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Protect our park rangers For years, Bidwell Park—ostensibly the crown jewel of our community and

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Shoot-first mentality must end Aprecious incident and our Friends in Blue act as if the most fragment of our society’s fabric has been law enforcement officer is killed in a violent

torn asunder.

An innocent civilian is killed by a law enforcement officer without valid justification and those same Friends in Blue say, “Oops, accidents happen.”

Our nation must begin saying, “No more.” Minneapolis must be the last.

I find it interesting that in the cities that are pushing back against unsustainable police shootings of civilians, the mayors by of those cities often are women.

Ronald Angle And departments where the chief The author has been of police is a woman seem to be a Chico resident more aggressive in developing since 1980. alternatives to capital punishment when dealing with mentally ill individuals and homeless people.

The recent incident in Minneapolis, where a 40-year-old spiritual healer and life coach was shot dead by a police officer while talking to them in an

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alley behind her home, may be the turning point that many of us are waiting for.

It must begin with training. A cardiac surgeon may expect to go through as much as 15 years of education and training before starting an independent practice. A law enforcement officer may be assigned a gun and a badge with only a high school degree and six months of training. At that point, the officer can draw a weapon, shoot and kill another person faster than a surgeon can make an incision.

My personal interpretation of current law enforcement policy regarding lethal force is that the de facto rule is, “Shoot first if you even slightly perceive a threat from another. Ask questions later.”

Training and leadership are the most crucial variables in protecting the citizenry from incidents like the death of Justine Damond. There must be minimum national training standards for law enforcement such that agencies not meeting the standard may not receive any federal funding or support.

Lastly, potential law enforcement officers must receive extensive mental health evaluations before they ever receive a badge and gun. It’s not brain surgery. □

indeed one of the main attractions for visitors—has been badly neglected by the city of Chico.

During the Great Recession, the level of staff dedicated to maintaining the 3,600-acre property, plus the other city parks, was cut to the bone.

There’s been little emphasis during the economic recovery on recouping those lost positions. And now, there’s yet another effort afoot that will further endanger the preservation of our green spaces.

We’re talking about a proposal to take the rangers who are employed by the city under the auspices of the Public Works Department and put them through law enforcement training and under the supervision of the Chico Police Department. The city uses the term “sworn rangers” to describe their would-be roles, but what we’re really talking about here is eliminating rangers in favor of a couple more police officers. Indeed, they would be armed and focused on enforcing laws. In other words, say goodbye to the interpretive, environmental and community engagement services the rangers currently provide.

What we propose is that the police dedicate existing officers to patrols in those regions. After all, the department’s ranks have swelled over the past few years, from a low of 82 in 2013-14 to the 94 proposed for 2017-18.

We’re not the only ones in opposition. The public has repeatedly weighed in on the issue, calling on officials to stick with the status quo.

One of the voices of authority on the issue was “Ranger Bob” Donohue, a beloved longtime local park ranger.

During the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission’s last meeting, June 27, Donohue warned its members that moving forward on such a proposal means stripping the park of a valuable asset. He recalled working side-by-side with a police officer at certain times of the year—his focus on interpretive work and the officer’s on enforcement. It’s an arrangement that worked well, he said, and one that should be reconsidered.

We fear that the City Council, when it takes up the issue Tuesday night (Aug. 1), will choose the blue rather than the green path and opt to arm all three rangers, even though the park commission recommended arming just two. For us, neither of those options is good.

Donohue passed away suddenly last week. His time serving Chico left a lasting impression for many members of the public. We hope his work— and message—inspires the council. □

Response time When the CN&R included Bill Hack on our “Whom to watch in 2017” list as

one of five locals likely to make an impact this year, he made a comment that at the time seemed innocuous but now, as he leaves his job as Chico fire chief, perhaps was telling. “Never in my wildest dreams did I picture becoming chief … they kept asking me to step up for the department and the city, but it was never something I strived for.”

After 22 years here, he’s moving on to greener pastures. In the year he’s been chief, following six months as interim chief, Chico city finances have hollowed out his staffing levels. He’s headed to Rocklin, which has a joint fire services agreement with Lincoln, its neighbor to the north. The combined departments—serving approximately as many citizens as Chico— have six fire stations while Chico operates four, having closed two this year.

Hack is 46. That’s not young in firefighter years, but not ancient either.

He had more to give Chico, if Chico had had more to give him.

We worry that the city will have a hard time attracting a successor who’ll be long for the job. There’s a chance of opening a revolving door for imminent retirees, as we saw with police. It also would be a shame to lose another great firefighter who “never strived for” the chief hat.

Chico is challenging, but also a great place. We wish Hack well, while hoping for a new chief with longevity. □

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trees and Ranger Bob Last month, I attended a meeting at which a Chico resident who lives in the Avenues was asking the city for permission to cut down a couple of oak trees in front of her home. I was there to cover another issue, but I got sucked into the drama.

The homeowner was tired of looking at a couple of pin oaks that had been butchered by PG&E due to their proximity to utility lines. She was there to appeal the city’s denial of her request for a permit to have them cut down at her cost.

That species was a poor choice for the location, on Arcadian Avenue, she told the members of the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission, because it gets quite large—50 to 75 feet tall. The power lines, of course, aren’t nearly that high. In a letter to staff, the woman quoted the city’s own arborist as saying that whoever planted the trees “forgot to look up.”

Indeed, a staff report acknowledges that pin oaks would not normally be chosen for a site under utility lines. Furthermore, they aren’t on the city’s approved planting list for streets and parking lots.

The homeowner’s plan was to plant a couple of crepe myrtles in their place.

Those trees are ubiquitous in Chico. They’re especially easy to spot in the summer, the time of year they’re in bloom—the flowers come in white or varying shades of red, pink and purple. The trees top out at about 30 feet tall.

The thing about crepe myrtles is that people either love them or hate them. One of my cousins who grew up here called them “garish.” More recently, a contractor friend of mine referred to them as “crap myrtles.”

Evidently, those sentiments are widely shared in this town, as the plan to plant those trees in lieu of the pin oaks went over like a lead balloon. Members of the public who spoke in opposition were most concerned about the loss of shade. However, one woman said crepe myrtles aren’t even trees—that they’re “bushes.”

The commission denied her appeal.

Last week, I drove over to get a look-see. I understand where the homeowner is coming from. The trees aren’t exactly ugly, but they are out of place and oddly shaped. The only good news for her is that city staff agreed to prune them, ostensibly to make them more attractive.

I have no dog in the fight, but in this instance, I think the park commission and staff made a bad call.

Condolences are in order. The reason I attended the meeting in the first place was to write up a brief about the proposal to turn the city’s park rangers into so-called “sworn rangers,” which is basically code for turning them into cops (see “Guns in green spaces?” Downstroke, June 29).

Not a single member of the community spoke in favor of that plan, and the many voices in opposition were compelling. One of the most articulate and informed speakers was retired “Ranger Bob” Donohue, a longtime city park ranger.

Donohue noted that years ago he’d warned a couple of other communities, including Roseville, where similar plans were underway, that doing so would eliminate the interpretative aspects of those jobs. His prediction came true, he told the park commission last month (see “Protect our park rangers,” page 4).

As a key expert on Chico’s parks, Donohue was a go-to source for the CN&R during his nearly 20-year tenure as a park gatekeeper. In fact, we planned to interview him for a story this week. He passed away last Thursday (July 20) at the age of 70. Our condolences to his family and friends, and to the community, which lost a champion for the parks.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

No ‘humane meat’ Re “Meet your meat” (Cover story, July 20): Rather than describing an ethical relationship between livestock farmers and the animals they raise, the term “humane meat” is a marketing term, one intended to mitigate any discomfort a consumer might feel when participating in the unnecessary death of a sentient being, all for just a brief gustatory pleasure.

But humane meat is a lie. A myth.

An act of bad faith.

Despite their declarations, livestock farmers and the consumers of the animal bodies they raise and slaughter do not “honor the process of nature and the life of the animal.”

They are partners in a death-for-profit farm economy. Yet each chicken, pig and cow possesses complex cognitive capacities, intricate social relations and considerable moral significance. Each of them, given the choice, would choose to live rather than die.

Bob Comis, founder of Stony Brook Farm in upstate New York, put it best: “Livestock farmers, no matter what kind—from the largest, most cynical and inhumane factory farmers to the smallest, seemingly most ethical pasture-based farmers—traffic in death. It is death that is our aim, our purpose. Death is the end.

Life is the means. Money the reward.”

Robert C. Jones Chico

We value “other” beings on the basis of class, gender, race, species, etc. Within this hierarchical scheme, we’ve built our Earth-devouring civilization.

We tinker with who’s up and who’s down, but we do the same thing we’ve done for millennia: systematically exploit humans, animals and the environment.

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I’m supposed to be persuaded by the elitist foodie rhetoric, in the issue itself. But, ironically, stories about less horrific treatment of animals, on nice bucolic farms, serve to rationalize the consumption of our 200 pounds of holocaust-farmed meat, per capita, per year. That is, not one person in a thousand will read these articles and cut total meat consumption to 2 pounds per year—which is exactly what they would have to do to limit consumption to their share of less horrifically raised meat.

The cover art/cartoon tells the real story. The rest is a feel-good foodie fantasy.

Patrick Newman Chico

Senate health hypocrisy While Sen. John McCain was recovering from emergency surgery, the Senate delayed a vote on its so-called health care bill that would remove tens of millions of Americans from insurance rolls. The bill would permanently restructure Medicaid, which provides health insurance to 74 million disabled or poor Americans, including nearly 40 percent of all children, and millions who are living in nursing homes with conditions like Alzheimer’s or the after-effects of a stroke.

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those of 49 other mostly heartless Republican senators, the bill would fail.

Since then, McCain’s condition has made a terrible turn for the worse. That said, did any Republican senators see the irony of the situation? They were waiting for him to recover so they could vote on a life-killing bill.

The insurance McCain and his colleagues in the Senate have precludes them from having to worry about spending life savings, mortgaging their home or declaring personal bankruptcy in order to pay for costly medical bills. The new bill they were trying to pass also exempts Congress, and their staffs, from loss of guarantees from pre-existing conditions.

Let’s hope McCain fully recovers and Trumpcare gathers dust on a shelf.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

Editor’s note: After this letter’s submission, McCain returned Tuesday (July 25) to cast a decisive vote that permitted the Senate to begin deliberations on repealing the Affordable Care Act.

Government must step up It is clear that we would like to see to our local homeless problem solved, and it is true that many people are working toward a solution. Most work for the various 501(c)(3)s in our area. These people are our best and are in an almost completely untenable position. They have been told to solve a problem and given none of the resources or influence to do it.

Because government has sidestepped responsibility for our communities’ health and safety, it’s not hard to see why the problem is getting worse.

How did this happen? We are bad at math. One of the first questions that should be asked is: “What does this problem cost us?” It is probable that 20 percent of the homeless population is costing taxpayers 80 percent of the expenses (as Salt Lake City and Reno have found out).

Last year, Lloyd Pendleton from the Utah Homeless Task Force, who is credited with eliminating chronic homelessness in Utah, came to Chico and spoke about how he did this. This event

was attended by many, but only a couple of our elected officials showed up.

I would like to see some leadership on this issue, and maybe some math.

Mike Peevers Chico

Short and to the point The Dallas Cowboys’ Ezekiel Elliott seems intent on going into prison just as O.J. Simpson is being released. It’s kinda like computers—garbage in, garbage out.

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Preoccupied with violence The other day, I dropped by the seventh annual Shortz Film Fest at the Chico Theater Company on Eaton Road in Chico. Part of why short films are cool is because they’re short! If the film isn’t good, well, it’s over soon. If it is good, well, it’s food for thought and an avenue to find another film by the same director. Over time, what I love about shorts is that they are low-budget and often experimental.

What shocked me about the festival was that several of the films were filled with America’s (i.e., the world’s) fascination with guns and killing. One of the films was some sort of story about someone who was to be killed. Lots of close-ups of the guns, of the threatening environment, and then when the killer appears to show some mercy, the target is shot dead by a sniper. Gross, gross, gross.

When the next movie depicted women as without power and/or subservient, well, I had to run out before I threw up.

Where is the creativity, where is a new “movie” approach to complex human relationships rather than old worn-out shoot and kill themes? Is it any wonder we live in a world with constant gun violence, with constant threats from, well, everywhere?

George Gold Magalia

Clarification Last issue’s Healthlines (“Nurturing naturally,” by Elizabeth Castillo), in detailing health reasons for which mothers should not breastfeed, oversimplified the list by including some circumstances in which supplements along with breast milk may be recommended. Conditions for which mothers are unable to give their babies breast milk include when the mother has certain infections, takes certain medications or abuses certain substances. This has been adjusted in the online version.—ed

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Chico police sergeants, including Target Team commander Scott Zuschin, go on patrol without body cameras.

ANOTHER FATAL ENCOUNTER

A downtown confrontation Sunday night (July 23) left a suspect dead and two officers injured—the second fatal encounter for the Chico Police Department in four months. As of the CN&R’s deadline, authorities still had not identified the deceased man.

According to a police news release, an armed security guard clashed with a man at 601 Main St.—Mid Valley Title and Escrow.

The guard shot at the man, who stabbed him in the arm before fleeing. Police Sgt. Scott Ruppel and Officer Cedric Schwyzer arrived at the scene, where the man had returned, and he slashed both officers in the face and neck.

Ruppel shot him, and he died from his injuries.

Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey has asked the public for help identifying the suspect; visit the Butte County Deputy District Attorneys’ Association Facebook page for details. Meanwhile, the Butte County Offi-

cer Involved Shooting/Critical Incident Protocol Team has taken over the investigation from Chico police, who last had a fatal incident March 17, the shooting of Desmond Phillips.

MISSING MAN FOUND DEAD

An elderly man reported missing after leaving Twin Oaks Rehabilitation Center on Sunday (July 23) was found dead later that day.

Roger Dolochycki, 68, was last seen at the facility around 4 p.m., when he reportedly stepped out to purchase a cigar and did not return, according to a Chico Police Department post on Facebook. The post noted that Dolochycki needed medication. In an update at about 9:30 p.m., police said Dolochycki had been found dead.

He is the second Chico man to go missing and die in as many months. According to a Chico police press release, Stephen Odneal, 56—who had left his family’s home on June 11—was found dead in the Chico area on June 23. No foul play was suspected.

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The Chico Velo bicycling group has begun switching gears with the announcement that Janine Rood, executive director since 2012, is retiring.

Rood (pictured) “will remain an advocate for Chico Velo and continue to be actively involved in the cycling community,” the nonprofit said in a news release Monday (July 24). The board praised her management of the annual Wildflower Century race and advocacy for bike safety, infrastructure and the valet service at events.

While executive director, Rood also served a term on the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission.

Chico Velo has launched a search for her successor.

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Delayed deployment Some Chico police officers still patrolling without body cameras O’Brien announced the department’s Flong-delayed deployment of body-mounted our months after Chico Police Chief Mike

cameras, most—but not all—officers are wearing the devices while patrolling the by streets of Chico.

Ken Smith O’Brien confirmed kens @ last week (July 20) n ew srev i ew. c o m that the department lacks enough cameras to outfit every patrol member, leaving 10 officers, including sergeants and all five members of the Target Team, without recording equipment.

O’Brien cited funding, data storage and software issues as reasons why officers remain unequipped, echoing explanations department officials have given since 2014, despite having allocated more than $200,000 in grant money toward implementing the cameras.

The cameras have played pivotal roles in the two most widely publicized officerinvolved shootings in Butte County in recent years. Dash- and body-cam footage helped convict former Paradise Police Officer Patrick Feaster of involuntary manslaughter for the 2015 shooting death of Andrew Thomas, and the lack of such footage has contributed to lingering questions regarding the killing of 25-year-old Desmond Phillips

by Chico police officers in March.

Phillips’ father, David, witnessed his son’s shooting and disagrees with many of the details in the Butte County Officer Involved Shooting/Critical Incident Protocol Team’s final report on the incident. Asked about body cams last Friday (July 21), David said that if footage existed, it would prove his version of events and the officers would not have been exonerated.

“There should be a law that all police officers wear cameras and that they’re recording 24/7,” he said. “Otherwise, you have police claiming they were conveniently turned off at the time or that there are other problems. It’s the only way to hold them accountable.”

On the scene at Sunday’s officerinvolved shooting (see “Another fatal encounter,” Downstroke), nine officers were equipped with body cams. The two sergeants, including the one who killed the suspect, were not.

Body cams became a hot topic nationally

following a number of high-profile police shootings in 2014. In May 2015, Chico PD told the Chico Enterprise-Record of a plan to equip every officer with a camera by that summer. The department finally purchased 60 cameras in March 2016 with $50,000 in grant money from the Department of Homeland Security, but the cameras remained shelved for a full year

due to software and data storage costs, which O’Brien estimated run $50,000 to $60,000 annually.

“The cameras aren’t cheap, but the true expense is in the data storage plan and the system to support the data,” O’Brien said.

The department eventually used $180,000 in funding from Assembly Bill 109 (commonly known as the Public Safety Realignment Act) to cover several years of data storage costs, O’Brien said, but a planned rollout this spring was delayed at least a month due to problems with transferring data to the District Attorney’s Office.

That glitch was given as the reason no video footage exists of the March 17 shooting death of Phillips, who was suffering a mental health crisis when he was shot by Chico police officers. At an April 3 public forum regarding that incident, O’Brien announced cameras had been deployed April 1. There was no mention that not all officers would be equipped with them.

Last week, O’Brien said that, in addition to the cost of 10 additional cameras and data storage, the current software infrastructure would need to be upgraded to handle the added hardware; he was unable to provide numbers but said the cost was “not insignificant.”

O’Brien said that at its busiest, the department has about 21 officers in the

field, but the cameras can’t be shared because the operating system is designed for each officer to have his or her own camera.

“We didn’t want there to be any challenges related to people saying, ‘Is this your camera or my camera?’” he said, noting the system also ensures the integrity of data collected. “At the end of their shift, [officers] put it back in a docking bay that recharges it and downloads all the data automatically, which goes straight to the cloud. Officers can input identifiers like case numbers, but they’re not able to alter the data or imaging at all.”

Members of the department’s target

Team walk a beat through downtown and Lower Bidwell Park, are charged with addressing “quality-of-life” issues often associated with members of Chico’s homeless population and regularly interact with the public. As to why that unit is yet to be equipped with cameras, O’Brien said, “Uniformed patrol staff respond to about 200 calls for service each day, more than anyone else.

Our Target Team is very active, too, but it seemed logical to put those cameras with our uniformed patrol officers.”

O’Brien said getting the needed cameras is a priority for his department and that he is “looking at every option I can find to make that happen.” However, the department’s 2017-18 budget proposal approved June 6 by the City Council did not include camera costs, though it did include funding for three new officers.

“I’d like to stave [camera costs] off from being a budget item for a couple years, if possible,” O’Brien said. “My intent is to try to keep that from impacting the general fund.”

O’Brien said rollout of the existing cameras has gone smoothly.

“I think the officers have really appreciated having these cameras,” he said. “A few years ago, they might have been a little skeptical, but I don’t think that’s the case anymore. I think they welcome the additional piece of evidence.”

District Attorney Mike Ramsey said camera footage from Chico police already has aided his office in making convictions.

“Of course,” he said, “there have already been guilty pleas to cases since the implementation date of April 1, as defense attorneys get the videos as part of the discovery we forward to them, and this is powerful evidence to their clients that the client’s drug/alcohol impaired memory is not the gospel truth.” □

Ag buffer backed County denies developer’s appeal, cites setbacks or a subdivision proposal that had been through three public hearings over four Fmonths and generated reams of documenta-

tion, the end came fast. Getting there took a couple of hours, however.

At issue Tuesday (July 25) before the Butte County Board of Supervisors was a proposal to create 15 residential lots, all an acre or larger in size, on an 18.5-acre parcel off Stanley Avenue in unincorporated west Chico. Developer Nels Leen’s plan was to build high-end houses in the $700,000 to $800,000 range.

The problem was that, on its southern side, the parcel—which is shaped like a small boat seen in profile—is too wide and shallow to accommodate 300-foot setbacks, as required whenever new development adjoins active farmland. There are several small farms in the area, including a 146-acre walnut orchard owned by George Nicolaus that is separated from Leen’s property by Comanche Creek.

The purpose of the setback requirement is to minimize conflicts between farmers, whose operations are often noisy and dusty and involve the dispersal of nasty pesticides, and neighboring homeowners.

In March, the county Planning Commission denied Leen’s application by a 3-1 vote, saying it didn’t adhere to the county’s 300-foot setback requirement.

Leen appealed the denial to the Board of Supervisors, which held a hearing on June 13.

(See “Buffer brawl,” by Meredith J. Cooper, Newslines, June 15.) It was a lively meeting, with a couple dozen opponents of the project wearing green T-shirts that read “Right to Farm.” Several of them told the supervisors they were concerned about urban develop-

ment creeping onto ag lands.

No decision was made at that meeting, and the hearing was continued to this week.

In the meantime, Leen submitted an “alternative agriculture buffer setback configuration,” in which he tweaked his proposal hoping to make it more palatable to opponents and the supervisors. As explained by his spokesman, Jim Stevens of NorthStar Engineering, the developer would plant new evergreen vegetation along the creek to fill in any gaps and present a better buffer between the farm and the neighborhood. Some of the setbacks had been lengthened, as well.

“Butte County residents understand that they are living in farm country,” he continued. “They understand there’s noise and dust, but the number of people who complain to the county are in the single digits.”

Despite the changes, some of the setbacks

still would be only 150 feet, not enough to prevent conflicts, said Agriculture Commissioner Louis Mendoza Jr. He read out a long list of pesticides walnut growers use, including rodenticides, herbicides, miti-

SIFT ER paying the landlord Buying a house isn’t cheap, which helps explain why more Americans are renting now than at any point in more than 50 years, according to the Pew Research Center, which analyzed U.S. Census Bureau data. Though the total number of households increased by 7.6 million from 2006 to 2016, the percentage of those renting grew significantly over the same time span, from 31.6 percent of households to 36.6 percent—the highest rate since 1965, when 37 percent of households were rentals. When asked why they don’t own homes, the majority of renters cited financial reasons.

Opponents of the proposal to reduce setback requirements on farmland wore matching green T-shirts to public hearings.

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cides and many more. Data show they are applied year-round, he said.

The supervisors were of mixed mind on the issue. District 4 Supervisor Steve Lambert said he understood the concern about ag impacts, but he himself was concerned about the developer’s property rights.

Board Chairman Bill Connelly, whose District 1 encompasses Oroville, noted, “This is the best soil in the world. … The setback is part of an effort to protect ag land.” Speaking to the developer, he said, “You gotta get real close to 300 feet to get my vote.”

District 3 Supervisor Maureen Kirk agreed. “Lots with 150-foot setbacks are simply not acceptable,” she said.

District 2 Supervisor Larry Wahl was the only panelist who thought the smaller setbacks would be feasible. He said he had faith in Nicolaus’ use of pesticides so that wouldn’t impinge on his neighbors.

The supervisors then did something unusual. They took a 15-minute break so that Leen, Stevens and their colleagues could brainstorm in an effort to come up with setback lengths the supervisors could accept.

When the hearing resumed, Stevens told the supervisors Leen would put in a double row of evergreens along Comanche Creek and—more to the point—design the lots so that all would have a setback of at least 225 feet.

It was a good try, but it wasn’t enough.

Without discussion, Lambert moved to deny the application, Kirk quickly seconded his motion, and the supervisors voted yea 4-1, with Wahl dissenting. After four months, the project was killed in a minute.

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A biweekly rundown of news items out of the Trump White House and Congress

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he saga of Donald Trump Jr.’s meeting with a Russian lawyer took much of the attention from the elder Trump’s visit to Europe for the G20 summit, but POTUS still generated his own headlines with his characteristic loose lips and Twitter fingers. He expressed frustration with Republicans who “do little to protect their President”—including the attorney general, who he apparently thinks has that duty in the job description—and the Senate for not having repealed and replaced Obamacare.

July 11: Donald Trump Jr. releases via Twitter the email conversation that set up his meeting with Russian attorney Natalia Veselnitskaya. He says the meeting ended up focusing on adoptions, not incriminating evidence against Hillary Clinton. The White House states that President Trump had been unaware of the meeting, ABC News reports.

July 12: POTUS and First Lady Melania Trump head to France, where 14 percent of people have confidence that Trump will “do the right thing regarding world affairs,” according to the Pew Research Center. Trump tweets, “The W.H. is functioning perfectly.”

July 13: Senate Republicans release a health care bill, and the Washington Post reports Trump said he “will be very angry” if it doesn’t pass.

NPR reports that a security clearance form shows U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he hadn’t had any contact with a foreign government in the past seven years.

Trump tells Reuters that his administration has “done more in five months than practically any president in history.” The same day, a Gallup poll is released showing that 65 percent of Americans disapprove of Trump’s performance based on his personality and character.

July 14: The Associated Press reports that Rinat Akhmetshin, a Russian-American lobbyist and former Russian counterintelligence officer, was also in attendance at Donald Jr.’s meeting with the Russian attorney. Others present were Trump senior adviser/ son-in-law Jared Kushner, campaign manager Paul Manafort and publicist Rob Goldstone, who helped set up the meeting.

The White House adds an experienced Washington criminal defense lawyer to its team, Bloomberg reports. Ty Cobb will handle legal and media-related issues regarding the Russian probe from Trump’s 2016 campaign. ProPublica reports that Trump’s personal attorney, Marc Kasowitz, sent a series of emails to a critic, including one stating, “Watch your back, bitch.”

July 17: Politico reports that the Trump re-election campaign spent over a half-million dollars in legal fees between April and June of this year, including $50,000 to Alan Futerfas, Donald Jr.’s newly hired attorney whose specialty is white-collar criminal defense—two weeks before emails were released that discussed a meeting with a Russian lawyer.

Homeland Security says it will release Mar-alago visitor records in response to a public records lawsuit, Politico reports. The same day, the Senate announces it will postpone its vote on health care until Sen. John McCain recovers from surgery,

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according to The New York Times.

July 18: The Washington Post reports that four Senate Republicans oppose the bill to repeal and replace Obamacare, effectively killing it. In response, Trump tweets, “Republicans should just REPEAL failing ObamaCare now & work on a new Healthcare Plan that will start from a clean slate. Dems will join in!”

The Post also reveals the identity of another participant in Donald Jr.’s meeting with the Russian lawyer: Ike Kaveladze, who represents Russian developers who hosted Trump’s Miss Universe pageant in Moscow in 2013. Including a translator and a Russian participant’s relative, that brings the attendance tally to eight.

It’s also revealed that special counsel Robert S. Mueller III is investigating the meeting. Meanwhile, the same meeting has some White House staff concerned that Kushner’s security clearance is in jeopardy, CNN reports.

The New York Times reports that Trump claimed he’s signed more bills than any other president. He’d signed 42 as of the week of July 18, but President Jimmy Carter had signed 70 bills in his first six months.

July 19: Reuters reports that Trump held a second, previously unpublicized conversation with Russian President Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit. The Washingon Post reports that the Supreme Court will allow Trump’s travel ban and broadened the definition for those considered “close family” to include grandparents, aunts, uncles, cousins and in-laws.

The Wall Street Journal reveals that the U.S. military spends over $130,000 a month to lease space in Trump Tower, despite the fact that Trump hasn’t spent a night there since he became president.

July 20: The New York Times reports that Trump is disappointed in Attorney General Jeff Sessions for his decision to recuse himself from the Russia investigation. Despite the president’s harsh words, Sessions says he’ll stay in his role.

Bloomberg reports that Special Counsel Mueller’s investigation includes Trump’s businesses as well as those of Trump’s associates. Meanwhile, the New York Times reports that Manafort was in debt (to the tune of $17 million) to pro-Russia interests when he joined the 2016 Trump campaign.

July 21: The Washington Post reports that Trump has asked his advisers about whether he has authority to pardon family members and himself in the Russia probe. Trump hires Anthony Scaramucci as the White House communications director—apparently angering Press Secretary Sean Spicer so much that he resigns in response, the New York Times reports.

July 22: Trump goes on an early-morning Twitter tirade.

He notes that Obamacare is dead and Senate Democrats are obstructionists. He also applauds Donald Jr. for turning over his emails and calls Hillary Clinton crooked for deleting hers.

Scaramucci praises Breitbart while shunning major news outlets, saying the former “captured the spirit of what’s actually going on in the country.”

July 23: Trump tweets that Republicans “do very little to protect their President.”

July 24: In testifying to the Senate Intelligence Committee, Kushner defends his attendance at Donald Jr.’s meeting with the Russian attorney, saying he did not collude with Russia.

Meanwhile, Trump calls Sessions “beleaguered” on Twitter. Scaramucci threatens to “fire everybody” if White House leaks continue, according to CBS News.

July 25: The New York Times reports that Manafort met with Senate Intelligence Committee investigators and discussed the Trump Jr. meeting. Trump tweets, “Attorney General Jeff Sessions has taken a VERY weak position on Hillary Clinton crimes.” The Associated Press reports that Trump has spoken to advisers about firing Sessions.

Sen. McCain, fresh from surgery and a brain cancer diagnosis, returns to Washington to cast a vote to debate the health care bill.

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HEALTHLINES Sara Sorci Steele, left, Michael Courter and Sara Mayne practice Dialectical Behavior Therapy at Genuine DBT in Chico.

‘Finding the life worth living’ Zen-like therapy helps patients contain harmful impulses story and photo by

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Ssocial Chico State with her master’s degree in work when she encountered a patient ara Mayne was just six months out of

who’d make one of the more powerful transformations she’s witnessed as a counselor.

In early 2015, Mayne, an associate social worker, was working as a therapist for a new mental health practice in Chico where she still works called Genuine DBT (the “DBT” stands for dialectical behavior therapy), which incorporates Zen concepts such as mindfulness and acceptance.

“I have always been interested in helping people with strong needs, and allowing them to see their inner beauty,” Mayne said.

This particular patient was a deeply troubled teenage girl who said she had attempted suicide more times than she could count. Dialectical behavior therapy helped make an astonishing improvement in the girl’s life.

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“The patient has not tried to end her life in the two years since she started DBT training,” Mayne said. “Before the treatment, she had recurring terror, misery and darkness, but now she has a lot of joy and healthy relationships.”

DBT primarily helps patients with borderline personality disorder, a condition affecting roughly 1 in 50 Americans, with symptoms such as lack of emotional control, volatile relationships and self-harming tendencies. The National Institute of Mental Health’s website says that “a person with BPD may experience intense episodes of anger, depression, and anxiety that may last from only a few hours to days.”

Self-injuring and suicidal behaviors are particularly serious symptoms.

Genuine DBT owner and therapist Michael Courter, a licensed clinical social worker who established the clinic two years ago, says his is the only therapeutic practice north of Sacramento in California that exclusively treats borderline personality disorder.

“Other therapies are successful in their field,” Courter said, but the sliver of the general population with borderline personality

disorder “really need this therapy.”

For those who do, Mayne says, DBT is a lifesaver—and often the last resort.

“Over and over, we hear patients say, ‘I’ve tried everything and nothing has worked,’” she said. “But many end up saying, ‘For the first time, I’m entertaining the idea that I’m not going to die by suicide.’”

Dialectical behavior therapy was created by

Marsha Linehan, a professor of psychology and director of the Behavioral Research and Therapy Clinics at the University of Washington in Seattle. She designed DBT to treat borderline personality disorder, from which she herself had suffered. In 1993, Linehan literally wrote the book on her new therapy: Cognitive Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.

Her book is the main text from which the therapists and clients at Genuine DBT work.

Clients learn specific coping techniques, many of them non-Western, using a 400page book of skills and handouts.

“Before DBT, those with BPD symptoms like chronic self-harm and suicidal behavior were very misunderstood,” said Courter.

“Marsha’s book lays out clearly why people engage in that behavior.”

The short answer: Borderline personality disorder sufferers have unmet psychological needs, and the resulting voids can yield harmful consequences.

Mayne—citing the Linehan-founded DBT training site BehavioralTech.org— touts dialectical behavior therapy as “currently the No. 1 treatment for BPD, which is often misdiagnosed as bipolar disorder, PTSD, anxiety or depression. The efficacy of DBT is far higher than other treatments for chronic self-harm, suicidality and volatile relationships.”

The therapy itself is quite involved.

Courter says patients learn specific techniques in alternating weekly individual and group sessions, lasting from eight months to two years.

“One of the ways Marsha makes Zen useful is by breaking the practice into small steps you can use to stop the maladaptive behavior,” said Courter, who for 20 years has practiced meditation and Falun Gong, a Chinese blend of spirituality and meditation.

Psychologist Sara Sorci Steele, another Genuine DBT therapist, says a nontraditional feature of DBT is the way it approaches a client’s most damaging actions.

“We believe in direct treatment of the harmful behavior, rather than dwelling on the past causes of it,” she said. “Most other therapies don’t have the tools to

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respond directly.�

This targeted focus breaks down the time frame of the harmful behavior. Counselors ask questions such as “What did you do?�; “How did you feel?�; “What happened after you took the pills?�—without shaming or blaming.

Another powerful technique taught in dialectical behavior therapy, Courter says, is finding the underlying unmet need that led to the suicidal behavior.

Then, by giving the person an alternative way to get that “legitimate need met,� he said, “they don’t have to resort to the [self-destructive] way.�

A distinct aspect of Genuine DBT is the support offered from all counselors. “[Any] one of us might be your individual therapist, but you are also backed up by all the therapists,� Mayne said. “Each client walks into a supportive village.�

Therapeutic Solutions, a general mental health

facility in Chico, also offers dialectical behavior therapy, among other forms. Its program is much shorter—one month—conducted by Patricia Long, a marriage and family therapist. “The ‘dialectical’ in DBT is a philosophical term DBT locally:

To reach Genuine DBT, visit www.GenuineDBT.com or call 433-1001. For Patricia long at Therapeutic Solutions, visit www.therapeuticsolutionspc.com or call 899-3150, ext. 266.

meaning to find the truth in the synthesis of polar opposites,� Long said, sort of like the Asian yinyang symbol, which symbolizes good in every bad, and bad in every good.

If that sounds more New Age than clinical, Courter and Sorci Steele explain otherwise. Sorci Steele stresses that the “mindfulness� taught in DBT is not simply relaxation. “Mindfulness is intentionality and awareness,� she said. “Instead of your emotions taking off, it allows you to be aware and set the intention for your emotions.�

Added Courter: “You can’t always change what your are feeling, but if you can accept it, that changes the way you experience it.�

The mindfulness in DBT is observing without judging. As Sorci Steele explained, “Rather than being overwhelmed and controlled by the emotion, patients can observe and react in a different way, even if just for a 5-millisecond space.�

Meanwhile, Mayne says, the concept of acceptance is emphasized regularly at Genuine DBT. “The things we can’t change we must accept,� she explained. “The alternative is misery.�

Sorci Steele sums up much of DBT by saying, “Many don’t have the vocabulary to express their emotions, but DBT helps them feel in control and understood by others. “We’re finding the life worth living for each client.â€? â–Ą

WEEKLY DOSE Brain foods When your doctor tells you to eat healthy, add this to the list of science-backed reasons behind that push. Researchers at Rush University Medical Center in Chicago have found a connection between nutrition and brain vitality. An eating plan they’ve created, the MIND diet, reduces the risk of Alzheimer’s disease by up to 53 percent—with the risk dropping a third among people following it only “moderately well.â€? MIND combines aspects of two other diets: the Mediterranean diet and the DASH diet (Dietary Approaches to Stop Hypertension). In fact, MIND stands for Mediterranean-DASH Intervention for Neurodegenerative Delay. Both of those originator diets have proven benefits for heart health. Among the foods to keep in mind, from MIND: • Vegetables • Nuts • Berries • Beans • Whole grains

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Tunnel vision Sacramento River watchdogs decry diversion plans by

Alastair Bland

AholesSacramento River vanish into three giant in the ground will not jeopardize the project that might make much of the

waterway’s ailing salmon and smelt populations, according to new analyses from the federal government.

The Delta tunnels—which would be 35 miles long, cost at least $15 billion to build and be capable of sending much of the state’s biggest river to farmers and urban users—received a stubby thumbs-up from the Trump administration on June 26.

In a pair of Bible-sized online documents called biological opinions, the National Marine Fisheries Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service determined that constructing the tunnels will affect endangered fish and wildlife species only slightly and will not jeopardize their long-term survival.

The federal opinions are just one of many hurdles the project must clear before it can be built.

Project advocates, including many farmers and urban water agencies, say diverting the Sacramento River through the tunnels will increase the reliability of water deliveries, which are currently subject to frequent interruption because of environmental laws.

The supporters even promise that replumbing the state’s largest waterway could help reverse declines of wild salmon and other fishes. That’s because the tunnels would mostly replace an existing water diversion system in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta that has devastated the estuary’s ecosystem.

But many environmentalists and fishery advocates say that the federal opinions are absurd. They worry that the tunnels as planned are much too big and will make it possible for operators to essentially drain the Sacramento River.

Although the project’s backers say strict environmental standards will dictate how much water the tunnels can swallow up, the tunnels’ detractors don’t believe it.

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over letting water flow through the Delta to support salmon and keep our water fresh,” said Brett Baker, a pear farmer in the Delta who believes the purpose of the project is primarily to serve farmers in the western San Joaquin Valley.

Baker says salty or brackish water routinely pushes upstream from the San Francisco Bay into the Delta—the result of not enough water being left in the estuary by the two giant pumping stations near Tracy, which deliver water to as far away as Los Angeles. Though state water quality standards are supposed to prevent such saltwater intrusion, he fears the tunnels will worsen these conditions.

A Sacramento River diversion has been

dreaded by environmentalists for decades.

The project first emerged more than 35 years ago in a slightly different form, as the “peripheral canal.” Jerry Brown, then in his first go-around as governor, pushed strongly for the plan, which more than 62 percent of state voters ultimately rejected in 1982. Now, Brown and several state agencies have brought the project’s fundamental concept back, this time smartly navigating it past voters.

Under the label “California WaterFix,” the project proposes two 40-foot-wide tunnels fed by three intakes near the quiet river towns of Courtland, Hood and Clarksburg.

The WaterFix webpage explains that the capacity of the three tunnel intakes will equal 9,000 cubic feet per second.

The tunnels could physically accommodate all of the Sacramento River water dur-

ing drought periods, which is what worries John McManus. The executive director of the fishery conservation group Golden Gate Salmon Association, McManus suspects that proposed limits on water diversions through the tunnels will be rewritten in the future to accommodate the tubes’ full capacity.

“Remember that they initially proposed to have five intakes on the tunnels [and] 15,000-cubic-feet-per-second capacity,” he said. “The reduction from five intakes to three would be much more credible if the size of the pipes was also reduced, but that’s not the case, which makes me suspect that supporters will eventually come back in the future and add more intakes.”

Even with just three intakes, the tunnels could divert so much water from the Sacramento that the leftover dregs of the river will be too unable to support native species, opponents warn.

As proposed, the WaterFix tunnels would take

in water at different rates in a given year depending on how much rain has fallen. In dry years, water managers would rely mostly on the south Delta pumps, which, contrary to common perception, are not going to be decommissioned.

This, warns Jon Rosenfield, a conservation biologist with The Bay Institute, will subject the Delta to the same diversion and flow problems it faces today.

“Everyone knows the status quo is unacceptable and that something needs to be changed, and in principle it sounds like [the tunnels] could be a solution,” he said. “But, the thing is, it’s possible to wind up with an

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outcome that’s even worse than the status quo.”

The federal agencies’ biological opinions determined that building and operating the tunnels will increase the mortality of winterrun chinook, now at about their lowest levels ever, by about 20 percent. Other endangered species would be similarly impacted.

Rosenfield says this is too much.

“These species are already on their way toward extinction, with numbers going down, so you can’t have some impact to these species and say it’s not going to put them in jeopardy of extinction,” he explained. “It’s nonsensical.”

If the conclusions of the federal agencies don’t make lots of sense to the very few people who have bothered to read the eye-glazing documents, it might be because they were apparently written and released in haste.

“The [Fish and Wildlife Service’s] opinion can’t be considered final because there weren’t enough details about operation of the tunnels,” said Shane Hunt, a Fish and Wildlife Service spokesman.

He says the agencies released their documents now because state leaders want to advance the project. “They want to start construction by next year,” Hunt said.

Baker, the Delta farmer, hopes the tunnels are never built. Yet, he is glad the wheels are finally moving.

“Part of me is relieved,” he said, “because now they’re finally doing something we can take them to court over.” □

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from draft defier to burial artist

Catch a wave

David Hopper keeps both the creative and technical sides of his brain busy. He’s a creative artist sculpting with diverse materials from glass to metal while also being a successful, analytical businessman.

You also might call him a rebel.

After graduating from San Jose State with a bachelor’s degree in art history and a master’s in glass sculpture in 1968, Hopper applied to the Peace Corps, hoping to receive a deferment during the Vietnam War. He twice refused to step forward for induction, resulting in the FBI opening a case against him. Seven years later, it was dismissed. These days, most folks know Hopper as former owner of Orient & Flume Art Glass, which he founded in 1972 with classmate Doug Boyd, who invited him “to blow some glass” in Chico. But over the past 26 years, he’s been focused on Paradise Pictures, which fuses photographs of deceased loved ones onto headstones. In the late 1980s, Hopper met Mike Sandquist, who helped him to develop the process to put photo images in glass sculpture.

Shortly thereafter, they formed Paradise Pictures, which uses a similar process to affix photos

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to headstones. For more information, call 800-960-8040 or visit paradisepictures.com.

What initially interested you in the process of placing a photo onto a surface that is not light-sensitive?

I became very interested in glass paperweights with photographic images when traveling in Europe during the ’70s. I wanted to know everything about all glass processes and started collecting information, going factory to factory for a year.

Why images of the dead for headstones?

Creating likenesses of the dead for their burial is engrained in human history. Egyptian artists painted the faces of the departed on their mummies. In Europe, there was a tradition of placing porcelain black-and-white portraits on grave markers.

How did Paradise Pictures come to be?

I sold my interest in Orient & Flume in 1982. I built my home

studio and made glass figurine sculptures for about 10 years.

And Mike was working with different ways to place images on a variety of materials including metal. We collaborated on technique and material using a Chromaline process and eventually showed our product to monument makers. Twenty-six years later, with a narrow product line, Paradise Pictures is the only company using this process, and we’re still in the wholesale business. I’d say that’s a success story.

Do you define yourself as an artist first or businessman first?

Not many artists are businessoriented. I support artists and making art 100 percent. I am on the board of Monca [Museum of Northern California Art] and stay involved with the university [Chico State]. I’m very practical.

I didn’t want to be old and poor.

I’d say I’m a better businessman than artist.

—PAM FiggE

I was picking up dinner at Teriyaki House on Notre Dame Boulevard the other night when I noticed a big sign by the relatively new Surf Thru Express Car Wash, basically next door (2470 Forest Ave.). It got me at “free car wash.” I texted the word “Chico” to the number specified and, within a minute or so, received a coupon code good for 10 days. Believe me, my car needed a rinse.

The line was minimal, so I went on through. And the experience was really nice.

I pulled up to the cashier and gave her my code. She offered me an air freshener and a little trash baggie with a dashboard wipe. Handy! There was another lane next to me for “members” (you can buy monthly or annual memberships, starting at $19.99/month or $190/year), something I’ve never heard of in a car wash.

Single washes start at $7.99.

I pulled around to the actual wash and, even though there were cars ahead of me, the wait was short. I put my old Toyota into neutral and whipped out the dash wipe, then threw it and the other trash within reach into the baggie. If I’d had the time, I would have taken advantage of the free vacuums. I did notice that my car was not only clean, but also clear of streaks—normally the worst part of a drivethrough wash, am I right?

An added bonus at Surf Thru is the energy savings: Its website (surfthru express.com) boasts that the Chico location (the 11th—another is planned to open in Yuba City soon) is solar-powered and uses less water to wash one car than you’d use to wash a load of laundry in a standard machine. Neat!

Buffet-style According to the website for Kimco Realty, which manages the Chico

Crossroads center at East 20th Street and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, there soon could be a new restaurant taking over the spot left vacant by Hometown Buffet last year. The new tenant? Fuji Buffet. I couldn’t find out much about the place, however, other than its name. I did call up Kimco Realty and was told the owners are in Southern California but that details have yet to be finalized. Stay tuned for more info as it becomes available.

young entrepreneurs This Saturday (July 29), head over to the Chico Mall for some much-needed respite from the heat (it’s supposed to reach 104) and check out what the young winners of the Biz Kids contest have concocted. They were tasked with creating a business idea, the theme of which is “recycling in the world today.” Winners get to set up shop noon-4 p.m. get outdoors I had no idea until recently that Sportsman’s Warehouse holds regular events teaching attendees how to master certain skills or about new products. In fact, this Saturday, there will be two events. At noon, the staff will offer a demo of new range-finding binoculars. Then, at 1 p.m., local fishing guide Adam Andreini will discuss salmon and how to catch them. Sportsman’s Warehouse is at 765 East Ave., Ste. 170; find it on Facebook and click on “events” to learn more.

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THE ROAD TO HEALTH

New research on psychedelics shows they are helpful in treating numerous afflictions by

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hen Eric Johnson puts a tab of LSD on his tongue or sips tea brewed with psychedelic mushrooms, the pain in his muscles is replaced by a warm, honeylike feeling and his mind finally comes to rest.

“It’s pure relief,” he said.

Johnson, 50, lives alone in a small apartment in Citrus Heights, amid the suburban sprawl northeast of Sacramento. He doesn’t get out much. He can drive, but walking even modest distances is difficult because of a condition that affects his appendages most severely. His feet, like his hands, are weak and atrophied. His pinkies and big toes are useless. Gripping forks and coffee mugs can be troublesome, as can chewing and swallowing food. At times, he is too fatigued to hold his head up.

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He was born with hereditary motorsensory neuropathy, also known as Charcot-Marie-Tooth disorder, an incurable condition that damages neural tissue.

“You have to continuously say goodbye to abilities,” he said. “I’m getting better at some things, but it’s a progressive disease.”

The slow deterioration of his dexterity has resulted in a long-term grieving process, he said. Periodically throughout his adult life, Johnson has used psychedelic drugs for physical, mental and spiritual release.

A growing number of people are taking psychedelics for healing. Advocates say drugs like LSD, psilocybin, MDMA, DMT, ayahuasca and ketamine provide an array of potential applications, from treating eating disorders to helping terminal cancer patients find peace.

Most scientific research in the field is focused on the potential of psychedelicassisted psychotherapy—more or less traditional, sit-down therapy with one or two psychiatrists, except the patient is tripping and sessions can last up to eight hours. Test results are preliminary and sample sizes are small, but the approach looks promising for treating severe depression, anxiety, PTSD and substance-abuse disorders. All of these conditions often are rooted in traumatic experiences.

Scientists still don’t know exactly how psychedelics help people process trauma, said Brad Burge, director of communications for the Multidisciplinary Association for Psychedelic Studies (MAPS), a nonprofit organization based in Santa Cruz that is conducting clinical trials of psychotherapy assisted by MDMA, aka ecstasy.

“We do know there’s something deeper going on,” he said. “Psychedelics are not just treating symptoms. They are helping people reconfigure their emotional relationship to their trauma.”

If psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy were made legal and accessible (it is neither), Johnson said he would be among the first to sign up for a session. As an experienced user—and someone exposed to

severe childhood trauma—he believes the potential for healing and transformation is real.

“I know if I could accurately describe how brilliantly [psychedelics] make me feel,” he said, “nobody would ever deny them from me.”

Psychedelic stars For three days in April, more than 3,000 people attended the Psychedelic Science Conference, hosted by MAPS in downtown Oakland.

The event was like a cross between TEDx and Burning Man: The Oakland Marriott City Center was overtaken by policymakers, advocacy groups, academics in tweed jackets, flower children, fairypeople on stilts and hippies who smelled righteously of weed and body odor. All the while, in multiple conference rooms, dozens of scientists, psychologists and other medical professionals expounded on the various health benefits of taking psychedelics.

It was apparent that psychedelic enthusiasts have formed a cultural subgroup complete with its own historic figures and celebrities. In one of the hotel’s elevators, a young woman, seemingly star-struck, asked a psychiatrist for an autograph; he declined.

Psychedelics are in the public eye now more than ever. Earlier this year, the idea of microdosing was popularized by novelist, essayist and activist Ayelet Waldman’s topselling memoir, A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life.

Waldman, who lives with bipolar II disorder, describes taking miniscule amounts of LSD to manage her volatile moods and improve her relationships with her husband and son.

In the working world, microdosing has become a trendy practice among Silicon Valley techies and creative professionals.

“There’s a lot of research that shows psychedelics can help otherwise normal, healthy people lead more meaningful and productive lives,” said Jag Davies, a spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance, a national organization that advocates for decriminalizing drugs and moving toward a health-based approach.

“It helps enhance creativity and problem-solving,” he said. “People are using psychedelics not to drop out of, but to engage with, mainstream society.”

Into the past Using hallucinogens to open the mind to broader vistas is an ancient practice. For thousands of years, indigenous peoples all over the world have used hallucinogenic plants, fungi and animals (like poisonous toads) in healing rituals and spiritual rites of passage.

Starting in the 1950s, early researchers such as Timothy Leary and Humphry Osmond began looking at LSD for a variety of purposes, including treating alcoholism.

(Osmond coined the term “psychedelic,” which means “mind-manifesting.”) By 1970, however, psychedelics had become synonymous with the hippie counterculture movement, prompting Richard Nixon to sign the Controlled Substances Act and put most psychedelics on Schedule I: drugs deemed to have high potential for abuse and no medical use, including heroin and cannabis. LSD research ground to a halt.

The renaissance of psychedelic science started a little more than a decade ago, as researchers started focusing on psilocybin, a compound found in more than 200 types of psychedelic mushrooms. Like LSD, psilocybin is listed as a Schedule I drug, but is considered less controversial to study.

Researchers must get a special license from the U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration to do so.

In 2006, Roland Griffiths, a professor of neuroscience and psychiatry at Johns Hopkins University, published a landmark article titled “Psilocybin Can Occasion Mystical-Type Experiences Having Substantial and Sustained Personal Meaning and Spiritual Significance.” Of 36 volunteers who participated in the double-blind study, half were given a pill containing psilocybin and half were given an active placebo. More than two-thirds of the participants who took the psychedelic ranked the ensuing trips to be among the most spiritually significant experiences of their lives.

“When administered under supportive conditions, psilocybin occasioned experiences similar to spontaneously occurring mystical experiences,” Griffiths concluded.

Now there’s a whole field of research focused on peak mystical experiences. Leor Roseman is a Ph.D. student of neuroscience at the Beckley/Imperial Research Program in London. During the Psychedelic Science Conference, he presented the results of his research on fMRI brain-imaging before and after patients underwent psilocybin-assisted therapy for depression.

Roseman monitored patients who were given 10-milligram and 25-milligram doses of psilocybin during therapy sessions separated by one week. He found that strong trips and low levels of anxiety predicted

positive clinical outcomes. In those cases, patients reported alleviated symptoms of depression several months after their last treatment.

How is it that just two doses can influence long-lasting changes in thought patterns and behaviors? Again, researchers aren’t sure. A working theory is that acute psychedelic experiences change the brain’s functional connectivity, linking previously disconnected areas and allowing it to “become more entropic, more flexible,” Roseman said. That may allow rigid, treatment-resistant conditions to loosen and break free.

Here is where science and spirituality intersect and the mystery goes deeper.

Patients often report losing their sense of self during peak mystical experiences, Roseman said. The ego dissolves and patients’ sense of individuality is replaced by “oneness” with the universe.

By way of example, conference speaker David Lukoff—a licensed psychologist and professor at Sofia University in Palo Alto—

“Psychedelics are not just treating symptoms.

They are helping people reconfigure their emotional relationship to their trauma.”

—Brad Burge

described his first LSD trip, which he took more than 30 years ago at Ocean Beach in San Francisco. As he watched the waves roll in, hypnotized, he was overcome by a sense of connection to everything. “The ocean is me; I am the ocean; the waves are me,” Lukoff recalled thinking. “I experienced past, present and future as unity.”

To put it nonscientifically: The patient’s mind is blown, sense of self is shattered and it all comes back together, recalibrated, as a stronger whole.

“This relates to Eastern philosophies,”

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Roseman said, “that losing oneself momentarily allows for a kind of stronger self.”

Facing fears Johnson took mushrooms for the first time during a Crosby, Stills & Nash concert in 1983, when he was 16 years old. It was a blast. Colors were more vivid; the air smelled sweeter; the music became transcendent. The experience led to experiments with LSD and Pink Floyd, to equally dazzling effect.

“It was just incredible, the way they made me feel,” he said. “Whenever I heard mushrooms or LSD was around, I wanted to get some because they made me feel so good.”

At the time, they provided a much-needed respite, he said.

Johnson’s childhood in Reno had been difficult. As his body grew, his musculature did not develop accordingly, and he became clumsy. He couldn’t keep up with the kids who played sports, rode bicycles and went hunting and fishing, and his physical limitations made him vulnerable to bullying—and more damaging abuse. In the summer of 1974, when he was 7 years old, Johnson said, he was raped multiple times by a 15-year-old boy in his neighborhood.

“Unfortunately, when you’re in my position, what you are is prey,” he said.

Johnson’s experiences have reverberated

throughout his adulthood, manifesting later as anxiety and depression and interweaving with his chronic pain.

He describes two kinds of pain—an ache in his bones and another sensation “that feels like being crushed inward from all directions.” To manage both, he wears a patch on his shoulder that time-releases fentanyl, a strong opioid painkiller, and he takes one 64-milligram dose of ketamine twice a day.

Ketamine is commonly used for sedation and treating chronic pain, and it also has strong psychedelic effects that make it a soughtafter recreational drug.

Johnson doesn’t find ketamine to be as beneficial—or as fun—as LSD or psylocybin, but he chooses not to seek out those drugs because they’re illegal.

“I’m afraid of the cops,” he said.

For his psychological distress, he’s tried traditional treatments. He’s seen a psychotherapist for years, and he’s been on and off various antidepressant medications, otherwise known as SSRIs (selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors). The drugs have been effective at times, he said, but they have limitations.

“Prozac, for example, can put you in a place where you’re psychologically muted,” he said. “It’s great not to experience the real lows, but it also keeps you from experiencing the super-highs. It narrows the range of psychological states you might be in.”

While patients on SSRIs often report a general emotional blunting, it’s just the opposite with psilocybin, Roseman said. In his research, a day after patients took mushrooms—in the “afterglow” period—brain scans showed a notable increase of sensitivity in the amygdala, the brain’s emotional processor, which suggested that patients were experiencing and tolerating a wider range of emotions.

As MDMA is an entirely different compound, the amygdala’s response to it is different, Burge said, but it does share an important quality with psilocybin.

“They both encourage a greater awareness on the part of the patient,” he said. “For example, one of the hallmarks of PTSD is that people try to repress the memory; the memory is something they are unable to face because it

causes such fear activation. In the context of psychedelic-assisted therapy, people can talk about their difficult memories of sexual assault, military battles or natural disasters, or whatever event the trauma is based in.

“They can face their fear more directly.”

Roseman offered a quote from a patient: “I see … my dad abusing me again— something that has flashed into my head now and again ever since it happened—but rather than pushing the image to one side and avoiding the situation, I look him in the eyes and move through the discomfort and fear. … With my demons fully revealed and presented to me, having looked my deepest fears directly in the eye, I enter a state where I feel completely elated, at peace, absolutely euphoric—the most relaxed and content I have ever been.”

Push for policy

Psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy remains inaccessible to the general public, but putting it into clinical practice may not be so far out. Thanks to private donors and an enormously successful crowdfunding campaign, MAPS is entering the final phase of a roughly $25 million plan to make MDMA a federally approved prescription medicine by 2021.

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You make connections and see things in a way that you might not otherwise.”

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of clinical trials, which will involve more than 200 patients at 12 sites around North America. Interestingly, the FDA does not require the researchers to determine how psychedelics actually work before giving them the OK, Burge said.

“For approval, the FDA doesn’t need to know anything about mechanism of action,” he said. “They only need to know that a treatment works and that it’s relatively safe; that the ratio of benefit-to-risk is sufficient.”

Davies, the spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance, said the future of psychedelic therapy depends on public opinion

Jag Davies, a spokesman for the Drug Policy Alliance, says public opinion will determine whether psychedelics are made accessible for therapy.

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sive than antidepressants.

“With MDMA-assisted psychotherapy, you’re looking at just a couple of sessions, and then you don’t need the treatment anymore,” he said.

“So, insurance companies might prefer to pay for that rather than pay for ongoing [SSRI] treatment.”

Learning from the trip

and political will. Though attitudes are shifting, polls show the public currently favors legal access to hallucinogens only slightly more than methamphetamine.

“There are these myths, these vestiges of the drug war, that if you take a hit of acid, you’re going to go crazy,” he said.

“The evidence does not bear that out.”

Davies pointed to a meta-analysis conducted by the Norwegian University of Science. After combing data on more than 130,000 Americans who participated in the 2001-2004 National Survey on Drug Use and Health, the study’s authors concluded that lifetime use of LSD, mushrooms, mescaline or peyote was not associated with an increased risk of developing mental health problems.

This is not a consensus. The National Institute on Drug Abuse, for instance, says that “little is known about the long-term effects of hallucinogens” and warns of rare cases of drug-induced psychosis and flashbacks.

Even if the treatment is approved, Davies said, it will remain inaccessible to most people.

“With the way everything is going with health care,” he said, “it’s unlikely that health insurance is going to cover psychedelic-assisted psychotherapy.”

Burge agreed that the health care landscape could be much different in four or five years, but said MAPS is already considering strategies for getting insurance companies to cover the treatment. One point in their favor is that, in the long run, psychedelics would be less expen-

Psychedelic therapy is not a miraculous cure-all, Burge emphasized. If patients have a seemingly life-changing epiphany during a session, it’s still up to them to put it into practice.

“Oftentimes, the participants in the studies say the therapy itself did immediately help reduce symptoms, but a lot of the work came after that,” he said. “Which is to say, the drug is not doing the work for people.

Rather, it’s providing a window for people to make changes.”

Johnson knows healing isn’t found only in a substance. Lately, he’s been trying to retain dexterity by practicing yoga, and he’s tapered off his regimen of antidepressants. At the encouragement of his psychotherapist, he recently went to a meeting of the Psychedelic Club of Sacramento. It was his first social outing in some time.

Reflecting on his experiences in the psychedelic state, Johnson said they provided different perspectives on his condition, his trauma and the traditional life markers he felt he was missing out on—getting married, having children, buying a house and pursuing a career.

“Everything opens up and flows out,” he said. “You make connections and see things in a way that you might not otherwise. You have experiences that change your outlook in a positive way.”

He doesn’t know when he’ll take his next psychedelic trip, but he knows what to expect when the occasion arises, he said: “When pain is replaced by a sweet, candy-like feeling in your muscles and you get that relief—that absolute relief—you want more of that.” Ω

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Behind the music Locally produced radio show explores craft of songwriting I’m just the postman. I deliver the songs.—Bob Dylan creation of a song might seem fairly Fesoteric.

But even for musicians, those or those who don’t play music, the

who understand how to harness the elements of music, the source of their art can by Jason Cassidy be elusive. And for many, talking about the j asonc @ inspiration or even the newsrev iew.c om meaning of their songs is a poor substitute for Tune in: just listening to them.

“Some people want “Songs from Studio C” airs Mondays, to leave it open to 6:44 p.m. and interpretation,” said Tuesdays, 7:45 a.m., on KCHO 91.7 FM and Nolan Ford, KCHO www.mynspr.org. music director who’s Archived episodes host and producer of as well as extended “Songs from Studio interviews and videos C,” a weekly in-studio can be found at www.mynspr.org/ music program that topic/songs-studio-c is all about songwriters talking about their songs. Or, as Ford describes the mission: “to connect our listeners with up-andcoming songwriters and explore the stories of their songs.” Since November 2015, the local public radio station has aired a new four-minute episode each week (Mondays at 6:44 p.m., repeated Tuesdays at 7:45 a.m.), featuring a wide range of local and touring musicians

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performing a song live in the studio and talking to Ford about what their songs are about and what inspired them.

“I really want the show to be a platform [for songwriters],” he said.

Each episode features a brief bio delivered by Ford, followed by a snippet from the live performance and a few excerpts from an interview with the musicians spliced together. In addition to the on-air segment, there’s also a video made of each song posted on the station’s site along with audio of the full extended interview.

Well-known in-studio shows like NPR’s “Tiny Desk Concerts” and “Live In-Studio” on Seattle’s KEXP were inspirations for “Songs from Studio C,” and for the touring acts he books, Ford says he’s looking for artists who are just on the cusp of being on those nationally recognized programs. Some of the more notable guests include Boston folk quartet Darlingside, S.F. funky cabaret crew Royal Jelly Jive, and Ford’s favorite guest so far, Portland singer/songwriter Johanna Warren, who appeared on the show last October.

“I was nearly brought to tears .… Her lyrics are so dark and beautiful,” Ford said, adding that he also was impressed by her use of inventive time signatures.

“It’s just a perfect combination of musical elements.”

So far, the show has featured local

songwriters nearly as often as touring acts.

This week’s guest was local duo Sunday Iris, featuring longtime Chico musicians Lisa Langley and Dave Elke, playing and talking about their new song “Across the Line,” featuring the timely lyrics: “White houses fade into the night/where the light once shined/replaced with dark times.”

“Things are just getting a little out of hand in a lot of ways,” Elke says in the episode, explaining how the song was inspired by current societal unrest in America. “It’s like we’re on the other side of that line and we’ve got a long road ahead of us, and there’s just a lot to be figured out.”

Ford is a musician himself, one who has played a variety of styles—from the frenetic guitar noise of one-time local indie crew Secret Stolen to the twangy soul of current Chico rockers The Rugs—and he approaches the songwriters as a musician. The show isn’t a critical analysis of the music, but rather musicians talking to one another about the craft, something that Ford says makes them more inclined to talk shop. And he stays out of the way and lets the songwriters and their songs have the spotlight.

“It feels really good to be able to provide a stage for them to be heard by more people,” he said.

“I love it. On a day I go to the radio station and I get to do [the show], it’s a total rush.” □

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J20 DEFENDENTS BENEFIT: A benefit for the J20 defendents (activists who protested at Trump’s inauguration in D.C.) featuring two new 30-minute films from the anarchist collective subMedia: No Justice ... Just Us and Bash the Fash. Plus, AK Press will be on hand with books for sale. Thu, 7/27, 7pm. $5-$10.

Pageant Theatre, 351 E. Sixth St. www.pageantchico.com

THURSDAY NIGHT MARKET: Downtown streets are closed to traffic each Thursday night for a community event featuring local produce and products, live music, food trucks and more. Thu,

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Music OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: This week, classic rock with Feather River Gypsies Thu, 7/27, 6:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Oroville.

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SUMMER FAMILY FUN DAY: Crafts and games, Jesse from Simply Magic, face painting, and the schoolhouse and Hmong exhibits. Sat 7/29, 11am. $3-$5. Chico Museum, 141 Salem St. 530-891-4336. www.chicomuseum.org

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: The summer concert

penned by playwright Lynn Elliott with music by Marcel Daguerre, Josh Hegg and Michael Bone. Directed by Jerry Miller, shows Thurs.-Sun., through Aug. 6. Thu, 7/27, 7:30pm. $12-$16. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. www.totr.org.

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SINGIN’ COWBOyS AND … COWS? “A musical comedy filled with cowboys, rodeo clowns, star-crossed lovers, dude-ified city slickers, and a menagerie of singing-dancing rodeo stock.” Original works by local playwrights from around these parts tend to fall on the zany side, and Rodeo, a musical penned by retired literature professor Lynn Elliott appears to be no exception.

With the rodeo as setting, Elliott, along with a trio of songwriters— Marcel Daguerre, Josh Hegg and Michael Bone—has created a world of singing cowboys, clowns and farm animals for a musical comedy directed by Jerry Miller that will premiere at Theatre on the Ridge tonight, July 27, and show through Aug. 6.

Special Events BOOZE & BOOKS: A meeting of the monthly beer-drinking book club. This month’s book: Ishmael. Sun, 7/30, 5pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Yuba City Bears. Sun, 7/30, 7pm. $7-$14.

SAlUZZO ITAly –1931-1999 Through Aug. 31 James Snidle Fine Arts SEE ART

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

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CHICO HEAT BASEBALL: The home team plays the Yuba City Bears. Fri, 7/28, 7pm. $7-$14.

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

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RODEO - THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Sun, 7/30, 2pm. $12-$16. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 Neal Road, Paradise. www.totr.org

Music LUKAS NELSON & NICKI BLUHM: Lukas Nelson (son of Willie) and his Promise of the Real crew visit the Big Room with special guest, local fave Nicki Bluhm opening the show. Mon, 7/31, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St.

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Special Events FORK IN THE ROAD: Food trucks, beer, live music by the Tiki Lounge Lizards, playground for kids. A perfect summer night. Wed, 8/2, 5pm. Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave.

Art CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Oils on Canvas, paintings by Leoda Holmes on display.

Through 7/31. 789 Bille Road.

CHICO ART CENTER: All Media National Juried 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.

450 Orange St., 530 895-8726.

HEALING ART GALLERY: Art by John Schmidt, Paintings by Northern California artist John Schmidt. The Healing Art Gallery of Enloe Cancer Center features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Through 10/13. 265 Cohasset Road, 530-332-3856.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Saluzzo Italy – 1931-1999, plein air paintings by Leo Remigante. Shows through 8/31.

254 E. Fourth St.

NAKED LOUNGE: Song of Color, art by Jesi

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing Exhibit,

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BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: The history of tools of all kinds. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Banding by Day

Naomi and Caira Hart. Through 7/31.

118 W. Second St., 530-487-2634.

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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. 130 Main St., 530-521-2565.

and Night, a close look at birds in hand with incredible detail. Through 9/16. $2-$4. 1968 E. Eighth St..

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

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 (next to Bidwell Mansion). www.csuchico.edu

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 the width of a rushing creek. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. www.goldnuggetmuseum.com

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Reed Applegate Collection, the inaugural Monca collection of Northern California artwork. $5, students and kids free.

Through 8/27. 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: The refurbished Paradise 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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truly understand the minds of women. Many men do respect, by accept and cherCarey ish our feminine Wilson counterparts in this endlessly diverse and challenging Review: universe, and we ladies night at do our best to duffy’s tavern, prove worthy of thursday, July 20. their acceptance.

But male-bonding activities of sport, rock music or whatever else can’t really compare to similar gathering of beings who also have the exclusive power to bring life into this world.

So, getting to experience a kind of “female-bonding” celebration that featured soulfully honest performers expressing their creativity though comedy and song was irresistible for one who admires the female spirit. And the energetic and encouraging atmosphere of the Ladies Night variety show at Duffy’s Tavern last Thursday (July 20) offered a refreshing respite from our often bipolarized world.

Emcee Rachel Myles provided many hilariously raunchy highlights in her introductions for the other performers, including riffs

on body type and random sexual encounters (“homeless dudes don’t know the meaning of ‘one-night stand’”). Myles was an ideal ringleader as she surveyed and stoked the audience for reaction, asking at one point, “How many of you have hooked up with guys you were too good for in high school?” Gales of laughter erupted from the ladies in attendance.

Myles set the evening’s tone for her comedic counterparts and their sometimes pointed examinations of life’s nitty-gritty. Deseray Susan, a dynamic presence in rave-worthy unicorn headdress and silver party dress, became a crowd favorite with her Hunter S. Thompson-esque tales of chemically enhanced debauchery that also shimmered with a youthful not-quite-innocence and sense of adventure. And Shahera Hyatt, a Sacramento comedian and social worker for homeless teens, riffed on how a phone call reporting homeless people going through a suburbanite’s trash might go if the dispatcher had any compassion for the less fortunate, only to add the turnaround: “Just kidding. Don’t worry. We’ll have them arrested.”

On the flip side, the lady singers and songwriters had a much different but just as heartfelt game, bringing a contrasting, yet satisfyingly complementary perspective to the stage. Dynamic duo Jesi

Naomi and Holly Taylor brought exuberant energy and gorgeous harmony to their set of originals and covers, while songwriter Alli Battaglia commanded attention and quieted the room with her dusky vocals.

In fact, each of the musicians brought intimacy and charm to her presentation of songs that ranged from quiet folksiness to intense poetic introspection to the soothing but troubled sentiment of Naomi and Taylor’s rendition of Bill Withers’ classic lament “Ain’t No Sunshine When She’s Gone.”

The curator of this cohesive collection of performers was Bill “Guillermo” Mash, host of the KZFR community radio program “The Chico Vibe,” and funds raised benefited the Homeward Street Journal, a newspaper he also works with that deals with homeless issues in the North State and includes a page devoted to Chico.

Many of the performers appeared live on KZFR’s all-women show “Face the Music” (Thursdays, 7:30-10 p.m.) earlier in the evening.

The courage and honesty brought to the performances at this benefit was wonderful to witness. And the sense of community shared by the women on stage as well as those in the audience was palpable and exhilarating for this male attendee. □

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FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: The summer concert series continues with The Revells. Fri, 7/28, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, Downtown Chico. www.down townchico.com

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ERIC PETER: Solo jazz guitar. Thu, 7/27, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

GIRLS NIGHT OUT: A “man-tastic night of fun and excitement” is promised when this Vegas male striptease show comes to Chico. Thu, 7/27, 8pm. $20-$30. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E 3rd St.

THE KITES: 1960s and ’70s pop,

rock and originals. Thu, 7/27, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza,

WEST BY SWAN: Chico’s godfathers of

noisy rock take over the patio. Thu, 7/27, 9pm. $3. Argus Bar + Grill, 212 W. Second St. www.facebook. com/argusbar

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 7/28, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St. www.facebook. com

2359 Esplanade, (530) 521-6473.

OROVILLE CONCERTS IN THE PARK: This week, classic rock with Feather River Gypsies Thu, 7/27, 6:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, Oroville.SHOTGUN SAWYER: Auburn rockers are joined by locals The Rise and Fall. Thu, 7/27, 8pm. $7.

Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

COMEDY DETOUR: Cattywampus Productions presents a night of comedy hosted by Rachel Myles and featuring visiting comics Reid Clark and Joe Kelley, plus locals Don Ashby, Becky Lynn and Annie Fischer. Fri, 7/28, 7:30pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.facebook.com/themaltese

night with Mad Chemist and Up to 11. Fri, 7/28, 8:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.face book.com/themaltese

Paradise. Sat, 7/29, 8:30pm. Free.

Bow & Arrow Lounge at Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville, 530-403-6604.

Thunder Lump and Steve Givens.

Music only. Fri, 7/28, 7pm. Free.

DownLo, 319 Main St.

PAT HULL CD RELEASE: Evin Wolverton, Michael Bone, and Sean Raeside join Pat Hull for the release of Marrow. Fri, 7/28, 7:30pm. $5. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St. www.facebook.com/argusbar

GOOD COUNTRY: Live music for danc-

ing by Good Country. Sat, 7/29, 5pm. Free. Rock House Restaurant, 11865 Highway 70, Yankee Hill, (530) 532-1889.

I HEART THE ’90S: An eclectic collection of hits from back in the day. Sat, 7/29, 10pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.facebook. com/themaltese

SPECIAL BLEND & DUB HEEZY: Reggae night at Lost with So Cal reggaerock skaters Special Blend and Chico dub DJ Dub Heezy. Local roots crew Jah Remedi opens. Fri, 7/28, 9pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.facebook.com/lostonmain

JAZZ RESCUE: Jazz in the dining

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Sprech Magic and Evin Wolverton spin R&B, hip-hop, rock, soul, disco, electro-pop and everything in between. Get after it! Sat, 7/29, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St. 53-343-7718.

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It’s been just four months since Pat Hull released his last EP, Origami Sessions, and he’s already back with another release. This Friday, July 28, at Argus Bar + Patio, Hull and band will debut Marrow, a long-awaited full-length that he’s been working on for more than two years with a couple of East Coast producers, before heading out for a short California tour.

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Wednesday, Aug. 2 Naked Lounge SEE WEDNESDAY

NOCHE LATINA: ABK Events presents another live Latin music night featuring visiting crews Los Patrones and Banda Flor de Chirimoyo. Sat, 7/29, 9pm. $20. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.facebook.com/ lostonmain

Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.facebook. com/themaltese

MIGHTY MYSTIC & THE HARD ROOTS MOVEMENT: It’s Summer Reggae Bashment with live reggae, a DJ, and Jamaican cuisine from Sipho’s. Sun, 7/30, 7:30pm. $10.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St., 805-801-3844. mightymysticchico. brownpapertickets.com

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 7/29, 5pm.

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

TRIVIA NIGHT & SMASHED SPELLING BEE: In celebration of Harry Potter’s

reggae night at the Ramada. Sat, 7/29, 8:30pm. Free. Ramada Plaza, 685 Manzanita Ct.

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OPEN MIC: A weekly open mic hosted by local singer-songwriter Andan Casamajor. Tue, 8/1, 6pm. Free.

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

SUMMER OPEN MIC NIGHT: The Butte

open mic. Bring guitars, fiddles and whatever other instrument you enjoy and share some tunes. Wed, 8/2, 5:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 530-343-4915. www.facebook.com/themaltese

those jazzy Roosters for an alllocal Wed. night. Wed, 8/2, 8pm. $5.

Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.facebook.com/themaltese

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monthly beer-drinking book club.

This month’s book: Ishmael. Sun, 7/30, 5pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Tap

wife duo, Bird & Wag. Wed, 8/2, 7:30pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W.

County Youth Advisory Council hosts this open mic night for foster, homeless, and runaway youth..

Youth musician and poet sign ups at the door at 6pm sharp Tue, 8/1, 6pm.

6th Street Center for Youth, 130 W. Sixth St., (530) 894-8008.

birthday, friendly competitions of trivia (8pm) and spelling (9:30). Sun, 7/30, 8pm. Free. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. www.facebook. com/themaltese

TRIPLE TREE & JAH REMEDI: Chico

local fave Nicki Bluhm, opening the show. Mon, 7/31, 7:30pm. SOLD OUT. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. (530) 892-4647.

Looking to pregame for next weekend’s Reggae on the River in Humboldt? Chico’s got you covered with an accidental festival of its own, as three separate reggae shows on three separate nights are going off this weekend. Friday, July 28, at Lost on Main, the So-Cal reggae-skate-rockers of Special Blend join Chico’s Dub Heezy; Saturday, July 29, locals Triple Tree and Jah Remedi take over the lounge at Ramada Plaza; and Sunday, July 30, KZFR brings Boston’s Mighty Mystic to Chico Women’s Club. Jah love!

open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 8/2, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, (530) 877-4995.

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By land, sea and air Spectacular re-creation of dramatic WWII evacuation widespread raves and praise from reviewCersgotten and critics. And, somewhat to the surprise of the hristopher Nolan’s extraordinary new movie has

usual “observers,” it has also done very well at the box office in its opening week. by It’s a riveting tale about a major Juan-Carlos event from World War II—the Selznick 1940 rescue and evacuation of the massive numbers of Allied troops trapped and hemmed in by the German army on the beaches of Dunkirk on the French side of the English Channel. As such, it has great appeal both as a fast-moving, Dunkirk multicharacter action drama and Starring Kenneth as an artfully complex war film in Branagh, Mark Rylance, Tom Hardy, which the stories of several sets of Cillian Murphy and individual characters are intricately Fionn Whitehead. intertwined with each other and Directed by with the unfolding events of an epic Christopher Nolan. moment in modern history.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Modest intertitles identify the Paradise Cinema 7. individual stories. “The Mole” Rated PG-13. revolves around the struggles of a young British foot soldier (Fionn Whitehead) to bypass the long lines of waiting men and, by hook or by crook, scramble aboard one of the rescue boats (including a very

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crowded hospital ship) before it departs. He is soon joined by two like-minded young soldiers played by Aneurin Barnard and Harry Styles.

“The Sea” involves the efforts of a civilian named Mr. Dawson (Mark Rylance) to put his wooden yacht (“Moonstone”) to work in the rescue effort. Dawson’s son Peter (Tom Glynn-Carney) is on board as well, as is the latter’s impulsive younger friend George (Barry Keoghan). Their mid-channel rescue of a downed pilot (Cillian Murphy) proves tragic, heroic and ironic—all at once.

“The Air” follows the exploits of a fighter pilot named Farrier (Tom Hardy) and his wingman Collins (Jack Lowden). The scenes of aerial combat are superb, and the final stages of the two pilots’ respective missions are especially dramatic. Farrier’s final actions are both funereal and defiant, a ferocious sign of things to come, and there’s some remarkable poetry in Nolan’s near-fantasy views of Farrier’s Spitfire fighter plane losing power but silently speeding on like some great bird of prey, graceful and unstoppable.

The best performance of all, however, may belong to Kenneth Branagh. He plays Commander Bolton, the British naval officer in charge of the evacuation to the hospital ship who stays on to oversee further evacuations when the civilian vessels arrive. Branagh quietly brings a full range of large-scale emotion to key scenes with little or no dialogue. □

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Opening this week Atomic Blonde

Charlize Theron stars as a British MI6 agent who, on the eve of the collapse of the Berlin wall, is on a mission in Germany to take down a spy ring targeting fellow agents. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

racks replace good old-fashioned racing around, which cramps Lightning’s style, so he hits the road and finds himself under the tutelage of Smokey (Chris Cooper). Smokey helped train the late Doc Hudson (the late Paul Newman), McQueen’s mentor. He’s sort of the Mickey from Rocky of this movie. Does it get to be a bit much and a little boring at times? Sure, but director Brian Fee and crew manage to keep everything pretty much on track in this outing, right up until a sweet finale that gives the franchise its first true emotional punch. Cinemark 14. Rated G —B.G.

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A late-night showing of the biopic on the life of notorious drunken poet Charles Bukowski.

One night only, beginning with a special showing of The Charles Bukowski Tapes (10 p.m.), followed by Barfly (11 p.m.). Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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.

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Dave Made a Maze

In this inventive horror-comedy, a frustrated artist builds—and subsequently gets trapped inside—a very elaborate cardboard maze filled with booby traps and fantastical creatures. Producer John Charles Meyer will be on hand for screening. One showing: Wednesday, Aug. 2, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

This week’s Pageant repertory pick is Stanley Kubrik’s Cold War satire. One showing: Sunday, July 30, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

The Emoji Movie

An emoji named Gene has an adventure inside a smartphone. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Sing (free admission)

This week’s Kids Series selection shows Tuesday, Aug. 1, 10 a.m. Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

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. Rated R.

Silicon Valley star Kumail Nanjiani wrote the screenplay with his wife, Emily Gordon, and stars as a fictionalized version of himself in the real-life story about their relationship and her time spent in a hospital with a lifethreatening illness. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Cars 3

After a calamitous accident that renders his beautiful red sheen primer gray, the aging Lightening McQueen (Owen Wilson) is faced with either retirement or a new training-regime comeback, Rocky III-style.

McQueen soon finds himself in a training facility owned by greedy businessman Sterling (Nathan Fillion) and being trained by Apollo Creed—I mean, Cruz Ramirez (Cristela Alonzo). Race simulator, treadmills and drip

Girls Trip

Four lifelong friends (Regina Hall, Queen Latifah, Tiffany Haddish and Jada Pinkett Smith) reconnect during a wild “girls trip” to New Orleans. Cinemark 14 and Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

Luc Besson (La Femme Nikita, The Fifth Element) wrote and directed this sci-fi adventure adapted from the French comic series, Valérian and Laureline. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

War for the Planet of the Apes

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

The third and final entry in the Planet of the Apes reboot finds ape leader Caesar searching for a way to save his species in their ongoing war with the humans.

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

Wish Upon

A supernatural horror flick about a teenage girl (Joey King) who receives a music box that grants her wishes that come come with bloody consequences. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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We are seeing this in bottles going for $25 each and in the pretentious notion that every beer should be consumed from its own correlating style of glass. We also see beer being “vinified” by the industry as restaurant servers, writers, brewers and cicerones tell us we must “pair” our beer with food, either by adjusting what we eat according to the beer we’re drinking, or by picking out a beer based on what’s already stewing on the stove. I have even heard mature adults in person claim that a certain pairing “failed” and did not “work.” (What does that mean?

When I drop my phone in my cup of coffee, it subsequently does not work. But how does a food-drink pairing not “work”?)

While these elite tasters go on about flavor, mouthfeel and matches made in heaven (they love that phrase), the funny thing is that almost none of us care. We drink and we eat, and few people fuss about properly pairing our liquids and solids. A research group called Wine Options surveyed hundreds of consumers several years ago and found that 60 percent drank wine without food at all. Among

my own friends and family, almost all of whom enjoy food, beer and wine, no one has ever, not once, called or texted ahead to see what was for dinner before buying drinks.

Fact is, pairing is not important.

Still, we are now advised to “pair” IPA with escargot, imperial stout with bacon chocolate cheesecake and, so help us, barleywine with Casa Magna Colorado Robusto cigars. There are books about pairing food to beer, and magazine articles, and every third event during major beer weeks, it seems, features some sort of beerfood gimmick—like beers matched with chocolates, cheeses, pancakes or hoagie sandwiches. That can be fun, I suppose, especially if you’re drunk—but attendees at such tastings are sometimes given the impression that to arrange the beer and food in any other order would not work.

I spoke briefly with Lagunitas founder Tony Magee about this recently. He says the beer-food pairing concept isn’t necessarily something to frown at. Lagunitas, he points out, offers beer dinners from time to time—banquets choreographed so that elaborate dishes arrive at the table alongside a prespecified Lagunitas beer, sometimes special releases or old vintages pulled from the cellar.

But Magee agrees there is potential for the beer-food business to get a little annoying and, perhaps, start to resemble some of

the pretensions we encounter in the wine world.

“The vinification of beer is a little problematic sometimes,” Magee says. “It tells beer lovers that beer is not something to enjoy with your buddies but something that you need to enjoy in a certain way or else you might look foolish.”

I’ve encountered enough condescending oenophiles who drop names of obscure vintages, say that a certain wine tastes like quail blood, and incorrectly drop the “r” from pinot “noir” (that translates into walnut in French) to firmly say I will refuse to let my favorite beers slide down the slope that Magee describes.

Fancy dinners aside, even “classic” pairing protocol—like pasta with Chianti, sausage with lager, fried calamari with Greek retsina, tart Spanish cider with steak—is mostly arbitrary. Peasants in old France, Italy, Germany and Greece did not hunt the wilds for foods that “worked” with their regional beverage. No, Italian red wines are had with pasta because Italians make noodles. And northern Spanish cider is served with steak and blue cheese not because the Asturians cracked some scientific code of culinary chemistry but because they grow apple trees and cows.

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IN THE MIX Kacey Johansing Night Bloom Records Kacey Johansing has flown under the radar for some time, which is a shame. Hopefully this album will change that. After a split from her longtime collaboration Yesway, and a relocation from the Bay to LA, Johansing has taken the influence of her move, along with the friends and artists she’s played with along the way, to create her most stunning work yet. The Hiding has a sweet, lazy California feeling. Opener “Bow and Arrow” evokes a breezy Vetiver movement, and “Old Feeling, Old Foe” features swooning steel counter-melodies over an easy folk bed. All around, it’s tasteful, shifting and expanding with bright synth accents at all the right moments, with simple guitar lines—and, of course, Johansing’s naturally serene voice—at its heart. With that consistent ease, songs like “The Hiding” create an instant familiarity.

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It’s a horrorcomedy where real danger appears in the form of cardboard axes and cardboard monsters and cardboard everything else. The film The Origami Swamp in Dave Made a Maze. is making its way around the festival circuit and is coming to The Pageant for one night only: Wednesday, Aug. 2, at 7 p.m. Producer John Charles Meyer will be on hand to introduce the film and answer questions. room for activities Now that the Museum of northern California art (Monca) is officially open, the big, beautiful Veterans Memorial Hall is being put to further use with the beginnings of what promises to be a wideranging calendar of arts and community programming. First up is the yoga and Creative Energy series, three weeks of classes (through Aug. 16) led by yoga instructor Marie altman, who will be “exploring and creating art with elements of line, shape and color as they relate to the exhibition and yoga.”

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ARIES (March 21-April 19): Are you feel-

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If so, I’ve composed a provocative note for you to give to anyone you have good reason to believe will be glad to receive it.

Feel free to copy it word-for-word or edit it to suit your needs. Here it is: “I want to be your open-hearted explorer. Want to be mine? We can be in foolishly cool drooling devotion to each other’s mighty love power. We can be in elegant solid-gold allegiance to each other’s genius. Wouldn’t it be fun to see how much liberation we can whip up together? We can play off our mutual respect as we banish the fearful shticks in our bags of tricks. We can inspire each other to reach unexpected heights of brazen intelligence.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You still

have a wound that never formed a proper scar. (We’re speaking metaphorically here.) It’s chronically irritated. Never quite right. Always stealing bits of your attention. Would you like to do something to reduce the distracting power of that annoying affliction? The next 25 days will be a favorable time to seek such a miracle.

All the forces of nature and spirit will conspire on your behalf if you formulate a clear intention to get the healing you need and deserve.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): In his poem

“The Initiate,” Charles Simic speaks of “someone who solved life’s riddles in a voice of an ancient Sumerian queen.” I hope you’re not focused on seeking help and revelations from noble and grandiose sources like that, Gemini. If you are, you may miss the useful cues and clues that come your way via more modest informants. So please be alert for the blessings of the ordinary.

As you work on solving your quandaries, give special attention to serendipitous interventions and accidental luck.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): For many

years, the Tobe Zoological Park in China housed a “praying panther” named Ato. The large black feline periodically rose up on her hind legs and put her paws together as if petitioning a higher power for blessings. I suggest we make her your spirit ally in the coming weeks. I hope she’ll inspire you to get your restless mind out of the way as you seek to quench your primal needs. With the praying panther as your muse, you should be able to summon previously untapped reserves of your animal intelligence and cultivate an instinctual knack for knowing where to find raw, pristine satisfaction.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Do you really have

to be the flashy king or charismatic queen of all you survey? Must all your subjects put on kneepads and prostrate themselves as they bask in your glory? Isn’t it enough for you to simply be the master of your own emotions, and the boss of your own time, and the lord of your own destiny? I’m not trying to stifle your ambition or cramp your enthusiasm; I just want to make sure you don’t dilute your willpower by trying to wield command over too wide a swath. The most important task, after all, is to manage your own life with panache and ingenuity. But I will concede this: The coming weeks will be a time when you can also probably get away with being extra worshiped and adored.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Dear Hard

Worker: Our records indicate that you have been neglecting to allot yourself sufficient time to rest and recharge. In case you had forgotten, you are expected to take regular extended breaks, during which time it is mandatory to treat yourself with meticulous care and extreme tenderness. Please grant yourself an immediate dispensation. Expose yourself to intensely relaxing encounters with play, fun, and pleasure—or else! No excuses will be accepted.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): If extrater-

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

the four years he worked on painting the Sistine Chapel, Michelangelo never took a bath. Was he too preoccupied with his masterpiece? Modern artist Pae White has a different relationship with obsession. To create her fabric art pieces, she has spent years collecting more than 3,500 scarves designed by her favorite scarf-maker.

Then there’s filmmaker James Cameron, who hired an expert in linguistics to create an entire new language from scratch for the aliens in his movie Avatar. In accordance with the astrological omens, Scorpio, I approve of you summoning this level of devotion—as long as it’s not in service to a transitory desire, but rather to a labor of love that has the potential to change your life for the better for a long time.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“The purpose of art is to lay bare the questions that have been hidden by the answers,” wrote author James Baldwin.

Even if you’re not an artist, I encourage you to make that your purpose in the coming weeks. Definitive answers will at best be irrelevant and at worst useless. Vigorous doubt and inquiry, on the other hand, will be exciting and invigorating. They will mobilize you to rebel against any status quos that have been tempting you to settle for mediocrity.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

You’re in a phase of your cycle when the most useful prophecies are more lyrical than logical. So here you go: three enigmatic predictions to help stir up the creative ingenuity you’ll need to excel on your upcoming tests. (1) A darling but stale old hope must shrivel and wane so that a spiky, electric new hope can be born.

(2) An openness to the potential value of a metaphorical death will be one of your sweetest assets. (3) The best way to cross a border is not to sneak across bearing secrets but to stride across in full glory with nothing to hide.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Aquar-

ian novelist James Joyce had a pessimistic view about intimate connection. Here’s what he said: “Love (understood as the desire of good for another) is in fact so unnatural a phenomenon that it can scarcely repeat itself, the soul being unable to become virgin again and not having energy enough to cast itself out again into the ocean of another’s soul.” My challenge to you, Aquarius—in accordance with the astrological omens—is to prove Joyce wrong. Figure out how to make your soul virgin again so it can cast itself out into the ocean of another’s soul. The next eight weeks will be prime time to achieve that glorious feat.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRAILBLAZER PET SUPPLY at 752 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

TRAIL BLAZER PET SUPPLY, INC. 752 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERIK GLEDHILL, PRESIDENT Dated: June 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000872 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MAYHEM at 578 Rio Lindo Ave Ste #5 Chico, CA 95926.

JENNIE WOLFE 1715 Greenhaven Lane Chico, CA 95926.

JEREMY WOLFE 1715 Greenhaven Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JENNIE WOLFE Dated: June 14, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000832 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FEATHER RIVER ROWING CLUB INC at 930 Garden Drive Oroville, CA 95965.

FEATHER RIVER ROWING CLUB INC 930 Garden Dr Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ANTHONY CATALANO, DIRECTOR Dated: July 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000922 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MOW BROS USA at 2877 Godman Ave Chico, CA 95973.

ABRAHAM CHUPP 476 E Lassen Ave #60 Chico, CA 95973.

NICHOLAS DECARLO 2877 Godman Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ABRAHAM CHUPP Dated: June 30, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000904 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY TREE SERVICE at 3882 Esplanade Chico, CA 95973.

FIRESTORM WILDLAND FIRE SUPPRESSION INCORPORATED 1100 Fortress St., Ste 2 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: LEAH WILLS, TREASURER Dated: June 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000855 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE GOOD FOOD BRIGADE at 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95926.

PAMELA MARIE LARRY 2483 Streamside Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PAMELA LARRY Dated: June 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000836 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SQUYRES FIRE PROTECTION at 166 East Third Street Chico, CA 95928.

BRANDON DALLAS SQUYRES 2211 Ceres Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRANDON SQUYRES Dated: July 13, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000947 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LIFEFORCE LIQUIDS at 4801 Feather River Blvd #9 Oroville, CA 95965.

MATIAS STRUPP CAMPRUBI-SOMS 1080 East Ave Apt #9 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MATIAS CAMPRUBI-SOMS Dated: July 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000942 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as APOLLO PIANO at 3150 Highway 32, Suite A Chico, CA. APOLLO MUSIC AND ARTS, LLC 3150 Highway 32, Suite A. This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: VINCENT CHAMBER, OWNER Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000875 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as APOLLO ACADEMY OF MUSIC at 556 Vallombrosa Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

APOLLO MUSIC AND ARTS LLC 3150 Highway 32, Suite A Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: VINCENT CHAMBERS, OWNER Dated: June 23, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000874 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as

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JOSE’S MEXICAN FOOD at 900 Cherry Street Chico, CA 95973.

JOSE ASUNCION ESPINOSA 3526 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973.

RAMONA J ESPINOSA 3526 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: RAMONA ESPINOSA Dated: July 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000963 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name EUROPEAN WAX CENTER at 728 B Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CHICO EWC INC 2219 O’Keefe Pl Davis, CA 95618.

This business was conducted

by A Corporation.

Signed: E. DARLENE CRITES, V.P. Dated: July 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2015-0001397 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GINDY CELESTE ADORNMENTS at 363 Rio Lindo Ave. Apt. 5 Chico, CA 95926.

CHARLES ROY HARRIS III 363 Rio Lindo Ave. Apt. 5 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHARLE R. HARRIS III Dated: July 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000940 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LUCKY POKE at 119 2nd St Chico, CA 95928.

JIMMY HUE LEE 913 Oak Lawn Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JIMMY H. LEE Dated: July 20, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000971 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DAVE’S TILE CITY INC at 989 Klamath Lane Yuba City, CA 95993.

DAVE’S TILE CITY, INC. 2694 Foothill Blvd. Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: ERIN GRESHAM, SECRETARY-OWNER Dated: July 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000979 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

NOTICES 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

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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 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

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JULIE LYNN PONDER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JULIE LYNN PONDER Proposed name: JULIA LYNN ROSE 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 18, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: June 29, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01727 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: AIDAN KANE BLAKE FAELAN ABLE BLAKE Proposed name: AIDAN KANE MCCARTHY FAELAN ABLE MCCARTHY 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.

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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 29, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01620 Published: July 20,27, August 3,10, 2017

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: DAVID ALLAN SIMS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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

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

(530) 343-0100 Dated: June 10, 2016 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV01179 Published: July 13,20,27, August 3, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: ROBERT ROBERTS, BELIEVED TO BE DECEASED, AND ALL PERSONS CLAIMING BY OR THROUGH, OR UNDER SUCH PERSON, AND THE TESTATE AND INTESTATE SUCCESSORS OF ROBERT ROBERTS, AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE

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YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: CANYON CREEK PRIVATE ESTATES, INC. 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 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 Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS 200981 Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 Dated: May 12, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01582 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: G. DELZELL, ZENA DELZELL, 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 THERTO AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: LINDA CHMIELEWSKI, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE JOHN VLASOFF REVOCABLE LIVING TRUST DATED AUGUST 20, 2002 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

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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 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: KEVIN J. SWEENEY, ESQ. 083972 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA. 95973 (530) 893-1515 Dated: May 26, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01473 Published: July 27, August 3,10,17, 2017

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of july 10, 2017 – july 14, 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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65 Skymountain Cir

Chico

$320,000

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SQ. FT. 1248

1044 Regency Dr

Chico

$254,000

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SQ. FT.

1887 Modoc Dr

Chico

$312,000

3/2

1679

179 E 12th St

Chico

$252,000

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900

1116 Olive St

Chico

$302,500

3/2

1547

3908 Front St

Chico

$252,000

3/2

1355

1233

1 Sun Circle Ct

Chico

$301,000

3/2

1175

1785 E 8th St

Chico

$249,000

3/2

1066

27 Kimberlee Ln

Chico

$295,000

3/2

1563

2 Coolwater Cmns

Chico

$225,000

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1300

121 W 21st St

Chico

$288,500

4/1

1208

6 Saint Helens Ln

Chico

$215,000

2/1

864

3253 Rockin M Dr

Chico

$284,545

3/2

1357

155 Skyline Blvd

Oroville

$275,000

2/2

1286

2022 Huntington Dr

Chico

$270,000

3/2

1142

104 Brookdale Dr

Oroville

$260,000

2/1

1311

654 Victorian Park Dr

Chico

$270,000

3/2

1131

1332 Montgomery St

Oroville

$255,000

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2810

136 Echo Peak Ter

Chico

$263,500

2/2

1451

223 Sky Oaks Dr

Paradise

$484,000

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2611

1825 Palm Ave

Chico

$255,000

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1054

1086 Maple Park Dr

Paradise

$255,000

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