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As homeowners and homebuyers in Southern California, including those in the local markets, continue to cope with struggling residential sales, Acorn managing editor John Loesing continues his multipart questionand-answer series with local real estate leaders about the future of the market and possible signs that the worst might be behind us. More ... Under a plan recently approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors, visitors to the Santa Monica Mountains National Recreation Area and residents in the Corral Canyon area above Malibu will receive an extra measure of fire protection on days when the wind howls and red flag conditions are in effect. More ... The Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department will conduct a DUI/driver's license checkpoint from 8 p.m. Fri., June 12 through 3 a.m. Saturday in Agoura Hills. Checkpoints are conducted to identify offenders and get them off the street, and to educate the public on the dangers of impaired driving. More ... Las Virgenes Municipal Water District will offer a series of free water-wise landscaping and irrigation management classes for its customers. The programs will feature useful information on how to sustain an attractive and water-efficient garden and smart irrigation management during water budgets. More ... When the new school year starts this fall, Agoura High School students will not be allowed to park on either side of Foothill Drive between Driver Avenue and Toth Place. The parking restrictions will be enforced from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m., said City Engineer Ramiro Adeva at an Agoura Hills City Council meeting in April. More ... The Chinese language program at Oak Park High School continues to develop, and may get a funding boost if its large federal grant application is approved. More ... WENDY PIERRO/Acorn Newspapers TAKE YOUR PICK—Vivian Baer of Calabasas checks out designer samples for sale at the Community Garage Sale on May 30 at the Agoura Hills/Calabasas Community Center. Seventeen booths were set up, selling everything from clothes and jewelry to comics and collectibles. More ... The Westlake Village Junior Women's Club hosted the annual installation dinner at Boccaccio's Ristorante in Westlake Village in May. The club installed 22 new members and introduced the new 2009-10 board members. The current co-presidents, Roselle Wolfe and Roubina Coleman, will continue in their positions in the coming year. More ... The Leo Carrillo Sate Beach Junior Lifeguards will host tryouts for prospective lifeguards from 1 to 5 p.m. Sat., June 13 at Malibu High School pool, 30215 Morning View Drive. A previous tryout took place last month at the Agoura High School pool. More ... The children from St. Jude Catholic School Guitar For Kids program performed a benefit concert for Manna of Thousand Oaks on June 7, playing a variety of music, including classical solos and quartets, ragtime, folk, pop, rock and country. More ... The Friends of the Westlake Village Library will sponsor a Chalk Walk, Festival and Drawing Competition from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Sat., June 20 at the Westlake Village City Hall and Library, 31220 East Oak Crest Drive. More ... Scott Dulgeroff and Michael Khalil of Thousand Oaks, and Nick Sweeney of Oak Park, all avid paintball players, won the National Collegiate Paintball Association Southern California Regional High School Championship this spring. More ... The city of Agoura Hills will be providing residents with expanded service of its deluxe doortodoor DialARide program with destinations to popular locations in Oak Park, Westlake Village and Thousand Oaks. Points of interest on the expanded service include The Oaks mall, Janss Marketplace, Westlake Promenade, Costco, Los Robles Hospital, and the DMV. More ... Brutal conditions and inhumane treatment by Nazi guards left Leopold Engleitner a near skeleton, sterile and with poor hearing, but incredibly, without anger or bitterness. "If I felt bitterness, I only would have harmed myself," said Engleitner, in his native Austrian-German dialect. More ... JANN HENDRY/Acorn Newspapers FUR SURE—Molly Hogan, director of the Nature at Wildworks animal rescue group, introduces a red fox named Fire during a presentation at Leonis Adobe in Calabasas last Sunday. More ... ROYALTY—Seniors Brooke Spreckman and Dylan Pereira, who've dating each other since ninth grade, are named King and Queen of the Calabasas High School Senior Prom. More ... The Thousand Oaks Farmers' Market will hold a grand opening celebration to celebrate the move back to its original location at The Oaks mall from 1:30 to 6:30 p.m. Thurs., June 25 in the east end parking lot at Thousand Oaks Boulevard and Wilbur Road. More ... The board of trustees of the Community Foundation for Oak Park has appointed Alon Glickstein as a new trustee, according to foundation president Eva Larson. The board took the action at its meeting in May. Glickstein is vice president of quality and operations at Stealth Aerospace and a sixyear resident of Oak Park. More ... Community RSS feed |
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