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Roe v. Wade at 40 Forty years ago Tuesday, Jan. 22, the U.S. Supreme Court

Beyond gun control, inner peace R Innocent people have died in close-to-home places like Connecticut and Colorado. What can be done? While

ecent horrific events have rocked our nation.

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Leigh Ann Lipscomb The author is a member of the Order of Interbeing, the core community of Vietnamese Zen master Thich Nhat Hanh. She is one of the organizers of Slowly Ripening Sangha, where she has practiced for more than 10 years, and is a member of the Chico New Thought Center for Spiritual Living. She lives in Chico with her partner and their three children.

I’m pleased that the White House is talking about stricter gun control, it’s not the entire solution to America’s dilemma. America needs spirituality, a return to our connection with divine presence.

One has but to look around the world to see that gun control saves lives. The United States, without gun control, loses 9.2 of 100,000 people each year to firearm-related deaths. In countries with gun control, this number drops to 0.25 (United Kingdom) and 0.07 (Japan). But the story is not complete without looking at the role of individuals. The guns don’t pull their own triggers.

There are sad, common threads among the perpetrators. All appeared to have repressed extreme anger, anxiety and more. The analogy to volcanoes is helpful for understanding that powerful, intensely difficult emotions had been smoldering for a long while and that the events themselves were the eruption. While most of us, thankfully, don’t routinely experience this level of despair, virtually everyone feels anger

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and anxiety from time to time. Negative emotions are an undeniable part of the human experience.

Spirituality offers peace that we can access right here, right now. We can sit quietly, perhaps with our morning tea, listening to the songs of the birds. We can meditate in silence in the shadow of a flickering candle, or nestle ourselves in the comfort of a heartfelt prayer. These offer blessed relief from the hurry and worry of contemporary life, a break from the chatter of the human mind.

But there’s more, for it is from this place of stillness that we can begin to transform our own negative emotions.

Spiritual teachers encourage us to sit quietly and hold our anger in an awareness of compassion. Yet the teachings don’t stop there, in that we are advised to look deeply at the roots of anger in order to heal deepseated emotional wounds. Buddhism teaches that healing such wounds is spiritual work of the utmost importance. The fruit of this work is peace, insight, and the ability to support others in their work. This is how our own personal peace translates to peace in the world.

America needs spirituality. We need the inner peace, the healing of emotional wounds, and more compassion. What are we waiting for? It’s all right here, right now. Ω

passed Roe v. Wade, the landmark decision upholding a woman’s right to abortion. Since then supporters of abortion rights have fought a constant rear-guard battle against opponents who want to make it as hard as possible for women to exercise that right.

A recent Time magazine cover headline said it all: “40 years ago, abortion-rights activists won an epic victory with Roe v. Wade. They’ve been losing ever since.”

Anti-abortion activists, who see themselves as engaged in a holy war, have had their greatest success by convincing Republican-dominated state legislatures to pass obstructionist laws that make abortion less accessible.

In 2011 alone, state legislatures passed 92 abortion-restricting measures.

Mississippi passed a law that doctors who perform abortions must have admitting privileges at local hospitals. The bill targeted the state’s lone abortion clinic, whose doctors all came from out of state.

In Virginia, abortion clinics must conform to the zoning requirements applied to hospitals, including 5-foot-wide hallways. In Texas, the legislature is considering a bill to require that all abortions be done in ambulatory surgical centers. In 2004, when it passed such a bill applicable to pregnancies over 16 weeks, every abortion clinic in the state that provided such services was forced to close.

The irony is that most Americans support Roe v. Wade. When asked whether politicians or women should decide on abortion, 83 percent said the latter, according to a Planned Parenthood poll.

Abortion will always be a painful and difficult personal matter. And it will always be controversial. The good news is that the American people are not going to stand by while politicians try to return us to the dark days of back-alley abortions. Ω

What LaMalfa knew Remember Mark Spannagel? Back in May 2012, when the pri-

mary race to replace Wally Herger in Congress was heating up, he was state Sen. Doug LaMalfa’s chief of staff and campaign manager. Then he was busted for putting together a phony and illegal website saying false things, some potentially libelous, about one of LaMalfa’s Republican opponents, former state Sen. Sam Aanestad, and attributing the dirty tricks to another Republican candidate, Redding attorney Michael Dacquisto.

At the time LaMalfa professed innocence, saying he knew nothing about the website. “This means either he’s lying or he has no idea what his chief of staff is doing, and I don’t know which is worse,” Dacquisto told the CN&R. LaMalfa should fire “anyone who was involved in this in any way, shape or form,” he added.

Aanestad’s judgment was just as fierce: “If they’re going to be deceitful and dishonest now, you wait until [LaMalfa’s] entrenched as a congressman, when no one can touch him.”

Last month Spannagel finally fell on his sword, fessed up and apologized to all concerned. And last week LaMalfa, now well entrenched as a congressman, visited the Chico Enterprise-Record, where he told reporter Larry Mitchell that he’d hired Spannagel as his chief of staff, the most important—and highest paid—position in his office.

What to make of all this? Well, if Spannagel acted independently in posting the website, he put his boss, LaMalfa, at great risk of embarrassment and legal action. As Dacquisto said, he should have been fired. And LaMalfa should have apologized for not knowing what his chief of staff was doing—something he’s never done.

So why has LaMalfa rehired Spannagel? Well, either he’s one of the most forgiving bosses ever, or he knew all along about the website and the new job is Spannagel’s reward for taking the blame. Readers can decide. Ω

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A failed war Our cover story this week, “Taking the high road,” is about Washington and Colorado voters’ decision to allow residents to use marijuana recreationally, and what that might mean for California. But there are other important matters at stake on the marijuana front, including the future of the “war on drugs.”

Why, after all, does the United States continue to spend billions of dollars futilely trying to keep people from using marijuana, when most Americans believe pot is less harmful than alcohol?

Nearly 800,000 people are arrested for pot possession in the United States every year. That’s one every 42 seconds, and for what? Possessing a weed that grows anywhere?

There are powerful economic forces behind the war on drugs, including private-prison operators, prisonguards unions and the rest of the prison-industrial complex. Fortunately, in these financially pinched times, many chiefs of police and sheriffs are beginning to realize that not having to pursue pot smokers frees up resources to go after rapists and murderers.

Keep that in mind as you read “Taking the high road.”

Brown comes around: An editorial in our Dec. 27 issue, “Brown is bluffing, right?” called attention to the governor’s statement that he was holding back on expanding the state’s Medi-Cal program, as allowed by the Affordable Care Act, because it would be too costly.

He’s wrong about that, we said. The benefits—in increased health care and federal funds flowing to California—are much, much greater than the expense. Perhaps the governor is just bluffing in an effort to squeeze more money out of the feds, we suggested.

We’re happy to report that he’s changed his mind.

Last week he announced that California would commit to implementation of the Affordable Care Act and that he was including $350 million in his budget to help enroll eligible Californians in the expanded program. The expansion will cover low-income residents with incomes up to 138 percent of the federal poverty level, about 1.9 million people. The feds will pay 100 percent of the cost for three years and about 90 percent of the cost thereafter.

Good-bye, Huell: The first few times I watched Huell Howser, I was put off by his cornpone style. But the subject of his California Gold series on public television, the hidden delights of California, drew me in. Over time I came to realize that he was the real deal, a folksy, warm-hearted man who saw the wonder in life and was unabashed about sharing his enthusiasm. I was sad to learn last week that he’d died, just six weeks after retiring, at the age of 67.

Every town has a treasure its residents are proud of, and Howser liked nothing more than to highlight it for others to see. His show on Bidwell Park is a classic. “I’ve never seen such a magnificent municipal park,” he gushed. “This is amazing!” He meant every word.

Huell is gone, but it’s comforting to know that his shows, some 2,000 of them, remain and will continue to be broadcast for years to come.

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Call out the militia!

Re “More about guns” (Letter, by Garry Cooper, Jan. 10): Many in the last month are convinced we need added restrictions on firearm possession to curb our rampant gun violence. Garry Cooper wrote to dispute any new firearm restrictions. The crux of Cooper’s argument is that the Second Amendment authorizes violent revolt if you believe government is tyrannical.

Cooper didn’t provide evidence for his interpretation of the Second Amendment, and that’s the deficiency in his argument. Many probably find Cooper’s view inconsistent with the well-known fact that violent revolt against government is a crime. Moreover, it seems contradictory that the Constitution creating our government and describing the democratic process to change it would include a measure authorizing government’s destruction by violence.

I’d invite Cooper to provide the basis for his Second Amendment interpretation. Without convincing support, his view seems to be nothing more than his wishful thinking.

DAVE WEINER Chico

There is confusion about the Second Amendment. A “well regulated militia” is in reference to the states’ right to protect themselves from the federal government. We should be upholding our laws, democratically passed, with our state militias. Every time the feds threaten to close a marijuana dispensary our state militia should be guarding the doors to protect us from a tyrannical federal government.

R. STERLING OGDEN Chico

He’s ‘a reasonable man’ Re “What were they thinking?” (Year in Review cover package, Dec. 27): You state that [Chico City Council candidate] Toby Schindelbeck “was known as much for his gaffes as anything.” I challenge you to present any supportive data beyond your narrow-minded rebuttals.

First you state that police data does not support that low-income housing draws crime. I invite you to spend a week living in some and report back on the amount of crime you witness in relation to upper- and middleclass neighborhoods. Just because you lack the ability or will to find it recorded in blackand-white police data, are you so naïve as to believe it isn’t the case?

And I absolutely love your defense that money wasted on paintings years ago couldn’t possibly affect the outcome of having that money now! If the money hadn’t been spent years ago it would still be available today!

Oh wait, that’s right, it would be gone, because some puke like Obama would take the money that I had to work hard at a job that I had to drug-test for and give it to perfectly able-bodied losers who sponge off society while not having to drug-test to receive it.

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It is too bad that there are many people out there without enough common sense to avoid falling for your type of reasoning, or lack thereof, and hence why a reasonable man like Toby didn’t win.

KEVIN SHALLENBERGER Oroville

Two on the Second Re “Freedom and fear” (From This Corner, by Robert Speer, Jan. 10): You should become more acquainted with the Second Amendment. Suggesting that people who want to protect themselves from a tyrannical government are seditious is insulting!

The amendment was written during a time when government, and more specifically a tyrannical monarchy, was at our doorsteps.

Today we have the same problem— a tyrannical government that feels it needs to invade every inch of our privacy. Case in point: airports!

Instead of challenging our right to defend ourselves from any and all enemies that threaten our way of life, this government needs to focus on how to protect us from all enemies, even themselves. Like it or not, sir, your way of life is defended by a person with a gun.

I am truly sorry you do not own a gun. What happens when the notso-vicious dogs you have are confronted by a robber in your house, and he has a gun? He will most likely shoot your dogs; sorry to say, but it is true. So how then will you protect yourself and loved ones?

Learn how to use a gun! In the right hands it can be a lifesaving tool. Whether that life-saving moment is killing a deer for food or killing a burglar who has entered your home and threatened your life, the gun is only the tool.

It is the person behind the trigger who makes the decision on how to use that tool!

You seem to be just spouting off your own personal beliefs.

Learn about firearms, and perhaps even how to use one. Who knows, you might enjoy it!

CHRIS FALKENSTEIN Chico

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Let me correct a few misconceptions here. The reason for the Second Amendment was first and foremost to provide the populace with the means to effectively, physically resist tyrannical actions by government, by assuring that government did not possess a monopoly on armed force. This capability was specifically intended to be independent of any governmental authority.

As the holder of a Ph.D. in American history (UC Santa Bar

“Today we have a tyrannical government that feels it needs to invade every inch of our privacy.

Case in point: airports!”

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bara, 1970), specializing in the Revolutionary period, while writing my dissertation I read all of the extensive correspondence among the Founding Fathers on this issue while the Constitution and the Bill of Rights were being drafted and debated. This correspondence is unequivocal as to this purpose of the Second Amendment.

As for the National Guard being the “real militia,” the Guard is a branch of the U.S. military and would not meet the test of independence posited by the Founding Fathers. It in fact could be an instrument of tyrannical oppression, like any other armed force at the disposal of government.

I agree that it is appropriate to close loopholes that allow the sale of guns without a background check. But there is real danger in restricting access to them by lawabiding citizens. Do we want to become like Great Britain, where it is now illegal to use any force whatsoever in self-defense?

CHAD WOZNIAK Chico

Oroville = Fallujah Before we can even dream of a solution to gun violence, we have to understand the facts and make reasonable decisions. There are more than 4.5 million AR-model weapons (like the one used in Connecticut) in mass circulation.

Oroville alone has more destructive capability than Fallujah.

And we can’t stop people from getting them. Go to YouTube and search for CNC gun and you will see people making ARs in their back yards. Three-dimensional printers will be spitting them out in just a few years. I’m afraid we are going to keep debating about what we think we can fix while the problem continues. We need to look for a reasonable solution.

An obvious start is not letting people who have been diagnosed with mental-health issues or on meds buy them. Though this won’t solve it because, as you know, if someone wants a gun, they aren’t hard to find. I applaud the vice president for not just inviting the NRA to the table but also gamedevelopment companies and distributors. This is a start.

JOHN ADAMS Chico

Articles ‘sickly ironic’ Today’s news (Jan. 10) contains two related articles. The first is that of a teen shooting two fellow students with a shotgun he brought into a school in Taft, Calif. The second is a conservative coalition that announced the first national “Gun Appreciation Day,” on Jan. 19. Am I the only one who finds the coincidence of these two news articles sickly ironic?

JEFF STRAUB Chico

68 degrees? No way!

Re “Five green resolutions” (Uncommon sense, Jan. 3): What, how can you possibly call 68 degrees conservation? I call it selfish, foolish profligacy. I don’t heat the bedrooms, and my utility room is cold enough to store beer, since I leave that window open a crack. Sleeping or out of the house it is 55, 60 when I’m home, 65 when I have company.

My utility bills are so low that it would take 40 years for me to save money by installing solar. Also, pets are great little lap heaters.

JIM DWYER Chico

Consider the consequences Re: “Tragedy and the Greeks” (“Top 10 of 2012” cover story, Dec. 27): I was moved to see the picture of the poor Greek frat boys and tearful sorority girls listening to Paul Zingg suspend their “activities.” Not! Questions for the party people: Is it better to spend time working on your chosen field of study or being found dead of alcohol and/or drug poisoning? Is it fairer to your parents for them to pay for an education that you use to move into a career or being arrested for being drunk and disorderly and getting suspended and kicked out?

Please think about the consequences when someone you hardly know says, “Dude, have another....”

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The Fedora Hat Bandit—the Carson City, Nev., serial robber who held up seven banks at gunpoint in 2009 and 2010—pleaded guilty in federal court to three counts of armed bank robbery Jan. 11.

David Griffith Osborne, 74, wore a fedora hat, sunglasses, fake mustache and goatee during his robbery spree from December 2009 to June 2010, according to a Department of Justice press release.

Osborne pleaded guilty to robbing of Bank of the West in Gridley, Chase Bank in Paradise, and the American River Bank in Rancho Cordova. He also admitted to bank robberies in Grass Valley, South Lake Tahoe, Carson City and Kings Beach, Nev. He was identified by surveillance images and DNA left on a bicycle he used in the Paradise robbery.

When sentenced in March, Osborne faces up to 25 years in prison.

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Newly elected Rep. Doug LaMalfa has announced he has named Mark Spannagel as his chief of staff. Spannagel, who served as LaMalfa’s chief of staff in the state Senate and as his campaign manager, was behind a controversial website, Sam4Congress.com, that popped up during the primary campaign.

The site took shots at fellow candidate Sam Aanestad, criticizing his record as a state assemblyman and senator. At first, the site carried a disclaimer saying it was posted by a group called “Free Thinkers for D’Acquisto,” suggesting that another candidate in the race, Republican Michael Dacquisto, was behind it. Both Aanestad and Dacquisto criticized the website. Aanestad filed a complaint with the state Fair Political Practices Commission but withdrew it after Spannagel apologized.

LaMalfa’s only comment during the controversy was that he was against dirty politics. Last week, he told the Chico Enterprise-Record that he was naming Spannagel as his chief of staff. “Lessons have been learned,” he explained.

PUPS GET NEW PAD

Pet lovers interested in adopting a dog from the Butte Humane Society will be shepherded to a new facility beginning this week.

The city of Chico’s new 38-run dog kennel is fully constructed and ready to house BHS’ adoptable dogs, while some other work at the Fair Street shelter, including ADA accessibility and a new prefabricated dogadoption-center building, are nearing completion.

Tracy Mohr, the shelter’s animal-services manager, gave the CN&R a tour of the new facility on Tuesday (Jan. 15), as the structure was temporarily being used to house the shelter’s stray dogs.

Those animals had previously been kept in makeshift outdoor kennels behind the shelter’s main office, while the adoptable dogs lived within the attached indoor kennels.

Moving forward, stray dogs will be housed in that attached facility, making overall conditions more sanitary, and ensuring the dogs are warmer in the winter months and cool during the summer, Mohr said.

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The felines among us Chico Animal Shelter’s new policy aims to ease its burgeoning number of cats and reduce euthanasia

Eis an animal that has simply appeared at her home, which is somewhat surprising considering very one of Tracy Mohr’s eight cats

Mohr’s job. She’s the animal-services manager at the Chico Animal Shelter.

“I have not brought a single story and one home from the shelter,” she photo by said this week during an interMelissa Daugherty view at the Fair Street facility.

Rather, the felines have chomelissad@ sen Mohr (and her husband, who newsreview.com she says is the real cat person in the family).

The same is true of thousands of other households; according to the American Pet Products Manufacturers Association, at least a third of cats are acquired as strays. Meanwhile, 16 percent are acquired from a shelter. And therein lies the rub. Animal shelters throughout the nation are overburdened with cats, and there aren’t enough adopters to keep up with the influx.

That’s part of the reason, beginning on Feb. 1, that the Chico shelter is instituting a new policy to not accept healthy More info: stray, feral and surrendered cats.

Go to It’s a controversial decision that www.chicoanimals Mohr acknowledged likely will helter.org to learn be unpopular initially, but a more about the move she said ultimately is in city’s shelter. The site includes the best interest of the cats and photos of the the community. The city is manstray animals dated to pick up only stray dogs brought into the for public safety, but somewhere facility, and along the line, Mohr said, the allows the public to upload photos animal-welfare community of strays as well. adopted the mindset that cats Those looking to should be picked up, too. give an animal a “We’re starting to rethink and home can also re-examine how to do animal look at photos of the shelter’s care,” said Mohr, who has been adoptable in the animal-welfare business population. for 35 years.

Things were bustling at the

Chico shelter this week.

On Tuesday morning, Jan. 15, a construction crew worked on the entryway leading to the entrance of the Fair Street facility’s main building. Meanwhile, inside, shelter workers were cleaning dog runs and cages filled with cats, a few rabbits and even a guinea pig.

From an outsider’s perspective, the shelter appears extremely busy. But Mohr says that, as far as the facility’s cat population is concerned, it’s a slow time of year. But it won’t be long before kitten season is upon the shelter, stretching the facility’s resources thin.

“In the summer, we’re packed to the gills,” Mohr said, adding that the shelter will still accept sick and injured strays as well as orphaned kittens.

Indeed, despite the city’s intake of stray and feral cats for decades upon decades, the city isn’t making a dent in the cat population. Mohr said the formula for getting an idea of a region’s number of feral and un-owned cats—socalled “community cats”—is to take the population and divide it by six. That means Chico is home to some 14,500 of these felines.

The city shelter doesn’t euthanize animals to free up space, but large numbers of animals are destroyed nonetheless.

From February through November, 1,823 cats, including 969 strays, were taken in by the shelter; 497 of them were

Tracy Mohr holds Mardi Gras, an adoptable tabby cat that came into the shelter already spayed. The shelter partners with the Butte Humane Society for adoptions of many animals, but it also adopts out a number of cats and dogs.

put to sleep. While some of the euthanized cats were destroyed due to illness and age, many were unadoptable simply because they were wild. Rarely is a feral cat gentle enough for adoption, and it’s only occasionally that the felines are placed with adoptees looking for a barn cat.

“They’re scared, stressed; they don’t want to be handled by people,” said Mohr, equating the cats’ brief stay at the shelter as torture. “Basically it’s a oneway trip for those cats.”

Conversely, friendly stray cats are adoptable, but there simply aren’t enough adopters. Moreover, many of the cats brought into the facility may actually not be strays to begin with. Mohr recalled a couple of college students who had seen a cat without a collar and assumed that the animal was a stray. It’s an honest mistake, but one that brings in a number of felines that do have homes.

“If it’s nice and fat and healthy, it’s probably somebody’s pet,” she said.

Dustin Alexander, communications and development manager for the Butte Humane Society, said his own cat regularly finds a way out of its quick-release collar.

“Someone could easily think he’s a stray,” he said.

The problem is that cat owners often assume their pets will return home at some point, and thus may not think to check the shelter. That thought may not occur until after a four-day holding period, after which time the cat could very well have been adopted.

Mohr noted that stray cats are

13 times more likely to find their way home if left alone. Nationally, the return-toowner rate for cats in shelters is just 2 percent. Chico’s is higher at about 5 percent, but that’s still not great, she said.

Alexander said BHS, which works cooperatively with the shelter by taking its animals into its adoption programs, supports the new policies of the Chico Animal Shelter.

“This will allow them to reserve those services for animals truly in need. This will also allow healthy cats who are left in the public domain to maintain an overall higher quality of life,” Alexander wrote as part of a formal response.

The organization, he said, is working on its own policy regarding the intake of surrendered animals, which will be limited since the nonprofit relies solely on donations.

Alexander, like Mohr, attended a workshop around the holidays at which UC Davis veterinarian Kate Hurley extolled the benefits of shelters limiting the intake of cats, a move a number of communities are adopting. Hurley offered evidence that traditional sheltering models are not effective in curbing cat overpopulation, such as the fact that less than 5 percent of the outdoor cat population is admitted to state shelters annually.

Some community shelters, such as the San Jose Animal Care and Services, offer a trap-neuter-return (TNR) program, which serves the duel purpose of cutting down on the euthanasia rate and helping to curb the cat population.

The city of Chico doesn’t have the funds for a TNR program, but Mohr pointed to the low-cost spay and neuter options offered though BHS, Paws of Chico, and PAWS of Oroville, among other local organizations dedicated to helping control the pet population, as resources for local residents. Mohr noted that stray and feral populations generally are healthy, but to she has work ahead of her to convince the public that the felines are better off staying put and to spend money to get them fixed.

For residents with cats that are creating nuisances, Mohr said the best way to deal with them is to remove any food sources and access to shelter. Simply removing the cats hasn’t worked, she said, as new cats show up to take their place.

“You’ll never ever eliminate all of the cats from your neighborhood, so it’s got to become how to live with the cats,” she said. Ω

Booze blues Coalition fires opening shot against alcohol abuse ur community has a serious alcohol “O problem,” reads the bold-faced opening line of a “Call for Community Action”

that appeared as a full-page ad in the Chico Enterprise-Record Sunday (Jan. 13). It was also emailed to Chico State University students last Friday (Jan. 11).

The message was the first public action taken by an as-yet-unnamed coalition of local agencies to address Chico’s ongoing fight against alcohol abuse and persistent party school reputation. Signed by 25 representatives from organizations including school administrations, local law enforcement and the City Council—though not, notably, from the Associated Students or any other student group—it mentions the deaths of five student-aged people in the last six months and presents a litany of other problems exacerbated by excessive alcohol use.

The message calls for “focused, comprehensive, and certain” action to be determined at upcoming meetings and identifies specific issues like cheap drinks at downtown bars and lack of consequences for permissive landlords.

Chico State University Vice President for Student Affairs Drew Calandrella explained the coalition was organized largely by CSU officials, and the message written mostly by Chico State President Paul Zingg, with approval and input from all of the signatories.

“Fighting alcohol abuse is not something the university or the community can do by itself,” Calandrella said. “We need to work in partnership, and that’s why these community leaders have come together.”

Calandrella said the next step is a series

of February public meetings to identify problems and potential solutions. Specific dates are pending while the college decides on a suitable venue.

“We want to make sure we can accommodate 40 or 400 people,” he said. “We want as many people as possible involved.”

Zingg confirmed by email that the group has been forming since early last fall, and with more immediacy since his Nov. 15 suspension of CSU’s Greek system.

“We have data to suggest that we are not making the progress we need to be making on the campus and in the larger community to stem the problems from alcohol and drug use,” Zingg said. For its part, Zingg said, the university administration will take a stronger stance on alcohol this upcoming semester.

“What students will see, beginning with my spring convocation remarks on Jan. 31, is an even more focused effort on the relationship between student social behaviors and choices and their learning and degree progress,” he said. “The big question is supporting student success, both in and beyond the classroom, so that they will make wiser choices about their behaviors, understand better the consequences of their actions, and be held more strictly accountable to them.

“This is a long-term undertaking, so the first steps focus on setting the stage. I do expect, though, new efforts addressing alcohol abuse to emerge sooner than later.”

In a December interview, Chico

Police Chief Kirk Trostle named Chico’s alcohol abuse issue has one of the depart-

SIFT|ER Americans: Gun laws need strengthening A recent poll that followed the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn., shows a steep increase in the number of Americans who favor strengthening gun laws. In the survey, which asked whether the sale of firearms should be stricter, less strict or left alone, 58 percent of respondents said stricter was the way to go. That’s up from 43 percent in 2011 and the highest level recorded since 2004 (when 60 percent favored stricter laws), but still much lower than the 78 percent recorded in the early ’90s. Meanwhile, a record-high number of Americans (47 percent) favor passing new gun laws, while support has dropped for simply enforcing current laws more strictly and not passing new laws.

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ment’s top four priorities for 2013, and alluded to the importance of partnering with local schools and business owners. Chief Trostle’s name is among the 25 listed.

Trostle acknowledged alcohol-fueled hijinks have long been a local problem, citing riots in 1987 and 1990 when he was a student at Chico State.

“I’m not proud to have the reputation as a party school,” he said. “I came to Chico State to get an education because I knew I wanted to be a police chief someday. My degree helped me get to that goal, so I’m very proud of it and everything the university does in the academic world.

“But we need to change our culture and our reputation, from that of a party town and a party school to an Ivy League-level school within the CSU system. We already have programs at Chico State that reflect that; we just need to change the view of the school and the community.”

Another name on the announcement/ad is that of Robert Combs, president of the Parent Advisory Council at CSU. PAC is a 45-50 member advisory board that meets twice yearly to share concerns with college administration, and also organizes outreach events in other communities for incoming students. Combs said the PAC joined the community coalition after being invited by President Zingg.

As an alumnus of CSU’s class of 1980 and the parent of two CSU students—one a recent grad, the other a junior—Combs also acknowledges Chico’s bad reputation is long-standing.

“As a former student, I’ve lived it and seen it with my own eyes and lived with it and seen it from my children’s eyes,” he said. “I think enough is enough. How many kids have to die on their 21st birthdays before we get a handle on it, recognize it as a problem and try to fix it?”

Combs said Chico’s alcohol stigma rises often at outreach events. “It’s one of those questions that always come up. Chico has in the past been considered a party school.

It’s certainly not an image we embrace or would like to have, but it’s one we do have and need to get rid of.”

—KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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Assistant city manager quits, gives no reason is a distinct air of discomTdays,here fort in Chico’s City Hall these as staff and management try

to come to terms with the sudden and unexpected “retirement” of Assistant City Manager John Rucker.

There was no press release or official announcement or acknowledgement of the development at the City Council meeting Tuesday (Jan. 15), contrary to what would be expected for such a high-ranking job.

The tip-off to this story started as a rumor phoned into this paper on Jan. 10. It was confirmed the next day by a city employee. Most who were contacted asked for anonymity.

An employee who worked closely with Rucker said the assistant city manager and recently hired City Manager Brian Nakamura had a meeting on Monday, Jan. 7, and that the next morning Rucker came to work earlier than usual, called the employee into his office and said he was stepping down as assistant city manager, but offered no specific reason.

“Nobody really knows what’s going on,” the employee said.

At least two other city employees said they’d heard that Nakamura had told Rucker at the Jan. 7 meeting that the men were “headed in different directions.”

Another worker said staff was informed about Rucker’s situation during a meeting on Tuesday, Jan. 8, but only after the question was raised.

On Friday, Jan. 11, in a brief phone interview, Nakamura confirmed Rucker’s situation.

“Uh, well, yes he’s not the assistant city manager anymore,” Nakamura said. “Unfortunately it’s a personnel matter, so I can’t really comment on it.”

The 47-year-old Nakamura

was hired last August to take over the job from Dave Burkland, who earlier in the year had announced his plans to retire after five years.

Rucker, who was hired as assistant city manager in 2008 after serving 20 years with the Chico Police John Rucker, right, former assistant city manager, sits next to former City Manager Dave Burkland at a City Council meeting in 2012.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

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Department, also applied for the head job. When he didn’t get it, Rucker, 51, said that while he was disappointed, he looked forward to working with Nakamura.

The sudden retirement seems to have caught most city employees off guard. Rucker attended the Jan. 2 council meeting, but was gone less than a week later. His office voicemail was still working on Friday, Jan. 11. However, his name was missing from the agenda packet for the Jan. 15 council meeting.

Councilwoman Ann Schwab said Nakamura told her that Rucker had retired and had sent an announcement via email to city department heads and some city staff members. She had not seen it.

Schwab said Rucker was a very valuable employee and listed a number of accomplishments above and beyond the job description.

City Clerk Deborah Presson said she, too, was surprised by the news, which she learned of via Rucker’s emailed announcement. Presson noted how her job description had recently changed, so that she now reports to the City Council rather than the city manager and is “out of the loop” when it comes to Nakamura’s office.

She said that Nakamura is in a way a change from city managers of the past, pointing out Fred Davis’ 32 years at the helm, followed by 18 years of Tom Lando, who’d been groomed by Davis. Greg Jones served as Lando’s assistant manager for a

couple of years before he was named city manager. He was on the job for only 18 months before he was replaced by Burlkand, who’d been a city employee for many years.

Nakamura is the first city manager in more than 50 years to take the job without prior Chico experience.

When contacted, Lando said he was unsure what had taken place and suggested perhaps former Chico Police Chief Mike Maloney might know something about it.

“I did hear last week that he was ‘released’ from his employment effective 5:00 p.m. last Monday,” Maloney said by email.

“Apparently, the public word is that he retired.”

Rucker could not be reached for comment.

This week the Chico EnterpriseRecord reported the story and also published in its classified section an ad for the position. The ad says the salary offered for assistant manager is $142,652 per year with the potential to reach $172,382 based on performance. The ad refers to the city website for more information.

“While performing the duties of this job,” the website announcement says, “the employee is frequently required to sit and talk and hear. The employee is occasionally required to walk; use hands to finger, handle, or feel objects, tools, or controls; and reach with hands and arms. The employee must occasionally lift and/or move up to 10 pounds. Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision and the ability to adjust focus.”

The application deadline is Feb. 1.

—TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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City’s books are perfectly ‘clean’ Finance director vindicated by audit report Tuesday (Jan. 15) meeting of the Chico TforheCity Council brought vindication of sorts Jennifer Hennessy, the city’s finance

director.

Readers will remember that early in 2012, as the race for City Council was starting to heat up, Hennessy took a lot of flak for what some candidates charged were lapses in her reporting and handling of city finances.

This week the council heard another story, this time from Ingrid Sheipline, of the Sacramento auditing firm Richardson & Co. Sheipline was there to report on the results of her firm’s audit of the city’s 2011-12 financial reports, and she had nothing but good things to say.

As it has for several years now, the Finance Department received an “unqualified,” or clean, opinion regarding the books, which “is good as you can get,” Sheipline told the council.

No audit adjustments were needed, she added, which is a rare occurrence and attests to the capability of the Finance Department.

Frank Fields, the city’s accounting manager, told the council 2011-12 was the most challenging year in his 18 years with the city, thanks primarily to the monkey wrench thrown into the works by the dissolution of the city’s redevelopment agency and its transformation into a successor agency. There were many “extraordinary items” in the budget, he said. “The most important thing is that we have a clean opinion,” he concluded.

Eager to serve: After a fitful start that required the deadline to be extended twice, the city “was inundated with applicants,” as City Clerk Deborah Presson put it, seeking to serve on its various commissions and one board. Altogether there were 60 of them, and Tuesday about 40 of them attended the council meeting to give two-minute pitches on why they should be selected.

They are an impressive bunch, many of them highly qualified, though perhaps not as diverse as the larger community. Only four are from minority groups—one AfricanAmerican, one Latino, one Southeast Asian and one Indian, Dr. Brahama D. Sharma, who wants to serve on the Airport Commission.

There was wide diversity of age, though many of the applicants were retired. One high school senior, Anna Wannenmacher, said she wanted to be the voice of young people on the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission (BPPC). Applicants were even-

ly divided between men and women.

Four former elected officials applied, two mayors (Mardi Worley and Karl Ory) and two former council members (Kimberly Rudisill and Tom Nickell). Worley and Rudisill want to be on the Planning Commission, Ory on the Airport Commission, and Nickell on the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission.

The best odds are for the Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board, to which only five people applied for four open seats. The worst odds were for the BPPC, which had 16 applicants for three seats.

Close behind was the Planning Commission, with 15 applicants for three seats.

Thirteen people want to serve on the Airport Commission, which has four openings, and 11 applied for the Arts Commission, which has four openings.

Of the 18 openings, 14 were for four-year terms and four for two years.

Council members will nominate their favorites and then collectively vote on them at a special goals-setting meeting set for Jan. 24 beginning at 6 p.m.

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Wonderful Opportunities for

Art Lovers!

Pacific Flyway Art Exhibit & Reception Pacific Flyway Art

Friday, January 18 to Saturday, February 2, 2013 Avenue 9 Gallery & Art Guild. Hours: Wednesday - Sunday: 12 - 5pm Feast your eyes on wonderful art by artists whose subjects include wildlife and habitat along the Pacific Flyway.

This exhibit will feature artwork in a variety of media, including sculpture, clay, oils, fiber arts, watercolor, acrylics, mixed media, glass, and photography. Thirty-five guest artists are joining Avenue 9 Gallery’s 18 Guild Members this year.

Art Exhibit & Reception

Friday, January 25, 2013, 5:00 - 8:00 pm, Free to the public Avenue 9 Gallery & Art Guild Celebrate the opening of the festival’s weekend and see wonderful works of art exhibited by many talented wildlife and landscape artists at the Pacific Flyway Art & Welcome Reception, Friday, January 25, 5 - 8 pm. Enjoy refreshments, live music, splendid conversations, and a no-host bar.

Photo by Michael Peters Bring a friend and meet the artists, along with fellow festival participants, presenters, and field trip leaders. There is ample free parking at the corner of 9th Avenue and Oleander, courtesy of Chico Nut Company.

The Orland Art Center

732 4th St. Orland, is also hosting an amazing exhibit “Wildlife Wonders II” that features the works of Sherrie Russell Meline and Steele Roberts-Ross. Some of our field trips will stop by the exhibit, but you can stop by any Tuesday through Saturday, January 4 through January 26, 1pm - 6pm to see it at your leisure. Don’t miss it! www.orlandartcenter.com

Among the actions taken at the City Council’s meeting Tuesday was designation of this house at 822 Esplanade, across from Chico High School, as a landmark on the city’s historic resources inventory. The council also authorized a Mills Act preservation agreement on the house, which is owned by Robert and Patricia Darrow. Built in 1909, it’s in the Dutch Colonial Revival style and is beautifully preserved inside and out, said Senior Planner Bob Summerville.

PHOTO COURTESY CITY OF CHICO

How to get your refund: An ordinance to change the Municipal Code to make it possible for people to get refunds from the city for taxes paid on cellular phones was on the consent agenda and would have been passed without discussion had not a citizen, Rick Clements, asked to address the council.

Clements wanted to know what actual process the city had set up to disburse the refunds. Not much of one, it turned out, but city officials agreed to get moving on it and place ads in the local newspapers explaining the process.

Refund petitioners will need to document their tax payments, going back 12 months.

“Gathering of Wings” Banquet & Silent Auction Banquet & Silent Auction

Saturday, January 26, 2013, 5:30 pm - 10 pm Bell Memorial Union Auditorium, CSU, Chico, Corner of 2nd Street and Chestnut Street, Chico, CA Cost per Person: $36 Adult, $20 Youth (17 years and younger) and students with ID. Beer & Wine (No Host) Featured Speakers: Roger Lederer & Carol Burr Authors, Naturalists, Illustrators, & Educators “The Amazing in the Familiar: Surprising Facts about Common Birds” “Chico’s Own” husband and wife team, Roger and Carol, who have birded throughout the world, will present “The Amazing in the Familiar: Surprising Facts about Common Birds” at the “Gathering of Wings” Banquet on Saturday night. Their keynote presentation will give you some insight into the individual stories of common birds, such as how Cedar Waxwings tell each other apart, why birds migrate with one eye, what Shakespeare had to do with our avian fauna, and why Ravens talk to wolves.

Special book signing by Roger and Carol will be from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm prior to the dinner and after keynote address.

Silent auction begins at 5:30 pm. The vibrant Silent Auction tables will accompany us while we dine at the BMU. The Silent Auction will include a variety of exquisite items including works of art, wine, and services. Your financial participation directly affects our ability to ensure that the Snow Goose Festival remains the North State’s premier birding event, so enjoy the evening bidding for an event or item that you love. You won’t be disappointed!

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—ROBERT SPEER roberts@newsreview.com January 17, 2013

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EARTH WATCH

GREENWAYS Tim Jeffers with an IZIP Zuma e-bike.

DELTA FISH POPULATIONS PLUMMET

After a temporary rebound in 2011, Delta fish populations plummeted once again last year, a midwinter trawl survey conducted by the California Department of Fish and Wildlife revealed.

The survey found a record-low number of threadfin shad, a previously abundant forage fish used as striped-bass bait on the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta, according to IndyBay.com.

The index level—a relative measure of abundance—of the threadfin shad was 41, compared to 228 last year. Other species experiencing a slip in index level were the Delta smelt (listed as endangered), striped bass, longfin smelt, Sacramento splittail and American shad.

The decrease in fish populations was predicted last year by Thomas Cannon, a fishery biologist who testified about the issue during state Water Resources Control Board meetings.

A GOOD YEAR FOR SHORTS

Last year was, by a wide margin, the hottest ever recorded in the contiguous United States.

While year-to-year temperature differences are typically measured in fractions of a degree, 2012’s average temperature (55.3 degrees) was a whole degree higher than the previous record set in 1998, according to The New York Times.

More than 34,000 daily-high records were recorded at weather stations across the country, compared to 6,664 record lows.

Experts maintain natural variability almost certainly played a role in the record-setting year, but also suggest such extremes would not have been reached without greenhousegas emissions from human activity. Many have warned 2012 is also a taste of things to come, as climate change makes weather extremes more common.

Last year was marked by an extreme March heat wave, widespread drought in the Corn Belt and super-storm Sandy in the Middle Atlantic states.

“The heat was remarkable,” said Jake Crouch of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C. “It was prolonged. That we beat the record by one degree is quite a big deal.”

Carving out a niche Red

Inset: Cheri Chastain (left), Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s sustainability coordinator, and Mandi Mckay, assistant sustainability coordinator, try out the brewery’s two new e-bikes.

Mountain Green Cycle is Chico’s first electricbicycle store

GREEN CARS ALL AROUND

Butte County has been recognized by Forbes Magazine as one of the top 10 areas in the nation for green vehicles.

The magazine ranked Butte County (listed as the Chico Metropolitan Statistical Area) No. 8 in the nation for its high percentage of hybrid vehicles, according to multiple media sources.

More than 6 percent of cars in Butte County are hybrid-powered, while .17 percent rely on battery power alone. Other high-ranking regions included San Francisco, Monterey, Santa Barbara, San Diego, Eureka, Los Angeles, Eugene, Ore. and Tucson, Ariz.

Tulsa, Okla., Lafayette, La., and Odessa-Midland, Texas, were among the cities listed as having the lowest percentages of hybrid vehicles.

Send your eco-related news tips to Howard Hardee at HowardH@newsreview.com.

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story and photos by

Claire Hutkins Seda

IEast 20th Street sits a tiny, well-lit bicycle shop, Red Mountain Green Cycle, n a nondescript strip mall on

that opened its doors a few weeks before Christmas. It’s the first of its kind in Chico; it sells only electric bikes—bicycles with built-in plug-in motors.

“These are all bicycles, just like any other bicycle. You can pedal them and ride them, and there are different styles—road bikes, mountain-bike styles,” explained Tim Jeffers, general manager for the store.

“What makes them different is that they all have a hub motor and lithium-ion batteries

connected to them as well. This allows you to use power at any time, in any amount that you want to—so you can pedal as much or as little as you want to on these bikes.”

Jeffers’ first customer was his neighbor just a few blocks down East 20th Street— Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. Months before the shop opened, Jeffers sent a letter to the brewery’s bike-enthusiast CEO, Ken Grossman, offering to set the company up with a few e-bikes to try out. The letter eventually made its way to Mandi Mckay, the brewery’s assistant sustainability coordinator.

Sierra Nevada had for several years offered standard, non-electric bicycles to employees through its loaner-bike program, wherein brewery employees could

check out a bicycle for personal or company use, any day of the week. It was part of the brewery’s “Green Machine” program, which aimed to get employees “riding their bike more, and not using their cars as much,” explained Mckay recently. But the loaner bikes, admittedly “low-end” and “not maintained very well,” bit the dust— and the program stalled out.

“When we heard about the electric bikes, we thought it might be a good way

More info:

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CHIPPIN’ AWAY “Do you have fallen branches, overgrown brush and other

vegetation that needs chipping?” begins a recent press release I received from the Butte County Fire Safe Council. The council’s Chipper Program, in its 11th year and in full swing through May 15, “provides an alternative to burning or hauling fire-hazardous brush.”

“We ask for a voluntary tax-deductible donation of $30 to support the program,” said council spokeswoman Calli-Jane Burch. “We provide up to two hours of service to each resident who makes a request; the value of those two hours is about $400. If, however, a resident is unable to make a donation, we still provide the service.”

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“Air infiltration is the uncontrolled exchange of outside and inside air. Cold air Local green architect Hyland seeps into your home via small cracks and Fisher knows a lot about openings no matter how recently your home reducing air infiltration. was built. Air infiltration can account for up to PHOTO BY CHRISTINE G.K. LAPADO-BREGLIA 30 percent of your heating bill.

“Internet resources are provided below to help walk you through the process of identifying and eliminating air-infiltration sources. In short, you want to: • Caulk the floor and wall intersections, and wall and ceiling intersections • Caulk around interior door and window trim • Caulk, or foam, exterior envelope penetrations (dryer vent, plumbing lines, light fixtures, etc.)

• Install foam barriers in outlets and switches • Insulate and weather-strip attic access hatches • Weather-strip exterior doors • When appropriate, close chimney with a fireplace plug.”

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among other things, for heading up the puppet-making workshops that provide numerous large, beautiful puppets for the Procession of the Species parade at Butte Environmental Council’s annual Endangered Species Faire—advised me that this year’s puppet-making workshop is on the horizon. Free and open to the public, the workshop will take place on Jan. 26, from noon until 5 p.m., at the new A huge sea-turtle puppet at last year’s warehouse/art space called the Procession of the Species.

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HEALTHLINES Dr. Randell Skau’s profession has taken him all over the United States and the world, including Fiji, Malaysia, Ethiopia and Nigeria.

POSSIBLE SKIN-CANCER TREATMENT

Intermittent dosing of the anti-cancer drug vemurafenib (marketed as Zelboraf) could prolong the lives of melanoma patients with deadly tumors, a study finds.

Researchers from UC San Francisco, the Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and University Hospital Zurich in Switzerland found that one mechanism by which melanoma cells become resistant to vemurafenib also causes them to become addicted to the drug, according to a UCSF press release.

The cells then use the drug to spur growth of rapidly progressing, drug-resistant tumors.

Using this discovery, the researchers introduced mice with melanoma to an on-again, offagain treatment schedule that both shrank their tumors and prolonged their lives.

In 2012, an estimated 76,250 Americans were newly diagnosed with melanoma, and 9,180 people died from the aggressive form of skin cancer.

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FLU WANING OR WAXING?

Late in December 2012, influenza season kicked into full swing, with well over half of U.S. states reporting widespread activity.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) data for the period of Dec. 23-29 noted widespread flu activity in 41 states, up from 31 states the previous week. However, the CDC’s Jan. 11 flu-advisory report for the first week of January showed a decrease in some parts of the country, according to ABC.com.

While flu cases appear to be waning in some states, experts warn that flu season typically peaks in February or March, so the worst might be yet to come.

“It may be decreasing in some areas, but that’s hard to predict,” said CDC Director Dr. Thomas Frieden. “Trends only in the next week or two will show whether we have in fact crossed that peak.”

Visit www.flunearyou.org to monitor how prevalent influenza cases are in your area.

MEDICAL GROUP IN HOT WATER

Kaiser Permanente is being investigated by state and federal officials for a possible breach of patient privacy.

Kaiser hired Sure File Filing Systems, run by Stephan and Liza Dean, to organize and transfer thousands of patient records when the medical group purchased the Moreno Valley Community Hospital in Southern California in 2008, according to the Los Angeles Times.

The Deans stored thousands of the files in a warehouse in Indio; hospital clerks routinely emailed the Deans for specific patient records. Of the emails—which contained full names, dates of birth, physicians’ names, Social Security numbers and treatment dates—only about one of 600 was encrypted with a password.

The California Department of Public Health determined Kaiser “failed to safeguard all patients’ medical records” by trusting the information with Sure File; penalties will be determined following the investigation.

Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at HowardH@newsreview.com.

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Surgeon of the world Dr. Randell Skau brings wide-ranging experience to his job at Oroville Hospital by

Evan Tuchinsky

Dthe world. He was born and raised in India, where his parents were on a religious r. Randell Skau is a citizen of

mission. He went to college in the Napa Valley and studied medicine in Southern California before working in Tennessee.

He spent 10 years in Nigeria, along with taking medical-mission trips to Malaysia, Thailand, Zambia and Antigua. Then he found himself in Maine.

Since autumn 2007, Skau has called Butte County home. He performs general surgery at Oroville Hospital and sees patients in his office on the medical-center grounds. He and his wife, Melinda, a family physician, still take medical missions around the world. Their most recent trips have been to Fiji and Ethiopia.

So how did this international man of medicine wind up in Oroville? Simply put, he wanted a place near relatives that his family—teenage son and daughter—

could call home.

“I went back to Nigeria once after a visit here and virtually sat down and cried because I felt like I had given my kids wings but no roots,” Skau said. “But, then, that’s the way I grew up.”

Skau’s paternal grandparents settled in the Napa Valley after decades as missionaries in Asia—primarily India, but also Burma. His parents spent most of the

1950s and ’60s in India, which is how he happened to be born there. He first visited his homeland, the United States, when he was 6.

“One of the things I appreciated about mission life as a child was the simplicity, the time with family,” Skau explained. “It seemed that outside of their working life, HEALTHLINES continued on page 18

APPOINTMENT SINUSITIS, DISCUSSED Feather River Hospital’s popular Dinner with the Doctor series continues on Thursday, Jan. 24, at the First Christian Church in Paradise (5738 Pentz Road) with Dr. Brian Baumgartner, presenting “It’s Not So Funny,” a discussion of sinusitis causes, prevention, treatment and possible dangers.

Dinner begins at 6 p.m., with Baumgartner’s lecture to follow. Admission is free, dinner $10. Call Feather River Hospital at 876-7154 to make a reservation.

A CALL FOR COMMUNITY ACTION Those of us who have signed the statement below have come together because we believe, like so many who will read this, that Chico is a special place. Our city regularly appears on lists of best places to live, to work, and to grow in our country. And for so many good reasons. It has a charming downtown; it is in a location of great natural beauty; it is a strong arts community; it is a “green” community, a recreation community, an entrepreneurial community, an altruistic community; and it is a town with strong K-12 schools and higher education institutions. Its values include a passion for community involvement and service. Our town has heart and spirit – and we wouldn’t want to live or work anywhere else.

Several years ago, civic and community leaders wrote a powerful document entitled “Chico Values Community.” Beginning with a declaration that a community is more than a place or a specific population, it emphasizes that we build community through bold affirmations of what we value and clear demonstrations to be who we say we are. In particular, the document recognized that the citizens of Chico have often joined hands in making commitments, working together, and taking responsibility to make our city an even better place. We believe the same effort is needed now to address a pressing challenge to our health, well-being and reputation.

Our community has a serious alcohol problem. News accounts document this on almost a daily basis. It affects countless lives, and tragically accounts for a number of deaths, year after year. Elected officials, police officers, health professionals, university, college, and K-12 administrators, community leaders, business and property owners, and other citizens of this great community, young and old, must take an active part in turning the tide.

The challenge is immense. Excessive alcohol consumption causes or is a major contributing factor to medical emergencies, injuries, sexual assaults, fights, vandalism, property damage, drunk driving, arrests, academic problems, and deaths (including five residents or visitors in the last six months) that occur in Chico. It impacts not just those directly involved but the health and safety of all community members. It has afflicted us for decades, and despite the dedicated efforts of many individuals and agencies, we believe the problem has gotten worse rather than better.

Together, we have to figure out what to do. But, first, we have to decide that we will act on what we discover. Maintaining the status quo is not an option for the sake of our community and, especially, for our young people. Yes, understanding will guide our actions. But clear purpose and high resolve will make them meaningful and consequential.

Education and prevention efforts past and present have helped, but not nearly enough. Part of the reason is that binge drinking has somehow become acceptable behavior among many young people. When they see blacking out, visiting the drunk tank, or having their stomach pumped due to intoxication as a badge of honor, we have a problem. When ingesting 21 drinks on your 21st birthday is seen as a rite of passage, instead of risking your life, we have a problem. When parents are fearful of sending their children to Chico for college because of the number of bars and parties and alcohol outlets, we have a problem. Attitudes, behaviors, and practices must change or more lives will be lost.

It is not simply a fraternity problem, or a university problem, or a south campus problem. It is a community-wide problem that will require all of us to solve. We need to confront the availability and low cost of drinks at downtown bars; the advertising and bar guides that promote cheap and excessive drinking; the lack of consequences for landlords who permit out of control parties; the impression that some businesses turn a deaf ear to safety concerns; the enforcement of public drinking laws; our approaches to alcohol and drug education; the low number of Friday classes and the amount of work assigned in all classes; and many other topics, however difficult they may seem.

Drew Calandrella Vice President for Student Affairs California State University, Chico Robert Combs President, Parent Advisory Council California State University, Chico Mary Goloff Mayor, City of Chico Scott Gruendl Vice Mayor, City of Chico Roger Hart Chair, Chico Chamber of Commerce Board of Directors

Robyn Hearne Chief of Police California State University, Chico Dan Herbert Chico Youth Alcohol Committee David McAlister President, Chico Noon Exchange Club Russell Mills Chair, Academic Senate California State University, Chico Sean Morgan Councilmember, City of Chico and Faculty Member, California State University, Chico

Phyllis Murdock Director Butte County Public Health Department Brian Nakamura City Manager, City of Chico Kimberly Perry Superintendent/President Butte-Glenn Community College District Michelle Power President, Alumni Association Board of Directors California State University, Chico Michael L. Ramsey Butte County District Attorney

Yes, Chico is a great place to live, to go to school, to visit. But like any place, it also has problems, and the alcohol problem must be addressed now. How many more parents will bury their children before we demonstrate the collective will to take action? How many family members will grieve their loved ones knowing drugs or alcohol played a part in their deaths?

Some may fear the task ahead will bring notoriety to our city, and shine a light on activities and businesses best left in the shadows. But the sad truth is that acknowledging we have an alcohol problem will not be news to very many people, because, in fact, this problem is already a magnet for some. In a survey of high school students enrolling at Chico State, 35 percent report they had more than five drinks at one sitting in the past two weeks. The national average for this group of incoming freshmen – categorized as “high risk drinkers” – is 22 percent. We want our University and our community to be known for – and attract people to – our many outstanding features, not for cheap drinks, raging parties or alcohol-related deaths.

We want every citizen to see our higher education institutions as a source of pride, not embarrassment.

We understand alcohol is legal and enjoyed by many people; this is not an effort to demonize its use. But abuse of alcohol – and not just by young people, of course – is pervasive, and accepted by many, in our community. We also understand that illegal drug use and prescription drug abuse are themselves serious problems and are often contributing factors in overdose deaths.

By no means do we underestimate the challenge ahead of us. We seek to understand the many complexities to this problem, and then act firmly. It may go without saying, but students and other young people, and their parents, must play an important role in finding a solution, and changing the drinking culture that exists.

This message is a call for action.

The action must be focused, comprehensive, and certain. We cannot idle in denial or hesitancy. Our next steps include community meetings early in 2013 where experts, parents, students, and University and community members can discuss the challenges and chart solutions. More information on these meetings will be forthcoming. Please contact the office of Drew Calandrella, CSU, Chico’s Vice President for Student Affairs, at (530) 898-6131 if you are interested in attending. Your support is crucial if we are to succeed. And, in this case, “if” is not an option.

Thank you.

Allen Renville Vice President of Student Services Butte College Tami Ritter Councilmember, City of Chico Anne Robin Director, Butte County Behavioral Health Department Ann Schwab Former Mayor, Councilmember City of Chico Jerry W. Smith Butte County Sheriff-Coroner

Mark Sorensen Councilmember, City of Chico Kelly Staley Superintendent Chico Unified School District Richard Stein President The Rotary Club of Chico Deborah Stewart Chief of Medical Staff/Director of the Student Health Center California State University, Chico

Randall Stone Councilmember, City of Chico Alan D. Tochterman President, Downtown Chico Business Association Kirk Trostle Chief of Police, City of Chico Paul J. Zingg President California State University, Chico

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In all, Skau found the experi-

ence in Nigeria “extremely rewarding” and one that “stretched one beyond one’s comfort zone.”

“I was working with people

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who often had very few other options for medical care, and they were very appreciative of the care they otherwise wouldn’t get,” he said. “It also was challenging, because oftentimes I had to do things I wasn’t specifically trained to do in the U.S. “You’d want to send people to bigger hospitals or specialty places, but they just didn’t have the resources—often they’d say, ‘If you can’t do it here, I’m going home to die.’ So you end up doing a lot of things you wouldn’t end up doing here in the United States.”

In 2003, Skau and his family

“You do get a perspective of the needs of the world and the blessings of the U.S.” –Dr. Randell Skau

returned to America. He took a job in Maine, but after two and a half years, they resettled in Oroville.

“We liked the Gold Country area,” Skau said, “and when we found the opening here, it seemed like the hospital and staff was a good fit.”

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His time overseas has given Skau a distinct world view.

“You do get a perspective of the needs of the world and the blessings of the U.S.,” he said. “I do feel very blessed to have the opportunities that this country has afforded.

It’s been tremendous to be able to go around the world from that perspective.”

As such, he encourages others to follow in his footsteps—not out of arrogance, but humility. Skau is happy to talk about his experiences if they’ll inspire others to take medical missions or serve others in whatever way they can.

“I’d like people to know that God is an amazing god who can do amazing things,” he said. “In a place with few resources, you need to depend on someone other than yourself. We’ve lost an awful lot of patients; we also witnessed miracles. But we certainly found we weren’t the ones ultimately responsible—God is. We can just do the best we can.” Ω

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• Fever: This is usually a good indication that you have the flu, as most people do not develop a fever when they catch a cold.

• Long-lasting fatigue: With the flu, you will start feeling tired and achy; these symptoms can last for weeks.

• Sore throat: Colds usually begin with a sore throat, with other symptoms to follow.

• Stuffy nose: Unless a stuffy nose is accompanied by fever, aches and general fatigue, this is a good indicator of a cold.

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hen news broke on election night that Colorado was the first state to legalize marijuana, patrons at the trendy Casselman’s Bar & Venue in Denver erupted in cheers, then hugged each other and cried. Organizers and friends of the state’s Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol thanked everyone—elderly black women, young hipsters, business execs—and there were far more people in suits than in tie-dye that night. And nary a hint of ganja smoke inside the hip establishment.

A few hours later, in Seattle’s Hotel Ändra, travel writer Rick Steves joined business leaders and members of the American Civil Liberties Union, along with Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, in thanking volunteers for making cannabis-legalization history in Washington as well.

But cheers for Colorado and Washington that evening were accompanied by a bit of jealousy here in California, where voters narrowly defeated this state’s pot-legalization measure, Proposition 19, in 2010.

“A lot of people have said to me, ‘How come we couldn’t do that last election?’” remarked Stephen Downing, a retired Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

But the victories in Colorado and Washington sparked more than just envy in the Golden State. Amanda Reiman, with the Drug Policy Alliance, says a new legalization initiative is now on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the California reform community.

“This was something that we were talking about before the election,” she said. “The results of the election have just ramped up

those conversations, absolutely.”

Today, it’s not a question of whether California will legalize marijuana for adults over the age of 21. Now, people just ask when.

ALL EYES ON CALIFORNIA “A lot of people in California are starting to talk about a future campaign—certainly the debate about 2014 vs. 2016, all that’s being engaged,” said Bill Zimmerman, who helped run California’s successful Proposition 215 medical-marijuana initiative in 1996.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, for instance, has planned a conference on legalization in California later this month, Jan. 26 and 27, in San Francisco. All the big players in the marijuana world—NORML, the Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, LEAP, Americans for Safe Access, the Emerald Growers Association, the Oaksterdam community in Oakland—have been holding both public and private talks as well.

And a new California legalization initiative may not be the only one in the nation.

Recent polls show that Americans are increasingly comfortable with the idea of bringing pot out of the closet. A survey released last month from the respected polling organization run by Quinnipiac University showed that Americans now favor marijuana legalization 51 percent to 44 percent. It’s a historic shift.

Americans also believe that states, not the federal government, should decide whether pot is legal. A Gallup poll released on Dec. 10, 2012, revealed that 64 percent of Americans want to leave marijuana policy up to the states.

“I would not be surprised to see [cannabis legalization] on the ballot in a number of places in 2014 and 2016,” said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the Drug Policy Research Center at the nonpartisan think tank the RAND Corporation.

But replicating the wins in Colorado and Washington isn’t simply a matter of copying and pasting initiatives, reform experts say.

The victories in both states came from a decade of hard work resulting not only in strong political coalitions and palatable initiative language, but also campaigns run by professional operatives armed with lots of cash.

Experts also say California is a different beast entirely. Moreover, evidence has emerged that drug warriors are already lobbying the Obama administration to overturn election outcomes in Colorado and Washington before states like California can legalize pot, too.

In November Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana.

Is California next?

BY DAVID DOWNS

HOW COLORADO AND WASHINGTON FREED WEED The Colorado victory may have blindsided the federal government, but the movement toward marijuana legalization had been building for a long time.

The state’s Amendment 64 really began with the Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation education campaign, which relentlessly hammered home the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Then, in 2006, SAFER ran a statewide pot-legalization initiative. Although it failed, the defeat taught the group some key lessons, including the importance of grassroots campaigning and building a solid political infrastructure.

Meanwhile, in Denver elected lawmakers had become leaders of the national medicalmarijuana movement. Coloradans legalized medical weed at the ballot box in 2000, but the medical-pot industry’s rapid and unchecked growth sparked intense criticism. The Colorado Legislature responded by passing seedto-sale regulations for the state in 2010.

The new rules are administered by the Colorado Department of Revenue, and today gunand badge-carrying officers from the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division regulate the industry. Pot cops monitor grow rooms and club transactions via remote cameras linked to the Internet, while ensuring the collection of millions in tax revenue for the state.

Against this backdrop, in which the electorate not only had become aware that pot is safer than booze, but also realized that the

state had a functioning system for controlling medical cannabis, marijuana-law reformers decided to launch another initiative for 2012.

The Marijuana Policy Project, a nationwide effort to decriminalize pot and keep users out of prison, provided 90 percent of the funding for the Amendment 64 campaign, according to Mason Tvert, its co-director. The Drug Policy Alliance, another nationwide drugreform group, donated the other 10 percent.

The highly professional campaign in Colorado conducted polling, drafted initiative language and paid signature gatherers to get the necessary valid signatures to put Amendment 64 on the ballot. The campaign also worked closely with the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, LEAP, the ACLU of Colorado, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of Colorado to mobilize thousands of volunteers to go door to door and staff phone banks.

Like those of Prop. 19 in California, opponents of Amendment 64 spent less than half a million dollars, so the campaign was the reformers’ to lose. Amendment 64’s ads featured and targeted a key swing group: young moms. The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol campaign didn’t extol the virtues of pot: Instead, it talked about controlling the

drug to keep it away from kids and promised that the tax revenue from pot regulation would benefit schools.

“I think folks in Colorado and Washington learned from California’s experience,” said Kilmer of RAND. Farther west, Washington—a liberal state with a long history of supporting medical cannabis—also had a group of serious professionals who slam-dunked pot legalization in a state that was simply waiting for it.

Washingtonians legalized medical pot in 1998, two years after Californians, and ever since have struggled with how to regulate the drug—not unlike what has happened in the Golden State. Illegal dispensaries have thrived in cities like Seattle, but they’ve also been subject to raids by federal, state and local authorities.

Fed up with that chaos, pillars of the Washington community came together to run the Initiative 502 campaign, known as New Approach Washington. The campaign sponsors included Washington ACLU drug-policy director Alison Holcomb, Seattle City “MARIJUANA” continued on page 22

Top to bottom: California Proposition 19, a 2010 initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use, failed at the polls.

Travel writer Rick Steves, a co-sponsor of Washington’s successful pot-legalization initiative, at a rally in 2012.

About the author:

Denver residents celebrate Colorado’s Amendment 64 win during November’s general election.

David Downs is a freelance writer and author of the blog “Legalization Nation” hosted by the East Bay Express.

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Taking the high road W

hen news broke on election night that Colorado was the first state to legalize marijuana, patrons at the trendy Casselman’s Bar & Venue in Denver erupted in cheers, then hugged each other and cried. Organizers and friends of the state’s Campaign to Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol thanked everyone—elderly black women, young hipsters, business execs—and there were far more people in suits than in tie-dye that night. And nary a hint of ganja smoke inside the hip establishment.

A few hours later, in Seattle’s Hotel Ändra, travel writer Rick Steves joined business leaders and members of the American Civil Liberties Union, along with Seattle City Attorney Pete Holmes, in thanking volunteers for making cannabis-legalization history in Washington as well.

But cheers for Colorado and Washington that evening were accompanied by a bit of jealousy here in California, where voters narrowly defeated this state’s pot-legalization measure, Proposition 19, in 2010.

“A lot of people have said to me, ‘How come we couldn’t do that last election?’” remarked Stephen Downing, a retired Los Angeles Police Department deputy chief and a member of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition (LEAP).

But the victories in Colorado and Washington sparked more than just envy in the Golden State. Amanda Reiman, with the Drug Policy Alliance, says a new legalization initiative is now on the tip of everyone’s tongue in the California reform community.

“This was something that we were talking about before the election,” she said. “The results of the election have just ramped up

those conversations, absolutely.”

Today, it’s not a question of whether California will legalize marijuana for adults over the age of 21. Now, people just ask when.

ALL EYES ON CALIFORNIA “A lot of people in California are starting to talk about a future campaign—certainly the debate about 2014 vs. 2016, all that’s being engaged,” said Bill Zimmerman, who helped run California’s successful Proposition 215 medical-marijuana initiative in 1996.

The National Organization for the Reform of Marijuana Laws, for instance, has planned a conference on legalization in California later this month, Jan. 26 and 27, in San Francisco. All the big players in the marijuana world—NORML, the Marijuana Policy Project, the Drug Policy Alliance, LEAP, Americans for Safe Access, the Emerald Growers Association, the Oaksterdam community in Oakland—have been holding both public and private talks as well.

And a new California legalization initiative may not be the only one in the nation.

Recent polls show that Americans are increasingly comfortable with the idea of bringing pot out of the closet. A survey released last month from the respected polling organization run by Quinnipiac University showed that Americans now favor marijuana legalization 51 percent to 44 percent. It’s a historic shift.

Americans also believe that states, not the federal government, should decide whether pot is legal. A Gallup poll released on Dec. 10, 2012, revealed that 64 percent of Americans want to leave marijuana policy up to the states.

“I would not be surprised to see [cannabis legalization] on the ballot in a number of places in 2014 and 2016,” said Beau Kilmer, co-director of the Drug Policy Research Center at the nonpartisan think tank the RAND Corporation.

But replicating the wins in Colorado and Washington isn’t simply a matter of copying and pasting initiatives, reform experts say.

The victories in both states came from a decade of hard work resulting not only in strong political coalitions and palatable initiative language, but also campaigns run by professional operatives armed with lots of cash.

Experts also say California is a different beast entirely. Moreover, evidence has emerged that drug warriors are already lobbying the Obama administration to overturn election outcomes in Colorado and Washington before states like California can legalize pot, too.

In November Colorado and Washington became the first states to legalize marijuana.

Is California next?

BY DAVID DOWNS

HOW COLORADO AND WASHINGTON FREED WEED The Colorado victory may have blindsided the federal government, but the movement toward marijuana legalization had been building for a long time.

The state’s Amendment 64 really began with the Safer Alternative for Enjoyable Recreation education campaign, which relentlessly hammered home the message that marijuana is safer than alcohol. Then, in 2006, SAFER ran a statewide pot-legalization initiative. Although it failed, the defeat taught the group some key lessons, including the importance of grassroots campaigning and building a solid political infrastructure.

Meanwhile, in Denver elected lawmakers had become leaders of the national medicalmarijuana movement. Coloradans legalized medical weed at the ballot box in 2000, but the medical-pot industry’s rapid and unchecked growth sparked intense criticism. The Colorado Legislature responded by passing seedto-sale regulations for the state in 2010.

The new rules are administered by the Colorado Department of Revenue, and today gunand badge-carrying officers from the Medical Marijuana Enforcement Division regulate the industry. Pot cops monitor grow rooms and club transactions via remote cameras linked to the Internet, while ensuring the collection of millions in tax revenue for the state.

Against this backdrop, in which the electorate not only had become aware that pot is safer than booze, but also realized that the

state had a functioning system for controlling medical cannabis, marijuana-law reformers decided to launch another initiative for 2012.

The Marijuana Policy Project, a nationwide effort to decriminalize pot and keep users out of prison, provided 90 percent of the funding for the Amendment 64 campaign, according to Mason Tvert, its co-director. The Drug Policy Alliance, another nationwide drugreform group, donated the other 10 percent.

The highly professional campaign in Colorado conducted polling, drafted initiative language and paid signature gatherers to get the necessary valid signatures to put Amendment 64 on the ballot. The campaign also worked closely with the Students for Sensible Drug Policy, LEAP, the ACLU of Colorado, and the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People of Colorado to mobilize thousands of volunteers to go door to door and staff phone banks.

Like those of Prop. 19 in California, opponents of Amendment 64 spent less than half a million dollars, so the campaign was the reformers’ to lose. Amendment 64’s ads featured and targeted a key swing group: young moms. The Regulate Marijuana Like Alcohol campaign didn’t extol the virtues of pot: Instead, it talked about controlling the

drug to keep it away from kids and promised that the tax revenue from pot regulation would benefit schools.

“I think folks in Colorado and Washington learned from California’s experience,” said Kilmer of RAND. Farther west, Washington—a liberal state with a long history of supporting medical cannabis—also had a group of serious professionals who slam-dunked pot legalization in a state that was simply waiting for it.

Washingtonians legalized medical pot in 1998, two years after Californians, and ever since have struggled with how to regulate the drug—not unlike what has happened in the Golden State. Illegal dispensaries have thrived in cities like Seattle, but they’ve also been subject to raids by federal, state and local authorities.

Fed up with that chaos, pillars of the Washington community came together to run the Initiative 502 campaign, known as New Approach Washington. The campaign sponsors included Washington ACLU drug-policy director Alison Holcomb, Seattle City “MARIJUANA” continued on page 22

Top to bottom: California Proposition 19, a 2010 initiative to legalize recreational marijuana use, failed at the polls.

Travel writer Rick Steves, a co-sponsor of Washington’s successful pot-legalization initiative, at a rally in 2012.

About the author:

Denver residents celebrate Colorado’s Amendment 64 win during November’s general election.

David Downs is a freelance writer and author of the blog “Legalization Nation” hosted by the East Bay Express.

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“MARIJUANA” continued from page 21

Attorney Holmes, former U.S. Attorney John McKay, celebrity travel writer Rick Steves, Rep. Mary Lou Dickerson, two former presidents of the Washington State Bar, and a former professor at the University of Washington. This was no coalition of hippie dreamers.

Much like Colorado, the Washington group polled extensively and came up with a moderate form of legalization that lifted penalties for adults possessing personal amounts, but banned home growing, created a tough new drugged-driving standard, and taxed the industry heavily to fund schools and research.

New Approach Washington spent about $5.7 million on the campaign, including about $2 million on TV advertisements that put tough-talking law-enforcement officials against prohibition front and center.

Initiative 502 passed, 55 percent to 45 percent, with 1.7 million votes for and 1.4 million votes against. Colorado’s Amendment 64 won by the same margin, 55 percent to 45 percent, with 1.3 million votes cast for it and 1 million votes cast against.

But California is not Washington or Colorado. We’re bigger and more diverse. The pot-legalization movement here also has failed over the years to unite behind a statewide measure. And, while drug-law reformers foresee a domino effect from pot legalization in two states, a historic backlash is possible as well.

THE CALIFORNIA WAY One major hurdle for marijuana legalization in California is the diversity of opinion among residents.

“In Washington and Colorado, you can

win over mainstream opinion and you’re then likely to win an election,” said Zimmerman of Prop. 215 fame. “Here in California, you’ve got to win the approval of a number of different communities, many of which often act independently of the mainstream: Latinos, African-Americans, youth, senior citizens. It’s a much more complex task.”

It will also be more costly: more than $1 million to gather the half-million valid signatures needed to put an initiative on the California ballot, experts say. Campaign marketing and operations could cost anywhere from $5 million to $15 million.

But Reiman said pockets this deep do exist in the reform community. “A lot of people have $5 [million] to $10 million dollars lying around. It’s just a question of whether the people that have that lying around are going to find [marijuana legalization] a worthy cause.”

Funders will want to see an initiative that’s winnable at the polls yet acceptable to the fractious gaggle of reform groups in California. And that could be tough. During the Prop. 19 race, Oaksterdam organizers in Oakland not only had to fight the California Police Chiefs Association and the beer industry, but also the entrenched medical- and illegal-marijuana interests in Southern and Northern California.

Sharp divisiveness in the California cannabis community combined with tepid mainstream support in the electorate has also scared big donors over the years. And without the needed cash, legalization efforts have stalled. No fewer than five groups tried to get a pot-law reform initiative on the California ballot in 2012. All failed.

But Zimmerman and Reiman think there is enough objective data on California voter preferences to enable reform groups to agree

Billion-dollar blunt Zeroing in on the economic impact of marijuana legalization Enough with the doctors’ prescriptions and medicated gummy worms—how much money can California and its cities rake in if marijuana is legalized?

It’s a question political leaders and traditional media outlets are not just quietly wondering—they’re straight-up shouting it out loud on the heels of Colorado’s and Washington’s big free-weed moments.

Because frankly the payday’s looking pretty sweet. Washington’s Office of Financial Management estimated in August 2012 that legalization would generate more than $500 million in tax revenue annually just through the implementation of a pot tax. And that’s just special tax revenue alone, not total economic impact.

Bloomberg business news said that marijuana could eventually be upward of a $110 billion industry in the United States.

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Amanda Reiman (left), of the Drug Policy Alliance, says California pot activists are talking up another legalization effort in the near future. Bill Zimmerman (below, left), a co-author of Proposition 215, cautions however that there is a greater diversity of opinion in California than in Washington and Oregon, making it a more difficult state to win over.

on ballot language this time around. Even if the most extreme examples of “stoners against legalization” don’t agree with new drugged-driving laws or caps on home growing, the extremists “pale in comparison to people like moms in their 30s in Southern California” who voted against Prop. 19, Reiman noted.

Indeed, the gender gap over pot legalization remains strong—and that’s true throughout the nation. According to the Quinnipiac poll, American men support legalization 59 percent to 36 percent, but women oppose it 52 percent to 44 percent.

The age gap remains persistent as well.

Nationwide, residents 65 and older strongly oppose legalization: 56 percent to 35 percent, according to the Quinnipiac poll. By contrast,

na would immediately become the state’s No. 1 cash crop, with more than $14 billion in annual sales alone.

There are other economic incentives in addition to tax revenues, such as jobs (a single dispensary employs dozens, including security, delivery, even graphic-design workers), state taxes, fees and more.

This is not to mention the savings that would result from ending the “war on weed.”

For instance, Harvard University economist Jeffrey Miron wrote in 2012 that the United States would pocket $7.7 billion each year if it didn’t have to enforce marijuana prohibition. His paper, which was published last summer, bore the supporting signatures of more than 300 economists, including three Nobel laureates.

Forbes magazine was even more ambitious with its prognostication, arguing that if the war on marijuana ended, America would save $41 billion from non-enforcement.

More savings abound, such as those that would result from moving dollars from the Mexican drug cartels to the American economy: The RAND Corporation estimated, for example, that legalized bud in California would suck away 4 percent of the cartels’ income.

A pot of gold, indeed.

—NICK MILLER nickm@newsreview.com

younger voters adamantly support it. Those aged 18 to 29 want pot legalized, 67 percent to 29 percent, and those aged 30 to 44 support it, 58 percent to 39 percent. In the 45-64 age group, 48 percent support marijuana legalization compared to 47 percent who oppose it. “It seems likely,” said Peter A. Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Polling Institute, “that given the better-than-2-1 majority among younger voters, legalization is just a matter of time.”

For many pot-legalization reformers, however, that time is not 2014. The California electorate is different in nonpresidentialelection years, Zimmerman noted. Republicans tend to come out in force in the off years, while Democrats stay home. Historically, off-year elections have given us Republican Governors Ronald Reagan, Pete Wilson, George Deukmejian and Arnold Schwarzenegger. And a whopping 69 percent of California Republicans said no to pot legalization in a May 2012 Los Angeles Times poll.

“There are going to be people tempted by 2014; I think that would be a disaster,” Zimmerman said. “It could be another rebuke, which would make it much more difficult to pass an initiative in 2016.”

But waiting for the youth vote and Democrats in 2016 isn’t a sure thing either, particularly when California’s top Democratic leaders remain opposed to pot legalization, including Senators Dianne Feinstein and Barbara Boxer and Gov. Jerry Brown.

Part of the reason Californians haven’t moved further on legalization may be due to the turmoil surrounding medical marijuana in the state. Brown went on CNN after the election to say the Obama administration should respect states’ rights with regard to pot laws, but he also said California’s system has seen “abuses.”

“We’ve got a medical-marijuana dispensary situation that is a mess,” said Zimmerman. “If we can’t clean that up and show the public that we’re capable in California of running marijuana distribution with medical patients, I’m not sure that they’re going to allow us to create a marijuana-distribution system for recreational users.”

The California Supreme Court also has yet to rule on the legality of dispensaries, or a city’s right to ban them. San Francisco Assemblyman Tom Ammiano will reintroduce a medical-marijuana-industry regulation bill next year, but Sacramento legislators have worried about touching what they view as an electric third rail in state politics.

There’s also the possibility that pot already might be legal enough for many Californians.

When he was in office, Schwarzenegger made simple possession an infraction. Since then, juvenile arrests for pot have plummeted to their lowest levels since record keeping

Pro-cannabis activists protest the Department of Justice’s crackdown on marijuana in California under the Obama administration.

PHOTOS BY DAVID DOWNS

began in the 1950s. In addition, most adult residents can get a medical recommendation for weed, and dispensaries and delivery services abound. According to RAND, the most common price Americans pay for pot is zero dollars. The reason? People typically receive it as a gift from friends.

LEGALIZATION BLOWBACK History is replete with political tipping points— moments in time when large numbers of people change their minds about a controversial issue. In addition to marijuana legalization, same-sex marriage appears to be at a political tipping point, too. In 2008, a Quinnipiac poll showed that Americans opposed gay marriage 55 percent to 36 percent. But in just four years, the country’s mood shifted dramatically; now, 48 percent of Americans support same-sex marriage, compared to 46 percent opposed. That’s a 17-point swing.

“When these social issues begin to change and the

public begins to view them a little different, the numbers can tumble pretty radically,” said Zimmerman.

Some pundits have credited President Barack Obama’s decision earlier this year to come out in support of same-sex marriage for helping turn the tide on that issue. Conversely, if his administration embarks on a federal campaign to punish Washington and Colorado for legalizing pot, it could have a chilling effect on reform efforts.

Yes, Obama told ABC News last month that busting potheads in Colorado and Washington was not an effective use of federal resources, but he didn’t say anything about busting marijuana businesses. Senate Judiciary Committee chairman Sen. Patrick Leahy of Vermont has called for hearings in 2013 on the conflict between state and federal law. Meanwhile, Attorney General Eric Holder has said recently the Department of Justice will announce its policy “soon.”

And while the federal government cannot stop states from repealing drug laws, it could sue to try to block the implementation of regulations in Colorado and Washington. The feds could also attempt to withhold transportation funds, or other retaliatory moves.

Holder may have single-handedly defeated Prop.

19 when he flew into Los Angeles for a pre-election press conference and blasted the initiative. Federal tolerance of state legalization also could threaten U.S. treaties with Latin American countries that fight our drug war, said Isaac Campos, a marijuana-prohibition historian at the University of Cincinnati.

Former Drug Enforcement Administration head Peter Bensinger is trying to mobilize retired DEA agents and narcotics officers to lobby the Obama administration for a crackdown, according to correspondence. In one email dated Nov. 15, 2012, Bensinger urged the Association of Former Federal Narcotics Agents to take action: “We want to make it easy for all of you to help us put pressure on the Administration to step in and stop Colorado and Washington from implementing the legalization of marijuana,” he wrote. “We need to push back.”

Drug warriors also have a strong economic incentive to fight legalization. “The money [from the federal war on drugs] is just too big for police departments through grants and asset seizures,” explained Downing of Law Enforcement Against Prohibition. “The state prison population is going down for the first time ever, but the federal prison population is increasing.

All of that has to do with money.”

And the backlash from drug warriors may be working. On Dec. 7, The New York Times reported that the Obama Justice Department is weighing options as to how to respond to Colorado and Washington and whether to launch a crackdown or file lawsuits in those states.

At the same time, drug-reform advocates are girding for a long, tough battle. “I think it’s vital for anybody who wants to keep the momentum going to recognize that there’s going to be blowback in a serious way,” explained Campos. “There’s an enormous amount of practical, material interests wrapped up in the drug war. Those people must be putting a lot of pressure on Obama right now. The prison-industrial complex is super-dependent on the war on drugs.

We’re at a really crucial moment.”

Legalization in Washington and Colorado marks not only the beginning of the end, many say, but also the beginning of the most difficult part.

“We are looking up a huge mountain right now, and we’re all taking deep breaths and looking around and gearing up for a really long but hopefully successful fight,” Reiman said. “I think Californians are ready.” Ω

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Arts & Culture Writer/NPR-contributor Craig Childs speaks at the screening of Streams of Consequence.

Below: The Brothers Comatose perform at the Haven Underground in Nevada City.

PHOTOS BY ALAN SHECKTER

Warm and green Coming in from the cold weekend for fun, inspiring Wild & Scenic Film Fest

Pcultural unity, and a more livable future were the most common ideas

erseverance, empowerment,

weaving though the 11th annual Wild & Scenic Film Festival in Nevada City last weekby end (Jan. 10-13).

Alan Often uttered in the Sheckter same sentence as the Sundance Film Festival, Wild & Scenic is a renowned destination for REVIEW: environmental filmmakWild & Scenic ers and film lovers from Film Festival, far beyond Northern CalJan. 10-13, ifornia, who were assemNevada City bled here under the fest’s www.wildandscenic filmfestival.org official theme of “A Climate of Change.” The fun of taking it all in was also a profound and meaningful theme.

Right from the start on Friday night, live music greeted rosy-cheeked festival-goers as they made their way indoors from the frigid downtown streets. It was a fine and comforting welcome.

In addition to the stirring mix of films, the Wild & Scenic recipe included an exceptionally keen list of complementary ingredients. The historic screening venues themselves, including Miners Foundry, the Odd Fellows Hall and the 148-year-old Nevada Theatre, were an important part of the experience. But even more than that, festival staff—and 600-plus volunteers—cooked up a constant stream of enviro-themed tweener events all over the Gold Rush-era downtown, including ongoing music from a bike-pedal-powered stage; a wine stroll and an art stroll; plus a kid-friendly street parade that ended when evil entities such as Big Oil, GMO farming, and polluting smokestacks threatened humans and fish, only to be victoriously defeat24 CN&R January 17, 2013

ed by activists with big green fronds.

The slow-paced downtown was the ideal environment for filmmakers and planet-conscious attendees to meet and mingle in eateries, cafés and taverns, take village strolls and attend workshops. The communal vibe was never more apparent than during the premiere screening of Streams of Consequence, an epic adventure film chronicling a group dedicated to keeping the Chilean Patagonia free from river-blocking hydroelectric dams. I wound up sharing floor space with author and NPR contributor Craig Childs and expedition photographer James Q. Martin, two of the film’s intrepid principals, who, after speaking about the documentary, gathered with us on the floor of the overcrowded venue to watch their own movie.

There were many inspiring films over the weekend: A local film that created a lot of buzz was How the Kids Saved the Parks. The feel-good short followed 30 fifth- and sixth-graders from Grass Valley Charter School who gathered signatures and successfully lobbied Sacramento legislators to keep open the South Yuba River and Malakoff Diggins State Parks. “Nature is our teacher and the parks are our class-

rooms” was one of their messages.

“For these kids their power doesn’t come from being cute,” South Yuba Charter teacher Alex Ezzell told me in a narrow passageway of the Miners Foundry. “They fully believed in their power to evoke change with enough perseverance. And that’s a powerful message for other kids to see—and adults [too].”

A Desert Life, starring self-described “dirtbag” Alf Randell, was about a man who lives off the grid in the hills of Utah in his rickety old pickup-camper, climbing rocks and getting by fixing visitors’ hiking boots with a buck knife. And The Way Home was a touching chronicle of a bus trip to Yosemite by an inner-city senior women’s church group.

The quirky Wild Bill’s Run was whimsical and enthralling. The 60-minute documentary chronicled folk hero Wild Bill Cooper, a charismatic adventurer (and

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Art Receptions CAMERA CLUB RECEPTION: Opening night for an exhibition of work by the Chico Camera Club. Th, 1/17, 5-6:30pm. Free. Chico Municipal Building, 411 Main St.; (530) 896-7214.

Theater AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS: Three one acts—Elder Adams’ Treachery of

Honesty, Christopher Durang’s The Actors Nightmare and Sarte’s No Exit. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 1/27. Opens 1/17; Su, 2pm through 1/27.

Opens 1/20. $7-$15. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St. in Oroville, (530) 533-2473, www.birdcagetheatre.net.

GOD OF CARNAGE: A dark comedy about two couples who try to solve a conflict between their children following a playground scuffle. Th-Sa, 7:30pm through 1/26. Su, 1/20, 2pm. $15-$20. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Music SLIGHTLY STOOPID: A stoney outfit that mixes reggae, rock and funk, much in the same vein as Sublime. Marlon Asher, The Ganja Farmer and The Pyrx Band. F, 1/18, 8pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

convicted pot smuggler) whose preposterous attempt in 1972 to reach Russia on a snowmobile—via Canada and Scandinavia, all the way from Forest Lake, Minn.—ended in failure just shy of Greenland.

My overall favorite was the breathtaking All.I.Can, a thrilling full-length study of a group of daredevil downhill skiers who blazed their own trails through superdeep powder in British Columbia, Alaska, Chile, Greenland and Morocco. The fabulous cinematography, sprightly music and message of the meaningful bonds we can create with people of other cultures were inspiring to this too-sedentary writer.

The festival’s “climate of change” theme was nicely summed up during a closing segment of Streams of Consequence, which stated, “Every little drop of help helps, and little drops and more drops can make a river.” Ω

Screenshot from All.I.Can.

MARTIN LUTHER KING JR. DAY Monday, Jan. 21 Paradise United Methodist Church SEE MONDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS

GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS Wednesday, Jan. 23 Laxson Auditorium

SEE WEDNESDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

dlelight walk will be followed by a program that includes music, song and spoken word.

Refreshments will be served. Sponsored by the Paradise Center for Tolerance and Nonviolence. M, 1/21, 6:30pm. Free. Paradise United Methodist Church, 6722 Clark Rd. in Paradise; (530) 877-1856.

Art 1078 GALLERY: Winter Shadow Cast by Light, work from various Pacific Northwest artists on display. Through 2/2. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

ANGELOS CUCINA TRINACRIA: Maria Phillips

Music BIG WIDE ROOM: An acoustic trio (formerly known at The Edited Trio) perform in support of their new album, Infinite Distance, to benefit Chico Earthdance. The evening will include dinner, desert and drinks. M, 1/21, 6pm. $10$15 donation. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 872-2067.

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TUES Theater AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS: See Thursday.

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

GOD OF CARNAGE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events THE ANGELS OF BILLIARDS CHALLENGE: Challenge a lady from Angels of Billiards team to a game of 9-ball for a chance to win a furry cue stick, pool lessons and premium cigars. Proceeds partially benefit the California Health Collaborative Cancer Assistance Fund. Sa, 1/19, 7-9pm. $10-$15. The DownLo, 319 Main St., (303) 916-4083.

WINTER SINGLES EXTRAVAGANZA: An evening for singles with a live DJ, no-host bar, social games and stand-up comedian Johnny Taylor out of Sacramento. Sa, 1/19, 6-9pm. $25-$30.

Lost on Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

Music 490 CABARET: Kyle Williams, a soulful and funky local troubadour, will headline this musical showcase and dinner. John-Michael Sun and Susan Dobra open. Bring a non-perishable food item and get a dollar off admission. Sa, 1/19, 6pm. $10 donation. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 872-2084.

Theater

Company. Opens Sa, 1/19, 7:30pm; continues Th-Sa, 7:30pm. Su, 2pm through 2/10. $12-$20.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Rd. Ste. F; (530) 894-3282; www.chicotheater company.com.

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Music GLORIOUS SOUNDS: Performances from the Paradise Symphony Orchestra, solo violinist Amanda Kitto and the Butte College Choir accompanied by Chico State students. Su, 1/20, 7pm. $5-$17. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunnelly Rd. in Paradise; (530) 8728454; www.paradiseperformingarts.com.

Theater AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS: See Thursday.

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

GOD OF CARNAGE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

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Special Events MARTIN LUTHER KING DAY COMMERATION: A can-

Music AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE: A bluegrass outfit complete with fiddle, mandolin, banjo and stand-up bass sponsored by the California Bluegrass Association. Tu, 1/22, 4pm. $20.

Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St.; (530) 894-1449.

CLINT BLACK TRIO: The country music superstar (of nearly two dozen No. 1 hits dating back to 1989) will grace Laxson’s stage. Tu, 1/22, 7:30pm. $35-$55. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

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Special Events GOLDEN DRAGON ACROBATS: A family friendly 21member company showcasing athletic feats, unbelievable gymnastics and circus clowning accompanied by traditional Chinese music. W, 1/23, 7:30pm. $19-$33. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 898-6333; www.chicoperformances.com.

Exhibition, large, other-worldly watermedia paintings on display. Ongoing. 407 Walnut St., (530) 899-9996.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Snowgoose Festival

Exhibit, a display of art depicting wildlife.

1/18-2/2. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9gallery.com.

BEATNIKS COFFEE HOUSE & BREAKFAST JOINT:

Drawings and Collages, works by Richard J. Robinson on display. Through 2/28. 1387 E. Eighth St., (530) 894-2800.

BOHO: Urban Oculars Photography Show, an examination of underground culture through various photography styles and acrylic and spray paint canvas works. 1/242/24. 225 Main St. D, (530) 895-3282.

CHICO ART CENTER: Chico Art Center

Members Show, showcasing more than 100 pieces of visual works from local artists.

Through 2/8. 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 8958726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Ongoing. 1968 E. Eighth St., (530) 891-4671, www.bidwellpark.org.

CHICO MUNICIPAL BUILDING: Camera Club

Exhibit, works by the Chico Camera Club on display. 1/17-7/12. 411 Main St., (530) 896-7214.

CHICO MUSEUM: I Heart Chico, paintings, poetry, kid’s art, photography, textiles, videos and interactive collaborative exhibits inspired by Chico. Through 1/31. 141 Salem St., (530) 891-4336.

Mountain Series—now including the recently completed “Tamalpais”—on display. Through 3/31. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopapercompany.com.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Sten Hoiland, wire sculptures by Northern California artist Sten Hoiland. 1/17-4/11. 265 Cohasset Rd. inside Enloe Cancer Center, (530) 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS AND APPRAISALS:

Estates Show, a continually changing exhibition of artwork. Through 1/31. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

LAXSON FINE ART GALLERY: Mothership, Ama Posey’s sculpture and large-scale oil paintings exploring the tension between motherhood and being an artist. Through 1/22. 400 W. First St. CSU Chico, Laxson Audtorium.

THE VAGABOND ROSE GALLERY & FRAMING: Watermedia Exhibit, a display of works from 15 artists and longtime students of Sal Casa. Through 2/13. 236 Main St., (530) 3431110.

Call for Artists 2013 ART FIESTA BOOTHS: Artist booths are still available for next spring’s event. Call or email for more info. Through 4/1. Matador Motel, 1934 Esplanade, (530) 487-4553.

BTW HAVE YOU SEEN MY KEYS?: Works of all medias and sizes accepted, so long as they incorporate a discarded key (which you can pick up at the gallery). Submissions accepted from Jan. 16-19. Through 1/19. $5.

Manas Art Space & Gallery, 1441 C Park Ave., (530) 588-5183.

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET PERFORMERS: Applications accepted for performance slots. Through 3/21. Contact for info, (530) 345-6500.

CHICO PAPER CO.: Lewis Jones, over 20 original scratch boards from the renowned local artist. Through 3/31.Mountain Series, the California

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 30

CLINT BLACK Tuesday, Jan. 22 Laxson Auditorium

SEE TUESDAY, MUSIC

AN EVENING OF ONE ACTS: See Thursday.

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

GOD OF CARNAGE: See Thursday. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W First St., (530) 895-3749, www.blueroomtheatre.com.

THE SOUND OF MUSIC: The classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical performed by the talented children and adults of the Chico Theater

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Theater date The bulk of the Chico State students won’t be returning to town for another week, so this weekend is your time to get out and enjoy a relatively quiet evening of entertainment. Grab a date and check out one of the three plays opening this week. Tonight, Jan. 17, the Blue Room Theatre EDITOR’S PICK kicks off its much anticipated run of God of Carnage, Yasmina Reza’s acclaimed black comedy featuring an impressive cast of Chico-theater superstars returning to town for the production. Out at Chico Theater Company, they are premiering the classic Sound of Music on Saturday, Jan. 19, and also starting tonight, up in Oroville, Birdcage Theatre kicks off the new year with a presentation of three one acts: Treachery of Honesty by Richard Adams, Christopher Durang’s The Actor’s Nightmare and Sarte’s No Exit. Check THIS WEEK listings for details.

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BULLETIN BOARD Community AFRICAN DANCE CLASS: A workout set to the sounds and rhythms of West Africa. Call for info. M, 6pm. $10. Chico Grange Hall, 2775 Old Nord Ave. North off of Hwy 32 and East Ave, (530) 321-5607.

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.

BOARD OF SUPERVISORS: Regularly scheduled

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

CHAPMAN FARMERS MARKET: A farmers’ market in the park serving as a neighborhood collaborative forum focusing on healthy lifestyle promotion, education and access. F, 2-5:30pm through 12/31. Free.

Dorothy Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St., (530) 592-0889, www.cchaos.org.

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.

SURVIVING & THRIVING: A weekly workshop with discussions and presentations designed for men and women seeking to enhance their outlook on life. Interaction encouraged but not required. Tu, 6-7:30pm through 2/26. Free.

Chico Area Recreation District (CARD), 545 Vallombrosa Ave., (530) 895-4711, www.chicorec.com.

WILDLIFE VIEWING: Guided wildlife tours. Rain

cancels. Sa, 12:30pm through 2/3; Su, 12:30pm through 2/3. $4. Gray Lodge Wildlife Area, 3207 Rutherford Rd. in Gridley, (530) 846-7505.

WRITING GROUP: All writers welcome. Bring

paper, a pen and writing to share. F, 3:305pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

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CHICO ART CENTER CLASSES: Instruction with clay, painting, drawing, cartooning and more. Call for registration info.

Prices vary. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. 6, (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

CHICO FRIENDS OF THE LIBRARY BOOK SALE: Chico Friends of the Library weekly book sale. Sa, 9:15-11:30am.

Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave., (530) 891-2762, www.butte county.net/bclibrary.

CHICO MUSIC SCENE THINK TANK: An open discussion among those interested in cultivating Chicoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s music scene. Email for more info. Su, 1/20, 5pm. Free. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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

Call for details, (530) 891-6524.

DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE: Simple, meditative and uplifting group dances honoring many of the worldâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s spiritual traditions. Third Sa of every month, 7-9:30pm. $5-$10 donation.

Subud Hall, 574 E. 12th St., (530) 891-8789.

FARMERS MARKET - SATURDAY: Baked goods, honey, fruits and veggies, crafts and more.

Sa, 7:30am-1pm. Chico Certified Saturday Farmers Market, Second and Wall streets, (530) 893-3276.

FINDING TRUE NORTH: A weekly hour of mediation, inspiration and self-discovery with Rev. Jill Lacefield. W, 5-6pm. Free. 100th Monkey Books & Cafe, 642 West Fifth St.

FOLK DANCING: Traditional folk dancing, no partners necessary. Call for more info. F, 8pm through 2/1. $2. Chico Creek Dance Centre, 1144 W. First St., (530) 345-8134.

FREE HEALTH CLINIC: Free services for minor

medical ailments. 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.

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BIDWELL PARK VOLUNTEERS: Help the park by volunteering for trash pick-up, invasive plant removal, trail maintenance, site restoration, water quality testing and more. Ongoing; check Friends of Bidwell Park website for dates and locations. Ongoing. Call for location, (530) 891-4671, www.friendsofbidwellpark.org.

PATRICK RANCH VOLUNTEERS: There are multiple volunteer opportunities available at the museum, including help with Autumnfest 2012 and the annual Christmas celebration. Call or email for more info. Ongoing. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Chico Halfway between Chico and Durham, (530) 342-4359.

VOLUNTEER SOLAR PANEL ORIENTATION: Seeking volunteers and job trainees to install no-cost solar electricity systems exclusively for lowincome homeowners. Attendance at the orientation is required. Tu, 1/22, 6-8pm. GRID Alternatives North Valley Office, 3860 Morrow Ln. Ste. A Near Home Depot off of Notre Dame and the Skyway Exit of 99, (530) 217-6116.

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CHOW Two all-beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese and some other stuff. From left: Carl, Mac and Jack.

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Attack of the clones Stacking Carl’s Jr. and Jack in the Box’s copies against the original Big Mac

I form of flattery, then the Big Mac is a cheeseburger that has

f imitation is the sincerest

earned more opulent praise than Mayor McCheese himself. by McDonalds’ sigMatthew nature sandwich has Craggs always held a blocked-carotid place in America’s hearts—it may not be the backyard-grilled or foodtruck monstrosity that we say we want, but the Big Mac is often the burger we need. In the middle of a long road trip or after a night of closing down the bars, there’s no substitute for the mass-produced reliability buried within a paper treasure chest arriving at the car window.

However, in a move that is sure to complicate your diet-breaking efforts, both Carl’s Jr. and Jack in the Box have come up with Big Mac-inspired burgers—the Big Carl and the Bonus Jack, respectively—in an effort to win you over with what they believe are improvements upon the original’s winning formula.

But stacking these three latenight guilty pleasures next to each other proves one thing: Not all fastfood burgers are created equal.

Since none of the three

cheeseburgers in question contains bacon, the first priority must be the requisite two beef patties. The combined, pre-cooked weight of the

meat in the Big Mac ($3.99) and the Bonus Jack ($2.99) is close— 3.2 and 4 ounces, respectively— but the Big Carl ($3.59) dwarfs both with a combined cooked weight of 4.72 ounces. The thicker patties prevent the subtly seasoned meat from getting lost in the chaos, and each bite is full of the red meat and sweet fat necessary to negate that last round of drinks.

Of course, all that meat is also one of the reasons the Big Carl is 930 calories and 58 grams of fat—almost double the number of the other two sandwiches.

As the famous jingle reminds us, the Big Mac is more than just its meat. The special sauce is sweet and tangy and helps give the sandwich its iconic flavor, which neither the Big Carl nor the Bonus Jack duplicates. The latter comes close, while the Big Carl opts for a creamier sauce akin to Thousand Island dressing. And the Bonus Jack also looks to its inspiration and provides that slightly gummy processed cheese we love to eat off the wrapper.

Both the Big Carl and the Bonus Jack lack onions—a major error, as the Big Mac’s finely diced onions are underappreciated yet essential—and the Big Carl doesn’t include pickles, an area where the Bonus Jack overshadows the Big Mac’s limp offering.

The Big Mac’s revolutionary third bun makes its way to the

Bonus Jack, though it lacks sesame seeds. However, that’s a tame offense next to the complete omission of a third bun in the Big Carl.

In the end, it comes down to lettuce. The Big Mac’s shredded lettuce is the most important ingredient on any of the three burgers. The shredded lettuce lends a crunch to a burger that is otherwise just four different kinds of squishy. Too often, leaf lettuce wilts and becomes soggy before you can tear away the greasy wrapper.

If for no other reason than shredded lettuce, Mac Tonight retains the belt following his Triple Threat match with Jack Box and Happy Star.

While the two competitors made some improvements on the classic, there’s a reason the Big Mac has reigned for years as the Burger King—The King, by the way, discontinued its own BK Big King a decade ago. Let’s take a moment of silence.

Although, if one were crazy, or just drunk enough, a Frankenstein creation could include the perfect elements of all three burgers. Sing along: Two all-beef Big Carl patties, Big Mac’s special sauce, onions, and lettuce, and Bonus Jack’s cheese and pickles all sandwiched between three Big Carl sesame-seed buns.

I think we should call it the Big Matt. Ω

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low-up to their Oscar-winner, The Hurt Locker. When bin Laden was killed in May 2011, their unfinished project took on the burden of by another dimension of meaning and Juan-Carlos finality.

Selznick The Navy SEALs’ night-time raid on the compound in Abbottabad provides the inevitable and unavoidable conclusion to that tale, but Zero Dark Thirty remains, in most respects, a story (but not necessarily the story) of the hunt for bin Laden. Bigelow establishes a general tone of historical reportage early on, and much of the film plays out as a CIA/military procedural.

The details of a decade-long search come to us in pell-mell bits and pieces. An agent named Maya (Jessica Chastain) plays the key behind-the-scenes role in all

and how much. And intertwined with that is the tension that derives from the paradoxes of Maya’s role—she is at once a catalytic figure and a distant bystander, a crucial hands-on participant but also a somewhat isolated cog in the machinery of black-ops espionage.

The resulting film is mainly concerned with the workings of that machinery, and so a lot of it is a mixture of docudrama and intermittently violent military thriller. It has a small multitude of striking characters, most of them only briefly sketched, but not even Maya’s part of the action qualifies as full-on character study.

Nevertheless, the portrayal of Maya is one of the most intriguing aspects of the film. While her singleminded devotion to the task is of course crucial to the final outcome, Bigelow’s direction and Chastain’s performance create a profoundly ironic impression—Maya is an extraordinarily gifted operative, but those gifts are all she has in an otherwise devastatingly lonely life.

And that paradoxical perspective carries over into

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FRIDAY 1/18 – WEDNESDAY 1/23 A HAUNTED HOUSE

(Digital) (R ) (10:40AM*) 12:55PM 3:10PM 5:25PM 7:40PM 9:55PM

BROKEN CITY

(Digital) (R ) 11:45AM 2:20PM 4:55PM 7:30PM 10:05PM

DJANGO UNCHAINED (Digital) (R ) 12:40PM 4:20PM 7:55PM

GANGSTER SQUAD

(Digital) (R ) 11:35AM 2:15PM 4:55PM 7:35PM 10:20PM

HOBBIT: AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY, THE

(Digital) (PG-13) 12:50PM 4:25PM 8:00PM

JACK REACHER

MAMA (Digital) (PG-13)

(10:20AM*) 12:45PM 3:10PM 5:35PM 8:00PM 10:30PM

PARENTAL

GUIDANCE (Digital) (PG) 1:30PM♣ 7:30PM♣ SILVER LININGS

PLAYBOOK (Digital) (R ) 11:05AM 1:50PM 4:35PM 7:20PM 10:05PM THIS IS 40 (Digital) (R ) 10:05AM♥ 1:10PM♦ 4:10PM 7:10PM 10:10PM WRECK-IT-RALPH (Digital) (PG) 11:30AM 2:05PM 4:40PM ♠ 7:15PM ♠ 9:50PM ♠

ZERO DARK THIRTY

(Digital) (PG-13) (10:30AM*) 4:30PM 10:00PM

(Digital) (R )12:15PM 3:40PM 7:05PM 10:30PM

LAST STAND, THE

(SPECIAL SHOWING) MET OPERA: MARIA STUARDA (Digital) (NR) Sat. 1/19 9:55AM

(Digital) (R ) 12:00PM 2:35PM 5:10PM 7:45PM 10:20PM

LES MISERABLES

(Digital) (PG-13) 12:10PM 3:35PM 7:00PM 10:25PM

LINCOLN (Digital)

(SPECIAL SHOWING) MET OPERA: LES TROYENS ENCORE (Digital) (NR) Wed. 1/23 6:30PM

(PG-13) 12:30PM 3:45PM 7:00PM 10:15PM

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1/22 Clint Black Trio 1/23 Golden Dragon Acrobats 1/30 Erth’s Dinosaur Petting Zoo 2/1 Tommy Emmanuel 2/6 Cirque Mechanics 2/7 Whose Live Anyway?

2/12 Juan de Marcos & the Afro-Cuban Stars

2/14 Russian National Orchestra 2/17 Eric Bibb & Habib Koité 2/20 Paco Peña: Flamenco Vivo 2/27 Calder Quartet 3/3 African Children’s Choir 3/9 Yuval Ron Ensemble 3/14 Lula Washington

Starring Jessica Chastain.

Directed by Kathryn Bigelow.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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this, and it’s chiefly through her that the search story takes on some dramatic coherence and immediacy. The film presents her as an individual focal point in a narrative that has a good many potential protagonists in passing, but no standard-issue hero figures whatsoever.

Even with the story’s outcome known in advance, Zero Dark Thirty is a riveting and unusually suspenseful tale through all of its 157-minute running time. A significant part of that tension is over how these events will be portrayed—over what we’ll be shown

Jessica Chastain, playing a CIA officer hunting for Osama bin Laden, won the Golden Globe for Best Actress.

nearly everything else in the film. Even the seemingly neutral portrayals of torture (“enhanced interrogation”) have conflicting undercurrents, and the killing of bin Laden is envisioned in intense but emphatically unheroic terms.

It’s also particularly noteworthy that Boal’s screenplay gives considerable prominence to the role of blind chance and arbitrary risk in all this. Bigelow’s shrewd direction brings haunting ambiguities into nearly everything including the identification of bin Laden, at the end. Ω

Reviewers: Craig Blamer and JuanCarlos Selznick.

Opening this week Broken City

Mark Wahlberg plays a private detective in a corrupt city who ends up in hot water after being hired (and double-crossed) by the mayor (Russell Crowe) to follow his wife (Catherine Zeta-Jones). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R.

Hyde Park on Hudson

A historical comedy starring Bill Murray as President Franklin D. Roosevelt who, while King George VI and Queen Elisabeth are in the U.S. visiting his estate, is becoming increasingly involved with his distant cousin, Margaret Stuckley. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

The Last Stand

The Governator and his rag-tag band of lawmen are the last men standing in the path of the escaped head of a drug cartel and his dangerous gang speeding toward their small border town en route to Mexico. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Mama

After rescuing their two young nieces who were living alone the woods for five years, a young couple learns that they may be boarding more house guests (spooky house guests) than they planned for. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Silver Linings Playbook

David O. Russell (I Heart Huckabees, The Fighter) wrote and directed this romcom/drama about a former teacher (Bradley Cooper) who, after spending time in a mental institution, moves in with his parents (Robert De Niro and Jacki Weaver) and tries to put his life back together while also getting involved with a mysterious young woman (Jennifer Lawrence) with issues of her own. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Now playing

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Gangster Squad

The closing credits, done as a series of vintage postcards, have an artfulness unmatched in what precedes them. The setting is Los Angeles circa 1949, the plot has a true-crime basis, the cast is stellar (Josh Brolin, Sean Penn, Ryan Gosling, etc.), and the vintage cars and the retro sets and costumes are very spiffy. But director Ruben Fleischer (Zombieland), with no help from Will Bealls’ hackneyed script, makes a sloppy, absurdly violent hash of even the best possibilities for pulpy excess. Penn has the plum role of gangster Mickey Cohen, but the apoplectic grotesquerie of his performance does him and the film no credit. Brolin and Gosling are wasted as the top vigilante cops, and female leads Emma Stone and Mireille Enos seem oddly miscast. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

A Haunted House

Marlon Wayans stars in this spoof of the Paranormal Activity franchise. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

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The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey

The Hobbit hits all the expected marks as a very short dude with big hairy feet, Bilbo Baggins (Martin Freeman), is drafted by wizard Gandalf (Ian McKellen) and 12 … no, 13 dwarves for a quest to reclaim a conquered kingdom. And retrieve some gold. Lots of gold. And of course there’s lots of walking in single file as the camera swoons across the New Zealand landscapes. And the 3-D is swell. The iconic battle of riddles between Bilbo and Gollum was fantastically realized, and the motion-capture technology is top of the game here, with Andy Serkis’ froggy li’l critter breathing real air. One has to appreciate the attention to detail director Peter Jackson and his crew put into realizing his overall vision. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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Jack Reacher

The title character (Tom Cruise) is the lone wolf hero of a series of novels by Lee Child and an off-the-grid guardian angel/knight errant/avenger who is more concerned with rough justice than with social niceties. Screenwriter-director Christopher McQuarrie has fashioned it all into a propulsive tough-guy vehicle for its star, and Cruise is consistently credible as a semi-superhuman fighting machine. The film is a murder mystery that begins with a sniper shooting down people in a city

square—Reacher is brought in to sort through the ensuing tangle of corrupt law enforcement, feminine distractions, evilschemer masterminds, heavily armed thugs and malcontents. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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Les Misérables

I’ve never seen the stage version of Les Mis or even heard anything from the soundtrack. So, here I’m judging this on its own terms—as a musical film, not as the Broadway show. And as a film, it was easily the worst thing I saw at the multiplex in 2012.

On the other hand, the rest of the audience seemed genuinely moved. People were sobbing by the end, and a good chunk gave it an ovation when it faded to black. (For what that’s worth.) But for me, it was pure torture. Nothing but the rudiments of Victor Hugo’s classic multifaceted novel remain, a synopsis of which serves only as life-support for two and a half hours of sungthrough elevator musical. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13 —C.B.

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Lincoln

The new Abe Lincoln picture from Steven Spielberg and Tony Kushner is an historical epic of a quality that is exceptionally rare in American movies. Kushner’s brilliant script focuses on Lincoln and his contemporaries and on the complex political maneuvering involved in getting slavery abolished, via the Thirteenth Amendment, in the first four months of the war’s final year, 1865.

There’s a fresh, canny mixture of docudrama and dramatic entertainment throughout,

and a wonderfully trenchant and diverse cast (especially Daniel Day-Lewis in the title role) provides vivid foreground and background alike in this unusual and complex version of Spielbergian spectacle. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Parental Guidance

A broad comedy starring Billy Crystal and Bette Midler as an old-school married couple facing the challenges of babysitting their three 21st-century grandchildren. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

This is 40

Writer/director Judd Apatow brings the hilarious secondary characters—Pete (Paul Rudd) and Debbie (Leslie Mann)—from Knocked Up to this sequel of sorts, which catches up with the quibbling married couple a few years after the events of the earlier film. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Wreck-it Ralph

A Wreck-it Ralph (voiced by John C. Reilly) is the villain character in a video game who gets tired of being the bad guy, so he escapes to other games in the arcade in an attempt to be the hero. Also starring the voices of Sarah Silverman, Jayne Lynch and more. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

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Zero Dark Thirty

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

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NIGHTLIFE

THURSDAY 1|17—WEDNESDAY 1|23 IMPROV JAM: Open jam with Michael

Gaughan. Th, 5-8pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

LAST STAND: A stand-up comedy openmic. Th, 8-10pm. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveat flo.weebly.com.

MATTEO PLAYS FILM SCORES: Classical

AUDIE BLAYLOCK & REDLINE

Now, this is intriguing. Bluegrass stud Audie Blaylock, who was nominated for the International Bluegrass Music Association Male Vocalist of the Year in 2012, is coming to town Tuesday, Jan. 22, with his band Redline to play the Trinity United Methodist Church! The show is sponsored by the California Bluegrass Association and will feature Blaylock and band hot on the heels of their latest energetic album, Hard Country, released this past summer.

17THURSDAY AARON RICH & FRIENDS: Country music round-robin. Third and First Th of every month, 9pm. Free. Crazy Horse

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

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

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

THE BOOKSTORE BENEFIT CONCERT: Th, 1/17, 9:30pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

BUDDY EMMER: Live top-40 rock in the lounge. F, 1/18, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

CHRIS GARDNER BAND: Live, local country rock in the brewery. F, 1/18, 9:30pm. $5.

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

COUNTRY NIGHT: Live country music with Rancho Mars. F, 5-8pm. Free. Towne Lounge, 327 Main St.; (530) 896-0235.

OPEN MIC: Singers, poets and musicians

DRAG KING SHOW: A performance from

OPEN MIKEFULL: Open mic night to share

DRIVER: Live, danceable rock ’n’ roll. F,

welcome. Th, 7-10pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

your music, poetry, comedy, or other talents in a 10-minute slot. First and Third Th of every month, 7pm. $1.

Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 873-1370.

the Chico Drag Kings. F, 1/18, 9pm. $3.

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

Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

IMPULSE: Hardcore punk out of San Diego. Sleepwalk (also from San Diego) and Chico’s Badger open. F, 1/18, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

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.

LOW FLYING BIRDS: Boot-stompin’ acoustic originals from the local bluegrass quartet. F, 1/18, 9pm. Free. The Hub, 685 Manzanita Ct. Inside the Holiday Inn, Chico; (530) 345-2491.

1/18, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

HIGHWAY 20: Groovy country tunes in

the lounge. F, 1/18, 9pm. Free. Colusa

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

FALLUJAH: Progressive metal band Fallujah out of San Francisco headlines this metal showcase. Locals Io Torus and Sorin open. Th, 1/17, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

GRAVYBRAIN: The local funk and jazz

fusion group performs on the patio. Th, 1/17, 6-9pm. Free. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891.

18FRIDAY BASSMINT: An ongoing weekly electronic dance music party. This week: Mike Z, Bionix and Eyere. F, 1/18, 9:30pm. $3.

Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W Second St Chico; (925) 451-5035.

LOW FLYING BIRDS Friday, Jan. 18 The Hub, at the Holiday Inn

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

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MANDY JO & THE HOLY MACKEREL: An acoustic band playing bluegrass, country and folk covers. F, 1/18, 8pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 5148888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

THE MONTANES: Country rock and contemporary dance tunes in the lounge.

F, 1/18, 8:30pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

SLIGHTLY STOOPID: A stoney outfit that mixes reggae, rock and funk, much in the same vein as Sublime. Marlon Asher, The Ganja Farmer and The Pyrx Band open. F, 1/18, 8pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St.; (530) 898-1497; www.jmaxproductions.net.

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The month-long party to benefit The Bookstore is not letting up, and tonight (Jan. 17) it’s a fellow downtown institution’s turn to show the love. Duffy’s Tavern hosts a trio of locals—psych-tinged rockers Gentlemen’s Coup, rockabilly trio The Hambones, and lovable troubadour Mad Bob Howard—for what promises to be a warm night of rockin’ fun.

490 CABARET: Kyle Williams, a soulful and funky local troubadour, will headline this musical showcase and dinner.

John-Michael Sun and Susan Dobra open. Bring a non-perishable food item and get a dollar off admission. Sa, 1/19, 6pm. $10 donation. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 872-2084.

BRING OUT YOUR DEAD: A Grateful Dead tribute band. Sa, 1/19, 7pm. $5. Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.gold countrycasino.com.

THE MONTANES: Country rock and con-

Sa, 1/19, 8:30pm. Free. Farwood Bar &

temporary dance tunes in the lounge.

Sa, 1/19, 8:30pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino, 2655 Barham Ave. in Corning; (530) 528-3500; www.rollinghills casino.com.

Grill, 705 Fifth St. in Orland; (530) 8659900.

RUMBLE KING: Live big-band swing in the

CEE DUB: An evening of acoustic variety.

CHAPARRAL: A female-fronted six-piece

country outfit out of Sacramento. Sa, 1/19, 9pm. Free. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 375 E. Park Ave.; (530) 345-7499.

HIGHWAY 20: Groovy country tunes in

the lounge. Sa, 1/19, 9pm. Free. Colusa Casino Resort, 3770 Hwy. 45 in Colusa; (530) 458-8844; www.colusa casino.com.

showroom. Sa, 1/19, 9pm. Gold Country Casino, 4020 Olive Hwy in Oroville; (530) 534-9892; www.goldcountry casino.com.

TOM DRINNON: Live country music. Sa, 1/19, 9pm. Free. Rolling Hills Casino,

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

TRADITIONAL DANCE CLUB: Traditional dance with music provided by American Reckoning. Refreshments

BUDDY EMMER: Live top-40 rock in the lounge. Sa, 1/19, 8:30pm. Free. Gold

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20SUNDAY JAZZ: Weekly jazz. Su, 4-6pm. Has Beans Internet Cafe & Galleria, 501 Main St.; (530) 894-3033; www.hasbeans.com.

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Church, 285 E. Fifth St.; (530) 894-1449.

CLINT BLACK TRIO: The country music superstar (of nearly two dozen number one hits dating back to 1989) will grace Laxson’s stage. Tu, 1/22, 7:30pm. $35-$55. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. CSU, Chico; (530) 8986333; www.chicoperformances.com.

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21MONDAY 23WEDNESDAY BIG WIDE ROOM: An acoustic trio (formerly known at The Edited Trio) perform in support of their new album Infinite Distance to benefit Chico Earthdance. The evening will include dinner, desert and drinks. M, 1/21, 6pm. $10-$15 donation. Paradise Grange Hall, 5704 Chapel Dr. in Paradise; (530) 872-2067.

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Cafe Flo, 365 E. Sixth St.; (530) 514-8888; www.liveatflo.weebly.com.

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OPEN MIC: All ages welcome. W, 7pm. Free.

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

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Prolific bass musician Victor Wooten is coming to the Big Room and he’s bringing an amazing collection of players with him. This show will test the room’s ability to contain a stage bursting with musical talent. The touring ensemble includes Wooten on electric, tenor and upright basses, cello, guitar and vocals; Krystal Peterson on vocals, keyboards and drums; J. D. Blair on vocals and drums; Derico Watson on vocals and drums; Anthony Wellington on bass, keyboards and vocals; Steve Bailey on bass, keyboards, trombone and vocals; and Dave Welsch on bass, trumpet, keyboards and vocals. Each musician will multitask—switching instruments mid-song—resulting in a part choreographed and part improvised display of musicianship and showmanship at its best. The ensemble received rave reviews on its summer 2012 tour.

Even with this Big Room show’s incredible cast of talent, Victor Wooten alone is worth the price of admission. This is primed to be a huge show with an electric dance floor. Get your tickets early.

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Riding high

Beach boys, Slightly Stoopid.

PHOTO COURTESY OF SLIGHTLY STOOPID

Slightly Stoopid is not just a stoner band anymore

O that dates back to 1995, Slightly Stoopid has grown into

ver the course of a career

one of rock’s most eclectic groups.

While the band by started out leaning Alan heavily on punk Sculley and surf-rock influences, it eventually built its reputation on a PREVIEW: mostly reggaerock base with all Slightly Stoopid (with Karl Denson) manner of hipperforms Friday, hop, folk, blues, Jan. 18, 8 p.m., at funk and worldSenator Theatre. music layers Marlon Asher (the added to the sound Ganga Farmer) and Pyrx open. over the years.

Tickets: $27.50, The varied available at nature of Slightly www.ticket Stoopid’s music web.com might turn off listeners who don’t Senator Theatre like a particular 517 Main Street style filtering www.jmax through group’s productions.net sound, but cofrontman Miles Doughty thinks the eclecticism is actually what defines the band.

“I feel like we have our own sound,” Doughty said during a recent interview. “For us it works for Slightly Stoopid. I mean, we’ve made eight records, so for us I think it’s going the way it should be.”

Additionally, Doughty said, the variety might have helped the group appeal to a larger audience.

“I think even in like the live show, it’s something for everybody. Maybe not everybody likes reggae, or maybe not everybody

likes the blues music or the punk rock or hip-hop,” he said, adding, “When you go to the shows, you’ll see people from age 12 to like 60 years old in the crowd. And it’s pretty insane. And for us as musicians, it keeps it fun and fresh to play all styles of music.”

The group’s exploration of styles continued on its latest album, Top Of The World, which was released last August. Of course, there is reggae (“Don’t Stop” and “Ur Love” being good examples). But the CD starts to branch out with songs like “Devil’s Door,” which leans toward funk; the title song, which mixes reggae and hip-hop; and “Way You Move,” a musical melting pot with elements of soul, funk and rock bubbling up.

Running throughout all the songs, though, is that signature, relaxed, feel-good vibe that we’ve come to expect from the Ocean Beach group.

While the music shows the band continuing to branch out, Doughty said he believes the biggest evolution has been with the lyrics.

“I feel like we were more lyrically conscious on this record,” he said. “Not that we weren’t on other records, but [on] other records it was more of like a party a lot in the vocals. It was kind of talking about that kind of scene. And this, as an artist and as a songwriter, I feel like we kind of took the next step.”

He said the shift toward more mature lyrics reflects the changes in the lives of some of the band’s members.

“Myself and Kyle [McDonald, co-frontman] and our buddy Dela [aka Daniel Delacruz, saxophonist], we all have kids and we started families and I feel like it really kind of helped us in our writing,” Doughty said. “You feel like your soul is kind of at peace once you have children and start a family; I believe your mind is kind of as whole as it will ever be.”

While there are still plenty of party-happy odes to weed, booze, sex and hittin’ the dance floor, there are now just as many tracks about faith (“Serious Man”), hope (“New Day”), love (“Don’t Stop”) and introspection (“Just Thinkin’”).

Top Of The World also gave Slightly Stoopid a chance to collaborate with a number of notable guests, including G. Love, Don Carlos, Barrington Levy, Fishbone’s Angelo Moore, and Karl Denson, who is playing with the band during its current tour, which stops off at the Senator Theatre Friday, Jan. 18.

“For each one of those guys, they have their own flavor, and it blends well with Slightly Stoopid,” Doughty said. “It’s an honor for us.

It’s not like we want to put them on just for the sake of putting them on.

They’re all incredible musicians, whether they’re singer-songwriters or guitar players-singers. Each one of those guys, honestly, brought the record to a whole new level as far as the collaborations that we’re able to do together. So we’re excited, and I think the fans will dig what they did.” Ω

Three on piano Deanna Bogart, Mitch Woods, & Rob Rio Blind Pig, Vizztone, & Boss Productions In this guitar-centric culture it’s a treat to see the piano get some attention; here are three CDs that help to correct this imbalance. Deanna Bogart is an anomaly, by which I mean she can’t be pigeonholed.

Primarily a pianist, she can also blow a mean tenor sax. On Pianoland, it’s all piano and vocals. In addition to some swinging originals (“On And On And,” “In the Rain”) and some covers (a heartfelt “Over the Rainbow”) she also knocks the hell out of Pete Johnson’s “Death Ray Boogie.” Great piece of work by this Detroit veteran and her combo. In 2010 pianist Mitch Woods and his Rocket 88s toured Turkey; their fiveweek trip’s highlight is a Live in Istanbul concert with the ebullient Woods pounding the eighty-eights like there was no tomorrow. Among the 14 tracks on Blues Beyond Borders are a few of his classics (e.g., “Solid Gold Cadillac”) and such certified crowd pleasers as “Rocket 88.” The prolific Rob Rio’s latest, Omniboogie 2012, finds him in a solo setting working out on a batch of originals and a couple of covers; one of them, “Fickle Jelly Jam,” is his take on a Jelly Roll Morton tune. He really gets down with such eight-beats-to-the-bar goods as “Rumble Boogie” and “Swingers Boogie.” Another solid performance by this boogie-woogie master!

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Every once in a while though, something hits the stage that is new and strikes that specific unrestrained, kinda-noisy, uncomplicated, fun, universal chord that resonates with my natural frequency. (I call it J-major, the J chord, the Jason button, the happy-fuck-yeahgood-time-let’s-go! sound.) And last Saturday night at Café Coda, for the first time in a while, I heard a new local band that makes me want to start embarrassing myself with unrestrained hyperbole. I will keep it simple, for now, and just say that French Reform is some bouncy, rockin’, catchyas-hell fun that you should check out. The sound is kind of spiky in a Fugazi-meets-The Jam kind of way, but not too heavy, with great dynamics and a happy energy from a funloving crew: newdude guitarist/ vocalist Aric French Reform Jeffries, Kirt Lind PHOTO BY JOEY MOSHIRI from The Yule Logs on keys/vocals, Red Bluff Phil on guitar/keys/vocals, local artist/metal dude Nik Burman on drums, and bassist Elias Nipert.

Also, the opening band, brand-new local duo Spiff & Bullet, sounded pretty great as well. These are good days, my friends.

AXE-WIELDERS UNITE! Speaking of the local music scene. Josh Hegg, the

busy-body keyboardist for Clouds on Strings and its jazzy offshoot Bogg, is inviting local musicians down to the 1078 Gallery (where Hegg is the new music chair) this Sunday, Jan. 20, 5 p.m., for a Chico Music Scene Think Tank. All music types are invited to “come have your voice heard and express your ideas for how we can cultivate and grow our art scene.” If you have something specific you wanna tell folks, send an email to Hegg at jhegg23@gmail.com and sign up to speak.

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RIP LEON On Monday, Jan. 14, local musician Leon Gardea died in a San Jose hospital after suffering a brain hemorrhage. He was 60 years old. Gardea had been in Chico for a few years and alternated playing percussion and sometimes saxophone for a handful of local crews— Salsa Bella, Jeff Pershing Band, Los Papi Chulos, Los Caballitos de la Cancion, among others. I talked to a few of his friends and fellow musicians—Jo Chavez, Julio Santiago, Jeff Pershing— who all expressed their grief as well as their love and admiration for their friend.

“When I think of Leon, I think about his enthusiasm, passion, and love for playing music,” said Pershing via email. “He often told stories about past gigs that showed his deep love for playing music throughout his life. Leon was a great man and a great musician. He will be missed.”

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Chico

$254,500

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Chico

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Chico

$188,000

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Chico

$300,000

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3104

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Chico

$166,000

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Chico

$275,000

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Chico

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JOHN JOHNSTON 1459 E Lassen Ave #12 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHN JOHNSTON Dated: January 7, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000032 Published: January 10,17,24,31, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THREE GIRLS AND A KITCHEN at 3183 Sespe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

DANIELLE BLIXT 1027 Mayette Drive Chico, CA 95926.

DAVID CHEN 3183 Sespe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

JEANNIE CHEN 3183 Sespe Creek Way Chico, CA 95973.

KIMBERLY LUCE 882 Glenn Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

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DESERY JOAN UHOR 691 E 3RD Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MATTHEW DAVID UHOR 691 E 3RD Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Husband and Wife.

Signed: MATT UHOR Dated: December 21, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001779 Published: January 17,24,31, February 7, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CAPITAL EQUITY REAL ESTATE COMPANY at 5 Donner Lane Chico, CA 95928.

CHRISTIAN DEL PINO 5 Donner Lane Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTIAN DEL PINO Dated: December 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001752 Published: January 17,24,31, February 7, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GUITAR CENTER 218 at 2027 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr Pkwy Chico, CA 95928.

GUITAR CENTER STORES INC 5795 Lindero Canyon Road Westlake Village, CA 91362.

State: DELAWARE This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: WESLEY L. MUDDLE VP FINANCE Dated: December 18, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001755 Published: January 17,24,31, February 7, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LONGEVITY CMT at 2072 E 20th Street #140 Chico, CA 95928.

LEON ALLEN 1880 Humboldt Road #3 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LEON S. ALLEN

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Dated: December 14, 2012 FBN Number: 2012-0001747 Published: January 17,24,31, February 7, 2013

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GT’S HANDYMAN SERVICE AND REPAIR at 541 Shasta Avenue Oroville, CA 95965.

GARY JAMES TYLER 541 Shasta Avenue Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARY TYLER Dated: January 9, 2013 FBN Number: 2013-0000048 Published: January 17,24,31, February 7, 2013

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CRISSY BAYLOCK & ALVIN L. KAVANAUGH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KEARA MARIE JOHNSTON Proposed name: KEARA MARIE KAVANAUGH 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: February 8, 2013 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: November 9, 2012 Case Number: 158467 Published: December 27, 2012, January 3,10,17, 2013

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you would hit the mark, you must aim a little above it,” wrote 19thcentury poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. “Every arrow that flies feels the attraction of the earth.”

This is good counsel for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks, Aries. I suspect you will have a good, clear shot at a target you’ve been trying to get close to for a long time. Make sure you adjust your trajectory to account for the attraction of the earth.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you learn a

novel idea or a crucial new lesson while you are tipsy or outright blitzed, you will probably forget it when you sober up. And it will remain forgotten as long as you abstain. But there’s a good chance you will recall the vanished information the next time you get loopy. I’m telling you this, Taurus, because even if you haven’t been inebriated lately, you have definitely been in an altered and expanded state of consciousness. I’m afraid that when you come back down to Earth in a few days, you might lose some of the luminous insights you’ve been adding to your repertoire. Is there anything you can do to ensure you will retain these treasures? It would be a shame to lose track of them until the next time your mind gets thoroughly blown open.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Studying the

movements of the planets is my main way of discerning the hidden currents of fate. I sometimes supplement my investigations by reading tarot cards and the Chinese Book of Changes, also known as the I Ching. To arrive at your horoscope this week, I used all of the above as well as the following forms of prognostication: catoptromancy, which is divination by gazing into a mirror underwater; cyclomancy, divination by watching a wheel that’s turning; geloscopy, divination by listening to random laughter; and margaritomancy, divination by observing bouncing pearls. Here’s what I found, Gemini: You now have the power to discern previously unfathomable patterns in a puzzling mystery you’ve been monitoring. You also have the ability to correctly surmise the covert agendas of allies and adversaries alike. Maybe best of all, you can discover certain secrets you’ve been concealing from yourself.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “To be reborn

is a constantly recurring human need,” said drama critic Henry Hewes. I agree. We all need to periodically reinvent ourselves—to allow the old ways to die so that we can resurrect ourselves in unforeseen new forms.

According to my analysis, Cancerian, your next scheduled rebirth is drawing near. For best results, don’t cling to the past; don’t imitate what has always worked before.

Instead, have faith that surrendering to the future will bring you the exact transformation you need.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): My readers Paul and

Sophie wrote to let me know they have patched together three Latin words to invent a term for a new concept: vomfiabone. They say it means “a curse that becomes a blessing.” Here’s an example of the phenomenon at work in their lives: While driving home from work together, they experienced car trouble and had to pull over to the shoulder of the road, where they called a tow truck. Later, they discovered that this annoying delay prevented them from getting caught in the middle of an accident just up ahead. Extrapolating from the current astrological omens, I’m guessing that you will experience at least one vomfiabone in the coming week, Leo.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I bet that in the

next five months you will be obliged to carry more responsibility than you have in the past. You will find it hard to get away with being lazy or careless. I suspect that during this time you will also have the privilege of wielding more influence. The effect you have on people will be more pronounced and enduring. In short, Virgo, your workload will be greater than usual—and so will your rewards. To the degree that you serve the

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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Do you know

what a “binky” is? It’s what a rabbit does when it gets so crazily happy that it exuberantly leaps up into the air, stretching and twisting its body as it flicks and flops its feet. I’m not sure if lexicographers would allow us to apply this term to humans. But assuming they might, I’m going to predict that you’ll soon be having some binky-inducing experiences. You’re entering the Joy and Pleasure Season, Libra—a time when abundant levels of fun and well-being might be quite normal.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): You know

that area on your back that you can’t quite reach if you want to scratch it? It’s called your acnestis. I propose that we make it your featured metaphor of the week. Why? Because I suspect you will have to deal with a couple of itchy situations that are just beyond your ability to relieve. Yes, this may be frustrating in the short run. But it will ultimately make you even more resourceful than you already are. By this time next week, you will have figured out alternative solutions that you haven’t even imagined yet.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21): “We

need new friends,” said essayist Logan Pearsall Smith. “Some of us are cannibals who have eaten their old friends up; others must have ever-renewed audiences before whom to re-enact an ideal version of their lives.” Smith could have been talking about you Sagittarians in early 2013. According to my interpretation of the astrological omens, you need some fresh alliances. Their influence will activate certain potentials that you haven’t been able to access or fully express with the help of your current circle.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): A San

Francisco writer named Maneesh Sethi decided he was wasting too much time on the Internet. His productivity was suffering.

So he hired a woman to sit next to him as he worked and yell at him or slap his face every time his attention wandered off in the direction of Facebook or a funny video. It worked.

He got a lot more done. While I would like to see you try some inventive approaches to pumping up your own efficiency, Capricorn, I don’t necessarily endorse Sethi’s rather gimmicky technique. Start brainstorming about some interesting yet practical new ways to enhance your self-discipline, please.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

“Ronnyjohnson618” is a guy who posts his opinions on a wide variety of YouTube videos. Many times, he claims to be an expert in the field he’s commenting on.

Responding to a live-music performance, he says he’s a conductor for an orchestra.

Offering his opinion about a mimosa plant, he asserts that he is a botanist. Beneath other YouTube videos, he declares he is a meteorologist, chemist, psychologist, soldier and geometry teacher. I love this guy’s blithe swagger; I’m entertained by the brazen fun he’s having. As you express yourself in the coming week, I recommend that you borrow some of his over-the-top audacity. Create a mythic persona.

Imagine your life as an epic story. Play the part of a hero.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): The earliest

performance artist on record was the ancient Greek philosopher Diogenes of Sinope. In one of his notorious stunts, he wandered around Athens with a lit lantern during the daytime, claiming to be looking for an authentic human being. I recommend that you undertake a similar search in the coming days, Pisces. You don’t have to be as theatrical about it. In fact, it might be better to be quite discreet. But I think it’s important for you to locate and interact with people who are living their lives to the fullest—devoted to their brightest dreams, committed to their highest values and sworn to express their highest integrity.

Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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A few years ago, Matt Tupper had a heartfelt idea that promises to go big: His delightful hearts—made from glass, stone, shell, marble, brick and other materials—have been picked up by the major wholesale bead distributor Da Beads (of Chicago), and he’s working on a plan for his business, From the Heart, that he envisions will employ a number of people locally. The hearts can be used in myriad ways (displays, art projects, mementos, etc.), including as jewelry (some of the hearts have small holes drilled into them). Tupper also plans to turn his house into a center where artists can work on their creations and teach and take classes. He can be reached at Fairn3@gmail.com.

How did you get your start with hearts?

Six years ago, I came to Chico from the Russian River area to take care of my parents.

I had just tiled their bathroom in slate and had some leftover pieces, so I tried making a heart, and it went from there. I was just trying to bring a smile to my mom’s face. She said, “Make more!” So I did, and then I thought, well, I need to do something with them. I went to Bella’s Beads, and they let me make a display in one of their front windows using stone hearts and beads.

What kind of glass do you use to make hearts?

I usually use reclaimed glass. I’ll walk the creek beds and find old glass … I just love being in nature … and broken glass has always bothered me, so I just started picking it up. I said I’d do something with it someday, and I

was cutting stone hearts, so I thought, I need to try making some hearts out of glass.

What’s on the horizon for you?

There’s a big bead trade show in Tucson in February, so that will be my debut. If I do well at the Tucson show … I could really go someplace. I would like From the Heart to become a part of Chico, a Chico-based company.

What do the hearts mean for you?

One of the biggest pleasures is when I give a heart to someone and it brings a smile to their face. I’ve used the hearts at funeral services and handed them out. For my mother’s service, I did pink marble, and for my dad, I did brown marble. They’re a perfect little thing, I’ve found, when sometimes you don’t have words but you have a lot of feeling, and handing people a little heart allows them to know that you’re there for them.

FROM THE EDGE

by Anthony Peyton Porter himself@anthonypeytonporter.com

Useful I was having one of those days.

I’m tempted to say a “bad” day. I won’t, though, because the day was fine, as always.

It’s just that I kept getting this lump in my throat and my eyes would tear up and there I’d be, weepy and useless.

I’ve come not to mind weepy. It feels completely natural, not to mention overwhelming anyway, and I don’t resist it when it shows up. I can’t help thinking that I have to be useful, though, even that I ought to be more useful than ever. I have children and responsibilities that go along with them, even if they’re taller than I am. Their hunting and gathering skills are coming along nicely, and meanwhile I’m still vomiting into their mouths so they don’t starve to death.

I found a good distraction, something that would occupy my mind and maybe give me an idea for From the Edge. It’s a quotation I’ve had in my collection for years about “the Negroes,” allegedly from William Faulkner’s The Bear, that attempts to explain the narrator’s perceptions and judgments about them.

That’s the ticket—I can verify the quote.

I don’t know where I found the quotation, and although I have a lot of faith in the anarchy of the

online world, I’d feel better if I could see the actual words or a reliable attribution on paper in a real book.

I could go to the corporate bookstore in town, except it’s not so much a bookstore as a game-gadget-coffee-shop book store, and since Faulkner hasn’t been on anybody’s bestseller list this century and when he was it wasn’t for The Bear, I feel I’m unlikely to find what I’m looking for there.

I love Lyon Books, on Fifth Street across from the plaza, a terrific bookstore for its size, and there’s a chance I could score there, but you could get every book in the building on one wall of The Bookstore in downtown Chico, and that’ll be my first stop.

Like a lot of us, The Bookstore is in money trouble, and the thought that soon it might not be there doesn’t bear thinking about. The Bookstore—an intellectual compost pile and recycling at its best. I seldom favor one business over another, and generally I oppose public money aiding and abetting anybody’s capitalist venture, but this time I think we should fire the cop with the most citizen complaints and give the money to The Bookstore. Crime’s down—no problem.

Help The Bookstore by giving them money, in person at 118 Main St. or via www.indiegogo/ilovebooks.

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