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123rd Year, No. 66 • Friday, May 9, 2014 • Newsracks, 75¢, retail stores, 70¢ plus tax • Yearly subscription, $52
A granny
flat fracas
Ojai mom
ships love to
U.S. heroes
Second unit compliance, complaints
Tiobe Barron
Ojai Valley News correspondent
Monica Lara
In an already-tight housing market, one
Ojai program designed to increase the
number of units available, at least in one
case, is having the exact opposite effect.
In the 16 years Henrietta Purcell has been
in Ojai, she has lived in various places, even
owning her own home at one point. Recent
years have been hard financially for Purcell.
In August 2012, when a “granny flat” on a
property she had sublet eight years ago
became available, Purcell snapped it up.
“I came into a place here that was an
absolute mess,” recounted Purcell. “Everything in the yard was dead. I brought it back
to life.”
When Purcell asked her landlady,
Catherine Bautista, about her mailbox,
Bautista told Purcell she did not have one;
the mailbox for the property was designated
for the tenants of the duplex on the front of
the property. Purcell did not question this;
she said she had no idea the granny flat was
an unpermitted structure. Additionally,
Purcell said the unit lacked smoke alarms,
proper insulation, and the water and electricity were hooked to the duplex in front.
“She (Bautista) told me the front tenants
pay the water bill,” said Purcell. “I asked that
it be separated. She told me she couldn’t do
that, that it’s the way it was built.”
In spite of this, and despite the repairs the
unit needed, like new plaster to replace the
crumbling bathroom ceiling and walls, she
said she was content to stay on as a tenant of
the affordable unit, especially when Bautista
allowed Purcell’s daughter and grandson to
stay with her.
Then last January, Purcell said her relationship with her landlady changed dramatically.
“She came here and said, ‘I need you to
look like you don’t live here,’” Purcell
remembered.
Bautista allegedly became agitated when
Purcell’s grandson’s bicycle was left in the
driveway, or a table was used in her yard, or
if the gate was not closed at all times.
“I guess someone let her know … I think
her brother-in-law told her that the city was
cracking down on second units,” Purcell
said. “I wouldn’t have been upset had she
just told me, if she disclosed that (the unit
was unpermitted) right from the start.”
Purcell went to the city to inquire about
the property, and said she was told by Ojai
Planning and Building Technician Shari
Herbruck there was no city record for a third
dwelling on Bautista’s midtown property,
other than a 2004 citation for an illegal
garage conversion stating the property
owner could not rent the structure.
“She (Herbruck) told me, ‘It’s Ojai,
enforcement is really lax’ and ‘I don’t know
why she (Bautista) didn’t tell you (the unit is
unpermitted),’” Purcell explained.
After Purcell brought the matter to the
See Granny Flat, Page A3
Photos by Kelly Forrister
Kids ‘dig’ dinosaurs
A Place to Grow Preschool
held its annual “Dino-Dig”
Tuesday, giving kids a
chance to get up-close and
personal with the stuff
prehistoric monsters are
made of. Above, Kiara
Milauckas, 3, is fascinated
by the goo at the tar pit
station; at right, Elise De
Lao, 8, shows off a large
“dinosaur” bone she uncovered. Other kids got to help
make erupting “volcanoes,”
and got temporary dinosaur
tattoos. The hands-on activities help introduce local
youngsters to science — and
let them get a little messy in
the process.
Shampoo, fresh socks, your
favorite cookies — things that
might not seem like much to
the rest of us can mean the
world to a soldier overseas.
Knowing this, an Ojai military wife has launched an
organization to help support
troops by giving locals a way
to send care packages to
active duty servicemen and
women.
The
organization,
Love4Heroes, allows people to
sponsor
a
soldier
by
purchasing an inexpensive
care package. Founder Wendy
Tremiti, 37, finds the active
service people, collects the
items for each package and
ships them out. The organization ships about six boxes a
week to troops stationed all
over the world since its launch
in October 2013. Tremiti and
her small team hope to work
up to sending at least 20 boxes
per week, which could allow
them to reach more than
1,000 troops in one year.
“So many people need stuff
because their families cannot
afford it, or they just don’t
have the families,” Tremiti
said. “Those are the ones who
need to know people are here
supporting them.”
Tremiti, longtime local resident and owner of Your Image
Floral in Ojai, became
inspired
to
create
Love4Heroes since she has
been supporting her own
military husband with care
packages for 10 years. He is
deployed often as part of the
U.S. Naval Special Warfare
Division in Afghanistan.
But Tremiti eventually
became aware there are many
soldiers who do not have that
same support system.
“It
started
with
my
husband, but I wanted to help
as much as I could even if it
was giving to people I don’t
even know,” Tremiti said.
It became a team effort
among her family to get
Love4Heroes off the ground.
The organization will host
special projects, as well, such
as giving elementary students
Christmas cards to sign and
sending them to troops who
cannot make it home during
the holidays.
Tremiti is also taking steps
for her organization to
Streambed alteration
topic of CDFW inquiry Searching for faces of Vietnam War
See Love4Heroes, Page A3
Kimberly Rivers
Misty Volaski
[email protected]
The California Department of Fish and
Wildlife (CDFW) has halted some work
being done in and next to the river on the
Matilija Hot Springs land managed by
Ecotopia.
“We are looking into a streambed alteration,” said Janice Mackey, public information officer with CDFW. “Several
anonymous citizens brought complaints
to the department. They were anonymous
tips through the Cal Tipline.”
She added that the CDFW is following
up on the complaints that included “vegetation removal, structures in the
streambed and other alterations, such as
the movement of dirt” at the property on
Matilija Canyon Road.
Mackey noted that CDFW jurisdiction
extends "from the river to the river
banks," which includes all vegetation
associated with the river.
“Some work has been halted until
permits are approved,” said Mackey.
“Some work has been allowed to be
completed. We are working with the
landowner to get it all resolved. Basically
we are going to get them permitted.”
Janna Hoehn doesn't live in Ojai.
She doesn't even live in California.
But she's on a mission to honor Ojai
Valley veterans — and all American
veterans — who died in the Vietnam
War.
The Maui resident never met
Ojai's Raymond L. Bunch Jr.,
Herman R. Morris or George R.
Roland, or anyone else who died in
Vietnam, for that matter. But a trip to
Washington, D.C. five years ago
inspired her to volunteer with the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Fund, in
a project that's seeking to find a
photograph of every one of the
58,286 Americans who died in that
bloody conflict.
In D.C., Hoehn's first stop was the
Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall,
where she took an etching of a man
listed as missing in action: Gregory
John Crossman. She felt an intimate
connection with the memorial, she
said, because the war was raging
while she was in high school. Once
she returned to Maui, she began
See Vietnam, Page A3
Photo by Matthew Thayer / The Maui News
Janna Hoehn has been helping to collect photos of American service members
who died in the Vietnam War — including a handful from the Ojai area.
A2 Ojai Valley News • Friday, May 9, 2014
May 19 deadline
to register to vote
Ventura County Clerk
Recorder and Registrar
of Voters Mark Lunn has
announced the deadline to register to vote in
the June 3 Gubernatorial Primary Election.
The last day to register to vote is Monday,
May 19.
Lunn stated, “I encourage all eligible citizens who have yet to
register to vote, to do so
before the deadline to
ensure that they can
cast a ballot on June 3,
2014. Every election
marks a new chapter in
the history of our
democracy and it is important to exercise our
right to vote.”
For
convenience,
voter registration is
available online at
www.RegisterToVote.ca.
gov. Voters can also call
the Elections Division at
654-2664 to request that
Photo by Claire Carlton
Nonprofit groups receive funds from Garden Club
Five of Ojai's nonprofit organizations were the recipients of funds totaling more than $8,000 from the Ojai
Valley Garden Club (OVGC). The membership approved proposals from Food for Thought, mulch for school
gardens program; Meditation Mount, fire clearance and replanting hillside; Ojai Raptor Center, shade trees
for raptor cages; Ojai Valley Museum, redo of Chumash garden in the rear; and Ojai Valley Community Hospital,
new entrance plants. The OVGC raises money from club memberships and sales of holiday wreaths to fund
garden-related projects in the community and new members are always welcome. Visit the website at
ojaivalleygardenclub.com to learn more.
Police Blotter
Bridge
The Ojai Valley Bridge
Club meets every Monday and Friday at 12:30
p.m. at the Ojai Valley
Community Church at
the corner of Loma
Drive and El Centro
Street. Everyone is welcome and singles will
be provided with a
partner. For more information, contact bbo
[email protected] or
646-1211.
a voter registration card
be mailed to them.
Residents may still
register on a paper form
at the Ventura County
Elections
Division,
Government
Center
Hall of Administration,
800 S. Victoria Ave.,
Ventura. Office hours
are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m.,
Monday through Friday.
Registration forms
are
also
available
throughout the county
at city halls, post offices, libraries, chambers of commerce, and
fire stations. Completed
voter registration forms
must be postmarked by
May 19 in order to vote
in the June 3 Gubernatorial Primary Election.
For more information, visit the Elections
Division website at
http://venturavote.org
or call 654-2664.
The winners for Monday, May 5, were: 1st,
Alan Greenberg and Valerie Greenberg; 2nd,
Joann
Bowen
and
Helen Elardo; 3rd,
Ginny Rockefeller and
Beverly Bourne; 4th,
Bob
Bradish
and
Charles Clarke; 5th,
Ronald Landgraff and
Joseph Gaynor; 6th,
Gary Petrowski and
Joan Glenn.
The winners for Friday, May 2, were: 1st
N/S, Marilyn Waples
and Mark Robbins; 2nd
N/S, Joan Glenn and
Carol Meyers; 3rd N/S,
Joan Forchione and
Marie Offerman; 1st
E/W, Peggy Nielsen and
Bonny Letizia; 2nd
E/W, Irene Petroff and
Carol Jarboe; 3rd E/W,
Buki Burke and Peter
Klopp.
CRIMES
• Petty theft was reported in the 100 block
of North Arnaz Avenue
April 26.
• Hit-and-run driving
was reported on North
Montgomery
Street
May 1.
• Battery was reported
in the 300 block of
Prospect Street May 1.
• Burglary was reported in the 1700
block of Maricopa
Highway May 1.
• Trespassing was reported in the 500 block
of Drown Street May 2.
• Burglary was reported in the 300 block
of Drown Street May 3.
• Battery was reported
on Casitas Vista Road
May 4.
ARRESTS
• A 47-year-old woman
was arrested on Casitas
Vista Road April 26 on
suspicion of being
under the influence of
a controlled substance.
Bail was set at $5,000.
• A 55-year-old man
was arrested at Foster
Park
Campground
April 27 on a warrant
for failing to appear.
was arrested on Creek
Road April 30 on suspicion of being under the
influence of a controlled substance. Bail
was set at $5,000.
was arrested on North
Alvarado Avenue April
30 following a reported
domestic incident. Bail
was set at $20,000.
was
arrested
on
Taormina Lane April 30
for public intoxication.
was arrested on suspicion of possessing of
metal knuckles. Bail
was set at $10,000.
was arrested on North
Ventura Avenue May 1
on a warrant. Bail was
set at $20,000.
was arrested on Casitas
Vista Road May 1 on
suspicion of being
a controlled substance.
• A 42-year-old woman
was arrested on Montgomery Street May 2
on suspicion of driving
alcohol. Bail was set at
$10,000.
was arrested on Montgomery Street May 3
on a warrant for failing
to appear. Bail was set
at $2,500.
was
arrested
on
Crooked Palm Road
May 5 on suspicion of
being under the influence of a controlled
substance and possessing drug paraphernalia. Bail was set at
$7,500.
was arrested on South
Ventura Street May 5
on suspicion of being
a controlled substance. Bail was set at
$5,000.
was arrested on East
Ojai Avenue May 6 for
public intoxication.
was arrested on Mountain View Street May 6
on a warrant for violation of probation. Bail
was set at $5,000.
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Granny Flat:
Love4Heroes:
Continued from Page A1
attention of Ojai’s Community
Development
Department once more,
she said Herbruck sent a
CDD officer to the property informing Bautista
was not in compliance.
“The situation that you
have detailed … is an active code enforcement
case,” responded Community Development Director Kathleen Wold, “As
such we cannot comment on the specifics
other than to say it is an
open case.”
Purcell said after that,
Bautista sent her multiple emails and text messages
giving
contradictory dates by
which Purcell needed to
leave. The most recent of
these, she said, was a text
message sent one night
at the end of April informing Purcell she
needed to be out of her
flat by midnight on May
15.
“It’s turned into this
ugly, horrible thing,” said
Purcell. “The emotional
stress since January has
been unimaginable.”
For her part, Bautista
said her reasons for
telling Purcell to leave are
“more personal than
legal.” Bautista said she
does not need to give
Purcell a reason to vacate
at all, as their rental
agreement is month-tomonth, and the $740 per
month she charges Pur-
cell to live in the unpermitted structure goes toward paying her own
mortgage.
“We didn’t evict her
(Purcell). We gave her a
50-day notice to leave,
per our rental agreement,” said Bautista.
“We’re not well-off people ourselves, and we are
not slumlords … (that
unit has) been a happy
little home for the many
people who have lived
there.”
Purcell retained the
legal services of Sam
Galici, a Ventura lawyer,
in her suit against
Bautista. Galici disagrees
that Bautista has acted
well within her rights.
“The city has issued a
declaration that the
house has to be torn
down because it is substandard,” Galici states.
City officials claim they
cannot legally confirm or
deny this, or comment
on active code enforcement cases.
Galici explains typically when government
agencies declare a house
substandard, the landlord is required to relocate the tenant at the
landlord’s expense.
“To me, it’s very irregular that a landlord would
go to these lengths,” said
Galici. “To lord power
over someone with financial
disadvantage
makes no sense to me …
I don’t see this being resolved soon.”
Galici said there are
complications to this
case, such as the fact
that, as far as the law is
concerned, the unit
doesn’t officially exist,
and Bautista’s informal
correspondence
with
Purcell does not count as
an official eviction notice. Galici said he has
been in contact with
Bautista’s lawyer, Paul
Blatz, regarding upcoming summary proceedings for the case.
Blatz, a local lawyer
and Ojai City Council
member, has made rulings on Ojai’s Second
Unit Compliance Program. Galici said this
poses a “direct conflict of
interest” for Blatz, and
the council member
should recuse himself
from these issues when
they come before the
council.
“I can’t confirm or deny
that anyone is or is not
my client,” responded
Blatz. “You fly with your
story however you want
to fly with it.”
For both Purcell and
Bautista, underneath the
emotionally charged situation lies an economic
problem that is not going
away anytime soon.
Purcell feels backed
into a corner; she’s tried
to be a good tenant. Now,
thanks to the Second
Unit Compliance Program, she’s out of a place
to live and doesn’t see
many options.
“I want people to know
there are two sides to a
story,” said Purcell.
“What is there in Ojai for
me for affordable housing? What do we do?”
Similarly, Bautista said
the sheer expense of
bringing the unit “up to
code” has left her resigned to seeing the
building
demolished
next Thursday.
“It would cost $17,000
just to continue the
sewer service to the unit.
That’s an outrageous
amount!” Bautista said.
“Because of these laws,
we can’t get income from
the unit, and she (Purcell) doesn’t have a place
to stay. This (policy) is
biting people back. It’s
not working. At least reduce the sewer fee to
something people can
actually pay! I pay taxes
in Ojai. I’ve lived here 20
years. I would love to see
everyone taken care of.”
The city of Ojai does
not set sewer connection
fees. Those are established by the Ojai Valley
Sanitary District. They
were not contacted for
comment on this story.
Comment on
these reports at
www.ojaivalleynews.com
acquire nonprofit status.
“We want to try and bring
people together because
we recognize there are so
many people out there
who have the desire to
help, but may not know
how or where to start,”
Tremiti said.
Upon launching, the
biggest obstacle was
finding a way to create
each package without the
higher prices of namebrand prices. At first, it
was costing her about
$60 to fill one box, she
said.
Through couponing,
she’s now cutting that
cost nearly in half. Organizers will collect
coupons from daily
newspapers to get the
latest deals.
Michelle Smith, Tremiti’s mother who has lived
in Ojai more than 30
years, helps cut the
stacks of coupons they
collect; she has three
post office tubs filled
with uncut coupons. On
a good day of cutting,
Smith will spend about
five
hours
clipping
enough
individual
coupons to fill a medium
box.
“I wish my hands were
made of scissors,” Smith
said. “It’s my way of helping the guys.”
Even
the
expired
coupons are useful;
Love4Heroes ships those
coupons to service mem-
bers and families living
on military bases outside
of the United States, as
they accept and honor
coupons up to six
months after their expiration date.
Tremiti said that she
shops for a month’s supply of each type of toiletry or food item at a
time. The packages go to
soldiers stationed in
Afghanistan and troops
based overseas, including on military ships.
“Even if people choose
to be against the war, we
are there,” Smith said.
“And it’s our sons and
daughters and grandsons
and granddaughters.”
Sponsors can choose if
they want their package
to go to a male or female
active duty service person, and if they want to
include their contact information and a personal
message to encourage
staying in touch with the
service members they are
helping.
To make in-kind donations, residents can donate usable items that
would go toward filling
boxes, such as unused
toiletries, packaged foods
and easy-to-carry entertainment items, such as
travel games or crossword puzzle books.
Visit
www.love4
heroes.com for more information on how to donate to the project.
California's 5,579 Vietnam dead.
"Putting a face with a
name changes the whole
dynamic of the wall,"
Hoehn said. "It keeps
these soldiers alive and
will honor them. Our heroes’ stories and sacrifice
will never be forgotten."
She's had dozens of articles published throughout the state, and as
such, she said, "We get
new pictures every day."
About 34,000 photos
have been collected so
far, leaving 24,000 more
to go. The ultimate goal is
to place all of the photos
in the Vietnam Education
Center, which will be
built "hopefully in the
next two years," Hoehn
said.
"My plea is if anyone
has a photo, please email
(it) to me," Hoehn added.
"If they do not have a
photo (but) know the
family, or even know
what high school and
what year they graduated, that is so helpful."
Hoehn is still seeking
photos of the following
Ojai Valley area veterans:
• Ojai: Raymond L.
Bunch Jr. (born 1949,
died 1968) and Herman
R. Morris (born 1950,
died 1969)
• Casitas Springs:
George R. Roland (born
1944, died 1967)
• Santa Paula: Juan J.
Demara (born 1947, died
1968) and Willard F.
Payne (born 1944, died
1971)
Email photos, information and questions to
Hoehn at neverforgot
[email protected].
Visit
www.vvmf
.org/Wall-of-Faces
to
view the photos and information collected so
far, and to learn how to
get involved.
Vietnam:
searching for Crossman's
family members. "In the
event they were never
able to go to the wall, I
would send them the
etching, hoping they
would share a photo with
me of Gregory," Hoehn
said. While she was never
able to find any family
members, a cousin of
Hoehn's did unearth a
college photo of Crossman.
Two years later, Hoehn
read an article about the
Vietnam Wall of Faces
photo project, and sent
in Crossman's photo.
That led to her volunteering to find every one of
Maui County's 42 slain
soldiers.
After six months of
phone calls, newspaper
archives and dusty high
school yearbooks, she'd
accomplished her goal.
Then, on to the next task:
finding photos of all of
CORRECTION
Photo by Maureen Hannah
Ojai Valley gets 20 new trees
Ojai Trees volunteers planted 18 trees in 13 yards and two trees on city streets
May 2. The effort was part of Ojai Trees' "Touch the Earth" planting event. Above,
Ojai Trees volunteers welcome a liquidambar tree in a yard in Meiners Oaks.
Meiners Oaks Water District
NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING
Discussion of Drought Response Measures
Tuesday, June 3, 2014 at 6:30 PM
Meiners Oaks Elementary School
400 South Lomita Drive
Meiners Oaks, California
Despite rains in early March, the Ojai Valley is still in a drought. Meiners Oaks Water
District (MOWD) will hold a public meeting to discuss the steps we and our customers must take in response to a reduced water supply. MOWD’s board invites public comment of its Drought Contingency Plan. The plan, inclusive of public input, is
intended to be approved at the following board meeting.
It is too early to know whether our wells will go dry again this summer as they did
last fall, when we took 100% of our water from Lake Casitas for the first time in over
60 years. If our wells go dry again during a summer hot spell, we may experience a
water shortage. If our customers do not reduce water use by at least 20%, we may
need to shut off water to farms during peak periods and take other measures.
We have prepared a Drought Contingency Plan that discusses the steps Meiners
Oaks Water District will take in response to the drought.
Our draft Drought Contingency Plan is posted on our website:
www.meinersoakswater.org.
Please attend our public meeting if you would like to hear more, or if you have any
questions or comments. Or call our General Manager, Mike Hollebrands, at (805)
646-2114 for more information.
California Governor Jerry Brown has declared that California is in a drought
emergency.
The article on artist
Christine Brennan in
the Wednesday “Arts &
Entertainment” section did not give the
date for her open studio.
It will be open this
Saturday and Sunday
from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
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This Week
Friday, May 9
“CAROUSEL” AUDITIONS — The Ojai Art
Center Theater, 113 S.
Montgomery St., will continue auditions for its
summer production of
“Carousel,” today from 6 to
8 p.m. Directed by Tracey
Williams Sutton, the production will run from July
11 to Aug. 10. Many roles
are available including
singing, speaking and
dancing. Call producer
Herb Hemming with questions: 640-5814.
MUSIC AT IL GIARDINO
— Smitty and Julija perform Fridays from 6:30 to
9:30 p.m. at Il Giardino,
401 E. Ojai Ave. No cover
charge. Call 640-7381.
MEETING IN ETERNAL
SILENCE — with France’s
Yolande Duran-Serrano,
will be held today from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. and Saturday from 2 to 5 p.m. at
276 Running Ridge Trail,
Ojai. Seating is limited.
Call James for directions
and to RSVP: (240) 3939497. Carpool if possible.
BIRD SLIDE SHOW —
The Ojai Valley Land Conservancy, 370 W. Baldwin
Road, Building A-4, will
host Allen Bertke, photographer and Ventura
Audubon member, today
from 7 to 8:30 p.m., presenting a “Wild About
Ojai” slide show of resident and migratory birds
frequently seen in the Ojai
Valley. Call 649-6852, Ext.
2, for more details or reservations.
Saturday, May 10
KFA MAY GATHERING
— The Krishnamurti Foundation of America will host
its annual free May Gathering Saturday and Sunday
from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the
Krishnamurti Educational
Center, 1070 McAndrew
Road, Ojai. This year’s
theme is “Unconditioning.” The event features
workshops, programs,
music and art. Lunch is
available for purchase. For
full schedule or more information, call 646-2726 or
visit www.kfa.org.
BIRD WALK — The Ventura Audubon Society and
the Land Conservancy will
co-host a bird walk on Ojai
Meadows Preserve, next to
Nordhoff High School, Saturday at 8:30 a.m., led by
Allen Bertke (640-9037),
who will be joined by bird
expert Jesse Grantham, retired heaad of the USFW
Condor Recovery Program.
Meet at the entrance sign
on Maricopa Highway. Expect to see a wide variety
of species. Call 649-6852,
Ext. 2, for more details or
reservations.
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 lesson from
mindfulness teacher Gael
Belden. No experience is
necessary. Call 252-2448
for more information.
STAMP OUT HUNGER
DAY — Saturday is Stamp
Out Hunger Day, the
largest single-day food
drive of the year, hosted by
the U.S. Postal Service.
Mail carriers will pick up
donations of non-perishable, current food items
from your mailbox on May
10. The food bank at Help
of Ojai will receive the donations from Ojai Valley
residents.
“Saloon Singer”
Lola Haag
Entertains Saturday Night
MOTHER’S DAY
May 10th
at
IL Giardino’s
Italian
Restaurant
with Kent
Rollins on
Keyboards
and Tom
Etchart on
Bass
5:30 ‘til 8:30
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Corner of Ojai Ave & Montgomery St
Call for a great table 640-7381
Unsure what to give to your mother
for Mother's Day? Make her a potted
arrangement full of succulents,
houseplants, or any other colorful
flowers that she will enjoy!
We will be ordering fresh orchids
this week especially for Mother's
Day!
If she loves to garden and would
prefer to pick out plants herself, gift
certificates for any amount are available for purchase. If you come into Flora Gardens and
buy a pot and a plant to go with it for
Mother's Day this week (before
Mother's Day), then we will pot up
your gift for free!
245 Old Baldwin Rd. - Ojai (805) 640-0055 Web: floragardens.net
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GARDEN TOUR — The
Ojai Valley Chamber of
Commerce will hold its
20the annual Garden Tour
Saturday from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., featuring six private
Ojai Valley gardens. Tickets: $25 advance, $30 day
of the tour; available at
Flora Gardens (640-0055)
and the Chamber of Commerce (646-8126).
OPEN HOUSE AT
WHEELER GORGE —
Wheeler Gorge Visitor
Center, 17017 Maricopa
Highway, will celebrate its
10th anniversary with an
open house on Saturday
from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
There will be kids’ crafts,
plus lots of booths and live
animals and other surprises. Meet Pat Hartmann, author of “Yosemite
— One Last Golden Summer.” Call 382-9759.
OJAI VALLEY FAMILY
FESTIVAL— First Five-Ojai
Valley Neighborhood for
Learning will host its 14the
free annual Ojai Valley
Family Festival on Saturday from 10 a.m. to 1:30
p.m. at Libbey Park, featuring many family-friendly
activities: reptile show,
story time, face painting,
local dancers and musical
performances, games and
activities and local resources and agencies. Call
640-4300, Ext. 1062.
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 Cricket
Twichell will lead the May
10 tour. Cost is $5 or $15
per family. Drop-ins are
welcome. For reservations,
to schedule groups or
tours during the week, call
640-1390.
RECREATION OPEN
HOUSE — The Ojai Recreation Department, 510
Park Road at Sarzotti Park,
will host a free open house
Saturday from 11 a.m. to 3
p.m., featuring class
demonstrations, outdoor
activities, raffle prizes,
bounce houses, an open
game room, facility remodel tours and summer
registration kickoff. Call
646-5581, Ext. 390.
HERB WALK — A
Wheeler Gorge Nature
Trail Herb Walk with Ojai
herbalist-naturalist Lanny
Kaufer will be held Saturday from 11:30 a.m. to 1
p.m. at Wheeler Gorge Visitor Center’s open house.
Learn the many uses of
local wild plants for food,
medicine and more. Cost:
$10 adults, kids 5-12 free
with an adult. No dogs or
toddlers, please. Register
at www.HerbWalks.com or
call 646-6281.
“TRUTH IS ALL THAT
MATTERS” — The Ojai Retreat, 160 Besant Road, will
host John Sherman Saturday from 2 to 3:30 p.m.
talking about his journey
from revolutionary agitator in the ‘60s and ‘70s
through federal prison and
spirtual enlightenment to
true freedom by means of
an extremely simple act of
attention. He will answer
questions afterward. Admission is free (donations
accepted) and everyone is
welcome. Call 649-1600.
NEW CHORDETTES
AND FOUR PREPS CONCERTS — In celebration of
its 75th anniversary, the
Ojai Art Center, 113 S.
Montgomery St., will host
concerts by the New
Chordettes and the Four
Preps on Saturday at 2 and
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7 p.m. These nationally
known groups keep music
alive from a bygone era
and include local talent.
The New Chordettes are
Candace Delbo, Judi Duncan, Tracey Williams Sutton and Lindy Michaels.
The Four Preps are Bruce
Belland, Bob Duncan,
Mike Redmon and Skip
Taylor. Admission: $75 VIP
seating, $40 general, $15
students; tickets available
at 640-8797 or www.ojai
act.org.
MUSIC AT IL GIARDINO
— Ojai singer Lola Haag
will perform Saturday from
5:30 to 8:30 p.m. at Il Giardino, 401 E. Ojai Ave. Call
640-7381.
DANCES OF UNIVERSAL PEACE — A participational joyous meditative
circle dance using chants
from various traditions to
open the heart, form a
sense of community and
contribute to world peace,
will be held Saturday at
6:45 p.m. at Sacred Space
Studio, 410-A Bryant Circle. Call 701-1327 for information.
St., will hold a meeting of
its Literary Branch on
Monday at 7 p.m., hosted
by Tree Bernstein, with the
theme of “Distinctive Style
— Examples of Genre.”
The panel discussing the
inspiration of nuances of
genre writing will include:
Doc Murdock (war), Claudia Hoag McGarry
(thriller), Catherine Dain
(detective), and Katy Meigs
(historical novel). Freewill
donations are appreciated.
Call 646-0117.
TALK ON COMMUNITY
— The Ojai Retreat, 160
Besant Road, will host
Community Alive Development President Harold
Shapiro Monday at 7 p.m.,
giving a free talk on “Building Community from the
Inside Out.” He will explore practical, rather than
utopian, alternatives to the
traditional American selfcontained lifestyle, looking
at what we have already
done and where we still
need to go in bringing
about a sense of participation and belonging. Call
649-8551.
AUTO SHOW — Car enthusiasts of all kinds meet
the second Sunday of each
month from 8 to 10 a.m. in
the Starbucks parking lot
in Mira Monte. Come by
this Sunday and discuss
automobile trends and
other motoring subjects
with like-minded folks.
BMW, Audi, Corvette, Ferrari, Jaguar, Mopar,
Porsche, Shelby, electric,
unusual — all are welcome
to show or just come and
have a look. Starbucks is at
11484 N. Ventura Ave.
MOTHER’S DAY MUSIC
AND ART — Gallery 525,
525 W. El Roblar Drive, will
be open Sunday from 2 to
5 p.m., and at 3 p.m. Claudia Simone and Don Cardinali of Alas Latinas will
perform French and Latin
Americn songs, free of
charge. Call 798-0407.
MUSIC AT CASA BARRANCA — Pianist Kent
Rollins will perform Sunday from 2:30 to 5 p.m. at
Casa Barranca, 208 E. Ojai
Ave., 640-1255.
MUSIC CONCERT AT
KROTONA HALL— The
Theosophical Society in
the Ojai Valley will meet
Tuesday at 7 p.m. at Krotona Hall for a concert performance by five master of
fine arts students from the
Sunday, May 11
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California Institute of the
Arts in Los Angeles: Marilu
Donovan, Sharon Kim,
Stphanie Moorehouse,
Jerod Reetz and Christina
Ward. A special treat will
be an original composition
with a narration of quotes
from Krishnamurti. Donations will be appreciated.
Call 646-2653 for more details.
CITY COUNCIL MEETING — The Ojai City Council will meet Tuesday at 7
p.m. at City Hall, 401 S.
Ventura St.
Wednesday, May 14
OJAI VALLEY PARKINSON’S SUPPORT GROUP
— The Parkinson’s disease
free support group continues to meet the second
Wednesday of each month
from 1:30 to 3:30 p.m. at
Little House, 111 W. Santa
Ana St., and care partners
are also welcome. There
are always knowledgeable
people presenting good information. This Wednesday Clifton Gore, a local tai
chi master, will give a presentation how how to live
with some of the side effects. Call 646-4410.
“OPEN MIC NIGHT” —
Giorgio’s Pizza & Subs, 914
E. Ojai Ave. will host “Open
Mic Night” every Wednesday at 8 p.m. for poets,
singers, comedians, etc. All
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The Ojai Film Society will screen “Sweet Dreams,” a vibrant and touching documentary about an all-woman Rwandan drumming group, Sunday at 4:30 p.m.
at the Ojai Playhouse.
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Documentary drums up groundbreaking inspiration
The Ojai
Film Society
will
s c r e e n
“Sw e e t
Dreams”
( U S A Rwanda
2013) Sunday at 4:30 p.m. at the
Ojai Playhouse, 145 E.
Ojai Ave. This film is
not rated. Admission is
$10 for the general
public, $7 for seniors
(65 and older) and students (with full-time
student ID). Subscribers with valid
2014 identification will
be admitted to regular
Ojai Film Society
screenings free of
charge.
“Sweet Dreams” is
the story of Kiki
Katese, one of the few
people in crisis-torn
Africa who walks her
talk. Rather, she drums
her talk. Ten years after
the Rwandan geno-
cide, she founded the
groundbreaking allwomen’s drumming
group, Ingoma Nshya.
The group provides
self-expression,
friendship and emotional and physical
support for Hutu and
Tutsi women recovering from trauma.
Out of the blue,
Katese had an inspiration to start a business
to raise money to publicize the group’s performances and draw
attention to their good
work. The idea was to
start a network of ice
cream shops. Since
Rwanda has dairy and
honey industries —
milk,
cream
and
sweetener being the
basic ingredients of ice
cream — it was a viable idea. (Cold, the
fourth
ingredient,
would be harder to obtain.) She met with the
owners of Brooklyn,
N.Y.’s Blue Marble Ice
Cream shop, who
helped the group open
Rwanda’s first local
shop.
In “Sweet Dreams,”
sibling documentarians Lisa and Rob
Fruchtman combine
thrilling drumming
performances
with
footage of the group’s
courageous steps in
opening their shop.
While surmounting
massive difficulties,
the group has helped
countless Rwandan
women on the road to
recovery.
“The touching story
combined with the
marvelous performances and shimmering
costumes make this a
delightful film to
watch and a fine example of recovery from
the worst of circumstances.”
— Ron Wilkinson,
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Thursday, May 15
FOURTH OF JULY
PLANNING MEETING —
The Ojai Independence
Day Committee will meet
May 15 at 6:30 p.m. at Little House, 111 W. Santa
Ana St., Ojai, to plan for
the Fourth of July festivities. If you want to help,
just show up or call Nancy
Hill at 646-0076 for information.
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Local youths will perform "Disney's Mulan, Jr." tonight, Saturday and on select
dates through May 18 at OYES.
OYES students perform 'Disney's Mulan, Jr.'
Ojai Youth Entertainers Studio (OYES) premiered its all-student
production of “Disney’s
Mulan, Jr.” last night.
The production runs on
select dates through
May 18, including:
tonight at 7 p.m., Saturday at 1 and 4 p.m., May
14, 15 and 16 at 6 p.m.,
May 17 at 4 p.m. and
May 18 at 2 and 6 p.m.
OYES is a nonprofit
organization dedicated
to inspiring, educating
and entertaining children and families in the
Ojai Valley through the
experience of theater,
dance and music.
“OYES was inspired by
the need to make sure
that kids have access to
arts education,” said
artistic director Krista
Kim, “but the work we
do plays a beautiful role
in the entire Ojai Valley
community.”
OYES is seeking community support as its
kicks off its 2014 Spring
Fund Drive for $20,000
in 20 days. “It’s actually
about half of the funding the organization
needs annually to keep
the doors open and the
staff paid,” noted Kim.
Contact OYES at 6464300
or
www
.ojaiyes.org for more information and for tickets to “Disney’s Mulan,
Jr.”
OYES is at 316 E.
Matilija St.
PUBLIC MEETING NOTICE
CITY OF OJAI
BUDGET 2014-2015
The annual budget contains a number of important policy decisions that
will guide the activities of the City over the course of the coming year. The
following proposed schedule of meetings are to facilitate review and approval of the Budget. All meetings will begin as noted below and held in the
Council Chambers, 401 S. Ventura Street.
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May 13
May 27
June 10
June 17
June 26
Budget Introduction (7:00 p.m.)
Budget Workshop (6:00 p.m.)
Budget Hearing (6:00 p.m.)
Budget Workshop (if needed) (6:00 p.m.)
Adoption of Budget (7:00 p.m.)
NOTE: The subject’s and times listed above may change. Please contact
the city as it gets closer to the meeting dates.
Staff reports regarding this matter will be posted on the City’s website
along with agendas a minimum of five days before each meeting at
http://www.ci.ojai.ca.us. In addition, a complete copy of the proposed
Budget and proposed Fee Schedule and associated documents may also be
viewed on the City’s website or at city hall. The public is invited to attend
the meetings and provide testimony. Written comments may be delivered
to the City of Ojai City Clerk Department, 401 S. Ventura Street or mailed to
P.O. Box 1570, Ojai, CA 93024, and must be received on or before the scheduled meeting date.
If you have any questions please contact Rhonda Basore, City Clerk, 805646-5581x120 or [email protected].
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“EXPRESS YOURSELF”
— The Nordhoff High
School spring dance concert, “Express Yourself,”
will be held May 16 and 17
at 7 p.m. at Matilija Auditorium, 703 El Paseo Road,
Ojai. Visit
www.nhsdance.com for
more information and to
order your tickets: adults,
$12; seniors (60-plus), $10;
student-child, $7. The box
office opens at 6 p.m.both
nights, but advance ticket
purchases online are
strongly suggested.
“I OUGHT TO BE IN
PICTURES” — The Ojai Art
Center Theater, 113 S.
Montgomery St., will present Neil Simon’s popular
play, “I Ought to Be in Pictures,” May 16 to June 8,
with performances Fridays
and Saturdays at 8 p.m.
and Sundays at 7 p.m. Directed by Steve Grumette
and produced by Ezra
Eells, the production stars
Buddy Wilds, Kimberly
Demmary and Hayley Silvers. Tickets: $18 general,
$15 for students, seniors
and Art Center members;
go to www.ojaiact.org or
call 640-8797.
OJAI HISTORICAL
tours of downtown historical and cultural attractions). Docent Rose Boggs
will lead the May 17 tour.
Cost is $5 or $15 per family. Drop-ins are welcome.
For reservations, to schedule groups or tours during
the week, call 640-1390.
PEDDLERS’ FAIR — Ojai
Peddlers’ Fair will feature
antiques, collectibles,
crafts and clothing, May 17
and 18 from 9 a.m. to 4
p.m., at Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E. Ojai Ave., rain
or shine. Proceeds will
benefit Mira Monte Elementary School PTO.
“DESIGN WITH NATIVE
GARDENS” — Casitas Municipal Water District will
host a free workshop on
“Design with Native Gardens” on May 17 from 9
a.m. to noon at Oak View
Park and Resource Center,
555 Mahoney Ave. RSVP to
[email protected]
om or 649-2251, Ext. 118.
ERIC BURDON CONCERT — Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall
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and his band, The Animals, will perform in concert May 17 at Libbey
Bowl. Gates open at 5 p.m.
Santa Barbara’s band,
Dishwalla, and other musicians from the Ojai area,
will join in the festivities.
Ticket prices vary:
www.libbeybowl.org or
646-3117.
MUSIC AT CASA BARRANCA — Jazz singer
Kristin Lee will perform
May 18 from 2:30 to 5 p.m.
at Casa Barranca, 208 E.
Ojai Ave., 640-1255.
MUSIC AT AGAVE
MARIA’S — Ojai singer
Lola Haag will perform
May 18 from 5 to 8 p.m. at
Agave Maria’s, 106 S.
Montgomery St. Call 6466353.
SCHOOL DISTRICT
MEETING — A meeting
will be held to discuss the
Local Control Accountability Plan (LCAP) May 19 at
3:30 p.m. in the Ojai Unified School Distrct Board
Room, 414 E. Ojai Ave.
LCAP is a state program
that requires school districts to get input from
parents, students, teachers
and other local stakeholders, and allows for more
local control over how
state-supplied budget
funds are spent. For more
information see
www.ojai.k12.ca.us or call
640-4300.
“CONCERTO CONCERT” — The Ojai Youth
Symphony will present its
14th annual “Concerto
Concert” on May 19 at 7
p.m. at the Ojai Valley
Community Church, 907
El Centro St. The concert
will feature the winners of
the annual Concerto Competition; Maura Collins,
Rowan Gaddis, Maddy Offerman, Holly Radford and
Desirae Thomaier. Pieces
by composers Barber, Lalo,
Mendelssohn, Weber and
Faure will be performed.
Music from the films,
“Brave,” “Edward Scissorhands” and “Schindler’s
List” will also be featured.
The Ojai Youth Symphony
is comprised of three ensembles, and students
from age 6 to 18, directed
by Amy Hagen and Andy
Radford. Admission is $9;
students 18 and younger
admitted free. For information, call 8649-8086 or
visit www.ojaiyouthsymphony.org.
MAC MEETING — The
Ojai Valley Municipal Advisory Committee will hold a
meeting May 19 at 7 p.m.
at the Oak View Community Center, 18 Valley Road.
Among topics to be discussed is a Ventura County
Wireless Communication
Facilities Ordinance.
“OF WONDER AND
WAKING”— The Theosophical Society in the Ojai
Valley will meet May 20 at
7 p.m. at Krotona School.
Brian Axel will give a talk
on “Of Wonder and Waking.” Call 646-2653 for
more details.
“SHAMELESS SENSE
GRATIFICATION” — The
American Vedic Association Bhagavad-Gita As It Is
Fellowship will meet May
20 at 7:30 p.m. at 687 Villanova Road to discuss
“Shameless Sense Gratification.” Always free. Call
640-0405.
OAK GROVE SHOWCASE — Oak Grove School,
220 W. Lomita Ave., Ojai,
will host its free High
School Showcase May 23
from 7 to 9 p.m., featuring
music performances, student paintings, photographs, installations,
videos and ceramics at the
Pavilion Stage and Art
Building. Light refreshments will be served and
the community is welcome.
LIBRARY BOOK SALE —
The Ojai Library, 111 E.
Ojai Ave., will hold its annual Memorial Day weekend book sale, May 25, 25
and 26 from 10 a.m. to 5
p.m. in the patio and parking lot, featuring hundreds
of books, priced from 50
cents to $2. This is sponsored by Ojai Valley Library
Friends and Foundation
and its bookstore, Twice
Sold Tales.
OJAI HISTORICAL
tours of downtown historical and cultural attractions). Docent Elise
DePuydt will lead the May
24 tour. Cost is $5 or $15
per family. Drop-ins are
welcome. For reservations,
to schedule groups or
tours during the week, call
640-1390.
“BIRDS OF THE
WORLD” — Wheeler Gorge
Visitor Center, 17017 Maricopa Highway, will host
Erin Koski, director of Luzonica, on May 24 at 11
a.m. She will bring birds
from near and far and give
a presentation on “Birds of
the World.” Donations: $3
for adults, $2 for ages 5 to
18, younger than 5 admittted free. Cal 382-9759.
MEMORIAL DAY CELEBRATION — Libbey Bowl
will host a free Memorial
Day community celebration, May 26 from noon to
2 p.m., with the Ojai Valley
Veterans of Foreign Wars,
Post 11461, and others
participating.
“SCHOOL DAYS,
SCHOOL DAYS” — Hank
Bangser, superintendent of
the Ojai Unified School
District, will present “The
State of Ojai Schools” and
what students and parents
may look forward to with
the start of the fall semester to the Men’s Club on
May 27. He will be joined
by board member and former treasurer of the Ojai
Education Foundation,
club member Phil
Caruthers, who will provide insights in how the
OEF has contributed to the
success of our schools. The
Ojai Valley Retired Men’s
Club holds luncheon
meetings on the second
and fourth Tuesdays of
every month at 11:45 a.m.
in the Banquet Room at
Soule Park Golf Course.
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Featured letter by Maggie Cerminaro, Rotary Club of Ojai
Thank you to all of our community’s professionals who helped with event
A big thank-you to all of the local
professionals who gave their time,
talent and heart to spend the morning talking with the Nordhoff graduating class about their career
paths, sharing their experiences
and gifting seniors with firsthand
advice during the recent “Connecting with Career” event at Nordhoff
High School.
Made possible by a partnership
with the Rotary clubs of Ojai, the
Ojai Valley Youth Foundation, Greg
Bayless, principal of Nordhoff, and
especially through the dedication of
Nordhoff teacher Bronwen CullMichels, the vocational fair was a
great success with both our local
professionals and the Nordhoff seniors praising the event.
Plans are in the works to build on
this flagship program next year to
continue to provide senior students
support and mentorship from our
business community.
Participating professionals who
deserve our thanks include: Sunday
Rylander, Bret Bradigan, Kim
Maxwell, Malcolm McDowell, Peter
Bellwood, Andi Starr, Emy
Reynolds, Jacki Templeman, Matt
Locascio, Dave Brubaker, Carolyn
Vondriska, Erik Wilde, Nate Allen,
Danny Landis, Bryan Carreon, Greg
Lindsay, Gil Vondriska, Chad
Carper, Jessica Thompson, Lance
Wiggins, Nancy Villegas, Haady
Lashkari, Dr. Bruce Brockman, Jeanine Murphy, Dierdra Daly, Betsey
Smith, Severo Lara, Larry Beckett,
Jim Bailey, Christine Denney, Stacy
Potter, Marde Godtel, Nancy
Radding, Liz Wareham, Cassie
Dunn, Gillian Coleman, Kelly
Hilmer, Elizabeth Horton, Austen
Collins, Suzanne Feldman and Brittney Simonds.
A hearty thank-you to all!
LETTERS TO THE E DITOR
Art events are
worth your time
SONI WRIGHT, OJAI
Congratulations to
the Ojai Valley Museum and to the Ojai
Studio Artists for the
new Saturday morning
presentations.
This morning’s talks
by artists Shahastra,
Gayel Childress and
Richard Amend were
stimulating and informative. And all the
artists who present in
the morning sessions
have open studios in
the afternoon. These
presentations will continue throughout the
OSA “Rejuvenation”
exhibition into midJune.
Our community of
Ojai is known for our
diverse cultural climate — and this
unique art experience
at the museum is a
prime example. OSA
artists will discuss
their art each Saturday
morning from 11 a.m.
to noon during the
next month. It will be
well worth your time
to attend!
Can we support
two golf courses?
STEPHANIE WASHBURN, OJAI
I pass by Soule Park
Send your opinions to [email protected]
ture garden). The task
rally found on the
peace from its inherto drop my son off at
land. This is a simple
ently pristine nature. I
child care. Each morn- of getting basic infrastructure on the land
and easy way for us to
ing, at 9 a.m., their
have always intuitively
in a way that balances
proceed at this time.
sprinklers have been
known Matilija doesn’t
impact, sustainability
We appreciate everyblasting, pumping
need its hand to be
and making it a safe
one’s support and their held by any human or
water out to basically
place to visit has been
comments. We conevaporate in the 90organization outside of
massively complex. It
tinue to evolve with
degree heat. This is
the reverence and rehas taken us considerthe process and it is a
both stupid and also
spect we should alcompletely irresponsi- ably longer then we ex- major learning journey ways offer such a
pected and we are still
for all involved. Our
ble behavior. At the
powerful and majestic
working through many plan is to focus excluvery least, Soule Park
place.
sively on the short
should be watering be- logistics which need
Years ago, I made an
fore daylight and using more time than we had term of putting water,
inner
promise/prayer
hoped for.
power and visitation
reclaimed water.
that
I
would
fight to
We feel that we have
systems in place which
It’s also high time our
protect
the
wild
and
allow the community
not be able to effeccommunity started to
pristine
part
of
Matilija
to visit the land in a
tively communicate
question whether we
Canyon, and to oppose
safe responsible way.
can really support two the vision for Omage
all forms of exploitaWe thank you for
and that it has been ingolf courses draining
tion. It seems that I am
your
patience
and
supterpreted as a massive
our aquifers — and to
port.
now being called to
open up a broader and set of “Burning Man”
very serious conversa- installations, which
task. And I am making
tion about water use
understandably cona plea to Gunnar
The experience
and investing in reuse
cerns people. That was
Lovelace and Ecotopia
shouldn’t be sold to leave Matilija
systems. We should
never the interest or
prioritize this limited
intention, and if anyChris Jones, Matilija Canyon
and/or become inresource for drinking,
thing, we are aiming to
volved in a more pubI have spent many
growing food and
bring artistic elements years living and hiking lic stewardship option
maintaining water
to the project which
to allow the land to rein and around Matilija
supplies for future
encourage interactivity Canyon. I have meanally “rest.” Matilija
generations. Let’s all
and appreciation of
dered
through
many
of
Canyon and its hot
step up and do our
the land. More to the
its
wild
isolated
slopes
springs does not need
part.
point, it has been over- and side canyons gathEcotopia to improve
reach for us to even try ering strength and
upon something that is
We are reining in to facilitate this, when
are still struggling
our canyon plan we
with the most basic asECOTOPIA, MATILIJA CANYON
pects of opening the
land again to safe and
After a recent deresponsible usage.
tailed internal review
Funds that have been
of the tasks required
donated to Omage to
for us to effectively
date will be used on a
manage this project,
couple of much
we have realized we
smaller art installaneed to rein in all
other projects (includ- tions which focus on
using materials natuing the Omage sculp-
near perfect. I feel this
group of people will
only seek to exploit
and expose its ecosystem to individuals that
are always willing to
buy an experience.
Currently I live in
Matilija Canyon with
my family, but am
planning to move outside of the area in the
near future. Our reason for leaving, partly
comes from deeply understanding how the
canyon is a place to
visit and not to permanently dwell. I have always found it to be my
sanctuary — perfect in
form — just as it is.
And as someone who
has witnessed the
power of Matilija in the
form of 93 inches of
rain in a three-month
period, I understand
that she is ultimately
in charge of her own
purification, and that
my protests are merely
a feeble gesture in
comparison.
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Perspectives
OJAI VALLEY HIKING TRAILS
PERRY VAN HOUTEN
Do go chasing these Ojai waterfalls
Even in a drought
you’ll usually find water
in these Ojai backcountry waterfalls, although
perhaps not the amount
depicted in the photos.
Spring is a great time to
visit, since flow is up,
temperatures are down,
and the bugs are not too
numerous. Three of the
falls are in the Rose Valley area; the other is located farther north off
Highway 33. The hikes
range from easy to difficult.
• Rose Valley Falls
A short, pleasant hike
to the most accessible
Ojai Valley waterfall, the
route makes a couple of
easy creek crossings before starting the gentle
climb to the falls. The
water flows down a 300foot sandstone cliff. Do
not climb above the falls
as the “routes” are extremely unsafe.
Take Highway 33 north
from Ojai about 15 miles
to the Rose Valley Recreation Area turnoff. Three
miles up on the right is
the road to Rose Valley
Campground, where the
signed trail begins. There
are rest rooms here, but
bring all your own drinking water.
• East Fork Lion
Canyon Falls
Both Lion Canyon waterfalls can be accessed
from Middle Lion Campground in Rose Valley.
From the camp, cross
Lion Creek and hike upcanyon about two miles
to a lovely meadow,
where the trail splits
three ways. The left- and
right-hand forks lead to
camps and waterfalls;
the middle fork continues to Nordhoff Ridge.
Take the left-hand fork
for the East Fork Lion
Canyon Falls, just inside
the 220,000 acre Sespe
Wilderness.
Pass
through a camp and arrive at the waterfall at
about two and a half
miles. Both the east and
west fork falls flow over
an impressive display of
cobblestone conglomerate.
• West Fork Lion
Canyon Falls
At the three-way split
in the meadow described above, take the
right-hand fork and
walk less than a half
mile, past the camp to
the falls. The water flows
down a curved chute
carved into the rock,
into an inviting pool
below.
For
Middle
Lion
Campground,
take
Highway 33 to Rose Valley Road and drive five
miles to a narrow road
on the right that descends for about one
mile into Lion Canyon.
There is no water here,
but rest rooms are available. Both Lion Canyon
hikes are rated easy to
moderate.
• Potrero John Falls
The first part of this
roughly six-mile round
trip is on a flat, easy trail;
for the second part,
there is no trail. Make
your first trek to the falls
with someone who
knows the way, and expect plenty of bushwhacking and boulder
hopping.
The signed Potrero
John Trailhead is located
21 miles north of Ojai on
Highway 33. There are
no facilities here. The
trail deteriorates soon
after a camp at onepoint-six miles, and you
have no choice but to
head upstream along
the creek. The falls appear at about three
miles — a beautiful 75foot double-dipper.
Photos by Perry Van Houten
East Fork Lion Canyon Falls can be accessed from Middle Lion campground in Rose
Valley.
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West Fork Lion Canyon Falls can be found less than a half mile from camp.
Sports
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Gemma Quackenbush and
Mustangs remain unbeaten
lost in the super tieOjai Valley News contributor breaker.
The Koalas improved
Gemma Quackenbush to 6-2 as they beached
and the Mustangs are the Blue Whales, 17-10.
one match short of a Winning for the Koalas
perfect regular season w e r e A n d r e w R a p p ,
as they galloped over Jules Thompson, and
Federoff.
the Jade Leprechaun Aidan
Tortles, 18-8, in Junior Pegasus, with a 6-0 win
T e a m T e n n i s a c t i o n . in the final doubles set
Last season, she was from Derry and Mia
dropped
team captain of the Brooks,
league-winning Winnie Platypi, 13-10.
The Penguins enjoyed
the Poohs.
The Tortles jumped t h e i r f i r s t w i n o f t h e
into the early lead as season as they iced the
J u s t i c e M a r t i n a n d Irish Wolfhounds, 19C l a i r e Q u a c k e n b u s h 18. Wins from Penguins
Adelman,
took the opening Claudia
doubles, 6-3. Singles A d r i a n O c o n e , a n d
wins from Gemma Rosie Quackenbush
Q u a c k e n b u s h , R y a n built up a lead, but the
Z i n , a n d E l i z a b e t h Hounds came back with
R u s s e l l b r o u g h t t h e Charlie Coughlin and
Mustangs right back, Elias Simon taking the
and a 6-0 doubles win doubles 6-4, then won
three straight in the
clinched the victory.
The Flying Lemurs super tiebreaker. Rosie
and
were defeated by the Q u a c k e n b u s h
Komodo Dragons, and Adelman won the final
have dropped their lead game by a single point
in the even division to a to decide the match.
The Mustangs have
single game. Ray Mills
and Victor Becker led everything clinched in
the Dragons with a 6-4 the odd division with an
doubles win, and Ben 8-0 record. The Koalas
Mitchell added a singles a r e 6 - 2 , f o l l o w e d b y
win. Max Mendoza and P e g a s u s a t 5 - 3 , t h e
Rachel Quackenbush W h a l e s a t 4 - 4 , a n d
came back with a 6-4 P l a t y p i a t 2 - 6 . T h e
doubles win, but then Lemurs lead the even
Rick Thompson
Photo by Perry Laskaris
LeSuer earns Player of the Week honors
Former Nordhoff baseball player Tim LeSuer was recently named the Division
III Upstate Player of the Week at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. The junior
third baseman helped the Engineers to a 6-0 record on the week. Over those
six games he hit .545; going 12 of 22 while scoring nine runs, accumulating 10
runs batted in and he stole for bases for good measure. So far this season,
LeSuer is batting a team-high .435 and he has knocked in 29 batters. The
former Ranger also started every game of the season. The Engineers finished
their regular season with a 23-12 record and went 12-9 in Liberty League play.
division at 5-3, followed
by the Tortles and
Dragons at 4-4, and the
Penguins and Hounds
are
1-7.
JTT
is
sponsored by the Ojai
Valley Tennis Club.
In Adult World Team
Tennis, the regular
season came to a close
with Old Style Earth
spinning Venus Ale, 3421. Earth took every set
with wins from John
Bourgouin, Fred Line,
Derry Brooks, Robin
Neumann, and Janet
Lawry. The Pilsner
Putonians upset the
dimming Blue Moon,
29-21,
as
Kenna
Thomas and Celeste
Manolas provided a key
8-1 doubles win. Pabst
Blue Neptune ended
the season a perfect 7-0
with a 25-17 win over
Jupiter Light. Luke
Sommer, Guy Ring,
Karen Matthews and
Jackie
Francis
dominated the doubles
for the Neptunes.
The Neptunes will
face Old Style Earth for
the championship on
today. Venus Ale and
Blue Moon battle for
the
third-place
trophies, while Jupiter
Light
and
the
Plutonians play for fifth.
UK soccer camp
coming to Ojai
The Ojai Valley School
(OVS) is set to stage its
own
international
summer event right here
in the Ojai Valley. OVS
will
host
U.K.
International Soccer
Camps, Aug. 3 to 8. U.K.
International Soccer
Camps staff members
are predominantly from
the United Kingdom and
other
European
countries.
Program liaison Adam
Smith said, “Soccer is
truly a global event and
this year we have staff
from over 17 nations.
Combining
their
international passion for
soccer and cultural
perspective, along with
our specialized training,
creates a very unique
and dynamic camp
program, which goes far
beyond the soccer field.”
All players ages 4 to 18
years old are welcome to
attend the week-long
program.
For more information
visit www.uksoccer.com
or call (855) UKSOCCER.
Photo by Holly Roberts
Lady Rangers fall to Fillmore Flashes
Photo submitted
The Ojai Valley School will host an international soccer
camp in August. The camp will have staff members
from 17 different nations.
Nordhoff senior Kaylin Wade (right) stretches out for a throw to first base against the Fillmore Flashes last
Tuesday afternoon. Fillmore went on to defeat the Lady Rangers in a key Tri-Valley League contest. The
Lady Rangers are fighting to qualify for the postseason and will face La Reina and Oak Park next week to
finish their regular season.
Sundowner Golf League wraps up week two of season
Golfers took to the Soule
Park Golf Course this past
Tuesday for the second week
of play in the Sundowners
Golf League. The conditions
were once again windy, and
the higher-than-normal
scores reflected the tough
playing conditions.
Chiefs IE were able to
retain their lead over the field
after scoring 58 points on the
week. They were led by
James Casey's even par-36
for 22 points and RJ Cutting's
44 for 19 points. Chiefs IE
currently sit atop the
standings with 121 points. In
second place with 114 points
sits That's Good, Pick It Up.
Despite only having three
players this week they put up
53 points, behind Pete
Bonsigniori's 19 points on
the day.
The #$&@^% put up the
highest team total of week
three, scoring 61 points to
rocket themselves into third
place with 112 points. Steve
Rapholz, Victor Logan, and
Craig Dzukola all scored over
20 points on the week. Five
Blind Mice are in the fourth
position with 110 points after
receiving 20 points from
Charlie Casey's gross 39. Two
teams are tied for fifth with
109 points, including Millie's
Duffers and Bugsy's Bandits.
Millie's received 20 points
from Mike Montano and
Bugsy's saw Marc Sauer
score an impressive 21
points.
Low gross score on the
week went to Chris Harvey
and Casey with even par
rounds of 36. Skins in the A
Flight went to Casey, Harvey,
and Wiksell. The only B
Flight skin was won by
Montano. The C Flight skins
went to Jim Nelson, Erik
Wachter, and Gene Berban.
The Sundowners resume play
next week.
Sundowner
League
Standings: Chiefs IE (121),
That's Good Pick It Up (114),
$^#@*^@# (112), Five Blind
Mice (110), Millie's Duffers
(109), Bugsy's Bandits (109),
JL's Junkyard (108), Parker's
Putters (108), Weapons of
Grass Destruction (106), Your
Handicap's What? (105),
Soule Park Hookers (104),
Hut Putters (100), Geezers
(99), and Scramblers (90).
“You’re the real MVP.”
— NBA Most Valuable Player Kevin Durant, to his mother during his acceptance speech.
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MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 04/09/2014
THE FOLLOWING
PERSON(S) IS (ARE)
DOING BUSINESS AS:
(1st Fictitious Business
Name) Ojai Stitchworks
Street Address of
Principal Place of Business
(P.O. Box or PMB not
acceptable):
410-E Bryant Circle, Ojai,
CA 93023
County of Principal Place
of Business: Ventura
Full name of 1st
Registrant
Individual/Corporation/Lim
ited Liability Company:
Chelsea Vivian
Residence Address of 1st
Registrant (P.O. Box or
PMB not acceptable):
504 B West Aliso Street,
Ojai, CA 93023
This Business is
conducted by: An
Individual
The registrant
commenced to transact
business under the fictitious
business name or names
listed above on 4/5/14.
I declare that all
information in this
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Section 17913 of Business
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the registrant knows to be
false is guilty of a
misdemeanor punishable by
a fine not to exceed one
thousand dollars ($1,000).)
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/s/CHELSEA VIVIAN
NOTICE – In accordance
with subdivision (a) of
Section 17920, a fictitious
name statement generally
expires at the end of five
years from the date on
which it was filed in the
office of the county clerk,
except, as provided in
subdivision section 17920,
where it expires 40 days
after any change in the
facts set forth in the
statement pursuant to
section 17913 other than a
change in residence address
or registered owner. A new
fictitious business name
statement must be filed
before the expiration. The
filing of this statement does
not of itself authorize the
use in this state of a
fictitious business name in
violation of the rights of
another under Federal,
State, or Common Law (see
section 14411 ET SEQ.,
Business and Professions
Code).
This statement was filed
with the County Clerk of
Ventura on the date
indicated by the file stamp
above.
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Published Ojai Valley News
April 25, 2014
May 2, 9 & 16, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 2014041110006141-0 1/1
Ventura County Clerk and
Recorder
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 04/11/2014
THE FOLLOWING
PERSON(S) IS (ARE)
DOING BUSINESS AS:
Name) Renagade Cycles
Street Address of
acceptable):
309 south Bryant st., Ojai,
CA 93023
Full name of 1st
Registrant
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Ventura on the date
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May 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 2014040210005492-0 1/1
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DOING BUSINESS AS:
Name) Epic Tastery
Personal Chef Service
Street Address of
acceptable):
722 Empire Avenue,
Ventura, CA 93003
Full name of 1st
Registrant
Natasha Riviere
722 Empire Avenue,
Ventura, CA 93003
This Business is
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May 2, 9, 16 & 23, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 2014042110006755-0 1/1
Recorder
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 04/21/2014
THE FOLLOWING
PERSON(S) IS (ARE)
DOING BUSINESS AS:
Name) The Bow Tie
Express
Street Address of
acceptable):
802 Sunset Place, Ojai, CA
93023
County
Full name of 1st
Registrant
Anna Shook
802 Sunset Place, Ojai, CA
93023
Full name of 2nd
Registrant
Tim Fitzgerald
Residence Address of 2nd
211 Bryant St., Ojai, CA
93023
This Business is
conducted by: A General
Partnership
The registrant
I declare that all
information in this
correct.
Anna Shook
/s/ANNA SHOOK
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Ventura on the date
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OVN05-08-2014
May 9, 16 & 23, 2014
ASAP #4457793
NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S
SALE T.S. No.: 13-12443
Loan No.: 7000009538
A.P.N.: 035-0-080-475
NOTE: THERE IS A
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SUMMARY OF THE
INFORMATION IN THIS
DOCUMENT ATTACHED
PURSUANT TO CIVIL
CODE Section 2923.3(a),
THE SUMMARY OF
INFORMATION
REFERRED TO ABOVE
IS NOT ATTACHED TO
THE RECORDED COPY
OF THIS DOCUMENT
BUT ONLY TO THE
COPIES PROVIDED TO
THE TRUSTOR. YOU
ARE IN DEFAULT
UNDER A DEED OF
TRUST DATED 6/1/2005.
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 drawn on a
state or national bank,
check drawn by a state or
federal credit union, or a
check drawn by a state or
federal savings and loan
association, or savings
association, or savings bank
specified in Section 5102 of
the 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
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OVN04-12-2014
April 18 & 25, 2014
May 2 & 9, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 2014041410006327-0 1/1
Recorder
MARK A. LUNN
File Date: 04/14/2014
THE FOLLOWING
PERSON(S) IS (ARE)
DOING BUSINESS AS:
Name) CJ Wilson Mazda of
Ventura
Street Address of
acceptable):
6500 Auto Center Drive,
Ventura, CA 93003
State of Incorporation/
Organization: CA
Full name of 1st
Registrant
CJWMV Corp.
4350 Executive Drive,
Suite 320, San Diego, CA
92121
This Business is
conducted by: A
Corporation
The registrant
I declare that all
information in this
correct.
CJWMV Corp.
/s/CHRISTOPHER JOHN
WILSON
Christopher John Wilson
President
Code).
Ventura on the date
above.
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OVN04-13-2014
April 25, 2014
May 2, 9 & 16, 2014
FICTITIOUS BUSINESS
NAME STATEMENT
File Number 2014040910006027-0 1/1
Recorder
hereinafter described
property under and
pursuant to a Deed of Trust
described below. The sale
will be made, 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.
BENEFICIARY MAY
ELECT TO BID LESS
THAN THE TOTAL
AMOUNT DUE. Trustor:
CHARLES LARRY
WILLETT, AN
UNMARRIED MAN Duly
Appointed Trustee:
Carrington Foreclosure
Services, LLC Recorded
6/17/2005 as Instrument
No. 20050617-0147691 in
book , page of Official
Records in the office of the
Recorder of Ventura
County, California,
Described as follows: As
more fully described on
said Deed of Trust. Date of
Sale: 6/2/2014 at 11:00 AM
Continued on Page B4
OJAI VALLEY NEWS
GARAGE SALE MAP
Rain
Check!
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8
4
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6 7
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10
3
2
#1
8270 EDISON DR.
Casitas Springs. Sat.,
7:30-1, clothing, baby
items, kitchen items,
small tables,
knickknacks &
collectables, off-road
truck parts & more.
Hwy. 33 to Sycamore
Dr. to Edison Dr. in
Casitas Springs
#6
1
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345 S. LOMITA AVE.
Sat., 8-4 & Sun., 8-3.
Furniture, household
& outdoor items, a
variety of goods.
Cleaning out the
house & garage with
more goodies as we
go!
Maricopa Hwy. to
El Roblar to
S. Lomita Ave.
If there is
measurable rain on
the day of your
sale, the Ojai Valley
News will run your
ad again the
following week at
no charge.
12
11
#2
#3
#4
#5
700 W. VILLANOVA
RD. #16. Sat. 8-2.
Estate sale.
Furniture, garden
equipment, kitchen
items, etc.
1273 & 1225 S. RICE
RD. Sat., 8-3. Golden
Oaks & El Sereno
MHP. Map of participating spaces at entrance. Multiple
homes, 1 location!
Furn., appliances,
antiques, vintage
items, X-mas,
electronics,
tools, CDs, books,
plants, jewelry, R.D.
china, western,
linens, bike.
1255 AVILA DR.
Sat., 9-5. Massarella
Pottery is moving to
Santa Fe. Patio &
home furniture, 1”
bamboo fencing
poles, surfboard,
desk, assorted home
items & pottery.
811 CAMILLE CT.
Sat., 8-2. Multi-family
yard sale, children’s
items, household
items & more.
Hwy. 33 to Villanova
Rd. to Old Grade Rd.
(Park on Old Grade
Rd.)
#7
133 EL CAMINO DR.
Sat. & Sun. 9-4. Moving to Africa garage
sale. Ethic clothes,
jewelry & household
items, antiques, surf
& ski stuff, free lemonade. Also taking
donations to woman’s
center: old but working
cell phones, laptops,
tablets, children’s
clothes, books,
videos, art supplies,
meds., 1st aid,
camping equip.,
organic seeds & solar
lamps.
Hwy 33 to Maricopa
Hwy. to El Roblar to S.
Lomita Ave to El
Camino Dr.
Please help keep Ojai beautiful.
Take down your signs when your
sale is over.
Hwy. 33 to Baldwin Rd.
(Hwy. 150) to Rice Rd.
#8
240 N. PADRE JUAN
Sat., 9-3. Furniture,
misc. household
goods, tools & more.
Maricopa Hwy. to
E. El Roblar Dr. to
N. Padre Juan.
to S. Rice Rd. to Alviria
Dr. to Moreno Dr.
to Avila Dr.
#9
300 EL CONEJO DR.
Sat., 8-2. Two family
sale. Clothing, shoes,
furniture, records, lots
of household items,
books, knickknacks
& lots of misc.
#10
105 E. TOPA TOPA
ST. Sat., 8-1. 7 family
sale! Household,
clothing, jewelry,
antiques, furn., books,
toys/kids, home
school, grill, hot dogs.
Wesleyan Church
parking lot, corner of
Topa Topa & Ventura.
Ojai Ave. to
Topa Topa St.
Maricopa Hwy. to
N. Lomita Ave. to
El Conejo Dr.
#13
#11
#12
134 OAK GLEN
AVE. Sat., 8-1. Patio
furniture, many
beautiful items,
household items, must
see!
802 MERCER AVE.
Sat., 8-2. New & used
furniture & household
items.
E. Ojai Ave. to
Oak Glen Ave.
to Rice Rd. to Camille
Dr. to Camille Ct.
E. Ojai Ave. to Shady
Ln. to Grand Ave. to
Mercer Ave.
1109 DEL PRADO
CT. Sat., 7:30-11.
Decorating items, furniture, bedding, pillows,
drapes, hardware,
chandelier,
knickknacks, small
appliances, folding
chairs, household,
garden, beauty &
garage items, etc.
E. Ojai Ave. to Golden
West to Del Prado Ct.
Legals
Continued from
Page B3
Place of Sale: At the main
entrance to the Government
Center Hall of Justice, 800
South Victoria Avenue,
Ventura, California Amount
of unpaid balance and other
charges: $469,918.40 (Estimated) Street Address or
other common designation
of real property: 8228 SULPHUR MT. RD OJAI, CA
93023 A.P.N.: 035-0-080475 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 to the beneficiary
within 10 days of the date
of first publication of this
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 suc-
cessful bidder shall have no
further recourse. If the sale
is set aside for any reason,
the Purchaser at the sale
shall be entitled only to a
return of the deposit paid.
The Purchaser shall have no
further recourse against the
Mortgagor, the Mortgagee,
or the Mortgagee’s Attorney. If you have previously
been discharged through
bankruptcy, you may have
been released of personal liability for this loan in
which case this letter is intended to exercise the note
holder’s rights against the
real property only. THIS
NOTICE IS SENT FOR
THE PURPOSE OF COLLECTING A DEBT. THIS
FIRM IS ATTEMPTING
TO COLLECT A DEBT
ON BEHALF OF THE
HOLDER AND OWNER
OF THE NOTE. ANY INFORMATION OBTAINED
BY OR PROVIDED TO
THIS FIRM OR THE
CREDITOR WILL BE
USED FOR THAT PURPOSE. As required by law,
you are hereby notified that
a negative credit report reflecting on your credit
record may be submitted to
a credit report agency if you
fail to fulfill the terms of
your credit obligations.
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 the county
recorder’s office or a 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 mortgagee, beneficiary,
trustee, or a 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.lpsasap.com,
using the file number assigned to this case 1312443. Information about
postponements that are very
short in duration or that
occur close in time to the
scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in
the telephone information
or on the Internet Web site.
The best way to verify postponement information is to
attend the scheduled sale.
Date: 05/05/2014 Carrington Foreclosure Services,
LLC 1610 E. Saint Andrew
Pl., Suite 150F Santa Ana,
CA 92705 Automated Sale
Information: (714) 730-
2727 or www.lpsasap.com
for NON-SALE information: 888-313-1969 Shirley
Best, Trustee Sale Specialist A-4457793 05/09/2014,
05/16/2014, 05/23/2014
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OVN05-09-2014
Published Ojai Valley
News
May 9, 2014
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
OJAI PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the City of
Ojai Planning Commission
will hold a public hearing
on the following item on
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
at 6:00 p.m. in the Council
Chambers of Ojai City Hall,
401 S. Ventura Street, Ojai,
California. Any interested
party may appear before
said Commission and present their views.
Conditional Use Permit
(CUP 14-01) and Design
Review Permit (DRP 1405) for a change of use
from an auto dealership to a
micro winery, Topa Mountain Winery, located at 821
W. Ojai Avenue, Ojai, Assessor’s Parcel Number:
024-0-020-100. The General Plan Land Use designation of the site is General
Commercial (GC) and Zoning classification is General
Commercial (C-1). A Categorical Exemption has been
prepared pursuant to the
California Environmental
Quality Act. Property
Owner: Larry Guerra, Topa
Mountain Winery. Applicant: Steven Foster, Architect, Cornerstone
Architects.
Further information about
this matter is available from
the Community Development Department at 401
South Ventura Street, Monday through Friday from
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or
by calling (805) 646-5581
x112. Anyone who seeks to
challenge the decision of
the Planning Commission
with respect to this public
hearing item may appeal to
the City Council. Appeals
shall be in writing on a
form obtained by the City
Clerk within 15 days following the date of the final
action for which an appeal
is made.
May 5, 2014
/s/HEATHER
WALDSTEIN
Heather Waldstein, Assistant Planner
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OVN05-10-2014
Published Ojai Valley
News
May 9, 2014
PUBLIC HEARING NOTICE
OJAI PLANNING COMMISSION
NOTICE IS HEREBY
GIVEN that the City of
Ojai Planning Commission
will hold a public hearing
on the following item on
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
at 6:00 p.m. in the Council
Chambers of Ojai City Hall,
401 S. Ventura Street, Ojai,
California. Any interested
party may appear before
said Commission and present their views.
Design Review Permit
(DRP 13-17) for a lighting
plan to allow Tivoli lights
at the Emerald Iguana Inn
at 108 Pauline Street, Ojai,
Assessor’s Parcel Number:
021-0-031-160. The General Plan Land Use Designation of the site is Medium
High Density Residential
(MHR) and the Zoning
Classification of the site is
Multi-family residential,
Medium High Density (R2). A Categorical Exemption has been prepared
pursuant to the California
Environmental Quality Act.
Property Owner: Iguana
Land Company LLC. Applicant: Marc and Julia
Whitman.
Further information about
this matter is available from
the Community Development Department at 401
South Ventura Street, Monday through Friday from
8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., or
by calling (805) 646-5581
x112. Anyone who seeks to
challenge the decision of
the Planning Commission
with respect to this public
hearing item may appeal to
the City Council. Appeals
shall be in writing on a
form obtained by the City
Clerk within 15 days following the date of the final
action for which an appeal
is made.
May 6, 2014
/s/KATHLEEN WOLD
Kathleen Wold, Community Development Director
Email public
notices to:
[email protected]
or by fax:
646-4281
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Medicinal herb expert joins Kaufer on herb walk
Join Ojai herbalistnaturalist Lanny Kaufer
and his special guest,
James Adams, Ph.D., of
the USC School of Pharmacy, May 18 on the
Horn Canyon Trail as
they identify wild plants
in riparian and chaparral habitats and discuss
their indigenous and
modern medicinal uses.
This will be a slowpaced walk of about one
and a half miles on a
mostly level trail with
gradual elevation gain.
The trail crosses Horn
Creek which will provide the plants of the riparian
(creekside)
habitat. This walk is
suitable for hikers of all
levels of ability who are
capable of walking that
distance and standing
for periods of time.
Adams
brings
a
wealth of knowledge
and experience as well
as a unique perspective
on herbal medicine. He
is the co-author — with
the late Chumash healer
Cecilia Garcia — of the
groundbreaking book,
Photo by Keith Farrar
James Adams, Ph.D., (left) is shown with Lanny Kaufer at a medicinal plant walk last year.
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Plants of the West: Cultural and Scientific
Basis for Their Use.” As
an associate professor
of pharmacology, he has
been teaching phar-
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In addition to their
book, they wrote almost
30 journal articles together. The new third
edition of their book is
now in print and Adams
will have copies with
him to sell and sign.
On his personal connection to traditional
healing
practices,
Adams says, “My family
came to Virginia in 1635
and has always survived
by using American Indian healing. On the
frontier, there were no
doctors. American Indian healing was better
than European medicine anyway. I continue
this tradition.”
The cost for this herb
walk is $30 for adults,
and $25 for seniors 62
and older and full-time
students. Kids 5 to 12
can go free with an adult
by prior arrangement.
Toddlers must be in a
carrier.
Participants
under the age of 18
must be accompanied
by a parent or guardian.
No dogs, please. Payment by cash or check is
accepted on the morning of the walk.
For information and
registration, visit Herb
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MOVING SALE!
After 32 yrs in Ojai, Massarella Pottery is
moving to Santa Fe! Thank you Ojai for your
wonderful support, we will miss you.
Plan to stop by our FINAL HOME STUDIO SALE to see our huge selection of clay
treasures at rock bottom prices. Giving you a
great deal is better than having to pack it and
move it. Mugs, bowls, serving pieces, pitchers, vases, one-of-a-kinds.
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from 9am till 5pm
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805-646-9453
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Dan Nelson
Take time to appreciate mothers
Think of all of the
things you learned from
your mother! As I ponder this, it seems an impossibly daunting task
to form anything close
to a comprehensive list
of lessons learned from
my mom. From launching first footsteps, and
shaping sounds into intelligible words, to
learning how to share
toys, solve problems,
and build relationships,
our moms taught us essential life skills that you
and I are often too busy
to appreciate.
Heavy pressure weighs
the hearts and minds of
mothers these days.
From financial concerns
and scheduling pressures to societal woes
and protecting from
danger, moms find a lot
of things to worry about.
Clothes that fit, homework checks, sports
commitments, parent
meetings, paying bills,
healthy meals, her list
seems endless. Is it any
wonder that they say, “A
mother’s work is never
done”? And a mother is
always a mother, no
matter how old her children get.
Motherhood is a wonderful gift to all of us,
and it is created in the
mind of God. The original idea and intent of
what it means to be a
mother was given by
God and, I am convinced, is a primary answer to the problems of
this world. When we fail
to acknowledge the vital
role of motherhood, we
dishonor our own mothers and do a disservice
to humanity.
But how can a mom
live up to all of the expectations that are
placed upon her today?
Can she cook like
Rachael Ray, keep house
like Martha Stewart,
handle finances like
Suze Orman, look like
Angelina Jolie, and still
never lose her patience
with the kids? I believe
the root problem is that
many of us today are
getting our model of the
ideal mom from the
wrong sources. Since
God is the one who created us, and the role of
motherhood, shouldn’t
we go to the Bible to
learn what a mother is to
be?
The Scriptures teach
that we are all flawed;
and therefore there is no
such thing as the “perfect mom.” Further, to
attempt to live up to the
expectations of others is
an impossible and everchanging
demand.
Therefore, the only one
that mothers need to
“impress” is an audience
of one — God. The
beautiful thing is that
God is already deeply in
love with every mom,
and desires to give all
that is needed in fulfilling this role of motherhood. It isn’t easy. In
fact, every involved
mother I know would
say that it is quite difficult. However, the Bible
teaches that it is worth
the investment to fully
engage in training up
your children in the
ways of Jesus; it will produce benefits all of their
lives, and yield eternal
dividends. But it takes
wisdom and patience,
and that doesn’t come
from comparing oneself
to television models and
cooking show hosts;
these essential attributes can only come from
God.
What is needed is personal quiet time with
the spirit of God in
prayer, reading and
meditation in his word,
as well as support from
others. By oneself, success in motherhood is
unattainable. But remember, Jesus said,
“With God all things are
possible.” Let’s all take
time to appreciate the
mothers in our lives; to
acknowledge the difficulty, encourage, love,
and pray for them. By
doing so, we might be
able to help make life
just a bit easier, not just
on Mother’s Day but
every day.
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.
“Jesus, What a Beautiful
Name.”
“Mother’s Day Prayer”
(composed by Jimmy
Calire)will be performed at
all three services.
The 10:45 a.m. service will
feature a musical prelude
duet with Jimmy Calire on
saxophone and pianist Julie
Dobek performing “A Child
Is Born,” and the Chancel
Choir will sing “Seek Ye
First” during the offertory.
Three morning services
are offered. The first is a
contemporary service at 8
a.m. The second service at
9:15 a.m., is a contemporary service with Sunday
School for nursery through
eighth grade. At 10:45 a.m.
a traditional service is held.
The Presbyterian Church
is at 304 Foothill Road. Call
646-1437 for information.
First Church of Christ,
Scientist
“Adam and Fallen Man” is
the subject of this Sunday’s
lesson at the Christian Science Church, based on a
passage from 2 Corinthians: “I fear, lest by any
means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtelty, so your minds should
be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.”
The church service and
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.
Jewish Community
of the Oaks
The Jewish Community
of the Oaks, K’Hilat
Ha’Aloneem, 530 W. El Roblar Drive, will hold a Shabbat service today at 6 p.m.,
led by Rabbi Mike Lotker,
with a kiddush afterward.
Call 646-4464 for more
information.
RELIGION BRIEFS
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,
assisted
by
Fernando
Lopez, OSA.
Readings for this Sunday
will be from Acts 2:14a, 3641, Psalm 23:1-6, 1 Peter
2:20b-26 and John 10:1-10.
Happy Mother’s Day to
everyone.
Thank you to Marti Reid
for chairing the spring festival and to all who volunteered to make it a success.
Confirmation will be May
18 at the 9:30 a.m. Mass.
Call 646-4338 for more information.
Holy Cross Church
All are invited to worship
Sunday at 10 a.m. at Holy
Cross Church, 1212 Maricopa Highway, Ojai. Child
care for infants and toddlers is available during the
service. Preschool and elementary-aged children are
offered classes after the
children’s message and rejoin teens and adults for
Holy Communion at the
end of the service.
Each Sunday in May, Holy
Cross invites you to explore
“Love in Action.” This Sunday they will explore how
“Love Shares.”
Holy Cross wants to help
you experience God by saying yes to Jesus every day.
For more information call
646-5652.
St. Andrew’s
Episcopal Church
St. Andrew’s Episcopal
Church worships the Lord
with uplifting celebrations,
good music, short sermons
and free coffee. Holy Eucharist is held Sundays at 8
a.m. and 10 a.m. All are welcome to the Lord’s table for
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Centering Prayer is held
Thursdays 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.
Center for
Spiritual Living
The Center for Spiritual
Living is a “Science of
Mind” community that
practices the power of healing prayer and the teachings of principles from the
world’s great religions and
indigenous teachings. People of all faiths, races, ages
and lifestyles are welcome.
The Rev. Marilyn Miller’s
topic this Sunday is “Grace
and Grit: A Mother’s
Legacy.” Services are held
Sundays at 10:30 a.m. at the
Ojai Valley Woman’s Club,
441 E. Ojai Ave., with a
meditation service at 10
a.m. The Young Masters
Youth Program for ages 3 to
11 is available at 10:30 a.m.
Call 640-0498 for informa-
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Ph: 646-5737 or 646-7768
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Ecumenical Ministry
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The Ecumenical Ministry
of the Unity of All Religions
will meet Sunday at 11:30
a.m. Eight-year-old Ascenet
Pinto will talk with the Rev.
Thor Reyes, M.D. The public is welcome to the Sunday service.
The EMUR chapel is located at the World University of America campus at
the corner of Ventura and
Matilija streets. Regular
services are held every second and fourth Sunday of
the month. For more information, call 646-1444.
Ojai Presbyterian Church
Ojai Presbyterian Church
welcomes all who wish to
come and worship with
them. This Sunday the congregation will continue a
study of Paul’s letter to the
Thessalonians, exploring
how we find our strength in
the Lord.
During the 8 a.m. and
9:15 a.m. services, the
Praise Team Choir will sing
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MEL BLOOM
Women go from sword, to swoon, to CEO
Recently an article in
the Los Angeles Times
detailed how the flagship store of the old May
Company in downtown
L.A. is being retrofitted
and renovated by new
owners and will open as
a multi-use building of
apartments, offices, and
shops. When the edifice
was first erected in 1908
it was the Hamburger
Department store; the
Hamburger family at
that time were among
the city’s most prominent merchants.
The Times’ description of the original store
is fascinating and worth
repeating here: “It had
an 80-foot-long soda
fountain, a restaurant,
grocery store, a post office and a roof garden.
The third floor housed
the L.A. library for a few
years. There was a house
physician’s office with a
fully equipped operating
room ready for emergencies and a corner
where a fainting woman
can rest and be restored
to strength.”
It was that last line
which grabbed me.
There must have been a
lot of fainting women at
that time. Newspapers,
books and magazines
along with films, which
were just getting started,
portrayed women fainting all over the place.
They succumbed to
something mystical designated as the “vapors.” I
never found out what
the “vapors” were. When
I became a teenager and
a little more curious
about things I asked my
mother: “What are the
vapors?”
“The vapors are the
vapors,” was her customary reply.
So, I asked her mother,
my grandmother, and
received the same ambiguous answer. As I
grew older I sort of figured out for myself what
the “vapors” were. They
caused the female response to something
shocking like a whiff of a
scintillating men’s aftershave cologne, the dynamic and riveting stare
of Rudolph Valentino or,
God help us, a sly pinch
on a crowded bus or elevator. Vapors caused the
swoon and in those almost prehistoric days
women were swooning
left, right and center.
Everywhere one looked
women were swooning
and if people didn’t
watch
where
they
stepped they might have
trampled on a swooner.
The antidote for the vapors and swoon was a
sniff of crystals called
smelling salts which
were so powerful they
could not only awaken
the swooner but also the
dead. Later realizing
smelling salts were too
brutal to be sniffed,
someone advocated that
an inhalation from a sachet of lavender would
do the trick more gently.
Consequently, lavender
became the official
swooner waker-upper
and a few drops of
lavender perfume on a
lace hankie replaced the
sachet. In the early days
of the last century most
knowledgeable woman
had a lavender-scented
hankie tucked somewhere in their purse, up
a sleeve, or stashed in
their bosom.
As
years
passed
women realized they
didn’t have to be swooners. They could emulate
men
who
never
swooned. Of course
men, too, had to have an
outlet for their emotions
and resorted to puking
when under stress. But
swoon? Never! Swooning is prohibited in masculine religion. With a
new
law
enabling
women to vote, the term
“vapors,” like the term
“swooning,” gradually
disappeared from the
lexicon and a short time
later so did the “swoon.”
It has been a long while
since the last swoon was
recorded. Almost imperceptibly the tenderness
and gentility so long attributed to women
began to wane and their
behavior became like
men’s. And if it wasn’t for
the physical difference
between the two sexes, it
would be difficult to distinguish a man from a
woman. And the wonderful song from the
early 19th century that
began, “I want a gal just
like the gal that married
dear old dad,” disappeared just like the vapors and the swoon.
And so where are we
today? We have 20
women senators and
dozens of congresswomen. Women doctors
STATE OF MIND
are ubiquitous and in a
few more years will outnumber men. Women
have been heads of state
in many countries and
also heads of many blue
chip companies. And a
growing number are
even generals and admirals. There was a famous
but patronizing advertising slogan a few years
back which blatantly
stated, “You’ve come a
long way, baby.” If the
cigarette manufacturer
used it today, the company would be condemned. Women are
justly taking their place
in this world, at least in
western civilization, as
man’s equal. And often,
his superior.
Women’s strength is
not really a recent acquisition because long
ago
some
women
weren’t delicate and
fragile
and
never
swooned. In fact, quite
the contrary. There was
an era about 4,000 years
back when women were
courageous and unyielding warriors. They
were called Amazons
and their feats and fortitude were legendary
and written about by
Homer, Herodotus and
other writers of antiquity. They were not allowed to marry until
they killed a man. They
mated once a year and if
the ensuing child was a
boy it was sent to the father to be raised
whereas the girls were
trained as warriors and
when young they had
their right breast cauterized so that all the
strength would go to
their arm and shoulder
enabling them to put
extra power behind the
pull of the bowstring
while at the same time
eliminating a portion of
the body which might
have interfered with the
pull of the bowstring.
Women have been
there, done that, seen it
all and accomplished
much. And though men
may be more boisterous, in reality they are
the pipsqueaks and personified by Father Time,
a decrepit oldie who
needs a lantern to find
his
way,
whereas
women are loftily designated as Mother Earth,
Mother Courage and
Mother Nature. Think
about that.
BRUCE GLADSTONE, PH.D.
Verbalizing feelings is essential for health
The ability to find
words to express feelings, sensations and
emotional states is essential to mental and
physical health. Most
problems in human interaction involve misunderstanding
of
the
feelings, needs and emotional states of others.
Our educational practices focus on developing
analytical,
intellectual and cognitive skills to prepare students, especially males,
for work and competition in society. But this
education does not prepare us for living well together or for lifelong
intimacy, marriage, parenting or healthy passage through the stages
of life.
The inability to put
emotions into words is
called “alexothymia,” a
Greek word that literally
means “without words
for emotions.” Severe
cases of alexothymia are
often seen in men with
drug addiction, posttraumatic stress disorder,
psychosomatic
illness or brain injury.
However, psychologist
Ronald Levant, working
at the Boston University
Fatherhood
Project,
found that mild to moderate
levels
of
alexothymia were widespread among the men
he studied who did not
have a clinical disorder
or injury.
Socialization of males
throughout the world to
be competitive and productive means that boys
grow into men who are
relatively unaware of
their emotions and even
their own physical sensations. When asked to
express their emotions
they are unable to identify them directly and fall
back on rational, intellectual logic to deduce
what they think they
should be feeling. They
mistake these logical deductions for feelings
themselves.
This alexothymia has
enormous
consequences for men and for
society. It blocks men
from dealing with life’s
stress
and
trauma
through talking and interacting with others or
utilizing psychotherapy.
It predisposes men to
deal with stress in socially destructive ways,
through
substance
abuse and addiction, vi-
olence, sexual compulsions, risk taking, and
stress-related illness.
The combined social
influence of mothers, fathers, peer groups, culture and education that
fails to address human
relationships and selfknowledge, socializes
males to suppress their
emotions,
especially
those of vulnerability
and fear and to be relatively unaware of the
emotional states of others and unable to describe their own. As a
result, men tend to
channel or transform
their vulnerable feelings
into anger and their caring or empathic feelings
into compulsive sexuality.
The ability to describe
what we feel simply and
clearly is so essential to
life and relationships
that psychotherapists
spend considerable time
teaching it to their
clients. I usually begin
each counseling session
by asking clients to describe their current emotional state. I call this a
“feelings check.” I recommend that people
learn to do feelings
checks frequently.
When I ask this question most people exhibit
some alexothymia and
tell me about recent
events with little reference to feelings. If I ask,
“What are you feeling
today?” — they usually
tell me what they are
thinking. It is often a surprise to people to learn
that thoughts are not
feelings. Many people
believe they are doing a
good job of sharing their
feelings, when actually
they are only sharing
thoughts about events
and experiences or what
they think others are
doing to them.
Feelings, sensations
and emotional states are
located in our bodies. We
can have feelings only
because we have bodies
that feel: hot, cold, hungry, happy, sad, angry,
confused, joyful, jealous,
frustrated, elated, delighted, peaceful, and so
on.
The first step in learning to identify feelings is
to pay attention to the
body scanning for sensations. This requires a certain amount of silence,
quietness of mind. I
teach people to locate
feelings, then touch that
part of the body with a
hand or fingers while
they quietly observe it.
This is an easy habit to
develop with practice.
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the phrase “getting in
touch with feelings.”
A second step is to
name and describe the
feelings, sensations or
emotional states. This
involves
developing
what I call a “feelings vocabulary.” I am often
amazed at how much
under-learning there is
in this area. Our education helps us acquire extensive vocabulary for
events, objects and their
relationships, but almost
no vocabulary for feelings and emotional
states.
A rich feelings vocabulary includes words describing
bodily
sensations (e.g., hot,
cold, tired, energetic,
faint, dizzy, nauseated,
etc.) and basic classes of
feelings and emotional
states (e.g., happy, sad,
angry, afraid, confused,
depressed, fearful, anxious, etc.).
A “feelings check” is
simply an occasion
when one person shares
his or her feelings, emotional state or state of
mind with another. It
should include a brief
statement of physical
sensations, mental state
or quality of thought,
and mood. For example,
on arriving home from
work a husband does a
“feelings check” with his
wife by telling her, “Hi,
honey. I’m tired and my
back aches — had a hard
day. My brain is overworked. My thinking is
really fuzzy and I feel
grouchy as hell. I’m in a
foul mood.”
This statement sets the
occasion for telling her
what he wants or needs.
She doesn’t have to guess
about it. Similarly, she
can do a “feelings check”
with him, sharing briefly
her physical state, mental state (thoughts) and
mood.
I recommend that
couples do at least one
“feelings check” each
day and sometimes
more if there are significant changes in physical,
mental or emotional
states.
Communicating feelings is a major responsibility each person has in
any relationship, especially in marriage. Practicing “feelings checks” is
a good way to care for
your relationships.
For individuals who
recognize that they have
significant alexothymia,
the good news is that
psychologists have developed some very effective
methods
of
overcoming it.
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Install your own gray water system
The Ventura County
Building and Safety Division will be hosting a series
of
how-to
workshops for homeowners wanting to convert
their
clothes
washers to simple irrigation systems. Gray water
from single-family residential clothes washing
machines can now be
used to irrigate shrubs,
flowers and trees, with
little else except some
valves, piping and good
maintenance practices.
During these workshops, homeowners will
learn the steps necessary
to successfully install the
piping and drainage sys-
tems needed for irrigation with laundry gray
water. Also, materials
will be provided at these
workshops for homeowners to take with
them which will include:
• A parts and materials
list, including estimated
retail prices, necessary
to install a basic Laundry
Gray Water Disposal System (LGDS).
• List of tools needed
to install a basic LGDS.
• Details, guidelines
and instructions for a
basic LGDS.
The workshops will
also feature a hands-on
demonstration of what a
completed LGDS should
look like.
The workshops are
scheduled to be held at
800 S. Victoria Ave., Ventura, in Room 311 at the
Ventura County Hall of
Administration (enter off
of Telephone Road and
park in Lot G).
All workshops will be
held in Room 311 from 6
to 8 p.m. on the following dates: May 22, June 5
and June 19.
Additional dates will
be added soon.
To register, email
Marie.Becerra@
Ventura.org or call 6542795, between 7:15 a.m.
and 5 p.m., Monday
through Friday.
Photo by Linda Gramckow
Mira Monte kids take agriculture tour
Sixth-grade leadership students from Mira Monte Elementary School recently
took an agricultural field trip. They began by visiting Driscoll's cooler facility to
get a look at the numerous steps required to take berries from field harvest to
shipping. They then went to Southland Sod Farms' substrate raspberry production (above), where they picked their own raspberries and learned firsthand just
what it takes for produce to go from farm to table.

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