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EDITORIAL

chico’s latest tragedy The community is reeling this week from news that a young black man

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representing diversity I

was born and raised in Lawrence, Mass., the

City of Immigrants—the nation’s first planned industrial city and home of the 1912 Bread and Roses labor strike. Back then, omnipresent textile mill owners banked on slashing wages, believing that those of different ethnic backgrounds would be unable to organize a resistance.

They were wrong then, and they are wrong now!

My tribe included Portuguese, Serbian, Puerto Rican, Irish, Italian, et al. Growing up, I heard by ethnic languages being spoken Bill Mash in the homes of my friends. I The author, a chico remember nearby neighborhoods resident, hosts a blog cast as slums, because they had (woaroof.tumblr.com) Puerto Ricans living in rundown and a radio program multistory flats once inhabited by on KZFr discussing Europeans in the heyday of the homelessness and peace. city’s industrial might. A might that peaked in the 1950s.

The Puerto Ricans were wrongly accused of having been the source of all that ailed the city. In reality, the textile jobs were

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moving overseas along with the prosperity that once flourished, and Puerto Ricans just happened to be the newcomers.

I was proud to learn in my middle school days that America had the world’s largest unsecured borders by a wide margin, and I remember raising my hand with the correct answer when asked what the greatest resource is within any nation.

It was people then, and it’s people now.

Fast-forward to central Florida, late September 2016, in Trump Land without a Hillary sign in sight.

I was having breakfast with my niece by marriage and my soon-to-be daughter-in-law.

They shared with me how they became citizens.

My daughter-in-law’s dad, from Mexico, entered our county twice before gaining a foothold on the East Coast and raising a family. My niece had a similar story of a dad who fled Cuba on a raft. He, too, raised a loving and caring family, including my niece, who is a medical professional at Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore, Md. Immigrants made us strong then, and they make us strong now.

Our hearts beat as one when we learn, live and play together in diverse communities rich in pride of one’s heritage. □

with mental health issues was shot and killed by Chico police officers. It’s an incident that places the North State in the databases established during the past couple of years to track the number of deadly police responses in the face of increasing reports of such encounters.

Already, though an investigation into Desmond Phillips’ death is ongoing, the Butte County District Attorney’s Office is sending signals that the killing was justified. In our recollection, that’s the stance DA Mike Ramsey has taken in nearly every incident resulting in lethal force by local officers.

The exception is the shooting death of a drunken driver at the hands of a former Paradise police officer. That cop, though convicted of involuntary manslaughter, spent just 90 days in jail. Additionally, it’s only because of dash-camera footage that we know he acted inappropriately.

In Phillips’ case, no such video exists. Though the Chico Police Department has enough cameras to outfit each of its officers with such technology, the devices haven’t yet been deployed. What that means, essentially, is that Ramsey expects the public to take the officers at their word. That’s hard to do when many questions remain unanswered and Phillips’ family is contesting the officers’ accounts (see Ken Smith’s report on page 8).

In this situation, we cannot help but recall the death of Breanne Sharpe, a teenager who was shot and killed by Chico police after stealing a car and attempting to evade authorities. As CN&R said following her death in 2013, we believe Ramsey’s close relationship with law enforcement presents at least the perception of a conflict of interest in his leading investigations into police killings.

In Phillips’ case, an outside review would go a long way toward mollifying his family, friends and the community at large. His case is particularly tragic because his father had initially summoned medical personnel. Given Chico police had interacted with Phillips recently and his father had made clear he was in crisis, we also question why the department dispatched officers who have been on the force for only a short time—one of them just a few months past his 12-month probationary period.

There are a lot of questions surrounding this incident. We know that nothing can bring back Desmond Phillips, but the community must do right by him and demand answers. □

The trash tax The City Council voted this week in favor of adopting a waste-hauling fran-

chise agreement with two companies, Waste Management and Recology, and on the face of it, there are several benefits to instituting such a contract.

First, the two refuse haulers currently traverse the same city streets, creating a significant amount of wear and tear on the roadways. The franchise agreement will eliminate that inefficiency through an agreement in which Waste Management takes over residential service throughout the city and the creation of commercial zones divides that service between the haulers. That also will result in reduced greenhouse gas emissions.

What’s more, the companies together will pay the city franchise fees of more than $800,000, an increase of $600,000 over current fees. That muchneeded source of revenue will go into the cash-strapped city’s general fund.

Sounds great, but there’s a catch.

Fact is, those fees eventually will become the burden of customers—the public. That won’t happen immediately—the city has locked in current rates until July of 2018—but thereafter those rates will be open to adjustments of up to 5 percent annually, based on the federal consumer price index regarding water, sewer and trash collection services.

In other words, sometime during or following next summer, Chicoans should expect to start paying more for trash collection. The city can call this a franchise fee if it wants, but the CN&R knows better. It’s a trash tax. □

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by Melissa Daugherty m e l i s s a d @ n e w s r e v i e w. c o m

anniversary One of the traditions here at the corner of Second and Flume streets is the creation of a personalized CN&R-like framed cover for each employee who stays with the company for half a decade. I got my five-year plaque when I returned from maternity leave back in 2012.

Pictured are photos of several of my favorite things: my husband and newborn son, my late beloved German shepherd, Boaz, and even singer/songwriter Ryan Adams. The dominant art is a photo of me riding a horse with the accompanying text: “Melissa Daugherty: News Wrangler. With a nose for news, she’s been ridin’ the dusty North Valley trails for five years, trackin’ down every lead and sniffing out the scoops for the Chico News & Review.”

Those words were secretly crafted by my comrades in the editorial department, as is tradition. They passed them along to PhotoShop wizard Tina Flynn, CN&R’s art director and longest-serving employee. She’s been here for more than 35 years, which makes the rest of us seem like newbies. That includes me, although I just hit the 10-year mark at CN&R. Just about four of those have been in the editor’s post. Time flies.

Among the other relative newcomers is Staff Writer Ken Smith, who got his five-year plaque last week. It’s a masterpiece. Ken is a Jack-of-all-trades reporter, who’s written everything from art reviews to spot news stories. As you can see, his plaque is as eclectic as his story assignments and the man himself or, as it’s put on that personalized cover, “Ken Smith: Renaissance Man. Five years as the CN&R’s muckrakin’ punk-rock warrior-poet/bon vivant.”

Ken was a freelance contributor for a few years prior to joining our staff and has logged more than 500 bylines in these pages, including a cover story that earned a coveted statewide award for best writing. He’s the last person in the editorial department to receive a five-year plaque, which means I work with some seriously dedicated journalists. Cheers to all of them and to the other fine folks who work in this demanding, wonderful profession.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Two on the cover Re “Chasing the dream” (Cover story,

by Gabriel Sandoval, March 16): Thank you for the well-written article in your recent publication concerning the “Dreamer” students seeking a higher education in our country.

Having known Ms. Vera while she worked at Butte College as a student employee, I can attest to her intellect and her desire to succeed academically and work in the male-dominated profession of civil engineering. She is the kind of person we need in our country to help rebuild our infrastructure and serve as an example for other women to work in the STEM fields.

Ms. Vera and others like her deserve a pathway to citizenship without having to leave their homes here and seek readmission to our country from a place foreign to them. Our country and communities are better for helping such students.

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Bill McGinnis Chico

The immigration article seemed to want to explain the goodness and value of the immigrants here without documentation. I truly believe that most Americans, especially me, honestly believe that they are both good and valuable. I believe they are honest and honorable. I believe that, like all of mankind, they are equal to me and deserve love and respect.

But I believe that of the kind and tortured people of south Sudan, who are starving by the millions. I believe that of the many like nations suffering starvation.

It is not a matter of good or bad, love or hate. It is a matter of safety, practicality, and most importantly, protecting our ability to aid the truly needy by maintaining our national wealth. Our nation is a nation of compassion, of givers. Our nation has lost hundreds of thousands of lives protecting and saving the innocent.

We spend billions. Our nation is not evil, it is not excluding. It is loving.

But to continue supporting, financing and loving our fellow humans, we must make decisions concerning LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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Garry Cooper Durham

On neighborliness Re “Knee-Jerk” (Second & Flume,

by Melissa Daugherty, March 16): By becoming a City of Neighbors, Chico’s rating on the next Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Index could rate much higher. When I was a single mother in San Francisco, I wanted the kind of neighborliness for my children that I experienced during my childhood. So I went door to door and invited my neighbors to a Safe Block meeting at my apartment.

Next we held a block garage sale at which more neighbors got acquainted. Then we had a block barbecue and got the city to close off our street so we could play volleyball.

Safeway’s slogan at the time was “Since we’re neighbors, let’s be friends” and that’s what happened on our block once the “ice was broken.” Everyone’s well-being blossomed, including our sense of “financial security” because we freely exchanged services.

If one neighbor on each block would invite the others to relate in mutually beneficial ways, not only would our city’s index of wellbeing improve but they would also create a safety-net and structure for what may lie ahead.

Renee Renaud Chico

Focus on peers Re “Healthy options, better choices” (Healthlines, by Evan Tuchinsky, March 16): We should all applaud Abbey Korte’s efforts to discourage teenage smoking in Chico. Reducing the amount of advertising and easy availability of tobacco products are undoubtedly steps in the right direction. However, to portray teenage smokers as victims of anything other than their own poor decisions ignores the available evidence.

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to teach smoking cessation classes.

Among my tobacco-using peers and my students, I never once encountered anyone who felt they began using tobacco because of advertising. On the contrary, almost all began smoking to emulate their peers or celebrity role models. In my case, it was the fact that members of the Beatles and Rolling Stones, plus most of the “cool” older students, were all smokers.

Another thing that gets kids going is the pleasant dizziness and light-headedness that accompanies those first few experimental puffs.

Research has shown that the most important factor that drives behavior, clothing choices, language and habits of youngsters beyond about age 13 is the ambient peer group. Therefore, finding ways to influence the norms of those peer groups should be our first priority.

Carl Ochsner Chico

Denied democracy Re “No sanctuary” (Newslines, by Howard Hardee, Feb. 23): At a recent City Council meeting, the idea of a sanctuary city was discussed by attendees. Crying students came forth pleading and pouring their hearts out—knowing their education as well as their lives were on the line—only to be greeted by a smirking mayor, Sean Morgan.

As horrific as this was, there was a more sinister underlying theme. Forget the sanctuary city resolution, the real issue that night was whether or not to agendize community discussion about a sanctuary city. To vote to not agendize the discussion was to deny our community members their right to address their elected officials.

Addressing government is the cornerstone of our American democracy. Our Constitution begins with “We the people...”

Just because we elect people does not mean we forfeit our right to address our elected officials about the issues facing our community.

Who denies people their democracy? Monarchies, dictatorships, autocracies and the Chico conservative regime. With impunity, they violated our right to our democratic process. One way to correct this wrong is the

petition, direct democracy, which bypasses the corrupt council. The only question is whether we care enough about our democracy to pony up the people power to get the job done.

Benson Chico

Keeping tabs Congressman Doug LaMalfa recently supported HR 985, misleadingly called the Fairness in Class Action Litigation and Furthering Asbestos Claim Transparency Act of 2017. This law makes it impossible for citizens to file class action lawsuits as groups of people who have been injured by a consumer rip-off, pharmaceutical drug mistake, faulty product design, or sex discrimination/sexual harassment in the workplace event. It benefits only employers and corporations.

Once again, politicians say they are helping people and then stick it to us.

Same thing with the replacement for the Affordable Care Act. Purported to be a Godsend, Trumpcare could charge seniors $10,000 additional or more per year and cuts all kinds of services.

These “savings” then go to millionaires and insurance companies. Where are the politicians who will stand up for the people?

I suspect we will need to get the millionaires and corporations out of our government and then stand up for ourselves. The vote on The [Un]Fairness in Class Action Litigation Act is not final, but we will have to start making a lot more noise if Washington is going to hear us on this or any of the other bad decisions they seem intent on pursuing.

Marta Williams Red Bluff

Trump time My neighbor’s recent admission to “having made a gross error” in voting for Trump brought to mind the Thomas Hobbes’ quote “Hell is truth seen too late.” Yet my neighbor’s admission was hollow, and I asked myself how someone could have believed that Trump would make a good, competent and just leader of this country after having listened to his campaign rants, lies and misogynistic utterances.

How could anyone trust him when he refused to show his tax returns and openly thumbed his nose at our Constitution? How could he have accepted someone who gets his advice from Steve Bannon?

It appears my neighbor’s change of heart is based more on self-serving as opposed to philanthropic issues: ‘Oops, I may not be able to afford my health care anymore!’; ‘Uh-oh…What about my federal disability check?’; ‘OK, I agree you need to eliminate immigrants taking our jobs. But, golly, will that raise the price of tomatoes? Will my grocery bill go up?’; ‘Does it really cost taxpayers $3 million every time the president goes to Mar-a-Lago (five times in the past six weeks)?’; ‘Keeping Melania and Barron in New York costs taxpayers $300 million a year? That’d sure help fix a lot of infrastructure.’; ‘Wow! I guess I just wasn’t listening close enough.’

Dean Carrier Paradise

The “president” states his budget proposal puts America first, but when you put the military-industrial complex first while devastating environmental protections against big businesses’ reckless pursuit of profits, then essentially this budget puts the American people last.

Other than appeasing military contractors and fossil fuel lobbyists, what is driving this budget?

The need to cut waste? One can start that process by asking the “president” to stay in Washington rather than flying off to his Florida resort to play golf. To date, his five trips have cost taxpayers more than $15 million. Trump’s two older sons receive Secret Service protection, though this is not mandatory. Only a president’s minor children are required to have this service. President Reagan’s son, Ron, refused Secret Service protection, calling it unnecessary and expensive. Secret Service protection for sons Donald Jr. and Eric—for three non-government business trips to Uruguay, Dubai and Vancouver that enrich the Trump Organization—has cost taxpayers $167,723. Time for them to act like responsible adults since their father won’t.

This is not a budget for America, this is a gift to military

contractors and enrichments of Wall Street wealth. I’m sure his cabinet of billionaires appreciates the gesture.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Elections have consequences, and perhaps the most consequential was last November’s Trump victory. Many immigrants already feel the pain, and I anticipate that more of us will suffer in the future. Most important is Trump’s goal to roll back Obama’s global commitment on climate change.

The worldwide agreement to reduce fossil fuel use was a giant step forward and is endangered by Trump’s stance on this vital issue.

Another critical decision looms in health care. The Republican bill is obviously flawed and, among many other deficiencies, cruelly aims at the mentally ill, as described in a March 12 Sacramento Bee editorial. This is a reminder of former President Reagan’s health care approach of long ago, when so many mentally ill people became homeless.

Republicans historically victimize our most vulnerable citizens.

We are entering perilous times.

Trump’s tax plan will shift ever more wealth to the top few, leaving scant resources for the rest of us. November’s election will be remembered as one that put the world in a very dangerous situation. We need to think seriously in the coming months and years of our nation’s direction, and how to correct our present course.

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Blame it on Mexico The No. 12 jersey of Tom Brady of the almighty Patriots was found in Mexico? We are in serious danger of an even bigger wall being constructed now.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

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That is hard because I like so many. I think I’ll say Edmund de Waal. He’s a German artist; he’s an author and an artist, so the way that he talks about his art is very poetic and that’s kind of hard to find in the art world.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE MURDER INVESTIGATION UNDERWAY

A man’s body was found in the orchards west of Chico last week, and local authorities are investigating the case as a homicide.

On the afternoon of Thursday (March 16), a woman called the Butte County Sheriff’s Office to report that she had found a body behind an abandoned silo on Taffee Avenue off Chico River Road, according to BCSO’s events log. Deputies and detectives responded and identified the man through fingerprints as 28-year-old Joseph Strickland of Chico, according to a BSCO release.

“Detectives have not identified a suspect at this time; however, it is believed that this was a targeted incident,” the release reads.

The results of an autopsy conducted on Monday (March 20) are pending, said BSCO spokeswoman Megan McMann.

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TRAIN DEATH

A 34-year-old man was struck and killed by a train in Chico on St. Patrick’s Day (March 17).

The Butte County Sheriff’s Office released the name of the victim—Martin Mikolajczak— earlier this week. Mikolajczak was hit between West Fifth and Sixth streets at about 10 p.m.

Friday night. Roads crossing the railroad tracks in the south campus neighborhood were shut down for several hours.

According to Sgt. Terry Tupper of the Chico Police Department, Mikolajczak reportedly stayed on the tracks after the train’s engineer sounded the horn several times. Police are still investigating the incident, and an autopsy is scheduled to determine whether Mikolajczak was under the influence of alcohol or drugs.

GARBAGE AGREEMENT

On Tuesday (March 21), the Chico City Council voted 5-2 to direct City Attorney Vince Ewing to craft an ordinance allowing the city to enter into a waste-hauling franchise agreement that will mitigate wear and tear on Chico Streets, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and infuse city coffers with hundreds of thousands of dollars. Councilmen Karl Ory and Mark Sorensen dissented.

For years, the city has contracted with two waste-hauling companies—Recology and Waste Management—that compete for residential and commercial accounts. On Tuesday, Richard Tagore-Irvin (pictured), representing R3 Consulting Group, Inc., said “Chico may be the last city in California with an open market system.”

Under the new agreement, Waste Management will handle all residential accounts and split the commercial accounts with Recology. Together, the haulers will pay about $600,000 more in fees, which will go into the city’s general fund.

Pickup rates would not immediately change, though they could increase by 5 percent annually starting in July 2018.

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Police chief, district attorney discuss police shooting his son Desmond was killed Oby after Chico police, David Phillips sat

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silently through the first 15 minutes of Butte County District Attorney Mike story and Ramsey’s account photo by of the circumstances Ken Smith leading up to the St. kens @ Patrick’s Day shooting. n ew srev i ew. c o m But as Ramsey’s narrative neared the point at which his son was shot, the grieving father lost his composure.

“You’re a liar!” Phillips yelled, pointing at Ramsey. “I don’t know where you got your information from, but you’re lying!”

That outburst opened the floodgates, and several of the roughly 60 people gathered at the Southside Oroville Community Center for the meeting—hosted by the local chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People— also spoke up.

“Murder! This is murder!” yelled one man. “Are these cops gonna get 90 days, too?” shouted another, referring to the sentence recently served by former Paradise Police Officer Patrick Feaster after an involuntary manslaughter conviction for the 2015 shooting death of a drunken driver.

“I told you guys he had a knife so that this wouldn’t happen!” Phillips continued. “I told you he was mental! You guys kicked my door in, tased my son,

and shot him dead!”

An uneasy calm was reached after local NAACP President Irma Jordan threatened to shut down the meeting. Helping subdue the crowd—a racially diverse group of concerned citizens from Chico and Oroville—was a woman who identified herself as a sister of the deceased: “Let them finish lying, and then we’ll address it,” she said.

The shooting of Desmond Phillips, a 25-year-

old black man with a history of mental illness, is currently under investigation by the Butte County Officer Involved Shooting/Critical Incident Protocol Team, which is headed by Ramsey and includes personnel from several county, state and federal law enforcement agencies. What’s known to the public thus far comes from a pair of press conferences held by Ramsey and Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien, both of whom provided more details at the NAACP meeting.

Desmond’s family members said he’d suffered a head injury, was prone to episodes of erratic behavior preceding seizures, and had post-traumatic stress disorder stemming from a violent encounter with law enforcement in Sacramento, where he’d lived before coming to stay at his father’s Chico apartment on West Fourth Avenue. Ramsey said Monday that Desmond’s condition was known to Chico police, who’d responded to a mental health

call and transported him to Enloe Medical Center on Dec. 30. Medical personnel had also been called to the apartment Jan. 18.

According to Ramsey’s account, Phillips called 9-1-1 at about 7:13 p.m. on Friday (March 17) to request medical assistance for his son. First responders said Desmond was aggressive, so they summoned police, who arrived minutes later. He allegedly armed himself with two knives and was threatening his father, who hid in a locked bedroom while two young family members took refuge in another.

Ramsey said police broke through the front door after a subsequent 9-1-1 call in which Phillips asked police to “step it up” and said his son had a knife in his hand. The officers tased Desmond after gaining entry.

“He fell near the couch,” Ramsey said.

“They attempted to go ‘hands-on’ with Desmond to disarm him of the knives.

Desmond then quickly got up and came at the officers with the knives, [waving them] in a downward flailing motion. He closed the gap from about 6 feet to 2 feet and the officers, at that point fearing for their lives and fearing for the life of the other officer in the room, discharged their weapons.”

First responders who’d remained onsite administered life-saving procedures.

Desmond, still unresponsive, was handcuffed and transported to Enloe, where he was pronounced dead.

The officers who fired their weapons have been identified as Alex Fliehr and

David Phillips confronts District Attorney Mike Ramsey and Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien with questions about his son Desmond’s death.

Jeremy Gagnebin, who attended Butte College Law Enforcement Academy and were sworn in in 2014 and 2015, respectively. Ramsey said the officers fired 16 times altogether, and two bullets breached walls into a neighboring apartment.

Family members said Desmond was shot in the chest, neck and head, but Ramsey said his exact injuries will be revealed by an autopsy.

Ramsey said a shotgun with non-lethal bean-bag ammunition and a bullet-proof “batshield” were also at the scene, but neither was used because of the apartment’s small size.

Phillips and neighbors who heard the incident

questioned Ramsey’s narrative, insisting Desmond couldn’t brush off a taser hit, rise to his feet and attack officers in the short time between the taser discharge and gunshots, which one earwitness estimated at two seconds.

Some said they believe Desmond was still on the ground when police shot him.

Ramsey said the actual time lapse was just over five seconds. He offered to prove it by playing the 9-1-1 calls. NAACP representatives asked him not to play the recordings, as it could be traumatic for the Phillips family, who hadn’t yet heard them.

Many people noted some details could be easily cleared up if the officers had been wearing body cameras, which the CPD purchased but has yet to deploy. Ramsey said that was because of a technological glitch in transferring the data collected.

The shooting also spurred commentary about mental illness and police violence (a 2015 investigation by The Washington Post revealed mental illness played a role in a quarter of the more than 400 police shootings analyzed). Ramsey said both of the officers had crisis intervention training, but he agreed more needs to be done to limit fatal encounters between police and the mentally ill.

Attendees also voiced criticism of police training that emphasizes use of deadly force rather than shooting to incapacitate, lack of diversity in local departments (CPD has just one black officer) and the overall method in which police shootings are investigated.

“Is it your usual procedure, before you have concluded the investigation, to have crafted a narrative that clears your officers of wrongdoing?” one man asked.

Ramsey countered that his account was based on testimony of officers, first responders and physical evidence, and noted information is still being gathered. The investigation likely will be completed in about two weeks, he said.

“Living in a time of social media, there’s a lot of misinformation out there,” he said. “We want to make sure we have as much information out there as possible. You can make your own judgment about whether the officers should or should not have shot, but these are the facts we have at the current time.” □

Design flaws City Council reconsiders role of architectural review board, amends 2030 General Plan

summer, Alan Tochterman vented his to the Chico City Council. He Lwasastfrustration trying to turn his blighted and longvacant building on Main Street into something presentable, but said the project was tangled in bureaucratic red tape.

The space—between Third and Fourth streets, the same block as Duffy’s Tavern and Lost on Main—was being renovated to become Chico Children’s Museum. But when Tochterman went before the Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board with an artist’s rendering of the proposed façade, the board determined the yellow-andwhite color scheme was too bright and bold. Tochterman was then caught up in a lengthy and expensive process that was drawn out across Read the plan: multiple To view the 2030 General Plan review, meetings, go to tinyurl.com/2030generalplan. including an appeal to the City Council in June. He bristled at the board’s nit-picking.

“Almost $5,000 was spent in order for me to be lectured by members of the board, who are the experts on color,” he said.

The panel was sympathetic, and voted unanimously to overturn the ARHPB’s

decision, thereby allowing the Chico Children’s Museum to move forward with construction. The episode was not forgotten, however. On Tuesday (March 21), as the council held a public hearing on a five-year review of the city’s 2030 General Plan, Mayor Sean Morgan and some of his colleagues questioned the very purpose of the ARHPB. “I’m continually reminded of the fiasco of Chico Children’s Museum,” Morgan said.

For more than 40 years, the ARHPB has

helped ensure the quality of major building projects in Chico. According to the city’s website, the five-member board “reviews building proposals that may affect buildings or other resources listed on the city of Chico Historic Resources Inventory.”

Currently, the board reviews and acts on most new commercial and multifamily residential projects.

Collectively, the board lends architectural and historical expertise that individual

SIFT ER Crazy climate According to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association, winter in 2016-17 was the sixth warmest in U.S. history. This is thanks in large part to an especially warm February, in which the average contiguous-U.S. temperature was 41.2 degrees, the second-highest ever recorded and 7.3 degrees higher than the country’s 20th century average.

Notable events/anomalies include: • On Feb. 25, the first-ever February tornado touched down in western Massachusetts.

• No February snow in Chicago for the third time on record.

• Record-setting rains in Western states, including California with 184 percent of average rainfall for the season, the second-wettest winter on record.

Construction of Chico Children’s Museum was held up by architectural review last summer.

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city staff members may lack. Further, members of the ARHPB are expected to make subjective decisions that lend themselves to an appointed body—a point that was emphasized by Irv Schiffman, a former member of the board who spoke when the floor was opened for public comment.

“Staff makes bureaucratic decisions, and boards make community decisions,” he said.

But there have been some problems.

Architects and builders say that the review process has become arduously drawn out in recent years. Whereas it used to take about two weeks to go from submitting an application to a hearing, it now takes more like three months.

“I am a big proponent of the [board],” said local builder Pat Conroy. “We’re really lucky to have them. But what I do have a problem with is the three months it takes to wait for a decision. … We lose a whole building season.”

And in some cases, applicants have had a right to be frustrated, said Brendan Vieg, the city’s principal planner. There have been examples of overreach and board members requesting changes to projects “based on personal preferences.”

As a solution, the Chico Chamber of Commerce’s Legislative Action Committee submitted a proposal during the Planning Commission’s Feb. 2 meeting to turn ARHPB into an appeals-only body. Under the proposal, all building reviews would be conducted by city staff, and the board would be involved only upon an applicant’s appeal.

However, dedicating a senior-level planner to handle building reviews would cost more and “bog down the process,” said NEWSLINES C O N T I N U E D MARCH 23, 2017

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Community Development Director Mark Wolfe. “We don’t think the process is broken.” Rather, he suggested making tweaks to speed it up. City staff have recently taken on more architectural review duties, he said, and training sessions for board members are scheduled for later this spring.

Vice Mayor Reanette Fillmer made a motion to accept the recommendation of city staff and the Planning Commission—to maintain the current board function and direct city staff to report back in one year on whether the concerns raised have been resolved.

Councilman Mark Sorensen asked to amend the motion so that the panel could revisit the issue in six months, allowing time for the training sessions and recent changes to take effect.

The amended motion carried by a 6-to-1 vote, with Councilwoman Ann Schwab dissenting.

In a series of votes, the council

approved amendments to the 2030 General Plan, including reducing density restrictions in certain parts of town. For instance, the council voted 5-2 to rezone the area along Pomona Avenue, changing it from a multifamily residential area—i.e., apartment complexes—to a very low density residential area—i.e, single-family homes.

The council also voted unanimously to direct city staff to study land absorption, or the availability and cost of land available for development.

Additionally, the council added language to the general plan regarding the city’s affordable housing shortage. In a line stipulating that city staff will coordinate conversations about affordable housing with developers, Sorensen proposed adding “utilizing government subsidies and other incentives.” His motion passed 5-2, with Councilman Karl Ory and Councilwoman Ann Schwab dissenting.

That vote followed Schwab’s failed motion to maintain the requirement that a city staff member must serve as a coordinator for the Sustainability Task Force, and that the Diversity Action Plan keeps a scorecard.

Schwab’s motion failed 3-4 down party lines.

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he fourth installment of Eye on 45 picks up on the day after the release of the American Health Care Act. That proposed legislation was crafted by House Republican leaders as a replacement for the Affordable Care Act, the federal health care law enacted under President Obama that helped 20 million Americans gain health insurance.

March 7: Among the widespread backlash following the reveal of the American Health Care Act is criticism from conservative Republicans, including Sen. Rand Paul, who referred to it as, among other things, “Obamacare-lite.”

During a speech about America being “a land of opportunity,” Ben Carson, Trump’s recently confirmed administrator of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, says “[t]here were other immigrants who came here in the bottom of slave ships.”

Reporters dig up a Wall Street Journal story from last spring—prior to the general election—in which it is noted that President Trump met with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. That story runs counter to the president’s insistence that, as he put it in a recent press conference, (“I have nothing to do with Russia. Haven’t made a phone call to Russia in years. Don’t speak to people from Russia.”)

March 9: Trump’s recently confirmed Environmental Protection Agency administrator, Scott Pruitt, tells CNBC that he does not agree that carbon dioxide is a primary factor in causing climate change. That statement contradicts the consensus of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NASA and the EPA as an agency.

March 10: The New York Times reports that the Trump administration fired Preet Bharara and 45 other Justice Department prosecutors who’d served under President Obama. Bharara was especially surprised to get the ax because Trump and Attorney General Jeff Sessions had met with the Manhattan-based attorney and reportedly asked him to stay on.

March 11: Disgraced former Trump National Security Adviser Michael Flynn acknowledges that he was paid a half-million-plus dollars by a TurkishAmerican businessman in his role as a lobbyist working in the interest of that country’s government at the same time he was working for the Trump campaign, reports The New York Times.

The admission by Flynn, who resigned after being busted for lying to Vice President Mike Pence regarding his ties to Russia (including denying the existence of private conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S.), is significant for a number of reasons, including that he was privy to classified U.S. meetings.

March 12: The nonpartisan Joint Committee on Taxation finds that taxpayers who earn more than $1 million annually will get a tax break totaling more than $165 billion over a decade. Meanwhile, those with incomes between $500,000 and $1 million would see a reduction of

$55 billion, while those making between $200,000 and $500,000 would get a break of $53 billion.

March 13: The New York Times reports Congressional Budget Office figures showing that the plan to replace Obamacare will result in an increase of 24 million uninsured Americans over the next decade. Under the bill, 14 million would lose their coverage next year. The news contradicts Trump’s repeated pledge that the new health care law would cover all Americans.

March 15: Public Policy Polling releases a new poll showing that just 24 percent of voters support the American Health Care Act. Forty-nine percent oppose the Affordable Care Act replacement.

Meanwhile, the pollster found that 47 percent of voters support the ACA while 39 percent oppose it.

March 16: Trump’s newly crafted travel ban is held up by a federal judge in Hawaii based on evidence it discriminates against Muslims.

White House press secretary Sean Spicer quotes a Fox News report alleging that former President Obama had help from British agents in his efforts to spy on President Trump. The next day, Britain’s Government Communications Headquarters—an agency similar to the National Security Agency— called the allegations “utterly ridiculous,” reports The New York Times.

March 18: ProPublica reports that U.S. prosecutor Preet Bharara, who was fired days earlier by Trump, had been investigating Tom Price, the president’s newly confirmed secretary of Health and Human Services, for alleged illegal stock trading.

March 19: Reuters reports that more than 63 wealthy Russians have purchased nearly $100 million “worth of Trump property in seven Trump-branded luxury towers in southern Florida.”

March 20: FBI Director James Comey (pictured) testifies at a House Intelligence Committee hearing, putting to rest several important questions. First, he confirms that the agency he leads is investigating whether Russia and the Trump campaign worked together during the presidential campaign.

Second, Comey tells the panel he has “no information” to support POTUS’ claim that Obama ordered surveillance of Trump Tower.

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walked out of a Planned Parenthood clinic in Roseville with a new supply of birth control. It didn’t matter that she didn’t have health insurance.

“It’s awesome to have Planned Parenthood,” said Julie, who did not wish to give her last name for privacy reasons. “To go to a regular health clinic like this would have cost $100, which would make you think twice about having to go.”

It’s the kind of clinic that President Donald Trump and conservative Republicans in Congress hope to cut off from receiving any federal funds. Already the federal government prohibits any federal dollars from paying for abortions except in cases of rape, incest or to save the mother’s life. But this effort seeks to block federal funds from paying for any other kind of health care by providers who also perform abortions.

If they succeed, the impact would be particularly strong in California—a state where legislators over the years have interpreted federal laws and rules in ways that have allowed more federal dollars to flow to Planned Parenthood clinics. Roughly half of the federal funding that Planned Parenthood receives nationwide now goes, mostly via Medicaid reimbursements, to cover health care and family planning services predominantly for low-income Californians.

And ironically, Planned Parenthood officials say if they were to lose all their federal funding, their California abortion clinics would remain open—those already are funded by private sources and by state reimbursements for poorer patients. Instead what

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would be at risk are all the nonsurgical sites that provide other medical and contraception services.

The state’s progressive policies, put in place 30 years ago under Republican Gov. Pete Wilson, created a friendly environment for Planned Parenthood to expand and offer family planning services to low-income men and women above the federal poverty level.

That’s in stark contrast to states such as Texas and Mississippi, which unsuccessfully sought to ban their state Medicaid health care programs for the poor from channeling any money to health care providers that perform abortions.

As a result, today Planned Parenthood is one of California’s major health care providers, operating 115 clinics that serve 850,000 mostly low-income patients a year who rely on Medicaid (in California, MediCal) for health care. That’s nearly a third of the 2.5 million patients who visit Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide for basic health care and family planning services.

“Planned Parenthood is a major safetynet provider at a time of increased health care demand,” said Sara Rosenbaum, a professor of health law and policy at George Washington University. “In a state like California with more Planned Parenthoods, the reliance would be that much greater.”

The Republican-controlled Congress, bolstered

by President Trump’s election, is eyeing several strategies to stop the flow of federal funding to Planned Parenthood. That money—roughly $500 million a year nationwide, through Medicaid reimbursements,

Title X family planning money and grants— pays for services such as cancer screening, breast exams, birth control, prenatal care and treating sexually transmitted diseases.

Although Trump has frequently acknowledged that Planned Parenthood helps millions of women, he also has said he would support congressional efforts to ban funding.

“I would defund it because of the abortion factor,” he said at the February 2016 GOP presidential debate. “I would defund it, because I’m pro-life.”

A draft House GOP bill obtained by Politico would eliminate all federal funding to Planned Parenthood as part of a repeal of the Affordable Care Act. While that provision is likely to clear the House, its fate is uncertain in the Senate.

But if the effort were to prevail, California Planned Parenthood would lose $260 million a year in federal funds— approximately 80 percent of its operating budget. Unless it found a way to replenish that money elsewhere, the organization warns that it might have to close its 82 California sites furnishing basic health care and family planning services to mostly lowincome patients.

Meanwhile, its remaining 33 surgical abortion sites—which don’t get federal funding—would remain open, said Kathy Kneer, president and CEO of California Planned Parenthood.

“The irony here is that they are going to put in place more barriers for women to gain contraception, and that will lead to more abortions—and by the way, all the abortion sites will stay open,” Kneer said.

Last month the House voted to reverse an Obama administration regulation that requires states and local governments to distribute Title X family planning funds to health centers even if they perform abortions. President Barack Obama issued the rule in his final days in office after more than a dozen conservative states directed those funds only to community health care centers.

Such an eleventh-hour move by an outgoing president, Republicans argued during the floor debate, was an affront to states’ rights.

“I know that vulnerable women seeking true comprehensive care deserve better than abortion-centric facilities like Planned Parenthood,” said Rep. Diane Black, R-Tenn.

The resolution is now awaiting a vote in the Senate, where California Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein is working to defeat it. It would have no effect on California, given that it is not among the states that have tried to limit those Title X dollars. Nonetheless, she noted that Planned Parenthood provides the only Title X family planning services in 13 California counties, and that any effort to strip federal funding would take a toll in other states and leave “huge numbers of women across the country (with) no place to go for essential health services.”

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“I have no war against women,” he said. “But I also do not have a war against babies created in the image of God.” With a Democrat-controlled state Legislature, California Planned Parenthood is hopeful it could ask state lawmakers to backfill any federal shortfall.

However, Medi-Cal funding is already strapped; a record 1 in 3 Californians are receiving MediCal. Given the potential for other federal cuts in health funding that the state might also be asked to compensate for, it’s unclear whether the state would be able to make up the difference.

So Planned Parenthood is drafting contingency plans. One option is to more aggressively raise funds, but Kneer said private donations wouldn’t make up what they would lose. She also raised the question of whether private funds should be required to pay for a government reimbursement that other organizations receive.

“We are looking at scenario planning. These are all very difficult decisions,” Kneer said.

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ported cutting off taxpayer money to Planned Parenthood.

Both men have suggested the federal government could reallocate taxpayer dollars to community health centers. But many experts and health care advocates say those health centers cannot absorb the significant number of patients who now rely on Planned Parenthood.

“Any policies that eliminate or diminish Planned Parenthood’s role would put untenable stress on remaining health centers,” said Ben Avey, spokesman for CaliforniaHealth+ Advocates, which represents the state’s community clinics and health centers.

“They are really a vital part of the state’s health network.”

That concern was echoed in January when the Democraticcontrolled California Legislature approved resolutions opposing any congressional efforts to defund Planned Parenthood.

Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon, D-Lakewood, proclaimed: “California stands with Planned Parenthood because Planned Parenthood stands with California.” But this sentiment was not unanimous. Several Republicans spoke out against the resolutions, with state Sen. Mike Morrell, R-Rancho Cucamonga, saying he could not support an organization that provides abortions.

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Dune Lankard certainly grew up knowing his purpose. Named “Jamachakih” after the small, squawky bird that is indigenous to his traditional territory, “The little bird that screams really loud and won’t shut up,” he’s made it his life’s mission to protect the pristine Alaskan wilderness.

And his track record is impressive. As a preteen, he convinced elder fishermen in his hometown of Cordova, Alaska, to stop tossing trash from their fishing trips overboard.

Later on, as a young man, he encouraged his father, a seasoned professional fisherman and crabber, to install an escape portal for female and underage crab so they would have a better chance at repopulating. But Lankard cites the Exxon Valdez oil spill in 1989 as the wake-up moment that launched his career as an environmental activist and organizer.

The impact of that spill is palpable in Cordova, he says, as the 30-year anniversary of the disaster looms. Lankard recalls that after the spill, life was forever changed for the residents of Prince William Sound—the length and viability of the fishing seasons were reduced or canceled altogether, leading to an increase in vices and illegal activity, plus divorce, mental illness and even suicide. Additionally, the local tribes—Eyak, of which Lankard is a member, Aleutian Tlingit and Chugach Eskimo—were, as always, at odds. The situation was difficult, to say the least.

But Lankard persevered. And thanks to his efforts—on behalf of the environment as well as the Native people—the region did

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not collapse under the pressure. He’s been keeping up that work ever since. He recently spoke with the CN&R about his background and experience as an environmental activist in advance of his appearance at Chico State’s This Way to Sustainability Conference, where he’s one of the keynote speakers.

In the years since the Exxon Valdez spill, Lankard has started numerous nonprofits and conservation campaigns, including the Eyak Preservation Council and Native Conservancy Land Trust. A jovial, likeable man, he insists that having a sense of humor and finding the fun in this sort of work is the key to longevity. After all, being an indigenous environmentalist is no easy occupation.

A case in point is one of his first big fights. Following the oil spill disaster, some tribes considered logging in the region.

But Lankard saw the environmental consequences of that—including further destruction of fish habitat through runoff. So, along with his sister/best friend, Pamela, he filed a lawsuit to protect the Eyak rainforest. But he was told he’d have to post a $50 million bond and pay $500,000 in attorney fees— before his case would even be heard.

“We appealed to the Alaska Supreme Court saying that I had ‘public interest’ status, therefore should not be required to post a bond or pay attorney fees, because this case was in the public interest of the fellow shareholders and in the public interest to This Way to Sustainability:

dune lankard is scheduled to speak on Friday, March 24, 3:30-5 p.m. in colusa hall, room 100. the conference is March 23-24 on the chico State campus. www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference

leave the Eyak rainforest standing,” he said.

In the end, Lankard won; more important, he says, it was a win for his Eyak people.

They didn’t have to pay bonds or fees and additionally, the Native shareholders were paid $45 million to leave their trees standing rather than cut them down.

In time, Lankard has racked up a record of 33 court case wins (and two losses) with his organization RED OIL (Resisting Environmental Degradation of Indigenous Lands). The group, composed of Inupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Tlingit, Eyak, Gwich’in and Dena’iana Athabascan tribes, formed in 2002 in Cordova to challenge the fossil fuel and mining industries and demand their rights to a safe and healthy environment.

Lankard is also the father of a professional dog musher—daughter Ananda Rose, age 7—and even she has begun her career as an environmental warrior.

“When Ananda Rose was 1, she helped file onto a climate change lawsuit as a Native youth claimant,” he said. “Subsequently, similar claims have been filed in all 50 states … so the children would have a voice and say over climate change.” Cases in Texas and Washington state are moving forward in the federal courts. Mary Wood, a law professor at the University of Oregon’s Environmental and Natural Resources Law Center, will give a talk at Chico State’s annual sustainability conference on Thursday (March 23) titled “The Youth’s Climate Crusade,” which includes these cases.

These days, Lankard works to create a bridge between cultures that once were at odds with each other. Every native Alaskan has a common enemy in global warming,

Lankard says, as they are truly becoming the world’s first climate refugees. He is currently working to assist traditional Alaska Native fishing villages on researching the viability of placing housing on truck beds or sleds so they can relocate along with the receding sea ice and rising sea levels. His client list includes 33 such sites. □

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BIRD IS THE WORD Join renowned local bird expert Roger Lederer at the Centerville Schoolhouse (13548 Centerville Road) for a Butte Creek Canyon Birdwalk lecture Sunday (March 26) at 10 a.m. Call the Centerville Recreation and Historical Association at 893-9667 for more info.

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celebrating startups

When did you start playing guitar?

How did you get into building amps?

I started when our ’60s console radio went out. I looked into repairing that and ended up turning it into a guitar amp. And then I just wanted to work my way through all of the different circuits, from the Fender Champ to the 100-watt Marshall, to see what they all sounded like. Building them and fixing them turned out to be a good way to get my hands on all those circuits without having a lot of money to buy amps.

What’s so great about tube amps, anyway?

The simplest circuits are what really reveal how the tubes work differently than solid-state amps.

The fewest components you can pack into an amp will really give you a sense of how closely your strings are connected to what comes out of the

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Chico is home to many diverse businesses, and I think it’s fair to say that’s due in large part to the charm of this fair city. One of the first things I was told upon moving here back in 2006 was that I was going to fall in love with this town and never want to leave. It happens to a lot of people. And sure enough, though I did leave for a while, it wasn’t long before the magnetic pull of Chico beckoned my return.

I have the pleasure of working for the CN&R in a job that I love. But, as we all know, jobs aren’t all that easy to find around here. Enter the entrepreneur.

Starting a business from scratch is no simple task. But clearly we have a lot of very successful people in our midst who did just that. And they had to start somewhere.

So, who has a million-dollar idea? Who’s seen the show Shark Tank? That’s sort of how I’m envisioning the “pitches” portion of Chico Startup Weekend (FridaySunday, March 24-26), though I’m sure the judges, local business owners and educators, will be a bit kinder. The focus of the event, hosted by Chicostart and held at Build.com’s offices, is encouraging people with great ideas and offering mentorship and guidance in how to make them reality. And the best pitches get to work throughout the weekend in teams to develop their startups.

For more info and to buy tickets, go to tinyurl.com/chicostartup.

As a guitar player and rock ’n’ roll purist, little is more satisfying to Aaron Lyon than plugging his guitar into an all-tube amplifier and cranking it up. Lyon, 49, plays in a local classic-rock cover band, the Defcats, and his other paying hobby is building and selling outlandish amps under the name MonkeyMatic. For the last 21 years, Lyon has made his living doing graphic design, video production and voice-over work from home.

About seven years ago, he started building guitar amps out of all sorts of old electronics, including vintage stereos and sine-wave generators.

He builds about 10 amps a year, including custom orders, and has become a registered amp repair technician for Guitar Center. Recently, he built and sold a screamin’ 100-watt amp housed in a Mac computer case. Go to www.amps.monkey matic.com to check out his current stock of noise-making machines.

When I was 16. I was a junior in high school in the Bay Area, and I taught myself to play after getting piano lessons. I take guitar lessons here in Chico every now and then, because there’s always something new to learn.

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speaker through those tubes. … Up until 2010, I had only played solid-state amps, which is just sad and wrong.

Where do you find the old electronics?

It’s kind of hard to find stuff, but sometimes it shows up at flea markets and garage sales. People don’t always realize what they have under their beds or in their closets.

How do you achieve different sounds?

There are so many variables. You really can find tweaks that maybe confounded somebody before or make a particular amp sound better than it did.

There is surprising complexity in very few simple parts.

Do you play your own amps on stage?

Yes. I grew up with classic rock ’n’ roll, and it’s just the sound I expect to hear.

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Grand openinG Some of Chico’s coolest businesses are hidden behind closed doors. The Rofu factory is one of those. Rofu manufactures bags for Chrome Industries, whose mission is “rooted in urban bike culture.” Basically, the San Francisco-based company makes hip, durable bags, apparel and footwear— right here in Chico. And on Saturday (March 25), Rofu is opening a store, dubbed Chico Factory Outlet, next to the factory. The festivities promise to be fun—live music, food, drinks and a raffle—and there will be plenty of discounts to be had.

Check it out: 10 a.m.-6 p.m., 2145 Park Ave., Ste. 2. movinG on up It’s especially cool to watch a local business grow. Perhaps one of the most visible examples of that is a move or expansion. Wander is doing both.

The mobile food truck with a fantastical circus theme is preparing to have its own permanent spot, at 818 Salem St. I noticed the newly painted building and contacted owner/chef Dane Walston, who informed me that his plan is to use the space as both a meeting location for catering clients and storage for his overstock of equipment (he cooks out of Cafe Coda). “Additionally, I have converted a portion of the warehouse floor, behind the roll-up door, into a dining/seating area to host private and pop-up events while serving out of my truck street side.” Sounds rad!

Stay tuned for updates.

BiG day I mentioned a few weeks ago that Chico’s three Dutch Bros. locations would be donating proceeds from sales on March 9, World Kidney Day, to the National Kidney Foundation. Turns out, according to a press release, donations equaled $9,000. Way to drink your coffee for a cause, Chico!

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Despite a rift with its biggest donor, the Museum of Northern California Art prepares to open in April

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Basic renderings from Griffith Architects showing the finished look of the new Museum of Northern California Art, including the west façade (left), the reception lobby and one of the four gallery spaces. iMages courtesy of griffith architects

Above: Monca board members (from left) Meghan Byers, Trudy Duisenberg and Pat Macias check in on construction at Veterans Memorial Hall. photo by Jordan rodrigues

Left: Reed Applegate, who donated 130 works from his art collection to Monca, at a museum event in Redding. photo courtesy of Monca

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hen the Museum of Northern California Art celebrates its grand opening on the weekend of April 22-23, one person long identified with it will not be there: Reed Applegate.

It was Applegate who, in 2011, said he wanted to donate his remarkable collection of paintings by Northern California artists to the museum, giving it a powerful boost just as it was forming.

At that time, the museum was more concept than reality. It had begun in 2009, when a group of Chico women with artistic leanings held a series of “visioning workshops” on how they could re-purpose the Veterans Memorial Hall on The Esplanade, which for 12 years had stood empty, unused by veterans. The idea of a museum eclipsed all others.

By 2011, the museum—now called the Museum of Northern California Art, Monca for short—had incorporated as a nonprofit with a mission “to make art accessible and promote awareness of Northern California artists through collections, exhibitions and educational programs.” At that point, Pat Macias, one of the founders of the museum,

initiated discussions with Applegate, who was eager to see his collection find a permanent home.

A lifelong Chico resident who still lives in the house he grew up in and inherited from his parents, Applegate, 74, began buying paintings in 1964. He vividly remembers his first purchase, a Käthe Kollwitz print titled “The March of the Weavers.” The price was $20.

Applegate is a robust man with thinning white hair who is a presence at many art openings around town. As he said during a recent interview at a downtown coffee shop, once he began collecting, he soon became “addicted,” focusing on Northern California artists. Eventually, he owned more paintings than he could handle. As they piled up, he began wondering: “What am I going to do with it? That’s when an idea clicked in: What about a museum?” He had the idea “right from the start.”

Nothing came of his idea, however, until many years later, when Monca’s founders began working in earnest to create a museum.

By 2011, the Monca directors were bus-

ily implementing their mission statement.

Lacking a home for the time being, they decided to take the museum out into the world so people could see its potential, that it’s more than just a bunch of paintings hanging on walls. Rather, an art museum is home to a constantly changing variety of MONCA c o n t i n u e d March 23, 2017

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activities and exhibits for everyone in the community, from children to seniors, veterans to disabled people.

They bought a van they dubbed their “mobile museum” and had it wrapped in their colorful logo.

The idea was to take art to schools, senior centers and kids’ clubs and introduce Monca to the public at community events such as A Taste of Chico and farmers’ markets. It was also to be used to visit other communities in Northern California, inasmuch as the museum intends to serve all of the region.

Meanwhile, the directors were working with the Butte County Board of Supervisors to forge an agreement for use of the vets hall, which for many decades had been the social center and meeting place for veterans and their families. The

supervisors could see that the museum offered the best hope for preservation of the iconic building, which is now 90 years old. Ultimately, Monca signed a 20-year lease with an annual rent of $1.

The understanding was that the museum would be located in the four rooms and foyer on the west side of the building, just inside the front entrance. The foyer separates two rooms on the north side from two rooms on the south side.

The county has been a supportive landlord, said Macias, president of Monca’s board, during a recent tour of the building. She pointed to a place in the back doorway where recent rains had caused severe leakage. The county has been quick to repair any damage, she said.

The museum has also received welcome support from local veterans’ groups, who are pleased to see the building that for decades was so important in their lives receiving such tender care.

In April 2012, the

museum hosted the first of seven “pop-up” exhibits, this one in an otherwise empty downtown storefront, with artworks selected by Applegate, who by this time had joined the 12-member board.

It was a “thank you” party as much as an art exhibit, with dozens of local artists and art lovers, including Monca board members, expressing their appreciation to Applegate for his generous donation.

At that point, the understanding was that Applegate intended to donate his entire collection, nearly 400 pieces. For the Monca directors, this was a major selling point. They needed to raise some $500,000 to refurbish the vets hall, a daunting sum. Having received a pledge of such a large collection gave them invaluable credibility.

Then Applegate changed his mind.

As he explained during his inter-

view with CN&R, he began to realize that he was losing control of his collection and had promised too

Veterans Memorial Hall remodel: The plans of architect David Griffith (left) are being carried out by Butte Construction. They include refurbishment of the reception lobby (top right) and the installation of free-standing interior walls to protect the art from sunlight. photos by Michele caMy (above) and Jason cassidy (left)

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much. So in mid-2013, he scaled back his gift, choosing to donate 130 works, not 400, “without restrictions” on how they were to be exhibited.

He acknowledges that the 130 pieces are of “lesser value” than others in the collection, with none costing him more than $1,000.

But in February 2016, he held out a carrot. He hinted that he would donate many more, if not most, of his paintings on condition that Monca exhibit the collection in the way he desired.

Specifically, he wanted the museum to exhibit only his paintings in the two north galleries during its first year of operation. He also wanted the southwest gallery dedicated to his collection for four months.

“I’m thinking in terms of the whole collection,” he said.

He envisions rotating shows three or four times a year, including a couple of themed shows—one on dogs, for example, or one on humor.

After a year, he wants his collection to be located in the two north rooms of the museum until the big auditorium on the east side of the building is retooled to free up space for it.

That change isn’t expected to occur for several years, however.

He doesn’t believe his demand is unreasonable. “I’m thinking there wouldn’t be a museum without me,” he said. “What I’ve given is far more than anyone else has.”

He cites the 40-plus years he’s

spent collecting the art and the “hundreds of thousands of dollars” spent on it, as well as the knowledge of the collection and individual pieces that he possesses. He doesn’t trust the board of directors to exhibit the art with the sensitivity he has.

To which Macias has a blunt response: “It’s the Museum of Northern California Art, not the Reed Applegate Museum.”

She and the other museum directors believe strongly that the museum needs to continue the kinds of innovative and imaginative exhibits and programs it has sponsored while waiting for the physical facility to be ready.

On the museum’s Facebook page, the museum directors state, “The vision of the museum is to extend its collection beyond the Applegate gift, not only in size, but also in breadth, to include video art, installation art and conceptual art.”

Applegate’s collection, as rich as it is, can’t sustain a year’s worth of exhibits by itself, they insist, nor should it.

Longtime local artist and entrepreneur—and Monca board member—David Hopper agrees. “Monca is much more than a static art museum,” he writes in a Facebook post.

“Monca will reach out and engage all ages, exciting the imagination, creating self-confidence, personal pride, and helping all to realize the joy of being creative.”

Flexibility and the ability to respond to changing circumstances are important for a museum. If an exciting traveling exhibit becomes available on short notice, museum directors want to be able to show

As Monca worked on securing a permanent home, the board members engaged the community at various workshops, events and pop-ups, including a collaboration with Idea Fabrication Labs (left) and a holiday pop-up in downtown Chico.

Photos courtesy of Monca

it. Or if a respected local artist dies, they want to be able to do a memorial exhibit. They’ve already announced that they will be recognizing the late artist and teacher James Kuiper, who died recently, with a show in the fall. That couldn’t happen if all the exhibit rooms were dedicated to paintings from Applegate’s collection.

Besides, it’s incorrect to suggest that there wouldn’t be a museum without Applegate’s collection. Led

by Macias, a retired art educator with seemingly boundless energy, the board has spent more than five years raising funds, developing an architectural design with Chico architect David Griffith, connecting with groups inside and outside the arts community (Chikoko, Idea Fabrication Lab, Habitat Lab), putting on the huge 900 Gala (a splashy affair that raised nearly $20,000), and generating public and political support, including a state grant for construction of a new accessibility ramp. It also has raised a significant amount of money by selling naming rights to the museum’s four rooms and foyer.

Along the way, board members made it a point to honor Applegate whenever it was appropriate—at the pop-ups and other events, through a documentary video about his collection, and in newspaper articles and on radio and television.

The disagreement peaked in July

2016, when the Monca directors voted unanimously, with Applegate being recused, that Monca could not meet his conditions while

“adhering to its stated organizational purposes and acting to advance Monca’s mission.”

Instead, they offered what they considered a compromise: For the first six months, the walls in the two large north galleries would be dedicated to Applegate’s paintings.

Then, for the following six months, the walls in one of the north galleries would display his paintings. In all cases, Monca would curate the exhibits.

Monca also stipulated that Applegate would donate 25 additional paintings that had been included in his offer of 130 paintings but never delivered.

Applegate didn’t respond to the board’s proposal, so on Aug. 5, 2016, the directors formally ended discussions with him, saying in a letter that the board “must now turn its attention to pressing work ahead as we prepare to open Monca’s doors next year.”

That pressing work includes dealing with unexpected obstacles— lead paint and asbestos that needed abatement before construction could begin, for example, and raising additional funds for the ADA ramp, which has yet to be built—and lining up a contractor, Butte Construction, to do the actual work.

One problem the building presented was the bank of large windows in each of the rooms.

Paintings can neither tolerate nor be exhibited in sunlight, so designs called for freestanding interior walls to be erected about two feet in front of the windows.

The most expensive upgrade was

installation of a new HVAC system.

At this first stage, the museum will inhabit about 4,000 of the building’s 17,000 square feet and comprise four rooms and the large foyer on the west side of the building. Long-range plans call first for retooling the huge auditorium space, with its stage on the east side, and then refurbishing the rooms in the basement downstairs from the current museum.

For his part, Reed Applegate will be

sitting out the grand opening. “I need a break [from the museum] after this last year,” he explained in a recent phone conversation.

The stress of not feeling appreciated, despite the 40 years he put into Examples of works creating the collection and his deep from Reed Applegate’s knowledge of the paintings and the donation to Monca artists who created them, was caus(from top): “Two Trees with Perspective” ing medical problems, he said.

(1997), intaglio by He doesn’t know what he’s David Smith Harrison; going to do with the rest of his “Marguerite Tells Her collection. He has a couple of Story,” acrylic painting

by Ray Kruger; “Santa cousins in Durham who will get Cruz Row Houses #2” some of the paintings; that still (1987), acrylic by will leave hundreds to find homes BB Smith. for. Storing artworks is not easy— Photos courtesy of Monca or cheap. They need to be in a climate-controlled and protected environment.

Does Applegate see any chance for Save the date: a better relationship Monca’s grand opening begins with Monca down the on saturday, april 22, from road? “Possibly,” he 5-7 p.m. for major donors (by invitation) and 7-9 p.m. for all replied. “I can imagdonors. saturday, april 23, is ine it.” the opening for veterans from Right now, though, 11 a.m.-1 p.m. and for the “my heart isn’t in it general public from 1-5 p.m.

900 esplanade. anymore.” Ω www.monca.org

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Arts &Culture What’s her name?

“Heart of Town,” monotype by Lynn Brofsky.

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Turner Museum celebrates women printmakers and manga artists

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up short, beyond Georgia O’Keeffe, don’t Qfeelcame bad. Art is a reflection of emotion and experiuick, name three famous female artists. If you

ence no matter the sex of its creator, but even though things have been turning around in the last half century or so, for milby lennia art by men has dominated.

Saunthy And with the primary focus on male Singh artistic expression, the world has missed out on half the population’s vision and voice.

Review: For its part, Chico State’s Know her Name: Turner Print Museum is celebratWomen Printmakers and Shojo manga ing Women’s History Month, artists, showing at with Know Her Name: Women the Turner through Printmakers and Shōjo Manga april 15. Opening talk Artists (up through April 15). The tonight (march 23), 5:30 p.m., in Zingg two-fisted exhibition features 17 recital hall followed prints by female artists culled by a by reception in the Chico State art history class from Turner. Shojo manga the Janet Turner collection paired talk by art professor with a U.S. tour of Shōjo Manga! masami Toku april 6, 5 p.m., in rowland Girls’ Power, Japanese shojo manga (“girls’ Taylor recital hall. manga”) comics by female artists.

A standout in the Turner portion of the Turner Print Museum exhibit is Lynn Brofsky’s “Heart of Town” arts & humanities Building monotype, a gripping look at a woman’s chico State experience using swashes of almost transpar898-4476 ent pigment that move the viewer’s eyes from www.janetturner.org the vacuous but thickly painted white top of the print down to the blue silhouette of a town that snakes through the heart of the central brown female figure. Her wrenching expression offers insight into her pain.

Nancy McIntyre delivers a taste of Americana in her serigraph “Screened Porch,” where rocking chairs beckon and the screen door keeps the bugs out in this close-up of yesteryear.

Working through 47 layers of oil-based paint, McIntyre created the illusion of a screen reminiscent of Edward Hopper’s painterly ambiance.

In a surrealistic vein, Carolyn Autry’s “Destins Tenebreux” aquatint offers pieces of architecture and room spaces where the patterned tension of the checkered floor gets broken up by puddled sunlight. The fine lines of doors, windows, a floating fence and a city skyline move across the piece like frames from different film noir movies—all hard edged save for a lone curvilinear aspect—a vase perched on a table.

At first glance, the veiled woman in “La Consulta” by Leticia Tarragó recalls a burqa, but the exposed chicken feet

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Special Events THIS WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE: Two days of panel presentations, workshops, guest speakers and tours to engage the community in all areas of sustainability. Visit site for full details. Thu, 3/23, 8am-9pm. Chico State-Bell Memorial Union, W. Second St. www.csuchico.edu/sustainablefuture/conference

Art Receptions KNOW HER NAME: A reception for works by women printmakers in the Turner Print Collection along with a selection of contemporary Shojo Manga women artists. Thu, 3/23, 5:30pm. Turner Print Museum, Chico State.

dispel the connection in this highly textured color etching.

In contrast to the Turner prints, in the 11 shōjo manga works, most female characters are idealized specimens, reflecting nary a clue to their Japanese creators. Most have light or blonde hair and peer out from the art form’s typical wide eyes.

But their oversweet countenances belie their true stories.

Masako Watanabe’s “Sei Rosalind” (Saint Rosalind) pen and ink with colored wash on paper seems all sugar and spice, with coquettish, saucer-blue eyes framed by carefully coiffed blonde curls, adorned with a big pink bow. But 8-year-old Rosalind is not everything nice, as her story reveals her penchant for murder. The only clue to her real bad-seed persona is an easily missed outline of a dripping hand in the right hand corner.

Shōjo manga pioneer Moto Hagio’s pen and ink “Lady Pluto” offers a smiling woman, silvery and shimmering with shiny balls sprinkled on her gown. But those balls are really plutonium reflecting the disaster at Japan’s Fukushima nuclear power plant.

In “Daughter of Iguanam,” Hagio speaks out on the ageold issue of beauty standards. Can any female ever be pretty enough? No way, if your mom looks like a big lizard.

And Hagio’s “Mother Figure” cuts a dark commentary on gender. A weathered female is really a sci-fi experiment—a man with organ transplants who births only men. Black lace curtains fail to soften or feminize the creature in her chilling piece.

The juxtaposition of varying styles in the West meets East exhibit shows how sex and gender really do matter in art. □

Music PARADISE COMMUNITY BAND – FOUR-BAND FEST: Four high-school bands— from Oroville, Paradise and Chico—take the PPAC stage. Thu, 3/23, 7pm. Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise. www.paradiseperformingarts.com

Theater GOOD WITH FACES: World premiere of local playwright Hilary Tellesen’s farcical look at psychotherapy. Thu, 3/23, 7:30pm. $15-$18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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FOREVER YOUNG PROM NIGHT: A night of music from the 1980s, plus appetizers, photo booth and adult beverages for purchase to benefit North Valley Freedom Foundation, an at-risk youth empowerment nonprofit. Sat, 3/25, 7pm. $30/person - $50/couple. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

LOBSTER FEED: A fundraiser for Do-It Leisure, a

MUSIC FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with local experimental troupe Bogg. Fri, 3/24, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

Theater GOOD WITH FACES: See Thursday. Fri, 3/24, 7:30pm. $15 - $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

JEEVES & WOOSTER IN COME ON, JEEVES!: See Thursday. Fri, 3/24, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise.

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THE ODD COUPLE: See Thursday. Fri, 3/24, 7:30pm. $14 - $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

JEEVES & WOOSTER IN COME ON, JEEVES!: The further adventures of Bertie Wooster, his gentleman’s gentleman, Jeeves, and butler, Seppings are brought to life in a mastery of split-second costume changes and a tour de force of comic lunacy. Thu, 3/23, 7:30pm. $10$18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 877-5760.

THE ODD COUPLE: Neil Simon’s classic mismatched-buddy dramedy about the fastidious Felix rooming with Oscar the slob. Thu, 3/23, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

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Special Events DURHAM SCHOOL GALA: The third annual gala dinner and fundraiser for Durham Elementary. Email durhamgala@gmail.com for info. Fri, 3/24, 5:30pm. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.eventbrite.com

ENVIRONMENTAL COALITION GATHERING: Immediately after Chico State’s sustainability conference, come join a conversation about what issues are impacting Butte County’s land, air and water, and the importance of working together to resolve them. Free appetizers will be provided and adult beverages will be available for purchase. Fri, 3/24, 5-8pm. Free. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

THIS WAY TO SUSTAINABILITY CONFERENCE: See Thursday. Visit site for full details. Fri, 3/24, 8am-5pm. Chico State - Bell Memorial Union, W. Second St. www.csuchico.edu/ sustainablefuture/conference

Art Receptions SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Reception for Linda Good’s spontaneous acrylic paintings. Fri, 3/24, 4am. Free. Sally Dimas Art Gallery, 493 East Ave. Ste 1. 345-3063.

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Special Events BIDWELL PARK CLEAN-UP: Come by the Horseshoe Lake parking lot anytime between 10am and 3pm to sign in and get supplies (if needed), then head out on your own to go pick up litter! Sat, 3/25, 10am. Horseshoe Lake Parking Lot (east side of lake), Bidwell Park.

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CHICO GUN SHOW: Two days of guns! Sat, 3/25, 9am. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St.

division of Work Training Center, featuring a lobster dinner, plus both non alcoholic and alcoholic beverages. Sat, 3/25, 5pm. $125.

Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. 343-6055

STORY OF RICHARDSON SPRINGS: Mike and Richard Boggs and Barbara Kelly, descendants of the Chico Richardson family, will tell the story of Richardson Springs with photos, letters, family artifacts and personal reflection. Sat, 3/25, 10am. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St. 891-4336.

TRANS/GNC WEEK: Workshops, an art show, dances, trainings, youth meetings and more during this week of learning and special events. Sat, 3/25. Various locations. 8933336. www.transgnc.com

WALK4WATER: The annual 2K/5K walk/educational event to raise money for Bridging the Gap, an organization committed to building water systems in developing countries. Register to walk and collect pledges. Sat, 3/25, 8:30am. Bidwell Perk, 664 E. 1st Ave. (530) 342-5746. www.btg4water.org

Art Receptions LIGHT OF DAWN: A reception for a new exhibit of mixed-media paintings by Johnn Dutro.

Featuring performances by Roxy Doll, Billy the Robot an others. Sat, 3/25, 6pm. Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse, 118 W. Second St.

Theater GOOD WITH FACES: See Thursday. Sat, 3/25, 7:30pm. $15 - $18. Blue Room Theatre,

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DANCE CHICO! - LUCKY PLUSH: Kicking off Chico Performances’ third annual Dance Chico! week is the Chicago-based dance company Lucky Plush in a program called Trip the Light Fantastic. Sat, 3/25, 7:30pm. $10-$32.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 898-6333.

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THE ODD COUPLE: See Thursday. Sat, 3/25, 7:30pm. $14-$18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 894-3282.

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Special Events CHICO GUN SHOW: Two days of guns! Sun, 3/26, 9am. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.chicogunshow.com

CHICO KITE DAY: Pick up a kite and get outside and enjoy the early spring winds during this annual Chico tradition. Sun, 3/26, 12pm. Community Park, 1900 Martin Luther King Jr. Pkwy.

CHICO SONS OF ITALY SPAGHETTI DINNER: The annual 4-H scholarship fundraising spaghetti and meatball dinner. Tickets available at Spiteri’s Deli and Great Harvest on Mangrove. Sun, 3/26, 1pm. $14-$16. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave. 682-5641.

TRANS/GNC WEEK: See Saturday. Sun, 3/26. Various Locations. 893-3336.

Music FABULOUS WOMEN IN CONCERT: In celebration of Women’s History Month, an eclectic concert featuring female musicians from the local scene, including Holly Taylor, Shigehmi Minetaka, LeAnn Cooley, Wiley’s Coyote, Alli

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COMEDIAN RYAN SINGER: The L.A. comic headlines a packed bill of local comedians, including Mark Leathers, Scott Powers, Rich Morarre, Sydney Hupp and host Travis Dowdy. Sat, 3/25, 9pm. $10. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

JEEVES & WOOSTER IN COME ON, JEEVES!: See Thursday. Sat, 3/25, 7:30pm. $10-$18. Theatre

LeT’S DaNce Chico State’s Chico Performances kicks off spring by kicking up its heels with a festival of dance. This year’s Dance Chico! starts with a performance by Lucky Plush in Laxson Auditorium, Friday, March 25.

The Chicago troupe will perform a dance/theater program titled Trip the Light Fantastic, “paying homage to classic pulp novels and comic books.” Dance Chico! continues through April 2, with a showing of the classic film Dirty Dancing at the Pageant Theatre on Tuesday, March 28, and more dancers and dancing opportunities the following week.

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Theater SCHOOL OF ROCK: PVHS music and theater departments have joined forces to present Rodgers and Hammerstein’s musical. Wed, 3/29, 7pm. $10-$12. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 570-2262.

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B-SO SPACE: Travis Wood: BFA Culminating Exhibition, 3/24. Ayres Hall, Chico State.

CHICO ART CENTER: Replication Machine, a contemporary living art machine. Artists will replicate objects brought in by the public.

Anyone can submit items to receive reproductions free of charge. 3/23 - 3/30. 450 Orange St.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ken W. Moore, oil paintings and pencil drawings by Northern

California artist Ken W. Moore. 3/23 3/29. 265 Cohasset Road (inside Enloe Cancer Center), 332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings by Sal Casa, early collection of the artist’s paintings representing his changing styles and perspectives. 3/23 - 3/29. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

MATADOR MOTEL: Call For Art for the 7th annual Art at the Matador arts festival (May 12-13). Call for a prospectus. 3/23 3/29. 1934 Esplanade, 318-2105.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: Light of Dawn, an exhibit by Johnny Dutro, featuring 20 mixed-media paintings. 3/25 3/29. 118 W. Second St.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing exhibits, rotating exhibits featuring local artists. 493 East Ave., 345-3063.

THE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Artwork of Molly LittleBird, recycled materials, mostly paper combined with acrylic paints to make textured abstract wall art. 3/23 - 3/29. 789 Bille Road, Paradise.

TIN ROOF BAKERY: Rivers and Streams, paintings by Nicolai Larsen. 3/23 - 3/29. 627 Broadway St., suite 170.

TRINITY COMMONS: In Memory of Cesar Chavez Art Gallery, the Office of Diversity and Inclusion at Chico State hosts a one-day art show honoring the memory of the great labor/civil-rights activist. 3/28. Chico State.

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BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Branding Irons, a new display of more than 200 branding irons. 3/23-3/29. $2. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO AIR MUSEUM: Housed in a large refurbished 1941 WW II Army Air Corps hangar with an outdoor area featuring airplanes on display. 3/2-3/29. 165 Ryan Ave.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. 3/23-3/29. $2-$4.

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In the summer enjoy Mexican Taquisas with authentic Pastor tacos slow-roasted in our vertical grill and Suadero tacos made Mexico City-style.

CHICO MUSEUM: Chico Through Time, ongoing exhibit featuring Chico timeline, historic artifacts and photos, plus a preserved Chinese temple and a new exhibit on Hmong life in Chico. 3/23-3/29. 141 Salem St. www.chicomuseum.org

COLMAN MUSEUM: Cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. 3/23-3/29. 13548 Centerville Road.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Toys: The Inside Story, an exhibit featuring 12 hands-on stations illustrating the simple mechanisms found in most toys. Ongoing exhibit: Chico’s science museum features rotating special exhibits, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of Ice Age skeletons. 625 Esplanade.

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: The refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a railroad and logging museum. There is a working model train. Free. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 872-8722.

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VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Hmong Reflections: Stories of Our Own, Hmong history, culture and identity as told by students from the local Hmong community. 3/23-3/29. Meriam Library, Chico State.

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Check website for details. Fri, 3/24, 9:30pm.

Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

EVERETT COAST: This duo writes original tunes across multiple genres, from pop and hip-hop to folk and country. Fri, 3/24, 8:30pm. Free.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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GUIDANCE BAND: Roots/reggae all the way from Hawaii. Fri, 3/24, 9pm.

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AMBROSIA: Three founders of the lightrock legends play the hits (“How Much I Feel,” “You’re the Biggest Part of Me”). Thu, 3/23, 8:30pm. $15.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfalls casino.com

CHICO JAZZ COLLECTIVE: Thursday night jazz featuring local musicians. Thu, 3/23, 8pm. Free. The DownLo, 319 Main St.

MAX MINARDI, MAWD, KYLE WILLIAMS: An intimate cafe performance with three of Chico’s favorite troubadours. Thu, 3/23, 7:30pm. $10. Naked Lounge Tea and Coffeehouse, 118 W. Second St.

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IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with traditional Irish music by the Pub Scouts. Fri, 3/24, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

JEFF PERSHING, WILEY’S COYOTE, LOKI MILLER BAND: All-local Friday night with funk/world/jam mainstays the Jeff Pershing Band, eclectic songbirds Wiley’s Coyote, and fun covers

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JESSIE LEIGH BAND: Live country music

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MADISON HUDSON BAND: Wheatland country singer and band visit the Tackle Box. Fri, 3/24, 9pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave.

OPEN MIC: All-ages open mic hosted by

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DRAG ME UNDER: Chico Area Punks present the Reno metal/hardcore crew with a trio of locals, Detained,

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beverages for purchase to benefit North Valley Freedom Foundation, an at-risk youth empowerment nonprofit. Sat, 3/25, 7pm. $30/ person-$50/couple. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

MICHAEL BECK BAND: Nor Cal country

singer/songwriter and band. Sat, 3/25, 9pm. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave.

THIS WEEK: FIND mOrE ENTErTaINmENT aND SPEcIaL EVENTS ON PaGE 22 SPRING SOWING CIRCLE: From the Ground Up community garden program presents its annual spring fundraising concert featuring performances by Smokey the Groove, Family Business Music, The Ascenders and D-Low. Sat, 3/25, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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KOVAA RASVAA: Hardcore all the way from Finland, plus a ton of fast, heavy, hectic local support from the Jefferson Crew roster, including Outside Looking In, Tri-Lateral Dirts Commission, Stares and Killjar. Mon, 3/27, 8pm. $7. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

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party for Sierra Nevada’s seasonal warm-weather standby. Live music. Mon, 3/27, 6pm. $10. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., 892-4647.

FABULOUS WOMEN IN CONCERT: In celebration of Women’s History Month, an eclectic concert featuring female musicians from the local scene, including Holly Taylor, Shigemi Minetaka, LeAnn Cooley, Wiley’s Coyote, Alli Battaglia, Sherri Quammen, and many more. Sun, 3/26, 5:30pm. $10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

maDISON hUDSON BaND POSEYS: Live music. Sat, 3/25, 5pm.

Rock House, 11865 State Hwy 70, Yankee Hill.

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SKIN PEAKS, SCULPTURE CLUB, THE TISSUES: Skin Peaks headlines a

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 3/25, 5pm. Scotty’s Boat Landing, 12609 River Road, 710-2020.

knockout Sunday night, with openers Sculpture Club in from Salt Lake City and The Tissues from Los Angeles. Sun, 3/26, 9pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

SKYNNYN LYNNYRD: Lynyrd Skynyrd

tribute band. Sat, 3/25, 9:30pm. $5.

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open mic. Bring guitars, fiddles and whatever other instrument you enjoy and share some tunes. Wed, 3/29, 5:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 343-4915.

LOCALS ONLY WEDNESDAYS: This week’s edition of the always local, always eclectic showcase features: Sofa King, Blood Cabana, Sickynar (Zeke Cottrell) and Frugality (Ashton Bitton). Wed, 3/29, 9pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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Saved by the Belle Emma Watson rescues Disney redo

Btale,mated musical adaptation of the classic French fairy has become the latest film on Disney’s Live Redo eauty and the Beast, Disney’s wonderful 1991 ani-

of a Beloved Animated Movie assembly line. This one is a big budget effort starring Emma Watson as the iconic Belle and Ewan by McGregor as a CGI candelabra.

Bob Grimm You’re asking yourself, “Is this bg ri m m @ absolutely necessary?” new srev i ew. c o m The answer: No. No, it is not.

After hearing this answer, you take a walk with a nice cup of tea and your thoughts. You sit in the shade under your favorite tree and contemplate the plight of American Beauty and movies today, for you like to crowd the Beast Starring Emma your mind with trivial things while Watson, Dan Stevens, drinking herbal mixtures.

Ewan McGregor and Then, you ask yourself, “OK, if Ian McKellen. Directed it isn’t necessary, is it at least an

by Bill condon. enjoyable pastime? I like enjoyable cinemark 14, Feather river cinemas and pastimes. They help distract me from Paradise cinema 7. all of this trivial shit in my head.” rated PG. The answer: Why, yes, it is an enjoyable distraction, even if it is completely unnecessary.

The movie isn’t a shot-for-shot remake of the original. However, it does follow a lot of the same plot points and incorporates enough of the musical numbers to give you that sense of déjà vu.

Hermione makes for a strong Belle, and Watson’s performance is what makes the film worthwhile. Since director Bill Condon retains the music from the original animated movie, Watson is asked to sing, and it’s pretty evident that Auto-Tune is her friend. She has a Kanye West vocal thing going.

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fame) gives a decent enough performance via motion capture. The original intent was to have a live Stevens wearing prosthetics, but he probably looked like Mr. Snuffleupagus, so they called upon the help of beloved computers. And the CGI creation blends in nicely with his totally human, organic cast member.

The cast and crew labor to make musical numbers like “Gaston” and “Be Our Guest” pop with the creative energy of the animated version, but they don’t quite reach those heights. They are nicely rendered, for sure, but not on the masterpiece level of the original.

As for the romance between Belle and the Beast, it has a nice emotional payoff. In a way, the movie is a sweet tribute to the animated movie, rather than being a movie that truly stands on its own.

Where does the film stack up with the other, recent redos of animated Disney classics? I would put it well above Pete’s Dragon, but below Cinderella and The Jungle Book, which were more solid and a little more on the original side.

There are worse things to do in cinemas right now than watch a good enough retake on a Disney classic starring a favorite member of the Potter universe.

Beauty and the Beast tastes good, yet is ultimately empty fluff. Face it, Disney has the money to throw away on ventures such as this and, given its box office takes, this train is going to keep on rolling. The Lion King, Aladdin, Dumbo, Peter Pan and Mulan are just a few of the remakes coming down the tracks. Actually, pretty much everything the company has done up until now is being remade.

In short, with the redo juggernaut, plus Star Wars and Marvel franchises all under its dome, Disney is so big, it will be governing the planet soon. Stay tuned for Disney Health Care, a Disney Missile Defense System and Mickey Mouse for president.

Oh, wait, that last one has happened already. □

Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

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An R-rated reboot of the classic 1970s/’80s buddy-cop TV show, with Dax Shepard (who also wrote and directed) and Michael Pena starring as the iconic Jon and Ponch, respectively, two CHP motorcycle cops keeping the peace on the highways. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Dirty Dancing (1987)

Part of Chico State’s Dance Chico! week, a showing of the classic romantic dance flick starring Patrick Swayze and Jennifer Grey. One night, two showings: Tuesday, March 28, 6 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

The Decline of Western Civilization (1981)

Penelope Spheeris’ documentary on the L.A. punk scene is this week’s Late Show screening. One showing: Sunday, March 25, 11 p.m.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

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The Marx Brothers classic is this week’s Pageant Repertory Series feature. One showing: Sunday, March 26, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Life

A sci-fi horror flick starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Rebecca Ferguson and Ryan Reynolds as three members of the crew trapped on a space station with a deadly alien creature that needs to be destroyed before it can wreak havoc on Earth. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Power Rangers

The 1990s TV show gets another reboot with this film version based on the original series about the teen superhero team tasked with protecting the world. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Wilson

Woody Harrelson stars as a quirky, neurotic and lonely middle-aged man who, after reuniting with his estranged wife, sets out to connect with a teen daughter he never knew he had. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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In the Colombia offices of an American company, 80 white-collar workers are locked inside a high rise and encouraged by a voice coming over loudspeakers to engage in a game of kill or be killed. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Get Out

The directorial debut for comedian Jordan Peele (Key & Peele) is actually not a comedy.

Not really. It’s a horror flick about a young black man and his white girlfriend who visit her family’s suburban neighborhood, where

mysterious things go down. Cinemark 14.

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An all-star cast (Samuel L. Jackson, Tom Hiddleston, John C. Reilly, John Goodman) joins the biggest ape of all—plus a collection of other oversized creatures—on a freaky island in this reboot of the monster-movie classic. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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The LEGO Batman Movie is a great Batman story, with Will Arnett voicing Batman with a super-amped, still dark but amazingly well-rounded and sometimes humorous incarnation. After all of these years watching dark (and sometimes brilliant) Batman movies, it’s nice to have one where we can also have fun with the character. And director Chris McKay—along with a long list of writers—has come up with a story that will please adult Batman fans as much as the kids. Arnett’s Batman not only faces off against the Joker (a very funny Zach Galifianakis), but also finds himself in a scenario where he’s battling a smorgasbord of movie villains including King Kong, the Gremlins, Dracula, evil British robots and Harry Potter’s Lord Voldemort (Eddie Izzard), to name just a few. It’s a geek fest, a movie lover’s delight that has funny little trivia bits at nearly every turn, and an emotional center (Batman has family issues; the Joker longs to be hated) that gives the movie a surprising depth among the chaos.

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Patio grill is a hit at new taqueria

Isurrounded grill on a food cart with a raised dome in the center by a moat filled with a variety of meats. n my dreams, I see a “taco machine.” Imagine a

Corn tortillas are dipped in the oil then layered across the dome before being filled with carne asada, pollo, carnitas, or whatever other meats are gently frying in the moat and then topped with chopped onions and cilantro.

The taco machine is real, and it’s a thing of beauty.

And when it’s parked outside on the covered patio in front of story and Tacos Pepe—it’s a highly effecphoto by Jason Cassidy tive selling point for the newly opened restaurant on the corner j aso nc @ of West Fifth and Cedar streets new srev i ew. c o m (in the old Teddy Malibu’s spot).

Tacos Pepe was opened in January

by Maricela Campanero HHH1/2 and Teddy Malibu’s owner Jose Tacos Pepe 1002 W. Fifth St. Torres, but I didn’t find out about 566-7745 the place until I saw tantalizing www.facebook.com/ images shared on Facebook by tacos.pepe.376 local artist Ayejay Morano with the caption: “Sorry all other tacos hours: Sun., 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; in Chico, Tacos Pepe just took Tues., 11 a.m.-10 p.m.; over, overnight.” After several Wed.-Thurs., 11 a.m.-9 p.m.; drooling comments, a wave of Fri.-Sat., 11 a.m.-3 a.m. proselytes was on its way across closed Mon. the train tracks.

My first foray was for lunch, and my first taste of Tacos Pepe HHHHH was … not a taco. Turns out the EPIc taco machine is up and running HHHH only four days of the week, and aUThOrITaTIVE only at night. It’s fired up on HHH the weekends for the Friday and aPPEaLING Saturday nightcrawlers as well as HH Sunday and Tuesday nights for haS MOMENTS the $1 taco specials.

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taco impression, I got the chili relleno plate with rice, beans and corn tortillas ($5) plus a tamarind agua fresca from the fountain, and ate it in the taqueria’s tiny dining room. The chili rellenos were amazing on most counts—light and flaky, perfectly deep-fried shell around a rich and mildly spicy pasilla pepper and no sauce on top sogging things down. The only issue was the bland cheese used for the filling—something a little green salsa from the salsa bar helped remedy. The rice was good, but the refried beans were incredible, salty and meaty-flavored.

Taco machine schedule noted, I returned for a Friday night dinner. Things were just getting started when I got there, so I got to watch the setup. First, the moat is filled with oil and chopped onions, which cook through before precooked meats are added to the party, with big peppers placed as “borders” between each variety.

The grillmaster is Pepe Tolentino, the restaurant’s namesake, and on the nights I visited, his chosen meats were carne asada, carnitas, pollo, chorizo and cabeza (cow’s head). After a little online sleuthing, I found that this method of taco preparation has a name, “tacos de fritanga” (fried tacos), referring to how the meats are cooked slowly in the oil until tender yet crispy around the edges. Which is exactly how each of the varieties I tried (I had them all!) came out.

With the freshly fried corn tortillas and the contrasting balance of onions and cilantro and a splash of any of the house-made salsas (and a price of only $1.50 each on regular nights), they were perfect, with a super-rich depth of flavor that beats out most if not all of my local faves. The spicy chorizo and unctuous/fatty cabeza were my favorites.

I should note that the cart isn’t actually called a “taco machine.” I did find domed “comal bola” pans online, but Pepe didn’t have a name for his contraption, so I just went what with my grumbling gut was repeating— “taco machine, taco machine”—and I’ll never call it anything else. □

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DeaD Out West I was introduced to parts one and two of Penelope spheeris’ decline of Western Civilization documentaries at about the same time in the

alWays visible Arts DEVO identifies as a cisgender male, I think. The gender part of that label is probably something I chose based on how I imagine others see me. In truth, my ideal gender designation, if I’m choosing from the available lists, would be “agender,” although “gender queer” sounds pretty rad, too!

This week, Chico’s stonewall alliance kicks off Trans/GnC Week, March 25-April 7, and as you can see by the extra initials, this year the event has added “gender non-conforming” to its title. In addition to the many workshops and special events designed to “educate, celebrate, honor and bring more awareness to trans people,” Stonewall will be hosting an art show at its office (358 E. Sixth St.) throughout the event, with an opening reception this Saturday, March 25, 6-9 p.m. Visit www.transgnc.com for more info.

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very-late-1980s (if memory serves), and I was entranced by both.

Part One (1981), the punk one, playing at the Pageant this Sunday night (March 26, at 11 p.m.), introduced me to a wild punk scene—L.A., 1979-1980—that I hadn’t yet explored. The X segments were far and away my favorites. But scenes of the Circle Jerks, Black Flag and the Germs and their unhinged frontman darby Crash broadened my horizons as to the exciting possibilities of danger in a rock performance (the seeds of which had been planted a few Pat Smear (from Decline of Western Civilization, years earlier after witnessPart One) ing The Cramps in Urgh! a Music War during one of those epic night Flight marathons on Usa network). And Part Two: The Metal Years (1988), largely focused on the then-blooming hair-metal scene of the mid-1980s, was something I was already very familiar with and had followed religiously—and laughably tried to emulate—during my early high-school years.

I’ve revisited both films many times since, and over the years, the aesthetics of the punk scene have definitely aged better than those of the vapid hair-metal dudes. Spheeris cast a wide interview net for the much more expansive metal edition, but only a handful of the artists still hold my interest—the dudes from aerosmith and Lemmy, among a few others. It’s still a fascinating documentary with a lot of kick-ass music, but it’s hard to stomach some of frat-boy douchiness and rock-star posturing (see: Paul stanley of Kiss conducting his interview on a bed of women).

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF march 23, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Of course

you want to get the best of everything.

But that doesn’t mean you should disdain cheap thrills that are more interesting and gratifying than the expensive kind.

And of course you enjoy taking risks. But there’s a big difference between gambling that’s spurred by superstitious hunches and gambling rooted in smart research.

And of course you’re galvanized by competition. But why fritter away your competitive fire on efforts to impress people? A better use of that fire is to use it to hone your talents and integrity.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you own

an untamable animal like a bull, the best way to manage it is to provide a fenced but spacious meadow where it can roam freely. So said famous Zen teacher Shunryu Suzuki, using a metaphor to address how we might deal with the unruly beasts in our own psyches. This is excellent advice for you right now, Taurus. I’d hate to see you try to quash or punish your inner wild thing. You need its boisterous power! It will be a fine ally if you can both keep it happy and make it work for you.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): If I were

to provide a strict interpretation of the astrological omens, I’d advise you to party hardy and rowdy and strong and often. I’d suggest that you attend a raging bash or convivial festivity once every day. And if that were logistically impossible, I’d advise you to stage your own daily celebrations, hopefully stocked with the most vivacious and stimulating people you can find. But I recognize that this counsel may be too extreme for you to honor. So I will simply invite you to party hardy and rowdy and strong at least twice a week for the next four weeks. It’s the medicine you need.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): You are

on the verge of achieving a sly victory over the part of you that is unduly meek and passive. I believe that in the coming weeks you will rise up like a resourceful hero and at least half-conquer a chronic fear. A rumbling streak of warrior luck will flow through you, enabling you to kill off any temptation you might have to take the easy way out. Congratulations in advance, my fellow Cancerian! I have rarely seen our tribe have so much power to triumph over our unconscious attraction to the victim role.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Leo journal entry,

Thursday: Am too settled and stale and entrenched. Feeling urges to get cheeky and tousled. Friday: So what if I slept a little longer and arrived late? Who cares if the dishes are piling up in the sink? I hereby refuse law and order. Saturday: I’m fantasizing about doing dirty deeds.

I’m thinking about breaking the taboos.

Sunday: Found the strangest freshness in a place I didn’t expect to. Sometimes chaos is kind of cute and friendly. Monday: The nagging voice of the taskmaster in my head is gone. Ding-dong. Let freedom ring!

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): William Boyd

writes novels, which require him to do copious research about the real-world milieus he wants his fictional characters to inhabit. For example, to ensure the authenticity of his book Waiting for Sunrise, he found out what it was like to live in Vienna in 1913. He compares his process of searching for juicy facts to the feeding habits of a blue whale: engorging huge amounts of seawater to strain out the plankton that are good to eat. Ninety percent of the information he wades through is irrelevant, but the rest is tasty and nourishing. I suspect you’ll thrive on a similar approach in the coming weeks, Virgo. Be patient as you search for what’s useful.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Here’s a new word for you: enantiodromia. It’s what happens when something turns into its opposite. It’s nature’s attempt to create equilibrium where there has been imbalance. Too much no becomes yes, for example. A superabundance of yin mutates into yang, or an overemphasis on control generates chaos. Flip-flops like these

by rob brezsny tend to be messy if we resist them, but interesting if we cooperate. I figure that’s your choice right now. Which will it be? The latter, I hope. P.S. The reversals that you consciously co-create may not be perfect.

But even if they are baffling, I bet they will also be amusing and magnificent.

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

I was 24, I lived in rural North Carolina and had a job washing dishes in a city four miles away. I was too poor to own a bicycle, let alone a car. To get to work I had to trudge down backroads where hostile dogs and drunk men in pickup trucks roamed freely. Luckily, I discovered the art of psychic protection. At first I simply envisioned a golden force field surrounding me. Later I added visualizations of guardian animals to accompany me: two friendly lions and two sheltering wolves.

Maybe it was just the placebo effect, but the experiment worked. My allies made me brave and kept me safe. You’re welcome to borrow them, Scorpio, or conjure up your own version of spirit protectors. You’re not in physical danger, but I suspect you need an extra layer of protection against other people’s bad moods, manipulative ploys and unconscious agendas.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

I’m not suggesting you should listen to your heart with rapt attention every waking minute for the next four weeks. I don’t expect you to neglect the insights your mind has to offer. But I would love to see you boost your attunement to the intelligent organ at the center of your chest.

You’re going to need its specific type of guidance more than ever in the coming months. And at this particular moment, it is beginning to overflow with wisdom that’s so rich and raw that it could unleash a series of spiritual orgasms.

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

empty space at the end of this sentence has intentionally been left blank. The serene hiatus you just glided through comes to you courtesy of Healing Silence, an ancient form of do-it-yourself therapy.

Healing Silence is based on the underappreciated truth that now and then it’s restorative to just shut up and abstain from activity for a while. (As you know, the world is crammed with so much noise and frenzy that it can be hard to hear yourself think—or even feel.) With Healing Silence, you bask in a sanctuary of sweet nothingness for as long as you need to. Please try it sometime soon. Wrap yourself in the luxurious void of Healing Silence.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I hope

you won’t feel the need to say any of these things: (1) “I’m sorry I gave you everything I had without making sure you wanted it.”

(2) “Will you please just stop asking me to be so real.” (3) “I long for the part of you that you’ll never give me.” Now here are things I hope you will say sometime soon: (1) “I thrived because the fire inside me burned brighter than the fire around me.”

(This declaration is lifted from novelist Joshua Graham.) (2) “I’m having fun, even though it’s not the same kind of fun everyone else is having.” (Borrowed from author C.S. Lewis.) (3) “I’m not searching for who I am. I’m searching for the person I aspire to be.” (Stolen from author Robert Brault.)

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Are you

fantasizing more about what you don’t have and can’t do than what you do have and can do? If so, please raise the “do have” and “can do” up to at least 51 percent. (Eighty percent would be better.) Have you been harshly critiquing yourself more than you have been gently taking care of yourself? If so, get your self-care level up to at least 51 percent.

(Eight-five percent is better.) Are you flirting with a backward type of courage that makes you nervous about what everyone thinks of you and expects from you? If so, I invite you to cultivate a different kind of courage at least 51 percent of the time: courage to do what’s right for you no matter what anyone thinks or expects. (Ninety percent is better.)

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WILLIAM MICHAEL ZIMMERMAN 3283 Mount Whitney Ct Chico, CA 95973.

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KAFELE T. HODARI, MD INCORPORATED 9 Lily Way Chico, CA 95928.

STEPHEN A. VANNUCCI, MD INCORPORATED 876 Whispering Winds Ln Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing

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LORI MONIAN 5 Nancy Lane Chico, CA 95926.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MUSIC FOR ALL at 420 Maple Street Chico, CA 95928.

EMILY HILBERS 7997 Butte Avenue Sutter, CA 95982.

RYAN RODRIGUEZ 420 Maple Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CANDLE at 2 El Cerrito Drive Chico, CA 95973.

MICHELLE GILE 2 El Cerrito Drive Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as RIPARIA, LLC at 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928.

EMILY ALMA 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928.

LESLIE JOHNSON 2310 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928.

SHELDON PRAISER 2300 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928.

GUTHRIE SMITH 302 Salvas Road Huntington, VT 05462.

ROBERT TRAUSCH 2310 Estes Road Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GMO FREE CALIFORNIA at 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95926.

PAMELA LARRY 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95927.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FASHION NAILS SPA at 2061 Dr Martin Luther King Jr Pky # 162 Chico, CA 95928.

PHUC HO 1527 Desdemona Ct San Jose, CA 95121.

TUYEN NGUYEN 3286 Vin Santo Ln San Jose, CA 95148.

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JUSTIN R ALWARD 2961 Highway 32 Suite 37 Chico, CA 95973.

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FICTITIOuS BuSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NEWTON-BRACEWELL CREMATION AND FUNERAL SERVICE at 7675 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

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ASHLEY REIMER 31 Floating Cloud Drive Chico, CA 95928.

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KRISTEN HORST 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969.

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Signed: KRISTEN HORST Dated: March 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000333 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as D SQUARED CONSULTING at 1661 Hooker Oak Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

DUNCAN G DRUMMOND 1661 Hooker Oak Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: DUNCAN DRUMMOND Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000341 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO LIFE RESTORED at 95 Declaration Drive Suite 5 Chico, CA 95973.

ROSS W TYE MD PHD 3 Solar Estates Drive Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO EXPRESS CLEANERS, INC at 752 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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LYNN MARIE TOSELLO 466 Panama Avenue Chico, CA 95973-1251.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27944 at 1930 East 20th Street Chico, CA 95928.

OCAT LLC 4306 Sisk Rd Modesto, CA 95356.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FOOD FROM THE HEART OF CHICO at 3045 Chico River Road Chico, CA 95928-9627.

HIS THING INC 3045 Chico River Road Chico, CA 95928-9627.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing busienss as JEWELS NDIGENOUS ROYAL BOUTIQUE at 1907 Mangrove Suite D Chico, CA 95928.

SALATHIA WILLIAMS 3207 Monticello Lane, Apt C Chico, CA 95973.

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Signed: SALATHIA WILLIAMS Dated: March 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000363 Published: March 23,30, April 6,13, 2017

FICTITOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TACO BELL #27946 at 757 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

OCAT LLC 4306 Sisk Rd Modesto, CA 95356.

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Signed: DAVID OLSON, PRESIDENT Dated: February 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000271 Published: March 23,30, April 6,13, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO EXPRESS CLEANERS, INC at 641 Walnut Street Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO EXPRESS CLEANERS, INC 641 Walnut Street Chico, CA 95928.

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NOTICES CITATION FOR PUBLICATION UNDER WELFARE AND INSTITUTIONS CODE SECTION 294 To (names of persons to be notified, if known, including names on birth certificate): AMANDA K. EWING and anyone claiming to be a parent of (child’s name): N.E. born on (date): July 5, 2016 at (name of hospital or other place of birth and city and state): OROVILLE HOSPITAL OROVILLE, CA A hearing will be held on Date: May 17, 2017 Time: 8:30 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA Located at: Superior Court Of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, 95928.

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You are required to be present at the hearing, to present evidence, and you have the right to be represented by an attorney. If you do not have an attorney and cannot afford one, the court will appoint an attorney for you.

If the court terminated your parental rights, the order may be final.

The court will proceed with this hearing whether or not you are present.

Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: March 7, 2017 Case Number: 16DP00158 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRIAN JONES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SOPHIA WYCOFF Proposed name: SOPHIA JONES 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: March 24, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 12, 2016 Case Number: 16CV02696 Published: March 2,9,16,23, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CHRISTINA GUARINO filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: NETHANIEL SHAKUR RAY LEATHERBURY Proposed name: NETHANIEL RAY SHAKURE GUARINO 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: April 7, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: January 19, 2017 Case Number: 164346 Published: March 9,16,23,30 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner AARON MICHAEL MILLER-GONZALEZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AARON MICHAEL MILLER-GONZALEZ Proposed name: AARON MICHAEL MILLER THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name 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: May 5, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E BENSON Dated: March 6, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00404 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: MELISSA M BATES YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff. A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case. There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association.

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The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 343-0100 Dated: July 29, 2016 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV01663 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE NOLAN SMITH JACQUES AKA NOLAN S. JACQUES To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: NOLAN SMITH JACQUES AKA NOLAN S. JACQUES A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DARRYL G. JACQUES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: DARRYL G. JACQUES be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petitiion requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 28, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: C-18 Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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

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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: RAOUL J. LECLERC, ATTORNEY AT LAW P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 17PR00041 Dated: March 3, 2017 Published: March 9,16,23, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MARY P. DAYTON, ALSO KNOWN AS MARY PATTON DAYTON To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MARY P. DAYTON, ALSO KNOWS AS MARY PATTON DAYTON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: NANCY DAYTON CLAYTON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: NANCY DAYTON CLAYTON be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petitiion requests the decendent’s will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate.

The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless as 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: April 11, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBA Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord 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

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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: KELLY ALBRECHT, ESQ. 1440 Lincoln Street Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 534-9900 Case Number: 17PR00085 Dated: March 14, 2017 Published: March 23,30, April 6, 2017

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“Ha,” I laughed. “Well, in real estate, we never quit, we just grow list-less!”

Tom chomped a piece of bacon and said, “Man, that real estate job. I don’t think I could stand all the sitting around and waiting.”

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

781 Santiago Ct 814 Toyon Way 50 Rose Ave 3056 Hudson Ave 11 Via Verona Cir 1370 Banning Park Dr 1488 Arch Way 3070 Sweetwater Fls 1036 Sequoyah Ave 2593 W Sacramento Ave 2979 Sweetwater Fls

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

141 Delaney Dr 18 Jasper Dr 14 Tierra Rosa Ln 18 Quista Dr 845 Lynn Ln 2690 Fairfield Cmn 1495 Filbert Ave 10 Alameda Park Cir 1274 Humboldt Ave 1125 Sheridan Ave 60 467 E 7Th Ave

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3/2 4/2 3/2 4/2 4/2 3/2 3/1 2/2 3/2 2/2 2/1

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The following houses were sold in Butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of march 6, 2017 – march 10, 2017.

The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1685 Park View Ln

Chico

$126,500

3/2

SQ. FT. 1,440

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

3475 Charlene Ave

1122 Sunset Ave

Chico

$76,500

2/1

846

15732 Coutolenc Rd

Magalia

$245,000

1/2

13913 Hood Ct

Magalia

$214,500

13630 W Park Dr

Magalia

47 Kokanee Dr

Oroville

6977 Lower Wyandotterd

ADDRESS

Oroville

$140,000

5/3

1,998

4417 Big Bend Rd

Oroville

$80,000

1/2

896

1,950

2438 Fort Wayne St

Oroville

$65,000

2/1

720

3/2

1,662

6666 Twin Oaks Dr

Paradise

$310,000

2/2

1,948

$155,000

2/2

1,264

5509 Harrison Rd

Paradise

$295,000

3/3

2,300

$275,000

3/3

2,274

234 Valley View Dr

Paradise

$279,000

6/5

3,294

Oroville

$274,000

2/2

960

6352 Lancaster Dr

Paradise

$235,000

3/2

1,371

115 Melrose Dr

Oroville

$224,000

3/2

1,147

1859 Norwood Dr

Paradise

$189,000

2/2

1,130

14 Leslie Ln

Oroville

$212,000

3/2

1,288

6267 Becker Way

Paradise

$185,000

3/2

1,592

3530 Stauss Ave

Oroville

$180,000

3/1

1,170

6265 Olympia Way

Paradise

$160,000

2/2

1,121

1155 Safford St

Oroville

$160,000

2/1

1,070

5975 Maxwell Dr 1

Paradise

$56,500

2/2

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