BRIEFLY : VENTURA SCHOOLS WIN STATE RECOGNITION.SAN FRANCISCO San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden - The Santa Paula Santa Paula (săn`tə pôl`ə), city (1990 pop. 25,062), Ventura co., S Calif., on the Santa Clara River in a fertile valley that yields citrus fruits, avocados, vegetables, flowers, nursery products, and walnuts; laid out 1875, inc. and Ventura school districts were among 60 in California to be honored with a Golden Bell Award by the California School Boards Association, officials said Monday. The awards will be presented during the association's annual conference Saturday in San Francisco. The Golden Bell Awards program promotes excellence in education by recognizing outstanding programs in school districts and county offices of education, said association President Leslie DeMersseman. ``It reflects the depth and breadth of the education programs necessary to address students' changing needs,'' she said. - Daily News Feral sheep removed from Channel Islands VENTURA - The very last sheep on Santa Cruz Island San·ta Cruz Island An island off southern California in the northern Santa Barbara Islands. has been captured and shipped to the mainland. The ewe and her 3-day-old lamb, perhaps the last of the sheep on any of the Channel Islands, were cornered Thursday and are now awaiting a home in Ventura County. The National Park Service removal represents the end of 150 years of sheep ranching on the islands. Since mid-1997, the Park Service has spent more than $2.1 million to capture and remove 9,278 sheep. The aim was to allow the natural ecosystem, badly damaged by the sheep's heavy grazing grazing, n See irregular feeding. grazing 1. actions of herbivorous animals eating growing pasture or cereal crop. 2. area of pasture or cereal crop to be used as standing feed. See also pasture. , to recover. ``It ain't over till it's over,'' said Tim Setnicka, Channel Islands National Park Channel Islands National Park: see Santa Barbara Islands; National Parks and Monuments (table). superintendent. ``If it isn't the last ewe, we're down to single digits. It's exciting because we were able to accomplish our goal. No one in the world has ever captured this many feral sheep.'' - 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. |
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