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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
 On Tuesday, January 18th, multiple presentations were given during the FUSD School Board meeting. (Above) is Fillmore High School Principal Jacquie Day and students from various FHS clubs, along with Superintendent Schieferle, and Fillmore Unified School Board Trustees. Principal Day delivered an FHS update, including leaders from the Social Equality Club and the Mock Trial Club, each speaking about their club’s activities, and other programs available for students such as the Fillmore High Wellness Center and the New Career Tech Education classrooms. Photo courtesy https://www.blog.fillmoreusd.org. Enlarge Photo |
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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
 On Thursday, January 13th, 2022 at 7:40pm, Fillmore City Fire Department was dispatched to a hazardous condition call in the Super A Foods shopping center. Arriving fire crews reported a gas pipe that had been hit by construction workers while working on the sidewalk in front of the Laundromat. Fillmore Fire Chief Gurrola advised fire dispatch that seven businesses were evacuated for precaution. SoCal Gas was requested to respond to the scene; Ventura County Fire Station 27 crews were also dispatched to the call. The gas was shut down by 8:15 pm; fire crews were clear by 9:00pm. Photos courtesy Angel Esquivel—AE News. Enlarge Photo |
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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
 On Saturday, January 15th, 2022, at 3:45am, Fillmore Fire Department, Ventura County Fire, and AMR paramedics were dispatched to a reported structure fire at the Park View Apartments, 500 block Main Street. Arriving Fire crews found an unknown type of fire in apartments 209 and 219 that were extinguished before crews arrived on scene. AMR paramedics treated a female patient for unknown injuries; Red Cross, and fire investigators were also dispatched to the scene. No additional information was provided. Photos courtesy Angel Esquivel—AE News. Enlarge Photo |
 (Above) a fish catch circa 1920 with (at right) Charlie Brown. Photos courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum. Enlarge Photo By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 19th, 2022
 The Fillmore High School football field circa 1927, which ran east and west next to First Street, and was surrounded by Cedar trees. Enlarge Photo Excerpted from “An Anecdotal History of Fillmore, California” compiled by Ken Fine. Copies are available at the Museum Gift Shop. “Remembered Trivia” The Sespe River was noted all over the southland for its native trout and steelhead. On May 1st, which was the opening of trout season, Fillmore got pretty crowded. No rooms left to rent, no empty stools in the restaurants and you had to “take your own rock to stand on.” The limit was 25 fish. Steelhead were not too interested in biting, but most everyone had a spear of some kind. It was illegal, but locals figured they had to catch you. I’ve seen my grandfather, Mose Fine, and older brother, Westley, spear them. If it was a pretty big one, it was pretty easy to get wet. None of the real sportsmen of Fillmore ever took a job where the opening days of fishing and deer hunting weren’t legal holidays. If they did, they just quit the job. Pole Creek and a few of the oil properties were the only places you couldn’t hunt. Packing into the back country, Alamo Mountain and the head of Piru Creek on the other side of Alamo, were all favorite hunting spots. For quail hunting, you just went to the foothills most anyplace in the valley and started up the mountains. Limits of 10 were common. Dove hunting was enjoyed at Sprague’s pasture on the land owned by Jack Beekman’s uncle. You reached it by going up Grand Avenue to Ira Case’s place and turning left for about a mile. Certain spots on rivers were good too. The reservoirs over in Moorpark were hot spots in the evenings when the doves came in to water. Ducks were hunted on the Santa Clara River. Rancho Sespe built ponds below the ranch headquarters but they weren’t open to the public. The Basolos diverted part of the Santa Clara into a pond below their ranch for hunting by invitation only. The dikes around Point Mugu’s Duck Club was another popular spot. All the avid fishermen and hunters had no trouble with gates in the hills, as the all carried a duplicate key to the government locks. Charlie Law, his studio was at 114 First St, [?] was ranked as the third best taxidermist in the United States. One at Abercrombie and Fitch in New York was #1 and one in Denver was #2. I read his rating in a sports magazine but never could find it again for him. At one time, Lawrence Hinckley worked for him. In the 1940’s Charlie mounted a deer head for me for $17 and tanned the hide for $4. I spent many an hour with him. He used to give demonstrations on mounting animals to the Boy Scouts. Telephone lines were completed to Fillmore and Piru, August 12, 1892.In the 1930’s when the telephone office had good looking women operators instead of computers, it paid to listen in on Santa Paula’s long distance calls. Many a gay blade from Fillmore went to Santa Paula to place their calls to someone else’s wife. They did not think about all of Santa Paula’s long distance calls coming to the Fillmore office as Santa Paula had an independent phone company. In 1903 a bad fire destroyed most of the Fillmore business section, including Harmonson’s two-store store on the northwest corner of Central and Main Street was rebuilt as one building. Bowie’s was run by a Scotsman who had a big mustache and always wore a hat. He was a small man who like kids and kept a good supply of cheap candy. It was not uncommon for the first package of cigarettes purchased by underage boys to come from there. Servoss’ barber shop was well patronized. He was an old-timer in Fillmore. His son, Rex, was quite a baseball player in high school. He also held #2 badge in the California Highway Patrol for many years. Bert Halstead’s radio shop at 523 Santa Clara had a full house the night of the Dempsey-Tunney fights when Tunney won the heavyweight crown. The fans spilled out on the street so Burt put a radio out on the sidewalk for the overflow crowd. Ben Klotz, who had a cleaning shop and sold radios, sponsored and pitched for a baseball team. He was a finesse pitcher with a curve, drop, etc. His team’s claim to fame was a win over Pironnes Night Hawks, a pro team from Los Angeles. Albert Fine, first base, Orley Mosbarger, second; Pinky Elsworth, shortstop (My brother said he never threw a straight ball to him, always a curve); and Clarence Mayhew, third base. The high school football field used to run east and west next to First Street. It was surrounded by cedar trees and the west end made a good lovers’ lane. |
 On Friday, January 7th, at 10:21pm, Fillmore was jolted by a strong earthquake. The U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) reported the earthquake five miles west-northwest of Fillmore, with a magnitude 3.6 and a depth of 1.8 km. Enlarge Photo By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
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 At Tuesday night’s City Council meeting they discussed topics such as construction for the Veterans Memorial Building, the renaming C Street to Max Pina, the Mountain View Apartments, and more. Enlarge Photo By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Short Summary Due to time constraints and data availability, a full report must be postponed to next week's Gazette edition. 8.B AUTHORIZE PAYMENT REQUEST NO 7 TO HEARTHSTONE MULTIASSET ENTITY C, LP FOR WESTERLY AND EASTERLY LEVEES FOR HERITAGE VALLEY PARKS COMMUNITY FACILITIES DISTRICT (CFD) NO. 5 WITH BOND, was approved by Council. 8.C STREET NAME TO RECOGNIZE MAX PINA PUBLIC HEARING FOR THE ANNEXATION OF MOUNTAIN VIEW APARTMENTS 8.E DEVELOPMENT IMPACT FEE ANNUAL AND FIVE-YEAR REPORT AND FINDINGS FOR FIVE-YEAR UNEXPENDED FEES PER GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 66006 AND CONSIDERATION OF RESOLUTION NO. 22-3855 MAKING FINDINGS REGARDING UNEXPENDED FEES SR FY 2020-21 66006 DIF REPORT-FINAL.pdf. Approved. ADJOURNMENT - Mayor Diane McCall adjourned to next regularly scheduled meeting, 6:30 p.m., Tuesday Jan. 25, 2022, City Hall 250 Central Avenue, Fillmore, CA 93015. |
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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
For the last few weeks, the line for the drive-thru COVID-19 testing site at Fillmore Middle School has been extremely long, with cars pulled off to the side of the road along A Street. With the rise in cases and the increase of people trying to get tested, the site has extended their testing hours: Monday–Saturday noon 4pm & 5pm–7:30pm. For more |
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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
 The former Fillmore Family Dollar Store at 803 Ventura Street will soon become Red Engine Brewery, a micro-brewery restaurant operation, firefighter family owned and operated. For the last few months trucks have been seen coming and going from the location as they get ready to open sometime in early 2022. Enlarge Photo |
 On January 3rd Fillmore Lions Club hosted the first meeting of the 2022. Pictured are Lions Club members with guest speaker Sean McCulley, new owner of the Fillmore Towne Theatre and founder of Mud Turtle Media LLC, who spoke about his ideas for the Theatre. (l-r) Brett Chandler, Jaclyn Ibarra, Sean McCulley, Steve McKeown, and Larry Brown. Photo courtesy Jaclyn Ibarra. Enlarge Photo By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
At the first Lions Club meeting of the year, Sean McCulley was the guest speaker. He spoke about how he founded the non profit Mud Turtle Media LLC. And he also spoke about how he became the new owner of the Fillmore Town Theater and his ideas of its development. Some future plans for our beloved Town Theater include a venue for: Community theater, Arts Education (in collaboration with FHS), variety of live music, comedians, film festivals (with movie industry interactions), and Children’s workshops. Mud Turtle Media are planning a fundraising show in the near future. To help with a promotional video, they are asking residents to share personal stories about their experience with the Town Theater. For more information about the Town Theater, you can visit www.mudturtletheatrical.org. |
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By Gazette Staff Writers — Wednesday, January 12th, 2022
Courtesy Fillmore Historical Museum We have been overwhelmed by the responses on the photographs that were published last week and the additional ones posted on Instagram and Facebook. To answer a few questions that have come up: Many people have requested to see more of the photos. There are some posted on our website at https://www.fillmorehistoricalmuseum.org/team. If you recognize any of these photos, please go to the “Contact” tab on the top of the page and send us an email with the information. The Museum will be holding a free Zoom event to look at a portion of the photos on Wednesday, January 26 at 7:00 pm. The number of participants will be limited to 20. If you would like to participate, go to https://www.fillmorehistoricalmuseum.org/special-eventsto reserve your seat. Ellen Frankenstein who created the documentary is planning on participating. Until then, here are some more photos to identify. |
