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4 LOS ANGELES TIMES VC FRIDAY, MARCH 5, 1999 B5 VENTURA COUNTY NEWS LEADER: Woman Cites Lessons New FYI MONICA: Few Flipping Over Intern's Book Debut f' f'' -fcfc. I "It- I I "Creative Options, A Day For Women" will be at Cal Lutheran University from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. Tickets are $30 general; $20 for seniors, $10 for students.

60 W. Olsen Road, Thousand Oaks. For more information, call 493-3345. lessons that have had the most influence on Mankiller. Today, Mankiller lives with her second husband, Charlie Soap, an administrator at the Boys Girls Club of Tahlequah, Okla.

The couple live on land her family acquired in a settlement with the federal government. Her daughters are grown and have their own children. "One thing that I learned from watching Cherokee people was no matter what would go on in their lives. they always found something positive to say," Mankiller said. It was Mankiller's ability to tease out the good and brush aside the bad that piqued the interest of' Creative Option planners.

"We've wanted to have Wilma for a long time." said Kateri Alexander, co-chajp-woman for A Day for Women. represents so much of what women are today. Thoughtful. Strong. Free thinking." Cal Lutheran started Creative Options 20 yearsidgo, woHuhg with the Thousand Oaks chapter of the American Assn? of University Women.

The idea was to present a day for women to address issues of importance to them, Alexander said. The daylong event kicks off with the keynote address and includes workshops. Seminar topics include "Women's Investment Strategies," "Managing Anger Differently," "Wildflowers of the Conejo" and "Sex after "It's a day to learn something new and also to be thoughtful. We don't have our children, husbands or office," Alexander said. "It's a time to play and be ourselves, without all the trappings of our daily lives." Urarst Castle NATIONAL fiKXTPAi'MC TUEMLR Find your way to ftanluis Obispo, on California's cental coast.

Yow'U, wonder what took you so long. 0. Releases 10-30 million between her book sales, magazine deals and foreign interviews. But no copies of her book had reached the Ventura Bookstore on Thursday. The independent shop, which prides itself on its more cerebral selection, had yet to receive the 10 books it had ordered and was not anticipating heavy sales.

"We didn't sell that many of the' Starr Report," said clerk Harmony Kennedy. As possible substitutes for1 "Monica's Story," the store displayed "The Techniques of the Love Affair," "The Cheater's Handbook," and "The Erotic Way: Everything You Need from Stories to Playthings for an Amorous, Unforgettable Evening." Times staff writer Coll Metcalfe contributed to this story. Cut I less ttmwM. ANNECUSACK Lo Angeles Times Monica Lewinsky's tell-all was mostly ignored in Ventura County. Continued from Bl on the shelf and gathers dust" The chain's superstore in Ventura displayed the tell-all only behind its counter, and a worker reported it had sold 10 of its 40 copies by early afternoon.

At the B. Dalton Bookseller in Oxnard, about that many copies had been bought one by a middle-aged man who made a point of saying the book was for his wife. "Monica's Story" sat beside the B. Dalton cash register, an "impulse item" placed just a few feet away from "How to Be a Great Lover." Across the store sat "When Your Lover Is a Liar." At 30 off, the white-with-gold hardcover carried the largest discount of any of the bookstore's aside from a 75 -off clearance shelf that included guides for Beanie Baby collectors and a tape on how to speak Hindi. Maureen Mena of Oxnard, who was buying a deeply discounted cookbook for $1.07, said she prefers true crime novels.

She called Lewinsky a "slut" "I have read some biographies," Mena said, "but they have to be about somebody who does more than what she does." A Fillmore man who would not give his name said he had heard enough about America's most famous intern and her styry. "I wouldn't waste my money on that," said the man, who said he likes to read Westerns. Joy MacKinnon said she isn't a literary snob admitting she reads "junky stuff if I want to escape" but what the Oxnard dance instructor really wants to escape these days is Monicagate. "I am one of the few people who meant it when I said I'd had enough after the second week," said MacKinnon, who was searching for Joyce Carol Oates' latest work! Despite the disinterest expressed Thursday by numerous Ventura County book buyers, somebody, somewhere must be buying Lewinsky's biography. Just hours after its release, her book was already headed for the top of national' bestseller lists.

Major online vendors great for shame-free purchasing reported Lewinsky's confessional was their Make Save Money and i mic emu Continued from Bl writer and then started the tribe's community development department She believes Native Americans should be self-sufficient and encouraged to work out their own problems. As part of that effort, she started the tribe's first elderly program, a child-nutrition program, a nursery and a garden business. By 1979, Mankiller had finished her bachelor's degree and began commuting to the University of Arkansas to work toward her master's. A head-on collision while en route to school killed her best friend and left Mankiller in a wheelchair for nearly a year. That triggered the development of myasthenia gravis, a disease characterized by extreme muscle fatigue and weakness.

"Without my earlier illnesses, I don't think I could have been an effective leader of the Cherokee Nation," Mankiller said. In 1983, she was elected the tribe's deputy chief and took over as chief in 1985. Twice reelected, Mankiller was a popular leader. During her tenure, tribal membership tripled and the annual budget doubled. Unfortunately, health was again an issue and in 1990 Mankiller had to have a kidney transplant.

After a few years of relative good health, Mankiller again began to feel ill. She decided not to run for reelection in 1995 and later learned she had lymphoma. The cancer caused her body to reject the transplanted kidney and she had to have a second transplant In the meantime, she managed to co-write "Mankiller: A Chief and Her People," about her life and the history of the Cherokee Nation. She has edited another book and is working on three others. The new projects focus on the lessons that Cherokee culture has to teach Classic Hollywood Actors 200 Amazing Photos! 1-800-246-4042 CosAxiflclcsSTtmcs A SAN LUIS OBISPO NEXT RIGHT durwicni IttHUM "Jt 1 No.

1 seller Thursday. Barnes Noble's Web site, for reported 2.25 orders per minute. Likewise, Lewinsky's chat with Barbara Walters on Wednesday was popular nationally. An estimated 74 million people watched the two-hour interview, second only to the number of people who watched this year's Super Bowl. Though short on revelations, "Monica's Story," written by Princess Diana biographer Andrew Morton, features color photographs of Lewinsky's childhood and her time at the White House.

Chapter titles include: "He Was Like Rays of Sunshine," "Everyone Gets a Job With a Little Help" and "Sometimes I Miss Him So Much." Lewinsky's publisher, St. Martin's Press, said it shipped 450,000 copies of her book and its presses are standing by to print more. Lewinsky could receive about $3 a Clean Reduce Pollution Call for a free Visitors Guide till 1 800 San Luis Obispo Citiftrtf'i Cntml Cmi Visit our website: SAVE up to $1 50 on a new T0R0 E24 Carefree cordless electric mulching lawn mower by trading in your gas-powered mower during Project Clean Cut. SAVE harmful emissions from polluting Ventura County skies. One hour of gas-powered mowing pollutes as much as driving a new car 790 miles! Be one of the first 700 Ventura County residents to bring your operable gas-powered lawn mower properly drained of gas and oil to a participating metal recycling center from February 26 March 18.

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