PET PROFITS: The county is again eyeing...
PET PROFITS: The county is again eyeing a bid to license cats (B1). . . . The new policy is needed, animal regulation director Kathy Jenks says, because dog owners are “paying all the freight” for animal-control services. It might also cut down on the number of animals euthanized by forcing owners to take more responsibility for them, she says. . . . About 4,550 cats and kittens were put to death last year at the county’s Camarillo shelter.
D.A. PROBE: Dist. Atty. Michael D. Bradbury used a land speculator as an undercover operative in late 1993, the developer’s lawyer and ex-girlfriend say (B1). . . . Landowner Donald T. Kojima’s former girlfriend says he wore a hidden tape recorder during a meeting with then-Oxnard Councilman Michael Plisky, but no wrongdoing was found. Plisky, now a member of the Oxnard Harbor District board, says he knew nothing of the probe.
BIG TIME: Five-year-old M.E. Powell will be larger than life Sunday when she is featured, along with 47 other children with Down’s syndrome, on the Sony Jumbotron in New York’s Times Square. . . . The aim of the photos is to show that people with Down’s syndrome can be included in community activities. . . . The Santa Paula girl headed east for the event along with her parents, Marietta and Noble Powell III. Although the trip includes a march with TV actor Chris Burke, M.E. is most excited about the airplane ride and seeing a movie on the plane, her dad said.
NEW YORK WEST: Barneys New York, the upscale clothier with 14 stores across the United States, isn’t launching a boutique in Ventura County. But it is opening an outlet--at the Camarillo Factory Stores. . . . Barneys will join a Saks Fifth Avenue Outlet there, with both due to open in November. Even though the store names are big, mall manager Terri Cameron wants to make it clear that the prices aren’t. “We’re trying to offer higher-end merchandise at the lower prices,” she says.
