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JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers COUNTRY IN THE CITY—Sheep graze in the hills of Westlake Village north of Thousand Oaks Boulevard between Lindero Canyon Road and La Baya Drive in preparation for a new YMCA/ city sports park. Sheep and goats are being used to keep the grass short in order to prevent other animals from nesting on the property. Construction on the 30-acre recreation facility is expected to begin in late spring. More ... After hearing from 11 citizens on Feb. 5, the Agoura Hills Planning Commission postponed a decision about whether to place a cell tower at Lindero Canyon Middle School. The public hearing was continued to March 5. Representatives from Omnipoint Communication Inc. More ... A Westlake Village man charged with selling hallucinogenic mushrooms that led to a teenager's death in 2004 pleaded not guilty last week at U.S. District Court in Los Angeles. Stephen Roman was indicted by a federal grand jury last month on charges that he sold hallucinogenic mushrooms to a group of young people at a Thousand Oaks apartment. More ... The Las Virgenes Municipal Water District and Triunfo Sanitation District will offer a free tour of the Tapia Water Reclamation Facility and the Rancho Las Virgenes Composting Facility, rain or shine, from 8:45 a.m. to 1 p.m. Sat., Feb. 28. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers TAKING CARE OF BUSINESS—Oak Park resident Eileen Kahn, left, talks with Debbie Vertiy and Ellen Segal of Oak Park and Eileen Ansill of Thousand Oaks during the Feb. 18 Agoura/Oak Park/Conejo Valley Chamber of Commerce mixer at Maria's Italian Kitchen in Agoura Hills. The Chamber leadership announced a "Shop Agoura" campaign in which certain businesses from Agoura Hills will be offering product and service discounts to local shoppers. For more information about the organization, visit www.agourachamber.org. The San Fernando Valley Business Journal last week ranked the Agoura Chamber No. 1 in the greater S.F. Valley with 1,513 members. More ... Community organizations and charitable groups that serve the Agoura Hills community are invited to apply for monetary grants through the city's Community Outreach Grant Program, City Manager Greg Ramirez said. The city will set aside between $16,000 and $20,000 for the program depending on the grant requests. More ... Although he's given 12 years of service to the city, Calabasas council member James Bozajian believes more work remains to be done. Bozajian, a Los Angeles County deputy district attorney, hopes to be reelected to the Calabasas City Council a fourth time in the March 3 election. He's has been mayor three times since joining the council in 1997. More ... The Calabasas Civic Center was named a 2009 Project of the Year by the Ventura County Chapter of the American Public Works Association. The award honors "outstanding public works projects," and was presented at a luncheon on Feb. 12. Members of the city staff made a 15minute presentation to the association membership. More ... Oak Park High School's tennis courts will be resurfaced in May. The $60,000 job will be split by the school district and Rancho Simi Recreation and Park District as part of a joint use and maintenance agreement between the districts. More ... "The values you learn as a Scout are like a compass," the former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley once said. "They can help you find your way through difficult and sometimes unchartered terrain." Scouts, welcome to real world. More ... Milt McAuley, a Santa Monica Mountains trailblazer, author and dedicated member of the Santa Monica Mountains Trails Council, made such an impact on friends and colleagues that a special memorial has been planned three months after his death. More ... Mariner Scout Troop No. 2003 Windjammer will hold an informational ice cream social and open house at 2 p.m. Sun., March 8 at the house of troop leader Alyssa Selogie, 5521 Rainbow Crest Drive, Agoura Hills. More ... The Conejo Valley Audubon Society announces its field trips for March. •Jean Hulberg will lead a group to Hill Canyon at 8 a.m. Sun., March 1. The group will look for goldfinches, sparrows, hawks, ducks, wrens, phainopeplas and yellow-rump warblers. For more information, call Hulberg at (805) 491-2666. More ... Two Oak Park schools are doing their part to help the less fortunate. Last week, students at Oak Hills Elementary School and the Oak Park Neighborhood Preschool filled 225 reusable green bags with toiletries and other necessities and delivered them to the homeless in downtown Los Angeles. More ... Oak Park High School's Comedy Sportz team will present a faculty versus students game at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 27 at Oak Park High School, 899 Kanan Road, Oak Park. The event will raise funds for City of Hope, a nonprofit organization that provides care and support to children with serious illnesses. More ... LAURA STARKS/Special to The Acorn JOY OF JUMPING—Students at Sumac Elementary School in Agoura Hills get in the spirit at the school's 14th annual Jump Rope for Heart fundraiser benefiting the American Heart Association. Sumac has collected and donated more than $90,000. More ... The Triunfo and Conejo Valley YMCAs will host an 18-hole golf fundraiser on Mon., March 2 at Wood Ranch Golf Club, 301 Wood Ranch Parkway, Simi Valley. Tee times begin at 8 a.m. and are available throughout the day. The Ys serve Thousand Oaks, Moorpark, Westlake Village, Agoura Hills and Oak Park. More ... The fourth annual Mardi Gras party and national bike tour are scheduled for Sat., Feb. 28 at The Greek@the Harbor, Ventura Village Harbor in Ventura. The bike ride starts at 6:30 a.m. with the Mardi Gras celebration party beginning at 12:30 p.m. Costumes are encouraged. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers SO CLOSE—Brad Stark of Westlake Village looks back in disappointment after swinging in vain at a $1 million holein-one opportunity. Stark and 25 other contenders participated in the shootout finals last Sunday. The competition at the Westlake Driving Range was sponsored by Optimist Business and Professional Club of Conejo Valley to raise money for local youth and community groups. More ... The 47th annual Gem, Mineral, Lapidary, and Fossil Show of the Ventura Gem and Mineral Society will take place March 7 and 8 at Ventura County Fairgrounds, 10 W. Harbor Blvd., Ventura. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Admission is free. More ... HAPPY TO HELP—President Pat Faley, right, welcomes Jon Tamiyasu as a new director on the board of directors of the Westlake Village/Agoura Meals on Wheels. Tamiyasu has volunteered at the organization for two years. The nonprofit provides meals to incapacitated or homebound residents of Westlake Village, Agoura and Oak Park. For more information, call Debbie Garretson at (805) 370-4295. More ... All-skills volleyball clinics will be offered from 10 a.m. to noon Sat., March 14 and 28, and April 11 at the Oak Park High School gym, 899 N. Kanan Road. The clinics are for boys and girls in grades three to eight. All skill levels are welcomed. More ... WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspapers MR. PRESIDENT—Children give rapt attention as Abraham Lincoln, played by William Peck, speaks at the Agoura Hills Library as part of the One City One Book Agoura Hills Reads event last Tuesday. Lincoln spoke about his life and presidency and answered questions from the audience. The children also celebrated Lincoln's 200th birthday and wrote letters to President Obama. More ... Registration for the spring 2009 T-Ball and Coach-Pitch leagues will be held until Mon., March 9, or until the leagues are full, at Juan Bautista de Anza Park, 3701 Lost Hills Road, Calabasas. T-Ball is open to children ages 5 and 6. Coach-Pitch is open to children ages 7 and 8. Ages are based on the age of the child on April 1. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers TO THE BEAT—D.J. Austin Jacobsen, a Calabasas resident and senior at Ojai Valley School, mixes the dance music as Daniel Gomez, a freshman at Moorpark College, stands by during a dance marathon at Agoura High School Feb. 21 to raise funds for Camp Kindle, a free camp for kids with AIDS. More ... The Westlake Village Art Guild will sponsor an Open Juried Art Show from March 19 to April 11 at the Thousand Oaks Community Gallery, 2331 Borchard Road, Newbury Park. A reception and awards ceremony for the show will be from 4 to 6 p.m. Sun., March 22 at the gallery. More ... A fundraiser for the Friends of the Agoura Hills Senior Center will be held from noon to 1:30 p.m. Sun., March 8 at Outback Steakhouse,137 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd, Thousand Oaks. The menu is salad, beverage and choice of salmon, sirloin or chicken. Cost is $15 for adults, $5 for children under 12. More ... The Teen Activities Council of the city of Calabasas will host an all-ages movie night at 6:30 p.m. Sat., March 7 in Founders Hall at the Calabasas Library, 200 Civic Center Way, Calabasas. The movie, "Kung Fu Panda," will begin at 7 p.m. More ... The Calabasas Library will host a reading program for children in kindergarten through third grade from 11:30 to 1:30 p.m. Sat., March 7 at the library, 200 Civic Center Way, Calabasas. Each child will be given 15 minutes to read aloud to a Paws 4 Healing therapy dog. More ... Community RSS feed |
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