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an unraveling web Republicans who continue to stay silent on the increasingly damning

GUEST COMMENT

Insanity and america’s declining well-being W

ell-being and happiness studies are given less

attention than sports scores, but ignoring them is like refusing to look at the results of a yearly check-up. Total cholesterol 442? Don’t bother me, doc, I’m eating!

The recently released 2017 UN World Happiness Report has Norway in the No. 1 position.

The United States has dropped one spot; we are now 14th in the world. The alarming trend for the U.S. warranted a special chapter: “Restoring American Happiness.” It reads like a hellfire and brimstone sermon. by We are being told that our happiPatrick Newman ness scores are dropping due to The author organizes “inequality, corruption, isolation a weekly citizen-led and distrust.” homeless outreach Our primary problem is ever effort called chico worsening wealth distribution.

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a drop in life expectancy, too. And, while we live in a nation with continually less happiness, we also live in Butte County, which has hit the bottom of the barrel in the latest Gallup-Healthways Community Well-Being Index.

The definition of insanity is doing the same thing and expecting different results. We can’t become happier people by simply growing our economy; we’re already too good at that. Our GDP, per capita, is higher than Norway’s. We can’t do it by building bigger houses; our houses are already twice what Europeans’ occupy. We can’t do it by spending more on medicine; we already spend twice as much as any developed country—while dying sooner.

I noticed Costa Rica is two rungs above the U.S. I wondered how much energy Costa Ricans use compared with Americans: it’s about one-sixth—and that country’s per capita GDP is also about one-sixth of ours.

If Costa Ricans are happier and producing and consuming so much less, then we’ve been sold a bill of goods. It’s time to start thinking about how we share what we have—and less about growth. Time to address Sitting Bull’s complaint: “The white man knows how to make everything, but he does not know how to distribute it.” □

evidence revealing the Trump campaign’s ties to the Kremlin are playing a game with very high stakes—for the GOP and the nation. Several prominent Republican senators, including John McCain and Lindsey Graham, among others, have called for thorough bipartisan investigations, both in the House and Senate. But they have opposition from within the party, including from its highest-ranking member and a rogue congressman who has damaged the credibility of the House Intelligence Committee’s probe.

Three full months ago in an editorial (see “The Russian connection,” Dec. 29), prior to Donald Trump taking office, this newspaper called for careful scrutiny of the president-elect’s early nominees, including ExxonMobil CEO Rex Tillerson for secretary of state. The oil industry executive was especially concerning because of his more than 20-year relationship with Russian President Vladimir Putin. Keep in mind that Trump handpicked Tillerson for one of the nation’s highest cabinet posts despite knowledge of that connection at a time when the American intelligence community had determined that Russia had hacked Democratic National Committee computers in an effort to help him win the presidency.

A lot has happened since then that further connects the dots between Trump’s team and Russia. In mid-February, retired Gen. Michael Flynn was forced to resign when it was revealed that he’d met in private with the Russian ambassador to the United States, Sergey Kislyak, and lied to Vice President Mike Pence about such contact. We also know that Trump had known for weeks about Flynn being dishonest—now-fired Attorney General Sally Yates had informed POTUS weeks earlier—yet he didn’t call for his resignation until The Washington Post broke the story.

A few weeks later, it was revealed that Jeff Sessions, Trump’s recently confirmed attorney general, had also spoken with the Russian ambassador during the peak of the Kremlin’s efforts to help elect Trump, despite Sessions’ testimony to the contrary during his Senate confirmation hearing.

More connections to Russia: Carter Page, a former Trump foreign policy adviser—also met with the Russian ambassador during the campaign; Roger Stone, another former adviser with long ties to Trump, has Russian connections; and, most significant as of late, former Trump campaign Chairman Paul Manafort—he worked in secret with a Russian billionaire to influence American policy to the benefit of Putin in the mid-2000s and just a few years ago worked in clandestine efforts as a lobbyist for Ukraine’s pro-Russian faction. Not reporting such activity is a felony.

If that web of Russia-Trump ties isn’t dense enough, we’ve learned this week that Trump’s innermost circle was not immune to the Kremlin’s reach.

Turns out son-in-law Jared Kushner met not only with Kislyak during the transition of power but also with the head of a Russian bank currently under sanctions related to that country’s annexation of Crimea.

The point is, in addition to the knowledge that Russia interfered with the general election, there’s substantive evidence of a close relationship between the Trump administration and a government headed by a murderous dictator who’s attempting to use America to advance his efforts to rebuild Soviet Russia and destabilize Europe.

GOP officials ought to be focused on these affronts to our democracy, but it’s clear that politics come before country for several of the party’s leaders. That includes House Speaker Paul Ryan, who has refused to call for California Rep. Devin Nunes to step down from his role as chairman of the House Intelligence Committee’s investigation into Russian meddling.

Nunes acted more like a Trump surrogate in recent weeks when he met secretly at the White House with an unnamed source to view documents allegedly confirming Trump’s wiretapping conspiracy—a narrative that has been debunked by U.S. intelligence officials.

Sens. McCain and Graham have rightly called for Nunes to recuse himself.

They know that anything less than an impartial and exhaustive review of the potentially nefarious contacts between the Trump team and Russia undermines the public’s trust and the very fabric of our democracy. Those who don’t act accordingly risk complicity in this unraveling web of deceit. □

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SECOND & FLUME

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

outsiders When is the last time you Googled Chico? It’s been a while since I’d typed the name of our fair city into that ubiquitous search engine.

I’ve had an occasion to do so recently, however, because CN&R is hiring, and several of the folks who’ve applied for the job are from out of town—a handful from out of state. I wondered what Chico looks like to an outsider.

Unsurprisingly, the top item on the first page of results brings up the city of Chico’s website. To be blunt, it needs a makeover. It’s so dated, in fact, that the copyright at the bottom of the homepage is listed as 2009.

Chico, as you’ll recall, was then in financial turmoil stemming from the global economic meltdown. The city is in a much better place today than during that crisis, but it hasn’t fully recovered. The website is just one small indicator of the municipality’s inability to catch up on the things that were put on the back burner during and after the Great Recession. Consider the important stuff: infrastructure, affordable housing and park maintenance.

Speaking of parks, of all of those listed on Chico’s Wikipedia write-up (the second item Google found), Bidwell Park is the only one with its own page. And rightly so. Communities that boast municipal parks comprising thousands of acres are a rarity. When I think of city parks, the first one that comes to mind is San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. I grew up about 45 miles from that green space and explored it on several occasions—mostly for class field trips. It seemed huge at the time (and still does), but it’s actually less than one-third of the size of Bidwell’s sprawling 3,600-plus acres.

One of the websites I’d caution newcomers about giving much credence to is Movoto’s guide called “20 Things You Need To Know About Chico, CA—Before You Move There.” The real estate company put together your basic listicle—more clickbait than anything else— and despite being sorely out of date, it’s positioned relatively high in a search for Chico (on that first page).

Probably the most helpful link I found during a quick search is the last item listed on the first page: Sperling’s Best Places. That website basically culls all sorts of public data to give readers a rundown on such things as population (90,316), population of married folks (36.6 percent), unemployment (6 percent), median age (29.4) and home price ($289,400), income per capita ($24, 665) and average commute time (17 minutes).

Perhaps its best feature is one that compares cities’ affordability. I played with it for a while, comparing Chico with all of the other places I’ve lived: San Jose, Livermore, Folsom, Granite Bay, Hamilton City and Littleton, Colo. No surprise that Hammy City—not a true municipality—is the only one with a lower cost of living than Chico’s.

So there you have it. Chico’s a small metropolitan city full of young people, including lots of singles; where housing isn’t cheap, but is cheaper than California in general ($393,000); where traffic is pretty light, pay is fairly low and people escape by exploring the giant park in our backyard.

That said, my advice is to visit town before planting roots here— the Internet is no substitute for experience.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

Museum drama Re “The making of Monca” (Cover story, by Robert Speer, March 23): I looked forward to Mr. Speer’s article, because the creation of this vibrant nonprofit is a positive and exciting story of community collaboration and support. However, by focusing predominately on “the rift” with Reed Applegate (something all too common in the world of philanthropy and museums), readers did not get the bigger picture of dedicated teamwork that over 150 individuals have contributed to make possible another North State treasure.

Those of us who have worked with Reed regarding his wonderful donation are truly sad he chooses to not be a part of what could be such a celebratory time for him. While he was notably first, there have been many other generous financial and art donors in addition to Reed Applegate. For the most part, the days are done when one individual imprints an institution with his or her sole vision. I believe the Monca board of directors made solid decisions for the museum’s inaugural year of exhibitions.

Recently, Pat Macias and I took the Monca bus to Kirkwood Elementary in Corning. A classroom of thirdgraders clapped, hooted and cheered when told the museum is opening this spring. That is the real Monca story!

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Word is out that Monca and its founding donor, Reed Applegate, have had a falling out. What a tragedy for our community if this cannot be resolved. The community needs to realize there is a lot at stake here.

Reed has been assembling a collection of Northern California art for decades, with the goal of sharing this as a gift to our community. It was his idea to create [a museum]. Somehow, others have taken the reins of this organization and left him in their dust.

How short-sighted to walk away from this unique opportunity to hold and display a collection of a caliber that would otherwise be impossible to assemble.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 I have been in nonprofit management for many years and understand the delicate balance between donors’ wishes and maintaining the goals of the organization. However, if ever there was a time for flexibility, it is now!

Lee Laney Chico

‘A wake-up call’ Re “Looking for answers” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, March 23): On March 17, David Phillips called 911 for medical support for his son Desmond, who struggled with mental illness and PTSD from being beaten by Sacramento police. Desmond was shot [numerous times] by Chico police and died. Behavioral Health was never dispatched and no one at the scene had training in mental health care.

District Attorney Mike Ramsey stated at the NAACP meeting that the investigation was not done, yet he repeatedly described the involved officers’ testimony as “facts” and was dismissive of David’s telling of what he experienced and saw that night.

Desmond’s death is a tragedy that should be a wake-up call that our police officers need better training and that our area needs more and better mental health resources. I stand with the Phillips family in calling for an independent investigation.

This is just one of many incidents where black people in Chico have experienced discrimination and violence from police. #BlackLivesMatter and I hope to see more white community members showing up to stand in solidarity with the Phillips family in seeking #JusticeForDesmond.

Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Butte County has a new member orientation April 5, 6 p.m., at Chico Peace and Justice Center.

Rain Scher Chico

‘Typical leftist idea’ Re “Chico’s latest tragedy” (Editorial, March 23): Shedding tears over a young black man shot by police who was supposedly mentally ill. First of all, let’s put your editor, a strong female she may be, in with a raging mental person with a knife.

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See, I have worked 20 years in mental health at both locked-down places and halfway homes and dealt with suicides and totally insane people.

The truth is, a mentally ill person—especially a male—can kill you just as fast as, if not faster than, one who is not. It is a typical leftist idea that you can talk to and reason with people who are not all there, or that a police officer should put his or her life more on the line because this person might be mental.

Sometimes you do not have the time to do a safe takedown or use another option. Each case is different. Nice of your editor to think mentally raging people need more compassion than just a mad person on drugs, for instance, or a mad person with a gun. Way too much fiber for her.

Allan Clark Paradise

Help local vets Twenty-two veterans commit suicide in this country every day.

Our government promises to take care of those who have served it, and unfortunately we are currently falling short of that duty.

The number of veterans who suffer from PTSD, depression and other mental illness is staggering, and the lack of assistance provided leaves some homeless and hungry.

At a time with a changing government and political unrest, Vectors House offers sanctuary to those who have served regardless of age, color, creed or military branch. A truly uplifting place, Vectors House embodies its credo, “A hand up, not a hand out,” by reinvesting time and excess donations back into the community.

Presently, the Vectors House is in need of a new roof and has partnered with Chico State nursing students in an effort to raise the funds. Please visit us at the Chico Certified Farmers’ Market on Saturday, April 1, to buy a raffle ticket and show your support.

Susan Reed Chico

Kowtowing LaMalfa DEMOCRACY. D-e-m-o-c-r-ac-y. Government by the people; especially rule of the majority (Webster). For those who missed

this in third grade, let’s look at something more complicated: United States government. Our government is controlled by its Constitution, which sets forth the relative political power of the people. In simple terms, it is a democracy and the majority rules.

Now let’s go to our esteemed rice baron Congressman, Doug LaMalfa. I just received an email from him lamenting his not being allowed to vote in favor of repealing the Affordable Care Act and blaming President Obama’s past veto for its failure to come to a vote.

While only 17 percent of Americans support its repeal and in no Congressional district in the entire country does a majority support it, Doug, who obviously supports only what his oligarch constituents want, cites several “examples” of the failures of ACA. It seems strange that with such a large majority supporting ACA, he has no letters from any of them.

Obviously, he will continue to kowtow to the Trump administration and—kneeling, head bowed to his political forces in Washington—agree with any of their requests, even if a majority of his constituents say “no!”

Dean Carrier Paradise

Trump talk I’m tired of negative letters and articles from national news about the first 100 days of our president.

Think back to the first 100 days of Obama: He went on an “apology tour” around the world. He criticized our country and its policies; even apologizing for our history of slavery. He did not once, during the 100 days, take public interest in efforts to design important laws effecting all Americans. Obama was “missing in action.”

Contrast those 100 days with Trump’s. He’s been “hands on” for legislators. He’s not satisfied with saying (as Obama did) “I have a pen and a phone.” He’s signed several important laws; mostly trying to undo the damage of his predecessor. When Trump says he will do X, Y or Z, he makes efforts to bring that about. When Obama said, “I am focused on jobs, jobs, jobs,” he did nothing.

Obama was very good at articulating the problems of our country; but did nothing to solve those problems. Now, we’ve someone in office who is doing something besides giving lip service.

As a former Democrat, then Ben Carson supporter, I’ve had my doubts. Now: I have hope that America will be great again!

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

Keep resisting April Fools’ Day has long been thought of as a day to play practical jokes on folks. In the 16th century, however, April fools were the resisters—the peasants who resisted the decree of the king and church that they should celebrate New Year’s, according to the “reformed” calendar, in the dead of winter on Jan. 1.

For centuries, the new year had been celebrated with the coming of new life in the spring, from the spring solstice to April 1. Those who resisted and continued to celebrate in the spring were called April fools and played jokes on.

This springtime, let us celebrate life by being resisters of “King” Trump’s proclamations, but let us do so without name-calling or making fun of whose who disagree with us. Let us be bighearted, lighthearted April fools. Happy New Year!

Renee Renaud Chico

I see the obstructionist Democratic machine doing everything to stand in the way of a president that the American people elected. A majority of Americans wanted borders, jobs, tax reform and American exceptionalism brought back to the country.

Democrats will stand in the way of progress to a fault, and Americans are watching their cry baby behavior with the proverbial microscope. California is a liberal myopia that is a perfect model for failure. We have open borders, high taxes, no jobs and crumbling infrastructure, plus overbearing state regulations. Americans are tired of this kind of disregard for their personal welfare, by elitist liberals who have no plans to make tough decisions. Shame on you, Democrats, you will reap what you sow.

Brad Pankratz Orland

It was a disheartening sight.

In the wake of the defeat of his highly touted health care reform bill, President Trump, appearing before camera while slumped at his desk, projected the image of a petulant child pouting after having been beaten at sandbox. Someone (or someones) had to carry the burden of blame, and the president quickly found his targets, polishing his pre-adolescent reasoning, “spinning” blame on others. The wheel of fortune landed first on the Democrats and then conservatives and moderates in his own party.

Will the wheel stop at him? I, for one, expect more from the man elected president and leader of the free world. So far, the dignity of the office is not being well-served.

The 36 percent approval rating of the president’s performance speaks volumes to that effect.

James W. McManus Paradise

Democracy in jeopardy I think that it is vital for American journalists to cover more of what is happening in Russia regarding silencing of journalists, the Russian mafia, and that government’s complicity in the above. For many people in this country at this time, the idea of our own politicians’ involvement in hacking by Russia elicits an almost “so what?” response.

The more we learn about what is really being done by the Russian government and Putin, the more critical our decision-making process can be regarding hacking, interfering with our elections and Russia’s threat to our democracy.

Marcia Moore Chico

Correction Last week’s cover story (see “The making of Monca,” by Robert Speer) incorrectly stated info for the museum’s grand opening on Saturday, April 22. That day, the function is open by invitation-only to “VIP major donors,” from 6-8 p.m. The error has been corrected online. —ed.

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An Oroville woman pleaded guilty Tuesday (March 28) to stealing guns and drugs and falsifying documents to cover up the theft while working as an evidence technician in the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, according to the Butte County District Attorney’s Office.

Kathleen Acosta, 48, was arrested and charged with multiple felonies after she was pulled over following a domestic dispute in January. Police found a gun, methamphetamine and prescription drugs—still in evidence packaging—in her car. Acosta resigned from the BCSO rather than be fired last year when she was accused of mishandling property and attempting to conceal her misconduct.

After the arrest, searches of Acosta’s residence and storage units turned up more property stolen from evidence, including 19 more guns. She’d falsified documents so the BCSO believed the guns were destroyed in 2015.

Acosta is facing up to nearly four years in jail, and is scheduled to be sentenced June 20.

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It’s no secret that jobs are hard to come by in Chico, but every so often a business opens or plans to expand. UnitedHealthcare is doing the latter, and to fill the approximately 150 new customer service advocate positions it has available, it’s holding a job fair next Wednesday (April 5). The positions will be filled over the next 18 months, according to a company press release.

UnitedHealthcare, which is dedicated to hiring veterans, has posted the positions online (uhg.hr/workatuhgchico) and encourages those interested to apply in advance.

They are full-time and will be at the company’s East 20th Street offices. The fair takes place 9 a.m.-4:30 p.m. at the Butte Community Employment Center (2445 Carmichael Drive).

Missing Man’s body found

Butte County Sheriff’s deputies responded on Sunday (March 26) to Lone Pine Road, off of Chico River Road, after a caller reported finding a body in Little Chico Creek. The body was that of 33-year-old William Kohnke (pictured), from Chico. Based on evidence discovered at the scene, Kohnke’s death has been ruled a homicide, according to a BCSO press release.

A GoFundMe account was started to pay for a private investigator after Kohnke’s disappearance.

According to the site, Kohnke, who leaves behind an unborn child, was last seen Jan. 10 near Cocina Cortez with two other men, one riding a motorcycle and wearing a helmet with a mohawk on it and the other “on foot.”

An autopsy is being conducted to determine cause of death. Anyone with information regarding the case should contact Detective Jim Beller at 538-7671.

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Paradise lost Public access to Chico oxidation ponds cut off by state regulations

Itheandinstallation the city of Chico together celebrated of $400,000 in upgrades n February 2011, Altacal Audubon Society

to the Chico Oxidation Ponds Wildlife Sanctuary, a series of diversion pools located by behind the city’s Water Ken Smith Pollution Control Plant west of town. The kens @ n ew srev i ew. c o m improvements were made to increase public access to the pools, a prime North State destination for millions of migrating birds—and the people who love them.

But earlier this month, management at the plant locked the gated entry to the ponds, closing public access for the foreseeable future. The plant’s manager, James Carr, said that state regulators last year determined public access could continue only with the addition of expensive site improvements to comply with statewide public safety and water recycling standards.

The lack of access has ruffled the feathers of local birders.

“The importance of the ponds [to Altacal] is not to be understated,” said Scott Huber, who was the birding group’s president when the improvements were made and currently serves as conservation chair. “It’s the primary site for rare bird sightings in the county. Because the ponds

hold water year-round and because of their shallow depth, they provide an important habitat for shorebirds, like sandpipers and plovers, and an excellent opportunity for people to view them.”

According to CN&R archives, the site improvements were part of a $45 million expansion project at the plant funded by a revolving state loan-fund. Upgrades included an Americans with Disabilities Act-compliant, all-weather, crushed-granite pathway leading to the ponds, a gate that can be locked and unlocked by plant workers to limit viewing hours (which were from 7 a.m. to 7 p.m.), the removal of invasive plant species and installation of native foliage designed to attract wildlife, and “loafing islands” on the pools to protect birds from predators. Altacal provided a wooden structure, known as a bird blind, for people to use while viewing birds.

Prior to the improvements, the ponds were accessed by checking in with plant workers and climbing through a hole in the facility’s fence.

“The city made a substantial investment for all these improvements for public viewing, which made it much easier for novice birders, children, the elderly and people with disabilities to get back there,” said Huber, who noted that visiting birders are a boon to the local economy. “All the money the city directed toward that purpose will be pretty much wasted.”

Carr, who’s worked at the plant since 2001

and been the manager for two years, said birders never presented a problem for his staff and that he’d prefer to leave access the way it was. According to him, the state’s issue with public access is based on the pond’s potential to store untreated sewer water that could present a public health hazard to visitors, even though that has never occurred in his 16 years there.

Carr said the ponds are occasionally used to shift water from one part of the plant to another for maintenance purposes, but water released to the ponds has always been treated. For the most part, he said, water is kept in the ponds year-round solely for the benefit of the birds.

Carr explained that operations at the plant are contingent on permits to allow the discharge of treated wastewater into the Sacramento River. Permits are issued by a state agency, the Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board, every five years. The access issue came up during the last permitting process, in early 2016. “[The inspector from the water board] made us aware that our ponds have been going on a long time with almost no regulation,” Carr explained. “She was kind of flabbergasted the pools had gone under the radar for so long and told us that we should expect some more stringent criteria going forward.”

A group of American white pelicans, including one banded at a wildlife refuge in Idaho, visit the Chico Oxidation Ponds Wildlife Sanctuary.

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Bryan Smith, a supervising engineer with the Central Valley Water Board, said that his agency works with the State Water Resources Control Board’s Division of Drinking Water, which ultimately demanded some upgrades to the ponds and the change in public access.

“We learned we have to install some monitoring wells and start doing regular testing for nitrates [and other substances], and we were basically given two choices regarding public access,” Carr said. “We had to completely eliminate it or install fencing and signage to restrict access near the ponds.”

The plant contracts with an engineering company—Sacramento-based Carollo Engineers—to help work through the permitting process, and Carr said the firm’s estimated cost for a 4-foot fence and signage necessary to limit access per state regulations would be about $140,000.

“It’s not just like we can call a contractor and build any old fence,” Carr said of the price tag. “The regulations include some strict requirements and it’s a city job, so there are extra costs for design and other issues. Considering the fiscally conscientious mindset of the current City Council, we decided the best option would be to close it for now.” huber noted that he doesn’t see the

access issue as a conflict between Altacal and the city, but more of a bureaucratic problem with state agencies and regulations. Members of Altacal have appealed to City Council members and showed up en masse to that panel’s March 21 regular meeting. At the request of Councilmen Karl Ory and Andrew Coolidge, the issue is agendized for further discussion at the council’s April 18 meeting.

In the meantime, Huber said the closure couldn’t have happened at a more inopportune time.

“A lot [of species] are only here during the spring and fall migration periods, as they’re moving from Central and South America to Canada and Alaska where they nest, and our area is just a stop-over for them,” he said. “Now through the next month is the time of year that the best numbers are out there and we tend to get our best sightings.

“To have it closed now is a real hardship for those of us jonesing for a look at some shorebirds.” □

Grant funding threatened Programs like Upward Bound at Chico State could lose funding if Trump’s budget plan goes forward hen Kyle Peterson was in the eighth grade, he had no visions of pursuing a W college degree. Originally from Corning,

his family moved to Chico that year and he enrolled in Upward Bound, a program offered through Chico State designed for students just like him. It offered mentorship, tutoring and an introduction to what college could offer—for both him and his parents.

“It gave me the opportunity to realize that college wasn’t out of reach,” he said during a recent interview. “I had no idea it was even a possibility.”

Now Peterson is a sophomore at Chico State studying electrical engineering.

But President Trump’s recent budget proposal has given him reason to pause. Among the cuts to federal programs is the one that funds Upward Bound. TRIO, offered through the federal Department of Education, encompasses eight grant programs designed to help low-income students become the first in their families to graduate from college. Trump has proposed to cut 10 percent from the TRIO budget. For Chico State, that would mean the loss of nearly $235,000 annually, which would provide services for about 180 students.

“With our economy, the money could be allocated elsewhere, but where it is with TRIO is where it should be,” Peterson said.

“The students in this program will help run this country one day—they’ll become doctors and lawyers ….”

A case in point is Maria Moreno. She enrolled in Upward Bound when she was in 10th grade at Gridley High School. Today, Moreno is director of Upward Bound at Chico State.

And she’s worked with the program in some capacity for the past 25 years, starting during her time as a student.

“This program really did change my life,” she said during a recent interview in her office in Chico State’s Student Services building. “I don’t know that I would have gone to college otherwise, because it was so foreign to me.”

Upward Bound and Upward Bound Math and Science are the largest of the TRIO programs offered through Chico State, serving 317 students from throughout the North State and receiving over $1.4 million annually.

Altogether, the TRIO programs serve 1,806 students locally in sixth grade through college graduation.

“It’s critical that we keep this funding,” Moreno said. She recalled a previous threat

SIFT ER happy together As was recently shown in the annual Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index survey of the United States, a person’s well-being can vary widely from one community to the next—e.g., Santa Cruz rated highest in California, while Chico was lowest in the state. But how does the happiness of Americans overall compare to that of citizens of other countries in the world? According to the U.N.’s 2017 World Happiness Report, we rank 14 out of 155 countries, with a rating of 6.993 out of 10. Norwegians are apparently the happiest people in the world (7.537), while citizens of the Central African Republic report being the least happy (2.693).

ten happiest countries: 1. Norway 2. Denmark 3. Iceland 4. Switzerland 5. Finland

6. Netherlands 7. Canada 8. New Zealand 9. Australia 10. Sweden

Candy Pahua and Kyle Peterson both benefit from federal grant funding designed to help low-income, first-generation students graduate from college.

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to TRIO moneys during the Bush administration, but said she feels more unease this time around. “This is a whole different story—I don’t know if we’ve ever seen this before, this putting education last—at least that’s how it seems.

“I see it as short-sighted. Investing these funds into these kids now really does pay off in the long run when they graduate into professional careers.”

Candy Pahua is one of those soon-to-be graduates. A senior health education major, she joined TRIO’s Student Support Services program her junior year.

“It offers me a safe space on campus,” she said. “As a first-generation college student, I didn’t know what I was doing my freshman and sophomore years. Student Support Services helped guide me and give me the skillset and support to garner two internships and an externship. I needed that supporting guide because I can’t necessarily go to my parents—they don’t know what to say.”

Pahua is currently working for the American Lung Association and has a job lined up at a summer camp in Sanger, outside of Fresno, for after graduation.

“TRIO had mentors for me, offered advice for interviews. I never thought I’d be someone who’d go do a job interview in San Francisco, in AT&T Park.” (She was offered that job, but turned it down for the one in Sanger.)

If funding is cut to TRIO, “I’d be personally heartbroken,” Pahua said. “We’d be limiting how many students can benefit from these programs.”

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election official calling his claim untrue, how much voter fraud is actually under investigation in the Golden State? Not much—certainly not enough to sway the election, in which California voters chose Hillary Clinton over Trump by 4.3 million votes.

And while the California Secretary of State’s Office is investigating some cases of potential fraud, not a single case opened last year involves allegations of voting by an immigrant who is in the country illegally—a stark contrast to the picture painted by Trump.

The secretary of state received 948 election-related complaints in 2016, according to its response to a CALmatters Public Records Act request. The office determined that more than half (525) did not merit criminal investigation. Of the remaining complaints, 140 are still being screened, 194 were noncriminal problems referred to local officials, and 89 triggered investigations by the secretary of state.

The office did not provide details on the 194 cases it sent to local authorities. But of the 89 investigations it opened in 2016: 56 are allegations of double voting, 16 are allegations of fraudulent voter registration and one is an alleged case of fraudulent voting. The rest allege wrongdoing by candidates, petition circulators and others who work in the elections arena—not by voters.

Together, the cases the secretary of state is investigating and those it referred to counties amount to one onethousandth of one percent (0.001 percent) of the more than 23 million votes cast in California’s California officials find voter fraud is insignificant.

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primary and general elections last year. The miniscule number “undercounts the amount of potential fraud because a lot of it would not be reported,” said Richard Hasen, a professor of election law at UC Irvine. It also doesn’t include investigations that could be underway if initiated by prosecutors in the state’s 58 counties.

Still, Hasen said, “I see no evidence that voter fraud is a major problem in California.”

He cited an exhaustive study that found just 56 cases of election fraud in California between 2000 and 2012, most of it perpetrated by campaign officials, not voters. The view held by Hasen and supported by many academic studies conflicts with claims by Trump.

In November, Trump tweeted that “the millions of people who voted illegally” had cost him the popular vote, and that there was “serious voter fraud in Virginia, New Hampshire and California.”

In February, the president announced he would put Vice President Mike Pence in charge of investigating voter fraud. Pence is forming a task force to do the investigation, though a recent poll found that only 1 in 4 voters believe Trump’s claims.

“The burden is on the president and his team to bring forward

proof or evidence,” said Secretary of State Alex Padilla, a Democrat.

“We’ve been asking them for it since November, and they’ve had nothing to show.”

No one from Pence’s task force has contacted the California Secretary of State’s Office, said Padilla spokesman Sam Mahood.

The Secretary of State’s Office

would not provide copies of the complaints it received last year, saying they are exempt from disclosure. It did provide tallies of the number of complaints and the categories of potential violations of those that are being investigated.

Republican state Sen. Joel Anderson of Alpine, a Trump delegate who is vice chairman of the Senate’s elections committee, said he’s seen signs of fraud while campaigning in his San Diego-area district. He’s encountered houses where a registered voter—marked as voting in the last several elections—turned out to have been dead for years, and empty lots carrying addresses where people are registered to vote.

But when told of the small number of voter fraud complaints tallied by the Secretary of State’s Office, Anderson called the figures “spectacular.” He said if the White House audit similarly finds an

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insignificant number of problems in California, Padilla deserves a gold star.

“If those are the numbers and those hold true, that’s a phenomenal job,” he said.

While Trump claims that large numbers of people in the country illegally are voting, past prosecutions in California include few cases of voting by noncitizens. In 2012, an unauthorized immigrant in Escondido pleaded guilty to voting illegally in the 2008 presidential election by using the name of a U.S. citizen. In 2008, a man was sentenced to jail in Orange County for registering two underage teenagers and a noncitizen to vote. In a more high-profile case in 1996, Congress opened an investigation after a Republican congressman from Orange County argued that voting by noncitizens had caused him to lose re-election—but the investigation was eventually dropped.

Instead, election crimes prosecuted in California more typically involve wrongdoing by political candidates and public officials. In recent years, a state senator from Inglewood, an Escondido school board member, the former mayor of Vernon and the manager of a community services district near Redding were convicted of voter fraud for lying about their address.

Some Trump supporters have said it would be easy for undocumented immigrants to vote in California because of two state laws approved in recent years. A bill passed in 2013 allows undocumented immigrants to get driver’s licenses. And a bill passed in 2015 creates a system to automatically register people to vote when they get a driver’s license.

But the notion that these two laws have filled California voter rolls with undocumented immigrants is false. The automatic registration process allowed by the new law has not yet gone into effect.

Padilla said he expects it to roll out this summer, with a protocol he’s certain won’t allow undocumented immigrants to register to vote.

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another, construction recently began on a 5,000-square-foot building to house the growing Chico practice of two interventional pain specialists.

Dr. Brett Butz, who participated in a site-dedication ceremony March 13, opened the Interventional Pain Physicians office in 2012. His partner is Dr. Daniel Bonis, who joined Butz at the Chico practice in 2016.

A fateful encounter laid the groundwork for the partnership. Only knowing of the other, the two met at a restaurant where a common acquaintance introduced them.

They sat together, talked and clicked.

That serendipitous meeting didn’t happen anywhere near Chico, though—it was at an Italian restaurant in Alamogordo, N.M. During the doctors’ “friendly chatter,” Butz recalled, “the subject of Chico came up,” and they were both surprised by their respective connections to the city. (Bonis’ brother is Dr. William Bonis, a hematologist with Enloe Cancer Services.)

They arranged to speak again and soon were in business together. The partnership solidified Butz’s plans to break ground on a new, comprehensive facility in Chico.

“It was kind of a little bit of a fluke … a lot of things in life happen that way,” Bonis said by phone from Southern California, where his family lives and he also treats patients.

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them as expected in early 2018, that doctor would cover the New Mexico office to the extent that Bonis could focus on Chico and Butz could spend more time here as well. The new facility should be done in November and open around January.

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current local office, on West East Avenue, no longer can accommodate the practice’s needs, Butz explained at the construction site.

The most conspicuous need is space to perform procedures such as targeted pain injections (see “Other than opioids,” Healthlines, April 28, 2016). Specialists often require imaging—X-rays or MRI scans—to direct them to the specific point for therapy; such large equipment can cramp quarters.

The new building has been designed with four suites: two offices, two procedure rooms. The procedure rooms will have the size and structure for surgeries; in pain management, those operations include implanting pain pumps and neurostimulators (i.e., pacemakers for pain).

Butz said Interventional Pain Physicians will take just one of the office suites ini-

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tially, potentially affording another doctor or practice the opportunity to move in, but will have sufficient demand for both procedure rooms.

“It’s built like a surgery center,” Butz said, “but it’s in the same building, part of the office…. It’s dedicated to pain.”

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Dr. Brett Butz says the facility “dedicated to pain” should open around January.

A key benefit, Butz explained, is saving time by not having to compete with other specialties to book appointments.

“Generally, we use two rooms all day long,” he said. “The bigger surgery centers have to accommodate orthopedic surgeons; some of their procedures last hours, so it takes up my time, because my [nonsurgical] procedures last about six minutes.”

Bonis calls the facility a “one-stop shop”—a model akin to the private practice in Alamogordo where he’s been working.

“I think the patients really like it,” he said. “Instead of having to go to a big hospital and check in, they can come to a smaller place that they don’t feel is quite so intimidating.”

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to Chico when he first came and describes his path here as “a circuitous route, for sure.”

He’d been working for Atlantabased Alliance Spine and Pain Centers since 2006, following several years in private practice performing both general anesthesia and pain management.

Predominantly in the southeast, Alliance also had an office in Alamogordo; Butz went to work there. (Alliance sold that operation to Butz in January 2016.)

He heard about Chico through the grapevine of “the medical community” while seeking a place to plant his pain-management flag in Northern California.

“I didn’t know anything about Chico,” Butz said. However, after deciding that this was “a community that could benefit from another pain doctor,” he selected it as the location for his first independent venture. And he’s glad he did.

“Having lived here for four years, I do love the town; it’s a great city,” he said. That’s why he’s making the investment.

Bonis, despite having a brother in Chico, likely would not have come to the North State if not for Butz—and his own circuitous route.

Bonis’ home base is Huntington Beach, where his wife is a high school chemistry teacher and his daughter a high school student.

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The Bonises have two older sons; the middle child, Nick, is a soccer player whose college aspirations brought Bonis to New Mexico.

Nick attended camps for NCAA Division I programs across California as well as at the University of New Mexico, where he felt a kinship with the coach. That motivated Bonis to move with Nick to Albuquerque so Nick, a goaltender, could develop his skills near his potential future school. The closest job for Bonis proved to be in Alamogordo, so he’d split time between those cities as well as having the home fires in Southern California.

Nick did not end up playing for the Lobos, so Bonis has no personal ties binding him to New Mexico. In fact, his daughter wants to study veterinary medicine at UC Davis.

Yet more irony: Until they got into conversation, Bonis didn’t know Butz had an office in Chico and Butz didn’t know Bonis had a brother in Chico.

“The sun and the planets aligned just right,” Bonis said.

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GREENWAYS Michael Picker looks to the future of wind, solar and hydro power.

the future of energy

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manage them will bring more value to people in terms of how they use their electricity, where we can use it and for what other purposes. We need to allow direct transactions between customers, because Point 5 is that customers are doing more things for themselves.

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M Strategic Communications, a company he co-founded, says he’s someone who ichael Picker’s bio at Lincoln Crow

“knows his way around government and elections.” No kidding.

For more than 30 years, Picker’s been an all-purpose organizer and administrator, working twice for Gov. Jerry Brown, doing a stint as deputy state treasurer, then serving as chief of staff to late Sacramento Mayor Joe Serna for seven years.

In 2012, he was elected to the Sacramento Municipal Utility board. In 2014, Brown appointed him to the California Public Utilities Commission. He became president of that powerful regulatory body on Jan. 1, 2015. He recently sat down with News & Review CEO Jeff vonKaenel to discuss the future of energy in California.

(This interview has been edited for length and clarity.)

The basic structure of the California Public Utilities Commission was set up a century ago. Do you think it is still viable?

When I got here, people told me they had not seen so much change in the electricity industry in 100 years. I think bigger changes are coming. I’ll try to describe some of the forces that are reshaping the industry. My first point is: Most of our energy policy today does not focus so much on supply but rather on how clean it is, on air quality. Our primary energy goal is greenhouse gas reduction.

We are trying to clean up our electricity supply, but it’s not just electricity that matters, it’s also all the other ways we create and use energy. For example, we use a lot of natural gas for heating and cooking and for buildings and industrial, particularly manufacturing.

The other big use of energy in California is for transportation. Coincidentally, 20 percent of the carbon in California that is emitted into the atmosphere as greenhouse gas pre-

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cursors comes from the electricity industry, 30 percent comes from natural gas and 40 percent comes from the use of petroleum products in transportation.

So your main point is …

The purpose of the PUC now is to build the infrastructure that will take carbon out of California’s economy. Increasing the amount of clean electricity and allowing the electric utilities to take market share out of the gas utilities and away from the petroleum industry is the only way we can reach our GHG goals.

My second point is this: Renewables are really competitive; we should stop obsessing about them. They are cheaper in most parts of the U.S. where you have good renewable resources than any other source of electricity.

What do you mean when you say we should stop obsessing about renewables?

Renewable energy is only part of the answer, and it is actually pretty easy to get; it’s a commodity. In fact, we have so much of it during certain days of the year, and certain times of the day, that we have to pay people to take it. (Laughs.)

Point No. 3?

particularly computers, buildings and homes, and it continues to climb until 8 or 9 o’clock at night. Our resources need to match that demand, with its big ramp-up. We have resources that do that up until 6 o’clock.

Is that solar?

Solar and wind. With solar, we have a curve in generation that starts around 10 a.m. and lasts until 2 p.m. during which we have too much electricity, and then at about 5 p.m. the solar starts to drop off. The system is really variable, so we have to treat it differently.

So we have to figure out ways either to store electricity or generate it at the right times?

Hydro is useful because you can spin it up really fast. At 5 p.m., as things start to cool down, you can really turn up your hydro, and it does that really quickly. You can keep it going at higher levels up until 9 o’clock, and then you can let it back off.

The other technology that matches that ramp-up is gas peakers [natural-gas-fired power plants used to meet peak power needs] and battery storage. Some technologies fit in different places better than others.

You don’t have hydro in downtown San Francisco. Gas peakers are a bit smaller, so they can fit closer to where there is demand.

Battery storage is really small and very flexible because you don’t have to have a gas supply; you can fit it right into the electric system right where you need it.

The electricity system is increasingly variable. For example, we used to have a lot of automotive manufacturing in California that was running at consistent levels 24/7, six days a week. We don’t have that anymore. Increasingly, we do things with computers that are in buildings; they get hot at the end of the day, and the computers and OK. What’s point 4? buildings need cooling. Now we have elecPoint 4 is that managing these new kinds tricity use that starts in the morning with of resources and the grid probably adds people waking up and turning on the lights more value in the electrical part of the infrato make coffee. Around 2 structure to replace these other p.m., it starts to increase technologies simply because of pretty dramatically, all of the changing technology.

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An example would be a bunch of warehouse owners who bought a big industrial chiller and a big water tank.

At night, when we have excess hydro and wind [in the power grid], they would chill that water tank, and when they needed electricity, they used that cold water mass as a big swamp cooler. They didn’t have to use electricity in that hot peak where everybody else was competing.

So the customers can influence this by reducing their total energy use, making their own energy, or moving their energy use to a better time of day?

All of those things, and they can innovate in a way that utilities don’t. These are things customers can figure out to meet their needs better than the large utility can.

That includes time-of-day use, right?

The first people who will do time of use will be those who have solar panels on their roof that are paid for by net metering. Most of them decided to be energy producers; they’re going to make their own electricity, but they are going to sell their excess. That’s the crazy thing: They’re not just making electricity for themselves, but they’re selling it back to the rest of us in the system. The system has to be plug-and-play so customers can plug it in and the system says, “Here is a battery, here is an electric vehicle, here is a solar.” You don’t have to worry about it.

That is Point 5. Point 6 is that all of this is changing the nature of the utilities.

As a matter of fact, it probably won’t make sense for the electric utilities to sell electricity anymore, or be the only ones who sell it. They should provide the platform, the infrastructure that allows people to use electricity to drive carbon out of their homes, and out of our industry. For a lot of people, this will be a big change because they’re going to have to think about their energy use, both in terms of their personal use and their transportation choices. Their means of transportation is going to reshape some of our industries. □

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THE GOODS

‘Sammich’ slinger

market shift

When Nick Stiles was a kid, his grandmother always asked if he wanted a “sammich,” and now that’s the slogan for his food cart, Gnarly Deli. As active members of Chico’s stand-up comedy scene, Stiles and his partner, Eve Hamilton, make up silly names for their sandwiches, like the Ooo Mommy Dog, and generally have fun while they’re serving customers at various locations around town. Last fall, Stiles—a former ballroom dance instructor and stage hand for local concerts—left his job as an events coordinator for the Downtown Chico Business Association and opened the cart with the goal of eventually upgrading to a brickand-mortar shop. Until then, you can track Gnarly Deli’s lunchtime locations on Facebook (search “Gnarly Deli”) and look for the cart at the Thursday Night Market, Fork in the Road and other locations, including CN&R’s CAMMIES Finale and Awards Show at the Patrick Ranch Museum on Sunday, April 23.

What’s up with the name?

My mom’s suggestion was to call it “Sandwiches from Around the World.” [Laughs.] That describes what we have, but that’s just not very catchy. Gnarly Deli is kind of hard to say and almost has a rhyme, like a tongue-twister.

When you say “Gnarly Deli,” you have to put your mouth in

a certain shape. And, you know, most people think of gnarly as a bad thing. Like, “I went into the bathroom and it was gnarly.”

We’re using more of the surfer terminology. We’re trying to take the deli to a gnarly level, elevate it in a different way.

How are you elevating your menu?

Like, the Ooo Mommy Dog— it’s just a hot dog, but it’s a Japanese-style hot dog with seaweed and teriyaki sauce, green onions and wasabi mayo.

It’s an Asian-fusion thing you can’t find anywhere else. We love normal deli places and have no interest in competing with them.

We just take familiar ideas and kick them up a notch.

What else do you serve?

We don’t have a set menu. There have been almost 30 things

we’ve rotated through, and we bring back the most popular ones. … Summer is coming up, so we’re going to start doing more cold sandwiches. I’m Norwegian—or, actually, my heritage is Norwegian—and I wanted to do that style, so we made the Gnorske, an openfaced sandwich with lettuce, red onion, tomato, baby shrimp, crème fraîche and lemon. That’s a typical Scandinavian-style, open-faced sandwich.

Do you work comedy into your new business?

We definitely bring comedy to the food. You know, “sammiches,” not sandwiches. It’s just silly and lighthearted, and it lets you know it’s not just a sandwich. There’s no sand.

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I started getting phone calls last week from food truck owners who’d just gotten word of changes afoot at the Thursday Night Market. Turns out a new policy had been adopted to minimize competition from “prepared-food vendors” (trucks and stands) on downtown brick-and-mortar restaurants. Some had been asked to change their menu; others to switch to a rotating schedule rather than weekly.

I sat down with a few food vendors to hear their concerns. Some were willing to speak on the record; others feared backlash by way of further market restrictions if they made their views public. I also spoke with representatives of the Downtown Chico Business Association, which runs the market, to get both sides of the issue.

“There’s always been tension between downtown restaurant operators who’ve got brick-and-mortar businesses and prepared-food vendors operating out of carts and the like,” explained Tom DiGiovanni, DCBA vice president. So, beginning last year, a group of downtown restaurateurs—15 at one time, whittled down to a committee about half that size—got together to discuss what could be done. It wasn’t reinventing the wheel, said Stephanie Yunker, community events and marketing director for DCBA. “You’re not going to see 10 pizza vendors—we have Woodstock’s, and I’d like to see Celestino’s. But I’ve turned down outside pizza vendors in the past,” she said.

“So, it’s not that we haven’t been paying attention to this at all. It’s just that the time came that we needed some rebalancing.”

They reached that consensus and notices went out to vendors—who’d begun applying for market spaces in January—last week, just two weeks before the market begins on April 6. For some, that didn’t give them much time to recalculate their summer schedules. Others, like Truckaroni owner Robbie Busick, take issue with the menu constraints.

“They asked me to not serve my mac and cheese with bacon,” he said. To not serve his bestselling menu item, however, just isn’t worth it. So, you won’t find him downtown on Thursday nights. “When people come up to my truck at a community event, they should be able to get what they want.”

The situation is particularly crushing for Slyderz Grill owner David Forster, whose application to set up at the market was denied altogether. He participated last year, but this year was told his menu is just too similar to those of existing downtown restaurants. “I’m going to have to bring my business to Sacramento,” he said. “Thursday Night Market was my biggest event.”

Jeremy Wolfe, owner of Mayhem! Gourmet Grilled Cheese, which was asked to shift to a rotating schedule, seemed to sum up the snafu: “My problem is with the process,” he said. “There was lack of communication, they were vague on their reasonings, and it came two weeks before the market starts.”

The DCBA had scheduled a meeting for after press time to discuss the issue with the food vendors. Tune in next week for updates.

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FACT VS. FICTION Analyzing anti-marijuana rhetoric in California’s new era of legalized weed

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n the wake of the end of Prohibition in the 1930s, a conservative church group created Reefer Madness, a film meant to educate parents on the perils of allowing their teenagers to smoke marijuana. The scare tactics were extreme—smoking a joint could lead to (gasp!) murder, promiscuity, insanity! And yet the anti-pot propaganda that filled that film—now a cult classic—came to define the era. Despite decades of progress, albeit slow, toward marijuana legalization, many of those negative stereotypes live on today in one form or another.

Proponents of marijuana legalization have long fought those stereotypes, and that fight is playing out right now in Chico and the rest of California, as local jurisdictions grapple with decisions regarding whether to allow the sale of marijuana in their communities. The conservative-majority Chico City Council, for instance, earlier this month expressed its plan to ban commercial weed altogether, despite a majority of residents having voted in favor of greater access to the drug. It also plans to allow personal gardens only indoors.

Rules for medical grows remain unchanged.

The passage of the Medical Cannabis Regulation and Safety Act in 2015 made way for the permitting and taxation of medical marijuana, from plant to patient, and Proposition 64, passed in November 2016, put a lot more in motion. As a voter initiative, it was a clear message to the state—and local jurisdictions—that California wants a legal, organized system for the sale and use of marijuana for recreational use. Butte County residents approved Prop. 64 by a margin of 53 percent to 47 percent. In the city of Chico, that number was higher (61 percent in favor, vs. 39 percent).

The law gives every adult over the age of 21 the right to possess and use a small quantity of marijuana. It also allows for personal gardens. But in its schematics for legalizing commercial cannabis—from growing to manufacturing to transporting to selling—it’s

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left a lot of discretion to local governments.

And so now the anti-pot lobby is continuing its mission to maintain the status quo as jurisdictions face a deadline of Jan. 1, 2018, by which to decide whether to allow commercial activities related to marijuana.

Allowing more access, opponents argue, will lead to, among other things, kids and teens falling prey to pot; increased crime; and more DUI deaths because of people driving while stoned. The issue is compounded by the fact that there is still a differentiation between medical and recreational cannabis, though both share the same deadline (a city could choose to allow medical marijuana for sale but not recreational, for instance).

In Chico, it appears dispensaries and

manufacturing facilities are not in the cards.

On March 7, the City Council took up the issue and, after a short discussion, Mayor Sean Morgan made a motion to direct City Attorney Vince Ewing to craft an ordinance banning all commercial marijuana activity. It passed 4-3 along party lines (conservatives in favor). A ban is not an anomaly—several other municipalities in the North State and elsewhere have chosen against allowing any commercial activity. With nine months to go before the January deadline, however, Councilman Karl Ory asked a question: Why rush into it? “It’s premature at this point for you to be making a proposal that closes off

Jamie Kerr owns 530 Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary in Shasta Lake. She says getting involved in her community and being transparent about her business have helped legitimize 530 Collective—and the entire marijuana industry—in Shasta Lake.

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options without discussions,” he said to Morgan.

“Why not have a stakeholder group, open discussion with the [police] chief and others?”

Councilwoman Ann Schwab echoed Ory’s concern. “When we were discussing medical marijuana dispensaries [years ago], we had a series of meetings. We looked at numbers, particular areas, hours, regulations, quantities that could be sold, numbers of dispensaries that could be in the city. There was a lot of careful consideration instead of just saying ‘no.’”

Morgan did not reply to email or phone messages seeking comment for this story. City Manager Mark Orme says he expects the ordinance to come before the council in May. So, why an outright ban? The CN&R set out to investigate the main arguments for prohibiting the sale of marijuana. What truth lies behind the claims?

In the era of Fake News, it’s more important than ever to check one’s sources, and then check ’em again. In researching for this story, the CN&R consulted a mayor whose city will allow cannabis commerce, local law enforcement officials, a marijuana proponent, a dispensary owner and several reputable studies done by experts in the field.

MORE CRIME

This is one of Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien’s main reasons for opposing commercial marijuana in the city. “In my personal experience, over the last several years, I’ve seen more violence associated with marijuana than any other drug,” he said during a recent interview. He clarified: “That’s mostly in terms of home invasion robberies.”

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey pointed out another reason to be worried about increased crime: “Banks that are federally regulated and insured are reluctant to work with dispensaries.

They don’t want to be accomplices.

“They [the dispensaries] would have to continue to use the cash economy. Large amounts of cash are always a draw to the criminal element.”

While many law enforcement agencies throughout the U.S. have expressed the same worry, studies in this area are few and reveal mixed results.

O’Brien was also quick to say that while proponents of Prop. 64 claim that regulation will curb the black market, that hasn’t been the case in states where marijuana sales are already legal. He’s right, to an extent. Last year, an editor at The Economist wrote about challenges states have faced after legalization. Among them is the black market. Tom Wainwright found that in Colorado, 70 percent of pot sales were being made legally, while in Washington, only about 30 percent were above board. The reason, he surmised, was that Colorado’s taxes were lower and their regulations less strict. (Colorado’s tax rate was 28 percent, while Washington’s was 44 percent.)

Taxes are a concern for Jamie Kerr, owner of 530 Collective, a medical marijuana dispensary that

opened in 2009 in Shasta Lake. “I would caution cities about setting their tax number too high. Because we ultimately pass that tax onto the consumer. There is a point where people will divert to the black market if taxes are too high.”

TURNS TEENS INTO POTHEADS

Marijuana is legal only for adults who are of drinking age. Just like a bar asks for ID or a convenience store cards those buying cigarettes, dispensaries likewise will be required to sell only to those over 21.

“Lest you think nobody’s selling your kids pot right now,” said Jessica MacKenzie, spokeswoman for the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association (ICFA), “they are. But it’s black market. Kids try to steal booze all the time, and we know how to handle that.

Booze is the same thing—and we don’t ban booze; we regulate the bejesus out of it.”

Furthermore, Colorado has released statistics showing that marijuana use among teenagers has remained unchanged since before legalization.

IT’LL INCREASE DUI DEATHS

“I’ve seen the impacts of that drug in DUI collisions and fatalities,” O’Brien said. (He did not reply to a request for statistics related to marijuana-related DUIs.) Many opponents of legalized marijuana, particularly law enforcement agencies, point to studies that indicate that the prevalence of fatal crashes that involved a driver who tested positive for THC—the main psychoactive element in pot—increased after legalization.

One anti-64 TV ad posted on YouTube shows a crash scene and the words “fatalities doubled.” It cites a study by the American Automobile Association Foundation for Traffic Safety, which analyzed data from crashes in Washington state before and after pot legalization. Others refer to it similarly. What they don’t mention, however, are the many disclaimers listed in the study. For instance, it covers 2010-14 (weed was made legal in Washington in 2012) and only includes data for drivers blood-tested for THC. The frequency of blood-testing, however, increased from 2010 (1 in 4 were tested; 53 drivers were positive) to 2014 (nearly all were tested; 108 were positive). The study also did not include other substances in the drivers’ systems, including alcohol.

Another criticism of Prop. 64 is that it does not designate a THC level at which a driver would be considered impaired. Colorado and Washington have set that level at 5 nanograms; in other states, including California, impairment is judged by officer observation.

ENVIRONMENTAL DECAY

This argument deals with cultivation, which is legal— with restrictions—in the city of Chico for medical use and now, with Prop. 64, for personal use as well (up to six plants per residence). The city plans to limit recreational grows to indoors. Which means high electric bills.

“In terms of energy consumption, to do indoor lighting properly, it will take almost enough to power a threebedroom apartment. That’s not an effective use of resources,” said MacKenzie, who emphasized that she does not advocate for home grows, but rather for dispensaries.

“Plus, if you’re doing it behind closed doors, many people will not do things correctly if it costs time or money.”

When it comes to commercial growing, which the city plans to ban, the state holds those cultivation sites to a higher standard, as they will be required to obtain a permit to operate under the law. A recent ICFA meeting attended by representatives of the state Water Resources Control Board highlighted the strict guidelines for commercial grows.

“There is greater pollution coming from other industries,” environmental scientist Trey Sherell told the group.

“The state intends to make the cannabis industry the cleanest, greenest, most well-regulated industry in California.”

Moreover, local jurisdictions have the power to implement more stringent guidelines than the state.

“Localities are a lot more empowered than they think,” said Kerr, the Shasta Lake dispensary owner. “They some-

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“Our cultivation in Shasta Lake is only going to be allowed in a warehouse,” Kerr added. “While indoor is not as sustainable, it’s more attractive because it’s out of sight, easier to secure, and easier to implement odor control. In Chico, that might not be as desirable. But they could say, ‘You must source 50 percent of your energy from renewables.’ That’s what I mean by cities not realizing they’re empowered.”

CREATES ADDICTS

Cannabis is fun. Or it’s therapeutic. Or both. This is no secret. It wouldn’t be so desirable if it had no benefits. It’s also long been considered an illegal substance by the federal government, though some states disagree with that designation.

About 19.8 million people in the United States reported having used marijuana in 2013 (up from 14.5 million in 2007), according to the National Institute on Drug Addiction (NIDA). That same year, 4.2 million Americans “met clinical criteria for dependence or abuse of marijuana.”

O’Brien expressed concern regarding an increase in marijuana abuse should commercial activities be made legal. “I’m concerned about community well-being,” he said, “in relation to people developing drug addictions. So, do I think pot shops would be good for our community? No.” Despite the fact that marijuana is not widely regarded as being addictive—the way, say, heroin, methamphetamine and alcohol are—O’Brien believes there is cause to worry. “Some people develop, on some level, a psychological need for it,” he said. “Plus, the potency today—it’s not my generation’s pot. They have the ability to make it more potent.”

While a portion of the population consumes marijuana as medicine—it has been well-documented to treat ailments such as chronic or short-term pain, nausea, insomnia, epilepsy and post-traumatic stress disorder—another portion uses it for recreation.

The same can be said of prescription painkillers like Vicodin, Norco, morphine and Oxycontin, prescribed for pain but sold on the black market and proven to be highly addictive. In 2015, 2 million Americans ages 12 and older suffered from opioid addiction, according to the American Society of Addiction Medicine, a group of more than 4,000 physicians, clinicians, counselors and other addiction specialists dedicated to improving addiction treatment in the U.S. In addition, 591,000 abused heroin, which is related to opioids—and cheaper and easier to find in many cases. About 276,000 of the 2 million abusers were 12-17 years

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old. That year, there were 20,101 overdose deaths related to prescription painkillers, and 12,990 heroin overdose deaths.

In contrast, an overdose of marijuana has not been found to be lethal. NIDA says on its website, answering a question about overdosing on marijuana: “If you mean can they overdose and die from marijuana—the answer is no, it’s not very likely. But they can experience extreme anxiety (panic attacks) or psychotic reactions (where they lose touch with reality and may become paranoid). And people can and do injure themselves because of marijuana’s effects on judgment, perception and coordination.”

A lot of research has been done in recent years regarding the link between marijuana and prescription drugs, and which is preferable. A University of Georgia report released in July 2016 compared use of prescription drugs and marijuana among recipients of Medicare Part D in states where medical cannabis is legal.

Their findings: “National overall reductions in Medicare program and enrollee spending when states implemented medical marijuana laws were estimated to be $165.2 million per year in 2013. The availability of medical marijuana has a significant effect on prescribing patterns and spending in Medicare Part D.” When it came to opioids in particular, the researchers found that doctors in the 17 states where medical marijuana was legal prescribed 1,826 fewer doses of painkillers per year. In addition, there were fewer prescriptions for drugs to treat depression, seizures, sleep disorders, anxiety and nausea.

O’Brien is skeptical, sticking to the fed-

Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien says he’s worried that sales of marijuana would lead to higher addiction rates and more crime related to pot.

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eral drug schedule as the law of the land.

(As a Schedule I drug, marijuana is considered, federally, to have high abuse potential, no medical use and to pose serious safety concerns.) “If that’s the way society is going to go, there needs to be some mechanism to have the drug actually prescribed rather than recommended,” he said.

NO ECONOMIC BENEFIT

Based on financial data out of Colorado and other states that have legalized recreational marijuana, it’s an economic boon. So why this argument that it won’t make any money? Many suggest that the taxes written into Prop. 64—which are expected to reach $1 billion annually—won’t benefit local economies.

Here’s why: An excise tax of $9.25 per ounce of flowers and $2.75 per ounce of leaves is written into the law. In addition, there is a 15 percent state tax on retail sales. That money will be deposited into the California Marijuana Tax Fund and initially used to cover the cost of administration and enforcement. Beyond that, it will go to programs for medical cannabis research, policy review of Prop. 64 (to the tune of $10 million annually allocated to public universities), study of driver impairment and substance abuse treatment.

But local governments can levy their

own taxes. True, they must be approved by a two-thirds vote of the people, but these taxes have passed in many jurisdictions in states where marijuana is legal. As an example, Shasta Lake voters approved a 6 percent sales tax on medical marijuana collectives in 2014. Last year alone, the three collectives there generated more than $400,000, according to the city website.

“That’s a very significant amount,” Mayor Richard Kern said in a phone interview.

The website explains: “[S]ince January 2015, these businesses have contributed $859,450 in gross receipts tax revenue while employing approximately 30 fulltime employees in well-paying jobs. With the additional revenue, the City was able to add one full time Deputy Law Enforcement Officer, and fund $50,000 towards the Business Incentive Improvement Program to assist existing businesses with improving the façade of their business.”

With Prop. 64, Shasta Lake anticipates revenue to grow with the addition of licenses and permits for cultivation, manufacturing and other marijuana-related businesses.

The city recently hired a consulting firm to work out the best scenarios for regulating all aspects of commercial marijuana, including adding a tax on cultivation.

“So far, the ordinances and legal processes are going good,” Kern said. “But illegal [activity] is still a big problem. Getting a budget for that is really hard. That’s why we’re proposing a [new] cultivation tax to increase the number of enforcement officers we have so we can put some real teeth into the laws that we’ve passed.”

POT SHOPS ON EVERY CORNER

This is only true if the City Council wants it to be. The city of Shasta Lake, for instance, has set zoning regulations that limit not only where dispensaries can be located but also how close they can be to one another—they must be separated by at least 900 feet. Shasta Lake also has set a limit on the number of dispensaries it will allow—only three.

IT’S ILLEGAL FEDERALLY, SO IT’S ILLEGAL HERE

This is a go-to argument against allowing marijuana, medical or otherwise, in the state. And Chief O’Brien was quick to jump on it, naming it first on his list of reasons he opposes allowing commercial cannabis.

“Federal law has never been changed.

As police officials, that makes us uncomfortable,” he said. “The conflict between federal and state law—that’s problematic.”

District Attorney Ramsey doesn’t agree, despite having consistently spoken out against marijuana—most notably in 2010, when the eight medical marijuana dispensaries that were then in operation in Butte County were raided, prosecuted and ultimately shut down. “Generally, storefront collectives are illegal because you can’t sell

marijuana,” Ramsey said back then.

Things have changed, he told CN&R during a recent interview. With laws on the books allowing commercial activity related to both medical and recreational marijuana, he has no problem with municipalities in his jurisdiction regulating such enterprises.

“At that point [in 2010], the federal government had been looking at us. I spoke personally with the U.S. attorney,” he said, referring to a crackdown by the Department of Justice on local governments that passed laws allowing dispensaries. Then-Mayor Schwab received a letter threatening a lawsuit against her and anyone else who would pass or enforce a law allowing sales of marijuana, as the federal government categorized dispensaries.

During the City Council’s March 7 meeting, Councilwoman Schwab recalled that incident with a note of concern. “I don’t want to be sued, and I don’t want anybody else to get sued,” she said.

Ramsey doesn’t seem to be worried about that, though he did caution that the Trump administration could change things.

(He added, however, that there aren’t any U.S. attorneys right now, as they all got fired, so he’s heard no whispers of anything happening on that front anytime soon.)

“They [the feds] backed off,” he said.

“It’s going to be a whole new ballgame come this January, [when] the law will allow someone to have a dispensary.”

Kern, Shasta Lake’s mayor, says he believes in listening to the voice of the people—the voters who approved Prop. 64—and making smart, wellresearched decisions. “Look deeply into your options that you currently have,” he said as a message to cities, including Chico, that are currently in discussions.

“Remember, the state has not set all its rules and regulations yet. What you want to do in your community is really up to you, but I would advise you to look very closely at what you can do.

“You can choose to ban it,” he added.

“But there are two things that are going to happen. First, get ready for the lawsuits. Because you’re going to be sued.

And you’ll have to deal with the expenses of that. And then get ready to finally give in and let it run. You can save yourself a whole lot of money in lawsuits by taking the time now to get your ducks in a row.” Ω

Jessica MacKenzie, head of the Inland Cannabis Farmers’ Association, advocates for dispensaries over personal grows, saying that in a dispensary everything is labeled and must adhere to mandated guidelines.

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“Even as a kid, Duffy’s Tavern 337 Main St. there were certain www.facebook.com/ record covers that I duffyschico hated, and the first one that pops to mind is that Phil Collins record cover where it’s just Phil Collins’ face,” Log said recently by phone. “How many record covers are just someone’s face? I don’t know what this music is because all I’m looking at is someone’s face. If you remove the face from the music, now you gotta focus more on the music.”

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meaning the delivery is fast and furious and all appendages are occupied. Not having to fuss with a mic stand frees him up to fly through licks on his Silvertone and simultaneously stomp away with both feet on a full percussion line-up.

Log (born Robert Logan Reynolds III) grew up in Arizona listening to classic rock and blues, from AC/DC to Mississippi Fred McDowell. The influences led Log to style his own playing as a blend of Delta blues and straightforward rock.

“I wasn’t able to learn things correctly, so I kind of combined these two things and didn’t really learn either one right, and I tried to make a guitar party,” Log said. “If you listen to old Delta blues, what was that music trying to do?

It wasn’t trying to make people feel sad.

The music I hear was trying to make people jump up on the table. It’s taking your sadness and turning it into something so insanely fun that somebody’s gonna do something that we’re all gonna talk about tomorrow.”

In Log’s case, some of that talk might come from a level of shock factor. With songs like “Boob Scotch” and “I Want Your Shit on My Leg,” during both of which Log invites audience participation, his live show rides a fine line between

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“Some people, I suppose, see this as vulgar, but if I can have a girl on my leg [while playing a song] or a guy—it doesn’t matter if it’s a girl or a guy—it’s just somebody who’s now crossed the line from audience to the stage,” Log said. “Once the line is removed, people start to have more fun than they would normally have at a show where they would have to stay behind the barricade.”

So far in 2017, Log’s already toured throughout Europe, Australia, Canada and the U.S. The travel is seemingly endless, but it doesn’t bother him.

“The reason I wake up every morning is to play guitar at the end of the day,” Log said. “Whatever I gotta do to get to where I gotta play—if it’s a boat, a plane and a car. If at the end of the day I get to play guitar, that’s why I do everything.”

Even with a world of venues under his belt, Log is especially looking forward to his performance at Duffy’s (Friday, March 31).

“Chico has a mythic place in my mind,” Log said. “Before I started touring, there was a band in Tucson called Pollo Elastico. [They] went on a big U.S. tour, came home, and all they could talk about was Chico.” □

to celebrate the release of Inspire School of Arts and Sciences’ anthology of student poetry. Thu, 3/30, 7pm. Free. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

TRANS/GNC WEEK: Workshops, an art show, dances, trainings, youth meetings and more during this week of learning and special events. Thu, 3/30. Various locations, 358 E. Sixth St. 893-3336. www.transgnc.com

WINE TASTING: Monthly wine tasting to raise funds for a local charity. Thu, 3/30, 5pm. $7. Bidwell Park Golf Course, 3119 Golf Course Road. 530-624-2841.

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

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1078 MEMBERS SHOW: A reception for the gallery’s 36th annual members showcase. Sat, 4/1, 6pm. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

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BROADWAY BOOGIE (DANCE CHICO! WEEK): As part of its Dance Chico! festival, Chico Performances will be blocking off Third Street between Broadway and Main and throwing a free dance party for the community. Sun, 4/2, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico.

BACH FEST-BRAHMS REQUIEM: Chico State

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 tour de force of comic lunacy. Thu, 3/30, 7:30pm. $10$18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. 530-877-5760. www.totr.org

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TRANS WEEK: See Thursday. Fri, 3/31. Various locations, 358 E. Sixth St. 893-3336. www.transgnc.com

Art Receptions REPLICATION MACHINE: A closing reception for the Replication Machine project, showcasing the replications artists made of items brought in by the public. Fri, 3/31, 5pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St.

139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com one-acts written, performed and directed by students from the Oroville charter school. Fri, 3/31, 7:30pm. $5-$8. 1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway St.

JEEVES & WOOSTER IN COME ON, JEEVES!: See Thursday. Fri, 3/31, 7:30pm. $10 - $18.

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SCHOOL OF ROCK: PVHS music and theater departments have joined forces to present the energetic musical. Fri, 3/31, 7pm. $10$12. Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 570-2262.

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more. Sat, 4/1. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. 3rd St. (530) 228-2860. www.friendsofthearts upstate.org/silent-film-festival

CONCOURS ELITE CAR & MOTORCYCLE SHOW: Celebrating 35 years in business, Concours Elite is throwing an anniversary bash with cars and cycles, plus live music, barbecue, pony rides and adoptable pets from Butte Humane Society. Sat, 4/1, 10am.

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DANCE CHICO!-RHYTHMIC CIRCUS: As part of the Dance Chico! festival, Chico Performances presents this energetic Minneapolis act performing Feet Don’t Fail Me Know, a dance performance along with a thundering brass band. Sat, 4/1, 7:30pm. $10 - $32. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. 530-898-6333.

THE GRAND HOTELS OF CHICO: Collector Randy Taylor will present a look back at the history of Chico’s hotels using pictures from his extensive collection. Sat, 4/1, 10am. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St. 530-891-4336. www.chicomuseum.org

JEWISH STUDENT UNION/CHICO HILLEL BENEFIT: In honor of its 30th anniversary JSU/Chico Hillel is throwing a Gatsby-themed benefit with dinner, dancing, a dessert auction, student/alumni panel and guest speakers from the Jewish community. Tickets are $50 for adults and $10 for current students. Sat, 4/1, 6:30pm. Lakeside Pavilion, 2565 California Park Drive. www.chicohilell.org

MALTEAZERS PRESENT DAZED & CONFUSED: The Maltese’s house burlesque troupe presents a Dazed and Confused-themed dance/variety show. Sat, 4/1, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

PARADISE CITIZENS OF THE YEAR BANQUET: A banquet for this year’s honorees: Steve “Woody” Culleton (Man of the Year), Vernice Regan (Woman of the Year), Sam Dresser (Senior Citizen of the Year), Everette Risley (Junior Citizen of the Year). Call for reservations. Sat, 4/1, 5pm. $15-$25. Paradise Elks Lodge, 1100 Elk Lane, Paradise. 530-877-3977.

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Acappella Choir and the North Valley Chamber Chorale join members of the North State Symphony to present masterwork of choralorchestral music. Part of Chico State’s Bach Fest. Sat, 4/1, 7:30pm. $28. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State. (530) 898-6333. www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com

BACH FEST-THE CULMINATION OF AN ERA: Recital by

CHICO SILENT FILM FESTIVAL: See Saturday. Sun, 4/2. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. (530) 228-2860.

HOMEBREWERS RALLY: The American Homebrewers Association is hosting a coast-to-coast rally at both Sierra Nevada locations—tasting beers, meeting brewers and raising a glass to their compatriots in North Carolina. Find the rally under events at www.homebrewersassociation.org to register. Sun, 4/2, 11am. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St.

the Music Teachers Association of California emphasizing Bach’s mastery of sacred and secular styles from the late Renaissance to the beginnings of the German sentimentalist music movement. Part of Chico State’s Bach Fest. Sat, 4/1, 2pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State. www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com

CONCERT ON THE GREEN: The Mixtape band will play hits from 1970s through 1990s as the club serves food, beer and provides games for kids. Sat, 4/1, 2:30pm. $10-$20. Canyon Oaks Country Club, 999 Yosemite Drive.

Theater GOOD WITH FACES: See Thursday. Sat, 4/1, 7:30pm. $15 - $18. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W.

TRANS WEEK: See Thursday Sun, 4/2. Various locations, 358 E. Sixth St. 893-3336. www.transgnc.com

Music AMERICA - PAST, PRESENT, FUTURE: Paradise Community Chorus’ spring concert. Sun, 4/2, 3pm. $10. Paradise Performing Arts Center,

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JEEVES & WOOSTER IN COME ON, JEEVES!: See Thursday. Sat, 4/1, 7:30pm. $10 - $18. Theatre On The Ridge, 3735 Neal Rd, Paradise. 530877-5760. www.totr.org

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BRAhMS VS. BAch For its annual Bach Festival, the Chico State Department of Music and Theatre is bridging a 150-year gap, co-mingling baroque Bach with the lateRomantic works of Brahms. The festival features three performances over two days, starting Saturday, April 1, with students of the Music Teachers Association performing a tribute to Bach’s work with The Culmination of an Era, a free afternoon show in Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall. That evening, what’s sure to be one of the most impressive musical events of the year in Chico will take place in Harlen Adams Theatre, with Chico State’s Acappella Choir and the North Valley Chamber Chorale, under the direction of Dr. David Scholz, presenting Brahms’ opus, A German Requiem, with a full symphonic orchestra.

Closing out the festival, on Sunday, April 2, in Harlen Adams, is Brahms Versus Bach, a mashup of fugues and organ and choral preludes from both composers.

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Special Events 1984 SCREENING-NATIONAL EVENT: In unified protest against Donald Trump’s policies—particularly efforts to defund the NEA—theaters across the country will show the film version of George Orwell’s dystopian novel about the oppressive Big Brother. Tue, 4/4, 7pm. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F.

Music FRONT COUNTRY: Bay Area progressive bluegrass crew stops at the Big Room in support of its new album, Sake of the Sound. Tue, 4/4, 7:30pm. $15. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St.

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Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

FORK IN THE ROAD: The monthly food-truck round-up is back, featuring a dozen-plus trucks, live music, playground for kids and adult beverages for purchase. Wed, 4/5, 5:30pm. Free. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave.

INNOVATION’S SHADOW: Visiting history professor W. Patrick McCray will discuss how revolutions—technological, political, or otherwise—are messy. Wed, 4/5, 7:30pm. Humanities Center, Chico State. www.schoolofthearts-csuchico.com

THE NAKED MAGICIANS: Chico Performances presents an R-rated comedy/magic show from Australia. Wed, 4/5, 7:30pm. $50. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. www.chicoperformances.com

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Art 1078 GALLERY: Members Show, in honor of April Fool’s, 1078 members were invited to “fool around with the uncharted, unbearable, goofy, uncanny, unregistered, irreverent, and unreliable” for the annual group show.

820 Broadway St. www.1078gallery.org

B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibit, works by Caitlin Francis. 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. Through 3/31, 12pm. 450 Orange St.

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

265 Cohasset Road (inside Enloe Cancer Center), 530-332-3856.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Masters of Fine Arts Culminating Exhibitions, exhibits featuring Masters candidates Robert Curl (3/27-30), Holland Larsen (4/3-7) and Garrick Hargrove (4/10-14) 3/30–4/14. Chico State. universityartgallery.wordpress.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings by Sal Casa, Early collection of the artist’s paintings representing his changing styles and perspectives. 3/30-3/31. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

NAKED LOUNGE TEA AND COFFEEHOUSE: Light of Dawn, new mixed-media paintings and prints. Through 4/01. 118 W. Second St.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing exhibits, rotating exhibits featuring local artists.

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THE CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Artwork of Molly LittleBird, using recycled materials, mostly paper combined with acrylic paints to make textured abstract wall art. Through 3/31. 789 Bille Road, Paradise.

THE TURNER: Know Her Name: Women Printmakers and Shojo Manga Artists, in recognition of Women’s History Month, this exhibition celebrates women printmakers in the Turner Print Collection along with a selection of contemporary Shojo Manga women artists. 3/30-4/15. 400 W. 1st St.

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TIN ROOF BAKERY: Rivers and Streams, paintings by Nicolai Larsen. Through 3/31. 627 Broadway St., Ste. 170.

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

CHICO AIR MUSEUM: The museum is housed in a large refurbished 1941 WW II Army Air Corps hangar and has an outdoor area with airplanes on display. 165 Ryan Ave.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St.

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. 141 Salem St. www.chicomuseum.org

COLMAN MUSEUM: Colman Community Museum, cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. 13548 Centerville Road.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Ongoing Exhibits, 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. www.csu chico.edu

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: Paradise Depot Museum, the refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a railroad and logging museum.

There is a working model train. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 530-872-8722.

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. Meriam Library Complex at Chico State.

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consuming art is a solitary endeavor. But the exceptions to that generalization, and to most other “rules” governing human by interaction, can provide substantive Carey Wilson food for thought about the urge to make and appreciate art as a playful and communal expression of the creative impulse. Replication Review: Machine, the current interactive art replication Machine, exhibition at Chico Art Center, is a closing reception prime example of that exception. friday, March 31, As I entered CAC’s main gal5-7 p.m., at lery during a recent visit, I encounchico art center. tered hundreds of colorful toy-like Chico Art Center artworks arranged on multileveled 450 orange st. platforms around the room. A 895-8726 docent greeted me and offered to www.chicoart replicate a pair of brown leather center.com dress gloves I’d brought for that purpose. After filling out an accompanying form, I dropped the gloves into the “Replication Machine” and was told that in no more than 20 minutes an original piece of art would be delivered and then added to the exhibit and the original returned to me. Additionally, a Polaroid photo would be taken of both and, along with the submission form, added to a collection pinned to the gallery walls.

At exhibition’s end, owners of the originals are invited to take their new art home as well.

As I waited, I spoke with CAC’s gallery director, Cameron Kelly, who walked me through the process.

We sat down on the deck adjoining the gallery with the Great Northern Coffee shop and she filled me in on the background of what inspired the exhibit. The goal is to attract new viewers and members to the art center via a playful, socially and creatively interactive event. At the time of my object’s replication (the 365th, on March 23), the project had averaged roughly 18 replications

per day by its rotating staff of 35 “replication specialists,” a stable of local artists. That’s a lot of art.

When I mentioned that the process reminded me a bit of Rene Magritte’s iconic surrealist painting “The Treachery of Images,” which is a realistic depiction of a smoker’s pipe labeled “Ceci n’est pas une pipe” (“This is not a pipe”), Kelly explained that the Replication Machine is a descendant of the surrealist and Dada schools of art that originated in the politically volatile and turbulent era following World War I. Much as today, nationalistic fascism was on the rise and artists were motivated or inspired to delve both playfully and gravely into the realms of the unconscious and irrational in search of the means with which to illuminate our common bonds as humans.

The Replication Machine was designed by local artist, teacher and typographer Max Infeld, and was originally employed in 2007 for a similar interactive exhibit at Chico State. For its return a decade later, the exhibit leans toward the playfully surreal with the majority of the results exuding childlike simplicity and a sense of humor.

A piece serial-numbered “000296,” by replication specialist “Cameron,” is a pillow adorned with a girl’s simple black Mary Jane shoe. The documentation shows a photo of the original shoe, a photo of its sparkly replicated likeness painted on the blue-andwhite-striped pillow, and a photo of the donor holding both above the handwritten message: “One night, on a pillow, dreams came as the wind blew and the stars shot through the sky. In the next days, all the world sparkled.”

It’s a fun, whimsical display, with replicated objects ranging from glasses to toy dinosaurs to fishbowl gardens to Día de los Muertos skeleton figures and pipe-cleaner dolls. And the documentation photos add a spark of gleeful strangeness, bringing the community into the process of collaborative re-creation.

I decided to wait and be surprised by how my replication turned out. I’ll return and retrieve it during the closing reception, Friday, March 31. □

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FRIDAY MORNING JAZZ: A weekly morning jazz appointment with local experimental troupe Bogg. Fri, 3/31, 11am. Free. Café Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

GRAVYBRAIN & BLACK FONG: This is as funky as Chico gets with two local faves gettin’ down on the dance floor. Fri, 3/31, 7:30pm. $5. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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THE RUGS: A little bit of California soul from Chico rockers The Rugs. Thu, 3/30, 9pm. $1. Argus Bar+Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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BOG LOG III: Hop on the lap of the punk-blues one man band. Locals Bad Mana and Sex Hogs open. Fri, 3/31, 9:30pm. $7. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St., 530-343-7718.

Strangeness and Wolfthump team up for an unrelenting night of dancing and grooving. It’s time to shake off that winter cold. Fri, 3/31, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., 530-354-0717.

IRISH MUSIC HAPPY HOUR: A Chico tradition: Friday night happy hour with traditional Irish music by the Pub Scouts. Fri, 3/31, 4pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: Live

music with your dinner. Fri, 3/31, 6pm. Free. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St., (530) 895-1515.

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RECKLESS ENVY: Reno cover band. Fri, 3/31, 8:30pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

SUNDAY IRIS: Chico duo Sunday Iris,

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St. Louis-based Grateful Dead tribute band The Schwag is making up for lost time. After serving a year in prison for crimes related to revelers ingesting and selling drugs during music festivals (really, people do drugs at music festivals?) on property he owned, dread-headed singer/ bassist Jimmy Tebeau is back in the fold as the band continues to share the Grateful Dead Experience. The band will be at Lost on Main this Saturday, April 1.

Lisa Valentine and Dave Elke, celebrate the release of their first album with an intimate show.

Michael Bone opens. Fri, 3/31, 7:30pm. $7. Cafe Coda, 265 Humboldt Ave.

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THIS WEEK: FIND mOrE ENTErTaINmENT aND SPEcIaL EVENTS ON PaGE 24 GRATEFUL DEAD EXPERIENCE: St. Louis-based crew The Schwag play the music of The Dead. Locals The Ascenders open. Sat, 4/1, 9pm. $15.

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MALTEAZERS PRESENT DAZED & CONFUSED: The Maltese’s house burlesque troupe presents a Dazed and Confused-themed dance/variety show. Sat, 4/1, 10pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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FrONT cOUNTrY Tuesday, April 4 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESDaY

journeyman rocker has played keys with everyone from Eric Burdon and the Animals to Lita Ford. Sat, 4/1, 7pm. $20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, (530) 762-1490.

MOSSY CREEK: Chico bluegrass crew live in the restaurant. Sat, 4/1, 7pm. Free. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd.

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A CLITERATI: Queercore d-beat crusties from PDX. Local Los New Huevos (Chico) and Dying for It (Redding) open. Sat, 4/1, 8pm. $7. Monstros Pizza, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.

CYGNE, TRAVIS ROWDY, GARRETT GRAY: Seattle singer/songwriter Cygne is joined by local players Travis Rowdy and Garrett Gray. Sat, 4/1, 8pm.

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The world stage A powerful, Oscar-winning drama from Iran

TveryLanguage Film, and it’s pretty clearly one of the best films, foreign or not, from the last 12 or so he Salesman won the Oscar for Best Foreign

months.

Like other recent successes of its gifted Iranian writer-director, Asghar Farhadi— by A Separation (an Oscar winner in Juan-Carlos 2012) and The Past—the new film Selznick is a surprisingly complex domestic drama, a seemingly offhanded study of modern-day relationships in common workaday situations. Iranian men and women on the cusp between modern freedoms and traditional strictures are a recurring feature of The Salesman Opens Friday, his dramas, and yet the stories he March 31. Starring tells have a much broader interest Shahab hosseini, and wider appeal than their very preTaraneh alidoosti, cise settings and background details Babak Karimi and Farid Saj jadi hosseini. might seem to suggest.

The married couple in this case Directed by asghar Farhadi. Pageant are Emad (Shahab Hosseini) and Theatre. rated PG-13. Rana (Taraneh Alidoosti), and the lead actors in a little theater production of Death of a Salesman. Farhadi uses scenes and moments from Arthur Miller’s play as a kind of ironic counterpoint to events in the couple’s daily life. But the most compelling dramatic turmoil in Farhadi’s Salesman arises in the aftermath of an unknown intruder’s off-screen assault on Rana.

It’s at that point that The Salesman becomes a unique kind of mystery story, very unconventional and offbeat but also extraordinarily perceptive. Both Rana and Emad hesitate to report the assault to the police, but not for the same reasons. Somewhat belatedly, Emad begins tracking the culprit who, in his rush to flee the scene, has left a trail of mundane clues behind.

Partly by accident, Emad catches up with the guilty party, but soon has several reasons for wishing he hadn’t.

The hapless culprit (played by portly Farid

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Sajjadihosseini) is a decidedly unvillainous sort, a banal figure whose impulsive moment of evil seems inexplicable even to him. Emad, who also works as a school teacher, seems a natural leader, but his sudden descent into vengefulness proves ruinous in several respects. And Rana, who had seemed inclined to remain on the sidelines in matters of dispute, begins to show signs that she could become the film’s moral center.

You might say that The Salesman turns the conventional crime story inside out. In any event, the results are powerful and, at times, devastating. □

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Kedi Opens Friday, March 31. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

by Juan-Carlos Selznick

Ceyda Torun’s charmingly poetic film about the mul-

titudes of cats in her native city of Istanbul makes a nicely appointed addition to the tradition of the “city symphonies” genre of documentary. Kedi (the Turkish word for “cat”) is a kind of love letter to that city channeled through its hospitality toward its large, diverse and long-lived population of felines. Torun’s cinematographers (Alp Korfali and Charlie Wuppermann) show a sharp and affectionate eye for individual cats comporting themselves in a variety of urban settings.

And the film as a whole has a rich sense of distinct individual character in its gallery of feline portraiture.

The latter element is enhanced by the comments and remarks of the assorted city dwellers who show a keen appreciation of individual qualities in the cats who are, in effect, their friends and neighbors. As a result, Torun’s film also takes shape as a tribute to the catlovers of Istanbul. □

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Donnie Darko (2001)

A brand-new 4K restoration released in celebration of the 15th anniversary of Richard Kelly’s daring cult classic. Three showings: Friday, 9:30 p.m.; Saturday, 9:30 p.m.; Sunday, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Ghost in the Shell

An adaptation of Masamune Shirow’s popular manga starring Scarlett Johansson as the cyber-enhanced leader of a task force battling dangerous criminals in the near future, including an enemy bent on sabotaging cyber networks. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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CHIPs

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.

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.

Rated R.

Kong: Skull Island

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, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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.

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Beauty and the Beast

Disney’s wonderful 1991 animated musical adaptation of the classic French fairy tale has become the latest film on Disney’s Live Redo of a Beloved Animated Movie assembly line. This one is a big budget effort starring Emma Watson as the iconic Belle and Ewan McGregor as a CGI candelabra. Is it an enjoyable distraction? Yes, even if it is completely unnecessary. Hermione makes for a strong Belle, and Watson’s performance is what makes the film worthwhile.

As the Prince/Beast, Dan Stevens gives a decent enough performance via motion capture, 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. Beauty and the Beast tastes good, yet is ultimately empty fluff. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG —B.G.

Hugh Jackman says goodbye to Wolverine with Logan, a total shocker of a superhero movie that lays waste to the X-Men and various spin-off films that came before it. Director James Mangold revamps the character’s mythos and pulls along Charles Xavier (Patrick Stewart) for a gritty, bloody, awesome ride. It’s the future, and the X-Men are gone. A mutant hasn’t been born in a quarter of a century, and Logan isn’t looking too hot. He’s driving a limo to make ends meet, coughing up blood, and basically not aging well. He’s doing better than Xavier (the mutant formally known as Professor X), who is prone to seizures and suffering from some sort of degenerative disease in his powerful brain. But just when it seems as if the former superheros will waste away in their miserable existence, along comes 11-year-old Laura (a dynamite Dafne Keen).

She’s a genetically engineered and created mutant equipped with the same retractable claws, healing powers and viciously bad temper as Logan. When her life becomes endangered, Logan throws her and Xavier in the back of his vehicle, and they are off on one wild, dark road trip. Cinemark 14 and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —B.G.

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find the east-side eatery’s number permanently disconnected. Thankfully, further research revealed it was just moving to a story and new location. The deli reopened photo by in early March with limited, Ken Smith lunchtime-only hours as Fast Eddie kens @ (he’s a real guy) and crew settle new srev i ew. c o m into their new digs.

The restaurant’s first location was Fast Eddie’s downtown, but in 2011 it moved Sandwich Shop into one of those converted home-to1175 East ave. commercial spots on East Avenue, 342-8555 www.fasteddies near Tinseltown. Its new location is chico.com another conversion job on the same street, this one closer to Pleasant Open for lunch daily, Valley High School and across the 11 a.m.-2 p.m., street from a palm reader. with expanded hours to come.

It seems, at long last, that the restaurant has finally found a fitting home. The new location has more interior space and more of the things that make Fast Eddie’s a special place. The sports theme remains intact and unique—fun and oddly retro, more like an ideal place for a post-Little League game celebration than a brotastic sports bar. This atmosphere is enhanced by a slightly separated arcade room featuring an obligatory, sit-down-style racing game. The newfangled thrill ride might not complete the halcyon atmosphere as well as a vintage Pole Position machine might, but no worries, grandpa … they do have Galaga. The new space also includes a beer bar with several taps and outdoor seating in the front yard, which is still being landscaped.

Part of Eddie’s appeal has always been its massive, offbeat sandwich menu (now with 70 sammies to choose from), which ranges from simple (a classic blank-and-blank from the basics menu runs $6.99 on average) to stupendous (a Hawaiian Cowboy with hot

ham, bacon, pineapple, honey mustard, barbecue and Fast Eddie’s signature sauce). With the new home’s larger, better-outfitted kitchen, the menu has expanded to include burgers and deep-fried delights.

Since the reopening, I’ve been to Fast Eddie’s twice. The first time, I had to order my usual, the High Tower—Eddie’s aptly named take on a classic, triple-decker club sandwich (ham, turkey, bacon, cheddar, $8.49).

I wanted to try one of the burgers on my second visit, but still found myself craving a sandwich, so I ordered a G-CHEEZY Burger ($9.49)—a dressed-up muenster cheeseburger tucked between two complete grilled cheese sandwiches. It kicked as much ass as its description suggests.

I also tested several sides—onion rings, mozzarella sticks, jalapeño poppers and fries, listed here in order of relative tastiness. I sampled some of my dining companions’ orders as well and was most impressed by the sandwiches centered around a tender piece of fried chicken.

The service at Fast Eddie’s old location was, ironically, a bit on the slow side. This wasn’t the case during recent visits, even though the restaurant was packed both times.

We did encounter a few kinks easily chalked up to growing pains. For one, part of Eddie’s charm is that some dishes are on the down-and-dirty side (pub food meets snack bar meets deli-style), but a few of my companions’ meals were a little too much so, and could use a little less grease and sauce. Sandwich combos formerly came stock with a serving of some of the most excellent macaroni salad I’ve ever had— it’s got a spicy bite to it and includes delectable little cubes of cheddar cheese. It’s still on the menu, but lost among the deli’s expanded options.

Altogether, it was a satisfying return to an old favorite, and I look forward to Fast Eddie’s delivering bigger and better meals than ever once the proverbial dust from the move has settled. □

IN THE MIX Sunday Iris Sunday Iris Self-released If you’ve spent much time paying attention to music in Chico, chances are you’ve come across Dave Elke or Lisa Valentine. Recently, the two longtime staples of the scene have teamed up as a power duo dubbed Sunday Iris. While both have musically leaned more toward jazz and soul, respectively, in past projects, this new endeavor embodies a more simplified, Americana vibe. The eponymous debut album stays fairly bare bones, with Elke’s finger-picked acoustic beds and Valentine’s lush, folky vocals. Tunes like “Wanderer” bring in some minimal cello swells and “I Am Safe” has a little bit of upright bass underbelly, but for the most part the emphasis is on intimate arrangements. On “Turning Into Love,” Elke and Valentine balance a stripped-down delicacy with a pop sing-along feel via the breezy chorus. At times, Valentine’s vocals take on that sweet clarity akin to folk artists like Patty Griffin, but her power comes from long vibrato-inflected phrasings. Sunday Iris will celebrate the new recording at a release party this Friday, March 31, at 7:30 p.m., at Cafe Coda.

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While “How Can I Tell Him” feels more akin to Lekman’s earlier work, with a slightly more folk-pop timbre of simple strings over clean drums, “Wedding in Finistère” experiments with lively, calypso-style horn lines and rich keys, jumping effortlessly into quick polyrhythmic hooks.

Though these new rhythmic shifts have a strong presence, Lekman does a great job of seamlessly blending them into his older, more smooth pop style without making the songs feel too cluttered, especially on tunes like “Dandelion Seed.” Lekman has that soft Scandinavian diction that suits his narrative delivery of everyday chronicles, ranging from trying to pin down a nostalgic perfume to conversations about what-ifs with a bride. It’s a lot, but his meticulous execution makes it all seem easy.

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SMall fiSh, big Stage For many local musicians, the “I’ve finally made it” moment would be scoring a gig at the sierra nevada Big Room. Other than Chico State’s Laxson auditorium, you won’t find another Chico stage that has hosted so many world-class musicians and provided so many groovy communal memories.

The rub for local acts, however, is not having a big enough draw for the Big Room. The reality for most is that they cannot pull in 350 fans for a show … unless, that is, they call on their crazy uncle and his gang of local fun-makers.

Thanks to the busy arts producers of the Uncle dad’s art Collective, you have the chance to join the likes of Gillian Welch and the Mother Hips in the annals of the Big Room. For the third year, the group is mounting its small Town, Big sound event, a concert Kyle Williams in the Big Room with Uncle Dad’s singers featuring tunes submitted by lo(from left) Jenise Coon and Ashiah Scharaga. cal songwriters that have been photo by Ken pordeS reinterpreted by the collective and presented by a full Uncle Dad’s orchestra—typically in collaboration with the original artists—on the Big Room stage.

Small Town, Big Sound will play two nights, Sept. 18-19, and submissions are being accepted at www.uncledad.co/submit through April 9. april iS for MuSic Starting next week, April 6, the Cn&R will officially kick off this year’s Chico area Music Festival—aka the CaMMiEs—and arts dEVo wants to make sure everyone is on board with the plan. The CAMMIES have changed a lot over the years, shifting away from so much nominating and voting and instead trying to keep our local music net cast as wide as possible so as to catch as many rockers and folkers from all corners of the scene as possible. For those trying to wrap their heads around what’s in store, here are the basics: • CaMMiEs showcases, april 6-22: Chico venues will produce shows highlighting local musicians, and the CN&R will promote them each week in the paper and on our Facebook event page at www.facebook.com/chicocammies/ events.

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• CaMMiEs Finale & awards show, april 23: The CN&R will host a free, outdoor music festival at Patrick Ranch, featuring performances by 13 local acts plus the presentation of the CAMMIES Awards, both the dozen or so critics’ choice awards and the one people’s choice award for Best Local Act.

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• Local Music issue, april 13: In the spirit of the local music season, the CN&R publishes its annual issue spotlighting acts to watch in the Chico scene.

XDS, coming to the CAMMIES Finale April 23.

• CaMMiEs voting, through april 16: Visit www.vote.newsreview.com/cammies-2017 and write in any local act (bands or solo artists) currently playing original music.

So, get out there this month and see what Chico has to offer. Challenge yourself and go to a venue or hear a band that you normally wouldn’t.

Insider’s tip: Local music impresario Sesar Sanchez has a Chico Bands database at www.chicobands.tumblr.com. Log on and just start clicking links and discover something new. And hey, local bands, if you don’t see your link on the site, send an email to sesar.sanchez@gmail.com and include your band name, link to your website, and three genre titles that would apply to your music. Get in the game!

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF march 30, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The dragon

that stole your treasure will return it.

Tulips and snapdragons will blossom in a field you thought was a wasteland.

Gargoyles from the abyss will crawl into view, but then meekly lick your hand and reveal secrets you can really use. The dour troll that guards the bridge to the Next Big Thing will let you pass even though you don’t have the password. April fool! Everything I just described is only metaphorically true, not literally.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): According

to legend, Buddha had to face daunting tests to achieve enlightenment. A diabolical adversary tempted him with sensual excesses and assailed him with vortexes of blistering mud, flaming ice and howling rocks. Happily, Buddha glided into a state of wise calm and triumphed over the mayhem. He converted his nemesis’ vortexes into bouquets of flowers and celestial ointments. What does this have to do with you?

In accordance with current astrological omens, I hope you will emulate Buddha as you deal with your own initiatory tests.

April fool! I wasn’t completely honest. It’s true you’ll face initiatory tests that could prod you to a higher level of wisdom. But they’ll most likely come from allies and inner prompts rather than a diabolical adversary.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Since I

expect you’ll soon be tempted to indulge in too much debauched fun and riotous release, I’ll offer you a good hangover remedy. Throw these ingredients into a blender, then drink up: a thousand-yearold quail egg from China, seaweed from Antarctica, milk from an Iraqi donkey, lemon juice imported from Kazakhstan and a dab of Argentinian toothpaste on which the moon has shone for an hour. April fool!

I deceived you. You won’t have to get crazy drunk or stoned to enjoy extreme pleasure and cathartic abandon. It will come to you quite naturally—especially if you expand your mind through travel, big ideas or healthy experiments.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Hire a

promoter to create gold plaques listing your accomplishments and hang them up in public places. Or pay someone to make a thousand bobblehead dolls in your likeness, each wearing a royal crown, and give them away to everyone you know. Or enlist a pilot to fly a small plane over a sporting event while trailing a banner that reads, “[Your name] is a gorgeous genius worthy of worshipful reverence.” April fool! What I just advised was a distorted interpretation of the cosmic omens. Here’s the truth: The best way to celebrate your surging power is not by reveling in frivolous displays of pride, but rather by making a bold move that will render a fantastic dream ten percent more possible for you to accomplish.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Endangered

species: black rhino, Bornean orangutan, hawksbill turtle, South China tiger, Sumatran elephant and the Leo messiah complex. You may not be able to do much to preserve the first five on that list, but please get to work on saving the last.

It’s time for a massive eruption of your megalomania. April fool! I was exaggerating for effect. There’s no need to go overboard in reclaiming your messiah complex. But please do take strong action to stoke your self-respect, self-esteem and confidence.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Race through

your yoga routine so you have more time to surf the internet. Inhale doughnuts and vodka in the car as you race to the health food store. Get into a screaming fight with a loved one about how you desperately need more peace and tenderness. April fool! A little bit of self-contradiction would be cute, but not that much. And yet I do worry that you are close to expressing that much. The problem may be that you haven’t been giving your inner rebel any high-quality mischief to attend to. As a result, it’s bogged down in trivial insurrections. So please give your inner rebel more important work to do.

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Research

shows that a typical working couple devotes an average of four minutes per day in meaningful conversations. I suggest you boost that output by at least 10 percent.

Try to engage your best companion in four minutes and 24 seconds of intimate talk per day. April fool! I lied. A 10 percent increase isn’t nearly enough. Given the current astrological indicators, you must seek out longer and deeper exchanges with the people you love. Can you manage 20 minutes per day?

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): In a way,

it’s too bad you’re about to lose your mind.

The chaos that ensues will be a big chore to clean up. But in another sense, losing your mind may be a lucky development.

The process of reassembling it will be entertaining and informative. And as a result, your problems will become more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. April fool! I lied, sort of. You won’t really lose your mind. But this much is true: Your problems will be more fascinating than usual, and your sins will be especially original. That’s a good thing!

It may even help you recover a rogue part of your mind that you lost a while back.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You say that some of the healthiest foods don’t taste good? And that some of your pleasurable diversions seem to bother people you care about? You say it’s too much hassle to arrange for a certain adventure that you know would be exciting and meaningful? Here’s what I have to say about all that: Stop whining. April fool! I lied. The truth is, there will soon be far fewer reasons for you to whine. The discrepancies between what you have to do and what you want to do will at least partially dissolve. So will the gaps between what’s good for you and what feels good, and between what pleases others and what pleases you.

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

should begin work on a book with one of the following titles, and you should finish writing it no later than April 28: “The Totally Intense Four Weeks of My Life When I Came All the Way Home”… “The Wildly Productive Four Weeks of My Life when I Discovered the Ultimate Secrets of Domestic Bliss” …

“The Crazily Meaningful Four Weeks When I Permanently Anchored Myself in the Nourishing Depths.” April fool! I lied. There’s no need to actually write a book like that.

But I do hope you seek out and generate experiences that would enable you to write books with those titles.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): If you

were a passenger on a plane full of your favorite celebrities, and the pilot had to make an emergency landing on a remote snowbound mountain, and you had to eat one of the celebrities in order to stay alive until rescuers found you, which celebrity would you want to eat first? April fool!

That was a really stupid and pointless question. I can’t believe I asked it. I hope you didn’t waste a nanosecond thinking about what your reply might be. Here’s the truth, Aquarius: You’re in a phase of your astrological cycle when the single most important thing you can do is ask and answer really good questions.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): You now

have an elevated chance of finding a crumpled $1 bill on a sidewalk. There’s also an increased likelihood you’ll get a coupon for a 5 percent discount from a carpet shampoo company, or win enough money in the lottery to buy a new sweatshirt. To enhance these possibilities, all you have to do is sit on your ass and wish really hard that good economic luck will come your way. April fool! What I just said was kind of true, but also useless. Here’s more interesting news: The odds are better than average that you’ll score tips on how to improve your finances. You may also be invited to collaborate on a potentially lucrative project, or receive an offer of practical help for a bread-and-butter dilemma. To encourage these outcomes, all you have to do is develop a long-term plan for improved money management.

www.RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.

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MICHELLE GILE 2 El Cerrito Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHELLE GILE Dated: February 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000222 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

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.

This business is conducted by A Limitied Liability Company.

Signed: EMILY ALMA, PRESIDENT Dated: February 28, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000307 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

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.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PAMELA LARRY Dated: March 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000316 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

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.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: TUYEN NGUYEN Dated: February 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000294 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ACE CAB OF BUTTE COUNTY at 2961 Highway 32 Suite 37 Chico, CA 95973.

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

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JUSTIN R. ALWARD Dated: February 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000224 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE OUTPOST at 7589 Humboldt Road Butte Meadows, CA 95942.

EMMA JESSEE 7589 Humboldt Road Butte Meadows, CA 95942.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: EMMA E. JESSEE Dated: February 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000293 Published: March 9,16,23,30, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JACK’S AUTO GLASS at 920 Skyway Ave Chico, CA 95928.

GARY L ELLIS 2860 Swallowtail Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GARY L ELLIS Dated: January 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000101 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

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

NEWTON-BRACEWELL INCORPORATED 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: ROBERT BRACEWELL, PRESIDENT Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000344 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO MEMORIAL

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MAUSOLEUM, NEWTON-BRACEWELL CHICO FUNERAL HOME at 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926.

NEWTON-BRACEWELL INCORPORATED 680 Camellia Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: ROBERT BRACEWELL, PRESIDENT Dated: March 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000346 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MERMAID MARKET at 31 Floating Cloud Drive Chico, CA 95928.

ASHLEY REIMER 31 Floating Cloud Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ASHLEY REIMER Dated: March 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000329 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIMITLESS FITNESS AND NUTRITION at 6653 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969.

KRISTEN HORST 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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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.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROSS W TYE MD PHD Dated: March 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000323 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE CLOUD SMOKE SHOP CORPORATION at 1008 W Sacramento Ave # B Chico, CA 95926.

THE CLOUD SMOKE SHOP INCORPORATED 1008 W Sacramento Ave # B Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: YOULA BETAR,

OFFICER Dated: March 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000354 Published: March 16,23,30, April 6, 2017

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

CHICO EXPRESS CLEANERS, INC 641 Walnut St Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

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KONKOW PARTNERS, LLC 12967 Concow Road Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

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

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LYNN TOSELLO Dated: March 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000356 Published: March 23,30, April 6,13, 2017

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OCAT LLC 4306 Sisk Rd Modesto, CA 95356.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: DAVID OLSON, PRESIDENT Dated: February 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000270 Published: March 23,30, April 6,13, 2017

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MICROBLADING CHICO at 1715 Greenhaven Lane Chico, CA 95926.

JENNIE WOLFE 1715 Greenhaven Lane Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: JENNIE WOLFE Dated: March 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000360 Published: March 23,30, April 6,13, 2017

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

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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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Signed: FADI ABDUL MASIH, COO Dated: March 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000381 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.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

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 JNGL at 3413 Bell Rd Chico, CA 95973.

HENRY RESNICK 3413 Bell Rd Chico, CA 95973.

DONOVAN WARD 121 Penzance Ave #79 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: DONOVAN WARD Dated: March 20, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000404 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 2017

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ADDICTION COUNSELING AND TREATMENT SOLUTIONS LLC 1749 Boynton Avenue Oroville, CA 95966.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PERENNIALS PLUS at 12969 Sellick Ranch Road Chico, CA 95973.

RONALD DAVID BOX 12969 Sellick Ranch Road Chico, CA 95973.

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Signed: BRYAN BOX Dated: February 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000235 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 2017

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ERIC J HART 1418 Heather Circle Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ERIC HART Dated: February 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000255 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 2017

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BRITTANY YELLAND 456 Palisades Drive Chico, CA 95928.

NEIL YELLAND 456 Palisades Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

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SHIRLEY HOWELL 1308 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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LESLEY SAWYER 275 East Shasta #53 Chico, CA 95973.

STEVE SAWYER 275 East Shasta #53 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

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NICKOLAS THEODORE BECERRIL 16 Benton Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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DAVID JOHN POLSON 2961 Hwy 32 Ste 117 Chico, CA 95973.

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Signed: DAVID POLSON Dated: March 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000379 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 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

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.

At the hearing the court will consider the recommendations of the social worker or probation officer.

The Social worker or probation officer will recommend that your child be freed from your legal custody so that the child may be adopted. If the court follows the recommendation, all your parental rights to the child will be terminated.

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

If the court 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 NOTICE OF HEARING Petitioner: RICHARD M. OWENS Respondent: NANCY E. OWENS REQUEST FOR ORDER MOTION FOR ELISOR To: NANCY E. OWENS, Respondent A court hearing will be held as follows: Date: May 10, 2017 Time: 8:15am

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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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner OLIVER REED WONG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OLIVER REED WONG Proposed name: OLIVER RAY REED 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 19, 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: March 22, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00515 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ALAN RAY HARRELL filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALAN RAY HARRELL Proposed name: ALAN RAY REED 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 19, 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 21, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00514 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 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.

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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.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 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

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: HOLLEE K YERIAN 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.

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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.

NOTE: The court has a statutory lien for waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The Court’s lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case.

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California, County of Butte 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: June 24, 2016 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV01328 Published: March 30, April 6,13,20, 2017

PETITION 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.

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IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: 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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PRICE

BR/BA

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BR/BA

SQ. FT.

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The following houses were sold in Butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of march 13, 2017 – march 17, 2017.

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13554 Andover Dr

ADDRESS

Magalia

$189,000

2/2

SQ. FT. 1,566

5255 Country Club Dr

ADDRESS

Paradise

$255,000

3/2

1,860

6295 Victoria Ct

Magalia

$140,000

2/2

1,164

1863 Salida Way

Paradise

$230,000

2/2

1,171

45 Scenic View Dr

Oroville

$275,000

2/2

1,449

5423 Princeton Way

Paradise

$227,818

3/3

1,716

159 Lariat Loop

Oroville

$275,000

3/2

1,945

1222 Snowflake Ln

Paradise

$225,000

1/1

545

79 Hart Dr

Oroville

$260,000

3/2

1,829

1878 Norwood Dr

Paradise

$225,000

2/2

1,104

242 Canyon Highlandsdr

Oroville

$225,000

3/2

1,732

5261 Rosehill Rd

Paradise

$218,000

2/2

1,167

8 Hart Dr

Oroville

$208,000

3/2

2,322

1658 Cottontail Ln

Paradise

$180,000

2/2

996

264 Apache Cir

Oroville

$170,000

2/2

1,022

3294 Neal Rd

Paradise

$165,000

2/2

1,656

2237 Stump Dr

Oroville

$155,000

2/1

1,032

6617 Firland Dr

Paradise

$145,000

2/2

1,214

44 Las Plumas Way

Oroville

$120,000

3/2

1,170

1037 Thomasson Ln

Paradise

$124,454

2/2

1,294

6678 Shay Ln

Paradise

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9289 Skyway #93

PARA

2/2

1440

$39,900

Susan Doyle

877-7733

20 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,368

$299,900

Marty Luger

624-3377

14803 Goldcone DR

MAGA

2/2

1440

$39,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2613 Cliffwood Pl

CHIC

2/2

1,327

$247,500

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5338 S Libby RD

PARA

2/2

1440

$69,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

334 W Sacramento Av

CHIC

3/2

1,220

$269,000

Ronnie Owens

518-0911

0 Meadowbrook LN

PARA

Land

1.83ac

$80,000

Heidi Wright

872-5890

989 E 9th St

CHIC

2units

1,284

$239,000

Daniel Bosch

321-8330

125 Water ST

SURP

3/1

1602

$91,080

Julie Rolls

872-5880

37 Glenshire Ln

CHIC

3/2.5

1,236

$270,000

Daniel Bosch

321-8330

14848 Magalia DR

MAGA

2/2

1540

$99,900

Julie Rolls

872-5880

1114 Nord Av#21

CHIC

3/2

960

$145,000

Mark Chrisco

624-7772

115 Valley View DR

PARA

Land

1.62ac

$130,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

2601 Oro Quincy

OROV

4/2.5

2,312

$369,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

111 Valley View DR

PARA

Land

1.98ac

$135,000

Jamie McDaniel

872-5891

2559 New Heather Wy

CHIC

3/2

1,282

$290,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

5709 Copeland RD

PARA

2/1

1105

$169,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

5482 Royal Oaks Dr

OROV

2/2

1,824

$259,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

5520 Clark RD

PARA

3/1.5

1446

$229,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

2746 Mariposa Av

CHIC

3/2

2,539

$475,000

Daniel Bosch

321-8330

1204 Alta Cedar LN

PARA

3/2

1294

$217,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

2462 England St

CHIC

4/2.5

1,197

$270,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

15744 Coutolenc RD

MAGA

4/2.5

1777

$247,400

Julie Rolls

872-5880

4148 Stone Valley Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,810

$474,900

Daniel Bosch

321-8330

612 W Burnt Cedar RD

LAKA

3/2

2746

$300,895

Julie Rolls

872-5880

995,997,999 East Av

CHIC

4units

3,216

$435,000

Matt Depa

514-6288

14783 Colter WY

MAGA

3/2

2100

$260,000

Barbara Peltola

873-7640

5 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$285,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

6631 Paragalia WY

MAGA

2/3

1801

$329,000

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

4 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$285,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

5009 Big Bend RD

YANK

3/2.5

1952

$329,900

Rhonda Maehl

873-7640

1438 Marin St

CORN

2/2

1,676

$154,000

Tara Taylor

518-2012

1285 Elliott RD

PARA

4/2

2289

$439,000

Julie Rolls

872-5880

2357 Florida Ln

DURH

3/2

1,505

$240,000

Craig Brandol

941-8800

4620 Sandpiper LN

PARA

4/2.5

2991

$535,000

Christina Souther

520-1032

6 Josie Ct

CHIC

3/2

1,286

$285,000

Marty Luger

624-3377

187 Redbud DR

PARA

4/3

2809

$549,000

Kandice Rickson

872-5892

1157 Patricia Dr

CHIC

3/2

1,608

$299,900

Brandi Laffins

321-9562

5830 Acorn Ridge DR

PARA

4/3

2700

$599,000

Brian Voigt

514-2901

6390 Steiffer Rd

MAGA

3/2

2,115

$370,000

Blake Anderson

864-0151

13670 Bader Mine RD

PARA

4/3.5

4800

$749,900

Brian Voigt

514-2901

720 W 8th Av

CHIC

3/2

3,032

$329,000

Tim Marble

864-5552

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