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People of Ventura County The local movers, shakers and contributors that inspire us

by Emily Dodi, Kimberly Rivers, Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer

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OPINION

Purple is the New Party: White evangelicals have lost it

by Paul Moomjean

NEWS

New Humane Officer sworn in: Jenna Utter promoted Command change at Naval Base Ventura County: Cmdr. Andrew Olsen assumes command In Brief Online

by Kimberly Rivers Eye on the Environment: Managing yard clippings and food scraps onsite

by David Goldstein

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by Yanni Schwartz).

Bottom row: Zahur Lalji (photo by Dexter Brown Photography); Adri Howe (photo by Luis Chavez); Gerald Richardson III; José and Veronica Rodriguez (photo by Luis Chavez).

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ASSOCIATE PUBLISHER sibly slowing down the reopening tion. But why would white evangelWarren Barrett they so desperately cry openly about. icals be so anti-science, when this is EDITOR The Washington Post reported, the one way to restore the reopening Nancy D. Lackey Shaffer “In recent weeks, plummeting vac- of the country? This attitude reaches STAFF WRITER conservative. For him to be treat- cination rates have put President beyond our borders as well.

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New Humane Officer sworn in

Command change at Naval Base Ventura County

Jenna Utter promoted

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n June 16, the Humane Society of Ventura County (HSVC) welcomed newly sworn-in Humane Officer Jenna Utter to the ranks of staff who will be investigating cases of animal neglect, mistreatment and other tasks carried out by humane officers across the county.

Utter was sworn in by Hon. Henry Walsh at the Ventura County Superior Courthouse.

Later, in a ceremony at the Ojai shelter, her badge was presented by Jeff Hoffman, HSVC director of investigations; Kendra King, Senior Humane Officer; and Utter’s father, Steven.

Utter has been with the HSVC since 2019 when she began working as an Adoption Counselor. She moved up the ranks after spending hundreds of hours in training, including an 80-hour Animal Law Enforcement Training Academy. Extensive background checks are also part of the process.

Utter holds a bachelor’s degree in biological anthropology with a study focus on human-wildlife relationships from University of California, Santa Barbara.

Humane officers also complete the state’s Arrest and Firearms course, pass a search and seizure training course and participate in ongoing education about livestock, circus and animal fighting laws and regulations.

Utter’s training will continue in the field with King in active cases of animal abuse

Cmdr. Andrew Olsen assumes command

Cmdr. Ryan Carey (left) passes the battalion flag to Cmdr. Andrew Olsen during the change of command kimberly@vcreporter.com ceremony at Naval Base Ventura County Port Hueneme on June 4, 2021. Photo courtesy of U.S. Navy, taken by n June 4, as part of a standard Construction Mechanic 2nd Class Michael Schutt. two-year rotating timeline, Navy Base Ventura County island, no matter how isolated we are,” said (NBVC) at Port Hueneme received a new Carey, speaking during the ceremony. “We commanding officer. are stronger when we serve together.”

Olsen hails from Alexandria, Minnesota, and Cmdr. Ryan Carey was relieved of comis a professional licensed engineer in Virginia. mand by Cmdr. Andrew Olsen.

He holds the titles of Seabee Combat Warfare “I will work every single day to earn and Specialist, Joint Professional Military Educakeep your trust. I am 100% committed to each of you and our battalion,” Olsen told the tion Phase I credited officer, and he is a member of the Defense Acquisition Corps. While battalion at the command change ceremony. just recently he was serving as public works “Together, we will continue to strive for excellence and keep our skills sharp while we officer at NBVC, his previous tours included serving as resident assistant officer in charge adapt and overcome every challenge that we of construction at Naval Air Station Keflavik, face together in this dynamic environment.”

Iceland, and range officer with Naval Special Outgoing commander Carey led the Warfare Group 1 Logistics Support Unit in base during an unprecedented COVID-19 Coronado, California. He has served as officer deployment and oversaw 29,000 man days of in charge of Task Force Sierra Detachment 2 construction completed by the Seabees (construction battalion) on base. Projects included and Charlie Company Commander at Naval Mobile Construction Battalion 4. capping a landfill for the Marine Corps Air During his service, awards received include Station in Iwakuni, Japan and the building the Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Service and renovation of elementary schools on Commendation Medal, Navy Commendation islands in the Federated States of Micronesia Medal (five awards), Navy Achievement and in the Philippines.

Medal (two awards), and the 2014 Admiral “If COVID-19 has taught me anything Ben Moreell Medal. over the last year, it is that none of us is an

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Jenna Utter is sworn in as a Humane Officer with the Humane Society of Ventura County on June 16, 2021. Photo submitted. and neglect. Humane officers also participate in community education around responsible pet ownership and provide resources to pet owners in need.

“As humane officers, we have to be compassionate for not only the animal but for people as well,” said King, adding that Utter understands when it’s appropriate for an investigative check to become “an educational visit or if someone may need a little push in the right direction.”

The HSVC facility is a 4.4-acre site in Ojai and is solely funded through public donations. HSVC is not affiliated in any way with the Humane Society of the United States and the organization does not receive any city, state or federal funds.

Humane Society of Ventura County, 402 Bryant St., Ojai, 805-646-6505, www.hsvc.org.

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Eye on the Environment

Managing yard clippings and food scraps onsite

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ver the next few years, the mandates of a California recycling law passed in 2016 will start to be enforced, requiring the recycling of yard clippings, food scraps and other organic waste. Among other changes, most restaurants, businesses, schools, churches and government buildings will have new collection services to haul their organic discards to large compost facilities.

Rather than bear the new costs of these requirements by paying for more collection, some will instead manage organics onsite.

Those with enough land to set up composting and to feed food scraps to animals will be in the best position to save money by avoiding new charges from their refuse hauler and will benefit from the resulting compost and animal feed.

Those interested in this opportunity should heed the examples set by some local boarding schools, summer camps, retreat centers and others that are already practicing onsite composting and feeding food scraps to animals. Perhaps the best example is set by the Thacher School in Ojai, a boarding school on 427 acres.

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Ed Bennett, the school’s director of facilities, oversees a sophisticated compost system handling the food scraps of 250 live-in students, around the same number of full-time staff and campus residents, and many others regularly onsite. He and students also manage the droppings of over 130 horses which are part of the school’s equestrian program.

The school previously paid thousands of dollars per year to have horse manure hauled to a distant compost site, so its sophisticated compost system could be justified not just from an environmental perspective, but also from a financial one. An array of solar panels power pumps forcing air through holes in a concrete pad, aerating the horse manure, horse bedding and food scraps in long piles called windrows.

Water is added by hoses. To keep away flies, finished compost covers piles, forming a biofilter. Motion-triggered jets of water keep away bears. Students on the school’s Environmental Action Committee also feed the school’s food scraps to two pigs and 24 chickens.

Use of chickens is one of the few similari-

ties between the organics diversion strategy of Thacher and that used by Quail Springs Permaculture Farm in the northwest corner of Ventura County, inside the Los Padres National Forest.

At Quail Springs, Brenton Kelly, the farm’s watershed stewardship and advocacy director, enlists the help of other staff and enjoys the volunteerism of workshop attendees who manage compost piles by hand. Rather than rely on forced aeration, they turn the compost by hand.

To manage flies, they sow the piles with predatory insects, purchased from Rincon-Vitova Insectaries Inc. of Ventura. To divert wood, they use a wood-fired earthen structure with an iron drum for baking, and similar technology for heating shower water and an earthen bench in a living room during cold weather.

Chickens are also part of the strategy for food scrap management at the Brandeis Bardin Campus of American Jewish University, near Simi Valley, according to Adrian Breitfeld, American Jewish University’s vice president of finance and administration. At 2,800 acres, this site is so big it has its own zip code, and it hosts

by David Goldstein workshops, weekend retreats, a summer camp and other activities, drawing over 1,000 people at a time — so not all food scraps are recycled.

Breitfeld notes, however, that the site’s three goats and 30 chickens can divert up to 20 pounds of food scraps per day.

Brandeis also manages nearly all yard clippings and tree trimmings onsite, as well as the droppings of 27 horses. Landscape workers use a chipper to turn the woody waste into mulch and spread the horse manure thinly in areas benefiting from the fertilization.

Those with less space have fewer options, but many local elementary schools use compost piles and worm boxes in classrooms and school gardens to turn small amounts of yard clippings and school lunch discards into soil amendment.

Whether large or small, starting organics programs now will position organizations for savings when mandate enforcement begins.

David Goldstein, Environmental Resource Analyst with the Ventura County Public Works Agency, may be reached at 805-6584312 or david.goldstein@ventura.org.

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he Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology is one of the world’s most prestigious institutions for avian biology — and possibly Ventura County’s best-kept secret. Tucked away in Camarillo’s industrial zone is this hotbed of data and research, home to over a million eggs (one of the largest collections in the world), thousands of nests, hundreds of live mounts and more.

Ornithologists come from all over the globe to explore its archives, library and vast collection.

Helping to oversee all of this is collections manager and renowned oologist (a biologist that studies eggs) René Corado — whose life history is a fascinating tale.

Born in 1960 in the small village of El Chical in central Guatemala, he moved to Guatemala City when he was 8. He earned money as a lustrador (shoeshine boy) after school. One of his regular customers was the director of the newspaper Diario La Nacion, who hired a 12-yearold Corado as a janitor. He eventually worked his way into the printing room, and later became head of the printing department.

At 21, Corado came to California to escape the Guatemalan civil war, and found work (eventually) as a gardener. He worked on the grounds of the Bleitz Wildlife Foundation in Los Angeles, where he tended the property and cared for some 80 exotic birds (toucans, macaws, hummingbirds and more), thousands of orchids and live butterflies.

Bleitz died in 1986, and left the foundation’s collection to the Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, founded in 1956 by Ed N. Harrison, a natural historian, photographer and avid collector who had started the WFVZ out of his house in Brentwood. He kept Corado on after Bleitz’s death, and taught him the tricks of his trade: egg blowing, cataloging — everything necessary to preserve and catalog specimens for research. The two men developed a deep and abiding friendship.

“I called him my American father,” Corado says fondly of Harrison, who died in 2002.

Working alongside Harrison, Corado learned much about ornithology, science and conservation. He accompanied researchers to the Amazon, Costa Rica, Ecuador, and Guatemala as a field biologist.When Harrison moved the WFVZ to Camarillo in 1992, Corado came with it, and was officially named collections manager in 1994.

The multitalented Corado has written two autobiographies: 2014’s El Lustrador (in Spanish) and the bilingual children’s book The Adventures of René Corado, The Shoeshine Boy, published in 2016. Sales from these books support his El Lustrador Foundation, a nonprofit he founded to improve educational opportunities for underprivileged youths in Guatemala. He has also spearheaded several conservation efforts in his nation of birth.

He has made a tremendous difference here in Ventura County as well, particularly through his decades of study of the indigenous birds of the Santa Clara River Valley.

Even during the pandemic, he has continued to go out to his sites, monitoring bird nests — specifically for the endangered least Bell’s vireo.

“The species is doing great now!” Corado exclaims with joy. “We are working with other conservation groups doing habitat restoration.”

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The bird expert also helps the humans of his community. He served on the advisory board for the Extended Opportunity Program and Services for Oxnard College, and on the Art Commission for the Cafe on A/Acuna Gallery and Cultural Center (now defunct). He’s given talks in schools and brought children to the museum for tours. During the pandemic, he and other WFVZ staff tutored Ventura County students of all ages, helping them overcome some of the challenges of distance learning.

“Mainly in science but in general,” he explains. “The tutoring was so popular that we’re asking for money again to keep doing that.”

Corado has also used the downtime to catch up on cataloging, preparing bird specimens, measuring birds

and eggs for other scientists, and moving more of the WFVZ’s holdings online. All of this is contributing to the advancement of ornithological research, and the protection of birds and their habitats.

“It’s really cool; I’m happy,” he says. “This pandemic was awful, but we accomplished a lot.”

Currently the WFVZ is determining when it will reopen to the public, and creating new displays — some showcasing the beautiful birds in the collection, some that lay bare the harm trash and pollution bring to the environment.

“Things won’t be the same,” Corado says. “They will be better!”

Western Foundation of Vertebrate Zoology, 439 Calle San Pablo, Camarillo, 805-388-9944, www.wfvz.org.

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PEOPLE of VC

Adri Howe

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fter being shuttered for more than a year, the Channel Islands Maritime Museum (CIMM) is filled with the sound of visitors and volunteers again, and that’s just how Executive Director Adri Howe likes it.

“It just really changes the dynamic inside the museum and that’s what museums are all about . . . people laughing and hearing kids. I’ve been enjoying it immensely.”

That’s not to say that Howe didn’t keep herself busy during the pandemic. Over the past 15 months, she’s helped to improve CIMM’s galleries, which are filled with the museum’s amazing art collection. She has also led the way in expanding its online programming, including the ongoing speaker series as well as a digital Kids Club. Looking back on 2020, Howe says, “With all the negative, there is a positive.” The lockdown opened her eyes to new possibilities; namely, reaching even more people than ever via the Internet. “There is so much we have to share. We’re not limited to people in the vicinity. We can reach kids, like in Kansas, who have never even seen the ocean.”

That’s at the heart of everything Howe does — seeing what’s possible for people . . . and for horses. Because in addition to being the executive director of the Channel Islands Maritime Museum, Howe is also the president of the board and executive director of California Coastal Horse Rescue, based in Ojai.

“You might say I have a surf-n-turf kind of life,” Howe says with a laugh. “Not shrimp and steak, of course, but the Maritime Museum and horses.”

Both passions can be traced back to Howe’s childhood. She grew up in a family of boaters and that experience has inspired her to think up new ways to engage and educate visitors about mankind’s history with the sea, including all the good and bad that entails. She recently created a navigation exhibition, which is not only the museum’s very first touchscreen exhibit, but also Howe’s first as a curator.

As for her other passion, “I have always loved horses, from the moment I knew they existed.” Howe remembers that when she was 6, one of her friends was taking horseback riding lessons and she desperately wanted to take them, too. When she was 7 she woke up to a magical Christmas morning. “On the Christmas tree there was an envelope written in my father’s hand. It said that I was going to go to the Eaton Canyon Riding Club.”

As the years went by and her love of horses deepened, Howe realized something: “Riding was great, but it was just about being with them.”

When she grew up and went to the University of California, San Diego, she rode less and less. Years later, when Howe moved to Ventura County, she “wanted that connection again.” Having worked in the nonprofit sector for more than a dozen years, it seemed inevitable that she would find a worthy cause that champions horses.

She did just that, almost by accident.

About 13 years ago, Howe was working with the Horticulture Society at the Ventura County Fair when she wandered around the agricultural building and found the California Coastal Horse Rescue booth. Howe signed up to be a volunteer and, fast forward 13 years, today she is the executive director of the nonprofit organization that focuses on rescue, rehabilitation and refuge.

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Executive Director, Channel Islands Maritime Museum in many different situations — from horses that have been rescued from dangerous conditions to those surrendered by loving families who simply cannot care for them any longer. Whatever the case, CCHR gives horses all the love and care in the world, in hopes that they can be placed in happy forever homes, or, as Howe says lovingly, “to see their big old butts walking down the road to their new home.”

Howe is quick to point out that horses give much more to people than they get in return. “The innate beauty of a horse is that you don’t need to speak to them, but we tell them everything. Horses know.” She tells one story of a volunteer who was grieving a terrible loss. “She was leaning against a stall and [a horse named] Bridge came

over and put his head on her shoulder.” The woman closed her eyes and wrapped her arms around him. “He just knew.”

When asked about her work for both the Channel Islands Maritime Museum and the California Coastal Horse Rescue, Howe’s answer is simple. “I love them.”

She also loves the people she works with, the volunteers who keep things running, who show up day after day to give of themselves — just like Howe.

Channel Islands Maritime Museum, 3900 Bluefin Circle, Oxnard, 805-984-6260, cimmvc.org.

California Coastal Horse Rescue, 805-649-1090, www.calcoastalhorserescue.com.

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Holly Johnson

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eachers across Ventura County had a challenging year. Holly Johnson, resident of West Ventura and kindergarten teacher at Ventura Charter School since 2014, got creative when learning went digital to draw in and connect with her young students during the strangest school year.

Her lifelong love of all things Jim Henson paired with inspiration from Mr. Rogers culminated in bringing puppets into the classroom when things went online.

“I loved the characters and stories that he and his team created. They have just always brought me such joy and I appreciate the collaboration that happens behind the scenes to make the Muppets come to life.”

Johnson had been wanting to bring puppets into the classroom for sometime. “Being on Zoom created the perfect opportunity to finally introduce one.”

When she was young, puppets “sparked my imagination as a child and I wanted the same for my students.

I strongly believe that children need their class to be a happy place, where they can learn, but also where they can play. As Mr. Rogers said, ‘Play is serious learning.’”

She describes how she used the camera and computer screen to really enhance the illusion of the puppet character, first by moving her head out of the frame and then later, when classrooms opened to in-person instruction again, her mouth was hidden by a mask.

“My students named the wily puppet Cookie Ricardo Monster.”

Cookie leads the greetings, and checks in with students throughout the day.

“Using the puppet is a great way to check for understanding, build connections to the students, and bring joy to the classroom. Cookie is so well loved and is often asked for hugs and high-fives. I’m positive my students will remember them for many years to come.”

She credits aspects of her childhood with being able to seek solutions with a creative approach in the classroom.

“Having lots of unstructured, unscheduled time to be a kid, adventuring through cornfields and forests has definitely been something I cherish from my own life growing up,” said Johnson. With two parents in the U.S. Air Force, she grew up all around the U.S. and in Okinawa, Japan. “I mourn that so many kids don’t have that opportunity. All that exploring and pretending really helped set a foundation for creativity and problem solving that has been very helpful as a teacher.”

In thinking about any silver linings of the past year, she mentioned equity in education and how the pandemic highlighted the ways the education system does not meet the needs of all students and families.

“This school year forced me to slow down and be very deliberate in the ways my incredible paraeducator, Benicia Smith, and I made all students feel safe and loved,” said Johnson. She considered teaching high school English (“My English teachers had such an impact on me as a moody, disenchanted teenager”) but ultimately was drawn to kindergarten. “And as difficult as the job is, it’s also tons of fun. I laugh every single day with my students. They bring so much joy to my life and I’m grateful to support them in the early years of theirs.”

Many teachers are naturally lifelong learners. Rather than building a bubble separate from the issues and conversations in the wider community, teachers like Johnson are finding inspiration and direction in the current events unfolding across neighborhoods, the country and the world.

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Kindergarten teacher, Ventura Charter School Johnson said she draws inspiration from her neighborhood along the Avenue “The love that Westside residents put into their community is inspiring and I hope I can continue to serve them for many years to come.”

She looks to her students and other educators as well.

“I have been learning so much from other anti-bias, anti-racist educators such as Bettina Love, Ibram X. Kendi, [Akiea] “Ki” Gross of Woke Kindergarten and Torie J. Anderson.”

“Kindergarten brings a certain spark to my heart.

There is something about setting a strong, empathic, loving, joyful foundation in young people that helps me think I can contribute to this world in a way that has meaning.”

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uneteenth is officially on June 19 and commemorates the date in 1865 that slaves in Galveston, Texas learned they had been freed, more than two years after Abraham Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation of 1863. The Oxnardbased Juneteenth committee has hosted a vibrant celebration for 30 years. Last year, due to the pandemic, the traditional event held in Plaza Park was canceled. But one aspect, the Harmony Art Walk, was adapted to make it relevant for the current moment.

“I organized a New Gen Juneteenth Celebration in the form of a protest,” said Jessica Kimble, an Oxnard resident and local artist and musician. “Due to last year’s social climate in the wake of George Floyd’s death, although permits were restricted, I felt it was only right to have Juneteenth.”

So without a permit Kimble organized an in-person celebration at Lions Park in Oxnard. “Masks and social distancing were required. We had sanitation stations and gave out free gumbo and Filipino spaghetti as well as raffled off prizes to the community.”

She said the Juneteenth Committee opted to make this year’s 30th anniversary event virtual, and invited her to organize an Art Walk. “I thought it would be cool to have artists showcase their art at different businesses. Since businesses struggled last year during COVID, we could try and help drive traffic to their business.”

That became a city-wide art event at local galleries and restaurants, taking place now through June 30. It features art shows, meet-and-greets with the artists, a meal at a Black-owned restaurant and generally celebrating Black-owned businesses.

“The New Gen Juneteenth City Wide Art Event wouldn’t be what it is now if it wasn’t for Juneteenth Oxnard,” said Kimble. “Juneteenth Oxnard gave me a platform to grow on.” She sees the art event as growing out of the original Juneteenth Harmony Art Walk she organized several years ago, and thinks it will always be a part of a historic Juneteenth Oxnard event.

“It’s just, times are changing and an expansion is happening. In order to bring awareness about Juneteenth we need to expand out and that’s what New Gen Juneteenth is doing.”

Kimble was born in Alamogordo, New Mexico and spent her youth travelling the world with her U.S. Air Force father.

“Traveling has had a major impact on my life because I learned the different values and customs of cultures.” She said at times it was difficult, “but what kept me optimistic was the art and music culture of every place I’ve visited.”

When she lived in the Azores, Portugal, she had the opportunity to travel to Oberwesel, Germany to study with Kurt Wenner, the world-renowned 3D artist who gained fame for his larger-than-life pavement paintings that seem to open up the ground you’re walking on. While in Germany she met “other artists, dancers and poets. I will never forget the soulful and artsy atmosphere of that memory. I feel that same feeling is what I carry with me anywhere I go.”

Later she was a student at Oxnard College, where she organized a multicultural day and art walks on campus. Eventually she was connected to STAC (Save the Art Culture) and the Black American Political Association of California (BAPAC) and more recently the Juneteenth Committee of Oxnard.

Kimble, also a hip-hop artist performing and recording as J. Lynn, was invited by BAPAC in 2013 to perform at the local Juneteenth event. She had taught herself to play guitar in 2007 and would write her own songs, many stemming from poems she had written. “I never thought I would actually perform them until I moved to Ventura County.” Today, she said her music is “transitioning from being so heavily 14 —

involved with the hip-hop community into my acoustic music, as my mindset has shifted into healing.”

After performing at the 2013 Juneteenth event she was painting in the park for a homework assignment, with the event going on around her. Others started to paint with her.

People took notice.

“Passersby were intrigued, it brought a lot of attention.

From there the Harmony Art Walk was born at the Juneteenth events,” she explained.

“Art is such an important tool of expression,” Kimble said.

“Art in the community is a great way to bring value to the community no matter what the expression is. Art could be used to add value to a business by making the business look and feel good. Art could also bring value to the community depending on the social climate, it could tell a story of hardships and struggles that maybe some people don’t understand because they’ve never seen or had to struggle and it can create new perspectives and understanding.”

Art, in all its form, is a strong thread within a community and the work that Kimble is doing ties those pieces together around the Juneteenth theme. Things look a bit different than before, but as she points out, that is natural progression.

“Our community is ever changing and we have to be flexible and willing to allow change,” said Kimble, who hopes connections she’s made with organizations like Open Door Studios, Femdustry and others, “can make an impact in the community.

I am hopeful because we are getting such a good response to the City Wide Art Event as well as other events like Pride.”

She said the increase in community engagement “makes me joyful. I think what is needed from last year is a chance to put the baton in the new generation’s hands and allow them to be themselves in their own expression.”

Juneteenth Oxnard: www.juneteenthoxnard.org New Gen Juneteenth: www.instagram.com/newgenjuneteenth/ J. Lynn (aka Jessica Kimble): www.instagram.com/805jlynn/

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I was the guy with 13 jobs,” laughs Zahur Lalji of Camarillo. From retail to banking to entrepreneur, he’s tried his hand at many endeavors — and found success at every one. His most successful, however, is probably Wheelhouse, the cannabis dispensary he founded in 2016 with his friend and business partner Sergio Burga.

Lalji was born in Nairobi, the capital city of Kenya, to parents of Indian descent. He moved to California with his family in 1980.

“I grew up in Camarillo most of my life,” he says. “And I’m still here. I’ve lived in Camarillo for 40-plus years.”

As a teenager, he had a variety of odd jobs in food (including stints at McDonald’s and In-N-Out Burger) and retail. At 20, he got a job as a teller at Wells Fargo and worked his way up to branch manager after a few years. A few years after that, he became regional manager.

Banking was his stock in trade for many years. After Wells Fargo (and a short stay in London) he worked for Commercial Bank of California and Wilshire Bank. He was successful, but craved more.

“I started looking at other opportunities, and decided on cannabis,” he recalls. With his business acumen and background in banking, he could see that it was a growing industry with lots of potential.

Together with Burga, he opened the first Wheelhouse dispensary in 2016 in Los Angeles. In 2019, they opened the Port Hueneme location. Housed in two large buildings, the dispensary also maintains space for a variety of other cannabis-related businesses: eight delivery enterprises and a separate dispensary.

“We’re their landlords,” Lalji says.

He notes that some people are surprised to find that Wheelhouse helps its competitors. But Lalji isn’t afraid of competition — he embraces it because he’d like to see the industry continue to thrive, and because he has faith that Wheelhouse will continue to be a leader in it.

“We believe in the industry growing, and we’re still going to be good at what we do,” he says. “We’ve supported lots of [local] residents that wanted to get into the [cannabis] industry.”

Local is the key factor here — both Lalji (a married father of three) and Burga are committed to working, living and contributing to the place they and their families call home.

“We’re Ventura County guys!” Lalji says. “We know what the county does for us . . . We want to be with our neighbors; we’re just locals. Sergio’s dad has owned his business for more than 40 years. My mom still works at the hardware store in Camarillo. We’re loyal like that.”

To that end, Lalji has a wide list of organizations that Wheelhouse has supported through donations, sponsorships, etc.: Junior Explorers, REACH! (Recreation, Education, Arts and Culture) in Hueneme, DRAGG, Diversity Collective, Food Share, Santa by the Sea, Cops for Tots and many others. He himself serves on the board of Big Brothers and Big Sisters of Ventura County.

“Often we personally show up,” Lalji says. “We don’t just write a check. We try to be as involved as possible.”

And every year in March, on the anniversary of Wheelhouse’s opening, the company holds a big fundraiser where they invite local businesses and organizations to participate. “We get together with our brands, the local community and local businesses, and we raise money.”

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“We bought a truck for Martin Boos,” Lalji says.

“He’s such a nice guy.”

Boos was a familiar sight to many Oxnard residents, cleaning up the city streets with his leaf blower — an activity he’s been doing for years. Boos was gifted a 2017 Nissan Frontier pickup truck to help him in his volunteer work.

Lalji considers things like this his “community reinvestment act,” an idea that stems from his years in commercial banking: “If I invest in my community, my community invests in me.”

It might surprise some to note that several of Wheelhouse’s community endeavors bring it into partnership

with the local police department. Lalji is happy to have this kind of relationship with law enforcement.

“All my life, I’ve respected the police department,” he explains. “Junior Explorers in Oxnard and Port Hueneme, that’s my neighborhood. That’s also a community underserved from a financial perspective. The community needs protection. And I need the stigma to go away that cannabis and the police can’t get along.” And when they do get along, “Everybody wins.”

“It’s in our family background,” Lalji continues. “We’re raised to love our neighbors . . . We’d rather be recognized as individuals that give back to our community.”

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eslie and John Nichols have been fixtures in Santa Paula since 1974 when they bought their historic home, famously dubbed the “Fairy House” because of its quintessential French Tudor style. The house has a storied quality to it, and over the years its occupants have become something of local legends themselves. Looking back, coming to Santa Paula was the start of something beautiful.

“I think John will agree with me that it was the best move of our lives,” Leslie says.

“It was a lucky decision,” John adds. “Beyond lucky.”

“Santa Paula allows you to be anyone you want to be and there’s so much going on,” Leslie says. “Both of us had a well-defined interest in the arts and at that time [when we moved here] we were both schoolteachers and so art was our side interest.”

When they retired, John and Leslie put their love of the arts and culture center stage. Santa Paula and Ventura County have been all the richer ever since.

For Leslie, it’s always been about the theater. Soon after she and John moved to town, Leslie began taking acting workshops at the Santa Paula Theater Center.

SPTC’s founders, Bill Lucking and Dana Elcar, became mentors and Leslie acted in dozens of productions over the course of 25 years. During that time, she tried her hand at producing and soon found that she had a knack for it.

“I went from being a fan of the theater to acting to the art of producing,” she says, adding that being a teacher was great training to be a producer. “It’s the same skill set.”

Today, she is the primary producer at SPTC as well as an active member of its board. Her devotion to the theater extends beyond Santa Paula, too, with her involvement with the Four Star Theater Alliance, an organization that supports Ventura County community theater.

When the pandemic forced the temporary closing of SPTC and other venues, Leslie and some devoted volunteers used the time to get some behind-the-scenes sorting and organizing done. There’s also Gaston, the theater’s beloved cat, who needs love and attention every day.

Now, Leslie is thrilled to report that she is producing Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo, which will take the stage when SPTC reopens in August.

The shutdown didn’t slow John Nichols down either. Author, curator, gallerist, art dealer and historian, John is passionate about local arts and culture.

His eponymous gallery, located above the Santa Paula Art Museum, specializes in fine art, vintage and vernacular photography, and is “open by appointment or by chance.”

“I let chance guide my life,” he says. “Being aware that chance occurs can lead us to the next step in life.

If we open our eyes to reality, we’d see synchronicity.”

Nichols’ books include St. Francis Dam Disaster, (2002, Arcadia Publishing) which details the devastation wrought on Santa Paula and nearby towns when the dam broke in 1928. Essay Man (2015, John Nichols) is a collection of newspaper and magazine pieces, as well as some stories Nichols wrote for SPTC’s annual Ghost Walk. His latest book is The Vernacular Bestiary: Anonymous Snapshots of Animals, A to Z (2020, John Nichols). Opening people’s eyes is at the heart of everything John does, whether it’s doing exhaustive research for a book, promoting local artists, curating museum exhibits or advising the creation of civic artworks.

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Art About Agriculture at the Santa Paula Art Museum, which Nichols founded and co-curates with artist Gail Pidduck. As stated on the museum’s website: “The purpose of the exhibit is to promote awareness of agriculture by exploring its many facets — from workers to water, from machinery to fields, to the food that goes on our plates.” The Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce once stated that “one of the points of [the exhibit is] to have people’s consciousness raised about the nature of agriculture and become better citizens protecting ag.”

Nichols notes that Art About Agriculture is an instrument for social change and adds that, “I’m not marching with a banner. I’m showing art.”

Santa Paula Theater Center In 2011, Leslie and John Nichols were recognized by the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce “for their outstanding cultural contributions to the community” and “their tireless devotion to and promotion of the arts.”

In the Santa Paula Times, Peggy Kelly wrote that Leslie and John Nichols were being honored as “cultural icons” who promote “the finer things in life.”

If luck really does figure into anything, when it comes to everything Leslie and John Nichols do to make the world a better place — we are the lucky ones.

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his fall, Gerald Richardson III will be attending Stanford University. The school hasn’t released the total number of applicants and accepted students yet, but traditionally it only admits around 3.3-5% of applicants. For the class of 2023, the prestigious school received over 40,000 applicants and accepted 1,357.

Richardson is also among a group of 72 students, from a national pool of 1,300, who is receiving the prestigious scholarship award from the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation that will provide him with $40,000 a year for tuition, for up to three years, as well as advising and other support. “Euphoric is too small of a word to express my complete gratitude and appreciation for being selected as the recipient of such a prestigious national scholarship,” said Richardson.

In addition to his 4.0 GPA while obtaining five associate degrees from Moorpark and Oxnard Colleges, including a double major of Pre-Law Political Science and Sociology, he founded the nonprofit Brilliant Minds Youth Foundation (BMYF) to support Black students; served on the Black Student Union and as legislative affairs director for the Student Senate of the California Community Colleges; and has been recognized for his lobbying for equity, basic needs and COVID-19 relief for students in the state legislature.

The award “is also very humbling and it totally motivates me to do more and achieve more,” he said, emphasizing the vital support he received from his professors, Dr. Jeremy Kaye of Moorpark College, and Dr. Arion Melidonis and Dolores Ortiz of Oxnard College. He said college presidents Luis Sanchez (Oxnard) and Dr. Julius Sokenu (Moorpark) were also key in helping him receive the award and be accepted to Stanford. “They believed in me, supported me, and empowered me along my educational journey. They were life changing because in addition to affirming in me that I belonged, I was made to feel like I could thrive.”

“My favorite memories growing up were trick-ortreating in Three Springs and taking the summer beach bus down to Zuma. However, something I could never reconcile were the drastic disparities that became apparent as I navigated between two worlds,” remembered Richardson. He credits the “impossible to ignore . . . inequities” he witnessed between communities in Westlake Village and “the homelessness epidemic happening just 30 miles away” in Los Angeles with compelling him to decide “early on to be an agent of change.”

He was aware that he was attending “suburban schools that were predominantly white because my parents’ desire was for me to be educated at ‘safe schools’ with an abundance of funding, rigorous course offerings and wide ranging opportunities.” He understood that “attending the ‘better schools’ is tied into the zip code that you live in, which is further tied into your social-economic status and income. These schools did not value me and actually did more harm to me than good.” He was “ridiculed, ignored and constantly devalued” in the classrooms of these schools. “I was relentlessly racially bullied and retaliated against and ostracized when these multi-incidents were reported.”

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“learned to not limit nor negotiate with myself. Oftentimes we let others box us into the small confines of their imagination and I believe we have to break through that box. To permeate spaces not designed for us. That it was (is) incumbent on me to take risks and push myself.”

As for plans after Stanford, Richardson said he will get his law degree and earn a doctorate in public policy.

“From there I plan to found a pro bono law firm to protect the rights of those made vulnerable by society inequity. Serving as lead counsel, I look forward to arguing Supreme Court cases and setting powerful legal precedent.” He sees himself, after gaining trial experience, as working in public policy on a gamut of issues including criminal justice reform, voting rights, educational jus-

tice, racial justice, housing justice, and gender, sexuality, and identity rights among many others.

When asked if there was anything he hadn’t been asked about that was important for people to know he said “to let other youth know that they are so much greater than what some in our society try to label them as. Know that there is always a way . . . We are the future. More important than that, though, is to never ever give up on yourself and forever pursue your dreams, your passion.”

His achievements and aspirations are clearly the embodiment of his mantra, “You define what is possible.”

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hen it comes to Veronica and José Rodriguez and BG’s Café, it was love at first sight.

The year was 2004 when they happened upon the iconic Oxnard restaurant and learned that it was for sale.

“We went in for breakfast and we just couldn’t believe that a place like that existed in Oxnard. Everyone knew each other,” Veronica says. “We couldn’t imagine seeing it disappear.”

Still, as Veronica explains, she and José weren’t looking to run a café.

“We were in our dream jobs,” she says, explaining that she was a schoolteacher and José was an aircraft technician. “Dream jobs” notwithstanding, something about the neighborhood diner called to them. “This popped up and we fell in love.” The Rodriguezes met with owners Bill and Gloria Stewart, who first opened BG’s Café in 1971, and something just clicked.

“It was literally a two- to three-day turnover,” Veronica explains. “We just went for it” “I love to cook, so we jumped in!” José adds.

They bought the café and quickly learned the ropes with the Stewarts’ help. From there, they were off and running. In the years that followed, the BG’s Café clientele grew to about four times what it was when they first bought it. The Sunday before the COVID-induced stay-at-home order was their busiest Sunday ever, but on the following Wednesday it all came to a sudden halt with the shutdown.

“It was eerie,” Veronica says. “We’d been going nonstop for 17 years. Seven days a week.”

“We only close three days a year – Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years — and then a sudden halt,” José says.

Veronica and José didn’t stop, however; they found a way to keep going for their family as well as for their community. They quickly pivoted to takeout and then joined with World Central Kitchen to provide meals for doctors and nurses.

“We kept busy,” Veronica says. About a month into the pandemic, they became part of Ventura County’s Great Plates Emergency Restaurant Meals Program and started providing three meals a day to seniors. At first it was 40 seniors, and then it grew to 115.

“It kept us going,” Veronica says about the program.

The Rodriguezes were able to keep their kitchen staff as well as some other staff. Meanwhile, she adds, “José has a lot more work.”

“It’s pretty amazing. It’s been a lot of fun,” he says.

“It’s a pleasure cooking for seniors.”

José explains that he’s expanded his kitchen repertoire, too. He’s been preparing everything from Mexican and Greek dishes to Indian and Asian meals. In addition to preparing the food, José delivers many of the meals himself.

“He puts so much love into it,” Veronica says. “You might have the idea that [the meals] are like cafeteria food, but no — we wanted the seniors to taste our food.

The best of our food. And lots of different food. José is very talented.”

“I’m so happy to do it,” he says, and, he notes, the feedback has been wonderful. “They say, ‘we love your meals!’” The top three dishes? Enchiladas, baby back ribs and salads, like the trip tip salad, the Moroccan salad, the Waldorf salad and BG’s Café’s famous house salad.

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BG’s Café will continue to provide meals until the Great Plates program ends, which is expected to be in early July.

Relieved and happy that they’ve been able to help their community and keep BG’s Café alive during the pandemic, Veronica and José admit that they’re looking forward to getting back to business as usual. She suspects, however, that it might be harder than when they first bought the restaurant. “When we took over it was seamless. We shadowed the owners for a week and it’s still running the same way. It will feel like starting over.”

But, she continues, “We really look forward to seeing our customers. We couldn’t be happier.” They’ll take

BG’s Cafe some time to spruce up the restaurant and plan to reopen sometime in September — just in time to celebrate the café’s 50th anniversary.

They’ll decorate the café but the real celebration will be in seeing their customers again.

“Some have been coming for 50 years. It’s like Cheers,” Veronica says. “Everybody knows everybody.”

One imagines that even a newcomer is made to feel like family the moment they walk in the door. “BG’s is a very special place. It was worth preserving.”

BG’s Cafe, 428 S. A St., Oxnard, 805-487-0700, www.facebook. com/BGs-Cafe-247159748634897/?ref=page_internal.

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Big issues in a small gallery John Nava and David Kassan’s Elegies at Vita Art Center Story and photos by Michael Pearce

“Claudia Patricia Gomez Gonzales,” John Nava

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small, but deeply moving and thought-provoking exhibit has opened at Vita Art Center.

Ojai artist John Nava, who is celebrated for his large tapestries at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in Los Angeles, has teamed up with David Kassan to show a selection of works — paintings, drawings and tapestries — focused on the Holocaust and diaspora. Both are brilliant figurative painters who use a deceptively simple palette, and both are singularly focused on similar subjects.

Nava has made a career of engaging his audience in social justice issues, now turning his attention to the deaths by violence and disease of children held in custody at the border between the United States and Mexico. For five years Kassan has painted elderly survivors of the Shoah, attracting the attention of Hollywood luminaries such as Steven Spielberg. A film crew is presently following Kassan across the Southland as he visits survivors in California and Nevada and makes more of his beautifully rendered portraits. Nava has helped Kassan turn one of them into an enormous tapestry, which dominates the gallery.

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“Martin” (left) and “Raya Kovensky, Survivor,” David Kassan. classic question is, ‘What were the Germans thinking? How can they have not known?

How can they have let it happen?’ And we think they were terrible because they were aware of these things and they just let their government do it. But in my work these things are happening now, and it confronts us with ‘What are we going to do?’ Our government has been doing these things, our officials have been doing these things, and it confronts you with that moral question.”

Kassan agrees, noting that “Ships which had Jews on them were turned back at the border, and they were sent back to Germany. So it’s the idea of people traveling from one country to another, trying to seek a better life, trying to escape whatever political turmoil or famine that causes that immigration to happen, and how it would have been better if America would have taken in refugees at that time, but didn’t, and how America should take on more refugees now, instead of killing them at the border.”

Nava reminds us that the border deaths are real events for real people. “This is a real issue, and to see it presented in a beautiful way and as something that’s serious is a good thing . . . It marks the fact that when these events were going on, not everyone shrugged their shoulders and went along

with it, but people dissented, and critiqued it, and expressed their outrage.”

The exhibit is arresting. Shocking stories of border sickness, confinement and brutality are given on informative cards mounted beside each work. We read and look while the impassive faces of the dead gaze down at us, confronting us with their silence, stoic in their judgment. But there is redemption here, too.

Kassan speaks of the joy that is to be found in his work. “I want the paintings to be inspiring because, yes, they went through this horrific thing, but in the 75 years they’ve had control of their lives, they’ve had these amazing families that have grown to hundreds . . . flourishing jobs and careers and businesses, and they haven’t really thought of themselves as victims, which is pretty exceptional. So, to me, these paintings are success stories.”

These are portraits of indomitable spirit, fortitude and strength. As Nava points out, “It’s not a date movie,” but it is a powerful reminder of our moral obligations to our fellow man.

Elegies is on exhibit through Aug. 14 at Vita Art Center, 28 W. Main St., Ventura. For more information, call 805-644-9214 or visit www.vitaartcenter.com.

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VENTURA POTTERY GALLERY Ongoing. Talented ceramic artists from across Ventura County make up the Ventura County Potters Guild, and they display their works — housewares, home decor, figurines and more — at the guild’s gallery and shop in Ventura Harbor. 1567 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 105, Ventura, 805- 644-6800, venturapottersguild.org/gallery.

VITA ART CENTER Through July 31: Through Our Eyes, 100 self-portraits of Ventura youth in response to COVID-19.

Through Aug. 14. Elegies, tapestries, paintings and drawings by John Nava and David Kassan that recognize the cost of injustice, racism and political violence. 28 W. Main St., Ventura, 805-6449214, www.vitaartcenter.com.

VIRTUAL SPRING CRAFT AND GIFT FAIR Through June 30 online. The Simi Valley Virtual Arts Center hosts this virtual crafts fair that has handmade items that will make great gifts for Mother’s Day, Father’s Day and any special occasion. Soap, candles, jewelry, glassware and more. www.svvac.org/sister-act-streaming.

WILLIAM ROLLAND GALLERY Through Sept. 30: Escapism, in which CLU senior art students set their minds free during the pandemic through paintings, drawings and sculptures. Recently opened online: On Labor and Youth, in which Robin Holder addresses the struggle essential workers face carrying the weight of society while scrambling for survival.

California Lutheran University, 160 Overton Court, Thousand ♦ Oaks, 805-493-3697, rollandgallery.callutheran.edu.

landscapes of California. Through June 27: Santa Paula Sojourn, local scenes from Shannon Celia. The museum is now open, Wednesdays-Sundays. 117 N. 10th St., Santa Paula, 805-5255554 or www.santapaulaartmuseum.org.

SIMI VALLEY VIRTUAL ARTS CENTER Ongoing. 25th Anniversary Photography Collection, photography by Jon Neftali and Worth Living For, a suicide prevention art campaign organized by the Simi Valley Youth Council. The Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center has created an online presence to showcase work from both local and regional artists, theater and performing AD PROOF arts events and more. www.svvac.org.

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The Tragically Hip - Saskadelphia

When The Tragically Hip frontman Gord Downie succumbed to cancer in 2017, his death and the demise of the Hip was a gut punch, as the band enjoyed arena-filling popularity for much of a 33-year career. It still stands as one of the very best bands ever to come out of Canada. Now, the surviving band members are beginning to dig through the vault, and Saskadelphia offers up the first batch of unreleased songs. Recorded mostly during sessions for the Hip’s excellent second album, 1991’s Road Apples, the six songs on Saskadelphia would have been featured tracks on albums by most bands. “Crack My Spine Like a Whip,” “Not Necessary” and “Ouch” are good examples of the kind of taut, tuneful and passionate music that became the Hip’s signature. Meanwhile the EP gets some variety from “Just As Well,” a rocker with a bit of Rolling Stones-ish swagger, and “Reformed Baptist Blues,” which despite its title has a punk/rockabilly kick. The one non-studio track is a live version of the song “Montreal,” a slower burning anthem with plenty of muscle and grit. The Hip were still writing and performing at a high level right up until Downie had to step away from music, and the band is sorely missed. But hopefully Saskadelphia is the start of a steady stream of EPs or albums of unreleased songs. It’s as essential as any of the Hip’s albums.

Jessie Lee and The Alchemists - Let It Shine

France is not exactly known as a hotbed of the blues, but in Jessie Lee and The Alchemists, the country appears to have a world-class bluesrock band. Guitarist/singer Lee is a powerhouse vocalist with some sass and suppleness in her performances, while the other band members form a tight backing unit (with guitarist Alexis “Mr. Al” Didier and keyboardist Laurian Daire unreeling some impressive solos and fills along the way). Most importantly, Jessie Lee and The Alchemists have the songs. There’s some hard rock lurking in the band’s influences, as the songs “Another” and “You Gotta” have lots of crunch to go with sharp melodic hooks, while the fat rock riffs of “Sometimes” play surprisingly well with some swinging soul. The soulful side of the band surfaces again on “You Took My Mind Away,” a song that trades off between moments that are silky smooth and melodic and some forceful rock. “Get Out of My Head” is a blues shuffle that packs a punch, while the bluesy ballad “One Only Thing” suggests the band can show restraint when it suits the song. Just the second album from Jessie Lee and The Alchemists, Let It Shine is rich and accomplished enough that one wonders just how much better this band can get.

Ed Cosens - Fortunes Favour

The guitarist/singer from Sheffield, England, has gained a decent amount of success as a songwriter for 15 years in the band Reverend and the Makers, which has notched four No. 1 indie singles in the United Kingdom. So it makes sense that Cosens doesn’t sound like a newbie as he steps into the spotlight on his accomplished first solo album, Fortunes Favour. On songs like “Lovers Blues,” “On The Run” and “Running On Empty,” Cosens builds graceful melodies into Brit-pop songs that are mixed with some folk touches and no hints of the pretension that sometimes filters into Brit-pop. That said, there are many moments of elegance on Fortunes Favour. “The River” has a lovely melody set to a tempo that almost qualifies as a waltz. Gentle acoustic guitar notes and strings weave around the pretty vocal melody of the ballad “Last to Know.” And “If,” an epic ballad with a gorgeous melancholic vocal melody and plenty of drama, may be the high point of the album. Cosens may have had a good thing going with Reverend and the Makers, but Fortunes Favour suggests he has too much talent to play a supporting role in a band. Cosens is clearly ready for his close-up.

Linn Koch-Emmery - Being the Girl

This Swedish songstress has been getting raves in Europe as one of the country’s best new talents since she released her EP Boys in 2017. The four-song EP Wave, which followed a year later, only increased the buzz. Now Koch-Emmery picks up where she left off with her first full-length album, Being the Girl. Don’t look for much heart-bruised female singer-songwriter fare here (although “Wake Up” and “Lasershot” show Koch-Emmery can write highly appealing guitar pop ballads). American fans may liken Koch-Emmery’s music to Grace Potter or Metric on the arena-worthy rockers “Hologram Love” and “Dirty Words,” and there’s a little Florence + the Machine on the poppier but still quite epic “Hard to Love.” At other points, Koch-Emmery’s sound verges on grunge on “Blow My Mind” and there’s a new-wavish quality to the energetic “No Place for You.” These rockers all come with the kind of bright and effortless pop hooks and big choruses that immediately grab one’s attention. All signs point to Koch-Emmery having an auspicious future.

Old Joy - Trash Your Life

This Chicago band refers to its music as scum pop/power trash. And yes, there is some garage rock rowdiness, grit and grease to the music on Trash Your Life, Old Joy’s second full-length effort. But that discounts the songwriting talent that sneaks through in the songs of main man Alex Reindl. For instance, “Hook, Line & Sinking” could be just a ranting, expletive-laced rocker about a one-sided, soul-draining relationship, but strings that flow through the verses elevate the song with some unexpected musical grace. Meanwhile, the chiming guitar tones and multi-layered guitar solo of “Don’t Get Me Lost” sweetens the ragged Replacements-ish tendencies of the song. And there’s no missing the pop hooks that make rocking songs like “90’s Baby,” “Baby Below You” and the title track highly listenable, even if Old Joy also releases bits of sting and dissonance along the way. And then there’s acoustic-based, country-tinged rocker “I Wish I Loved You (Cuz I Really Like You),” which is deceptively charming in its vulnerability. Yes, Old Joy is suitable for your next rager, but the music on Trash Your Life is more advanced, intelligent and emotional to be dismissed as bar band fodder.

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ADVICE GODDESS

Platonic Bomb

A guy I know grates on me because he only has female friends. He apparently tried to get involved with each of them at some point but got rejected.

Why doesn’t he find male friends instead of preying on women (under the guise of friendship) who probably trust him not to hit on them?

— Disgusted This guy probably lives in eternal hope about each female friend, dreaming of the day he can be of service when she drops something on his floor — like her panties.

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his behavior probably “grates” on you because you take a less sexually opportunistic approach to your friendships with men. We humans “are disposed ... to imagine that other minds are much like our own,” explains anthropologist Donald Symons, and they often are. However, we’re prone to assume they should be like our own, so when someone thinks differently, we tend to see them as wrong (and maybe kind of awful) and not just different.

Men and women (and male and female minds) are more alike than different. However, our differing physiologies — like which sex gets pregnant and needs to guard against having to raise a kid solo — led to the evolution of psychological differences, like women’s greater choosiness in whom they’ll have sex with. Though both men and women sometimes tumble into bed with their opposite-sex friends, for many men, the friendship zone seems to double as a “well, try your best to turn her into a sexfriend!” zone.

Evolutionary psychologist April Bleske-Rechek, researching sex differences in how people perceive their opposite-sex friends, finds that a man is more likely to define a female

friend as someone he’s attracted to “and would pursue given the opportunity,” while a woman is more likely to define a male friend simply as “a friend of the opposite sex.”

Maybe you think friendship should be a “safe space,” guaranteed to remain endlessly platonic. And maybe that’s unrealistic — unless you avoid having friends who might hit on you.

You could try to view this guy’s behavior in a more compassionate light. Chances are he’s a beta male who can’t compete with the alphas in the normal mating sphere, like on Tinder or at parties. He’s probably doing the best he can with the one edge he has, the scheme-y smarts to surround himself with a bunch of pretty ladies.

(Living in a dude-filled monastery only works for a guy whose pet name for his beloved is “The Almighty.”)

Hex And The City

My ex cheated on me and conned me financially, but before I realized this, I had really fallen for him. I miss him and keep thinking about him every day, and I can’t seem to stop.

A friend suggested I get a spell from a witchcraft store. She insists this helped her have closure after her bad

breakup. I’m a rational person, and this sounds completely ridiculous, but nothing I’ve tried (from meditation to venting to total strangers to dating other people) has helped. Please tell me this is completely stupid.

—Plagued It’s a tempting idea, the notion that you can solve your lingering emotional issues via retail, a la “Curses: Today only, two for $19.99!”

In fact, a ritual — such as casting a spell or hockey player Stephan Lebeau always chewing 20 to 25 pieces of gum and spitting them out two minutes before faceoff — can have a positive effect. I know this sounds rather cuckoopants; however, it isn’t because the ritual works in any supernatural way.

A ritual, explains Harvard Business School professor Francesca Gino, is some “symbolic activity” you perform in hopes of making something happen. Gino finds that performing rituals leads to “increased feelings of control.” This can help the ritual-doer calm down and be more in control.

Amazingly, even those who think the ritual they’re doing is total hooey experience this benefit — what I’d call the abracadabra placebo effect.

Our psychology seems tuned to figure if we’re taking some action, it’s for a reason: to make things better.

You might create an eviction ritual to get the guy out of your head. I suggest writing the story of your relationship, including what you learned that will help you avoid entanglements with future Mr. Rottens. Psychologist James Pennebaker finds that “expressive writing” — even 15 minutes spent describing the emotional impact of a bad experience — helps us reinterpret and make sense of what happened so we can go forward instead of endlessly rechewing the past. Invite a friend over (or dress up your cat) to bear witness, and then say a few words, light the story on fire, and flush the ashes. This should help you accept it’s over, though, admittedly, without the finality of the day of celebration you probably think the guy deserves: Casual Human Sacrifice Friday. (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):

Author Albert Camus advised everyone to “steal some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self.” That’s excellent advice for you to heed in the coming days. The cosmos has authorized you to put yourself first and grab all the renewal you need. So please don’t scrimp as you shower blessings on yourself. One possible way to accomplish this goal is to go on a long stroll or two. Camus says, “It doesn’t have to be a walk during which you’ll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter.” But I think you are indeed likely to be visited by major epiphanies and fantastic new meanings.

TAURUS

(April 20-May 20):

Robert Mugabe was Zimbabwe’s leader for 37 years. In the eyes of some, he was a revolutionary hero. To others he was an oppressive dictator. He was also the chancellor of the University of Zimbabwe, where his wife Grace received her PhD just two months after she started classes.

I suspect that you, too, will have an expansive capacity to advance your education in the coming weeks—although maybe not quite as much as Grace seems to have had.

You’re entering a phase of super-learning.

GEMINI

(May 21-June 20):

“We were clever enough to turn a laundry list into poetry,” wrote author Umberto Eco. Judging from astrological omens, I suspect you’re now capable of accomplishing comparable feats in your own sphere. Converting a chance encounter into a useful new business connection? Repurposing a seeming liability into an asset? Capitalizing on a minor blessing or breakthrough to transform it into a substantial blessing or break-

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through? All these and more are possible.

CANCER

(June 21-July 22):

“I was so flooded with yearning I thought it would drown me,” wrote Cancerian author Denis Johnson. I don’t expect that will be a problem for you anytime soon. You’re not in danger of getting swept away by a tsunami of insatiable desire. However, you may get caught in a current of sweet, hot passion.

You could be carried for a while by waves of aroused fascination. You might find yourself rushing along in a fast-moving stream of riled-up craving. But none of that will be a problem as long as you don’t think you have something better to do. In fact, your time in the cascading flow may prove to be quite intriguing—and ultimately useful.

LEO

(July 23-Aug. 22):

In my opinion, psychology innovator Carl Jung, born under the sign of Leo, was one of the 20th century’s greatest intellects.

His original ideas about human nature are central to my philosophy. One of my favorite things about him is his appreciation for feelings. He wrote, “We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect; we apprehend it just as much by feeling. Therefore, the judgment of the intellect is, at best, only half of the truth, and must, if it be honest, also come to an understanding of its inadequacy.” I bring this to your attention, Leo, because the coming weeks will be a favorable time to upgrade your own appreciation for the power of your feelings to help you understand the world.

VIRGO

(Aug. 23-Sept. 22):

For the indigenous Ojibway people, the word Adizokan means both “story” and “spirit.” In fact, story and spirit are the same thing. Everything has a spirit and everything

has a story, including people, animals, trees, lakes, rivers, and rocks. Inspired by these thoughts, and in accordance with cosmic omens, I invite you to meditate on how your life stories are central elements of your spirit. I further encourage you to spend some tender, luxurious time telling yourself the stories from your past that you love best. For extra delightful bonus fun, dream up two prospective stories about your future that you would like to create.

(Info about Adizokan comes from Ann and John Mahan at SweetWaterVisions.com.)

LIBRA

(Sept. 23-Oct. 22):

Author Aslı Erdoğan writes, “It had been explained to me from my earliest childhood that I would know love — or that thing called ‘love’ — as long as I was smart and academically brilliant. But no one ever taught me how to get that knowledge.” I’m sorry to say that what was true for her has been true for most of us: No one ever showed us how to find and create and cultivate love.

We may have received haphazard clues now and then from our parents and books and movies. But we never got a single day of formal instruction in school about the subject that is at the heart of our quest to live meaningful lives. That’s the bad news, Libra. The good news is that the rest of 2021 will be one of the best times ever for you to learn important truths about love.

SCORPIO

(Oct. 23-Nov. 21):

Before he journeyed in a spaceship to the moon in 1971, Scorpio astronaut Alan Shepard didn’t think he’d get carried away with a momentous thrill once he arrived at his destination. He was a manly man not given to outward displays of emotion.

But when he landed on the lunar surface and gazed upon the majestic sight of his home planet hanging in the sky, he broke

into tears. I’m thinking you may have similar experiences in the coming weeks.

Mind-opening, heart-awakening experiences may arrive. Your views of the Very Big Picture could bring healing upheavals.

SAGITTARIUS

(Nov. 22-Dec. 21):

Sagittarian author Clarice Lispector observed, “In a state of grace, one sometimes perceives the deep beauty, hitherto unattainable, of another person.” I suspect that this state of grace will visit you soon, Sagittarius — and probably more than once. I hope you will capitalize on it! Take your time as you tune in to the luminescent souls of the people you value. Become more deeply attuned to their uniquely gorgeous genius.

CAPRICORN

(Dec. 22-Jan. 19):

Trailblazing Capricorn psychoanalyst Ernest Jones (1879–1958) said, “There is no sense of contradiction within the unconscious; opposite ideas exist happily side by side.” In other words, it’s normal and natural to harbor paradoxical attitudes; it’s healthy and sane to be awash in seemingly incongruous blends. I hope you will use this astrologically propitious time to celebrate your own inner dichotomies, dear Capricorn. If you welcome them as a robust aspect of your deepest, truest nature, they will serve you well. They’ll make you extra curious, expansive, and non-dogmatic.

(PS: Here’s an example, courtesy of psychologically savvy author Stephen Levine: “For as long as I can remember the alternate antics of the wounded child and the investigations of the ageless Universal played through me.”)

AQUARIUS

(Jan. 20-Feb. 18):

Aquarian guitarist Django Reinhardt was

a celebrated jazz musician in occupied France during World War II. Amazingly, he was able to earn good money by performing frequently — even though he fit descriptions that the rampaging Germans regarded as abhorrent. Nazis persecuted the Romani people, of which he was one. They didn’t ban jazz music, but they severely disapproved of it. And the Nazis hated Jews and Blacks, with whom Reinhardt loved to hang out. The obstacles you’re facing aren’t anywhere near as great as his, but I propose we make him your role model for the next four weeks. May he inspire you to persist and even thrive in the face of challenges!

PISCES

(Feb. 19-March 20):

Piscean author Richard Matheson believed we’ve become too tame and mild. “We’ve forgotten,” he wrote, about “how to rise to dizzy heights.” He mourned that we’re too eager to live inside narrow boundaries. “The full gamut of life is a shadowy continuum,” he continued, “that runs from gray to more gray. The rainbow is bleached.” If any sign of the zodiac has the power to escape blandness and averageness, it’s you Pisceans— especially in the coming weeks. I invite you to restore the rainbow to its full vivid swath: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Maybe even add a few colors.

Homework: Describe what you’re doing to heal the world. Newsletter@freewillastrology.com Go to RealAstrology.com to check out Rob Brezsny’s expanded weekly audio horoscopes and daily text message horoscopes.

The audio horoscopes are also available by phone at 1-877-873-4888 or 1-900-950-7700.

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This rescind any purchase up unpires 40 days after any ble, books, painting, weights, business is conducted by: A til the winning bidder takes change in the facts set forth housewares Corporation. The registrant possession of the personal in the statement pursuant to Paul Adams – boxes, totes, commenced to transact busiproperty. section 17913 other than a trunk ness under the fictitious busichange in residence address Jonathan Ponce – bicycle, ness name or names listed PUBLISHED: Ventura or registered owner. A new boxes, tool box, bbq above on: 05/01/1995. I deCounty Reporter 06/17/21, fictitious business name Kelly Sandrowitz – bed, biclare that all Information In 6/24/21 statement must be filed becycles, clothing, rugs, chairs this statement Is true and 0624_VCReporter_CLASSIFIEDS.indd 33 fore the expiration. The filing The auction will be listed and correct (A registrant who de-

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).) /s/ R.E.A.C.H. (Recreation, Education, Activities and Culture in Hueneme), Inc., Steven L. Kinney, President. 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 June 14, 2021.

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FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210527-10007324-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: PROVIDENT INVESTMENTS, 21 S. California Street Suite 308 Ventura, CA 9 3 0 0 1 . V e n t u r a C o u n t y, State of Incorporation / Organization, California, Provident Financial Group Inc., 21 S. California Street Suite 308 Ventura, CA 93001. This business is conducted by: A Corporation. The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: May 27, 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).) /s/ Provident Financial Group Inc., Tom Carroll, President. 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 May 27, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 06/03/21, 06/10/21, 6/17/21, 06/24/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210526-10007305-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SENSIBLE AIR & HEATING, 3390 Galveston Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93063. Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization, California, PWB Vulcan, Inc., 3390 Galveston Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93063. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

The registrant commenced to transact business under the fictitious business name or names listed above on: N/A.

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210526-10007305-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: SENSIBLE AIR & HEATING, 3390 Galveston Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93063. Ventura County, State of Incorporation / Organization, California, PWB Vulcan, Inc., 3390 Galveston Ave., Simi Valley, CA 93063. This business is conducted by: A Corporation.

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).) /s/ PWB Vulcan, Inc., Jessica M Lundgren-Reynolds, Secretary.

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 May 26, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 06/03/21, 06/10/21, 6/17/21, 06/24/21

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).) /s/ Olga Marina Barrera. 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 May 20, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 06/03/21, 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21 FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210521-10007118-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: COOKIESTHREADS, 5974 Ralston Pl., Ventura, CA 93003. Ventura County. Socorro Perez, 5974 Ralston Pl., 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: 05/18/21. 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).) /s/ Soccoro Perez. 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 May 21, 2021.

PUBLISHED: Ventura County Reporter; 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21, 07/01/21

FICTITIOUS BUSINESS NAME STATEMENT FILE NO. 20210520-10007053-0 The following person(s) is (are) doing business as: ESSENTIAL BEAUTY STUDIO, 219 South Hemlock St., Ventura, CA 93001. Ventura County. Olga Marina Barrera, 219 South Hemlock St., 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 Legal Notices a misdemeanor punishable by a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars ($1.000).)

SUPERIOR COURT OF /s/ Olga Marina Barrera. NOCALIFORNIA TICE - in accordance with COUNTY OF VENTURA. subdivision (a) of Section NOTICE OF HEARING BY 17920, a fictitious name PUBLICATION WELFARE & statement generally expires INSTITUTIONS CODE at the end of five years from §366.26 the date on which it was filed J072631 in the office of the county HEARING DATE: clerk, except, as provided in 08/12/2021 subdivision of section 17920, TIME: 08:30 a.m. where it expires 40 days after COURTROOM: J1 any change in the facts set In the matter of the Petition of forth in the statement pursuthe County of Ventura Huant to section 17913 other man Services Agency reJune 24, 2021 — from parent— 33 than a change in residence garding freedom address or registered owner. al custody and control on beA new fictitious business half of Levi I. Cleverly, a name statement must be filed child. To: Alexis Cleverly, Arbefore the expiration. The filturo Perez, and to all pering of this statement does not sons claiming to be the parof itself authorize the use in ents of the above-named perthis state of a fictitious busison who is described as folness name in violation of the lows: name Levi I. Cleverly, rights of another under FedDate of Birth: 04/19/2019, eral, State, or Common Law Place of Birth: San Jose,6/22/21 CA, 3:19 PM

fare and Institutions Code SUPERIOR COURT OF Section 366.26. You are reCALIFORNIA ferred to that section for furCOUNTY OF VENTURA. ther particulars. Michael J. NOTICE OF HEARING BY Planet, Executive Officer and PUBLICATION WELFARE & Clerk, County of Ventura, INSTITUTIONS CODE State of California. Dated: §366.26 05/24/2021 by: Kristi MorJ072631 ales Deputy Clerk, Children HEARING DATE: and Family Services Social 08/12/2021 Worker.

TIME: 08:30 a.m.

6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24/21 COURTROOM: J1 CNS-3475515# In the matter the Petition of LegalofNotices the County of Ventura Human Services Agency reProbate garding freedom from parental custody and control on beNOTICE OF (CONTINUED) half of Levi I. Cleverly, a PETITION TO ADMINISTER child. To: Alexis Cleverly, ArESTATE OF turo Perez, and to all perDENNIS EDWARD sons claiming to be the parNICKERSON, aka DENNIS ents of the above-named perE. NICKERSON son who is described as folCASE NO. 56-2021lows: name Levi I. Cleverly, 00553775-PR-PW-OXN Date of Birth: 04/19/2019, To all heirs, beneficiaries, Place of Birth: San Jose, CA, creditors, contingent creditFather's name: Arturo Perez, ors, and persons who may Mother’s name: Alexis Clevotherwise be interested in the erly. Pursuant to Welfare and will or estate, or both of Institutions Code Section DENNIS EDWARD NICKER366.26, a hearing has been SON, aka DENNIS E. NICKscheduled for your child. You ERSON. are hereby notified that you may appear on 08/12/2021, A Petition for probate has at 8:30 a.m., or as soon as been filed by Sandra J. Nickcounsel can be heard in erson in the Superior Court of Courtroom J1 of this Court at California, County of VENJuvenile Justice Center 4353 TURA. Vineyard Ave. Oxnard, CA The petition for probate re9 3 0 3 6 . Y O U A R E F U Rquests that: Sandra J. NickTHER ADVISED as follows: erson be appointed as perAt the hearing the Court must sonal representative to adchoose and implement one of minister the estate of the dethe following permanent cedent. plans for the child: adoption, The petition requests the deguardianship, or long term cedent's will and codicils, if foster care. Parental rights any, be admitted to probate. may be terminated at this The will and any codicils are hearing. On 08/12/2021, the available for examination in Human Services Agency will the file kept by the court. recommend termination of The petition requests authorparental rights. The child may ity to administer the estate be ordered placed in long under the Independent Adterm foster care, subject to ministration of Estates Act. the regular review of the Ju(This authority will allow the venile Court; or, a legal personal representative to guardian may be appointed take many actions without for the child and letters of obtaining court approval. Before taking certain very imguardianship be issued; or, portant actions, however, the adoption may be identified as personal representative will the permanent placement be required to give notice to goal and the Court may orinterested persons unless der that efforts be made to they have waived notice or locate an appropriate adoptconsented to the proposed ive family for the child for a action.) The independent adperiod not to exceed 180 ministration authority will be days and set the matter for granted unless an interested further review; or, parental person files an objection to rights may be terminated. the petition and shows good You are entitled to be present cause why the court should at the hearing with your attornot grant the authority. ney. If you cannot afford an A hearing on the petition will attorney, you are entitled to be held in this court as folhave the Court appoint counlows: Date: July 15, 2021, sel for you. A thirty-day continuance may be granted if Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, necessary for counsel to preLocation: Superior Court of pare the case. At all terminaCalifornia, County of Ventura, tion proceedings, the Court 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue shall consider the wishes of Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnardthe child and shall act in the Juvenile Couthouse. best interest of the child. Any If you object to the granting order of the Court permanof the petition, you should apently terminating parental pear at the hearing and state rights under this section shall your objections or file written be conclusive and binding objections with the court beupon the minor person, upon fore the hearing. Your apthe parent or parents, and pearance may be in person upon all other persons who or by your attorney. have been served with citaIf you are a creditor or a contion by publication or othertingent creditor of the dewise. After making such an cedent, you must file your order, the Court shall have claim with the court and mail no power to set aside, a copy to the personal repchange, or modify it, but this resentative appointed by the shall not be construed to limcourt within the later of either it the rights to appeal the or(1) four months from the date der. If the Court, by order or of first issuance of letters to a judgment, declares the child general personal representatfree from the custody and ive, as defined in section control of both parents, or 58(b) of the California Probate Code, or (2) 60 days one parent if the other no from the date of mailing or longer has custody and conpersonal delivery to you of a trol, the Court shall, at the notice under section 9052 of same time, order the child rethe California Probate Code. ferred to the licensed County Other California statutes and adoption agency for adoptive legal authority may affect placement by that agency. your rights as a creditor. You The rights and procedures may want to consult with an described above are set forth attorney knowledgeable in in detail in the California WelCalifornia law. fare and Institutions Code You may examine the file Section 366.26. You are rekept by the court. If you are a ferred to that section for furperson interested in the esther particulars. Michael J. tate, you may file with the Planet, Executive Officer and court a Request for Special Clerk, County of Ventura, Notice (form DE-154) of the State of California. Dated: 05/24/2021 by: Kristi Morfiling of an inventory and apales Deputy Clerk, Children praisal of estate assets or of and Family Services Social any petition or account as Worker. provided in Probate Code 6/3, 6/10, 6/17, 6/24/21 Section 1250. A Request for CNS-3475515# 34 — — June 24, 2021Special Notice form is available from the court clerk.

Attorney for Petitioner: Jesse E. Cahill (SBN 227154), Alexis B. Dunne (SBN 330467) FERGUSON CASE ORR PATERSON LLP 1050 South Kimball Road Ventura, California 93003 0624_VCReporter_CLASSIFIEDS.indd 34 (805) 659-6800

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: Jesse E. Cahill (SBN 227154), Alexis B. Dunne (SBN 330467) FERGUSON CASE ORR PATERSON LLP 1050 South Kimball Road Ventura, California 93003 (805) 659-6800 Ventura County Reporter 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF BORGE RIISVESTERGAARD CASE NO. 56-202100554832-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 BORGE RIISVESTERGAARD. A Petition for probate has been filed by Lars RiisVestergaard in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Lars Riis-Vestergaard 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: July 22, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 OxnardJuvenile Couthouse.

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: Lauren E. Sims (SBN 286676), William B. Smith

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: Lauren E. Sims (SBN 286676), William B. Smith (SBN 126372) FERGUSON CASE ORR PATERSON LLP 1050 South Kimball Road Ventura, California 93003 (805) 659-6800 Ventura County Reporter 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: PETER PAUL DECARLO AKA PETE DE CARLO CASE NO. 56-202100554608-PR-PW-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the lost WILL or estate, or both of PETER PAUL DECARLO AKA PETE DE CARLO. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by PETER P. DECARLO, JR. in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that PETER P. DECARLO, JR. be appointed as personal representative to administer the estate of the decedent.

THE PETITION requests the decedent's lost WILL and codicils, if any, be admitted to probate. The lost 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 with limited authority. (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: 07/01/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, OXNARD, CA 93036 IF YOU OBJECT to th e 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

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 BRUCE J. GARY, ESQ. SBN 93790, MURTAUGH TREGLIA STERN & DEILY LLP 2603 MAIN STREET PENTHOUSE IRVINE CA 92614 BSC 220080 6/10, 6/17, 6/24/21 CNS-3479341# NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF GENEROSO T. OLIVEROS aka GENEROSO TAMPOL OLIVEROS CASE NO. 56-202100555389-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 GENEROSO T. OLIVEROS aka GENEROSO TAMPOL OLIVEROS. A Petition for probate has been filed by Rosalind Oliveros in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Rosalind Oliveros 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: July 29, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 OxnardJuvenile 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

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: Theresa A. Loss (146920) Jones, Lester, Schuck, Becker & Dehesa, LLP 771 E. Daily Drive, Suite 230 Camarillo, California 93010 (805) 604-2655 Ventura County Reporter 06/24/21, 07/01/21, 07/08/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MORRIE DANCZIGER aka MORRIS DANCZIGER CASE NO. 56-202100554934-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 MORRIE DANCZIGER aka MORRIS DANCZIGER. A Petition for probate has been filed by Steven M. Sikonia in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Steven M. Sikonia 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: July 15, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 OxnardJuvenile Courthouse.

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.

tingent 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: Brandon P. Johnson SBN 210958 1200 Paseo Camarillo, Suite 280 Camarillo, California 93010 (805) 482-2282 Ventura County Reporter 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21 NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF EDIGNA SZENCZI CASE NO. 56-202100551831-PR-DS-OXN To all heirs, beneficiaries, creditors, contingent creditors, and persons who may otherwise be interested in the will or estate, or both of EDIGNA SZENCZI also know as EDIGNA KOLLER .

A Petition for probate has been filed by Attila Szenczi in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Attila Szenczi 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: July 14, 2021, Time: 9:00 AM, Dept.: Probate, Room: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 Oxnard- Probate Department J6.

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 6/22/21 may want to consult with an 3:20 PM

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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 Probate 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.

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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 TRENT C. MARCUS, ESQ. SBN 227772 1 9 9 0 0 B E A C H BOULEVARD, C-1 HUNTINGTON BEACH CA 92648 BSC 220142 6/24, 7/1, 7/8/21 CNS-3483752#

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF: JAMES DENNIS RICH, II AKA JIMMY RICH CASE NO. 56-202100555372-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 JAMES DENNIS RICH, II AKA JIMMY RICH. A PETITION FOR PROBATE has been filed by MARTIN J. LEJNIEKS, A CA LICENSED PRIVATE PROFESSIONAL FIDUCIARY (#999) in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. THE PETITION FOR PROBATE requests that MARTIN J. LEJNIEKS 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: 07/29/21 at 10:30AM in Dept. J6 located at 4353 E. VINEYARD AVENUE, ROOM 122, 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 0624_VCReporter_CLASSIFIEDS.indd 35 your rights as a creditor. You

NOTICE OF PETITION TO ADMINISTER ESTATE OF MARLENE D. ROBERTS aka MARLENA DIANE ROBERTS CASE NO. 56-202100555028-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 MARLENE D. ROBERTS aka DIANE MARLENA ROBERTS. A Petition for probate has been filed by Paul Mullin in the Superior Court of California, County of VENTURA. The petition for probate requests that: Paul Mullin 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: Date: July 22, 2021, Time: 10:30 AM, Dept.: J6, Location: Superior Court of California, County of Ventura, 4353 E. Vineyard Avenue Oxnard, CA 93036 OxnardJuvenile 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

pearance 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: Mark A. Lester, Esq. (96521), Theresa A. Loss (146920) Jones, Lester, Schuck, Becker & Dehesa, LLP 771 E. Daily Drive, Suite 230 Camarillo, California 93010 (805) 604-2655 Ventura County Reporter 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24

Name Change ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 56-202100555025-CU-PT-VTA SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF VENTURA. Petition of SARAH LINDA HALLORAN, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Sarah Linda Halloran filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.)

Sarah Linda Halloran to Sarah Linda Krim O'Halloran b.) Olivia Malala Halloran to Olivia Malala Krim O'Halloran 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: July 16, 2021. Time: 8:20 AM. Dept.: 42. 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: June 4, 2021. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, /s/ Michael D. Planet, Ventura Superior Court, Executive Officer and Clerk, By: Jeanette Finbres, Deputy Clerk. PUBLISH: Ventura County Reporter 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21, 07/01/21 ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 56-202100554870-CU-PT-VTA Superior Court of California, County of Ventura Petition of: Christopher Steven Richard Natelli, Christine Jessica Natelli, Stella Rose Natelli, Christopher Steven Richard Natelli Jr. for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Christopher Steven Richard Natelli, Christine Jessica Natelli, Stella Rose Natelli, Christopher Steven Richard Natelli Jr. filed a petition with this court for a de-

ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 56-202100554870-CU-PT-VTA Superior Court of California, County of Ventura Petition of: Christopher Steven Richard Natelli, Christine Jessica Natelli, Stella Rose Natelli, Christopher Steven Richard Natelli Jr. for Change of Name TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: Petitioner Christopher Steven Richard Natelli, Christine Jessica Natelli, Stella Rose Natelli, Christopher Steven Richard Natelli Jr. filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: Christopher Steven Richard Natelli to Christopher Steven Richard Christine Jessica Natelli to Christine Natelli Richard Stella Rose Natelli to Stella Rose Richard Christopher Steven Richard Natelli Jr. to Christopher Steven Richard Jr. 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: 08/06/2021, Time: 8:30 AM, Dept.: 21 The address of the court is 800 S. Victoria Ave., 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 County Reporter Date: June 1, 2021 BRENDA L. McCormick, Executive Officer and Clerk By: MARIANA SUAZO, Deputy Clerk 6/24, 7/1, 7/8, 7/15/21 CNS-3483953# ORDER TO SHOW CAUSE FOR CHANGE OF NAME Case No. 56-202100554689-CU-PT-VTA SUPERIOR COURT OF CALIFORNIA, COUNTY OF VENTURA. Petition of DANTE AUNSEN LAVALLE, for Change of Name. TO ALL INTERESTED PERSONS: 1.) Petitioner: Dante Aunsen Lavalle filed a petition with this court for a decree changing names as follows: a.)

Dante Aunsen Lavalle to Dante Aunsen Gan 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: 07/21/2021. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 40. 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: May 26, 2021. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, /s/ Michael D. Planet, Ventura Superior Court, Executive Of-

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: 07/21/2021. Time: 8:30 AM. Dept.: 40. 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: May 26, 2021. BY ORDER OF THE COURT, /s/ Michael D. Planet, Ventura Superior Court, Executive Officer and Clerk, By: Jeanette Fimbres, Deputy Clerk. PUBLISH: Ventura County Reporter 06/03/21, 06/10/21, 06/17/21, 06/24/21

Bulk Sales NOTICE TO CREDITORS OF BULK SALE (Division 6 of the Commercial Code) Escrow No. 00045785-025RW4 (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: RIGOBERTO RANGEL LOPEZ (aka RIGOBERTO RANGEL), 1567 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 104, Ventura, CA 93001 (3) The location in California of the chief executive office of the Seller is: Same (4) The names and business address of the Buyer(s) are: RICARDO AND CHRISTINA MAGANA, LLC, a California limited liability company, 13071 Hubbard St., Unit 5, Sylmar, CA 91342 (5) The location and general description of the assets to be sold are Fixtures, Equipment and Assets of that certain business located at: 1567 Spinnaker Drive, Suite 104, Ventura, CA 93001 (6) The business name used by the seller(s) at that location is: BAJA BAY SURF N TACO MEXICAN GRILL aka BAJA BAY SURF N' TACO aka BAJA BAY SURF & TACO (7) The anticipated date of the bulk sale is July 13, 2021 at the office of Fidelity National Title, 4522 Market Street, Ventura, CA 93003, ESCROW NO. 00045785025-RW4, Escrow Officer: Rhonda Wharton.

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

(9) The last date for filing claims is July 12, 2021.

(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: 6/8/2021 Transferee/ Buyer RICARDO AND CHRISTINA MAGANA, LLC, a California limited liability company By: S/ RICARDO MAGANA, Manager By: S/ CHRISTINA MAGANA, Manager 6/24/21 CNS-3484886#

Trustee’s Sales T.S. No. 21-20103-SP-CA Title No. 210106858-CA-VOI A.P.N. 611-0-020-145 NOTICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNDER A DEED OF TRUST DATED 12/13/2005. 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 PROCEEDING AGAINST YOU, YOU SHOULD CONTACT A LAWYER. A public auction sale to the highest bidder for cash, (cashier’s check(s) must be made payable to National Default Servicing Corporation), drawn on a state or national bank, a

BIDDERS: If you are considering bidding on this propT.S. No. 21-20103-SP-CA erty lien, you should underTitle No. 210106858-CA-VOI stand that there are risks inA.P.N. 611-0-020-145 NOvolved in bidding at a trustee TICE OF TRUSTEE’S SALE. auction. You will be bidding YOU ARE IN DEFAULT UNon a lien, not on the property DER A DEED OF TRUST itself. Placing the highest bid DATED 12/13/2005. UNat a trustee auction does not LESS YOU TAKE ACTION automatically entitle you to TO PROTECT YOUR PROPfree and clear ownership of ERTY, IT MAY BE SOLD AT the property. You should also A PUBLIC SALE. IF YOU be aware that the lien being NEED AN EXPLANATION auctioned off may be a junior OF THE NATURE OF THE lien. If you are the highest PROCEEDING AGAINST bidder at the auction, you are YOU, YOU SHOULD CONor may be responsible for TACT A LAWYER. A public paying off all liens senior to auction sale to the highest the lien being auctioned off, bidder for cash, (cashier’s before you can receive clear check(s) must be made paytitle to the property. You are able to National Default Serencouraged to investigate the vicing Corporation), drawn on existence, priority, and size a state or national bank, a of outstanding liens that may check drawn by a state or exist on this property by confederal credit union, or a tacting the county recorder’s check drawn by a state or office or a title insurance federal savings and loan ascompany, either of which sociation, savings associmay charge you a fee for this ation, or savings bank speinformation. If you consult cified in Section 5102 of the either of these resources, Financial Code and authoryou should be aware that the ized to do business in this same lender may hold more state; will be held by the duly than one mortgage or deed appointed trustee as shown of trust on the property. NObelow, of all right, title, and TICE TO PROPERTY OWNinterest conveyed to and now ER: The sale date shown on held by the trustee in the this notice of sale may be hereinafter described proppostponed one or more times erty under and pursuant to a by the mortgagee, benefiDeed of Trust described beciary, trustee, or a court, purlow. The sale will be made in suant to Section 2924g of the an “as is” condition, but California Civil Code. The law without covenant or warranty, requires that information expressed or implied, regardabout trustee sale postponeing title, possession, or enments be made available to cumbrances, to pay the reyou and to the public, as a maining principal sum of the courtesy to those not present note(s) secured by the Deed at the sale. If you wish to of Trust, with interest and late learn whether your sale date charges thereon, as provided has been postponed, and, if in the note(s), advances, unapplicable, the rescheduled der the terms of the Deed of time and date for the sale of Trust, interest thereon, fees, this property, you may call or charges and expenses of the visit this Internet Web site Trustee for the total amount www.ndscorp.com/sales, us(at the time of the initial pubing the file number assigned lication of the Notice of Sale) to this case 21-20103-SPreasonably estimated to be CA. Information about postset forth below. The amount ponements that are very may be greater on the day of short in duration or that ocsale. Trustor: Rommel Lising cur close in time to the Roque and Vilma C Roque scheduled sale may not imhusband and wife as joint mediately be reflected in the tenants Duly Appointed telephone information or on Trustee: National Default the Internet Web site. The Servicing Corporation Recorbest way to verify postponeded 12/21/2005 as Instrument information is to attend ment No. 20051221-0311906 the scheduled sale. Date: (or Book, Page) of the Offi06/09/2021 National Default cial Records of Ventura Servicing Corporation c/o County, CA. Date of Sale: Tiffany & Bosco, P.A., its 07/15/2021 at 11:00 AM agent, 1455 Frazee Road, Place of Sale: At the Main Suite 820 San Diego, CA Entrance to the Government Toll Free Phone: 88892108 Center Hall of Justice, 800 264-4010 Sales Line 855South Victoria Avenue, Ven219-8501; Sales Website: tura, CA. 93009 Estimated www.ndscorp.com By: Raamount of unpaid balance chael Hamilton, Trustee and other charges: Sales Representative $273,362.67 Street Address 06/17/2021, 06/24/2021, or other common designa07/01/2021 CPP351137 tion of real property: 3496 Highwood Court #91 Simi Valley, CA 93063 A.P.N.: Employment - FT 611-0-020-145 The undersigned Trustee disclaims any Electrical Engineer- Provide liability for any incorrectness layout for the electrical/main of the street address or other service, provide a single line common designation, if any, diagram, load summary calshown above. If no street adculations, and panel scheddress or other common desules. Req. Master's in Elecignation is shown, directions trical Engineering or Enginto the location of the propeering. Jobsite: Camarillo, erty may be obtained by CA. Send resume Attn: Julie, sending a written request to Budlong & Associates 400 the beneficiary within 10 days W. Ventura Ave., Ste 240, of the date of first publication Camarillo, CA 93010. of this Notice of Sale. If the PUBLISHED: Ventura Trustee is unable to convey County Reporter 06/24/21, title for any reason, the suc07/01/21 cessful bidder’s sole and exclusive remedy shall be the return of monies paid to the Trustee, and the successful bidder shall have no further recourse. The requirements of California Civil Code Section 2923.5(b)/2923.55(c) were fulfilled when the Notice of Default was recorded.

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