Jesus Ballesteros - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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Viviana Ceja - FHS Alumni Scholar
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Jessica Cobb - FHS Alumni Gloria McKitchens Music Scholar
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Colton Farrar - FHS Lemley Memorial Scholar
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Dillon Galarza - FHS Alumni Scholar
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Onofre Jauregui - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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Reylene Martinez - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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Janet Mendez - FHS Alumni Scholar
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Luke Myers - Steve and Patricia Baum Science Scholar
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Connie Quintana - FHS Lemley Memorial Scholar
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Aviana Ramirez - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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Marilyn Sandoval - FHS Alumni William Brisby Scholar
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Sarah Stewart - FHS Alumni Scholar
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George Tarango - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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Roman Tarango - Scanlin/Balden Scholar
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The Officers and Board of Directors of the Fillmore High Alumni Association is proud to announce awarding a total of $54,000 dollars to this years Alumni Scholarship winners. The Fillmore High Alumni Association's Scholarships are funded by proud FHS Alumni Association Members and anyone who donates to the Scholarship Fund. Donations to the Scholarship Fund also come in the form of Memorial's of Alumni members who are no longer with us, but will never be forgotten. We thank everyone for their contributions.

The 2017 Alumni Scholars will be introduced at the 104th FHS Alumni Dinner on June 10th. There are still open reservations available. You can purchase your reservation at Patterson Hardware store up to and including June 7th. You may also purchase your reservations online by visiting www.fillmorehighalumni.com an clicking on the Events link. This online reservation can be purchased up to and including June 7th. After June 7th, all dinner reservations must be purchased at the door on the night of the event at the door price of $45 dollars per person.

Lot's of surprises are planned at this years Alumni Dinner! Hope to see you all there!

Last week, the parade. Now, on to the other festivities. With giggling children everywhere, it's near impossible to attend the recent May Festival carnival and not get in a good mood. Furthermore, the music venue was alive with folks kicking up their heels... so to speak. Those not dancing were sipping brewskies in the beer garden. Judging by the nasty look I got I should not have asked for ice tea. But I digress.

On the carnival midway, I took advantage of the many opportunities to shoot using various methods to illustrate different ways to convey a particular point. For example, 'blur' can be accomplished two ways. Hold steady the camera set at a slow shutter speed of about 1/15 second and press the shutter button when the subject comes into the frame. The background remains in focus but the subject gets blurred illustrating movement. The other method is to increase the shutter speed and pan the subject... i.e. … follow the subject passing by which will result in the subject in focus but the background blurred. Most often requires a some trial and error. Accidentally, the blue Buffalo Bomber ended being a little of both. C'est la vie. There is no right or wrong method. Simply personal preference. Generally I prefer shooting at a higher shutter speed and blurring the background. Can you pick the photos I shot using either method and determine which method was used on each?

Oh, check out the gorgeous, vivacious May Festival carnival mermaid. Made my day! If it were not for so much darn security I would have kidnapped her! Maybe next year. (I'm thinking helicopter heist! )

Night scenes are most interesting because of various colors of light. But mixed lighting is a nightmare for the camera. Accordingly, I almost always set white balance on automatic (AWB). One of these days I'll delve into some of the technical stuff like white balance and its significance. Stay tuned. For now, let if suffice to say that even if the camera misinterprets the light creating color issues it's usually correctable in post processing. Post processing (PP) is another topic to be covered some day. But not yet because I'm still trying to wean all you phonetographers off your smart phones and into 'real' photography with a real camera (hint) so post processing (editing) can wait a little longer. Pardon my teasing.

Back to photography. Just prior to the seven-gun salute by the honor guard, I set the camera on burst mode and fired off a series of photos upon hearing the word: FIRE! Well, out of 27 images, not one photo with a muzzle flash. NOT ONE! Again, if it weren't for bad luck, I'd have none! Wait! If you look closely, you'll see brass casings flying. That counts... right? To capture muzzle flash maybe I need to get a camera that can fire bursts of 50 photos/second. Yep, that'll do it! No it won't. Can't afford that camera so flying brass casings will have to suffice. For now.

Moving along, I selected the raising of the U. S. flag during the Memorable Day Ceremony at the Bardsdale Cemetery as the Photo of the Week. Indulge me while I briefly go off topic.

I've been photographing the Bardsdale Memorable Day Ceremony for many years yet the symbolic act of raising the U.S. flag is always an emotional experience. It profoundly demonstrates and acknowledges that our cherished freedoms that brave men and women fought and died for endures. One day... one act... to remind us of their ultimate sacrifice. See you next year, same place, to honor all those who shall forever be remembered.

Happy photoing!

Email comments, questions or suggestions to bob@fillmoregazette.com

A fire in the 1300 block of Blue Jay Street in Fillmore displaced five people, four adults and one child. The fire took place on Thursday, May 18th at 6:35pm.

Fillmore Fire, Santa Paula Fire, City of Ventura and Ventura County Fire Departments were called in and the blaze was knocked down by 6:58pm.

The fire was confined to the garage of the two-story home. Red Cross was assisting the victims.

Jorge Izarraraz, 23 of Fillmore, who was charged with murder in connection with a fatal stabbing in Fillmore in 2015 has been allowed by prosecutors to plead guilty to the lessor charge of voluntary manslaughter.

Izarraraz killed 24-year-old Edgar Torres of Fillmore during an involved in an altercation on November 2, 2015 in the area of Third and B Streets.

Torres died later at the hospital with a stab wound. Izarraraz had been facing a murder charge but the DA’s office allowed him to plead guilty to voluntary manslaughter instead.

Izarraraz remains in jail pending sentencing on August 1, 2017.

At the regular Tuesday City Council meeting a resolution authorizing and directing the execution of a Joint Exercise of Powers Agreement creating the Fillmore and Piru Basins Groundwater Sustainability Agency and adoption of a Resolution appointing a City Council Representative to the Board of Directors was unanimously approved. Mayor Carrie Broggie was appointed to the Board.

Ordinance No. 17-879 adopting changes to clarify the City Manager's contracting authority and thresholds for formal and informal bidding requirements for consistency with the state's Uniform Public Construction Cost Accounting Act (ACT) was unanimously approved.

The contract for the construction of the Dog Park fence project at Two Rivers Park was approved for $16,221.00. The Park will allow areas for both large and small dogs.

The adoption of Resolution 17-3598 approving the 2015 Ventura County Multihazard Mitigation Plan was unanimously approved. The document runs to 700 pages and can be accessed at County records.

The adoption of City Council Resolution 17-3597 adjusting several of the fees collected by Community Services was also unanimously approved.

The new Parks and Recreation Coordinators have worked to streamline the reservation and payment process for usage of City parks and fields. When community organizations, such as sports groups, reserve a City facility for the season they are required to pay the full use fee and/or deposit at the time the reservation is made. However, the current fee schedule does not have a deposit amount for reserving fields.

In order to ease the financial burden of full payment, City staff is recommending that the City Council establish a 20% deposit for all field reservations. Additionally, as staff was reviewing the fees for the upcoming pool season, they noticed some fees were unclear and/or wrong. Staff is requesting the following changes to the adopted fee schedule.

AQUATIC CENTER
Program Details Notes Current Proposed Adult Splash Pass 20 Visits No incentive for purchasing 20 instead of 10 $90.00 $85.50 (5% discount) Splash Pass Senior Discount (62+)10 Visits No discount is being provided & the discount would violate Prop 26 $45.00 Eliminate Splash Pass Senior Discount (62+) 20 Visit No discount is being provided & the discount would violate Prop 26 $90.00 Eliminate Group Swim Lessons

Session Per Person (no discount for group fee) $120.00 $75.00 Private Swim Lessons Session Per Person $120.00.
The City currently offers a Splash Pass which allows one adult 20 visits to the pool for $90. The City believes that they can recover their costs to provide this service for the reduced fee of $85.50. There is also a “Senior Discount (62+)” Splash Pass– however the rate does not actually provide a discount.

As Proposition 26 prohibits providing discounted fees to a certain classification of people when the discount is subsidized by other people paying that fee, staff recommends eliminating the two line items 01148.0001/376563.5 for senior discounted splash passes from the fee schedule. Group swim lessons and private swim lessons are currently offered at the same rate of $120.00 per Session. As group lessons are typically provided a lower fee than private lessons, staff is recommending that the fee for group swim lessons be reduced to $75.00 per session. With respect to the reservation of a City facility for a season of sports all field reservations for each park require a 20% deposit for the dates booked and will be billed monthly, in advance, in even installment payments. Any organization seeking to make a season long reservation can either elect to pay via the deposit and monthly billing option or pay in full at the time of the reservation.

DOG PARK
The City received a total of two (2) bids for the subject project. Bids were opened on May 18, 2017 at 10 AM in Council Chambers. The following bids were received: 1 C&W Construction Specialties, Inc. $16,221.20 2; Fence Factory $19,633.00. The engineer’s estimate of probable construction cost was $24,865. C&W Construction Specialties, Inc. submitted the low bid of $16,221.20, which is 34.7% below the engineer’s estimate.

The construction work includes installation of chain link fencing and gates surrounding the existing dirt area between “C” Street and the existing fencing west of “C” Street at Two Rivers Park. City Council award the contract to C&W Construction Specialties, Inc. in the amount of $16,221.20 for the construction of the Dog Park Fence Installation Project at Two Rivers Park, Issuance of the Wastewater Refunding Revenue Bonds, Series 2017, to refinance outstanding 2007 bonds of the Public financing Authority were unanimously approved.

Resolutions 17-3601 and 17-01 were approved for the recommended fiscal year 20-17-18 Budgets for the City of Fillmore and the Successor Agency to the City of Fillmore Redevelopment Agency.

The Budget for 2017-18 can be seen in its entirety online at fillmoregazette.com.

City Resolution 17-3595 to set the APPROPRIATIONS LIMIT for fiscal year 2017-18 was unanimously approved.

Resolution No. 17-3596 to allow collection of the delinquent water and sewer utility by placing them on the Property Tax Roll was unanimously approved by the Council.

Medical Marijuana Listening Session is set for Sunday, June 25, at 3:30 PM. Location: Memorial Building. 4TH

ANNUAL CHIEF RIGO LANDEROS MEMORIAL GOLF TOURNAMENT
This year’s four person scramble will take place Saturday, June 3 with a noon start at Elkins Ranch Golf
Course. Tournament fees are $120 per player and includes, golf, cart, drinks, lunch, gift bag, awards dinner
and raffle. Proceeds benefit the Fillmore Volunteer Firefighter Foundation in their efforts to provide important funding for personal protective equipment, safety and rescue gear, emergency medical supplies
and continuing education and training for the membership. If anyone would like to sponsor the event there are seven categories:Platinum$10,000 16 Entries Diamond $5,000 12 Entries Gold $2,500 8 Entries Silver $1,000 4 Entries Bronze$500 2 Entries Sterling $Any Tee Sponsor $30. Register online at www.fillmorefirefoundation.org/golf