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Climate Geeks Solution – Art & Tech Expo!!

Climate Geeks Solution – Art & Tech Expo!!
Sunday, Oct 11th 2015 at
The WAV Gallery – West Ventura
Noon to 6pm

FREE & AIR-CONDITIONED!
175 S. Ventura Avenue x Thompson
805.641.0400   /   http://www.wavartists.com
**Parking & Refreshment details at bottom

FBook Event Page:
https://www.facebook.com/events/837570999675062/

Hosted by:  Arts for Earth Foundation / http://www.artsforearth.org
As a part of October’s Earth Spirit Art Exhibit
https://www.facebook.com/events/166472650361236/

Exhibitors and Program (Subject to Change)
NOON: Meet ‘n’ Greet
1:00: Welcome, Ron Whitehurst
1: 05 Arts for Earth! Michelle Nosco: “A Walk Through the Earth Spirit Exhibit”
1:30  VCCOOL, Ventura Climate Care Options Organized Locally, Rachel Morris: “Spirituality – At the Heart of Climate Protection”.
1:45 Transition Ventura County, Kendra Gonzales: “The Transition Towns Movement Talk & Playshop”.
2:15 Urban Planner Evan Evangelopoulos:  “Sustainable Communities & Urban Policies”.
2:30 Solar Ovens and Solar Cookery, Pat Browne
2:45 Channel Islands Energy Choice -TBA
3:00 Clean Energy Century, Dan Karpf: “Sustainable Social Evolution”.
3:30 Co-Founder VCCool & consultant to So.Cal Edison, John Howard:

“Lighting & Moving our Way into a Bright Green Future”
3:45 Local Climate Activism–Policy and Protest, Tomás Rebecchi, VC Climate HUB, Food & Water Watch, Citizens’ Climate Lobby, Citizens for Responsible Oil and Gas (CFROG), LULAC, Stewards of the Earth, and more
4:15 Ground Operations, Rob Barnett: “Responding to the Climate With Our Food Shed”
4:45 Greywater -TBA
5:00 Green Transit -TBA
5:15 Home Efficiency / emPower -TBA
5:30 Green Building -TBA

Parking:
Lot across the street – but usually full, or behind / west of The WAV – Garden St. under the 101, or lot at Thompson & Juniper just east of The WAV, or Museum lot just off Santa Clara & Ventura Ave.

Refreshments:

We are not allowed food, but Food Truck at Topa Topa 1 block east on Thompson. We are working on being allowed cold drinks…you may want to bring your own.

There will most likely be a “smoothies truck” cruising around.

Plz call Kendra at 805-628-3198 with questions

Breeze Reader Poetry

The Universe
Joshua Henry Jones Jr.

Count o’er the million leagues from here to yonder star.
On then. On to the next count of a million more.
Sum up the myriad gleams that light the night;
Add too, the orbit where the cold bright moon doth soar.
That done, return to earth and with thy mind outline
That huge expanse called space; and then out from our Hearse
Of changing dust dream out the words-The Universe.

 

Ode to an Encyclopedia
James Arthur

O hefty hardcover on the built-in shelf in my parents’ living room,
O authority stamped on linen paper, molted from your dust jacket,
Questing Beast of blue and gold, you were my companion

on beige afternoons that came slanting through the curtains
behind the rough upholstered chair. You knew how to trim a sail
and how the hornet builds a hive. You had a topographical map

of the mountain ranges on the far side of the moon
and could name the man who shot down the man
who murdered Jesse James. At forty, I tell myself

that boyhood was all enchantment: hanging around the railway,
getting plastered on cartoons; I see my best friend’s father
marinating in a lawn chair, smiling benignly at his son and me

from above a gin and tonic, or sitting astride his roof
with carpentry nails and hammer, going at some problem
that kept resisting all his mending. O my tome, my paper brother,

my narrative without an ending, you had a diagram of a cow
broken down into the major cuts of beef, and an image
of the Trevi Fountain. The boarding house,

the church on the corner: all that stuff is gone.
In winter in Toronto, people say, a man goes outside
and shovels snow mostly so that his neighbors know

just how much snow he is displacing. I’m writing this
in Baltimore. For such a long time, the boy wants
to grow up and be at large, but posture becomes bearing;

bearing becomes shape. A man can make a choice
between two countries, believing all the while
that he will never have to choose.

The 2015 Ventura Paddle Surfing Championships are just 3 days away!

Come join us October 9th & 10th at the Point at C Street, Ventura!

This event is OPEN to International competitors and will result in naming a new US Open Champion, as well as the new US Waveski National Champion, Sign up now, as the Waveski Open event may be limited to 32 competitors. Other waveski divisions include the various age divisions, a women’s division, and of course the Freestyle/Finless division. A high performance surf kayak class will also be included.

Heats will be 15 or 20 minutes in length, and scores will be based on the best 2 or 3 waves depending upon conditions. The format will follow World Waveski Surfing Association rules and include repercharge rounds insuring that everyone surfs at least twice in the open division. Judges will be ASP certified.

About the surf break: C-Street is a world renown point break that works from 1’ to 10’ plus and can offer rides in excess of a quarter mile! Quality waves are found at multiple peaks along this mile long cobble point. This allows more rides per surf session. The actual contest site will be located ‘Up top’ at the Point just east of the Ventura River mouth.

This year’s event is featuring a fully sponsored adaptive surfing class in the competition for those with mobility-limiting injuries such as spinal cord injuries or traumatic brain injuries. Supported by High FIves Foundation and Cojo Bay Advisors, to showcase the power of positivity out in the ocean. For more information please contact Tyler Lausten, [email protected]

Thanks to Kirby Subaru, we will have cash prizes for the top 4 finalists in both the SUP open and Waveski open events! We are also pleased to announce that Macskisurfgear.com will be giving away a $1700 custom waveski at this years event to the waveski competitor selected as the most promising.

Together We Can End Homelessness

Informing, Motivating, and Mobilizing the Community
Thursday, October 8, 2015
6:30-9:00 pm Poinsettia Pavilion 3451 Foothill Rd, Ventura

The Faith Subcommittee of the Ventura Social Services Task Force is sponsoring a workshop to proactively address the need for a community-wide effort to end homelessness.

PATH, a provider of housing throughout California, will share what they have accomplished in other communities. PATH ends homelessness and improves communities through housing, supportive services, and community engagement.

We invite representatives from houses of faith, the business community, government, and the public — All who want to help are welcome at this event.

Thursday, October 8, 2015 Poinsettia Pavilion
6:30 – Welcome from MC Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller
6:45 – “Housing First” video
7:00 – PATH presentation
8:00 – Panel
8:45 – Closing comments
Refreshments and literature will be available throughout.

Our Moderator

Rabbi Lisa Hochberg-Miller has been the spiritual leader of Temple Beth Torah since 1997. In April, 2015, Rabbi Lisa was named one of the nation’s most inspiring Rabbis for her work to end homelessness.

Our Panelists
Peter Brown, Community
Services Manager, City of Ventura
Katie Hill, Chief Operating Officer, PATH
Kate Mills, Program
Administrator at Ventura County One Stop Program
Karol Schulkin, Program
Coordinator Homeless Services
Program, County of Ventura Human Services Agency
Dave Schulze, Minister at Ventura Church of Christ

The purpose of this event is to share, to learn, and to understand

  1. what other communities are doing to address the issues of housing and homelessness;
  2. what action steps are needed to end homelessness in Ventura; and
  3. what the faith community, the business community, social service providers, government, and individuals can do to end homelessness in Ventura.

Our goal is to inform, motivate, and mobilize the community so that together we can end homelessness in Ventura.

What is PATH?

PATH is People Assisting the Homeless, and its mission is “to end homelessness for individuals, families, and communities.” Ever since it was founded in 1984, PATH has pioneered bold and effective approaches that bring communities together to assist people experiencing homelessness.

PATH finds funding, builds housing, and provides services that move people into housing and help them stay there. PATH  is working in many communities, including San Diego, Los Angeles, Santa Barbara, and San Luis Obispo.

At this workshop we will explore together which options will work best to end homelessness in Ventura.

For information on PATH see www.epath.org

 

 

Presented by the Faith  Subcommittee of the  Ventura Social Services Task Force www.vsstf.org

 

Ventura Family YMCA Youth & Government Program gives insight into the skills gap

Ventura YMCA Youth & Government teens posing in front of the California State Capitol Building.

The Ventura Family YMCA is paving the way for the leaders of tomorrow through its Youth & Government program.  Since 1948 this nationwide initiative has been the top youth leadership and development program for 9th through 12th grade high school students.  Through hands on experience, each participant is enlightened on how the U.S. government is run.  They review the passing of government bills, practice public speaking and case work, and they even travel to Sacramento to put all of their skills into practice at the California state capitol building.

This program is unique because of the impact from the Y’s leadership staff and the knowledge each participant gains. There is also fundraising in place to provide scholarships (while they last) for students who may not be able to afford the program otherwise, giving those students an educational advantage like no other.

“We want to make sure that everyone in our community has the equal opportunity to better themselves, and one example of us helping is through our Youth & Government leadership program or by raising money to provide scholarships so that those who would not be able to attend because of the cost, may do so,” says Alicia Cattoni, the Y’s Marketing and Communications Director.

According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the current unemployment rate for the U.S. is 5.3%.  To help teens in the community prepare for the future, the Y is providing teens with experiences that will set them apart from others. The importance of job relevant experiences when searching for employment is so crucial that some studies suggest the 70-20-10 Development Rule where a job is broken down into percentages. The 10% is formal training, 20% is relationships and feedback, while 70% is on-the-job experiences.

The Y’s Youth Programs Coordinator, Sherry Gutsch, speaks about the importance of nurturing our youth to become future leaders, “There are very few places and even fewer opportunities for high school teens to gain the job specific experiences they learn in our Y&G program. We are doing what we can to set them up as our future leaders.”

Youth & Government is currently running now until February and includes weekly meetings, two training weekends in Fresno and a 5-day trip to Sacramento.  The deadline to register is October 2nd and scholarships are available, while the funds last!

The Ventura Family YMCA is located at 3760 Telegraph Rd. Log on to ciymca.org/ventura for more information about the Y.