BRIEFLY : BIG OIL SLICK IN OCEAN RESULT OF MILD QUAKE.OXNARD - A football field-sized oil slick in the ocean off Anacapa Island Anacapa Island is a small volcanic island located about 14 miles (23 km) off the coast of Ventura, California, in Ventura County. Anacapa is part of the Channel Islands archipelago (island chain), and is part of the Channel Islands National Park. wasn't caused by a passing vessel in the shipping lane between Ventura County and the Channel Islands - it was an earthquake. ``It's a natural seep straight out of the earth,'' Petty Officer Jay Mason of the Coast Guard's marine safety detachment in Santa Barbara Santa Barbara (săn'tə bär`brə, –bərə), city (1990 pop. 85,571), seat of Santa Barbara co., S Calif., on the Pacific Ocean; inc. 1850. said Thursday. Natural crude oil is easy to distinguish from oil that comes from other sources, he said. The culprit was a magnitude-1.9 earthquake at 12:33 a.m. Tuesday that was centered 11 miles east-southeast of neighboring neigh·bor n. 1. One who lives near or next to another. 2. A person, place, or thing adjacent to or located near another. 3. A fellow human. 4. Used as a form of familiar address. v. Santa Cruz Island San·ta Cruz Island An island off southern California in the northern Santa Barbara Islands. , experts said. Anacapa is 10 miles south of Oxnard. The earthquake loosened the oil from a natural seep on the ocean floor, Mason said. Such oil seeps are occasional natural phenomena along the Ventura County coast. No oil platforms or pipelines are in the area. Mason said the Coast Guard and other agencies don't clean up natural oil seeps. - Associated Press Associated Press: see news agency. Associated Press (AP) Cooperative news agency, the oldest and largest in the U.S. and long the largest in the world. Alzheimer's center will skip tolling bells SIMI VALLEY Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. - The Clarion Estates, a new resort-style senior care center and Alzheimer's center planned for Simi Valley, will go forward as planned, but without its namesake. Chimes from the proposed facility's bell tower were eliminated under a Simi Valley Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle decision this week that otherwise approved the $10 million, 158-unit complex. Developers hope to break ground in the fall on property on the east end of the city adjacent to its existing skilled nursing facility skilled nursing facility n. Abbr. SNF An establishment that houses chronically ill, usually elderly patients, and provides long-term nursing care, rehabilitation, and other services. , and finish the project within a year. - Daily News Panel approves plan for antennas at site SIMI VALLEY - A second attempt by a cellular phone firm to put antennas atop a Simi Valley dental office was approved Wednesday by the Planning Commission, which said the new designs better fit into the building's architecture. Airtouch Cellular's revamped proposal calls for 15 antennas and related equipment atop the Sycamore Medical Dental Building. Plans to position and integrate the antennas were vastly changed from the initial proposal to be more aesthetically pleasing, commissioners said. - Daily News Police seek suspect in Ventura robbery VENTURA - Ventura police continue searching for a man who held up an ice cream shop at gunpoint late Wednesday. An unidentified man, described as a man between 18 and 25 years old, entered the Baskin-Robbins at 2853 Main St. shortly after 10 p.m., police said. No customers were in the store as employees were cleaning up and preparing to close when the suspect covered his face with his T-shirt, pulled out a handgun from his waistband and demanded money, police said. No shots were fired and no one was injured in·jure tr.v. in·jured, in·jur·ing, in·jures 1. To cause physical harm to; hurt. 2. To cause damage to; impair. 3. . The suspect took money from the cash register and fled on foot. Police said an investigation is continuing. - Daily News |
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