The Wellness Community Valley/ Ventura will host a program for children with cancer and their parents and families titled “Parenting and Coping with the Impact of Childhood Cancer” from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. Fri., Sept. 24 at 530 Hampshire Road, Westlake Village. Dinner will be served from 6:30 to 7 p.m. followed by the workshop from 7 to 8:30 p.m. […]
2010-09-09
Agoura lets Sam’s off the hook
No new laws for tobacco and pipe dealersThe Agoura Hills City Council will not pursue new, tougher laws regulating tobacco retailers, despite complaints earlier this year from residents who felt Sam’s Tobacco, Cigar and Hookah shop at Lake Lindero Drive was more like a “head shop” than a tobacco store. Head shops sell drug paraphernalia. Residents objected to the store because it’s in a residential neighborhood and […]
Deal struck in field lab cleanup
Site only 3 miles from Oak ParkNegotiations took a turn for the better last week in the more than 30-year battle to rid the Santa Susana Field Laboratory of its chemical and radiological contamination. The state of California reached a tenative agreement with two of the three parties responsible for the pollution at the former rocket engine and nuclear test site in the hills above the […]
Music fest seeks vendors, volunteers
The Americana MusicFest wants vendors and volunteers for its inaugural event, Sun., Oct. 3 at Paramount Ranch in Agoura Hills. The festival will feature live traditional American music including folk, bluegrass, Cajun, country, gospel, blues and jazz. “In keeping with the festival theme, we’re looking for arts and craft vendors who produce American-made goods,” said Brad Lewis, Kiwanis vendor coordinator. […]
Fair offers fun to families
St. Jude the Apostle Church will host its annual Country Time Faire and fundraiser from 1 to 10 p.m. Sat., Sept. 25 and from 1 to 9 p.m. Sun., Sept. 25 at the church, corner of Lindero and Lakeview Canyon roads, Westlake Village. The event will have carnival rides, children’s games, marketplace boutique, silent auction and casino games. Raffle prizes […]
Unitarians to show film
The documentary film “Consuming Kids: The Commercialization of Childhood,” which takes a critical look at marketing practices aimed at children, will be shown at 7:30 p.m. Sat., Sept. 11 at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park. The documentary, written and directed by Adriana Barbaro and Jeremy Earp, raises questions about the ethics of children’s […]