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UP-TIGHT SATURDAY NITE......

Candidates
on ballot
are interestingly tilted...

Three vie
for seat
of Mayor...

Four
for
Member
City Council...
(( 2 ))
(( Seats ))
(( Open ))

Fewer Candidates
are on the ballot this year
than in
many decades hence....

Will issues
or
incumbency
rule the ballot box?

Are the Voters
Mad enough for change
or is the direction
of Oxnard
going
just fine
and needs
no course correction.

Three Incumbents
                     Four Challengers
Three Open Seats
      Oxnard City Council could Change

Fewer local candidates this year filed their papers for three open seats on the Council than in years past. Seven individuals are on the ballot and seeking a spotlight on the main dais when the 2007 Oxnard City Council rolls in - here is the official line up.......

FOR MAYOR OF OXNARD

• The Honorable Dr. Thomas Holden --- The current Mayor is completing his first term.
He is extremely capable and adept as a young, vibrant, and active Mayor. Mayor Holden has a long history of service to the people of Oxnard and deserves a first look. Opponents want to bring his past record as Council-member into play to overturn his attempt for a second term.
• A Most adept challenger - former Oxnard City Finance Chief - Phil Molina is considered the leading challenger. Molina knows all the "in's and out's" and where some of the skeletons are buried. He will be considered the first runner-up as a candidate to unseat a popular first-term Mayor.
.makes an interesting opponent for incumbent Mayor Holden, who, according to critics knows where to find the shovel.
• Robert Sumpter, in his second try for Mayor - a candidate dedicated to educating the
electorate and otherwise non-informed voting public.

FOR OXNARD CITY COUNCIL

• The Honorable Mayor Pro-Tem, Andres Herrera. --- Herrera first ran for Council in 1992 and lost his re-election bid to = John C. Zaragoza in 1996. He ran unsuccessfully for Mayor in 1998 and thereafter regained his Council seat in 2002.
Interesting factoid: Bill Winter and Andres Herrera both first ran for Council in 1992. Herrera and Winter ran together again against seated Mayor Lopez for his center seat in 1998 and now in 2006 Winter and Herrera compete again, this time for a seat on Council.

• The Honorable Member of Council - Dean Maulhardt. Being the only Republican Party affiliated member on the Council, Maulhardt holds an interesting place in Ventura County GOP politics as the only Republican on a Democratic Council. Council being non-partisan has no bearing on party affiliation, it's just interesting to note. Never the swing vote, he always goes with the pleasure of the Council and seldom rocks the boat by his predictable vote.

• The top challenger, be it by default or good management is Bill Winter. Winter has been a perennial on the ballot and has sought just about every seat inside the chamber. He has a long history of involvement in the local political scene and would be the better choice for anyone not wishing to see Maulhardt or Herrera back on Council. He has wanted to serve Oxnard on the Council since 1992 and is stalwart in his desire to see Oxnard become Ventura County's primae urbis.

• Francisco Romero is an artful and passionate young man whose vision for Oxnard includes a relaxing of the gang injunction based on civil rights concerns and a better respect for the Latino peoples who make up the majority of Oxnard's total populace. Romero, in his first try for Council has to be a fast learner and realize that sewage projects, property issues, and some downright boring issues are decided by the Council and he will have to be a part of that should he win a seat.

Enrique Petriss also filed for Council - as did Al Velasquez.

FOR DOG-CATCHER -- Any Write-in Candidate who can spell.

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THE WHAT ABOUTS......

Questions are floating around town about some prominent candidates who are not appearing on this next ballot.

Pretty much the public perception and speculation runs locally that the usual candidates expected to run in opposition to the incumbents were offered seats on the Planning Commission, and were told, in the room with no windows, that they were expected not to run for any Council slot this year. MIA are Saul Medina, Dr. Irene Pinkhard, and most recently, Attorney Dierdre Frank who ran in the 2004 election and were subsequently appointed to the Planning Commission by the seated Council in what some called a deal to keep them off the 2006 ballot.

Dr. Pinkhard is running for High School Board and thereby cannot run for any other office on the same ballot so her reason not to seek a seat on the Council is apparent.
Saul Medina is staying steady on the Commission and being very beneficial to the City of Oxnard in his position on the Board. Frank, who ran and against Tom Holden in 2004 and came in a near second on the vote count for Mayor is the most recent addition to the Planning Commission and her appointment was within weeks of the filing period for the 2006 ballot.

Both City Clerk and City Treasurer do not run for re-election this year, as do both Council-members Tim Flynn and John C. Zaragoza. Their terms will expire in 2008 and re-election is the remedy to keep them in place two years from now.

Another Sweet Heart Deal?
by Dennis C. Ralph - resident of Oxnard, Calif.

Quite awhile ago the City of Oxnard Council, staff members,
Planning Commission, and Parks and Recreation Department. laid the blocks to take 25 acres of your park land away from you the public to build a turn key
softball stadium for a private business, Big league Dreams.

Big League Dreams will get the open space, the five enclosed softball stadiums, batting cages and a covered pavilion and a sports bar that offers full range of alcoholic beverages in a "family environment." all for the low cost of 20 to 25 million tax dollars! You lose! "

Then Big League Dreams will sell tournament time to leagues mostly from other cities. You lose again!

And guess what folks? You're going to pay for it! Corporate welfare?

As a tax payer of this City you should be outraged!!!

People write and complain about the streets, the golf coarse etc. etc., and you should also be concerned that your park land and your open spaces that are being given to big business! Corporate welfare?

When the City of Oxnard and Big League Dreams are finished fleecing you with a contract for 30 years, ( After 30, they finally get their hand out of your pocket book) there isn't going to be any money left for any other parks.

Quoting Councilman Dean Maulhardt: "We are looking at a City wide assessment to cover the cost..." that means more tax money out of your pocket to pay for a private corporate entity. Corporate welfare again?

The current City Council is in favor of this public/private venture.
This deal with Big League Dreams an unadulterated hand out of your money and our park land. They get the park, 25 acres of open space, we pay for everything. We can pay to watch, and pay to hang out at the bar! (Might as well just make it a liquor store). Corporate welfare?

The City Council says Big League Dreams is for the kids?
A full service bar has nothing to do with kids. A shot of tequila with a beer chaser has nothing to do with kids? Big league Dreams professes that they can't make it work unless they sell alcohol….what about the kids?

Well, I guess if you want: less traffic, better roads, more parks, and open space
for your families - get big business out of your pocket book
- - - - - - - - - - - - vote the incumbents out of office this November.

Editor's Note: Dennis Ralph is an active Oxnard resident, having held office in his local Neighborhood Council, he is a voice of reason whenever he speaks at City Council meetings.

Friends,

This morning I received another legal victory in Molina v. City of Oxnard
in federal court.

Federal Judge Christina Snyder rejected the legal arguments of the City's
three attorneys. The City was represented by a group of seven, 4 staff
and 3 attorneys including City Manager Ed Sotelo, Assistant City Manager
Karen Burnham, City Attorneys Gary Gillig, Patty Kinaga, and Stephen
Katz, plus some other people whom I did not recognize.

The Judge told the City that their legal argument just was not correct
and not consistent with the normal process of the legal system. Judge
Snyder informed my attorneys Ms. Marisol Ocampo and Ms. Karen Larson from
the law firm of Century Law Group, that she would allow for us to further
augment my complaint consistent with the request that we had previously
submitted. The Judge was concerned about the amount of time that was
slipping away and informed everyone that she wanted to make sure that the
trial date of November 14th remains on calendar.

My attorneys and I were very pleased with the rulings today and feel that
perhaps the City might finally get the message from the Federal Court
that enough effort has been wasted by the City in making last ditch
attempts to derail the victory I received from the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals.

Thanks to God, the hard work of my attorneys and each of you for your
good thoughts and prayers which resulted in this success.

Respectfully,
Phil Molina

Phil Molina is a candidate for Mayor who qualified for placement on the November ballot.

August 12, 2006

The coming of a doughnut shop, Krispy Kreme,
should be noted because of the hoopla it created on its arrival in the great City of Oxnard. With dismay and disbelief this citizen watched in amazement of the praise that came from the mouths of members of the city council.. And in today's Star,
August 12. 2006, the story of the departure of that doughnut shop is well reported on.

The important point to be made is while the doughnut shop is being praised - the city council-members were creating long term debt for the taxpayers. Mr. Tom Holden spoke glowingly of Krispy Kreme all the while voting for the golf course subsidy (annually $900,000.00 and no audit) $13,000.000.00 for the unneeded four story parking lot garage. The garage itself was built to accommodate the theatergoers and it is doing poorly.

The theater was built with a guaranteed $1,600,000.00.
Without that guaranteed money from the city treasury the project could not find a lender.

And along comes Big league Dreams. A super million dollar fiasco in the making. And thinking of fiascos let us not forget the Pacific Suns - a similar sweet-deal for a ball player consorteum.....Mr Holden and other councilmen voted for that one too.

By what name should the present councilmen be called with one exception. ---- How about boobs. or suckers.
All hail Krispy Kreme, Krispy Kreme is kaput in Oxnard.

Martin Jones writes his opinion as an individual citizen and challenged the Star to print this "Letter to the Editor"

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	Legal Notices -- Separate Page

Save Oxnard's Sports-park............

* Photo: Courtesy Jeff Gorell (www.gorelladvocacy.com)

In what would appear to be a move by the City Council to avoid the issue of making a re-zoning decision. Mayor Pro-Tem Andres Herrera was the first to speak up on Council that the decision being asked of the Council that day could not be made due to a report, or section of the entire packet the Council needed for its review, was previously missing and had just appeared within 24 hours. That, according to Herrera and other Councilmen was unsatisfactory and therefore the Council had to table the decision and discussion on the item of re-zoning the Sports Park.

Attendees had to fight for the right to speak on the issue - and said, had they known this item would have been pulled from the agenda, they would have spoken on it during public comments.

Hearing the pleas of the citizens, Mayor Holden, in a rare, but proper move, re-opened public comments allowing all in attendance to speak on "Items Not On The Agenda"

Mayor Holden modified the agenda by consent of City Attorney, Gary Gillig and the remainder
of the Council.

Several attendees who spoke about the proposal mentioned that the Planning Commission did them and Oxnard a disservice in making their decision based only on the available information they had - minus the missing report which the Council had just gotten hours before the convening of the June 20th meeting.

Somehow, in this mix, the Planning Commission should have reviewed this document and they approved the re-zoning without it.

As it stands - the re-zoning proposal will be placed on the agenda of a future Council meeting - maybe in July or perhaps August.

This extra time will allow the Council to review all documents pertinent to the issue and will also allow residents time to re-group and re-think their strategy, to get more people out to speak up for what Oxnard needs desperately - and that is more open space for free recreation.

View the June 2005 Oxnard Journal issue with story concerning
Sports Park -- (( Scroll Down to view Story ))

EDITORIAL:::::::::::::::

OXNARD DOES NOT NEED 100 MORE HOUSES...............
On June 20th, the Oxnard City Council will accept or decline the offer of Centex Homes to develop and build 100 houses on top of land the City has zoned and declared a SPORTS PARK for the past two decades.

With a promise to the residents of Oxnard, and in particular, to those who recently bought new homes in the West Village neighborhood, the City has set aside this land for a sports park. Even a park similar to the one that resides across from the Oxnard Airport on 5th Street is all the citizens are asking for. We just ask for open space and an area where we can play soccer and enjoy our community.

Centex, a major home developer is pushing all sides of the envelope to have this project approved.
Centex has developments in more than 25 states in the continental US. A few extra units put up in Oxnard is not going to break the financial back or future outlook of Centex - but - putting houses on this lot where our community was PROMISED and ZONED a sports park will break the collective will of our residents and ruin our future outlook as a community that is focused on the better life which so many have come to Oxnard to enjoy and live.

A warning goes out to any Councilmen who approve this - that your Centex will come to you in November 2006 or 2008 - whenever your next election is. Because the 100 extra votes you cram into Oxnard's north end will not override the thousands that will come from voters who will not forget your breaking of a promise.

The City of Oxnard does have the money to buy this land for our use - it is just the leadership does not have the will to approve a park over the special interests of a developer --- so --- please join your fellow residents on Tuesday at City Council and send them a message.....

Editorial - Oxnard Journal.

This item came to the Ox Jo for dissemination..................

Mr. Winter, this is another news article
that the Ventura Star will not print.
It isn't long, but tells a news story that needs to be printed.

After Mr. Molina won a unanimous jury award and after he won twice at the 9th Circuit of Appeals against the City of Oxnard and City Manager, Ed Sotelo, Federal Magistrate Judge Stephen J. Hillman ordered City of Oxnard to a SETTLEMENT CONFERENCE on July 5, 2006 in the case of Phillip S. Molina v. the
City of Oxnard and Ed Sotelo.

Read the Official Court Order (.pdf file - Adobe Reaqder required)

More Praise Music --- Read the May Ox-Jo ----
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Oxnard Police De p artment has new improved web site

View the June 12th Issue ( June 01 - 18 2006 )

Speed of Sound Vizzy Trip::::

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Oxnard Mayor Holden with Oxnard Journal Editor - Photo: Franz Lopez

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AVIE's PAGE

NETWORK COALITION

AUGUST 2006

MEETS WEEKLY Tuesday, 8:30AM @ Carrows on Oxnard Blvd. (next to McDonald's) open meetings. Who is ONC? A resource/ exchange-collaborative group of 25 to 30 social service, public/private agencies, representatives and business individuals dedicated to community service since 1997. Our GOAL IS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN OUR COMMUNITY.

1. SAVIERS ROAD DESIGN TEAM,(SRDT) Ormond Beach & the Wetlands preservation AND revitalization of South Oxnard are group's major goals and concerns of this group. This environmentally conscientious group meets weekly at 6:30 pm Mondays at Puerto Nuevo Restaurant, 3600 Saviers Road, SOUTH OXNARD.

Be sure to visit the new California Coastal Protection Network (CCPN) website www.coastaladvocates.com Also see the Environmental Defense Center (EDC) website www.edcnet.org Both have a wealth of excellent information. CCPN is EDC's client and is paying all the legal and expert opinion fees that enable this work to be done.

2. NO LNG COOMMUNITY ALLIANCE- meetings at Rusty’s Pizza Parlor 600 N. Ventura Road. (Fremont Square) 2^nd and 4^th Wednesday s, 6:30 p.m. Aug. 9, Aug.23, Sept. 13, Sept. 27, Oct.11. Oct.25, Nov.8

The NO LNG Community Alliance is an alliance of all the organizations, community groups and individuals working independently and together to oppose all the California LNG proposals as dangerous, polluting and not needed. The Alliance is especially focusing on opposing BHP Billiton Cabrillo Port and Northern StarClearwater Port.

AGENDA

1.  Update on Committee work;
2.  Visit to Sacramento in August to support SB426;
3.  Reports on Work of other groups: California Coastal Protection Network,
Pacific Environment and Environmental Defense Center;
4.  Planning for West Coast Day of Action against LNG, and
5.  Other Business. Please call (805) 485-8026 if you have any questions

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3. NATIONAL LAWYERS GUILD IS AVAILABLE TO ASSIST INDIVIDUALS WHO ENTCOUNTER LEGAL DIFFICUALTIES WITH THE WORLD LABOR DAY BOYCOTT:

PERSONS CAN ALSO RECEIVE LEGAL ASSISTENCE ON ISSUES RELATING TO THE ANTI –WAR MOVEMENT BY CONTACTING THE INLAKECH CENTER AT 4867468. Corner of H & 5^th Streets in Oxnard, at old Oxnard High site.

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4. Oxnard Homeless Commissioner, Gwen Lauterbach- LAUTERBACH ARCHITECTS. Announced the firm is building a new low cost-housing complex in Santa Barbara for Mercy Housing. Oxnard homeless commission meeting at Oxnard Public Library at 3:30, first Monday of the Month.

Ventura County Partnership for Safe Families and Communities Meets first Wednesday of month Contact is Lori Steinhauer 805 677-5403 or email: lori@mossbeachhomes.com.

Rosemary Briceno announced planning is commencing for the October Senior Prom. Contact via OPD Storefronts. ELKS CLUB WILL BE THE VENUE USED IN OXNARD.

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7. ALICIA FLORES IS THE CONTACT FOR ISSUES OF US Citizenship, Immigration HERMANDAD MEXICANA TRANSNACIONAL, INC. Located at 520 West 5^th Street, Suite D, Oxnard, Ca 93030. 805 483.4620 or 805 483.4625

. Carmen Ramirez of THE MEXICAN AMERICAN BAR ASSOCIATION OF VENTURA COUNTY Cordially invites you to attend a reception in honor of EDUARDO GILES, Cónsul Alterno Consulate of Mexico in Oxnard Cónsul

Giles has served the residents of the Counties of Ventura, Santa Barbara and San Luis Obispo for the past four years. He will soon be posted to the Mexican Embassy in Managua, Nicaragua. The Mexican American Bar Association requests the honor of your presence in order that we may bid farewell to Cónsul Giles, thank him for his service to the people of our community, and wish him well in his new post.

Please join us at: THE WHALE'S TAIL 3950 Bluefin Circle @ Channel Islands Harbor Oxnard, California 93035-4399 On: Friday, August 11, 2006 From: 5:30 to 7:30 PM Please RSVP by e-mailing: carmen.ramirez@ventura.courts.ca.gov Or by calling (805) 483-1464

9......................................................... Jocelyn Buckner 382-8228, Workforce Investment network Program THE NATIONAL FOUNDATION FOR TEACHING ENTREPRENEURSHIP. NFTE Business Plan Competition. From 5:00pm to 7:30pm AT: Boys and Girls Club of Greater Oxnard and Port Hueneme, 1900 W 5th Street, Oxnard, CA 93036 For Questions Call: 805.383.8228 "Sponsored by the Workforce Investment Network of Ventura County, “An equal opportunity employer/program." TDD/TTY inquiries: call 1 (800)735-2929

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10. VENTURA COMMUNITY COLLEGES: Trustee Larry Miller shared information about our local community colleges: Oxnard College will have Jim Jensen as interim President at Oxnard, until a permanent replacement for Past President Lydia Ledesma-Reese is hired.

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OXNARD COLLEGE MARINE EDUCATION CENTER AT CHANNEL ISLANDS HARBOR CLASSES START AUGUST 19. MARINE BIOLOGY (3UNITS) MARINE BIOLOGY LAB (1UNIT); OCEANOGRAPHY (3UNITS) AND LAB(1 UNIT) OR BE A MARINE STEWARD. This a new developing Marine Center at Fisherman’s Wharf. Corner of Victoria and Channel Islands Blvd. Call 985.9801

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Moorpark College has two new programs that can be completed in 19 months through the PACE PROGRAM Child development and Business Administration. For more infor email: mcoutreach@vcccd.net or www.moorparkcollege.edu/pace. Ventura College according to Frank Moraga at the Ventura Star, is offering a new Journalism class

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11. PAL Oxnard Police Activities League (PAL): has Mr. Fundi Legohn leading the new Oxnard All City Band. Music classes & lessons. All Band instruments: Mon., Tues., Wed, Friday 4:30 to 9:30 at Oxnard PAL Rooms 108-109. Call 4158570 or click: www.oxnardpd.org/PAL.

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12. California LUTHER UNIVERSITY- PASTOR MELISSA M. MAXWELL-DOHERTY, CAMPUS PASTOR, is looking for sites to place university students for volunteer work /observation sites. revmmmd@clunet.edu or493.3228

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13. Pilar Santamaria: PROTOYPES 382-6296. This is a recovery and treatment programs for women and their children. Women are referred to other program by their families, other social service agencies, and by the courts. Women may also refer themselves. Prototypes was founded in 1986. In Ventura County the center has operated since 1992.

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· OXNARD COALITION TO SAVE THE SPORTS PARK AT CORNER OF OXNARD BLVD AND GONZALES ROAD. This item has been returned to the Oxnard City Planning commission. The following thoughts are by : FRANK BARAJAS, PROFESSOR AT CSUCI. Written in late June.

At the last Oxnard City Council meeting of June 20, 2006, I watched a contretemps regarding a hearing on the 20-plus acres of community reserve at the corner of Gonzales Road and Oxnard Boulevard. These twenty-plus acres of much needed sports park space is promised to the residents of Oxnard under the 2020 General Plan and the Northeast Specific Plan. After the dust settled, residents expressed their views on the Centex development controversy at this site. Below is a summary of points made by voting Oxnard residents regarding this problem.

June 20^th Public Comments on Items Not on the Agenda

Ø The Oxnard Planning Commission approved this project based upon incomplete information.

Ø The proposed Centex project would violate the Quimby Act. Legal recourse being considered.

Ø 30 days advance notice must be given to Oxnard residents regarding any proposed amendments to the 2020 General Plan, specifically in relation to sports park space at Gonzales and Oxnard Boulevard.

Ø Members of the city of council are “too chummy” with land developers and have forgotten that they were elected to represent the best interests of Oxnard residents, not that of builders.

Ø Centex purchased the land at Gonzales Road and Oxnard Boulevard knowing that it is designated as community reserve park space under the 2020 General Plan. Therefore, the tail (Centex) seeks to wag the dog (the Oxnard City Council).

Ø There must be a moratorium on all residential development in the city.

Ø The City of Oxnard uses “Fuzzy Math” in Environmental Impact Reports to permit development.

Ø A selling point to homebuyers at the West Village neighborhood was a 20-plus acre sports park as promised by the 2020 General Plan.

Ø An email from a Centex employee arrogantly predicted the City Council’s approval of the project before a hearing was ever held. Shadow government in the works.

Ø Centex’s ploy to create a swimming pool on 9 gross acres of parks space—as opposed to the original 20-plus detailed in the 2020 General Plan—is designed to divide community opposition to the 100 unit residential development at an already heavily congested area.

Ø If the City of Oxnard approves Centex’s amendments to the 2020 General Plan and the Northeast Specific plan, the value of this parcel of land will rise dramatically making it virtually impossible for the city to purchase the land to realize the promise of a direly needed 20-plus acre sports park.

Ø Oxnard residents are rebellious about how developers dictate policy decision making in the city.

Ø On July 5 Inter Neighborhood Council Forum will focus its attention on this issue. The community is urged to attend and organize. For more information contact: Donna Helms, Neighborhood Services Coordinator
Neighborhood Services Program, (805) 385-7424; E-Mail:Neighborhood Services or Christina Aerenlund, Community Affairs Manager/PIO, (805) 385-7593; E-Mail:christina.aerenlund@ci.oxnard.ca.us

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WEST VILLAGE NEIGHBORHOOD IS MEETING @ BREKKE SCHOOL AT 6:30 JULY 27 TO DISCUSS THIS ISSUE.

Fandango in Santa Paula

SUNDAY September 3, 2006 (the SUNDAY of Labor Day weekend) the music of Veracruz will be highlighted. John Robles of El Son del Pueblo, is working with us to bring jarochos from Veracruz as well as the many talented conjuntos in Ventura and Los Angeles county.

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11th Multicultural Festival

Festival for Saturday, October 7, 2006 from 10 a.m. - 9 p.m.

ANNUAL RELAY FOR LIFE AT OXNARD HIGH SCHOOL

September 30-October 1

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LATINO LIFESTYLE MAGAZINE, a new English language magazine. Please assist us by: Submitting your comments/ideas for the “The Browning of Ventura County” article. A paragraph or two on what you feel Latinos have contributed and/or how they are helping change the county.

Jess Gutierrez, Publisher & Editor-in-Chief of Latino Lifestyle Magazine 805-822-9050 Cell AND e-mail: latinolifestylemag.yahoo.com

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Centro Mujer

4225 Saviers Road, Oxnard

(Near Saviers and Bard Roads,

across the street from the new South Oxnard Public Library)

Centro Mujer is as a grassroots regional women’s community and labor organizing center serving the residents of South Oxnard and a growing regional network of women-centered organizing efforts in the Central Coast of Ventura and Santa Barbara Counties.

An outgrowth of CAUSE's Women's Economic Justice Project and CAUSE's South Oxnard Voter Empowerment Project, Centro Mujer's mission is to address the economic and social equities facing low-income working women and their families through women-centered organizing, civic engagement and leadership development activities aimed at building grassroots power and strengthening the voice of immigrant and working women of color in public policy, economic development, worker rights, as well as other areas of public and private life. For more info: www.coastalalliance.com.

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---COME OUT AND SUPPORT---

Somos Raza and the Raza Press Association Present:

Somos Raza Film Festival

Saturday August 12 from 2pm-10pm Sunday August 13 from Noon-8pm

at Centro Inlakech Theater

937 West Fifth Street (Corner of H St and Fifth Street)

Oxnard, Ca

Suggested Donations: $20 For Entire Weekend, $10 One Day, $5 Half Day or $2 Per Film --NOBODY TURNED AWAY FOR LACK OF FUNDSâ€”

Donations will benefit Somos Raza, a grassroots youth-led community organization in Oxnard.

FILM SCHEDULE

Saturday Aug 12, 2006
2:00 to 4:00 p.m. - The Fourth World War
4:00 to 6:00 pm. - The Changing Community of Broderick: Civil Rights and Gang Injunctions followed by Zapatista
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 pm - Outfoxed: Rupert Murdoch's War on Journalism
8:00pm to 10:00 pm - Walkout

Sunday Aug 13. 2006
12:00 to 2:00 p.m. - Assassination of Malcolm X
2:00 p.m. 4:00 p.m. - Letter to The President
4:00 pm. to 6:00 p.m. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. Trudell

For more information: info@committeeonrazrights

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"Good friends are like stars......You don't always see them, but you know they are always there."

Avie Guerra.805 844.6700.------ .Oxnard, California 93033

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From the Oxnard Watch-Dog.........¿ WHERE IS BROWN 25
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Did you read the "B" Section of the Star about how the entire City Council (all five of them) went on a field trip to talk about "a fashion retail center" for a project that hadn't even submitted a pre application?
Gosh, that used to be called
"A VIOLATION OF THE OPEN MEETING LAW", aka the Brown Act, so:
1. When was the public notified about this closed session?
2. How did the Council members get to Rancho Cucamonga? Did they all take the same car? Did three of them go in the same car, which would mean that the going and coming were separate closed sessions?
3. What else did the Council talk about during this time, which creates another violation of the Act? OR, did they just sit in the same car but not say a word the entire two hour trip?
4. Why go on such a long "fact finding trip" when the 'Officials with RiverPark Legacy, heretofore called "the DEVELOPERS" haven't and wouldn't even submit a "pre-application within 3 months" according the Matt Winegar?
5. Recall that the DA's attorney told jurors that "Convicting someone on a conspiracy charge isn't as complicated as it sounds". "It can be as simple as two people casually walking down the street agreeing to commit a crime like spray-painting a building and then taking steps toward accomplishing that goal, he said. "That's all you need in a conspiracy," --- Barrick told jurors." [From Star first page story "Taggers hit with felony charges".] Well than what do you call it when FIVE Council members agree to violate the Brown Act?

If you missed the story --- Field trip may benefit River Park shopping
Oxnard officials go out of town for ideas to fashion retail center
By Charles Levin, clevin@VenturaCountyStar.com
April 18, 2006
Oxnard Councilman Dean Maulhardt says he doesn't care much for shopping,
but that could change. Maulhardt joined Mayor Tom Holden and three other council members on afield trip Friday to Rancho Cucamonga, where they checked out Victoria
Gardens, a new 1.3 million-square-foot shopping center.

Located in the Former
Marie Callendar's Restaurant on South Oxnard Blvd. & Statham -
CITY BUFFET IS NOW OPEN and serving a tremendous selection of seafood, fried and a tasty Mongolian style plate that you pick your ingredients COME EXPERIENCE THE ALL YOU CAN EAT TREATS.

Take your family and guests -- there is plenty of room and plenty of good food................

03-30-06

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The Oxnard City Council meets
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Planning Commission
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