Champs take tournament by storm
      THUNDER ROAD— The Agoura Thunder, with players from the Agoura Pony Baseball, won the 2008 Veterans Day Championship in Ventura. Front row from left, Daniel Steinzeig, Cole Spooner, Cooper Miller and Zach Kariya. Middle row, Trent Haines, Cameron Kohler, Marty Shargel, Brett Candioty and Brendan Woods.
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Oaks Christian wins league
      RUN FOR THE GOLD— Oaks Christian Middle School Cross Country Boys' team show off their first-place plaque from the Delphic League Finals on Nov. 5 at Brentwood School. Back row, from left: coach Wanda Long, Julian Andrews, Jake Davis, Tyler Pidduck, Eric Jakob, coach Brian Renner.
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Stingrays go undefeated
      PERFECT RECORD— The AYSO Girls' U7 Stingrays celebrate their undefeated season. Team members are Jessica FitzWilliam, Alex Goldbeck, Katie Holmes, Brynn Larimer, Lynsay Garrett, Julia Winck and Madison Suwara. Coaches are Brian FitzWilliam and Andy Goldbeck.
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United girls move to championships
      BIG WINNERS— The United U19 Girls' soccer team are winners of the AYSO Area 10E championship game. Back row, from left: Katie Bartsch, coach Reuben Finklestein, Erica Von Buelow, Katelyn Kolakowski, Rachel Solomon, Syd Zide, Amy Zide, Kelsea Shorten, Denise Vodoklys, Syd Batt, Lauren Casnave, Katie Clabeaux, coach Bill Vinson.
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Agoura boy named Pankration champ
      YOUNG WARRIOR— Lindero Canyon Middle School seventhgrader Daniel Opferman displays the certificate he received after winning the Pankration National Championship in Santa Ana on Nov. 9. Pankration is the amateur form of ultimate fighting.
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Girl Scout organizes dance and magic show
Event benefits Adopt-a-Family holiday program
      Katelyn Smith will present her Girl Scout Gold Award project "Dance the Night Away and Be Amazed," a fiesta dance and magic show benefiting the AdoptAFamily Holiday Basket Program from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Sat., Nov. 22 at St. Jude's Catholic Community Church, 32032 W. Lindero Canyon Road, Westlake Village.
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Winners of coloring contest named
      Catherine Gronkiewicz is the grand-prize winner of the 2008 Calabasas Recycling Coloring Contest sponsored by the Calabasas Environmental Commission. She is a fourth-grader at Castlebay Lane Elementary School. Her winning drawing will be printed on the cover of the 2009 city of Calabasas Community Recycling Awareness Calendar.
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Santa pays special visit to The Oaks for holiday lighting
      HO HO HO— Santa Claus greets the Dorfman family of Calabasas—from left, Leslie, David, Maya, 4, and Karli, 6, a Lupin Hill Elementary School student—upon his arrival during the official holiday tree lighting in the new open-air section of The Oaks mall on Nov. 15 in Thousand Oaks.
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Tree festival helps children
By Nancy Needham nancy@theacorn.com
      Local volunteers from the Buena Ventura Childhelp Chapter will present the annual Festival of Trees Sun., Dec. 7 to fund their efforts to take care of 85 children who have been removed from their families. Childhelp is a nonprofit group organized to meet the physical, emotional, educational and spiritual needs of abused, neglected and at-risk children.
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