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Local communities to celebrate Juneteenth with art, block party


Local communities to celebrate Juneteenth with art, block party
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Ventura County organizations are preparing art walks and other festivities next weekend to celebrate Juneteenth, the annual June 19 commemoration of
the end of slavery in the United States.
A lot of people don’t realize Black people were not emancipated on the Fourth of July, said La Shaun Aaron, co-founder of 805 Resistance which is co-hosting a Juneteenth block party Saturday in Thousand Oaks. That’s not our day of freedom.
The event celebrates June 19, 1865, the day Union soldiers arrived in Galveston, Texas to inform enslaved African-Americans of their freedom   two and a half years after President Abraham Lincoln s Emancipation Proclamation took effect. ....

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Brawley seniors forgo walking for a drive


PHOTO VINCENT OSUNA
BRAWLEY — Brawley Union’s senior class members traditionally participate in a walk through the city’s elementary schools in their caps and gowns every year to give young students something to aspire to.
However, that wasn’t going to work in a year marked with COVID restrictions, so the senior class elected to make its tradition walk-thru event a drive-thru one instead.
Brawley Union High School senior Felicity Tomboc gives the peace sign after putting on her “Grad” glasses during the Brawley Union High School District senior walk event on Wednesday in Brawley. PHOTO VINCENT OSUNA
The event took place Wednesday evening. Seniors from Brawley Union and Desert Valley high schools paraded past all five Brawley Elementary School District elementary schools — J.W. Oakley, Miguel Hidalgo, Myron D. Witter, Phil D. Swing, and Barbara Worth Junior High. They also took a spin past a few high-visibility spots around town su ....

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