Upper Ojai Relief

01/23/2025

Monica Ross School, Ojai, CA
January 23, 2025
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01/22/2025

Hey Teachers, Administrators and Parents.

We have 500 sifters to decorate!

Homeowners will be sifting through the ashes of their homes during their darkest hours and these small messages can be incredibly uplifting. Plus, I am buying pizza for whatever class decorates sifters the best, but you have to invite me 😎.

Thank you to kindergarten teacher Torrey at Junipero Serra Elementary School in Ventura for taking 40 sifters! Can't wait to see them.

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01/10/2025

Great list for fire victims

12/01/2024

Upper Ojai Relief gave away more than $10,000 to victims tonight, thanks to your donations and to an incredible event organized by Mountain Fire victim Fawn Parish.

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11/20/2024

Thank you Tami Somers and Mike Smith of Simi Valley Foodies for donating gift cards, tons of food and pallets of water to victims!

11/18/2024

Hey Community:

Bobbi's Mexican Food is offering FREE food to any family effected by the fire.

Please DM us to take advantage of this incredible offer.

Tobi Jo Greene you are one incredible human. May the love you share come back 100 fold!

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11/18/2024

Love spreads faster than fire
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VENTURA COUNTY, At 21, Luis “Tigre” Villanueva left Mexico in hopes of building a better life, and he did. He’s a husband, a father of two, a grandfather

11/16/2024

"Why do you sift? You are never going to find anything"

Never say never.

Here's the moment we found Yuliana Arias' wedding ring.

11/15/2024

Hey Community:

Ready to step up again?

Ventura County locals Yuliana Arias and her husband Jerry were raised in Oxnard. They had been working and saving their whole life for their dream home.

6 months before the Mountain Fire, they found a home on Old Coach Road. It was a "fixer upper." They loved the neighborhood. It was safe. It had good schools. Their three young daughters, ages 13, 9 and 7 could ride their bikes in the street.

They bought their dream home. They moved in and started fixing it up. Their parents came over and tore out bushes, repainted walls. If you've done that (most of us have) you know the deal.

Yuliana loves to cook and sew. She and her daughters made homemade cake pops and brought them to the elderly neighbors.

The Mountain Fire hit. It took, literally, everything they owned. Jerry is a plumber and soccer coach for his girls. He (like me) loves to camp. He likes the Raiders and Dodgers.

Their Amazon wish list is in the comments below. I don't think you will find sewing, cooking, camping or raiders or Dodgers gear. This family is too proud. I had to plead with them to let us help.

So let's do it. Lift this family up. Spoil the hell out of them and their daughters. When the daughters come home for the first time, let's have some new bikes in the driveway and maybe a jersey for Jerry.

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