CENTENNIAL GOOF WON'T STOP FESTIVITIES\Mix-up won't hamper agriculture centennial.Byline: Kermit Pattison Daily News Staff Writer Centennials only happen once in a lifetime and Earl McPhail wanted to make this one a real barn burner "Barn Burner" is an episode of the American sitcom My Name Is Earl. Synopsis When Joy’s kids are denied enrollment into the camp for troubled youth at the Right Choice Ranch, Earl realizes his reputation for burning down the Ranch’s barn when he was a . So the Ventura County Agricultural commissioner plowed through old notes and archives to research a bit of history for the 100th birthday of his office. Then he unearthed Unearthed is the name of a Triple J project to find and "dig up" (hence the name) hidden talent in regional Australia. Unearthed has had three incarnations - they first visited each region of Australia where Triple J had a transmitter - 41 regions in all. a pesky little fact - the century mark actually had passed unnoticed a decade before. Somehow McPhail had written down the wrong date while doing research back in the early 1980s. But heck, agricultural officials and growers alike plan to forge ahead and celebrate the anniversary anyway. Dismissing the slip up with the same fortitude as bad weather or the Medfly, they plan to hold a birthday bash to celebrate the heritage of the county's $852 million industry. "We'll call it the centennial-plus," McPhail said. "Somehow I wrote down 1896 instead of 1886. I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. why, but I did." The Ventura County Agricultural Commissioner's Office will host an open house from April 22 to April 26 in 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. with exhibits highlighting the region's farming heritage. And it will celebrate with a barbecue April 26 at the Ventura County fairgrounds n. pl. 1. same as fairground. at Seaside Park in Ventura. "Agriculture is the cornerstone of the economy," said Rex Laird, executive director of the Ventura County Farm Bureau. "It's a reminder to all of us that agriculture has been around for a long time and hopefully will be around a lot longer." In 1886, the county established a board of horticultural commissioners. Within a month, the board imposed the first quarantine prohibiting importation of pests harmful to the fruit tree industry just starting to take root. Sometime in the early 1900s, the board grew into the agricultural commissioner's office with two or three employees. "Big time agriculture was starting to take off about the same time this office was created," said McPhail. "It's the single largest industry and employer in the county. It's important to know about the history of different aspects of agriculture in the county." With self-effacing humor, McPhail sheepishly sheep·ish adj. 1. Embarrassed, as by consciousness of a fault: a sheepish grin. 2. Meek or stupid. sheep confessed the mix-up over the dates Tuesday as the Ventura County Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. passed a proclamation hailing the anniversary. Instead of taking him to the woodshed wood·shed n. A shed in which firewood is stored. intr.v. wood·shed·ded, wood·shed·ding, wood·sheds Slang To practice on a musical instrument. Noun 1. , his bosses laughed off the mix-up. Anyway, McPhail said, better late than never. "Until we researched it, we really didn't know how long we really had been here," he said. "...Oh well. We figured somehow we'd explain."' |
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