School board trustee used horrible judgment
      We are parents that participated as volunteers in the (Tues. May 5) mockcongressional hearings at the Reagan Library for fifth-grade students of Conejo Valley. This has been a crash course in civics for our 10- and 11-year-olds as they wrap up their year of study on colonial Ameri...
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Two on the school board were an embarrassment
      I recently attended a school event at the Ronald Reagan Library. (Dolores) Didio and her cohort (Dorothy) Beaubien embarrassed our community again. Didio, president of the Conejo Valley School Board, addressed a group of elementary school children by asking them how they felt about...
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Calls for residents to rally against Home Depot
      As one of the many residents of Thousand Oaks who happens to have a Westlake Village ZIP code, we're part of Thousand Oaks, too. To all of those who oppose the proposal of the Home Depot on Hampshire Road, please write or contact the city of Thousand Oaks council members and planning co...
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Will miss the neighborhood hardware store
      It was with a touch of sadness that I read in the May 31 issue of the Thousand Oaks Acorn the ad announcing the closure of Newbury Park Hardware Inc. I shopped there knowing that an employee would always be readily available to direct me to a product I was looking for or to answer ...
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Convenience and friendliness are irreplacable
      We're very sad to hear that our favorite neighborhood hardware store will be closing its doors very soon. Over the last 17 years, we have grown to love the convenience and the friendliness of the staff at the store. One of those staff members was our teenage son.
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The city's financial woes are reprehensible
      Regarding Nancy Needham's June 7 article "City forced to dip into reserve funds to make ends meet," I find it absolutely unbelievable that Mayor Andy Fox and the City Council have the audac ity to sound the alarm about the city spending more than it's taking in.
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Principal's departure is still a mistake
      In response to "Let bygones be bygones over school principal" (May 31 T.O. Acorn ), Ms. Lomax's letter has had the polar opposite effect that it was trying to create. The parents at Wildwood had moved on. Ms. Lomax doesn't have her facts correct. She knows Ms.
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The plan for Lang Ranch Park needs more work
      I look forward to Lang Ranch Park for our family's play and for my three daughters' potential participation in youth sports there. As a frequent Conejo Recreation and Park District (CRPD) visitor, I also welcome the new park for exercise and the enjoyment of nature.
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Won't buy the political spin on Plame and Wilson
      Chris Coleman of Moorpark in a May 31 letter asserts that the Acorn was less than truthful in its coverage of a local appearance by former ambassador Joseph Wilson when it characterized his wife, Valerie Plame, as a covert CIA agent. Then he, ironically, goes on to repeat severa...
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Proud to be a radical secularist
      Newt Gingrich has given me a cool new name: radical secularist. In his May 19 Liberty University commencement address, he laid out the menace that I represent: "A growing culture of radical secularism declares that the nation cannot publicly profess the truths on which it w...
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