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The Disaster Express Crude oil is being transported through the North State by rail

to refineries in the Bay Area, despite the inherent risks of moving highly combustible cargo through rough terrain in rural communities that lack the proper emergency responders. According to a recent report by the state’s Interagency Rail Safety Working Group, each week a train carrying more than a million gallons of crude oil is transiting rails in the Feather River Canyon (see this week’s cover feature, “On track for disaster,” page 18). Some of these trains may contain what is called Bakken crude oil, which experts say is more unstable. They also say most trains today aren’t equipped to move this oil. Last January, the National Transportation Safety Board issued guidelines that call for the tank cars used to transport this oil to be upgraded. The NTSB also called for route planning that would avoid populated and environmentally sensitive areas; requirements that carriers have adequate response abilities in the event of an accident, derailment or spill; and audit carriers to ensure that shipments are properly labeled and that the carrier has appropriate plans in place in the event of an incident. And there have been disasters. The LacMégantic derailment in Quebec was just last year: a 74-car train derailed, exploded, and killed 47 people. It also destroyed a big chunk of that city’s downtown. We understand that the oil needs to get to the refineries and that rail is an efficient means of transportation. However, the current car stock is inadequate to the task. Even as federal regulators work to create new standards for the tank cars, dangerous crude oil is rolling over the rails in cars that are not up to snuff. We urge readers to contact the NTSB and the California Public Utilities Commission, which oversees rail safety, and request that rail shipments of crude oil be transported only in upgraded tank cars and at lower speeds to avoid accidents. The likelihood of an accident may be small, but the consequences would be catastrophic. Ω

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An ill-conceived legacy project Tthreat. Gov. Jerry Brown continues to push his twin tunnels project, under the guise of the Bay Delta Conservation he northern Sacramento Valley faces a serious

Plan. The plan proposes a pair of massive tunnels with design capacity sufficient to drain the Sacramento River in a dry year. As Butte Environmental Council’s (BEC) water policy analyst representing North State communities, I reviewed and analyzed more than 40,000 pages of the plan’s description and environmental review documents. An increased, uncompromised water supply for south of Delta interests is the desire. Big Ag and Big Oil by will get more water, you get the bill. Carol Perkins Proponents failed to disclose the true source of water (the Sacramento Valley), The author, a but water transfers are written all over longtime Butte this plan. In fact, 34 separate documents County resident, is a reference water transfers. Proponents water policy analyst failed to acknowledge the potential for for the Butte environmental and social impacts to the Environmental areas of origin, but removing up to 1 milCouncil. lion acre-feet of water surely would have significant impacts. And, proponents failed to disclose the amount of groundwater that will increase water flow through the tunnels. Proponents of the governor’s plan ignored mandates requiring the development and analysis of appropriate project 4

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alternatives. One alternative that makes the tunnels unnecessary is the “Responsible Exports Plan” developed by the California Environmental Water Caucus. BEC fully supports this alternative, which reduces watertransfer impacts to our environment and farming communities. Incredulously, while the State Water Resources Control Board is eliminating water allocations for in-valley use for 2,500 water rights holders, such as Paradise Irrigation District, it is approving water transfers set to move a lot of water—including groundwater—out of our valley. In addition to the threat of the BDCP and the twin tunnels, Californians will be asked to vote for a water bond in November. While this bond may have funding for much-needed projects, it will also have “lipstick on a pig” funding and may include money for Big Ag and Big Oil to buy water they want! The bond is just another way for project proponents to shirk responsibilities and costs associated with the construction of a boondoggle. We didn’t get to vote in opposition to the twin tunnels, but we may get to vote whether or not to pay for cleanup during and following project construction. If we say no to the bond and funding cleanup work and further subsidizing corporate greed for water, project proponents may mothball Brown’s ill-conceived legacy project. Ω

Follow Colorado On Tuesday (July 8), state of Washington residents joined

those in Colorado in enjoying the legal recreational use of marijuana. It’s time for California to follow suit. It’s been six months since Coloradans have been able to buy pot in retail stores, and some preliminary results are in as far as tax revenues and the effect legalization has had on crime rates. Both are favorable. News reports reveal Colorado already has collected $11 million in marijuana sales taxes and expects that number to grow to nearly $200 million over the next four years. In addition, in Denver, violent crime rates have dropped 10 percent over last year. This is all good news for Washington, and good news for Californians in favor of legalization. Better yet, both states can learn from Colorado’s mistakes—and its successes. Among the problems reported are increases in animals and children falling ill from ingesting marijuana. Edibles, too, have posed challenges as to how to test for potency and ensure clear labeling. Washington just last month set new guidelines for pot shops based on data from Colorado. We can do the same. If legalization is on the ballot this November, we should strongly consider approving it. It could be a financial boon to our cash-strapped state while easing pressure on our courts and prison system. And, as we all know, prohibition only serves to fuel the black market. This issue is a no-brainer. After all, we don’t have to be the guinea pigs anymore—we can follow the trails blazed by Colorado and Washington. Ω

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Big mouths I don’t know of a single person who was surprised when the Butte County Grand Jury released its recent investigation into the city of Chico’s budget crisis. Like me, they’d probably heard a rumor that probe was in the works. Over the course of the last six or eight months, several people informed me that city finances were once again on the docket. Evidently the members of the 2013-14 panel thought they would dig up a lot more dirt than the previous empanelled jurors, who conducted a similar study last year. I thought the topics of a grand jury’s inquiries were supposed to be confidential, but evidently some people couldn’t keep their mouths shut. Every time I heard about the investigation, it came during discussion about the potential “fraud” that some unnamed former city employees perpetrated. “What fraud?” I’d ask. The response: “We’ll see what the grand jury finds.” As we now know, and as the CN&R has long been saying, “fraud” wasn’t a factor. The grand jury found no evidence of such activities occurring, just poor decisions from top management and the City Council following the worst recession since the Great Depression. Nobody expected the economic downturn to be as steep or as long-lasting as it’s been, and nobody expected the state to dismantle redevelopment agencies. So, sufficient action to truly staunch the flow of money came too late. In hindsight, what should have been done early? Well, for starters, the city should have been tougher while negotiating salaries and benefits—the general fund’s largest obligation at more than 80 percent of the entire pot. As the grand jury noted, however, “While general fund revenues were declining, the average citywide salary was on the rise. Chico City budgets show that from 2006 through 2012, most upper management positions received substantial increases in salary.” That probably accounts for the lack of aggressive contract negotiations; it’s hard for administrators to call for cuts when they are getting raises. I think the good news out of all of this is that the public—you know, the folks who pay city employees’ wages— are more informed about municipal finances than ever before. We’re seeing evidence of that in the comments we hear at City Council meetings and also in the pages of this newspaper. Nobody knows that better than Peter Durfee, president of the Chico Police Officers’ Association, who’s taken to task this week in our Letters section (see page 6). Speaking of big mouths, as the union’s chief, Durfee’s made it a habit of ramping up the rhetoric about how the Chico Police Department is so vastly understaffed and how officers are underpaid. Of course, he fails to mention how the benefits packages he and his colleagues receive are nearly double the state average for municipal workers. In other words, he works for one of the highestpaying cities in the state. Durfee’s shouting into the wind these days. The public knows the score. Now it’s up to the new city management to take note and to negotiate contracts that don’t overburden the coffers.

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About the border Re “Root of border crossings” (Editorial, July 3): You nailed the facts, the issues, the causes, and the methods that the U.S. government can use to address the problem effectively. Under the Trafficking Victims Protection Act, immigration courts and judges are required to bend over backward to accommodate unaccompanied minors who arrive at the border without entry documents—and rightfully so. Some of the best and most accommodating immigration judges are at the San Francisco Immigration Court, and the judges treat the minors with the care, respect and empathy they deserve. These children have witnessed nightmares we Americans can only imagine, and have endured journeys that have often left them traumatized. Unfortunately for these children, simply being the victim of organized crime or fleeing organized crime is not enough to receive asylum under the Immigration and Nationality Act. While the situation in their countries is brutal—gang violence, apathetic governments, corruption, natural disasters—the U.S. government must take proactive measures if we really care about stemming the flow of minors at the border. Unfortunately we are dealing with the consequences of W’s foreign policy in the Middle East and have few resources or the patience for further intervention. But if there’s one region where we should be more involved it is Latin America. Our ignorance of the issues that affect that region is coming back to haunt us.

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Regarding your thoughtful editorial, the drug war gives rise to the problems it purports to resolve. The crime, corruption and overdose deaths attributed to illegal drugs are invariably the result of drug prohibition. Alcohol prohibition once financed organized crime and increased harm to consumers from unregulated bathtub gin. Violent turf battles over illegal alcohol profits ended in 1933 when alcohol prohibition ended. Now we have mass migration of unaccompanied minors fleeing the violence that the U.S. drug war has wrought in Mexico and Central America. Shameless politicians seeking to literally scare up votes use the tremendous societal damage caused by drug prohibition as justification for throwing good money after bad public policy. It’s long past time that voters stopped letting our so-called leaders get away with this harmful ruse. ROBERT SHARPE policy analyst, Common Sense for Drug Policy Washington, D.C.

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ifornia’s farming industry, but there are a few points that should be clarified: 1) The San Joaquin Valley, that region of the state most only see from afar while driving I-5, accounts for a full 30 percent of the nation’s fresh fruits and vegetables. She is likely a consumer of some of its bounty; 2) Farmers were encouraged to plant a lot of high-value, permanent crops prior to the salmon and delta smelt biological opinions that pulled the rug out from under them. We all remember the shrieking voices in the 1990s about cotton, alfalfa and rice; 3) Delta farmers have valid concerns about the impacts of water supply cuts. They’re watching as 3 million acres of farmland elsewhere in the state are getting a zero allocation. MIKE WADE executive director, California Farm Water Coalition, Sacramento

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Re “Union chief fires back” (Letters, July 3): Chico police officers need a new mantra. Every time they demand that our bankrupt city raise their hefty salaries, their outrageous overtime pay scales, their dubious disability payments, and their scandalous early retirement packages, they always lay the same-old guilt trip on the taxpayers about how they “lay their lives on the line” every day they’re on the job. In last week’s letter in the CN&R, police union President Peter Durfee repeats this tired old cliché and then, for good measure, paints a weepy picture of Chico police officers going to work each day not knowing if they’re going to return home at night to tuck in their kids. Oh, please! Just how dangerous are their jobs? Here are the facts: In the 154 years since John Bidwell founded the city of Chico in 1860, just one policeman (officer Carleton Bruce in 1938) has been killed in the line of duty. During the same 154 years, just one fireman has been killed in the line of duty (fire marshal Ray Walter Head in 1970). These facts speak for themselves. Chico police officers and firefighters have some of the safest jobs in the world! DAVID L. WILLIAMS Chico

In last week’s paper, Chico Police Officers’Association (CPOA) President Peter Durfee states his union gave up over 18 percent in wages and benefits over the past three years. Given that his union’s full-time members averaged $156,318 in 2012, that

would be a definite stride toward fairness. We trust, yet might want to verify, Peter’s numbers. How about this? The CPOA contract expires this Dec. 31. We’ll offer to pay the average CPOA member 18 percent less in wages and benefits than they got three years ago. If it turns out it results in a reduction from what they are getting now, we’ll even commit to use the difference to hire additional officers. We just ask that the CPOA support the city’s efforts to save money by hiring CalFire to run our fire stations, and that the money saved on firefighting services be devoted 80 percent to Public Works and 20 percent toward council members’ miscellaneous causes. This proposal is consistent with the CPOA’s public positions. Will you sign a memorandum of understanding with these provisions, Peter? MICHAEL JONES Chico

I’d like to respond to Peter Durfee’s question re what is “reasonable” (salary and benefits) “to put your life on the line” as a police officer. I’ve heard that rhetorical question asked many times. What do you want or expect people to say? Have you ever heard a soldier who lays his life on the line every day for your freedom ask that kind of question? Never! Do you know why? Because they knew what they were getting into when they joined the military service. I’ve never once heard any one of them say, “You don’t pay me enough.” As a member of Chico police force, you have enjoyed steady, mandated 5 percent wage increases over the first seven years of your employment. In addition to what is mandated, we taxpayers have long paid into your pension. We also pay up to 70 percent of your monthly medical benefit. Shall I go on? The city is having a tough time recruiting not because of a low wage and benefit package but because no one wants to join a force that is made up primarily of patrol officers with no immediate prospects of improvement. Thank the union and city mismanagement. STEPHANIE L. TABER Chico

Recently I posted a letter responding to some who question the pay and benefits of the members of the Chico Police Officers Association and the danger involved in being a police officer. Let’s put that aside and look at

the liability issue alone of the job. Police officers are forced to make split-second decisions to stop a threat by means of deadly force or take someone’s freedom away by means of arrest. If a mistake is made, it could cost the city millions of dollars as well as the freedom of that officer. The liability alone is why officers make the salaries that they do. Yet some question the $34 per hour that officers make. Those are the same people who pay their mechanic $85 per hour to work on their car and don’t bat an eye at the cost. Before people claim that I am trying to belittle another profession, because some will, I’m not. It’s just a comparison, people. PETER DURFEE CPOA president, Chico

Apply common sense “Video sparks controversy” (Newslines, by Meredith J. Graham, June 26): I am thankful that no one was killed in this incident, and that no innocent bystanders were affected, and I am sorry that Mr. Rosales was injured. However, Rosales allowed an unrestrained animal to affect his operation of a motor vehicle, a potentially deadly weapon, and was completely at fault for the accident. It’s against the law to drive with unrestrained human occupants in a vehicle. Common sense should tell drivers, such as Rosales, that this should also apply to dogs. Did he ever consider the consequences to his dog were he to be in an auto accident? Apparently not. Recently, I saw a driver straining to see around a small poodle to oncoming traffic in order to merge with heavy traffic on a four-lane street! Mr. Rosales needs to understand that public-safety personnel need to be able to think on their feet and act quickly in order to prevent a bad situation from becoming much worse. Mr. Rosales needs to realize that police are human beings, too, and want to be able to go home to their families at the end of their shift. Far too many are killed and injured each year due to ill-advised actions on the part of irresponsible motorists. Mr. Rosales needs to do some serious soul searching and thank the officer who rescued him, not sue the police department. TOM MOLINA Paradise More letters online:

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A 62-year-old Berry Creek man with a history of gun violence was arrested by a Butte County Sheriff’s SWAT team on Tuesday (July 8). A search warrant was served at the home of Andrew Frerks on Milsap Bar Road based on a domestic violence incident in June in which Frerks allegedly threatened his daughter and fired a gun, said sheriff’s spokeswoman Miranda Bowersox. The warrant was served specifically on suspicion of criminal threats, witness intimidation, tampering with a phone line and battery. The SWAT team entered Frerks’ home and found him in the living room. Frerks reportedly made a move for a semi-automatic handgun, fumbled it and was arrested, the release said. Frerks has a long history of run-ins with the law, court records show, including two DUIs, misdemeanor child molestation, and voluntary manslaughter of his 16-year-old son Jason, who was killed in a gunfight in 1989.

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The city of Chico was awarded a roughly $1 million grant for improvements to the Comanche Creek greenway, including a pedestrian and bike path, walking trails, picnic areas and trash cans. The area has been the subject of controversy over the years. In 2001, the city considered building a road over the creek to connect the Hegan Lane Business Park to East Park Avenue, but that project was overturned in a referendum. Meanwhile, members of the Barber neighborhood have long hoped to turn the space into a mini nature preserve. On July 3, the state Department of Housing and Community Development announced $1.032 million for the Comanche Creek area. The neighborhood association Friends of the Comanche Creek Greenway pledged $17,000 annually for maintenance and patrol of the green space over the next three years. Dan Efseaff (pictured), the city’s parks and natural resources manager, said the bike path as currently proposed will serve as an extension of Normal Avenue, crossing the creek and leading to the business park. 8

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Off-balance? Grand jury questions county support of public defenders vs. DA’s office

P Philip Heithecker would know—he’s been one for 17 years. As attorneys, they represent ublic defenders have a tough job.

defendants who cannot provide their own counsel, many of whom are repeat offenders or are charged with by more than one crime. In court, Meredith J. they face off against lawyers in Graham the District Attorney’s Office, meredithg@ who, according to the 2013-14 newsreview.com Grand Jury Report, have more resources and staffing, leaving the public defenders to fight an uphill battle. “It’s a very difficult job and this particular group of clients can be difficult to work with,” Heithecker said. “They’re people who have been in and out of prison, who know the system very well, and a few who are able to manipulate the system.” In Butte County’s courts, the cards are stacked against public defenders like Heithecker and over the past two years things have gotten increasingly worse, the grand jury concluded. With the recent addition of a fourth felony court, case loads are now near capacity, attorneys are often expected to be in multiple places at the same time and they aren’t equipped with the same resources—such as meeting spaces and law databases—as their DA counterparts. “A number of attorneys commented about being ‘under resourced,’” the report states. “As one attorney put it, ‘We are not on an equal footing with the District Attorney’ in terms of staffing and support.” The way the public defense system works in Butte County is each attorney—there are 20 of

them, though some work only parttime—has an individual contract with the county. Together, they form a consortium, with an executive director (Heithecker) who serves as liaison between them and the county. They meet to discuss various issues they face, but maintain separate offices with separate staffs. In addition to being paid the same annual salary regardless of experience ($138,324 for full-timers), the attorneys in the consortium are able to share the services of seven investigators, paid by the county. Any additional supplies, support staff, equipment or resources are paid for by the attorneys themselves. They get no sick leave, vacation pay or retirement benefits. The DA’s Office is a whole other beast. With 23 attorneys in the criminal division overseen by an elected official (District Attorney Mike Ramsey), the office also benefits from the services of legal secretaries, investigators and technical support. Resources like law databases are provided, as are benefits packages, confirmed county Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Andy Pickett. “We are independently contracted lawyers going up against a county department,” Heithecker said. “Certainly the grand jury is correct—we’re outnumbered and outgunned.” But comparing staffing levels between the DA’s office and the public defender consortium isn’t entirely fair, Pickett said. Ramsey agreed, explaining

that his office handles much more than the public defenders do. For example, before anybody even goes to court, the DA’s office investigates crimes to determine whether to file charges—about 15 percent of cases that land in the DA’s office are dismissed before they go to court, Ramsey said. Then, of the cases that do reach court, about 70 percent of those clients are represented by public defenders—the rest seek private counsel. “The only thing I disagreed with [in the grand jury report], was a couple places where they said public defenders aren’t on equal footing as the DA’s office,” Ramsey said. “They shouldn’t be. “We do a lot more work, as is the nature of the criminal justice system. Equal footing is not contemplated, nor would it be practically effected.” Heithecker countered that, saying he believes if the county ran its own public defender office, rather than contracting with independent attorneys through the consortium, staffing levels would be more even. The grand jury seemed to agree with Heithecker. In several places, the report points a finger at the county for making certain decisions—including staffing and using a consortium rather than departmental model—for financial reasons rather than because they made better logical sense. The grand jury makes several

suggestions for how to move forward,

many of them regarding review processes and databases for tracking public defender cases. Heithecker is wary of such moves—especially one recommendation that asks that the executive director review each public defender— because he believes it turns the consortium into more of a department. “Performance by individual attorneys is evaluated in court every day,” he said. “As independent lawyers, they don’t want me going through their files and criticizing their performance. Then I’m more of a supervisor.” Ramsey agreed that performance is reviewed in court and praised the public defenders for competently defending their clients. “It’s very important for the criminal justice system to have good, dedicated, experienced public defenders,” he said. “There’s nothing worse than working on a case and doing all the work that we do—we’ll say we’re overworked and under-resourced also—to have a case returned by an appellate court due to ineffective assistance of counsel, either because of lack of experience or lack of time or just not doing a good job. I can’t remember the last time that happened with a public defender.” Heithecker and Ramsey agreed with the grand jury that the consortium model is a way to eliminate conflicts of interest that would occur in a department. “We’ve had a number of cases that have many, many codefendants,” Heithecker explained. “For example, we have a case out of the casino right now with 30 codefendants. Earlier this year, there was a fight downtown, there must’ve been 14 codefendants. If you had one [public defender] department, that department could only represent one of those individuals.” Ramsey remembers a time when Butte County did use what he calls a “quasi-public defender’s office,” before the consortium model was created in 1990. Part of the reason the consortium was created in the first place was that office “started collapsing under its own conflict weight,” he said. Regardless of how the public defender system works in Butte County, one thing everyone did agree on is a general lack of funding and resources in the face of increasing workloads. “The public defense attorneys reported that their caseloads are increasing,” the grand jury report states. “The Grand Jury heard comments such as ‘caseloads are nearing maximum capacity,’ ‘we are beaten down by cases,’ and ‘we need more lawyers.’ The caseload information provided by the attorneys to the Grand Jury indicates a 10 percent increase from 2011 to 2012 and a 22 percent increase from 2012 to 2013.” The county is required to respond to the grand jury and will do so in the next couple months. Ω

Crack law whacked?

A senate bill going through the state Legislature would treat crack cocaine the same as powdered cocaine.

Legislature to hear long overdue drug reform bill next month tate legislators are finally getting around S to one of the most racist drug laws on the books.

On July 2, the state Assembly Appropriations Committee gaveled through the California Fair Sentencing Act of 2014 on a 12-to-3 margin (with two abstentions). Aided by a bullish review from the nonpartisan Legislative Analyst’s Office, the bill will hit the full floor in August. The act, Senate Bill 1010, aims to reverse a drug policy that for years incarcerated people of color for exponentially longer prison terms than white individuals for violating essentially the same law: possession of cocaine for sale. “[It’s] one of the most egregious missteps of the drug war,” said Glenn Backes, a public-policy researcher at the Drug Policy Alliance, which endorses SB 1010. The penal code in California currently treats crack cocaine—which comes from cutting the drug with an alkali, like baking soda—more seriously than it does the powder version. Anyone convicted of possessing crack cocaine for sale faces a mandatory minimum prison sentence of three, four or five years—and double those terms with a prior strike conviction, like burglary or robbery. A person who’s busted for possessing cocaine powder earns prison terms of two, three or four years. Probation or suspended sentences are also easier to come by for convicted possessors of powdered coke. Between 2006 and 2010, 95.5 percent of those locked up in state prisons for possessing crack for sale were people of color,

SIFT|ER A shifting workforce The Great Recession of 2007-09 appears to have reversed a trend in the U.S. workforce. In 2007, immigrants made up 56.1 percent of Hispanic workers. That figure has been decreasing since, and now, for the first time in nearly 20 years, most Hispanic workers are U.S.-born.

according to California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation figures analyzed by the Drug Policy Alliance. A whopping 77.4 percent were black. Meanwhile, a national drug-use survey from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration in 2012 showed the use of crack was approximately equal among all races. None of this data is new. Mandatory minimum sentencing

guidelines were adopted at the federal level in 1986 and a year later in California. According to Backes, cocaine powder was still being medically prescribed in small doses post-surgery at the time, one of the reasons it was treated differently. But there was also a spurious assumption, fanned by the media, that crack was deadlier and more addictive than powder cocaine. “It wasn’t long before the medical field said, ‘You’re mistaken,’” Backes said. A major study in the American Medical Journal was one of several reports to debunk that claim. There have been previous efforts to

reform the law. Late Democratic Sen. Mervyn M. Dymally tried to address the disparities in 2005 and 2008, but both efforts died in committee. Sen. Holly J. Mitchell (D-Los Angeles) believes the climate has changed enough to give her version of the bill a decent shot. “From my perspective, it just seemed like the stars aligned,” she said. A bipartisan majority of the U.S. Congress passed a federal version of this reform in 2010, and it was championed by such conservative luminaries as Sen. Lindsey Graham, Newt Gingrich and California’s last Republican attorney general, Dan Lungren. Meanwhile, five other conservative states have all beaten California to the punch in modifying their sentencing disparities between crack and powder cocaine, the Sentencing Project reports. With such widespread support among red-state powers, you’d be forgiven for thinking SB 1010 was riding a bipartisan wave here in the Golden State. It’s not. “Thus far, we haven’t gained one Republican vote for this law,” said John Skoglund, a legislative aide to Mitchell. The bill did end up securing a lone Republican vote on Wednesday, July 2, from former gubernatorial candidate Tim Donnelly. The California Peace Officers Association, one of only two organizations officially opposing SB 1010, believes the disparate penalties should be streamlined the other way, so that powder busts are more serious. But spokeswoman Sara Dwyer added that the association wasn’t “actively engaged on this bill.” The California District Attorneys Association, which opposed earlier reform efforts, is remaining neutral. Four Bay Area and southern state DAs have authored strongly worded letters of support for the proposed law. Butte County DA Mike Ramsey hasn’t joined them, but he did tell the CN&R that he does not generally support mandatory-minimum sentencing, especially for drug offenses. Still, California may be finally catching up to the rest of the country when it comes to less severe sentencing policies. State voters overwhelmingly adopted three-strikes reform in 2012. And recently, an initiative to lower the severity of certain drug offenses from felonies to misdemeanors qualified for the November ballot. As for the lasting impact of mandatory minimum drug sentences, Backes described a grim one. “A number of black families [were] pulled apart,” he said. “The legacy is not just on those families, but on the communities that had every reason to believe the system was rigged against them.” —RAHEEM F. HOSSEINI raheemh@newsreview.com

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The long road Highway 32 widening project underway after a decade of planning

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crews began cutting down large trees and vegetation alongside Highway 32 last month, concerned citizens contacted the CN&R questioning why the trees were being removed. What they were witnessing was the latest act in a melodrama that’s been running much longer than the current urban forest debacle—the widening of the highway to compensate for development east of Highway 99. Work on the first phase of the four-step project—which eventually will result in the conversion of the roadway from a two-lane undivided highway to four lanes bisected by a median, from Highway 99 east to Yosemite Drive—began June 9, but has been in the works for nearly a decade. Phase 1—expected to be completed next January—carries a $5.5 million price tag. City senior civil engineer Bob Greenlaw estimates the total cost of the project at about $20 million. The first stage is focused on the stretch of highway from the Park & Ride lots to El Monte Drive, and includes removing and replacing trees and landscaping on the north side of the highway, constructing decorative, precast concrete sound walls, widening the roadway and Dead Horse Slough bridge, opening a second left-turn lane on Forest Avenue, and modifying existing traffic signals. “This project has been in the development phase, starting with

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plans and specs, since 2005,” Greenlaw said. “Since then it’s encountered a number of problems, the biggest being a lack of funding.” Greenlaw explained that, after the City Council approved the widening in 2006, the city’s share of the financial load was expected to come from development impact fees, with secondary funding from redevelopment funds. But a downturn in the economy led to less available money from the first source, and the state dissolved redevelopment agencies in 2011, forcing the city to find other ways to fund the improvements. The city ultimately was able to secure $3.24 million in state funding from Proposition 1B (a $4.5 billion account earmarked for highway improvements by voters in 2006). The redevelopment agency already had begun selling bonds to fund the work, but since it was dissolved the city needed special permission from the state controller to access the funds. Greenlaw said it took two years for the decision to come and the money to be released. Greenlaw noted the California Department of Transportation secured the land necessary for the widening when it originally built Highway 32 in the 1960s, with the intention of expanding the road as the city grew. With a number of developments underway or breaking ground—including the Oak Valley subdivision, Meriam Park (which will include a new courthouse complex), and continuing development in California Park— Greenlaw said the improved high-

way is necessary to prevent future traffic congestion. He also said citizen concerns, about trees and otherwise, figured prominently in the final plan. “In speaking with stakeholders, the most prominent concerns we encountered were regarding aesthetics and sound,” he said, noting the trees that have been cut were not oldgrowth, but landscaping designed and planted by the city in 1992. To address these concerns, the 8-foot-tall sound wall is higher than what is required by law, and will be constructed to look like it’s made out of wood. Landscaping will be replanted, and the new median will be decorated with large trees (the city is considering valley oaks) Road conditions: More information protected from regarding the traffic by a Highway 32 guardrail. While widening project, including weekly most highways updates, can be require a found on the 30-foot “clear Capital Project recovery zone” Services section of along state the city of Chico’s website. highways, the project included a design exemption reducing that zone to 17 feet on the south side of the highway to allow some of the larger trees to remain standing. “Our goal with the finished project is for it to look as good, or even better, than it used to look, and we’ll still have a nice, green corridor as a gateway to Chico,” Greenlaw said. “It might look a little bare now, and it’s going to get a bit noisy and dusty and dirty as we do the work, but when it’s done it should serve the city well for years to come.” —KEN SMITH kens@newsreview.com

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Conflicted City Council appoints Mark Orme as city manager

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hico officially has a new top CManager dog. Former Assistant City Mark Orme was promot-

ed from interim to permanent city manager July 3 by the Chico City Council in the wake of Brian Nakamura’s departure for Rancho Cordova, less than two years after landing the position here. Orme’s selection, while not really opposed, certainly wasn’t unanimous. It was also convoluted, at least from the public’s perspective. At the beginning of last Tuesday’s regular City Council meeting (July 1), City Attorney Vince Ewing announced that the council had voted 4-3 in closed session on a matter concerning the city manager position. As is now the standard, exactly what the council voted on and how each member voted was not explained to the public. The next day, however, Mayor Scott Gruendl issued a press release announcing the council had voted to appoint Orme during its meeting the night before. The release said Orme’s contract, which includes a salary of $207,500, down from Nakamura’s $217,000, would be approved at a special meeting on Thursday, July 3. But at that meeting, which was heavily attended by city employees, Gruendl explained the council had received legal advice that an employee contract cannot be approved at a special meeting. Instead, the panel voted on whether to hire Orme, who worked as Nakamura’s assistant city manager in Hemet before taking that same job in Chico, or open the position to outside candidates. Councilman Sean Morgan’s motion to hire Orme was seconded by Councilwoman Mary Goloff. The vote went 4-2, with Coun-

cilmembers Ann Schwab and Randall Stone dissenting and Gruendl and Vice Mayor Mark Sorensen joining Morgan and Goloff. Councilwoman Tami Ritter was not in attendance. Orme’s contract will be considered at the council’s Aug. 5 meeting. As Schwab and Stone pointed

out, the city’s contract with Avery Associates, the consulting firm that conducted the recruitment process that led to Nakamura’s hiring in 2012, said that if the person hired stayed on the job for less than 24 months, it would help fill the position for free. The city would still have to pay for the candidates’ travel and lodging expenses. Stone said that while he appreciated Orme’s willingness to take over and looked forward to working with him, he still believed the city should have gone through the recruitment process. He described Orme later by email as “a qualified, superlative candidate that we prematurely appointed. I believe we owed this community and staff a full vetting of our city manager—including a full vetting of salary considerations.” Schwab told Orme during the meeting Thursday that she, too, believed the council should have gone through the recruitment process. “I think that through that vetting process we may have selected you,” she said, “but I think it would have made you a stronger city manager in terms of the community.” Morgan said he appreciated Schwab and Stone wanting to open the job up for recruitment and originally supported doing so.

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Mark Orme was appointed July 3 to take over as Chico’s city manager after serving just over a year as assistant city manager. PHOTO BY TOM GASCOYNE

“But I absolutely believe Mr. Orme is truly qualified to do the job,” he said. “There is no question. He’s been a leader in city government for a long time; he is a good communicator.” Morgan said opening up the recruitment process would delay hiring by up to five months and could cost the city as much as $10,000, while Sorensen said the 2012 recruitment process indicated there were “a pretty small number of viable candidates” and that there was a good chance Orme would get the job anyway. Goloff said she initially favored recruitment for the position, but after talking with city employees and watching Orme in action, she changed her mind. For his part, Orme said he and his wife are overjoyed with the idea of raising their two young children in Chico. “I look forward to many years of rebuilding Chico’s foundation so that we can stand on firm ground … in order to deliver the quality and necessary services to our public in a timely and efficient manner,” he said in an email message. Orme already has appointed Administrative Services Director Chris Constantin as the interim assistant city manager. He said his plan may eliminate the services director position. “I anticipate completing my evaluation of the current situation sooner than later,” he said, “but definitely within the next two weeks.” —TOM GASCOYNE tomg@newsreview.com

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HEALTHLINES Over the last two years working with the Leap Into Summer camp, Emily McMillen (left) has seen many kids come away as “their own personal little chef.”

ALZHEIMER’S DRUGS FAILING

The international medical community is concerned that the high rate of failure for Alzheimer’s disease drug trials could discourage further research in the field. A study published in the journal Alzheimer’s Research & Therapy found that, between 2002 and 2012, 99.6 percent of trials for drugs aimed at preventing, curing or improving Alzheimer’s failed or were discontinued, according to BBC News. For comparison, the study found that 81 percent of cancer drugs failed over the same period. Only one new form of Alzheimer’s medicine has been approved since 2004. Dr. Simon Ridley of Alzheimer’s Research UK said pharmaceutical companies may be wary of investing in dementia research, given the low success rate. “The only way we will successfully defeat dementia is to continue with high-quality, innovative research, improve links with industry and increase investment in clinical trials,” he said.

Below: Payne Dietz, 8, was one of 20 children who recently attended the camp. PHOTOS BY MELANIE MACTAVISH

CALI DOCS STINGY WITH OPIOIDS

Doctors in California prescribe opioid painkillers at the second-lowest rate in the U.S., according to a report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Researchers analyzed a commercial database run by IMS Health in measuring variation between states in the prescription of opioid medication, according to California Healthline. In 2012, California doctors prescribed 57 opioid pain relievers per 100 people, compared to 82.5 nationally. Only doctors in Hawaii prescribed opioids at a lower rate. Meanwhile, a recent study in Florida—where lawmakers have cracked down on pain clinics dispensing high volumes of OxyContin, Vicodin and other narcotic painkillers—found that overdose deaths from the drugs have dropped by 26 percent over the last two years.

‘BREAKTHROUGH’ STUDY RETRACTED

A study released in February by scientists at the Riken Center for Developmental Biology in Japan, initially hailed as a breakthrough in stem cell research, has officially been retracted after errors in methodology emerged. Following the study’s inclusion in the journal Nature, media outlets around the world reported that shocking skin cells with acid could turn them into stem cells. The findings suggested that stem cells would no longer need to be taken from embryos or created through costly and complicated genetic modification. But in March, one of the study’s co-authors questioned the data used in the experiments and called for the results to be retracted, according to CNN. An investigation ensued, and now the researchers have officially withdrawn the study. An editorial in Nature said, “errors were found in the figures, parts of the methods descriptions were found to be plagiarized and early attempts to replicate the work failed.” Send your health-related news tips to Howard Hardee at howardh@newsreview.com.

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Developing taste buds Summer camp aims to turn kids into health-conscious chefs by

Katherine Green

O 20 children and five instructors bustled about the kitchen in the Chico Area n a recent afternoon, about

Recreation District (CARD) Community Center. Five teams were preparing five different items, from apple salad to stove-top mac ‘n’ cheese. Cries of “Where’s the can opener?” and “Do we have any butter?” rang through the kitchen. One camper said she had been cooking since she was 3 years old and spoke of dreams to open a restaurant in Venice, Italy. Clearly excited about the camp, she said she liked working with other people, and that she hopes to come back later this summer. And she will get that chance, because this was just the first week of Leap Into Summer, an interactive five-day nutritioneducation, cooking and swimming camp for kids ages 7 to 13 sponsored by Chico State’s Center for Nutrition and Activity Promotion (CNAP). There will be two more camps—Aug. 4-8 and 11-15—both held at the CARD center, which is in close proximity to Sycamore Pool at One-Mile Recreation Area. “We’ve been running this camp somewhere between eight and 10 years,” said

Jennifer Murphy, nutrition education specialist with CNAP, “and last year we really incorporated cooking; it was this huge event, and we had so much interest that we added a third camp [last summer].” Murphy’s vision helped transition the camp’s lessons from abstract nutrition education to a more hands-on approach. “It’s a great platform to introduce new foods to kids. We’ve really found that when kids are involved in the preparation, and involved in cooking, they’re way more open to trying it, and enjoying it,” she said. “They get to learn how to use a knife, how to keep your food safe so you don’t get sick, and practical skills besides just the health benefits of eating right.”

The Leap Into Summer instructors try to impart such knowledge in fun ways. Murphy mentioned a lesson called Rethink Your Drink, in which kids are taught about the benefits of drinking water and the detriments of overconsuming sugary drinks. At the end of the day’s lesson, the kids get to pedal a bike powering a blender to make their own smoothies. And while there is a lot of cooking and nutrition education, there’s no shortage of swimming and games for the kids as well. The camp doesn’t promote an allvegetarian diet, but there is an emphasis on HEALTHLINES continued on page 15

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less expensive—though proteinrich—foods. “We all watch our budgets,” Murphy said, “so if we can show them some cost-effective meals that are tasty and filling, that’s what we want to do.” That helps make the camp more cost-effective for CNAP as well.

“They come up with amazing things.” -Emily McMillen

with portable burners and one small convection oven. This year, CARD’s full kitchen is at their disposal. “It’s a bigger site, so we can take more kids,” Murphy said. Emily McMillen, a Chico State graduate student, has been involved with Leap for three years, and

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Those interested in the cooking camp can sign up their children through CARD at www.tinyurl.com/ Leapsummer. Registration is $100. Go to CNAP’s website at www.csu chico.edu/cnap to check out the Leap Into Summer promotional video.

Campers make things like

Mediterranean tabouli salads, hearty egg burritos and pumpkin pudding, and a few past participants have brought in their own recipes and dared to make dishes as adventurous as frittatas (like an Italian quiche). Getting kids interested in looking up their own recipes is part of the plan, and it seems to be working. This will be the first year that CNAP is collaborating with CARD, a partnership that benefits the children by increasing their access to kitchen equipment, Murphy said. Last year, kids cooked

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thinks the Chopped Challenge, held on the last day of class and based on the popular TV show, is the most exciting part for campers. “We give the kids a bunch of ingredients in a mystery bag, and they have an hour to create something,” McMillen said. “They come up with amazing things. It’s a fantastic way for them to show off the skills that they’ve learned.” McMillen said the cooking lessons can really make an impression. Kids come in and don’t know anything about preparing their own food, and when they leave, “they become their own personal little chef. It’s incredible to see the transformation that they make, and to see their confidence increase.” For the instructors, it’s also rewarding to see such values instilled at a young age. “There are a lot of adults who don’t know how to cook—or they’re scared to,” she said. “Now that we’re doing the cooking [part of camp], we’re dedicating a lot more time to actually developing skills that they’ll be using when they’re adults, and for the rest of their lives.” Ω

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UC Davis just published a study they did in the Fresno area evaluating the correlation of pesticide sprays and the occurrence of autism. They found that the rate of autism is up to 60% higher in exposed women! The study focused on 4 types of insecticides: organophosphates, organochlorines, carbamates, and PYRETHROIDS. Organophosphates appear to cause aberrant brain development during 2nd and 3rd trimester exposure. Carbamate exposure any time during pregnancy can cause developmental delay. But, PYRETHROIDS appear to cause autism and developmental delay in women exposed during pregnancy and before. Butte Co. Mosquito Abatement, which has been around for 66 yrs, is currently spraying Butte County neighborhoods with a pyrethrin spray called "pyrocide 7396". They have fogging advisory maps on their web-site and you can call them to request that they do, or do NOT spray your property. Efforts will be made to control drift factors.

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An educational talk with district supervisor, Matt Ball, informed me that the BCMA was originally formed 66 yrs ago to control malaria. He went on to describe other mosquito born diseases that have been or are concerns, such as Dengue & Yellow Fever, Western Equine & West Nile Virus. What a conundrum we find ourselves in. I think we would all agree that control of life threatening, mosquito born diseases important. Yet, current strategies drive other health concerns; cancer, asthma, heart distress, and now we find out, autism and delayed brain development as well. The women in the UC Davis study were not having their front yards sprayed. They were exposed by agricultural spraying occurring some distance away. The closer to the spray site, the higher the incidence of autism. If you are pregnant or even thinking about becoming pregnant in the future, take heed and do what you can to protect yourself from exposure. If exposure occurs: detox, detox, detox. I offer group and individual detox programs that are scientifically designed, very effective, and very user friendly.

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GREENWAYS Ally Muller (pictured) and her husband, Priyan Nithya, built their 120-square-foot house for about $8,500 with no previous construction experience. PHOTOS BY MELANIE MACTAVISH

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WMuller settled in Chico in 2012 after marrying overseas, they realized the only hen Priyan Nithya and Ally

way to realize their big American dream was to build it on a very small scale. “We wanted a greenhouse to start seeds to grow our own food and do canning, chickens running around, big green gardens, fruit trees and lots of space for a bonfire to hang out with friends,” Muller said. “We basically wanted a kind of micro, postage stamp-size, mostly self-sustaining homestead.” With finances and space an issue, the couple began discussing building their own “tiny house”—a style of small-scale home that has become so prevalent in the last few years that devotees are heralding a “tiny house movement.” The trend has caught mainstream attention through fansites like Tiny House Swoon, which features pictures of tiny houses from around the world, and a reality television show—Tiny House Nation—which premiered Wednesday (July 9) on the A&E Network offshoot FYI. The show will focus on homes smaller than 300 square feet, though some sticklers— such as the crew behind the documentary Tiny—cap the square footage at 200. Nithya, a native of Singapore, is an architect who wrote his thesis on repurposing shipping containers (train car-size metal

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units used for overseas transport) into green dwellings. Free-spirited Muller, who grew up in Chico but spent several years backpacking around the world and met Nithya in Malaysia, is a Jill-of-many-trades whose skills include tennis and yoga instruction. Despite Nithya’s theoretical background in building, neither of them had ever swung a hammer before breaking ground on their 8-by-15-foot home, located in the backyard of a regular-size Chico house, in April 2013. While designing the home, the couple attended a workshop hosted by tiny house innovator Jay Shafer, whose Tumbleweed Tiny House Co. in Sonoma was one of the first to market the homes, and who also cofounded the Small House Society in 2002. Other than what they learned there, the couple relied mostly on YouTube videos to learn how to build, insulate and install plumbing and wiring in the house. “The hardest part was getting over the mental hangups [regarding construction],” Muller said. “Your mind comes up with a lot of reasons not to do it, but it’s not rocket science. You don’t have to have a construction background, or be a creative person or a technical person. “Another problem was chronic lack of funding,” she continued. “We had a little money to start with, but overall we had a budget as small as the house is, so we had to get really creative.” Using largely repurposed and recycled materials, the couple were able to complete their home in February 2014 at a total cost of

about $8,500. In keeping with the green spirit of tiny building, the house is solar-powered, positioned with south-facing windows to help climate control, and filtered gray-water is used to irrigate the home’s large gardens. The chicken coop and outdoor entertaining area are all that remain to be built, Muller said. “After the first night we slept here, I climbed down from the loft, took one step to the fridge in the kitchen and made breakfast, then took another step into my living roomslash-dining room and ate it,” Muller recalled. “I remember thinking, ‘Wow, that was elegant and simple.’” While building a home from scratch

is a big undertaking, some would assume two adults maintaining their lives in a 120-square-foot space is even more difficult. Muller said living out of a backpack and “learning to only carry what is absolutely essential” was good training. While some tiny-home dwellers use ingenious building tricks to store more possessions in hidden cubby holes, Muller and Nithya instead rely on further simplification. “Our most valuable tool is the shed,” Muller said. “We have a rule that if we don’t touch something for five days it goes to the shed, and if we don’t need it again in a reasonable amount of time we get rid of it.” Muller admitted tiny living can be challenging sometimes, noting the house seems much smaller in the wintertime, when weather doesn’t allow the use of outside

space. She also said they may need to build a bigger house if their family grows, but plan to maintain their commitment to small, sustainable and offbeat living, perhaps making use of shipping containers. “I like the idea of appropriately sized space, and this space is appropriate for our lives now, and fits like a glove,” she explained. “The point is to design the space around the people who will live there, instead of just designing the space to house a bunch of stuff.” The couple are working on starting a consulting firm to help others design and build their own small, custom spaces, and they currently maintain a Facebook page called Palm to Palm—Alternative Dwelling Design, Build and Consult. Their home also will be featured on an upcoming episode of Tiny House Nation. Advocates of tiny-house living believe the buildings have applications far beyond single-family homes. Members of the Chico Housing Action Team (CHAT), for example, are looking into the possibility of building one or more small-house communities for the homeless. CHAT spokesman Dan Everhart said the group is actively looking for a piece of land to build tiny housing for about three dozen people, a goal he said could be accomplished before winter for under $250,000. CHAT members have visited other communities where this is already being done, including Portland and Eugene, Ore., and Olympia, Wash. Ω

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Making sawdust Chico is rich with artists, and Alan Holbrook is certainly one of them. The 36-year-old started working with wood as a young boy and through the years he’s honed his craft into a true art form. He makes high-end, custom kitchen cabinets, coffee tables and the other usual items you might expect from a woodworker, but he also makes electric guitars and basses, which he tailors to each individual, down to their style of playing. His north Chico shop is situated next to the home he shares with his wife and two kids. That’s where Holbrook turns wood into pieces of art. He sells his work through his business, Holbrook Instruments & Millwork (aka H.I.M.). Visit his shop at www.himwoodworking.com.

How did you get your start? Growing up, I lived off and on with my grandfather. He always had a woodshop. When I was really little, I’d make sawdust pies out of sawdust and glue. Then I started digging around in the shop … chipping wood and figuring out how to glue things. It was always fun. When I was 10 or 11, my grandfather showed me how to use the band saw. It’s my favorite tool, to this day.

How did your grandfather influence you? He was always building kitchen cabinets or furniture, and I’d stand back and watch really carefully what he was doing. When I decided to make something for myself, he’d supervise and do the more dangerous stuff. One of my first things was a little bass guitar. I was probably 13 or 14 when I did that. A lot of it was just me going in and doing stuff on my own.

What stands out in your memories of him? He’d say, “I’m going down to the shop to make sawdust” when, really, he was making something really beautiful. And that’s what I do. I make sawdust, and every once in a while, something really beautiful comes out of it,

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like a kitchen cabinet or a guitar.

Can you remember your first sale? The one that stands out is a bass guitar I made when my wife and I lived in Eureka. I took it down to the local music shop to plug it in and hear it, and a kid literally bought it off my lap for a thousand bucks. So then, it was like, “I can do this”—it was real.

What goes into making an instrument? When I build an instrument for someone, I go and watch how they play before I build it. I’ve never made two of the same instrument—each is unique.

What do you love about this work? I love that I’m content with it. This is the only kind of work I would do every day for free. Having the variety of things that I have to build really helps keep it fresh. I’m always doing something different. —SHANNON ROONEY

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I was in high school the last time I worked for minimum wage. So when the rate went up by a dollar to $9 an hour in California last week, it barely hit my radar. My paycheck, like most of my peers’, will stay the same. It was immediately evident to me that restaurants and retailers who hire entry-level employees will be affected by the increase. But I hadn’t considered what would happen at nonprofit organizations, probably because I tend to think of them as existing outside the sphere of normal business operations. For better or worse, there’s no loophole for nonprofits, and the impacts are the same for them as traditional, for-profit businesses. For the Work Training Center (WTC), one of Chico’s largest and well-known nonprofits, the effect will be felt on a large scale. The WTC serves more than 700 Butte County residents, offering a wide range of services for adults with developmental disabilities. There are recreational programs, programs that build social skills, and programs that focus on vocational placement and skills. In addition to placing clients at individual businesses throughout the community, the WTC also employs clients to work in its landscaping, janitorial and recycling divisions. WTC has an exemption to minimum wage laws because its clients’ production rates vary depending on their abilities. That doesn’t mean, however, that it won’t feel the effects of a rise in minimum wage—WTC calculates its pay rates based on individual production levels and then pays a percentage of either minimum or prevailing wage (often higher than minimum wage and based on average pay for certain jobs). Anytime minimum wage increases, therefore, the rates paid to the 400 clients who participate in the vocational programs must be re-evaluated. WTC Executive Director Don Krysakowski said the organization could be looking at a 10 percent to 12 percent increase in wage costs. Krysakowski isn’t opposed to paying WTC’s clients more. What is disconcerting to him, though, is the fact that the funding the state provides to the WTC to operate these programs stays the same. In fact, Krysakowski said the Work Training Center is still operating under funding rates set by the state 10 years ago, back when minimum wage was $6.75—the same rate I was earning working part-time in high school. The latest hike in minimum wage isn’t an overwhelming burden, but it contributes to what Krysakowski called “a death by a thousand cuts.” The Work Training Center has thrived for the last 65 years and will find a way to do so now, just as the majority of businesses will. But like Krysakowski said, we cannot dismiss all the small cuts that California businesses and nonprofit organizations have endured, because that thousandth cut could be just around the corner. An increase in state funding isn’t likely for the WTC, but as a community, we can help offset the burden a bit. If you own a business that needs landscaping or janitorial services, check out the contract services WTC provides at www.wtcinc.org. Krysakowski said the WTC also is boosting its manufacturing services and is always looking for new businesses to contract with WTC.

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// / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / / ON THE COVER: Top: crude oil train crossing the Clear Creek trestle in Feather River Canyon

Are the North State’s and other railway communities prepared for the hazards posed by millions of barrels of explosive oil heading into California?

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Bottom: the Feather River PHOTO BY PAULA SCHULTZ

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orth America’s gradual shift toward oil independence could come with a hefty price tag as more and more crude oil from production sites in Canada and North Dakota enters California by rail. Much of the combustible cargo is arriving via the Feather River Canyon tracks, with some through the Interstate 5-Sacramento River corridor, and the concern about accidents, spills and disasters is spurring warnings from environmentalists and leaders and is already moving officials expecting the worst into precautionary action.

Rail lines run along— as well as over— the picturesque Feather River. PHOTO BY PAULA SCHULTZ

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State funds have been set aside for inland oil spill cleanup efforts, but such a gesture may be too little, too late, some opponents have argued. While barring all oil deliveries by rail is an unlikely prospect given the demand for the product, what environmental groups and some politicians want to see immediately are tightened safety regulations, as well as public disclosure of information about the shipments—which rail lines and oil companies have been reluctant to release. But the wheels of change are moving too slowly, critics argue, even after several trains derailed and exploded in the past year—including the one that crashed and caught fire in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killing 47. Oil shipments by rail into California are increasing at an alarming rate. Trains delivered no oil at all into the state in 2008, about 50,000 barrels in 2009, and 6 million barrels in 2013, according to a recent report from the state titled “Oil by Rail Safety in California.” In 2016, 150 million barrels—almost a quarter of the oil California consumes annually—will arrive by train, according to the report’s forecast. The report also states that “industry is currently investing heavily in rail infrastructure and rail tank cars,” apparently as oil producers plan on moving more and more oil over land by train rather than pipeline. To Diane Bailey, a senior scientist with the Natural Resources Defense Council, this investment is a move in the wrong direction. “In an age when we’re trying to revert away from dirty fossil fuel

Last July, a 74-car train carrying Bakken crude oil derailed in the town of Lac-Mégantic, Quebec, killing 47 people and destroying half the downtown area. PHOTO BY THINKSTOCK

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use, we don’t think it makes sense to develop “We’d go a while with none, and then we’d the infrastructure to move this oil,” she said. Her have a few all at once, about one each month,” group has estimated that at least 4 million people in Northern California alone live close enough to train tracks that a serious explosion State Sen. Lois Wolk (D-Davis) is pushing for more transparency regarding oil shipments via rail through could injure or kill them. California. Perhaps nowhere else in California does the PHOTO COURTESY OF CALIFORNIA STATE SENATE potential for a deadly oil-related accident seem more real than in the North State. After all, few locals in the town of Dunsmuir, and in the com- he said. Improvements in the years since have munities along the rest of the Upper Sacramento reduced the risk of such accidents. However, River gorge, have forgotten the chemical spill in Sabalow says the “shit-happens factor” never 1991, when a train derailed and dumped 19,000 goes away. Trains can easily derail on winding gallons of herbicide into the river, all but lengths of track, he says, especially if they are destroying more than 40 miles of river. Virtually loaded too heavily in the rear. everything downstream of the accident died. In the Upper Sacramento River canyon, two The famed trout fishery was gone, and fishing trains have derailed in the past 13 months. In was not allowed again until four years later, one of those events, cargo tanks fell into the when the river was finally recovering. river. Fortunately, they were empty at the time. Mike Sabalow, a retired track foreman in “These two incidents remind us that perfecMount Shasta who worked for the rail industry tion is hard to achieve,” said Phil Detrich, execfrom 1984 to 1993, says that 20 years ago trains utive director of the Dunsmuir-based nonprofit derailed with regularity along the tracks of the River Exchange, a group founded following the Upper Sacramento River corridor. 1991 chemical spill with the intention of preventing other events like it. Detrich warns that a crude-oil spill is likely to occur if the oil and rail industries don’t become more proactive in ensuring safety.

The Valero refinery in Benicia—a suburb of San Francisco— is expected to ramp up production in the coming years. Inset: The Suisun Marsh is located near the Valero refinery, which is also in close proximity to the Suisun Bay. PHOTOS COURTESY OF WATER EDUCATION FOUNDATION

Newer models of rail cars with stronger shells that can withstand a crash better than conventional ones are available, but oil shippers are not required to use them. “We’re hoping to see improved safety standards for the tank cars [carrying the oil] and increased militancy in following safety protocols in their industry,” he said. Detrich doesn’t think it feasible that demand will decrease for the oil being shipped into the state. What can be done, he says, is reduce the risk of spills and explosions by improving track conditions, requiring stronger tank cars for carrying oil and enforcing strict speed limits around vulnerable areas, like on high mountain passes and near towns. Union Pacific, which operates crude oil trains that pass through the Upper Sacramento corridor, has reduced train derailments by 23 percent in the past 10 years, according to company spokesman Aaron Hunt. This reduction has followed improved track maintenance and industry safety standards. But that doesn’t change the fact that trains carrying combustible fuel are derailing all around the country, some resulting in massive fiery explosions. Prior to 2010, there were “several” incidents each year involving spilled or mishandled oil during train

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relatively slowly, much of the incoming shipments are of a type called Bakken, which is exceptionally pure in its crude state and easier for refineries to treat. It is also more vaporous, however, which makes it extremely flammable and potentially dangerous. Bakken oil has been involved in several large explosions in the past two years, including the disaster in Quebec. It comes mostly from North Dakota, where the infamous technology of fracking, which blasts huge amounts of water blended with sand and chemicals into the ground to loosen oil deposits, is now producing about a million barrels per day. Tar sands deposits in Alberta are also generating large quantities of oil destined for the United States. Predictably, rail companies are downplaying the chances of serious accidents along their tracks. In a recent risk assessment conducted for the city of Benicia, where plans are advancing to ramp up deliveries by train to the town’s Valero refinery, it was calculated that just one oil train might derail every 111 years on a 69-mile length of tracks between Roseville and Benicia. That calculation factors in two 50car trains arriving every day and includes spills as small as 100 gallons. The report also calculated that a spill into Suisun Marsh, a wetland near the refinery, would virtually never occur, the odds being placed at once in 262 years. Christopher Barkan, a professor with the University of Illinois and executive director of the school’s railroad engineering program, was commissioned to make this assessment. Barkan, who declined to comment on the report, also works for the Association of American Railroads. He has told other news outlets that his affiliation with the industry did not influence his calculations. After a huge though nondeadly explosion occurred along a Virginia rail line in April, the U.S. Department of Transportation ordered railways to disclose information about any Bakken oil shipments of more than a million gallons to state emergency officials. The information was intended to be shared only with 22

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OREGON emergency responwith rail accidents involving ders and officials spilled, burning oil. Wolk told The BNSF Railway line runs straight with “a need to CN&R she believes more through the Feather River Canyon, know,” though not information must reach emerwhich was highlighted in the recent the general public. gency responders in commu“Oil by Rail Safety in California” report as a “high hazard area” Controversy ensued. nities through which oil trains (shown in red) due to a lack of Rail companies are passing. emergency resources. argued that disclos“The people who come ing the information into contact with an accident to the public would need to have the equipment endanger trains and they need to address it, the communities along right training and strong lines their routes. of communication,” Wolk Then, in late said. She says the public, too, June, the federal has a right to know more government mandatabout the oil trains moving ed that the informaalong California’s rail lines. tion be made fully While the reluctance to public. However, share information with the details about oil public seems to be hinged on shipments by rail the notion that terrorists or remain difficult to vandals might put it to ill use, Feather River Canyon track down. For activists and critics of the oil example, BNSF lines have been quick to note Railway has reportthat disasters are already Quincy ed that one train per occurring independent of Chico week loaded with criminal action. more than a million “The train in Quebec was Oroville gallons of Bakken abandoned by the crew, and it fuel will be passing rolled off down the hill,” said through Northern Daniel Barth, an independent California via the environmental activist in Feather River Chico. “It’s not like they were Canyon, though the guarding it from vandals.” exact schedule for Suma Peesapati, a staff such deliveries has attorney with the San not been released. Francisco-based group Lena Kent, Earthjustice, points out that spokeswoman with oil train terrorism is at this Sacramento BNSF, told the point an imagined hypothesis Chico News & while the results of accidental Review that route information could ensure safety, argues state Sen. Lois incidents are already proving tragic. not be provided for security reasons. Wolk (D-Davis), who, with Sen. “This is happening without any She also declined to provide infor- Jerry Hill (D-San Mateo), has kind of nefarious activities from authored legislation that would mation on what type of oil, and would-be bad people,” she said. how much of it, BNSF is shipping. require rail operators transporting hazardous materials to provide the This is precisely the kind of funding needed to prepare emerinformation that must be shared to gency crews statewide for dealing N E VA DA

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“These trains are exploding because of accidents and dilapidated railways.” The nation’s railways are by and large worn out, Peesapati says, and failure of old decaying bridges is a serious risk. Major rail lines run alongside the Sacramento and the Feather rivers—each a major supplier of the state’s drinking water. “A spill here could cripple the state’s economy,” Peesapati said. Following the Quebec disaster,

much discussion has taken place about the quality and strength of the tank cars being used to carry crude oil. The Quebec train was pulling DOT-111 “legacy” tank cars, initially designed to haul nonhazardous liquid goods and widely considered to be too thin-hulled and unarmored for carrying potentially explosive materials. The DOT-111 cars, still widely used to carry oil, have been called “soda cans on wheels” by critics and are being phased out of use. A more advanced car, the CPC-1232, is considered an improvement over the DOT-111s. The CPC-1232 car, however, was involved in the fiery explosion in Lynchburg, Va., in April. Even a more advanced model is far from accident-proof. A study from the Department of Transportation found that a newly proposed tank car with a fortified 9/16thinch-thick shell would breach 4 percent of the time in derailing incidents, compared to as much as 13 percent of the time for the CPC-1232 cars and more than a quarter of the time for the DOT111s. Spokespeople for both Union Pacific and BNSF deflected responsibility, saying in emails that their companies do not own the rail cars used to transport oil and other hazardous materials and that they are simply using the equipment provided by shippers. Hunt at Union Pacific says the rail industry has lobbied for increased standards on rail cars. But Bailey at the Natural Resources Defense Council says rail companies have been far from proactive in working

BNSF Railway has reported that one train per week carrying more than 1 million gallons of Bakken crude oil travels through the Feather River Canyon, but spokeswoman Lena Kent (inset) declined to offer more details, citing safety concerns. PHOTO BY RALPH COULTER/THINKSTOCK INSET PHOTO COURTESY OF ASSOCIATION OF AMERICAN RAILROADS

///////////// Chico activist Daniel Barth says Californians should look at getting off oil altogether. PHOTO BY PAULA SCHULTZ

nies have been far from proactive in working toward greater safety in their industry. Rail companies, she says, have refused to reroute their oil trains around and away from communities. “And that’s after the explosion at Lac-Mégantic,” she said. “If they insist on using rail transportation, we insist they not cut corners on safety standards.” Rail companies also have objected to an idea now circulating of imposing a speed limit on oil trains of 30 miles per hour, claiming it will cost them hundreds of millions of dollars. As a preliminary defense

move against a rail-side oil spill, Gov. Jerry Brown recently signed a new budget that grants state emergency crews access to a $55 million piggy bank that was previously reserved strictly for marine oil spills. Inland oil spills have historically required officials to work with limited resources and staffing, according to Alexia Retallack, spokeswoman with the Department of Fish and Wildlife, the state branch responsible for leading oil spill cleanups. “But the new source of funding will allow us to respond rapidly with a fast, vibrant cleanup effort,” Retallack said. “We’ve recognized that Bakken oil is starting to move through California and increase in the California market,” she added. “The tar sands

About the author:

Alastair Bland is a longtime CN&R contributor. He lives in San Francisco and writes about the environment, agriculture, science and food.

Alexia Retallack, of the state Department of Fish and Wildlife, says marine oil spills are often easier to clean up than inland spills, which can include rougher terrain. PHOTO COURTESY OF CA DEPT. OF FISH & WILDLIFE

oil [development in Alberta] is increasing, too. This shift in the oil market has created concern.” Retallack says marine oil spills are generally easier to manage than inland ones, where steep terrain can impede crew access and moving river waters can disperse spilled oil across large areas. She said she could not speculate on damage caused by hypothetical spills, but anyone can imagine the challenges and ecological impacts if an oil train were to derail on the precarious Clear Creek Trestle over the Feather River or in the narrow gorge of the Upper Sacramento River. While the governor’s provision of cleanup funding is a gesture in the right direction, Peesapati feels that planning so far ahead is, in a sense, counter-effective. “We need to talk about prevention, not cleanup,” she said. With projections forecasting oilby-rail imports to skyrocket by

about 25 fold within two years, Peesapati expects accident frequency will rise, too. “We’re still at the beginning of the trajectory,” she said. “Already, we’re seeing oil spills and accidents every month or two. The facts speak for themselves, and so do the images. Look at Lac-Mégantic in Quebec. The entire town center was incinerated.” The sheer volume of oil moving into the state by train is massive. The Cosco Busan tanker that collided with the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in 2007 spilled 54,000 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay, soiling the shoreline and soaking thousands of birds—but that spill, Retallack says, amounted to just 1 1/2 rail cars’ worth of crude oil. By comparison, trains entering California are hauling vastly more. “We’re talking about 35 to 100 cars [per train],” she said. In California, trains deliver crude oil to almost two dozen refineries in the Bay Area, the Central Valley and Los Angeles, passing through heavily populated areas and over treacherous mountain passes as they go. These refineries handle 1.6 million barrels of crude oil daily, turning about half of it— more than 30 million gallons each day—into gasoline. A growing amount of this oil is produced by fracking, and Barth— the activist in Chico—feels Californians have set a double standard as they wage war against instate fracking while simultaneously guzzling more than 50 million gallons of fracked Bakken oil every year. Butte County’s Board of Supervisors, like other communities in the state, is slated to consider prohibiting the practice. “It’s NIMBYism,” Barth said. “We don’t want fracking in California, but we’ll use fracked oil from North Dakota.” Barth says he is not in favor of fracking but would like to see a greater collective awareness of Americans’ use of fossil fuels. California, after all, consumes about 650 million barrels of oil every year—about 800 gallons per person. “The demand for oil is dispersed throughout society,” he said. “People need to wake up to the true costs of our lifestyles and think about the severe impact they’re having when they drive, use an air conditioner or buy a flatscreen TV.” Ω

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Arts & Culture The Barn founder Craig Blamer stands at the door of what he hopes to be a new outlet for collective creativity in Chico.

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Iof any length with Craig Blamer without him dropping multiple esoteric refer-

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ences to movies, songs, plays, books and jokes—allegorical sources he sometimes compares with situations by in his life. It’s an underKen Smith standable habit given that—as a Blue Room kens@ newsreview.com Theatre actor, director, playwright and longtime CN&R film critic—the arts are the pilThe Barn www.facebook.com/ lars of his life and livelithebarncollective hood. On June 1, Blamer started renting a derelict-looking former auto upholstery shop on 11th Street with the intention of turning it into a subscription-based community arts center, a resource for artists of all stripes to work, network and exhibit the fruits of their labor. Due to the building’s appearance, which he described as “a steampunk variation of a wild west set,” he christened it The Barn. Through word of mouth and social networking, news of the project spread fast, with lots of Chico’s artsy types volunteering time, tools and money toward Blamer’s relatively modest goal of $2,500 to get the space in working order. But since Blamer broke ground on the project, he’s taken to comparing the effort with the 1939 Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland film Babes in Arms, about a group of theater kids who put on their own show in a barn. Though he said the movie hasn’t aged well (it ends with the main actors donning black face and putting on a 24

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minstrel show), he feels the theme, in which the players face bad weather and other obstacles to their production, is appropriate to his own effort. “All we wanna do is put on a show, and instead of tornadoes we’ve got the city of Chico and the local Gladys Kravitz to contend with,” he said, referring to the fact that city officials—spurred by a neighbor’s complaint—interrupted efforts to redo the building’s facade and install outdoor lighting, saying Blamer and company needed an $85 building permit to do the work. Furthermore, for the space to be a live venue and otherwise function as Blamer envisions, he may need to pay the city $3,000 to apply for a use permit. Mark Wolfe, director of the city’s Planning Services Department, confirmed he has spoken with Blamer, and said he informed him he needs to submit a letter detailing exactly how the space will be used for the city to determine if he needs a use permit. He noted the building is zoned for residential/mixed-use, which allows several commercial activities, but the permit may be needed because of “assembly uses” (i.e., group rehearsals, public performances) planned for The Barn. The $3,000 application fee is nonrefundable and approval is not guaranteed, and Blamer fears The Barn won’t get the green light because of ongoing issues in the neighborhood. “I’ve basically stepped into the middle of a land war,” Blamer said, explaining that some neighbors, including retired Chico State professor and historian Michele Shover, have long been at odds with landowner Hal LLC and the city over

blight and transient issues (see “Blight in our eyes,” by Howard Hardee, May 8) associated with the old upholstery shop and nearby buildings. Neighbors have asked the city to tear down the buildings, but Blamer feels his efforts to rehabilitate this one would be more valuable to the community. “We’re an unwelcome part of the narrative being written, and they just want to see the building gone,” Blamer said. “But I love this building. I’ve walked past it practically every day for the last 25 years. It’s like a ’58 Edsel—it’s just so goddamned ugly it’s beautiful.” Blamer said he’s prepared to stick to his guns, even proceeding without a permit if need be (“What can they do, come and arrest a bunch of actors for rehearsing?” he said), and explained he feels that if subscribers pay the rent they should be able to do whatever they want in the space. He argues that, with limited funds changing hands, it is more of a collective or a clubhouse than a commercial venture, and therefore it shouldn’t require permission from the city or neighbors. The Barn’s main focus would be as a workshop, he said, with public events infrequent, limited to a few dozen people, utilizing no amplified sound and ending before 9 p.m. “People suggest other places, but we’re gonna get the same NIMBY crap and the same problems with the city anywhere,” he said. Blamer said that The Barn could be ready to host a small theater production this fall, open to subscribers even sooner, and that he already has more than 200 people interested in joining as members. Ω

Special Events THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: The market is back with fresh produce, local food, arts and crafts, plus live entertainment. This Week: Hype Dance Studio and Fusion Dance Company take the stage. Th, 6-9pm. Opens 7/10. Free. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

Music CAL WORLDFEST: The 18th annual California Worldfest features eight stages of music and dance from around the world, camping with family and friends, workshops, international food, and crafts. See site for full lineup and ticket prices. Th-Su, 7/10-7/13. Fairgounds-Grass Valley, 11228 McCourtney Rd. in Grass Valley. www.worldfest.net

Poetry/Literature SUMMER READING SERIES: Featuring Anna Moore, Muir Hughes, MaryRose Lovgren, Joanne Allred, George Keithley, Linda Serrato, Joan Goodreau. Th, 7/10, 7:30pm. $3 donation. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

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event to benefit The International Hip Dysplasia Institute. Sa, 7/12, 5pm. $40. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St. in Oroville, (530) 534-1785, www.purplelinewinery.com.

SLICE OF CHICO: The annual summer sidewalk

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Special Events ART ABOUT: A monthly art walk coordinated by the Chico Visual Arts Alliance (ChiVAA). Each second Friday a different area of Chico is featured. F, 7/11, 5-8pm. Free. Call or visit website for details, Chico, www.chivaa.org/artabout.

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Downtown Chico’s summer music series continues with New Orleans R&B from Swamp Daddy. F, 7/11, 78:30pm. Chico City Plaza, Downtown Chico.

Music CAL WORLDFEST: See Thursday. Th-Su, 7/10-7/13. Fairgounds-Grass Valley, 11228 McCourtney Rd. in Grass Valley.

sale with watermelon slices and sales throughout downtown Chico. Sa, 7/12, 9am. Downtown Chico.

Music CAL WORLDFEST: See Thursday. Th-Su, 7/10-7/13. Fairgounds-Grass Valley, 11228 McCourtney Rd. in Grass Valley.

RIVER REFLECTIONS BLUES FESTIVAL: Music from Big Mo & The Full Moon Band, Volker Striker, Bullet Train Hobos, plus a beer garden and games. Proceeds benefit local VFW post 1747. Sa, 7/12, 4-10pm. $15. River Reflections, 4360 Pacific Heights Rd. in Oroville, (530) 533-1995, www.rvparkresorts.com.

SUMMERFEST CHICO: A celebration of food, music and life in Chico with live entertainment from Three Fingers Whiskey, Swamp Zen, and GravyBrain to name a few, plus an archery exhibit, and vendor booths. Sa, 7/12, 12-9pm. $5 for kids $20 for adults. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave., (530) 343-5617.

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CRUZ’N CLASSIC CAR SHOW: A classic car and motorcycle show put on by the Chico Drifters Car Club and NVCF. There will be awards, raffles, a poker walk, crafts, vendors and music. Breakfast and BBQ lunch by the Durham Exchange Club. Proceeds benefit TJ Memorial, Handi-Riders and other local charities. Sa, 7/12, 7am-3pm. Durham Community Park, (530) 680-3587, www.drifterscars.org.

SIPS FOR HIPS: A wine tasting and food pairing

Saturday-Sunday, July 12-13 Gold Nugget Museum

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Poetry/Literature MINDS WITHOUT BORDERS: The group will be discussing I Shall Be Near To You by Erin Lindsey McCabe. M, 7/14, 7pm. Free. Lyon Books, 135 Main St., (530) 891-3338, www.lyonbooks.com.

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Special Events STREET PARTY FOR CHICO PERFORMANCES: Celebrate the first day of ticket sales for the new season of Chico Performances. Live music, food trucks, complimentary beverages, and an opportunity to get the best seats at a discount for the upcoming season. W, 7/16, 6am. University Box Office, corner of Third & Chestnut, (530) 898-6333, www.chicoperfor mances.com.

for more Music, see NIGHTLIFE on page 30

Art 1078 GALLERY: Death and the Maiden, cocurated by Ben Lucas of Eye of Jade Tattoo and featuring the work of tattoo artists creating beyond the flesh. Through 7/19. 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078gallery.org.

AVENUE 9 GALLERY: Carlos Loarca In Chico, the winner of Avenue 9 Gallery’s “Be Our Guest” competition Carlos Loarca showcases his large scale, colorful paintings often drawing inspiration from Mayan and Guatemalan Folklore. Through 7/19. 180 E. Ninth Ave., (530) 879-1821, www.avenue9 gallery.com.

CHICO ART CENTER: Sal Casa Retrospective, a showing of Art by Sal Casa, a retired member of the Chico State University Art Department and a Signature Member of the American Watercolor Society. Through 7/11. 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

CHICO PAPER CO.: California Rivers, Jake

Early’s latest series. Through 8/30. 345 Broadway, (530) 891-0900, www.chicopa percompany.com.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS & APPRAISALS: In

Memory, works from the artist and estate of David Gilhooly. Ongoing. Opens 7/10. 254 E. Fourth St., (530) 343-2930, www.james snidlefinearts.com.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: New Works, American and western scenes in oil from K.W. Moore Sr. Ongoing. 493 East Ave., (530) 345-3063.

TIN ROOF BAKERY & CAFÉ: New Works, local artist Jain Zimmerman showcases new photographic works. Through 7/31. 627 Broadway St. 170, (530) 345-1362.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Broken

Color, oil paintings, prints and illustrations from artist Jon Shult. Through 7/20. 130 Main St., (530) 895-3866.

WINCHESTER GOOSE: Meow Meow, a summer showcase featuring watercolors from local artist Sea Monster. Ongoing. 800 Broadway St., (530) 715-0099, www.thewinchester goose.com.

for details. Ongoing. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoartcenter.com.

DIRTY LAUNDRY: An open-entry call for artists featuring discarded clothing re-purposed into innovative art. Deadline August 10. Through 8/10. $10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, (530) 343-1973, www.1078 gallery.org.

FLORALS AND FLOWERS: Artwork can be of any subject, but must contain at least one flower in the image. See website for more details. Through 7/22. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St., (530) 895-8726, www.chicoart center.com.

POSTER CONTEST: Submit drawings and designs for the upcoming season of show posters at Theatre on The Ridge. See website for more details. Ongoing. Theatre on the Ridge Playhouse, 3735 Neal Rd. in Paradise, (530) 877-5760, www.totr.org.

Museums 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.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Explore Evolution, investigate evolutionary principles in organisms ranging from smallest to the largest, with interactive exhibits giving the viewer an opportunity to experience how scientists conduct research on evolution. Ongoing. Changing California, journey through geological and ecological transformations in Northern California. Ongoing. $3-$6. 625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/ gateway.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Paradise Depot

Museum Open House, a railroad and logging museum in Paradise. Ongoing, 7-9pm. 5570 Black Olive Dr. in Paradise, (530) 877-1919.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Into The Blue: Maritime Navigation and the Archeology of Shipwrecks, featuring artifacts recovered from the Frolic shipwreck and the story behind the ship’s history. TuSa through 7/24. Meriam Library Complex Chico State.

Call for Artists ALL-MEDIA ART SHOW: The Chico Art Center hosts its annual national all-media juried art competition. See website

GIMME SHELTER: The Torres Shelter hosts a fundraiser with raffles, food, beers and wine, plus live classic rock from Bad Daddy. Sa, 7/12, 8-11pm. $10-$15. Arc Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave., (530) 891-5865.

PARADISE POW WOW: A weekend of food, crafts, and raffles, plus live drum circles, and dancing. 7/12, 10am-7pm; 7/13, 10am-5pm. Free. Gold Nugget Museum, 502 Pearson Rd. in Paradise, (530) 872-8722, www.goldnuggetmuseum.com.

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Golden ticket party Chico State has pulled out all the stops in booking the 2014-15 Chico Performances season, featuring plenty of great music (Rosanne Cash, The Lone Bellow, Mavis Staples), comedy (Paula Poundstone, Whose Live Anyway), obligatory fogey-ness (Garrison Keillor) and some awesome weirdness (bicycle-borne acrobatics Cirque Mechanics and a live-action graphic novel The Intergalactic Nemesis). They’re celebrating the first EDITOR’S PICK day of ticket sales, Wednesday, July 16, by slathering some gravy on the early birds’ worms, with a street party featuring live music, food trucks and more at the University Box Office on the corner of Third and Chestnut streets.

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Times have changed. Avocados are now a more than $400 million crop in California and a fruit so coveted that San by Diego County keeps a district Alastair attorney on the payroll who speBland cializes in prosecuting avocado thieves. The industry is also dramatically homogenized. Though hundreds of varieties of this New World jungle native exist, the ubiquitous Hass rules the groves and the retail market. Some of us have heard of Bacon, Lula, Pinkerton, Reed, Fuerte and Zutano avocados, but these varieties may be on their way toward commercial extinction, according to farmer Randy Shoup. Shoup owns the West Pak Avocado farm in Temecula and has long supplied several Northern California outlets with his fruit. Though his website product list still describes several oddball avocados, Shoup says he’s eliminated nearly all nonHass trees from his property. He assures that it’s no great loss. “Without doubt, Hass is the best avocado,” said Shoup, who added that he doesn’t look twice at any non-Hass variety if he can get his hands on a Hass, which Shoup—who tends to 300 acres of trees— usually can.

The first Hass avocado sprouted randomly

and namelessly from a seed in a yard in Whittier in 1926. A man named Rudolph Hass eventually purchased the seedling tree from its owner and planted it in his own yard. Its fruits became popular among neighbors and friends. Grafts were made, and in following years and decades, the Hass avocado would be cloned millions of times and become the leading commercial variety around the world. Among farmers and packers, the fruit is favored for its tough skins, which

allow for long-distance shipping. Hass avocado trees also bear consistent crops year to year, whereas some competing varieties tend to produce a large crop only every other year, and for most farmers in the business of making money, Hass is the avocado of choice. But some avocado enthusiasts assure that, in the wide world of avocados, the Hass is among the inferior kinds. On the Kona Coast of Hawaii’s Big Island, farmer Ken Love, who has collaborated with UC Davis and the U.S. Department of Agriculture in experimental cultivation of many fruits, has closely studied and evaluated at least 15 varieties of avocado. Some are endemic to Hawaii, several are fantastic, and California avocado growers, as Love says, “need to get out more.” Love jokes that he doesn’t let his horses eat Hass. He much prefers varieties like the soccer ball-sized Ohata avocado, the faintly sweet Serpa, and the Yamagata—which first appeared as a feral seedling not far from Love’s farm. Love once ran a blind taste test of locally grown and imported avocados on a group of Hawaiian chefs. Winning varieties included the rich and buttery Kahalu’u and the islands’ favorite, Sharwil. Californian Hass flunked. While Hass avocados from Chile and Mexico regularly arrive in California—and even in Hawaii— Hawaii-grown avocados are forbidden entry into the U.S. mainland. Love suspects why. “If people tasted Hawaiian avocados, they wouldn’t want California’s anymore,” he said. But even in Chico, a variety of flavorful avocados are available. Chico Natural Foods frequently carries a selection from small organic farms in Southern and Central California. Co-op produce designer Stacy Canney said the two most common non-Hass varieties they get are the smoky-tasting Bacon avocado and, her personal favorite, the Fuerte, which she described as “thin-skinned and really buttery.” And if none of those whet your appetite, almost every store in the world carries Hass. Ω July 10, 2014

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Apartments Seniors Can Afford! MUSIC The Duhks, from Winnipeg, Canada, played a mix of soul, folk and oldtimey string music, and a couple of festival-goers tried out acroyoga at the 2014 High Sierra Music Fest.

Mountain high High Sierra Music Fest lives up to reputation for exciting music and chill mood

Ihilly camps of High Sierra Music Festival. A guy walking in the road in dreadlocks and a tie-dye shirt was driving 8 miles per hour through the

didn’t immediately get out of my way. “Whoa,” he said. “Slow your roll—there are children here.” story and photos by He was not joking. Neither was Janelle Bitker the aging hippie who asked if I could feel the oxytocin pulsing janelleb@ newsreview.com through the air. It took a while to settle into the High Sierra mood. Unlike Outside Lands or other music festivals I had Review: been to before, no one was in a rush High Sierra at this annual four-day affair held Music Festival, each Fourth of July weekend in July 3-6, Quincy Quincy. No one was competitive, shoving to get to the front of the stage. Everyone was way chill, and having too good a time just being present and whatnot. The fairgrounds were gorgeous and green. Campers set up turntables in their tents for late-night grooving. An air-conditioned room screening the World Cup brought hordes of people with drums and flags for each match. Plus fire dancing every night and yoga every morning. I attempted acroyoga for the first time and balanced a 60-year-old man with a long, gray ponytail on my feet. And I relished in nearly nonstop, excellent music. Headliners STS9 and Beats Antique brought out the rave kids, wearing LED-lit clothing and inflatable animals on their backs. (Side note: Is that a thing now?) Smoke made the air so thick during STS9’s set that I actually felt like I was indoors. Beats Antique concluded with belly dancers surrounding a giant, inflated cyclops kitty. After explaining how much he loved High Sierra as a green 20-year-old and how glo28

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rious it was to return, multi-instrumentalist David Satori ditched the heartfelt tone and yelled “All hail the cyclops kitty!” over and over again. I also danced hard to Nevada City-based The Polish Ambassador, clad in a neon jumpsuit and mixing funky electro beats under an overflowing tent. There was plenty of excellent indie rock and folk to go around—Thao & The Get Down Stay Down and Lord Huron delivered particularly spectacular sets. Though, I was most moved by the Carolina Chocolate Drops. The North Carolina, old-timey string band sang of cornbread and slavery, but a traditional Scottish Gaelic tune was the true stunner. The Travelin’ McCourys provided the ideal Fourth of July bluegrass set to a sunburnt, beer-guzzling, raucous crowd, which got even more raucous when the Del McCoury graced the stage for one song. The weekend was packed with similarly legendary artists: Bill Frisell, Ernest Ranglin, Fareed Haque, Bombino. At a more intimate, casual gathering, Haque and Bombino met for the first time and engaged in an improvisational, bluesy jam session. The looks on their faces—especially Bombino of Niger—were of pure honor and gratitude. Really, the whole festival was a thankful place. I don’t think I’ve ever heard so many fans shout, “Thank you for being here!” after sets or in between songs. Plus all the thanks between festival-goers for being lovely and beautiful and stuff. I would like to thank Moon Hooch in particular, for the most surprising, badass dance party all weekend. With a drumset and two saxophones—sometimes swapped out for a very cool-looking contrabass clarinet—the three New Yorkers played an incredibly fun, groovy, raw version of house music that recordings inevitably can’t deliver. Regardless, thanks, Moon Hooch. And thanks, High Sierra. Ω

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COLD BLUE MOUNTAIN & NEGATIVE STANDARDS: Healthy metal from CBM, plus local noise from Dump Star and Mom & Dad, and crust/doom from Oakland’s Negative Standards. F, 7/11, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078gallery.org.

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guys. F, 7/11, 8:30pm. Free. Plumas Pines Resort, 3000 Almanor Drive West on the shore of Lake Almanor in Lake Almanor; (530) 259-4343.

FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with experimental local troupe Bogg. This week: A tribute to video games. F, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.; (530) 5669476; www.cafecoda.com.

10THURSDAY CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday jazz.

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

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HAPPY HOUR: Music with O.B.E Th, 7/10. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON: Join the duo as they play and eclectic mix of The Beatles, blues and standards. Th, 7/10, 6-9pm. Grana, 198 E. Second St.; (530) 809-2304.

ON THE GROUND: Seattle crew is joined by thrash-punkers Super Nothing from Kent, Wash., plus local punks Fight Music. Th, 7/10, 8pm. $5. Monstros Pizza & Subs, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.; (530) 345-7672.

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11FRIDAY BASSMINT: A (mostly) weekly electronic dance party with a rotating cast of local and regional DJs. Check with venue for details. F, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.; (530) 895-3888.

CHAD BUSHNELL: Local singer/songwriter and his band play traditional and new Northern California country. F, 7/11, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville;

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.

SWAMP ZEN: Local high energy jam band. F, 7/11, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

WHITE CHOCOLATE FUNK SHOW: Heavy duty groove monsters Ike McQuade, Mason Dixon, Shogun Jackson, and Ivory Johnson. F, 7/11, 10pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

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REUNION: A tribute to ’70s radio hits from Elton John, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, etc. Sa, 7/12, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino Brewing Co., 3 Alverda Dr. in Oroville; (530) 533-3885; www.featherfallscasino.com/ brewing-co.

RIVER REFLECTIONS BLUES FESTIVAL: Music from Bog Mo & The Full Moon Band, Volker Striker, Bullet Train Hobos, plus a beer garden and games. Proceeds benefit local VFW post 1747. Sa, 7/12, 4-10pm. $15. River Reflections, 4360 Pacific Heights Rd. in Oroville; (530) 533-1995; www.rvpark resorts.com.

WORLD’S FINEST: Funky, acoustic, dub, ska, honkytonk, reggae, jam, bluegrass, and rowdiness, from Portland, Oregon. F, 7/11, 9pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

HAPPY HOUR: Madhouse BBQ and live music. Sa, 7/12. LaSalles, 229 Broadway; (530) 893-1891; www.lasallesbar.com.

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CANDY APPLE: Sa, 7/12, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.; (530) 343-4915.

female-fronted prog crew hailing from Hayward, and Pennsylvania mathrockers Save Us From The Archon are joined by locals Io Taurus and UFO vs. Alien, Sa, 7/12, 8pm. $5. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway; (530) 343-1973; www.1078 gallery.org.

MOJO GREEN: Heavy horn funk and soul from northern Nevada, plus funky grooves from Davis’s Big Sticky Mess. Sa, 7/12. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.; (530) 891-1853.

SUMMERFEST CHICO: A celebration of food, music and life in Chico with live entertainment from Three Fingers Whiskey, Swamp Zen, and GravyBrain to name a few, plus an archery exhibit,

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The Portland-based sister duo The Doubleclicks describes its music as “snarky, geeky, and sweet,” and while that’s accurate in the best possible ways, it doesn’t fully encompass the depth of the sisters’ third studio album, Dimetrodon. A mixture of geek culture, comedy and a couple of snide and witty love songs worthy of Taylor Swift, Dimetrodon shows why Angela and Aubrey Webber draw crowds to comic stores and command intimate venues for their unconventionally staged concerts. Tracks such as “Love You Like a Burrito,” “Cats and Netflix” and the title track feature irresistible humorous hooks that would make Weird Al feel right at home. Then you hit songs such as “Wonder” and “Ennui (On We Go).” The former expertly, and subtly, extols Wonder Woman’s real strengths while the latter is a great use of word play to paint a picture of a melancholy—yet hopeful— life filled with apathy and depression. Even with this range of emotions and subject matter, there’s a cohesive delivery to the album, a genuine feeling to each track that suggests the duo enjoy playing their music as much as audiences enjoy their snarky, geeky, sweet and heartfelt sound. —Matthew Craggs

Best Bars in America Esquire Network Wednesdays, 10 p.m. After debuting a pilot last year, the Esquire Network has just launched the first full season of its latest alcohol-themed reality series, Best Bars in America, a show devoted to exploring the entries from Esquire magazine’s annual list of the best drinking establishments in the country. The show (which piggybacks the new craft-beer-centric Brew Dogs on the same night) is hosted by Jay Larson and Sean Patton, a couple of young, charming comedians who barhop via cab across one drinking city per episode. And just like the Esquire list curated each year by Dave Wondrich, the bars featured on the show are a great variety of swanky old-school joints, craft-cocktail hipster spots and neighborhood watering holes. On the recent episode in Austin, Texas, for example, the bars ranged from the dark and nondescript Cloak Room (where “there is no friggin’ blender,” and where Texas politicians slip away for deal-making session over mid-day martinis); to the craft-cocktail hotspot Bar Congress and its sister nightspot, Wonderland; to the hidden-in-plain-sight speakeasy Midnight Cowboy (the site of a former massage parlor/brothel). The common thread of good drinks, great atmosphere, and people who are game for anything (especially the hosts) is the ideal mix for a fun bar and a really fun show.

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Platinum Miranda Lambert RCA Nashville If Miranda Lambert’s latest album, Platinum, were a rollercoaster, it’d jostle and slam listeners around—beating them senseless with some great highs and lows—before leaving riders dazed and confused. Though the album does bounce around too much, taken individually, the 16 tracks deliver nuanced commentary along with infectious choruses. “Babies Makin’ Babies” and “Smokin’ and Drinkin’” (the latter featuring Little Big Town) show dual sides to reckless youth—the freedom to make mistakes and the empowerment to grow from them. Unabashed self-empowerment plays a part in many of the songs, including “Little Red Wagon”—the album’s contender for drunken karaoke—and “Platinum.” The title track is Lambert’s drawling answer to J.Lo’s “Jenny From the Block,” expertly embracing her contrasting small-town/platinum-selling persona. However, the egotistical comparisons to Elvis and Priscilla Presley in “Priscilla” bury the raw emotions found outside the chorus, making it all a bit too dramatic. On the other hand, “Somethin’ Bad”—a duet with Carrie Underwood—is an epic and dramatic team-up worthy of Nashville’s Rayna Jaymes and Juliette Barnes. On this sixth studio album, its clear Lambert still has a lot to say and even though, at times, the album is unfocused, it’s worth listening to every word.

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A much at the center of Chef, which he wrote and directed and for which he plays roly-poly Jon Favreau is very

the title role. There’s much else on his film’s menu, but Favreau is unmistakably the presiding spirit at the heart of this rollicking crowd-pleaser. Favreau plays Carl Casper, a Florida-based chef Chef and gourmand given to Starring John Favreau, John robust tastes and adventurous Leguizamo, cuisine. He’s also trying to be Emjay Anthony, more of a father to young Sofía Vergara Percy (Emjay Anthony), who and Robert lives mostly with Carl’s exDowney Jr. Directed by John wife, Inez (Sofía Vergara). Renewed attention to Favreau. Pageant Theatre. family responsibilities Rated R. becomes even more compli-

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Obvious Child

Comedian Gillian Robespierre wrote and directed this story of an aspiring 20-something comedian (played by Jenny Slate) who is faced with the reality of making real choices as an independent adult when she discovers she’s pregnant after a one-night stand. A remake of Robespierre’s 2009 short film of the same name. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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Channing Tatum and Jonah Hill return as Officers Jenko and Schmidt, respectively, and Ice Cube is back as Capt. Dickson, angry as ever about, well, everything. He explains to his star officers that this time their assignment is to infiltrate a college campus, where they are to locate a drug dealer whose product has been linked to a student’s death. As college freshmen, the two reprise their roles as jock and nerd, frat boy and intellectual (sort of). Jenko joins the football team and Schmidt tries his hand at slam poetry. In the process, they both make connections—one a “bromance,” the other an actual romance—that threaten to fracture their friendship. There is, thankfully, plenty of action as well, from foot-

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ball games to car chases to a particularly hilarious scene in which the pair try to stealthily break into a frat house to install surveillance equipment while high on the drugs whose source they’re trying to find. A notable addition to the cast is Jillian Bell (Workaholics), whose quiet introduction into scenes (“How long have you been sitting there?”) is second in hilarity only to her deadpan delivery. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —M.J.G.

America

Conservative commentator Dinesh D’Souza (who was recently convicted of making illegal campaign contributions) made waves in 2012 with his anti-Obama flick, 2016: Obama’s America. His latest, America, imagines what would’ve come of this country had we lost the Revolutionary War and the United States never existed. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Chef

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Deliver Us From Evil

A crime/horror flick about a New York cop who teams up with a priest with a history of performing exorcisms to solve a case of an escalating number of demonic possessions terrorizing the city. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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cated when Carl has a falling out with the restaurant owner (Dustin Hoffman) who bankrolls his culinary endeavors. With a little help from a friendly assortment of old pals and former associates, Carl rebounds from these setbacks by setting up business in a refurbished food truck and taking it on the road, heading west from Florida, with Percy and longtime sidekick Martin (John Leguizamo) on board as his crew. While food and family are the story’s driving forces, Chef gives piquant comic attention to other issues, at least in passing. There’s some semi-satirical comedy pertaining to social media, part of which gives Percy a more integral role in his father’s business ventures. A single sequence involving a public rela-

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Earth to Echo

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tions specialist (a calmly daft Amy Sedaris) is a satirical tour de force on the subject of tweaking public images. And a subplot involving an online food critic (a dour Oliver Platt) prods some brief reflections on the tangled relations of artists, critics and financiers. There’s an amiable sort of predictability to most of this, and it may be only the prevailing spirit of rambunctious camaraderie

embark on an adventure to help their new friend in this sci-fi adventure flick. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

that holds the story and its characters together. That spirit is especially evident in the road-trip bonding of Carl, Percy and Martin, and it also shows up in the crucial, and perhaps unlikely, ministrations of Inez, who is heroically patient with one ex-husband (Favreau’s Carl) and brilliantly opportunistic with another (Marvin, played by Robert Downey Jr.). Ω

Doug Liman (The Bourne Identity, Mr. & Mrs. Smith) directs this Americanized adaptation of the 2004 Japanese teen sci-fi novel, All You Need Is Kill, with Tom Cruise starring as a man caught in a time loop and replaying battles with an alien race with the help of a warrior (Emily Blunt) from the future. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

the four original members are important in the overall story as well. The diminutive Valli is the one big name in the group, and he is central to everything else here as well. But the other three also get crucial moments of close-up attention in what emerges as an unusually conflicted group portrait. Eastwood’s direction is proficient throughout, and part of the movie’s pleasure derives from its success in blending the story’s disparate genres—stylized movie musical, domestic drama with Mafia connections, period piece, rock ’n’ roll romp. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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In the second installment of what is planned to be a three-part franchise based on Cressida Crowell’s series of children’s books, the young Viking Hiccup and his dragon, Toothless, are faced with trying to keep the peace in a conflict between humans and dragons. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Special-effects master Robert Stromberg (Oscars for Avatar and Alice in Wonderland) makes his directorial debut in this reworking of the Sleeping Beauty story from the vantage point of the “evil” fairy Maleficent (played by Angelina Jolie). Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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Jersey Boys

It sounds like a rather improbable combination—a film based on a Broadway musical about a doo-wop group from the late 1950s/early 1960s, with Clint Eastwood directing. But this thoroughly entertaining production has plenty going for it, and those offbeat combinations add some unexpectedly intriguing dimensions to the familiar movie-musical format. The title characters are the members of the Four Seasons, the now-legendary Hall of Fame pop group from New Jersey. Naturally, that music is the driving force of Jersey Boys, yet as the title also suggests, the individual characters of

Obvious Child

It’s not Thelma & Louise, but this buddy flick/road movie does co-star Susan Sarandon as the foul-mouthed, hard-drinking grandma whom down-on-her-luck Tammy (Melissa McCarthy) turns to when she needs to drive away from her messed up life. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Transformers: Age of Extinction

For starters, this damn movie is nearly three hours long, and there is no reason for a single tick past the 90-minute mark. Had director Michael Bay just knocked it off with his slo-mo shots, he probably could’ve shaved a half hour. Had he gotten rid of all the inane lines the characters mutter in this donkey shit, he could’ve brought the whole thing in at 30 minutes. Replacing Shia LaBeouf as the franchise’s leading man is Mark Wahlberg. He plays Cade Yeager, a crazy robot inventor living on a farm with his smoking-hot daughter, Tessa (Nicola Peltz). Soon after buying a beat-up truck hiding out in an abandoned movie theater, Cade discovers it’s actually Autobot leader Optimus Prime. He nurses the robot thing back to health, much to the chagrin of Tessa, who trolls about pouting in impossibly tight denim shorts and high heels. The real Autobots eventually will face off against the fake Autobots, and we’ll see ads for Chevy cars, beer, China, denim-ass porn and Texas along the incredibly long way. The Transformers themselves look cool, especially when they transform. That’s about all of the nice stuff I can say. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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protest are made in explanation of coal rolling, those assholes are merely bullies), but I have never actually been in a real fight. I’ve been beaten up several times—all before the age of 18—but I’ve never even thrown a real punch at anyone. However, as a kid growing up in Redding, I was pretty good at mouthing off and instigating fights, and from grade school through high school I always had a bully or three at the ready, more than happy to oblige. One of the more memorable of my nemeses was a barrel-chested bear I ran into during the ninth grade. We had P.E. together, and one Friday morning before class he was entertaining the gathered with a game of keep-away. He’d snatched the hat off the head of a particularly self-conscious and rail-thin classmate we called Billy Idol and was daring him to retrieve it. (We called the guy Billy Idol because his bleached-blonde hair was gelled stiff and standing on end in badass Idol fashion, and he wore the hat because some members of our class relentlessly mocked his daring sense of style.) When the chance presented itself, I swatted the hat out of the bully’s hand and handed it back to Billy Idol. I was immediately “called out,” as was the custom of the day, and for some reason the call-out was scheduled for the following Monday morning before school on the track around the football field. Having a weekend to stew about my fate and get increasingly freaked out by my cousin Mike telling me how much of a notorious beast this guy apparently was, I desperately devised a plan for survival. My cousin and I decided I had to strike first and strike cheap. So, standing on the dirt track that cool, fateful morning—watching a giddy crowd streaming toward the track site in anticipation—I suggested to my bully that we move the fight to the grass. After taking a couple steps toward the field, I turned and, before he could react, kicked him square in the Li’l Bully. He barely flinched. After the first punch fattened my lip, I retreated to a face down position and let him tire himself out on my ribs and the back of my skull. Despite the humbling ordeal, I still continued to poke at the angry bear—by making grunting noises at him in the hallways, even slow dancing with his girlfriend at a party—prompting more pain and a decent amount of spilled blood. I was an idiot for sure. I wonder if still am?

FOR THE WEEK OF JULY 10, 2014 ARIES (March 21-April 19): What are

the sources that heal and nourish you? Where do you go to renew yourself? Who are the people and animals that treat you the best and are most likely to boost your energy? I suggest that in the coming week you give special attention to these founts of love and beauty. Treat them with the respect and reverence they deserve. Express your gratitude and bestow blessings on them. It’s the perfect time for you to summon an outpouring of generosity as you feed what feeds you.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Why

do birds fly? First, that’s how they look for and procure food. Second, when seasons change and the weather grows cooler, they may migrate to warmer areas where there’s more to eat. Third, zipping around in mid-air is how birds locate the materials they need to build nests. Fourth, it’s quite helpful in avoiding predators. But ornithologists believe there is yet another reason: Birds fly because it’s fun. In fact, up to 30 percent of the time, that’s their main motivation. In accordance with the astrological omens, Taurus, I invite you to match the birds’ standard in the coming weeks. See if you can play and enjoy yourself and have a good time at least 30 percent of the time.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Is there

an important resource you don’t have in sufficient abundance? Are you suffering from the lack of an essential fuel or tool? I’m not talking about a luxury it would be pleasant to have or a status symbol that would titillate your ego. Rather, I’m referring to an indispensable asset you need to create the next chapter of your life story. Identify what this crucial treasure is, Gemini. Make or obtain an image of it, and put that image on a shrine in your sanctuary. Pray for it. Vividly visualize it for a few minutes several times a day. Sing little songs about it. The time has arrived for to become much more serious and frisky about getting that valuable thing in your possession.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Since 1981, Chinese law has stipulated that every healthy person between the ages of 11 and 60 should plant three to five trees per year. This would be a favorable week for Chinese Cancerians to carry out that duty. For that matter, now is an excellent time for all of you Cancerians, regardless of where you live, to plant trees, sow seeds, launch projects, or do anything that animates your fertility and creativity. You now have more power than you can imagine to initiate long-term growth.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The weeks

preceding your birthday are often an excellent time to engage the services of an exorcist. But there’s no need to hire a pricey priest with dubious credentials. I can offer you my expert demon-banishing skills free of charge. Let’s begin. I call on the spirits of the smart heroes you love best to be here with us right now. With the help of their inspirational power, I hereby dissolve any curse or spell that was ever placed on you, even if it was done inadvertently, and even if it was cast by yourself. Furthermore, the holy laughter I unleash as I carry out this purification serves to expunge any useless feelings, delusional desires, bad ideas or irrelevant dreams you may have grown attached to. Make it so! Amen and hallelujah!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): You know

what it’s like to get your mind blown. And I’m sure that on more than one occasion you have had your heart stolen. But I am curious, Virgo, about whether you have ever had your mind stolen or your heart blown. And I also wonder if two rare events like that have ever happened around the same time. I’m predicting a comparable milestone sometime in the next three weeks. Have no fear! The changes these epiphanies set in motion will ultimately bring you blessings. Odd and unexpected blessings, probably, but blessings nonetheless. P.S.: I’m sure you are familiar with the tingling sensation that wells up in your elbow when you hit your funny bone. Well, imagine a phenomena like that rippling through your soul.

BY ROB BREzSNY LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Since 2008,

Marvel Studios has produced nine movies based on characters from Marvel Comics. They’re doing well. The Avengers earned $1.5 billion, making it the thirdhighest-grossing film of all time. Iron Man 3 brought in more than a billion dollars, too, and Thor: The Dark World grossed $644 million. Now Marvel executives are on schedule to release two movies every year through 2028. I’d love to see you be inspired by their example, Libra. Sound fun? To get started, dream and scheme about what you want to be doing in both the near future and the far future. Then formulate a flexible, invigorating master plan for the next 14 years.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): While

in Chicago to do a series of shows, comedian Groucho Marx was invited to participate in a séance. He decided to attend even though he was skeptical of the proceedings. Incense was burning. The lights were dim. The trance medium worked herself into a supernatural state until finally she announced, “I am in touch with the Other Side. Does anyone have a question?” Groucho wasn’t shy. “What is the capital of North Dakota?” he asked. As amusing as his irreverence might be, I want to use it as an example of how you should not proceed in the coming week. If you get a chance to converse with higher powers or mysterious forces, I hope you seek information you would truly like to know.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): In one of her poems, Adrienne Rich addresses her lover: “That conversation we were always on the edge / of having, runs on in my head.” Is there a similar phenomenon in your own life, Sagittarius? Have you been longing to thoroughly discuss certain important issues with a loved one or ally, but haven’t found a way to do so? If so, a breakthrough is potentially imminent. All of life will be conspiring for you to speak and hear the words that have not yet been spoken and heard but very much need to be.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): This

would be a fun time for you to brainstorm about everything you have never been and will never be. I encourage you to fantasize freely about the goals you don’t want to accomplish and the qualities you will not cultivate and the kind of people you will never seek out as allies. I believe this exercise will have a healthy effect on your future development. It will discipline your willpower and hone your motivation as it eliminates extraneous desires. It will imprint your deep self with a passionate clarification of pursuits that are wastes of your precious energy and valuable time.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Expect nothing even as you ask for everything. Rebel against tradition with witty compassion, not cynical rage. Is there a personal taboo that no longer needs to remain taboo? Break it with tender glee. Do something playful, even prankish, in a building that has felt oppressive to you. Everywhere you go, carry gifts with you just in case you encounter beautiful souls who aren’t lost in their own fantasies. You know that old niche you got stuck in as a way to preserve the peace? Escape it. At least for now, live without experts and without leaders—with no teachers other than what life brings you moment by moment.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Every

year, the U.S. government spends $25,455 per capita on programs for senior citizens. Meanwhile, it allocates $3,822 for programs to help children. That’s only 15 percent as much as what the elders receive. In the coming weeks, Pisces, I believe your priorities should be reversed. Give the majority of your energy and time and money to the young and innocent parts of your life. Devote less attention to the older and more mature aspects. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you need to care intently for what’s growing most vigorously.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICOBI’S at 1345 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928. OBIDIAH GAGNE 1345 Marian Ave Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: OBIDIAH GAGNE Dated: June 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000827 Published: June 19,26, July 3,10, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as D AND L’S EXCELLENT ADVENTURES at 838 Morninghome Ct Chico, CA 95926. DAVID RUSSELL PHELPS 838 Morninghome Ct Chico, CA 95926. LINDA KARIN PHELPS 838 Morninghome Ct Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: DAVID RUSSELL PHELPS Dated: May 19, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000760 Published: June 19,26, July 3,10, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PREMIERE PRIMARY CARE at 888 Lakeside Village Commons Chico, CA 95926. CHICO IMMEDIATE CARE MEDICAL CENTER INC 376 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926. Signed: BRAD SMITH, M.D., OWNER/CEO Dated: June 4, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ARAMAIC FILMS, ARAMAIC HOLY LAND TOURS at 3175 Sawyer’s Bar Lane Chico, CA 95973. ARMAIC GROUP INC. 3175 Sawyer’s Bar Lane Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: KIMBERLY BRUNS, SECRETARY Dated: June 12, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000839 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RIVERSIDE POINT HEALTHCARE AND WELLNESS CENTRE at 375 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95926. CHICO WELLNESS GP LLC 5900 Wilshire Blvd Suite 1600 Los Angeles, CA 90036. This business is conducted by A Limited Partnership. Signed: SHIOMO RECHNITZ, MANAGING MEMBER Dated: June 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000806 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BYE BYE DIRTY, HOUSE CLEANING SERVICE at 2086 Mansfield Court Chico, CA 95928. JOLENE HEATHER NIJIM 2086 Mansfield Court Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JOLENE NIJIM Dated: June 11, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000834 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SNOW INDUSTRIES at 1719 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926. DANIEL SCOTT TULLIUS 1719 Arbutus Ave Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: DANIEL TULLIUS Dated: June 17, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000857 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 1286 KIDS at 2337 Ritchie Circle Chico, CA 95926. CHRISTOPHER MURPHY 2337 Ritchie Circle Chico, CA 95926. ELIZABETH J MURPHY 2337 Ritchie Circle Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: Chris Murphy Dated: June 16, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000846 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STORAGE TREASURE THRIFT STORE at 2540 South Whitman Place Chico, CA 95928. CHONNA A PRITOS

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JDCS CONSULTING, RIM TO RIM ULTRAS, RJ ULTRAS at 23 Greenview Circle Chico CA, 95928. JASON DONNELL 23 Greenview Circle Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: JASON DONNELL Dated: June 18, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000868 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LOWE’S at 2350 Forest Ave Chico CA 95928. LOWE’S HOME CENTERS LLC 1000 Lowe’s Blvd Mooresville, NC 28117. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company. Signed: DAVID R. GREEN, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: May 19, 2014 FBN NUmber: 2014-0000750 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PLANNED PARENTHOOD NORTHERN CALIFORNIA at 3100 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973. PLANNED PARENTHOOD: SHASTA DIABLO INC 2185 Pacheco Street Concord, CA 94520. This business is conducted by A Corporation. Signed: DEBORAH SORONDO, SENIOR VICE PRESIDENT Dated: June 9, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000825 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as REBEL TILES at 1284 Calla Lane Chico, CA 95926. ROBIN INDAR 1284 Calla Lane Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: ROBIN INDAR Dated: June 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000883 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LITEWHEELS, VIDEOMAKER, SIMPLE VIDEO GEAR, YORK PUBLISHING, SMART TV AND SOUND at 1350 East 9th Street Chico, CA 95928. VIDEOMAKER INC 1350 East 9th Street Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by a Corporation. Signed: PATRICE YORK, V. PRESIDENT Dated: June 23, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000887 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RITA’S GARDEN, RITA’S ONLINE SALES at 5081 Wilderness Way Spc 7C Paradise, CA 95969. RITA SCOTT 5081 Wilderness Way Spc 7C Paradise, CA 95969. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: RITA SCOTT Dated: June 20, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000879 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAZ FOOD MART at 555 Oro Dam Blvd E Oroville, CA 95965. INAYA AND ZAID LLC 555 Oro Dam Blvd E Oroville, CA 95965. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: MOHAMMAD WAQAS ARIF, MEMBER Dated: June 19, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000874 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SATORI BREWING, LLC 827 Dias Dr. Chico, CA 95926. SATORI BREWING, LLC 827 Dias Dr. Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company. Signed: LINDSEY NADEAU, CEO Dated: June 18, 2014 FBN NUmber: 2014-0000867 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as N W BOOKBINDING at 120 W. 2nd Street-Suite 1 Chico, CA 95926. NANCY JOAN MARTIN 1450 Springfield #138 Chico, CA 95928. WILLIAM CECIL MARTIN 1450 Springfield #138 Chico, CA 95928. This business is conducted by A Married Couple. Signed: NANCY JOAN MARTIN Dated: June 18, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000869 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RHEMA WORD OF FAITH, VINCE HAYNIE MINISTRIES at 574 East 12th Street Chico, CA 95926. VINCENT HAYNIE 6576 Oakland Drive Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: VINCENT HAYNIE Dated: June 30, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000912 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MIKE’S APPLIANCE at 5370 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969. MICHAEL RAY SLIGHTOM JR. 6455 Ranger Ct Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: MICHAEL SLIGHTOM JR. Dated: July 3, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000920 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

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business as THE CALIFORNIA CONVICTED FELONZ’ ASSOCIATION at 21 Indigo Lane Chico, CA 95973. PENNINAH RUTH SARTAIN GILBERT 567 E Lassen Ave #103 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: PENNINAH RUTH SARTAIN GILBERT Dated: June 10, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000833 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name PLANNED PARENTHOOD SHASTA PACIFIC at 3100 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95973. PLANNED PARENTHOOD: SHASTA DIABLO INC 2185 Pacheco Street Concord, CA 94520. This business was conducted by a Corporation. Signed: DEBORAH SORONDO, CFO Dated: June 11, 2014 FBN Number: 2010-0001426 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EAT A DOG at 805 Sheridan Avenue Chico, CA 95926. HARRY A WILBURN 805 Sheridan Avenue Chico, CA 95926. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: HARRY A. WILBURN Dated: July 2, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000919 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as YAN MASSAGE at 1430 East Ave #4B Chico, CA 95926. CHONGKUN GUAN 116 W. Shasta Ave #4 Chico, CA 95973. This business is conducted by an Individual. Signed: CHONGKUN GUAN Dated: July 7, 2014 FBN Number: 2014-0000924 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

iBFICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SNOOP SISTERS ESTATE SALES at 480 Pearson Road Paradise, CA 95969. BAMBI LYNN HESS 110 Honey Run Road Chico, CA 95928. MARY ELLEN MORRISETTE 5255 Country Club Drive Paradise, CA 95969. RITA ANNE SCOTT 5081 Wilderness Wat Spc 7C Paradise, CA 95969. THERESA C IMAN 14790 Carnegie Road Magalia, CA 95954. This business is conducted by a General Partnership. Signed: MARY MORRISETTE Dated: June 24, 2014 FBN NUmber: 2014-0000890 Published: July 10,17,24,31, 2014

NOTICES NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SANDRA MCDANIEL-WEBB To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: NYMROY JACKSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SANDRA MCDANIEL-

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WEBB in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte. The Petition for Probate requests that: SANDRA MCDA- NIEL-WEBB be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent. The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Ad- ministration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority. A Hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 17, 2014 Time: 9:00a.m. Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 655 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926. IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney. IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law. YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk. Attorney for Petitioner: GREGORY M. FINCH 3400 Bradshaw Road, Ste A-4A Sacramento, CA 95827 Dated: May 20, 2014 Case Number: PR41078 Published:June 26, July 3,10, 2014

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a decree changing names as follows: Present name: DAKOTA STORME HEER Proposed name: DAKOTA STORME CARAWAY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 30, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: June 9, 2014 Case Number: 162366 Published: June 19,26, July 3,10, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ASHLEY MEGAN ABERNATHY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ASHLEY MEGAN ABERNATHY Proposed name: KY LUCAS ABERNATHY THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 30, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: June 10, 2014 Case Number: 162394 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner NINA MARIA BLUNKALL, THOMAS BLUNKALL JR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NINA MARIA BLUNKALL AUBREY MARIE BLUNKALL Proposed name: NINA MARIE PEARSON AUBREY MARIE PEARSON THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 20, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA

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The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT GLUSMAN Dated: June 16, 2014 Case Number: 162365 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LACEY LANGIE AND DANIEL HENDRIKS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JEREMY JOSEPH ESCUE Proposed name: JEREMY JOSEPH RAINWATER HENDRIKS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: AUGUST 6, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: June 17, 2014 Case Number: 162362 Published: June 26, July 3,10,17, 2014

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ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MELODY R THOMPSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MELODY RHIONNE THOMPSON Proposed name: KYLE RYAN DYLAN THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing. NOTICE OF HEARING Date: AUGUST 6, 2014 Time: 8:30am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 655 Oleander Ave. Chico, CA 95926 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: June 13, 2014 Case Number: 162367 Published: July 3,10,17,24, 2014

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3. decks: Building a deck is one of the leastexpensive ways to extend your living space. Building a deck can bring a return on investment of up to 80 percent at the time of sale, according to the experts. 4. siding: Funky siding goes right to the top of a buyer’s worry list, and makes them wonder what serious problems might lurk behind. Fix it and paint it, and don’t cover it with vinyl if you can help it.

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5. kitchen: The kitchen can be the make-itor-break-it for a home sale. Kitchens are expensive, but you don’t have to go full-tilt. Replacing countertops, faucets and cabinet hardware can be transformative. 6. windows: Curb appeal, with the added feature of energy-efficiency. People are thinking green these days, and are interested in spending less green on their power bills. 7. bathRoom: Like the kitchen, bathrooms get expensive to remodel. Think about replacing the vanity, sink and tub fixtures, and adding new hardware. 8. additions: If done wisely and in a way that won’t price your home out of your neighborhood market, additions are a wise move. Add a second story, expand a master suite, enlarge the garage, or create an extra bathroom. Fix it, shine it and make it better, but don’t make it the Taj Mahal unless it’s just for you.

Got a question or comment? I’d like to hear from you. Email escrowgo@aol.com or call 530-680-0817. Doug Love is Sales Manager at Century 21 Jeffries Lydon.

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