January 2016

Serving the Community of Orcutt, California • January 27, 2016 • www.OrcuttPioneer.com • Circulation 17,000 +
Orcutt Man’s Quest
Second-Hand Store Find Leads to Major Art & History Collection
Artword from Digital Shashin courtesy of
Michael Oren
The greatest explorers in history all
have one thing in common: an insatiable
curiosity for things as yet undiscovered.
Orcutt resident Michael Oren shares this
spirit, a trait that ultimately led him to
the dusty corner of an antique shop in
Japan and a most unexpected discovery.
Oren, a self-professed military history
buff was always on the lookout for
interesting items from the 1940s.
He stumbled upon several ragged
issues of a Japanese magazine in that
shop and soon found himself on
a mission to collect more of these
unique, handcrafted booklets. After
contacting various antique and junk
dealers around Kanto, his pleas to find
more issues were answered by a random
assortment of magazines being pulled
from old suitcases and dark attics until
he eventually had a bookshelf filled with
nearly every publication from the 1920s
to the 1940s.
As Oren explains it, he noticed that
despite his own greater interest in the later
period, the earlier issues were even more
interesting. His desire to find out why
these earlier issues were so much better
led him to investigate further.
These magazines, called Tshushin
Shashin and Rekishi Shashin, were
originally produced in small numbers
for a relatively short period of time, but
became a definitive journal of current
affairs, art, and photography. Oren also
learned that since the magazines became
a tool of propaganda during WWII (which
explained why the content changed over
time), the publishers, a small group of
creative individuals, never admitted to
having published it.
A visit to the Asian Studies Department
at Stanford University confirmed that
these magazines were extremely rare.
Not only had few issues survived the war,
but of those that did, most disappeared
over time due to the fact that few people
could make sense of them; compared to
contemporary Japanese, pre-war Japanese
is almost unreadable.
As part of his desire to preserve this
forgotten historical and artistic resource,
Oren enlisted the help of his wife,
who learned the earlier Japanese forms
in order to translate. What followed
were extended periods of painstaking
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Entertainment for the Whole Family
Orcutt Battle of the Bands Features Local Musical Talent
Lonely Monsters, the winner from last year's Battle of the Bands.
It is safe to say that nearly every high
school in the nation is familiar with the
concept of fundraising. Schools arm
their students with flyers, order forms,
and catalogs as they peddle candy bars,
wrapping paper, and coffee mugs. While
these fundraisers provide much-needed
funds for various programs, they’re sorely
lacking in one thing: a rockin’ soundtrack.
The Orcutt Academy 3rd Annual Battle
of the Bands may not be orchestrated
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it is the highlight of the year for many
students and their families. Gone are the
days of door-to-door selling and in their
place is an event that raises necessary
supplemental funds while also allowing
young artists to express themselves
creatively and take something positive
away from the process beyond money.
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Local bands with members ranging
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their performances to be evaluated. Once
the initial review is complete, the bands
were narrowed down to those that will
compete in the ultimate musical battle..
As fundraisers go, the Battle of the Bands
is fairly low-cost since Lawless provides
the PA system and any equipment the
bands might need. Students who aren’t
participating on stage volunteer their time
and energies in other aspects of the event,
parents bring baked goods and snacks,
and local businesses donate items for
auction. This year there are two tickets to
a U2 concert anywhere in the world up
for auction as well as Disneyland tickets
and a handful of local gift certificates.
Past events have helped pay for field trips,
printers, and scholarships.
The bands, which might be solo acts,
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on tips from the audience.
The 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands
promises to be a fun and entertaining
evening, showcasing young talent from
our community as they rock the stage.
The event will be held on Saturday,
February 6th from 3-7pm at Orcutt
Academy, and the public is invited.
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Sashin
continued from page 1
Artword from Digital Shashin courtesy
of Michael Oren
cataloguing and scanning the Shashin
images.
“This is a whole universe [we] had no
idea existed,” says Oren. “You get lost in
them every time you open one up.”
Imagine picking up an old magazine
and seeing a photo of Babe Ruth playing
baseball in Tokyo. Or finding work by an
artist like Yoshiko Kobayakawa, a master
artist of the time that could have easily
vanished from art history were it not for
a fated afternoon of antique shopping.
These are the kinds of moments that make
Oren consider this a “fantastic journey”.
Historically speaking, it seems to be the
perfect time to unearth something of this
nature. “We’re at a good point to be able
to look back and digest this period and
put it into perspective,” says Oren, adding
that he believes these magazines are very
relevant to today.
The Shashin collection, or Digital
Shashin, is meant to be shared. Having
decided against donating this rare
assemblage to a museum where it could
potentially end up stored away, Oren
wanted the world to have access to this
treasure trove.
To this end, he began to share portions
of the collection with small groups of
people from different backgrounds to
gauge their response and every time it
was met with awe and wonder. “In every
case people were completely blown away,”
he shares. “The response is always so
intense.”
Most recently, Digital Shashin was on
display at Shepard Hall at the Santa Maria
Public Library in an exhibit sponsored by
the Santa Maria Valley Historical Society
through January 27th. At a special lecture
given on January 9th, Oren says his
audience was not only glued to their seats
for the entire hour-long presentation,
but they stayed after to ask questions,
still fully entranced. The 22 pieces on
display were culled from over 7,000 and
range from black and white photographs
to vibrant paintings, all covering a wide
array of subjects.
Oren hopes to someday create a
documentary about this artistic and
historical adventure, but for now you can
experience Digital Shashin for yourself at
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Raspberry Hoop Houses Causing Concern to Homeowners
There has been a bit of commotion
(or “hoopla”, if you will) in regard to
raspberry hoop houses popping up in
fields across the Santa Maria Valley. Hoop
houses are essentially plastic covered
hoops that are designed to protect crops
and encourage growth in varying climates.
With the increase in berry crops over the
last decade, farmers have had to innovate,
and sometimes these innovations aren’t
necessarily pleasing to the
eye.
Some homeowners in
the Lake Marie housing
development have
expressed concern that
these hoop houses will
bring unwelcome problems
to their neighborhood,
including ruined views and
lowered property values.
“ We ’ r e g o i n g t o b e
surrounded by these hoop
houses,” says homeowner Berto van Veen.
“Soon the Santa Maria Valley will be
called Plastic Valley.”
Fourth District Supervisor Peter Adam
addressed these concerns in a letter,
stating that he is committed to supporting
the legalization of hoop house technology
throughout the County, and explaining
that these tools provide many benefits.
“Hoop houses are necessary production
tools to produce bush and cane berries on
a commercial scale,” he says. “Without
hoop houses, the wind blows off the
fragile flowers, rendering the plants
barren, thereby destroying the entire crop
and resulting in millions of dollars of lost
investment.”
Adam concedes that as raspberry,
blackberry, and blueberry crops are
still relatively new in the area, there is a
possibility that they will be “limited by
their own success in that if there are too
many, the price will drop to economically
unsustainable levels and many acres will
go out of production as quickly as they
came on”.
However, Adam remains steadfast in his
belief that government regulations stifle
innovation and drive jobs, investment,
and other benefits away from Santa
Barbara County.
“Unless agriculture is allowed to evolve,
what [people] will be living next to is
another subdivision, not agriculture,” he
says. “The best way to preserve agriculture
is to ensure it is profitable and can
respond to changing conditions.”
While van Veen believes that everyone
has a right to farm and he and his fellow
homeowners support farming, he feels
farmers should be considerate of their
neighbors and is calling on government
officials to regulate the proximity of hoop
houses to residential areas.
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Orcutt Schools Update
Dr. Debbie Blow, Superintendent, OUSD
Teaching and Learning, 21st Century Style
For a couple of
generations, education
in the elementary and
secondary grades has
followed a pattern
familiar to almost
everyone reading this column. Most subjects
have been taught and learned in isolation.
Teaching has been characterized by one-way
communication – teacher lecturing or presenting
to students. Students have worked mainly on
their own, and assignments have been executed
for an audience of one – the teacher. Technology
access has meant a visit to a computer lab a couple
of times a week. In most schoolwork the tools for
teaching and learning have been the textbook, the
pencil, the pen, and worksheets or hole-punched
filler paper. Students and teachers interact with
each in one place – the classroom.
While this tableau of school has largely remained
unchanged, the world around our classrooms
has evolved considerably. The American
economy of 2016 is undergirded by creativity
and divergent thinking – entrepreneurs who
employ a multiplicity of skills in generating new
and different products. Teams, collaboration, and
interdependence characterize the most successful
businesses and organizations. Communication
and presentations are done in multiple forms
using a variety of media. The Internet allows
ideas and information to be shared worldwide,
24 hours a day.
With all of this occurring, it is clear that
schools need to change to align with our
larger world. Learning increasingly needs to
be about collaboration, critical thinking, and
communication, with creativity at the core. This
movement toward “21st Century Learning” is a
cornerstone of the Orcutt Union School District’s
strategic plan, and technology is playing a key
role in making this happen. I am excited to share
with you this month some ways in which we are
making these changes.
Our first initiative for transforming learning
was our Digital Media Academy, which trains
classroom teachers to engage students in the
creation of curriculum-related videos. In 20142015 we trained 30 teachers, and this year we are
training 25 more. The Academy outfits schools
with a digital video camera, video production
equipment, and a class set of MacBook laptop
computers; students then use these tools to
produce and edit their own videos. The public
can go to www.orcuttemi.com to see the studentproduced videos that were nominated for our
inaugural Education Media Innovation (EMI)
Awards event last year. Later this spring, we will
expand our EMI Awards to include two events, one
for grades K-6 and one for grades 7-12.
Meanwhile, we have continued our technology
efforts with an iPad Academy. As detailed in
this column in October, the iPad Academy has
provided 28 participating teachers with a class
set of iPad tablets that can be utilized for student
learning across the curriculum. Teachers have
been trained to guide students in numerous iPad
applications for learning as well as navigation of
the Internet itself. In the spring, we will culminate
these efforts with an event at which students can
present iPad applications and projects they have
accomplished.
In association with the iPad Academy, we are
implementing Apple TV in classrooms. This
innovation – which many families have at home
– enables teachers to project a presentation to the
class from a device anywhere in the classroom. It
also allows students to present to the class from
their seats – which never has been possible before.
Google Classroom and Google Docs are
allowing teachers and students to interact
and collaborate online. Students can submit
assignments electronically, and teachers can
edit and grade the assignments online. Such
applications allow us to move toward “paperless”
classrooms.
Edmodo, another social media application
geared to education, is being used by the teachers
in our professional development programs.
Teachers can post assignments online and have
students collaborate with each other, as well
as share best practices and problem-solve with
other teachers.
Minecraft, software in which children create
three-dimensional buildings and objects with
blocks, also is a hit with our students. A vehicle
for imagination and problem solving, Minecraft
allows students to design original structures or
re-create historic sites such as the California
Missions.
With students collaborating more throughout
the day, we are integrating new classroom
furniture that is lighter and can be moved easily
within the classroom. This month, we installed
this “flexible furniture” in 27 district classrooms.
We hope to add more in the years to come.
In the coming months, we are planning to
implement makerspaces at our school sites.
These areas will include computers, printers,
robots, and other accessories that will be available
to students before and after school and during
recess to tinker with, invent, build, program,
and learn.
All of these innovations result in classrooms
that provide a stark contrast to the 20th Century
model of education to which so many of us
are accustomed. Assignments and projects
increasingly blur subject areas and disciplines,
student-student and student-teacher relationships
are more collaborative, and student creativity is
nurtured and encouraged. Ask members of our
district’s team of educators, and they will attest
to this.
“Our focus is on establishing environments
where students can express their creativity
and apply their knowledge in new ways,” says
Kirby Fell, the district’s chief technology officer.
“Technology is playing a major role in making
this happen.”
“Our teachers can be commended for their hard
work to change what learning looks like,” adds
Janet Bertoldi, district director of technology.
“More than ever, teachers are challenging their
students to be creative and collaborative.”
“Bringing more technology in our classrooms
allows our students to go beyond the textbook,”
says Susie Hinden, a sixth-grade teacher at
Patterson Road School who has adopted Google
Classroom this year. “I also feel like I’m more
attuned to my students. Instead of sitting down
and making lesson plans based on what I think
students need, I’m collaborating with students
and asking what they think they need and want
to learn next.”
The shifts in teaching and learning are no small
endeavor, and none of these innovations would
be possible without both effective training and
teachers who are open and willing to learn and
change their practice. Here’s thanking the teachers
of the Orcutt Union School District for their
eagerness to embrace the programs and initiatives
described here. As always, our teachers embody
our district’s motto – “Kids Come First.”
Superintendent Dr. Debbie Blow can be contacted
by phone at 938-8900 or by e-mail at dblow@orcuttschools.net.
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Sewer Rates Rise, District Sites
Upgrades and Maintenance
In October of 2011 the Santa Barbara
County Board of Supervisors approved
a five-year Master Plan for the Laguna
County Sanitation District’s waste water
treatment plant. This plan assessed the
condition of the plant and looked at its
future needs, reviewed regulatory criteria,
compared treatment and discharge
alternatives, evaluated costs and revenue
needs, and defined Phase 1 (replace
existing facility) and Phase 2 (future
capacity) conditions.
For homeowners in Orcutt and other
unincorporated areas of the county served
by Laguna Sanitation, the approval of this
Master Plan meant an increase in sewer
rates. For the fiscal year of 2015-2016,
rates increased 12%. Customers this
year are paying roughly $910 annually as
compared to $813 last year. This works
out to a difference of $97 which translates
to a monthly rate of about $75.
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“Components can age out and
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Wilder goes on to explain that level of
treatment provided by Laguna Sanitation is
superior compared to other areas, another
factor to consider in cost. He also points
out that although the average cost in Santa
Barbara County for waste management
services is approximately $58 ($15 lower
than Orcutt’s $75 rate), when you look
at these rates in conjunction with what
customers pay for Golden State Water,
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