Local residents take car show award

      LOCAL WINNERS
- Agoura Hills residents Julie Lakins with her husband, Steve, share the the passenger seat of their Plymouth Prowler which won first place for special interest. In the mini-Prowler is Tony Antonelli,
car show chairman of the Kiwanis Club's annual "Men Can Cook, Too!" event in Westlake Village. See story and photo on page 26.

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Private road causes public concern in Agoura Hills
By John Loesing
Acorn Staff Writer

      Agoura Hills officials have ordered Dean Rasmussen, one of the city’s largest landowners, to stop building an unauthorized road that cuts through his property near Old Agoura.
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YMCA back to ‘Square 1’ in Westlake
By Debbie Sporich
Acorn Staff Writer

      It’s back to the drawing board for the YMCA in the city of Westlake Village. Plans were already underway for the Triunfo YMCA in Westlake Village to construct a $5.
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House could face trial in July; attorney claims civil rights violated
By Sharon Makokian
Acorn Staff Writer

      Alleged animal abuser Daniel Bruce House will be back in court on July 17, according to L.A. County Dep. District Attorney Martin L. Herskovitz.
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The real Gidget makes a visit to Malibu

      JOHN LOESING/The Acorn

STILL PERKY - Kathy Kohner as a youngster inspired her father to write a book about a beach-loving girl named Gidget. She visited Malibu recently and shares her story on page 19.

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The question is, ‘Who owns the land?’

      Lot 80 for a portion of the open space it owns behind Westlake Village Car Wash at Lindero Canyon Road and Thousand Oaks Boulevard. Burnette said that some neighbors objected to this idea as well. One homeowner did some research and found that the area next to the car wash was geologically unstable. "Once we saw these geological studies and found out that we had a fair number of residents that opposed development on this lot, we held off from further negotiations with the Y," Burnette said. Meanwhile, the YMCA had already expressed interest in the land swap idea and explored this option to the point of designing plans and paying for an additional EIR on top of the money it had already spent for the EIR on Lot 80.
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