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Attend the Reception on September 14 at 5:30 p.m.

Reed Applegate grew up blocks from Chico State and regularly walked through campus, chatting with folks lucky enough to cross paths with him or be on his regular route. He was taught by legendary Chico State professor and print artist Janet Turner and volunteered as a researcher at the Janet Turner Print Museum. Applegate passed away on August 21, 2022, and thanks to his generosity, his campus impact endures.

Applegate has shared 47 works by 17 groundbreaking Northern California artists with the Turner, a donation that Curator Rachel Skokowski describes as: “among the most significant we’ve had to the museum since Janet Turner’s.” The collection, which is titled, Northern California Horizons: The Reed Applegate Collection, features work by Wayne Thiebaud, Nathan Oliveira, Robert Arneson, David Gilhooly, and more, and is on display August 22 through October 14.

Members of the public are invited to the opening reception and Skokowski’s talk about the collection on September 14 at 5:30 p.m. in the ARTS Building (next door to Madison Bear Garden) on the Chico State campus.

“The University was a big part of Reed’s life,” said his cousin, Richard Applegate. “Showing his collection at the Turner is a tremendous honor to him. I hope people come and celebrate his life and his collection with us.”

“I hope people come and celebrate his life and his collection with us.”

Richard Applegate

Attending art openings was one of Applegate’s great joys. He showed up to support everyone, from renowned artists to students.

“He was very aware of what was happening regionally. He followed different artists and different movements,” said Turner Museum Collections Manager Adria Davis. “But he didn’t just buy prints. He made personal connections with these artists. He knew them on a personal level. They were friends.”

Northern California Horizons: The Reed Applegate Collection covers a wide range of themes, moods, and styles. The pieces are sometimes playful and satirical, sometimes searing, and always stirring. Gilhooly’s Covering the World in Frogs is sure to be a favorite among the younger set (and the young at heart). Thiebaud’s San Francisco cityscape, Diagonal Ridge, is stunning.

“This is a collection everyone in Chico should be proud to have on display right here in their community. It marks Chico as a center for the arts,” Skokowski said. “You don’t have to be an art expert to see how special this collection is. Everyone should come experience it.”

College students might get the biggest kick out of Kathy Aoki’s lithographs (She)Twerkin’ and Gangnam Style (At the Moulin Rouge). The dance moves are depicted in surprising and delightful ways.

“Reed loved the Janet Turner Print Museum. He would pass through campus like clockwork and the Turner was one of the regular stops. He would be thrilled to see his collection in there,” Chico State Art Department Chair Cameron Crawford said. “It gives people a chance to see his taste and what he thought was important and to honor and remember him and just to have a good time. There’s some beautiful work in there.”

“Gifts like this are transformative for our collection. They raise the bar of what we have for the good of the public,” said Skokowski. “They are something we can also show Chico State students who are learning how to make prints, so this is a tremendous gift for them as well.”

About the Janet Turner Print Museum

The Janet Turner Print Museum at California State University, Chico advances the art of printmaking by making its international collection accessible to the people of Northern California and beyond. We engage a diverse public through stimulating exhibitions, programming, and study to inspire reflection, collaboration, and action.

Christina Applegate is opening up about the toll multiple sclerosis has had on her life and career. In a new interview with Vanity Fair, the Dead to Me actress detailed her daily struggles of living with MS, which she was diagnosed with in 2021.

Applegate, 51, told the publication in Thursday’s (May 4) interview that there is “never a good day” with the disease. “You just have little s—ty days.” When people ask her why she doesn’t take more showers, she says it’s because “getting in the shower is frightening. You can fall, you can slip, your legs can buckle. Especially because I have a glass shower. It’s frightening to me to get in there,” Applegate explained.

She admits this is one of the things that people, including herself, take for granted in their lives. “Going down the stairs, carrying things — you can’t do that anymore. It f—ing sucks,” the actress said. “I can still drive my car short distances. I can bring up food to my kid. Up, never down.” Going downstairs is another major difficulty in her life because MS impacts her balance. “Gravity can just pull you down and take everything down with you,” she said. “So, we have this little thing at the top of the stairs that we call ‘purgatory.’ So, if anyone’s done with anything upstairs, we put it in purgatory so one of my able friends can bring it downstairs.”

Though Applegate has friends who come by and help her and her 12-year-old daughter, Sadie, she doesn’t always want to be around a lot of people because she’s immunocompromised. “I also don’t want a lot of stimulation of the nervous system because it can be a little bit too much for me. I like to keep it as quiet and as mellow as possible. It’s exhausting. Imagine just being in a crowd of people and how loud that is. It’s like 5,000 times louder for anyone who has lesions on their brains.”

Hundreds of semi-trucks continue to line eastbound and westbound lanes on I-80 from Auburn to Applegate.

This road normally takes them between Northern California and Nevada.

However, thanks to recent winter storms that brought 4 feet of new snow, towering snow drifts, fallen trees, and sub-zero temperatures adding a layer of ice to the roadway, they are not able to pass through.

Many of them have been stuck there for days.

They hoped yesterday's sunny weather would allow them to pass, but Caltrans says the roads were not and still are not ready.

Cars have been able to pass through though, which creates frustration amongst most truck drivers.

To that, Caltrans Spokesperson, Steve Nelson, responded saying they need to "get a little bit better traction in order to release the trucks because they have a tough time getting over Donner Summit."

WB Interstate 80 is back OPEN to passenger vehicles tonight with chain controls. Big rigs are still being held at @nevadadot state line and also EB at Applegate. We're working hard to release those trucks! @PlacerCA @NevadaCountyCA @CHP_Truckee @CHPAuburn

— Caltrans District 3 (@CaltransDist3) March 2, 2023

One reason they are not moving at a faster rate is because they can't as they are operating with less equipment.

At the beginning of the season, they had 24 snow blowers, now they are down to nine.

"We're not operating with a full deck," said Nelson.

That doesn't help truckers feel any better though, and instead they have growing concerns that go further than remaining stagnant. They are now realizing they are losing money as well.

"They charge me [the company he works for]," said one driver, "they're not going to pay me, and people don't care."

Caltrans are working day in and day out to try and resolve the issues, but the interstate remains closed, with no time frame or estimate on when it will reopen.

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"It’s about finding what I’m capable of doing," the actress, 50, shared in a new interview with Variety

Christina Applegate, who was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis in August 2021, is opening up about how the disease may impact the future of her acting career.

The Bad Moms star, 50, was diagnosed with MS while filming the third season of her Netflix dramedy Dead to Me. In a recent interview with Variety, the beloved actress revealed that filming the final season was "as hard as you would possibly think it would be."

"It's about finding what I'm capable of doing," the actress said of her acting future. "I'm so new in this right now. It takes time to kind of figure out this disease, and figure out what's bringing on symptoms. I'm just a newbie to all of this. So I'm trying to figure it out — and I'm also in mourning for the person who I was. I have to find a place that's as loving as my set was, where they won't think I'm a diva by saying, 'Hey, I can only work five hours.'"

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Applegate, who will be receiving a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame on Nov. 14, explained that she's seeking "a place that will allow me to do that if I'm not the star," and that starring in something might be off the table in the future. "There's no way I could do the work that I just came off again. I mean, it was so hard."

Her focus at the moment is on her family, specifically her 11-year-old daughter Sadie Grace LeNoble, who she shares with husband Martyn LeNoble. "I love being here for her 100% all the time — to take her to school, to pick her up from school, to be here for her homework, to make her dinner, to be here when she needs me," she added. "That's kind of what I missed out on for a while. And she's very happy to have me here."

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While Applegate is now "tired all the time," she admitted that she's "getting stronger," having come off six straight days of a Peloton workout at the time of her latest interview. As long as she gets bored with being inside, she said there's a chance fans can see her name on screen in more ways than one.

"I'm pretty convinced that this was it, you know? But who knows — I'm probably gonna get real bored of being in my room. I'd like to develop stuff, I'd like to produce stuff," she said. "I've got a lot of ideas in my mind, and I just need to get them executed."

The Married with Children alum has faced health concerns in the past, including a breast cancer diagnosis in 2008 followed by a double mastectomy, getting her ovaries and fallopian tubes removed in 2017, having surgery-induced menopause in 2018, and experiencing struggles with insomnia.

Applegate previously told the New York Times that the new season of the Netflix show will mark the "first time anyone's going to see me the way I am," after she gained 40 pounds and now has to walk with a cane. However, the show's cast and crew adapted to the changes, oftentimes altering scenes. Her co-star, Linda Cardellini, was especially a "mama bear" for her, Applegate said. But she's unsure whether fans will accept her in the new "role."

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"If people hate it, if people love it, if all they can concentrate on is, 'Ooh, look at the cripple,' that's not up to me," she said. "I'm sure that people are going to be, like, 'I can't get past it.' Fine, don't get past it, then. But hopefully, people can get past it and just enjoy the ride and say goodbye to these two girls."

Season 3 of Dead to Me premieres on Netflix Nov. 17.

Christina Applegate made her first awards show appearance since announcing her multiple sclerosis diagnosis.

The “Dead to Me” star skipped the red carpet at the 2023 Critics Choice Awards on Sunday night but was photographed in the audience at the Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles.

Dressed in a chic black suit and holding on to a cane, Applegate, 51, brought along her daughter, Sadie, 11, as her plus-one. She was also seen sharing a hug with fellow nominee Julia Roberts.

Applegate revealed on Twitter in August 2021 that she had been diagnosed with the chronic disease that attacks the central nervous system.

“Hi friends. A few months ago I was diagnosed with MS. It’s been a strange journey. But I have been so supported by people that I know who also have this condition,” she wrote at the time.

“It’s been a tough road. But as we all know, the road keeps going. Unless some a–hole blocks it.”

A few months later, the “Married… with Children” alum opened up about her health struggles while celebrating a milestone birthday.

“Yup. I turned 50 today. And I have MS,” she tweeted in November 2021. “It’s been a hard one. Sending so much love to all of you this day.

“Many are hurting today, and I am thinking of you. May we find that strength to lift our heads up. Mine currently is on my pillow. But I try.”

Applegate was nominated on Sunday for Best Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as Jen Harding in “Dead to Me,” but she lost to Jean Smart from “Hacks.”

While promoting her Netflix series’ third and final season, Applegate shared in November 2022 that she had gained 40 pounds because of her debilitating condition.

And just week, she shared her trepidation over attending the Critics Choice Awards.

“So this Sunday will be the first awards show I have been to since 2019. And the first since MS. NERVOUS! But grateful to the @CriticsChoice for including me,” she tweeted.

The “Anchorman” star has battled health issues before.

She beat breast cancer in 2008 after undergoing a double mastectomy and had her ovaries and Fallopian tubes removed in 2017 in an effort to avoid ovarian cancer.