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Southern California Edison will help its residential customers "follow the sun" with a free session on the California Solar Initiative program and the incentives it offers to homeowners who decide to "go solar" from 6:30 to 8 p.m. Wed., March 25 at Edison's Thousand Oaks Service Center, conference rooms A and B, 3589 Foothill Drive, Thousand Oaks. More ... The Las Virgenes Unified School District was paid a visit by one of its longtime supporters at the Lindero Canyon Middle School groundbreaking earlier this month. Alice C. Stelle, 87, is an LVUSD founder and one of the school district's visionaries. More ... GREENING UP THE TOWN—Clockwise from left, Oak Park resident Delaney Faul, 7, plants a tree with her dad, Jim Faul, in Gates Canyon Park March 14 at the Calabasas Arbor Day celebration. Delaney shows off one of the seedlings before planting. Calabasas residents Robert Kharitonov, 9, and Ara Yazaryan, 11, put the finishing touches on a sapling. More than 100 oak trees were planted and a composting workshop was held. Journalist Sterling Morton started Arbor Day in the Nebraska Territory in the early 1870s to help populate the flat plains region with more trees. More ... A woman died March 12 in Thousand Oaks after the car she was riding in veered from the 101 Freeway and crashed. More ... Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills has won the Bravo award sponsored by the Music Center of Los Angeles County. Principal Ron Kaiser accepted the honor at the 27th annual awards ceremony at the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles March 10. The ceremony was hosted by producer-director Garry Marshall. More ... Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area is seeking friendly and dynamic volunteers to help educate schoolchildren and work within the park's education programs. An interest in teaching and/or the natural sciences is desired. Programs are usually during the school week starting in late morning. More ... Zachary Bornstein of the Westlake Track Club beat 200 other athletes from across the U.S. and won the pentathlon at the amateur Athletic Union National Indoor Youth Championship in Merrillville, Ind. on Feb. 20 to 22. More ... KUMPING THROUGH HOOPS—The AYBA sixth-grade Warriors cap their season with a hard fought 36-33 championship win over the Lakers, securing a first place sweep of the season and a trip to the playoffs for the team. Front row, from left: Sean Bradley, Cody Franke, Otto Jursch, Sean FitzWillliam, Matt Albus, Michael Osborn and Ibrahim Din. Back row: Head Coach Gus Jursch, Assistant Coach Brian Fitzwilliam. More ... TINY DANCERS—Dance instructor and choreographer Gaylene Cascione, back, teaches youngsters to dance at the Agoura/Calabasas Community Center. Students were encouraged to dance like a butterfly or a princess. After class the children put on a recital for their parents. From left: Sarah Swonger, Elsa Leeney, Madeline Cascione and Charlee Lambert. More ... The city of Agoura Hills Department of Community Services presents the following programs. For more information, call the Agoura Hills Recreation Center at (818) 597-7361, or come by the recreation center at 30610 Thousand Oaks Blvd. More ... Author Suzanne Vromen recently visited the Conejo Jewish Academy in Agoura Hills to discuss her book, "Hidden Children of the Holocaust: Belgian Nuns and their Daring Rescue of Young Jews from the Nazis." Vromen was a young girl when her family escaped Belgium during World War II. More ... IRIS SMOOT/Acorn Newspapers SENIOR MODELETTE—A 12th-grade senior ticktocker walks the runway during the National Charity League Conejo Valley Chapter's Modelette fashion show last Sunday in Westlake Village. The annual show features 10th- and 12th-grade girls modeling the latest fashions and speaking about their responsibilities with the league. More ... Oak Park High School and Middle School students recently put their environmental knowledge to the test. The Edison Challenge, offered for the past three years by Southern California Edison and USC, is a competition based on the theme, "Energy and the Environment. More ... Don't mess around with complicated computations. When converting from Celsius to Fahrenheit and back, try doing it this way to get a quick approximation: •From Celsius to Fahrenheit, multiply by two and add 30. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers A NEW LEAF—A refurbished room at the Agoura Animal Shelter will feature a wall mural handpainted by volunteers Sandy Glover, right, and Sorelle Fluke, 16, a Newbury Park High School junior. The room houses Animal Shelter cats awaiting adoption. More ... The Los Robles Golf Course Banquet Room was transformed into a Polynesian paradise last Friday evening, with decorations and sandfilled "island" table centerpieces created by members of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Conejo & Las Virgenes. It was the annual "Celebrating Our Youth" dinner and awards presentation.. More ... The Conejo Valley Moms will have a Princess and Pirate park day at 3:30 p.m. Fri., March 20 at Forest Cove Park, 5451 Forest Cove Lane, Agoura Hills. The event will include a scavenger hunt, obstacle course, pirate booty, playtime in the park and snacks. More ... SUSAN WACHTEL/Special to The Acorn FEELING PRETTY COOL—White Oak Elementary School students show off their corsages at the school's recent Sweetheart Dance. Attendees wore formal wear and participated in mother/ son and father/daughter dances. The girls were on cloud nine. More ... Calabasas High School boys' and girls' basketball players will deliver 2,500 gently-used books from 3:30 to 5 p.m. tomorrow, March 20 to the Boys & Girls Club of West Valley, 7245 Remmet Ave., Canoga Park. More ... The Democratic Club of the Conejo Valley will host a luncheon commemorating Cesar Chavez Day at noon Tues., March 31 at El Torito Mexican Grill, 449 N. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. More ... The Rotary Club of Westlake Village will present the annual Community Street Festival and The Westlake 5K/ 10K Charity Run, including a kids' run, on Sun., April 5 on Lakeview Canyon between Agoura Road and Watergate in Westlake village. More ... Community RSS feed |
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