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Join Stonewall’s new chapter We were disheartened to hear about the turmoil

taking place at Chico’s Stonewall Alliance Center over the summer. The organization has long been a go-to resource around these parts for LGBTQ members and allies.

Based on what we’ve learned, the nonprofit’s executive director, Thomas Kelem, was unceremoniously cut loose by its board of directors. That’s despite the fact that he was planning to retire from his post in the fall.

While we don’t know all of the details, it came as a shock to the folks he’d worked closely with for many years, first as a board member and then in the leadership role. The lack of communication that followed that decision only made matters worse.

Indeed, people were blindsided. As relayed during a contentious meeting with the board of directors, Stonewall stakeholders felt betrayed, shut out, unsafe even (see Ashiah Scharaga’s report on page 8).

Understandably, they’d lost confidence in the board and were concerned about the future of the organization.

The good news: Their voices were heard. What followed was nearly a mass exodus of board members.

In that vacuum, several longtime members of the Stonewall community have stepped up to help move the nonprofit forward. However, there are still many vacancies on that panel. One of the next steps: filling

the executive director post.

This is a critical time for members of the gender and sexual minority community and the organizations that serve them. According to statistics released this week by the California Department of Justice, hate crimes jumped 17 percent between 2016 and 2017. That includes a nearly 19 percent surge in cases based on an individual’s sexual orientation—real or perceived.

Stonewall has done much over the decades to unite and assist the local LGBTQ community. Its array of services include low- and no-cost counseling, support groups, social gatherings and other vital efforts. Clearly, that important work must continue. We’re looking forward to this new chapter, and we hope the greater community recognizes the role the center plays in making the North State a more inclusive and safe place to live and work.

What can you do to help? Get involved. Consider applying for a board of directors position. Stonewall is also heavily reliant on volunteers—opportunities abound, from technical help to physical labor for events. Speaking of which, Stonewall’s annual Chico Pride celebration is taking place next month. All of the proceeds will help sustain the organization’s ongoing programs. Join in the festivities, show your support and help buoy its crucial work. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

The tragic triumph of childishness Iideaacrossthatsome variation on the meme purveying the though you have to grow old, you don’t have f you spend time on Facebook, it’s likely you’ve come

high school election, a contest of popularity divorced from anything that matters. Many brag that they don’t do “adulting” very well, and aren’t much interested in trying. to grow up. Not growing up is often extolled as a good That might explain how we elected an overgrown and desirable thing. Lots of people, especially Americans of my genera- man-child as our president, an overweight and over-age spoiled brat who won’t eat his veggies, plays more than tion, seem to think that lifelong he works, cheats and throws Twitter tantrums whenever childishness is somehow a goal he’s criticized or thwarted. worth pursuing.

His language skills haven’t developed But it’s not.

Far too much beyond fifth or sixth grade (everyResponsibility is the few take thing is “terrific” or “fantastic” or “great,” essence of adulthood, seriously their unless it is a “disaster”). His understanding and far too many Americans evade responsibilities of history, our system of government and of the Constitution is characterized adult responsibility by as citizens. by childish ignorance. He is utterly selfwhenever it seems Jaime O’Neill centered, lacking empathy for those less too onerous. People The author is a privileged. He does not play well with brag about not retired community others, and he has a 2-year-old’s concept of sharing. He reading newspapers or watching the college instructor. sees women through the eyes of an arrested-developnews. The number of Americans ment adolescent, as toys to play with or to demean with polled who admit to not reading “locker room” talk. He tells lies whenever it suits him. books—any books—is appalling.

Much was heard during the Obama presidency Far too few take seriously their responsibilities as citizens. Half of us don’t vote, nor do we take the trouble about the desire for a leader who looked like America.

It appears we got one. to inform ourselves about issues or candidates. Too And now we’re home alone. □ many people—left, right and center—vote as if it’s a

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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

Neighborly Fred Rogers was an evolved human being. I recognize that now—as an adult, as a mother, as a person who would have benefited from having someone like him around during childhood.

I didn’t see that as a kid. In fact, though I watched Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood countless times, I viewed him as the chief weirdo in his whacky Neighborhood of Make-Believe. To be honest, his puppetry creeped me out—especially Lady Elaine Fairchilde, the witch-like, red-nosed puppet whose voice sounded like nails on a chalkboard. As for Rogers, I couldn’t quite wrap my head around his tender, deliberative style of talking to kids like me.

That’s not to say I disliked the show. Like other Gen-Xers, I watched it quite often, likely because there weren’t many options in the early 1980s. I may have tuned in as a warmup to Sesame Street.

I can’t recall.

What I do remember is that Rogers was reliable. He started each show with his signature entrance: singing that cheesy yet catchy theme song while taking a stroll to the closet to swap his jacket for a comfy sweater, and then winding it down while changing from loafers to sneakers.

Clearly, he was a good person—predictably and perhaps unrealistically so. I mean, who talks to kids like that? Nobody in my life— that’s for sure.

Recently, I was drawn to the new documentary about the reallife Rogers, Won’t You Be My Neighbor? I watched it last weekend in a sold-out Pageant Theatre with folks who, like me, were seeking relief from the news of the day. I was crossing my fingers that the guy I remembered was at least similar to the man on public television.

I discovered several things about Rogers, including the fact that he was an ordained minister. In hindsight, that makes sense. Mister Rogers didn’t preach religion, but he certainly preached love—for others and oneself. That whole “love thy neighbor as thyself” thing really stuck with him, it would seem.

Perhaps one of the stranger things the documentary reveals is that Rogers had a bit of an obsession with the number 143, which, when broken into three numbers, connotes the message “I love you.” For those who didn’t have pagers in the 1990s, I’ll translate: “I” is one letter, “love” is four letters, and “you” is three letters. He also prided himself on weighing exactly 143 pounds. (Read more in Reel World, page 28.)

Eccentricities aside, Rogers was brave and his show resulted in breakthrough television. In one episode that originally aired in 1969, for example, he invites the local police officer, played by a black man, to join him in cooling his feet off in a mini pool. That was a big deal in the year after the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. Indeed, for the millions of kids who got to know Mister Rogers during his show’s national run on PBS—from the late 1960s to 2001—Fred Rogers was a hell of a role model, a bold visionary with a calming presence in a chaotic world. We just didn’t realize that at the time—or at least I didn’t.

There are several takeaways from Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

For me, the biggest is that America needs more people like Fred Rogers, especially now.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Convenient quotes It always amazes me how many of our outspoken clergy (and particularly politicians) can locate obscure elements buried deep in the Bible to satisfy their immediate personal, social and moral dogmas, while ignoring those more notable ones that may be in deference to their biases.

Such was evident when the U.S. attorney general quoted Paul in Romans 13 regarding citizens always submitting to governments as “the authorities that exist have been established by God.” Using this as a justification, one has to accept that the atrocities of Stalin, Hitler, Mao Tse Tung, Hussein, Assad and others as being blessed by God. What bothers me most in our evolving political climate is the out-and-out ignorance of Matthew 7:12, “So in everything, do to others what you would have them do to you ….” This “Golden Rule,” along with the indisputable requirement of honesty and truthfulness, was a primary focus of my father’s stern lessons to me as a child. But today, one can claim anything or

accuse anyone, no matter its lack of factual value.

I fear Trump’s actions when he finds in Deuteronomy 7:6 that God favors the Israelites exclusively (and then sent them out to murder everyone else). Will he then convert to Judaism?

Dean Carrier Paradise

On the flip-side Next time we have a Democratic White House and Congress, we’ll have Rachel Maddow as communications chief. The guy our reality-TV president appointed, former Fox News executive Bill Shine, protected Roger Ailes against way too many sexual harassment lawsuits.

So, we’ll replace sleaze with intelligent reporting and honest communication. Also, Chris Hayes could be chief of staff. Paul Krugman as financial adviser, to make sure the president doesn’t give away the farm or tax farmers out of business with dumb trade wars.

Al Gore could be head of the

EPA instead of the oil/gas or coal industry (i.e., Scott Pruitt or the next guy, the coal industry lobbyist). Adam Schiff could be head of the Justice Department. Schiff could lock up President Reality Star Trump and throw away the key for kidnapping children at the border, and then deporting their parents back home without the kids. Isn’t it a felony to steal children?

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political scandal to contend with, and their agenda of appeasing the fossil fuel industry will continue. A former lobbyist for coal company Murray Energy, Wheeler was schooled by Sen. Jim Inhofe in the art of denying the science of climate change.

We can no longer look to the party of Teddy Roosevelt to safeguard our planet. The average turnout for midterm elections is 40 percent. The Democratic Party needs to double that come November if serious inroads are to be achieved in reversing the environmental damage the EPA has done since Trump took office.

A start is to vote Doug LaMalfa out of office. His climate change denial has no merit. Time for Doug to move on. There is no future if we don’t act now. Vote this November.

Roger Beadle Chico

Views on SCOTUS Brett Kavanaugh is a major insult to our democracy. He believes presidents should be above the law.

Was that the main reason he was nominated? Is that the main reason GOPers–like Doug LaMalfa, Jim Nielsen, James Gallagher and Doug Teeter—will support him?

But, if that’s not bad enough, Kavanaugh also believes in denying women control over their own bodies. If your birth control fails, if you ovulate off schedule, if your daughter is raped, or your younger sister becomes pregnant by creepy Uncle Doug, Kavanaugh believes you must carry the resulting fetus to term (forced pregnancy!), even if it kills you and leaves your children orphans.

Kavanaugh believes only the well-to-do should have health care. He believes my son (who has cerebral palsy) and others with “preexisting conditions” shouldn’t be able to buy health insurance at anything approximating affordable rates.

Seven Republican senators went to Russia on the Fourth of July. While there, they made no mention of Putin’s sabotaging of our elections. They received no criticism from the party of Trump, who apparently believes it’s OK if Putin messes with our elections so long as he just keeps doing it to elect Republicans. Let’s show these Trump enablers the door in November.

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The Supreme Court is in the news daily. One of the duties of any president is to fill any vacancy on this nine-member court.

President Trump has promised the country he will appoint strong constitutionalist judges to any vacancies on the court. Now comes the craziness: Roe v. Wade has allowed millions of unborn babies to be killed. Those who want to keep it are fearful it will be overturned.

Those who believe this practice is wrong want to overturn it.

My question for anyone worried about this judgment: If a strict constitutionalist is appointed, and if the law is constitutional, then why is anyone worried?

Shouldn’t the Constitution be followed, not changed to fit any judges’ “feelings”?

I’m not a lawyer, but it seems to me that the three equal branches of government should stay balanced. When any one branch oversteps its constitutional powers, the other two are there to step in and right the balance. If Roe v. Wade needs to go back to the states (where the Constitution says every other power resides), then the fear of those opposed to President Trump’s choices should not be worried.

Elections have consequences.

Trust our Constitution, not any single man.

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

That a Supreme Court justice should retire or resign so abruptly is indeed an alarming surprise.

But when revelations surface that the mighty judge’s son, Justin Kennedy, former head of global real estate markets for Deutsche Bank, secured for the once-aspiring president an estimated billion dollars in loans, then it becomes suspicious. Not conspiratorial.

Perhaps coincidental. Robert Mueller’s methodical investigation is getting more exciting each bright new summer day.

Kenneth B. Keith Los Molinos

More on the Constitution With the election of Devil Trump, we now live in an evil and bizarre world—where wrong is right; where free press is repressed press; where desperate and persecuted children and refugees are treated and talked to like animals of

the reasons for the questionnaire’s wording. It was up to the respondents to interpret the word “immigration.”

“We can no longer look to the party of Teddy Roosevelt to safeguard our planet.”

Rose Kelley Chico

—roger Beadle

infestation; where evil reigns over righteousness; lies over truth and hate over love.

No wonder this town and America are so full of darkness and evil. When “leaders” like Rep. Doug LaMalfa, all the way up to All the President’s Demons, embrace darkness and hide the light, print hate and lies, instead of truth, you have immoral people cowardly abusing their power to subdue and quiet the minority opinion. When you lose your country, your heart, your compassion, your courage to tell the truth, you have become a tool in destroying our community, our First Amendment, our Constitution and country.

North State Republicans and welfare/rich farmer Congressman LaMalfa, who openly supports Trump’s destruction of America, are responsible for higher tariffs, higher prices, less demand. When agriculture takes an endless nose dive into the pit with Trump, maybe then they will wake up from their cult-like dream and realize they have been used by the man of lawlessness.

Pat Johnston Red Bluff

Candidate’s preference Re “Eight in council race” (Downstroke, July 5): Thank you for including me in your list of candidates for the November Chico City Council election. Please allow me to correct the description of my occupation. I am a former business owner, having been one of the original owners and manager of Reddengray Pub from 1984-1987, and I am a former independent contractor, having served as a real estate agent from 1995-2010.

Given my many former careers, when asked, I prefer the description: all-around OK guy.

Scott Huber Chico

Another ballot blunder Re “No ballot” (Letters, by Nelson Kaiser, July 5): As a vote-by-mail voter, similar to Nelson Kaiser, I, too, didn’t receive a timely ballot from Butte County in the recent election. It arrived either on Election Day or perhaps one day before the election, too late for me to use it to vote. Why did the Butte County Clerk-Recorder’s Office fail in its duty to deliver timely ballots by mail?

Stan Kane Cohasset

Support the library Re “Rough road ahead” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, June 28): Dear Butte County supervisors: They add hours, then you cut hours again for the Chico branch of the Butte County Library. It does not make sense. I remember when the Chico branch had a harvest fundraiser put on by the Friends of Library, but stopped doing it for some reason. I hope they bring it back—it was a great way to support the library. It might help if the county and the city joined forces. It might help if they put a library tax on the ballot so that some money will go toward the library.

Eric Matlock Chico

Missed the nuance Re “Immigration good, Americans say” (Sifter, June 28): I read the immigration Gallup poll report and feel your leading sentence is misleading. Nowhere in the poll were respondents asked about illegal immigration. Half of the surveys were asked about immigration. The other half were asked about legal immigration.

In fact, Gallup’s leading paragraphs about the study discussed

Food for thought This summer’s questions: Should it be “Facts don’t care about your feelings” or “Facts don’t care about your beliefs” and is there a difference?

Rich Meyers Oroville

POC anthem “Hands Up, Don’t Shoot” has become the national anthem for people of color living in white America. And live-streaming those encounters is the only sense of false protection one has when confronted by an army of KKKops with guns drawn ready to shoot to kill.

The Phillips family has been repeatedly harassed and disrespected by the Chico Police Department since the murder of Desmond on March 17, 2017. On Sunday, June 24, 2018, a live video uploaded via Facebook of David Phillips being harassed by Chico Police Department has reached over 40,000 viewers.

As David left Little Caesars restaurant on Highway 32 with several pizzas in hand to feed the homeless, he instantly became surrounded by more than six police officers and six to seven squad cars. There was not a weapon present, report of abuse or altercation or 911 call made.

Councilman Karl Ory submitted a request to City Council to review a revenue measure to increase police staffing in late June. I almost vomited in my mouth from disgust and rage. We do not need more police. We need less of our citizens harassed and murdered by police, more implicit bias training for officers, and better de-escalation practices.

Kat Lee Chico

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The 19-month delay in implementing the Chico Scrap Metal referendum petition signed by more than 9,000 Chico residents in December 2016 is almost over.

The referendum targeted an ordinance— No. 2490, adopted in October 2016—that gave the East 20th Street scrap yard an exemption from zoning regulations that otherwise would require it to move to another site.

Last Friday (July 6), Butte County Superior Court Judge Tamara Mosbarger, ruling on a lawsuit brought by the group Move the Junkyard, issued a writ of mandate commanding that the City Council either rescind the ordinance or place it on the Nov. 6 ballot.

She gave the council 10 days to act and 15 days to report back to her. Don’t bother to appeal, Mosbarger added: “[A]n appeal from the issuance of this writ will not stay its execution.”

Or, as Move the Junkyard’s lead attorney, Jim McCabe, put it, “The train has left the station.”

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CHICO HIGH GETS ARTS GRANT

Chico High’s choral and musical theater programs will receive a $5,000 boost next school year after Director Jenise Coon was named one of eight Freddie G Fellows, an honor created by Music Theatre International CEO Freddie Gershon, and his wife, Myrna.

Coon is in New York City this week for four days of master classes, workshops and Broadway shows with industry professionals, including Tony Award-winning composerlyricist Jeanine Tesori and Tony-nominated director Jeff Calhoun.

“I hope to bring back new methods, new ideas, fresh and inspired activities and new ways to go about producing a musical,” Coon said via Facebook message.

TIRE SHOP OWNER CONVICTED

Last Thursday (July 5), Oroville tire shop owner Lee Fong Vang (pictured) pleaded no contest to three felony counts of sexual assault perpetrated at his business, Table Mountain Tires and Smog Shop. Vang, 45, faces a minimum of 18 years in state prison, and will have to register as a sex offender.

Between 2016-17, Vang isolated three women in separate instances in his office, then grabbed and “sexually fondled” them, according to a press release from Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey. One attack ended when Vang’s wife entered his office; during another, Vang told a woman he would fix her vehicle in exchange for sexual favors.

Vang is out on $750,000 bail and will be sentenced in September.

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After recent turmoil, Chico center forges ahead with new board, staff members and a plan for Pride

OStreetStonewall Alliance Center’s East Sixth office as he did on any other weekn May 25, Thomas Kelem walked into

day morning for the last five years, as executive director. Moments by later, he was called into Ashiah a conference room and Scharaga handed a termination letas h i a h s @ ter from the nonprofit’s n ew srev i ew. c o m board of directors, which had a lawyer present. He was ordered to clear out Next board his office by the end of meeting: 6:30 p.m. Wednesday, the day.

July 18, at “It was very sudden,” Trinity United Methodist Kelem told the CN&R, Church’s Handley Hall. adding that he’s not clear facebook.com/ on the reason for his StonewallChico dismissal. “I thought it could have been handled much better, particularly in terms of its effect on the organization and the community. People were very shocked.”

In the aftermath of Kelem’s dismissal, which was further complicated by public knowledge that he was planning to step down in October, a confused community erupted in outrage. For 10 days, the board was silent about its decision, creating a rift

between Stonewall and many of its LGBTQ community members; mistrust and anger festered in the chasm.

Video footage of a community forum held at Stonewall on June 13 shows attendees calling for trust to be rebuilt and criticizing a lack of communication and transparency. One attendee mentioned feeling uncomfortable about entering Stonewall and that the board did not represent the community’s desires or needs.

“The community came very angry, and the board came very quiet, and the two met very poorly,” Alyssa Larson, Stonewall’s events and program coordinator, told the CN&R. “Most people in the audience at one point were yelling or crying.”

A little over a week later, three of the organization’s five board members resigned, along with the interim executive director (a former board member).

“It just felt like a tsunami, where it just hit us and took everything back out into the ocean with it,” Larson said.

Stonewall was left in shambles, with only two remaining board members, Katie Salcido and Jenita Rodriguez, who had to act quickly.

They temporarily appointed three people

who had previously served as chair of the board: Tray Robinson and Donna Humphrey, director and office coordinator, respectively, of Chico State’s Office of Diversity and Inclusion; and Tony Shafer. All were present at the community forum, as well.

Salcido said she came away from that meeting hearing that a “lack of transparency and representation” are two major things making people feel unsafe at Stonewall. The board will focus on that, she said, along with appointing its vacant positions and the executive director (currently filled on an interim basis by Stonewall bookkeeper Lori Brown).

“Our immediate goal is to fill the board with qualified individuals who are interested and passionate about seeing Stonewall thrive and want to be a part of that,” Salcido said.

The silver lining: There are already six applications from people with a desire to serve; the board can have as many as 15.

“I believe we’re in a time of healing.

We’re working on building trust,” Salcido continued. “It’s going to take time. Time to retool. Time to rebuild.”

Stonewall’s next board meeting will address

the recruitment process and timeline for the appointment of new board members

and the executive director, Salcido told the CN&R. The executive director’s job description is being reworked, and she anticipates the organization will begin accepting applications in September.

There is a “genuine sense of gratitude and thanks” for all of the hard work Kelem has done at Stonewall, Salcido added; under his leadership, the organization expanded its scope.

“He has been an important part of the Stonewall story,” Salcido said. “And he continues to support Stonewall from the sidelines.”

Kelem is hopeful for Stonewall—the remaining people are doing a good job of assessing where things are and trying to find the best way to move ahead, he said.

He can see the beginning of a plan, process and real intent to proceed in a way the community cares about and supports.

During an interview with the CN&R, Kelem reflected on his time with the organization—which goes back nine years—to when he became board treasurer, as well as how it has blossomed since it was founded in 1990, growing not just in size and service reach but in terms of visibility and collaboration with other organizations.

Kelem is proud of too many things to list. Under his leadership, the organization created a counseling program that grew from three to 16 volunteers, providing therapy to more than 60 people a week. Chico Pride and “Trans* Gender Non-Conforming Week” have become really important events not just for the LGBTQ community but the entire region.

Despite all of the turmoil, Stonewall will host a Pride celebration next month.

Larson said she’s positive and confident about it now, though it was “looking a little shaky there for a minute.”

Thematically, this year’s event focuses on confronting racism and increasing accessibility. Organizers are also trying to make it the greenest Pride so far. It was just a coincidence the theme happened to be “Seeds of Change,” Larson said.

But in retrospect, it has become fitting as the organization rights itself. Stonewall just hired therapist Kris Kidd as its director of clinical counseling services, received funding to bring on an intern for Pride and hired Matthew Dennis as the center coordinator.

“Because of all the upset that happened … really we are being powered by our community,” Larson said. “It kind of left us bare and vulnerable, but it seems like maybe that’s actually what we needed.” Ω

Red, white and Blue Star Moms of active-duty military unite for support and service Before her youngest son, Josh, joined the

Army, Kris Summers already had apprehensions.

Military service wasn’t foreign to her. Both of her grandfathers fought in World War II— and a nurse one met in wartime became her grandmother. Summers’ other son, Rolland, enlisted a couple years earlier out of Pleasant Valley High.

Josh was 17 at the time. Set to graduate from Durham High, he knew he wanted to be a “tanker”—an armor crewman, classification 19K, trained to operate armored equipment (i.e., tanks).

He wanted Group launch: The first meeting of Nor-Cal Blue Star to enlist Moms will be July 19, 6 p.m., at Round Table early, so a Clubhouse (2201 Pillsbury Road). More info: parent had facebook.com/norcalbluestarmoms to sign the papers.

Mom and Dad had a long talk. Mom accompanied Josh to the recruiter.

“It was scary,” Summers recalled. “I felt like I was kind of signing his life away a little bit.”

Now 19, Josh has received deployment orders for 2019; Summers doesn’t know to where. In the meantime, he’s stationed at Fort Stewart, in Georgia—less than a fivehour drive from where Rolland is stationed, at Fort Bragg, N.C. Rolland, who turns 23 in September, serves as a paratrooper and in the Military Police Corps.

“As a military parent, everything can and will change,” Summers said. She and other

military moms have two big sayings: “Hurry up and wait” and “Embrace the suck.” What happens to their children is beyond their control.

“It’s just hard because of the sacrifice they make,” she continued, “but at the same time, your pride is so overwhelming because of what they’re doing.”

For some sacrifices, only another military parent can understand.

Summers found moms in Facebook groups but sought connections close to home. The national group Blue Star Mothers of America has 29 chapters in California; the closest are in Yuba City and Chester.

Another local military mom, Amber Abney-Bass, had the same idea. She also has two sons—Justin and Cody Abney—serving in the Army, in the infantry.

“I felt I was getting a lot of support from Facebook pages,” she said. “I thought, How fun to get it locally.”

Together, Summers and Abney-Bass rallied others to form Nor-Cal Blue Star Moms. After an informational meeting last month, they’ve got 10 members and a board that includes Abney-Bass as president and Summers as vice president. They’ve applied for a charter from Blue Star Mothers of

SIFT ER Record wildfires?

So far this year, wildfires in California have surpassed 2017’s mid-year numbers as well as the state average—in both number of fires and acreage burned. Over the course of the entire year, 2017 was the worst for wildfires in a decade in California. And with drought conditions starting to worsen statewide as we head into the heart of summer, our region is ripe for a recordbreaking wildfire season.

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Kris Summers, vice president of newly forming Nor-Cal Blue Star Moms, has both of her sons in the Army.

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America; their first official meeting is set for July 19 (see infobox).

By affiliating with an organization that dates to 1942, Summers said, “I like the idea of carrying on the history … and starting a new history.”

A similar search for camaraderie brought

Crystal Vasquez to the nascent Nor-Cal Blue Star Moms. She, too, has two sons who left Chico for the Army: Jordan Scott, 21, a cavalry scout stationed at Fort Bliss in Texas, and Alex Vasquez, 20, a cavalry scout at Fort Stewart, along with Josh Summers.

“I was trying to connect with other parents,” Vasquez explained. “You don’t want to be a helicopter mom bugging the recruiter all the time. You don’t know what’s going on.

Even though they’re adults, they’re still your kids.”

Contact with other parents, in a way, also is like contact with the kids.

“It’s hard to know what the military is going to be like,” she added. “When your kid goes away to college … you can plan things.

You can’t plan around the military.”

Vasquez serves as secretary for Nor-Cal Blue Star Moms. The group plans to have two main thrusts: supporting each other and serving veterans. For the latter, Summers said, the list includes rides to appointments, grocery shopping, advocacy, assistance with paperwork and visits.

Aiding families is of prime importance; “if we can get involved with our veterans and help them out, we’ve succeeded,” Summers concluded. “There’s a bigger picture.”

—EVAN TUCHINSKY eva ntu c h insk y @ newsr ev iew.c o m

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Whyte is not alone. He and seven other businesses and a property owner on the block—from Star Liquors at the southeast corner of Nord and West Sacramento avenues to Taj Indian Cuisine to the north—filed an appeal with the city last week after the zoning administrator approved a use permit for a Subway drive-thru in the old Star Liquors building in the center of the complex. (Unlike purely administrative decisions, zoning administrator actions are public and appealable.)

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Several business owners along Nord Avenue— including Chien Vo (Angels Nails & Salon), Dave Whyte (Kona’s) and Pawan Pabbi (Star Liquors, with his son, Sanchit)—have appealed approval of a use permit for a drive-thru at the old Star Liquors building.

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at Kona’s this week.

“They’ve been very easy to deal with,” added Pawan Pabbi, owner of Star Liquors. “The city of Chico has always listened to us.”

“They want to be inclusive, to be business-friendly,” Whyte said.

“But a drive-thru [here] would have a negative impact on eight other businesses.”

The property is problematic for several reasons, Whyte and Pabbi assert. First, a description: The old Star Liquors is a standalone building between two buildings housing two businesses each. Its closest neighbors are Everyday Vietnamese to the south and Angels Nails & Spa to the north (Kona’s shares a building with Angels). Ravi Gundimeda, who owns the Subway restaurants in Chico, proposes to move the existing Subway in the Safeway shopping center across the street into this building. The drive-thru would be located along the north wall, which currently accommodates

parking. Cars would circle through the lot between the sandwich shop and Angels Nails.

The closest drive-thru Subways are in Paradise, Yuba City and Linda. Based on a field survey of those restaurants, the Subway Development Office in Sacramento/Reno submitted traffic estimates to the city. At the Nord store, they expect five to 15 cars per hour, with each order taking three to four minutes. Parking would be relocated from alongside the store to along the street. The fence at the rear of the property, which gives access to Paradise Apartments, would be replaced with a solid wall, though the pedestrian opening would remain.

“The use permit was approved, with conditions,” explained Bruce Ambo, principal planner for the city. Those conditions include a requirement that a queue of more than four cars would result in staff routing vehicles to wait in parking spaces for their food to be hand

delivered. Also, visual plans— including that of the wall—would go before the Architectural Review and Historic Preservation Board.

The appeal of the zoning administrator’s decision, however, kicks the use permit to the City Council for review, Ambo said.

It is slated for the Aug. 7 meeting. “There are a number of issues of contention that they’ve raised.

We’re in the process of reviewing those internally for a response.”

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HEALTHLINES Evbu Ogbeide, left, and Anna Robertson rarely find themselves at Chico Pediatrics at the same time, since one usually works in the hospital when the other is in the office.

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employ of Enloe. Their job there is to care for all hospitalized children, regardless of who their family pediatrician is (or whether they have one).

Ogbeide, for example, works 12-hour hospital shifts on Mondays and Tuesdays and one or two shifts on weekends.

Other days she’s seeing patients at Chico Pediatrics.

Robertson’s schedule is a mirror image of Ogbeide’s. When she is in the office seeing out-patients, Ogbeide is at the hospital, caring for in-patients—and vice versa.

Interviewed in her office at Chico Pediatrics, Ogbeide said she likes the variety the arrangement provides. “I had training in both in-patient and out-patient care,” she said, “and this enables me to keep up my out-patient skills.”

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hospitals nationwide.

Asarian was a partner—with Dr. Ejaz Ahmed—at Chico Pediatrics. Filling out the medical staff was Jill Berry, a nurse practitioner still with the practice. Replacing Asarian are two highly qualified pediatricians new to town, Drs. Evbu Ogbeide and Anna Robertson.

Why two doctors to replace one? Because in addition to their private practices at Chico Pediatrics, both Ogbeide and Robertson are also part-time, salaried hospitalists in the

has meant that patients who are hospitalized continue to see their primary-care physicians, with whom they and their parents have a bond, on a regular basis until they are discharged.

Under a hospitalist system, the doctors in charge of their care treat them only as long as they are hospitalized. When they’re released, their care reverts to their primary doctor. It’s a system that is rapidly growing throughout the country.

Critics of the system charge that it undermines the patient-physician relationship by substituting a stranger for a patient’s familiar doctor and increasing the likelihood of miscommunication, especially during admission and discharge. As Dr. Richard Gundermann writes in the New England Journal of Medicine, “The patient-physician relationship is built largely on trust, and levels of trust are usually lower among strangers.”

Another concern Gundermann notes is the tendency of hospitalists to lose their outpatient skills over time. By sharing both hospitalist and Chico Pediatrics duties, Ogbeide and Robertson avoid that possibility.

They also appreciate that they serve as backups to each other. When one is ill or on vacation, the other can fill in. Adding to this sense of security is the presence of Dr. Amy Dolinar, a full-time pediatric hospitalist at Enloe who works closely with Ogbeide and Robertson. This backup system alleviates one of the perennial dangers facing physicians—overworking.

Another advantage of the system,

Ogbeide points out, is that it makes life easier for pediatricians and family doctors who are located in the underserved small towns in Enloe’s service area, such as Willows and Orland. Now that Enloe provides hospitalist services, outlying doctors don’t have to drive to Chico to make rounds. They know their patients are in good hands.

Drs. Ogbeide and Robertson both have

impressive credentials and interesting backgrounds.

Ogbeide was born and reared in Nigeria, where she trained as an optometrist before relocating to the United States in 2003. She graduated from Cal State San Bernardino in 2008 and obtained her M.D. degree in 2013 from Meharry Medical College in Nashville, Tenn. She then completed a pediatric internship and residency training program at Nationwide Children’s Hospital in Columbus, Ohio—one of the nation’s premier pediatrics residency training programs.

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Ogbeide and her husband moved to Chico in 2017, soon after she completed her residency. They have four children—three boys and a girl—ranging in age from 2 to 14. Ogbeide reports that they have adjusted well to life in a smaller city, with the older kids getting involved in organized soccer and basketball.

The Ogbeide kids certainly have made an impression on Asarian. In a note added to their mother’s web bio, he enthuses: “Her three older children are absolutely awesome! It is too soon for me to characterize her toddler son other than he is very cute and active.”

Robertson is a recent arrival, having moved to Chico with her husband and two German shepherds only about a month ago. Before Chico, they lived in Arcata, where she worked for two years at that town’s Open Door Community Health Center, a federally qualified clinic established to serve primarily Medi-Cal patients.

She’s an East Coaster, having grown up in New York City, where she lived for more than 20 years. She gradu-

Evbu Ogbeide and Anna Robertson practice at Chico Pediatrics, 670 lindo Ave., Ste. 300. Visit chicopediatrics.com or call 343-8522.

ated from Hunter College magna cum laude, with a degree in creative writing and concentrations in mathematics and chemistry—an unusual combination, to say the least.

Her exploration of the medical world continued at the New York Institute of Technology College of Osteopathic Medicine, where she earned a master’s degree in neuromusculoskeletal science.

Her focus was on early childhood head trauma and its long-reaching effects into geriatric age.

From there she jumped to HarborUCLA Medical Center in Southern California. Today she is board certified in pediatric medicine, having practiced primary care at a Kaiser hospital in Los Angeles and at Open Door in Arcata.

Finally, after 13 years of intense preparatory training, she is settled in Chico and eager to welcome her patients. □

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Tips to avoid ‘text neck’ If you’re reading this in print, congratulations!

You’re not staring at your phone! Collectively, Americans check their smartphones over 8 billion times per day and young adults send or receive an average of over 100 text messages daily. Each time you hunch over your phone, you’re contributing to “text neck,” a nickname for the back, neck and spinal issues affecting those of us who spend too much time on their mobile devices. Extra weight is put on your spine when flexing your head forward, increasing the further you extend. Doctors

are predicting an astronomical increase in spine and neck issues over the next 20 years if the trend continues. Phones are an essential tool for most people, but you can correct your text neck by using voice-to-text, holding your phone at eye level or by lying on your back when using your phone for extended periods.

If you work in front of a computer, take frequent breaks to move your head around and readjust. There’s also this nifty little feature called a power button—try using it.

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GREENWAYS Jennifer Arbuckle of Northern Recycling and Waste Services plucks from the recycling intake one of many items customers mistakenly consider recyclable.

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Recycling and Waste Services in OParadise, Jennifer Arbuckle entered the n a typical afternoon at Northern

warehouse that serves as the intake point for recyclables collected by the hauler. A truck opened its payload doors and tipped its container, adding to the already massive mound in the storage bay.

Arbuckle, the recycling and public outreach coordinator for NRWS, surveyed the scene like a prospector looking for gold.

That’s what recyclables represented as recently as two years ago, when commodity prices meant waste haulers got rewarded for sorting paper, aluminum and reusable plastics. Times have changed.

This day (June 29), Arbuckle kept her eyes peeled for trash. She waded into the lip of the pile and pulled out piece after piece of detritus.

Shipping envelopes. Plastic bags. Shrink wrapping. Garden hoses. Dirty sauce bottles.

Oil-soaked cardboard. For various reasons, including recyclers’ requirements and sorters’ safety, none of these get repurposed; all get routed back to landfills, despite their initial placement in a green bin.

“To make our recyclables continue to be marketable, we need to make sure it’s a clean stream,” Arbuckle said. “What that means for residents is that you need to make sure to know before you throw and not just go, Oh, I’m not sure, so throw it in the recycling [bin]. That’s just not working out, because the contamination just continues to grow.”

Contamination refers to soiled materials sent to recyclers. Local haulers NRWS, Recology and Waste Management each has a regional material recovery facility (or MRF) to sort recyclables—none with water-cleansing capacity. Cleaning occurs at the manufacturing step of the process; thus, recyclers set standards.

Until last year, China was the top over-

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seas destination for raw recyclables, accepting one-fifth of California’s raw materials.

Then the Chinese government enacted a policy called the National Sword, which put stricter limits on contamination and banned 24 materials, and a campaign called Blue Sky 2018, which enforces that ban.

Prohibited materials range from industrial plastic and metal scrap to electric appliance parts.

The National Sword has significant impact. The cleanliness standard is so tight—0.5 percent for plastic and paper— that companies have sought other markets, predominantly in Southeast Asia. Moreover, the economic model has flipped: Recyclers get money from waste haulers.

“When markets were good, and you’re getting paid $200 per bale as opposed to paying $5 to market the bale, you had [revenue for] extra time to sort things out and get that clean,” Arbuckle said. “Now, that’s not the case.”

How restrictive is China’s new rule? Dan Shea,

general manager for Recology Butte Colusa, offered a visual example. The previous limit was 5 percent; now, with the reduction by a factor of 10, in a typical 4-yard dumpster, “you’re talking basically one piece of [soiled]

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paper is contaminating it.

“At half a percent, you might as well say zero contamination is the threshold.”

Recology, like Waste Management and NRWS, is working to educate customers on distinguishing between recyclable and nonrecyclable items. NRWS has an online tool called Waste Wizard that allows anyone, regardless of waste hauler, to enter an item into the search engine and learn whether it goes into the recycle bin. Recology and Waste Management have information online, too (see infobox).

“If we can prevent the material from getting into the stream and into the trucks,” Shea said, “that’s where you’re going to realize savings to individuals, communities and businesses, because it’s going to help us control the cost of sorting all that material.”

Shea also said he’d like to see makers of single-use containers such as Keurig cups have some “end-of-life responsibility” for their products, and for California to reduce reliance on foreign countries by increasing infrastructure for recycling.

The impetus for haulers to recycle even against their economic interest is state law dictating diversion from landfills.

“California is one of the states that pioneered recycling,” Shea added. “There’s an opportunity here to be the model for the rest of the country.”

Kendra Kostelecky, regional spokeswoman for Waste Management, said the National Sword “definitely has impacted our process” but her company’s size has offset effects that would impact consumers. Nonetheless, she reiterated the importance of only putting recyclable materials that are clean in recycle bins.

“Otherwise,” she continued, “we’re creating a greater greenhouse gas footprint. [Each nonrecyclable] goes the long way of hauling it to the wrong place, [sorting] it out and then hauling it back to the landfill where it should have been in the first place.” □

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Oak rESTOraTiON Only about a third of California’s oak woodlands remain, and our own local trees are not regenerating adequately due to intensive agriculture, woodcutting and urban development. Now in its fourth year, the Butte Environmental Council’s oak restoration program seeks to plant and protect native trees until they are selfsustaining. BEC needs volunteers to pitch in every Sunday at 8 a.m. in Upper Bidwell Park to water the 100 oak seedling plots that previous volunteers planted. These seedlings require help through 2021, so this is an ongoing volunteer opportunity.

Find out more about the project at becnet.org/oak-restoration and contact BEC at oaks@becnet.org or 891-6424.

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Incandescent Bridal owner Sheila Halali has brought her modern, urban and nontraditional wedding designs to Chico.

Born in Ohio, Halali, 25, attended Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, Ga., thinking she was going live in New York, become a fashion designer, and enjoy a Sex in the City lifestyle.

Then she met Felipe Urrutia, who was in the Army and stationed at nearby Fort Stewart.

They were already committed to each other when Halali moved to New York City as planned, but after two years, Urrutia became homesick for Orland, where he grew up. They decided to move to California and compromised on San Francisco, but neither was really happy there either. Now they are in Chico, and Halali says she’s felt a warm welcome into our comparatively small community as she launches her first collection online. See her fine art bridal studio for yourself at incandescentbridal.com.

What’s your specialty?

Wedding dresses and separates, like skirts and tops. It offers a lot of options to mix and match, so if you love the top of one dress and the bottom of another, sometimes you could get it as a skirt and a top.

Isn’t that less formal than usual?

Sometimes. There still are very formal, like full-lace, options.

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It figures that as soon as I start to settle into summer, thinking, It’s summer in Chico, time to relax, I’m suddenly bombarded with news of local businesses doing cool new stuff. Apparently people aren’t slowing down this year. Which makes my job easier—thanks, all!

NOW OPEN A couple of beer-centric businesses opened recently, including The

There’s also this big trend right now of over-skirts, so you’ll get a dress and then you’ll put a skirt over it, which is like the big poofy ceremony look, and then you take it off and have a slimmer dress underneath. That way you don’t have to bustle and it’s a little bit lighter.

I see black designs on your website.

Are people getting married in black?

More and more, color is becoming a really big trend in bridal, which I think is gonna stick around. I don’t think trend is really the right word. For me, I wear head-to-toe black, white and navy every day. I don’t wear color. The majority of my friends [and even] the majority of the women in New York City wear head-to-toe black every day, and that’s my customer, the urban woman. The thought of me putting on a full-length white

dress to stand in front of a million people is a terrifying thought for me, that would be the least comfortable thing in the world. I would want to wear black, black is what I’m comfortable in, it’s what I feel the best in. It’s timeless, classic.

What’s your goal for Incandescent Bridal?

I released six looks in June, and I’ve got another six in the works to be added as part two of this collection to launch in the beginning of October or late September. I’m really hoping to … get the pieces to the stores.

Especially since I have such a nontraditional take on bridal, it’s a lot harder to find those customers on my own, whereas they’re going to stores that specifically stock those nontraditional pieces. So that’s the goal.

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Commons—the pour-your-own brew bar on Park Avenue. Early reports are that the beer selection is impressive and the atmosphere fun. They’re holding a yoga class there on July 14 called Brew Flow. Twenty bucks gets you a 45-minute session, plus a 16-ounce beer. Cool!

And, seemingly without warning, Nor Cal Brewing Co. opened up last week at 180 Erma Court. With eight taps serving small-batch beers, plus a rotating lineup of food trucks, it’s a cool addition to Chico’s growing beverage district. Summer hours are Wednesday-Sunday. Check out norcalbc.com for more info.

I recently mentioned that Brave Coffee was coming to the corner of Mangrove and Vallombrosa avenues. I haven’t made it over yet to check it out, but owner Gentry Morton informed me it’s open for business.

EXPANDING MENUS A bunch of restaurants around town are offering new things this summer, which is exciting. Downtown hotspot Burgers and Brew announced last week that it’s added a full vegan and vegetarian menu. Items include veggie, portobello and tofu burgers, plus there’s a breakdown of the restaurant’s breads and condiments and their veg-worthiness.

Taps Bar and Grill, at Fourth and Walnut streets, recently launched a happy hour menu, served 3-6 p.m., Monday-Thursday, with items ranging from nacho fries and garlic knots to burger sliders and, the one I’m itching to try: lambburghini pockets. Also, during the summer, Taps is serving brunch only on Sundays (through Aug. 12).

Across town at The Lab Bar & Grill, owner Kevin Jaradah is putting the finishing touches on the place in preparation for the grand opening Friday (July 13). He has a couple of new chefs who he says are top-notch. A new, full menu is now being served (don’t worry—the to-die-for chicken sandwich isn’t going anywhere).

Video gamers take note: The Chico Taproom, in the Almond Orchard, is starting a regular eight-person Nintendo 64 Mario Kart tournament on the first Monday of the month. Check Facebook for updates, including prize info.

COMING SOON A new food delivery service is poised to open in Chico. Actually, it’s been operating since May, but only for Raley’s eCart buyers. Soon, however, FoodJets, a Sacramento-based company, will be delivering food from participating restaurants. So far, according to Facebook, a bunch of places are already on board, including: Foodie Cafe, Fresh Twisted Cafe, Gogi’s Cafe, Ike’s Place and Uncle Skinny’s BBQ. Stay tuned for updates—an app is in the works.

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n a recent morning in the rolling hills of rural Yuba County, a Sonoran Harris’ hawk named Mariposa perched patiently in a cluster of oak trees, her gaze fixed on a young woman circled by a half-dozen other people in the meadow below. The hawk stood, unflinching, as the woman counted slowly, raising and lowering her arm in an exaggerated fashion until—on “Three!”—she tossed the partial carcass of a quail chick straight into the air.

Mariposa launched and closed the roughly 20 feet between the perch and her “prey” in an instant, well before the tidbit reached its apex. In a flash of feathers against a clear blue sky, the hawk executed a flawless 270-degree backflip, snatched the morsel in its left talon, dropped to ground and devoured her catch faster than her human onlookers could finish releasing a collective “Whoaaaa!”

About 30 minutes earlier, the woman— like most other visitors to West Coast Falconry (WCF)—had never come noseto-beak with a bird of prey, and certainly never worn one of the gauntlet-like leather falconer’s gloves covering the left hands of everyone in the group.

WCF, located east of Marysville, is one of about a dozen groups in the United States granted permits from the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to allow unlicensed people to handle birds of prey under the guidance of a master falconer. Its motto is “Preservation through education,” and its objective, according to owner/founder Kate Marden, is to teach people about raptors and their importance to the environment and the many human-caused and natural threats they face. WCF does so by offering a glimpse into the art of falconry.

Such an opportunity is indeed rare, as there are only about 700 licensed falconers in California, and 4,000 nationwide.

Trump attacks hawks

Raptors, and indeed all wild birds, face a new threat: changes to the centuryold Migratory Bird Treaty Act (MBTA) enacted by the Trump administration last December, when the Interior Department released a legal opinion stating “the take [killing] of birds resulting from an activ-

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ity is not prohibited by the Migratory Bird Treaty Act when the underlying purpose of that activity is not to take birds.” That means companies and individuals who “unintentionally” or “incidentally” kill large numbers of birds via various means including oil spills, waste oil pits, rodenticides, communication towers, wind farms or other financial pursuits can’t be penalized.

According to the National Audubon Society—which, paradoxically, slated 2018 as a celebration of the MBTA’s centennial anniversary—the White House’s Cailleach, a Eurasian eagle-owl, flies to apprentice falconer/ WCF staff member Hilary Kaseman during a recent “owl encounter” program.

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survival recent rollback on protection will benefit oil companies more than any other industry. Those companies are responsible for more than 90 percent of prosecutions for illegal takes, with 2010’s Deepwater Horizon and 1989’s Exxon Valdez spills accounting for 97 percent of oil-company prosecutions based on the MBTA. The new White House guidelines would protect corporations responsible for such cataclysmic disasters from litigation.

“Gutting the MBTA runs counter to decades of legal precedent, as well as basic conservative principles,” said David

O’Neill, Audubon’s chief conservation officer, in response to the rollbacks. “For generations Republicans and Democrats have embraced both conservation and economic growth and now this administration is pitting them against each other.”

Environmental groups aren’t letting the changes go unchallenged: On May 27, a consortium including Audubon, American Bird Conservancy and the Center for Biological Diversity sued the Department of the Interior; its principal deputy solicitor, Daniel Jorjani; and the Fish and Wildlife Service. And in February, California Assemblyman Ash Kalra (D-San Jose) introduced Assembly Bill 2627, which is aimed at allowing the state’s Fish and Game Commission to protect birds from such threats in spite of the federal government’s new directives. The bill is currently winding its way through the legislative process.

Raptors and their allies

Marden, owner of West Coast Falconry, is driven by old-fashioned conservationist values. “That’s so Trump,” she said of the MBTA changes. “I hope we survive this, I really do. The whole administration freaks me out, and so does the amount of support he gets for crap like that. I sometimes want to tell people, ‘You guys, take your heads out of your backsides, it’s scientifically

It’s a rough life for raptors and other wild birds, and Trump’s rollbacks to a century-old law complicate conservation efforts Birders at Altacal Audubon Society say local numbers of white-tailed kites have decreased significantly— a trend that’s in line with statewide research.

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proven that our planet can’t survive the way we’re going.’”

Marden spoke on the back patio of WCF, which she describes as a “practical zoo.” The ranch-like property serves as home to her and roughly two-dozen raptors, as well as cats, dogs, chickens, canaries and a cow.

A 13-year-old Eurasian eagle-owl named Cailleach (pronounced Kay-leesh, the Gaelic word for “wise woman”) rested beneath a nearby bottlebrush bush and a 35-year-old Finnish goshawk—the species that serves as the primary avatar in Helen Macdonald’s best-selling 2015 memoir H Is for Hawk—wandered around the yard before settling down in a patch of shade; both birds were unfettered and uncaged.

Cailleach was on deck for an upcoming “owl encounter” program, and Marden referred to the foliage as “her green room.”

Zephyr, the goshawk, is a former hunting and breeding bird that developed arthritis and cataracts, and is spending her golden years relaxing and receiving care at WCF. Marden is a master falconer who

Glove up and get involved:

To learn more about West Coast Falconry, find it on Facebook or go to westcoast-falconry.com.

Information about the Altacal Audubon Society can be found at altacal.org.

received her license in 1998, but began working with raptors several years earlier at renaissance fairs. She said she’d become enthralled with birds of prey when a falconer visited her classroom when she was 9 years old.

She started WCF in her native Marin County with her then-husband in 2005, but the business didn’t really develop into its current form until 2010—after she moved outside of Marysville, divorced and enlisted the help of longtime friend and fellow master falconer Jana Barkley. Barkley acts as WCF’s manager, and also wrote a novel based on falconry called The Apprentice.

Marden offered a rundown of threats to raptors other than recent changes to protective legislation. Those include diseases like West Nile virus and aspergillosis—a fungal infection that is devastating to birds’ respiratory systems. Man-made threats include loss of habitat, poaching, structures like power lines and communication towers, and rodenticides. “Farmers use poison to kill vermin; a bird snatches up a slow-moving mouse to take home to the wife and kids and everyone gets killed,” she explained.

Furthermore, nature is harsh on the birds: Marden said studies indicate only a small fraction of wild raptors survive to sexual maturity (which averages around three years for most species), due largely to the fact that

they often do not pass along adequate hunting skills. She said starvation is a common cause of death for young birds.

Kite-eating development

The white-tailed kite, a raptor covered in snowy feathers with gray-and-black trimmings, holds a special place in the heart of members of the Altacal Audubon Society, the local chapter of the national organization. The bird is the namesake of the group’s regular newsletter and graces its logo, and many of its members believe the kite, though currently not officially threatened or especially rare, is disappearing from the area.

“In Butte County, you can ask any birder that’s studied local bird populations for any length of time and they’ll tell you that the white-tailed kite’s numbers have gone down drastically,” said Scott Huber, Altacal’s conservation chair and a past president of the group. “This is an issue that involves the No. 1 threat to birds, in our area and elsewhere, which is loss of habitat, as local grasslands are developed [for human use].”

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Local birders said that more studies need to be done in the North State, as they believe the decline is even more dramatic here. Furthermore, the national Audubon’s climate change models predict massive losses to the species’ habitat range—which currently spans from California to Chile—in coming years.

Changes to the MBTA could manifest in developers making less effort to mitigate damage due to loss of habitat. Huber said that weakened restrictions could benefit many industries—locally, he pointed to agriculture—while harming conservation efforts.

“It gives the ability of commerce and industry to not be penalized for the accidental take of migratory birds and birds of prey,” Huber said. “That translates to making them not have to try very hard to assure that they’re not accidentally killing birds in whatever their business pursuit is. We believe there needs to be significantly more attention to detail to ensure that’s not happening, rather than less.

“Changes to the Migratory Bird Treaty Act basically amount to letting companies off the hook so that they don’t have to concern themselves with practices that minimize harm to bird species.”

Huber also spoke about bird issues related to wind energy generation, particularly due to improper siting of such operations.

In the Bay Area’s Altamont Pass,

Jana Barkley, pictured here with barn owl Amadan Ban Bheag, is a master falconer at WCF who shares her encyclopedic knowledge of raptors during educational presentations.

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The word “raptor” derives from the Latin word for “one who seizes by force,” a reference to the strong, sharp talons the birds use to snatch their prey. Owl talons (pictured) are sometimes feathered, an adaptation for life in cold climates.

for example, wind turbines kill an estimated 4,700 birds a year, including 1,127 raptors, according to a 2010 study published in the Journal of Wildlife Management.

Of special concern in that area are golden eagles, and the Audubon Society estimates between 75 and 110 of that species are killed there each year.

“The amount of golden eagles that dies in the Altamont Pass is staggering,” Huber said. “It’s a migration corridor for eagles that are leaving fledgling areas in the

Northwest Territories and Alaska.

They love that path, and it ends up being a really sad choice for them.”

Hand-to-talon

Marden said she modeled WCF after falconry centers common throughout Europe, and that her eventual goal is to further develop based on that model—where visitors pay a small fee to view the birds and watch presentations, and can sign up for more in-depth experiences.

The business offers “hawk walks,” in which small groups handle hawks while hiking through oak woodlands, as well as owl encounters, falconry lessons and more. Each begins with a rundown of the history of falconry and information about raptor anatomy and behavior. Then, visitors “glove up” and get to handle the birds as they run through a series of extraordinary exercises.

Additionally, WCF birds and staff make regular appearances at public events and visit North State classrooms throughout the school year. This summer, WCF is offering special classes at Bouchaine Winery in Napa, and kids and teen

Shadow, a 7-year-old Gyrfalcon, is one of about two-dozen raptors— including hawks, falcons, owls and a vulture—that live at WCF.

Mariposa, a Harris’ hawk, flies through a meadow during a hawk walk in May.

falconry classes in addition to its regular experiences.

Though WCF is not a rehabilitation center, Marden and her staff sometimes use their skills to assist in rescuing and transporting distressed raptors.

“A lot of people find injured birds and don’t know what to do,” Marden said. She noted that the California Department of Fish and Wildlife maintains a list of official wildlife rehabilitation centers on its website, but her business is easier to find on the internet. “When you look for birds of prey [in the North State], we tend to pop up.” Also, one of her neighbors is a game warden, and she said he often calls WCF for assistance with the birds.

In the month of June alone, Marden and her staff assisted in rescuing eight raptors: “One week there was a red-shouldered hawk that had to go to rehab and a barn owl that we helped get out of a warehouse,” Marden said. “The next week there was an injured redtailed hawk out in a wildlife area and four baby barn owls that had come out of a nest in a warehouse and gotten some oil on them. Then there was another barn owl at the pound in Roseville who’d been shot in the wing, so we picked up that bird and took it in as well.”

WCF staff takes the birds first to the Bird and Pet Clinic of Roseville for immediate veterinary help, and then to the California Foundation for Birds of Prey, in Lincoln, for rehabilitation. Marden praised Dr. Vickie Joseph, a veterinarian at the foundation, as one of the nation’s top raptor experts.

Why so many bird rescues lately?

“It’s that time of year,” Marden said. “The young birds—we [falconers] call them branchers but most birders call them fledglings— are just learning to fly. The body

“I want people to understand the relationships between these birds and people.”

–Kate Marden, West Coast Falconry owner

temperature of most of these birds is around 102 degrees, and with the heat they tend to leave the nest early.”

Such was the case with the oily baby barn owls, she said: “They’d been running around between these barrels full of oil and there was some residue on their feathers, and they were also dehydrated from the heat.

“There was dead voles on the ground, so I was concerned about poison in the food chain, which is a huge problem, but the warehouse owners said they don’t use poison,” she continued. “I realized the mama had been throwing food on the ground for them.”

Marden said she plans to call the Lincoln facility soon to see if the baby owls are rehabbed and ready to be re-released to the wild. “If so, I’ll take them back up to the same area and let them go,” she said.

Killer instinct

Marden and the WCF staff are strong proponents of continuing the tradition of hunting with raptors, which she acknowledges rubs some people she meets the wrong way.

“People get offended when I explain I’m hunting with the birds, but that’s what they do; they’re obligate carnivores,” she said. “A lot of times, those people aren’t vegetarians and don’t really care where their meat comes from, or what kind of torture it went through to produce their meal. We live on a carbon-based planet where something has to die so other things can live, so I prefer to honor my prey.”

WCF staff explained that falconry goes back at least 10,000 years, as indicated by Mongolian petroglyphs depicting men hunting snow leopards with raptors.

The sport also figures prominently in the Mesopotamian Epic of Gilgamesh, one of the earliest examples of literature.

Altacal’s Huber said he counts several falconers among his friends and that the annual Snow Goose Festival, which his organization sponsors, often includes falconry exhibits. As for hunting with raptors, Huber said, “Birds eat birds … that’s a fact of life.

“There are some birders and bird people who are anti-falconry, but for the most part I don’t think it’s something most of them spend a lot of time thinking about,” he said. “Personally, the falconers I have worked with are responsible and ethical. They care very much about their birds and have a close relationship with them.”

Marden said helping people understand that special connection is the primary goal at WCF. “I don’t really care if visitors choose to become falconers, but I want people to understand the relationships between these birds and people,” she said. “Every time we take them out, we let them go, and they come back, even though every bird here—except old Zephyr there—is capable of surviving in the wild.

“The best way to understand that connection is to have a bird fly to your glove … it’s an amazing thing that most people never get to experience. Seeing people’s reactions when that happens reminds me of how it felt for me 20 years ago when I first started working with a bird. It’s magical, and I love to be able to share that gift.” Ω

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the only consistent across 20-plus recordings of collaborative sonic experiments with more than two dozen rotating members has been change.

So, it’s not a surprise to hear something different again on the recently released 1984. Instead of Kanella singing, it’s Chicago-based artist Melina Ausikaitis and her Appalachiainvoking vocals that the album is built around. by The evocative scenes that Ausikaitis paints Jason Cassidy in her folky parables are met with wide open soundscapes collaged together with electric j asonc @ newsrev iew.c om and acoustic instruments, field recordings and electronic effects. In advance of his band’s upcoming show at Duffy’s Tavern (Saturday, Preview: July 14), the CN&R talked to Kinsella—who, Joan of Arc performs in addition to fronting Joan of Arc, has played Saturday, July 14, in an impressive roster of underground acts 8:30 p.m. The Americas open. that has included Cap’n Jazz, Make Believe, Cost: $10 American Football and Owls—about the new album and what comes next.

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How did you approach composing 1984 ?

It started with all [of Ausikaitis’] songs a cappella. She’s been writing these songs for about six years, and we have been trying to figure out different ways of arranging them for a few years.

In terms of that combination of electronics with this “Appalachian” feel [you mentioned], we weren’t specifically thinking about that contrast as much we were thinking about what’s true to us. That’s just how Melina sings. She’s from rural Massachusetts and that’s just how she naturally sings, and those are her stories. These are the elements we had to work with, and this is what came out.

Was it a gratifying process?

Yeah, for sure …. It took six years of false starts [to write this record], but it also sort of happened really quick over three days of recording. And then my cousin Nate [Kinsella] spent a long time puzzling it all together. We recorded, I think, nine songs of Melina’s and like three versions of each and then let 22

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Will this approach carry over?

No. We just got the Melina record done. I’m sitting in my little smoking room, and I got six [records]—three of them are mixed and just aren’t out yet, and [the rest] are mostly tracked.

They aren’t shit—it’s not that I don’t have a filter—but they’re all very different; different prompts, different groups, different collaborators. We just work on stuff every day.

Doing something different than before is kind of the hallmark of Joan of Arc. Yeah. I mean, we had a down six weeks or two months where nothing was happening after Melina’s album was all recorded.

Nate was mixing it and sending us stuff for responses. So we were like, “what’s a record sound like if we wire my entire house together and we can’t be loud, we can’t bother the neighbors?

What kind of music do we make?” And 26 songs came out of it.

The sort of idea of this one, is it’s half Velvet Underground ballads and half old-school East Coast hip-hop. Those are, like, the sort of two things that are always there for us. So it’s like, what if we just embrace that these are the edges of what we think about?

How do we hit those and then how do we shuffle them together in a way that makes sense?

For this tour, will you be sticking to the sonic feel of the new album, or mixing it up?

It’s definitely stuff from all the records. The new record is a lot more Melina singing … so maybe to counterbalance it there’s a little more older stuff. There are quite a few things that we haven’t played in 15 years that we’ve learned for this tour.

Your bands are often written about as being seminal in the history of American underground music. Do you ever look back and consider your place as an influencer?

No. Sometimes, there will be a thing that happens. We just had an opportunity come up that we aren’t making public yet. (I don’t mean to sound too mysterious about this.) I was, like, whoa, who gets that? That’s cool. What the fuck, how did that happen?

[But] it’s certainly not a rock star life at all. It’s still, the last couple of days of every month, I’m like, “Oh god, where’s rent coming from? How am I going to do this?” Ω

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CAR & BIKE NIGHT: The Wanderers MC host a car and bike show in front of the brewery. Thu, 7/12, 5pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. feather fallscasino.com

PRISONER LETTER WRITING: The North Valley Prisoner Support crew gathers to write letters to incarcerated individuals. Thu, 7/12, 6pm. Free. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

Music FEATHER RIVER GYPSIES: Gypsy swing in the park. Thu, 7/12, 6:30pm. Palermo Park, Oroville.

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Theater I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: See Friday. Sun, 7/15, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

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Special Events PREDATOR VS. PREY: See Saturday. Mon, 7/16, 11am. Free. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade. 5308956144.

SILVER DOLLAR SPEEDWAY DOLLAR NIGHT: 360 sprints, street stocks, hobby stocks and sport modified races all night long for just a buck. Spend the money you save on earplugs. Fri, 7/13, 7pm. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St. silverdollarfair.org

SLICE OF CHICO: Summertime sidewalk shopping and plenty of watermelon to help cool you down on a hot day. Support your downtown shops and restaurants during this fun annual event. Fri, 7/13, 9am. Downtown Chico. 530-345-6500. downtownchico.com

TEXAS HOLD ’EM TOURNAMENT FUNDRAISER: Play poker to help raise funds for Inspire School of Arts & Sciences students traveling Scotland to perform in next year’s Edinburgh Fringe Festival. New players are welcome and can attend a clinic at 5pm to learn the game. Fri, 7/13, 6pm. $30. Casino 99, 175 E. 20th St. 530-604-7336. inspirescotlandtrip.com

Theater I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: Described as “Seinfeld set to music,” this hilarious musical revue explores love’s tumultuous progression from cheesy pickup

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lines and awkward first dates to coping with newborns and sex in the golden years. The show’s New York production was the second longest-running musical in off-Broadway history. Fri, 7/13, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

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Special Events BLESSING OF THE GRAPES: Celebrate the beginning of harvest and crush season at this annual event. The monk market opens at 9am with the blessing taking place at 10:30am Wine tasting ($5) and tours to follow. Sat 7/14, 9am. Free. New Clairvaux Vineyard, 26240 7th Street, Vina. 530-8392200. newclairvauxvineyard.com

FASHION SHOW: Pleasant Valley High School art students and Butte College Fashion Department collaboration features the latest in back-to-school looks, textile upcycling and a workshop discussing selfconfidence. Sat 7/14, 1pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E. 20th St.

PREDATOR VS. PREY: Learn about the pyramid of nature during this free summertime program. No reservation required. Sat 7/14,

11am. Free. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade. 530-895-6144.

LASSEN PARK DAY HIKE: Hike from Cold Boiling Lake to Mill Creek Falls (about 6 miles) with the Sierra Club, Yahi Group. Bring lunch, water and $8 to catch the carpool at Chico Park & Ride. Sat 7/14, 7:30am. Chico Park & Ride, west lot, Highway 99/32. 530-891-8789.

LEGO CLUB: Bring your imagination and the library provides the bricks. Sat 7/14, 10am. Butte County Library, Oroville Branch, 1820 Mitchell Ave., Oroville.

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Highly recommended! Tue, 7/17, 8:30pm. $17.

Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

RADIM ZENKL: National mandolin champion performs a solo concert to benefit Sojourner’s House on the Ridge. Zenkl has reinvented the instrument with a mind-blowing technique that makes a single mandolin sound like two. Michael Sun and Susan Dobra open the show. Tue, 7/17, 7:30pm. $10-$20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

530-872-1132. nortonbuffalohall.com

Theater THE ROVER OR THE BANISH’D CAVALIERS: Slow Theatre salon reading of the Aphra Behn play about a group of Englishmen in Naples during Carnival. Tue, 7/17, 7pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

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STONEWALL ALLIANCE BOARD MEETING: The organization’s first meeting since big shakeups in leadership. The new management team and board members will discuss transparency issues and the process for a new executive director. Wed, 7/18, 6pm. Free. Stonewall Alliance, 358 E. Sixth St. stonewallchico.org

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MOVIE IN THE PARK: Chico Area Recreation and Park District presents Despicable Me 3 with free popcorn provided by sponsors. The movie starts at dusk. Sat 7/14, 8:30pm. Free.

Sycamore Field, Lower Bidwell Park. 530-8954711. chicorec.com

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SLICE OF CHICO: See Friday. Sat 7/14, 9am. Downtown Chico. 530-345-6500. downtownchico.com

SUMMER FRUIT PIE CONTEST: Drop off your pie at Zucchini & Vine at 10:30am, winners announced at noon and sampling available after pie royalty is crowned. Sat 7/14, 10:30am. Zucchini & Vine, 204 Main St.

Music REESE WELL: Live music for brunch. Sat, 7/14. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

Theater I LOVE YOU, YOU’RE PERFECT, NOW CHANGE: See Friday. Sat, 7/14, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

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An asylum-seeking immigrant who escaped Czechoslovakia in the late 1980s, Radim Zenkl left his homeland for both political freedom and to be closer to his musical influences in America. Shortly after arriving in the Bay Area, the mandolinist was performing with the likes of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman, Béla Fleck and Dan Hicks, combining his Eastern European musical heritage with bluegrass, flamenco, gypsy jazz and other disparate styles. A truly face-melting innovator of the instrument, Zenkl’s wizardry will be on display when he plays Norton Buffalo Hall in Paradise on Tuesday, July 17, with local musical duo, Michael Sun and Susan Dobra.

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late Claudia Steel. Through 7/15. 900 Esplanade.

A BEAUTIFUL LIFE FURNISHINGS: Candy Matthews & Matt Auvinen, a pair of longtime Chico artists showcase their watercolor images of nature and classical carved sculptures. Through 8/31. Free.

250 E. First St., 530-487-7229.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Watercolors of Jim Lawrence, exhibit covers more than 20 years of his work, showing a progression of styles and subjects. Through 8/30.

Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise, 530-8775673. paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: Portrait Revolution, a collaboration with Idea Fab Labs, this show is based on the art project, Julia Kay’s Portrait Party and the book, Portrait Revolution, to reevaluate what portraiture is. Experience a wide range of interpretations in all media. Reception is on Saturday, July 14, 5-8pm. Through 7/27.

450 Orange St. and 603 Orange St.

HEALING ART GALLERY, ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Ernest King, mixed media paintings by Northern California artist. Through 7/20.

Free. 265 Cohasset Road., 530-332-3856.

IDEA FAB LABS: Portrait Revolution, a collaboration with Chico Art Center, this show is based on the art project, Julia Kay’s Portrait Party and the book, Portrait Revolution, to reevaluate what portraiture is. Experience a wide range of interpretations in all media. Reception is on Saturday, July 14, 5-8pm. Through 7/27.

450 Orange St. and 603 Orange St.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART:

Way of Life, Oregon photographer Tracy Libby tells the story of the American West through her sepia tones, stark black-and-white images and brilliant color work. Through 7/21. 732 Fourth St., Orland. orlandartcenter.com

PARADISE ART CENTER: Oil & Acrylic, showcase of original works by Paradise Art Center members. All styles and subject matter on display through July. Through 7/28.

5564 Almond St., Paradise. paradise-artcenter.com

Museums 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.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Summer Exhibits, learn how our climate catastrophe is affecting the acidification of the oceans and changing California’s wildflower blooms, plus life beneath the sea with coral reefs and hammerhead sharks.

Through 9/8. $5-$7. 625 Esplanade. csuchico.edu

PATRICK RANCH MUSEUM: Patrick Ranch Museum, working farm and museum with rotating exhibits open every Saturday and Sunday from 11am-3pm.

10381 Midway, Durham. patrickranch museum.org

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Killer Whale frontman and yacht-rockin’ hillbilly Thomas Johnson (with drummer Nathaniel Bilbrey).

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promo: “Surrogate (Legend Status Indie Chico Vets), Killer Whale (Neo Soul Blues Psychedelia from S.F.), and Solar Estates (Tite Bros of Electronic Rock Music).” An story and interesting and photo by Carey Wilson promising mix, especially since Review: I had somehow Killer Whale, Surrogate never seen the and Solar Estates, two locals, both July 6, at The of which are Maltese. well-established and venerable

by Chico rock-band standards, with Surrogate founded in 2007 and Solar Estates having descended from band leader Aric Jeffries’previous project, French Reform, in 2014.

Solar Estates opened the program with a set of moody, electronically infused songs built on a quiet-to-loud dynamic. Jeffries used ambient keyboard textures rather than obvious melodies or rhythms as support for conveying the emotional intensity of his songs. During the set, guitarist Loren “Cobby” Weber and bassist Stephen Galloway swapped roles at times, and it was musically interesting to see and hear their different approaches to their instruments.

Weber on bass is rather staid, rock solid on stage in the manner of John Entwistle of The Who fame, while Galloway becomes possessed by the music, engaging in the facial

grimaces and rock-star postures that erupt involuntarily from acolytes of sonic exploration.

Watching Solar Estates, I couldn’t help but be reminded of a comment my friend Matt Hogan made to me while watching a nearly transcendental performance by the Downsiders, much revered Chico noisemakers from the 1990s: “They certainly are earnest, aren’t they?”

Sandwiched between the two locals was San Francisco’s Killer Whale. The band debuted in 2013, manifesting in various forms in Austin, Texas, and Baton Rouge, La., before eventually settling into its current Bay Area home base.

Led by guitarist/singer/songwriter Thomas Johnson, the three-piece— completed by Nathaniel Bilbrey on drums and Shawn Wyman on bass—brought a refreshing melange of styles to dextrous and exhilarating life on the cozy Maltese stage.

Looking like, and sometimes sounding like, a yacht-rockin’ hillbilly in bib overalls, trucker cap, black shades, shoulder-length hair and an impressive mustachio, Johnson reminded me a bit of Primus’ Les Claypool, both in looks and his confidently laid-back approach to presenting inventive solos. And the guy can sing, too, often in a clear falsetto reflective of old-school rhythm and blues, but also in a soulful natural tone well-suited to music that blended several branches of rock ’n’ roll’s musical family tree. For instance, “What It Means” employed a chim-

ing, finger-picked riff on the Fender Telecaster that was reflective of both Caribbean influences and country-blues to support a longing lyric, with hints of gospel tucked into its melody as well.

Throughout the band’s nearly hour-long set, Johnson and his lucid rhythm section kept tempos danceable. And the few dancers in the crowd made the most of it, particularly a slender young dude in heavy ink and sleeveless tee who performed a sort of self-directed interpretive dance with what appeared to be a Magic 8-ball rolling between his hands.

Following a rousing whoop of approval for Killer Whale’s psychedelic honky-tonk, the local heroes of Surrogate commandeered the stage with veteran nonchalance as the crowd doubled with an infusion of patio-dwellers crowding in to see their favorites. Unfortunately, the volume in the room, both from the stage and the audience, also seemingly doubled, making frontman Chris Keene’s lyrics incomprehensible and most solos a bit blurred beneath the sonic assault.

The songs hewed with considerable faith to the indie-rock ethos, being very well-crafted, catchy and perfectly executed artifacts of the genre. And the cheering after each song made it clear that Surrogate’s local following is familiar enough with the band’s work to not be deterred by overblown sound, devoted as they were to showing up and just rocking out. Ω

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Iwill make a seaweed beer—if one hasn’t already.

’m calling it: Sometime soon, a brewery in California

And if they don’t, they should. We have seen beers brewed with additions of kale, mint, basil, hot peppers, avocados, kabocha squash, kimchi and bull testicles. For a coastal area like California, where foodies gush about sourcing foods locally and where seaweed is natuby rally abundant, it amazes me that Alastair Bland no commercial brewery, to the best of my knowledge, has yet made a seaweed beer.

Seaweeds have been staples of coastal diets for a long time—probably since even before humans were quite human. Today, nations around the world incorporate seaweed into their cuisine. The seaweed soups, salads and sushi rolls of Japanese cuisine need no introduction. Less familiar to the average American are things like cairgein pudding, a Scottish cream-based dessert made with a local seaweed, and the breads, broths and potato dishes historically made with dulse, a group of seaweeds that have been eaten for ages.

Now, I think it’s time we see them incorporated into more beer. Some brewers feel the same way—though not any near us, as far as I know. In Maine, Marshall Wharf Brewing Co. has made Sea Belt, a strong Scotch-style ale using sugar kelp. In New Hampshire, Portsmouth Brewery makes Selkie, a similar beer using the same kind of marine algae. Last September, Alexander Haro, a writer for The Inertia, wrote about this latter beer. From the start of the story, Haro made it clear he didn’t like the very idea of seaweed beer. “[S]ea kelp tastes like shit,” he wrote in the first

paragraph, in which he also described engaging in a foolish drinking game as a younger man that involved using a cut of bull kelp as a beer bong. I don’t generally trust the opinions of people who relish decades-old memories of drinking in college, and I’ll disregard his graceless opinion of seaweeds.

After all, seaweeds taste phenomenal. I mean, who doesn’t like nori? Dried and toasted, nori and other seaweeds like bladder chain, sea lettuce, wakame and kombu offer a salty, toasty, umami flavor that is almost totally unique in the culinary realm. Some might think that this section of the flavor spectrum doesn’t belong in beer. I would counter by saying that beers come in just about every size, color and shape. We all know beers that are sweet, bitter, sour and even a bit salty. Some beers are overpoweringly smoky flavored. I think the evocative but gentle flavors of seaweed fall well within the spectrum of what is reasonable in a beer.

Unfortunately, there don’t seem to be any seaweed beers on the West Coast. Google searching revealed only those of New England. Brewer Christian Kazakoff at Iron Springs Pub in Fairfax doesn’t know of any brewers who have used seaweed as a flavoring agent, though he noted that many breweries use Irish moss, an Atlantic marine algae, as a clarifying agent.

I reckon this will change. Long days of summer sun are upon us, and coastal seaweeds are growing rapidly. So is the state’s population of craft breweries, now at well over 900 with each of them striving to do something original.

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BRAGGING RIGHTS SOUNDCLASH:

Dubplates only! Zion Roots Sound V.I. faces off against Full Watts HiFi in a best of eleven round contest while you get your groove on. Fri, 7/13, 9pm. $10-$15. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

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KELLY TWINS ACOUSTIC: Acoustic

“living room” music with Jon and Chris. Thu, 7/12, 6pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

LOW FLYING BIRDS: Americana and bluegrass for happy hour during the downtown market. Thu, 7/12, 6pm. La Salles, 220 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

ROCK FOR SOX: Chico Area Punks and School Ties host this rad benefit to collect socks and back to school supplies for homeless and foster youth. Featuring music

by Viking Skate Country, Pervert, Kentucky Lungs and This Band Is

Your Band. Sliding scale of $5-$10 or bring a pack of socks. Thu, 7/12, 8pm. $5-$10. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St. maltesebarchico.com

SURF NOIR KINGS: Ripping original surf

tunes. Thu, 7/12, 6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade. 530-521-6473. farmstarpizza.com

TOMMY & THE TUNEBOX: A free show on the patio with local folk-pop crew, featuring guy-gal vocals (plus, super-tasty Alaskan lead guitar— killer!). Josh Owen opens. Thu, 7/12, 8:30pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St

Let’s Plant!

Featuring metalcore acts Gigantes and Anever, with support from Lightfinder and Citysick. Fri, 7/13, 7pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

NORTHERN TRADITIONZ: Country,

rock and country-rock. Fri, 7/13, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

REDWOOD BLACK: Country dance hits

in the lounge. Fri, 7/13, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountry casino.com

REUNION: Tribute to the hits of the 1970s from Tom Petty and the Rolling Stones to Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac and Blondie. Fri, 7/13, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

COUNTRY MILE: Dirt-kicking country

classics. Fri, 7/13, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

FIRST STREET BLUES: Blues rock and dancing at the Chico Elks TGIF party. Fri, 7/13, 5pm. Free. Chico Elks Lodge, 1705 Manzanita Ave., 408-480-1675.

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: An eclectic mix of music for your dining pleasure. Fri, 7/13, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

ROYAL OAKS: Local “rockers” play two sets on the patio. Sax? Yeah, sax! Fri, 7/13, 9pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

TYLER DEVOLL: Happy hour tunes. Fri, 7/13, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

KELLY TWINS DUELING PIANOS: Jon and Chris play your requests all night long in the lounge. Fri, 7/13, 9pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. feather fallscasino.com

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LOOKING 4 ELEVEN: Classic rock cover

1980s rock at the Box. Sat, 7/14, 9pm. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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Paul’s new local indie duo. Sat, 7/14, 8pm. Free. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

guitar wizard Roger Riedlbauer (Jolie Holland). Sat, 7/14, 9pm. $12$15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St. lostonmainchico.com

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REDWOOD BLACK: See Friday. Sat, 7/14, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino &

Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountrycasino.com

AMYGDALA & EMMA GOLDMAN: Stacked show featuring Texas hardcore band Amygdala, Vancouver, B.C., screamo trio Emma Goldman, Redding’s Dying for It, local wunderkinds Satanic Mountain Witches and the debut of Bulsara. All ages, no drama. Sun, 7/15, 8pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

REGGAE PARTY: All-day affair featuring a Jamaican buffet ($15) and music starting at 5pm (reggae time). Rotating guest DJs and bands each month. Sat, 7/14, Noon. Sipho’s Jamaican Restaurant and Cafe, 1228 Dayton Road. caribbeandance radio.com

JOHN SEID & LARRY PETERSON: Dinner tunes. Sun, 7/15, 6pm. 5th Street Steakhouse, 345 W. Fifth St.

REUNION: See Friday. Sat, 7/14, DA HOTPOTS: Classic rock on the

LOCAL SHOWCASE: Brittany and the

patio. Sat, 7/14, 5pm. Free. Rock House Dining & Espresso, 11865 Highway 70, Yankee Hill.

Blisstones, Toofless Sean Corkery and Dopus Locus share the stage during this off-the-wall show. Sat, 7/14, 9pm. White Water Saloon, 5571 Clark Road, Paradise.

HIGH NOON: Country music featuring four-part vocal harmonies and journeys into southern rock, blues and beyond. Sat, 7/14, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

MICHAEL RUSSELL TRIO: Old school

blues and roots rock ’n’ roll. Sat, 7/14, 9pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

JOAN OF ARC: Semi-legendary Chicago outfit hits town touring on their 20th(!) album. The Americas open. Sat, 7/14, 8:30pm. $10. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

NATHAN MOORE & MAGIC IN THE OTHER: Moore is a modern-day folk troubadour and founding member of ThaMuseMeant and Surprise Me Mr. Davis. MITO features drummer Ezra Lipp (Phil Lesh), bassist Steve Adams (ALO, The Gramblers) and

9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com dining music. Sat, 7/14, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

SKANK BANK: Big ol’ horn-heavy reggae/ska band from Berkeley plays with local irie boys Triple Tree. Sat, 7/14, 8pm. $5. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

champion performs a solo concert to benefit Sojourner’s House on the Ridge homeless. Michael Sun and Susan Dobra open the show. Tue, 7/17, 7:30pm. $10-$20. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise.

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VERA BRIDGES: Quirky and fun singer/ songwriter performs. Tue, 7/17,

7:30pm. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

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LOS CABALLITOS DE LA CANCION: Latin

dinner tunes on the patio. Wed, 7/18, 6pm. Red Tavern, 1250 Esplanade. redtavern.com

PSYCHOBILLY FREAKOUT: Honky-tonk, rockabilly and bitchin’ hairstyles with San Diego trio Hard Fall Hearts, the Cretin’s Cattle and Motor City Riot. Wed, 7/18, 8pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

POMPADOURS & PUNKS

Despite some of the well-trod antics, it’s hard to deny the carefree fun found in a solid rockabilly band. San Diego’s Hard Fell Hearts fall on the melodic pop-punk side of the spectrum and they’ve been pounding out tunes for more than 10 years.

So grease up your hair, light something on fire and meet us at the Maltese on Wednesday, July 18, for some bass-slapping good times. Cretin’s Cattle and Motor City Riot also perform.

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the Austin, Texas, music scene, Schneider is a relentless performer who delights audiences with wellcrafted songs as well as off-thecuff, improvisational material. Highly recommended! Tue, 7/17, 8:30pm. $17.

Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

SOUL POSSE: Pizza party! Sing-along

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

Opening this week Hotel Transylvania 3: Summer Vacation

A touching portrait of the man behind Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood

In this third installment of the animatedfeature franchise, vampire hotelier Count Dracula (voice of Adam Sandler) and his crew of monsters hits the beach for a vacation of their own. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

Skyscraper

The Rock stars as head of security in a private community housed in the top floors of a Hong Kong high-rise, and he has to put all of his powers of badassery to work in saving himself and his family when the skyscraper is attacked by terrorists. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

Sorry to Bother You

A fun, stylized comedy starring Lakeith Stanfield as a black telemarketer who finds success—and whole new weird world— when he starts using his “white voice” (provided by David Cross) during calls.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Now playing

M portrait of Fred Rogers, the sweetly gentle soul who

organ Neville’s documentary

presided over Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood from 1968 to 2001 on PBS, offers up a number of rewards, several of which are more or less unexpected.

For me, the surprises are by framed by a couple of things, past Juan-Carlos and present. Back in the day, I Selznick never really saw enough of Mister Rogers to make sense of an oddball vibe that sometimes seemed kindly and inspired and sometimes a little bit creepy.

More recently, however, I’ve Won't You Be My had the experience of seeing Neighbor? the trailer for Won’t You Be My Directed by Morgan Neighbor? several times and being Neville. Pageant very nearly moved to tears each Theatre. Rated PG-13. time. Part of the special power of that trailer is that it makes quick, lucid and persuasive sense of that long-lived “oddball vibe.” And part of the special power of the film itself is that it adds surprising amounts of depth and dimension to the richly captivating portrait that is already taking impressive shape in the trailer.

Neville and his editing crew (headed by Jeff Malmberg and Aaron Wickenden) have done a masterful job of compiling video clips, interview excerpts, backstage bits, and newsreel material into a multifaceted biographical narrative. Rogers, of course, is the central figure in all respects, but Rogers’ wife, Joanne, and their sons John and James add substantially to Neville’s portrait, as do key Neighborhood guests and performers

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Ant-Man and the Wasp

Size-shifting hero Ant-Man (Paul Rudd) gets a crime-fighting partner in the Wasp (Evangeline Lilly). Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13.

The First Purge

(Francois Clemmons, Betty Aberlin, Joe Negri, etc.).

Rogers was an ordained minister and many of the voices in the film (including Rogers’ own) suggest that his was a kind of secular ministry, directed toward children in a world losing its sense of the deepest experiences of childhood. Television is the chosen vehicle for this unconventional ministry, which nevertheless proceeds toward its spiritual goals in a gentle and seemingly casual manner that is unconventional in television terms as well.

Neville’s expanding portrait of Rogers is impressive all by itself, but this 94-minute movie expands in other ways as well. Rogers was pointedly critical of most television, and of “children’s programming” in particular.

His casual, unhurried approach to entertainment and his unforced empathy with children make him a kind of revolutionary in the world of American television.

And Neville’s film also expands into something like a contemplative social protest film. The world of Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood includes the Vietnam War, the assassination of Bobby Kennedy, the Challenger disaster, and 9/11. Won’t You Be My Neighbor? (and Mr. Rogers himself) look directly at all that brutality and ask what we’ve learned and what we will do. Ω

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This fourth film in the series is a prequel to the others, an origin story of how, in order to cut down on violent crimes for the rest of the year, the government allows for an annual 12-hour period during which all crime is legal. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

The Incredibles 2

The CGI superheroes and all their voices (Holly Hunter, Craig T. Nelson, Samuel L. Jackson) are back in this sequel that finds Elastigirl fighting crime on her own while Mr. Incredible takes care of the kids. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom

A sloppy rehash of Steven Spielberg’s original Jurassic Park sequel, The Lost World. The dinosaurs look cool, but sadly, things degenerate badly after the title credits pop up and the film slides into stale, conveyer-belt movie-making. When a volcanic eruption on their island threatens the dinosaurs’ genetically engineered lives,

5 Excellent

Sorry to Bother You

Congress holds hearings on whether or not to save them. Raptor expert Owen (Chris Pratt) and Jurassic World manager Claire (Bryce Dallas Howard) return to the island to save Blue, the adorable velociraptor who wants you to pet him. Eventually, the action winds up in a large mansion in the States, where a nefarious businessman is keeping dinosaurs in the basement in a farfetched scheme to make big bucks. C’mon.

A rehash of a familiar plot is fine if done with skill and nuance, but Fallen Kingdom goes the campy route with the cheeky Pratt in the lead and rehash of Lost World’s moves—dinos in peril on an island, military schemes and wild beasts finding their way to human civilization—and it’s dull, dull, dull. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Ocean’s 8

This time, an all-female crew of specialist thieves teams up for a big heist. Starring Sandra Bullock, Rihanna, Cate Blanchett, Anne Hathaway, Mindy Kaling, Helena Bonham Carter, Sarah Paulson and Awkwafina.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Sicario: Day of the Soldado

At this particular convulsive moment in history, Sicario: Day of the Soldado stands out as an action film with an unusual amount of emotional fury and geopolitical bite. The first Sicario focused on figures from the FBI and the U.S. military battling the Mexican drug cartels on their own turf.

That battle continues in Soldado but with the stakes raised via the traffic in illegal immigrants, including Islamic radicals. Much aggrieved activist lawyer and assassin Alejandro (Benicio Del Toro) and the radically weaponized hardcore CIA agent Matt Graver (Josh Brolin) are both back in full scheming, pock-marked fury. Working on orders from the secretary of defense (a bilious-looking Matthew Modine) and his CIA minder (a weary Catherine Keener), Graver enlists Alejandro’s help in pulling off an attack meant to provoke a war between cartel oligarchs. The kidnapping of a cartel boss’s daughter (Isabela Moner) and the education and initiation of cartel gang recruit (Elijah Rodriguez) are secondary events that gain some unexpected significance as this tumultuous tale makes its way to a multifaceted, and somewhat provisional, finish. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Tag

A comedy starring Jeremy Renner, Jon Hamm, Ed Helms, Hannibal Buress and Jake Johnson as five friends who, every May for the past 30 years, have been playing an epic game of tag. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Won't You Be My Neighbor

See review this issue. Pageant Theatre. Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

ARTS DEVO

by JASON CASSIDY • jasonc@newsreview.com

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FUN WITH NUMBERS We’ve done the math. If you add the 563 editions of

Arts DEVO to the 37 columns done under my previous nom de QWERTY, Local Bastard, you get 600. And if you multiply 600 times the four hours it takes me on average to write the thing, and then divide those 2,400 total hours by 24, that’s 100 whole days of my life that I’ve spent blathering in print about the local arts, music, cute-pet and beer scenes.

More numbers: Over the course of the 13-plus years since that first column (March 17, 2005), the time spent writing it adds up to more than 2 percent of my existence.

The total word count for those 600 columns is about 360,000; only about half the King James Bible, but still good enough for four hack novels’ worth of pulp.

Of course, that pulp converts to maybe 6 MB of digital space, the same as a single fancy iPhone image.

For now, I’ll stay with print media, which is still alive in Chico. (On average, each of the 38,650 copies of the Chico News & Review are read weekly by 2.9 humans—which means more than 100,000 of you still read “paper” papers!

Of course, that’s not even counting how many birds per cage are reading their linings. We’re still waiting for those numbers to come in.) If you multiply the average CN&R print circulation between the years 2005 and 2018 (38,664) times the word count of those 600 columns (360,000) you get nearly 14 billion words printed in service of this column. My Energy Dome is all atwitter at the thought.

I don’t have the numbers for how many times I’ve mentioned David Lynch or Sonic Youth (a dozen each?), or shared pictures of my poodle, Honey (once a year, probably—“Who’s my little sugar booger?!”), or had fun at the expense of twirling hippies (dozens at least, yet the neverending jam spins on). I can say that the bulk of those 360,000 words have been devoted to giving props to and gossiping/commenting on the art created in Chico, and it’s no secret that this column exists thanks to the amazingly active, ever-evolving community of artists, freaks, presenters, rockers and cool kids who bring new ideas and color to this dry and dusty Nor Cal outpost. Without you, this friendly columnist’s flower-pot hat would’ve long ago crumbled and blown away and into the rolling foothills of star thistle. To illustrate, I took a small sample—the Arts DEVOs written so far in 2018—and tallied the mentions of local artists and arts makers. Over those 27 columns, 96 of you were highlighted—53 musical artists, and 43 visual/performing/ literary artists.

If I could be a little statistically reckless for minute: Let’s take the percolumn average of mentions (3.5) and multiply it times 600. That means some 2,133 art-makers have been actively making things happen in this town since I was given a column to report on such beautiful things. And that’s only the local punks, painters, producers, etc.; it’s not even counting all the coolness that visits Chico.

I’ve said it before: Because of y’all keeping things weird, wild and interesting in Chico, I probably have the No. 1 job in town. Thanks!

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Why Haven’t Senior Homeowners Been Told These Facts?

Keep reading if you own a home in the U.S. and were born before 1955.

It’s a well-known fact that for many senior citizens in the U.S. their home is their single biggest asset, often accounting for more than 50% of their total net worth.

Yet, according to new statistics from the mortgage industry, senior homeowners in the U.S. are now sitting on more than 6.1 trillion dollars of unused home equity.1 With people now living longer than ever before and home prices back up again, ignoring this “hidden wealth” may prove to be short sighted.

All things considered, it’s not surprising that more than a million homeowners have already used a government-insured Home Equity Conversion Mortgage or “HECM” loan to turn their home equity into extra cash for retirement.

However, today, there are still millions of eligible homeowners who could benefit from this FHA-insured loan but may simply not be aware of this “retirement secret.”

Some homeowners think HECM loans sound “too good to be true.” After all, you get the cash you need out of your home but you have no more monthly mortgage payments.

NO MONTHLY MORTGAGE PAYMENTS?2 EXTRA CASH? It’s a fact: no monthly mortgage payments are required with a government-insured HECM loan;2 however the homeowners are still responsible for paying for the maintenance of their home, property taxes, homeowner’s insurance and, if required, their

HOA fees.

Another fact many are not aware of is that HECM reverse mortgages first took hold when President Reagan signed the FHA Reverse Mortgage Bill into law 29 years ago in order to help senior citizens remain in their homes.

Today, HECM loans are simply an effective way for homeowners 62 and older to get the extra cash they need to enjoy retirement.

Although today’s HECM loans have been improved to provide even greater financial protection for homeowners, there are still many misconceptions.

For example, a lot of people mistakenly believe the home must be paid off in full in order to qualify for a HECM loan, which is not the case. In fact, one key advantage of a HECM is that the proceeds will first be used to pay off any existing liens on the property, which frees up cash flow, a huge blessing for seniors living on a fixed income. Unfortunately, many senior homeowners who might be better off with HECM loan don’t even bother to get more information because of rumors they’ve heard.

That’s a shame because HECM loans are helping many senior homeowners live a better life.

In fact, a recent survey by American Advisors Group (AAG), the nation’s number one HECM lender, found that over 90% of their clients are satisfied with their loans.

While these special loans are not for everyone, they can be a real lifesaver for senior homeowners.

The cash from a HECM loan can be used for any purpose. Many people use the money to save on interest

FACT: In 1988, President Reagan signed an FHA bill that put HECM loans into law. charges by paying off credit cards or other high-interest loans. Other common uses include making home improvements, paying off medical bills or helping other family members. Some people simply need the extra cash for everyday expenses while others are now using it as a “safety net” for financial emergencies.

If you’re a homeowner age 62 or older, you owe it to yourself to learn more so that you can make an informed decision. Homeowners who are interested in learning more can request a free 2018 HECM loan Information Kit and free Educational DVD by calling American Advisors Group toll-free at 1-(800) 820-8916.

At no cost or obligation, the professionals at AAG can help you find out if you qualify and also answer common questions such as: 1. What’s the government’s role?

2. How much money might I get?

3. Who owns the home after I take out a HECM loan?

You may be pleasantly surprised by what you discover when you call AAG for more information today.

Source: http://reversemortgagedaily.com/2016/06/21/seniors-home-equity-grows-to-6-trillion-reverse-mortgage-opportunity. 2If you qualify and your loan is approved, a Home Equity Conversion Mortgage (HECM) must pay off any existing mortgage(s). With a HECM loan, no monthly mortgage payment is required. A HECM increases the principal mortgage loan amount and decreases home equity (it is a negative amortization loan).

AAG works with other lenders and nancial institutions that offer HECMs. To process your request for a loan, AAG may forward your contact information to such lenders for your consideration of HECM programs that they offer. When the loan is due and payable, some or all of the equity in the property no longer belongs to borrowers, who may need to sell the home or otherwise repay the loan with interest from other proceeds.

AAG charges an origination fee, mortgage insurance premium, closing costs and servicing fees (added to the balance of the loan). The balance of the loan grows over time and AAG charges interest on the balance.

Interest is not tax-deductible until the loan is partially or fully repaid. Borrowers are responsible for paying property taxes and homeowner’s insurance (which may be substantial). We do not establish an escrow account for disbursements of these payments. A set-aside account can be set up to pay taxes and insurance and may be required in some cases. Borrowers must occupy home as their primary residence and pay for ongoing maintenance; otherwise the loan becomes due and payable. The loan also becomes due and payable when the last borrower, or eligible non-borrowing surviving spouse, dies, sells the home, permanently moves out, defaults on taxes or insurance payments, or does not otherwise comply with the loan terms. American Advisors Group (AAG) is headquartered at 3800 W. Chapman Ave., 3rd & 7th Floors, Orange CA, 92868. (CA Loans made or arranged pursuant to a California Finance Lenders Law license (603F324) and Licensed by the Department of Business Oversight under the California Residential Mortgage Lending Act (4131144)).

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By Jack Isler, M.D. Health News Syndicate HNS—A popular needle injection for people with joint pain is now available in an inexpensive nonprescription pill. The breakthrough came when researchers discovered a way to deliver the injected “relief molecule” through the digestive system.

Top US clinics have used these needle injections for years because they deliver powerful relief. Unfortunately, the shots are painful and expensive. They also only work on the joint being treated.

The new pill, called Synovia, delivers the same “relief molecule” as the injections. However, it has some impressive advantages. First, it’s inexpensive and nonprescription. Also, relief is delivered to every joint in the body because it enters the bloodstream through the digestive system.

This gives it the ability to reduce a much wider variety of pain. Users report greater �lexibility and less stiffness in their knees. Hands and shoulders move pain-free for the �irst time in years. Even neck and lower back pain improve dramatically.

All this without spending over $600 on needle injections and taking trips to the doctor every week.

The medical community is very excited about this new breakthrough. Dr. Jacob Moss says, “Synovia is a great option for those suffering from joint pain. Injections are usually a last resort because of the pain and expense.

However, Synovia should be taken at the �irst sign of discomfort.”

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The needle injection procedure has been given to hundreds of thousands of patients over the last several years.

Doctors use the shots to boost a critical element of the joint called synovial �luid. This lubricating �luid is found between the cartilage and bones of every joint.

According to the �irm’s head of R�D, Mike McNeill, “Researchers have been working for years to �ind a way to boost this �luid noninvasively. The problem was the molecule used in the injections was too large to absorb into the bloodstream.”

Top scientists con�uered this obstacle by �inding a smaller form of the same molecule. This new glucose form

ǣ BEFORE: No lubricating �luid or Ǧ Ǧ cartilage leads to painful bone Ǥ on-bone rubbing.

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Now those who suffer from joint pain can get relief without painful injections. At less than $2 per day, early users like Steve Young are impressed. He says, “I’ve tried more pills than I can count, without any luck. Synovia is different. My knees and hands haven’t felt this good in years!”

Impressive Clinical Results

Leading clinics use injection therapy because it works.

Recent clinical trials show the pill form also delivers major relief.

One example is a landmark study out of Europe. In the study the active ingredient in Synovia was compared to a popular NSAID pain reliever. The goal was to see if it could reduce pain and swelling around the knee. The results were incredible!

After just 30 days, more than 8 out of 10 people who took Synovia’s active ingredient had NO swelling. However, only 2 out of 10 people who took the NSAID experienced reduced swelling.

The study also looked at cases of severe swelling.

Amazingly, zero cases of severe swelling were detected in the group taking the active ingredient found in Synovia.

This means it was 100% effective for the cases of severe swelling!

In contrast, 9 out of 10 people taking the NSAID still had severe swelling. McNeill points out, “The impressive thing about this study is the active ingredient wasn’t tested against a fake pill. It was up against one of the most popular NSAIDs people use every day. It’s easy to see why people in pain are excited to get relief without an injection.”

The New Way It Delivers Relief

Getting relief without injections has big advantages. The most obvious is avoiding being stuck by a large needle every week for 5 weeks.

Another downside of injections is the doctor can “miss”.

The needle needs to be inserted into a precise spot in the joint to work. Otherwise, you risk the treatment being ineffective.

However, boosting your lubricating joint �luid by taking a pill delivers relief to all your joints, not just one.

There’s an additional reason the active ingredient in Synovia works so well – it nourishes the cartilage.

McNeill says, “This is vital because cartilage does not have blood vessels. The �luid in the joint serves two very important pain-relief roles: lubrication and giving the cartilage the nutrients it needs to start re-growing.”

Approved By Leading Doctors

The new delivery system for this molecule has caught the attention of leading medical doctors.

“Needle injections for joint pain have been around for years because they work. Being able to get the same relief molecule through a pill is amazing. Injections may be a last resort, but I’d recommend Synovia at the �irst sign of pain,” said Dr. Marie Laguna.

Dr. Gerardo Pereira, a renowned surgeon from Florida says, “Injections aim to boost synovial �luid, which

NO MORE NEEDLES: A popular needle injection pain-killer for joint pain is being replaced. The key molecule in these injections can now be delivered by taking a new low-cost pill called Synovia.

lubricates the joint. Those suffering from joint pain usually have very little of this �luid. Synovia helps relieve pain by boosting this key lubricant without needles.”

Dr. Moss adds, “The research behind the active ingredient in Synovia is very exciting. This product is a great choice for those who haven’t had success with other joint pain treatments.”

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Amazing feedback from users of Synovia has generated a wave of con�idence at the company. So much so that they now offer Synovia with a 110% money back guarantee.

The company’s president, Michael Kenneth says, “We’ve seen how well it works. Now we want to remove any risk for those who might think Synovia sounds too good to be true.”

Simply take the pill exactly as directed. You must enjoy fast acting relief. Otherwise, return the product as directed and you’ll receive 100% of your money back plus an extra 10%.

How To Get Synovia

Today marks the of�icial release of Synovia in California.

As such, the company is offering a special discounted supply to everyone who calls within the next 48 hours.

A Regional Order Hotline has been set up for local readers to call. This is the only way to try Synovia with their “110% money back” guarantee.

Starting at 6:00 am today the order hotline will be open for 48 hours. All you have to do is call TOLL FREE 1-888975-6568 and provide the operator with the special discount approval code: SYN18. The company will do the rest.

Current supplies of Synovia are limited, and callers that don’t get through to the order hotline within the next 48 hours may have to pay more and wait until more inventory is produced. This could take as long as 6 weeks.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF July 12, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Your key

theme right now is growth. Let’s dig in and analyze its nuances. 1. Not all growth is good for you. It may stretch you too far too fast—beyond your capacity to integrate and use it. 2. Some growth that is good for you doesn’t feel good to you.

It might force you to transcend comforts that are making you stagnant, and that can be painful. 3. Some growth that’s good for you may meet resistance from people close to you; they might prefer you to remain just as you are, and may even experience your growth as a problem. 4.

Some growth that isn’t particularly good for you may feel pretty good. For instance, you could enjoy working to improve a capacity or skill that is irrelevant to your long-term goals. 5. Some growth is good for you in some ways, and not so good in other ways. You have to decide if the trade-off is worth it. 6. Some growth is utterly healthy for you, feels pleasurable, and inspires other people.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): You can’t

sing with someone else’s mouth, Taurus.

You can’t sit down and settle into a commanding new power spot with someone else’s butt. Capiche? I also want to tell you that it’s best if you don’t try to dream with someone else’s heart, nor should you imagine you can fine-tune your relationship with yourself by pushing someone else to change. But here’s an odd fact: You can enhance your possibility for success by harnessing or borrowing or basking in other people’s luck. Especially in the coming weeks.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): You

wouldn’t attempt to cure a case of hiccups by repeatedly smacking your head against a wall, right? You wouldn’t use an anti-tank rocket launcher to eliminate the mosquito buzzing around your room, and you wouldn’t set your friend’s hair on fire as a punishment for arriving late to your rendezvous at the café. So don’t overreact to minor tweaks of fate, my dear Gemini.

Don’t over-medicate tiny disturbances.

Instead, regard the glitches as learning opportunities. Use them to cultivate more patience, expand your tolerance, and strengthen your character.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): I pay

tribute to your dizzying courage, you wise fool. I stage-whisper “Congratulations!” as you slip away from your hypnotic routine and wander out to the edge of mysterious joy. With a crazy grin of encouragement and my fist pressed against my chest, I salute your efforts to transcend your past. I praise and exalt you for demonstrating that freedom is never permanent but must be reclaimed and reinvented on a regular basis. I cheer you on as you avoid every temptation to repeat yourself, demean yourself, and chain yourself.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): I’m feeling a bit

helpless as I watch you messing with that bad but good stuff that is so wrong but right for you. I am rendered equally inert as I observe you playing with the strong but weak stuff that’s interesting but probably irrelevant. I fidget and sigh as I monitor the classy but trashy influence that’s angling for your attention; and the supposedly fast-moving process that’s creeping along so slowly; and the seemingly obvious truth that would offer you a much better lesson if only you would see it for the chewy riddle that it is. What should I do about my predicament? Is there any way I can give you a boost? Maybe the best assistance I can offer is to describe to you what I see.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Psychologist

Paul Ekman has compiled an extensive atlas of how emotions are revealed in our faces. “Smiles are probably the most underrated facial expressions,” he has written, “much more complicated than most people realize. There are dozens of smiles, each differing in appearance and in the message expressed.” I bring this to your attention, Virgo, because your assignment in the coming weeks—should you choose to accept it—is to explore and experiment with your entire repertoire of smiles. I’m confident that life will conspire to help

by rob brezsny you carry out this task. More than at any time since your birthday in 2015, this is the season for unleashing your smiles.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Lucky vibes

are coalescing in your vicinity. Scouts and recruiters are hovering. Helpers, fairy godmothers, and future playmates are growing restless waiting for you to ask them for favors. Therefore, I hereby authorize you to be imperious, regal, and overflowing with self-respect. I encourage you to seize exactly what you want, not what you’re “supposed” to want. Or else be considerate, appropriate, modest, and full of harmonious caution. CUT! CUT! Delete that “be considerate” sentence.

The Libra part of me tricked me into saying it. And this is one time when people of the Libra persuasion are allowed to be free from the compulsion to balance and moderate. You have a mandate to be the show, not watch the show.

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Are you ready to expand your vision of what’s possible for you to accomplish? The current astrological omens suggest that the next two months will be an excellent time to commit yourself to a Great Work that you will give your best to for the rest of your long life!

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

What’s the biggest lie in my life? There are several candidates. Here’s one: I pretend I’m nonchalant about one of my greatest failures; I act as if I’m not distressed by the fact that the music I’ve created has never received the listenership it should it have. How about you, Sagittarius? What’s the biggest lie in your life? What’s most false or dishonest or evasive about you?

Whatever it is, the immediate future will be a favorable time to transform your relationship with it. You now have extraordinary power to tell yourself liberating truths. Three weeks from now, you could be a more authentic version of yourself than you’ve ever been.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19): Now

and then you go through phases when you don’t know what you need until you stumble upon it. At times like those, you’re wise not to harbor fixed ideas about what you need or where to hunt for what you need. Metaphorically speaking, a holy grail might show up in a thrift store. An eccentric stranger may provide you with an accidental epiphany at a bus stop or a convenience store. Who knows? A crucial clue may even jump out at you from a spam email or a reality TV show. I suspect that the next two weeks might be one of those odd grace periods for you.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): “Re-

verse psychology” is when you convince people to do what you wish they would do by shrewdly suggesting that they do the opposite of what you wish they would do.

“Reverse censorship” is when you write or speak the very words or ideas that you have been forbidden to express. “Reverse cynicism” is acting like it’s chic to express glee, positivity, and enthusiasm. “Reverse egotism” is bragging about what you don’t have and can’t do. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to carry out all these reversals, as well as any other constructive or amusing reversals you can dream up.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Poet

Emily Dickinson once revealed to a friend that there was only one Commandment she ever obeyed: “Consider the Lilies.”

Japanese novelist Natsume Soseki told his English-speaking students that the proper Japanese translation for “I love you” is Tsuki ga tottemo aoi naa, which literally means “The moon is so blue tonight.” In accordance with current astrological omens, Pisces, I’m advising you to be inspired by Dickinson and Soseki. More than any other time in 2018, your duty in the coming weeks is to be lyrical, sensual, aesthetic, imaginative, and festively non-literal.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CATS BIKE at 2697 Forbestown Rd Oroville, CA 95966.

JOSHUA WILLIAM BAILEY 965 Nelson Ave Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOSH BAILEY Dated: June 11, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000777 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AG MAN DISTRIBUTION at 2898 Cussick Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

TEAK REYNOLDS WILBURN 2898 Cussick Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TEAK WILBURN Dated: May 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000691 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as SEL-TECH at 108 Boeing Ave Chico, CA 95973.

SELKEN ENTERPRISES INC 108 Boeing Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERIK RUST, PRESIDENT Dated: May 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000714 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GOLDEN HOUR PRODUCTIONS at 8 Hunter Ct Chico, CA 95928.

ANTHONY SANZONE 8 Hunter Ct Chico, CA 95928.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KOLAPA HOUSE OF CHARITY, SLE MISSION at 6168 Some Way Magalia, CA 95954.

BRENDAN JOSHUA JENKINS 1451 Oro Dam Blvd Sp 1 Oroville, CA 95965.

STEVEN HENRY JENKINS 6168 Some Way Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by a Joint Venture.

Signed: STEVEN JENKINS Dated: June 11, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000773 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BUTTE COUNTY GOOD FOOD NETWORK at 2483 Streamside Court Chico, CA 95926.

PAMELA MARIE LARRY 2483 Streamside Court Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: PAMELA LARRY Dated: June 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000778 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as WESTERN HEATING AND RAIN GUTTERS at 1754 Piney Ridge Road Paradise, CA 95969.

ALMA IRIS WILLIAMS 5270 Beverly Glen Ave. Paradise, CA 95969.

MARK EDMOND WILLIAMS 5270 Beverly Glen Ave. Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: MARK E. WILLIAMS Dated: June 11, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000774 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as BODYWORK BY NIKKI at 341 Broadway Suite 309 Chico, CA 95928.

NICHOLE ASHLEY VARGAS 1179 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NICHOLE VARGAS Dated: June 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000796 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as AARON’S AUTO WORX at 3870 Neal Road Paradise, CA 95969.

AARON MICHAEL WEBER 3870 Neal Road Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: AARON WEBER Dated: June 1, 2018

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FBN Number: 2018-0000750 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO POWER SWEEPING SERVICE at 1074 E 8th Street Chico, CA 95928.

JAMES SMITH 1074 E 8th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES A SMITH Dated: June 1, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000744 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NEEDFUL THINGS at 8247 Skyway Paradise, 95969 95969.

MARTIN BYRON VAN GUNDY 1542 Millwood Lane Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MARTIN VAN GUNDY Dated: June 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000795 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as C.C. CUSTOM AUTO SPECIALISTS at 8200 Skyway Suite B Paradise, CA 95969.

JEREMY BOONE 1070 Lupin Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

STEPHANIE DILLARD 3549 Esplanade Ave. #235 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: STEPHANIE DILLARD Dated: June 19, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000817 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PROJECT APIARY at 2607 Forest Ave, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928.

SELBY HONEY, INC 2607 Forest Ave, Suite 130 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JOSEPH L. SELBY, PRESIDENT Dated: June 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000824 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NAVEX, INC., NEW AUTOS, INC., NORTH AMERICAN VEHICLE EXPORT at 720 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

NAVEX TRADING COMPANY, INC. 720 Main Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BERNIE KNAUS, PRESIDENT Dated: June 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000803 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TABLE TETHERS at 2770 Garden Valley Terrace Chico, CA 95928.

DIANE SCHUMACHER 2770 Garden Valley Terrace Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DIANE SCHUMACHER Dated: June 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000828 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CENTURY 21 SELECT COMMERCIAL GROUP INC, CENTURY 21 SELECT REAL ESTATE INC at 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

JACUZZI LYDON LTD 1101 El Monte Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: DANIEL C. JACUZZI, PRESIDENT Dated: June 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000837 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHOICE PROPERTIES at 33 Blackstone Ct Chico, CA 95928.

DEBORAH KAY BRODIE 33 Blackstone Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DEBORAH KAY BRODIE Dated: June 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000794 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as STEEL HUSKY TRUCKING at 101 Risa Way Apt 73 Chico, CA 95973.

DEREK AVRIT 101 Risa Way Apt 73 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: DEREK AVRIT Dated: June 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000806 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DAVE’S PARTY RENTALS at 2531 S 5th Ave Oroville, CA 95966.

BRAMCOVE LLC 2531 S 5th Ave Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Partnership.

Signed: GEOFF CROCKWELL Dated: June 12, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000788 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EQUILATERAL COFFEE at 1721 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

EILEEN HUMISTON

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RYLAN MORABITO 1721 Palm Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: EILEEN HUMISTON Dated: June 21, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000831 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ADOLFOS PAINTING at 20 Benton Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

MITCHELL ADOLFO ZEPEDA 20 Benton Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MITCHELL ZEPEDA Dated: June 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000851 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GREEN CEDAR FARM at 90 Green Cedar Way Berry Creek, CA 95916.

FRANK MAZZARINO 90 Green Cedar Way Berry Creek, CA 95916.

SALLY IRENE SHEA 90 Green Cedar Way Berry Creek, CA 95916.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: SALLY SHEA Dated: June 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000844 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as GRIZZLEY CREEK CHRISTIAN FELLOWSHIP at 12140 La Porte Road Clipper Mills, CA 95930.

FULL GOSPEL FELLOWSHIP MINISTRIES USA INC 77 Kirkwood Way Clipper Mills, CA 95930.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JENNIFER MAASEN, PRESIDENT Dated: June 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000870 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EVENING STAR at 137 Woodhaven Drive Chico, CA 95973.

BEN BEELER, LLC 137 Woodhaven Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Limited Liability Company.

Signed: BEN BEELER, OWNER Dated: June 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000820 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CAST AND CUSTOM at 1384 Durham Dayton Highway Durham, CA 95938.

BRETT DOUSMAN PRUETT 1678 Pendant Place Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BRETT PRUETT Dated: June 29, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000872 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CALIFORNIA REFERRAL NETWORK at 1266 Whitewood Way Chico, CA 95973.

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NOTICE OF LAND PATENT Gary Victor Varesco claims the “forever” benefit of the original land patent and occupy the land located at 282 Pinyon Hills Drive, Chico, California.

Documentation of this claim is posted online and may be downloaded from ADrive.com using this link to the download page: http://goo.gl/8gd3AM Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

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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: EMILY N GAYNOR Proposed name: EMILY N TEAGUE THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 10, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m.

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: June 11, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01165 Published: June 21,28, July 5,12, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JAYMEE LYNN VUE filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYMEE LYNN VUE Proposed name: JAYMEE LYNN MCLAUGHLIN 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.

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 24, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m.

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: June 27, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02054 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: LESLEY MARCH be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’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: July 24, 2018

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Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: TBD Room: 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: LESLEY MARCH 4325 Caballo Way Chico, CA 95973 Case Number: 18PR00278 Dated: June 22, 2018 Published: July 5,12,19, 2018

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

The Petition for Probate requests that: CARLENE GUNN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent’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: August 7, 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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for Petitioner: CLAYTON B. ANDERSON 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA 95973 (530) 342-6144 Case Number: 18PR00271 Dated: June 21, 2018 Published: July 5,12,19, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as THE ACCOUNTING OFFICE at 1074 East Ave Ste K Chico, CA 95926.

LAZARSKI ENTERPRISES, INC. 2166 Huntington Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FITNESS MOJO at 3174 Kennedy Ave Chico, CA 95973.

KATE STALLONE 3174 Kennedy Ave Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: August 17, 2018 Time: 9:00a.m.

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: June 15, 2018 Case Number: 18CV01730 Published: June 28, July 5,12,19, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PRIMO LANDSCAPE INCORPORATED at 641 Nord Ave. Suite F Chico, CA 95926.

PRIMO LANDSCAPE INCORPORATED 3549 Esplanade #406 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: MARCIANO SALIGAN, PRESIDENT Dated: July 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000874 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as VARGAS CONSTRUCTION at 390 L St Biggs, CA 95917.

HECTOR VARGAS 390 L St Biggs, CA 95917.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: HECTOR VARGAS Dated: June 18, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000807 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

JOANNE R MADLUNG 1266 Whitewood Way Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOANNE R MADLUNG Dated: July 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000880 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as HEALTHIER HORIZONS VENDING at 1604 Palm Ave #4 Chico, CA 95926.

CHAD ALLEN STARKEY 1604 Palm Ave #4 Chico, CA 95926.

CYNTHIA STARKEY 1604 Palm Ave #4 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by A Married Couple.

Signed: CHAD STARKEY Dated: June 22, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000834 Published: July 5,12,19,26, 2018

Signed: KATHY LAZARSKI, PRESIDENT Dated: July 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000876 Published: July 12,19,26, August 2, 2018

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The late, great roofer John James Miskella considered the mistreatment of a roof a crime. He considered me a criminal in that regard, and delivered this hand-written notice to me: How to Kill a Roof

15353 Forest ranch Way Forest ranch, ca 95942 | $225,000

Don’t miss out on this great 2bd/1ba home w/ attached two car garage on over 1/2 acre near downtown Forest Ranch.

New roof, new carpet and vinyl, new interior paint, and new septic lines. Wood stove in living room and covered front and back decks. Privately situated and conveniently located on a paved road.

Kiersten Morgan

1. Allow tree branches to hang over the roof and leaves to pile up on the surface. Do not clean the leaves off the roof. That way, the tannic acids and decomposing organic material will penetrate the roofing, providing the opportunity to replace the roof in one-half to two-thirds the normal waiting period.

2. Let the tree branches grow so they eventually make contact with the roofing. Positioned thusly, the branches will scrape the surface when the wind blows, causing immediate damage and greatly expediting the process described in item #1 above.

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leaves off the roof surface, start with a metal rake and drag the leaves into piles. You may notice pieces of roofing mixed in with the leaves. This is a good sign; the tines on the rake are overpowering the roofing material as they should.

4. Follow the metal rake with a stiff-bristle push broom and sweep up the remaining debris. You will drive the debris under the shingles, expediting the process described in item #1 above.

5. On the hottest day of the year, go up on your roof to retrieve the broom you left there. If you walk carelessly enough, your footsteps will smear and smash the material very nicely.

I guarantee if you follow these steps you will soon own a brand new roof.

Sincerely, John James Miskella, roofer extraordinaire.

P.S. Thanks for all the work.

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of June 25– June 29, 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.

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PRICE

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241 W 4th Ave

Chico

$305,000

2/1

SQ. FT. 995

595 Grand Teton Way

Chico

$305,000

3/3

1370

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BR/BA

2099 Hartford Dr #7

Chico

$205,000

3/2

SQ. FT. 1375

193 Rio Lindo Ave

Chico

$190,000

2/1

1040

1 Manor Cir

Chico

$299,000

3/2

1152

2055 Amanda Way #51

Chico

$170,000

3/2

1008

13 Cloud Ct

Chico

$295,000

3/2

1242

284 Saint Michael Ct

Chico

$130,000

2/2

2374 2061

199 Haven Ln

Chico

$291,500

3/3

1883

1488 Arch Way

Chico

$116,500

4/3

27 Glacier Peak Ln

Chico

$278,500

3/2

1119

1345 Palm Ave

Chico

$110,000

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518

2131 Mansfield Ct

Chico

$267,000

3/2

1215

54 Pioneer Trl

Oroville

$425,000

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2390

2548 White Ave

Chico

$262,000

3/2

1032

6474 Alexander Ct

Paradise

$483,000

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2626

1034 Salem St

Chico

$250,000

2/1

870

1866 Vineyard Dr

Paradise

$451,000

3/3

2586

2265 Floral Ave

Chico

$229,500

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1040

4723 Xanadu Way

Paradise

$389,000

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1152

979 Myrtle Ave

Chico

$217,000

3/3

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5443 Jensen Ct

Paradise

$365,000

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