© 201 The Ojai & Ventura 1, BY J OE L A N DE R S O N Not Afraid to Take a Closer Look! Vol. 3 • No. 16 • Issue 40 • Published in the Ojai & Ventura Gold Coast Region • FREE • Sept/Oct Sp 2011 Why Do We All Wear Masks? • PETER MILHADO • RICHARD SENATE • T HIR S TY ? SUMMER LIBBEY SHOWS • OPTIMISTIC FUTURE •GLOBAL UPDATE • JOYS OF HUMAN TRAffIC Which Path Are You On? The High Road? Tolerance: a fair, objective, and permissive attitude toward Anderson Joel Photos © 2011, opinions and practices that differ from one’s own. Or The Low Road? Machiavellian: being or acting in accordance with the principles of government, in which politi- cal expediency is placed above morality and the use of craft and deceit to maintain the authority and carry out the policies of a Anderson Joel 2011, © Photos ruler is described. Ojai’s New Mayor? • InterVIEW PT. II Rat Anderson Joel Photos © 2011, Golden State Bandits Wrec Room Photos © 2011, Joel Anderson Joel Photos © 2011, BRIAN FAITH BAND © © 2011 JOHNNY AND DIANE , , B Y J THE ULTIMATE OEL A N DE R S O N Rock N’ RollHOOK-UP Prophecy This coming together of cultures marks the fulfilling of a five hundred year-old prophecy. The prophecy foretold the com- ing together of two great powers of life: the power of the Eagle (the power of the mind as exemplified in the industrial- ized nations of the North) and the power of the Condor (the power of the heart Photos © 2011, Joel Anderson Joel Photos © 2011, and connection with nature as exempli- Ojai’s Queen Andrea Baltazar fied in the natives of South America). Photo © DAT Don Alverto Taxo page 11 INSIDE: ART • PEOPLE • SOCIETY • POLITICS • Rock n’ Roll • Halloween Fun P AGE 2 Sept/Oct Sp 2011 • Issue 40 Sept/Oct Sp 2011 • Issue 40 P AGE 3 Bart - President, Vickie Patterson -VP, blocked her esophagus and prevented Aubrey JAI ITY OUNCIL AGGEDY DGE Jill Swann -VP, Dawn Shook - Sec, Allen PRESS RELEASE from eating. For eight months she couldn’t even O C C R E Please Help My Little swallow her own saliva. “Don’t Tell Me Who I am... Let me guess !” – Dick Lynch couldn’t hear a thing. What kind of meeting Thank You Shook - Treas. Board of Directors are Craig Please help Jordan and Leah save their daugh- ust couldn’t believe the amount of folks was this? A little strange.... no mic or P.A. and Nancy Hunter-Bowles, Steve Perry, Sister (Big Brother Ethan) ter. With your help, Aubrey, who is a beautiful, i Joel: – Sheila T. Cluff Edie Lambert, Wanda Martin, Susie turned up at the school. Must have been sound system, just whispers from the honcho Thank you so very much for your strong, and a resilient little girl and a joy to be Are You Wearing a Mask? J200 cars, a lot of horses.... Oh, did I say I went “suits” in the front.... and I didn’t see any water H Provost, Russell Cloud, and Debi Cloud as t four years of around may have a chance to live a happy life. to the water meeting with Golden Stakes to drink. No Water at a Water meeting? How wonderful coverage of my 75th birthday Past President. age, Ojai No matter how large or small, Aubrey’s family is Water Co. at Nordoff High? Cars, people and could that be? in the August 2011 issue of The View. It residentA Aubrey, grateful for your generous contribution. Persona traffic....Wow this is going to be some Well one of the folks attending started shout- was such a fun time and good PR for The is much like other Visit Aubrey’s web-site for more pictures and to ll of us wear masks at different times. For Lynching (Get It?) ing, Katrina....I think they couldn’t Oaks! Thank you, Joel, for always being girls her age. She donate through pay pal, example, we are one way at work, different Well that’s not what happened; they hear and the GSW speaker such a loyal supporter of me and The loves ballet, her www.sos4aubrey.com Oaks. I look forward to seeing you soon. withA our friends, still different with our lovers, children, had a Volleyball game in the Gym. I at the front of the stage said dolls, her cat, her Donations can be made to; wandered around looking for a sign, “Come up front”, followed Healthy wishes, dog and her older Aubrey, P.O. Box 195, Ojai, CA 93024 mothers in law, etc. Our masks, or in modern par- something anything, Nothing! Started to by the people shouting from Sheila T. Cluff brother, not neces- Please share Aubrey’s story. lance our Personas, are usually developed to gain go to the other end but didn’t see the back for them to “Move to the Owner/Founder, The Oaks at Ojai sarily in that order. Family Aubrey Photo ©, 2010, With immeasurable gratitude, affirmation and acceptance in the outside world, i.e., any rear”... so they could hear. I kinda EDITOR’S NOTE: At the 2011 Ice Skat- She is also Aubrey’s Family bright-eyed and ‘Nice Guy’. ‘Good Girl’. ‘Loyal Employee’. ‘Humanitar- cars figured...... the meetin’ sure headed South ing Institute’s Adult Championships in Nikki Bart, Jill Swann, Debi Cloud, and ian Boss’, ‘Compassionate Therapist’, ‘Super Mom’ there. from that point on. Florida (weekend of Oct.1), Sheila won Dawn Shook intelligent, with a mischievous sense Event Calendar etc. Even those who are oppositional by disposition Finally We had GSW guys wayyyyy up front six 1st place medals, scoring 5’s in all The Ojai Optimist Club is a non-profit in- saw some with their slick Water plan asking events. Bravo Sheila! of fun. But unlike October 2011 and wear the Personas of ‘Rebel’, ‘Loner’, “Macho Individualist’, ‘I ternational organization and local club serving most other children her age, her future is dim. don’t need anybody Career Woman’ are only wearing reactive person- older questions and they seemed to know the youth of the She needs your help. folks what it was all about but really didn’t Ojai Optimists Ojai Valley. Due to two “botched” surgeries, she has spent alities not yet healed from brutal, early authority conflicts. I’m espe- that I knew have a clue. They also said Golden Stickup Major fund- most of her young life on feeding tubes, and de- cially leery of those who boisterously announce, “I’m up front, I tell it and followed Water didn’t really have to have the meeting raising efforts spite a third semi-successful surgery, continues to like it is!” “I don’t pull any punches.” “I am always honest.” Their claim them into the because Ojai was wayyyyy too small to meet require those tubes to sustain her life, along with meetin’. regulations to have that meeting. But not small include BBQ- to ‘candor’ is often a disguise for rage, cruelty and a need for control ing Tri-Tip an expensive regimen of medication, constant When I got enough to stick us with large water bills. vigilance and little hope for a permanent cure. over others. Despotic control is always a compensation for tremen- there I thought Why did they have the meeting then? So sandwiches at the Nordhoff Aubrey’s situation is so unusual that it is be- dous feelings of inferiority, unworthiness and often feeling unlovable. Photo © 2011, Joel Anderson Joel Photo © 2011, I was in the they could charge us even more to pay for their yond the capability of her California G.I. Doc- Profiles for Personas are formed early in life, primarily to manage Mayor Smith re-clarifies wrong place..... time to have the meeting, the public needs? High School T HURSDAY , O C T 6 Colleen and Craig Cody tors. After countless consultations and exams, fear and anxiety and often are reactions to early trauma, includ- her position on the role of everyone was It seems they were trying to make a point home football they still do not have a plan to treat Aubrey and • Oct 5/Wed, 6-7pm - OAK VIEW CIVIC COUNCIL children in Ojai society. filing out.... that GSW had raised water rates SOOOOO games, and on Ojai Day, and their annual repair her deteriorating digestive system. MONTHLY MEETING, OV Community Center, ing responses to childhood authoritative figures (parents, religious Golf Tournament, held in June at Soule Park Members/Public welcome. Topics: Budget, Grants, 12/3 signing things, getting questions asked of ‘em high that everyone had already stopped using Time may be running out for Aubrey. She has X-mas Tree Lighting, Pageant of Excellence, Earth Hour, institutions, teachers...). There are three unconscious responses to about their names, addresses? private informa- sooooo much water, and we didn’t have to Anderson Joel Photos ©, 2011, GC in Ojai, The Optimist Club of Ojai internal bleeding due to her medical condition, Optimist of the Year Nancy Hunter-Bowles Easter Egg Hunt, Memorial Day Parade, 4th Parade Ojai, early overwhelming authority figures: (1) obedience (2) defiance (3) tion for GSW? Like shootin’ fish in a barrel.... conserve any more. supports local schools, art, music, sports, and she is at heightened risk of esophageal cancer and Harvest Days, passive-aggressive – i.e., “I will do the dishes at three o’clock” (fear- academic programs as well as various youth may not live to see her adolescent years. Despite Info, www.OakViewCa.org and I was sure they were there to get a Flu Wow, we met our goal by accident!!! That’s • Oct 1, 8, 22, 29/2:30-4:30pm - FAMILY TREE ful obedience).