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JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers STAR SPANGLED BANNER- An American flag flies over Sparky Anderson Field at California Lutheran University during the East vs.West All Star baseball game last Sunday. National Flag Day, which is celebrated today, was proclaimed in 1916 by President Woodrow Wilson and established by an Act of Congress in 1949. Read more about Flag Day on page 19A. More ... Time is running out to nominate candidates for the seventh annual Conejo/Las Virgenes Future Foundation's "CLvFFie" (pronounced "Cliffy") awards. The annual event honors individuals and groups from the region in several categories. More ... TREASURE TROVE- Calabasas Chamber of Commerce deputies Bob Epstein, left, and Kimberly Bordonaro, right, congratulate Judi Baumbach, center, of Woodland Hills, on winning a gift certificate for Natural Café in Westlake Village at the Chamber wine tasting last Thursday at the Calabasas Country Club. More ... The Malibu/Lost Hills Sheriff's Station hosted a training day last weekend that focused on how deputies should respond to local wild land fires. In attendance were more than two dozen motorcycle deputies assigned to various units throughout the county of Los Angeles. The motor deputies are equipped to be the first on the scene during wild land fires. More ... From area code 818 (Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Chatsworth, Hidden Hills, West Hills or Westlake Village), call (818) 878-1808. From area code 310 (Malibu or Topanga), call (310) 456-6652. Oak Park is located in Ventura County and is served by the Ventura County Sheriff's Department at (805) 494-8200. More ... Burglars stole a laptop computer bag, a car manual, an iPod, two computer memory sticks and sunglasses from a vehicle parked on Conejo View Drive May 31. The loss was $725. More ... The list of Sumac Elementary School GATE students responsible for producing the "Normal Chocolate Bar" cartoon that was aired on Time-Warner Cable also includes Christina Grico, Kaitlin Yi and Elizabeth Rizor. More ... Buddha, a 9-year-old yellow Lab, was spending a Sunday doing what dogs do in sprawling backyards. After bounding in and out of the nooks and crannies of his Old Agoura yard, Buddha cornered an adult rattlesnake coiled around a planter by the pool. More ... The inaugural Patricia Soteras student scholarship awards were presented last week at the Sagebrush Cantina in Calabasas by local dignitaries and members of the Agoura/Oak Park/Calabasas Chamber of Commerce. Soteras, who died in October 2006, was the Chamber's former executive director. More ... A memorial service is planned for Sat., June 16 to honor the life of Carlos Lacamara, a longtime Calabasas resident and artist who was dedicated to the study and revival of the city. Lacamara married Adria, an opera singer and model, more than 50 years ago. After the fall of the Fulgencio Bautista regime in Cuba, the couple fled to Washington, D.C. More ... The transition from elementary school to middle school can be a difficult time for young girls. A special class is now being offered to help ease this passage on Sundays from 4 to 6 p.m. starting Aug. 19 at Westlake Yoga Studio, 2277 Townsgate Road, No. 208, Westlake Village. There will be no class Labor Day weekend. More ... Gelson's Market will host a 25th anniversary outdoor festival from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sat., June 23 throughout the shopping center on Townsgate Road in Westlake Village. Gelson's and other tenants in the center will provide free food sampling, a tritip barbecue, homemade lemonade and other beverages, gift certificates and prizes. More ... The cold freeze of 2007 has positively impacted this year's harvest of stone fruits- fruits with pits- as farmers report that shoppers can expect a plentiful crop. The stone fruit season runs from May through October. Ken Lee of Ken's Top Notch Produce based in Reedley, Calif., said it's a record year for 2007. "This is a better crop than the last. More ... Youths and adults are invited to play in the Dave Klinzing Memorial Moorpark College Grass Volleyball Tournaments this summer. Sign-ins begin at 8:30 a.m. and play starts 9 a.m. Dates are Sat., June 23, July 14 and July 28 on the soccer field at Moorpark College, 7075 Campus Road. More ... The sixth annual Junior Fire Academy will be offered in two one-week sessions from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Thursday and 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Friday, July 9 to 13 and July 16 to 20 at the Ventura County Fire Department's Regional Training Center, 102 Durley Ave. at the Camarillo Airport. More ... Girl Scout Troop No. 1034 in Oak Park completed the highest form of award at the Junior level in Girl Scouting, the Bronze Award. More ... The Rotary Club of Thousand Oaks has named John Rutherford, recently retired chief executive officer of the Southeast Ventura County YMCA, as the recipient of the club's 22nd annual Wilfred A. More ... IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers MAD DASH- Far left, Monique Aingworth, 8, of Thousand Oaks, speeds ahead in a 50-yard dash during the Brownilympics held at Oaks Christian High School on Saturday afternoon. Brownilympics is a day of sports for first, secondand third-grade Brownie Scouts which strives to enhance the young girls' self-worth through a day of fun and activities. This year's theme was "Every Girl Goes Home a Winner." More ... Fabrige gallery store will offer art classes from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. beginning Mon., June 18 at 2282 Townsgate Road, Ste. 4, Westlake Village. The classes give instruction on using textiles to create works of art. Students may bring pieces of used, unwanted clothing. Attendance is limited. More ... Triunfo YMCA summer camp will begin Mon., June 18, and a camp for summer school students is also on the YMCA's summer calendar. The Triunfo YMCA, which serves Agoura Hills, Oak Park and Westlake Village, offers camps for children from kindergarten through eighth grades and a counselor-in-training program for ninth- and 10th-graders. More ... Topanga Summer Beach Bus service will start Mon., June 25 and operate through Labor Day, Mon., Sept. 3. The service provides Woodland Hills and Topanga Canyon area residents with an opportunity to visit Topanga and Will Rogers state beaches and Santa Monica Beach. More ... TALENTED YOUTH- Oak Park resident Michael Ebert, 12, will be part of the Johns Hopkins University summer program at California Lutheran University. Johns Hopkins' program for talented youth offers students with high academic skills the opportunity to study at various universities around the country. More ... Geologist John Alderson will lecture on "The Earth Beneath Us" at 2 p.m. Sat., June 16 at the National Park Service Visitor Center, 401 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. Alderson will discuss the geological history of the Santa Monica Mountains. He has worked for the L.A. County Natural History Museum and the geology department at UCLA. More ... The Boys & Girls Club of the West Valley will hold a community yard sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat., June 16 at 7245 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park. Funds raised will pay for renovations to the club building. For information, call (818) 610-1054. More ... Flag Day, celebrated in the United States on June 14, commemorates the adoption of the American flag by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress in 1777. Woodrow Wilson issued a proclamation that officially set June 14 as Flag Day in 1916. An Act of Congress established National Flag Day in August 1949. More ... Those four little words can fast become the bane of any family road trip. Honorary mention goes to "Stop fighting with your brother/ sister" and "Quit kicking my seat." If you've ever packed the family into the car for a road trip you're probably already familiar with this dialogue. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers NICE TO MEET YOU- Arlene Wilkoff's third-grade Yerba Buena Elementary School class hosts Trudy Shapiro's thirdgrade White Oak Elementary School class on the Yerba Buena campus on Wednesday. Taking a campus tour during their first time meeting are third-grade pen pals Marin McFarlane from Yerba Buena, left, and Kiersten Crouse of White Oak, both 9 years old. More ... Southern California Artists Painting for the Environment will present "Island and Estuaries," a benefit exhibit and sale of paintings, from July 1 through 29 at the Faulkner Gallery, Santa Barbara Main Library, 40 E. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara. More ... LAURA STARKS/Special to The Acorn BIG BOSS- Sumac Elementary School fifth-grader Jackson Orenstein trys out the mayor's seat after winning Mayor for a Day at the school's recent Slice of Paradise auction. Jackson and Mayor Dan Kuperberg lunched at Maria's in Agoura Hills and also toured the fire station and the Lost Hills Sheriff's Station. More ... The summer 2007 brochure for the community services program is now available. Classes are offered for parents and children, youth, teens and adults. Courses include dance, art, sports, cooking, fitness, fencing and foreign language. More ... IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers COLOR SPLASH- Guests at the eighth annual Angels of the Alliance luncheon, held at the Lake Sherwood Tennis Club on Wednesday afternoon, examine textiles from the Lavender Blue company. The luncheon raised money for children's programming at the Thousand Oaks Civic Arts Plaza. More ... Getting the whole family involved in something as simple as recycling can make a difference and can even be fun and easy. Take glass, for instance. All those jars of pasta sauce, beverage bottles and mayonnaise containers can really pile up. More ... IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers FOOTIES- Ilene Seigel, of Oak Park, folds pajamas during a break in the action at the Oak Park MOMS (Moms Offering Mom Support) Club garage sale fundraiser on Saturday. The MOMS Club is an international organization with hundreds of national clubs that offer support to stay-at-home mothers, needy children and the community at large. More ... The age-old chore of laundry is still one of the most frequently done but disliked household tasks. According to a recent survey conducted by Whirlpool brand, 70 percent of American women report that they do more than three loads of laundry in a typical week, with only 50 percent of men taking on the task that often. More ... The Area Housing Authority of the county of Ventura will offer free classes on homeownership. The next seminar is scheduled for 6 to 7 p.m. Tues., June 19 at the Camarillo Chamber of Commerce, 2400 Ventura Blvd., Camarillo. More ... Community RSS feed |
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