February 23, 2012 RSS feed / Community

Burned-down bathroom to be replaced at Erbes Road neighborhood park

Estella Park has been without a restroom since arsonist struck in January

Tetty Hoffner has to plan trips for her 5- and 8-year-old sons to nearby Estella Neighborhood Park between their bathroom breaks. The 2-acre park on Erbes Road with tennis and basketball courts has been without a functioning restroom since Jan. More...

City has seat tofll on planning board

Barry Fisher leaving with 10 months remaining on term

The City Council isn’t the only board in Thousand Oaks dealing with a vacancy. More...

AAUW event to highlight famous women in history

AAUW Thousand Oaks will present a program on Women’s History Month on Wed., March 14 in the community room, Grant Brimhall Library, 1401 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks. School age children are especially invited. More...

Former T.O. library employee returns to promote new book

Author Jennifer Chiaverini’s novels each capture a time and a place created in her imagination. But the art of quilting, deftly woven throughout her 19-book Elm Creek Quilt series, is a thriving craft, the writer said. More...

Ms. Senior Conejo contest returns

The fourth annual Ms. Senior Conejo Valley preliminary pageant will be at 1:30 p.m. Sun., May 6 at the Goebel Senior Adult Center, 1385 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks. Spectator admission is $5. More...

Forum looks at Planned Parenthood

A community forum will examine the attacks on Planned Parenthood over the past year at 7:30 p.m. Fri., Feb. 24 at the Conejo Valley Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 3327 Old Conejo Road, Newbury Park. More...

Social justice video contest open to teens

The Social Justice Fund for Ventura County is accepting entries from Ventura County teens ages 14 to 18 for the second annual Social Justice Fund Teen Multimedia Contest. More...

Library to host family legacy workshop

Make stories from autobiography

Friends of the Thousand Oaks Library will present a free family legacy workshop from 6 to 8 p.m. Tues., March 13 at Grant Brimhall Library, 1401 E. Janss Road, Thousand Oaks. More...

It feels like summer

STRIKE UP THE BAND—Thousand Oaks residents Mary Anne Van Zuyle and Henry Van Zuyle, 9, above, listen to the patriotic sounds of the U.S. More...

Local business leaders tout recovery

Regional Economic Forecast

Local community and business leaders agree the area’s economy is on the mend but offer words of caution about the staying power of the current recovery. More...

Rise in affordability

In a ranking of 215 U.S. metropolitan areas by the Building Industry Association, Ventura-Thousand Oaks ranked 28th in least affordable homes at the end of 2011 with 66 percent of the families with median incomes able to afford homes. More...

GOP needs contender in Senate race

Election 2012

Fran Pavley, the Agoura Hills resident who rose from school teacher and town mayor to become a leader in the state Democratic party, plans to run for office this year in a district with more Republican voters than she’s ever faced before, but t More...

Former WHS star not scared to take his shots

Soccer’s Eric Wynalda stays relevant by speaking his mind on the sport he loves

I first met Eric Wynalda in 1977. He was playing soccer for his father, Dave, in Westlake Village in AYSO’s Region 9. More...

Crowd turns out for Community Conscience

IN DISGUISE—Above, Westlake Village residents Candi and John Wilcox, seen through an interior lobby window, share a laugh at the silent auction tables during a champagne reception at the Commun More...

Council on Aging to discuss new ‘live in place’ housing model for seniors

Guest speakers will explain ‘village’ system

The Thousand Oaks Council on Aging will discuss the village housing model at its next meeting on Wed., March 7 at city hall, 2100 E. Thousand Oaks Blvd. The public can meet and talk to the presenters during a luncheon from noon to 12:40 p.m. More...

Park service displays artwork

The National Parks Service Visitor Center will run an art exhibit titled “Artist’s Path To Our Parks” from March 4 through 31 at the center, 401 W. Hillcrest Drive, Thousand Oaks. More...

Works of former Moorpark College art professor on display in T.O.

An art exhibit, the Frank Sardisco Collection, will run through Sun., April 15 at the Conejo Valley Art Museum at the Janss MarketPlace, 275 N. Moorpark Road, Ste, 193C, Thousand Oaks. The museum hours are noon to 5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday. More...

Scout troop celebrates 40 years of fostering leaders

It didn’t take long for Greg Metzgus to learn what it meant to be an Eagle Scout. It was 1966, the country was at war in Vietnam, and Metzgus, then 18, had just entered the United States Marine Corps. More...

Conejo Artwalk puts out call for entries

ArtWalk ’12 is accepting applications through March 30. ArtWalk is a fine arts and designer crafts outdoor exhibition presented by the Conejo Valley Art Museum on June 2 and 3 in Thousand Oaks. More...