QUICK FIX: They used to be called...

QUICK FIX: They used to be called pawnshops. Now they’d like to be known as collateral lenders. But they still offer a quick buck to those who may not have the best credit (E2). . . . In Ventura, most of his customers come in looking for loans of $50 to $100, said Harry Kelmanson, co-owner of the Pawn Shop of Ventura, which takes everything from jewelry to cars and guitars as collateral. . . . And 70% to 90% come back to redeem their property, he said.

ECO-TRAVEL: Ojai educator Marilyn Mosley and student Cassie Watkins will journey to Malaysia next month to speak at a United Nations forum on business and the environment. . . . Both are old hands at world travel for their cause. Mosley, director of Laurel Springs School, went to Brazil and New York in 1992 to help students show off their environmental videos, and 16-year-old Cassie has just returned from a U.N. internship in England. . . . The pair’s talk in Malaysia will be on what young people expect from business and industry.

STILL WORKING: “How it Works,” a cable-access show that ran in 1992 and ‘93, will return today with a look at how Oxnard’s Street Beat crime-prevention program is made. . . . Past shows by filmmaker Peter Kuehn examined such topics as sobriety checkpoints, 911 and bank robberies, and future programs are planned on deadbeat dads and how grants are awarded by the city of Ventura. . . . Catch the show on Ventura Channel 6 at 6 p.m.