting to play on the big screen. A lovable loser (Mark Wahlberg) with an amazingly hot girlfriend (Mila Kunis) is given an ultimatum to leave behind his childhood toys and join the adult world, or else. But the toy in this case is a walking, talking stuffed teddy bear (voiced by director and Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane), and Wahlberg’s character and Ted the bear have been inseparable since the toy sprung to life after a Christmas wish 25 years before. But now that he is all grown up, Ted leaves behind his snuggliness to pound shots, snort lines of cocaine and bring home hookers. Complications ensue. There are a whole lot of ways this premise could’ve gone wrong, and fast, but MacFarlane pulls off the impressive feat of delivering a consistently hilarious comedy that demands its audience sink or swim rather than spoon feed them the jokes with soothing tones. Cinemark 14. Rated R —C.B.
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To Rome With Love
Woody Allen’s latest European-based summer romance is charmingly entertaining, but it doesn’t match the sustained effervescence and delight of its dazzling predecessors, Vicky Cristina Barcelona (2008) and Midnight in Paris (2011). Architectural student Jack (Jesse Eisenberg) and his live-in girlfriend, Sally (Greta Gerwig), have some unexpected romantic challenges when her actress friend, Monica (Ellen Page), comes to visit them in Rome. Newlyweds Antonio (Alessandro Tiberi) and Milly (Alessandra Mastronardi), just arrived from Pordenone, get farcically separated, and then romantically distracted—he with a misdirected hooker (Penélope Cruz), she with a porky movie actor. Visiting student Hayley (Alison Pill) falls in love with the son of a mortician, after a chance meeting. When Hayley’s parents (Woody Allen, Judy Davis) come to visit, dad Jerry (Allen) tries to create a career in opera for the peculiarly talented mortician (Flavio Parenti). A scrawnylooking office worker (Roberto Benigni) gets swept into a few silly minutes of fame—and a satirical bit of romance— through the extravagant absurdities of reality TV. And an American architect (Alec Baldwin) weighs in as a semisymbolic alter ego for Jack. The young couples have the best of it. Baldwin, Cruz and Davis have good moments, but the attempts at satire have little real impact. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.
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Total Recall
See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —J.C.S.
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The Watch
Here we have Ben Stiller, Vince Vaughan and Jonah Hill as loathsome suburban knobs whose Neighborhood Watch duties suddenly rise to intergalactic scale as a bunch of slimy critters invade the local Costco to build a transmitter to kick off their invasion of Earth. Blah, blah, blah. It could be fun, but it isn’t. Most of the care taken is in crafting set pieces for the gratuitous product placement, and setting the last half-hour’s worth of action in Costco affords many opportunities for this. (To be fair, the action of that last half hour is almost fun as a rip-off/tribute to the old arcade shooter Area 51.) Unfortunately, the first interminable hour is set to the mundane banter and character arcs of the dimwitted trio. If these kinds of comedy are your bag, you might find this funny. But if you’re expecting clever dialogue and something other than a narrative written with crayons you might wanna save some money by staying home, popping your own corn and settling in with a rental. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —C.B.
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in the homeshack this past weekend with Mrs. DEVO, reading a story about beer-brand loyalty in the new issue of Beer Advocate magazine that had just come in the mail when out of the corner of my eye I noticed “Chico News & Review” in a paragraph at the bottom of the page. Turns out, “retiree and part-time jazz writer for the Chico News & Review,” Miles Jordan, was interviewed for the story as one of the OG appreciators of the local Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.: “The brewery was still in its infancy in the early 1980s when he and his friends would show up on paycheck Thursdays for half-price cases of overfilled and underfilled bottles of Pale Ale, and free drafts from the warehouse kegerator while they waited.” Jordan says in the article that the brewery’s beer Respect beer. is still great: “Through all the moves they made, it’s gotten better,” and, of course, anyone who knows him knows that he and his fellow Sierra Nevada “Citizen Advisory Board” members can still be found at the brewery on Thursdays, yucking it up at the end of the bar and enjoying the good life. Stop by the brewery some week and say, “hi” (and tell him for me, next time he’s being interviewed in a big fancy national magazine to think about name-dropping his local editor!).
BRING BACK THE CASSINGLE! It takes Rocky Mountain-sized cojones to cram the amount
of heavy noise that Chico’s Cold Blue Mountain has recorded for its second album onto a cassette. But undaunted by the challenge, the five-piece will drag their iron sacks into Origami Lounge this Friday, Aug. 10, for a taperelease party/tour kickoff. (Side note one: If you buy the analog product, you get a code to download a digital version.) (Side note two: Check out the sweet cassette packaging, provided by Vulture Print, the new art print/T-shirt/cassette design/printing Cold Blue by Vulture Print. company started by CBM vocalist Brandon Squyres and his girlfriend, Michelle Camy. Visit www.vultureprint.blogspot.com and check out the goods.)
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• Charity rocks! Two charities. Two concerts. First, it’s a Boys and Girls Club benefit, Saturday, Aug. 11, at the Chico City Plaza, with a packed lineup that includes performances by The Hooliganz, Furlough Fridays, The Melodramatics and more. On Sunday, Aug. 12, 3 p.m., at St. John’s Episcopal Church (2341 Floral Ave.), bring it down a few decibels for a classical recital benefiting the Torres Shelter, with pianist Robert Bowman, violinist Michael Eby and tenor Alex Frankel. • Hogan lives: The friends of local legend Matt Hogan are getting together to remember the late musician in the best way possible—with a kick-ass rock ’n’ roll extravaganza at Duffy’s Tavern (Saturday, Aug. 18). There’s still time to get in on the show—contact organizers Carey Wilson or Lisa Marie via Facebook or email lisaoner@yahoo.com for deets.
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12 Vermillion Cir
Chico
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97 Horse Run Ln
Chico
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4671
1075 La Mesa Dr
Chico
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1922
785 El Monte Ave
Chico
$395,000
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2233 Danbury Way
Chico
$235,000
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537 Countryside Ln
Chico
$358,000
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Chico
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1300
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Chico
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Chico
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1686 Oak Vista Ave
Chico
$319,500
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1947
10 Franciscan Way
Chico
$220,000
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1273
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Chico
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2362
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Chico
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1661
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Chico
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Magalia
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Chico
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Chico
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Chico
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Oroville
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Gridley
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Oroville
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Gridley
$130,000
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Paradise
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Magalia
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6090 Vista Knolls Dr
Paradise
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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as M CREATIONS at 1530 Koyo Lane, Durham, CA 95938. MELINDA BENSON, 1530 Koyo Lane, Durham, CA 95938. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: MELINDA BENSON Dated: July 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001048 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name RED TAVERN at 1250 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95926. CRAIG ALAN THOMAS, 116 Winchester Ct. Chico, CA 95928. MARIA P VENTURINO, 116 Winchester Ct. Chico, CA 95928. This business was conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: MARIA VENTURINO Dated: July 16, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000243 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2012
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORCAL PRIVATE FUNDING at 336 Broadway, #15, Chico, CA 95928. JOHN PAUL DENTON, 451 Brookside Dr. Chico, CA 95928 This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: JOHN DENTON Dated: July 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001110 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as METEMORFOZ SKIN AND BEAUTY at 341 Broadway #208, Chico, CA 95928. SHERRI D ALEXANDER, 2754 Lucy Way, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: SHERRI ALEXANDER Dated: July 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001132 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TOM WALKER’S AUTO REPAIR at 17 Valley Ct. Chico, CA 95973. THOMAS JAMES WALKER, 4684 1st Ave. Orland, CA 95963. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: Thomas James Walker Dated: July 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001133 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MAKE MY SITE RANK.COM at 801 Moss Ave. Chico, CA 95926. JOHN KENTON KLAGES, 801 Moss Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: John Kenton Klages Dated: July 23, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001078 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SASSY AND CLASSY BOUTIQUE at 1722 Mangrove Ave. #22, Chico, CA 95926. GENOVEVA SANTANA, JOSE A SANTANA, 4050 Augusta Lane, Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife. Signed: GENOVEVA SANTANA Dated: JUly 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001126 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BURGER KING at 855 Oroville Dam Blvd. Oroville, CA 95965. OROVILLE FOODS, INC. 2565 Zanella Way, Suite C, Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: Dated: May 31, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000805 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARK N SELL, THE CAR LOT at 3326 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973. DOUGLAS C WHITELEY, 3326 Esplanade, Chico, CA 95973 This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: DOUG WHITELEY Dated: July 26, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001103 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SKYDANCER BALLOON CO, SKYDANCER BALLOON COMPANY at 4371 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973. MARIE J KLEMM, BRANN K SMITH, 4371 Keefer Rd. Chico, CA 95973. SKYDANCER BALLOON COMPANY LLC, 5716 Corsa Ave. Westlake, CA 91362. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: BRANN SMITH Dated: July 11, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001030 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE CHINA STUDIO at 1502 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926. JACILYN MASCITELLI, 1502 Sunset Ave. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an individual. Signed: JACILYN MASCITELLI Dated: July 27, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001107 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT
LLC at 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926. CHICO KIDS ENTERTAINMENT LLC, 728 Cherry St. Chico, CA 95926. This business was conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: KAYGAN BRITT Dated: August 2, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0000256 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2012
NOTICES NOTICE OF HEARING GUARDIANSHIP OR CONSERVATORSHIP ESTATE OF: FRANK A MCGEE CASE NO. CVPC 09-0060 This notice is required by law. This notice does not require you to appear in court, but you may attend the hearing if you wish. NOTICE is given that: BRENDA SMITH, CONSERVATOR AND ATTORNEY FOR CONSERVATEE has filed: REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY You may refer to documents on file in this proceeding for more information. (Some documents filed with the court are confidential. Under some circumstances you or your attorney may be able to see or receive copies of confidential documents if you file papers in the proceeding or apply to the court.) A HEARING on the matter will be held as follows: Date: 8/13/2012 Time: 9:00am Dept. 2 Address of the court: Superior Court of California, County of Yuba 215 Fifth St. Marysville, CA 95901 REPORT OF SALE AND PETITION FOR ORDER CONFIRMING SALE OF REAL PROPERTY Petitioner: BRENDA C. SMITH AS CONSERVATOR of the estate of the decedent, conservatee, or minor and request a court order for confirmation of sale of the estate’s interest in other property sold as a unit as described in Attachment 2c. Approval of Commission of: 10% of the amount of $3620. Additional bond is not required. Description of property sold: Interest sold: 100% Unimproved Street address and location: 8.9 ACRES ON PINECREST ROAD IN BUTTE COUNTY, APN 079-250-025-000 COMBINED WITH 8.07 ACRES ON UPPER PALERMO RD. APN 079-250-027-000. Appraisal Date of death of decedent or appointment of conservator or guardian: APPT OF CONSERVATOR 12/20/11 Appraised value at above date: $36,000 Appraisal or reappraisal by probate referee has been filed. Manner and terms of sale: Name of purchaser and manner of vesting title: TODD R. IRVIN AND RONNIE LEE IRVIN Sale was public on: 7/11/12 Amount bid: $36,200 Deposit $1000 Payment: Cash Terms comply with Probate Code section 2542 (guardianships and conservatorships). Commission: A written contract for commission was entered into with: Purchaser was procured by SHEILA STEWART. Commission is to be divided as follows: 1/2 to Mike Capella, 1/2 to Sheila Stewart Bond none Notice of sale: Published Notice of Hearing:
Personal representative, conservator of the estate, or guardian of the estate: Petitioner(consent or notice not required). Reason for sale: Necessary to pay debts, expenses of administration. The sale is to the advantage of the estate and in the best interest of the interested persons. Overbid: Required amount of first overbid: $38,510.00 Petitioner’s efforts to obtain the highest and best price reasonably attainable for the property were as follows: PROPERTY WAS LISTED UNDER MULTIPLE LISTING, THREE SEPARATE OFFERS WERE RECEIVED AND THEN COUNTERED IN ORDER TO PRODUCE HIGHEST OFFER AVAILABLE, OFFER IS ABOVE PROBATE REFEREE APPRAISED VALUE. Dated: 7/11/12 Attorney: BRENDA C. SMITH I declare under penalty of perjury under the laws of the State of California that the foregoing is true and correct. Signed: BRENDA C. SMITH Attachment 2e- legal description of property APN 079-250-025 8.9 acres on Pinecrest Road in Butte County. PARCEL THREE: BEGINNING at a point on the Southerly boundary line of Lot A, as shown on a Map of Palermo and Subdivision Number 1 and 2 with Addition to No.1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, September 17, 1888, from which the Southeast corner of said lot bears East, a distance of 1500 feet; thence from said point of beginning South 88 degree 46’ 25” West, along the Southerly boundary line of said Lot A, 372.98 feet to a point on the Easterly boundary line of a parcel of land as described in Deed to Ralph E Brereton, et ux, recorded May 28, 1963 in Book 1248 of Butte County Official Records, at page 97; thence North o degree 56’ 55” West, along the Easterly boundary line of said Brereton parcel, 196.28 feet to the Northeast corner of said Brereton parcel; thence South 88 degree 55’ 45” West, along the Northerly boundary line of said Brereton parcel, 38.42 feet; thence North 9 degree 01’ 32” West, 1365.69 feet to a point on the Southerly boundary line of Pinecrest Avenue; thence Southerly and easterly along the Southerly boundary line of said Pinecrest Avenue to a point that bears North 0 degree 07’ 00” East from the point of beginning; thence South 0 degree 07’ 00” West, 1421.47 feet to the point of beginning. EXCEPTING THEREFROM the Easterly 240 feet as measured along the Southerly boundary line of the above described parcel of land.APN 079-250-027 8.07 acres on upper Palermo Road in Butte County PARCEL ONE: Being a portion of Lot A, as shown on a Map of Palermo and Subdivision Number 1 and 2 with Addition to No. 1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, September 17, 1888 being more particularly described as follows: Commencing at the intersection of the Northerly boundary line of Block 113 as shown on a Map of Addition to Subdivision No. 1 of the Palermo Citrus Tract, according to the Official Map thereof, recorded in the office of the Recorder of the County of Butte, State of California, July 23, 1888 and the Easterly boundary line of Citrus Avenue; thence along the Easterly boundary line of said Citrus Avenue North 2 degree 04’ 26” East 300.0 feet to the point of beginning for the parcel of land herein described; thence from
said point of beginning South 89 degree 39’ 36” East 1167.57 feet; thence North 9 degree 01’ 32” West 303.02 feet; thence North 89 degree 39’ 36” West 1100.23 feet to a point on the Easterly boundary line of said Citrus Avenue; thence along the Easterly boundary line of said Avenue, South 9 degree 50’ 48” West 66.30 feet; thence continuing along said Avenue, South 2 degree 04’ 26” West, 233.70 feet to the point of beginning. Attachment 4f- terms of sale Buyer shall deliver to Seller written verification of sufficient funds to close the transaction within 2 days of acceptance. Purchase shall be completed with cash payment. Escrow fees to be split equally between the buyer and seller. Published: July 26, August 2,9, 2012 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARTIN V. OWENS SR. TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARTIN V. OWENS, SR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DEBORAH L. WALBURN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: DEBORAH L. WALBURN 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: August 30, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.
A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Case Number: PR40323 Petitioner: Deborah L Walburn 1285 Feather Ave. Oroville, CA 95965 Published: August 2,9,16,2012 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE WARREN DOUGLAS ROSE TO all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: WARREN DOUGLAS ROSE, WARREN D ROSE, WARREN ROSE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: RICHARD S MATSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. THE Petition for Probate requests that: RICHARD S MATSON 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: August 30, 2012 Time: 1:30pm Dept:Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within four months from the date of first issuance of letters as provided in Probate Code section 9100. The time for filing claims will not expire before four months from the hearing date noticed above. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Case Number: PR40332 Attorney for petitioner: Richard S Matson 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 Published: August 9,16,23, 2012
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NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Secs 6101-6107 U.C.C.) 1.Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made of the assets described below: 2.The name(s) and business address of the seller(s) are: ST, AUGUSTINE’S OF CANTERBURY EPISCOPALL CHURCH 228 Salem St. Chico, Ca 95928. 3.The location in California of the chief executive office of the seller is: SAME AS ABOVE 4.The name(s) and business address of the buyer(s) are: GOGI KUMAR, VINAY KUMAR 5 Parliment Ct. Chico, CA 95973. 5.The business name used by the seller(s) at said location is: AUGIE’S INC. dba AUGIE’S FINE COFFEE & TEA aka AUGIE’S CAFE 230 Salem St. Chico, CA 95928 ESCROW HOLDER: Bidwell Title & Escrow Co. 500 Wall St. Chico CA 95928. P.O.Box 5173, Chico, CA 95927 ESCROW OFFICER: Jolleen Whitsett Order No. 00244578-002 DATE OF ANTICIPATED SALE: August 28, 2012 LAST DAY TO FILE CLAIMS: August 27, 2012 Notice is hereby given that Transferor intends to make a BULK SALE of the assets of the above described Business to Transferee including all stock in trade, furniture and equipment used in the said Business, to be consummated at the office of Escrow Holder at the time of consummation or thereafter. Creditors of the Transferor may file claims with the Escrow Holder on or before the last day to file claims stated above. This sale is subject to Sec. 61066107 of the California Commercial Code. Transferor has used the following business names and addresses within last three years so far as known to Transferee: None Dated August 1, 2012 Signed: GOGI KUMAR VINAY KUMAR Published: August 9, 2012
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR KNIGHT Proposed name: HOLLY NOEL BEHR 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: September 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: July 17, 2012 Case Number: 157199 Published: July 26, August 2,9,16, 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GLORIA DAWN LEYDEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GLORIA DAWN LEYDEN Proposed name: GLORIA DAWN MILLER 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
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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: September 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: July 24, 2012 Case Number: 157325 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAURIE DIANE SCOTT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LAURIE DIANE SCOTT Proposed name: LAURIE DIANE HAVENS 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: September 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is:
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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LORI ANN CROSS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LORI ANN CROSS Proposed name: LORI ANN FOLVEN 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: September 14, 2012 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: Sandra L McLean Dated: August 1, 2012 Case Number: 157409 Published: August 9,16,23,30 2012
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ARIES (March 21-April 19):
Apollo astronaut Russell Schweickart had a vision of loveliness while flying through outer space in his lunar module. “One of the most beautiful sights is a urine dump at sunset,” he testified. He said it resembles a “spray of sparklers,” as 10 million little ice crystals shoot out into the void at high velocity. As you feed your quest for a lusty life, Aries, I urge you to be as quirky and resourceful as Schweickart. Come up with your own definitions about what’s gorgeous and revelatory. Take epiphanies any way you can get them.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): At the heart
of this horoscope is a quote from Maya Angelou. While it may seem schmaltzy, I assure you that its counsel will be essential to your success in the coming weeks. “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said,” said Angelou, “people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.” Can you see how valuable this principle might be for you, Taurus? If you hope to get what you desire, you should turn your empathy on full blast. If you’d like to supercharge your vitality, hone your skills as a judge of character. If you want to get the love you think you deserve, be a master at making people feel good in your presence.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming
week will be prime time to celebrate your eccentricities and cultivate your idiosyncrasies. Do you like ketchup on your bananas? Is heavy metal the music you can best relax to? Do you have a tendency to break out in raucous laughter when people brag about themselves? I really think you should make note of all the qualities that make you odd or unique, and express those qualities with extra intensity. That may grate on some people, true, but it should have a potent healing effect on you.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): Here are my
questions: Will you thrust your foot across that imaginary line, or will you back away from it, scouting around for an escape route? Will you risk causing a commotion in order to scratch the itch in your ambition? Or will you shuffle on back to your comfort zone and caress your perfect daydreams? Personally, Cancerian, I’m hoping you will elect to do what’s a bit unsettling. But that doesn’t necessarily mean you should. If you make a bold move, make sure you’re not angling to please or impress me¡ªor anyone else, for that matter. Do it as a way to express your respect for yourself¡ªor don’t do it.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When Tchaikovsky
wrote the musical score for his famous 1812 Overture, it included 16 cannon shots. Literally. These blasts weren’t supposed to be made by, say, a sledgehammer pounded against a wooden mallet, but rather by the detonation of an actual cannon. As crazy as that is, you’ve got to admire Tchaikovsky’s creative gall. He was going way out of the box, calling on a source of sound no other composer had ever done. In accordance with the astrological omens, I invite you to be inspired by his example, Leo. In your own chosen field, mess with the rules about how to play in your chosen field.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “And if nothing
is repeated in the same way,” says poet Antonio Porchia, “all things are last things.” That’s a good principle to adapt for your own purposes, Virgo. A few weeks from now, I bet you’ll be enmeshed in an orgy of novelty, creating yourself from scratch and exploring experiences you’ve never heard of before. But in the meantime, as you bring this cycle to a close, be equally inventive about how you finish things off. Don’t imitate the approach you used in tying up loose ends in the past. Don’t put stale, boring karma to rest in stale, boring ways. Nothing repeated! All things last things!
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): All of us feel bad
‘Volunteer junkie’ makes good
by Rob Brezsny not predicting you will go through a phase like that anytime soon. Here’s the even better news: The coming week will be an excellent time to come up with effective strategies for what to do in the future when you go through a rough period. For example, instead of wallowing in self-pity or berating yourself for your weakness, maybe you can resolve, next time, to amble aimlessly out in nature, dance to cathartic music for three hours, or go to the gym and smack around a punching bag.
story and photo by Vic Cantu vscantu@sbcg lobal.net Katy Deaton, a 25-year-old Chico State graduate, volunteered for six organizations before landing her dream job at Caring Choices charity and its partner organization, Home & Health Care Management (HHC). Together they help bring food, transportation and health care to some of Chico’s most disadvantaged adults and children. Deaton loves her duties as outreach coordinator and is hoping to get the public to help them win a badly needed SUV on Aug. 14.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): When a
domesticated weasel captures some treasure or beats out a competitor for food, it performs a celebratory dance that’s referred to as the “weasel war dance.” During this triumphant display, it might hiss, arch its back, fluff out its tail and hop around madly. I encourage you to come up with your own private version of this ritual, Scorpio. It can be more dignified, if you like: snapping your fingers, singing a magical phrase or raising your arms in a V-for-victory gesture. Whatever you choose, do it after every accomplishment, no matter how small: buying groceries, arriving at an appointment on time, getting a good new idea or any other success.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): One
out of every four of us is afraid that we have missed our calling¡ªthat we have misread our soul’s code and failed to identify the labor of love that would provide our ultimate fuel for living. If you’re among this deprived group, I have good news: The next six weeks will be an excellent time to fix the problem¡ªto leave the niche where you don’t belong, and go off to create a new power spot. And if you are among the 75 percent of us who are confident you’ve found your vocation, the next six weeks will be prime time to boost your efforts to a higher level.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): You can take this as a metaphor if you like, but I’m getting a psychic impression that you will soon be drawing on the energy of one of your past lives. Will it be a 13th-century Chinese lute player or a kitchen maid from 15th-century France? Will you be high on the vitality you had when you were a Yoruba priest living in West Africa 300 years ago or when you were a 16th-century Guarani herbalist in what’s now Paraguay? I invite you to play with fantasies like these, even if you don’t believe they’re literally true. You might be surprised at the boost you get from imagining yourself alive in a different body and historical era.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): The
Italian mattress company Sogniflex [check spelling] has created a bed with features designed to facilitate lovemaking. It has straps and handles, plus a trench that helps you get better traction. The extrastrong springs produce an exceptional bouncing action. You might consider buying one for yourself. The astrological omens suggest it’s time to play with more intensity in the intimate clinches. You could also try these things: 1. Upgrade your licking and sucking skills. 2. Cultivate your ability to listen receptively. 3. Deepen your sincere appreciation for what’s beautiful about anyone you’re attracted to. 4. Make yourself even more lovable than you already are.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): My $10-an-
hour counsel only requires a few seconds to deliver. Here it is: “Never try to be someone you’re not. Discover what you were made for, and do it with all of your passionate intensity.” On the other hand, Pisces, my $100-a-minute wisdom is more complicated, subtle and hard to impart in less than an hour of storytelling. Here’s a hint of it: There are times when you can get interesting and even brilliant results by experimenting with being something you’re not. Going against the flow of your instinctual urges and customary tendencies might tweak you in just the right way¡ªgiving you an exotic grace and wild depth when you ultimately return to the path you were born to tread.
sometimes¡ªsad, discouraged, helpless, unloved and all the rest. It’s a natural part of being human. Here’s the good news: I am
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What does Caring Choices do?
15 MINUTES
BREZSNY’S
For the week of August 9, 2012
Caring Choices is a nonprofit that helps feed underprivileged groups, like families who have children with cancer and the disabled. During disasters we also help rescue lost pets. We do things like deliver donated food and drive clients to the doctors. We also keep HIV/AIDS testing free and help HIV/AIDS sufferers get housing and free medications. Over 90 percent of them don’t have transportation. HHC is forprofit and helps low-income seniors with tasks in their homes so they can stay independent.
What do you like best about your job? Giving instant gratification to our clients who are in desperate need. Many can’t travel to get their own food. Once a month our Recreation and Dreams (RAD) program takes families of cancer-stricken kids to fun places like Great America or the Waterworks Park in Redding. It helps them forget about cancer and unites them with other families. Sometimes I’m stuck behind a desk for eight
hours and I get a call to deliver food, which makes it all worthwhile.
Why do you want to win that car so badly? Winning will give us a chance to increase our community support. We’re staffed mostly with Chico State volunteers who don’t have cars or can’t afford the frequent driving expenses. The car is a new Toyota Highlander SUV that has plenty of room for transporting people or large quantities of food. We’ve got a great one-in-five chance that day against only four other, similar-size nonprofits.
What’s the best way for people to help you win the car? Just vote for Caring Choices on Tuesday, Aug. 14, at 100CarsForGood.com. To get a reminder, go there now and under ‘Search’ type “Caring Choices,” then click “Remind Me”. They’re giving away a new car each day for 100 days through Aug. 21.
Why do you fit in so well here? I’m a natural helper and recruiter. I tell people about my week, and they want to help. I’m also wired to be a volunteer junkie. I won President Obama’s Volunteer Service Award in both 2010 and 2011. Volunteering is so important for human growth. I’ve moved up to a paid position and am now leaving my stamp on this place.
FROM THE EDGE
by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com
Priority Normally, at home if anybody calls me I’ll respond. I won’t come running; I don’t run. I’ll show up, though, and I may even be helpful, but I’m quite likely to ascertain the cause of your outcry with a view to increasing your pleasure, especially if your name is Porter. That’s what I do most of the time, and it’s tiresome. I realize that I made up the necessity of springing into action whenever I can, and now I’ve made up a story about why. When I was growing up, I learned “Women and children first,” and part of growing up was learning to defer to women and girls, not using profanity around them and holding doors and chairs for them. That’s why. On top of that, from Pete, my father, I learned to just give women and children what they want, especially women, starting with my mother through right over here. Don’t ask, just do it; it’s way easier, although we didn’t use “way” that way way back then. When I became a father, I came to understand how a wolf—after running umpteen miles in the freezing dark, then killing some inoffensive ungulate,
and finally gorging on delicious raw flesh—could deny his own body and turn over the food he has won and damn near digested to his child’s mouth straight from his. “It’s everything I’ve been able to scrape together, and I want you to have it. Take the food from my own personal mouth—not a figure of speech.” When my oldest son slid out and I fell in love with my first skinny grey conehead, I got it. Sacrifice! Of course I’ll vomit my hard-earned food into his mouth and then wipe his other end when he’s done. No problem. Since I’ve lived for many years exclusively with women and children, my reaction to nearly anything requiring prioritizing involves first putting me and my druthers last. This is inconsistent with the notion of doing for myself so I can do for others, a shockingly sensible idea I’m sure I’ll manage to get used to. Meanwhile here’s what I do. If I’m outside, I ignore any sounds and talk, including most pleas for help, that come to me through a window. If I’m personally summoned, fine, but signs of distress, like the BatSignal, don’t count if I just hear them accidentally. In a way, I’ve quit volunteering for the cleanup, no matter the mess. I’ll still clean up, just not unless I’m asked. It’s a step.
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