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Digging deep for kids The Boys & Girls Clubs of the North Valley, in providing a safe haven to

youth, offer an invaluable benefit to the community. So we couldn’t help but feel disappointment when the Butte County Board of Supervisors voted to cut $190,000 from the Probation Department’s allocation for the organization, leaving just $46,000 for fiscal year 2016-17. (See “Austerity wins, programs lose,” Newslines, June 29.)

However, the supervisors left a glimmer of hope, allowing Chief Probation Officer Steve Bordin 60 days to secure additional funding. Bordin and his staff combed through the department budget and identified $162,400 they could shift to the Boys & Girls Clubs contract. Approval came at the last Board of Supervisors meeting, Aug. 22, so the nonprofit will get $208,400 from the county—a net difference of $27,600 from last year.

The windfall comes from several line items. The department had state money to buy a new vehicle; instead, with permission, it redirected that $54,650. Probation’s case management system got delivered early, freeing up $75,400 budgeted for 2016-17. Probation also transferred $30,000 in funds unclaimed by contractors for past work or goods, plus shaved $2,350 from miscellaneous operating expenses.

At the original budget hearing in June, Boys & Girls Clubs CEO Rashell Brobst said she’d have to lay off 10 staff members and turn away 200 kids from after-school programs. Now, she told the CN&R on Tuesday (Aug. 29), the nonprofit will “keep services as usual” while fundraising to plug the gap.

We agree with Brobst’s assertion that her organization is “not just a charity”—it’s a service provider, “meeting needs that the county can’t.” We agree, too, that grants and government funding are “soft money”—ephemeral, not sources of long-term stability. Nonetheless, kudos to the county for digging deeper to help kids in need. □

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America’s flawed value system IUniversity submitted by the IESE Business School at the of Navarra—that offered this: “‘Quality of recently read an op-ed in Forbes magazine—

life’ is subjective and multidimensional, encompassing positive and negative features of life. It’s a dynamic condition that responds to life events.”

Yet Americans have been conditioned that quality of life is defined only by economic factors.

Indeed, if we can afford only one automobile, quality of life sucks; if we can afford two, it’s a bit better; two, plus a boat, is good; and add by an RV and a 3,500-square-foot Dean Carrier home and it’s great. the author, a While both political factions Paradise resident, in our country follow this is a wildlife biologist philosophy, the conservative bent with 50 years of basically (or at least, currently) field experience. ignores the existence of any other contributing factors while those of the liberal bent just whine. That is, until disaster strikes—a hurricane, flood, epidemic, cancer, etc.

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Then the RV doesn’t matter and the question is, “Why wasn’t this prevented?” Until that time, we cast our votes primarily based on a single issue: “Does it mean more money in my pocket now?”

Degraded infrastructure, health and safety concerns and increases in pollution are afterthoughts—things to deal with when we have all the bells and whistles commerce advertises we must have to be happy in the steady stream of commercials on our 72-inch TV screens.

As I sat recently in my dark living room with the air conditioner blasting because the temperature was 105 outside (and had been for over a month), I wondered: Will I be able to sit on my deck and enjoy a glass of wine as I did much of the summer 15 years ago when I moved here? Do I fear driving across the highway bridges or have to wonder if the dam above my home will collapse and wash it away? How about the effects on my aging lungs from breathing the smoke from wildfires? Do I have the same quality of life I enjoyed as a child?

I certainly have more “stuff,” but in actuality, maybe there’s more to quality of life than dollars, at least for some of us. □

Help after Harvey For those of us with friends and relatives in southeast Texas, our first

order of business early this week was making sure they were safe in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, the most destructive natural disaster in the Lone Star State in a generation.

Next, with the storm continuing to pound Houston and its surrounding regions, and heading on to Louisiana—on the 12th anniversary of Hurricane Katrina—we stayed glued to our computers, phones and TV screens for updates on the downgraded tropical storm that retained enough strength to further devastate the Gulf of Mexico.

Sadly, our commander in chief was of little comfort to the Texans enduring the catastrophic flooding that has led to the deaths of an estimated 30 people. During President Trump’s brief visit to Corpus Christi—a city spared by the floodwaters—POTUS called the hurricane “epic” and turned the spotlight on himself.

That didn’t go unnoticed, especially by those in neighboring Louisiana, where the paper of record of New Orleans, the Times-Picayune, reported that Trump “remarked on the size of the crowd as if he were at a rally.”

That’s a pretty stinging rebuke from a city that is all too familiar with the devastation borne of hurricanes.

Though the Houston area is more than 2,000 miles from Chico, there are ways to help the region during this catastrophe. Our suggestion: Reach out with a donation to a reputable charitable organization. It’s easy to find nonprofits taking contributions, but make sure your dollar is stretched to the utmost by cross-referencing what you find at Charity Navigator (charitynavigator.org)—a website with ratings based on financial health, accountability and transparency.

An estimated 80 percent of those dispossessed by Hurricane Harvey do not have flood insurance, so now is a time for generosity. □

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SECOND & FLUME

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

no spike There have been a handful of times in my years as editor of this newspaper when a reporter has come to me while working on a story to say a source wants to “talk to the editor.” In most cases, those words mean one thing: The source wants me to spike the story.

Such was the case this week when staff writer Ken Smith handed the phone to me with Mark Spannagel, Rep. Doug LaMalfa’s chief of staff, on the line. Spannagel asked to go off the record, and I obliged him, but only after informing him that he’d have to give a compelling reason, supported by evidence, for me to eighty-six the story.

Obviously, I won’t repeat our conversation. I’ll just point you to Smith’s piece on page 10.

In short, the story is about LaMalfa’s camp sending a ceaseand-desist letter to a 13-year-old constituent and budding political activist from Redding, along with his parents. In fact, Spannagel is the one who wrote the document. If his name sounds familiar, it’s likely because you’ve seen it in the CN&R. Here’s some background: When longtime District 1 Rep. Wally Herger announced his retirement in 2012, two key North State Republicans had the clout and the money to vie for his congressional seat. One, of course, was LaMalfa of Richvale, then a state senator.

The other, as you may recall, was Sam Aanestad, a former state senator from Grass Valley.

On the run-up to the primary election that year, the campaign got pretty ugly. Someone put up a website besmirching Aanestad— questioning, among other things, the legitimacy of his professional status as an oral surgeon. A disclaimer on the site attributed it to “Free Thinkers for D’Acquisto,” which, at a glance, made it appear to be the handiwork of a third Republican candidate—a Redding attorney named Michael Dacquisto. Turns out, however, that he had nothing to do with it.

Aanestad subpoenaed the Web host and found out the site’s creator was actually—drum roll—Mark Spannagel. He was LaMalfa’s chief of staff back then, too, and was working on the campaign.

LaMalfa attempted to evade any culpability by saying he knew nothing about the site’s creation, and he reportedly also said he was against dirty campaigning. But history shows otherwise.

First off, though LaMalfa downplayed Spannagel’s involvement in his campaign, he went on to hire him as his chief of staff when he got to Washington. Moreover, his team adopted similar dirty tactics during last year’s primary when the congressman squared off against another Republican, former Chicoan Joe Montes.

Any narrative that LaMalfa doesn’t sign off on such mud-slinging is ridiculous.

But back to that teenage boy. As you’ll read in the CN&R’s story, Spannagel isn’t the only one on LaMalfa’s staff who’s gone after the kid. A district representative named Brenda Lee Haynes posted some immature and inappropriate comments on his Facebook page.

LaMalfa, who has a reputation for being thin-skinned and petty, apparently likes to hire folks who are just like him.

As for the congressman and his bumbling henchman, they survived the embarrassment from the Aanestad ordeal. I’m certain they’ll get over this, too.

in other news: I have to give a big shout out to everyone who made it to the CN&R’s 40th Anniversary Block Party despite the oppressive heat last Saturday. Here’s to four decades … and counting.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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‘A single voice’ Feel that breeze? The nation is changing. For over two years, we have been bombarded with the language of divisiveness. Neighbors against neighbors, regions against regions, and us against them.

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blaze that eventually took a heavy toll on the people there. That fire destroyed 41 residences and damaged three, and destroyed or damaged 57 other structures.

A few years ago, when a fire started in Forest Ranch, air tankers were immediately dispatched to drop retardant and stop the beginning blaze. The fine facility in Chester that once protected the region with large-capacity air tankers has been reduced to a helicopter base, with little activity apparent.

When fires are beginning, every moment is critical and millions of dollars and even lives can be saved by quick action. I’ve never heard any of the above legislators address the great issues that face our people, including fire protection, climate change or the economy.

If we have the will to elect better representatives, 2018 will be our opportunity.

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Questioning the cops Re “Another fatal encounter” (Downstroke, July 27): Once again, I have to question the training of Chico police. In the latest incident, they have a suspect who is wounded and trapped in a restroom. They should have just waited him out. It may take a day, but that would have given him time to come down from whatever high he may have been on—and calm down. This would have prevented two officers from being wounded and saved the life of the suspect.

Kelly Youngs Chico

This is our president In case anyone was in doubt, Trump has now made it crystal clear that he supports racial bias toward people of color by his pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

Arpaio’s Maricopa jails violated constitutional rights of inmates in medical and other care-related issues. He described his “Tent City” as a concentration camp, where he once measured [the heat] at 145 degrees. Arpaio regularly conducted immigration sweeps in Latino communities.

A Justice Department report in 2011 stated that under Arpaio the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office has “a pervasive culture of discriminatory bias against Latinos” and oversaw the worst pattern of racial profiling in U.S. history.

Cecillia Wang of the ACLU states, “[Trump’s] pardon of Arpaio is a presidential endorsement of racism.” Puente Arizona Executive Director Carlos Garcia states, “A sheriff who claims pride in being called KKK is who Trump sees as a ‘great American patriot.’”

Let’s make Chico a sanctuary city.

Diane Suzuki-Brobeck Chico

‘Money junkies’ The influence of money on our political system is largely responsible for the long and dangerous trend of steadily increasing excess and opulence for the wealthy to wallow in, while the rest of us struggle ever harder to survive withering austerity. If we don’t gather together to advance an alternative to broad escalating inequality, then the economic elite will continue waving the banner of infinite growth while grinding all beauty into gold and smoldering slag heaps.

We’re all inclined to favor those who give us things we enjoy, and this leaves elected officials especially vulnerable to expectation driven generosity. Our politicians across the spectrum are now mostly money junkies whose craving for the next fix outweighs all other priorities; the problem is so pervasive among them that few even question its sanity. Continuing to cooperate with their destructive habit means we share blame for the social and environmental consequences our grandchildren will inherit.

California is one of 24 states that allow voter initiatives with the capacity to compel policy changes; we could limit the toxic influence money exerts through a referendum that proposes all campaign donations be collected into a common fund and distributed evenly among all eligible candidates.

Dan Everhart Chico

Alliteration time Teaching tender toddlers today translates to total time testing toward training tomorrow’s technocrats.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

Call him something Call me a racist if you must …

Because I see nothing wrong with President Trump’s handling of the Charlottesville event where he condemned all acts of bigotry, hatred and violence.

Call me a racist if you must ...

Because I believe using violence in support of a cause, worthy or not, should be condemned and face the full measure of the law.

Call me a racist if you must ...

Because I’m tired of being blamed for the sins of my forefathers from generations far removed, even though I personally and consistently condemn such egregious behavior.

Call me a racist if you must ...

Because I don’t agree with the removal of American symbols reminding us of our nation’s historical past, warts and all.

Go ahead, call me a racist if you must. The word means little to nothing to me anymore.

Through your flagrant abuse for political and personal gain, a once powerfully effective verbal tool has been weakened, if not squandered, forever. Your desperation and appallingly weak ability to dialog on the facts have led you down the path of threats, insults, name-calling and violence.

Dare I say, call me a fellow American instead, with a shared culture, language and love for the USA. Pete Stiglich Cottonwood

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Chico Police closed roadways within a twoblock radius of the Jesus Center for about two hours on Monday (Aug. 28) after a “suspicious device” was found in an employee’s office, according to a Chico Police Department press release.

Jesus Center staff notified police of a suspected bomb around 3:30 p.m. and evacuated the building before officers arrived. The Butte County Regional Bomb Squad ultimately determined the device was not dangerous, and the streets reopened around 5:45 p.m.

Laura Cootsona, executive director of the Jesus Center, described the device as “a cylinder with some batteries and wires.” It was found inside a backpack forgotten by a guest; the Jesus Center is working with police to identify whose it was.

“Everyone stayed calm,” Cootsona said of the evacuation, “but it was scary nonetheless.”

JunkyARd Joins city suit

The Chico Scrap Metal saga has taken another turn, with the Chapman neighborhood recycling business joining the city’s lawsuit against Move the Junkyard and one of the opposition group’s founders, Councilman Karl Ory. City Manager Mark Orme confirmed to the CN&R that Chico Scrap Metal is a party in the suit. The legal action seeks to nullify a referendum for 2018 on relocating the junkyard from East 20th Street—thereby overturning decisions by the council’s conservative majority that have enabled Chico Scrap Metal to stay. Along the same 4-3 split, the council instructed City Attorney Vince Ewing to sue, which the city did Jan. 23. A trial is set for Feb. 26, 2018.

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Chico Police are looking for a woman suspected of stealing IDs and credit cards from several local gyms.

In July, police began investigating Deborah Hughes, 42, after surveillance cameras allegedly showed her stealing from various fitness clubs and purchasing gifts cards from other local businesses, according to a Chico Police Department press release. She was arrested on July 20 for multiple counts of identify theft, as well as an outstanding warrant for stealing a vehicle in the Sacramento area.

On. Aug. 16, after being released, Hughes (pictured) was allegedly caught on camera entering a local business and stealing an employee’s wallet.

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Arming the park Bidwell neighbors and advocates speak out against giving rangers guns be a dangerous place.

SAfterthatall,thesheparklivescanwithin shouting distance andee Renault knows as well as anybody

of the entrance to Annie’s Glen. When she moved into her home on Orient Street in 2002, story and she was almost immephoto by diately confronted with Meredith J. the problem: Homeless Cooper encampments, drugm e re d i t h c @ dealing and -using, an n ew srev i ew. c o m overall sense that the place was unsafe.

Weigh in: So she did somethe chico city council will discuss the future thing about it—she of the park rangers started a petition that and hold a public hear- ultimately ended in the ing on the subject at creation of a bicycle its next meeting on and pedestrian tunnel tuesday (sept. 5) at 6 p.m. All opinions will that connects downbe heard. the Friends town, via Annie’s Glen, of Bidwell Park will to the rest of Lower wear green and will Bidwell Park. be circulating their “I knew if there petition at farmers’ markets leading up to were eyes and ears in the meeting. the park, things would be better,” she said by phone. “Now people can go from downtown into Lower Park without ever crossing the street—it made a huge difference.”

Now Renault is worried about another

park safety issue: arming the rangers who are tasked with patrolling the area while providing education about the natural resources and how to care for them. Some people look at the park and fear for their safety. One problem is that the city’s homeless population has grown over the years and many call the park home.

A proposal to convert some or all of the city’s park rangers into “sworn rangers” (i.e., armed personnel with police training) is coming before the City Council on Tuesday (Sept. 5). It was discussed in June by the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission (BPPC), which voted, 4-3, to recommend the conversion of two rangers into sworn rangers, leaving one park ranger on duty.

“I agree that the park needs to be safer, but I think the rangers help that—not rangers with guns,” said Renault, who’s on the board of the Friends of Bidwell Park. “It’s the jewel of Chico, it’s one of the reasons people want to live here. The police might want to be a bigger presence in the park, but don’t take away the rangers.”

The debate has been going on since April,

when the idea first surfaced to convert the rangers under the Public Works Department into officers under the Chico Police Department. The arguments in favor

are many. As outlined in the staff report presented to the BPPC in June, the ranger program—like all programs and departments citywide—was stretched thin after layoffs and cutbacks in 2013 to balance the city’s budget. Since that time, the report reads, “the cutbacks … resulted in rangers spending a much higher percentage of their time focusing on patrol safety and enforcement related activities.” In addition, they lack adequate training to provide high levels of education to the public—“only one possesses formal training within the Natural Resources area.”

When it comes to patrols, rangers deal primarily in code enforcement—writing warnings or tickets for minor violations.

Criminal matters are forwarded to the police department, which has two beats that encompass the park and surrounding areas.

According to the Parks Division’s monthly report to the BPPC on Monday (Aug. 28), for the months of June and July of this year, there were 11 incidents reported to the Chico Police Department, including nine via the online CopLogic program for vandalism and/or thefts. There was one DUI arrest of a minor who crashed into a tree and one incident requiring a helicopter evacuation. In addition, rangers issued

Friends of Bidwell Park board members John Merz and Lise Smith-Peters are hoping to stop a proposal to arm the city’s park rangers.

105 warnings for things like having a dog off-leash or smoking in nonsmoking areas. There were 29 citations, the majority of which were for parking or bicycle violations.

There also were 77 private permits issued for the park in June and July, and volunteers logged a total of 3,841 hours in the park, ranging from watering trees to general cleanup.

For Friends of Bidwell Park members

John Merz (who’s also the current chair) and Lise Smith-Peters, the conversion spells danger for the park itself. They worry that, despite a memorandum of understanding to be created between the public works and police departments regarding how much time will be spent tending to the park’s resources vs. law enforcement, that the majority of time will be spent on the latter.

“A major concern for me is the fact that the rangers will be able to be pulled out of the park if there’s a situation elsewhere,” said Smith-Peters, who served as Chico’s park services coordinator until 2014 as well as on the BPPC. “And the amount of time it will take to do the paperwork associated with an arrest—that’s just more time that they won’t be in the park.”

Giving rangers guns and arrest power will only make Chico less friendly, Merz argued.

“I’ve been a citizen of Chico since 1974 and I’ve seen the culture of this town slowly eroding away,” he said.

“The meaning of ‘chico’ in Spanish is ‘small.’ And that translates into our community being neighborly, intimate—it’s the glue that holds us together. And Bidwell Park is a key to that—it’s nature, it’s our history. Don’t tamper with that.”

Merz added that, despite the fact that rangers are currently armed with Tasers, they’ve never employed them. Linda Herman, Chico’s interim parks and natural resources manager, confirmed this.

She declined to state her opinion on the matter, but rather said she saw validity in either scenario.

“The way it’s being proposed is that they are still functions of the parks and they will continue to do the things that rangers are doing now—that’s the intent,” she said. As for her wishes when it comes to increasing the police or ranger presence in the park, she replied simply: “Ideally we’d like to have both. Unfortunately, we don’t have the resources to do that.” □

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Water tower defenders search for alternatives to their demolition hico residents are attached to the city’s water towers, which are slated for Cremoval.

That was clear during a presenta-

tion by Chico State history professor Michael Magliari last Saturday (Aug. 26), at the Chico Museum, where their fate was discussed.

Two of the towers have stood side-byside at East Third and Orient streets for more than a century, casting shadows from the downtown Chico skyline. They were both constructed with state-of-the-art designs, Magliari said, during a progressive era of construction in Chico. Popping up in countless historical photos and paintings, the towers, which are owned by California Water Service Co., have become a part of the local culture and are listed in the city’s Historic Resource Inventory.

The two other towers, constructed in the 1940s and ’50s, are not similarly registered, but Magliari says they are nevertheless historical in their own right. Built to facilitate an expanding post-war population in Chico, they too were made with then-modern engineering, towering even higher than the others, each one holding as Follow the issue: much water as Concerned residents can check Facebook for updates—search for the side-bythe Chico Heritage Association or side towers “Save the Chico Water Towers.” combined. One can be found on East Sixth and Oleander avenues, and the other near West Second and Cherry streets.

Results from recent seismic studies, however, show the towers to be unsafe in the event of an earthquake, Cal Water of Chico District Manager Pete Bonacich told the

CN&R in a separate interview.

With costs of over $1 million each to bring them up to code, the utility company announced its plans for demolition in early June.

The towers have been empty for nearly two years, and have become “less and less useful” in the face of newer and larger ground-based tanks over the last decade, becoming “a burden and liability” for Cal Water, Bonacich said.

Magliari has been working with Cal Water on

ways to preserve the towers, and he presented three options during his presentation that could help offset costs of maintaining and bringing the towers up to seismic standards.

The Mills Act, enacted in 1972 and adopted by Chico in 2003, allows property tax reductions for historic properties and could be explored in the case of the towers, Magliari said. Another option—getting the towers listed on the National Register of Historic Places—could qualify them for another tax reduction. Lastly, Magliari mentioned the California State Historic Building Code, which can provide alternative building regulations for qualified historic buildings, possibly eliminating the need for renovation. None of these avenues are mutually exclusive, he said.

SIFT ER Hell state California is on fire, in more ways than one. Not only is this year’s fire season on pace to surpass that of 2016, with Cal Fire and the U.S. Forest Service having already battled 6,023 fires that have burned 500,179 acres in the state (as compared with 6,986 and 564,835 in all of 2016), but temperatures all over California have been flirting with record highs throughout the summer as well. Overall, according to NASA, 2017 is poised to be the planet’s second hottest year on record, surpassed only by 2016, and in Northern California we are bracing for another wave of extreme heat, with the National Weather Service issuing an excessive heat warning for Labor Day weekend as valley temperatures are forecast to range from 105 to 114.

Chico State history professor Michael Magliari is trying to find alternatives to demolishing Chico’s iconic water towers, including these two at Orient and Third streets.

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Several concerns and questions were raised by the audience. One member questioned the validity of the seismic data collected by Cal Water and asked if the measurements were taken when the tanks were full, or after they were empty. Another asked for reassurance that the towers would not disappear overnight without a chance for further discussion.

City Councilman Andrew Coolidge addressed the attendees and put some minds at ease, saying demolition could be appealed at the City Council level, at least for the two side-by-side towers at East Third and Orient streets that are listed on the city’s Historic Resource Inventory.

Bonacich told the CN&R that the towers were found to be a possible safety hazard while empty or full. A resident of Chico for over 40 years, Bonacich said he appreciates the towers and emphasized that they would not be demolished overnight. “They’re pretty, iconic [and] a part of the city’s history,” he said.

After the talk, Coolidge told the CN&R that he felt encouraged by the large crowd of concerned residents, and that Cal Water seems to be looking into potential alternatives to taking down the towers. He said he and other council members had spoken with Cal Water already.

“I am hopeful,” Coolidge said. “I like that they are looking at saving the towers and working with the city—it’s not often you see this in a big company.”

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hen 13-year-old Joshua Brown was studying the fundamentals W of democracy last year, he was par-

ticularly inspired by the prescribed relationship between government officials and “we the people.”

“He learned in school that we live in a representative republic where elected officials serve the will of the people,” Joshua’s father, Robert, said this week by phone.

“He’s very literal about some things … most things, actually.”

Joshua also learned it had been some years since his own congressman—Rep. Doug LaMalfa—held a town hall meeting in his hometown of Redding. The teenager began contacting LaMalfa’s office in February requesting such an event be scheduled, and—like many constituents in District 1—he’s continued to call, email and send letters regularly to express his concerns about the congressman’s policies.

For his efforts, Joshua recently received a response he’d never expected: a cease-and-desist letter addressed to him and his parents from LaMalfa’s Washington, D.C., office.

“This letter is immediate notification that all verbal communication, emails, text messages, and office visits must cease and desist immediately with all offices of U.S. Representative Doug LaMalfa,” reads the letter dated Aug. 9. After directing the Browns to contact only the Washington, D.C., office in writing, the letter warns that “all other contact will be deemed harassment and reported to the United States Capitol Police.”

It’s signed by Mark Spannagel, LaMalfa’s chief of staff.

Brown is a student at Shasta

Charter Academy and a budding activist. His father is a disability rights advocate who’s taken his son along on lobbying trips to Sacramento, and Joshua’s ongoing, informal campaign to become mayor of that city when he’s legal-

Joshua Brown (right, with his father, Robert) was inspired to get more political by the 2016 U.S. presidential election. “I wasn’t happy with either of the final options,” he says. photo courtesy of JoshuA Brown

ly allowed to run—and vote—at age 18 was featured on a local news station in July. He’s spent the last few months campaigning for Dennis Duncan, one of LaMalfa’s rivals in the upcoming 2018 election, and is also involved with Our Revolution—formerly the North State Berniecrats—and the Peace Initiative of Shasta County.

The Browns reported that LaMalfa’s camp was receptive to Joshua’s messages at first, with staffer Erin Ryan inviting the boy to the Redding office for a tour.

“At first she was cordial, but as she became aware we opposed LaMalfa’s policy choices she became more belligerent and argumentative over time,” Robert said.

Joshua claims that when the town hall was finally held on April 19, LaMalfa’s staff blocked his attempts to publicly address the congressman. Contacted by phone, Ryan declined an interview for this story.

In May, another LaMalfa staffer, Brenda Lee Haynes, posted to Joshua’s Facebook page in a conversation about separation of church and state. When Joshua

mentioned he wasn’t religious, Haynes responded: “So the good news is you’ve at least identified your problem. Now you can begin to fix things. Good luck.” Later in the online conversation, she tells Joshua: “You have much to learn in life, but with your obvious lack of respect for your fellow man, chances are you won’t get very far.”

Joshua said the comments he regularly dispatches to the politician’s office are always focused on policies, noting LaMalfa’s stance on health care and support of increased military spending are some of his primary complaints.

He occasionally posts blogs to the liberal politics site Daily Kos about his views and interactions with LaMalfa staff. An entry from Aug. 1 includes a recent letter to the congressman in which he writes, “Mr. LaMalfa, I have long been concerned that your actions are way out of touch with the needs of the American people. I think you’re a good man, I just think you don’t know what’s going on in the real world.”

He also doesn’t deny attempt-

ing contact often, which he and his father emphasized is his right.

So just how many times has he contacted LaMalfa?

“To be honest … too many to count,” Joshua said.

Mark Spannagel, LaMalfa’s chief

of staff, spoke to the CN&R, but said he was unable to release much information.

“Due to privacy we cannot get into the full details of the situation,” Spannagel wrote via email Tuesday (Aug. 29). “These constituents are always welcome to have written communication. The extreme volume, tone and physical actions led us to believe it was best to limit communications to only the D.C. office and via writing.”

“The letter was written by and sent at the direction of the U.S. Capitol Police,” Spannagel added in a follow-up phone call.

Eva Malecki, communication director for the Capitol Police, would not confirm or deny that agency’s involvement, stating in an email that “we do not comment on these consultations or discuss how we carry out our protective responsibilities for Congress.”

The Browns insist that nothing they’ve submitted to LaMalfa could be construed as threatening or harassing, and that they’ve been to his office only once, after being invited by LaMalfa staffer Ryan.

Duncan, the opponent challenging LaMalfa in the 2018 election, vouched for Joshua’s character.

“He’s a bright kid from a good family,” Duncan said. “Quite frankly, I’m shocked LaMalfa’s office would send the letter. From my experiences with the family, I can’t imagine what they’d do to warrant that response.”

The elder Brown said he’s troubled by the situation beyond the fact that his son is involved: “As a disabled veteran, I’m offended at a very basic level that a member of the government would attempt to abridge the freedom of speech and freedom to seek a redress of grievances of a 13-year-old. I want an explanation.”

Joshua, who said he’s still figuring out how to respond to the cease-and-desist letter before contacting LaMalfa’s office again, took it a little further.

“I want a formal apology from all of them,” he said.

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HEALTHLINES Stacey Vangkhang, left, and Barbara Hanna both have been trained to test for HIV by oral swab—and can do so in the private testing room at Caring Choices’ Chico office.

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W outreach within Butte County’s Hmong community last month, she experienced hen Stacey Vangkhang began health

some culture shock.

Vangkhang is of Hmong descent and speaks the language of this ethnic minority group from southeast Asia. She hails from Portland, though, coming to Chico to study social work; in her part of Oregon, Hmong families live scattered in different cities, not as proximate as here.

“Up there the Hmong community is very small,” she said. “The community here is mostly closely knit—they are really tight; they marry within the race. So that was something new to me.

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not always together; we don’t have family gatherings. It’s more isolated compared to down here, where everyone basically knows everyone.”

So, even though Vangkhang can express herself with fluency, she’s had to grow familiar with nuances of North State Hmong life—distinct from her own and vital to gaining acceptance.

Hmong people have specific beliefs pertaining to health, including superstitions related to blood loss and stigmas surrounding certain diseases. Since her work relates to HIV and AIDS, Vangkhang has confronted these beliefs head-on.

She works as a program coordinator for Caring Choices, the Chico-based nonprofit founded in 1993 by nurse Barbara Hanna to benefit HIV/AIDS patients. To help fund Vangkhang’s project, the Minority Aids Initiative (MAI), Hanna sought a $36,500 grant from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) for HIV edu-

cation and testing in the county’s Hmong community.

Asian-Americans comprise nearly 5 percent of the county’s population; Hmong, 4,100 approximately, constitute the largest group. Hanna cited CDC studies indicating 1 in 5 Asians living with HIV in the U.S. don’t know they’ve contracted the disease— twice as many as the American population as a whole—and no Asian-Americans in Butte County have been found to have contracted HIV in the testing results reported to public health officials for 2015-16.

“This lack of identification of HIVpositive test results in our local community may not accurately reflect the true prevalence rate of HIV in this minority population,” Hanna said. “Difficulties with language, access to medical care, poverty level, transportation to medical providers and concerns about stigma and shame to their families may be barriers for some Asian-Americans in seeking out HIV testing services and care, which may contribute to underestimating the true burden of HIV in this population.”

Caring Choices received one of 11 grants from

the CDC to address this issue. After receiving the funds in February, the organization planned its strategy. The approach: Hold informational meetings on HIV/AIDS, followed on different days by free screenings, at the Hmong Cultural Center of Butte County.

Not only is the center a focal point for the Hmong community, it’s also located in the area where the greatest number of Hmong families live—in Oroville.

Neither the July nor August session drew attendees. After consulting with specialists at Butte County Public Health—including two fellow Hmong residents—Vangkhang has a keener understanding of why.

“If we advertise the presentation as focused entirely on HIV, it wouldn’t bring people in, because there’s a lot of stigma associated with it,” she said. “Their neighbors or their family members or their friends might question them … so we completely changed our approach, and now we’re focusing on different health topics [besides just HIV].”

Those include nutrition, exercise, breastcancer screenings and routine doctor visits.

Vangkhang also is pursuing a different setting. She’s reached out to Butte College and Chico State, where she’s on track to complete her master’s degree in May. Caring Choices also is open to discussions and testing in homes, at group meetings or in its office, which the nonprofit shares with the medical business Hanna founded in 1979, Home and Health Care Management.

“It’s an oral swab, not a finger stick,” Vangkhang stressed of the test administered. “That was a concern for some people, because anything that has to do with blood, that’s a cultural thing—some people believe that if their blood is taken, their blood wouldn’t be replenished.”

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“It takes less than an hour [to get the result],” Hanna said. “And, if something was positive, we have staff here [at Caring Choices]—so it’s not just finding out about your status, it’s connecting you to medical care, and that’s the link here.”

Hanna’s nonprofit sprung out of her

professional endeavors. She came to Chico from the Bay Area in 1971 to study nursing and graduated in 1975. After a brief stint on the East Coast, she returned; soon she started her home-care agency.

In the late �80s, when the AIDS outbreak hit epidemic levels, she noticed a gap in services available to her patients fighting the disease. That inspired her to start Caring Choices. The organization has a five-member board, of which she’s president, and has expanded beyond Chico to serve eight counties, with branch offices in Redding and Marysville.

The services, too, have expanded. Caring Choices acts as a disaster response center for Butte and neighboring counties; when activated, as happened July 7 for the Wall Fire, the organization dispatches volunteers to work at shelters and assist aid organizations. It also partners with Home and Health Care Management to

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Still, the crux of the original mission remains.

“Our HIV and AIDS programs, they’re broad,” Hanna said. “We provide case management, both nursing and social workers, to help keep people as healthy as possible. After they’re diagnosed, we provide referrals … and we have nurses and social workers who specialize in their care and treatment.”

Caring Choices has additional programs—including housing, nutrition and medication assistance—for HIV patients.

The wide range of services is a product of necessity and inspiration. Staff and board members come up with ideas that lead to programs—such as MAI, the program Vangkhang is fine-tuning.

“Even though we had this plan, we have to adapt,” Hanna said.

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GREENWAYS Cal Fire forester Dave Derby says prescribed burning is ramping up in forests throughout Butte County.

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“Any time you light a match,” he said, “you’re taking a chance.”

The technique—also known as prescribed burning—is employed by foresters and firefighters to reduce the woodland fuel load and reduce the chance of catastrophic wildfires.

Despite risks, Cal Fire is rolling out a plan to increase the pace and scale of its prescribed burning operations throughout California—Butte County included.

“Our marching orders are to step it up,” Derby said, “but it’s a tough deal. We can’t light these things off in the middle of summer, and you need a lot of bodies to keep it contained, and the conditions have to be just right….

“We haven’t been able to to do much yet.”

Ironically, prescribed burning is being touted as a potential solution to a variety of problems related to fire suppression—including increasingly intense wildfires and the worst bark beetle epidemic in the state’s recorded history. In the absence of wildfire, many forests have become overstocked.

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released until early next year, but it was clear from the meeting that Cal Fire recognizes the need for more proactive management—i.e., reducing fuels by mechanical thinning and prescribed burns.

Matthew Reischman, Cal Fire’s assistant deputy director of resource protection and improvement, told the commission that, over the last year, the agency has increased the acreage it’s burned with prescribed fires from about 3,000 to 14,000 acres. Moving forward, Cal Fire has identified about 50,000 acres of forest that are ready to burn statewide, but Reischman said the agency would prefer to have 100,000 acres ready.

“We know where we want to burn,” he said. “It’s about having the opportunity and the right conditions.”

Cal Fire in Butte County treated about

75 acres with prescribed fire in fiscal year 2016-17 and plans on ramping that up to 1,000 acres in 2017-18. But, for a number of reasons, that could prove too lofty a goal.

For decades, California has gone to great lengths to fight wildfires with airplanes, fire engines, chemical retardants and heavy machinery. It may not be obvious, then, that fire plays an important role in forest ecology, renewing the landscape and stimulating new growth. Some plants, such as manzanitas, depend on the intense heat of fires to activate seed germination. Likewise, lodgepole pines need fire to open their cones.

Feel the burn:

Butte County property owners interested in prescribed burning, contact Cal Fire’s Dave Derby at dave.derby@fire.ca.gov or 872-6334.

But many forested areas in California, including some in Butte County, haven’t been touched by fire in decades, leading to the buildup of woodland fuel. Now, when wildfires do rip through, they are unusually intense—even catastrophic—and Cal Fire cannot afford to let them burn uncontained.

Millions of people live close to California’s wildlands.

“Our first mission is keeping people safe,” Derby said.

So, the state is trying to strategically reintroduce fire to the landscape, but the overly dense forests make prescribed burns even riskier.

“It’s hard to find a good place to do it,” he said. “Some of these places have been fireexcluded for so long, it might make your situation worse if you’re not careful.”

The inherent risks are part of why it’s difficult to find landowners outside of agencies like California State Parks that are willing to participate. Most of Butte County’s forestlands are privately owned, Derby said. Through Cal Fire’s Vegetation Management Program, the agency assumes liability from landowners while conducting prescribed burns; it also can issue permits for property owners to do the burning themselves. In the latter scenario, Cal Fire provides guidance and personnel to stand by in case something goes wrong.

However, people often hesitate to change their properties so drastically, Derby said: “It changes the way the landscape looks. When you burn, it’s going to look different for the next 10 years or so until things get green again.”

CalFire often trips over administrative hurdles as well. Prescribed burns need the go-ahead from the California Air Resources

Board (CARB), the agency charged with maintaining federal airquality standards, as well as local air districts.

CARB is trying to smooth out the approval process, said Edie Chang, the agency’s deputy executive officer, during the Little Hoover Commission hearing.

The effort involves adopting new smokemonitoring and weather-modeling technologies to help guide the decisions of local air-quality managers. The trick, she added, is burning more without significantly impacting air pollution and human health.

“We recognize that prescribed burns can improve forest health and result in a net reduction of greenhouse gasses in the long term,” she said. “We are actively looking for ways to increase the burns.” □

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SUPPORT YOUR ECO-PEEPS Butte Environmental Council has been around for more than 40 years; these days, it’s best known for its efforts in educating the public about water issues and saving and planting trees throughout Butte County. You can support BEC during the CN&R’s monthly wine-tasting fundraiser today (Aug. 31) at 5 p.m. at Bidwell Park Golf Course (3199 Golf Course Road). Suggested donation: $7. Go to www.becnet.org to learn more about— or get involved with—the nonprofit group.

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spiritual outfitter Tracy Geary was raised and baptized Catholic, but has always found herself drawn to more nature-oriented and Earth-based spiritual beliefs.

She says her Cherokee grandmother helped her get closer to nature—teaching her about things like useful plants and where they grow, and Native American culture and traditions.

After looking into many different teachings, and meeting other like-minded people, Geary found herself identifying most with Wiccan beliefs, but found the actual practicing to be sometimes difficult. Between ordering supplies from online retailers and driving upward of two hours out of Chico to specialty stores, she knew there had to be a better way. So, in February, Geary started The Enchanted Forest online, and in July opened up a brick-and-mortar shop in Chico’s Garden Walk Mall, before recently relocating to 220 W. Sixth St. At the shop, you’ll find metaphysical tools and supplies, along with incense and smudges, tarot cards, candles, clothing, jewelry, local art designs and more. Call 809-0298 or visit enchantedforestchico.com for more information.

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area. When it came time to really plant my roots and settle down and decide who and where my home was, it was Chico. I’ve tried to move away several times, but there’s just something about Chico that always makes you come back.

What inspired you take the leap from online to brick-and-mortar?

When I first had the idea to open the store as more than a website, I decided I wanted to try out the community first and feel it out, because there is that stigma behind alternative beliefs.

So we decided to dive right into the Thursday Night Market and see how that turned out, and see how the community would grasp it. We had a lot of really positive response, and people asking, “Do you have a store?” It became very clear to me very quickly that it was something that Chico was ready for, and that I was ready for.

How has the transition been?

You know, a lot of businesses run into a lot of hurdles or hiccups, and we didn’t really run into that. We had some opposition here and there when looking for a building, but it was fine. We just moved on and it really … happened very naturally, which of course means something to me—if something is meant to be, it will happen.

What’s your favorite part of owning your store?

I really like to take the time to spiritually connect with the customers, and other like-minded people. We have customers from all different kinds of faith, all different age groups, and all different walks of life and we accept everyone here. There’s such an overabundance of nastiness in the world right now and so in my own way I can bring a little more positivity to Chico.

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Wine. The fruit of the vine. What a wonderful, divine thing it is. We are lucky to live in a region with so many options when it comes to imbibing. Of course, we are just a few short hours from the country’s premiere winery destinations— Napa and Sonoma valleys. But take a minute to peruse the list of Butte County’s offerings and you might be surprised to see how many there are—15 by my last count.

One in particular, LaRocca Vineyards in Forest Ranch, is in the spotlight this week after owner Phil LaRocca was awarded the Organic Farmer of the Year Leadership Award by the national Organic Trade Association. He’ll receive his honor next month at a ceremony in Baltimore.

I’ve long known that LaRocca was a pioneer in the organic wine industry— the family-owned operation produced its first organic vintages in 1991 and is known for being the oldest and largest producer of 100 percent, USDA-certified organic wine in the North State. But I didn’t know the extent to which he is dedicated to the organic movement.

According to an Organic Trade Association release, LaRocca is chair of the California Certified Organic Farmers board of directors, has been appointed to the California Organic Products Advisory Committee, and has long been a member of the Organic Trade Association, where he currently serves on the Farmers Advisory Council. He also helped create the California Organic Food Production Act and the national organic rule on organic wine.

Check out LaRocca wines at the winery’s downtown Chico tasting room (222 W. Second St.).

RestauRant makeOveR Denny’s fans in Oroville are in for a treat this Saturday (Sept. 2), when the Oro Dam Boulevard location reopens with some perks. For starters, the restaurant is one of many—half the Denny’s in the country, in fact—to get a makeover, with a local twist. The Oroville Denny’s, owned by franchisee Anil Yadav, now boasts a large mural of the city, complete with local landmarks. The relaunch also means local diners can order via the online app Denny’s on Demand. If you stop in Saturday, you’ll also be treated to some cheap eats—an Original Grand Slam for $2.99 or a burger and fries for $4.99, to name a few.

sammiCh time Cream is finally open in north Chico (yes, it’s true!) and I stopped in (at 2471 Cohassett Road, Ste. 120) on Monday to check it out. The line was long, which was no surprise for 1) a new establishment and 2) an ice cream shop on a 108 degree day. I’ll say I was a bit overwhelmed with options and the young man who took my order (after skipping me the first time) seemed more interested in speeding me through than explaining it all to me. I ended up with a mini butter sugar cookie sandwich with mint chip ice cream and mini Reese’s pieces for $2.99.

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The long road home A new mom’s struggle to stay off the streets and build a better life

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orticia Mulberry Maxine Collins—Morty, or Moo, for short—is an excellent hostess. She’s fond of greeting guests to the house she shares with her mother with a beaming smile, a booming “Hiiii!” and an upraised arm bent at the wrist. The gesture is her approximation of a fist-bump and she’s likely to repeat the greeting several times, as it’s her current favorite of the dozen or so words constituting her entire vocabulary at the age of 17 months.

Morty’s doting mother, Alexx Collins, usually can be found just steps away, and is the obvious source of her daughter’s bubbly demeanor. Collins is quick-witted, world-wise beyond her 28 years, and possesses a natural charisma undiminished by her penchant for salty language and the tattoos partly covering her face.

Those tattoos, she explained during a recent visit to the home, are a treasured reminder of who she is and the places she’s been, subjects she had plenty of cause to reflect on that evening—Monday, Aug. 21.

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She’d just completed her first day of school at Butte College and her old road companion—a dog named Boo—lay curled at her feet. Morty slept contentedly just a few feet away—her belly full of home-cooked hamburger bits—in a place she calls home.

For much of Collins’ life, such simple comforts were beyond her reach. She was kicked out of her home at the age of 14, and spent 12 years homeless. Her decision to get off the streets came in February 2016, prompted by Morty’s impending birth: “I went from being a homeless drunk to spending eight months on the street pregnant, getting bigger and bigger all the time and not knowing where I was going to go,” she said.

“I didn’t know where we’d live when I had her, or if I’d be able to keep her. I was terrified, and thought I might have to give her up for adoption.”

Morty did have a place to come home to thanks largely to the eleventh-hour intervention of local homeless advocate Siana Sonoquie, who helped Collins find shelter near the end of her third trimester and maintains a close friendship with her. That shelter was temporary, however, and the family’s housing situation remains tenuous today: Mother and daughter must vacate their current home soon, and have no place to stay beyond Oct. 1.

With her hard-earned progress and her daughter’s well-being hanging in the balance, Collins is charged with finding a more permanent home with limited resources and little to no housing or credit history. But she’s no stranger to adversity and, like the many challenges she’s faced in her life, it’s another she’s determined to overcome.

Collins takes issue with the term

“rock bottom” (“You can always go lower,” she said), but dozens of instances in her biography could qualify as such. Each spurred in her a spirit of survival that helped her navigate the murkiest depths with nothing more than, as she puts it, “a habit, a positive attitude and a cute dog.”

She holds little back when describing the good, the bad and the ugly realities of her childhood and years spent living out-

Left: Alexx Collins became homeless at age 14 and remained so for 12 years. The birth of her daughter, Morty, pushed her to get off the streets, but their housing situation remains tenuous. photo courtesy of siAnA sonoquie

doors. As she talked about her early years, it became apparent her summation—“I had a kind of rough childhood”—is a mammoth understatement.

Born in Bakersfield, Collins moved several times as a child, with her family eventually settling outside the town of Snohomish, Wash. She suffered abuse at the hands of a trusted adult who began feeding her alcohol around age 11 and later exposed her to pot, cocaine, heroin and meth. Still, she didn’t become a regular user of hard drugs until later in her teens.

When she was 12, her mother married a man she refers to as “the only person who provided any real love or structure” in her young life. That comfort was short-lived, as he committed suicide shortly after her 14th birthday. She was kicked out of the house soon after and her numerous attempts to return were denied, leaving Collins to fend for herself. As terrifying as that was, she believes it ultimately was better than life at home.

“I have a lot of positive feelings about living outside, to be honest,” she said. “Even when it’s bad, you have to turn it around in your head to keep yourself from being miserable. When I first became homeless I was very timid, shy and awkward. I literally gathered all my social skills learning to panhandle.”

Shortly after her 14th birthday ... she was kicked out of the house and her numerous attempts to return were denied, leaving Collins to fend for herself. As terrifying as that was, she believes it ultimately was better than life at home.

Collins found a new family, of sorts, on the streets of Seattle. One day, two homeless men saw her walking and, concerned about her relative youth and the fact she was visibly upset, invited her to sit down. They rolled a spliff, listened to her story and offered to take her under their wings: “It was by a park where a lot of vagranty-types hang out … some bonafide crackheads, some drunks, your occasional tweaker; all these people you might look at and think, ‘Blech!’ But those people took care of me. They fed me, got me stoned, made sure I had blankets, walked me everywhere I needed to go … they could easily have took advantage of me, but nope, they took care of me.

“I wanted to go home; I didn’t want to be that street kid,” she said. “But I grew accustomed to it, even fond of it. I was in charge of myself. I was a teenager, living in abandoned buildings, skateboarding around, causing a ruckus, dying my hair whatever color I damn well pleased … I

Siana Sonoquie outside of the Jesus Center, one of several organizations she works with. Sonoquie helped Collins find housing and maintains a close friendship with her. cn&r file photo

could do whatever I wanted to, and it was awesome.”

Sonoquie says it’s not uncommon for homeless individuals to suffer difficult upbringings: “A lot of problems can be traced back to adverse childhood experiences,” she said. “Alexx grew up with a lot of trauma happening, and living on her own so young was partly a move for selfcare. A lot of people in homelessness grew up in environments with abuse, drugs and alcohol, and many understandably choose homelessness over that. Those issues are definitely factors in Alexx’s case.”

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to every one of the lower 48 states over the next several years. A musician who plays guitar and the musical saw, she learned new skills like “gasjugging”— playing music or telling jokes for spare change. At one point she was married, but the relationship didn’t last.

Chico became part of her regular route and, after “meeting a fella I fell madly in love with” here, it became her de facto home. That relationship faltered as well, but she stayed connected to Chico.

At times, Collins reveled in the freedom that homelessness and traveling offered, but at other times she wanted desperately to escape the hardship and degradation she witnessed, and often endured.

She continued to “dabble, a lot” with hard drugs, but said her main vice always was booze. “I became a pretty raging alcoholic by the time I was 18,” she said.

She began acquiring facial tattoos at age 19, which she explained are partly an homage to her lost stepfather. When he was around, her family lived in a ramshackle cabin in the woods of Washington, slowly improving the home and living a simple life. “We were like a happy, functional family, for a short while,” she said.

“We’d cook outside on a campfire every night and eat dinner together. Even though we didn’t have diddly squat, we were making a home and, having never had that as a kid, it felt good.

“I was cooking outside at a Rainbow Gathering [semi-regular meet-ups for traveling-types held in remote areas around America] one night and I thought, This feels like home,” she continued. “It felt like being back with my stepfather again, and I decided I never wanted to forget that feeling. I realized I don’t need [material goods] to be happy.

As long as I’m fed and have people I love and I’m doing the things I need to live, things will be fine.”

The collection of tattooed shapes has grown over the years—in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Portland, Ore.; Northhampton, Mass.; and other stops. “I added to it whenever things my stepdad said suddenly made sense, or when I’ve connected my past to my current understanding of life. “[The tattoos] mean even more to me now because things are changing,” she said. “I’m doing new things, living inside and working towards a job that can help me help people. I don’t want to forget where I came from, and that’s damn near nothing. And damn near nothing can be fine; it can be just wonderful.”

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Left: Collins during her final month of pregnancy, just a few days after meeting Sonoquie. photo courtesy of siAnA sonoquie

Below: Lisa Currier of Crisis Care Advocacy and Triage says Collins has exceptional communication skills. cn&r file photo

at YouthCare’s James W. Ray Orion Center in Seattle, a drop-in center for homeless youth: “They didn’t just give me food and clothes, they paid me to get my GED,” she said. “At the time, my husband and I were in different states and I just thought, I don’t want to do this anymore. I want to help people get off the streets, just like these people do.”

Though Collins had the

“After getting sober and trying to help him [get sober], it changed my vision of alcohol. It changed my thoughts on a lot of things, and I haven’t been that same drunk person since.”

—Alexx Collins

desire to escape homelessness, it took another four years to find a way. One of the major steps she took in the interim was to quit drinking, a move prompted when she found herself in a relationship with another alcoholic: “We were cutely depressing. We had the same wake up, detox and get drunk schedule,” she said. “I loved him selflessly and quit drinking to try to help him stop.”

He didn’t stop with her, nor did he stop after being hospitalized at Enloe Medical Center for three weeks due to damage from drinking, she said.

He eventually died from the ravages of alcohol on his body.

“I had to leave him when I realized, I can’t stay for this. I can’t change this,” she said. “I knew if I stayed I’d be watching the ship go down, and maybe go down with it.

I wasn’t ready to let go of myself; I wanted to keep going. After getting sober and trying to help him, it changed my vision of alcohol. It changed my thoughts on a lot of things, and I haven’t been that same drunk person since.”

Collins also spoke of a friend who fell victim to life on the streets, a young girl who endured horrific sexual and physical abuse here in Chico, and was eventually found dead of a drug overdose.

“She reminded me of myself,” Collins said. “I saw the same little kid in me that bad things happened to, and I thought maybe if I saved her I could save myself. But I sometimes think, well, at least she’s safer now.

Maybe she can restart as a cantaloupe or a butterfly or a dog or something.

She’s not suffering the way she did when she was alive. That’s the most positive thing I can find about it.”

Though sober, Collins’ struggle

with street life continued through her pregnancy with Morty. She saved some money—through panhandling, playing her saw and working odd jobs—but it spent fast living handto-mouth, and especially so while carrying a child. She availed herself of social services to obtain prenatal care and a two-week motel voucher toward the end of her term.

Then, at 38 weeks pregnant and with just two days left on the voucher, her last-ditch plea for help reached the ears of the person she credits with making all the difference—Sonoquie.

“That woman saved my life,” she said.

Sonoquie is a tireless advocate for the disenfranchised who left a goodpaying job in the corporate world several years ago to work in the nonprofit sector. She currently does contractual work at the Jesus Center and volunteers at Safe Space, a seasonal homeless shelter, and Crisis Care Advocacy and Triage (CCAT), a local organization dedicated to harm reduction and crisis intervention for individuals suffering from homelessness, mental illness and addiction.

At the time, she was volunteering for Stairways Programming.

“I reached out to [Stairways] for help and they said there was a sixmonth waiting list,” Collins said. “I was on the phone yelling at some guy saying, ‘Fine, I guess I’ll just give birth under a bridge!’ when I got a Facebook message from Siana saying she wanted to meet me. She picked me up and took me to Denny’s and said, ‘We’re going to do this; we’re going to get you into a house.’”

Sonoquie empathized: “As a single mom with an infant, I had stayed at the Thunderbird Lodge on the same motel voucher program, so Alexx’s situation really resonated with me.” At her urging, Stairways was able to move some residents to different locations to make room for Collins.

Collins was housed for Morty’s birth—on March 21, 2016—but the situation wasn’t ideal. She said substandard living conditions led to the closure of that particular house, and she found herself crashing with friends while planning a move to Reno. “Couch-surfing with my daughter was humbling and horrible,” she said. “I never wanted to be that person.”

She eventually made it to Reno, but that living situation also fell apart,

as did another attempt to settle in Wisconsin.

With nowhere else to go, Collins called Sonoquie from more than 2,000 miles away; Sonoquie made arrangements for Collins to stay with one of her relatives in Chico until she could find a more permanent place.

“By that point I considered her part of the family,” Sonoquie said. “We’d become very close. Sometimes agencies can only do so much, and it comes down to one human helping out another human.”

“Since I got back here, the doors

have opened,” Collins said. “Things are happening. I mean, I started school today, I’ve had a job since I’ve been back, I’m volunteering … I’ve made five-fold the progress I was ever able to before.”

Upon her return, Collins connected with more social services to help secure her future. She’s found free child care through Valley Oak Children’s Services, which enabled her to start school and pursue more employment opportunities, and has been working and volunteering with CCAT as part of a welfare-to-work program. For a time, her job included picking up trash and monitoring the area around the Jesus Center as part of CCAT’s now-defunct contract to provide those services.

“She’s so great at outreach and communicating with people, because she has such a range of personal experiences and amazing people skills,” said CCAT Director Lisa Currier. “I can totally see her doing work like this well. She has a huge capacity for understanding and an even bigger heart.”

“Alexx is magnetic, talented and intelligent,” Sonoquie said. “She’s kind and has a knack for what she calls ‘calming people’s tits,’ which means she’s really good at deescalating people. As someone who’s worked in the business world, I could see her running a company someday. She has all the major traits, and so much experience from living on the streets and having to hustle.”

Regarding Collins’ current housing crisis, Sonoquie said, “She has a baby and an incredible dog, and a lot of people can say, ‘Just give up the dog,’ but that’s not possible in this situation. Most affordable rents in this community are not set up for babies or pets.

It’s very slim pickings.”

Despite her uncertain housing future, Collins remains steadfast in her resolve to keep a roof above her and Morty’s heads.

She has her eye on a house she thinks would

Above: Morticia “Morty” Collins plays outside of her and her mother’s current home. photo by emily teAgue

Right: In addition to the challenges of single motherhood, Collins faces barriers typical of those overcoming homelessness. For instance, it took her three months to acquire the necessary documents and jump through the hoops to open a bank account. photo courtesy of siAnA sonoquie

be perfect, is going through the application process, and hoping for the best. She’s also proud of the progress she’s made.

“I know people who’ve had long periods of addiction and spent long periods outside who’ve turned their lives around,” she said. “I’m not going to lie and say the ratio of people who try and succeed is high. It’s not easy; it’s extremely difficult. But I like to believe I’m a good example. I had nothing, and now here I am.”

A few days into her scholastic career, Collins called to report the profound effect her finally found path has had on her: “Every day when I’m driving to school, I get this feeling that’s so overwhelming I have to pull over and cry,” she said. “I’ve heard the term ‘tears of joy’ but had never experienced it. I can’t believe I’ve come so far.” Ω

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Jesse Karch (left) and Denver Latimer in the Butcher Shop’s backyard rehearsal space and scene shop.

Slow Theatre fulfills its mission at annual festival

THIS WEEK

Gtruth,president has no problem stretching the it’s no surprise that during brainiven the degree to which our own

storming for this year’s Butcher Shop theater festival, the theme of “lying and deception” came up.

“We started having writing workshops with the company early in the year, to kind of take the temperature of the community of artists that we’ve formed, to see what’s on their mind, what they’re hopeful about, afraid of,” said Jesse Karch, Butcher Shop artistic story and director. photo by In 2014, Slow Theatre Jason Cassidy took over the production of the annual Labor Day j asonc @ newsrev iew.c om weekend festival from the Blue Room Theatre, The Butcher which had been at the Shop 2017 helm since 2009, when Community arts the event was resurrected festival featuring the original production in a south Chico orchard.

My Name Was However, instead of Deception, plus a continuing the tradition sculpture garden, of showing a handful of Portraits of Desmond art show and live original, experimental music. Food and drinks one-acts, Slow Theatre available for purchase. has gradually transBicycles encouraged. formed its approach to Bring blankets and low-back chairs. the Butcher Shop by Cost: Free (donations applying a deliberate, accepted); limited collaborative method to reserved seating, $25 creating a single focused work to headline the End of Normal 2500 Estes Road event.

This year’s process www.facebook.com/ theButchershopChico started with those writing workshops in December and January, followed by the company reconvening in the spring to start the work of digesting the notes and turning it into a story. That’s when the “lying and deception” theme rose to the top; then the group 24

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reached out to the greater community.

“We started doing community interviews around the theme,” Karch explained. “We gathered, like, 100 pages of transcripts and then we anonymized them and read them over and sometimes performed them as scenes.”

It might sound like a protracted way to put together a one-time production at a free community event, but for the group of local writers and theater veterans who started Slow Theatre in 2013, it’s the next step in the evolution of Chico’s theater scene.

“It’s not [just] about putting a play on for art’s sake or because we like a play— it’s about, ‘Does this play need to be told; does it tackle something that’s going on in the town?’”

That’s Denver Latimer, Slow Theatre executive director and co-founder, and part of the local theater scene since the late-1980s, having also co-founded both the Blue Room and Butcher Shop. “[The idea for Slow Theatre] came from my studies at New York Theatre workshop in Manhattan and at Yale Repertory Theatre and my observation of the New York theater scene,” Latimer said.

“What I found was that, if you didn’t have a really strong reading program, you never ended up with a good product on stage because you didn’t get enough people/ dialogue going into the process.”

This year’s product is My Name Was Deception. “The story is about a small town that has scored low on a national

anxiety poll,” Karch said. “And they have a new mayor who has run on a platform of putting a mood-enhancing drug into the drinking water, and some of the citizens in the town have been having these recurring nightmares which they think have been caused by this new mood-enhancing drug.”

As part of its community-focused approach, Slow Theatre collaborated with a wide variety of local artists. The play itself is a musical, with local dancers and musicians (Josh Hegg and Donald Beaman wrote the songs) performing alongside the actors. And the grounds of the orchard at the End of Normal will transform into an arts-rich festival with preshow music performances (by Jonathan Richman, XDS, SCOUT and others), a couple visual arts shows, food trucks and interactive activities.

And the Butcher Shop is just one of the company’s many projects. In September, Slow Theatre will kick off a collaboration with the Butte County Office of Education, in which they’ll be conducting acting and improv workshops in juvenile hall. And next year, Latimer said they hope to not only start putting on other workshopped productions, but also hold a two-weekend Butcher Shop/Shakespeare in the Park combo event at Bidwell Park.

“We definitely want to be a socially engaged theater,” Latimer said. “You can’t grow to become a professional theater unless you have a lot of programs that are doing that.” □

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Special Events AFFINITY RECEPTION: An opening reception for an exhibition bringing Northern California artists together with artists involved with Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development. Thu, 8/31, 6pm. Free. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

PARTY IN THE PARK: The Ridge community’s weekly summertime celebration with arts and crafts, food vendors and live music from Karma Kings. Thu, 8/31, 5:30pm. Free.

Paradise Community Park, 5570 Black Olive Drive, Paradise. www.paradisechamber.com

PRINTING OBSESSIONS RECEPTION: A reception for an exhibition that speaks to the meticulous side of printmaking. Thu, 8/31, 5:30pm. Free. Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico State. www.janetturner.org

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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, 8/31, 6pm. Free. Downtown Chico, Broadway. www.downtownchico.com

WINE TASTING: Wine and hors d’œvres to benefit Butte Environmental Council. Thu, 8/31, 5pm. $7. Bidwell Park Golf Course, 3199 Golf Course Road. www.becnet.org

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Special Events PECHAKUCHA 20X20: The global creative event comes to Chico. Artists share their stories, work and ideas in a simple presentation format—20 images shown for 20 seconds each. All six speakers will focus on murals and street art. Fri, 9/1, 7pm. Free. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade.

Music FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Chico’s signature concert series continues with soul, blues and rock from Sapphire Soul. Fri, 9/1, 7pm. Free. City Plaza, downtown Chico. www.downtown chico.com

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Special Events THE BUTCHER SHOP—MY NAME WAS DECEPTION: Slow Theatre presents the annual two-day outdoor theater festival complete with food trucks, beer and the 1078 Gallery’s pop-up exhibition of Portaits of Desmond. Plus, live music from Jonathan Richman, Loki Miller, SCOUT, Donald Beaman, Bran Crown, XDS and Birds, Bees and Cooties. Walking and bicycling encouraged; bring blankets and low-backed chairs. Sat, 9/2, 5:30pm. Free.

End of Normal, 2500 Estes Road. www.slowtheatre.com

station KCSC hosts a mini music festival with a free taco bar and a chance to make your own wearable tie-dye creation. Sat, 9/2, 3pm. Free. Glenn Hall Lawn, Chico State. www.kcscradio.com

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Special Events BIDWELL BASH & BBQ: AS Productions kicks off the fall semester with a barbecue and Greek carnival. Sun, 9/3, 1pm. Free. Bell Memorial Union, Chico State. www.as.csuchico.edu

THE BUTCHER SHOP—MY NAME WAS DECEPTION: See Saturday. Sun, 9/3, 5:30pm. Free. End of Normal, 2500 Estes Road. www.slow theatre.com

OMELETTE BREAKFAST FUNDRAISER: The rural mountain community’s annual breakfast fundraiser is a big, family-friendly event complete with omelettes made to order, muffins, juice and prize drawings.

Proceeds benefit community projects. Sun, 9/3, 8am. $6-$12. Volunteer Fire Station, Humboldt Road, Butte Meadows.

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Music HOT AUGUST NIGHT BAND: September is pretty close to August, right? This outdoor concert features Dean Colley and his band covering Neil Diamond and a full-course dinner. Wed, 9/6, 6:30pm. $40. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. www.feather fallscasino.com

WED HoT AUgUST NIgHT BAND Wednesday, Aug. 6 Feather Falls Casino & Lodge SEE WEDNESDAY, MUSIC

Special Events FORK IN THE ROAD: The monthly gathering of Chico’s food trucks, topped off with live music from Sofa King. Wed, 9/6, 8:30pm. Free.

Manzanita Place, 1705 Manzanita Ave.

SHADOW AND WATER RECEPTION: Opening night for an exhibition of puppets from Indonesia and Vietnam. Make shadow puppets, enjoy an interactive theater and learn how X-ray analysis revealed secrets beneath the surface of the puppets. Wed, 9/6, 4:30pm. Free.

Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Chico State. 530-898-5397.

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So CHICo The theater festival known as The Butcher Shop debuted in a Chico backyard more than 25 years ago. It went dark for about 15 years as its creators focused on productions at the Blue Room Theatre, and in 2009, the theater brought the festival back to life in an orchard off Estes Road in south Chico (aka The End of Normal). Now put on by Slow Theatre, the Labor Day weekend tradition is as strong as ever. Set for Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 2-3, this thoroughly Chico happening boasts an original music-theater work, My Name Was Deception, the 1078 Gallery’s pop-up exhibit of Portaits of Desmond, plus live music from Jonathan Richman, Loki Miller, SCOUT, Donald Beaman, Bran Crown, XDS and Birds, Bees and Cooties.

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CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Landscape Photographs, a display of local scenes from Bidwell Park and Table Mountain captured by Tom Hedge. Through 9/30. 789 Bille Road, Paradise.

CHICO ART CENTER: Call for Small Artworks, in any medium—collage, assemblage, textile, wire sculpture, paper clay, origami, found objects, or whatever else you can get your hands on. 9/2-9/3, 10am-4pm. Also, 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

END OF NORMAL: Portraits of Desmond, the 1078 Gallery presents an open-entry, pop-up art show in remembrance of Desmond Phillips, a 25-year-old man shot

by Chico police officers in March, during Slow Theatre’s annual outdoor festival, The Butcher Shop. Through 9/3. 2500 Estes Road. www.1078gallery.org

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

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Two Truths & A Lie, photography by Weegee, Zoe Crosher and Jessamyn Lovell. Through 9/30. Chico State.

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: New Works by Avery Palmer, surrealist paintings on display.

Through 10/31. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-3432930. www.jamessnidlefinearts.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Printing Obsessions, advanced printmaking students select works that speak to the meticulous side of printmaking. Through 9/23. Chico State. www.janetturner.org

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Affinity, more than 20 works created by artists involved with Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development paired with paintings from Northern California artists.

Through 10/31. $5. 900 Esplanade. www.monca.org

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ongoing Exhibit, 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.

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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.buttecreek canyon.info

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: How Far Can You Fly? Learn how birds and airplanes get off the ground using the forces of thrust and lift. Then design a straw rocket—and maybe even add some wings—and measure how far it flies. 9/2, 1-3pm $5-$7.

Also: Amusement Park Science, a familyfriendly 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.

625 Esplanade, www.csuchico.edu/gateway

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: 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. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. www.goldnuggetmuseum. com

PARADISE DEPOT MUSEUM: The refurbished Paradise Depot serves as a museum with a working model train. Through 9/19. 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.

10381 Midway, Durham, 530-342-4359. www.patrickranchmuseum.org

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Hall and Shoko Horikawa moved to town with their infectious noise-fueled dance rock, the husband/wife duo has been playing music together for the better part of the last 19 years. by Before coming to Chico, XDS (forConrad Nystrom merly known as Experimental Dental & School) played all over the world, Jason Cassidy from Europe to Japan, toured with like-minded noisemakers Deerhoof and made a name for itself in the music scenes of both Oakland and Preview: Portland, Ore. It’s no accident that the XDs plays friday, sept. 1, 7:30 p.m., at duo came ready to play. the Maltese with This alien creature that’s landed Ice cream (s.f.), in the middle our the music scene has sunny Acres and captured imaginations with a colorful false face society. cost: $8 stage setup—featuring a hodgepodge of Christmas and other lights, copiMaltese Bar & ous electronic effects and a precariTaproom ously balanced stack of homemade 1600 Park Ave. 343-4915 white suitcase amplifiers—and an www.facebook.com/ energetic commitment to twisted themaltese dance music. The band even won the 2017 CAMMIES award for Best Live Act after only a few months in town.

“It has been amazing. Chico seems so open to new ideas and people here want to par-tay,” said Hall.

Notions of “new ideas” and “par-tay” are a good place to start when trying to describe Hall’s approach to band-leading. Added to the all the loops, electronics and sound effects is the guitar Hall custom-built, complete with a flat-wound E bass string used to hold down the crazy rhythms he dances along with.

“I never really identified as a guitarist—more as a sounds maker. In the end, I couldn’t decide on guitar or bass … or even keyboards or sampler, so I just worked them all in.”

The origins of XDS go way back to Chico in the late-1990s when drummer Nik Abodeely (now fronting SF’s psyche band Zodiac Death Valley) provided the wildly inventive percussive support to Japan-transplant Horikawa (then on keys/electronics) and Chico-raised Hall’s boundary-shattering art rock circus act known as MeYow. The trio’s Casiofueled spastic trips provided the leaping-off point for Experimental Dental School, which the couple started when they moved to Oakland in 2002.

After going through a couple of drummers and relocating to Portland in 2008, the band moved from a trio to a two-piece, with Horikawa taking on the drum kit,

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and Hall embracing his “sounds maker” identity and mastering playing keyboard sound effects and noise loops simultaneously with his vocal and guitar duties.

While in Portland, though, Horikawa quit drumming after a particularly grueling tour. Hall continued with a new drummer, and soon after, the couple began having children—first a daughter, then a son—and their energies shifted toward raising the kids. Shortly after their son was born, Hall had a health scare that would change how he approached his music.

“I had a surgery two years ago that really put me down for a while. [It] put me closer to death than I ever imagined I could have been. After recovering, things changed. I took an honest look at the music we were making and didn’t really like it. I didn’t like my voice either, so I spent the last year really working on basics like vocal intonation,” Hall explained. “Having Shoko back in the band has been amazing. She is such a sensitive, creative drummer. I think sensitivity is a very undervalued trait in a drummer.”

“We learned to use our time effectively and also really appreciate that we can still do music,” Horikawa said about returning to the band. She also expressed gratitude to Hall’s family, who live in Chico and have helped out with their two kids since they moved back. But that’s not to say the kids are kept separate from their parents’ musical endeavors.

“Our kids definitely love [the] music and dancing to it,” Horikawa said, to which Hall added: “For me, the kids are not only a direct influence and inspiration, but at times even songwriting partners. They come up with some of the most unique and honest dance moves—which I try to emulate. … Also having kids changed me, made me more open, more open to fun and happiness. In some ways, I think we kind of sucked before.” □

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LABOR DAY KICK-OFF: Hard rock with The Loki Miller Band and Looking 4 Eleven. Fri, 9/1, 9pm. Tackle Box, 1600 Park Ave.

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paintings by Pondo on display, plus live music from False Face Society. Thu, 8/31, 6pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

LOCALS ROCK SHOW: Loud rock from Third, Gordy Ohlinger and Robert Karch. Thu, 8/31, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

SUMMER PUB RUN: An adults-only 3-4 mile run ending at a downtown bar. Thu, 8/31, 6pm. Free. Fleet Feet Sports, 241 Main St.

ERIC PETER: Solo jazz guitar. Thu, 8/31, 6pm. Free. Grana, 198 E. Second St.

JAZZ NIGHT: A weekly performance by

The Chico Jazz Collective. Thu, 8/31, 8pm. Free. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

SINGER-SONGWRITER SHOWCASE: Featuring performances by Mark Johnson, Laurie Dana, Herd on

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BASSMINT: A weekly bass music party with a rotating cast of local and visiting producers and DJs. Fri, 9/1, 9:30pm. Peking Chinese Restaurant, 243 W. Second St.

Chico bands Scarlet Pumps, Hörriblé and Down the Well. Fri, 9/1, 9pm. Free. White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

MIDTOWN SOCIAL: A nine-piece soul, rock and funk band with a strong social message. Brooker D & The Mellow Fellows open. Fri, 9/1, 9pm.

Lost on Main, 319 Main St. www.lost onmainchico.com

NON-FLOAT RAGER: A Labor Day celebration without river tubes, featuring Ice Cream out of San Francisco and local bands Sunny Acres and XDS. Fri, 9/1, 7:30pm. $8.

The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

OPEN MIC: An open mic hosted by Thunder Lump and Steve Givens.

Music only. Fri, 9/1, 7pm. Free.

DownLo, 319 Main St.

REFLEX: Top dance hits in the

lounge. Fri, 9/1, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

02satuRDaY favorite doom-metal crew plays in Chico for the first time in years.

Also rocking: Touch Fuzzy Get Dizzy and Voyeur. Sat, 9/2, 7:30pm. $7.

Cafe Coda, 265 Humboldt Road.

CRIMINALS & GANGSTERS NOIR: House burlesque troupe The Malteazers dance like its the 1920s, see? Sat, 9/2, 10pm. $7. The Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

DECOY: Covers of modern and clas-

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REFLEX: Top dance hits in the

lounge. Sat, 9/2, 8:30pm. Free. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

RETROTONES: Classic rock in the

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Shaman’s Harvest is a band out of Missouri, and its mix of twangy borderline country and sort-of-edgy hardrock seems destined for alt-rock radio. In terms of both sound and image, the band’s cut out of the same cloth as Puddle of Mudd and Black Stone Cherry, and is playing Lost on Main on Saturday, Sept. 2.

ARMED FOR APOCALYPSE: Everybody’s

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SEMI-ACOUSTIC MUSIC SHOWCASE: A weekly showcase and benefit for Chico schools. Hosted by Keith Kendall and friends. Sat, 9/2, 5pm.

Scotty’s Boat Landing, 12609 River Road.

SHAMAN’S HARVEST: An acclaimed Midwest group fusing modern,

classic and Southern rock. The outfit has toured with Puddle of Mudd, Black Stone Cherry and AC/ DC. Biggs Roller and Royal Oaks open. Sat, 9/2, 9pm. $10-$12. Lost on Main, 317 Main St. www.loston mainchico.com

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bassist Gary Bourg, Eric Peter on guitar and Komoki Bunting playing drums. Wed, 9/6, 6:30pm. Free. Red Tavern, 1250 Esplanade.

Lynyrd Skynyrd covers. Sat, 9/2, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino &

Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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duo. Elwood of Chico and Creekside open. Sat, 9/2, 5pm. The Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

pretty close to August, right? This outdoor concert/dinner pairing features Dean Colley covering Neil Diamond. Wed, 9/6, 6:30pm. $40.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. www.feather fallscasino.com

UP TO 11: Rock and metal covers. Sat, 9/2, 8:30pm. Ramada Plaza, 685 Manzanita Court.

open mic. Bring guitars, fiddles and whatever other instrument you enjoy and share some tunes. Wed, 9/6, 5:30pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave., 530-343-4915.

THE POSEYS: Swing, jazz, blues

UPTOWN FUNK: Bruno Mars covers led by a high-stepping frontman with extra swag. Sun, 9/3, 8:30pm. $5.

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

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ioned jam. Mon, 9/4, 7pm. $3. Bolt’s Antique Tool Museum,

Remember Armed for Apocalypse? A few years back, they were one of the most punishing heavy metal bands in Chico, blasting local audiences with banshee screaming and ludicrously heavy, drop-G guitar riffs. After a long period of radio silence, the band is back in a big way, having just wrapped up a 40-date national tour.

They’ll finish up a much shorter West Coast jaunt at Cafe Coda on Saturday, Sept. 2—their first Chico show in years.

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

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ans tell jokes. Tue, 9/5, 8pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

open mic, all musicians get two songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 9/6, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

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TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival teams with your squad of up to six fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 9/6, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

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

Murder on the reservation

Opening this week Before the Flood

Butte Environmental Council hosts a showing of the 2016 documentary that highlights examples of climate change across the planet. One-time matinee screening, Saturday, Sept. 2, 1 p.m.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977)

A 40th anniversary reissue of Steven Spielberg’s sci-fi classic.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Good Time

A well-played character-driven mystery

Robert Pattinson stars in this crime drama about two brothers on the run after an attempted bank robbery. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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The Midwife

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Not rated —J.C.S.

Step

Wind River Tas thriller that distinguishes itself both an outdoor action film and as a aylor Sheridan’s

is a crime

nuanced multicharacter drama.

The central mystery of the story by revolves around Juan-Carlos the violent death Selznick of a young woman whose battered body is found in snowy mountainous terrain on the Wind River Reservation Wind River in Wyoming. The starring Jeremy somewhat scrambled Renner, Elizabeth investigation that Olsen, graham greene, and gil Birmingham. ensues is conducted Directed by taylor by a disillusioned sheridan. Cinemark 14, tribal policeman Feather River Cinemas, (Graham Greene), Paradise Cinema 7. an eager but young Rated R. and ill-prepared FBI agent (Elizabeth Olsen) and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife hunter/tracker (Jeremy Renner) who found the body while track-

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Documentary following a Baltimore high school girls’ step team during their senior year as they prepare for a step competition and work toward getting accepted into college. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

There Will Be Blood (2007)

Lambert serves as a temporary mentor for Agent Banner (Olsen). And he has an assortment of variously tangled relationships with Wind River people, including his estranged wife, Wilma (Julia Jones), the wayward brother (Martin Sensmeier) of the murdered girl, and the grieving father of both, a heartbroken warrior named Martin (Gil Birmingham) who is Lambert’s oldest and perhaps best friend, and seemingly his true soulmate in some very ancient sense of that term.

Renner and Birmingham’s scenes together, one early and one late, are emotional high points in a film that thrives on the closely observed, understated emotions of more than a dozen of its characters. The wonderfully weird musical score by Nick Cave and Warren Ellis enhances the film’s sidelong emotional power as well. □

ing wolves that have been preying on local livestock.

There’s a lively generic setup in all that, but Wind River delivers a good deal more than the conventional satisfactions, including some uncommon twists of emphasis in what may sound at first like a routinely familiar tale. And those twists, I hasten to add, have less to do with plot than with matters of character.

Hunter/tracker Cory Lambert (Renner) has less official cachet than the characters played by Olsen and Greene, but even as a kind of volunteer assistant, he’s the story’s crucial figure. His knowledge of the land and the local wildlife is part of it, but his hunter/tracker gifts (and his awareness of his own flaws and limitations) extend into his understanding and concern for the people and tattered communities he encounters.

Paul Thomas Anderson’s modern classic set during the oil boom in turn-of-the-century California and featuring the Oscarwinning performance of Daniel Day-Lewis. One showing: Sunday, Sept. 3, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Now playing

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Annabelle: Creation

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R —B.G.

Baby Driver

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

The Big Sick

Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

Birth of the Dragon

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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Cars 3

Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated G.

The Dark Tower

Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Despicable Me 3

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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Dunkirk

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

‘the two Catherines’

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the Midwife Opens Friday, sept. 1. Pageant theatre.

Not Rated.

by Juan-Carlos Selznick

Apart from the respect granted a produc-

tion featuring two major French movie stars (Catherine Deneuve and Catherine Frot), Martin Provost’s The Midwife hasn’t gotten a whole lot of enthusiasm from national reviewers in America. The two Catherines, all by themselves, are sufficient reason for seeing this film. But I’d like to suggest that there are a few more very good reasons, including the following: 32

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• The soap-opera plot—a dying woman (Deneuve) seeks out the daughter (Frot) of a man with whom she once had a lengthy extra-marital romance—comes off as a quietly engrossing drama, thanks to Provost’s calmly sympathetic direction of the two stars and a talented supporting cast.

• Olivier Gourmet, the amiably odd-looking actor featured in many of the Dardenne brothers’ films, is on hand here as a rambunctiously unromantic romantic lead.

• Deneuve’s bravura work as an unrepentant and faux-elegant pleasure seeker is rowdy elegance of an uncommonly high quality.

• The film’s French title is Sage femme, which is the term the French use for what English speakers call a midwife. A simple literal translation of “sage femme” would be “wise woman,” and one of the interesting possibilities with Provost’s film is that while the Frot character is the proficient and gainfully employed “midwife” in the story, both women serve as metaphorical midwives in each others’ lives. And both are wise in their respective interrelated ways.

• Last, Deneuve’s Beatrice is the obvious charmer in the piece, but Frot’s Claire is the first to impress us—by way of her devotion and gentle intensity in the maternity ward. □

The Emoji Movie

Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

The Glass Castle

Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The Hitman’s Bodyguard

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

Leap!

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG.

Logan Lucky

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas and Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated PG-13.

The Nut Job 2: Nutty by Nature

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Spider-Man: Homecoming Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Wind River

1 Poor

2 3 Fair

Good

4 Very Good

5 Excellent

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

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Wonder Woman

Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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What is it about food places that are outgrowths of fruit stands that makes them so winning?

There’s a charming, bucolic “Shucks, here’s the food” attitude that I can’t resist. Chico’s Fresh Twisted Café has it. Jeff-Roe’s Produce and Pie Shop has it in spades. There’s also a minimalist approach to cooking—fruit stands know that peaches, berries and corn don’t have to be tweaked to taste good.

You know what you’re in for as you approach these places because of the signage. Fruit stands love signs. If you sell it, you need a sign telling passersby you sell it. Preferably with uncalled-for apostrophes, superfluous quotation marks and pleonastic adjectives (avocado’s, “sweet!” and the like).

Jeff-Roe’s (called that because the owner is named Jeff-Roe, in case you were wondering) has at least 21 signs in its front yard: melons, ice cream, burritos, deli sandwiches, tacos today (an apparently permanent sign), fresh press, “sweet” watermelon, “white” corn, dog “Bow Wow” friendly, shake’s (there’s that apostrophe!), gourmet hot dogs, Salad-Bar, and on and on. Yes, they have all that and lots more, in a small shack little bigger than a trailer. It’s fresh, simple and good.

Walk inside and Ocean, the proprietor and sole employee (Jeff-Roe mans the fruit stand next door), greets you like a friend and basically does anything you want. The menu, written on a white board in blue marker, is short (nine items total), uninspiring and chaotic—“salad bar” is listed under “sandwiches,” for instance, and “quesadilla” is listed twice. Don’t worry. The menu is a distraction. Just ask Ocean what’s good.

Jeff-Roe’s atmo is relaxed, with a high quirkiness factor. In lieu of napkins, there’s a roll of paper towels. All lunches come with fruit, chips and drink, which here means there’s a pile of bananas and apples on a table, a pile of little chip bags next to them, and a tub of soda cans in ice—grab one of each. There’s a bin of condiments including a squeeze-bottle of barbecue sauce.

There’s a gumball machine on the

patio. There’s a large wedge from a conifer painted to look like a watermelon slice.

Jeff-Roe’s is, in short, a hoot, but it’s not a joke. Care is taken with the food, and it pays off.

The salad bar has an amazing 25 toppings, and you can put them on anything you order, turning any sandwich into something extraordinary. The smoothies are 100 percent “real” fruit and perfect.

There are eight flavors of quality ice cream. They do a mean quiche.

Portions are predictably large. And Ocean and Jeff-Roe care—you’ll get used to them coming by, asking how things are, offering desserts and other add-ons.

But I came for the pies, which are usually fresh berry and very, very good. What is there to say about good pie? As Yoda might say, pies do or do not—there is no try. Jeff-Roe’s pies do. Perhaps not quite to Sweet Cottage standards, but what is? A la mode is another buck, which is a steal.

Jeff-Roe’s has been in business for 15 years and is open Friday, Saturday and Sunday during tourist season. Ocean and Jeff-Roe actually live in Sparks and/or Truckee. At least that’s what Ocean told me. Don’t try to research the place, because Jeff-Roe’s has no Facebook page. And no email. And no business cards. And no phone.

I guess they put their entire PR budget into wooden signs. Just drive down Chester’s Main Street.

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ARTS DEVO

by JASON CASSIDY • jasonc@newsreview.com

EvEnt p r o m ot Ers

: p o st E v f r E E o f E n ts chargE !

Elijah Ocean Elijah Ocean New Wheel If the name Elijah Ocean rings a bell, it might be because he’s spent the last few years steadily zigzagging the country, refining his hookridden country tunes for his new self-titled release. A first listen, the album exemplifies the straightforward nature of good country music, something Ocean gets. Songs like “Heavy Head” and “Time Passes Slow” take on an instantly familiar feeling—sing-along, anthemic choruses, high-soprano organ chords and silky guitar melodies. The feel-good, harmony-driven tunes have a spirit similar to the alt-country works of Ryan Adams with The Cardinals, or the 1970s folk feel of CSNY, while vocally Ocean recalls Bruce Springsteen’s Nebraska recordings (specifically on “Still Where You Left Me”). The heavy-hitter comparisons speak to Ocean’s ability to do justice to classic forms. Something new that sounds like something you’ve heard before.

—Robin Bacior

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silverBirch Productions While Canadian guitarist/vocalist Chris Antonik has been hailed for his Clapton-esque guitar work on his recordings—this is his third CD since 2011—what really grabs me are his lyrics.

Of his songwriting he says, “This is a pretty dark record, but it’s real.”

A good example is “Hungry Ghost,” an uptempo meditation on addiction and “the possibility of [its] being hard-wired in a person’s brain during infancy.” Set to a thumping beat—courtesy of drummer Chuck Keeping, who animates all the songs—lines like “You know all about forsaken life, cutting your sadness with a worn-out knife” are not usual blues fare.

The recurring theme is forgiveness, which he spells out in “Forgiveness Is Free,” written while going through a divorce. The highlight is the title track, more properly rendered as “The Monarch and the Wrecking Ball.” Set to an infectious beat with a trio of harmony vocalists, whose presence seems like angels singing from on high, the song begins: “A new door opens, an old one closes,” and the trip begins.

MUSIC

—Miles Jordan

Sandgrown Jack Cooper trouble in Mind Sometimes it can take a while to get something just right. Jack Cooper, of London’s Ultimate Painting, spent his teen years in the English town of Blackpool, working seaside in the tourism trade alongside beach dwellers of every sort. By the age of 18, he’d bought a four-track to try and make some musical sense of life in a fading tourist town. It wasn’t until years later that it came together as his first solo record, Sandgrown. There’s a listless lo-fi quality that calls to mind long, idle hours at the beach in a raw 1960s folk tone. Some songs have a meditative quality, like “Gynn Square” with its cyclical call and response of meandering guitar and Cooper’s voice, while “A Net,” with its soft, unpolished harmonies, is buoyed by a wobbly upfront guitar. There are other sounds at play as well. “Sandgrown Part 2” has a jazz-influenced rhythm reminiscent of Chicago rockers The Sea and Cake. It may have taken Cooper years, but the album’s proved itself worth the wait.

MUSIC

MORE ART, PLEASE Last week,

Arts DEVO put out a call to all you local artists, musicians and other Chico freaks to reach out and share the good news of whatever fun you’re involved in. And it’s not just a one-time call; it’s a forever call for anything and all. So, c’mon! Give it to me! Mi column es su column.

Since I’ve yet to get a response on that, I went out on my own two feet into the heat of endless summer to find some art to share and found it at a couple of new exhibits inside the galleries of Chico State’s Arts & Humanities Building.

The Janet Turner Print Museum is showing Printing Obsessions, a student-curated show focusing on printmaking techniques, for which there will be a talk and reception tonight, Aug. 31, at 5:30 p.m. And over in the

Zoe Crosher—“Silhouetted no. 7” (digital C-print), at MFA Gallery, Chico State.

Jacki Headley University Art Gallery (as well as the MFA Gallery next door) is Two Truths & A Lie, a very com-

pelling photo exhibit exploring the nature of truth in photography through three series—one by legendary New York tabloid photographer Weegee and one each by contemporary artists Zoe Crosher and Jessamyn Lovell.

Also, while on my way to the university, I took a detour down East Seventh Street near downtown to revisit some lawn art I happened upon a couple of weeks ago. I don’t know who’s behind the pieces (no one was home either of the times I visited), but the series of torso sculptures in various installations is pretty rad.

Roy Ward Ragle—“Self Examination Series, Part II” (woodcut), at Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico State.

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Message “Arts DEVO” on Facebook or email jasonc@newsreview.com.

—Robin Bacior Yard art, East Seventh Street, Chico.

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Pop-ups, push-and-turns, heat sealing and warning labels are the likely future of recreational cannabis.

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No Kids Allowed State cannabis bureau working on specific requirements for child-resistant packaging

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e have come a long way since the 1970s, when Californians secretly stashed their marijuana away in sandwich bags. Now we have pop-ups and heat-sealed packaging all designed with one thing in mind: To keep cannabis out of the hands of children. It’s among state regulators’ biggest concerns when recreational sales start in January. Whether child-resistance will be required for individual packages or by throwing everything into a secure bag, one thing is certain: Child-resistant packages will be the norm.

According to the Bureau of Medical Cannabis Regulation’s (BMCR) proposed text, cannabis packaging must be “significantly difficult for children under five years of age to open, and not difficult for adults to use properly.” How that plays out is the big question right now. When asked, BMCR spokespersons only say that it will be finalized “by the fall.”

“Everybody is waiting for regulation,” said Sacramento’s Casey Knott, owner of 420 Stock (420stock.com), a non-edibles packaging supplier for cannabis dispensaries.

There are profits in this niche industry for entrepreneurs who are willing to wait until lawmakers finalize everything. Suppliers like Knott would rather do that than guess on the state’s final regulations.

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commonly seen in dispensaries. “These envelopes are certified child-resistant when you heat-seal them,” said Knott. The sealing process renders them difficult to open, even for adults, without using scissors or busting a tooth.

“Everybody is waiting for regulation.”

Casey Knott, Owner of 420 Stock packaging company

As with other states, the BMCR text also proposes child-resistant “exit bags.” White, opaque, and designed to look uninteresting to kids, these bags quickly solve the problem by holding several non-child-resistant packages inside.

California will also require tamperresistant shrink-wrapping on some packages, and a new warning icon, which Knott described as an upside-down triangle with the letters “THC” and an exclamation point inside. “We’re trying to keep up,” says a smiling Knott.

Safety experts will point out that packaging is child resistant — not completely child proof. So parents should keep their cannabis up and out of a child’s reach, consider purchasing a locked box or safe, and put away marijuana after each use.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF august 31, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “We are

continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems,” said businessman Lee Iacocca. You are currently wrestling with an example of this phenomenon, Aries. The camouflage is well-rendered. To expose the opportunity hidden beneath the apparent dilemma, you may have to be more strategic and less straightforward than you usually are— cagier and not as blunt. Can you manage that? I think so. Once you crack the riddle, taking advantage of the opportunity should be interesting.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Close

your eyes and imagine this: You and a beloved ally get lost in an enchanted forest, discover a mysterious treasure, and find your way back to civilization just before dark. Now visualize this: You give a dear companion a photo of your face taken on every one of your birthdays, and the two of you spend hours talking about your evolution. Picture this: You and an exciting accomplice luxuriate in a sun-lit sanctuary surrounded by gourmet snacks as you listen to ecstatic music and bestow compliments on each other. These are examples of the kinds of experiments I invite you to try in the coming weeks. Dream up some more! Here’s a keynote to inspire you: sacred fun.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): On its

album Jefferson’s Tree of Liberty, Jefferson Starship plays a song I co-wrote, “In a Crisis.” On its album Deeper Space/ Virgin Sky, the band covers another tune I co-wrote, “Dark Ages.” Have I received a share of the record sales? Not a penny. Am I upset? Not at all. I’m glad the songs are being heard and enjoyed. I’m gratified that a world-famous, multiplatinum band chose to record them. I’m pleased my musical creations are appreciated. Now here’s my question for you, Gemini: Has some good thing of yours been “borrowed”? Have you wielded a benevolent influence that hasn’t been fully acknowledged? I suggest you consider adopting an approach like mine.

It’s prime time to adjust your thinking about how your gifts and talents have been used, applied or translated.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Author

Roger von Oech tells us that creativity often involves “the ability to take something out of one context and put it into another so that it takes on new meanings.” According to my analysis of the astrological omens, this strategy could and should be your specialty in the coming weeks.

“The first person to look at an oyster and think food had this ability,” says von Oech.

“So did the first person to look at sheep intestines and think guitar strings. And so did the first person to look at a perfume vaporizer and think gasoline carburetor.”

Be on the lookout, Cancerian, for inventive substitutions and ingenious replacements.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): When famous

socialite Nan Kempner was young, her mother took her shopping at Yves Saint Laurent’s salon. Nan got fixated on a certain white satin suit, but her mean old mother refused to buy it for her. “You’ve already spent too much of your monthly allowance,” mom said. But the resourceful girl came up with a successful gambit. She broke into sobs, and continued to cry nonstop until the store’s clerks lowered the price to an amount she could afford. You know me, Leo: I don’t usually recommend resorting to such extreme measures to get what you want. But now is one time when I am giving you a go-ahead to do just that.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): The computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the miraculous communication system that we know as the World Wide Web. When asked if he had any regrets about his pioneering work, he named just one. There was no need for him to have inserted the double slash—”//”—after the “http:” in web addresses. He’s sorry that Internet users have had to type those irrelevant extra characters so many billions of times. Let this serve as a teaching story for you, Virgo. As you create innovations in

by rob brezsny the coming weeks, be mindful of how you shape the basic features. The details you include in the beginning may endure.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): The sadness

you feel might be the most fertile sadness you have felt in a long time. At least potentially, it has tremendous motivating power.

You could respond to it by mobilizing changes that would dramatically diminish the sadness you feel in the coming years, and also make it less likely that sadnessprovoking events will come your way. So I invite you to express gratitude for your current sadness. That’s the crucial first step if you want to harness it to work wonders.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “Don’t

hoot with the owls at night if you want to crow with the rooster in the morning,” advised Miss Georgia during the Miss Teen USA Pageant. Although that’s usually good counsel, it may not apply to you in the coming weeks. Why? Because your capacity for revelry will be at an all-time high, as will your ability to be energized rather than drained by your revelry. It seems you have a special temporary superpower that enables you both to have maximum fun and get a lot of work done.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

During this phase of your astrological cycle, it makes sense to express more leadership. If you’re already a pretty good guide or role model, you will have the power to boost your benevolent influence to an even higher level. For inspiration, listen to educator Peter Drucker: “Leadership is not magnetic personality. That can just as well be a glib tongue. It is not ‘making friends and influencing people.’ That is flattery. Leadership is lifting a person’s vision to higher sights, raising a person’s performance to a higher standard, building a personality beyond its normal limitations.”

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should always be a little improbable,” said Oscar Wilde. That’s advice I wouldn’t normally give a Capricorn. You thrive on being grounded and straightforward. But I’m making an exception now. The astrological omens compel me. So what does it mean, exactly? How might you be “improbable”?

Here are suggestions to get you started.

1. Be on the lookout for inspiring ways to surprise yourself. 2. Elude any warped expectations that people have of you. 3. Be willing to change your mind. Open yourself up to evidence that contradicts your theories and beliefs. 4. Use telepathy to contact Oscar Wilde in your dreams, and ask him to help you stir up some benevolent mischief or compassionate trouble.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): A mod-

ern Israeli woman named Shoshana Hadad got into trouble because of an event that occurred long before she was born. In 580 B.C., one of her male ancestors married a divorced woman, which at that time was regarded as a sin. Religious authorities decreed that as punishment, none of his descendants could ever wed a member of the Cohen tribe. But Hadad did just that, which prompted rabbis to declare her union with Masoud Cohen illegal. I bring this tale to your attention as a way to illustrate the possibility that you, too, may soon have to deal with the consequences of past events. But now that I have forewarned you, I expect you will act wisely, not rashly. You will pass a tricky test and resolve the old matter for good.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Want to

live to be 100? Then be as boring as possible. That’s the conclusion of longevity researchers, as reported by the Weekly World News. To ensure a maximum life span, you should do nothing that excites you. You should cultivate a neutral, blah personality, and never travel far from home. JUST KIDDING! I lied. The Weekly World News is in fact a famous purveyor of fake news. The truth, according to my analysis of the astrological omens, is that you should be less boring in the next seven weeks than you have ever been in your life. To do so will be superb for your health, your wealth, and your future.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS 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 95973.

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,

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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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as UNTAMED BAKESHOP at 627 Broadway St. Ste 170 Chico, CA 95928.

KALA RIDDLE 1661 Forest Ave Apt. 89 Chico, CA 95928.

KYLE RIDDLE 1661 Forest Ave, Apt 89 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KALA RIDDLE Dated: August 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001123 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KOVACH MEDIA at 1665 N Cherry Street Apt 12 Chico, CA 95926.

DUSTIN SMITH 1665 N Cherry Street Apt 12 Chico, CA 95926.

TIFFANY SMITH 1665 N Cherry Street Apt 12 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: DUSTIN SMITH Dated: August 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001122 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PITOIP LLC, PLUGGED IN AND TURNED ON IN PARADISE at 5972 Royal Point Drive Paradise, CA 95969.

PITOIP LLC 5972 Royal Point Drive Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: CLAY REID, PRES. Dated: August 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001079 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HEARTSONG YOGA at 6311 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

HUGH HOOKS JR. 1363 Brill Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CARMI HOOKS 1363 Brill Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CARMI HOOKS Dated: August 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001097 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as 2 ENGLISH LADIES, TWO ENGLISH LADIES at 309 Westin Lane Chico, CA 95973.

PATRICIA M HOLDSTOCK 309 Westin Lane Chico, CA 95973.

CLAIRE STEPHENS 2 Rugosa Oak Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: PATRICIA M HOLDSTOCK Dated: July 7, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0000926 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ORO PLAZA at 1900 Oro Dam Blvd Oroville, CA 95966.

KIRK BENGTSON 1037 Village Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIRK BENGTSON Dated: July 31, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001030 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TEB PANTRY at 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

ALI EMDADIAN 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

MOHAMMADREZA SOLEYMANI 1982 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ALI EMDADIAN Dated: August 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001106 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as LA BUENA TIERRA at 50 Cameo Dr. Apt 3 Chico CA, CA 95973.

AUTUMN HOPE MENDEZ 50 Cameo Dr. Apt 3 Chico CA, CA 95973.

GABRIEL MENDOZA 50 Cameo Dr. Apt 3 Chico CA, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by Copartners.

Signed: AUTUMN MENDEZ Dated: August 11, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001083 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as WOODS GENERAL STORE at 19175 New York Flat Rd Forbestown, CA 95941.

RHEANNA MARIE WOODS 94 Buckeye Dr Forbestown, CA 95941.

SCOTT WALTER WOODS 94 Buckeye Dr Forbestown, CA 95941.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: RHEANNA MARIE WOODS Dated: August 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001043 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ARCHWAY MANAGEMENT at 1469 Arch Way Chico, CA 95973.

BETH ANN WHITE 1469 Arch Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BETH WHITE Dated: July 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001010 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FONG FINANCIAL SERVICES at 120 Independence Cir Ste E Chico, CA 95973.

FONG MICHAEL LO 1877 Modoc Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: FONG MICHAEL LO Dated: August 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001133 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO DRINK, CHICO DRINKS at 1148 Stanley Ave Chico, CA 95928.

CARLIE RAE ADAMS 1148 Stanley Ave Chico, CA 95928.

SAMUEL L ADAMS 1148 Stanley Ave Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: SAMUEL L. ADAMS Dated: August 16, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001105 Published: August 24,31, September 7,14, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GEOLOGY ROCKS! AND MINERALS, KCV CONSULTING at

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KASEY CARLOS VALLE 835 Main St Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KASEY VALLE Dated: August 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001151 Published: August 31, September 7,14,21, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FAMILY TREE HYDROPONIC SUPPLY at 2961 Hwy 32 Unit 27 Chico, CA 95973.

KASEY VALLE 852 Grass Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KASEY VALLE Dated: August 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001150 Published: August 31, September 7,14,21, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BROTHERS FOUNDATION, PEACE BROTHERS FOUNDATION, REDWOOD GROVE CONNECTION at 1436 Salem St Chico, CA 95928.

RONALD BROWN 1617 E Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973.

CHARLES THOMPSON 1436 Salem St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: CHARLES THOMPSON Dated: August 24, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001152 Published: August 31, September 7,14,21, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MICROBLADING BY CHEYANN at 142 W 2nd Street Suite C Chico, CA 95928.

CHEYANN VELASQUEZ 1048 Montgomery St Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHEYANN VELASQUEZ Dated: August 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001052 Published: August 31, September 7,14,21, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NOR CAL CREAMERY at 66 North Valley Ct Chico, CA 95973.

RICK WRIGHT 66 North Valley Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICK H. WRIGHT Dated: August 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001139 Published: August 31, September 7,14,21, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAI LOR filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAI LOR Proposed name:

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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: 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

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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 library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

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

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

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

(530) 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 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

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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 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

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: JOHN B. FREEMAN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests authority to administer estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal 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

this Legal Notice continues

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 19, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 893-2882 Case Number: 17PR00301 Dated: August 24, 2017 Published: August 31, September 7,14, 2017

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ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

75 Sunshine Rd 120 W 21st St #1 1 Gold Creek Way 379 Silver Lake Dr 742 Willow St 3505 Shadowtree Ln 1023 Sir William Ct 414 W 6th St 4237 Kathy Ln 2637 Chantel Way 1475 Heritage Oak Dr

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$625,000 $500,000 $460,000 $412,000 $411,000 $400,000 $390,000 $385,000 $380,000 $363,000 $342,000

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$331,500 $311,000 $304,000 $295,000 $295,000 $290,000 $289,000 $285,000 $280,000 $279,500 $279,000

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the following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of august 14, 2017 – august 18, 2017. the housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

30 Delaware Dr

Chico

$276,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1236

3018 Monticello Ln A

Chico

$208,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1498

194 Vail Dr

Chico

$270,000

3/2

1127

631 Oak Lawn Ave

Chico

$179,000

3/2

1340

254 Whispering Pines Cir

Chico

$265,000

3/2

1520

1125 Sheridan Ave #7

Chico

$167,000

2/2

986

3301 Silverbell Rd

Chico

$260,000

3/2

1120

475 E 9th Ave

Chico

$140,000

1/1

504

242 Cottage Creek Dr

Oroville

$380,000

3/3

1950

5386 Saint Elmo Ct

Oroville

$285,000

4/3

2160

353 E 4th Ave

Chico

$255,000

2/2

1135

20 Glenshire Ln

Chico

$250,000

2/2

999

946 Karen Dr

Chico

$240,000

3/1

1172

1391 Delia Way

Paradise

$405,000

3/3

2317

2540 North Ave

Chico

$229,000

3/2

1112

4528 Casa Sierra Vis

Paradise

$399,000

4/3

2754

14 Comstock Rd

Chico

$222,000

4/2

1349

5061 Pentz Rd

Paradise

$391,000

4/4

4895

2388 Alba Ave

Chico

$220,000

3/2

1170

1557 La Grande Vue

Paradise

$304,500

3/3

2150

1745 Elm St

Chico

$216,000

2/1

808

960 Thomasson Ln

Paradise

$267,000

2/1

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