How to resolve AdBlock issue? Great teaching integrates learning outside the box
CHARLINE NORTON, Ojai
There is nothing more disappointing to a teacher, school, or district than facing the realization that state test scores fall below expectations.
What can you imagine for Ojai's public schools?
What can you imagine for Ojai’s public schools?
Our community is beginning an exciting conversation about the potential of Summit Charter School opening in Upper Ojai in Fall 2020. We are the newly formed all-volunteer, nonprofit board of Summit Charter School and we feel it is important for the community to start this conversation with a common understanding of some key facts about charter schools.
Paleochannel mapping in Ojai Valley is worth the investment
By Michelaina Johnson
Did you know that relict river channels buried below the Ojai Valley still carry water to the Pacific Ocean?
Those ancestral waterways — called paleochannels — may house a significant proportion of groundwater; however, they are at present missing from our groundwater equations.
Hemp: The Trojan horse that will destroy our valley from within
By Patricia Hartmann
Hemp is likely to be the Trojan horse that will destroy our valley from within. In April, the growing of industrial hemp was legalized in California. Ventura County is issuing industrial hemp growing permits with no restrictions as to grows next to schools, parks or residential neighborhoods.
Ojai joins other cities in declaring a climate emergency
Suza Francina, Ojai mayor pro tem
On Monday, July 22, at a special City Council meeting, Ojai joined more than 850 other jurisdictions worldwide that have declared a climate emergency.
I would like to thank the residents who came before the City Council and encouraged us to declare a climate emergency.
Ojai-Ventura Water Agency Partnership working to increase water supply
By Assemblymember Monique Limón and Supervisor Steve Bennett
Nearly two years ago, the two of us, along with a group of local water agency and other government leaders, began meeting to facilitate a collaborative approach to addressing the seven-year drought. The group name is the Ojai-Ventura Water Agency Partnership. Our group’s goal is to improve the sustainability of the regional water supply in the Ventura River watershed that encompasses the Ojai Valley and the western half of the city of Ventura.
HELP of Ojai closes out financial books for fire relief with gratitude and pride
By Terri Wolfe and Help of Ojai Board of Directors
In the middle of the night on Dec. 4, 2017, the Thomas Fire descended on all of us and didn’t let up for anyone in the valley for weeks (that seemed like months).
This month, Help of Ojai wrote the final checks to home-loss survivors as we closed this chapter (and financial books) on a disaster still being felt by scores of friends and neighbors.
County can convert fleet to electric to help in fight against climate change
By Richard H. Baldwin and Phil White
There is a global climate-change crisis. No question. And Ventura County is near ground zero in that crisis.
Take a look. We’re experiencing the worst of drought, fires and water shortages. The projections of sea level rise that will impact our coastline are alarming. These local impacts have the fingerprints of climate change all over them. Additionally, the county suffers from unhealthy levels of ozone air pollution. Addressing these impacts makes reducing greenhouse gas emissions critical, and we believe that the county can and should do something to fight back.
Sea level rise and the future of Ventura County
By Steven Colomé, Sc.D.
A picture is fast emerging, like a photographic image developing in a darkroom — and it isn’t pretty.
As an air quality scientist, I have been following the evidence of human-caused planetary warming for nearly four decades. The basic physics connecting fossil- fuel combustion with climate was understood by the end of the 1800s; and measurements through the 20th century confirmed those theories.
Ojai Valley veterans’ sacrifice remembered
By Dave Pressey
Memorial Day in Libbey Bowl was a project initiated by Sanford Drucker, a member of the Ojai Valley Veterans of Foreign Wars and community activist. With his passing, the Woman’s Auxiliary of the American Legion joined with the VFW of Ojai Valley to perpetuate the event each year through the leadership of Nancy Hill who developed the “Wall of Remembrance” for all Ojai Valley veterans and active duty service personnel.
Nancy Hill had an idea for specific remembrance of Ojai Valley veterans, living and deceased. She created a display of posters of every valley veteran, identified and mounted them each Memorial Day in Libbey Park. She called this massive display,“The Wall of Remembrance.”
Tell 7-11 Committee May 9 to keep Summit a full-week, public school
Summit School has been the beating heart of our community for 108 years. And it should stay that way!
Upper Ojai parents and residents know the value of Summit School to our community. In fact, everyone at the July 2018 Upper Ojai Neighborhood Council meeting voted in support of Summit being reopened as a free and public school. It was a unanimous vote!