Kay Wilson-Bolton

Ventura County Realtor® Kay Wilson-Bolton, a Broker-Associate with Century 21 Hometown Realty in Santa Paula, has been named by the California Association of Realtors® (C.A.R.), as a “Champion of Home,” a title that signifies that she is a California Realtor who has changed her clients’ lives for the better, raised the standards for others, and led by example.

In its third year, the prestigious award honors Realtors® who have been selected by their peers as individuals who have gone to great lengths on behalf of their clients, and practice their business with the highest ethics and moral standards. In addition to Wilson-Bolton, two other outstanding Realtors®, selected from among 100 nominations throughout the State, who are also being awarded the honor this year are Kim Eichorn, with Lyon Realty in Davis, and Anthony Cassel, with Bay Sotheby’s International Realty in Berkeley.

“Kay is an exemplary Realtor® who pushes herself and consistently sets higher standards by showing extreme diligence and empathy in serving her clients,” said C.A.R. President Chris Kutzkey. “She is not only successful in her business, but it is clear she is passionate about what she does both for her clients and her community. Kay is a true hero, and I’m proud to recognize her as a 2015 Champion of Home.”

Wilson-Bolton has been in the real estate business for 40 years and, as she likes to say, “since 1976…for good.” In addition to being a top producer with her brokerage, completing at least 110 transactions in the last two years, she still finds time to be extremely helpful and compassionate toward her clients. She has represented clients in difficult circumstances, including helping clients in out-of-state sales, people with financial difficulties, and clients who have suffered tragic losses. In one transaction, she helped out-of-state sellers deal with a property sale that had seven liens against the property. Wilson-Bolton guided her clients through the complicated process and was able to get the building sold in less than a week, with multiple offers.

Combining a real estate expertise with her love for her community, Wilson-Bolton has also contracted with the Public Guardian’s Office of Ventura County, displaying patience and kindness as she works with clients who are mentally ill or have dementia. In this capacity, she assists them in preparing, assessing, and marketing their properties, many of them challenging, because the properties are usually in conservatorship, or the owners are deceased. More than once, Wilson-Bolton has forgone her commission to help a distressed seller get whatever net proceeds were available from the sale of their home.

In addition to being an effective Realtor®, Wilson-Bolton also runs a successful care-giving program out of her own office that provides services to the less fortunate in Santa Paula. With the assistance of dozens of volunteers and employees, Many Meals prepares 600 meals each week. In addition to that endeavor, she still finds time to be Chaplain to the Ventura County Fire Department, sit with, and comfort people in hospice, and give back to the community in many other ways.

“Kay Wilson-Bolton has, for decades, already been considered a “Champion of Home” in our community,” said B.J. Ward, president of the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors® (VCCAR). “Not only has she been a pioneer for homeowners and for property rights in her primary role as a Realtor, she has also, for a longtime, set a positive example for our community on what it means to give back.” Ward noted that Kay is just as well known for raising awareness to local issues like homelessness and hunger as she is known for putting up “for sale” signs in yards across Ventura County. “This is a tremendous honor that is well deserved, and the Ventura County Coastal Association of Realtors® would like to congratulate Kay on a job well done,” he said.

Added VCCAR Treasurer Lyle Elliott: “How wonderful. She is an example not only of our finest Realtors®, but a generous contributor of her time and skills to the community-at-large.”

Wilson-Bolton will be honored during a luncheon on Wednesday, October 7, during C.A.R.’s California Realtor® Expo 2015, which will be held this year in San Jose.

The Rotary Club of Fillmore meets for breakfast meetings every Wednesday from 7:00AM to 8:00 AM at the Bel Air Café at Wm. L. Morris Chevrolet. Upcoming speakers include Fillmore City Manager Dave Rowlands (Sept. 9th) and Ventura County DA Greg Totten (Aug. Sept. 23rd).

On Wednesday, August 26th, Club members heard from VC Sheriffs’ Commander Tim Hagel about his running adventures with Cops Running for Charity. The groups has traveled to seven continents and participated in extreme running events in the Sahara Desert, Great Wall of China, Iceland, Easter Island, Siberia, Patagonia, New Zealand, Burma, Ireland and Antarctica. Since they began in 2003 they have raised $300,000. Children’s Hospital Los Angeles has been a recipient every year in 2003, beginning with $1,000. They hope to give them $50,000 this year. Commander Hagel informed the Rotarians that his group has run 8,000 miles over ten years. This year they will hold a fund raiser Run/Race on Santa Cruz Island on October 17.

Rotarians will be distributing Student Dictionaries to all 3rd grade students within FUSD boundaries in September.

The Club will be holding the annual Casino Night fundraiser jointly with Fillmore FFA on Saturday, October 17th at the Fillmore/Piru Memorial Building. More information and ticket sales will be available soon.

For more information about the Rotary Club of Fillmore call 805-906-4114.

A ceremony to honor the International Day of Peace will take place on September 21st at 7:00pm the park in front of Fillmore City Hall. All are invited to participate in this important event. The International Day of Peace began in 1982 with a United Nation’s proclamation following a celebration commemorating the 20th Anniversary of the United Nations General Assembly stating “that this day be devoted to…strengthening the ideals of peace both within and among nations”. It was expanded in 2001 to call for a day of global cease fire and nonviolence.

Soroptimist International of Fillmore began to honor the International Day of Peace in 2008 with a temporary wooden pole. The permanent Peace Pole was installed in 2010 through the collaboration of the City of Fillmore, local service groups and donations from individuals. The Peace Pole now stands in the southwest corner of City Hall Park to invite person reflection and to stand as a permanent reminder of the need for peace. The Pole has inscribed “Let There Be Peace On Earth” in seven different languages.

In our own town violence continues. Our town, our country and our world need a concerted movement toward reconciliation and peace. At a time when people around the world are being needlessly killed and wars are decimating entire populations, this call to peace is even more urgently needed. We hope that you will join with us in the City Park to reinforce the need for personal, community and world peace.

The committee asks that all churches ring bells at 7:00pm on the 21st of September to commemorate this day. If you have any questions, please contact Sarah Hansen at 524-0132 or Lynn Edmonds at 907-6576.

City of Fillmore

DATE: AUGUST 25, 2015

TO: ALL CITY OF FILLMORE RESIDENTS

FROM: CITY OF FILLMORE CODE ENFORCEMENT

RE: BASKETBALL PORTABLE HOOPS

The City of Fillmore is requesting that anyone owning a portable basketball hoop located in the street, please return the portable basketball hoop to your driveways when you are finished using them in the City Streets.

Listed below are some reasons why returning the portable Basketball hoops to driveways will help:

• The street sweepers cannot completely clean the gutters with the portable hoops inthe street.

• Many streets have limited parking spaces and relocating the hoops, when not in use, will help parking in these areas.

• The portable hoops also present safety issues with vehicles hitting them or portable hoops falling.

Having family fun and enjoying the great outdoors are some of the things what makes Fillmore a very nice place to live and work. So please, consider your neighbors and return your portable hoops to your driveways when finished, and make the City of Fillmore a safer and a better place to live.

If there are any questions regarding this letter, please call Building and Safety (805) 524-1500 ext. 114.

Michael Koroknay
Building and Safety/Code Enforcement
City of Fillmore

The next meeting of the Ventura County Garden Club will be Wednesday, Sept.2, 2015, at 1pm at St. Paul's Episcopal Church in Santa Paula. Madeline Whitaker will present "Growing African Violets."

FRIENDS ARE ALWAYS WELCOME.

The County of Ventura Grand Jury is an all-volunteer group serving as an independent agent of the public to investigate complaints from the public pertaining to government agencies in our community. Is your organization interested in hearing about these investigative duties and procedures? The Grand Jury Speakers Bureau is available to educate the public in its endeavors as the “public watchdog” for Ventura County. To learn more or schedule a date for a presentation, please call the Grand Jury at 805-466-1800. For additional information, you may also refer to its website, http://www.ventura.org/grand-jury

The Rotary Club of Fillmore meets for breakfast meetings every Wednesday from 7:00AM to 8:00 AM at the Bel Air Café at Wm. L. Morris Chevrolet. Upcoming speakers include Tim Hagel (Aug. 26), Fillmore City Manager Dave Rowlands (Sept. 9th) and Ventura County DA Greg Totten (Aug. Sept. 23rd).

Rotarians will be distributing Student Dictionaries to all 3rd grade students within FUSD boundaries in September.

The Club will be holding the annual Casino Night fundraiser jointly with Fillmore FFA on Saturday, October 17th at the Fillmore/Piru Memorial Building. More information and ticket sales will be available soon.

For more information about the Rotary Club of Fillmore call 805-906-4114.

The treatment of low back pain will be the focus of a free seminar Community Memorial Health System is holding on Tuesday, Sept. 1.

David Westra, M.D., who specializes in neurosurgery, will cover the many conditions that contribute to low back pain and the several treatment options available to help alleviate the pain at the seminar that will run from 6 to 8 p.m. in the eighth-floor Nichols Auditorium at Community Memorial Hospital, 147 N. Brent St.

Dr. Westra received his medical degree at the University of Texas Medical School in Houston and completed his residency at the Loma Linda University Medical Center in Loma Linda. He is a member of the American Board of Neurological Surgery and a member of the Community Memorial Hospital medical staff.

Registration is free but reservations are required. Visit cmhshealth.org/rsvp or call Brown Paper Tickets at 1-800/838-3006.

Future scheduled Speaker Series events include: Ethics in Healthcare event: Disneyland, Measles and Vaccines: Should Parents Call the Shots, on Sept. 10 at the Museum of Ventura County; and the Breast Cancer Symposium on Oct. 3 at the Ventura Beach Marriott.

Community Memorial Health System is a not-for-profit health system, which is comprised of Community Memorial Hospital, Ojai Valley Community Hospital, and 12 family-practice health centers entitled Centers for Family Health. The health system is located in Ventura County, California.

Every school day: Youth Center open 1-7 for homework help, tutoring, safe place to “hang”.

Students wanting Community Service Hours for school are welcome to come and do your hours (speak with site director Ricardo Miranda to schedule your hours).

Two Magic Mountain Tickets will be awarded to the youth who have the most participation/attendance and homework hours completed.

8/27 Thursday: 3:30 California Department of Rehabilitation (jobs/career and college support and incentives for ages 16 to adult).

8/29 Saturday: 2-4:00 Opening of OSALV ArtFull Summer at the Santa Paula Art Museum (Come to see the work that the OSALV youth did during the Artfull Summer)

8/31 Monday: 1:30 Palmer Drug Abuse Counseling (open invitation to all)
4:00 Youth Leadership Board

9/1 Tuesday: 10:00 Domestic Violence Support Group
5:00 Transportation Committee Meeting (improving public transportation for Fillmore/Piru)

9/2 Wednesday: 12:30 Social Equality Club: High School formed to provide safe zone and to encourage an open and accepting school culture.
1:00 Circle of Care (community is invited to attend to address issues of concern and look for ways to improve).The next four meetings will be on implementing Restorative Justice Methodology.
4:00 Food Distribution (all welcome to attend and get free food)
6:30 National Alliance of Mental Illness presenting Familia to Familia to Familia (support for families facing mental illness)

9/3 Thursday: 3:30 California Department of Rehabilitation (jobs/career and college support and incentives for ages 16 to adult).

9/7 Monday: LABOR DAY-the Center is closed.

9/8 Tuesday: 10:00 Domestic Violence Support Group

9/9 Wednesday: 12:30 Social Equality Club: High School formed to provide safe zone and to encourage an open and accepting school culture.
4:00 Food distribution (free food distributed)
6:30 National Alliance of Mental Illness presenting Familia to Familia to Familia (support for families facing mental illness)

9/10 Thursday 6:30 Las Promatoras (a group facilitated by Ventura County Behavioral Health aimed at reducing mental health issues within the family)

9/11 Friday 4:00 BarBQue: Only come if you are HUNGRY! (everyone welcome and everyone helps).
Future Events:

9/18 Friday Concert at the One Step (suggested donation $5.00 for students, $10.00 for adults) a fundraiser for the social equality club. Two reggae bands will be playing.

10/2 Dodger Game (10 youth who have participated the most in the summer)

The Temptations Review Featuring Dennis Edwards, former lead singer of the legendary Motown Records rhythm and blues group The Temptations, will perform at a special fundraising event at Ojai’s Libbey Bowl on Saturday, Sept. 26.

The concert begins at 7 p.m. and is being co-sponsored by the Community Memorial Healthcare Foundation and Ojai Valley Community Hospital Foundation. It promises to present a high-energy performance of classic hits, including “Ball of Confusion,” “Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone,” “Ain’t Too Proud to Beg,” “I Wish It Would Rain” and “My Girl.”

Edwardswas induction into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the group in 1989, and the group was ranked at No. 68 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 100 Greatest Artists.Edwards’ current group includes Paul Williams Jr. (son of original Temptations member Paul Williams), David Sea, Mike Patillo and Chris Arnold.

Proceeds benefit Community Memorial Health System’s construction projects: the building of a new Community Memorial Hospital in Ventura and the building of a new skilled nursing facility adjacent to the Ojai Valley Community Hospital.

General admission tickets and special seating packages, some featuring a pre-concert dinner with cocktails, can be purchased online atwww.cmhsatthebowl.org. For more information, call 805-667-2881.
Community Memorial Health System is a not-for-profit health system, which is comprised of Community Memorial Hospital, Ojai Valley Community Hospital, and 12 family-practice health centers entitled Centers for Family Health. The health system is located in Ventura County, California.

In observance of the Labor Day holiday, employees of Santa Clara Valley Disposal will be taking the day off on Monday, Sept. 7. As a result, Fillmore city residential customers will have their trash and recycling waste collected on Saturday, Sept. 12, one day later than usual.

The regular Friday collection schedule will resume the following week.

For more information, call 647-1414.

Sespe 4-H is now accepting New Enrollments until November 1,2015. Our Club meetings are every third Thursday of every month at 7:00 pm. at the Memorial building. For more info please contact our Enrollment Specialist Alicia Hicks (805) 824-9962

Hillary Kristine Rowe and Curtis James Cole were joined in marriage on July 5, 2015 at Fossil Creek Ranch in Ada, Oklahoma.

The bride is the daughter of Terry and Ramona Rowe of Lone Grove, Oklahoma. She is also the granddaughter of Lois Riddle and the late GJ “Chuck Riddle of Lone Grove, Oklahoma as well as the late Clifford Rowe of Ardmore, Oklahoma.

The groom is the son of Craig and Lynn Cole of Fillmore, California and the grandson of Evelyn Hasty and the late Robert “Bob” Hasty of Fillmore, California as well as the late Jim Cole of Santa Paula, California and Janet Finnerty Cole of Fillmore-Santa Paula, California.

Trista Gannon was matron of honor and Tori Deck served as a bridesmaid. Corey Cole served as his brother’s best man and Cody Farrar served as a groomsman. Cooper Cole, cousin of the groom was ring bearer. Ushers were brothers of the bride, Kris Rowe, Derek Rowe and Terry “T” Rowe. Also serving as ushers were Collin Farrar and Colton Farrar. Assisting with the Guestbook was Jake Munkwitz and Paige Rychlik.

The bride is a 2008 graduate of Lone Grove High School and a 2014 graduate of Southeastern Oklahoma State University, Durant, Oklahoma. She is currently employed by Lone Grove Unified School District.

The groom is a 2007 graduate of Fillmore High School and a 2012 graduate of Concordia University, St. Paul, Minnesota. He is also employed by Lone Grove Unified School District and coaches Football and Track for Lone Grove High School.

The couple is currently residing in Lone Grove, Oklahoma.