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Editorial . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Guest Comment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Second & Flume . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4 Letters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 This Modern World . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5 Streetalk . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7

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EDITORIAL

Lowlights of Trump’s America in 2019 The CN&R’s annual year-in-view issue is jam-packed

with noteworthy local news from 2019, but we’d be remiss if we didn’t look back on the president of the United States on the eve of the end of his third year in office.

Where else to begin but with Trump making history last week? On Wednesday (Dec. 18), he became the first POTUS to be impeached during his first term in office.

It would quite literally require a novel-length’s worth of paper—reams, that is—to properly unpack all the schemes that led to this point. And, quite frankly, many folks aren’t listening.

So rather than rehash the president’s deeply disturbing efforts to coerce a foreign ally into besmirching his political rival—threatening national security and encouraging our fiercest adversary to continue meddling in our elections—we want to remind readers of a few happenings getting overshadowed by impeachment.

Our focus is on the lowlights: a few diabolically cruel policies that affect the most vulnerable among us. Who knows—perhaps one of them will hit a nerve or could even affect you?

Like kids? Trump doesn’t. In August, his administration attempted to strip protections from undocumented immigrants—yes, children—who live here under a special exemption allowing treatment

for life-threatening medical conditions. Those who’d applied for extensions—as is common practice under the longtime program—were summarily denied and ordered to leave the country within 33 days.

While we’re on the subject of child abuse, let’s not forget that 4,000 underage migrants remain in government custody, some living in fenced-in communal quarters at warehouses. You know, cages. Worst yet, at least six children have died on the government’s watch.

Got SNAP (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, aka food stamps)? Maybe not for long.

Despite the fact that 37 million Americans are food insecure, the Trump administration this year revealed drastic cuts to the program starting in 2020. The forthcoming reductions—said to total $4.2 billion over the next five years—will limit benefits for certain able-bodied adults, those between the ages of 18-49 who do not have dependents.

Another strike at vulnerable populations is a new effort to cut Social Security Disability Insurance and Supplemental Security Income. It will come by way of new methods the Social Security Administration may use to determine whether a person continues to qualify.

The goal: reduce benefits from those safety nets.

There you have it—a look at a few hallmarks of the Trump administration in 2019. Hell of year, readers. Ω

GUEST COMMENT

Goodbye, my America IMytionAmerica. that it was likely time for me to say goodbye to Like me, My America is showing the

awoke on a recent morning with the somber realiza-

degradation of the aging process—things just don’t work the way they once did, and there are so many places where it hurts. The will to learn something new, invest in a new activity, or find a new and better way of doing old things takes too much effort.

Let someone else do it; we’re tired.

When I was young, My America was strong. It revered truth over fantasy and decried deceit—but no by more. It based success on education Dean Carrier and belief in science, and based its The author, a policies on facts—but no more. It longtime Paradise resident and retired saw the national and world benefits wildlife biologist, of national parks, clean air and a moved to the coast plastic-free ocean. It bragged of its after losing his home Declaration of Independence, which in the camp Fire. begins with “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal,” and our Constitution that divided the

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nation’s governance equally between three branches.

But no more!

My America didn’t base success solely on the size of one’s bank account, didn’t imprison refugees or destroy their families, and didn’t cheat in order to win. My America and its leaders were respected and admired by their citizens and world leaders alike—but no more.

I vividly remember in second grade, Miss Wright proudly brought her fiancé to class. He was just back from the war and was dressed in his full Naval uniform and we were awed—and proud, because he represented My America. Today a majority of our elected legislators view such a uniformed and battle-scarred officer as a “traitor” because he doesn’t support the falsehoods they choose to believe and instead relies on truth and facts that they disregard.

That’s not what I was taught to expect from My America.

My children experienced some of My America, and my grandchildren, a smidgeon, but to future generations it will only be a chapter in the history books, if any such documentation will be allowed. So, goodbye, My America, so sad to see you go, because I’ve so enjoyed knowing you during my lifetime. Ω

SECOND & FLUME

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

Good riddance I’m probably in good company around these parts in my desire to kick 2019 to the curb. I’m very much over the past 12 months, the first full year after the Camp Fire.

What rankles me is how, despite the county having been declared a federal disaster zone and all of the ripple effects throughout the region, the partisan divisions widened in a time where unity should’ve reigned.

So, in the spirit of saying good riddance to a hellish year, I’m revisiting a few happenings in Chico’s political landscape that I’m happy we’re moving past.

GooDbye To The recALL eFForT This scheme was doomed because

its conservative organizers weren’t organized enough. Proponents will deny that their failure to boot Chico Mayor Randall Stone and Councilman Karl Ory was partisan. They’ll also say they ended it by choice, attributing that move to the switch to district elections.

I’m not buying it. Recalls are part of a new national right-wing strategy to unseat progressives in key positions. Moreover, the group launched the effort only five months after the progressives took the majority, and dropped the cause before the council voted on districting.

GooDbye To AT-LArGe eLecTionS This one is a long time coming and a biggie. The switch to district elections should’ve taken place years ago, when local group Districts for Chico first pitched the idea and warned city leaders the current system runs the risk of violating the California Voting Rights Act. It was largely the progressives who dropped the ball at the time.

Lots of benefits here. Among them, people who aren’t deeply embedded in partisan politics—on both sides of the ideological divide— will have fewer competitors and fewer constituents to reach during a campaign. That will make running more affordable. In previous years, some candidates have raised upward of $50,000.

GooDbye AFFronTS To our homeLeSS communiTy Chico has long

taken the path of least resistance on addressing homelessness.

There were strides this year to alter the course, including funding allocated for warming and cooling centers a few months into 2019.

But one of the biggest changes in terms of the city’s path forward will be to revisit and likely repeal laws in the municipal code that criminalize life on the streets.

People who advocated for them will argue with that characterization, but it’s precisely the conclusion the U.S. Supreme Court came to last week when it let stand a federal appeals court ruling that it’s unconstitutional to cite people for camping in public when they have nowhere to go. Technically, the local changes won’t happen until 2020, but the high court has laid the groundwork. Perhaps this is just the incentive people—including the NIMBYs—need to work collectively to drive forward affordable housing and shelter facilities.

SPeAkinG oF ThinGS PoLiTicAL Last week, I wrote about the heat between District 4 Board of Supervisors candidates Tod Kimmelshue and Sue Hilderbrand in what I described as a three-way race. Well, turns out the other prospect for that seat, Biggs Mayor Nathan Wilkinson, dropped out some months ago. Wilkinson’s campaign website (votenathan.net) remains live and without updated info on calling it quits and endorsing Kimmelshue, a fellow farmer.

LETTERS

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Fiction fan touched Re “Beyond the detours” (Cover story, by Zu Vincent, Dec. 19): Thank you for such an incredibly beautiful story!

I was right there with Mac through it all. This was such an artfully written and moving piece. It left me with yet another deep understanding of the challenges of loss and “moving on.”

I am hoping this allows more light into the lives of those who have lost so much.

Barbara Paquin Chico

Letter retorts Re “Fed up in Chico” (Letters, by Loretta Ann Torres, Dec. 19): If only! If only the minimum wage was enough to actually live on. More people have to work two jobs to get by, hence low unemployment. If only (as a single parent) I had more money to spend

(I don’t). If only the president followed the Constitution and listened to subpoenas and allowed witnesses to testify.

If only the leader of the Senate agreed to be fair and impartial.

If only more than 10 percent of Americans watched the public hearings with many of the same witnesses. If only we had a president who didn’t call people nasty names, lie continuously, obstruct, and suck up to Russia.

If only people would give equal time to all news, not just one side (I try). If only the far left and far right would agree most Americans are in the moderate range. If “ifs” and “buts” were candy and nuts, we’d all have a merry Christmas!

William Strom Chico

Loretta Ann Torres opines: “If only our Constitution didn’t say a suspect is innocent until proven

guilty by a jury (in the president’s case, the Senate).”

Just one problem there: In a criminal jury trial, attorneys for both sides question potential jurors to see if they have any biases for either the prosecution or the defense, and if such bias(es) is/are detected, that person is excused from serving on that jury.

Now, nearly every senator has already expressed an opinion on the guilt or innocence of the FelonIn-Chief, so how will it be possible for the Senate to hold a fair trial for Trump? It would seem to be impossible, yet the Constitution provides no alternative for a Senate trial of an impeached president.

Perhaps the better way would be for the various U.S. attorneys who are already collecting evidence of Trump’s various crimes (tax code violations, running a bogus charity, etc.) to simply try Trump on those charges in federal court—with an impartial jury. If convicted, not only would he be put in prison LETTERS C O N T I N U E D

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where he belongs, but he’d be out of his president’s job as well.

Mark Kernes Oroville

Preach!

At the risk of being called a mudslinger, as I was in a recent letter for quoting Trump, I was delighted to see an evangelical Republican come to his senses. Christianity Today magazine Editor Mark Galli gave me an early Christmas present with his recent editorial calling Trump “profoundly immoral,” “morally lost and confused,” ethically incompetent and one whose “moral deficiencies” have been illuminated during impeachment hearings. I couldn’t have said it better.

I’m sure there will be another unscrupulous and spurious right-wing letter writer champing at the bit to retort against this letter in their pernicious and Trumpian ways. Just quoting the Christianity Today editorial this time, not Trump. I refer those detractors to John 8:32 in the King James version of the Holy Bible.

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The circus showed up at the impeachment debate. During the final vote in the House impeachment hearing of President Donald Trump, Rep. Barry Loudermilk (R-GA) declared that “Pontius Pilate afforded more rights to Jesus.” Pilate then had him nailed to a cross.

Rep. Mike Kelly (G-PA) compared Trump’s impeachment to the attack on Pearl Harbor.

The Republican Party has abandoned its core principles of fiscal responsibility, national security and family values, and adopted a cultlike political philosophy that obeys the ideologies of the Trump presidency. Its members don’t dispute what he did; they simply don’t see him ever doing anything wrong.

A cult is the nurturing of a misplaced or excessive admiration for a particular person or thing. A prime example of this phenomena is the Reverend Jim Jones, overseer of Jonestown in Guyana, a small country in South America. In 1978, more than 900 people, many of them children, died in a mass murder-suicide by drinking cyanide-laced punch at his order.

Trump has found an agreeable audience to meet his need for self-admiration; the Republican Party and its willingness to follow a “political cult,” standing in line for their glass of Kool-Aid.

in Butte County District 4 would also like the answer to. Why is county supervisor candidate Tod Kimmelshue promoting comments wrongly attributed to candidate Sue Hilderbrand? There are important policy issues that affect our needs in Butte County—such as control and protection of water supplies and the impacts of our high level of poverty—that he and Ms. Hilderbrand differ on. I call on Mr. Kimmelshue to campaign like an honorable man.

Paul O’Rourke-Babb Chico

Views of homelessness Re “Homeless hostility” (Letters, by Addison Winslow, Dec. 12): I find it telling how the moral-authority dictators like to demand how the city spends the taxpayer dollars. “We need legal camping sites immediately.” Chico has a number of nonprofit organizations for horse riding, baseball, football, dance, golf, swimming, bicycling, the spaying and neutering of animals, remodeling the skate park, etc. I also find it telling how the passionate homeless advocates do not band together and start nonprofits for maintenance of the downtown bathrooms, construction and maintenance of Portland Loos, a legal homeless camping site or any of their other concerns.

Gordon Reimer Chico

It was a cold, rainy, late afternoon last Wednesday. I was walking in the downtown Chico parking structure when the lights of emergency vehicles caught my attention. I turned around and walked to the southeast corner of West Third and Salem streets, where I saw a fully gray haired woman lying, eyes closed, on the hard, cold, rainy sidewalk. I got to talking to a gentleman in a chartreuse vest who informed me that she had been there for two hours! I leaned over to the first responder attending to her and asked, “Has she passed?”

“No” came the reply.

Here was an elderly woman, apparently homeless, in black pajama bottoms and a typical shirt, light sweater and light open jacket, in the rain, lying out on the sidewalk in Chico, California. It reminded me of other similar sights I’ve seen lately. And I became sad that they have come to pass in our community. I pray that our decision-makers and our community will find the courage and wisdom to facilitate shelter for those of us less fortunate.

Charles Withuhn Chico

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Re “Making things right” (Second and Flume, by Melissa Daugherty, Dec. 19): I have a question that I think many people

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HEALTHLINES Rick Rawson, Adventist Health CEO, confirms that the Feather River Hospital emergency room will reopen.

the facility’s needed repairs, funding and operational plans. But the reopening will be critical not only for Paradise residents, but also for those living in Magalia and outlying Ridge communities.

Struggling to keep up

Crisis care Top stories of 2019 center on restoring medical care, responding to the Camp Fire story and photos by

Ashiah Scharaga ashiahs@ newsrev iew. com

Twaswake of the Camp Fire. Paradise already classified as a medically underserved

his year, the health care desert grew in the

area by the federal government, and the North State as a whole was among the rural California regions suffering a chronic shortage of physicians. So, the exodus of Ridge providers post-fire compounded an existing problem. But it was also a year in which the community made considerable progress, and banded together to provide care to those in need.

Here are the top health care-related issues and projects this year.

Comeback kid The future of Adventist Health Feather River Hospital was murky for much of 2019. The facility, which lost portions of its Pentz 8

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Road campus during the fire, issued final paychecks to 798 employees in February and suspended its license in March.

But that’s not to say Feather River wasn’t busy: In April, it opened a new Cancer Care Center in Chico. The following month, the hospital partnered with Enloe Medical Center to focus on a post-Camp Fire health care plan, including access, prevention and wellness initiatives throughout the county.

This year, it also reopened its Paradise clinic offering primary and specialty services, expanded similar services in Chico and Corning, and re-established home health services in Butte County.

Legislators were busy, too. Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 156 in October, paving the way for Adventist Health to operate a standalone emergency room through 2027. Adventist Health CEO Rick Rawson couldn’t provide a timeline, citing Michelle Evans, Enloe’s director of case management (left), and Transitional Skilled Unit Nurse Manager Debbie Strukan visit a room reserved for patients needing skilled-nursing care at the Enloe Rehabilitation Center.

In the aftermath of the fire, Enloe Medical Center and Oroville Hospital both took on more patients. But the Chico hospital struggled to meet the increased demand for services across the board. Emergency room visits, for example, jumped by about 100 patients daily.

Meanwhile, the hospital found itself focused on addressing another emergent need: skilled nursing care. The Camp Fire wiped out approximately 300 nursing home beds. Immediately after the fire, Enloe secured licensing that allowed it to accommodate some additional patients awaiting placement in a nursing home. Then, in August, Enloe opened a new Transitional Skilled Unit made up of 20 beds within its rehabilitation center on East Avenue to serve those patients. CEO Mike Wiltermood informed the CN&R last week that the oncetemporary unit will be open indefinitely.

Even with the new accommodations, however, the ongoing shortage of nursing home spaces means patients are staying in the hospital longer. Wiltermood estimated Enloe was spending about $20,000 to $40,000 more per day on about 20 to 40 such patients. To defray this additional cost, the hospital pursued a “sole community hospital” designation with the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), which could mean an additional $20 million to $40 million per year for Enloe. But the application was denied, and Enloe will plead its case to an appeals board in 2020.

Unhealthy county The Department of Public Health’s latest Community Health Assessment (CHA) was released in November, revealing that Butte County residents aren’t faring so well when it comes to their well-being. While the drug- and opioid-induced death rates have dropped in Butte County since the last assessment in 2015, they’re still much higher than the state or national averages.

And Butte County teens are starting drugs and alcohol early, too. The number of those who reported ever trying alcohol or illicit drugs (including misusing prescription medications) “was greater for all grade levels for nearly every category than in California overall,” the report reads. Butte County also has a higher-than-average rate of chronic illnesses, such as cancer, Alzheimer’s disease and chronic liver disease.

Moving forward, the county will analyze the CHA to create a health improvement plan to come up with solutions, which should be produced around January.

Preventable crisis Measles reached Butte County this past March. It was one of a string of outbreaks among predominantly unvaccinated children after overseas travelers brought the virus back to the States. This year marked the worst for measles since 1992 (it was declared eradicated in 2000): Nationwide, 1,276 cases were confirmed across 31 states, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. In Butte County, the Public Health Department confirmed a total of 13 local measles cases between March and May. The disease is virulent but preventable.

People got vaccinated for three decades with little controversy until a study suggested MMR—a combination vaccine for measles, mumps and rubella—caused autism. Though it has long since been debunked, that 1998 report sparked a 21st century anti-vaxx move-

Jess Mercer and Jake Fender are part of California HOPE, a FEMA-funded program facilitated by Butte County Behavioral Health that has been providing mental health crisis care to Camp Fire survivors since the disaster.

ment, which experts say has contributed to measles outbreaks among schoolchildren.

Feeling it out Trauma and mental health care was spotlighted in Butte County this year, particularly in light of the Camp Fire. Local experts confirmed that many survivors are still struggling emotionally—a difficulty compounded for those who aren’t able to meet their basic needs, such as water, food, clothing and shelter.

Crisis outreach workers with California HOPE—a Federal Emergency Management Agencyfunded program facilitated by Butte County Behavioral Health—have been working to address these issues since the wildfire, and as of November, had provided nearly 6,000 individual counseling visits and over 46,000 group visits, primarily with children.

In addition, two Butte Strong grants—$232,000 awarded in January and $1.86 million awarded in June—supported trauma response, healing and recovery initiatives for all Butte County schools, including charter and private schools.

The Butte Strong Fund also provided a number of other, much smaller grants for several arttherapy projects.

Free mental health care services also were provided via a new nonprofit called Medspire Health. The all-volunteer organization of medical providers focuses on offering free non-emergency health care to Camp Fire survivors, hosting several clinic days on the Ridge and making home visits.

In full swing Butte County has been a hot spot when it comes to the rate of painkillers prescribed per person, and has an above-average opioid-induced death rate. In its efforts to tackle the epidemic, Ampla Health launched its first clinic offering opioid addiction treatment early this year in Oroville—the clinic specializes in prescribing buprenorphine, an opioid medication used to treat addiction. The health care provider experienced such a demand that it sought and was awarded a $200,000 grant from the California Department of Health Care Services’ MAT Access Points program to expand its services. This year, it added more buprenorphine prescribers at its Olivehurst and Chico clinics and expanded those services in Oroville and Yuba City. Plus, four full-time opioid-use disorder counselors came on board for all four locations. □

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All hands on deck

Chico City Council candidate Rich Ober rallies a crowd during a climate strike in September at Chico City Plaza.

organization, she said. Inspiring environmental knowledge and activism is at the top of her to-do list.

Ecological restoration

Highlights from the local environmental realm in 2019 story and photos by

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Iclimate-driven Camp Fire—one of the most significant disasters the country has sufn a year marked by the aftermath of the

fered—recovery was the dominant theme.

Ecologically minded folks stepped up to help the burn scar grow in a safe and sustainable way and also to ensure the landscape wasn’t denuded. Facing down the threats of a changing climate, young people organized protests and rallies in Chico. Meanwhile, the Butte Environmental Council welcomed a new generation of leadership.

Another major issue in 2019 that stands to make headlines in the coming year: water sustainability and conveyance, including the Paradise Irrigation District’s (PID) long-term solvency and its controversial proposed pipeline to Chico.

Here are the top local environmental stories of the past year.

Youth-led activism Facing down the threats posed by climate change, youth-led groups such as the Sunrise Movement made their presence known following the devastating, climate-driven Camp Fire. Environmental activists protested outside Journalist Naomi Klein, center, interviews Butte County Supervisor Tami Ritter, left, while Chico State professor Mark Stemen stands over Lookout Point on the Skyway.

a town hall featuring District 1 Rep. Doug LaMalfa, who has denied human-caused climate change exists. They filled the El Rey Theater in Chico for a rally in support of the Green New Deal, endorsing Democratic congressional hopeful Audrey Denney’s 2020 campaign in the process. And during a global day of climate action in September, demonstrators packed Chico City Plaza days ahead of the United Nations Climate Action Summit.

Water worries Farmers in northwestern Butte County, where groundwater is depended upon for irrigation, unveiled a controversial proposal: the formation of the Tuscan Water District. The effort is being led by the Agricultural Groundwater Users of Butte County and has been billed as a way for growers to represent their interests as local water agencies and county officials grapple with the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, the sweeping state law that places oversight of groundwater basins under local control. Some water advocates, however, are skeptical of the proposal. They say it could adversely affect domestic well-users within the proposed district, which would extend from the Tehama County line south to the Durham area.

Meanwhile, the Butte County Board of Supervisors put the brakes on a controversial study of a proposed water pipeline from Paradise to Chico. The pipeline—an intertie between PID and the California Water Service Co.’s Chico branch—has been billed as way to alleviate overpumping of groundwater in Chico, while also helping to keep PID solvent as Paradise rebuilds. The county withdrew funding for the study amid questions about how the project would work and confusion over whether water the county pays for through the State Water Project could be sent through the pipeline.

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remove dead or dying trees that threatened power lines and public rights-of-way. Too quickly, according local, formerly certified arborists who noticed some trees in Butte Creek Canyon and elsewhere had been marked with spray paint for removal but appeared to be faring just fine. Some trees slated for removal, the experts said, weren’t even touched by flames. They urged county officials to slow down and institute a more transparent process detailing removal activities.

In the wake of the Camp Fire, Matthew Trumm spearheaded the Camp Fire Restoration Project, which aims to support landowners and public entities in restoring lands by applying permaculture and other ecological restoration methods. Trumm said fire safety, climate change and food security are major points of focus in wildfire recovery.

Permaculture design gets to the heart of those points through natural fire breaks, plant selection, irrigation and shade. Fire-resilient building—such as building with wood covered with earthen material—are also at the heart of the endeavor. The Restoration Project and its partner groups have held workshops, camps and other eco-related activities for survivors over the past year.

Green waste moves Chico-based landscaping businesses found themselves facing an inconvenient truth earlier this year. Old Durham Wood off Highway 99, which landscapers used to dispose of their green waste, stopped accepting the stuff in July. With the city of Chico’s compost facility accepting only residential green waste at the time, that left the Neal Road landfill as the only viable—and more costly—option. Old Durham Wood blamed state and federal regulations for the move; the city said it was taking in more green waste than it could compost and sell. City and county officials said a lack of green waste processing options has become a regional and national problem. In November, however, the city reopened its compost facility for commercial intake, following an agreement it reached with Waste Management. And the county is pursuing a state grant to create a separated-organics composting facility at the landfill that also would use green waste.

New leadership There was a changing of the guard this summer at the Butte Environmental Council (BEC), with Danielle Baxter appointed as general manager. Baxter, a former member of Chico’s Sustainability Task Force and BEC’s board, said the organization is entering a new chapter dubbed “BEC 2.0,” with younger leadership that reflects the nonprofit’s roots.

The goal is to become a more collaborative

Former certified arborists Ron Smith (left) and Robin McCollum stand near an oracle oak they say was improperly marked for removal after the Camp Fire.

Burning case

Journalist Naomi Klein—author of The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism and, most recently, On Fire: The (Burning) Case for a Green New Deal—toured the Camp Fire disaster zone with local environmental activists, Chico State professor Mark Stemen and Butte County Supervisor Tami Ritter. The group also visited the base camp along the Skyway—formerly the Tuscan Ridge Golf Club—that houses fire recovery workers. After documents were obtained suggesting the owner of the property was quietly pursuing a major community development project at the site, Klein, in a talk at Chico State, warned the community about the threat of disaster capitalism, raising questions about whether public money was helping that private enterprise. Meanwhile, Ritter questioned the environmental impacts of building in the hills between Chico and Paradise. □

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THE GOODS

Rolling on the range

Reflecting on the past

Although they once promised each other they’d never open a restaurant together (knowing the considerable work that comes with it), married couple Steven Hall and Gina Tropea Hall are currently going back on that agreement. With their combination of business and cooking experience, Steven (who helped launch Winchester Goose) and Gina (who ran Humboldt Cafe with her mom) were excited to use the Winchester’s old location to create their own bar and restaurant, The Bank Club. But after the space proved to be too small for their renovations and the lease fell through, they’ve turned their efforts toward a food trailer as their interim project before establishing a brick-andmortar location. With the help of chef Emily Porter, Stagecoach is now up and running (or parked) around Chico, providing a tasty, rotating menu featuring various cuisines. Steven recently sat down with the CN&R to discuss the truck.

What’s the story behind your business name(s)?

The Bank Club was going to be our bar/restaurant at the corner of Eighth and Broadway. We were bringing back the old business that lived at that corner from 1937-1979. We got really excited about it and branded ourselves.

Before we found out the lease

wasn’t going to work, we’d started social media and bought a business license. Then when we went to get a food trailer, we wanted to be careful because it’s not The Bank Club. It’s a few of us from The Bank Club doing a sidehustle. We wanted a name that would tie the two together and Matthew Heyden (a work consultant) thought of Stagecoach.

Until we open at Bank Club, everything’s going to be “brought to you by Bank Club.”

Chinese from Gina and her mom.

Besides gyros, we’ve done handmade dumplings, hand pies, and Mexican food. We’re in California, so it’s a melting pot of cultures and flavors. We try to focus on local ingredients.

Describe developing the menu.

For now, watch us on social media (Facebook and Instagram). We’ve been parked on Eaton Road, but we’re putting that on pause for now ... . We’ll be parked next to ThirdLove every Friday, and we’ve started parking at Secret Trail on Mondays. Some of our former co-workers from Winchester are [there] bartending; the rest are at Bill’s Towne Lounge and Sierra Nevada. We all hang out and we’re trying to figure out how to get the band back together.

We get to work with a pro [Emily].

We spent all summer working together. We set up our own little test kitchen and we played around and had fun, and got to know each other in a culinary and personal way. Emily is rocking the Mediterranean food. She worked at Sultan’s Bistro and loves and misses those flavors and she brought them to us and we were like, “Wow, you’ve got this.” She’s learning Mexican cuisine from me, we’re learning

Favorite dish from the lineup?

I’ve fallen in love with gyros. I didn’t realize how much I liked Mediterranean food until Emily showed me the way.

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Another year come and gone—where does the time go? Of course, in 2019, we had the fallout from the Camp Fire, which hurt some businesses but helped others.

And we had the continued slide of retail, which claimed Kmart and Forever 21, to name a few of the major outlets to go in Chico.

We also said hello to some new businesses, the biggest of which were Hobby Lobby and Tilly’s. I’m partial to mom-and-pop shops, though, and we got a number of them, too, including some Ridge favorites that made the move down the hill.

As a recap, here are the businesses we gained and lost in 2019: Allies Pub, the taproom for British Bulldog Brewery, opened in a swanky spot downtown serving up proper English ales and meals. Ace Hardware opened across the street from the locally owned True Value Hardware, also new this year. The Brew Kettle came and went—a fun concept, the lounge/beer shop is shutting its doors at the end of 2019. Insomnia Cookies opened up downtown, and its local rival Midnite Munchies opened a physical location in the shack in the Nord Safeway parking lot.

(Incidentally—or not—Cream, the cookie shop by the movie theater, closed.)

While we said goodbye to some longtime local favorites—Zucchini & Vine, Leon Bistro, Pete’s Restaurant and Brewhouse—they made way for some new faces. Z&V became Little Red Hen Home; chef Ann Leon opened Burban Kitchen in Meriam Park; and Pete’s, on the Skyway, was the perfect spot for Casa de Paradiso to reopen after losing its home on the Ridge. While Old Barn Kitchen’s spot on Clark Road didn’t burn, the owners dove into the space left open by Urban Fresh Fuel in downtown Chico and have fit in quite well.

In other movement downtown, Woodstock’s Pizza suffered a major flooding incident in the spring that closed the restaurant. While renovating, it jumped at the opportunity to take over the larger, more visible spot vacated by Crepeville. And Doc Burnstein’s Ice Cream Lab slid right into Cold Stone Creamery’s empty space.

I’m still lamenting the loss of two of my favorite radio stations, 101.7 (which went easy listening) and 93.9 (now conservative talk radio). I’m now left with ZROCK, which at least plays a decent amount of Tool, and 100.7, whose ads for “La Sales” drive me bonkers.

We also said goodbye to a number of other businesses, both chains and momand-pops, this year: 15th Street Cafe, Aaron Bros., Avenue Plus Size Clothing, Bamford Family Farms, The Buzz, Chico Coffee Co., Cocina Cortes, Five by Five Tonics, Great Northern, Hibachi Grill, Hooker Oak Distillery, Milestone Technologies, Panighetti’s Eatery, Payless ShoeSource, Red Fly, Roots Catering, Rouse and Revolt, Tacos Pepe.

There also were some big changes for some local businesses this year. Namely, Sierra Nevada Taproom & Restaurant got a major makeover; Cali’Flour Foods went from online sales only to being stocked in over 700 retailers; and Jeramie Sabelman, owner/chef of Japanese Blossoms, expanded yet again and opened Synergy inside In Motion Fitness.

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s we head into the new year, this newspaper is quickly approaching publishing 300 stories related to the Camp Fire—find them curated online (newsreview.com/chico) at the Camp Fire Reports link.

Therefore, it’s no surprise that our annual year-in-review package is again filled with coverage of the complexity of the disaster, from the holdups in identifying people who perished to water contamination on the Ridge. But the ripple effects are seemingly endless, crossing over into areas outside of the burn scar, including Chico and its environs.

Our staff was deeply touched by the tragedy and has been proud to be empathetic community watchdogs during this difficult journey. As the CN&R wraps up the year, we want to ensure readers that we will continue this work in 2020.

Still, our package reviewing the past 12 months—the first full year after the mega blaze—also includes other important and unrelated local news items. Case in point: Chico’s decision to abandon at-large City Council elections for district-based elections.

As always, in addition to the top 10 stories of the year, we’ve compiled a list of other notable stories and our popular “What were they thinking?” picks.

Happy reading!

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Hundreds of supporters filled the Chico Masonic Family Center to hear presidential candidate Bernie Sanders unveil his climate plan.

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Revisiting the biggest news events of the year PG&E under pressure

Following months of investigation, Cal Fire announced in May that it determined electrical transmission lines owned and operated by PG&E caused the Camp Fire. The blaze destroyed nearly 19,000 buildings in eastern Butte County and killed 85 people, becoming California’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire.

The finding wasn’t a surprise. The utility had informed regulators months earlier that it sustained a power failure where the Camp Fire started near Pulga on the morning of Nov. 8, 2018. Workers also found damaged equipment on a transmission tower in the area.

In January, PG&E filed for Chapter 11 reorganization in U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of California in anticipation of billions of dollars in wildfire liabilities. By June, the utility had reached agreements with local cities and

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counties totaling $1 billion. The payments included $252 million for the county of Butte and $270 million for the town of Paradise.

Then, earlier this month, PG&E announced it had amended its bankruptcy reorganization plan after reaching a $13.5 billion settlement to resolve all major wildfire claims stemming from the Camp Fire, as well as multiple Northern California wildfires in 2017. Gov. Gavin Newsom, however, has opposed PG&E’s plan, saying it falls short of establishing a path toward providing safe, reliable and affordable service. He added that it also does not comply with Assembly Bill 1054, the state fund that’s been established to pay for eligible wildfire claims.

PG&E has said it is aiming to emerge from bankruptcy by June 30, 2020, to take future advantage of the fund.

Newsom’s wrench in the utility’s bankruptcy plan followed his sharp criticism of PG&E’s more frequent intentional blackouts on “red flag” days following the Camp Fire.

Environmental activists honored victims of the Camp Fire and criticized PG&E during a meeting at Children’s Playground in Chico days before the fire’s first anniversary.

Plastic water meters in Paradise did not withstand extreme heat during the Camp Fire.

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Meanwhile, the utility remains under criminal investigation by Butte County District Attorney Mike Ramsey, whose prosecutors have been viewing the body of evidence it has collected with two possible felony charges in mind: unlawfully causing a fire with gross negligence, and more than 80 counts of involuntary manslaughter.

The long identifying process

The state’s deadliest and most destructive wildfire created a massive, challenging job for coroner’s investigators over the past year: conclusively identifying the degraded remains of victims.

In July, about eight months after the Camp Fire ripped through eastern Butte County, six people remained unidentified.

Wally Sipher of Chico told the CN&R about the frustrating holdup in identifying his deceased sister, Judy, 68. She lived in Paradise and didn’t flee her apartment as the fire barreled toward her. Sipher and his wife, Carol, knew Judy had perished, but the wait for the Sheriff’s Office to officially identify her was agonizing (see “Vanished,” Cover story, July 25).

“We know she’s gone, but it would be nice to have that noted for real,” Carol told the CN&R at the time. “And if they can’t do it, they need to tell us that, too.”

Butte County Sheriff Kory Honea said the identification process was complicated by the intense heat of the fire.

In some cases, victims were burned down to mere bone fragments, and efforts to identify their remains using DNA analysis had proved futile.

The DNA technology firm ANDE, which specializes in “rapid” DNA analysis, ultimately was hampered by the quality of the remains, said Richard Selden, the company’s

founder and chief scientific officer.

In August, the Sheriff’s Office eventually turned to circumstantial evidence to identify Sipher’s sister. Not long afterward, investigators released the names of the remaining victims for whom they had circumstantial evidence pointing to their identities.

Out of the 85 people killed in the fire, one person remains unidentified. The Sheriff’s Office, after initially refusing to release information about the victim, said in September that he was a large, older man who had had dental work with crowns. His remains were found commingled with the remains of a woman, 72-year-old Ellen Walker, at a property in Concow.

Contamination conundrum

One of the many and arguably most difficult hurdles to overcome post-Camp Fire—at least on the Ridge—is the contamination found in the water conveyance systems.

After tests in January came back positive for unhealthy

levels of the chemical compound benzene, which is known to cause cancer, the Paradise Irrigation System (PID) warned customers not drink water from the tap—or use it for brushing teeth, making ice or preparing food.

PID officials and plumbing experts brought in to help with the issue believe the contamination stems from plastic piping and meter boxes that melted during the blaze, leaching benzene into the water system. The lack of precedence, aside from the Tubbs Fire in Santa Rosa—which has a water system considerably different from Paradise’s—made for a daunting task. In February, PID estimated it would take two to three years and cost hundreds of millions of dollars to fix the plumbing system.

Further complicating the issue is that the contamination existed not just in PID’s infrastructure, but also in home plumbing that homeowners would need to test on their own.

Moreover, unhealthy levels of “volatile organic compounds” also have been found in the system.

Thus began PID’s complex effort to isolate and mitigate contaminated areas along 170 miles of pipe—either declaring portions clear of contamination or replacing the pipes. PID eventually determined that the contamination was mostly found in lateral plumbing lines—the pipe that goes from the main line to customers’ meters.

Meanwhile, the Del Oro Water Co., which serves Magalia and its environs, also found unhealthy levels of benzene. However, the private company conducted simpler testing and told customers all along that its water was fine to drink.

As of November, PID had tested half of its distribution lines to standing structures—and cleared 38 percent of those.

That same month, researchers from UC Davis announced preliminary results at a PID community meeting that showed minimal contamination within standing homes—some, however, had unsafe levels of chemicals from disinfection byproducts that required follow-up testing.

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Richard Muenzer was recently arrested while seeking a safe, dry place to sleep.

In May, Councilman Karl Ory, left, and Mayor Randall Stone were served with notices indicating a citizen effort to recall them from their seats on the Chico City Council.

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Progress and setbacks on homeless help

Two steps forward, then two steps back.

That’s an overarching theme of 2019 when it comes to addressing homelessness.

One of the highlights: In January, the Torres Community Shelter began operating 24/7, and secured enough grant funding to do so through June 2021. The day center concept marked a significant development, as local service providers historically have offered shelter only during late afternoon and evening hours.

In February, the city of Chico’s new progressive City Council took an unprecedented step by setting up tents at Depot Park to create a warming center during a cold snap. The next month, the panel partnered with the Jesus Center, paying the nonprofit to operate warming and cooling centers the rest of the year.

A “Code Blue,” city leaders initially decided, would be triggered when temperatures are predicted to fall below 32 degrees, and a “Code Red” would come into play when temperatures reach 100 degrees or higher for two or more days. In December, however, the council revisited the criteria for warming centers, expanding the scope. As of deadline, however, the Jesus Center’s board of directors had not yet agreed to the new terms.

A significant motivation for the change: at least four people have been found dead on the streets of Chico this year. And a fifth, a wellknown homeless man named Wilson “Grant”

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Tyler, suffered a health emergency at the City Plaza in June and died two days later at the hospital.

In terms of setbacks, two of them are attributed to NIMBYism.

After months of searching, Safe Space Winter Shelter and the Jesus Center announced in April plans to lease a building on Orange Street to open a 100- to 120-bed, 24/7 low-barrier shelter, buoyed by a $1 million grant from the Walmart Foundation. The project quickly fell apart, however. Public opposition swayed the Jesus Center to back out later that month. Then, in May, the North Valley Community Foundation returned the donation to the Walmart Foundation, which ultimately granted the lion’s share of the funding—$850,000—to the Jesus Center, and the remainder to the Torres Shelter for its 24/7 operations. The Orange Street Shelter was no longer possible.

Another project long in the works will be hashed out in court. In September, the Chico Housing Action Team received final approval from the City Council to begin establishing its tiny home project, Simplicity Village, to create 33 tiny homes for about 45 seniors on Notre Dame Boulevard. But shortly thereafter, in November, Frank Solinsky, president of neighboring business Payless Building Supply, filed a lawsuit against the city and Brendan Vieg, its planning and housing director. The dispute comes down to land use: The city maintains that Simplicity Village is allowed temporarily and without a permit, per the shelter crisis declaration made last year.

Solinsky argues that the project is permanent, and not allowed without a use permit and environmental review.

Meanwhile, the Renewal Center, the Jesus Center’s proposed relocation/expansion project—including transitional and permanent housing, a day center and other services—is lagging.

The council approved the sale of a 3.56-acre cityowned lot on Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Parkway, the facility’s proposed location, but the property still hasn’t closed escrow.

In November, the city extended the deadline to Dec. 2, 2020. According to a staff report, the unanticipated workload at the city postCamp Fire has resulted in delays facilitating the relocation of the property’s current lessee, Silver Dollar BMX, to a new location.

Unprecedented growth

Tens of thousands of residents displaced by the Camp Fire resettled in Chico and Oroville, immediately altering the municipalities’ respective populations. But it became clear in 2019 that the surge wasn’t temporary.

Early on, city leaders in Chico had estimated the increase at somewhere between 15,000 and 20,000 based on numerous factors, including a spike in traffic and sewer volumes. In early May, the state Department of Finance backed up the figures. Based on year-over-year analysis, Chico had gained more than 19,000 residents as of Jan. 1.

That’s a 20.7 percent increase. As the CN&R reported in a cover story at the time (see “Secondary effects,” May 9), under normal circumstances, the city would expect to see that level of growth in the 2030s. Oroville, meanwhile, experienced a 20.4 percent increase.

Among the services greatly strained in Chico as a result: public infrastructure (such as roads and sewer systems), public safety, refuse collection, medical care (see Healthlines, page 8) and housing supply.

Chico’s average home price soared by more than $50,000 with the spike in demand.

Looking to cash in on the post-disaster prices, landlords put their properties on the market.

That created another wave of displaced residents—renters.

The unprecedented growth remains an ongoing challenge for Chico, but city leaders have taken several steps to address certain issues. An anti-price-gouging law that prohibits rent increases of more than 10 percent was instituted shortly after the fire and has been

Concow residents Teri and John Rubiolo in their large storage shed, where they keep food, toiletries and clothing to supplement the aid their neighbors receive at formal food pantries and donation centers.

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Districts for Chico founders Ken Fleming (left) and Robert Speer started calling for district-based elections in 2015.

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extended twice (it expires Dec. 31, 2020).

Additionally, late summer and early fall, several City Council members organized a series of discussions related to the community’s needs, including affordable housing.

One bright spot: The state allocated $3 million and $2 million to Chico and Oroville, respectively, for disaster relief. The funds come from a one-time state budget appropriation. In Chico, half of the funding was earmarked for public safety needs. City Manager Mark Orme called the allocation a “huge gift to this city and its citizens,” but noted that it was “a drop in the bucket of the actual impacts.”

Council drama

Chico progressives took control of the City Council toward the end of 2018, following four years in which conservatives held the majority. About five months later, in May, members of a community group and others filed paperwork aimed at recalling newly appointed Mayor Randall Stone and Councilman Karl Ory. Gripes about how unsafe Chico had become was the rhetoric du jour. However, in June, Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien put a damper on that narrative when he released a report revealing that crime had dropped during the first four months of the year when compared with the same time period in 2018.

Stone and Ory’s detractors charged that the councilmen were wasting time on frivolous policies, including an ordinance to legalize commercial cannabis sales and efforts to address climate change.

In September, Councilman Sean Morgan made a request to reconsider Stone’s appoint-

ment to mayor. Discussion of his motion revealed that some of Stone’s progressive colleagues were less than enthusiastic with his leadership. In the end, though, he held onto the post.

Two months later, a few weeks before a deadline to submit 7,000 signatures, recall proponents threw in the towel. The purported reason: the city’s expected move to district elections.

Interestingly, over at the county seat, the pendulum swung the opposite direction.

The Oroville City Council transitioned from progressive to conservative and tossed out a plan to allow commercial cannabis. In May, the City of Gold’s conservative mayor, newly elected Chuck Reynolds, found himself in hot water. Councilwomen Janet Goodson and Linda Draper filed a lawsuit against the council, alleging Reynolds violated the Brown Act and the city charter in March when he removed them from the committees on which they served without consent of the full council.

In September, a reversal of sorts took place. Reynolds reinstated both Goodson and Draper on one of the committees from which they’d been pulled and the panel voted unanimously to confirm the appointments.

A new way to campaign

The two last months of 2019 spelled big changes for elections in Chico and Oroville.

Both cities voted to move from an at-large system to district-based elections.

What that means is that voters will select City Council members from their district

rather than from the entire bunch running citywide (although Oroville chose to continue electing its mayor at-large).

District boundaries have yet to be solidified for either city. They will be drafted and reviewed during an extensive public process in early 2020 to make the switch during the next general election.

The change didn’t come voluntarily, nor did it come without consequences. Both cities were prompted to make the switch after they received letters from attorneys threatening a lawsuit, alleging a violation of the California Voting Rights Act of 2001 (CVRA). It prohibits the use of at-large elections if they impair the ability of minority populations to elect candidates or influence election outcomes, as the attorneys allege has happened in both Chico and Oroville.

Both cities determined that it wasn’t a battle worth fighting: none of the other municipalities challenged in the state have successfully defended against such lawsuits, and several have shelled out millions of dollars in attorney’s fees only to have to switch anyway (the CVRA requires losing jurisdictions to pay attorney’s fees).

In Chico, the kicker is that the city could have avoided the rush to switch had the council listened to members of Districts for Chico, who advocated for such a change back in 2015. The nonpartisan group argued that districts would create a more representative government that would improve efficiency and increase the chances of minority members and political independents getting elected. The topic was shot down then, and went nowhere when it resurfaced in 2018.

On top of that, both cities will end up paying to make the switch, as much as $30,000 in attorney’s costs, as a result of being forced

to comply with the CVRA. They’ll also have to turn around and re-district when the 2020 census is completed.

Survivors struggle

More than a year has passed since the Camp Fire, but the struggle is nowhere near over for many whose lives were upended by the disaster. In 2019, it became clear that many survivors were still struggling to meet their basic needs, such as feeding themselves and their families and finding a stable home.

Many are still living in cars and tents.

One of the prime examples: Though several neighborhoods have been established by the Federal Emergency Management Agency in 2019 to offer shelter to survivors—including one with 224 manufactured homes in Gridley and another with 73 homes in Chico—these developments are only temporary. In Gridley, for example, the federal government’s deadline to vacate the space is May 2020. And in every neighborhood, FEMA employees perform monthly assessments of each household’s efforts to secure permanent housing.

In a September cover story, Gridley FEMA community resident Jennifer Powell told the CN&R she had been searching for a new home for her and her boyfriend every day, and it had been impossible to find anything that was affordable (see “Home sweet temporary home,” Sept. 5). “We’re stranded, like everybody else,” she said. “Everything is up in the air.”

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donation center in December of last year. It continues to serve thousands of fire survivors each month by providing clothes, furniture, toiletries and food. The latter is the most pressing need, even now. The center, which runs entirely on donations, recently received some good news: It was awarded $102,000 by the Butte Strong Fund to help continue its operations for another six months.

Relief efforts have been ongoing in outlying Ridge areas as well. In Concow, for example, couple Teri and John Rubiolo— who also lost their home in the blaze—have focused on helping their neighbors. They make and serve dinner for 35 to 50 people three days a week (something they started before the fire), and another three days a week they make deliveries, reaching 90 to 120 people per month. They arrive bearing donations of everything from canned goods, shampoo and clothing to generators, cars and trailers.

Recovery progress

Though recovery on the Ridge has been slow going in many respects, Butte County also made significant progress in 2019. That includes completion of the state’s debris removal program in November, an effort that cleared nearly 11,000 lots of more than 3.6 million tons of debris.

Meanwhile, few homes in the region have been constructed. As of this month, 216 people have applied to rebuild their homes in unincorporated Butte County, but only 123 permits have been issued and only eight homes are in the “final” stage or “may be occupied,” according to Butte County. In Paradise, 24 homes have been rebuilt and 604 applications have been received.

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seeking to rebuild or continue to live on the Ridge have been faced with unexpected price tags, such as permits for generators needed to power their trailers or homes during PG&E power safety shut-offs. Additionally, homeowners living in high-fire risk areas have found that their home insurance policies are not being renewed or have become unaffordable—in some instances spiking more than 250 percent.

In the education realm, significant efforts to repopulate the Ridge have forged onward.

Paradise Unified School District’s students returned to Ridge campuses for the fall 2019 semester. Because of the destruction, however, some campuses were combined or relocated. As of October, the district had about 1,700 students, compared with its pre-fire count of approximately 3,380.

Meanwhile, other initiatives launched to encourage the repopulation have been greatly received. This includes the Camp Fire Zone Project. The group, founded in March by two survivors, encompasses 33 zones in the burn scar, with volunteer leaders in each serving as an informational resource, neighborhood event planner and government liaison.

State legislators also worked on policies to help survivors recover and rebuild.

In October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Sen. Jim Nielsen’s Senate Bill 156 into law, allowing Adventist Health Feather River to open a standalone emergency room. The health care provider committed to reopening one at its existing main campus on Pentz Road, which was damaged in the fire.

Also in October, Newsom signed Assemblyman James Gallagher’s Assembly Bill 430, which circumvents certain California Environmental Quality Act mandates to streamline residential development in Biggs, Gridley, Corning, Live Oak, Orland, Oroville, Willows and Yuba City (Chico chose to opt out). Ω

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Mike Guzzi, Chico State’s associate vice president of facilities and capital projects, led an update of the school’s master plan.

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Chico State’s grand ideas

A hotel and convention center across from Children’s Playground in downtown Chico? A sports arena and 900-space parking structure off Warner Street?

Several new student housing projects on Chico State’s campus?

In a sweeping revision to the university’s master plan undertaken this year, all could become a reality over the next three decades.

The update, which was led by Mike Guzzi, the university’s associate vice president of facilities and capital projects, has been billed as bringing Chico State into a new era focused on housing, health, academics and sustainability.

The plan, however, drew concern. The Chico Avenues Neighborhood Association questioned the potential traffic impacts related to the aforementioned arena and parking structure, and it objected to the proposed facilities on principle, citing previous transportation studies conducted by the school.

Chico State President Gayle Hutchinson told the City Council in September that the updated master plan was expected to go before the California State University board of trustees for approval in May 2020.

Fentanyl overdoses in Chico

Fentanyl—the powerful synthetic opioid that police said was more commonly linked to overdoses in Eastern states than Western ones—was attributed to the death of a father in a suburban Chico neighborhood early this year.

Police and medics responded on the morning of Jan. 12 to a mass overdose incident at a home on Santana Court near East Avenue. More than a dozen people were hospitalized, and first-responders administered multiple doses of the drug Narcan to revive people suffering from the effects of an apparent opioid overdose.

One man—34-year-old Aris Turner of Chico—died. Police said partygoers had ingested a combination of fentanyl, cocaine and methamphetamine, and without the overdose-reversing medication, the outcome could have been much different.

The incident brought more national attention to a region already dealing with the effects of the Camp Fire.

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Additional issues of importance over the past year

local campuses, the California State University system and the California Community Colleges Chancellor’s Office, respectively, recognized the disaster’s impact and offered a temporary reprieve, allocating funding despite the lower enrollments.

Settlement time

A destroyed section of the Upper Miocene Canal east of Adventist Health Feather River Hospital off of Pentz Road in February.

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Dried up

When the Camp Fire tore through the Ridge in November 2018, it also destroyed the uppermost portion of the Miocene Canal (better known as the Paradise flumes)—a major water conveyance system for Butte Valley residents, many of whom are farmers and ranchers. PG&E owns the canal and has contracts with water users downstream.

In April, an advocacy group of water users called the Miocene Canal Coalition aired their grievances before the Butte County Board of Supervisors. The dry canal was jeopardizing their livelihood, they argued, posing a fire risk and causing native habitat to disappear.

The county then hosted a series of meetings between the utility and water users to forge a path forward.

But progress was slow: PG&E would not commit to repairing the system, citing an estimated $15 million cost. In July, the utility began delivering 5,000 gallons of water per week to its users, but the amount is just a fraction of what’s needed to sustain agricultural operations. In November, Bamford Family Farms announced it was shuttering its operations—the first business to do so because of the dry and damaged Miocene.

The coalition eventually decided to seek redress legally.

Bridge builders

Not long after the twisted remains of the Honey Run Covered Bridge were pulled from Butte Creek after the Camp Fire, an effort to rebuild the historic county icon in Butte

Creek Canyon began in earnest.

The cause, which largely has been spearheaded by the folks at the Honey Run Covered Bridge Association (HRCBA), with President Robert Catalano at the forefront, reached several milestones this year.

The association raised more than $600,000 in cash, pledges and materials toward the rebuild, which has been estimated to cost about $3 million. A preliminary foundation analysis was completed at the bridge site, and ground was broken on a new caretaker’s cottage at the adjacent park.

Looking ahead, the HRCBA believes construction on the bridge’s foundation could begin next spring, and talks remained ongoing for the association to take ownership of the bridge and extend the park grounds across the creek.

Two cases involving civilian deaths at the hands of law enforcement came to a conclusion in court in 2019. The first was the shooting death of 19-year-old Breanne Sharpe in 2013. While leading police on a car chase, Sharpe was shot and killed after she hit a utility pole and put her car in reverse. Five officers who fired their weapons said they feared for their lives. She died on the scene.

Years of litigation ended in early 2019 when an appeals court judge overturned a lower court’s decision, agreeing that several of the officers reasonably feared for their lives but that one, then-Sgt. Scott Zuschin, did not.

He was the first one to fire his weapon.

Ultimately, the city of Chico settled with Sharpe’s mother for $950,000.

In a similar case from 2018, Butte County settled with the family of Myra Micalizio, a mentally ill woman who was shot and killed by deputies inside her car after residents reported she was rummaging through their belongings outside their home in Palermo.

Like Sharpe, Micalizio was driving in reverse when officers opened fire. In October of this year, the county agreed to pay her family $250,000.

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Managing the forest

Chico State and Butte College were not immune to the effects of the Camp Fire.

Students and faculty alike lost homes during the disaster, and many suddenly faced daunting commutes while living on couches and trying to navigate disaster relief programs, insurance claims, and other tasks.

When the final enrollment numbers came out, Chico State was down more than 500 students from last school year, and Butte College lost closer to 1,000 students. Luckily for the

In the wake of the Camp Fire, forest management jumped to the top of local, state and national priority lists. While organizations like the Butte County Fire Safe Council had been working steadily to improve the health of our local canopy, they got a big boost in terms of support this past year. The fire safe council, for instance, went from four employees to 11, and it and other groups secured a number of MORE

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grants to catalog the local landscape and begin work to eliminate fuels.

At a summit meeting earlier this month, stakeholders highlighted the headway made over the past year to work collaboratively, which marked a big step toward developing a comprehensive forest management strategy.

Cal Fire reported several large-scale projects to cut back fuels in rural areas of the county.

And several nonprofits said they were optimistic about their own projects, from the development of a database tracking local activity to grant opportunities for utilizing wood coming out of the forests.

Meanwhile, the Mechoopda Indian Tribe, whose ancestral lands stretch from Chico into the foothills, announced a plan to coordinate educational efforts focused on traditional ecological knowledge, including prescribed burning and planting of native trees.

Coming to the ballot

For years, various Chico leaders tip-toed around the idea of proposing a sales tax to the voters. That is, until October of this year, when the City Council voted to put a 1 percent sales tax increase on the November 2020 ballot that would change the rate from 7.25 percent to 8.25 percent.

A sales tax increase has been circulating for the better part of the past decade, most recently garnering the support of the Chico Chamber of Commerce in early 2018.

Why now? One major impetus is the bleak financial outlook for the city, including rising costs and slowing economic growth. City staff noted that, without drumming up increased revenue, the city likely would have to reduce services and staffing. If such a measure passes, the city anticipates an $18 million annual general fund infusion.

Another selling point for the City Council: overwhelming community support. A citycommissioned survey revealed that 70 percent of respondents said they would vote yes on such an increase to fund police, firefighters, roadway maintenance and Bidwell Park upkeep.

Less harm

In 2018, a Chico-based grassroots group of volunteers called the Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition (NVHRC) formed to work toward eliminating barriers to treatment for drug users. They began providing free trainings for opioid-overdose response and the use of overdose-reversing drug Narcan, syringe disposal and litter cleanup, and street outreach.

In November, NVHRC added another service to its offerings: providing free, sterile needles. The California Department of Public Health granted the group a two-year license for such a program this October, as research has found syringe access programs to be effective in reducing transmission of HIV, hepatitis C and other blood-borne diseases 18

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The volunteers of the Northern Valley Harm Reduction Coalition, which received a license to distribute sterile syringes this year, set up their services in Humboldt Park. cn&r File photo

among injection drug users.

Butte County Public Health officials voiced support for the program along the same lines, presenting their recommendations to the Chico City Council and Butte County Board of Supervisors. Despite the support from the experts, however, NVHRC has received pushback from prominent Chico figures, such as Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien and Councilwoman Kasey Reynolds—detractors have argued the service is enabling and a threat to public safety.

Housing catastrophe

While the bidding wars that took place in the immediate aftermath of the Camp Fire have slowed and home prices have stabilized in the past year, renters have continued to be displaced and priced out of the market. In the interest of addressing the crisis, the city of Chico extended its anti-price-gouging ordinance this year, prohibiting rent and hotel/ motel rates from increasing more than 10 percent cumulatively from the law’s original adoption in November 2018. It’ll be in effect for the entirety of 2020. In August, a city ad hoc housing committee began a series of meetings and in September the city hosted a day-long housing conference—for both, the city gathered local experts to brainstorm potential policy changes.

State legislators also worked on addressing the post-Camp Fire housing crunch: In October, Assemblyman James Gallagher’s Assembly Bill 430 was signed into law. It circumvents certain California Environmental Quality Act mandates to streamline residential development. (The city of Chico was the only Butte County municipality to opt out, back in May.) Also in October, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed the Tenant Protection Act

of 2019, instituting rent increase caps and prohibiting owners from terminating tenancies unless they have just cause (i.e., a tenant is not paying rent or is engaging in criminal activity).

Opening the gate

In December, the City Council made a compromise between calls for accessibility in Upper Bidwell Park and opposition to allowing vehicles to travel to the far reaches of the beloved green space. The panel voted to open the length of Upper Park Road to traffic two days a week and close it another two days a week. The rest of the time, it’ll be open to cars up to Salmon Hole.

It was a big deal given access has been a perennial topic for the better part of the decade.

Until this year, discussions about opening the gate at the Diversion Dam—just under the 2-mile mark of the roughly 4-mile road—have been fairly fruitless. In sorry shape after years of storms, much of the unpaved portion of that road has been closed to cars since 2012. Prior to that time, going back to the 1990s, it was closed to vehicles on Sundays and Mondays, as well as the entire rainy season, from Nov. 1 to May 1 (see “Road block,” Cover story, Sept. 22, 2016).

At issue, park administrators have noted, is a lack of funding to properly repair and maintain the infrastructure, as well as the park generally. However, the city recently received about $700,000 from the State Water Resources Control Board to help reconstruct the roadway, from Horseshoe Lake to the end of Upper Park Road.

Meanwhile, questions about how to maintain the green space, including the idea of instituting a parking fee, remain ongoing.

Recovery champions

Butte County is now a year-plus removed from the start of the Camp Fire. In terms of recovery, however, it’s become clear over that time that many segments of the affected communities remain in crisis mode.

One of the lifelines has been the nonprofit North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF), which has grown tremendously since the wildfire to aid relief efforts. The Chico-based organization started taking in donations within days of the fire via its Camp Fire Relief Fund and has spent the bulk of 2019 continuing to raise money and award grants to helper organizations and agencies in the region.

In January, for example, NVCF joined forces with Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. and the Aaron Rodgers NorCal Fire Recovery Fund to form the Butte Strong Fund—an effort to pay for larger, long-term rebuilding projects that align with one of its five key focuses: housing, health and wellness, education, community development, and business recovery.

Between the $42.6 million Camp Fire Relief Fund, the Butte Strong Fund and various donor-designated funds, NVCF has raised more than $71 million. Thus far, nearly $30 million via 500 grants has been spent on various recovery initiatives—from addressing food insecurity on the Ridge to paying for counselors for schoolchildren experiencing trauma.

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The crosses memorializing those killed in the Camp Fire came down in October.

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Activists protest across the street from the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds in response to the Red Cross’ plans to close its shelter.

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We can’t recall …

In May, a conservative-led group of community members launched a recall effort against Councilman Karl Ory and Mayor Randall Stone. The group’s No. 1 grievance?

Their “inability to uphold Chico’s mission to make Chico a safe place to raise a family, an ideal location for business, and a premier place to live.”

The timing was perplexing for several reasons: Ory and Stone became part of the progressive council majority only in December, and their terms end November 2020, just months after any special election would have taken place. (Not to mention a special election would have cost taxpayers upward of $150,000.)

Then, in November, two weeks ahead of its 7,000-plus signature-gathering deadline, the group called off the effort. Organizers attributed its end to an expected switch to district-based elections. Ory posted a statement on his Facebook page in response: “It’s been a needless distraction. … Back to city business.”

Overlooking shelter

Last year, the Chico and Oroville city councils, as well as the county of Butte, voted to declare a shelter emergency. That opened up a significant amount of money from the state to address homelessness. But when local care providers applied for that funding (a whopping $4.9 million), not one of the projects chosen would create even a single bed for a person in need.

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The decision was left up to the Butte Countywide Continuum of Care (CoC) and the process was highly criticized. The first round of voting was met with such uproar, in fact, that the CoC council decided to go back and try again. The second time around, though transparency was still questioned, some shelter beds came into play.

Either way, the whole process left something to be desired, and the Butte County Board of Supervisors over the summer voted to create a new division dedicated to homeless issues, including overseeing that funding.

Classy, councilman

At a council meeting early this year, a local civil rights activist laid into the Chico Police Department for the killings of mentally ill civilians in the past couple of years, including Desmond Phillips. During public comments, the woman, who is black, called Police Chief Mike O’Brien a white supremacist.

These comments resurfaced in May, during a council meeting that centered around the panel modeling more respectful and civil behavior toward one another and the general public, and Councilman Sean Morgan made a shocking—and ironic—statement.

He argued that the activist’s previous comments constituted riot-inciting behavior that should be silenced, adding that “there’s a point where a personal attack becomes so egregious someone should get punched in the mouth.”

Vice Mayor Alex Brown’s response was calm but incredulous: “You just made a com-

ment about inciting riot behavior ... and you said somebody deserved to be punched in the mouth?”

“If you call me a white supremacist, then yes,” Morgan replied.

Worth the wait?

Just before the tent city that formed near the Walmart parking lot was cleared out, the retailer and the Walmart Foundation announced a $1 million donation “to help address the increased needs of the local homeless population,” including displaced Camp Fire survivors and the chronically homeless. The money was to be used by the Jesus Center, Torres Community Shelter and Safe Space Winter Shelter to establish a 24/7 low-barrier shelter.

Though a location on Orange Street was secured, the shelter faced considerable NIMBYism from, among others, Chico State University President Gayle Hutchinson.

Then the Jesus Center backed out of the project in April. The next month, the North Valley Community Foundation, entrusted with the funds, returned them to the Walmart Foundation.

Walmart then made the providers apply for the money, and chose to award the lion’s share—$850,000—to the Jesus Center for its relocation and expansion project, the Renewal Center, which is years from completion. The rest was directed to the Torres Shelter to support 24/7 operations and staffing.

Safe Space, which was still actively pursuing the Orange Street Shelter, got zip, effectively killing the project.

Chief goes overboard

Back in August, Chico Police Chief Mike O’Brien was concerned about the potential threats to public safety during PG&E’s planned power outages—the shut-offs to mitigate the threat of wildfire.

Chico’s top cop wanted the authority to declare a curfew, essentially prohibiting people from gathering or traveling in specific public spaces when blackouts continued for days on end.

Unsurprisingly, it didn’t go over well with the community, especially business owners.

But that’s not the only thing that merits it for inclusion on the CN&R’s “What were they thinking?” rundown.

O’Brien had conferred with the city attorney on the issue prior to vetting the idea with the City Council, the policy-makers, and it was placed on the agenda as an emergency ordinance. As the CN&R noted at the time, it went over like a lead balloon.

Suing the city

This past year was filled with drama on the dais in Oroville, complete with a lawsuit and allegations of wrongdoing. In May, Councilwomen Linda Draper and Janet Goodson sued the City Council, alleging Mayor Chuck Reynolds had violated the Brown Act when he removed them from the committees they’d sat on. Their attorney, Deborah B. Caplan, went a step further and said the action appeared discriminatory, being that Draper and Goodson were the only women and only liberals on the council

thinking?

A rundown of 2019’s head-scratchers

Angela McLaughlin, Safe Space Winter Shelter’s president, at the site of what could have been the Orange Street Shelter in April.

Chico State flunks PR

In August, Chico State gave the CN&R the runaround when reporter Ashiah Scharaga reached out to write a story about how the Camp Fire had affected enrollment. As we suspected, it had declined significantly—but most concerning was the 8.3 percent projected contraction of its freshman class over the previous year (it ended up being a 6.4 percent decrease).

It was like pulling teeth to get the campus’ public relations arm—University Communications—to release the figures and other info (see “Bad PR,” Second & Flume, Aug. 15).

Turns out, we weren’t the only outlet the flacks had given fits. After CN&R Editor Melissa Daugherty wrote about the interference, the student newspaper, The Orion, wrote repeatedly throughout the semester about the university’s heavyhanded attempts to stymie its newsgathering.

As the this newspaper has noted, the buck stops with Chico State President Gayle Hutchinson. So, really, attempts to hinder local media served only to give a black eye to her and the campus. Some public relations.

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and that Goodson was the only black council member.

In September, the council reversed course and reappointed committee members, with Draper and Goodson each being placed on one committee. In response, the pair dropped their suit against the city.

Oroville Mayor Chuck Reynolds

Accidental massacre

One of Chico’s most sacred spaces is Bidwell Park, so it was no surprise the community was livid when 27 valley oak trees were accidentally felled in Lower Park adjacent to the Chico Creek Nature Center.

What happened? Last March, a Cal Fire corrections crew was contracted for a city of Chico project to reduce fire fuels. The work was supposed to focus on thinning the grove’s catalpas—trees known for their heart-shaped leaves and narrow seed pods.

But with marks painted on trunks coded unclearly, the workers misinterpreted the assignment and collateral damage ensued.

Whoops! As a result, city administration standardized marks for tree crews, including contractors, to make sure this was a one-time snafu.

Dropping the ball

Last December, the first test results of water in the Camp Fire zone came back positive for benzene, a known carcinogen.

Immediately, Paradise Irrigation District (PID)—despite the fact that the contamination was found in its neighboring purveyors’ pipes—issued a do-not-drink order to customers. Its worry: people would be exposed to harmful chemicals that had leached into the pipelines by melted plastic. Problem is, PID was the only one to act. The state water board’s Division of Drinking Water issued no such warning, and the county Public Health Department twiddled its thumbs.

Finally, in March, months after the contami-

nation was first found, Public Health alerted Paradise residents of the potential hazards.

Way to look out, guys.

Cringey congressman

Rep. Doug LaMalfa embarrasses his District 1 constituents fairly regularly.

But one of this year’s most cringeworthy moments happened this past October at the nation’s Capitol. The Richvale rice farmer joined other fringe Republicans who charged into a closed-door impeachment hearing, alleging they’d been shut out of the “secret impeachment depositions.”

Thing is, Republicans were involved in those depositions—the committee conducting the interviews had GOP members aplenty. LaMalfa doesn’t serve on it, however, and he knows how this works.

Republicans couldn’t defend Trump on substance, so they attacked Democrats for the impeachment process. The stunt is one for the history books. Along with Donald Trump being the first POTUS to be impeached during his first term in office, LaMalfa will be remembered for standing by him and for his participation in this dogand-pony show.

Crosses come down

On Oct. 15, Gold Nugget Days Inc. quietly removed the memorial crosses from the Skyway at the entryway to Paradise, saying they were in disrepair and that they’d attempted to contact next of kin for everyone represented. The timing certainly

left something to be desired. Just over two weeks later marked the one-year anniversary of the Camp Fire, the tragedy memorialized by those crosses.

What’s more, the move came at the same time the town of Paradise was considering a permanent Camp Fire memorial, putting its support behind a project with a whopping $1.5 million price tag. Both were enough to make us shake our heads and say, “Why?”

Red Cross walks away

The CN&R was hyper concerned about the folks who were displaced by the Camp Fire, especially those who were living on the margins prior to the disaster and ended up in shelters around the region.

Thing is, we knew those shelters were temporary. That’s why we repeatedly asked Red Cross officials how long the organization would run its remaining facility at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds. The answer: as long as it’s needed.

But that wasn’t the case. About five weeks after the fire, the organization began turning people away. In January, despite many reassurances to the contrary and less than three months after the deadliest and most destructive wildfire in state history, the Red Cross moved evacuees out. More than 600 people were staying there. That decision forced many people to literally live on the streets.

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Special Events VOLUNTEER FRIDAYS: Join in picking up litter and pulling weeds in the park. For more info call Shane at 896-7831. Fri, 12/27, 9am. Bidwell Park.

CN&R critic’s notes on a rewarding year in film

M By my own mid-December count, the year brought us more than 40 films

ovie-wise, 2019 was very rewarding.

worthy of special attention, with a little more than half of them turning up in Chico theaters, and nearly that many coming our way on disc, streaming, etc.

In addition to the multitude of outstanding films, 2019 put some especially remarkable trends and developments on display.

There were some by exceptionally artJuan-Carlos ful documentaries: Selznick Bisbee ’17; Hale County This Morning, This Evening; They Shall Not Grow Old; Toni Morrison: The Pieces I Am; John McEnroe: In the Realm of Perfection; Maiden; Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché.

There was the further blossoming of Netflix as both producer and distributor: Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman; Mati Diop’s Atlantics from Senegal; Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story; Steven Soderbergh’s The Laundromat; The Highwaymen with Kevin Costner and Woody Harrelson as ex-Texas Rangers tracking Bonnie and Clyde.

And there were major works by female directors: Atlantics; Claire Denis’ High Life; Joana Hogg’s The Souvenir; Josephine Decker’s Madeline’s 22

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Madeline; Nia DaCosta’s Little Woods; Mélanie Laurent’s Galveston; Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum; Lulu Wang’s The Farewell; Jennifer Kent’s The Nightingale.

And several imported films were fiercely unconventional family dramas with complex social implications: Shoplifters (Japan); Parasite (South Korea); The Farewell (China/USA); Birds of Passage (Colombia).

A particularly resounding current in several of the year’s films has to do with potentially heroic characters who fall prey to their own moral contradictions.

The moral paralysis that leaks out of the authority figures in Jim Jarmusch’s darkly comical zombie film, The Dead Don’t Die, has its historical counterparts in Robert Greene’s hauntingly incisive documentary, Bisbee ’17; in some of the oral history musings of the World War I vets of They Shall Not Grow Old; and in the border incident that haunts the aging Texas Rangers of The Highwaymen. Something similar to that is a virulent presence in The Irishman, and in a brilliantly corrosive Italian film, Matteo Garrone’s Dogman. And there are provocative traces of such stuff to be found in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood, and in such offbeat genre films as The Mustang, Little Woods, Ad Astra, Ash Is Purest White and The Kid. Plus, some miscellaneous bests:

Best westerns: Vincent D’Onofrio’s The Kid—with Ethan Hawke as Pat Garrett and Dean DeHaan as Billy the Kid—skirmishes intriguingly in the margins of classic western movies, but DeHaan’s grubbily funky performance is its lone outstanding accomplishment.

Best animal performances and roles: The cats in Pain & Glory and Waves, the title horse in The Mustang, and the dog in Once Upon a Time … in Hollywood.

Best performances by star actors playing against their movie-star personae: Antonio Banderas in Almodovar’s Pain & Glory, and Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci and (especially) Al Pacino in The Irishman.

Best music man: Martin Scorsese for Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story and the theme-like recurrence of “In the Still of the Night” in The Irishman. The dreamy doo-wop of the latter comes from the director’s teen years, not Jimmy Hoffa’s, thereby suggesting an unexpected touch of haunting personal reflection from the filmmaker.

Magic beyond category: Something eerie and weirdly wonderful happens in the moment when They Shall Not Grow Old switches from newsreel black and white to full-screen color. The prevalence of soldiers looking directly at the camera (and therefore at us) from 100 years ago has something to do with it. Ω

Music DAVE ELKE: Live local music for happy hour. Fri, 12/27, 4pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.

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CLEAN AND FUNNY STAND-UP Saturday, Dec. 28 Naked Lounge

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FINE ARTS

TEA LEAF GREEN Tuesday, Dec. 31 Sierra Nevada Big Room

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Tuesday, Dec. 31 Sierra Nevada Big Room SEE TUESDAY, MUSIC

RECLAIM OLD HUMBOLDT WAGON ROAD: Monthly cleanup hosted by Respect the Walls.

Equipment will be provided. Sat 12/28, 8am. Old Humboldt Wagon Road.

Music DECADES: Chico favorites play hits from the 1940s to today. Sat, 12/28, 9:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

STEVE JOHNSON: Fingerstyle guitarist plays light rock, country and more for brunch. Sat, 12/28, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St. lasalleschico.com

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BLUE FRIDAY HAPPY HOUR: The Blue Room Theatre

FARM STAND: Fun farmer’s market featuring

will be offering reduced priced tickets for upcoming shows and free gift wrapping! Sun, 12/29, 2pm. Bill’s Towne Lounge, 135 Main St. blueroomtheatre.com

local growers, plant starts, homemade bakery goods and medicinal herbs. Mon, 12/30, 4pm. Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.

Music AUSTIN FARWELL: Vegan brunch and modern folk/ bluegrass with local musician. Sun, 12/29, 11am. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St. SUNDAY SUPERJAM: Weekly pro jam. Rock, blues, country, funk—anything goes. Sign up early, music starts at 2. Sun, 12/29, 2pm. LaSalles, 229 Broadway St.

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Shows through Jan. 13 Provisions Gallery

TEA LEAF GREEN: Celebrate new year’s eve at the brewery with outlaw rock band from SF. Lake Tahoe’s Mescalito shares the bill. Tue, 12/31, 8pm. $25. Sierra Nevada Big Room, 1075 E. 20th St. sierranevada.com

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MAIDU ROCK SHELTER HIKE: Annual 3.5 mile hike through Upper Park to rock overhang and waterfall with the Mount Lassen California Native Plant Society. Meet at Horseshoe Lake; call Marjorie for info at 343-2397. Wed, 1/1, 10am. Bidwell Park.

SEE ART

Art 1078 GALLERY: Six (For) Stories Eight, six artists showcase their work. 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. 265 Cohasset Road.

MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART:

GET YER NYE ON RIGHT Looking for a rad New Year’s party to get fancy and ring in a fresh decade?

Here are a few suggestions (see Nightlife, page 26, for full listings): LaSalles is hosting a Studio 54-themed dress-up party with soul sounds from Mestizo Beat; MONCA is putting on a big shindig; Blackout Betty brings ’80s rock to the Tackle Box; Fleetwood Mac tribute band Running in the Shadows plays Unwined; Mix Tape covers your favorite hits at Studio Inn; funk bands Orgone (pictured) and Black Fong bring the groove to Lost on Main; Swamp Zen and more heat up the Chico Women’s Club; and The Defcats play Sol Mexican Grill’s Luna Room. Happy New Year!

FOR MORE MUSIC, SEE NIGHTLIFE ON PAGE 26

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

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positions by local photographer Gunnar Loveland. Through 1/13. 122 W. Third St.

Matthews and Dolores Mitchell. 1250 Esplanade.

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

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

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.

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.

RED TAVERN: Flora, Fauna and Fields, eclectic exhibit featuring paintings in oils and watercolor by Eva Farley, Candy

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I theBrianbestandyearKeitha ever, does everything balance out?

Corbit lost their home and most

f you follow up the worst year of your life by creating

of their Paradise community to the Camp Fire, and like thousands of other Butte County residents, the year that followed was by Jason Cassidy marked by pain and trauma from the devastation. In short: 2019 sucked. j aso nc @ The couple are determined to new srev i ew. c o m make 2020 just as memorable, but for the opposite reason. The components of the grand plan include an RV, road-trip itineraries, spontaneous side trips, party pads with old friends, and plane tickets to exotic locales—a good half of the year spent on the adventure of a lifetime.

I like this plan. I’ve worked with Brian, a sales rep for the CN&R, for more than a dozen years, and it was at a recent holiday party—where co-workers toasted our good friend on his imminent retirement—that Keitha told me about their vision for 2020. And that beautiful intention to try and flip the script inspired me to devote this regular year-end wrap-up to the notion that, even after bad times, the good stuff is still there waiting for us when we are ready. And my greatest wish for the new year is that everyone can get a break—from the pain of trauma, or the pain of Trump—and have more fun in 2020, even if it’s just a taste.

Of course, I realize that not everyone has the means to go on an extended holiday (and I also know that the Corbits would trade every cent of any insurance settlement to have their home and town back), but there are many ways, big and small, to join the party in 2020.

The shortest path to fun is to join a small party. If

you have friends who invite you to dinners, barbecues, movies, walks and rock shows, realize how lucky you are and say “no” to Netflix for one night and commune with those who dig you. When it’s over, it’s your turn to invite them.

Go to a public function—something new, weird or wild to get you way out of your head—and party with strangers. As I was writing this I came across Link Link Circus, a “theatricalized lecture” created by and starring Isabella Rossellini, who, along with her little dog Pan, takes a “comedic and scientifically informed look at the links between humans and animals.” It shows six nights in early February at The Chapel in San Francisco, and I think that would do nicely.

If you have it in you, put on an actual party. Invite people, tell them to bring food and drinks, and most important: Take time to connect with every single face before you worry even one second about the trash and the dishes.

Or just be like the Corbits have always been, and be down for having fun with the community and celebrating the fact that we’re all here as much as humanly possible. If you asked Butte County residents, “Who is the most fun-loving couple you know?” those who know them would answer, “the Corbits.” They’re the first to put on wild costumes, the first to raise a glass, the first (and last) on the dance floor, the first to buy their music-festival passes and community theater season tickets, and the first fans in the stands at the Giants game. They are two of my favorite people in the world—a sentiment echoed by many—and part of the reason is that they consistently show up to partake in whatever weird fun life has to offer.

Even if one great year doesn’t completely balance everything out, I’m not too worried about the Corbits.

They still exist, they know it, and they will damn sure continue celebrate it. In 2020, we should all be so bold and join the party as well. Ω

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THE DAMAGED GOODS: rock to Chico State, The system didn’t cutAlternative funding of heartbreak and restless wander, and Chico’s own October 379 E. Park Ave. tackleboxchico.com trio blending genres of rock, funk, despite significant enrollment drop Coalition brings a collection of some of your favorite local country, bluegrass and jazz. Sat, HECKLEMANIA IV - CHICO JEWELL: Not 12/28, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino front-porch players to the barroom stage. Pin your heart on your regular comedy show. & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville. your sleeve and go!

Features interactive audience sharp-dressed men. Fri, 12/27, 9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.

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AMANDA GREY: Relax with the local musician, food and beer. Fri, 12/27, 8pm. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Oroville. theex changeoroville.com

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$1.1 million from the Graduation Initiative 2025 fund meant to help increase graduation rates across the CSU campuses. That money, Larson explained, plus the 2 percent growth dollars, offset any losses the campus would have felt due to lowered enrollment.

“The students aren’t feeling it,” she told the CN&R. She hasn’t seen any class cancellations related to the drop, she said. While there are natural shifts each school year, many of them due to student interest in different majors, she said, the faculty shouldn’t be feeling it either.

“They’ve received general salary increases over the past few years, funded by the Chancellor’s Office,” said Jennifer Mays, executive director of Budget and Academic Resources at Chico State. that realm of campus. So although enrollment is not THE RETROTONES: Classic rock and “And they are good salary increases.” her department, whencountry it drops—or Sat, with local rises—it cover band.affects 12/28, 9pm.

Studio Inn Lounge, 2582 One thing the campus does have its eye on, her budget and can lead to difficult decisions like AN EVENING OF BOSSA NOVA TAINTED LOVE: Eighties-themed dance Esplanade. jazz night featuring MUSIC: Braziliancanceling said, is the drop in “nonresident” students, or classes. Take, for instance, the significant nightLarson with popular cover band Jeffrey Obser, Robert Karch and Sat, 12/28, yourcoming fave hits. from those out of state or even other coun& THE FLEAS: music,this beer school playing decrease inTime, studentsSHEP attending the Live campus 7pm. Wine friends. Sat, 12/28, JOHN SEID & FRIENDS: A variety of hot 8:30pm. Gold Country Casino & and food. Sat, 12/28, 8pm. The tries.

That number has been dropping the Sun, past12/29, few6pm. 5th 26 Lost Dutchman Dr. There were 515 fewer students enrolled in the year. dinner tunes.

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Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St., Street Steakhouse, W. Fifth St. years, and therefore isn’t a mere blip, she said.345The goldcountrycasino.com fall semester than in 2018-19.

What’s more, each Oroville. theexchangeoroville.com significance of that decline for her department is that campus in the California State University system is nonresident students bring in more money to the expected to actually grow a certain amount every campus—they pay higher tuition, for instance. So, year. With funding tied to student bodies on campus, recruitment officers are looking at strategic ways to administrators were understandably nervous before boost those numbers. budgets were released at the beginning of the school Recruitment—and retention—will be keys to getyear that money would be tight. ting over the Camp Fire hurdle, Larson said. And “In the past, [the CSU] was very persnickety they’re multifaceted. about meeting enrollment targets, in a really detailed “We’re not anticipating that what happened this way,” Larson said. “[But] we did get some additional year with enrollment will foreshadow some change dollars. They are saying, ‘We’re going to give you in our budget [for 2020-21],” Larson said. “What will 2 percent enrollment growth [funding] even if you impact our budget next year is, how are we doing in didn’tSign get that.

That’s partly because the CSU underup today for recruiting and retaining students?” stands the impacts of the Camp Fire last year.”

County’s “And some of those are transfer students from WhatButte this means is that the money that Chico State Ever did BYOC Butte College. But Butte College enrollment is way receivesFirst per student not drop for 2019-20, despite down,” Mays added, referring to the loss of 1,000 the decline in enrollment. In essence, it got a pass.

Cannabis-Friendly students since the Camp Fire at the community colThe economic impact 515 full-time-equivalent pupils Art Classes lege. “So, there are all these different levers.” would have on the campus is significant: $3.82 million. That comes in the form of state dollars and tuition. www.ButteCounty —MEREDITH J. COOPER Academic Affairs also received a one-time allotment of me r e d i th c @ newsr ev iew.c o m participation with fansit invited to to ensuring DRAG KING SHOW: Watch somemoney of your to When comes there’s enough heckle. Fri, 12/27, 8pm. $10. The favorite gender-bending kings pay faculty and staff, purchase equipment like microMaltese, 1600 Park Ave. take the stage, hosted by Tucker scopes and projectors,Noir. andSat, keep the lights on in Chico 12/28, 10pm. $7. The JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON & STEVE Maltese, 1600 Park State’s classrooms, Debra Larson is Ave. your woman. As COOK: An eclectic mix of music for provost and vice president ofFemale-forward Academic Affairs, Fri, 12/27, your dining pleasure.

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REEL WORLD Due to holiday deadlines, film listings might not be current.

Please check with theaters for up-to-date information.

FILM SHORTS Reviewers: Meredith J. Cooper, Bob Grimm and Juan-Carlos Selznick.

Opening this week 1917

Director Sam Mendes (American Beauty, Road to Perdition) crafted this film that follows a couple of British soldiers on a dangerous mission during World War I in what looks like one long continuous take. (Check with theaters for local availability). Rated R.

Little Women

Greta Gerwig directs Saoirse Ronin, Emma Watson, Meryl Streep, Laura Dern, Florence Pugh and Eliza Scanlen in this adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel about a group of sisters coming of age in the aftermath of the American Civil War. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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In this computer-animated adventure, Will Smith stars as the voice of Lance Sterling (“the world’s most awesome spy”) who, after being transformed into a pigeon, has to figure out new ways to fight crime. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

An unimaginative and derivative finale for the Skywalker Saga

S(Rey/Daisy soulless squandering of good characters/actors Ridley, Kylo Ren/Adam Driver) and the tar Wars: The Rise of Skywalker is a disastrous,

good will built up by the first two installments of this most recent trilogy. Director J.J. Abrams and producer Kathleen by Bob Grimm Kennedy have failed at giving the main story of the Star Wars franbg r i mm@ chise the send-off it deserved. newsrev i ew.c om But money has to get made, so here it is, the last chapter of the nine-film/three-trilogy Skywalker Saga, just in time for holiday movie going.

Star Wars: What makes it so bad? The first The Rise of hour is fast and furious, but with Skywalker Starring Daisy ridley, no editing flow and no sense of Adam Driver and John purpose. Fans going in looking for boyega. Directed by answers or meaningful storytellJ.J. Abrams. cinemark ing will not only be bewildered, 14, Feather river but probably pissed off as well. cinemas. rated PG-13.

It’s like the producers made things up as they went along. The Force Awakens (2015), also directed and co-written by Abrams, was a promising start. Heck, I think it’s a classic. Then, The Last Jedi (2017) happened, and writer/director Rian Johnson went off the rails a bit storytelling-wise. Despite some odd plotting choices and half-baked ideas, it was a decent Star Wars entry.

The unimaginative Rise of Skywalker seems like an unabashed apology for “missteps” of The Last Jedi. By doing everything it can to win back the fans that may have gotten disenchanted—continuity be damned—this film renders its predecessor as a complete joke. Even if some fans were displeased with

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Jedi, it doesn’t mean they wanted a Star Wars Happy Times Mix Tape in response.

Previously, the most regretful moment in Star Wars history was Princess Leia using the force to float through deep space and save herself in The Last Jedi.

Allowing the character to survive paved the way for what happens here, as “the last performance” of the great Carrie Fisher is cobbled together from outtakes.

It’s awkward, obvious and reminds me of when Blake Edwards insulted the late Peter Sellers the same way with the posthumously released, and equally terrible, Trail of the Pink Panther.

As for the return of Emperor Palpatine (Ian McDiarmid), his footage plays like a bad Hellraiser sequel. If Palpatine had a presence or influence in the two preceding movies, this might have made sense.

Instead, the sound of his cackle reeks of storytelling desperation. And don’t get me started on the Death Star wreckage.

My advice is to pretend Rise of Skywalker didn’t happen. Allow hologram Luke Skywalker (Mark Hamill) facing down Kylo Ren in Jedi to be the end of the Skywalker Saga and skip this one. Instead, watch The Mandalorian (and experience the soulhealing powers of Baby Yoda) on Disney+ for your Star Wars fix.

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A group of sorority pledges is stalked by a stranger over winter break. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.

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volatile friendships and corporate clashes.

Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

Frozen 2

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.

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Jumanji: The Next Level

The whole gang is back for the sequel to Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle (2017).

This time around, they set out to save Spencer (Alex Wolff), who’s gone back into the game. Turns out, the sequel is more difficult, and they must embark on a new adventure with a new nemesis (played with perfect intensity by Rory McCann—GOT’s The Hound). To beef up the story, the familiar avatars (played by Dwayne Johnson, Kevin Hart, Jack Black and Karen Gillan) get some new strengths and weaknesses, and are joined by a few new sidekicks (Awkwafina and a horse—don’t ask). In the human world, we get to meet Spencer’s grandfather (Danny DeVito) and his old business partner (Danny Glover), to add some “I’m too old for this shit” humor to the mix. Add to that some new tricks and/or glitches— like the ability to switch characters midgame—and fans of the first film are in for a fun ride. The adventure is nonstop, and I can’t count the number of times I laughed out loud in the theater. A perfect escape film for the wintertime blues. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —M.J.C.

A biopic on the sexual assault scandal at Fox News when anchor Gretchen Carlson and others made allegations that brought about the resignation of the network’s CEO, Roger Aisles. Starring Charlize Theron as Megyn Kelly and Nicole Kidman as Carlson.

Cinemark 14. Rated R.

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With CGI effects that blur the lines between cats and humans, director Tom Hooper (Les Misérables) brings Andrew Lloyd Webber’s stage musical to the big screen with a cast that includes Jennifer Hudson, Taylor Swift, Idris Elba, James Corden and more. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.

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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,

Clint Eastwood directs this biopic that tells the story of the security-guard hero of the 1996 Centennial Olympic Park bombing who came under heavy scrutiny as a prime suspect. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.

Rated R.

Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

See review this issue. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG-13 —B.G.

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Uncut Gems

Adam Sandler joins forces with writers/directors Benny and Josh Safdie and delivers the kind of fully committed dramatic performance that he’s hinted at in the past (see Punch-Drunk Love).

Sandler plays Howard Ratner, a New York City jewelry store owner and gambling addict. It’s 2012, and he’s built up substantial debts with a bunch of criminals, and he will suffer greatly if he doesn’t pay. His solution is to obtain a million-dollar black opal straight from Ethiopia. Of course, selling the stone at auction and solving all of his problems doesn’t prove so easy for Howard, portrayed by Sandler as an out-of-his-mind kook who screws up every chance he gets. With a character whose life is so messed up that it’s sometimes funny, Sandler’s comedic chops come into play for some moments of dark humor as well. But, for the most part, Sandler isn’t in this for laughs. His Howard is a complete character study of a sad, complex man addicted to chaos who doesn’t know when to quit. He completely owns the role. Cinemark 14, Pageant Theatre. Rated R —B.G.

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Ithen journey we know as life, and if you also like to eat, you’re in luck. For, as we approach the new f money is a chief goal of yours in this one-way

year, the superstitious wisdom of ancient cultures lights our way toward success and prosperity with—as luck would have it—food. Many believe that eating the right things on or around New Year’s Eve will bring you good fortune—even money—in the year 2020. So what’s for dinner? Here is a selection of items long believed—if not scientifically proven—to generate good fortune, and cash, in the 12 months ahead.

Pig: These clever and personable mammals can make wonderful pets. But if you eat one, good fortune will befall you. That’s because pigs move in a forward direction as they nose through soft soils by for edibles—which indicates Alastair Bland forward motion and progress. Also, because pigs tend to be plump, those who eat them will be, too.

This is better than it sounds, because fatness indicates success, wealth and smart investments in the stock market—the important things in life. Well, at least, being fat symbolized such virtues in centuries past.

Unfortunately for the pig, the superstition persists: Eat pork, and your assets will grow.

Leafy greens: Kale has been one of the world’s trendiest foods—after bacon—in recent years. It also brings good luck. That’s because greens look remarkably like cash, in case you haven’t noticed. Thus, eating greens—collard, kale, spinach, whatever— generates money, even if you live in Europe and your national currency isn’t green. Since leafy veggies are a relatively low-cost food, they represent an excellent investment strategy. Even if your savings account doesn’t begin to grow after your next kale salad, you will at least be gaining high levels of nutrients per calorie ingested—and without the massive water costs of animal husbandry. Greens are good for you and the environment.

Whole fish: Fish scales look like coins. Thus, eating a whole fish will bring good luck and wealth.

While most fish are cooked after the scales are removed, we will assume this won’t change the intended effects on acquiring new properties or logging capital gains. And there is another luck-related reason to eat fish: They swim in schools (some do, at

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least—just go with it). While this may actually be a behavioral adaptation indicating a dangerous world fraught with predators, to the ancients, such gathering indicated community—and prosperity. How best to cook a whole fish? Try a salt crust. Literally bury the cleaned (and scaled) fish in coarse sea salt. Bake at 400 degrees for 30 minutes. The salt will hold in the moisture of the fish—and will break apart in large pieces as you serve it. (Throw some of the salt over your left shoulder if you’ve got any household poltergeist problems. That will shoo the specters away.)

Cornbread: One of America’s most heartening comfort foods, cornbread is also associated with prosperity. The color is gold—like the most coveted element in the universe—and when whole corn kernels are scattered through the batter, the intended effect is that of gold nuggets.

Lentils: These high-fiber, high-protein legumes are virtuous in many dietary ways. Since they also look like coins—I know; it seems like a stretch—they are considered especially good to eat. Lentils are disk-shaped and (sometimes) green. Better, you just add water and they grow bigger. If only financial management was so easy; we’d all retire early, and we wouldn’t even need to slaughter the pig. In Brazil, Hungary and Italy, lentils are eaten for good luck. In the American South, another legume, the black-eyed pea, serves the same purpose.

Pickled herring: In parts of northern Europe, pickled herring is eaten at the stroke of midnight to secure good fortune in the coming year. Though this might significantly lessen your chances of getting a kiss, the tradition just might get you some cash. The science underlying this theory is that, to hopeful, imaginative folks, herring look like glittering coins. Just hope these high-protein, high omega-3 morsels indicate silver dollars, not nickels. Ω

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2019 DEVO AWARDS: The envelope, please …

BEST CAUSE FOR HOPE: The artists of Para-

dise. Three months after the start of the Camp Fire, Theatre on the Ridge lit up its roadside sign with the words “Return to Paradise,” and opened the first play at the Ridge theater since the flames had destroyed nearly everything else on its road. The Radioland musical variety show was a tribute to the theater’s community and one of the early sparks of hope. And with the subsequent musical/ community-building efforts of the Paradise Guilds/Norton Buffalo Hall, the return of performances to the Paradise Performing Arts Center, and the reopening of classes and the gallery at the Paradise Art Center, the artists of the Ridge continue to create hope.

MOST COMFORTING ART: Jess Mercer’s “Key Phoenix” and Chikoko’s Tend. Mercer’s gift of

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MOST INSPIRED DESIGN: Zac Acker’s Butte

Strong logo. The local tattoo artist and owner of 12 Volt Tattoo created an elegantly simple illustration—a pine tree over the state of California with a heart where Butte County is—a couple of days after the Camp Fire and it has become nearly ubiquitous since. It’s on car windows, canteens and T-shirts everywhere and is an instantly recognizable symbol of love and support. (Buy the gear at etsy.com/shop/ ButteStrong.)

Open Fridays for Lunch 11:30am – 2:30pm

BEST ART SHOW (TIE): Broken Open, with Cameron Crawford, Elise Ficarra and Eveylyn Ficarra (Jan. 17-Feb. 20), at 1078 Gallery; Dennis Leon: I am Here (Feb. 14-March 24), at Museum of Northern California Art.

Join us for Happy Hour Every Day 4:30–6pm

BEST ARTISTS: Zak Elstein and Amber Miller.

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a Phoenix sculpture fashioned with thousands of keys from Camp Fire survivors who lost their homes is a powerful symbol of loss and rebirth. And for their Tend exhibit at the Museum of Northern California Art, the Chikoko team repurposed found, broken and burnt items into sculptural explorations of the meaning of home—most often in the form of nests, including a giant, soft and inviting one that people could climb into and let themselves be held.

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fact, to harvest the skeletal remains of the little furry things and display them in beautiful and sometimes haunting light-box scenes for three stunning exhibits (at Winchester Goose, Blackbird and Naked Lounge) this year. And Miller, the managing director at the Blue Room Theatre, has gone above and beyond the role of your average community-theater designer with a run of several “beautifully painted,” “gorgeously realized” and “richly detailed” sets (as CN&R reviewers have described them) that were works of art in their own right.

BEST LIVE THEATER: Hand to God and The Madam and the Mayor’s Wife at the Blue Room; Slow Theatre’s Vincent at Chico Women’s Club and the Butcher Shop festival; California Regional Theatre’s Matilda and Sweeney Todd at CUSD Center for the Arts; and most impressive of all, Legacy Stage’s exhilarating outdoor production of Macbeth in Bidwell Park.

BEST LIVE MUSIC: Just a handful of the most

memorable shows for me (and a few others whom I trust): Kelly Houston singing “Like a Virgin” with the Uncle Dad’s Orchestra during the Madonna tribute show at Laxson Auditorium (Jan. 26); North State Symphony’s Soloistic Sensations (featuring Sergei Prokofiev’s Piano Concerto No. 1) at Laxson (Feb. 23); Terry Riley’s “In C” by Chico State student/faculty ensemble at Rowland-Taylor Hall (Feb. 28) and Terry Riley and Gloria Cheng in Zingg Recital Hall (March 1); Rebirth Brass Band at Lost on Main (March 10); Mdou Moctar and Marisa Anderson at Argus Bar + Patio (April 17); Antibalas at Sierra Nevada Big Room (June 19); OC Hurricanes, WRVNG, Beehive at Argus Bar (July 26); The Beths and Girl Friday at Sierra Nevada Hop Yard (July 27); Death Star, Uncle Rosco, West by Swan at The Maltese (Aug. 2); Sex Hogs II and Beehive at Duffy’s Tavern (Sept. 19); The Shivas at The Maltese (Nov. 7); Lee Fields at the Big Room (Dec. 9); plus, a smattering of beautiful house shows—Eric Bachmann (Jan. 27); Eleanor Murray and Donald Beaman (July 11); Richard Buckner (Sept. 25).

BEST LOCAL ALBUMS: Open Field, Donald Bea-

man; Sera, Pat Hull.

BEST LOCAL SONGS: “Refugee,” John-Michael Sun; “Across an Open Field,” Donald Beaman; “Want,” Astronaut Ice Cream.

2019 MILESTONES

Birthdays: KCHO/North State Public Radio turns 50, and the Blue Room Theatre turns 25.

New on the scene: Provisions Gallery, Strega Studios, Maker Radio at Idea Fabrication Labs, G-Town Hot Shop and Legacy Stage.

Rest in peace: • Mikkel McDow, longtime local musician (Beltain) and soundperson.

• Sal Casa, prolific painter, art teacher and Chico arts icon.

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Biggs

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Chico

$230,000

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13713 Sawgrass Ct

Chico

$783,000

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2829

528 W 8th St

Chico

$210,000

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49 Arminta Ct

Chico

$716,273

3/3

2433

4501 Wilder Dr

Chico

$121,500

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230 Somerset Pl

Chico

$595,000

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7554 Humboldt Rd

Forest Ranch

$175,000

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1180

216 Estates Dr

Chico

$550,000

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1951

2147 Eagle Meadows Dr

Gridley

$420,000

4/3

2488

920 Bruce Ln

Chico

$540,000

4/2

2352

6749 Eley Dr

Magalia

$215,000

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731 Sheridan Ave

Chico

$495,500

3/2

2155

6187 Leicester Dr

Magalia

$174,000

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1540

2665 Lakewest Dr

Chico

$480,000

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1821

6504 Lower Wyandotte Rd

Oroville

$400,000

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200 Crater Lake Dr

Chico

$455,000

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1973 16th St

Oroville

$246,000

3/2

1714

254 Pinyon Hills Dr

Chico

$431,000

3/2

1705

2210 Stump Dr

Oroville

$223,000

3/2

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1033 Cordelia Ct

Chico

$409,000

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185 Canyon Highlands Dr

Oroville

$220,000

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847 Greenwich Dr

Chico

$390,000

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667 Long Bar Rd

Oroville

$164,000

3/1

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246 W 14th St

Chico

$360,000

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2280

2351 C St

Oroville

$147,000

2/1

912

2366 Holly Ave

Chico

$360,000

3/2

1393

2467 A St

Oroville

$87,000

2/1

956

2890 Carlene Pl

Chico

$353,500

3/1

1472

3330 Fallbrook Ave

Oroville

$60,000

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951

1389 Lucy Way

Chico

$350,000

3/2

1471

7068 Fulton Ave

Palermo

$170,000

1/1

1089

228 W 1st Ave

Chico

$345,000

4/2

1594

1881 S Villa Ave

Palermo

$70,000

3/1

1131

2235 Hutchinson St

Chico

$319,000

3/3

1920

1233 Lovely Ln

Paradise

$290,500

3/2

1671

30 Irving Way

Chico

$307,500

4/2

1175

6686 Brook Way

Paradise

$274,000

2/2

1222

2217 Mulberry St

Chico

$240,000

2/2

1068

610 Sunset Dr

Paradise

$268,000

2/2

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as S AND S PRODUCE AND NATURAL FOODS at 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

RICH’S BUTCHER SHOP INCORPORATED 1900 Mangrove Avenue #30 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: BREIN JONES, SECRETARY Dated: November 6, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001262 Published: December 5,12,19,26, 2019

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as NORTHWERK CONSTRUCTION at 832 Alan Lane Chico, CA 95926.

ALEC MARTIN BINYON 978 Salem St. B Chico, CA 95928.

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

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as INVENTIVE CONSTRUCTION LANDSCAPING at 1078 E 8th St Chico, CA 95928.

JOHN PHILIP PURVIANCE 1078 E 8th St Chico, CA 95928.

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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 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

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PORCH-TO-PORCH REAL ESTATE ASSOCIATES at 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

BCHM CORPORATION 2080 E. 20th St. Suite 170 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KAREN MCCOLLUM, ADMINISTRATOR Dated: November 20, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001320 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as WOFCHUCK HONEY CO at 1725 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

MICHAEL WOFCHUCK 1725 Dayton Road Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: MICHAEL WOFCHUCK Dated: December 2, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001347 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as FOOTHILL PROPERTIES at 695 E. 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

BLAKE ANDERSON 695 E. 4th Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: BLAKE ANDERSON Dated: December 5, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001359 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PATHOLOGY SCIENCES MEDICAL GROUP at 183 E 8th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

PRISCILLA S CHANG 2962 Chico River Road Chico, CA 95928.

HEIDI A JESS 34 Sparrow Hawk Lane Chico, CA 95928.

REBECCA L JOHNSON 368 Brookside Drive Chico, CA 95928.

NELSON K KANEISHI 979 E 6th Street Chico, CA 95928.

ANTHONY NASR 4523 Garden Brook Drive Chico, CA 95973.

GEOFFREY T SASAKI 3156 Shallow Springs Terrace Chico, CA 95928.

LESTER K WONG 347 Legion Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: LESTER K. WONG Dated: October 30, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001236 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF WITHDRAWAL The following persons have withdrawn as partners from the partnership operating under PATHOLOGY SCIENCES MEDICAL GROUP at 183 E 8th Avenue Chico, CA 95926.

MARK R CARTER MD A PROFESSION 621 Breanna Lane Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by a General Partnership.

Signed: MARK R CARTER MD Dated: October 30, 2019 FBN Number: 2017-0001599 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JEANNIE’S, JEANNIE’S CONSIGNMENT at 491 Pearson Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

CAROL STARK 5486 Scottwood Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: CAROL STARK Dated: November 12, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001283 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as PURE HYDRATION at 325 Bridge Street Colusa, CA 95932.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as STEWART PROPERTY MANAGEMENT at 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

BREIN L. JONES TRUSTEE OF THE STEWART 2019 FAMILY TRUST 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

RICHARD L STEWART TRUSTEE OF THE RICHARD STEWART LIVING TRUST 1924 Mangrove Avenue Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Unincorporated Association.

Signed: BREIN JONES Dated: December 2, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001346 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO TATTOO COMPANY at 252 East Ave Suite C Chico, CA 95973.

TYSON BODE 2765 Montgomery Street Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: TYSON BODE Dated: December 6, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001362 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as SHANASHEEL at 1301 Sheridan Ave #109 Chico, CA 95926.

JASIM WASI 1301 Sheridan Ave #109 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JASIM WASI Dated: November 26, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001339 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as THE ORIGINAL BARBER JOHNS at 532 Nord Ave Chico, CA 95926.

RICHARD ROY FUNKHOUSER II 2388 Serviss Street Durham, CA 95938.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: RICHARD R FUNKHOUSER II Dated: December 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001382 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALEX FIX IT at 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973.

ALEXANDER T ARAUJO 280 Camino Norte St Chico, CA 95973.

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an Individual.

Signed: ARAUJO, ALEXANDER Dated: December 11, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001383 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHICO GROCERY OUTLET at 2157 Pillsbury Rd Chico, CA 95926.

C AND T’S BARGAIN MARKET, INC 4297 Calernbar Rd Paradise, CA 95969.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: CHRIS HOSTETTLER, OWNER Dated: November 18, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001307 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ALPHA STRONG at 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

NEW STRONG INC 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: KATHY HANKINS, CEO Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001375 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as ALPHA STRONG FITNESS 2 at 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

KATHY M HANKINS 977 East Ave #10 Chico, CA 95926.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KATHY M HANKINS Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001376 Published: December 19,26, 2019 January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as CHICO BROW at 4070 Nord Hwy 141 Chico, CA 95973.

ASHLEY NICOLE ROOT BAZER 4070 Nord Hwy 141 Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: ASHLEY ROOT-BAZER Dated: November 18, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001310 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as PRO WIRELESS at 2554 Olive Highway Oroville, CA 95966.

NENG XIONG 2707 Fay Way Oroville, CA 95966.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: NENG XIONG Dated: December 13, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001396 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME - STATEMENT OF ABANDONMENT The following person has abandoned the use of the fictitious business name REVOLUTION DANCE at 5923 Clark Rd Suite I Paradise, CA 95969.

VALERIE LEIDIG 7040 Montna Dr Paradise, CA 95969.

This business was conducted by an Individual.

Signed: VALERIE LEIDIG Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2017-0001568 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as REVOLUTION DANCE COMPANY at 830 Broadway Street Chico, CA 95928.

KAREN WINCHESTER 3965 Front Street Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: KAREN WINCHESTER Dated: December 10, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001377 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as CHINA MASSAGE at 236 W East Ave Suite F Chico, CA 95926.

XIU LAN LI 400 Mission Ranch Blvd #43 Chico, CA 95928.

ROBERT W MAURER 400 Mission Ranch Blvd #43 Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Married Couple.

Signed: ROBERT W. MAURER Dated: December 17, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001409 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as TORRES COMMUNITY SHELTER at 101 Silver Dollar Way Chico, CA 95928.

TRUE NORTH HOUSING ALLIANCE INC 101 Silver Dollar Way Chico, CA 95928.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: JOY AMARO, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Dated: December 16, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001402 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following persons are doing business as ACTION REALTY at 1664 Montgomery Street Oroville, CA 95965.

TROY DAVIS REAL ESTATE, INC. 1664 Montgomery Street Oroville, CA 95965.

This business is conducted by a Corporation.

Signed: TROY DAVIS, BOARD CHAIR PERSON, PRESIDENT, SECRETARY, TREASURER Dated: December 17, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001410 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT The following person is doing business as JM TRANSPORT at 50 Lobelia Ct Chico, CA 95973.

JAIVIRPAL S RANDHAWA 50 Lobelia Ct Chico, CA 95973.

This business is conducted by an Individual.

Signed: JAIVIRPAL S. RANDHAWA Dated: December 16, 2019 FBN Number: 2019-0001400 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9,16, 2020

NOTICES 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.

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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 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner ERIC ELISHA KNIGHT filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: ERIC ELISHA KNIGHT Proposed name: DAVID ELISHA STOCKTON 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: 19CV03107 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Present name: BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER SCHULTZ Proposed name: BRADLEY CHRISTOPHER MORRIS 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 29, 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: December 12, 2019 Case Number: 19CV03653 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

SUMMONS SUMMONS NOTICE TO DEFENDANT: CHARISH L BLEVINS YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF: BUTTE COUNTY CREDIT BUREAU A CORP NOTICE! You have been sued.

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

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

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

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

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

(530) 366-4290 Dated: November 13, 2018 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Case Number: 18CV03741 Published: December 12,19,26, 2019, Janurary 2, 2020 SUMMONS NOTICE TO RESPONDENT KEVIN K. WISE You have been sued by petitioner: STACY R. KNAUSS You have 30 calendar days after this Summons and Petition are served on you to file a Response (form FL-120) at the court and have a copy served on the petitioner. A letter, phone call, or court appearance will not protect you.

If you do not file your Response on time, the court may make orders affecting your marriage or domestic partnership, your property, and custody of your children. You may be ordered

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to pay support and attorney fees and costs.

For legal advice, contact a lawyer immediately.

Get help finding a lawyer at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courts.ca.gov/selfhelp) at the California Legal Services website (www.lawhelpca.org), or by contacting your local county bar association.

FEE WAIVER: If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the clerk for a fee waiver form. The court may order you to pay back all or part of the fees and costs that the court waived for you or the other party.

The name and address of the court are: Superior Court Of California County of Butte Chico - North Butte County Courthouse 1775 Concord Avenue Chico, CA 95928 The name, address, and telephone number of the petitioner’s attorney, or the petitioner without an attorney, are: STACY R. KNAUSS 7986 Railroad Ave. Oroville, CA 95966 Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER Dated: October 30, 2019 Case Number: 19PA01874 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

PETITION NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE DANNY W. JARRETT, also known as DANNY WAYNE JARRETT To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: DANNY W. JARRETT, DANNY WANYE JARRETT, DANNY JARRETT A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DEBRA CUNNINGHAM in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: January 7, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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For the week oF December 26, 2019 ARIES (March 21-April 19): Nazi Germa-

ny invaded and occupied Denmark during World War II. In 1943, Hitler ordered all Danish Jews to be arrested—a first step in his plan to send them to concentration camps.

But the Danish resistance movement leapt into action and smuggled virtually all of them to safety via fishing boats bound for Sweden. As a result, 8,000-plus Danish Jews survived the Holocaust. You may not have the opportunity to do anything quite as heroic in 2020. But I expect you will have chances to express a high order of practical idealism that could be among your noblest and most valiant efforts ever. Draw inspiration from the Danish resistance.

TAURUS (April 20-May 20): When she

was 31, Taurus writer Charlotte Brontë finished writing her novel Jane Eyre. She guessed it would have a better chance of getting published if its author was thought to be a man. So she adopted the masculine pen name of Currer Bell and sent the manuscript unsolicited to a London publisher. Less than eight weeks later, her new book was in print. It quickly became a commercial success. I propose that we make Brontë one of your role models for 2020. May she inspire you to be audacious in expressing yourself and confident in seeking the help you need to reach your goals. May she embolden you, too, to use ingenious stratagems to support your righteous cause.

GEMINI (May 21-June 20): 2020 can

and should be a lyrically healing year for you. Here’s what I mean: Beauty and grace will be curative. The “medicine” you need will come to you via poetic and mellifluous experiences. With this in mind, I encourage you to seek out encounters with the following remedies. 1. Truth Whimsies 2.

Curiosity Breakthroughs 3. Delight Gambles 4. Sacred Amusements 4. Redemptive Synchronicities 5. Surprise Ripenings 6. Gleeful Discoveries 7. Epiphany Adventures 8.

Enchantment Games 9. Elegance Eruptions 10. Intimacy Angels 11. Playful Salvation 12.

Luminosity Spells

CANCER (June 21-July 22): “There are

years that ask questions and years that answer,” wrote author Zora Neale Hurston.

According to my astrological analysis, 2020 is likely to be one of those years that asks questions, while 2021 will be a time when you’ll get rich and meaningful answers to the queries you’ll pose in 2020. To ensure that this plan works out for your maximum benefit, it’s essential that you formulate provocative questions in the coming months. At first, it’s fine if you generate too many. As the year progresses, you can whittle them down to the most ultimate and important questions. Get started!

LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): The Roman

Emperor Vespasian (9-79 A.D.) supervised the restoration of the Temple of Peace, the Temple of Claudius and the Theater of Marcellus. He also built a huge statue of Apollo and the amphitheater now known as the Colosseum, whose magnificent ruins are still a major tourist attraction.

Vespasian also created a less majestic but quite practical wonder: Rome’s first public urinals. In accordance with astrological omens, I invite you to be stimulated by his example in 2020. Be your usual magnificent self as you generate both inspiring beauty and earthy, pragmatic improvements.

VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): When Virgo

author Mary Shelley was 18 years old, she had a disconcerting dream-like vision about a mad chemist who created a weird human-like creature out of non-living matter. She set about to write a book based on her mirage. At age 20, she published Frankenstein, a novel that would ultimately wield a huge cultural influence and become a seminal work in the “science fiction” genre. I propose we make Shelley one of your role models for 2020. Why? Because I suspect that you, too, will have the power to transform a challenging event or influence into an important asset. You’ll be able to generate or attract a new source of energy by responding creatively to experi-

by rob brezsny ences that initially provoke anxiety.

LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libra-born

mystic poet Rumi (1207-1273) wrote that he searched for holy sustenance and divine inspiration in temples, churches and mosques—but couldn’t find them there.

The good news? Because of his disappointment, he was motivated to go on an inner quest—and ultimately found holy sustenance and divine inspiration in his own heart. I’ve got a strong feeling that you’ll have similar experiences in 2020. Not on every occasion, but much of the time, you will discover the treasure you need and long for not in the outside world but rather in your own depths.

SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Among his

many accomplishments, Scorpio rapper Drake is an inventive rhymer. In his song “Diplomatic Immunity,” he rhymes “sacred temple” with “stencil.” Brilliant! Other rhymes: “statistics” with “ballistics;” “Treaty of Versailles” with “no cease and desist in I;” and—my favorite—“Al Jazeera” (the Qatar-based news source) with “Shakira” (the Colombian singer). According to my analysis of the astrological omens in 2020, many of you will have Drake-style skill at mixing and blending seemingly disparate elements. I bet you’ll also be good at connecting influences that belong together but have never been able to combine before.

SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian poet Rainer Maria Rilke (18751926) embodied a trait that many astrology textbooks suggest is common to the Sagittarian tribe: wanderlust. He was born in Prague but traveled widely throughout Europe and Russia. If there were a Guinness World Records category for “Time Spent as a Houseguest,” Rilke might hold it. There was a four-year period when he lived at 50 different addresses. I’m going to be bold here and hypothesize that 2020 will not be one of those years when you would benefit from being like Rilke. In fact, I hope you’ll seek out more stability and security than usual.

CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Fifteenth-century Italian metalworker Lorenzo Ghiberti worked for 28 years to turn the doors of the Florence Baptistry into a massive work of art. He used bronze to create numerous scenes from the Bible.

His fellow artist Michelangelo was so impressed that he said Ghiberti’s doors could have served as “The Gates of Paradise.” I offer Ghiberti as inspiration for your life in 2020. I think you’ll be capable of beginning a masterwork that could take quite some time to complete and serve as your very own “gate to paradise:” in other words, an engaging project and delightful accomplishment that will make you feel your life is eminently meaningful and worthwhile.

AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): You’re

wise to cultivate a degree of skepticism and even contrariness. Like all of us, your abilities to say “no” to detrimental influences and to criticize bad things are key to your mental health. On the other hand, it’s a smart idea to keep checking yourself for irrelevant, gratuitous skepticism and contrariness. You have a sacred duty to maintain just the amount you need, but no more—even as you foster a vigorous reservoir of receptivity, optimism and generosity. And guess what? 2020 will be an excellent time to make this one of your cornerstone habits.

PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) finished writing The Divine Comedy in 1320. Today it’s considered one of the supreme literary accomplishments in the Italian language and a classic of world literature. But no one ever read the entire work in the English language until 1802, when it was translated for the first time. Let’s invoke this as a metaphor for your life in the coming months. According to my visions, a resource or influence that has previously been inaccessible to you will finally arrive in a form you can understand and use. Some wisdom that has been untranslatable or unreadable will at last be available.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: NICOLE R. PLOTTEL 466 Vallombrosa Ave. Chico, CA 95926 (530) 893-2882 Dated: December 10, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00549 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

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

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

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

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

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

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Dept: C-10 Room: Address of the court: Superior Court of California County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Attorney for petitioner: RAOUL J. LECLERC P.O. Drawer 111 Oroville, CA 95965 (530) 533-5661 Dated: December 10, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00550 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MICHAEL JOHN WEINREICH To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MICHAEL JOHN WEINREICH A Petition for Probate has been filed by: SUSAN F. WEINREICH BEST in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

The Petition for Probate requests that: SUSAN F. WEINREICH BEST be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: January 14, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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County of Butte 1775 Concord Ave. Chico, CA 95926.

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

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

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

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

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

Petitioner: 1585 Hooker Oak Ave Chico, CA 95926 Dated: December 11, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00520 Published: December 19,26, 2019, January 2, 2020

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE MICHAEL LA VERNE PARKINSON To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MICHAEL LA VERNE PARKINSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by: DOUGLAS B. PARKINSON in the Superior Court of California, County of Butte.

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

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

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: January 14, 2020 Time: 9:00 a.m.

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

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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: SONYA K. FINN, LAW OFFICES OF LEVERENZ & FINN 515 Wall Street Chico, CA 95928 (530) 895-1621 Dated: December 19, 2019 Case Number: 19PR00563 Published: December 26, 2019, January 2,9, 2020

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