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It’s well known that the United States Army and Marines maintain a significant stockpile of used, damaged, or older models of weapons. Some are damaged and waiting to be safely salvaged, but many of them are still functional, requiring a bit of cleaning or maintenance. Some may be perfectly fine, but they’ve been replaced by newer models. Now that our allies in Israel are rushing to outfit an expanded military force to take on Hamas and their civilians are looking for hardware also, someone finally thought to ask the army about those stockpiles and how we could ship out the...

Four California high-school students were reportedly suspended for chanting “U.S.A! U.S.A!” and wearing American flag bandanas during a basketball game. While their punishment has since been rescinded, school administrators said “the incident is far from over.” Oxnard Union School District superintendent Gabe Soumakian told Fox News Radio that “we need to pursue this further” and “work with teachers and students and the community about the concept of cultural proficiency.” Soumakian and Camarillo High School principal Glenn Lipman felt that the students’ actions might have had racist undertones since the schools have large Hispanic student populations. “We wanted to make sure...

A group of students at a California high school basketball game were told to remove patriotic bandanas and stop chanting “USA, USA” because school administrators wanted to be sensitive to other spectators. The incident occurred during a basketball last week between Camarillo High School and Rio Mesa High School in Ventura County. A school administrator pulled aside four boys and told them to either remove their American flag bandanas or leave the game. The boys complied but returned to lead the crowd in a chant of “USA, USA.” Camarillo High School principal Glenn Lipman told the Ventura County Star that...

VENTURA, Calif. -- A Secret Service agent assigned to protect Nancy Reagan is recovering after accidentally shooting himself in the hip at a sheriff's department shooting range. Ventura County sheriff's spokesman Capt. Mike Aranda says the gun went off as the agent was putting it back in its holster Friday at the range in Camarillo. The agent was hospitalized with a non-life-threatening injury to his hip. His name was not released. Nobody else was injured.

Ty Brann likes the neighborly feel of his local hardware store. The fourth-generation Ventura County resident and small business owner has been going to the B & B Do it Center on Mobile Avenue in Camarillo for many years. His company, Kastle Kare, does pest control, landscaping and plant care, and he’s a B & B regular. So when he learned the county had told B & B it could no longer put out its usual box of doughnuts and coffee pot for the morning customers, Brann was taken aback. Poll Should coffee and doughnuts be considered food service? Yes...

Sacramento, Nov 6, 2008 / 07:47 am (CNA).- St. John’s Seminary in Camarillo, California has invited Pepperdine University law professor and Obama backer Doug Kmiec to give an election “post-mortem” lecture.According to the California Catholic Daily, Kmiec will give the Thirteenth Annual Newman C. Eberhardt Lecture next Tuesday. The seminary’s web site says his lecture will examine “the prominent role played by the American Catholic community in the 2008 election, from Bishops educating candidates on ensoulment to alternative ways to be pro-life to the selection of running mates.”Kmiec, former legal counsel for Presidents Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush, has...

CAMARILLO Technicolor Inc. is moving 630 jobs from its Ventura County DVD manufacturing and distribution plant to Guadalajara, Mexico. About 120 workers were laid off Wednesday, Technicolor spokesman Tom Bracken said. Another 510 positions will be phased out over the next six to seven months, he said. When the layoffs are completed, Technicolor will still have up to 500 employees in Camarillo, down from a peak of nearly 2,000 several years ago. Some 300 jobs were eliminated in July. Bracken said the cuts were being made under pressure from movie studios to lower costs. Studios have been demanding that Technicolor...

Michael Tenenbaum says most people he meets while campaigning in local communities don't know who their congressman is. "It's not your fault you don't know," Tenenbaum tells them. "If he'd done something you'd know him." Tenenbaum, 37, is speaking of his June 6 primary election opponent, Elton Gallegly of Simi Valley, the 20-year congressman for the 24th District, which covers parts of Santa Barbara and Ventura counties, including Thousand Oaks. Voters will choose one of the two Republicans for the November election ballot. What many people do know about Gallegly, 62, adds Tenenbaum, is that Gallegly unexpectedly announced his retirement...

This mini-rally is taking place in Camarillo, Ventura County. If it is as successful as I think it might be, we will try it in other cities for the rest of the summer. We are meeting at Crestview Park tomorrow (Saturday) at 4:30 pm for Voter Registration and a Bush-Cheney rally. Timing coincides with the evening service at the Catholic Church across the street. We figured we can have a positive greeting for the parishioners leaving the service so that they can ponder who they really want to vote for - Bush or the psuedo-Catholic. The Catholic vote is a...

TONIGHT, 7 pm, Camarillo Constitution Park, off Carmen Drive, rally to support and thank the troops. Speakers, music. (and maybe light rain)

I hope everybody is still up for the City of Camarillo Support our Troops Rally next Friday, April 25th at 7 p.m. There will be speakers and music...The city seems jazzed about this!

The City of Camarillo is holding a big city-sponsored Support the Troops Rally on Friday, April 25 at 7:00 pm at Constitution Park. They are providing a special area for military personnel and their family to congregate. They ask that people bring a picture of their deployed loved one for display during the rally. They are hoping to have a huge turnout. They really love and support our military families.