February 24, 2005 RSS feed / Community

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School traffic pattern unsafe at Sycamore Canyon, residents say

By Michelle Knight
knight@theacorn.com
At a traffic commission meeting last week about two dozen people protested a new traffic pattern for a Newbury Park school that routes some 400 vehicles a day onto residential streets. More...

Parents, teenagers face the facts concerning the dangers of driving

By Sophia Fischer
sfischer@theacorn.com

Jeremy Merrill has lost six friends in car crashes since 2001. The Camarillo High School student addressed several hundred parents and teens at a driving-readiness program last Friday at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. More...

Ready for a good night

TIME TO SLEEP ON IT-Neil Friedman, right, owner of Beds, Beds & More, teamed with 24-Hour Fitness of Thousand Oaks to offer contest participants a chance to win a queen-size mattress constructed of natural latex. More...

The Movie Nut takes a look at Oscars

By Dave Workman
Special to the Acorn

This year I sense an impending clash between "Old" Hollywood and the indie-rich, upstart More...

Sending daffodils gives hope

Ordering deadline for the Gift of Hope program is March 1

The American Cancer Society More...

Traveling the world in a day

JAMES FARRALLY/Acorn Newspapers FUN WAY TO LEARN-Above, Kailyn Spong, 8, shows her "passport" to Julia Clemen, also 8, during the Girl Scouts' "Thinking Day" festivities at California Lutheran University last Saturday. More...

Surviving the job market

Part three of three
By Billy Martin

Since other people More...

Drumming marathon to raise funds for Habitat for Humanity

Event will raise funds to rebuild houses in Southern Asia

Beginning at 6 p.m. Sat., March 12 at the Bang a Drum world percussion store, 1255 S. La Brea Ave., Los Angeles, a 24-hour marathon of nonstop drumming will raise funds for Habitat for Humanity. More...

Progress continues on exhibit

JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers WILL SOON BE READY FOR VISITORS-A recent media tour of the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library's Air Force One Pavilion had reporters and photographers examining the plane and seeing progress on the $31-million exhibit, w More...

Build trusts for special needs kids

Special-needs trust practitioner Diedre Dennis Wachbrit will address the long-range financial planning issues that face parents of special needs children at 6 p.m. More...

City Council denies construction of backyard sports court

By Sophia Fischer
sfischer@theacorn.com

When Dana and Patrick Lalley purchased their home on a 1-acre lot in Newbury Park 11 years ago, it was with the hope that they could build a sports court in their backyard. More...

Scholarship program gets boost

The James C. Basile Scholarship Fund, a program originally established to award one-year scholarships to Ventura County high school grads, will now grant multi-year renewable scholarships, according to the Ventura County Community Foundation (VCCF). More...

Newbury Park man, 75, leads neighborhood chainsaw contingent

By Michael Picarella
pic@theacorn.com

When it rains, it pours. That goes for friendship, too. More...

Board selects new trustees

Five new trustees have been selected to serve on the board of the Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation (CLVFF), a nonprofit, apolitical "think tank" created 33 years ago to study such issues as education, youth, housing and social concerns More...

Seniors group needs volunteers

Friends to the Elderly is seeking caring volunteers to visit lonely older adults in nursing homes or board and care facilities located throughout the Greater Los Angeles area and San Fernando and Conejo Valleys. More...

Newbury Park High School students take on global issues

WORLD-SAVVY- Seated from left to right, Chau Vu, Ruby Patel, Neelu Khosraviani and Jack Stride of Newbury Park High School join coach Gus Andrews at the recent Ventura County Academic WorldQuest Championship, sponsored by the World Affairs Council of More...

Writers club to host mystery author

Mystery writer Patricia Smiley, author of "False Profits," will be the featured speaker at the Ventura County Writers Club meeting at 7 p.m. Tues., March 8 at Borders Books, 125 Thousand Oaks Blvd. The event is free and open to the public. More...

Video festival, workshops open to local teenagers

The Thousand Oaks Arts Commission, in conjunction with Adelphia, Conejo Recreation & Park District and the Brooks Institute, have announced the seventh annual Conejo Teen Video Festival. More...

Comparing notes in music

A COMMON LANGUAGE-Composer Esa-Pekka Salonen of Finland, left, fields questions from California Lutheran University music department chairman Wyant Morton before a presentation of the composer's chamber music during the third annual New Music Concer More...

Native American craft workshop

Native American educator Oscar Ortiz will present a free cultural craft workshop in two sessions on Sun., Feb. 27 in the Native American Indian Culture Center at Rancho Sierra Vista/Satwiwa, Newbury Park. More...

Los Robles elects new chairman

C. Perin Johnson, MD has recently been elected chairman of the hospital More...