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Small Business of the Year! FREE Vol. Vol. 3,,yy No.5, No. 11 15 Published Every Other Published Wednesday Everyyyy Other www.venturabreeze.com Wednesday May 2 – May March 15, 201012 - 23, 2010 Anniversary of Crowell, Weedon & Co. 2012 marks the 80th Anniver- sary of Southern California-based stock brokerage and money management firm Crowell, Weedon & Co. A significant milestone for a company that was estab- lished in 1932 during the grim economic days of the Great Depression, Crowell, Weedon & Co. is now the largest indepen- dent investment firm in the Western United States. Ventura City Councilman Neal Andrews is Founders Warren Crowell and George one of four candidates running for the District Weedon established the firm with a strong 1 County Supervisor seat this June. belief in the American free enterprise system, a conservative philosophy of investing in top-quality enterprises and, above all District 1 else, a solid commitment to putting their clients’ investment needs first. Today, three supervisor generations later, Crowell, Weedon & Co. takes pride in their tradition of providing profitable investment with sound advice candidates: and guidance, enabling clients to achieve personal investment success. With approxi- Neal Andrews mately $8 billion in client assets, they have by Tim Pompey served as financial advisors to individuals, families and many leading businesses for Ventura City Councilman Neal When internationally renowned local success Nicole Cabell has time to be in Ventura she and over 80 years. The future is unpredict- Andrews is one of four candidates mom, Teri enjoy the wonders of Ventura able. Crowell, Weedon & Co. can help you running for the District 1 County Super- prepare and plan for it. Crowell, Weedon & visor’s seat. Andrews agreed to sit down Co. Ventura is located at 5740 Ralston St. with The Breeze and give our readers Renowned soprano and Member: FINRA, SIPC. some insights about his professional To learn more about Crowell, Weedon background and political philosophy. Venturan coming home & Co.’s investment approach, or to inquire Some have identified you with the tea party by Rebecca Wicks about extensive list of financial services movement, or thought of you as a fiscal con- offered, please visit www.crowellweedon. servative. How would you describe yourself in A bit of a fairy tale, Nicole Cabell degree. She was then accepted to The com or contact 620-4700. terms of public fiscal management? grew up humbly on the Westside of Juilliard School of Music which she A: I am certainly a fiscal conserva- Ventura just north of Ventura Avenue attended briefly before joining the Lyric tive. I hold onto a penny as long as I can but will return later this month as a well Opera Center for American Artists at the on behalf of the taxpayer. I think I’m travelled and well-known rising star in Lyric Opera of Chicago. the most fiscally conservative member the world of opera when she performs In 2005, she won the BBC Cardiff in this race. As far as the tea party in Ventura Music Festival’s 18th concert “Singer of the World” competition is concerned, I welcome everybody’s series. which vaulted her career to the level of a support and I make no bones about it. I “We are excited to have Ventura’s sought after performer. Since then each have placed my name before every group own Nicole Cabell return to the Festival,” season Cabell’s calendar has been filled. from the tea party to each and every one said Ventura Music Festival Executive Most recently, she has linked her voice of the unions that are interested in this Director Cheryl Heitmann. “You really with Mozart, singing the Countess in election. have to hear and see her live to appreci- Mozart’s Nozze di Figaro in Montreal, The Ventura High School (VHS) String In terms of public policy, what would you say ate why she is such a marvel.” Pamina in Di Zauberflote at the Lyric Quartet (composed of Sarah Jackson, is the difference between you and incumbent Cabell, 34, of African American, Opera in Chicago and Donna Elvira in Maya Tamang, Madeline Offerman and Bennett? Korean and Caucasian decent, had a Don Giovanni in Tokyo. In concert, Danica Neuhaus) and the VHS Wind A: I think that I am more focused limited musical background as a young she has appeared in London, Chicago, Ensemble and the VHS String Orchestra than Mr. Bennett on the cost of govern- girl. She played the flute in the De Anza Cincinnati, Toronto, Atlanta, San Diego earned top honors at two adjudicated ment and on the impact of regulation Middle School band. Later urged on by and St. Petersburg. music competitions held in March. All and government intrusion on individual her mother, she tried out for the Ventura With a travel schedule that stretches groups are part of the Ventura High lives and livelihood. There’s no question High School choir where she began her, Cabell has admitted to making a School instrumental music program, led that I am very engaged in the preserva singing and excelled. Like a page out of a better effort at enjoying herself than she by Music Director Paul Hunt. Continued on page 7 movie script, a young Cabell who had no did when she was younger. musical connections cleaned her voice “What’s the point of even travelling While celebrating teacher’s studio for discounted lessons so much if you’re not going to get out as a teenager. and see the world?” Cabell said in an Festa Della Madre “Everyone always asks me if my interview in Atlanta. “I make a point This issue’s (Mother’s Day) in Milan mother or father sang and are surprised now in taking some time to do that.” when I say no,” said Cabell in an inter view Prominent venues seem to be a Face of Ventura you can always catch last year. “I always say a singing voice mainstay for the young soprano who by Johanna Spinks up with the Breeze at has to start somewhere.” graced the stages of the Royal Opera Her voice earned her a scholarship House of London, Carnegie Hall, is on page 12. venturabreeze.com to the Eastman School of Music in New Deutsche Opera of Berlin and the Met York where she received her bachelor’s Contnued on page 4 2 May 2 – May 15, 2012 Ventura BREEZE Four Family Events on One Great Day! 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