I’m Draco as you can see, I am an attractive, medium sized brown and white Pitt Bull mix who arrived at VCAS on 3/30/16. I am a playful kind of guy who will happily chase a ball as often as you will throw it. I was born on April 5, 2014 which makes me an Aries, and we all know Aries like to go for the gusto in our relationships! We don’t like to be ignored so my perfect match will hopefully give me lots of attention. If you are Leo or Sagittarius, my horoscope says we will have a love connection! Give me a shout out and let’s see where it goes from there. Ventura County Animal Services – Simi location – 670 W. Los Angeles Ave. A640097 Draco
Hi: I’m Gracie a sweet 1 1/2 year old Shepherd X who is need of a permanent or foster home. I, my sister Lola and our 13 puppies are forever grateful to C.A.R.L. for taking us all in when our owners became overwhelmed after we became pregnant all about the same time. A third adult female and her six puppies will be taken in as well once those puppies are older.
I’m affectionate, active and good with other dogs. I know my future looks bright and I can’t wait to make lasting memories as a cherished member of a loving family. Could that family be yours? Stop by and meet me, my sister and our puppies too!
CARL Adoption Center-call 644-7387 for more information.
Greg Glass formed a deep interest in the connection between the mind and the body.
by Jenny Guy
After earning his undergraduate degree from the University of Massachusetts, Greg Ryan Glass decided to explore the world. He spent months backpacking through Australia, New Zealand and Eastern Asia. Observing the practices and traditions of different cultures, a 20-something Glass discovered his true calling. It came in the form of holistic healing practices, integrating Asian and Western modalities. Holistic medicine and healing practices are beginning to merge with other disciplines such as dentistry, like at Holistic Dentist Round Rock, due to a surge in demand for holism.
Glass, originally a New Jersey native, had a “typical suburban” upbringing –– completely unexposed to alternative medicines. While in Amherst, Massachusetts, pursuing a degree in psychology, Glass formed a deep interest in the connection between the mind and the body. Through his education, he developed an appreciation for spiritual teachings, Eastern medicine, yoga, tai chi and the practice of Somatics, movements based on internal awareness.
At the university, Glass completed a rigorous certification course, the Five College Program in Culture, Health and Science (CHS), which provided him with a theoretical framework of human health, disease and healing. Simultaneously, Glass apprenticed with a local herbalist, where he gained an understanding of extracts, herbal remedies as well as the landscape of the natural products industry.
A strong thirst for education pushed Glass to study at 15 different schools of natural medicine. He performed apprenticeships in Ayurveda, an Indian system of medicine and one of the world’s oldest holistic healing practices, as well as Chinese healing arts and Thai massage. Glass also spent several months in Thailand receiving one-on-one training under several world-renowned teachers of Thai massage.
Today, a licensed massage therapist with nearly two decades of experience in naturopathic health care, Glass has achieved more than 3,000 hours of practical and clinical education in holistic healing. His Thai massage sessions are conducted fully clothed, combining yoga therapy stretches with slow, deep, rhythmic compressions to promote the flow of energy throughout the body. His clients have experienced benefits including improvements in muscular pain and tightness as well as increased range of motion. His massages seek to reduce stress and address poor circulation, respiratory problems, sleep issues, anxiety and adrenal fatigue.
As an Ayurvedic naturopath, Glass focuses on comprehensive wellness, working to heal the mind, body and spirit. He personalizes programs to fit each individual’s needs.
“Through all of my years of research and experience, I’ve found that every individual’s journey to health is unique,” said Glass. “Regardless of who they are –– their age, body type or flexibility –– my goal is to have them leave here feeling better than they came.”
After traveling the world, Glass found the City of Ventura –– with its the beaches, mountains and a growing communal interest in natural healing arts –– to itself be an environment of healing. He recently opened Thai Massage Ventura, located at 2021 Sperry Avenue in A Place of Peace Sanctuary & Wellness Center. Glass is currently one of the few clinically trained practitioners of therapeutic Thai massage in the Ventura County region.
He is available by appointment only for 90-minute to two-hour sessions in Thai massage, therapeutic bodywork or Ayurvedic wellness consultations. For more information on Thai Massage Ventura, visit www.thaimassageventura.com.
Jenny Guy is the director of communications for Mustang Marketing and a resident of the City of Ventura.
She was a tremendous advocate for affordable housing.
Lynn Jacobs, 69, passed away recently at Community Memorial Hospital where she had been a patient for several weeks. Her husband Gary and kids were at her side.
The amazing Ventura affordable housing advocate resident had been diagnosed with leukemia earlier this year.
Her career started in international banking and evolved into building farmworker and other affordable housing projects which eventually took her to Sacramento to serve all of California from 2006-2011 when she headed the state Department of Housing and Community Development,
Included among her wonderful life accomplishments she was a member of Ventura’s Planning Commission, Design Review and Charter Review Committee. Was on the board of the California Building Industry Association and helped young women by working with the Soroptimist International of Ventura and the Ventura Affordable Homes, an organization that she founded.
In remembering her Ventura Councilmember Cheryl Heitmann stated. “Lynn was truly one of the most interesting people I have ever known she was smart, thoughtful, caring, funny and a very good friend. She was a mentor to many of us and a true leader. Lynn was very involved in our community, serving on the planning commission and DRC and most recently on our Charter Committee. She was an advocate for and an expert in Affordable Housing. She has left a lasting mark on our city and we will miss her wise counsel and friendship.”
Councilmember Neal Andrews told the Breeze “She was a tremendous advocate for affordable housing. She provided invaluable service both to the City and the State. After her stint with the Governor in Sacramento, she jumped right back into her volunteer work in the City and her experience and knowledge made a significant difference.”
Lynn Jacobs was raised in Los Angeles and after high school graduation attended Harvard University.
The Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts is pleased to present Iridescence: The Art of Ira Winarsky, an exhibition that shares the artist’s reinvention of ceramic sculpture as a means of exploring abstraction, light and reflection. The exhibition will be presented until August 13.
Sculptor and artist Ira Winarsky (1942-2015) spent the last 25 years of his life entirely focused on exploring the potential of the ceramic medium. The artist explored bold new approaches by utilizing clay as a fine art medium
Iridescence: The Art of Ira Winarsky on exhibit at Beatrice Wood Center for the Arts that shares the artist’s reinvention of ceramic sculpture as a means of exploring abstraction, light and reflection. The exhibition will be presented until August 13.
Compelling photos are a convergence of location and timing. Artfully frame an intriguing subject in your viewfinder, then trip the shutter at exactly the right moment. Tomi Murphy does both challenging tasks very well. Havana, Cuba is the subject and title of the Oxnard photographer’s July 26-Aug. 20 solo exhibition at the Buenaventura Gallery in downtown Ventura, featuring images from a 2012 visit. She will attend an opening reception 5-7 p.m. July 30. She will be at the gallery every Saturday and a few other days during the week.
And on Saturday, July 30th from 5 to 7pm. Cuban food, at Copa Cubana in the Ventura Harbor . To hear Andy Fernandez talk about Cuba and his family tie to Cuba around 6pm and to see my photographs.
“My photographs do not take critical views of things or people. They just capture images that make life a little bit more pleasant and more hopeful, a bit sweeter and more peaceful. I enjoy finding the beauty and interest of unexpected places and things,” she said.
Examples of her fine art photos can be found online at tomimurphy.com.
This surf board was painted by the young artists from “Kids’ Art (Growing Young Artists Since 1992). Kids’ Art offers a free, comprehensive art program for children ages 5-14 taught by local artists. Located in the Arc of Ventura’s Art Room. 295 S. Arcade Dr., Ventura. 628-9150. This surfboard was raffled off at Surf Rodeo to raise money for Kids’ Art.
Ojai artist Uta Coleman is a resident artist at the HUD Gallery located at 1793 E. Main in Midtown. The gallery presents progressive exhibitions focusing on contemporary artists, while promoting a wide spectrum of genres and mediums in solo, group and juried exhibitions.
Their resident artists range from photography, mixed media, abstract to realism, oil paintings to pencil drawings. Come for the art. Stay and meet the artist.
The Museum of Ventura County is proud to present an exhibition of twelve oil paintings by Carpinteria-based artist Whitney Brooks Abbott from July 22 through September 5. These lush landscapes feature local rural scenes with barns, trees and farm equipment that many will find familiar and pleasing, with names like “Open Barn”, “January’s Harvest” and “Hoops and Hives”.
Whitney Abbott was born in 1972 in San Francisco, CA. At the age of three, she and her family moved to Carpinteria where she spent much of her childhood drawing the life she found around her on her family’s avocado and lemon ranch.
Women’s Economic Ventures (WEV) recently celebrated the accomplishments of 11 women and men who successfully completed WEV’s Ventura County-based Advanced Spanish Self-Employment Training (SSET) course with a graduation ceremony held at National University in Oxnard.
After 14 weeks of training on topics including finances, marketing and sales, public relations and advertising, legal and insurance issues, record keeping, and how to write a business plan, these graduates completed the course with the necessary tools and support needed to start or expand their businesses.
I’m Draco as you can see, I am an attractive, medium sized brown and white Pitt Bull mix who arrived at VCAS on 3/30/16. I am a playful kind of guy who will happily chase a ball as often as you will throw it. I was born on April 5, 2014 which makes me an Aries, and we all know Aries like to go for the gusto in our relationships! We don’t like to be ignored so my perfect match will hopefully give me lots of attention. If you are Leo or Sagittarius, my horoscope says we will have a love connection! Give me a shout out and let’s see where it goes from there. Ventura County Animal Services – Simi location – 670 W. Los Angeles Ave. A640097 Draco
The beautiful pastels by Sandy Robertson can only be seen at her house by special invitation.
