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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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Restoring the Ventura River

by Jim Hines January 29, 2012

The efforts of our Friends of the Ventura River Coalition (www.friendsofventurariver..org) are now in full swing. We are an organization of organizations and people from the Ojai Valley and Ventura who are concerned about the future of the beautiful Ventura River. Which flows from her headwaters in the Los Padres…

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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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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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Ted’s Mirror Takes Top Honors at Ojai Photo Club Annual Awards

by Myrna Cambianica January 18, 2012

 

Ojai Photo Club Image of the Year, "Ted's Mirror" by photographer Les Dublin

The Ojai Photography Club held its annual Potluck Dinner and Awards Ceremony on January 17. The club’s primary objectives of education, inspiration, and camaraderie come together in this yearly celebration of members’ images.

 

During the previous year, 164 digital…

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American Glass Works Exhibit Opens at Ojai Valley Museum

by Myrna Cambianica January 16, 2012

“American Glass Works”

January 19 through April 1, 2012

Ojai Valley Museum

 

The first exhibition at the Ojai Valley Museum in 2012 highlights the museum’s Libbey Glass Collection juxtaposed with contemporary glass works by seven regional artists: Brian Berman, Teal Rowe, Susan Stinsmuehlen-Amend (Ojai); Doug Lochner (Oak View); Robert Eyberg, Helle Scharling-Todd, Michael…

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American Glass Works Exhibit Opens at Ojai Valley Museum

by Myrna Cambianica January 15, 2012

Ojai Valley Museum opens its first exhibit of the new year,”American Glass Works,” on January 19th with a run through April 1, 2012. Due to an unexpected Post Office delay, the RSVP deadline for the exhibit’s Gala Reception has been extended to January 18th. Full information is within the flyer…

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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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