The Ojai & Ventura Photo © 2010, Joel Anderson Photo © 2010, Joel Vol. 3 • No. 1 • Issue 25 • Published in the Ojai & Ventura Gold Coast Region • FREE • April 2010 A STONE IN MY HEART • DIRE STRAITS FOR OJAI TROLLEY ? Photo © 2010, Joel Anderson •Veterans For Peace - LARRY NARON If you haven’t grabbed a hot seat with T h e G i r l s ... •SHOCKING & COLE’S KISS-OFF it’s time to pull up a chair See Page 20 • ROWE - CURTAIN CALL • Roz Hammer and Mr. Fix it •PETER MILHADO - FOR MEANING POOR • MARY-JO - WIRED SHELDON •PROMISES, PROMISES “I was going to Plead... Insanity“ - Sheldon Brown OMEWRECKER ETTER • H L French Mina 2010, © Photo • HUGE CITY SALARIES Why Washington Can’t Jump T Leadership ? 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The last city manager didn’t get Mr. Fix it Makes A Difference his Town must be rollin’ in dough. things done all that fast (Arcade project) and we by Roslyn Hammer – Dor Matt from saving what is left of the old.” The Search for Meaning Congratulations to Wayne Bruce and ran out of money. xcuse me if I ramble and go all over – Winston Churchill theT Tennis people, 110 years, great job. Extra Now Nothing is happening including a Roof at y father could fix anything. Of the map in this letter, but I am sure Dear Editor – Linda Potter special thanks for gettin’ the Tennis Courts City Hall and we’re out of money. It’s pretty clear course, he needed a staff of three Eyou will understand from the place of ne single letter can and did make a passion, all of us in government (and his article is dedicated to my friend Suc- fixed up. Must have been without City help. if the Council can’t make the changes neces- Mor four to assist him. turmoil and great pain it is written. big difference. I wrote a letter con- business for that matter) must deal cino, who is having a book - signing Saturday What a shame the CITY continues to be worse sary, the City Council needs to be changed. It’s “Get me my wrench,” he would bellow May 8th, 2pm at Studio G, 403 N. Ventura in than the Keystone Cops. Why are we diggin’ beyond ridiculous what is happening. Ask the two Ocerning the safety issues of one with the changed circumstances of the while under the clothes dryer. My mother piece of play equipment at the Oak View Downtown Ojai. up the entrance to Ojai Valley Inn Thursday Attorneys (running for our open city council seat) and we girls would stop what we were worst economic downturn in 70 years. T Succino has had many incarnations in this life the first day of the Tennis LONG weekend? if they will make a change of management at the doing and begin the search. Resource Center. Within a couple of Living within our means requires The water pipes are almost as old as the match. local debates, or candidate discussions or whatever “Shit,” he would scream, “ I need my days of publication a wonderful lady hard choices. Not everyone is going including but not limited to being a family man, a so- Why, what would ever possess the City to the meetings are called. wrench!” appeared at my door. Barbara Ken- to agree with those choices and every cial activist, a craftsman, a horse-racing aficionado, allow anyone to stop traffic (Tourists from The replacement for Mr. Devito should tell us Finally, after ten minutes of intense nedy, the site director, took time from choice is going to be questioned. I a Buddhist monk, an attendant in a Christian Monas- spending money) during this event? What’s what they plan to do, to get us out of this mess. searching, he would holler, “Never mind, her tremendous schedule to visit me at tery, a student at Oxford University, a psychothera- Joe it’s not too late to start thinkin’ about pulling think that comes with the territory. happening next week? NOTHING. Why not I got it right here.” The search would my home and explain to me the work- wait until its over. We are having pretty good papers for the November Election. As Winston Churchill said in simi- pist, a painter, a servant in the library and a continuous writer. His stop and we would all go back to our ings of the Oak View Resource Center. book ‘Walking Between Trees’ is a page turner based on life experi- weather, why ruin someone’s weekend by The lights are still going out and the Trolley is And today I can say the play pad on one lar adverse circumstances, “I do not road construction. I thought we were spend- on its way out. Did anyone dream that the Trolley respective endeavors - at least for a few resent criticism, even when, for the ence and his relentless search for meaning, soul and wisdom. ing something like over $150,000 plus to get spends $850,000 and brings in $35,000? minutes. jungle gym is now corrected and safe “Bring me my box of screws,” the next ! This was not a huge issue. It was not sake of emphasis, it parts for the time There are many different schools in modern psychology. Some only Tourists here and show them, what, ROAD If that ratio of spending $850,000 to get $35,000 with reality.” CONSTRUCTION? We need new manage- is out of control spending, get a wagon load of command would issue forth. We would a life and death situation. It was just address behavior which can be observed and converted into statistical all look at each other. “What box of an observation from ONE grandmother All the best, Rick Cole ment of the city. Someone that can look at a this, 6 of our City Staff cost the city in excess of City Manager, City of Ventura models, others work with mental thoughts and cognition which can be Calendar and see that this time of year, every $100,000 per year and 1, Twice that much. What screws?” However, a second search party who visits the center every day with her reprogrammed and the medical version deals with biochemical imbal- year except the first decade of last century, could they be doing in such a small town for that would be dispatched. grandchildren. I applaud the Resource ances which can be medicated. All are significant and can be helpful, this town had the “ OJAI”. Not sure if the kind of money, WHAT? After an hour or so the job would be Center AND the very busy Boys and Pt. II Coming Back but none address the most profound need of modern men and women, management can’t read, can’t plan or just don’t Well we are getting SNORKED again, just read completed. My father would announce, © 2010, Dor Matt Girls Club for acting so quickly and effi- by Art Isgur namely, to render our journey through life meaningful (James Hol- care; this has to stop. We’ve been gettin’ the City Budget, 85 pages for a 7 million dollar “Finished!” We would breathe a sigh After fighting to survive such betrayal, ciently to correct this little issue. It goes nothing buy FAST TALK and Low or Lights Out Continued, Page 4... of relief, and we would be called in for and heartbreak with my amazing children, to show you, one letter or one phone call lis). From this perspective neurosis is defined as the suffering of a Raggedy Edge Continued, Page 4... instructions, about how to treat the newly my thoughts crash into each other, never n the first installment of this series we soul which has not discovered its meaning. Some say the goal of life from one person can make a difference. learned that budget deficits are neither NEWSPAPER WARS restored clothes dryer. to make sense. How did this happen to Thank you Barbara and crew again and is happiness, the pursuit of which was advocated by our ancestors who The one problem my father had was us? How do we deserve such disrespect Igood nor bad in themselves. Deficits are Breeze Publisher again. just borrowed money. A deficit may be wrote the Constitution, but I’ve never known anyone who can access that he had no aesthetic value. The dryer, and embarrassment and shame? Be- – Linda Potter, Oak View happiness through will power alone. It makes more sense to me to convicted Sheldon “L.A.” Brown Mr. Fix it Continued, Page 22... cause you don’t have a heart or soul or ‘bad’ if most of the money is used to lower conscience, you don’t understand the gut taxes on those people that already have consciously search for meaning in one’s life.