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March 2011

Ojai Arts Commission Launches New Website

by linda Harmon March 21, 2011

Press release from City of Ojai Arts Commission

Press release from City of Ojai Arts Commission

The City of Ojai Arts Commission has launched a new website to highlight its activities as well as the happenings of Ojai’s thriving local art scene.

Launched on January 1, the web site, www.artsojai.org, includes detailed information about the Arts Commission, local artists, and…

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T-shirt and Poster artists wanted for Day of Music Celebration

by linda Harmon March 21, 2011

In Celebration of the reopening of Ojai’s Beloved Libbey Bowl the Day of Music Committee has decided to produce a commemorative t-shirt. The image chosen will also be used in promotions for the event.

The fundraising project was officially unveiled at the City of Ojai Arts Commission February meeting. Joan Kemper, the…

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Libbey Bowl Benefits from Gramckow’s Generosity

by linda Harmon March 21, 2011

The unbounded generosity of the Ojai community continues to deliver good things for the Libbey Bowl project. Kevin Jones, the project manager for Libbey Bowl, initially approached Jurgen Gramckow, owner of Southland Sod, about landscaping for the project. Gramckow not only met the request for native trees and 8,762 sq.…

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Calm Between The Storms

by Tyler Suchman March 21, 2011

How’s your place holding up?  (note to mk: stock up on some food!) Below: workers remove a massive oak tree that fell and damaged part of the Paradise Artists building and a building just to the east on Matilija St.

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RED ALERT … With Sunny Outlook on Solutions

by Kristofer Young March 20, 2011

photo by Rocky Brown

photo by Rocky Brown

PLEASE read this carefully. As you will see, we are actually talking LIFE or DEATH.

As you know, we have some dangerous things going on in the world right now; revolution in Libya, disaster in Japan. And no simple answers.

We have another RED ALERT, one that is not…

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Ventura County Opens Emergency Operations Center To Monitor Storm

by Tyler Suchman March 20, 2011

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

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services (OES) has activated the Ventura County Emergency Operations Center (EOC) to monitor the storm and support local law enforcement, fire, and public works agencies responding to storm related incidents. The County’s Storm Operations Center…

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Award-winning Writer Catherine Ann Jones to Teach at Ojai WordFest

by CurranWhite March 20, 2011

[bumped up to the home page - nice interview from Ryan White - TS]

catherineannjones1Catherine Ann Jones is an award-winning playwright, screenwriter, and author whose films include Unlikely Angel, The Christmas Wife, and the series Touched By An Angel. Her book, The Way of Story, is used at NYU and other colleges.…

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Open Thread: March Showers Edition

by Open Thread March 20, 2011

Quite a downpour we’re having.    Everyone all right out there?

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Thoughts on Diablo Canyon Nuclear Plant

by Tyler Suchman March 18, 2011

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This week, the Pacific Coast Business Times reported that “U.S. Reps. Lois Capps, D-Santa Barbara, and Edward Markey, D-Mass., have written to the NRC requesting more information about the seismic safety of several nuclear plants in the West and Midwest… [Diablo Canyon] supplies about 10 percent of California’s electric power and…

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Radiation Update for Ventura County

by Tyler Suchman March 18, 2011

Following is from the Ventura County Operational Area Emergency Planning Council (EPC) and the Ventura County Sheriff’s Office of Emergency Services:

Subject: Sheriff’s OES Continues to Monitor Events in Japan/ EPC Encourages Preparedness

The Sheriff’s OES continues to participate in daily conference calls with CalEMA regarding the State’s response to the events…

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