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HANDS-ON TRAINING—Above, Firefighter Terra Vandewiele, left, of the Portland Fire Department helps Abigail Kerns of Newbury Park learn to use a fire hose during Ventura County Fire Department’s Girls With Grit fire camp April 15 at the Ventura County Fire Department’s Regional Training Center in Camarillo. Marisol Rodriguez will never forget the first time she

ALL FOR ONE—Above, students and firefighters put their hands together after the first day of Ventura County Fire Department’s Girls with Grit fire camp on April 15 at the department’s Regional Training Center in Camarillo. Below, Jazlyn Ponce, left, of Ventura hands off a doll she rescued to Maya Murillo of Ventura inside a simulated

GRIT—Kenna Bayer, above, learns to use a hose at Ventura County Fire Department’s training center in Camarillo. At right, girls and firefighters celebrate a fantastic first day of camp. Marisol Rodriguez will never forget the first time she saw a female firefighter. In an instant, she went from not knowing being a firefighter was possible

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Kick off the season at a Dodgers Holiday Fest. Watch Love Actually Live on stage. Celebrate Hanukkah. Head to Solvang for Julefest. Nosh on chiles en nogada, sufganiyot, tamales and giant cookies. Start your holiday shopping on Small Business Saturday.

When Peter Murrieta’s show “Greetings From Tucson” premiered in the fall of 2002, he thought it was the beginning of a Latinx boom in television. His show, based on his own experience growing up, came months after the ABC premiere of “George Lopez,” another sitcom about a middle-class Mexican American family. “I guess because I was a young writer then and I wrote my first pilot and it got shot, I just assumed that we were edging towards that kind of storytelling,” he said. Nearly ...