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Welcome, students For those of us who call Chico home year-round, this

time of year is always a bit of an adjustment (Chico State starts Monday). The roads are suddenly busier and restaurants are bustling with hungry people. But while some may grumble, we see the bright side: Without you, students, Chico would be a dull place indeed.

Whether you’re a freshman or a senior (or somewhere in between), we welcome you to this fair town. We don’t have to encourage you to enjoy yourself—we know you will. That, of course, comes with a caveat: College demands a delicate balancing act between academics (you know, that thing that you’re really here for) and extracurriculars. Learn how to manage your time wisely—too much of either one can be unhealthy.

The Chico State and Butte College campuses offer ample opportunities for getting involved, learning new skills and making friends. Take advantage of them—they won’t be around in such abundance later in life. Join a band. Go to a rally. Volunteer with kids or whatever ignites your passion. Dance till you’re sweaty at a local show.

And pull an all-nighter to ace that exam. Do it all,

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

and you’ll never regret a thing.

For those students who come here from bigger cities—or from many of the rural towns that surround us—you should know that Chico State is a special place. Its proximity to downtown distinguishes it from most other college campuses in the state. And it makes you part of Chico in a very integral way.

When classes are in session, downtown comes to life, filled with vibrant young faces. But the campus, too, comes alive and invites the community to join in many of its academic and cultural offerings, from exhibits at the Gateway Science Museum to performances by world-class acts at Laxson Auditorium.

Plus, community members often attend student-run productions of plays, art shows and other events.

There’s a lot to appreciate from this “town and gown” relationship.

During your time here, whether it be one semester or a lifetime, we hope you take advantage of all that your campus—and your newly adopted city—have to offer. To help you navigate some of those things, the CN&R produces a publication called Goin’ Chico. You can find it on stands around town and, especially, on campus. Now go on and carpe diem! Ω

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Tangible links to Chico’s rich history Ation,savepeople the obsolete Cal Water towers from demolioften asked: “Why bother? They’re

s Chico Heritage Association worked this year to

just old, not historic!” Clearly, it was not enough to argue that the towers are cool looking (which they are), or that they contribute to Chico’s charming character (which they do).

Regrettably, old and charming do not equal historic.

Nevertheless, the historical significance of the two elevated steel tanks at Third and Orient streets is beyond question. Along by with the Old Municipal Building, Michael the towers are prominent architecMagliari tural reminders of Progressive Era The author is a Chico. Built in 1905 and 1913, the member of the Chico towers represent a dynamic period Heritage Association of community growth and modernand a professor of history at Chico State. ization. Spurred by the arrival of the Diamond Match Co. and the Northern Electric Railroad, Chico’s population nearly tripled between 1900 and 1918, soaring from 4,700 to 12,000.

To keep pace, energetic and visionary leaders like

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Mayor Sherman Reynolds reformed local government by adopting the city manager model and launched a series of major civic improvements that completely transformed downtown Chico. The streets were paved, the wooden awnings and boardwalks removed, cement sidewalks put in, electric streetlamps erected, and a modern sewage system installed.

These essential public upgrades paralleled critical private-sector initiatives. Striving to accommodate Chico’s rapid growth, the Chico Water Supply Co. purchased two of the newly patented steel water tanks manufactured by the Chicago Bridge & Iron Co. Providing storage and gravity pressure for Chico’s water mains, the tanks boasted respective capacities of 100,000 and 150,000 gallons. Raised to elevations of just over 130 feet, each rested upon four sturdy legs, several bearing the legendary name of Carnegie Steel.

With their distinctive rounded bottoms and conical caps, CBI’s tanks represented state-of-the-art technology at the dawn of the 20th century.

There is, quite obviously, a rich history embodied in the retired old water tanks that have stood for over a century at Orient and Third. Now, thanks to our community’s deep appreciation of that history, these iconic landmarks shall remain standing as tangible links to the birth of modern Chico. Ω

Trickle-down Trump I don’t know how people keep up with Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and other communication platforms. Those are the four I’m connected to—and I’m engaged on only one of the them with any regularity.

I’ve had a Twitter account for nearly a decade but set it to private for most of those years. When I logged on recently after a long hiatus, I skimmed my roughly 80 tweets. Most are long-ago conversations with my journalist friends about music and newspapering.

More recently, though, I’ve grown more interested in the platform.

That’s because the president of the United States uses it to tell Americans what he’s really thinking. Try as they might, his handlers can’t seem to get him to stop tweeting—especially about the “Rigged Witch Hunt!”

The targets of Trump’s grammar- and spelling-butchered attacks include two main groups: The first is pretty much anyone investigating his alleged cooperation in a foreign government’s efforts to meddle in the general election (to his benefit). The second is the media, aside from a majority of the programming on Fox News and similar outlets.

Just this week, President Trump tweeted: “Disgraced and discredited Bob Mueller and his whole group of Angry Democrat Thugs spent over 30 hours with the White House Councel [sic], only with my approval, for purposes of transparency. ... Mueller’s Angry Dems are looking to impact the election. They are a National Disgrace!”

(Side note: Does anyone else think people overuse exclamation points as a replacement for cogency?)

Just to be clear, Robert Mueller (the special counsel) is a Republican and he’s neither disgraced nor discredited. In fact, his investigation has resulted in more than a dozen indictments and several guilty pleas.

Among those admissions of guilt, as of Tuesday (Aug. 21), is Trump’s former personal attorney, Michael Cohen, who pleaded guilty to a host of charges and testified that Trump directed him to violate campaign law. The same day, a jury convicted former Trump campaign Manager Paul Manafort on eight counts of tax and bank fraud.

Monitoring Trump’s Twitter feed made me curious to see how Chico politicos use it. Only City Councilman Randall Stone and Vice Mayor Reanette Fillmer are active. Stone tweets mostly about his jogging habits and Fillmer has a penchant for parroting Trump’s lackeys (Reps. Devin Nunes and Doug LaMalfa) or the man himself. Among the traits she shares with Trump is a hatred of the media and a flair for slaughtered prose.

Here’s a recent example of her trickle-down Trump view of the Fourth Estate: “But they are the enemy of the people. They should be for the people. As an elected official I have misquoted [sic], lied about and seen the media accidentally tell a different story then [sic] what is actually happen [sic] 99% of the time. It is a joke.”

A joke? I took a screenshot of that tweet for posterity. It’s accompanied by a video of far-right outlet One America News bashing a White House correspondent. Fillmer’s term on the council is nearly up, and based on what’s happening in D.C., the president’s tenure is likely to end early. The only joke here is apparently the one played on voters when people who don’t understand the media’s role in American democracy were elected to public office.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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America’s deterioration Re “Learning curve” (Cover story, by Ashiah Scharaga and Evan Tuchinsky, Aug. 16): While attending four colleges in the 1970s, I never encountered a single homeless student. The fact that CHAT—an underfunded shelter program for the indigent—is now housing students, is sad, alarming, frustrating and instructive.

I graduated in 1980—the year Ronald Reagan was elected. I’ve witnessed 38 years of economic and social deterioration. We now live in country where the rich get much richer and the poor now number about 200 million, if we count the roughly two-thirds of Americans who cannot afford a $1,000 “emergency” expenditure. In other words, all those living in poverty and all those living one paycheck from being on the streets.

We are not a materially

impoverished nation, but we are an increasingly impoverished nation with respect to our understanding of economic justice.

Without major structural changes, we face a bleak future. We’ve already seen a five-year drift toward punishing the homeless through laws and policies designed to make life miserable on the streets of Chico.

And, speaking of misery, it appears reinstatement of the sit-lie ordinance—once again targeting our poorest people—may be on the agenda for the Chico City Council on Sept. 4. Please attend and voice your disapproval of further homeless criminalization.

Patrick Newman Chico

The cover story flooded my brain with scores of interviews I have had over the years with students and faculty caught in the vice of poverty.

I thought of several educators

who were excited to be starting the school year with new washers and dryers in their school. I thought of the young people who came to Youth for Justice back in 2015 and 2016 at the Chico Peace and Justice Center desperate for basic necessities and community connections.

I thought back to a conversation with a Butte County school principal who adamantly minimized the high percentage of students experiencing homelessness in the district. I thought back to a young man who slept in his truck most of his senior year of high school after being tossed out of his home when he turned 18. I thought a lot about how people unaffected by this crisis tend to go about their lives oblivious to the burgeoning population of children and young adults without a roof and how proud I am of the heroic effort students make under the most overwhelming of situations—poverty, the worst form of violence.

Bill Mash Chico

‘Pretty stupid’ Re “Tricky Doug” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Aug. 16): I am commenting regarding this: “In a letter dated Aug. 9 and carrying LaMalfa’s signature, Richvale’s own son erroneously states that citizens must be ‘over 21 years of age’ to vote …. Was LaMalfa trying to suppress votes? Or is it more likely one of his staffers simply made a blunder? It’s hard for me to imagine he personally writes back to his constituents—big donors excepted, of course—so I’d bet on the latter.”

If this was something deliberate on the part of LaMalfa to suppress the vote, it’s pretty stupid. It’s wellknown that people can vote when they turn 18. We simply must get those 18- to 20-year-olds registered and voting and to vote for Audrey Denney this fall.

As far as this being a mistake by LaMalfa’s staff on what looks like a form letter that the constituent got, that is also a really stupid mistake.

I knew both Phillip and Sala Burton, who were Nancy Pelosi’s predecessors in Congress, before they died. I also knew the Burtons’ staff. Never ever would they make such a mistake in communicating with their constituents!

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We have fire suppression because we have built flammable homes and towns and infrastructure in the forest. So we’ve got driveby timber and tinder forests and no plan to get back real forests where fire is healthy rather than destructive.

Alan Matthews Chico

It takes a strong and confident editor to run a guest opinion piece that will have some CN&R readers howling. I commend you for printing the commentary by Bill Smith.

I used to be on the side of environmentalists who “protected” our forests at all costs, but I’ve done a lot of research the past six months, and I can’t argue with many of Smith’s points. He does go a little overboard, but he’s right on the mark in many cases. USFS scientists are pro-forest; that’s why they became involved in forestry. I can no longer dismiss their concerns and opinions.

Tim Milhorn Chico

Speaking of forests Re “POTUS’ perfect storm” (Letters, by Pat Johnston, Aug. 16): Again, we have half-cocked liberals like Pat Johnston blaming President Trump for wildfires on the West Coast and flooding in the heartland. Over-regulation by Democrats has caused our forests to be undermanaged in the name of environmental protection. These fools have destroyed the very thing their ridiculous regulations were supposed to protect.

Also, putting Al Gore’s name in the same sentence with real scientists is laughable. President Trump has done more for the common man and common sense than any liberal has ever done. Our forest problem is a regulation problem that has led to forests full of brush, dead trees and policies that have allowed nothing to be cleaned up.

Put blame where blame belongs; not on President Trump but on the environmental extremists who have allowed no management of our forests.

Brad Pankratz Orland

When California is on fire, who do the liberal thinkers blame? It’s “climate change.”

While there never will be agreement on the causes of climate change, we should all agree that poor forest management should be looked at for the cause of endangering our state’s forests.

Millions of dead trees should have been logged years ago.

Logging companies were not allowed to log them, which would have made for less fuel. Just as importantly, the logging roads would have served as fire breaks and easier access for firefighters.

Common sense should tell you that endangered species’ habitat is better preserved when forests are not burning. The unintended consequences of extreme environmentalism are to blame for these huge fires.

California’s government has been under the Democratic thumb of environmentalists for 60 years.

It’s time to change the way we Californians think about forest management and the Democratic majority in this state. It’s past time send the liberals packing in Sacramento.

Loretta Ann Torres Chico

Pig of a president Nixon was once on the cover of Esquire, his face made up by Madison Avenue, complete with lipstick, ready for sale, and I thought: You can put lipstick on a pig, but it’s still a pig. Well, you can sell Trump as a successful businessman, add phony credentials and accolades, then put him in the White House, but when he calls a woman a dog, he’s still a pig.

Trump has a history of publicly scorning women with despicable language: from Rosie [O’Donnell] to Carly [Fiorina], and the women who accused him of sexually predatory behavior. Gail Collins recalls Trump was offended by a column she wrote for New York Newsday and announced she was “a dog and a liar,” that her picture was “the face of a pig.”

He recently referred to a former White House aide, Omarosa Manigault Newman, as a “crazed, lying lowlife,” praising Chief of Staff John Kelly for “quickly firing that dog.” When Trump calls a woman a dog, is he calling her a bitch, because in the canine world a female dog is a bitch; or is he calling her an “animal” because she’s black?

Shame on those who believe this vile behavior dignifies the office of the president.

Roger Beadle Chico

Dems aren’t red-baiters Re “Her obsession” (Letters, by Lucy Cooke, Aug. 16): I guess being called a Republican is about as big an insult imaginable, unless of course the appellation is a “Trump Republican.” Trump Republicans are the most spineless—lemmings who would follow comrade Trump to the gates of hell.

Lucy Cooke is “obsessed” with Democrats, whom she calls “shrill,” “hateful” and “warmongers.”

Does she need to be reminded that Operation Desert Storm in Iraq was started 28 years ago this month by George Herbert Walker Bush, and its effects continue as the ink dries on this letter? And who could ever forget drunken Republican Sen. Joe McCarthy, who was accused on the Senate floor of having “no sense of decency”?

Cooke’s letter compares Democrats to the drunken McCarthy in an all-time low-blow. I’ve noticed her letters have gradually changed from Ralph Nader, Jill Stein, Bernie Sanders and Gary Johnson supporter to an outright Putin/comrade Trump sympathizer.

Cooke is entitled to her outrageous opinions, but not (like Trump and cabinet) entitled to her own facts. I just can’t get over actually being called a Republican—ouch.

Ray Estes Redding

Correction Last week’s Healthlines story (see “Cannabis on campus?”) did not include the most recent number of states that have enacted laws or regulations that allow students to use medical marijuana on school grounds. There are at least seven.

The article has been corrected online. —ed.

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A man was killed during an Amtrak train collision Saturday around 2:20 a.m. at the railroad tracks at West Sacramento Avenue.

According to a preliminary investigation by the Chico Police Department, the man—whose identity is being withheld until family can be notified—likely attempted to drive his vehicle around the crossing guards when he was hit.

That night, responding officers discovered the crossing guards down, lit up and sounding. The driver was unresponsive, trapped inside a damaged vehicle along the east side of the tracks. He was transported to Enloe Medical Center, where he died.

No train passengers or crew were injured.

The roadway was closed for about three hours.

Chico PD’s Major Accident Investigation Team is still investigating the cause. Any witnesses should call Chico PD at 897-4910.

HOMICIDE UNDER INVESTIGATION

A 47-year-old man was found suffering from a gunshot wound on the 600 block of West First Avenue on Thursday (Aug. 16) around 4:30 a.m. After medics arrived and started treating him, he was transported to Enloe Medical Center, where he died.

Chico Police Department detectives are investigating John Dawson’s death as a homicide—the first of the year—but did not have any updates regarding a potential motive or suspects as of press time.

Anyone with additional information or who may have surveillance video that includes the roadway should contact Chico PD at 897-4911.

ORCHARD SUPPLY CLOSING

Chico’s Orchard Supply Hardware, at 231 W. East Ave., will soon be closing its doors.

On Wednesday (Aug. 22), parent company Lowe’s reported that all 99 Orchard Supply Hardware stores—located in California, Oregon and Florida—will close by the end of the 2018 fiscal year. News reports vary on the end date, however—some outlets say they’ll close by the end of next month, others by the end of the year and yet others by Feb. 1.

“We will be providing outplacement services for impacted associates, and they will be given priority status if they choose to apply for other Lowe’s positions,” Lowe’s CEO Marvin R. Ellison said in the release.

OSH was founded in San Jose as a farmers’ co-op in 1931, eventually becoming for-profit in the 1950s. Lowe’s acquired the company in 2013, after it filed for bankruptcy.

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Back to school Chico police return to schools to focus on tobacco, safety

IhadWilliams’ third day of school, and he’s to investigate an assault, handle a prot’s only the afternoon of Sgt. Mike

bation violation and take down a report of possible child neglect. story and The Chico police photo by school resource officer Ashiah told the CN&R he’s Scharaga definitely not complainas h i a h s @ ing about being busy— n ew srev i ew. c o m he’s grateful that students and staff members at Pleasant Valley High School already seem comfortable working with him.

For a case of a student who shoved a staff member, “ultimately it came down to, ‘You’ve got to act appropriately on campus [to keep everyone safe],’” Williams said. Before the student was dismissed for the day, the pair shook hands.

“A lot of issues we can handle informally,” he added. “It doesn’t necessarily need to go down a criminal route.”

There haven’t been dedicated officers on Chico Unified School District campuses for six years. This fall, there will be three, one at each high school—Officers Peter Durfee and Carlos Jauregui, along with Williams, who also will serve as the team’s supervisor. They’ll have more casual uniforms, and be outfitted with bulletproof vests, guns and batons.

Their primary goal is to focus on tobacco-related education and enforcement. That’s because this venture is fully funded by a $1.5 million Tobacco Law Enforcement grant from the California Department of Justice. Two more officers will be added next year, to support the elementary and middle schools. The grant also funds a CUSD coordinator and intervention specialist. (The school district can apply for a three-year grant extension when it expires in June 2020.)

The money comes from tobacco users: Proposition 56, passed in 2016, raised the tax on cigarette and nicotine products, with a portion of the revenue, $30 million annually, directed to the Department of Justice.

Throughout the school year, officers will focus on providing training for school staff on the latest regulations and prodCost breakdown: • Sgt. Mike Williams: $93,611 (plus $70,072 in benefits).

• Officers Peter Durfee and Carlos Jauregui: $72,896

each (plus $57,537 in benefits).

• Grant coordinator Gary Story: $34,971 (plus $15,754 in benefits) • Intervention Specialist: $40,320 (benefits included).

• The grant budgets up to 200 hours of overtime/year for code enforcement and after-hours events • Fully funded by a $1.5 million California Department of Justice Tobacco Law Enforcement Grant.

ucts (like JUUL e-cigarettes), holding classroom presentations for students and enforcing state and local laws regarding sales and marketing of tobacco products to minors. Williams said the officers are working diligently with the school district to develop curriculum this year tailored to high-school-age kids.

According to the 2017 Healthy Kids survey, conducted by the California Department of Education, e-cigarettes are the most popular products used by young people. In Chico, 17 percent of ninthgraders have used electronic cigarettes and 8 percent of 11th-graders define themselves as current e-cigarette users.

At Fair View High School, a campus for students with academic or behavioral difficulties, those rates are much higher: 54 percent of students have used e-cigs, and 26 percent are current e-cig users.

Pleasant Valley Principal John Shepherd

has noticed a tremendous increase in the use of vaping since e-cigarettes were developed. He’s worked at PV for 21 years, serving as principal for the past decade.

It has been difficult for staff to combat tobacco product marketing that can be enticing for young people, he told the CN&R. The district has concerns about the accessibility of the products, as well. According

Sgt. Mike Williams on his third day as a school resource officer at Pleasant Valley High School.

to a city staff report, there are 95 licensed tobacco retailers in Chico. Ten schools, or 35 percent, are within 500 feet of such a retailer, and 16 schools (57 percent) are within 1,000 feet.

When resource officers were on campuses six years ago, their main focus was more reactive, he said. This time, there’s a stronger proactive emphasis on prevention and intervention, particularly when it comes to vaping.

“Having that be the impetus for the placement of school resource officers has really changed the paradigm,” Shepherd said. “It’s nice for us to be able to present the school resource officers in that light, rather than a security force.”

The grant also will fund 78 smoke and vapor detectors for restrooms at all three high schools. Coupled with the education and enforcement efforts of the resource officers and the education and outreach provided by the district’s current Tobacco Use Prevention Grant, the school district hopes to drastically reduce or eliminate tobacco use.

“Raising students’ awareness, the prevention/intervention focus is going to be valuable.” he said. “It’s not just [officers] walking around in their badge and their belt, but engaging with kids in an educational setting.”

If the tobacco grant hadn’t been approved for CUSD, resource officers would still have been present on campus, though to a lesser degree. The district and police department had agreed to share costs of two officers. The money set aside by the city has yet to be reallocated.

Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien said the police department worked with the school district to select officers suited for this type of assignment because they really want to help students.

This is a completely different assignment for Williams, who previously served as part of the department’s street crimes unit.

“Usually we’re on the street, people are in crisis, they need us there and it’s traumatic. You’re more reactionary and you’re just [responding] to one call and going to the next,” he said. “Here in the schools, you’re dealing with kids at such an influential time in their lives.”

Williams sees his role as “being that constant mentor for these kids … guiding them [in] those right directions, making sure they’re not making poor choices,” and fostering a safe school environment. Ω

Water war Local farmers protest proposal aimed at sustaining salmon

Butte County farmers showed up in force to

a rally at the state Capitol, riled by recently proposed updates to the Bay-Delta Plan aimed largely at buoying the state’s imperiled salmon population.

On July 6, the State Water Resources Control Board announced it was looking to increase water flows for portions of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. The board noted on its website that it was “part of a delicate balancing act—addressing an ecological crisis in the watershed and preventing further collapse of Bay-Delta fisheries while acknowledging the other vital water uses for millions of Californians.”

Local farmers, though, fear that 55 percent to 60 percent of water might be diverted under this plan, potentially harming agriculture. So on Monday (Aug. 20), the Butte County Farm Bureau sent two buses carrying approximately 80 people from Butte, Colusa, Glenn, Sutter, Tehama and Yuba counties to a “Stop the Water Grab” rally at the north steps of the Capitol in Sacramento.

“The impacts of the state water board’s Bay-Delta amendment is going to reach far and wide,” Colleen Cecil, executive director for the Butte County Farm Bureau, told the CN&R. “It’ll affect everybody in the state.”

An estimated 1,500 people attended

the rally. The event attracted numerous local, state and federal officials, including U.S. Congressmen Doug LaMalfa, Tom McClintock, Jeff Denham and Jim Costa.

“We’re all Californians,” LaMalfa told the CN&R after giving a speech. “We’re all fighting for similar things.”

Les Heringer has managed the M&T Ranch

just southwest of Chico since 1986, growing almonds, walnuts and prunes as well as beans and wheat. Heringer and his adult son Lee, who’s worked on the ranch 10 years, each made the trip to the Capitol.

“What brought me out here today is ag is fully engaged on protecting our water,” Les said. “If there’s no water, there’s no farm.

We cannot farm without water.”

Lee agreed: “I think it’s important to show Sacramento how important of an issue

SIFT ER Reefer revenues Remember how California voters approved Proposition 64 back in 2016? That’s the initiative that, among other things, legalized recreational marijuana sales as of the first of this year. Jan. 1 is also the date two new state cannabis taxes went into effect: a cultivation tax on the cannabis in the commercial market and a 15 percent excise tax on cannabis and cannabis-product purchases. Both apply to recreational and medical marijuana. Here’s a breakdown of various taxes over the first two quarters of 2018—not including those collected by local jurisdictions. Note: Medicinal cannabis is exempt from sales taxation for those who hold a medical marijuana identification card.

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Lee Heringer (left) and his father, Les, are Butte County farmers opposed to a new water plan proposed by the state.

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this is to farmers,” he said. “It’s not just affecting people’s pocketbooks. It’s affecting their livelihoods and all the employees that depend on their income from these ranches to provide for their families.”

David Lundberg, a rice farmer who lives in Chico, said he made the trip to the event because of talk of people losing 50 percent of their water.

“It’s pretty devastating for everybody who has water,” Lundberg said.

The state water board has retreated somewhat since releasing its proposals.

While it was scheduled to hold hearings Aug. 21-22 to review the plans, the agenda for these hearings noted that “any final action by the [board] will be continued to a future [board] meeting.”

Jon Rosenfield, a conservation biologist with the Bay Institute in San Francisco, said by phone that updating state and federal water standards could help restore salmon populations. His group’s position is that to do so, 50 percent to 60 percent of water flow must remain in-river from February through June and other standards must be in place the rest of the year to govern temperature. He’d also like to see California become more sustainable in its water usage.

“What the board is proposing is not going to cut it,” said Rosenfield, who didn’t attend the rally but noted that others from his group did.

Following the rally, the board updated a list

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flow from February through June in the Merced, Tuolumne, and Stanislaus rivers.”

The board added, “The starting point is proposed to be 40 percent of unimpaired flow. This is not the same as a 40 percent reduction.”

All of this might not be enough, though, to bring local farmers on board with the plans and avert a legal battle.

“There will be a lawsuit,” Cecil said. “Without a doubt, there will be a lawsuit.”

She added that the California Farm Bureau, the 53-county group that the Butte bureau belongs to, has a team of attorneys. She also anticipates lawsuits against the state from irrigation districts and possibly the federal government, since the plans could impact the New Melones Dam reservoir and its functionality.

It would be only the latest skirmish between President Donald Trump and Gov. Jerry Brown, with the administration falling short in a lawsuit earlier this year against California over its sanctuary state policy.

Trump has weighed in on California water policy before, including on Aug. 6, when he tweeted that “California wildfires are being magnified & made so much worse” because water to fight the fires was “being diverted into the Pacific Ocean.”

While The New York Times and others quickly refuted Trump’s claim, it has supporters, including LaMalfa—the Congressman said he asked Trump during a campaign stop in Redding in June 2016 why water was being run out to the ocean.

Asked if he’d heard rumblings of a federal lawsuit, LaMalfa said, “It’d be rumbly right now to say that. But yes.”

LaMalfa noted that he’d recently spent time in Shasta County with U.S. Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke due to the ongoing fire in his district. Zinke, the Congressman said, was aware of the support among three members of the water board for the BayDelta updates.

“He as well as those folks on Bureau of Reclamation are really upset that three out of five members of an appointed board could go so far to try to make that kind of decision,” LaMalfa said.

—Graham Womack

Legislators lag Homeowners struggle in wake of climate-change-fueled disasters Jen Burt lives with her husband

and two kids in the woods not far from Grass Valley, in a fourbedroom foothill house in a stand of black oak and cedar trees. Tucked away on a private road, the 5-acre spread is a hallmark California dream—and a potential California nightmare: It’s in wildfire country.

Last February, Burt’s insurer of six years canceled her fire insurance.

The scramble for new coverage was pricey and harrowing.

Now, like a lot of rural homeowners, Burt is hoping for a solution in the form of wildfire legislation. Of the more than 13.6 million homes in the state, about a third are in or near areas vulnerable to wildfire, and many homeowners are having trouble finding or keeping their fire insurance.

But of all the constituencies— from utility companies to first responders—clamoring for state help as firenados ravage California and legislators rush toward the Aug. 31 end of session, homeowners who live in fire-prone areas and fear losing coverage seem among the least likely to get legislative relief.

The “new normal” of climatechange-fueled natural disasters has also changed California’s policy landscape. Survivors of last year’s wine country fires want major

Peace and harmony A giant “Peace” mural designed by famed street artist/graphic designer/ activist Shepard Fairey was installed on the side of the Chico Peace & Justice Center (CPJC) over the course of three days this week, Aug. 19-21.

The propaganda-poster-style mural— which includes the word “Harmony” as well—follows the “Love” and “Unity” works created by local artist/designer Jed Speer (on the Lulu’s and the Boys & Girls Club, respectively), who is also responsible for bringing Fairey’s work to town. Fairey wasn’t in Chico for the process. Instead, his art assistants— pictured (on Monday), from left: Von Zombo, Luka Densmore and Rob Zagula—used giant photocopied stencils to guide the painting of his design.

The CPJC raised $5,770 (via GoFundMe) for the project, which Speer said mostly covered the cost of supplies, equipment and Fairey’s art assistants.

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.upgrades in emergency communications. Utility companies, which by law are responsible for fires in areas where their lines run, have lobbied hard for a break on their fire liability.

Lawmakers have been working hard to address those issues, with varying degrees of success.

But an ambitious package of consumer protections proposed by the Department of Insurance earlier this year that would make it harder for insurers to raise rates or cancel coverage in high-risk areas has mostly been quashed or sidelined. As key lawmakers continued working over the weekend, among the possibilities they discussed: creating some sort of fund to help fire victims, modeled on the protections afforded to homeowners living in flood zones. How to fund that, however, remains an open question.

The insurance industry, meanwhile, insists California is a big market and that insurers can spread their risk enough to remain in it.

But soaring claims do drive up premiums, said Armand Feliciano, vice president of government relations at Property Casualty Insurers Association of America, a trade association representing about 1,000 insurance companies. “If you live in a very dry area,” said Feliciano, “it’s going to be very tough to

spread that risk.”

Also, views are mixed on how to handle development in fireprone regions. In Nevada County, where Burt resides, 70 percent of some 50,200 homes are at high risk of fires, according to the state Insurance Department.

Some note that high premiums and policy cancellations send market signals that deter people from settling in wildfire country. Others argue that by the time homeowners notice the price of insurance, they’ve already made a home, and the state has a responsibility to protect them. And, they add, it is only in recent years that fire danger has spiked.

In the Legislature, that debate has continued, even as the largest fire in state history, the Ranch Fire, blackened a swath of Mendocino, Lake and Colusa counties the size of Los Angeles. So far, insurers have largely prevailed.

Of the 10 or so bills originally proposed (some have been combined), six have died or stalled, including measures that would have expedited fire victims’ claims, advanced payment, helped curb rogue adjusters and let those who have suffered a total loss rebuild at a different location.

The few bills that remain have been substantially watered down

from a consumer standpoint, says California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones.

“Most of those bills were hijacked by the insurance industry one way or another, substantially and hostilely amended,” Jones said.

“It was very disappointing, notwithstanding California’s worst wildfire, that the Legislature was not willing to pass strong consumer protection bills but instead allowed the insurance industry to water down or outright kill those bills.”

Among the remaining measures

is SB 894, authored by Sen. Bill Dodd, a Napa Democrat whose district was ravaged by last year’s Wine Country fires. Dodd’s bill would make it easier for homeowners to get coverage to rebuild, give them more time to claim living expenses after a disaster and extend policy renewal protections.

That bill, inspired by homeowners who discovered they were underinsured after last year’s fires, is bound for the Assembly floor after a tough fight in which its reach was narrowed by insurers. Dodd complained that lawmakers too readily buy insurers’ argument that any fire insurance legislation will increase costs for consumers. “It’s like a license to kill the bill,” Dodd said. “The insurance lobby in this building is incredibly strong with its influence on members and staff.”

Assemblyman Marc Levine, a Greenbrae Democrat, also advanced two fire bills involving red tape issues. Passed in July, AB 1799 dealt with a chronic problem for disaster victims: the difficulty after a loss of simply getting a copy of complete policy documentation from insurers. AB 1797, awaiting a signature from the governor, would require insurance companies to provide a homeowner with rebuilding cost estimates every other year.

And SB 824 from Bell Gardens Democratic Sen. Ricardo Lara, who is running to succeed Jones as insurance commissioner in November, aims to prevent insurers from dropping or not renewing homes after a disaster. It would ensure that homeowners get their policies renewed the year following a declaration of emergency in their area, and would require insurance companies to submit fire loss data to the state. The bill is up for a floor vote in the Assembly after

initial opposition from the Property Casualty Insurers.

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such as allowing insurers to cancel in the case of fraud.

Renewal, however, remains a worry. Besides consumers’ desire for coverage, fire insurance is a prerequisite for home mortgages.

From 2015 to 2016, the number of policy nonrenewals went from 8,796 to 10,151 across all the counties, according to the Department of Insurance.

Meanwhile, in the wildland areas seen as at-risk of wildfires, policies purchased through the California Fair Access to Insurance Requirements Plan, an insurer of last resort for California homeowners, rose by about 8,000 between 2014 and 2017. Statewide, they total 30,432 policies—and although that may seem like a small number compared to the millions of homes insured by traditional carriers like AAA and Farmers, Jones calls them “the canary in the coal mine.”

He said his office is fielding more homeowner complaints in high-risk areas about policy renewals, cancellations or premium increases.

“We’re not in a crisis yet, but you can see where this problem is going to accelerate. California climate is changing for the worse, and the world is not doing anything fast enough to change the greenhouse gases to de-accelerate the temperature rise,” Jones said.

In Grass Valley, the Burts eventually found insurance after more than a month of looking. Jen Burt said their coverage with AAA is a bit more expensive than their previous policy with Grange, but other carriers would have doubled their premium.

And like so many Californians, they’re not leaving.

“This is our forever home,” she said. “We don’t plan to move from here.”

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HEALTHLINES Ahmed Mamane, the pharmacist who owns KindCare Pharmacy and Medical Supply in Chico, empathizes with patients taking medication for chronic pain.

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Asideoperator of a small drugstore on the west of Chico, Ahmed Mamane develops s a neighborhood pharmacist, owner-

close relationships with his customers. He remembers specifics about their medical histories; he knows about their lives. He cares about them individually.

Mamane understands what someone experiences when suffering from chronic pain. There’s more to the affliction than physical distress: The person can’t do a lot of things he or she used so do, he said, leading to feelings of weakness, uselessness and depression.

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For decades, physicians readily prescribed painkillers—notably, opioids, such as codeine, morphine, hydrodocone (i.e., vicodin or norco) and oxycodone. Pain was considered “the fifth vital sign” until the Joint Commission—U.S. health care’s accreditation body—in 2002 reconsidered that phrase in its pain standards; even so, opioid prescriptions continued to rise, with U.S. sales nearly quadrupling since 1999.

Addiction and overdoses have increased correspondingly, to epidemic levels. Daily, an average of 115 Americans die from an opioid overdose. The National Institutes of Health also report approximately 25 percent of patients who use these pharmaceuticals abuse them and approximately 10 percent develop an opioid use disorder (i.e., addiction).

Butte County has a statistic even more dire: a death rate 2.5 times higher than the

state average (4.5 per 100,000 residents).

In response to the crisis, agencies such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) have issued recommendations to physicians and pharmacies on prescribing. Dr. Andy Miller, Butte County’s public health officer, championed a similar effort locally that resulted in community prescribing guidelines for primary care and emergency room doctors. (See “An uphill battle,” Healthlines, Nov. 2, 2017.)

Those protocols are voluntary. Packing more punch: crackdowns on pharmacies.

The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) and California State Board of Pharmacy have laser-focused on the amount of opioids dispensed as well as the documentation and rationale. Penalties can include loss of license.

As a result, doctors increasingly get calls from pharmacists questioning prescriptions, and patients who’ve never had problems with painkillers find themselves impeded.

“I feel their pain,” Mamane said one recent morning, on a brief break between customers at KindCare Pharmacy and Medical Supply. “So I hope the government will find a better way to deal with” the opioid crisis than restricting patients’ access to drugs prescribed responsibly.

“We’re trying to get people off these

pain medications all of a sudden—it’s hard.

I feel it from just the encounters with my patients, and I don’t fill too many pain medication [prescriptions] here.”

Mamane worked for a chain before opening his Walnut Street pharmacy two years ago. One such big-box store—the Walgreens on East Avenue—hit the headlines in late June over opioids. The DEA, making its first-ever inspection of that Walgreens, determined it had bought twice as many narcotic painkillers as any pharmacy in the area, an amount five times greater than the national average, since 2015.

Investigators could deem Walgreens’ inventory level as warranted. Miller confirmed it’s Chico’s only 24-hour pharmacy; for patients discharged from Enloe at night, where else to fill an urgently needed prescription? That’s a possible mitigating factor.

Miller also pointed out that the drugstore installed one of the state’s first dropboxes for unused pharmaceuticals—the only one in Butte County (see “Taking back the drugs,” Newslines, May 5, 2016). Overall, he said, regarding the investigation, “I don’t have enough information to defend or accuse.”

The CN&R spoke with Walgreens’ corporate media relations officer, requesting an interview, but received no reply by deadline.

Before starting his job with the Butte County

Public Health Department in 2016, Miller was medical director at Northern Valley Indian Health (NVIH), where he practiced family medicine for 14 years. He and his colleagues established a prescribing policy for opioids at NVIH clinics—different from guidlines at unaffiliated offices and hospitals where doctors determine how they practice, within medical standards of care.

“You can’t create policies for a community, but you can create guidelines,” Miller said. “When I started in this role, I had seen the benefit in the smaller scale and hoped collectively with the buy-in of physicians we’d see the benefit on a community-wide scale.”

Those who helped craft the guidelines set a goal of reducing the county’s total prescription amount of opioids—measured in morphine milligram equivalents (MMEs)— to the national average. Butte County was 3.5 times higher when he started, Miller said, and about two times higher now. The guidelines went out in January.

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HEALTHLINES ing was coming down, so it’s hard to know how much is due to the guidelines,” he added. “But when we’re in a crisis like this, you take it on every front you can.”

Pharmacies represent a significant front. Miller noted that “pharmacists already were concerned and motivated” before county physicians coalesced around prescribing guidelines, “and lately we’ve seen a lot more regulatory authorities come down and question the volume of opioids and potentially the handling of opioid patients in pharmacies. So I see why they’re concerned.”

Legally, pharmacists have what’s called the “corresponding responsibility” of proper dispensing to physicians’ proper prescribing.

Both Miller and Mamane explained that a pharmacist is expected to verify a prescription when he or she detects something unusual, such as a high dose or early refill.

“There used to be a culture where we could not question the doctor’s decision,” Mamane said.

“They [would] think we step into their domain. We don’t. It’s still going to be their decision if they want it to be filled, but it’s our decision to not fill it also if we think there’s something wrong about the prescription….

“It’s a tough time for every-

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body,” he added. Miller agreed: “It’s hard on patients, it’s hard on prescribers and it’s hard on pharmacists.”

Miller said multiple studies demonstrate opioids’ effectiveness for treating pain acutely (short term) but diminishing effectiveness for treating pain chronically (long term) along with higher risks of negative consequences (opioid dependence, overdose). For other medications, he continued, that data would speak for itself; “this one is charged because all of us want to be compassionate and treat pain; want to help people.”

Patients cut off from medication, or cut down drastically, without an opioid replacement such as suboxone or buprenorphine “will not feel good if they don’t get the opioid,” Miller said, “whether [experiencing] its withdrawal symptoms or withdrawal pain; the mechanism is such that you will feel more pain if you’ve been on an opioid.”

Considering the scope and toll of the epidemic, he concludes that “our alternative is not great.” Ω

WEEKLY DOSE Reconsidering Roundup Our country roads cut through vast farmland, teeming with agriculture, so it’s no surprise to anyone how well stuff grows here—including weeds. Roundup—a glyphosatebased herbicide created and sold by Monsanto—is heavily used by farmers, gardeners and municipalities to control unwanted growth. Health effects of the product are contested, so you may want to consider an alternative to the weedkiller. Here are some options to explore: • Integrated weed management techniques can reduce herbicide use by 80 percent (see tinyurl.com/IWM-Calif).

• Steam weeding pressurizes water to boiling and then targets weeds with an applicator.

• Efficient planting techniques including native plants, crop rotation and choice of crop species.

• Allelopathy, used on U.S. and German soybean farms, cultivates plants that produce chemicals to prevent unwanted growth.

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CITY OF CHICO PLANNING COMMISSION

PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that the City of Chico Planning Commission will conduct a public hearing on Thursday, September 6, 2018, at 6:00 p.m. in the City Council Chambers, located at 421 Main Street, regarding the following project: Chico General Plan Annual Review: Land Absorption Study, Sustainability Indicators Report, and Title 19 Amendments - The City’s General Plan directs that an annual report be prepared on the status of the General Plan and progress on its implementation. In 2017, the City Council and Planning Commission considered a more robust Five-Year General Plan Review, which also included an evaluation of development trends, current land supply, market conditions, and the ability of available land to meet future development needs. The Review concluded that there is an adequate supply of vacant land to meet the community’s needs through the General Plan’s 2030 planning horizon. Council directed staff to prepare a more detailed land absorption analysis to gain greater insight into residential and commercial land use demand and supply, issues affecting affordability, and impediments to opening up land planned to accommodate growth. The City retained BAE Urban Economics to assist in the preparation of a Land Absorption Study. In addition, a Sustainability Indicators Report has been prepared to gauge progress in advancing the General Plan’s sustainability-related goals and policies.

Further, a number of amendments to Title 19 of the Chico Municipal Code (Land Use and Development Regulations) are recommended to resolve minor inconsistencies in the Code, formalize interpretations made by the Community Development Director, clarify terms and definitions, and gain efficiencies in implementation of the Code as called for by the General Plan’s Economic Development Goals and Policies.

At the meeting, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing to consider the Land Absorption Study, Sustainability Indicators Report, and proposed Title 19 amendments, and provide a recommendation to the City Council regarding the Title 19 amendments.

A copy of the staff report and all accompanying documents will be available online at http://chico. ca.us/government/minutes_agendas/planning_ commission.asp or at the City of Chico Community Development Department office at 411 Main Street, 2nd Floor, the Friday before the hearing date.

Questions regarding this notice may be directed to Community Development Deputy Director Brendan Vieg at (530) 879-6806 or brendan.vieg@ chicoca.gov The proposed Title 19 amendments would not result in an increase in development beyond that which was analyzed in the Final Environmental Impact Report (EIR) prepared and certified for the Chico 2030 General Plan update (State Clearinghouse #2008122038). The proposed amendments represent a refinement of the General Plan adoption process, and in accordance with California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines Section 15162 are within the scope of the EIR. Any person may appear and be heard at the public hearing. The Planning Commission may not have sufficient time to fully review materials presented at the public hearing. Interested parties are encouraged to provide written materials at least 8 days prior to the public hearing to allow distribution with the Planning Commission’s agenda and thus, adequate time for the Planning Commission to review. All written materials submitted in advance of the public hearing must be submitted to the City of Chico Community Development Department, 411 Main Street, Second Floor, or mailed to P.O. Box 3420, Chico, CA 95927. Written materials should refer to the specific public hearing item listed above.

In accordance with Government Code Section 65009, if any person(s) challenges the action of the Planning Commission in court, said person(s) may be limited to raising only those issues that were raised at the public hearing described in this notice, or in written correspondence delivered to the Planning Commission at, or prior to, the public hearing.

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GREENWAYS Paul Gosselin, county water resources director, stands on a bridge on The Esplanade over Big Chico Creek, which previously represented a groundwater boundary dividing the city.

Crossing boundaries Groundwater plan redrawn after deadlinepushing proposal story and photo by

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County groundwater committee meeting in W mid-June—two weeks ahead of a state deadhen Jeff Carter walked into a Butte

line involving a plan two years in the making—he was unprepared for what he’d hear.

A Chico attorney, Carter represents the Durham Irrigation District. He regularly attends government meetings of water boards such as the Groundwater Pumpers Advisory Committee, or GPAC. That Monday morning, June 18, at GPAC, Carter learned the county planned to redraw its map for groundwater management, with Carter’s clients most significantly involved.

Instead of being grouped with agricultural irrigation districts to the south, Durham Irrigation District would fall within the governance plan area to the north, predominantly comprising Chico. The number of these groundwater areas—called sub-basins— would shrink from four to three.

County officials received this proposal from four south-county water districts only the preceding Friday, June 15—just 15 days before the California Department of Water Resources required the county to submit sub-basins’ boundary lines, and too late to place on the GPAC agenda.

“I think it caught the county by surprise,” Carter told the CN&R. Paul Gosselin, county water resources director, confirmed this.

“It caught Durham Irrigation by surprise,” Carter continued. “My first reaction was shock. I felt that this was something that obviously had been worked on for some time; it hadn’t been done in my view very openly or transparently. Because of that, it undoubtedly was going to lead to suspicion [of] what really was afoot here.”

The four proponents—Western Canal Irrigation

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the change would “reduce the complexity” of groundwater plans.

Previous boundaries put the Western Canal district into two sub-basins that together included over 20 entities, versus nine for the new sub-basin. Moreover, merging two southcounty sub-basins would bring together providers who serve ag customers using surface water, such as from rivers; Durham Irrigation District pumps from three wells to serve 470 customers primarily in the residential and commercial hub.

While not necessarily fans of the timing, Gosselin said county staff saw merits in the proposal. Precedent existed: The county and other agencies had approved an adjustment that shifted a boundary line from Big Chico Creek to south of Chico to put that whole city within a single sub-basin.

GPAC, unable to deliberate on an item not on its agenda, voted to hold a special meeting a week later to publicly vet the modifications. On June 25, the committee unanimously endorsed the plan, which the Board of Supervisors and Chico City Council subsequently approved after DWR extended its deadline. The state will review the modification after a 30-day comment period, anticipated next month.

The Durham Irrigation District board signed off on the changes at its August meeting. Residents packed Durham Community Hall last Wednesday night (Aug. 15) for a community information session featuring presentations by Gosselin and Assistant Director Christina Buck, a water scientist.

“Once people got over their initial reaction … digested and looked at [the proposal], they

felt it made a lot of sense,” Gosselin told the CN&R by phone the next morning.

The Durham Irrigation District particularly appreciates its new place. Carter says the district has more in common with Chico (served

by Cal Water) and especially the Rock Creek Reclamation District (the sub-basin’s other water provider).

Moreover, Carter explained that the north county’s plan for joint governance among the agencies accords significant voice to concerns in Durham, where wells ran dry in the early 2000s following water transfers to Southern California.

If the community finds itself in a similar situation again, Carter said, “having the county of Butte on our left side, the city of Chico on our right side and the strength of one of three groundwater sustainability agencies in the county gives me a lot more comfort than doing it ourselves as one of many local agencies that include surface water agencies.”

Governments and water providers get their

authority from the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, or SGMA—the state law establishing control at the local level. SGMA requires comprehensive plans that, among other things, take into account how underground water supplies do not adhere to city and county lines.

Since 2016, Butte County plans have delineated four sub-basins, which are subsets of a larger subterranean cache called the Sacramento Valley Basin. The basin contains our local Tuscan Aquifer; situated between Red Bluff and the Sutter Buttes, bounded by the mountain walls of the Sacramento Valley,

this expanse now comprises 10 sub-basins.

The locally ratified proposal merges the West Butte and East Butte sub-basins into the Butte sub-basin. Durham joins Chico and the Rock Creek Reclamation District in the Vina sub-basin. The Wyandotte Creek subbasin covers a swath from Oroville south.

Vina and Wyandotte Creek have governing plans in place, with all the entities in each forming a joint powers authority. The water districts in Butte have not agreed to decide issues jointly. The ultimate deadline looms in 2022.

“There’s an old saying in the West: There’s nothing like a hanging to focus your thoughts,” Carter said. “[SGMA], the continued droughts, the realization that our surface water supplies need to be managed better so we aren’t degrading the environment—all these things are coming together right now, and they have focus.” Ω

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When the owners of the downtown Chico Pita Pit decided to sell the business their family had run since 2003, they didn’t have to look far for a buyer.

Jay and Scott Dakof, who’d taken over operations from their parents, Pam and Michael, simply turned to their uncle, Gene Belmonte, who was happy to keep it in the family. After the death of Pam, Belmonte’s sister, last August, Jay and Scott decided it was time for a change. Now Belmonte, who has lived in Chico for 50 years and already helped manage the business, runs the place with help from his wife, Karen, who takes care of bookkeeping, hiring and promotions. Three of their four children, ages 18-26, work there as well, giving the place a strong family feel.

Belmonte doesn’t expect his kids to stay long-term, but he’s enjoying this time with them as they find their own paths. Check out the Pita Pit’s new menu, which still includes delivery and online ordering options, at 240 Broadway St. every day from 9:30 a.m. to 10 p.m.

What’s your favorite part of running the business?

The people. I love meeting the people and talking to the customers—that’s probably the best of it—and the employees, I

really enjoy working with people and it’s a fun place to work.

That’s sort of what the whole thing behind Pita Pit is—fun and making fun for the customers as well as for the employees. We always encourage them to have a conversation, get to know the customer. I always guarantee that if they try anything new and they don’t like it, I’ll make them something else. I try to make sure, when they leave, they had a good experience.

Will you be doing anything differently?

We actually just started a new menu. We now have what’s called an “artisan menu,” which are chef-inspired flavors. And we still do the custom, as we’ve always done, so for people who’ve come in the past, they can still do it exactly that way.

For other people, or even customers who want to try something new, we have all these new flavors—we have pesto, steak fajitas, Baja chicken bacon ranch, and they’re really good. And now we do the bigger [size], which was our original pita, and then we do a smaller.

So, for people who want a smaller portion, we have a smaller pita now.

What are your plans for the future?

Really, just to run the business and be more active in the community—you know, with the downtown and the schools—just try to get more involved, that’d be fun. We’ve always been involved with all of our kids with all the schools, so it’ll be pretty decent to keep going in that direction.

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I had a rare opportunity to spend a whole day in Oroville last week, acting like a tourist and checking out sites, businesses and museums I’d never been to or hadn’t been to in a while. Having spent a fair amount of time covering news and events in the City of Gold, it’s fun to pop in places and reconnect with people I’ve interviewed. And it’s cool, too, to discover new spots and hidden gems and meet the folks who keep the town ticking.

One of my stops was for lunch at a new eatery, Café One Sixteen (116 Table Mountain Blvd.), opened by Chris and Edna Lightle, who modeled the place after their successful Souper Subs on Oro Dam Boulevard. After ordering at the counter—a French dip panini and bowl of cheddar broccoli soup—Chris and I chatted. Edna, his grandmother (better known as “Nana”), was holding down the Souper Subs fort.

“Our main goal is to serve the Thermalito area of town as well as the county government offices with our healthier than traditional fast-food menu,” Chris told me of the new venture. Indeed, they make it easy to get a good meal fast— there are grab-and-go salads and sandwiches, plus online and phone-in ordering.

A drive-thru makes the pickup process even simpler.

Nana’s best known for her soups—in particular the broccoli cheddar (which was awesome) and chili. Both owners celebrate milestone birthdays this year— Chris turns 30 and Nana will soon be 80. Working and chatting with customers keeps her young, Chris said.

The main difference between the two eateries is Café One Sixteen serves breakfast—it’s open 6 a.m.-6 p.m. Mon.-Fri. There’s also a full coffee menu, plus infused teas and Red Bulls. Also, grilled paninis are unique to the cafe; Souper Subs serves toasted subs instead. The cafe is holding a grand opening Friday (Aug. 24), with food samples all day and live music from 4-6 p.m.

DOwNtOwN upDAtes While in Oroville, I decided to take a little walk downtown to survey the area, which is constantly changing and growing. I saw a sign outside The Exchange advertising it’s now serving lunch and popped in. Owner Jesse Brown, whom I’d interviewed before, was tending bar. I’d already eaten, so I didn’t sample the midday fare, but it was great to hear the place has been hopping.

Brown directed me around the corner to the reopened Copa de Oro, an onagain-off-again nightclub/restaurant since 1990. It was recently purchased by downtown Oroville power couple Sean and Lori Pierce—who also own the building that houses The Exchange, as well as several other buildings and businesses.

I’d never been to the Copa, so I had no expectations. But the place is really neat—very old-timey, from the refinished but comfortably worn-in bar and stools to the expansive wood floors. I ordered a snack—the slider appetizer plate—and they were perfection. I even got a little tour of the second floor bar, which also feels like stepping back in time and is set to open by the end of August.

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sh had rained from the sky for about a day when Beverly Strand’s phone lit up with a text. It was an automated public safety alert telling her to leave town. Then her neighbor called.

“She told me to look out my back window,” said Strand, who lives near the west side of Redding. “I did, and on the ridge to the north, I saw the flames.”

The Carr Fire, sparked by a minor automobile malfunction a few miles to the west, was advancing rapidly. Strand, who has lived in Redding for all of her 60 years and had never seen a wildfire prompt

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an evacuation, collected her valuables, ushered her pets into her car and drove east.

Her home, ultimately, would be spared. However, the Carr Fire would go on to kill at least eight people, destroy more than 1,000 homes and become the sixth most destructive wildfire in the state’s history. It’s one of many infernos that have recently ravaged the West—disastrous events made worse by the rapid warming of the planet, most scientists agree.

Humanity has had its chance to avert calamity.

It appears that window is closing.

The Carr Fire had burned more than 220,000 acres as of the CN&R’s deadline.

PHOTO COURTESY OF CAL FIRE

A study recently published in the journal PLOS Medicine warned that heatwave deaths in California could increase five-fold in the next 60 years if people around the globe continue extracting and burning fossil fuels like there’s no tomorrow—or no 22nd century, anyway.

California has been pursuing steep cuts in statewide greenhouse gas emissions that would bring carbon dioxide output to 40 percent of 1990 levels by 2030. Alone, however, the state’s actions will not avert the disasters. In fact, the annual pace of global emissions increased last year over the prior 10-year average.

Now, virtually every realistic climate scientist agrees we are already committed, with no way of going back, to an increase in global temperatures ranging from significant to ruinous—even if we halted all emissions today. For scientists, this basically means they don’t know what will happen with certainty except that temperatures and sea level will rise considerably. Most predictions are educated guesses, but one common theme is that catastrophe looms.

Park Williams, a bioclimatologist at Columbia University, compared the Earth’s climate to a resting monster—“a climate beast that we don’t really understand.”

“We’re all really afraid that if we kick this thing, it may lurch and respond in a very wild way that we can’t predict,” he said.

California in flames

California’s recent past shows what happens when temperatures inch up: The state’s driest drought in 500 years ended with one of its wettest winters. Then the landscape blew into flames.

Measured by number of structures lost, six of California’s 20 most destructive wildfires occurred within the past year. Measured by acreage, the two largest fires have burnt in the past eight months, with the bigger—the Mendocino Complex Fire— still going strong. Future fire models show that acreage burned each year could increase some 75 percent by 2085.

“This is part of a trend, a new normal, that we’ve got to deal with,” Gov. Jerry Brown said at an Aug. 4 press conference in Redding.

Brown’s comments come with a caveat. Though widely applauded as a climate policy hero, the state’s multiterm governor also has eased restrictions on California’s oil industry and facilitated its growth. The group Consumer Watchdog has reported that Brown and initiatives he supports have received $10 million in donations from oil lobbyists. Last week, several protesters were arrested outside his office.

“I’m no longer willing to remain comfortable

while politicians gain accolades for promoting renewable fuels when they’re simultaneously permitting fossil-fuel extraction,” said Morgan Curtis, 26, an Oakland activist with the Brown’s Last Chance coalition who spent a night in jail for demonstrating without a permit outside the governor’s office on Aug. 7. “Young people have the most at risk because of climate change—our futures are ahead of us.”

Underlying the extreme fire phenomena, California keeps getting hotter. Last year may have been Earth’s third warmest recorded year (2015 and 2016, warmed by El Niño, were hotter), but it delivered to California its all-time hottest summer. The temperature hit 100 or more a record 72 times in Redding in 2017.

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scorcher for the state. In Fresno, the thermometer has stayed near 100 every day since July 6, and Redding was in the midst of a streak of triple-digit days when the Carr Fire broke out.

Such heat spells will only get worse.

“We’re going to get heatwaves that will last for days and days and days and days at extraordinary temperatures,” said Richard Grotjahn, a UC Davis professor of climate dynamics.

Grotjahn co-authored a study recently published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Atmospheres warning that climate change could nudge summertime heatwave highs in California up by at least 7 degrees Fahrenheit—that’s assuming aggressive global reductions in CO2 emissions, which are not currently happening—and by as much as 12 degrees if emissions continue to increase.

“Temperatures that are several degrees above what we have now will become the norm—that’s a pretty sizeable increase,” Grotjahn said. “If the normal high is 93, well, imagine if the normal high was 98, and on top of that you have these big swings— it’s a pretty scary thought.”

Williams, the bioclimatologist, said reducing greenhouse gas emissions can still help soften the impacts from increasing temperatures many years from now. As for stopping global warming, though, it’s too late for that.

“We’re already signed up for a very different climate a few decades from now,” he said.

Underwater and uninhabitable

The planet is now about 1 degree Celsius (1.8 degrees Fahrenheit) warmer than in pre-industrial times, and it is all but certain it will be another degree warmer by 2100. In the worst possible scenario, the planet’s emissions of CO2 and methane CLIMATE C O N T I N U E D AUGUST 23, 2018

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might continue unabated, causing— according to climate models—another 4 degrees Celsius or more of warming.

That’s 7.2 degrees Fahrenheit warmer than today’s average.

This is not trivial. About 20,000 years ago, Earth was 4 or 5 degrees Celsius cooler than it is now.

“And at the time, Manhattan was buried under hundreds of meters of ice,” said Jason Smerdon, a climate researcher at Columbia University and co-author of the forthcoming book Climate Change: The Science of Global Warming and Our Energy Future. “So, 4 degrees Celsius warmer would be like one Ice Age warmer.”

Such would be the outcome of what scientists know as the RCP8.5 scenario, often referred to as the business-as-usual scenario. In climate science, though, business as usual means anything but.

That’s because, if humankind continues burning fossil fuels at current rates, the sleeping climate beast wakes and, late in the century, unleashes all manner of suffering.

Business as usual would, by 2100, transform much of Eurasia into desert and cause the ocean to rise several feet.

Climate Central warns that the rising ocean could force 760 million coastal residents to evacuate or perish. Human deaths are expected to increase by a quarter million every year because of

Eight fatalities are attributed to the Carr Fire, which started on July 23 and reportedly was sparked by a vehicle’s mechanical failure.

PHOTO BY KEN SMITH

Climate projections show the best, moderate and worst-case scenarios for daily surface temperatures on Earth by the year 2100.

climate-change-related ailments, including heat stress, malnutrition and malaria, according to the World Health Organization.

The Pacific Institute, a water and climate think tank in Oakland, has estimated that half a million people in the Bay Area could be affected directly by flooding as the sea rises.

Heather Cooley, director of the institute’s water program, said that forecast uses a 1.4meter increase, or 4.5 feet, without a specific time span.

“We often talk about climate change as though it stops at 2100, and it won’t—these changes will continue,” Cooley said.

Other mass population shifts will occur as average high temperatures creep past what humans can physically tolerate. Parts of the Middle East are expected to become uninhabitable over the next several decades.

The U.S. Global Change Research Program, a national initiative to study the changing climate, has forecast that, by the end of the century, the American Southwest could be 9.5 degrees Fahrenheit warmer, on average, than it is today.

In California, these changes will make the state unsuitable for most trout and salmon, stress crops to the point of unprofitability, turn forests into scrubland and, probably, kill many people outside the confines of airconditioned buildings.

The RCP2.6 scenario, by which warming increases just another degree or less by 2100, offers much brighter prospects for the Earth and its inhabitants. It is, however, mainly

Future fire models show that acreage burned each year could increase some

75% by 2085.

used as a reference point.

“That would be like every government agrees climate change is an extreme emergency and does everything possible to cut back on emissions, and I don’t see that happening,” Grotjahn said.

Even the middle-ground scenario— RCP4.5—where the Earth’s temperature would increase by as much as 5.5 degrees Fahrenheit, “is probably optimistic at this point,” he said.

Under any warming scenario, less snow will fall in the mountains, and the U.S. Global Change Research Program estimates that California’s mountain snowpack—its most important reservoir—could, by 2100, hold less than half the water equivalent to what it did 100 years prior. That’s on top of a projected doubling of the state’s human population—a recipe for water conflicts far more serious than the nonstop squabbles seen today as environmentalists and farmers argue over how best to divvy resources.

“We’ll need to change our reservoir operating systems,” Cooley said. “Right now, we plan for summer snowmelt by making room in the reservoirs.”

When precipitation falls as rain rather than snow, it means more frequent, more severe floods and drier summers. In the grimmest of outlooks, the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta will transform into a swamplike ecosystem where invasive species, like black bass and catfish, thrive but salmon cannot, warned UC Davis fisheries professor Peter Moyle. Native fish will suffer, but farmers—often at odds with fishery conservation—will not necessarily win big.

Growers of many crops, especially nuts and stone fruits that require chilling hours, will be forced to move or somehow adapt.

“There are a lot of crops California won’t be able to grow anymore,” Cooley said.

It’ll be worse than you’ve heard

It’s possible the impacts of global warming will be even worse than scientists are predicting. That’s because of what’s known as “positive feedback cycles,” a phenomenon whereby the very effects of warming begin to drive it.

For example, warming is melting the reflective sea ice that once would have bounced solar radiation back into space.

As this deflective layer evaporates, the ice that’s left melts even faster, perpetuating the vicious cycle. Another feedback loop only recently identified is that of soil carbon entering the atmosphere at faster and faster rates as the air warms, enhancing the greenhouse effect.

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contradict his official stance warming to accelerate in as a leader on climate change unpredictable ways. This, policy. According to data Williams said, is of great from FracTracker, Brown concern to climate scientists has issued more than 5,000 wise enough to know they permits to drill new offshore can’t predict the future. He oil wells in California state said paleo evidence of climate waters, while Trump has change in the past shows that issued permits for about 1,400 atmospheric chemistry changin federal waters a few miles es have sparked extreme shifts farther offshore. that reset the planet’s climate Curtis, the demonstrator into a wildly different state.

For instance, Earth, he arrested a couple of weeks ago said, has apparently frozen in Sacramento, said she went over, all the way to the to jail for a night, along with because of climate equator, several times in the five others, “to help illuminate distant past. While extreme the discrepancy between the change-related ailments, freezing is not an immedigovernor’s walk and his talk.” according to the World ate threat to Earth, Williams While Brown ignites the Health Organization. said the moral is that climate anger of protesters, it continchange, once put into motion, ues getting hotter so fast that can assume a life of its own. even Republicans in Congress “We are now giving are stepping across party lines atmospheric chemistry a kick and joining in calls to cut CO2 of the kind of magnitude it emissions. takes to initiate these really “They’re hearing from their constituents, and they big and unpredictable feedbacks where the climate know they can’t ignore this anymore,” said Steve Valk, state could start spinning out of control and eventually director of communications with the Citizens’ Climate come to rest in a new state entirely,” he said.

Lobby. “Congress listens to the will of the people, Perhaps nowhere does Earth’s climate seem more because we have elections.” unstable and volatile than in the deep Arctic. Here, In July, 39 of the 43 GOP members of the Climate permafrost that has been frozen for ages is now rapidly Solutions Caucus voted for an anti-carbon tax, sponthawing (and releasing huge amounts of methane, a sored, no less, by another Republican, Rep. Steve powerful greenhouse gas—yet another positive feedScalise of Louisiana. Earlier this year, after the Pentagon back loop). In the coastal town of Svalbard, journalist removed climate change references from national secuMark Sabbatini had to abandon his apartment two rity documents, 40 members of the House, including years ago when the softening earth caused his building eight Republicans, signed a letter of criticism addressed to cave in. to Defense Secretary Jim Mattis. In July, Rep. Carlos Sabbatini has spent the past decade in Svalbard Curbelo, a Republican from Florida, introduced a bill watching global warming happen. He says observing that would place a fee on carbon and use the revenue to what happens in the Arctic is very important for the fund infrastructure projects. rest of the planet.

“In Florida, they have to think about this,” Valk said.

“Climate change is happening two times as fast But some Republicans who acknowledge warming here, so we’re getting a preview of what’s to going to trends still question humanity’s role in the process. happen everywhere else,” Sabbatini said.

At a May 16 hearing of the House of Representatives Committee on Science, Space, and Technology, Chairman Lamar Smith, a Texas Republican, called “alarmist findings” that climate change will cause great Across the northern hemisphere, heatwaves are cook- damage and mortality in the future “the ultimate fake news.” He dismissed calls for emissions reductions, ing the earth. since they tend to harm fossil fuel-based industries that The African continent just logged a record high fork over huge political bribes to lawmakers and leadof 124 degrees Fahrenheit, and Japan saw an all-time ers (California’s governor included), and said we can high reading of 106. Triple digits have been the rule for count on “inevitable advances in building construction much of inland California since early July. While some and design” to handle future climate challenges. climate models predict that parts of coastal California “It’s funny how the goal posts keep moving,” Valk could get cooler as inland warming enhances sea breezes, in the Central Valley the summers will just get hotter said. “You start out denying there’s a problem. Then, you agree there’s a problem but say that we’ll just and drier. adapt to it.”

Amid the melting glaciers, the record heatwaves, the Smerdon, at Columbia University, feels the adaptasuperstorms, the wildfires and the record heat, President tion arguments are a way of kicking the can down the Trump’s denial of climate change and his refusal to road. participate in international efforts to slow warming have “It’s a new way of arguing for business as usual,” embarrassed the nation. Ω he said.

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Chico Theater Company (Aug. 24Sept. 16). The popular 1980s musical adapted from the 1954 film of the same name.

Butcher Shop 2018, Slow Theatre (Sept. 1-2), at the End of Normal. This year’s theme: Mysterious Inheritance.

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Women in Jeopardy, Theatre on the Ridge (Sept. 6-23). Over glasses of wine, a trio of divorcees are on the case of the man one of them is dating, 28

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a dentist who may or may not also be a serial killer.

Mulan Jr., Blue Room Young Company (Sept. 7), at Laxson Auditorium. The Blue Room’s young players star in this musical adaptation of the Disney animated feature about Fa Mulan, the brave girl who goes undercover to fight the Huns.

PUMA, Blue Room Theatre (Sept. 21-22). Local actor/writer Hilary Tellesen’s all-female, all-wrestling, all-original ass-kicking celebration of turning 40.

Candide, Chico State School of the Arts (Sept. 22), at Harlen Adams Theatre. As part of the worldwide celebration of Leonard Bernstein’s 100th birthday this year, Chico State’s music and theater students, faculty and alumni are presenting a semi-staged concert version of his operetta, Candide, as part of this school year’s Opera Gala.

The Simon & Garfunkel Story, Paradise Performing Arts Center (Oct. 2). U.K.-born jukebox musical is touring the U.S. with stories, projected photos and a spot-on live tribute to the legendary duo.

Making God Laugh, Chico Theater Company (Oct. 5-21). Born from the famous quote “If you want to make God laugh, tell him your plans,” this a story of one family’s life over the course of 30 years.

BUTTE COUNTY FAIR: Carnival games and rides, livestock and com-

Newsies, California Regional Theatre (Oct. 5-21), CUSD Center for the Arts. Learn about the exploitation of child labor in America … through song! A musical-theater adaptation of the 1992 film based on the newsboys’ strike of 1899.

Lord of the Flies, Blue Room (Oct. 11-20). Chico’s black-box theater turns the allegory of modern civilization on its head with an original adaptation that ditches the boys and features an allgirls cast of castaways.

Our House, School of the Arts (Oct. 18-21), at Wismer Theatre. The scenes are set on both sides of the TV screen for Chico State Department of Music and Theatre’s production of this boob-tube satire.

The Walworth Farce, Blue Room (Nov. 1-17). Chico’s conduit to the deep mines of Irish dark comedies, Joe Hilsee, brings us Enda Walsh’s particularly twisted example, featuring a family repeatedly performing a play in their flat to an audience of no one.

High Noon on Wall Street, Theatre on the Ridge (Nov. 1-18). In the 1980s, local musical-theater badasses Jerry Miller and Marcel Daguerre adapted the classic 1952 western film High Noon, updating the setting to then present-day Wall Street. Given the country’s current financial climate, right now seems a perfect time for this revival. Ω

petitions, live music, rodeo events, tractor racing, fair food, vendors and a whole lot more. Thu, 8/23. $5-$10. Butte County Fairgrounds, 199 East Hazel St., Gridley. buttecountyfair.org

CHICO PRIDE – LET ME BE PERFECTLY QUEER: Comedy showcase featuring LGBTQ performers. Thu, 8/23, 9pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St. stonewallchicopride.com

CHICO PRIDE – QUEER JUSTICE IS RACIAL JUSTICE: A program of spoken word performances, discussion, music and live art to kick off Chico Pride. Thu, 8/23, 6pm. Chico Peace & Justice Center, 526 Broadway St. stonewallchicopride.com

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CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE VARIETY SHOW: Dynamic, daring, delightful entertainers illuminate the true definition of queer entertainment. Fri, 8/24, 8pm. $10-$15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. stonewallchicopride.com

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chairs. Sun, 8/26, 5pm. $25-$30. Riparia Farm, 2500 Estes Road. 530-518-8509. chicohousingactionteam.org

East Hazel St., Gridley. buttecountyfair.org

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sion about death and dying to alleviate your fears and erase the stigma of the eternal embrace. Sun, 8/26, 5:30pm. Free.

Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave. 530-592-3651.

fundraiser for the Paradise Symphony featuring performances by their Petite Orchestra, Starlight Strings Quartet and Jazz Band, and the Paradise Dancers. Sun, 8/26, 6pm. $50. 3300 Inspiration Lane, Paradise. paradisesymphony.org

INVISIBLE PATIENTS: Free documentary screening about “life at the edges of our healthcare system.” The film was the winner of the People’s Choice Award at the 2016 Indy Film Festival and puts a human face on some of the most urgent healthcare issues facing our nation. Donations accepted. Sun, 8/26, 2pm. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise. 612-3082261. invisiblepatients.com

MEET THE CANDIDATE – ALEX BROWN FOR CHICO CITY COUNCIL: Alex will speak about the

CHICO PRIDE – TEEN PRIDE DANCE: Safe space for teens to connect, dance and express themselves proudly. The event includes drag appearances, free food and a mocktail bar, a photo booth and fun activities for teens age 13-17. Fri, 8/24. Free. Trinity United Methodist Church, 285 E. Fifth St. stone wallchicopride.com

SUMMER BLOCK PARTY: Tons of activities and rotating live acts, plus dunk tanks, dancing, vendors, food and much more. Fri, 8/24. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

Theater SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: CTC celebrates 15 years of theater with their season premiere production, a rollicking musical based on the beloved MGM film that follows a crafty and assertive young woman living in the Oregon wilderness. Her attempts to civilize and marry off her six rowdy brothers-in-law may be well-intentioned, but they go hilariously wrong. Fri, 8/24, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-8943282. chicotheatercompany.com

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CHICO PRIDE – BIG PRIDE DRAG SHOW: Golden Empire drag queen/king blow out to support Chico Pride. Sat, 8/25, 10pm. $12. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE FESTIVAL SEEDS OF CHANGE: A full day of live bands, speakers, performers, and vendors and booths with LGBTQ resources. Sat 8/25. $5-$10. City Plaza, downtown.

DOWNTOWN PUBLIC ART TOUR: Free one-hour walking tour highlighting the epic public art of downtown Chico. Donations gladly accepted. Sat 8/25, 10am. Our Hands sculpture, 411 Main St.

HAPPIEST HOUR – COCKTAILS FOR A CAUSE: Benefit supporting Valley Oak Children’s Services features local wine, cocktails and beer, plus a raffle, silent auction and live music from The Kelly Twins. All proceeds from the event support children and families in our community. Sat 8/25, 5pm. $40-$50. Almendra Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway Road, Durham. 530-895-3572. valleyoakchildren.org

SUMMER BLOCK PARTY: See Friday. Sat 8/25. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

Music BOB LITELL: Brunch tunes. Sat, 8/25, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

CHICO PRIDE – FIERCE & FUN QUEER SOUNDS: Bands and DJs turn it up while you turn it out. Beer garden and non-alcoholic drinks available. Sat, 8/25. $5-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. stonewallchicopride. com

CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE DANCE: Chico Pride closes with this blowout dance party with DJs on the decks, concert lighting and an amazing group of people. Cash bar available. 18+. Sat, 8/25, 8-10pm. $5-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

Theater SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: See Friday. Sat, 8/25, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

issues facing our city, how she plans to address them, and why Chico needs new leadership. Sun, 8/26. 1253 Orchard Lane.

CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE COMMUNITY BRUNCH: With

Theater SEVEN BRIDES FOR SEVEN BROTHERS: See Friday. Sun, 8/26, 2pm. $16-$22. Chico Theater Company, 166 Eaton Road, Ste. F. 530-894-3282. chicotheatercompany.com

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delicious food from from Leon Bistro.

Donations gladly accepted. Sun, 8/26. Oak Grove in Lower Bidwell Park.

how we can plant seeds to change the world. Wed, 8/29, 7pm. Lake Oroville Visitor Center, 917 Kelly Ridge Road, Oroville.

Music MOON DANCE: Live music from Steve Cook, Ska-T, Kim Gimbal and many more, plus fire dancing, food and drinks to benefit the Chico Housing Action Team. Ride your bike or carpool and bring a blanket or

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Special Events BEYOND THE FRAME PANEL DISCUSSION: Artists from the museum’s Beyond the Frame exhibit discuss how murals and street art express beauty, creativity and cultural pride and serve as community support and political tools. Sun, 8/26, 3pm. Free.

Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. monca.org

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Chico Pride is upon us, a veritable exploding rainbow of dancing, music, live entertainment and, most important, the opportunity to celebrate our diverse LGBTQ community. Organized by Stonewall Alliance Center, this year’s theme is “Seeds of Change,” marking a commitment to better ethical and sustainable practices. The festivities kick off tonight (Thursday, Aug. 23) with a discussion at the Chico Peace & Justice Center and comedy at Duffy’s Tavern, with the main event taking place on Saturday, Aug. 25, at the downtown City Plaza. There are also dances at the Chico Women’s Club and Trinity United Methodist Church, burlesque at The Maltese and the weekend finale Sunday, Aug. 26, is a family brunch in Bidwell Park. See individual calendar listings for full details.

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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.

B-SO GALLERY: Sierra Diamond, BFA student’s culminating exhibition. 8/27-8/31. Free. Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BLACKBIRD: Past & Present, in celebration of their 10-year anniversary Red Room Tattoo presents this month-long show featuring the paintings of NorCal tattoo artists and friends of the shop. Through 8/31. Free. 1431 Park Ave.

CENTER FOR SPIRITUAL LIVING: Members’ Exhibit, original paintings, photographs and collage created by CSL members. Through 10/15.

Free. 789 Bille Road, Paradise., 530-877-5673. paradisecsl.org

CHICO ART CENTER: Small Works, open to all mediums, this jury-free exhibit features 12-by-12 works of collage, assemblage, textile, wire sculpture, paper clay, origami, found objects and more. Through 8/31. 450 Orange St. chicoartcenter.com

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Through 8/31. Free. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930. jamessnidlefinearts.com

JANET TURNER PRINT MUSEUM: Imagining the Past, curated by English professor Corey Sparks and his Early British Literature class, this exhibition asks that we consider how

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even the distant past continually affects our present moment. Through 9/22. 400 W. First St. janetturner.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: Group Show, ninth annual event showcases the work of 40 California artists, includes sculptures, paintings and more. Through 9/22. 732 Fourth St., Orland. orlandartcenter.com

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Keeping Up With Zucchini, summer-themed works in a variety of mediums. Through 8/31. Free. 493 East Ave., Ste. 1. sallydimasartgallery.com

Museums 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

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Objects to Remember You By, artist Kija Lucas will be photographing sentimental objects from our community for an upcoming exhibition. To participate, bring your objects to monca on Saturday or Sunday. Lucas’s exhibit examines the objects we carry through our lives and the memories and meaning we attach to them. Through 8/25. 900 Esplanade.

PATRICK RANCH MUSEUM: Working farm and museum with rotating exhibits open every Saturday and Sunday from 11am to 3pm.

Through 12/30. 10381 Midway, Durham. patrickranchmuseum.org

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‘Back on the map’ L1078summer evening in Chico, so naturally, as the Gallery welcomed visitors for the opening ast Saturday (Aug. 18) was a typical, sizzling

reception of its Members Show, the air-conditioning broke down. But that didn’t faze the happy guests at 1710 Park Ave., the story and gallery’s new home, as they helped photo by Saunthy the nonprofit celebrate both the locaSingh tion and its 37th anniversary.

“We have a lease for five years,” announced Erin Wade, president of Review: the 1078 board. “This is a bit small1078 Gallery er—1,900 square feet—than the last Members Show, through Sept. 9. location on Broadway, but we’ll have a dedicated stage and moveable wall that 1078 Gallery we’ve not had before. It’ll be easier to 1710 Park Ave. have art and music together.”

1078gallery.org The gallery had built a following by offering events that focused on arts beyond the visual—including literary, theatrical and musical.

“The music scene is burgeoning,” said 1078’s exhibition coordinator, Cameron Kelly, during the reception, “so we’ll be working on acoustics, panels for the ceiling. And doing something with the [cement] floor.”

In the meantime, the inaugural art exhibit is up, and the south-side gallery is hosting paintings and sculptures by 63 of its members at the new digs.

The saturated blue of Susan Larsen and Patrick Collentine’s “Untitled” piece pulls a viewer in to get the full effect of the handmade paper studded with sticks and leaves. But it’s the bit of organic shaped red glass sliced by thin white lines emerging from behind that offers a contrast in color and texture. The trailing electrical cord leaves a viewer wishing for darkness to see it illuminated.

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1078 Gallery’s new home is filled with art Between Here and There” is a seemingly simplistic piece of a yellow metal tape measure manipulated and twisted to take on an almost floating life of its own. But it also perhaps speaks to the convolutions of life, as one viewer ruefully observed out loud, “This is how my brain feels.”

Stevi Mittman’s “Homage to Marcel Duchamp” offers a bicycle wheel mounted off the ground to spin in the air—mimicking Duchamp’s own Dadaist “Bicycle Wheel” piece. But with the addition of some multicolored stained-glass triangles in between the spokes, Mittman’s piece morphs into a whimsical kaleidoscope.

With the skies still hazy from fires, two pieces brought that reality inside. Carol McClendon’s “Aftermath” is a 3-D clay outline of a house, revealing ceramic match books inside as broken branches pierce the roof, a simple execution, with a startling and haunting impact. Todd Hall’s “Lance Line” offers a line of fire curving through a dark landscape in his metal digital print. At first, it could seem like a firebreak, but there’s no other burning to curtail. So it becomes a sad reminder of the beauty of fire when it’s under control.

In both style and subject, Cameron Crawford’s “Alternative Facts” painted on a ceramic plate is reminiscent of the work of Irving Norman, a Bay Area artist and Jewish immigrant from Poland who painted highly detailed, stinging commentaries of social criticism during the 1940s. Crawford divided his clay canvas in two, the left part depicting a 1950s-era radio station that elicits a comparison to this century’s “fake news.”

On the right side, cleaning women wield a mop and bucket to swab a black river, while red smoke stacks spew out factory smoke. Oil pumps like those dotting the southern part of this state encircle the whole picture.

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Tuesday & Wednesday, August 28 & 29 Sierra Nevada Big Room sEE tuEsDAY

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BELLA DONNA: Stevie Nicks tribute act plays songs from Fleetwood Mac through her stunning solo career.

Hella scarves. Fri, 8/24, 9pm. $5.

Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfalls casino.com

DRIVER: Paradise trio rocks it out. Thu, 8/23, 6:30pm. Mike’s Grande Burger,

2896 Olive Highway, Oroville.

HOT FLASH: Popular favorites and dancing during the Thursday market. Thu, 8/23, 6pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

THE HOUSE CATS: Music from the Great American Songbook. Thu, 8/23, 6:30pm. Free. Farm Star Pizza, 2359 Esplanade., 530-343-2056.

JAM NIGHT: Classic rock and blues jam hosted by JP Roxx and the LocoMotive Band. Thu, 8/23, 7pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

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CHAD BUSHNELL: Classic country, origiPRIDE WEEK – LET ME BE PERFECTLY QUEER: Comedy showcase featuring LGBTQIA2S+ performers. Thu, 8/23, 9pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St. stonewallchicopride.com

MAX MINARDI: Folk/rock singer/songwriter performs on the patio with a full band. Thu, 8/23, 8:30pm. Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

OPEN MIC/JAM: Bring your songs and your instrument for this weekly open mic and jam session. Thu, 8/23, 7:30pm. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

HILLCREST AVENUE: Popular favorites the Beatles and more. Fri, 8/24, 7pm. Shakey’s Pizza, 2829 Olive

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hip-hop with Mystic Roots. Fri, 8/24, 7pm. Free. Chico Downtown Plaza, 132 W. Fourth St.

nal tunes and a special guest in the lounge. Fri, 8/24, 9pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE VARIETY SHOW: Dynamic, daring, delightful entertainers illuminate the true definition of queer entertainment. Fri, 8/24, 8pm. $10-$15. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. stonewallchicopride.com

CHICO PRIDE – RAINBOW AF PRIDE PARTY: Drinks and dancing at Chico’s only LGBTQ owned and affirming bar. Fri, 8/24, 10pm. $5.

The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

FRIDAY NIGHT CONCERT: Homegrown pop-flavored roots, reggae and

Highway, Oroville.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & STEVE COOK: An eclectic mix of music for your dining pleasure. Fri, 8/24, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

KYLE WILLIAMS: Talented singer

shares stories and songs. Fri, 8/24, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville.

OPEN MIC: Tito hosts this regular

event. Backline available. Fri, 8/24, 7:30pm. $1-$0. Down Lo, 319 Main St., 530-513-4707.

PUB SCOUTS: Traditional Irish music for happy hour. A Duffy’stradition! Fri, 8/24. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

TYLER DEVOLL: Happy hour tunes. Fri, 8/24, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

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ANTHEM: Local all stars play radio rock at the Studio. Sat, 8/25, 9pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

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Reno “pirate-core” band The Deadly Gallows brought high-sea shanty singing and booty plundering to the high desert. But when the folk-punk band broke up, one of their captains just kept sailing.

John Underwood now tours as a one-man band, playing banjo, bass, drums and horns, running the whole treasure chest through a loop pedal, calling all the salty sailors to the deck. Catch him live at Blackbird on Tuesday, Aug. 28.

CHICO PRIDE – BIG PRIDE DRAG SHOW: Golden Empire drag queen/king blow out to support Chico Pride. Sat, 8/25, 10pm. $12. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

CHICO PRIDE – FIERCE & FUN QUEER SOUNDS: Bands and DJs turn it up in the afternoon while you turn it out. Beer garden and nonalcoholic drinks available. Sat, 8/25, 2-6pm. $5-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St. stonewall chicopride.com

CHICO PRIDE – PRIDE DANCE: Chico Pride closes with this dance party with DJs on the decks, concert lighting and an amazing group of people. Cash bar available. 18+. Sat, 8/25, 8-10pm. $5-$10. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.

CALI VIBES: Dope reggae, roots and

dub. Sat, 8/25, 9pm. $5. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

CHAD BUSHNELL: See Friday. Sat, 8/25, 9pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

HOT FLASH: Chico favorites play a wide variety of cover tunes for your dancing pleasure. Sat, 8/25, 8pm. Unwined Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.

JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & STEVE COOK: An eclectic mix of music for

your dining pleasure. Sat, 8/25, 6:30pm. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

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BLUES JAM: Mora Sounds hosts this open jam and provides a backline. You bring the tunes and the ‘tude. Sun, 8/26. Ramada Plaza Chico, 685 Manzanita Court.

FASHUN CLUB: Grunge duo from

FAsHuN CLuB Sunday, Aug. 26 The Maltese sEE suNDAY

Minneapolis bring the rock a la Royal Trux, plus sets from The Damaged Goods, Bungo and Fox E. Jeff. Sun, 8/26, 7pm. $5. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

KLAMATH: Traditional and modern

music. Sat, 8/25, 5pm. Free. Rock House Dining & Espresso, 11865 State Highway 70, Yankee Hill.

530-532-1889.

MA BARKER: Classic rock, blues, pop and a bit of country in the lounge. Sat, 8/25, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino. com

MAX MINARDI: Folk/rock singer/

songwriter. Sat, 8/25, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville.

NOCHE LATINA: Los Betos de Sinaloa perform Mexican music for dancing and romancing. Ladies are free before 10pm. Sat, 8/25, 9pm. $15. Lost on Main, 319 Main St., 530.892-2445.

SWAMP ZEN TEN: Celebrate the band’s 10-year anniversary under the full moon with a full horn section and special guest Lee Simpson.

Sierra Nevada will also be releasing their Swamp Zen tribute pilsner, Pilzen. Sat, 8/25, 7:30pm. $10. The Hop Yard, 1075 E. 20th St.

instruments. The ex-Deadly Gallows banjo player loops guitar, horns, accordion, bass and drums to create upbeat gypsy jazz and pirate folk. Local openers TBD. Tue, 8/28, 8pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

THE MOTHER HIPS: Maybe you’ve heard of these guys? Breezy California soul from some of Chico’s favorite adopted sons. Two shows in two nights. Tue, 8/28, 8:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

songs or 10 minutes onstage. Wed, 8/29, 7pm. $1-$2. Norton Buffalo Hall, 5704 Chapel Drive, Paradise, 530-877-4995.

ROCK FOR REDDING: Benefit for victims of the Carr Fire with music from Spun, Sunny Acres, Black Magnet, Goldberg and Barely Anything. Rock out and support our neighbors to the north. All proceeds go to

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ANDERSON EAST: Gritty blues and soul Squeezin’” and other songs without fully formed present participles. Sat, 8/25, 9:30pm. $5.

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

JOHN UNDERWOOD: One man, seven

from this husky-voiced road warrior, plus psychedelic jams from Nashville’s Los Colognes. Mon, 8/27, 8pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

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THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: Freak psych fuzzed-out heavy breathing garage rock trio from Portland. RIYL the Seeds, Cramps, late-era Beatles and Ty Segall. Plus, sets from Similar Alien and the Lizard Brains and Mr. Bang. Tue, 8/28, 8pm. $5. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

THE BIDWELLS: Local duo performs in the lounge. Wed, 8/29. Two Twenty Restaurant, 220 W. Fourth St.

DUFFY’S DANCE NIGHT: DJ Lois and Amburgers spin funk, pop and hip-hop. Wed, 8/29, 10pm. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

THE MOTHER HIPS: See Tuesday. Wed,

8/29, 8:30pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada. com

OPEN MIC COMEDY: First time comedians take the stage. Totally not intimidating. Wed, 8/29, 9pm. Free.

Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

OPEN MIKEFULL: At Paradise’s only

charity. Wed, 8/29, 7:30pm. $7. Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.

TOMMY ALEXANDER & TAYLOR KINGMAN: Pair of Portland indie rockers hit town for this gig with Michael Bone and Kyle Williams. Expect a lot of strong songwriting from these four gentlemen. Wed, 8/29, 8pm. $5. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

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This small town is blessed with a wellspring of songsmiths, from talented street performers to bands that made the big time (see: The Hips).

On Wednesday, Aug. 29, at the Maltese, two of our best are joined by traveling troubadours Tommy Alexander and Taylor Kingman (pictured): Michael Bone is a member of Uncle Dad’s Art Collective and his intimate, close-to-home solo material is fantastic, while Kyle Williams’ acoustic soul is elevated by poignant stories and his huge pipes.

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Crazy fun cinema Charms big and small in two new contrasting films well as the shrewd ballyhoo of a kind of DIY proRmotional campaign, Crazy Rich Asians was No. 1 at iding high on independent spirit and niche savvy as

the box office in its first weekend. It’s being celebrated as a landmark of Asian-American filmmaking, and deservedly so. And by best of all, it’s a smart and lively Juan-Carlos romantic-comedy, a multicharacter Selznick entertainment that keeps its sense of serious fun fully in play from beginning to end.

The central romance in all this is between Nick Young (Henry Crazy Rich Golding) and Rachel Chu (Constance Asians Wu). He is a brilliant young busiCinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, nessman and the expatriate scion Paradise Cinema 7. of a massively wealthy family in Rated Pg-13. Singapore, and she is an economics professor at NYU and the daughter of an immigrant single mom. Nick invites her to travel with him to Singapore, where he will be the best Puzzle man at a wedding on old family turf.

Opens Friday, Aug. 24.

The Singapore trip advances the Pageant theatre. love story between those two, but Rated R. it also takes them into the tangled relationships and deeply entrenched history of Nick’s family and friends. A diverse array of siblings, cousins, lovers and pals complicate things, comedy-wise and otherwise. And particularly dramatic challenges come from Nick’s aunts, his grandmother (Lisa Lu) and, most crucially, his stately mother Eleanor (a superb Michelle Yeoh). Overall, the Singapore sojourn has the lovers running the gauntlet between the serious drama of family tradition vs. individual freedom on the one hand and the satire and farce of outrageously excessive wealth on the other.

Director Jon Chu mixes tones and moods in ways that seem right for the multifaceted bi-play of this story (adapted from Kevin Kwan’s 2013 novel of the same name). It’s very much to the credit of Golding

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and Wu that their performances form a credible emotional bridge between the nuanced dramas overseen

by Eleanor and the farcical satire of wealthy pleasureseekers run amok.

Single-note caricature dominates the more comical performances. But there is a kind of inspired lunacy to Awkwafina’s performance as Peik Lin Goh, Rachel’s ultra-zany friend from college days. And Ken Jeong (as Peik Lin Goh’s similarly antic dad) and Nico Santos (as Nick’s exuberantly oddball cousin) have flashes of a similar brilliance.

In Puzzle, Agnes (Kelly Macdonald) is a shy and sweetly

submissive housewife and mother of two teenage sons.

When we first meet her, she’s working in the kitchen at what turns out to be her own birthday party.

One of the presents she gets is a large jigsaw puzzle, which she masters so quickly and pleasurably that she makes a “secret” trip to an NYC specialty store where she not only finds more puzzles but also takes the first step toward becoming a competitive “puzzle partner” in tournaments.

The partner she finds is a solitary and independently wealthy inventor named Robert (Irrfan Khan) and what ensues is a wistfully complex drama of self-discovery and personal reinvention.

Macdonald gets a surprising amount of emotional power out of a resolutely low-key performance. David Denman is good as Louie, her somewhat dense but not unkindly husband. Austin Abrams and Bubba Weiler play the couple’s sons as contrasting studies in the serendipitous emergence of maturity.

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The story of a boy, a motorcycle and a giant robot dog. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

The Happytime Murders

Brian Henson—son of The Muppet Show creator Jim Henson—directs this very adult comedy set in a seedy world where puppets and humans coexist and where a couple of private investigators (Melissa McCarthy as the human, and puppeteer Bill Barretta as puppet Phil Philips) team up to try and find a serial killer. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Annie (Toni Collette) has just lost her controlling, creepy mother. She has some control issues of her own, which manifest in her creation of miniature models, often depicting scenes from her home life with husband Steve (Gabriel Byrne,), son Peter (Alex Wolff) and daughter Charlie (Milly Shapiro). While every member of the family seems to be earnest and decent, they are also dysfunctional with a capital “D.” Annie learns how to perform a séance and communicate with the recently departed, and it all seems innocent enough until apparitions start appearing and malevolent spirits begin messing things up. The movie is a ghost, demon and witch story rolled into one. It’s also one of the more powerful depictions in recent years of a family falling apart, making for a deep and layered horror excursion.

Pageant Theatre. Rated R —B.G.

Now playing Alpha

Director Albert Hughes—of Hughes Brothers fame—makes his solo directorial debut with this story set in the Ice Age about the origins of man’s best friend; when a young man befriends a stray wolf as he journeys to find his way home. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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The new “Spike Lee joint” is a periodpiece action movie of sorts, but of course it’s also much more than that: a stark appraisal of race and American social history; an undercover police story set in the 1970s with historical references ranging from the recrudescence of the KKK circa World War I to the white supremacists of Charlottesville, Va., in our own time; a nifty roundelay about self and American identity; a half-comic epic that entertains without ever losing sight of its most serious and urgent concerns. The central story premise has to do with the actual case of a black police officer named Ron Stallworth who successfully infiltrated a KKK chapter in Colorado in the late-1970s.

Stallworth (versatile John David Washington) talked his way into the group via telephone calls, then shadowed a fellow undercover cop named Flip Zimmerman (Adam Driver) who pretended to be the “white Aryan” that Stallworth concocted. The racial tensions are at times ferocious and there is an extraordinarily intimate and riveting quality of

suspense in the moments in which the guile and daring of Stallworth and Zimmerman put them in danger of all-out misadventure. Cinemark 14. Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R —J.C.S.

Christopher Robin

Marc Forster (Finding Neverland) directs this continuation of A.A. Milne’s classic Winniethe-Pooh story in which CGI versions of Pooh, Piglet, Tigger and the rest of the gang visit a grown-up live-action Christopher Robin (Ewan McGregor) to help him find the sense of imagination he’s lost. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Rated PG-13 —J.C.S.

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The Equalizer 2 stimulates that part of your brain that likes to see things go boom and bad guys get pummeled, while allowing the part that likes to solve things and think deeply to go nappy time. It also has a guy named Denzel Washington, who supplies his every line with grace and punches up the quality of a rote script tenfold simply by being on screen.

Washington is Robert McCall, a former special ops guy with a taste for vigilantism and tea.

He’s just sort of hanging out in Boston, working as a Lyft driver and painting over graffiti at his apartment complex when word comes that a good friend bit the dust at the hands of mystery killers. McCall doesn’t like it when you kill his friends. He goes on a search for the killer(s), setting up some scenarios for McCall’s vicious showdowns with bad folks, something director Antoine Fuqua delivers multiple times with bloody action gusto.

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The megalodon is the super-sized ancestor of the great white, and somehow a 75-foot-long one is loose in the ocean and harassing some scientists stuck in a submarine, and it’s up to a scientist played by Jason Statham to save them. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated PG.

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Mark Wahlberg stars as the leader of an elite CIA tactical unit tasked with smuggling an asset through dangerous territory. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas, Paradise Cinema 7. Rated R.

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Mila Kunis and Kate McKinnon star as Audrey and Morgan, two best friends who are unwittingly drawn into the world of espionage when Audrey’s ex turns out to be a spy and returns to her life with assassins in pursuit. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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Adding insult to injury, an extreme heatwave—almost certainly made worse by Earth’s rising temperatures—has baked much of Europe and seriously damaged the year’s barley, wheat and other grain crops. So, in addition to the CO2 shortage, brewers now lack some of the grains essential to making beer. Scandinavia’s grain crop is estimated to be down 40 percent, France’s 20 percent, Italy’s 13 percent and Britain’s 12 percent. Farther east, heavy rain and floods have seriously dented the grain harvests of Ukraine, Romania and Russia.

This is causing price hikes.

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developments, the fact remains that beer has tended to be shielded from climate anomalies, mainly because few, if any, breweries grow all their own ingredients.

Especially in the United States, beer makers, drinkers and lovers will not feel the impacts in any significant way. While a substantial portion of the malting barley grown in Europe is exported to the United States, because it is divided across so many breweries that generally also use North American Midwest barley, Northern California beer producers aren’t facing existential threat. In fact, some are using California-grown barley and hops as well.

But most breweries buy their ingredients from far afield and, usually, from sources that aggregate the year’s harvest into enormous grain and hop storage warehouses. Thus, a crop failure in one region tends to get absorbed by the entire industry.

However, increasingly erratic weather patterns—including the harshest drought in 500 years, the wettest winter in memory and, in the past 12 months, the worst heatwaves and wildfires just about anyone alive has experienced—could disrupt the local food movement. That’s especially

true for breweries that invest fully in local supplies. The current crop failure in Europe illustrates the risks. So did the 2015 heatinduced failure in European hop production.

While breweries can withstand a bad crop in one region, this is quite the opposite of wine production, where one season of suboptimal weather can mean a poor harvest, or grapes of lesser quality. Indeed, wine production, both quantity and quality, can serve as a subtle barometer for weather anomalies and—if you believe in it—climate change.

(The last time I discussed climate change in a beer article, a reader sent me a series of emails berating my stupidity for believing scientists when they unanimously tell us the planet is warming. He, like President Trump, said global warming is a hoax.)

It will be interesting to see how things change as some California breweries rearrange their sourcing to include more locally grown hops and barley. For the time being, beer is a luxury (some would say staple, or even essential) that Californians can count on. It still flows from taps no matter the political or economic climates, and no matter the weather. Ω

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CHEERS, YOU FREAKIN’ ROCK GODS! Hey, Chico band, think you’re the shit?

Your riffs super tight? Your grooves last until the morning light? Are you swimming in free buds and suds, and scoring every night? Is your band so ingrained in the consciousness of this music-loving city that Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. brewed a beer in your honor to celebrate your 10th anniversary?

Oh … can’t claim that last one? Get off the stage, amateurs, and make way for Swamp Zen and several cases of local cred.

In the tradition of Hips Helles—the helles bock the brewery made to honor one-time local sons The Mother Hips—Sierra Nevada has crafted Swamp Zen PilZen, a specialty Czech pilsner (fun fact: Pilsen or Plzen in the Czech Republic is where pilsners were born), to commemorate the 10-year anniversary of Chico’s favorite party band. An anniversary/beerrelease party will take place this Saturday, Aug. 25, at 7 p.m., in the Hop Yard at Sierra Nevada, featuring plenty of PilZen and a performance by an expanded version of Swamp Zen (with the Zen Horns!), plus an opening set by Lee Simpson.

I reached out to Swamp dudes Doug Stein (singer/songwriter/guitarist/ringleader) and Steve Hoffman (percussion)—each of whom has been groovin’ in the scene for more than two decades—to ask if theirs is the last Chico jam band standing, and the bandmates messaged a reply: “Obviously it’s not the same as it was in 1994 with bands such as Puddle Junction, Electric Circus, Jordhuga, Ten Pound Brown, The Mother Hips, etc.

But there are definitely some bands getting their jam on, such as Black Fong, Dylan’s Dharma, Smokey the Groove and Lo and Behold. We surely would say Swamp Zen is not [the only one, and] we are glad to be part of everything. We continue to encourage music lovers to go out and support local live music as much as possible—all genres included! In the words of our dear friends [the Grateful Dead], ‘Don’t tell me this Swamp Zen’s Doug Stein (left) and Steve Hoffman town ain’t got no heart, ya just sample the PilZen at Sierra Nevada. gotta poke around.’”

Tickets for the anniversary/beer release are $10 and going fast. More info at sierranevada.com/events.

ETCETERA One of downtown Chico’s longest-running businesses is moving …

downtown! Art Etc., the art-and-framing store that has been on Third Street for 30 years (and in downtown since 1973, when original owners Bob and Jean Reagan opened it), has moved to 256 E. First St. Anna and Dave Simcox, owners of the business for the last eight years, sold it to local graphic designer Caleb Klungtvet. The Simcoxes closed the doors at Third Street at the end of July, and Klungtvet is holding a grand reopening party for Art Etc.—with snacks, drinks and a raffle—at the new spot on Saturday, Aug. 25, from 8 a.m.-5 p.m.

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production. The annual local-songwriter showcase, featuring the original music of local musicians reinterpreted and performed by the Uncle Dad’s Orchestra, is going on the road this year, playing a four-city Nor Cal tour (with a Chico stop at Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. on Sept. 6), which means their expenses have increased substantially. Go to igg.me/at/stbs-2018 and donate to the collective’s Indiegogo drive, like, right now!

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF August 23, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): The two

pieces of advice I have for you may initially seem contradictory, but they are in fact complementary. Together they’ll help guide you through the next three weeks.

The first comes from herbalist and wise woman Susun Weed. She suggests that when you face a dilemma, you should ask yourself how you can make it your ally and how you can learn the lesson it has for you. Your second burst of wisdom is from writer Yasmin Mogahed: “Study the hurtful patterns of your life. Then don’t repeat them.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Speak the

following declaration aloud and see how it feels: “I want strong soft kisses and tender unruly kisses and secret truth kisses and surprise elixir kisses. I deserve them, too.”

If that puts you in a brave mood, Taurus, add a further affirmation: “I want ingenious affectionate amazements and deep dark appreciation and brisk mirthful lessons and crazy sweet cuddle wrestles. I deserve them, too.” What do you think? Do these formulas work for you? Do they put you in the proper frame of mind to co-create transformative intimacy? I hope so. You’re entering a phase when you have maximum power to enchant and to be enchanted.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): As you

map out your master plan for the next 14 months, I invite you to include the following considerations: an intention to purge pretend feelings and artificial motivations; a promise to change your relationship with old secrets so that they no longer impinge on your room to maneuver; a pledge to explore evocative mysteries that will enhance your courage; a vow to be kinder toward aspects of yourself that you haven’t loved well enough; and a search for an additional source of stability that will inspire you to seek more freedom.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): If you have

been communing with my horoscopes for a while, you’ve gotten a decent education— for free! Nonetheless, you shouldn’t depend on me for all of your learning needs. Due to my tendency to emphasize the best in you and focus on healing your wounds, I may neglect some aspects of your training. With that as caveat, I’ll offer a few meditations about future possibilities. 1.

What new subjects or skills do you want to master in the next three years? 2. What’s the single most important thing you can do to augment your intelligence? 3. Are there dogmas you believe in so fixedly and rely on so heavily that they obstruct the arrival of fresh ideas? If so, are you willing to at least temporarily set them aside?

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): “All the world’s a

stage,” wrote Shakespeare, “And all the men and women merely players.” In other words, we’re all performers. Whenever we emerge from solitude and encounter other people, we choose to express certain aspects of our inner experience even as we hide others. Our personalities are facades that display a colorful mix of authenticity and fantasy. Many wise people over the centuries have deprecated this central aspect of human behavior as superficial and dishonest. But author Neil Gaiman thinks otherwise: “We are all wearing masks,” he says. “That is what makes us interesting.” Invoking his view—and in accordance with current astrological omens—I urge you to celebrate your masks and disguises in the coming weeks.

Enjoy the show you present. Dare to entertain your audiences.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I think

you’ve done enough rehearsals. At this point, the apparent quest for a little extra readiness is beginning to lapse into procrastination. So I’ll suggest that you set a date for opening night. I’ll nudge you to have a cordial talk with yourself about the value of emphasizing soulfulness over perfectionism. What? You say you’re waiting until your heart stops fluttering and your bones stop chattering? I’ve got good news: The greater your stage fright, the more moving your performance will be.

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by rob brezsny time we’ve worked on diminishing your suffering, we may have not focused enough on the fine art of resolving unfinished business. So let’s do that now, just in time for the arrival of your Season of Completion.

Are you ready to start drawing the old cycle to a close so you’ll be fresh when the new cycle begins? Are you in the mood to conclude this chapter of your life story and earn the relaxing hiatus you will need before launching the next chapter? Even if you don’t feel ready, even if you’re not in the mood, I suggest you do the work anyway. Any business you leave unfinished now will only return to haunt you later. So don’t leave any business unfinished! ready to mix more business with pleasure and more pleasure with business than you have ever mixed? I predict that in the coming weeks, your social opportunities will serve your professional ambitions and your professional ambitions will serve your social opportunities. You will have more than your usual amount of power to forge new alliances and expand your web of connections. Here’s my advice: Be extra charming, but not grossly opportunistic.

Sell yourself, but with grace and integrity, not with obsequiousness. Express yourself like a gorgeous force of nature, and encourage others to express themselves like gorgeous forces of nature.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“When I picture a perfect reader,” wrote philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche, “I picture a monster of courage and curiosity, also something supple, cunning, cautious, a born adventurer and discoverer.” I suspect he was using the term “monster” with a roguish affection. I am certainly doing that as I direct these same words toward you, dear Sagittarian reader. Of course, I am always appreciative of your courage, curiosity, cunning, suppleness, and adventurousness. But I’m especially excited about those qualities now, because the coming weeks will be a time when they will be both most necessary and most available to you.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

You do not yet have access to maps of the places where you need to go next.

That fact may tempt you to turn around and head back to familiar territory. But I hope you’ll press forward even without the maps. Out there in the frontier, adventures await you that will prepare you well for the rest of your long life. And being without maps, at least in the early going, may actually enhance your learning opportunities. Here’s another thing you should know: your intuitive navigational sense will keep improving the farther you get from recognizable landmarks.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): Healing

isn’t impossible. You may not be stuck with your pain forever. The crookedness in your soul and the twist in your heart may not always define who you are. There may come a time when you’ll no longer be plagued by obsessive thoughts that keep returning you to the tormenting memories.

But if you hope to find the kind of liberation I’m describing here, I advise you to start with these two guidelines: 1. The healing may not happen the way you think it should or imagine it will. 2. The best way to sprout the seeds that will ultimately bloom with the cures is to tell the complete truth.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Nineteenth-

century British painter J. M. W. Turner was one of the greats. Renowned for his luminous landscapes, he specialized in depicting the power of nature and the atmospheric drama of light and color. Modern poet Mary Ruefle tells us that although he “painted his own sea monsters,” he engaged assistants “to do small animals.” She writes that “he could do a great sky, but not rabbits.” I’m hoping that unlike Turner, you Piscean folks will go both ways in the coming weeks. Give as much of your creative potency and loving intelligence to the modest details as to the sweeping vistas.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALGER WATER SPORT AND SWIM PRODUCTS at 293 St. Augustine Drive Chico, CA 95928.

SEAMUS ALGER 293 St. Augustine Drive Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SEAMUS ALGER Dated: August 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001039 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as EXTREME CLEAN DECLUTTER SERVICES at 2556 Marigold Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

TINA BRADLEY 1650 Forest Ave #23 Chico, CA 95928.

MOLLY SABELMAN 2556 Marigold Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MOLLY M. SABELMAN Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001058 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JBR EARTHWORK at 2 Creek Circle Chico, CA 95973.

JUSTIN BROWN 2 Creek Circle Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JUSTIN S. BROWN Dated: August 14, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001051 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PACIFIC BRAILLE at 6638 Ray Family Lane Magalia, CA 95954.

KENT F RAY 6638 Ray Family Lane Magalia, CA 95954.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KENT RAY Dated: August 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001054 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as BATHTUB REFINISHERS at 204 W Lassen Ave Chico, CA 95973.

ROUBAIX ENTERPRISES, INC. 7700 Irvine Center Dr Ste 800 Irvine, CA 92618.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TERRY DECOTTIGNIES, PRESIDENT Dated: August 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001016 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DEFIANCE SOLUTIONS at 1056 San Ramone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

DONALD KENNETH PENDERGRAFT 1309 Sunset Ave Chico, CA 95926.

ADAM EDWARD SAMORANO 1056 San Ramone Drive Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ADAM SAMORANO Dated: August 20, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001074 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as DURHAM HORSE ORGANIZATION at 1927 Ackerman Avenue Durham, CA 95938.

JANE LARRABEE 3585 Keefer Road Chico, CA 95973.

STEFANIE OLSON 1927 Ackerman Avenue Durham, CA 95938.

LEAH PARKER 1455 Mesa Road Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Unincorporated Association.

Signed: STEFANIE MARSHALL-OLSON Dated: August 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001068 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO MEALS ON WHEELS at 2836 A Morseman Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

CHICO AREA COUNCIL ON AGING INCORPORATED 2836 A Morseman Ave. Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ERICA ALVISTUR, ACCOUNTANT Dated: July 24, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000970 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CASINO PARTY PEOPLE at 3 Torino Ct Chico, CA 95973.

CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT 3 Torino Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CHRISTOPHER CARTWRIGHT Dated: August 7, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001026 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as GREENS AND THINGS SOUL FOOD at 574 E. 12th Street Chico, CA 95927.

JOHNNIE ANNETTE HERALD 1055 E Lassen Ave 29 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JOHNNIE A. HERALD Dated: August 13, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001044 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as NORTH VALLEY TACKLE at 2368 B Lincoln St Oroville, CA 95966.

JAMES R SORENSEN 853 E 7th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAMES R SORENSEN Dated: July 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000941 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following persons have abandoned the use of the fictitious business name NORTH VALLEY TACKLE AND

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PRO SHOP at 2368 B Lincoln Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

DANIEL L. WELLS 53 Brenda Dr. Chico, CA 95928.

JAMES R. SORENSEN 853 E. 7th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: JAMES R SORENSEN Dated: July 17, 2018 FBN Number: 2016-0000884 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as I HEART CHICO, I LOVE CHICO CA at 2135 Nord Ave Spc 6 Chico, CA 95926.

KIMBERLY DEANNE HIGMAN 2135 Nord Ave Spc 6 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KIMBERLY HIGMAN Dated: August 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001038 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PACIFIC BUSINESS SOLUTIONS at 100 Sterling Oaks Drive #268 Chico, CA 95928.

SAJADI, INC. 100 Sterling Oaks Drive #268 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: ALAN SAJADI, PRESIDENT Dated: August 2, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001008 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

NOTICES NOTICE OF LIEN SALE NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN pursuant to the California Self-Storage Self-Service Act, Section 21700-21716 of the Business & Professions Code, the undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said stored property. The undersigned will sell at public sale by competitive bidding at the location where the said property has been stored.

Gridley Self Storage 1264 Highway 99 Gridley, CA 95948.

Butte County, State of California.

Unit No. #B-28 JOSEPH CASEY Items: Furniture and boxes Unit No. #AX318 HOLLY TEAL Items: Boxes LIEN SALE WILL BE HELD: Date: Saturday, September 1st, 2018 Time: 1:00 pm Location: 1264 Highway 99, Gridley, CA 95948 Successful bidders must present a valid form of identification and be prepared to pay cash for purchased items. All items are sold “as is” and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event that a settlement is reached between the owner and tenant.

Published: August 16,23, 2018

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

MICHAEL AZEVEDO #345cc1 6x12 (boxes, tools, air

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compressor) JACOB WINGHAM #239ss 6x12 (boxes, clothes, dresser) Contents to be sold to the highest bidder on: September 6, 2018 Beginning at 12:00pm Sale to be held at: Bidwell Self Storage, 65 Heritage Lane, Chico, CA 95926.

(530) 893-2109 Published: August 23,30, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 14, 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: BARBARA L. ROBERTS Dated: July 24, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02349 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 21, 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: BARBARA L. ROBERTS Dated: July 24, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02172 Published: August 2,9,16,23, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 14, 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: July 31, 2018 Case Number: 18CV00690 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 21, 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: July 26, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02412 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner TROY ALLEN HENRY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: TROY ALLEN HENRY Proposed name: TROY ALLEN TATOM THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to

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show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted.

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 28, 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: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 30, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02460 Published: August 9,16,23,30, 2018

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

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

NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 28, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 30, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02440 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2018

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

Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed,

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NOTICE OF HEARING Date: September 21, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: July 24, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02318 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ROBERT WAYNE STRATTON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ROBERT WAYNE STRATTON Proposed name: ROBERT WAYNE BRANNON 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: October 5, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: August 6, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02518 Published: August 16,23,30, September 6, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RAELENE J. BRAWLEY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JAYCEE RAE STOWERS Proposed name: JAYCEE RAE BRAWLEY 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: October 12, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: August 13, 2018 Case Number: 18CV02594 Published: August 23,30, September 6,13, 2018

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE ROBERT K. RUFF (ALSO KNOWN AS ROBERT KERBY RUFF AND KERBY RUFF) To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: ROBERT K. RUFF (ALSO KNOWN AS ROBERT KERBY RUFF AND KERBY RUFF) A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JAY K. RUFF in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JAY K. RUFF be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 11, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Avenue Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 18PR00344 Dated: August 8, 2018 Published: August 16,23,30, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE JOSEPH H. COULTER, JR., ALSO KNOWN AS JOSEPH HUBERT COULTER, JR. To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: JOSEPH H. COULTER, JR., ALSO KNOWN AS JOSEPH HUBERT COULTER, JR. A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LORNA L. HUMPHREYS in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: LORNA L. HUMPHREYS be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: September 11, 2018 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: Probate 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.

Attorney for Petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Avenue Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Case Number: 18PR00343 Dated: August 7, 2018 Published: August 16,23,30, 2018

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“I was working overseas,” said Allen Colton, “and to my surprise, my bank sent me foreclosure letters. I called them. I screamed. I had an attorney scream and write letters. They foreclosed and made me hit the road. All a horrible mistake.”

Colton has been waiting for a promised settlement. “I can sue them, but these guys are playing with monopoly money.” He has not drawn the monopoly card that says, “The bank has made a mistake in your favor.” More like: “Go directly to jail. Do not pass Go.” In the meantime, the “Big Five” in the banking business (B of A, Wells Fargo, etc.) made a settlement with the Feds and the States to pay out billions of dollars to people who were victims of “foreclosure abuse.” Some of the

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Allen Colton received a check for $300. “And it bounced!” he screeched. “Mine was supposed to be $125,000! I lost my house! Gaaa!”

On the other hand, we find the lucky ones. Here’s a woman who pulled a good monopoly card: “I just got a check for $125,000.00,” she said.

And here’s a man who got a letter from his bank stating his entire home loan was forgiven. “Shhh!” he said.

As for Allen Colton, he’s still looking for that Get Out of Jail Free card.

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pOOl! 1 Acre, 3 bed/2 bth, updated kitchen + bathes, 2,411 sq ft + Gorgeous! ......................$579,000

LOOking tO buy Or seLL? CuriOus abOut the vaLue Of yOur hOme?

MOVe in ready 3 bed/2 bth, .21 ac lot, 1,341 sq ft, adorable! ................................................... $329,500

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near bidwell park! Pool, game room, 3 bed/2 bth, 2,124 sq ft .........................................$425,000

teresa Larson (530)899-5925 DRE #01177950 chiconativ@aol.com

new carpet, fresh paint, open floor plan! 3 bed/2 bth, 1,844 sq ft ...................................... $375,000 nice HOUse + commercial building on .83 of an acre in town. .............................................. $499,900 fresH exteriOr paint, 3 bed/2 bth, 1,767 sq ft ................................................................... $339,900

CalDRE #02056059

Olivia Larrabee l 530.520.3169 Olivia.Larrabee@c21selectgroup.com

6ac Creekside on Butte Creek $249,000 3.4 ac, well, septic and power in place $115,000 5 ac lot. Owner carry $29,500 NG $159,000 Iremodeled DIN Campus condoPtastefully EN DI 26.6 ac walnuts with 5800G sq ft home DIN $1,455,000 PEN

mark reaman l 530-228-2229 Lic# 01265853

Mark.Reaman@c21jeffrieslydon.com

The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of August 6 – August 10, 2018 The housing prices are based on the stated documentary transfer tax of the parcel and may not necessarily reflect the actual sale price of the home.

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

895 Alpine St 1709 Lawler St 1265 Dale Way 239 W 7th Ave 198 E Sacramento Ave 926 Sequoyah Ave 1047 Blue Ridge Ave 461 Redwood Way 581 East Ave 1420 Sherman Ave #23 1800 Boynton Ave

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Oroville

$280,000 $279,000 $273,000 $270,000 $270,000 $268,000 $267,000 $200,000 $152,500 $145,000 $315,000

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

SQ. FT. 1156 1500 1375 1173 1064 1950 1039 2111 1436 920 1844

ADDRESS 230 Mountain View Dr 5036 Pioneer Trl 4524 Carousel Way 1943 Drendel Cir 5555 Travis Rd 5265 Xeno Pl 372 Valley View Dr 1486 Terry Ln 1833 Heynen Rd 450 Castle Dr 6162 Tyden Way

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

Oroville Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise Paradise

$240,500 $612,000 $520,000 $510,000 $480,000 $419,000 $315,000 $300,000 $240,000 $239,000 $236,000

4/3 4/3 3/3 3/3 8/7 3/3 3/3 4/2 3/2 2/2 2/2 august 23, 2018

SQ. FT. 1813 2850 2376 2435 3828 2567 1942 2176 1553 1224 1134

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