From the monthly archives:

March 2011

Growing a Magazine

by nancy March 17, 2011

Me cropped against a Jessie Arms Botke painting. I wrote about the Botke generations.

Me cropped against a Jessie Arms Botke painting. I wrote about the Botke generations.

I thought I’d be brave and share the most recent post I put up on my blog at theojaibubble.com. I think The Ojai Post is a place one can be bold and real. I’m also attaching a…

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Garden Notes: The Cutflower Garden

by Jim Hines March 16, 2011

Ah, the joy of cutting beautiful flowers from your own garden to place in vases, bringing the beauty of nature indoors.

  And now is the season to plan and start your own cutflower garden.  With our outstanding climate here in the Ojai Valley we are able to…

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OFS Screens “Farewell”

by ojaifilmsociety March 16, 2011

On Sunday, March 20 at 4:30 pm the Ojai Film Society will screen the French film, Farewell, the true story of a disaffected Soviet agent who decided to hasten the demise of the Communist system he had grown to loath by passing on its most closely guarded secrets to the West.…

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WordFest Book Fair Supports Search Dogs In Japan!

by czhosterman March 16, 2011

The Ojai WordFest Book Fair, happening this Saturday from
10-4 on Matilija Street in
front of Made In Ojai is setting up a station to collect donations for the
National Search Dog Foundation.

“We are all very concerned about the situation in Japan,
and this is one small way we can make a difference,” says…

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Statement on Risk of Radiation Exposure

by Tyler Suchman March 16, 2011

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jay Alan, Cal EMA, Dir. of Communications (916) 825-6544
media@calema.ca.gov
Al Lundeen, CA Dept. of Public Health (916) 440-7259

SACRAMENTO – Today the interim director of the California Department of Public Health, Dr. Howard Backer, and acting secretary of the California Emergency Management Agency, Mike Dayton, issued the following statement…

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St. Patrick’s Day Fondue

by randy March 16, 2011

Irish Fondue

I told a friend the other day that I had made a wonderful Irish Fondue for St. Patrick’s Day last year. He came back with, “Irish Fondue? The Irish don’t have fondue”.

“Any culture that has wonderful cheeses, including the Irish, have a fondue of sorts”, I replied. “It doesn’t need…

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Open Thread: Japan Edition

by Tyler Suchman March 15, 2011

The world is watching…

Japan Earthquake

A man prays in front of a house devastated by tsunami in Minami Soma, Fukushima, northern Japan after Japan's biggest recorded earthquake slammed into its eastern coast March 11. (http://webpressphoto.com/2011/03/japan-earthquake-aftermath/)

An official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima Daini nuclear plant in Koriyama March 13. Japanese Chief Cabinet Secretary Yukio Edano confirmed on Saturday there has been an explosion and radiation leakage at Tokyo Electric Power Co's (TEPCO) Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant. (Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters) (http://webpressphoto.com/2011/03/japan-earthquake-aftermath/)

An official in protective gear talks to a woman who is from the evacuation area near the Fukushima…

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City Council Building Code Workshop

by Tyler Suchman March 15, 2011

From Ojai Valley Chamber of Commerce CEO Scott Eicher to their members…

Good Morning Chamber Members,

Tonight at City Hall there will be a City Council Building Code Workshop. At this meeting, the Council, your elected representatives, could pass a new set of building codes that will have a great impact on…

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One Minute Meditation

by Tyler Suchman March 14, 2011

Good evening! A one minute meditation from this evening after the jump, and a photo below… breathe…

ojai-sunset-031411

(click the four-arrow button in the bottom right to go full screen…)

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Ojai-5 Comes to Ojai WordFest!

by czhosterman March 14, 2011

Theater buffs will have a chance to see five plays emerge from idea to performance in one day of organized artistic mayhem. The first ever Ojai-5 is slated for March 26th, 2011. Part of the 1st Annual Ojai WordFest, a nine day festival of words, ideas and stories taking place in and…

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