VENTURA, SANTA PAULA – The California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) announced planned closures on State Route 126 (SR-126) for striping and guardrail work in the cities of Fillmore, Ventura and Santa Paula and the unincorporated area of Piru.
From Monday, April 1 to Friday, April 5, the following planned closures of SR-126 are scheduled between 7 p.m. to 6 a.m.:
Westbound:
One lane from to the Los Angeles-Ventura County line to Atmore Rd. near the city of Fillmore.
One lane from Hallock Dr. in Santa Paula to US 101 in Ventura.
Tenth St. on and off-ramp.
Palm Ave. on and off-ramp
Peck Rd off-ramp
Kimball Rd on and off-ramp
Eastbound:
One lane from US 101 to Hallock Dr in Santa Paula.
Main St. on and off-ramp
Victoria Ave on and off-ramp
Kimball Rd. on and off-ramp
Peck Rd off-ramp
Palm Ave. on and off-ramp
Tenth St. on and off-ramp.
Closures may start and end later. All closures are weather permitting and subject to change. No two consecutive on and off-ramps will be closed at the same time.
Motorists should expect delays and are strongly advised to use alternate routes or avoid the area. Additionally, motorists can check traffic conditions before they leave by visiting the Caltrans Quickmap.
The closures are part of two road paving projects on SR-126 that stretches from US-101 to Los Angeles-Ventura County line. C.A. Rasmussen Inc. of Valencia, CA and Granite Construction Co. of Santa Barbara, CA are the contractors for the projects.
Caltrans reminds drivers to be “Work Zone Alert” and to “Slow for the Cone Zone.”
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Genevieve Levin as Lenny Magrath Kim Prendergast as Chick Boyle Patrick T. Rogers as Barnette Lloyd
Eric R. Umali as Doc Porter
STORY:
The scene is Hazlehurst, Mississippi, 1970s, where the three Magrath sisters have gathered to await news of the family patriarch, their grandfather, who is living out his last hours in the local hospital. Lenny, the oldest sister, is unmarried at thirty and facing diminishing marital prospects; Meg, the middle sister, who quickly outgrew Hazlehurst, is back after a failed singing career on the West Coast; while Babe, the youngest, is out on bail after having shot her husband in the stomach. Their troubles, grave and yet somehow hilarious, are highlighted by their priggish cousin, Chick, and by the awkward young lawyer who tries to keep Babe out of jail while helpless not to fall in love with her. In the end the play is the story of how these characters escape the past to seize the future—but the telling is so true and touching and consistently hilarious that it will linger in the mind long after the curtain has descended.
Please Note: This show does contain some strong language, adult themes, and the use of herbal cigarettes. May not be suitable for children.
Elite Theatre Company
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Do you want to join the Port Hueneme Police Department team for a rewarding career of service? Now is your opportunity!
Port Hueneme Police Department is currently recruiting for the position of Police Officer Trainee, a newly created position that offers an exciting and challenging opportunity for those wanting to grow and advance in their career and make a difference in the community. No prior law enforcement experience required. Candidates successful in the selection process will complete a P.O.S.T. approved basic police academy while being paid as a non-sworn employee of the police department. Upon graduation from the academy, applicants will be promoted to the position of Police Officer.
The Police Officer Trainee recruitment is now open and will close on April 7, 2019 at 11:59 PM.
For those who have already successfully completed, or are currently enrolled in a P.O.S.T. approved basic police academy; or those current officers or deputies (Laterals) who are seeking a change to an exciting and growing police department, our recruitment for Lateral/Academy Graduate Police Officer is now open and will close on April 3, 2019 at 11:59 PM.
Have questions? Please contact Commander Robert Albertson at 805-986-6644 or by e-mail at [email protected]
Inquiries about both positions can also be made to Kay Randolph-Pollard at [email protected]
Ventura Police Department – Incident Press Release
On March 31st at 4:29PM, the Ventura Police Department Command Center received a 911 call from an employee of Boost Mobile in the 2700 block of E. Thompson Blvd., reporting that a robbery had just occurred. The suspect was last seen fleeing from the business on a bicycle westbound on Thompson Blvd.
During the investigation officers learned the suspect entered the business and approached the lone clerk, and handed him a note stating he was armed with a gun. No gun was seen. The suspect demanded money from the cash register. The clerk complied and gave the suspect an undisclosed amount of cash. The suspect then fled from the business.
Officers checked the area, but were unable to locate the suspect. The clerk was not injured as a result of this crime.
Suspect: White Male, 30-40 years, wearing a hoodie, black shirt, black pants, and riding a red bicycle
Anyone with information or is a witness to this crime is asked to contact the Ventura Police Department at 339-4488.
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The State Department announced Saturday it was cutting off aid to the Central American countries of El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, home to the thousands of immigrants attempting to reach the U.S. illegally.
“At the Secretary’s instruction, we are carrying out the President’s direction and ending FY 2017 and FY 2018 foreign assistance programs for the Northern Triangle,” a spokesman with the State Department said. “We will be engaging Congress as part of this process.”
The State Department acknowledged it will need to “engage Congress in the process,” meaning it must win the approval of lawmakers before withholding the estimated $700 million in aid that would otherwise be given to the three Central American countries.
The announcement comes at a time when the U.S. southern border is witnessing a record volume of illegal immigrants.
The Department of Homeland Security apprehended 50,000 to 60,000 illegal migrants a month in late 2018. More than 75,000 apprehensions and encounters were made in February — the highest number in over a decade. DHS estimates March to be another record-breaker, with apprehensions expected to near 100,000. March already experienced back-to-back records in single-day apprehensions.
Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen has described the situation on the U.S.-Mexico border as a “humanitarian and security catastrophe.”
The State Department’s announcement to withhold funds follows President Donald Trump’s own warning to Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador.
The president is warning that there is a “very good likelihood” he will also close the southern border if Mexico continues to allow immigrants to pass through its country and into the U.S.
Should Congress approve and the U.S. cuts financial aid to the Northern Triangle counties, there remains strong incentives for their governments to still allow their citizens to reach the U.S interior.
Immigrants from Guatemala, El Salvador and Honduras sent back a record $120 billion in remittances this decade, according to an immigration expert using U.N. and Latin American banking statistics. The numbers are expected to keep climbing, with immigrants from these three countries having sent $17 billion in 2018 alone.
Not only does the U. S. need a wall, but it also needs enforceable Immigration laws. The asylum seekers come by the hundreds of thousands from any country south of the American border—and they want in! In their home countries they were indoctrinated and prepared by socialist and communist community activists for their mission. “Once you are in, you will get free schooling for your children, free healthcare, welfare—everything free.”
They also are told that having children along for the border crossing and pleading “credible fear” of harm in their home country, will help them to game the system.
“The gringos are loco—they believe anything!” has been overheard by border agents.
David Inserra makes a case for a monumental change in our immigration laws. In the Wall Street Journal of Saturday/Sunday edition, March 6, 2019 he confronts the reader with the following statistics:
According to U. S. Customs and Border Protection more than 66,000 aliens were apprehended last months. Together with the cases of those deemed inadmissible, the total is more than 76,000. From other accounts we heard that migrants have been advised to bring children to gain admission. Border personal report cases where strangers abducted small children or even rented children for the crossing. One can imagine what happens to these children during and after the crossing into the U.S. From the accounts of border agents, we know that this type of behavior leads to rape, molestation and abuse of minors. However, as long as laws are kept on the books, lacking all common sense, laws, that once were instituted to protect children—but obviously do nothing of the sort—we are facing an uphill battle.
Customs and Border Protection reports that 40,000 family units of aliens were apprehended and turned away at the border, which represents a tenfold increase from just two years ago. Add to that 7250 unaccompanied children were counted February 2019 compared to just 2,200 during February 2017. Almost all of these aliens come from Central America. Our authorities are overwhelmed. And the tax-payer is responsible for the feeding, clothing and health expenses of this human flood. A serious public health-threat to our country is discovered in migrants who never had health care or vaccination in their lives.
According to The Washington Times, authorities say, “It’s unlike anything we have ever seen before.” Many of the migrants have tuberculosis, parasites or the flu. There are also a great number of pregnant women about to give birth. Apparently, they hoped to bear the child in the U. S. to have an “anchor citizen.” The Times article quotes Customs and Border Protection (CBP) Commissioner Kevin McAlleenan, who said, “Many were sick before departing their homes. We are talking about cases of tuberculosis, pneumonia, and parasites. That are not things that developed urgently in a matter of days.”
Among the already named illnesses, are also the more exotic dengue-fever and chikungunya. In addition,
Judicial Watch reports that the migrants are also spreading malaria, yellow fever, diphtheria, and AIDS throughout South America. Many of the named diseases were considered eradicated in most Latin American countries. However, with the total breakdown of Venezuela’s medical system, their millions of refugees carry potentially deadly illnesses abroad.
Knowing these facts, we must consider the most egregious law on books. It is s 2016 court case decision that now requires the Department of Homeland Security to release all children, including those accompanied by parents, from their custody and into our communities. Of the alien families, or children, released into our communities, in the hopes that they will return for their asylum hearing, very few of the “asylum seekers” ever return to face a lawful adjudication of their claims.
A funny comedian once compared our system to a rat-catcher who turned his rats loose in a cheese store and expected them to return for “adjudication.”
The inherent weakness in the Immigration law is that claimants are not returned across the border to wait there for adjudication, but are entitled to have a hearing in the U.S. first. To get admission into our country all the alien has to claim that he/she is in “credible fear” of being harmed in their home country. We know that people living in LA can make the same claim. Once safely in America—few of the “asylum seekers” are ever found again.
Me thinks that these laws were designed by people with an interest in labor not easily performed by Americans who must pay taxes, social contributions and all the other taxes the citizenry is settled with, while the illegal person circumvents most of these by not being registered and will work these jobs. The other reason is that the Democrat Party is looking for supporters and now seeks to allow illegals to vote.
Sigrid Weidenweber grew up in communist East Berlin, escaping it using a French passport. Ms. Weidenweber holds a degree in medical technology as well as psychology and has course work in Anthropology. She is co-founder of Aid for Afghans. Weidenweber has traveled the world and lived with Pakistani Muslims, learning about the culture and religion. She is a published author and lecturer. You can find her books on Amazon.com
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Peggy Noonan, apparently like many, believes that Trump’s occasional callousness and crassness are unprecedented. And they have so befouled the political landscape that he has spawned rude and crude leftwing imitators. The result allegedly is the vile language of the “mean girls” such as the anti-Semitism and foul speech of Rep. Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib:
I think we all know where this started, the political brutishness, the ignoring of traditions and norms. Donald Trump is both origin and rationale . . . The mean girls of Congress have learned at his knee. They have taken their tactics from him. They claim to be his reluctant imitators but I think they admire his ferocity. They have a taste for it, and a talent.
Collective Amnesia With all due respect, I don’t think we “all” know that this started with Trump, however crass he can be. Rather, we know all too well the political landscape a decade before Trump.
Do we recall the recent deranged talk of 2004-8 from the Democratic Party, the popular culture, and the media—or the relative passivity of the wounded Bush administration in response to such venom?
Why, after all, did Alfred A. Knopf publish the novel Checkpoint, a boring and tired rant about fantasizing the assassination of then-President Bush? Who created the particular landscape that encouraged filmmaker Gabriel Range to offer up “Death of a President”that trafficked in the same fantasies of a Bush assassination?
Why would the Guardian publish an op-ed by “satirist” Charles Brooker’s dreaming of the need for another John Wilkes Booth or Lee Harvey Oswald to repeat their needed work—a theme in part that actor Johnny Depp has recently channeled against Trump.
Were premonitions of Trump in 2004 befouling our political discourse?
What were the “origin and rationale” of the Jonathan Chait’s 2003 New Republic screed, “Why I Hate George W. Bush” in which he began: “I hate President George W. Bush There, I said it . . . I hate the way he walks—shoulders flexed, elbows splayed out from his sides like a teenage boy feigning machismo. I hate the way he talks—blustery self-assurance masked by a pseudo populist twang. I even hate the things that everybody seems to like about him.”
Derangement Syndromes Long before Johnny Depp, Peter Fonda, Kathy Griffin, Robert De Niro, Madonna, Snoop Dogg, and a host of celebrities were vying to fantasize how best to dispatch President Trump (shooting? burning? decapitation? fisticuffs? explosives?), Garrison Keillor, Linda Ronstadt, Harold Pinter, George Soros, and other notables competed to find the proper fascist/Nazi simile for George Bush and his administration.
As far as the discourse of pre-Trump politicians and statesmen go, again, who or what exactly was the model for the former governor, presidential candidate, and Democratic National Committee chairman Howard Dean, when he blustered, “I hate the Republicans and everything they stand for” or “This is a struggle of good and evil. And we’re the good”?
Do we remember 2007, when the New York Times gave a discount to MoveOn.org for the ad hominem, anti-David Petraeus “General Betray Us”advertisement? Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) on that very day suggested that the commander of all forces in Iraq had given sworn testimony that required “a willing suspension of disbelief.” Did tabloid stories of Manhattan raconteur Trump egg on Hillary to call America’s supreme battlefield commander a veritable liar in the middle of a war?
Did anticipation of Donald Trump over a decade ago prompt Al Gore to libel Bush’s Internet supporters as “digital brownshirts”? Who offered the “rationale” to the late senator and hero John Glenn to talk of Bush in terms of “It’s the old Hitler business”?
Are we to suppose that when Trump was alternately going broke and making millions in New York he had influenced NAACP chairman Julian Bond to slander the Bush Administration with, “Their idea of equal rights is the American flag and the Confederate swastika flying side by side”? What were the “norms and traditions” that prompted the “doyen” of the Senate, Robert Byrd, to compare the Bush Administration’s legislative efforts to those of the Third Reich?
Was Bush himself the origin of and rationale for such hate? Was his decision not to respond an example of welcomed and much needed magnanimity that was reciprocated in kind and thus cooled the waters of hate?
Sober and Judicious Hate? Did Barack Obama, as promised, usher in a new hope and change climate in which such rhetoric abated? Were “Fight the Smears,” JournoList, and AttackWatch of the Obama-era reflections of such a subdued rhetorical climate? Perhaps the outreach of a Lois Lerner was calming or the commentary of an Anita Dunn?
Or was the later Obama taunt of “you didn’t build that,” and a call for Latinos to “punish our enemies” prompted by the ghost of Joe McCarthy or Richard Nixon, or channeled through a Donald Trump séance?
Do we remember the jest and discourse concerning Sarah Palin? Who, then, was president (and thus supposedly set the national tone of permissible jest and rhetoric), when David Letterman joked of the statutory rape of Sarah Palin’s 14-year-old daughter who had attended a recent New York Yankees game: “One awkward moment for Sarah Palin at the Yankee game—during the seventh inning, her daughter was knocked up by Alex Rodriguez”? Was essayist Andrew Sullivan, anticipating years in advance Donald Trump’s birther fantasies, when he kept peddling the absurd “truther” conspiracy theory of Sarah Palin faking her own pregnancy?
Before Trump was elected, Peter Strzok, the FBI investigator at the center of so many of the FBI’s investigations from 2015 through 2017, wrote off Trump supporters as hillbillies fouling the air of Walmart. For a CNN reporter, Trump’s supporters were toothless nobodies. There is an ample corpus of elite fantasies of swapping out Trump supporters for supposedly more industrious and morally superior immigrants.
Why Then Do The “Mean Girls” Hate? The point is not to excuse Trump’s sometimes counterproductive and coarse tweets, but to emphasize that the idea of Trump as the fons et origio of all calumny is absurd. Such a construct demands convenient amnesia about a pre-Trump political environment in which comparing political enemies to Nazis, openly expressing hatred, and vile dreaming of killing a president were all pretty normal stuff. Madonna and Kathy Griffin simply resumed the customary presidential hatred after the Left had taken a brief hiatus from the attitude between 2009-2017.
As far as the vitriol that now regularly is heard from Representatives Ilhan Omar (D-Minn.) and Rashida Tlaib (D-Mich.), they are simply reflections of a long-standing left-wing viciousness against Israel and Jews in general that is now deeply embedded within elements of the Democratic Party, who abroad see Israel as a sinister force in the Middle East, in the stereotyped manner they apparently do of Jews at home.
There is no need to quote thirty years of the anti-Semitic hatred of Louis Farrakhan, so welcomed in the past by the progressive women’s march co-leader heartthrob Linda Sarsour. But why in the world would a Senator Barack Obama pose for a photo-op with such a bigot, and why was his personal confidant and advisor, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, a veritable anti-Semitic nut (“Them Jews ain’t going to let him talk to me.”)? Whose excesses prompted Democratic House member Hank Johnson to compare West Bank settlers to “termites” and who influenced his predecessor, Cynthia McKinney, to have talked of “dancing Israelis” celebrating the 9/11 attack?
So, what explains this desire to blame Trump for supposedly alone prompting the sudden debasement of political discourse and behavior?
Several things.
One, we all suffer from historical amnesia, both ancient and recent. Read what was said and written about Jefferson, Adams, Jackson, and Lincoln, or what they sometimes said about others, and Trump seems near tame in comparison. Harry Truman in 1948 likened Thomas Dewey to a Hitlerian tool. Franklin Roosevelt and Dewey in 1944 traded similar smears.
In 2008, John McCain was cruelly reduced to an amnesiac warmonger who could not remember all the houses that his rich wife bought for him; in 2012 Mitt Romney was guilty of everything from having an elevator in his house and a dog strapped to his car roof to his wife’s having too fancy riding clothes and of hazing a boy with an unwanted haircut while in high school.
When we say that Trump is the worst something or another (fill in the blanks) during his presidential tenure, we must deliberately forget what exactly a JFK, LBJ, or Bill Clinton were routinely doing while president. If Trump orders a 18-year-old female staffer to fellate a senior aide in the White House swimming pool, or exposes himself to staff, or has oral sex with a young female subordinate in the West Wing, we certainly could agree that his presidential behavior is typical of the abhorrent behavior of past presidents.
Second, before his nomination Trump was considered a cable news entertainment ratings bonanza, coverage of whom might aid in imploding the Republican Party. Then during the general election, Trump was written off as a buffoon with no chance of winning and thus interrupting a sure 16-year Obama-Clinton progressive regnum.
So, his startling 2016 victory literally sickened the establishment that had found his candidacy previously either entertaining or useful. After the initial disbelief, followed unprecedented anger that led to an effort to abort a supposedly illegitimate and unprecedented crude presidency in a manner never seen before in American political history.
When the bogus “collusion” dossier—paid for by Hillary Clinton, seeded by her supporters among the Obama administration, and its contents leaked to the press—failed to stop Trump’s election, it was revived in vain efforts to end his presidency before it had really started.
By Any Means Necessary What followed was hysteria and, yes, a bitter and nasty effort to claim that Trump was physically and mentally impaired and should be removed under the 25th Amendment. What created the present cycle of bombast, venom, and furor were likewise pathetic efforts to warp the Electoral College voting, to impugn the voting records of three states, to impeach Trump, to sue under the Emoluments Clause, to cite the Logan Act, and to launch the Muller investigation, as well as the amateurish comedic “resistance” invoked by the September 5, 2018 anonymous New York Times op-ed writer and referenced as a near coup by Andrew McCabe and Rod Rosenstein.
All that, amid 80-90 percent negative news coverage, was not just mean discourse, but a fanatic and mean-spirited effort to overturn the results of the 2016 election, ensuring a bitterness the end of which we have not yet seen. The point was not to wait for 2020 and to persuade Americans that they had been in error in 2016, but to destroy—as soon as possible—the man whom Americans had chosen as their president by any rhetorical and concrete means necessary.
By 2008, the Left had learned that it had helped to implode the Bush Administration through an unhinged attack that encompassed everything from “Bush lied, people died” to charging the president with planning a near genocide during the Katrina disaster. In response, the Right had seemed to think the way to calm such serial calumny was to be sober, judicious, and compliant, in the manner of the 2008 McCain and 2012 Romney campaigns. Fairly or not, that prior cycle of left-wing smears and conservative deference likely created Trump, who eventually would have had to be invented had he not existed.
Of course, Trump’s retaliatory tweets directed at the late John McCain or the nonentity George Conway direct attention away from his achievements and should be avoided. They win him no additional voters. They are certainly not Sermon on the Mount, turn-the-other-cheek examples of tolerance—even if part of a long-standing, give-and-take feud with the late McCain, and as a response to the furor of members of the McCain family, especially after the solemn McCain funeral seemed to descend into a Paul Wellstone funeral-like political event.
Nonetheless, Trump’s recent unwise tit-for-tat tweets did not create the “mean girl” hatred of Ilhan Omar, or the stream of consciousness venom of Rashida Tlaib and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. They and their ilk learned that ritually trashing Israel and mouthing polarizing progressive platitudes—laced with hip slang, snark, and obscenity and fueled by peremptory charges of racism and sexism—were winning formulas that since the Bush administration had met only indifferent pushback.
They will continue because they know their tough talk solidifies their base, embarrasses their appeasing party seniors, is transforming the Democratic Party into a Jacobin revolutionary movement, is shielded by empty anticipatory charges of “Islamophobia” and “racism,” and will likely not even be called out by establishment conservatives too mannered and proud to respond—especially when it is so much easier to say “Trump did it.”
Victor Davis Hanson is the Martin and Illie Anderson Senior Fellow in Residence in Classics and Military History at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, a professor of Classics Emeritus at California State University, Fresno, and a nationally syndicated columnist for Tribune Media Services…. READ MORE
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SANTA PAULA, CA – Join us for Free Family Day at the Santa Paula Art Museum on the first Sunday of every month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm! In addition to enjoying our current exhibitions, you’ll experience hands-on art activities for the whole family, with local artists sharing new ideas and projects each month. Admission will be free for everyone and all art-making materials will be provided. On Sunday, April 7, join us for a fun and creative assemblage project – “art boxes” inspired by American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Artist Karen Browdy and students from her local “Conversations in Art History” class will share their own Cornell inspired “art boxes” and lead guests in a creative exploration of materials and design. Be creative, have fun, and make art while you make memories with friends and family!
The Santa Paula Art Museum’s Free Family Days coincide with Free First Sunday at all of Santa Paula’s museums. Santa Paula’s four museums are all located along a one mile stretch of the city’s historic downtown, and all four museums offer free admission on the first Sunday of every month. Make a day of it and visit the Santa Paula Art Museum, the Agriculture Museum, the Aviation Museum of Santa Paula, and the California Oil Museum for free! Hours and activities will vary by location, so be sure to check each museum’s website for full details.
The Santa Paula Art Museum occupies two historic buildings located at 117 N 10th Street and 123 N 10th Street in downtown Santa Paula. The Museum features rotating exhibitions of vintage and contemporary art, creative classes for children and adults, family-friendly events, live musical performances, a gift shop, and more. Regular museum hours are Wednesday through Saturday from 10:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., and Sunday from 12:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m. Regular admission is $4.00 for adults, $3.00 for seniors, and free for students and museum members. For more information, please contact the Museum by calling (805) 525-5554, or e-mail [email protected].
Please scroll down for a list of other upcoming events at the Santa Paula Art Museum through early June 2019 (this may not be a complete list of Museum events) >>
Free Family Day
Date & Time: Sunday, April 7, 2019, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: Join us for Free Family Day at the Santa Paula Art Museum on the first Sunday of every month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. In addition to enjoying the Museum’s current exhibitions, you’ll experience hands-on art activities for the whole family and local artists sharing new ideas and projects each month. On Sunday, April 7, join us for a fun and creative assemblage project – “art boxes” inspired by American assemblage artist Joseph Cornell. Artist Karen Browdy and students from her local “Conversations in Art History” class will share their own Cornell inspired “art boxes” and lead guests in a creative exploration of materials and design. Be creative, have fun, and make art while you make memories with friends and family. Admission is free for everyone.
Date & Time: THIS IS A TWO-PART COURSE on Friday, April 12, 2019, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm AND Saturday, April 13, 2019, from 10:00am to 1:00pm
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: Celebrate spring with the rich colors, intricate patterns, and traditional techniques of Ukrainian egg decorating at the Santa Paula Art Museum! Learn the basics of tools and techniques on day one (April 12), and immerse yourself in practice on day two (April 13). Endlessly creative and somewhat addictive, join us and turn your eggs into masterpieces!
This class is for everyone age 16 and over. All skill levels are welcome. The cost of this two-part class is $80.00 per person, and all supplies will be provided. The class will run from 6:00pm to 9:00pm on Friday, April 12 and from 10:00am to 1:00pm on Saturday, April 13. Pre-registration is required, and online registration is preferred. You can also register by phone by calling (805) 525-5554.
Date & Time: Sunday, May 5, 2019, from 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: Join us for Free Family Day at the Santa Paula Art Museum on the first Sunday of every month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. In addition to enjoying the Museum’s current exhibitions, you’ll experience hands-on art activities for the whole family and local artists sharing new ideas and projects each month. Be creative, have fun, and make a masterpiece while you make memories with friends and family. Admission is free for everyone.
Date & Time: Saturday May 11, 2019, from 12:00pm to 4:00pm
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: On Saturday, May 11, join paper specialist Gail Hercher at the Santa Paula Art Museum and indulge in the joy of hand-crafted, personal books. This bookmaking class will focus on the “buttonhole binding” technique, with endless creative potential for personalized details and creative variations. Each student will leave with at least one unique buttonhole-bound book. This class is for everyone age 16 and over. All skill levels are welcome, and all supplies are provided. The class will run from 12:00pm to 4:00pm. The cost of this class is $40.00 per person. Pre-registration is required, and online registration is preferred. Having trouble registering for class online? Please call us at (805) 525-5554.
Date & Time: THIS IS A THREE-PART COURSE on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm; Wednesday, May 29, 2019, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm; and Wednesday, September 4, 2019, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm.
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: Whether traveling to far-off destinations or enjoying close-to-home outings, capture the magic of your summer travels with an artful journal! Join artist, experienced traveler, and creative journal keeper Karen Browdy to prepare, plan, and share journaling ideas for artful adventures! This three-part course includes three distinct sessions: “Pack a Bag” on Wednesday, May 22, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, and learn what essentials to assemble into your own travel kit to take your art show on the road; “Take a Test Drive” on Wednesday, May 29, from 1:00pm to 4:00pm, as we take a little excursion with your travel kit, make sure nothing has been forgotten, and test drive a small composition; “Share Your Adventures” on Wednesday, September 4, from 1:00pm to 3:00pm, as we come together to share our journaling successes, what we learned on the road, and enjoy what everyone has created. The cost of this three-part course is $85.00 per person. Pre-registration is required, and online registration is preferred. Having trouble registering for class online? Please call us at (805) 525-5554.
Date & Time: THIS IS A THREE-PART COURSE on Saturday June 15, 2019, from 11:00am to 2:00pm; Saturday June 22, 2019, from 11:00am to 2:00pm; and Saturday June 29, 2019, from 11:00am to 2:00pm
Address: Santa Paula Art Museum, 123 N. 10th Street, Santa Paula, CA 93060 / (805) 525-5554
Description of event: Follow experienced watercolorist Wana Klasen on a journey to deepen your watercolor practice during a three-part “Watercolor Intensive” at the Santa Paula Art Museum. Learn tips and tricks to help you feel comfortable in the medium as well as Wana’s joyful perspective on a meaningful personal practice. Find your flow, embrace your inner artist, and dive into watercolors! This three-part course includes three distinct sessions: “Paper, Paint and Practice” on Saturday, June 15, from 11:00am to 2:00pm; “Tips, Tools and Techniques” on Saturday, June 22, from 11:00am to 2:00pm; and “Expanding Expectations” on Saturday, June 29, from 11:00am to 2:00pm. The cost of this course is $120.00 per person, which includes all three sessions. Pre-registration is required, and online registration is preferred. Having trouble registering for class online? Please call us at (805) 525-5554.
Foster VC Kids “Businesses With Heart” program shows how local businesses are stepping up to encourage and support youth and the resource families caring for them.
(VENTURA COUNTY, Calif.)– Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids Businesses with Heart (BWH) program, has now grown to over 40 Ventura County business locations. The BWH program offers discounts on goods and services to resource families and caregivers, some even including internships, mentorship and job opportunities. There is no cost for the businesses who in turn offer savings for the resource families. Learn more at www.fostervckids.org/bwh.
Businesses participating in the BWH program include automotive services, salons, florists, real estate, counseling, dental and legal services, educational and extracurricular activities, retail and restaurants. BWH corporate partner, Chipotle Mexican Grill, has hosted four Ventura County job fairs in the last year and a half, and has hired more than 16 former foster teens. Scotty Shadix, Field Leader with Chipotle Mexican Grill says the company is “a culture of empowerment” and partnering with Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids is “a natural fit with how we conduct business.” Shadix adds, these youth are “so driven, they’ve overcome some significant challenges and they’re incredibly reliable. They seize the opportunity.”
Kevin Brannon of Port Hueneme and founder of the Reel Guppy Outdoors program, spent some of his childhood with resource families and in youth shelters but found fishing at the Pier as a way to connect with nature. Brannon launched the Reel Guppy Outdoors program to share his passion for fishing and the sea with all youth in his community, especially those who grow up in care. Two years ago, Brannon became a BWH partner because, he said, “I want to encourage youth by introducing them to fishing and being outdoors. I want to teach kids that they can lead a good life, especially kids who have been through trauma.” Brannon understands their perspective and says to the youth “know that you are a worthy, valuable person.” Brannon’s company will be offering mentorship opportunities to local youth this year, teaching them about business and careers in marine biology.
“Any business can support Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids, BWH program,” says Dan Collier, aka “the Big Cheese” of PizzaMan Dan’s, who became a BWH partner last year to support families and the youth they care for. “Offer your unique business services to youth and their families, it doesn’t have to be a cash donation,” he advises. Collier decided stop doing paid advertising, choosing instead to make pizza donations to organizations that help local youth and adults in need. “Last year we donated $100,000 worth of pizza and food to hardworking organizations in the cities we serve,” said Collier who feels that giving back is “a powerful tool to support our community.”
Jaci Johnson, Program Coordinator/Resource Family Recruitment, Development & Support for Ventura County Children and Family Services’ BWH program says, “We work to ensure children and families in our community are connected with the resources and opportunities to help our youth thrive. Working together – social workers, businesses, coaches, teachers, volunteers and resource parents – we are all responsible for nurturing these children and teens so they can grow into healthy adulthood.”
About Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids Recognized as a best practice leader statewide in the family recruitment and support component of child welfare, Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids was developed to increase the amount of loving resource families who are ready to take in children in need in Ventura County. This initiative provides resource families with ongoing support services, trauma-informed training, and mentorship to enhance the safety, permanency and well-being of Ventura County’s youth and families. Learn how Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids is making a difference throughout Ventura County, www.fostervckids.org.
Ventura County Children and Family Services’ Foster VC Kids
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