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August 27, 2009  RSS feed
It’s back to school for Conejo Valley’s young people
Despite budget cuts and teacher layoffs, there’s a bit of good news coming with the start of the school year today. Nearly as many students as last year are starting school today in Conejo Valley Unified School District, a welcome departure from the past few years of seriously declining enrollment. More...
Supervisors say pension plans to remain intact
By Carissa Marsh cmarsh@theacorn.com

While the Ventura County Board of Supervisors is willing to admit that the exorbitant cost of employee entitlements is draining the county budget, the board isn’t ready to reduce pension plans for county workers. More...

Gardeners victimized by vandals
By Nancy Needham nancy@theacorn.com

Imagine Peanuts’ comic strip characters Linus and Lucy going to their pumpkin patch to find vandals had destroyed their pumpkins before they even had a chance to grow big and orange. That’s what recently happened to children in Thousand Oaks. Pumpkins they had grown from seeds were smashed to bits. More...

 Health & Wellness
• Early Alzheimer’s diagnosis is beneficial
As the nation debates how to control costs as part of healthcare reform, an Alzheimer's disease researcher says early diagnosis and treatment of the disease could save America billions of dollars in costs down the road. More...
• Nursing students honored for achievement
• New Alzheimer’s Association program focuses on kids
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 Dining & Entertainment
• article has image The Movie Nut
A film by Quentin Tarantino is usually both predictably unpredictable and predictably bloody. More...
• article has image A local restaurant stays in the family
• Local authors to promote their work
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 Bulletin Board
• article has image Datebook
THURS., AUG. 27 American Sewing Guild 7 to 9 p.m. at Kingdom Sewing Center, 1790 Los Angeles Ave., Simi Valley. Learn new techniques, show and tell, go on field trips. Contact: Jeanette Swanson Web: www.asgla.org Time: 7:00 p.m. Date: 8/27/2009 FRI., AUG. 28 More...
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 Schools
• article has image Challenging year expected for CVUSD
Superintendent’s column
Conejo Valley Unified School District (CVUSD) opened its doors this week to 22,000 energized students and a highly talented staff. In spite of two years of catastrophic budget cuts, the quality of education in our district remains high. More...
• Be smart: Stretch your back-to-school dollars
• CLU high in national ranking
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 Sports
• article has image La Reina sophomore already a producer for the cross country team
Rachel Brajkovich is the accidental long-distance runner. For years, the La Reina High sophomoretobe focused on soccer. Then a longtime friend urged her to give cross country a try. “She was always really, really athletic. I told her we should do the sport together,” said Keilani Phillips, who runs cross country with the Regents. More...
• article has image Travel team is peaking
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 Business
• Learn to start a business
Women’s Economic Ventures will offer its core, 14week selfemployment training classes in September in Oxnard, Thousand Oaks and Ventura. The training program is targeted to women and also serves men, and provides guidance on how to start, operate or expand a business.  More...
• EYE ON LOCAL AREA STOCKS
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 Police
• article has image Sheriff's Blotter
Newbury Park A male, 24, was arrested on suspicion of driving under the influence of alcohol or drugs at 2:11 a.m. Aug. 19 at Lynn Road and Greenmeadow Drive. More...
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 Faith
• Lutheran teens still helping with Katrina recovery
Much of the latest work will help prevent a future hurricane disaster
A bus carrying dozens of Lutheran teens from Nebraska and Wisconsin pulled into the Falgout Canal marina, a 70-mile drive from New Orleans. They strapped on life jackets and stepped into several boats. More...
• Chabad to host High Holiday Services at Hyatt
• Catholic store moves to a new location
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 Family
• article has image Kid talks a lot
PICARELLA HOUSEHOLD —My son started talking when he was about 2 years old, and now, at age 6, he continues to talk and talk and talk—even in his sleep— because, he said, God made him that way. Sources suggest the trait comes from the parents. More...
• Four Seasons Hotel will host a ‘Salute to Women in Business’ charity
• Lemonade stand to help cancer research
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 Letters
• Servants in public safety deserve generous pensions
Wow. Kathryn Levesque’s jealousy of public employee pensions comes across loud and clear (Acorn Aug. 20 letters, “It’s affordability that matters on public pensions”). I’m still laughing that she compared the risk of a crossing guard to a police officer. More...
• Obama’s plan for healthcare deserves to die
• The White House only wants to hear its proponents
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 Editorials
• If cops wrote more tickets, maybe we would drive better
Nobody likes getting a ticket. They’re costly and time consuming. They’re embarrassing. They remind us that we’re not perfect (just in case we needed a gentle reminder about that .) More...
• article has image Cartoon
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