DO IT WITH A SMILE: When Felice...

DO IT WITH A SMILE: When Felice Ginsberg took over recently as the first female president of the Ventura Rotary, she was welcomed with a kazoo chorus of “For She’s a Jolly Good Fellow.”. . . The club, which is still 90% male, offered her a cooler reception when she first joined back in 1987. “My club is the granddaddy of all Ventura County clubs. This is a longstanding good-ol’-boy network,” Ginsberg said. . . . So how does she plan to lead the 100-member group? “With a smile,” she said.

WITHOUT WARNING: The California Supreme Court has ruled that the state should warn the public of the hazards of malathion before applying the pesticide to urban areas (A1). . . . Teri Gaishin of the Camarillo-based Group Against Spraying People, said the ruling comes too late for Ventura County, where malathion was sprayed 14 times between October and May. . . . “How can you protect yourself against the hazards if you don’t know what they are?” she asked.

HE AIN’T HEAVY: That’s what an attorney representing Guns N’ Roses keyboardist Darren (Dizzy) Reed told a Ventura County Municipal Court. (B1) . . . The band should be described as rock ‘n’ roll and not heavy metal, which carries a more “negative image,” the attorney said. . . . But Mark Roesler at Concrete Marketing, a New York-based company that markets bands like Metallica, Pearl Jam and others, says GNR is neither. “They are too heavy to be rock ‘n’ roll and not heavy enough to be metal,” he said. “They’re hard rock.”

THEY’VE GOT SEOUL: Ventura-based Kinko’s Inc., which has already expanded into Canada, Japan and the Netherlands, has set up a new branch office in Seoul. . . . The move is a joint venture with the Taein Shany Group of South Korea. Laura McCormick, a Kinko’s spokeswoman, said the move comes as no surprise. . . . “Korea is one of the world’s most dynamic economies outside Japan.”