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Chico needs a cooling center The heat wave a few weeks ago—when temperatures reached a whop-

ping 113 degrees in June—was brutal. Air-conditioning companies were slammed and big-box stores scurried to refill their inventories of fans.

But air-conditioners and fans are luxuries that people with homes enjoy.

What about everybody else?

That same week, a woman’s body was found behind IHOP along the fence line that separates the parking lot from Highway 99. The body was identified as that of 44-year-old Julienne Roehling, a Butte County resident for many years. Her cause of death has yet to be confirmed, but we’re convinced that whatever ailed her, the heat—temperatures reached 104 the day before her body was found—was a contributing factor.

Indeed, intense heat is a killer.

A look at nearby communities shows public library hours being extended, churches opening and nonprofits like the Salvation Army setting up daytime cooling centers for the homeless population and, in many cases, their pets. Chico must follow suit. The city spends resources in attempts to move homeless individuals out of City Plaza, away from the creeks—but where are they to go?

We’ve said it before, and we’ll say it again: A day center is not only a necessity but also humane. Ideally, it would include representatives from public and behavioral health as well as other service providers to help connect individuals in need with wellness information, housing referrals and job counseling. We can do better for this vulnerable population. And we must. □

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Flowers for lamia the character of immigrants to Itheat disparaging United States. Having lived and worked with

n recent months, we have witnessed a campaign aimed

immigrants, both legal and illegal, over a lifetime, I have acquired a deep and broad appreciation for this population.

I am descended from immigrant grandparents and was raised in a community with a large percentage of recently immigrated folks. Nearly all of my childhood friends spoke a language other than English in their homes, because their by Roland Lamarine grandparents had landed on our shores from distant lands. We The author, a longtime were the communal wards of all Chico resident and the grandparents in the neighborprofessor of public hood: good people of limited health is married to English proficiency who found an immigrant. myriad ways of demonstrating universal human values to our generation. I was first introduced to the concept of American exceptionalism not from jack-booted fascisti but from optimistic, prideful immigrants.

My mom, Mary, taught me English; my

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Lebanese grandmother, Lamia, spoke only Arabic; and the Canadian nuns at St. Theresa’s elementary school taught me exclusively in French. At 8 years of age, I was fluent in three languages and three cultures, through no fault of my own.

To this day there is no one I respect more than Lamia, a paragon of strength and wisdom. During the Great Depression, following the premature death of her husband, Lamia worked double shifts at the textile mills to provide a safe and secure home for her three children. These incredible immigrant women taught me to love this land, the value of education, and, to quote Robert Frost, the joy of “early morning gladness at the brim.”

My recent experiences with legal and illegal immigrants continue to reinforce my admiration and respect for this population. Data from reputable sources suggest that murderers and rapists are under-represented within this group.

Making America great again involves continuing to strengthen (hybridize) the fabric of our society with the intelligence, ambition, hard work and decency of immigrants. To make America great again requires a sensible immigration program, not hysterical xenophobia. America is at its greatest when it welcomes deserving newcomers with open arms. □

of the demagogue’s playbook, including violence and intimidation, he reminded us Sunday (July 2) when he tweeted a link to a decade-old video clip of him wrestling—body-slamming and punching, actually—Vince McMahon of World Wrestling Entertainment (WWE) fame.

However, in this case, what Trump sent out to his millions of followers was a doctored clip with CNN’s logo superimposed over McMahon’s face.

The news network responded in a statement, saying it’s “a sad day when the president of the United States encourages violence against reporters.”

Indeed, there’s no question that, as a side effect of him taking to Twitter in that manner, Trump condoned retaliation against the network and, by extension, journalists everywhere. It’s not like violence toward members of the media is unheard of—recall how now-Rep. Greg Gianforte (R-Montana) body-slammed a reporter who asked a straight-forward question related to the financial implications of the GOP health care plan.

Vilification of the media is one of Trump’s go-to forms of propaganda, although he took things up a notch with this latest overt message to his base.

While his official White House spokespeople deny that Trump has ever incited violence, all one has to do is watch videos of what he’s said when protesters showed up at his rallies. At one such event in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Trump encouraged attendees to “knock the crap out of them” and pledged to pay their legal fees should they get sued as a result.

Trump’s participation in that WWE stunt in 2007 was just that: a ploy to get people to Atlantic City and into his now-defunct Trump Plaza. His goal nowadays is to keep the public—especially his supporters—angry and uninformed. He doesn’t want them to learn, for example, how devastating the GOP’s proposed health care law will be to low- and middle-class families and that tax cuts for the ultra wealthy are the true desired outcome of that flawed legislation.

In other words, while inciting violence is one result of Trump’s latest outrageous rhetoric, his real goal is to keep the public distracted. Our advice: Don’t fall for it. □

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

‘Role model’ I’ve spent my lunch break on the past couple of Wednesdays at Chico City Plaza, so that I could check out the loosely organized effort among members of the business community to spend a late lunch hour there as a way to encourage people to come downtown.

On my first outing, I plopped myself on a bench nearest to the southeast corner, chomped on the sandwich I’d purchased downtown and watched things from that unobstructed view. It was June 21, during that week of triple-digit temperatures, and the vibe was pretty low-key.

Also in attendance, across the plaza, was Mayor Sean Morgan. He was dressed casually in shorts and a polo shirt, chatting it up with recognizable business folks, one of whom he gave a high-five. I don’t know how long Morgan had been there prior to my arrival, but he departed in the direction of City Hall shortly thereafter.

Meanwhile, I saw another local contingent, people I recognized as members of the Chico Peace and Justice Center and other folks concerned with civil liberties. That included a couple of Chico State faculty members and Patrick Newman, a Chico resident who has gone out of his way to help the down and out the past couple of years.

He was handing out provisions—refreshments and snacks—to the homeless folks who congregate there and making sure they weren’t getting hassled.

I can certainly understand why Newman would think they’d feel unwelcome.

What prompted his (and my) presence there mid-week was the troubling subtext in a story in the local daily about the lunchtime gatherings. In particular, the article couched the effort as a way to “take back” the plaza. The folks who evidently had possession of it were, as the write-up put it, “vagrants.”

That line of thinking was reinforced by Morgan, who was quoted as saying: “It’s a fantastic idea. If we don’t take back our public spaces, then by definition we acquiesce—we give it to them.” (The “them” being vagrants.)

Thing is, City Plaza is a public space. By definition, that park in the middle of downtown belongs to everyone—even those so-called vagrants. You’d think our mayor would know this. That he openly advocates the “take back” mentality is a real concern. In fact, doing so is ignorant. And dangerous.

Morgan is a role model. Maybe not to me and a lot of other people, but what he says matters.

I’d like to remind him of something he touted in his biography when he first ran for City Council in 2012: that he “spent countless hours teaching Sunday school” at his Chico church. Perhaps he needs a refresher on Matthew 25:34-35 or the other many scriptures related to the poor.

I didn’t see anything disturbing during that first trip, nor during my second one last week, when my husband and I sat near the business contingent. (No sign of the mayor that day.) But I had staff writer Ken Smith look into the situation to get the perspective of both sides. See his report on page 8.

I get that the business community wants to make sure townsfolk feel comfortable coming to the city center, and they have legitimate gripes about illegal behavior going on there (drug use, smoking, dogs off-leash). But creating an us-versus-them narrative, as the mayor did, isn’t going to help the situation—it will only make matters worse.

As a public official, Morgan ought to know better.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Nine days after the surreal, living nightmare day that Donald Trump took the White House hostage— with help from Bernie Sanders, Gary Johnson and Jill Stein—I sent a letter explaining Trump’s dubious rise to political stardom.

I wrote that Trump pirated the sales techniques of pompous Gorgeous George the wrestler to appeal to his (Trump’s) so-called “poorly educated supporters.”

Not only did Trump pirate the wrestler’s outlandish style, he also emulated Vince McMahon of WWE, the guy who made himself a billionaire by staging bogus wrestling matches designed for “Joe six-pack” and his army of deplorable minions.

Fast-forward to Trump body slamming a CNN reporter via doctored video footage. This is Vince and Linda McMahon (Linda is in Trump’s cabinet) in all their splendor.

First-time hick voters, white female Hillary haters—along with Sanders, Johnson and Stein— tipped the Electoral College scales in a handful of Rust Belt states to make America the Trump disgrace.

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Mission impossible By and by, even educators who despise firearms will be packing heat and required to placate those accompanied by emotional support animals such as ferrets, hedgehogs, pigs, rats, felines and canines. However imperceptible now, these developments are actually occurring and make progress beyond a global education ranking of 17th seem nearly impossible.

“This country has a collective conscience.

We reach out with money and lives to help others!

We won’t stop finding ways to help our planet!”

—loretta ann torres

U.S. economy, while not doing anything to help curb fuel emissions. We paid poorer countries $1 billion to cut their emissions voluntarily. Few did.

The U.S. is the most innovative [country] on earth. The secret is our freedom and our economy.

When our economy is strong, we have more people at work and more people free to explore new ideas.

Our God-given freedoms are exceptional; making us able to outperform any other industrial nation in the world! This country has a collective conscience. We reach out with money and lives to help others! We won’t stop finding ways to help our planet!

The critics seem to say that America is evil and we are ruining the world. This is unAmerican and needs to stop! It’s time for people to rise and say “no” to the one-world government policies of the left.

Oh, wait! We did on November 8, 2016!

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

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Just say no When our president goes to the G-10 summit, expect criticism for whatever he does. Especially concerning climate change.

When President Trump pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord, critics were wild.

The Paris Accord hurt our

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE Woman’s body identified

The Butte County Coroner’s Office identified the body of a woman found behind IHOP in Chico last month as that of Julienne Roehling, 44. The cause of death is still under investigation, the coroner’s office confirmed Wednesday (July 5), though foul play has been ruled out.

The Chico Police Department reported June 21 that a Caltrans worker who had been clearing brush along Highway 99 had discovered the body in an open drainage area near the IHOP parking lot. Temperatures the day before had reached 104 degrees.

While initial reports in other media indicated that Roehling was from Chico, Internet searches and a sparse Facebook profile show she lived for a time in Paradise, Oroville and Magalia. Court records and police incident reports show a history of criminal activity as well as drug use.

odd night for council

Though the Chico City Council typically meets on the first and third Tuesdays of each month, because of the July 4 holiday, the city scheduled a rare Wednesday night meeting, July 5. The main order of business: counting ballots for the downtown PBID, or propertybased improvement district (see “Bidding on betterment,” Newslines, June 29).

Check www.newsreview.com/chico for a report on the meeting, which was slated to start after the CN&R’s print deadline.

Tuesday holidays are rare—the last was Jan. 1, 2013, according to the City Clerk’s Office—so the council rarely reschedules.

The most recent Wednesday meeting was July 22, 2015: a special session, called for the evening after a canceled regular meeting, to discuss funding of community groups and modifying the city’s loan to the Chico Creek Nature Center.

dWr in transition

Bill Croyle, the acting director of California’s Department of Water Resources who gained prominence during the Oroville Dam spillway crisis, retired effective July 1.

Croyle (pictured) originally planned to retire in January but stayed at DWR as acting director at the request of Gov. Jerry Brown. He’d previously served as the department’s deputy director for statewide emergency preparedness and security; as the news release announcing his retirement says, that job “prepared him to manage the Lake Oroville spillways incident in February.”

DWR Chief Deputy Director Cindy Messer was promoted to acting director pending appointment of a new director.

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Views from the plaza Eating lunch in downtown Chico gets political

Operatures, have escalated alongside rising temas the city ramps up its efforts ver the past several weeks, tensions

to curb vagrancy issues and two groups of citizens—both armed with sandwiches, snacks story and and strong opinions— photo by have taken to the Chico Ken Smith City Plaza to make their kens @ stand. n ew srev i ew. c o m Since the beginning of June, downtown business owner Teri DuBose has organized regular lunch meetups there every Wednesday at 1 p.m.

Though it’s been painted by some local media as an effort to “take back” the plaza from the homeless population, DuBose told the CN&R her intentions aren’t that heavy-handed. But some homeless advocates aren’t so sure. They’ve taken to meeting at the park on Wednesdays as well, as a way to observe the gatherings and ensure homeless individuals also gathered there feel safe and welcome in the public space.

DuBose is a lifelong Chicoan whose family has owned downtown’s Broadway Pawn for the last 47 years. She and her brother assumed control of the business about four years ago, and the experi-

ence opened her eyes to the immensity of Chico’s homeless issues, she told the CN&R. Over the last few years, she grew accustomed to eating at the plaza by herself. She’d often invite people to join her, but said most stayed away, apparently discouraged by the area’s reputation as a crime-ridden haven for the city’s homeless population.

DuBose said she wants to prove to others that the plaza—and downtown as a whole—isn’t as bad as people may paint it to be, but she grew disheartened herself after a particularly rough day in late May. After witnessing a rash of drug activity and bad behavior, she posted to Facebook that she was done touting the park as a lunchtime destination.

The responses to that post encouraged her to continue the effort. On June 1, about half a dozen people joined her, and in the ensuing weeks dozens more have shown up, including Mayor Sean Morgan and Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien.

“It’s not about kicking the homeless out,” DuBose said. “It’s really about bringing the community together. I think that homeless people have a right to be here, and I think everyone else does, too.

“I don’t want the crime, though, and I

don’t think anybody does,” she continued.

“I’ve seen people buy and do drugs right here, I’ve been screamed at for no reason.

That’s the kind of stuff I want to see stop, and I think more people coming here and just enjoying the plaza can help deter that kind of behavior.”

DuBose’s perspective is shaped by personal experience. She’s on a first-name basis with plaza regulars ranging from homeless individuals to police officers, and has participated in the Downtown Ambassador program. She’s toured the Torres Community Shelter and Jesus Center to better understand available resources, and served as a mentor through the latter organization’s House of Hope program. She’s also been victimized by crime; the windows of Broadway Pawn, located just south of the plaza, have been broken three times in the past six months, she said.

“The crime and abuse of property needs to stop,” she said, noting she feels increased downtown patrols by the CPD’s Target Team have created changes for the better. “Everyone needs to feel safe.”

Homeless advocate Patrick Newman and his

group, Friends on the Street, have doubts about the group’s intentions. “I truly

Teri DuBose is encouraging community members to eat lunch at Chico’s City Plaza.

‘Time to change’ Trinca leaves Ridge parks district after 44 years

believe that their ‘Kumbaya’ rhetoric is not where they are philosophically,” Newman said last Sunday (July 2), during a break from handing out food and other necessities at City Plaza.

Newman and Friends on the Street began distributing food at the plaza in 2013, to protest the city stopping Orchard Church from performing that service. After a hiatus, they started again in January 2016 to protest the city’s passage of the Offenses Against Waterways and Public Property and Sit/Lie ordinances, which criminalize aspects of living on the streets.

The mission extends beyond just giving food, Newman explained: “It’s also about standing beside the homeless and affirming them in a public space. It’s like saying, ‘Here’s a sandwich, but I’m also offering my support for you and your civil rights, and recognizing you have the right to be in this space and that you are part of the community.’ If we don’t do that, it erodes away, which is what I think is happening right now.”

Newman said he fears the Wednesday lunch group is aimed at making homeless people feel unwelcome in the plaza. He also noted city officials recently closed public restrooms there overnight and plan to install additional lighting and cameras in the area by the end of July.

He also said he’s seen an increase in law enforcement contacts in the plaza in recent weeks, a claim affirmed by a number of homeless people in the park that day. Several others said they’ve seen an upsurge in arrests and police harassment for minor offenses, like smoking cigarettes and having unlicensed dogs.

Friends on the Street began lunching at the plaza on Wednesdays on June 21 to observe DuBose’s group.

Newman said he was surprised to see the group had brought bottled waters and Otter Pops to share with everyone in the plaza—including homeless people—that week, but that his group remains wary.

“No matter what you do, someone’s likely to be critical,” DuBose said when confronted with these concerns.

“But I think we all have some of the same goals in mind; we all want everybody to be safe and enjoy the space. We just have different ways of going about it.” □

onday afternoon (July 3), with a spring in his step and a smile on his face, Mike M Trinca casually strolled onto the grounds of

Terry Ashe Recreation Center. Neither his energy nor emotion was unusual; as manager of the Paradise Recreation and Park District, he’d developed a reputation as a force of positive momentum. What made this moment unique was the circumstance.

For the first time in 44 years, Trinca arrived on a workday without a work affiliation.

On July 1, Trinca retired. When he got promoted from assistant manager in 1995, succeeding the man for whom the recreation center is named, he became just the fourth PRPD manager since the district’s founding, in 1948. Trinca’s successor is Dan Efseaff, previously the city parks and natural resources manager in Chico.

Why leave now?

“I’m 66 and I’ve been here my entire work life, so it’s nice to think I’ve got another few chapters in this life,” More than Paradise: The Paradise Recreation and Park Trinca said.

District encompasses 169 square “I don’t plan miles that cover Butte Creek Canyon, on being idle.

Magalia and Concow, along with I just think Paradise. it’s time to change.”

He said he doesn’t have “a plan of action” beyond taking about two months to “just chill for a while.” He and his wife, Gibby, plan to run the Chicago Marathon in October.

They have a son and three grandchildren living in Tunisia, plus a daughter in Santa Monica.

Trinca also enjoys hunting, hiking and diving.

“Mike is going to be missed,” PRPD board member Mary Bellefeuille said. “He’s just so passionate….

He made a footprint, but he understands that change is great.”

Indeed, Trinca cites change—adapting to new demands—as a benefit to having a new manager. (He praised Efseaff’s proficiency with computers, for instance.) Trinca sees a need for managers “a generation newer than I am” blending with experienced staff to better serve the current wave of kids, teens and young adults in parks and programs.

He cited the ice rink as an example. For the past few winters, PRPD has set up an outdoor skating venue at Terry Ashe, on the Skyway. It’s a seasonal offering, distinct to the district and popular, even if costly.

“The new generation is moving quickly— they change about as much as the computers do,” Trinca said. “The traditional-type settings are doing OK, but change does better.”

SIFT ER Rough-and-tumble Americans noted a sharp increase in incivility between Republicans and Democrats at Capitol Hill in the first few months of Donald Trump’s presidency, as compared with the same time period following Barack Obama’s election eight years earlier.

According to a new NPR/PBS NewsHour/Marist poll, an overwhelming majority of respondents (70 percent) believe the political discord in Washington has gotten worse. (In 2009, a few months into Obama’s first term, 35 percent of those polled said civility had declined, according to pollster Gallup.)

Here are the full results from respondents when asked about the “overall tone and level of civility” between the two parties.

July 2017 July 2009

Better 6% 21%

Same 20% 42%

Worse 70% 35%

Unsure 4% 2%

Retired PRPD Manager Mike Trinca relaxes at the Terry Ashe Recreation Center, named for his predecessor.

PHOTO BY EVAN TUCHINSKY

Trinca started with the district after gradu-

ating from Chico State in 1973. PRPD— where he’d served a couple of internships— offered a combination job as a lifeguard, playground leader and maintenance worker (i.e., cleaning toilets and picking up trash).

A year later, he started looking for other employment, but when his boss left, he got promoted to recreation supervisor in sports.

He held that job for 19 years, overseeing a snow-skiing instruction program, the swimming pool, softball leagues, youth sports and special events. He was hitting the job market again when Ashe, a few years from retirement, promoted Trinca to assistant manager.

Trinca doesn’t expect a landmark named after him. Instead, he hopes people support his new campaign for PRPD to offer free swimming lessons to every 3-, 4- and 5-year-old in the district. The fundraising effort he’s championing is called “Don’t Sink … Swim with Trinc.”

For Julie Van Roekel, PRPD board chair, there could be no tribute more fitting. She learned to swim in district classes, and her children have followed her footsteps in the Tiny Tots activities program. She said her earliest memories of PRPD involve Mike and Gibby Trinca driving her to ski school.

At Trinca’s retirement party, Van Roekel met Ashe for the first time. She said she noticed “a magic in his eyes and a connection he felt” to what he’d helped build.

“I see the same thing in Mike now,” she continued. “He’s proud, and he continues to be attached to the district, parks and people.”

—EVAN TUCHINSKY eva nt@ newsr ev iew.c o m

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18-hole golf course, on the south side of the road, sits roughly halfway between Chico and Paradise. Its fairways, greens and pin flags—not to mention its metal gates, affixed to stone-clad mounds—grab the passing eye, particularly in contrast to otherwise untouched acreage.

Recently, Tuscan Ridge has caught attention for new reasons.

Grass has grown progressively browner, to the extent that much of the course is indistinguishable from its chaparral environs. Its website went down last week.

Callers to the pro shop Friday (June 30) heard a recorded message saying the course would close July 1 for renovations; visitors learned the same thing.

Jay Berkowitz, the club’s general manager, told the CN&R that the course will undergo improvements that should take about a year—part of a larger project slated to include the construction of 177 residential properties, a two-story clubhouse/restaurant, a relocated driving range, a new swimming pool and commercial space. This is the latest iteration of a venture dating back a decade.

“It’s been a long time coming,” Berkowitz said.

The development has received initial approvals from Butte County. The Board of Supervisors designated the land for “planned Contact point:

While the tuscan ridge website remains down and voicemail unmonitored, email clubhouse@tuscanridgeclub.com with questions.

development” during the general plan and zoning map updates, according to Senior Planner Mark Michelena, who confirmed that Tuscan Ridge’s owners are applying to get their subdivision map approved.

Developer Mo West retains ownership, boosted by outside investment. Berkowitz declined to identify West’s partners.

“I think people are going to be excited to see what’s happening here pretty soon,” said Berkowitz, who first came to Tuscan Ridge in 2005 as a golf instructor. He became GM in 2006, left in 2011, returned in 2014 and became GM again in 2015.

“It’s an 18-hole renovation.

We’re redoing every single bunker, every single tee, all the greens.

We’re moving three or four greens.

We’re making it more challenging by adding yardage. We’re growing all new turf….

“The golf course needs to be commensurate with the development.”

Paul Abrahms, one of Tuscan Ridge’s charter members, detailed the development. He’s worked as a real estate broker in Paradise; last Friday, during the CN&R’s visit, he was helping out in the pro shop, where a plan for the subdivision hung on the wall.

Most of the 177 lots will measure 10,000 square feet, for houses; others, 4,000 square feet, likely for condos or townhouses.

The residential layout approxi-

Jay Berkowitz, general manager of Tuscan Ridge, says the golf club just recently resumed watering parts of the course adjacent to the patio where it holds events. photo by evan tuchinsky

mates a teardrop in the center of the course. The clubhouse area is to the southwest and the driving range to the southeast.

“It will be many, many years before it’s fully developed,” Abrahms said. “But if it’s a nice course, they’ll be able to sell the lots.”

Abrahms said he was part of the initial group to put down $2,500 for a membership at Tuscan Ridge, which reopened 12 years ago after closing in 2004.

(It originally opened in 2001.) He recalled meeting in the building across from the pro shop, with a covered patio overlooking the course, where the golf club hosts weddings and special events.

“This course was really nice when it was in good shape,” said Abrahms, who played his last round there last Wednesday.

Conditions have deteriorated

noticeably in recent weeks. The club stopped watering the course, Berkowitz admitted, but resumed irrigation in areas near the patio because of previously scheduled events that will take place amid renovation work.

He’s confident the grass and plants will return to their former lushness in a matter of months, in time for the first wedding on

his books. Not every bride is convinced.

Katie Guthrie planned to get married Sept. 23 at Tuscan Ridge.

That was the site of her older sister’s wedding in April 2014— where Guthrie just happened to meet her fiance, Kurtis Upton.

So, for sentimental and aesthetic reasons, she decided to have her ceremony among five trees on the course and her reception on the patio.

A certified nursing assistant who lives in Biggs, Guthrie paid her deposit in December and the balance of her $6,000 bill in January.

Last week, she heard from her sister about the condition—and imminent closure—of the course.

She said she left two messages for Berkowitz, then drove up to check it out for herself.

“From where my sister had her wedding to this is not acceptable,” she told the CN&R by phone.

She waited to speak with Berkowitz and left unsatisfied with his assurances. She asked for a refund; she said she was told she’d hear by Wednesday (the CN&R’s deadline). If she doesn’t get her money back, she’ll sue. Berkowitz told the CN&R in person Friday that the club will issue refunds to dissatisfied parties.

“Hopefully they will give us a little patience and stick with us,” he said. “What you see now is different than what’s going to be here; maybe some people don’t have the same confidence and vision.

“If we’re not able to live up to their confidence in return, we’re not going to make them have their event here. We’re going to do what we can to make them happy.”

For Guthrie and Upton, happiness will be relative. They decided to elope in Fort Bragg. They’ve informed many of their friends and family members that the large wedding is off. They canceled the deejay, wedding cake and other amenities—expecting to forfeit several thousand dollars in the process.

In the end, Guthrie said, the image of Tuscan Ridge she just saw driving up Skyway “is not what I want my guests to see,” adding: “In my head, I’m seeing bulldozers and torn up grass in view of my wedding.”

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Fighting for predators Conservationists sue Wildlife Services over carnivore culling across Northern California

Endangered and threatened species, such as Sierra Nevada red foxes, are susceptible to trapping under Wildlife Services practices last assessed in 1997.

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livestock for as long as ranchers have Psettled the west.

eople have killed wild predators to protect

Mounting scientific evidence, however, evidence suggests that killing predators either doesn’t help eliminate attacks on farm animals or makes things worse. According to a study published last year in the journal Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment, there’s little to suggest that killing predators accomplishes the goal of protecting livestock. Previous research has shown that hunting older male wildcats, wolves or bears actually leads to more predation, because the elders drive away younger, more aggressive males.

This shows how little we understand about the complex fabric of life in the wild, says Erik Molvar, a wildlife biologist and policy expert. “When you pull one thread,” he told the CN&R by phone, “you don’t know where the fabric is going to tear.”

Molvar is executive director of the Western Watersheds Project based in Laramie, Wyo., and specializes in the impacts of livestock ranching on western public lands. Killing predators has never been much of a scientific exercise, he said.

“It was always meant to be a part of the pacification and domestication of wild country so the landscape can be completely dominated by human use and economic development,” he said. “Running around killing one class of wildlife disrupts the entire food chain. It is the opposite of a science-based approach to living with nature.”

Even so, at the behest of the ranching industry, killing carnivores has long been

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a practice of the federal government. Last year, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Wildlife Services reported killing more than 1.6 million wild animals nationwide. In California, the program killed 3,893 coyotes, 142 foxes, 83 black bears, 18 bobcats and thousands of other creatures deemed risks to sheep, cattle and other livestock.

Conservationists such as Molvar say it’s time to stop.

On June 21, a group of environmental advocacy groups—including the Animal Welfare Institute, the Center for Biological Diversity and the Western Watersheds Project—sued Wildlife Services for its trapping and killing activity in 13 counties that make up California’s North District, including Butte.

“This lawsuit against Wildlife Services is a big deal,” said Grace Marvin, conservation chair for the Sierra Club’s Yahi Group, which covers the North State.

The legal action claims that the continued

use of leg-hold traps, strangulation snares, cyanide mines, aerial gunning and poison bait is cruel, ineffective and not based in current science. The agency’s last environmental analysis of those practices was com-

Scope of the suit:

Butte County is among the 13 counties covered.

The others: Humboldt, lassen, Mendocino, Modoc, Nevada, Plumas, Sierra, Shasta, Siskiyou, Sutter, Trinity and yuba.

pleted in 1997 (and relied on science from the 1980s). Therefore, the agency is not accounting for changes to endangered species listings and regional ecology that have occurred since then, said Amaroq Weiss, western wolf advocate for the Center for Biological Diversity.

“There are several species that are listed as threatened or endangered that have come into California since 1997: gray wolves, Canada lynx, Sierra Nevada red fox,” Weiss said. “And in the places where these animals have returned, they do end up getting incidentally trapped.”

Indeed, the methods of trapping and killing predators employed by Wildlife Services are indiscriminate and likely to kill more than the target animals, Molvar said: “If they are putting out cyanide bombs and poison bait to kill coyotes, there is no way of ensuring that they are not going to kill rare carnivores like the Pacific fisher, or even birds like hawks and eagles.”

The “cyanide bombs” Molvar refers to are M44s—essentially, chemical land mines that release bursts of poison when triggered by an animal (wild or not). Then there are the claw-like leg-hold traps that often result in animals losing a limb.

“Nature is harsh,” he said. “If you don’t have all four limbs, you’re not going to survive very long in the wild. … Traps are supposed to be checked on a regular basis, but that doesn’t always happen. So, animals can suffer and die of thirst or starvation if a trap line is neglected. It’s a horrifying way to die.”

The lawsuit calls for Wildlife Services to

halt its killing and trapping practices until it has completed an updated environmental analysis. It also claims the federal agency is violating state law by continuing to use leg-hold traps, which have been banned in California since 1997.

The federal agency has yet to respond, said

Tara Zuardo, an attorney for the Animal Welfare Institute based in Washington, D.C. “This is a pretty clear-cut situation where Wildlife Services has already admitted that it needs to do a new analysis,” she said.

“I don’t anticipate a long, drawn-out court battle, but you never know.”

Andre Bell, a spokesman for the USDA, declined the CN&R’s request for comment on this story.

“We are aware of the lawsuit and we cannot comment on pending litigation,” he said.

Both Molvar and Weiss emphasized that nonlethal methods of dealing with humanwildlife conflicts have been shown to work.

Alternatives to killing include protector animals (i.e., dogs, llamas or donkeys) stationed with a herd of livestock; fladry, or a string of fluttering streamers placed along a fence to drive away predators; and a consistent human presence, such as a range rider following the cattle or sheep.

Both Molvar and Weiss said they hope the lawsuit prompts the USDA to catch up to the best available science. Molvar wants better coexistence between ranchers, livestock and natural predators. “It’s long past time that the ranching industry learns how to get along with the native inhabitants of the lands that they use.” □

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Authentic, delicate flavors

Summer breeds creativity

With the opening of Vietnam Bistro, restaurant manager Rodman Ngo and his family hope to bring the vibrant and fresh flavors of their heritage to Chico. Ngo’s mom and uncle help run the kitchen at the East Avenue restaurant, using recipes that have been prepared by his family for generations, says the L.A. native, who moved to Chico with his mother to be near family and to open the restaurant. Inside the eatery, patrons will find bright yellow walls and a decidedly casual ambiance.

Ngo wanted to ensure that all customers felt welcome, he said.

Ngo said the restaurant’s broad menu—with a wide selection of appetizers, entrees and traditional Vietnamese slushies (he recommends the popular vermicelli served with an egg roll and grilled shrimp)—helps it stand out. Vietnam Bistro is located at 788 East Ave. and is open every day, 11 a.m.-9 p.m.

What made you decide to open a restaurant in Chico?

Some of our family members have been living in Chico for quite some time now, at least 15, 20 years. They didn’t feel like Vietnamese food was well represented in Chico. My family is originally from southern Vietnam, so they have a good

feel for what good, authentic Vietnamese food should taste like. I think we’re able to achieve that.

This is stuff that we used to have every other day—you grow up with it and it’s great to see that people enjoy it as much as I do.

What sets Vietnam Bistro apart?

How’s the first month of business been?

With Vietnamese food, people take pride in it being very fresh and delicate. Nothing is ever precooked here. When the lights are off, we’re still here. Everything needs to be fresh, everything needs to be made the day of. All the veggies are cut and washed in the morning and all the steak is grilled after you order it. It’s never premade, that’s not what we aim for. The food here is very fresh and authentic.

How traditional is the cuisine you serve?

The recipes used here are very traditional. It’s very authentic and not Americanized. This is the first restaurant in the family, and it’s all family recipes that my grandma taught my mom.

It’s been fantastic. With a new restaurant or business, you worry that the first two months you’re still trying to build foot traffic, but right out of the gates, we did very well.

Throughout the first week, we were very busy. Reading some of the Yelp reviews and messages, I would say we’re developing a following.

Is there a secret to authentic Vietnamese food?

In Vietnamese dishes, you use fish sauce. It’s a very traditional sauce, a primary sauce. I would say half the menu uses fish sauce.

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Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

Summertime in Chico. It’s one of those tumultuous times, when the students are gone and businesses struggle. I have to sympathize—sure, available parking and short wait times at my favorite spots are great and all, but in truth, I’d rather see local businesses thriving than merely surviving the summer.

So, these hot months offer opportunities for creativity. Enter Downtown Chico Restaurant Week, actually 10 days (July 6-16) celebrating locally made foods in our city center. Organized by the Downtown Chico Business Association, the event promises to bring a lot of locals out from the shade of trees and into air-conditioned eateries.

I make no secret of the fact that I love food. So, I’m particularly excited. I perused the official list of participating restaurants on the DCBA website, along with the special deals they’ll be offering (www.downtownchico.com/restaurant-weekdeals.htm). While all of the special menus weren’t posted as of CN&R press time, of those that were, I’m most intrigued by the dinner-for-two menus at Aonami Sustainable Sushi, the “Taste of Petra” at Petra Cafe, half-off appetizers at Broadway Heights, and the $20 three-course dinner at Two Twenty Restaurant (that eatery’s chef, Michael Iles, will be kicking off the week at Thursday Night Market’s Chef in the Market demo). Maybe I’ll see you there.

More goodbyeS It pains me to see so many good businesses that have created a space of their own here in the Chico community shut their doors. It feels like I’ve said goodbye to too many of my favorites in this space lately, and this week, I have a few more to add to the list.

Mamma Celeste’s Stone Baked Pizzeria, my favorite pizza joint since it opened in Chico five years ago, closed its doors at the end of June. This makes me very, very sad indeed. The cracker crust! The square slices! That chicken cordon bleu pie! Owner Jim Flanagan announced on the shop’s Facebook page that he’s newly engaged (congrats!) and decided to leave his spot in the Safeway shopping center on Nord Avenue. The silver lining? He’s got a 30-year lease on a new space in Paradise—watch out for a grand opening in four to six months.

Over at the Chico Mall, Fred Meyer Jewelers closed up shop at the end of June as well. The company is still around, however, with the closest store now in Sacramento. They’re alerting customers that if they need pieces cleaned to bring them to Kay Jewelers, which will act as a shipping agent.

In downtown Chico, longtime caffeine-slinging/open-mic hotspot Has Beans Coffee & Tea Co. is closing (remember when it was also an Internet cafe? Yeah, it’s been in its spot at Fifth and Main streets that long—19 years to be exact). It’s final day downtown is July 8—so, get on over there and show the love. The owners announced via Facebook that they lost their downtown lease but are actively looking for a new downtown location. In the meantime, if you’re craving that local flavor, head over to the Has Beans Creekside Cafe (1080 Humboldt Ave.).

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HEALTHLINES

‘I can take care of myself!’

Typically, these services last four to six weeks after a hospitalization, with a nurse visiting several times a week. Some patients receive them for much longer.

Many seniors and caregivers confuse home health care with “home care” delivered by aides who help people shower or get dressed or who cook, clean and serve as a companion. The two types of services are not the same: Home health care is delivered by medical professionals; home care is not.

Nor is home care covered by Medicare, for the most part.

This was the mistake Winstel’s father made. He thought he was being offered an aide who would come to his apartment every day for several hours. “I don’t want a babysitter,” he complained to Winstel, whose organization serves more than 90 million Americans caring for loved ones with debilitating conditions or old age.

Like many other seniors, this older man was

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Tto mini-stroke was insistent as he spoke a social worker about being discharged he 84-year-old man who had suffered a

from the hospital: He didn’t want anyone coming into his home, and he didn’t think he needed any help.

So the social worker canceled an order for home health care services. And the patient went back to his apartment without plans for follow-up care in place.

When his daughter, Lisa Winstel, found out what had happened, she was furious.

She’d spent a lot of time trying to convince her father that a few weeks of help at home was a good idea. And Winstel—chief

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operating officer of the Caregiver Action Network—had asked the social worker to be in touch if there were any problems.

Similar scenarios occur surprisingly often: As many as 28 percent of patients offered home health care when they’re being discharged from a hospital—mostly older adults—say “no” to those services, according to a new report.

Understanding why this happens, and what can be done about it, is important— part of getting smarter about getting older.

Refusing home health care after a hospitalization puts patients at risk of a difficult, incomplete or slower-than-anticipated recovery. Without these services, older adults’ odds of being readmitted to the hospital within 30 or 60 days double, according to one study (published June 19 in the American Journal of Managed Care).

Why, then, do seniors, resist getting this assistance?

“There are a lot of misperceptions about what home health care is,” said Carol Levine, director of the United Hospital Fund’s Families and Health Care Project, co-sponsor of the new report (titled “I Can Take Care of Myself!”).

Under Medicare, home health care ser-

vices are available to older adults who are homebound and need intermittent skilled care from a nurse, a physical therapist or a speech therapist, among other medical providers.

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proud of living on his own and didn’t want to become dependent on anyone.

“Older adults are quite concerned about their independence, and they worry that this might be the first step in someone trying to take that away,” said Dr. Leslie Kernisan, a San Francisco geriatrician and creator of the website Better Health While Aging (www.betterhealthwhileaging.net).

Other reasons for refusals: Seniors see their homes as sanctums, and they don’t want strangers invading their privacy. They think they’ve been getting along just fine and have unrealistic expectations of what recovering from a hospitalization will entail.

Or there are circumstances at home— perhaps hoarding, perhaps physical neglect—that an older adult doesn’t want someone to see. Or the patient’s cognition is compromised and he doesn’t understand his needs or limitations. Or cost is a concern.

Often, a breakdown in communication is responsible. Patients haven’t been told, in clear and concrete terms, which services would be provided, by whom, for how long, how much it would cost and what the expected benefit would be. So, they don’t understand what they’re getting into, prompting resistance.

Kathy Bowles, director of the Center for Home Care Policy and Research at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York, suggests a plain-language, positive way to convey this information. For example: “A nurse will check your medications and make sure they’re all in order. She’ll assess if you need physical therapy to help you regain your strength. And she’ll teach

you and family members how to care for you once home care is over.”

“A lot of resistance arises from pride,” said Bowles, also a professor of nursing excellence at the University of Pennsylvania. “The conversation has to change from ‘Look, we think you really need help,’ to ‘We want to help you take care of yourself.’”

Emphasizing that a physician has recommended home health care can also be helpful.

“In my experience, if a doctor says, ‘I’d like a nurse to come see you and check that you’re feeling better,’ people are fairly responsive,” Kernisan said.

Instead of arguing with an older adult who says, “I don’t want any assistance,” try to follow up with: “Tell me more. What are you concerned about?” Kernisan suggested. “People really want to feel listened to and validated, not lectured to.”

This isn’t to suggest that persuading

an older adult to accept unwanted help is easy. It’s not.

Last year, Winstel’s father had a medical device implanted in his spine to relieve pain from spinal stenosis—an outpatient procedure.

Once again, he declined postoperative help.

Two days later, Winstel got a phone call from her dad, who had

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It Is A Complete sentenCe collapsed and couldn’t get up from the floor. Winstel said she’d call 911. “No, I don’t want someone coming in and finding me like this,” her father insisted. “You have to come.”

Later, at the hospital, doctors diagnosed an adverse reaction to medication and a surgical site infection on her father’s back.

“He lives alone. He can’t reach back there. He wasn’t caring for the wound properly,” Winstel explained.

Extensive, heated conversations followed, during which her father insisted he was never going to change.

“For him, living independently carries risks, and he’s willing to accept those risks,” Winstel said.

She hopes the new report on seniors refusing home health care will jump-start a conversation about how to bring caregivers into the process and how recommendations should be conveyed.

“As the daughter of someone who has refused care, understanding that this is something lots of people go through makes me feel a little less crazy,” Winstel said. Ω

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ears ago, one of my News & Review colleagues wrote a piece about how some families establish a “family night”—usually Thursday—on which parents and children have the evening meal together. After reading the article in page proofs, I went to her office and asked, “Don’t most families have dinner together every night?”

“No,” she told me.

I heard a lot of reports like that in subsequent months as I brought up the topic with friends. Even if families do eat together, I heard, they’re likely to be engaged in things other than conversation—working on laptops, studying, whatever. I was astonished. When I was little, our family had dinner together every night. We chattered like crazy, learning what each other’s day was like.

Of course, our upbringings in the 1950s and ’60s were different in other ways, too, and I began researching the differences between the way we lived then and now.

The more I learned, the more one question preoccupied me. In the 1950s, lower- and middle-class families could survive—indeed, thrive—on one income. What happened to that one-job economy? How did we let it get away?

After the revival of the women’s movement in the late 1960s, and during the battle over the Equal Rights Amendment in the 1970s, anti-feminist activists accused the movement of trying to force women out of the home and into jobs. Feminists replied that they wanted women to be able to choose

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whether to stay at home. In retrospect, it’s pretty clear that what was happening was not just that women were choosing to work, but also that they were being forced out of the home, not by the women’s movement but by an economy that was evolving. As the years passed, it gradually became less and less possible to support a family on one income until we reached the situation that exists today. It is now virtually impossible to raise a middleclass family on one income—and increasingly on two.

When I wrote that the economy is evolving, that makes it sound like a natural process. It is not. Humans—mostly men—have engineered a new system with full knowledge that the changes would injure the working poor.

My research uncovered some causes, and I’m going to list a few here. But do not expect an exposé of Republicans. Both parties are culpable. President Clinton once struck a deal with Republican leaders to target the

working poor for more tax audits. Once that precedent was established, Clinton successor George W. Bush built on it. Eventually, most tax audits were performed on the poor.

No such thing had ever happened in the history of the U.S. income tax. It was not only heartless but also inefficient—audits of the poor produce tiny financial results. It was bipartisanship in the era of polarization and mean-spiritedness.

The Kennedy tax cut The period from 1952 to 1963 was one of nearly unbroken prosperity. The top federal tax rate was 91 percent. That’s not to say all those at the top paid it. The wealthy are very good at evading taxes. But even factoring in evasion, the top effective tax rate was above 70 percent.

On Dec. 14, 1962, Democratic President John F. Kennedy proposed a supply-side tax

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cut to relieve “an economy hampered by restrictive tax rates.” By November 1963, the votes were in hand to get the cut through Congress. The president’s murder that month may have delayed the vote, but it came in February 1964. It cut the top tax rate to 77 percent.

Pulitzer-winning economic reporters Donald Barlett and James Steele later wrote about the consequences: “The importance of the Kennedy tax-law change would be little noticed at the time.

But it was basically a new way of manipulating the system. Once the lawmakers, policymakers and lobbyists had seen the possibilities, they were more than eager to use it again and again. …

Over the next 20 years, Congress would enact tax law after tax law that gutted the progressive structure of American taxes while throwing the doors of the U.S. Treasury open to those who could pay for access.”

When the rich paid fewer taxes, the burden of taxation moved lower on the economic ladder.

Today the top tax rate is down in the 30s.

In addition, it began a trend toward the accumulation of idle capital. Business people used to plow more earnings back into the business.

Pulitzer-winning financial writer David Cay Johnston has written: “A corporate tax rate that is too low actually destroys jobs. That’s because a higher tax rate encourages businesses (who don’t want to pay taxes) to keep the profits in the business and reinvest, rather than pull them out as profits and have to pay high taxes.”

In 2012, Johnston reported, “IRS data suggests that, globally, U.S. nonfinancial companies hold at least three times more cash and other liquid

In the 1950s, lowerand middle-class families could survive—indeed, thrive—on one income. What happened to that one-job economy?

assets than the Federal Reserve reports, idle money that could be creating jobs, funding dividends or even paying a stiff federal penalty tax for hoarding corporate cash.”

Deregulation and easy credit Workers often pay the costs of deregulation.

When Congress weakens carbon emission laws at the behest of corporations, children end up with asthma and other respiratory problems. In the late 1970s, deregulation was all the rage in government, particularly among Democrats, who could go against type and make points with conservatives.

In 1978, under President Jimmy Carter and a Democratic Congress, a bankruptcy bill made it legal for corporations in bankruptcy to retain the old officers, pay off their own debts first, then pay workers and pensions if anything was left. (The recent movie Going in Style—starring Morgan Freeman, Ann Margret and Michael Caine—is a remake. It changed the motivation of the elderly bank robbers from boredom in the first movie to the loss of their pensions to a bank in the remake.)

That same year, the U.S. Supreme Court released Marquette National Bank of Minneapolis v. First of Omaha Service Corp., which more or less turned credit card regulation over to the states. Congress did nothing to remedy the court ruling. Suddenly, middle-class families—which had not previously had a lot of experience with debt—were being swamped with offers of easy credit. Then the states learned a new way to screw families.

“Have you ever noticed that all your credit

Weak usury laws helped credit cards with high interest rates flourish in the 1970s.

card bills seem to get mailed to South Dakota, Nevada or Delaware?” asked Pat Curry at CreditCards.com. During the deregulation mania, the economy was super hot from the end of the Vietnam War, followed by the Arab oil embargo.

There was double-digit inflation, and interest rates shot sky high. State governments learned they could attract big credit card corporations by allowing brutal interest rates.

Luring customers into crippling debt became a prized corporate skill. In The Two Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke, published in 2003, authors Elizabeth Warren (now a senator from Massachusetts) and Amelia Warren Tyagi reported how Citibank lending agents would steer families from the loans they wanted to loans they could not afford. The corporation was prosecuted and paid $240 million to settle the case. “In many cases, these lenders don’t just want families’ money; they also want to take people’s homes. … This practice is so common it has its own name in the industry: ‘Loan to Own.’” Another measure, in a tax bill also under Carter, began the process of allowing corporations to dump pension obligations on workers.

Previously, the companies had provided lifelong pensions. Now, the workers were responsible for creating their own pensions through 401(k)s.

Whether they would be lifelong depended on how good of investors they were. Working people with little time or financial experience were

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Over the next 20 years, Congress would enact tax law after tax law that gutted the progressive structure of American taxes...

When the rich paid fewer taxes, the burden of taxation moved lower on the economic ladder. expected to develop the kind of expertise enjoyed by the staffs of company pensions before the rise of 401(k)s.

Also under Carter, the top capital-gains tax rate was cut from 49 percent to 28 percent.

Usury (unethical or immoral loans with exorbitant interest rates) was made legal.

State laws against usury were preempted by congressional action. States could reclaim their authority and reinstate their laws, but many of them never knew they had that option.

Without usury laws, the lending industry concocted an array of new easy credit devices with which to attack workers.

Once-cautious financial institutions started handing out credit cards like cookies. Credit limits were increased as long as the payments kept coming. Customers were milked for as long as they lasted. Financial columnist Jane Bryant Quinn wrote in 2007, “Banks don’t cancel your cards, as they did in the old days; they just keep charging until you break.”

When they broke, some availed themselves of bankruptcy, so the corporations demanded that bankruptcy law be made harder to use. In 2005, Congress obediently enacted the Bankruptcy Abuse Prevention and Consumer Protection Act. It did nothing to curb the corporations’ behavior, but made life harder for those trapped by corporate debt techniques.

“The simple fact that credit is easy to obtain doesn’t mean that you should be able to get money and then just wipe it out in bankruptcy,” said then-U.S. Sen. Harry Reid

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of Nevada, avoiding the issue of corporate conduct. The fact is, credit card holders did pay their balances—sometimes several times over, in interest. The new law did nothing to stop that.

After the period of double-digit inflation passed, the credit card corporations learned from the experience that some card holders will tolerate incredibly high interest rates rather than go bankrupt. So they exploited that sense of responsibility and kept interest rates high long after other interest rates had dropped like a rock. They continue today.

In 2009, after the federal government bailed out Wall Street, lawmakers seemed to feel an obligation to do something about credit cards. The Credit Card Accountability Responsibility and Disclosure Act of 2009 was enacted to crack down on card issuers and the practices they use to lure people into getting in over their heads. The companies said they needed time to get ready before the law took effect. They didn’t, but Congress— stuffed with campaign contributions—gave it to them. It was not nine days to get ready, but rather nine months, during which the corporations sent out interest-rate hike notices and rules changes. The Democrats, knowing the corporations were running wild, talked about moving up the law’s effective date. They dithered and, in the end, did nothing.

Part-time work Then part-time workers and temporary workers became popular with corporations, letting them avoid health insurance, sick leave, vacation pay and investment plans.

Even in staid professions like law, medicine and education, what had been careers became the kind of thing college students and interns once did.

Even higher education uses and abuses part-time workers.

Said Robert Samuels, leader of a union representing librarians and nontenured faculty in the California higher education system: “So what you have at universities and colleges, you have top administrators, the people kind of running the show, making hundreds of thousands of dollars, sometimes, you know, close to $1 million, and coaches making over $1 million, and all these people who are not connected to the essential mission of research and teaching, they’re making all of the money. Meanwhile, the people who are doing

Former Democratic Sen. Harry Reid of Nevada took flak for supporting a bankruptcy law that favors corporations over consumers.

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the basic function of teaching students and doing important research often have very low wages and very insecure jobs.”

In 1992, Microsoft paid a $97 million settlement to 8,000 part-timers for benefits it had failed to pay. “These temp workers at Microsoft, who called themselves ‘permatemps’ because many worked there for more than two years, asserted that the company maintained a fiction that they were temp workers by hiring them through temp agencies to avoid paying them stock options, pen-

Germany, France, Portugal and every other democracy gives workers better pay, more vacation, better benefits, fewer hours.

The U.S. has the highest number of two-income households.

sions and health coverage,” The New York Times reported. Instead of changing its ways, Bill Gates’ corporation thereafter just adjusted its behavior by firing temps after six months, escaping the law. Hundreds of major corporations followed Microsoft’s lead.

Another avoidance tactic involved the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, which requires owners of large businesses to provide health care coverage for those who work 30 hours or more per week. “To avoid that law, several companies like Walmart (WMT), Target (TGT), Trader Joe’s, Home Depot (HD) lowered the number of hours that employees worked to avoid paying health care,” CNN Money reported. “Some ended health care coverage for part-timers in 2013 and 2014. Thousands of workers were impacted.”

The Bush tax cuts Some legal strategies against the working poor are deft and surreptitious. Not these.

They came right out and redistributed income upward. The working poor got nothing. The middle class got a little—a $1,180 tax cut per year, according to the Congressional Budget Office. Ah, but the folks at the top got more—$58,000 a year for the top 1 percent and $520,000 a year for the top 0.01 percent.

The tax cuts were enacted in 2001 and made permanent by the Democratic Congress and a reluctant President Obama in 2013.

The middle-class squeeze is destroying family life.

Politicians talk about family values but tailor laws to annihilate families.

They increased both income inequality and the deficit.

Meanwhile, the middle class got a tax hike—a 4.2 percent payroll tax increase, more than doubling the payroll tax. Like the sales tax, this is a small but potent tax that is collected so gradually that workers have no idea how heavily they are being taxed.

And more …

This is hardly an exhaustive list. There are hundreds of ways government and business have ruined quality of life for workers. Start with the books listed at the end of this article.

Workers do their part. They work hard and have productivity that is the envy of the world.

But Germany, France, Portugal and every other democracy gives workers better pay, more vacation, better benefits, fewer hours. The U.S. has the highest number of two-income households.

Pulitzer-winning author Hedrick Smith: “Americans, far more than people in the advanced economies of Europe and Asia, accept and even endorse economic inequality as an integral feature of modern capitalism.”

David Cay Johnston: “Now, less than a century after its adoption, the tax system is being turned on its head. Since at least 1983, it has been the explicit, but unstated, policy in Washington to let the richest Americans pay a smaller portion of their incomes in taxes and to defer more of their taxes, which amounts to a stealth tax cut, while collecting a higher percentage more in taxes from those in the middle class. The Democrats embraced this in 1983 when they controlled Congress. … Under the Republicans, beginning in 1997, this policy of taxing the poor and the middle class to finance tax cuts for the super rich was expanded through changes in the income tax system.”

Slowly, steadily, the burden on families over the decades grew. And there a toll in everyday life. When we postwar babies were kids, we never heard the term “latchkey kid.”

It apparently existed as early as the 1940s but was not in common usage. There was usually a parent there when we got home after school.

It was usually a mother. Today, there likely would be a fair number of fathers, too—if

families could still afford it. We experienced joyful childhoods and started out in life with the pleasure of parents.

But the middle-class squeeze is destroying family life. Politicians talk about family values but tailor laws to annihilate families. Those families are burdened by taxes that used to be paid by those who could afford them, by debt shrewdly imposed, by jobs or multiple jobs that make off with family life.

Robert Kennedy once said that our incessant tracking of the gross national product does not count “the health of our children, the quality of their education or the joy of their play.” But when an economy tailored to the rich makes the lives of most people tense, driven, even miserable, we know those children pay a price—though it may not be counted—in the time they do not get with parents, in the time parents do not get with them. Ω

Further reading (and outrages) Learn more about the financial burdens of average people America: Who Really Pays the Taxes? by Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele (1994)

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Arrogant Capital: Washington, Wall Street, and the Frustration of American Politics by Kevin Phillips (1994)

Bait and Switch: The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream by Barbara Ehrenreich (2005)

Perfectly Legal: The Covert Campaign to Rig Our Tax System to Benefit the Super Rich— and Cheat Everybody Else by David Cay Johnston (2003)

Free Lunch: How the Wealthiest Americans Enrich Themselves at Government Expense (and Stick You With the Bill) by David Cay Johnston (2007)

The Two-Income Trap: Why Middle-Class Parents Are Going Broke by Elizabeth Warren and Amelia Warren Tyagi (2003)

Who Stole the American Dream? by Hedrick

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Ilikepresidential regime and, if you’re anything me, things feel worse than ever. If you t’s nearly six months into the current

are emotionally, intellectually and spiritually exhausted by the by regressive policies and Rachel Leibrock uncivil discourse, here are 10 must-read books rache ll@ newsrev iew.c om to renew your commitment to the resistance.

It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis Read it because: The New Yorker called Lewis’ 1935 novel “one of the most important books ever produced in this country” and that assessment still holds true today.

Lewis’ book tells the story of a fascist politician who stirs up fears, foments distrust and, basically, promises to make America great again and accordingly defeats Franklin Delano Roosevelt. It once seemed like a chilling glimpse at an alternate American reality; now it reads like a primer on the last election and current administration.

Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities, Rebecca Solnit Read it because: Hope in the Dark, originally published in 2004, is just that—a guiding spotlight on activism and commitment in a time of despair. Placing personal experiences against the broad tapestry of history, Solnit makes a case for optimism and action as the path to real, transformational change. “Your opponents would love you to believe that it’s hopeless, that you have no power, that there’s no reason to act, that you can’t win,” Solnit writes in the foreword to the book’s latest edition. “Hope is a gift you don’t have to surrender.”

The Trouble With Reality: A Rumination on Moral Panic in Our Time, Brooke Gladstone Read it because: Fake news, alternative facts and other lies make it difficult to parse real life from politics. Gladstone, who cohosts On the Media, a weekly radio news magazine show with Bob Garfield, lays

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out Trump’s authoritarian communication strategy, including a look at his beloved Twitter account. Whether the president’s pushing “send” on “trial balloon tweets,” “deflection tweets” or “diversion tweets,” Gladstone posits that, when it comes to the current president, “lying is the point.” Still, she adds, we’re part of the problem, too: “If fake reality is the problem, the logical first step is to track down its sources,” she writes. “But that is a very short, very frustrating expedition, because fake reality begins at home. In your head.” Oof. White Trash: The 400-Year Untold History of Class in America, Nancy Isenberg Read it because: You want to get a better understanding of at least part of Trump’s base but found J.D. Vance’s much-praised memoir Hillbilly Elegy to be myopic and frustratingly superficial. Published just months before the 2016 election, Isenberg’s book deconstructs this country’s class system with a precise eye. And, looking back on the contentious 2008 election that wrought Sarah Palin, she cements the future, writing, “When you turn an election into a three-ring circus, there’s always a chance that the dancing bear will win.”

The Gay Revolution, Lillian Faderman Read it because: Faderman’s 2015 book offers a bird’s-eye view of the LGBTQ community and its struggle for basic rights and safety from the 1950s to the present. Whether it’s the Stonewall riots, the misguided “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” legislation or the lengthy fight to legalize same-sex marriage, Faderman writes with the unflinching eye of a historian and the dramatic elegance of a novelist.

Between the World and Me, Ta-Nehisi Coates Read it because: Coates’ slim collection of essays, written as letters to his young son, make for a brutally honest read on race in America. Michael Brown and Trayvon

Martin live in these pages, as does an argument for the Black Lives Matter movement and an examination of this country’s ongoing and systemic mistreatment of black people. Not an easy read, but an essential one.

Wandering Home: A Long Walk Across America’s Most Hopeful Landscape, Bill McKibben Read it because: You’re worried about Trump’s decision to pull out of the Paris Climate Agreement. McKibben, an environmentalist and journalist, writes about the planet in a way that takes the universal and makes it personal. Told through the lens of a long hike through the Northeastern United States, the book brings the physical world to life on the page.

America’s Working Women: A Documentary History, 1600 to the Present Read it because: This collection of stories, poems and essays (edited by Rosalyn Baxandall and Linda Gordon) was penned by working women across the country.

Originally published in 1976, it makes for a feminist history that transcends generations, cultures, race and class.

Rules for Radicals, Saul D. Alinsky Read it because: You’re overwhelmed, you don’t know where to start and you’re mad as hell at the current administration.

Originally published in 1971, Alinsky’s book remains relevant as a guide on how to get past talk to effect real social, cultural and political change through community organizing, sacrifice and tangible action.

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Read it because: You’ve already read other “alternative” U.S. histories and now want one told from the perspective of this country’s first inhabitants. Dunbar-Ortiz, the daughter of a farmer father and Native American mother, challenges myths about European settlers and their impact on millions of indigenous people. □

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vendors peddle jewelry, natural body and bath products, accessories and clothing behind the store. Sat 7/8, 10am. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St.

CRUZ’N CLASSIC CAR & MOTORCYCLE SHOW: The Chico Drifters Car Club presents its annual show with awards, raffles, a poker walk, vendors and live music. The Durham Exchange Club hosts a pancake breakfast and barbecue lunch. Proceeds benefit local charities. Sat 7/8, 7am. Free. Durham Park, 1895 Durham Dayton Highway, Durham. 530897-0531. www.drifterscars.org

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monious sister from Texas perform swing and vintage country. Tue, 7/11, 7:30pm. $20.

Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

DOWNTOWN CHICO RESTAURANT WEEK: A 10-day event during which dozens of downtown Chico eateries offer special menus. Go online for a list of restaurants, special menus, contest information and more. Sat 7/8, 8am. Free. 530-345-6500. www.down townchico.com

PUP CRAWL: Butte Humane Society helps kick off Restaurant Week. Participants will get a Pup Crawl T-shirt and a wristband for drink specials offered at various downtown eateries. Sat 7/8, 5pm. $25-$30. Downtown Chico, 418 Main St. www.buttehumane.org

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Special Events CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Lincoln Potters. Sun, 7/9, 7pm. $7-$14.

Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St. www.chicoheat.com

DOWNTOWN CHICO RESTAURANT WEEK: See Saturday. Sun, 7/9, 8am. Free. Downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

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Special Events CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Lincoln Potters. Mon, 7/10, 7pm. $7-$14.

Nettleton Stadium, 400 W. First St. www.chicoheat.com

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DOWNTOWN CHICO RESTAURANT WEEK: See Saturday. Mon, 7/10, 8am. Free. Downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

SUMMER BEER PAIRING DINNER: A feast of seasonal specialty dishes hosted by the brewery and restaurant staff on backto-back nights. The evening includes five courses, craft beer samples and a souvenir pint glass. Mon, 7/10, 6pm. $40. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. www.featherfallscasino.com

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Special Events DOWNTOWN CHICO RESTAURANT WEEK: See Saturday. Wed, 7/12, 8am. Free. Downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

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SWEET SIRENS

The Quebe Sisters are bringing their brand of vintage country, swing and skiffle music to the Sierra Nevada Big Room on Tuesday, July 11. The fastfiddling trio out of Texas not only has impressive instrumental chops, but also a penchant for sugar-sweet, three-part vocal harmonies. Overall, the sisters’ music has a nostalgic quality that would fit right into the old-time soundtrack for the Coen brothers’ classic film, O Brother, Where Art Thou?

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Exhibition, providing a glimpse into the creative and artistic minds of artists from across America. Juror Tony Natsoulas chose finalists from more than 200 entries. Through 7/28. Free. 450 Orange St., 530 895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by Ann Pierce, watercolor paintings by Northern California artist Ann Pierce. The Healing Art Gallery of Enloe Cancer Center features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Through 7/13. Free. 265 Cohasset Road., 530-332-3856.

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David Gilhooly on display. Through 8/31.

Free. 254 E. Fourth St.

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

Through 9/16. 493 East Ave., 530-345-3063.

UPPER CRUST BAKERY & EATERY: Collages & Prints, works by Molly Amick on display. Through 8/6. Free. 130 Main St., 530-521-2565.

a display of more 50 branding irons.

1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

COLMAN COMMUNITY MUSEUM: Cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. 13548 Centerville Road. www.buttecreekcanyon.info

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Through 9/16. $2-$4.

1968 E. Eighth St.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Amusement Park Science, a family-friendly exploration of the physics behind amusement park rides, plus a range of permanent displays on local farming, water, famous regional oak trees and a couple of Ice Age skeletons.

Through 9/3. Chico State. www.csu chico.edu/gateway

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Permanent Exhibits, including a collection of Maidu Indian artifacts, blacksmith and print shops, gold sluices, a miner’s cabin, a schoolhouse and a covered bridge that spans a rushing creek. Through 12/31. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. www.goldnugget museum.com

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: The refurbished depot serves as a museum with a working model train. Through 9/19. Free. 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise, 530-872-8722.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Stories of Our Own, displaying Hmong culture, identity and history. Through 7/27.

Free. Chico State.

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let’s get physical Why media you can hold in your hand still matters with “Radioactive” and T“Seea single You In Your Dreams” off he first record I ever got was

Gene Simmons’ 1978 solo album.

I still own it, by although the Mark Lore music is almost impossible to ma rk l@ newsrev iew.c om hear through the storm of crackles, pops and hissing.

I have great memories of that old 45. Early on, my parents kept it with their records, so if I wanted to give it a listen, I had to have them put it on … then ask them to flip it. It felt like a special occasion every damn time! To me, anyway.

Sometimes I’d invite my neighbor over, we’d put our ears up to the speakers of my parents’ coffin-like, wood-cabinet record/8-track player and just grin until the song was over. Then we’d talk about what we heard!

The way I’ve consumed music over the past 40 years can be distilled down to that experience.

Even in the 1990s—when I had all but abandoned vinyl for the convenience and “clarity” of compact discs—I would still listen to the entire album and pore over the lyrics and liner notes. In 2017—even with countless streaming services and millions of albums and songs

just a click away—my main methods of listening are still vinyl in my living room and CDs in my car. I also have thousands of mp3s on my computer and phone, but those are for travel/review purposes.

Sure, I grew up with records, cassettes and CDs, but the steady increase in vinyl sales over the past decade illustrates that it’s much more than us old farts buying up physical media. I’m not going to pretend to know what the draw is for those who grew up downloading mp3s. Maybe it’s hip? Maybe they realize artists don’t make albums for people just to buzz through one or two songs and move on? Or, perhaps, there truly is something to slowing down and experiencing a record wholly, by listening and touching and looking at the art. Yeah, there’s something to that.

Of course, listening is only part of the experience. Flipping through records (or even CDs) is therapeutic for me—which is why my record collection has increased substantially since the election.

There’s also the thrill of finding a record that’s been on your wantlist for months, or years. At a time when instant gratification rules our lives, it’s nice to long for something, eh?

Records are these amazing artifacts and time capsules. I have records with love notes written right on the front covers. I’ve discovered autographs on innersleeves, ticket stubs tucked inside. I bought a Budgie record in Portland and a Scorpions record 167 miles south in Coos Bay, both with a short descriptive review scrawled on their inner-sleeves—written by the same person. I own records that are close to 70 years old—who knows where they’ve been, before coming into my possession?

Physical media makes you appreciate music and art more.

I used to save up for an album, buy it, then listen to only that one album for weeks and months at a time. When’s the last time you did that?

I realize physical media isn’t for everyone, and that’s OK. It’s cumbersome. It takes up space. It can get spendy. But it’s also worth it.

I’m not naïve enough to think my 2-year-old son won’t follow whichever technology is ruling the day, but I also can’t see him turning down the thousands of killer LPs and CDs he has at his disposal.

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THuRSDAy 7/6—WEDNESDAy 7/12 jENNy DON’T & THE SPuRS Saturday, July 8 The Maltese Bar & Tap Room SEE SATuRDAy

duo from Blame Sally team up with North State musicians Nina Gerber and Chris Weber for dueling guitar jams and three-part vocal harmonies. Thu, 7/6, 7:30pm. $22.50. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St., 530-892-4647. www.sierra nevada.com

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 7/7, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

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EXPERIMENTAL SHOWCASE: Chico Area

Punks present an evening of loops, weird noises and outside-the-box experimental music with Scout, Entrail, DMT and Cat Depot. Thu, 7/6, 8pm. $7. Monstros Pizza, 628 W. Sacramento Ave.

eclectic set of music for dining. Thu, 7/6, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

THE KELLY TWINS DUELING PIANOS: Identical twins delivering musical entertainment and witty banter. Thu, 7/6, 8:30pm. $3.

Parkside Tap House, 115 Third St.

Thunder Lump and Steve Givens.

Music only. Fri, 7/7, 7pm. Free.

DownLo, 319 Main St.

THE POSEYS: Swing, jazz, blues, vin-

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OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by

summertime concert series continues with classic rock from the Retrotones. Fri, 7/7, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.down townchico.com

NEVER TOO LATE: Top-40 dance covers in the lounge. Fri, 7/7, 8:30pm. Free.

Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

tage Western and more. Fri, 7/7, 6pm. Free. Almendra Winery &

Distillery, 9275 Midway, Durham.

SUNNY ACRES: Psychedelic space punk.

(Spunk?) The Michael Russell Band, Jacob Cole and Brother open. Fri, 7/7, 8pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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If you like your music weird, you probably want to check out the experimental showcase hosted by Chico Area Punks at Monstros Pizza tonight, July 6. The evening will feature loops and strange noises aplenty with a lineup of Entrail, DMT, Cat Depot and Scout (aka local musician Scout Parker), whose specialty is dark, mesmerizing trip-hop beats.

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JENNY DON’T & THE SPURS: Forlorn

roots-country out of Portland, Ore. Michelin Embers and Frontier Family open. Sat, 7/8, 8pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB KIRKLAND AND JACK LEMLEY: An eclectic set of music. Sat, 7/8, 7pm. Free. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Drive.

NAUGHTY PROFESSOR: A funk/jazz sextet from New Orleans. The Sam Chase & The Untraditional open. Sat, 7/8, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

Scout

Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 7/8, 5pm.

Scotty’s Boat Landing, 12609 River Road, 530-710-2020.

NEVER TOO LATE: Top-40 dance covers

TEMPO REGGAE NIGHT: This month’s reggae show is a celebration of Sipho’s six-year anniversary, with music from Tuff Like Iron, IQulah Rastafari, Honey B & The Cultivation and Nicky Victory. Sat, 7/8, 5pm. Free. Sipho’s Jamaican Restaurant & Cafe, 1228 Dayton Road. www.caribbeandance radio.com

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THE POSEYS: Swing, jazz, blues, vintage Western and more. Sun, 7/9, 5pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

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LIVE MUSIC OPEN MIC: Early evening

open mic. Bring guitars, fiddles and whatever other instrument you enjoy and share some tunes. Wed, 7/12, 5:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 530-343-4915.

lONG lIVE SIPHO’S

Since opening on Dayton Road six years ago, Sipho’s Jamaican Restaurant and Cafe has provided Chico with a laid-back slice of island life. On Saturday, July 8, you can help the restaurant celebrate its birthday with a lineup of reggae acts including Tuff Like Iron, IQulah Rastafari, Honey B & The Cultivation and Nicky Victory.

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only open mic, all musicians get two

10MONDAy

SEE YOU SPACE COWBOY: Extra abrasive grindcore. Stares and Dying for It open. Mon, 7/10, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge Tea & Coffehouse, 118 W. Second St.

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OPEN MIC: A weekly open mic hosted by local singer-songwriter Andan Casamajor. Tue, 7/11, 6pm. Free.

Gogi’s Cafe, 230 Salem St., 530-891-3570.

THE QUEBE SISTERS: Three fast-fiddling and melodious sisters from Texas perform swing and vintage country. Tue, 7/11, 7:30pm. $20. Sierra

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ROBIN BACIOR: The folksy singersongwriter performs with support from Aric Jeffries and Coyote Church. Wed, 7/12, 8pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

SILONA REYMAN, JOHN SEID, ERIC PETER & ZACH COWAN: An eclectic set of music for dining. Wed, 7/12, 7pm. Free. Red Tavern, 1250 Esplanade.

Honey B & The Cultivation

TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival teams with your squad of up to six fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 7/12, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St., 530-893-1500.

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FILM SHORTS Reviewers: Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Guardians of the Galaxy, Vol. 2

Opening this week The Beguiled

Sophia Coppola won the Best Director award at this year’s Cannes Film Festival for this movie about the women of a girls’ school in Virginia who take in a wounded Union soldier during the Civil War. Starring Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning and Colin Farrell. Pageant Theatre and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Ends tonight, July 6. See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Night of the Hunter (1955)

This week’s Pageant repertory selection is the expressionist noir classic starring Robert Mitchum as a traveling preacher with dark motives. One showing: Sunday, July 9, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

The third iteration of Spider-Man film franchises continues sometime after the events of Captain America: Civil War, with the young web-slinger (played here by Tom Holland) being mentored on superhero life

by Iron Man/Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

47 Meters Down

Two sisters go scuba diving and get trapped in a shark cage at the bottom of the ocean with less than an hour’s worth of oxygen left. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13

Baby Driver

IblesstarSam who is aging and, superficially at least, resemElliott. Those rather teasing resemblances n The Hero, Sam Elliott plays a fictional actor/movie

A jukebox musical in which a young getaway driver (Ansel Elgort) is coerced into working for a kingpin (Kevin Spacey) in exchange for a better life. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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play a minor role in the film as a whole, and Elliott is not the film’s only selling point and by attraction. But his presence as the title Juan-Carlos character is the chief saving grace of Selznick this frisky little seriocomic romance.

Lee Hayden (Elliott) is a drawling cowboy type with an epic mustache and a wily look in his eye. Now in his 70s and still working, he’s had a long journeyman career in everything from blockbuster movies to TV comThe Hero mercials. But his one claim to lasting Starring Sam Elliott fame, his role as the cowboy hero of a and Nick Offerman.

Directed by Brett mythic fantasy (also called The Hero), Haley. Pageant is now more than 30 years in the past.

Theatre. Rated R. When we first meet him, Hayden is grinding his way through repeated takes of a couple of sentences in a commercial for a brand of barbecue sauce. Next, his agent calls to say that, while no new offers of movie roles have turned up, an organization of nostalgic western movie fans wants to give him a lifetime achievement award at its upcoming convention. And soon after that, his doctor is telling him that the cancer in his lungs has most decidedly not gone into remission.

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All that leads to some soul-searching, some last hurrahs, and a series of attempts to “reach out” and/ or reconnect. The first person he turns to is his oldest friend and best buddy, a former actor named Jeremy Frost (Nick Offerman), who is even more down-atthe-heels than Hayden. But the most deeply fraught encounters are with women: Hayden’s thoroughly embittered daughter Lucy (Krysten Ritter) and his calmly ambivalent ex-wife Valarie (Katharine Ross, Elliott’s longtime spouse) on the family front, and a sultry stand-up comedian named Charlotte (Laura Prepon) in the realm of impromptu romance.

Elliott’s scenes with Offerman are the sharpest and most affecting in the film. The dueling come-hither gazes in the Elliott-Prepon scenes make for some of the film’s most entertaining (and beguiling) moments.

The Elliott-Ritter scenes are particularly challenging as serious drama but not always to good effect. In her scenes with Elliott, Ross (who, once upon a time, was featured in both The Graduate and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid) seems inclined to keep things a bit too much under wraps.

Hayden’s gonzo antics and inspired improvisations at the awards ceremony are a particular high point for a film in which very little else is unexpected.

Fortunately, there’s that charmingly quirky cast of players, and iconic Sam Elliott never had a better showcase than this one. □

Salma Hayek squares off with John Lithgow when her holistic medicine practitioner faces his bourgeois billionaire at a dinner party after her car breaks down. Also starring Chloe Sevigny, Connie Britton and Jay Duplass. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Lightning McQueen (Owen Wilson) takes another lap in the third installment of Pixar’s animated car series. Cinemark 14.

Rated G —B.G.

Despicable Me 3

The Mummy

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Men Tell No Tales

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Sam Elliott stars as himself, sort of

After two parents (Will Ferrell and Amy Poehler) lose their daughter’s college fund, they concoct a scheme with their neighbor to earn the money back fast. Can you guess where this is going? We’re betting you can— 4-to-3 odds. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R. A princess mummy (Sofia Boutella), awakened from centuries of slumber, wreaks havoc on humanity and only Tom Cruise, strengthened by a mummy curse, can save the planet. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Spider-Man: Homecoming

Role of his life

Peter Quill/Star-Lord (Chris Pratt) and his supergang get tangled up more dangerous space adventures as they close in on the mystery of his true parentage. Cinemark 14.

Rated PG-13.

Gru (voiced by Steve Carell) meets his longlost twin brother, Dru (yes, also Carell), who wants to team up for one last heist.

Listen for Julie Andrews as their mom.

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

It’s either the fifth or 105th installment in the Pirates franchise, with Johnny Depp still kicking around as pirate Jack Sparrow and on the run from an army of ghost ships in search of the Trident of Poseidon.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Rough Night

Five high school friends—including characters played by Scarlett Johansson and Kate McKinnon—reunite in Miami for a wild bachelorette party that takes a dark turn when they accidentally kill a male stripper.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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This movie gets it right on almost every front and features a strong performance from Gal Gadot as the young Amazonian princess Diana. In this origin story, Diana eventually winds up in Europe during WWI along with Steve Trevor (Chris Pine)—a wartime spy who crash-lands on her island—and leads soldiers on the battlefield against the Germans to exhilarating effect. Gadot and Pine have surprisingly convincing and adorable on-screen charisma, and despite some occasionally terrible CGI effects, Wonder Woman gives the DC superhero crew a new lease on life.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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and would help you lose weight and lower your cholesterol level. by Tuck Well, my Coop friends, the world isn’t perfect (insert anti-Trump diatribe here), but the snack exists. For years, when I was a competitive athlete, it was my go-to afternoon snack and post-dinner dessert, and it helped me maintain a body weight 25 pounds below my natural set-point, partly because it’s so healthy—a veritable greatest hits list of superfoods—and partly because it’s so tasty you can curb your lust for the bad stuff: the brownies, the carrot cake, the tiramisu.

This recipe takes absolutely no skills. All you need is a cookie sheet with sides, two bowls, a stirring spoon (I prefer a French whisk), an oven and the ingredients.

Tuck’s Perfect Food Dry stuff: 3 cups whole-wheat pastry flour (it behaves just like white flour) 2 teaspoons baking soda 2 teaspoons cinnamon 1 teaspoon salt 1 cup oat bran (the cholesterol killer) 1/2 cup flax seed meal 1/2 cup brewer’s yeast wheat germ, to your liking 2 teaspoons lecithin 5 cups rolled oats 4 cups cranberries/raisins, in any ratio Nuts, any variety, to your liking Wet stuff: 1 cup olive oil 20 oz., or one normal-size jar applesauce 2 cups brown sugar, loose 4 eggs 2 teaspoons vanilla 1) Mix all the dry stuff in a large bowl. 2) Mix all the wet stuff in a small(er) bowl. 3) Add the wet stuff to the dry stuff. 4) Spread mixture on a walled cookie sheet.

5) Damn, you forgot to preheat the oven again—turn on oven to 400 degrees. 6) Go watch YouTube videos while the oven gets to operating temperature. 7) Bake batter for 43 minutes. 8) Check for doneness with the tip of a butter knife; remove when knife comes out clean. 9) Let stand for a few minutes, then cut into bars.

Cleanup is messy. The bars tend to be crumbly, and the shrapnel gets everywhere. Every time I make this recipe, I wonder why I don’t make it more often—until

cleanup time, when I swear I’ll never make it again. I am usually stuffed by the time I’m done, just from “tidying up� the collateral damage. To halve the cleanup chore, make a double batch. You’ll bake half as often, and the mess isn’t noticeably worse.

Predicting exact baking time is tricky. I start checking at 40 minutes, and if it turns out to be 60, so be it. I actually remove a plug from the center of the pan to get an accurate sense of doneness (hey, I’m not serving it to the Pope or anything). Remember, it will continue to cook after you remove it, so a slightly undone look is ideal.

You can tweak this recipe in a hundred ways.

Hypoglycemic? (I am)—add some protein powder. Don’t like egg yolks? (I don’t)—use egg whites, double the number of eggs, and add some arrowroot. Don’t like sugar? (I don’t)—take out as much brown sugar as you like and add in compensating amounts of stevia or Splenda for baking (they both work fine). Don’t like overly sweet? (I don’t)—keep lowering the sweetener level until you’re happy. Don’t like the taste of olive oil? (I do)—any healthy cooking oil will do. Not fond of cranberries or raisins? (I am)—any dried fruit will work. Want less fat? (I do)—reduce the oil and add a commensurate amount of water.

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Traveling DevOs Seven planes, 10 trains, one Uber, eight cabs, one rental car, nine buses, 18 metro rides, two ferries, and at least one dozen death marches. The dEVos put the “travel” in traveling. Fresh off our European tour, Arts and Mrs. DEVO’s heads are still spinning as we process our whirlwind 22-day trip through Spain, Italy, France and Belgium. We did spend a fair amount of time on the move from one place to another, but on balance we spent much more time living la dolce vita, butchering romance languages, retracing the history of Western civilization, drinking rosé and eating pizzas, pastas and pintxos.

And, true to my name, we saw just a little bit of art. We walked in the footsteps of Van Gogh in St. Remy and Arles, France; got lost in the enormous, ambitious and wonderfully twisted designs of Gaudi and chanced upon huge Picasso reliefs in Spain; were overwhelmed by the Catholic church’s haul of nearly every great artist in history at the Vatican Museums; stomped around a little place called the Flavian amphitheatre in Rome; and spotted some interstellar mosaic art by street artist invader in Paris. All in all, I checked off four of my personal bucket list items during the trip—the Colosseum, Gaudi’s La sagrada Familia, drinking the “best beer in the world” made by the Saint-Sixtus monks at the Westvleteren Brewery in Belgium, and No. 1: visiting Le Palais idéal.

Ferdinand Cheval was a postman from Hauterives, a rural town in southwestern France. One day in 1879, while walking his route, he tripped on an intriguing-looking stone that he picked up and put in his pocket. He returned the following day to collect more of the curious rocks and he just never stopped.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF july 6, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Unless you

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Eat them! Where were the special places you loved? Go there, or to spots that remind you of them. Who were the people you were excited to be with? Talk with them. Actions like these will get you geared up for a full-scale immersion in innocent eagerness. And that would be just the right medicine for your soul.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): What I

wish for you, Taurus, is toasted ice cream and secrets in plain sight and a sacred twist of humorous purity. I would love for you to experience a powerful surrender and a calm climax and a sweeping vision of a small but pithy clue. I very much hope that you will get to take a big trip to an intimate turning point that’s not too far away. I pray you will find or create a barrier that draws people together instead of keeping them apart.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In Dr.

Seuss’s book, Horton Hatches the Egg, an elephant assumes the duty of sitting on a bird’s egg, committed to keeping it warm until hatching time. The nest is located high in a tree, which makes the undertaking even more incongruous. By the climax of the tale, Horton has had to persist in his loyal service through a number of challenges. But all ends well, and there’s an added bonus: The creature that’s born is miraculously part-bird, part-elephant.

I see similarities between this story and your life right now, Gemini. The duty you’re carrying out doesn’t come naturally, and you’re not even sure you’re doing it right.

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CANCER (June 21-July 22): It’s prime

time for you to break through any inhibitions you might have about accessing and expressing your passion. To help you in this righteous cause, I’ve assembled a batch of words you should be ready to use with frequency and sweet abandon.

Consider writing at least part of this list on your forearm with a felt-tip pen every morning so it’s always close at hand: enamored, piqued, enchanted, stirred, roused, enthused, delighted, animated, elevated, thrilled, captivated, turned-on, enthralled, exuberant, fired up, awakened.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Matt Groening,

creator of the cartoon series The Simpsons, says that a great turning point in his early years came when his scoutmaster told him he was the worst Boy Scout in history. While this might have demoralized other teenagers, it energized Groening.

“Well, somebody’s got to be the worst,” he triumphantly told the scoutmaster. And then, “instead of the earth opening up and swallowing me, instead of the flames of hell fire licking at my knees—nothing happened. And I was free.” I suspect you may soon be blessed with a comparable liberation, Leo. Maybe you’ll be released from having to live up to an expectation you shouldn’t even live up to. Or maybe you’ll be criticized in a way that will motivate your drive for excellence for years to come.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Nineteen of

my readers who work in the advertising industry signed a petition requesting that I stop badmouthing their field.

“Without advertising,” they testified, “life itself would be impossible.” In response, I agreed to attend their reeducation seminar. There, under their tutelage, I came to acknowledge that everything we do can be construed as a kind of advertising. Each of us is engaged in a mostly unconscious campaign to promote our unique way of looking at and being in the world. Realizing the truth, I now feel no reservations about urging you Virgos to take advantage of the current astrological omens. They suggest that you can and should be aggressive and ingenious about marketing yourself, your ideas and your products.

by rob brezsny LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In 2003, the

American Film Institute announced the creation of a new prize to honor acting talent. Dubbed the Charlton Heston Award, it was designed to be handed out periodically to luminaries who have distinguished themselves over the course of long careers. The first recipient of the award was, oddly enough, Charlton Heston himself, born under the sign of Libra. I hope you’re inspired by this story to wipe away any false modesty you might be suffering from. The astrological omens suggest it’s a favorable moment to create a big new award named after you and bestow it upon yourself. As part of the festivities, tell yourself about what makes you special, amazing and valuable.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Here’s

your riddle: What unscratchable itch drives you half-crazy? But you’re secretly glad it drives you half-crazy, because you know your half-craziness will eventually lead you to an experience or resource that will relieve the itch. Here’s your prophecy: Sometime soon, scratching the unscratchable itch will lead you to the experience or resource that will finally relieve the itch.

Here’s your homework: Prepare yourself emotionally to fully receive and welcome the new experience or resource. Make sure you’re not so addicted to scratching the unscratchable itch that you fail to take advantage of the healing it’s bringing you.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec.

21): The best way to go forward is to go backward; the path to the bright future requires a shadowy regression. Put another way, you should return to the roots of a triumph in order to find a hidden flaw that might eventually threaten to undo your success. Correct that flaw now and you’ll make it unnecessary for karmic repercussions to undermine you later.

But please don’t get all solemn-faced and anxious about this assignment. Approach it with humorous self-correction and you’ll ensure that all goes well.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Are you familiar with the psychological concepts of anima and animus? You’re in the midst of being intoxicated by one of those creatures from inner space.

Though you may not be fully conscious of it, you women are experiencing a mystical marriage with an imaginal character that personifies all that’s masculine in your psyche. You men are going through the analogous process with a female figure within you. I believe this is true no matter what your sexual orientation is. While this awesome psychological event may be fun, educational and even ecstatic, it could also be confusing to your relationships with real people. Don’t expect them to act like or live up to the very real fantasy you’re communing with.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): As a

recovering save-the-world addict, I have felt compassionate skepticism towards my fellow junkies who are still in the throes of their obsession. But recently I’ve discovered that just as a small minority of alcoholics can safely take a drink now and then, so can a few save-the-world-aholics actually save the world a little bit at a time without getting strung out. With that as a disclaimer, Aquarius, I’m letting you know that the cosmos has authorized you to pursue your own brand of fanatical idealism in the coming weeks. To keep yourself honest, make fun of your zealotry every now and then.

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The following person is doing business as CELLAR DOOR CIDER at 129 W. 21st St Chico, CA 95928.

BRYAN ALEXANDER SHAW 129 W. 21st St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRYAN SHAW Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000878 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HOLLY HILLS MOBILE ESTATES at 14672 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954.

AHRS PARADISE LLC 14672 Colter Way Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: RANDALL C AHR Dated: June 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000847 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEIRLOOM FOOD COMPANY at 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SHAWN PAUL MINDRUM 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHAWN MINDRUM Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000877 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business names HEIRLOOM FOOD COMPANY, CHICO LOCAVORE at 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SHAWN MINDRUM 1151 Palm Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

NATHAN JOHNSON 2235 Hutchison Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted

by A General Partnership.

Signed: SHAWN MINDRUM Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2016-0000931 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEVOLL, DEVOLL MUSIC at 2118 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

REBECCA ANDRES 6343 Rd 200 Sp 71 Orland, CA 95963.

SCOTT CORY 476 Hoopa Circle Chico, CA 95926.

TYLER DEVOLL 2118 Laurel Street Chico, CA 95928.

WILLIAM HEPWORTH 1145 Loser Ave Gridley, CA 95948.

ANDREW LOESER 2400 McGie Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: BECKY ANDRES Dated: June 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000799 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHERN HOLISTICS at 34 E Tehama Orland, CA 95963.

NORTHERN HOLISTICS LLC 34 E Tehama Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: NICHOLAS HATTEN, MANAGER Dated: June 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000881 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATMENT The following persons are doing business as MOCKINGBYRD at 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

BORIS BRECKINRIDGE 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

LORI BRECKINRIDGE 720 Olive St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BORIS BRECKINRIDGE Dated: June 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000805 Published: June 29, July 6,13,20, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WILD GINGER SALON at 330 W. 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928.

MARALEE LOUISE VAN NOTE 1353 Kaelyn Court Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARALEE VAN NOTE Dated: June 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000861 Published: July 6,13,20,27, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VAN DUZEN TRADING COMPANY at 2770 Eaton Rd #73 Chico, CA 95973.

MICHAEL A SMITH 2770 Eaton Rd #73 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL SMITH Dated: June 9, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000810 Published: July 6,13,20,27, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as Z SOAP COMPANY at 6299 Cumberland Road Magalia, CA 95954.

LAURA CATHERINE ZINE 6299 Cumberland Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAURA ZINE Dated: June 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000885 Published: July 6,13,20,27, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BIDWELL SWIM ACADEMY at 645 Betty Belle Lane Chico, CA 95973.

LAVONNE BLAIR 645 Betty Belle Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAVONNE BLAIR Dated: June 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000772 Published: July 6,13,20,27, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner GUIQIU LIU filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: GUIQIU LIU Proposed name: LINDA LIU THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: July 28, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P CANDELA Dated: May 30, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01372 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SEE VANG & ZELEE LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TOUA LOR Proposed name: LOG TOUA LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 4, 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: June 8, 2017 Case Number: 17CV00923 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner SARA BETH THOMAS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: SARA BETH THOMAS Proposed name: AURORA ELIZABETH THORNE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the

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hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 11, 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: June 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01225 Published: June 22,29, July 6,13, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MERCEDES MACIAS MARIN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MERCEDES MACIAS MARIN Proposed name: MERCEDES A. MACIAS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 25, 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: June 27, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01534 Published: July 6,13,20,27, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: HAROLD E. CARTWRIGHT, SEE ADDITIONAL PARTIES ATTACHMENT YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: GEORGE J. BOEGER, JR. 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 law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you

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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: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS LAW OFFICES OF FERRIS & SELBY 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 ADDITIONAL PARTIES: Defendant believed to be deceased, and all persons claiming by or through, or under such person, and the testate and intestate successors of HAROLD E. CARTWRIGHT, MYRTLE A. CARTWRIGHT, believed to be deceased, and all persons claiming by or through, or under such person, and the testate and intestate successors of MYRTLE A. CARTWRIGHT, REGIONAL SERVICE CORPORATION, a California corporation, as Trustee of Deed of Trust Dated February 10, 1999 and recorded February 16, 1999 as Serial No. 19990006411 of Official Records, Butte County, and All Persons Unknown, Claiming Any Legal or Equitable Right, Title, Estate, Lien or Interest in the Property Described in the Complaint Adverse to Plaintiff’s Title, or Any Cloud on Plaintiff’s Title Thereto and DOES 1 through 100, inclusive ATTACHMENT ONE: This action affects title to specific real property identified in the pleading situated in the County of Butte, State of California, and more particularly described as follows: LOT 30, AS SHOWN ON THAT CERTAIN MAP ENTITLED, “RANCHO LINDO SUBDIVISION UNIT NO. 1”, WHICH MAP WAS FILED IN THE OFFICE OF THE RECORDER OF THE COUNTY OF BUTTE, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, ON MAY 5, 1953, IN BOOK 19 OF MAPS, AT PAGE(S) 48 AND 49.

EXCEPTING THERFROM ALL OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS AND MINERALS NOW OR AT ANY TIME HEREAFTER SITUATE THEREIN AND THEREUNDER, TOGETHER WITH THE FREE AND UNLIMITED RIGHT TO MINE, DRILL, BORE, OPERATE AND REMOVE FROM BENEATH THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND AT ANY LEVEL OR LEVELS, 50 FEET OR MORE BELOW THE SURFACE OF SAID LAND FOR THE PURPOSE OF DEVELOPMENT

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OR REMOVAL OF ALL OIL, GAS AND OTHER HYDROCARBONS AND MINERALS SITUATE THERIN OR THEREUNDER OR PRODUCIBLE THEREFROM. APN: 007-080-033 Dated: February 17, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00510 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT LITA VALDEZ You are being sued by plaintiff: TROY A. CROOKS You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter or phone call will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online SelfHelp Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court North Butte County Court House 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: TROY A. CROOKS 1563 Montgomery Street #C Oroville, CA 95965 AFFORDABLE DOCUMENTS 1751 Oro Dam Blvd. #4 Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-7777 LDA #22 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: May 11, 2017 Case Number: 17FL00905 Published: June 15,22,29, July 6, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOHN STEPHEN COPPEDGE, AKA STEPHEN COPPEDGE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOHN STEPHEN COPPEDGE, AKA STEPHEN COPPEDGE Petition for Probate has been filed by: AARON COPPEDGE in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: AARON COPPEDGE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 18, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of 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: VANESSA J. SUNDIN Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Suite 302 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 17PR00213 Published: June 22,29, July 6, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ROBERT BONNER JR., ALSO KNOWN AS ROBERT BONNER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROBERT BONNER JR., ROBERT BONNER Petition for Probate has been filed by: KRISTOPHER D. BONNER in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTOPHER D. BONNER be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition 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,

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however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or conseted to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: July 11, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of 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: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 17PR00224 Dated: June 19, 2017 Published: June 22,29, July 6, 2017

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

515 Crister Ave 10 Abbott Cir 65 Quail Covey Ct 7 Glenbrook Ct 1984 Bancroft Dr 2361 Holly Ave 2166 Noel Ct 461 Palisades Dr 2956 Sweetwater Fls 4319 Stable Ln 3000 North Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$669,000 $505,000 $475,000 $405,000 $380,000 $357,000 $355,000 $345,000 $344,000 $343,500 $336,000

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SQ. FT. 2889 2564 1808 2051 1626 1591 1648 1641 1543 1968 1540

3 bed 2 bath 1,291 sq ft. Two homes on one property in Chico. $275,000

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PRICE

BR/BA

43 Forest Creek Cir 67 Herlax Cir 100 Benson Ter 154 Remington Dr 291 Cavalier Way 2 Turnbridge Welles 2636 Rafael St 174 Terrace Dr 215 W 2Nd Ave 405 Orient St 212 W 2Nd Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$331,000 $318,000 $315,000 $307,000 $303,000 $295,000 $259,000 $259,000 $248,000 $241,500 $230,000

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SQ. FT. 1460 1853 1965 1373 1527 1540 1357 1121 972 1054 1173

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BUILDING LOT WITH CITY SERVICES IN TOWN. .21 of an acre lot..........................................................................$125,000 STUNNING ONE OF A KIND, 4,007 sq ft home with separate 3 bed/2 bth, 1,200 guest home, .77 of an acre in town..........................................................................$675,000 BEAUTIFUL 4 BED/3 BTH, 3,073 sq ft with lot’s of extra’s and shows like a model home! 3-car garage .......$539,900 Teresa Larson WONDERFUL LANDSCAPED YARD and beautiful 3 bed/2 bth, 1,780 sq ft........................................................$315,000 (530)899-5925 PEBBLEWOOD PINES CONDO, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,889 sq ft with wonderful updates!...........................................$280,000 www.ChicoListings.com PEND PARK LOCATION! 4 bed/3 bth, ING 2,316 sq ft on .41 of an acre, inground vinyl pool!.....................................$437,500 chiconativ@aol.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of june 19, 2017 – june 23, 2017.

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

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PRICE

BR/BA

2533 El Paso Way

Chico

$160,000

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1260

1420 Sherman Ave #1

Chico

$135,000

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1125 Sheridan Ave #28

Chico

$129,000

13291 Oak Ranch Ln

Chico

1498 Citrus Ave

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PRICE

BR/BA

319 Circle Dr

ADDRESS

Oroville

$240,000

2/1

SQ. FT. 2059

920

620 Table Mountain Blvd

Oroville

$232,000

3/2

1216

1/1

642

39 Rocky Bar Dr

Oroville

$220,000

3/2

1520

$112,500

3/3

2335

730 Bird St

Oroville

$190,000

3/2

1740

Chico

$78,500

3/2

1269

1923 7th St

Oroville

$154,545

2/1

992

3950 Oro Dam Blvd E

Oroville

$545,000

3/2

2813

1637 Paradisewood Dr

Paradise

$355,000

3/2

1707

3 Mineral Way

Oroville

$331,000

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3145

1800 Apple View Way

Paradise

$331,000

3/2

1950

5241 Gold Spring Ct

Oroville

$285,000

3/2

1945

1677 Paradisewood Dr

Paradise

$330,000

3/2

1696

6451 Jack Hill Dr

Oroville

$255,000

3/3

2468

6041 Skyway

Paradise

$202,000

2/2

1365

1505 Lumpkin Rd

Oroville

$255,000

3/2

1512

1875 Norwood Dr

Paradise

$185,000

2/2

1146

1216 18th St

Oroville

$250,000

3/2

1671

1608 Kimberly Ln

Paradise

$179,000

2/2

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