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Priceless organ belongs in chico Those who have seen and heard Chico State’s magnificent

Centennial Organ know it is one of the finest instruments of its kind in America. They also know that, as an entirely handmade creation of the Chico community, it is utterly unique.

And they know that for the nearly 30 years of its existence, the organ has been without a true home (see “Organ failure,” Scene, Nov. 27).

That’s because, just as it was nearing completion in 1990, technicians discovered that its proposed location in Laxson Auditorium posed an asbestos safety risk.

The only feasible site, it turned out, was a backstage wing of Chico State’s Harlen Adams Theatre.

Acoustically the site was satisfactory. Professional organists have come from all over to play this remarkable instrument. But it has never been at home among the backstage ropes and screens. No amount of careful performance lighting can hide the fact that the organ has been misplaced.

Moreover, the university has known for 25 years that the organ poses its own safety risks by blocking the line of sight between the theater’s fly rail and the stage. Still, for one reason or another, efforts to find an

alternative site have been unproductive.

For some time now the National Association of Schools of Theatre has been pushing the university’s Department of Theatre and Music to mitigate the safety risks posed by the organ. Lately it has threatened to pull the department’s accreditation if it fails to come up with a mitigation plan by Feb. 1, 2020.

University administrators are adamant that there’s no place on campus to locate the organ. The only alternatives, they insist, are either to find an off-campus site or dismantle the organ and put it in storage.

The latter should be abandoned immediately.

Putting such a magnificent and unique instrument in storage would be a shameful failure on the part of not only the university, but also the community at large.

Nor should Chico State consider relocating the organ to another city. It was made by Chicoans using Chico resources, including wood from the fallen Hooker Oak, the shin bones of local cows, and spent bullet casings from the Bidwell Park gun range.

There’s no other organ in the world like the Centennial Organ. It belongs in Chico. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

corporate greed run amok Iofnotits aging, paying attention. The company knew the dangers ill-maintained equipment during critical fire f you’re not outraged by PG&E’s bad behavior, you’re

conditions, especially as its equipment caused 17 wildfires in 2017. Yet on Nov. 8, 2018, the utility failed to shut off power in eastern Butte County despite warning customers for three days.

One of its responses was to issue a red herring press release claiming to have found bullet-riddled equipment near the point of origin of the Camp Fire. Shortly thereafter, the company gave $2.5 million in severance to its CEO/president. by Months later, once the utility was Paul Arnold found responsible, it declared bankThe author, a retired ruptcy to screw the fire survivors. educator, lost his Paradise home in the PG&E indicated that fire damage camp Fire. claims could reach $30 billion, yet it proposed to set aside only $17.9 billion for fire claims. It’s just agreed to pay $11 billion to the insurance companies, leaving very little for fire survivors.

I worked for a bankrupt school district and we all took significant pay and benefit decreases. However,

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PG&E’s bankruptcy proposed $235 million in employee bonuses, $10.9 million in executive bonuses, as well as increases in salary for board members and increasing shareholder returns.

PG&E has for decades increased rates faster than inflation. But where has this money gone, as it wasn’t spent on maintenance? The answer: executive bonuses and incentives, and stockholder dividends, despite previous “bad behavior,” including infrastructure-sparked wildfires and the San Bruno gas line explosion that killed eight people.

Even with felony convictions, PG&E has operated with impunity and lack of accountability. Maybe the $10 million the company spent lobbying state officials last year explains that.

Corporate greed is killing Americans—just follow the news on opiate deaths, the pharmaceutical industry and the Purdue bankruptcy. Our bankruptcy court needs to hold PG&E financially responsible. The California Public Utilities Commission and politicians should deny the requests to pass on the costs to the company’s customers and instead restructure this monopoly. And our judicial system, including Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, needs to hold the utility criminally responsible for the damage and deaths it caused. Ω

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Traditions I can’t remember exactly when my family began buying Christmas trees from local Boy Scouts, but it became a tradition in our house many years ago after we stumbled upon the lot set up adjacent to Chico Nut Co., the primary location for the annual sale over the past couple of decades.

We’d head to that quiet spot and have hundreds of evergreens from which to choose. Then one of the scouts would help us lug the chosen conifer out to our car. My former Boy Scout husband enjoyed supporting the kids and I liked that the trees were a bargain: typically 40 bucks for a silvertip (aka red fir). My son was born after the yearly outing started. He’s too young to appreciate the custom—he just loves having a tree in the house, a sure sign new toys are en route.

Over the years, we’ve watched opening day grow into an event, a tradition for hundreds of other Chico families. Indeed, a tree from Troop 31 is sought after. That was clear last Sunday (Dec. 1), the first day of sales. Despite inclement weather, folks lined up outside to have their pick and lined right back up inside to pay once they’d chosen just the right evergreen.

Though the lot was crowded with bundled-up people sizing up the offerings, excited to get home to decorate and maybe sip on some eggnog, the organized chaos wasn’t unbearable. I had to turn around only a couple of times to smile and let the oblivious gentleman behind me know he was pushing some boundaries. He’d step forward with his tree and I’d subsequently get the soft end of a branch poked into my backside.

Another change: The price is up a whopping 20 bucks since the last year we bought from the youth organization, likely because of a nationwide shortage largely blamed on reduced planting during the Great Recession. That’s still relatively inexpensive for a silvertip, especially considering the price tag covers all trees irrespective of height. For comparison, the estimated average price for 2019 is $81, according to the National Christmas Tree Association, a trade group.

I’d say supporting a good cause is worth the splurge.

SPeAking oF TrADiTion Each year, in this space, I make a pitch to readers to help brighten the holidays for kids at the Esplanade House, a nonprofit transitional housing program. To participate in the organization’s annual gift-giving program, visit our office at Second and Flume streets to sign up.

You’ll choose from several tags bearing the age, gender and clothing size of a child. Each gives suggestions on what to purchase, from practical gifts, such as shoes, to toys big and small. It’s been a difficult year post-Camp Fire, so you can bet that unwrapping something special means a whole heck of a lot to local kids, especially those who may have been displaced by the disaster.

Every year, I’m blown away by the generosity. The CN&R’s readers have never let the kids down. But this year, the turnaround is particularly tight, so please hurry in. The presents are due back next Thursday (Dec. 12), so this is the only reminder you’ll see from yours truly. Thanks, in advance.

Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R

LETTERS

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District discussions Re “About-face” (Newslines,

by Ashiah Scharaga, Nov. 14) and “Housing and cannabis” (Newslines, by Ashiah Scharaga, Nov. 21): I must note my extreme disappointment in the path the city has chosen in regard to district elections. Despite the gross violations of the civil rights to our fellow community members and the immense financial cost to the city, the council seems dead set to do less than the bare minimum to fix the problem.

As your articles note, Councilwoman Ann Schwab’s questions focused on the incumbency of current council members and Councilman Karl Ory noted the current plan would prevent a large portion of the city from voting in 2020, potentially including the protected classes excluded from our current system. These on-the-record comments show the current plan will not meet the requirements of the California

Voting Rights Act. Further, even the most cursory research into previous cases like ours reveals that the current legal representation has no real understanding of the issue and thus has given flawed advice on the actual options going forward.

Chaz Kelley Chico

Native knowledge Re “Touch the sky” (Guest comment, by Janet E. Rechtman, Nov. 28): Indigenous people were the first to reflect on “touching the sky,” while weaving harmony and “open mutuality” with nature. Yet many longtime Butte County residents, let alone newcomers, have no knowledge of the history and ecological wisdom Mechoopda tribal members have nurtured generation to generation.

Hallelujah: The omnibus Farm Bill extends the maximum duration of federal land stewardship contracts up to 20 years

in areas where the majority of federal lands are in Fire Regime Groups I (much of Butte County), II and III. Thank goodness for the wisdom of the Mechoopda Tribe and its partners, including the Butte County Fire Safe Council, for their ongoing work on a 20-year stewardship contract focusing Traditional Ecological Knowledge in the wildland-urban interface. Stewarding the land using traditional knowledge will be a much-needed return to native Mechoopda roots. Contact them at tekstewardship@gmail.com.

Bill Mash Chico

Retort time Re “Oh, cynicism” (Letters, by Patrick Spielman, Nov. 28): In his letter, Patrick Spielman accuses me of disparaging Bernie Sanders. I invite Mr. Spielman to go back and read my letter dated Nov. 14 and tell me what part of LETTERS c o n t i n u e d

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LETTERS c o n t i n u e d f r o m pa g e 5 being an independent, and being four years older and unhealthy, is not true about Sanders.

Bernie recently had a heart attack for cornbread and buttermilk’s sakes. That’s unhealthy. As far as referring to the corrupt individual holding the White House hostage as a dictator, Spielman will get no apology from me for that. Any arrogant boss insisting on ultimate power—that will have his subordinates go around the table and praise him—is worse than a dictator. As far as I’m concerned, it gets no more telling than that when “strongman” Trump demands such praise from his lackey cabinet members.

Bottom line, it’s downright sickening.

Trump would love nothing more than to be a dictator.

Furthermore, Sanders and Warren are falling in the polls even in white Iowa. And as far as a remedy for losing to the likes of Trump, as I suggested in 2016, keep the independents off the Democratic ticket.

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On Nov. 25, the Bidwell Park and Playground Commission passed (on a 4-to-1 vote, with two absent) a request that the city of Chico fund five new 24-hour portable toilets. This may die at the council level, but it was a rare night, regardless. I can’t count many nights where the homeless “won.”

I’m grateful to Commissioner Scott Grist for leading the way.

Also, to Charles Withuhn for joining me in speaking from the floor.

Years of advocating for this one simple thing, justice on the issue of 24-hour access to toilets, has left little cause for optimism. In an environment such as this, we too often see one marginalized, under-supported group deprived of their human rights (like access to toilets) and civil liberties—on the way to the imposition of authoritarian measures, more and more broadly.

Call me an alarmist, but in an era of gross wealth inequality, the fate of our democratic culture and institutions hangs in the balance.

As we go down this rabbit hole, we either allow the demonization,

criminalization, deprivation and consolidation of the poorest people, or we resist, every way we can.

people they can target—namely transgender people, folks without homes, and people who use drugs.

Bryce Goldstein Chico

Patrick Newman Chico

Ban pot here, please

‘Food for thought’ Inside the smoke-filled confines of CN&R’s editorial board, where you gather to achieve a consensus to select a Democrat challenger to DJT, therein one can hear rumblings of dissension. Ultimately, a consensus is not achievable: Joe Biden is too stodgy, wealthy and old; Bernie is too wealthy, liberal and old; Warren is too “kindergarten school” looking; Mayor Pete is, well, Mayor Pete; Kamala is of a darker pigment, and is a liberal Californian. Slim pickings one would surmise.

Therefore, endorse the incumbent, Donald Trump! It would ensure another term of bashing the guy who works for free, and has a glowing record of creating the strongest economy in more than 50 years, and will keep making America great! Furthermore, your numerous Never Trumpers can continue to submit silky letters screaming their distaste for DJT 45. It’s food for thought, don’t you think?

Bill Collins Yuba City

Undercover fascists Fascism disguises itself well in our community. It hides behind words like safety and freedom, appealing to our most basic needs. Who could argue against wanting a safe community? Listen carefully and read the fine print. You’ll find that fascists can achieve freedom only at the expense of others.

The Proud Boys, a violent white supremacist organization, recently came to Chico for a rally that used warm and fuzzy buzzwords, including “love” and “freedom.” Local leaders took part in the event. You won’t see our local fascists wearing swastikas or white robes, at least not in public.

They wear suits and uniforms.

They wear jeans. They even wear Hawaiian shirts. Most pretend to love LGBTQ folks and people of color. There are enough other

The Chico City Council needs to adopt an ordinance on not allowing people to smoke weed at bus stops. Enough is enough—clean it up. Chico Police Department needs to do its part and put a stop to it, too.

under their holiday tree.

Here is where you can help. To make these bikes look brand new, we can use parts like tires, grips and chains. If it would be easier, you could make a monetary donation. Checks can be made out to Citrus Elementary. It doesn’t have to be a large donation—any amount would be great.

Thank you, in advance, for your generosity. Your donation will help some lucky boy or girl find a bicycle under their holiday three.

Deneigh Morgan Chico

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Pass these bills It is time for Congress to pass a bill that will lower drug prices that will make drugs more affordable for all Americans. Both houses have bills pending that could make that happen. Too many Americans, especially senior citizens, have to make a choice between muchneeded prescriptions and food on the table. The current situation is unacceptable.

Richard Manske Magalia

As an older American, I know that ever-rising costs for life-saving and life-enhancing medications are endangering older Americans. And younger folk often have to choose between medicines and putting food on the table as well.

This is a travesty, especially when there are bipartisan proposals in Congress right now, today, that could help fix this. Now is the time for our representatives to enact legislation to help us.

Now is the time for members of Congress to vote yes on bills that lower drug prices.

Laurie McBride Magalia

Help fund bike giveaway I’m writing to you about our class’ bicycle project and the Boys & Girls Club holiday bicycle giveaway. In the next few weeks, our class—with the help of our teacher, Mr. Bransky—will take older, used, donated bikes and fix them up to make them look brand new.

Once the bikes are repainted and polished, the Boys & Girls Club will give them to children who wouldn’t normally get a bicycle

Well, it seems you now must have a willingness to be tracked, a smartphone and a credit card to go to the movies. I’m talking about a new reserved-seating system that you must use to purchase a ticket.

It’s a people-unfriendly system that does not take into account the needs of the elderly and disabled, but does encourage you to buy your ticket in advance over the internet.

This has been building for a while—since they stopped printing their listings, started a membersonly club and a game app to further track their customers (brag to your friends!). Now they are not even bothering to print legible listings for the ticket booth. Additionally, the lights they put in so you can see your seat number ruin the movie experience and shine into the corners of your eyes. People will start coming in at the last minute so they don’t have to watch those ads.

Allowing a company a monopoly in your community means that you will trust them to serve that community, and at the old location Cinemark did. I remember one woman’s grateful letter to the editor explaining how their low-cost matinees helped her through a loss.

Now they are getting bossy.

Robert Andersen Chico

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STREETALK

What’s your favorite album?

Asked at La Salles JP Roxx teacher/musician

My favorite, and probably most underrated, album ever is Montrose by the band Montrose. It’s got “Rock Candy,” “Bad Motor Scooter,” and those aren’t even the best songs on the album. Great, great rock album from start to finish.

Sarah Lane customer service

Blonde by Frank Ocean. It [had been] so long since he put out any music and every song was curated perfectly.

Everything flows together beautifully and he is an amazing, creative genius.

Haley Ramos grad student

Joanne by Lady Gaga because she’s been an icon of my generation for a really long time. She stripped herself down and let fans see who she was as a person with her family background. Anyone going through anything can relate to her music.

Nicolette Gamache jewelry designer

Songs in the Key of Life by Stevie Wonder. The very first favorite song I had when I was 7 was “Isn’t She Lovely” from that album. Not only is that still one of my favorite songs over 40 years later, but every song on that album is great.

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NEWSLINES DOWNSTROKE DISTRICT ELECTIONS FOR OROVILLE

The city of Oroville intends to transition from at-large to district elections for City Council members beginning next year. The move, which comes after the city received a claim under the California Voting Rights Act (CVRA) from the law firm Shenkman & Hughes, follows a similar action taken by the city of Chico and is expected to be in place for the November 2020 election.

The City Council on Tuesday (Dec. 3) adopted a resolution of intent to move toward district elections that further directs staff to work with the consulting firm Q2 Data & Research LLC to prepare district boundaries.

The firm’s services will cost about $25,000.

District elections will affect only council member positions, City Administrator Bill LaGrone said. At-large voting will remain in place for the mayoral post.

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DEATH ON THE STREET

A homeless woman was found dead in a Chico waterway last week, and police say her cause of death is under investigation.

Chico police officers and firefighters responded at about 2:20 p.m. Friday (Nov. 29) to a report of a body in Lindo Channel near Chico Nut Co. on The Esplanade, police said.

The deceased woman—whose name and age had not yet been released as of Wednesday (Dec. 4)—was found in an area where homeless encampments are common.

There were no signs of foul play, police said, and an autopsy will be conducted to determine the woman’s cause of death.

Despite rumors, Paradise residents can still live in RVs without hookups, but a permit is now required

Chergarage for the past seven months. She, boyfriend and her 18-year-old godson

inda Larimer has been living in a friend’s

SUSPECTED CANADIAN KILLER CAPTURED

Local and federal law enforcement officers on Sunday (Dec. 1) captured a Canadian man wanted for murder in British Columbia during a raid south of Oroville.

Investigators learned the suspect, 28-year-old Brandon Teixeira (pictured), had been staying at a home on the 100 block of Weedy Way. According to the Butte County Sheriff’s Office, Teixeira tried escaping in a car, ramming an armored vehicle in the process. He ultimately was arrested with the help of a police dog.

The U.S. Marshals Service took him into custody, launching extradition proceedings, BCSO said.

Canadian authorities have charged Teixeira with firstdegree murder in the 2017 shooting death of Nicholas Khabra, according to court documents. The documents suggest the shooting may have been an act of revenge.

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were supposed to get into housing through the Federal Emergency Management Agency, by but a series of setbacks Meredith J. left them without their Cooper own roof, Larimer said. m ere d i t h c @ They’ve been gifted n ew srev i ew. c o m an RV and have been waiting for hazardous trees to be removed from their friend’s property before they can live in it. They were hoping to purchase an empty lot in Paradise on which to place it, but then they heard rumors that the urgency ordinance allowing camping without power and water hookups expired last month and they started looking for alternatives.

“I was under the impression you had to pay for permits for camping, water, septic, power, all of it at once,” she said. “I lost everything, even my job, in the Camp Fire.

We don’t have that kind of money to pay for everything at once.”

Like many others in similar situations, Larimer had been misinformed. Social

media has been abuzz with the same complaints, and Action News Now reported, on Nov. 22, that “The Town of Paradise will be sending out letters to property owners, letting them know that dry camping has ended, and how to proceed. Residents must get permits and hook up to electricity, water, and septic. Those who are out of compliance will face administrative fees.”

But that’s not the case.

“It’s not that you can’t dry camp, you just need a permit,” explained Susan Hartman, director of community development for the town of Paradise. “If people want to tie into a septic system, [Paradise Irrigation District] or PG&E, then they need to have a temporary use permit in place for that.”

An urgency ordinance, Hartman said, was passed in May and allowed people to set up temporary housing on their properties, once cleared of debris, for 180 days without any permits. The provision for unpermitted camping expired Nov. 22.

“It was never intended to be a long-term solution for people,” said Paradise Mayor Jody Jones. “People can still stay on their property while they’re rebuilding in their

RVs; they just need a permit from the town and they need to be able to tie in to their septic system.”

The main reason for this, Hartman explained, is so the town knows where people are living. Police and fire officials, for instance, need to be aware of people’s locations in the case of an emergency.

“You’ll need a site plan showing where the RV is located—because the urgency ordinance does require setbacks,” she said. “We’ll check on the locations—are they on roads with no street signs or where the address isn’t visible? The goal is to be coordinating with police and fire with updated lists so they know where these RVs are located.”

Thus far, the town has issued 266 temporary use permits for RVs. Many of those were people who wanted to hook in to power, water and septic while rebuilding, Hartman said. Over the past month, code enforcement officers canvassed the town to identify unpermitted temporary dwellings; they located about 500. They were all sent letters this week alerting them to the fact they need to apply for a permit by Dec. 31, Hartman said. The permit costs $174.97.

Folks in Paradise must apply for a temporary use permit to continue camping without hookups on their properties. The application will be available on makeitparadise.com by week’s end.

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Although dry camping still will be

allowed—until Dec. 31, 2020, with a permit—in Paradise, some folks may still find themselves in a difficult spot because their accommodations aren’t adequate, said Rick Trent, code enforcement officer for the town. RVs must be “self-contained,” meaning they must have tanks for sewage and water.

In surveying the properties where people are camping, he said, he noted some people are living in tents; others in tent trailers. Those will not be allowed going forward.

Given the fact that the weather is getting cold, Jones said, she’d like to see everyone with a roof over their heads and running water and electricity. Without those basics, “it’s not a good, healthy situation for anybody to be in,” she said.

This week, after the CN&R’s deadline, she said town officials were planning to meet with managers of local mobile home parks to assess their progress and determine their ability to accommodate some of those folks.

“We’re trying to find alternative places for people to go if they’re not able to put hookups on their own properties,” she said.

County residents—those in unincorpo-

rated Magalia, Concow and other burned areas—are in a different boat. The urgency ordinance approved by the Board of Supervisors, which is set to expire on Dec. 31, allows for dry camping without a permit and is expected to be extended, according to Casey Hatcher, deputy administrative officer. It will be on the board’s Dec. 17 agenda.

The county’s ordinance differs from the town of Paradise’s, however, in that it does not include an option for permitted dry camping, Hatcher said. But staff recognizes that the rebuilding process is a lengthy one and many people are still awaiting things like tree removals, insurance claims and septic repairs. The county has a disaster case management program, but it has a waiting list.

“The reality is we lost 14,000 living units,” she said. “There’s not been a loss of housing stock like that in a disaster in the state of California. While people have found temporary places to live, not everyone can [find permanent housing right now] or has resources to make that happen. We’re doing our best to connect people with resources … where we can.”Ω

Broader horizons Local high-schooler shares experiences overseas as a way to better understand foreign cultures A year ago, Harnoor Mann was teaching English to

refugee children in Malaysia. It was an experience that changed his life.

“It was unlike anything I’d done,” the Pleasant Valley High School junior said during a recent interview. “Teaching a language to kids where they didn’t speak Malay or English and I didn’t speak Burmese … it was hard. We had to find creative ways to communicate, but once I finally did and hearing about their lives and how they had to flee was very interesting and very eye-opening.”

Mann returned to the States in August after spending 11 months in Malaysia as part of the U.S. State Department’s Kennedy-Lugar Youth Exchange and Study (YES) Abroad program.

As Chico’s first recipient of the scholarship, his goal now is to share his experiences in hopes of drumming up more interest from students in the North State.

Above all else, what Mann came back with was a better understanding of people in another part of the world. His trip also helped to break down certain stereotypes, he told the CN&R. “People think they know what the U.S. is and what we’re all about, but we’re a very multinational country,” Mann said. “I’m Indian—my parents were born in India—and when they expect an exchange student, they expect like a tall blond dude from somewhere in the Midwest or something. So when they see me, they realize the first thing they thought about the U.S. was not right.”

SIFT ER Builders at risk Construction workers are more likely to use cocaine and opioids than workers in other professions, according to a summary of a recent New York University study by Science Daily. Analyzing a decade of data from the National Survey on Drug Use and Health, researchers found that, compared with all other professions scrutinized, construction workers had the highest prevalence of misusing prescription opioids (3.4 percent vs.

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YES was launched in 2002, a year after the 9/11 terrorist attacks, by Sens. Ted Kennedy and Richard Lugar, as a way to facilitate cultural exchange between Muslim countries and the U.S. by sending American youths to live with host families, attend host country high schools and interact with other students while there. The idea being if people from different cultures get to know each other, it can help dispel feelings of animosity and bridge cultural gaps.

“If you know each other on a personal level, you’re not likely to go to war and kill someone just because they’re from a foreign country,” explained Carol McCaulley, a retired high school teacher from Yuba City, and a volunteer with the American Field Service, which administers some of the Kennedy-Lugar scholarships for the State Department. “You realize, we have some of

the hazards of the job—falls, overexertion and injuries from repetitive, strenuous work—can lead to self-medication. Recent studies in Ohio and Massachusetts found that construction workers were six to seven times more likely to die from an opioid overdose than other workers. More prevention and harm-reduction programs are needed to address the issue, the researchers found.

Harnoor Mann, a Pleasant Valley High junior, spent last year in Malaysia as part of a U.S. State Department-funded study abroad program. For more info, go to yes-abroad.org.

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the same goals and same outlook on life in terms of being comfortable and peaceful, and having a family. It develops understanding on a very personal level,” McCaulley said.

McCaulley first met Mann and his family after he was awarded the scholarship.

She helped him find the right host home in Malaysia, one of the 16 countries YES currently sends exchange students.

The program is extremely competitive, accepting only 65 students from across the United States and covering all expenses to live abroad 11 months in countries with a majority population identifying as Muslim.

Mann, she says, “was the perfect candidate” for the program, and since returning from Malaysia, he has been giving presentations at his high school and others in Chico.

With McCaulley’s help, he’s also been to River Valley High School in Yuba City and plans to go as far as Sacramento and Reno, to talk about his time abroad and get the word out about the program.

Mann was selected to serve as a “youth ambassador” in Johor Bahru, a city near Malaysia’s southern border with a population of around 500,000 situated not far from Singapore.

He had listed being interested in teaching English overseas as one of his goals, and got the opportunity to do so with a group of Burmese refugee children, one of the more rewarding, but challenging experiences of his life.

“I know I was one of the first kids from Northern California to have gone on this program, and so I want more kids to know about the opportunity,” he said.

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Meghan Kavenaugh left the City

Council meeting on Tuesday night (Dec. 3) trying to stay composed, but it was difficult—the panel had made a decision that she told the CN&R will jeopardize the future of her family-owned business, A&M Vapes.

That night, the council voted to ban the sale of flavored tobacco products in Chico, including vaping cartridges and menthol cigarettes, directing the City Attorney’s Office to bring back an ordinance for consideration. Kavenaugh, whose shop on Mangrove Avenue makes its own flavored juices for use in cartridges, estimated the council’s decision will take more than 90 percent of her products off the shelves.

“We’re adults. You can go to the store and get whipped cream vodka … but they’re not banning that,” she told the CN&R. “I won’t be able to support my family anymore.”

The proposed prohibition was the most contentious item of the night, drawing more than 20 speakers, with a slim majority in favor of a ban. Proponents included Butte County Public Health experts and Chico educators, who cited the allure of flavored products and statistics of skyrocketing vaping rates among kids.

Kavenaugh spoke alongside several other smoke shop owners. They argued that they’ve worked hard to prevent the products from reaching kids and shared stories of customers they have helped quit using cigarettes.

But not all local smoke shops are following the law, Ellen Michels, Public Health’s Tobacco Program project director, told the council.

The department discovered 20 percent of shops citywide and 38 percent near Chico State sold to minors during a 2018 investigation (the underage decoy buyers typically asked for flavored cigarillos or Camel Crush cigarettes).

In addition, Megan Armstrong, a Public Health education specialist, cited recently released statistics from

the 2019 National Youth Tobacco Survey, released by the Food and Drug Administration and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, indicating that more than a quarter of high school students (27.5 percent) and 10.5 percent of middle-schoolers are now vaping.

Studies have shown that kids start with flavored tobacco products, Armstrong said, and kids who vape are more likely to start smoking cigarettes. According to the survey, e-cigarettes with nicotine can harm brain development, and e-cigarette aerosol can expose smokers to substances that can harm the lungs, such as heavy metals.

Other advocates for the ban included those who wanted to see menthol smoking rates drop because they disproportionately affect certain populations, such as AfricanAmericans and the LGBTQ community. Chicoan Vince Haynie told the panel he grew up in Chicago and Compton, where tobacco companies pushed the flavored cigarettes.

“I was a victim of mentholflavored tobacco products from the age of 14 till I was 45 years old, and I [tried to] quit a million times,” he said.

Meghan Kavenaugh, owner of A&M Vapes, says the City Council’s decision to ban flavored tobacco products will jeopardize her familyowned business.

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Others, like Tim Lynch, argued that education and enforcement should be the council’s priority. “It is not your responsibility to be the morality police of the citizens of your town,” he said.

Councilman Scott Huber said he understands changing product availability can impact business, but noted that non-flavored products can still be sold. “What could be more important than the safety of our children?” he asked. “To me it’s not so much about people trying to quit as it is about trying to ensure people never start.”

Councilman Sean Morgan argued that while he supported the ban, he would vote against it because it appeared hypocritical, given the city’s move to legalize marijuana shops. He then suggested that the council give vape shops the first crack at marijuana business in Chico because of how this ban would impact them.

“If we don’t want to appear to be complete hypocrites, wouldn’t

we just take our marijuana ordinance and permitting and apply it to flavored tobacco?” he said.

“Marijuana? OK. Flavored tobacco?

Not. It’s nuts.”

Ultimately, the vote fell along party lines, with Morgan and Councilwoman Kasey Reynolds against. The council also voted to create a tobacco retail licensing program, which will charge businesses a fee to operate, reserving funds for enforcement.

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Accessibility and maintenance in Upper Park have been perennial topics for the better part of the last decade. The city cannot afford to maintain the park, said Erik Gustafson, Public Works director of operations and maintenance, and the road has continued to degrade because of the park’s popularity (the unpaved section after the Diversion Dam gate has long been closed to cars). The city recently received about $700,000 from the State Water Resources Control Board to reconstruct 4.4 miles of the roadway, from Horseshoe Lake to the end of Upper Park Road, along with trail repairs and realignment and stormwater diversion.

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HEALTHLINES Sous chef Katie Woody and her son, Oliver.

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A place to pump New law supports nursing mothers in the workplace by

Brian Krans

Khadfrom birth to latch onto her breast, so she little choice but to pump her milk and atie Woody’s firstborn, Oliver, struggled

feed it to him from a bottle.

After a three-month maternity leave, Woody returned to her job as a sous-chef for a meal delivery service in Los Angeles, expecting to have access to the sole office in the rented building to pump her breast milk— an agreement she had made with the building manager. But a male shift supervisor who occupied the office would not let her use it.

Instead, she pumped in her car, covering the windows as best she could. “But the stress of the situation was too much,” she said, so she stopped giving her son breast milk a few months after her return to work. That upset her, because Oliver, now 2, had health problems, and she wanted to give him the best nutrition possible.

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The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends children be exclusively breastfed for the first six months of their lives. But, as in Woody’s case, many mothers return to work well before that and often have trouble finding a suitable place to pump and store their breast milk.

A law signed last month by Gov. Gavin Newsom, which takes effect Jan. 1, seeks to rectify that problem. It requires that working mothers be given a more dignified space to pump and proper equipment for storing the milk.

Authored by Sen. Scott Wiener (D-San Francisco), Senate Bill 142 requires employers to provide mothers a secure and private space close to their workstation with a chair and a table or shelf to hold their pumping equipment, as well as access to electricity. Running water and a refrigerator or cooler for their milk must be located close to their workstations.

“Too many new mothers are unable to express milk at work or are forced to do so in a restroom or other unsuitable space,” Wiener

said in a statement. The lack of a proper lactation space, research shows, is particularly pronounced among lower-income workers and women of color.

The new law requires employers to notify

employees of their right to pump their breast milk at work, including the time and space

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provided for it—and it mandates that any violations of those rights be communicated to the California Labor Commissioner’s Office.

The Affordable Care Act requires employers across the U.S. to give women time and a space—other than a bathroom—to pump their breast milk. But it does not mandate specifics.

SB 142 is not Wiener’s first attempt to beef up workplace lactation requirements in California. Last year, he authored a similar bill, but then-Gov. Jerry Brown vetoed it.

Brown did sign Assembly Bill 1976, which lacked the specific requirements contained in Wiener’s bill.

In 2017, San Francisco passed a first-inthe-nation ordinance on workplace lactation, to which SB 142 bears a close resemblance.

Arissa Palmer, executive director of Breastfeed LA—one of many breastfeeding rights groups that supported the new state law—said it provides “minimum standards” for safe and clean lactation spaces across California. That’s important, she said, because employers around the state have varying ideas about what such spaces should look like.

Failure to conform to the new specifications will open employers to fines and further liability, Palmer said, adding: “The law that protects a woman from retaliation is extremely important.”

On a recent Friday, Palmer said, she fielded complaints from women who had been harassed about their pumping breaks. One was fired, and another quit her job.

On the other hand, Palmer said, many employers are empathetic and want to accommodate new mothers—but limited space can make it hard for small businesses operating on thin margins to do so.

The new law exempts businesses with fewer than 50 employees that can prove accommodating lactating mothers would create an undue hardship.

One solution for employers with limited space is free-standing, portable lactation rooms. Palmer cited the case of a fieldworker whose employers provided her a pod, with portable electricity, manufactured by Mamava, a Burlington, Vt., company that designs lactation spaces for airports and workplaces.

Sascha Mayer, Mamava’s CEO, said she came up with the idea for her company while working as an executive in a design studio.

She said she was able to have privacy simply by closing the door to her office, “but so many women I’ve met don’t have that privilege.”

Lactation laws vary around the country, but even with minimum federal standards, Mayer said, “millions of employers are probably out of compliance.”

Opponents of the new California law— including statewide associations representing

Data from the California Department

of Public Health shows a large disparity in access to breastfeeding support among California’s working mothers, breaking down along racial, ethnic and economic lines.

Wealthier white women reported receiving the most lactation support from their employers, while black and Latina mothers reported the least support. And women at or below the poverty line were far less likely than others to work for employers who accommodated their

It was produced by Kaiser Health News, which publishes california Healthline, an editorially independent service of the california Health care Foundation.

lactation needs.

Still, the CFH reports that since 2011 the percentage of all women who reported receiving workplace breastfeeding support increased from just over half to two-thirds.

Carissa Rosenthal, 32, recently returned to her job in public relations after giving birth to a baby boy 3 1/2 months ago.

Her co-working office in San Diego has a “mothers’ lounge” with a door that locks, a comfortable chair, a shelf, a lamp, a fridge and a sink down the hall in the kitchen, she said.

“It’s definitely a perk and a selling point for a shared office,” Rosenthal said over the phone while pumping in the room one recent Thursday afternoon. “I definitely feel it’s an important thing for it to be comfortable, and not just stuffed into a janitor’s closet.”

Woody, who is pregnant again, said she wasn’t aware of the new requirements under SB 142, but the potential lactation accommodations in her new workplace seem a little better than at the last one.

“There’s a changing room, so I’ll probably be able to pump in there,” she said. □

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retailers, restaurants and health care providers—argued before its passage that it would be “quite burdensome for employers” and expose them to “potential litigation traps.”

They said AB 1976 already had required costly changes regarding lactation.

Proponents of the new law cite research from the U.S. Breastfeeding Committee showing that more than half of mothers return to the workforce before their children are 1 year old. In California, half of mothers work during pregnancy, and most of them say they plan to return to work while they are still breastfeeding, according to the state’s Center for Family Health (CFH).

And barriers at work, the proponents say, can cause those women to stop breastfeeding before their child is 6 months old.

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GREEN GREENWAYS A firefighter sprays water on a bush fire in a suburban area of Knox City in Melbourne, Australia.

Tips from Down Under When it comes to wildfires, should California be more like Australia?

by

Julie Cart

Aworse to its wildfire crisis, officials could do than look to Australia, firefighting’s s California casts about for new approaches

acknowledged superstar.

That fire-prone country has turned disaster into a laboratory. While not perfect, Australia has studied fire extensively and crafted policies intended to reduce fatalities and make homes safer. The country also explicitly shares fire chores with homeowners, who are expected to help or get out of the way.

The two locales have some key things in common: a similar climate, many of the same plants and trees strewn across oftenarid landscapes—and residents bedeviled by wildfires that are worsening as climate change resets seasonal norms. A large swath of Australia has been plagued by brutal heat and withering drought; wildfires there, as here, rage for much of the year in 80 percent of the country.

California leads in at least one way: with the depth of its “toolbox,” the machines and equipment it employs during fires. Australia can’t come close to the squadron of helicopters, large tankers and other aircraft that California dedicates to firefighting. Not even the U.S. Forest Service has anything like it.

Other differences: Nearly 60 percent

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of California’s forests are managed by the U.S. government. Australia has neither vast government land ownership nor a federal fire service. And Australia’s owner-savinghis-property approach may not work well in areas of California dotted with seldomvisited vacation homes.

But California might find lessons in several key Australian policies, particularly the principle of shared responsibility that underpins them.

Australia’s view is that government and citizens should work together to keep people safe and homes and property protected. The country has an extensive network of volunteer fire brigades, and not just in rural areas.

The service that covers Sydney is staffed by 70,000 volunteers, making it the world’s largest volunteer fire agency. These cadres work alongside paid professionals in a cooperative culture and with an intimate understanding of fire.

The system fosters self-reliance and, critically, provides the tools for homeowners to protect themselves and their property when expecting firefighters’ help is not realistic.

Advice to the public pulls no punches. A government statement about fires that have been raging near Sydney recently has a bru-

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tal honesty that for U.S. agencies would be unthinkable: “There are simply not enough fire trucks for every house. If you call for help, you may not get it.”

Australian officials were confident that trained amateurs could withstand what “normal” fires could throw at them until a horrific series of blazes on a single day in 2009 that left 173 dead. The event, known as Black Saturday, shook the nation and its fire professionals, who realized that wildly unpredictable blazes had redefined the norm.

“Even very well-prepared people died in that fire—the wind blew doors open, broke windows, you could hardly stand up outside,” said Justin Leonard, Australia’s leading wildfire researcher at the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the national research institution. In the chaos, people panicked despite their training.

When an issue of surpassing public importance

occurs, Australian officials convene a Royal Commission to investigate. The Black Saturday fires led to a commission report that examined the causes of wildfires “of a scale and ferocity that tested human endurance.” That pivotal event brought changes in fire policy the next year, when officials tweaked perhaps the best-known feature of Australia’s approach to wildfire: a shelterin-place option, which teaches residents to either learn to protect themselves and their homes from fire or leave well before the

threat becomes acute.

California has no such commission, although authorities here are examining decisions, including errors, made during the fires that killed about 100 people in 2018, hoping to improve warnings and evacuations.

Australians are drilled to pay attention during extreme fire weather and, like Californians, to heed evacuation calls. But officials also train residents extensively to fireproof their homes and educate them about what to expect and what to do if they choose to stay put as flames advance.

Each of Australia’s eight states operates independent fire services, which conduct training at a community level. Across the country, well-presented information is available online and in television and radio announcements.

For volunteers, training is constant, and they in turn help prepare neighbors.

Such training falls to local authorities in California, and stops well short of preparing homeowners to fight fires.

State officials are aware of Australia’s policy, but “we haven’t discussed it in depth,” said Scott McLean, spokesman for the state firefighting agency, Cal Fire. He said California firefighters may direct homeowners to shelter in place when evacuating is too dangerous. As an alternative, in last year’s Camp Fire, crews established refuge areas in parking lots and other large open spaces.

The preparation fostered by Australia’s training can help curtail panic, reduce deaths and contain property damage. But the stayand-defend choice has become riskier as the nation’s fires have become more frequent and more dangerous, just as they have in California.

After Black Saturday, the Aussies devised a new “catastrophic” threat level, which has been applied to parts of the country in the recent fires. When in place, it means homes cannot be safely defended and all homeowners are warned to leave endangered areas.

Fire officials in California may already be taking a page from Down Under, shifting to a shared-responsibility message. They are increasingly talking about residents in fireprone areas as “partners.” Homeowners need to take a greater role in helping themselves, they are beginning to say. Fire officials are even starting to echo their Australian counterparts, admitting that California’s wildfire problem is so acute that the people in the red trucks aren’t going to save everyone.

“It’s about responsibility,” McLean said.

“Property owners need to understand they are responsible for defensible space, and the public needs to heed advice and evacuate.” Ω

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Sweets salesman

A week of goodbyes

In the business world, Keith Bussey is known as a fixer; he dives in to improve the conditions of an operation, to leave it better than it was before.

After working as administrative lead for Chico’s Department of Veterans Affairs outpatient clinic for 3 1/2 years, making changes to help the operation, Bussey felt like his job was done. Looking for a new endeavor that would allow him to stay in Chico, he and his wife, Lara, along with friends Kiran Singh and Vikram Reddy, discovered Nothing Bundt Cakes, a franchise bakery that exclusively sells deliciously moist bundt cakes. Convinced the store would be a great fit for Chico, the four new business partners flew to Addison, Texas, to meet for an interview at Nothing Bundt Cakes headquarters. After being approved, they started the build-out in September, and opened their doors to customers on Nov. 20.

For something sweet, visit nothingbundtcakes. com or stop by the shop, located at 2061 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway.

Can you give me a brief history of the franchise?

It started in 1997. Two good friends, Dena Tripp and Debbie Shwetz, joined baking forces—one bringing her bundt cake recipe and the other providing the cream cheese frosting. They opened the first shop in Las Vegas, and now there are about 315 locations around the country.

When you were looking for new business opportunities, what made you want to stay in Chico?

It felt like the right decision for our family. It offered us stability. When my wife’s father was diagnosed with a terminal illness, we moved out here from Philadelphia, because we just felt like we needed to be closer to her mom. We had moved a couple times within a short period of time and it felt right to stay somewhere. My wife thought Chico would be the best fit.

When is the grand opening of the Chico location?

Jan. 10, and 20 percent of sales from that day will be donated to Chico Unified School District, through the North Valley Community Foundation.

On Jan. 11, our first 50 guests will receive free Bundtlets for a year.

What types/flavors of cakes do you have?

We have the bite-sized Bundtinis, the miniature Bundlets, the 8-inch bundt cakes and 10-inch bundt cakes, plus tiered cakes. There are nine flavors listed on our menu, but we also have a seasonal feature flavor and usually a gluten-free option. Some of our most popular flavors are chocolate chocolate chip, lemon, red velvet and white raspberry. In addition to the bakers, the managers are taught how to bake the cakes, so I now know how to bake and frost all of these.

What is it that makes them so moist?

[Laughs.] That’s a secret. But there is a process that seals in the moisture. You could get a cake here in Chico and then you could go to Worcester, Mass., and taste the same recipe, the same cake.

Do you have a favorite flavor?

Right now it’s lemon, but it changes.

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Meredith J. Cooper meredithc@newsreview.com

The first time I visited the Bamford Family Farms tasting room on Myers Street in downtown Oroville was during a rainy First Friday event. That’s when downtown businesses rally around a theme and invite participants into their shops and restaurants and galleries for refreshments and to show off their stuff. The young woman behind the counter was memorably friendly, happy to offer not only tastes of the Bamford line of flavored olive oils and balsamic vinegars, but also recipe tips.

I walked out that day with a small bottle of blood orange olive oil and traditional balsamic. With dinner party plans that night, I wowed my friends with a simple scoop of French vanilla ice cream topped with a drizzle of both. So good!

The Bamfords—three generations of them on the farm—also run a cattle ranch, with pasture-raised beef it sells out of a freezer at the store.

I’m sorry to say this story doesn’t have a happy ending. Last week, via Facebook, Bamford Family Farms announced it’s shuttering its operations effective immediately. While certainly not the first business to fall victim to the Camp Fire, it is the first I’ve heard of to go under because the Miocene Canal is now dry. PG&E, which owns the canal, won’t fix the portion that burned, so dozens—more, probably—of ranchers and orchardists are struggling.

Stop by the tasting room at 1442 Myers St., where all the goodies are on sale.

Last year alone, the Bamfords took home eight gold and silver awards for their oils. It’s delicious stuff, and I’m sad to see it go.

MORE CLOSURES As tends to happen, some businesses close up shop without a

lot of fanfare. Such was the case with Cream, the ice cream sandwich shop by Tinseltown, which posted an unassuming sign on its door last month simply notifying customers it’s closed indefinitely. Then there was Broadway Market & Deli, the Chinese restaurant downtown that just kept the name of the business there before it. Both seemed to have their followers, so I’m sure they’ll be missed.

A FINAL FAREWELL Organic farmer Carl Rosato has graced the pages of the CN&R

on multiple occasions. His Woodleaf Farm in Oroville was a pioneer in certified organic growing. After decades of tending the fields and getting multiple grants to advance the science of natural insect suppression, Rosato had become quite an expert, someone others looked to for advice and mentorship. He and his wife, Helen Atthowe, sold Woodleaf Farm in 2015—it’s now Peach Jamboree—and moved to Oregon. Sadly, last year Rosato suffered a bad accident on his farm there that left him in a coma. He passed last week (Nov. 25).

Atthowe shared this: “Carl never stopped learning, changing his ideas, being curious, and seeing with the eyes of wonder and awe. He had a life of passion and purpose and service and has been loved and been well-loved by family, friends, students, and all the people he touched with his work.”

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N O I T A EDUC How California’s teen birth rate has hit a record low BY ELIZABETH CASTILLO

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iana Shalabi had to be sure. She was 15 when she told her dad she needed cash for a high school football game. Actually, it was for pregnancy tests. Test after test confirmed the news she wasn’t ready to face.

“I was like, ‘This is not happening,’” Shalabi said. “I was crying every day.”

That was four years ago, and she gave birth to a daughter, Amina. Her marriage to the baby’s father lasted less than a year. Today she says she has sole responsibility for Amina, and they live in Delano, a farming town of 52,000 north of Bakersfield in Kern County.

While Kern County still has one of the highest teen pregnancy rates in California, across the state rates are dropping to record lows, according to the newest data, from 2017.

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It was produced by CalMatters.org, a nonprofit, nonpartisan media venture explaining California policies and politics.

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What explains the drop?

ber of births among females ages 19 and younger

Many experts cite California’s comprehensive sex education and guarantees of confidential access to birth control.

California law allows anyone under 18 to seek birth control services or the morningafter pill on their own. Minors 12 and older can seek treatment for sexually transmitted diseases without parental consent. And as a result of a California Supreme Court ruling, they can get an abortion without parental consent or notification.

But a variety of factors are no doubt at play. Research has even shown that the struggles depicted in MTV’s 16 and Pregnant and Teen Mom may have prompted some teens to be more vigilant about birth control, according to a 2014 Brookings Report.

Abortion rates are falling, too Although the state has among the nation’s most liberal abortion policies, that doesn’t seem to be what’s driving the drop in adolescent births. The latest numbers from the Guttmacher Institute, a reproductive rights nonprofit, indicate a California abortion rate of just over 16 abortions per every 1,000 women of reproductive age. (There isn’t solid data on teen abortion rates).

The state’s overall abortion rate is some-

what higher than the national rate of nearly 14 abortions per 1,000 females ages 15 to 44—but since 2014, the state abortion rate has declined twice as much as the 8 percent decline nationwide.

Nationwide, the percentage of females ages 15 to 19 receiving an abortion has dropped significantly in the past decade.

“There’s a long history of California being the beacon state in terms of a strong commitment to family planning and the rights of adolescents to get confidential, nonjudgmental health care around reproductive health,” said Claire Brindis, founding director of UC San Francisco’s Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health.

One example is the state’s Family Planning, Access, Care, and Treatment program, which gives more than a million lowincome Californians free contraceptives and counseling to better understand their familyplanning options. The program is available

through 2,200 private and public providers, including CSU and UC campus health centers and local community clinics.

It’s “the gold standard to providing access for folks who don’t have insurance, as well as for young people who might have insurance but have confidentiality concerns,” said Amy Moy of Essential Access Health. She said California’s use of Title X dollars, a federal family-planning grant program created in 1970, also helped drive the state’s teen birth rate downward—by, for instance, helping pay for teen-only hours at family planning clinics.

In Fresno County, a nonprofit relied on Title X money to fund a van that gives about 25 teenagers a week free rides to a community health center. They can get birth control, pregnancy testing and STD treatment at the center.

“Going to the clinic is an experience,” said Julio Romero of the Fresno Economic

Number of teen births in California Number of births among females ages 19 and younger Number of births among females ages 19 and younger

It shows California with a rate of nearly 14 births per 1,000 females ages 15 to 19.

That’s the 16th-lowest teen birth rate in the nation, and below the national average of nearly 19 births per 1,000 females in that age range. Arkansas ranks highest with 33; Massachusetts lowest with 8.

But within California, there are wide variations. Affluent Marin County has the lowest rate with just over six births, while Imperial County is highest, with an Arkansas-like level of just over 33. Butte County has just over 14 births. Kern County, with nearly 32, ranks third-highest and is nearly double the state average.

Even so, teen birth rates are falling in every California county—sometimes dramatically. Kern’s rate has actually been cut almost in half in just a decade.

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Data sources: 2000, 2008 and 2017, Birth Statistical Master File , California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics and Informatics.

“We’re deeply concerned that changes in the Title X program that have come into effect recently will threaten some of that progress that we’ve made.”

—amy moy, essential access Health

Opportunities Commission, which runs the program. “It can be complicated. It can be scary.”

The Trump administration has since placed restrictions on the funding, which California is suing to preserve, as well as to overturn a “gag” rule that took effect in July barring health clinics that provide abortions or abortion referrals from Title X funding.

The change caused Planned Parenthood to withdraw from the program.

“We’re deeply concerned that changes in the Title X program that have come into effect recently will threaten some of that progress that we’ve made. Because without Title X funding in California, there will likely be longer wait times and delays in access,” Moy said.

Sex ed: common sense or ‘pornography wrapped up in a bow’ Other factors behind the decline include teens waiting longer to have sex and using more than one form of contraception during sex, according to the California Department of Public Health.

Female teenagers nationwide are using contraception more—81 percent of those interviewed say they used birth control the first time they had sex, according to 2011-2015 data from the National Survey of Family Growth. The percentage has increased from just under 75 percent since 2002. More teens are using long-acting, reversible contraceptives such as intrauterine devices and contraceptive implants. And the percentage of female teens who have used the morning-after pill tripled over that time, to nearly 1 in 4.

More than half of California highschoolers reported using a condom the last time they had sex, according to the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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control pill, shot or IUD the last time they had sex.

California law since 2016 has required traditional public schools to provide comprehensive sex education, based on medically accurate facts and that does not mostly stress abstaining from sex. The law was expanded to public charter schools last year.

It was the first sex-ed update since 2003, when the state began requiring schools to teach students how to prevent HIV/AIDS. But the most recent requirements sparked some outrage. Karen England, who heads the parental rights organization Capitol Resource Institute, labels the curriculum “pornography wrapped up in a bow.”

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In 2017, over 4,500 children were born to California mothers ages 15-17; an additional 153 were born to mothers younger than 15.

Source: California Department of Public Health

to opt out of all of the California Healthy Youth Act. They aren’t learning the things we used to learn in school, about the basic health changes a body goes through,” she said. “I don’t think the school district should be going behind the parent’s back and telling [children] where the local clinic is and that they can leave class to go get on birth control and have an abortion.”

She predicted the state might cause more teen pregnancies with what she regards as its how-to-have-sex curriculum.

But advocates on the other side wonder if schools have done enough.

Erica Diaz-Rodriguez grew up in Woodlake, a town of 7,000 in Tulare County, a county with the state’s secondhighest teen birth rate. Growing up, she said, she had cousins who became teen moms and she watched them struggle.

Diana Shalabi, 20, and 3-year-old daughter Amina live in a studio apartment in Delano, a rural community in Kern County, which has the third-highest teen pregnancy rate in the state.

PHOTO BY ALEX HORVATH/BAKERSFIELD CALIFORNIAN

“They went through teen pregnancy and a lot of them were shunned from the family for a while,” Diaz-Rodriguez said. “The women in my family who did experience teen pregnancy, that was traumatic for them.

They would even tell me, ‘Oh, just don’t be like me.’”

As a sophomore in high school, she joined Act for Women and Girls, a reproductive justice organization in Visalia. Working with other girls her age, she found two common threads: relatives who were teen moms, and families and school systems refusing to teach comprehensive sex education.

Counties where teen moms are more common Income inequality and cultural factors also played a role in counties with high teen birth rates.

In California, Latinos have the highest poverty rate across racial and ethnic groups, according to the Public Policy Institute of California. Nearly 24 percent of impoverished Californians are Latino, while about 13 percent are white.

The teen birth rate for Latinas is also much higher than other ethnic groups—a rate of 21 births per 1,000, compared with just 6 for whites, according to the California Department of Public Health.

And in Kern County, the high teen pregnancy rate has been a battle for years.

“They’re historically high and it’s something that doesn’t change overnight,” said Kimberly Hernandez of the Kern County Public Health Services Department. “What we’re seeing is it does continue to decline, which is what we’re going for.”

Much of Kern County’s population is rural, where it can be difficult to receive health care. The county has opened a mobile health clinic that treats residents in isolated places like California City, which has a population of nearly 14,000. The unit offers birth control and sexual health services.

Kern County and other counties in the state with high teen pregnancy rates have spent time tackling repeat adolescent pregnancies as well. The Adolescent Family Life Program—funded by federal dollars including Medi-Cal—helps expectant adolescents and teen parents with personal development and family health. The goal is to break the cycle of children of teen parents becoming teen parents themselves.

Shalabi, the Delano mom, used the service while she was in high school. She said the program changed her life and eased her depression as a mom working on graduating.

Growing up, Shalabi received some sexual education in junior high, but she says she didn’t really fully understand her options until after she had her daughter. When she became sexually active, she said she asked her mom to take her to a clinic, but her mother refused and incorrectly told her that she couldn’t go without parental consent.

When her high school boyfriend told her he would pull out, she said she didn’t really understand what it meant.

Now, Shalabi works full-time and is a full-time student at CSU Bakersfield studying psychology, intending to become a therapist.

Her daughter attends preschool down the road from their studio apartment in Delano.

“It’s hard, but I feel like it’s way worth it in the end,” she said. “If you settle, you’re never going to be happy.” Ω

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Population: 2015- 2017, California Department of Finance.

Demographic Research Unit. 2018.

State and county population projections 2010-2060 Data sources: Births: 2015-2017, Birth Statistical Master File, California Department of Public Health, Center for Health Statistics and Informatics.

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Sacramento: California Department of Finance.Unit.

January Population: 2015-Projections 2017, California Department of Finance.

Demographic Research 2018.2018.

State and county population projections 2010-2060 Notes:[P-3: Maternal, ChildProjections and Adolescent Health Division follows the Health and Human Services Agency’s Data De-Identification Guidelines State and County Dataset].

Sacramento: California Department of Finance.

January 2018. * The (DDG).Notes: The data for 17 countiesChild (Alpine, Calaveras, Del Norte, the Glenn, Inyo,and Lassen, Mariposa, Mono, Plumas, Guidelines De-Identification Maternal, andAmador Adolescent HealthColusa, Division follows Health Human ServicesModoc, Agency’s DataNevada, * The Sierra,(DDG).

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Uncle Dad’s Art Collective and half the local music scene in the 2016 Queen: A Night at the Opera show at Laxson Auditorium.

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Tying a bow around a decade of local music

I sat at my desk at the CN&R and tried to wrap my head around Chico’s music scene of the first decade of the century. Listing 10 bands that I thought represented Chico at that time, I wrote that, much like our digitally integrated lives, things were kind of all over the place. It was good and bad: lots of (amazing) choices, but little cohesion.

In the 10 years since, the world has become more fragmented, but musically, on the local scene at least, it feels like we’ve come together a bit. Maybe the same internet that’s divided us has increasingly become a platform for local exposure and connection as well? There’s no question that Chico has welcomed more open-minded producers with an eye toward community.

Venues like Naked Lounge, Argus, Lost on Main and, especially, The Maltese have settled into eclectic programs of live music, with the latter featuring a near-constant rotation of performances on its vibrant calendar. And though it’s been open for just two years, the Blackbird bookstore/cafe/performance space has become known for its egalitarian approach to programming.

Chico Area Punks continued to bring local and touring acts of all flavors together. And to toot our own horn for a minute, through this newspaper’s CAMMIES promotions, the CN&R has brought together the breadth of the music community on stage and in print every year of the decade.

Even the Chico Breaks the Record music-marathon worldrecord attempt at the Tackle Box successfully rallied virtually all the local troops under one roof—though the second attempt proved more divisive than cohesive to the scene.

The most impressive community-building over the last decade has been by the Uncle Dad’s Art Collective. The cooperative of local performers has been one of the most active producers in town, and much of what the group has done has included an impressive range of musicians from across the genre and age spectra. Each of its large-scale productions at Laxson Auditorium (for musical tributes to the likes of Queen and Madonna) included as many as 60 local performers, and the annual Small Town Big Town concerts at the Sierra Nevada Big Room each highlighted 15 different local songwriters of all stripes and supported

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them with the 10- to 20-strong Uncle Dad’s Orchestra.

No one entity has done as much to cross pollinate the local scene over the last 10 years (and counting—on Feb. 29, Uncle Dad’s will gather the local troops for a “best of” show at Sierra Nevada featuring favorite arrangements from its previous tribute nights).

It’s refreshing to have more to talk about now, but lists are fun, too. With apologies to the dozens of Chico bands that mattered just as much, here are 10 acts (11 actually) that together represent one picture of Chico’s music scene in the past decade.

Big Mo & the Full Moon Band: German-born bandleader Maurice “Big Mo” Huffman and his huge band packed dance floors with a tight and soulful blues/Southern rock sound that’s made them probably the most popular act in town.

Bogg: Brought jazz out of the corner and onto the stage.

Bunnymilk: Lisa Marie and Kelly Brown’s hip dark-folk duo was the seed for many more hip acts: Skin Peaks, WRVNG, et al.

Cold Blue Mountain: In a decade that belonged to metal and its many offshoots (see Amarok, Aberrance, Teeeph, La Fin du Monde, etc.), this powerhouse brought all the heavy pieces together.

Michelin Embers: Guitar + ukulele + lap steel + gut bucket = a Chico hootenanny.

Pat Hull: Behind those engaging vocals is the most prolific songwriter in Chico.

Severance Package: Sneering punks rule the scene with riffhappy garage rock.

The Shimmies: Three songwriting brothers make cinematic indie rock.

Surrogate: Better lyrics and better rock than most bands in any town.

Swamp Zen and Black Fong: The kings of the jam and funk scenes, respectively, rule the decade and give birth to a buttshaking renaissance (see: Smokey the Groove, Lo & Behold). □

League of Women Voters forum is Regenerative Agriculture: Tools to Remove & Sequester CO2, featuring speakers Cynthia Daley, Roy and Charlotte Eckland, and Sandy Fisher. Thu, 12/5, 7pm. Free. Gateway Science Museum, 625 Esplanade.

WRITER’S VOICE INGRID KERIOTIS: The Chico State writing series presents poet Ingrid Keriotis reading from debut collection, It Started with the Wild Horses. Thu, 12/5, 7:30pm. Zingg Recital Hall, Chico State, ARTS 279.

Music DRAGON SMOKE: Funk, soul and blues band from New Orleans performs, local funk-makers Lo & Behold open. Thu, 12/5, 8pm. $28. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierra nevada.com

Theater A VERY CHICO NUTCRACKER: Traditional Nutcracker ballet plus an infusion of rich Chico history presented by the Chico Community Ballet. Thu, 12/5, 7:30pm. $15-$28. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 898-6333. chicoperformances.com

STANSBURY VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS

Friday-Sunday, Dec. 6-8 Stansbury Home SEE FRIDAY-SUNDAY, SPECIAL EVENTS

FINE ARTS ON NEXT PAGE A VERY CHICO NUTCRACKER Thursday-Sunday, Dec. 5-8 Laxson Auditorium

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Special Events BREAKFAST WITH SANTA: Visit with Santa and Mrs. Claus, make crafts with the elves and enjoy pancakes and treats from Roots Catering. Visit site to reserve a spot. Sat 12/7, 8am. $14. CARD Center, 545 Vallombrosa Ave. chicorec.com

BREAKFAST WITH SANTA: Breakfast, crafts and a visit with Santa. Sat 12/7, 8am. $10. Feather River Activity Center, 1875 Feather River Blvd., Oroville, 533-2011.

BUTTE COUNTY TOY RUN: All motorcyclists welcome for annual Christmas toy drive/ run. Call Barbi at 228-7838 for info. Sat 12/7, 9:30am. Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, 2357 Fair St.

CBI’S ANNUAL SILENT AUCTION: Congregation Beth

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Special Events CHRISTMAS WITH THE BIDWELLS: Celebrate the holidays with live music, historical vignettes, a silent auction, wine tasting and appetizers. Fri, 12/6, 6pm. $30 - $35. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade.

GLORIOUS SOUNDS OF THE SEASON: Festive event featuring music and drama for the season with faculty and student performances. Fri, 12/6, 7:30pm. $20. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144. 898-633. csuchico.edu/ soa

HOLIDAY MARKETPLACE POP-UP: Evening of shopping, champagne, music and mingling with local artists. Cookbook author Naturally Ella will be signing copies of her cookbook. Fri, 12/6, 6pm. Alex Marshall Studios, 1095 Nelson St.

OROVILLE TREE LIGHTING: Tree-lighting and small-business holiday

ELF THE MUSICAL Friday-Sunday, Dec. 6-8 CUSD Center for the Arts

SEE FRIDAY-SUNDAY, THEATER

Israel hosts 37th annual benefit for Shul School featuring large selection of goods and services including refreshments. Sat 12/7, 6:30pm. Congregation Beth Israel Synagogue, 14th and Hemlock streets. event featuring caroling, carriage rides and treats. Fri, 12/6, 4pm. Downtown Oroville.

STANSBURY HOME VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS: Santa, entertainment, spiced cider, cookies, informal home tours and raffle. Fri, 12/6, 5pm. $2-$6.

Stansbury Home, 307 W. Fifth St. stansbury home.org

TOGETHER WE RISE: Talent show fundraiser for Rebuild Paradise. Fri, 12/6, 7pm. $3 - $10.

Paradise Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.

VOLUNTEER FRIDAYS: Join in picking up litter and pulling weeds in the park. For more info call Shane at 896-7831. Fri, 12/6, 9am. Bidwell Park.

Music ROCKIN’ A CAPELLA 4: Doin’ It Justice Chorus presents an evening of classic hits in fourpart harmony. A benefit for Safe Space Winter Shelter. Fri, 12/6, 7:30pm. $20. First Christian Church, 295 E. Washington Ave.

TYLER DEVOLL: Local singer/songwriter plays for happy hour. Fri, 12/6, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

Theater A VERY CHICO NUTCRACKER: See Thursday. Fri, 12/6, 7:30pm. $15-$28.

Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 8986333. chicoperformances.com

ELF THE MUSICAL: California Regional Theatre brings beloved holiday film to the stage. Fri, 12/6, 7:30pm. $15-$30.

CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. crtshows.com

CHRISTMAS LIGHTED TRUCK PARADE: Parade of lights through Paradise, starting at Ace Hardware and following Pearson up Skyway to the Holiday Shopping Center and back. Sat 12/7, 6:30pm.

FALL HIKE AT THE BIG CHICO CREEK ECOLOGICAL RESERVE: See the effects of cutting-edge woodland and grassland restoration and discuss ongoing research on this informative hike. Sat 12/7, 9am. $5. Big Chico Creek Ecological Reserve, 3521 14-Mile House Road, Forest Ranch.

FRONTIER CHRISTMAS: Make a Christmas wreath to take home, enjoy live music, tasty snacks, a craft fair and a visit from Mr. and Mrs. Claus. Proceeds benefit the visitor center’s educational programs. Sat 12/7, 12pm. Lake Oroville Visitor Center, 917 Kelly Ridge Road, Oroville.

GLORIOUS SOUNDS OF THE SEASON: See Friday. Sat 12/7, 7:30pm. $20. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico State, PAC 144. 898-6333. csuchico.edu

SANTA PUB CRAWL: Ticket includes commemorative T-shirt, swag and discounted drinks from some of Chico’s best bars. Sat 12/7, 2pm. $25. Downtown Chico, 316 W. Second St. chicosantapubcrawl.bpt.me

SANTA SHUFFLE 5K & ONE MILE FUN RUN: Fourth annual benefit for the Salvation Army of Chico’s year-round homelessness prevention services. Register online at runsignup. com. Sat 12/7, 8am. Bidwell Park, 965 Fir St.

STANSBURY HOME VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS: See Friday. Sat 12/7, 12pm. $2-$6. Stansbury Home, 307 W. Fifth St. stansburyhome.org

SYNCHRONICITY AND ANTIQUES: Antique store owner Barbara Padgett Gore presents a history of Chico through the lens of coincidence and estate materials. Sat 12/7, 10am. Chico History Museum, 141 Salem St.

WINTER CUPPING WORKSHOP: Help create a custom holiday blend with expert roasters and get a bag to take home. Sat 12/7, 9am. $29. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

Hilary Telleson, Ken Smith and more. Sat, 12/7, 7:30pm. $10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St.

ELF THE MUSICAL: See Friday. Sat, 12/7, 2pm and 7:30pm. $15-$30. CUSD Center for the Arts, 1475 East Ave. crtshows.com

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Special Events CHAI WORKSHOP: Learn about chai and how to make your own blends (you get to take them home!). Sun, 12/8, 12pm. $40. Chico Chai, 1919 Park Ave.

CLUSTER TRUCK & HOLIDAY POP-UP SHOP: Food trucks and more than 20 local vendors selling their wares, along with live music and hot cider. Sun, 12/8, 11am. Secret Trail Brewing Co., 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120.

YOGA WITH TOM HESS: Morning of Iyengar Yoga in

GLORIOUS SOUNDS OF THE SEASON: See Friday. Sun, 12/8, 2pm. $20. Harlen Adams Theatre, Chico

the art galleries of the museum. Bring your own yoga mat, donation is suggested. Sat 12/7, 10am. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade. monca.org

HOLIDAY ARTISAN FAIRE: See Saturday. Sun, 12/8, 10am. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway,

State, PAC 144. 898-6333. csuchico.edu

Durham. patrickranchmuseum.org

OPEN HOUSE AT BIDWELL MANSION: Day-long holi-

Music ERIC PETERS: Eclectic mix of music for brunch. Sat, 12/7, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

THE YULE LOGS: Get merry with Chico’s favorite holiday band. Sat, 12/7, 8:30pm. $10. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

day festivities with musical performances beginning each hour. Sun, 12/8, 11am. Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park, 525 Esplanade. bidwellmansionpark.com

STANSBURY HOME VICTORIAN CHRISTMAS: See Friday. Sun, 12/8, 1pm. $2-$6. Stansbury Home, 307 W. Fifth St. stansburyhome.org

WINTER BREAK – AN IMPROV SHOW: Last show

Theater A VERY CHICO NUTCRACKER: See Thursday. Sat, 12/7, 2pm and 7:30pm. $15-$28. Laxson Auditorium,

of the season with your favorite funny people, Chico Live Improv Comedy. Sun, 12/8, 7pm. 1078 Gallery, 1710 Park Ave.

Chico State. 898-6333. chicoperformances.com

BLUE STORIES: Storytelling series returns with

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Gifts as the theme. Storytellers include

HOLIDAY ARTISAN FAIRE: Shop for gifts and stocking stuffers from a variety of hand-

made goods from local vendors. Sat 12/7, 10am. Patrick Ranch Museum, 10381 Midway,

EDITOR’S PICK

Durham. patrickranchmuseum.org

LIGHTS OF THE SEASON: The Oroville Community Concert Band and Chorus presents their annual Christmas Concert. Sat 12/7, 7:30pm. $10. Oroville State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., Oroville.

LOWER PARK NIGHT HIKE: Explore Lower Bidwell Park at night with certified naturalist Robert Dresden. Family friendly, rain or shine. Sat 12/7, 7pm. Chico Creek Nature Center, 1968 E. Eighth St.

SANTA AT THE ICE RINK: Santa visit followed by music and dancing. Sat 12/7, 2pm. The Terry Ashe Recreation Center, 6626 Skyway, Paradise.

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LET LOVE RAIN Lee Fields has been singing soul and R&B for almost 50 years, performing with everyone from Sharon Jones to Kool & the Gang and B.B. King, and his catalog of songs has been sampled by some of the best in hip-hop. If that isn’t enough, his longtime nickname is “Little JB” after the one and only James Brown, because the man’s got style.Fields and his band The Expressions are touring in support of the excellent 2019 release, It Rains Love, and will release a new album in January. Catch this rare artist live on Monday (Dec. 9) at the Sierra Nevada Big Room. Local electro-disco-pop duo Astronaut Ice Cream opens.

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Music BILL HAMMOND: Local guitarist and vocalist performing acoustic covers during artisan brunch. Sun, 12/8, 11am. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

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THE RAT PACK CHRISTMAS SHOW: Holiday tribute to swinging ’60s crooners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. Familyfriendly early show followed by adult-rated show. Sun, 12/8, 5pm and 8pm. $20. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

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Special Events HOLIDAY ART AND WRITING NIGHT: A night of art and writing at the museum featuring refreshments and no-host bar. Some supplies provided, feel free to bring your own. Wed, 12/11, 6pm. $5. Museum of Northern California Art, 900 Esplanade.

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Art 1078 GALLERY: Six (For) Stories Eight, six artists showcase their work. Reception 12/7, 6-8pm with food provided by The Bank Club food truck. Through 12/29. 1710 Park Ave. 1078gallery.org

CHICO ART CENTER: The Gift Show, artists sell handmade goods and artwork for the holiday season. Think global, buy local.

Through 12/27. 450 Orange St. chicoart center.com

HEALING ART GALLERY AT ENLOE CANCER CENTER: Art by Christine MacShane, paintings by local artist. The Enloe Cancer Center, Healing Art Gallery shows work by artists whose lives have been touched by cancer (survivors, caretakers and healthcare givers). Through 1/24. Free.

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JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY: To Freeze the Shifting Phantasmagoria, exhibit investigates diverse strategies emerging in contemporary painting, highlighting work by California artists. Through 12/14. Chico State, ARTS 121. headleygallerycsuchico. com

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART: Reflection and Hope, group exhibit reflecting the experiences of survivors and the community a year after the Camp Fire. And, Bench Press, benches by 13 artists. 900 Esplanade, monca.org

ORLAND ART CENTER: Wonder and Light, group show featuring work by Mollie Flack, Jeannie Vodden and Susan Greaves.

Reception 12/6, 3-7pm. Through 12/25. 732 Fourth St., Orland.

RED TAVERN: Flora, Fauna and Fields, eclectic exhibit featuring paintings in oils and watercolor by Eva Farley, Candy Matthews and Dolores Mitchell. Through 1/1. Free. 1250 Esplanade.

SALLY DIMAS ART GALLERY: Home for the Holidays, original artwork by Gary Baugh.

Through 12/31. 493 East Ave., Ste. 1.

THE TURNER: 3rd Story Prints with Prose, prints alongside Chico State students’ flash-fiction works inspired by the museum’s collection. Through 12/14. Free.

Chico State. theturner.org

Museums CHICO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Tons of cool stuff for kids to explore including a miniature city, complete with a junior vet clinic, dentist, cafe and farmer’s market, a giant fish tank, multi-sensory room, imagination playground and much more. Check the website for hours and admission information. Through 8/3. $7-$9. 325 Main St. chicochildrensmuseum.org.

GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Before and Beyond the Moon, interactive multimedia exhibition celebrates the human and technological achievements needed to reach the moon and envisions a future Mars landing.

Through 12/15. 625 Esplanade.

VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF ANTHROPOLOGY: Unbroken Traditions Basketweavers of the Meadows-Baker Families in Northern California, exhibition represents the culmination of one year of research and collaboration between Mountain Maidu weavers, other tribal experts, museums studies students, faculty and curators. Through 5/15. Chico State.

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(MONCA) in Chico, is a tiny hand-carved wood sculpture bearing the delightful title by “A Demonstration of the Amazing Robert Speer Wonderland Self-Leveling Bench.”

When I say it’s tiny, I’m not kidrober tspeer@ newsrev i ew.c om ding. It’s only 4.8 centimeters high, 9.5 centimeters wide and 3.8 centimeReview: ters deep. And yet it presents a comTwo exhibits: Bench plex tableau, with a tiny walrus sitting Press & Reflection and Hope. Showing on one end of a bench and a similarly through Dec. 29. diminutive man on the other end, both rendered in astonishing detail.

Museum of The sculptor, Nick Lamb, is a Northern practitioner of netsuke, the Japanese California Art 900 Esplanade art of miniature wood-carving. He’s 487-7272 one of only a handful of American monca.org artists who work in this form, which is hugely popular in Japan. It’s worth a visit to MONCA just to see this extraordinary piece.

It’s part of a deftly curated (by Redding artist Alice Porembski) exhibit built around the theme of benches—the many functions, symbolic and practical, they serve in our lives. Redding’s Turtle Bay Exploration Park commissioned the exhibit, which is set for display there next year.

Many of the pieces tell stories. The barn-wood bench in Jude Fletcher’s “What Remains,” for example, has recently been the site of “a planned encounter ending in rejection.” This unfortunate outcome is suggested by the uneaten sandwiches on one end and the bouquet of lilies on the other.

Or take Belinda Hanson’s “Parking,” for which the artist delved into her past, remembering the ’67 Mustang of her teen years by building an installation

around the backseat of a vintage Mustang. To this she’s added sound, in the form of pop tunes from the ’60s looped over a drive-in-movie speaker. “A car parked becomes a kind of bench with privacy,” she states.

Indeed it does.

Bench Press is one of two interesting group exhibits now showing in the museum. The other is Reflection and Hope: A Year Remembered, a juried exhibit timed to coincide with the first anniversary of the Camp Fire.

It opened on Nov. 7.

It would be hard to find two more dissimilar shows.

Bench Press is an entertainment of sorts, one that explores the creativity a group of artists can bring to a common mundane subject. It’s intriguing and clever and often very funny.

Reflection and Hope, in comparison, is an intensely emotional look back at the cataclysmic impacts produced by the Camp Fire and the other Northern California conflagrations of the past two years. It’s also a look forward with hope for the future and admiration for the resilience of fire survivors.

Many of the pieces are painful to see: I think of Davis-based painter Bato Bostandzic’s apocalyptic series “Post Paradise Hell,” which the artist states “depicts grotesque human figures escaping the fire with horror and distress on their faces.”

Other pieces find the beauty in fire. Michael Carr’s three manipulated digital photos—“Suddenly Among Us,” “Conflagration” and “Cataclysm”—are disturbingly beautiful in the intensity of their coloration.

The same is true of Paula Schultz’s two gorgeous, almost abstract photo portraits of fire, “Diverging” and “Entity.”

Is it appropriate, one may ask, to create such beauty out of a horrific natural disaster? To which one must answer: It’s absolutely appropriate. As these artists affirm, art is a healing force. □

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THURSDAY 12/5—WEDNESDAY 12/11 PERVERT PARTY: Celebrate the season

SCOTT PEMBERTON: Funk and surf rock

with five-piece experimental hiphop band, plus Pat Hull, Loner and Abstract Ninjaa. Thu, 12/5, 7pm. $5.

Argus Bar + Patio, 212 W. Second St.

guitarist from Portland performs, More Fatter and Lumbercat share the bill. Fri, 12/6, 9pm. $10-$13. Lost on Main, 319 Main St.

TOMMY EMMANUEL: Guitar legend performs with special guests Jim & Morning Nichols. Thu, 12/5, 7pm. $39-$54. Red Bluff State Theatre, 33 Oak St., Red Bluff.

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3PINTS DOWN: Country, rock and gospel sing-along tunes from local trio. Fri, 12/6, 6pm. Almendra Winery | Durham, CA, 9275 Midway, Durham.

BLUE STORIES Saturday, Dec. 7 Blue Room Theatre

COUNTRY ARTISTS TRIBUTE: Ode to Carrie Underwood, Eric Church and Jason Aldean. Fri, 12/6, 9:30pm. $5.

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

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Breakup Song” visits Oroville. Thu, 12/5, 8pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

DINNER WITH THE BIDWELLS: December residency series with local singer/ songwriter duo performing songs to break, melt and mend your heart. Thu, 12/5, 6pm. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

DRAGON SMOKE: Funk, soul and blues

GREG KIHN BAND: Rock vet who penned hits like “Jeopardy” and “The

band from New Orleans performs, local funk-makers Lo & Behold open. Thu, 12/5, 8pm. $28. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

winning country artist performs. Fri, 12/6, 8pm. Gold Country Casino & Hotel, 4020 Olive Highway, Oroville. goldcountry casino.com

OPEN MIC: Bring an instrument.

Acoustic/electric guitar and drum set available to use. Sign up at 7:30pm. All ages welcome until 10pm. Fri, 12/6, 8pm. $1. Down Lo, 319 Main St.

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SINGLE SIX RELEASE SHOW: Local rock band celebrates new album, joined by garage punks Horrible and alt-rockers Furlough Fridays. Fri, 12/6, 8:30pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

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ing, Latin and more to get you on the dance floor. Fri, 12/6, 7pm. $8.

Southside Community Center, 2959 Lower Wyandotte Road, Oroville.

SOUNDWAVE: Classic rock and modern hits with cover band. Fri, 12/6, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

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AEROMYTH: Get back in the saddle with Aerosmith tribute band. Sat, 12/7, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino

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AMANDA GREY: Live music, beer and

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BLUE STORIES: Storytelling series returns with Gifts as the theme.

Storytellers include Hilary Telleson,

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THE YULE LOGS: Get merry with Chico’s favorite holiday band. Sat, 12/7, 8:30pm. $10. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

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OPEN MIC COMEDY NIGHT: Working on a Ken Smith and more. Sat, 12/7, 7:30pm. $10. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First St.

DEFCATS: Cover band plays your favorite classic rock and pop songs. Sat, 12/7, 9pm. $8. Tackle Box, 379 E. Park Ave.

GRANGER SMITH: Popular country singer performs alongside his alter ego Earl Dibbles Jr. Sat, 12/7, 8:30pm. $27.50. Senator Theatre, 517 Main St. jmaxproductions.net

MAX MINARDI: Singer/songwriter plays late-night happy hour. Sat, 12/7,

10pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

SOUL POSSE: Fun cover band playing your favorite hits for annual Onesie Crawl. Sat, 12/7, 5pm. Free. Copa De Oro, Myers St., Oroville.

SOUNDWAVE: See Friday. Sat, 12/7,

8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. featherfallscasino.com

STORYBOOK BURLESQUE: Annual winter burlesque show with The Malteazers. Sat, 12/7, 10pm. $7. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.

bit? See if it’s a hit or heckle-worthy, and enjoy cheap beer specials.

Sign-ups start at 8pm. Sun, 12/8, 9pm. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. maltesebarchico.com

THE RAT PACK CHRISTMAS SHOW: Holiday tribute to swinging ‘60s crooners Frank Sinatra, Sammy Davis Jr. and Dean Martin. Familyfriendly early show followed by adult-rated show. Sun, 12/8, 5pm and 8pm. $20. El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St. elreychico.com

WINTER BREAK AN IMPROV SHOW: Last show of the season with your favorite funny people, Chico Live Improv

Comedy. Sun, 12/8, 7pm. 1078 Gallery, 1710 Park Ave.

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LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS:

Legendary American soul singer performs, local pop duo Astronaut Ice Cream opens. Mon, 12/9, 8pm. $20. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

12/11, 10pm. $1. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main St.

DYRK & LAUREL: Music from the ’40s

through the ’70s jukebox style. Wed, 12/11, 6pm. Free. The Allies Pub, 426 Broadway Ste. 130. 809-1650.

JAM SESSION: Informal night of improvised music. All musicians and

genres are welcome. House band until 8, open jam after. Wed, 12/11, 7:30pm. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

OPEN MIC: Come on down and strut your stuff. Andan from the Channel 66 band hosts. Wed, 12/11, 7pm. Apollo School of Music, 936 Mangrove Ave.

OPEN MIC: Hosted by veteran Chico singer/songwriter Andan Casamajor. There’s always a guitar to borrow and a house cajón for frisky fingers, so come on down and get on the list. Tue, 12/10, 7pm. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.

TUESDAY TRIVIA: Show what you

know and win prizes. Tue, 12/10, 6:30pm. Secret Trail Brewing Company, 132 Meyers St., Ste. 120.

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THE BIDWELLS: Sweet voices and

savory guitar stylings from local duo. Wed, 12/11, 6pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.

DANCE NIGHT: Four lady DJs with large vinyl collections select a fresh slice of wax every Wednesday for your boogie-ing pleasure. Wed,

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Argus Bar + Patio hosts The Very First Annual Pervert Party tonight (Dec. 5) with the local band that’s unlike all others. Pervert is a five-piece hip-hop crew that mashes loud noise and punk sounds with a hard metal edge. Never mind that there is no such thing as a “first annual”—the band is a must-see live. Pat Hull, Abstract Ninjaa and a lineup of special guests share the bill, and there will be art and a raffle.

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Arun,de-aging of its stars and a very brief theatrical Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman has arrived fter a lot of publicity surrounding the digital

on Netflix, and it is a very good offering from the accomplished auteur. It has a few by problems, but the opportunity to Bob Grimm see the likes of Robert De Niro, Al bg ri m m @ Pacino and Joe Pesci together under new srev i ew. c o m the Great One’s direction more than overrides any of the movie’s shortfalls.

The film is based on Charles Brandt’s book about Frank “The Irishman” Sheeran called I Heard The Irishman You Paint Houses (“paint houses” Starring robert De being a euphemism for “murder Niro, Joe Pesci and people”). Sheeran (played by De Al Pacino. Directed by martin Scorsese.

Niro) was a labor union leader and Netflix. rated r. purported hitman who had ties to Jimmy Hoffa (Pacino), as well as the Bufalino crime family of Pennsylvania, and the film begins at the end of his life as he sits in a wheelchair in a nursing home and starts to tell his story.

That story, about a World War II vet who goes from meat-truck-driving working stiff to cold-blooded killer-for-hire/Teamsters tough guy, covers a long time span. We see Sheeran from his 30s up until shortly before his death in his 80s. All ages of the character are played by De Niro, and the much-ballyhooed digital de-aging of him, Pacino and Pesci—all of whom are in their 70s—is mostly a bust. There are moments when De Niro looks somewhat younger than his 74 years (at the time of filming), but it often looks like bad makeup, dye jobs or funky lighting rather than the result of meticulous high-tech effects.

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Scorsese has made a nice companion piece to his gangster epic Goodfellas, another ugly depiction of the loneliness and alienation that results from a life spent doing things like shooting people in the head. While the 1990 film had a rather likable and unintentionally funny antihero in Ray Liotta’s portrayal of wiseguy-turned-rat Henry Hill, none of the main guys in this movie are very likable, especially Sheeran. De Niro depicts him as a meathead, a lackey who takes orders from both crime boss Russell Bufalino (Pesci) and infamous Teamsters leader Hoffa. Sheeran provides few excuses for even uncomfortable laughter; he is quietly despicable throughout most of the film.

Pacino is the most fun as a blustering, ice-creamobsessed Hoffa. His character is also the angriest guy in the movie, and Pacino sinks his teeth into every opportunity to go from zero to 100 in seconds.

He shares a couple of scenes with Stephen Graham as Anthony “Tony Pro” Provenzano—a capo in the Genovese crime family and one of the suspects in Hoffa’s eventual disappearance in 1975. Pacino and Graham square off more than once, and the results are vintage Pacino and among the best scenes in the 3 1/2-hour-long running time.

Like the rest of the film, the ending is based on Sheeran’s own deathbed interviews, and while the historical accuracy of his claims have been questioned by many, it’s nonetheless a fine finale.

For Scorsese fans, seeing De Niro and Pesci sharing scenes again—talking Italian and dipping bread in wine—is a cinematic gift for the holiday season. It’s De Niro’s best work in years, and Pesci gets a chance to play a more subdued character than usual. His Bufalino (aka “the Quiet Don”) is a soft-spoken, polite, yet extremely dangerous man, and that underlying tension is mesmerizing. □

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Opening this week Dark Waters

Todd Haynes (Velvet Goldmine) directs this biopic about corporate lawyer Robert Bilott (played by Mark Ruffalo), who switches allegiances and begins to defend farmers and others in fighting chemical company—and environmental polluter—DuPont. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

The Harder They Come

A late-night feature of the cult classic with one of the coolest antiheroes and best soundtracks in movie history. Jimmy Cliff is the star in the film that was instrumental in bringing reggae to an international audience.

Two 10 p.m. showings: Friday and Saturday (Dec. 6-7). Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Playmobil: The Movie

An animated feature based on the Playmobil line of kids toys. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Waves

A film of shifting perspectives—with immersive and inventive cinematography and a cool modern soundtrack—about the emotional journey of a suburban black family in Florida navigating loss, love and forgiveness.

Cinemark 14, Pageant Theatre. Rated R.

Now playing 21 Bridges

Chadwick Boseman stars as a New York detective who puts the city on lockdown in an effort to capture a couple of cop killers.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.

The Addams Family

The creepy family made famous in the 1960s television series gets the CGI animation treatment. Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

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A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood

This is a beautiful film. Whimsical, sweet, complicated and full of warmth, just like that polite guy who used to put on his cardigan and sneakers for his long-running children’s show on PBS. Tom Hanks plays Mr. Rogers in a wonderful tribute to the man. But Fred Rogers is a supporting player (albeit a mighty important and present one) in director Marielle Heller’s heartfelt movie.

The main protagonist is Lloyd Vogel (Matthew Rhys of The Americans), a troubled journalist who grumbles upon getting an assignment to do a profile on the guy with a “hokey” TV show for Esquire magazine.

The reporter bristles at first, but over the course of the film, the two become friends, and Rogers helps him with stresses in his life, including the impending death of his father. Heller brilliantly frames the film as an episode of the TV show, starting with Hanks delivering the infamous welcoming song, and then introducing Lloyd as a friend who needs help. The characters travel between different cities that are depicted like the train sets that had a presence throughout the run of the show. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG —B.G.

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Ford v Ferrari

It’s the ‘60s, and Henry Ford II (Tracy Letts) has had it with Enzo Ferrari (Remo Girone) and his fast, flashy cars. He and cronies such as Lee Iacocca (Jon Bernthal) and Leo Beebe (Josh Lucas) decide to send a message to the world that Ford isn’t just about family cars. The plan is to win races and appeal to a younger demographic by rolling out sporty Mustangs and the like. Enter Carroll Shelby (Matt Damon), a former race car driver turned designer and salesman. Ford hires Shelby to come up with a car that can beat Ferrari, namely at the prestigious 24 Hours of Le Mans in France. It’s a tall order, and it calls for a crazy guy behind the wheel. Ken Miles (Christian Bale) is a rule-breaking Brit who can drive as well as provide instant feedback on what alterations need to be made to make the damn thing go faster. His lack of convention causes Ford to bristle, Shelby gets in the middle, and we have ourselves a gripping tale about racing technology, volatile friendships and corporate clashes.

Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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Queen Elsa (voiced by Idina Menzel) and her sister Princess Anna (Kristen Bell) and the rest of the gang are back on a journey beyond Arendelle in this sequel to the massively popular animated musical animated flick. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated PG.

Fungi

Documentary on the fungus kingdom that uses breathtaking time-lapse macro photography to illustrate a world underneath our feet that offers possible solutions to many of our most pressing environmental, therapeutic and medical issues. Pageant Theatre.

Not rated.

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Knives Out

A star-studded black comedy from writer/ director Rian Johnson about a detective (Daniel Craig) investigating the murder of a wealthy author who winds up dead in his remote mansion soon after his dysfunctional family arrives. Also starring Jamie Lee Curtis, Chris Evans, Michael Shannon, Don Johnson, Toni Collette and Christopher Plummer. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Midway

A historical drama about the pivotal Battle of Midway between U.S. and Japanese forces during World War II. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

Playing With Fire

John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key and John Leguizamo star as three firefighters who have their hands full rescuing/babysitting some kids and their dog. Hijinks! Cinemark 14. Rated PG.

Queen & Slim

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Glean the season’s fruit for homebrewing his fall has stricken me with fermentation fever,

It happens every year. That’s because autumn culminates in an explosion of fruit— by fruit that draws laden tree branches Alastair toward the Earth and eventually carpets Bland the ground. Thanks to friends with productive trees, I have been able to fill buckets with apples and pears from Sebastopol, cactus fruits from San Rafael, figs from Novato and more. This prolific season never fails to awe me. It serves as a vivid reminder of plants’ amazing capacity to produce sugar from carbon dioxide, sunlight and water.

For homebrewers like me, it’s a chance to coax the same natural processes forward a step or two and, in a controlled space, turn nature’s sugar into alcohol and acid, and put it in a bottle.

The generous bounty of a neighbor’s Asian pear trees got me fired up in September. The owner said he was “all pear-ed out” and welcomed a friend and me to take all we wanted. We harvested more than 100 pounds of yellow and brown Asian pears from several trees, leaving at least five times that behind.

At home, we ground the fruit into pulp and pressed it to render juice. Some folks might have halted the process there by freezing the product, but the homebrewer in me wanted to ferment it.

So, we let the pear juice—delicious as such, I must say—start transforming into an alcoholic nectar. We added no yeast, allowing natural yeasts to do the job. Unfortunately, the juice turned sour as it fermented. It also grew thick and syrupy, and developed a coating of white scum on the surface— a harmless but annoying pest known as kahm yeast.

Not ready to sacrifice 8 gallons of summer’s liquid sunlight, I drummed up a solution: Add

bacteria and see what happens. We divided the batch in two. One we reserved as the control batch, while in the other we dumped a scoby, aka “symbiotic culture of bacteria and yeast.” A scoby is what’s used to create kombucha from sweetened tea. Plop! The slimy scoby disappeared into the froth, and it’s been working on the brew ever since.

I have not yet tasted it.

For weeks, the control batch has remained sour, and there seemed just one way to salvage the other half of the juice: make vinegar. So, we added a vinegar mother, cultured from the dregs of a bottle of Bragg’s apple cider vinegar—because if you can’t beat sourness, make more of it.

Then we turned our attention to apples, dropping by the thousands from neighbors’ trees, and once again, out came the grinder and the juicer. We made about five gallons, planning to make cider vinegar and boozy kombucha.

When the pineapple guavas, or feijoas, on my parents’ tree in San Francisco began dropping in October, I picked the fragrant green fruits off the ground with each visit home. By early November, I had 15 pounds in my fridge. I experimentally juiced a few of them and added the liquid to a batch of kombucha. Impressed, I made more—2 1/2 gallons, to be precise.

Meanwhile, I donned leather work gloves to harvest nearly 100 rosy-red prickly pears—called tunas, in Spanish—from a suburban cactus in San Rafael. I made juice to flavor another batch of kombucha.

The harvest season is nearing its end, and perhaps, that’s just fine. My kitchen has no room left for more bottles of fermenting and acidifying juice. The persimmon have yet to ripen, and citrus season is just starting, but for the most part, 2019 is all bottled up. □

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LET’S START A CHRISTMAS WAR Last

week, Melania Trump unveiled this year’s Christmas decorations at the White House, and brrrr … is there a draft in here? What a cold display. The video introduction to the First Lady’s “The Spirit of America” design shows her roaming alone through the sterile halls, dressed completely in white (including a full-length coat) as she surveys the decorations. It’s a chilling scene that doesn’t evoke any of this country’s traditional reasons for the season—be it Christianity, community or commercialism. And other than one closeup shot of an American flag ornament, there isn’t even anything Krampus in the White House. that says “spirit of America.”

What Arts DEVO thinks is going on is that the first lady is aching for the traditions of her homeland. Her birthplace, Slovenia, is among the handful of Central and Eastern European countries that include Saint Nicholas’ counterpart Krampus in the holiday fun.

No doubt she believes there’s at least one very bad (man-) child in her orbit that deserves to feel the punitive lashings of the goat-beast across his pasty white backside. And she’s set the scene: a frigid winter landscape, reminiscent of the Julian Alps of her childhood, where Krampus will feel welcome to land.

All that’s left to do is set out a bottle of schnapps and maybe a hollowedout ram’s horn to drink it from and then get out of the way. Tonight (Dec. 5) is the eve of the Feast of St. Nicholas—aka Krampusnacht—the night when the real big guy will make his rounds, kick open the doors at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., and with swinging chains, or a bundle of prickly branches, or articles of impeachment in his hands, lay down the proper punishment to the most naughty child of all.

Now that would be a Krampusnacht miracle.

ART OF THE COFFEEHOUSE Years ago, when local renaissance man (and one of my best-est dudes) Alec Binyon was sales honcho at the CN&R, I loved nothing more than having a beer with him and listening to him share his big ideas on art, love, the nature of god, politics, pop culture, poetry, dirty hippies and whatever else. He was always down to go super deep on any subject and I’ve missed our regular open-hearted shit-shootin’ sessions since he’s moved on to work for himself on various enterprises—most visibly coffee businesses.

He’s helped start or restart many of his own in town—Empire Tea & Coffee, Naked Lounge, Great State Coffee Co.—and consulted many others on the building of theirs.

It came as no surprise then when he told me that he was working on a manual for opening a coffeehouse, and that this past week his book that “demystifies the build-out process, helps you avoid common and costly mistakes, and ensures that you open your coffeehouse well” had been published.

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JENNIFER L MILLER CMT 2114 Kennedy Avenue Chico, CA 95973.

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WOLF-DIETER BLESS 832 Alan Lane Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: ALEC BINYON Dated: November 25, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001338 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as OROVILLE TIME SQUARE at 1345 Feather River Blvd Oroville, CA 95965.

SIMA SABOURY 1251 East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: SIMA SABOURY Dated: October 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001169 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE PAMPERED POOCH at 118 D West East Ave Chico, CA 95926.

JILLIAN LYNNAE NOELLE LEWIS 1329 Sherman Ave Apt 6 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JILLIAN LEWIS Dated: November 27, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001343 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JMAXX CONSULTING at 3471 Durham Dayton Hwy Chico, CA 95928.

VANESSA PITNEY 3471 Durham Dayton Hwy Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VANESSA PITNEY Dated: November 26, 2019 this Legal Notice continues

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FBN Number: 2019-0001342 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as TODDCO at 5870 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

JEREMY TODD 5870 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JEREMY TODD Dated: October 23, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001214 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

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

DISCOUNT STORAGE 5100 Clark Road Paradise, CA 95969 Butte County, State of California Unit No. #C15 - Jason Edwards - Tag number 6273290 Items: Mattress, box spring, boxes, miscellaneous Date: Saturday, December 20th, 2019 Auction to start at Discount Storage at 10AM located at 5100 Clark Road in Paradise, CA. Successful bidders must present a valid form of identification and be prepared to pay cash for purchased items. All items are sold “as is” and must be removed at the time of sale.

Sale is subject to cancellation in the event that a settlement is reached between the owner and tenant.

Published: December 5,12, 2019

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

GRIDLEY SELF STORAGE 1264 Highway 99 Gridley, CA 95948 Butte County, State of California Unit No. #AX330 - Elisa Duenas - Tag number 6273275 Items: Miscellaneous items, firepit, boxes Date: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 Auction to start at Gridley Self Storage at 10AM located at 1264 Highway 99 in Gridley, CA. Successful bidders must present a valid form of identification and be prepared to pay cash for purchased items. All items are sold “as is” and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event that a settlement is reached between the owner and tenant.

Published: December 5,12, 2019

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

G&D SELF STORAGE 2687 Highway 99 Biggs, CA 95948 Butte County, State of California Unit No. #B10 - Mark Patrick Tag number 6273278 Items: Miscellaneous household items, lounger, desk, coffee table Date: Saturday, December 21st, 2019 Auction to start at Gridley Self Storage at 10AM located at 1264 Highway 99 in Gridley, CA. Successful bidders must present a valid form of identification and be prepared to pay cash for purchased items. All items are sold “as is” and must be removed at the time of sale. Sale is subject to cancellation in the event that a settlement is reached between the owner and tenant.

Published: December 5,12, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LARRY THIEM STEVENS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LARRY THIEM STEVENS Proposed name: LARRY THIEM CLARK 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 8, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: November 1, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03258 Published: November 14,21,27, December 5, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner MA DE LA LUZ PADILLA CAMPOS filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: MA DE LA LUZ PADILLA CAMPOS Proposed name: MARIA DE LA LUZ GALLEGOS THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name this Legal Notice continues

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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 8, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: November 15, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03345 Published: November 21,27, December 5,12, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner WILLIAM MORGAN filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: HUNTER LEE BELANGER Proposed name: HUNTER LEE BELANGER-MORGAN 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 18, 2019 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: October 18, 2019 Case Number: 19CV01178 Published: November 21,27, December 5,12, 2019

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

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For the week oF December 5, 2019 ARIES (March 21-April 19): In composing

this oracle, I have called on the unruly wisdom of Vivienne Westwood. She’s the fashion designer who incorporated the punk esthetic into mainstream styles. Here are four quotes by her that will be especially suitable for your use in the coming weeks.

1. “I disagree with everything I used to say.”

2. “The only possible effect one can have on the world is through unpopular ideas.” 3.

“Intelligence is composed mostly of imagination, insight, things that have nothing to do with reason.” 4. “I’m attracted to people who are really true to themselves and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting.”

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): “I’m

drowning in the things I never told you.”

Famous make-up artist Alexandra Joseph wrote that message to a companion with whom she had a complicated relationship.

Are you experiencing a similar sensation? If so, I invite you to do something about it! The coming weeks will be a good time to stop drowning. One option is to blurt out to your ally all the feelings and thoughts you’ve been withholding and hiding. A second option is to divulge just some of the feelings and thoughts you’ve been withholding and hiding—and then monitor the results of your partial revelation. A third option is to analyze why you’ve been withholding and hiding. Is it because your ally hasn’t been receptive, or because you’re afraid of being honest? Here’s what I suggest: Start with the third option, then move on to the second.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): I’ve got

some borderline sentimental poetry to offer you in this horoscope. It may be too mushy for a mentally crisp person like you. You may worry that I’ve fallen under the sway of sappy versions of love rather than the snappy versions I usually favor.

But there is a method in my madness: I suspect you need an emotionally suggestive nudge to fully activate your urge to merge; you require a jolt of sweetness to inspire you to go in quest of the love mojo that’s potentially available to you in abundance.

So please allow your heart to be moved by the following passage from poet Rabindranath Tagore: “My soul is alight with your infinitude of stars. Your world has broken upon me like a flood. The flowers of your garden blossom in my body.”

CANCER (June 21-July 22): Try saying

this, and notice how it feels: “For the next 17 days, I will make ingenious efforts to interpret my problems as interesting opportunities that offer me the chance to liberate myself from my suffering and transform myself into the person I aspire to become.” Now speak the following words and see what thoughts and sensations get triggered: “For the next 17 days, I will have fun imagining that my so-called flaws are signs of potential strengths and talents that I have not yet developed.”

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): An interviewer

asked singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen if he needed to feel bothered and agitated to stimulate his creativity. Cohen said no.

“When I get up in the morning,” he testified, “my real concern is to discover whether I’m in a state of grace.” Surprised, the interviewer then asked, “What do you mean by a state of grace?” Cohen described it as a knack for balance that he called on to ride the chaos around him. He knew he couldn’t fix or banish the chaos—and it would be arrogant to try. His state of grace was more like skiing skillfully down a hill, gliding along the contours of unpredictable terrain. I’m telling you about Cohen’s definition because I think that’s the state of grace you should cultivate right now. I bet it will stimulate your creativity in ways that surprise and delight you.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): Poet Juan

Felipe Herrera praises the value of making regular efforts to detox our cluttered minds. He says that one of the best methods for accomplishing this cleansing is to daydream. You give yourself permission to

by rob brezsny indulge in uncensored, unabashed fantasies. You feel no inhibition about envisioning scenes that you may or may not ever carry out in real life. You understand that this free-form play of images is a healing joy, a gift you give yourself. It’s a crafty strategy to make sure you’re not hiding any secrets from yourself. Now is a favorable time to practice this art.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): In accordance

with current astrological omens, here’s your meditation, as articulated by the blogger named Riverselkie: “Let your life be guided by the things that produce the purest secret happiness, with no thought to what that may look like from the outside.

Feed the absurd whims of your soul and create with no audience in mind but yourself. What is poignant to you is what others will be moved by, too. Embrace what you love about yourself and the right people will come.”

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): “I swear I

became a saint from waiting,” wrote Scorpio poet Odysseus Elytis in his poem “Three Times the Truth.” According to my reading of the astrological omens, you may be in a similar situation. And you’ll be wise to welcome the break in the action and abide calmly in the motionless lull. You’ll experiment with the hypothesis that temporary postponement is best not just for you, but for all concerned.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

“My greatest asset is that I am constantly changing,” says Sagittarian actress and activist Jane Fonda. This description may not always be applicable to you, but I think it should be during the coming weeks.

You’re primed to thrive on a robust commitment to self-transformation. As you proceed in your holy task, keep in mind this other advice from Fonda. 1. “One part of wisdom is knowing what you don’t need anymore and letting it go.” 2. “It is never too late to master your weaknesses.” 3.

“If you allow yourself, you can become stronger in the very places that you’ve been broken.” 4. “The challenge is not to be perfect. It’s to be whole.” P.S. And what does it mean to be whole? Be respectful toward all your multiple facets, and welcome them into the conversation you have about how to live.

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

can’t escape your past completely. You can’t loosen its hold on you so thoroughly that it will forever allow you to move with limitless freedom into the future. But you definitely have the power to release yourself from at least a part of your past’s grip.

And the coming weeks will be an excellent time to do just that: to pay off a portion of your karmic debt and shed worn-out emotional baggage.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Aquarian playwright August Strindberg didn’t have much interest in people who “regurgitate what they have learned from books.” He was bored by stories that have been told over and over again, and was impatient with propaganda disguised as information and by sentimental platitudes masquerading as sage insights. He craved to hear about the unprecedented secrets of each person’s life: the things they know and feel that no one else knows and feels.

He was a student of “the natural history of the human heart.” I bring Strindberg’s perspective to your attention because now is a perfect time for you to fully embody it.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “It’s no

fun being in love with a shadow,” wrote Piscean poet Edna St. Vincent Millay. And yet she indulged profusely in that no-fun activity, and even capitalized on it to create a number of decent, if morose, poems. But in alignment with your astrological omens, I’m going to encourage you to fall out of love with shadows. The coming weeks will be an excellent time to channel your passions into solid realities: to focus your ardor and adoration on earthly pleasures and practical concerns and imperfect but interesting people.

www.RealAstrology.com for Rob Brezsny’s EXPANDED WEEKLY AUDIO HOROSCOPES and DAILY TEXT MESSAGE HOROSCOPES. The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888.

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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 8, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: November 6, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03278 Published: November 21,27, December 5,12, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner THOMAS EDWIN HAMILTON filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: THOMAS EDWIN HAMILTON Proposed name: THOMAS EDWIN VIERRA 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 8, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: November 5, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03279 Published: November 21,27, December 5,12, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner LAUREL SAMSON CLARK filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: LAUREL SAMSON CLARK ILIA SIDHE CLARK DOMINIC HOWARD CLARK Proposed name: LAUREL SUZANNE SAMSON ILIA SIDHE MARGARET SAMPSON DOMINIC BAY EARL SAMSON 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.

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Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: ROBERT A. GLUSMAN Dated: November 13, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03384 Published: November 27, December 5,12,19, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CARSON MEDLEY JULIA MEDLEY filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: EVE CANTRELL MEDLEY Proposed name: BEATRIX CANTRELL MEDLEY 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 8, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: TAMARA L. MOSBARGER Dated: November 7, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03297 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner CRYSTAL JOY SANDBERG filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: CRYSTAL JOY SANDBERG Proposed name: KRISSY JOY TRITTEN 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 22, 2020 Time: 9:00 AM Dept: TBA Room: TBA The address of the court is: Butte County Superior Court 1775 Concord Ave Chico, CA 95928 Signed: MICHAEL P. CANDELA Dated: November 22, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03537 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE SALLY LEE GAMBOA, aka, SALLY L. GAMBOA, aka SALLY GAMBOA To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: SALLY LEE GAMBOA, aka SALLY L. GAMBOA, aka SALLY GAMBOA A Petition for Probate has been filed by: ANTHONY GAMBOA in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: ANTHONY GAMBOA 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: December 17, 2019 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: REBECCA YUHASZ McKernan, Lanam, Bakke & Williams LLP 55 Independence Circle, Suite 106 Chico, CA 95973 (530) 877-4961 Dated: November 19, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00525 Published: November 27, December 5,12, 2019

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