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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
 (above) A ribbon cutting ceremony will take place for the grand opening of the New Ventura County Fire Station 27 in Fillmore on Friday, February 28th 10am – 11am, 133 C Street. Station 27 was completed in 2019 to serve the unincorporated areas near Fillmore and the central Santa Clara Valley. The station is in the City of Fillmore and is a cooperator with the city’s fire department. The station built at a cost of $8.3 million sits on 2.7 acres near the intersection of Highway 126 and C Street in Fillmore. The 15,000 squarefoot, single-story fire station provides improved access to the highway, modern utility systems and adequate room for fire apparatus. It is equipped with three apparatus bays, nine dorms, living quarters for four firefighters and two bulldozer crew members, state-of-the-art equipment training area, and ample room for future expansion if additional service is needed to support the community. Station 27 operates as a Rescue/Engine company. The Engine and Rescue operate together to provide Support Company operations the same as a Truck Company, or as an Engine Company. Fire Station 27 is staffed daily by four firefighters and fire equipment including, Engine 27, Rescue 27, Water Tender 27, Utility 27 and bulldozer crew members who support Dozer 12. Courtesy https://vcfd.org/station-27 Enlarge Photo |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
 Pictured above is Rotary Club President Ari Larson with the Fillmore High School Mock Trial team and teachers, Steven Geddes and Laura Bartels. At last week’s meeting the club donated a $500 check to the team for their 2020 Ventura County Mock Trial competition which took place February 24th – 27th. Courtesy Martha Richardson. Enlarge Photo |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
 On Wednesday, February 19th at the Celebration of Life Committee on behalf of Angel Carrera, Jr. a donation check of $1,300 was presented to the Fillmore–Piru Veteran’s Memorial Building Board of Directors towards the Raise the Roof Fundraiser for the Fillmore-Piru Veteran’s Memorial Building. Enlarge Photo |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
Spring is coming! Time to get to work on your garden.
Submitted by Jan Lee. The Vision 2020 Civic Pride Committee has selected a really fun theme for the Flower Show this year. It is “Fairy Tales and Flowers”. The theme should inspire some beautiful displays of bouquets, arrangements, potted plants and single stem flowers. Again this year, the Flower Show will be held at the Active Adult Center (533 Santa Clara Street, Fillmore) on May 2nd and 3rd. There will be youth and adult categories. Pull those weeds. Plant those seeds. Nurture those roses and other garden plants. Now is the time to plan to participate in the flower show. Every year, we invite the town to participate and view the flower show. It is so much fun! The 2020 Civic Pride Committee does numerous things in Fillmore. They plant and maintain many of the planters around town. They also award a Yard of the Month recognition to Fillmore yards. That is how they know many people have gorgeous flowers and plants surrounding their homes. Yes we have many rose entries. But one category is “Any Other Unlisted Flower”. That means anybody could enter at least one bloom to share with the rest of us. You don’t have to be a botanist to grow a flower or plant. Nature does most of the work. Once you take a chance and enter the flower show, you will discover that gardeners are friendly, helpful people. We sincerely hope you will enter something in the flower show this May. For more information go to fillmoreflowershow.org |
 Photo of the Week: "Starry night roses-see story to win prize" by Bob Crum. Photo data: Canon 7D MKII, manual mode, Tamron 16-300mm lens @ 124mm. Exposure; ISO 800, aperture f/7l1, 1/200 sec shutter speed. Enlarge Photo By Bob Crum — Wednesday, February 26th, 2020
First JPEG, now HEIF!
 Bob Crum The digital age has infiltrated our lives in many ways--some good, others aggravating. Digital devices from audio recorders, TVs, cameras and of course, cellphones. Ah yes, cellphones, the prolific pocket-size devices that render cognitive-behavioral therapy for the gazillions of people who have a narcissistic personality disorder. And of course, to occasionally make a phone call. While the plethora of digital devices presents many appealing conveniences, it has also caused yet another photographic demise: The print! Remember prints? We shot some photos on a 36 exposure roll of film, and before we finished the whole roll, we rushed to the one-hour photo facility. After relishing a Starbucks iced dirty chai latte, we dashed back to pick up the prints. Back at Starbucks, LOOK at Johnny at his first birthday party putting the whole cupcake in his little mouth. OMG, here's a photo of Aunt Julie falling off the picnic table. Photographic prints used to document everything from anniversaries, to birthday parties, to graduations, to family reunions and get-togethers on holidays. Cellphones killed all of that. Phonetographers take snapshots all day to plaster on Instagram and or charm their Facebook (FB) friends and watch to see how many 'likes' their masterpiece collects. What? Only 12 likes? Com'on people. It's a gorgeous photo of my trophy pumpkin! When was the last time you had a print made from a photo you took on your cellphone? Never? I'm not surprised considering that 53% of consumers haven't printed a photo in more than 12 months, 70% don’t have photo albums and 42% no longer print photos at all! Let's briefly consider technology. You presently back up your photos on hard drives. Good. But did you forget that hard drives crash! Poof, photos all gone. Oh, you are one up on me, eh? You have your photos stashed up in a cloud. Good for you. Wait, are you sure that 'cloud' company is going to be around in 10 years? Or what if they hike the storage price to a point you can't afford? Gotcha! And BTW, have you heard about HEIF? HEIF (High-Efficiency Image File, pronounced 'heef' as in beef) is a new file format. The MPEG group developed it. The HEIF format is used by Apple In the meantime, the digital-photography-school.com website sums up the topic perfectly. "While there is joy in taking photos and viewing them digitally, our satisfaction is not properly realized until we have printed our photos. A photo that isn’t printed is like a script that is never performed or a musical composition that is never played. There is still value in the digital photo, just as there is value in a script or musical composition. But the value is mainly the hope that one day the digital photo will be printed and share a bodily life with us – to inspire us, cheer us, and remind us." If the paper edition is not in color, be sure to check the photo of the week at fillmoregazette.com. The first person who can briefly describe how I made the photo wins one free scoop of Baskin-Robbins ice cream. Happy photoing! Send comments, suggestions or questions to:focusonphotography@earthlink.net |
 This year's foreign exchange students are (l-r) Mujtaba “Tabs”, Tori Gonzales (host sister), Napason “Benz”, and Munkh, having some fun at a bowling alley together. Enlarge Photo By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
 At last night's school board meeting, Sandy Butts of Mountain Vista Elementary School, presented the foreign exchange students who are attending Fillmore High School this year. February 18, 2020 Meeting Second Interim Report Presentation Approve Memorandum of Agreement for School Resource Officers (SRO) Approve the 2019-2020 Comprehensive School Safety Plans for Fillmore USD Schools Personnel Recommendations |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
 On Tuesday, February 18th at 12:09pm crews responded to a large vehicle fire on East Telegraph Rd. near Piru. Once on scene crews found the cabin of the semi on fire. Firefighters were able to extinguish the flames quickly, no injuries were reported. Cause of the fire il under investigation. Enlarge Photo |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
Happy 115th Birthday to Rotary International! Rotary Club of Fillmore and the Interact Club of Fillmore High School will be celebrating the event by doing some community service. Rotary’s motto is: Service Above Self. They will be joining Soroptimist International of Fillmore in cleaning up the bike path. The Soroprtimist will also be hosting the annual treasure hunt for the kids in the community. Both events will take place on Saturday, February 22nd from 9am-10am. We will be meeting in the parking lot of Taco Llama (corner of “A” Street and Old Telegraph Rd.) Please bring a bag for your treasure, wear long pants and closed-toed shoes, cap, gloves and sunscreen. We will provide the trash bags and picker uppers. This FREE event is open to the public. For more information on the Rotary Club of Fillmore and/or Soroptimist International of Fillmore please contact Ari Larson 805.794.7590 or email: petenari55@hotmail.com |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
 Congratulations to our Fillmore Middle School History Day Competition entrants, all of whom placed in the county competition, and are eligible to move on to the state competition in May. Great work Bulldogs! Courtesy Fillmore Middle School blog. Enlarge Photo |
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By Anonymous — Wednesday, February 19th, 2020
 Francisco’s Fruits, formerly located at 1782 East Telegraph/Hwy 126, has closed. The stand opened in 1983 and was located 3-miles east of Fillmore. An empty lot now sits where the popular stand once stood. Enlarge Photo |
