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Written on Santa Paula Unified hires chief business officers :

Can you not read? The article said this was temporary. Quote: "If the two accept the temporary posts, they will help the unified school district draft its budget for the next six months."


in response to Pierpont:

I'll say it too. You are willfully ignorant and rude, but what else is new.


Written on Local butcher's business thrives:

in response to NavyCorpseMan:

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You live in a vacuum, where context has no meaning.

Written on Camarillo superintendent to retire at end of school year:

He is 68. Are you saying he can't retire?


Private HMOs are not any more generous than this government run HMO. Even my PPO had tried to deny treatments my doctor has deamed medically needed. The private system is fueled by the need to produce a corporate profit. Perhaps the government should switch to a profit based system. Oh, wait, they can't. Medi-Cal is for people with no money and no healthcare.

Written on Montalvo apartment plan gets mixed reviews from commission and neighbors :

As a neighbor NIMBY I have to say I don't object to the project but I do object to the parking plan or rather the lack of it. A project of that nature and size will need more parking not less. I also feel for the neighbors right at the bottom of the buildings. I would not want a five story apartment building right next to my little cracker box house. Some space between the new apartment building and the old houses would help. From the drawings it looks like the apartment building will be just a few feet from the property lines. A more neighbor friendly design is needed. It looks and sounds like the developer wants to pack as many people into his development as he can without regard to being on good terms with the present population or following the zoning codes.

Written on Local schools back to uncertainty after veto of state budget:

in response to Facebooked:

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Several million. He's saving it for the cost over runs that will happen when he starts building his grand project: a brand new continuation high school. He's currently selling every thing the CVUSD has to raise money for it. Also borrowing and begging from the city to get the money. It's already projected there will not be enough money even if he hocks every thing CVUSD owns.

Written on Silk screeners fight licensing citations :

in response to SAvery072570:

When he wins this, I say we all go buy a blank tshirt and bring it in to his shop and have him silk screen something on it...

"I fought the Law and the Law won"?

The State grasping at monetary straws to be sure.


in response to Hey_Scapegoat:

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If there were no unions, grocery workers would have no pension, no health care and be paid a non-living wage for part time work. The grocery companies would be free to work you 2 hours or 40 hours a week, whatever is good for them. You the taxpayer would be footing the bill for health care, retirement, and unemployment as you are now for Walmart, Target, and most other retail employees. If we truly had universal health care for all, unions would not be trying to protect the coverage they do have. Just because your employer doesn't offer squat in benefits does not mean every employer does not have to offer benefits. Maybe those that don't have benefits should be pressuring to get them instead of pushing for everyone else to lose them. That is the attitude here, "I don't have them so neither should you". I have been without and sick. It's not fun. I support anyone who is fighting to keep what they have. Good Luck to All.

Written on Montalvo residents upset with zone change to allow homeless shelter:

in response to ms_reason:

Okay, I can understand the concern to not want to live near a homeless shelter but it's MONTALVO. It's not the greatest area as it is without a homeless shelter.
Just saying.

You must not live in Montalvo. The areas near the two sites are nice nieghborhoods. I live there. Now if it were the 7-11 center, a homeless shelter would fit right in. And slow down, you townies drive way too fast on our residential streets.

Written on Ventura commission denies request to exhume war hero:

in response to kramer:

I have a small dog and we go to cemetery park about three times a week. He doesn't poop much but usually goes under one of the small trees where nobody would walk. I would never let him poop on someones gravesite. And to those of you who served, no matter what branch of the service....Thank You

Do you pick it up?

Written on Signs recognize those buried at Ventura park:

in response to lagfactor:

why is it considered disrespectful to have picnics with dogs and children romping nearby on a previous cemetery that still has bodies beneath?

if there IS some connection to where the dead are buried and the still-living, i would think the dead below would be quite happy to be receiving the happy energy coming from up above. do you truly think the dead and buried care about a matter such as this?

now... people not being courteous enough to pick up their dog's poop is a matter all to itself, but animals poop and pee where people are buried all the time. birds, squirrels, raccoons, what have you, animals POOP, that's what they do, and so do people - it's a part of life. and one day they'll die, too.

and as far as dog parks... arroyo verde has "off leash" hours but sometimes you have to pay, and the one fenced dog park by the freeway is a big dirtpatch. plus, dogs tend to have a natural instinct to be a bit more aggressive when they're behind a fence - the dogs that are brought to cemetery park are much better mannered and pleasant to be with, and the vast majority of owners there always pick up their dog's doo.

People have control over WHERE their dog leaves it's droppings. Just because it's "a part of life", doesn't mean it is fine and dandy. There is a big difference between a rabbit pellet sized dropping and stinking smelly load dropped by a dog eating Old Roy. The dog parks are where it is LEGAL to have an off leash dog. Maybe you could volunteer to work at improving the current LEGAL dog parks. Also you might want to pick up after everyone who DON'T pick up their dog droppings. The dead don't care but I do and so does everyone in my family. It's a cemetery, if you can't handle reminders of that fact, go elsewhere. Notice I did not say don't use it at all, but keep it clean and if someone wants a grave marker don't argue about it.

Written on Cason Point: Dog's bar stop turns into happy hour:

in response to Oh_No_She_Didnt:

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Pay attention. This column is always at the top, every Sunday.

Written on 'Silver tsunami' threatens to drown seniors:

Soylent Green hum...remember what happened to Edward G. Robinson when he got old?


Written on Neighbors fight Los Robles project:

in response to CherokeeKid:

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No, Los Robles really is about making money. I was admitted last fall after breaking a collarbone. My insurance approved two days and by god they were determined to keep me there two full days. They did every unneeded test they could get the insurance to pay for. The doctors were rude. The nurses were overworked. When I finally put a stop to it after a day and a half, they would not even allow the nurse to help me to the curb. Unless I am dying in the street I will not go there for treatment again.

Written on 'Minor details' remain in Walmart's Ventura plan:

in response to cagal:

Those who are complaining about the new Wal-Mart in Ventura will be the first ones in line to save money (course you know they'd never admit to shopping there). LMAO!

No. I think not. I still don't shop at Vons after all these years either. I stick to my grudges. It matters not what you think.

Written on Governor revises budget proposal:

in response to herefirst:

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Because I don't work for free and I paid my money into CALPERS (and SS, so don't go there either).

Written on Teachers at county workshop try to learn what they need to do to get jobs:

in response to herefirst:

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Then...why did you reply?


in response to herefirst:

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Can't be overpaid if you don't have a job.

Written on Oxnard limits yard sales to three per year :

in response to rcflyer:

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Written on Signal sought at proposed Walmart:

in response to RhondoTalbot:

ViSuvius said:
"Some things that you may not know about WalMart. "Wally World" keeps all of their rank and file employees at part time and on minimum wage so that they don't have to offer them health insurance:.
You mean the same way as the Disney stores do?
They go one step further though and are very family unfriendly by making the workers be on "call back" when the are not scheduled to work, thereby cancelling any family time. If they do not call in to see if they are to come in they get in trouble. They are not compensated for this "call back" time.
Why do you not go after Disney and just choose to pick on Walmart if you REALLY care about the employees?
Having said all this, the employees have a choice whether to accept those terms. I do shop at both Walmart and Disney.
You really should have known!

They are not putting in any thing Disney here, and no, I do not shop Disney or Walmart. Sometimes you just have to follow what your own morals tell you. Mine tell me not to support employee crushing companies. Yours must tell you that your shopping is much more important than the conditions of your fellow working man. The lack of any compassion here is just so overwelming. "It's all about me, and only me. There is nothing else". I also say sales taxes are not going to pull the city of Ventura out of the massive budget hole it has put itself in. It's going to take a lot more than one cheap store to fix that. Remember the less you pay the less the city gets.

Written on New T.O. charter to share campus with Glenwood School:

in response to marioparty:


You must be listening to the wrong person. Mates has 20 to 1 ratio in K-3rd grade classes, CVUSD had to increase their class size due to their financial problems. Mates has Kindergarten Aides, CVUSD does not. Mates is not asking their teachers to take any furlough days. Mates has actually increased the school day by 20 minutes. Please pass this along to the person telling tales.

True enough, however I heard it was the cost of building/grounds maintenance and utilities causing troubles. I got no dog in this fight. *shrug*


in response to Elijah:

It will cost up to $700,000 to retrofit Glenwood if the district decides not to close the school as Bridges expands. Cost to retrofit University $150,000.

Bridges expanding to take over all of Glenwood, quite the optimistic view. I heard MATES' ADA money doesn't quite go as far as they thought it would.

Written on Tony Strickland agrees to pay fine for campaign violation:

in response to rcflyer:

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I have looked in the mirror. I see both sides of the fence. Do you? To think an opposing view is not worthy of thought and reflection, that is close minded. By way I have no political ties to any party. I just object to the idea that an opposing view is not worthy of thought.

Written on Tony Strickland agrees to pay fine for campaign violation:

in response to rcflyer:

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Which is why this country in such a polarized state of sorry disarray, is it not? Such a sad, sad attitude to have. This country has too many close minded people in it already.

Written on Effort under way to count Ventura County residents likely to be missed in census:

in response to memo:

Destination truth - I stand corrected - meant welfare checks, not UE.

Rpowife - I do have an ax to grind - I am sick of paying for ILLEGAL immigrants benefits. We should take care of our own first.

Save your axe grinding for the appropriate article. I objected to you assuming the woman was illegal. The woman in the article was stated as being a legal resident. I have been given no logical reason by you to doubt that. Give me your facts to prove your assumption on her residency. I object to you twisting and making up facts to suit your axe grinding. I will not argue with you on immigration but I will on the incorrect statements you made about the article at hand.


in response to memo:

rpowife#381337 - Do you seriously think Ms. Quintanar is here legally?

How do you arrive at that conclusion, just because it is printed in the VCS it is true? HaHa

How many children does she have that we pay to educate. Let's say she has 2 children. Just the costs to educate those children in our schools would eat up the $30k. That does not include the costs to subsidize rent, food stamps, healthcare, etc.. Illegal immigrants are a drain on our society!

Here's an idea - we count them and then use the $30k to deport them.

I know, I know, then we won't have anyone to work in the fields and a head of lettuce will cost $5.

Not in my scenario.

Next, we put our 10% unemployed population to work in the fields to "earn" their unemployment checks until they can find another job. This will cost the farmers nothing and their labor costs go actually go down. A head of lettuce will now cost .10 cents.

You assume the Star is lying because it is the Star? It is your conclusion the subject in question is an illegal alien simply because she is Mixteco and the Star said she is legal? You have no facts, sir, to conclude anything about the specifics in her case. You have an axe to grind, and overlook anything that contradicts your grinding of said axe.


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Written on Oxnard Union cuts hours for lunch workers:

in response to Blaine:

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School districts usually tie the health cost paid by the employee to the hours worked. Less than four (or whatever set by the district) you get no health benefits, four but not full time the employee usually has to pay a percentage of the premium based on the percentage of a full time position they hold. Full time, the cost is mostly paid by the District (but varies by District, some full time employees do pay part of the cost).

The lunch ladies are not making $42 an hour either. That number would include the cost of any benefits, insurance or any other cost (uniforms, personal safety equipment, retirement plans) the District pays to maintain that employee.

Written on Oxnard Union cuts hours for lunch workers:

in response to olddog:

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Same to you fella, hope you lose your job and/or retirement money too.

Written on Conejo Unified might close Park Oaks School:

in response to cleareyes:

mp3andy -
you are absolutely right on the cell phone bill amounts for CVUSD

there are people at CVUSD that have a cell phone that never leave their office

that is only a trickle of the waste of dollars at CVUSD

over the last ten years the district has given bonuses to ALL employees - YES, bonuses -
to what are already overpaid administration
- at least 3 times

There's catered lunches for administration and teacher meetings and trainings, some teachers may be done with their training in the morning but they wait around for the free lunch

CVUSD has become a playground for the personnel,
and under Baarstad there is no chance for any change

Why wasn't an open search done for a new superindendent done?

It's really such a shame that CVUSD is being run to the ground by Contini/Baarstad

Good luck to Bridges charter and maybe we'll see another charter spring up from this possible closure - I hope so

I'd rather see my tax dollars go to educating students than the administrators - Contini gets $204,000+ a year, all administrators between $124,000 and $150,000 - seems a little high for a 21,000 - 22,000 student district that they can't even keep afloat

ALL employees? I must have missed that memo. I sure didn't get any bonus three different times or one time for that matter. What I did get was a one time payment in lieu of a raise. I think it amounted to $300 or so. We're not cops or firefighters. We don't get raises even when the city or county is broke. I don't get overtime built into my schedule. I won't get 90% of my pay when I retire. If I can afford to retire. CVUSD is certainly not my playground. I work there, and I work hard. I don't have a District cell phone either.


Well I guess I must be a "kuke" and a NIMBY then. All you people who want Walmart should buy MY house so you can live next to it. I don't need one in my neighborhood. I need a Fry's, or a store where I can get something I can't get elsewhere in Ventura. Target is no better than Walmart. They are just quieter and sneakier about their plans.

Written on Summer lunch programs for kids expanding:

If there is not a profit in it, school district Food Services won't do it. Those departments of school districts are self funded and must cover their costs by either charging money or being reimbursed by the Government. School districts do not cover food services out of their general funds. In this case it's the FEDERAL government footing the bill, not the state or District. They do it because they can do it without losing any money and are likely making a profit to fund the department.

Written on Conejo school district makes final offer to charter proponents:

"Posted by elephantpower on March 19, 2009 at 3:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)

Poopie is wrong again.

It was not the District that filed a lawsuit, but MATES that is bring suit. And Stephens and Dunn voted AGAINST putting MATES at Glenwood."

No. Dunn, in a separate motion on 1/21/09, proposed re-opening Meadows on fall '09 as an arts magnet school. Dr. Stephens seconded. The motion failed 3-2 with both he and Dunn voting aye. It was 5-0 to place the charter school at Glenwood.

Such a mature attitude, calling people names. I left that behind in, heh!, elementary school.

Written on Wal-Mart submits plans for Ventura store:

"Posted by Scapegoat on February 26, 2009 at 7:34 p.m. (Suggest removal) ...give jobs to people who deserve it, through good, honest work."

You are telling me my husband, the one who works six days a week and then some, is not a good honest worker because he's a union member? He doesn't deserve his job? That is just wrong.

You give corporations too much credit for morals they have only due to the hard work of previous generations of union work. Morals they would drop in a heartbeat if they were allowed to. Greed and selfishness has taken hold in this country on many levels, from top to bottom.

Again I ask why the hostility?

Written on Wal-Mart submits plans for Ventura store:

"Posted by Tigerlilly on February 26, 2009 at 4:08 p.m. (Suggest removal)
the checker at Ralphs who stands there running items over the scanner getting over $20 an hour. How much training does that take."

There are no cashiers at any Ralphs that make over $20 an hour. Read the contract and their pay scale. I have and no, I do not work for Ralphs.

The only reason unions have not organized employees at Walmart is because they FIRE people for even whispering the word "union". The only unionized Walmart employees are in China, where the government required it for them to do business.

The incredible hostility towards unions, union workers and any government employees posted here on the Star's site in general, is just stunning and sad. Is your life so bad you must add an entire class of people to the poverty roles? They are not making THAT much money. My husband made $54000 last year in his union "good" job. That's six days a week, 50 weeks a year, the only holiday he doesn't work is Christmas. That's the ONLY holiday that is voluntary. If I didn't work too we'd be up to our eyeballs in debt just trying to live. We are just like you. We work hard, we pay bills, and we don't hold it against you if you don't have a union job. Why the hostility?

This proposed Walmart is just a block from my house and that's why I don't want or need it there. There are better places for it than that. Speeders already treat my street like the Indy 500. Trader Joes by the way will be but a memory if they approve that Walmart.

Written on Looming cuts leave schools in limbo:

That was cut LAST year. What should we cut THIS year?

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:


I thought you were decent and civil as well. You are certainly entitled to your opinion. I dislike the extremism displayed by both sides. A shame the people in the middle can't make the final call. Still, I feel I must write a letter or two and at least voice my opinion.

rpowife (who loves cemeteries)

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

To Gonzo and all you Park Firsters:

You should be required to visit your ancestors wherever they are. Perhaps if your mother and grandmother had taken you to visit them more often you would care what happens to their graves as I do.

As a child I went with my mother and grandmother to the cemetery. Now I take my mother to visit her mother and ancestors. After she is gone I will carry on for her. I go to Ivy Lawn and the Santa Barbara Cemetery. I'd like to take my mother to St. Mary's before she dies. I'd like there to be something there for her other than dogs and people disrespecting her grandfather's grave.

The City has ignored the fact it has a cemetery on it's hands for forty years. The neighbors have ignored the fact they have a cemetery for forty years. There is no park.

Go to the park down the street. It's no farther than the park I have to drive to. It has playgrounds and restrooms. Leave my ancestors alone. Give them respect.

Thank you Gonzo. You may have turned me into an activist. My path has become clear in this debate.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

Sorry Gonzo, but if people are buried there, it's a graveyard. If they have been there a thousand years it's still a graveyard. You can do whatever you like on top of the graves, it's still a graveyard. Come up out of the sand.

You seem to be disconnected from the fact you are using a cemetery as a park. I don't have a problem with it being open space, however it should visibly stated it's a cemetery and there are bodies under that turf. at the very LEAST. What the city wants to do is something else and not my problem. What YOU want is to pretend the graves are NOT there. They ARE there and that has NOT been addressed by any of the "We want a Park Only" people, that I know of. Do you have a plan to address the issue?

There needs to be a middle ground and so far it's not come from the City, your selfish park people or the ones wanting to turn it back into a real cemetery. I think it's too late for it to be the cemetery it once was, but it cannot be "just" a neighborhood park either.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

It should be that easy. That would be nice.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

Works both ways. Stop trying to pretend there are no graves in the graveyard and I'll not object when you play on the graves when I'm not there. Expect dirty looks when I am there though. You can do the same.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

I was not born yet. Had I been I would have certainly protested it's sorry state. Just because there is a green patch in your neighborhood does not entitle you to it's ownership and sole use.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

I said I don't care if they spend a lot of money on the place or not. A fence and a sign stating it's a cemetery would be fine with me. Many parks have fences and gates. A little respect for place as a cemetery is all I want. I find people demanding it be strictly a park without removing the graves disturbing.

As long as the graves remain, it's a cemetery. Call it or use it as you want but the fact remains, it's a cemetery. Show some respect at least, while you are there. As much as I'd like it to be returned to it's former glory, that's not going to happen. It can never be the same again. The City ensured that when they disposed of the headstones.

If the City can find Winfield and my other ancestors and move them to Ivy Lawn, that's fine with me. I would still find Cemetery Park a sad and neglected place. I personally find the idea of playing in a graveyard disturbing. Even when I was a child, before I found out about the ancestors buried there, it was an idea that was not for me.

I have turned a blind eye to the park part for many years and will probably for years into the future. That doesn't change the fact it is a cemetery and my people are buried there. Give it some thought before you toss the frisbee next time.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

I like cemeteries. They should be visited more often. I visit mine as often as I can. I still place flowers on the grave of my great aunt Mable Delano who died in 1920. I never met her. She died long before I was born. I feel sorry for the uncared for headstones near the ones I visit.

My great-grandfather Winfield Newell was an alcoholic. He left a wife and seven children behind when he died in 1916. They couldn't afford a headstone when he was buried at "Cemetery" Park. His widow lived with one relative or another the rest of her life.

So I should be happy you have a park in your neighborhood? So you can run and laugh over the graves of my people? If they turned Ivy Lawn into a park I would not go there to run and laugh and play. I do not go to Cemetery Park to play either. When you do please give my ancestors a little thought before your fun and games.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

One more comment:

My nieghborhood doesn't have a park either, but I don't take my dogs or kids to play at Ivy Lawn, which is the closest open park-like space to me.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

Ahh...the pitter-patter of little feet over my great-grandfather's grave. So nice, so comforting to my family. We were never informed of the demise of the cemetery. We were also poor. So who cared? No one and it remains that way to this day.

It is the final resesting place for members of my family. They are still there. They are still part of MY reality, MY family. Please remember my family as you tromp over their graves.

I don't care if it is improved or not. I'd just like some respect for my ancestors and recognition that someone's FAMILY is still buried there.

Written on Ventura commission backs plan for cemetery park update:

It's a cemetery. It's always been a cemetery. It will be a cemetery until the last body is removed. I find it very disturbing you want to turn the burial place of my relatives into a dog park.

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