BEC workshop helps Chicoans prepare for hot days

Butte Environmental Council’s (BEC) recent Extreme Heat Preparedness Workshop provided information on what to do before, during and following an extreme heat event.

From left, Chela Barron, Shelby Hebert and Fernando Trujillo at the Extreme Heat Preparedness Workshop.

The workshop was held at the South Chico Community Assistance Center July 15 and was part of BEC’s ‘Beat the Heat’ series. Workshop leaders Chela Barron and Fernando Trujillo were from the California Climate Action Corps. — Karen Laslo

photo by Karen Laslo

CSUC’s Mark Stemen shows how materials that can be acquired at hardware stores can be placed over windows to reduce indoor heat.

Deceased individual found in Bidwell Park

Chico Police Department said a deceased person was found early today (April 28) at the One Mile Recreation Area.

Chico PD says a passerby noticed a subject seated near the restrooms that appeared to be deceased around 5:30 a.m., and the death was confirmed by medics.

The person’s identity has been withheld pending notification of family members, the press statement says.

Today’s press statement was the fifth “Death in Public” press release this year.

City attorney: “Public take over” was an emergency

In a Jan. 17 email to ChicoSol, City Attorney John Lam said the City was not in violation of the Brown Act when it held a Jan. 6 emergency meeting.

Lam said the use of City property near The Hands sculpture in back of the Municipal Center by the nonprofit Safe Space the previous day had amounted to a “public take over.”

Safe Space, which operates an emergency winter sheltering program, ran intake in the space from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. Jan. 5, an operation that it says proceeded smoothly. The group’s leadership said it believed that it was using public property as defined in the City code, and wasn’t required to get special permission.