Wedding bells heard
     MAKING MUSIC TOGETHER- Former "American Idol" contestant Stefanie Safer will marry Oak Park High School and USC alumnus Jeremy Frank on March 16. The couple plan to live in Encino Village with their dogs Harley and Milo.
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Art academy has new home
      The Summer Art Academy has signed a multi-year agreement with Heschel West in Agoura Hills beginning this summer to use their facilities to host its creative arts summer camp for boys and girls ages 5 to 11. The academy is a specialty art camp offering a variety of workshops in cartooning, ceramics, hand drumming , pastels, fencing, woodworking and more.
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Newbury Park teen is Youth of the Year
     IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers WINNER- Jean Portillo, 13, of Newbury Park reads his essay on what the Boys & Girls Club of Conejo and Las Virgenes means to him at the club's awards ceremony in Agoura on Friday evening. Portillo was named the club's Youth of the Year for 2007.
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Lindero Canyon hosts FiddleFest
      The award-winning orchestra program at Lindero Canyon Middle School presents the annual FiddleFest at 7:30 p.m. Wed., March 5 in the school's Steven Capretta Memorial Gymnasium, 5844 Larboard Lane, Agoura Hills.
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Art exhibit will highlight mountains
      The fifth annual Allied Artists of the Santa Monica Mountains and Seashore artist showcase will take place from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sun., March 30 at Headwaters Corner, Mulholland Highway and Old Topanga Canyon Road North, Calabasas.
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13-year-old student heads off to college
      The day before her 13th birthday on Jan. 17, Michelle Vaisman of Agoura Hills was accepted into the Mary Baldwin College Program for the Exceptionally Gifted, a four-year liberal arts college in Staunton, Va.
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