Asian Themes Inspire Pacific Rim Homes
      Elyssa Parton, owner of Pacific Rim Home, recently hosted an open house for author and designer Barbara Bacigalupi, who shared her inspiration and path for achieving happiness, tranquility and prosperity.
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Pierce Brothers dedicates Garden of Reflections
      CAUSE TO PAUSE— Pastor Bruce Kitabjian of Grace Bible Church in Newbury Park prepares for the ribbon cutting at the Garden of Reflections at Pierce Brothers Valley Oaks Memorial Park in Westlake Village. The garden is a place for families whose loved ones have been cremated.
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Chef Service Gets Personal
      Cooking Light Chef Personal Chef Service is a new business that offers a healthy eating alternative for busy professionals and people with little time. Cooking Light provides service in Calabasas, Malibu, Woodland Hills, Agoura Hills, Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks.
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Cooking Up Something Good
      Mr. Omelette, the full-service dairy and vegetarian caterer, has been in business for more than 25 years in Maryland and has recently opened a local office. The business caters events from casual parties including birthdays and bridal showers to elegant affairs such as weddings and bar mitzvah receptions. Mr.
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Tree Lighting at Promenade
      The Promenade at Westlake will host the annual tree lighting celebration at 7 p.m. tomorrow, Nov. 21 at the shopping center, Westlake and Thousand Oaks boulevards in Westlake Village. The 60foot white fir Christ mas tree from Mt Shasta will be decorated with 4,000 lights and 2,000 ornaments.
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Bank's 'green' savings not just dollars
By Michelle Knight knight@theacorn.com
      A recycling pilot program at Santa Barbara Bank & Trust could keep as much as eight tons of waste out of a landfill. The company had no formal recycling program in place for its 1,400 employees until it began developing one with the city of Santa Barbara about this time last year.
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Agoura Hills movie theater changes hands
      Locally owned and family operated Regency Theatres Inc. has acquired the Agoura Hills 8 from Mann Theatres. The Agoura Hills theaters will be renamed the Regency Cinema Center. The eightscreen cinema features both digital and THX sound.
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Chamber hosts holiday reception
      The Agoura/Oak Park/ Conejo Valley Chamber of Comerce will host a holiday reception from 5 to 8 p.m. Fri., Dec. 5 at Lindero Country Club. Community leaders and government officials will attend, and special gifts donated by local businesses will be handed out.
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Leases signed in Westlake
      Joint venture partners Amstar Group, a Denverbased real estate private equity firm, and Newport Beach-based Steadfast Companies announced that the group's Westlake Park Place development signed approximately 100,000 square feet of leases during the first nine months of 2008, bringing the occupancy to 45 percent.
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EYE ON LOCAL AREA STOCKS
      Company Name AMGEN BAXTER BEVERLY HILLS BANCORP CAMINOSOFT CORP. CHEESECAKE FACTORY DIODES, INC DTS, INC. ELECTRONIC TECHNOLOGY SENSOR INC. ESNR HOMESTORE.
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