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Vol. 41, Issue 8 • October 19, 2017 OPINION Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .

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EDITORIAL

enough, indeed Recent allegations about producer Harvey Weinstein sexually harassing

dozens of women, coupled with further stories about rampant sexism in Hollywood, quickly led to the “Me too” movement.

It took hold last Sunday, Oct. 15, when actress Alyssa Milano suggested those who’ve experienced unwanted sexual advances post the words as their status as a way to bring awareness to the scope of the problem. In response, thousands of everyday people, mostly women, repeated the two words, sometimes accompanied by a harrowing tale of sexual assault or harassment. The ubiquity of the phrase reinforces what many of us already knew: that this type of behavior remains pervasive in the United States in 2017.

In response to the outcry, a group composed of powerful California women signed onto a public letter noting that sexual harassment is commonplace in “every industry and facet of our society.” Among other things, the piece shares the reasons why many women don’t speak up about it: feelings of powerlessness, shame and fear of retaliation, including being held back professionally or outright blacklisted.

The letter calls on women to continue to share their stories, including on a website for which the group is seeking submissions (go to wesaidenough.com to learn more). It also calls on those in positions of power to speak up and to take measurable action, such as working with companies led by women, and those that treat their female employees respectfully. The group also coined an apt phrase: “Enough.”

Enough, indeed. □

rush job When it comes to wishes of their constituents, the members of the City

GUEST COMMENT

Military madness in the trump era the world. Though the government garrisons the Tglobe, that fact is a black hole of non-news.

he U.S. has more than 800 military bases around

Seventy years after World War II and 64 years after the Korean War, there are, according to the Pentagon, 181 U.S. “base sites” in Germany, 122 in Japan and 83 in South Korea. They dot the planet by from Aruba to Australia, Chris Nelson Belgium to Bulgaria, the author, a chico resident, Colombia to Qatar. is women’s health nurse Hundreds of thousands of practitioner and co-host of U.S. troops, civilians and the Peace and Justice Program family members occupy on KZFr 90.1 FM. these installations. By conservative estimates, U.S. taxpayers spend at least $150 billion annually to maintain this deadly infrastructure.

By preparing for wars in foreign locations, the U.S. often evades legal restrictions—like on labor and prostitution. In some locations, the U.S. military evicted the local population to site bases. Foreign bases are also environmentally disastrous—open-air burns, unexploded weaponry,

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poisons leaked into groundwater, for example.

The 45 nations and territories without democratic rule represent more than half of the roughly 80 countries hosting U.S. bases (who all lack the power to ask their “guests” to leave). They are part of a historically unprecedented global network of military installations the United States has built or occupied since World War II. Outposts in Saudi Arabia, Iraq and Afghanistan helped generate and fuel the radical militancy that has spread throughout the greater Middle East.

We now have a president who may not hesitate to destroy millions of people and a Congress that wants tax cuts at the same time they have passed a budget of $700 billion for military spending. It is now or never to reclaim our civilian priorities and stop the madness. Solidarity with the global resistance to military bases is needed. We would never tolerate a foreign base here!

On Oct. 7, Chico Confronting Endless Wars committee began participating in a national call to action, “A Global Action Against Military Bases,” co-sponsored by the Chico Peace Endeavor (vigil Saturdays 12:30-1:30 p.m. at Third and Main streets), Occupy Beale Air Force Base and the Chico Peace and Justice Center. To learn more, go to chicopeace.org. □

Council’s majority don’t want to listen. The CN&R has watched the slow evolution on that front since the 2014 election, and it has become increasingly obvious under Mayor Sean Morgan’s leadership. Take Tuesday night’s rush job as a case in point.

The main item of discussion was a proposed marijuana ordinance that will not only ban commercial activity involving the drug but also ban outdoor growing of it for personal and medicinal use. The council had a choice: Either adopt the ordinance as is, or take the advice of the Planning Commission and separate the two issues in order to look further into the implications of moving all growing indoors.

The staff report on the matter, put together by the City Attorney’s Office, gave little credence to the justification for banning outdoor grows, which is that they invite crime. Do they? We’re not entirely convinced, given that the statistics provided by the Chico Police Department do not differentiate between crimes associated with outdoor grows and any other crimes. Then there was the code enforcement log, ostensibly presented as evidence that outdoor grows are hard work for that department. However, it didn’t indicate whether the complaints listed were actual code violations or just neighbors annoyed with the smell. The fact that names and addresses were included in the report seems negligent as well, as it basically alerts criminals of potential pot-growing locations.

Several members of the public spoke during the hearing, asking the council to wait until further research could be done on environmental repercussions. Others suggested the city allow dispensaries as a way of minimizing individual gardens.

Alas, only the liberal minority seemed to be listening. Council members Ann Schwab, Karl Ory and Randall Stone each asked several questions of staff, who seemed less than well-versed on the matter. And Morgan was hot to put the matter to a vote. Indeed, what the city ended up with was a rushed decision based on questionable evidence—a decision that virtually ignored public input and the recommendations from the Planning Commission.

That’s no way to set policy. □

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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

Me too When I was a sophomore in high school, I wound up in a class taught by a man I initially considered to be an eccentric. He wasn’t like any of the other teachers at my suburban Bay Area school, and I didn’t know quite what to make of the guy.

I’ll call him Mr. X. Mr. X was an intimidating figure despite not being a large man. He yelled to get our attention, and on occasion, he’d devour chalk—yes, the writing implement. I think he wanted to give us the impression that he was unpredictable, maybe even a little crazy. It worked. Not even the toughest of the tough kids messed with him.

At the same time, most of us liked Mr. X. He called each of us by our last name: in my case, Ms. Daugherty. It made us feel kind of like we were adults, at that age when you’re in a hurry to grow up. And he was funny in a borderline inappropriate way, which played well with a captive audience of teenagers.

A few weeks into the semester, fortysomething Mr. X started asking me questions about my home life—and learned I was the youngest of two kids being raised by a working, divorced mother. Shortly thereafter, the flattery began. At first, he told me I was intelligent, much smarter than my peers. But that soon transitioned to “sexy.” That’s the nickname he gave me, and he used it in front of my classmates.

I was your average, fairly naive 15-year-old girl who’d come up with a reason his intentions weren’t suspect. Like the time he invited me to spend the weekend at his house, ostensibly to go horseback riding with his wife— a twentysomething former student. Or the time he gave me a ride home after tennis practice and asked if anyone was there. He was just trying to be nice, I told myself. Then again, I was nervous enough to lie and say my older brother was home.

When my closest friends began hearing rumors that Mr. X and I were in a relationship, I confided in them some of the things he’d said to me. They told me what I didn’t want to believe: that he was a creep.

I found out they were right the day before Christmas break. One by one, as we were being dismissed from his class, Mr. X gave everyone a hug.

But when I got to the front of the line, he picked me up, twirled me around and planted one on my lips. I was dumbfounded.

Over winter break, I started dating someone. Mr. X found that out when school resumed and shunned me. He then turned his attention toward a student in another period—a friend of mine who said she liked the attention. When rumors began swirling about them, she started isolating herself.

Two years later, after I’d moved out of town, more rumors surfaced about a relationship with yet another student. Mr. X ended up resigning from his job and relocated to Nevada—taking that student with him. Years later, I hear she left him and moved on with her life.

I couldn’t help but think of Mr. X following the reports of Harvey Weinstein harassing women in Hollywood. Under a different set of circumstances, I may not have been able to evade him.

I wish I could say that Mr. X was the only male figure in my then-young life who tried to use his position of authority for sex. There have been several others—the thrice-my-age, small-business owner I worked for right out of high school; the college professor who got handsy with me out at the bars a few years after that. Etcetera, etcetera.

Long story short: me too.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Re “On board” (Newslines, by Robert Speer, Oct. 12): Instead of implying we are talking about the homeless, by describing a location as “halfway between the Jesus Center and City Plaza,” Robert Speer should be more forthright. Also, the quote from “diplomatic” CARD Manager Ann Willmann (“folks who don’t use the facility as intended”) refers to the homeless. In this case, to the brain-injured and otherwise afflicted who nap on the obscure postage stamp of land by the skate park on Humboldt.

The message in Speer’s skaterbooster article is clear: By expanding the skate park, we can exclude the indigent from one more scrap of public space—and ain’t that grand? When will Mayor Sean Morgan be writing for the CN&R? Other news: Jesus Center Director Laura Cootsona is driving forward with plans to close the Park Avenue facility, where many poor people eat, bathe and acquire clean clothing. Former Director Bill Such was fired two years ago—essentially for being too kind—and Cootsona was hired to push services out of the downtown.

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Patrick Newman Chico

Context omitted Re “More spent, less in return” (Guest comment, by Roger Beadle, Sept. 28): Roger Beadle heralds low costs and efficiency of Hong Kong’s health care. Omitted is that Hong Kong is smaller in area than Phoenix, Ariz., and, via Wikipedia, is a capitalist economy with low taxation.

Beadle states it’s “a myth … our taxes are too high.” Without crediting Money magazine (Ian Salisbury, July 19, 2017), he apparently lifts two sentences verbatim from Salisbury’s article.

To wit: “With a tax burden of 25 percent—a measurement that includes income, property and various other taxes—the U.S. is near the very bottom, well below the overall average of 34 percent.

It ranks below all other measured countries except Korea, Chile and Mexico.”

Omitted is that Salisbury also writes, “… the U.S. does indeed have one of the highest nominal [corporate] maximum rates in the world, at 35 percent. [This tax rate] … could indeed be a problem for the economy, since it encourages U.S. corporations to shift their operations overseas to keep tax bills low.”

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All this carnage was inflicted by just one man firing just one of his easily jury-rigged assault rifles.

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in 1.3 minutes how envy, classwarfare demagoguery and spin take precedence over more money collected through lower taxation.

FYI: According to our Board of Equalization, we Californians should surpass the 34 percent average overall world tax rate next year.

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firing just one of his easily juryrigged assault rifles.

I have no quarrel with people having and using firearms as originally intended by the Second Amendment. But surely it was not written to allow possession of semiautomatic weapons easily converted into machine guns.

William Todd-Mancillas Chico

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Looking for cooperation

We hear ad nauseam of the rights of gun owners, but what of the rights of Stacee Etcheber, the former Chicoan murdered during the recent Las Vegas shooting?

She had an adoring, responsible husband. She and he have now been ruthlessly deprived of the right to enjoy their marriage.

And what of the rights of her two children, Alivia (12) and Vinnie (10)? They are now bereft of the love, guidance and support of their mother. Neither they nor family and close friends will share the joys of dozens of future holidays and special occasions with Stacee in their midst.

In fact, each year, as Oct. 1 approaches, they will relive a truly unspeakable real-life horror. Now magnify their pain by that inflicted on families and friends of scores of others killed and hundreds of others wounded. All this carnage was inflicted by just one man

Re “Inhumane threat to health, safety” (Editorial, Sept. 21): Regarding your editorial, I appreciate your sentiments.

However, we are forgetting the bigger picture. A person who is homeless would be not homeless if they had a home, with a flush toilet.

As you know, there is a group whose goal is to eliminate homelessness in 10 years; that goal is now a few years away. The city of Chico has been approached by various groups looking for appropriate city-owned property to be used for just such housing—to no avail.

In the last few years, I have observed many more people who are homeless. Have you? We have been told that of all CSUC students, 10 percent are basically homeless.

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The other day I went to the gym, just as I do every day, and while pedaling away on a bicycle, I start to notice that there’s a conversation going on behind me with “Well, the Jews control all the money and the media.”

I get off my bike and explain to the two participants that this Jew is not interested in hearing their racist bullshit and they should take their conversation elsewhere. Both of them start yelling at me, quoting some right-wing rag that explains it all, and besides, one of them says, “My girlfriend is a Jew.” Over the years when this sort of racist talk is followed by this bizarre juxtaposition, how does one reconcile such troubling pronouncements? I always wonder about the girlfriend and what sort of Jew would be with a partner like this?

I found the owner of the gym, and he immediately went over to talk to these fellows and explained to them that he won’t tolerate this type of hate speech. So the Paradise right-wing raises its ugly head yet again, but kudos to the gym owner for setting clear ground rules.

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President Weinstein?

Many are hopeful Bernie Sanders is granted another opportunity to

govern our wayward nation, but the despicable manner in which countless Americans have been denied a nurturing and decent upbringing makes it possible for the next president to be Harvey Weinstein.

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We are interested in hearing from people who have served on the Habitat board of directors or a committee over these years, so we can include everyone in the celebration. Please send an email to info@buttehabitat.org and let us know when and how you were involved with Habitat.

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Editor’s note: The author is executive director of Habitat for Humanity of Butte County.

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The Department of Water Resources was named a winner of the California Golden Fleece Award Tuesday (Oct. 17) for its “reckless mismanagement of Oroville Dam,” according to a press release from The Independent Institute, an Oakland-based think tank.

In the release, the institute claims that DWR “failed to act on specific warnings about spillway integrity, provided insufficient inspection and repair processes, and made poor design and construction choices.” It also claims the DWR hid safety concerns from the public during February’s spillway crisis.

The organization began giving out the booby prizes quarterly last year. According to its website, each award aims to highlight an agency or program “that fleeces California taxpayers, consumers or businesses.”

Past recipients include the state departments of transportation (Caltrans) and forestry and fire protection (Cal Fire).

nO fair plan

Apparently nobody has any bright ideas for new uses for the Butte County Fairgrounds, as a request for proposal to reimagine the space came back with no bids, the county announced via press release Tuesday (Oct. 17).

County officials requested proposals to redevelop the fairgrounds in early August (see “Fairgrounds fair play,” Newslines, Sept. 28). Valid plans had to meet a number of criteria, such as increasing jobs and community benefits, decreasing county costs and ensuring that the annual county fair would continue on the Gridley property.

The county received numerous questions about the request, but no “responsive proposals” by the Sept. 29 deadline, according to the release. It also states county officials will continue to look for a cost-effective way to improve facilities while continuing to host the fair, but will not ask the public for plans again.

charter schOOl On the way

Ridge residents will have a new educational option in the near future. Achieve Charter High School received its final green light from the Butte County Office of Education Monday (Oct. 16) and plans to open in fall 2018.

Casey Taylor (pictured), executive director of Achieve Charter School of Paradise, told the CN&R that the effort to get the school started was long-fought. The Paradise Unified School District twice denied the charter before it was finally approved with a 4-1 vote by BCOE’s board of trustees.

Taylor said the school is currently negotiating to find both temporary and permanent homes. ACHS will open with 120 freshman students from the Paradise and Magalia areas, and it will eventually serve 500 ninth- through 12th-graders.

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where’s the evidence?

A look at the reasoning behind banning outdoor grows

Tcialtomarijuana adopt an ordinance banning commeras well as outdoor growing he Chico City Council moved on Tuesday

of it, despite a recommendation from the Planning Commission by to wait on the latter.

Meredith J. The gist of the matCooper ter is that, come Jan. 1, 2018, it will be legal in m e re d i t h c @ n ew srev i ew. c o m the state of California to sell cannabis under Proposition 64 and the Learn more: state will begin issuing for cn&r’s coverage licenses and permits for of the meeting at which the council banned everything from dispenoutdoor growing, see saries to commercial howard hardee’s gardens. If a local govreport on page 9. ernment doesn’t have a law in place regulating—or banning—such activity, it will be assumed to be allowed by the state.

That is the main reasoning behind acting now on banning commercial marijuana in the city of Chico, according to the staff report compiled by the City Attorney’s Office and presented to council in advance of Tuesday’s meeting. “It is imperative that the City have an adopted ordinance in advance of the January 1, 2018 date in order to place the state on notice as to the City’s position concerning commercial cannabis activity so that the provisions of the City’s local ordinance and regulations are not violated,” the report reads.

In addition, a law passed over the summer by the state Legislature streamlines regulations for both medicinal and recreational marijuana. That was the impetus for combining the language regarding commercial activity and growing for personal use. Currently, it is legal in the city to grow marijuana outside without a permit and inside with one (though there have been no permits issued). The ordinance passed Tuesday bans outdoor grows,

ostensibly to improve public safety.

“People with outdoor grows are more susceptible to home-invasion robberies,” Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien told the CN&R by phone. “It’s not exclusive to outdoor grows, but you can see them—you know they’re there. People aren’t stupid.”

According to the city attorney’s staff report, “The Chico Police Department believes that allowing outdoor marijuana grows (medical and non-medical) will exacerbate an already high crime level.”

But without statistics, the Planning Commission wasn’t ready to take the police department’s word that outdoor grows increase crime. “The police department has said that there’s crime that’s associated with outdoor grows,” commission Chair Toni Scott told the CN&R last week. “But we didn’t have the hard data

to make an informed decision on whether that was the right direction to go.”

In answering the Planning Commission’s call for more information to back up that statement, the report includes statistics on recent crimes, including the two homicides thus far in 2017, two shootings that were deemed drug-related, 46 robberies, 1,923 thefts and 717 burglaries including vehicle burglaries.

“The Chico Police Department believes that the statistics above support their concerns for allowing outdoor marijuana grows as it pertains to criminal behavior, which ultimately turns violent,” the report reads.

The thing is, those statistics don’t necessarily have anything to do with outdoor grows, or even marijuana.

“No, the homicide at the Safari Inn was

not related to marijuana,” O’Brien said.

“I can say that between Oct. 1, 2015, and Oct. 1 of this year there were 62 arrests for marijuana citations. And in the past 10 years, I’ve seen more homeinvasion robberies for marijuana than any other drug. It can be a nexus to that violent crime.”

How many of those citations were grow-related? That statistic is unknown.

“The issue is finding someone that will go through all those reports to see the exact nature of the citation,” O’Brien said. “They depend on your perspective. It’s not always measurely.”

Another area of concern for the

Planning Commission was the issuance of permits for indoor grows. For one, there is a permit process currently in place—but nobody has applied for one, though clearly there are people who grow marijuana indoors. Second, the commission was concerned about the public availability of personal permit information—in particular, addresses associated with marijuana gardens.

Scott worried that making that information public would invite crime into people’s homes.

The City Attorney’s Office, in addressing questions regarding code enforcement, listed every complaint received regarding marijuana grows in the past two years. It includes names and addresses, but does not indicate whether the complaint was founded or not. Leo DePaola, community development director for the city who oversees code enforcement, said he did not have statistics on how many violations had been found in relation to marijuana grows, either indoor or outdoor. When asked about the publication of names and addresses, he said, “The city attorney would not put out anything that was not public record.”

City Attorney Vince Ewing did not return an email seeking comment by press time. His office is in the City of Industry.

For DePaola’s part, he said he believes moving grows indoors will actually make code enforcement’s job more difficult. “To investigate a violation, we’ll be accessing someone’s home,” he said. “Right now if it’s outdoors and someone complains, we go look over the fence—it’s very easy to follow up on.”

He said once the ordinance is finalized—it must still come back for a second reading—the permit process will be created. It will, he said, include a provision allowing access to a permitted grow with a 72-hour notice. □

Grow home City Council majority votes to ban outdoor cannabis cultivation years ago, Evin Sanders opened his business, NorCal Med2You, FandiveChico-based he’s been discreetly delivering medicinal

cannabis products ever since. As he told the Chico City Council on Tuesday (Oct. 17), that’s a good way to describe local cannabis collectives and delivery services—discreet.

“We are a very small presence,” he said.

“I doubt you’ve gotten complaints about us to begin with.”

Still, the council’s conservative majority seemed dead-set on passing a new ordinance that would regulate smoking cannabis in public, ban all commercial activity, create a uniform permitting scheme for growing both medicinal and recreational cannabis and limit all grows to indoors. (Outdoor gardens are currently allowed for medical purposes.)

Which sounds like a big problem for an operation like NorCal Med2You. “If [the council passes] what they’re discussing, I won’t have the right to operate my business in Chico anymore,” Sanders told the CN&R. But it wouldn’t be the end of the world; he says he’ll look into moving his business’ address outside of city limits. The way he interprets the law, the city cannot stop him from driving on public roads and delivering to private residences.

“They’re really not achieving anything but self-satisfaction,” he said.

In May, the council started pushing for a

ban on commercial weed activity, despite most local voters favoring Proposition 64,

which legalized adult use and commerce statewide. But the regulatory landscape changed again in June, when the California Legislature passed Senate Bill 94 and consolidated regulations for medicinal and recreational marijuana. That prompted City Attorney Vince Ewing to recommend the council’s adoption of a single ordinance, rather than two standalone laws for recreational and medicinal cannabis.

During its meeting on Sept. 19, the council voted 4-3 down party lines to “streamline” all of the city’s cannabis-related laws into one ordinance. When the issue came before the Planning Commission on Oct. 5, that body voted unanimously to recommend banning commercial cannabis citywide, but advised gathering more information before banning outdoor grows (see “Pot discussion rages on,” Newslines, Oct. 12).

On Tuesday, the council had two options: Follow the Planning Commission’s recommendation or disregard it and pass the ordinance as written.

When the floor was opened for public comment, some people spoke in favor of the

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Evin Sanders, owner of NorCal Med2You, spoke in opposition to a new ordinance banning commercial cannabis during the Chico City Council meeting on Tuesday (Oct. 17).

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ordinance and characterized outdoor weed gardens as smelly nuisances that attract crime. But most, like Sanders, opposed further restricting access to cannabis.

“I think you’re grossly underestimating the amount of thought and regulation that needs to go into cannabis generally,” he said, “and more specifically, growing indoors just doesn’t make sense. You don’t grow an industrial product—medicine, really—inside.

It’s really expensive and wasteful.”

Chico State professor Mark Stemen opposed the ordinance based on the energyefficiency and climate impacts of forcing cannabis growers inside, which he argued would erase the progress made during the Sustainability Task Force’s successful Million Watt Challenge, a city campaign through which it called on homeowners and businesses to cut electricity use.

Despite those comments and the Planning Commission’s call for a more informed discussion, Mayor Sean Morgan made a motion to accept the ordinance as written, drawing a second from Councilman Mark Sorensen.

But the council’s progressive bloc wasn’t convinced. Councilwoman Ann Schwab said the panel had an obligation to craft a better ordinance, and Councilman Randall Stone questioned the wisdom of forcing weedgrowing operations indoors, especially in old neighborhoods at elevated fire risk.

Stone concluded bluntly: “This is stupid.”

At Councilman Karl Ory’s request, Leo DePaola, the city’s community development director, explained that a permit to grow cannabis indoors will cost $281, including an inspection to make sure everything is up to code, but renters will need the property owner’s permission.

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“If they don’t want [to pay the fee] or their landlord won’t let them [grow], they’ll have to look at a different way to get their medicine,” DePaola said.

“But, in our scenario, there is no way to get it,” Schwab responded.

“Sure, you can trade with people ...” DePaola began before Morgan cut him off: “I think we’re getting outside the scope of the question.”

Ultimately, the council split down party lines, voting 4-3 to approve the new ordinance, which will return for a final reading next month.

In other council news, Erik

Gustafson, the city’s director of public works-operations and maintenance, laid out a staffing plan to incrementally build up his skeletal department.

Following the city’s sweeping layoffs of 2013, Public Works employees have struggled to maintain Chico’s infrastructure, Gustafson told the council. The department has remained too short-handed and underfunded to stay on top of illegal dumping collection; roadway, sidewalk, gutter and bikepath maintenance; and street-tree pruning and dead tree removal, to name just a few pressing needs.

Though Gustafson said he needs more highly skilled, longterm employees, his staffing plan did not outline a timeline for adding more maintenance workers.

That will depend on the city’s budget moving forward, and he can’t work out the specifics until ongoing negotiations with the Public Works employees’ collective bargaining unit are complete. The hangup is Gustafson’s proposal to reclassify lower-level maintenance workers, which Public Works employee James Erven described as “taking away our career ladder.”

Ory made a motion to table consideration of the staffing plan until the collective bargaining process is complete, which failed by a 3-to-4 vote down party lines.

Sorensen made a motion to support the plan, which passed 4-3 with Ory, Schwab and Stone dissenting.

—Howard HardEE h owa rd h @ newsr ev iew.c o m

EYE ON 45 A monthly rundown of news out of the White House and Congress

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n the CN&R’s last installment of Eye on 45, President Trump had taken his rhetoric regarding North Korea to new heights by calling Kim Jong Un “Rocket Man” and saying he was “on a suicide mission for himself and his regime.” Around the same time, congressional GOP members, led by Sens. Lindsey Graham and Bill Cassidy, began yet another attempted takedown of the Affordable Care Act, despite multiple unsuccessful attempts to do so previously. And that’s where this newspaper picks up the continuing saga of Republicans holding a majority in all three branches of government.

Sept. 19: The so-called Graham-Cassidy Bill, which would substantially gut Medicaid over time, drew sharp criticism from 10 governors—both Republican and Democrat— whose citizenry would be harmed by the legislation. Meanwhile, health care groups, including the American Hospital Association and AARP, called for a no vote, reports The Washington Post.

Moves to push the legislation forward, in advance of a Sept. 30 deadline that allows the Senate to pass laws with a simple majority, included lobbying by the Senate majority leader, Mitch McConnell, and the White House via Vice President Mike Pence.

Sept. 22: Kim Jong Un responded directly to President Trump’s taunts, issuing a statement in which, among other things, he calls POTUS a “mentally deranged U.S. dotard,” reports The New York Times. Dotard (pronounced “doe-terd”), for the uninitiated, is “an old person, especially one who has become weak or senile,” according to dictionary.com.

Later, responding to reporters who asked what the North Korean leader meant when he promised the “highest level of hard-line countermeasure in history,” the country’s foreign minister says he thought it was a reference to detonating a massive hydrogen bomb over the Pacific.

Trump followed with his own inflammatory missive on Twitter: “Kim Jong Un of North Korea, who is obviously a madman who doesn’t mind starving or killing his people, will be tested like never before!”

On the same day, Politico reports that Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price had traveled by private plane—on the taxpayers’ dime to the tune of an estimated $300,000—at least 24 times since May. Price traveled that way despite the availability of commercial flights—the mode of transportation used by his two immediate predecessors.

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Sept. 24: Politico reports that Cassidy and Graham revised their controversial ACArepeal bill in an attempt to win key votes ahead of the Sept. 30 deadline. The move would allocate additional funding to Arizona, Alaska and Kentucky, whose respective senators, John McCain, Lisa Murkowski and Rand Paul, have voiced opposition to the bill.

The same day, The New York Times reports that Trump’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, used a personal email account in his official White House role as senior adviser to the president. The revelation triggers concerns about the Trump administration’s preservation of records. It also smacks of hypocrisy, as one of Trump’s chief campaign tactics was attacking Hillary Clinton for having used a private email server while she was secretary of state.

Sept. 26: Politico reports that the Senate will not vote on the Graham-Cassidy bill.

The decision was made following news that the effort had indeed not gained enough Republican support.

Sept. 28: Tom Price, the secretary of Health and Human Services, pledged to repay the government for his flights on private planes, reports The Washington Post.

Sept. 29: The New York Times reports that the embattled Price resigned “after racking up at least $400,000 in travel bills for chartered flights and undermining President Trump’s promise to drain the swamp of a corrupt and entitled capital.”

The same day, the Times reports that the nonpartisan Tax Policy Institute analyzed Trump’s tax plan and concluded it would largely benefit the nation’s richest citizens and businesses. That revelation counters the president’s narrative that his proposal would aid the middle-class. Based on POTUS’ 2005 federal tax return, it’s estimated that plan would save him more than $1.1 billion personally.

Oct. 2: “An act of pure evil.” That was POTUS’ response to news of the death toll in Las Vegas (58) and the number of people

injured (500) as a result of a mass shooter using a legal device to turn his gun into a quasi-automatic weapon.

Oct. 3: Asked by reporters about a Republican effort to weaken restrictions on purchasing silencers, the president answers: “We’ll talk about that later.”

Oct. 4: During a short visit to Puerto Rico, following the devastation there wrought by Hurricane Maria, President Trump downplays its significance, saying the island avoided the effects of “a real catastrophe like [Hurricane] Katrina.” He also joked that the disaster had “thrown our budget a little out of whack.”

Meanwhile, CNN reports that Russian Facebook ads specifically targeted Wisconsin and Michigan—states Trump won by less than 1 percent of the vote.

Oct. 8: POTUS and Republican Sen. Bob Corker get into it on Twitter. Trump started his “tweetstorm” in response to Corker’s comments the week prior that cabinet members Tillerson, James Mattis and John Kelly “help separate the country from chaos.”

Trump accuses Corker of sour grapes— saying he’d been turned down for the position of secretary of state. Corker responds by writing: “It’s a shame the White House has become an adult day care center.”

Oct. 9: The head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Scott Pruitt, moves forward on a plan to repeal the Obama-era Clean Power Plan, an effort to mitigate greenhouse gas emissions, reports The New York Times.

Oct. 12: Trump signs an executive order that, among other things, eliminates subsidies to health insurance providers that have lowered deductibles for low-income people, reports The New York Times. Critics, including some major insurers, say the move will make it more difficult for patients to get the health care they need.

Oct. 15: Attorneys representing a former Apprentice contestant who alleges the president assaulted her have subpoenaed documents from his campaign related to such charges. The legal move is part of the alleged victim’s defamation suit, which was filed last March, reports Buzzfeed News.

Oct. 17: Sen. John McCain, during a speech at an event to honor him, cautions the nation about embracing “half-baked, spurious nationalism,” a not-so-veiled dig at the machinations of the Trump administration, reports Politico.

In response, POTUS fires off a warning shot, saying “I’m being very, very nice. But at some point I fight back and it won’t be pretty.”

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especially true for infants suffering with SNeonatal Abstinence Syndrome, or those ometimes, all you need is a hug. This is

going through withdrawal after being exposed to drugs—most commonly opioids—while in the womb.

“All these babies are irritable—they’re anxious, they’re agitated, they’re hard to console,” explained Dr. Amy Dolinar, a pediatrician at Enloe Medical Center. “They just want to snuggle.”

Officials at Enloe are trying to lend exactly this approach to the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) with a new program that brings volunteers in to cuddle the most vulnerable newborns.

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Administration and health care providers at the hospital are hoping the new volunteer program will not only help console babies in the short term, but also shorten their hospital stays, which can help alleviate resources and lower hospital bills for parents.

“They have better outcomes sooner,” said Roseanna Galindo-Kuhn, director of Volunteer Services. “Just the holding of these babies improves their overall well-being.”

The program, Cuddle Care Volunteers, will bring dozens of volunteers into the NICU, providing therapy for what hospital officials say is an increasing number of premature babies, including those exposed to drugs.

The volunteers hold, comfort and console the newborns, with direction from NICU nurses.

Hospitals around the country have implemented similar programs in response to the opioid epidemic that is affecting more pregnant mothers and their babies than ever before.

Withdrawal can be painful and include symptoms such as tremors, sweating, nausea and even seizures. But to a baby

who’s already struggling to understand a new world outside the womb, the experience can be especially traumatic. The most common substances affecting newborns are opioids—including morphine and heroin— and phenobarbital, which is a drug to help prevent seizures in people who abuse several drugs at once.

Dolinar explained that when a baby is in utero, drugs the mother ingests go straight

to the placenta, meaning the effects of the drugs affect the baby even before the mother. When the cord (and therefore, the drug supply) is cut at birth, NAS babies often exhibit signs of withdrawal that include high-pitched crying, irritability and poor feeding.

“Withdrawal is painful,” Dolinar said.

“We do everything we can to make sure they’re comfortable and cared for.”

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Applications will be accepted between oct. 23 and Nov. 16. For a volunteer, a normal shift is four hours. there are some shorter shifts early in the morning and late at night. Volunteers sign up for either 6 to 8 a.m.; 8 a.m. to noon; noon to 4 p.m.; 4 to 8 p.m.; or 8 to 10 p.m. there is an on-call shift too.

anyone volunteer in the NICU. There is an extensive screening process that includes an application and two letters of reference.

Applicants are interviewed to see if the volunteer position is a good fit.

Then there’s a background check and a health screening, including checks on immunizations.

“You’re working with a really vulnerable patient population,” Galindo-Kuhn said.

The training process is extensive, too. It takes each volunteer from six to nine weeks to complete the process. The first training session started earlier this month and includes four hospital employees.

“It’s really a nice crossspectrum of different ages,” Galindo-Kuhn said.

Galindo-Kuhn said the program still needs about 16 to 20 additional volunteers. However, she’s convinced she’ll find ample help.

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for the Cuddle Care Volunteers program about a year ago, administrators were hoping to focus solely on babies suffering from NAS, but they soon realized NICU nurses had their hands full and administrators decided to include all NICU babies in the program.

“They love these babies. They just can’t hold all of them at the same time,” said Galindo-Kuhn.

“They’d have to be an octopus.”

Newborn babies can stay in the NICU for anywhere from 48 hours to two months, depending on various health issues including the severity of withdrawal symptoms.

The NICU holds up to 12 babies at a time. With four nurses dedicated to the unit during any given shift, it can be a bit overwhelming, with each crying baby setting off the next.

“They are really welcoming the help,” Galindo-Kuhn said.

Breanna Rose, a student at Chico State who’s interning at Enloe, was the first volunteer and is now taking a lead roll in training others. She says cuddling is a little more technical than one might think.

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thumb. But that hasn’t stopped Phergreenest from planting a garden. In fact, she amm Larry says she doesn’t have the

can often be found in a garden these days, whether it be her own, her neighbor’s, or one of the local community plots.

“It’s empowering,” she said of growing her own food. And though it took her multiple attempts to start her own garden, the reward, she said, was worth the effort.

Harnessing that feeling of empowerment, Larry helped start the Good Food Brigade, a national networking organization for home and community gardens and farms. Closer to home, she launched the Butte County Good Food Network, which shares similar ideals: “revitalizing and empowering local food systems.”

Along with sharing information about the positive health effects of growing and eating locally, the Good Food Brigade also is pioneering an effort Larry refers to as “Victory Gardens 2.0.”

Few alive today will remember the first victory gardens—then called war gardens— planted on public and private lands during World War I. Decades later, during the second World War, when rationing meant less food—and less variety of it—many households and communities started their own gardens. By 1944, victory gardens accounted for more than 40 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the United States—8 tons of produce—according to History.com.

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Aside from filling bellies on a daily basis, victory gardens also would “provide a measure of insurance,” Larry said, against “zombie apocalypse-type events.”

“I like to don my tinfoil hat sometimes,” she said jokingly while discussing possible threats to food security, from climate change to an electromagnetic pulse (EMP) that could affect food production and delivery.

Despite Larry’s light-hearted approach (she’s even created “Zack the Zombie,” the Good Food Brigade’s mascot), she says food security is a very real issue.

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works regularly to help people plant their own gardens so they can lead healthier lifestyles.

“Affordable food is all high-calorie, lownutrition,” Lowrey said. It can be hard to afford healthy foods these days, she said, but everyone can afford to eat healthy if they can grow it themselves. Plus, she added, “It’s yours; no one can take it from you.” That’s food security in itself.

“We used to grow so much more of our own food,” Larry said. She thinks we can do so again. She set a goal of registering 1 million gardens and local farms with the Good Food Brigade by 2020. (In 1944, there were 20 million victory gardens across the United States.)

Maria Giovanni, assistant professor of food science at Chico State, says she thinks the goal is reachable. As a part of the Butte County Good Food Network, she said, she’s on board with the idea of reintroducing victory gardens.

“It emphasizes providing for yourself, and not having to worry about a big truck bringing in your food,” she said. “Chico is a very viable area—we can grow all year long here. I think it’s definitely possible.”

Larry can already envision it: “We would be eating more healthy food, being more active, sharing more with our community,” she said. “Instead of walking down the street and looking at people’s lawns, we could

see what they’re growing, and strike up a conversation. It automatically creates community when you have a garden.” □

ECO EVENT

ECO-GALA Butte Environmental Council is hosting an island-themed event to celebrate 42 years of environmental action, education and advocacy on Saturday, Oct. 21, from 5-9 p.m. at ARC Pavilion (2040 Park Ave.). Features dinner by Sipho’s Restaurant and Cafe, rum tastings by Hooker Oak Distillery, live music by Triple Tree and Conquering Lion, a silent auction, a live dessert auction and a presentation of the Environmentalists of the Year award. Tickets are $50 and are available at www.becnet.org/gala-ticket-reg.

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THE GOODS

‘It was a sign’

Under the radar

Walking into The Rustic Nest on a recent afternoon felt like entering an old friend’s house.

The “shop dog,” Sully (really a “shop puppy,” as the Frenchie couldn’t be a day over five months), was naughtily stealing bits from a tumbleweed-like accent his mom, Jessica EddyRowe, had just arranged inside a silver pail. Meanwhile, one of her three daughters did her homework behind the counter.

Along one wall hangs an array of women’s clothing, which fits right in with the store’s farmhouse-style décor. In fact, most of the shop’s merchandise is décor—signs, wreaths, furniture. Having worked in the jewelry design, retail—she and her mom owned Bella’s Beads & Gifts on Mangrove for eight years—and interior design fields over the years, the Paradise native said it was just time to open her own shop.

She enlisted the help of her husband, a captain in the Chico Fire Department, to build some of the fixtures, and she stocks them with a mix of upcycled items as well as locally made goods. Find The Rustic Nest at 232 Main St. or on Facebook (@therusticnestchico).

What made you decide to open a store?

I made jewelry—I was selling in 22 stores—and then my hands started kind of giving out. I loved interior design, so I started to do that for some clients, too.

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Some of my stores were like, “Do you want to just rent out a 10-by-10 space in here and you can just do whatever you want?”

So I started having booths. Then that show Fixer Upper [on HGTV] came ... and it was all about the farm style, you know, rusty and old—everything I was into.

And my booths just emptied overnight, it was nuts. So my husband looked at me and said, “You know, instead of you driving all over, trying to figure out each store, why don’t you just have one store, one home base?”

How did you settle on this space?

We were down at Crepeville, having this conversation, and we parked down the block and I walked by this store and I said, “This was the first store I ever sold jewelry in. This is the old

Made in Chico.” I sold jewelry at Made in Chico ever since I was 17.

So, I thought, This is a sign. And I signed the papers a week later.

How do you find your merchandise?

I order some stuff wholesale, because I can’t pick everything. And then I have a group of 70-something-year-old men that I call my “pickers.” They all have farms and barns …. They’re super cute—they all come in once a week or they shoot me pictures on their phones. But then, like the other day, I had someone come in and say they have a ranch in Durham that they just bought and they have all this old stuff. They said, “Hey, do you want to come pick our farm?” And I’m like, “Yeah!”

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Sometimes businesses open and close with fanfare—a grand-opening celebration, a farewell soiree. Then there are the under-the-radar launches, the middle-of-the-night departures, the construction projects that go unnoticed till they’re complete. We’ve had a few of the latter recently that required some good, old-fashioned sleuthing.

I recently noticed two work permits and a couple of alcohol-license notices posted in the windows at the El Rey Theatre. It also appeared that work was underway inside. Here’s what I learned: First, the alcohol license for the building, registered to The Majestic (the former name of the El Rey—is there a change-back in our future?), is for a general onsale permit for an eatery. It’s been transferred from Nick’s Night Club to Kyle and Hal Billingsley, restaurateurs out of San Luis Obispo. They originally obtained the license to change the El Rey into a Firestone Grill—their small, highly successful chain of eateries—but that plan seems to have been abandoned.

As for the work permits, there’s one for demolition (!) and another for a commercial remodel. Do not fear, fellow Chicoans. I stopped into the city’s Building Division office to look at the plans. It appears they’re ripping out the center section of seating in front of the stage and building platforms for standing. A generaladmission section? We shall see ….

#2 I’m a sucker for milkshakes. When I lived around the corner from Shubert’s Ice Cream & Candy, I probably gained 10 pounds—regardless of the fact that I walked there. But, I also enjoy a good Baskin-Robbins shake. The location on Mangrove Avenue, in the Safeway parking lot, was particularly convenient. Not anymore ….

Sometime over the weekend, that Baskin-Robbins not only closed up shop, it ripped every fixture off of every wall and got the hell out. There’s already a forlease sign on the window.

#3 Trucker, once Chico’s go-to spot for men’s clothing, up and disappeared sometime over the past month. A note in the window says the artwork and fixtures are for sale. The door alone is worth saving—stop by 232 Broadway and check it out, plus peer through the glass at other cool stuff. There’s contact information in the window.

#4 I got a tip that Michael Iles, longtime local chef (Sierra Nevada Taproom & Restaurant and, most recently, Two Twenty Restaurant inside the Hotel Diamond), had left town. A little Internet snooping led me to his LinkedIn profile, which indeed indicates that he’s no longer at the helm of Two Twenty, as of July 2017. Iles’ new blog answers further questions—in a post dated Sept. 12, he writes that he’s headed to Portland, Ore. And his bio reads, “in 2015 I opened Two Twenty Restaurant with an absentee owner and the added responsibilities of General Manager.

The owner is now on site and my job is done.” Best of luck, Chef Michael! Chico’s loss is Portland’s gain.

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stories of the year that mainstream media ignored

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n America, we commonly think of press freedom and censorship in terms of the First Amendment, which focuses attention on the press itself and limits on the power of government to restrict it. But the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, drafted in the aftermath of World War II, presents a broader framework.

Article 19 reads: “Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers.”

By highlighting the right to receive information and ideas, Article 19 makes it clear that press freedom is about everyone in society, not just the press, and that government censorship is only one potential way of thwarting that right.

That’s the perspective that has informed Project Censored from the beginning, more than 40 years ago.

Even though Project Censored’s About the author and story: Paul Rosenberg is senior editor at Random annual list focuses on specific censored Lengths News. For an extended version of Project Censored, visit projectcensored.org. stories, the underlying issue has never been isolated examples. They serve to highlight how far short we fall from the fully informed public that a healthy democracy requires—and that we all require in order to live healthy, safe, productive, satisfying lives. It’s the larger patterns of missing information, hidden problems and threats that should really concern us.

With that thought in mind, here is Project Censored’s Top 10 List for 2016-17:

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Lead contamination threatens children’s health, could triple water bills In January 2016, Reuters reporters M.B. Pell and Joshua Schneyer began an investigation of lead contamination nationwide, with shocking results. In June 2016, they reported that although many states and Medicaid rules require blood lead tests for young children, millions of children were not being tested. In December 2016, they reported on the highly decentralized data they had been able to assemble from 21 states, showing that 2,606 census tracts and 278 zip codes across the United States had levels of lead poisoning more than double the rates found in Flint, Mich., at the peak of its contamination crisis. Of those, 1,100 communities had lead contamination rates “at least four times higher” than Flint.

In Flint, 5 percent of the children screened high blood lead levels. Nationwide, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention estimate that 2.5 percent of all U.S. children younger than 6—about 500,000 children— have elevated blood lead levels.

But Pell and Schneyer’s neighborhood focus allowed them to identify local hotspots “whose lead poisoning problems may be obscured in broader surveys,” such as those focused on statewide or countywide rates. They found them in communities that “stretch from Warren, Pennsylvania, where 36 percent of children tested had high lead

levels, to Goat Island, Texas, where a quarter of tests showed poisoning.”

In January 2017, Schneyer and Pell reported that, based on their previous investigation, “From California to Pennsylvania, local leaders, health officials and researchers are advancing measures to protect children from the toxic threat.”

But there’s a deeper infrastructure problem involved, as Farron Cousins reported for DeSmogBlog in January 2017. “Lead pipes are time bombs” and water contamination is to be expected, Cousins wrote. The U.S. relies on an estimated 1.2 million miles of lead pipes for municipal delivery of drinking water, and much of this aging infrastructure is reaching or has exceeded its lifespan.

In 2012 the American Water Works Association estimated that a complete overhaul of the nation’s aging water systems

Pentagon paid United Kingdom PR firm for fake al-Qaida videos

would require an investment of $1 trillion over the next 25 years, which could triple household water bills.

As Cousins concluded, “While the water contamination crisis will occasionally steal a headline or two, virtually no attention has been paid to the fact that we’re pricing a third of United States citizens out of the water market.”

Over $6 trillion in unaccountable Army spending In 1996, Congress passed legislation requiring all government agencies to undergo annual audits,

but a July 2016 report by the Defense Department’s inspector general found that the Army alone has accumulated $6.5 trillion in expenditures that can’t be accounted for over the past two decades.

As Dave Lindorff reported for This Can’t Be Happening!, the DoD “has not been tracking or recording or auditing all of the taxpayer money allocated by Congress—what it was spent on, how well it was spent, or where the money actually ended up.” But the Army wasn’t alone. “Things aren’t any better at the Navy, Air Force and Marines,” he added.

The report appeared at a time when, “politicians of both major political parties are demanding accountability for every penny spent on welfare.... Ditto for people receiving unemployment compensation,” Lindorff wrote. Politicians have also engaged in per-

vasive efforts “to make teachers accountable for student ‘performance,’” he added. Yet, he observed, “the military doesn’t have to account for any of its trillions of dollars of spending ... even though Congress fully a generation ago passed a law requiring such accountability.”

In March 2017, after Trump proposed a $52 billion increase in military spending, Thomas Hedges reported for The Guardian that, “the Pentagon has exempted itself without consequence for 20 years now, telling the Government Accountability Office that collecting and organizing the required information for a full audit is too costly and time-consuming.”

The most recent DoD audit deadline was September 2017, yet neither the Pentagon or Congress, nor the media, seem to have paid any attention.

Concern over Russian involvement in promoting fake news during the 2016 election is a justified hot topic in the news. But what about our own involvement in similar operations? In October 2016, Crofton Black and Abigail Fielding-Smith reported for the Bureau of Investigative Journalism on one such very expensive—and questionable— operation. The Pentagon paid a British PR firm, Bell Pottinger, more than $660 million to run a top-secret propaganda program in Iraq from at least 2006 to December 2011.

The work consisted of three types of products: TV commercials portraying al-Qaida in a negative light, news items intended to look like Arabic TV, and—most disturbing—fake al-Qaida propaganda films.

A former Bell Pottinger video editor, Martin Wells, told the [reporters] that he was given precise instructions for production of fake al-Qaida films, and that the firm’s output was approved by former Gen. David Petraeus—the commander of the coalition forces in Iraq—and on occasion by the White House. They reported that the United States used contractors because “the military didn’t have the in-house expertise and was operating in a legal ‘gray area.’”

The reporters “traced the firm’s Iraq work through U.S. Army contracting censuses, federal procurement transaction records and reports by the Defense Department’s inspector general, as well as Bell Pottinger’s corporate filings and specialist publications on military propaganda.” Black and FieldingSmith also interviewed former officials and contractors involved in information operations in Iraq.

Documents show that Bell Pottinger employed as many as 300 British and Iraqi staff at one point; and its media operations in Iraq cost more than $100 million per year on average. It’s remarkable that an operation on this scale has been totally ignored in midst of so much focus on “fake news” here in the United States.

Voter suppression in the 2016 presidential election The 2016 election was the first election in 50 years without the full protection of the Voting Rights Act, first passed in 1965.

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changes to voting laws in nine states and parts of six others with long histories of racial discrimination in voting were no longer subject to federal government approval in advance.

Since Shelby, 14 states, including many Southern states and key swing states, implemented new voting restrictions, in many cases just in time for the election. These included restrictive voter-identification laws in Texas and North Carolina, English-only elections in many Florida counties, as well as last-minute changes of poll locations, and changes in Arizona voting laws that had previously been rejected by the Department of Justice before the Shelby decision.

Ari Berman, author of Give Us the Ballot: The Modern Struggle for Voting Rights in America, was foremost among a small number of non-mainstream journalists to cover the suppression efforts and their results. In May 2017, he reported on an analysis of the effects of voter suppression by Priorities USA, which showed that strict voter-ID laws in Wisconsin and other states resulted in a “significant reduction” in voter turnout in 2016 with “a disproportionate impact on African-American and Democratic-leaning voters.” Berman noted that turnout was reduced by 200,000 votes in Wisconsin, while Donald Trump won the state by just over 22,000 votes.

Nationwide, the study found that the change in voter turnout from 2012 to 2016 was significantly impacted by new voter-ID laws. As Berman concluded, “This study provides more evidence for the claim that voter-ID laws are designed not to stop voter impersonation fraud, which is virtually nonexistent, but to make it harder for certain communities to vote.”

As Berman noted in an article published

by Moyers & Co. in December 2016, the topic of “gutting” the Voting Rights Act did not arise once during the 26 presidential debates prior to the election, and “[c]able news devoted hours and hours to Trump’s absurd claim that the election was rigged against him while spending precious little time on the real threat that voters faced.”

Big data and dark money behind the 2016 election When Richard Nixon first ran for Congress in 1946, he and his supporters used a wide range of dirty tricks aimed at smearing his opponent as pro-Communist, including a boiler-room operation generating phone calls to registered Democrats, which simply said, “This is a friend of yours, but I can’t tell you who I am. Did you know that Jerry Voorhis is a Communist?” Then the caller would hang up.

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technological advances and massively more money behind it. A key player in this was right-wing computer scientist and hedge-fund billionaire Robert Mercer, who contributed $13.5 million to Trump’s campaign and also funded Cambridge Analytica, a data analytics company that specializes in “election management strategies” and using “psychographic” microtargeting—based on thousands of pieces of data for some 220 million American voters—as Carole Cadwalladr reported for the Guardian in February 2017. After Trump’s victory, Cambridge Analytica CEO Alexander Nix said, “We are thrilled that our revolutionary approach to data-driven communication has played such an integral part in Presidentelect Trump’s extraordinary win.”

Cambridge Analytica’s parent company, Strategic Communication Laboratories, was more old-school until recently in elections across Europe, Africa and the Caribbean.

But now they’re able to micro-target their deceptive, disruptive messaging. “Pretty much every message that Trump put out was data-driven” after they joined the campaign, Nix said in September 2016. On the day of the third presidential debate, Trump’s team “tested 175,000 different ad variations for his arguments” via Facebook.

This messaging had everything to do with how those targeted would respond, not with Trump’s or Mercer’s views. In a New Yorker profile, Jane Mayer noted that Mercer argued that the 1964 Civil Rights Act was a major mistake, a subject not remotely hinted at during the campaign.

“Suddenly, a random billionaire can change politics and public policy—to sweep everything else off the table—even if they don’t speak publicly, and even if there’s almost no public awareness of his or her views,” Trevor Potter, former chair of the Federal Election Commission, told Mayer.

Antibiotic-resistant “superbugs” threaten foundations of modern medicine The problem of antibiotics giving rise to more dangerous drug-resistant germs (“superbugs”) has been present since the early days of penicillin, but has now reached a crisis, with companies creating dangerous superbugs when their factories leak industrial waste, as reported by Madlen Davies of the Bureau of Investigative Journalism in September 2016. Factories in China and India—where the majority of worldwide antibiotics are manufactured— have released “untreated waste fluid” into local soils and waters, leading to increases in antimicrobial resistance that diminish the effectiveness of antibiotics and threaten the foundations of modern medicine.

“After bacteria in the environment become resistant, they can exchange genetic material with other germs, spreading antibiotic resistance around the world, according to an assessment issued by the European Public Health Alliance, which served as the basis for Davies’ news report,” Project Censored explained. One strain of drug-resistant bacterium that originated in India in 2014 has since spread to 70 other countries.

Superbugs have already killed an estimated 25,000 people across Europe—thus globally posing “as big a threat as terrorism,” according to UK National Health Service Chief Medical Officer Dame Sally Davies.

“At the heart of the issue is how to motivate pharmaceutical companies to improve their production practices. With strong demand for antibiotics, the companies continue to profit despite the negative consequences of their actions,” Project Censored noted.

Superbugs are especially threatening modern medicine, in which a wide range of sophisticated practices—organ transplants, joint replacements, cancer chemotherapy and care of pre-term infants—“will become more difficult or even too dangerous to undertake,” according to Margaret Chan, head of the World Health Organization.

“What corporate news coverage there is tends to exaggerate the risks and consequences of natural outbreaks—as seen during the Ebola scare in the U.S. in 2014—rather than reporting on the preventable spread of superbugs by irresponsible pharmaceutical companies,” Project Censored noted.

The toll of U.S. Navy training on wildlife in the North Pacific The U.S. Navy has killed, injured or harassed marine mammals in the North Pacific almost 12 million times over a five-year period, according to research conducted by The West Coast Action Alliance and reported by Dahr Jamail for Truthout. This includes whales, dolphins, porpoises, sea lions, and other marine wildlife such as endangered species like humpback whales, blue whales, gray whales, sperm whales, Steller sea lions and sea otters. The number was tabulated from the Navy’s Northwest Training and Testing environmental impact statement and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Letter of Authorization for the number of “takes” of marine mammals caused by Navy exercises.

“A ‘take’ is a form of harm to an animal that ranges from harassment, to injury, and sometimes to death,” Jamail wrote. “Many wildlife conservationists see even ‘takes’ that only cause behavior changes as injurious, because chronic harassment of animals that are feeding or breeding can end up harming, or even contributing to their deaths if they are driven out of habitats critical to their survival.”

As the Alliance noted, this does not include impacts on “endangered and threatened seabirds, fish, sea turtles or terrestrial species” due to Navy activities, which have expanded dramatically, according to the

Navy’s October 2015 environmental impact statement, including: ● A 778 percent increase in number of torpedoes. ● A 400 percent increase in air-to-surface missile exercises (including Olympic Coast National Marine Sanctuary). ● A 1,150 percent increase in drone aircraft. ● An increase from none to 284 sonar testing events in inland waters.

“It is, and has been for quite some time now, well known in the scientific community that the Navy’s use of sonar can damage and kill marine life,” Jamail reported.

“With little oversight on Navy training activities, the public is left in the dark regarding their environmental impacts, including especially how Navy operations impact fish in the North Pacific and marine life at the bottom of the food chain,” Project Censored noted. “There has been almost no coverage of these impacts in the corporate press.”

Maternal mortality a growing threat in the U.S. The U.S. maternal mortality rate is rising, while it’s falling elsewhere across the developed world. Serious injuries and complications are needlessly even more widespread with shockingly little attention being paid.

“Each year over 600 women in the U.S. die from pregnancy-related causes and over 65,000 experience lifethreatening complications or severe maternal

morbidity,” Elizabeth Dawes Gay reported, covering an April 2016 congressional briefing organized by Women’s Policy Inc. “The average national rate of maternal mortality has increased from 12 per 100,000 live births in 1998 to 15.9 in 2012, after peaking at 17.8 in 2011.”

“The U.S. is the only nation in the developed world with a rising maternal mortality rate,” Rep. Lois Capps stated at the meeting.

The Alliance for Innovation on Maternal Health, has developed safety bundles of “best practices, guidelines and protocols to improve maternal health care quality and safety,” Gay wrote. “These ‘bundles’ include equipping hospital labor units with a fully stocked cart for immediate hemorrhage treatment, establishing a hospital-level emergency management protocol, conducting regular staff drills and reviewing all cases to learn from past mistakes, among other things.”

More broadly, Kiera Butler reported for Mother Jones that doctors rarely warn patients of the potential for serious injuries and complications that can occur following birth.

“Women have a right to make informed decisions about their bodies and serious medical situations; however, when it comes to birth and its aftereffects, Butler found that doctors simply are not providing vital information,” Project Censored summarized. Many state laws require doctors to inform women of the potential complications and dangers associated with delivery, but none requires them to discuss potential long-term problems, including the fact that some complications are more prevalent in women who give birth vaginally, rather than by C-section.

“The corporate news media have paid limited attention to maternal mortality and morbidity in the U.S.,” Project Censored notes. There have been scattered stories, but nothing remotely close to the sort of sustained coverage that is warranted.

DNC claims right to select presidential candidate A key story about 2016 election has mostly been ignored by the media—a class-action lawsuit alleging that the Democratic National Committee broke legally-binding neutrality agreements in the Democratic primaries by strategizing to make Hillary Clinton the nominee before a single vote was cast. The lawsuit was filed against the DNC and its former chair, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, in June 2016 by Beck & Lee, a Miami law firm, on behalf of supporters of Bernie Sanders.

A hearing was held on suit in April 2017, in which DNC lawyers argued that neutrality was not actually required and that the court had no jurisdiction to assess neutral treatment.

As Michael Sainato reported for the

Observer, DNC attorneys claimed that Article V, Section 4 of the DNC Charter—which instructs the DNC chair and staff to ensure neutrality in the Democratic presidential primaries—is actually “a discretionary rule” that the DNC “didn’t need to adopt to begin with.”

Sainato also reported that DNC attorneys argued that specific terms used in the DNC charter—including “impartial” and “evenhanded”—couldn’t be interpreted in a court of law, because it would “drag the Court ... into a political question and a question of how the party runs its own affairs.”

Jared Beck, representing Sanders’ supporters, responded, “Your Honor, I’m shocked to hear that we can’t define what it means to be evenhanded and impartial. If that were the case, we couldn’t have courts. I mean, that’s what courts do every day, is decide disputes in an evenhanded and impartial manner.” Not only was running elections in a fair and impartial manner a “bedrock assumption” of democracy, Beck argued earlier, it was also a binding commitment for the DNC: “That’s what the Democratic National Committee’s own charter says,” he said. “It says it in black and white.”

Much of the reporting and commentary on the broader subject of the DNC’s collusion with the Clinton campaign has been speculative and misdirected, focused on questions about voter fraud and countered by claims of indulging in “conspiracy theory.” But this trial focuses on documentary evidence and questions of law—all publicly visible yet still treated as suspect, when not simply ignored out of hand.

A record year for global Internet shutdowns In 2016, governments around the world shut down Internet access more than 50 times, according to the digital rights organization Access Now, “suppressing elections, slowing economies and limiting free speech,” as Lyndal Rowlands reported for the Inter Press Service.

“In the worst cases Internet shutdowns have been associated with human rights violations,” Rowlands was told by Deji Olukotun, of Access Now. “What we have found is that Internet shutdowns go hand in hand with atrocities,” Olukotun said.

Kevin Collier also covered the report for Vocativ, noting that Access Now uses a “conservative metric,” counting “repeated, similar outages”—like those which occurred during Gabon’s widely criticized Internet “curfew”— as a single instance. The Vocativ report included a dynamic map chart, designed by Kaitlyn Kelly, that vividly depicts Internet shutdowns around the world, month by month for all of 2016, as documented by Access Now. “Many countries intentionally blacked out Internet access during elections and to quell protest. Not only do these shutdowns restrict freedom of speech, they also hurt economies

around the world,” Project Censored notes.

As Olukotun told IPS, one way to stop government shutdowns is for Internet providers to resist government demands.

“Telecommunications companies can push back on government orders, or at least document them to show what’s been happening, to at least have a paper trail,” Olukotun observed.

On July 1, 2016, the U.N. Human Rights Council passed a nonbinding resolution signed by more than 70 countries lauding the Internet’s “great potential to accelerate human progress,” and condemning “measures to intentionally prevent or disrupt access to or dissemination of information online.” It noted that, “the exercise of human rights, in particular the right to freedom of expression, on the Internet is an issue of increasing interest and importance.” Ω

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Rounding out the top 25 underreported stories 11. Law enforcement surveillance of phone records 12. U.S. quietly established new “antipropaganda” center 13. Right-wing money promotes model legislation to restrict free speech on university campuses 14. Judges across U.S. using racially biased software to assess defendants’ risk of committing future crimes 15. Shell understood climate change as early as 1991—and ignored it 16. “Resilient” Indian communities struggle to cope with impacts of climate change 17. Young plaintiffs invoke constitutional grounds for climate protection 18. Rise in number of transgender people murdered 19. Inmates and activists protest chemical weapons in U.S. prisons and jails 20. Seattle activist group leads first successful campaign to defund police 21. Fossil fuel industry “colonizing” U.S. universities 22. Lawsuit against Illinois Department of Corrections exposes militarization of law enforcement inside prisons 23. Facebook buys sensitive user data to offer marketers targeted advertising 24. Eight use of force policies to prevent killings by police 25. Juvenile court fees punish children for their families’ poverty

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Special Events NATIVE AMERICAN ART EXHIBIT RECEPTION: Meet the artists through their storytelling, followed by conversation and refreshment.

The art exhibit is a collaboration between the Chico State Native American Heritage Society and local Native American community members. Thu, 10/19, 4:30pm. Free. Meriam Library, Chico State. 530-898-5397.

Musical version of cult classic at the Blue Room watch R-rated films, I got the movie BHeathers on VHS. And I wore that thing y the time I was old enough to

out. I mean, come on. J.D. (Christian Slater) was so mysteriby ously handsome, and Meredith J. the angst onscreen was Cooper just so … very.

As a fan of the mered i thc @ newsrev iew.c om film, I was eager to see how it would translate to the stage for the Review: Blue Room Theatre/ Heathers the Musical WhimZ Productions shows thursdaysaturday, 7:30 pm., co-presentation of through oct. 21, at Heathers The Musical. the blue room. Verdict: It’s big fun, tickets: $20 but in a strange way.

First off, Heathers Blue Room Theatre 139 W. First st. is a dark comedy. So, 895-3749 adding musical numwww.blueroom bers and dance routheatre.com tines just felt wrong.

Yet despite my apprehensions, I’ll admit the cast at the Saturday night (Oct. 14) performance made it feel pretty right.

Second, there’s no update, with the exception of some changing of brand names (i.e., the Snappy Snack Shack is now a 7-Eleven and the site of a song about Slurpees—“Freeze Your Brain”), which felt jarringly like product placement. But, the musical still takes place

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in 1989, and it’s quaint in that way—the 1980s outfits are rad!

The play, like the movie, takes place in Sherwood, Ohio, and focuses on students at Westerburg High. There, you have your standard cliques: nerds, jocks, intellectuals. And then you have The Heathers, the girls who rule the school. Heather Chandler (played by Kelsi Fossum-Trausch, who also choreographed the production) is the queen bitch. Her ladies in waiting are Heathers McNamara (Katherine O’Day) and Duke (Kaila Davidson).

The play is narrated by the character Veronica (Sierra Hall), a nerd who sneaks her way into the Heathers’ clique with her forgery skills and seemingly has it made, despite having to ditch her BFF, Martha Dunnstock (nickname: Martha Dumptruck, played

by Hannah Davies), and keep company with the likes of Kurt and Ram, the school’s two biggest (asshole) jocks.

When Veronica turns down a raunchy proposition, the football players sing the evening’s highlight, “Blue” (“You make my balls so blue … What did they do to you?”).

The guys who play Kurt and Ram (JoJo Judge and Jaquan Sayres, respectively) were a ton of fun to watch, their enthusiasm—as dickish as it is—was completely infectious.

The final main character in the play/ film is the trenchcoat-clad J.D. (Mickey Layson), who’s just transferred to Westerburg and immediately attracts the attention of Veronica. Their love story is a tragic one, filled with depression, anger, and murder dressed up to look like suicide.

Hall, a senior in high school, not only looks like Winona Ryder (the film’s Veronica), she also captures her diction to a “T,” delivering classic lines like “Lick it up, baby … lick ... it ... up” with perfect cadence. She is, by far, the star of this production. Her partner in crime, Layson, is also quite good—he certainly looks the part and delivers some strong solos. But he misses some of the nuance of lines like “The extreme always seems to make an impression.” Recited by Slater, that line made it into my teenage quote book. From Layson, though, it kind of fizzled.

As for the Heathers, they all deliver strong performances, though FossumTrausch’s huge platinum-blonde wig might have been a bit much. Also of note is the Westerburg High School Band (featuring members of local jazz crew Bogg), which was fantastic, though a little loud, at times drowning out the singers.

All in all, a fun adaptation of a cult classic. □

THE OTHER SLAVERY: Chico State professor Andres Resendez discusses his book The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. Free.

Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State. www.schoolof thearts-csuchico.com

Music NEON PARTY - SAVING LIGHT TOUR: Featuring the English electronic dance music producer and DJ, Gareth Emery. Thu, 10/19, 8pm. $18 - $30. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St. ROBBEN FORD BAND: The blues, jazz and rock guitarist with extraordinary chops returns to the Big Room. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. $30. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. www.sierranevada.com

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OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR RECEPTION: A chance to visit with artists involved in the annual show. Fri, 10/20, 5pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

Music TIM FLANNERY & THE LUNATIC FRINGE: KZFR 90.1 FM presents the former Major League Baseball player who also happens to be an acoustic singer-songwriter, appearing with his folk band. Fri, 10/20, 6:30pm. $30. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. www.kzfr.org

Theater HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Fri, 10/20, 7:30pm. $20. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First

Theater HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: Based on the classic 1989 film, Westerburg High is ruled by the shoulder-padded, scrunchie-wearing Heather, Heather and Heather, the hottest and cruelest girls in all of Ohio. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. $20. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

SEUSSICAL JR.: Chico High School Musical Theatre presents the musical based on the stories of Dr. Seuss. Thu, 10/19, 7pm. $10.

Williams Theater, Chico High School. www.chs.chicousd.org

SPAMALOT: Based on the classic comedy Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Spamalot is a musical telling of the legend of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table in search of the Holy Grail. Thu, 10/19, 7:30pm. $22.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheater company.com

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Special Events ALMOND BOWL: The annual match-up between the Pleasant Valley High School and Chico High School football teams, plus a car giveaway courtesy of Chico Nissan Hyundai. Fri, 10/20, 7pm. University Stadium, Chico State.

ASYLUM OF THE DEAD: More than 15 rooms of spooky fun. Proceeds benefit Hamilton City Fire Department and Butte Environmental Council. Fri, 10/20, 7pm. $3 - $5. Haunted House, 3163 Esplanade. 530-321-9258.

BEAUTY & THE BIZARRE ART RECEPTION: An opening reception for the dreamy original watercolor paintings of Absolute Ama. Fri, 10/20, 5pm. Free. Great Northern Coffee, 434 Orange St. 530-366-9394.

FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Bring low-backed chairs

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and blankets for this showing of the animated movie Hotel Transylvania. (Come costumed.) Fri, 10/20, 7pm. Free. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.shopchicomall.com

HAUNTED MAZE: The corn maze comes alive with ghosts, vampires and the walking dead.

Bring a small flashlight to illuminate your path and wear close-toed shoes. Fri, 10/20, 7pm. $10. Country Pumpkins, 7152 Highway 32, Orland. www.countrypumpkins.org

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SEUSSICAL JR.: See Thursday. Fri, 10/20, 7pm. $10. Williams Theater, Chico High School. www.chs.chicousd.org

SPAMALOT: See Thursday. Fri, 10/20, 7:30pm. $22.

Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheater company.com

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Special Events ALI SARSOUR CELEBRATION DINNER: A celebration of Sarsour’s 50th year in the U.S. and a fundraiser for the Shalom Free Clinic. Sat 10/21, 6pm. Donations accepted. First Christian Church, 395 E. Washington Ave.

ASYLUM OF THE DEAD: See Friday. Sat 10/21, 7pm. $3-$5. Haunted House, 3163 Esplanade.

DEVOTION - AN EXPERIMENTAL FASHION EVENT: The super-freaky art people of Chikoko host a fashion show exploring myriad interpretations of devotion. Includes live entertainment, food trucks, a full bar hosted

by KZFR 90.1 FM and lots of latex and strobe lights. For adults only. Sat 10/21, 6pm. $25$30. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. www.chikoko.com

FALL FESTIVAL, SUPERHEROES & COSTUME CONTEST: An afternoon of fall festivities, including a costume contest hosted by Growing Up Chico Magazine and emceed by Captain America and Wonder Woman, a mobile boutique salon for kids, and an augmented reality sandbox provided by Chico Creek Nature Center and Idea Fab Labs. Sat 10/21, 1pm. $5-$15. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St. www.shopchicomall.com/events

FOSTERING HOPE FESTIVAL: Learn how to make a difference as a foster parent during this family-friendly event with free lunch, face painting, bounce houses and raffles. Hosted by the mental health service provider Remi Vista Inc. Sat 10/21, 10am. City Plaza, downtown Chico. 530-893-4784. www.remivista inc.net

HARVEST FEST: The Bidwell Bar Association hosts a family-friendly day of cake walks, kids’ games, homemade sweets, handmade gifts and a raffle drawing. Proceeds benefit educational programs at the visitor center. Sat 10/21, 11am. Lake Oroville Visitor Center, 917 Kelly Ridge Road. 530-538-2219.

HAUNTED MAZE: See Friday. Sat 10/21, 7pm. $10.

Country Pumpkins, 7152 Highway 32, Orland. www.countrypumpkins.org

KEEP THE KIDS SINGING PANCAKE BREAKFAST: The Children’s Choir of Chico flips pancakes and serves a complete breakfast during this fundraising event, which also includes live music by the choir and a cast of community musicians. Sat 10/21, 8am. $5-$7. Bidwell Presbyterian Church, 208 W. First St. 530342-2775. www.childrenschoirofchico.org

MAKING STRIDES AGAINST BREAST CANCER: Support the American Cancer Society’s efforts to save lives and stop breast cancer. Enloe Medical Center hosts entertainment, an opening ceremony and more. Sat 10/21, 8am. One-Mile Recreation Area, Lower Bidwell Park. 530-342-8365, ext. 56505. www.makingstrides.acsevents.org

OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR: Chico Art Center’s annual tour of artist studios is a chance to enjoy in the creative spaces of Chico’s artmakers. Two weekends (10/21-22 & 10/28-29).

Purchase $10 tour guides at CAC. Sat, 10/21, 10am-5pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

Theater HEATHERS THE MUSICAL: See Thursday. Sat, 10/21, 7:30pm. $20. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. www.blueroomtheatre.com

SEUSSICAL JR.: See Thursday. Sat, 10/21, 7pm. $10. Williams Theater, Chico High School. www.chs.chicousd.org

SPAMALOT: See Thursday. Sat, 10/21, 7:30pm. $22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chico theatercompany.com

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AUTUMN FEST: Hay rides, a pumpkin patch, pony cart rides, vendors, a bee exhibit and more. Sat 10/21, 10am. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham. 530-3424359. www.patrickranchmuseum.org

BUTTE ENVIRONMENTAL COUNCIL GALA: An island-themed event celebrating 42 years environmental action, education and advocacy. Features dinner by Sipho’s Restaurant and Cafe, rum tastings featuring Hooker Oak Distillery LLC, live music by Triple Tree and Conquering Lion, a silent auction, a live dessert auction and presentation of the Environmentalists of the Year award. Sat, 10/21, 5pm. $50. ARC Pavilion, 2040 Park Ave. 530-891-6424. www.becnet.org

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bIG LeAGue FINGeR-pIcKIN’ During his 10-year career as an infielder for the San Diego Padres (1979-89), Tim Flannery earned a reputation for his intense hustle and steely determination, which carried over to his days as third-base coach for the San Francisco Giants. He retired from baseball in 2014, shortly after the Giants won their third World Series title in five years, and now he’s applying his laserbeam focus to music.

As a fingerstyle guitarist and Americana singersongwriter, he’s an intense and energetic performer, and he’s coming to Chico Women’s Club with his band, The Lunatic Fringe, on Friday, Oct. 20.

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Open StudiOS Art tOur Oct 21-22 & 28-29 GAllery exhibitiOn Oct 6 – 29 receptiOn And preview fOr tOur GOerS Friday Oct 20 5-7 German Treats and Music The 28th Annual opportunity to visit studios, talk to artists and see what’s new in the visual arts. Purchase a Tour Guide save the button for entry to the festivities and enter the raffle for some fun local prizes StudiOS Open 10 Am tO 5 pm 450 Orange St • (530) 895-8726

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Special Events AUTUMN FEST: See Saturday. Sun, 10/22, 10am. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway, Durham. 530-342-4359. www.patrickranchmuseum.org

FEAST OR FAMINE SHORT FILM FESTIVAL: Short films sharing info about creating a strong and vibrant local food system. Sun, 10/22, 2:30pm. Free. Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave. 530-570-6872.

OPEN STUDIOS ART TOUR: See Saturday.

Purchase $10 tour guides at CAC. Sun, 10/22, 10am-5pm. Chico Art Center, 450 Orange St. www.chicoartcenter.com

PARADISE TRAIL RUNS: A fall run in the foothills with 4- and 9-mile options and a 1-mile fun run. Proceeds benefit Paradise High School. Sun, 10/22, 8:30am. $35. Paradise Lake, Coutolenc Road, Magalia. www.trailrunner.com

RUN TO INSPIRE 5K: During this fundraising run for the Inspire Foundation, students will perform along the route.

Festivities include vendor and student club booths. Sun, 10/22, 8:30am. $10-$30.

One-Mile Recreation Area, Lower Bidwell Park.

Theater SEUSSICAL JR.: See Thursday. Sun, 10/22, 2pm. $10. Williams Theater, Chico High School. www.chs.chicousd.org

SPAMALOT: See Thursday. Sun, 10/22, 2pm. $22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. www.chicotheatercompany.com

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Special Events BOOK IN COMMON LECTURE—A DEADLY WANDERING: A discussion of technology and its impact on society with Matt Richtel, author of the 2017-18 Book in Common, A Deadly Wandering. Richtel is a novelist, cartoonist and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the New York Times based in San Francisco. He writes about technology, its impact on society and how it changes the way we work, play and relate to each other. Tue, 10/24, 7:30pm. $18-$20. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 530-898-6333. www.chico performances.com

Art B-SO SPACE: BFA Culminating Exhibition, featuring drawings by Elizabeth Lee. Through 10/20. BFA Culminating Exhibition, featuring ceramics by Steven Osterlund. Through 10/27.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING, PARADISE: Landscape Photographs by Tom Hedge, including scenes from Table Mountain and Upper Bidwell Park. Through 10/29. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-877-5673. www.paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: Open Studios Preview Exhibition, works by artists participating in the Open Studio Art Tour on display.

Through 10/29. 450 Orange St. www.chico artcenter.com

GREAT NORTHERN COFFEE: Beautiful & The Bizarre, dreamy original watercolors by Absolute Ama. Through 10/31. 434 Orange St.

HEALING ART GALLERY - ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Works by Jenny C. Marr, watercolor paintings, soapstone sculptures and pine needle baskets by the Northern California artist. The Healing Art Gallery features artists whose lives have been touched by cancer. Through 1/19. 265 Cohasset Road, 530-332-3856.

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Body Vulnerable Body Protected, selected films and video installations by Nao Bustamante.

Through 10/21. Chico State.

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

Through 10/31. Free. 254 E. Fourth St., 530343-2930. www.jamessnidlefinearts.com

MAINS’L SERVICES: California Art Show, presenting works created at the 7th Street Centre for the Arts. Through 10/29. 820 W. Seventh St.

MERIAM LIBRARY - FOURTH FLOOR: We’ve Been Here, We’ll Always Be Here, traditional and contemporary Native American art.

Through 12/15. Chico State.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Affinity, a show pairing Monca’s collection with works by artists with disabilities from Nurturing Independence Through Artistic Development. Pieces are set side-by-side, inviting questions, interpretations and conversations on how they are related.

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

PARADISE ART CENTER: Land & Sea, an exhi-

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Through 10/28. 5564 Almond St., Paradise. www.paradise-art-center.com

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Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Wartime Memories, docent Ron MacInnes presents two short films he produced about WWII and the War in Vietnam. Through 10/21, 10am. $3. Branding Irons, a display of more than 50 branding irons. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville.

CHICO MUSEUM: Walk A Block & Talk, a walk led by Randy Taylor and Dave Nopel, who will discuss the street scenes, events and buildings past and present. Through 10/21. $5. 141 Salem St. www.chicomuseum.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Museum Without Walls Lecture Series, a presentation by Rebecca Brunelli, Ph.D, titled “Tusks and Trunks - The Lives of Elephants.” Zoo in You The Human Microbiome, exploring the vibrant world of our inner microorganisms through engaging, interactive and bilingual exhibits. Also on display: Journey to Africa: Elephants and Tiger, Tiger! Through 1/7. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade. www.csuchico.edu/ gateway

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Doll Club Lecture, doll expert Patricia Bellamy discusses peg wooden dolls. Includes viewings of the museum’s extensive doll collection and refreshments. 10/25, 10:30am. Permanent Exhibits, including a collection of Maidu Indian artifacts, blacksmith and print shops, gold sluices, a miner’s cabin, a schoolhouse and a covered bridge that spans the width of a rushing creek.

Through 12/31. Free. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise, 530-872-8722. www.goldnugget museum.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: The Meaning of Life - Visual Analogy, an exhibition adding visual layers to the biggest question—how we assign meaning to human existence.

Through 12/9. Chico State, 530-898-4476. www.theturner.org

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

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

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Shadow & Water, a display of puppets from Indonesia and Vietnam. Through 12/20.

Free. Chico State.

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COLLATE: Minimal lo-fi punk out of Portland, Ore. Sex Hogs II and Mr. Malibu share the bill. Thu, 10/19, 9pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

THE KELLY TWINS DUELING PIANOS: Identical twin brothers trade piano licks and smart remarks. Thu, 10/19, 8:30pm. Parkside Tap House, 115 W. Third St.

DIAMOND SAINTS: Nasty Rumor presents an electronic duo out of Oakland mixing heavy bass and soaring melodies. Local support from John Deer, Dark Velvet, Bazz Saltz, Shiner and Trippy Mane. Thu, 10/19, 9pm. $10-$15. The Beach, 191 E. Second St. www.nasty rumor.info

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HALLOWEEN SHOW: Featuring local Ramones cover band Pinhead, Wild Gift and a reunion set with The Shankers. Fri, 10/20, 9:30pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

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culture with the North State Symphony’s monthly series of classical(-ish) chamber music. Wed, 10/25, 6pm. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Drive. www.northstate symphony.org

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TRIVIA NIGHT: Face off against rival teams with your squad of up to six fellow trivia enthusiasts. Wed, 10/25, 8pm. Free. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

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Glass–Free Zone Declared Oct. 26 - Oct. 29, 2017

PUBLIC NOTICE – NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN, that pursuant to Chapter 9.32., GlassFree Zone of the Chico Municipal Code, the City Manager has declared the Glass-Free Zone ordinance operative from 6:00 p.m. on Thursday, October 26, 2017, through 6:00 p.m. on Sunday, October 29, 2017. Generally, the possession of glass containers on city owned property is prohibited within the Glass Free Zone during this time period.

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The Chicago-based hip-hop duo The Palmer Squares started as a joke, but then high school friends Seth Zamost and Matt Brands realized they could out-flow the commercial rappers their friends idolized and started uploading videos of their long-winded and goofy raps to YouTube. They’ve gotten (kind of) serious in the years since, recording a series of mix tapes and EPs. On Sunday, Oct. 22, they’ll roll through the Tackle Box in support of their latest EP, NaPalm.

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

Opening this week Boo 2! A Madea Halloween

Tyler Perry’s sassy Mabel “Madea” Simmons and company find themselves at a haunted campground. Shenanigans ensue.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Geostorm

When a satellite system designed to protect Earth from extreme weather goes haywire, the exiled expert who built the system tries to fix it, only to discover that there might be powerful people behind the scenes purposely causing the disruptions. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Nosferatu the Vampyre (1979)

Werner Herzog’s rendition of the original movie vampire, played here by the inimitable Klaus Kinski. One showing: Sunday, Oct. 22, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG.

Only the Brave

A star-studded biographical action film about a real-life firefighting crew, the Granite Mountain Hotshots, and its efforts battling the 2013 Yarnell Hill Fire in Arizona.

Starring Josh Brolin, Jeff Bridges, Jennifer Connelly and Miles Teller. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Killing time

Same Kind of Different as Me

Groundhog Day meets Scream in Happy Death Day

Anot being a total ass—by reliving the day she is murdered over and over again in Happy Death Day, college girl learns a few lessons about life—and

a mediocre movie that gets by on the power of the performance of a relatively unknown actress, Jessica Rothe. by Rothe plays Tree Gelbman, a Bob Grimm college student who wakes up in a bg rimm@ strange dorm room on the morning newsrev iew.c om of her birthday to discover she has spent the night with a bit of a dweeb in Carter (Israel Broussard). She storms out of the room, ignoring phone calls from her dad and basiHappy Death Day cally being nasty to everybody she Starring Jessica crosses along her walk of shame. It’s rothe. Directed by established fairly quickly that Tree christopher Landon. cinemark 14, Feather is a campus jerk and has more than a river cinemas and few enemies.

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All of those enemies, and even rated PG-13. some friends, become murder suspects when Tree is stabbed to death by a masked baddie on her way to a party that evening. After her life force is snuffed out, she immediately wakes up in Carter’s bed again.

She goes about the same day thinking it’s just déjà vu, but when she is murdered again and wakes up in the same bed on the same day, she figures things out. She’s living a murder mystery, Groundhog Daystyle.

The list of murder suspects is long. There’s Lori (Ruby Modine), the caring, neglected roomie who baked her a cupcake for her birthday; Gregory (Charles Aitken), the slimy teacher she’s having an affair with; and Tim (Caleb Spillyards), the creepy

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stalker-type who took their one date a little too seriously. Even Carter and Tree’s own dad (Jason Bayle) can’t be scratched off the suspect list. In fact, director Christopher Landon and writer Scott Lobdell pile enough suspects on and break so many narrative rules that it becomes virtually impossible to accurately guess the identity of the killer. I suppose that’s a good thing.

Rothe comes out of nowhere to make this movie more than a rip-off of Bill Murray’s Punxsutawney nightmare. She was one of Emma Stone’s friends in La La Land, which is probably where most have seen her before. She has a sort of Rachel McAdamsmeets-Piper Perabo thing going on.

This is among the darkest of dark horror comedies, and it takes major acting chops to keep something this repetitive both engaging and humorous.

Rothe basically plays a jerk you are supposed to like and root for as she learns a few lessons and becomes a better person. And, yes, even though her character is a pompous twit at the start of the movie, Rothe manages to make her a funny, semi-likeable pompous twit so that audiences can get invested in her character’s evolution.

When the movie finally wrapped, I realized I had had a relatively good time watching it (I also appreciated the little nod to Sixteen Candles). Therefore, I’m giving it the mildest of recommendations. It’s PG-13, so if you like your horror movies hardcore and super bloody, you might be let down. □

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A drama based on the real-life events surrounding the friendship that develops between an international art dealer (played

by Greg Kinnear) and a homeless man (Djimon Hounsou). Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

The Snowman

Michael Fassbender stars in this film based on the 2010 crime novel by Jo Nesbo about a detective on the trail of a serial killer called The Snowman. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Suspiria (1977)

This week’s late-night feature at the Pageant is an uncut restoration of the this Italian horror classic. Two showings: Friday and Saturday, Oct. 20-21, 10 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

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American Made

The messed up life of pilot Barry Seal gets a movie that’s not messed up enough.

Director Doug Liman’s American Made is an entertaining film, about the notorious TWA pilot turned pawn for the CIA, that plays it a little too safe, with drug cartels and Iran Contra played for laughs in a story that probably didn’t have so many giggles. Inspired by the true-life story, the movie starts with Barry (Tom Cruise) grinding out flights for TWA, smuggling the occasional box of Cuban cigars and trying to support a family. During a layover, Barry is approached in a bar by Monty (Domhnall Gleeson), a CIA agent. After a brief discussion, Barry is given an opportunity to fly arms to South America as an unofficial courier for the U.S. That’s where smuggling drugs for the Medellin drug cartel comes in, something Barry starts doing on the side. Cruise brings his reliable movie star prowess to the project, and it can safely be said that, while the movie might get a little messy, it is never boring. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

Rated R —B.G.

Battle of the Sexes

A biopic retelling the story of the retired tennis pro Bobby Riggs (Steve Carell) and his so-called “battle of the sexes” challenge in 1974 versus then-No. 1 women’s tennis player Billie Jean King (Emma Stone). Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

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Blade Runner 2049

Now, 35 years after the original, we actually get a Blade Runner sequel, this time directed by Denis Villeneuve, the visionary behind Enemy and Arrival (Ridley Scott remains involved as a producer).

Ryan Gosling steps into the starring role of K, a new blade runner tasked with “retiring” older model replicants, aka synthetic humans. Villeneuve, along with writers Hampton Fancher and Michael Green, have concocted a whole new world, a realistic evolution of the one presented in Scott’s original. Gosling is in top form, navigating a future society in which one’s sense of identity can be a very confounding thing.

The film has a few flaws. Jared Leto, while not awful, pours it on a little too thick as Niander Wallace, creator of replicants. And while the film’s finale is fine, it doesn’t live up to the excellence that preceded it. These are minor quibbles, because the wonders that Blade Runner 2049 deliver far outrun the missteps. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinemas 7. Rated R —B.G.

The Foreigner

Bond/Zorro director Martin Campbell is at the helm of this actioner about a Londonbased businessman (Jackie Chan) who tries to track down the people behind a terrorist incident that killed his daughter. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7.

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In Andy Muschietti’s adaptation of Stephen King’s novel, the core story remains the same: Children in Derry, Maine, have been disappearing for many years.

The film starts with the sad case of Georgie (Jackson Robert Scott), a little boy in a yellow rain slicker who follows his paper boat to the sewer drain and makes an unfortunate acquaintance. That would be Pennywise, the dancing, sewer-dwelling, evil clown, played as a most savage beast by Bill Skarsgard. If you saw him at a circus, you’d be seriously afraid for the trapeze artists and lions. The kids are great. The standout is Sophia Lillis as Beverly Marsh, and Jeremy Ray Taylor will break your heart as Ben Hanscom, the chubby kid who has a crush on Bev. Their first meeting is one of the best scenes in the film. Muschietti scores some big scares, especially during a slideshow gone very wrong, and a meeting between the Denbrough brothers in the family basement: “You’ll float, too!” Cinemark 14.

Rated R —B.G.

The Mountain Between Us

A photojournalist (Kate Winslet) and a surgeon (Idris Elba) fight for survival in a snowy wilderness after their charter plane crashes. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Victoria and Abdul

Stephen Frears (The Grifters, High Fidelity) directs this film based on the true story of the unlikely and transformative friendship between Queen Victoria (Judi Dench) and an Indian servant (played by Ali Fazal).

Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13.

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Kingsman: The Golden Circle Cinemark 14. Rated R.

The LEGO Ninjago Movie

Cinemark 14, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

My Little Pony: The Movie

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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Alastair Welcome to the Bland future, where beerbots, or automated brewing machines, could be poised to revolutionize homebrewing.

These countertop appliances turn raw ingredients into beer with relatively little required of the human homebrewer. Unsurprisingly, the companies that make them seem to be marketing them toward moneyed millennials who like techy gadgets that do stuff for you and, possibly, have only marginal interest in learning how to actually make beer.

Indeed, some beerbot models, like the forthcoming units from MiniBrew and iGulu, are almost entirely automated. The human homebrewer must only momentarily set down his or her smartphone to add the ingredients and press a button. In some cases, brewing is started with a tap of the phone screen. Two weeks later, the homebrewer has beer.

“In one sense, it takes all the fun out of brewing,” says Jeremy Marshall, Lagunitas Brewing Co.’s brewmaster. “It’s kind of like a TV dinner that you just put in the microwave.”

That said, Marshall uses a beerbot—specifically the PicoBrew Zymatic system—in the Petaluma brewery’s fermentation lab.

Marshall says he and his staff have

used the appliance to test specialty varieties of grain. The same tests could be run in a traditional homebrewing bucket, too.

“But this way we can just add the ingredients and start it running, and go off and take care of the other work we already have to do,” he said.

On the day that the Lagunitas team first used their Zymatic system, the brewery’s Wi-Fi was working sporadically.

“We literally couldn’t make beer because we couldn’t get online,” Marshall said. (According to a source at PicoBrew, the units will continue brewing if the Internet fails midway through the process. To get most beerbots started, though, takes Wi-Fi.) PicoBrew, the lead pioneer in the beerbot business, is based in Seattle and makes three automated brewing systems. The Zymatic is the largest and most expensive, running about $2,000. The others, the Pico Pro and the new Pico C, are less than half the price. The machines streamline the brewing process—just some transferring of liquids from one container to another and adding presorted ingredients—while allowing homebrewers to replicate (or at least try to) any of dozens of popular commercial beers, whose breweries (places like 21st Amendment Brewery and Coronado Brewing Co.) have licensed the recipes to PicoBrew in exchange for royalties.

It’s a very neat concept. For beer lovers in parts of the world where craft beer is difficult to come by

(like much of southern Europe and Latin America), PicoBrew changes everything.

“It means the brewery doesn’t need a distributor to reach consumers,” said Bill Mitchell, a co-founder of PicoBrew. In theory, he added, PicoBrew clone beers can taste even better than the commercial beers they’re meant to mimic, since the replicated beer will be much fresher than what is available in stores. According to online user reviews, the PicoBrew systems do a pretty good job, though not always, of cloning commercial beers.

Locally, Dawn McDonald, co-owner of Chico’s Home Brew Shop, says there hasn’t been enough demand for automated machines for her to start carrying them. “I kind of wait for my customers to signal me,” she said.

It isn’t surprising that there is some controversy in homebrewing circles about these machines.

Emma Christensen, a San Jose food writer and homebrewer, says she doesn’t see much difference between using a beerbot and buying a six-pack at the store.

“For me, the fun part of brewing is the process, everything from deciding what beer I’m going to make to getting the ingredients to going into the kitchen and starting the boil,” Christensen said.

If beerbots do have a household future, she said, it will probably be as a luxury toy for tech-savvy people “who want to tell their friends they’ve made beer with some shiny, polished machine.” □

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It’s all happenIng “Warning: Show includes strobe lights, latex and adult content.” Chikoko is back!

Actually, the local fashion/performance collective never really left. The group’s core instigators—Muir Hughes, Christina seashore, nel adams and sara Rose Testman Bonetti—have continued to keep Chico flush with funky homegrown threads and performances thanks to their usual bazaars, trading posts and variety shows.

It’s just that they took last year off from producing their immensely popular annual runway event/freakshow.

But this Saturday, Oct. 21, at 6 p.m., the big one is back at the silver dollar Fairgrounds under the theme of devotion: Chikoko sets the table. an Experimental Fashion Event. phOtO by emIly teague With two years to plan and prepare, Devotion promises to be an explosion of pent-up creativity, and a local cultural event not to be missed. Tickets are available for $25 at The Bookstore and $30 at the door.

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into (and probably are already aware of) the Keep Chico Weird talent and art shows.

And if you’re someone who also has a strange talent, some weird act that you’ve always wanted to share with a captive audience in a packed venue, then the Chico news & Review wants to hear about it! Submissions are now being accepted for the 2018 Keep Chico Weird Talent Show (happening Feb. 24, at the senator Theatre). And, we’ve just secured a location for this year’s Keep Chico Weird Art Show (Feb. 22-25), the lovely Maria Phillips Gallery inside the

Museum of northern California art. Visit www.facebook.com/keepchicoweird for submission guidelines for both the talent and art shows. Let’s get weird, Chico!

studIO stalkIng The open studios art Tour, Chico art Center’s annual mega art walk—and one of

arts dEVo’s favorite local

events—kicks off with a reception at the gallery on Friday, Oct. 20, 5-7 p.m., followed by two weekends of arts touring. Local artists open their spaces for visits from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Oct. 21-22 and 28-29, and you can purchase a $10 ticket at Chico Art Center (450 Orange St.).

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Mikey Viloria drives for Humble Root, one of Sacramento’s many cannabis delivery services that have increasingly gained popularity for their convenience. Unlike past years, where higher prices reflected the cost of delivery, Humble Root says they keep their prices down, offering a wide range of products that compete with walk-in dispensaries.

Like other delivery services, patients fill out an application on the Humble Root website, then upload snapshots of their doctor’s recommendation and photo ID. The delivery service emails back a “terms and agreement” form to electronically sign, or Humble Root can bring the physical paperwork with the first delivery.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF october 19, 2017 ARIES (March 21-April 19): “I am my own muse,” wrote painter Frida Kahlo. “I am the subject I know best. The subject I want to know better.” Would you consider trying out this perspective for a while, Aries?

If so, you might generate a few ticklish surprises. You may be led into mysterious areas of your psyche that had previously been off-limits. You could discover secrets you’ve been hiding from yourself. So what would it mean to be your own muse? What exactly would you do? Here are some examples. Flirt with yourself in the mirror.

Ask yourself impertinent, insouciant questions. Have imaginary conversations with the person you were three years ago and the person you’ll be in three years.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “Happi-

ness comes from getting what you want,” said poet Stephen Levine, whereas joy comes “from being who you really are.”

According to my analysis, the coming weeks will bear a higher potential for joy than for happiness. I’m not saying you won’t get anything you want. But I do suspect that focusing on getting what you want might sap energy from the venture that’s more likely to thrive: an unprecedented awakening to the truth of who you really are.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Sigmund

Freud was a medical doctor who laid the groundwork for psychoanalysis. Throughout the twentieth century, his radical, often outrageous ideas were a major influence on Western culture. When Freud was 50, he discovered a brilliant psychiatrist who would become his prize pupil: Carl Jung. When the two men first met in Vienna in 1907, they conversed without a break for 13 consecutive hours. According to my reading of the astrological omens, you could experience a comparable immersion sometime soon: a captivating involvement with a new influence, a provocative exchange that enchants you, or a fascinating encounter that shifts your course.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): In the next

twelve months, I hope to help you track down new pleasures and amusements that teach you more about what you want out of life. I will also be subtly reminding you that all the world’s a stage, and will advise you on how to raise your self-expression to Oscarworthy levels. As for romance, here’s my prescription between now and October 2018: The more compassion you cultivate, the more personal love you will enjoy. If you lift your generosity to a higher octave, there’ll be another perk, too: You will be host to an enhanced flow of creative ideas.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): Are you interested

in diving down to explore the mysterious and evocative depths? Would you be open to spending more time than usual cultivating peace and stillness in a sanctuary? Can you sense the rewards that will become available if you pay reverence to influences that nurture your wild soul? I hope you’ll be working on projects like these in the coming weeks, Leo. You’ll be in a phase when the single most important gift you can give yourself is to remember what you’re made of and how you got made.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Louisa May

Alcott wrote a novel entitled A Long Fatal Love Chase, which was regarded as too racy to be published until a century after her death. “In the books I read, the sinners are more interesting than the saints,” says Alcott’s heroine, Rosamund, “and in real life people are dismally dull.” I boldly predict that in the coming months, Virgo, you won’t provide evidence to support Rosamund’s views. You’ll be even more interesting than you usually are, and will also gather more than your usual quota of joy and self-worth—but without having to wake up even once with your clothes torn and your head lying in a gutter after a night of forlorn debauchery.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): A woman

I know, Caeli La, was thinking about relocating from Denver to Brooklyn. She journeyed across country and visited a prime neighborhood in her potential new

by rob brezsny headquarters. Here’s what she reported on her Facebook page: “In the last three days, I’ve seen three different men on separate occasions wearing sundresses.

So this is definitely the right place for me.”

What sort of signs and omens would tell you what you need to do to be in the right place at the right time, Libra? I urge you to be on the lookout for them in the coming weeks. Life will be conspiring to provide you with clues about where you can feel at peace, at home, and in the groove.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Simon &

Garfunkel released their first album in October 1964. It received only a modest amount of airplay. The two musicians were so discouraged that they stopped working together. Then Bob Dylan’s producer Tom Wilson got permission to remix “The Sounds of Silence,” a song on the album. He added rock instruments and heavy echo to Simon & Garfunkel’s folk arrangement.

When the tune was re-released in September 1965, it became a huge hit. I bring this to your attention, Scorpio, because I suspect you’re now at a point comparable to the time just before Tom Wilson discovered the potential of “The Sounds of Silence.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“Consider how hard it is to change yourself,” wrote author Jacob M. Braude, “and you’ll understand what little chance you have in trying to change others.” Ninetynine percent of the time, I’d advise you and everybody else to surrender to that counsel as if it were an absolute truth. But I think you Sagittarians will be the exception to the rule in the coming weeks. More than usual, you’ll have the power to change yourself. And if you succeed, your selftransformations will be likely to trigger interesting changes in people around you.

Here’s another useful tip, also courtesy of Jacob M. Braude: “Behave like a duck. Keep calm and unruffled on the surface, but paddle like the devil underneath.”

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

In 1969, two earthlings walked on the moon for the first time. To ensure that astronauts Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin landed there and returned safely, about 400,000 people labored and cooperated for many years. I suspect that in the coming months, you may be drawn to a collaborative project that’s not as ambitious as NASA’s, but nevertheless fueled by a grand plan and a big scope. And according to my astrological calculations, you will have even more ability than usual to be a driving force in such a project. Your power to inspire and organize group efforts will be at a peak.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): I predict your ambitions will burn more steadily in the coming months, and will produce more heat and light than ever before. You’ll have a clearer conception of exactly what it is you want to accomplish, as well as a growing certainty of the resources and help you’ll need to accomplish it. Hooray and hallelujah! But keep this in mind, Aquarius: As you acquire greater access to meaningful success— not just the kind of success that merely impresses other people—you’ll be required to take on more responsibility.

Can you handle that? I think you can.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): What’s your top conspiracy theory? Does it revolve around the Illuminati, the occult group that is supposedly plotting to abolish all nations and create a world government?

Or does it involve the stealthy invasion by extraterrestrials who are allegedly seizing mental control over human political leaders and influencing them to wage endless war and wreck the environment?

Or is your pet conspiracy theory more personal? Maybe you secretly believe, for instance, that the difficult events you experienced in the past were so painful and debilitating that they will forever prevent you from fulfilling your fondest dream.

Well, Pisces. I’m here to tell you that whatever conspiracy theory you most tightly embrace is ready to be disproven once and for all. Are you willing to be relieved of your delusions?

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LEK-LAI at 3058 Helena Way Chico, CA 95973.

SAO LO 3058 Helena Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SAO LO Dated: August 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001155 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HEIDI’S PICKLES AND PRESERVES at 6165 Oliver Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

HEIDI ANN LANGE 6165 Oliver Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HEIDI LANGE Dated: September 18, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001264 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

doing business as TOMFOOLERY at 126 West 3rd Street Chico, CA 95928.

JULIE STRASSER 15 Pebblewood Pines Chico, CA 95926.

TERRY STRASSER 15 Pebblewood Pines Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: TERRY STRASSER Dated: September 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001266 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as POLISHED at 3095 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

JONATHAN HORNER 3095 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

VANESA FLORES HORNER 3095 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: VANESA FLORES-HORNER Dated: September 1, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001184 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WILLIAMS ELECTRIC at 609 Entler Ave #4 Chico, CA 95928.

MATT THOMAS WILLIAMS 14706 Bridgeport Cir. Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MATT WILLIAMS Dated: September 15, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001251 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FIERCE SPORTS at 6189 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

ALAN RAY FLEMING 6189 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: ALAN FLEMING, VICE PRESIDENT Dated: August 29, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001167 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as EMAC FARMS at 8700 Taylor Avenue Durham, CA 95938.

EDWARD CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN 2555 Durham Dayton Hwy Durham, CA 95938.

This busines is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ED MCLAUGHLIN Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001301 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ST. VINCENT ORCHARDS at 8700 Taylor Ave. Durham, CA 95938.

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EDWARD CHARLES MCLAUGHLIN 2555 Durham Dayton Hwy Durham, CA 95938.

MICHAEL RANDALL MCLAUGHLIN 8616 Durnel Ave Durham, CA 95938.

SAMUEL BARTON RICHARDSON 3880 Ord Ferry Road Chico, CA 95928.

REX FALLON SMITH 1192 Hillview Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ED MCLAUGHLIN Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001302 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ST. JAMES ORCHARDS at 8700 Taylor Ave. Durham, CA 95938.

ST. JAMES ORCHARDS LLC 8700 Taylor Ave. Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by A Limited Liability Company.

Signed: ED MCLAUGHLIN, MANAGING PARTNER Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001303 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NPM PROPERTIES, SACRED HEALTH at 315 Wall Street Ste 3 Chico, CA 95973.

NEIL NAZARI 4640 Welding Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NEIL NAZARI Dated: September 19, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001267 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HEROFIT FAMILY at 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969.

KRISTEN NICOLE HORST 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969.

SETH DAVID HORST 701 Kinsey Way Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: KRISTEN HORST Dated: September 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001282 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BELLACRE FLOWER FARM at 3177 Bell Road Chico, CA 95973.

DANI LISA SCHERER 3177 Bell Road Chico, CA 95973.

MARK ALLEN SCHERER 3177 Bell Road Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: DANI L. SCHERER Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001296 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

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

EARTHCALM, INC. 173 E 4th Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: JEANNE GALLICK, PRESIDENT Dated: September 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001279 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PEPE’S LANDSCAPING at 1040 Windsor Way Chico, CA 95926.

JOSE F MONDRAGON 1040 Windsor Way Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSE F MONDRAGON Dated: September 25, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001289 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as B AND S ENTERPRISES at 20 Robert Lee Place Chico, CA 95926.

BARBARA FLETCHER 20 Robert Lee Place Chico, CA 95926.

STEVEN F FLETCHER 20 Robert Lee Place Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BARBARA FLETCHER Dated: September 20, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001277 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE AMBER ROSE at 804 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928.

EARL F HALLETT 330 W 18th Street Chico, CA 95928.

AARON NOTT 2140 Salem Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: EARL HALLETT Dated: October 4, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001329 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BDC TRANSPORT at 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

BRYAN JOSEPH PARADEE 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

DANIELLE ALANA PARADEE 16149 Lovelock Rd Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: BRYAN PARRADEE Dated: September 27, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001297 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MICHELLE MITSUKO DESIGNS at 5888 Golden Oaks Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

MICHELLE WYSOCKI 5888 Golden Oaks Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHELLE WYSOCKI Dated: October 6, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001344 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as FULL CIRCLE SPEECH THERAPY at 30 Landing Circle Suite 103 Chico, CA 95973.

ELIZABETH KYSAR 5172 Bonnie Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

ELIZABETH VICHI 3111 Hidden Creek Dr Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A General Partnership.

Signed: ELIZABETH VICHI Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001318 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRISTINE PARTIES at 922 Walnut St Chico, CA 95928.

RINO RWEJUNA NYUNDO 922 Walnut St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RINO RWEJUNA NYUNDO Dated: October 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001360 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PATS SANDBLASTING SERVICE at 85 Circle Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

RODNEY L HORN 85 Circle Dr Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RODNEY L HORN Dated: October 12, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001359 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALAIR TRAVEL at 405 Panama Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

CHELSEA BRITT JOHNSON 1352 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHELSEA JOHNSON Dated: October 5, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001334 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as AG PRIVATE PROTECTION at 500 Cohasset Rd, Ste 27 Chico, CA 95926.

RYAN SPEHLING 9 Jasper Ct Chico, CA 95928.

ADAM STRICKER 843 Alice Ln Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: ADAM D. STRICKER Dated: September 22, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001283 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SORENSON MOVING AND STORAGE at 600 Orange Street Chico, CA 95928.

SORENSON MOVING AND STORAGE INC 600 Orange Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by A Corporation.

Signed: RICK W. SORENSON, PRESIDENT Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001321 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KELLY LYNN BECKMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KELLY LYNN BECKMAN Proposed name: KELLY LYNN PENTZER 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: November 3, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 14, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02377 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KAREN HANSEN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ALICE MICHELLE ADAMS Proposed name: ALICE MICHELLE HANSEN ADAMS 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

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should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 17, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 15, 2017 Case Number: 17CV01993 Published: September 28, October 5,12,19, 2017

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: November 17, 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: September 21, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02465 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JACK ANTHONY GLIEDT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JACK ANTHONY GLIEDT Proposed name: JACK ANTHONY DEGRANO 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: November 3, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 14, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02253 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KAREN GUTERRES filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KAREN ANNE GUTERRES Proposed name: KELANA ANDERSON 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: November 17, 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: September 25, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02751 Published: October 5,12,19,26, 2017

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner YESENIA GALLEGOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: OZIEL ATENOGENES ZEPEDA-PLACENCIA Proposed name: OZIEL ATENOGENES GALLEGOS 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: November 17, 2017 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: September 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02607 Published: October 12,19,26, November 2, 2017

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

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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: November 17, 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: October 13, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02683 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

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

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

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

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

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

The name and address of the court are: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: TUAN VAN LAI, SBN 182967 Law Offices of Tuan Van Lai 5591 Sky Parkway Sacramento, CA 95823 (916) 399-4980 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: September 6, 2017 Case Number: 17FL01753 Published: October 19,26, November 2,9, 2017

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE VIRGINIA AILEEN CAVALLO AKA VIRGINIA A. CAVALLO To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: VIRGINIA AILEEN CAVALLO AKA VIRGINIA A. CAVALLO A Petition for Probate has been filed by:

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COLLEEN K. CAVALLO in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: COLLEEN K. CAVALLO 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 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: October 31, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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: MARGARET M. MCNULTY Law Office of Margaret McNulty 1550 Humboldt Road, Suite 4 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 809-0675 Case Number: 17PR00353 Dated: September 29, 2017 Published: October 5,12,19, 2017

be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 14, 2017 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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: ROBERT L. HEWITT 3044 Olive Hwy Oroville, CA 95966 (530) 534-8393 Case Number: 17PR00370 Dated: October 11, 2017 Published: October 19,26, November 2, 2017

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BOBBY JAKE HOBBS To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BOBBY JAKE HOBBS, ALSO KNOWN AS BOBBY J. HOBBS, BOBBY HOBBS A Petition for Probate has been filed by: PATTIE MANES in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: PATTIE MANES

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

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The Petition for Probate requests that: TIM KITCHEN 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 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: November 21, 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: DIRK POTTER, ATTORNEY AT LAW 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 17PR00367 Dated: October 10, 2017 Published: October 19,26, November 2, 2017

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

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$300,000 $780,000 $630,000 $490,000 $455,000 $359,000 $347,000 $346,000 $339,000 $314,500 $310,000

3/2 4/3 4/3 3/3 4/3 3/2 3/2 3/2 4/2 3/2 3/2

SQ. FT. 3244 3048 2764 2530 2332 1759 1348 1855 1705 1445 1288

Home with Guest House 3/2 ranch home w/pool! Plus 500 sq ft guest house on lg .35 acre lot in West Aves $329,900

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Sponsored by Century 21 Jeffries Lydon ADDRESS 8 Glenshire Ln 2 Mayfair Dr 1109 Admiral Ln 11390 Siesta Cir 2360 Faber St 2355 Gorrill Ln 1056 Sage St 13598 W Park Dr 14137 Racine Cir 6157 Showdown Cir 14055 Temple Cir

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Chico Chico Chico Clipper Mills Durham Durham Gridley Magalia Magalia Magalia Magalia

$303,000 $279,500 $272,000 $225,000 $269,000 $188,000 $186,000 $253,000 $250,000 $230,000 $198,000

3/3 3/2 3/2 2/2 2/2 2/2 3/2 2/2 3/2 3/3 3/2 october 19, 2017

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the following houses were sold in butte county by real estate agents or private parties during the week of october 2, 2017 – october 6, 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.

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

6466 Ponderosa Way

ADDRESS

Magalia

$196,500

3/2

SQ. FT. 1250

48 La Cresenta Dr

6194 Calvary Ct

Magalia

$179,000

2/2

1200

1205 Hurleton Rd

Oroville

$342,000

3/3

2478

46 Highlands Blvd

Oroville

$110,000

2/1

1436

25 Lariat Loop

Oroville

$270,000

3/2

1704

5675 Cherry Ln

Paradise

$386,000

3/3

2333

71 La Mirada Ave

Oroville

$263,000

3/2

1677

1761 5th St

Oroville

$254,545

4/2

1378

1276 Norma St

Oroville

$251,000

3/2

1342

349 Canyon Highlands Dr

Oroville

$245,000

3/2

2346

164 Morningstar Ave

Oroville

$210,000

4/2

1864

1484 10th St

Oroville

$179,000

3/2

1176

2673 Forestview Dr

Oroville

$149,000

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TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Oroville

$115,000

3/1

SQ. FT. 1039

2003 Hillpark Ln

Paradise

$292,000

3/2

1602

1305 Deodara Way

Paradise

$290,000

2/2

1696

5417 S Libby Rd

Paradise

$286,000

3/2

1338

420 Nottingham Dr

Paradise

$250,000

2/2

1248

624 Elliott Rd

Paradise

$230,000

3/2

2214

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Paradise

$217,500

2/2

1124

5869 Kibler Rd

Paradise

$198,000

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