What’s on the minds of the people of Ventura County?
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I had been looking for a fire on this winter solstice night, around
which to join a circle of friends in songs and stories to celebrate the
return of lengthening days beneath the blazingly full moon.
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For a place filled with folks I’d never met before, the Oak View
Community Center was full of old friends.
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It makes no sense that in Ventura County, a county as dedicated to
law and order as it is passionate about its kids, decisions about how
best to handle individual juvenile offenders are often restricted by
lousy facilities.
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Greg Zermeno has been working his way up through the ranks of the
California Youth Authority for 28 years.
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Elizabeth McDougall got an extraordinary gift for her 75th
birthday: A roomful of people asked her what she had learned in all those
busy years–and then eagerly listened to every word.
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Off the grid and way off the radar screen of millennium-mad
America, Slab City is alive and well and fully
Y2K oblivious.
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It might seem odd that the guiding spirit behind Ventura County’s
most successful effort to help homeless people would be the director of
the county’s Animal Regulation Department.
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