There were some incorrect dates in last week’s notice about the upcoming Conejo Players Youth Theatre Intensive program. The program gets underway Feb. 18 (not Feb. 25) and there is also a March 25 date on the schedule. —KJ
Acorn Series
A CITY REMEMBERS: SEPTEMBER 11, 2001
HONORING THOSE LOST—Above, a flag memorializing 9/11 hangs in the community room of the Thousand Oaks Elks Lodge during a remembrance on Sept. 11.
Helping hands carry the burden
FREE ACORN SPECIAL REPORT /// Invisible T.O.Part three of a three-part series On a chilly October afternoon, as the nearby 101 Freeway thundered in the background, Grace joined the line of men, women and children in the parking lot of the Premier Inn in Newbury Park waiting for a hot meal. Grace, 47, used to work in the mortgage industry but is now on disability due […]
Unhoused, not unloved
FREE ACORN SPECIAL REPORT /// Invisible T.O.Part two of a three-part series on homelessness in Thousand Oaks Erica Miller spends her days checking bus stops, street corners and river bottoms in search of her son Brandon. Brandon is 25 years old, mentally ill and homeless. He’s been living on the streets of Ventura County since March after he suffered a “complete psychotic break” earlier this year, […]
Homeless hometown: Living in the shadows
FREE ACORN SPECIAL REPORT /// Invisible T.O.Part one of a three-part series on homelessness in Thousand Oaks It was just after 5 on a Thursday morning in August when California Highway Patrol officers found Amy’s body lying lifeless in the northbound lanes of the 23 Freeway in Thousand Oaks. She’d been hit by a car after walking into fast-moving traffic. Then she was run over. Neither […]
Calendar
The Acorn’s guide to what’s going onTHURS., SEPT. 3 ‘The ReadIn Series’ Phylicia Rashad (“The Cosby Show”), Yvette Nicole Brown (“Community”) and Roy Wood Jr. (“The Daily Show”) are among 34 actors taking part in an online weekly reading marathon of W.E.B. Du Bois’ “Black Reconstruction In America.” The series, produced by CSU Channel Islands instructors MiRi Park and Heather Castillo, will also feature appearances by […]
Hike offers mountain, ocean views
ACORN SERIES /// A Trail Less TraveledThe southern edge of the Santa Monica Mountains runs along the Pacific coast. To get the best of both worlds and enjoy mountain and ocean views at the same time, check out Ray Miller Trail. Ray Miller Trail is the westernmost section of the Backbone Trail, a 67-mile-long path that runs the length of the Santa Monica Mountains from Will […]
Journey deep into the jungle
FREE How a failed rescue mission spawned another attempt 30 years laterPart three of a three-part series As Staff Sgt. James Shorten and his crew scoured the remote jungle where a fighter jet went down, time worked against them. Hundreds of enemy troops equipped with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades rushed toward the crew’s position. It was May 14, 1970, the day after U.S. Air Force Capt. Eric Huberth of Thousand […]
The pain of not knowing
Their brother missing in action, the Huberth sisters struggle to come to grips with lack of informationFinding Eric: Part two of a three-part series Today, more than 40 years after the conflict ended, 1,597 U.S. troops who served in the Vietnam War remain unaccounted for. Many were shot down over enemy territory or taken captive and died in prison camps. The figure comes from the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, a branch of the Department of Defense, […]
Finding Eric
Nearly 50 years after their brother’s jet was shot down over Cambodia, three T.O. sisters haven’t stopped searching for answersPart one of a three-part series Suzanne Huberth was 9 years old when the two men in blue military uniforms came knocking at her family’s home in Thousand Oaks. It was the start of summer 1970, and her brother, Eric, an Air Force fighter pilot, had only recently left for Vietnam. Suzanne, a latchkey kid, was home alone after school. […]
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