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Arts Beat: Santa Barbara nonprofit encourages girls to rock

By Beth Thornton • Jul 22, 2020

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Girls Rock Santa Barbara is a local nonprofit that brings together aspiring young artists with professional mentors in the music industry. High school-aged girls and gender-expansive youth learn about music, creative expression and performance in a positive, empowering environment.

Ojai's Sheila Cluff is known as the grandmother of aerobics

By Tom Wilmer • Oct 10, 2016

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Sheila Cluff, the founder of aerobic exercise talks with correspondent Tom Wilmer about the creation of aerobics for middle-school kids in Ottowa, Canada back in 1959 and her journey to introduce aerobics around the world. Sheila also talks about her Oaks at Ojai Spa, in Ojai, California

Modern Aerobic exercise was the brainchild of Sheila Cluff back in 1959. Ms. Cluff was teaching middle school P.E. in Ottawa, Canada when she devised a plan to enthuse her students by putting skating routines to music.

UPDATE: Victims of plane crash in remote Santa Barbara County identified

By KCBX Newsroom • Aug 7, 2015

UPDATE: Monday, August 10, 2015 at 10:21 p.m.

The Santa Barbara County Sheriff’s Coroner’s Unit has positively identified the two victims who were killed in a plane crash Thursday night. The wreckage wasn't located until Friday morning.