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From the AP: GOLETA, Calif. - A former postal worker who had been put on medical leave for psychological problems shot five people to death at a huge mail-processing center and then killed herself in what was believed to be the nation's deadliest workplace shooting ever carried out by a woman.
Occasional Ojai resident Jason Davis can be seen in the new Sundance-selected flick Come Early Morning, starring Ashley Judd. Check out the trailer which is just Ashley and Jason. (they kiss!)
As I mentioned in a previous post, I've been putting together The Ojai Network, an online directory for Ojai, which now has about 300 entries, from touristy things to local services. Following are some links that may help a visitor to Ojai find that perfect romantic hideaway, memorable little restaurant or peaceful hiking spot.
Where to stay in Ojai:
Ojai Hotels, Inns & Spas
Outdoor Ojai Destinations
Private Ojai Destinations
Where to eat in Ojai:
Ojai Restaurants
What to do in Ojai:
Events In Ojai
Ojai Galleries
Music in Ojai
Ojai Theater & Film
Get away from the office and the traffic in sloooojai:
Ojai Healing Destinations
Ojai Healers
Outdoor Recreation in Ojai
Sports & Exercise in Ojai
And certainly some of you will inevitably need these links, so keep this page bookmarked:
Ojai Real Estate Agencies
Ojai Realtors
Ojai Chamber of Commerce
Nice article in the VC Star that focuses on the Nathan Larramendy Gallery, and gives nice props to recent featured artist Cassandra C. Jones and premier Ojai B&B, Lavender Inn.
There's some controversy over a teacher currently on leave from Villanova Preparatory School, writes the LA Times.
Didj, aka Bardo Surfer, has returned to the Ojai Skateboard Park for some maintenance and stories - an excerpt:
We've all been hearing a lot of talk about a cement park being built. I heard tonight, from Sean, that the plans have been drawn up and they have the land. The only thing keeping it from happening is that we need 200 grand to build it.
It seems to me, an impartial observer with limited knowledge of the various political and economic forces at play here. that if the kids can treat the park with more respect and show that they love it, then their chances for a cement park will dramatically increase.
From news services:
Jovanka Bach, a Southern California playwright and physician whose stream of dramas included a trilogy spanning a half-century of turmoil in her family's ancestral homeland of Montenegro, has died in an Ojai nursing center of complications from ovarian cancer at the age of 69.
Bach emerged as a playwright in 1974, when her first script, "The Matter of the Heart," about heart surgeons, was a semifinalist for a slot at the prestigious National Playwrights Conference, an annual new-play workshop held at the Eugene O'Neill Theater Center in Waterford, Conn.
According to John Stark, her husband of 28 years, one of Bach's proudest moments came last spring when she attended the New York city premiere of "Name Day," the first play in her "Balkan Trilogy" about the impact of ethnic strife in the former Yugoslavia from World War II until the outbreak of the civil war that broke up the nation in the 1990s.
"She managed to struggle onto the plane, and she was so happy to see that play done," Stark, an actor and director who often served as Bach's producer, told the Los Angeles Times on Friday. "She struggled so hard to write while she was dying, and she was doing small rewrites even as they were staging it."
Bach completed the trilogy with "A Thousand Souls" (1999), about a Serbian father and his American-born son traveling in the old country in 1991 on the eve of its disastrous civil war, and "Marko the Prince" (2001).
Stark said that Bach wrote about 15 plays in all, as well as unpublished novels. Her dramas sometimes focused on playwrights of the past: "Mercy Warren's Tea" (1977) is about America's first female playwright; "O'Neill's Ghosts" (2002) imagined a sequel to "Long Day's Journey into Night"; and in "Chekhov and Maria" (1988), she dramatized the great Russian playwright-physician struggling against declining health while trying to finish "The Three Sisters."
Come on down to Lavender Inn tonight for our free technology Q&A. More info here.
Update: I'm here at Lavender Inn with a few minutes between helping out folks with their computers - I came across this interesting link showing what people in Ojai are buying from Amazon (lots of ink and iPods) - Amazon Purchase Circle for Ojai
Ojai Biodiesel Community Meeting
Friday, January 27, 7:00pm, Ojai
Keynote Speaker: Kent Bullard
Kent is one of the major mover/shakers to bring the concept and reality of biodiesel to the central coast. He has personally used biodiesel for four years and was responsible for introducing it to the Channel Islands National Park. Recently he co-founded a biodiesel coop in west Los Angeles which opened on January 7th. This will be a resource and information gathering and networking meeting, filled with facts about what's possible above and below ground. Biodiesel is a renewable fuel for diesel engines which reduces criteria pollutants and our dependence on petroleum fuels, along with the associated geo-political issues. For more info, call Sunshine at 805-646-4428.
1273 S. Rice Rd, Community clubhouse. Golden Oaks Mobile Home Park
Please park on the street and walk straight into Golden Oaks Mobile
Home Park, past the 9th house on your right, the community clubhouse is
through the pool gate.
Thanks to Steven from Farmer & The Cook for the heads-up.
The city of Santa Paula has put up a webpage detailing their accomplishments in 2005, including specifics in the following categories: Facilitate Greater Citizen Involvement, Community Advocacy, City Administration, Building and Safety, Community Services, Economic Development / Redevelopment / Housing, Finance, Fire, Planning, Police and Public Works.
Since our city is still working on their website (originally slated to be up in November, the website now states late January), if anyone working at the city offices has a similar document for Ojai, please forward it to me, so I can share it with ojaiblog's readers.
