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Days since Ojai Playhouse &
Jester red-tagged
(July 20, 2014)
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Spraying continues
More than 220 choose to opt out
Andra Belknap
[email protected]
Keywords: Asian citrus psyllid, opt
out, pesticide spraying
Pesticide spraying, to
control the Asian citrus psyllid (ACP) population in the
Ojai Valley, began May 8 in
the East End, and will continue westward through the
valley until May 29.
There are 4,114 residences in the treatment area —
those within 400 meters of a
commercial citrus operation
— and so far, 224 residents
have opted out of pesticide
treatment, according to the
California Department of
Food and Agriculture (CDFA).
Patty Pagaling, executive
director of the group Transition to Organics, hosted a
public event in Libbey Park
Sunday encouraging residents to opt out of treatment.
Paul Gibbons, a doctor
of veterinary medicine and
chief operating officer of the
Turtle Conservancy, spoke at
the event. Gibbons has opted
out of treatment and encourages others to do the same.
“Our mission is to protect
some of the world's most en-
dangered (turtle and tortoise)
species from extinction. I am
opting out because there is
no evidence to prove that the
selected insecticides will not
cause harm to the species under our care,” said Gibbons.
Gibbons favors an integrated pest management
(IPM) strategy to combat ACP.
“IPM relies on a combination of common-sense
practices and science-based
strategies, rather than solely
on pesticide spraying,” according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
“Scientists have the ability to evaluate other scientists' work. There's a lot of recent research that shows that
pesticides are not the answer
to eradicate invasive insects,”
said Gibbons, citing work of
Dr. Beth Grafton-Cardwell, a
U.C. Riverside research entomologist, among others.
“That was 2013. We've
learned a lot since then,” responded Grafton-Cardwell.
“IPM works when you're
dealing with just a pest. But
when you have a pest that is
very effective in transmitting
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Ojai Valley News photo by Holly Roberts
Event gives a public face to a private school
During the Montessori School of Ojai’s “Day in the Country” Saturday, Penelope Turner (right) has her face painted by parent and
artist, Gina Braget. The event serves as one of the school’s fundraising sources and according to Patrice Magill, the school’s financial
administrator, approximately 350 people attended. The day featured game booths, animal attractions, a bake sale and raffle. Magill
said the event helped raise approximately $5,000 that will be used to purchase shade structures for the school’s playground.
Casitas files eminent domain case
Thacher
develops
preserve
Bill Warner
[email protected]
Keywords: Golden State Water
Company, lawsuit
Bill Warner
[email protected]
Keywords: Wildlife habitat, turf
removal, conservation
Photo courtesy of Thacher School
Five acres of The Thacher
School gained the approval
of the National Wildlife Federation (NWF) last week as
a certified wildlife habitat in
keeping with its Garden for
Wildlife program.
The natural preserve
evolved from the school’s
ongoing effort to convert its
non-athletic turf to areas of
sustainable vegetation, according to director of facilities
Ed Bennett. About two years
ago, he said, the school made
the decision to use pesticides
or herbicides as sparingly as
possible while transforming
the lawn areas to a droughttolerant environment.
So far, the five acres include several bioswales supporting pollinator species,
a graywater distribution
system and a “keystone or-
The new preserve contains an educational component.
chard.” Much of that, Bennett
said, is the brainchild of Jenna Reasor, who is Thacher’s
assistant director of facilities
for landscape design and sustainability.
Its native, fruiting elderberry trees make the keystone
in the keystone orchard, according to Reasor. “It’s exactly
like the keystone in an archway,” she said. “Even though
it’s not the largest part of the
arch, it’s the most important
in that it holds everything
else together.”
To create the orchard,
students and staff removed
about 5,000 square feet of
turf, Reasor said, digging out
the grass roots and sheetmulching the entire area. The
result was a dramatic reduction in water consumption.
“It went down about 60 percent right away,”she said.
The NWF recognition
comes on the heels of two
other accolades. Earlier in the
week, Thacher received the
Green Ribbon School Award
from the California Department of Education, in recognition of the school’s efforts
to limit environmental impacts and promotion of environmental education.
And not long before that,
Thacher won first place for
two categories (mixed recyclables and cardboard per
capita) of the 20126 K-12 Recycling Challenge.
“It’s really all about teaching the kids,” Bennett said.
The hands-on character of
the project helps the mind
develop, he added.
Casitas Municipal Water District (CMWD) filed an
eminent domain complaint
Thursday in Ventura County
Superior Court for the acquisition of the property and assets of the Golden State Water
Company’s (GSWC) Ojai service area.
The lawsuit includes a
second claim seeking damages and attorney fees incurred
during GSWC’s unsuccessful
lawsuit that sought to invalidate the financing mechanism Casitas is using to pay
for the takeover, according to
CMWD water conservation
manager Ron Merckling.
“Casitas will move forward with the eminent domain action as quickly as
is prudently possible,” said
Steve Wickstrum, Casitas’
general manager. “We ap-
preciate the community’s
patience and pledge to do
everything within our power
to bring this matter to a successful conclusion so that the
Ojai ratepayers will receive
the benefits of Casitas’ significantly lower water rates and
open government controls.”
“It's been a long time
coming,” CMWD Director
Russ Baggerly said Thursday.
“The people who live within
the CFD have waited patiently for this day.”
Ojai man arrested for graffiti spree
Andra Belknap
[email protected]
Keywords: Taunting, police, arrest,
graffiti vandalism
A 20-year-old Ojai man
has confessed to numerous
acts of graffiti vandalism that
occurred throughout the Ojai
Valley over the past month,
some of which included the
message, “c=Catch me if you
can,” as well as some containing profanities directed at the
police according to Det. Joe
Mulrooney of the Ojai Police
Department.
Aaron
Riis-Vestergaard
confessed to the crimes after
the Ventura County Sheriff's
Office (VCSO) determined
one of the stores had a surveillance video of the incident and were able to tie him
to the other violations, said
Mulrooney.
“During the interview
process, he confessed to the
other taggings,” he added.
Riis-Vestergaard allegedly
vandalized numerous locations, including Libbey Park,
Vons, Saint Thomas Aquinas
Church, Rite Aid, Starbucks,
Taco Bell and Red Barn Liquor, according to VCSO.
“In the few years I’ve been
here, we haven’t had one in-
dividual responsible for so
much damage, said Mulrooney.
Riis-Vestergaard was arrested May 9 and booked into
the Ventura County Main Jail
with his bail set at $10,000,
according to VCSO. He was
released from jail May 10 and
is expected to appear in Ventura County Superior Court
May 23.
One additional suspect
was captured on video with
Riis-Vestergaard
allegedly
committing vandalism. The
suspect has been identified
and his arrest is pending, according to the VCSO.
Living Treasure: Rotary selection committee goes Greene with latest pick
Maria Saint
Ojai Valley News correspondent
Keywords: Stan Greene, Rotary,
Living Treasures
“I think I’m a spotted dog,”
explained Ojai’s Stan Greene,
one of the latest batch of Rotary Living Treasures.
To clarify, Greene said he’s
like the dog at a firehouse and
when the bell rings, the dog
comes down and jumps on
the firetruck.
“I’ll get calls, ‘Did you
know that such and such
is happening?’ And I’ll say,
‘What?’” said Greene, who
envisions a bell going off and
being ready to find out what
is going on, especially when
it came to things concerning
Ojai.
This care for the city has
led to Greene’s recognition
as a Living Treasure. Run by
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the Rotary Club of Ojai West,
the Living Treasures program
recognizes role models and
mentors in the Ojai area.
“Stan has been very active
in preserving Ojai,” said Dr.
Fred Fauvre, chair of the Living Treasures Committee.
Previously from New York
City and the San Fernando
Valley, Greene moved to Ojai
in 1979. He said that before
Ojai, he had never been involved in anything political.
This changed after attending
a meeting of the Citizens to
Preserve the Ojai. Members
could see that he knew how
to run a meeting, so Greene
was asked to be president —
a role he held for 16 years.
“The first issue I got involved with was the Petrochem permit,” Greene said,
referring to the county of
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refinery plant near Casitas
Springs.
“I knew people who were
on CPO then who were going into the hospital every
winter because the pollution was making them sick.
They finally had to build their
own little clean room with air
pressure in it in order to survive. I got inspired from that
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of involved in it and you realized this is a long fight and
it worked. It went into court,
we went to an appeals court
and we won at the appeal
level, and it actually became
a precedent-setting case.”
When Greene first got involved with CPO, he didn’t realize the amount of work that
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County OKs Mira
Monte cell tower
Bill Warner
[email protected]
The community of Mira
Monte is one step closer to
getting a brand-new cell
phone tower. Ventura County
Planning Director Kim Prillhart gave her approval May
5 to a construction permit
sought by Verizon Wireless for
the tower, to be established
on a commercial lot behind
Ventura Hay Company.
When completed, the 40foot structure will be made up
to resemble a eucalyptus tree,
a decorative touch unlikely
to be appreciated in the adjacent residential neighborhood. Many of the residents
showed up in opposition to
the tower at a public hearing
in April.
It's an issue in which
Ventura County has little
say, according to Brian Baca,
commercial and industrial
section manager for the planning division. The Federal
Communications Act of 1996,
the Middle Class Tax Relief
Act of 2012 and state law all
take precedence over the
county in this case. “We are
disallowed from making any
decision that would under-
mine federal law,” Baca said
Wednesday. Hence, the county's proscription of structures
over 40 feet in height would
be overruled by Verizon's prerogative to increase the tower's altitude to 60 feet, should
technology ever dictate.
“The county has to allow
each cell company to compete on an equal basis,” he
said. “We can't look at whether an area has good cell service from one company and
not from another. We have to
allow all of them in an area.”
In this case, Baca said,
Verizon had identified a coverage gap in the Ojai Valley,
“and they convinced us no
suitable site for the tower existed elsewhere.”
Baca said the appeal period for the permit would end
Monday. No appeal, so far,
has been made, he added.
At the public hearing, the
Planning Division received
a petition signed by 23 Mira
Monte residents protesting the tower. Ralph Steele,
one of the petition organizers, offered no comment
Wednesday apart from saying
residents would be reviewing
their options in the weeks to
come.
Effort under way to fill Libbey
Bowl this Memorial Day
California’s Air National Guard Band of the West
Coast will return to Libbey Bowl in Ojai to help
the community celebrate
Memorial Day and honor
fallen veterans with a program
of
remembrance,
music and singing May 30.
The program is sponsored
by the Veterans of Foreign
Wars (VFW) Ojai Post 11461.
The event will begin at
11:30 a.m. with music from
the Ventura British Brass.
They will be followed by
singing groups from several
Ojai elementary and junior
high schools.
Speakers who have lost
veterans will share their sto-
ries and at 1:30 p.m., California’s Air National Guard Band
of the West Coast will perform
a program of patriotic music.
There is also a Wall of
Remembrance, posters celebrating Ojai Valley and Ventura County veterans (living or not), that will hang all
around the tennis courts next
to Libbey Bowl from 8 a.m. to
4 p.m.
Those wanting to honor a
veteran with a poster can contact Nancy Hill at 302-6093 or
Patti Bagley at pattibagley@
gmail.com and give them pictures, newspaper items, and
written text, from which they
can make a poster.
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Obituary
Patricia R. Kearns
Patricia R. Kearns was a native
Californian who re-located to Ojai 38
years ago from the Palos Verdes Peninsula
after she and her husband, Thomas
Kearns, retired. Patricia turned 100 on
January 23, 2016, and passed peacefully
on the morning of May 7, 2016. Patricia
is survived by her grandsons, Robert and
Brian Swan, and her granddaughter, Deanna Swan.
The family recently enjoyed celebrating their grandmother’s
long life. Robert and his grandmother celebrated Patricia’s
100th birthday together on January 23 and enjoyed spending a
great deal of time together over the last four months.
Patricia has been an endless source of strength and inspiration
to the family throughout her long life and has always been wellregarded by friends and family. Patricia maintained her smart
sense of humor and thoughtful, reflective nature throughout
her life. Patricia will be missed by her many, longtime friends in
Ojai and elsewhere around the state of California.
Patricia’s memorial service will be held at the St. Thomas
Aquinas Catholic Church at 11:00 a.m. on Tuesday, May 17,
2016. St. Thomas Aquinas is located at 185 St. Thomas Drive,
Ojai, CA 93023. All who knew and loved Patricia are invited to
attend. Special thanks to the wonderful care staff at Livingston
Hospice and to Sally, Patricia’s dedicated caregiver and friend.
Arrangements for Patricia are under the care of the Joseph P.
Reardon Funeral Home & Cremation Service in Ventura, Calif.
Brain injury meeting set
Former Nordhoff football
coach and retired orthopedic surgeon Al Stroberg has
organized a presentation on
traumatic brain injury in athletes to precede the Ojai Unified School District's (OUSD)
School Board meeting Tuesday.
Stroberg, who played
football in high school and
college, has had interest in
the subject for some time
and decided to organize the
presentation following the
recent founding of the Steve
Tisch BrainSPORT Program
at UCLA.
Stroberg hopes the presentation will lead to greater
communication
between
Ojai schools, coaches, community physicians and hospital staff to prevent and recognize the risks of brain injuries
in student athletes.
Drs. Meeryo Christa Choe
and Adam Darby of the BrainSPORT program and local
physician Jim Halverson will
present research about the
prevention and care of brain
injuries in athletes.
Each year there are approximately 300,000 cases
of sports-related traumatic brain injury (TBI) in the
United States. Approximately
90 percent of sports-related
TBIs are concussions, many
of which could go unreported
without proper education on
concussion signs and symptoms, according to the BrainSPORT program.
The presentation, which
is open to the public, will take
place Tuesday at 4:30 p.m. in
the OUSD Board Room, at
414 E. Ojai Ave.
Police Blotter
Crimes
• Vandalism was reported in
the 1000 block of Loma Drive
April 22.
• Petty theft was reported
in the 1200 block of Maricopa
Highway April 29.
• Vandalism was reported in
the 400 block of Bryant Circle
May 2.
• Mail theft was reported on
Maricopa Highway May 3.
• Mail theft was reported in
the 3200 and 3400 blocks of
Maricopa Highway May 4.
• Graffiti vandalism was
reported in the 11000 block of
North Ventura Avenue May 6.
• Check forgery was reported
in the 900 block of Devereux
Drive May 7.
• Petty theft was reported in
the 400 block of Corta Street May
8.
Arrests
• A 20-year-old man was
arrested in the 900 block of
Hacakmore Street May 9 on
suspicion of vandalism. Bail was
set at $10,000.
• A 20-year-old woman
was arrested in Ojai May 2
on suspicion of being under
the influence of a controlled
substance. Bail was set at $5,000.
• A 60-year-old woman was
Shady Lane May 4 on suspicion
of grand theft. Bail was set at
$2,500.
arrested on El Roblar Drive May
4 on suspicion of being under
arrested in Oak View May 5 on
suspicion of probation violation.
Bail was set at $5,000.
• A 45-year-old woman
was arrested in Ojai May 6
Santa Ana Boulevard May 6 on
suspicion of failure to appear in
court. Bail was set at $5,000.
arrested in the 400 block of East
Ojai Avenue May 6 on suspicion
of failure to appear in court. Bail
was set at $5,000.
arrested in the 600 block of Vine
Street May 6 on suspicion of
failure to appear in court. Bail
was set at $5,000.
arrested in Oak View May 7 on
suspicion of driving under the
influence of alcohol. Bail was set
at $10,000.
arrested on Ventura Avenue May
7 on suspicion of possessing
a
controlled
substance,
possessing drug paraphernalia
and being under the influence of
a controlled substance. Bail was
set at $12,500.
• A 52-year-old woman was
Country Club Drive May 7
Country Club Drive May 7
on suspicion of possessing
a controlled substance and
being under the influence of a
controlled substance. Bail was
set at $10,000.
North Encinal Avenue May 7
arrested in the 600 block of West
Ojai Avenue May 10 on suspicion
of being under the influence of a
controlled substance. Bail was
set at $5,000.
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Greene:
Spraying:
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would be involved. He shared
that his wife, Barbara, used to
go over letters and speeches
with him.
“That always made them
a lot better,” he said. “It involved some sacrifice because, you know, you’re not
there at home as much as you
should be, so I give her credit
for that.”
Another cause Greene
and CPO worked on involved
a proposed Weldon Canyon
landfill — a battle that took
14 years to fight.
“We would have been
stuck with 50 years worth of
garbage dump. What it is, is
you can’t give up and if you
stay with it long enough,
sometimes you get a break,
and we did on Weldon,”
Greene said.
Though 14 years may
have made others weary,
Greene said that there are
three steps he found when it
comes to finding motivation.
“You have to consider that
your community is worth
saving. In other words, you’ve
got to have some vision that
it’s a valuable place, that the
people are wonderful, that it
has so much benefit that it’s
worth saving, but there are
a couple of more steps. You
have to also believe you can
save it — if you give up just believing it’s worth saving, then
you don’t believe you can do
anything, you stop,” Greene
explained. “In the third step
— the one that’s rare — after
you believe it can be saved,
you have to get up, get off
your butt and do something
about it. That’s the one that’s
the hard one, but we recognize that. These threats are
not going to go away.”
“I nominated him because I felt that he was truly a
living treasure in our town because of all that he had done
Ojai Valley News photo by Ashley Wilson
Rotarian Carl Gross presents Stan Greene with his Living Treasure
certificate during the announcement ceremony.
over the years and I thought if
anyone deserved it, it would
be him,” Pat McPherson said.
He and Greene are part
of Ojai Friends of Locally
Owned Water.
McPherson knew Greene
before that group formed.
“Every time that he would
speak, I would listen. My wife
and I would both say, ‘Who is
this guy?’ Every time he talks,
he talks as the most wise person that I have ever heard.
Even today, if you watch him
before the City Council in
Ojai, when he talks, everybody sits forward on their
chairs and listens to what he
says,” McPherson said.
Greene recalled sitting
with McPherson, Bob Daddi
and others wondering about
the situation with Golden
State Water.
“For 50, 55 years, the city
has suffered with Golden
State Water and nobody could
take it on. I said, ‘So, OK, let’s
go!’” Greene laughed of how
Ojai FLOW began. “And you
know what? Every one of the
seven people that we started
that board with is still there.”
McPherson cited Greene’s
help in getting 87 percent of
votes from Ojai voters who
wanted the Casitas Municipal
Water District to manage the
water instead of Golden State
Water Company.
Greene, who has been an
elected board member for the
Ojai Valley Sanitary District
since 1990, had 18 years in
aerospace engineering, spent
37 years as a service contractor in air conditioning/heating and refrigeration, and was
a commissioned officer in the
Air Force. He also was on numerous committees, including the Air Pollution Control
District Advisory Committee.
“When people ask you
about your life and all the
things, I don’t think so much
about work or the military or
government work or whatever you’re doing, but what
I think about are the things
you have done for your community,” Greene said. “Sometimes you walk outside, and
I’ve done that, and you look
around outside downtown,
and you say, ‘What would this
place really look like if nobody solved these fights?’ You
realize that it’s good, it’s good,
it’s so good and it was worth
all the effort.”
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the disease, IPM is not going
to prevent the spread of the
disease and the disease is going to kill trees.”
The disease for which
ACP serves as a vector is the
huanglongbing (HLB) disease, which is deadly to citrus
trees. The is currently no cure
for HLB.
“We're trying to get ahead
of the spread of the disease,”
continued Grafton-Cardwell.
“Florida did nothing but
IPM and the disease spread
throughout their state very
rapidly.”
“Integrated pest management is a wonderful tool, and
it is used extensively in Ventura County, but IPM alone
has never halted an insectvectored disease epidemic
anywhere in the world,” said
John Krist, chief executive officer of the Ventura County
Farm Bureau.
Some local citrus farmers
are concerned that residents
who choose to opt out of the
treatment will create hosts
for ACP, and potentially HLB,
in their backyards.
“As growers, we don't like
to hear that people are opting out,” said Emily Ayala of
Friend's Ranches. “If people
are really anti-pesticide, they
should consider cutting their
trees down, because those
trees will serve as hosts.”
Local tangerine-grower
Bill Gilbreth echoed Ayala's
concern.
“I think they are wellmeaning, but very ill-informed,” said Gilbreth of
those encouraging opt-out.
“We certainly want to protect our environment, but
the risk-reward is clear: we
should spray.”
“People shouldn't trust
everything they read on the
internet,” said Ayala, who encourages residents who want
to learn more about ACP to
visit
www.californiacitrust
hreat.org, “that program is
paid for by growers,” she said.
Jonathan Katz, a citrus
grower who manages 20 acres
in the valley, disagrees with
the spraying strategy entirely.
“In terms of farming
methodology,
area-wide
management is not going to
work. They're not organizing
in terms of effective eradication of psyllids,” said Katz.
“If you want to spray effectively, spray along the
Highway 126 corridor, that's
a key vector for ACP coming
into the valley,” continued
Katz, who agrees that the
HLB disease presents a serious threat to local citrus.
Relay for Life event on track
to help battle cancer locally
Andra Belknap
[email protected]
Nordhoff High School's
track will be host to Ojai's
seventh annual Relay for Life,
a 24-hour event slated for
May 21 and May 22.
Relay for Life supports
cancer patients and survivors
while remembering those
lost to the disease through
a 24-hour walking relay and
fundraiser on the Nordhoff
track.
“Cancer doesn't sleep, so
we won't either!” said Susan
Malkin, a Relay for Life team
organizer.
Sixteen relay teams are
registered so far and have
raised more than $10,000 for
the American Cancer Society,
according to the event website.
Malkin will walk on a
team called “Laps for Lupe,”
in remembrance of her friend
Lupe Espinoza, who passed
away from pancreatic cancer
in 2008.
Malkin's daughter, Sydney, will walk in remembrance of Katee Edwards,
an Ojai resident who passed
away at age 13 due to leukemia.
In addition to the relay,
the event will host live music
all day from eight local bands,
all of whom are donating their
time. Food truck vendors will
offer food and drink, according to Malkin.
Two local hairdressers
plan to give haircuts May 21
for anyone wishing to donate
their hair to make a wig. Hair
donations will go to Pantene
Beautiful Lengths, a partnership between Pantene and
the American Cancer Society.
“Last year we donated 21
ponytails,” said Malkin.
Relay for Life begins at
9 a.m. May 21 and will conclude at 9 a.m. May 22.
A tribute event for those
battling cancer or who were
lost to cancer will take place
May 21 at 9 p.m. Community
members are invited to purchase a luminaria tribute bag
and light a candle to illuminate the bag during the ceremony, said Malkin.
Visit
www.relayforlife.
org/ojaivalleyca for more information about the event.
Perspectives
MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING
MEL BLOOM
Look! There’s an elephant in the room
really need some help down
here.
The national debt is of
legendary proportions. We’ve
heard about it for years and
so often that it is a cliche and
as original as the expression,
“The sky is blue.” It began in
the administrations of the
founding fathers and over the
decades it grew exponentially and now looms over us as
ponderously and pendulously and as horrifying as “Star
Wars” Jabba the Hut. And we
have lived with a national
debt for so long we have come
to accept it as a harmless rash,
when in truth, if we are to believe some of the renowned
economists who know more
than us, it is not a mild rash
but more like leprosy.
Many industrial countries
are burdened with a national
debt. In fact, some countries
have percentage-wise a larger
national debt than America.
What is the national debt?
Simply put, it is the difference between what the government has received in taxes
and other sources and what it
has spent and what it still owes
for all the services it provides.
And if the outgo is more than
the income and continues for
a prolonged period, it results
in bankruptcy. A number of
major countries over the years
have succumbed to bankruptcy and a number of lesser
countries are currently dancing on its periphery; and, in
fact, have gone over the edge
and are struggling, Greece and
Puerto Rico, to name two of
them.
Fighting wars or being
able to do so, is one of the
dominant causal factors in
creating bankruptcies. Incidentally, America during the
first World War lent the combatants money, our friends,
but they were so broke at war’s
end they never paid back the
loan and we finally years later
wrote it off as a bad debt. Only
Finland, a small country, honored their debt and paid us
back.
Another causal factor in
the accrual of national debt is
dishonesty. Our media is replete with stories of monetary shenanigans by people
in charge from mayors, senators, government officials, police, clergymen, bankers, Wall
Street characters, income tax
cheaters; in short, malefactors
are ubiquitous and come from
all walks of life. Do you recall
the doctor who went to jail a
few years ago for bilking Medicare out of millions of dollars?
These tactics are not new. The
potential for corruption is embedded in the DNA of some
people. It has I suspect been
that way forever. Two millennia ago St. Paul said, not that
money was the root of all evil
but that “the pursuit of money
was the root of all evil.” Think
about that.
Now just imagine for a moment if no one cheated, lied,
embezzled or perpetrated a
“fast one” what our national
debt could be reduced to. I
don’t have any idea what percentage of the population can
be classified as corrupt, but
I frequently fear their ranks
are growing and growing with
them are the opportunities
to stray from the straight and
narrow. In time not so long
ago, evildoers threatened with
fist or a gun or knife and victims were one at a time. Currently the internet and cell
phone crime has kept pace
with technology and one may
not even know their bank account has been drained or
their credit card has been stolen creating havoc until it’s
too late.
So am I connecting the
national debt with dishonorable behavior from us citizens? Part of that debt, yes, I
am. Throughout history corruption has betrayed societies
and brought down nations.
Are we on that path where
warning signs are evident?
And do we choose to ignore
them? Or do we say, “I can’t do
anything about it. I don’t put
in false claims. I don’t cheat
on my income tax return.”
Of course, there are honest
people who would never consider such behavior, but as
time passes the national debt
grows while a solution is left
for tomorrow’s posterity to
find, and which at that time
may be too late.
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and all your children, relatives
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FEATURED LETTER by Jim McEachen, Ojai
It’s a shame the city has so little regard for keeping its commitments
During my tenure as president
of the Ojai Film Society from 2011
to 2015, we met most of our growth
goals as an organization, but establishing the Libbey Bowl as the
permanent home for our summer
screening series always eluded us.
One of the biggest problems
with Libbey Bowl as a venue for any
user is its complete lack of infrastructure. For whatever reason, or
expediency, the Libbey Bowl Foundation never set aside funds for
the kind of capital investment that
would have made the Bowl usable
for the local community and its organizations. As a result, every event
has to build its own infrastructure
from the ground up. As pleasant
as the Libbey Bowl may be atmospherically and architecturally, it is
an empty shell with 900 seats, but
without lights, a sound system, an
office or internet.
Despite this fact, when the Libbey Bowl Foundation was dissolved
and the city announced it would
consider rental-fee deferments
for nonprofits to encourage community use of the Bowl, I made
a strong recommendation to the
board of the Ojai Film Society to
make a commitment to a full summer season of regular screenings.
This is a big commitment as it costs
upwards of $2,400 per screening to
rent a theatrical quality projection
and sound system — and many,
many thousands more to purchase
one. Add to that distributor expenses and Bowl screenings get very
expensive, very quickly.
Nevertheless, I recommended
that the board move ahead on two
conditions: Firstly, that the city
defer the $700-per-event usage fee
in consideration of the tremendous
financial commitment and risk the
Letters to the Editor
He is in a nostalgia
club all by himself
ALASDAIR COYNE, Ojai
Lindsay Nielson must
be the only person to wax
nostalgic about the exclusive
Farmont Golf Club proposal on land next to Rancho
Matilija.
I’m sure he genuinely
looked forward to playing
golf there. Owned by Mr.
Toyama, a very conservative
Japanese businessman, the
golf course proposal dragged
on for over a decade in the
1990s, before being voted
down by the Ventura County
Board of Supervisors after a
New York developer bought
the property when Mr.
Toyama died.
Community opposition wore down the developers over time; the only
golf-course supporters who
showed up at the numerous
hearings were those who
had been promised freebies
from Farmont. And of course
Farmont’s attorneys — Mr.
Nielson told me later that Mr.
Toyama had around 20 attorneys on his payroll at once.
Water use was indeed
the central issue. The Ventura River basin was already
unable to meet the needs of
its various users in dry years,
and a thirsty new world-class
golf course would only have
exacerbated local shortages.
But the nature of Mr.
Toyama’s associates was
disturbing to many Ojai Valley residents. The Farmont
Golf Club was to have had
five-figure membership
dues — out of the reach of
all but the 1 percent. And the
Farmont board of directors
was to have included Richard Nixon, and also Maurice
Stans, infamous for being
the bagman in the Watergate
scandal.
After the Farmont proposal’s eventual defeat, California state bond funds were
used to purchase 1,500 acres
of Farmont’s undeveloped
open space, now the Ventura
River Preserve owned by the
Ojai Valley Land Conservancy. Lindsay Nielson used
to joke that the money he
earned from Mr. Toyama put
his children through college.
Grant applications
are due today
KYLE CROWNER, Ojai
There is a new opportunity for nonprofit organizations in the Ojai Valley,
and the Ojai Women’s Fund
wants to be sure that everyone knows about it. The fund
was launched at the beginning of this year. However,
the OWF grant application
period ends today. Funding priority areas for this
year are education, social
services, arts, environment
and health. Grants will likely
be in the $5,000 to $10,000
range. The grant application
Film Society would have to take —
and secondly, that the city provide
the Film Society with some reasonable assurances that we would have
access to the Bowl for the purpose
of screening six to eight films over
the course of the summer.
For the past four months our
intentions have been known to City
Council through numerous liaisons
and our reservations have been
made with deposits in place, but
in a surprise decision April 26, Ojai
City Council rejected our request to
defer the $5,600 in fees for our eight
summer dates, with some council members openly questioning
whether “one organization should
be allowed” to reserve as many
“premium weekend dates” — this
despite our organization’s 25-year
history of providing the community with regular access to the best
theatrically distributed films in the
is available at www.ojaiwom
ensfund.org.
The idea of the OWF is
that when women combine
their resources, and allocate
them strategically, they have
a substantial, positive impact
on local communities. The
OWF will fund projects in the
entire Ojai Valley, from Casitas Springs to the Upper Ojai.
Funding is not limited to
women’s organizations, or to
projects designed exclusively
for women. The OWF is an
all-volunteer organization.
Donations made to the OWF
are tax deductible.
We encourage the many
nonprofit groups in the Ojai
Valley to visit the OWF website and learn more.
We ask all of the Ojai Valley News readers to help us
spread the word about this
new way to support people
in need.
Memorial Day should
be more memorable
KIM ARMSTRONG, Meiners Oaks
If you are a transplant
world.
Council discussion went so far
as members consulting with the
city attorney as to whether the city
had an obligation to honor the
dates we had already reserved with
a deposit. Presumably, City Council
does not have a problem granting
as much access to the commercial
producer they just signed on as an
event provider for the Bowl. In fact,
it seems more likely that this reconsideration of Bowl policy was in
deference to the very commercial
interests the city is courting. What
is clear, however, is that City Council’s expressed interest in “community curatorship” of the Libbey
Bowl appears to be very conditional
and capricious.
It is a pity that there is no real
vision coming from City Council or
the Libbey Bowl Arts and Festivals
Committee on how the community
from the East Coast as I was
40 years ago, you will understand the significance of
Memorial Day! Being raised
in New Jersey, Memorial Day
was always the most important day of the year. It started
with waking up and getting
ready to either be in the Memorial Day parade or watching the parade with my family. We lived right smack on
the parade route hence the
company. As I got older I understood the meaning of the
day a lot more than just the
excitement of my childhood
days. It was a day of celebration, but most of all honoring
men and women who died
after serving our country.
Take that a little further and
after the parade everyone
gathered at the cemetery for
a somber ceremony of our
friends and family who died.
Every service member was
recognized from the town I
grew up in that passed on.
Flags on every grave, wreaths
floating down the river to a
21-gun salute and taps. After
will gain access to the Bowl for anything other than the odd, “one-of”
events. As a result, I am sad to say
that after years of efforts to make
regular Libbey Bowl screenings a
reality, I am recommending that
the board of the Ojai Film Society
withdraw its Libbey Bowl screening series as planned until a new
regime of city leaders is able to
outline a more nuanced and mature plan than the confused hash
of poorly thought-out policies and
vaguely worded intentions. In the
meantime, Ojai residents can hope
that the city’s attempt to make the
Libbey Bowl a legitimate commercial venture will be met with more
success than it has in the past.
Vote on Ojai Film Society Summer Film Series Fee Deferral: Paul
Blatz, no; Betsy Clapp, no; Randy
Haney, no; William Weirick, yes;
Severo Lara, yes.
that the crowd disperses
and visits the graves of loved
ones.
The VFW and American
Legion have done an excellent job in making this day
be recognized in Ojai. Many
veterans gather at Ivy Lawn
Cemetery for a ceremony
also. Oak View has joined
in with the celebration with
a pancake breakfast at the
American Legion Hall on
Old Ventura Avenue. Then
they proceed with a flyover
to salute the deceased and
a parade to follow in honor
of the day! (In hopes the
children of the future will
understand the holiday.)
The celebration continues
at Lighthouse Church with a
short ceremony by Troop 503
in remembrance.
Don’t forget the celebration in Ojai also to honor our
loved ones.
Please fly your flags high
in remembrance of Memorial Day 2016 and teach our
young what this day is about.
The grove’s death is
a nightmare for all
MAGDA BOTEZ, Ojai
Early in the morning ,
just before sunrise, the grove
is magical, so full of life, the
noise of the city is far away.
As you walk in silence the
whole grove is awakening to
the brand-new day.
I remember Krishnamurti
walking in this grove. I remember him walking on the
platform for a talk.
You can feel his presence
even after so many years.
His legacy is alive with all
of us and we are all responsible, as he used to say.
The famous parable of
the man from Seattle. And
now what are we going to tell
him about the dying trees?
More than 50, maybe 60,
oak trees are dead or dying
and the site is terrible.
A nightmare for me, for
us, for the Oak Grove School
and for KFA.
All the trees are a fire
hazard and it is so wrong to
let the grove die.
thumbs up,
thumbs down
• A reader sends a thumbs-up to the Ojai Art Center Theater’s fantastic production of “Skylight.” Lucky to be able to
see it in Ojai.
• A reader sends a thumbs-down to signature gatherers in
Ojai who conspicuously display the seal of the city of Ojai
when they neither represent the city nor are backed by the
city of Ojai.
• A reader sends a thumbs-up to Danny from Topa Topa
Taxi for being our hero. Thank you for the midnight ride
home from the 126.
• A reader sends a thumbs-up to Mira Monte Elementary fourth- to sixth-graders for donating a portion of the
proceeds from their craft fair to Help of Ojai. Thank you for
sharing your hard-earned money.
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Dianne McCourtney’s home is a regular on the Green Living Tour.
erant plantings, for a tour in
2013.
“What I learned from rebuilding this house is people
think that building green is
expensive but it’s really not,”
she said. “It’s about midway
between the least expensive
way to do it and the most expensive. It’s easier than you
might think and you can get
better deals on green materials than most people realize.”
Kris Humphries and her
husband installed a greywater system in their home that
waters fruit trees, shrubs and
flowers in their yard with water from their washing machine. Already their home
has been on a tour for Ojai
Valley residents interested
in water conservation. When
the Green Coalition asked
her if she would be willing to
show it off on a Green Living
Tour as well she agreed.
“It was so well-received
(on the water conservation
tour),” she said. “People were
very interested in seeing how
to do a graywater system. It’s
fantastic when you see how
quickly the payback comes.
When I pull out a water bill
and people see I pay $35 a
month for a yard with 20
trees, they’re convinced.”
Humphrie’s Meiners Oaks
home is on the self-guided tour this year, along with
three others, including an
eight-acre “House on the
Hill” site that balances architectural history and permaculture design, a “smart garden” site, and a model tiny
house village.
Visit www.ojaivalleygreentour.com for tickets, tour
sites and ‘green’ home show
information.
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News in brief
Stroke seminar set
for May 17
May is Stroke Awareness month and the causes,
symptoms and treatment of
strokes will be the focus of a
free seminar the Community
Memorial Health System is
holding Tuesday.
Darshan Shah, M.D., who
specializes in neurology and
neuromuscular disease, will
lead the discussion during
the seminar to be held from
6 to 8 p.m. at the Courtyard
by Marriott, 600 E. Esplanade
Drive in Oxnard.
Registration is free but
reservations are required.
Visit cmhshealth.org/rsvp or
call Brown Paper Tickets at
(800) 838-3006.
Agents to host real
estate trade fair
The first Ojai Valley Board
of Realtors “mini informational trade fair” will be held
May 21, from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m.
next to Bonnie Lu’s in downtown Ojai. Realtor® and affiliates will be available to
answer questions about their
community involvement and
discuss how agents give back
to Ojai. There will be music,
balloons for the children, and
coupons for discounts to local restaurants.
County permit
process day on tap
The county of Ventura will
host a public information day
about the county permitting
process Thursday at the Lockwood Valley Sheriff’s Station.
Representatives
from
building and safety, planning,
environmental health, code
compliance, public works
grading and integrated waste
management will be on hand
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. to answer questions about the permitting process.
The Lockwood Valley
Sheriff’s Station is at 15021
Lockwood Valley Road in Frazier Park.
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the next few months, spot closures are planned on Highway
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Ojai, including ramps at Shell
Road, Cañada Larga Road, Casitas Vista Road and the US
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In its seventh year, the
Green Living Tour of Ojai Valley homes, is scheduled this
year for May 21 from 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m.
Attractions this year include a model tiny house village, a wildlife, bird- and butterfly-certified habitat home,
a house with homeowner-installed greywater and rainwater catchment systems and a
hilltop estate being renovated according to permaculture standards.
Ojaiians who have reimagined their homes, in
many cases working with
builders
experienced
in
environmentally
friendly
techniques and materials,
will show off their ideas in
concert with the Ojai Valley
Green Coalition, organizer of
the event.
Among the tour's fans is
Dianne McCourtney, whose
home has been featured
during two previous tours.
She said she took an inexpensive 1,000-sqaure-foot “cute
cabin type” of house not far
from downtown, and renovated it from the ground up,
reworking the house first for
a tour in 2010, and then replanting the postage-stampsized yard with drip irrigation
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Ackerman on fire in
Sundowners league
James Casey
The Sundowner golf
league completed its third
week of play Tuesday at Soule
Park Golf Course. Scores improved in general as players
got past the early-season jitters.
The Scramblers were able
to retake the season lead
by scoring a team-total 58
points. Luke Ackerman continued his hot start to the
season by shooting a gross
37 for 21 points. Ackerman is
tied for the highest average
and most points of any player
on the season. He is averaging 19.7 points per round.
The father-and-son duo
of Carl and Todd Henard
rounded out the scoring for
the Scramblers.
The Characters moved
into second place on the season with another steady performance of 54 points. They
sit five points behind the
Scramblers. They were led by
Chris Williams' 21 points. Williams was supported by Craig
Dzukola and Steve Rapholz.
There is a tie for third
place between Junkyard and
Millie's Duffers. Junkyard fell
back to earth with a score of
51 points on the day, but still
hover around the top of the
leaderboard. They were led
by Gil Sauceda's 19 points.
The Duffers scored 56
points on the week to jump
up to third in the standings.
They saw Adrian Frape fire
a one-under gross round of
35 to tie the low score of any
player this season. They also
saw Mike Montano post 19
points of his own. Montano
is tied with Ackerman for the
most points and highest average on the year.
The highest point total
of the day was scored by Jason Goldman who scored 23
points to tie the highest point
total of any player this year.
He helped his team climb
into sixth place on the season.
Skins in the A Flight were
won by Bruce Leichtfuss,
Frape and Scott Snowbarger.
The B Flight saw skins won
by Jay Ackerman and Trevor Leal. The C flight had no
skins awarded, so there is a
huge 16-hole carryover heading into next week's action.
The last-place team is still
only 10 points out of the final
playoff spot. Every team still
has a chance to take home
the coveted Callender Cup.
Play resumes next week.
Ojai Roadrunners close to crossing the finish line for 2016
The Ojai Roadrunners track and field team will soon wrap up another season. In a recent meet against Moorpark, (from left) Riley
Reid, Paris Hope, Kate Seery, Ashlee Henderson and Alison Lyons race in the 80-meter hurdles. Henderson went on to win the event
with Seery hot on her heals. The Roadrunners will conclude their 2016 season when they take part in the conference finals at Santa
Barbara City College. See future editions of the Ojai Valley News for a recap of this track season, including the junior varsity finals,
conference finals, as well as the many highlights the track program enjoyed as part of their 40th anniversary celebration.
Team tennis titles up for grabs
Rick Thompson
The undefeated UFOs will
face the 6-3 Hawks for the Junior Team Tennis Championship of the spring 2016 season Friday.
The season unraveled in
a strange way. The same two
teams met on opening day,
and the teams left the court
with the Hawks defeating the
UFOs, 18-17. The match finished with a super tiebreaker
with the Hawks winning the
final four games to secure a
big comeback win. Upon review, however, the match had
already ended with the UFOs
the victors, 17-14. The expe-
rienced players did not realize no super tiebreaker was
needed.
The following day, the
victory was awarded to the
UFOs, who went on to win
their next eight matches and
finish undefeated.
The Hawks struggled and
dropped to 2-3 before a winning streak left them 6-3 and
winners of their division.
Now the teams face a final rematch for the title.
The other four matchups are all with teams with
identical records. The Bears
and Maybe will play for third
place with both ending at 6-3.
The Seals and 3Cees, both
5-4, will play for fifth. The
Tacos and It will compete for
seventh place. Both are 3-6.
Smash and the Foxes, both
1-8, will play for ninth.
JTT is sponsored by the
Ojai Valley Tennis Club.
The adult World Team
Tennis league plays its last
regular season match Friday.
The undefeated Slice will
put their perfect season on
the line against the 2-3 Topas.
The Topas are second in the
Odd Division, but could take
the lead if they beat Slice and
the Storm losses to the 3-2
Aces.
The winless Kings faceoff against the 3-2 Auzie.
QuickStart Challenge nets positive results once again
Photo by Kirby Russell
Jules Thompson crushes a backhand volley in recent Junior Team Tennis action.
Topa Topa Elementary School student Katherine McArthur participates in the ninth annual Quickstart Tennis Challenge during 116th Ojai Tennis Tournament in April. The event drew 60 students
from five schools including Sunset School, Meiners Oak Elementary School, Mira Monte Elementary School, Ojai Valley School and Topa Topa Elementary School. The winners were Sweden
Van Houten and Kevin McDonald, from Topa Topa. Second place went to McArthur and Morgan
McArthur also from Topa Topa. Third-place honors went to Samantha Emanuele and Dane Emanuele from Ojai Valley School. Winners and finalists received a trophy and rackets from Wilson
Sporting Goods Company.
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This Week
Friday, May 13
PEACE VIGIL — The Ojai Peace
Vigil, which is now in its 12th
year, meets every Friday from 5
to 6 p.m. at the pergola in front
of Libbey Park. All are welcome.
Placards will be supplied or you
may bring your own.
“ONCE ON THIS ISLAND, JR.”
— The Ojai Youth Entertainers
Studio, 316 E. Matilija St., will
present youth performances
of “Once on This Island, Jr.,”
through May 15. Shows are
today at 6 p.m., Saturday at
2 and 6 p.m., and Sunday,
May 15, at 2 p.m. This is a
heartwarming Caribbeaninspired musical from the Tony
Award-winning songwriting
team of Lynn Ahrens and
Stephen Flaherty. Tickets: $10
general or $12 for select seating
(first come, first served). Reserve
seats at www.IslandMusical.
brownpapertickets.com or call
646-4300.
“SKYLIGHT” — The Ojai
Art Center Theater, 113 S.
Montgomery St., will present the
Tony Award-winning Broadway
hit, “Skylight,” through June 5
with performances Fridays and
Saturdays at 7 p.m. and Sundays
at 2 p.m. Directed by Steve
Grumette, “Skylight” will star
Anna Kotula and Buddy Wilds.
Written by Sir David Hare, this
play also won many awards in
England before it was shipped
across the pond. For tickets or
more information: www.OjaiACT.
org or 640-8797.
“INSPIRATION” SPRING
DANCE CONCERTS — The
dance department at Nordhoff
High School will present its
“Inspiration” spring dance
concerts at Matilija Auditorium,
703 El Paseo Road, today at 7
p.m. and Saturday at 2 and 7
p.m. Contemporary, jazz, tap and
hip-hop dance selections will
be included. Tickets available
at www.nhsdance.com or
call 640-4343, Ext. 1861. Art
students collaborated with the
NHS dancers to create a free
nd
our
“Inspiration” art show being
displayed in the exterior areas,
Saturday from 1 to 7 p.m.
“NATURE BATS LAST” —
BookEnds Bookstore, 110 S.
Pueblo Ave., Meiners Oaks, will
host Guy McPherson for a book
signing and lecture on “Nature
Bats Last,” today at 7 p.m. The
author, activist, grief recovery
specialist and professor emeritus
of natural resources, ecology
and evolutionary biology will
give timely information on
climate science — what is being
repressed and politicized, what
is happening to our earth. Find
out. Donation suggested. Call
640-9441.
Saturday, May 14
OVLC HIKE AND PICNIC — Ojai
Valley Land Conservancy (OVLC)
will host a hike and picnic with
Rick Bisaccia, OVLC stewardship
director, Saturday from 8 a.m. to
1 p.m. Meet at the office, 370 W.
Baldwin Road, Building A4, and
carpool to a surprise trailhead.
Cost: $15 includes hike and
picnic. Participation is limited
to 12 hikers; reservations are
required, call 649-6852, Ext. 2.
“OAKS AND ORCHARDS
DROUGHT CARE” — Casitas
Municipal Water District will
host a free landscape class, “Oaks
and Orchards Drought Care,”
Saturday from 9 a.m. to noon
at Oak View Park & Resource
Center, 555 Mahoney Ave., Oak
View. With extreme weather and
invasive insects, it seems more
difficult than ever to keep our
trees healthy. Find out what you
can do at this workshop with
presenters from University of
California Farm Advisors and
valley
Master Gardeners of Ventura
County. RSVP to Bryan Sandoval,
[email protected] or
469-2251, Ext. 105.
MINDFULNESS — “A Morning
of Mindfulness” will be held
Saturday from 9 to 11:30 a.m.
at Being Peace Zendo, a homebased center practicing in the
tradition of Thich Nhat Hanh.
Enjoy walking and sitting
meditation, chanting and a
dharma teaching from Kenley
Neufeld. No experience is
necessary. Call or text 252-2448
for more information.
GARDEN TOUR — The Ojai
Valley Chamber of Commerce
will host the 22nd annual Garden
Tour, Saturday from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. This will be a self-guided
tour of five private gardens in the
Ojai Valley. Tickets are on sale at
Flora Gardens, 245 Old Baldwin
Road (640-0055). Advance tickets
are $25, all tickets on day of the
event are $30. All ticket sales are
final.
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). Docents
Connie Campbell and Jackie
Clark will lead the May 14 tour.
Cost is $7 or $15 per family.
Your complete listings of Ojai Valley events
Drop-ins are welcome. For
reservations or tours during the
week, call 640-1390.
“INTO THE WILD
(NATURALISTS)” — Wheeler
Gorge Visitor Center, 17017
Maricopa Highway, will present
“Into the Wild (Naturalists),”
Saturday at 11 a.m. Alexa
Hohensee, LPFA member, will
cover respecting and protecting
wildlife in our local forest. Learn
about birds and their flyways,
venomous reptiles, poisonous
plants and how to identify them.
Also learn about food chains and
ecosystems and how humans
have changed the balance of
nature. Donations: $3 for both
youths and adults to cover cost
of materials. Reservations are
required, call 382-9758.
“PUJA AND PIETY” TALK — The
Ojai Library, 111 E. Ojai Ave.,
will host Shirley Waxman of the
Santa Barbara Museum of Art’s
Community Speakers Program,
May 14 at 1 p.m. She will deliver
a talk titled “Puja and Piety:
Hindu, Jain, and Buddhist Art
from the Indian Subcontinent,”
offering an overview of the
traditions of private worship and
public rituals and the spiritual
connection between the images
and the divine. The public is
welcome to this free event. Call
218-9146 for more details.
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McPherson Saturday from 1 to 2
p.m. sharing his children’s book
on the environment. All ages are
welcome. A book signing follows.
Call 640-9441.
“VEGAS NIGHT” — The Ojai
Valley Community Hospital
will host its spring fundraising
event, “Vegas Night,” Saturday
starting at 6 p.m. at the events
hall of St. Thomas Aquinas
Catholic Church, 185 St. Thomas
Drive, Ojai, featuring Italian
fare, a silent auction and music
by Captain Cardiac and the
Coronaries. Proceeds will benefit
the hospital and its Continuing
Care Center. Call 640-2317 for
more information.
CLASSICAL STRING QUARTET
CONCERT — The Sincopa
String Quartet will perform at
Ojai Presbyterian Church, 304
Foothill Road, Saturday at 7 p.m.
They will play favorite works
by Verdi, Borodin, Dvorak and
Haydn, as well as Armenian
folk songs. Suggested donation:
$20. Students will be admitted
free. Call 649-1182 for more
information.
Sunday, May 15
“BEING SPIRITUAL AND
PROSPEROUS TOO” — The
Center for Spiritual Living will
host a workshop on “Being
Spiritual and Prosperous Too,”
Sunday from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. at
the Ojai Valley Woman’s Club, 441
E. Ojai Ave. Learn practical tools
for how to change your money
mind-set and increase income.
Suggested donation: $5 for
materials (no one turned away).
“AN AFTERNOON UNDER THE
OAKS OF OJAI” — Pacific Shore
Philharmonic Foundation will
host “An Afternoon under the
Oaks of Ojai,” a fundraising
event, Sunday from 4 to 7 p.m.
at Boccali’s Pizza, 3277 OjaiSanta Paula Road. All are invited
for food, beer, wine, live music
and a silent auction. Tickets:
$45. Call 620-1000 or visit
pacifi[email protected].
DUSTBOWL REVIVAL — An
eight-piece “American Roots
Orchestra” will play in concert
Sunday at Dancing Oak Ranch.
Gates open at 5 p.m. Bring a
deck chair and a potluck dish.
Tickets: $20 in advance or at
gate, kids under 15 free, www.
ojaiconcertseries.com or call
665-8852. (M13)
“TOWN TALK” AT MUSEUM
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130 W. Ojai Ave., will host the
next “Town Talk” Sunday from
4:30 to 6 p.m. The topic will
be “A Conversation with Mark
Frost.” Ojai writer Mark Frost
will discuss the eagerly awaited
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“Twin Peaks,” which he cocreated with David Lynch in
1990. They have teamed up
again for the sequel which will
air next year on Showtime. Frost
also will discuss his experience
working on another classic
series, “Hill Street Blues,” and
his books such as “The Greatest
Game Ever Played,” and projects
with an Ojai connection.
Admission is free for museum
members, $5 for non-members.
Call 640-1390.
WINSPEAR TO TALK AT ART
CENTER — The Ojai Art Center,
113 S. Montgomery St., will
host best-selling local author
Jacqueline Winspear, Sunday at
7 p.m., to talk about her latest
novel featuring psychologistinvestigator Maisie Dobbs. The
latest installment in this stellar
series sends one of fiction’s most
interesting heroines deep into
Nazi Germany on an undercover
mission of vital importance
to the security of Britain.
Donations are welcome. Call
646-0117 for more information.
Monday, May 16
“THE YOGA OF WISDOM IN
THE BHAGAVAD GITA” — with
Pedro Olivera will be presented
May 16 to 18, 10 a.m. to noon,
Monday through Wednesday
at Krotona School, 46 Krotona
Hill, Ojai. We will approach
Sri Krishna’s beneficent
teaching through the method
suggested in the Upanishads:
listening, reflecting, meditating.
Donations welcome. 646-1139,
schoolinfo@krotonainstitute.
org or www.krotonainstitute.org.
(M13)
Tuesday, May 17
“THREE STAGES TOWARDS
THE PATH” — The Theosophical
Society in the Ojai Valley will
meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. at
Krotona School on Krotona Hill
in Ojai. Pedro Olivera will give a
talk titled “Three Stages Towards
the Path.” Call 646-2653.
“ENLIGHTENMENT OR
IMPRISONMENT!” — The
American Vedic Association
Bhagavad Gita As It Is
Fellowship will meet Tuesday
at 7 p.m. at 687 Villanova Road
to discuss “Enlightenment or
Imprisonment!” Is a deceptive
priest more holy than an honest
drunk? Are ascetics mentally
ill? What are the symptoms of
nd
our
enlightenment and who defined
them? Break free from your
comfort zone to rethink your
assumptions at the next AVA
meeting. Everyone is welcome.
Always free. Call 640-0405.
Wednesday, May 18
SWING AND OPEN DANCING
— Wednesday nights at the Ojai
Art Center, 113 S. Montgomery
St., basics class from 7 to 8
p.m., open dancing from 8 to 9
p.m. Cost: $15, class and dance
($25 for a couple); $5, open
dancing. Call (323) 273-7285 for
details. (M18)
Down The Road
OAK VIEW MEMORIAL DAY
PARADE DEADLINE — The Oak
View Civic Council will sponsor
the Oak View Memorial Day
parade, going down Old Ventura
Avenue, May 30 at 10 a.m. The
theme is “Never Forgotten.”
Entry fee: $15 (some fees may be
waived). Applications must be
returned no later than May 20 to:
Oak View Civic Council, P.O. Box
503, Oak View, CA 93022. Call
Kim Armstrong at 407-2941 for
more information.
SALSA CYCLES SPRING RIDE
AND DEMO — The Mob Shop,
110 W. Ojai Ave., will host
Salsa Cycles, May 20 and 21,
featuring bike rides and their
demonstration van with new
bikes in their lineup. Two group
rides (The Gravel Ride and The
Mountain Ride) will be held
May 20 at 4:30 p.m., followed by
a cookout and cold beverages
behind the shop. These rides
are RSVP only; e-mail tim@
themobshop.com or call 2728102. The Salsa Cycles demo van
will be parked in front of The
Mob Shop, May 21 from 9 a.m. to
3 p.m. Want to reserve a bike for
Saturday? E-mail or call Tim.
NHS SPRING CONCERT
AT LIBBEY — The music
department at Nordhoff High
School will present its annual
“Spring Concert” at Libbey
Bowl, May 20 at 6:30 p.m.
Admission is free. The event will
feature all five award-winning
ensembles: Symphonic Band,
String Orchestra, Jazz Band and
Gold ‘n’ Blue Chorale, under
the direction of Bill Wagner,
and the Chamber Choir, under
the direction of Jaye Hersh.
Donations accepted and
concessions will be available
at the concert. For more
information, contact Robyn
Halverson at 640-4343, Ext. 1861.
FULL MOON COMMUNITY
MEDITATION — A community
group meditation at the
full moon of Gemini will be
held May 20 at 7:30 p.m. at
Meditation Mount, 10340
Reeves Road in Ojai, as an act
of celebration and service to
invoke, anchor and distribute
blessings to the world.
Contemplative music begins
at 7 p.m. Suggested donation:
$10. Call 646-5508 or visit
meditationmount.org for more
information.
BIRD WALK — The Ventura
Audubon Society will host a bird
walk on Cañada Larga Road,
May 21 at 8:30 a.m., led by Adele
Fergusson (415-4304). Meet near
the beginning of the road off
Highway 33 under the bridge.
Will carpool from that location
to walk and drive this long
country road. Target species will
include grosbeaks, barn owls,
orioles, sparrows, roadrunners,
swallows and more.
AMERICAN CANCER SOCIETY
RELAY FOR LIFE — The Relay
for Life of Ojai Valley will be held
May 21 and 22 from 9 a.m. to 9
a.m. at Nordhoff High School,
1401 Maricopa Highway. For
more information, call (310) 498-
4096 or go to www.RelayForLife.
org/OjaiValleyCA.
GREEN LIVING TOUR AND
HOME SHOW — The Ojai Valley
Green Coalition invites the
public to its seventh annual
Green Living Tour and Home
Show, May 21 from 10 a.m. to
4 p.m. This year’s tour features
a Model Tiny House Village,
Permaculture-Inspired Estate,
Suburban Oasis, and a WaterWise Landscape and Lifestyle.
Tour tickets are $10 (kids 18 and
younger admitted free). The
Home Show will run from 10
a.m. to 3 p.m. at The Mob Shop,
110 W. Ojai Ave. Information
on the Green Living Tour and
tickets, free Home Show, biking
the tour and much more can be
found at ojaivalleygreentour.
com.
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
Barbara Washburn will lead the
May 21 tour. Cost is $7 or $15 per
family. Drop-ins are welcome.
For reservations or tours during
the week, call 640-1390.
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Religion
OJAI VALLEY MINISTERIAL ASSOCIATION
DAN NELSON
God is not a politician; he is the giver of life
God is not a Democrat; God
is not a Republican. He is neither
Independent, Green Party, nor
Libertarian.
Jesus is not a liberal; Jesus is
not a conservative. He is neither
a progressive nor fundamentalist.
God is not a Capitalist nor
Communist Socialist Imperialist. He is neither expansionist,
nationalist, constructionist nor
deconstructionist.
He is not an existentialist,
Darwinist and God is definitely
not an atheist!
Jesus cares about equality
but he is not a feminist. He is the
“prince of peace,” but he is not
an activist. God is not a racist!
Jesus is not — a psychologist, sociologist, philosopher nor
theologian. He is not a Methodist, Baptist, Catholic nor Presbyterian.
Jesus heals but he is not a
therapist. He brings change but
he is not an anarchist. He is a
doctor but he does not have a
university degree. The medicine
he uses is the Holy Spirit — and
he said the truth shall set you
free!
He is not a culture, not a
power base, not a point of view,
not a business, not a book deal.
God is definitely not something
new. He is not a fantasy, not an
archetype, not a manifestation
of the mind.
God is love, God is truth; a
just judge, God is gracious and
kind.
Jesus is not a label, not a
pundit, not a commentator,
nor figurehead, He is neither a
politician, nor statesman, not a
celebrity, not mythical, not dead!
Not a backup plan, not a
lame excuse, not a crutch for the
naive, not trite. Not a religion,
not an organization, not a creed,
ceremony, nor rite.
He is not a brand name,
nor a marketing scheme, not a
spokesman nor a fashion trend.
Jesus is not a rock star!
Jesus is not a sports hero! He
is not a bumper sticker, not a
piece of jewelry, not a T-shirt, not
a radio station, not a TV channel,
not a band, nor a song.
He is the foundation, the
goal, the compass, the map, the
quest, and the authority on all
things, right and wrong. He is
the giver of life — creator of all
things — the beginning and the
end, all knowing, all powerful,
redeemer, king of kings, lord,
savior and friend.
Dan Nelson is pastor of
Calvary Chapel Ojai Valley. The
opinions expressed are those of
the author, and not necessarily
those of his church, the Ojai Valley Ministerial Association, nor
the Ojai Valley News.
at 6 p.m., led by Rabbi Mike,
with a kiddush afterward. All are
welcome.
Call
646-4464
for
more
information.
Ojai United
Methodist Church
Everyone is welcome to the
Ojai United Methodist Church,
120 Church Road, across from
Nordhoff High School. The
sanctuary is open Monday
through Thursday from 9 a.m.
to noon for personal prayer and
meditation. Children are always
welcome at Ojai United Methodist.
The Sunday worship service is at
10:15 a.m. in the sanctuary.
This week is Pentecost,
celebrating the outpouring of the
Holy Spirit; wear red if you are
able. Pastor Cathie Capp’s sermon
on Acts 2:1-21 will be “Listen, and
Be Amazed!”
For more information, call
646-3528.
RELIGION BRIEFS
Live Oak Christian
Fellowship Church
Live Oak Christian Fellowship
Church is at 441 Church Road
in Ojai, at the corner of Cuyama
Road. All are invited to join
the friendly congregation in
worship Sundays at 9:30 a.m.,
sharing traditional music and
biblical preaching. Stay for coffee
immediately after the service.
Call 633-9080 or see Facebook
for more information.
St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
worships the Lord with joy and
laughter, good music, short
sermons and free coffee. Holy
Eucharist will be held this Sunday
8 a.m. and 10 a.m. All are welcome
to the Lord’s table for Holy
Communion.
Centering prayer is held every
Thursday at 7 p.m. The outdoor
labyrinth is open daily for
meditation.
St. Andrew’s Episcopal Church
is at the corner of Bristol Road and
Ojai Avenue. For information, call
646-1885.
First Church of Christ,
Scientist
“Mortals and Immortals” is the
subject of this Sunday’s lesson
at the Christian Science Church,
based on a passage from Psalms:
“The right hand of the Lord is
exalted: … I shall not die, but
live, and declare the works of the
Lord.” The church service and
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Sunday school begin at 10 a.m.
Testimonial meetings are held
Wednesdays at 7 p.m. All are
welcome. The church is at the
corner of Oak and Blanche streets
in Ojai.
A Christian Science Library and
Bookstore for the community at
206-J N. Signal St. is open Monday,
Wednesday and Friday from noon
to 3 p.m., offering a wealth of
publications and a quiet place to
read.
Call 646-4901 for information.
St. Thomas Aquinas
Catholic Church
St. Thomas Aquinas Church
is at 185 St. Thomas Drive, Ojai.
Daily Mass is celebrated at 9 a.m.,
Monday to Friday, and Saturday at
8 a.m. Sunday Mass is at 7:30 and
9:30 a.m. in English and 11:30 a.m.
in Spanish. The Rev. Tom Verber,
OSA, is the parish pastor and the
Rev. Fernando Lopez, OSA, is
associate pastor.
Readings for Sunday will be Acts
2:1-11, Psalm 104:1, 24, 29-31, 34,
1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13 or
Romans 8:7-17, John 20:19-23.
Open Pantry will be held May
21; donations are being accepted
all week at the church office.
Call
646-4338
for
more
information.
Chabad of
Ojai Valley
Chabad of Ojai Valley, 311 Park
Road, Ojai, holds services Fridays
at 6:30 p.m. All are welcome.
The schedule for Saturdays
Unique Outdoor
Living Spaces:
Decks • Trellises •
Outdoor Kitchens, etc
Just Call Dana at
805-640-0685
Krotona
Institute of Theosophy
includes Torah class at 9:30 a.m.,
morning services at 10 a.m. and a
kiddush lunch at 11:30 a.m.
Call Rabbi Mordy Nemtzov at
613-7181 for more information.
Center for
Spiritual Living
The Center for Spiritual
Living, Ojai, is a metaphysical
community offering principles
from the mystical traditions of
world religions and indigenous
teachings. People of all faiths,
races, ages and lifestyles are
welcome.
This
Sunday,
the
Rev.
Marilyn Miller’s topic is “Keys
to Prosperity.” The meditation
service starts at 10 a.m. The
celebration service and youth
program are at 10:30 a.m. Services
are held at the Ojai Valley Woman’s
Club, 441 E. Ojai Ave. Call 6400498 for information.
Ojai Presbyterian Church
The Ojai Presbyterian Church
welcomes all to worship. The
church worship schedule offers a
contemporary service at 8 a.m., a
contemporary service at 9:15 a.m.
with Sunday School or nursery
through eighth grade, and a
traditional service at 10:45 a.m.
Ojai Presbyterian Church is at
304 N. Foothill Road. Call 6461437 for more information.
Jewish Community of Ojai
The Jewish Community of Ojai,
530 W. El Roblar Drive, Meiners
Oaks, will have services today
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have a great work ethic,
be a self-starter, pay attention to detail and be
dependable. This is an
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May 6 & 13, 2016
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 20160415-100072410 1/1
Ventura County Clerk and Recorder
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File Date: 04/15/2016
THE FOLLOWING PERSON(S) IS
(ARE) DOING BUSINESS AS:
1st Fictitious Business Name:
Seaward Sushi
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34 south seaward ave, ventura, CA
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County of Principal Place of
Business: Ventura
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Individual/Corporation/Limited
Liability Company:
Rachel Woodward
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acceptable):
606 east oak street apt a, ojai, CA
93023
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Individual
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1577 Garst Lane, Ojai, CA 93023
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1577 Garst Lane, Ojai, CA 93023
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Things Possible
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Beyond Design
acceptable):
308 Burnham Rd., Oak View, CA
93022
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Teres Rochelle
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308 Burnham Rd., Oak View, CA
93022
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Productions
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6 Krotona Street, Ojai, CA 93023
Business: Ventura
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Michele Shields Sender
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6 Krotona Street, Ojai, CA 93023
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114 BURNHAM RD.,
Sat. & Sun., 7-2. Moving sale! Clothes, toys,
tools, kitchen stuff,
etc.
1273 & 1225 S. RICE
RD., Sat., 8-3. Golden
Oaks & El Sereño
M.H.P., many homes,
one location! Maps of
participating spaces at
entrances. Furn., antiques., garden items,
western, Christmas,
jewelry, books, music,
laptop, tools, R. & D.
china, crystal, linens.
Bargain prices!
Baldwin Rd./
Hwy. 150 to
Burnham Road
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Rice Road
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819 CAMBON CIR.,
Fri., Sat., & Sun., 8-3.
Moving / yard sale!
Dresser, beds, dining
rm. furn., sewing,
quilting, & art supplies,
yard items, & so much
more!
1287 MEINERS RD.,
Sat. & Sun., 8-1.
Plumbing & electrical
supplies, 1/2" PVC
pipe, 6 concrete leveling blocks, Levi's, RV
items, aluminum window frames w/ sliding
glass inserts, propane
4 burner stove w/
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more!
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Baldwin Rd./
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DEADLINE
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Wednesday by noon.
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321 DEL NORTE RD.,
Sat., 8-1. Clothing,
housewares, estate
costume jewelry consisting of 1,000 new &
gently used pieces.
Ojai Ave. to
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Rain Check!
If there is measurable rain on
the day of your sale, the Ojai
Valley News will run your ad
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