Give praise to pops
| June 9, 2016
Father’s Day is Sun., June 19, and The Acorn wants your dad to receive the recognition he so deserves. In 100 words or less, please write and tell us why...
Backbone Trail part of national network
| June 9, 2016
U.S. Secretary of the Interior Sally Jewell and National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis made a June 3 announcement designating the recently completed Backbone Trail as part of the National...
War stories
| June 9, 2016
Marilyn Takahashi Fordney of Agoura Hills was 6 years old when strangers arrived at her family’s rented home in Los Angeles and started removing all of their belongings. “I was...
Calling all Calabasas seniors
| June 9, 2016
The new Calabasas Senior Center will host a grand opening ceremony at 10 a.m. Sat., June 25. The center is behind City Hall and the Calabasas Library, The City of...
Be an usher at Civic Arts Plaza
| June 9, 2016
The Civic Arts Plaza in Thousand Oaks will offer two training sessions for volunteer ushers for its theaters from 5:30 to 9:30 p.m. Wed., Aug. 17 and 7:45 a.m. to...
Scouts honored
| June 9, 2016
FOR THE BOYS—The Conejo Valley District of the Boy Scouts of America, Ventura County Council, recently held its annual awards and recognition dinner at St. Paschal Baylon Church in Thousand Oaks. District chair Bill Parker, district commissioner Rod Lang and district executive Andrea McClellan hosted...
Alzheimer’s talk at Senior Concerns
| June 9, 2016
Senior Concerns and the Alzheimer’s Association will host a seminar on “Living with Alzheimer’s Disease for Middle-Stage Caregivers” as part of the association’s Confident Caregiver Series from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tues., June 14 at Senior Concerns, 401 Hodencamp Road, Thousand Oaks. Monica A. Schrader,...
The dynasty
BOYS’ GOLF /// Westlake Warriors
By Jonathan Andrade
jandrade@theacorn.com | June 9, 2016
There’s no question about it— the Warriors have built a dynasty. Westlake High’s boys’ golf team romped their way to back-to-back CIF State High School...
Charger football team will host golf fundraiser at Las Posas
| June 9, 2016
Agoura High’s football team will host a golf tournament fundraiser on Mon., June 27 at Las Posas Country Club. Tee time is scheduled for noon,...
Locating and fixing a hole in the heart using bubbles and scopes
By Helen Movsisyan
Special to The Acorn | June 9, 2016
About one in four of us is walking around with a medical condition that sounds really frightening but is not usually as dangerous as you...
Eighth-grader already junior college grad
By Stephanie Bertholdo
sbertholdo@theacorn.com | June 9, 2016
Pranav Kalyan, an eighth-grader at Lindero Canyon Middle School in Agoura Hills, wants to attend college at Stanford, Cal Tech or UCLA, and that day...
Oaks Christian High School SENIOR STANDOUTS
| June 9, 2016
Note: Senior standouts are selected by their school, and profiles are compiled from questionnaires. The pictures, except Szyman’s, are courtesy of Cornerstone Photo. Malia Szyman...
Oaks Christian grads ready for new journey
By Sylvie Belmond
belmond@theacorn.com | June 9, 2016
The mood was energetic and full of anticipation as more than 200 Oaks Christian School seniors gathered to share a moment before the start of...
Agoura High School SENIOR STANDOUTS
| June 9, 2016
Editor’s note: Senior standouts are selected by their school, and profiles are compiled from questionnaires filled out by the students. Conrad Wahl An Agoura High...
Shenanigans galore in spry comedy
By Cary Ginell
originjazz@aol.com | June 9, 2016
The question one asks after witnessing the rollicking rollercoaster comedy “Figaro”: What took them so long to come up with the play? Charles Morey’s adaptation of the 18th century farce that inspired Mozart’s opera “The Marriage of Figaro” is only a few years old (it...
‘The Lobster’ takes effort to enjoy
The Movie Nut
Robert Gibbons | June 9, 2016
Movies that take a risk to tell a story you’ve not seen in a way you might never have imagined often require you to bring as much to them as they do to you. Ultimately, you need to determine if there’s a story worth following,...
Dancers are show stoppers
| June 9, 2016
DREAM TEAM—Agoura Hills Dance and Performing Arts goes up against dozens of other dance studios statewide for top honors over Memorial Day weekend at Showstopper, the largest dance competition in the country, in Anaheim. Above, the first place platinum winners are the “Cantaloop” teen tap...
Exhibit features scenes of the West
| June 9, 2016
Cal Lutheran University will present a free art exhibit, “Romancing the West: A Legacy of American Images,” through Aug. 11 in the William Rolland Gallery of Fine Art north of Olsen Road on the Thousand Oaks campus. The gallery is open from 10 a.m. to...
Congregation Or Ami puts faith in Rabbi Kipnes, spiritual leader
| June 9, 2016
Congregation Or Ami of Calabasas recently signed a lifetime agreement with Rabbi Paul Kipnes to lead the synagogue into the future. The Reform Jewish synagogue, serving the West San Fernando...
Giving peace a chance to work in our lives, families, cities
Sally Carpenter | June 9, 2016
In 1969 John Lennon recorded his song “Give Peace a Chance,” urging an end to the Vietnam War, but at the time his life was anything but peaceful. The Beatles...
Ventura County Credit Union launches foundation to fund charities
| June 9, 2016
Ventura County Credit Union, a community-chartered financial institution with over 70,000 members, announced the launch...
Easy passwords are free pass to hackers
Andrea Gallagher | June 9, 2016
If you are internet savvy, you are mindful that you should not click on an email link from an unknown source. You are wary of online ads for items that are too good to be true, like that miracle anti-aging cure or the financial investment...
The pursuit of ‘trustworthyness’
Ela Lindsay | June 9, 2016
About a decade ago I, like many people, was moved by the biographical drama “The Pursuit of Happyness.” The film starred Will Smith as a struggling salesman and single parent trying to make a difficult career change while caring for his young son. I never...
Native wildflowers pop up in parched areas
Gloria Glasser | June 9, 2016
Just because spring is drawing to a close does not mean the natural landscape is reduced to rue and ruin. Grasses grow in a carpet-like fashion and noxious weeds such as thistle and mustard grow in vast colonies. These are now dying off, giving a...
SHERIFF’S BLOTTER
| June 9, 2016
Agoura Hills Burglars stole $6,000 in cash and caused $2,100 in damage cutting into a safe and shattering a door...