After working with 6 year-old Yuleima Manriquez of Ventura, her family and Wish granters determined her true wish was to have a special tomato collapsible wheelchair. In having her own wheelchair, she would be able to go on family outings. Yuleima’s father explained how the tomato chair was a real blessing.

Make-A-Wish® Tri-Counties collaborated with Merlin Medical Supply & Magic] in Camarillo to surprise Yuliema and present her with her custom fit tomato chair. Owner, Paul Dwork was passionate about serving and accommodating Yuleima’s family, and went above and beyond to ensure Yuleima’s comfort in her new chair.

Question: Why is the pedestrian bridge over the freeway closed?

Shelby Young

Answer: Being remodeled to meet standards of the Americans with Disability Act (ADA). The over $750,000 budget will include new handrails and landings as necessary to meet the regulations for people with disabilities. It should be noted that ADA requirements have made life much easier for those with disabilities. Project taking much longer than planned.

Do you have a question? Send it to [email protected].

We asked Jeff Hereford, City of Ventura Transportation Engineer how the new signs on the Pierpont Lanes came to be “The story is very simple….a couple residents asked the City’s Transportation Division if we could install street name signs at the end of each of the lanes facing the beach. The reason for the signs is so that in an emergency situation someone can tell emergency personnel exactly where the incident is occurring along Pierpont beach. The City felt it was a good idea so we went ahead and purchased the street name signs and our crews installed them.”

Avenue Library
Children & Family Events
Bilingual Early Literacy Class
12/4, 11, 18 Mondays 6:00 pm – 6:45 pm
Join us every week for stories, poems, music, movement, a simple craft & fun!

Adult Classes & Events
SuperBrain Yoga
12/16 Saturday 10:00 — 12:00 pm Facilitated by Ellen E. Morano
Attend this hands-on workshop to improve memory, achieve mental clarity, and gain emotional calmness.

Adult Literacy Classes
Laubach Literacy English Classes
In the Meeting Room
12/4, 11, 18
Mondays 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Pumarosa English Classes
In the Meeting Room
12/4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 27 Mondays & Wednesdays 9-10am & 6-7pm
Learn English in a fun environment that combines conversation, singing, and technology.

Foster Library
Adult Programs & Special Events

Twisted Stitchers Fiber Arts Club
12/28 Thursday @ 10:30am
Get together with makers from all across the fiber-arts world. Meet, teach, connect, share.

Coffee & Conversations
12/18 Monday @ 9-10am
Child Development Resources of Ventura County will discuss their role in developing, securing, and promoting a variety of programs and resources to serve the needs of children, families, and the community.

Ongoing Events
Poetry Open Mic Night
12/7, 21, & 28 Thursdays @ 7:30-9pm
On these Thursday nights, come join this group of writers as they meet in the Topping Room to share their work.

Children’s Events
Early Literacy Class
12/5, 6, 12, 13, 19, 20, 26, & 27 Tuesdays & Wednesdays @ 10:30am
A great way to introduce your child to early literacy and the library. Join us weekly for stories, poems, music, movement, a simple craft, and fun!

Teen Happenings

Makerspace Open Workshop
12/6, 13, 20, & 27 Wednesdays @ 4-6 pm
Come by the Makerspace to learn, create, and share STEAM (science, technology, engineering, art, and math). 3D printing, coding, stop motion animation, and so much more!

TAG Teen Advisory Group
12/5 & 19 Tuesdays @ 5-6pm
TAG meets every month on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday of the month. Now is the time to join TAG, if you want to share ideas, meet new people and have a great time shaping the library teen program.

Hill Road Library
Grand Opening and Ribbon Cutting Ceremony
12/3 Sunday @ 12-2pm
Fun for the whole family!
Children’s Events
Early Literacy Class
12/6, 13, 20, & 27 Wednesdays @ 10:30am
A great way to introduce your child to early literacy and the library. Join us every week for stories, poems, music, movement, a simple craft, and fun!

Saticoy Library
Children & Family Events

Early Literacy Class
12/7, 21, 28 Thursdays 9:30 am – 10:30 am & 11:00 am – 12:00 pm
Join us every week for stories, poems, music, movement, a simple craft & fun!

Monthly Maker Day
12/12 Tuesday 4:30 pm-5:30 pm
Join us for this design and 3D printer workshop.

Adult Classes & Events
English Classes
12/4, 6, 11, 13, 18, 20, 27
Monday & Wednesday 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm
ESL Conversation Groups hosted by Laubach Literacy of Ventura County

Livingston Memorial Visiting Nurse Association has begun its 33rd Annual Light Up A Life campaign. The beginning of the campaign coincides with National Hospice and Palliative Care month, November, and runs through the holiday season. The campaign goal is to raise $110,000 to benefit Livingston Hospice, the first Medicare Certified hospice in Ventura County.

This year’s celebration includes:

Saturday, December 2, 2017 – 4:30pm
Constitution Park, Camarillo

Thursday, December 7, 2017 – 6:30pm
Pacific View Mall, Ventura

Thursday, December 14, 2017 – 5:30pm
Chaparral Auditorium, Ojai

Livingston invites all residents of Ventura County to support this year’s Light Up campaign. Memory Stars can be ordered online for $25 each at lmvna.org or by calling 642-0239. Event sponsorship is also available.

Livingston Hospice is a special kind of care for the terminally ill, their families and caregivers. Hospice care addresses and meets the physical, emotional and spiritual needs of patients. Services are provided in the patient’s home, wherever their home may be. Livingston’s hospice team, including our medical director, nurses, social workers, spiritual care providers and volunteers, combine their expertise, passion and compassion in providing end of life care. Bereavement services are provided to family and friends by our dedicated staff of grief counselors.

Hospice patients live with a variety of diagnoses that include heart disease, Alzheimer’s, lung disease and cancer. Anyone with a life expectancy of six months or less who is no longer receiving cure-oriented treatment is eligible for our hospice care, regardless of age or ability to pay. The goal of cure is replaced with the goal of comfort, dignity and quality of life.

The National Park Service, California State University Channel Islands (CSUCI), and the Ventura Master Gardeners welcome the public to attend the opening of a native plant demonstration garden on Saturday, December 2 at 10:30 am at Channel Islands National Park in Ventura Harbor. The Channel Islands Park Foundation will also be hosting a native plant sale at the park visitor center from 9:00 am to 1:00 pm.

The native plant garden demonstrates how easy it is to create a drought tolerant home garden using plants native to our region and the California Channel Islands. The plants featured in the garden are readily available at local nurseries, easy to maintain, produce less yard waste than your average lawn, and have beautiful blooms that vary throughout the year.

The garden includes a dry rock river feature that collects any runoff and rain water into a seasonal pool and irrigation holding tank, demonstrating a good method of managing seasonal water flow. The stream also functions to infiltrate and recharge the groundwater at the site.

At 9:30 am and 1:00 pm a panel of garden experts with the Ventura Master Gardeners and CSUCI will discuss techniques to consider when creating your own home native plant garden. There will be educational booths sponsored by organizations including the City of Ventura Water, CSUCI, and Channel Islands Restoration at the event.

“Using island and California native plants in your home garden is a great way to help to preserve our Mediterranean-type ecosystem”, said Channel Islands National Park Service Superintendent Russell Galipeau, “It is one of the most imperiled ecosystems in the world and is home to remarkable levels of plant diversity.”

The Mediterranean ecosystem is also one of the rarest ecosystems, occurring in only five regions in the world with characteristic mild wet winters and warm and dry summers. Although these regions cover only slightly more than 2% of the world’s land areas, combined they have approximately 20% of all of the plant species in the world. Channel Islands National Park preserves some of the finest remnants of these coastal ecosystems in America.

The Coffee Connections Wednesday morning networking meetings are held every week, 8:00 – 9:30 a.m. at Spice-Topia, 576 E. Main St. in downtown Ventura. They start the meeting right after reading the Breeze.

Sitting front row center is Debbie Echevarria of Your Business Support, the founding leader of the Coffee Connections networking group with the Ventura Breeze contributing writers Carol Leish and James Francis Gray at her side. For more information visit their web page www.ybstoday.com.