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We must remember As the remaining members of the so-called Greatest Generation live out

their last days, as they shuffle off this mortal coil one by one, so too fades the collective memory of our nation’s battle against fascism.

In that vacuum has emerged a collective forgetting, as evidenced by the recent events in Charlottesville, Va. There, the world witnessed unbridled hate, a coming-out party for those who ascribe to a disease called racism.

We watched literal torch-carrying white nationalists screaming Nazi chants (“Jews will not replace us”) and other vile and dangerous slogans.

Tragically, a peaceful counterprotester was killed. The suspect: an alleged Nazi sympathizer, a 20-year-old Ohio resident who, according to a former high school teacher, was “very misguided and disillusioned.”

Nineteen others were injured, some severely.

We saw early warning signs of this cancer bubbling at the national level during the presidential campaign, as then-candidate Donald Trump went all-in on his nativist rhetoric. Here in the North State, friends and neighbors reported heightened instances of bigotry: white supremacist propaganda posted at the university, fake deportation notices at a high school and swastikas scrawled in the privacy of a bathroom stall by a hateful coward.

Trump emboldened members of the dark underbelly of America then, and he showed his true colors again this week as he defended the white supremacists by downplaying their actions and casting blame on “both sides.”

The silver lining: Prominent members of both major parties have denounced Trump’s stance. As Republican Sen. John McCain tweeted, “There’s no moral equivalency between racists & Americans standing up to defy hate & bigotry. The President of the United States should say so.”

Indeed, the man who ostensibly leads the party of Lincoln should do so.

But he won’t, because he’s an ignorant neo-Nazi sympathizer.

Our nation has seen bigotry and hatred before. Our elders remember.

The rest of us must, too, if we are to keep history from repeating itself. □

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Education: the great equalizer W college is so important, I remind people that higher education is the great equalizer; it provides hen I’m asked here in the North State why

students of all socioeconomic backgrounds the opportunity to climb up the ladder and pursue career opportunities that will provide a lifetime of achievement and success.

At Chico State, where more than half of our students will be the first in their families to earn a four-year degree, we take the charge very seriously.

Through our Educational by Opportunity Program, for Gayle Hutchinson instance, first-generation, lowincome and underrepresented the author is Chico state’s president. students work alongside academic counselors so they can transform their lives through academic achievement and personal growth. The program’s individualized academic counseling, comprehensive support services and extensive campus referral network help students develop their talents while empowering them to achieve.

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as unaccompanied homeless youth. Promoting Achievement Through Hope (PATH) Scholars offers services including more personalized financial aid, counseling, advising and tutoring services as well as connecting students with resources on campus and in the community. We’re proud to partner with Butte College and Shasta College in our effort to facilitate a smoother transition for former foster youth from these community colleges.

While it is critical to recruit and retain regional college students, we don’t stop there at extending higher-education opportunities to youth in our region.

Low-income, first-generation junior high and high school students can also participate in programs such as Educational Talent Search that prepare them for success in postsecondary education. High school students in our region can also participate in MESA Schools Program, an academic preparation and math/ science enrichment program that partners with schools to provide educationally disadvantaged students with a variety of innovative services and opportunities.

I hope that all students throughout the North State raise their sights by attending college, whether at Chico State or one of our excellent regional community colleges. Together, we can uplift their lives, their families and our communities through the power of education. □

unhealthy balance sheet For a moment, put yourself in the position of a person responsible for a

business that holds clients’ lives in the balance. You’ve undergone years of training—little of it in business or finance—accumulating hundreds of thousands of dollars of student debt in the process. You must maintain an office equipped with technology, including a sophisticated computerized records system, and employ professional staff. It’s a venture with a lot of overhead, numerous regulations and many moving parts.

Here’s the kicker: You can’t control your bottom line.

Unlike most every business, where prices stem from the cost of providing goods and services, medical practitioners find themselves at the mercy of insurers. What insurance companies and the government will pay, that’s what they get.

Particularly vulnerable are doctors in private practice, as individuals or in small-group offices, because they lack the leverage of larger organizations when negotiating. As detailed in Newslines (see “Intervention accepted,” by Meredith J. Cooper, page 10), Dr. Roy Bishop has sold his practice in Chico, Argyll Medical Group, to a corporation that owns offices in other areas in the hope of benefiting from the economy of scale.

The majority of patients seen by doctors and hospitals in Butte County rely on government-funded insurance: Medicare, MediCal or a subsidized Covered California policy. Unfortunately, these plans reimburse providers at different rates than private insurers.

Because outside entities set their payments, doctors wind up losing money when they see certain patients. Forget what George H.W. Bush said—voodoo economics is health care’s economics. For something this vital to every American’s life, it’s time to streamline the system to make care more accessible and equitable. □

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Quiff bros and bash I had to kick myself as my family headed into our friendly neighborhood Safeway to do a little shopping on a recent evening after work.

That’s because, as my husband hunted for a parking space, I began to stereotype a couple of college-age guys walking toward the store.

They were sporting bro tanks, shorts and identical haircuts— Google tells me the style is called a quiff. Think Justin Bieber trying to go for the James Dean look. What really got me were their expressionless faces. They looked ultra serious.

Where’s the rest of the Hamptons row crew? I thought. And why the game face?

Then, for a second, I felt like a jerk. They’re just college kids, I reminded myself.

I was once a Chico State student, and I recall a fair amount of derision from the locals, so I try to steer clear of that type of provincialism. Count me among those who can look beyond a lack of parking and piles of puke on the sidewalk to realize how this town benefits—both culturally and financially—from that body of residents.

Just inside the store, I started looking through a selection of strawberries and other fruit while my husband wrangled our 5-year-old into in a shopping cart. Though we were both distracted, we noticed those same guys—still stone-faced—now walking from the back of the store toward its entrance. Each was toting a plastic grocery basket.

They must be putting them back next to the door, I thought. To my surprise, however, they walked right out with them.

It took me a few seconds to realize they were straight-up stealing stuff in broad daylight. I’m a bit vertically challenged, so I didn’t see what was in their baskets. Turns out, according to my husband, who’s 6-foot-4, one of them had a 12-pack of Corona, a college-bro staple.

I was a little taken aback by their nerve.

I mean, I, too, was once in that period between high school and the legal drinking age. During that time, my friends and I did our share of idiotic stuff, including having someone older buy us alcohol.

But we never acted like privileged little twerps by taking something we could easily afford. That’s next-level arrogance.

By the time I realized what these clowns were doing, they were just about out of sight of the newly employed security guard who’d been on the other side of the store. If there’s a next time, I hope they get nailed.

Fortunately, as far as I can tell, entitled quiff bros seem to be a minority of the student body. Consider that if you run across a herd of them doing dumb stuff.

RemindeR: As I noted a few weeks ago, this newspaper turns 40 years old this month. To mark the occasion, we’re holding a block party on Aug. 26, a Saturday afternoon, at the back entrance to our headquarters at Second and Flume streets. The shindig is a celebration of that milestone, but it’s also meant to thank those who’ve supported us through the years, from our advertisers and readers to our contributing writers and former staffers.

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Uniting against hate I thank Mobilize Chico and Chico Peace and Justice Center for this past Sunday’s call to action for a demonstration held at East 20th Street and MLK Boulevard in solidarity with Charlottesville, Va.’s justice-loving and grieving people.

On May 26, a white supremacist with ties to the “alt-right” stabbed three men in Portland, killing two who had risen on a city transit train to defend two black teenage girls, one wearing a hijab. One week later, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution honoring the heroism and sacrifice of those three men. The House Republican leadership still has not allowed a vote on a similar measure.

President Trump cynically blamed “all sides” for the white supremacist terrorist attack in Charlottesville. This man, who has openly white supremacist senior staff—whose hateful tweet speech has attacked immigrants, Muslims, brown and black people, women and the press—is complicit in these murders. As is the so-called “liberal” media for beating the flames with contextless reporting of sporadic violence.

We all must work to stop the hate and fear that make this possible.

Demand Congress repudiate these organizations and individuals.

Demand Attorney General Jeff Sessions investigate and prosecute them as terrorists.

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I went (along with other Democrats) to Louisiana in 1991 to help defeat Republican David Duke’s campaign for governor. There were Republicans from many states to help the KKK leader get elected.

I stopped by Duke’s campaign office. Duke came in and introduced himself to me. He invited me to his rally nearby. At the hall, there were about 75 older white people and dozens of reporters. The KKK “mouth” roared away.

I followed him outside, as his supporters cheered. I stayed close to him, listening to his conversations with people, when a young woman stopped to talk to him. As she walked away, I heard Duke tell an aide to go get her phone number.

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 rally, stating, “We are determined to take our country back. ... That’s what we believed in, that’s why we voted for Donald Trump.”

Then a 20-year-old Republican white supremacist from Ohio allegedly drove through a crowd of Americans and killed one woman.

We defeated Duke for governor (60 percent of whites in Louisiana voted for him), but tragically Duke is still here.

I want to thank the Mobilize Chico group for holding a counter rally.

Bob Mulholland Chico

Editor’s note: Read about the local rally on page 8.

‘Brainwashed America?’

Re “LaMalfa takes a licking” (Newslines, by Ken Smith, Aug. 10): Like many of your letter writers, I was one of the 400 people who attended Congressman Doug LaMalfa’s town hall. The booing, catcalls and many of the angry comments were relatively respectful. LaMalfa did his best to “take it on the chin.”

While listening to the angry crowd, I was grateful we live in America, and can shout our disagreement without being jailed!

Most of the attendees agreed when I disagreed and vice versa. I wondered how could this be? The next day, I got an email with some disturbing facts that answered my question. Some 1,500 newspapers, 1,100 magazines, 9,000 radio stations and 2,400 publishers are owned by six corporations with 272 executives directing 90 percent of what 277 million Americans see, hear and read! Can you say “brainwashed America”?

It’s critical that Americans question all their basic information, find at least two different trusted sources before believing anything! I use the Internet to source Judicial Watch and Heritage Foundation for corroboration before I believe anything!

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

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Breitbart Executive Chair Steve Bannon, Trump’s White House chief strategist, referred to as “the platform for the alt-right.” In other words, the foundation is not an unbiased source.

Truly progressive, please Re “Know your enemy” (Editorial, Aug. 10): “If progressives keep misplacing aggression,” repeal and replace LaMalfa won’t happen. This reminds me of the SF Chronicle article quoting California Democratic Party strategist Bob Mulholland. Regarding the 2020 presidential election, in reference to the Democratic Party, he stated, “We don’t need bed wetters. We’ve only got room for people who believe in the party.”

I hope Bernie Sanders progressives are searching for a truly bold progressive to run against LaMalfa, someone with a bold progressive domestic and antiwar foreign policy agenda.

Democratic establishment foreign policy is exemplified by a statement by Madeleine Albright, a close adviser to Hillary Clinton, and Bill’s secretary of state. Asked

by CBS reporter Leslie Stahl about the 500,000 children who died due to Iraq sanctions, Albright responded, “We think the price is worth it.”

I’d rather be called a bed wetter than be a child killer.

Democrat killer foreign policy has added $6 trillion to U.S. debt while killing millions, destroying countries and making the world less safe.

Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

Commentary continued Re “Confessions of a reluctant racist” (Guest comment, by Jaime O’Neill, Aug. 3): Thank Sweet Mama Gaia for Jamie O’Neill and his public shame for being white. To his detractors, all I read in your cries against him is white male fragility.

He is admitting the thing that any halfway decent white person should be feeling right now.

After the events in Charlottesville, Va., last weekend, all white people should be feeling extreme disgrace as white nationalists “sieg heil” Trump and incite and perpetrate violence in the

name of their hatred and sickness, racism by no other name.

Meanwhile, our president won’t even explicitly condemn the white nationalists and neo-Nazis who are responsible for the violence. If we as white people care to redeem ourselves, we have to evaluate and own up to our privilege, confront the deep histories of oppression and violence we have carried out toward other races, and figure out how the hell to be better allies to our brothers and sisters of color now.

If you can’t admit that, if you can’t take a moment to self-reflect in the face of Jamie O’Neill’s tongue-in-cheek character assassination of white folks, perhaps you are suffering from the same sickness as the white nationalists in Charlottesville.

I was astonished to see the reaction to an editorial in which a man honestly admitted that his reaction to what he perceived as negative actions of others of his ethnic group might make him a racist.

It seems to me that people had a conditioned knee-jerk-type reaction to that term and simply hated him for it instead of paying attention to what he was trying to say.

It appears to be human nature that any group has its extremists, and we should not be so PC as to make it taboo to even examine the situation, or bravely share a little self doubt. Granted, the author himself may have been somewhat extreme, but can’t we allow him that to try to see his point? We cannot learn about things by hiding from them.

Megan Thomas Melly Chico

“Nothing really shocks me anymore,” or at least that’s what I thought after the first six months of the Trump presidency. Then came Charlottesville and the violence followed by the immediate reaction by so many of the Trump supporters and the president that the anti-protesters were as much to blame for the violence as the white supremacists and neo-Nazis.

Obviously they believe those supporting racial equality should have cowered and given submission to the heavily body-armored and weaponized thugs who carried banners with swastikas and wore “Make America Great Again” ball caps.

Such a short time from the elation of Obama’s first election, when crowds stood world-wide in tearful joy that America had apparently breached its racial biases, now to the darkness of a racist and militaristic regime, society and country. Like the mystery of where the malaria protozoans hide in the body before they attack again, the racists disguised themselves until they found a president who sided with them.

As a recent post on Facebook said, “Rather than a wall, America needs to build a giant mirror to reflect what we’ve become.”

I have to side with Jaime O’Neill in my shame when I observe those carrying the Nazi flags to have the same racial characteristics as me.

Dean Carrier Paradise

Robert Andersen Chico

Stranger than fiction The sci-fi story about a guy who goes to sleep with a levelheaded leader in office and wakes up with a narcissistic nut case who has somehow taken his place and is plotting to blow up the world, or at least parts of his own country, all the time his ratings continuing to improve. That is the only explanation for our present situation and yet there it is. What is going on with the people of the United States? Hope I wake up soon! (Or the country does.)

Gregory Hughbanks Paradise

Isn’t it ironic?

The irony associated with the recently presented stringent immigration bill, authored by Sens.

David Perdue (Georgia-R) and Tom Cotton (Arkansas-R) was not lost on me.

Perhaps Sen. Cotton is not aware that in 2014 a study by the Partnership for a New American Economy in Arkansas suggested labor shortages were increasing the reliance on imported produce and slowing economic growth in his state. The leader of national affairs for the Arkansas Farm Bureau often stated Arkansas growers can’t find enough people willing to do the back-breaking labor needed to get produce to market.

Meanwhile, evidently, Sen. Perdue has forgotten that in 2012 Georgia’s HB87, aka the

Illegal Immigration Reform and Enforcement Act of 2011, resulted in an agriculture labor shortage, leading to a loss of $140 million in agriculture as crops rotted in the fields. In their rush to curry favor with the president and their own closed-minded base, apparently neither of these Republican politicians has taken time to look at the history of their own state’s previous legislative proposals related to immigration and their unintended consequences.

I’m not surprised, though, based on the many misguided policies being proposed by Trump and his narrow-minded cabinet.

Roger S. Beadle Chico

You like them apples?

Re “Letters feedback” (Letters, by Bob Evans, July 13): Let’s see if I can help one of Trump’s “poorly educated supporters” who wrote a letter admonishing my assumption that “first-time hick voters” helped to tip the scales in the Rust Belt states to enable comrade Trump to take the White House hostage.

Twenty-year-old Ohio Trump voter James Alex Fields Jr. appears to be the epitome of the hatemongering, Nazi-loving, white nationalist, Vanguard America, low-life scumbags that I alluded to as “first-time hick voters.” I was trying to be kind to the white racist terrorist. Was I clairvoyant or was Hillary’s warning that “Trump took hate groups to the mainstream” even more appropriate?

How does the snarky letter writer like me now?

Ray Estes Chico

Correction In the Aug. 3 cover story (“In plain sight,” by Evan Tuchinsky), the charge to which Alexis Franklin pleaded no contest was listed inaccurately due to incorrect wording in a press release from the District Attorney’s Office. Ms. Franklin pleaded no contest to felony pimping. The error has been corrected online. —ed.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE AssAult victim dies

An Oroville man hospitalized since being brutally assaulted in early July died on Monday (Aug. 14), according to an Oroville Police Department press release. An autopsy to determine whether he died from those injuries is pending, and the investigation is now being treated as a homicide.

Howard Randell Brimm, 62, had been in critical condition at an area hospital since the incident. He was found by an officer who heard screaming around 1:30 a.m. on July 5 while patrolling near Myers and Corto streets.

The officer turned on his spotlight and saw Brimm lying in the middle of the roadway with serious head injuries, and a suspect fleeing.

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A farmer at the center of a high-profile lawsuit over environmental regulations has agreed to pay $1.1 million in civil penalties and mitigation for work done on his Tehama County property, according to a press release issued by the U.S. Department of Justice Tuesday (Aug. 15).

John Duarte was ordered to pay to restore streams and wetlands on farmland he purchased in 2012 and “ripped” without a permit. Ripping is a form of tilling aimed at loosening soil, and in this case converted flowing streams, creeks and wetlands to dry land.

Duarte’s case has become a talking point for opponents of environmental regulations, including Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who mentioned Duarte in a June press release, saying he faced fines “simply for plowing his fields.”

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On Monday evening (Aug. 14), Butte County sheriff’s deputies responded to a call from a passerby who was suspicious about a vehicle parked on East Evan Reimer Road in Gridley.

Upon arrival, Deputy Matthew Galvez says he saw a methamphetamine pipe in clear view, so he restrained the sole occupant of the car—36-year-old Nicholas Nicholson, of Yuba City—to perform a full search.

While searching the vehicle, deputies Galvez and Mark Demmers found a loaded gun in a backpack and what appeared to be a pipe bomb in the trunk. Demmers deployed his K-9 unit, Ray, who alerted to an explosive odor.

The Butte County Inter-Agency Bomb Squad confirmed the device was explosive and rendered it safe.

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chico for charlottesville Mobilize group rolls out fast response to violence in Virginia

Oof East people gathered at the intersection 20th Street and Martin Luther

n Sunday morning (Aug. 13), about 100

King Jr. Parkway, most holding signs decorated with slogans story and like “Deport Nazis,” photo by “Racism Sucks” Ken Smith and “Make America Compassionate Again.” kens @ n ew srev i ew. c o m Most of the protesters clustered into groups at each corner while a few Get involved: marched from crossmore information about walk to crosswalk carmobilize can be found on Facebook or at rying a banner that read mobilizechico.info. “Unite for Love.”

The crowd consisted of both seasoned activists and first-time protesters, many of whom said they were stirred to take action by the blatant racism displayed at the “Unite the Right” rally held in Charlottesville, Va., earlier that weekend.

That demonstration, a gathering of ultraconservatives protesting the removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee in that city’s Emancipation Park, included the participation of the Ku Klux Klan, several neo-Nazi organizations and other selfproclaimed white nationalists. After the rally was shut down Saturday, 20-year-old James Fields Jr. of Ohio, who allegedly

plowed into counterprotesters, killing one and injuring at least 19 others, was arrested and charged with second-degree murder, among other offenses.

As alt-right activists and counterprotesters clashed in the streets of Charlottesville Saturday, members of local activist group Mobilize Chico took to Facebook to discuss an appropriate response. Some suggested scheduling a meeting to plan that response or tacking anti-racism themes onto a rally scheduled for September, but others were compelled to take more immediate action.

Mobilize members Anna B. Moore and Sandra Scholten got busy immediately, drafting a press release and creating a Facebook event while reaching out to other activist groups to participate. Less than 24 hours later, at 9 a.m. Sunday (Aug. 13), the protest in Chico was in full swing.

Some local participants, like Megan Thomas

Melly, expressed frustration with what she’s seen as the mainstreaming of overtly racist ideologies, and because alt-right groups haven’t been held to account for the violent acts they’ve inspired.

“We have to really look at groups like the white nationalists and Nazis that were gathered in Virginia as being terrorist groups,” said Melly. “They form the same

way, by attracting young, disenfranchised people who are radicalized online and emboldened to organize in public and perpetrate violence and hatred.”

“It’s a sickness,” she continued.

“Racism is a disease and we need to squash it. It’s about time we really address these things.”

Aramenta Hawkins, executive director of the Chico Peace and Justice Center, helped spread word about Sunday’s action through her organization and participated herself. She said the Charlottesville killing highlights the need for parents to have open and genuine conversations with their children about racial issues and the danger of hate groups.

“Parents aren’t doing that, and that’s the crux of the problem,” she said, referencing an interview in which Fields’ mother said she knew he was attending a rally, but didn’t know about the nature of the event. “Then they’re shocked when their children do something foul and viscous, and in this case took a human life.

“I think it’s harder for Caucasian people to talk about, because it brings up all kinds of issues and they may be afraid of being perceived as racist themselves,” continued Hawkins, who is black and recalled a conversation she had with her own mother at the age of 5 about negative

Chico activists show their support for counterprotesters in Charlottesville, Va., on Sunday (Aug. 13).

treatment she would encounter by virtue of her skin color. “In minority families, parents see those discussions as necessary to keep their kids safe.

“Young people use cellphones and social media. They’ll find out about these groups on their own, so it’s important to help them understand hatred and inequality.”

“The response has been overwhelmingly

positive,” Moore, of Mobilize, said at Sunday’s action, as protesters in the background sporadically cheered in response to passersby honking in support. As if on cue, she was interrupted by an incomprehensible—yet undeniably angry—shout from the driver of a passing truck, its tires squealing as it turned south onto MLK Jr. Parkway from East 20th Street. “Yeah, we’ve had a bit of that, also.”

Mobilize was formed in the wake of President Trump’s election, and is “dedicated to the defense of human rights and human dignity and to the preservation of democratic values … through political engagement, direct action and community collaboration,” according to the group’s website.

“Everyone knew in November what might be coming with Trump in the White House, and now … well, here we are.”

Moore explained that Mobilize holds a regular action called Signs for Solidarity on the first Sunday of each month, during which members gather at locations throughout Chico—usually downtown at City Plaza—to hold up signs addressing social justice issues.

Since the group already had dozens of signs (though many fashioned their own specifically for Sunday) and access to a network of activists, Moore said spreading word about the protest wasn’t difficult. She said she was thrilled to see so many people—and so many new faces—present Sunday morning.

In addition to joining Mobilize or other groups and attending local actions, Moore suggested donating to organizations whose primary mission is combating racial inequality. She named Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) Butte County, members of which were also present Sunday, Black Lives Matter Sacramento and the national NAACP as examples.

“I think enough people are frightened and furious about the blatant display of hatred by the Nazis in Charlottesville, and they came out in force today,” she said.

“People showed up … and they need to keep showing up.” □

Consequences of construction Council considers raising development impact fees he Chico City Council stepped lightly under the threat of looming litigation on TTuesday (Aug. 15) as the panel discussed

impact fees that help build and maintain schools, parks and roadways.

Local developers who spoke at the meeting cast the warning shots, noting they already feel squeezed by the fees—that much was clear as the council considered updates to the development impact fee program.

According to Brendan Ottoboni, the city’s director of Public Works-engineering, approving all of the recommended changes would add $6,000 and $10,500 to the total cost of building new single- and multifamily homes, respectively. That translates to an additional $300,000 to the city’s coffers each month.

From the city’s perspective, the growing population puts strain on public facilities and developers should help pay to maintain them.

On the other hand, builders argued that the burden of fixing facilities worn down by past and current Chicoans shouldn’t be borne entirely by future residents.

“The people who are going to be moving here haven’t impacted those roads yet,” said Chris Giampaoli, owner of Epick Homes.

“You need to understand that those roads are down to an insufficient level to begin with and it’s not legal to ask new residents to pay for that.”

The council slogged through all 14 fee categories during a nearly three-hour public hearing. Here’s a breakdown: • Parks/neighborhood. The city is anticipating about 39,000 new residents by 2040.

Based on that number and goals outlined in the general plan, Chico needs to develop 59 acres of neighborhood parks. To help pay for their construction, the council voted unanimously to raise this impact fee on single-family homes from $989 to up to $1,679. The fee for multifamily units would increase from $2,498 to the same cost.

• Parks/community. This impact fee— which staff recommended raising from $1,824 to $4,138—would go toward developing 98.45 acres of additional community parks. The council considered dedicating some of these fees to Chico Area Recreation District’s proposal to build multimilliondollar aquatic and recreation centers, but the builders weren’t having that. Local developer Bill Webb, for instance, did not see a relationship between new homes and special recreational facilities.

Councilwoman Ann Schwab made a motion to approve the fee increase and to direct some of the revenue toward the proposed CARD facilities, but she was opposed

by Councilman Mark Sorensen. Vice Mayor Reanette Fillmer made a sub-motion to not direct the fees toward the proposed CARD facilities—which passed 4-2, with Schwab and Councilman Karl Ory dissenting.

(Councilman Andrew Coolidge was absent.)

• Bidwell Park land acquisition. These fees help pay off debt incurred when Bidwell

SIFT ER Back to spending

A degree in economics isn’t necessary to recognize that back-to-school season is a boon to retailers, and that may never be more true than this year. Aside from tuition and other direct education expenses, K-12 and college students are expected to spend a combined total of $83.6 billion on pens, pencils, backpacks, new duds and all the other accoutrements that go along with starting a new school year, according to the National Retail Federation’s annual survey of back-to-school spending. That’s an increase of more than 10 percent over last year, with college students accounting for the lion’s share—$54.1 billion. As for K-12 students, parents plan to spend an average of $687.72. The total amount spent by all students is the highest recorded by the NRF since the surveys began in 2007, but K-12 student spent more in 2012, $30.3 billion, compared with $29.5 billion projected to be spent this year.

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Park was expanded in 1995. The council voted 6-0 to reduce them from $211 per residential unit to $85.

• Street maintenance. These fees help pay for street equipment. The council had the option of drastically raising the fees— from about $150 to $2,326 for single-family homes—but due to anticipated funding from Senate Bill 1 (aka the gas tax), Ottoboni recommended a more modest increase. Schwab made a motion to roughly double the fees, which the council passed unanimously.

• Urbanization. The city picked five roadways in desperate need of reconstruction, but, again, builders questioned using impact fees to fix pre-existing problems. The council voted unanimously to kick the item back to the Finance Committee.

• Street facilities. The most substantial fee hike would go toward roadway construction projects totaling $149 million. As proposed, the fees would increase from $3,331 to $9,564 for single-family homes and from $2,304 to $8,161 for multifamily homes.

Schwab made a motion to approve the fees as recommended, but it failed on a 3-to-3 vote. Ory made a motion to send the fees to the Finance Committee. That passed 5-1, with Schwab dissenting.

• Miscellaneous. On a 5-to-1 vote, the council approved modest changes to eight fee categories—administrative building, fire facilities, animal shelter, police facilities, sewer, Water Pollution Control Plant, bikeways and greenways. Ory cast the dissenting vote after pushing for lesser fees for small apartments and studios to promote more affordable housing. The council voted unanimously to send that policy discussion to the Finance Committee.

The council will discuss the fees again in October after the Finance Committee reviews them.

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status of health care in seems to be in constant TfluxheAmerica these days. But over the past

16 years, since Dr. Roy Bishop opened Argyll Medical Group in Chico, much also has remained the same. In particular, private practices have continued to struggle in an industry ruled by government mandates and insurance company bureaucracies.

“Insurers refuse to pay reimbursements that are in line with our expenses,” Bishop said during a recent interview at his Philadelphia Square office. “So, if you’re a small physician group, insurers like Blue Cross and Blue Shield are paying us under Medicare [rates]. And we have no leverage to make them pay more.

And if you’re part of a bigger corporation … they will pay more.

It’s sad, really.”

Bishop originally imagined Argyll as a solution to the privatepractice problem. While specialists have increasingly turned to hospitals to manage their practices, primary care providers don’t have that option in Chico—Enloe Medical Center does not take on primary care physicians. So, those doctors have had to rely on medical management groups such as Argyll, Mission Ranch Primary

Care and Mangrove Medical Group to share resources and get better rates than an individual physician could.

Unfortunately, Bishop said, he’s no longer confident in that business model. So, starting Sept. 1, Argyll will be owned and managed

by MyCircle Health, with Bishop staying on as medical director.

“The main thing is, and the reason for this change is, to be able to provide what the people in this town need,” he said. “We need more providers—more physicians, nurse practitioners and [physician assistants]—and it’s impossible to do that now with physician ownership. You need larger corporations with more capital, more technology and better contracts with the insurers.”

The change will come with other

perks as well, Bishop said, pointing to MyCircle Health’s commitment to technology and integrating it into caring for chronic illnesses.

That technology—which includes things such as Internet-connected smart watches, heart monitors and scales that track a patient’s day-today health—all will be available to Argyll patients moving forward.

They’re meant to help predict when somebody’s going to get sick.

“There’s more technology to track your hamburger than there is to track your health,” said Lonny Davis, CEO and chief technology officer of MyCircle Health, which is headquartered in San Diego.

“We’ve taken some very specific hardware and software, and we’re going to apply it to every person in the practice. We can use it to compare how their treatments are going and how their health is progressing.”

Davis offered an example of a patient who goes to the doctor with high blood pressure. As standard protocol, he said, that patient may be prescribed a medication whose side effects include development of a dry, hacking cough.

“Many people may just think, ‘Oh, I just have allergies,’ and not go in to see their doctor for several months,” Davis said. “But we have technology that will ring your smart watch and ask a question: ‘Have you started coughing lately?’

“It’s preventative, and it’s planned health care. So, we can monitor you without you necessarily coming into the doctor.”

That’s part of MyCircle Health’s philosophy: “population health” vs. the more typical fee-for-service health care. In

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“Patients with diabetes often have problems with their feet,” Davis offered as another example.

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Bishop pointed to the uniqueness of this approach: “Argyll will be the testbed for this technology,” he said. Davis concurred: “This is the first large-scale roll-out of this technology that we’ve been working on for the past 5 1/2 years.”

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Over time, however, each patient will transfer to the MyCircle Health care program.

Bishop says that, going forward, he hopes that under the management of MyCircle Health, Argyll will be able to better expand to include more primary-care providers as well as specialists who deal with chronic illnesses—in areas such as endocrinology, rheumatology and neurology. For him personally, it offers the opportunity to return his focus to medicine rather than dealing with bureaucratic paperwork and negotiations.

“I can concentrate more on taking care of patients, and as medical director I will help guide the new owners in providing the services people need, so I can concentrate on that and not have to worry about running the business day to day,” Bishop said. “I think that’s an improvement.”

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“They have tied in all kinds of imagery to existing products that kids like,” said Bruce Baldwin, manager of student health and prevention programs for the Butte County Office of Education. Pot Tarts’ labels are designed as near-perfect replicas of Pop-Tarts brand toaster pastries. Kids also may be fooled by candy clones such as KeefKat, 3 Rastateers and Double Puff Oeo. “I like [SB 663],” Baldwin added. “I think it’s very necessary.”

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Aand inquisitive, he opens the glove box, reaches inside and extracts a bag of gummy child sits alone in his father’s car. Bored

candy. Boys will be boys: He dives right in.

Unfortunately, he’s ingesting more than a sugary treat. These are no ordinary gummies—they’re cannabis edibles, stashed for safekeeping but unwittingly discovered.

The boy winds up anxious, nauseated and hospitalized.

This isn’t a shock story or Reefer Madness update; it actually happened, just this May, in upstate New York. A similar incident took place in March on a school bus in Ohio. Two dozen reports of youths ingesting edibles have made headlines over the past two years, during which time the journal JAMA Pediatrics released a study stating that children’s rate of accidental exposure increased 150 percent after Colorado legalized recreational cannabis.

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Jim Nielsen, whose California Senate district includes Butte County, has introduced a bill in the Legislature aimed at making marijuana products less attractive to kids and teens. Senate Bill 663 prohibits packaging and labels that: • Display the product itself through a transparent window; • Mimic the name or packaging of nonmarijuana products; • Include elements that could lead people younger than 21 to believe that the package contains a non-marijuana product; • Display design features—cartoons, names, slogans—that would appeal primarily to people younger than 21; • Display a name or slogan that would make the package attractive to people younger than 21.

Proposition 64, the initiative legalizing cannabis recreationally and commercially, prohibits marketing that uses “symbols, language, music, gestures, cartoon characters or other content known to appeal primarily to people under 21.”

In a news release, Nielsen said youth “are susceptible to commercials and advertisements, especially those with cartoon charac-

ters” and that they’re “most at risk to [accidental] exposure with edibles like brownies, cookies and candies.” Nielsen’s staff did not respond to several requests for comment.

Concerns raised by the senator—most notably, young people confusing a cannabisinfused product for an innocuous product they know—echo those of anti-tobacco activists. They, too, have seen a retail environment with clever impersonators. Instead of “Pot Tarts,” they’ve lamented candyflavored cigarillos.

Ellen Michels, education specialist for Butte County Public Health, sees “parallels there” between marijuana and tobacco. She described shops in Chico within 1,000 feet of schools that on one side display tobacco products—“most of which is flavored and colorful”—and on the other side offer “glassware and paraphernalia for using marijuana.”

Her point is that “we already have that close to schools. I would like people to see that that’s happening, and go on to do something about it.”

Currently, neither Chico nor Butte County allows retail sale of cannabis.

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tion coordinator for the California Health Collaborative, particularly appreciates that the bill has come ahead of widespread legalization. While medical sales and personal possession, cultivation and use are legal, sales for recreational use remain illegal until 2018. Both medical and recreational sales are subject to local regulation.

Baldwin sees legalization for medical purposes as a major factor for marijuana shedding a stigma. California was among the first states to do so, with Prop. 215 in 1996; with last year’s passage of Prop. 64, California joined the vanguard of states legalizing marijuana for recreational use.

According to statistics compiled by KidsData.org, part of the Lucile Packard Foundation for Children’s Health, more Butte County teens use marijuana than tobacco. The surveys show that 85 percent of junior high and high school students say they’ve never smoked and just 6.6 percent say they’ve smoked more than seven times HEALTHLINES C O N T I N U E D

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ever. Fewer—75 percent—say they’ve never used marijuana, and 13.7 percent say they’ve used it seven or more times. Strikingly, 25 percent of 11th-graders use marijuana repeatedly versus 12.2 percent who smoke cigarettes as habitually. These statistics mirror national ones, with teen use of marijuana overtaking that of cigarettes for the first time in 2015, according to Time magazine.

“I work with a lot of young people face to face, and the real issue I’ve seen [with cannabis] is, ‘Well, if it’s medicine, it can’t be that bad,’” Baldwin said. “For crying out loud, heroin was medicine when it was first introduced! Bayer Aspirin put it in bottles and sold it to people [as cough medicine in the 1890s and 1900s].

“It’s hard to get a kid to understand that just because it’s medicine doesn’t mean that it’s safe for everybody to use.”

Particularly in high concentrations, cannabinoids—the active chemicals in cannabis—can trigger long-term effects, Michels said.

Human brains continue to develop through young adulthood; exposure to THC, one of the more potent cannabinoids, in high doses can impact mental health.

“Especially with the THC concentrations so high now, marijuana is not the same thing as it was a decade or two ago,” she said. “It’s

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commercialized. And the products are not the same—you have highly concentrated products that can be very dangerous if kids get a hold of them.”

Just as Michels sees a parallel between marijuana and tobacco, Baldwin finds a comparison between edibles and energy drinks.

He explained how beverage makers began creating products with alcohol that can be hard to distinguish from the everyday Red Bull or Monster or Full Throttle. Some stores stock the cans side by side.

“There’s been a lot of effort to change that, to change that packaging,” he said.

As of the CN&R’s deadline, SB 663 had passed in the Assembly and awaited Senate concurrence to amendments for final approval.

“Now is the time to do what Sen. Nielsen is doing—now is the time to put in as many laws to protect children as possible,” Baldwin said. “Let’s not wait like we did with tobacco … and then hav[e] to fight this rich and powerful industry.” □

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Associated Students staff at Chico State Fwould pass by an unused nook on the or years, Jamie Clyde and others on the

ground floor of Bell Memorial Union and ponder, What if.

“I always had my eyeball on it,” said Scott Harrison, retail manager for A.S. Clyde, assistant executive director of A.S. Dining Services, said the goal of Urban “It’s a focal spot, a place where you could Roots is not to make a huge profit. To keep do something amazing.” items affordable, margins are thin. Rather, Meanwhile, students have clamored for A.S. established the store to meet a need—a healthy, sustainable food options. Vegan, demand. vegetarian, locally sourced, fair trade—such “We all have decisions in our life, espelabels have become requirements. The CSU cially in a consumer society such as this system has adopted principles of the Real where we are often voting with our dollars,” Food Challenge, which seeks to shift $1 Harrison said. “By shopbillion of university food ping here, they’re given budgets toward commua daily choice to be the “It’s those nity-based, eco-friendly change that they want to little choices, sources by 2020. see in the world. They Thus came Urban can buy their soy milk every day, Roots. a company that will that do matter.” from A.S. decided to devote support all the types of —scott Harrison the space to a convenience social action that they store with grab-and-go want to see. food items, prepared by “It’s those little choicA.S. Dining, that fit what students cones, every day, that do matter.” sider to be “real food” or “whole food.”

That’s why A.S. chose Urban Roots over, Prepackaged products come from manusay, a nail salon or frozen yogurt shop. facturers that are local and/or committed to Clyde and Harrison said Chico State’s sustainability. Fresh salads, sandwiches and store is distinct—only a few other camwraps contain as many local ingredients as puses nationwide have green-foods shops. possible.

Both follow trends, among colleges and Urban Roots puts these products in one in the food-service industry; menu offerconvenient location—what Harrison calls ings that once would have been considered “centralized sourcing for natural foods that’s niche, such as gluten-free goods, now have both socially responsible and ecologically become common. responsible.”

“There’s no such thing as ‘specialty food,’” Urban Roots opened last spring, with a Clyde said, citing the varieties and brands grand opening held May 10 to coincide with available for purchase at whole-foods stores Chico State’s 75th anniversary celebration. such as S&S Produce and New Earth Market.

A.S. will hold another such event Aug. 24.

Moreover, she added, the student-driven

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Real Food Challenge has been “shifting buying power to smaller companies doing the right thing” in terms of production and charitable outreach. The notion of “food with a purpose”—where a purchase also supports a cause—adds appeal.

The Real Food Challenge dates to 2005, when

the Food Project—a Boston-based nonprofit—drew inspiration from a conference presentation on local food and subsequently collaborated with the California Student Sustainability Coalition. The program launched in 2008.

According to its website (www.realfood challenge.org), the Real Food Challenge has secured over $60 million in commitments from schools pledging to purchase at least 20 percent of their food from “real food” suppliers—that is, farms and manufacturers not operating on a massive industrial scale. The 23-campus CSU system has not signed onto the agreement, nor has the University of California system, but both follow the principles.

Clyde explained that the effort and expense of program administration dissuaded Chico State from becoming an official participant. Nonetheless, the university uses the Real Food Challenge calculator, an online assessment tool, to measure how Where to find it:

urban Roots is located by the West second street entrance of Bell Memorial union, next to a staircase by the elevator. For more information, visit as.csuchico.edu (search “urban Roots”).

close it’s coming to the goal. (Currently, she said, Chico State is around 14 percent.)

Satisfying sensible impulses is one thing; satisfying cravings is another. Urban Roots has no future if it offers only eye candy.

Harrison said the store drew “a lot of window shoppers” during its initial weeks but attracted paying customers, too.

A.S. staff members not only researched the pedigree of each supplier, they also performed taste tests.

“We sampled and sampled and sampled and sampled,” he said, laughing. “It was ridiculous. We brought in three or four times more than the amount of stuff that we thought we’d want in the full categories of foods … seeing what we thought would work.”

Some of the products will ring a bell: Mary’s Gone Crackers, Lundberg Family Farms rice chips, Snack Factory pretzel thins. Urban Roots sells potato chips, too, albeit organic. “[The potato is] fried in a healthy coconut oil so it’s sustainable and healthier,” Harrison said. “Because we do like junk food—it’s legit. We try to do harm reduction as much as possible.”

The store has two avenues of expansion on the horizon.

The first, perhaps by the end of 2017, is adding fresh produce from Chico State’s Organic Vegetable Project. Harrison said A.S. considered selling fresh fruits and vegetables earlier, but the summer slowdown made fall a more sensible time to start.

Clyde said Urban Roots could begin accepting debit cards for CalFresh, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program once known as food stamps.

Humboldt State already offers EBT access at its College Creek Marketplace; Chico State has applied. □

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Literacy is fundamental to success at school and in society, and students usually cross an important threshold sometime around the fourth grade: They start reading to learn. But most fourth-graders in Chico—some 60 percent, in fact—are still learning to read. That’s why a local program called Reading Pals is intervening during the second and third grades, explained volunteer coordinator Katie Good. She recently spoke to the CN&R along with Meredith Solomon, one of about 165 community members who volunteer as reading tutors for one hour a week. Since starting in 2013 at Rosedale, McManus, Chapman and Citrus elementary schools, the program has expanded to eight local schools—including, as of this fall, two within Paradise Unified School District. Overall, the program has helped improve the reading levels of about 650 students. For information on upcoming fundraising events, opportunities to volunteer and how to make a donation to Reading Pals, go to www.reading palschico.org.

Somehow, every year, summer comes and with it a long list of fun activities I’m going to do. Then, before I know it—and generally before I’m halfway through my list—it’s back-to-school time. Where did the summer go? And what the heck did I do these past few months? Other than sweat buckets, that is? I did manage to get out to the Sacramento River a few times. And barbecued some of the best burgers I’ve ever tasted. Went on a family vacation. Enjoyed the long evenings. Ah, I’m gonna miss you, Chico summer.

Why is literacy so important?

Good: If students aren’t reading for information, they typically will end up … dropping out of high school, or even middle school. They are also more likely to make risky decisions.

Solomon: It ends up being a

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community issue because these kids don’t end up being productive members of society.

Good: Yeah, they want the info—they want to know the truth!

What’s the curriculum like?

Does it work?

Good: We use Flying Start to Literacy, which is a guided reading literacy plan. Basically, we start at the level the student is reading at and have the students read out loud. The volunteers are mainly responsible for making sure the students pause at periods and other punctuation, they pronounce words correctly and they understand the definitions and meanings behind it all. They also go through comprehension strategies: “What is the author’s purpose?” “How can we compare these two characters?”

Solomon: Our data shows most kids double their reading skills by the end of the reading period and catch back up to their grade level.

What do you read with them?

Solomon: It’s kind of funny.

There are always two books in each set—a fiction and nonfiction.

Nine times out of 10, they want to start with the nonfiction book.

What do you get out of volunteering?

Solomon: I personally don’t have kids—I have dogs and a stepson—so it was a chance to be around kids and a school environment. I’ve had three sets of kids at Chapman. Just from the beginning to the end of the year, the relationship we’ve built is as important to me as it is to the child. It’s neat to see the progression from shyness on both sides to hugging and crying at the end of the year—and the confidence kids get.

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noyed I am at the branding behind it—the Great American Eclipse? Really? Here in Chico, we’re not in the “path of totality,” but from about 8-10:40 a.m. on Monday (Aug. 21), the moon will make its way across the sun, blocking about 83 percent of it at its peak. Crazy!

One thing to think about if you plan on looking right at it, however, is protecting your eyes. SunPower by Alternative Energy Solutions (876 East Ave.) is giving away special eclipse-viewing glasses (max four per person, until they run out). According to NASA, these are essential—regular sunglasses will not protect your eyes.

If you don’t snag a free pair, get online now and order some. I couldn’t find any other local retailers carrying them.

chicks, man If I thought my beloved Boston terrier, Oliver, would be cool with it, I’d try to raise chickens. Because I do love eggs, particularly the farm-fresh variety. For anyone else out there thinking about raising your own chickens, though, now might just be the time to start, as Tractor Supply is in the midst of “Fall Chick Days.” Stop by the Chico or Oroville stores between now and Sept. 24 to check out the chicks on offer and chat up an associate if you have any questions.

Big-rEtail updatE In June, Gymboree filed for bankruptcy and last month it announced the impending closure of 350 stores, among them the Crazy 8 kids’ clothing shop in the Chico Mall. Also, in the land of mediocre chain restaurants, the parent company of Applebee’s and IHOP announced it will close up to 160 yet-to-benamed “under-performing” locations this year. hEllo, goodByE It seems like just yesterday I was welcoming Chrome Industries to town. Its bicycle apparel factory shop, Chico Factory Outlet, opened its doors at the end of March and last week announced it’s closed for good. Visit www.chrome industries.com to keep up with the Bay Area-based brand. Rofu, the factory that manufactures for Chrome, Keen Footwear and other brands, is still up and running on Park Avenue. island flavors I’m excited to announce a new restaurant is set to open on the north end of town: Halo Hawaiian BBQ & Poke, in the Safeway shopping center on East Avenue. My taste buds are tingling. Let’s hope it doesn’t take as long as some other local teases (ahem, Cream, which finally has an opening date: Aug. 26!).

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Set up for success T here’s a saying that college will be the best years of your life. That’s because it’s exciting. It’s a time of learning, and not just the stuff in books. It’s also a time of self-discovery and personal growth. College is the place you’ll meet a lot of people with similar interests and make lifelong friends.

Thing is, higher education also presents challenges and, for many students, those obstacles can make it difficult to reach their goals.

That’s why, in this year’s backto-school issue, we’re focusing on a handful of the many resources students can seek out to help them make their way. We’ll introduce you to a number of programs and opportunities for various populations of students: former foster youth, those from low-income and culturally diverse backgrounds, members of the LGBT student body, and also nontraditional students such as parents and re-entry students.

The commonality here is that each is focused on support and student success.

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Finding their way Program gives foster-care and homeless students the support they need

D

uring his high school years, Martín Morales was a kid without a home. Alienated from his birth parents, he stayed with relatives in Southern California, Arizona and Colorado until their welcomes wore out. Somehow, despite the uncertainty of his living situation, he managed to graduate from Compton High School.

Morales, a 20-year-old junior majoring in sociology at Chico State, is tall and lanky and impresses with his quick intelligence and articulate speech. At Compton High, a counselor who understood that he was homeless and on his own also recognized that he was college material and directed him toward the PATH (Promoting Achievement Through Hope) Scholars Program.

Found at several California State University campuses, the program exclusively serves students who were raised in foster care for a significant portion of their lives until they became emancipated at age 18, as well as youth who are homeless and on their own—in bureaucratese, “unaccompanied homeless youth.”

Locally, it operates in conjunction with Butte and Shasta colleges.

In interviews conducted with a handful of PATH students at the program’s Siskiyou Hall center, a cinderblock room that offers a place to gather and some computers to work on, it soon became clear that there’s a fair amount of crossover between the groups: Homeless youth sometimes leave the streets or other temporary

lodging to stay in foster care, and foster care youth sometimes run away and become homeless.

In both cases, the youth face serious obstacles when it comes to transitioning to adulthood and, in particular, college studies. Their lives often have been chaotic, they sometimes haven’t done well in school, and they commonly suffer from low self-esteem and lack confidence that they can succeed in college. The prospect seems daunting to them.

“Most of our lives there’s been nobody we can trust,” said Genni Bonilla, 22, who wants to become a nurse. Like several other PATH students, she has nothing but good words for Marina Fox, the program’s coordinator. “PATH offers a kind of family, and Marina gives us a sense of community at Chico State,” she said.

The first time Bonilla contacted the PATH Program, by telephone, she ended up having a two-hour conversation with Fox. She was amazed and thrilled that someone had shown so much care and concern for her.

A 1998 graduate of Chico State, Fox has a

master’s degree in social work and nearly 20 years of experience working with foster and at-risk youth.

Left: Marina Fox (left), the much-loved coordinator of the PATH Scholars Program, is shown here with four PATH students. They are, from left, Genni Bonilla, Martín Morales, Elián Lopez and Coral Olynyk.

PHOTO BY ROBERT SPEER

Below: Fox and Lopez at the PATH center at Chico State.

PHOTO BY JASON CASSIDY

A plethora of programs PATH Scholars offers a variety of services, including: • Supportive social network • Priority registration for students • Academic Advising assistance • Student leadership development • Career exploration • Counseling and support • Mentoring • Guidance with housing, scholarships, and community resources • Free application for federal student aid (FAFSA) application workshops • University admission assistance The PATH program also offers a variety of social activities designed to create a sense of community. These include: • Cultural events • Monthly group social gatherings • End-of-the-year celebration • Opportunities to get involved in the PATH student organization For more information, go to www.csuchico.edu/fosteryouth.

—ROBERT SPEER

She was hired as coordinator of the PATH Scholars Program 3 1/2 years ago, when it was founded. She quickly realized the obstacles PATH students faced. In a profile piece written about that time by Chantal Richards and posted on the Chico State website, Fox is quoted as saying, “These students have no family support and usually need assistance in different areas like making connections with peers. They don’t have a place to go during the [school] breaks because they have no one to take them.”

PATH exists to smooth the way for its students. “It helps conquer obstacles,” as Morales put it.

One way it does that is by creating liaisons in several important administrative programs. These are employees deputized specifically to help PATH students negotiate the intricacies of, say, applying for financial aid and filling out the required forms, navigating the admissions process, or finding a place to live.

PATH liaisons can be found in the Financial Aid Office, the Career Center, University Housing, Academic Advising, Admissions, the Educational Opportunity Program and the Accessibility Resource Center, Fox said. All an eligible student needs to do is identify him- or herself as a PATH student, and someone will step forward to help.

In addition, PATH students are given priority registration to make sure they get the classes they need. Also, a section of Konkow Hall has been set aside for PATH students who want to live on campus.

The students CN&R interviewed all perceived Chico State as “a big, caring community,” as one of them put it. They’re grateful for all the services that exist for their benefit.

And they love being in college.

Currently, there are about 150 PATHeligible students at Chico State, Fox said, with about half of them actively involved in its programs. She speculates that those who have chosen to stay away are doing so because they don’t want to be identified as foster or homeless youth. There’s an unfortunate stigma attached to the labels, she said.

Morales agreed. On the other hand, he said, PATH students have much to be proud of. After all, they haven’t had it easy and yet have made it to college and are prospering.

They have the mental toughness and maturity that come from being forced to live close to the edge, something most students can only imagine.

Morales has just moved into his own apartment, he said with a big smile. He’s on his way.

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“When I stepped foot on campus, at first I didn’t even think that the culture would affect me,” she said. “When I walked into my first couple of classes, I noticed that I was one of a few people of color in my classroom—like four of us. It made me feel a little sad.”

As a first-generation college student from a low-income background, Ortega sought support from the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center (CCLC)—an on-campus program that, according to part of its mission, “exists to create an environment in which all students, regardless of their ethnicity, culture or differences, feel respected, connected and affirmed.”

For Ortega, that rings true. She was welcomed by staff, which is composed primarily of students, and found her place on campus. In fact, Ortega’s experiences at the center were so life-changing that she’s now one of its interns.

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The designation allows the university the opportunity to seek out specified grant funding from the U.S. Department of Education.

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the Cross-Cultural leadership Center is celebrating its 10th anniversary next month with a series of events between sept. 29-31, including a meet-and-greet at Madison bear garden, an open house and gala, and a legacy brunch that connects current staff members to previous ones. to learn more about the CClC and details about its upcoming celebration, go to www.csuchico.edu/cclc.

release, the university has already received a five-year, $4.2 million grant that aims “to increase the number of Hispanic and other lowincome students attaining degrees in the fields of science, technology, engineering or mathematics.”

Despite the designation, Krystle Tonga, an assistant program coordinator for the CCLC, said that students of color may still feel isolated on campus. Thus, part of the center’s mission is to help them combine their cultural identity with leadership skills.

“Students will come in here and they’ll say, ‘I’m not a leader—that doesn’t resonate with me,’” she said.

“For us, it’s helping them recognize that their voice is their power, their story is their power and that they get a chance to shape that story through transformational leadership.”

Earlier this summer, for example, the center hosted a luncheon with the university’s president, Gayle Hutchinson. Members of the CCLC’s staff spoke with Hutchinson about the center and its goals, and what it means for the campus. They also learned more about the president’s plans for the university.

The center offers students a

Julie Ortega found her place on campus thanks to her time at the Cross-Cultural Leadership Center.

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variety of programs. One of them, Beyond Obstacles Leadership Development, teaches students how to succeed on campus. Each biweekly meeting covers a different topic including self-exploration, leadership and diversity, said Karla Guzman, a CCLC student employee.

Another program, Pipeline Through College, pairs students from underperforming high schools in Sacramento with volunteer student mentors from Chico State. The goal: to show the high-schoolers that higher education is achievable and to allow the undergraduates to develop their leadership skills.

Tonga has held her current position with CCLC since 2012, but she remembers what it was like to be a student struggling to fit in and overcome obstacles and how the center helped her to do so.

“The CCLC saved my life,” she said. “For me, as a student, it truly was a place of possibility.”

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rowing up in the small, Central Valley town of San Andreas, Adrien Macias felt a distinct disconnection from most of the people around her.

“It was rough,” Macias recalled recently during an interview at the Associated Students’ Gender and Sexuality Equity Center, located in the basement of Bell Memorial Union at Chico State. “I never even saw other people like me … people who were queer didn’t really talk about it, and there wasn’t a very large community of people of color. As a kid, I didn’t really recognize identity politics or what it means to be different.”

Then, as a freshman at Chico State in 2015, Macias ran across a GSEC information table and felt compelled to stop into the center.

“It changed everything for me,” Macias said. “I’d been searching for people that I could relate to, not just as a queer person of color, but because of the issues I think are important and the topics I wanted to study. This is where I found a community, support and friends.

That’s given me the strength to overcome barriers I feel like I faced growing up and to flourish … in my identity, my academics, everything.”

Macias eventually got an internship at GSEC and is now starting a second year as the center’s outreach coordinator. Macias initially began pursuing a degree in sociology, but after working at GSEC became inspired to add a second major in multicultural and gender studies: “I’ve come to realize that working for social justice is everything to me. It’s what I want to do the rest of my life—to promote equity and the treatment of others the way they should be treated.”

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more than 40 years. GSEC began in 2011 and evolved from the university’s Women’s Center, which was founded in 1971. It’s more than just a physical place at which to gather—it’s also an activist organization deeply rooted in feminist politics.

The jump to GSEC was “an effort to further promote human rights and the equal representation of marginalized students,” according to the center’s Facebook page.

To accomplish that goal, the group added three new programs—queer, trans and outreach—to the original women’s program.

“Some of the main things we provide are a safe space for folks of any identity and experience to come, to find resources or referrals for on- or off-campus support,” said GSEC Director Rachel Ward.

“Anyone can come here in times of crisis or when they’re experiencing a hard situation, whether it be related to the LGBTQ-plus experience or as a woman, or no matter how a person identifies.”

Ward said the center also provides help for victims of sexual assault and women’s health resources, and is a place where

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those interested in social justice and equity can find a like-minded community.

“On the outside looking in, it might look like a lot of rainbows,” she said. “But we’re here to provide a safe space and resource center for all students, staff, faculty, anyone. We have an open-door policy and love to see new faces.”

Ward said GSEC has been especially busy since last November, when people emboldened by President Trump began to openly air hateful rhetoric, or worse. She said people have come to the center saying they’ve had slurs, and even rocks, thrown at them, and there have been anti-abortion demonstrations by religious extremists on campus: “Coming from feminist roots, we’ve always responded to any act or threat of harm, emotional or physical. When we become aware of something like that, we’ll be there within an hour to send a different message.”

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shley Whitehead didn’t take the typical route to earning a college degree. During a recent interview, the 34-year-old single mother detailed her on-again, offagain academic journey that culminated last spring in a bachelor’s in philosophy.

Whitehead is part of a population that grapples with challenges beyond those the typical college student faces—from family responsibilities to financial obligations and work constraints. Oftentimes, such obstacles stop promising students from reaching educational goals and pursuing desired careers. However, as Whitehead can attest, there are opportunities on campus for nontraditional students to pursue.

For her, the Associated Students Child Development Lab at Chico State was an essential piece of the puzzle. The lab provides low- and no-cost educational and childcare services to students, staff and faculty. Enrolling her daughter, Sienna, in the lab allowed Whitehead to go to school full-time.

“I wouldn’t [otherwise] have been able to make it financially,” she said.

The facility also provided peace of mind. “It definitely made it a lot easier,” said Whitehead, who plans to go into the university’s teaching credential program. “It really helps knowing she’s right there—safe— on campus with me.”

Others can relate. According to Sally Miller, director of the Child Development Lab, without the facility, attending classes would be difficult for many enrollees, especially those in households with no one else to care for the children.

The lab operates preschool, Head Start and even pre-Head Start programs. It enrolls around 70 children—from 2 months old to kindergarten-age—each semester.

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For McBryde, who grew up in a single-parent household, it was hard to start college in the first place. Being interested in English, art, drama and fashion in high school, she visited the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising (FIDM) in San Francisco with her mother, but found living expenses in the Bay Area too expensive. She opted instead to study at an FIDM campus in Los Angeles—much farther from her Redding home.

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ly ill and she returned to the North State. A year later, after her mother succumbed to cancer, McBryde stayed home with her sister and the rest of her family. She took general education classes at Shasta College, but with bills piling up, McBryde put college on the backburner. She became focused on working and eventually started a family of her own.

But in 2015, at the age of 48, she returned to the pursuit of higher education. The scholarship allowed her to attend classes at Chico State full time and speed up her graduation. She’ll earn her bachelor’s degree this fall, and plans to apply for the teaching credential program.

McBryde said the scholarship has allowed her to have the “college experience,” join the English honors society, and be engaged on campus in things like going to see guest speakers rather than work.

“I probably wouldn’t have been able to do [any of] that [without the scholarship],” she said. “I would have to go home and get ready to work.”

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people from the military, Nazi salutes in the streets, etc. So, for by Pride 2017, Chico’s Jason Stonewall Alliance has Cassidy grabbed the wheel and shifted gears. With the j asonc @ newsrev iew.c om theme of this year’s series of events— “Let’s Get Back to the Chico Pride 2017 Future”—Chico Pride For info on all of this year’s Pride events, has taken stock of the see cN&R’s this week current political climate calendar (this page), in America and made a Nightlife calendar commitment to “respond (page 34) and visit accordingly to the needs www.stonewall chicopride.com of our community in moving forward.”

According to Stonewall center coordinator Alyssa Larson, this is the biggest Pride yet, and the scope of this year’s programming shows how energized advocacy groups have become in the face of regressions in human rights. Here are a few highlights from the Pride 2017 calendar. Join the party and the fight.

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Chico Peace & Justice Center, 526 Broadway.

Pride Variety Show Friday, Aug. 18, 8 p.m., $10-$15 One the hallmarks of Chico Pride, it’s a showcase of performing artists of all media—including singers, dancers and spoken-word artists—and is highlighted by a cavalcade of drag performers. In addition to featuring Chico’s homegrown drag acts, the program includes kings and queens from other parts of the country, with this year’s spotlight on a couple of kings—Florida’s Spikey Van Dykey and former Nor Cal (now Las Vegas) performer Noel August as Tucker Noir—who will be co-hosting as well as performing. “Spikey is known around the world as the pioneer of modern drag-

kinging,” said August (who is also directing the show) via Facebook message.

“He has been performing for 15 years …

He’s been on Transfashionable, in the Huffington Post and has an upcoming Elle spread.”

The variety show’s theme this year is sci-fi, and attendees are encouraged to dress accordingly—“alien couture,” as it were.

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Chico Pride Festival Saturday, Aug. 19, 10 a.m.-4 p.m.

The centerpiece Pride event is a multifaceted community celebration in the center of Chico, with speakers, live music, water-fountain dancers, vendors and information booths. New for this year: mini floats—decorated wheelbarrows and wagons parading around the plaza.

Chico City Plaza Fierce & Fun Queer Sounds Saturday, Aug. 19, 2-6 p.m., $5-$10 If anyone is having a hard time getting worked up over social injustice in America, a little pissed-off queercore might just do the trick. This afternoon warm-up show for the evening’s dance doubles as a beer garden for the simultaneous festivities at City Plaza, and will feature S.F. queer punks Homobile as well as local acts Deadname (queercore), Scout (ambient electro-rap indie-pop), The Hecks and more.

Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

Special Events CHICO PRIDE WEEKEND: This year’s theme is Let’s Get Back to the Future, with three packed days of activities for all ages, including adult and teen dances, lectures, a comedy show, brunch, live music, drag performances and more. See feature, this page. Thu, 8/17. Various locations. 530-893-3336. www. stonewallchicopride.com

PARTY IN THE PARK: The Ridge community’s weekly summertime celebration with arts and crafts, food vendors and live music from Driver. Thu, 8/17, 5:30pm. Free. Paradise Community Park, 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise. www.paradisechamber. 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, 8/17, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

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PRIDE FESTIVAL: A family-friendly Chico Pride celebration with a mini float parade, live bands, performances, speakers, vendors, food, dancing and more. Sat 8/19, 10am. $5-$10. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.stonewallchicopride.com

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Sat 8/19, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

I’M DEAD, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?: See Friday. Sat, 8/19, 7:30pm. $5. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: A heartwarming comedy

concert series wraps up with classic rock and blues from Old Skool. Thu, 8/17, 6:30pm. Free. Martin Luther King Jr. Park, 2821 Wyandotte Ave., Oroville. www.frrpd. com

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following renowned efficiency expert Frank Gilbreth and his wife, Lillian, who raise their 12 children by the clock. The parents have help from their eldest daughter, Ann, but challenges and humorous situations still arise. Thu, 8/17, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-8943282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

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PRIDE COMMUNITY BRUNCH: A brunch provided

by Leon Bistro to cap Chico Pride festivities. Includes face-painting and games for kids. Sun, 8/20, 9am. Free. Oak Grove, Lower Bidwell Park. www.stonewallchicopride.com

Music GATHERING WITH MICKEY: A family-friendly afternoon under the shade of giant oaks with live music by The Ascenders, Wiley’s Coyotes, Paper Hats, Get Foxy and Jeremy Crossley. Sun, 8/20, 1pm. Free. Oak Grove, Lower Bidwell Park.

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Sun, 8/20, 2pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

I’M DEAD, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?: See Friday. Sun, 8/20, 2pm. $5. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Bring blankets and lowback chairs to the area outside of Dick’s Sporting Goods for this screening of Alexander and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. Fri, 8/18, 7pm. Free.

Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.shop chicomall.com

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Chico’s signature concert series continues with local bluegrass/

Americana favorites Mossy Creek. Fri, 8/18, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtownchico.com

Theater CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN: See Thursday. Fri, 8/18, 7:30pm. $18. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

EDITOR’S PICK

THE CAMERA SOMETIMES LIES The fall semester is nearly underway at Chico State, which means we’ve finally crossed the cultural wasteland that is summertime in Chico and get to check out the university’s selection of top-shelf art.

First up: Two Truths and a Lie, a new exhibition of photography at the Jacki Headley University Art Gallery featuring the work of late tabloid photographer Weegee (Arthur H. Fellig) and contemporary artists Zoe Crosher and Jessamyn Lovell. It looks to be a thought-provoking exploration of themes such as surveillance, the variability of documentary photographs and the blurring of truth and fiction—check it out Aug. 21-Sept. 30.

I’M DEAD, WHAT’S YOUR STORY?: DIY play written, directed and performed by local teen actors. Fri, 8/18, 7:30pm. $5. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

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CHICO ART CENTER: Shared Visions, an exhibition curated by Erin Lizardo featuring collaborations between adult artists and children, extending beyond the formal display of visual art. Through 9/1. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726. www.chicoartcenter.com

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JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Saluzzo Italy 1931 -1999, Leo Remigante’s plein air paintings of Italian villages. Through 8/31. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Printing Obsessions, Conjuring Curatorial Practice, advanced printmaking students select works that speak to the meticulous side of printmaking and showcase obsessive technique, psychological intent or eliminative construction. 8/21-9/23. Free. Chico State. www.janetturner.org

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Rotating exhibits featuring local artists. Through 9/16. 493 East Ave., 530-345-3063.

SATORI SALON: Strange Animals, an exhibition of brightly colored birds and bison in the imaginative style of Chico artist Michael Mulcahy. Through 8/31. Free. 627 Broadway, 530-228-4949.

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Rare John Deere Tractors, a talk about tractors with expert restorers and collectors Rod Hisken of Oregon House and his friend Dax Kimmelshue of Durham. Aug. 19, 10am. $3. Branding Irons, a display of more than 50 branding irons.

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COLMAN COMMUNITY MUSEUM: Cultural artifacts from Butte Creek Canyon, from Native American pre-history to the early 20th century. Through 9/16. 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.

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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. Through 12/31. Free.

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MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Reed Applegate Collection, the inaugural Monca collection of Northern California artwork.

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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.

PATRICK RANCH MUSEUM: History Through the Lens of a Camera, an exhibition featuring vintage cameras and photos dating from the mid-1800s to mid-1900s. Through 10/28. Free.

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tably has led to some dry spells over the years. by “Sometimes, Howard there’s nothing Hardee going on and you’re screwed,” h owardh@ newsrev iew.c om he said during his Friday (Aug. 11) Review: performance at durst Case scenario, with Will durst, Chico Women’s Friday, Aug. 11, at Club, and then Chico Women’s Club lowered his normally nasal voice for dramatic effect: “But not now …” President Trump, he explained, is obviously bad for the country, hemisphere, planet and solar system—but for him? Pure gold.

“He’s done for political comedy what legalized marijuana did for Cheetos,” Durst added.

That one got a big laugh from the audience that packed the Women’s Club for this stop on the Durst Case Scenario tour.

Presented by local community radio station KZFR 90.1 FM, the show was billed as a satirical diagnosis of America’s collective case of PTSD: “President Trump Stress Disorder.” Using an old-school overhead projector to illustrate his points, Durst kept laughs com-

ing steadily throughout a roughly 80-minute set. (One gentleman toward the back spat up his beer to three separate punchlines.)

Durst, 65, has made a career out of exposing the absurdity of politics. He’s told jokes on standup stages across the country, during late-night talk shows, in columns for The New York Times and Huffington Post, on air for NPR and various podcasts, and as an author of three books. He’s also something of an honorary Chicoan who has made intermittent appearances here over the last several decades. After opening sets by the local husband-wife duo Merry Standish Comedy and standup-scene veteran DNA, Durst was presented KZFR’s lifetime achievement award by general manager Rick Anderson.

“Will Durst has been our friend for a really, really long time,” Anderson said. “Whenever we’ve asked him to do something, he’s always been right there.” Durst, for his part, made a quick observation about the silver statue: “It’s a little microphone and the switch is off,” he said. “I don’t know what that’s supposed to mean.”

Then he introduced himself as an “aspiring satirist,” adding, “When you say that, people think you have goat legs or something.”

He continually proved himself to be one of those sorts of people who can’t help being funny, even when his jokes flopped. For the most part, the bits were wellcrafted, -timed and -delivered, but the humor was tied equally to his cartoonish voice—which often rose into an excited, screechy crescendo—and his wildly exaggerated hand gestures and facial expressions. He also had some goofy shticks, such as surveying the audience with questions like, “Who voted on Nov. 8?” and “How many people were afraid this sort of shit would happen?”

Given how toxic American politics have become, Durst covered some dark subjects—the death of American democracy, Russia’s interference in the U.S. presidential election, the prospect of nuclear annihilation—but he recognized that people want, or need, to laugh about it. He maybe even helped people at the show process it all.

As hilarious as he was this night, Durst admitted that, in this climate, it can be difficult to win over audiences on either side of the political spectrum: “It’s tough telling Trump jokes because Republicans don’t think they’re funny,” he said, “and Democrats don’t think they’re jokes.” □

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If epic metal riffage is your bag, you want to be there when Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy hits the stage at The Maltese Bar & Tap Room on Friday, Aug. 18. The long-running group of local heavy-music heavyweights has a proclivity for end-of-all things doom-metal, but can also lay down surprisingly hooky, melodic vocal and instrumental lines that are liable to bury themselves in your ear. The bill only gets heavier thanks to locals Shadow Limb and Roseville’s Chrome Ghost. Earplugs advised.

GOTCHA COVERED: Dance hits in the

lounge. Fri, 8/18, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

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BLACKOUT BETTY: Rock ’n’ roll covers

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Roland Allen celebrates the release of Sticky Bee Honey Wheat Ale. Thu, 8/17, 6pm. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

and more. Thu, 8/17, 8:30pm. $5.

Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St. www.stonewallchicopride.com

SUMMER PUB RUN: An adults-only 3-4 mile run ending at a downtown pub. Thu, 8/17, 6pm. Free. Fleet Feet Sports, 241 Main St.

ERIC PETER: Solo jazz guitar. Thu, 8/17, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

JAZZ NIGHT: A weekly performance by The Chico Jazz Collective. Thu, 8/17, 8pm. Free. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

LET ME BE PERFECTLY QUEER: A Chico Pride stand-up comedy show hosted by Brandon Hilty and featuring Jason Anderson, Shahera Hyatt

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kicks off the summer semester with Bay Area DJ Mikey Tan, as well as DJ R10 and Jake Ryan. Fri, 8/18, 10pm. $2-$5. The Beach, 191 E. Second St.

from the 1980s. Fri, 8/18, 9pm.

Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

CORDUROYS: A country band from Sacramento playing modern hits and beloved classics. Fri, 8/18, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

DRIVER: The classic rockers take the

stage in their hometown. Fri, 8/18, 9pm. Free. White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

FUNK TREK: A six-member band melding old- and new-school funk with R&B, soul, hip-hop and jazz. Brooker D and The Mellow Fellows open. Fri, 8/18, 9pm. $10. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

in various forms celebrating the diversity of the LGBT community and Chico Pride Weekend. Proceeds benefit Stonewall Alliance. Fri, 8/18, 7pm. $10-$15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.stonewall chicopride.com

REV ATOMICS: A wide variety of dance

music at an acceptable volume. Fri, 8/18, 7pm. Free. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St., Oroville.

TEEN PRIDE DANCE: A safe space for teens ages 13 to 17 to connect, dance, and express themselves proudly, with drag appearances, free food and mocktail bar, a photo booth and more. Fri, 8/18, 7pm. Free.

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BLACK FONG: Down-and-dirty funk.

Lo and Behold opens. Sat, 8/19, 9pm. $3. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, 530-321-9534.

TOUCH FUZZY GET DIZZY: The local heavyweights are joined by their extremely loud counterparts Shadow Limb and Chrome Ghost.

Fri, 8/18, 9pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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CHICO PRIDE DRAG SHOW: A night of drag, dancing and drinks to celebrate Chico Pride Weekend. Sat, 8/19, 10pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

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Mac covers. Sat, 8/19, 8pm. Free.

Ramada Plaza, 685 Manzanita Court.

SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 8/19, 5pm.

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warmed up for the Chico Pride Dance with performances by The Hecks, Deadname, The Homobiles, Nicole Victory, Tibire and Scout. Sat, 8/19, 2pm. $5-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

and vintage Western. Sun, 8/20, 6pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

Revival covers. Sat, 8/19, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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The Rev Atomics aren’t going to blow your eardrums out.

The local five-piece group plays all sorts of dance music at an “acceptable volume,” which might give you an idea of their target demographic—and the players themselves. At their next gig at Oroville’s Purple Line Urban Winery on Friday, Aug. 18, they’ll celebrate the 89th birthday of their bass player, Willie. As western author Larry McMurtry once wrote, “The older the violin, the sweeter the music.”

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8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza,

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The Conjuring gets her second standalone film, a silly movie that Ais nevertheless enjoyable thanks to some deft direction nnabelle, the creepy doll from

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Annabelle: Creation essentially by holds together thanks to solid perforBob Grimm mances from a good cast, especially bg ri m m @ Talitha Bateman and Lulu Wilson, new srev i ew. c o m the latter being the same child actress who did incredible work in the also surprisingly good prequel/sequel to a so-so movie, Ouija: Origin of Evil.

The film is set many years Annabelle: before the first Annabelle movie, Creation with orphans Janice (Bateman) and starring Lulu Wilson, Linda (Wilson) on their way to a talitha Bateman, new home, a group of other girls stephanie sigman and Anthony LaPaglia. and a happy nun, Sister Charlotte Directed by David F. (Stephanie Sigman), at their side. sandberg. Cinemark They arrive at the home of Samuel 14, Feather River Mullins (Anthony LaPaglia), a doll Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R. maker who (we have learned in the film’s prologue) lost his daughter Bee in a tragic roadside accident.

He’s miserable, his wife (Miranda Otto) is bedridden and ill, and he probably shouldn’t be bringing a bunch of kids into his haunted house. His head just isn’t right for orphan-hosting.

And yes, the house is haunted with a spirit that resides in that creepy doll we’ve all come to know and hate so damned much. (I hate creepy dolls almost as much as I hate creepy clowns.)

Janice had a bout with polio, which has left her with a leg brace and a basic inability to run away from demonic dolls. One thing leads to another, and characters start getting possessed and ripped to shreds

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by demon forces. (Damn those creepy dolls! Damn them to Hell!)

While Wilson was so great in Ouija and is quite good here, Bateman is the real scene-stealer this time out. She makes Janice genuine, and you pull for her to get out of the movie with most of herself intact. Wilson gets some sort of award for helping to make not one but two horror prequel/sequels very much worth watching after their mediocre/lousy predecessors.

Last year, director David F. Sandberg delivered a decent genre film with Lights Out, based on his terrifically scary short film, and he continues to show he’s good with a jolt scare; there are many moments in this movie where you are expecting one, and it still jolts you. He also makes good-looking movies. The authentic Southern Gothic look of this film lends to its credibility and keeps you in the story.

Does the film horrify or scare on the same level as Carpenter or vintage Romero? Absolutely not. Will it please those of us who like a capable horror thriller low on cheese? Yes. It’s a decent, late-summer, relatively fun kind of film. Forgettable, but fun while you watch it.

With these Annabelle movies and the upcoming The Nun all having sprouted from The Conjuring film series, give New Line Cinema some credit for doing a horror franchise (mostly) right. These stories are coming together nicely, and don’t feel forced and silly. And Sandberg finds satisfying ways, especially in the final scenes, to link the Conjuring universe together.

At this point, Annabelle is giving Chucky a run for his money as best killer doll that you shouldn’t have bought in the first place because it certainly looks like it intends to kill you.

I’m hoping for a Chucky vs. Annabelle in the future. □

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

Man in Black (Matthew McConaughey), some sort of devil man whose intention is to hunt people with the Shine because their brains harness the power to shoot laser beams into the Dark Tower, thus destroying it and releasing goofy CGI monsters upon the Earth.

Elba growls, McConaughey roams, each capable actor given next to nothing notable to do. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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Biopic about Johann Elser, a German carpenter who constructed and detonated a bomb with the intention of assassinating Adolf Hitler during the early months of WWII. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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The Hitman’s Bodyguard

A buddy action-comedy starring Ryan Reynolds as a bodyguard tasked with delivering a notorious hitman (Samuel L. Jackson) to a court appearance as assassins and other baddies make the assignment very difficult.

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

Logan Lucky

Steven Soderbergh (Erin Brockovich, Traffic) directs this action comedy about an elaborate heist during a NASCAR race. With an ensemble cast featuring Channing Tatum, Adam Driver, Riley Keough, Daniel Craig, Seth MacFarlane, Katie Holmes, Hilary Swank and more. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Moonlight

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Annabelle: Creation

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Atomic Blonde

Playing an undercover agent on a mission in Berlin in the late-1980s as The Wall begins to fall—Charlize Theron shows she can kick people through walls with the best of them. Directed by David Leitch (John Wick), Atomic Blonde pops with the same kind of kinetic energy that Wick did when the bullets and kicks started flying. Lorraine tells her story in flashback as she hunts for a list containing info about herself and fellow agents, a list that could continue the Cold War for decades to come. Her hunt includes interactions with unorthodox agent David Percival (James McAvoy), who mixes his espionage with partying and black market Jordache jeans trafficking. Theron and McAvoy are good on screen together, and their dialogue scenes are some of the best that don’t involve teeth getting broken. But this is Theron’s vehicle, and she owns it. An Academy Award-winning actress who can dramatically spar with the best of them, she’s proven she can kick ass as an action star as well. Cinemark 14. Rated R —B.G.

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The Dark Tower

This movie is a catastrophe. The CGI is terrible, the pacing is ridiculously, unnecessarily fast, and the plotting is confusing for those who haven’t read the Stephen King books. The story involves some kid named Jake (Tom Taylor), a sad teenager who is gifted with “the Shine,” the psychic powers Danny had in King’s The Shining. He dreams of another world where there is a Dark Tower that acts as some sort of barrier between other dimensions, protecting planets like Earth from evil. He also dreams of a gunslinger (Idris Elba) who is trying to kill the

Christopher Nolan’s extraordinary new movie has gotten widespread raves and praise from reviewers and critics.

And, somewhat to the surprise of the usual “observers,” it has also done very well at the box office in its opening week. It’s a riveting tale about a major event from World War II—the 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, multicharacter action drama and as an artfully complex war film in which the stories of several sets of individual characters are intricately intertwined with each other and with the unfolding events of an epic moment in modern history. 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. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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

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. Rated R.

The Glass Castle

An adaptation of Jeannette Walls’ bestselling 2005 memoir about her tumultuous upbringing with her three siblings and their dysfunctional parents. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Performances by CN&R musicians past & presen t: Mark McKinnon & The Strolling Rogues, Peter Berkow & Friends (featuring Bogg ), Viking Skate Country, Hallelujah Junction, The Stuff That Leaks Out, Job’s DeSoto

Former Vice President Al Gore is featured in this sequel to the Academy Award-winning An Inconvenient Truth, as he continues his efforts to help in the battle against climate change. Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

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Kidnap

Halle Barry stars as a single mom who goes full action-hero as she chases down the kidnappers who abducted her son. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

A 3-D animated feature about a purple squirrel and his animal friends trying to save a natural park from being bulldozed to build a less critter-friendly amusement park. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Spider-Man: Homecoming

The third iteration of Spider-Man film franchises continues sometime after the events of Captain America: Civil War, with the young web-slinger (played here by Tom Holland) being mentored on superhero life by Iron Man/ Tony Stark (Robert Downey Jr.). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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The IPA tasted like butterscotch by the time it was ready to be bottled.

I know what some of you may be thinking: Butterscotch is one of the finest flavors known to man, surpassed in excellence only by white truffles of Alba and the fatty belly meat of a fresh king salmon.

So, in what way had something gone wrong?

Well, here’s the funny thing: In the world of making and appreciating beer, that wonderful, thick and chewy flavor of butterscotch is a qualitative flaw. Butterscotch is bad. The flavor comes from a molecule called diacetyl (pronounced by many as “die-assit-ehl”), which is usually created in a beer by the yeasts that ferment sugar into alcohol. Fermented at the appropriate temperature, yeast will produce an insignificant and tasteless amount of diacetyl.

Fermented too warm, though, and diacetyl may overtake a beer.

While it can appeal to many taste buds, diacetyl generally

should not be in a beer.

“In some beer styles, a little is OK,” says Damien Perry, the president of the Marin Society of Homebrewers. “It’s what gives nice butterscotch flavors to a lot of English beers.”

Barleywines and Scotch-style ales, for instance, can benefit from a touch of diacetyl. In an IPA, though, it’s not what you want. I kept quiet about the fermentation goof, and I handed out bottles on Christmas morning anyway.

“It’s nice; it tastes like candy,” my brother-in-law told me shortly after New Year’s.

I cringed but accepted the praise.

So, why is something that tastes good considered a flaw in beer?

“It’s probably just based on historical norms,” Perry says.

He means that most beer styles have been made for decades or centuries, and each style has its standardized flavor profile.

Butterscotch just doesn’t fall into that profile in most cases.

In fact, diacetyl truly can taste terrible at times. I have tasted white wines that seemed like they’d been spiked with vanilla extract, so potent was the diacetyl flavor. My Christmas IPA, too, developed an even stronger butterscotch flavor over the course of a couple of months. By March, the last remaining bottles were cloyingly bad.

There are other flavors

that both plague and pleasure the makers of beer and wine.

Brettanomyces is a genus of yeast that creates a flavor usually likened to horse blanket or barnyard—and most winemakers fear Brett, as they call it, like the devil.

On the other hand, Brett beers have become a wildly popular category, with brewers intentionally infecting their beers with the funk-producing yeast.

Acetic acid—which makes vinegar taste like, well, vinegar—is another loved and hated compound among craft beverage makers.

Whereas acetic flavors may indicate that a wine, beer or cider is over the hill, just a touch can be lovely. The ciders of northern Spain are tart with the influence of acetic acid, and they are among my favorite things to drink.

Perry says that sometimes the essence of banana will develop in a beer. This, he says, is “undesirable in most styles but perfectly acceptable in a hefeweizen.”

Beer flaws are a subjective matter. While formal brewing instructions and beer judging guidelines serve the purpose of at least reminding us what a beer should taste like—and what a given style has traditionally tasted like—if you like the taste of vinegar or barnyard, a “bad” beer might be a good one.

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“How You’re So for Real” sits on strong percussive pillars, a good guitar hook and a charming vocal groove.

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2. Witnessing someone yelling “monkey!” at a black person on the sidewalk?

3. Hearing a clean-cut young Republican advocating “killing Jews” to a reporter who is filming him in public?

4. Someone screaming “Fuck you, faggot!” in your face?

5. A person carrying a swastika flag parading by you down Main Street?

If your answer to each was something along the lines of: “By breaking my knuckles on someone’s face,” your response is in line with that of many good people in this country.

All of the above—and many more heinous and even tragic—incidents were perpetrated by attendees at a “Unite the Right” march (Aug. 11) and an aborted rally (Aug. 12) held in Charlottesville, Va., this past weekend. All of it out in the open and recorded on video and shared on the Internet for all of us to witness and remember forever. Add all that to the fact that leaders attending the Saturday rally—a planned protest (canceled before it could start) against the proposed removal of a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee—included advocates for so-called “peaceful ethnic cleansing” of America (alt-right poster boy Richard Spencer) and many KKK and other hate group leaders (former Grand Wizard David Duke, to name one), and it comes as no surprise that the demonstrators were met by counterprotesters who exchanged chants, fists and pepper spray with the Unite the Right attendees.

I, for one, was proud to see so many bravely facing off against white supremacists. I’m not encouraging violence; I just think that it’s reasonable to respond with force to those who actively engage in attacking their fellow Americans by using the rhetoric and symbols of Nazi Germany and the Confederate South to advocate for their subservience at best, and extinction at worst. A fact that became a sickening reality when a car allegedly driven by a man who was photographed earlier in the day with the Unite the Right protesters sped into a crowd of counterprotesters, killing one (Heather Heyer) and injuring 19 others.

Even though the swastikas and rebel flags and hate speech remain protected by the First Amendment in America, we can do something about these monuments to hate.

Communities can band together and insist on the removal of the painful symbols of oppression from public places. Start with destroying the Charlottesville sculpture, then tear down all of the Confederate monuments (kudos to the city of Baltimore for tearing down four of them this week), rename the streets and buildings and bridges, and demand the Confederate flag be banned from flying over government buildings. That would be a great start toward owning our racist past and a step down the path of realizing the promise of the American experiment; something that seemed so promising during the obama administration, and has been rapidly diminished since Donald Trump took over.

As for the Nazis, we might want to start taping up our hands, because with our president emboldening the white supremacists at the Charlottesville rally by characterizing some of them as “very good people” and equating the counterprotesters with the vile racists they were fighting against, there is surely more to come. History has proven that words will not sway those who want to keep oppressive systems in place. It takes active resistance. As N. D. B. Connolly put it in an op-ed in the Washington Post this week, “a half-century ago, nothing less than radical anti-racism could reduce white supremacy to an outlaw religion,” or even more succinctly, “rock breaks scissors.”

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF august 17, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “To disobey

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Here’s more from Bachelard: “Autonomy comes through many small disobediences, at once clever, well thought-out, and patiently pursued, so subtle at times as to avoid punishment entirely.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Con-

gratulations! I expect that during the next three weeks, you will be immune to what psychoanalyst Joan Chodorow calls “the void of sadness, the abyss of fear, the chaos of anger, and the alienation of contempt and shame.” I realize that what I just said might sound like an exaggeration. Aren’t all of us subject to regular encounters with those states? How could you possibly go so long without brushing up against them? I stand by my prediction, and push even further. For at least the next three weeks, I suspect you will also be available for an inordinate amount of what Chodorow calls “the light of focused insight” and “the playful, blissful, allembracing experience of joy.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): The coming

days would an excellent time to celebrate (even brag about) the amusing idiosyncrasies and endearing quirks that make you lovable. To get you inspired, read this testimony from my triple Gemini friend Alyssa: “I have beauty marks that form the constellation Pegasus on my belly. I own my own ant farm. I’m a champion laugher. I teach sign language to squirrels. Late at night when I’m horny and overtired I may channel the spirit of a lion goddess named Sekhmet. I can whistle the national anthems of eight different countries. I collect spoons from the future. I can play the piano with my nose and my toes. I have forever banished the green-eyed monster to my closet.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Your

education may take unusual forms during the coming weeks. For example, you could receive crunchy lessons from velvety sources, or tender instructions from exacting challenges. Your curiosity might expand to enormous proportions in the face of a noble and elegant tease.

And chances are good that you’ll find a new teacher in an unlikely setting, or be prodded and tricked into asking crucial questions you’ve been neglecting to ask.

Even if you haven’t been particularly street smart up until now, Cancerian, I bet your ability to learn from uncategorizable experiences will blossom.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “If you love

someone, set them free,” said New Age author Richard Bach. “If they come back, they’re yours; if they don’t, they never were.” By using my well-educated intellect to transmute this hippy-dippy thought into practical advice, I came up with a wise strategy for you to consider as you re-evaluate your relationships with allies.

Try this: Temporarily suspend any compulsion you might have to change or fix these people; do your best to like them and even love them exactly as they are. Ironically, granting them this freedom to be themselves may motivate them to modify, or at least tone down, the very behavior in themselves that you’re semi-allergic to.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In 1892,

workers began building the Cathedral of St. John the Divine in New York. But as of August 2017, it is still under construction.

Renovation has been and continues to be extensive. At one point in its history, designers even changed its architectural style from Neo-Byzantine and NeoRomanesque to Gothic Revival. I hope this serves as a pep talk in the coming weeks, which will be an excellent time to evaluate your own progress, Virgo. As you keep toiling away in behalf of your dreams, there’s no rush. In fact, my sense is that you’re proceeding at precisely the right rate.

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

with the astrological omens, I hereby declare the next two weeks to be your own personal Amnesty Holiday. To celebrate, ask for and dole out forgiveness. Purge and flush away any non-essential guilt and remorse that are festering inside you. If there truly are hurtful sins that you still haven’t atoned for, make a grand effort to atone for them—with gifts and heart-felt messages if necessary. At the same time, I urge you to identify accusations that others have wrongly projected onto you and that you have carried around as a burden even though they are not accurate or fair.

Expunge them.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): How many

countries has the United States bombed since the end of World War II? Twenty-five, to be exact. But if America’s intention has been to prod these nations into forming more free and egalitarian governments, the efforts have been mostly fruitless.

Few of the attacked nations have become substantially more democratic. I suggest you regard this as a valuable lesson to apply to your own life in the coming weeks, Scorpio. Metaphorical bombing campaigns wouldn’t accomplish even 10 percent of your goals, and would also be expensive in more ways than one. So I recommend using the “killing with kindness” approach.

Be wily and generous. Cloak your coaxing in compassion.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

You know about the Ten Commandments, a code of ethics and behavior that’s central to Christianity and Judaism. You may not be familiar with my Ten Suggestions, which begin with “Thou Shall Not Bore God” and “Thou Shall Not Bore Thyself.” Then there are the Ten Indian Commandments proposed by the Bird Clan of East Central Alabama. They include “Give assistance and kindness whenever needed” and “Look after the well-being of your mind and body.” I bring these to your attention, Sagittarius, because now is an excellent time to formally formulate and declare your own covenant with life. What are the essential principles that guide you to the highest good?

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Here’s a definition of “fantasizing” as articulated by writer Jon Carroll. It’s “a sort of ‘in-brain’ television, where individuals create their own ‘shows’—imaginary narratives that may or may not include real people.” As you Capricorns enter the High Fantasy Season, you might enjoy this amusing way of describing the activity that you should cultivate and intensify.

Would you consider cutting back on your consumption of movies and TV shows?

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Instead, he concocts elaborate, overlycomplicated schemes. In one episode, he camouflages himself as a cactus, buys artificial lightning bolts, and tries to shoot himself from a bow as if he were an arrow.

All these plans end badly. The moral of the story, as far as you’re concerned: To reach your next goal, trust your instincts.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 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

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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 person is doing business as VIBRANTVISTAS at 1438 Lofty Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

LOUISE ANNTOINETTE RIEDLE 1438 Lofty Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LOUISE RIEDLE Dated: July 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000997 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CORE ROOTED NUTRITION at 344 W. 4th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

BRIAN JOHNSON 344 W. 4th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRIAN JOHNSON Dated: July 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001000 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EARTHCALM at 173 E 4th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JEANNE K GALLICK 10675 Bryne Ave #1 Los Molinos, CA 96055.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JEANNE K. GALLICK Dated: July 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000987 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as WOMEN’S HEALTH SPECIALISTS at 1469 Humboldt Road Suite 200 Chico, CA 95928.

CHICO FEMINIST WOMEN’S HEALTH CENTER 1901 Victor Ave Redding, CA 96002.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MARIKATHRYN HENDRIX, DIRECTOR Dated: July 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000916 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ENDLESS DESIGNERS, FOREVER AND ETERNITY at 1080 East Lassen Avenue #112

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Chico, CA 95973.

DOUGLASS CO., LLC 1080 East Lassen Avenue #112 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: JUSTIN DOUGLASS, MEMBER Dated: July 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000921 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DAVE’S TILE CITY INC at 2565 South Whitman Place Chico, CA 95928.

DAVE’S TILE CITY, INC. 989 Klamth Lane Yuba City, CA 95993.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERIN GRESHAM, SECRETARY Dated: July 31, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000979 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BREWMASTEREX at 1184 Hill View Way Chico, CA 95926.

STEVE L DRESLER 1184 Hill View Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEVE DRESLER Dated: July 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000952 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE DETAIL at 6212 Shoup Court Magalia, CA 95954.

ROBERT LEE FORBES 6212 Shoup Court Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROBERT FORBES Dated: July 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000919 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EUROPEAN WAX CENTER at 782 Mangrove Ave B Chico, CA 95926.

FRANKLIN OPERATIONS, INC 54 Fieldbrook Place Moraga, CA 94556.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KATHY FRANKLIN, PRESIDENT Dated: July 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000933 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AG TREE SERVICE at 301 Yuba St Orland, CA 95963.

ARTURO GRACIANO 301 Yuba St Orland, CA 95963.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ARTURO GRACIANO Dated: July 3, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000906 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ERIC’S CAR WASH at 1625 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ERIC DEAN LARSON 701 E Lassen #218 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ERIC LARSON Dated: July 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000937 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name READY CHEF GO at 1165 Dog Leg Drive Chico, CA 95928.

MELINDA MARIAN KENNEMER 1165 Dog Leg Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MELINDA KENNEMER Dated: August 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2013-0001022 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BACK IT UP DESIGNS at 428 W 12th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

CAROL BAGINSKI 428 W 12th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CAROL BAGINSKI Dated: July 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000994 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRI PATH TECHNOLOGY GROUP at 1072 Marauder St Suite 220 Chico, CA 95973.

TRI PATH 1072 Marauder St Suite 220 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: CHARLES MAHAR, PRESIDENT Dated: August 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001042 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DISCOUNT DISTRIBUTION at 400 Mission Ranch Blvd #88 Chico, CA 95926.

RAMI YASIN MOHAMMAD HADDID 400 Mission Ranch Blvd #88 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RAMI HADDID Dated: August 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001063 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RADIANT BEAUTY at 10 Glenshire Land Chico, CA

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ADA LEE 10 Glenshire Land Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ADA LEE Dated: July 17, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000953 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MERCHANDISE RESALE COMPANY at 1027 Rushmore Ave Chico, CA 95973.

SCOTT ORTIZ 1027 Rushmore Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SCOTT ORTIZ Dated: August 8, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-00001067 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as DEEP HEART CONNECTION at 143 1/2 West 21st Street Chico, CA 95928.

KIMBERLY DAVIS 143 1/2 West 21st Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY DAVIS Dated: July 28, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001011 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ANGEL LOVE at 1197 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

ADRIANA COVARRUBIAS 1197 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ADRIANA COVARRUBIAS Dated: August 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001060 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE BANSHEE at 134 W 2nd Street Chico, CA 95928.

MAD RAVEN INC 134 W 2nd Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: SEBASTIEN TAMARELLE, SECRETARY Dated: August 10, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001075 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as UPPER PARK HONEY at 2640 Lobo Way Chico, CA 95973.

AARON RODRIGUEZ 2640 Lobo Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON RODRIGUEZ Dated: July 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-000985 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALTERATION NANDAS at 2059 Forest Ave #1 Chico, CA 95928.

LAURA KARIZA OLIVA 2489 Nakia Ct Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LAURA K OLIVA ACOSTA Dated: July 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001009 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE Pursuant to CA Business Code 21700, in lieu of rents due, the following units contain clothes, furniture, boxes, etc.

ASHLYN DEGMETICH #127cc (Golf Clubs, Misc. boxes) FANCINE KNOWLES #395cc1 (toys, boxes) CORNELIUS MCCAULY #248ss (cloths, guitar,boxes) JOSE MENDOZA #256ss (tools, dresser) KATRINA OROSCO #474cc (dresser, boxes) LACY REDHEAD #227ss (boxes) AUSTIN SCHILL #221ss (tools, boxes) BEATA SZILAGYI #146cc (boxes) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: August 26, 2017 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage 65 Heritage Lane Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 893-2109 Published: August 10,17, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ALEX MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH ELSON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALEX MOSENZOV-OLEINYCH ELSON Proposed name: OLEKSIY ROMANOVYCH AL-SAADI 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: September 8, 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: July 27, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01863 Published: August 3,10,17,24, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAI LOR

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filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAI LOR Proposed name: YENG KONG LEE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 8, 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: July 26, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02071 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KENT CAULFIELD filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KENT CAULFIELD Proposed name: CASEY CAULFIELD 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: September 22, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: SANDRA L. MCLEAN Dated: August 7, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02227 Published: August 17,24,31, September 7, 2017

SUMMONS 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 YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: CANYON CREEK PRIVATE ESTATES, INC. NOTICE! You have been sued.

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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 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

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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 SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: OSCAR VAZQUEZ AKA OSCAR RECENDEZ 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

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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) 366-4290 Dated: March 2, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV00665 Published: August 10,17,24,31, 2017

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: KRISTINE ANN GRAY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 12, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-5373 Case Number: 17PR00276 Dated: August 4, 2017 Published: August 10,17,24, 2017

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: CAROLE A. COOK be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 12, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before

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the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RICHARD S. MATSON Richard S. Matson Law Office, Inc. 1342 Esplanade, Suite A Chico, CA 95926 (530) 343-5373 Case Number: 17PR00279 Dated: August 7, 2017 Published: August 17,24, 31, 2017

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$449,000 $445,500 $420,000 $418,000 $415,000 $409,000 $405,000 $399,000 $385,000 $327,000 $325,000

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the following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of July 31, 2017 – august 4, 2017. the housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1376 Keri Ln

Chico

3/2

$324,500

SQ. FT. 1580

36 Glenshire Ln

Chico

3/3

$270,000

1333

5 Lily Way

Chico

3/3

$320,000

1842

27 El Cerrito Dr

Chico

3/3

$239,000

1308

835 Madrone Ave

Chico

3/2

$309,000

1578

1487 E 1st Ave

Chico

3/2

$220,000

1414

1164 Ceres Manor Ct

Chico

3/2

$303,000

1545

994 Lupin Ave

Chico

1/1

$220,000

632

59 Pauletah Pl

Chico

3/3

$299,500

1914

1653 Normal Ave

Chico

3/1

$210,000

878

576 Grand Teton Way

Chico

3/2

$298,000

1332

515 Redwood Way

Chico

4/3

$201,500

1236

1249 Warner St

Chico

3/2

$290,000

1066

1100 Palm Ave

Chico

3/3

$170,000

1060

15 Pebblewood Pines Dr

Chico

3/3

$290,000

1889

308 Bordeaux Ct B

Chico

2/1

$170,000

928

2220 Mariposa Ave

Chico

4/3

$283,000

1782

133 W 22nd St

Chico

2/1

$165,000

728

2796 Camden Ct

Chico

3/2

$279,000

1332

683 E 19th St

Chico

4/2

$148,000

1176

113 Benson Ter

Chico

2/2

$270,000

1584

522 Nord Ave #5

Chico

3/2

$90,000

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