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OVGC Community Gathering and Winter Feast Save Energy, Save Money and Save the Planet

by linda Harmon February 7, 2012

The Ojai Valley Green Coalition invites you to its winter community gathering on Friday, February 10. Mingle with neighbors, share a potluck supper and start the new year right with the evening’s program focused on “How to Save Energy, Save Money and Save the Planet”.

Coalition Built Environment Council members will…

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I BLINCt

by Kristofer Young January 31, 2012

This is not I “blinked” as in a showdown, but I “BLINCt” as in a show up.

I was invited to speak this Monday evening to, and with a group, 25 as it turned out, of Ojai teens, from 15-18 years old, about health. The event was a weekly gathering of…

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MIC-Mars, MIC-Occupied …

by Millennium Twain January 31, 2012

(Special to the Ojai Post)

“In a neat little town they call Belfast, apprenticed to trade I was bound …”

during the ’90s, a decade after I had left UC Space Sciences and done the California Senate and Space Station — after spending the ’80s becoming a ‘gee whiz’ expert on all…

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Dinner & A Movie Event to raise funds for healthy school food programs

by Chris Wilson January 24, 2012

I wrote about this in the OVN recently and then got an update from event organizer Katherine Zackham moments ago that tickets for the dinner portion of the event are almost sold out.

This is a neat, locally formed organization that brings locally grown, healthy, whole foods into school lunch programs and…

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Beauty that Honors the Sacred Personality ~ Learning to Live in the Heart

by nancy January 23, 2012

Sharing an article out of the  Summer / Fall 2011 issue of The Bubble, for those who may not have seen it there. Meet Narayan, whose beauty practice is earthy sophistication. Article by Nancy Gross

Narayan, of Narayan Sacred Healing Beauty, used to be the most desired manicurist of the A-list…

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MOBAA Plans “Welcome to Meiners Oaks” Sign

by evan austin January 23, 2012

The Meiners Oaks Business & Artists Association is raising money to mount a “Welcome to Meiners Oaks” sign at the corner of El Roblar Drive and Highway 33. We are inviting bids from sign makers to create and install the sign. We are also accepting donations to fund the sign.

Contact Kathleen…

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Corporations are NOT People and Money is NOT Speech

by SPK January 20, 2012

Why we need a Constitutional Amendment against Corporate Personhood

                   tea party

This will take a second. The jurisprudence behind corporate personhood did not come into existence overnight with the Roberts Gang in the Supreme Court and the Citizens United decision. The idea that a corporation is a person and therefore due the rights of a human being under the Bill of Rights finds its roots in post Civil War America. But to explain the whole issue we have to start back still further in our nations history. The Revolutionary War which birthed the United States was as much a war against Royally chartered corporations like the East India Company as it was against British rule.

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Stop The Trucks: State deals business blow to Ojai Quarry

by Howard Smith January 10, 2012

Read excerpts from Tony Biasotti’s new article in the Ventura County Star that appeared in Tuesday’s online edition:

“While Ojai Quarry owner Larry Mosler waits to see whether the county will revoke his mining permit, he got bad news from the state: His mine has been barred from supplying material for…

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•*¨*5 Star Beginning to 2012¨*•.

by Jodi Womack January 10, 2012

♪•.¸¸¸¸.•* I hope you’re year is off to a 5 STAR start! ♪•.¸¸¸¸.•*

The Ojai Women’s Business Socials are coming up on 3 full years of monthly gatherings. I call that tremendous community support of local businesses and entrepreneurs…

This month’s Social will be hosted at our own five diamond resort, the…

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Stop The Trucks: The Past and Future Legacy of the Ojai Valley

by Howard Smith January 9, 2012

By Michael J. Shapiro

The Stop the Trucks! Coalition (Coalition) has had to fend-off countless, scurrilous attacks from the moment we organized five years ago. We were vilified again following the most recent Ventura County Planning Commission hearing (December 15, 2011) after expressing our opposition to the Ojai Quarry (Quarry) being…

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