Cruise Nite again hosting Ready
Santa Paula Emergency Preparedness

September 04, 2015
Santa Paula News

Friday’s Cruise Nite will kick off a weekend of fun when visitors will be cruisin’ to the Cruise Knights band and enjoy the annual Ready Santa Paula Emergency Preparedness event where you’ll learn all about being ready for any emergency!

Cruise Nite, Ventura County’s most famous car show, is held on East Main Street between 7th and 10th streets; so popular is the monthly display that more pre-1975 cars also spill onto various adjacent side streets.

Cruise Nite offers a free night out on the town with great music, unique shopping and plenty of fine dining with many restaurants offering Cruise Nite specials. Each month a new Cruise Nite T-shirt featuring a regularly displayed car and designed by Wendell Dowling is offered for sale.

Cruise Nite offers an array of pre-1975 vehicles that stretch for blocks where admirers can enjoy the show - and plenty of socializing - from about 5 p.m. to dusk.

Each September Cruise Nite — sponsored by the Santa Paula Police Officers Association and Chamber of Commerce — generously shares space with the annual Ready Santa Paula Emergency Preparedness Display. 

According to Steve Lazenby, chairman of Santa Paula Citizens Corp, which sponsors the Ready Santa Paula event, this year Troop Real Estate has “Offered to let us use their parking lot right at the corner of 8th and Main for many of our Ready Santa Paula displays...it’s a great location,” that will offer Cruise Nite visitors a variety of things to look at and do.

“We’re hoping that members of the Santa Paula Department will be able to do a heavy rescue extrication,” and cut up a car right there on Main Street to show how the Jaws of Life work.

In addition, Lazenby said the SPFD is also conducting a Sidewalk CPR training course, which only takes a few minutes to learn the hands only method of cardiopulmonary resuscitation. 

Each person that takes the training can be entered in a contest to win dinner for two at La Cabana.

There will be a display from the City Building & Safety, fire extinguisher training, VCSD Upper Ojai Search & Rescue and of course Santa Paula Fire among others.

Said Lazenby, “Our Theme this year is ‘Be Prepared’ and that means for anything...earthquake, fire, flood — we’re supposed to have a pretty significant El Nino this year — be prepared for anything. There are some basics,” such as always having an emergency kit and water for your family and pets, as well as how to turn off utilities, “that people really have to do or know that would make a world of difference in an emergency.”

The Santa Paula Citizen Corps sponsors ready Santa Paula each year,

Be sure to bring your camera or video equipment to Cruise Nite, an event that has proven enormously popular for taking pictures and shooting film. Many Cruise Nite visitors even use social media to post the fun online as it is happening in historic Downtown Santa Paula.

The popular Cruise Knights band even took their name from the car show.

Cruise Nite runs from about 5 p.m. to dusk. 





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