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Stand united with students We’ve officially lost count of the times we’ve written about the nation’s

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‘an attack on all workers’ Oit continues rights has been long-fought in this country and today. Many attempts have been made rganized labor’s struggle to protect workers’

they can create a work environment where workers have few rights and little protection. A living wage, medical benefits, paid sick time and vacation are all in the courts to reverse the rights that have been in the crosshairs of the rich and powerful. This is an won. On Feb. 26, the Supreme attack on all workers.

Court will hear oral arguments Together, through unions, we have fought for and in the case of Janus v. AFSCME, won many rights and protections for workers. The the latter being the acronym 40-hour work week, weekends, fair wages and safer for the American working conditions—just to name Federation of a few. When unions win, working The real goal State, County, conditions improve for everyone of the lawsuit and Municipal across the working landscape. is to weaken Employees, the Here in California, the United workers’ ability Farm Workers was the first to nation’s largest by trade union of to gain strength have union contracts regulating Marshall Elliott public employees. safety and sanitary conditions in in numbers.

The author is a Chico The plaintiff is farm labor camps, which is now State employee Mark Janus, an employee at the common practice. These are just some of the wins and president of Illinois Department of Healthcare that all workers—union and nonunion alike—have the local chapter of and Family Services, who wants benefited from. Organized labor to this day continthe California State to abolish the practice of employ- ues to fight for all working people. university employee ees contributing union fees.

In the end, everyone should follow what happens union (CSueu 302).

But the real goal of the in Washington, D.C., on Feb. 26, as it will affect lawsuit is to weaken workers’ us all. Regardless of the outcome of this case, my ability to gain strength in numbers. Janus is backed co-workers and I are committed to continuing the by the National Right to Work Legal Defense Fund, struggle to improve life for all workers and we will working on behalf of those who stand to profit if not be deterred. □

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worst mass shootings in the editorial pages of this newspaper in recent years.

Think Aurora, Colo., where 12 died at a movie theater; Newtown, Conn., where 20 elementary school children and six adults were gunned down; Charleston, S.C., where nine church-goers were shot to death; Sutherland Springs, Texas, where 26 parishioners were killed while attending services; Orlando, where 49 were shot and killed at the Pulse nightclub; Las Vegas, where 58 were slaughtered while watching a concert; or closer to home, in Rancho Tehama, where five people were murdered.

All of the aforementioned incidents took place within the past six years, and each time this newspaper and others throughout the nation have called for Congress to enact stricter gun legislation, including federal background checks universally for gun sales. Each time, we’ve seen the same response, especially from high-ranking Republicans, such as Speaker of the House Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (who, by the way, has accepted $1.3 million from the NRA).

As we said this past October, following the Las Vegas massacre, we know the game plan. First, stall. That’s what the members of the Do Nothing Congress are doing when, after a shooting, they say it’s too soon to start a debate about gun laws. Second, of course, they will send out thoughts and prayers and do their utmost to sound sincere. Next, they deflect by pointing to the perpetrator having mental health issues. Finally, they ignore the calls for change, rely on voter apathy and continue to pocket contributions from the NRA. Their responses are as predictable as knowing there will be yet another similar tragedy. Indeed, as we’ve seen over and over, it’s only a matter of time.

Most recently, it was Parkland, Fla., where 17 people—mostly students— lost their lives in the course of their everyday activities at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School. Keep in mind that there have been many other mass shootings this year that you’ve likely never read about. According to a database compiled by the nonprofit Gun Violence Archive, in 2018 alone there have been 34 mass shootings resulting in 60 deaths.

Sadly, Congress, mainly Republicans, will remain defiant on this issue—even when it comes to no-brainer regulations. Let’s recall the bipartisan bill that sought to expand background checks to cover weapon sales at gun shows and on the internet. That effort—the so-called Public Safety and Second Amendment Rights Protection Act (aka the Manchin-Toomey amendment, so named for Sens. Joe Manchin and Pat Toomey, a Democrat and Republican, respectively)—died for a lack of support after the GOP threatened a filibuster.

What’s worse is that, in some places, gun violence actually tends to result in less-restrictive laws. That’s according to recent research out of the Harvard Business School, which found that “a mass shooting increases the number of enacted laws that loosen gun restrictions by 75 percent in states with Republican-controlled legislatures.”

That shouldn’t be surprising considering one of President Trump’s first actions upon entering the White House was to gut an Obama-era initiative aimed at preventing mentally ill people from purchasing guns. That measure, which hadn’t been fully implemented, was taken by the former president following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook in Newtown, Conn.

So, now what? It’s time for “we the people” to take action.

In response to the Parkland tragedy, young activists are in the early stages of organizing two large events. First, on March 24, students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas and elsewhere have organized the March for Our Lives demonstration, a march on the nation’s capital, to demand school safety gun regulation. Second, on April 20, the 19th anniversary of the Columbine shooting, is a National School Walkout, which is being organized by a student who lives near Sandy Hook.

For the latter, we encourage local students to take up the cause, and for their teachers, mentors and school administrators to stand by them.

Together, their voices hold power. □

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

Mystery loafers Early morning on a recent Monday, staff writer Ashiah Scharaga and I were the first ones to arrive at Second and Flume streets (aka CN&R’s headquarters). Or so we thought. It was overcast outside and the rest of the building was dark.

Ashiah and I were chitchatting when I saw the profile of a pair of men’s dress shoes on the other side of a table in the room at the far end of the building. That’s the space we generally refer to as the arts room, where Arts Editor Jason Cassidy works and the editorial department gathers for meetings. The black leather shoes weren’t familiar to me, nor to Ashiah, whose attention I had directed toward the mystery loafers.

We lowered our voices and she took a closer look.

“Who is that?” I whispered.

“I don’t know,” she responded quietly.

Ashiah and I could see that the person was sitting in a chair, but we couldn’t see past his legs. We looked at each other with raised eyebrows, wondering who was hanging out by himself with the lights out. After hearing a thump, I got up to investigate. Ashiah followed, and as I moved closer I could see that the person was now lying on the floor.

Then the moaning began. My heart raced, and my steps quickened. There, on the carpet, was longtime CN&R staff writer Ken Smith, on his side and clearly in distress. I fell to my knees and shouted something like, “Oh, no! What’s happening?!” I grabbed his arm to turn him, trying to figure out how I could help. Fearing the worst (read: stroke), tears welled in my eyes.

Seconds later, Ken turned toward me. “I’m OK, I’m OK,” he said.

Turns out he’d strained his back, and was stretching to get some relief. He and wife Kate recently bought their first home and had spent the weekend moving their final load of possessions. What a relief. Ken later told me he thought the whole scenario was funny until he saw the look of fear on my face.

Indeed, I was spooked for a while thereafter—having seen someone’s life flash before my eyes, or so I thought.

“Thank you for caring,” he said to me more than once.

I was able to joke about it only days later when the CN&R’s staff gathered to wish him, and Howard Hardee, good luck in their pursuits in the freelance world. Both worked here for more than five years—Ken as a staff writer (“the best job at the CN&R,” I’ve always said) and Howard in a variety of roles, from calendar editor to assistant news editor. Howard started with the paper as a college intern back in the summer of 2010, and came back to us after graduating about a year later. Ken started in 2009 as a freelancer who came aboard part-time a few years later and then full-time a few years after that.

Between the two of them, Ken and Howard wrote a little over 1,000 stories for the CN&R. Both are great reporters who are already missed but whose bylines you’ll continue to see in this publication.

While drinking beers during that get-together, Ken told me he’d love it if I’d write about the aforementioned scare as a sort of goodbye column. I couldn’t help but oblige him. I don’t have a similar story about Howard, which is fortunate, because I don’t know if my heart could take it.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

It’s about design Re “Parking pass” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, Feb. 15): Director of public worksengineering Brendan Ottoboni has it wrong: the collisions on East were likely caused by excessive automobile speed, and widening the roadway will increase speeds even more, causing more collisions and increased injuries, and make the street even less livable.

Ottoboni should look at a road diet to reduce the total lanes to one in each direction plus a center turn lane, add protected bike lanes, or commit to finding another engineered traffic calming measure.

Transportation design must prioritize safety and neighborhood compatibility over high vehicle speed in neighborhoods. This approach is in line with current Caltrans policy, which recently adopted the NACTO (National Association of City Transportation Officials) design guidelines for use in the state. These ideas also align with Vision Zero, a movement to reduce fatalities and major injuries on roads.

Most collisions stem from bad design (including design that encourages speeding). Ottoboni should follow the advice of recent research, of Caltrans, and of Vision Zero, and use a NACTO design to slow those cars down. Simultaneously, Chico should adopt a Vision Zero policy to provide a mandate that supports and empowers the director to make safety his first priority moving forward.

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Commentary comeback Re “An era for truly uniting” (Guest comment, by Mark Segal, Feb. 15): Truly uniting would necessitate that Democrats stop emphasizing and dividing people by their specialness— be it sexual, racial or religious—and embrace with compassion our common humanity.

People whom many would easily view as unpleasant bigots are part of humanity, and it would be better for the future if we emphasize what we have in common and work with compassion to understand our differences. Probably, those of us who disdain bigotry would be bigots if our life paths had been the same as those LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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Talking, while looking for understanding and each other’s common humanity, can make progress toward a better future.

I am excited Chelsea Manning is running against Sen. Ben Cardin, who, as most congressional Democrats, always supports regime change and military solutions, and is the author of a bill making it a felony to support a boycott of Israel. Manning will speak truth to power.

Lucy Cooke Butte Valley

Yet another tragedy During the 19 years between the Columbine shooting and the latest tragedy at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High in Parkland, Fla., there have been 270 school shootings.

After each shooting, we see the now predictable chain of events—shock, grief, thoughts and prayers, the ongoing debate of mental health issues vs. Second Amendment rights, and finally parents organizing in an effort to impact gun control legislation.

Hopefully this time will be different. The students of Parkland are speaking up. Their voices are loud, strong and organized.

With so many of our elected officials receiving huge donations from the NRA, it’s hard to be hopeful. Our current president received $21 million from the NRA for his campaign and many House and Senate Republicans have received contributions in the millions, with Republican Sen. John McCain topping the list.

Until stricter gun legislation is passed by Congress, current laws are more strictly enforced and mental health issues are addressed more effectively, there is not much hope of reversing the current trend of gun violence in our schools.

Lastly, authorities must act. “If you see something, say something” means nothing without action.

Nikolas Cruz’s gun ownership, desire to kill, erratic behavior and social media posts were all known by authorities.

Bill Unger Paradise

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citizens.” Or my favorite: “This is a mental health issue and not a gun issue.” Really? Excluding suicides, guns kill 14,000 people annually in the U.S. Mass shootings are a small part of this statistic. There have been 1,624 of these in the last 1,870 days, resulting in 1,890 deaths. The 17 deaths at Parkland is the largest since the Nov. 15 Rancho Tehama shootings.

Shockingly, there’ve been 38 mass shootings since then.

Following Sandy Hook in 2013, President Obama signed legislation restricting those with mental illnesses from acquiring weapons.

On Feb. 28, 2017, the popular vote runner-up signed a bill reversing this and removed 75,000 names from a database created for these protections. In May 2017, America’s embarrassment proposed a “budget plan” to trim $1 trillion over the next decade with significant cuts to mentalhealth services through the Mental Health Services Administration.

This government’s rhetoric is in direct conflict with its actions.

Thoughts, prayers and continued lip service do nothing. We deserve better from our elected officials.

Dave Schwartz Chico

I am impressed with how the students from the Florida high school, where 17 people were killed by an assault weapon, are responding and organizing.

They want assault weapons banned. That makes sense, but the Republican Party’s “platform” is that assault weapons are an American’s right to own to hunt and “protect their family,” so it is extremely unlikely a ban will happen. But the same Republicans prohibit assault weapons from being brought into the U.S. Capitol or the White House.

For those of us who have served in war zones, we know assault weapons are for killing people. If you see a photo of a gun range, people are shooting at silhouettes of humans, not deer.

In California we have tough rules. A convicted felon out of prison cannot buy any weapons.

However, a felon can drive to a gun show in Nevada and buy assault weapons (Trump’s polices are no background checks) and when they drive back into California, the officers at the booth

ask the felons if they have any fruit in the car.

Democrats across the country will support these energized students.

Bob Mulholland Chico

Many reputable sociologists and psychologists believe that the media play a significant role in the genesis of school shooters.

Stories and photos sensationalize and glamorize them to the outcast crowd, thereby propagating imitated behavior.

The media doesn’t just bring the shooter and his story to the world; they also bring the world to the feet of the shooter. He sees how the media pay perverse homage to his deeds. His imitators see this as well.

The next school shooter might already have the guns he will use.

What he doesn’t have—yet—is an infamous reputation thanks to the media. But he trusts they will perform.

Do you think we should limit the “freedom of the (printing) press?” Censure what they can print? Maybe we should consider taking presses away from those on the terrorist watch list? I mean, they are terrorists, right? Google how the terrorist watch list works.

The Second Amendment, as the First, was created to put fear into tyranny. Chip away at an amendment you don’t particularly support or believe in, and don’t be surprised when they chip away at the ones you do.

Peter Bridge Ord Bend

The CAS/BHS saga Cody Alert is an animal welfare Facebook page that was created in January 2014 to help reunite lost/ found animals throughout Northern California. As a Cody Alert moderator, I am extremely proud of our success; we are over 25,500 members strong and have reunited thousands of animals. We couldn’t do this important work without the support of our members, which includes many invaluable Chico Animal Shelter staff.

The Chico Animal Shelter team are tenured, experienced, honest, transparent and, most importantly, committed to the humane treatment of animals. Cody Alert is

monitored on the Chico Animal Shelter staff computers as they intake animals, and make comparisons to posted animals on Cody Alert. You can’t put a price tag on what it means to an owner to get a call or see a post on Cody Alert from the Chico Animal Shelter staff, finding out their beloved furchild is safe.

We do not see this same cooperation with Butte Humane Society, and this has been strongly indicative of what other animal organizations have experienced.

It is my hope to continue the collaborative efforts of Cody Alert and Chico Animal Shelter; therefore, I strongly support and encourage the City Council to keep the contract with Chico Animal Shelter.

Megan Rawie Paradise

As a lifetime animal supporter, I joined the board of the Butte Humane Society (BHS) three years ago. Throughout this time, I have seen some of the most successful and caring business owners and professionals join the cause.

I’ve read the letters to the editor debating who should or should not deliver animal sheltering services and am compelled to chime in.

I’ve managed and owned businesses for decades and understand how complex running a successful venture can be. BHS has worked diligently over the past several years to implement a business model that will ensure financial accountability, professional leadership and provide successful outcomes for homeless animals.

There are many moving pieces: fundraising, staffing, management, program development, public outreach, and most importantly, animal sheltering and care.

BHS is committed to continued growth and advancement.

Awarding the contract to an organization that has a rich history in Chico will benefit the animals in our community. The mission of BHS is to save lives, find homes and inspire compassion. I have complete faith in the ability and ethics of BHS management, staff, and its board to deliver these services—and save more lives.

Peter Bell Chico

Cuddles, Pickles, Junior, Benjamin, Dee, Spot, Diego, Pops, Johnny, Mr. Nibbles, Batman, Goober, Marrietta, Ace, Gizzy,

Crystal, Sarabi, Stanley, J.T., Chip, Simon, Choco, Pretty Girl, Milo, Kiki, Donald, Baby Bear, Koa, Parker, Peaches, Chupie, Jimmy, Mr. Mighty, Indigo, Gavin, Heaven, Rocky, Kosmo, Growler, Lady, Poochie, Nicki, Bella, Frenchie, Elmer, Hudson, Cris, Samson, Slim, Mr. Serious, Conan, Star, Harley, Josh, Morty, Midnight, Emerson, Cooper, Red, Daisy, Dodger, Laurel, Saltine, Marvin, Lulu and Berry.

These are the names of just a small fraction of the dogs that the Butte Humane Society denied entry into their adoption program over the last six years. They were denied for reasons ranging from medical issues, like heartworm or broken legs, to behavioral problems like being fearful or too hyper. The dogs listed here, and more, were successfully adopted out by the Chico Animal Shelter (CAS).

CAS consistently chooses to spend time working with and treating the not-quite-perfect animals in their care, giving them a chance to find their perfect homes. I hope the citizens of Chico realize that these dogs would not have stood a chance without CAS staff’s dedication and care. Chico, please be careful when contracting out.

Gina Catallo Sacramento

Editor’s note: The author is a former Chico Animal Shelter employee.

Corrections A story in last week’s Business Issue (see “Flipping onto the screen,” by Ken Smith, Feb. 15) included a typo in a quote that incorrectly relayed the accuracy of flippers Chenoa and David Rivera when it comes to estimating a house’s needed rehab costs.

Also, in a recent cover story (see “The way to wellness,” by Ken Smith, Feb. 8) artist John McMackin’s drawings were inaccurately described. Mr. McMackin makes drawings for patients of Enloe Medical Center’s Infusion Therapy Clinic. (He does not draw their portraits.)

We apologize for the errors, which have been corrected online.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE String oF violence

In the past week, Chico experienced a torrent of violence, including shootings, stabbings and robberies that sent three people to the hospital, according to the Chico Police Department.

The violent weekend began on Friday (Feb. 16), when a large fight broke out near West Sixth and Ivy streets around 8:30 p.m., sending a victim with a stab wound to Enloe Medical Center. Police believe the victim was involved in the fight.

Early Saturday morning (Feb. 17), police received reports of a man who’d been shot in the back of the head. He was found lying in the middle of the road at West Second and Orange streets at 1:23 a.m. Before being transported to Enloe, the man told police he’d been robbed by two men he did not know. While investigating, officers learned of two other victims who said they’d been robbed 20 minutes earlier.

The suspects were described as two white men in their early 20s armed with handguns.

On Sunday (Feb 18) at 6:19 a.m., police located multiple bullet holes that had struck a home in the 100 block of Terrace Drive, off of East First Avenue. Police first heard of shots fired in the area around 3:30 a.m. Nobody was injured.

Most recently, a 62-old-man was stabbed several times and sent to Enloe with serious injuries on Monday (Feb. 19) around 10:30 p.m.

Police located the victim, who was bleeding and having trouble communicating, in the area of Manzanita and Ellene avenues.

According to witnesses, two white men in their 20s wearing white T-shirts assaulted the victim before running south toward Lindo Channel.

As of Tuesday, Cmdr. Ted McKinnon reported all victims were in stable condition.

Suspects have yet to be arrested, and investigations are ongoing. Anyone with information is asked to call Chico PD at 897-4911.

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The city wants input from Chicoans about proposed changes to Upper Bidwell Park, including a proposed parking fee and vehicle access. It is also asking for suggestions on improvements, like adding restrooms, security, educational signs and trail maintenance.

A survey has been posted at chicoca.gov as well as on the Chico Public Works Facebook page. Hard copies are available at the Parks Division office, 965 Fir St., and can be requested by emailing parkinfo@chicoca.gov.

A bit of background: About 2.25 miles of the unpaved portion of Upper Park Road past the Diversion Dam has been closed to vehicles.

Poor roadway conditions have posed a safety concern. A recent report identified 43 spots in need of repair, redesign or drainage treatments to allow for vehicle travel and prevent sediment from entering Big Chico Creek.

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Flap over fees Developers oppose increase in building costs related to street maintenance

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obody likes paying extra fees and taxes,

but local governments are obligated to keep up public facilities such as schools, parks and roadways. That’s why the city of Chico requires developers to pay impact fees story and when they build new photo by housing: The growing Howard Hardee population strains public infrastructure, city officials say, so developers should help pay for maintenance.

As City Manager Mark Orme told the Chico City Council on Tuesday (Feb. 20), the key is getting an acknowledgment of necessity from both sides. In general, local builders agree they should bear some of the cost. But as city staff continues amending Chico’s development impact fee schedule, they don’t agree on the details.

Namely, street facilities fees on a singlefamily home are poised to jump from $3,330 to $11,425.

“We know fee increases are coming,” local developer Bill Webb told the council.

“But they need to be fair, they need to be reasonable, and they need to be legal.”

The builders are serious about that last part. Earlier that day, the city received three letters threatening litigation over the fee increases from Webb, the Walnut Creek-based legal firm Miller Starr Regalia (representing Bay Area-based Discovery Builders) and Chico Builders Association, which was represented by Darlene Giampaoli during the meeting.

“I know this has been a long, arduous process,” said Giampaoli, the group’s president, “but unfortunately this final report really takes a step in the wrong direction and increases fees dramatically.”

City staff began amending 14 categories of development impact fees 13 months ago and has spent some $500,000 on an outside consultant to help. But the need is pressing, according to Brendan Ottoboni, the city’s director of public works-engineering. Chico’s list of infrastructure needs is only getting longer, he said. Clearly, the city needs to open greater streams of funding.

“I can speak from professional experience,” Ottoboni told the council. “If this is not addressed, the results will be signifi-

cant. We will see major traffic congestion all over town.”

As amended, the street facilities fee would generate an estimated $45 million over the next 10 years for roadway repair and construction. (The fees currently generate $18 million.)

Ottoboni said the fee update is also a potential opportunity to alleviate the community’s affordable housing shortage.

Currently, developers are charged the same whether they build single-family or multifamily housing, regardless of unit size.

Since developers don’t have an incentive to build small, affordable units when they can make more money by building bigger homes, Ottoboni’s staff is considering changes to the municipal code that would reduce fees for high-density housing by 30 percent to 40 percent.

The proposed fee schedule didn’t go over well, though. Ottoboni was grilled throughout the meeting by developers as well as some members of the council. In Councilman Karl Ory’s eyes, for example, the changes wouldn’t do enough to promote affordable housing. And Councilman Andrew Coolidge thought the fees would suppress retail development and discourage businesses from choosing Chico.

“We’re starving for jobs,” Coolidge said, “and that’s the pathway to economic success, in my opinion.”

Basically, nobody was on the same page. Developer Dan Gonzales proposed forming a committee composed of city staff and local builders to iron out the

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details within 90 days. However, Orme advised against directly involving the business people who would be most impacted by the fees.

Councilman Mark Sorensen made a motion to continue the discussion at a future meeting, giving Ewing more time to review potential lawsuits and adjust the fee schedule as necessary.

His motion passed by a 5-to-2 vote, with Coolidge and Councilman Randall Stone voting “no.”

The council also received an update on

the city’s Sustainability Task Force from Mark Stemen, chair of the working group. His report included information on the anticipated long-term effects of global climate change on Chico.

Stemen outlined the best- and worst-case scenarios. In the worst case, humanity does nothing to curb greenhouse gas emissions in coming decades and Chico sees a jump in the number of extreme heat days (over 104 degrees), increased flooding and more wildfires in the foothills.

“What we do today will affect whether people living in Chico will have high or low impacts,” he said.

Mayor Sean Morgan expressed a seemingly flippant attitude toward the report. “This is cool,” he said, holding up the document.

“Well, it’s actually not really all that cool if you start to look at it,” Stemen responded.

Pushing forward Oroville council majority overturns mayor’s attempt to put cannabis cultivation on the ballot after midnight, Linda Dahlmeier picked her papers off the makeshift dais Sonhortly the State Theatre stage. She’d just fin-

ished presiding over a marathon meeting of the Oroville City Council Tuesday night (Feb. 20) at which, like the previous session with cannabis on the agenda, provoked passions all around.

On Jan. 16, before the council voted 5-2 to instruct city staff to draft a “seed-to-sale” commercialization ordinance, public comment spanned three hours, punctuated by appeals to Christian morality and callbacks to Reefer Madness (see “Drama at the dais,” Newslines, Jan. 18). The council even heard from Congressman Doug LaMalfa, via a letter read by field representative Laura Page, delineating his objections.

Tuesday night—the meeting moved from cramped council chambers to accommodate the crowd, approximately 200—ordinance opponents Dahlmeier, the mayor, and Councilman Scott Thomson presented an alternative: put commercial cannabis before the voters.

Dahlmeier linked this agenda item to one requesting a ballot measure for a city sales tax increase. Their notion inherently corresponded to the final item, authorizing a contract for cannabis-related consulting services.

Some of the same speakers returned, reinvoking fire and brimstone. A visiting pastor from Southern California invoked Compton, Hawthorne, gang violence and crime—plus

cast aspersions on council members’ integrity, for which he later apologized.

Butte County Supervisor Larry Wahl, who represents Chico, spoke against legalization; so did LaMalfa, in person. Of the 40 people who spoke to the proposed ordinance, half opposed cannabis, a quarter supported, and a quarter wanted voters to decide.

Ultimately they—and the rest of Oroville—wound up pretty much where they started 5 1/2 hours earlier.

Thomson’s motion to put commercialization on the November ballot failed, 5-2, with only he and Dahlmeier in favor. The council voted the same way to hire Fairfield-based SCI Consulting Group for up to $39,000 to advise the city on both the cannabis and sales-tax proposals, the latter passing 7-0.

Afterward, Dahlmeier seemed resigned to the ultimate outcome of cannabis commerce.

“There’s always a chance” the council might not adopt an ordinance, she told the CN&R, “but I don’t think that’s going to happen.”

The ordinance on the table, which acting

City Administrator Donald Rust said several times is a “draft” only, would permit

and finally, the council voted 4-3 down

party lines to place a proposal on the November ballot to limit council members to three terms in office. The matter was considered at Sorensen’s request.

Ory characterized the move as a “power play” by the conservative council members—an attempt to get progressive members such as Councilwoman Ann Schwab (who is in the middle of her fourth term) off the panel. However, Ewing had clarified beforehand that, under state law, term limits cannot go into effect retroactively.

The conservative bloc voted for Sorensen’s proposal despite protest from the left side of the dais. The liberals’ main argument was that experience is beneficial.

“Politics is the only industry in the world where experience is a bad thing,” Stone said. “Can you explain that?”

Morgan responded: “I could go on all day.” □

SIFT ER so presidential Recent results from the 2018 Presidents & Executive Politics Presidential Greatness Survey rank American presidents, from Washington to Trump, based on opinions of current and recent members of the Presidents & Executive Politics Section of the American Political Science Association. Respondents were asked to rank each POTUS from 0 to 100, with 0 being failure, 50 being average and 100 equaling great. Abraham Lincoln, who came in first in the 2014 version of the poll, again topped the list for 2018.

Notable moves on this year’s list include Barack Obama, who is No. 8, up from the 18th spot in 2014; and Ulysses S. Grant, who moved from 28 to 21. In his first appearance, Donald Trump ranked last on the list. (Grover Cleveland’s nonconsecutive terms mean that “45” is actually one of only 44 presidents total.) Respondents also overwhelmingly indicated that they’d like to see Franklin D. Roosevelt as the next addition to Mount Rushmore. In honor of Presidents Day Monday (Feb. 19), here are some highlights from the 2018 rankings, with scores in parentheses:

1. Abraham Lincoln (95.03) 2. George Washington (92.59) 3. Franklin D. Roosevelt (89.09) 4. Theodore Roosevelt (81.39) 5. Thomas Jefferson (79.54) 8. Barack Obama (71.13) 9. Ronald Reagan (69.24) 13. Bill Clinton (64.25) 16. John F. Kennedy (61.86) 30. George G.W. Bush (40.42) 33. Richard Nixon (37.18) 44. Donald Trump (12.34)

Rep. Doug LaMalfa makes his case against legalizing commercial cannabis in Oroville at a City Council meeting that was moved to the State Theatre to accommodate the roughly 200 attendees.

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cultivation, manufacturing, distribution and sales. Dahlmeier said cannabis businesses are looking at “large spaces in the industrial area.”

The mayor clumped the cannabis and tax measures to accentuate city finances. At her prompting, Finance Director Ruth Wright explained that the deficit ($1.8 million) and pension obligation ($73 million) would have the city insolvent in three or four years.

Linda Draper, one of three council members who toured dispensary-friendly Shasta Lake, said that while “revenue is nice,” the issue for her is about “the freedom to choose.” She’s not a cannabis user—it’s not in her “church’s health code”—but Draper doesn’t feel she should deny access.

Dahlmeier repeatedly cited election returns for Measure L, a 2016 county initiative for medical marijuana commercialization, that failed by 55.7 percent in Oroville.

“Why do council members think they can trump city voters?” she posed.

“I’ll tell you why,” Councilman Jack Berry replied, saying he talked to over 200 people across “the whole gamut” who are “overwhelmingly in favor” of commercialization. He added, “I’m speaking for them.”

Based on applause, LaMalfa spoke for many in the auditorium, though not all (he was the target of several jeers and barbs).

He raised the specter of lost federal funds should the city sanction a drug the U.S. government deems illegal. Twice, including at 11:25, he encouraged the council to “table” an ordinance.

LaMalfa told the CN&R afterward he came in a “hybrid” role, not just a federal representative but also as a concerned citizen, saying “This is the town I’m tied to.”

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The same day, The New York Times reports that the Trump administration announced a plan to open coastal waters of California to new offshore gas and oil drilling.

Jan. 5: The New York Times reports that Trump pressured his lawyer to attempt to stop Attorney General Jeff Sessions from recusing himself from overseeing the Russian investigation, because he expected Sessions to protect him.

Jan. 8: Special Counsel Robert Mueller communicated with Trump’s attorneys in December regarding his intent to seek to interview the commander-inchief. The move triggered “discussions among Mr. Trump’s lawyers about the perils of such a move,” according to The New York Times.

The same day, the Times reports that Bannon stepped down as executive chairman of Breitbart News, the far-right media outlet he led prior to joining the Trump campaign in 2016.

Jan. 9: Several major banks convicted of manipulating global interest rates were let off the hook for millions of dollars in fines. This includes Deutsche Bank, an institution Trump is personally indebted to, to the tune of at least $130 million, reports International Business Times.

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Workers affix the top of an archway denoting Fred Davis Municipal Center, which stands opposite the “Our Hands” sculpture on Fifth Street, Wednesday (Feb. 21).

Davis served as city manager for 33 years and played a major role in infrastructure projects such as The Esplanade expansion—to four lanes from two—and the Chico Municipal Airport. He died in 2015.

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speak with Mueller. He also said he expected the investigation to be wrapped up in about a month to six weeks, reports The Hill.

Jan. 23: The New York Times reports that Mueller’s investigative team has interviewed Sessions.

Jan. 24: When questioned during a press conference about whether he was going to speak with Mueller, POTUS says, “I’m looking forward to it, actually.”

Jan. 25: The New York Times reports that, back in June, Trump ordered White House counsel to fire Mueller. In response, Donald McGahn, the attorney in question, refused to do so and threatened to resign.

Jan. 29: Politico reports that the Trump administration told Congress that sanctions against Russia that had been approved over the summer but not yet implemented were no longer necessary because the effort was already “serving as a deterrent.”

Feb. 1: During a meeting at the White House, the president asked Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein—the Justice Department official overseeing the Mueller investigation whose work relies on independence—whether he was “on my team,” reports CNN. The inquiry is along the lines of what Trump asked former FBI Director James Comey, whom Trump fired when he wouldn’t convey his allegiance.

Feb. 2: The president allowed for the release of a GOP memo that that alleges a bias against him at the FBI and the Department of Justice. However, the document failed to back up such claims, legal experts and Speaker of the House Paul Ryan said. Meanwhile, Democrats sought the release of their own memo aimed at countering such claims.

Feb. 5: The New York Times reports that the president’s lawyers have advised him to refuse to be interviewed by Mueller.

Feb. 7: Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, in an interview with Fox News, says that Russia is already attempting to interfere with the upcoming midterm elections.

Feb. 8: During an interview with NBC News, the Department

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Feb. 9: After a second government shutdown in three weeks, Trump signs a budget deal that includes hundreds of billions in increased spending.

Feb. 13: Longtime personal Trump attorney Michael Cohn told The New York Times that he used $130,000 of his own money in 2016 to pay porn star Stephanie Clifford (aka Stormy Daniels). Clifford says she had an affair with the president in 2006, shortly after his wife, Melania, had given birth to son Barron. The payment was ostensibly for her silence, though Cohn would not confirm that. His comments follow allegations that the payment had violated campaign finance laws.

Feb. 15: In a tweet responding to the mass shooting in which 17 people, mostly students, died at a Florida high school, the president appeared to lay blame on those who knew the shooter. “So many signs that the Florida shooter was mentally disturbed …. Must always report such instances to authorities, again and again!” he wrote.

Feb. 16: The Department of Justice announces that the agency has indicted 13 Russians who attempted to influence the 2016 general election. The indictments counter Trump’s narrative that Russian interference is “fake news.”

Feb. 18: In response to the announcement, Trump, during a weekend at his private Mar-a-Lago estate, goes on an epic “tweetstorm” in which he attacks Democrats, the FBI, Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton, among others.

Noticeably absent as a target of his wrath: Russia.

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HEALTHLINES Advocacy for single-payer has been ongoing for decades, as is evident from this 2008 rally in San Francisco. photo by Steve rhodeS via flickr

on the goal of single-payer but does not expect it to happen this year. “People are polarized on this issue in a way that’s not good for coming together to get it done,” she said.

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paign for a single-payer health care system in California appears to be floundering.

A bill that would replace the existing health care system with a new one run by a single payer—specifically, the state government—and paid for with taxpayer money remains parked in the Assembly, with no sign of moving ahead. An effort by activists to recall Assembly Speaker Anthony Rendon for shelving the bill has gone dormant. And an initiative that would lay the financial groundwork for a future singlepayer system has little funding, undercutting its chances to qualify for the ballot.

But even if single-payer is a lost cause in the short term, advocates are playing a long game. For now, it may well be less a realistic policy blueprint than an organizing tool.

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And by that metric, advocates are making gains.

Riding a wave of enthusiasm from progressive Democrats, supporters of singlepayer have effectively made it a front-andcenter issue in California’s 2018 elections.

It’s been discussed in virtually every forum with the candidates running for governor, emerged as a point of contention in some legislative races, and likely will be a rallying cry at the upcoming California Democratic Party convention.

“This issue is not going away,” said Garry South, a Democratic political consultant who has worked with the California Nurses Association, which sponsored the stalled single-payer bill.

“The progressive elements who are supportive of the single-payer concept know that it’s not going to happen now, it’s not going to happen tomorrow. It’s a longterm process and Jerry Brown is gone as of January 2019.”

The governor has not had to stake a posi-

tion on the bill because it skidded to a stop in the Assembly last summer without reaching his desk.

But state Sen. Toni Atkins, a San Diego Democrat who co-authored Senate Bill 562, said Brown was not receptive. Analyses peg the cost of a statewide single-payer system at between $330 billion and $400 billion—far exceeding the state’s entire budget. That made it an anathema to Brown’s record of prioritizing fiscal stability for state government.

“When the governor saw that we introduced that bill … all he could look at me and do is shake his head and say, ‘$400 billion.’ And I kept trying to say, ‘Can we back up and talk about what you’ve got to do to get [there]?’” Atkins said in an interview.

“He wasn’t letting it go.”

Atkins, who will take over as Senate leader next month, said she’s not giving up

labor union that embraces firebrand activism—supporters of single-payer have targeted Rendon after he shelved the bill last summer, saying it lacked critical information on how to pay for a massive overhaul of the health care system. They peppered social media with images that not only portrayed the bill fight as a boxing match between Rendon and the nurses, but also depicted a knife labeled “Rendon” backstabbing the bear symbol of California.

The nurses were not involved in the campaign to recall Rendon, said recall organizer Stephen Elzie, who has since dropped the effort and is now helping Democrat Maria Estrada challenge Rendon’s re-election bid.

But the nurses union leapt into the governor’s race as one of the first labor unions to endorse Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom. Singlepayer has emerged as one of few issues on which the Democratic candidates disagree.

Newsom and Delaine Eastin, the former state superintendent of schools, have both said they support the nurses’ singlepayer bill. Fellow Democrats Antonio Villaraigosa, former mayor of Los Angeles, and John Chiang, the state treasurer, say they want to expand health care so that everyone is covered, but not necessarily with the single-payer model that would abolish private health insurers and replace them with a government-run system.

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Almost two-thirds of Californians

like the idea of a statewide singlepayer health care system, although enthusiasm drops significantly if it would require raising taxes, according to polling last year by the Public Policy Institute of California. Still, Californians didn’t cite health care as a top priority when asked last month what the Legislature and governor should focus on in 2018.

The Assembly just wrapped up a series of hearings on what it would take to create a health care system that covers all Californians. It exposed many obstacles—in both federal and state law—to swiftly enacting single-payer. For one, the state would need permission from the federal government—and perhaps an act of Congress—to shift bil-

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lions of dollars from Medi-Cal and Medicare into a state-run single-payer plan. For another, if lawmakers raised taxes to fund single-payer, voters likely would have to approve changes to the California Constitution to allow the money to go to health care instead of schools. (That’s the only singlepayer initiative trying to qualify for the ballot, and while a Silicon Valley tech consultant is gathering signatures for it, he doesn’t have support from the nurses union or any other well-financed group.)

Assemblyman Jim Wood, a Healdsburg Democrat who chaired the panel, called the single-payer bill “aspirational” and said he’s instead considering legislation that could help more Californians get health care without requiring permission from the federal government. One idea: extending subsidized health plans to adults who are undocumented immigrants.

“I believe we can actually get to single-payer, once we go through a lot of study and a lot of work,” Wood said. “But this feels, at times, more like a litmus test.” □

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A warning to drug users The Butte County Public Health Department issued a warning last week about a local case of botulism likely originating from black tar heroin.

The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention indicates that wound botulism in heroin is an ongoing concern, and drug users should take notice of the recent incident and use the warning to seek help. “Cooking” and safe injection practices will not prevent the transmission of botulism. The illness attacks the nerves and can lead to respiratory problems and death. Butte County Behavioral Health crisis lines are open all day, every day.

Call 891-2810 or 800-334-6622 for help.

On the good-news front, Chico police have been issued 41 Naloxone kits to reverse opioid overdose. In 2017, Butte County first responders administered the drug to 191 patients.

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Oil and water At the state’s only public hearing on lifting national ban, activists see a farce by

Eric Johnson eric j@ newsrev i ew. com

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rian Jordan, a marine archaeologist

with the U.S. Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, must have drawn the short straw. Stationed at the first stop in a series of information tables lining the walls in the high-ceiling Galleria of the Sacramento Public Library, he found himself surrounded by angry ocean-defenders.

It had been just over a month since President Donald Trump announced that his administration would revoke an Obama-era ban on offshore oil drilling. His Interior secretary, Ryan Zinke, vowed to open 90 percent of U.S. coastal waters to energy companies, and to auction leases off the coast of California for the first time since 1984.

This was to be the only public hearing scheduled to take place in California. That fact alone outraged environmentalists. Many of the folks who were insistently prodding Jordan also expressed frustration at the structure of this hearing, which was billed as an “open house.” They had come to voice their concerns, yet there was no microphone nor anyone whose job it was to listen. Instead: a string of information stations, each manned by a BOEM staffer, and tables full of laptops equipped to collect comments.

Megan Robbins, who had traveled from Bodega Bay, pressed Jordan, seeming to want him to explain the reasoning behind the government’s plan.

“There are already so many forms of life that are endangered right now,” she said.

“There is already so much chemical pollution.

The oil companies already have record profits.”

But Jordan was not there to address the logic of the president’s decision—his task was to describe his agency’s bureaucratic process and help folks navigate the room.

He explained that the purpose of the meeting was to collect public comments about the “Section 18 factors that go into the development of the oil and gas leasing program.” These apparently include “eight factors that Secretary Zinke is charged

by Congress to take into consideration.”

Jordan explained that this was all part of the public scoping process for the National Environmental Policy Act, “and that is actually to solicit information on the environmental impacts and environmental areas that we should be looking at that rise to the level of ‘significant.’” Robbins eventually shrugged and gave up.

Calm but with eyebrows slightly clenched, Jordan faced the small mob, looking and sounding every bit the part of a government scientist. “We have scientists here that work on all sorts of ocean issues,” he said. Not one person gathered in a tight half-circle around him seemed the least bit satisfied. But what were they to do?

For a marine archaeologist with an advanced degree in wood science (who has focused on wooden shipwrecks for most of his career), Jordan did a good job of diffusing an angry crowd’s initial response to what Blake Kopcho of the Center for Biological Diversity says was a deliberate effort to deflect protest.

“All of these BOEM processes used to be actual public events,” Kopcho said. “Even

the lease sales were open to the public. Now they are conduced with sealed bids decided behind closed doors.”

While talking to Jordan, a group of protesters,

maybe 30, marched into the room chanting and clapping: “Where’s the hearing?!

Where’s the hearing?!”

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Protesters delivered one-minute speeches, hooted and hollered outside California’s only public forum regarding President Donald Trump’s offshore oil drilling plan.

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As the crowd grew and the chants became louder and faster, Jordan ignored the bedlam and patiently described a process that would open virtually the entire outer continental shelf, including millions of acres off the California coast, to the most profitable and destructive companies in the world.

At a protest on the north steps of the Capitol that preceded a march to the library, Atta Stevenson stood with a half-dozen fellow water protectors holding a colorful banner. A veteran of nine months at Standing Rock, she is a member of the Cahto tribe in Laytonville, an hour north of Ukiah.

“I’m a fisher, a hunter, a traditional gatherer from the ocean,” she said. “Our tribe depends on the wealth and health of the ocean. We respond to the seasons of the ocean rather than a calendar. When we have events in our tribe—somebody who’s passing, or a roundhouse opening—our culture dictates that we have traditional food. We don’t go to Safeway. You need to have traditional knowledge to go out and get the fish.

You need to know how to prepare it and also how to give—a lot of people don’t even understand the act of giving from your heart rather than duty.”

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ing public comments, but glad for the opportunity to share her message with the hundreds of activists at a “citizens public hearing” organized by the Center for Biological Diversity and other environmental groups.

Speaking the day after the event, John Laird, California’s secretary for Natural Resources, said he, too, was disappointed—if not surprised—by the way BOEM structured the meeting. Laird is one of a cadre of lawmakers and activists who have successfully fought offshore oil leasing since the 1980s.

Laird said the arguments that he was making back then still hold. “I would always say if there was just an increase in fuel efficiency of one mile per gallon, it would more than equal anything that could be gotten from offshore on the West Coast. And when you fast forward 30 years, two things [that] have changed: One is that the oceans acidified at a much more rapid level than we predicted. And the other is California has gotten so much more efficient. We are set to meet our goals of getting 33 percent of our electricity from renewables. And that is the place that we need to go, rather than more offshore drilling.”

Laird says that he met Zinke after Trump appointed him, and offshore oil did not come up. Now, he says, the state must resist.

“California has to prepare itself on every level in opposition,” he said. “That means legally—laying out every environmental concern in a way that is on the record. And educating people, because this is an issue that does cross party lines in different states. We can bond with other states and municipalities across the country in a way that could build a broad coalition in opposition.”

Perhaps surprisingly, Laird also has hope that the Trump administration might listen to reason. He says Gov. Jerry Brown called Zinke to ask that California be granted the same exemption Florida was given.

“The governor even invited him to come out to California to see for himself, and it sounded like there was interest,” Laird added. “If you’ll recall, 1988 was the last time a Republican carried California.

And George H. W. Bush agreed to a moratorium during that period.

So that kind of pressure does work.” □

EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS pHoto by vic cantu

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THE GOODS

High-tech rave kandi

Detour ahead

Chico State senior Kaytlynne Deardorf is only 22, but she’s already built up quite a résumé.

She founded Club Oroville Volleyball (a league for Oroville high school girls), and makes money selling clothing online.

She also loves raves—those large, all-night dance gatherings filled with electronic music, spectacular lighting and flamboyant costumes. A missed connection at one rave prompted her to found PLUR Technologies, a company that makes digital bracelets based on kandi beads exchanged at raves, and creates apps to help those who meet there keep in touch and form lasting friendships. Deardorf has received several awards for PLUR Tech, and recently was the first Chico State entry to make it to the semifinals of the National Student Startup Madness Competition. Though she didn’t progress to the finalist round, she’s not letting that stop her. She’s still creating the apps and will soon launch a Kickstarter campaign to fund them. She’s enlisted the help of fellow students Kyle Eiras for financing, Amanda Chisholm in marketing, and Abdullah Almakhloog in engineering. Find her online at PLURTech.com, on Facebook (“PLUR Tech”) or email her at kaytlynne@plurtech.com.

What prompted you to start PLUR Tech?

I was at a rave in Wisconsin, conducting a short kanditrading ceremony with a new raver girl. “Kandi” are friendship bracelets made of poly beads with personal phrases on them.

Lots of people get extremely excited when trading kandi, and this girl was so happy she started crying. My phone’s battery was dead and hers was with someone else, so we couldn’t get each other’s info and I never got to see her again. At raves hardly anyone’s phone works because there are often thousands trying to use them, and the signals overload the system. I thought it would be cool to find her some way, somehow. I realized the kandi we all trade could be the way we track each other!

Can you describe your products?

What does PLUR stand for?

Peace, love, unity and respect.

It’s a common saying many ravers live by.

We have charms to hang on kandi bracelets that have your info embedded, including all the

people who have traded that bracelet, and where. We also have a digital wrist band called “Electric Kandi” that scans the charms and will tell you all about your “PLUR family,” the people who’ve traded that bracelet, and who is performing. It will also have a “panic” button to alert others if you are in trouble.

It will use GPS and RFID chips to tell you where members of your PLUR family are within that rave, because it’s so easy to lose track. The hardware is done, but designing the apps is extremely complex and expensive, so we are looking for help with that.

What’s in your near future?

I’ll be graduating in entrepreneurship this spring and really want to focus on PLUR Technologies. It’s been fun, but very challenging, doing things like traveling to Las Vegas for meetings and presentations four times in the past two months.

—VIC CaNTU

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Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

Back in 2012, I decided to take my leave of Chico and explore parts unknown.

After about a year and a half, I found my way back and, in my absence, the food truck phenomenon took hold. Chico had always been flush with taco trucks— the first, Tacos Cortes, opened in 1985! But in 2012-13, a ton of trucks, featuring various types of cuisine, exploded onto the scene.

Sadly, I missed the first edition of Fork in the Road, which launched in July 2013. But I’ve been to a handful of the events, held the first Wednesday of the month, April-September, in the years since. They’re fun community gatherings, organized by John Geiger, who, with his wife, Inday, owns Inday’s Filipino Restaurant and food cart. Geiger dropped me a line earlier this week that he had news. I dutifully stopped by for breakfast to find out more.

The scoop: Manzanita Place’s rent has gotten too high to continue the monthly event, Geiger told me. Last year, they paid $400 per event, which equaled about $40 per vendor. This year, he said, the price tag was upped to $1,200. “So, I’m looking for other venues,” he said. (Calls to Manzanita Place for comment were not returned by press time.)

“Manzanita Place has been a good venue for us,” he added. “The Elks sell beer and margaritas, and we got sponsors to pay for the bands.”

In its fifth year, however, it appears it’s time to move on. Geiger is eyeing the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds as a potential home base. Most of the parks are off-limits because of the inability to sell alcohol—which is a significant draw, he acknowledged. Geiger noted he would like to see more partnerships with local nonprofits, aka “Sporks in the Road.” And he’s even toyed with the idea of a pop-up Fork in the Road (my personal fave!).

Hopefully they can find a permanent host. Absent that, I think a roaming food-truck rally could be fun. Plus, Geiger told me that Fork in the Road is teaming up with the Chico Heat this summer to provide two to four trucks at each home game. What a fun idea! I love the thought of chowing on some killer mac ’n’ cheese or a gourmet burger while spending an evening at Nettleton Stadium.

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A wacky, wonderful tease

Miss Dee (the fairy) and Sin Dee (in the chicken suit) have been practicing the art of burlesque for years, strutting, dancing and singing across the Maltese stage as part of the house troupe, The Malteazers.

Behind the scenes of the Maltese’s sexy, zany burlesque troupe

PHOTOS BY JASON HASTAIN

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never thought I’d see, let alone enjoy, watching a strip show starring Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton.

However, as the two masked dancers gyrated while disrobing under moody scarlet lighting, I laughed and whooped along with 30 other strangers in a Chico bar.

On the first Saturday of (most) every month, you never know what you’re going to get when the Maltese Bar & Tap Room’s house burlesque troupe, The Malteazers, hits the stage. And that’s part of its appeal. Before the “Unsexy Burlesque”-themed show on Feb. 3 was over, I had seen a trailer park fight that ended with torn-off tops and Juicy sweats; a grandma getting down with her walker; and a stalker whisking off a black trench coat to The Lonely Island’s “The Creep,” revealing a brassiere with large bespectacled eyes, complete with a nose and mustache over the performer’s stomach and a tongue peeking out of her panties.

The Malteazers shows are always something spectacular, sexy and, more often than not, a little wacky. The group has covered a variety of themes over the last five years, from nerds to beach babes, and from masquerade to gods and monsters. Coming up in March: Naughty ’90s.

Over coffee on a recent Friday morning, four of the members who have worked center stage and behind the scenes for the troupe for years spoke candidly and enthusiastically. Using their stage names, they chatted about what it’s like to be Malteazin’: part of the family The Malteazers’ next monthly burlesque show (Naughty of performers that Nineties) is Saturday, March 3, is now 14 strong.

10 p.m., $7 cover What was emphaAlso coming up, a special Malteazers murder-mystery sized throughout theater event, Killer Cabaret, the conversation March 11, 6-10 p.m. was how much Tickets: $15/single; $25/couple everyone involved Maltese Bar & Tap Room values freedom 1600 Park Ave. of expression, 343-4915 maltesebarchico.com

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confidence, creativity and acceptance.

“I feel like every show we try to remind our audience: We’re open to accept you, no matter who you are, where you are, where you’re coming from,” said Willow Wallflower (the troupe’s “resident crooner”). “But also, this is for us; this performance is for us to show how comfortable and confident that we feel. It’s our freedom, it’s our way of expressing those emotions.”

Lola James, the Maltese’s sound technician and periodic burlesque performer, jumped in: “And everybody’s so cute!

You see everybody on the stage, just all the cute people, [and you say], ‘Man, I want to be a part of that cute people group.’”

At the latest show,

Wallflower sang her rendition of “Oh! Darling,” by The Beatles, clad in a black-andred-flowered dress and red Chico State stole, while Miss Dee (who’d already wowed the crowd with “The Creep”) joined her on stage, stripping from a white graduation gown into a tank top fashioned with words like “college debt” and “credit card debt.”

Miss Dee (you’ll understand the “double-E” when you see her, she said slyly), has been performing since The Malteazers’ debut in 2013, and made one point crystal clear: They are not strippers.

“It’s theater; it’s the art of the tease,” she said.

“You may get to see skin, but you’re not ever going to see everything. It’s more of what we don’t show you.”

Starlett Eve, a soft-spoken thespian with a flair for 1950s style, love of Shakespeare and specialty in comedic acts, chimed in that for her, it’s all about “creating a story.”

“The tease helps create that vision along the way,” she said. It’s also a passion project: “A lot of us get to pour our hearts out into these numbers that we do. A little bit of us is in each.”

Many of the performers have found themselves changed by the experience, too. “Here, I stepped out of my comfort zone,” Miss Dee said. “[There are] things that

TIMES Give it up for Chico’s freaks and fun-makers

Keep Chico Weird 2018

Talent Show Saturday, March 3, 7:30 p.m. (doors, 6:30 p.m.), Senator Theatre (517 Main St.).

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I’m uncomfortable with [about] my body, and was like, ‘Y’know what? Nobody else cares.

Why should I care?’ Nobody else cares if I have a little bit of a tummy. They just think I’m beautiful and fun and [they] enjoy the show.”

Troupe Manager Annie Eblin, a former

Malteazers performer, serves as the organizer and problem-solver. Eblin’s partner, Maltese owner Archer Lombardi, co-founded the queer-friendly burlesque group with former Bar Manager Nicola Beatts in 2013, modeled after those he had seen in Washington, D.C. Eblin and Lombardi operate the bar together, and their goal has been to create a safe space for creative minds and performers of all gender identities, body sizes and shapes.

“Archer and I identify somewhere on the LGBTQ spectrum, and feel that it is important for Chico’s queer community to offer a safe

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hen we say “weird,” we mean all things fun and creative, and being open to a free exchange of new ideas, diversity and cultural influences. We mean the stage of the Maltese Bar & Tap Room, open as it is to people of all walks of life, especially on nights when the bold and inclusive Malteazers burlesque troupe takes over the bar. We mean the boundless creative vision of some of Chico’s zaniest music-makers, the four freaky horsemen of funk/fusion quartet GravyBrain. And we mean the forward-thinking artists and educators, like Chico State music professor/musician David Dvorin and the annual celebration of new and experimental music he hosts at the university, the two-day New Music Symposium.

And we mean to celebrate all those things in our mission to Keep Chico Weird.

space to express themselves, hang out, socialize, etc.,” Eblin wrote via Facebook Messenger while traveling in Thailand. “We believe that the best use of this establishment is for community service, fundraisers, quirky and different events and fun. In short, we strive to ‘keep Chico weird.’”

Eblin said everyone has input on everything and works together to make shows happen. Performers create their own characters and routines based on the month’s theme, which, like new members, is chosen by the entire group.

“You would think, ‘That sounds like chaos,’ right? But this group is so unique,” Eblin said. “They work together. They hear each other and promote one another’s creativity. I swear, I’ve never seen anything like it. ... It just keeps getting better and better, and I feel sometimes like I am just along for the ride, seeing where our collective creativity takes us.”

—ASHIAH SCHARAGA ashiahs@ n ew sr ev i ew. com

Inside the GravyBrain The fun and freaky creativity of Chico funk-fusion four piece Beau Le’Phant on the playa at Burning Man.

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ment, not a separate venture.

“It’s definitely symbiotic. It’s all part of the whole package,” said McAllister.

The band began adding video components to its creative output two years ago, making online promos for shows and spoof commercials.

But the turning point to the sort of all-involved, green-screen fantasies came with the Nibiru Chronicles, a 10-episode original sci-fi series in which “Team GravyBrain blasts off on a space adventure to seek and claim the planet Nibiru for GravyBrain and all the folks on Earth that love to party.”

Against a variety of cheesy royalty-free backdrops, the series features the band/crew in various space predicaments and encountering fellow travelers (Space Dog, Jean-Claude Van Damme and “evil” local funk band Black Fong), and of course jamming out on spacey tunes.

“We’re all creators. We’re all sort of Renaissance men, where we can work a little bit in all these different disciplines and have fun with it,” said drummer Price, the wellknown local sound engineer who joined the band in 2014. “We just have a lot of different, very creative things besides, ‘Let’s just go play a show at a Chico place.’ Because we’ve all done that a million times, and we like that, but [the question is], ‘How else do you fulfill your insatiable creative appetite?’”

The answer, for now, can be found on the online stage, on Facebook, YouTube and the band’s new website (gravybrain. com) under the umbrella of the GravyBrain Network. So far, the band’s most popular release has been last year’s hilarious faux news broadcast featuring the four band members as “daredevil tubers” superimposed over footage of water crashing down the damaged Oroville Dam spillway, floating and jumping the breach to a GravyBrain soundtrack. So far, the video has more than 8,000 views on YouTube.

“I think it was the tubing video when we realized GravyBrain Network is sort of a ’hood for any creative idea,” said Price.

“It’s just, sky’s the limit.”

—JASON CASSIDY jasonc @ n ewsrev i ew. com

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Sound of something new

Professor David Dvorin pushes the musical envelope

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n odd-looking machine sits in David Dvorin’s second-floor office in Chico State’s Performing Arts Center. Every so often, he’ll take a break from work and switch it on, usually causing his colleagues to peek through his open door and see what’s making such crazy noises.

Inside are several synthesizer modules mounted together. With a bunch of blinking lights and a confusing web of criss-crossed cords, they look like something that would be in the cockpit of a spaceship. He manipulates the synth sounds by tweaking various knobs and rerouting the cords to create new connections, producing bizarre video-game bleeps, high-pitched squeals and fat-sounding oscillations.

Dvorin is something of an aficionado of outlandish sounds. In his former career as an independent composer and now, as a longtime composition/electronic music professor in Chico State’s Music and Theatre Department, he’s always experimented with music’s parameters and encouraged his students do the same. He emphasizes that innovation is a matter of reimagining what’s old, combining unusual elements and pushing stuff until it breaks.

As he told the CN&R during a recent interview, each and every aspect of musical composition is fair game to screw around with.

“My own personal belief is that you shouldn’t be weird for the sake of being weird,” Dvorin said. “But frequently, when we get closer to true expression of us as individuals, we don’t quite fit in—and oftentimes that’s what happens with music. It’s really about encouraging students to find their own voices.”

Each spring, those students’ voices are showcased during the university’s annual New Music Symposium, which honors the late Alfred Loeffler, a former

Chico State music professor David Dvorin tweaks the synth motherboard in his office.

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composer and music professor at the university. The two-day event kicks off this year on Thursday, March 1, and will include jazz, electronic and chamber music performances by student composers as well as a concert by radical bassoonist Paul Hanson the next day (see info box on page 21).

“It’s really about celebrating music that’s being written now. ‘New music’ is a weird term, but in the classical world, there is a strong emphasis on old music we’ve had for hundreds and hundreds of years,” Dvorin said. “It’s great to program Mozart and Beethoven; they are incredible composers. But they don’t represent the current moods and aesthetics of how music should be. If you extend their tradition into the modern era, there are composers doing the same thing—reflecting what’s going on around them in their environment and culture.”

As art projects, the student compositions can be extremely abstract and experimental, but they also usually incorporate more-or-less traditional elements of rock, electronic and jazz. And though there may be improvisational moments, the emphasis is on structure.

“Improvisation is all in real time, and you don’t often have the opportunity to revisit it and perfect it and sculpt it,” he said. “Composition allows you to do that. You can get much deeper and intricate constructions that way.”

Like many people, Dvorin was introduced to music through his parents, who took him to rock concerts and classical performances at a young age. “I was always interested in improvisation as a kid,” he recalled, “always hammering out stuff on the piano.” He started playing guitar at 8 years old and then progressed the same way many of his students do—playing in bands and then deciding he wanted to pursue music as a career. He studied music as an undergrad at UCLA and as a graduate student at California Institute of the Arts, where he was “exposed to all sorts of weird stuff.”

Over the years, he’s learned plenty of lessons, including the difference between composers and songwriters. Both may have high artistic intent, he explained, but composers are distinct because they give equal consideration to all of music’s parameters—time, pitch, timbre, texture and form.

“Those parameters are all up for grabs and are often reinvented for each and every piece, but songwriting in the pop world and the commercial world frequently deals with only one or two of those parameters,” he said. “You could also say that two different streams of music-making have been around for forever: There are musicians who are around to perform and entertain … and there are musicians who are working on music specifically for listening.”

When it comes to making something original, Dvorin’s students often feel like everything’s already been done and get discouraged. He remembers feeling that way as a young musician, too: “How do you make a mark when people have gone so far in all different directions? You see extremes in all forms of art. It wasn’t until I was older that I realized it’s all about expressing yourself.

“What I have to say is uniquely me … and there’s freedom in that,” he continued. “It’s wonderful to feel like you can allow yourself to be weird.”

—HOWARD HARDEE

Woodwind Hendrix Bassoonist Paul Hanson creates new sounds with an old instrument

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s that an oboe?”

Unless you grew up a band geek, it’s understandable that you might not know a bassoon when you see one. The large woodwind is a curious instrument, more than 4 feet long (double the size of the standard oboe) and folding over on itself at the bottom (the boot) to extend its total sounding length to more than 8 feet.

“It never fails; people ask, ‘What is that instrument?’”

That’s probably not the only question people ask Paul Hanson when he shows up for a performance. The North Bay-based musician takes an already obscure musical instrument, and with the help of an array of electronic effects— delays, distortions, loopers, etc.— creates the very unique sounds of the self-described “improvising bassoonist.”

“Hanson has brought the double-reed instrument into areas where it’s seldom, if ever, gone before, combining a commanding improvisational sensibility with funk, classical and world music influences.” That’s according to DownBeat, the preeminent jazz magazine that would know how rare his niche is.

“I’m not really confused for anyone,” he acknowledged during a recent telephone interview.

Hanson is the visiting musician at this year’s New Music Symposium at Chico State, and will be presenting a solo program titled Bassoon and Electronics, which simply means that he will be performing improvisations using the components of the title. “I’m interested in building things,” he said, explaining that he’ll create layered soundscapes via live looping and delay effects, adding multiple parts to his original compositions.

Typically used in classical orchestra or concert band settings, the bassoon’s natural timbre is

Experiment experience:

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Bassoonist Paul Hanson and his double-reed woodwind.

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warm, with a darker tone than that of, say, a saxophone.

Hanson grew up in Berkeley and was influenced by a wide array of musical styles beyond the jazz and classical disciplines in which his craft is rooted. In fact, he says his approach to the bassoon is similar to that of a guitarist (“I’ve always felt an affinity with [Jimi] Hendrix,” he said), with an appreciation for the “wild, feedback kind of sound” he can get while performing. “It’s an expressive kind of thing,” he said.

Hanson’s musical explorations have taken him all over the world and put him alongside an eclectic roster of collaborators, including Bela Fleck, Wayne Shorter, Medeski Martin & Wood and Bob Weir’s RatDog. In fact, Hanson will arrive in Chico fresh off a series of shows in Italy with renowned fusion drummer Billy Cobham’s Crosswinds Project, and will rejoin the tour as it hits the U.S. this March and April.

—JASON CASSIDY jaso nc @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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Highplainsman troubadour Folk artist Tom Brosseau truly loses himself in his music Brosseau put on a costume and adoptM ed the persona of a yarn-spinning, old-time any years ago, folk musician Tom

string-picker. Now, at 41 years old, he often ponders whether the stage character is by separate from his true Howard Hardee self; maybe there isn’t a distinction anymore.

“I dressed up a lot,” Preview: he said, “and then, Tom Brosseau somewhere along the performs Saturday, way, I never took off Feb. 24, 7 p.m., at the Naked Lounge. Shelley the clothes, you know? I Short, Donald Beaman kind of feel like I’m that and Susurrus open. person I always wanted Cost: $7 to be now, or maybe I Naked Lounge just invented somebody 118 W. Second St. else completely.”

487-2634 Confusion is underfacebook.com/ standable from an outNLCHICO side perspective as well, because Brosseau totally looks like a Midwesterner who was plucked off the porch of a general store during the Great Depression and dropped into the 21st century. But his attire is not meant to be ironic. The character goes deeper than his neatly pressed collared shirts and Boss of the Plains cowboy hat, extending to his earnest way of speaking and curious terminology: For instance, his website refers to tour dates as “personal appearances”; and as for himself, well, he’s not simply a singer-songwriter, but the “Highplainsman Troubadour.”

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Brosseau spoke to the CN&R by phone in anticipation of his personal appearance at Naked Lounge on Feb. 24, which, like all of his performances, will be roughly half music, half storytelling.

Originally from Grand Forks, N.D., Brosseau’s earliest musical inspiration came from his grandfather, a World War II veteran and bartender who lived nearby in Drayton.

“My grandfather had a fascination with old Hollywood and silver-screen cowboy music, like Gene Autry,” he recalled. “I usually liked whatever he liked, and thankfully his taste in music was very eclectic.” Brosseau, like many musicians who grew up in the 1980s, was also influenced by FM radio— especially singers such as Juice Newton, Olivia Newton-John and Huey Lewis.

“What I listened to on the radio is what really made me want to tour around and get up on stage in front of a microphone,” he said.

He moved to California in 2001, first to San Diego and then Los Angeles.

Strangely, in that setting he began writing stories set amongst North Dakota’s lonely prairie landscapes, eventually releasing a trilogy of albums about his home state—Grass Punks (2014), Perfect Abandon (2015) and North Dakota Impressions (2016). Now he’s based in Salt Lake City, Utah.

Over the years, Brosseau has found folk music to be the perfect medium for

traditional storytelling because it operates on a basic yet poetic level.

“It’s very difficult to boil something down, but folk music is already there,” he said. “So many people, so many cultures are touched by it. Lately, I’ve not been writing as much of my own music, I’ve just been learning these folk songs that were built from other folk songs from other countries. Hopefully, someday, I’ll be able to create something like that.”

Folk is also very much a part of humanity’s ongoing musical tradition, Brosseau said. He views music as a continuum, endlessly building upon what came before and influencing what comes after, and is therefore skeptical of anybody who takes full credit for their art.

“We all take from so much of what has come before us,” he said. “A little creativity is added to that and you come up with a new idea, and hopefully that inspires somebody else.”

In such a way, Brosseau heard songs on the radio and was inspired to make up a character, play music and share his stories. As real as they may seem, he never writes himself into his songs—or he’s pretty sure he doesn’t.

“Because there’s a person in your songs, people tend to assume that the person is you,” he said. “But, you know, I don’t really think it is. I suppose that’s a problem if you don’t really know who you are, but I’ve never come to any conclusions.” □

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Special Events FAMILY NIGHT OUT: Evening of family play with games led by Chico State students, plus food, raffles and music. Thu, 2/22, 5:30pm. Free. Dorothy F. Johnson Center, 775 E. 16th St. chicorec.com

Music SLAID CLEAVES: Singer-songwriter extraordinaire shares stories of the working class, the downtrodden and the despairing loners, lending humanity and compassion to the overlooked and unwanted. Thu, 2/22, 7:30pm. $20. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade, Suite 142. chicotickets.com

Theater BUG: Cocktail waitress Agnes hides from her violent ex-husband in a seedy motel room in this well-crafted play (adapted into the 2006 film). The intense thriller ratchets up the paranoia when Agnes meets Peter, a Gulf War vet obsessed with conspiracy theories. For mature audiences. Thu, 2/22, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

TWILIGHT ZONE: Late night theater featuring a pair of Rod Serling’s mind-bending gems. Thu, 2/22, 10:30pm. $8.

Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

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Thursday-Saturday, Feb. 22-24 Bloom Room Theatre SEE THURSDAY, THEATER

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follows Lincoln’s work on the Gettysburg Address. Fri, 2/23, 6:30pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. 530-533-2473. birdcagetheatre.org

BUG: See Thursday. Fri, 2/23, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

TWILIGHT ZONE: See Thursday. Fri, 2/23, 10:30pm. $8. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events CHICO CIOPPINO FEED: Chow down on cioppino, an Italian-American tomato-based fisherman’s stew, and bid in a live auction to benefit local charities. Adcance tickets required. Fri, 2/23, 11:30am. $100. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzanita Ave. chicocioppinofeed.com

LOCAL NURSERY CRAWL: Get your planting season plans in place when nurseries host an open house throughout Chico and beyond. Fri, 2/23, 9am. Free. Various locations. localnurserycrawl.com

MASQUEERADE BALL: Stonewall Alliance hosts the annual MasQueerade Ball, a modern twist on the decadent days of Versailles. Drinks, cupcakes and dancing benefits the LGBTQI community. 18+. Fri, 2/23, 7pm. $15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. 530-893-3336. stonewallchico.org

TATTOO EXPO: Live tattooing, contests, music, art and a beer garden with appearances from the stars of reality show Ink Master. Fri, 2/23, 11am. Free. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

Music BLACK HISTORY CELEBRATION CONCERT: Chico’s Celebration Gospel Choir performs traditional spirituals and modern gospel in celebration of Black History Month, plus dance and spoken word performances. Fri, 2/23, 3pm. Free. Chico State, Harlen Adams Theatre, PAC 144. ChicoCelebrationGospel@ gmail.com.

FRED EAGLESMITH: Fredheads in the house? Rock ’n’ roll, honky tonk, ’60s country and great storytelling from the Canadian raconteur, featuring multi-instrumentalist Tiffani Ginn. Fri, 2/23, 7:30pm. $25. Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave. 530-895-1976. norcalstonecutters.org

Theater 42ND STREET: Broadway hit follows starstruck chorus girl Peggy Sawyer as she tries to fill Dorothy’s grandiose shoes after the diva is injured. Set during the Great Depression, the classic musical is loaded with dancing and unforgettable tunes. Performed by talented drama students from Inspire School of the Arts & Sciences. Fri, 2/23, 7pm. $10-$20.

CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 530-891-3090. inspirecusd.org

A PERFECT TRIBUTE: Framed to show both North and South perspectives on the Civil War, this fictionalized period piece

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Special Events BUILD A KITE: Create your own tetrahedron kite during this drop-in class. Sat 2/24, 1pm. Faith Lutheran Church, 667 E. First Ave. 530-895-9229.

CALIFRAGILE LAUNCH PARTY: Official launch of Chico poet Wren Tuatha’s online poetry journal Califragile.org, focusing on climate change and social justice. Hear from local poets and donate for the journal’s annual print anthology. Sat 2/24, 7pm. The Bookstore, 118 Main St. 530-345-7441.

CHICO ARUNA RUN 2018: 5K run helps to raise awareness and funds to combat sexual slavery. Sat 2/24, 8:30pm. $25. Lower Bidwell Park, Near Softball Fields. arunaproject.com

Music GOGOL BORDELLO W/ LUCKY CHOPS!: NYC gypsy punks unleash a musical maelstrom. Opening set from brassy funk band Lucky Chops. Sat, 2/24, 9pm. $25. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. senatortheatrechico.com

KEITH SWEAT: Ohhhhh yeah... The master of the slow jam sings his sultry hits. Pro tip: Bring extra underwear. Sold Out. Sat, 2/24, 8pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

NOCHE LATINA: Battle of the bands, en español.

Rancheras, corridos, norteños, bachatas and more from Banda La 8va Maravilla, Los Grandes De La Banda and Banda del Pacifico. Sat, 2/24, 8pm. $35. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St.

Theater 42ND STREET: See Friday. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. $10$20. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. 530-891-3090. inspirecusd.org

A PERFECT TRIBUTE: See Friday. Sat, 2/24, 6:30pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. 530-533-2473. birdcagetheatre. org

BUG: See Thursday. Sat, 2/24, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

TWILIGHT ZONE: See Thursday. Sat, 2/24, 2pm & 10:30pm. $8. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. 530-895-3749. blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events BMX CRUISER RIDE: Paradise Bikes hosts a BMX ride through the park. Meets at 11am, gets rad at noon. Sun, 2/25, 11am. Free. One Mile Recreational Area, Bidwell Park.

CHICO READS: Get stoked on reading. Free books, food, drinks, activities and more during this Read Across America event. Sun, 2/25, 10am. Free. Card Community Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave.

GRANDMA’S ATTIC APPRAISAL FAIRE: Junk or jewels? Bring your treasured antiques and find out how much they’re worth. $8 per appraisal and proceeds benefit Tech Trek Science and Math Camp for middle school girls. Sun, 2/25, 11am. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. 530-891-3489.

TATTOO EXPO: See Friday. Sun, 2/25, 11am. Free.

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

WILDFLOWER TRAINING MEETING: Need a kick in the lycra? Register, get motivated for this year’s ride and meet this year’s mentors at this informational meeting. Sun, 2/25, 4pm. North Rim Adventure Sports, 178 E. Second St. 530345-2453. northrimadventure.com

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LOCAL NURSERY CRAWL: See Friday. Sat 2/24, 9am. Free. Various locations. localnurserycrawl.com

NOR CAL ROLLER GIRLS: Your hometown derby queens take on the Carson City Victory

Rollers in their season opener. Sat 2/24, 7pm. $6-$12. Cal Skate/Funland, 2465 Carmichael Drive.

TATTOO EXPO: See Friday. Sat 2/24, 11am. Free.

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

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FRee LISTINGS! Post your event for free online at www.newsreview.com/calendar, or email the CN&R calendar editor at cnrcalendar@newsreview.com.

Deadline for print listings is Wednesday, 5 p.m., one week prior to the issue in which you wish the listing to appear.

EDITOR’S PICK

HAUT MoNde de QUeeR Stonewall’s MasQueerade ball is back and gayer than ever. The annual event goes back to its roots with a fantastic modern twist on the opulence and grandeur of pre-revolution Versailles. Dress to the hilt and enjoy a night in support of our LGBTQ community with a Chikoko fashion show, drag performances and then cut loose on the dance floor of the Chico Women’s Club, Friday, Feb. 23. The event features a pre-show primp and preen starting at 5 p.m. before the party begins at 7 p.m.

All genders, all sexes and all sexual orientations are invited to this awesome community fundraiser.

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FRIDAY, FEB 23RD., 7-11 PM CHICO WOMEN’S CLUB AGES 18+

ensembles from the Paradise Symphony perform during a delightful dinner. Sun, 2/25, 6pm. $50. Paradise Lutheran Church, 780 Luther Drive, Paradise. 530-513-1507. paradisesymphony.org

NORTH STATE SYMPHONY ALMOST VIENNA: Concert explores the iconic sounds of Vienna from Mozart, Beethoven and more. Pre-concert talk at 1pm. Sun, 2/25, 2pm. $21-$39. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. 530-898-5984. csuchico.edu

SCOTT HUBER MUSIC FEST: Erin Haley and Firefly, The Daly Blues and Velvet Starlings perform at this Scott Huber for Chico City Council fundraiser. Sun, 2/25, 1pm. $10-$20. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second Ave. scotthuber chico.com

MASK DESIGN LIVE PERFORMANCES NO-HOST BAR & SWEET TREATS FASHION ART $10 – $15 suggested donation All proceeds benefit Chico’s LGBTQI + Nonprofit Community and Advocacy Center

Theater A PERFECT TRIBUTE: See Friday. Sun, 2/25, 1pm. $10-$12. Birdcage Theatre, 1740 Bird St., Oroville. 530-533-2473. birdcagetheatre.org

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Music LÚNASA & TIM O’BRIEN: Ireland meets Appalachia when blazing acoustic group Lúnasa performs with Grammy-winning singer-songwriter Tim O’Brien. Mon, 2/26, 7:30pm. $34.50. Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

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Special Events CLAUDE MARKS FREEDOM ARCHIVES: Former political prisoner indicted in an escape conspiracy involving Puerto Rican Independentista Oscar Lopez discusses the creation of the Freedom Archives. Tue, 2/27, 3pm. Free. Collaborative Space, Chico State, Arts and Humanities Building 227. Film screening of Symbols of Resistance follows at 7pm in Performing Arts Center 134.

DUBLIN IRISH DANCE: Stepping Out takes you through 100 years of Irish history with choreography from famed Riverdance principal dancer Anthony Fallon. Tue, 2/27, 7:30pm. $26-$42. Laxson Auditorium, 400 W. First St. 530-898-6333. chicoperformances.com

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Music DUELING PIANOS: The Kelly Twins take your requests. Small plates and drinks available. Wed, 2/28, 6pm. $20-$25. Canyon Oaks Country Club, 999 Yosemite Drive.

fLorin Hategan Art and sculpture collaborations. Through 2/23 Plus: Sculpture, works from assistant professor Lauren Ruth’s students on display. 2/26 - 3/2. Free. Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Watercolors of Jim Lawrence, new works on display.

Through 2/28. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-877-5673. paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: Discovery Series Group Show, exhibition featuring the work of artists who have had limited exposure in Butte County. Through 3/2. 450 Orange St., 530-895-8726. chicoartcenter.com

JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: Revolutionizing the World, exploring the visual history of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and evaluating the global impact of this historical event. Through 3/16.

Chico State. 530-898-5864. universityart gallery.wordpress.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS: Paintings, by local artist Jerry Frost. Through 2/28. 254 E. Fourth St. jamessnidlefinearts.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Florin Hategan, selected for the solo exhibition prize from the Turner National Print Competition, Hategan’s drawing and printmaking work dissects the collision of new and old, humanity and technology, and anatomy and architecture. His art has been featured throughout North America, Europe and Asia Through 3/31.

Chico State. 530-898-4476.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: What, Us Worry?, an exhibition featuring sculptures by Tony Natsoulas, Paul DiPasqua and Michael Stevens. Through 3/31. $5.

900 Esplanade. monca.org

PARADISE ART CENTER: Inspired by..., artists

UPPER CRUST BAKERY: Kandis Horton-Jorth,

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B-SO GALLERY: Marie Fox, painting, drawing

provide statements explaining how they were inspired to create each piece on display, allowing a peek into each artists’ creative process. Through 2/24.

5564 Almond St., Paradise. 530-877-7402. paradise-art-center.com

for more MUSIC, See NIGHTLIFE on page 26

Through March 31 Janet Turner Print Museum

new mixed media works. Through 3/5.

Free. 130 Main St. 530-828-6296.

Museums BOLT’S ANTIQUE TOOL MUSEUM: Hand Tools, rotating displays of more than 12,000 kinds of tools. Through 6/2. $3. 1650 Broderick St., Oroville. 530-538-2528. boltsantiquetools.com

BUTTE COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM: WWI Exhibition, recently renovated exhibits demonstrating the profound changes in American society caused

by The Great War. Through 7/29. 1749 Spencer Ave., Oroville. buttecounty historicalsociety.org

CHICO CREEK NATURE CENTER: Permanent Exhibits, including the The Janeece Webb Living Animal Museum and the Nature Play Room. Through 12/15. 1968 E. Eighth St. ccnaturecenter.org

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Brain – The World Inside Your Head, an exhibit exploring the inner workings of the brain—neurons and synapses, electricity and chemistry. Through 5/6. Plus: Gateway’s birthday! Celebrate the museum’s birthday and design you’re your own brain-themed birthday hat. 2/24. $5-$7.

625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

GOLD NUGGET MUSEUM: Outdoor Life on the Ridge – Then & Now, presenting a local perspective on the great outdoors and activities such as fishing, hunting, camping, horseback riding, swimming and winter sports. Through 2/25. 502 Pearson Road, Paradise. 530-872-8722. goldnugget museum.com

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Sacred Splendor, exhibit chronicles the history and influence of Christian colonization, underscoring the faith’s movement across the globe from IndoPortuguese carvings to a William Morris cartoon. From the collection of Judith E. Hilburg. Through 5/11. Also, Imprisoned at Home, excellent and enlightening exhibit on Japanese Americans held at the Tule Lake Incarceration Camp during WWII. Through 5/18. Chico State. csuchico.edu

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It’s a brief scene that allows the actor, an excellent Hilary Tellesen, to immediately set the tone for a character that is simultaneously a stage drama stereotype and an evocation of complex dysfunctional human experience.

Alienation, drug abuse, paranoid delusions, conspiracy theories, domestic violence and post-traumatic stress disorder are some of the darker elements of the 21st century American zeitgeist, and naturally some of the dominant elements in our art. American playwright Tracy Letts’ Bug, which debuted in London in 1996, thoroughly and craftily explores all of those elements played out by a small set of characters within the confines of a

bug-infested motel room.

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by R.C. (Leesa Palmer), a lesbian friend from a party circuit that apparently comprises her social life. Through their conversation we learn that the mystery caller is more than likely Agnes’ estranged and abusive husband, Jerry, recently released from prison and looking to reunite with his favorite punching bag. One wonders about the dramaturgical reasoning behind making R.C. a lesbian, but it does give Letts, who has a great way with convincingly real-sounding dialogue, to drop the line: “a better place to be a homo than Oklahoma.”

R.C. introduces the play’s other lead character, Peter (Louis Fuentes), a seemingly bashful and conspiracy theory-obsessed veteran of the U.S. invasion of Iraq, who, despite his “shyness,” decides to stay at Agnes’ place rather than continue to a party with R.C. Naturally, we wonder about the setup. Did he and R.C. plot out the drop off beforehand, or did R.C. just bring Peter by to see if she could deliver her friend some potential romance, or, at least, sex?

Like most questions of conspiracy in the play, it’s intriguingly unresolved.

Left to their own devices— booze, cocaine, and some sort of methamphetamine vaping apparatus—Agnes and Peter engage in a “getting to know you” conversation that is awkward, delusional, funny and anxiety-inducing, for both the

Bugs, drugs and a motel party of two with Agnes and Peter (Hilary Tellesen and Louis Fuentes).

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characters and the audience. (As Agnes says, “Have a drink. People who don’t drink make me nervous!”) Eventually, Agnes invites Peter to stay on her floor. And as he prepares his blanket—pointedly ignoring Agnes’ brief moment of deliberately and frustratedly provocative toplessness as she prepares for bed—the scene ends.

Eventually, of course, Agnes’ nefarious husband, Jerry (Shawn Galloway), appears to complicate matters. And Galloway takes his scenes to genuinely scary heights as a man driven by desperate frustration but still retaining the gallows humor that jailbirds cultivate for their own preservation/ self-esteem.

Without revealing any of the details of the explosive bizarreness of the play’s climax—including an excellent short bit by Greg Ellery as Dr. Sweet—I’ll say that the journey Letts, director Lara Tenckhoff and the great cast takes the audience on is worthwhile. I’ll add that the technical crew met the challenges presented by the script with a set, lighting and sound that draws us into and keeps us riveted within the horrifically constricted but infinitely fascinating motel room filled with all the paranoia— over real and imagined threats— infesting the modern world. □

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Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave., 530895-1976. norcalstonecutters.org

Friday, Feb. 23 Chico Guild Hall

HOOLIGANZ: Hip-hop with Belvey Jones,

See frIDay

DJ Sana and Nick Harris on decks and drums, plus DJ Lil 50 and EMVEE.

Fri, 2/23, 9pm. $5. Lost on Main,

319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

BLACKOUT BETTY: Cowboy hats, sleeve-

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less shirts, bandanas and lots of hair, plus all your favorite ’80s rock hits. Fri, 2/23, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

OROVILLE OPEN MIC: A family-oriented

evening of entertainment. Thu, 2/22, 7pm. $3. Oroville Center for Spiritual Living, 3135 Oro Dam Blvd., Oroville, 530-589-9719.

BLUES & FOLK: Yurkovic and The

Bidwells perform while you enjoy a beer and some of the best pizza in town. Thu, 2/22, 6pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade.

SLAID CLEAVES: Singer-songwriter extraordinaire shares stories of the working class, the downtrodden and the despairing loners, lending humanity and compassion to the overlooked and unwanted. Thu, 2/22, 7:30pm. $20. The Rendezvous, 3269 Esplanade, Suite 142. chicotickets.com

CHICO UNPLUGGED: Acoustic music from local singers and songwriters. Thu, 2/22, 7pm. Madison Bear Garden, 316 W. Second St.

JOHANNA WARREN & MAITLAND: Acoustic tunes paired with information from local herbalists, farmers and activists. The Plant Medicine Tour honors the Earth’s natural medicine and the humans cultivating and protecting it. The Rugs close out the night. Thu, 2/22, 7:15pm. $3.

Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

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ALT ROCK: Locked in a Cage With

Monsters performs hard and classic rock. Fri, 2/23, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

BOB’S COMEDY NIGHT: Local comedians, plus music from Smokey the Groove. Fri, 2/23, 8pm. $7. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

DATSIK: Electronic music ninja Datsik brings his EDM katana and laptop to town. He describes his music as “dark and robotic,” “funky and gangster,” even “dirty.” Space Jesus, Riot Ten and Carbin also bring their laptops. Fri, 2/23, 8pm. $30. El Rey Theatre, 230 W. Second St. ninjanationtour.com

FRED EAGLESMITH: Fredheads in the house? Early rock ’n’ roll, honky tonk, ’60s country and great storytelling from the Canadian raconteur, featuring multi-instrumentalist Tiffani Ginn. Fri, 2/23, 7:30pm. $25.

According to its own mission statement, the hard-touring Brooklyn Gypsy punks of Gogol Bordello see it as their job “to provoke audiences out of post-modern aesthetic swamp onto a neo-optimistic communal movement towards new sources of authentic energy … [through] acts of music, theatre, chaos and sorcery ...” See if this rag-tag crew of wild performers lives up to its own ambitious expectations and the band’s world-renowned reputation this Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Senator Theatre.

MICKEY AVALON & DIRT NASTY: Hip-hop in the time-honored tradition of 2 Live Crew covering a wide range of topics from dicks and hydrocodone to weed and farts. Ekho and Chandler P open. Fri, 2/23, 8pm. $30.

Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

MIKE SHERM: YouTube-famous rapper

appears in the flesh. Fri, 2/23, 8pm. $20. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. jmaxproductions.net

OPEN MIC: Tito hosts music, comedy, poetry and more. Fri, 2/23, 6pm. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

PUB SCOUTS: A Chico tradition: Irish music for happy hour. Fri, 2/23, 3:30pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

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BLACK SLAX: Classic rock, surf and blues in the lounge. Sat, 2/24, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino &

TOP 40: The Patton Leatha Band plays

popular favorites in the lounge. Fri, 2/23, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

records, and Tacos Borrego will be parked out front. Fundraiser for Crisis Care Advocacy & Triage. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. $7-$10. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

DECADES: The hardest working tribute

Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

DANCE & EAT TACOS: You had me at tacos. Thrasher Trasher, DJ Sample Lady and DJ MattleAxe spin

act in town plays hits from the ’40s to today in support of Valley Oak Children’s Services. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. $20. Tackle Box Bar & Grill, 379 E. Park Ave., 530-899-4969. valleyoakconcert.eventbrite.com

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BOOZE & BOOKS: Drink beer and dis-

SLaID CLeeVeS Thursday, Feb. 22 The Rendezvous See THurSDay

OPEN MIC: For musicians of all

ages. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. The End Zone, 250 Cohasset Road.

DRIVER: Classic rock ’n’ roll. Sat, 2/24,

9pm. White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise, 530-403-6604.

GOGOL BORDELLO W/LUCKY CHOPS!: NYC gypsy punks unleash a musical maelstrom. Opening set from brassy funk band Lucky Chops. Sat, 2/24, 9pm. $25. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. senatortheatrechico.com

JAY & MIKEY: Acoustic duo performs original music inspired by classic rock masters. Sat, 2/24, 5pm. Free.

Rock House Dining & Espresso, 11865 Highway 70, Yankee Hill, 530-5321889. facebook.com

JELLY BREAD & MIDTOWN SOCIAL: Funk, rock and lots of dancing from seasoned touring acts. Sat, 2/24, 9pm.

Lost on Main, 319 Main St. loston mainchico.com

JOURNEY UNAUTHORIZED: Don’t start believin’ that it’s actually Journey.

It’s a tribute band. Sat, 2/24, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

OFF THE RECORD: Dance, pop and rock hits of the ’80s. Call ahead

for dinner reservations. Sat, 2/24, 8:30pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave., 530-809-2634. unwinedchico.com

SALSA BELLA: Salsa music and dancing.

Pre-show happy hour at 5pm. Sat, 2/24, 8:30pm. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

TOM BROSSEAU & SHELLEY SHORT: Troubadour Brosseau performs songs from his new album Treasures Untold, along with songwriter extraordinaire Short. An intimate evening of musical storytelling with local support from Donald Beaman and Susurrus. Sat, 2/24, 7pm. $7.

Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

TOP 40: The Patton Leatha Band plays

popular favorites in the lounge. Sat, 2/24, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

cuss A Wrinkle In Time. Dorothy Parker approved. Sun, 2/25, 5pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

KARAOKE CONTEST: Face off against other singers in the bar’s inaugural karaoke contest. Two winners advance each week to compete in the 3/25 finale. Sun, 2/25, 6:30pm.

White Water Saloon, 5771 Clark Road, Paradise.

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OPEN MIC MADNESS: A music/comedy open mic hosted by Jimmy Reno. Mon, 2/26, 6pm. Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

28WeDNeSDay ’90S DANCE NIGHT: Get down with

your favorite throwback hip-hop and R&B cuts. Wed, 2/28, 9pm. $5.

Maltese Bar & Tap Room, 1600 Park Ave.

BLUES JAM: Mora Sounds hosts with special guest the Alan Rigg Band. Wed, 2/28, 6pm. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

DREZO: Progressive EDM musician on

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only

his Evil Live tour. (It’s a palindrome!

So clever.) Ryan Collins opens. Wed, 2/28, 8pm. $20. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St.

DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and Amburgers spin funk, pop and hip-hop. Wed, 2/28, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

open mic, all musicians get two

songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 2/28, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

SKIP CULTON: Acoustic tunes

and happy hour. Wed, 2/28, 6pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

DaNCe & eaT TaCOS

Tacos and dancing: it’s all a good time really requires. This fundraiser for Crisis Care Advocacy and Triage—“communitygrown, client-empowered care for those struggling with mental illness, homelessness and addiction”—features local DJs Thrasher Trasher, Sample Lady and MattleAxe spinning records, and Tacos Borrego selling the dancin’ fuel, Saturday, Feb. 24, at the Maltese Bar & Tap Room. (And judging from the photos on the Facebook page of this new local pop-up—featuring “handmade fresh pressed tortillas”—the tacos are in really good hands.)

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Straight outta Wakanda Black Panther is richly entertaining and long overdue

W cast, and its special mixture of action fantasy and social history, Black Panther is a monumental cultural ith its black superhero and predominantly black

event. And a key part of its specialness is that it’s also a richly entertaining movie.

Working from the original Marvel by comic book tales, writer-director Juan-Carlos Ryan Coogler (Fruitvale Station, Selznick Creed) and co-writer Joe Robert Cole have produced a very engaging mixture of action movie and epic/ utopian allegory. It’s an impressively mounted production throughout, and Black Panther even with elements that are routine or Starring Chadwick generic, it makes fine use of a large boseman, Michael and appealing cast. b. Jordan, Lupita Chadwick Boseman has the title Nyong’o and Danai role.

He is T’Challa, the newly coroGurira. Directed by ryan Coogler. nated king of the fictional African Cinemark 14, Feather nation of Wakanda. His Black river Cinemas, Panther-infused superpowers derive Paradise Cinema 7. rated PG-13. from vibranium, the super-strong metal that is the basis of Wakanda’s radically advanced technology.

A key premise of the tale is that Wakanda has heretofore kept its highly developed civilization hidden from the rest of the world. Eventually, the new king will move to change all that, and Boseman proves to be well attuned to both the warrior and the statesman in the character.

The action spectacle is a near-abstract explosion of color, noise, CGI and rapid-fire editing. Coogler and company counter the video-game weightlessness of that imagery with bursts of dialogue from nearly a dozen distinctive characters. The action scenes generate the principle momentum, but the actors and script

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provide the stuff that really counts.

Key acting contributions come from Michael B. Jordan as T’Challa’s most formidable rival, Martin Freeman as a helpful but somewhat flummoxed CIA agent, Andy Serkis as an uproariously villainous arms dealer, and Letitia Wright as T’Challa’s impish little sister/sidekick.

Other standouts in the supporting cast include Lupita Nyong’o and Danai Gurira as two very imposing woman warriors, Forest Whitaker as a rather mysterious guru, Angela Bassett as the Queen Mother Ramonda, Daniel Kaluuya as T’Challa’s loyal friend, and Winston Duke as another of T’Challa’s fiercest rivals.

Longtime Marvel writer/editor/producer Stan Lee, co-creator of the original Black Panther comic character, has a rambunctious cameo as a “thirsty gambler.” □

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

Opening this week Antifa

A 30-minute documentary that tells the story of Antifa and its current efforts fighting fascism in America. Blackbird Books, Gallery & Cafe. Not rated.

Annihilation

Alex Garland (Ex Machina) directs this film about a biologist (played by Natalie Portman) who leads a small expedition into Area X, a mysterious place from which previous parties have failed to return. Based on Jeff VanderMeer’s book of the same name. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Every Day

Film adaptation of the young-adult novel about a 16-year-old girl who falls in love with a spirit that occupies a different human body every day. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Hostiles

Jason Bateman and Rachel McAdams star in this dark comedy about a group of friends whose regular game night turns into an actual murder mystery. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

An uncompromisingly brutal western from Scott Cooper, with a spellbinding performance from Christian Bale as Capt.

Joseph J. Blocker, a quiet, tired, jaded soldier spending the closing days of his military career in 1892 capturing and imprisoning Native Americans. He has fought many battles, seen many atrocities and committed many of his own. When aging and terminally ill Cheyenne Chief Yellow Hawk (Wes Studi) is granted freedom by the president of the United States, somebody who knows his dialect must escort him and his family back to Montana. Joe is the best candidate for the job, but it’s one he doesn’t want. Cooper, who also wrote the screenplay, avoids sermonizing and takes his sweet time—bringing in a wide cast of compelling characters along the way—for a film that is far from predictable in which nobody is safe. Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —B.G.

The Occupation of the American Mind

Chico’s Palestine Action Group presents this 2016 documentary about Israel’s public relations efforts in the U.S. to paint favorable views of its actions in the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

Oscar Nominated Shorts

A compilation of the short films nominated—in both the live-action and animation categories—for the 2018 Academy Awards.

Pageant Theatre. Not rated.

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The 15:17 to Paris

Clint Eastwood’s latest is a brisk account of the recent incident in which three young American men foiled a heavily armed terrorist’s attack on the passengers of a train traveling from Amsterdam to Paris.

The three Americans are longtime pals from the Sacramento area and they have been cast as themselves in this 94-minute action drama based on the book they wrote in the aftermath. Suspense over the terrorist attack starts building very early on, but most of the film is devoted to sketching in the threesome’s life stories and the choices that lead them to be on that particular train on that particular day. Stone is an Air Force man on leave, Skarlatos is on leave from the Oregon Army National Guard and Sadler is a college student on summer break. The three of them have been enjoying themselves on an improvised European tour. The onscreen results are consistently engaging without ever seeming to be really extraordinary. The near-minimalist efficiency of Eastwood’s direction (and of Dorothy Blyskal’s screenplay/ adaptation) generates an overall impression of mildly conventional earnestness. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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

Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

Early Man

Stone Age meets Bronze Age in this stopmotion animated film by British writer/ director Nick Park (creator of Wallace & Gromit and Shaun the Sheep) about a caveman named Dug (voiced by Eddie Redmayne) who fights against “modern” forces to save his people. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Fifty Shades Freed

Sex games for the super rich get even more dangerous thanks to a stalker from the past. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

A live-action/CGI update of the classic children’s story with James Cordon starring as the voice of the titular bunny. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Christian faith-based film retelling the Bible story of the Israelite with superhuman strength. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Winchester

This is a terrible ghost movie void of any real scares, personality, or particular reason to sit and watch it. The acting is terrible, the editing is sloppy and the special effects are third-rate. Jason Clarke plays Eric Price, a doctor addicted to drugs and alcohol. His wife died due to a self-inflicted gunshot wound via a Winchester rifle.

Members of “the board” at the rifle company hire Eric to evaluate the mental health of owner Sarah Winchester (Helen Mirren), hoping that the disgraced doctor will declare the widow unfit to run her company so they can strip her of control. The real Sarah Winchester and her mysterious house have an impressive ghost story behind them, one that could make for a snappy movie. But this one is just a bunch of nonsense involving Mirren’s Sarah nailing all the rooms shut and trying to avoid being killed by her possessed (and super annoying) grandson. The film is one long scene after another of Mirren and Clarke trying to make sense out of the mess. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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beer market.

Easier to fathom, then, is the fact that the popularity of these relatively flavorless beers by is flagging.

Alastair Bland Sales by volume of Bud Light and Budweiser dropped 5.3 percent and 5.7 percent, respectively, in 2017.

Miller Lite and Coors Light also saw dips in sales. The downward trajectories of mainstream lager sales are not new turns in the market. The industry analyst firm IWSR reported that, from 2010 to 2016, Budweiser’s sales value declined by 17 percent while Bud Light’s dropped 14 percent. Craft beer’s share of the market has meanwhile grown, with small and independently owned breweries now claiming between 12 percent and 13 percent of national beer sales.

As millions of beer drinkers increasingly choose not to buy the most popular beer brands in the world, it beckons one to ask what is going on. Bart Watson, chief economist for the Brewers Association, an industry group in Colorado, says a population-level change is underway.

“People are more interested now in variety, in niche, local, artisanal products,” he says. “We’ve

seen beer-lover demand for fuller flavor increase in the past couple of decades.”

Tom McCormick, director of the California Craft Brewers Association, also thinks many people long stuck on what he calls “industrial lagers” have become rather abruptly aware of flavor.

“I’ve seen people who drank only Bud or Coors or Miller try an IPA, and their eyes light up and they say, ‘Wow!’” he says.

Big Beer’s financial struggles come in spite of aggressive maneuvers by large beverage companies to wedge out a stake of the craft market by purchasing numerous small breweries. Anheuseur-Busch InBev, aka “The Budweiser Company,” has purchased Goose Island, Golden Road, Elysian, Wicked Weed and a half-dozen other companies since 2011 in order to cash in on consumer excitement, and sales paces, that the beer giant’s own flagship lagers were failing to generate.

But the losses of the beer industry’s biggest brands aren’t necessarily gains for the craft beer market. While sales of small and independently owned beer brands are still increasing, the pace of growth is slowing down. The craft market was growing roughly 15 percent a year as recently as 2015 and has since slowed to about half that pace.

So, what’s going on? Where have the people who no longer

browse the watery lager supermarket aisles gone? McCormick says some have shifted to wine and spirits, while some are simply moving from lager that is watery to lager that they perceive as “fancier”—namely Michelob Ultra and Modelo Especial. Each of these brands, which are still pretty darn watery, saw sales increase by 20 percent last year.

“But we know some of these people are also going to craft,” McCormick says.

Watson says craft beer sales are rising especially rapidly in places like Texas and Florida, where craft beer culture took root only relatively recently, while in beer-smart cities, including San Diego and Portland (and probably the Bay Area) the growth of the craft beer sector is slowing as the marketplace matures.

At Iron Springs Pub & Brewery in Fairfax, brewer Christian Kazakoff says he has never seen someone come into the brewpub and have “a life-altering moment.”

What usually happens when people unfamiliar with craft beer enters the brewpub, he says, is they cautiously seek out a beer that is as close as possible to the industrial lagers they’re familiar with—something pale, mild and low in alcohol.

“I’ve never seen one of these people taste a craft beer and say, ‘I’m never going to drink Bud again!’” he says. “That would be cool, though.” □

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A huge THANK YOU to all sponsors, presenters, field trip leaders, participants and the amazing, dedicated, hardworking and very talented steering committee members and volunteers who helped organize and plan this celebrated regional event.

“Two Wings Up” for our 2018 Sponsors!

Major Sponsors – Snow Goose ($2,500+)

Altacal Audubon Society • California Conservation Corps • Sierra Nevada Brewing Company • California State Parks Northern Buttes District • U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex • Chico News & Review • River Partners • Rancho Esquon

Supporting Sponsors – Great Blue Heron ($1,000+)

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Sherry Bloker / Silent Auction • Barbara Buchanan / Silent Auction • Cathy Carter / Art Reception Kathryn Hood-Carter / Silent Auction • Debbie Chakarun / Youth Activities • Pat DelFrate / Silent Auction Lollie DeYoung / Silent Auction • Amber Drake / Youth Activities • Claire Greene / Facebook / Youth Activities Lyn Harrod / Youth Activities • Ruth Kennedy / Registration • Kathleen McPartland / Youth Activities John Merz / Sponsors • Marvey Mueller / Field Trip Coordinator • Steve Overlock / Workshops Jennifer Patten / Festival Coordinator • Lynne Pryde / Exhibits / Vendors • Carla Resnick / Media Sue & John Scott Art Reception / Workshop Coordinator • Cynthia Sexton / Art Show • Karen Smith / Silent Auction Billie Sommerfeld / PR / Media • Kathy Trevino / Registration • Lisa Winslow / Silent Auction • Mary Wrysinski / Art Reception

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When you hear the term “bedroom pop,” you might imagine timid singer/songwriter tunes or something hazy and ambient. Caroline Sans (known musically as Sur Back), however, creates a very different breed of pop tunes from her room. With only a few songs available, Sans has already proven to have a knack for drawing listeners in with a fully fleshed-out world of sound. These songs have an angular baroque pop feel and a vocal delivery reminiscent of early St. Vincent. Some might call it experimental, but a closer listen reveals the four songs on Kitsch II as fairly structured, with several prominent moving parts that the ear might not grip as a whole until after a few listens. There’s something quite visceral about these tunes, perhaps stemming from Sans’ background as a dancer. The lead single, “Valentino,” is the glossiest song on the EP, with bright synths, horns and percussive blips juxtaposing Sans’ undulating melody. Bedroom pop at its boldest and brightest.

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The Cloverfield Paradox Netflix Instead of hitting theaters in April as planned, The Cloverfield Paradox got a surprise release on Netflix immediately following the Super Bowl. While I’m a big fan of the first two installments, J.J. Abrams and his Bad Robot Productions have got to be kidding trying to call this third film a legitimate chapter in the series. Originally called God Particle, a standalone sci-fi film directed by Julius Onah, sometime during production, Bad Robot turned it into a Cloverfield film. How so? There are a few short, badly constructed scenes shoehorned into the narrative, including a 10-second final shot that feels like a total cheat. The plot here involves a space station trying to create a free power source to revitalize a struggling Earth. The crew accidentally zap themselves into another dimension. While they struggle to find their way home, there are events unfolding back on Earth that might’ve made for a better movie, but the one we get is an Event Horizon rip-off and an overall muddled mess.

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THe SNOW GOOSe FeSTiVAL WOULd ALSO LiKe TO GiVe SPeCiAL THANKS TO the California Conservation Corps, Sacramento National Wildlife Refuge Complex, Rancho Esquon, Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, Sohnrey Farms, Chico Certified Farmers Market, Chico Creek Nature Center, Iris Software, Inc., Mission Linen Service, Ninth Avenue Gallery & Studio, Llano Seco Rancho, Chico Children’s Museum , Divide Ranch, City of Chico, Kidd Biological, Inc. and H. T. Harvey & Associates, Ecological Consultants, Mathews Farms ,Corning Olive Oil Co., and The Nature Conservancy.

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A band as creatively reckless and as unabashedly exploratory as The Men comes around only a few times in any generation. Even 10 years and seven albums in, a sentence like that comes off as hyperbole, but it’s true. The New York City-based quartet has scorched through so many bizarre amalgamations of punk, fuzz, art-rock, campfire clap-alongs and everything in between that it’s a wonder anyone understands it at all. The Men’s new album, Drift, finds the band in even more unfamiliar territory, kicking off with the nightmarish industrialpunk cut “Maybe I’m Crazy.” The song’s underworld skronk, interestingly, isn’t necessarily a portent of the experimentation to come, but rather a bold introduction into the band’s anything-goes aesthetic. The near absence of the enraged electric guitars allows nuanced psych (“Secret Light”) and plaintive Americana (“So High”) until the band forgets a little on the Newmoon-esque “Killed Someone” and burn the joint down. Highly recommended.

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Freakazoids, please report to the dance Floor Friends, you know this is arts dEVo’s favorite time of year. A time when my day job is to write and edit stories about all the local weirdness that makes living in rural Nor Cal bearable, and at night I get to act like an ass and run around a giant old theater hyping the talents of area freaks at the Keep Chico Weird Talent show.

The talent show is next weekend, March 3, at the senator Theatre (see page 16 for ticket info), and in addition to your host, Arts DEVO, and the 15 or so contestants, it will feature performances by official KCW spirit animals, local artist/design collective Chikoko, and the new official KCW house band, funky Live from the 2017 Keep Chico Weird Talent Show. disco-punk duo Xds. The CN&R is photo by emily teague also putting on another KCW art show, this year at the new Museum of northern California art, March 1-4, with an opening reception Thursday, March 1, 6-8 p.m.

And this week, of course, we drop this annual Weird Chico issue you’re currently reading. One of my assignments was to visit the headquarters of local funk-fusion band GravyBrain and report on the multimedia projects that the four members have been cooking up for their online GravyBrain Network (see page 19). It was a fun, engaging interview, and a lot of great stuff was left on the cutting room floor, including the band members’ responses to my question about their exploratory live shows, which I present in the words of GravyBrain’s four characters: The Scorpion (drums): “There are several songs—we try not to do them back-to-back—where we just completely bend the fabric. The beat goes away, and we just start getting really weird. … Sometimes I’ll just start playGravy ascending. ing with my hands … the tempo goes away, and we’re just like in this weird thing.”

Dr. Galaxo (keyboards): “We’ve definitely transported people, and us, to another place.”

Gravy (guitar): “There was one place in particular—Moonshine Tavern.”

Dr. Galaxo: “It was just one of the beer places [at Burning Man] .… And we had done some things to help our minds …

Captain Danger (bass): “I’m not saying we took mushrooms ...”

Dr. Galaxo: “And we started playing and all of a sudden everything was just going super electric. … And he started going off on the guitar, and in my mind I’m seeing Gravy just ascending … and I’m just grabbing onto his coattails and we’re all just going, ‘Ahhhh!’ and people are just going fucking nuts!”

Captain Danger: “And I look up and we’re in this dome, and people on the dome are going fucking crazy. … That’s definitely one of the top three [shows] for sure. But we’ve had some amazing ones. … I can say, unequivocally, that Burning Man had a huge impact on this band.” … and you know it In other CN&R arts-shenanigans news: The paper

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF February 22, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): When you’re

playing poker, a wild card refers to a card that can be used as any card the cardholder wants it to be. If the two of hearts is deemed wild before the game begins, it can be used as an ace of diamonds, jack of clubs, queen of spades, or anything else.

That’s always a good thing! In the game of life, a wild card is the arrival of an unforeseen element that affects the flow of events unpredictably. It might derail your plans, or alter them in ways that are at first inconvenient but ultimately beneficial.

It may even cause them to succeed in an even more interesting fashion than you imagined they could. I bring this up, Aries, because I suspect that you’ll be in the Wild Card Season during the next four weeks.

Any and all of the above definitions may apply. Be alert for unusual luck.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): If you

gorge on ten pounds of chocolate in the next 24 hours, you will get sick. Please don’t do that. Limit your intake to no more than a pound. Follow a similar policy with any other pleasurable activity. Feel emboldened to surpass your normal dosage, yes, but avoid ridiculous overindulgence. Now is one of the rare times when visionary artist William Blake’s maxim is applicable: “The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.” So is his corollary, “You never know what is enough until you know what is more than enough.” But keep in mind that Blake didn’t say, “The road of foolish, reckless exorbitance leads to the palace of wisdom.”

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Have you

ever had a rousing insight about an action that would improve your life, but then you failed to summon the willpower to actually take that action? Have you resolved to embark on some new behavior that would be good for you, but then found yourself unable to carry it out? Most of us have experienced these frustrations. The ancient Greeks had a word for it: akrasia.

I bring it up, Gemini, because I suspect you may be less susceptible to akrasia in the next four weeks than you have ever been. I bet you will consistently have the courage and command to actually follow through on what your intuition tells you is in your best interests.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There is

no such thing as a failed experiment,” said inventor Buckminster Fuller, “only experiments with unexpected outcomes.” That’s an excellent guideline for you to keep in mind during the coming weeks. You’re entering a phase of your astrological cycle when questions are more important than answers, when explorations are more essential than discoveries, and when curiosity is more useful than knowledge.

There will be minimal value in formulating a definitive concept of success and then trying to achieve it. You will have more fun and you will learn more by continually redefining success as you wander and ramble.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): During World

War II, British code-breakers regularly intercepted and deciphered top-secret radio messages that high-ranking German soldiers sent to each other. Historians have concluded that these heroes shortened the war by at least two years.

I bring this to your attention, Leo, in the hope that it will inspire you. I believe your own metaphorical code-breaking skills will be acute in the coming weeks. You’ll be able to decrypt messages that have different meanings from what they appear to mean. You won’t get fooled by deception and misdirection. This knack will enable you to home in on the elusive truths that are circulating—thus saving you from unnecessary and irrelevant turmoil.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): In April

1972, three American astronauts climbed into a spacecraft and took a trip to the moon and back. On the second day of the 11-day jaunt, pilot Ken Mattingly removed and misplaced his wedding ring. In the zero-gravity conditions, it drifted off and

by rob brezsny disappeared somewhere in the cabin. Nine days later, on the way home, Mattingly and Charlie Duke did a space walk. When they opened the hatch and slipped outside, they found the wedding ring floating in the blackness of space. Duke was able to grab it and bring it in. I suspect that in the coming weeks, you will recover a lost or missing item in an equally unlikely location, Virgo. Or perhaps your retrieval will be of a more metaphorical kind: a dream, a friendship, an opportunity.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): According

to British philosopher Alain de Botton, “Maturity begins with the capacity to sense and, in good time and without defensiveness, admit to our own craziness.”

He says that our humble willingness to be embarrassed by our confusion and mistakes and doubts is key to understanding ourselves. I believe these meditations will be especially useful for you in the coming weeks, Libra. They could lead you to learn and make use of robust new secrets of self-mastery.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): During the next four weeks, there are three activities I suspect you should indulge in at an elevated rate: laughter, dancing and sex.

The astrological omens suggest that these pursuits will bring you even more health benefits than usual. They will not only give your body, mind, and soul the precise exercise they need most; they will also make you smarter and kinder and wilder.

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The little voices in your head may have laryngitis, but they’re still spouting their cracked advice. Here’s another curiosity: You are extra-attuned to the feelings and thoughts of other people. I’m tempted to speculate that you’re at least temporarily telepathic. There’s a third factor contributing to the riot in your head: People you were close to earlier in your life are showing up to kibitz you in your nightly dreams.

In response, I bid you to bark “Enough!” at all these meddlers. You have astrological permission to tell them to pipe down so you can hear yourself think.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Paleontologist Jack Horner says that developmental biologists are halfway toward being able to create a chickenosaurus—a creature that is genetically a blend of a chicken and a dinosaur. This project is conceivable because there’s an evolutionary link between the ancient reptile and the modern bird. Now is a favorable time for you to contemplate metaphorically similar juxtapositions and combinations, Capricorn. For the foreseeable future, you’ll have extra skill and savvy in the art of amalgamation.

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AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Be

stubborn about your goals but flexible about your methods.” That’s the message I saw on a woman’s T-shirt today. It’s the best possible advice for you to hear right now. To further drive home the point, I’ll add a quote from productivity consultant David Allen: “Patience is the calm acceptance that things can happen in a different order than the one you have in mind.” Are you willing to be loyal and true to your high standards, Aquarius, even as you improvise to uphold and fulfill them?

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Then she adds, “ideas, too.” Your first assignment in the coming weeks, my dear Pisces, is to make sure that nothing gets planted in the wrong place. Your second assignment is to focus all your intelligence and love on locating the right places for new seeds to be planted.

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RAMIRO DILLANES APARICIO 3549 Esplanade Spc 241 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RAMIRO A DILLANES Dated: January 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000075 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as POOLS BY DREW at 1415 Sheridan Ave Apt #24 Chico, CA 95926.

DREW W ALDEN 1415 Sheridan Ave Apt #24 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DREW ALDEN Dated: January 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000035 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PLEASANT VALLEY MOBILE ESTATES at 1675 Manzanita Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

EVERETT B. BEICH 77-105 Shasta Lane Indian Wells, CA 92260.

TIMOTHY E BEICH 1 River Wood Loop Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: TIMOTHY E BEICH Dated: January 23, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000117 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PHOENIX PROMOTIONS at 2960 Sandi Drive Chico, CA 95973.

GREGORY CLARE VINSON 2960 Sandi Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GREGORY CLARE VINSON Dated: January 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000031 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLOSSOM YARD CARE at 1030 Eaton Road Chico, CA 95973.

JENNIFER DAVERN 1030 Eaton Road Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JENNIFER DAVERN Dated: January 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000106 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORCAL WAREHOUSE at 3150 Hwy 32 Unit L Chico, CA 95973.

KEITH HANKINS 3268 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973.

CHRISTINA LOUISE POWELL 3268 Hwy 32 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: CHRISTINA POWELL Dated: January 25, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000131 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CLAUDE THE DRAGON at 819 Justeson Road Gridley, CA 95948.

TASHA ZANOTTO 819 Justeson Road Gridley, CA 95948.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TASHA ZANOTTO Dated: January 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000052 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AQUARIAN LEASING ENTERPRISES at 2990 Hegan Ln Chico, CA 95928.

SHANE DAVID SCOTT 2990 Hegan Ln Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SHANE D. SCOTT Dated: January 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000140 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SCOTT PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 121 W. 5th St Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD SCOTT 121 W. 5th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD SCOTT Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000137 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CASINO CHICO at 968 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

RICHARD SCOTT 121 W 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD SCOTT Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000138 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as MARINEANDBOAT DIRECTORY, POWERSPORTS HUB, POWERSPORTS ONLINE at 121 W 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD SCOTT 121 W 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD SCOTT Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000135 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as IBUX at 121 W. 5th St Chico, CA 95928.

IBUX LLC 121 W. 5th St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RICHARD SCOTT, PRESIDENT Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000136 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BICYCLEDIRECTORY, CYCLEDATA, POWERSPORTSDIRECTORY at 121 W 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

INFORMATION AGENT, INC. 121 W 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: RICHARD SCOTT, PRESIDENT Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000134 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HONG BING YANG Dated: January 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000143 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BIDWELL PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1230 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

JEANNE NEWTON CHICO REALTY, INC. 1230 Esplanade Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JEANNE NEWTON, OWNER/BROKER Dated: January 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000127 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AMA BUSINESS CONSULTING at 180 Alvin Court Chico, CA 95928.

AARON MICHAEL ANDERSON 180 Alvin Court Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON M. ANDERSON Dated: January 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000022 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PREWRATH CHART at 283 Idyllwild Circle Chico, CA 95928.

ALLEN HADIDIAN 283 Idyllwild Circle Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ALLEN HADIDIAN Dated: January 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000122 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO FLAX LLC at 853 Arbutus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

CHICO FLAX LLC 853 Arbutus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

SANDRA FISHER 853 Arbutus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

WILLIAM D VAN ALSTYNE 853 Arbutus Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: SANDRA FISHER, CEO Dated: January 31, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000161 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BLUE OCEAN MASSAGE at 389 Connors Court Suite B Chico, CA 95926.

HONG BING YANG 2260 Apple Orchard Ct Rancho Cordova, CA 95670.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as MULTIFAMILY ASSET ADVISORS at 123 W 6th Street Ste. 130 Chico, CA 95928.

APARTMENT EQUITIES INC 123 W 6th Street Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

TIM EDWARDS 670 E 5th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: WES HILL Dated: December 21, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001668 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as LAS TAPATIAS #2 at 1148 W East Ave Ste H Chico, CA 95926.

MA GUADALUPE CAZARES-DELGADO 75 Harvest Park #126 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MA GUADALUPE CAZARES Dated: October 2, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001313 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE RUSTIC ROSE at 3029 The Esplanade Suite 9 Chico, CA 95973.

NICOLE THOMAS 13081 Orchard Blossom Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NICOLE THOMAS Dated: January 30, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000155

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as D2A NETWORKS at 1197 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

WIRELESS WIZARD SOLUTIONS, LLC 1197 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: DAVID GUADRON, MANAGER Dated: January 30, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000147 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DWYER LOGGING at 331 Black Bart Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

DAKONA LEE DWYER 331 Black Bart Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

DOMINIC SILAS DWYER 331 Black Bart Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

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Signed: DAKONA DWYER Dated: February 1, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000176 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TRIM BUDDIES at 939 Karen Drive Chico, CA 95926.

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JESSE WILLIAMS 939 Karen Drive Chico, CA 95926.

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Signed: ANDREW DE SENA Dated: January 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000139 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORCAL CLEANING PROS at 3569 E. Eaton Rd. Chico, CA 95951.

PAOLOA GUZMAN 3569 E. Eaton Rd. Chico, CA 95951.

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Signed: PAOLA GUZMAN Dated: January 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000058 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO ENRICHMENT CENTER at 1225 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

AMANDA NICOLE PICKREN 1225 Oleander Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AMANDA PICKREN Dated: February 1, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000174 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AAA SAFETY AUTO GLASS at 2961 Hwy 32 Suite 14 Chico, CA 95973.

BASSAM ELHINDI 2161 Hartford Drive #148 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an individual.

Signed: BASSAM ELHINDI Dated: January 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000085 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as COMMONS AT COUNTRY VILLAGE CARE at 962 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

BIDWELL SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC 966 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: LYNETTE N. DORENZO, CEO/OWNER Dated: February 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000178 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as COUNTRY HOUSE, COUNTRY VILLAGE CARE at 966 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

BIDWELL SENIOR CARE SERVICES INC 966 Kovak Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: LYNETTE N. DORENZO, CEO/OWNER Dated: February 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000179 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTHSTATE CLINICAL SERVICES at 48 Hanover Lane, Suite 2 Chico, CA 95973.

ALFRED GOMES Jr 225 W Lassen Ave., Apt 1 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ALFRED L GOMES, JR. Dated: February 5, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000187 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINEES NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALL ABOUT EQUINE VETERINARY SERVICES, ALL ABOUT PETS VETERINARY HOSPITAL at 1900 Mangrove Ave #50 Chico, CA 95926.

ALL ABOUT VETERINARY SERVICES, PC 1900 Mangrove Ave Ste 50 Chico, CA 95926.

This business in conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DAWN M ALVES, DVM CEO Dated: January 31, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000165 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PARISH PLACE at 6197 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

CASSANDRA MARIN WALLING 691 Camellia Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CASSANDRA WALLING Dated: January 9, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000046 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GOLDILOCKS STUDIO at 315 Wall St Suite 11 Chico, CA 95928.

JODI L KREBS 1085 Glenwood Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JODI KREBS Dated: January 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000078 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GABRIELLAS at 6433 Skyway Paradise, CA 95969.

GABRIELL HERNDON 5893 Golden Oaks Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GABRIELL HERNDON Dated: February 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000209 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BAYWOOD REAL ESTATE at 180 E 4th Street Suite 120 Chico, CA 95928.

BAYWOOD COMPANY, INC 1275 East Lindo Ave Chico, CA 95926.

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This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: PETER TICHININ, PRESIDENT Dated: February 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000193 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are conducting business as CHRISTS TIDINGS ORGANIZATION, CTO at 15700 Fitzgerald Dr Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

COMMUNITY TENNIS ORGANIZATION 15700 Fitzgerald Dr Forest Ranch, CA 95942.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MARTHA K. MORRISON, PRESIDENT Dated: January 30, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000159 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as HOME AGAIN HOUSECLEANING at 776 College Hill Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

LINDSAY MICHELLE NELSON 776 College Hill Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: LINDSAY M. NELSON Dated: January 16, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000243 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ACQUIRE REALTY at 101 York Drive Chico, CA 95926.

DEBRA ANDERSON 101 York Drive Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DEBRA ANDERSON Dated: February 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000190 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following perons are doing business as ORO DAM CAR WASH at 2525 Feather River Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

FADI ABDULMASIH 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

RITA ABDULMASIH 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

ORO DAM CAR WASH INC 424 Windham Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: FADI ABDULMASIH, OWNER Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000237 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CATHY’S SEW AND VAC, HONEY RUN QUILTERS at 2418 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95926.

CATHY ANN JENKS 14444 Richardson Springs Rd Chico, CA 95973.

DANIEL SCOTT JENKS 14444 Richardson Springs Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CATHY ANN JENKS Dated: December 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001686 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALL THE BEST VIDEO at 2422 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA 95926.

CATHY ANN JENKS 14444 Richardson Springs Rd Chico, CA 95973.

DANIEL SCOTT JENKS 14444 Richardson Springs Rd Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CATHY ANN JENKS Dated: December 26, 2017 FBN Number: 2017-0001685 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BOBKAT PROPERTY SERVICES, BPS, BPS PROPERTIES at 466 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

BOBKAT BUILDERS INC 466 Vallombrosa Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BROOKE SHELTON, OWNER Dated: February 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000198 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VALLEYWIDE PAINTING AND FINISHES at 460 E Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

NEIL ANDREW DOOLEY 460 E Sacramento Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NEIL DOOLEY Dated: February 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000233 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO UPCYCLE DESIGNS at 3346 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

AIMEE ALARID 3346 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95973.

JULIE ELLEN 1356 Ravenshoe Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: AIMEE ALARID Dated: January 31, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000163 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HOLISTIC PLAYGROUNDS UNLIMITED at 329 Antelope Creek Ave Chico, CA 95973.

FRANK REALE 329 Antelope Creek Ave Chico, CA 95973.

JAN REALE 329 Antelope Creek Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: JANICE REALE Dated: February 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000222 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as RED DOG PHYSICS at 1866 Lodge Pine Ln Chico, CA 95926.

ERIC JAMES AYARS 1866 Lodge Pine Ln Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ERIC AYARS Dated: February 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000224 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WHITE VELVET MARKET at 18 Westerdahl Court Chico, CA 95973.

KIMBERLY ANN CABRAL 18 Westerdahl Court Chico, CA 95973.

This business in conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIM CABRAL Dated: February 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000225 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JEREMY FOSTER Proposed name: JEREMY FORBES 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: February 23, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: STEPHEN E. BENSON Dated: December 15, 2017 Case Number: 17CV02833 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

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

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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: March 9, 2018 Time: 9:00am Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: January 4, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00029 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHLEEN RENEE SMITH filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KATHLEEN RENEE SMITH Proposed name: KATHLEEN RENEE DAHLSTROM 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: March 23, 2018 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: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00282 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MOHAMMAD REZA AND FNU SHAISTA filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MOHAMMAD REZA FNU SHAISTA FNU ZAHEEDUL RAHMAN FNU SAMIU RAHMAN Proposed name: MOHAMMAD REZA NEKSIAR SHAISTA NEKSIAR ZAHEEDUL RAHMAN NEKSIAR SAMIUL RAHMAN NEKSIAR 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,

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: March 23, 2018 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: January 29, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00250 Published: February 15,22, March 1,8, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KATHRYN RATHER, STEVEN VINCENT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ACE ATTICUS VINCENT Proposed name: ACE ATTICUS RATHER 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: March 23, 2018 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: February 2, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00319 Published: February 22, March 1,8,15, 2018

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: DAVID D ECHEBERRY CHRISTINA J ECHEBERRY AKA CHRISTINA J COWLEY YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JAMES W. LA FORCE, JR., AKA JAMES WEAVER LA FORCE, JR. AND JAMES W. LA FORCE To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JAMES W. LA FORCE, JR., AKA JAMES WEAVER LA FORCE, JR. AND JAMES W. LA FORCE A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JAMES W. LA FORCE III in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE EILEEN E. PORTER, AKA EILEEN ELIZABETH PORTER To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: EILEEN E. PORTER, AKA EILEEN ELIZABETH PORTER A Petition for Probate has been filed by: APRIL E. GILL in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: APRIL E. GILL 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.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: March 27, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Room: 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.

Petitioner: APRIL E. GILL, IN PRO PER 6664 Shay Lane Paradise, CA 95969 Case Number: 18PR00056 Dated: February 8, 2018 Published: February 15,22, March 1, 2018

The Petition for Probate requests that: JAMES W. LA FORCE III 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: March 6, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate Room: 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: VANESSA J. SUNDIN, Sundin Law Office 341 Broadway Street, Ste. 302, Chico, CA 95928 (530) 342-2452 Case Number: 18PR00057 Published: February 15,22 March 1, 2018

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

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

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

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: September l5, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02761 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

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SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHICO CONSOLIDATED GOLD MINING COMPANY, A CALIFORNIA CORPORATION, AND ALL PERSONS UNKOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO AND DOES 1 THROUGH 100, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: DANIEL E. BAILEY NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: TIMOTHY D. FERRIS 200981 Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928 (530) 343-0100 Dated: August 14, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV02433 Published: February 8,15,22, March 1, 2018

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: May l7, 2017 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 17CV01390 Published: February 1,8,15,22, 2018

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Vintage Avenues Home! 3/1.5 bath 1618 sq ft w/ updated kitchen, bonus rm, DIN&Gdual NHVAC PE pane windows and Detached 2 car garage. $329K Don’t wait on this one!

Jennifer Parks | 530.864.0336

Sponsored by Century 21 Jeffries Lydon ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

1098 E 1st Ave 1 Tierra Rosa Ln 389 White Ave 985 Colorado St 1079 Lupin Ave 840 Colusa St 212 Tonea Way 2590 White Ave 1067 Viceroy Dr 6 Hunter Ct 4 Casa Del Lago

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$300,000 $285,000 $279,000 $278,000 $267,000 $265,000 $257,909 $250,000 $250,000 $246,000 $236,000

5/3 0/0 3/1 4/2 3/2 4/2 3/2 3/2 3/2 3/2 2/2

SQ. FT. 2405 1389 1019 1339 1214 1162 1470 1127 1126 1216 1300

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PEBBLEWOOD PINES BEAUTY!! Better than new,ND remodel/upgraded unit. 2 bed/2 bth, 1,350 sq ft, single ING PE complete story, stunning!. ................................................................................................................................. .................................................................................................................................$292,500 BEAUTIFUL CREEKSIDE 3 bed/2 bath, 1,739 sqft with G upgrades and is a real beauty! In ground lap pool, INmany PEND lovely patios and more!......................................................................................................................$409,500 MANUFACTURED HOME in a Park, 55 years +, 2 bed, 2 bth, 1,512 sq ft, with lovely upgrades. .................$122,500 TREED BUILDING LOT, .20 acre in town! ........................................................................................................$99,000 BEAUTIFUL CALIFORNIA PARK 3 bed/2.5 bath, 2,738 sq ft with views of the lake, hardwood floors, and more! ...........................................................................................................................................................$585,000 EASY CARE YARD, 4 bed/ 3 bath, 1,880 sq ft, tile flooring and redwood touches and a warm cozy feeling ...........................................................................................................................................................$340,000 2-HOMES ON .77 OF AN ACRE IN TOWN! Custom 3 bed/2 bth, 3,000 sq ft + 3 bed 2 bth, 1,110 2nd home ....$575,000

North Chico Remodeled 3/2 $349,500 6ac Creekside on Butte Creek $249,000 3.4 ac, well, septic and power in place $129,000 5 ac lot. Owner carry $39,500

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The following houses were sold in butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of February 5, 2018 – February 9, 2018 The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS 30 Plaza Way #15 1921 Oroville Chico Hwy 14880 Crescent Dr 4454 Prairie Dr 11 Ridge Line Ct 6427 Jack Hill Dr 18 Lariat Loop 1276 Marjory St 5109 Royal Oaks Dr 2303 Oak Knoll Way 3178 Oro Bangor Hwy

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Chico Durham Magalia Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville Oroville

$191,000 $241,000 $239,500 $472,500 $399,500 $275,000 $260,000 $195,000 $194,000 $168,000 $168,000

2/2 3/1 3/2 3/2 4/3 3/2 3/2 3/2 2/2 3/2 5/2

SQ. FT. 1050 1008 1657 2016 2222 1746 1538 1428 1428 1152 1148

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

2060 Perkins Ave

Oroville

$115,000

2/1

1326

1444 7th Ave

Oroville

$102,000

3/1

1056

52 La Colina Dr

Oroville

$102,000

3/1

875

764 Pomona Ave

Oroville

$85,000

3/2

1062

1911 Baldwin Ave

Palermo

$107,500

3/1

1120

6088 Marty Ct

Paradise

$270,000

2/2

1573

1261 Wagstaff Rd

Paradise

$265,000

3/2

1650

91 Grinding Rock Rd

Paradise

$265,000

3/2

1692

6208 Fern Ln

Paradise

$232,500

2/2

1092

3606 Connie Cir B

Paradise

$145,000

2/2

1140

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