From the monthly archives:

January 2007

COALITION OPPOSES HUNDREDS OF ADDITIONAL MINING TRUCKS ON SCENIC HIGHWAY 33

by Howard Smith January 25, 2007

Public Comments Due January 31 on Proposed Sand & Gravel Mine;
Town Meeting Scheduled for January 30 in Ojai
A coalition of local landowners, business leaders, forest advocates, school officials, and others have joined forces to oppose plans by a new mine to add hundreds of haul trucks on Scenic Highway 33.…

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ψ ORANGE ALERT ψ">This is an ψ ORANGE ALERT ψ

by Mike Didj January 25, 2007

You know, INC² would not be killing all of these massive amounts of humans if INC² were not just scurrying around in their thinking – like a 100 thousand billion microscopic insects with no center no true consciousness. ℑ hate to be the one to tell you this but somehow, there…

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Finding Our Youth, Again …

by Millennium Twain January 24, 2007

in journeying around our world,
in returning home after lifetimes of growing …
a play-filled awakening which always seems
to be that sun-full, tree-climbing, grass-rolling,
wind-filled, ‘first day’!
could it be? immortality …

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The Whitman Treehouse

by Tyler Suchman January 23, 2007

I’m sure many of you saw this article on the Whitman property in the LA Times a few weeks ago. It got picked up by the Fort Wayne, Indiana-based Journal Gazette yesterday. Check it out if you haven’t. And if you’ve been up there (Red Party or otherwise), you know what…

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An Insurrection of Kindness

by Heather MacGumerait January 22, 2007

Today a beautiful man died in France, and I can hardly find any information about him in English, even on the wonderful web. The man’s name wasn’t L’Abbe Pierre, but that is how he has been known since World War II, when he helped Jews escape the Nazis. In the…

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WAL*MART – uh, not so organic…

by Tyler Suchman January 22, 2007

Seeing as how there are frequent discussions here about organic and locally-grown food, I thought this would be of interest…
From The Independent: “US farming watchdog accuses Wal-Mart of mis-selling“:

Wal-Mart, the controversial retailing giant, is under investigation in the US over allegations it is trying to pass off non-organic foods as…

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The Price of Paradise Screens in Santa Barbara

by Lisa Snider January 21, 2007


There has been a lot of talk on these pages about affordable housing. What does that mean to you? Who should have it? What should it look like? Where should it be built? The documentary, The Price of Paradise, does not seek to answer these questions, but rather engage a…

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Stop The Trucks: Community Meeting Jan 30th

by Howard Smith January 21, 2007

STOP THE TRUCKS!
COMMUNITY MEETING
Tuesday, January 30th – 7:00pm
Chaparral Auditorium, 414 E Ojai Ave.
You’re invited to come learn about plans to add hundreds more sand & gravel trucks on
Highway 33 through ours towns and the nearby national forest.
*A short photo presentation on Scenic Highway 33
*Speakers, including representatives from:
Ojai Valley Chamber of…

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Ojai Certified Organic Farmers Market, baby!

by Tyler Suchman January 21, 2007

See you down at the Farmer’s Market. Some of my favorites this time of year: a quart of fresh blood orange juice, some vine-ripened tomatoes, fresh watercress and cilantro, butternut squash and Vicki’s soap. What’s on your shopping list?

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OVN connects the dots

by Tyler Suchman January 19, 2007

Ojai Valley News Publisher Bret Bradigan has an interesting editorial in today’s OVN on the evolution of the consumption of media. “The Internet, the great leveler of communications, has rendered our appetites for information instantaneous and insatiable,” writes Bradigan. He, like other print media publishers including the VC Star’s Tim…

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