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New council off to a good start The Chico City Council’s liberal majority isn’t wasting

time when it comes to addressing homelessness. On Tuesday evening (Dec. 18), during the panel’s regular meeting, its members moved forward on two significant efforts to provide shelter for our community’s most marginalized residents.

First is the longtime plan of a local nonprofit to launch its proposed tiny house project, Simplicity Village. The plan got a final green light—on its location, a private property in south Chico adjacent to a commercial corridor. As volunteers from the organization noted, they’ve been attempting for many years to secure a site. The hold-up: neighbors’ concerns.

In the end, conservative Kasey Reynolds joined the majority in its approval (only Councilman Sean Morgan voted nay). The freshman councilwoman’s approval may have raised eyebrows on both sides of the political spectrum, but we get why the affirmative votes transcended partisan lines. It has everything to do with the Chico Housing Action Team’s professionalism and success in the community (see Ashiah Scharaga’s report on page 9).

Additional good news at the meeting: The panel voted in favor of directing city staff to work with three reputable local homeless service providers—the

Jesus Center, Torres Community Shelter and Safe Space Winter Shelter—on a collective effort to open a year-round, low-barrier shelter.

The project is looking feasible with a cash infusion from the Walmart Foundation in the wake of the Camp Fire—a $1 million commitment earmarked specifically for local organizations working to address the needs of the homeless community, both the existing population and the increase due to the disaster.

The facility will provide a much-needed safety net in the community. Since the fire, we’ve learned that many chronically homeless individuals have been living among displaced Camp Fire evacuees—in local parking lots, including Walmart’s, and at Red Cross shelters organized in response to the fire. As you’ll read in Meredith J. Cooper’s story (page 8), the Red Cross has been working to “transition” them out.

Frankly, the timing stinks. Due to the Camp Fire, several of the churches that typically serve as locations for Safe Space are unavailable—pushing back its opening date. That means our local homeless population is indirectly affected by the disaster. Why the county and Red Cross couldn’t wait for the seasonal shelter to open before “kicking them out”—the appropriate phrase—is beyond us. Ω

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celebrating together amid our post-fire war Tandexperienced here in Butte County. The Camp Fire its aftermath have redefined our lives. his will be a holiday season unlike any other ever

Together, we have experienced an unimaginable hardship and a terrible loss of life and property. As a community, many of us were not directly affected. All of us have been indirectly affected. Who does not know personally of someone who experienced direct loss?

Recovery will come someday.

The damaged towns and neighborhoods will arise, but it never will be the same. What shall we do? by I am an old man. I personally Ronald Angle remember World War II. I was The author has been a toddler during that war, but a chico resident toddlers have memories. I lived since 1980. in another small college town, Claremont, in Southern California.

My father was on active duty; he was not a part of my early childhood. My neighborhood became my family. I would pedal my tricycle up and down

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sidewalks, unaware of the number of older neighbors—men and women—who looked out for me.

That is how it was during The War. Butte County has now experienced its own war.

Paradise is mostly destroyed. We must now look after our friends and neighbors who have come out on the other side of this tragedy.

No matter what your faith or belief system may be, most of us celebrate in late December. However we celebrate, this season we must reach out and touch and include others. Celebrate together.

There are myriad ways to help survivors; just find an effort comfortable for you and your family.

The North Valley Community Foundation is an effective channel for financial support. Community organizations like the Salvation Army and the Red Cross will have a need for volunteers. Places of worship and service clubs are doing good things for the “lost community.”

No effort is greater than one individual reaching out to another. So many times already I have overheard people ask others, “How are you doing? How can I help?”

Just reach out. Others need you. Ω

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

David and Steve Chico Enterprise-Record Editor David Little is a class act. Seriously.

I know what you’re thinking—how I dinged him for his flippant take on climate change and that time he wrote about Doug LaMalfa being a swell guy. OK, maybe dinged isn’t quite accurate. Looking back, I was harsh on occasion.

But that was years ago—and David is not holding a grudge these days. In fact, he was exceedingly gracious when I wrote to him last week after reading a report in the E-R announcing his forthcoming departure and the promotion of his successor, Mike Wolcott, an Orland resident who’s held an under-the-radar newspaper position locally for several years.

Though I didn’t know how my note would be received, I felt compelled to tell David a couple of things. For starters, I wanted to wish him well and let him know that I’ve always looked back fondly at the time I spent working for him. The E-R was a great place for a young reporter to launch her career—it’s where I cut my teeth, perhaps a little too sharply after four years in that newsroom. David gave me that opportunity—he hired me full time after what was supposed to be a summer internship. The experience cemented my love of and dedication to newspapers. I’m grateful.

Make no mistake, David leaving the E-R is a big deal. Personally, I’m concerned. He has been an important voice in the community dialogue.

As you’ll read in Ashiah Scharaga’s report this week (see “Stepping down,” Newslines), he was cautious when discussing his exit.

But one doesn’t have to work hard to read between the lines. He’s only 55 years old and cares deeply about journalism and his employees. Note that he resigned; he’s not retiring. Were the E-R not owned by a vampiric hedge fund, I highly doubt he’d be leaving. I’m sorry to see him go.

Forty years in the news business is a hell of an accomplishment, and spending 20 of them at the top spot at the E-R is most impressive. Being in charge of a newsroom is difficult and stressful. The rewards come from knowing that you’ve informed readers—engaging and bettering the community, at least that’s the goal—and working with great people.

Last weekend, in his column, David wrote about his longtime right-hand man, Steve Schoonover, who’s retiring after 38 years at the E-R, nearly half of them in the role of city editor. I worked directly under Steve during my stint at the daily, and he was instrumental in helping me develop my skills. I have a soft spot for him, too, and was glad to see David had written a fitting tribute.

The same can’t be said for David—the unbylined E-R piece focuses on his successor and reads like a press release. Knowing David, a humble guy, that’s probably because he didn’t want to make a fuss about himself. Our story isn’t a fluff piece—it illustrates the troubling state of print journalism, but I think it also celebrates the long career of a darn good newspaperman.

As for Wolcott, I’ll wait and see where he takes the E-R. If he reads this newspaper, he knows I’ll be keeping a close watch on things. My keyboard is at the ready, believe me.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

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Cheers to this Re “Belly up to the bar” (Chow, by Jason Cassidy, Dec. 13): I’ve always enjoyed reading Jason Cassidy’s weekly column, and I believe his recent contribution [about Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s Camp Fire fundraiser via Resilience IPA] represents some of his finest work.

As a longtime downtown development consultant, I’ve worked in nearly 100 communities over the past 30 years. During this time, I’ve seen many extremely altruistic and selfless programs and projects carried out in times of great community need. However, Sierra Nevada’s most recent gesture, among their many other community betterment activities over the years, shows a higher level of community support than I’ve seen anywhere, anytime.

In addition to developing, and then donating, a delicious new ale recipe, which is traditionally as closely guarded within the world’s brewing industry as my sainted grandmother’s brown gravy recipe, they also fed the fire survivors and

firefighters as well as comforted them with many thousands of dollars’ worth of clothing.

And on top of all that, the new Resilience IPA is an excellent ale.

No surprise there. Donating to a worthy cause never tasted so good!

Our deepest sympathies and best wishes for all those who suffered losses during this tragic Camp Fire disaster.

Dave Kilbourne Chico

‘One of hundreds’ Re “The vulnerables” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Dec. 13): Lisa Currier was emotional as she spoke during a recent Continuum of Care meeting about her octogenarian mom from Paradise who is a post-Camp Fire couch surfer with few options other than hope. Her housed-tohouselessness story is just one of hundreds from retired Butte County residents who are homeless, with little to no assistance forthcoming.

I attended a Chico Police chief coffee talk back in 2017 that was well-attended by senior citizens with concerns about homeless people in their neighborhoods. The last statement one eloquent woman had for Chief Mike O’Brien was about the proposed tiny house village: “I’m on a fixed income and I could really use something like that.”

Hopefully as you read this, Simplicity Village—a tiny house community for homeless senior citizens—will have been approved by the Chico City Council along with directing city staff to work with the Torres Community Shelter, the Jesus Center and Safe Space on a desperately needed low-barrier shelter location for folks like Lisa’s mom, and the hundreds of humans of all ages, shapes and sizes, in a similar situation at the Red Cross emergency shelter at Silver Dollar Fairgrounds.

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Re “Morning Prayer” (Letters, by Mike Waltz, Dec. 13): Your “prayer” is obviously written with so much love and compassion. It warmed my heart as I’m certain the same for many others. A tear drop accompanies my thanks. You are indeed a poet, and don’t ever stop.

Ani Sky Chico

Use common sense Re “The leftovers” (Second & Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Nov. 21): Every once in a while, I need to write you to offer some common sense to your thinking.

But first I wonder why all these actors that hate America/Trump don’t just leave the country—just go and live somewhere that they think is better! Jim Carrey would have to write a check for 80 percent of his wealth to any socialist government to help everyone else out—I won’t hold my breath.

Let me ask you and your colleagues a simple question. (By the way, your articles about the Camp Fire were wonderful and moving. It’s so horrific, an average person like me can’t really relate. Thoughts and prayers for all.) Anyway, your article got in a dig at Trump, so my question is: Would you rather he’d stayed in Washington, D.C., said everything politically correct, and authorized some funds to Paradise/Magalia and the suffering people; or visited these areas in person, said some things that are arguable, and then gave much, much more money to these areas/ people? Common sense says the latter.

By the way, I just read some of your readers ripping Trump for stupidity. Please remind them that the “brilliant” Obama once stated, in a news conference, that we have 57 or 58 states. Enough said.

Paul DiGrande Chico

Beware of attorneys I feel compelled to write this letter in response to the large number of lawyers and legal firms preying on people’s emotions and losses due to the Camp Fire by saying, conclusively, that PG&E is to blame. The official Cal Fire Incident Report at fire.gov/current_incidents/ incidentdetails/index/2277 still lists the cause as “under investigation.”

To you lawyers who are accusing PG&E, what proof do you have? Where is your evidence?

What do you know that the Cal Fire investigators don’t know?

People, please be aware. These lawyers have only one thing in mind, and that is their best interests, and not yours.

Kenneth Mack Oroville

Unreasonable plan I own a business that is accessed off Meyers Street, the main entrance route for the proposed Barber Yard debris-sorting site.

It is the only road available to access my business. There are many small businesses in this area; estimates are that several hundred people work at businesses accessed directly from Meyers Street.

Small businesses are the lifeblood of Chico, and we would all be directly negatively affected.

This area already has traffic issues that noticeably worsened after the fire. There is already considerable truck traffic in this area with shipping companies, distribution companies, manufacturers and food and beverage production.

Adding several hundred trucks a day into this traffic does not make sense. Performing these waste-hauling and sorting activities in the middle of a community does not make sense. This is something that needs to be done outside of the city, where it will not have a negative impact on so many.

In a community that is already struggling from so many people being affected by the fire, the last thing we need to is add to the list of difficulties and make it harder for people to conduct business and hurt the local economy.

Ben Nielsen Chico

Editor’s note: On Monday, Dec. 17, Cal OES announced that the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the lead agency on the temporary debris-handling project, decided that the Barber neighborhood’s Diamond Match property was “no longer the preferred site for this element of debris removal.” For more on this issue, see Downstroke on page 8.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE DEBRIS, TRAILERS SITES NIXED

Federal and state officials coordinating Camp Fire recovery efforts must find new locations for debris processing and transitional housing after two Chico sites fell through this week.

Monday (Dec. 18), FEMA and Cal OES, the state Office of Emergency Services, announced that Barber Yard “is no longer the preferred site” for a temporary handling facility for fire debris. The plan for the material, much of which was exposed to contaminants, was to transport it from burn zones by truck and ship it out of the region by rail.

Meanwhile, owners of an Eaton Road parcel identified as a potential site for 250 FEMA trailers opted not to open the location to that housing, Mayor Randall Stone announced and City Manager Mark Orme confirmed. Orme told the CN&R that FEMA and Cal OES “are diligently evaluating” other options “inside and outside Butte County.”

Bill Webb, whose home-construction company owns the 83 acres along Eaton, did not return a call for comment by the CN&R’s deadline.

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DAM CAUSES QUAKES

Scientists from the U.S. Geological Survey have tied Oroville Dam to nearly 20,000 micro earthquakes over 25 years, with the largest two coming the day of the spillway crisis last year.

In a report published Tuesday (Dec. 18) by the Seismological Society of America, the researchers found more than 19,000 “smallermagnitude events similar in character” to the Feb. 14, 2017, tremors measuring 0.8 and 1.0 on the Richter scale. The micro quakes “strongly correlate with periods of spillway discharge.”

The scientists attribute the seismic activity to leaks, “long before any damage to the spillway,” and did not determine the dam is in danger of breaching.

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Councilwoman Ann Schwab (pictured) requested a return to full participation by all council members for each opening.

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Chronically homeless booted from fairgrounds

IShemonth before the Camp Fire broke out. and her husband came from Oklahoma rish Greenwade had moved to Paradise a

seeking a better life and they’d posted up in the Paradise Inn while looking for more story and permanent accommodaphoto by tions. Then they, like Meredith J. Cooper so many others, lost everything. m er e d i t h c @ “We were just getn ew sr ev i ew. c o m ting settled in there,” she said last week in the parking lot of Lowe’s, where she, her husband and her brother-in-law have been sleeping in their cars. She hasn’t been able to get hold of the hotel owner to try to get some of their money back—they’d paid up front for the month.

The Lowe’s parking lot is just one of the places people displaced by the Camp Fire, as well as local homeless folks, have set up temporary homes. An empty lot near Walmart was the first—and largest— of such pop-up campgrounds, but since its dismantling in early December, there have been fewer and fewer places for people to go as businesses and churches move on

with daily life.

Last week, the problem got a whole lot bigger. On Friday (Dec. 14), not only had campers vacated the parking lot at Home Depot, but those who were chronically homeless began to be turned away from the Red Cross-run shelter at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds.

“According to the county, we had to ask them to vacate that space over the weekend,” said Stephen Walsh, a spokesman for the Red Cross. “We open shelters at the request of local counties—it’s standard protocol.”

But Walsh’s admission that the organization had started to turn the chronically homeless population away came in stark contrast to earlier messages underlined by the Red Cross, namely that they are there to serve everyone, regardless of how directly they’ve been impacted by the disaster. The timing of the decision—before a big rain storm and one week before the Safe Space Winter Shelter was set to open—also has come under scrutiny.

“Here we are in the coldest weather ... and I asked if they could stall for a week until we had Safe Space open,” said

Angela McLaughlin, president of the Safe Space board of directors. “It’s incredibly disheartening and frustrating that they were forced out into the rain and cold this time of year.”

By her estimates, there were about 100 chronically homeless people camping out at the fairgrounds. Those who lost homes to the fire were moved into a pavilion on the grounds to get them out of the elements, Walsh confirmed.

For the county’s part, Callie Lutz, public information officer, said the Red Cross shelter is meant to serve people affected by disaster. Other organizations, such as the Torres Community Shelter, the Jesus Center and Safe Space, are better equipped to help the “predisaster homeless.”

“The decision on that transition process was made collaboratively,” she said.

When pressed, she said it fell under the purview of the Department of Employment and Social Services, which is tasked with overseeing care and sheltering of displaced residents during a disaster. A phone call to Shelby Boston, who runs that department, was not returned by press time.

“We made sure people got the right resources,” Lutz added.

Irish Greenwade has been sleeping in her car in the Lowe’s parking lot, where dozens of RVs and tent campers have found refuge.

Since the Camp Fire broke out on Nov. 8,

thousands of Butte County residents have sought refuge in local emergency shelters, several of them operated by the American Red Cross. As the refugees, as some call them, have found more permanent housing, those shelters have merged. At its peak, Walsh said, the Red Cross alone was operating six emergency shelters. Many other entities, from churches to service organizations, laid out air mattresses and cots in their communal rooms.

“At some point, those places want to get back to business,” Walsh said.

“We’re down to one shelter, which has 700-plus people at it right now.”

While he maintains that the Red Cross doesn’t check IDs in the wake of a disaster, he confirmed that that protocol had been implemented at the fairgrounds. “I don’t know why people have been asked if they can prove that they lived here before the fire,” he said.

“But apparently that’s what’s been happening here.”

At Tuesday night’s Chico City Council meeting, during a discussion of a low-barrier shelter, Councilwoman Ann Schwab posed the question: Are people being “kicked out” of the fairgrounds? Amanda Ree, executive director for the Red Cross’ Northeast California chapter, approached the podium to answer.

“We did give folks 48-hour notices to transition out,” she said, adding, “It saddens me to hear folks say they were kicked out.” A phone call to Ree for further comment was not returned by press time.

With few options for alternative shelter, however, that’s how many people have been characterizing the move. There was space available at the Torres Shelter, Lutz said—and a shelter employee confirmed. And there were a few spaces open at the Jesus Center’s Sabbath House, McLaughlin added. But various entry requirements preclude some people from seeking shelter there.

McLaughlin is concerned for the future. The Red Cross has publicly said it will remain in Chico as long as it is needed, but she questions that and worries that Chico will be home to manymore homeless in the months to come.

“We cannot occupy the fairgrounds forever,” Walsh said. “We will provide people with options. Whether they take those options or not is up to them.” Ω

Give them shelter Council greenlights Simplicity Village tiny home location, low-barrier facility help

When Richard Muenzer approached the City Council dais on Tuesday

(Dec. 19), he addressed its members with his characteristic brusque intensity. That evening, like many others before, the panel was tasked with a topic he knows well and is passionate about: homelessness.

That’s because the streets are his home.

In making his case for a low-barrier shelter, Muenzer talked about those who are hardest to provide shelter for: the addicted, and those who have pets or bicycles and other belongings that nobody can store.

Sheltering won’t work unless “we start building trust [and] we start saying, ‘Drop the barriers,’” he said.

Though the new panel has held only two regular meetings, Tuesday provided an indication on the direction it likely will take when it comes to addressing homelessness over the next two years.

The council approved a location for Simplicity Village, paving the way for 46 seniors to live in a tiny home community, a longplanned project by the Chico Housing Action Team (see “Ready to roll,” Newslines, Nov. 29). It also directed city staff to work with the Jesus Center, Torres Community Shelter and Safe Space Winter Shelter in their quest to establish a year-round, 24-hour low-barrier shelter with 100-200 beds.

Efforts on the homeless front have taken on a greater urgency since the Camp Fire displaced thousands of Ridge and foothill residents, many of whom lived on the verge of homelessness prior to the disaster.

“We knew the need was going to increase,” Jesus Center Executive Director Laura Cootsona told the panel, “and we knew that it was up to us to ramp up for those who were going to drop down to the lowest level of our community, because that’s what we do.”

After the Camp Fire, Cootsona said she received a call from a Walmart executive who asked her about homelessness in light of the evacuee and homeless camp that had formed in the retailer’s parking lot.

Shortly after, representatives from the Jesus Center, Safe Space, CHAT and the Torres Shelter met because they knew they were in a pending crisis. A few days later, the Walmart Foundation asked how it could help the region, and then granted $1 million to the organizations “to help address the increased needs of the local homeless population.” That was on top of a separate $1 million donation for wildfire relief.

Their priority is to operate a low-barrier shelter 24/7 at a permanent location. Safe Space operates a low-barrier shelter, but it’s seasonal, and it often has to turn people away.

The organizations need the city’s help primarily with the acquisition

of land, Cootsona explained. They have been looking at some pretty dilapidated properties and lots that can be used only temporarily, and nothing viable has turned up.

Speakers overwhelmingly expressed support for the concept, and the council was mostly in favor as well. Councilman Sean Morgan was the only nay vote. Mayor Randall Stone, who volunteers as the treasurer for Safe Space, abstained.

Following the vote, Vice Mayor Alex Brown said housing first and harm reduction are proven models for moving people out of

Mayor Randall Stone presides over his second regular council meeting.

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homelessness, and she is excited to see the experts coming together with a proposal and resources to move forward.

Councilman Scott Huber added that the service providers need to go “full speed with it” and avoid a long, drawn-out process to prevent people from getting sick and dying this winter.

Simplicity Village had already made the rounds in front of the council,

starting out as a concept for city staff to explore with CHAT. The final hang-up was a location—Tuesday, the council voted to enter a lease on a 2.6-acre lot on Notre Dame Boulevard, south of Morrow Lane. CHAT will sublease from the city, paying $1,200 per month the first year and $1,700 per month the second year.

The project is possible only because the city made a shelter crisis declaration months ago, loosening zoning restrictions and making Chico-based organizations eligible to receive state funding from a pot of $4.9 million reserved for Butte County.

Most folks spoke in support of Simplicity Village, and many of those against the project offered support for the concept, just not the location.

Frank Solinsky, president of employee-owned Payless Building Supply, was joined by a few of his colleagues. He said he supports CHAT 100 percent, but the property, just across the street from the business, isn’t designed for residential use. It is on a narrow street near a creek and their busy lumber yard. He questioned the long-term use of the property, which will provide what he views as sub-standard housing for older folks.

Morgan cited reservations about the undetermined end of the shelter crisis declaration, city liability and encouragement of additional tiny home villages. However, he added, “if this can be done successfully at this location, CHAT is the only organization that can do it.”

Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien said that though he initially had reservations about the project, CHAT’s reputation is an overriding factor—the group has housed more than 80 individuals in more than 20 homes throughout the community, and Chico PD doesn’t know where most of them are.

Huber also championed the work previously accomplished by the nonprofit and signaled his confidence in the effort.

“This project has all the signs of being a future success,” Huber said.

“It’s been extensively researched and planned, the organization that’s hosting it has a great reputation of successful management of its properties, the program is precedented, [and] there are numerous examples of tiny house villages operating successfully around the country.”

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Stepping down Chico Enterprise-Record Editor David Little departs paper of record after nearly 20 years

When David Little took the helm at

the Chico Enterprise-Record in 1999, he was surrounded by 45 news professionals, including 15 full-time reporters, who bustled about the newsroom at its old location at 700 Main St. Nearly 20 years later, the E-R has changed dramatically. These days, a staff of four full-time reporters, along with a few editors and part-timers, fill its pages. From there, an in-house regional design hub, the NorCal Design Center, lays out each edition, along with more than a dozen other community newspapers, from its office building at 400 E. Park Ave. Little’s duties have changed as well: In addition to serving as editor of the E-R, he oversees the Oroville MercuryRegister and manages the editors of 17 Northern California papers.

In an ever-changing industry, Little is making headlines. The E-R announced last week that he’d turned in his resignation in June and is leaving Jan. 1. Mike Wolcott, who has led the design center the past four years, will take his place.

During a recent sit-down interview with the CN&R, Little was quick to point out that the Chico E-R’s story isn’t unique.

Newspapers across the country, many corporate-owned, have been put through the ringer. Due to plummeting circulation and declining advertising revenue, contracted newsrooms have been asked to do more amid stagnating wages.

“Every editor in the country can tell this story of how big they once were,” he said.

However, there is a significant part of the industry that hasn’t changed after all these years, Little said, and it is the same thing that has continued to give him hope for its future: the tenacity and hunger of the folks behind the ink. That’s what he’ll miss the most.

Little got his start in journalism in

1978 in the newsroom of his local daily: the Oceanside Blade-Tribune.

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per experience but a knack for the written word, he offered to work as a sports stringer—for free. Within a few years, he was covering professional sports, including the then-San Diego Chargers.

Little was born in Chico, where three generations of his family worked at daily newspapers on the business and production side of things. After his family moved to Southern California, he spent every vacation visiting his grandparents here, intending to settle down in the region some day.

He worked as a part-timer for the E-R during his college days at Chico State, where he earned a degree in English. After graduation, he spent a couple of years at newspapers in Oceanside and San Clemente and then eight years at the Redding Record-Searchlight, where he eventually became city editor.

While there, he met his wife, Angie.

They have three adult children, a daughter and two sons.

Little ran the Eureka TimesStandard for 16 months before securing the editor post at the Chico E-R, succeeding Jack Winning, and that’s where he has been ever since.

He’s had little time to reflect on his career, but noted how proud he is of his staff. Highlights include

Reporter Steve Schoonover, left, and Editor David Little, at the Chico Enterprise-Record.

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the E-R’s coverage of the Oroville Dam spillway crisis last year, and now, the Camp Fire. The team had its second-best showing in the statewide competition held by the California News Publishers Association earlier this year, taking home eight awards, many for the spillway coverage.

“It’s just so personally rewarding to watch a team come together and cover something so important so well,” he said. “I think that’s probably what I’ll remember most about working here, is just seeing this team perform at an elite level.”

The Chico E-R is under the umbrella

of Digital First Media, which is owned by Alden Global Capital, a New York-based hedge fund. DFM owns 97 newspapers, including the Chico E-R, Oroville M-R and Paradise Post.

Earlier this year, Alden Global came under fire by its Denver Post employees, who took to its corporate offices to protest. Garnering national attention, their battle was featured in The New York Times and The Washington Post.

In an April column, Little wrote that the E-R shared the Denver Post’s pain: “When we think we can’t get any smaller, we’re told to get smaller. … But we plow ahead.

We know what we do is important.

We know democracy would be in shambles without informed citizens.

We value what we do even when it feels our owners don’t.”

Little remained diplomatic about whether that factored into his exit, telling this newspaper that it was part of his consideration but not the determining factor.

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“My biggest hope for the E-R is that someone buys it and gets it away from the hedge fund vultures,” he said. “We do such incredible work here. It gets harder and harder and harder with fewer people. … It’d be one thing if we were losing money, but we’re making them a million bucks a year and they keep cutting.”

Schoonover, 66, whose last day was Dec. 18, delayed his retirement several months, first to help with election coverage, then the Camp Fire. Schoonover is known for being a jack of all trades, taking on a variety of roles at the paper—including garden editor and copy desk chief— since he started there in 1980.

He hopes to continue contributing to the E-R in retirement, as well as finishing a novel on the history of the Yahi tribe. Little hasn’t lined anything up yet, but said he will enjoy watching young professionals spread their wings and one day may end up in a classroom coaching some of them.

“The folks that are left in the business are the same sort of confident, passionate, talented people that I was when I was 22 years old,” Little said. “And I feel like the people who work in newsrooms make me confident that journalism is in good hands. … The people that are left are fighters, and I really value each and every one of them at every newspaper in every city—dailies, weeklies, big metros and small local newspapers, like ours.

They’re just full of really good people that I’m going to miss.”

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IVermont health care plans, what did New Jersey, and the District of Columbia do earn a scramble to keep people enrolled in

lier this year that California has not done?

They began requiring that their residents carry health coverage or face a state penalty for going without it. Such “individual mandates” aim to replace the federal mandate— perhaps the most controversial but essential part of the Affordable Care Act—that sought to force people to sign up for health insurance or pay a tax penalty. The Republican Congress and the Trump administration have repealed that federal penalty, effective next year.

The clock is ticking. The ACA has led to a record number of Californians having medical coverage. But a new study warns that if the state does nothing to counteract the Trump administration’s moves to undermine the ACA, up to 1 million more Californians could

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be without health insurance within the next five years.

What’s kept California from enacting its own mandate?

Some state Democratic leaders are wary of enacting a state mandate without also making health insurance cheaper for Californians.

“Providing subsidies is a better reality for members of our community than providing penalties,” said Assemblyman Joaquin Arambula, a Fresno Democrat who co-chaired the select committee on universal healthcare that conducted town halls across the state last summer. “It’s the carrot versus the stick.”

Sacramento State Sen. Richard Pan, a Democrat who chairs the Senate Health Committee, said the Legislature is focused on keeping the state’s insurance market exchange, known as Covered California, strong. Some 2 million Californians buy health coverage through the exchange, which provides federal subsidies to low-income purchasers.

“We are going to do what we can in California to stabilize the insurance market, to do what we can to make health insurance,

particularly on Covered California, affordable,” said Pan, who has not yet endorsed any particular remedy. “We are up against a federal administration that is doing the opposite and forcing people to pay higher premiums.

“As we look at options, like do we want to do an individual mandate, we also need to recognize part of what is driving that is not only the removal of the federal mandate, but also actions taken to increase insurance premiums,” Pan said.

Since the ACA was implemented in 2013, the

state’s uninsured rate has dropped from 20 percent to 7 percent. Currently 3.4 million Californians are uninsured, undocumented immigrant adults making up the majority of that group.

But without more aggressive state intervention to counter Washington’s retreat from the program, an estimated 500,000 to 800,000 more Californians under 65 will be uninsured by 2023, according to the new study from the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education and the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

A mandate and state subsidies are among options the Legislature will be exploring to combat the expected exodus from insurance.

But both are controversial. An Economist/ YouGov poll found that 66 percent of Americans oppose a mandate. And although

a few other states such as Vermont and Massachusetts do offer state subsidies, in California thoses could cost up to an estimated $500 million at a time when an incoming Democratic governor and Democratic supermajorities in the Legislature have promised pricey programs such as universal health care and universal preschool.

So far Covered California enrollment, now underway through Jan. 15, is meeting projections—with a big caveat. As of the end of November, more than 90,000 newly insured people signed up, said Peter Lee, its executive director. But those projections already were lowered by 10- to 12 percent compared to last year because it was unknown what effect the removal of the penalty would have on signups.

“There’s no question that a penalty imposed on individuals for whom health insurance is affordable is a good policy,” said Lee, who said he would follow whatever rules the Legislature adopts. “The penalty encourages people to participate in a system that, if they don’t, we all bear the cost. And it encourages people to do the right thing for themselves.”

Covered California is working on a report commissioned by the Legislature on how to best bolster the system. It’s due in February, and Lee said a variety of options are on the table including a mandate, expanding subsidies and using state money to lower premiums, a process called reinsurance.

Some of those ideas echo the recommendations UC researchers offered in their study: incorporate a state mandate with penalty funds going to toward making insurance more affordable, state-funded subsidies in addition to the existing federal subsidies, and a MediCal expansion to include low-income undocumented immigrants.

These are not new ideas but are politically and financially costly, said Gerald Kominski, a fellow at the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research.

“We know that the mandate drives people into the market,” said Kominski. “If you’re going to pay a tax penalty and not have health insurance, why not look for insurance when almost 90 percent of those who buy in through Covered California received some sort of subsidy.

“The state could consider bringing the whole threshold down for everybody,” he continued. “The point is to lower the thresholds and make people pay less out of pocket.

That would increase affordability for lots of families.”

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Under the federal mandate,

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With the repeal of that ultimatum, California is bracing for the biggest dropouts among its residents who have been buying insurance through the subsidized Covered California program. The program projects it could lose 10- to 30 percent of its participants.

But the state also expects wider losses, including among the 46 percent of Californians who get insurance through employers, because they also will no longer be required to have it. Even Medi-Cal, the state-paid program for lowincome Californians, will lose about 350,000 people, the study estimates, because the lack of a federal mandate may deter people from seeking health coverage at all—meaning they’ll never discover they qualify for Medi-Cal. Last year the California Legislature considered creating a state mandate as part of budget dis-

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cussions that included making insurance more affordable, but neither idea made it into the final budget proposal submitted to the governor.

Experts and advocates are hopeful that these ideas may gain traction under Gov.-Elect Gavin Newsom, who has talked a big game on health care and access pledging during his campaign to support single payer and universal coverage.

If more Californians drop their health insurance, everyone pays.

People most likely to drop out are the young and the healthy, experts say. But they are critical to keeping the whole operation afloat because the system cannot be made up of only sick people.

California already has taken steps to shore up the Affordable Care Act: banning short-term health plans, adopting legislation barring work requirements for Medi-Cal, and offering a longer open enrollment period.

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Double duty Forest-thinning efforts and other land-use strategies could mitigate wildfire danger, curb climate change

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Ldeadly his assertion the Camp Fire and other California blazes are the result of

ike many of President Trump’s fictions,

“gross mismanagement of the forests” contained a sliver of accuracy.

Never mind that he dismissed climate change’s role in the tragedy, suggested that “raking and cleaning” the forests would prevent further catastrophes and, adding insult to injury, mistook the town of Paradise for “Pleasure” during a tour of the disaster area with frequent foil Gov. Jerry Brown.

There is, in fact, a science-based argument for thinning California’s overgrown forests with prescribed fire and sustainable lumber harvesting—which Brown supports. Because not only would reducing the woodland fuel load lower the immediate risk of fires, it also would eventually reduce carbon dioxide emissions from the state’s forests.

“There’s a broad scientific consensus that we need to make forests more resilient to these [wildfires], but also reduce the risk for people,” said Dick Cameron, director of science for the California chapter of the Nature Conservancy. “Think of it in those terms first, and then think of it as a climatemitigation strategy second.”

Cameron is co-author of “Toward a Carbon Neutral California: Economic and Climate Benefits of Land Use Interventions,” a new study touting the potential climate benefits of stepping up land-management practices in forestry and farming. He worked with Michelle Passero, a senior climate policy adviser with the Nature Conservancy, and researchers from UC Santa Barbara and

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Bowdoin College, on behalf of Next 10, a group focused on the environment and the economy and funded by venture capitalist and philanthropist F. Noel Perry.

The researchers modeled the ability of forests, farms and rangelands to store carbon and cut greenhouse-gas emissions. They found that strategies such as proactively thinning forests, planting trees after wildfires, restoring wetlands and avoiding land development for housing and commercial buildings would provide enormous climate benefits. So, too, would reducing agricultural tillage (overturning soil) and increased cover-cropping (growing in the off season rather than leaving soil bare).

These wide-ranging practices could cumulatively prevent some 260 million metric tons of CO2 from entering the atmosphere by 2050.

“That’s about the same amount of pollution produced by 65 coal plants,” Perry said.

“So, what this means is that the state can meet between 5- and 7 percent of its 2050 climate goals via natural solutions, while also experiencing—and this is important— co-benefits such as cleaner air and water.

This may not sound like huge reductions, but actually it’s 2.5 times the emissions reductions expected from the residential and commercial sectors combined.”

Next 10’s findings are especially significant

in light of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s (IPCC) recent report warning that humanity has a little more than a decade to keep global warming to a maximum of 1.5 Celsius above pre-industrial levels and avoid the worst impacts of increasingly intense droughts, heat waves, wildfires, floods and megastorms. That’s why Passero believes it’s

simply not enough to sit back and wait for the world’s scientists and entrepreneurs to develop futuristic carbon-capture technologies; climate change is an all-hands-on-deck emergency.

“If California wants to become carbon negative—and the IPCC report highlights the importance of doing that—we need all of the solutions to be on the table,” she said.

State officials are looking increasingly at land management as an important piece of California’s climate change strategy. In September, Brown signed an executive order committing to carbon neutrality by 2045 and negative emissions by 2050. In response, the California Air Resources Board is developing a plan to turn the landscape into a reliable carbon sink.

The board heard an update on the Natural and Working Lands Implementation Plan on Nov. 16. Mary Nichols, chairwoman of CARB, said that the state is headed in the wrong direction regarding emissions.

Because it takes decades to physically change a landscape, she argued that “action now is critical to achieving the long-term gains our natural environment can provide.”

Historically, the landscape has helped regulate our climate by removing CO2 from the atmosphere and storing it as carbon in soil and wood. But the effects of climate change—namely, the rise of catastrophic wildfires and unprecedented tree mortality due to drought and bark beetles—have turned California’s land base into a source of CO2, rather than a sink. CARB’s data indicate that 170 million metric tons of carbon entered the atmosphere from 2001 to 2014, primarily due to wildfires.

CARB’s plan is set to to be finalized by the end of the year. Cameron, Passero and Perry hope their research informs the final

The effects of climate change—including the increase in catastrophic events, such as the Camp Fire (pictured here, in Magalia)—have turned California’s land base into a source of CO2.

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product and ultimately results in on-theground changes in land management.

“California’s natural lands could actually lead to more emissions if nothing is done to increase resiliency in the face of climate change,” Perry said. Ω

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Goose fest call for artists Can you put a bird on it? If Portandia taught us anything, yes, you can. The Museum of Northern California Art hosts this year’s Snow Goose Festival wildlife exhibit (Jan. 24-Feb. 10) and is looking for art that showcases the wildlife and habitats of the Pacific Flyway. Bonus points for work that demonstrates a unique use of materials, subject matter and approach. A jury from the museum’s exhibition committee will make the final selections. The deadline to submit your art is Jan. 4, and you can find more information, guidelines and apply at the festival site (snowgoosefestival.org).

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The year winds down

Anton and Chrystal Axelsson moved to Chico in June, with their six kids in tow, and in short order opened the Old Barn Kitchen breakfast and lunch restaurant up in Paradise. Having grown up in the kitchen—his father, who’s from Iceland, is a chef and restaurateur in the Bay Area—Anton had a clear vision for opening one of his own. PostCamp Fire, the Old Barn Kitchen still stands, the Axelssons are happy to report, but it did suffer smoke damage as well as some fire damage to the exterior. They plan to reopen as soon as possible, but not content to sit idle, they snatched up the space recently vacated by Urban Fresh Fuel—at the corner of Third and Main streets in Chico.

They were hard at work redecorating the dining area and reorganizing the kitchen for the second location earlier this week when they took a break to talk about their vision with the CN&R. They hope to open in early 2019.

What’s your background?

Anton: My family’s owned restaurants all the way from Carmel up to the Bay Area. I started working for them when I was about 13. I started from the bottom up. Now it’s our time to venture on, move here and get our family out of the Bay and open up. The plan was always to open up a second location, just not this soon.

Chrystal: There was an opportunity where we could open our second location and get that going while the work is getting done at our Paradise location.

What’s your signature dish?

Anton: Our signature dish is our eggs Benedicts.

We have fresh, homemade Hollandaise sauce we make in-house every day. All of our gravies, our soups [are made from scratch]. Even our countryfried steak we cut out of a New York strip loin and pound it out, bread it in-house. We use Tin Roof Bakery for our bread.

Chrystal: We’re branding our own coffee, which is locally made. We make amazing espressos. I have

a background as a barista; I was trained by Peet’s Coffee [in the Bay Area].

How did you come up with your menu?

Anton: My father developed all these recipes and my head chef, he’s known me since I was 7 years old, since I was running around his feet in the kitchen.

He worked for my father since he was 16—and he’s in his late 50s now. He moved up here, decided to help me have my legacy.

What can people who haven’t been to Old Barn Kitchen yet expect?

Anton: We’re not your greasy spoon breakfast restaurant. We raise the bar above that. We pride ourselves on great customer service and quality.

The vibe that we create is family-friendly—we’re going to have a playroom for kids.

Chrystal: Everywhere in Iceland has a place for kids. You go to the grocery store and there’s a playroom with TVs. You go into a restaurant and it’s not sports on, it’s cartoons for the kids.

Anton: So, mom and dad can come enjoy breakfast, have a mimosa, and the kids are back there playing.

Chrystal: It makes it feel like home.

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This time of year, business owners tend to take a hard look at their situation and there are always a few shocking closures. Last year, for instance, Peet’s Coffee announced its impending closure, and in December 2016, we said farewell to downtown’s Bulldog Taqueria.

It appears, the tail end of 2018 is no different. In the past several weeks, Chico has lost a handful of businesses, some of them mainstays. Pluto’s was the first to go, after 15 years downtown. Then there was Uncle Skinny’s BBQ, which hinted at going mobile on its Facebook page but I’ve since heard it might be moving out of the area (at least one of the owners lived in Paradise).

Dec. 2 marked the last day of business for Tacos Tijuana, located on Park Avenue. The business had been open 15 years, and somehow I never made it in.

The day after Christmas Preview, Dec. 3, Urban Fresh Fuel in downtown closed its doors. I heard from an employee they were given no notice (always a crappy way to go). A quick Google search revealed their other restaurant, Planet Fresh Gourmet Burritos in Santa Cruz, also closed recently.

Another victim of the Camp Fire is Pop’s Pizza, which, like so many others, jumped in shortly after the fire broke out to serve first responders. According to Instagram, however, owner Andy Shepherd lost his home. On Dec. 8, the business closed its doors.

OuTlOOk uncerTain I walked over to Chico Coffee Co. downtown the other day and was surprised to see it closed early. A sign on the window says the cafe will be closing at 2 p.m. daily through the holidays, as opposed to 5 p.m. I went back the next day and an employee told me the reason is they’re short-staffed.

I understand the owners, Jennifer Silva and Shawn Hamilton, recently opened the Garden Villa Cafe in the old Wild Oak Cafe spot off of Cohasset Road, so perhaps they’re overly busy. (Side note: Garden Villa Cafe doesn’t have a Yelp page. I wonder why not?) In any event, I certainly hope downtown’s newest coffee shop isn’t destined for closure; it took over the Peet’s space almost a year ago to the day (Jan. 1).

Open fOr business Not everything is doom and gloom. The town of Paradise happily announced Tuesday (Dec. 18) on Facebook that businesses on the Ridge are starting to reopen. The post included photos of a mini mart, a couple of auto parts stores and Paradise Bikes.

I’ve also been told that food trucks are making it up the hill, to feed not just those who have returned to their homes but also all of the workers. For instance, Sexy Panda owner Frank Hilscher tells me he’s put up an outdoor kitchen in the parking lot of Magalia Community Church and he plans to be there long-term.

shOp lOcal! If you’re like me and haven’t done a lick of shopping yet for the impending holiday, I’ll urge you one last time in 2018 to spend your dollars locally.

Supporting one another will spread more cheer than any gift you buy at a big box.

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About the author:

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oins spun along the counter, quarters on edge, before coming to a dancing halt, falling over. They weren’t Bertie’s coins, but she was the catalyst. That’s the way Darlene, owner of the Bitter Cup Coffee Shop, told it later. Just a regular day with the regular scraggly line of folks waiting for their morning brew.

Bertie had marched up as usual from the direction of her small apartment complex. Trudging around the duck pond and across the footbridge, bunched tight in her December coat despite the inside heat, she’d shoved into line, her resentment trailing behind her. At the counter, she pulled a couple of dollars out of her ragged pocket, and the dollars tumbled floor-ward. Behind Bertie a woman in a headscarf bent to pick the money up. Before the woman was even unbent, Bertie’s coat pivoted and her sharp chin poked out. Bertie took one look at the woman holding the dollars out to her and screeched, “Thief!” She yanked her bills from the woman’s hand. “That’s my money!”

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d r a e w r w he ards of paying it for

“I am—you drop—” The woman’s now-empty hand drew back, fingers settling against the dark blue of her hijab, rippling down her chest.

“I saw you!” Bertie spun. “You saw her!” She yelled to the other customers waiting in line. “She took my money. These people—!”

“—No. I give it back,” the woman protested.

Inside her coat, Bertie sucked herself up, still screaming. “You people. You people think you can fool me. You can’t fool me!”

A hush had crawled from the corners of the small shop, stealing like a shadow along the floor and up the walls, covering the Christmas wreaths with their smiling lights, descending over the evergreen in the corner. Darkening the woman’s face.

That’s when Darlene, for lack of something better to do, sent a cup under the spout and spun the dial on the espresso machine, breaking into the silence Bertie’s noise had created. Finally overriding Bertie.

The air shifted and Bertie’s anger plunged down whatever rabbit hole it dwelt in. She grabbed her Americano and charged out of the shop, threatening lawsuits and revenge, leaving an embarrassed pall in her wake. Before Darlene could apologize to the hapless woman in the headscarf, Spooner cut in line and sent his coins dancing. Later, Darlene would say she wasn’t too surprised that one of her regulars was offering to buy the woman in the hijab her cup of tea. People were sometimes more thoughtful at Christmastime, even if by people she meant Spooner, whom she considered insular and a bit gruff.

Darlene wasn’t even that surprised when the woman in the hijab left money herself, paying ahead for the next person in line. She really had been trying to be nice to Bertie.

Darlene was surprised when it kept going.

Customer after customer, upon receiving the news that their coffee or frappé or latté had already been purchased, left money to buy drinks for the next in line. Paying it forward. Even if it meant spending more than they’d intended to.

Chucking out a ten or twenty on the sly. Selfsatisfied, as if already in league with the rashness of those ahead of them, who hadn’t themselves given up on sudden charity.

Darlene told herself this won’t last an hour. But she reached hour two and then three, and people were still paying it forward, so she called the local news. Outside her doors the world had gone to hell in a handbasket, and the Bitter Cup Coffee Shop had been going down with it. Good publicity was just what she needed to turn things around.

The editor who got the call shrugged it off at first. Won’t last long, he told himself. “Call me back if you get through another hour,” he told Darlene. When the call came in an hour later, he yelled at the intern about to leave for lunch to get over to the Bitter Cup and get some interviews.

“What’s my angle?” The intern, Xavier, had never been asked to do a story before. He was worried he’d blow it.

“It’s almost Christmas!” The editor shouted.

“You figure it out.”

Xavier was skeptical. This was his first story?

A fluff piece? He ought to get in line himself and

Customer after customer, upon receiving the news that their coffee or frappé or latté had already been purchased, left money to buy drinks for the next in line.

order a coffee and break the chain. He slunk off to the coffee shop to end his career before it started.

Xavier entered the shop to a tinkling silver bell and a ball of customers. He made himself thin to shove sideways through the unexpected crowd.

People were sipping hot drinks. Spiced cider and vanilla. Chai. Dark coffee. He watched a pretty woman’s hand travel down with the decsent of a French press handle. A set of cherubic twins licked the whip cream fringe from their hot chocolates and smiled. Xavier shook himself. A hallucinatory warmth had spread through the crowd. As if they were all waiting for something good heading their way that had already arrived.

He sighed.

It was going to be a fluff piece all right. He planted himself at a suddenly vacant table and waited. And waited. He was a pessimist, his general attitude confirmed hourly by cable news and the latest disaster. The real story, he figured, would be about the customer who placed an order and didn’t pay it forward. Then he could write the truth of it. The measure of the human soul and its capacity for love and hate, cruelty and indifference. Before that, every letter would be a lie.

Spooner didn’t sleep like he used to. That

night he woke up at 2 a.m. and lay there, disgruntled. When he could no longer stand it, he got up to check his fridge. Its worried fan sounded louder than usual, made a haywire hum that matched his mood. His neighbor’s bedroom light was on. She ANGELS C O N T I N U E D

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was new, from some country he couldn’t name and would never think to visit. He thought she might be about his age, but he wasn’t good at judging such things. She wore a hijab and cooked strange-smelling dishes he caught a whiff of now and then. The one time she spoke to him she spoke in present tense. As if everything were unfolding, even the past, right before her eyes.

The answering machine was blinking. He pushed the button. Some reporter had called.

“Mr. Spooner….? This is Xavier… investigative reporter… pay-it-forward phenomenon… you’re a regular at the Bitter Cup and….”

Sure, make a message out of him. That’s what the reporter wanted to do. How was he supposed to know he was going to start a chain reaction this morning? Some 100 orders later! It was like winning the lottery in reverse. He hadn’t even been sure it was his neighbor lady when he paid for her tea.

He’d only done it because Bertie had disturbed his peace of mind, yelling like she did at the woman. It was on impulse. A strange impulse, really, given that he’d made it his life’s practice to avoid generosity in general.

Spooner’s eyes traveled to the small red basket on his kitchen table. He’d come home from work to find it on his porch this afternoon. The note attached read: Dear Mr. Spooner, Thank you for the cup of tea and kindness.

I am learning to say Merry Christmas!

Your Neighbor, Haleema Nestled inside was something she’d baked that he hadn’t dared yet taste. Spooner sniffed its sweetness. Haleema. The syllables formed on his tongue.

What had he gotten himself in to?

“Please. Just answer one question,” the reporter pleaded before the machine cut him off. “What made you buy her tea?”

What, indeed?

Spooner wasn’t sure. He stopped the message and went back to bed, where he tossed and turned, and looked over at the neighbor’s light, threading through the darkness.

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Spooner and the others had on Scout uniforms, which he was always proud of.

But the way those orphans stared said his troop was a bunch of nerds for being charitable.

He contemplated the universal sleeplessness of the middle aged. It wasn’t like that gave them a connection or anything. Seriously, he hadn’t even realized it was her. But then she’d left that basket. And her gesture had connected him, not to her exactly, but to a Spooner he hadn’t been in a long, long time.

Spooner had been nine or ten. Back

before his mom and dad split and Dad still headed up his Scout Troop. Their project was to make Christmas baskets for a bunch of orphan kids. He’d never even thought about them having a real orphanage right in the middle of town before. He’d read plenty about orphans in books, and for a while young Spooner even thought he wanted to be one, just so he could be the character in a book, too, the one that something adventuresome happened to. But real orphans were different.

The orphanage didn’t look anything like in the books. It wasn’t mysterious at all.

It was just a sad old school surrounded by a cyclone fence, with nothing but asphalt outside, and plunked down in the middle of two busy roads where the traffic whipped by. When Scout Troop 345 showed up, the orphans were out on the asphalt for their recreation time. That’s what the orphanage lady called it, recreation time. They had some beat-up bikes and a set of monkey bars to play with, but there was hardly enough room to really ride the bikes, and it was so cold you wouldn’t want to grab on the monkey bars. They’d freeze your hands.

The asphalt smelled wet and tarry and the air smelled like the cars on the street.

Scout Troop 345 had seven Scouts. They

were outnumbered. The orphans stared at them. Spooner and the others had on Scout uniforms, which he was always proud of. But the way those orphans stared said his troop was a bunch of nerds for being charitable.

And they didn’t look helpless or in need of Christmas baskets, either. They mostly looked mean. Like a bunch of school bullies, the ones who run by and punch you hard or nail you with the dodge ball on the playground. The ones who figure out fast what you hate to be called and call you that all the time.

The orphanage lady told the kids to gather around and get their Christmas baskets, and when she wasn’t looking, this one orphan girl rode up on her rusty bike and rammed the front of Spooner’s shin. It hurt and she knew it. She eyed Spooner, daring him to tell. Like she hoped that maybe then she’d be taken out of the orphanage to some other place, not better but just different. She was so sick of this place, it didn’t matter.

Spooner glared at her. She had a name tag around her neck, Asa in big block letters, like that explained her. Asa grabbed Spooner’s basket. The basket had taken Spooner a long time to make. He’d blown up a balloon, covered it with plaster of Paris and finally popped the balloon. His troop had put cookies inside Dad helped them bake, and candy canes and comic books they’d earned the money to pay for. But once Asa grabbed for it, Spooner did not want to let go.

What was she going to do with the basket? She’d just gobble the cookies and tear the comics and stomp on the plaster of Paris.

She was so hungry, nothing Spooner managed to put inside was going to feed her. He yanked and she yanked and he yanked. Then she narrowed her eyes at him.

Spooner was ashamed of himself. Why was he holding on? How could he be mad at this kid when he had a family, one he was ready to go home to as soon as he gave this mean little Asa her basket? But he was mad.

He was mad because he’d spent all that time on a Christmas basket she couldn’t care less about. Mad because she got Spooner thinking what a jerk he was, being a Scout and doing a sissy thing like making a Christmas basket for an orphan girl.

It felt to Spooner as if he were in that Twilight Zone episode, the one where a boy rolled off his bed at night and got sucked into another dimension. The other dimension

quickly learned, like Asa had, to insulate himself to stay safe. One where he lost his Dad’s hand and never got it back, before the crack in space closed up.

Xavier had taken up residence in

seethed like the insides of a vast, endless jellyfish, a place the boy could get stuck in forever. The boy called for help and his dad could hear him but didn’t know where he was. He was lost and the crack in space was closing. Finally his dad looked under the bed and figured out how to reach him. The boy found his hand and the dad pulled and the boy held on and he was yanked out, just in the nick of time.

Why couldn’t this mean little girl realize Spooner was offering her his hand?

A bell sounded and the orphans scattered, disappearing into the building beyond the play yard. Spooner looked down at the basket in his grip. Asa’s name tag had come off and lay on the asphalt by his feet. He picked it up and folded it into the comic book.

For the longest time, whenever Spooner thought about that orphan, Asa, he considered her with the same smug triumph, seeing himself as the winner in some tug of war they’d played. It was only later he began to realize that Asa had shown him his own future. One where his parents would split up and he himself was sucked into another dimension. One where Spooner

Xavier couldn’t explain it.

The whole town was reeling.

As if some spell had been cast over them, as if an angel had moved its wings and fluttered the dreary air with unexpected warmth.

the Bitter Cup for four days. He’d finally heard back from a Mr. Spooner, the customer who’d started the whole pay-itforward thing off. Four hundred orders now paid forward! He gave up his skepticism and wrote his fluff piece in time for the Christmas issue. Spooner hadn’t been much help, though. He’d rambled on about some orphan from his childhood, and asked Xavier what good had come of his longheld safety when here he was a lonely man?

Then Spooner informed him he had to go, said he had a date with the lady next door for tea, and hung up.

Xavier couldn’t explain it. The whole town was reeling. As if some spell had been cast over them, as if an angel had moved its wings and fluttered the dreary air with unexpected warmth. People felt their hearts pump up like balloons floating gently in their chests. They had unrolled the carpet of good will and walked about on it. No one wanted to break the spell. It was horrible to think about such dreariness now. And kind of wonderful to realize they themselves were the better angels.

Darlene’s coffee shop made the local TV news, then CNN. The town, which had for two years been wrangling for state money to complete a bike path, was suddenly granted the funds. It rained and the river rose, but not enough to flood as it usually did, along the low-lying levels. Xavier, not to be outdone by CNN, wrote a second fluff piece about Spooner and his neighbor finding romance.

That piece went viral. Small-town USA pays it forward for love! The lines at the Bitter Cup grew out the door. People crowding in to be a part of the phenomenon.

Darlene, no fool, renamed her shop Better Angels and started handing out two-buck cookies for free. She heard that pay it forward had started up in some neighboring towns, and was threatening to spread across the state. Maybe even the country.

Xavier went back to his editor and asked to be hired full time, now that he was a viral sensation. He was hired on the spot. For his

third and final fluff piece, he went looking for Bertie, the belligerent woman who’d yelled at the lady in the hijab and caused Spooner to buy his neighbor a cup of tea.

From the window of the Better Angels Coffee Shop, Darlene pointed Bertie out to Xavier. You could see her coated form hunched on a bench down at the pond’s edge. The recent rain had paused, so he left the shop and walked the path, which led him over the foot bridge still adorned with various Christmas paraphernalia. He stood in the damp, cedar-tinged air for a moment before introducing himself.

“Investigative what?” Xavier found that Bertie’s surly pessimism eclipsed his own.

She pointed her gnarly chin his way. “Don’t you Merry Christmas me!” she crabbed.

“Better Angels, ha! Bunch of thieves. You can’t trust a living soul in there. That’s what you ought to investigate.”

Diatribe over, she turned her back on Xavier and plucked a few stones from the ground. Tossed them recklessly—much like Spooner had tossed his coins onto Darlene’s counter a few days ago—into the steely water. The rocks arched up in a sullen way as Bertie scuttled off. And only Xavier stayed to watch them break and shift the water’s skin, rippling into larger and larger circles, once the stones fell. Ω

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Fepisode, series has involved settling in for one maybe two, per night over the or me, to binge-watch a television

course of a week or two. The prospect of anything more evoked by my restless nature and Jason sent me off the couch Cassidy in pursuit of projects, chores or bills to pay. j aso nc@ newsrev i ew.c om That’s how it was all the way up to this past Thanksgiving holiday, at least, when, after a month of much stress and little sleep, I sank into the couch with the wife and the poodle on Black Friday and stayed there for more than six hours and let the entirety of the BBC-to-Netflix series Bodyguard wash over me. Not only was the taught, unpredictable, sixepisode political thriller (with an insane ending!) amazing, so was the rejuvenating effect of getting out of my head for an extended period of time and doing absolutely nothing.

So now, as I look ahead to some much-anticipated vacation days around Christmas and New Year’s, I am anticipating some more medicinal streaming.

And to that end, I’ve surveyed the current landscape and come up with what look like some of the most promising holes for me—and you—to fall into: Shetland (BBC, Netflix): I’ve yet to stream a BBC crime drama that wasn’t completely addictive. The three seasons of The Fall—featuring Gillian Anderson 24

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as a detective in Northern Ireland on the trail of a serial killer (played by the incredible Jamie Dornan)—was some of my favorite television ever. To follow up my Bodyguard binge, I’ll probably dig into the four seasons of the bleak and beautiful-looking Shetland, about a detective (played by Douglas Henshall) investigating murders on the titular windswept archipelago in Northern Scotland.

Homecoming (Amazon Prime): This brandnew series is directed by Sam Esmail— creator of the wonderfully paranoid Mr. Robot series—and it’s a chilling-looking psychological thriller starring Julia Roberts as a woman who, when forced to recall her former job working with the transition of U.S. soldiers into civilian life, starts to realize that her own memories don’t match the deeper and darker truth of what was really going on at her company.

The Sinner (USA, Netflix, Amazon Prime, Xfinity/DirectTV): Each of the two seasons of this “why-dunnit” murdermystery series starts with a murder and an apparently guilty suspect whom detective Harry Ambrose (Bill Pullman) is driven to investigate in determining what was behind the killing. Season one star Jessica Biel has received a Golden Globe nomination for her part, while for season two, Carrie Coon (The Leftovers, Fargo) is getting high praise for her alternately fragile and sinister performance. This brutal-looking psychological thriller might be my No. 1 choice.

Atlanta (FX+, Amazon Prime): As the creator and star of this offbeat FX series, writer/comedian/actor/musician Donald Glover (aka Childish Gambino) has cooked up what looks like his most nuanced and compelling project.

Revolving around the lives of two cousins—one an aspiring rapper (Brian Tyree Henry) and the other his manager (Glover)—the 20 episodes of the comedy’s two seasons are being praised for an unpredictable and eclectic approach to telling the story of life for two black men in modern-day Atlanta.

Roma (Netflix): There are also a ton of new films streaming on the small screen now. I’ve already seen and highly recommend The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Blackkklansman and Sorry to Bother You, and some of the highest on my current queue are trippy-looking bloodfest Mandy (with Nicolas Cage in the role of a lifetime), a few intriguing documentaries—Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, McQueen and Fahrenheit 11/9—and the Netflix Original movie Roma. The streaming giant has produced what many are guessing will be its first Oscar-nominated feature.

Released last month, Roma was written/directed/produced/filmed by Alfonso Cuarón and is a gorgeously shot (in black-and-white) and deeply personal portrait of growing up in Mexico City’s Roma neighborhood in the 1970s. Ω

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Special Events CANCER SUPPORT GROUP: Talk to peers, enjoy a light meal and listen to informative guest speakers. Open to all cancer patients. Thu, 12/20, 4:30pm. Oroville Sports Club, 2600 Oro Dam Blvd., Oroville.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Holiday tunes, treats and affordable fairtrade gifts from around the world at the museum’s annual holiday sale. Thu, 12/20, 11am-4:30pm. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Chico State.

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CAMP FIRE BENEFIT CONCERT NIGHT 2: Classic rock, pop and blues from Amy Celeste Band, Defcats, Hot Flash, Velvet Starlings, Wanderers & Wolves and Yurkovic. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. $20-$40. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

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SPIRIT CHOIR CANDLE LIGHTING SERVICE: Spiritual inspiration based on a metaphysical interpretation of traditional holiday stories and songs. Thu, 12/20, 6:30pm. Center for Spiritual Living, 14 Hillary Lane.

Theater MISS BENNET CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY: Set two years after the Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice ends, this play continues the story with bookish middle-sister Mary as its unlikely heroine. Mary is growing tired of her dutiful family role and when the family gathers for Christmas, an unexpected guest sparks Mary’s hopes for independence, an intellectual match and love. Thu, 12/20, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com

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Special Events FAMILY MOVIE NIGHT: Enjoy the holiday classic, Elf starring Will Ferrell and James Caan.

Come make your own snack mix and winter crafts. Fri, 12/21, 6pm. Gridley Branch Library, 299 Spruce St., Gridley.

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE: Screening of the holiday classic to benefit Chico Housing Action Team and Safe Space Winter Shelter. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. $10. Pageant Theatre, 351 E Sixth St.

PHOTOS & VISITS WITH SANTA: Not quite as scary as the Easter Bunny. Step right up and get your picture with Santa, at the mall through Christmas Eve. Thu, 12/20. $25. Chico Mall, 1950 E 20th St. myholidaymoments.com

POETRY READING: Poetry and refreshments every third Thursday. Thu, 12/20, 6:30pm. Free. The Bookstore, 118 Main St. TODDLER STORYTIME: Toddlers and families will love this interactive storytime featuring stories, songs and movement. Thu, 12/20, 10am. Chico Branch Library, 1108 Sherman Avenue. buttecounty.net

HOLIDAY BAZAAR: Holiday tunes, treats and affordable fair-trade gifts from around the world at the museum’s annual holiday sale. Thu, 12/20, 11am-4:30pm. Valene L. Smith Museum of Anthropology, Chico State.

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Music BUTTE MTAC YOUTH ORCHESTRA: Winter fundraiser concert led by Yoshie Muratani, featuring carols and holiday favorites, plus works by Beethoven, Piazolla and selections from Tchaikovsky’s Nutcracker Suite. Suggested donation of $20 supports instrument replacement costs and music instruction for families and students displaced by the Camp Fire. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. St. John’s Episcopal Church, 2341 Floral Ave.

THE POLAR EXPRESS: Wear pajamas, ride the Chico Mall Polar Express train ($4) and enjoy the holiday flick near the food court. Fri, 12/21, 7pm. Chico Mall, 1950 E 20th St.

Music CAMP FIRE BENEFIT CONCERT NIGHT 3: Funk, jam and reggae with Black Fong, Dylan’s Dharma, Jeff Pershing Band, Smokey the Groove, Swamp Zen, Triple Tree and Wake of the Dead. Fri, 12/21, 7pm. $20-$40. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

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MISS BENNET CHRISTMAS AT PEMBERLEY: See Thursday. Fri, 12/21, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St.

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Sam Pullenza, author and illustrator of the conscious children’s book series I Am Adventures, sign copies of their latest work. Sat 12/22, 12pm. Lotus Flower Imports, 839 Main St.

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children affected by Northern California fires. Sat 12/22, 2:30pm. Eagles Aerie FOE 218, 1940 Mulberry St.

Special Events GINGERBREAD HOUSE MAKING: Enjoy a family tradition at the mall when you build and decorate your very own candy castle. Sat 12/22, 2pm. $7. Chico Mall, 1950 E 20th St.

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BANDS 4 CAMP There’ve been a ton of Camp Fire benefits (that’s a good thing and you should go to all of them), but if you want to check out a slew of great local bands, get your tickets to the concerts being held at El Rey Theater. Tonight (Dec. 20) is night two of the venue’s Camp Fire Benefit Concert series and will feature classic rock, pop and blues from the Amy Celeste Band, Defcats, Hot Flash, Velvet Starlings, Wanderers & Wolves and Yurkovic. Come back again tomorrow night (Friday, Dec. 21) for funk, jam and reggae with Black Fong, Dylan’s Dharma, Jeff Pershing Band, Smokey the Groove (pictured), Swamp Zen, Triple Tree and Wake of the Dead.

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1960s when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. ruled the Vegas strip. Sat, 12/22, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

STEVE JOHNSON: Brunch tunes. Sat, 12/22, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

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Special Events DEATH CAFE: Open, honest discussions about death and dying in a safe, judgment-free environment. Refreshments provided. Sun, 12/23, 5pm. Free. Butte County Library, Chico Branch, 1108 Sherman Ave. 592-3651.

Celebration for seniors affected by the Camp Fire. Sun, 12/23, 3pm. Chico Guild Hall, 2775 Nord Ave.

GRIEF SUPPORT: Circles of support for deep listening and sharing grief, expressive art, movement for stress reduction and selfcare skills share. Mon, 12/24, 1pm. Free.

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Special Events CAMP CHICO IMAGINATION: Join for science, nature education and day camp fun. Wed, 12/26, 7:30am. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eigth St. 891-4671. chicorec.com

Art 1078 GALLERY: Stories Seven, group show featuring the work of Robin Indar, Leslie Mahon-Russo, Dolores Mitchell, Tom Patton and Rudy Salgado. Through 12/23.

1710 Park Ave.

B-SO GALLERY: Chris Michalik, culminating exhibition for BFA student. Through 12/21.

Chico State, Ayres Hall, Room 105.

BLACKBIRD: Tiny Shiv & Ashley Penning, illustrations on display. Through 12/31. 1431 Park Ave.

CHICO ART CENTER: The Gift Show, over 20 artists curate booths and sell handmade goods and artwork for the holiday season.

Think global. Buy local. CAC classrooms are also open and available to artists displaced by the fire every Sunday from 10am–4pm. Art donations gladly accepted!

Through 12/28. 450 Orange St. chicoartcenter.com

JAMES SNIDLE FINE ARTS GALLERY: Stan Sours & Avery Palmer, the gallery’s final exhibit featuring Stan Sours’ sculptures and Avery Palmer’s paintings. Through 12/28.

Free. 254 E. Fourth St., 530-343-2930.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Collectors a Fresh Take, a collaborative exhibit looks at art from the youthful eye of students to the experienced eye of the collectors, curated by art and art history students from Chico State and Butte College, and collectors Bob Klang, Reed Applegate, Pat and Richard Macias, Idie Adams, Alan Carrier and Nathan Heyman. Through 1/20. $5. 900 Esplanade. monca.org

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surrealist dystopic vibes collide with a pastel paradise in Absolute Ama’s paintings. Through 12/31. Free. 118 W Second St., 591-7080.

ORLAND ART CENTER: Celebrating the Season, works by Denise Granger Kerbs, plus Magalia watercolorist Lynn Miller, acrylics

by Sandy Obester from Douglas City and Sacramento artist Linda Clark Johnson’s cyanotype and collage images. Through 1/24. 732 Fourth St., Orland. orlandartcenter.com

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Ann Pierce & Betty Polivka, estate sale, plus new works by C. Preble Miles and Sally Dimas.

Through 12/31. 493 East Ave., Suite 1. sallydimasartgallery.com

UPPER CRUST: Candy Matthews, paintings and mixed medium works by the artist.

Through 12/31. 130 Main St.

Museums GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Zoom Into Nano, hands-on exhibition demonstrates how scientists observe and make things that are too small to see. Find out how nanotechnology affects our lives through a number of awesome interactive exhibits.

Through 1/6. $5-$7. 625 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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“This is America”

Taking turns with favorite songs from 2018

“M Edmund Kenny, a London-based songwriter who produces electronic music under the name Kerala aria,” Kerala Dust: This dark dance jam by

Dust, is paced by a heartbeat thud rather than the big, brash kick drum that drives most EDM tracks. Kenny’s singing sounds like by Jason Cassidy a whisper over your shoulder, drawand Howard ing you into a warm, if unsettling, Hardee soundworld light years away from the club music you’re used to. –H.H. “Wide Awake,” Parquet Courts: Five on five: Innovative New York guitar group Stream Howard and brings in Danger Mouse to produce Jason’s shared play list at tinyurl.com/ its latest album and lets the funk tagteamten flag fly. The defining jam is the title track, a people’s anthem with lively, catchy guitar and bass riffs, a sing-along chorus and dancing-in-the-streets New Orleans second-line vibe, complete with whistle and cowbell. –J.C. “Buzzing in the Light,” Dr. Dog: Co-vocalist Toby Leaman waxes poetic on the mysterious depths of the universe on this standout track from the band’s latest, Critical Equation, which encapsulates the long-running psychrock outfit’s newfound affinity for slow and spacious songs. –H.H. “Make Me Feel,” Janelle Monáe: If anyone needed any more proof that Monáe is the rightful heir to Prince’s funky crown, this fierce, fun, catchy and sexy-as-hell dance-pop instant classic will set them straight. –J.C. “Midway,” Bad Bad Hats: On this single that sounds like a lost 1990s alt-rock radio hit, Bad Bad Hats frontwoman Kerry Alexander toys with the listener’s expectations, taking her sugary-sweet, pure-sounding melodies in surprising directions and showing off her wide-ranging songwriting chops. –H.H. “Pristine,” Snail Mail: Snail Mail is at the top of an impressive list of female-led noisy guitar groups—a list that included Camp Cope, Hop Along, Soccer Mommy and Thin Lips—that ruled the indie-verse in 2018.

And this bittersweet love song from teen songwriter/

bandleader Lindsey Jordan is all infectious vocal melodies and jangly-meets-discordant guitar energy. And it’s just about perfect. –J.C. “Virgo,” Atmosphere: Few artists are better suited to capture the direness of modern existence than Slug, the introspective MC half of indie-rap duo Atmosphere.

“Virgo,” the somber first single from Mi Vida Local, contains sobering observations about climate change or the nuclear apocalypse or whatever is threatening humanity’s existence right now. Slug raps, “Like fuck it, you can sacrifice me to the weather/If you promise that you’ll let my songs live forever.” –H.H. “Punk Kid,” Joan of Arc: Prolific indie/experimental trailblazers from Chicago take another turn on their latest album, 1984, bringing in visual artist Melina Ausikaitis to sing. The vaguely Appalachian-sounding a capella tunes she’d been collecting for years were treated with a wide range of ambient textures and field recordings, with the most mesmerizing being this meditative number: “All my life, I’ve been eating shit/ Look at me, I’m a real punk kid.” –J.C. “Killshot,” Eminem: Detroit rapper Machine Gun Kelly poked a sleeping tiger by releasing the exhaustive diss track “Rap Devil,” calling out Eminem for his weird beard, being “sober and bored” and other offenses related to being a middle-aged rapper. Em responded with the razor-sharp “Killshot,” dissecting MGK’s disses and reconstructing them for his own evil purposes.

The real winners, though, were hip-hop heads with an appetite for beef. –H.H. “This Is America,” Childish Gambino: Both a hard-hitting trap jam and an upbeat pop tune that—with much help from its accompanying visceral video—challenges with its juxtaposition of the beauty of black culture with the ugliness of gun violence in America. It’s a masterful work of art that gets its point across by making us dance in the streets as the bullets whiz by. Song of the year. (Side note: For me, the only other music that responded as powerfully and effectively to the chaos of the Trump era was Low’s unsettling somber/ glitchy Double Negative album, a masterpiece from Ω which no one song could be singled out.) –J.C.

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NIGHTLIFE

THURSDAY 12/20—WEDNESDAY 12/26

FLIES IN THE VASELINE

AUDIOBOXX: Top 40 dance hits in the

THE MONDEGREENS, LO & BEHOLD & AVE GRAVE

lounge. Fri, 12/21, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

Saturday, Dec. 22 Chico Women’s Club

BLUE COLLAR MEN: Come sail away

with this Styx tribute act. Fri, 12/21, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

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CAMP FIRE BENEFIT CONCERT NIGHT 3: Funk, jam and reggae with Black Fong, Dylan’s Dharma, Jeff Pershing Band, Smokey the Groove, Swamp Zen, Triple Tree and Wake of the Dead. Fri, 12/21, 7pm. $20-$40.

El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

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CAMP FIRE BENEFIT CONCERT NIGHT 2:

Classic rock, pop and blues from Amy Celeste Band, Defcats, Hot Flash, Velvet Starlings, Wanderers & Wolves and Yurkovic. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. $20-$40. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

DJ GUIDANCE & DRTY MUZK: BassRunner show featuring the talents of two NorCal music producers, plus local support.

Proceeds benefit victims of the Camp Fire. Thu, 12/20, 9pm. $5. The Beach, 191 E. Second St.

HEART BENEFIT: Alex Brown, Lish Bills, Bran Crown and Queen Champion perform to help raise money for the Homeless Emergency Action Response Team, which offers services to homeless and runaway youth in Butte County. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. $5-$10. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

OPEN MIC/JAM: Bring your songs and your instrument for this weekly open mic and jam session. Thu, 12/20, 7:30pm. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

THUMPIN’ THURSDAY ROCK & BLUES JAM: Weekly open jam hosted by

JpRoxx & The Loco-Motive Band. Thu, 12/20, 7pm. Free. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade, 408-449-2179.

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AMANDA GRAY: Talented and prolific singer/songwriter performs country, Americana and more. Fri, 12/21, 6pm. Purple Line Urban Winery, 760 Safford St., Oroville.

Sound will keep you on the dance floor with hot music and videos. Fri, 12/21, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

FIREFIGHTER & VOLUNTEER NIGHT: Precariat, Motor City Riot and Up to 11 rock out to pay tribute to first responders and volunteers.

Donations collected at the door. Fri, 12/21, 9pm. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

JOHN SEID & FRIENDS: An eclectic set of music for your dining pleasure. Fri, 12/21, 6:30pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.

NATE MORAN: Country music artist

Rob Rasner, Chris Conley, Chris Keene and the nonalliterated Trevor Sellers join forces to rock out, ’90s style. Their supergroup, Trippin’ on a Hole in a Paper Heart, plays the best of alt-rock this Saturday, Dec. 22, at Duffy’s Tavern. The dudes are members of rad bands, including Saves the Day, Surrogate and Number One Gun, and share an affinity for grunged-out MTV favorites. Matt Pinfield would be proud. There will also be a special guest opener— obviously Scott Weiland’s incorporeal rock ’n’ roll goatee.

performs a benefit for families affected by the Camp Fire. Cold Weather Sons open the show. Fri, 12/21, 9pm. $5. Crazy Horse Saloon, 303 Main St.

NAUGHTY SANTA PARTY: Northern Traditionz kicks out the country jams for Tackle Box’s ninth annual event. The Naughtiest Santa goes home with a $200 gift certificate.

That’s a lot of fried cheese sticks and tater skins! Fri, 12/21, 9pm. $7.

Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

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SING-ALONG SOLSTICE WITH KRAMPUS & FRIENDS: Slightly terrifying (but still warm and cozy) holiday meet up to sing Christmas songs that don’t suck. Words and music provided. Fri, 12/21, 6pm. Free. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

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12/22, 9:30pm. $5-$0. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

AUDIOBOXX: Top 40 dance hits in the

lounge. Sat, 12/22, 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville.

BOB KIRKLAND TRIO: Cool jazz

for a colder night. Sat, 12/22, 6:30pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.

DRIVER: Rock ’n’ roll trio from

Paradise plays the lounge. Sat, 12/22, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

LOKI MILLER BAND: Guitar slinger extraordinaire plays country,

blues and class rock hits. Sat, 12/22, 9pm. Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 Esplanade.

MAX MINARDI: Local indie/folk singer/

TYLER DEVOLL: Happy hour tunes. Fri,

12/21, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

TYLER DEVOLL: Singer/songwriter breaks out the pop hooks. Fri, 12/21, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville. theexchangeoroville.com

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songwriter with a countrytinged voice. Sat, 12/22, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville.

MONDEGREENS HOLIDAY SHOW: Annual

A RAT PACK CHRISTMAS: Travel back

to the early 1960s, when Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin & Sammy Davis Jr. ruled the Vegas strip. This swinging tribute act is just what you need this holiday season. Sat,

holiday jam, plus CD release for the band’s new album, All Our Neighborhoods. The Mondegreens will be joined by local funk ensemble Lo & Behold and Chico’s prodigal son Sean Galloway and his solo project Ave Grave. Sat, 12/22, 8:30pm. $10.

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OBE CHRISTMAS: Late happy hour featuring holiday favorites with Steve OBErlander. Sat, 12/22, 9:30pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

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OPEN POETRY READING: Poetry and

spoken word hosted by Bob the Poet and Travis Rowdy. Wed, 12/26, 5:30pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

STEVE COOK & LARRY PETERSON: A

variety of hot dinner tunes. Wed, 12/26, 6pm. Izakaya Ichiban, 2000 Notre Dame Blvd.

TRIVIA NIGHT: Trivial questions

for serious people. Wed, 12/26, 8pm. Woodstock’s Pizza, 166 E. Second St.

TAME THE FLAME II: Aberrance, The Deprived, Bloody Roots (Sepultura tribute) and stoicB4dark shred for a night of heavy music to benefit extreme musicians affected by the Camp Fire. Sat, 12/22, 8pm. $5. Lost On Main, 319 Main St.

TRIPPIN’ ON A HOLE IN A PAPER HEART: Nineties alternative rock cover supergroup featuring members of Saves the Day, Surrogate, Number One Gun & Indecisive Youth, plus super secret opener!. Sat, 12/22, 9pm. $5. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

XMAS XTRING BAND: Holiday musical merriment with Chico All-Stars to benefit Camp Fire charities and Chico Housing Action Team. Featuring members of Mood:Swing, Klezbillies, Robert Karch and special guests. Sat, 12/22, 6:30pm. Free. Wine Time, 26 Lost Dutchman Drive, 893-9075.

YULE LOGS: Hope you already have your tickets... cuz it’s sold out. Sat, 12/22, 7:30pm. $15-$20. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

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Providing an invaluable service pre- and post-Camp Fire, the Homeless Emergency Action Response Team (H.E.A.R.T.) offers 24-hour services to homeless and runaway youth in Butte County. The team seeks to provide safety for kids during a runaway episode, reunite them with their families and ultimately strengthen family bonds. It’s hard work and you can help fund the program tonight (Dec. 20) at Blackbird. Alex Brown, Lish Bills, Bran Crown (pictured) and Queen Champion all perform the all-ages show, and donations are being accepted at the door.

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

Opening this week Aquaman

Jason Momoa brings his superhuman physique from Game of Thrones to the title character of this film adaptation of DC Comics’ half-human/half-Atlantean heir to the underwater kingdom of Atlantis. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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And the eye-popping and ingeby nious Spider-Man: Into the Bob Grimm Spider-Verse is not only one of 2018’s greatest cinematic surbg r i mm@ newsrev i ew.c om prises, but maybe the best comic book movie ever made.

No film adaptation has captured the rush of reading an exciting comic book like this blast of energy from directors Spider-Man: Into Bob Persichetti, Peter Ramsey the Spider-Verse and Rodney Rothman. They Starring the voices of go for broke with a seamless Shameik moore, chris mixture of visual styles—handPine, Jake Johnson, mahershala Ali and drawn and computer-animated— Hailee Steinfeld. and the story is pretty great, to Directed by bob boot.

Persichetti, Peter Teenager Miles Morales ramsey and rodney rothman. cinemark (voiced by Shameik Moore) 14, Feather river is trying to adjust to a new, cinemas. rated PG. upscale school after winning a scholarship. He’s away from his big-city friends and getting some guff from his well-meaning policeman dad (Brian Tyree Henry), who wants him to appreciate the opportunity he’s been given. Miles’ uncle (Mahershala Ali) keeps him grounded, encouraging him to continue as a graffiti artist. And it’s on one of their painting excursions that Miles is bitten by a strange spider and then, well, you know …

With his newfound powers, Miles eventually crosses paths with the original Spider-Man, Peter Parker (Chris Pine). And, as the plot would have it, a portal from a parallel universe opens up, inviting a whole fleet of different Spider-Verse characters

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into Miles’ orbit. The group of Spideys includes the older Peter B. Parker (Jake Johnson), Gwen Stacy (Hailee Steinfeld), Spider-Ham (a mishmash of Spidey and Porky Pig voiced by John Mulaney), Peni Parker (Kimiko Glenn) and her robot and, best of all, Nicolas Cage as the black-and-white Spider-Man Noir.

So, Miles is one of many heroes with Spider powers tasked with battling Wilson Fisk, aka Kingpin (Liev Schreiber), whose corporation is responsible for the time-hole rip that’s allowed all his adversaries into his corner of the universe.

The logic is convoluted, but discernible if you pay close attention. Like a good comic book, the movie is stacked with action, plot threads and many twists and turns.

I’m not a big comic collector, but I did go through a phase when I was reading graphic novels and a few of those artists really grabbed me. I loved the artwork in Bill Sienkiewicz’s Elektra: Assassin series. Much of the art in this film reminds me of Sienkiewicz and others like him—comic art with a nice level of depth to it. The film plays like every frame is a page out of one of those awesome graphic novels, edited together into a movie.

The film pokes fun at past Spider-Man movies and takes advantage of Johnson’s comic timing.

Lily Tomlin voices a very different Aunt May, who is kind of like Batman’s Alfred with a little more edge.

While I like Tom Holland as the most recent live-action Spider-Man, this sort of animated offering is more up my alley. There’s a new Holland Spider-Man movie (along with the next Avengers) coming next year, but I want more of this. Spider-Verse is surely one of the best movies of the year, the best Spider-Man movie to date and one of the best animated films ever made. Yeah, it’s that good. Ω

Bumblebee

The sixth film in the Transformers series revolves around the bot Bumblebee and the teen girl who becomes his partner in defending Earth from the Decepticons. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

The Favourite

Greek director Yorgos Lanthimos (The Lobster) is at the helm of this story of a sexually charged power struggle in the court of Queen Anne in the early 18th century. Starring Rachel Weisz, Emma Stone, Olivia Colman and Nicholas Hoult. Cinemark 14. Rated R.

Mary Poppins Returns

Rob Marshall (Chicago, Into the Woods) takes on another movie musical, this one an update on the 1964 classic, set a couple of decades after the events in Mary Poppins, with Emily Blunt playing the title character.

Also starring Lin-Manuel Miranda (Hamilton), Colin Firth and Meryl Streep. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

Mary Queen of Scots

A British historical drama chronicling the 16th century power struggle between Mary, Queen of Scotland (Saoirse Ronan), and her first cousin, England’s Queen Elizabeth I (Margot Robbie). Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Second Act

Jenny from the block tricks her way into a Madison Avenue gig and is forced to prove that “street smarts equal book smarts.”

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

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Fantastic Beasts: The Crimes of Grindelwald

Film two in the planned five-film series written by J.K. Rowling returns us to the

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Green Book

Mahershala Ali and Viggo Mortensen start in this feel-good movie about race relations in America that goes light on the grit and heavy on the sentiment. Based on a true story, it starts off with Tony Lip (Mortensen), an Italian-American bouncer who gets a gig as a driver and bodyguard for Dr. Don Shirley (Ali), a black classical pianist who is touring the Deep South. It’s a road movie, with Tony driving and Don sitting in the back seat. The two use the book of the movie’s title—a guide offering a listing of safe havens for black travelers in segregated Southern states—to find places where Don can find shelter and eat.

Things get ugly when Don tries to do such mundane things as buy a suit or eat in a restaurant where he’s been hired to play.

Tony steps in for his boss during these racially charged episodes, and occasionally cracks a few skulls. As his eyes are opened to the realities of life for Dr. Don, Tony learns lessons about loving people no matter the color of their skin and perhaps about how to drop fewer racial slurs before the credits roll. Cinemark 14.

Rated R —B.G.

The Grinch

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas gets the 3-D CGI treatment with Kenan Thompson, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams and Benedict Cumberbatch (as the Grinch) voicing the characters. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Mortal Engines

A big-screen adaptation of Philip Reeve’s fantasy novels about a steampunk vision of the London of the future. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

The Mule

Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future, The Polar Express) directed and co-wrote this dramedy inspired by the real-life story of Mark Hogancamp (played by Steve Carell), a man who, after getting severe brain damage following an attack by a group of men, seeks therapeutic refuge in the building of a one-sixth-scale World War II-era Belgian town in his backyard. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Now playing

Wizarding World and the further adventures of magizooligist Newt Scamander (Eddie Redmayne) and his nemesis, dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald (Johnny Depp).

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.

Clint Eastwood directs and stars in this real-life story about a 90-year-old World War II veteran who was caught transporting cocaine for a drug cartel. Also starring Bradley Cooper, Diane Wiest, Michael Peña and Laurence Fishburne. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

Ralph Breaks the Internet

In this sequel to the 2012 animated feature Wreck-It Ralph, the soft-hearted giant (voice of John C. Reilly) and the cast of video-game characters have broken free of their arcade machine and head for new adventures across the internet-gaming world. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

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No other seasonal transition is so abrupt dynamic: Eight months’ worth of photosynthesis utumn is about to shift into the doldrums of

culminate in an explosion of energy, biomass and color.

Then, almost all at once, the landscape by shuts down under short days and gray Alastair skies. Three dreary months later, spring Bland reluctantly crawls out of bed.

Few features of the countryside showcase this final autumn burst like persimmons, abundant in local yards and often visible, above the rooftops, from blocks away. Unfortunately, many tree-keepers don’t consume these fruits, which— depending on the variety—can be eaten like apples or soft like pudding. There are more labor-intensive ways to use them, too—like drying them in the Japanese hoshigaki style or baking them into desserts. Still, most suburban crops go to the animals.

I marvel that more brewers don’t jump on this opportunity. After all, what better way could there be for a brewer to bottle up a little taste of the season?

Oh, right—pumpkins.

So, persimmons are obviously not the key ingredient of a popular beer style, which is more than most fruits—except, maybe, mangoes or grapefruits—could expect. What I can’t understand is why so few brewers, anywhere, period, have dabbled with persimmons as a seasonal ingredient. A search on the online beer rating venue Beer Advocate shows 86 persimmon beers— ever. The same search for mango beers turned up 1,430. RateBeer.com shows just 50 persimmon beers.

These results likely don’t include persimmon brews made in small batches and served exclusively on draft at breweries. Still, the numbers are a barometer, and the results are clear: Brewers overlook one of the most visible items of autumn, gravitating toward mulling

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spices and orange squashes instead.

I have tasted just three persimmon beers. One I made myself in 2004 from hachiya persimmons off my grandparents’ tree in Redding. Another came from Scratch Brewing Co. in Illinois. This brewery is known for gleaning and crowdsourcing unusual, foraged and salvaged ingredients, often wild plants and mushrooms but also backyard tree fruits. Finally, several years ago, I tasted a persimmon beer made, fittingly, by Iron Springs Pub and Brewery in Fairfax, which is a persimmon hotspot for suburban foragers. That beer was called Chazz Cat Rye, a strong beer aged in an oak chardonnay barrel and infused with persimmons gleaned from a small local orchard. The brewery’s owner, Mike Altman, said it was “divine.” (My memory fails me and my tasting notes are long gone.)

What I remember of my own persimmon beer—it was modeled after Anchor’s Liberty Ale, and the persimmons came as an afterthought—is that the fruit didn’t exactly jump out at you. This reflects the subdued, if elegant, aromatics of the persimmon, which is faintly redolent of nutmeg, maple and honey. The flavor is similarly delicate, and the experience of eating a jelly-soft hachiya or chocolate persimmon is one of texture and sugar as much as, if not more than, one of flavor and aroma. I suspect ramping up the proportional addition of persimmon would help bring out its furtive character.

In general, I consider fruit used in beer to be more or less squandered. And each November, after another year of watching the handful of seasonal fruit beers come and go—cherry, peach, watermelon, mango, citrus—it astounds me that so many brewers gravitate toward the homely pumpkin to call forth the fall, while hundreds of thousands of those rosy red persimmons drop to the earth, as they’re doing now. Just listen: Splat, splat, splat. Ω

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BEST ART PICS 2018

As is tradition for this second-to-last column of the year, Arts DEVO shuts up for a minute and shares his favorite photographs that have appeared alongside the arts stories in the CN&R over the past year. As always, thank you, photographers, for making us writers look good.

For a summer photo essay on the busy local music scene, photographer Michelle Camy captured Ron Willadsen and Joy Galbraith cutting it up during a Friday Night Concert as local cover band Esplanade cranked out the hits of the ’80s on the City Plaza stage.

PHOTO BY MICHELLE CAMY

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“I’m Viking Tom!” During his journey to the Renaissance Faire at Feather Falls Casino, writer/photographer Ken Smith was greeted by this friendly Viking, “a bearded guy dressed in a loincloth and little else,” who’d outfitted his homemade Viking longboat with toy guns, swords and costumes.

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Bugs, drugs and a paranoid motel party of two starring Hilary Tellesen and Louis Fuentes in Tracy Letts’ Bug, presented by the Blue Room Theatre in February.

PHOTO BY JOE HILSEE

The first project for Chico’s Crucial Times Photography collective was a slick photo zine featuring the live-music shots of seven of its members, including this one of grindcore crew Escuela tearing up the now-defunct Raw Haus in Chico.

Local theater dude Joe Hilsee happened upon the destruction of the old Salvation Army church while walking to work and captured this striking black-and-white of its demise.

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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY For the week oF December 20, 2018 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Consumer

Reports says that between 1975 and 2008, the average number of products for sale in a supermarket rose from about 9,000 to nearly 47,000. The glut is holding steady.

Years ago you selected from among three or four brands of soup and shampoo.

Nowadays you may be faced with 20 varieties of each. I suspect that 2019 will bring a comparable expansion in some of your life choices, Aries—especially when you’re deciding what to do with your future and who your allies should be. This could be both a problem and a blessing.

For best results, opt for choices that have all three of these qualities: fun, usefulness and meaning.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): People

have been trying to convert ordinary metals into gold since at least 300 AD. At that time, an Egyptian alchemist named Zosimos of Panopolis unsuccessfully mixed sulfur and mercury in the hope of performing such magic. Fourteen centuries later, seminal scientist Isaac Newton also failed in his efforts to produce gold from cheap metal. But now let’s fast forward to 20th century chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, a distinguished researcher who won a share of the Nobel Prize for chemistry in 1951.

He and his team did an experiment with bismuth, an element that’s immediately adjacent to lead on the periodic table. By using a particle accelerator, they literally transmuted a small quantity of bismuth into gold. I propose that we make this your teaching story for 2019. May it inspire you to seek transformations that have never before been possible.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): President

Donald Trump wants to build a wall of concrete and fencing between the U.S. and Mexico, hoping to slow down the flow of immigrants across the border. Meanwhile, twelve Northern African countries are collaborating to build a 4,750-mile-long wall of drought-resistant trees at the border of the Sahara, hoping to stop the desert from swallowing up farmland. During the coming year, I’ll be rooting for you to draw inspiration from the latter, not the former.

Erecting new boundaries will be healthy for you—if it’s done out of love and for the sake of your health, not out of fear and divisiveness.

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Cancerian

poet and filmmaker Jean Cocteau advised artists to notice the aspects of their work that critics didn’t like—and then cultivate those precise aspects. He regarded the disparaged or misconstrued elements as being key to an artist’s uniqueness and originality, even if they were as yet immature. I’m expanding his suggestion and applying it to you and all Crabs during the next 10 months, even if you’re not strictly an artist. Watch carefully what your community seems to misunderstand about the new trends you’re pursuing, and work hard to ripen them.

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): In 1891, a 29-year-

old British mother named Constance Garnett decided she would study the Russian language and become a translator. She learned fast. During the next 40 years, she produced English translations of 71 Russian literary books, including works by Tolstoy, Dostoyevsky, Turgenev and Chekhov. Many had never before been rendered in English.

I see 2019 as a Constance Garnett-type year for you, Leo. Any late-blooming potential you might possess could enter a period of rapid maturation. Awash in enthusiasm and ambition, you’ll have the power to launch a new phase of development that could animate and motivate you for a long time.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): I’ll be bold and predict that 2019 will be a nurturing chapter in your story—a time when you will feel loved and supported to a greater degree than usual, a phase when you will be more at home in your body and more at peace with your fate than you have in a long time.

I have chosen an appropriate blessing to bestow upon you, written by the poet

by rob brezsny Claire Wahmanholm. Speak her words as if they were your own. “On Earth I am held, honeysuckled not just by honeysuckle but by everything—marigolds, bog after bog of small sundews, the cold smell of spruce.”

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): “Be very,

very careful what you put into that head, because you will never, ever get it out.”

This advice is sometimes attributed to 16th century politician and cardinal Thomas Wolsey. Now I’m offering it to you as one of your important themes in 2019. Here’s how you can best take it to heart. First, be extremely discerning about what ideas, theories and opinions you allow to flow into your imagination. Make sure they’re based on objective facts and make sure they’re good for you. Second, be aggressive about purging old ideas, theories and opinions from your head, especially if they’re outmoded, unfounded or toxic.

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SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Memorize

this quote by author Peter Newton and keep it close to your awareness during the coming months: “No remorse. No if-onlys. Just the alertness of being.”

Here’s another useful maxim, this one from author Mignon McLaughlin: “Every day of our lives we are on the verge of making those slight changes that would make all the difference.” Shall we make it a lucky three mottos to live by in 2019? This one’s by author A. A. Milne: “You’re braver than you believe, and stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think.”

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Until 1920, most American women didn’t have the right to vote. For that matter, few had ever been candidates for public office.

There were exceptions. In 1866, Elizabeth Cady Stanton was the first to seek a seat in Congress. In 1872, Victoria Woodhull ran for president. Susanna Salter became the first female mayor in 1887. According to my analysis of the astrological omens, Sagittarius, 2019 will be a Stanton-Woodhull-Salter type of year for you. You’re likely to be ahead of your time and primed to innovate. You’ll have the courage and resourcefulness necessary to try seemingly unlikely and unprecedented feats, and you’ll have a knack for ushering the future into the present.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Studies show that the best possible solution to the problem of homelessness is to provide cheap or free living spaces for the homeless. Not only is it the most effective way of helping the people involved, in the long run, it’s also the least expensive. Is there a comparable problem in your personal life? A chronic difficulty that you keep putting Band-Aids on but that never gets much better? I’m happy to inform you that 2019 will be a favorable time to dig down to find deeper, more fundamental solutions to finally fix a troublesome issue rather than just addressing its symptoms.

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

people in Iceland write poems, but only a few publish them. There’s even a term for those who put their creations away in a drawer rather than seeking an audience: skúffuskáld, literally translated as “drawerpoet.” Is there a comparable phenomenon in your life, Aquarius? Do you produce some good thing but never share it? Is there a part of you that you’re proud of but keep secret?

Is there an aspect of your ongoing adventures that’s meaningful but mostly private?

If so, 2019 will be the year you might want to change your mind about it.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the the use of the fictitious business name DROP IN THE BUCKET at 1938 Oak Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

ROSEANNE LUCY NELSON 1938 Oak Park Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ROSE NELSON Dated: November 6, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000712 Published: December 6,13,20,27, 2018

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as G AND G ENTERPRISES, G AND G PROPERTIES at 7 Laguna Point Road Chico, CA 95928.

GAIL NOTTINGHAM 7 Laguna Point Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: GAIL NOTTINGHAM Dated: October 15, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001313 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO CONCRETE COMPANY at 5 Aldrin Ct Chico, CA 95926.

JONATHAN JAMES HALL 5 Aldrin Ct Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JONATHAN HALL Dated: December 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001463 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as B STREET PUBLIC HOUSE at 117 Broadway St Chico, CA 95928.

WILLIAM CORBETT BRADY 612 Parkwood Dr Chico, CA 95928.

ADAM EDWARD SAMORANO 1056 San Ramon Dr Chico, CA 95973.

SEBASTIEN TAMARELLE 3046 Paso Grande Ct Chico, CA 95973.

XIBANYA INC 134 W 2nd St Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: SEBASTIEN TAMARELLE, SECRETARY Dated: December 3, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001464 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FOOTHILL PROPERTIES at 1834 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

BLAKE ANDERSON 1834 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BLAKE ANDERSON Dated: November 27, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001434 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TIPTON ENTERPRISES, TIPTON

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business names CUSTOM SEWN ACCESSORIES, CSA at 3415 Silverbell Rd Suite 3 Chico, CA 95973.

CONSUELO RAMIREZ 916 Winterpine Dr Orland, CA 95963.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CONSUELO RAMIREZ Dated: November 8, 2018 FBN Number: 2011-0000263 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, Januray 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FIVE STAR PAINTING at 2070 Sunrise Ct Chico, CA 95928.

RANDY KEITH RAMIREZ 2070 Sunrise Ct Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RANDY RAMIREZ Dated: December 10, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001483 Published: December 13,20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as KERSHAW COOK AND TALLEY, PC at 341 Broadway Street Ste 209 Chico, CA 95928.

KERSHAW COOK TALLEY PC 401 Watt Ave Ste 1 Sacramento, CA 95864.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: K. BROADWELL, ADMINISTRATOR Dated: December 4, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001471 Published: December 20,27, 2018, January 3,10, 2019 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTH VALLEY PAYEE SERVICES INC at 1692 Mangrove Ave. No. 213 Chico, CA 95926.

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NORTH VALLEY PAYEE SERVICES INC 1712 Pioneer Ave Suite 100 Cheyenne, WY 82001 This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: PHILLIP KUEHNE, RECORDS KEEPER Dated: November 30, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0001454 Published: December 20,27, 2018, January 3,10, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name SYCAMORE MEDICAL GROUP CHICO at 1025 Village Lane Chico, CA 95926.

STEVEN DANIEL WAGNER 640 Coyote Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: STEVEN DANIEL WAGNER Dated: November 26, 2018 FBN Number: 2018-0000850 Published: December 20,27, 2018, January 3,10, 2019

NOTICES ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner RICHARD JAY SHELTON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: RICHARD JAY SHELTON Proposed name: RICHARD JAY DUARTE 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: January 4, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: November 20, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03732 Published: November 29, December 6,13,20, 2018 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner KALIAHNA DAWN BAXTER filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: KALIAHNA DAWN BAXTER Proposed name: KALIAHNA DAWN TRIPP 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

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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: December 28, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: October 31, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03501 Published: December 6,13,20,27, 2018

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner JOSHUA DANIEL COLEMAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: JOSHUA DANIEL COLEMAN Proposed name: JOSHUA DANIEL TRIPP 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: December 28, 2018 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: October 30, 2018 Case Number: 18CV03502 Published: December 6,13,20,27, 2018

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: TRAVIS JENKINS, STEVE MULLAN, GERALD FAUNCE, AND ALL PERSONS UNKNOWN, CLAIMING ANY LEGAL OR EQUITABLE RIGHT, TITLE, ESTATE, LIEN, OR INTEREST IN THE PROPERTY DESCRIBED IN THE COMPLAINT ADVERSE TO PLAINTIFF’S TITLE, OR ANY CLOUD ON PLAINTIFF’S TITLE THERETO AND DOES 1 THROUGH 20, INCLUSIVE YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: SHARON N. CAPPS, SUCCESSOR TRUSTEE OF THE ERNEST WILSON AND LAVONNE WILSON INTERVIVOS TRUST DATED JULY 7, 1986 NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: BUTTE COUNTY SUPERIOR COURT 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA. 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is: KEVIN J. SWEENEY, ESQ. (083972) 20 Independence Circle Chico, CA. 95973 (530) 893-1515 Dated: August 24, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 16CV02968 Published: November 29, December 6,13,20, 2018

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JENNIFER LEE STIDHAM YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: May 11, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV01544 Published: December 6,13,20,27, 2018

SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: JOSUE S PALOMAR YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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

The name and address of the court is: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 LIMITED CIVIL CASE

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The name, address and telephone number of plaintiff’s attorney is: JOSEPH L SELBY (#249546) Law Office of Ferris & Selby 2607 Forest Avenue Ste 130 Chico, CA 95928.

(530) 366-4290 Dated: February 16, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV00606 Published: December 6,13,20,27, 2018

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DOROTHY JEANNE KENNEDY To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DOROTHY JEANNE KENNEDY A Petition for Probate has been filed by: LAUREN DEVORE KENNEDY in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: LAUREN DEVORE KENNEDY be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

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

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: January 8, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice

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(form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250.

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

Petitioner: LAUREN DEVORE KENNEDY 1530 Oakdale St #1 Chico, CA 95928 Case Number: 18PR00527 Published: December 6,13,20, 2018

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE BRENDA D. PRYOR aka BRENDA PRYOR To all heirs and beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: BRENDA D. PRYOR aka BRENDA PRYOR A Petition for Probate has been filed by: JOSHUA E. MCCLAIN in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: JOSHUA E. MCCLAIN 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: January 8, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m.

Dept: 8 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

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Probate Code section 1250.

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

Attorney for Petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Case Number: 18PR00528 Published: December 20,27, 2018, January 3, 2019

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In accordance with the provisions of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA), Section 15061 (b) (3) of Chapter 3, Title 14, it has been determined that the proposed code amendment project will not have an impact upon the environment.

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BY AMENDING SECTION 17.04.060 (DEFINITIONS); REPLACING SECTION 17.08.120 (MARIJUANA DISPENSARIES); DELETING SECTION 17.16.XX (COMMERCIAL CANNABIS BUSINESSES); AND AMENDING SECTIONS 17.28.010 (ALLOWED USES IN RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS); 17.32.010 (ALLOWED USES IN COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS); 17.34.020 (ALLOWED USES IN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS); 17.36.010 (ALLOWED USES IN INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS); 17.40.010 (ALLOWED USES IN SPECIAL PURPOSE DISTRICTS) TO

PROHIBIT ZONING FOR COMMERCIAL CANNABIS ACTIVITIES WITHIN THE CITY OF OROVILLE” and the Ordinance entitled “AN ORDINANCE OF CITY COUNCIL OF CITY OF OROVILLE, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING TITLE 5 (BUSINESS LICENSES AND REGULATIONS) OF THE OROVILLE MUNICIPAL CODE BY ELIMINATING CHAPTER 5.XX (COMMERCIAL CANNABIS) TO PROHIBIT THE ESTABLISHMENT AND OPERATION OF ALL COMMERCIAL CANNABIS ACTIVITIES IN THE CITY OF OROVILLE” ON Wednesday, January 2, 2019 AT 8:00 P.M. or as soon thereafter as possible.

INVITATION TO BE HEARD: All interested persons will be given an opportunity to comment on this item at the public hearing and at subsequent public hearings, if any, conducted related to this item. In addition, written comments may be submitted to the City Council prior to the public hearing, to the attention of City Clerk’s office, City of Oroville, 1735 Montgomery St, Oroville, California 95965. Please reference the hearing title and date of hearing in any correspondence. If you wish to challenge the above item in court, the challenge may be limited only to those issues you or someone else raised at the public hearing or in written correspondence delivered to the city at or prior to the public hearing as described in this notice.

THE FULL TEXT OF THE PROPOSED ORDINANCES ARE AVAILABLE FOR REVIEW IN THE CITY CLERKS OFFICE AT 1735 Montgomery Street, Oroville, CA. Dated: December 17, 2018 Joanna Gutierrez, Interim City Clerk

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I’ve heard the post-fire fast-paced real estate market described as distasteful. Fueled by desperate Paradise fire-victim buyers needing houses, the surrounding real estate market has exploded, and prices have blown through the roof. Complaints of price-gouging, and stories of burned buyers abound. We know real estate markets are governed by supply and demand. My old mentor, KDV, said, “Supply and demand is one thing, babe, but never underestimate the power of need versus greed.” “Two weeks before the fire,” said one Realtor, “I listed this house for $319,000, maybe a little high. I warned the seller that our market was slowing down, and that we may have to lower the price to get the job done.

We had a couple of open houses and a few showings, with no action, and the day before the fire, the seller agreed to consider lowering the price to $309,000.”

“On Friday morning, the day after the fire,” said the Realtor, “an agent brought me a full-price offer on my listing, with a letter explaining the buyer had lost their

home in the fire and were borrowing money from family to buy my listing. They had three little kids.”

The seller was sympathetic to the buyer and overjoyed to get an offer at $319,000 when he had been considering a reduction to $309,000. By Saturday, there were six offers in, the highest at $340,000. More offers were threatened. “My seller told me to stop, no more offers,” said the Realtor. “I told him we could multiple counter offer all the buyers to see how high they would go.”

The Realtor put her hand on my arm. “You know what he said? He said he wanted that first buyer to have the house, because of their heartfelt letter and their need.

He countered them at $325,000 with his word that if they signed it the house was theirs. He told me he was getting all he needed and more than he ever expected.”

The Realtor said, “You don’t find many like him.”

True, I thought. That’s one story of need versus greed that is not distasteful.

Doug Love is Sales Manager at Century 21 in Chico.

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$550,000 $527,000 $485,000 $460,000 $457,500 $442,500 $435,000 $421,591 $410,000 $410,000 $394,000

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

SQ. FT. 2528 1707 1956 1580 2081 1802 1812 1496 1890 1643 1714

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The following houses were sold in Butte County by real estate agents or private parties during the week of December 3- December 7, 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

1474 Hawthorne Ave 30 Pebblewood Pines Dr 33 Bunker Ct 6 Heartwood Ct 295 Saint Augustine Dr 5 Greg Ct 2063 Chadwick Dr 83 Oak Dr 1 Brittany Ln 32 Glenshire Ln 1705 Dayton Rd

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$384,500 $379,500 $370,000 $363,500 $359,000 $357,000 $350,000 $350,000 $350,000 $335,000 $330,000

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

SQ. FT. 1794 1350 1734 1654 1852 1653 1582 1630 1341 1472 1138

ADDRESS

TOWN

PRICE

BR/BA

SQ. FT.

1690 W 8th Ave 920 W 8th Ave 1178 Marian Ave 787 Portal Dr 832 Alan Ln 1451 Yosemite Dr 3000 Burnap Ave 1 Silkwood Way 8 Towser Rd 2225 Mariposa Ave 1195 Gossamer Ln

Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico Chico

$330,000 $330,000 $325,000 $320,000 $320,000 $319,000 $315,000 $315,000 $309,000 $299,000 $290,000

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

1757 1820 1040 1449 1568 1718 1054 1208 1373 1571 1126

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