From the monthly archives:

September 2010

Oaks and Gardens

by Donna September 14, 2010

We love our oaks but don’t always know what they need. Learn everything you need to know about caring for the oak trees in your yard at this free, City of Ojai Community Demonstration Garden workshop, with local arborist Michael Inaba of Inaba Horticulture. Clear up any confusion about…

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Stop The Trucks: Michael Shapiro Refutes Lawrence McMillan Letter to Editor

by Howard Smith September 13, 2010

This Could Have Been Ojai

This Could Have Been Ojai

Lawrence McMillan’s Letter to the Editor (“Hollywood types depriving Ojai” – 9/10/10) was insulting to me and to the countless citizens from throughout the Ojai Valley who, for decades, have dedicated themselves towards attempting to make a difference in preserving what is the best of our valley.

It…

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Unleashing Ojai’s ‘Animal Spirits’

by Bret Bradigan September 13, 2010

Fall 2010 OQ

Fall 2010 OQ

“Even apart from the instability due to speculation, there is the instability due to the characteristic of human nature that a large proportion of our positive activities depend on spontaneous optimism rather than mathematical expectations … Most, probably, of our decisions to do something positive, the full consequences…

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Test of the Reverse 911 System during Ojai Valley OK Drill

by Tyler Suchman September 13, 2010

From the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services…

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services will be participating in the Ojai Valley OK Drill on September 15th by launching a test Reverse 911 call to residents in the Ojai Valley.

The Reverse 911 system is used to send alerts to…

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9/11 Ceremony in Malibu

by randy September 12, 2010

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Robin and I took a drive to the Malibu Farmers’ Market this morning. Great weather. Fun market. Wonderful drive down and back. On our way back, we stopped at Pepperdine University to see 2,977 flags, each representing a life cut short by the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11, 2001. …

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Listen to Rahm Emanuel and Centrist Democrats = lose the House in Nov.

by SPK September 12, 2010

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Can’t say I didn’t warn them starting in March of 2008. Well, this DKos diary about sums it up. Looks pretty bad. Obama failed to behave as a progressive and all of the enthusiasm has drained away. I already wrote a screed outlining all of this, so I will spare you the…

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Nine (“Nine, Nine”) years ago today …

by Millennium Twain September 11, 2010

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that’s “Mister” Rockefeller to you …

http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/The911StockPlay/message/823

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Libbey Bowl…the work goes on

by Fred Rothenberg September 11, 2010

Sweetie and I have been taking photos of the reconstruction of Libbey Bowl.  If you’d like to see a 360 degree image of the construction site on September 10, click here.  Once you reach the website that has the image, you can scroll around just as though you…

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Stop The Trucks: Big Rigs Banned on 154 in SB County: Why not the even more dangerous Route 33 as well?

by Howard Smith September 11, 2010

Ortiz Double Hopper Gravel Truck Heads Up Route 33

Ortiz Double Hopper Gravel Truck Heads Up Route 33

Ortiz Gravel Truck Spins off Route 33

Ortiz Gravel Truck Spins off Route 33

From the KEYT News Feed:

CHP Steps up Truck Enforcement On HWY 154

Originally printed at http://www.keyt.com/news/local/Trucks-Banned-From-Local-Highway-102493194.html

In the Lompoc Valley, a new county ordinance has been approved banning big rigs on the Harris Grade. It takes effect next…

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When “Art Lives”-local artists produce big from VCCF grants

by linda Harmon September 9, 2010

If you didn’t notice, Southern California got a whole lot richer and not just in dollars. Three Ojai artists, Richard Amend, Dianne Bennett and Teal Rowe, are busy producing “goods and services” after receiving grants from the Arts Live program of the Ventura County Arts Council. That’s economic jargon for…

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