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Reins of love: Through passion and perseverance, local U.S Pony Clubs keep the equestrian legacy alive

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Power to Speak: Not a solution

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Fuel reduction or logging project?: National Forest approves tree and chaparral removal plan in Los Padres Confiscated cannabis conundrum: Sespe Creek Collective’s Sutula waits for product seized in 2016 to be returned “Signals of toxicity”: CSUCI, CFROG team up to examine oil spill impacts on invertebrates Fair shake: County fair and gun show decisions stir controversy at fair board meeting In Brief: ONLINE

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Eye on the Environment: Addressing fear of global climate change with local opportunities

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NEWS Fuel reduction or logging project? Confiscated cannabis National Forest approves tree and chaparral removal plan in Los Padres conundrum

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ive and dead trees up to two feet in diameter as well as old-growth chaparral are slated to be removed as part of a National Forest Service (NFS) project in the Los Padres National Forest on Reyes Peak in Ventura County.

On Oct. 4, the NFS announced the project’s approval. Environmental and indigenous organizations are calling the plan a logging project, but NFS says it is needed to reduce fire fuel in the forest, and ultimately will make the forest healthier.

“The practices the forest service has been using to manage the land are no longer relevant in this critical time of our history.

They should not be allowed to keep doing what they have always done,” said Mariza Sullivan, chair of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. “Efforts should be made to utilize Indigenous knowledge and practices that take into account adapting to living in a fire-prone environment. The forest service tends to pursue a very aggressive program of logging, clearing out valuable chaparral along the way.”

Greg Thompson, forester with the LPNF based out of Frazier Park, said there is a big difference in forest management between Northern and Southern california.

In Southern California, “we are not in the traditional logging game, our goal is to keep the forest, the forest.” He said normally, even without an approved project like the Reyes Peak project, the forest service must and has authority to remove trees of any diameter that pose a risk to human safety. For example a dead tree that could fall into a campground or a roadway, potentially injuring a camper or blocking a road, would be slated for removal.

He emphasized that their overall management strategy is in no way opposed to “dead snags,” which create wildlife habitat, and that the Reyes Peak project includes an effort to “try to keep any [healthy] tree over 24 inches in diameter.” He noted that dead trees in “thick” stands of mature trees would be the ones primarily targeted for removal.

As for when the Reyes Peak project will be implemented, Thompson said it could be worked into the forest service budget around “the end of the current fiscal year, so about September 2022, but more likely 2023.” Forest service staff may be used to implement the project, but for any larger felling of trees and mastication, a contractor company would be used.

In that case Thompson puts in the request for work and a contract officer in the forest service manages the process, which could include a request for proposals, or a contractor could be selected from the pre-approved list, or it could be earmarked for a minorityor woman-owned contract company.

Six environmental organizations issued a joint statement in response to the project’s approval condemning the plan, saying it is not about fuel reduction but rather about logging, and declaring that the NFS skirted the requirement for a more thorough environmental review of the plan by using a loophole in issuing reports from various “specialists” that were only made available to the public the day the decision was released. The process used by the NFS does not, according to the coalition of organizations, provide the public with an opportunity to respond, or appeal this decision, other than filing legal action, which is being considered.

Forest service project documents state that current vegetation in the area “consists primarily of Jeffrey Pine, Sierra Nevada mixed-conifer, white fir, chaparral, and canyon live oak. The area includes 423 acres of mixed conifer dominated stands and approximately 316 acres of chaparral.” Chaparral habitat is part of the fuel identified for removal by the project.

“This project violates the forest service’s obligation to protect unique opportunities for the public to experience nature, in this case, beautiful, old-growth chaparral,” said Richard Halsey, director of the California Chaparral Institute. “Once the grinding machines are finished clearing hundreds of feet of native chaparral habitat on either side of the road, visitors will be met with little more than a scarred landscape covered in wood chips and flammable weeds.”

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comments submitted opposing the plan.

“Project opponents provided Los Padres Forest staff with a great deal of data, critiquing their logging plan and also suggesting how to improve it,” said Alasdair Coyne, conservation director with Keep Sespe Wild. “Los Padres planners ignored every one of these suggestions — meaning that their proposal remains purely and simply a logging plan.”

Coyne also challenges statements made by forest service staff that the amount of trees and timber to be removed is very small, and that there isn’t enough timber to make it a worthwhile logging project. He points to figures from Los Padres National Forest’s own calculations of 423 acres generally containing about 36 trees an acre. He then looks at data used by the timber industry. Using a “board-foot calculator, [with] figures based on 16’ long logs,” and estimating an average tree size of 18 inches in diameter, “this gives 59 board feet per tree...One board foot is 12”x12” x 1 inch thick.

Multiply by 15,000 trees comes to 885,000 board feet, enough for [Los Padres National Forest] total quota. That is only allowing for one 16” log per tree.”

The project applies to 755 acres in the Pine Mountain area, titled “Reyes Peak Forest Health and Fuels Reduction Project.” According to the NFS, the project is aimed at reducing the amount of dead wood in the forest due to “overstocking, drought and the devastating effects of insect and disease infestation.” The report states that the federal government has designated the project area as an “Insect and Disease Treatment Area” where the forest health is expected to cause more trees to die over the next 15 years.

The report continues that the Reyes Peak project is designed to “improve forest health by removing small diameter [living trees] and dead trees from densely packed stands and using prescribed burning to reduce understory biomass.” This will address “unhealthy competition” for resources and “enhance the survivability of the remaining trees,” resulting in larger trees surviving longer.

According to NFS, the project falls into three federal categories, “established by Congress,” that allow the project to proceed with the current process and without an environmental impact statement or environmental assessment. First, the area has been designated as subject to “Insect and Disease Infestation.” Second, the project is aligned with Wildfire Resilience approaches and, finally, the planned “improvement activities” do not “include the use of herbicides or do not require more than one mile of low standard road construction.”

The project will include using “mechanical treatments, mastication of brush and smaller trees and hand treatments” to reduce the thickness of “selected stands.”

NFS officials have repeatedly emphasized the need for the project is about forest health to reduce fire risk, although the final documents released with the decision offer other reasons as well, including the need to have “safe and effective locations from which to perform fire suppression operations,” in order to protect the “1,200 acres of suitable California spotted owl roosting and foraging habitat” in the area.

The coalition opposing the project points to research conducted

by Los Padres ForestWatch that found “multiple California spotted owls — one of the rarest owl species in California — near the project area.”

Surface and ladder fuels are proposed to be reduced within the chaparral and conifer fuel types so that fire intensities may be reduced, and to make the area more resilient to wildfire. The project area is close to the wildland-urban interface (approximately three miles from the community of Camp Scheideck).

The Point Reyes tree and chaparral removal plan is based on the overall forest plan and “vision” which contains several goals, some amended in 2005. One stated goal is to “Improve the ability of southern California communities to limit loss of life and property and recover from the high intensity wildland fires that are a natural part of this state’s ecosystem.”

This decision is the third by the NFS to approve the removal of trees within the Los Padres National Forest, with a fourth slated for approval in Mt. Pinos early next year.

Project information is online at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/ project/?project=58012

Sespe Creek Collective’s Sutula waits for product seized in 2016 to be returned

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t’s said the wheels of justice turn slowly. In the case of a 2016 arrest and seizure of hundreds of thousands of dollars of medical cannabis products, that saying rings true.

As of press deadline, Chelsea Sutula, founder and operator of Sespe Creek Collective, a cannabis dispensary based in Ojai, is still waiting for the return of medical marijuana products seized during a raid on her offices and home in 2016. After an investigation, raid and being arrested by the Ventura County Sheriff’s Department, all charges were ultimately dismissed by the court. Finally, on Sept. 28, 2021, nearly five years later, the court ordered the products seized returned to her.

“This is the final chapter in my criminal case from 2016,” said Sutula. Computers and a few other items were returned to her last year. “They wouldn’t return all the cannabis until the statute of limitations on all charges ran out,” she believes. Her attorney filed a motion to return all of the seized items, it was granted, the Ventura County District Attorney did not object, and yet, she still waits.

“I”m having a difficult time getting anybody on the phone,” said Sutula. The paperwork is all signed and filed with the court, and has the judge’s signature. On Oct. 12 the court said the Sheriff should accept her paperwork, but the Sheriff told her they need it officially from the court. “They are giving me the run around.

Once this phase is finished, then I can seek damages.”

The cannabis products are “non-usable, non-salable,” as they’ve been sitting in the evidence room since 2016. “I have to destroy it by law.”

Sutula’s office and home were raided and she was arrested a week before the Tuesday election of Nov. 8, 2016, when California voters cast ballots declaring medical marijuana and recreational marijuana legal.

Today, “technically as a licensed cannabis [dispensary] business I don’t have a transport license, so I’m not legally allowed to transport to my [licensed place of business].” So to follow the letter of the law, Sutula will have to hire a licensed transporter just to collect it, and bring it to her offic-

es, where she can then destroy it.

She said her attorney has advised her that if she’s acting as an agent of her licensed dispensary, especially since the product is going to be destroyed, she would probably be fine to transport it to her dispensary for destruction.

Sutula estimates the value of what was seized at about $350,000 “market value, resale at the time they took it. I kept a pretty accurate inventory list.” She said the way it was seized and listed in the court order is a “total sham of proper procedure, in my opinion . . . when they took all that property during the raid, they are saying 27 bags of marijuana.

No way. They dumped it all in the garbage bags and called it a bag.”

Marijuana was frequently packaged in small zip-lock plastic bags.

A morning raid in SWAT gear

Proposition 64 was on the ballot in November 2016. The law asked Californians if adults should be able to legally use cannabis for non-medical use.

“I was very vocal and active,” recalled Sutula. “Mainly in Ojai, the only city willing to work with us instead of just banning dispensaries like everywhere else. I spoke at a town hall meeting, everyone knew who I was.”

At that time her dispensary was in a nondescript industrial park in Oxnard. It was only a delivery service. “Nobody knew where we were. It was a nonprofit, medical-only collective. Totally in compliance with SB420 and Prop 214.

We paid all taxes, our employees were employees, not contractors.

We paid workers’ compensation insurance, everything that we could to comply.”

She remembered it was around 9:30 a.m. on Thursday, Nov. 3, at the Oxnard location. “The Oxnard Police Department was involved.

Officers knocked on the door, they said ‘Sheriff’s department, open up.’”

She recalled noting how absurd the officers looked in full SWAT gear. “We were ushered out and told to wait on the curb. The first thing they did was to unplug all the video cameras. They spent their time hooting and hollering. They were excited . . . having a field day in their new gear. Bagging up stuff.

I was questioned more than once without access to my attorney.”

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Sutula believed they were “convinced I was doing manufacturing there, that they’d find butane, a hash oil lab, or cultivation. They were so clueless coming in. They had no idea it was just totally an office.”

She was charged with two counts of perjury, maintaining a place for selling a controlled substance, and for possession of marijuana.

That night she was questioned for several hours with no access to an attorney. “I sat there in a cell, then was transferred to the main jail.”

She was booked and put in a holding cell with people in for DUIs. “I was given no food or water for about 18 hours. It was pretty crappy.”

“They raided my house,” she continued. “They asked me to turn over the key or they would bust in the door. When I asked to see the search warrant, Officer James Landford said ‘this isn’t the movies,’ it was a sealed search warrant. They could do whatever they wanted.”

Her home in Thousand Oaks was raided. “My pets were impounded that night. I had been able to make arrangements to have a friend come and take care of them.” But the sheriff’s department put all her pets in the Camarillo Animal Shelter.

The first thing she did upon being released from jail was “get them out.

I had to pay to get them out. They all came home with kennel cough.”

Starting over

The raid meant the end for the dispensary.

“When they raided us, obviously they took all the inventory.

Everybody lost their jobs. That was the end at that particular moment.

I spent a night in jail and was released the next day.”

Around that same time, the city of Ojai passed an emergency ordinance regulating dispensaries and the community “rallied around Jeff Kroll [Shangri La Care Cooperative], there was a similar action against him.”

With Ojai now allowing dispensaries, she applied to get licensed. “I had to find investors, started over from scratch . . . and relinquished 40% of [my] equity of the collective.” Sutula was able to get a dispensary up and running again. “We hired several people back, and opened exactly a year later in Ojai . . .19 months after they arrested me all charges were dismissed. I was found not guilty on all charges by the court.”

Geoff Dean was Ventura County Sheriff at the time of the raid. He did not seek reelection in 2018.

The Ventura County Sheriff’s Office did not immediately respond to questions about why the items seized from Sutula have not yet been returned to her.

Project information is online at: https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=58012

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ate on Saturday and into Sunday, Oct. 10, word of the Huntington Beach oil spill began to spread. So far, reports of 155,000 gallons of oil being released dominate a discussion about impacts to birds, fish and marine mammals.

The current thinking as to the cause is that a large tanker ship’s anchor pulled a seafloor oil pipeline, causing the pipe to split, releasing oil into the ocean. Beaches have since reopened.

Meanwhile, well north of the impacted coastline, a Camarillo-based science professor and a Ventura-based drone pilot and spill response volunteer began to mobilize, both recognizing an opportunity.

“I started making plans to go down on Monday, I could get there on Tuesday,” said Jimmy Young, resident of Ventura, owner of McConnell’s Fine Ice Cream in Ventura.

Young volunteers as the Spill Response Lead for Climate First:Replacing Oil and Gas (CFROG). He also serves on the nonprofit organization’s advisory board.

Young had worked before with Dr. Sean Anderson, program chair and professor in the Environmental Science and Resource Management department at California State University, Channel Islands. He let Anderson know he would be headed down and Anderson asked Young to bring him back samples of the oil.

Leaving at 4 a.m. Tuesday morning to beat the traffic, Young arrived on scene at 7 a.m. He found a beach access point about 200 yards away from where the media was staging, on the same stretch of beach where hundreds of cleanup crew members in yellow hazmat suits combed the sand for blobs of oil and tar.

“I don’t know how they’re going to clean up that mess down there.” Young staged out of four different locations. The first was at a spot where the Santa Ana River meets the beach. “My impression was just shock.”

He obtained two handful-size samples of oil that differed in consistency. “Two different types of blobs.” He bagged them separately and presented them to Anderson.

[2015 Refugio Oil Spill north of Santa Barbara],” Anderson said.

He guided students in toxicology experiments seeking to understand the impacts of the spill on the smaller creatures that are often forgotten.

With every oil spill, we see the seabirds, fish and the marine mammals that may be impacted. This is terrible, but Anderson points out the wider impact is occurring beneath the surface, among the invertebrates that make up the base of the food chain.

“In the grand scheme of things, with these types of spills, not that many birds or mammals are impacted . . . Obviously birds are killed . . . [about] 30 oiled seabirds” have been found so far. “That sucks, but it’s not as if it’s catastrophic. One of the things that really is hit in the ecosystem are the invertebrates. They are the base of the food chain . . . and living in the coastal ecosystem . . . people don’t think about them.”

His students study the effects of oil spills on sand crabs and mole crabs.

“Sand crabs are right in the immediate intertidal zone. They actually choose to live where the waves are breaking. Not super subtidal, not above the high tide. They are at the tide line . . . the epicenter of the oil events, and they aren’t typically studied.”

But he points out “everybody eats them. Fish eat them. Birds eat them.

Humans use them as bait. They are like candy for predators.”

He explained that sand crabs “sit in the sand and when the waves break they kick water into their mouths.

They filter feed. When oil is coming in they are kicking what could be oil into their bodies.”

Anderson said during the 2015 Refugio spill, he and his students walked the beach along that wave line. “We saw dead individuals.” He said it’s normal to find crab shells or exoskeletons on the beach, as they grow they shed their shells.

“We don’t typically see the body, with meat and organs.” At Refugio they saw many dead bodies of sand crabs, “right at the oiled strand line on heavily oiled beaches. It seemed to be an impact of the spill.”

Oil spills impact marine food chain

Sand crab embryos most vulnerable

“We are going to try and repeat some of the stuff we did with the

The problem with sand crabs is “they are highly variable critters.

Pacific sand carb (Emerita analoga) female with lots of orange eggs.

You can dig for them right where you’re standing and get nothing.

Then 10 feet away get tons. It’s hard to say how many absolutely died,” from any particular event. So to get at the impacts you can’t just count the bodies.

Ideally, Anderson said, researchers would be able to measure how many sand crabs lived in an area before an oil spill, and how many lived there after. “You’d measure the delta, the change . . . But you can’t always do that. In the case of sand crabs, we’ve been monitoring them for a little bit, not decades.

But there’s another approach.”

If you can’t measure the before and after of an event, you can “measure the toxicity of this poison in a controlled way, in labs.”

In their experiments, Anderson’s students use glass jars with air stones, and different concentrations of oiled sea water. They put clean sand crabs in the jars and study how they respond.

Are they dying when exposed to more oil? His students didn’t see a lot of mortality. “We didn’t see a clear effect of oil on dying, but what about their behavior? It might not kill them, but could make them sluggish.”

To test this theory, the students used aluminum pie tins with clean beach sand and seawater. They’d take the sand crabs that had been living in different concentrations of oiled water and “test how fast they bury.

We saw a suggestion of slower burrowing with higher oil exposure. But it was not significant.”

“Then we took sand crab eggs.

Sand crabs are always making eggs.

They peak in late spring, early to mid-summer.” In their research following Refugio, Anderson said his students “did see an effect on the eggs . . . changed development.”

Eggs exposed to higher concentrations of oil differed dramatically from eggs exposed to lower concentrations.

“The eye spots were not developing . . . we saw very few eye spots, mishapenness.” Anderson said this signified that the toxicity of the spill would have a greater impact on the young rather than the adults.

“It’s a common thing. Adults of anything — humans, apes, birds — adults are most resistant to toxins.

They have more fat, thicker skin.

Whereas babies and juveniles are really vulnerable. Developing embryos are the most vulnerable, what we found confirmed that.”

How does that toxicity exposure in the developing embryo affect the crab later in life? Anderson posited that it might hamper its ability to position itself properly in the sand to be able to feed.

With the Huntington Beach spill researchers can start to understand whether it’s a “generalized phenomenon, a signal of toxicity.” If they see the same results in crabs now, in October, it will show it’s “more universally a problem, and not just a problem in June,” helping to confirm whether the toxic exposure caused the eye malformation.

Anderson’s students will soon be taking the samples gathered by Young and expose “these critters over a period of weeks.”

“It’s rare that [these events] just kill everybody, more common to screw them up, further stress them.”

He added that If we just talk about how many animals are killed or oiled as a result of an oil spill or other event, a whole segment of impacts are being overlooked. esrm.csuci.edu www.CFROG.org Video Dr. Sean Anderson created on Oct. 11, 2021 in the wake of the Huntington Beach oil spill for his students about the 2015 Refugio Oil Spill and their study: www.youtube. com/watch?v=cpAkeJyacao October 14, 2021 — —7

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Addressing fear of global climate change with local opportunities

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by David Goldstein s Halloween decorations appear this month, few children will fear the goblins, ghosts, and ghouls depicted in plastic and paperboard. But there is a topic sending shivers down the spines of young people today.

Recently, KCLU, the local affiliate of National Public Radio, ran a six-minute segment in which Caroline Hickman, a lecturer at the University of Bath, in England, spoke about young people’s anxiety regarding climate change. Professor Hickman’s team surveyed 10,000 youth in 10 counties, asking their thoughts about climate change. She characterized the answers as “devastating,” claiming young people are so “frightened” about their environmental future, it affects their “daily functioning.”

According to Professor Hickman, two-thirds of surveyed youth said they felt “angry, powerless, helpless, guilty and ashamed” of how society is responding to the challenge of climate change. Worse, “over half were telling us that they thought humanity was doomed”; four of 10 people aged 16 to 25 “felt reluctant to have children themselves because of their fears about climate change”; and many said these feelings negatively affected their “eating, sleeping, going to school, studying, working, playing and having fun.”

Fears focused on increasingly frequent fires, floods, droughts and heat spells, as well as long-term changes associated with climate change, such as rising sea levels.

Just as parents can comfort children by explaining the truth about supernatural Halloween frights, Professor Hickman counsels sharing the truth about natural climate fears, mixing bad news with

Fair shake County fair and gun show decisions stir controversy at fair board meeting

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t the Sept. 28 public meeting of the Ventura County Fair Board, over 100 people were in attendance.

Some were unable to login because the online attendance was at capacity for the fair’s account.

The two hot button topics drawing such interest were gun shows, and setting dates for the 2022 fair.

Gun show ok’d, but no ghost guns

The Ventura County Fair Board has voted to move forward with a gun show scheduled for Oct. 23-24 that is part of an existing contract with Utah-based Crossroads of the West Gun Shows.

Many board members commented that they want to have their existing policy that allows gun shows to be on a future meeting agenda, as the board has been advised they would need to alter that policy prior to banning gun shows or canceling existing contracts. According to statements made by Board Chair Leslie Cornejo, the board has been told by state legal counsel in the Department of Agriculture that such actions could put it in legal jeopardy.

At an executive committee meeting on Sept. 23, board members commented on state legislation, noting that it would be easier for the board if the state would pass legislation banning gun shows on state property. In that instance,

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good news so hope can counter fear. Empowering people to make a difference is also a positive response, and Aaron Engstrom, the Area Plans and Resources Manager of the Ventura County Planning Division, recently managed a project facilitating such an opportunity.

Using grant funding from the California Coastal Commission, Engstrom is engaged in a multi-year, multi-pronged effort, called VC Resilient, to update the county’s plans for climate resilience.

He recently gathered public input through stakeholder and community surveys by engaging a group of California Lutheran University graduate students from the Masters in Public Policy and Administration program to collect and analyze survey data.

The survey was designed to both gather data and educate the public, and Engstrom oversaw survey distribution through websites, email lists, and other outreach methods. Engstrom targeted areas inland of Ormond Beach and the McGrath Beach area for special attention, since flood control experts have identified these areas among local sites potentially most vulnerable to sea level rise, and these are also economically disadvantaged areas. The Planning Division sent paper surveys, in Spanish and English, to homes in these areas.

Nearly 200 households provided input on preparations for climate resilience, and more will contribute as the process of gathering public comments continues for this sea level rise planning project.

After analyzing the data, the CLU students, led by faculty member Dr. Loredana Carson, presented their findings last month to the Ventura County Planning Division, providing the public’s input on potential

actions the county can take to adapt to climate change. The students also made recommendations for additional community outreach.

As one example of an adaptation policy, building standards for homes and infrastructure in vulnerable areas may require strengthened foundations, designed to withstand predicted levels of inundation during the expected lifetime of the structure being built.

The Planning Division will gather more public input, collect additional data, conduct more studies and analyze options, and will likely present draft policies for review by the Planning Commission in early 2022, followed by referral to the Ventura County Board of Supervisors for consideration.

On a Ventura County Planning website, VC Resilient Coastal Adaptation Project (vcrma.org), the public can leave comments and, at the bottom of the page, sign up for notifications of future opportunities to participate, including draft documents for review and notices of public outreach meetings and public hearings.

People may feel overwhelmed by the global phenomenon of climate change, and the requirement of worldwide cooperation needed to attain United Nations’ emission reduction goals is challenging, but preparing local resiliency and providing input to policy makers are empowering steps available to everyone, including our youth.

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the board wouldn’t have to be subject to increased liability.

That legislation, Senate Bill 264, became law on Oct. 8.

As originally written, SB264 would have banned gun shows on all state-owned property, such as fairground.

There was a last minute amendment to the bill, however, that limited its scope to apply only to the Orange County FairGrounds. Still, analysts say the bill sets a precedent for how to stop gun shows on fairground property.

The Ventura County gun show was authorized with a few caveats, including the banning of what are popularly called “ghost guns” and “do-it-yourself kits.” These kits and parts allow a person to assemble a gun that does not have a serial number, can be sold without the required background checks and is essentially untraceable. It can also be assembled by a person who is prohibited from owning a gun at all. These kits can be purchased online, and companies selling them state on their websites that they are not “selling firearms” and that the purchaser is responsible for knowing their state’s firearms purchasing laws.

Michael Bradbury, Ventura County Fair board member and former elected Ventura County District Attorney (19792003), made the motion to allow the gun show to proceed, but to prohibit the sale of these untraceable parts and kits.

Crossroads of the West states on its website that no guns purchased at a gun show in California can leave the building because of the required background checks and waiting periods. But these partially assembled, incomplete sets in kit form can be carried out. According to Brady United, a national gun reform organization with a Ventura County chapter, the kits require the purchaser to simply drill a few holes (drill bits are provided) and that the guns can easily be assembled in as little as 30 minutes.

Bradbury’s motion passed 5 to 3, with a second motion passing unanimously to bring forward the gun show policy

for review and a vote at a future meeting.

to comply with new state laws that went into effect on Oct. 1.

According to a representative from the Clerk of the Boards office, written comments will be accepted during the meetings with the relevant agenda item, and throughout presentations and

David Goldstein, Ventura County Public Works Agency Environmental Resource Analyst, can be reached at david.goldstein@ventura.org or 805-658-4312.

No 2022 fair dates yet

At the conclusion of the Sept. 28 meeting, Bradbury stated that the board needed to make an effort to win back the trust of the public that has expressed a feeling of not being heard.

This feeling was evident throughout the meeting, as some on the board accused members of the public of “fear mongering” and spreading “misinformation” on social media regarding the possibility of dates for the Ventura County Fair being moved later into the summer or even October.

“The comments by directors about fear mongering and misinformation are extremely disappointing,” said Megan Hook, one of the founders of 805AgKids, an organization formed to ensure that youth livestock auctions took place even during the pandemic. She was speaking with the Ventura County Reporter after the meeting. “The public should not be scolded for voicing their opinion. It discourages people from making public comments, defeating the purpose of public meetings.”

Parents of students who are participating in the youth livestock auction and the breeders of various livestock animals implored the board to keep the dates consistent with past years and to set dates as soon as possible, because animals have already been bred and are already pregnant.

Fairground CEO Barbara Quaid has requested “flexibility” in setting the 2022 dates, a request which will require the board to vote to change existing policy, which states that the fair “shall be 12 days long during the month of July/August.”

Quaid defended the need for flexibility, saying the fair circuit in the region is a route for vendors who move from

discussion on that item until it is either voted on, or is otherwise concluded that day. For written comments to be distributed to Supervisors prior to the item, the Clerk’s office requests comments be submitted as soon as possible, preferably prior to the date of

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Reins of love

Elaine Sanders of Riverview Pony Club on Red Barron “Ace” at the 2017 U.S. Pony Club National Championships, Kentucky Horse Park.

Through passion and perseverance, local U.S Pony Clubs keep the equestrian legacy alive

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t’s all about the horse.

If you know a person who has horses in their life, it’s safe to say you’re familiar with them being unavailable due to something related to their horse: a show, a lesson or even just a ride.

Sometimes a horse owner will have to trim their travel or entertainment budget because of horse-related expenses. Frequently, those with horses on the brain (as well as hay in their hair and dust on their boots) only want to talk about these amazing four-legged creatures that have seemingly taken over their life. They’ll tell the story of their equestrian life by noting the horses they’ve ridden along the way and the lessons they’ve learned.

When asked why they ride, or commit so much in the way of time and money to horses, many get a wistful look in their eyes as they recall the great rides, sometimes fleeting moments when a feeling of synergy passed between them and the horse they were on. Horse people are a different breed.

“It’s an addiction like being addicted to drugs,” says Greg Coulson, 73.

This particular addiction is good for the body and mind, but to those afflicted, it’s a pull as strong as any other. Today, in addition to giving riding lessons at Peppercorn Ranch, which Coulson owns and operates with his wife, Lauren Royce, in Upper Ojai, he volunteers as the regional supervisor for the Camino Real Region of the United States Pony Club, the largest equestrian educational organization in the world.

He runs the region with help from volunteers Jennifer Eman of Oxnard, who serves as secretary; Kim Goto Miner of Santa Rosa Valley acting as treasurer; Sharon Bonfield of Frazier Park, regional instructional coordinator; and Kimberly Rhodes of Simi Valley, horse management organizer. Each club also has a governing board.

A lifelong passion

Coulson’s love of horses and riding has been a lifelong addiction. He grew up in Ventura, attended Ojai Valley School (OVS) and “cowboyed a little” at Taylor Ranch. His early riding was all western. Later, when he attended University of California, Davis, he realized his all-western riding background didn’t cover all the bases. As part of the horse program at Davis he was asked to start young horses under saddle, some with the intention of being ridden in the English discipline.

“I figured I better learn English riding . . . I discovered I really needed to start over from scratch.” Coulson learned there were gaps in his ability and that with English riding there were additional “bells and whistles” that could be fine tuned with the horse that were more complex than with the western approach.

He likened the difference to a “piano and an organ . . . a piano can be fantastic, but an organ has all those rows of keys.”

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work with the natural tendencies of a horse, only asking it to perform what it can physically and mentally achieve.

All riding styles involve teaching a horse to respond to cues from the rider or handler. Generally, cues come from the seat, the hands and the legs. Some riders in some cases may use voice cues, although vocal cues tend to be less desirable in a competition setting.

The long sliding stop in a western reining competition is achieved by a particular cue, as is the piaffe (trot in place) in dressage, or the lengthening or shortening of a stride in the approach to a jump. But in all cases, certain breeds of horses, and individual animals within those breeds, will have a higher aptitude for a particular skill or movement. Skilled trainers support riders in bringing out each horse’s innate skills.

Coulson’s riding, training and coaching expertise focuses on three-day eventing, a genre within the English riding disciplines. Today, it’s hard to see the origins of the events, but they have their roots in the development of horses for war. As

recently as a century ago, many of the movements asked of horses in the show ring were used as tests for horses ridden by mounted cavalry units.

While at UC Davis, Coulson obtained bachelor’s degrees in animal science and anthropology and then received his master’s in educational administration from California State University, Northridge. With over 50 years of equestrian experience, today he focuses on three-day eventing (dressage, cross country jumping, show jumping) but crosses the spectrum of riding disciplines including driving, breeding and training. He has led thousands of riders through lessons, from first timers to high-level, high-speed jumpers. He served as a fence judge during the 1984 Olympic Games Three-Day Eventing competition (held at the Santa Anita Racetrack) and has trained and coached many high-level eventing horse and rider teams.

Coulson also serves as an expert witness in litigation involving equestrian accidents.

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several years before founding Peppercorn Ranch. He has been a Pony Club leader since 1980. At that time the OVS program included the Ojai Valley Pony Club (no longer in existence) where students from Nordhoff HIgh School, Thacher School and OVS could board horses at OVS and would ride together and go through the program, competing as a team at rallies.

Coulson and Royce own and live onsite at Peppercorn.

Royce has been riding seriously since 1977 and serves on the board of the Ventura County Chapter of the California Dressage Society. She’s also a Pony Club leader and at one time was ranked first- and second-level Dressage Champion in VCCDS and is an experienced riding instructor.

Roots of Pony Club

The roots of Pony Club can be found in the British Horse Society. In 1929, the British Pony Club was formed as a way to bring up new riders for fox hunts. Families realized they needed a process to train and foster new riders and ensure they could safely join in the hunt. Those processes, and what would eventually become the English riding disciplines of today, evolved from tests administered to the army officer cavalry.

Horses had to be obedient and perform various movements, as well as have the stamina to run, jump and cover large areas of uneven terrain.

Three-day eventing today includes, as the name suggests, three days of events, with a different “test” each day. Dressage is first, and takes place in a flat arena where the rider must direct the horse through a sort of a dance. Patterns are determined by the level of competition, and are revised every three years. Circles, diagonals, lead changes (meaning the horse changes the leading side at the canter), all done in collection, in which the horse carries its body in a poise that exudes strength and a readiness to respond to the rider’s every cue — much as a horse in war would need to charge toward the enemy then quickly change direction.

The second day is cross country, following a course over open land with jumps at speed. Distance, jump difficulty and speed are determined by the competition level. Distances range from 2.75 miles to 4 miles. High-level competition can be quite fast, with large and wide jumps, and usually features a time frame; penalties are given for going overtime. Water obstacles are common. Horse and rider must demonstrate a high level of endurance and ability. Coulson said that today, many of the cross country events are won and lost on those overtime penalty points.

The final day is show jumping, which consists of a jumping course in a flat arena. The course generally includes tighter and more turns, requiring horse and rider to have excellent timing and communication. Coming on the final day, it also demonstrates the horse’s ability to recover from the previous cross country event. Penalties for knocking off rails from the jumps or going overtime make or break the final scores.

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Horse management at the barn is also scored, and riders are expected to have all required equipment on hand, including first aid kits for horse and rider. The tack must be clean and in good condition, appropriate clothing worn and the tack room organized properly.

The testing criteria might seem exacting to the unfamiliar, but Coulson emphasized that, “There is a reason for everything. Some of it seems silly . . . they are really about crossing the t’s and dotting the i’s . . . it may seem silly until someone lands in the hospital. My job is to keep our members out of the hospital.”

A 2018 research study found that “horse-related injuries have the highest likelihood of requiring hospitalization” based on emergency room records across the country and that the “majority of injured riders said they could have prevented the accident,” as the accident and injury were related to “rider/handler error.”

These “avoidable” accidents were most commonly related to broken tack. In nearly every case, “educational impact” was found to be a contributing factor related to the “cause, avoidability and severity” of the injury, meaning that with better education that type of incident could have been avoided. (1) The focus on safety, and developing skills in Pony Club, make the certifications well respected within the upper levels of equestrian competition, and they’re commonly listed on the resumes of those looking for work in the equestrian industry.

For love, not money

Today the two active clubs in Ventura County, Riverview and Santa Rosa Valley, are part of the 11-club Camino Real Region, which also includes four centers with current active membership. The clubs themselves are nonprofits, although Pony Club also includes “centers,” which can be a for-profit business operated by the trainer. In Coulson’s case, Riverview is the nonprofit organization, and Peppercorn Ranch is the center.

Both Riverview and Santa Rosa Valley focus on threeday eventing, but Pony Club offers competitive programs in

dressage, eventing, games, gymkhana (timed obstacle racing), horse management, polocrosse, tetrathlon, western dressage and show jumping. Resource programs, primarily educational, are offered in distance riding, driving, fox hunting, hunter seat, polo and vaulting (gymnastics on horseback).

Membership fees may vary by club, but average around $250 for 12 months. Lessons and rally fees are in addition to that. Peppercorn does not charge a coaching fee for Pony Club members at rallies.

“COVID has been really harmful on Pony Club. We’ve lost a ton of members,” Coulson noted, adding that “dips” in membership are common over the years and seasons. “We expect it to come back up.”

Clubs rely on active parent volunteers who manage the club, including its fundraising. Recently Riverview raised funds to pay for the cost of its team (including horse transport) to attend the national championships in Kentucky.

Riverview owns 10 horses available to members. Access to horses, Coulson pointed out, is an obvious issue with riding and lessons. Today, with the cost of everything going up, it’s challenging for trainers to maintain a herd of horses fit and sound for riding and work. Many trainers are now requiring riders taking lessons to lease a horse to help cover the costs.

Coulson said that many people think trainers are getting “rich” giving lessons, which is really rare. “Yes, when you look at the money coming in, it looks like a lot, but it’s about the net.”

In other words: After expenses, the take home pay dwindles.

“It takes just one vet bill of $2,000 or $3,000 to tear through your budget.”

When asked about what a person should look for in a horseriding and training facility, he responded, “Don’t be impressed by fancy white fences, people dressed to the nines.” He said he watches how attentive people at facilities are to the horses, are they walking far ahead of the horse they are leading and disContinued on Page 14

Running the gauntlet

In order to be able to compete at higher levels, riders must demonstrate proficiency at the lower levels. The structure of Pony Club defines the testing and how one advances to the next level. While many members of clubs are children and teens, there is a masters division for adults. In addition, Coulson said anyone can join as an individual and work through certain levels on their own. Any trainer can start a club or center.

Clubs typically depend on a core board of parents who govern, fundraise and plan events. Riverview Pony Club, supported by Peppercorn Ranch, hosts an annual derby which usually takes place at El Sueno Equestrian Center in Somis.

Pony Club’s horsemanship sections include horse anatomy and barn management. Participants are also taught to speak confidently to examiners at Pony Club rallies, who will talk with the rider after a test, ask them what went well and where they thought things could have gone better. Being able to teach and relay information to another person is another key aspect of the Pony Club program. Members who have some certifications can start doing lead line lessons with brand new riders to

Camino Real Region Pony Club riders (from left) Shelby Spangenberg, Sarah Bonfield, Bridgette Sibley and Sophia Johnson at the U.S. Pony Club Championships at Kentucky Horse Park, July 2021. Photo submitted.

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tracted, “are things sloppy.” Any training facility should have a “program or plan.”

This is where the structure of Pony Club acts as a clear and consistent guide to both instructors and students. Setting goals and achieving milestones help keep members motivated and engaged, and learning.

Many of the horses at Riverview were donated to the nonprofit club. Coulson’s for-profit business pays for the feeding, veterinary, farrier and other expenses, in exchange for also using the horses in paid lessons. It allows the club to have horses for its members to lease and ride.

Since the horses are donated, it’s “rare to get a premium horse” said Coulson. But with training and lessons both horse and rider can excel.

Shelby Spangenberg schooling Red Barron “Ace” over the cross country course at Peppercorn Ranch in Upper Ojai. Oct. 9, 2021.

Photo by Kimberly Rivers

All about the horse

In 2017 a 15.3-hand Quarter Horse gelding, originally from Mexico and now owned by Riverview Pony Club — registered as Red Barron but affectionately called “Ace” in the barn — took third place in show jumping at the U.S. Pony Club (USPC) National Championships held every year at the historic Kentucky Horse Park. Ace was ridden by Elaine Sanders, then a member of Riverview and now working with the U.S. Olympic rider Phillip Dutton in Pennsylvania.

Today, Ace is 19 and is being ridden by Shelby Spangenberg, 16, of Thousand Oaks.

“It’s about being better for my horse,” said Spangenberg.

She trains with Coulson and enjoys the responsibility and learning about building a connection with the horse. “It’s not just physical,” but also “being able to read your horse, to talk without words.”

Spangenberg and Riverview teammate Sophia Johnson, 15, who attends El Camino High School in Ventura, travelled to Kentucky Horse Park in July for the USPC championships.

Johnson rides a 19-year-old American Warmblood gelding named Arogon’s Elegant Falcon, or just Falcon, who sticks in at 16.2 hands. Johnson rode Falcon to a solid score that helped the team overall at the championships.

Riverview had the best overall team score for riding, but the win is in the details. Club members are responsible for managing the barn, parents and trainers must stay out of the area. This means it all falls on the members to “sink or swim.” So while the team won in the riding portion of the competition, they

were docked points when a few details got missed on the horse management side, and Riverview lost by 7.23 points.

Both Johnson and Spangenberg had a lesson last week at Peppercorn Ranch, where Couldson told them they’d do some light jumping. It had been a while since they’d jumped and he wanted to “ease” them back in.

The love of the horse, and the feeling of riding, keeps people coming back day after day, year after year. But for these young riders, they say the stress release, competition and feeling of success also drive them.

For Spangenberg, “riding makes you forget about school and other things, it’s just you and your horse.” She said she likes the “sense of responsibility” that comes with riding and the Pony Club program, which helps keep her motivated to keep learning.

“We are both insanely competitive,” interjects Johnson with a happy laugh. Johnson has been riding at Peppercorn since she was 7, “it’s the first and only place” she’s ridden. “Rallies

Sarah Barnes of Riverview Pony Club riding Wasabe at the 2017 U.S. Pony Club Championships, Kentucky Horse Park. Today, Barnes is a professional horsewoman based in Ojai. Photo submitted

are really fun,” and going as a team is important, “you win by working together.”

Both riders said meeting people from other clubs and making friends is a big benefit to Pony Club. They also expressed joy in those moments when they and their horse are in sync, a feeling they are always chasing.

“It’s like getting to the top of a big hill you’ve been climbing all day,” said Spangenberg. Horses are living creatures just like people. “They have good days, bad days . . . I have to figure out what mood he’s in.” She tries to work with Ace, “not just make him do it.”

“Yes, there is a huge payoff,” agreed Johnson, when things click in those moments horse and rider are working together achieving the movement correctly, or getting good timing on the jump.

When it comes together, it looks effortless and feels glorious.

During COVID-19, without shows or tests taking place, riders were unable to progress through the levels. The sport is expensive, so many riders took the down time off altogether.

For many trainers and instructors, it’s been a big blow to their livelihood, both within and outside of Pony Club.

Coulson said it’s slowly coming back, but that the cost of hay and the recurring expenses associated with keeping horses always means very few people make a lot of money in this line of work.

This is where it comes back to the love of the horse.

Coulson pointed toward a stall with a 6-year-old chestnut gelding wearing a fly mask. He laughed, saying that, at his age, he really shouldn’t be getting a young, off-the-track thoroughbred . . . but he did. Just talking about the horse made him smile.

“He doesn’t have a mean bone in his body, he’s a beautiful mover,” said Coulson of the horse he named Spider Man. www.peppercornranch.com/riverview-pony-club www.santarosavalley.ponyclub.org www.elsuenoequestrian.com www.ponyclub.org

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That is really all you need to know about this inspired production of Lee Blessing’s play about three generations of women struggling to find connection. But since we are here together, allow me to elaborate.

Eleemosynary is a whole-hearted work of art created by a cast and crew at the top of their game. More than just a mouthful (and a 70-point Scrabble word), the title gives us a window into the inner workings of the complex characters of Blessing’s unconventional play. MerriamWebster defines “eleemosynary” as “of, relating to, or supported by charity.” Ironically, the women struggle with just that; forgiving and accepting each other’s eccentricities and shortcomings as well as their own.

Sarah Boughton, a familiar presence on Ventura County stages, has never been better.

As Artie, Boughton plays a brilliant woman who fears real connection with her daughter, Echo, as much as she spurns it from her mother, Dorothea. Leslie Upson lights up the stage as Dorothea, a rich eccentric who says and does what she likes, much to Artie’s consternation.

Dorothea makes no secret of wanting to be in Artie’s life, but the harder she pursues her, the more elusive Artie becomes. Jenna Lay portrays Echo with well-played turns of vulnerability and angst. She is a gifted young woman with a deep love of words — the more obscure the better, like Eleemosynary. Yet the words Echo yearns to hear most are genuine ones exchanged between her and her mother. Unfortunately, they are the most difficult to grasp.

Under Aileen-Marie Scott’s deft direction, the actors engage in a gorgeous verbal ballet, dancing around old wounds, jousting with

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words. Oh, to be a fly on the wall when Scott, Boughton, Lay and Upson forged a collaboration that would bring out the best in each other.

The plot of Eleemosynary is almost secondary to the relationship between mothers and daughters. Time is fluid while resentments are set in stone. Blessing’s writing is filled with zingers and observations that hit home so hard they catch your breath. In the end, CHECK there isn’t so much a resolution as LIST: a hope for understanding and forgiveness and, number maybe, as is correct p phone p address is correct p expiration date is correct p spelling is correct the title suggests, a little charity.

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Compass Rose, doubts, fears and achieveCATCHERS Through Oct. 16. Young Artists ments expressed through the work of six artists Ensemble’s Hillcrest Players present this famas they navigated the pandemic. Curated by ily-friendly story about a group of mythical OPENING THEATER Kristine Schomaker. 643 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura, monster seekers who get hired by the mayor for BLACK WOMAN IN DEEP WATER Friday, Oct. www.643projectspace.com. an unusual assignment. $13. Hillcrest Center for 15, 8:30 p.m. Written and performed by the Arts, 403 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, AGRICULTURE MUSEUM Ongoing. Farm Makena Hammond, and inspired by the true 805-381-2747, www.hillcrestarts.com. to Market, an interactive exhibit promotstory of Margaret Garner, a runaway slave. The ing healthy lifestyles through role play. Tomols ELEEMOSYNARY Through Oct. 24. The delitale is told from the perspectives of Garner, her to Trains: County Transportation through the cate relationships between three gifted women ancestor and Yemoja, the West African goddess 1900s. Antique tractors, farming implements, (an older woman, and her daughter and grandof water. Part of the Women’s Voices Festival a living beehive and more. Hours: Thursdaysdaughter) are explored in this sensitive and at NAMBA Performing Arts Space. $18. 47 S. Sundays, 11 a.m.-5 p.m. 926 Railroad Ave., Santa probing production written by Lee Blessing. For Oak St., Ventura, 805-628-9250, www.namPaula, 805-525-3100, venturamuseum.org/ all in-person performances, audience membaarts.com. visit-agriculture-museum/. bers will need to present proof of vaccination DRACULA Oct. 15-31. Actors’ Repertory Theatre against COVID-19 or a negative COVID-19 test ATRIUM GALLERY Through Nov. 16. Value: of Simi returns to the stage with an original Dark to Light | Principal and Principles, an (within the previous 72 hours) along with a production based on the Bram Stoker novel exhibit examining the monetary worth of an photo ID. Regardless of vaccination status, audiabout the legendary vampire. A live chamber object based on the shade of its particular color. ence members will be required to wear a mask orchestra will provide musical accompaniReception and awards ceremony on Friday, Oct. in compliance with current mandates. $10-20. ment. Not suitable for children under age 12; 22, 5:30-7 p.m. Hall of Administration, Ventura South Stage of The Elite, 2731 S. Victoria Ave., no one under the age of 14 will be admitted County Government Center, 800 S. Victoria Ave., Oxnard, 805-483-5118, www.theelite.org. without parental guidance or permission. $18Ventura, vcartscouncil.org.

THE LAST, BEST SMALL TOWN Through Nov. 20. ARTSpace Black Box Theater, 2956 School BUENAVENTURA GALLERY Through Oct. 30: 6. Set in Ventura County’s own Fillmore, this origSt., Simi Valley. For reservations, email proCollectors’ Auction and Exhibit, featuring works by inal play by John Guerra follows the fortunes, ducer Jan Glasband at jgartdept@sbcglobal. some of the area’s most renowned artists, includgrowth and interactions between two families, net. www.actorsrepofsimi.org/about-us/ ing Phyllis Doyon, Bob Privitt, Joe Cibere and the Gonzalezes and the Millers, that live next artspace-black-box-theater.

Catch Tiny Beautiful Things at Ojai ACT through Oct. 24. Pictured: Isobel Roth and more. Silent auction, raffle and closing reception door to each other. Presented by Theatricum GHOSTWALK: VOICES IN THE DARK Oct. Lynn Van Emmerik. on Saturday, Oct. 30, 2-4 p.m. Portion of the proBotanicum. $10-60. 1419 N. Topanga Canyon 15-30. Santa Paula Theater Center’s annual ceeds will benefit the BAA. 432 N. Ventura Ave., Blvd., Topanga, 310-455-3723, theatricum.com. immersive theater event, taking place this year Studio 99, Ventura, 805-648-1235, www.bueNELL GWYNN Through Oct. 17. The true story at Ebell Park. A variety of ghost citizens from OPENING ART AUDITIONS/ naventuragallery.org. of a prostitute and orange seller who becomes Heritage Valley history (some factual, some ficCALLS TO ARTISTS CALIFORNIA MUSEUM OF ART THOUSAND CHANNEL ISLANDS MARITIME MUSEUM the mistress of King Charles II in 17th century tional, some a bit of both) share their tales OAKS Saturday, Oct. 16, 2 p.m. via Zoom: Through Dec. 20: 1991: Celebrating 30 Years of during hour-long guided outdoor walking tours London. Presented by Moorpark College Theatre DAB ART Ongoing.

The contemporary art orgaVirtual Family Art Day, “Nature As Your Muse,” in which Art That Sails, on exhibit of some of the incredtaking place Friday, Saturday and Sunday eveArts. $5-10. Parking garage on the southeast nization is currently seeking submissions of work participants will create a mixed media collage of a ible artworks in the museum’s collection, some nings between 6:30 p.m. and 9 p.m., with extra side of Moorpark College, 7075 Campus Road, in any media for group and solo exhibitions at H California landscape inspired by GIFTED. Recommended tours added for Thursday, Oct. 28. Tour sizes will Moorpark, 805-378-1485, www.moorparkcollege. of which have never been seen by the public, Gallery and Studios in Ventura. Submit three to 20 edu/news/moorpark-college-theatre-arts-bringsfor ages 14+; previous painting experience helpful but in honor of CIMM’s founding in 1991. Ongoing: be limited; reservations strongly recommended. images; $35 entry fee. For submission guidelines, not required. Through Jan. 9, 2022: GIFTED: Collecting Maritime art covering Asian, European and $10-15. Tours begin at Santa Paula Theater nell-gwynn-over-pond-parking-garage. online application and more information, visit the Art of California at Gardena High School, 1919American seafaring history; the Marple Model Center, 125 S. Seventh St., Santa Paula, 805THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE Through Oct. 17. www.dabart.me/ventura-2.

1956. For nearly 40 years, seniors at Gardena High Ship Collection; exhibits on whales, sailors and 525-3073, www.ghostwalk.com.

Swashbuckling pirates, bumbling police offiSchool selected, purchased and donated works of art the Port of Hueneme and more. 3900 Bluefin END OF THE WORLD AFTER PARTY Through MAMMA MIA! Oct. 15-24. Lively, funny and cers, two young lovers and one Modern Major to the school. Today, the collection is regarded as one Circle, Oxnard, 805-984-6260, cimmvc.org.

Oct. 15 (extended). This fiscally sponsored heartfelt, this musical production is driven General collide in this classic comedic musiof the nation’s finest selections of early 20th century DUDLEY HOUSE HISTORIC MUSEUM project of Arts Ventura is seeking womyn artby the music of Swedish pop supergroup cal from Gilbert and Sullivan.

Presented by the California art, from plein air painting to the Arts and Ongoing. The National Historic Landmark was ists to contribute to an art show on exhibit Oct. ABBA. A young woman living with her sinVentura County Gilbert and Sullivan Repertoire Crafts Movement. Ongoing: Some online exhibits conbuilt in 1892 by Selwyn Shaw for lima bean gle mother on a Greek island secretly invites 15-31 at the WAV Gallery in Ventura. All tradiCompany. $22-28. Hillcrest Center for the Arts, PROOF tinue to be available.

350 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand farmer B.W. Dudley, and is oneAD of the last piothree men from her mother’s past to her wedtional and nontraditional media accepted. Works 403 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks, 805-381805-405-5240, cmato.org.

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NOTICE: PLEASE FAX THISPurely PROOF TO (805) Portraits, featuring paintings by648-2245 Galina toASAP three pieces. For submission guidelines and ery. Starring Farley Cadena. www.svvac.org/ FOCUS ON THE MASTERS Ongoing. The Richardson and Sandy Treadwell. Reception on TRANSSETTER Friday, Oct. 15, 6 p.m. more information, visit endoftheworldaftervirtual-cabaret-series.

Learning to See Student Art Showcase online, feaSaturday, Oct. 16, 5-7 p.m. 560 E. Main St., Ventura, Veronica Carey Matthews narrates the story of party.com/call-to-artists.

TINY BEAUTIFUL THINGS Through Oct. 24. turing work by students from Anacapa, Cabrillo, 805-652-1800, www.foxfinejewelry.com. her previous identity, Carey, and his journey to MAKING IT HOME: A HOLIDAY MUSICAL Based on the book by Cheryl Strayed and inspired De Anza Academy of Technology; the Arts and Rio accepting his true self. Part of the Women’s Voices PORCH GALLERY Saturday, Oct. 16, 5-7 Through Oct. 17. Video auditions are now by her years writing as “Dear Sugar,” this touchdel Valle middle schools; and Montalvo, Pierpont Festival at NAMBA Performing Arts Space. $15p.m.: Reception and book launch for Our Ojai, being accepted for the Conejo Players Theatre’s ing play follows the relationships that develop and Sierra Linda elementary schools. focusonthe18. 47 S. Oak St., Ventura, 805-628-9250, www. featuring photos of the Ojai Valley. Through holiday musical production.

A variety of roles masters.com. between an advice columnist and her readnambaarts.com.

Jan. 3, 2022: Before the Wilt, botanical paintneed to be filled for this story about a pair of ers. $15-20. Ojai Art Center Theater, 113 S. H GALLERY AND STUDIOS Through Oct. 31. ings by Renee Fox and Mary Warner realized WEST SIDE STORY Oct. 15-Nov. 14. siblings going home for the holidays. Open Montgomery St., Ojai, 805-640-8797, ojaiact.org.

Major Tom, a group exhibition. 1793 E. Main St., through intense color, hyper-realism and draShakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet is transported to to ages 12 and up. Rehearsals Nov. 6-Dec. Ventura, www.dabart.me/ventura-2.

VENTURA COUNTY POETRY PROJECT matic scale. Fox’s orchids suggest new birth, 1950s New York City in this musical tour de force.

3. Performances Dec. 10-12. For submission Thursday, Oct. 14, 7:30 p.m. via Zoom.

HARBOR VILLAGE GALLERY AND GIFTS while the sunflowers and zinnias of Warner are Rivalries between street gangs the Jets and the guidelines and more information, visit www.

Poetry reading, open mic and Jackson Wheeler Through Nov. 2: Flip the Commission, in which more weathered and mature, together creating a Sharks come to a head when a former Jet falls conejoplayers.org/making-it-home-holiday-mu- poetry series hosted by Marsha de la O, streamed artists donate the majority of the sale of their tableaux of the floral life cycle and hinting at the in love with the sister of a Shark. $23-25. High sical-0 or email producer Beth Eslick at beth@ live from E.P. Foster Library in Ventura. www.face- work to the BAA. Ongoing: Buenaventura Art threat of environmental ruin. 310 E. Matilija St., Street Arts Center, 45 E. High St., Moorpark, 805conejoplayers.org.

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Jespersen’s The Romance of the Adobe will be on Seashore, images of the local coastline by Buenaventura Art Association members. 540 E. exhibit in the small adobe. There will be raffles, SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM Through Jan. Main St., Ventura, 805-628-3540, very-ventura.com. historic interpreters, an al fresco gift shop and 9, 2022: Work From Home, work created close more. 4200 Olivas Park Drive, Ventura, www.cityto home during the pandemic by 50 California VITA ART CENTER Through Nov. 13. ofventura.ca.gov/OlivasAdobe. artists. Through Nov. 7: Vistas, Varmints and Menagerie: All Creatures Great and Small, works POPPIES ART AND GIFTS Ongoing. Gifts, jewVagabonds: The PAC6 Paints the Wild West, scenery, by contemporary artists focusing on real and elry, decor and more made by local artists. 323 characters and happenings of the American west. imaginary animals, and drawings of American E. Matilija St., Ojai, 805-798-0033, www.poppieThe museum is now open, Wednesdays-Sundays. homes by Dave Smith. 28 W. Main St., Ventura, sartandgifts.com.

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RANCHO CAMULOS MUSEUM Ongoing. The WILLIAM ROLLAND GALLERY Through 40-acre landmark and museum is one of the best Dec. 4: Sculptor and CLU Adjunct Professor SIMI VALLEY VIRTUAL ARTS CENTER surviving examples of an early California rancho Ongoing. 25th Anniversary Photography Delesprie will sculpt and demonstrate her techand honors the area’s Spanish and Mexican heriCollection, photography by Jon Neftali and Worth nique and expertise Mondays and Wednesdays, tage. “Last Sundays at the Landmark” take place 3-6 p.m., as Artist in Residence. Online: On Living For, a suicide prevention art campaign the last Sunday of every month, and include organized by the Simi Valley Youth Council. The Labor and Youth, in which Robin Holder Think of “Nature As Your Muse” during Virtual Family Art Day on Saturday, Oct. 16, docent-led tours, music and more. Open every Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center has created an addresses the struggle essential workers face Sunday for docent-led tours; group and speat 2 p.m., hosted by California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks. online presence to showcase work from both local carrying the weight of society while scrambling cial-focus tours by appointment. Situated off of and regional artists, theater and performing arts for survival. California Lutheran University, 160 Highway 126, two miles east of Piru. 805-521events and more. www.svvac.org.

Overton Court, Thousand Oaks, 805-493-3697, work. Masks and social distancing required. a newly digitized collection of photographs taken 1501, www.ranchocamulos.org. rollandgallery.callutheran.edu. ♦ SPICETOPIA Through Nov. 18. New work by 1559 Spinnaker Drive #106, Ventura Harbor from reels of film created by lifelong Ventura RAY D. PRUETER LIBRARY Through Oct. 15.

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Keene (1879-1965). Ongoing: Exhibits devoted Art Showcase presents two- and three-dimenspice-topia.com.

MULLIN AUTOMOTIVE MUSEUM Ongoing. to the Chumash, the history of Ventura County, sional work made by K-7 students of Ocean View The famed auto museum pays tribute to French the Children’s Garden, George Stuart Historical STUDIO CHANNEL ISLANDS Through Nov. School District Summer School inspired by FOTMautomotive design, with coaches from the 1800s, Figures® and more. 100 E. Main St., Ventura, 805documented artists. 510 Park Ave., Port Hueneme, 20: The Next Big Thing 2021, breakthrough work Bugattis from the 1920s-30s, Concours d’Ele653-0323 or venturamuseum.org. by contemporary artists, juried by Peter Mays 805-486-5460, focusonthemasters.com. gance winners and more. Hours: Friday-Sunday, of the Los Angeles Art Association. Ongoing: OJAI ART CENTER Through Nov. 2.

RONALD REAGAN PRESIDENTIAL LIBRARY 10 a.m.-3 p.m.; advance tickets required. 1421 Virtual art exhibits include Gallery Virgins, ARTrageous Pastel Show, an art show and sale From Al AND MUSEUM Opened July 2.

FBI: Emerson Ave., Oxnard, 805-385-5400, mullinauRichard Barnett Portraits, Magical Realism, The featuring works by members of the Pastel Society Qaeda to Al Capone, covering the history of the tomotivemuseum.com.

Illusionists and Illuminated, as well as artist video of the Gold Coast. 113 S. Montgomery St., Ojai, organization from its inception to modern day. talks, online art classes and children’s educational MURPHY AUTO MUSEUM Ongoing. Impressive 805-646-0117, www.ojaiartcenter.org/art.html.

Exhibit will include a Thompson machine gun resources. 2222 E. Ventura Blvd., Camarillo, 805display of vintage automobiles and Americana, OJAI VALLEY MUSEUM Ongoing. Small exhibi- and the original Unabomber Manifesto. Tour and 383-1368, studiochannelislands.org. as well as the Gold Coast Modular Railroad Club tions on a range of topics related to the history of lunch with former FBI agent Daric Manser on AD PROOF and the car-centric art in the Fireball Art Gallery.

VENTURA POTTERY GALLERY Ongoing. the Ojai Valley, as well as virtual talks and more.

Thursday, Oct. 21, 12:30-4:30 p.m. 40 Presidential Muscles and Mojo car show in the parking lot Talented ceramic artists from across Ventura Now open Friday-Sunday. 130 W. Ojai Ave., Ojai, Drive, Simi Valley, 800-410-8354, www.reaganClient: BC West Creek Ad make Executive: Barbara Kroon (805) 648-2244 every first and third Sunday of the month.

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tasting set, tea samples, treat and the link to join in. $45. You’ll just need to pick up the kit at SpiceTopia, 576 E. Main St., Ventura. www.spice-topia.com DELIGHTS AND DANCES | 3 p.m. New West Symphony is bringing back in person concerts with a concert series at various venues.

Composers to be performed include Schubert, Grieg, Lilley and Loesser, Price, Tchaikovsky and more. This performance will include a pre-concert lecture from UCLA Senior Lecturer David Ravetch at 2 p.m. All attendees must have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Masks required. $40. Rancho Campana Performing Arts Center, 4235 Mar Vista Dr., Camarillo www.newwestsymphony.org

THURSDAY THE SOMIS THURSDAY CLUB | 11:30 a.m.

Local women’s club luncheon meeting. This month’s program will feature a visit and presentation by the Moorpark College Exotic Animal Program. Visitors and prospective members are welcome. Please call 805-469-5059 or email patti.dizazzo@gmail.com to RSVP. Clubhouse, 5380 Bell Street, Somis.

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Landlords and renters can make an appointment to receive assistance in applying for CA COVID-19 Rent Relief. FREE. Offered through CityServe. Call: 725-780-6963 for appointments. Connect Church, 346 N. Kimball Rd., Ventura.

TOWN HALL MEETING WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., 4-6 p.m., 6-7 p.m. SoCalGas is hosting a series of in-person, town hall meetings to provide information to the public about it planned expansion of the natural gas/methane compressor facility located on N. Olive Street in West Ventura. All pandemic protocols will be enforced and registration in advance is required as well as a health screening prior to entry. Three meetings will take place on Thursday, Oct. 14, and an additional meeting on Saturday. Oct. 16, 11 a.m. – noon. More information and registration is online at: www.socalgas. com/stay-safe/pipeline-and-storage-safety/ventura/community-meeting. Museum of Ventura County, 100 E. Main St., Ventura.

“SOCAL GAS, STOP POISONING OUR NEIGHBORHOOD” | 5:30-7 p.m. A protest organized by Westside Clean Air Coalition will take place outside of the town hall being hosted

by SoCalGas regarding a gas compressor facility expansion project in West Ventura. Protestors will be calling for an Environmental Impact Report to be done prior to the project moving forward.

In front of the Museum of Ventura County, 100 E. Main St., Ventura. www.westsidecleanair.org EFFICIENT CULTIVATION TO INCREASE CANNABIS PROFIT AND PRODUCTIVITY | 1:30-3:30 p.m. A four part workshop, hosted

by Tri-County Regional Energy Network and the Resource Innovation Institute, designed for cannabis cultivation operations in San Luis Obispo, Santa Barbara and Ventura County to bring tested and science based practices to issues related to controls, lighting, and more to improve efficiency in the cultivation of cannabis, with a focus on minimizing carbon footprints of cultivation operations. The first workshop is titled “Automation and Controls Best Practices for All Cultivation Environments.

Additional workshops include Greenhouse Optimization (Dec. 2), Indoor Optimization (Feb.

GHOSTWALK 2021: VOICES IN THE DARK | Weekends (Thurs.- Sat. or Sun.) through Oct. 30 When the sun sets, get out and walk among the spooks and spectres. Listen for the howls and screams. With small tour groups Ghostwalk is back.

Santa Paula Theater Center is again bringing you spooky tales told by the ghosts themselves. The performance involves a one hour walking tour. $15/$10 per person. Reservations online or by calling 805-525-3073. Masks required for all audience members. Get your tickets and gather at Ebell Park, S. 7th St. and E. Main Street, Santa Paula. www.ghostwalk.com 3) and Sungrown Efficiency (Apr. 7). These workshops are designed for cultivators, staff, design and construction personnel, property owners and government representatives. Registration is www. catalog.resourceinnovation.org/Group/Landing/640

FRIDAY SELF-GUIDED MEDITATION | 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.

The public is invited to visit the Planetary Garden of Peace, stroll along the pathway or just sit and contemplate. Sorry no pets. Access is limited, register in advance. $10. Meditation Mount, 10340 Reeves Road, Ojai. www.meditationmount.org/events/ 24th ANNUAL MILITARY APPRECIATION DINNER | 6 p.m. Keynote speaker, Brigadier General Steven J. Butow will lead the celebration hosted by the West Ventura County Business Alliance. $35/$55. Courtyard by Marriott, 600 E. Esplanade Drive, Oxnard. www.wvcba.org COMMENT ON WESTSIDE PURA AVENIDA MURAL PROJECT | By Oct. 15. All lovers of public art: Send in your comments about the planned mural on Wall Street in West Ventura. The Westside Community Council is supporting the efforts of the Westside Community Development Corporation and is calling for letters of support from those interested in helping the project come to be. Send in your comments by Oct. 15. director@westsideventura.org. Hard copy comment can be mailed to: 110 N. Olive Street, Ste. J, Ventura, CA 93001 FACULTY RECITAL: ADAN FERNANDEZ, ORGAN | 7:30 p.m. University organist Adan Fernandez will present a program of Bach,

Mendelssohn, Saint-Säens, Buxtehude and more.

The recital will begin with a short lecture by Fernandez, who holds a DMA in sacred music from the University of Southern California, on the music of Bach and his theology. Audience members must be fully vaccinated for COVID-19. Donations accepted. Samuelson Chapel, California Lutheran University, 165 Chapel Lane, Thousand Oaks.

SATURDAY TOWN HALL MEETING WITH SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA GAS COMPANY | 11 a.m. – 12 p.m., SoCalGas is hosting a series of in-person, town hall meetings to provide information to the public about its planned expansion of the natural gas/methane compressor facility located on N. Olive Street in West Ventura. All pandemic protocols will be enforced and registration in advance is required as well as a health screening prior to entry.

More information and registration is online at: www.socalgas.com/stay-safe/pipeline-and-storage-safety/ventura/community-meeting. Museum of Ventura County, 100 E. Main St., Ventura.

AUTHOR TALK WITH ELLE BROOKE WHITE | 1- 3 p.m. Meet author Elle Brooke White while she discusses her books Dead on the Vine and Strawberries and Crime in which her characters find dead bodies, one wrapped in tomato vines and the other apparently run through with a pitchfork. Bank of Books, 748 E. Main St., Ventura.

DELIGHTS AND DANCES | 3 p.m. in Ventura, 7 p.m. in Agoura Hills New West Symphony is bringing back in person concerts with a concert series at various venues. Composers to be performed include Schubert, Grieg, Lilley and Loesser, Price, Tchaikovsky and more. All attendees must have received the COVID-19 vaccine. Masks required. $40. Afternoon performance at: Ventura College Performing Arts Center, 4700 Loma Vista Rd., Ventura. Evening performance at: Agoura Hills Performing Arts Education Center, 28545 W. Driver Ave., Agoura Hills. www.newwestsymphony.org

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EN PLEIN AIR: AN INTRODUCTION TO CALIFORNIA IMPRESSIONISM | Thursday, Oct 21, 6 p.m. An in person talk with collector and author Rich Reitzell examining the principal Impressionist painters in California between 1900-1930, the zenith of plein-air painting. He will also discuss the impact of California Impressionism on Southern California. Free for museum members. $15 General admission. California Museum of Art Thousand Oaks, 350 W. Hillcrest Dr., Thousand Oaks. www.cmato.org Pictured: Jean Mannheim, The Magic Moment, 1923, oil on canvas.

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RIVER RUN AND TROUT TROT | Check in starts at 8:15 a.m. Support the Friends of the Santa Clara River efforts to build a river trail from Windrow Park in Oxnard to the ocean. The 5K River Run will preview the route along the river.

Kids will enjoy the 1K Trout Trot set for after the 5K. Come early at 7:15 a.m. for a river clean up before the run. Kids are FREE. $25 general registration for 5K. Bring your refillable water bottle and walk or ride to Rio Del Sol School, 3001 N. Ventura Road, Oxnard. www.fscr.org/5krun/ VIRTUAL TEA TASTING: TEAS FROM INDIA | 11 a.m. Online event Boil your water. Prep your supplies from Spicetopia and enjoy learning about and tasting teas from India from the comfort of your kitchen. You’ll also learn tea tasting etiquette, while sampling four different teas. The tasting fee includes a ceramic gaiwan, traditional Chinese tea

KARLA BONOFF, SINGER, SONGWRITER | 7:30 p.m. With a career spanning four decades Karla Bonoff’s songs have been performed by Bonnie Raitt, Wynona Judd and Linda Ronstadt.

She continues to write and tour extensively and has been called one of the finest singer-songwriters of her generation. $39/$49. Tickets online at TicketMaster.com or through the box office. 805449-2787. Vaccination or recent negative test required. Scherr Forum Theatre, Bank of America Performing Arts Center, 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. https://bapacthousandoaks.com

MONDAY CITY OF SANTA PAULA CLASSES, SPORTS, EVENTS | Various times. Starting today the city of Santa Paula is offering many fun and engaging classes and activities for all ages from youth to seniors. Youth Basketball, Yoga, Zumba, Gymnastics, Hip Hop, Folklorico, Tae Kwon Do and more. See details for ages. For scholarship opportunities please contact the Parks and Recreation office at 805-933-4226 Ext:350. www.santapaula. recdesk.com/Community/Home THE SOUVENIR | 3:30 p.m. and 6:30 p.m. A British film about A shy but ambitious film student (Honor Swinton Byrne) begins to find her voice as an artist while navigating a turbulent courtship with a charismatic but untrustworthy man (Tom Burke). She defies her protective mother (Tilda Swinton) and concerned friends as she slips deeper and deeper into an intense, emotionally fraught relationship that comes dangerously close to destroying her dreams. Rated R. $10.75/$7.50. Attendees must be vaccinated.

Masks required. Plaza Cinemas 14, 255 West 5th St., Oxnard. www.oxnardfilmsociety.org

the Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship renaming to honor the former Hughes executive’s $4.8 million gift to the university. Pandocap founder and CEO Laura Moreno will give a keynote address as part of the Entrepreneur Speaker Series. She will share her journey as a Latinx business owner. Streaming event. Registration required by Oct. 17 at www.jotform.com/212625343658155 to attend in person or online. For more information, contact Kristin Bell at kristinbell@callutheran.edu or 805-493-3747.

THURSDAY RENT RELIEF ASSISTANCE | Thursdays, 9 a.m. - 5 p.m. Landlords and renters can make an appointment to receive assistance in applying for CA COVID-19 Rent Relief. FREE. Offered through CityServe. Call: 725-780-6963 for appointments.

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AUTHOR TALK AND BOOK SIGNING WITH DR. GARY FELDMAN | 6-7 p.m. Join former Ventura County Public Health officer to discuss his recent book Near Death Experiences and Narrow Escapes sharing stories he told to his granddaughter that kept her asking for more. Frightening, bizarre and all touched with resiliency demonstrating how much of life is determined by luck. Feldmen also served as medical director of California Children’s Services and Tri Counties Regional Center for Developmental Disabilities before becoming Ventura County Health Officer. He attended MIT and Stanford studying Computer Science and he co-authored the book The COVID-19 Solutions Guide: Health, Wealth, Technology, and the Human Spirit. Copies will also be available for purchase the evening of the event.For additional information, please contact the Adult Services Librarian, Justin Formanek, at (805) 525-3615, or email justin.formanek@blanchardlibrary.org. Blanchard Community Library, 119 N. 8th Street, Santa Paula.

“THE BALD SOPRANO” | 8 p.m. Holding the world record for longest-running play in the same theater, “The Bald Soprano” by Eugene Ionesco follows the Smiths, a middle-class English couple, and their dinner party with their good friends, the Martins. Their small talk is merry, but something lurks beneath their white-knuckled grip on society’s convention of communication. Student Grace Phenicie will direct the play produced by the Department of Theatre Arts and Dance. FREE. 805493-3452. California Lutheran University, Black Box Theatre, 141 Memorial Parkway Thousand Oaks. ♦

REDISTRICTING PUBLIC HEARING, CITY OF VENTURA | 6:10 p.m. The city of Ventura is holding a mandated Public Hearing in order to provide the public with an opportunity to provide input on the required redistricting process as a result of updated U.S. Census data. Spanish interpretation services will be available for those who notify the city clerk by Oct. 14, by emailing cityclerk@cityofventura.ca.gov. Written comments can also be submitted through the clerks email address. Ventura Avenue Senior-Adults Center, 550 N. Ventura Ave., Ventura. www.cityofventura.ca.gov/redistricting

TUESDAY CAMARILLO JOB FAIR | 9 a.m. - 1 p.m. Hosted by the City of Camarillo this fair will connect employers with those seeking great job opportunities. FREE for both job seekers and employers. Constitution Park, 601 Carmen Dr., Camarillo. www.cityofcamarillo.org/business/camarillo_is_hiring.php LEGAL AND FINANCIAL PLANNING FOR ALZHEIMER’S DISEASE | 3-4 p.m. Zoom workshop to learn about the importance of advance planning with an Alzheimer’s diagnosis. Hosted

by Senior Concerns. Register for link. www. seniorconcerns.org PFLAG VENTURA | 7 p.m. The monthly virtual meeting of a support group for LGBTQ+ persons, their family and friends. RSVP for Zoom link. 805765-1672 or email to pflag.ventura.ca@gmail.com

WEDNESDAY ENTREPRENEURSHIP LECTURE AND RENAMING RIBBON CUTTING | 5 p.m.

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The Muses on the Mount series brings Shelley Burgon to the View Point.

Burgon is a composer, harpist and sound artist writing and performing ambient songs including works by composers Pauline Oliveros, John Cage and Yoko Ono. She has recorded harp for Bjork, Anthony Braxton and for her former band Stars Like Fleas. $35$65. Meditation Mount, 10340 Reeves Road, Ojai. www.meditationmount. org/events/. Pictured: Shelley Burgon, Photo by Chris Furukawa-Burgon

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as they can get their hands on. That’s because after the bags were loaded with nearly 3 pounds of U.S. Gov’t issued coins, each verif ied to meet a m i n i mu m col lector g rade quality of very good or above, the dates and mint marks were never searched to determine collector values and the bags were secu rely sea led . That means there’s no telling what you’ll find until you search all the coins,” said Lynne.

The only thing U.S. residents who find their zip code printed in today’s publication need to do is call the National TollFree Hotline before the 48-hour deadline ends.

This is very important. After the Vault Bags were loaded with over 200 of U.S. Gov’t issued coins, each verif ied to meet a m i n i mu m col lector g rade quality of very good or above, the dates and mint marks were never searched to determine col lector va lues . The Vau lt Bag fee has been set for $1,500 for residents who miss the 48hour deadline, but for those

U.S. residents who beat the 48hour deadline the Vault Bag fee is just $980 as long as they call the National Toll-Free Hotline before the deadline ends.

“Remember this, we cannot stop collectors from buying up all the unsearched bags of coins they can get in this special advertising announcement. And you better believe with each bag being loaded with nearly 3 pounds of U.S. Gov’t issued coins we’re guessing they’re going to go quick,” said Lynne.

The phone lines w ill be ringing off the hook beginning at precisely 8:3 0 a .m . th is m o r n i n g . T h a t ’s b e c a u s e each unsea rched Vau lt Bag is loaded with the rarely seen coins pictured left and highly sought af ter collector coins dating clear back to the 1800’s including iconic Morgan Silver Dollars, a historic Peace Silver Dollar, stunning Silver Walking Liber ty Half Dollars, the collectible Silver Eisenhower D ol l a r s , sp e c t acu l a r Si lver Liberty Head Half and Quarter Dol la r s , ra rely s e en Si lver Fra nk lin Ha lf Dolla rs, high

dem a nd P resident Ken nedy Silver Half Dollars, beautiful Silver Standing Liberty Q u a r t er Dol l a r s , A mer ica n Bicentennia l Qua r ters, ra re Liber ty V Nickels, one cent Historic Wheat Coins including 1943 “Steel Cents”, one of the beautiful Winged Liberty Head Dimes, scarce Indian Head one cent U.S. coins and the last ever minted Buffalo Nickels. “ With a ll these collectible U.S. Gov’t Issued coins up for grabs we’re going to do our best to answer all the calls,” said Lynne.

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This sort of musical open-mindedness is at the core of jazz fusion, with artists drawing from a wide range of influences, often from different corners of the world. One band in particular stood out as having had a massive impact on the Spyro Gyra music-making process. “I think what Weather Report gave me is the desire to use world music in my music” explains Beckenstein. “They had this feeling of real earthy music, like it was coming straight from West Africa but was mixed with jazz and electronic. It was a magical band.”

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As the local musicians of Ventura County have shown us, the ethos of jazz is a resilient one.

The COVID-19 pandemic has had an effect on how people relate and rely on one another in crisis, especially a crisis that requires social distance. The jazz world in particular was uniquely impacted by the lockdowns due to the communal nature of the music.

“It was pretty depressing not playing for two years. I was getting existential for a moment there. I know this was a common feeling, especially among musicians, because the people you play with become your second, or perhaps your first family. Not seeing them for so long was quite surreal.”

But the spirit of Spyro Gyra cannot be broken so easily. The band continues to be as creative and virtuosic as they were over 40 years ago. Their most recent album, 2019’s Vinyl Tap, is proof of this. And the longer they go on, the bigger of an inspiration they become to young musicians who may need a reminder that a life of jazz is one that compels a humble soul.

“On behalf of the whole band, we’ve realized after we’ve come back on the road just how much we value what we’ve been allowed to do with our lives. When we think of why we were allowed this blessing, it’s really because of audiences, people kept coming out to see us. I just want to say thank you, thank you for such an interesting life.”

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ADVICE GODDESS

Foresee Sick

I’m good friends with an ex. She’s a great person, but we just don’t work romantically. For two years, I’ve been seeing a woman I love and want a future with. She initially said she was fine with my friendship with my ex. Two months ago, she said she was uncomfortable with it and it might even be a deal breaker. How is it fair for her to decide this now?

—Don’t Wanna Dump A Friend There are a number of things absent from straight men’s friendships with other men — namely how two dudes boozing it up together on

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the couch never leads to anyone’s bra being yanked off and flung onto the ceiling fan.

Two years ago, your girlfriend did say she was okay with your friendship with your ex. So, your feeling like you’ve been played is understandable — but probably driven the (very common!) tendency to overestimate our ability to engage in reliable “affective forecasting.” “Affect” is researcher-ese for emotion, and affective forecasting involves predicting how some future event will make us feel. Research by psychologists Daniel Gilbert and Timothy Wilson suggests we’re pretty bad at foreseeing what we’ll ultimately want and how happy or unhappy it will make us down the road.

Our guesses about how we’ll eventually feel are colored by our circumstances and preferences at the time we’re making a prediction. For example, before your girlfriend was very attached to you, she might’ve believed your friendship with your ex was (and would keep being) no biggie. As her love for you grew, the stakes of losing you loomed large in a way they didn’t back in the cool light of “Mmmkay, let’s see where things go with Mr. (Possibly) Right.”

Tell her you want to understand

her feelings — and do something few people do when they have a goal of their own in mind: Listen fully and open-mindedly (as opposed to giving the appearance of listening while mentally cataloging all the fantastic points you’ll make). Hearing her fears could help you empathize with her — which should make her feel understood. Explain why she has nothing to worry about (uh, assuming that’s the case). You might also actively reassure her: regularly do stuff to show how much you love her.

Ultimately, however, you might have a big ugly choice to make if you can’t get your girlfriend to stop seeing your friendship with your ex as something along the lines of Wile E. Coyote getting the night watchman gig at KFC.

Bed Over Backward

I’m a female college freshman.

I was always told that college was the ideal place to find a partner. Disappointingly, there are many more women than men in my year. I want to date a guy and get to know him before having sex, but most of the women seem to hook up right away.

I worry that I can’t compete with them, as I’m not comfortable with that trend of behavior.

—Old-Fashioned

Your body is your temple! Unfortunately, much of your female competition on campus sees theirs that way, too — only their temple’s Angkor Wat, where there’s a dude outside admitting the crowds with a clicker.

Colleges have become degree-granting hookup-aterias.

There are a number of reasons for this, but you point to a biggie in your email: Over the past 40 years, there’s been a growing imbalance of women to men on campus. At the end of the 2020-21 academic year, women made up 59.5% of college students — “an all-time high” — to men’s 40.5% (per The Wall Street Journal). That’s almost three women for every two men... on average.

Some campuses have an even worse guy-girl gap.

Though we’re all walking around with pocket supercomputers (which women can use to click their way to home delivery of reliable birth control), our psychology is still tuned for an ancestral world. For ancestral men, hooking up was evolutionarily optimal in a way it was not for our prehistoric lady ancestors. (Guys only get pregnant from sex in creepy sci-fi movies.) The ancestral Adonis with all the notches in his spear handle would likely have left more surviving

descendants to pass on his genes.

Sexual “economics” work like the monetary kind. An oversupply of women to men gives men the upper hand: transforming the mating “market” into one where men’s evolved preferences rule. In short, women respond to the campus man famine (or more technically, the biased “sex ratio”) “by offering sex without requiring high levels of commitment,” explain evolutionary social psychologists Justin Moss and Jon Maner.

Assuming you continue to give hooking up the thumbs down, you might shop for potential partners off-campus (at events or via dating sites), where male-female ratios are less imbalanced. This should keep you from needing to make certain sacrifices to compete for men — like offering really great sex and throwing in a kidney. (c)2021, Amy Alkon, all rights reserved.

Got a problem? Write Amy Alkon, 171 Pier Ave, #280, Santa Monica, CA 90405, or e-mail AdviceAmy@aol.com. @amyalkon on Twitter. Weekly podcast: blogtalkradio. com/amyalkon Order Amy Alkon’s new book, “Unf*ckology: A Field Guide to Living with Guts and Confidence,” (St. Martin’s Griffin, 2018).

FREE WILL ASTROLOGY ARIES

(March 21-April 19):

According to my understanding of the upcoming weeks, life will present you with unusual opportunities. I suspect you will find it reasonable and righteous to shed, dismantle, and rebel against the past.

Redefining your history will be a fun and worthy project. Here are other related activities I recommend for you: 1. Forget and renounce a long-running fear that has never come true. 2. Throw away a reminder of an old experience that makes you feel bad. 3. Freshen your mood and attitude by moving around the furniture and decor in your home. 4. Write a note of atonement to a person you hurt once upon a time. 5. Give yourself a new nickname that inspires you to emancipate yourself from a pattern or habit you want to leave behind.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20):

Taurus poet Donte Collins’ preferred pronouns are “they” and “them.” They describe themself as Black, queer, and adopted. “A lover doesn’t discourage your growth,” they write. “A lover says, ‘I see who you are today, and I cannot wait to see who you become tomorrow.’” I hope you have people like that in your life, Taurus — lovers, friends, allies, and relatives. If there is a scarcity of such beloved companions in your life, the next eight weeks will be an excellent time to round up new ones. And if you are connected with people who delight in your progress and evolution, deepen your connection with them.

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expand her counsel to apply not just to writers, but to all of you Geminis. In my astrological opinion, you’re likely to find success in the coming weeks if you’re understated, modest, and unmelodramatic. Make it your goal to create smooth, suave, savvy solutions. Be cagey and cool and crafty.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22):

Ancient Chinese philosopher Lao Tzu told us that water is in one sense soft and passive, but is in another sense superb at eroding jams and obstacles that are hard and firm. There’s a magic in the way its apparent weakness overcomes what seems strong and unassailable. You are one of the zodiac’s top wielders of water’s superpower, Cancerian. And in the coming weeks, it will work for you with even more amazing grace than usual. Take full advantage of your sensitivity, your emotional intelligence, and your empathy.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22):

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Leo author James Baldwin told us, “You read something which you thought only happened to you, and you discover that it happened 100 years ago to [Russian novelist] Fyodor Dostoyevsky. This is a great liberation for the suffering, struggling person, who always thinks that he is alone.” In that spirit, Leo, and in accordance with astrological omens, I urge you to track down people who have had pivotal experiences similar to yours, either in the distant or recent past.

These days, you need the consoling companionship they can provide. Their influence could be key to liberating you from at least some of your pain.

Gemini author Lisa Cron advises her fellow writers, “Avoid exclamation points! Really!! Because they’re distracting!! Almost as much as CAPITALIZING THINGS!!!” I’ll

Poet Octavio Paz described two kinds of distraction. One is “the distraction of the person

GEMINI

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

who is always outside himself, lost in the trivial, senseless, turmoil of everyday life.” The other is “the distraction of the person who withdraws from the world in order to shut himself up in the secret and ever-changing land of his fantasy.” In my astrological opinion, you Virgos should specialize in the latter during the coming weeks. It’s time to reinvigorate your relationship with your deep inner sources. Go in search of the reverent joy that comes from communing with your tantalizing mysteries. Explore the riddles at the core of your destiny.

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

“We must never be afraid to go too far, for truth lies beyond,” declared novelist Marcel Proust. I wouldn’t normally offer that counsel to you Libras. One of your strengths is your skill at maintaining healthy boundaries.

You know how to set dynamic limits that are just right: neither too extreme nor too timid.

But according to my analysis of the astrological potentials, the coming weeks will be one of those rare times when you’ll be wise to consider an alternative approach: that the most vigorous truths and liveliest energies may lie beyond where you usually go.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Author William S. Burroughs claimed his greatest strength was a “capacity to confront myself no matter how unpleasant.” But he added a caveat to his brag: Although he recognized his mistakes, he rarely made any corrections. Yikes! Dear Scorpio, I invite you to do what Burroughs couldn’t. Question yourself about how you might have gone off course, but then actually make adjustments and atonements. As you do, keep in mind these principles: 1. An apparent mistake could lead you to a key insight or revelation. 2. An obstruction to the

flow may prod you to open your mind and heart to a liberating possibility. 3. A snafu might motivate you to get back to where you belong. 4. A mess could show you something important you’ve been missing.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

In her novel We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Sagittarian author Shirley Jackson wrote, “Today my winged horse is coming, and I am carrying you off to the moon, and on the moon we will eat rose petals.” I wonder what you would do if you received a message like that — an invitation to wander out on fanciful or mysterious adventures. I hope you’d be receptive. I hope you wouldn’t say, “There are no such things as flying horses.

It’s impossible to fly to the moon and eat rose petals.” Even if you don’t typically entertain such whimsical notions, the time is favorable to do so now. I bet you will be pleased with the unexpected grace they bring your way.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Capricorn author Susan Sontag wrote about people who weren’t receptive to her intensity and intelligence. She said she always had “a feeling of being ‘too much’ for them — a creature from another planet — and I would try to scale myself down to size, so I could be apprehendable and lovable by them.” I understand the inclination to engage in such self-diminishment. We all want to be appreciated and understood.

But I urge you to refrain from taming and toning yourself down too much in the coming weeks. Don’t do what Sontag did. In my astrological opinion, it’s time for you to be an extra vivid version of yourself.

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

insanely addictive drugs coursing through my body,” joked comedian Sarah Silverman.

Judging from current cosmic rhythms, I’m inclined to draw a similar conclusion about you. It may be wise for you to dose yourself with intoxicants. JUST KIDDING! I lied.

Here’s the truth: I would love for you to experience extra rapture, mystic illumination, transcendent sex, and yes, even intoxication in the coming weeks. My analysis of the astrological omens suggests these delights are more likely and desirable than usual.

However, the best way to arouse them is by communing with your favorite non-drug and non-alcohol inebriants. The benefits will last longer and incur no psychological cost.

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20):

“The truth is,” writes cartoonist Bill Watterson, “most of us discover where we are headed when we arrive.” I sense this will describe your life during the next six weeks. Your long, strange journey won’t come to an end, of course. But a key chapter in that long, strange journey will climax. You will be mostly finished with lessons you have been studying for many moons. The winding road you have been following will end up someplace in particular.

And sometime soon, I suspect you’ll spy a foreshadowing flash of this denouement.

Homework: What subject are you trying to avoid thinking about? https://Newsletter.FreeWillAstrology.com.

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LIEN SALE Adamson's Towing, Inc. LIEN SALE: 13-TOYT License: 7ZYN939 / CA Vin: JTKJF5C72D3056169 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 214 S Bryant Ojai, CA All Valleys RV Storage LIEN SALE: 78-SILVS License: NZ3981 / CA Vin: SSTGRT782042 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 850 W Los Angeles Ave Simi Valley, CA Commercial Auto Body LIEN SALE: 16-HOND License: 7PKX105 / CA Vin: 1HGCR2F38GA084087 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 1285 Commercial Ave Oxnard, CA Highline Self Storage LIEN SALE: 06-YAMA License: L29U38 / CA Vin: JYACG24YX6A000168 LIEN SALE: 06-CARSO License: 4GS3269 / CA Vin: 4HXRC20216C101289 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 1343 E Main St Santa Paula, CA Jim Kuklish Storage LIEN SALE: 96-HOLID License: 1GB9029 / CA Vin: 1KB181L27TW023069 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 136 Telegraph Road Fillmore, CA PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter 10/14/21

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Notice is Hereby Given that the contents of the following storage units and/or vehicle(s)/vessel(s) will be offered for sale by public auction to the highest bidder for enforcement of storage lien.

AIRPORT SELF STORAGE 3551 W. 5TH ST. OXNARD, CA 93030 (805) 985-3315 Auction will be held online on storagetreasures.com October 22, 2021 at 9AM. G136 Michael Galvin Tubs & Bags (Misc. Contents) M681 Rebecca Davenport Bags & Boxes (Misc. Items) M761 Jalarek Parrilla Baseball bats, boxes, Furniture R085 Marylou Perez Bags and Boxes of Clothing Airport Self Storage reserves the right to refuse any bid. All sales are subject to prior cancellation. Terms, rules and regulations are available at sale.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter 10/14/21, 10/21/21

OFFER ENDS: 12/31/21

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NOTICE OF PUBLIC SALE OF GOODS TO SATISFY LIEN AUCTION LOCATION: 11400 AZAHAR ST., SATICOY, CA93004 In accordance with the provisions of the California Commercial Code, Sections 72017210, notice is hereby given that on Saturday October 23, 2021 at 10:00 am of said date, at 11400 Azahar St., City of Saticoy, County of Ventura, State of CA, the undersigned will sell at public auction for cash, in lawful money of the United States, the articles hereinafter described, belonging to, or deposited with, the undersigned by the persons hereinafter named at Let's Move It. Said goods are being held on the accounts of: Debrah Barach, Ivette Helfbd, Lindsay Stewart, Marilyn Stefano, Shelby Radcliffe, Shaan Khemani, Rene Williams, Demetria Warren, Cheryl Elliot, Martha Noerthern, Ted Colton. All other goods are described as househol d goods, furniture, antiques, appliances, tools, misc goods, office furniture, and articles of art, equipment, rugs, sealed cartons and the unknown. The auction will be made for the purpose of satisfying the lien of the undersigned on said personal property to the extent of the sum owed, together with the cost of the sale. For information contact Let's Move It. Terms: Cash only with a 15% buyer's premium. Payment and removal of items purchased, day of sale. Auction conducted by American Auctioneers, Dan Dotson & Associates (800) 838-SOLD, (909) 790-0433 or www.americanauctioneers.co m Bond #FS863-20-14.

Let's Move It 10/7, 10/14/21 CNS-3517324# LIEN SALE Adamson's Towing, Inc. LIEN SALE: 13-TOYT License: 7ZYN939 / CA Vin: JTKJF5C72D3056169 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 214 S Bryant Ojai, CA All Valleys RV Storage LIEN SALE: 78-SILVS License: NZ3981 / CA Vin: SSTGRT782042 to be sold at 10:00 am on 10/26/2021 @ 850 W Los Angeles Ave Simi Valley, CA Commercial Auto Body LIEN SALE: 16-HOND License: 7PKX105 / CA

Notice of Public Auction Notice is hereby given that the Undersigned intends to sell the personal property described below to enforce a lien imposed on said property pursuant to Lien Sale per California Self Storage Act (B&P Code Section 21700, et seq.). Golden State Storage will sell items at www.storagetreasures.com sale by competitive bidding ending at 12pm on October 22, 2021.

The said property has been stored and which are located at Golden State Storage, 161 East Gonzales Road, Oxnard, California 93036, County of Ventura, State of California, the following units: Wilfred T. Fernandez: Wheel Chair, Mountain Bike, Christmas Tree, Back Pack, Cloths/Linens, Hoverboard, Toys, 9+ boxes, Various Miscellaneous and Unknowns .

Wilfred T. Fernandez: 2 Furniture Dollies, Guitar Case, Headboard, Flatscreen, Cloths, Linens, Boxes, Various Miscellaneous and Unknowns.

Purchases must be paid at the time of sale with Cash only. All Sales are subject to prior cancellation. Sale rules and regulations are available at the time of sale. Company reserves the right to refuse any online bids.

Dated October 7 and October 22, 2021 Auction by www.storagetreasures.com Phone: 480-397-6503 PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter 10/07/21, 10/14/21

Fic. Business Name FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210907-10012763-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NUTTI NANI, 7074 El Malabar Dr., Ventura, CA 93003. Ventura County. Karin J. Clark, 7074 El Malabar Dr., Ventura, CA 93003. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Karin J. Clark. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210907-10012763-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: NUTTI NANI, 7074 El Malabar Dr., Ventura, CA 93003. Ventura County. Karin J. Clark, 7074 El Malabar Dr., Ventura, CA 93003. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Karin J. Clark. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code).

This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on September 07, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 09/23/21, 09/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210824-10012139-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: YOURC, 5110 Alta St. Simi Valley, CA 93063.

Ventura County. Hannes Rosskopf, 5110 Alta St. Simi Valley, CA 93063. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 08/20/2021. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Hannes Rosskopf. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Business & Professions Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on August 24, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 09/23/21, 09/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210907-10012819-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: GYROTONIC VENTURA, 1453 E. Main St., Ventura, CA 93001. Ventura County.

Cathy J. Butter, 525 Jordan Ave., Ventura, CA 93001.

This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Cathy J. Butter. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days10/12/21 after 4:36 PM

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This busifictitious business name or (are) doing business as: ness is conducted by: An Innames listed above on: N/A. I GYROTONIC VENTURA, dividual. The registrant comdeclare that all Information In 1453 E. Main St., Ventura, menced to transact business this statement Is true and CA 93001. Ventura County. under the fictitious business correct (A registrant who deCathy J. Butter, 525 Jordan name or names listed above clares information as true any Ave., Ventura, CA 93001. on: N/A. I declare that all Inmaterial matter pursuant to This business is conducted formation In this statement Is Section 17913 of Business by: An Individual. The registrue and correct (A registrant and Professions Code that trant commenced to transact who declares information as the registrant knows to be business under the fictitious true any material matter purfalse is guilty of a misdebusiness name or names lissuant to Section 17913 of meanor punishable by a fine ted above on: N/A. I declare Business and Professions not to exceed one thousand that all Information In this Code that the registrant dollars ($1,000).) Print Name statement Is true and correct knows to be false is guilty of of Registrant: Thomas (A registrant who declares inContact Ann Turrietta | 805-648-2244 aturrietta@timespublications.com | Deadline isWayne Monday, 11 a.m. for publication a misdemeanor punishable Marshall Jr. Thursday NOformation as true any materiby a fine not to exceed one TICE - in accordance with al matter pursuant to Section thousand dollars ($1,000).) subdivision (a) of Section 17913 of Business and ProPrint Name of Registrant: Al17920, a fictitious name fessions Code that the regisexa Elbert. NOTICE - in acstatement generally expires trant knows to be false is FICTITIOUS BUSINESS cordance with subdivision (a) FICTITIOUS BUSINESS at the end of five years from guilty of a misdemeanor punNAME STATEMENT FILE NAME STATEMENT FILE the date on which it was filed of Section 17920, a fictitious ishable by a fine not to exFic. Business Name NO. 20210917-10013289-0 NO. 20210929-10014007-0 in the office of the county name statement generally ceed one thousand dollars The following person(s) is The following person(s) is clerk, except, as provided in expires at the end of five ($1,000).) Print Name of Re(are) doing business as: (are) doing business as: subdivision of section 17920, years from the date on which gistrant: Cathy J. Butter. NOMCMILLIN'S DAYCARE, EVOLUTION CHIROPRACTwhere it expires 40 days after it was filed in the office of the TICE - in accordance with 952 Burlington Ave., Ventura, IC AND WELLNESS, 4601 any change in the facts set county clerk, except, as subdivision (a) of Section CA 93004. Ventura County.

Telephone Road, Suite 110 forth in the statement pursuprovided in subdivision of 17920, a fictitious name Lydia Merrill, 952 Burlington Ventura, CA 93003, Ventura ant to section 17913 other section 17920, where it exstatement generally expires Ave., Ventura, CA 93004.

County, State of Incorporathan a change in residence pires 40 days after any at the end of five years from This business is conducted tion / Organization, Califoraddress or registered owner. change in the facts set forth the date on which it was filed by: An Individual.

The regisnia, Dr. Nadia Emen LLC, A new fictitious business in the statement pursuant to in the office of the county trant commenced to transact 1914 Tanager Street Venname statement must be filed section 17913 other than a clerk, except, as provided in business under the fictitious tura, CA 93003. This busibefore the expiration. The filchange in residence address subdivision of section 17920, business name or names lisness is conducted by: A Liming of this statement does not or registered owner. A new where it expires 40 days after ted above on: 09/15/2021. I ited Liability Company. The of itself authorize the use in fictitious business name any change in the facts set this state of a fictitious busistatement must be filed bedeclare that all Information In registrant commenced to forth in the statement pursuness name in violation of the fore the expiration. The filing this statement Is true and transact business under the ant to section 17913 other rights of another under Fedof this statement does not of correct (A registrant who defictitious business name or than a change in residence eral, State, or Common Law itself authorize the use in this clares information as true any names listed above on: address or registered owner. (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., state of a fictitious business material matter pursuant to 06/08/2021. I declare that all A new fictitious business name in violation of the rights Section 17913 of Business Information In this statement Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o n s name statement must be filed of another under Federal, and Professions Code that Is true and correct (A regisCode). This statement was before the expiration. The filState, or Common Law (see the registrant knows to be trant who declares informafiled with the County Clerk of ing of this statement does not Section 14411 ET SEQ., false is guilty of a misdetion as true any material matVentura on September 21, of itself authorize the use in Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns meanor punishable by a fine ter pursuant to Section 17913 2021. this state of a fictitious busiCode). This statement was not to exceed one thousand of Business and Professions PUBLISHED: Ventura ness name in violation of the filed with the County Clerk of dollars ($1,000).)

Print Name Code that the registrant County Reporter; 09/30/21, rights of another under Fedof Registrant: Lydia Merrill. knows to be false is guilty of 10/07/21, 10/14/21, 10/21/21 Ventura on September 02, eral, State, or Common Law NOTICE - in accordance with a misdemeanor punishable 2021. (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., FICTITIOUS BUSINESS subdivision (a) of Section by a fine not to exceed one PUBLISHED: Ventura Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns NAME STATEMENT FILE 17920, a fictitious name thousand dollars ($1,000).)

County Reporter; 09/23/21, Code). This statement was NO. 20210923-10013687-0 statement generally expires Print Name of Registrant: Dr. 09/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21 filed with the County Clerk of The following person(s) is at the end of five years from Nadia Emen LLC, Nadia Ventura on September 07, (are) doing business as: THE the date on which it was filed Emen, Managing Member.

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COLONY OF THOUSAND in the office of the county NOTICE - in accordance with PUBLISHED: Ventura OAKS, COTTAGES AT THE clerk, except, as provided in subdivision (a) of Section County Reporter; 09/23/21, F I C T I T I O U S B U S I N E S S COLONY, THE COLONY, subdivision of section 17920, 17920, a fictitious name 09/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21 NAME STATEMENT FILE 189 Venus Street Thousand where it expires 40 days after statement generally expires NO. 20210917-10013375-0 STATEMENT OF Oaks, CA 91360, Ventura any change in the facts set at the end of five years from ABANDONMENT OF USE OF The following person(s) is County, State of Incorporaforth in the statement pursuthe date on which it was filed FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME (are) doing business as: tion / Organization, Califorant to section 17913 other in the office of the county FILE NO. 20210907-10012818-0 DANI WILL HIBACHI nia, Colony Care of Thouthan a change in residence clerk, except, as provided in The following person(s) is (are) GRILL, 3006 Concord Drive sand Oaks, LLC, 5420 Tyraddress or registered owner. subdivision of section 17920, doing business as: GYROTONIC Ventura, CA 93033. Ventura one Ave., Sherman Oaks, CA VENTURA, 1453 East Main St., A new fictitious business where it expires 40 days after County.

Danielle R. Williams, Ventura, CA 93001. The date on 91404. This business is conname statement must be filed any change in the facts set which the Fictitious Business 3006 Concord Drive Ventura, ducted by: A Limited Liability before the expiration. The filforth in the statement pursuName being Abandoned was filed: CA 93033. This business is Company.

The registrant ing of this statement does not ant to section 17913 other 10/17/2018. The file number to the conducted by: An Individual. commenced to transact busiof itself authorize the use in than a change in residence Fictitious Business Name being The registrant commenced to ness under the fictitious busithis state of a fictitious busiaddress or registered owner.

Abandoned: 20181017-10019192transact business under the ness name or names listed 0. The County where the Fictiness name in violation of the A new fictitious business fictitious business name or tious Business Name was filed: above on: June 4, 2021. I rights of another under Fedname statement must be filed Ventura County. Pamela names listed above on: declare that all Information In eral, State, or Common Law before the expiration. The filPilkenton, 3171 Hilltop Drive Ven09/17/2021. I declare that all this statement Is true and (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., ing of this statement does not tura, CA 93003. This business is Information In this statement correct (A registrant who deBu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns of itself authorize the use in conducted by: An Individual. I detrue and correct (A regisIs clares information as true any Code). This statement was this state of a fictitious busiclare that all information in this trant who declares informamaterial matter pursuant to statement is true and correct. (A filed with the County Clerk of ness name in violation of the tion as true any material matregistrant who declares informaSection 17913 of Business Ventura on September 17, rights of another under Fedtion as true which he or she knows ter pursuant to Section 17913 and Professions Code that 2021. eral, State, or Common Law to be false is guilty of a crime.) I of Business and Professions the registrant knows to be P U B L I S H E D : V e n t u r a (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., am also aware that all information Code that the registrant false is guilty of a misdeCounty Reporter; 09/30/21, Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns on this statement becomes public knows to be false is guilty of meanor punishable by a fine record upon filing pursuant to Cali10/07/21, 10/14/21, 10/21/21 Code). This statement was a misdemeanor punishable not to exceed one thousand fornia Public Records Act (G.C. filed with the County Clerk of by a fine not to exceed one 6250-6277). Name of Registrant: FICTITIOUS BUSINESS dollars ($1,000).) Print Name Ventura on September 29, Pamela Pilkenton, Name of Signthousand dollars ($1,000).)

NAME STATEMENT FILE of Registrant: Colony Care of 2021. er, Pamela Pilkenton. Filed Print Name of Registrant: NO. 20210921-10013544-0 Thousand Oaks, LLC, Paolo PUBLISHED: Ventura 09/07/2021.

Danielle R. Williams. NOThe following person(s) is Dorigo, Manager.

NOTICE County Reporter; 10/14/21, PUBLISHED: Ventura County ReTICE - in accordance with (are) doing business as: TOP in accordance with subdiviporter; 09/23/21, 09/30/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21 subdivision (a) of Section NOTCH PAINTING, TOP sion (a) of Section 17920, a 10/07/21, 10/14/21 17920, a fictitious name NOTCH PAINTING AND fictitious name statement FICTITIOUS BUSINESS statement generally expires FICTITIOUS BUSINESS MAINTENANCE, 7081 generally expires at the end NAME STATEMENT FILE at the end of five years from NAME STATEMENT FILE Lemur Ct. Ventura, CA of five years from the date on NO. 20210921-10013481-0 the date on which it was filed NO. 20210902-10012620-0 9 3 0 0 3 . V e n t u r a C o u n t y. which it was filed in the ofThe following person(s) is in the office of the county The following person(s) is Thomas Wayne Marshall Jr., fice of the county clerk, ex(are) doing business as: clerk, except, as provided in (are) doing business as: Tamara Lynn Marshall, 7081 cept, as provided in subdiviINTERWORKS ONE, MCsubdivision of section 17920, FULL POTENTIAL HEALTH, Lemur Ct. Ventura, CA sion of section 17920, where CRACKEN AND ASSOwhere it expires 40 days after 918 Puerto Place, Unit 107 93003. This business is conit expires 40 days after any CIATES, I SPECIAL DIRany change in the facts set Ventura, CA 93001. Ventura ducted by: A Married Couple. change in the facts set forth ECT, INTERWORKS, INforth in the statement pursuCounty. Alexa Elbert, 918 The registrant commenced to in the statement pursuant to TERWORKS MARKETING, ant to section 17913 other Puerto Place, Unit 107 Ventransact business under the section 17913 other than a MARKET ENABLED, TOP than a change in residence tura, CA 93001. This busifictitious business name or change in residence address IN MEDIA, INSPIRE DEaddress or registered owner. ness is conducted by: An Innames listed above on: N/A. I or registered owner. A new MAND, BUILD WHOLE A new fictitious business dividual. The registrant comdeclare that all Information In fictitious business name SALE, INTERWORKS SERname statement must be filed menced to transact business this statement Is true and statement must be filed beVICES, POWERED HERE, before the expiration.

The filunder the fictitious business correct (A registrant who defore the expiration. The filing CHARGED HERE, EV ing of this statement does not name or names listed above clares information as true any of this statement does not of SIMPLY, 1289 Westwind of itself authorize the use in on: N/A. I declare that all Inmaterial matter pursuant to itself authorize the use in this Circle Westlake Village, CA this state of a fictitious busiformation In this statement Is Section 17913 of Business state of a fictitious business 9 1 3 6 1 . V e n t u r a C o u n t y. ness name in violation of the true and correct (A registrant and Professions Code that name in violation of the rights Craig Matthew McCracken, rights of another under Fedwho declares information as the registrant knows to be of another under Federal, 1289 Westwind Circle Westeral, State, or Common Law true any material matter purfalse is guilty of a misdeState, or Common Law (see lake Village, CA 91361. This (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., suant to Section 17913 of meanor punishable by a fine Section 14411 ET SEQ., business is conducted by: An Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o n s Business and Professions not to exceed one thousand Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns Individual. The registrant Code). This statement was Code that the registrant dollars ($1,000).) Print Name Code). This statement was commenced to transact busifiled with the County Clerk of knows to be false is guilty of of Registrant: Thomas filed with the County Clerk of ness under the fictitious busiVentura on September 17, a misdemeanor punishable Wayne Marshall Jr. NOVentura on September 23, ness name or names listed 2021. by a fine not to exceed one TICE - in accordance with 2021. above on: 12/19/2021. I dePUBLISHED: Ventura thousand dollars ($1,000).) subdivision (a) of Section PUBLISHED: Ventura clare that all Information In County Reporter; 09/30/21, Print Name of Registrant: Al17920, a fictitious name County Reporter; 10/07/21, this statement Is true and 10/07/21, 10/14/21, 10/21/21 exa Elbert. NOTICE - in acstatement generally expires 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21 correct (A registrant who decordance with subdivision (a) at the end of five years from clares information as true any of Section 17920, a fictitious the date on which it was filed material matter pursuant to name statement generally in the office of the county Section 17913 of Business expires at the end of five clerk, except, as provided in and Professions Code that years from the date on which subdivision of section 17920, the registrant knows to be it was filed in the office of the where it expires 40 days after false is guilty of a misdecounty clerk, except, as any change in the facts set meanor punishable by a fine provided in subdivision of forth in the statement pursunot to exceed one thousand section 17920, where it exant to section 17913 other dollars ($1,000).) Print Name pires 40 days after any than a change in residence of Registrant: Craig Matthew change in the facts set forth address or registered owner.

McCracken. NOTICE - in acin the statement pursuant to A new fictitious business cordance with subdivision (a) 1014_VCReporter_CLASSIFIEDS.indd 29 section 17913 other than a

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TERWORKS MARKETING, MARKET ENABLED, TOP IN MEDIA, INSPIRE DEMAND, BUILD WHOLESALE, INTERWORKS SERVICES, POWERED HERE, CHARGED HERE, EV SIMPLY, 1289 Westwind Circle Westlake Village, CA 91361. Ventura County.

Craig Matthew McCracken, 1289 Westwind Circle Westlake Village, CA 91361. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 12/19/2021. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Craig Matthew McCracken. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on September 21, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21

name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner. A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o n s Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on October 04, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20211004-10014328-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: VC HOME REPAIR, 109 Oxnard Ave., Ventura, CA 93035, Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization, California, VC Home Repair, LLC, 109 Oxnard Ave., Ventura, CA 93035. This business is conducted by: A Limited Liability Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: VC Home Repair, LLC, Brooks Hargreaves, Managing Member.

NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o ns Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on October 4, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20211004-10014321-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: WOODMUCHI, 6500 Telephone Rd., Apt. 503 Ventura, CA 93003. Ventura County.

Daniel Amir Aranda Oretega, 6500 Telephone Rd., Apt. 503 Ventura, CA 93003. This business is conducted by: An Individual. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: 1N/A. I declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Daniel Amir Aranda Oretega. NOTICE - in acFICTITIOUS BUSINESS cordance with subdivision (a) NAME STATEMENT FILE of Section 17920, a fictitious NO. 20211006-10014578-0 name statement generally The following person(s) is expires at the end of five (are) doing business as: DOT years from the date on which COM MEDIA, SEO 911, it was filed in the office of the WEB WISE MEDIA, FIRST county clerk, except, as PAGE PLACEMENTS, DCM provided in subdivision of MOGULS, WWM, DCM,1336 section 17920, where it exN. Moorpark Rd., Unit 102 pires 40 days after any Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, change in the facts set forth Ventura County, State of Inin the statement pursuant to corporation / Organization section 17913 other than a CA3256380, California, Aschange in residence address seni Corp., 1336 N. Mooror registered owner. A new park Rd., Unit 102 Thousand fictitious business name Oaks, CA 91360. This busistatement must be filed beness is conducted by: A fore the expiration. The filing Company. The registrant of this statement does not of commenced to transact busiitself authorize the use in this ness under the fictitious busistate of a fictitious business ness name or names listed name in violation of the rights above on: 04/10/2010. I deof another under Federal, clare that all Information In State, or Common Law (see this statement Is true and Section 14411 ET SEQ., correct (A registrant who deBu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s October ions 14, — as true — any 29 clares 2021 information Code). This statement was material matter pursuant to filed with the County Clerk of Section 17913 of Business Ventura on October 04, and Professions Code that 2021. the registrant knows to be PUBLISHED: Ventura false is guilty of a misdeCounty Reporter; 10/14/21, meanor punishable by a fine 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21 not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Asseni Corp., 10/12/21 4:36 PM Inessa Shapiro, CEO. NO-

Thousand Oaks, CA 91360, Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization CA3256380, California, Asseni Corp., 1336 N. Moorpark Rd., Unit 102 Thousand Oaks, CA 91360. This business is conducted by: A Company. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above 04/10/2010.

Fic.on: Business NameI declare that all Information In this statement Is true and correct (A registrant who declares information as true any material matter pursuant to Section 17913 of Business and Professions Code that the registrant knows to be false is guilty of a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1,000).) Print Name of Registrant: Asseni Corp., Inessa Shapiro, CEO. NOTICE - in accordance with subdivision (a) of Section 17920, a fictitious name statement generally expires at the end of five years from the date on which it was filed in the office of the county clerk, except, as provided in subdivision of section 17920, where it expires 40 days after any change in the facts set forth in the statement pursuant to section 17913 other than a change in residence address or registered owner.

A new fictitious business name statement must be filed before the expiration. The filing of this statement does not of itself authorize the use in this state of a fictitious business name in violation of the rights of another under Federal, State, or Common Law (see Section 14411 ET SEQ., Bu s i n e s s & Pr o fe s s i o n s Code). This statement was filed with the County Clerk of Ventura on October 4, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21

Probate NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: TERRY DEAN KLEIN CASE NO. 56-202100556878-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of TERRY DEAN KLEIN. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ROBERT C. KLEIN in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ROBERT C. KLEIN be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/28/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the 30 — you—must October 14, decedent, file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Pro1014_VCReporter_CLASSIFIEDS.indd 30 bate Code, or (2) 60 days

VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner CHARLES J. STAVELEY SBN 298971, PABST & STAVELEY, A P.C. 3436 N. VERDUGO RD. STE 220 GLENDALE CA 91208 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/21 CNS-3514605# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MILLIE A. THOMPSON CASE NO. 56-2021-00557998PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both, of: MILLIE A. THOMPSON AKA MILLIE ARETTA THOMPSON A Petition for Probate has been filed by MAYA KANAMORI in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The Petition for Probate requests that MAYA KANAMORI be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The Petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The Petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court on OCTOBER 28, 2021 at 10:30 A.M. in Dept. J6 Room N/A located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general p e r s o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by 2021 the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: GEORGE A. MCNITT, ATTORNEY AT LAW,

issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: GEORGE A. MCNITT, ATTORNEY AT LAW, 2041 BANCROFT WAY, SUITE 206, BERKELEY, CA 94704, Telephone: 510-444-0800 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/21 CNS-3515164# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: BETTY JEAN SLATTUM CASE NO. 56-2021-00558096PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of BETTY JEAN SLATTUM. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by KEVIN JAMES SLATTUM in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that KEVIN JAMES SLATTUM be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 10/28/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner TODD J. VIGNEUX SBN 253284 PEDERSON LAW OFFICES APLC 920 HAMPSHIRE RD. SUITE A1 WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91361 9/30, 10/7, 10/14/21 CNS-3514070#

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JAMES F. DOWNEY CASE NO. 56-202100558557-PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JAMES F. DOWNEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ELIZABETH FEHMEL & JULIE MANKIEWICZ in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ELIZABETH FEHMEL & JULIE MANKIEWICZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of JAMES F. DOWNEY. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by ELIZABETH FEHMEL & JULIE MANKIEWICZ in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that ELIZABETH FEHMEL & JULIE MANKIEWICZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The WILL and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 11/04/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner WILLIAM C. GEORGE, ESQ. SBN 122583, BURKHALTER KESSLER CLEMENT & GEORGE LLP 340 N. WESTLAKE BLVD., #110 WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362 10/7, 10/14, 10/21/21 CNS-3517936# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CAROLE OSBORNE AKA CAROLE YATES CASE NO. 56-202100558742-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of CAROLE OSBORNE AKA CAROLE YATES. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by NORMAN DICKSON OSBORNE in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that NORMAN DICKSON OSBORNE be appointed as personal representative to administer

ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: CAROLE OSBORNE AKA CAROLE YATES CASE NO. 56-202100558742-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of CAROLE OSBORNE AKA CAROLE YATES. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by NORMAN DICKSON OSBORNE in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that NORMAN DICKSON OSBORNE be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 11/18/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner PAUL HORN, ESQ. SBN 243227, PAUL HORN LAW GROUP, PC 11404 SOUTH STREET CERRITOS CA 90703 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/21 CNS-3520308# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: RAINER G. GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GERHARD GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GRUETZMACHER CASE NO. 56-202100558749-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RAINER G. GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GERHARD GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GRUETZMACHER. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARYANN M. TOMKOVICZ in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARYANN M. TOMKOVICZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the es-

ZMACHER CASE NO. 56-202100558749-PR-LA-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the WILL or estate, or both of RAINER G. GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GERHARD GRUETZMACHER AKA RAINER GRUETZMACHER. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARYANN M. TOMKOVICZ in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARYANN M. TOMKOVICZ be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.) The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A HEARING on the petition will be held in this court as follows: 11/18/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing.

Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

IF YOU ARE A CREDITOR or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code.

Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

YOU MAY EXAMINE the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner WILLIAM C. GEORGE, ESQ. - SBN 122583, BURKHALTER KESSLER CLEMENT & GEORGE LLP 340 N. WESTLAKE BLVD., #110 WESTLAKE VILLAGE CA 91362 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/21 CNS-3520327# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF JULIANA K. CHUNG CASE NO. 56-2021-00558219PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JULIANA K. CHUNG. A Petition for probate has been filed by Patrick H. Chung in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Patrick H. Chung be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtain-

To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of JULIANA K. CHUNG. A Petition for probate has been filed by Patrick H. Chung in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Patrick H. Chung be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 04, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Juvenile/Probate .

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general p e r s o n a l r e p r e s e n t a t i v e , as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Marisha N. Charbonnet SBN 238446 223 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Suite 320 Thousand Oaks, California 91360 (805) 496-4681 Ventura County Reporter 09/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF RICHARD R. EGIZI aka RICHARD RENE EGIZI DECEDENT CASE NO. 56-2021-00557676 PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of RICHARD R. EGIZI aka RICHARD RENE EGIZI. A Petition for probate has been filed by Thatcharnok Pichitchartee in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Thatcharnok Pichitchartee be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 4, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Juvenile Justice/ Complex/Probate Court.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections 10/12/21 4:36 PM or file written objections with the

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The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the Probate petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 4, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Juvenile Justice/ Complex/Probate Court.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Petitioner: Thomas E. Olson Thomas E. Olson, APLC SBN 82569 2590 E. Main Street, Suite 106 Ventura, California 93003 (805) 628-9256 Ventura County Reporter 10/07/21, 10/14/21, 10/21/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF LINDSAY LEIGH BIRDWELL STAGGS CASE NO. 56-2021-00558362 PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of LINDSAY LEIGH BIRDWELL STAGGS. A Petition for probate has been filed by Louis L. “Trey” Birdwell, III in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Louis L. “Trey” Birdwell, III be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

The petition requests the decedent's will and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The will and any codicils are available for examination in the file kept by the court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 04, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Juvenile Justice Center.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

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court.

The petition requests authority to administer the estate under the Independent Administration of Estates Act. (This authority will allow the personal representative to take many actions without obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very important actions, however, the personal representative will be required to give notice to interested persons unless they have waived notice or consented to the proposed action.)

The independent administration authority will be granted unless an interested person files an objection to the petition and shows good cause why the court should not grant the authority.

A hearing on the petition will be held in this court as follows: Date: November 04, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Juvenile Justice Center.

If you object to the granting of the petition, you should appear at the hearing and state your objections or file written objections with the court before the hearing. Your appearance may be in person or by your attorney.

If you are a creditor or a contingent creditor of the decedent, you must file your claim with the court and mail a copy to the personal representative appointed by the court within the later of either (1) four months from the date of first issuance of letters to a general personal representative, as defined in section 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days from the date of mailing or personal delivery to you of a notice under section 9052 of the California Probate Code. Other California statutes and legal authority may affect your rights as a creditor. You may want to consult with an attorney knowledgeable in California law.

You may examine the file kept by the court. If you are a person interested in the estate, you may file with the court a Request for Special Notice (form DE-154) of the filing of an inventory and appraisal of estate assets or of any petition or account as provided in Probate Code Section 1250. A Request for Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Brian L. Fox CSB# 141625 290 Maple Court, Suite 126 Ventura, California 93003 (805) 658-9204 Ventura County Reporter 9/30/21, 10/07/21, 10/14/21

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Stalsworth 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/16/21. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 43. The address of the court is 800 South Victoria Avenue Ventura, CA 93009. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of general circulation, printed in this county: Ventura. Original filed: October 05, 2021. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, /s/ Brenda L. McCormick, Ventura Superior Court, Executive Officer and Clerk, By: Jeanette Fimbres, Deputy Clerk. PUBLISH: Ventura County Reporter 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21

Bulk Sales NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) Escrow No. 042932-ST (1) Notice is hereby given to creditors of the within named Seller(s) that a bulk sale is about to be made on personal property hereinafter described.

(2) The name and business addresses of the seller are: Ojai Valley Harvest LLC, 307 E Ojai Avenue Suite 104105, Ojai, CA 93023 (3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is: 307 E Ojai Ave Suite 104-105, Ojai, CA 93023 (4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are: Laluz Productions LLC, 1210 Ayers Avenue, Ojai, CA 93023 (5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are all stock in trade, furniture, fixtures and equipment, intangible assets and goodwill of that certain business located at: 307 E Ojai Avenue Suite 104-105, Ojai, CA 93023 (6) The business name used by the seller(s) at that location is: Ojai Harvest and Ojai Valley Harvest (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is 11/01/21 at the office of All Brokers Escrow Inc., 2924 W. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, CA 91505, Escrow No. 042932-ST, Escrow Officer: Stephanie Toth.

(8) Claims may be filed with Same as "7" above.

(9) The last date for filing claims is 10/29/21.

(10) This Bulk Sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

(11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: NONE. DATED: October 4, 2021 TRANSFEREES: Laluz Productions LLC, a California Limited Liability Company S/ Lisa Ann Cabasa, Manager 10/14/21 CNS-3519560#

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 56-202100558665-CU-PT-VTA SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF VENTURA. Petition of BRYAN STALSWORTH and VICTORIA STALSWORTH, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Bryan Stalsworth and Victoria Stalsworth filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.) Nevaeh Rae Wills to Navaeh Rae Stalsworth 2.) THE COURT ORDERS that all persons interested in this matter appear before this court at the hearing indicated below to show cause, if any, why the petition for change of name should not be granted. Any person objecting to the name changes described above must file a written objection that includes the reasons for the objection at least two court days before the matter is scheduled to be heard and must appear at the hearing to show cause why the petition should not be granted. If no written objection is timely filed, the court may grant the petition without a hearing.

NOTICE OF HEARING: Date: 11/16/21. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 43. The address of the court is 800 South Victoria Avenue Ventura, CA 93009. A copy of this Order to Show Cause shall be published at least once each week for four successive weeks prior to the date set for hearing on the petition in the following newspaper of PLACE YOUR AD TODAY! general circulation, printed in this county: Ventura. Original filed: October 05, 2021. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, /s/ Brenda L. McCormick, Ventura Superior Court, Executive Officer and Clerk, By: Jeanette Fimbres, Deputy Clerk. PUBLISH: Ventura County Reporter 10/14/21, 10/21/21, 10/28/21, 11/04/21

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Valley Harvest (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is 11/01/21 at the office of All Brokers Escrow Inc., 2924 W. Magnolia Blvd. Burbank, CA 91505, Escrow No. 042932-ST, Escrow Officer: Stephanie Toth.

(8) Claims may be filed with Same as "7" above.

(9) The last date for filing claims is 10/29/21.

(10) This Bulk Sale is subject to Section 6106.2 of the Uniform Commercial Code.

(11) As listed by the Seller, all other business names and addresses used by the Seller within three years before the date such list was sent or delivered to the Buyer are: NONE. DATED: October 4, 2021 TRANSFEREES: Laluz Productions LLC, a California Limited Liability Company S/ Lisa Ann Cabasa, Manager 10/14/21 CNS-3519560# NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (UCC Sec. 6105) Escrow No. 18729-FT NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that a bulk sale is about to be made.

The name(s), business address(es) of the Seller(s), are: TIDY FRIENDS INC., a California Corporation, 1014 S. Westlake Blvd., #16, Westlake Village, CA 91361 Doing Business as: CARRIAGE CLEANERS (Dry Cleaners) All other business name(s) and address(es) used by the Seller(s) within the past three years, as stated by the Seller(s), is/are: NONE The location in California of the Chief Executive Officer of the Seller(s) is: SAME AS ABOVE The name(s) and address of the Buyer(s) is/are: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC., a California Corporation 1014 S. Westlake Blvd., #16, Westlake Village CA 91361 The assets being sold are generally described as: Furniture, fixtures, equipment, tradename, goodwill, lease and leasehold improvements and are located at: 1014 S. Westlake Blvd., #16, Westlake Village, CA 91361 The bulk sale is intended to be consummated at the office of: Universal Escrow, Inc., 1025 W. 190th Street, Suite 218 Gardena, CA 90248 and the anticipated sale date is 11/01/21.

The bulk sale is subject to California Uniform Commercial Code Section 6106.2 YES The name and address of the person with whom claims may be filed is: Universal Escrow, Inc., 1025 W. 190th Street, Suite 218, Gardena, CA 90248 and the last date for filing claims by any creditor shall be 10/29/21, which is the business day before the sale date specified above.

Dated: 09/30/2021 BUYER: CARRIAGE SERVICES INC., a California Corporation S/ Maria Venegas, President 10/14/21 CNS-3520092#

Summons SUMMONS (CITACION JUDICIAL) CASE NUMBER (Número del Caso): 56-2020-00544469-CL-CLVTA NOTICE TO DEFENDANT (AVISO AL DEMANDADO): RANDOLPH BLANKENHEIM YOU ARE BEING SUED BY PLAINTIFF (LO ESTÁ DEMANDANDO EL DEMANDANTE): Wells Fargo Bank, N.A. NOTICE! You have been sued. The court may decide against you without your being heard unless you respond within 30 days. Read the information below.

You have 30 CALENDAR DAYS after this summons and legal papers are served on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages,

on you to file a written response at this court and have a copy served on the plaintiff.

A letter or phone call will not protect you. Your written response must be in proper legal form if you want the court to hear your case.

There may be a court form that you can use for your response. You can find these court forms and more information at the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), your county law library, or the courthouse nearest you. If you cannot pay the filing fee, ask the court clerk for a fee waiver form. If you do not file your response on time, you may lose the case by default, and your wages, money, and property may be taken without further warning from the court.

There are other legal requirements. You may want to call an attorney right away. If you do not know an attorney, you may want to call an attorney referral service. If you cannot afford an attorney, you may be eligible for free legal services from a nonprofit legal services program. You can locate these nonprofit groups at the California Legal Services Web site (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), the California Courts Online Self-Help Center (www.courtinfo.ca.gov/selfhelp), or by contacting your local court or county bar association. NOTE: The court has a statutory lien fo r waived fees and costs on any settlement or arbitration award of $10,000 or more in a civil case. The court's lien must be paid before the court will dismiss the case. ¡AVISO! Lo han demandado.

Si no responde dentro de 30 días, la corte puede decidir en su contra sin escuchar su versión. Lea la información a continuación.

Tiene 30 DÍAS DE CALENDARIO después de que le entreguen esta citación y papeles legales para presentar una respuesta por escrito en esta corte y hacer que se entregue una copia al demandante. Una carta o una llamada telefónica no lo protegen. Su respuesta por escrito tiene que estar en formato legal correcto si desea que procesen su caso en la corte. Es posible que haya un formulario que usted pueda usar para su respuesta. Puede encontrar estos formularios de la corte y más información en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California (www.sucorte.ca.gov), en la biblioteca de leyes de su condado o en la corte que le quede más cerca. Si no puede pagar la cuota de presentación, pida al secretario de la corte que le dé un formulario de exención de pago de cuotas. Si no presenta su respuesta a tiempo, puede perder el caso por incumplimiento y la corte le podrá quitar su sueldo, dinero y bienes sin más advertencia.

Hay otros requisitos legales.

Es recomendable que llame a un abogado inmediatamente. Si no conoce a un abogado, puede llamar a un servicio de remisión a abogados. Si no puede pagar a un abogado, es posible que cumpla con los requisitos para obtener servicios legales gratuitos de un programa de servicios legales sin fines de lucro. Puede encontrar estos grupos sin fines de lucro en el sitio web de California Legal Services, (www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Su-

(www.lawhelpcalifornia.org), en el Centro de Ayuda de las Cortes de California, (www.sucorte.ca.gov) o poniéndose en contacto con la corte o el colegio de abogados locales. AVISO: Por ley, la corte tiene derecho a reclamar las cuotas y los costos exentos por imponer un gravamen sobre cualquier recuperación de $10,000 ó más de valor recibida mediante un acuerdo o una concesión de arbitraje en un caso de derecho civil. Tiene que pagar el gravamen de la corte antes de que la corte pueda desechar el caso.

The name and address of the court is (El nombre y dirección de la corte es): Superior Court of California County of Ventura, 800 South Victoria Avenue, Ventura, CA 93009 The name, address, and telephone number of plaintiff's attorney, or plaintiff without an attorney, is (El nombre, la dirección y el número de teléfono del abogado del demandante, o del demandante que no tiene abogado, es): REESE LAW GROUP, D. Wilson Jordan, Esq., 3168 Lionshead Avenue, Carlsbad, CA 92010; 760/842-5850 (File No. 563586) DATE (Fecha): JUL 28 2020 Michael D Planet, Clerk (Secretario), by CRISTAL V. ALVAREZ, Deputy (Adjunto) (SEAL) 10/7, 10/14, 10/21, 10/28/21 CNS-3516273#

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as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $14,697.38 accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The claimant, NORTH OAKS HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will be bidding on a lien, not on the property itself. Placing the highest bid at a trustee auction does not automatically entitle you to free and clear ownership of the property. You should also be aware that the lien being auctioned off may be a junior lien. If you are the highest bidder at the auction, you are or may be responsible for paying off all liens senior to the lien being auctioned off, before you can receive clear title to the property. You are encouraged to investigate the existence, priority, and size of outstanding liens that may exist on this property by contacting the county recorder's office or a title insurance company, either of which may charge you a fee for this information. If you consult either of these resources, you should be aware that the same lender may hold more than one mortgage or deed of trust on the property. NOTICE TO PROPERTY OWNER: The sale date shown on this notice of sale may be postponed one or more times by the mortgagee, beneficiary, trustee, or a court, pursuant to Section 2924g of the California Civil Code. The law requires that information about trustee sale postponements be made available to you and to the public, as a courtesy to those not present at the sale. If you wish to learn whether your sale date has been postponed, and, if applicable, the rescheduled time and date for the sale of this property, you may call FOR SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (855) 986-9342 or visit this internet web-site www.superiordefault.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2021-1131. Information about postponements that are very short in duration or that occur close in time to the scheduled sale may not immediately be reflected in the telephone information or on the internet web-site. The best way to verify postponement information is to attend the scheduled sale. NOTICE TO TENANT: You may have a right to purchase this property after the trustee auction if conducted after January 1, 2021, pursuant to Section 2924m of the California Civil Code. If you are an "eligible tenant buyer," you can purchase the property if you match the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. If you are an "eligible bidder," you may be able to purchase the property if you exceed the last and highest bid placed at the trustee auction. There are three steps to exercising this right of purchase.

First, 48 hours after the date of the trustee sale, you can call FOR SALES INFORMATION, PLEASE CALL (855) 986-9342, or visit this internet website www.superiordefault.com, using the file number assigned to this case 2021-1131 to find the date on which the trustee's sale was held, the amount of the last and highest bid, and the address of the trustee. Second, you must send a written notice of intent to place a bid so that the trustee receives it no more than 15 days after the trustee's sale.

Third, you must submit a bid, by remitting the funds and affidavit described in Section 2924m(c) of the Civil Code, so that the trustee receives it no more than 45 days after the trustee's sale. If you think you may qualify as an "eligible tenant buyer" or "eligible bidder," you should consider contacting an attorney or appropriate real estate professional immediately for advice regarding this potential right to purchase. THE PROPERTY IS BEING SOLD SUBJECT TO THE NINETY DAY RIGHT OF REDEMPTION CONTAINED IN CIVIL CODE SECTION 5715(b).

Date: 9/13/2021 S.B.S LIEN SERVICES, 31194 La Baya Drive, Suite 106, Westlake Village, California, 91362. By: Annissa Young, Trustee Sale Officer (9/30/2021, 10/7/2021, 10/14/2021| TS#20211131 SDI-21917)

A.P.N.: 518-0-090-325 Trustee Sale No.:2021-1131 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE UNDER A NOTICE OF A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT AND CLAIM OF LIEN. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A NOTICE OF DELINQUENT ASSESSMENT DATED 4/12/2021. UNLESS YOU TAKE ACTION TO PROTECT YOUR PROPERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU NEED AN EXPLANATION OF THE NATURE OF THE PROCEEDINGS AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. Notice is hereby given that on 10/21/2021 at 11:00 AM, S.B.S. Lien Services As the duly appointed Trustee under and pursuant to Notice of Delinquent Assessment, recorded on 4/15/2021 as Document No. 20210415-00076834-0 Book Page of Official Records in the Office of the Recorder of Ventura County, California, The original owner: COLIN CALAR SHINN AND JEFFREY MICHAEL SCHAFFNER The purported current owner: COLIN CALAR SHINN AND JEFFREY MICHAEL SCHAFFNER WILL SELL AT PUBLIC AUCTION TO THE HIGHEST BIDDER payable at time of sale in lawful money of the United States, by a cashier's check drawn by a State or national bank, a check drawn by a state of federal credit union, or a check drawn by a state or federal savings and loan association, savings association, or savings bank specified in section 5102 of the Financial Code and authorized to do business in this state.: AT THE MAIN ENTRANCE TO THE GOVERNMENT CENTER HALL OF JUSTICE, 800 SOUTH VICTORIA AVENUE, VENTURA, CALIFORNIA 93003 All right, title and interest under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment in the property situated in said County, as more fully described on the above referenced assessment lien. The street address and other common designation, if any of the real property described above is purported to be: 155 MCAFEE COURT THOUSAND OAKS CA 91360 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any liability for any incorrectness of the street address and other common designation, if any, shown herein.

Said sale will be made, but without covenant or warranty, expressed or implied, regarding title, possession, or encumbrances, to pay the remaining principal sum due under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment, with interest thereon, as provided in said notice, advances, if any, estimated fees, charges, and expenses of the Trustee, to-wit: $14,697.38 accrued interest and additional advances, if any, will increase this figure prior to sale. The claimant, NORTH OAKS HOMEOWNER'S ASSOCIATION under said Notice of Delinquent Assessment heretofore executed and delivered to the undersigned a written Declaration of Default and Demand for Sale, and a written Notice of Default and October Election to Sell. The undersigned caused said Notice of Default and Election to Sell to be recorded in the county where the real property is located and more than three months have elapsed since such recordation. NOTICE TO POTENTIAL BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this property lien, you should understand that there are risks involved in bidding at a trustee auction. You will

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