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Simi Valley/Moorpark
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Craft beer business to open in Moorpark
■ No beverages
will be made,
bottled at site
By Michele Willer-Allred
Special to The Star
The owners of a new
business opening in the
fall in Moorpark hope
to fill a void in craft beer
tasting and education
in the city.
Frances Fleming and
Marc Bosch recently applied to the city to open
McGregor’s Craft Beer at
The Village at Moorpark,
a shopping center.
The Moorpark Planning
Commission on Tuesday
approved a conditional-use
permit for the business in
an existing 1,443-squarefoot space at 754 Los Angeles Ave. McGregor’s also
applied to the state for an
alcohol license.
The location, which has
been divided into three
tenant spaces, once was
occupied by Cold Stone
Creamery and The Dugout
restaurant but has been
vacant since Cold Stone
closed and The Dugout
moved to Simi Valley
last year.
Fleming described McGregor’s Craft Beer as “a
tasting room and bottle
shop bringing a unique
beer-buying experience
to Moorpark.”
Fleming said the business would carry hard-tofind regional and national
craft beers and wines as
well as beer- and winecentered merchandise.
There will be taps of craft
beer, as well as root beer,
for on-site consumption.
No beer or wine will be
made or bottled at the
business, which will be
for customers 21 and older.
Limited food will be
available, and there will be
live acoustic music some
nights. Business hours will
be noon to 10 p.m. Monday through Saturday and
noon to 7 p.m. Sunday.
Fleming said the
business will have a
coffeehouse-type setting
and a focus on education,
with brewers and winemakers giving talks and
sharing their experiences.
Beer servers will be certified and have knowledge of
styles of beer, origins and
brewing techniques.
“It’s a unique concept for
Moorpark,” Fleming said.
“One of the many
things we love about the
craft beer community is
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In my line of work, we deal with the good and bad of this
world. Most of the time, the citizens hear only about the bad,
so this is a great opportunity to share a story of something
good a police officer did in their community.
Board
backs
gun
efforts
Tom Carney, Local Legend Award recipient
■ Violence risk
could cut access
By Kathleen Wilson
kwilson@vcstar.com
805-437-0271
PHOTOS BY ANTHONY PLASCENCIA/THE STAR
Officer Tom Carney patrols his area of Simi Valley on Tuesday. Carney received a Local Legend Award after being nominated by Police Chief Mitch
McCann for his actions in saving a local teen from an oncoming train.
Simi Rotary Club
gives officer award
■ Policeman says
he was doing his job
By Alicia Doyle
Special to The Star
Tom Carney, a Simi Valley police officer who
recently received a Local Legend Award from
the Rotary Club of Simi Sunset, said the recognition is a tremendous honor, especially since
he was only doing his job.
“And without a doubt, my partners who work
with me on a daily basis would have done the
same without thinking,” said Carney, of Simi
Valley. He was nominated by Simi Valley Police
Chief Mitch McCann for saving a 17-year-old
boy from an oncoming Metrolink commuter
train in Simi Valley.
Carney was first to arrive April 29 on the
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805-437-0208
Ventura police have arrested two people in connection with a July 2013
homicide near the Ventura
County Fairgrounds, officials
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Aiding
veterans
who lack
a home
■ Legal, dental,
medical help
to be offered
By Claudia Boyd-Barrett
Special to The Star
“Our community depends on people who care and want to make a difference,” Carney said.
2 men linked to fairgrounds killing
By Cindy Von Quednow
Two state bills aimed
at deterring gun violence
in the wake of the mass
shootings in Isla Vista
were endorsed this week
by the Ventura County
Board of Supervisors.
The board voted 4-0
Tuesday to support the
pending legislation from
state Sen. Hannah-Beth
Jackson, D-Santa Barbara, and Assemblyman Das Williams, DSanta Barbara.
Super v i sor
Peter
Foy was absent from
the meeting.
Assembly Bill 1014
would establish a process for relatives, friends
or intimate partners to
obtain court orders for
gun seizures from people at risk of committing
violence, Jackson told the
board. The orders would
last for a year and could
be renewed.
said Wednesday.
Erick Estrada, 25, and Timothy Adams, 18, both of Ventura, are accused of killing Gabriel Gutierrez, 18, on July 31.
Gutierrez was found with
gunshot wounds on a bike path
near the Ventura River. Investigators said he was walking
on the path when he got into a
fight with two men, who were
seen running from the area after the shooting. Gutierrez and
the men apparently had an argument at the fair earlier that
night, officials said.
The shooting appeared to
be gang-related. Police Cmdr.
Darin Schindler said Gutierrez
and the suspects apparently
knew of each other before
the shooting. Adams and
Estrada are known to be gangaffiliated, and Gutierrez was in
a tagging crew, Schindler said.
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duty no service member
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members of the armed
forces, another, more personal battle begins when
they return home.
Lack of affordable housing, difficulty finding a job,
absence of family support,
substance abuse and the
lingering effects of posttraumatic stress disorder
can lead a veteran to become homeless, according
to the National Coalition
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how amazingly tight-knit,
supportive and welcoming it is. We hope to bring
that same experience
to Moorpark.”
Fleming said McGregor’s also will showcase beers from microbreweries that do not
bottle their products, such
as Moorpark’s only brewery, Enegren Brewing Co.
“By showcasing their
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Police could remove access to firearms while the
individual is going through
treatment, Jackson said.
“We see people disintegrating before our
eyes, losing the ability to
cope and who have access
to firearms, and we can’t
do anything about it,”
she told the board. “This
would change that.”
She also asked the board
product for retail sale
on tap, they are able to
reach the masses and
promote their business,”
Fleming said.
The owners of Enegren
attended Tuesday’s meeting to show their support
for the business. Enegren
is undergoing an expansion that’s expected to be
completed by fall.
The Moorpark Morning Rotary Club holds a
beer festival in October at
Moorpark College, showcasing local brews.
Planning Commissioner
Diana Gould said residents
must drive to Westlake
Village or Agoura Hills
for something similar
to McGregor’s.
“I think it’s an outstanding idea, and I certainly support this,” Gould said.
Commissioner Bruce
Hamous said he favors
bringing similar types of
businesses to Moorpark,
especially because they
can attract other businesses to the city and help
the local economy.
to support Senate Bill 505.
That bill would require
that police checking on
individuals suspected of
harming themselves or
others search a state database to see whether they
own firearms.
Officers did not do so
before checking on the
welfare of Elliot Rodger,
the shooter in the Isla
Vista incident in May, according to media reports.
Jackson also asked for
the board’s support of a
companion bill that would
provide funding to identify people who possess
firearms illegally, update
computer systems related
to firearms, and provide
training to police.
She said the money
would come from fees paid
by gun owners when they
buy firearms.
Supervisors could not
vote to support that measure, SB 580, because the
item did not appear on the
board agenda. They indicated they would do so at
a later meeting.
are a private individual or
business whose particular actions on a given day
exemplified service above
self,” Grossman said.
Rotarians do not use
the term “service” in the
limited sense of imputed
duty such as a person’s
profession, but rather
in the broader sense of
helping others in need,
Grossman said.
“As for above self, we
interpret this to mean acting without regard to one’s
own potential detriment,”
Grossman said. “In essence, we are seeking local stories of heroism and
selflessness which may
have gone unnoticed or
undernoticed to turn into
Local Legends.”
Rotary aims to give out
four such awards per year.
“Through the awards
and more specifically, the
underlying stories behind
the recipients’ actions,
we hope to inspire our
community and expose
some of the real-life heroes walking among us,”
Grossman said.
At the time of engaging
in a courageous act, a person is not thinking about
recognition, Carney said.
“O u r
com mu n it y
depends on people who
care and want to make a
difference, whether it be
small or big,” Carney said.
“This award reminds
me how important it is to
be an active and engaged
citizen of Simi Valley.
Additionally, it offers the
community an opportunity to recognize and encourage those people who
care enough to intervene
and make a difference.”
Most of the civic and
community awards in Simi
Valley are focused on patterns or ongoing acts of
volunteering, humanitarianism and/or philanthropy, not specific instances
of heroism or selflessness,
Grossman said.
“The goal is ... to inspire
others and inform people
of the kindness of the human heart,” Grossman
said, “and to honor those
who have acted selflessly
and in an extraordinary
way demonstrated by their
actions that they follow
the Rotary motto of service above self.”
Many homeless veterans
“get very depressed and
don’t think anyone cares.
So once they find out there
are people that care, it’s
very heartwarming.”
The event, which runs
Friday through Sunday, is
open to homeless veterans
and their wives, children
and significant others. Veterans who are not homeless may attend but not
sleep at the site, Hope said.
Stand Down provides free
transportation to and from
the event for veterans from
Santa Barbara, Oxnard,
Port Hueneme, Ventura,
Simi Valley, Thousand
Oaks and Los Angeles.
A key component will
be a Superior Court session Friday afternoon
at which veterans may
adjudicate pending misdemeanor cases before a
volunteer judge. The judge
can order veterans to perform community service
during Stand Down in lieu
of a fine or jail time.
Homeless veterans
sometimes have outstanding warrants for
minor offenses such as
urinating in public or jaywalking, Hope said. Being able to resolve their
cases over the weekend
can help them stabilize
their lives and find jobs,
she said.
Clyde Reynolds, executive director of the Turning Point Foundation in
Ventura, a group that
helps mentally ill adults,
said Ventura County’s
homeless veteran population appears to be declining. He attributed the
drop to efforts by the U.S.
Department of Housing
and Urban Development
and Department of Veterans Affairs to provide
rental assistance to homeless veterans.
Never t heless,
t he
county’s 2014 homelessness count found 88 veterans without homes. In
the past, that population
was mostly older veterans
from the Vietnam War, but
veterans from more recent
wars increasingly are on
the streets, Reynolds said.
He said that is because a
few years could pass before their families and other support networks that
kept them off the streets
break down.
Stand Down gives
homeless veterans a
chance to recharge and
social service agencies an
opportunity to reach those
in need, Reynolds said.
“It’s been a really wonderful thing to see the
community come together
to offer this to veterans,”
he said.
Officer
Tom
Carney,
with the
Simi Valley Police
Department,
received
a Local
Legend
Award
from the
Rotary
Club of
Simi
Sunset.
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PLASCENCIA/
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CARNEY
from 1B
scene where the teen was
exhibiting suicidal behavior on the railroad tracks
as a westbound train approached. Carney entered
the tracks — without regard for his own safety —
and proceeded with the
rescue, officials said.
“In my line of work, we
deal with the good and
bad of this world,” Carney
said. “Most of the time, the
citizens hear only about
the bad, so this is a great
opportunity to share a
story of something good
a police officer did in
their community.”
The Local Legend
Awards seek to expose,
acknowledge and reward
exceptional acts of “service above self” — Rotary’s motto — by members
of the community, said
Richard Grossman, of Simi
Valley, president of Rotary
Club of Simi Sunset.
“We believe our Local
Legend Awards are unique
in that the criteria is truly
open to anyone, whether
they hail from law enforcement, fire, military,
medical or whether they
VETERANS
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for Homeless Veterans in
Washington, D.C.
The problem is widespread, with thousands
of veterans across the
nation sleeping on the
streets each night, including almost 90 in Ventura
County, according to the
most recent homelessness count.
To help these homeless
veterans, a coalition of social service groups, medical and legal experts and
volunteers will converge
on the California Army
National Guard Armory
in Ventura this weekend for Ventura County
Stand Down.
The three-day event
will provide homeless
veterans and their families access to services including free medical and
dental care, legal aid, drug
and alcohol counseling,
and advice on resources.
Veterans also may receive
hot meals, showers, toiletries, clothes and haircuts. They will sleep in
military-style tents erected by Navy Seabees.
“At Stand Down, we provide all kinds of services.
Sometimes they just need
a pair of reading glasses,
or sometimes they just
need benefit counseling,”
said founder and executive
chairwoman Claire Hope.
Learn more:
Visit www.simisunsetrotary.org,
email info@simisunsetrotary.org
or call 613-7277 for more information about nominations.
Learn more:
Stand Down will be at the
National Guard Armory, 1270
Arundell Ave., Ventura. Call
987-3118 or visit http://www.
vcstanddown.org for more
information.
Janss Rd. Thousand Oaks. A
private burial will take place at a
later time at Assumption cemetery, Simi Valley.
Arrangements were made
with the assistance of Griffin
Family Funeral Chapels, Thousand Oaks. (805) 230-2800
Please sign the guest book at
obits.vcstar.com.
Fillmore
Jose “Joe” Anguiano
Jose Anguiano, beloved husband, son, father, and brother,
born November 11, 1939 in Fillmore, CA, was carried home to
be with Our Lord Monday, July
21, 2014. Joe is survived by his
loving wife of 54 years, Lupe, his
surviving brothers and sisters
Irene Hernandez, Sam Anguiano, Jenny Real, Ernie Anguiano,
Tenchie Anguiano, his three
children Arlene, Judy and Joe,
his nine grandchildren, and 6
great-grandchildren, all living in
the Simi Valley area. In the 74
years Joe spent on this earth, he
lived a long and fruitful life. As
a young man, he spent his free
time with his six siblings in Simi
Valley, where they all would
grow up and start their families.
Joe also spent time in the military by serving his country stationed in Korea, he often wrote
home about his distaste of Kim
Cee. After returning from the
service, Joe worked as a cement
truck driver until his retirement.
Joe loved sports in any form,
whether it was watching his
grandsons or daughters play,
watching a Trojan game on TV,
or going to an Angels game with
his family. He will always be
known as a loving and caring
family man and friend who will
be truly missed by those who
were close to him. Services will
be held this Friday at Reardon
Simi Valley Funeral Home at
5:00pm, followed by a mass on
Saturday at Saint Peter Claver
Church at 9:00am.
Please sign the guest book at
obits.vcstar.com.
Newbury Park
Don W. Mettert
Don W. Mettert born March
22, 1936 in Columbus, Ohio to
Walter and Clara Mettert passed
away June 27 2014 after a
“Buckeye” fight with cancer. He
passed Away with his wife Sue
and his best friend Peanut by his
side. He was predeceased by his
brother Tommy, his parents and
his step daughter Kerrie and her
daughter to be Susie. He is survived by his step daughter and
son in law, Lori and Todd Lyche
and his granddaughters Bethany
and Hannah. Step daughter Tracy Lombardi. Daughter and son
in law Lisa and Doug Thompson
and grandsons Keenan and Kasey. In addition to his love of
family, Don had a great passion
for music. He began playing alto
sax at the age of 9. His last performance of alto sax was with
The Ventura County Bands,
which he had been with for two
years. He played until he was no
longer able to play. He will be
missed by all who knew him.
Which includes many relatives
on his wife’s side and neighbor’s
he was acquainted with. A memorial service will be held on
July 27 2014, at Maravilla Gardens, 8620 Santa Rosa Rd.
Camarillo from 3-5pm
You can reach Sue at donmettert@verizon.net.
Special thanks to Dr. Harry
Menco and his staff and Dr.
Richard Green and his nurse
Debbie. A special thanks to his
caregivers from Visiting Angels.
Please sign the guest book at
obits.vcstar.com.
Santa Paula
Dorothy Julia
(Skeeters) Smead
Dorothy Julia (Skeeters)
Smead passed away peacefully in
the early morning hours of June
29, 2014. She was born October
14, 1926 in St Louis Missouri to
Artie and Mabel (McCleery)
Skeeters. When she was six
months old, the family moved to
Ventura, California. Dorothy
grew up there, attending Ventura High School and the newly
created Ventura College. As did
many of the “greatest generation”, Dorothy began working at
a young age. She was a telephone operator while in college,
and then had a career as an airline stewardess with Viking Airlines.
In 1948, Dorothy married
Earl Smead. At the time, a career as an airline stewardess was
for single women only. She left
the airlines, and became the personnel manager at the newly
opened Sears Sore in Ventura.
She and Earl moved to Santa
Paula in 1952. Together they
opened the State Farm Insurance Agency with Earl as the
Agent and Dorothy as the Office
Manager. In 1952 the Agency
was located on Harvard before
the 126 Freeway was built. They
moved the Agency a few years
later to its present location on
8th Street in Santa Paula. It continues as the Smead State Farm
Insurance Agency 62 years later
with Dorothy’s youngest son,
Steve as the Agent.
In 1953, Earl and Dorothy’s
second son John was born with
learning disabilities. It was then
that Dorothy discovered her true
passion and calling. She, along
with friends and neighbors, Hazel Kay and Wanda Mason
worked tirelessly with the Santa
Paula Elementary School District to start a Special Education
program. This led her to become
one of the founders of the ARC
of Ventura County in 1954. Although this organization was
started in Santa Paula, it has always served the entire county.
Today it is the largest ARC
Chapter in the State. She served
on the Board of Directors of the
ARC for many years, and was
President, Vice President, Secretary and Treasurer more than
once. As a result of her dedication to those with disabilities,
she was honored as a Santa Paula Soroptimist Woman of Distinction in 1985. In 2003, Heritage Valley Community Integration Center located in the old
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Thousand Oaks, passed away
Sunday, July 20, 2014 at the
young age of 55.
Jackie was born on January
29, 1959 in Berea, Ohio and has
been a Ventura county resident
for the past 43 years. She was a
homemaker and cherished her
role as mother, wife and friend.
She was also very active in religious education at St. Paschal’s as
a bible study leader and a church
member.
Jackie sadly leaves behind
her husband Nick, son Ben,
daughter Jeannette, her father
James W. Buckley, her brother
James L. Buckley and her sisters
Annette & Joyce Buckley.
A mass of Christian burial
will be held for Jackie on Friday,
July 25, 2014 at 10:30 am at St.
Paschals Catholic Church 155 E.
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Santa Paula Chronicle building
on 10th Street was renamed the
Hazel Kay/Dorothy Smead Center to recognize the hard work
of these two remarkable women.
Dorothy’s faith was always
very important to her. She grew
up in the Ventura Baptist
Church, attended the First Baptist Church in Santa Paula as
well as the Ventura Missionary
Church in Ventura. Her volunteering nature led her to serve
as a Sunday school teacher, a docent at the Santa Paula Oil Museum, as an election judge and a
literacy tutor. She was also a
member of the Junior Ebell Club
and the Beta Sigma Phi Sorority.
Dorothy was preceded in
death by her parents Artie and
Mabel, husband Earl, brother
Cline and his wife Ann, brother
Eugene, nephew Ryan McEntee
and niece Gina Skeeters. She is
survived by her three sons,
Chuck (Carol), John, and Steve
(Rene). She is also survived by
five grandsons, Isaac (Veronica),
Aaron (Marci), Mark, Jacob and
Lucas, one great grandson Roman as well as numerous nieces
and nephews and their extended
families.
The family would like to extend a special thanks to Moran
Manor in Ventura for the wonderful care they gave Dorothy
the last two months of her life.
She was fortunate to be able to
live in her own home prior to
that time.
Please join us for a celebration of Dorothy’s life Saturday,
August 2, 2014 at St. Paul’s
Episcopal Church, 147 N. 7th
St., Santa Paula at 2:00. In lieu
of flowers, the family requests
donations to the ARC Foundation of Ventura County, 2128
Knoll Drive, Ste. C, Ventura, CA
93003.
Please sign the guest book at
obits.vcstar.com.
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