Sarzotti plan moves closer

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125th Year, No. 27 • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 • Newsracks, 75¢, retail stores, 70¢ plus tax • Yearly subscription, $52
Sarzotti plan
moves closer
Tiobe Barron
Ojai Valley News correspondent
Keywords: Public workshop, master
plan, Sarzotti Park
Ojai is one step closer to
having an official master plan
for Sarzotti Park.
The Ojai Parks and Recreation Commission held a
public workshop Monday
to review and fine-tune the
public input it has received
so far.
The commission and facilitators from Community
Work Design Group met twice
last year, coming up with two
proposals trying to find an
ideal layout and amenities at
Sarzotti. These were funneled
down to one mockup.
This draft incorporated
elements such as hard-top
basketball courts, a walking
path along the entire perimeter of the park, outdoor basketball courts, a splash-pad
water feature, picnic areas,
a zipline like that at Marina
Park in Ventura, a teen fitness
area, updates and additions
to the Boyd Center and updated parking areas.
“This is a long-range plan
for the park. It is not going to
happen overnight,” Tim Maloney with Community Work
Design Group reminded
those present Monday night.
“We haven’t made any final decisions,” agreed Deputy
City Manager Steve McClary.
“Much of this is dependent
on future funding. It’s not set
in stone.”
Some speakers wondered
if proceeding like that wasn’t
putting the cart before the
horse, if funding shouldn’t be
figured out before planning
new facilities.
“I’m wondering about the
finances, where they stand,”
commented resident Karen
Digman. “Are we talking two
years out, five …?”
“I’m wondering about
long-term liabilities and
funding,” agreed resident
Jack Birch.
“Part of this was wanting
to make sure that before we
do any of these things, we’re
sure where and what we’d like
to have,” explained Commissioner Sage Intner.
“What I liked in another
version was a community
garden,” said Vicki Quinlan,
who teaches cooking and
gardening through the city’s
Parks and Recreation Department. “I don’t see that now.
I’m not sure where it could fit,
but close to the bathrooms
would be great, to work with
the children (to keep them
in sight). Two other things I
thought of were water reclamation and solar lighting,
making our carbon footprint
less.”
Ultimately, the commissioners decided to scrap
plans for a sand volleyball
court, to only have one concession stand, to look at lowlevel lighting for the walking
path, to incorporate more
grassy areas and a community garden, and re-orient the
See Park, Page A3
Ojai’s building codes
will be discussed
Bill Warner
[email protected]
Keywords: Building codes, adopt,
public input, confusion
The adoption of California building codes and
second-unit compliance will
be the topics of discussion
Wednesday when the Ojai
Building Appeals Board (BAB)
meets at City Hall.
“The state updates the
unified building code every
three years,” Ojai City Manager Rob Clark said Tuesday.
“When they do that, local
jurisdictions can adopt the
codes by reference and also
make amendments regarding local conditions.” An example of a local condition,
he said, would be a high fire
hazard potential.
Ojai has not officially adopted state codes for its municipal code since 1997, he
added.
Clark said the latest state
See Codes, Page A3
Victim in fatal Highway
33 crash identified
Keywords: Fatal collision, driving
under the influence
The 21-year-old man
killed in a single-vehicle accident Saturday, was identified Tuesday by the Ventura
County Coroner’s Office as
Christopher Robert Pinger.
Pinger died Saturday
at approximately 1:10 a.m.
when the vehicle in which he
was riding left the road south
of North Fork Springs Road
on Highway 33 crashed and
caught fire.
The driver, David Andrade-Ruiz, 22, of Ojai, and
two passengers were able
to escape from the vehicle.
Pinger was trapped inside,
according to California Highway Patrol Public Informa-
tion Officer Rolando Tejeda.
The two passengers sustained major injuries and
were transported by ambulance to Ventura County
Medical Center, Tejeda said.
Ruiz sustained moderate injuries and was taken to
Ventura County Medical Center for treatment. He was subsequently arrested for driving
under the influence.
The northbound lane of
Highway 33 was closed for
approximately five hours
while CHP officers investigated the incident.
The CHP is asking anyone
who witnessed the collision
or who might have information relating to the cause, to
call 477-4100.
Ojai Valley News photos by Tim Dewar
Creek Road sentinel topples
Workers from the Ojai Public Works Department were busy
Monday cutting up the branches of a large live oak tree whose
trunk had broken near its base. Located near the intersection
of Creek Road and Saddle Lane, the tree fell sometime Saturday morning, according to Public Works Director Greg Grant.
“It fell onto private property,” Grant said Tuesday, “and the
property owners are interested in keeping most of the wood,
so we’re working with them on it. The rest of of the wood will
be taken away by the city.”
Thacher becoming a sun catcher
Bill Warner
[email protected]
Keywords: Solar collectors, school
environmentally friendly
Thacher School is taking
the next step in its program
for campus sustainability.
Installation began this
month on a 676,139-watt
solar power system for the
school, with completion anticipated this spring.
“The array should be finished in late April,” said Ed
Bennett, director of facilities
for Thacher, “and soon after
that we’ll be hooked up on
sun power.”
The solar receptor system
is expected to provide about
81 percent of the school’s demand for electricity, he said.
And with an expected annual
offset of 1.4 million pounds
of carbon dioxide, it should
reduce Thacher’s carbon
footprint by about 50 percent from what it had been in
2014.
Comprising 2,898 photovoltaic panels, the system
also figures as the largest single-site project to date for San
Diego-based Sullivan Solar
Power. “Thacher School is a
leader in education and sustainability,” company President Daniel Sullivan said
Monday. “The project also
aligns with our own company
values in educating the community to change the way our
world generates electricity.”
In August, the school installed a 5,000-gallon tank,
the first step in a rainwater
collection system aimed ultimately at reducing the institution’s water consumption
70 percent.
The overall campus sustainability program is a priority at Thacher School, Bennett
said. High-efficiency pumps
and motors are already in use
at the facility, along with LED
lighting and improved efficiency for central heat and
air. In the future, he said, the
school will be looking at spe-
cialized batteries to augment
the solar power, the possibility of using rainwater to
flush toilets, and the potential for solar thermal heating
for water in faculty housing
and dormitories. “We’d like to
decrease out natural gas usage by at least 80 percent,” he
said.
And all of these amenities
have the capacity to function
as educational tools, Bennett
added. The solar array, for
example, will feature a sort
of weather station through
which clouds and insolation
can be tracked and environSee Sun, Page A3
Ojai home turns into filming location
Andra Belknap
[email protected]
Keywords: Hospice the Movie,
filming location
An Ojai Valley home
turned film set last week
when indie thriller “Hospice”
came to town.
The home was site to
myriad chaotic scenes and
action sequences; actors in
tattered costumes were covered in bloody stage makeup
and carried prop hand guns
around the living room.
“Hospice” follows “three
low-lives (with) plans to rob
a sick old woman’s home,
but her caregiver turns out to
be former special ops (with)
plans of her own for the money,” according to the film’s
IMDB page.
The locale served as the
ailing woman’s home.
Director and screenplay
author Jason Bentley found
the location while scouting
online.
Bentley, a Santa Clarita
native shooting his first feature film, wanted to take the
film to Ojai to give the story a
small-town setting.
“We never say it’s in Ojai,
we just want it to be kind of
anywhere, it’s no real specific
place,” he said. “We never establish where it is because we
just want to keep it general,
that way people can use their
imaginations … Everyone
kind of knows a small, little
town like this.”
The homeowner, an Ojai
Valley man who asked to remain anonymous, was surprised and somewhat hesitant when he received the
inquiry from Bentley about
filming.
“I had heard horror stories about other films shot in
the Ojai Valley and I wanted to
make sure it wasn’t anything
in that category.” His fears
were assuaged after meeting
with Bentley and a “Hospice”
producer.
“I was really impressed
with how organized they were
and how systematically they
went from scene to scene.
Everybody knew their role,
it was an amazingly efficient
See Hospice, Page A3
Ellis arraignment postponed at public defender’s request
Andra Belknap
[email protected]
Keywords: Brandon Ellis, murder,
public defender
The arraignment of an
Ojai native, being held on
murder and attempted murder charges stemming from a
Dec. 17 shooting in Ventura,
was postponed again during
a court appearance Monday.
William Quest, the public
defender appointed to represent Brandon Ellis, requested
the postponement from Ventura County Superior Court
Judge David Hirsh. Hirsh approved the delay until Feb. 23
at 9 a.m.
This was the third time
Ellis’ arraignment has been
continued.
Ventura County Deputy District Attorney Patrice
Koenig said Quest requested
the continuance to review
case files. “There’s a massive
amount of reports,” said Koenig.
Quest previously requested a continuance in order to
review the reports associated
with the case.
Ellis is accused in the
murder of Douglas Blasher
and the attempted murder
of Alexa Payne, who suffered
multiple gunshot wounds.
Payne and Ellis had previously been in a relationship.
Ellis allegedly fled after
the shooting and was apprehended by U.S. marshals in
Rosarito Beach, Mexico two
days later.
A2 Ojai Valley News • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Police Blotter
Crimes
Photo submitted
Frankie Ponce is a senior at Nordhoff High School.
Rotary Club of Ojai West
chooses Student of the Month
The Rotary Club of Ojai
West Student of the Month
is Frankie Ponce, a senior at
Nordhoff High School.
Ponce was nominated by
math teacher Rene NakauMauch.
According to NakuaMauch. Ponce is taking
advance placement (AP)
calculus along with other AP
classes.
In addition he is an
associate chemistry teacher,
he teaches confirmation at
St. Thomas Aquinas Church,
is a member of the Health
Science
Academy
and
volunteers at Community
Memorial Hospital.
• Burglary of a structure was
reported in the 200 block of
McAndrew Road Jan. 3.
• Battery was reported in the
4100 block of North Ventura
Avenue Jan. 9.
• Petty theft was reported
in the 1900 block of North
Maricopa Highway Jan. 9.
• Burglary was reported in the
100 block of Church Road Jan.
10.
• Commercial burglary was
Bryant Circle Jan. 11.
• Grand theft was reported
in the 100 block of West Ojai
Avenue Jan. 11.
• Commercial burglary
was reported in the 1100 of
Maricopa Highway Jan. 13.
• Petty theft and fraudulent
use of an access card were
Rancho Drive Jan. 13.
• Assault and battery with
violent injury were reported
in the 1300 block of Soule Park
Drive Jan. 13.
• Attempted unlawful taking
of a vehicle was reported in the
700 block of Saddle Lane Jan. 17.
• Burglary of a structure,
receiving stolen property over
$950 and attempted unlawful
taking of a vehicle were
Bryant Circle Jan. 17.
• Burglary of a structure and
the unlawful taking of a vehicle
were reported in the 1400 block
of Maricopa Highway Jan. 17.
• Attempted burglary and
vandalism were reported in the
10000 block of Creek Road Jan.
News in brief
Session planned for
budding artists
The California State Summer School for the Arts (CSSSA) will hold an information
session for high school students Thursday in Ventura.
CSSSA is a month-long
training program in the visual and performing arts, creative writing, animation and
film for artists of high school
age. Its purpose is to provide
a training ground for future
artists who wish to pursue
careers in the arts and entertainment industries in California.
California residents enrolled in grades nine through
12 can apply. Twenty students
are admitted each year.
The session will be held
Thursday at 7 p.m. at the Arts
Collective Studio in the Pacific View Mall (second level,
adjacent to Sears).
E-mail
vcarts@pacbell.
net for information.
Fair poster contest
open to local youth
The Ventura County Fair
has announced that the seventh annual fair poster contest will be held for the 2016
Ventura County Fair.
The contest is open to
artists in fifth through 12th
grade who reside in Ventura
County.
The theme of the 2016
fair is “A Country Fair with
Ocean Air” and will serve as
the guideline to the imagery.
Artwork can be created in any
medium but may not include
the use of glitter, metallic
paint or three-dimensional
objects.
Entries will be accepted
until April 1.
For more information,
send an e-mail to info@ven
turacountyfair.org, visit www.
venturacountyfair.org or call
648-3376.
Cardiovascular care
seminar on tap
February is Heart Health
Month. Heart disease is the
leading cause of death in the
U.S., with 5 million Americans hospitalized each year
with chest pain and 1.1 million suffering heart attacks.
Omid Fatemi, M.D., who
specializes in interventional
cardiology, will lead the discussion during the seminar
to be held Feb. 23 from 6 to 8
p.m. in the eighth-floor Nich-
ols Auditorium at Community Memorial Hospital, at 147
N. Brent St., Ventura,
Registration is free but
reservations are required. To
secure your reservations visit
www.cmhshealth.org/rsvp or
call Brown Paper Tickets at
800-838-3006.
Association offers
free monthly classes
Brock Travis, Ph.D., will
offer guidance and support
through life changes. The
event will take place Feb. 17
from 1 to 2:30 p.m. at Ojai’s
Livingston Memorial Visiting
Nurse Association office at
202-A Cañada St. in Ojai. For
more information, call 2728593.
The Caregiver Support
Group will meet Monday and
Feb. 15 from 10 to 11:30 a.m.
at 1306 Maricopa Hwy. in Ojai
(behind Ojai Valley Community Hospital). For more information, call 633-9056.
The Adult Bereavement
Support Group will meet Feb.
9 and Feb. 23 from 10:30 a.m.
to noon at Help of Ojai, West
Campus, 370 Baldwin Road
in Ojai. For more information, e-mail griefinfo@living
stonvna.org or call 642-0239.
17.
• Vandalism was reported in
the 300 block of Park Road Jan.
17.
• Vandalism was reported in
the 300 block of Park Road Jan.
18.
• Identity theft was reported
in the 2200 block of Woodland
Avenue Jan. 22.
Arrests
• A 33-year-old man was
arrested in the 400 block
of Burnham Road Jan. 1 on
suspicion of being under
the influence of a controlled
substance. Bail was set at
$5,000.
arrested in the 100 block of
North Padre Juan Avenue Jan.
8 on suspicion of being under
$5,000.
• A 35-year-old woman was
arrested in the 900 block of East
Ojai Avenue Jan. 8 on suspicion
of failure to appear in court. Bail
was set at $5,000.
South Encinal Avenue Jan.
9 on suspicion of probation
violation. Bail was set at $5,000.
Drown Avenue Jan. 12 on
suspicion of domestic battery.
Bail was set at $10,000.
St. Thomas Drive Jan. 10 on
seven warrants. Bail was set at
$40,000.
Tico Road Jan. 10 on suspicion
of vandalism, battery against a
peace officer and obstructing
a peace officer. Bail was set at
$25,000.
East Ojai Avenue Jan. 11 on
two warrants. Bail was set at
$10,000.
Burnham Road Jan. 11 on
suspicion of the unlawful
possession of a firearm,
unlawful possession of a
military hand grenade and
being under the influence of a
controlled substance. Bail was
set at $20,000.
arrested in Ojai Jan. 11 on
$5,000.
North Poli Avenue Jan. 12 on
suspicion of possessing drug
paraphernalia and probation
violation. Bail was set at
$12,500.
East Ojai Avenue Jan. 16 on
suspicion of public intoxication
Bail was set at $2,500.
Woodland Avenue Jan. 12 on
suspicion of failure to appear in
court. Bail was set at $5,000.
paraphernalia, possessing
a controlled substance and
set at $12,500.
Woodland Avenue Jan. 12 on a
warrant. Bail was set at $5,000.
South Encinal Avenue Jan.
13 on suspicion of probation
violation. Bail was set at $5,000.
arrested on Casitas Vista
Road Jan. 15 on suspicion of
set at $5,000.
suspicion of contributing to the
delinquency of a minor. Bail
was set at $2,500.
suspicion of unlawfully
possessing a firearm. Bail was
set at $10,000.
Casitas Vista Road Jan. 15
on suspicion of being under
$5,000.
arrested on North Ventura
Avenue Jan. 15 on suspicion of
set at $5,000.
arrested in the 20 block of Feliz
Drive Jan. 16 on suspicion of
set at $5,000.
arrested in the 20 block of Feliz
Drive Jan. 16 on two warrants,
paraphernalia and being under
$12,500.
suspicion of possessing a
controlled substance and
set at $10,000.
suspicion of possessing a
controlled substance and
set at $10,000.
of Carrizo Street Jan. 17 on
$5,000.
arrested on East Ojai Avenue
Jan. 17 on suspicion of driving
under the influence of alcohol
and failure to stop a vehicle
after being involved in an
accident. Bail was set at $10,300.
arrested in the 200 block of Ojai
possessing drug paraphernalia
and being under the influence
of a controlled substance. Bail
was set at $7,500.
of Emily Street Jan. 18 on a
arrested in the 200 block of Ojai
possessing drug paraphernalia
and being under the influence of
a controlled substance. Bail was
set at $7,500.
East Ojai Avenue Jan. 19 on a
paraphernalia and being under
substance. Bail was set at $7,500.
Bicyclist killed Tuesday
A man died Tuesday
after a collision between his
bicycle and a truck in Meiners
Oaks.
The incident occurred just
east of Felix Drive on El Roblar
Drive at approximately 1:26
p.m. Tuesday, according to
Rolando Tejeda, information
officer for the California
Highway Patrol (CHP).
A white Ford E350 box
truck was exiting a parking
lot, he said, when it collided
with the cyclist, who was run
over by the truck’s right rear
wheel.
Tejeda said the driver of
the truck remained on the
scene. The injured cyclist was
transported by ambulance
to Ventura County Medical
Center, where he died.
Tejeda said the incident
remains under investigation,
and precise details, such
as the path the cyclist was
following, are still unclear.
He urged anyone who might
have witnessed the collision
to contact CHP at 805-4774100.
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Sun:
Hospice:
Continued from Page A1
mental conditions monitored in relation to the system’s output of power. That’s
the stuff of student projects,
and with students learning
sustainability hands-on it’s
the stuff of the future.
Given Ojai’s usual regimen of sunny skies, Sullivan
expects the photovoltaic
system to produce around
1.2 million kilowatt-hours of
energy per year. Bennett said
the savings realized from this
would help fund the other
sustainability projects on the
campus.
And the school should
be able to earn credits for
any power it sends back to
the grid, since Thacher’s
solar power system will be
grandfathered into Southern California Edison’s net
energy metering program for
the next 20 years.
The new solar system
was made possible, largely,
as a gift of Thacher’s 20142015 Senior Class, along with
some additional assistance
from a benevolent foundation. “We were fortunate in
that we were able to fund
it,” Bennett said. “Without
the help of the senior class
and their parents kicking in,
along with the foundation, it
might not have happened.”
The assisting foundation,
he said, preferred to remain
anonymous.
“Really, the school’s
board of trustees and administration have committed to
try to become the very best
we possibly can be when
it comes to sustainability
on campus,” Bennett said.
Planning for the effort began
about five years ago, he said,
gaining momentum with the
rainwater collection system
in 2014. When the opportunity appeared for building
the solar power system, it
was seen as the logical next
level.
A turnkey provider,
Sullivan Solar Power was
founded in 2004. Since then,
the company has installed
more than 34 million watts
of solar power in Southern
California, including systems
for small-scale residential,
large-scale commercial and
municipal facilities. More
information on the company
can be found by visiting its
website at www.sullivanso
larpower.com.
sion, working out the details,
and they seemed OK with it.
But there was concern on the
part of the public, and then
it never gained enough momentum to pass.”
Clark said the meeting
had been called and the item
placed on the agenda because
the City Council is soliciting
input from various commissions and boards concerning
priorities for the year ahead.
“If the BAB wants to work on
it, they could make a proposal
to the Council and see if they
want to prioritize it,” he said.
At Wednesday’s meeting,
the BAB will review and discuss the City Council’s report
of Jan. 12 on Ojai’s secondunit compliance program,
which concluded its applications process Dec. 21.
The meeting is scheduled
to convene at 6 p.m. in the
Council Chambers of Ojai
City Hall, 401 S. Ventura St.,
Ojai, and the public is invited
to attend.
Codes:
codes — which include
building, residential, plumbing, electrical, mechanical
and energy, as well as green
building standards — will automatically take effect Jan. 1,
2017, by operation of law.
So if the state codes are
going to prevail anyway, why
adopt them? “Largely for clarification,” Clark said. It can
be misleading when amendments in the municipal code
refer to state standards of
1997, which might not apply
in 2016.
Public
consternation
stalled the city’s intention to
adopt the new state codes in
2011, Clark said. “There was
a lot of confusion and misunderstanding concerning the
local amendments,” he said.
“We spent a good deal of time
with the Planning Commis-
Park:
playground areas for better
visibility.
Commissioners directed
Community Work Design
Group to integrate these
changes and feedback and to
return with an updated design at the next regular Ojai
Parks and Recreation meeting. That meeting is scheduled for 6 p.m. Feb. 4 at 401 S.
Ventura St. in Ojai.
process,” he said.
“Hospice” filmed 10 of its
14 shooting days in the valley.
The cast and crew spent
its last day in town, Sunday,
Jan. 24, shooting a motel
scene at the Ojai Rancho Inn,
according to Marie-Pierre
Agostini, Rancho’s event coordinator.
Agostini also confirmed
two members of the “Hospice” cast stayed at the inn for
their 10 nights in town.
“It was kind of hard to
see (the filming) — they were
shooting in two of the rooms.
I saw one of the actresses —
she was dressed pretty crazy!”
said Agostini.
The Saddle Mountain
homeowner, who stayed in
a separate guest house while
filming took place, also had
an interesting run-in with a
cast member.
“I think the weirdest sensation for me was waking
up Thursday morning to my
doorbell ringing, and I looked
outside and there was a sheriff ringing the doorbell — of
course I realized that it was
part of the movie,” he said.
“So I walked inside a little bit
later on after they shot that
and said, ‘Oh my gosh I woke
up this morning to a sheriff
at the door, that was very disconcerting!’”
Though filming for “Hospice” has wrapped in Ojai, the
cast and crew may be back.
“I really want to go to
the Deer Lodge. When we’re
done, wrapped, and the dust
settles, we’ll go to the Deer
Lodge,” said Bentley.
“Hospice” does not yet
have a distributor; the team
plans to submit the film to
various festivals once the editing process is complete.
“I told them hopefully
we’ll see them at the Ojai Film
Ojai Valley News photo by Andra Belknap
Actor Jose Rosete (center) chats with “Hospice” cast and crew
members in between takes.
Festival,” said Agostini.
“Hospice” is the culmination of a lot of work for Bentley and two friends he has
known for most of his life.
“Myself and two other
partners of mine wrote the
script. Back in May we decided, ‘Look, let’s put our money
together … let’s make a feature,’” he said. “Then it kind
of grew from there.”
“We were going to do it
non-union, just no-names,
but then Leslie Easterbrook
got involved, people know
her from ‘Police Academy’
and ‘The Devil’s Rejects.’
Then Kevin Sizemore got involved, he’s on ‘Fear the Walking Dead: Flight 462.’ And
then the whole caliber of the
cast raised up.”
Executive producer and
co-writer Eric Storlie gave
some perspective on the
enormity of the project:
“We all have regular jobs
(that) we all have to jump
back into!”
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Wednesday, Jan. 27
BREASTFEEDING CHECK-IN
— The Nan Tolbert Nurturing
Center, 555 Mahoney Ave.,
Room 2, Oak View, hosts
breastfeeding check-ins with
Darcy Wronkiewicz, lactation
educator, Wednesdays at 9:45
a.m. Baby’s latch and weight
will be checked; you can ask
questions about breastfeeding,
and stay afterwards for the Circle
of Parenting class. Suggested
donation: $15.
Thursday, Jan. 28
NETWORKING LUNCH — A Free
Networking Lunch for servicebased business owners will be
held Thursday from 12:30 to 1:30
p.m. at Asian Fusion Garden,
842 E. Ojai Ave. Let’s get to know
one another, enjoy a meal and
explore how we can support one
another’s success. Each person
pays for their own meal. E-mail
Jennifer to RSVP: Success@
ZestBusinessConsulting.com.
“PREPARING YOUR CHILD FOR
KINDERGARTEN” — First 5 and
Ojai Valley Neighborhood for
Learning will host “Preparing
Your Child for Kindergarten,”
Thursday from 6 to 7:30 p.m. at
Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E.
Ojai Ave. Learn what is needed
for a successful move into
transitional kindergarten and
kindergarten in this free class.
Call 640-4300, Ext. 1062.
Friday, Jan. 29
MONICA ROS SCHOOL OPEN
HOUSE AND FOUNDER’S DAY
PERFORMANCE — Monica
Ros School, 783 McNell Road,
Ojai. will host an Open House,
Friday from 8:30 to 10:30 a.m.
with all classrooms open for
observation and at 9:15 a.m.
the grand unveiling of the Arts
Month Gallery in Meyer Hall.
The traditional Founder’s Day
Performance, where every class
sings a song, will begin at 9:45
a.m. To RSVP or for more details:
offi[email protected] or
646-8184.
“BLACK COMEDY” — The
Ojai Art Center Theater,
113 S. Montgomery St., will
host performances of “Black
Comedy,” a farce by Peter
Shaffer, through Feb. 14,
Fridays and Saturdays at 8
p.m. and Sundays at 2 p.m.
“Black Comedy” plays with our
nd
our
comedic senses in “a veritable
detonation of human glee.”
It is being co-sponsored by
Ojai Performing Arts Theater.
Tickets: $15 general, $12 for
seniors, students and Art Center
members; available at www.
ojaiact.org or call 640-8797.
Saturday, Jan. 30
OJAI HISTORICAL WALKING
TOURS — Saturdays at 10:30
a.m., Ojai Historical Walking
Tours depart from the Ojai
Valley Museum, 130 W. Ojai Ave.
(approximately one-hour tours
of downtown historical and
cultural attractions). Docent
Helen Peterson will lead the Jan.
30 tour. Cost is $7 or $15 per
family. Drop-ins are welcome.
For reservations or tours during
the week, call 640-1390.
LITERARY BRANCH MEETING
— The Ojai Art Center, 113 S.
Montgomery St., will host a
meeting of the Literary Branch,
Saturday at 2 p.m., featuring Ojai
resident Alice Rene launching
her latest book, “The Other
Side of Him.” This is a historic
suspense novel, inspired by
true events, unfolding how even
a sohisticated young woman
can become a stalker’s target.
Rene’s award-winning book,
“Becoming Alice,” gave a child’s
perspective on the Holocaust.
All are welcome; donations
are appreciated. Books will be
available for purchase. Call
816-4099 or 646-0117 for more
information.
BOOK SIGNINGS — Ojai
authors Katina Drennan and
Terry Tallent will sign copies of
their four published books at
an open house hosted by Kava
Home, 238 E. Ojai Ave. in the
Arcade, Saturday from 5 to 7
valley
p.m. Drennan’s books are “Mint
Condition” and “The Goddess
of Undo.” Tallent’s books are
“The Loose Rack & Other
Stories” and “Making the Reata.”
Refreshments will be served.
Sunday, Jan. 31
MUSICAL AT NHS — The music
department at Nordhoff High
School will present “Raise the
Curtain,” a Broadway-Disney
spectacular, featuring all the
school’s ensembles, Sunday at 3
p.m. in the school gymnasium,
1401 Maricopa Highway.
Advance tickets are $10 from the
music department; tickets at the
door are $15 adults, $12 students
and seniors. The event will also
feature a raffle with Disneyland
tickets. For more information,
call 640-4343, Ext. 1861, or go to
www.nhsmusic.com.
Monday, Feb. 1
ELDERLY ADVOCATES NEEDED
— The Ombudsman Program
of Ventura County is looking
for volunteers in the Ojai Valley
area for a training scheduled for
Feb. 1 through 5, to advocate for
elderly individuals living in longterm care facilities. If interested,
call 656-1986, Ext. 101, or visit
www.ombudsmanventura.org.
NOMINATE A GRAND
MARSHAL — The Ojai
Independence Day Committee is
taking nominations for the grand
marshal of the Fourth of July
parade up to Monday. For more
information or to submit your
entry, visit www.4thofjulyinojai.
com.
“POTENTIAL AND
POSSIBILITY” PODCAST —
Listen to local author Alex
Sheshunoff as he gives a reading
from his book, “A Beginner’s
Your complete listings of Ojai Valley events
Guide to Paradise,” shares more
of his tale and provides guidance
for how to discern through
the complexities within life’s
choices. On-air reading and
conversation on podcast
“Potential and Possibility” with
local host Kaitlyn Mirison. Show
airs Feb. 1 and available then
and beyond for you to listen
to at www.
potentialandpossibility.com.
COMPASSIONATE OJAI — The
second meeting of the new year
for Compassionate Ojai will be
held Monday at 7 p.m. in the
Fireside Room at Ojai Valley
Community Church, 907 El
Centro St. Compassionate Ojai is
a support group for Ojai families
struggling to find solutions for
their loved ones with mental
health issues and advocating for
greater service for those in need.
Compassionate Ojai believes
that there is a kinder, gentler
approach to those who suffer
with mental issues. Meetings
for the rest of the year are at the
same time and place on the first
Monday of each month. Call
640-0654.
ART CENTER’S ANNUAL
MEETING — The Ojai Art Center,
113 S. Montgomery St., will hold
its annual meeting Monday at
7:30 p.m. The public is welcome.
The evening begins with brief
reports from the branch chairs
highlighting the year’s events
and projecting things to come,
followed by the membership
voting in new officers for the
board of trustees. Then the
Lifetime Membership Award
will be given to artist Bonnie
Caruk Riege for her many
contributions. Refreshments will
be served. Call 646-0117.
[email protected]
Tuesday, Feb. 2
“FUNDAMENTAL CONCEPTS IN
‘THE SECRET DOCTRINE’ AND
THEIR RELEVANCE TODAY”
— with Elena Dovalsantos,
Ph.D., will be presented Feb. 2
through 5 at Krotona School,
46 Krotona Hill, Ojai. Drawing
on the ancient teaching in “The
Secret Doctrine,” Dovalsantos
will look at how modern
scientific theories parallel many
claims and teachings from
H.P. Blavatsky’s seminal work.
Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m.
to noon. $10 single session, $35
series. To register: 646-1139,
[email protected].
Visit www.krotonainstitute.org
for more information.
MARDI GRAS PARTY — Ojai
Presbyterian Church, 304
Foothill Road at the corner
of Aliso Street, will host a free
Mardi Gras party, Tuesday from
2 to 4 p.m. Everyone is welcome
to celebrate with jambalaya,
gumbo, king cake and jazz. For
more information, call Carlene
at 640-6451.
“BEETHOVEN’S SPIRITUAL
ODYSSEY” — The Theosophical
Society in the Ojai Valley will
meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at
Krotona School on Krotona
Hill in Ojai. Author Howard Jay
Smith will discuss “Beethoven’s
Spiritual Odyssey.” Call
646-2653.
“ALL YOU NEED IS 2 FOR
LOVE” — The American Vedic
Association Bhagavad Gita As It
Is Fellowship will meet Tuesday
at 7:30 p.m. at 687 Villanova
Road to discuss “All You Need Is
2 for Love.” Much is preached
about universal oneness, bu it
takes 2 for love to flow. Merging
with the divine cannot satisfy the
soul crying for the love of God
who is the origin of everything
but never entangled in it.
Discover your eternal identity at
the next AVA gathering. Everyone
is welcome. Always free. Call
640-0405.
Down The Road
OJAI LIBRARY BOOK
DISCUSSION GROUP — The
Ojai Library’s Book Discussion
Group will meet Feb. 3 at 7:30
p.m. to discuss “The Loose Rack
and Other Stories” by Terry
Tallent. The library is at 111 E.
Ojai Ave. Everyone is invited
to join the group. The only
requirement for participating
in the discussion is to have read
the book and come willing to
share your opinion and listen to
others. Call 646-1639.
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FEATURED LETTER by Judy Murphy, Ojai
The need for housing is real and the city has the ability to move forward
The housing crisis in California,
and Ojai in particular, is real and
growing worse. Just a few facts:
• The state’s median rent rose more
than 20 percent from 2000 to 2012
while median incomes fell 8 percent,
• Ojai has lost population, jobs and
student population since 2000,
• Young families have been forced
out by high home and rental prices,
• Nearly half of Ojai residents fall
into the lower income categories.
To address this crisis, some
long-term residents formed the
Ojai Affordable Housing Committee (AHC). We have provided input
to the City Council as they formulated Housing Element #5, for Ojai’s
General Plan. To craft a housing
proposal, we have met with various
elected officials and staff, community groups such as the Ministers’
Association, Board of Realtors,
Help of Ojai, Casitas Water District
and school officials. We visited
affordable housing sites and met
developers. We organized a public
workshop in 2014.
There are several approaches
to alleviating Ojai’s housing problem. Ojai banned vacation rentals
partially because they use limited
housing stock. The city’s seconddwelling unit program encourages citizens to legalize their units.
Building additional rental housing
is another viable solution.
We have partnered with Peoples’ Self Help Housing (PSHH), an
Letters to the Editor
Wildland protection
efforts appreciated
RICK CLEMENS, IECP Director
Inclusive Education
and Community Partnership (IECP) would like to
thank Rep. Lois Capps and
Sen. Barbara Boxer for their
bills that would help further
enhance and protect our
existing wilderness, wild
rivers, and recreation in the
Los Padres National Forest
and Carrizo Plain National
Monument. The additions
of the Condor Trail National
Scenic Trail, 250,000 acres
of wilderness additions, and
150 miles of wild and scenic
rivers support our ideals of
creating a future in which the
children that we care for can
flourish and live to their full
potential.
IECP employs 300 dedicated professionals that
provide services throughout
the state of California meeting the needs of children
with autism and other developmental disabilities in both
schools and other natural environments. Our mission is
to “Support schools, families
and community agencies in
providing full access to life’s
experiences for individuals
with disabilities. This in-
cludes making friends, playing, accessing school and
community, learning, loving,
being loved and living life
to the fullest.” The Central
Coast Heritage Protection
Act provides wilderness areas
and a clean and healthy
environment for the children
whom we provide services
for to grow and learn.
The pending retirement
of Rep. Capps and Sen.
Boxer who have championed
these efforts for well over a
decade, leaves little time to
help protect these vital wildlands, rivers and trails. With
very limited time, we need
a strong and vocal rallying
of support for Rep. Capps
and Sen. Boxer to help them
leave an invaluable legacy
for future generations on the
Central Coast. IECP would
like to thank Capps and
Boxer for their work to protect our region’s wildlands
and natural resources. Their
efforts to better the world
that the future generations
will inherit are greatly appreciated by the staff at IECP.
Humane Society,
Jolene are Ojai gems
award winning nonprofit organization which has developed and
managed 1600 units of permanent
affordable rental housing since
1970. Along with on-site management, they provide wrap-around
programs leading to self-sufficiency
for residents including financial
education, after-school education,
social services and home-buyer
education. PSHH contributed to
Ojai’s Housing Element and worked
with the AHC developing a plan for
Ojai. It would have 40 units, mostly
2 or 3 bedrooms, and a resident hall
for programs and classes. This is
a positive step, operating in good
faith to fulfill our Housing Element,
the law of our city.
On July 14, the City Council
Ojai Humane Society and
to its director, Jolene. We
recently adopted a dog from
there, the second time I’ve
done so. Both times Jolene’s
integrity and dedication to
the welfare of the animals
was exceptional. My first
animal had to eventually be
put down. I will never forget Jolene’s comforting arm
around me as I sobbed and
she assured me I had done
all anyone could. The second
time, early this month, she
scrutinized my family with a
fine-toothed comb for new
dog readiness since we now
live out of county. She looked
at pictures of our yard and
didn’t just take our word
for it that it was fenced. I’m
impressed with her careful
scrutiny because it’s clear she
has the animal’s welfare as
a priority. She also takes in
high school students, helping them learn to volunteer
responsibly. It takes a lot
of oversight to mentor and
teach temporary teenage
help. Ojai is fortunate to have
such a responsible person at
the helm of the Humane Society. Jolene, hats off to you!
confirmed the use of sites 10 and/
or 11 as described in our Housing
Element for affordable housing.
Site 10, designated “primary,” is
the nine-acre plot behind City Hall
deeded to the city to be used “in the
public interest.” Affordable housing
qualifies as such. Site 11, adjacent
to the Public Works Department,
is across from site 10. PSHH prepared a concept development plan
for each of the sites, as requested
by the Council; a third plan would
use a small portion of each site.
This plan would enable the city,
should they desire, to renew most
of the garden and develop a nature
preserve and hiking trails creating a
truly recreational area for the community. These plans will be pre-
King’s message still
resonates today
JOAN ENGLANDER, Ojai
What does it feel like to
be touched by greatness? To
stand for something larger
than yourself? To sense the
potential to live with passion, to have a purpose that
changes lives, that changes
yourself? To recognize that
the highest values of love,
freedom and hope are within
reach if you would reach for
it?
Such is the message of
Martin Luther King Jr., whose
speech echoes in Libbey Park
year after year, claiming the
hearts of those who witness
our Ojai children deliver stirring testimonies that the lesson of history remains potent
and real; that our children
may aspire to be leaders of
justice, non-violence, peace.
Martin Luther King Day
is more than charming kids
giving a choir recital. We hear
those small voices echo the
dreams of all of us. We see
them poised, deeply focused
as mirrors of love, with the
sented to City Council on Feb. 9.
To make the finances on this
project “pencil-out” requires a city
donation of funds or land. In this
case it would be property, probably through a long-term lease.
The builder would then apply for
competitive tax credit funding
from the state. To compete, the
project needs to be close to downtown. While other privately-owned
parcels of land might qualify, they
would require long fund-raising
campaigns to purchase. The need
for housing is real; it is now. people
who have a job in the city, and are
low-income, would have priority.
Teachers, artists, city workers, retail
workers all deserve decent affordable housing; let’s make it happen!
potential to one day stand
for what is right.
The adult performers
are not simply entertaining
us. Some of them, like Perla
Batalla, world-class singer,
composer and musician, and
Julija Zonic offer their time
and talents because they
link their spirit to the cause
for freedom. They light a fire
in our hearts, causing us to
want to make this world a
better place.
This year, our community
leaders, Mayor Paul Blatz,
former Mayor Severo Lara,
and Khaled Al-Awar gave
speeches to remind us that
they care for our world, our
town, our lives.
Julie Lynn TumamaitStenslie offered the power to
unite us as one family. Her
blessing of uplifting grace
touched us, our ancestors,
our land. Her’s was a call to
make things right between us
and our planet.
It is no wonder we end
up dancing, that spontaneous song breaks out as we
reach for our neighbor’s
hand, singing fervently for
freedom.
Freedom begins when we
look into ourselves, seeking
to banish hatred, bigotry,
exclusion, insult and injury
from our thoughts and actions.
Martin Luther King calls
us to help repair our world,
lay down arms of war and
rise up on wings of love. No
matter what your beliefs are,
this noble vision is worth revisiting on this special day, if
only to encourage the future
of our children.
We have the opportunity
to be inspired, to begin anew,
to support the Ojai Valley
Youth Foundation (OVYF).
Tirelessly they work to make
this event happen. We can
help them grow it, see it influence our children, leaders
of tomorrow. As adults, we,
too, need that same influence to create harmony in
our families, jobs, churches,
synagogues, schools. We are
the hopeful tomorrow that
we seek.
To contact the OVYF call
646-9555 or e-mail Franci
Nelson at Sassy-J-Nelson@
att.net.
CATHY CHASE BAUTISTA, Corralitos
I would like to extend a
heartfelt thank-you to the
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• A reader sends a thumbs-up to the two young women
who gave away iced cupcakes at Chief’s Peak and The Hub
on Saturday night. After slight suspicion, we all accepted,
smiled and enjoyed. The cakes were delicious.
• A reader sends a thumbs-down to the gasoline gougers of
Ventura County, especially Ojai. Go down the hill and pay
40 cents less!
• A reader sends a thumbs-up to Fred Wachter at Fred’s
Tireman. You will not find a more honest businessman
anywhere.
• A reader sends a thumbs-down to all those letting their
dogs off leash at Lake Casitas. I go to have peaceful walks
and am tired of dogs jumping at me and attacking my dog
which is on leash. Please obey the law.
• A reader sends a thumbs-down to the Ojai Valley News for
the tasteless “We suck” front-page headline. Ojai is a family
town and deserves a respectful newspaper.
• Thumbs-down to those feigning indignation at a headline
instead of being upset by what the story revealed. Might a
personal agenda be fueling the response rather than a desire for a responsive and efficient city government? That’s
what this community really deserves.
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NHS soccer
on defense
Tim Tuttle
Ojai Valley News photo by Ken Brown
Nordhoff senior Luke Boyd (left) looks to pass to teammate Spencer Yates in Friday night’s 64-46 win over Carpinteria. Boyd scored a
game-high 29 points in the victory.
Sweet victories
Mike Miller
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The Nordhoff boys’ basketball team snapped their
17-game losing streak in
dramatic fashion last week
with back-to-back wins over
Carpinteria and Hueneme.
Friday night NHS hosted
the Warriors in a key Tri-Valley League game and got its
second win of the season
against the 5-5, 2-2 Warriors.
NHS once again got off to
a fast start and managed to
build an early first-half lead
against Carpinteria. In the
second quarter, the Rangers
outscored Carpinteria, 1510, and took a 27-22 lead into
the half. Unlike recent weeks
where the Rangers faltered
in the second half, this time
they used a big third quarter
to pull away from the War-
riors and cruised to a 64-46
victory.
“Luke (Boyd) got hot
and knocked down five
three-pointers which really helped,” said head coach
Matt Murphy. “When you
score 64 points and play the
kind of defense we’ve been
playing, it makes it easier to
win games.”
Boyd put the team on his
back and led them to victory
as he scored a game-high 29
points on 10-of-22 shooting.
Boyd was also tied for the
team lead in rebounds with
eight. Sophomore Trevor Solano had an efficient game
with 14 points on just 5-of-7
shooting from the floor.
Senior Spencer Yates
scored 12 points to go along
with six assists. Junior Jesse
Westbrook had a solid night
on the boards as he recorded
eight rebounds for the victorious Rangers.
The very next day, the
Rangers played a rare Saturday non-league game when
they hosted the Hueneme Vikings (1-13).
This time it was the effort
at the defensive end of the
floor that helped propel the
Rangers to victory.
“I liked our effort on defense. We held them to 41
points and managed to score
enough points to get the
win,” Murphy added.
Nordhoff had to overcome
poor shooting (29 percent
from the floor) which they
did by committing just nine
turnovers. Yates led the team
in scoring, with 16 points,
and in steals, with five. Senior
guard Tyler Rogers chipped in
13 points. Boyd cooled off after his 29-point performance
and scored seven points, but
he did lead the team in rebounds with 10.
“We are really excited
about the next two weeks and
we think we can win some
games. Our guys really needed a win and to come up with
two in a row, it was huge for
our confidence,” said Murphy.
The back-to-back victories improved Nordhoff’s
overall record to 3-17 on the
season and they are now 1-4
in league play. The Rangers
will host Santa Paula (7-9,
2-3) Wednesday at 7 p.m. and
they will travel to Santa Barbara Friday to take on Bishop
Diego (5-16, 2-3).
That game will also tip off
at 7 p.m.
VPS soccer thriving on their bond
Tim Tuttle
Villanova’s girls won four
straight soccer matches at the
start of the season, lost their
next six and defeated Santa
Clara, 2-0, Saturday. Throw in
a 1-1 tie with Nordhoff in the
opener and the Wildcats have
put together a 5-6-1 record in
a season of streaks going into
Tuesday’s match at Cate.
Villanova has six matches
remaining including Tuesday and first-year coach Kerri
Anderson believes the Wildcats have a chance to emerge
with a .500 or slightly better
season. Villanova has three
opponents that it fell to by
one goal and one game it lost
by two goals in their initial
meetings this season.
“We’re so close,” Anderson said. “We lost to Fillmore
2-1, we lost to Foothill Tech
2-1 and we lost to Cate 4-3.
We can’t afford to make mistakes. Unless we play perfect
games, we wind up on the
losing side. We don’t have
much margin for error. We’re
just not quite there.
“But I’m hoping to put
three or four more into the
win column. I think it depends upon our focus, how
bad they want it. We tend to
be a better second-half team
and it’s hard to say why. I lay
awake at night trying to figure that out. I try to motivate them. I want to win, but
they’re the ones playing the
game.”
Villanova was 2-14-2
and 1-12-1 in the Frontier
League a year ago. This season’s record, including 2-6
in the league, shows marked
improvement, but Anderson
isn’t satisfied with that measure.
“We’ve done better than
the year before and for some,
that’s OK,” she said. “I want to
push them. I want us to be a
different Villanova.”
Anderson rates senior forward Clare Anderson, junior
midfielder Rebecca Saucedo
and senior defender Jordan
Ambrose as the team’s top
players. The Villanova coach
also has praise for the contributions of freshman forward
Hayley Mackay and senior
midfielder Nicole Abraham.
“Clare is averaging two
goals per game, Rebecca’s
leadership and work ethic on
the field is amazing and Jordan has really stepped it up
and helped us in the back,”
Anderson said. “Hayley has
been effective and pretty
valuable and Nicole has been
good defensively. They’ve all
played with consistency.
“Our strength has been
we continue to come together as a team. The girls seem to
jell and respond to each other. There’s not a lot of drama
on the team. We win together
and we lose together.”
Villanova has five underclassmen — Mackay, Saucedo, junior Tessa Bartholio,
Olivia Dorenkamp and Jessica O’Bryan — in the starting
lineup and Anderson is also
high on freshman Maddy
Gerace.
“I’m encouraged in what
the future holds,” Anderson said. “Hayley is a starter.
Maddy doesn’t start, but she
plays about 20 minutes per
game. She’s a hustler and is
coming along. I’m impressed
with her as a freshman on
varsity.”
Villanova’s wins this season are over Laguna Blanca,
3-1, Santa Clarita Christian,
2-0, Providence, 1-0, and Santa Clara, 6-0 and 2-0 in league.
In addition to the one-goal
losses in league, the Wildcats
also have been defeated by
Grace Brethren, 8-0, Thacher,
4-0, and Carpinteria, 2-0.
Villanova’s
remaining
matches following Cate are
against Foothill Tech at Ventura College Thursday, home
against Grace Brethren Feb.
2, home against Thacher Feb.
4, home against Carpinteria
Feb. 9 and at Fillmore Feb. 11.
They’re all league matches.
“I am encouraging our
team to work hard and do
better in the second half of
the league,” Anderson said.
“In my opinion, that would
make it a successful season.”
Nordhoff’s boys have
played very solid defense in a
competitive first soccer season under coach Peter Duggan.
The Rangers are 3-4-3
overall and 2-2 in the Tri-Valley League (TVL) going into
Wednesday’s league match at
Cate in Carpinteria.
In the TVL, Nordhoff has
victories over Malibu, 3-0,
and Bishop Diego, 1-0, and
losses to Carpinteria, 1-0,
and Santa Paula, 1-0, last Friday.
The Rangers have a nonleague win over Villanova
Prep, 5-2, and non-league
losses to Foothill Tech, 1-0,
and Oaks Christian, 5-0.
Nordhoff has played Santa Clara, Thacher and Rio
Mesa to 1-1 ties.
The Rangers have allowed more than one goal
only once, but have three
heartbreaking 1-0 losses.
“We
dominated
the
game for 70 of the 80 minutes against Santa Paula last
Friday night,” Duggan said.
“Santa Paula scored on a free
kick in the first 10 minutes
and that killed us. We’re not
lacking in heart, or desire or
fitness, the players have all
that.
“The biggest issue we
have is putting the ball in
the back of the net. We have
two fine goalkeepers, a fine
back line and a pretty good
midfield. We need to develop
scoring skills. There’s some
players who have great potential to score and we’re
hoping to produce better
results in the rest of the season.”
Garrett Woll is the starting goalkeeper and plays
the majority of the minutes.
Christian Ceja is the backup. “They’re both excellent,”
Duggan said.
The defenders on the
back line are Jules Pasco,
Hudson Handel, Luis Lopez
and Jay Inman.
Finn Matte and Gio Torres
lead the group of midfielders
and Adam Woll and Felipe
Torres are the primary scoring threats on the front line.
“It all comes down to
complete teamwork and vision,” Duggan said. “Our abil-
ity to know where our players
are when we’re on the ball
to make the correct pass is
lacking. We have a very good
leader in the midfield in Jules
(Pasco). He plays on a competitive club team in Santa
Barbara and he’s ahead of the
other players in his ability to
pass. But sometimes we’re
not in the position he expects
us to be when he’s on the ball.
“We’re emerging as a
team and I think we’re a year
away from being competitive in the Tri-Valley League.
In comparison to opponents
like Santa Paula and Carpinteria, I think we’re a season
behind them in capability.”
Duggan moved to Ojai
last March from the San
Francisco Bay area, where
he coached soccer at levels
from AYSO to high school for
17 years. He became the first
coach of the boys’ soccer program at Matilija Junior High
last spring and will continue
with it this spring. Through
his association with Matilija, he learned Nordhoff was
looking for a varsity coach,
interviewed and was hired.
“I love working with kids,”
he said.
Duggan
went
into
semi-retirement last year and
he and his wife began looking
into new places to live.
“My wife knew about
Ojai,” he said. “We visited it
and we loved it.”
Duggan also is involved
in helping establish the Ojai
Soccer Club, which he expects to be operating next
fall.
“We’re going to start a
competitive soccer club in
Ojai,” Duggan said. “We're
probably looking at all the
age groups under 18 and
hope to have teams for them
all. There are a lot of kids from
Ojai and Oak View who play
out of the valley and there’s
a need for a club here and
we want to fill it. There are
three other experienced club
coaches living in the valley
who are working on it, too.”
Nordhoff has six matches, all in league, remaining.
Following the match at Cate
Wednesday, the Rangers play
at Malibu Friday, at home
against Carpinteria Feb. 3, at
Bishop Diego Feb. 5, at Santa Paula Feb. 8 and at home
against Cate Feb. 10.
Lady Rangers hoop squad
battling for playoff spot
Nearly halfway through
Tri-Valley League play, Nordhoff's girls' basketball
team is 7-12 overall and 1-3
in league.
The
Lady
Rangers
matched last year's win totals with a 53-25 victory over
Bishop Diego in Ojai last
Tuesday. Junior point guard
Mikyla McGhee led the way
with 15 points, seven assists
and seven steals. Fellow
junior Kristin Fitz scored
eight points and pulled
down eight rebounds while
senior Loren Abasi added
seven points and seven rebounds.
Prior to the Bishop Di-
ego game, Nordhoff lost
to La Reina, 57-42, and to
Santa Clara, 55-35. Most
recently, they fell to Santa
Paula, 57-38, despite senior
Morgan Giove's 16 points.
The Rangers also defeated Providence 48-24
in a non-league game last
week. Giove had 15 in that
contest while Fitz recorded
a career-high 11 points and
grabbed 18 rebounds.
Giove is averaging 11.2
points and 6.4 rebounds per
game. McGhee averages 11
points, four steals and three
assists. Fitz leads the team
in rebounds, averaging 9.8
per game.
"We're having trouble
scoring," said head coach
Ted Cotti, whose squad is
shooting just 31 percent
from the floor and 39 percent from the line in league
play. "But I'm really pleased
with the teamwork and the
effort the girls are putting
forth. Our four upperclassmen are consistent contributors," he added, "while our
freshmen, Stella Moore and
Courtney Abraham, and
sophomores, Grace Bergmann and Morgan Mays,
are improving and will really benefit the next few years
from all the playing time
they're getting this year.”
Arts
&
Entertainment
B1
Wednesday
Jan. 27, 2016
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OPAT and A.C.T. bring this must-see ‘Black Comedy’
By Sami Zahringer
The enormously funny
“Black Comedy” blasts open
the new season at Ojai Art
Center Theater (A.C.T.) with
a blaze of … darkness?
The audience quickly
realizes this show reverses
darkness and light. When
the stage is dark, the
characters can see as
normal. But when the
electricity goes out, the
stage lights go up and
the action plays out as
if the characters are in a
blackout. “Black Comedy”
is a farcical, British play by
Peter Shaffer (“Equus” and
“Amadeus”).
The scene is the
apartment of an ambitious,
unscrupulous sculptor,
Brindsley Miller (Paul
Sulzman), and his ditzy,
debutante girlfriend, Carol
(Cecily O. Hendricks nailing
it as the wide-eyed, upperclass bimbo). Two visitors
are expected: Colonel
Melkett (Dave Newcomer),
Carol’s wealthy, bombastic
father who is meeting
Brindsley for the first time;
and rich foreign patron of
the arts, Georg Bamberger
(Bill Spellman).
Seeking to impress
them both, Brindsley has
removed expensive antique
furnishings and art from
the flat of his unwitting
neighbor, Harold (Antonio
Photo by Tom Moore
Brindsley (Paul Sulzman), Clea (Brittany Danyel) and Harold the neighbor (Antonio Royuela) interact “in the
dark.”
Royuela).
In the classic tradition of
British farce, Brindsley’s
plans goes awry,
unexpected guests show
up, identities are mistaken,
tricky truths are brought
to light in the dark, kisses
are stolen, bottoms are
grabbed, absurdity rules
and nobody escapes with
their dignity intact.
Watching the mad-eyed
stares of groping people in
the dark is inherently funny
and, free from the gaze of
others, the characters react
with all the puzzlement,
desperation and slyness
they conceal in the light.
Sulzman immediately
commands the scene with
force and vitality and some
skillful physical comedy, his
headlong, blind pratfalls
eliciting delighted “Oohs!”
from the audience.
The first unexpected
guest to arrive is the
starched, and pious spinster
neighbor Miss Furnival
(Nancy Jane Smeets),
seeking company in the
blackout. A cocktail error in
the dark leads Carol to serve
alcohol to the confirmed
teetotaler, who takes a liking
to it. One of the greatest
delights of this play is to
watch Smeets’ starchy Miss
Furnival dissolve gradually
into hilarious, hair-mussed
inebriation.
Next, Colonel Melkett
arrives, played with
bristling, mustachioed
umbrage by Newcomer.
Naturally, this old
imperialist dislikes his
daughter’s new Bohemian
beau at first (non-) sight,
and the hapless Brindsley’s
plans are further stymied
with the unexpected arrival
of hanky-waving, antiqueadoring Harold (played with
impeccably wounded high
camp by Antonio Royuela).
Then Brindsley’s exlover, Clea, arrives unseen
(played with vampy, saucy
steel and beautiful comic
timing by Brittany Danyel),
and the sparks really start to
fly as she realizes Brindsley’s
deceit.
Enter the art-loving
electrician, a highly
educated German whom
everybody mistakes for the
millionaire. John Medeiros
walks the tragi-comic
line like few actors can,
and Schuppanzigh — his
affronted, bewildered
foreigner — is screamingly,
teutonically hilarious. By
the time Spellman, playing
the real millionaire, shows
up, the audience is in a
state of high glee but he still
manages to wring yet more
laughter out of us.
This reviewer has rarely
seen an audience laugh so
often and so hard at the Ojai
A.C.T. before.
Director Richard Camp
mines the play for all the
groping accidents, cocktail
confusion and slapstick
he decently can while
expertly ratcheting up the
confusion with each new
guest entering the room.
It’s not easy to do farce this
well and easy to overdo it.
Camp’s vision is clear and
the results from him, his
experienced crew, and this
talented cast are 90 minutes
of exuberant, memorable
fun, a truly magnificent
and merry start to the 2016
season. A must-see.
“Black Comedy” is cosponsored by OPAT (Ojai
Performing Arts Theater)
and Ojai A.C.T. It runs
through Feb. 14, at 8 p.m.
Fridays and Saturdays
and 2 p.m. Sundays at
the Ojai A.C.T., 113 S.
Montgomery St.
Tickets are $15 general
admission and $12 for
seniors, students and Art
Center members. For tickets
and information, visit:
www.OjaiACT.org or call
640-8797.
Minet’s ‘Avian’ solo exhibit being
featured at Vita Art Center
Photo submitted
The Nordhoff High School music department’s award-winning vocal ensemble will perform Sunday.
Five Nordhoff music ensembles will
perform to benefit music department
The Nordhoff High
School music department’s
award-winning vocal
and instrumental groups
will present, “Raise the
Curtain,” a BroadwayDisney spectacular. This
sixth annual concert,
which benefits the music
department, will be held
on Sunday at 3 p.m. in the
Nordhoff gymnasium.
Five Nordhoff
ensembles, including
Symphonic Band, String
Orchestra, Jazz Band,
Gold ‘n Blue Choir and
the Chamber Choir will
perform.
Highlights of the
concert include music
from “Star Wars,” “Pirates
of the Caribbean,” “Toy
Story 2,” “The Jungle
Book,” “Wicked,” “Alice
in Wonderland,” “Les
Miserables,” “Sweeney
Todd” and more. The
concert will also have a
raffle, which will include
two Disney-themed gift
baskets that feature two
park-hopper Disneyland
and California Adventure
Park tickets.
The performance kicks
off this year’s musical
production of “Guys and
Dolls,” which runs March
4 through March 6, March
11 through March 13 and
March 18 through March
20.
The annual Broadway
concert is the major
fundraising event for
the Nordhoff music
department’s yearly spring
tour. In April, students will
be traveling to New Orleans
to compete for top vocal
and instrumental honors.
Ticket prices at the door
are $15 for adults and $12
for seniors and students. A
variety of Maestro Patron
sponsorship packages and
advertising in the musical
program are also available.
For information, visit
www.nhsmusic.com or call
the music department at
640-4343, Ext. 1861.
An opening reception for
the solo exhibition, “Avian,”
at the Vita Art Center, will
be held Feb. 5 from 6 to 9
p.m. The exhibit will feature
works that primarily portray
birds of prey by Los Angelesbased artist Cynthia Minet.
Her illuminated, life-size,
mixed-media sculptures of
domesticated animals are
constructed from found and
repurposed plastic materials.
Each installation in her
ongoing “Unsustainable
Creatures” series addresses
the artist’s reflection on the
complicated relationships
and interdependence
humans have with the
world we inhabit. The
common plastic materials
used in the sculptures
speak to consumer
culture and its reliance on
petrochemicals, while their
illumination emphasizes
our utter dependence on
electricity. The drawings that
accompany the sculptures
are often anatomical studies
combined with text. They
expose the preparations of
the sculptures and offer a
glimpse into the working
process.
Minet’s research into
contemporary falconry
explores commercial bird
eradication programs where
hawks and falcons are flown
through vineyards, airports
and other locations several
times a day, rendering them
almost as domesticated
as farm animals. Minet is
interested in portraying
domesticated animals
because she sees them
Photo submitted
This sculpture, by Cynthia Minet, is made from repurposed plastic.
as surrogates for human
experience. Building the
birds out of recycled water
and detergent bottles speaks
to humans’ reliance on those
materials and points to the
seemingly insurmountable
problems of plastic pollution
in the food chain and in the
water supply. A new series
of drawings Minet made
specifically for the exhibition
will focus on aquatic birds,
and how their environment
is challenged by the
prevalence of plastics.
The Vita Art Center is at
432 N. Ventura Ave., Studio
30, in Ventura. Exhibit dates
are Feb. 5 through Feb. 28.
Gallery hours are Monday
through Friday 10 a.m. to 4
p.m., Saturday and Sunday
by appointment.
Visit www.vitaartcenter.
com for more information.
B2 Ojai Valley News • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Kaufer kicks off the 40th anniversary year with herb walks
Ojai native plant guide
Lanny Kaufer will kick off
the 40th anniversary year
of herb walks Feb. 7 with a
nature hike on West Sulphur
Mountain Trail in the Casitas
Springs area between
Ventura and Oak View. The
hike will begin at 10 a.m. and
return to the trailhead at 3
p.m.
The group will identify
wild native and naturalized
plants in riparian, oak
woodland and coastal sage
scrub communities, and
discuss their indigenous
and modern uses for food,
medicine, crafts, landscaping
and more. There also will
be opportunities to sample
edible wild greens, learn
about ethical foraging and,
hopefully, see signs of the
animals that inhabit the area.
This will be a slow-paced
hike of about two miles each
way on a wide, dirt road that
steadily gains elevation with
corresponding views and
changing plant communities.
The hike will be suitable
for hikers of all levels of
ability who are capable of
walking that distance up and
downhill and standing for
periods of time. There will be
a half-hour lunch break.
This hike will take
place, rain or shine, with
the exception of a heavy
downpour that morning
and/or a 100 percent chance
of heavy rain that day. Once
registered, participants
will receive a confirmation
e-mail with details about
what to bring, where to meet,
etc., as well as a rain update
if needed.
For more information,
visit www.HerbWalks.com or
call 646-6281.
FOTM spotlights Lee and Unzicker
When does jewelry
become art? Is important
jewelry made only with
precious metals and gems?
How does jewelry transform
the wearer? These and other
questions will be explored
in “Baubles, Bangles &
Bright Shiny Beads,” as Mary
Galbraith visits with Jo Ellen
Lee and Elaine Unzicker
as part of the Focus On
The Masters (FOTM) Artist
Spotlight series.
Lee, who worked for
many years in genetics
laboratories in the
Southwest, took up beading
in 1993, and it was soon
evident that her precise,
careful work and strong
color sense took her beaded
art pieces and jewelry to
high levels of excellence.
Unzicker, a member of
the Ojai Studio Artists,
specializes in working with
chain mail, a material that
is tantalizingly soft and
hard at the same time.
Traditional jewelry pieces
such as earrings, chokers and
bracelets form part of her
work, as the clothing pieces
she designs are wearable
art. Galbraith is a longtime
FOTM volunteer and a
devoted wearer of jewelry.
The interview is free to
FOTM members, $10 to the
public, and $5 for students
and seniors. The event will
take place Feb. 6 from 5:30
to 7 p.m. at Brooks Institute
screening room, 5301 N.
Ventura Ave., in Ventura.
Immediately following
the interview, the AfterGLOW
Photo by Lanny Kaufer
Participants will see numerous vistas including this potrero along the West Sulphur Mountain Trail.
The Santa Paula Art Museum presents
‘Nature Inspired’ paintings by Loehr
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Jewelry, such as this piece by Elaine Unzicker will be the topic of discussion during the Artist Spotlight event.
fundraising event will
feature a celebratory supper
prepared by Old Broads
Catering Company at the
FOTM Archive & Library,
505 Poli St., Suite 405, in
Ventura. The AfterGLOW
is $25 for FOTM members,
$35 for nonmembers. Paid
reservations are essential
and required prior to Friday.
To RSVP for the Artist
Spotlight and the AfterGLOW
(if desired), visit www.
focusonthemasters.com or
call 653-2501.
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The Santa Paula Art
Museum will present
“Nature Inspired: The
Paintings of Sherry
Loehr,” opening Feb.
6. The exhibition will
feature an array of
paintings by awardwinning Ojai artist
Sherry Loehr.
Inspired by
nature, Loehr’s work
explores a world
guided by imagination
and intuition, and
brought to life
through her signature
improvisation with
color and texture.
The exhibition will
premiere with a
“White Orchids” by Sherry Loehr
reception Feb. 6 from
4 to 6 p.m. Admission
is $10 for museum
Loehr defines her style as
members and $15 for the
contemporary realism with
public.
an Asian flavor. Largely self-
taught, she portrays
her subjects —
notably birds, flowers,
fruits and plants —
with a disciplined, old
masters’ approach to
still life.
“Nature Inspired:
The Paintings of
Sherry Loehr” runs
through June 12.
The Santa Paula Art
Museum is at 117
N. 10th St. in Santa
Paula. The museum’s
hours are Wednesday
through Saturday from
10 a.m. to 4 p.m., and
Sundays from noon
to 4 p.m. Admission
is $4 for adults, $3 for
seniors, and is free for
museum members
and students. For
more information, call the
museum at 525-5554.
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Ojai Valley News • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016 B3
Events
Wednesday, Jan. 27
• The Appalachian love story
of May and Raleigh continues
as Rubicon Theatre Company
presents “See Rock City”
by Arlene Hutton, running
through Feb. 14. Set in the
1940s in Corbin, Kentucky,
“See Rock City” is a portrait
of a young couple trying to
find their footing in a world
on the brink of great change.
Rubicon Theatre is at 1006
E. Main St. in Ventura. For
tickets and information, visit
www.rubicontheatre.org or
call 667-2900.
Friday, Jan. 29
• Bank of Books, 748 E. Main
St. in Ventura, will present
“Haunted Houses! A Tour
and Talk” by author Richard
Senate, who has been
investigating haunted sites
for more than 30 years. The
talk and walking tour begins
at 7 p.m. In case of rain, the
tour will be canceled.
Saturday, Jan. 30
• Eleven years ago two
would-be authors met
and became friends at a
writers’ workshop. Both
were committed to finetuning their writing and
getting published. Saturday,
Ojai’s Katina Drennan and
Terry Tallent will hold a
combined signing of their
four published books at
Kava Home in the Arcade.
The public is invited to
attend from 5 to 7 p.m.
Refreshments will be served.
Kava Home is at 238 E. Ojai
Ave.
• At 2 p.m., Ojai resident
Alice Rene will launch her
new book, The Other Side of
Him, at the Ojai Art Center.
The historic suspense novel
is inspired by true events
and captures the drama of
being stalked and relates
how even a sophisticated
young woman can become
a stalker’s target. Meet Rene
and hear her read from
“The Other Side of Him” at
the Ojai Art Center, 113 S.
Montgomery St. For more
information about the booksigning event, call 816-4099.
• Five professional
entertainers will appear
on stage in the ballroom
Music
Saturday, Jan. 30
• Bombay Bar and Grill will
feature a lineup of rockabilly
and psychobilly bands,
including the Phantom
Pomps, Galactic Polecats,
Hard Six and INAZUMA at
143 S. California St. in Ventura
at 8 p.m.
Sunday, Jan. 31
• UCSB Arts & Lectures
will present Yamato, The
Drummers of Japan, with
two opportunities to see the
world-renowned taiko group
perform its new program,
“Bakuon: Legend of the
Heartbeat,” at 3 p.m. (onehour family fun program) and
7 p.m. (full program) at UCSB
Campbell Hall. For tickets
and information, visit www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
or call 893-3535.
Wednesday, Feb. 17
• A longtime backup singer
for the Rolling Stones,
Sting, Tina Turner and
countless other music
icons, Lisa Fischer will
perform interpretations of
classic songs throughout
the rock and pop universe.
To purchase tickets for the
8 p.m. concert, visit www.
ArtsAndLectures.UCSB.edu
or call 893-3535. Fischer was
featured in the documentary,
“20 Feet from Stardom” and
now fronts her own band,
Grand Baton.
Sunday, Feb. 21
• The Channel Cities Jazz
Club’s featured band will
be Bob Couto’s North Valley
Jazz Ensemble, under the
direction of Bob Couto. This
18-piece jazz group will play
big-band sounds of Benny
Goodman, Tommy Dorsey,
Glen Miller and more, as
well as traditional jazz and
Dixieland. The Jazz Club
plays on the third Sunday
of each month, from 1:30 to
4:30 p.m. at the Corinthian
Pacific Yacht Club, 2600 S.
Harbor Blvd. in Oxnard. For
information, call 487-3062 or
766-1261.
Tuesday, March 22
• Singer-songwriter, Santa
Barbara native and socialjustice activist David
Crosby will perform solo
acoustic at the Granada
Theatre at 7:30 p.m. Crosby
was inducted to the Rock
and Roll Hall of Fame as a
member of both the iconic
folk-rock band The Byrds and
the Woodstock era-defining
group Crosby, Stills & Nash.
Tickets are available at
Granada Theatre box office or
online at www.GranadaSB.org
or call 899-2222.
Thursday, April 21
• The 1975 will make their
Santa Barbara Bowl debut
at 7 p.m. with special guest,
The Japanese House. The
band is touring in support
of their much-anticipated
sophomore album, “I like it
when you sleep, for you are
so beautiful yet so unaware of
it.” The Santa Barbara Bowl is
at 1122 N. Milpas St. in Santa
Barbara. Order tickets online
at www.axs.com or at the
Santa Barbara Bowl
box office.
of Oxnard’s River Ridge
Residence Inn at 8 p.m. to
present an evening show
filled with comedy, magic,
ventriloquism, laughter,
puppets and surprises.
The show caps off the
third annual, four-day,
international convention
of variety artists held each
January in Oxnard. It is
known as KAX. Participants
include humorist and
ventriloquist Jay Johnson,
whose Broadway hit, “The
Two and Only,” garnered
a Tony Award, plus Magic
icon Stan Allen from Las
Vegas. Former Ojai residents
Dave and Shania Brenion
will share their approach to
the entertaining attributes
of balloons and New
Jersey native Christopher
T. Magician will share his
comedy magic. Tickets for
the show are available at the
hotel KAX registration booth
Friday and Saturday, and at
the door.
Thursday, Feb. 4
• The Santa Barbara Trust
for Historic Preservation
(SBTHP) will present
“Presidio Pastimes by
Candlelight” from 5 to 8
p.m. at El Presidio de Santa
Bárbara State Historic
Park. Experience living
history vignettes, and see the
Presidio as you might have
more than two centuries ago.
Friday, Feb. 5
• L.D. Lewis, a resident of
Ventura, will be available
to sign copies of her book,
“Rory: The Little ‘Dragon’
Lizard” at 7 p.m. at Barnes &
Noble, 4820 Telephone Road
in Ventura.
Saturday, Feb. 6
• Artist Holly Woolson will
host a class on making
Valentine prints from 1 to 4
p.m. at OVA Arts, 108-B Signal
St. in Ojai. Class fee is $40, all
materials included. Call the
gallery at 646-5682 for more
information.
Sunday, Feb. 7
• The 1892 Dudley Historic
House Museum will be open
for docent-led tours from
1 to 4 p.m., accompanied
by period music in the
parlor and upstairs library
landing. Admission is free.
The museum is at the corner
of Loma Vista and Ashwood
streets in Ventura. Visit www.
dudleyhouse.org or call
642-3345.
Exhibits
• Through Jan. 31: The Santa
Paula Art Museum, 117 N. 10th
St., Santa Paula, will display “Art
About Agriculture,” through
Sunday, featuring work by more
than 60 artists. Call 525-5554.
• Through Feb. 3: The Ojai Art
Center, 113 S. Montgomery St.,
will display “Painting in the
Light,” an exhibit of visionary
oil paintings by local artist Joyce
Huntington, through Feb. 3. Call
646-0117.
• Feb. 6: The Ojai Art Center, 113
S. Montgomery St., will host an
exhibition, “I Love Pastels,” and
sale by the Pastel Society of the
Gold Coast, Feb. 6 to March 2.
An artists’ reception will be held
Feb. 13 from 1 to 3 p.m. with live
piano music and refreshments.
Call 646-0117.
• Through Feb. 7: Gallery
525, 525 W. El Roblar Drive,
Meiners Oaks, will display
“Recent Paintings: Two Person
Exhibition,” featuring works by
Richard Crawford and Anthony
Ocone, through Feb. 7. Call
798-0407.
ASTROLOGY
RISA D’ANGELES
Rituals help humanity to maintain focus
Esoteric
astrology
as
news for the week of Jan. 27
through Feb. 3:
Festivals and feast days
are rituals celebrated by all of
humanity everywhere around
the world, in all cultures and
throughout
all
civilizations.
Rituals focus our minds and
hearts. They create rhythms.
Rhythms and rituals help to
balance the dark and the light.
Rituals bring heaven to earth.
They anchor great ideals into
our world. Rituals help humanity
to maintain a focus on things of
nature and of the spirit.
St. Brigit’s Day (Feb. 1) and
Candlemas (Feb. 2) are such
days. Both festivals tell us we are
in between winter and spring
(cross-quarter days) and that
spring is near. As St. Brigid holds a
cross (wheel of time, the changing
seasons) and a bowl of fire in her
hands, Candlemas is a time of
blessing and distributing candles
— light in the midst of winter. Both
St. Brigid’s Day and Candlemas
occur in the sign of Aquarius
— “the light that shines in the
dark, over the seas (emotional
world), purifying the darkness
(ignorances, fears, cruelties, etc.)
until the dark is gone.” Both feast
days are thus, in our esoteric
occult world, Aquarian.
Candlemas
(also
called
“Imbolc” [Celtic] and Groundhog
Day) occurs 40 days after
Christmas, when Hebrew infants
were brought to the temple
to be blessed and the mother
purified (“mikvah” — Hebrew for
purification, a holy bath). “And so,
after 40 days Mary was purified in
the temple.”
Forty days is esoterically a time
of preparation for higher spiritual
work. There are many biblical
references to the number 40. All
were purification times. We too
“bathe” during this time. Purifying
our bodies with sunlight, with
cedar and sage, lavender and
pine. We light our fires. We shed
any darkness. We make scones
with milk and butter. Soon we
know the quince will bloom.
ARIES: Are you remembering
events from the past, feeling more
sensitive. Inspired and perhaps
more insightful? Is there a sense
of sadness or woundedness?
Prayer, meditation, study, retreats
are good at this time, allowing
gentleness and kindness, more
compassion and caring to
emerge. These virtues help us
when placed at the center of an
Aquarian group, asking us to be
the leader and project the future.
You, the “initiator of all things
new” will be asked.
TAURUS: Your first mission
is tending to health, your
bones, muscles, heart, and not
let yourself become fatigued,
overwhelmed or cold. You must
use your practicality to care for
yourself before others. People
will come to you for help. They
already have. You must be strong
for them and weigh what is best
— to provide others with a healing
journey, or nurse your physical
body back to perfect health. Study
functional medicine.
GEMINI:
Something
benevolent
and bountiful
(Jupiter)
happens
between
you and the world at large,
between you and your work
and profession. You’re inspired,
encouraged and guided toward
all that is good. With careful study,
preparation, and viewing the past
in terms of your talents and gifts,
pathways open, choices, then
commitments are made, and
abundance settles into your heart.
CANCER: A new and different
study
daily
routine,
new
structures, perhaps new studies
have been introduced to you.
They make you feel generous and
capable. For the first time you
feel at home. It’s good to explore
a culture or a time or a reality that
is unknown to you — perhaps
shrouded in secrecy or hidden in
dreams and in history. Studying
this changes your inner and outer
life. You are happy.
LEO: Each day subtly you
become
more
perceptive,
more wise, more intuitive and
enlightened about those around
you,
especially
co-workers.
Someone,
something,
some
words or the love of one of the
kingdoms, shift you into a deeper
awareness of spiritual realities.
This comes through intimacy,
resources, visions or dreams. Love
is joyful. It is always kind.
VIRGO: You relate better with
others, especially those close
by if you see them as essential
divine beings. They will bloom
and flourish, increase, thrive,
prosper and unfold like a lotus.
You offer them praise and love in
abundance. Challenging no one.
Offering compassionate praiseful
understanding instead. You begin
to be nourished. The past drops
away.
LIBRA: Use your imagination
to think about what you want to
be — what career, occupation
and vocation you truly and
deeply want to pursue. Ask this
of yourself. The answers will
subtly appear. Talk to everyone
about your hopes, dreams and
wishes. In the upcoming months
you become stronger and more
resilient. Seek astrological timing
for any surgeries. Eat salads
with each meal. Find the Café
Gratitude cookbook.
SCORPIO: Don’t go down
the road of investments thinking
the economy will improve soon.
Don’t take risks with your money
and resources. Instead begin
serious preparation for a new
economy to unfold that will look
much different than what we are
used to. Don’t speculate. Instead
get a couple of good books on
greenhouses and bio shelters and
use your resources to create these
environments. Saturn calls you to
be wise in these matters.
SAGITTARIUS: So many
different ideas are in your
mind. Perhaps you’re thinking
of moving far away. A place in
the sun. Perhaps it’s to return
home. You want a place near a
body of water. Somehow you feel
clouded as to where home is.
Yes, Neptune has you in a boat
somewhere, directions into the
future unknown. Bask in these
unknowns. They are like clouds.
Nourishing you till the next phase
of personal development appears.
Study the “I Ching.”
CAPRICORN: For the next
five months your thoughts
become
happy,
optimistic.
You’re understanding many life
questions. You will shift from
vagueness (Neptune) to realizing
intentions for good will. You will
bring grace and goodness to all
interactions. You help others who
have lost their way. Begin writing
(journaling, blogging) about your
daily live. You have important
things to share.
AQUARIUS: This coming
year may feel like all things in
form and matter continue to
disappear. This means you must
be very careful with all resources,
especially money. You may feel
wounded by what you consider
as a lack of important things in
your life. Do not allow this to
be your interpretation. You are
being prepared for something
important. In order to help others.
You must experience these things
before humanity does. So you can
help them. You carry the Aquarius
task. We stand with you — along
with the angels.
PISCES: You will be given
new responsibilities this year.
Carefully follow through with
them. Visualize everything first.
Organize
all
environments,
papers, schedules, agendas and
commitments. Grace and beauty
and a new sense of identity will
emerge. Tithe generously and
consistently to those in need.
Change your eating habits. The
Paleo Immune diet is turning out
to be best for all of us. Read, study,
assess and gradually adapt it.
Risa D’Angeles is founder
and director of the Esoteric and
Astrological Studies and Research
Institute,
a
contemporary
wisdom school in the ancient
mysteries tradition. Send email
to [email protected], go
to nightlightnews..org/ or see her
Facebook pages.
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January 13, 20 & 27, 2016
February 3, 2016
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 20160105-100000890 1/1
Ventura County Clerk and Recorder
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 01/05/2016
THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS
(ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1st Fictitious Business Name: The
Creative Farm Girl
Street Address of Principal Place of
Business (P.O. Box or PMB are not
acceptable):
1255 Calle el Cameron, Thousand
Oaks, CA 91360
County of Principal Place of
Business: Ventura
Full name of 1st Registrant
Individual/Corporation/Limited
Liability Company:
Amy Downing
Residence Address of 1st
Registrant (P.O. Box or PMB are not
acceptable):
1255 Calle el Cameron, Thousand
Oaks, CA 91360
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Individual
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statement is true and correct.
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matter pursuant to Section 17913 of
Business and Professions Code that
the registrant knows to be false is
guilty of a misdemeanor punishable
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January 13, 20 & 27, 2016
ASAP #4557428
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE
T.S. No. 15-20404-SP-CA Title
No. 150065633-CA-VOI A.P.N.
029-0-140-150 ATTENTION
RECORDER: THE FOLLOWING
REFERENCE TO AN ATTACHED
SUMMARY IS APPLICABLE TO
THE NOTICE PROVIDED TO THE
TRUSTOR ONLY PURSUANT
TO CIVIL CODE 2923.3 NOTE:
THERE IS A SUMMARY OF
THE INFORMATION IN THIS
DOCUMENT ATTACHED YOU
ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER
A DEED OF TRUST DATED
06/16/2005. UNLESS YOU TAKE
ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR
PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT
A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED
AN EXPLANATION OF THE
NATURE OF THE PROCEEDING
AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD
CONTACT A LAWYER. A public
auction sale to the highest bidder
for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be
made payable to National Default
Servicing Corporation), drawn on
a state or national bank, a check
drawn by a state or federal credit
union, or a check drawn by a state or
federal savings and loan association,
savings association, or savings bank
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Financial Code and authorized to do
business in this state; will be held by
the duly appointed trustee as shown
below, of all right, title, and interest
conveyed to and now held by the
trustee in the hereinafter described
property under and pursuant to a Deed
of Trust described below. The sale
will be made in an “as is” condition,
but without covenant or warranty,
expressed or implied, regarding title,
possession, or encumbrances, to
pay the remaining principal sum of
the note(s) secured by the Deed of
Trust, with interest and late charges
thereon, as provided in the note(s),
advances, under the terms of the
Deed of Trust, interest thereon, fees,
charges and expenses of the Trustee
for the total amount (at the time of
the initial publication of the Notice
of Sale) reasonably estimated to be
set forth below. The amount may be
greater on the day of sale. Trustor:
Katia Penny, a married woman as
her sole and separate property Duly
Appointed Trustee: National Default
Servicing Corporation Recorded
06/24/2005 as Instrument No.
20050624-0154467 (or Book, Page)
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County, California. Date of Sale:
02/04/2016 at 11:00 AM Place of
Sale: At the main entrance of the
Government Center Hall of Justice,
800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura,
CA 93003 Estimated amount of
unpaid balance and other charges:
$3,318,238.55 Street Address or
other common designation of real
property: 3900 Grand Avenue, Ojai,
CA 93023 A.P.N.: 029-0-140-150
The undersigned Trustee disclaims
any liability for any incorrectness of
the street address or other common
designation, if any, shown above. If
no street address or other common
designation is shown, directions to
the location of the property may be
obtained by sending a written request
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Notice of Sale. If the Trustee is unable
to convey title for any reason, the
successful bidder’s sole and exclusive
remedy shall be the return of monies
paid to the Trustee, and the successful
bidder shall have no further recourse.
The requirements of California Civil
Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c)
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Default was recorded. NOTICE TO
POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are
considering bidding on this property
lien, you should understand that there
are risks involved in bidding at a
trustee auction. You will be bidding
on a lien, not on the property itself.
Placing the highest bid at a trustee
auction does not automatically entitle
you to free and clear ownership of the
property. You should also be aware
that the lien being auctioned off may
be a junior lien. If you are the highest
bidder at the auction, you are or may
be responsible for paying off all liens
senior to the lien being auctioned off,
before you can receive clear title to
the property. You are encouraged to
investigate the existence, priority,
and size of outstanding liens that may
exist on this property by contacting
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title insurance company, either of
which may charge you a fee for this
information. If you consult either
of these resources, you should be
aware that the same lender may hold
more than one mortgage or deed of
trust on the property. NOTICE TO
PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date
shown on this notice of sale may be
postponed one or more times by the
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court, pursuant to Section 2924g of
the California Civil Code. The law
requires that information about trustee
sale postponements be made available
to you and to the public, as a courtesy
to those not present at the sale. If
you wish to learn whether your
sale date has been postponed, and,
if applicable, the rescheduled time
and date for the sale of this property,
you may call 714-730-2727 or visit
this Internet Web site www.ndscorp.
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assigned to this case 15-20404-SPCA. Information about postponements
that are very short in duration or that
occur close in time to the scheduled
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in the telephone information or on
the Internet Web site. The best way
to verify postponement information
is to attend the scheduled sale.
Date: 01/11/2016 National Default
Servicing Corporation c/o Tiffany
and Bosco, P.A., its agent, 1230
Columbia Street, Suite 680 San
Diego, CA 92101 Toll Free Phone:
888-264-4010 Sales Line 714-7302727; Sales Website: www.ndscorp.
com/sales Zahara Joyner A-4557428
01/13/2016, 01/20/2016, 01/27/2016
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January 13, 20 & 27, 2016
February 3, 2016
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 20160105-100001830 1/1
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 01/05/2016
1st Fictitious Business Name: Total
Quality
acceptable):
3062 Hollycrest Ave., Thousand
Oaks, CA 91362
Business: Ventura
Liability Company:
Feng Ye
acceptable):
3062 Hollycrest Ave., Thousand
Oaks, CA 91362
Individual
on 11/20/2015.
dollars ($1,000).)
Feng Ye
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January 3, 20 & 27, 2016
February 3, 2016
STATEMENT OF
ABANDONMENT OF USE OF
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME
20151218-10024018-0 1/1
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 07/08/2015
1st Fictitious Business Name
Catalyst Test Service
acceptable)
575 El Sol, Ojai, CA 93023
The date on which the Fictitious
Business Name being Abandoned was
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Business Name being Abandoned:
20071015-10018050-0
The County where the Fictitious
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County
(Individual)/ Corporation/Limited
Liability Company
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Residence Address of 1st Registrant
(P.O. Box or PMB are not acceptable)
675 Beachport Drive, Port Hueneme,
CA 93041
Full name of 2nd Registrant
(Individual)/ Corporation/Limited
Liability Company
William Rimkus
Residence Address of 2nd
acceptable)
575 El Sol, Ojai, CA 93023
This Business is conducted by: A
General Partnership
information as true which he or she
knows to be false is guilty of a crime.)
I am also aware that all information
on this statement becomes public
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California Public Records Act (G.C.
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January 20 & 27, 2016
February 3 & 10, 2016
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 20160108-100004600 1/1
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 01/08/2016
1st Fictitious Business Name:
Factory Screenprinting
acceptable):
1961 Klamath Drive, Camarillo, CA
93010
Business: Ventura
Liability Company:
Paul Andrew Lisak
dollars ($1,000).)
Reed Andrew Fish
/s/REED ANDREW FISH
Reed Fish
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January 27, 2016
February 3, 10 & 17, 2016
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 20160120-100011970 1/1
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 01/20/2016
1st Fictitious Business Name:
Phoenix Touch
acceptable):
12681 Sisar Road, Ojai, CA 93023
Business: Ventura
Liability Company:
Heather Day Boyd
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The Student Union
A compilation of news by and about young people in the Ojai Valley
In cooperation with: Besant Hill School, Nordhoff High School,
Oak Grove School, Ojai Valley School and The Thacher School
Ojai Valley News • Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Racism at
Mizzou
Ojai Valley School Alum Shares
Experiences on Campus
it existed until I came to school
here. I’m white, and have never
Ojai Valley School
had any personal experience as a
target of racism, and it is unlikely
Walkouts and sit-ins. Deafthat I ever will.”
ening silence and echoing chants.
That all changed soon after
Racial slurs and civil unrest. StuPsaledakis set foot on her new
dents with nothing to lose but
campus.
their chains.
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In recent months, the Univerissue the university has wrestled
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powered by overwhelming racial
week of school graduate students
tension that has upset many of its
held a walk out regarding health
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care. But no issue has been more
ground with countless protests
explosive than the racial divide
and boycotts, students at that
that has long existed on the Mizuniversity, commonly known as
zou campus.
Mizzou, were demanding to be
For years, the university has
heard, and Ojai Valley School
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alum Daphne Psaledakis had a
issues of race and diversity, and
front row seat as the race wars
Psaledakis said the Mizzou Hununfolded.
ger Strike arose from the adminPsaledakis, a freshman puristration failing to address those
suing her dual degree in print and
issues.
digital news and international
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peace studies, gave On The Hill
of hatred during the homecoming
an inside look at the events that
parade in October when the preshave shaken her new school,
ident of the University of Miswhich is located in Columbia,
souri System, Tim Wolfe, was in
Mo.
a car with a driver that revved the
“I’ve grown up in what I
engine and nudged some of the
guess are fairly liberal communiprotestors that had blocked the
ties mostly around California and
road.
Colorado, where racism was an
“Wolfe, rather than issuing
idea and never something I actuan apology for the incident, chose
ally witnessed,” said Psaledakis,
to ignore it and didn’t apologize
who graduated from Ojai Valuntil earlier (last) month as the
ley School last spring. “I think
See Racism, Page C4
a part of me didn’t even believe
Kendall Shiffman
One dog awaits attention from Ojai Valley School volunteers.
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Humane Volunteers Society-Bound
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Imagine snuggling up to a
cuddly puppy, with it’s wet little
nose and big eyes, or holding a
purring kitten with its eyes half
closed and your heart fully open.
Now, imagine doing it for a
cause.
This is the reality for
Ojai Valley School’s Humane
Society student volunteers, who
once a week get the opportunity
to enhance their own lives, and
the lives of animals waiting to
be adopted at the Ojai shelter.
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animals,” said Upper Campus
English teacher Terry Wilson,
who supervises the group. “Our
job is to go down and offer
some sort of human contact with
these poor creatures because
they have been abandoned, or
abused, or somehow ended up
without homes.”
The effort is one of OVS’
longest-running
community
service projects, providing
students – many who are
boarders and can’t have pets with
them at school – the opportunity
to interact with cuddling kittens
and playful puppies. But the
volunteers also are a key part of
the Humane Society’s program.
“It is incredibly important
to have volunteers at animal
shelters,” said Amanda Rey
Volden, the shelter’s volunteer
coordinator.
“It
increases
the chances of having those
outgoing, friendly personalities
with potential adopters.”
The
volunteers
help
socialize, de-stress, and comfort
animals in their time of need.
Indirectly, the socialization
helps keep the Humane Society
a no-kill shelter by helping more
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which is not an easy thing to
do. Not only do students get
the comfort of the animals,
they become more comfortable
themselves around animals as
they learn to handle dogs and
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“(I) learn to get along with
pets more, because my parents
didn’t give me a lot of chances
to,” said junior Ted Jung over the
sound of seven puppies barking
in the background. “It’s a good
thing. I can satisfy myself by
doing good work, and by taking
care of the dogs and cats to make
them healthy and be friendly so
they can be adopted.”
The program helps instill
the wholeness of life OVS is so
known for. And it provides the
perfect opportunity for students
to think beyond themselves –
and to do whatever they can to
help make the world a better
place.
“It’s all about students
getting involved,” said Yhui
Kuramoto, a senior from
Japan who is responsible for
organizing the weekly student
treks to the shelter. “We want
students to care for animals so
they can apply the same thing
to human beings. That’s the
greatest education we can have.”
Printers take graphic arts to a new dimension
Jefferson Beckham
Nordhoff High School
These are some of the works produced using the new 3D printers in the
Graphic Design classroom.
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Professor Michæl Swank’s
Graphic Arts classes has obtained
two new three-dimensional
printers.
Three-dimensional printing
(commonly called “3D printing”)
is a process in which a printer
melts a substance in a controlled
fashion into a particular shape.
It is also known as “additive
manufacturing,” since, unlike
other manufacturing methods,
such as woodcarving, this does
not take away any material
to create a product. There is
virtually no waste in 3D printing.
The printers, acquired Nov.
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colored ABS plastic (the same
material from which Legos are
made), coiled on a spool, and
fed through a print head, which
melts them into place. They can
print a model that’s cubic inches
in about 15 minutes.
When the printers were
delivered, the Graphic Arts
class immediately started an
internal boot camp, working
with computer-aided drawing
(CAD) software. They were able University of Missouri student Daphne Psaledakis poses on the university
mascot, the tiger
See Printers, Page C4
Ojai Valley School photo by Molly Negel
Farrar Retires After 16 Years at Nordhoff High School
Maddie Bigger
Roxanne Farrar, secretary of
the Athletic Department at Nordhoff High School, will be leaving
at the end of January.
Farrar has been part of the
Nordhoff faculty for 16 years,
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in administration. She’s had three
children — Danielle, Russell and
Brian — graduate from Nordhoff.
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after her husband, Cliff Farrar,
became head coach for the Nordhoff varsity football team.
Before Nordhoff, she had
worked for 13 years as a preschool teacher.
When asked what she would
miss about Nordhoff, Farrar said,
“I’ll miss having something to do
everyday, and the excitement of
high school, because it really is
exciting. My most favorite time
is when the students come back
to school. I love interacting with
you guys.”
What will she do after retirement?
“We’re going up north to be
with our grandchildren. We’ll
probably help with their classrooms, maybe get a part-time
job. I think Coach Farrar would
like to coach one of their teams,
for football or basketball. I’d like
to coach soccer, too — I know a
bit about soccer.”
Essie Landverk, currently
being trained by Farrar, will be
replacing her in the Athletic Department once she leaves at the
end of the month.
The Student Union
Page 2
Wednesday, Jan. 27, 2016
Wilkinson Going Like a Freight Train
Garrett Woll
The Ranger’s female student
of the month this month is StateChoir-singing, 5 A.P.-class-taking, 6 weighted-class-taking, water-polo-playing, and musician
Phoebe Wilkinson. She has been
going non-stop like a freight train,
and it doesn’t look like she’s going to be stopping any time soon.
Though extremely busy, she still
auditioned for Nordhoff’s spring
musical and earned the part of
Arvide Abernathy, a grandmother. “I am looking forward to dis-
covering the talents of those who
have not yet been exposed to the
musical,” she said.
The A.P. classes she’s taking include Art, English, Calculus, Government, Physics, and,
her favorite, A.P. Government.
“These classes are very challenging and really push me,” she stated. “It is overwhelming at times,
but I think it’ll be worth it later.
Government is my favorite A.P.
class because I feel like I can apply this one to my life the most,
since I’ll be involved in politics
for the rest of my life. I plan on
voting, so I’ll know about how it
works when the time comes.”
Wilkinson auditioned and because being in a space with so
was accepted to participate in many talented singers was really
an inspiring exCalifornia State
perience.”
Honor Choir,
All of the
an all women’s
rehearsals,
choir that inalong with the
cluded 90 womconcert, were
en. “There was
in
Redlands,
an all men’s
which required
choir, an all
a lot of travwomen’s choir,
eling and reand a mixed
sulted in long,
choir. I par- Phoebe plays for the NHS water
tiring, “hometicipated in the polo team, too.
women’s choir,
Photo by Maddie Bigger workless” days.
All of the rewhich
had
about 270 high school students hearsals were day-long rehearsaudition. I’m so glad I made it, als, which were two eight-hour
rehearsals, one six-hour rehearsal, and a three-hour concert. “I
enjoyed singing with all of these
talented people,” she said.
She is also a member, and
section leader, for the Nordhoff
A Capella. Along with singing,
Wilkinson is one of Nordhoff’s
best musicians. When she was
six, she began to take interest
in music and began playing the
piano. After years of practicing,
she realized she wanted to play
something new, and later mastered the clarinet. Now, she has
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two years. In April, she plans to
go to New Orleans for the Music
Department Spring Tour.
Wilkinson also has a sports
career; she is known for being
good in the water. For her freshman and sophomore years, she
played water polo on the junior
varsity team, and during her
junior and senior years, she’s
played the wing position on the
varsity team. She’s been a member of the varsity swim team all
but her freshman year.
College-wise, she wants to
attend Portland State. “Portland
State has a good music program,
which is what I want to study,”
she shared.
Program Builds Friendships Between Horses, Humans
Emma Gustafson
Ojai Valley School
When John De Nault was in
ninth grade, one of his greatest
teachers was a horse named Tiny
Tim. Tiny Tim was the horse that
De Nault rode for two of the six
years he attended Ojai Valley
School.
But, Tiny Tim was much
more than a horse to be ridden —
he was a horse to learn from and
love. And, that is exactly what
De Nault did.
He started riding Tiny Tim
in eighth grade, and when he
made the transition from Lower
to Upper Campus, he asked thenEquestrian Director Terry Wilson
if Tiny Tim could also come.
Tiny Tim accompanied him
through the transition from child
to teenager.
Between the change in age,
campuses, and student body, Tiny
Tim was an important constant in
De Nault’s life.
But in ninth grade, Tiny Tim
became very sick, and had to be
euthanized. So, on a cold winter’s
night, De Nault snuck out of the
dorms to say goodbye to one of
his best friends on his last night
on Earth.
And when he crept into the
barn, covered by the darkness of
night, he brought a book along
with him. De Nault read to Tiny
Tim for a few hours, and said
goodbye to the horse that taught
him lessons that, as described by
De Nault, could not be taught in
books.
“I go back to how patient
school horses are and how
patience is not a single virtue, but
three, and Tiny Tim taught me
those,” explained De Nault, who
graduated from Upper in 1993.
“He was very compassionate, he
knew I was scared and did his
best to comfort me. He knew I
was a beginner rider and would
make mistakes... He understood
that and forgave me for my
mistakes.”
In the equestrian world at
Ojai Valley School, this is not an
uncommon occurrence. In fact,
there are numerous examples of
the type of bond that can motivate
a student to sneak out at night to
see their horse in times of need.
That is what is special about
OVS horses. They are not just
learning tools, but animals to
trust, love, and care for. Many
OVS graduates make powerful
connections with their horses,
and remember them throughout
their adulthood.
Those same alums often
have heart-touching reactions
to the deaths of their beloved
four-legged friends, but despite
the sadness they feel these same
students are still able to look back
on the memories of their horses
with fondness.
“I think that the student
riders care for and love their
horses,” said Equestrian Director
Stephanie Gustafson. “They have
an emotional attachment to them
that one simply can’t have with a
basketball or tennis racket. That’s
what makes this sport so special.”
Take Belle Cook, for
example. Cook rode Lexi, an
OVS horse, for six years.
For most of Cook’s high
school career she begged her
riding instructor, Ms. Wilson,
to retire Lexi at Ms. Wilson’s
calming, spacious ranch, when
the time came. When Cook
graduated from high school, Ms.
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Cook visited Lexi every day,
rain or shine, to ride Lexi and
clean her stall. Clearly, Lexi’s
kind heart, and Cook’s dedication
to her, facilitated a bond that
lasted even after Lexi’s death.
Navicular disease, which
caused Lexi’s immense pain,
prompted two surgeries, but
unfortunately they were in vain.
The only choice left was for her
to be put down.
“That was one of the
hardest things I’ve ever had
to go through,” said Cook,
who graduated from the Upper
Campus in 2011. “She died two
days before I came home and I
cried more and was more upset at
her death than any human.”
Cook still thinks about Lexi
every day, and the characteristics
she loved in Lexi she continues
to recognize in other horses.
Stephanie Teazis, a 2013 Ojai
Valley School graduate, feels the
same way about the horse she
rode at Upper, a thoroughbred
named Bailey.
One day, when Teazis was in
12th grade, Bailey laid down and
could not get back up. He then
had to be euthanized while Teazis
was on an OVS camp trip.
She immediately sprinted
down the hill from the dorms to
the barn once she got back and
heard the news. Bailey was still
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in his turnout when Teazis got
to the barn, as the person to take
him away was delayed.
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still remembers the injection site
where he was euthanized, and the
blood streaming down his neck.
Teazis stayed with Bailey
until she had to go to dinner. This
was her goodbye to him.
But Teasiz’s memory of
Bailey goes much further than
that awful day. She remembers
how Bailey helped her through
the hard times at school, and that
he cured her fear of horses.
“Being a student in the
dorms was brutal,” Teazis said,
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days, I would go down and talk
to Bailey or spend a couple extra
hours down there.”
Indeed, horses and students
create the type of bonds so strong
that De Nault teared up at the
sight of an e-mail mentioning
Tiny Tim.
The horses can impact the
students’ lives so intensely that
their horse remains part of their
extended family the rest of their
life.
De Nault credits Tiny Tim
with teaching him the virtues
of
patience,
compassion,
forgiveness and understanding.
“Tiny Tim taught me all
these,” he said, “and I still use
them on a daily basis.”
York Jumps to the Highest Standards
Mikayla Miles
Joe York is the Nordhoff
High School man of the month.
He has lived in Ojai for almost
all his 17 years, being involved
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track for three.
“My mother’s strength in
her life inspires me” York says
for his inspiration in life.
York’s ideal in life is Peyton
Manning’s (who is also his
favorite football player) because
“He never gives up no matter
what anyone says.”
York’s favorite color is blue
and his favorite superhero is
Superman.
During York’s junior year he
was injured in football tearing
his ACL, MCL, and meniscus.
These injuries took him seven
months to recover. They also
prevented him from playing his
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As well his recovery kept him
from sprinting in track
“Obviously it didn’t feel
good. I just kept my mentality
focused on working hard and
coming back for next season,”
York stated. A quote of York’s is
“Dream as if you’ll live forever.
Live as if you’ll die today.”
York is described as funny,
fast, reliable, caring and a great
friend. With York involved
with sports, he has came close
to teammates. Olivia Adelman
became friends with York
during freshman track.
“He had such a outgoing
personality and is really easy to
Friends say Joe York has a fun, easygoing personality but is serious
when it counts.
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talk to,” Adelman stated.
Senior Max Carmona has
known York from when they
attended Matilija Junior High
School together.
“I actually started talking
to him in eighth grade. I was
friends with Camren Frisk and
they were pretty close. And one
time Camren and I were hanging
out and Joe came over. He was a
little, short, fat kid and I thought
he was pretty funny and nerdy,”
Carmona said.
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to his head is York’s biceps.
He said of York training for
his sports, “He has a relaxed
mind set but he is also really
determined when he does
practice,” Carmona said.
Adelman added, “During
track season, he is one of those
people who gets the workout
done, and sometimes even if he
has to do it by himself I know
he is going to get it done, never
does things halfheartedly.”
Every
time
Cameron
Kunde hears of York he thinks
“Straight-Up” which has started
in Matilija and a memories from
training with him over the years.
York has had a positive
impact on many people and
being a really funny, reliable,
and memory-making person is
why he has been selected for
January’s Senior of the Month.
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Student Opinion
Early to Bed, Early to Rise
Doesn’t really make us wise
Guest editorial - Julia Vondriska
Founding father of the
United States and discoverer of
electricity Benjamin Franklin
was brilliant, but not perfect.
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reasons, Mr. Franklin coined
the phrase, “Early to bed, early
to rise, makes a man healthy,
wealthy and wise.”
But guess what? When it
comes to teenagers, the science
proves him wrong! Drowsy
teens, dropping grades, and
health concerns have convinced
doctors and sleep experts that an
early day is not worth it.
Numerous studies have led
such important organizations as
the Center for Disease Control,
National Sleep Foundation,
and the American Academy
of Pediatrics to conclude that
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mere thirty minutes later.
According to Time
magazine, the majority of public
high schools in the United States
begin before the recommended
time of 8:30 a.m. Nordhoff starts
nearly a full hour before that
time. As a result, teenagers often
sleep less than eight hours, when
the ideal time for teens is 8.5
to 9.5 hours per night. Indeed,
pediatricians have concluded
that the teenage brain is not fully
functional until around 10 a.m.,
and that students do not get the
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that occur before then.
Sleep expert Dr. Mary
Carskadon, Ph.D., urges
schools to start later because
adequate sleep reduces in teens
the likelihood of depression,
tardiness, inconsistent
metabolism and drowsy driving.
Inadequate sleep has also been
linked to obesity, migraines,
smoking, drinking, stimulant
abuse and criminal activity. A
simple glance around an early
morning class shows that fatigue
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Some may argue that parent
convenience and their work
requirements, bus schedules,
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and work schedules mandate the
early school start and end times.
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after school may be impacted by
a later end time.
My friend, a Nordhoff
junior, works long hours as a
nanny, sometimes as late as 11
p.m. A shifted start time may
impact her ability to earn money
and would, in fact, dramatically
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students.
Another junior is actively
involved in the spring musical,
band, sports and AP classes.
Should the schedule be shifted,
he would not have the time
to participate in the activities
about which he is most
passionate. Students may have
to choose between working and
participating in extracurricular
activities or sports. This would
also impose a stress on parents
that have to be at work before
their child begins school.
The bottom line is that the
mental and physical health of
our teenagers demands that
we take the science seriously.
School is about education and
preparing students for their
futures. Despite the potential
negative outcomes of a later
start time, the clearly established
positives far exceed the bad.
There are also ways to work
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change. If parents need to get
to work before their kids go to
school, the community offers
other transportation methods.
Yes, students might have to
choose to stay later at night to
participate in jobs, sports or
clubs, but no one is forcing them
to join these activities and sleep
trumps all.
If schools start later,
students would be less drowsy
and better prepared to take on
the day and fully absorb all of
the knowledge taught in classes.
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every level.
Maybe Franklin should
have said “Late to bed, late to
rise makes teenagers healthy,
wealthy, and wise.”
Student Opinion
PE Class Getting Physical With Rest
of the Budget, not helping students
Guest editorial by Kloe Keeter
Today’s education system
at a majority of schools requires
physical education (P.E.) at
least up to eighth grade and
in Nordoff’s case up to our
sophomore year.
There are ways around it —
by participating in two years of
a sport — but freshman year is
required.
If you were to ask, many
people would say that P.E.
didn’t help them get into better
shape or help them create
lifestyle habits as these things
are constantly crammed into
student’s head that are taking
P.E. as reasoning for having it.
Money going towards this
class could be seen as pointless
as most students are already
active outside of school and
it is taking away students’
opportunities to take another
class to better their future.
When the economy took
a dive in 2008, the education
system took cuts in many areas
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but P.E. was not on this list.
This brings the question
what’s more important, your
kid’s creativity and future or
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or a class that your kid might not
even need.
Just last year, many teachers
got laid off and now we have
class sizes up to 45. If we
weren’t wasting so much money
on P.E. then we could have
smaller class sizes and a more
ideal class setting.
Money is a big part of
getting in to our dream college
and the more classes that are
available to us in high school,
the less debt we will have after
college. If we didn’t have P.E.
we could all be saving money.
P.E. is necessary up to high
school to get students extra
energy out of the way and to
educate them, but it gets to
a point in age that it is only
counterproductive. At this point
in a student athlete’s career they
have already been competing
in a sport that during high
school has been taken to a more
prestigious level.
According to the article
“High school Participation
Increases for the 25th
Consecutive Year” by National
Federation of State High School
Associations, from the year
2013, 14 7.8 million students
participated in a sport, and
this number just continues to
increase.
Sports in high school
practice anywhere from 3 to
5 days a week and with that
much activity a P.E. class seems
unnecessary.
Many would argue that
without physical education
students would lack the
resources they need to create the
habits that will go on throughout
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Senior Minwoo Sohn and sophomore Philip Trompke piece together their robot for an upcoming competition.
Ojai Valley School photo by Fred Alvarez
School Enters Robotics Race
their process in creating their popular nationwide as schools
move to prepare students for
robot.
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with the team and building our that will be available in the 21st
Call it the Rise of the Robots.
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Walk into the chemistry lab
it actually start to work was the on kinetic learning, and a STEM
during any elective period and
coolest part,” said senior Joe focus aligns perfectly with the
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Foulger, one of 15 members of school’s philosophy.
groups, jamming to the classics
the OVS Robotics Team.
STEM projects also are
and deeply focused on preparing
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Upper Campus is spearheaded by are helping recruit prospective
competition for students at the
math and science teacher Chris students to OVS.
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The vibe is cheerful and
on science approaches
exciting. But make no
now,” said Tracy Wilson,
mistake, this is serious
the school’s director
business.
of advancement and
Since the start of the
admissions. “So this is
school year, these students
a potential differentiator
have been preparing to
for OVS in terms of
compete in the Greater
our ability to be on the
Los Angeles FIRST Tech
cutting edge in terms of
Challenge, a high school
what we can offer with a
robotics
competition
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aimed at teaching students
that truly begins in
the value of hard work,
kindergarten and extends
innovation and creativity through
robotics enthusiasts.
through the high school grades.”
the use of Science, Technology,
This is the Upper Campus’
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Engineering and Math.
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an academic robotics class along teams — Python and Spudnik.
divided into two teams, took
with an extracurricular club, and Students on each team have
part Jan. 18 in their second
both are part of a larger push to built and programmed robots,
competition of the year at de
integrate science, technology, and those creations will be put
Toledo High School in West
engineering and mathematics through their paces throughout
Hills.
(STEM)
throughout
the the school year.
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curriculum.
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STEM programs, is meeting can take pride in,” Wescott
than two dozen other teams.
a calling that all education is said. “Something I helped start
Students were required to
needing and lacking,” STEM and create and something that
present their engineer notebooks,
teacher Christopher Wescott said. students are excited about and
and in between matches, they
STEM Education programs can feel challenged by, but at the
participated in interviews about
are
becoming
increasingly same time overcome challenges.”
Natasha Freudmann
“I think that OVS, by
creating STEM programs,
is meeting a calling that all
education is needing and
lacking.”
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Local Students’ Art Hangs Out on Porch
Joy Campbell
Ojai Valley School
Framed and hung, it’s
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second annual Generation Art
exhibit, a show aimed to teach
aspiring artists the entire process
— from editing to marketing —
of promoting their work.
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Ojai Valley School senior Misaki
Kobayashi’s artwork is currently
on display in a seven-week
exhibit of student work at Ojai’s
Porch Gallery. The gallery, at
310 E. Matilija Ave., hosted its
OVS senior Misaki Kobayashi in the midst of a drawing in the art studio at the Upper Campus of Ojai Valley
School.
Photo by Joy Campbell
installation of the exhibit last
year with a group of students and
Upper Campus art teacher Chia
Hersk, and asked to be contacted
about the next installation.
“I was surprised when she
told me about this big event,”
Misaki said. “I’ve been practicing
art for a long time, but I’ve never
had a show like this.”
Hersk said she knew Misaki
could handle the extra work
involved with the exhibition, and
being in her second year of AP
Art, she would have a variety of
work to submit.
“Misaki has worked very
hard on her art and I am proud
of her,” Hersk said. “She is an
extremely talented artist and
motivated student.”
Along with Misaki, students
from Thacher, Nordhoff, Oak
Grove and Besant Hill are
showed their work in Generation
Art 2015, which ran through Jan.
3 at the downtown Ojai gallery.
Other students selected to take
part were: Bynk Chanuntranont
of Thacher, Audrey Hernandez
of Nordhoff, Killian Hu of Oak
Grove, and Yi (Daisy) Liu of
Besant Hill. The show was cocurated with Colly Smith of
Thacher School. Each student
was required to work with the
gallery directors to compile a
cohesive body of work, consistent
in both theme and style.
Porch Gallery Director Lisa
Casoni said she and other gallery
representatives were so pleased
with last year’s show that they
decided to make it a yearly event.
“It was a treat to see how
impressed the community was
with the quality of work,” Ms.
Casoni said. “We wanted to
show the students the importance
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completing their artwork – that
the process doesn’t stop with the
last stroke of ink, drop of paint or
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For Misaki, her love of art
never started at a particular point
– her mind has been steeped in it
for most of her life.
“I know it when I cannot
draw, even before I start
drawing,” she said. “It’s the same
when I can draw, I know that I
will do a good job before I start.”
This trait, common in artists,
is much like having a sixth sense.
Misaki, who draws mostly
women, aims to get into the
mind of her piece in order to
truly understand what the woman
would be feeling.
“If I’m drawing a mother
with two small children, I try to
become her by imagining what it
is to be a mother of two kids,” she
said. “And I feel strong, because
I have to protect the kids, and
feel love because I love them
and the husband. It’s the fun part,
because I feel like I’m reading a
book.”
Many artists get into a zone
while creating, a strange limbo
that if broken could result in an
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in their eyes. But that’s the thing
about art and inspiration — it’s an
elusive beast that must be invited
in before it can be utilized.
That passion and creativity
was on full display at Porch
Gallery.
As one takes a stroll through
the gallery, it’s like taking a walk
through a strange forest of brain
stems that make up the teenage
psyche. It is a tapestry sometimes
hard to understand for the viewer,
and to the artists even harder to
understand themselves.
After all the photographing,
framing, and meetings, the
exhibit provided a peek into the
mind of the artists, and a chance
to walk their paths and see what
they see.
“Maybe to me, drawing
those women is like drawing my
self-portrait,” Misaki said.
Oak Grove Concludes its Annual Senior Trip to India
Andy Gilman
Oak Grove School
Inspired by the work of J.
Krishnamurti, an Oak Grove
School education seeks to
cultivate in students sensitivity
and
awareness
of
their
relationship to themselves, each
other, and the world.
Beginning in early childhood,
OGS students understand they
are part of something bigger than
their classrooms, and that we
all share responsibility for our
global community. Nowhere is
this better expressed than in the
annual four-week-long senior
trip to India.
For the past 20 years, thanks
to the continuing support of
AGET (an independent charitable
organization that underwrites a
portion of the trip), Oak Grove
seniors have spent the end of
December and the majority of
January visiting Oak Grove’s
sister Krishnamurti schools in
India as well as traveling to cities
and rural communities.
Preparation and follow-up
for the trip is incorporated into
the student’s interdisciplinary
English and Culture courses, and
is a culminating rite of passage for
Oak Grove secondary students.
A community service project
is also a fundamental part of this
trip’s purpose. During the year,
seniors work diligently to earn
$1,100 through sales and events
to help fund the Rural Education
Center of Rishi Valley – a
program that provides elementary
school children in rural India an
education for an entire year.
This year, the students
visited Rishi Valley School, The
School in Chennai, Pathashalla
School and The Valley School
in Bangalore. Their activities
included
attending
classes,
sunrise
dialogues,
hiking,
gardening, cleaning, installing
solar panels, playing sports,
creating
artwork,
dancing,
celebrating New Year’s Eve and
eating together as a community.
“I’ve realized that even
though we are separated by
half a world, we have way
more in common than we have
differences.“ says Avery Lopez,
Oak Grove senior. OGS
senior Brody Swanner agrees, “I
have made so many connections
and friendships on this trip. After
just a couple of days we were
classmates... sharing the same
humor, the same games, the same
songs, the same concerns, and
the same hopes. I’m so happy I
had a chance to experience this.”
On Feb. 19, the Oak Grove
High School senior class
will present India Night. The
community is welcome to share
in this evening of celebration,
food, music, imagery and
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absolutely nothing to ensure
the health and safety of one of
his students.
Not even the hunger strike
was enough to make changes,
so the students decided to hit
the school where it hurts –
football. On Nov. 7, the football players of the University
of Missouri announced that
they would not play until
Wolfe stepped down.
If the athletes
didn’t play it would
have cost the university $1 million,
Psaledakis
said.
Wolfe resigned the
following Monday.
“It’s pretty amazing that we (as a student body) were able
to accomplish that,”
Psaledakis said. “An
article by the New York Times
summed it up perfectly: ‘The
Missouri athletes showed that
the color that matters most is
green.’ ”
Wolfe’s resignation did
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however.
African-American
students continued to be sub-
ject to racism, including racial slurs at the homecoming
game, cotton balls sprinkled in
front of the black culture center, and the distribution of racLVWJUDI¿WLDQGÀ\HUV
On the night of Nov. 10 an
anonymous user on the popular social media application,
Yik Yak, posted a threat saying that he was going to shoot
every black person he saw on
Senior class of Oak Grove School in India
Oak Grove School photo submitted
Racism:
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protests really began in earnest,” Psaledakis said.
On Nov. 2, University of
Missouri graduate student
Jonathan Butler announced
his decision to go on a hunger
strike until Wolfe took his concerns, as well as the concerns
of activist group Concerned
Student 1950, seriously.
Concerned Student 1950
is a group of students who
have banded together to take
on many challenges facing the
students of the university —
primarily, racism.
Not only were the students calling for Wolfe’s resignation, they also compiled
a list of demands they wanted
the university to meet. Those
demands included a 10 percent increase in the number
of black staff and faculty by
the 2017-18 academic year,
and more funding, resources,
and personnel for the social
justices centers on campus for
the purpose of hiring additional professionals, particularly
those of color.
Although Wolfe stated he
was concerned for Butler’s
health, Psaledakis said he did
who were members of the
Ku Klux Klan were throwing bricks into the dorm room
windows of black students,
Psaledakis said.
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students began to feel unsafe
of campus. Some even went
as far as e-mailing their professors, saying that they didn’t
feel safe attending classes because of the constant threats.
bed of their truck, and the Nword isn’t a rarity.”
However, Psaledakis said
the media has blown some of
the acts that have taken place
on campus out of proportion.
Certain news outlets have stated that a swastika drawn with
feces on one of the bathroom
walls was the act that ignited
the protests. As a journalism
major, Psaledakis has said it
has been interesting to see where the
holes are in those
stories.
Psaledakis said
the most shocking
thing she witnessed
happened in the
Speaker’s Circle –
one place on cam— Daphne Psaledakis, Villanova Preparatory School graduate the
pus with absolute
freedom of speech. A
campus.
“I think racism is embed- white supremacist group took
Later that night, Psaleda- ded here at the university, it over the circle with chants of
kis said a pick-up truck full of has been since the very begin- “go back to Africa, you don’t
white males cornered a group ning,” said Psaledakis, noting belong here.”
of black females, further ratch- that Missouri was a slave state
Because Psaledakis hasn’t
eting up racial tensions.
and there are buildings on cam- experienced any direct racism
The rumor mill began the pus that were built by slaves. at the university, she asked
churn out more and more sto- “People have driven around one of her African-American
ries, some of them even going campus with the confederate friends what her thoughts
as far as to say that students ÀDJ SURXGO\ GLVSOD\HG LQ WKH were.
“Change needed to happen, and so students took the initiative to make sure
that it did. I couldn’t be prouder of my
school.”
“People used to smile at
me in the halls before, now
they don’t even make eye contact with me,” Psaledakis recalls her saying.
While it has been a tumulWXRXVWLPH±DWLPH¿OOHGZLWK
fear, anger and resentment –
Psaledakis feels she has been
a part of something monumental.
“I’m proud to have been
a part of something that I believe in and that has sparked a
nationwide movement,” said
Psaledakis, noting that more
than 100 schools have shown
their support for the movement at Mizzou, and that other
universities – including Yale,
Ithaca, and Chapman University – have begun demanding
changes at their own colleges.
“I had the opportunity to
witness something beautiful
and empowering; to witness
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is right,” Psaledakis added.
“Change needed to happen,
and so students took the initiative to make sure that it did.
I couldn’t be prouder of my
school.”
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