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A firefighter was injured while battling a blaze at a Thousand Oaks home last week. At about 4:50 a.m. Wed., Jan. 21, a call came in to the Ventura County Fire Department reporting a house on fire in the 2200 block of Indian Sky Lane. More ... Deputies arrested a Los Angeles man on suspicion of ATM skimming after a T.O. resident noticed something wasn't right when he used an automatic teller machine in Newbury Park. At 8 p.m. on Jan. 16, the witness went to the Bank of America at 2345 Borchard Road to use the drive-through ATM. More ... A teenager doing a wheelie on a sports motorcycle was seriously injured when he crashed into a motor home parked on the side of the road, according to traffic Sgt. Jim Kenny. The victim wasn't wearing a helmet. Thousand Oaks resident Christian Klocheck, 19, was riding east in the 800 block of Calle Tulipan, not far from his home, at 1 p.m. Jan. More ... A Save Open space and Agricultural Resources organization is soliciting input from residents of Conejo Valley and Oak Park on open space protection and the release of SOAR's "At Risk Report." A free community meeting to study the issues will be held from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., Jan. 31 at the Oak Park Community Center, 1000 Kanan Road, Oak Park. More ... Ventura County Supervisor Linda Parks is seeking qualified citizens to serve on the Alcohol and Drug Advisory Board. The board is a liaison between the community, the Ventura County Alcohol and Drug Programs and the board of supervisors. More ... Dennis Gillette, mayor pro tem of Thousand Oaks, has been named this year's chair of the board for the Ventura Regional Sanitation District. Gillette has served on the board since 2000. More ... A federal grand jury charged a Westlake Village man Tuesday with selling the hallucinogenic mushrooms that were taken by a 17-year-old girl who was later hit and killed by a car on the 101 Freeway. Stephen Thomas Roman, 30, had been in custody in Ventura County since September 2008 on separate charges of selling the drug Ecstasy. More ... A Chevy Blazer ended up in the water at The Lakes shopping center, and its driver was arrested after a traffic accident at 6:09 p.m. Jan. 22. First, the green 1998 SUV rearended a gray 2007 Lexus stopped in traffic. The Lexus was driven by a woman who was traveling east on Thousand Oaks Boulevard. More ... Environmental activists are reminding the public that much of Ventura County's open space, including hiking trails and farmland, won't stay protected forever and that action needs to be taken now to protect the land from development. More ... A story that ran on Jan. 22 indicated that California Lutheran University and La Reina High School are part of a partnership proposing to open Holy Trinity High School on the University Elementary School site. Neither CLU nor La Reina are partners in that enterprise. More ... City Manager Scott Mitnick believes in sticking to a plan. He got the idea from a fortune cookie he opened many years ago at the former Chin's Chinese restaurant. It said, "You will maintain your goal if you maintain your course." That advice continues to drive Mitnick's vision for Thousand Oaks. More ... Under the cover of night, a nearly 800-year-old document slipped into the archives at the Reagan Library in Simi Valley earlier this month. Following a long flight from the parchment's usual home at the Lincoln Cathedral in England, the document was handdelivered in a secure container flanked by security guards then locked up in storage overnight. More ... AUTHOR- - Michael Lodato, PhD, business professor emeritus at Cal Lutheran University, had his second book published in two years, "Management of New Product Launches and Other Marketing Projects." Lodato has worked in sales and marketing for more than 38 years as a company president, senior executive and consultant to many companies in the U.S. and Europe. More ... Ten ethnically and racially diverse high school juniors from the greater Los Angeles area represented the Anti-Defamation League Pacific Southwest Region on the ADL Grosfeld Family National Youth Leadership Mission in Washington, D.C., on Nov. 16 to 19, 2008. More ... The Conejo Valley Audubon Society announces its birding trip schedule for February. •Tom Halpin will lead a trip to Camino Real Park on Sat., Feb. 7. The group will look for Canada warblers, worm-eating warblers and Williamson sapsuckers. For more information, call Halpin at (805) 746-4598. More ... "Dogtor" Louie is a healer. The tiny, chocolate-colored dachshund is owned by Dr. Judy Welch, a Thousand Oaks-based psychologist who learned that Louie had a knack for helping people in therapy. More ... People of all ages, from beginners to experts, are invited to join the 10th anniversary of the Great Backyard Bird Count at 8 a.m. Sun., Feb. 15 at Mountains Restoration Trust at Headwaters Corner, 23075 Mulholland Hwy., Calabasas. More ... The Westlake Village Art Guild will meet Tues., Feb. 3 at Naylor's Banquet Center, 75 W. Thousand Oaks Blvd., Thousand Oaks. The buffet dinner will be from 6 to 7 p.m. with a demonstration of Roland Roy doing portrait sketches from 7 to 9 p.m. More ... Redwood Middle School will have an informational meeting at 7 p.m. Wed., Feb. 11 in the school's gym, 233 W. Gainsborough Road, Thousand Oaks. The meeting is for parents of incoming students. For more information, call (805) 497-7264. More ... Conejo Recreation and Park District, in partnership with local Rotary clubs, has begun renovation of the Wildwood Fort area at the park district's Wildwood Neighborhood Park. The fort, acquired by the district in 1977, was constructed in the mid-1960s as an attraction for the sale of homes in the Wildwood tract. More ... Community RSS feed |
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