Safety measures being put in place
      This is in response to Keren Stainfeld's letter encouraging Oak Park Unified School District to take steps to curtail campus bullying in order to prevent an incident such as the one in Oxnard from occurring in our community.
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Taking stock in Mary Pallant
      Thank you, reporter Sophia Fischer, for reminding voters about Mary Pallant's race for Congress in the Acorn Newspapers of Feb. 28 and 29. There's an alternative for change and that real change in Washington begins with real change at home.
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Oak Park comes through
      What an amazing week in Oak Park. First, I was asked to speak at an Awareness Fair to seventh graders about diabetes, the fastest growing epidemic among teens and adults, at Medea Creek Middle School.
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Editorial lets the 'secret' out
      Apparently the Oak Park High School Senior Life Skills Retreat is no longer a well-kept secret. Yes, well overdue for the credit it deserves, that credit cannot come from a wellwritten tribute in a local newspaper.
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Praise proved to be 'offensive'
      I'm writing in response to the Feb. 21 editorial about Oak Park High School's Life Skills retreat. While I recognize that it was intended to praise Jeff Appel's program and highlight the positive effects it can have on the students who attend, I find the mere publication of it o...
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And now, here's the back story
      The Feb. 21 Acorn featured a story about Christopher Leps' new film "Ed & Vern's Rock Store." The film extols the nearly 100-year-old property as a mecca for local history as everything from a stagecoach stop to a celebrity motorcycle bar.
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