Gives thumbs down to Home Depot
      Do we really need another Home Depot in Thousand Oaks to fill the vacant Kmart building on Hampshire Road? Don't we already have a Home Depot in Thousand Oaks just a few miles away?
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Home Depot not a good fit in Westlake Village
      The Westlake Village where Home Depot's Rick Greene points out that Kmart was developed 35 years ago as a major retail operation is not the same Westlake Village in 2007. The Newbury Park Home Depot is a fine store that carries everything, and like so many, it's well situated in an i...
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Westlake doesn't need another home improvement store
      What makes Westlake Village different from many other areas is the absence of megastores. It's mainly a residential community with a few neighborhood shopping centers and a number of small businesses, which create a villagelike ambience that has attracted many families.
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The city needs more facilities for entertainment
      Can anyone tell me why we have such a huge population in Conejo Valley and absolutely no recreational facilities? Where are a bowling alley, ice skating rink or skateboarders' park? Instead, we have restaurants and movie theaters galore. Not even an IMAX.
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Sad that another store is saying goodbye
      I like to read the Acorn because it has good local coverage and a higher percentage of good news versus bad than most local papers. It was an unusual thing about the May 31 edition that the bad news came in the form of a full page ad, stating that Newbury Park Hardware will be closing...
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Condo project a bad idea for Newbury Park
      I am appalled by the condos arising at Reino and Maurice Drive in Newbury Park. The condos are practically on top of Reino Road. Residents who will be living in the condos will be breathing the fumes of passing cars and trucks on Reino in addition to the diesel fumes of Albert...
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Some things bug her; others don't
      After reading the May 31 editor's opinion in the Thousand Oaks Acorn, the last sentence summed it all up for me: "If something's bugging you, share it with other readers." So that's the point of the letters to the editor? Writing about things that "bug" us?
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Evolution is a matter of opinion
      Ah, evolution! Taken by itself the idea of evolution is no mystery; it means "change over time." By example, look at parents and their children. The kids are not the same as their mom and dad. They've changed. The trouble with that word, evolution, is that it has become a code which mean...
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Small rattlers a big problem
      I want to compliment Nancy Needham on her article in the May 31 Thousand Oaks Acorn about this season's rattlesnakes.
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Music director will be missed at NPHS
      In a student's eyes, tragedy hits hardest when it affects them personally. My world changed this year dramatically on Mon., Feb. 26 when Mr. Garcia, the band director at Newbury Park High School, indicated in a letter to his Panther Band family he had submitted his letter of res...
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Joe Wilson is full of lies
      Joe Wilson is a selfpromoting partisan hack. He claimed that Dick Cheney sent to him Niger, that his wife, Valerie Plame, had no role in his selection and that his trip debunked the notion the Iraqis were seeking uranium.
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