CAMARILLO — Studio Channel Islands Art Center (SCIART) recently announced Daniel Bednar has joined its board of directors. Bednar is vice president, enterprise project management, at CBC Federal Credit Union Ventura County. “We are delighted to have Daniel join the…
VENTURA — Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP (FCOP), Ventura County’s largest law firm, recently welcomed attorney Jamie Holzer White to the firm. Holzer White’s practice areas include estate planning, trust administration and probate, and she has extensive knowledge of charitable…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — State contractors have removed debris generated by the Woolsey and Hill fires from more than 900 properties in Los Angeles and Ventura counties whose owners are participating in the state’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program, officials with the Debris…
1130 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA. Open Tuesday-Sunday 11 am – 5 pm, Free Thursday Evening 5 – 8 pm 805.963.4364 www.sbma.net Enjoy half-price admission! Exhibition Openings Studio of Mathew Brady. Mathew Brady, Sixth Corps Staff Officers, Winter…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter POETRY AT THE CARNEGIE THE JACKSON WHEELER SERIES Dan Gerber and Alis Morris Soto with CSUCI student poet Damien Aguilar Saturday, June 15 6 pm $5 / members free Organized & Hosted…
By Shelly Leachman • UCSB Rodolfo Hernandez is the eighth of nine siblings in his family. And on June 16, he’ll become the first among them to finish college. That he has reached this point — graduating from UC Santa…
VENTURA COUNTY — Clinicas del Camino Real Inc. celebrates Men’s Health Week, June 10 through 16. National Men’s Health Week is part of a national campaign which begins June 10th and ends on Father’s day June 16th 2019, with the goal of raising awareness…
OXNARD — Fifteen-year-old Anthony Delgadillo Salas has kickstarted a $1 million GoFundMe campaign to help save the Oxnard Performing Arts Center (The PACC). The Oxnard High School student is a volunteer at the venue. “My experience at The PACC started out…
PIRU — Piru Gateway will host a Grand Opening of its new community on June 15th 2019 from 10:00 am to 12 noon. Guests can tour the new, fully furnished and decorated model homes while enjoying food, drinks, music and…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter Plastic Free July Kickoff Party and Video Premiere “Touch of Love” Video Connects Students, Non-profits and Community June 13, 2019, SANTA BARBARA, CA – Join the Community Environmental Council, Santa Barbara Channelkeeper and David Segall…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter SACRAMENTO — Pesticide use in California topped two hundred million pounds for the third year in a row in 2017, according to data just released by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation. Included in this…
Budget addresses family leave, wildfire response, and growing senior population SACRAMENTO – State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (Santa Barbara) released the following statement (June 13) on the passage of the state budget. “At a time when California has a strong economy and a…
CAMARILLO — Ventura County Community College District (VCCCD) Board of Trustees approved a Resolution in Support of Climate Change and Environmental Sustainability during its April 8, 2019 Board meeting. The resolution commended the colleges’ current efforts and outlined the Board’s…
SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM JEANETTE COLE ART CENTER & COLE CREATIVITY CENTER School’s out for summer, but we’re just getting warmed up here at the Santa Paula Art Museum! We marked the end of the school year by hosting Santa…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — Officials coordinating the removal of debris caused by the Woolsey and Hill fires on June 12 reminded property owners participating in the state’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program that the removal of debris from their properties is not the…
Santa Barbara City College’s Community Newsletter JUNE 2019 (Nell Campbell Photography) Rotary Club of Montecito gives $12,500 in scholarships to SBCC students In partnership with the SBCC Foundation, Rotary Club of Montecito and its supporting foundation have announced the awarding…
CALABASAS — The Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Conejo Valley (BGCGCV) recently dedicated and renamed the Bay Laurel Boys & Girls Club in Calabasas to Karen & Ed Jefferson. Approximately 45 dignitaries and officials from the BGCGCV gathered for the…
EDC SBDC CLIENT SUCCESS SPOTLIGHT EMILY BARANY Emily Barany, founder and owner of Visionality, did not waste any time in setting up a nonprofit to offer assistance to impacted residents in the 805 area during the Thomas Fire. Founding 805…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — State officials at the Debris Removal Operations Center (DROC) in Calabasas have submitted final inspection reports to local officials in Los Angeles and Ventura counties for more than 600 of the 932 properties affected by the Woolsey and…
MOORPARK — Moorpark College is launching its new Program for Accelerated College Education (PACE), a fast-track college initiative designed for busy adults. The program allows students to earn an Associate degree in Business Administration or Early Childhood Education in about two…
VENTURA — The nation’s two top credit ratings firms – Moody’s and Standard & Poor’s – have awarded the County with their highest short-term credit ratings. In addition, Moody’s issued positive comments on the County’s long-term credit outlook. Simply put, the…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter Just Announced! Join us for this very special Friday Night Concert brought to you by the Oxnard Downtowners featuring… Legendary Latin Percussionist PETE ESCOVEDO For more than 50 years, Pete Escovedo has been…
OXNARD — The Oxnard School District Board of Education is pleased to announce that Karling Aguilera-Fort has been selected as the finalist for the position of Superintendent pending a site validation visit and contract approval. It is anticipated that Aguilera-Fort’s…
Ventura County’s Children and Family Services encourages the community to learn about many opportunities available to support our families and youth in care; learn what it can mean to be a resource family at this educational Town Hall Meeting; featuring…
VENTURA — The Ventura County Public Works Agency (VCPWA) has appointed Joan Araujo as the new Director of Central Services. Araujo replaces J. Tabin Cosio, who recently accepted a Human Resources position in the County Executive Office. She will oversee the…
View in Browser Our thanks to all the Carnegie Art Museum audience and members that have sent communiques during the unfolding City of Oxnard FY 2019-20 budget crisis in support of keeping the Museum operational in some format. Your testimonies on how…
CAMARILLO — KidSTREAM founder and president Kristie Akl presented at InterActivity 2019, the Association of Children’s Museums’ annual meeting that was held recently in Denver, Colorado. With nearly 1,000 attendees, the Association of Children’s Museums’ annual conference is the world’s…
OXNARD — Do you have a salsa recipe that everyone raves about? Here’s an opportunity to show off your creation by entering the “Great Oxnard Salsa Challenge,” taking place Sunday, July 28 during the 26th Annual Oxnard Salsa Festival. The…
VENTURA — Ferguson Case Orr Paterson LLP, Ventura County’s largest law firm, is pleased to announce partners Corey Donaldson and Joshua Hopstone and associate Jessica Wan have been named to this year’s Rising Stars list of Super Lawyers. This is…
OXNARD — Channel Islands Harbor celebrates the 4th of July with a full day of family activities. The Harbor will host a variety of activities throughout the day, ending with the annual Fireworks by the Sea starting at 9 p.m.,…
VENTURA — The County’s Planning Division will host three Planning Commission work sessions beginning on June 6th to review the Preliminary Public Review Draft 2040 General Plan and share public input received during recent public outreach events. All work sessions…
Santa Ana Bridge Replacement proposal to provide critical funding to restore fish habitat and allow for natural sediment transport to occur along the Ventura River Watershed. VENTURA COUNTY — The Ventura County Public Works Agency’s (VCPWA) Watershed Protection District (WPD) is…
OXNARD — Former boxing world champion, Fernando Vargas, is returning to his hometown Wednesday, June 5 to tour the famed Colonia Youth Boxing Gym, and to urge the city of Oxnard to keep the gym open. Vargas grew up in…
Local Disaster Relief Effort Began in Response to 2017 Thomas Fire SACRAMENTO– Recognizing the organization’s work to connect survivors of local disasters with the tools they need to recover, State Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson (Santa Barbara) will honor 805HELP as Senate…
FILLMORE — People across the world can get up-close-and-personal with an endangered California condor chick in real-time through live streaming video of a cliff-side nest in a canyon on the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Hopper Mountain National Wildlife Refuge in Ventura…
Thank you to everyone who joined us for the Actual Reality opening reception this past Saturday. The turnout was fantastic! If you didn’t have the opportunity to see Carlos Grasso and Peter Fox’s exhibit, be sure to visit the Museum…
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA — State contractors have cleared eligible debris from more than 94 percent of the properties affected by the Woolsey and Hill fires in the state’s Consolidated Debris Removal Program, officials with the Debris Removal Operations Center (DROC) in Calabasas…
OXNARD — The Boys & Girls Clubs of America recently honored the Boys & Girls Clubs of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme with a national merit award for program excellence – the tenth one it has received. BGCOP won an…
Slash and Burn Approach Outlined in Proposed Budget Will Close La Colonia Branch Library, Carnegie Art Museum, Performing Arts Center, and Layoff Dozens of City Employees; Residents Will Speak Out Against City’s Knee-Jerk Decision to Rectify Years of Financial Mismanagement…
SANTA PAULA ART MUSEUM JEANETTE COLE ART CENTER & COLE CREATIVITY CENTER The Santa Paula Art Museum’s first-ever Kids’ Art Fest was an absolute blast! Nearly 400 kids and parents joined us for the free, 4-hour event which featured art-making…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter Just Announced! Tickets exclusively available to YOU, Luke Newsletter recipients! Get yours before they sell out! Click Here To Buy Tickets! Santa Barbara’s own Luke Mullen shares how experiences on The Luke stages…
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Housing Authority City of San Buenaventura completes phase one of redevelopment VENTURA — Residents have begun moving into the newly constructed Westview Village apartments as the Housing Authority of the City of San Buenaventura (HACSB), a public housing authority dedicated to…
Click here for the entire e-newsletter UPCOMING EVENTS JUNE SCREENINGS READERS, 2017 Sunday, June 2, 2019 | 3 pm MCASB RSVP here » Sunday, June 16, 2019 | 3 pm MCASB RSVP here » Sunday, June 23, 2019 | 3 pm…
SANTA PAULA — Join us for Free Family Day at the Santa Paula Art Museum on the first Sunday of every month from 12:00pm to 3:00pm. In addition to enjoying our current exhibits, you’ll experience hands-on art activities for the…
VENTURA — Ventura College announces the first annual Miriam and Henry Schwab Academy of Music – a highly intensive, three-week summer program of courses designed to develop & introduce chamber music & orchestral repertoire skills, attract advanced young artists and develop…
THOUSAND OAKS — An International Hot Sauce Competition, a California Cornhole Association (CCA)-sanctioned tournament with cash prizes, unlimited craft beer, wine, spirits and food plus plenty of hot sauce tastings are all part of the Old Boney Mountain Hot Summer…
SANTA PAULA — “We like to say we’re painting it forward,” says Timothy Kitz, a longtime member of the plein air painting club known as Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore. For Tim and all of the…
SANTA BARBARA — The Santa Barbara Museum of Art will present “Ted Nash: The Sound of Art” at 6 p.m. Saturday, July 13 at the 1130 State St., Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara. As part of a two-week stay as SBMA…
SANTA BARBARA — The Mental Wellness Center (MWC) will host its 25th Annual Mental Health Arts Festival at De La Guerra Plaza on July 13, honoring the work of local artists living with mental illness and celebrating the power of…
