101 Freeway closures continue at Liberty Cyn.
—Acorn staff report | August 19, 2022
The California Department of Transportation (Cal Trans) will be closing lanes and ramps on the 101 Freeway at Liberty Canyon Road as construction gets underway on the Wallis Annenberg Wildlife...
How a tattered bag of letters became a book
By Madelaine Sarisky
Special to The Acorn | August 19, 2022
Thousand Oaks resident Bonnie Goldenberg’s journey to writing her first book began nearly 20 years ago with a visit from her mother. During a trip from Florida to California in...
Airshow gives props to women aviators
August 19, 2022
The theme of the 2022 Wings Over Camarillo Airshow, set for tomorrow and Sunday, Aug. 20 and 21 at the Camarillo Airport, honors the accomplishments of women in aviation. Two...
BRIEFS
August 19, 2022
Experience Chinese culture locally The Conejo Chinese Cultural Association, a nonprofit organization, will host the fifth Chinese Cultural Day in celebration of the Moon Festival from 11 a.m. to 4...
Big and small, they ride them all
August 19, 2022
YEE-HAW!—At left, Leland King competes in the saddle bronc riding event atop Yeti the horse at the PRCA Rodeo Aug. 13 during the Ventura County Fair. Below, bull rider Mario...
‘This is completely unexpected’
By Dawn Megli
dawn@theacorn.com | August 12, 2022
As a chemist at the Rockwell Science Center—now Teledyne Technologies—in Lynn Ranch for 30 years, Mark Cher spent a lot of time plotting points on graphs but had little other experience creating images. That changed 15 years ago when he watched his granddaughter paint a...
Eager community enjoys holiday fun
July 8, 2022
GLAD TO BE GIDDY—From the more than 1,000 people who were part of the biggest turnout ever at the Westlake Village July 4 parade, to the sold-out City of Calabasas fireworks show (attended by the Ware family visiting from Mississippi, left), Independence Day events in...
All aboard yacht club’s new ride
May 19, 2022
LAKESIDE CELEBRATION—Top, it’s christening day at Westlake Yacht Club for the club’s new boat, FriendShip, May 14 in Westlake. The event for the 16-foot ElectraCraft party boat included the breaking of a bottle, speakers, and a champagne toast. Bottom left, Margie Hausman, left, Elke Hauer,...
Samples from the new pure water plant
August 19, 2022
CLEAN, REFRESHING—Above, David Pedersen, Las Virgenes Municipal Water District general manager, shares a glass of purified reclaimed water with Nancy Helsley of Calabasas and Craig Lapsley of Marina Del Rey during an Aug. 13 tour of the district’s Pure Water Demonstration Plant at district headquarters...
Options for child support
August 19, 2022
August is Child Support Awareness Month across the country, and recognizes the role the child support program plays in promoting the safety and well-being of children. Statewide, California provides support services to one million children. The Ventura County Department of Child Support Services promotes children’s...
‘Informed Mom’ podcast explores the ups and downs of motherhood
Adrienne Wigdortz Anderson
Special to The Acorn | August 12, 2022
Motherhood, especially the mothering of a newborn, can be exhausting and isolating under the best of circumstances. Throw in a pandemic, and the challenges increase exponentially. Oak Park High School alumnus Jessica Humer, now of Ventura, and her friend Angie Rosenberg of Lake Arrowhead know...
Medical center embraces robotic surgical tools for spinal operations
August 5, 2022
Los Robles Health System offers the community a digitized operating room with the acquisition of two new platforms for spinal surgery. The medical center is ranked No. 1 in California for spine surgery by Healthgrades, Recently, staff at Los Robles performed its first case, led...
Take it from the top
By Eliav Appelbaum
eliav@theacorn.com | August 19, 2022
It’s time for Acorn country football. This is the opening week for high school football, and the anticipation is palpable. Agoura, 7-3 overall last season,...
Where the Buffalo roams
Eliav Appelbaum
Email: eliav@theacorn.com | August 5, 2022
When Hannah Sharts was a little girl, the family went over to her grandmother’s home for dinner. Everyone was spread out, eating, chatting and laughing....
Guardian of the baseball galaxy
By Eliav Appelbaum
eliav@theacorn.com | July 29, 2022
Justin Campbell wants to rock ’n’ roll in Cleveland. The Simi Valley High graduate, who dominated with Oklahoma State’s baseball team, is the No. 37...
Spelling en Español
By Zia Zografos
zia@theacorn.com | August 19, 2022
The 2022 National Spanish Spelling Bee in El Paso, Texas, was about to begin. Auditorium lights blazed down upon a nervous Camarillo student, Connor Koch,...
Back in person for annual YMCA fundraiser
August 19, 2022
The Southeast Ventura County YMCA will host its fourth annual gala at 5:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 17 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Westlake Village....
COLLEGE STANDOUTS •
August 19, 2022
Kathleen Dryden and Pifer Dryden, both of Oak Park, were named to the dean’s list for the 2022 spring semester in the College of Liberal...
‘Accomplished educator’ helms Medea Creek
—Acorn staff report | July 29, 2022
Gia Jantz has been appointed to serve as the new principal at Medea Creek Middle School in Oak Park. Jantz, who grew up in Thousand...
OPUSD taps new assistant superintendent
—Acorn staff report | June 17, 2022
Tammy Ferreira- Herzog was named the new assistant superintendent of educational services at Oak Park Unified School District. The position was created in April. Ferreira-...
New concert season includes Mozart, Elgar, Beethoven and Brubeck
August 19, 2022
New West Symphony’s six-concert 2022-23 Masterpiece Series Season will begin Dec. 3 and 4 with music for Christmas and other winter holidays. New West will honor the memory of founding music director Boris Brott, who died in April, with Elgar’s “Nimrod” variation at the March...
Unusual narrative structure in Tony-winning play
August 19, 2022
Conejo Players Theatre will debut “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time,” a modern, Tony Award-winning play based on the novel by Mark Haddon, on Fri., Sept. 2 at the theater, 351 S. Moorpark Road, Thousand Oaks. The play follows 15-year-old Christopher Boone,...
Music, comedy, magic @bapactoaks
August 12, 2022
TOArts’ lineup for the 2022- 23 season features 37 new events, including music, dance, blues, comedy, magic and theater. TOArts is the private, nonprofit, in-house presenting division of the Bank of America Performing Arts Center in Thousand Oaks. The season lineup includes the previously announced...
Simi theater available for rent
August 12, 2022
The Simi Valley Cultural Arts Center is accepting applications from performing arts organizations to rent its main stage during the upcoming 2023 season. Organizations presenting professionally produced musicals, plays, dance performances, concerts and other types of arts and culture productions that reflect the center’s reputation...
Oldest living Sister of Notre Dame dies at age 104
—Acorn staff report | August 19, 2022
Sister Mary Francelia, the oldest member of The Sisters of Notre Dame, died Aug. 11 at the age of 104. She entered the order in 1935 and has served in...
Episcopal parish in Oak Park welcomes new vicar to the pulpit
August 5, 2022
The Church of the Epiphany in Oak Park has named the Rev. Jamie Barnett as the new vicar of the Episcopal parish.-- Barnett, who was the parttime priest-in-charge at the...
Atheist turn Catholic turn stand-up comic appearing in live show
August 5, 2022
Stand-up comic, author and mom of six, Jen Fulwiler will bring her comedy show to the Scherr Forum at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 23 at 2100 Thousand Oaks Blvd. Fulwiler...
In face of IRS fight, Amgen outperforms
—Kyle Jorrey | August 19, 2022
Led by an outsize performance from its four top-selling drugs, Thousand Oaks-based Amgen topped Wall...
Conjeo Valley Chamber says it will make candidate endorsements
By Becca Whitnall
becca@theacorn.com | August 12, 2022
Conejo Valley’s leading small-business advocacy organization is taking its political involvement up a notch. The...
Techniques to help kids to calm down and control their emotions
Bonnie Vandenberg | August 12, 2022
Question: How do I get my 5-year-old son to cool down when he gets upset? He becomes physical or yells when things don’t go his way, both at home and in school. How can I encourage him to calm down before he reacts? There’s been...
Mealtime celebrations and eating together provide emotional nourishment
Andrea Gallagher | August 5, 2022
One thing the past few years has taught us is the value of breaking bread with family and friends. Holiday meals, causal barbecues, Sunday suppers and milestone dinner celebrations were sorely missed during the height of the pandemic. My friend Nancy and I were talking...
Left-handed warrior does right thing
Sally Carpenter | July 22, 2022
Our new One-Hit Wonders series spotlighting minor characters in Scripture continues with a salute to southpaws. Ehud is the only person specifically identified in Scripture as being left-handed. Why? That will become apparent in the story found in Judges 3:12-30. The book of Judges covers...
Trusting instincts can aid in decision making
Andrea Gallagher | July 15, 2022
“Go with your gut” is a piece of advice given to me many years ago, somewhere in the middle of my business career. What my boss was trying to convey to me was to trust or follow my intuition, or instinct, as opposed to only...
Getting out of a jealousy jam
Bonnie Vandenberg | July 1, 2022
Question: I need help with the “green-eyed monster” that rears up on a regular basis. My son is jealous of my daughter, my daughter is jealous of my son, and they both get jealous if my husband and I talk to one another. I’m tired...
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER
August 19, 2022
Agoura Hills A Cornell Road business was broken into in the early morning hours of Aug. 3. The incident was...
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER
August 12, 2022
Calabasas A woman out for a hike lost her wallet, $500 cash and other items when her car was broken...
