A monument sign will be unveiled at 10:30 a.m. Sat., May 21 intended to draw residents’ and visitors’ attention to the Timber School built adjacent to the Stagecoach Inn Museum, 51 S. Ventu Park Road, Newbury Park. This occasion will celebrate the 10th anniversary of the completion of a replica of the schoolhouse, which was originally built in 1898 at the southeast corner of Kelly and Newbury roads. Razed in 1925, it was replaced by a larger facility that eventually became Conejo Valley High School.

The sign will be located on the westbound side of Lynn Road. Members of the Thousand Oaks Rotary Club paid for the sign in the hopes of "drawing more attention to the school, which has such great historical significance to the Conejo Valley," according to Rotary member Merv Kopp.

Randy Porter, an Industrial Arts teacher at Newbury Park High School (NPHS), enlisted 50 of his students over a four-year period to construct the school building. Thousand Oaks architect Neil Scribner drew up the plans for the replica, working from archival photographs of the school. Porter and 10 former NPHS students who participated in the construction of the replica will attend the commemorative celebration. Beth Needham, formerly of Thousand Oaks and now a resident of Dallas, Ore., will also attend. Beth and her late husband, Doc Needham, were instrumental in generating interest in building a replica of the Timber School.