A 61-year-old grandfather from Camarillo was one of the Minutemen who volunteered to patrol the Arizona-Mexico border last week. Staff writer Zeke Barlow (zbarlow@VenturaCountyStar.com) and photographer Dave Getzschman went along. Their report on the Minutemen on the border will be in tomorrow's Star.

Also tomorrow, staff writer Sylvia Moore (smoore@VenturaCountyStar.com) explores the proposal that all of us will need a U.S. passport anytime we leave the country. She will explain the impacts, costs and how to get a passport.

We'll be staffing a meeting this afternoon between the county superintendent of schools and Camarillo and Oxnard school officials over the proposed Camarillo school unification issue. If there is movement on that story, we'll have it online later this afternoon.

Off the wires, there are a number of stories that caught our interest at the morning news budget meeting as possible A1 stories: President Bush's meeting today with Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon; the hearings on FDA suggestion to lift the ban on silicone-gel breast implants; and the raids in Baghdad rounding up Iraqi insurgents.