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CAMP
FIRE
Revisited
A SPECIAL REPORT
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EDITORIAL
Still in relief mode a year after Camp Fire
A year after the deadliest and most destructive wild-
fire in state history, Butte County is still in crisis.
Things certainly have changed over the past 12
months, and there are many signs of progress. The tent
cities that sprung up overnight are long gone, the debris
cleanup is nearly completed, and our hotels and motels
have vacancies. Yet, thousands of people are still strug-
gling with basic needs, including shelter and food.
Over the past year, the CN&R has published
more than 250 articles related to the Camp Fire. This
week, in a wide-ranging issue, we delve back into the
disaster on the eve of the anniversary. Among other
things, we explore Enloe Medical Center’s strained
operation, the county’s plans to improve disaster
preparedness, the fire vulnerabilities related to a
burned-out portion of the Miocene Canal, PG&E’s
work to underground power lines on the Ridge, and
District Attorney Mike Ramsey’s criminal investiga-
tion of the utility.
But at the heart of this disaster are people who are
hurting and need help.
The trauma is real. It stems not only from the
day they fled for their lives, but also all of the days
GUEST COMMENT
Paper dolls
Tready
omorrow the town burns down. And I’m no more
for it now than I was the first time.
All week up here: remembrances, memorials,
commemorations, tributes, groundbreakings, displays.
But none of them really touches the
fire. How could they?
At the Optimo, trapped for
hours. Finally, so desperate,
unloading bottles from the Pepsi
truck, setting them out as firebreak.
When the fire comes, maybe it
will explode the bottles—the Pepsi
will douse the fire! Women there
considering how best to kill their
by children. Before the fire takes them.
Kevin Jeys The bear is running, running with
The author stayed
all that he has, but he doesn’t have
in Paradise through enough. He is coming out of the fire,
the fire to protect but the fire is coming with him, the
his pets. bear is on fire, the bear is running, the
bear is burning, the bear is fire.
The dog is in the house. His man in Chico. The
fire is in the house, and the dog—good dog, smart
dog—retreats to the bathtub; there, he ends. Months
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thereafter that they’ve spent attempting to adjust to a
new life. For some, it’s meant dealing with the loss of
the place they called home, all of their possessions,
and, worst of all, a friend or loved one who perished
in the firestorm.
Perhaps what best illustrates where we are a year
after the Camp Fire is our story on the tiny Ridge
church that’s a sort of ground zero for ongoing relief
efforts. Long after the parachute reporters and TV
stations left town, and national charity groups like
the Red Cross shuttered the shelter at Chico’s fair-
grounds, the Magalia Community Church continues
to care for those in need.
Church officials believe they are doing God’s
work, and in our minds what they are doing is essen-
tial to the region’s well-being. Thing is, they need
help to keep this going. Volunteers and supplies are
in demand.
We don’t want to take away from the many
other good works over the past year or the events to
commemorate the anniversary. There will be beautiful,
heartfelt remembrances and activities. But the reality is
we have a long journey to recovery ahead.
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on, the people in the bar in the drink in the sports in
the TV. But that is not what the man sees. He sees but
his dog. In the bathtub.
A woman recalls: “Today I passed the burned car
on Skyway just up from Wagstaff. I couldn’t help but
think about whomever had to climb out of that passen-
ger door and leave it open as they fled the flames. I
cried the rest of the way home.”
A trio of people, who’d been homeless in Paradise,
wondering if they have a claim. “I didn’t really lose
anything,” says one. “Just my backpack with my clothes.
And my dog.” I mention this to my fire compañera—old
Paradise, family here 150 years—and her response is
instantaneous: “Of course they have a claim. They lost
the community. That’s what we all lost.”
So maybe who touches it best is a guy who’s never
been here. Except in heart, in soul. SF radio talk-show
host. People calling in to carp about the power shut-
offs. But he’s of another way. “I get it,” he says. “But
it’s a small price to pay. Because we’re a community.
We’re all paper dolls, standing in an oven, spraying
water on each other.”
Yes. It’s going to take something, from everybody,
so that nobody has to be here. Again. Ω Melissa Daugherty is editor of the CN&R
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
Milestone
“Just get past Nov. 8.”
That’s what I’ve been telling myself for the past month. Amid
the buildup of the Camp Fire one-year mark—my anxiety growing
with each day lacking rain—that refrain has kept me going.
Our issue hits the stands on the eve of the anniversary of the
great fire that wiped out a large swath of Butte County’s foothill
communities. And to be honest, I’ve been stressed about the po-
tential for another tragedy.
It’s an emotional response stemming from an event that has
left an indelible impression on so many. That includes the tens of
thousands who drove down through hell to escape the firestorm,
as well as a much smaller number of people who drove up into the
smoke and the flames—the firefighters, police officers and other
emergency personnel.
Then, of course, there are the journalists. Our job was to bear
witness to the devastation and chronicle it for the world while the
region was cordoned off.
I can’t speak for my CN&R colleagues, but for this scribe, those
days don’t seem like a year ago. Not even close. I can still smell
the smoke in the air, feel the heat coming from the twisted piles
of metal and other smoldering detritus, and hear the sounds of
propane tanks exploding.
It’s an odd juxtaposition with my post-fire foggy memory of
mundane things. I couldn’t tell you what I had for lunch yesterday,
but I can tell you where I was and what I saw on the Ridge for about
the first seven days after the blaze. Indeed, the images are seared
into my mind.
I see a tender-hoofed doe limping through the smoldering ashes
of a Magalia neighborhood off South Park Drive, a fawn trailing be-
hind with no fear of the human in their midst. I feel the soft fur and
purring vibrations of the hungry orange tabby on Eureka Drive.
I see the empty wheelchair in the parking lot of the still-burning
Safeway shopping center. I see the gray husks of cars lining street
after street. And still other vehicles—sometimes just feet away
in the middle of the lanes—eerily untouched by the flames. I see a
perfect motorcycle with a shiny blue tank dumped in a ditch.
I think about the messages from strangers flooding my inbox.
The man asking me to check on his home off of Sawmill Road. The
woman asking me to give water to her cats on Country Oak Drive.
I feel the punch to the gut as I search their neighborhoods only to
find chimneys and a few blackened appliances.
I remember sitting at my office in Chico, typing away with my
breathing mask on, and weeping after hearing confirmation that
a few of my colleagues lost their homes. But I steel myself for the
work ahead.
Here we are a year later with no end in sight. The anniversary
is a milestone, but it won’t heal what ails our fractured community.
I’ll spend the day reflecting on the past year—the highs and lows.
Then I’ll take comfort from being surrounded by individuals who
are dedicated to telling the stories that will help our community
continue on its path to recovery—however long that might take.
LETTERS Send email to cnrletters@newsreview.com
About that eco plan
Re “Seizing the moment”
(Newslines, by Andre Byik,
Oct. 31):
Chico is clearly situated to take
climate change adaptability to a
new level and provide pieces of
a model for other cities to follow.
I’m encouraged to see two City
Council members embrace this
responsibility.
But this Chico Green New
Deal, while it goes in the right
direction, doesn’t call for any kind
of fundamental shift away from the
wasteful, oil-fueled development
that got us here.
As examples: Just like the
Climate Action Plan, it takes
no account of the production of
commodities we habitually consume
in Chico.
It contains the idea of “climate-
friendly housing solutions,” but
nothing on the imminent expansion
of Bruce Road and all further
suburban sprawl based on private
automobiles.
The plan mentions upgrading
housing to be more climate-friendly,
“saving on energy costs for property
owners,” and “in economically
feasible ways.” But for the majority
of residences in Chico, tenants pay
the power bill. So I wonder, who
does it have to be economically
feasible for?
Someone may have called to
“enhance” our bus system 30 years
ago, but the reality is almost no one
can entirely depend on it today. This
isn’t a vision of walkable neighbor-
hoods and city life where a private
car is unnecessary.
Addison Winslow
Chico
Credit to Vice Mayor Alex Brown
for caring, but their version of the
Green New Deal is vague, lacks
holistic thinking and parrots the
false notion that we can “grow”
our way out of an ecological crisis
perpetuated by economic growth.
Lots of talk about solar panels
and “green” energy, but not effi-
ciency, which could be placed on
the landlords who pass the cost of
inefficiency onto already burdened
renters. Talk of workforce develop-
ment, but not of the fundamentally
exploitative relationship between
employer and employed, coop-
erative enterprise development, or
eliminating profit- and rent-seeking.
We need to democratize urban life.
The best section is the one on
food, yet there is no smart objective,
like “produce 80 percent of fresh
fruits and veggies consumed within
the city limits,” a wholly realistic
and transformative goal. There’s a
section on water reuse, an expensive
proposition. Nothing about our
Yoga in Tuscany
insane waste/stormwater systems.
Nothing about outlawing turf, or June
even eliminating city-owned turf.
How about save water, recharge the 13 - 20
aquifer, help pollinators and grow
food by providing a framework and
with Rex Stromness 2020
mandates for gray water stub-outs
and edible streetside rain gardens? • Daily Yoga and Meditation
That’s holistic thinking. Business as
usual won’t do. We need visionaries
• Visits to Hilltop Towns and
willing to be bold. the Mediterranean Coast
Steven Breedlove
Chico
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Your plumbing
Fixed Right, Chico’s class divisions
Right Now! “Diversity on the dais” (Newslines,
by Ashiah Scharaga, Oct. 31):
Whether Chico can be
improved by “district” elections,
as opposed to an “at large” system,
is anyone’s guess. What’s beyond
doubt is that driving this change
forward on the basis of ethnicity is
...and more just plain silly.
Downtown Paradise Many cities exhibit geographic
Chico 691 Fir St. concentrations along racial
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and ethnic lines; Chico has no
such concentrations. What we
do have are distinctly different
Nov 7 neighborhoods, with class being
thru the operative factor. That is,
Jan 20 geographic concentrations at well
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above the median income/wealth
Paradise level and concentrations at well
Rink
below the median—an obvious
example being Canyon Oaks versus
Chapmantown.
What’s long been missing in
Chico politics is representation of
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giver, etc. Instead, we have a history
Private reNtal - Field triPs, Birthday Parties, CorPorate eveNts of disproportionate representation
by affluent professionals.
To further complicate matters,
we’ve had Latinx candidates
running the spectrum from not
qualified, Mercedes Macías, to
well-qualified, Lupita Arim-Law—
though Arim-Law is yet another
professional! And let’s not let this
irony go unnoticed: Our only self-
identifying Latinx council member,
Mayor Randall Stone, voted for an
ugly, not-at-all-progressive raft of
homeless criminalization laws in
2015, while the lone dissenter was a
white woman, Tami Ritter.
Patrick Newman
Chico
‘Love and respect’
Re “Awaiting rain” (Second &
Flume, by Melissa Daugherty,
Oct. 31):
Journalists covering jarring local
news stories are a testament not
only to the constitutional rights of
freedom of the press and freedom of
speech, but also to sacrifices people
make for the betterment of our
community.
Wendy, a principal in the Youth
for Justice show I’m producing to
air—on KZFR 90.1 FM at 6 p.m.
Nov. 7—had this to say: “I Just
wanted to thank you again for
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being a part of our recovery. That
was really good for Dolyn (age 6)
today.”
Every act of kindness has an
impact. Documenting Camp Fire
stories, a year later, of families
who lost everything, on the sacred
barren lots where their homes once
stood, is the most personal healing
endeavor of mine this year.
Huge amounts of love and
respect for my radio colleagues,
print journalists and TV broadcast
news for telling the stories that help
all of us heal.
Bill Mash
Chico
Chiding the congressman
Re “Stuntman LaMalfa insults
constituents” (Editorial, Oct. 31):
I know my Republican friends
do not belong to a Trump cult,
because if he shot a member of the
Chico community in the middle of
Main Street, they would not dispute
a murder charge. However, I’m not
sure about LaMalfa.
Andy Hanson
Chico
We knew from recent fires that
climate crisis denier (akin to flat-
earther) Rep. LaMalfa is a “don’t let
science get in the way” firebrand.
But who knew he is also a red tie/
blue-suited anti-law-and-order
firebrand?
Beau Grosscup
Cohasset
Anniversary thanks
Last year on Nov. 8, we moved
out of Paradise, after 40 years, 20
minutes. After almost a year, living
in Chico, I just want to say thanks
to all of you, for helping all of us.
Thanks for caring and giving and
helping. You are wonderful people
and you know who you are.
Pete Lipski
Chico
Nov. 8 marks one year since the
Camp Fire, the most devastating
and destructive fire in the history of
California. Within minutes of Gov.
Jerry Brown being told of the Camp
Fire, he ordered an all-out response.
Thank you, Jerry.
The rebuilding of towns on the
Ridge and the lives of survivors
will take years. But this is a time to
once again thank all those in law
enforcement, firefighters and private
contractors (with bulldozers, etc.),
from all over California, who drove
into the fire to rescue hundreds of
people. And, of course, there are
many government staff (including
school officials), nongovernment
organizations and businesses who
have done so much for so many
survivors since, and we are all
grateful. The leadership of the
Paradise Town Council has been
extraordinary; they themselves were
made homeless and yet they have
persevered.
A special thanks to the hundreds
of families (including my wife,
Linda, and I) who opened their
homes, garages and driveways for
people to stay, as they dealt with
insurance companies, FEMA, etc.
All of Butte County appreciates
everything done by so many for the
thousands of survivors.
Karl Ory
Chico
Editor’s note: The author is a
member of the Chico City Council.
Wildfire, PG&E and Trump
PG&E isn’t alone when it comes
to wildfires destroying California.
There is plenty of blame to spread
around.
Trump, who hates California
and the idea of climate change,
is at the top of the human-caused
inferno. When he deregulated
America and crippled the
Environmental Protection Agency
for greed and jobs, he turned up the
heat and pollution. Then, threw it
on our dry state. Now, he says, let
it burn! Pollution from the south
has dehydrated our forests. While
trees clean air, they also poison
themselves.
All levels of government have
permitted Sierra Pacific to clear-cut
our forest, leaving a patch quilt of
dead and dying trees. Piles of dead
slash are ready to ignite the healthi-
est trees in the forest. Beetles invade
the clear-cut, slash and dehydrated
trees. Sunshine on snow-covered
clear-cuts causes snow to evaporate
quickly, instead of melting into
Mother Earth.
Pat Johnston
Red Bluff
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Weighing charges
Local prosecutors consider felony counts against PG&E
M ore than a dozen environmental activists
bowed their heads in silence for 85
seconds last Friday (Nov. 1) at Children’s
Playground in Chico, recognizing the peo-
ple killed in the Camp
story and Fire.
photo by The demonstrators also
Andre Byik criticized PG&E, whose
a nd reb @
equipment was found
newsrev i ew.c om responsible for starting
the deadly blaze. Some
carried signs reading,
“People [over] profits,” “Let’s own PG&E,”
and “No more profits on electricity.” One
banner, facing traffic entering downtown
from The Esplanade, read, “PG&E serial
killers.”
Sitting in a circle, one activist said she
had friends on the Ridge, and PG&E “fucked
those people over.”
“If we don’t do something today,” she
said, “we’re fucked tomorrow.”
A year after the Camp Fire, the Butte
County District Attorney’s Office’s crimi-
nal investigation into PG&E’s role in the
fire remains active. District Attorney Mike
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Ramsey told the CN&R that investigators
have collected a large body of evidence, and
prosecutors are viewing that evidence with
two felony charges in mind: unlawfully caus-
ing a fire with gross negligence, and involun-
tary manslaughter. Ramsey did not disclose
whether or when charges may be brought
against PG&E.
There are several considerations he will
take into account, including the interests of
fire victims. The company, he said, could
buckle under the weight of billions of dol-
lars in potential civil liabilities and possible
criminal restitution, leaving fire victims in the
cold. In conversations with some survivors,
Ramsey said, he has asked what they would
prefer: “To be made whole or to kill PG&E?”
“Both,” comes the reply.
Last month, Ramsey rang in 32 years as Butte
County’s elected district attorney. Under
those three-plus decades he’s served as the
county’s chief law enforcement official, he
said his office has not investigated a case of
this magnitude.
Billions of dollars in possible criminal res-
titution are on the line. Eighty-four counts of
involuntary manslaughter are being weighed.
(The Camp Fire death tolls stands at 85, but
one person was found to have died by sui-
cide.) One supervising deputy district attor-
ney—an expert on arson—has been working
the case full-time since shortly after the Camp
Fire sparked. Two investigators also have
been working nearly full-time on the probe.
Clerical staff has contributed as well. Then
there’s the assist from the state Attorney
General’s Office, which has provided attor-
neys to help.
“There has never been a case that …
we’ve devoted that [many] resources to,”
Ramsey told the CN&R. “We’ve never
had billions of dollars on the table before,
either.”
DA investigators have seized criti-
cal evidence from the high-voltage PG&E
transmission tower near Pulga—the utility’s
equipment, according to Cal Fire, failed and
sparked the Camp Fire. Specifically, Ramsey
said, they collected a broken hook that caused
an energized power line to swing into the
tower structure, causing an arc flash estimated
PG&E was the target of a group of environmental
activists that honored victims of the Camp Fire last
Friday (Nov. 1) at Children’s Playground in Chico.
at 5,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The result was
molten aluminum and steel spewing to the
ground and surrounding brush.
Ramsey said that piece of broken equip-
ment was sent to the FBI’s laboratory in
Quantico, Va., to be analyzed, and investiga-
tors have been looking at the hook with some
questions in mind. Should PG&E have known
that the piece was worn and could fail? Or did
it have undetectable—“secret”—cracks or fis-
sures that no reasonable person or corporation
could have known would cause a failure?
The district attorney declined to divulge
any possible answers to those questions,
but he did say investigators collected hooks
from other towers in the vicinity of the Camp
Fire tower, and found them similarly worn.
“We’re happy with the results thus far,”
Ramsey said, adding that if investigators
determined the hooks had undetectable cracks
his office’s investigation would have been
“dead in the water.”
Details of the year-long investigation have
been teased in the media and during hearings
in PG&E’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy case. One
detail, disclosed by a civil attorney, was that a
grand jury has been impaneled. Ramsey said
he could neither confirm nor deny the exis-
tence of such a body.
PG&E has been cooperating with inves-
tigators, according to the DA. Prosecutors
have met periodically with the utility’s “pla-
toon” of attorneys, who have been responsive
to requests for information. Multiple wit-
nesses, including current and former PG&E
employees, have been interviewed. And
prosecutors have been poring over mainte-
nance records and spreadsheets, decoding
and interpreting the utility’s corporate lan-
guage. Most records are digital, and there are
a lot of them.
“We used to say—on large murder cas-
es—I would say, ‘Oh, my God, we’re going
through reams of reports,’” Ramsey said.
“Now it’s, ‘We’re going through terabytes of
data.’ That’s our new reality of trying to get
stuff done.”
In a statement supplied to the CN&R by a
spokesman, PG&E said it has been cooperat-
ing with the District Attorney’s Office but
did not intend to discuss details of Ramsey’s
investigation.
“We have been open and transparent since
the Camp Fire occurred and have been proac-
tive in supplying information about our infra-
structure to the [California Public Utilities
Commission], Cal Fire, the Butte County
District Attorney and the California Attorney
General,” the statement reads.
PG&E said its “most important respon-
sibility” must be the safety of the public and
its employees, adding that it is committed to

complying with all rules and regulations
that apply to its work and developing
“long-term safety solutions for the future.”
The families affected by the Camp Fire
are “our customers, our neighbors and our
friends,” according to PG&E’s statement.
“Our hearts go out to those who have lost
so much, and we remain focused on sup-
porting them through the recovery and
rebuilding process.”
Prosecutors are looking at individual play-
ers within PG&E, in addition to the corpo-
ration itself. The challenge, Ramsey said,
with charging people instead of a com-
pany is responsibilities for decisions can
be diffused to the point where it’s difficult
to prove individual responsibility. The
downside of prosecuting a corporation,
he said, is that it can’t be hauled off to
jail for misdeeds. Any punishment would
come in the form of fines, fees and restitu-
tion. (PG&E already was convicted of six
felony charges and placed on federal pro-
bation in connection with the 2010
San Bruno pipeline explosion.)
Looking at the charges under con-
sideration, a conviction of 84 counts of
involuntary manslaughter could result
in penalties reaching about $2.5 million,
Ramsey estimated.
“For PG&E, that’s not much,” he
said. “Where they would be hurt in a
sense—where the real penalty is—is the
criminal restitution. The criminal restitu-
tion being that loss of all the property.
That loss of all of the income. That loss
of the businesses. Those, which right now
is obviously estimated into the billions of
dollars.”
Criminal restitution, the district attor-
ney said, could be ordered if PG&E were
charged and convicted of unlawfully caus-
ing a fire with gross negligence. However,
he said PG&E’s bankruptcy case could
add wrinkles into any possible prosecu-
tion. There is a “strong line” of statutory
interpretation that concludes corporations
can have criminal restitution payments
discharged in bankruptcy, meaning they
would not have to pay. Ramsey said he
disagrees with the interpretation but con-
ceded that fighting it would be an “uphill
push.”
The considerations go back to the addi-
tional factors the DA’s Office has been
taking into account.
“Do you kill PG&E in the bankruptcy
court?” Ramsey said. “They don’t come
out of the bankruptcy court and then they
can discharge their criminal restitution—
even if we convict them. Those are some
of the weighty, philosophical things that
we’re weighing.”
Bringing
people home
Camp Fire Zone Project
forging community
connections, helping
residents rebuild
For Kyla Awalt, Paradise has felt like a “small,
isolated, lonely town” for much of the past year.
She’s experienced this firsthand—her family’s
home in central Paradise survived the Camp Fire.
Awalt felt compelled to help her burned-out
neighbors and give them hope. So, early this
year, she attended a conference in Santa Rosa
and learned about a block captain system that has
helped that city’s neighborhoods rebuild and stay
connected in the wake of the 2017 Tubbs Fire.
She was inspired by what she learned.
She called her realtor, Jenna Murray, whom
she described as “super tenacious,” and the
duo launched the Camp Fire Zone Project in
March. It has a fund set up at the North Valley
Community Foundation to take donations.
The pair created 33 zones
Get involved: encompassing the entire
Go to campfire burn scar, including Magalia,
zoneproject.com for Concow, Yankee Hill, Butte
more information.
Creek Canyon, and so on. In
each, there are multiple cap-
tains who serve as advocates and a “voice for
the zones,” Awalt said. When a problem arises,
these community leaders figure out how to
solve it. They’re a triple-threat: an informational
resource, a neighborhood event planner and a
government liaison.
Awalt and Murray—president and executive
SIFT ER
Recovery by
the numbers
In the year since the Camp Fire
devastated eastern Butte County, the
government-sponsored structural
debris cleanup is nearing completion, the
North Valley Community Foundation (NVCF)
has raised tens of millions of dollars for re-
covery efforts, and survivors have begun to
rebuild. Out of about 10,900 parcels identified
for the largest debris cleanup effort in state
history, about 10,200 have been cleared, with
more than 3.6 million tons of debris hauled
Ω away, according to the county. The NVCF has
director, respectively—manage the project
and also are zone captains. It’s largely up to
each zone’s members as to how active they’d
like to be, Awalt said. Many meet regularly
and several already have spearheaded proj-
ects in their neighborhoods. In one zone,
members built a community shed for resi-
dents to store and share tools. In another, they
designed a resource house—similar to a little
free library. Inside is a binder full of informa-
tion for survivors, a notepad for jotting down
questions or messages to neighbors, and cap-
tain contact information.
The zone project has provided cost sav-
ings as well. Murray rallied her neighbors in
zone 3 (in eastern Paradise) and scheduled 12
parcel surveys at once. Instead of charging
over $2,000 per household, each price tag
came to $780, she said. In other zones, cap-
tains have scheduled tree removals and water
distributed or committed more than
$20 million in relief funds through more than
500 grants, according to the organization. It’s
raised more than $70 million total. And on the
rebuilding front, the county has received 171
building permit applications for areas inside
the burn scar. As of Monday (Nov. 4),
88 permits were issued. In the town of Para-
dise, 457 building permit applications were
received. Eleven homes have been rebuilt in
the town.
Jenna Murray (left) and Kyla Awalt launched the Camp Fire
Zone Project in March to help the Ridge rebuild and stay
connected.
PHOTO BY ASHIAH SCHARAGA
sampling in a similar fashion, saving their
neighbors time and money.
Local organizations and agencies have
taken notice of the project. Murray and Awalt
said the zone captains are working with the
Paradise Adventist Church and Love Paradise
to build sheds for survivors who need to store
their belongings this winter. The Paradise
Police Department also is partnering with the
zone project, funded by a $10,000 grant from
Farmers Insurance.
Paradise Police Chief Eric Reinbold says
he envisions the partnership providing oppor-
tunities to improve the safety and security
of the town. Connections between the zone
captains and officers can help the department
respond more proactively, he said. This will
be valuable as the town rebuilds and people
move back, because there will be “more eyes
out there” and more people “empowered to
report” things that don’t look right in their
neighborhoods.
For example, the grant could fund instal-
lation of security cameras if a trail or area
of town is having issues with trespassing or
petty theft. But Reinbold is supportive of the
grant potentially funding community outreach
as well, such as zone barbecues to bring resi-
dents together.
“It’s a good opportunity because you have
a core of people that you can either get infor-
mation transferred both ways or kind of learn
what the concerns are out in the community,”
he said. “The more we know about what’s
going on out there before it becomes a big
issue, the better we can head those potential
problems off.”
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Awalt and Murray told the CN&R they
want the project to continue to
grow, and eventually become a
model for other disaster-impacted
communities. They see it as an
important part of the rebuild and
recovery of the region.
“We want our community back,”
Awalt said. “We really want the
community members to feel like
they’re cared about, they’re loved,
there’s support.”
Murray, who lost her home and
temporarily relocated to Chico with
her family, says there’s no place
like Paradise. After the disaster,
there was so much confusion and
misinformation about what would
come next that she wanted to do her
part to help.
“Paradise was not going to do it
on its own,” Murray said. “We do
have excellent community members,
but it’s really important to note that
a lot of the people that were part of
our community were on the older
side.”
For Carrie Fritsch, a captain for
zone 11 in southern Paradise, the
Camp Fire Zone Project has already
accomplished what Awalt and
Murray intended. Fritsch, who was
born and raised in Paradise, said five
out of six of her family members
lost their homes in the fire. Though
she has been living in Chico with
her husband and daughter, the zone
project has helped her stay con-
nected. In fact, she’s become close
with Ridge neighbors she didn’t
even know before the fire.
“Everyone’s really watching
out for each other and communi-
cating more than they ever have
been,” she said. “If there’s an
issue that comes up, everyone’s
really eager to help.”
She recently organized a fun-
draiser to install a memorial for
the four residents in her zone who
perished in the fire and was “blown
away” by the support she received.
She’s also organized zone parties,
which her neighbors have told her
have been “really meaningful”
because they have brought those
living there together with those who
are planning to move back.
“[The Camp Fire Zone Project]
really makes a strong foundation for
the next chapter of our community,
I think,” Fritsch said. “There’s just
a really good feeling of ‘we’re all in
this together, no matter what your
situation is personally.’”
—ASHIAH SCHARAGA
ashiahs@ n ewsrev i ew. com
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County sinks pipeline study
Supervisors nix contract exploring
PID-Cal Water connection
Chairman Steve Lambert interrupted his col-
leagues at the Butte County Board of
Supervisors meeting on Tuesday (Nov. 5),
accusing Supervisors Tami Ritter and Debra
Lucero of engaging in “political theater”
before a crucial vote addressing the future of
a study examining a proposed water pipeline
from Paradise to Chico.
Following nearly an hour of public com-
ment on the matter, Ritter and Lucero had
begun presenting their concerns about the
scope and nature of the study when Lambert
jumped in, saying there was other business to
get to that day and asking his fellow supervi-
sors why they would “go through this pro-
cess” if their votes were already decided.
“So, what you are doing is cutting off pub-
lic discourse,” Lucero replied.
“Because the public has a right to know,”
Ritter told Lambert several minutes later dur-
ing a similar exchange from the dais, eliciting
applause from the gallery.
The pointed exchanges came as the board
once again considered funding a study that
would determine the feasibility of a pipeline
running down the Skyway and connecting
the Paradise Irrigation District (PID) with
California Water Service Co.’s Chico branch.
Proponents say the project could help keep PID
afloat as Paradise rebuilds and curb Cal Water’s
reliance on groundwater moving forward.
The board on Tuesday ultimately voted 3-2
in favor of funding the study, but because the
item was a budgetary adjustment requiring a
four-fifths majority, the motion failed. Ritter
and Lucero cast the dissenting votes.
The board had previously voted Sept. 10
to contract with Davis-based construction
engineering company West Yost Associates to
conduct the pipeline study. Ritter cast the only
nay vote at the time, and work on the study
had since started.
But Lucero, at a Board of Supervisors
meeting Oct. 22, indicated she was consider-
ing changing her vote because Cal Water had
not released groundwater study documents to
the public, and the scope of the pipeline study
had not been fully fleshed out (see “Tense
negotiations,” Newslines, Oct. 24).
Cal Water released more than 350 pages of
study documents before Tuesday’s meeting,
and Lucero said she had been reviewing them
after only being able to print them the day
before. Nevertheless, she switched her vote
to nay, expressing further concerns over the
scope of the study, the stakeholders consulted
and questions surrounding the possible perma-
nent nature of the intertie project.
Paul Gosselin, director of the coun-
ty’s Department of Water and Resource
Conservation, told the board he would instruct
West Yost to immediately cease work and
send the firm a 30-day termination letter.
Gosselin said the matter would have to come
back to the board for a budget adjustment to
cover the cost of work done thus far, which
was estimated at about $25,000. The budget
adjustment, according to Shari McCracken,
the county’s chief administrative officer,
would be required to cover those costs with
grant money instead of general fund dollars.
The original cost breakdown for the study
involved $72,000 from the county through
Proposition 1, the state’s Groundwater Grant
Program, and $71,800 split between PID and
Cal Water.
The board left open the idea that a broader
pipeline feasibility study could be commis-
Paul Gosselin, director of the Butte County Department of Water and
Resource Conservation, will instruct work to stop on a pipeline from
Paradise to Chico.
PHOTO BY ASHIAH SCHARAGA
sioned in the future. A wide-ranging public meet-
ing to discuss water issues, including the proposed
pipeline and uses for the county’s “Table A” water
allocation through the State Water Project, was
scheduled for Dec. 17.
During the lengthy public comment period Tuesday,
proponents of the study urged the board to continue
funding the work, which they said only would
determine whether the proposed pipeline project is
feasible or not. They said a pipeline could help keep
PID solvent after its two years of “backfill” money
from the state—about $14 million—runs dry.
Mike Greer, president of the Paradise Unified
School District board, told the supervisors that
he supported the study. The school district, Greer
said, is undergoing its five-year plan, and the study
could help with budgeting.
“Paradise Unified School District is the com-
munity,” he said. “If we can’t have our families
up here—our students up here—and if there’s a
question about the water and how expensive is it
going to be, it’s going to really make a difference
on how fast Paradise can re-establish itself.”
Paradise Mayor Jody Jones said the issue at
hand amounted to Paradise being in control “of its
own destiny.”
The state, Jones said, wants PID to explore
consolidating with another entity, likely Cal
Water. Without the study and possible pipeline
project, she said, PID may be forced to.
“We don’t want that,” the mayor said.
“Deciding what is in the best interest of Paradise
and [PID] is really not the job of the Board of
Supervisors. It’s our job. My job, and the … irri-
gation district board’s job.”
Some speakers, however, opposed the study,
claiming it was a “water grab” by Cal Water. Others
lamented not being consulted in the process.
Chico Mayor Randall Stone told the board that
he opposed the study in its current form. The city
of Chico, he said, has not been consulted, which
“should tell you something right off the bat.”
Stone said the ratepayers most impacted by the
study have not been included in the process, and
they should be.
“I’m very uncomfortable moving forward at
this point,” he said. “I would feel much better if
the feasibility study at least were incorporating
what the impact would be to our community and
to our ratepayers.”
Ryann Newman, member of the Miocene
Canal Coalition, criticized the scope of the study,
citing its lack of inclusiveness. She requested that
her group be included as participants.
“Neither Cal Water or PID have advanced any
solutions with respects to the Miocene,” she said.
“To be brutally honest, from our perspective, any
agency eyeing water rights and water conveyance
systems off the Ridge should be able to do far
more than sit silently and watch us fight with our
hands tied behind our backs.”
—ANDRE BYIK
a nd r e b @ newsr ev iew.c o m
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Michelle Evans, Enloe’s director of case management (left),
and Transitional Skilled Unit Nurse Manager Debbie Strukan
stand in a room at the Enloe Rehabilitation Center reserved
for patients needing skilled-nursing care.

Patient
overflow

Enloe strained by demands,

including nursing home patients
with nowhere to go

story and photos by

Ashiah Scharaga
ashiahs@ n ewsrev iew. com

Enloe Medical Center hadn’t planned on oper-

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to 211 patients, from its current
post-fire accommodation of 153
(see “Growth served,” Healthlines,
March 7, 2019).
It was a “surreal” moment for Doug
Teeter standing outside the entrance
to Feather River’s emergency room
last month. He was there with
several other speakers—including
Sen. Jim Nielsen and Assemblyman
James Gallagher—to commemo-
rate the passage of Senate Bill 156,
which allows Adventist Health to
operate the facility as a standalone
emergency room through 2027.
The last time the county supervi-
sor was on the hospital’s campus
was Nov. 8, 2018. That day, survi-
vors were stuck there for hours as
the fire raged around them.
“I watched those [medical offic-
es] burn down as we were here try-
ing to make the elderly and infirm
comfortable,” he told the CN&R.
Adventist Health CEO Rick
Rawson couldn’t provide a time-
line for the reopening, because the
hospital has a lot figure out. The
utility plant, which was damaged in
the fire, has to be repaired, and the
organization will need federal and
state support to proceed, he said. It
also has to draft a plan for staffing
and transferring patients to other
area hospitals should they need
trauma care, for example.
But the hospital intends to run
a 24/7 emergency room, which
Rawson said will be critical not
only for Paradise residents but also
for those living in Magalia and out-
lying Ridge communities.
Michelle John, the superintendent
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Supervisor Doug Teeter offers his support of
Adventist Health and its pursuit of a standalone
emergency room. On Nov. 8, 2018, Teeter sought
refuge at the campus with other fire survivors.
of Paradise Unified School District,
already knows the ER will make a
difference for students: “We’ve actu-
ally had a couple of broken bones on
the football field, and kids have had
to be transported, in pain, off of the
Ridge,” she told those at the hospi-
tal’s campus that day.
In Teeter’s view, the ER will
help repopulate the Ridge, because
of the economic, health and safety
benefits it will offer. “To see
Adventist Health willing to invest
back into a community that has a lot
of challenges,” he told the CN&R,
“it’s going to make a huge differ-
ence for a lot of people.”
Over the past year, Adventist
Health has been working to
restore its services in the region. It
reopened its Paradise clinic, offering
primary and specialty services, and
opened a walk-in clinic in Paradise.
In Chico, it launched a Cancer Care
Center and expanded primary and
specialty services. In addition to the
emergency room, Adventist Health
also plans to help re-establish a
Butte County EMS base station in
Paradise utilizing a $49,000 grant
from the Butte Strong Fund.
“That’s not lost on us, that what
we do and how we invest can influ-
ence [the regrowth of the Ridge],”
Rawson said. “So instead of just
reacting, what we want to do is be
a partner and really help Paradise
and the Ridge as it grows and rede-
velops, and really serve all of Butte
County.” Ω
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WAYS
Missing
in action
Water users
making case in
bankruptcy court;
Cal Fire says dry
canal poses fire
hazards
story and photo by
Ashiah Scharaga
ashiahs@ n ewsrev i ew. com
Gorchard
ail Tozier has been living without a steady
source of water for her Butte Valley
and cattle pastures for nearly a
year. Her property had been fed by the
Miocene Canal for more than a century, but
that changed when the upper portion was
destroyed in the Camp Fire.
She’s always on edge now, Tozier told the
CN&R—she’s terrified of fire risk because
the valley is so dry. Last month, when she
surveyed her olive orchard, she could see the
devastation: branches of the parched trees
filled with shriveled, brown leaves.
“When there was water in the canal, we
had the security of the fact that not only did
we have green, [irrigated] grass … [but] if Cal
Fire needed to tap into something to take care
of a fire, the water was there.”
The future of the canal, which has sus-
tained thousands of acres of ranch and
farmland for generations, remains uncertain—
PG&E maintains it is not a worthwhile invest-
ment to repair, citing a price tag of $15 mil-
lion. Miocene water users, under a collective
of property owners called the Miocene Canal
Coalition, have met with the utility several
times over the past year, and grown increas-
ingly frustrated. PG&E’s absence at the most
recent meeting prompted the group to make
its case in bankruptcy court.
Tozier’s concerns about increasing fire
hazards releated to the canal’s destruction are
warranted. In May, Butte County Fire Chief
David Hawks said as much in an email sent
to Dan Blair, a senior government relations
representative with PG&E, which the CN&R
obtained through a public records request.
The canal—a 25-mile, man-made system
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of ditches and wood-supported metal chan-
nels—runs from Magalia to Oroville, and
when in full operation, fed not only Kunkle
Reservoir off of Pentz Road but nearby ponds
and streams. This created a contiguous wet-
land through Lime Saddle, Cherokee, Coal
Canyon and into the valley that Hawks said
was used as a fire break.
He called the reservoir a “strategic” water
source for firefighting primarily for heli-
copters, but also for fire engines and water
tenders. Its location “shortens ‘turn around’
times, dropping and returning water for fires
in the lower Paradise Ridge, Butte College,
Cherokee and other surrounding areas,” he
explained. Not only has Cal Fire used the
canal itself to draft water to fight fires, Hawks
wrote, but it also has drawn from ponds
throughout the Ridge that are typically fed
by the canal. This is “indicative of the direct
impacts that the Miocene Canal has on fire
protection as a resource.”
Blair was unavailable for comment before
deadline, but Paul Moreno, a spokesman for
PG&E, said the Kunkle Reservoir has been
“relatively full over summer and fall thanks
to water runoff from a spring, so it has been
available for Cal Fire’s use.”
The utility company had sent several repre-
sentatives to meetings over the past year,
where stakeholders brainstormed short- and
long-term paths forward to restore water. The
gatherings didn’t result in any concrete solu-
tions, other than the temporary delivery of
up to 5,000 gallons per week per household
starting this July. But at least PG&E was par-
ticipating, Tozier told the CN&R.
When she arrived at the Sept. 27 meeting
between Miocene Canal water users, Butte
County staff and Ridge water purveyors, she
looked around the room and found no sign of
PG&E. The company’s absence that day was
telling, Tozier said.
“It sent a clear message to everyone at the
table,” she said. “[The company], they don’t
care. They paid their bonuses out and to heck
with the people that rely on the canal.”
Tension regarding the matter has mounted
to the point that the county has stopped being
polite. Paul Gosselin, director of the Butte
County Department of Water and Resource
Conservation, facilitated the meetings
between the utility and water users—as well
as interested parties Del Oro Water Co. and
Paradise Irrigation District—per the direction
of the Butte County Board of Supervisors.
The county’s goal was to help the parties
solidify a plan and protect local water use and
agricultural lands.
Until last month, Gosselin had remained
diplomatic. But at the September meeting, he
told property owners to get legal counsel and
file in the bankruptcy proceedings. He fol-
lowed up by sending PG&E a letter chiding
the company for its absence and lack of sub-
stantive participation.
“We collectively kind of viewed that as
PG&E’s unwillingness to participate in the pro-
cess,” he told the CN&R, “and kind of really
drag things out with any sort of answer to
people.”
In the letter, he wrote that “the good faith
effort of the people along the Miocene Canal”
was not reciprocated by the utility company, and,
as a result, homes, farms and the environment
along the canal corridor “experienced enor-
mous damage this year that could have been
avoided by meaningful PG&E involvement.”
Mike Schonherr, PG&E director of stra-
tegic agreements, replied to Gosselin’s letter
via email, stating that the county’s request for
Butte Valley neighbors (left to right) Danny Cuneo, Ryann
Newman and Gail Tozier are property owners dependent on
the Miocene Canal.
PG&E to “fund water delivery solutions” was
presented to senior leadership. The county will
be notified when PG&E makes a decision.
Schonherr also presented the company’s
perspective of its interactions.
“PG&E believes that it participated in the
[c]ounty’s process in good faith and is willing
to continue discussions about potential long-
term solutions for water delivery related to the
Miocene Canal,” he wrote.
Gosselin said the county is scheduling anoth-
er meeting with water users for January. While
“we cannot get in the middle and restore water
to the Middle Miocene,” he said, it is exploring
a project with Del Oro to extend water service
on Pentz Road, which would help some of
the folks who have been served by the canal.
The UC Cooperative Extension is also close to
completing an economic study related to the loss
of the Miocene on water users, and Gosselin
intends to seek grants and other funding for
water supply reliability projects.
Ed Cox, spokesman for the Miocene
Canal Coalition, told the CN&R that, barring
an “earth-shaking development,” there’s no
reason to continue discussions with PG&E.
The coalition and its individual members have
filed claims and will be making a case for the
Miocene in PG&E’s bankruptcy proceedings.
“We have no reason now to be anything
but aggressive,” he said. “We will litigate, we
will file in bankruptcy court, we will try to
press for criminal charges against PG&E. We
will do everything we can possibly do in our
power as constituents to compel them to do
the right thing, and not just with the Miocene,
but at every turn.” Ω
EVERYBODY’S BUSINESS
15 MINUTES
rolling them
bones
Kurt Geiger was working as
gallery supervisor and sci-
ence educator at the Gateway
Science Museum last year when
it opened its doors free to the
public for several months in the
wake of the Camp Fire. Along
with his son Carter, who was a
volunteer at the museum, Geiger
noticed the attention fossils
were drawing from guests and
started thinking about a career
move. After some discussion,
the father-son duo decided
to go for it and start their
own traveling fossil company.
Since February, they’ve been
visiting schools—starting with
those displaced by the Camp
Fire—bringing fossil specimens
that students wouldn’t nor-
mally see outside of a museum.
Next month, Fossil on Wheels
will hold its first presentation
in Paradise at Paradise Ridge
Elementary. Find out more at
facebook.com/fossilsonwheels.
How many presentations have you
done so far?
I think when we do [our presen-
tation] at the new elementary
school up in Paradise— the one
built in Paradise to replace the
others (that one will be
Dec. 10)—that will be No. 40.
That’s a really fun one for us. I
did a lot of work with Camp Fire
kids after the fire at the muse-
um and so getting to go up there
and work with the kids up at
that school will be really special.
We just had one up in Redding;
we did eight classrooms and four
presentations. It was really cool
to get to travel and do this.
What do you enjoy most about
this work?
We see the kids drawing the
dinosaurs as we’ve been talking
about them, and that means a lot.
We know we are giving these kids
something that means something.
You know, these kids may never
have another opportunity to
hold a T-Rex tooth or check out
a Triceratops fossil or any of the
other dinosaurs we have.
What’s your business model? Where
do you get your fossils?
It’s very low overhead. We don’t
have a lot of expenses. Gas, buy-
ing displays and such, but that’s
not very expensive. The fossils
come from a variety of places.
Some of them are purchased, a
few are self-collected and a lot
of them have actually been given
to us by other collectors and
paleontologists that we’ve met
through an internet forum called
The Fossil Forum.
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Do you have a favorite fossil?
So this all started because
[we’re] pretty much shark nuts.
And we don’t live by the ocean,
so you don’t often get to talk
about sharks in Chico unless
you go back in the fossil record.
Everybody always wants to
know about Megalodon, so we
bring in some pretty good-sized
Megalodon teeth—we have two
that are both over five inches
and we use them to explain the
different adaptations of sharks
and how the specific shape of
teeth were related to what they
ate.
How often do you do presentations?
We’re starting to book a good
number of programs for the
spring. It’s pretty sporadic right
now. It comes in bursts. We kind
of figured with Thanksgiving
break and then winter break right
after that it would be kinda slow,
but as it turns out we’re keeping
pretty busy. It also depends on
teachers’ lessons plans and what
time they want us.
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Anniversaries and by
Meredith J. Cooper
new beginnings meredithc@newsreview.com
The weeks leading up to this awful anniversary have been difficult, to say the
least. Not nearly as rough as actually going through it, of course, but all the
memories have been flooding back.
Driving around Paradise, Magalia and the other communities affected by the
fire these days is a much different experience than it was a year ago. From a
business perspective, man, times are tough. I was impressed with the brave few
owners who reopened their doors early on. If they didn’t cater to the cleanup
crews, they struggled. But time marches on, and as people fill empty homes and
move into RVs while they rebuild, there are more and more places opening up.
A few weeks ago, I stopped by the Paradise Ridge Chamber of Commerce for a
meeting of contractors. As it was during a blackout, we met in the dark. What an
interesting concept—they all acknowledged that no one of them can handle the
job of rebuilding the entire Ridge, so they all showed up to forge partnerships. Of
particular note were a handful of folks who came down from Alberta, Canada,
which endured that country’s largest wildfire back in 2016. Others are local
and others still plan to open offices in Butte County soon—watch out for a huge
surge of blue collars over the next couple months. Where they’re all gonna live is
anybody’s guess, unless they can bunk up with the tree crews at Tuscan Ridge.
A realtor mentioned to the group—and then reiterated to me—that there’s
a huge need for skilled people who can do things like fix decks, replace damaged
doors and windows, etc., on the homes that survived the fire. If you fit that bill,
hit up the chamber and you’ll probably find some steady work.
New blood I came across a couple of new names during my regular research
recently that bear mentioning. The first is close to my heart as it’s related to
my chosen field: The DogTown Howler. The newspaper based in Magalia is focused
on keeping people in the loop post-Camp Fire. Editor Tammy Waller Aviles has put
out one issue so far—check it out at dogtownhowler.com.
The second is a particularly cool-looking venture called Burnt Barn Distilling Co.
Located on the grounds of the former Chapelle de l’Artiste, which burned in the
fire, the future whiskey distillery is making use of part of the foundation that
remains. The pics so far look rad!
breAkiNg grouNd In non-Camp Fire-related news, I made it out to Rolling Hills
Casino for the first time this past weekend (Nov. 2) for the Paskenta Band of Nom-
laki Indians’ 25th anniversary of becoming a federally recognized tribe. To honor
the occasion, the casino unveiled its massive expansion plans, which include a
Fatburger and Rock and Brews restaurant/brewery/distillery. Bonus: They served
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 ONE YEAR LATER
Relief and recovery on the
Camp Fire’s anniversary
Ground zero
Historic Magalia church
the epicenter for ongoing,
T
riage mode. That’s how Pastor Kevin Lindstrom describes the ongoing relief efforts taking
place at Magalia Community Church. Each month, the tiny chapel draws thousands of people much-needed relief efforts
whose lives were upended one year ago this week by the Camp Fire.

T
Some come for furniture and other supplies needed to restart their lives. Some come for he dragon chased Willie Snow out of Magalia.
basic necessities—food, clothing, diapers. For others, the church has become home. Run by
volunteers and funded by donations and a recent grant, the operation is crucial to fire sur- That’s the way he remembers the Camp Fire. A
vivors and perfectly illustrates the challenges and complexities of natural disaster recovery, ferocious blaze that he said seemed to instinctively
especially for those lacking economic resources. track and pursue the living.
Indeed, the church’s relief work is a lifeline. For many, its resource and recovery center
has taken the place of the long-closed tent city in the parking lot of Chico’s Walmart, the Red by
Snow and his longtime partner,
Andre Byik and
Cross shelter at the Silver Dollar Fairgrounds, and the disaster recovery center in the old Ashiah Scharaga Laurette Smith, both 60, snaked
Sears at the Chico Mall. through Paradise in a Nissan Sentra
On the eve of Nov. 8, in this wide-ranging special report, the CN&R highlights the church’s to escape the flames—at times surrounded by fire and
new calling, the trauma still surfacing, the efforts of county officials to prepare for future
disasters, the local district attorney’s investigation into PG&E, and many other stories worth pitch black conditions.
revisiting on the anniversary of the deadliest and most destructive fire in California history. Vehicles lined either side of the road. Some had people
in them. Others were abandoned.
“When we left, I remember going through
three, maybe four walls of fire, and the only rea-
son we didn’t run off the road is because I knew
it was a straight road, and I didn’t want to turn
around,” said Snow, whose cadence mirrors that
of Sam Elliott’s as the cowboy narrator in The
Big Lebowski.
The fire destroyed the couple’s home. A recy-
cler paid $35 for their scorched car.
In the months that followed, Snow and
Smith lived out of a white Ford van—first at the
Walmart parking lot in Chico, then at Lowe’s.
About five months ago, the pair moved to the
campus of the historic Magalia Community
Church, a ground zero of sorts for survivor relief
efforts on the Ridge. A year after the fire, the
property surrounding the house of worship is
filled with RVs, including the one donated to
Snow and Smith. Since December, it’s also been
the site of a recovery center offering clothes, fur-
niture and food.
The couple consider themselves lucky.
Smith works as a security guard in Chico,
clocking 40-plus hours a week. Snow is a former
mechanic. He helps around the church, acting
as a parking adviser and keeping watch on the
grounds.
But did they envision being nomads a year
after the Camp Fire sparked?
“No, man,” Snow said. “I thought we’d be

Kevin and Sandy Lindstrom of Magalia Community Church

jumped into fire-relief efforts as soon as they returned to
the Ridge.
PHOTO BY ANDRE BYIK

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back to normal by now. At least in a
different place.”
“At least have a permanent
home,” Smith added.
Pastor Kevin Lindstrom pre-
sides over the Magalia Community
Church. He landed there eight
years ago, after working in the film
industry in Culver City as an edi-
tor and then earning his master’s
degree in education and leadership
from the Golden Gate Southern
Baptist Seminary. A family friend
who attended the historic nonde-
nominational Ridge church had
told him the former pastor was set
to retire.
Before the fire, the future of the
church was in question. Its congre-
gation was aging and shrinking,
Lindstrom said. On Nov. 8, he and
his wife, Sandy, fled their home
in upper Magalia and traveled to
Southern California, where they
have another house. The Woolsey
Fire was raging at the same time,
and the couple’s Simi Valley resi-
dence was on evacuation watch.
“We said, ‘All right. If the
[Magalia] house burns and the
church is OK, we’ll move back
into the church,’” Lindstrom said.
“‘If the church burns and the house
is OK, then we’ll come back and
rebuild the church.’ We said, ‘If
they’re both gone, I guess we’ve
got a lot of work to do.’ Our phi-
losophy is that we will be here as
long as the need is here.”
About a month passed before
the Lindstroms returned to the
Ridge. They found their home
intact and scorched buildings and
burned-out sheds at the church
property. But the historic chapel,
whose construction traces back to
the 1850s, had survived. The cou-
ple credit neighbors who fought the
fire by throwing dirt on the flames
and felling threatening trees.
Nearly a year after the fire, the
church is greatly needed. But it’s
the practical necessities—more so
than spiritual offerings—that the
region has come to rely upon.
Each month, the church serves thou-
sands of fire survivors. According
to data collected for September,
nearly 4,000 families—323 of
which were new to the congrega-
tion—used the recovery center.
Most reported they either live or
had lived in Magalia or Paradise.
Others had traveled from surround-
ing cities and hamlets, including
Chico, Oroville, Yankee Hill,
Concow and Stirling City, though
others had come from as far away
as Redding.
The church also saw a sharp
increase in September of survivors
living in a house, apartment or
rental property. Nearly 600 families
reported living in such accom-
modations, up from about 250 in
August.
“That is very concerning to
me,” said Doreen Fogle, a recov-
ery center volunteer who has been
lending a hand since Christmas,
“because it says people that have
been in homes and haven’t needed
help all of a sudden now need
help.”
More stats from that month: 400
families reported living in an RV,
and about 200 were living with
friends or family. Fewer reported
living in FEMA-supported housing.
Fewer still told the church they live
in cars or tents.
The cost to rebuild or find a
new home is a common, significant
barrier, Fogle said.
That’s true for Ridge resident
Michael White. Before the fire, he
lived in an RV park in Magalia; the Red Cross asked if the church after the fire, but the last of its facil- Willie Snow and Laurette Smith have lived in an
when he returned after the evacu- could serve as a distribution center ities closed at the end of January. RV on the church grounds for about five months.
ation was lifted, he discovered for supplies, including nonperish- The Lindstroms called in sup- PHOTO BY ANDRE BYIK
his RV had been vandalized and able food and warm clothes. The port in the form of friends and
ransacked. It was moldy and unin- Lindstroms agreed, and the relief church members. Other outside “Because that’s … pretty much
habitable. But because his home organization dumped “tons” of relief—such as Operation Blessing, what you hear before people are
on wheels didn’t burn, he received supplies in the church’s hall, said, the relief arm of the Christian back on their feet.”
no government assistance, he said. “Thank you,” and left, she said. Broadcasting Network—began But the unprecedented level of
Homeless and jobless, White spent “We looked at each other,” coming in as well. After the camp destruction wrought by the Camp
the majority of the past year living Sandy continued, “and said, site set up for survivors at the Fire has upended those expecta-
in a tent, he told the CN&R. ‘Um?’” Walmart parking lot in Chico was tions.
He says he recently secured an The Red Cross was the primary cleared, the church was asked if it Church officials say the biggest
RV in Berry Creek—he’s just had relief organization immediately could provide meals and a place for need nowadays is food. People
trouble finding a place to park it some people to stay. are forgoing groceries to pay
locally. A Butte County resident “Basically, our whole response for gas to get to work below the
for more than 20 years, he’s deter- to any question is … if God is Ridge. Survivors can “shop” at the
mined to stay on the Ridge. church’s hall once per week, walk-
“I love it up here; I love the
people,” he said.
“When you are leading us to do it, we do it,” said
Kevin Lindstrom, adding that the ing away with bread, cereal and
assorted canned foods. Toiletries
church, which has a commercial
White visits the church recov-
ery center once a week and says surrounded kitchen, began serving three meals
a day and started allowing church
also are available. Everything is
free.
volunteers have been “extremely On a recent Tuesday, a line
helpful.” Life has been rough since
the fire, so he takes it one day at a
by it all day members who lost everything to
live on the property. An electric snaked through the lobby of
the food distribution center and
company installed RV hookups
time.
“It’s about all we can do,” he long every day, on-site.
The pastor estimates about two
spilled outside. Indoors, survivors
checked in with Fogle, who was
said. “When you are surrounded by quick to offer a warm smile and
it all day long every day, it’s hard
to put it in the past. … It’s a lot
it’s hard to dozen people still live on the prop-
erty, mostly in RVs. Folks living help new visitors register. More of
the church’s volunteers—many of
on the grounds say that number is
more than just rebuilding ourselves.
It’s rebuilding the entire infrastruc- put it in higher.
“Originally, when people
whom lost their homes in the fire—
were waiting in the wings, leading
ture of our community.” each household through rows of
Sandy Lindstrom recalled the early
the past.” asked us how long we’d be here,
we thought about other disasters shelves with canned and boxed
and we said, ‘Well, probably 18
weeks following the fire, when —Ridge resident Michael White months to two years,’” Sandy said. CAMP FIRE C O N T I N U E D O N PA G E 2 0
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goods, various toiletries and
even some novelty items: small
succulents and LEGO sets.
Kaitlin Norton was there
that day with her 18-month-old
son, Josh. While her home in
Magalia wasn’t destroyed, her
family lost it all the same. They
were renters, and the owner
needed to move back in after
losing his home in the fire. For
now, they’ve been staying in an
RV on a friend’s property—they
are looking to buy, but the cost
of living is steep, and fire insur-
ance is tricky to secure.
“We’re in this gray zone
nobody thinks about [after
disasters],” she said. It’s been a
struggle “just trying to get back
to everyday normal life.”
Norton said she has felt
financial pressure mounting
after the fire, with more of her
family’s expenses going to ris-
ing gas and food costs. “There’s
just not enough to cover every-
thing,” she said.
The church has been a “life-
saver,” she told the CN&R.
Without it, “there’d be months
where we didn’t have diapers or
wipes or food.”
Carey Livingston can relate.
Her husband, Tony, had to
quit working because of the toll
the fire had taken on his health,
she said. That day, they were
able to grab a case of water,
fresh veggies and fruit, cereal,
paper towels and other miscel-
laneous items.
Livingston recalled the first
time her family returned to
Paradise following the evacu-
ation. Seeing the devastation,
each standing home here and
business there stood out in her
memory. As they cried together,
Livingston told her children:
“These are little heartbeats. We
have a pulse up here that’s not
going anywhere.”
Until September, the family
lived in an apartment in Chico.
Recently, they moved into an
RV on a friend’s property in
Paradise. Their plan is to pur-
chase a lot and build. Her fam-
ily is so grateful that they were
finally able to return, Livingston
told the CN&R from the lobby
of the Magalia church’s dona-
tion center.
“We were renters, so we
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20 CN&R N O V E M B E R 7, 2 0 1 9
Trauma surfacing a year later, as
the struggle for basic needs continues
story and photo by
Ashiah Scharaga
as hi ahs @ n ew sr ev iew. c o m
M erle Loomis gently placed her
hand over her heart as tears
welled in her eyes. After the Camp
Fire destroyed her home in Magalia,
there were days when she fell into a
“terrible depression,” she said.
She took a moment to collect
herself in the lobby of the Magalia
Community Church’s distribution
center, where she had just checked
in to grab a few household goods,
including food to make for her vis-
iting grandchildren.
The past year has taken a toll on
her. Since April, Loomis, 72, has
lived in a solar-powered trailer on
her property. Before that, she moved
from hotel to hotel. Adjusting to life
after the fire, including the exodus
of her church group and friends, has
been difficult. There have been times
when she wished she didn’t make it
out of the blaze alive, she said.
It’s the kindness of the remain-
ing community that has kept
Loomis going—she’s made friends
with the volunteers at the distribu-
tion center, who greet her with big
smiles and light-hearted jokes.
“I just remember coming in
right after the fire—[it was] rain-
ing so hard—and getting a warm
blanket and a nice coat,” she said.
“Mentally, it’s been the very best
for me, [coming here]. … I [get] a
Staying connected
lot of emotional support and love.”
A year after the devastating
blaze, Loomis is in good company.
Experts say that many survivors are
still struggling emotionally.
The difficulty is compounded
for those who aren’t able to meet
their basic needs—such as water,
food, clothing and shelter—which
forestalls their ability to process the
trauma and start healing.
Crisis outreach workers with
California HOPE, a Federal
Emergency Management Agency-
funded program facilitated by Butte
County Behavioral Health, have
been working to address these
issues since the wildfire, according
to program manager Jake Fender.
They’ve provided individual and
group counseling and support at
places like the Magalia Community
Church. So far, they have logged
5,597 counseling visits, Fender told
the CN&R, as well as 46,398 group
counseling visits, primarily with
children.
The team of over 20 employees
provides free, confidential services,
focusing on listening to survivors
and providing them with referrals
and tips on how to cope, Fender
said. They let people know “it’s
OK to not be OK.”
The program is set to expire in
February, but Fender is hoping for
an extension—the scope of this
disaster is such that the outreach
workers are still encountering
people nearly a year later who
are struggling to meet their basic
needs. Many were underinsured
and already living in poverty, he
said, and the fire just exacerbated
those difficulties.
“We want to move into a
recovery phase, but we’re still in
a relief mode,” Fender continued.
“Those basic needs … are not nec-
essarily as pressing as they were
in the immediate aftermath, but
there are people living in their cars,
people living in their tents.”
Many still have nowhere to go,
no support system and no economic
resources, Fender said. Some need
mental health services but are hesi-
tant to take that step.
Behavioral Health released data
late last month that show it has
retained 97.6 percent of the 612
clients receiving outpatient services
in Paradise before the fire. Across
the county, the number of people
visiting outpatient clinics, includ-
ing the county’s youth contractors,
increased by 6.4 percent when
comparing the six-month period
before and after the fire.
At her private practice, Dr. Sésha
Zinn has noticed more patients start-
ing to process their trauma now,
compared with the months immedi-
ately following the disaster. That’s
Get help:
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campfire for a list of mental health resources.
Merle Loomis finds some necessities at the
Magalia Community Church distribution center.
typical, the psychologist said—right
after a traumatic event, the fight-
or-flight response is triggered and
people are focused primarily on
making sure their families are safe,
getting food and water and finding a
place to stay.
“It takes a while to come down
from the traumatic event and decom-
press, and that’s when things really
start to set in. We’re really starting
to see a lot of that trauma turn into
PTSD,” continued Zinn, who is
also deputy director at Behavioral
Health. “[But] some people are able
to process it really well, especially
depending on their support systems
and their backgrounds.”
In particular, the anniversary
of a traumatic event is triggering,
Zinn told the CN&R. The best thing
people can do is find a way to honor
the experience they had. This will
depend on the person: Some may
want to take a vacation or mental
health day, or spend time with family
and loved ones. Others might want to
visit certain places on the Ridge, or
won’t know how they want to spend
Nov. 8 until the day arrives, Zinn
said. She cautioned people against
charging ahead and pretending that
the fire didn’t happen.
“We cannot control what hap-
pened to us, but we can control
how we respond,” Zinn said. “It
really is thinking about it and con-
sidering it, for you and your family,
what is the healthiest [way] to kind
of honor that experience.”
Zinn added that it’s important
to recognize that survivors may
need a shoulder to lean on that day,
whether it be a counselor, friend or
family member. Everybody’s reac-
tion will be different, and people
should accept whatever feelings
might arise within themselves and
in others. This is something to
remember for years to come.
“This is an event and a trauma
that this community will be pro-
cessing for decades,” Zinn said.
“Our entire community will need to
be ready to give grace.”
Back at the Magalia Community
Church, as Loomis grabbed a few
necessities like paper towels, she
told the CN&R the supplies are
helpful but that she mainly comes
by to be connected to her com-
munity. It has been vital for her
well-being.
“I’m not sure I know where I’d
be emotionally [without them],”
she said. “They are my friends, and
this is my home.” Ω
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 Focus on the future
Cindi Dunsmoor, Butte County’s emergen-
cy services officer, encourages everyone
to have a “go bag” filled with essentials
in the case of a speedy evacuation.

County, town learn from

mistakes, prepare for
other potential disasters
story and photo by
Meredith J. Cooper
mere d i thc @ n ew sr ev i ew. com

W
hen the Camp Fire ignited nearly a year ago, nobody
knew how fast it would spread or how many lives
it would imperil. In fact, by the time local officials
recognized they needed to start evacuating the town of
Paradise, people were already losing power and cell tow-
ers were burning down.
“We relied on technology for notifications and it
failed us miserably,” said Jody Jones, mayor of Paradise.
Cindi Dunsmoor, the county’s emergency services
officer, echoed that sentiment.
“You have to look at the topography and the demo-
graphics of the area,” she said, referring to not only the plan, with input from over a dozen agen- the only way in and out of that commu- pened after the Oroville Dam [spillway
Paradise Ridge, where the population was aging, but cies ranging from municipalities and fire nity, there’s no guarantee it’ll happen. disaster],” Dunsmoor said.
also to other foothills communities like Forest Ranch safe councils to parks districts and public “It’s a wishlist,” Dunsmoor said. The Feather River Recreation and
and Cohasset, where cellphone and internet coverage is utilities. In it, they outline projects that Many of the projects laid out in the pre- Park District, for instance, sustained
spotty. “We need a system that doesn’t rely on cellphones could help save people or infrastructure vious plan, completed every five years, significant damage during that flood, as
[to alert people to emergencies].” in the event of a disaster. Dunsmoor were never realized, she explained. That’s did facilities owned by the South Feather
Dunsmoor has held her position for three years but has submitted it to the Federal Emergency because they tend to be costly—widening Water and Power Agency and Lake
worked in the Office of Emergency Management since Management Agency (FEMA) last a road or executing large-scale tree and Oroville Public Utility District. When the
2004. She’s tasked with overseeing the hazard mitigation month and it was approved, she said, so brush removal can run into the millions. water receded, however, and entities like
plan, which encompasses the entire county and aims to now it goes to each of those agencies for But by including those projects in the the city of Oroville began applying for
foresee potential disasters and prepare for them. adoption. hazard mitigation plan, they become eli- FEMA assistance, they weren’t eligible.
“We look at fires, floods, these public safety power Thing is, not every project will be gible for annual grant funding, as well as
shut-offs,” she said, “and then we look at our critical completed, nor are they required to be. for post-disaster FEMA assistance. An albeit dull silver lining of any disas-
facilities and projects like road-widening.” So, while the county has set a priority for “We had more districts join [the plan ter is the ability to rebuild with more
The county just finished updating its hazard mitigation widening Cohasset Road, for example, process] because of the flooding that hap- insight. For Paradise, which lost 90 per-

PG&E has begun trenching Paradise—a move that could keep roads clear of power poles
up the Skyway—part of the and lines in case of future evacuations, according to spokes-
company’s long-term plan
to underground 199 miles man Paul Moreno. The project originally was expected to take
about five years, but Moreno did not commit to that pro-
Burying the lines
of local infrastructure.
PHOTO BY ANDRE BYIK
jected timeline in a recent interview with the CN&R, saying
construction could be affected by other infrastructure projects the town is pursuing.
He said the company is working with the town so as not to conflict with
PG&E expects to place planned engineering for future road and/or sewer projects. Temporary overhead
lines will serve customers during construction.
23 miles of power lines The cost is estimated in the millions of dollars, Moreno said, though he could
underground in not provide a more specific estimate. There could be some overlapping work in
the form of “joint trenching” for gas and electric lines. (Moreno said PG&E is
Paradise by replacing 74 miles of gas lines in Paradise.) The cost of converting overhead elec-
year’s end
S ince PG&E announced in May it would bury its electric distribution power lines
and infrastructure in Paradise and parts of lower Magalia, work has begun in
earnest, and the utility says it is on track to complete 23 miles of construction by
tric lines to underground is estimated at $3 million per mile, according to PG&E’s
website (go to tinyurl.com/PGEunderground).
The utility has said the project will not come at an additional cost to the town
the end of this year. or customers.
In all, PG&E’s underground electric project will cover 199 miles in the town of Putting distribution lines underground could help prevent fires sparked by

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cent of its real estate, that opportuni- doesn’t rely on technology, get to GROUND ZERO C O N T I N U E D F R O M PA G E 2 0
ty is huge. While some say the town know multiple routes out should
should not rebuild on its existing a hasty evacuation be necessary,
footprint because of the vulnerabil- and take the proper precautions to
ity against future fires, Mayor Jones safeguard your home, whether it be didn’t think we were going to
says new codes and regulations will from fire or flood or power outage. get the option of coming back up
protect the community. “I talked to a guy who lived in here,” she said, her voice break-
“Are we better prepared? We’re Paradise. As he was leaving [dur- ing and tears welling in her eyes.
getting ourselves there,” she told ing the Camp Fire], the road was This past year has been
the CN&R. “The council adopted packed with traffic,” Honea said. exhausting, stressful and emo-
ordinances above and beyond “But he knew that the bike path tionally draining, Livingston
wildland-urban interface standards used to be an old railroad bed that said. There have been so many
set by the state. Couple that with went from Paradise to Chico. So, he hoops to jump through to re-
our defensible space ordinance and drove down the bike path and got to establish their lives post-fire. But
I think the town will be a lot safer.” safety. You’ve got to be aware and she mostly feels overwhelmed
Jones pointed to the destruction know multiple ways to get out.” with gratitude because of the
of the Camp Fire as an indication The county and the town of kindness she has been shown by
they’re on the right path. Fifty per- Paradise also are working on improv- her community, like those at the
cent of the homes built after 2008— ing their emergency alert systems. church.
when codes were updated to require On the day of the Camp Fire, the “I have cried, I think, more
sprinkler systems in every home, Butte County Sheriff’s Office had over my blessings than my
among other things—survived the one person on duty who was experi- losses,” she said.
fire. Only 9 percent of those built enced with how to send alerts. That
before then are still standing, she person sent them via CodeRED, an Outside in the parking lot, Snow
said. opt-in service, but by the time those guided cars in and out of a
“If anybody’s saying that alerts reached residents, many of designated area for RVs on the
rebuilding on the same footprint them already were evacuating or church property. He also talked
might not be the right idea—they in harm’s way. The fire moved so to motorists arriving at the
say it about rural areas, but not in swiftly, Honea said, that it knocked church to donate items, as well
big cities. Look at the Getty Fire. out cell towers and power before a as departing volunteers.
It’s hypocritical,” she said. “If lot of people were notified. “That’s what keeps this place
you’re going to say people should The BCSO this past summer going, bud,” he told one man
not live where there’s risk, then installed high-low sirens on its who had dropped off clothing.
there should be nobody living vehicles that are to be used only in “People donating.”
where there are tornadoes, nobody the case of an evacuation, Honea There are misconceptions
where there are hurricanes, nobody said. In addition, Dunsmoor said people have about fire survivors,
where there are earthquakes. What she’s talked with, for instance, a Snow said. Some carry the day-
we do is we adopt new building group of people who do ham radio to-day burden of not knowing
standards so they stand up in an and could, with battery or generator where basic necessities will
earthquake. We build in a smarter, backup, spread the word—assuming come from, as well as a barrage
more resilient way. But it doesn’t people know to tune in. of “what ifs”. Community Church’s office Kaitlin Norton, pictured with her son, Josh,
mean we can’t live here.” “At least the siren would say, In terms of them getting back manager, said the facility’s says the church is a “life-saver.” She’s one
She, Dunsmoor and Butte ‘Something is happening,’” she on their feet, people may ask, PG&E bill is about $5,000 per
of the thousands of Ridge residents who has
County Sheriff Kory Honea all said. “We recognize we need to sought help for necessities in the wake of the
“Why don’t they just ...” he said. month; the trash bill is about fire.
emphasized personal responsibility build out our ability to notify people “Well, it ain’t just.” $2,000, water runs about $500. PHOTO BY ASHIAH SCHARAGA
in preparing for future disasters. with methods that aren’t overly reli- Securing long-term housing And food costs can total about
Have a communication plan that ant on technology.” Ω has been a challenge for Snow $2,300 per week. “We’re dealing with stuff
and Smith. They looked into The operation relies heavily that’s way over our heads,”
Federal Emergency Management on donations, though a $50,000 Sandy said, noting a difficult
Agency (FEMA) housing, but grant recently awarded through experience she had with a sur-
trees falling into overhead power lines, Moreno said. This type of system also would have had to relocate far- the North Valley Community vivor suffering from a mental
could improve egress in cases of emergency. ther from Chico than Magalia, Foundation will help keep it health crisis.
The underground system, however, may not spare the town from future which would mean more wear open for the winter months. “They’re overwhelmed,” she
planned power shut-offs by the utility, the spokesman said. It could be the case and tear on the van during Sandy Lindstrom said the said. “They don’t know what to
that a future power shut-off would include high-voltage transmission lines—like Smith’s commute to work. church was told early on in do or where to turn.”
the one that sparked the Camp Fire—that ultimately feed power into Paradise. Bill Snow said he’d like to community meetings that area The church offers counsel-
rebuild on the property where churches likely would carry ing services on the property, but
Johnson, CEO of PG&E Corp., told the California Public Utilities Commission last
his home burned, but he’s been much of the load for ongoing more is needed, Sandy said.
month that intentional power shut-offs could continue over the next 10 years while embroiled in an ownership dis- The Lindstroms’ children ask
relief. After the news trucks left,
the utility improves its electric system. pute. If the couple are forced them how they continue to oper-
she said, many efforts by vari-
So far, Moreno said, underground work in Paradise and Magalia has been to leave the church grounds, it ous other groups evaporated. ate the recovery center.
completed or slated for construction on Cliff, Erika, Ishi and Sunset drives, Almond would mean living in the van The Lindstroms maintain “It’s where the Lord wants
Street and around Merrill Road. again. they aren’t experts in this type us to be,” Sandy said. “And He
PG&E also installed underground power lines along the Skyway from Chico to “I do appreciate the volun- of service, and, a year later, they said, ‘OK, this is here, and I’ll
the former Tuscan Ridge Golf Club, which has been used most recently as a base teers that come in here and help say they’re still in triage mode. help you if you do what I ask
camp for fire recovery workers. Another project is underway to extend the under- run this place, because a lot It feels at times like they are you to do.’”
ground system eastward into Paradise. of people need it,” Smith said. putting Band-Aids on survivors, Her husband echoed her.
“And the ones that donate.” trying to steer them in the right “I basically can’t imagine not
—ANDRE BYIK Shell Morley, the Magalia doing it,” the pastor said. Ω
an dr eb@ n ew srev i ew. c o m
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Arts &Culture
Mullick and Allen Myers, artworks curat-
ed by Paradise Art Center Museum and
Museum of Northern California Art, and
the culmination of a poetry project with
area junior high and high school students.
Bay Area poet Anna Sergeeva worked
with Paradise students and their English
teachers to write about their “wishes” for
the future, and the 229 works were edited
down and stitched together to form one
piece, “86 Wishes for a New Dawn,”
which will be recited with accompaniment
by the symphony and a drone-footage
film of Paradise.

THIS
Zink will perform as well, debuting
Variety show his hymn “Pines of Paradise,” playing the
to bring first half solo at the beginning of the pro-
Jdestroyed
WEEK
ust one month after “That’s what hope is
gram, and the other half with the orchestra
the Camp Fire had community about, and that’s what
and a chorus at the end.
the Norton this show is about. We
Buffalo Hall—as well as
together for want to put the spotlight The show is a benefit for the PPAC
the homes of most of the Camp Fire on that dynamic in the and the Norton Buffalo Hall. Zink says
community as it’s actually that the long-range goal is to rebuild the
members of the Paradise anniversary
7
Community Guilds orga- happening.” hall (currently dubbed Norton Buffalo
nization that operated The show is part of Hall West as it temporarily operates out of
the facility—there was dancing. Despite a weekend of Camp Fire anniversary Chico Guild Hall), as well as to collabo-
rate with other arts groups on the Ridge—
THU
initial worries that it might be too soon, events overseen by an ad hoc committee
President David Zink (whose Magalia made up of various community groups such as Theatre on the Ridge, Paradise Special Events
home burned down) and the other guild and arts organizations calling itself Camp Art Center, Paradise Gem & Mineral Club A PEACE TO END ALL PEACE? HOW THE FIRST WORLD WAR ENDED: Chico 
members honored the Fire Anniversary Remembrance Events and Gold Nugget Museum—“to brand State Department of History prsesents discussion on the 
peace treaties that brought the Great War to an end.  Thu,
by Dec. 12 booking of Committee (or CARE). (See Camp Fire Paradise as a destination for a cultural and 11/7, 7:30pm. Free. Rowland-Taylor Recital Hall, Chico State. 
Jason Cassidy
Greenland singer/song- calendar opposite page for listings of arts experience.” He sees Sunday’s event www.csuchico.edu

j aso nc@ writer Simon Lynge, anniversary-related events.) as the first step.
newsrev i ew.c om hosting the show at the Zink said that the plan for the PPAC “This is when we begin to say to the Theater
Chico Guild Hall, where event is for there to be a narrative arc to world, ‘Paradise is a destination for arts BRIGHT STAR: Created by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, this 
Preview: roughly 50 people the performances (which will have two and culture. We’ve got a vibrant thing original musical tells a tale of love and redemption set 
Joy Will Find a Way
showings, 2 p.m. and 5:30 p.m.): from happening here. It’s a worthwhile place against the backdrop of the American South in the 1920s and 
Two shows: sunday, turned out. to live, you ought to come. And if you
’40s.  Thu, 11/7, 7:30pm. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735 
nov. 10, 2 p.m. & 5:30 “Toward the end of pre-Camp Fire, to the day of the fire and Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org

p.m. the show, [Lynge] was
Link for tickets (by doing some tunes that
donation) at norton
buffalohall.com were just so up[beat]—it
Call 762-1490 for info. got us up and danc-
ing,” Zink said during a
Paradise recent interview. “It was
Performing Arts
Center
the first moment any of
the immediate aftermath, to community
resurgence, and finally an eye to the
future.
Highlights include many original
compositions, with performances of songs
written post-fire by two burned-out Ridge
residents, Mark McKinnon and John-
can’t live here, you should visit here often
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: Enchanting, brutal vampire myth and 
because we’re going to be doing interest- coming-of-age love story adapted from the best-selling novel 
ing things.’” Ω and award-winning film.  Thu, 11/7, 7:30pm. $15. Blue Room 
Theatre, 139 W. First St. blueroomtheatre.com
David Zink leading a group of players in the Norton 
Buffalo Hall, which was destroyed in the Camp Fire.
PHoTo by Ken Pordes

777 nunneley road us had had a chance to Michael Sun, as

feel a lightness after the well as a couple of
Camp Fire. And it was beautiful, and it works presented
was joyous, and what a release and a relief by the Paradise
to feel that things were going to be OK.” Symphony
This Sunday, Nov. 10, there will be Orchestra—“Song
another chance for meaningful communal for a Glorious
merriment as local performers fill the stage Day” by Trevor
at the Paradise Performing Arts Center Lloyd, and a trib-
(PPAC) for Joy Will Find a Way, a variety ute from conductor
show commemorating the one-year anni- Lloyd Roby called
versary of the start of the Camp Fire. “March of the First
“What better indicator of life renewing Responders.”
itself, of our resilience, is there than cre- There also will
ativity?” asked Zink. “As folks have been be performances PHoenIX Key ProJeCT
responding to their pain with creativity— by Theatre on the Friday, Nov. 8
even if it’s just a howl to say, ‘I hurt’— Ridge players, 6295 Skyway, Paradise
see CAMP FIRE CALENDAR (oPPosITe Page)
that creative expression itself is an expres- climate-action
sion of life rising, [of] that resilience. films by Nirvan

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WE STAND TOGETHER
Saturday, Nov. 9
Paradise Alliance Church
SEE CAMP FIRE CALENDAR (THIS PAGE)
8 9
FRI
Special Events
CAMERON FORD: Local singer/songwriter per-
BEHIND THE CURTAIN: An inside look at how
the North State Symphony prepares for
a concert in a special rehearsal staged in
the gallery. There will be a no-host bar and
chance to mingle with the musicians. Fri,
11/8, 2pm. $20. Museum of Northern
California Art, 900 Esplanade. monca.org
Theater
BRIGHT STAR: See Thursday. Fri, 11/8,
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: Three-day, multi-venue
comedy fest presented by Cause-Worthy
Comics that benefits Safe Space Winter
CARRIE: Musical adapted from the Stephen King
Shelter. See Nightlife, pages 30-31, for more
details. Fri, 11/8. facebook.com/causecomics
VOLUNTEER FRIDAYS: Join in picking up litter and
pulling weeds. For more info call Shane at
896-7831. Fri, 11/8, 9am. Bidwell Park.
Music
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: See Thursday. Fri, 11/8,
ALEX VINCENT: Chill tunes throughout the day
CAMP FIRE
REMEMBRANCE
Friday, Nov. 8
Chico City Plaza
SEE CAMP FIRE CALENDAR (THIS PAGE)
with guitar and vocals by local favorite. Fri,
11/8. The Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St.,
Oroville. theexchangeoroville.com
forms for happy hour. Fri, 11/8, 4pm. La
Salles, 229 Broadway St.
7:30pm. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735
Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org
classic that tells gory story of a high school
outcast with telekinetic powers who gets
revenge on prom night. Fri, 11/8, 7:30pm. $12-
$20. Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Drive,
Oroville. butte.edu/drama
7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First
St. blueroomtheatre.com
SAT
Special Events
ALL CHURCH BAZAAR: Holiday market featur-
ing handcrafted items, baked goods and
white elephant items. $5 lunch from 11am to
1:30pm. Sat 11/9, 9am. First Baptist Church,
903 First St., Orland.
AUTUMN IS HERE NATURE WALK: Adventure Quest
takes you on a seasonal tour to learn about
trees and the critters that rely on them. Sat
11/9, 10am. Hooker Oak Park, 1928 Manzanita
Ave.
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: See Friday above and
Nightlife, pages 30-31, for more details. Sat,
11/9. facebook.com/causecomics
CHICO’S BIDWELL PARK: ITS PAST, PRESENT AND
FUTURE: Environmental educator and pub-
lished author Paul Belz will provides preview
of his upcoming book on Bidwell Park. Sat
11/9, 10am. Bidwell Mansion State Historic
Park, 525 Esplanade.
IMAGINE A WORLD BOOK SIGNING: Author Josh
Shelton hosts book launch for inspiring new
addition to his children’s I Am Adventures
book series. Sat 11/9, 12pm. Yoga Center of
Chico, 250 Vallombrosa Ave.
SILLY SOCK RUN-WALK: A 5K benefiting Girls
on the Run Sat 11/9, 7:30am. One-Mile
Recreational Area, Bidwell Park.
gotrnorthstate.org/5k-Detail
TORRES SHELTER GRATITUDE GALA: Benefit for
the Torres Community Shelter featuring
dinner, drinks, live music and more. Sat 11/9,
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by Monday, Nov. 18, 5 p.m.; and those for
the Dec. 5 print calendar are due by
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CAMP FIRE ANNIVERSARY EVENTS
7
THU
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA: Benefit
concert for Norton Buffalo Hall (which
was destroyed in the Camp Fire) and
the Paradise Performing Arts Center
featuring some of the best bluegrass
pickers in the world, including Bill Evans,
Gina Furtado and Leroy Troy. Thu, 11/7,
7pm. $40. Paradise Performing Arts
Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.
eventbrite.com
COMIN’ ON STRONG: Free community cookout
featuring live music, free Thanksgiving
turkeys and “Tell Your Story”
booths. Thu, 11/7, 2-6pm. Magalia Pines
Baptist Church & Recovery Center,
14098 Skyway, Magalia. magaliapines.org
PARADISE ON ICE OPENS: The seasonal
ice-skating rink is back, open daily
noon-2:30pm & 3:30-6pm, through Jan.
20. Terry Ashe Recreation Center, 6626
Skyway Paradise, 872-6972,
paradiseprpd.com
8
FRI
ART AUCTION FUNDRAISER: Benefit for
Paradise High School art program
featuring silent auction of donated
artworks by a variety of contribu-
tors, including Sen. Dianne Feinstein,
artist Clay Vorhes and more. Fri, 11/8,
6pm. (Auction ends Sun, 11/10, 5pm.)
Museum of Northern California Art, 900
Esplanade. monca.org
CAMP FIRE ART DISPLAY: View art celebrat-
ing remembrance, recovery and
resurgence. Hosted by Paradise Art
Center. Fri, 11/8, 3pm. Paradise Alliance
Church, 6491 Clark Road, Paradise.
CAMP FIRE REMEMBRANCE: Join the greater
Butte County community in 85 seconds
of silence in tribute to those lost in the
Camp Fire. Fri, 11/8, 10:30am. Chico
Downtown Plaza, 132 W. Fourth St.
FREE COMMUNITY MEAL: World Central
Kitchen provides a community meal. Fri,
11/8, 2:30pm. Paradise Alliance Church,
6491 Clark Road, Paradise.
HOPE PLAZA GROUNDBREAKING: Ceremony
to launch the Rebuild Paradise
Foundation’s Camp Fire memorial
project. Fri, 11/8, noon-12:30pm. 6148
Skyway. rebuildparadise.org
MAGALIA CAMP FIRE MEMORIAL: E Clampus
Vitus Chapter 7-11 will unveil a memorial
made from items donated by those who
lost their homes in the fire. Fri, 11/8,
9:30am. Magalia Community Church,
13700 Old Skyway, Magalia, 877-7963.
PARADE OF FLAGS: Flags will be placed along
the Skyway to honor the 85 Camp Fire
fallen. Fri, 11/8, 8am. Skyway, Paradise.
PARADISE COMMEMORATION CEREMONY: Event
commemorating one-year anni-
versary of the Camp Fire. Fri, 11/8,
6pm. Paradise Alliance Church, 6491
Clark Road, Paradise.
PHOENIX KEY PROJECT TRIBUTE REVEAL: Artist
Jess Mercer unveils Camp Fire memorial
project that used keys from survivors
to create a phoenix sculpture. There
will be music, a speech and 85-second
moment of silence to honor the 85
lives lost during the fire. Fri, 11/8,
10:30am. 6295 Skyway, Paradise.
REFLECTION AND HOPE: A YEAR REMEMBERED:
Opening reception for group exhibit at
MONCA featuring art that reflects the
experiences of survivors and the com-
munity a year after the Camp Fire. Fri,
11/8, 6-8pm. Shows through Dec. 29. 900
Esplanade. monca.org
9
SAT
ADVENTIST HEALTH FEATHER RIVER CAMP
FIRE REMEMBRANCE EVENT: Reunion and
remembrance event to reflect and
celebrate the heritage of the hospital,
featuring food, displays and more. Sat
11/9, 11:30am. Adventist Health Feather
River Hospital Campus, 5974 Pentz Road,
Paradise.
MASTERWORKS 2: RISING ABOVE: The North
State Symphony honors the anniver-
sary of the Camp Fire with a program
of resilience and hope, featuring works
by Mendelssohn, Copland, Grenfell and
Vaughan-Williams. Free pre-concert
conductor talk one hour before the per-
formance. Sat, 11/9, 7:30pm. $22-$40.
Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 898-
6333. northstatesymphony.org
THE RIDGE LIVES ON REMEMBRANCE &
CELEBRATION FAIR: Celebrate resilience
and strength after the Camp Fire at
this community fair featuring live music
by MixTape, children’s activities, food
trucks and more. Sat 11/9, 10am. Pine
Ridge School, 13835 W. Park Drive,
Paradise.
WE STAND TOGETHER: Community event
commemorating Camp Fire anniversary
featuring keynote speaker and former
NFL star Tim Tebow, magician Justin
Flom, and artist Shane Grammer live-
painting his “Hope Rising” mural. There
will also be food, rides, a bounce house
and more. Sat 11/9, 3:30pm. Paradise
Alliance Church, 6491 Clark Road,
Paradise. westandtogether.info
10
SUN
CAMP FIRE ART DISPLAY: Art exhibit cel-
ebrating remembrance, recovery
and resurgence moves from Paradise
Alliance Church to the performing
arts center. Hosted by Paradise Art
Center. Sun, 11/10, 3pm. Paradise
Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley
Road.
JOY WILL FIND A WAY: A day of remem-
brance, recovery and resurgence
post-Camp Fire, with music, poetry,
visual arts, theater, film and dance
presentations by many Ridge artists
and friends from the rest of Butte
County and beyond. Performers include
Paradise Symphony Orchestra, Theatre
on the Ridge, Butte County Scottish
Bagpipers, Mark McKinnon & Friends,
John-Michael Sun, David Leon Zink,
Doin’ It Justice Chorus, Paradise Junior
High and High School students, and
many more. Two shows! Sun, 11/10, 2pm
and 5:30pm. Paradise Performing Arts
Center, 777 Nunneley Road, Paradise.
For more info call 762-1490. norton
buffalohall.com
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11/9, 11am. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.
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Theater
BRIGHT STAR: See Thursday. Sat, 11/9,
7:30pm. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735
Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org
CARRIE: See Friday. Sat, 11/9, 7:30pm. $12-$20.
Butte College, 3536 Butte Campus Drive,
Oroville. butte.edu/drama
LET THE RIGHT ONE IN: See Thursday. Sat, 11/9,
7:30pm. $15. Blue Room Theatre, 139 W. First
St. blueroomtheatre.com
SUN 10
Special Events
CALIFORNIA WATER STORIES FILM FESTIVAL: Films
that explore the complexities of water in
California from diverse perspectives—
Indigenous groups of California, agricultural
laborers, activists, fishermen, politicians,
farmers, citizens and stakeholders. Sun,
11/10, 3pm. Free. Chico Women’s Club, 592 E.
Third St.
CHICO LOL-A-PALOOZA: See Friday previ-
ous page and Nightlife, pages 30-31, for
more details. Sun, 11/10. facebook.com/
causecomics
Music
KYLE WILLIAMS: Brunch tunes with local singer/
songwriter. Sun, 11/10, 11am. Tender Loving
Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.
RED, WHITE & BLUES FESTIVAL: All-day celebration
of blues and craft beer with performances
by Tab Benoit, Whiskey Bayou Revue,
Mitch Woods & His Rocket 88s and Pamela
Rose. Sun, 11/10, 1pm. $30. Feather Falls
Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.
featherfallscasino.com
Theater
BRIGHT STAR: See Thursday. Sun, 11/10,
2pm. $16-$22. Theatre on the Ridge, 3735
Neal Road, Paradise. totr.org
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WED
Music
PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND: Chico
Performances presents the legendary New
Orleans jazz group plus Yusa and special
guests celebrating Afro-Caribbean jazz with
a program titles Tuba to Cuba. Wed, 11/13,
7:30pm. Laxson Auditorium, Chico State. 898-
6333. chicoperformances.com
FOR MORE MUSIC, SEE NIGHTLIFE ON PAGE 30
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FINE ARTS
Art
1078 GALLERY: The World Evades Us: Surveying
Composite Meanings of Place, inspired
by Chico’s natural and built landscapes,
artists Melanie Treuhaft, Tammy LePham
and Shanna Sordahl bring together light,
architecture, and sound to construct this
immersive installation. Through 11/10. 1710
Park Ave. 1078gallery.org
CHICO ART CENTER: Dia de los Muertos Art
& Altar Exhibition, traditional and con-
temporary art pieces honoring the dead.
Through 11/22. 450 Orange St.
chicoartcenter.com
HEALING ART GALLERY AT ENLOE CANCER
CENTER: Art by Christine MacShane, paint-
ings 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.
JACKI HEADLEY UNIVERSITY ART
GALLERY: To Freeze the Shifting
Phantasmagoria, exhibit investigates
diverse strategies emerging in contem-
porary painting, highlighting work by
California artists. Through 12/14. Chico
State, ARTS 121. headleygallerycsuchico.
com
MUSEUM OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA ART:
Reflection and Hope, group exhibit fea-
turing art that reflects the experiences of
survivors and the community a year after
the Camp Fire. Also, Bench Press, benches
by 13 artists who work in diverse media.
Opening reception Nov. 8, 6-8pm. Through
12/29. 900 Esplanade. monca.org
ORLAND ART CENTER: Two Powerful Points of
View, exhibit featuring work by artists
Valerie Payne and Chuck Prudhomme.
Through 11/23. 732 Fourth St., Orland.
REFLECTION AND
HOPE: A YEAR
REMEMBERED
Shows through Dec. 30
Museum of Northern
California Art
SEE ART
PROVISIONS GALLERY: Courage, solo exhibition
by Vanessa Wolfe at gallery inside Upper
Park clothing store. Through 11/30. 122 W.
Third St. provisionsgallery.com
RED TAVERN: Flora, Fauna and Fields, eclec-
tic exhibit featuring paintings in oils
and watercolor by Eva Farley, Candy
Matthews and Dolores Mitchell. Through
1/1. Free. 1250 Esplanade.
THE TURNER: 3rd Story Prints with
Prose, prints alongside Chico State stu-
dents’ flash-fiction works inspired by the
museum’s collection. Through 12/14. Free.
Chico State. theturner.org
Museums
CHICO CHILDREN’S MUSEUM: Tons of cool stuff
for kids to explore including a miniature
city, complete with a junior vet clinic,
dentist, cafe and farmer’s market, a giant
fish tank, multi-sensory room, imagina-
tion playground and much more. Check
the website for hours and admission
information. Through 8/3. $7-$9. 325 Main
St. chicochildrensmuseum.org.
GATEWAY SCIENCE MUSEUM: Before and
Beyond the Moon, interactive multi-
media exhibition celebrates the human
and technological achievements needed
to reach the moon and envisions a
future Mars landing. Through 12/15. 625
Esplanade.
VALENE L. SMITH MUSEUM OF
ANTHROPOLOGY: Unbroken Traditions
Basketweavers of the Meadows-Baker
Families in Northern California, exhibition
represents the culmination of one year
of research and collaboration between
Mountain Maidu weavers, other tribal
experts, museums studies students,
faculty and curators. Through 5/15. Chico
State, 400 W. First St.
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Steve Ferchaud was a refugee
that morning. The Paradise artist
and his girlfriend, Jan Blair, went
cept.) The book is expected to debut
at the Christmas Preview in down-
town Chico (Nov. 24).
Despite his losses—in addition
to his home and all of its contents,
nearly all the art he ever made
was destroyed (“The only artwork
that survived was artwork I gave
away.”)—Ferchaud says he’s found
peace largely due to the kind, self-
less responses of his family and
community.
“To be honest, I think I have a
good attitude because Chico was
so great,” he said. “It was incred-
they could find other housing. And
friends and fellow Camp Fire refu-
gees Les and Jessica Cummings
opened up an office at their Digital
Print and Design business in Chico
for Ferchaud to use as a studio.
“The story is not the fire itself,
it’s how people were being at their
best when things were at their
worst,” he said.
In an attempt to contribute what
he called a “wave of human kind-
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he’s already released one fundrais-
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able at ABC Books in Chico and on
Amazon) is a collection of drawings
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story of a girl and her cat. Many peo-
ple, objects and scenes are drawn from
Ferchaud’s own experience, including
one of his car driving by a burning
Paradise sign.
Ferchaud was born and raised in
Red Bluff. He came to Chico in
1981, and after a fortuitous meet-
ing with a graphic designer at Chico
State, he got started creating some
of Chico’s most recognizable imag-
ery. “I took all the artwork I had to
Chris Ficken [at the university] …
I showed him my artwork and he
goes, ‘Steve, just go out there and get
professional experience,’” Ferchaud
said. “That was the best advice I was
ever given.”
His early work included doing
caricature drawings for the local
Merry Standish comedy show
posters, as well as frequent illus-
trations for the Chico News &
Review. Ferchaud’s celebrity-filled
Woodstock’s Pizza ads were eagerly
anticipated each week, and his works
have likely graced more CN&R cov-
ers than any other artist’s.
Ferchaud branched out to design-
ing logos for businesses (including
the iconic Roland’s Red image for
the shuttered Butte Creek Brewing
Co.) and illustrating children’s
books—Rhyk Gilbar’s Shmerkli
and the Booger Picker; Dan T.
Davis’ award-winning A Carpenter’s
Legacy: A Christmas Story; and
an earlier collaboration with Cobb,
Gracie’s Big Adventure: With
Augustine the Beaver, to name a
few.
He’s currently working with Peter
Gottesman, a writer in New York
who was more than understand-
ing when he heard Ferchaud had to
restart his drawings for their project
after the fire.
“He found out I had this old
Silver Age comic-book collection
that got lost, so he started sending
me all these really old comic books,”
Ferchaud said. “And he just sent
me an autographed picture of Linda
Carter as Wonder Woman. My cli-
ents have been just incredible.”
Standing in his temporary stu-
dio surrounded by various gifts of
comics and toy figures and piles of
drawings and paintings completed
in just the past year, Ferchaud por-
trayed an image of an artist who
wasn’t burned out.
“It’s gone,” he said, remembering
what the fire took. “[But] as somebody
said, ‘The creator is still here.’”
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(Below) Melissa Schuster,
owner of Chapelle de
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plex, one of the portraits
in People Places and Pieces
of Paradise.
PHOTO BY DOUGLAS KEISTER
Dphoto-heavy
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a career of creating
coffee table
books—dozens of them on
architecture, cemeteries,
travel trailers, etc. People,
Places and Pieces of
Paradise is closer to home
for the Chico photographer
as he documented the “infer-
no, aftermath and recovery
of the most destructive wild-
fire in California history”
with a collection of images
of the town and portraits of
the people impacted. A por-
tion of the proceeds will be
donated to arts organizations
and the library in Paradise.
Another photo book— Schwager joining forces with
The California Camp Fire: writer Phil Midling and graphic
Reflections and Remnants—takes designer Connie Ballou to make
a more abstract approach, with “An Artful and Meaningful
Chico studio photographer Ron Documentation of the California
Camp Fire,” according the to
the book’s subtitle. The book is
Buy the books: divided into two sections, with
one part featuring monochromatic
Burnt Offerings
$10, at ABC Books portraits of fire survivors along-
(950 Mangrove Ave.) and Amazon.com side text of their stories, and the
Finding Hope in Paradise other a collection of full-color
Reserve a copy by emailing debbie@ images featuring details from the
chocolatefest.us or calling 342-4896
fire’s aftermath. A portion of pro-
People, Places and Pieces
ceeds will be donated to the Butte
of Paradise
$35, paradisebook.org Strong Fund.
Ω The California Camp Fire: —JASON CASSIDY
Reflections and Remnants j aso nc @new srev i ew. c o m
$45, thecampfirebook.com
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NIGHTLIFE THURSDAY 11/07—WEDNESDAY 11/13
WHITEY MORGAN: Salt-of-the-earth
honkytonk artist from Flint, Mich.,
performs. Country singer/songwriter
Alex Williams shares the bill. Thu,
11/7, 8pm. $20-$75. Senator Theatre,
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: SPEED COMEDY:
WHITEY MORGAN 517 Main St. jmaxproductions.net
Tonight, Nov. 7
Senator Theatre
SEE THURSDAY 8FRIDAY
ALEX VINCENT: Chill tunes throughout
Odegard, Elle LaFaye and Apryl
Demetropoulos. Fri, 11/8, 8pm. $8.
Naked Lounge, 118 W. Second St.
facebook.com/causecomics
Rapid-fire comedy by every come-
dian taking part in the three-day
comedy fest that benefits Safe
Space. Fri, 11/8, 10pm. Blue Room
Theatre, 139 W. First St. facebook.
com/causecomics
CRANK IT UP
In the wake of their just released new album, Dark Thoughts,
Portland veteran garage rockers The Shivas will be tearing
through town with a stop at The Maltese tonight (Nov. 7). This
band is legendary live, shredding the stage with an immer-
sive sound that will blow your ears off in a good way. Locals
Viking Skate Country and Sex Hogs II share the bill for one
helluva night. Be there or be square.

the day with guitar and vocals
by local favorite. Fri, 11/8. The
Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St.,
Oroville. theexchangeoroville.com
BIG BAD BOOGIE ROCK: High-energy
retro funk and rock band performs
hits from the ’70s and ’80s. Fri, 11/8,
9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino &
DEFCATS: Cover band plays all your
favorite classic rock and pop
songs. Fri, 11/8, 8pm. Unwined
Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.
unwinedchico.com
JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB
LITTELL: Tasteful trio performs

7THURSDAY
CALIFORNIA BANJO EXTRAVAGANZA:
Benefit concert for Norton Buffalo
Hall and the Paradise Performing
Arts Center featuring some of the
best bluegrass pickers around, with
Bill Evans, Gina Furtado and Leroy
Troy. Thu, 11/7, 7pm. $40. Paradise
Performing Arts Center, 777 Nunneley
Road, Paradise. eventbrite.com
LAURIE DANA: Local vocalist and pianist
Laurie Dana performs with John
James and special guests. Thu, 11/7,
7pm. Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E.
Sixth St.
LIVING KARAOKE BAND PRESENTS JOHN
LENNON: Live band plays backup to
locals singing your favorite John
Lennon hits. Thu, 11/7, 6pm. Unwined
Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.
MARK MCKINNON AND FRIENDS: Local
singer/songwriter performs
Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.
BRADLEY RELF: Local singer/guitarist
serenades. Fri, 11/8, 6pm. Almendra
LIL PETE: Rapper from the Bay
Winery & Distillery, 9275 Midway
Road, Durham. almendrawinery.com
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: BREW KETTLE:
Comedy Showcase, part of three-
NEIL DIAMOND NIGHT: Tribute to Neil
day comedy fest that benefits Safe
Space. Hosted by Dillon Collins and
featuring Mark Leathers, Sydney
Hupp, Phillip Corbin. Jerm Leather
and many more. Fri, 11/8, 7pm. $10.
a wide variety of music during
dinner. Fri, 11/8, 6:30pm. Diamond
Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St.
Area. Fri, 11/8, 8pm. $25-$50. El Rey
Theater, 230 W. Second St.
jmaxproductions.net
Diamond. Fri, 11/8, 7pm. $25. Oroville Legit Supreme. Sat, 11/9, 8pm. $5-$8.
three-day comedy fest that benefits
State Theatre, 1489 Myers St., The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave. facebook.
Safe Space. Hank Duke hosts a night
Oroville. com/causecomics
featuring Cassidy O’Brien, Don Ashby,
Rich Morarre, Dean Waters, Thunder
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: DUFFY’S: Comedy

CHICO ROAST LEAGUE: A combination of
standup and roast battles. Thu, 11/7,
8pm. $5-$7. The Lab, 250 Cohasset
Road, Ste. 10.
THE SHIVAS: Awesome garage rock
JONATHAN RICHMAN: Local trouba-
dour /Modern Lovers founder. Plus,
Sunday Iris. Thu, 11/7, 6:30pm. $15.
Chico Women’s Club, 592 E. Third St.
kzfr.org
with special guests. Thu, 11/7,
6:30pm. Farm Star Pizza, 2359
Esplanade.
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: NAKED LOUNGE:
band from Portland performs, locals
Viking Skate Country and Sex Hogs II
share the bill. Thu, 11/7, 8pm. $7. The
Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.
Brew Kettle Taproom and Bottle
Shop, 995 Nord Ave. Ste. 150.
facebook.com/causecomics
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: BOB’S COMEDY
Comedy Night, part of three-day
comedy fest that benefits Safe
Space. Featuring Annie Fischer,
Cassidy O’Brien. Robyn Engel, Eliza
9SATURDAY
& MUSIC SHOW: Part of three-day
comedy fest that benefits Safe
Space. Headliner Erikka Innes from
Los Angeles, and a lineup of local and
out-of-town comedians. Music by
Lump, Legit Supreme and more. Sat,
Night, part of three-day comedy fest
11/9, 7:30pm. $7/advance; $12/day of.
that benefits Safe Space. Featuring:
Tender Loving Coffee, 365 E. Sixth St.
Jesse Clark, John Ross, Travis Dowdy,
facebook.com/causecomics
Sam Mallett and more. Sat, 11/9,
8:30pm. $10. Duffy’s Tavern, 337 Main EKALI: Canadian DJ and producer per-
St. facebook.com/causecomics forms. Sat, 11/9, 8:30pm. $22-$25.
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 THIS WEEK: FIND MORE ENTERTAINMENT AND SPECIAL EVENTS ON PAGE 24
JAZZ X-PRESS SOUL-CIOLOGY:
A special night celebrating jazz with
Chico State’s house band. Sat, 11/9,
7:30pm. $6-$18. Harlen Adams Theatre,
Chico State. 898-6333. csuchico.edu/soa
JOHN SEID, LARRY PETERSON, BOB
LITTELL: See Friday. Sat, 11/9,
6:30pm. Diamond Steakhouse, 220 W.
Fourth St.
JOURNEY’S EDGE: Don’t stop believin’!
It’s a Journey cover band playing
the songs you can’t get out of your
head. Sat, 11/9, 9pm. $10. Unwined
Kitchen & Bar, 980 Mangrove Ave.
KATIE BARRETT & FRIEND: Live music,
beer and food. Sat, 11/9, 8pm. The
Exchange, 1975 Montgomery St.,
Oroville.
LONG TIME: The hits of Boston. Sat, 11/9,
9:30pm. $5. Feather Falls Casino &
Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.
CALIFORNIA BANJO
EXTRAVAGANZA
Tonight, Nov. 7
Paradise Performing Arts Center
SEE THURSDAY
THE MANIMALS: Funk/reggae band plays
for late-night happy hour. Sat, 11/9,
10pm. La Salles, 229 Broadway St.
NOCHE LATINA: Put on your nice clothes
and head to El Rey for a night of
dancing. All ages. Sat, 11/9, 7pm. $10.
El Rey Theater, 230 W. Second St.
elreychico.com
PAISANI: Local quartet plays instru-
mental Italian, Latin and Sicilian
jazz. Sat, 11/9, 7pm. Wine Time, 26
Lost Dutchman Drive.
SAFETY ORANGE: Goofy San Diego trio
plays surf, rock and reggae. Sat, 11/9,
8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino & Lodge,
3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.
TEMPO REGGAE PARTY: Day and night
party featuring reggae, dancehall,
dub and roots from NorCal’s top
DJs, bands and soundsystems, plus
a delicious $20 buffet. Sat, 11/9,
5pm. Sipho’s, 1228 Dayton Road.
10SUNDAY
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: CHICO IMPROV:
Chico Live Improv Comedy takes
part in three-day comedy fest that
benefits Safe Space. Sun, 11/10,
7-9pm. The Maltese, 1600 Park Ave.
facebook.com/causecomics
CHICO LOL-APALOOZA: OPEN MIC &
FINALE: Three-day comedy fest
benefitting Safe Space comes to an
end. Sun, 11/10, 9pm. The Maltese,
1600 Park Ave.
IN FLAMES: Sweden’s leading
metal band. Red and Arrival Of
Autumn share the bill. Sun, 11/10,
7:30pm. $25-$150. Senator Theatre,
517 Main St. jmaxproductions.net
JOHN SEID AND LARRY PETERSON:
Relaxing tunes by local favor-
ites. Sun, 11/10, 6pm. 5th Street
Steakhouse, 345 W 5th St.
RED, WHITE & BLUES FESTIVAL: All-
day celebration of blues and craft
beer with performances by Tab
Benoit, Whiskey Bayou Revue, and
more. Sun, 11/10, 1pm. $30. Feather
Falls Casino & Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive,
Oroville. featherfallscasino.com
EARLY DEADLINES
Due to holiday scheduling, submissions
for the Nov. 27 print calendar are due
by Monday, Nov. 18, 5 p.m.; and those for
the Dec. 5 print calendar are due by
Monday, Nov. 25, 9 a.m.
SAFETY ORANGE: See Saturday. Sun,
11/10, 8:30pm. Feather Falls Casino &
Lodge, 3 Alverda Drive, Oroville.
11MONDAY
KEVIN BURKE: Irish fiddle master per-
forms traditional Irish and Celtic
tunes. Mon, 11/11, 6:30pm. Blackbird,
1431 Park Ave.
SARCHASM: Bay Area pop punk band
for Monday night rager. Sac’s Danger
Inc. and locals Twitch and Cityslick
share the bill. Mon, 11/11, 7pm. $5-$7.
Ike’s Place, 648 W. Fifth St.
12TUESDAY
HORRENDOUS 3D: Crusty punk rock
band from Portland performs, along
with Fucking Lovers from Philly and
locals Fall Children and Roaring Lion.
All ages. Tue, 11/12, 8pm. $7. 1078
Gallery, 1710 Park Ave. 1078gallery.org
QUEERS TO THE FRONT TALK, PLUS
LIVE MUSIC: Trans talk by Maja and
live music from SCOUT and Beth
Munroe. Tue, 11/12, 6pm. $5-$10.
Blackbird, 1431 Park Ave.
13WEDNESDAY
THE BIDWELLS: Sweet voices with local
7:30pm. Free. Harlen Adams Theatre,
Chico State. csuchico.edu/soa
duo. Wed, 11/13, 6pm. Diamond
Steakhouse, 220 W. Fourth St. PRESERVATION HALL JAZZ BAND: Chico
Performances presents the legend-
THE FUNKY KNUCKLES: Atypical funk ary New Orleans jazz group plus
band of improvising musicians from Yusa, celebrating Afro-Caribbean
Dallas. Wed, 11/13, 8pm. $10. Lost On
Main, 319 Main St.
jazz with a program titled Tuba to
Cuba. Wed, 11/13, 7:30pm. Laxson
JAZZ II AND CONCERT BAND BACH TO
BASIE: Concert Band and Jazz II
provide a wide array of concert
Auditorium, Chico State. 898-6333.
chicoperformances.com
SAMARIA AND PAUL: Local musi-
music including Bach, Reed, Barnes,
big band, fusion and more. Wed, 11/13,
cians. Wed, 11/13, 6pm. The Allies Pub,
426 Broadway St., Ste. 130.
WEIRD AND
WONDERFUL
If you don’t
know Jonathan
Richman, where
have you been?
The local legend
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and musical genres with his signature emotive croon and
lyrics pulled from your everyday life and strangest dreams.
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Pain & Glory tures of gloom and glory are given a
Opens Friday, special poetic intensity by the charac-
Nov. 8. Pageant
Theatre. Rated R.
teristically spectacular color schemes
devised by Almodóvar and company;
its cast includes the stars Penélope
Two rather strange and sullen men are the sole occu-
pants—Thomas Wake (Willem Dafoe), an old salt with
a somewhat arcane and imperious sense of his duties
and responsibilities, and Ephraim Winslow (Robert
Pattinson), a new arrival who’s obliged to serve as a
one-man maintenance crew within the steep and narrow
confines of the eponymous light house.
Furiously bad weather prevails all around them, but

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Cruz and Cecelia Roth, and a wonder-
ful child actor named Asier Flores.
The film itself is a quasi-
The Lighthouse autobiographical tale in which
Cinemark 14. Rated R. Banderas plays Salvador Mallo, an
aging Almodóvar-like filmmaker
whose glory days have begun to fade amid medical
problems and emotional crises, including a bout of drug
addiction. The Banderas character tries to reconcile
with an actor (played by a swaggering Asier Etxeandia)
with whom he feuded in the past; has a brief and
unexpected reunion with a former lover (the Argentine
star Leonardo Sbaraglia) who is now a married man;
embraces the estranged Zulema (Roth) as temporary but
much-needed assistant and caregiver; visits his ailing
mother (Julieta Serrano), and intermittently immerses
himself in memories of his childhood (Cruz plays
his mother in the flashbacks and Asier Flores plays
Salvador as a very remarkable child).
The characters played by Cruz, Roth and Serrano all
have special meaning in the film, but the strong suit of
Pain & Glory is in its offbeat, nuanced, and stereotype-
averse scenes of intimacy among men. The furiously
mercurial relationship with Alberto Crespo (Etxeandia)
looms especially large, and the brief reunion with the
Sbaraglia character is rich in small emotional surprises.
And the remembered childhood relationship of Salvador
the main action of the film concerns the indoor storms
and furies of this ill-matched pair who are stuck with
each other’s volatile and increasingly brutal company. A
spiraling descent into disparate signs of madness ensues.
Jarin Blaschke’s brilliantly gloomy black-and-white
cinematography prevails, to powerful effect, as does the
monstrous electronic growl of Mark Korven’s musical
score. Visual echoes of German Expressionism, film
noir, and a few old-time documentaries from Britain
exercise a certain cinematic fascination throughout the
film. But the fast and loose play with mythology and
madness in the two characters leaves everything in the
film more or less stranded.
Still, Eggers’ film scores points for sheer weird-
ness: Dafoe does some expressive farting and delivers a
mud-spattered soliloquy while lying in an open grave; a
terrifying mermaid (Valeriia Karaman) comes and goes;
a demonic seagull poops on a sleeping man and then
hangs around to see how he reacts when he wakes up;
and Pattinson continues to seek acting adventures far,
far away from the land of teenage heart throbs. Ω
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FILM SHORTS
Reviewers: Bob Grimm and
Juan-Carlos Selznick.
Opening this week
Desolation Center
A documentary about the underground 1980s
desert happenings—featuring the likes of
econo-punks The Minutemen, rocket-firing
performance artists Survival Research Lab,
noise innovators Sonic Youth and Einstuer-
zende Neubauten, etc.—that were a precur-
sor to counterculture fests like Burning Man
and Lollapalooza. One showing: Sunday, Nov.
10, 7 p.m. Pageant Theatre. Not rated.
Doctor Sleep
An adaptation of Stephen King’s 2013 follow-
up to The Shining, staring Ewan McGregor
as a grown up Danny Torrance, still messed
up from the events at the Overlook Hotel.
Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
Jojo Rabbit
A daring dark satire about a young Ger-
man boy in Nazi Germany who finds out his
mother has provided refuge to a Jewish girl.
Oh, and the kid’s imaginary friend is Adolf
Hitler. Starring Scarlett Johansson, Sam
Rockwell and Rebel Wilson. Cinemark 14.
Rated PG-13.
Last Christmas
Game of Thrones actress Emilia Clarke stars
in this dramedy about an unlucky young
woman who takes a job as a holiday elf at a
department store where she meets a young
man. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.
Rated PG-13.
Midway
A historical drama about the pivotal Battle
of Midway between U.S. and Japanese forces
during World War II. Cinemark 14, Feather
River Cinemas. Rated PG-13.
4 Pain & Glory
See review this issue. Pageant Theatre.
Rated R —J.C.S.
Parasite
This widely acclaimed South Korean dark
comedy about an unemployed family’s ef-
forts to insert themselves into—and profit
from—a wealthy family won the Palme d’Or
at Cannes. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
Playing With Fire
John Cena, Keegan-Michael Key and John
Leguizamo star as three firefighters who
have their hands full rescuing/babysitting
some kids and their dog. Hijinks! Cinemark 14,
Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.
Now playing
The Addams Family
The creepy family made famous in the 1960s
television series gets the CGI animation
treatment. Cinemark 14, Feather River
Cinemas. Rated PG.
Arctic Dogs
A big-dog cast (Jeremy Renner, Alec Baldwin,
Anjelica Huston, John Cleese, James Franco,
and more) provide voices for this animated
feature about a mail-delivering Arctic Fox
who dreams of joining the huskies as a Top
Dog. Cinemark 14, Feather River Cinemas.
Rated PG.
Countdown
After downloading an app on her phone that
supposedly can predict a person’s date of
death, a nurse (Elizabeth Lail) learns she
only has three days to live. Cinemark 14.
Rated PG-13.
Harriet
Biography of famous abolitionist/activist
Harriet Tubman (played by Cynthia Erivo)
who, after escaping slavery in 1849, returned
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ground Railroad. Cinemark 14. Rated PG-13.
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into
Joker, the latest take on DC Comics’
clean
Clown Prince of Crime, will go down as one of
2019’s big missed opportunities. Director/co-
screenwriter Todd Phillips apparently had
the green light to do whatever he wanted
with the character’s story, and he also land-
ed the perfect lead (Joaquin Phoenix) for the
title role. This was a chance to tell a fresh,
lines.
dark origin story from the Joker’s point of
view. Phillips blew it. Phoenix, on the other
hand, did not. He is otherworldly good as
Arthur Fleck, a severely troubled clown and
wannabe standup comic (and mama’s boy)
with a condition that causes him to laugh un-
controllably at inappropriate moments. He
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See review this issue. Cinemark 14.
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Maleficent: Mistress of Evil
In this sequel to Maleficent (2014), Angelina
Jolie reprises her role as the evil fairy, and
Elle Fanning is back as her goddaughter,
Princess Aurora (aka Sleeping Beauty), and
the two are at odds with one another thanks
to outside forces intent on sowing discord
between humans and fairies. Cinemark,
Feather River Cinemas. Rated PG.
Motherless Brooklyn
Edward Norton directed and stars in this
film set in 1950s New York City about a
private investigator with Tourette Syndrom
(Norton) who is trying to solve the murder
of his mentor (Bruce Willis). Cinemark 14.
Rated R.
Terminator: Dark Fate
The sixth film in the Terminator franchise is a
sequel to the first two films (those directed
by James Cameron, who returns to produce
this latest installment), and stars Linda
Hamilton as Sarah Connor, who teams up
with a cyborg human hybrid to protect a girl
from the Terminator hunting her. Cinemark
14, Feather River Cinemas. Rated R.
3 Zombieland: Double Tap
For this sequel, director Ruben Fleisch-
er returns with the whole zombie-killing
crew—Emma Stone, Jesse Eisenberg, Woody
Harrelson and Abigail Breslin—for a film that
does little to reinvigorate the genre, but still
delivers plenty of laughs and zombie gore.
It’s 10 years later, and the rag-tag team has
taken up residence in the abandoned White
House. The basic story involves a zombie-
killing road trip that leads to Graceland (sort
of) and then a commune called Babylon, with
a lot more zombie killing. Along the way, fun
new characters are introduced, including
Nevada (played by Rosario Dawson), owner
of an Elvis-themed hotel, and Albuquerque
(Luke Wilson) and Flagstaff (Thomas Mid-
dleditch), two zombie hunters who look and
sound an awful lot like Harrelson and Eisen-
berg’s Tallahassee and Columbus. The best,
though, is Madison, played by Zoey Deutch, a
“valley girl” type who has survived all these
years living inside the freezer of food-court
yogurt shop in a decimated mall. Whenever
the film threatens to go a bit stale, Madison
will swoop in decked out in a pink leisure suit
with fake fur (she’s also a vegan) to liven
things up. Cinemark, Feather River Cinemas.
Rated R —B.G.
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by Jason Cassidy • jasonc@newsreview.com

A wish for love arts dEVo has watched the documentaries. If you’re a Camp Fire survivor,
don’t. I was not directly involved in the fire, nor did I live in any burned area, and it was still on
the edge of being too much for me to watch.
The excellent Frontline episode, “Fire in Paradise,” was doable. It was a balanced report that
reenacted the events of Nov. 8 from many points of view—residents, first responders, dis-
patchers—and chased down the stories behind evacuation/notification and the causes of the
fire (PG&E) and its severity (climate change). netflix’s Fire in Paradise, however, was rough. The
interviews with the people who bravely relived the day for the camera were outstanding. But the
after-fire portion was brutal, especially one particularly graphic scene that I wish I hadn’t seen.
No one navigating trauma should get near it.
I know there’s value in sharing stories in the processing of it all. And again, the people fea-
tured were impressively brave. I guess all I’m saying is, if you’re having a tough time, maybe hold
off. And if you need help with your recovery, there are resources available. Here are two: Camp
Fire Long Term Recovery Group (828-8011, campfirelongtermrecovery.org) and California HoPE of
Butte County (966-7382, calhopebutte@gmail.com).
Something that I can imagine being of comfort is art. I’m excited to see that Paradise art
Center—closed since the fire—is reopening on the anniversary, this Friday (Nov. 8).
I’m especially anticipating the unveiling of local artist Jess Mercer’s “Ridge Key Phoenix,” the
Phoenix-shaped sculpture fashioned from the keys of those whose homes and cars and what-
ever else are no longer around to be locked up. In recent weeks, Mercer has put in place the keys
she saved for last—those of the deceased, as well
as the ones belonging to her family. The sculpture
will be gifted to the Paradise community on Friday,
and the Camp Fire memorial reveal will take place
at 10:30 a.m., at 6295 Skyway. Local musician Erin
Haley will perform a song with Ridgeview High school
students (one written by them) at the ceremony,

Shop Local and afterward there will be an 85-second moment

of silence in memory of those who died in the fire.

Holiday
You can watch a live feed of the event at
makeitparadise.org.
Another arts-related commemoration, the Joy
Will Find a Way variety show, will take place a couple
of days later (see “Art of hope,” page 24). Part of
the program includes a reading of a poem written
collectively by 229 Paradise junior high and high

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school students called “86 Wishes for a new dawn,”
and I’ll hold off blathering any more and just let the
kids take over. Here’s an excerpt:

I wish for love ...

I wish to float through clouds,

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run through fields with you,
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as we glow in the arms of the moon and the sun and the sky.
I wish you would hold me in your arms tonight,
without you, I don’t feel quite right,
I need you to tell me everything will be alright.
In the dark I see you.
In the light I look for you.

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beer is love A quick shout out to local breweries doing good work for Camp Fire survivors. On
Friday, secret Trail Brewing Co. is releasing Paradise strong ale, a bourbon-barrel-aged version of
the Scotch ale that was originally brewed with the Brewers of Paradise homebrew club. A portion
of its proceeds will be donated to Camp Fire relief.
sierra nevada Brewing Co. just released an update on its Resilience ale campaign. The massive
multi-brewery fundraising effort has pulled in $8.4 million for the Butte strong Fund! That calls for
a beer and a toast to local breweries supporting the community that supports them. Cheers. Ω

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390 Purple Rocks Lane Oroville,
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390 Purple Rocks Lane Oroville,
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BARRON PLASTERING at
5576 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA
95969.
JAIME BARRON
5576 Pentz Rd Paradise, CA
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This busines is conducted by a
Corporation.
Signed: KENT M. COLLINS,
EVP
Dated: October 8, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001151
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
JUNK KING CHICO at
13242 Grass Valley Ave Ste 22
Grass Valley, CA 95945.
PGE LYMATH LLC
6025 Happy Pines Dr Foresthill,
CA 95631.
This business is conducted by
a Limited Liability Company.
Signed: PEGGY LYMATH,
CO-PRESIDENT
Dated: September 30, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001101
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
PACIFIC NORTH CONSULTING
at
1033 Park Avenue Chico, CA
95928.
RODNEY W LACEY
1033 Park Avenue Chico, CA
95928.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
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Signed: RODNEY LACEY
Dated: October 9, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001163
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
MI TAQUITO GRILL at
3005 Esplanade Chico, CA
95973.
JOVITO HERNANDEZ
27 Baltar Loop 1 Chico, CA
95973.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: JOVITO HERNANDEZ
Dated: October 14, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001173
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
LOCALS CAFE at
6221 Clark Rd Paradise, CA
95926.
RHONDA BERNDT DE PINEDA
944 Sheridan Ave Chico, CA
95926.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: RHONDA L BERNDT
DE PINEDA
Dated: September 19, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001072
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
UNLEASHED PET HOTEL at
5260 Miocene Circle Oroville,
CA 95965.
RHONDA BERNDT DE PINEDA
944 Sheridan Chico, CA 95926.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: RHONDA L BERNDT
DE PINEDA
Dated: September 19, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001071
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
THE JOYMAKER at
2135 Nord Ave Spc 24 Chico,
CA 95926.
JOYMAKING PRODUCTIONS
LLC
2135 Nord Ave Spc 24 Chico,
CA 95926.
This business is conducted by
a Limited Liability Company.
Signed: TARA GROVER SMITH,
PRESIDENT
Dated: October 9, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001164
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
SOLID VIBES at
2590 Mariposa Ave Chico, CA
95973.
CHRISTINA ANN PETERSON
2590 Mariposa Ave Chico, CA
95973.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: CHRISTINA PETERSON
Dated: October 4, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001133
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Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
MARLOW MOBILE BAR at
697 East 7th St Suite B Chico,
CA 95928.
JANAE CARRIGAN
697 East 7th St Suite B Chico,
CA 95928.
TUCKER SCHMIDT
697 East 7th St Suite B Chico,
CA 95928.
This business is conducted by
a General Partnership.
Signed: JANAE CARRIGAN
Dated: October 11, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001170
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
TDT CONCEPT DESIGN at
1080 East Lassen Avenue #65
Chico, CA 95973.
TYLER TAPPIN
1080 East Lassen Avenue #65
Chico, CA 95973.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: TYLER TAPPIN
Dated: October 15, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001179
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
HAGEN-SINCLAIR RESEARCH
RECRUITING INC CHICO at
519 Reed Park Dr Chico, CA
95926.
HAGEN-SINCLAIR RESEARCH
RECRUITING INC CHICO
519 Reed Park Dr Chico, CA
95926.
This business is conducted by
a Corporation.
Signed: CYNTHIA CROSS,
PRESIDENT
Dated: September 13, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001052
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
AZTECAS VIDEO AND GROC
at
324 Walnut Street, Suite A
Chico, CA 95928.
FRANCISCO J REYES
18 Westminister Ct Chico, CA
95928.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: FRANCISCO RAYES
Dated: October 7, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001141
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
RUSSELL’S SUNRISE CAFE at
185 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA
95926.
PEACH TREE RESTAURANT
INC
185 Cohasset Rd Chico, CA
95926.
This business is conducted by
a Corporation.
Signed: NAEEM REHMAN, VICE
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PRESIDENT
Dated: October 22, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001204
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
PILLSBURY SQUARE
APARTMENTS at
2781 Pillsbury Road Chico, CA
95973.
LAPANT FARMS LLC
9032 Goodspeed St Durham,
CA 959388.
This business is conducted by
a Limited Liability Company.
Signed: ROGER JACK LAPANT
Dated: September 30, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001109
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
PYROCORP at
2515 Zanella Way #5 Chico, CA
95928.
HAYDEN FIRE PROTECTION,
INC.
2515 Zanella Way #5 Chico, CA
95928.
This business is conducted by
a Corporation.
Signed: JEREMY HAYDEN,
VICE PRESIDENT
Dated: October 1, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001113
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
FAERIE HUMAN RELATIONS
DEPARTMENT, IN OUR
NATURE at
1844 Broadway Street Chico,
CA 95928.
JENNY RAE RICHMAN
1844 Broadway Street Chico,
CA 95928.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: JENNY RAE RICHMAN
Dated: October 1, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001112
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
1oing business as
LABELZ at
974 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA
95926.
J. WITH ENTERPRISE
7749 Co Rd 61 Princeton, CA
95926.
This business is conducted by
an Limited Liability Company
Signed: JAMIE WITHROW,
MANAGING MEMBER
Dated: October 18, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001199
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
DARLING ROSE VINEYARD at
8995 Troxel Rd Chico, CA
95928.
AMANDA WYLIE DARLING
8995 Troxel Rd Chico, CA
95928.
GARY ANTHONY DARLING
8995 Troxel Rd Chico, CA
this Legal Notice continues
95928.
This business is conducted by
a Married Couple.
Signed: AMANDA W. DARLING
Dated: October 24, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001217
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME - STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
The following person has
abandoned the use of the
fictitious business name
LABELZ at
974 Mangrove Ave Chico, CA
95926.
CYNTHIA E BROCHHEUSER
1941 Sycamore Lane Durham,
CA 95938.
This business was conducted
by an Individual.
Signed: CINDY
BROCHHEUSER
Dated: October 18, 2019
FBN Number: 2017-0000460
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME - STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
The following persons have
abandoned the use of the
fictitious business name
THE ACCOUNTING OFFICE at
1074 East Ave Ste K Chico, CA
95926.
LAZARSKI ENTERPRISES, INC.
2166 Huntington Drive Chico,
CA 95928.
This business was conducted
by a Corporation.
Signed: KATHY LAZARSKI,
PRESIDENT
Dated: October 23, 2019
FBN Number: 2018-0000876
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
ACCOUNTING OFFICE at
1074 East Ave Ste K Chico, CA
95926.
DEBBIE ALLEN EA INC
1074 East Ave Ste K.
This business is conducted by
a Corporation.
Signed: MARK ALLEN,
SECRETARY
Dated: October 23, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001213
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
ON YOUR MARK MOBILE
NOTARY at
3550 Fotos Way Chico, CA
95973.
ANGELA C. COOK
3550 Fotos Way Chico, CA
95973.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: ANGELA C COOK
Dated: October 23, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001207
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following person is doing
business as
PRANA ENDURA at
40 Constitution Dr Ste E Chico,
CA 95973.
CAITLIN LINSCHEID
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4 Spinnaker Way Chico, CA
95926.
This business is conducted by
an Individual.
Signed: CAITLIN LINSCHEID
Dated: October 30, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001233
Published: November
7,14,21,27, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME - STATMENT OF
ABANDONMENT
The following persons have
abandoned the use of the
fictitious business name
WADE ARENA at
1391 Clark Road Oroville, CA
95965.
ELTA L TOWNE
1391 Clark Road Oroville, CA
95965.
CARYL WESTON
1391 Clark Road Oroville, CA
95965.
This business was conducted
by a General Partnership.
Signed: ELTA L TOWNE
Dated: October 28, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001174
Published: November
7,14,21,27, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
WADE ARENA at
1391 Clark Rd Oroville, CA
95965.
ROBERT J LEDOUX
1963 Air Strip Rd Redding, CA
96003.
ELTA L TOWNE
1391 Clark Rd Oroville, CA
95965.
This business is conducted by
a General Partnership.
Signed: ELTA L TOWNE
Dated: October 28, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001228
Published: November
7,14,21,27, 2019
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
The following persons are
doing business as
CHICO PODIATRY GROUP at
2103 Forest Avenue Chico, CA
95928.
DANIEL D CAVINESS
3491 Sacramento Ave Chico,
CA 95928.
MICHAEL L WILSON
9965 Lott Rd Durham, CA
95938.
This business is conducted by
a General Partnership.
Signed: DANIEL D CAVINESS,
DPM
Dated: October 15, 2019
FBN Number: 2019-0001182
Published: November
7,14,21,27, 2019
NOTICES
NOTICE OF LIEN SALE
Pursuant to CA Business Code
21700, in lieu of rents due, the
following units contain clothes,
furniture, boxes, etc.
238SS JOSE ARTEAGA 6X10
(Couches, Furniture)
459CC MATHEW BOYD 6x15
(Bins, Boxes)
504CC DAVID DUNCAN 6x7
(Tool Box, Art, Boxes)
157CC SCOTT KNIGHT 6x7
(Boxes, Bins, Backpacks)
252SS TRISTIN NOBLE 5x10
(Bins, Boxes)
495CC TRISTIN NOBLE 5x7
(Books, Bins, Blankets)
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257SS SALIASI VANIQI 5x7
(Boxes, Bedding, Bags)
153CC ANDREA SMITH 5x7
(Bins, Boxes)
250SS WHITNEY WHEATON
5x5 (Camp Gear, Bikes, Boxes)
360CC1 SHERRI WHEATON
12x12 (Bags, Boxes, Bins)
Contents to be sold to the
highest bidder on: Saturday
November 23, 2019
Beginning at 1:00PM
Sale to be held at:
Bidwell Self Storage,
65 Heritage Lane, Chico, CA
95926.
(530) 893-2109
Published: November 7,14,
2019
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
KENNETH CHARLES REEVES II
filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing
names as follows:
Present name:
KENNETH CHARLES REEVES II
Proposed name:
KENNETH CHARLES DAGAMA
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: November 13, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Dept: TBA
Room: TBA
The address of the court is:
Butte County Superior Court
1775 Concord Ave
Chico, CA 95928
Signed: TAMARA L.
MOSBARGER
Dated: September 17, 2019
Case Number: 19CV02730
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
MARY ANN SLYH
filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing
names as follows:
Present name:
MARY ANN SLYH
Proposed name:
MARY ANN DRENNAN
THE COURT ORDERS that all
persons interested in this matter
appear before this court at the
hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name
should not be granted.
Any person objecting to the
name changes described
above must file a written
objection that includes the
reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the
matter is scheduled to be heard
and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely filed,
the court may grant the petition
➡
without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: December 4, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Dept: TBA
Room: TBA
The address of the court is:
Butte County Superior Court
1775 Concord Ave
Chico, CA 95928
Signed: TAMARA L.
MOSBARGER
Dated: October 2, 2019
Case Number: 19CV02965
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
MELANIE RENE
REMMERT-BLEVINS
filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing
names as follows:
Present name:
MELANIE RENE
REMMERT-BLEVINS
Proposed name:
MELANIE RENE MCCARTHY
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: November 27, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Dept: TBA
Room: TBA
The address of the court is:
Butte County Superior Court
1775 Concord Ave
Chico, CA 95928
Signed: TAMARA L.
MOSBARGER
Dated: October 8, 2019
Case Number: 19CV02964
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
RICK DALLOUL
filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing
names as follows:
Present name:
RICK DALLOUL
Proposed name:
REZKALLAH DALLOUL
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
this Legal Notice continues
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CLaSSIfIEdS
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FREE WILL ASTROLOGY
For the week oF November 7, 2019
ARIES (March 21-April 19): Aries
psychologist James Hillman said we keep
“our images and fantasies at arm’s length
because they are so full of love.” They’re
also quite flammable, he added. They are
always on the verge of catching fire, meta-
phorically speaking. That’s why many people
wrap their love-filled images and fantasies
in metaphorical asbestos: to prevent them
from igniting a blaze in their psyches. In my
astrological opinion, you Aries folks always
have a mandate to use less asbestos than
all the other signs—even none at all. That’s
even more true than usual right now. Keep
your images and fantasies extra close and
raw and wild.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20): Poet James SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21): Studies
Merrill was ecstatic when he learned the
Greek language. According to his biogra-
pher, he felt he could articulate his needs
“with more force and clarity, with greater
simplicity and less self-consciousness,
than he ever could in his own language.”
He concluded, “Freedom to be oneself is
all very well; the greater freedom is not
to be oneself.” Personally, I think that’s an
exaggeration. I believe the freedom to be
yourself is very, very important. But for you
in the coming weeks, Taurus, the freedom
to not be yourself could indeed be quite
liberating. What might you do to stretch
your capacities beyond what you’ve as-
sumed is true about you? Are you willing to
rebel against and transcend your previous
self-conceptions?
GEMINI (May 21-June 20): Musician
Brian Eno made a deck of oracular cards
called Oblique Strategies. Each card has
a suggestion designed to trigger creative
thinking about a project or process you’re
working on. You might find it useful to call on
Oblique Strategies right now, since you’re
navigating your way through a phase of
adjustment and rearrangement. The card I
drew for you is “Honor thy error as hidden
intention.” Here’s how I interpret it: An
apparent lapse or misstep will actually be
the result of your deeper mind guiding you
to take a fruitful detour.
CANCER (June 21-July 22): We devote
a lot of energy to wishing and hoping about
the meaningful joys we’d love to bring
into our lives. And yet few of us have been
trained in the best strategies for manifest-
ing our wishes and hopes. That’s the bad
news. The good news is that now is a favor-
able time for you to upgrade your skills at
getting what you want. With that in mind, I
present you with the simple but potent wis-
dom of author Maya Angelou: “Ask for what
you want and be prepared to get it.” To flesh
that out, I’ll add: Formulate a precise state-
ment describing your heart’s yearning, and
then work hard to make yourself ready for
its fulfillment.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22): What are the key
parts of your life—the sources and influ-
ences that enable you to be your most soul-
ful self? I urge you to nourish them intensely
during the next three weeks. Next question:
What are the marginally important parts of
your life—the activities and proclivities that
aren’t essential for your long-term success
and happiness? I urge you to corral all the
energy you give to those marginally impor-
tant things, and instead pour it into what’s
most important. Now is a crucial time in
the evolution of your relationship with your
primal fuels, your indispensable resources,
your sustaining foundations.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22): “When she
spoke of beauty, he spoke of the fatty tissue
supporting the epidermis,” wrote short
story author Robert Musil. He was describ-
ing a conversation between a man and
woman who were on different wavelengths.
“When she mentioned love,” Musil contin-
ued, “he responded with the statistical
curve that indicates the rise and fall in the
annual birthrate.” Many of you have the
flexibility to express yourself well on both
of those wavelengths. But in the coming
months, I hope you’ll emphasize the beauty
and love wavelength rather than the fatty
tissue and statistical curve wavelength.
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It’ll be an excellent strategy for getting the
healing you need.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22): Libran blogger
Ana-Sofia Cardelle was asked, “What is your
signature perfume?” She said she hadn’t
found one. But then she described how she
would like to smell: “somewhere between
fresh and earthy: cinnamon and honey, a
rose garden, saltwater baked in the sun.”
The coming days will be an excellent time to
indulge in your own fantasies about the spe-
cial fragrance you’d like to emanate. More-
over, I bet you’ll be energized by pinpointing
a host of qualities you would like to serve as
cornerstones of your identity: traits that
embody and express your uniqueness.
suggest that on average each of us has a
social network of about 250 people, of whom
120 we regard as a closer group of friendly
acquaintances. But most of us have no
more than 20 folks we trust, and only two
or three whom we regard as confidants. I
suspect that these numbers will be in flux
for you during the next twelve months. I bet
you’ll make more new friends than usual,
and will also expand your inner circle. On
the other hand, I expect that some people
who are now in your sphere will depart.
Net result: stronger alliances and more
collaboration.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21):
I blame and thank the Sagittarian part of
me when I get brave and brazen enough to
follow my strongest emotions where they
want to lead me. I also blame and thank the
Sagittarian part of me when I strip off my
defense mechanisms and invite the world to
regard my vulnerabilities as interesting and
beautiful. I furthermore blame and thank
the Sagittarian side of me on those occa-
sions when I run three miles down the beach
at dawn, hoping to thereby jolt loose the
secrets I’ve been concealing from myself. I
suspect the coming weeks will be a favor-
able time to blame and thank the Sagittar-
ian part of you for similar experiences.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19):
Persian polymath Avicenna (980–1037)
wrote 450 books on many topics, includ-
ing medicine, philosophy, astronomy,
geography, mathematics, theology, and
poetry. While young, he tried to study the
Metaphysics of Aristotle, but had difficulty
grasping it. Forty times he read the text,
even committing it to memory. But he made
little progress toward fathoming it. Years
later, he was browsing at an outdoor mar-
ket and found a brief, cheap book about the
Metaphysics by an author named al-Farabi.
He read it quickly, and for the first time
understood Aristotle’s great work. He was
so delighted he went out to the streets and
gave away gifts to poor people. I foresee a
comparable milestone for you: something
that has eluded your comprehension will
become clear, at least in part due to a lucky
accident.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18): In ad-
dition to being a key figure in Renaissance
art, fifteenth-century Italian painter Filippo
Lippi had a colorful life. According to legend,
he was once held prisoner by Barbary
pirates, but gained his freedom by drawing
a riveting portrait of their leader. Inspired
by the astrological factors affecting you
right now, I’m fantasizing about the pos-
sibility of a liberating event arriving in your
life. Maybe you’ll call on one of your skills in
a dramatic way, thereby enhancing your
leeway or generating a breakthrough or
unleashing an opportunity. (Please also re-
read your horoscope from last week.)
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20): “Stand high
long enough and your lightning will come,”
writes Piscean novelist William Gibson. He
isn’t suggesting that we literally stand on
top of a treeless hill in a thunderstorm and
invite the lightning to shoot down through
us. More realistically, I think he means that
we should devotedly cultivate and discipline
our highest forms of expression so that
when inspiration finds us, we’ll be primed
to receive and use its full power. That’s an
excellent oracle for you.
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 should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely filed,
the court may grant the petition
without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: December 4, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Dept: TBA
Room: TBA
The address of the court is:
Butte County Superior Court
1775 Concord Ave
Chico, CA 95928
Signed: TAMARA L.
MOSBARGER
Dated: October 10, 2019
Case Number: 19CV02999
Published: October 31,
November 7,14,21, 2019
ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE
FOR CHANGE OF NAME
TO ALL INTERESTED
PERSONS: Petitioner
ADRIANA YANETH GONZALEZ
and JOSE DE JESUS
GONZALEZ
filed a petition with this
court for a decree changing
names as follows:
Present name:
JESSEY JACOBO GONZALEZ
Proposed name:
JESSEY GONZALEZ
THE COURT ORDERS that all
persons interested in this matter
appear before this court at the
hearing indicated below to
show cause, if any, why the
petition for change of name
should not be granted.
Any person objecting to the
name changes described
above must file a written
objection that includes the
reasons for the objection at
least two court days before the
matter is scheduled to be heard
and must appear at the hearing
to show cause why the petition
should not be granted. If no
written objection is timely filed,
the court may grant the petition
without a hearing.
NOTICE OF HEARING
Date: December 18, 2019
Time: 9:00 AM
Dept: TBA
Room: TBA
The address of the court is:
Butte County Superior Court
1775 Concord Ave
Chico, CA 95928
Signed: TAMARA L.
our
MOSBARGER
Dated: October 17, 2019
Case Number: 19CV03037
Published: November
7,14,21,27, 2019
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NOTICE TO RESPONDENT
NATHAN TYLER YOUNG
You have been sued by
petitioner:
CATHRYN DENISE YOUNG
your
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
business.
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
Call us today to find out more about advertising, property, and custody of your
children. You may be ordered
distribution and free design services 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),
530-894-2300
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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:
CATHRYN DENISE YOUNG
1591 Hawthorne Ave
Chico, CA 95926
Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER
Dated: August 12, 2019
Case Number: 19FL01426
Published: October 17,24,31,
November 7, 2019
SUMMONS
NOTICE TO DEFENDANT:
KENNETH R MEYER, AN
INDIVIDUAL; AND DOES 1-100,
INCLUSIVE
YOU ARE BEING SUED BY
PLAINTIFF:
CROWN ASSET
MANAGEMENT, LLC
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 law library, or the
courthouse nearest you. If you
cannot pay the filing fee, ask
the court clerk for a fee waiver
form. If you do not file your
response on time, you may lose
the case by default, and your
wages, money, and property
may be taken without further
warning from the court.
There are other legal
requirements. You may want to
call an attorney right away. If
you do not know an attorney,
you may want to call an
attorney referral service. If you
cannot afford an attorney, you
may be eligible for free legal
services from a nonprofit legal
services program. You can
locate these nonprofit groups at
the California Legal Services
Web site
(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the
California Courts Online
Self-Help Center
(www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp),
or by contacting your local
court or county bar association.
NOTE: The court has a statutory
lien for waived fees and costs
on any settlement or arbitration
award of $10,000 or more in a
civil case. The court’s lien must
be paid before the court will
dismiss the case.
The name and address of the
court is:
Chico Courthouse
1775 Concord Avenue
Chico CA 95928.
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The name, address, and
telephone number of plaintiff’s
attorney, or plaintiff without an
attorney, is: RASHID
SHAKIROV/SBN 318108
Persolve Legal Group, LLP
(818) 534-3100
9301 Corbin Avenue, Suite
1600 Northridge, CA 91324.
Dated: April 19, 2018
Signed: KIMBERLY FLENER
Case Number: 18CV01224
Published: October 24,31,
November 7,14, 2019
PETITION
NOTICE OF PETITION
TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE
ANNA IRENE HASTINGS, aka
ANNA I. HASTINGS, aka ANNA
HASTINGS, AKA TONI
HASTINGS
To all heirs, beneficiaries,
creditors contingent creditors,
and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the
will or estate, or both, of:
ANNA IRENE HASTINGS, aka
ANNA I. HASTINGS, aka ANNA
HASTINGS, aka TONI
HASTINGS
A Petition for Probate
has been filed by:
JAMES KNAVER
in the Superior Court of
California, County of Butte.
The Petition for Probate
requests that: JAMES KNAVER
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: November 26, 2019
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: Probate
Room:
Address of the court:
Superior Court of California
County of Butte
1775 Concord Ave.
Chico, CA 95926.
IF YOU OBJECT to the granting
of the petition, you should
appear at the hearing and state
your objections or file written
objections with the court before
the hearing. Your appearance
may be in person or by your
attorney.
IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or
contingent creditor of the
decedent, you must file your
claim with the court and mail a
copy to the personal
representative appointed by the
court within the later of
either (1) four months from the
date of first issuance of
letters to a general personal
representative, as defined in
section 58(b) of the California
Probate Code, or (2) 60 days
from the date of mailing or
personal delivery to you of a
notice under section 9052 of
the California Probate Code.
Other California statutes and
legal authority may affect your
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rights as a creditor. You may
want to consult an attorney
knowledgeable in California
law.
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file
kept by the court. If you are a
person interested in the estate,
you may file with the court a
Request for Special Notice
(form DE-154) of the filing of an
inventory and appraisal of
estate assets or of any petition
or account as provided in
Probate Code section 1250.
A Request for Special Notice
form is available from the court
clerk.
Attorney for petitioner:
CLAYTON B. ANDERSON
20 Independence Circle
Chico, CA 95973
(530) 342-6144
Dated: October 8, 2019
Case Number: 19PR00458
Published: October 24,31,
November 7, 2019
NOTICE OF PETITION
TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE
RENATE RANFT
To all heirs, beneficiaries,
creditors contingent creditors,
and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the
will or estate, or both, of:
RENATE RANFT
A Petition for Probate
has been filed by:
CHRISTIANE H. RANFT
in the Superior Court of
California, County of Butte.
The Petition for Probate
requests that: CHRISTIANE H.
RANFT
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: November 26, 2019
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: C-IV
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
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want to consult an attorney rights as a creditor. You may
knowledgeable in California want to consult an attorney
law. knowledgeable in California
YOU MAY EXAMINE the file law.
kept by the court. If you are a YOU MAY EXAMINE the file
person interested in the estate, kept by the court. If you are a
you may file with the court a person interested in the estate,
Request for Special Notice
you may file with the court a
(form DE-154) of the filing of an
Request for Special Notice
inventory and appraisal of
(form DE-154) of the filing of an
estate assets or of any petition
or account as provided in inventory and appraisal of
Probate Code section 1250. estate assets or of any petition
A Request for Special Notice or account as provided in
form is available from the court Probate Code section 1250.
clerk. A Request for Special Notice
Attorney for petitioner: form is available from the court
RAOUL J. LECLERC clerk.
P.O. Drawer 111
Oroville, CA 95965
Attorney for petitioner:
CLAYTON B. ANDERSON
(530) 533-5661 20 Independence Circle
Dated: October 31, 2019
Chico, CA 95973
Case Number: 19PR00501
(530) 342-6144
Published: November 7,14,21,
Dated: October 17, 2019
2019
Case Number: 19PR00467
Published: November 7,14,21,
2019
NOTICE OF PETITION
TO ADMINISTER
ESTATE
TED MODESTO GIANNINI, aka
TED M. GIANNINI, aka TED
GIANNINI
To all heirs, beneficiaries,
creditors contingent creditors,
and persons who may
otherwise be interested in the
will or estate, or both, of:
TED MODESTO GIANNINI, aka
TED M. GIANNINI, aka TED
GIANNINI
A Petition for Probate
has been filed by:
GINA GIANNINI
in the Superior Court of
California, County of Butte.
The Petition for Probate
requests that: GINA GIANNINI
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
You
representative will be required
to give notice to interested
persons unless they have
waived notice or consented to
the proposed action.) The
should be
independent administration
authority will be granted unless
an interested person files an
objection to the petition and
shows good cause why the getting it
once a
court should not grant the
authority.
A hearing on the petition will be
week.
held in this court as follows:
Date: December 3, 2019
Time: 9:00 a.m.
Dept: Probate
Room: TBA
Address of the court:
Superior Court of California
County of Butte
n e w sr e vi e w .c o m
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
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