Doesn't trust the Home Depot
      Home Depot representatives Mark Tutino and Rick Greene stated in the May17 edition of the Thousand Oaks Acorn that 5,500 mailers and posters announced a Home Depot-orchestrated meeting on Sat., May 12. I live less than a mile from the site, and no one on my street or the surrounding a...
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Home Depot vows to follow city's procedures
      On Sat., May 12, the Home Depot rented space at Los Robles Golf Course Banquet Center to enable community residents to learn about its proposal to redevelop the long vacant Kmart building on Hampshire Road just off of the 101 Freeway as a smaller and aesthetically improved version ...
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Takes issue with claims made in article about former U.S. diplomat
      I'm surprised at the Acorn . Your paper is usually accurate; however, your story on Joe Wilson contained several errors. First of all, Joe Wilson was never the ambassador to Iraq. He was the ambassador to Gabon, one of Africa's smallest nations.
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Creationists either can't or won't understand evolution
      There was another letter in the May 17 issue of the Acorn from a creationist who is clearly entirely ignorant of science and biology. Alan Munson uses a very typical creationist technique of distorting and misquoting evolutionary biologists. Because they do not actually read any of the o...
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Caption, headline were out of line
      I'm well aware that the Acorn is not subject to the rigorous journalistic scrutiny that's required of larger and more well-known newspapers, but I'm very concerned with the sensational reporting that surrounded the pit bull, Blue. In the May 10 edition, the caption of the photo ...
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Let bygones be bygones over school principal
      Now that the dust has settled or almost settled at Wildwood Elementary School, I would like to make a few things clear to the public. Usually when a member of the school district is reassigned there's a reason behind that decision. In the case of Principal Darlene Hale, no one knows exc...
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Thank you, Acorn, for helping the Garden and Patio Tour
      On behalf of the Westlake Village Garden Club, I wish to thank The Acorn and the Thousand Oaks Acorn for all the publicity you gave to our 34th annual Garden and Patio Tour.
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